You know what, fuck it. I’m going back to a seaside cliff and spending my new fate point on the KRAKEN again. Using the ROCK CHICKEN STATUE
Name: Luta
Description: A short pale hairless woman
Nature: Anagramist
Status: A little scuffed
HP: 9
Inventory:
Robe
Needle (d1 aerolith spell)
Gloves
Grass Lad (has saber)
Chibi Grassassin
Grass sabers (3)
Stone chicken
Fate Points: 1
Linked:
Genesis
Grey
[3,
2]
You do get a squid. Not a colossal squid. Not a Giant squid. Instead you get a Humbolt squid. Its certainly a pretty big squid, but nothing legendary. Oh and its also laying on the grass near the cliff instead of in the water below.
After having spent the entire walk down ot the shore attempting to communicate with the Speaker, Genesis waves the Speaker off to teh side while he talks to the gutter. ((I literally had it in my previous action, Cat, to speak slow and loud for Speaker's benefit, so either assume he at some point was properly informed, or assume that Genesis got very fed up with it and made clear that Speaker was annoying him.))
Shore Team:Genesis, Speaker, Tess
To Thomas Sysiscy:
"Hello. I am called Genesis. I am a homunculus, one of a group sent by the Magi to assist this town in it's hunt for the Hammer. We have been told that the problem is caused by a misplaced Rod of Bounty. We have several ideas on how a Rod of Bounty may have ended up in the sea instead of in the farmlands where it apparently belongs. One of those theories is that it may have been in your town the day that town slid into the sea. I am sorry to bring up unpleasant memories, but if you could tell me anything about your former town and the events of that day, it would be helpful."
Name: Genesis
Description: Classic 80s action hero looks, kinda quiet. think Kurt Russel from the movie Soldier (only probably less mute)
Nature: Pureblood
Status: Allowed to live
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, needle (currently contains Maintain Velocity(4)), Ceramic bread loaf. Hammer pendant of missile resistance and freezing when wet.
Fate Points: 3
Red Grey
Orange Bob
Yellow Speaker
Green Flameo
Blue Debby
Indigo Luta
Violet Tess
Thomas Syniscy: gutter. survivor of the town that sunk 5 years ago. home on third layer.
Nearest branch office: 350 miles north: Ynisk. Destination of convoy thgat passed through 8 months ago.
convoy. Symbol on trucks: Red Lion. Boss was called Sanders.
"I was only a lad when it happened." he says, wiping blood off on his apron, "I just happened to be out in the fields that night, so when the quake hit and the cliff collapsed I wasn't there. Not a lot to say about the whole thing: was at night so there wasn't much to see. One minute there are lights from all the houses out there in the distance, next minute its just darkness. Sounded like thunder...never heard anyone scream. But if its a rod of bounty you're looking for, I don't think it would have come from us. The town was built on the edge of the cliff but the fields and animal enclosures were all radiating out away from it. The entire city went down but the fields were still there. Only way I can see it happening is if there was one in storage or the like...but I doubt it. Rules for those things are really clear: Never let them sit around unplanted."
He stuffs his hands into his pockets and thinks a moment.
"But I remember some people came to take all the rods we had after the collapse. They never said anything about any of them being missing. But they were looking around a lot too."
((Guess neither Luta nor Genesis is going to reply to the Speaker.))
The Speaker goes over to the waterfront and asks the sea if there is a hammer in it and, if so, where it can be found.
Name: The Speaker.
Description: a small man with black hair that is speckled with gray and a small gray goatee.
Nature: All-Tounge.
Status: Oi! Ya’ got any hammers?
HP: 4
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: 7
Red = Greed
Orange = Dew
Yellow = Genesis
[2]
The sea has...clammed up.
Team Boat
Youare removes the function "fillet" from the knife, and stores it as a spell on his needle. If that's possible. He also unties Grey.
He then confers with the other homunculi on board.
"I may be able to turn an object into bait. One of us, perhaps, or an entire ship. Or simply something easier to handle than fish offal. Someone fast and tough enough could set out into the storm, find the creature we're hunting, and draw the thing back to us with that."
"Perhaps the woman who can transform into air would be well suited for this. I might be able to turn us, or our robes, into natural swimmers, so that might also be sensible. Would anyone be willing to risk that kind of mission?"
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: 10
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 (linked to Grey and Dew), and also:
-Several live fish
-a bucket of chum and large maggots
-An old crank powered lantern
-A fillet knife, heavily used and somewhat dull.
-Rifle
-Axe
Fate Points: 1
This is a bit of a toughy. Functionaries pull functions from things, not words. The knife is named because it is used to cut fillets but to fillet something is cut it into fillets. So...effectively what you'd be removing is the function of "Cutting into thin strips". So, really you'd effectively just be removing "Sharp" or "Cutting" from it. We'll assume thats what you're doing.
[1][+1 fate][-2 HP]
You grab the knife to yank the function out of it but get a little overzealous. Instead of reaching into the unfathomable depths of the plane of Socratic forms you instead just grab the blade of the knife and cut your hand straight to the bone.
Name: Greed
Description: looks mostly like a normal human with pale skin, but he has ruby red hair and eyes. his hair and eyes also give off a slight, shimmering glow.
Nature: elemental-light
Status: Water breathing?, mostly invisible.
HP: 10/10
Needle links:speaker
Inventory: magic needle weapon With sunburst, shredded cloak, cake, rifle, axe
Fate Points: 1
You have your cake and eat it too. Otherwise you stand around with weapons and look threatening. Maybe you shout some taunts over the rail at the fish below.
"well you do live next to a cliff."
wait around, see how much ammo the rifle has.
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: Dispassionate
HP: 10
Inventory:
Purple Robe
White Gloves
Needle
Makeshift eyepatch
Pocket ash
1 nonstolen magic axes
1 nonstolen magic sword
1 nonmagic, nonclimbing axe
1 rifle with indeterminate amount of ammo
Fate Points: 0
Genesis - green
Grey - indigo
The rifle has anywhere between zero and infinite bullets depending on your rolls. I ain't tracking shit. We'll assume you have ammo until fate decides you don't.
"I'm not sure being in the water with that thing is a good idea."
Examine my rifle and ask it what could be done to it to make it stronger, and see how Elizabeth feels about being on a boat that's going out to fight a giant monster.
Name: Debby
Description: Looks like a regular human woman but with the head of a deer.
Nature: All-Tounges
Status: Is tied to Elizabeth with some rope.
HP: 10
Inventory:
purple robe
white gloves
big ass needle
Sword
Elizabeth Audrey Foxington, the living fox doll, now with parka
Rope
Rifle
Axe
Fate Points: 2
[2] The rifle is oddly tight lipped for something without lips.
Liz seems cautiously excited to be embarking on an adventure. She asks to be taken to the rail to look out into the water. She doesn't, however, try to stray from you whatsoever. The most she does is leave the crook of your arm and climb up to perch on your shoulder.
For wizards you're all really eager to get weapons substantially less powerful than what you already have.
((It's for magic. You'll see. Maybe.))
"I wasn't actually going to shoot the captain. These seafarers really don't know how to take a joke..."
"Dew! Do you think you can untie me? I had a misunderstanding with the men downstairs."
Grey gets untied by Youare. He ditches the sign and mittens afterwards.
Grey also tries to determine where his needle and saber ended up, and retrieves them.
After talking with the other Homunculi, Grey speaks up to catch the captain's attention.
"Captain! I believe I know of a way to drag it out of the storm, but it won't be easy."
"So long as we're heading in the beast's general direction, and we're coming closer to it, I think I can create a link between it and this ship which will draw the two together, reeling it in like a fish on a hook, so to speak.”
“The trouble is that this is a very big fish, so it's going to be a battle between us and The Hammer to see whether we can pull it out of the storm, or if it can pull us in. I don't know if this ship is strong and heavy enough to drag a mean leviathan out of the storm, so if you think it is, captain, we can give it a shot."
"There's also the possibility that it's just too far away for me to reach it, but we should know if the magic works or not."
If the captain agrees to the fish-on-a-hook plan, then while the Leaden Crown is headed towards the storm, Grey spends 2 fate on Maintaining the rate at which the Leaden Crown and the entity known as The Hammer are becoming closer together. The idea is to create a paradox where there is a shortening distance between the ship and the monster even after the ship has stopped and started to reverse. So hopefully the magic will correct this paradox and bring the two objects closer together regardless.
If the magic fails to catch, Grey lets the captain know and he can go with the original plan.
If the magic does catch, Grey informs the captain that he should start reversing the ship, and if after a while it looks like the ship is going to get dragged into the storm, or, god forbid, it looks like the ship is going to get pulled underwater, Grey attempts to break the connection.
If the captain thinks this is a bad idea (it could be), then Grey spends 1 fate on Maintaining the ship's hull instead.
To accomplish either of these things, Grey cuts the mediocre Maintaining of Greed's ability to breathe.
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: Tied up on the deck
HP: 10
Inventory: Purple robe, white gloves, mittens and a NO SHARP OBJECTS sign. The location of the giant needle imbued with Maintain the health and physical well being of the ship's crew(5) and the magic feather shaped saber is unclear...
Fate Points: 4
Red Genesis
Orange Debby
Yellow Bob
Violet Youare
Blue Tess
Indigo Luta
Green Lambent Flame
We'll assume he cut you free before he moved on to himself.
Your stuff is still with you.
You tell the captain your plan and he slowly nods along with it, eyes snapping out towards the storm and then back to the ship as the gears turn in his head.
"Not unlike what we do with our harpoons and lines already. But we generally use the weight of our ship instead of its engines to tire the beasts if they run. I'm not certain the strength this creature has, but it might be able to pull us with greater force than we can pull it. For a while at least." he taps his cane on the deck while continuing to think aloud. "But we might be able to get around that. There's a sand bar not far out. We could wait for your spell to connect and then beach ourselves and drop all anchors. Should give us some good footing or at least a good start...."
He walks to the front of the ship and looks out at the storm.
"Only one thing really worries me. If it dives, might it take us with it? That spell o' yours is a winch that keeps tightening, no matter what. If the only way to keep pulling is to go down, we'll go down...or it will come up. Or we'll snap in two depending how that magic is anchored to us."
He turns back and points his cane at you.
"You can 'maintain' anything right? If we could get the hammer moving towards shore, could you force it to keep going that way till it beached itself? If we can get that thing on land we'll have won without a single harpoon loosed."
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