"Hey guys I think I found something important, it's a small wooden book not sure what it's about and don't really have time to read it."
"Debby, Grey informs my that Genesis and Sharpe took care of the source of the trouble. Do you have some way to let the Destroy Corps know that they don't have to level the whole place? I can try knowing where they are if you need."
"I'll try asking the wind where they are but it might not know ether, so hopefully between two of us we can figure it out.
Start running towards the edge of the crater the town's in and ask the wind where the Destroy Corps are spend a fate point on this.
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 (strange black magic)
Sword
Elizabeth Audrey Foxington, the living fox doll, now with parka
Rope
Rifleaxe
10' rope
Spork with sharp serrated edges on the spoon part
Some rags
Sewing needle
Chest piece it doesn't fit well
Helmet doesn't fit well
15' cloths line
Small black book that can fit in the palm of your hand. Its cover is made of dark wood and its pages of paper thin slices of wood instead of traditional paper
Fate Points: 4
[5,
4]
You ask the wind about the destroy corps and are told that the heavy thing that crashed into town a minute ago was, in fact, them. You sprint out towards that still settling dust cloud and skid to a stop at the edge. A shape moves out through the dust in rapid and decisive steps. It like a giant multi-point pushpin wearing a cape. Its head is a polished steel sphere about a meter in diameter, and from this sphere extend 4 long metal prongs. The middle two prongs are braided together for part of their length, forming something very loosely resembling a body and legs while the other two are free, resembling arms. Each ends in a sharp point. Its cape or robe is tied at the intersection between the ball and prongs and hangs around its "Shoulders" and down its back, bright and clean but badly tattered. It is carrying, with one arm, one half of a pair of 8 foot scissors. It holds the scissors by the handle, like a sword. It moves with a soft sound of bending metal. A moment later another like it emerges, followed by a third. These two are carrying the other half of the giant scissors as well as what looks like the pin to hold the two halves together.
They begin to move towards the excavating pit in the center of town but you run in front of them, waving your arms. You shout that the "main target" has been dealt with.
"Thank you Grey. I'm glad to hear the main problem is dealt with, and everyone seems to be alive. I'll ask Debby if she can get the message to the Destroy Corps."
"Debby, Grey informs my that Genesis and Sharpe took care of the source of the trouble. Do you have some way to let the Destroy Corps know that they don't have to level the whole place? I can try knowing where they are if you need."
If Debby needs, Aaron attempts to know the exact location of the nearest member of the Destroy Corps, and tells her it. Other than that, he relinks with Grey when he shows up, and waits for the party to assemble.
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: Feeling cheerful.
HP: 7
Inventory: Robe, needle, and gloves. Bloodthirsty serrated fighting knife. Assorted conduit food in sleeves (minus one steak and all dessert). Needle charged by stabbing black magic plant monsters.
FP: 0
Links: Red:Hugh, Yellow:Youare, Green:Grey, Orange:Greed, Blue: Aa
Aaron, wanting an update on what is going on, tries asking Hugh, but obviously doesn't get an answer. He then tries Grey:
"Hey Grey, do you have any updates on what is going on wherever you are, or anything you need me to do?"
"Right, ah...Tess is alive and upright for now, Hugh is unconscious, Sharpe and Genesis took care of the war machine I think, and now all we have to do is stop the Destroy Corps from cutting this place to pieces. Maybe Debby can send them a message?"
Grey renews his link with Genesis, grabs Sharpe and teleports to Aaron, forming an anchor for everyone else to teleport out.
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. At the moment he's looking less pink and more pale.
Nature: Verbomancer (Maintain)
Status:
HP: 4
Inventory:Torn purple robe, giant needle and a rifle fused to a magic saber
Fate Points: 1
Red Genesis (inactive)
Orange Debby
Yellow Aa-tou-tou
Violet Youare
Blue Tess
Indigo Hugh
Green Aaron
As Debby is explaining this, Aaron, Sharpe and Grey join her. Sharpe raises her box and speaks to the Destroy Corps, telling them to verify it. The one with the central pin touches the box with one pointed limb and then steps back. The two scissor-sword wielding members of the corps step past Debby and the rest but the pin wielding one remains. Debby is about to protest when Sharpe stops her.
"Without the pin they can't use the scissors. Those two are just going to clean up." She says, apparently relieved. "I think our work is done here."
((wow am I glad I spent two fate points on that roll. a 2 followed by a 1? dodged a bullet there with the double-reroll.))
"Okay... Okay... now we leave... right? right. to grey. Wait. no. Hugh. Uh..."
I carefully sit down on Hugh and grab ahold of him as best I can with my injury, then once I'm stable and have a good grip, and Grey has left the pit, I tug my thread that leads to Grey.
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. stabbed by a murdertree and shoved through a roof and second story of a building.
HP: 2
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: 3
violet= Genesis
blue= Grey
Hugh attempts to regain consciousness.
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.
A pond’s worth of water that had a bunch of corpses decompose in it.
An (un)Holy Noise
The distance between some building and the edge of the crater
A small amount of darkness.
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: Hugh is not available to take your call, right now. Please leave your message after the beep…
HP: 9
Inventory: Robe and needle.
Fate Points: 3
Red - Aaron
Orange -
Yellow -
Green - Greed
Blue - Youare
Indigo -
Violet - Aa Tou Tou Lesia
((Note: updated links.))
As though her words signaled it, the writhing dark tentacles of the teleport beacon arched over the hill and shot down like guided artillery's strikes into the members of the party. Just before they vanish they see another tendril grab Sharpe. They disappear into the swirling place between places as the two members of the Destroy corps begin methodically cutting down any remnants of the ancient Homunculus' power.
Everyone steps or falls out of the portal back in the cavern, their injuries healed. The only one who isn't hale and hardy is Hugh, who is still laying on his stomach, unconscious and grumbling with Tess sitting on his back. As the group gets their bearings and surrounds Hugh's prone form they suddenly realize there is one person extra here, looking down on Hugh. That extra person, they find out later as they speak of the encounter, looked different to every single person who saw them. Grey saw an old woman, Tess saw a young boy, Genesis saw a plump middle aged man, and Debby saw an orangutan that walked like a human. This person steps over to Hugh and, using one hand, pries open his mouth. They their other arm inside, right up to the shoulder, and then pull it back out. In their hand is what looks like a congealed black smoke.
"Your friend." They say, tossing the smoke into the containment pond near the teleporter, "Ate a fraction of a death curse. A dangerous action, but probably one that protected the rest of you from it. He should be fine now."
As they say this, Hugh grunts and sits up, groggily.
"You've all done well. I believe another reward is called for. Do you have any ideas or would you prefer I think of something?" The person asks, walking over to stand near the teleporter gate.
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