The next day, Jeni is dressed and PACKED ready to go back to exploring. "One day of reading is enough." she gives Kaz a put upon glare.
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Since the others want some book time, Jeni joins but spends her time mostly reading book spines and random pages.
Jeni still doesn't feel right about talking to people, and the look she gives her friend cements her clear stance of not being much of a reader. But the unsettled feeling makes it so she simply shrugs, not making a decision.
Despite her hesitation, Jeni proved able to connect with her own feelings of being an outsider to these people. Telling them simply that negative feelings breed more negative feelings. Like mold.
The sigh of her adoptive father is a knife... "I will... try." she pays her respects then and wishing "Father Zantus" a pleasant day.
Jeni holds her tea, looking into the slight swirl of the dash of cream he poured into it. 'Tainted whore, just like HER' she remembers the old woman hisses that at her when she was just a girl, she didn't even know what most of that meant. But she knew hate already, had seen it in people's eyes way too often. "Wouldn't it be better for this to come from you?" she asks her father in a soft hesitant voice.
"And if we get caught, EVERYONE thinks it was us all the time." or at least Jeni would be blames, Assimar the evil.
Jeni knows they have to, so steals herself "Father Zantus is expecting us. Especially if the Pitt is coming for us."
Jeni bumps Zen's shoulder with her own and tells him "spontaneous tattoos are cool" then rolls her eyes as she sees Nadja squeeze the guy's thigh. Not in a reproachful way, more of a 'great we're going to have another mopey guy in our small town once Gnat is done with him' way.
Jeni's eyes light up at the gift. Not that opening locks was her thing, but seeing what was behind them Was. She smiles, a real one at the man. "Um, you want to hear about the mimics we fought?" if he shows interest she tells him without adding embellishments, but with delightful enthusiasm.
Jeni seems to wake up when there is a disbelieving tone in Kaleb's response to Nadja. "Maybe not all of that was correct, but we did face a orge, defeated him with ease and a lot of that was Nadja here sneaking in and taking his weapon away while he slept. Oh and the bed bugs were HORRIBLE!"
Jeni takes a slow long sip of her tea to let Gnat take over the telling of the story.
And pretty much pays attention to nothing else.
"They were big" Jeni answers without enthusiasm, clearly not enjoying being part of this.
Jeni stiffens at going to the pub, but sighs and joins. As Zen nestles into the rough wood of the tavern table, she takes off her cloak and covers him in it. "Tomorrow for the Father seems appropriate." she manages, sending a smile the others way and orders more cheese stuffed vegetables.
Jeni tenses at the missive from her adoptive father. The tension does not mask her desire to go. "The Father might have important information..." her deflection is weak since her friends know her past and her feelings on this matter.
"Baby bedbugs" is all Jeni has to say about the defiant smirk. :)
"No." was Jeni's answer. The way the Neat inclined woman frowns, there is a strong possibility she wouldn't wear it even cleaned. And she will NEVER get the image of tomato sized bed bugs scurrying away in a panicked swarm when they lifted the blanket.
Zen's powers lessen the massive meat fist but Jeni still throws up a swirling water shield at the last moment. reaction, deflecting wave:
Trigger You would take acid, bludgeoning, fire, or slashing damage from an enemy’s attack, spell, or other hostile effect. Requirements You’re aware of the hostile effect, and you aren’t off-guard against it. A cascade of water blunts or disperses the incoming attack. You gain resistance to damage from the triggering effect equal to your level if it’s bludgeoning or slashing, or double your level if it’s acid or fire damage. If the effect deals more than one applicable type of damage, apply the highest resistance, but apply it only once.
"Last chance." the fighter offers, twisting from his fist to slam a water bo staff into the back of his hand, then dipping in, the staff changing to a water dagger to slice up his forearm. "Or you be dead and we'll melt your precious hook down to scrap..." she darts a raised eyebrow around the bulk of the enemy to ask "Unless, Nadja, you are going to start carrying it around too?"
Jeni was looking to Zen, waiting until he talks to the enemy, then offers up to heavy hammers of water to help him make up his mind.
Jeni looks confused, but then nods quickly as Nadja gets the hook out of the way. Then she looks to Zen, since she has been friends with him a LONG time and knows her plan to end the threat quickly will not work with his morality. She cocks her head and gives him a wave, Go On.
Jeni looks to the others, makes hand motions that probably mean stab stab while sleep sleep, and then raises her eyebrows to ask, Yes?
Jeni leans into the mural fasinated "Is that Titus Scarnetti being crushed by a hoof?" she looks around amazed "Someone Really hates our town."
Jeni creates water version of every sword her friend names, near perfect if not for their translucence. All for a simple amused teasing "Oh, no. You need them, you carry them. But we might need to invest in one of those bags of holding... do they make sheathes of holding!?!" Her brown eyes roll back a little at the mention of artichoke hearts. "Cultists first, then yes." Since they have been talking a bit, Jeni can heal Nadja more again. "Ready?" she checks with her, before summoning the clear healing waters and drenches her friend again. Head to toe, dripping from every part, then sucking all the water out again and leaving her dry and healed.
Jeni lets out a light laugh and bumps Gant's shoulder "How many swords are you going to carry." says the girl how only attack people with water.
At her friend's shriek of pain, Jeni sends her waters to wrap around the frozen gaping wounds.
Then sends to jump kicks to the shadow's head.
"You were freed only so we can end you." Jeni tells the spirit coldly.
Her hammer morphs into a staff, which she tries to ram up into the creature's teeth.
Jeni laughs sharply "No" she says simply before her long hafted water hammer slams into the voices home.
With Kaz's confidence and Zen's maybe, Jeni's doubt is reduced "Okay. Everyone get ready, and I'll break the stone without touching it, just in case."
"We didn't know was IT was before." Jeni points out "not that we actually know what IT is now either, I guess" she sighs, and starts to limber up a bit, bouncing on her toes, stretching out her shoulders.
"Can we beat it if we free it?" Jeni asks as quietly as she can.
"Always secret doors first" Jeni says with flat certainty.
"Ah, so you help kill a lot of people and this Evil creature that loves to eat people will be immensely grateful to you, a people, and gift you with lots of power instead of just moving on to eat more people, or the closest people, like you." Jeni paraphrases to make sure she understands.
Jeni pulls some rope out of her pack, and starts to tie up the cultist. As she does so she asks "Why did you choose THIS as a life?" life choices like this makes her question people's sanity.
Jeni rushes into the fray, attempting to get into flanking with Zen, since they all seem to hate him. "Why attack the biggest and most armored?" she asks as she jump kicks and water punches.
Jeni spins and snaps a water whip through the air, crasking with impressive force against the nearest cultist, followed by a twist with two palms thrusting out as if bashing against noses, but instead two large hands of water barrel forward into the throng.
Before Nadja disappears, Jeni summons a gleaming ball of pure water and chucks it at her. Nadja has become familiar enough with Jeni's weird powers to know NOT to dodge it.
The time taken talking has Jeni's muscle's settling, so she does a few quick stretches before they rush into fighting. "Catching them unaware as possible sounds... well, sound." Jeni scrunches her nose a bit at her fumbling of words.
When Nadja slipped away, Jeni had noted it, slight concern or curiosity bunching her brow. It could be just a pee break, but slipping away without a word probably meant something else. The aasimar did not ask though, since she felt this friendship of theirs, the four oddest members of their small town... well once the mimic joins, they would be the second oddest, but back to the point. Their friendship was built on being their for each other when they were needed and leaving them alone when that was needed (like whatever that red mist was! Nadja was not bouncing with excitement to tell them about it, so leave it alone) None of them always got that right though. Hopefully this was one of those times they were. -- "We should have asked about your name as soon as we shifted to conversation instead of fighting. Apologies." Jeni's sense of manners is odd at certain times.
Jeni found the idea wonderful, but had lingering doubt the 'good' people of Sandpoint would be so accepting (given her own childhood). "Remember, no matter what happens, you cannot eat anyone. No matter if they deserve it. If people are being bad, you go to the sheriff or us." Jeni wags a finger at the mimic and gives a stern look.
Jeni bounces a little on her toes, bleeding off a little energy after the snake is put down. It is just then she noticed the mimic "Oh, I didn't... I mean." she stopped, a little flabbergasted that the creature listened to her. Nadja's words makes her frown. Killing something that surrendered makes her heart shrink back in horror. But leaving it to try and eat something else also is wrong.
"Zen likes statues." Jeni says with affectionate mirth as she tries to ignore the pain throbbing from the bite in her side. To further ignore the pain, she jump kicks the snake's head, forming a watery spiked hammer head around her foot before it connects. "Become. Him." a suggestion followed by another kick.
"Don't use weapons?" Jeni suggests to Kaz's question of a better way. Jeni is using a weapon, a long bo staff made of water that doesn't get stuck.
"Maybe we should touch-" Jeni starts. Too late. Then she is rushing to try and shatter the wooden statue. Forming water into a slim rippling bo staff, she hammers the things mouth, with brutal grace.
"No" the joy of the jump drains away looking at the winged burning horse on the mural "The sandpoint devil? I thought it would be the Stain."
Jeni grins back like an excited loon, about to agree when out of the corner of her eye, she notices the cannonball of a Zen with extra Kaz ordinance soaring right at them. Jeni quickly grabs the gnat and pulls them both against the wall before the heavy thud falls. She releases Nadja and helps brush off Zen, his produced dust cloud settled on his shoulders as well it was so great "Maybe we can work that into the next battle. Siege Weapon Zen."
Jeni had been eyeing the space, then bouncing as if to limber up. Obviously she was considering jumping the gap but concedes "A very good plan."
After she says that, she grins, runs back ten or so feet then charges the pit, LEAPING INTO THE AIR!
After a tense second of suspense over the unknowably deep pit, the cloth wrapped feet of the nutter butter of a water bender slams into the dust of the other ledge. A wonderful feat spoiled a little with stumbling forward several steps, an gleeful WOOP, and a beaming SEE THAT smile back at her friends. "THAT was even more fun!"
"Killing a demon sounds like the way to go here." Jeni doesn't see the problem.
Jeni opens her mouth to ask what is this Remnant but then snaps it shut and nods, not wanting to spoil Nadja's ruse.
Jeni looks over at the gnat for a second, unsure if she is kidding or not. Dissolving into bursts of energy does sound more efficient than burial or burning, but... Jeni shakes her head, unsure where she is going with that. They've had to kill plenty of things, but rarely after they started a conversation. If that is what this was, the pointing, nodding, signing sound stuff.
Jeni holds her cleanliness prejudices tight inside, keeping her eyes on the Caligni instead of their nests. "Do you understand them, Kaz?" she says with plenty of hope.
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