Grey finds Tess with a great big hole in her chest and visibly battered across her entire body but she's conscious and alert. She's lying down on the bottom floor of an abandoned building, and there's a hole in the ceiling showing a second floor and a hole in the roof above both of which are left over from when she was stabbed by the shadow-tree-thing.
"Hi Grey."
No current action
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, mostly healed from a gunshot wound. stabbed by a murdertree and shoved through a roof and second story of a building.
HP: 2
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 been charged once from stabbing The Hammer, and once from killing a gourd.
Fate Points: 4
violet= Genesis
blue= Grey
"Alright, I'll go check on her."
Grey links with Debby and teleports to Tess.
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. At the moment he's looking less pink and more pale.
Nature: Verbomancer (Maintain)
Status:
HP: 4
Inventory:Torn purple robe, giant needle and a rifle fused to a magic saber
Fate Points: 1
Red Genesis (inactive)
Orange Debby
Yellow Aa-tou-tou
Violet Youare
Blue Tess
Indigo Hugh
Green Aaron
Grey Teleports to Tess, who rather weakly greets him without moving more than is necessary. She isn't currently impaled, but it is clear she was a moment sometime in the recent past.
"Hugh, I think we are on borrowed time here. Tell Genesis that the lance is our most powerful weapon against this monster. I doubt anything else we have is powerful enough to stop it. I suspect the lance will need to be driven into the source of the darkness to disable the giant plant, while we keep the small plant monsters at bay. Grey, I haven't seen Tess in a while. You had a link with her. Would you see if she is still alive? If she is, she needs to know what is going on here."
Hugh nods to Aaron and then points the eye of his needle towards the link with Genesis. “Ho! Ho! Ho! Genesis, my boy! Aaron says that that lance of yours is the most potent weapon we have. He thinks it’s the only thing that can stop all this, and that it must be driven into the source of the darkness!”
Hugh then tries again to eat the darkness and uncover it’s source, while protecting himself and the others.
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.
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! Need any help? If at first you don’t succeed, try again!
HP: 9
Inventory: Robe and needle.
Fate Points: 2
Red - Aaron
Orange -
Yellow - Genesis
Green - Greed
Blue - Youare
Indigo - Grey
Violet - Aa Tou Tou Lesia
[2]
Hugh bites the air one more time and nothing happens.
"Ya, Kinda figured.. Working on it!" Genesis shouts in the general direction of his needle.
not sure why we're bothering, if hte Destroy Corps is here. Are we competing to see who kills this thing first? We taking sides between Capture and Destroy? Well, whatever. Genesis mutters to himself.
Try again to remove my big stabby and stab the big thorny with it. use up both my remaining Fate points. Not really worried about what Destroy is doing. That stuff is for the Magi to decide.
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 Found something deep to fall into!
HP: 7
Inventory: Robe (damaged: hip and waist burned out), gloves (only one at the moment), needle, 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 (forgot to mark off 2 a turn or two ago)
Debby, Tess, Luta, Grey, Hugh.
[
1,2,4]
You yank the lance free from the wall and whip it round to point straight down as you fall. The tip of the lance glows like a magnesium flare as it cuts through the darkness, cleaving a shaft 10 feet wide. When you do hit the ground a few seconds later the lance sinks into the stone like a warm knife into butter, slowing your fall enough that you manage to awkwardly land on your hands and knees, one hand still gripping the handle of the lance. You scramble back to your feet and pull on the lance. To your surprise it slices up through the stone its embedded in with ease and even feels lighter than before as you turn it around to point towards the center of the pit.
The darkness parts and reveals a form there. It is sitting atop a pile of corpses, much like those fossilized things where you found the original lance. It looks like a doll or a mannequin, its legs and lower body smashed and distorted, half buried in the dead. There's a large hole in its bare chest, out of which grows the root of the dark thorns. From its back sprout huge crow's wings, multiple sets of them, which wrap its body and fill much of the space around it. Its face, in contrast to the body, appears human and exceedingly beautiful. Not fragile, but powerfully, confidently, unconquerably beautiful. Its eyes glow yellow in the dark.
[
2,1,3]
She speaks a word and you feel all the strength leave you. You drop to one knee, the lance still in your grasp but laying limp on the stone floor.
"Oh shit."
Quickly pull the thread for Grey and reunite with the rest of the group and be ready to fight those weird plant plant things, also relink with Grey when able.
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 (strange black magic)
Sword
Elizabeth Audrey Foxington, the living fox doll, now with parka
Rope
Rifleaxe
10' rope
Spork with sharp serrated edges on the spoon part
Some rags
Sewing needle
Chest piece it doesn't fit well
Helmet doesn't fit well
15' cloths line
Fate Points: 5
"Hugh, I think we are on borrowed time here. Tell Genesis that the lance is our most powerful weapon against this monster. I doubt anything else we have is powerful enough to stop it. I suspect the lance will need to be driven into the source of the darkness to disable the giant plant, while we keep the small plant monsters at bay. Grey, I haven't seen Tess in a while. You had a link with her. Would you see if she is still alive? If she is, she needs to know what is going on here."
Aaron impales any of the approaching monsters that come within reach, stays close to Hugh and Grey, and attempts to know how long before the Kill Corps arrives.
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: Ready for a last stand, if needs be.
HP: 7
Inventory: Robe, needle, and gloves. Bloodthirsty serrated fighting knife. Assorted conduit food in sleeves (minus one steak and all dessert).
FP: 0
Links: Red:Hugh, Yellow:Youare, Green:Grey, Orange:Greed, Blue: Aa
[5,6][?]
Aaron and Debby charge forward to meet the incoming vine people. The creatures lash out with amazing speed but their attacks seem almost random, just a chaotic flailing towards the two Homunculi. At a distance this is most dangerous as their rapid movements strike large areas, but as Aaron and Debby quickly close the distance the creatures seem to have no counter and the Homunculi sweep rapidly through them, stabbing one after another with precise and fatal strikes.
The air again grows silent and the grind of metal on metal can be heard everywhere. The scissors close with a vacuum hiss and the upper two thirds of the great thorn tree, the tops of the hills around the crater, the trees, the clouds on the horizon, the light, the air, are all cleaved neatly in two along an invisible horizontal path that seems to have no end. The tree holds its position for a moment, resting on where it has been cut, and then begins to topple. It ignites into purple flame as it slowly falls, rapidly becoming ethereal and vanishing before it can touch the ground.
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