Name: Aa-tou-tou Lesia
Description: A pale, fat thing resembling a waterlogged corpse, bloated, with discolored nails and recessed eye sockets. Shoulders, upper back, and thighs covered in incongruently healthy-looking orange fur. Large, triangular, yet bald ears atop head, and a huge mouth lined with numerous needle-like teeth. Apparently female.
Nature: Glutton (Air Darkness Fireflies MagicDirt)
Status: Nominal
HP: 10
Inventory: Purple Robe, White Gloves (Hugh's left glove), Long Needle
Fate Points: 0
Hugh
Grey
"Not enough evidence to follow a trail. But there is some. Something we need but not in sufficient quantities, that seems like an area where a Glutton excels, yes?"
Choose one of the directions which one of the creatures seems to have gone in, and... eat the Evidence of its passage. Not the physical items it touched, but the clues it left behind its passage. Eat until no evidence remains, then start producing more Evidence from my body in an attempt to track the creature.
[2]
That seems...a bit too abstract.
You content yourself with nibbling the bark off a nearby tree.
"This isn't helpful at all. Whatever these abominations are, they are intelligent, and magical. I'm going to try and figure out if they all live in the same spot or not. That could make life easier or harder for us."
Aaron attempts to know if these "things" all live in the same location when they aren't prowling, and if so, how far away it is.
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: Wondering how hard this is going to be.
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, needle, and gloves. Assorted conduit food in sleeves.
FP: 0
Links: Red:Hugh, Yellow:Youare, Green:Grey, Orange:Greed, Blue: Aa
(I just realized that I forgot to add random food to my sleeves a while back, when I put it in. I'll add it now.)
[?]
....Kind of? Sort of in a similar...area.
"I wonder if they're pissed off that we blew up their friend?"
Ask the trees and whatever animals are around what those creatures are and where they live.
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
Sword
Elizabeth Audrey Foxington, the living fox doll, now with parka
Rope
Rifleaxe
10' rope
Spork with sharp serrated edges on the spoon part
Humanoid doll made from a knotted sheet, it's alive now
Fate Points: 4
[2]
The trees and animals all run or remain silent. The seem to shudder at the question. They tell you nothing but you can sense an odd fear.
“Ho! Ho! Ho! Now, if only we had a cognizant who could tell us where they went…”, Hugh muses.
Hugh then gets an idea.
“Hold on! We’re going for a ride! Ho! Ho! Ho!”, Hugh laughs as he firmly grabs Grey and Genesis (if unable to obtain either “passenger”, Hugh replaces each of them with another humonculus). Hugh then eats all of the possible wrong answers to the question of where the things that Aaron saw are currently located and then, with only one possible answer remaining and two “passengers”, eats the distance between himself and that place (provided he has two “passengers”, otherwise he simply tells everyone the answer).
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.
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! Hold on tight!
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, and needle.
Fate Points: 1
Red - Aaron
Orange -
Yellow - Genesis
Green - Greed
Blue - Youare
Indigo - Grey
Violet - Aa Tou Tou Lesia
Edit: made a slight addition…
Edit: clarification of intent…
[3]
You attempt to eat something as vague as an answer. This...doesn't exactly work. But you do find out that when they toss out possible answers they taste different. Some more sweet, others more savory, and some like sand or sunlight.
Go gather some gourds into my sleeves, then head into the woods. Find a small clearing, place the gourds down, place my gloves, eyes out, on two of the gourds like little hats. Tap the glove and the gourd with my needle to sew them together. intent is just to stick the glove to the gourd so it can't be pulled off, not to combine them into some sort of frankengourd handwear. Then return to the inn and close my eyes to wait and watch. One of the gourd gloves is Grey's so he should be able to see what I see.
Description: Classic 80s action hero looks, kinda quiet. think Kurt Russel from the movie Soldier (only probably less mute)
Nature: Pureblood
Status: Currently has nothing high to fall from
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, needle, Ceramic bread loaf. Hammer pendant of missile resistance and freezing when[1 wet.
Fate Points: 4
[2]
The gloves end up only very loosely affixed. About as solidly connected as if with a few pieces of scotch tape. Well...better than nothing. You leave the gloved gourds in the forest as per your plan and then return to the Inn to watch.
There are plenty of tracks to be seen around here. Grey Maintains his perception of the tracks left by the creatures and follows one of the trails, avoiding the one Aa is working on.
If magic fails, just track one of them normally. Can’t be too hard if unmagical humans can do it.
Oh yeah, Grey also ditches his disguise.
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, one of Genesis’s gloves, one of Grey's gloves, giant needle and a rifle fused to a magic saber
Fate Points: 0
Red Genesis
Orange Debby
Yellow Aa-tou-tou
Violet Youare
Blue Tess
Indigo Hugh
Green Aaron
[3][6]
Your attempt to maintain the path works...more or less. You kind of just have a vague notion of its location. Following it isn't too hard. In fact it might be too easy. You head out into the woods away from your team, following the path at a rapid pace. By the time you think to check if anyone is following you, you're deep into the woods. And all alone.
You hear what sounds like the rustling of undergrowth in the wind...but there is no wind. You can't pick out where it came from, it seems to be all around you.
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