[Game Thread] Wherein Plots are Schemed

[Fragmaster01]

Tasha: No one volunteers to catch you, so you end up hopping over to Billy's vicinity. At least he'll be your friend.

Your assailant doesn't feel the same way, it seems. It starts to flail madly in midair as it careens in for a landing on hard stone, rather than juicy bugbear. He slams into the ground hard, bounces, and falls over in a splat. The dust moves away, deciding it didn't really want to live in a place where sphinxes come crashing in from the sky.

"Owwww... why'd you move?" The sphinx looks to be a young humanish boy, maybe 15 years of age, currently sporting the best of lionbutts. He does not, however, seem to posess feline grace or an eagle's flying talent. Alas. The boy gets back up on his feet and starts stalking about, glaring at Tasha in particular. He just wanted some lunch, dood.

OOC Found a better image of what I'm thinking of for the ravine you're in. Like yea, but without the snow.

[Caput]

"Oh. Hey. Sorry. Guess I just thought I'd better not get pounced on by a vicious... guy? Anyway, no hard feelings, right?" She holds up a paw for a high five.

OOC Ready action to slap his s*** if he tries anything overly killy.

[PresN]

Shash rests his paws on his axe- boy or not, there's been too many creatures attacking them in the past few days for him to be pleased with something new flying at them suddenly.

[Fragmaster01]

"And now you're being apologetic. Aren't you supposed to be afraid? RAWR!" He gets on his haunches and does a cute little "rawr" pose, but fails to intimidate in the slightest. Not a very good monster, this one.

 

	Sphinx		Second Rate Encounter
HD	Monk 2	Magic	None
Size	Medium	Speed	35, Glide

PRC	SLA	BLG	FIR	ICE	LIT	ACD	SON	HOL	DRK
			???	???	???	???	???	Abs

Claw	Attack	Low SLA damage.
Wings	Movement	Flaps about.

A strange birdcatperson. You assume he wasn't always like this, due to his ineptitude at doing anything sphinxly. Stupid ritual.

[Aethera]

Billy peers at the sphinx, clearly stuck between amused and very confused. His pocket has no such objections, and promptly starts laughing raucously. Billy stuffs his hand in his pocket, but it only sorta muffles the sound. "If you won't shut up you're going to go scout ahead, and you'll be alone for that part," the drake informs his wiggling pocket, which at least calms down to a quiet giggle instead.

"What the 'eck're you supposed ta be, then?" The boy asks the human-bird-lion critter. "Y'don't even look scary, just screwed up like the rest of us. If ye want us to be scared, y'd better try a bit harder, huh?" It doesn't seem to occur to him that this thing was sort of attacking Tasha, and encouraging it to try harder might not be the wisest course of action. "Or we could just mark you off as one o' the bad things around and smash you into the ground some more, what d'y'think?" Or maybe that's him chatting up the enemy. Who knows.

[Fragmaster01]

"Well... I'm a monster! I think. That seems right? I'm... not entirely sure." The birdcat droops his head dejectedly, at not having a supreme purpose in this new world. Sphinxes would be considered exotic and monstrous by this idea of a "storybook reality", you suppose, but that shouldn't mean they have to act that way. This new world is all kinds of messed up.

"What're you guys doing here?"

[Moridain]

"Well, we are here looking for a monster. No offence, but I think we are here to find a much scarier monster than you." comments Saline with a kind smile "You are very ferocious though, honestly... I for one was terrified." Best not to crush his monsterous dreams.

"Have you seen a bigger and nastier monster down here? Something that has been taking kids? ... You haven't been adopting kinds have you?" She looks suspitious now.

[Caput]

Tasha looks vaguely affronted. "I hope you're not going to leave me hanging here, kid."

[Aethera]

"We dunno what it's doing with the kids, but they're missing. You could help, y'know," Billy remarks, backing up what his companions had started. "None of us has wings. Or... yeah." His glance at Saline is apologetic, he'd seen her floating just as much as the next stuffed animal. But this skinny birdboy didn't need to know everything about them.

[Fragmaster01]

"Oh. That does sound bad. I don't think I've been adopting kids. That seems like something I'd remember." He shuffles about awkwardly on the last word. "I guess that would be the right thing to do... but monsters don't really do the right thing. I think."

He gets a bit of inspiration, on a loophole for this "monster behavior". "You don't suppose the bigger monster is tasty, do you?"

[Caput]

"Tell you what. You help out and we'll come up with some kind of reward or something. Tasty monster, unsuspecting goat, whatever's handy. Chicken out and I'll smack you over the head with a ladle. Now helping us out is the completely self interested thing to do, no matter what. We have a deal?" Tasha holds out a paw for shaking purposes. She eyes the sphinx kid's claws with suspicion.

[Fragmaster01]

"Yeah, I guess that works. Onward to food!" He holds out his hand as well, having forgotten what a handshake is for. Oh well. He doesn't have fingers anyway, so you're not sure how that would work. At the very least, your claws are several inches longer than his, so you've got him beat.

You're still in the ravine. You would know more about this, but there is no map yet. You shall have to pretend that you have one for now.

[Aethera]

"Onward!" Billy agrees, before looking around. "But which way is on? You didn't happen to see anything from above that might help, did you?"

[Fragmaster01]

"Rocks and canyons! And a great big wall." Observant, this one.

 

OOC Onward is up on the map. The general location of the city wall is marked too.

[Aethera]

OOC So 'down' is where they came from, sliding and whatever? Onwards it is.

Billy pulled the dimly lit psicrystal from his pocket and rolled it in the direction he felt was 'on'. "Git moving, you," he muttered, and the echo of a return comment of questionable language came back from the next part of the ravine they were in. "Saline, will bird brain help from above? If he can see the light of my crystal, that tells us how open the space is. And maybe he might see something... else." The boy's comment was about to use the word 'useful', but he changed his mind in time to not offend their new winged ally.