(PrP) Tunnel Crawl III

[Circe]

Circe inspects the body, shining the flashlight upon the prince but doesn't approach. Especially not after recognizing the mushrooms showing signs of being eaten. It is not heard for a Lost's paranoid mind to connect eaten mushroom patch to the dead Briarwolf covered in mushroom vomit. "Okay, no touching shroom guy. Gimme a minute and I'll hack some sticks clean if we wanna poke the corpse," Circe says as she looks around the edge of the clearing.


The her red eyes go the the tower, "Or if any of ya feel like climbing, I packed a little rope. Not sure if it's enough but ya know, it could make the try a little easier. Or again if we wanna take time with the sticks I think we could make a grapple thingie along with the poking sticks. Just saying." The elf was less then inclined to do so. Partially due to doubt she could and because she'd rather shoot any problems that pop up. Circe would use the protecting everyone was her excuse to not climb. It sounded better.

[Mhairi Ankaa]

Mhairi's fell-flames flicker and fly towards Quick. The Briarwolf, dead. Thankfully. It's tortured existence ended one and for all, and it won't scream in internal terror as the Oger bears down at it, cruel teeth flashing.

But what now? Where had He lead them? What was I. The castle that Circe had gleefully run off to?

Mhairi recals her conversation she had with Quick as they say in her hollow, discussing his Hedgespun order.

Her fell-flames search out the lightning wicked eyes of her fellow elementals a question plain in her face, as she caresses the handle of her still sheathed war fans.

[Circe]

ooc: retraction must be made on Circe's Adventure Kit. I failed to make a correct accounting of Resources. So Circe does NOT have a Light SMG. She has a pump action shotgun. She also has less reloads at only 20 shells. Sorry for the error.

[Quick]

Of course... he'd seen one of those things before. A long time ago. Too much monster to feel bad for it. Too much 'human' to stomach Tobias' grim harvest. It's disgusting. Quick stops, a ways before catching up with Circe at the Castle. He's aware, vaguely, that Circe is speaking. Something about not touching a 'shroom guy'? He shakes his head.

Blinks.

Becomes aware that Sera is lagging behind, too. And Mhairi is looking at him. Or through him. Touching her war fans? Crackling orbs meet fel-flames. This... can't continue. Quick whirls around to face the Orge. His fists clench. Glamour pours through the cracks and crevices in his mien as he calls out to Fire and asks it for it's shield.

  1 success

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2018-03-30 17:05:45		Quick rolls 6 to Dex 4 + Wyrd 2 to invoke Armor of Element's Fury!! (10 Again)		7, 2, 4, 1, 3, 8		1 success

[Yumyumcrow]

Tension explodes, smothering the scene and narrowing to a knife's edge.

Tobias Yazgad. Ogre and Gristlegrinder, water of the red cap, pauses from his grizzly work. His awful mouth contorts into a simulacrum of a smirk. His hands, wielding vicious knives, remain horribly steady, betraying not a tremor of nerves or anticipation.

"So whats all this then?" Even his voice was tranquil and quiet. "Think you're going to murder old me? Think you can find the way back, do you? Not very honourable is it? Not even for Court kin."

The Hedge, watchful as ever to the warp and weft of emotion, picked up on the change. The green walls that surrounded them became very quiet: the kind of silence that was a building pressure, slowing increasing as if the space was filling up with a heavy treacle that smothered everything in heavy, brittle, silence.

[Circe]

Circe finally noticed something important. Everybody else was lagging behind. The shotgun wielding elf turned around, and Quick was on fire. "Huh?"

That wasn't expected. And Tobias was saying something about a lack of honor. Circe started to walk over, "Che fanculo? Quick did he make a move on ya or somethin'? And not the sexy saxophone inducing kind, the bloody corpse making kind. Or do we got mushroom zombies?"

Circe was probably desensitized to horrible human behavior thanks to her work with Queen Anne, so she'd had no problem with the cannibal cooperating.

[Mhairi Ankaa]

Quick takes her hints and combusts in a flurry of fire. Mhairi follows suit using the searing circle about her neck for the Catch, to save on her pressious Glamour, reflexes born if a time long ago has her war fans at hand before conscious thought thinks to arm herself.

This fucker was going to die.

-1WP to reroll. Has Quick Draw. HS Choker +1 defence, for 4 defence. and HS war fans 1L. HS activates upon entry to the hedge.

  armor of the element's furry 2suxx

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2018-03-31 09:44:28		Mhairi Ankaa rolls 6 to Armor of the Element's Furry (dex 3 + wyrd 3) (10 Again)		3, 1, 8, 8, 6, 7		2 successes
2018-03-31 09:44:11		Mhairi Ankaa rolls 6 to Armor of the Element's Furry (dex 3 + wyrd 3) (10 Again)		4, 3, 1, 4, 4, 7		failure

  INT is 15!

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2018-03-31 09:52:55		Mhairi Ankaa rolls 1 die for initiative		10

[Seraphina]

What the fuck just happened?!

Wide eyes dart between Quick, Mhairi and Tobias, clearly she missed something.

She wasn't worried about a fight, she could fight. But they were in the Hedge now, and who would lead them out?

Both hands were raised in front of herself, "Whoa. What the actual fuck did I just miss?" did the Wisp and other Elemental pick up on something she obviously didn't? Why were they turning on Tobias? What did they pick up on?

Eyes keep darting around, looking for an answer.

[Yumyumcrow]

Slowly, Tobias stood, his knives carefully poised in his hands.

He did not make a move to attack but his stance shifted as the Autumnal Elemental also flared into glorious flame.

Tobias muttered a prayer while lengths of vine detached from the Hedge and coiled around him.

[roll]75591/[roll]

"Don't ask me," he said at last. "We agreed I'd take what we found. Your adventure lies over there."

[Circe]

"Personally, I got no problem with our agreement. Bad business ta go back on your word. Morality eh," the elf shrugged and her tone remained blase, "If I used this was my standard for shooting somebody, I'd have killed most of the Bay's Freehold."

Circe looks at Mhairi and then to Quick, "So yeah, in the Thorns the standard of being a good neighbor pretty much starts at not killing ya on sight." Circe hefted her shotgun with a smile, "I am totally pro violence but keeping my word is important ta me. Plus, ya know, not killin' yer guide that has an affinity for the terrain."

Circe suspected Tobias could slip into the Thorns safely. Then destroy the path. "If ya insist on a throw down, perhaps a duel? Honorable. Tobias loses and he hasta save 'lings he finds. Tobi wins, fuck if I know what he'd want." Crimson eyes watch the Gristlegrinder. If it was violence, well she'd blow him away. Maybe milk the I'm honorable thing in the future.