[@Hekazu] - Collab Partner

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[color=#05EDFF][center][h2]"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."[/h2][/center][/color]

	As the party left the city they were met by a rather large Tiger at the entrance, the creature prowling the sea floor while wearing what appeared to be an amulet and, oddly enough, a cloak. Upon spotting them the creature ceased all movements and simply stared, it's violet eyes sliding over the group before it before huffing and simply prowling a bit more. However, when Cynthia called it's attention once more it let out a far more annoyed growl and moved over, it's eyes hopping from person to person for a moment before they seemed to settle on the beholder of the group. While she did not move right away it was clear that there was an ounce of recognition in the all to animalistic gaze.
	
	Extending out her claws a bit, the Tiger seemed to kneed the ground for a few moments before she ran at them. It was very clear that she was not able to communicate with them in any verbal manner, but that did not exactly matter as she seemed to shift into a blue finned female who darted straight for Dyn. The action was so fast the beholder did not have any time to react before he found himself locked in a hug with the violet eyed female. [color=#05EDFF] “FAR!” [/color] she shouted, clearly excited to see the many-eyed creature, [color=#05EDFF] “It’s been far too long, when did you get here? Why are you here? Who are they?” [/color]

	Dyn soon found himself being hugged by what had once been a tiger, but now turned to a somewhat more recognisable shape. It had to be admitted, a tiger with purple eyes and the sigil in the shape of a star on its forehead had very much rang bells in his mind, but only now that she was hanging onto his material body, he could tell for sure. “Far too long indeed, Adrevz…” he muttered, a few of his tentacles finding their way against the merfolk woman’s back and joining the hugging gesture. “As for your questions I could well ask the same from you…”, he continued, the last sentence sounding distinctly like it was missing a word from the end. Dyn spun the syllables in his mouth, not really finding himself ready to pronounce them again after all these years. But eventually he would begrudgingly spit out the word he had nearly omitted: “...child.”

	The fact that he seemed to hesitate with the last word greatly amused the woman, it was very like him to hold to his word even if he wasn’t exactly pleased with what he agreed to. [color=#05EDFF] “It turns out my studies as a druid eventually lead me here,” [/color] she replied with a small shrug while keeping the Beholder trapped in her embrace, [color=#05EDFF] “Learned some things about my people, managed to also learn some neat things as a druid even though I’m clearly underwater. I swear I need to learn how to grow gills or something while I’m a tiger, as pretty as the amulet is it is useless to me when I’m not in my wild shape.”[/color]
	
	Taking a moment, she peeked around the floating tentacled mass to eyeball the rest of the group, but quickly went back to ignoring them. [color=#05EDFF] “Looks like you got yourself a lot of minions this time around,” [/color] she commented, [color=#05EDFF] “Some of them look kinda weird though.” [/color]

	The bluish-purple ball of eyes and appendages in her grasp took his turn to speak: “You were brought here by your training, I was by the adventuring business. You know how we always stayed on the move”, he responded, not feeling like telling the whole story of what had led to them climbing the pillar. “But at the end of it, we entered this elemental plane through my magic”, he made a reference to that last point in time he really found important apart from their deal with the theullai, but that could be reserved for when they were further from the potential enemies of said creature. A single tentacle of his wormed its way onto Adre’s head, gently ruffling her hair about. She had liked that when she had been an actual child.

	“As for that lot… you would not believe the amount of trouble. I don’t even know half of them yet… there’s been a fair bit of change in them lately”, he turned to whispering, trying to keep his opinions out of the ears of those who would stab him in the back if they heard them, “and that makes me uncomfortable. I cannot tell which I can trust since they. Keep. Changing.” He drew back his tentacles, hoping that would guide her to release him from her hold. “Nonetheless, we were hoping to see if you could join us on this journey to the Verdant stream”, he explained now with normal volume once again.

	Heading his movement she released him from the hug and backed up a bit to take in the rest of the group. She was clearly not impressed by the way the group looked, her eyes scrutinizing every individual and drawing small conclusions against each person. The only one she didn’t have an immediate issue with was Jill, but the others just gave her a weird vibe. [color=#05EDFF] “Yeah, I can help you,” [/color] she responded, [color=#05EDFF] “You will have to fill me in on why exactly you are going to the Verdant Stream though, it’s not exactly safe.” [/color]

	The Beholder made a nodding motion. “I shall……. Child. But not now. It is not for everyone to hear”, he shared with her before raising his volume. “Should we not be on the move now that we have our reinforcements?” he bellowed.


[hider=My Hider]

HP: 73/73
AC: 19
Initiative: +2

lvl 1: 4/4
lvl 2: 3/3
lvl 3: 3/3
lvl 4: 3/3
lvl 5: 2/2

[/hider]