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[piecewise]

Post coming today after some studying.

[piecewise]

"I say, it looks like the earth is about to eat you lot. Might want to move, good fellows!"

Try flying away from the sinkhole.

In fact, start flying (low to the ground, with breaks every now and then) and keep going in the direction that Hyenakles did. Westward, I believe! Out into the Dead Silence!

Hyenankles went into the Idol henge and then toward dead silence, so we'll have you fly out to idol henge and then follow him. For sake of speed and not triple splitting the party, we'll say you catch up with him.

((Sorry, didn't really have Internet access over the weekend. Here, I'll just paste in the whole waitlist. Tomasque is next up, UXLZ second, and so on.))

Spoiler: Waitlist (click to show/hide)

Tomasque
UXLZ
Twinwolf
AkumaKasai (sheet not posted yet)
Wolfkit (previously skipped due to no activity)
NAV
Execute/Dumbo.exe
Alucard
MidnightJaguar
spazyak
The Froggy Ninja (previously skipped due no activity)

"Well, this is unsettling." Hyenakles remarks out loud. "But hey, I'll take unsettling over terrifying any day."

Begin the long trek northwest, towards the border to Black Sun Cult. In leu of bread crumbs, periodically tear tufts of fur from my cloak, and drop them them at my feet. Try not to use this alone time to contemplate the apparent probability that my allies are all dead and I am all alone in this god forsaken hell and oh god what will I do next I'm going to die I'm going to die hrhghghakldsgalkjf

You and bird heading toward the black sun cult eh? Well, let me see. Thats a fair distance from here. Are you gonna go straight, passing through a fairly inner section of the dead silence, or are you gonna go around the edge, which takes longer?

"SEA MONSTERS!!"

Run for it.

You run into idol henge and safety.

Good, my intuition was right. Commence revival at ratios previously established!

Spoiler: Xanny (click to show/hide)

Name: Xankarvo
Needs: Regular (food, water)
Appearance: Generic Xan template (tall, bald, intense stare, slender)
Good At: Fire
Bad At: Not Being A Dick
Greatest Hope: Omnipotence
Greatest Fear: Irrelevance
Known Alterations: Flint and Steel Teeth, Crab-like Left Arm, Asbestos Hands, Fire Cape (possibly item?)
Known Powers/Abilities: Fire powers - varies depending on rolls/situation, but some common variants:
- Pseudo-fire breath (alcohol ignited via sparks from teeth)
- General fire manipulation (can make existent fire do various things - got fire cape from this
- Sacrificial Healing (can close wounds, reattach limbs, perform major healing, potentially bring back the dead (not tested) with the burning of a proportional amount of flesh, whether self or others)
- Sacrificial Flame Generation (correct me if I'm wrong, piecewise, but I think at one point I burned my fingers off to generate a blast of fire? I think I can probably do something like that.)

Inventory:
- 1 Olive
- 1 Toothpick
- Fancy Pen
- Wizard Robe (black, purple highlights)
- Wizard Tracksuit (same as above)
- Wizard Hat (grey, pointy, wide brim)
- Book about Faith, Godhood, etc
- Lamellar Chestplate
- Notebook
- Voice of the People (fist-sized seashell. Put note in, crush note to have effect written on note)
- Bag of Explosive Crystals - they appear to absorb energy proportional to their size before exploding, probably give sign when they're about to explode
- Blood Ritual Book - slightly singed

"Giant antlion!"

Stick around Xankarvo and drag him away if it starts look like he will be eaten by ground.

[4]
Xan, through the combustion of nearly all the dead, manages to revive 3 cultists. Well, 2 and a half; the third one seems kind of damaged. Probably due to the fact that he doesn't have a head.

Out of the still expanding hole in the ground rises the arm you set on fire, with that fucking cat thing still riding it. And then another arm comes out. And then 3 more until their shared shoulder starts to rise out. Even with a hole this big, easily a half mile across, the shoulder is the most that the giant creature can poke out. But those 5 arms seem more than enough to deal with you.

[DoctorMcTaalik]

Hyenakles is cautious, but not that cautious. Go straight.

[Toaster]

Regroup!  Run Dino Fast!

[Harry Baldman]

"I say, Hyenakles me old boy, this place is a bit toss, innit?"

Stick close to the hyena and keep a sharp birdy eye out for any kind of existential threat.

[Xantalos]

nnnnnnnggh have to deciding whether to try for warbeast or run or fight somehow

[DoctorMcTaalik]

Hyenakles twitches, visibly startled, and peers up at Mr. Bird.

"You're alive? What, did you just follow my example and make a, ah, a tactical retreat, or...?"

[Harry Baldman]

"Less a tactical retreat and more a tentative resignation is what I would call it, dear Hyenakles. Frankly I'd had enough of following some mad bastard around on some kind of odd little quest and the giant thing beneath the mountain dropped the warbeast on the ground from a great height and it seemed quite buggered, so that was the only real advantage of being around the lunatics that evaporated there and then. I figure my time would be better spent finding another bird."

"How about you? I must admit I'm a tad unclear on what your motivation in all this is, preservation of deer shanks aside."

[Xantalos]

Haul ass to the warbeast, which is apparently still alive, if on fire and kinda fucked up. But I am the fire wizard, so that doesn't matter. Get my cultists to run with me. Zigzag, be a moving target and such.

The warbeast is near the cloud wall so it's also a good exit.

[Egan_BW]

"Screw it, fuck this hell."

Be tiny and unimportant. Head over to the Cemaic Empire!

[DoctorMcTaalik]

"Xankarvo and John- the deer-headed one who'd mostly been staring off into space of late, not the one who got himself turned into a pepper- picked me up way back in a little town called Slencville. I say picked me up- we basically ended up in the same getaway vehicle after some creepy ghost fuckers showed up and started yanking people's bones out of their bodies. I've kinda just stuck around since then because, well, there's relative safety in numbers. Although I don't know that I felt too safe traveling with our latest, erm, numbers- no offense, but most of our party was not exactly combat ready.

I never really got in on the whole pact thing, but I would like to find this First Heaven eventually. If only so I can give God a piece of my mind."

[Harry Baldman]

"Wouldn't be a terrible idea to get there eventually, I suppose. If not now, then possibly in the next life. Not that I'd have much to say to whatever elder thing might roost there, I'd imagine it's too busy being the yawning, idiot hole in the center of the multiverse to be bothered by the likes of you and I."

"Honestly, I'd say stuff the very idea of an epic quest. It'd serve tossers like the wizard right if we came upon the wellspring of existence by complete accident while cruising for biologically compatible animals of loose morals."

[DoctorMcTaalik]

"How do you feel about invertebrates?"

[Harry Baldman]

"That depends, I could possibly go for squid. If I get the slightest whiff of chitin, however, I'm out of there before you can say 'traumatic insemination'."

[Ozarck]

Hey! Where is everyone going? Show's not over! We haven't collected our fee yet!"

Say the above. Hmm, I guess Sebastian will wait for an opportunity to hop down into a relatively stable and safe location - toward the group, more or less. He will, of course, continue to yammer at teh arms and the ghost people about our fee.