Brace for impact! Duck and cover! Use the oil slick mana in my needle to form a shield from teh shockwave and debris that is sure to come.
"I think you guys already know this, but ...
INCOMING!!!!!"
Name: Genesis
Description: Classic 80s action hero looks, kinda quiet. think Kurt Russel from the movie Soldier (only probably less mute)
Nature: Pureblood
Status: Newly decanted
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, walking needle (glowing oil-slick rainbow style with charged magical energy.
Fate Points: 4
[4]
Genesis dives for cover in a ruin and waves his needle above his head. A shimmering bubble, not unlike the cannon balls, appears around him
((Too bad it's coming, because I was about to make all sorts of DINOSAURS to distract the thing from shooting at us, in a probably dooming us sort of way.))
Name: Drip
Description: Drip has memories of being water. Surely that's not a thing, but he insists it is. Water.
Nature: Anagramist
Status: The key is stuck in his chest in a way that it probably shouldn't be.
HP: 6
Inventory: Purple Eye Robe, White Eye Gloves, Needle Spear, Dangerous-looking Bone "Key"
Fate Points: 4
Hey, that saves us a trip!
Turn some SANDSTONE RUIN into an AIR DUNE to make a safe place to hide!
[6]
Drip runs to one of the ruins and messes with its essence. The stone vanishes and is replaced with what might be best described as solidified wind. He attempts to jump into it, with the hope it will protect him, but instead immediately shoots up and ends up trapped in an endless tumbling fall atop the wind.
“Good idea!”
The speaker asks the sand to carry him in the direction of the nearest building (other than the ruined tower he just came from).
Name: The Speaker.
Description: a small man with black hair that is speckled with gray and a small gray goatee.
Nature: All-Tounge
Status: Follow the Yellow Grain Road!
HP: 5
Inventory: A purple robe with a large red eye embroidered on the back, a pair of white gloves with a similar eye on the palm, and what appears to be a 4 foot long sewing needle made of black iron. The needle’s sides are blunt but its tip is deadly sharp, and the “eye” has knurling around it so that it can be used as a handle.
Fate Points: 8
[3]
The sand shifts and whispers "Don't know. Ask the river to the north."
Turn the SAND GRAINS around the truck into AIR, then drive the truck out of the danger zone.
Name: Luta
Description: A short pale hairless woman
Nature: Anagramist
Status: Fit as a Fiddle
HP: 10
Inventory:
Robe
Needle
Gloves
Grass Lad (has saber)
Chibi Grassassin
Grass sabers (3)
Fate Points: 0
Grey drops the conduit, ceases his Maintaining of the tower and then does something slightly risky. he starts jogging away from the frog fort for now. And then, being able to slow down, speed up, and change direction, Grey Maintains control of his trajectory and jumps. If flight has been achieved, he flies straight up, hopefully above the frog. If it fails, he takes cover behind whatever looks sturdy.
[Too iffy I've decided, we can try to abuse physics definitions some other time.]
Grey drops the conduit, ceases his Maintaining of the tower, and then runs to get into the passenger seat of Lupanian's truck while Maintaining the truck.
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.
Nature: Verbomancer (Maintain)
Status: Fine
HP: 10
Inventory: Purple robe, white gloves, giant needle
Fate Points: 1
[2]
Grey runs over and dives into the partially buried Stone Car while Luta attempts to uncover it. Grey sticks his head out the passenger window and bangs on the roof.
"Hurry the heck up!"
"I'm trying! I'm trying!"
Despite her best efforts, Luta can't turn the sand into air.
"Oh shit."
Take cover behind some of the ruins, and ask the ruins to not fall apart.
Name: Debby
Description: Looks like a regular human woman but with the head of a deer.
Nature: All-Tounges
Status: No longer flopping around a freaking out.
HP: 10
Inventory:
purple robe
white gloves
big ass needle
Fate Points: 1
[1][+1 fate point][-1 hp]
Debby hides behind a wall and politely asks it not to fall over, because it is so weak and shitty.
It falls over on her.
"You're only proving my point!"
get out of the splash zone
Name: Master of the Lambent Flame
Description: A messy-haired albino with a desert kepi as an extension of their lifeforce. Keeps an aloof expression when not having a delusional outburst.
Nature: Pureblood
Status:
HP: 10
Inventory:
Purple Robe
White Gloves
Needle
Makeshift eyepatch
Pocket ash
Fate Points: 0
Flameo turns 180 degrees and sprints away.
Youare rolls the conduit away from structures and other homunculi, into any nearby depression, before covering the conduit with his body. He then places the base of his needle on the ground, angles the pointy end directly upwards, braces the weapon against his shoulder and hopes like hell the mansion doesn't land on him.
Name: Youare A. Homunculus
Description: a wiry man, elderly but still trim and strong, long grey hair tied back in a ponytail.
Nature: Functionary
Status: robed, clean
HP: 7
Inventory: one robe enchanted to PROTECT ("like a big chainmail dress in terms of weight and flexibility: heavy and awkward but not impossible to move in"), one pair of gloves, and one big ass needle
Fate Points: 0
Youare rolls the conduit into a depression between two sand dunes, lays down on top of it, and points his needle straight up, effectively turning himself into a very underwhelming spike pit trap.
Bob was glad that the toad decided to come to them. Now he wouldn't have to chase it for future stabbing. He did find it to be a strange toad, almost like a mobile fortress. It would be a pretty cool home to have. Especially if it had a belt. Bob was then struck by a strange idea. Was it the toad that killed the mage, or was the toad the mage's tower run amok? He hoped it was the first so they could kill it and be done with it. He didn't want to try to explore a mansion on the back of a pissed off battletoad.
Take cover behind anything that looks sturdy enough to shield from the inevitable shockwave and sandstorm. Once in cover, Bob tries to chart the Toad's trajectory. If he is in danger of being landed on, he uses the phantom wolf claws to dig a hole below him that he can shelter in to not be squished and hold his Needle aiming directly up with the point higher than his head. If he isn't in the path of squishing, Bob manipulates the belts on his Needle to send the Needle flying to intercept the toad and stab it between the eyes once it has gotten close enough, preferably before it hits the ground. Use 1 Fate point to help survive a possible squishing or enhance any magic Bob uses.
Name: Bob
Description: An average-sized human-looking male homunculus with a beard of belts.
Nature: Elemental (Belts)
Status: Bruised and sandy in uncomfortable places, but mostly ok
HP: 9
Inventory:
Robe
Gloves
Needle covered in wriggling belts
Wolf Titan belt
Fate Points: 3
[4] Bob gets prepared to run, tracing the thing's path through the sky with one finger as he considers where to go and what to do. But then he stops. He traces it again, this time more quickly as it is getting closer. The toad isn't going to come down on them. Its going to land in front of them, a fair bit out. [1] [+1 fate point]He attempts to fire his needle off like before but instead sends it hurtling away in the wrong direction at quite a high speed.
The toad comes down maybe a full minute after it leapt. Its front legs stretch out to catch itself but the impact is really more belly flop than anything. It digs a huge crater in the sand and sends a literal churning ripple of sand out in all directions like a gritty Tsunami. The shockwave, which begins before the creature even lands as the air is shoved out of the way of its huge girth, isn't anywhere as bad as the wall of sand that follows it. The wave has mostly subsided in the several hundred feet between the impact and the team but Genesis, Luta, Grey, Debby and Youare all end up at least partially buried in the sand while the others, aside from Speaker of course, end up slapped off their feet and face first in the sand.
Everyone is still in the middle of digging themselves out or getting up when the Toad Tower takes about 4 or 5 steps and ends up looming over them. Its height and size are....honestly difficult to comprehend and guess. The toad itself is...maybe 80 meters tall, which would put the top of the actual tower structure on its back at something like twice that. But its far wider and thicker than it is tall, a mountain of metal in an almost literal sense. It slowly lowers itself into a sitting position and looks down at the team. It seems to be looking around for something and stops when it notices Youare digging himself and the conduit out. It opens its mouth and very odd voice comes out. Its colossal and booming, as one would expect from something so damn big, but the pitch is quite high and the tone is one of nervousness and uncertainty.
"Are you Homunculi? Are you here to help Elias?" 
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