[center][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/546056855978377216/858843614732615700/hgtrfed.png[/img][/center] [center]Word Count: 723 [/center] [center][color=00aeef][b]Level 5[/b] [/color] - (91/50) + 1[/center] [center][color=darkgreen]Level 9 [/color] - (74/90) + 1[/center] [hr][hr] [center][h1][color=00aeef]Link[/color][/h1][/center] [center]Location: The Bottomless Sea ~ The Maw - Local [i]Antoine's[/i] franchise [/center] [@Potemking][@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN] [hr] So they had decided on sneaking. Unfortunately, pure stealth could only get them so far. They picked their way around the chilly pipes beneath the sink, but all they came up with at the end was a wall and an ogre guarding it. The head chef might have pent most of his time moving between places to gather ingredients and micro-manage his underlings, but he frequently and unpredictable returned to this particular work station time and time again. It made a trip across the open floor they would have to take unappealing to say the least. Link thought for a minute about how to get past when one of the carts rolled on by. He wondered if they could just hide behind that, but that idea was dashed when the Head Chef walked around it on his circuit about the kitchen and scooped up a long slab of meat. That plan wasn't as safe as he'd like, but he looked back at mirage as another idea entered his head. "Mirage, do you think you could stick a dart to that things wheels as it comes around the corner?" He asked, pointing the kitchen cart as it rolled past, then back at the corner they had come from. He could imagine the thing trying to roll with the dart sticking longways out of its wheel, tilting up and over and spilling fresh food all over the floor as it crashed into the opposite corner from the stairs. Or just stopping because of the dart and having the other cart crash into it. Either way it would draw eyes, maybe even anger if the Head Chef was as hot headed as he seemed, and that would take eyes off the corner they were trying to get to. "Try to do it right after the big lumpy one takes something and we could have a fight on our hands." He wondered what would happen if the chefs got steamed enough. Would one of them end up on the menu then? "After it tips shoot three more darts under here so the first one disappears. Then we can make a break for the stairs." [hr][hr] [center][h1][color=darkgreen]Linkle[/color][/h1][/center] [center][h2][color=red]Merge Rate: 32%[/color][/h2][/center] [center]Location: Frozen Highlands - Alpine Skyline ~ Wildwood Glades[/center] [hr][hr] Linkle considered Albedo's idea. They were after a woods witch. Witches didn't show up [i]too[/i] often in the legends she knew, but when they did they were usually helpful. If a little capricious sometimes. Contrary to his expectations Linkle didn't show any obvious discomfort at Albedo's plan. To a certain part of her it made an awful lot of sense. After all, if she heard something going after her girls she was going to come running. At the same time, though, that was the problem. "Mr. Tuley said the witch loves the animals around here like her own kids. I get how she feels. If something was hurting my Cucoo's, though, I wouldn't show up looking to talk. I'd be spoiling for a fight. I wouldn't consider listening to them until after I'd kicked their butts, and that's just me. She's a witch. She could cast a hex on us that turns [i]us[/i] into animals or something." Linkle didn't believe there was anything that could stop her on her quest, but the sheer inconvenience of being cursed into animal form wasn't unheard of when it came to the hero. She could imagine herself as a little strawberry blond bunny hopping through the forest, trying to kick monsters to death as they searched for the magic mcguffin that could turn them back. Maybe an orb, or a flower. She briefly considered what Albedo would be in this scenario (she was leaning toward dog) when she stumbled on an idea. "Can't you see, you know, elements and stuff?" She asked. "Like how you saw I wasn't stuffed full of 'light' back at Grilby's. If we could just find the place that has the most 'nature' then that's probably where the witch lives. We could go up on a flower to get a better view, and if that's not high enough to see I have a way to let you jump way higher than normal." If this didn't work or was impossible or something they always had the hunting plan to fall back on.