"Capture Corps?"
Do the homunculus ID thing: iteration, Corps, patron.
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: Currently has nothing high to fall from
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves (only one at the moment), needle (black unsettling magic from the gourdling. One gourd's worth), Ceramic bread loaf. Hammer pendant of missile resistance and freezing when wet. 10 ft. negative space murderlance
Plates, bowls, silverware, clothing, sewing needles, thread, twine, fabric, a few books, medicine in small glass bottles, what looks like a homemade first aid kit, bed roll, pillow, and more like this. Small amount of money.
Fate Points: 2
Debby, Tess, Luta, Grey, Hugh. ~~(character)~~ indicates currently broken link
You don't need to ask her name, You've met her before. Her name is Sharpe, the woman you met when you went to the regional office. She clearly recognizes you as well and seems mildly amused by that fact.
Aaron, completely unable to make sense of what he just saw through his needle, decides the intruder is more of a pressing problem than strange magical effects.
He quickly climbs out of the hole a little ways from the woman, brandishes his needle, and attempts to know who she is, and what she is here for.
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: Slightly more worried, and definitely confused.
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, needle (bloodstain's worth of black creeping magic), and gloves. Assorted conduit food in sleeves (minus one steak).
FP: 0
Links: Red:Hugh, Yellow:Youare, Green:Grey, Orange:Greed, Blue: Aa
You scramble out of the crater and point your needle at the woman. Before you can try any magic though, Genesis shouts up that he knows her and that she's part of the capture corps.
"Hello there."
Be ready to run if that dude starts to attack us.
Name: Debby
Description: Looks like a regular human woman but with the head of a deer.
Nature: All-Tounges
Status: Normal
HP: 8
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
Sewing needle
Chest piece it doesn't fit well
Helmet doesn't fit well
Fate Points: 5
Ready to coward out at any time!
Sharpe, completely ignoring Aaron's needle, marches up to the edge of the crater and looks down at Genesis and specifically at the weapon he's holding.
"They even went so far as to introduce us before we ended up here." she says, again more to herself than anyone else. She shakes her head like someone weathering a bad joke and then addresses Genesis. "We've been sent after the same target it seems. The Destroy corps are here too, a full team of three. Whatever lies in these woods is something far beyond an accidental leak or some sort of failed ritual. Judging by the presence of that lance we're dealing with something pre-covenant. Tell me what you know."
Grey addresses Hugh and Tess. ”I’m going to try as skipping ahead close to where we’re going. Either of you want to come with?”
Time for a bit of magic. Grey directs Hugh to follow his movements, slows down to a stop and starts following the glove again, walking at first, slowly transitioning to jogging and then running. While doing this, Grey Maintains the accelerating rate at which Grey and Hugh are safely traveling to his intended destination, which is a point that is one mile short of wherever the glove is going. He will spend 2 fate points on this spell as it's slightly hazardous.
For the spell's logic, because Grey intends to keep following the glove and then stop once he spots the place it's going, I believe that's sufficient for the spell to bring him to one mile short of that place. If you see it differently (lord knows this Maintain magic can be disorientating for me at times) then modify the destination to be exactly where the glove is heading.
If anything tries to kill Grey before or after he stops moving, he spends 1 fate point on staying alive.
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: Activate turbo mode.
HP: 6
Inventory:Purple robe, Grey's gloves, giant needle and a rifle fused to a magic saber
Fate Points: 3
Red Genesis
Orange Debby
Yellow Aa-tou-tou
Violet Youare
Blue Tess
Indigo Hugh
Green Aaron
Grey addresses Hugh and Tess. ”I’m going to try as skipping ahead close to where we’re going. Either of you want to come with?”
“Ho! Ho! Ho! Of course! What do you have in mind?”
Hugh keeps pace with Grey while waiting for his answer.
After speaking with Grey, Hugh goes along with Grey’s plan (grabbing Tess and carrying her under his arm if necessary).
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.
A pond’s worth of water that had a bunch of corpses decompose in it.
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! Let’s get started, then!
HP: 9
Inventory: Robe, gloves, and needle.
Fate Points: 3
Red - Aaron
Orange -
Yellow - Genesis
Green - Greed
Blue - Youare
Indigo - Grey
Violet - Aa Tou Tou Lesia
Edit: edited to show that Hugh is going along with Grey’s plan.
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2,6,5]
There are dozens of ways this could go horribly wrong. Your legs might get torn off as they attempt to maintain constant acceleration, running faster and faster. You might just slam into a tree. You might get pulverized into paste as you're dragged along the ground due to a rise in elevation. You might go sailing off a hill and splat onto lower ground. If its far enough you might overcome the curvature of the planet and fly out into space.
Luckily none of these horrible things happen
this time. Instead you go rocketing forward at an ever increasing pace, magically weaving between trees and just barely avoiding horrible death. Because, unlike before where you maintained SPEED, this time you are maintaining ACCELERATION. Within 30 or so seconds you are going over 200 miles an hour. And your legs aren't what's propelling you anymore so you're basically just hurtling forward, "Falling" towards the goal of that glove. By my calculations you'll be going somewhere in the ballpark of 600 miles a hour when you reach your "one mile away" goal. And when you reach that goal you'll "Stop". Consider what happens when people moving at 600 miles an hour just stop moving that speed.
You have about a minute left until you "stop".
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