(Fairy Floss) Buy One, Get One Free!

[Forn Clakes]

Stepping through one of Funderland's refrigerators would have been as weird as a day could get except for the Lost it perhaps wasn't. They had, every single one of them, fought their way through the Hedge to regain parts of themselves back from Arcadia and their Keepers in an effort to survive. Going back into the Hedge could be described as an anxious experience, or exhilarating, depending on their outlook. Either way, it was always unique.

It was obvious that the small path that leads away from the open Hedge gate had been tended to roughly, hacked and trodden down without much care. Stuck in the thorns just on the other side of the gate were pieces of frozen produce that had slipped from the refrigerator, still frozen but looking withered, husk-like, any resemblance to something edible completely drained. Frost coated several branches of the Hedge, slowly thawing further down the rough path until it disappears round a bend.

A trail of pink sugar can be seen glittering in the mid-morning sun. However, now they were through the gate, each grain has taken on more of a furry appearance rather than crystalline.

[Mhairi Ankaa]

The journey between here and there is as horrible and wonderful and terrifying and thrilling as it always is.

By some instinct or reflex, Mhairi once the Dread Queen steps firmly There, she feeds glamour into her choker. Swiftly, it ignites, encircling her neck in flame, an orange-red of never dying embers, mixed together with the eerie green, of her own inner fire.

Alexander takes point, with Sera pulling up the rear. Mhairi lets Thomas pull ahead of her, having already proven his kith to her in spades. His eyes are clear and his other senses keener then hers, but that doesn't mean the Ashen Wisp isn't going to try. Fell-flames flicker, motes flying and darting and burning, but Mhairi sees the once-sugar-now-fur trail, and just where it leads...

  2 successes perception

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2017-06-16 11:45:37		Mhairi Ankaa rolls 5 to [s]sugar[/s]fur trail leads? (Wits 3 + Composure 2) (10 Again)		4, 3, 6, 9, 9		2 successes

Equipment: HS Choker (activated +1 Defense), HS War Fans, bottle water, snacks

[Thomas Land]

The Mole-Man comes hurrying through the gate, fearful and excited in equal measure. The Hedge offers both opportunity and danger in equal measure: he's anxious to learn about this mysterious realm, and terrified of just how close it lies to the territories of the Gentry. One way or another, he's going to need a little luck, and so he calls on the Wyrd to grant its blessing.

Beady eyes sweep the vicinity and pick up on the strangely transformed sugar. Crouching, Thomas pinches a few of the 'furry' grains between his fingers. He's looking closely at the substance, but by the way he's rubbing it between his clawed digits, it might be that he's even more interested in the way it feels...

"Hm, hmmmmm" he hums, as he examines the material, wracking his brain. In all of his time studying the occult, and the characteristics of the Hedge and its occupants, has he ever come across something like this...?

  1 success

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2017-06-16 12:35:21		Thomas Land rolls 11 to What is this Stuff? Intelligence4 + Occult3 + 4 (Favored Fate)		2, 9, 7, 5, 1, 2, 4, 6, 6, 7, 1		1 success

Equipment: Snacks, Water, Pair of Scissors

[Seraphina]

Walking back into the Hedge was never an easy or pleasant experience for the Nix. Chills going down her spine and her palms getting sweaty. And while she felt comfortable and somewhat secure surrounded by those she considered friends, it still terrified her. But never less, she follows and steps in.

Looking around and not seeing a well-worn path was a good thing. But hacking into the Hedge was not an easy task, so this was unsettling.

Eyes narrow and then widen at the grains of sugar having a furry appearance. Her mouth forming into a disgusted frown at the memory of the taste.

But her attention was pulled away as Mhairi’s choker flares into life. Even though she had seen her do it before, it still was a beautiful sight. A scary one, but defiantly amazing.

And then Thomas was crouching and touching the furry sugar stuff. She’d tasted it, no way did she want touch it too. But hell, maybe he’d know something, he mentioned having a library, so maybe he had some info. Info that could tell her if there was going to be anything weird happening to her, which would be good to know.

Reluctantly she pulls her eyes away, looking around the path as they followed it.

  1 success

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2017-06-16 15:30:19		Seraphina rolls 4 to Anything?(Wits+Comp) (10 Again)		5, 5, 3, 9		1 success

Sera has bottled water and snacks

[Forn Clakes]

The moment they step across the gate and into the Hedge, Mhairi's hedgespun items begin to glimmer and drop their mask-like facade, almost as if her choker and war-fans are pleased to be on home turf. Hungry to prove their worth to their Mistress, or afraid of the consequences.

The path leads around a bend, roughly cut and trodden down. No doubt due to his senses still overcome by the smell of vomit, Alexander didn't spot what Mhairi and Sera did; a plume of smoke emanating from over the Hedge wall, coming from the direction of the path. The Witch-Queen also gets the lingering aroma of soup as well as someone unseen muttering.

The learned Cleareyes, however, rolls the furry grain through his fingers and notices something quite perturbatory. Indeed, it isn't sugar.

Its a husk.

According to the wiki, Hedgespun automatically activates in the Hedge

[Mhairi Ankaa]

Stepping across the barrier between Here and There it took all her willpower to not brandish her fans, they were her first piece she'd 'spun and they were wicked and deadly. Eager to be shown off, and more so, to be of use. It's a shame she's only used them on herself, to try and barter Queen-flesh for information, and to keep Morgan safe...it hadn't worked, and with the Grub, the Pit, Morgan and the Sword. Sal. Mhairi hadn't seen to her arm, at all. It was only the Hedgefruit that the polychromatic lady had given them that saw to the open wound.

The smoke catches her eyes. Akin to a moth to a flame. Flames and smoke, you see?

Mhairi points to her lips, then at the smoke, and then to her ear.

Then she pats Thomas' shoulder, and repeats the gesture. Knowing that her ears weren't as keen as any Beast-kin. And since she wasn't tied to air, sound couldn't be carried to her through it.

Drifting up the path, that didn't mean the wisp wouldn't try.

  4 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2017-06-17 10:10:55		Mhairi Ankaa rolls 5 to Perception (Wits 3 + Composure 2) (10 Again)		9, 8, 8, 10, 5, 7		4 successes

D'oh! I completely forgot about that! Choker gives +1 Defense, and her War fans are swanky with their 1L

[Seraphina]

Sapphire eyes see the smoke. Did it belong to an active fire, or one abandoned? A question only answered once they got there.

She catches Mhairi’s motion and nods, kind of understanding. Did the Elemental hear something the rest of them didn’t? Either way, Sera knows to be quiet, she can do that.

If someone was manning whatever was causing that smoke, they didn’t want to alert them of their presence. Unless they already knew and this was a rouse, tricking them into approaching.

As she stands, her head turns and she tries to see if she can hear anything.

But out of the corner of her eye she catches Alex motion towards himself and the direction of the smoke. While she didn’t like him going ahead, she didn’t have a better idea and even if she did, they needed to be quiet.

  failure

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2017-06-18 16:10:18		Seraphina rolls 4 to Listen(Wits+Comp) (10 Again)		2, 4, 7, 3		failure

[Thomas Land]

At Mhairi's touch, Thomas looks up from the strange husk between his fingers, spotting the smoke.

Absently, he extracts his handkerchief from his jacket pocket and drops the material into the cloth, wrapping it up like a little pouch and pocketing it again. He'll examine it when he has more time.

Standing, he squints up at the column of smoke, and holds his breath from a moment, calling on the Wyrd to provide him information about the local hedge, and hopefully the source of this sky-blackening sign.

  1 success

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2017-06-18 19:45:19		Thomas Land rolls 5 to Pathfinder Intelligence4 + Wyrd1		5, 4, 5, 9, 1		1 success