Expendable

Umbra Rose Condos

You're damn skippy, Captain Obvious! Use your teleportative Dragon (Good) powers to fix this mess! D<

@Xaltwind

But Qaymu's playing chess! And besides, battle is imminent.

On the other hand, otoro is going to be almost impossible to find in Pennsylvania. Perhaps Maine... No, no, for authentic otoro, it would mean teleporting to Japan and back, despite the Agreement. Hmmm. I suppose Qaymu could make some calls. But after a pair of long jumps like that, Qaymu's going to be...

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HUNGRY

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...and we've already established that the cupboard is bare.

Maybe it's a good night for pizza delivery instead?

Umbra Rose Condos

Forget the lamb.

AS THAT MY OUR FATTY TUNA!?

...

And this is what was in Miyuki's head beforehand, while walking TO the cafeteria...

@Xaltwind

Someone took your otoro?

Umbra Rose Condos

It is with this post that I intend to announce my resignation from Umbra Rose. I have been stewing on the thought for a few days; today I decided to act on that thought.

Feel free to consider Suzy "gone". She's a ghost, after all.

@Carlyle

drat. And I had a chess board up and everything.

Umbra Rose Condos

Qaymu

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Bldg 1, Restaurant

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Qaymu pauses at the table to take a sip of coffee, then leaves it on the table to walk over to some built-in shelves. There was a chess set on the top shelf, covered with dust.

"Ũstdth, Egönæbtb!" he muttered, and the dust vanished. Admittedly, it was hard to get the slimes to get the top shelf.

Taking down the box, Qaymu strode back to the table and put the chess set down as he slid into his seat.

It was an old set with the classic wooden chess pieces. He slowly began setting up the board.

A new guild

Though if we can't find horses, probably any mountable animal would do.

A Pegasus anyone?

@Cyrania

There's a fun little story of a time traveler who's sent into the past to bring back a horse. The only problem is, nobody warned him about the horn.

A new guild

If the towns are the only safe place, there must be a lot of horse out there.

Umbra Rose Condos

Fangs:
tapas.io/episode/1559787
tapas.io/episode/1565818
tapas.io/episode/1565830
tapas.io/episode/1662115

Super Powered High

Sound fun. I may have a character in mind

A new guild

The outgoingness of the smith was unexpected. Gaps just fixed a smile on her face while her mind raced. A couple of horses with this group, so as a courier group, they needed horses. Cheap horses.

She had a few coins, liberated from the paymaster when he wasn't looking, but a horse was a major expense.

"Well, if it's horses we need," Gabs said, glancing at the others, "We should do a round-up, find all the horses that escaped when their owners got killed or abandoned the farms. Shouldn't take much to break them again."

Umbra Rose Condos

Qaymu

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Bldg 1, Restaurant

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Qaymu sighs. He'd spent most of the day in the courtyard, brooding over his friend's death, and nobody approached him. Not was he hungry, but he put his now cooled pipe back into his pocket and headed towards the building one restaurant. He wanted to be around other monsters rather than go back up to his room.

As usual, the restaurant was beginning to bustle as others were coming in. He ordered a coffee, black, no sugar or creamer, had his card scanned and sat in a corner facing outward where he could keep an eye out on everything. Was tonight the meeting of the activities committee? He couldn't remember.

Perhaps he could get a game of Chess going, although most of the younger monsters preferred video games now. Which made them a pushover.

His Max loved to play poker, but he'd play chess with Qaymu, trying to get some moves for his own game. And forget about casinos - he was barred on both coasts. Sasquatch were great chess players, but they stated on the West Coast. Really, among the group here, only Red could give him a decent game if she was willing, but from what he could see, she was too enraptured with the fox maidens.

He'd just have to see how the night turns out.