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[nuclearwhale]

Utzi

Utzi narrows his eyes as more Erchins erupt out of nowhere to replace the ones that flee. "Stupid beasts, you'd think they'd know to run when their pack does."

Realizing that the smaller creatures are so prone to flight, the hunter turns his attention to the Erchinlord, where he pauses for a brief moment of contemplation, his eyes darting over the creature and taking note of it's movements. After perhaps a second of looking, Utzi seems satisfied with whatever he saw, nodding to himself slightly as he notches a spear into his atl-atl and sending it hurling through the air in a low arc that sends it at just the right angle to hit the creature between the ribs.


Skillful Toss!
Utzi throws one of his spears at the enemy. It does 4d8 + Dex. If the enemy happens to be an animal that weighs over 1000 pounds (GM’s discretion) This attack deals 6d10 + Dex + Str instead. Expends spears, which can be retrieved later.

The shard of bone that was scattered across the battlefield also retreats back into the ground and appears elsewhere as the Mercurial Rachis continues to do its thing!

Spoiler: Utzi Sheet (click to show/hide)

Perks
Paleosmarts: Utzi doesn’t have much in the way of formal education, but surviving in the megafauna-filled wilds for so long has given him insights into certain things. Utzi can use his Constitution instead of intelligence for the purposes of crafting checks using stone age techniques and technology.

Permafrost Level 2: Utzi doesn’t really feel… warmth anymore. It’s been so long that he can’t even dredge up the memory of the sun on his skin.
Utzi is immune to fire, heat, ice, and cold based damage.

Built Like They Used To: Utzi is a from a time before all these modern nick-knacks and medical advancements made living easy and lavish. He never would’ve survived if he wasn’t tough. Utzi has no constitution stat cap.

Flaw:
Frozen Soul: Ice permeates every fiber of Utzi's being. Everything he does, he does with an unnatural chill filling him to his bones. Utzi cannot learn magic, or sufficiently magic-like effects, except for ice magic. Foes that resist ice resist all of Utzi's attacks, regardless of how effective they would be otherwise. Additionally, Utzi is vulnerable to attacks on his immobile, unchanging soul, and rolls twice to resist any soul-based status effects made by an enemy, taking the worse result.


Level 6
HP: 138
Init: 6
Strength: 7
Dexterity: 6
Intelligence: 2 Locked Until Next Level Up, Current int is 0
Constitution: 16
Synergy: 7


Actions:



Cold Snap:
Utzi summons the cold of the glacier he was frozen in. Enemies within 3 init of Utzi take Syn + 1d4 damage. 1 turn cooldown.
Level 2: Enemies that take damage from this attack lose 1 init. + 2d4 damage.
Level 3: Enemies that take damage from this attack lose 2 init.
Level 4: Damage is Syn + 3d4.

Current Effect: Enemies within 3 init of Utzi take Syn + 3d4 damage, and lose 2 init. 1 turn cooldown.

Glacier’s Call:
Level 2: Utzi subtracts 1d6 + 2 from all damage he takes until his next turn. Also, if Utzi is hit with a melee-range attack, the enemy takes 1d6 damage from the cold.
Level 3: Target up to 2 enemies that must attack Utzi this turn, if able.
Level 4: Utzi subtracts 1d6 + 4 from all damage he takes until his next turn. Also, if Utzi is hit with a melee-range attack, the enemy takes 2d6 damage from the cold.
Level 5: Target up to 3 enemies that must attack Utzi this turn, if able.
Level 6: Utzi subtracts 1d10 + 4 from all damage he takes until his next turn. Also, if Utzi is hit with a melee-range attack, the enemy takes 2d6 + SYN damage from the cold.

Current Effect: Target up to 3 enemies. They must attack Utzi before his next turn, if able. Additionally, Utzi takes 1d10 + 4 less damage until his next turn, and enemies making physical, melee attacks on him take 2d6+Syn cold damage.

Utzi’s Prison:
Utzi encases an enemy in a thin layer of ice that slowly freezes them. Each turn, they must roll 3d6 + con/2. If they roll less than 5 + (Utzi’s level x2), they take 2d6 + SYN damage. If they succeed, they take no damage from Utzi’s prison that turn. Direct exposure to a heat source, such as an open flame, will immediately end Utzi’s prison.
Level 2: The enemy rolls 2d6 + con/2 instead.
Level 3: The enemy takes 3d6 + Syn damage instead.


Current Effect: Target 1 enemy. Each of their turns, they roll 2d6 + their con/2. If the number they roll is less than 5 + Uti’s level x 2, (Currently 17) they take 3d6 + Syn Cold damage. If they succeed, they do not take any damage from this effect this turn. Exposure to a heat source, such as an open flame, ends this effect.

Skillful Toss:
Deals 2d6 + Dex to 1 target. If used against an animal weighing over 1000 pounds, instead deals damage equal to 2d8 + Dex + Str.
Level 2: Deals 3d6 + Dex against most targets. Deals 3d8 + Dex + Str against animals over 1000 pounds.
Level 3: Deals 3d8 + Dex against most targets. Deals 3d10 + Dex + Str against animals over 1000 Pounds.
Level 4: Deals 4d8 + Dex against most targets. Deals 4d10 + Dex + Str against animals over 1000 pounds.
Level 5: Deals 4d8 + Dex against most targets. Deals 6d10 + Dex + Str against animals over 1000 Pounds.

Current Effect: Utzi throws one of his spears at the enemy. It does 4d8 + Dex. If the enemy happens to be an animal that weighs over 1000 pounds (GM’s discretion) This attack deals 6d10 + Dex + Str instead. Expends spears, which can be retrieved later.

Flash Freeze
Target 1 willing ally below 15% health. They are encased in ice to preserve and protect them. They gain a shield of ice that provides temporary HP equal to Utzi’s Level x2 + Syn. Damage from the attack that breaks the shield does not go on to damage the protected ally. The ally cannot take any actions that require movement while frozen. This shield instantly melts if exposed to a heat source such as an open flame.

Current Effect: Target 1 willing ally below 15% health. They are encased in ice that takes all incoming sources of damage for them, with a temporary hp equal to Utzi’s level x2 + Syn (19 Temp HP, currently). Damage that destroys the ice shield does not carry over to the ally being protected by it. Exposure to a heat source, such as an open flame, instantly destroys this shield. The ally cannot take actions that require their movement while it is up.

Equipment:


Spears:
Weight 4
Good for stabbing things, or throwing with an atl-atl.
Each spear has a 1d8 + STR damage roll if not being used with skillful toss. Spears used by skillful toss are used, and must be retrieved either in or out of combat before they can be used again.Utzi has 2 spears at level 1.
Level 2: Utzi has 3 spears
Level 3: Utzi has 4 spears
Level 4: Utzi has 5 spears

Atl-atl:
Weight 1
 A simple tool used to improve the accuracy and distance of thrown spears. Enemies with a chance to dodge lose 10% of their dodge chance against skillful toss.

Mammoth Pelt Cloak:
Weight 6
A fluffy, brown cloak that might look comfortable if it wasn’t caked in grime.
5% Cold Resistance.
Level 2: 10% Cold Resistance.
Level 3: While in weather below freezing temperatures, gain +1 Str and +1 Dex.

Mercurial Rachis:
Level 4
Bones steeped in time and bleached with power.
At the beginning of each round creates a [Ward of Bone] at a random Init slot between the highest currently filled and 0.  All characters in that slot or either of the two bordering it gain +20% damage dealt.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

4/5 Spears
Coldsnap Cooldown 1/1
138/138 HP

[Sutoratosu Akira]

Ehto
"Huh... I see. Which means if Glofriam's gone mad and the rest are still following him, there's a good chance..." that anyone who bore the parasites might be under his influence. Or anyone who happens to get infected after the fact. Ehto looked them each in the eye, unable to truly comprehend the true extent of their inner conflict at the moment, but trying to empathize nonetheless. Glancing over to confirm that Arint was still occupied by the stranger, she softened her voice so that only the three of them could hear. "I know this is hard for you right now, but any specific knowledge you can give about what the parasites do will be a big help in getting us prepared. Really."

[Chevaleresse]

The demon slayer breathed steadily, feeling the creeping weakness in her veins and fighting past it. They weren't kidding about this thing. I can already feel it sapping my strength. She'd had worse, though; her grip remained solid as she centered her mind, then struck in a brilliant flash.

Tsubasa uses Second Form: Eye of the Storm, gaining 1+(Yin) damage resistance and +1 Yang.
Tsubasa  expends her Reaction and uses First Form: Bolt from Blue Skies on the Erchinlord, dealing 2*(4d6+14) damage and gaining +1 Yin!
Yin: 0 -> 1
Yang: 2 -> 3

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Perks:
Total Concentration Breathing: The bread and butter of a Demon Slayer. This technique allows one to harness the strength of one's breath and fight on par with demons. Allows Tsubasa to use their Constitution as an attacking stat in place of Dexterity, Strength, or Synergy.
 
Yin & Yang (Level 2): Tsubasa's fighting style emphasizes moving with the flow of battle, attack moving into defense and defense into attack when the time is right. They have a Yin and Yang meter, that start at zero and progressively fill. Every attack increases Yin by one, and every supportive action increases Yang by one. Yang also increases on turns an attack was received. These can be used to perform more powerful techniques. Whenever they are spent, the opposite gauge increases by the same amount. Each gauge is capped at 8 points. Resets to 0 after each battle.
 
Action & Reaction: When Tsubasa is attacked, they gain a stack of "Reaction." If two or more stacks of Reaction are present, Tsubasa expends all stacks to take an extra action on their next turn.
 
Flaw: Breathless: Tsubasa has not mastered the art of using Total Concentration Breathing full-time, and thus suffers the ill effects of stopping the technique. They have an additional "Breath" gauge that starts equal to their CON. Whenever Tsubasa uses an ability with a cooldown or gauge requirement, they lose half of that requirement (rounded down, but minimum 1) from this gauge. They lose the ability to act when this gauge is empty. Debuff cleanses restore Breath equal to the number of debuffs they would normally remove. Resets to 0 after each battle.
 
Level: 6
HP: 114
Initiative: 13
 
Base Stats:

• Strength: 3
• Dexterity: 13
• Intelligence: 2
• Constitution: 14
• Synergy: 2

Actions: 20/20
 
First Form: Bolt from Blue Skies: A sword technique that emulates a sudden flash of lightning from a previously calm sky. Deals double damage, plus additional [DEX] damage, to a single target. Not usable if user has already attacked this encounter.
-Level 1: Double weapon damage. Only usable if user has not attacked yet.
-Level 2: Adds user DEX to the damage. If the attack is a DEX attack, add CON instead.
 
Second Form: Eye of the Storm: A breath technique that finds calm in chaos. Increases damage resistance by 1+the user's Yin gauge for the remainder of the battle. Can be used again to double the resistance for a turn. Calculated off of user's Yin when they take damage, not when they use the move.
-Level 1: When activated, increases the user's damage resistance by their Yin gauge for 3 turns. If the gauge increases, so does the resistance.
-Level 2: Now permanent after use, but does not stack with itself.
-Level 3: Can be activated again to double the resistance for one turn.
-Level 4: Also adds +1 resistance at all times.
 
Third Form: Sky-Splitting Flash: A technique that launches the user in a direction at high speed, allowing gaps to be closed quickly. Tsubasa uses this to interpose herself between allies and foes. Intercepts 3+[Yin spent] attacks on targeted allies, carries over between turns.
-Level 1: Intercepts the next attack on target ally. Can spend Yin to increase the number of attacks intercepted this turn.
-Level 2: Intercepts carry over between turns.
-Level 3: Intercepts can now target multiple allies.
-Level 4: Intercepts an additional attack.
-Level 5: Intercepts an additional attack.
 
Fourth Form: Lightning Cracking the Ground: A slow, heavy attack whose true purpose is not inflicting damage, but forcing an opponent to interrupt what they're doing. Also good for clearing obstacles, in a pinch.
-Level 1: Stuns a target. 3 round cooldown, can spend Yin to reduce this on a one-to-one basis.
-Level 2: Also reduces target's damage by Yin gauge when this action was used for the turn after the stun wears off.
 
Fifth Form: Chain Lightning: Channels a destructive flow of energy, jumping from victim to victim along the path of least resistance. Costs 5 Yang. Attacks 3 times, targeting the nearest enemy in initiative to the original target for followups. Can hit the same enemy twice.
-Level 1: Attacks an enemy for [weapon] damage, then attacks the enemy nearest them for the same until 3 attacks have been performed.
-Level 2: Can retarget the same enemy once, if there are no other valid targets.
 
Sixth Form: Sweeping Current Surge: A strenuous, rapid stream of slashes that baffle, buffet, and cripple, striking multiple enemies at once. Costs 5 Yin. Deals [CON] damage to an enemy and each one above and below it in initiative, then reduces their damage by the same amount for 2 turns. Attacking a single target replaces the formula with a basic attack.
-Level 1: Select a target. To it and each enemy above and below it in initiative, deal [CON] damage. The victims have their damage reduced by the damage they take from this for 2 turns.
-Level 2: Sixth Form Kai: Overwhelming Current Surge: This variant form deals additional damage (a basic attack) if used on a single target.
 
Seventh Form: Perfect Flow: A difficult technique requiring perfect balance and clarity. The user evades incoming attacks with an absolute minimum of motion, then strikes home while the target is exposed. Requires both Yin and Yang gauges to be full. One round cooldown. Dodges an attack from an enemy, then deals the maximum possible damage of the incoming attack plus a normal attack.
-Level 1: Choose an enemy. Dodge the first attack from that enemy, then deal damage to that enemy equal to the maximum damage of that attack plus the maximum damage of a zero-requirement attack.
 
Eighth Form: Calm After the Storm: A flourish that also serves to ward off any parting shots from enemies that ends with the user returning to the state in which they began the battle. Removes two debuffs, and the user is considered to not have attacked this round.
-Level 1: Cleanses a single debuff and causes the next attack to be considered the first attack made.
-Level 2: Cleanses two debuffs.
 
Demon Slayer's Uniform: The standard issue for those who passed Final Selection. The garment is breathable, resistant to extreme temperatures, and not liable to be torn or damaged by the attacks of weaker demons.
-Level 1: Grants 2 damage resistance to slashing and similar attacks.
 
Nichirin Sword: One of the few instruments capable of slaying a demon for good. Infused with sunlight, these weapons are infallible if wielded properly - but beware the incautious strike. They change colors based on the wielder. Tsubasa's blade takes on a vibrant blue scheme with a tendency to catch and reflect the light. Weight 3. Deals 4d6+DEX damage
-Level 1: Deals 1d6+DEX damage.
-Level 2: If an enemy takes extra damage from light or sun based attacks, they take extra damage from this weapon.
-Level 3: Enemies killed with this weapon cannot be revived. This effect may partially fail (based on GM discretion) on stronger enemies.
-Level 4: 2d6 damage.
-Level 5: 3d6 damage.
-Level 6: 4d6 damage.

[Machiavelli Corleone]

Carlito

Carlito grimaces as he is presented with the images of the Flead in their natural form. "Christ, you letta' infestation get really outta' hand here." In truth, the tolerance that Carlito had accrued in years of fighting human foes did not give him a stomach for more entomological enemies, or even vermin in general. He had given up on chasing a target when the quarry dipped into a rat-infested storm drain.

But he was not here to pick and chose preferred enemies. Inscribed in the Book of Revelations was prophecy that absurdly large and deadly loci would fill the skies in the end times, and this appeared to fit the bill. Working up the courage after a few moments, Carlito responded, "Yeah, I'll still take it. Even with the Queen being so big with her sonic link and alldat'. For all the freaky shit built 'round these parts, you'd think someone could construct a big-ass can of Raid and solve this problem, yo?"

[cronos5010]

Hibiki and Sal

Sal nods, keeping watch over the assassin in case he wakes up. The Barons continue their work, and eventually one of them gets the assassin in for processing. "Guess not. One question, though... The bounty was just for us to stop him. Why bring him in alive?"

Hibiki simply shrugs in response, "I figured that he still deserved to stand trial for what he's done. And at the very least his confession should be enough to prove his guilt. Wouldn't want any of you to think that we just dragged in some random corpse and called it a day after all."

[StormLord]

Friedhold regains 2 Eve.
Friedhold uses ThoughtSeize on the Erchinlord, marking it.  Seized targets reveal their intent for their next action at the end of the round, be it to attack, debuff, defend, support, etc.  Costs 1 Eve.

Stats:
Eve 8/9
Adam 3
HP 72/72
Armored Shell 20/20

Loadout

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Electro Bolt
Radiance
Oblivion Fraying
Iron Sides
Dysmorphia
Thoughtseize
Eve Hypo
Jaegerbomb
Armored Shell(free)
Form-fitting Body Armor(free)

Electro Bolt: Launch a bolt of electricity at your target.
Deals 3d6+[Int]+[Syn/2] electric damage and stuns one target, costs 3 Eve.
} Electro Bolt I: Deals 3d6+[Int] electric damage to one target.
} Electro Bolt II: Affected targets make a [Con] vs [Int] save, on failed save target is stunned.
} Electro Bolt III: Deals an additional [Syn]/2 damage.
} Electro Bolt IV: Target is now always stunned.
 } - Empowered Electro bolt: Arcs to a second target dealing 50% damage to it, costs 3 Adam.

Radiance: A burst of healing light, learned from a specific spider-goddess.
Restore 2d6+[Int]+[Syn]/2 HP to one target OR restore [Syn]/2 HP and cure all ailments, costs 3 Eve.
} Radiance I: Restore 2d6+[Int] HP to one target, costs 3 Eve.
} Radiance II: +[Syn]/2 healing.
} Purge I: May forgo base healing to cure all ailments from the target(s).
 } - Empowered Radiance: Heal two targets instead of one, costs 4 Adam.

Oblivion Fraying: Those wound tightest are the first to unravel.
Choose one target, if their Int is equal or higher than Friedhold's they take [Int] stat damage to their Int and this action costs 2 Eve.  If it is lower they're banished until they pass an Int vs Int save, which they may try once per round and this action costs 4 Eve.  Ends after [Lvl]/2(round up) rounds, regardless of save.
 } - Empowered Oblivion Fraying: Gain the stat damage as a boost to Int until the end of the encounter OR opponent rolls their Int save twice and takes the lower result.  Costs 3 Adam.

Iron Sides: Grants one target the “Iron Sides” buff for two rounds, giving them [Int/2] DR/all.  Costs 3 Eve, has a cooldown of two.
 } - Empowered Iron Sides: Target is also purged of all debuffs and immune to debuffs for the duration, Costs 3 Adam.

Dysmorphia: To bind your foes in a prison of their own flesh.
One target becomes unable to use non-item actions for three rounds, costs 3 Eve.
 } - Empowered Dysmorphia: Target's Str and Dex are also halved for the duration, costs 3 Adam.

Thoughtseize: Remove a fragment of the mind and watch it crumble.
Marks one target with "Seized".  Seized targets reveal their intent for their next action at the end of the round, be it to attack, debuff, defend, support, etc.
Only one target may be Seized at a time, costs 1 Eve.
 } - Empowered Thoughtseize: the target also rolls all contested checks at a -[Level] disadvantage, costs 2 Adam.

Armored Shell Gene Tonic: A special tonic that once ingested makes the subject's body begin growing flexible plates of keratin just under the skin that protect vital organs.
Grants a pool of 8 HP, for every hit 4 points of net damage are subtracted from this pool instead of the user.  Three rounds after the pool is reduced to 0 it fully replenishes.  Does not require an action slot.
Level 2: increased the pool by 4.
Level 3: increased the pool by 4.
Level 4: increased the pool by 4.(20)
 
Eve Hypo: A large hypodermic needle and syringe containing a thick blue liquid.
Restore [Syn]/2 Eve, usable once per combat.
Level 2: Usable as a free action.

Form Fitting Body Armor: Easily concealable armor capable of being worn under basically anything, it's light enough that it practically feels like you're wearing nothing at all underneath the rest of your clothing.
Level 1: +12% physical damage resistance against ballistic and piercing weaponry
Level 2: Does not take an action slot

Jaegerbomb Plasmid(x5): A mysterious Plasmid that makes the wielder feel bolder and stronger.
Grants 4d8 temporary HP to the target, as well as +5 STR, hides the target's current health, and may have other effects.

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[AzyWng]

Tsubasa, Utzi, Friedhold and Nessa, and Shel
Utzi’s Mercurial Rachis repositions itself. It lands at INIT 11. No units are in range.

Tsubasa takes a moment to focus on her resilience. Then she slices the Erchinlord with a single swing.
Tsubasa uses Second Form. She gains 1+Yin Damage Resistance for the rest of this battle. Her Yang increases by 1 (Now 3).
Tsubasa uses Reaction to attack the Erchinlord with First Form. She deals 44 [2*(1+3+3+1 + 14)] damage.
Her Yin increases by 1 (Now 1).

Shel rushes forth, slashing at the Erchinlord in a frenzied assault.
Shel goes Berserk, attacking the Erchinlord for 10 (7+3) damage 4 times. She deals 40 damage.
Shel gains 1 Defect (Double damage received from the next attack)!

Utzi takes aim and flings a spear at the Erchinlord, sinking deep into its flesh.
Utzi uses Skillful Toss. It hits the Erchinlord for 30 (8+8+7+1 + 6) damage. Utzi uses one spear, which can be retrieved later.

Beneath the onslaught of attacks, the Erchinlord stumbles, then falls, then fails to rise.

Seeing their leader collapse, the remaining Erchins dash out of sight - but the sounds of flamethrowers make it clear what happened to them.

The two Barons moving to clear up the site don’t do much to improve the smell - it turns out burning Erchin nest smells pretty bad, too. At least the shills they give you seem okay... though if you linger too long, that might change.

The party gains 150 Shills!

Utzi retrieves his spear.

The Erchinlord’s corpse is present. One can try to get something off of it for use, though it’ll probably leave them much smellier for a good while.

Or they can just ask the Barons to burn the thing.

Ehto

Through halting dialogue and a bit of arguing, the trio of Boggers manage to tell Ehto that these Bog parasites can give people immense physical strength and resilience under the right circumstances, and that it can also provide a sort of psionic connection to other people who are infected. Beyond that, the true capabilities of the Bog parasites are unknown.

Carlito

It looks like Arint rolls her eyes for a second. “If it were as simple as dousing the location with chemicals, we would already have done so. But it turns out filling a dig site with toxic gas is bad for public relations and worker morale. Not to mention the risk of winds spreading it into populated areas, the act of contracting enough Bilebrokers to create pesticide in sufficient quantities... At any rate, we just need to wait on some other Grifters to return from the other pest control issue, and we can proceed.”

Hibiki

Sal just nods, seemingly waiting for the others to return from their mission before the task to take on the Flead Queen.

Spoiler: Party status (click to show/hide)

The party is currently carrying 625 Shills.

The party has 5 Mettle, a strange measure of one's progress as a Grifter. While they aren't as commonly used as Shills, they may do things that Shills cannot...

Hrikit, Llullably, and Treena like the party - Helped protect them when swarmed at the gate. They may help the party if they happen to be in the same place as them.

Hrikit dislikes Rory - accused the Barons of slavery. She still likes the rest of the party, but if Rory is doing something, she might not help, or may even interfere.

Treena is indifferent to Rory - Behaved rather belligerently, even if he did help defend her at the gate. They may still help the other party members, but not him.

Bludd, Pock, and Krikith like Ehto - convinced Rasma to capture Bludd rather than killing him.

Veep loves Carlito - saved his life

Brill likes Carlito - helped save her friend’s life

Llullably has asked the party for help tracking down a missing Luminari by the name of Mallowi. If the party finds any info on him, they should go visit her abode among the worker's shanties.

Wikka is offering an escort job to a cache of artifacts in Grout Bog. Her father, Worrik, doesn’t want her to go, but she isn’t listening. She’ll only have the offer open for a few days.

[nuclearwhale]

Utzi

Utzi wrinkles his nose as he breathes in the dead Erchinlord. "Definitely not good meat." As he gathers up his spear, he gets a closer look at the beast's face, his eyes briefly focusing on it's horns before reaching to his side where his hands grab at... nothing.

"... no hand axe." The caveman mutters to himself, before standing up and looking at the Barons. "These... shills. Do you know where I can get a hand-axe from with these?"

[StormLord]

Friedhold & Nessa

Friedhold pauses for a few seconds after the beast falls still, waiting for the residents of its riddled body to revolt, but when no such explosion of gore comes he finally lets out a breath and relaxes a bit.  He shifts a hand, allowing Nessa to approach the beast while he turns his own attention towards Tsubasa.  He knew she'd been hit as he'd watched the beast scrap with her, but she wasn't showing signs of obvious injury, at least ignoring the blood.
"Let me clean the wounds.  Before infection takes hold."
His tone implied that the request probably wasn't really a choice beyond the curtesy, something reinforced with the hand of white-green flames he was holding.


At the same time, Nessa rushed towards the beast with a sort of morbid glee most comparable to a child on Christmas morning. 
"Finally an Aaaangel!  And that means Adam!"
Just as Utzi turned to question his lack of handaxe, Nessa pulled up her long needle and drove it into the chest of the creature's corpse, producing a distinct scrape of metal-on-bone.  Thick red liquid began welling up in the vial at the top of the needle, not quite the same as the blood it had lost in combat minutes ago.

[nuclearwhale]

Utzi
Utzi freezes as the little girl dashes past him holding a strange, clear tube with intense glee in her voice. Glancing over at Friedhold with only a slight mote of concern about letting the child near the obviously ill beast, he relaxes a little when he sees the man seems fine with it. With a fond nostalgia in his voice, he speaks. "I remember when I was a child and I got to help butcher the latest hunts. It's good that she has an interest, even if your tribe does not require it."

[Chevaleresse]

Tsubasa

The hunter looked between the three with concern. The creature was very obviously not good eating, or. . . well, whatever the girl was doing was definitely not getting food.

. . . Probably. The green flames did very little to reassure her, but she had no real reason to mistrust him either, and it was supposed to help. "Just don't inject me with anything permanent." Three ragged gashes on her arm were all the injuries she showed; the way she moved, you'd think she hadn't been hit at all.

The two made her intensely uncomfortable, in a way that made her sword hand twitch. Neither of them was human, now that she thought to look clearly. They did a decent job of pretending, but they weren't. Friedhold's skin didn't fit a normal human skeleton right, it rose in the wrong places, and Nessa. . . She'd seen something moving under her skin. They didn't seem to be demons - Nessa probably would have called her delicious by now - but they were wrong.

". . . Also." Her gaze fixated on him like a hawk's, golden eyes unconsciously narrowing slightly. "What are you two?"

[StormLord]

Friedhold & Nessa

"I do not want to be picking worms out of your blood or trying to cure some alien fever that tears through the castle next we travel."
Friedhold steps forward and waves the flames over her arm, letting a few jump from his hand into her wound.  They burned, but not exactly like fire, more akin to alcohol, peroxide, or other chemical, a cleansing scouring of the flesh and a stemming of the bleeding.  He pauses as she asks her question, blinking and sighing at it before returning to work.
"I come from a world where man defeated all his monsters, and in so doing became the worst of them all.  She is a just a victim of that cruel world."
As soon as he finishes the flames on Tsubasa's arm and his own hand vanish as he straightens up his posture.
"I suppose I was a man once, but I gave up on my humanity long ago.  Now I just Am."


If Friedhold heard Utzi's comment he doesn't show it, instead staying focused on his conversation and helping Tsubasa.  After another stab or two Nessa retracts the needle device and tips back the now-filled container at the top to drink the foul liquid.  She wavers slightly and her eyes gather a slightly reflective silver sheen to them as she finishes and looks back to Utzi.
"This angel's all done.  Why don't we go make some more?"
Her voice echoes slightly, like two spoken together and her eyes are wide and unfocused as she stares up to Utzi waiting for a response.

[Chevaleresse]

Tsubasa

She gave a slow nod. If anything, the explanation made him sound more like a demon, but whatever humanity had done in his world, it wasn't what she was faced with. It sounded worse, but Friedhold at least sounded regretful. I'll just have to keep an eye on him. Giving up on his humanity. . . what has he done? Tsubasa's eyes flicked toward Nessa, expression pinching slightly at what she could only assume was some kind of drug use. Did he do that to her? Her hand drifted toward her waist. But he regrets it. I can see it in the way he moves, that tension of faking feelings isn't there. Her hand fell. Gah, this is too complicated. If he does something bad he loses head privileges. If he doesn't then whatever, it's not my problem. I'm finding food. Wordlessly, she turned to head back to town, idly scratching at the places her wounds had just been.

[nuclearwhale]

Utzi
Utzi shakes his head, a small, knowing smile growing on his face. "I know much of this beast is not good eating, but we were not lacking for food anyway. Hunts are dangerous, and while the bounties of meat are not to be ignored, we should not hunt more than we need. Unnecessary risks like that may mean the tribe doesn't have enough hunters when it actually needs them. But it is good that you are so excited to try. Has your..."
Utzi glances over at Friedhold after a moment to try to determine their relationship, before deciding it's best not to assume and offend either of them.
"Has he brought you on many hunts? While I don't think we should go... "Make more Angels" right now, I can teach you how to use tools like mine if you want to learn to make your own one day. You probably won't need to often, since a young woman has more important things to tend to than the slaying of beasts, but it's important that every member of the tribe can, if they must. Just get Friedhold's permission and I'll teach you to throw."

[Sutoratosu Akira]

Ehto
Thanking the boggers, she left them be and began jotting down notes as she returned to Arint and the stranger. She briefly caught something about pesticides and the logistics issues of gassing large swaths of the swamp, but decided not to probe too deeply into what might have prompted that line of discussion.
    "Sorry to interrupt but," she began "I've found out a bit more about those parasites you mentioned. You wouldn't happen to still have any specimens I could study, would you?"

Having the world's premier geneticist as your father had its perks. Chiefly that Ehto actually knew the few spells and rituals necessary to conduct such examinations and lacked any instinctive disgust or horror when it came to potentially bio-engineered creatures.