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[Ozarck]

“Ho! Ho! Ho!  Now this is interesting!”, Hugh laughs puzzledly, as he uses his needle to tell the others about what’s on the plaque.  “I’m going to view it through my needle in case anyone else wants to see it.  After that, do you think I should just teleport back to the group?  Or should I do something else?”, he asks.

"I think the image is a more generalized thing describing how ant society works, but in this case, your example is one possible way that could play out.

And no, I definitely do not think we should tell the ants what was on the plaque. The human-like heroes on the plaque were sneaking past the hydra, right? So we should be sneaky here, okay? The war minister will take his opportunity when it arises."

[King Zultan]

"Telling the ants what we are doing is a bad idea and it will end poorly for us."

[A_Curious_Cat]

“Ho! Ho! Ho!  Now this is interesting!”, Hugh laughs puzzledly, as he uses his needle to tell the others about what’s on the plaque.  “I’m going to view it through my needle in case anyone else wants to see it.  After that, do you think I should just teleport back to the group?  Or should I do something else?”, he asks.

"I think the image is a more generalized thing describing how ant society works, but in this case, your example is one possible way that could play out.

And no, I definitely do not think we should tell the ants what was on the plaque. The human-like heroes on the plaque were sneaking past the hydra, right? So we should be sneaky here, okay? The war minister will take his opportunity when it arises."

"Telling the ants what we are doing is a bad idea and it will end poorly for us."

“Ho! Ho! Ho!  I see what you mean.  I wonder if we can use our cloaks to disguise ourselves…”

[fatcat__25]

"First off, well remembered Hugh. It had slipped my mind for the moment that we could hide ourselves with our robes. Second off, it doesn't really matter which ant faction wins to us. The hydra sounds like a metaphor for the ant kind in general. We just have to get them distracted killing each other for a while, while the artisan works. Perhaps we should help Lud plan a way to attack his rival so as to seem to win, but be forced to fight for an extended period."

Aaron attempts to know in what way the rival clan of ants is weakest.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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: Frustrated by formicid warmongers.
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, needle, and gloves. Bloodthirsty serrated fighting knife. Needle charged by stabbing black magic plant monsters.
Sleeve contents:
1.A ripe avocado
2. A watercress sandwich
3. Flan
4. Calamari
5. Raspberry Lemon Meringue Pie
6. Baked potato soup
7. Oysters Rockefeller
8. Sticky Toffee Pudding
9. Chicken fried steak
10. Cinnamon Bread
FP: 0
Links: Red:Hugh, Yellow:Youare, Green:Grey, Orange:Genesis, Blue: Aa, Indigo:Tess, Violet:Debby

[piecewise]

My games are going on Hiatus for the moment because of board exams. I'll see you in september.

[fatcat__25]

My games are going on Hiatus for the moment because of board exams. I'll see you in september.

Best of luck with that!

[A_Curious_Cat]

My games are going on Hiatus for the moment because of board exams. I'll see you in september.

Thanks for telling us!  See you after your exams!

[King Zultan]

Hope they go well!

[piecewise]

You teleport back to the cave and go check the plaque. The plaque does have something on it...but its not words. It is an engraved image of a hydra; a multi-headed, long necked reptilian creature. Its heads are all fighting, biting each other and the body. One head has been torn free and his held in the teeth of one of the others, but a replacement is already growing from the stump. At its feet, a line of humans in heroic gear are climbing over the hydra's giant talons, moving past it and towards a horde of treasure on the left as the hydra attacks itself.

“Ho! Ho! Ho!  Now this is interesting!”, Hugh laughs puzzledly, as he uses his needle to tell the others about what’s on the plaque.  “I’m going to view it through my needle in case anyone else wants to see it.  After that, do you think I should just teleport back to the group?  Or should I do something else?”, he asks.

"Multiheaded hydra? infighting? treasure sought by sneaking past the infighting? That sounds like what we are facing now, metaphorically. I guess inciting these ants to war among themselves is the proper path after all. Treasure to the left? I wonder if that signifies anything, or if it's just placement on the plaque. Debby, feel free to stir the pot. Maybe we'd be willing to 'help' after all, since the order now seems to come from our chain of command.

Hugh, it seems that our command is suggesting we act here, so feel free to come back to the group."

“Ho! Ho! Ho!  I was just thinking,  do you suppose that the hydra could be the ants, the head that got bitten off could be that Patriarch ant, the head that bit it off could be the leader of the rival ants, and the new head growing to take it’s place could be the war minister?  What do you think?  Do you think, maybe, we should tell the war minister about what was on the plaque?”, Hugh asks as he teleports to Genesis, making sure to relink afterwards.

Spoiler: Current stomach contents (click to show/hide)

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.
An (un)Holy Noise
The distance between some building and the edge of the crater
A small amount of darkness.

Spoiler: Hugh (click to show/hide)

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!  Now, this is puzzling…
HP: 9
Inventory: Robe, gloves, and needle (in the form of a large wok),  various foodstuffs, dishes, silverware, and cooking and serving supplies.
Fate Points: 3

Spoiler: Needle Links (click to show/hide)

Red - Aaron
Orange -
Yellow - Genesis
Green - Greed
Blue - Youare
Indigo - Grey
Violet -

You perform all these actions without the need of a roll.

"First off, well remembered Hugh. It had slipped my mind for the moment that we could hide ourselves with our robes. Second off, it doesn't really matter which ant faction wins to us. The hydra sounds like a metaphor for the ant kind in general. We just have to get them distracted killing each other for a while, while the artisan works. Perhaps we should help Lud plan a way to attack his rival so as to seem to win, but be forced to fight for an extended period."

Aaron attempts to know in what way the rival clan of ants is weakest.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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: Frustrated by formicid warmongers.
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, needle, and gloves. Bloodthirsty serrated fighting knife. Needle charged by stabbing black magic plant monsters.
Sleeve contents:
1.A ripe avocado
2. A watercress sandwich
3. Flan
4. Calamari
5. Raspberry Lemon Meringue Pie
6. Baked potato soup
7. Oysters Rockefeller
8. Sticky Toffee Pudding
9. Chicken fried steak
10. Cinnamon Bread
FP: 0
Links: Red:Hugh, Yellow:Youare, Green:Grey, Orange:Genesis, Blue: Aa, Indigo:Tess, Violet:Debby

[?]
Hmmmm...economically, probably. You don't see a very diversified set of exports coming from them. It would likely be easy to undermine their  stability by reducing the value of their primary products.

"Sounds like it's time to enact the plan."
Lets go talk to that high ranking military ant and tell it that Aaron had a vision and saw the enemy ants were preparing to attack this group of ants. Use a fate point on this.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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 (strange black magic)
 Sword
 Elizabeth Audrey Foxington, the living fox doll, now with parka: Is currently back at base
 Rope
 Rifleaxe
 10' rope
 Spork with sharp serrated edges on the spoon part
 Some bandages
 Sewing needle
 Chest piece it doesn't fit well
 Helmet doesn't fit well
 15' cloths line
 A kitchen knife
 Some thread
 Some Rags
 Some canned goods
 Can opener
Fate Points: 3

Spoiler: Needle Links (click to show/hide)

Orange   Grey
Blue       Genesis
Violet     Aaron

[4, 4]
The military ant seems at once both skeptical and outright elated. He wants this to be happening. He NEEDS this to be happening. Only his paranoia about outsiders is preventing him from fully believing you. He wants proof, he wants something concrete, not just your words or dreams.  You can tell it doesn't need to be much: he's teetering on the edge as it is.

[fatcat__25]

Welcome back piecewise! You might want to alert some of the other players that this is running again. I'll edit this post once I have an action.

Edit:


Aaron offers to stay with the military commander to provide immediate communication, while the others go to see if his information is true.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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: Frustrated by formicid warmongers.
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, needle, and gloves. Bloodthirsty serrated fighting knife. Needle charged by stabbing black magic plant monsters.
Sleeve contents:
1.A ripe avocado
2. A watercress sandwich
3. Flan
4. Calamari
5. Raspberry Lemon Meringue Pie
6. Baked potato soup
7. Oysters Rockefeller
8. Sticky Toffee Pudding
9. Chicken fried steak
10. Cinnamon Bread
FP: 0
Links: Red:Hugh, Yellow:Youare, Green:Grey, Orange:Genesis, Blue: Aa, Indigo:Tess, Violet:Debby

[King Zultan]

(Glad to see you back piecewise!)

"The ant seems really excited about the potential war, but he wants us to bring him proof that isn't just us saying it's gonna happen, given how excited he is it seems like just about any miner thing would get the war started so all we need to do is figure out what that thing is."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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 (strange black magic)
 Sword
 Elizabeth Audrey Foxington, the living fox doll, now with parka: Is currently back at base
 Rope
 Rifleaxe
 10' rope
 Spork with sharp serrated edges on the spoon part
 Some bandages
 Sewing needle
 Chest piece it doesn't fit well
 Helmet doesn't fit well
 15' cloths line
 A kitchen knife
 Some thread
 Some Rags
 Some canned goods
 Can opener
Fate Points: 3

Spoiler: Needle Links (click to show/hide)

Orange   Grey
Blue       Genesis
Violet     Aaron

[Ozarck]

"Proof, eh? Seems like a lot of effort. We could go down toward one of the 'enemy's tunnels and start scribbling hexagons or octagons on the walls. Whichever shape this lot opposes, anyway. Maybe take a couple of these guys' scouts into 'enemy' territory and accidentally get noticed. Bet that'd do it."

Spoiler: Genesis (click to show/hide)

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: Isn't falling out of or into anything
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, needle. Hammer pendant of missile resistance and freezing when wet. 
Fate Points: 0

Spoiler: links (click to show/hide)

Debby, Tess, Luta, Grey, Hugh, Aaron.

[King Zultan]

"A fake scouting mission seems like it'd be the one that they'd find the most believable, so lets go for it."
Ask the military ant if we can take some ants and scout out the enemy territory.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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 (strange black magic)
 Sword
 Elizabeth Audrey Foxington, the living fox doll, now with parka: Is currently back at base
 Rope
 Rifleaxe
 10' rope
 Spork with sharp serrated edges on the spoon part
 Some bandages
 Sewing needle
 Chest piece it doesn't fit well
 Helmet doesn't fit well
 15' cloths line
 A kitchen knife
 Some thread
 Some Rags
 Some canned goods
 Can opener
Fate Points: 3

Spoiler: Needle Links (click to show/hide)

Orange   Grey
Blue       Genesis
Violet     Aaron

[A_Curious_Cat]

“Ho! Ho! Ho!  He has doubts?!  What if I ate them?”, Hugh asks.  Hugh then ponders out loud if he can actually eat the military ant’s doubts without harming him.  He wouldn’t actually have to eat parts of the ant’s brain, would he?  What if he ate the doubts themselves?  But that would leave the humanculi convinced, too…

[fatcat__25]

"What if we go out with a guide to scout the borders, promising to hurry back with news whether I'm telling the truth, someone gets separated, provokes the other clan, and gets all of us chased back here, prompting a war? Also, is there a problem with us believing what we say, Hugh?"