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1 mo ago
Current 1200 BCE was 20 years ago. Feel old yet?
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1 mo ago
Fun Fact: The average person swallows three human infants in their sleep each year!
5 mos ago
Every time I get excited that tomorrow’s finally here, I find out they delayed it by another 24 hours at literally the very last moment. Every. Single. Time. It's really annoying.
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2 yrs ago
Folding my teeth.
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2 yrs ago
I am nearing apocalyptic levels of sleep deprivation.

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Yeah, we've gotten 5 or so weeks worth of posts out in as many days. There's no need to worry about being slow.
Watch one person have to not sleep for 2 full days to avoid losing that last absorption.


That's probably something I'd do...
Aya had calmed down over her time spent waiting in the bushes, to what she would consider an almost normal level of panic, still freaking out by anyone else's standards, but not to so such a degree that it was debilitating for the goblin. Hell, compared to how she sometimes got and her current situation Aya's state of mind could probably be considered tranquil at that point, all things considered. She fully trusted in her sister's plan, something she'd grown progressively more convinced of each of the many times she'd gone over it in her head over the past few minutes. Sure there were some parts of the plan Aya didn't get and some issues it didn't seem to address, but given it was Ragi's plan they were implementing this time rather than Aya's, it seemed obvious that these were all either parts of the test or otherwise variables accounted for in ways Aya simply wasn't smart enough to comprehend.

Of course, Aya's state of tranquillity didn't last long, shattering in an instant when the sloth went from making a show of affection to Ragi one moment to chomping into her shoulder the next. Aya's seemed to lock up as she witnessed this, even as her mind went into overdrive. What should she do? Should she run in and try to attack the sloth? Would that even be safe? For all she knew the spores could be contact-based rather than needing to be inhaled...

Chomp!

The realisation hit Aya as she watched her sister suddenly use what few of her muscles she still had control over to reposition herself and bite into the sloth's neck even as it was biting into her. How many times would Aya make this same mistake before she'd learn? This was Ragi she was talking about, there was no way she hadn't at least considered the harvest sloths betrayal a possibility, if not outright predicted it. When she'd said she was using herself as bait for this trap of hers, Aya had assumed that she was intending to lure in some other roaming predator, but now that Aya thought about it it was very well possible that she'd instead been referring to this. A trap within a trap.

Still, even for all of Ragi's prodigious skill and ability, the situation didn't look to be in her favour and as likely as it was that Ragi still had cards up her sleeves, Aya wasn't particularly keen on taking that risk given the stakes. Which meant Aya would need to act quickly, something easier said than done with how panicked she was in that moment. Doubts clawed at Aya's mind, leaving her almost as immobile as her sister, even more so in some ways. What if she screwed something up? Would she be able to live with herself after that? And no matter what plan she thought of there were too many ways things could go wrong, unknown variables that she had no way to predict or account for. Still, her sister needed her now and if there was one thing that could kick Aya into gear it was an imminent and unavoidable deadline.

Gripping her rock tightly in one hand and her makeshift filter in the other, Aya repositioned herself so she could come at the harvest sloth from behind, taking and holding a deep breath for good measure before charging towards the sloth. Aya brought the stone down onto the back of the monster's head with all of her goblin might, not pausing even to see what damage she'd managed to inflict before letting her goblin rock bashing instincts take over and bringing the stone down onto the sloth again and again.

@Celsius
Can we delay evolving upon reaching level 100 or is it pretty automatic?
1:00 am post number 2.
One moment Aya had paused to examine some strangely behaved bugs that were lying perfectly still on the ground, her ever-growing hunger prompting her to ponder whether she could safely eat them or not, the next moment she'd noticed the harvest sloth moving to eat some of said motionless bugs, an orange substance beginning to emanate from its back as it did so. Aya had freaked out at that point, quickly moving out of range of the expanding cloud of whatever that was and scrunching a portion of the garment she wore over her nose and mouth for good measure. Ragi, on the other hand, was not so fortunate, comically rag-dolling to the ground before Aya even had the chance to look.

Shit shit shit! Was her sister dead!? The beginnings of a catastrophic meltdown were beginning to form within Aya's mind, only to be abruptly cut short by a confirmation of okayness from the otherwise motionless Ragi, with further assurances that this was all intentional an intentional part of the plan going a long way to preventing the goblin from freaking out further. Aya cursed herself for being so stupid once again, she'd made the assumption that Ragi was operating off only the same logic and knowledge as herself, seeing the potential the harvest sloth held but being in the dark as to the specifics, but now that Aya thought about it, of course, Ragi new what the sloth did, she'd probably worked it out the moment she saw the sloth. Hell knowing her sister she may well have even noticed the paralyzed insects and worked out what the sloth did before she'd ever even seen the creature.

As Ragi had said, this was all a part of the plan. A part of her test. More importantly, the plan was pretty clearly intended to double as a message, a way for Ragi to indirectly tell Aya that she was putting a significant amount of faith and trust into her. Why else would the goblin have willingly paralysed herself, when simply lying down would have been just as effective a ploy? Filled with a newfound determination Aya gave her sister a thumbs up that she almost certainly could not see and set to work.

First thing first, Aya didn't want to risk any weak points in the randomly bunched clothing she was hoping would filter the paralyzing miasma so stepping further away from the danger zone she made an attempt at folding the cloth to hopefully cover mouth and nose a little more evenly. Aya had already dropped the sticks she'd been carrying when she'd moved to get away from the harvest sloth and now more than anything she'd need something with which to dispatch anything Ragi managed to lure in, so after a quick search, Aya palmed a rock about as large as she could comfortably swing one-handed. Sure it wasn't the most effective weapon by any means, but it wasn't like it needed to be when the enemy was going to be immobilised beforehand.

Some morbidly curious part of her goblin mind urged Aya to move in and try to work out just how the paralysation worked and already she had begun to formulate ideas for how the creature might be a great asset on a hunt. In all likelihood, its docility was the result of any would preditors getting gassed with what she assumed were spores, should they get to close. Still, Aya couldn't afford to be distracted right now while Ragi was putting so much trust into her, so she suppressed her curiosity for the time being and instead gave her best shot at hiding herself somewhere nearby.

@Celsius
So do you want to post 1st? Or should I just write some shenanigans that will get Ragi killed? :3


Up to you which way we go, the Ragi dying bit should maybe be a plan B. Depending on the effectiveness of a couple of layers of shitty cloth and a hand against the spores, Aya's probably going to either try and investigate for a solution or suffer the same fate as Ragi.
Oh good, I was momentarily worried we'd have instance number two of goblin gets naked to deal with a monster, in which case I was going to seriously start questioning your monster design.
RIP Ragi
Was nice knowing you girl T_T

Ragi can't die yet! How will she become the supreme leader of all goblin kind?

@RC3 I have not one, not two, not four, but three questions for you. Are the goblins wearing anything other than loincloths? I'm guessing not given Saito. Are the goblins loincloths made of cloth or are they more like loin-hides? And do the spores seem to be specifically coming from the mushrooms on the harvest sloths back or just its back in general?
It was at this point that I realised the players were worse than the goblins.
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