Always Ascending

[Nihtgenga]

"Nah, we got everything we needed. We were just leaving, weren't we?" Retiaria shot the others a Significant Look. "Come on Gwen, someone else can cover for you here."

[darlingng01]

Oric

I start walking forward, keeping my grip on her hip to insist she come with me "Come on, no time to lose."

[Roselli]

Gwyn

Gwyn walks out with Oric guiding her and making sure she doesn't get drawn back into the mess in the kitchen. "Cover for me? I dont work here. I was just doing a favor because....."

Gwyn trails off as she realizes, "...because I'm wearing a barmaid uniform and they think I'm a barmaid. That just.....is not nice."

Gwyn feels Oric's arm brush against her massive squirrel tail as they walk, "how big is my tail?"

Turning her head, she's easily able to get a look at part of it, "Shoot! That's not a wolf tail!"

[Ordos]

Naethra settled against the room's far wall just in time to hear Duran speculate about torturing prisoners to extract useful information.  She elected to stay quiet in the hope that she'd be able I figure out just what she'd missed.

"Oh, thank you," she said absently as Gwyn placed down a plate of food.  It... reminded Naethra of porridge she used to eat as a girl back home, flavorless and runny and somehow vaguely unwholsome.  It had clearly been chosen for her to accommodate her lack of teeth, but the result looked like something that would be fed to a baby.

"Gods, I miss teeth," Naethra murmured before she looked up.  She was shocked by Gwyn's new changes, but Oric and Red quickly addressed the now squirrelly bard.  It seemed just lingering here wasn't going to be a safe option after all.

Naethra picked at her meal, swallowing what she could before thanking Gavin and following her teammates out the door.  At least no thought to ask About why she sucked away just then.

[Alice]

@The party

Stepping out of the tavern, you realize you've got most of a full day of travel ahead of you that you can undertake. Proper roads end at the edge of town but there are many game trails you can traverse. The woods wise among you will note that this indicates either rather infrequent traffic to the village, or that something is keeping the forest in a state close to nature. However you can depart from town in any direction. The goblins came from the north.

[Roselli]

Gwyn

Gwyn saw her tail and felt her teeth and finally realized and accepted that she was resembling a squirrel. She made a face and pouted. She tried to show the squirrel who is boss.

She started heading northbafter the goblins. "Let's go girls"

[Ryuforce]

"Ugh.. I miss being a guy." The dragon grumbles as she finally catches up to the group. Being the slowest thanks to her weight she waddles right up behind them. "So.. to the goblins right? I do want to deal with that gnoll leader before she can hurt another soul."

[Nihtgenga]

Retiaria was glad to leave. The villagers had been nice and welcoming, but what had been happening to Gwen while she worked had freaked her out. It was better to get moving again, even if that did mean wandering through the gross woods again.

"Yeah Duran, we're gonna deal with the gnoll, but we need to take someone prisoner first. Find out a few things."

[Ordos]

"It occurs to me... the goblins didn't just pass into an incapacitated lustful haze like the kobolds did.  They just sort of... dissolved.  If they have a sense of self, that threat should suffice for coercion... but, I'm not entirely certain these are real goblins," Naethra mused as she quickened step to keep up with the group after her mushy meal. 

"From some of the things they've said, and what the peasants have told us... they may not be born or even converted like other people and monsters we've seen here.  That gnoll may have a means of literally creating them, empowering them with stolen magic."  She lifted a finger to the wizard's charm around her neck, thinking back to the dancer she took it from, how she bowed before fading out of existence.

"If that's the case, then we can't win a fight of attrition.  And they may not have enough of a sense of self to betray information under pain of oblivion."  She frowned at the prospect. 

[Roselli]

"But that also means once we get to the queen, there would be no more goblins. Or we can take away what ever means she has to make them with. We may not even need to fight here. This is good news." Gwyn cheerfully considers.

[Nihtgenga]

"I'd be really surprised if we didn't have to fight her." Retiaria said, "But if we can just take whatever she's making the gobbers with that'd be great. Still gotta get to it first though, and even if we don't get anything out of whoever we capture, taking out a patrol can't hurt, right?"

[Alice]

@the whole party includeing Lou he's just been.. quiet..

As you make your way north along the game trails, you hear a terrible crashing noise up ahead. You all can easily hear an inarticulate scream of a humanoid throat..

[Nihtgenga]

"Sounds like something's hitting a patrol already. Come on, let's hit 'em while they're weak!"

With that Retiaria took off running towards the noise.

[Roselli]

Gwyn didn't need much additional encouragement. As soon as she heard the scream, she pull out her sword and started bounding toward the scream behind Retiaria.

[Alice]

Charging ahead you see yourself facing to greenish grey humanoids. They are women, each eight feet tall.. and each rather heavy set.. they each have a crude club at their side.

However the source of the scream is a woman holding a pair of short curved blades. She is clearly flushed and dripping from sweat and arousal, standing dazed.

"We told you we would grind your bones to make our bread..." They then slam their bodies together sandwiching the woman who makes no move to resist. There is a single orgasmic cry that is suddenly cut off as they move away from each other a large burlap flour sack drops to the ground. They give crude laughs then turn to to look at the party, "Oh.. more treats to grind.."


Roll for initiative.