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Epyllion: Beyond Moonlight's Reach

It's not a perfect 'Power of Friendship' speech, but hopefully it works. ^^"

@Guardian Angel Haruki

I personally loved it x3

Epyllion: Beyond Moonlight's Reach

@XxFellsingxX For presenting a united front...
Would that be an Act Despite Danger roll? Or would it be something else? ^^"

@Guardian Angel Haruki

Yes. Also remember you have 2 hold from your This Is My Destiny move that you did at the start of the session.

Epyllion: Beyond Moonlight's Reach

Surprise! I already had the Skobeloff side of the post ready to go, and once again, this is a situation where once I started writing the Stargaze bit, the words just sort of came to me.

Epyllion: Beyond Moonlight's Reach

As Skobeloff enters the kitchen, he sees Fogdance sat at the table, with two pixies floating just at eye-level to her. One of them is the pixie who Skobeloff encountered earlier on his first trip to the stronghold. The other, who judging from the body language seems to be in charge, is holding a sewing needle as if it were a sword, brandishing it up at Fogdance as if attempting to threaten her. Considering both pixies are small enough to be blown away should Fogdance exhale deeply enough, they are far less of a threat then they are pretending to be.

Tamba and Pleexem are sat to the side of the room near the desk and counters. About five other pixies are either sat or standing on the counters, all of them looking far less fierce than their leader, and in fact some even attempting to make themselves cups of tea using the facilities, with varying levels of success given that a lot of the kitchenware is the same size as they are.

As Skobeloff makes himself known, the pixie he met earlier quickly taps their companion on the shoulder. "Hey, hey, Foxglove!" he says, motioning towards the trickster. "Tha-that's him! He's the dragon I encountered in the forest earlier. The one who stole the pixie dust from me."

The leader, apparently named Foxglove, turns away from Fogdance and looks over towards the newcomers. She then flies away from the table and towards Skobeloff and Garrock, still brandishing her needle in front of her.

"State your names and your intentions!" she says. "And maybe, just maybe, I'll be willing to hear you out." While Foxglove is obviously hostile, none of the other pixies seem willing to start a fight, most of them eying Skobeloff and Garrock with curiosity. Even the pixie Skobeloff took the pixie dust looks more tired than anything else.

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In response to Stargaze's words, everyone hears the shadowy dragon let out a growl. To Fellwing, it sounds like the growls of an older dragon. To everyone else, it sounds quite unlike any creature they have heard before. However, it doesn't make any move towards the group, instead just staring back at them. It seems as if it's waiting for something, like it needs something in particular from the group before it can act.

As Stargaze draws closer to it to get a better look, the creatures shifts its attention from scanning the entire group to zeroing completely on the white drake. She is able to make out the dragon's face, completely void of eyes, a mouth or any details a normal dragon's face might have, yet despite this, she definitely knows it is looking at her... or, perhaps more accurately, it's looking through her, looking past her scales and deep into her very soul, or is at least trying to. Whatever it is seeing within Stargaze is not satisfying to it, and it growls once again, louder this time. Judging from what the group has seen so far, Stargaze can deduce that it is trying to find some kind of weakness, something it can exploit and use against her.

Because despite how terrifying it appears to be, pretends to be, it is a singular being against a group. If it can find a way to divide them, set them against each other, or separate them, it can pick them off one by one. As long as the group remains together, united against it, there's not much it can really do to hurt them. If the group can present a united enough front, they could potentially drive this creature, and it's influence, away.

Epyllion: Beyond Moonlight's Reach

I'll try and get a post up by Monday. The particular questions Haruki asked are definitely interesting and I'll have to think about how our spoopy shadow dragon friend will respond.

Epyllion: Beyond Moonlight's Reach

@XxFellsingxX Out of curiosity, could Stargaze roll anything for determining how to deal with the shadow dragon in front of them? ^^"

@Guardian Angel Haruki

You could roll Study Someone.

Epyllion: Beyond Moonlight's Reach

Guess we know who the villain of our next quest will be.

@rush99999

I had planned Chapter 2 to be more exploring dragon culture and intrigue-focused... but I could definitely work a killer bunny rabbit in there somewhere xP

Epyllion: Beyond Moonlight's Reach

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@rush99999

Pretty much xD

It's funny because the book specifically states the example of a giant spider which I'm like "Oh yeah that would pretty scary". But if it's just other ordinary animal, it's pretty funny.

It also means you could potentially re-enact the Monty Python rabbit scene in Epyllion and the lore would support it.

Dark Streets - Urban Shadows

Kendra

Kendra gave a small snort at Kim's comment about being able to 'prepare for the future'. They hadn't shared their ability with many people, but the few that they had all repeated the same sentiment. She'd gotten tired of trying to correct them, trying to explain that her visions were rarely concise and clear enough to prepare for anything. Like her earlier dream: what was she supposed to gather from the sensation of someone cutting into her face, severing her optic nerve? She assumed it was from the perspective of someone who had died, but who? How did they die Were they already dead or was their death something Kendra was supposed to prevent? It was all a bunch of questions she wouldn't have had to deal with if she hadn't witnessed it, been forced to witness it.

Obviously, Kendra voiced none of this, merely sitting back and listening as Kim spoke. It was only at her mention of red caps that Kendra cut in. "Fae shit. Wonderful. As if this day can't get any messier," they mutter, shaking their head. "Well, that makes it even less likely that it's connected to whatever I saw which is... something, I guess. I'll figure out what to do about Lian after we deal with this."

They lean back in their chair as they continue listening to Kim. They weren't sure what to say about Zeke or the crows, so they just shrugged. Crows were weird creatures generally, but in Corvus Bay in particular, they seemed to be a power within their own right. Who knew what secrets they had, or whether they'd be willing to share them. They could be trying to help Kim locate her lost friend, or they could just be leading her on a merry goose chase... or crow chase, rather. At this point, Kendra had no way of telling one way or the other. She did agree with Kim, however, about them likely needing some form of help with this, though the Oracle wasn't sure who. They were just about to suggest they try and text Trinity again, see if she had any insight in what they could do, when Kim brought forth her own suggestion. "January?" Kendra repeated aloud. The name sounded vaguely familiar, something she may have heard in passing. It took a good couple of minutes rummaging through the darker recesses of her memory before she recalled it as a name associated with a string of missing pet incidents, specifically dogs from a certain district of the Bay. It was one of those things she had likely heard while at work and had promptly forgotten about. Until now, of course.

The Wild Beyond Witchlight

@rush99999 funnier yet wouldmbe another hallucinations appearing and telling Brut to go the other way.

@Dark Cloud

DO NOT TEMPT HIM.