catch back up with the others and re-orient myself
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.
HP: 10
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 no charge, and is currently shaped like a small knife.
Fate Points: 3
violet= Genesis
blue= Grey
Indigo= Aaron
“Ho, then! Let’s get to work!”, Hugh exclaims as he follows Genesis, his large wok at the ready.
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.
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: Ho! Ho! Ho! It’s off to work we go!
HP: 9
Inventory: Robe, gloves, and needle (in the form of a large wok), various foodstuffs, dishes, silverware, and cooking and serving supplies.
Fate Points: 3
Red - Aaron
Orange -
Yellow - Genesis
Green - Greed
Blue - Youare
Indigo - Grey
Violet -
"Yes, that could work. And it doesn't matter if the other ants get angry at us. They'll forget about us as soon as they see this ant group. They're hardwired to be hostile to each other. It's their Magi's way of keeping them in balance, or something. Either way, let's get moving"
Genesis follows along with Debby to enact the "false scouting mission" plan to stir up trouble between ant colonies.
Genesis keeps a wary eye out for other insects, especially wasps. Especially those wierd-ass wasps that lay eggs in other insects. Stab those on sight.
Description: Classic 80s action hero looks, kinda quiet. think Kurt Russel from the movie Soldier
Nature: Pureblood [Iteration 31195, Calderon Code: Phlogiston. Investigation Corp, Patron: Sebiline the All-Seeing]
Status: Isn't falling out of or into anything
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, needle. Hammer pendant of missile resistance and freezing when wet.
Fate Points: 0
Debby, Tess, Luta, Grey, Hugh, Aaron.
"A fake scouting mission seems like it'd be the one that they'd find the most believable, so lets go for it."
Ask the military ant if we can take some ants and scout out the enemy territory.
Name: Debby
Description: Looks like a regular human woman but with the head of a deer.
Nature: All-Tounges
Status: Normal
HP: 10
Inventory:
purple robe
white gloves
big ass needle (strange black magic)
Sword
Elizabeth Audrey Foxington, the living fox doll, now with parka: Is currently back at base
Rope
Rifleaxe
10' rope
Spork with sharp serrated edges on the spoon part
Some bandages
Sewing needle
Chest piece it doesn't fit well
Helmet doesn't fit well
15' cloths line
A kitchen knife
Some thread
Some Rags
Some canned goods
Can opener
Fate Points: 3
Orange Grey
Blue Genesis
Violet Aaron
Welcome back piecewise! You might want to alert some of the other players that this is running again. I'll edit this post once I have an action.
Edit:
Aaron offers to stay with the military commander to provide immediate communication, while the others go to see if his information is true.
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: Frustrated by formicid warmongers.
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, needle, and gloves. Bloodthirsty serrated fighting knife. Needle charged by stabbing black magic plant monsters.
Sleeve contents:
1.A ripe avocado
2. A watercress sandwich
3. Flan
4. Calamari
5. Raspberry Lemon Meringue Pie
6. Baked potato soup
7. Oysters Rockefeller
8. Sticky Toffee Pudding
9. Chicken fried steak
10. Cinnamon Bread
FP: 0
Links: Red:Hugh, Yellow:Youare, Green:Grey, Orange:Genesis, Blue: Aa, Indigo:Tess, Violet:Debby
As the group talks, word of their plan spreads. Hundreds of paranoid, hyperactive, xenophobic warhawk ants of all sizes begin to gather. Outwardly the goal of "Scouting" remains constant but its clear within their actions and innuendo that they know the true intent of this and they are all for it. If they do not find aggression, they will MAKE aggression. Goading, taunting, flase flag attacks, and outright preemtive attacks are planned fleeting wiggles of antennae and scent gland emissions, at least according to your translator.
When asked for volunteers there is no shortage and carapace armored bodies press in around the group in wild silence, their cries for attention held only in smell and sign. Looking out at the masses there seem to be a few kinds.
1. Very small ants, roughly the size of a dog. They're very quick and long legged for their size, almost spiderlike with tiny pincers. Born scouts and investigators.
2. Middle sized ants, still as large as a carriage. They are archypical, no different from any ant you might see crawling about on the sidewalk or in the underbrush. Only their size and crystalline appearance set them apart. They are generalized, not really great at anything but not really lacking in anything.
3. Soldiers. Much larger, two or three times the length of the workers and twice the height with pincers large enough to encircle and bisect several men. Their carapace is heavy and angular, designed to shed blows and wrench free of pincers.
4. Diggers. These oddities show their crystalline makeup much more then the others. They look more like crystals arranged in the rough shape of an ant than ants carved out of a crystal. Their forms vary between one another, but generally have one large crystal as their abdomen and a single, mouthless crystalline head with several, often an odd number, of gem eyes. The crystalline make up of the nest seems to shiver and move around them and bits of crystal float and orbit near them. They lack antennae and instead seem to communicate with strange low frequency noises.
5. Bombardier. Resemble soldiers but instead of giant pincers they have an enormous Abdomen visibly filled with a purple fluid. They have a double pair of pincers, the smaller inner pair is constantly arcing with electricity.
You have your choice between any of these, but it seems like limiting your overall forces would be prudent. Anything beyond maybe 10 ants would likely become difficult to command effectively, especially with every command having to be filtered through debbie.
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