Ughhhhhhhh fine. Grey spends 1 fate point on Maintaining the magic or lack of magic permeating his body and if it doesn't work this time Grey just teleports back. If it does work he discharges the spell in his needle: Maintain the health and well being of Grey and every Homunculous that is allied with Grey and is within 2 miles of him (1), teleporting back afterwards.
Name:Grey
Description: A hairless pink colored man with lacking facial features, little more than a pair of eyes, two holes for a nose, and a line for a mouth.
Nature: Verbomancer (Maintain)
Status: What a pain
HP: 6
Inventory:Purple robe, Grey's gloves, giant needle infused with the spell Maintain the health and well being of Grey and every Homunculous that is allied with Grey and is within 2 miles of him (1) and a rifle fused to a magic saber
Fate Points: 4
Red Genesis
Orange Debby
Yellow Aa-tou-tou
Violet Youare
Blue Tess
Indigo Hugh
Green Aaron
[4,5]
You maintain your current magical state. Then you release the spell. It promptly yellows the leaves and grass, withers the flowers, and blackens the moss within maybe 100 feet. You, however, are ok.
You teleport back to the group.
"That shiny thing in the pond might be important, I'm gonna try to get it."
Ask the pond to give us that shiny metal thing at it's bottom.
Name: Debby
Description: Looks like a regular human woman but with the head of a deer.
Nature: All-Tounges
Status: Normal
HP: 8
Inventory:
purple robe
white gloves
big ass needle
Sword
Elizabeth Audrey Foxington, the living fox doll, now with parka
Rope
Rifleaxe
10' rope
Spork with sharp serrated edges on the spoon part
Humanoid doll made from a knotted sheet, it's alive now
Sewing needle
Fate Points: 5
[4]
“Ho! Ho! Ho! Just what I needed! A refreshing drink!”, Hugh exclaims as he bends down and drinks all of the water in the pond leaving behind the metallic object.
Part of a rock wall.
Darkness.
Plates and silverware
The distance between the conduit and the village.
An extremely tiny part of the distance between the inn and the creature.
Several (possibly wrong) answers to the question of where the creatures are.
(Possibly) several pieces of Hugh’s chipped teeth.
Two gourd creatures (with magic from an unknown source.).
A mile of air.
Name: Hugh.
Description: A large, fat, bald human male who, despite being seemingly obese, is immensely strong. He towers over others, with the tallest of the other (current) humonculi only coming up to the center of his abdomen. He has a hearty laugh that makes his belly shake like a bowl full of jelly, and is very kind and jovial
Nature: Glutton.
Status: Ho! Ho! Ho! Let’s drink! Shall we?
HP: 9
Inventory: Robe, gloves, and needle.
Fate Points: 3
Red - Aaron
Orange -
Yellow - Genesis
Green - Greed
Blue - Youare
Indigo - Grey
Violet - Aa Tou Tou Lesia
[5]
"I'll be with you in just a moment. I just want to get some information on this object before moving on."
Aaron attempts to know the purpose of the metallic object. He also, very cautiously, looks at the pool through his needle. Once these are done, he catches up with Tess.
Name: Aaron Blackstar
Description: A thin, tall man with pale skin, long ink-black hair, and a carefully trimmed goatee. His eyes look like finely faceted balls of smoky quartz.
Nature: Cognizant
Status: Getting somewhere.
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, needle, and gloves. Assorted conduit food in sleeves.
FP: 0
Links: Red:Hugh, Yellow:Youare, Green:Grey, Orange:Greed, Blue: Aa
[?]
Debby asks the pond for the shiny thing. Hugh eats (drinks?) the pond. Aaron considers the shiny thing.
The result is a now dry depression with the shiny object sitting clearly visible. The shiny object actually turns out to only one of many shiny objects. The bottom of the pond, which is the bottom of a depression in the center of a clearing, is filled with bodies. With the water and a layer of soil missing shining armor and unbelievably ancient bones lay exposed. There looks to be about two dozen here, laying around and atop one another, scattered randomly. In the center of them, jutting straight up, is the shining object the team noticed at first. Multiple of the corpses have their bone fingers wrapped around it. It appears to be a lance, judging by what can be seen as it remains half buried in the mud. It has the long handle of a lance, encompassing bell-like guard of a lance, and the tapering metal spike of a lance. But the handle has no wrapping, no grip to hold on to, and the end cap is splayed like the flight on a dart.
Aaron's considerations leaves him with the following conclusion. This is a weapon, some evolutionary ancestor of the needle they're wielding right now. In some ways clumsy and inefficient, in others far more potent. This is a weapon designed to kill mages and their creations. And its like did so by the thousands.
"I guess, though I want to focus on the glove for now."
Keep following the glove.
Name: Terissa / Tess
Description: a passive but brave teenage girl with purple hair and brown eyes, she has a hint of protrusions on her shoulderblades like the beginnings of wings, and a thin lizardlike tail, but nothing useful at this time.
Nature: Chameleon
Status: miniwings replaced by moderate-size wings made of air, mostly healed from a gunshot wound.
HP: 9
Inventory: Purple robe with red eye symbol on the back, white gloves with red eye symbol on their palm, 4-foot long iron needle that has been charged once from stabbing The Hammer, and once from killing a gourd.
Fate Points: 2
violet= Genesis
blue= Grey
You keep following the glove. It continues running through the woods. Town is many miles from here so this is probably gonna be a long run.