Sorry about a lack of posts recently. Midterms and ORO prep.
Sebastian shakes himself off, picks up the gun, and wades back out of the stream, carrying the gun to the warbeast, yelling "You dropped this! And me! We need all hands to fight the demon of the trees! Stand, brothers, Stand against the infection. Do not yield to the encroaching vegetative corruption! Stand and be free!" And then I will turn and fire the gun at the forest.
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You Jump up out of the water and grab at the gun. But it slips out of your hands, falls to the ground and goes off, putting a bullet straight through your shin. You kind of just stare at the wound, dumbfounded. It doesn't even seem to hurt, your brain just can't process it.
"What?" You say, staring at the bleeding hole with knitted brows. You start to feel a dull ache and pressure in the wound, like someone has kicked you in the shin. You know immediately that this is gonna start hurting a hell of a lot really soon.
"That would make sense given the nature of universes back in the mortal realm," Xankarvo muses. "I swore a blood oath at one point or another in the past to find the place, and now I am the last member of that pact who has not died and reincarnated elsewhere. My followers accompany me on this quest for reasons of their own - safety in numbers for the most part. Tell me, are you interested in finding the origin point of these hells and heavens?"
Recruit a god perhaps?
"It is tempting, but this faith array of mine is part of a gambit I have been arranging for many years." He cocks his head. "One which may be coming to fruition soon, if I am not mistaken."
Greet the god. "Well, hello. I'm Dianne Lee. And you are....?"
"Names are unimportant" The god says, standing up from the pool, "My children call me the Most Beautiful. You may call me whatever you please."
Dave shrugged as best as his dino-shoulders allowed. "Honestly? I'm mostly along for the ride. I really don't need you to do anything for me. The most I would ask for is a drink; we have a little booze but it isn't much. Nice place you have here, though!"
Small talk with divinity.
"Bounty is one of my domains." He says, seemingly disconnected from your question, and then says something. You can't understand it because of the language he used, but there's something immensely powerful about the way he said it. As though it reverberated across the entire desert and yet was no louder than a whisper.
"Now, so long as my children live, any fluid which passes your lips shall be fine alcohol when you swallow it."
"Oi! Hyena man! What is the current situation?"
Follow after Hyenaclese and yell at him. If he's not saying anything useful, go back to Xan.
"The situation is: I'm getting the fuck out of here, and you should too. Make sure to kick the possessed cat with one of your phantom limbs on your way up."
Climb up into the platform, and retrieve and load one of our spare rifles.
Hyenankles loads a new rifle while yelling to The floating glass ball.
"Warbeast! Destroy that forest! It's EVIL!" Command the warbeast to uproot trees. If it doesn't obey straight out, try figure out how to make it obey, namely pulling those control ropes randomly.
The Engine spirit doesn't exactly want to cooperate so you just start pulling ropes. You manage to get it to start walking forward, but thats about it.
Land near Xankarvo, de facto captain in that he's the only one with an actual coherent goal around here.
"Hello there! Just checking in to say that, well, there seems to be some sort of unnatural sunset glow happening out toward the horizon. I suspect something rather suspicious is coming this way!"
"Right so, whiz-bang," Mr. Bird nods and briefly looks at the Most-Beautiful. "Fine day to you too, good chap."
Take off and continue keeping a lookout after report is made.
Mr. sally two actions.
You tell Xan that something wicked this way comes and then head back into the sky to keep watch on it. It is growing larger in the distance, a sphere of reddish glow with a sort of trail of stormy clouds. It's either moving slowly or is still very far away. Hard to tell.
Collect the rifle Hyenakles threw into the stream, assuming it's the same shallow one I'm in.
Then take it and the axe back to the Warbeast.
You grab the rifle, ignoring mr.shot-himself-in-the-shin, and take it and the ax back to the warbeast.
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