Lanneth:
"It's the tooth fairy, and if you don't let us board quickly, you're getting rich tonight." the backpack voices.
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Some fox noises come out of the backpack.
Lanneth: "I'm good" in familiar speak.
Yorikata decides to travel in Lanneth's bag. If Lanneth objects to her lodging herself in the backpack, she tries her puppy dog eyes.
Yorikata turns into a fox for the night and hides besides Lanneth.
Yorikata changes into fox form, as she is much lighter and agile that way, and hops over the lilipads.
Yorikata rolls her eyes, as the party walks into the same s!+$ as last time.
Yorikata turns into a fox and goes for a stealthy run a small distance away from the not so stealthy men.
You can come and put me in your backpack. But if we go back, we just repeat that unsatisfying experience. In Witcher, I'd say it's time for a few sidequests to level up until we try again. If we move on, we might run into the next enemy we can't take, or we finally manage to win, get the big price, a level up and take fight with the hungry tree on our way back. As of now a fight with the tendriculous is not very promising. It would take very long to wear it down and most of us are not sturdy enough to weather the attacks of the tree.
Yorikata sneaks up on the tree and bites it.
Yorikata takes on the unconspicious fox form and sneaks through the woods, looking out for the special tree.
Yorikata turns into fox form and hides away somewhere under Lanneth's stuff for the night. It's a light sleep, knowing there is someone wanting to eat them behind the door. And who knows what else besides the stabby invisible things might jump out.
After a surprisingly uneventful night of rest - if night is the right word in this special place - Yorikata wakes again refreshed. She jumps up with the thoughts about how to proceed just babbling out of her mouth. Until she notices, that nothing but cute bark like noises come out.
"I hope that isn't contagious." Yorikata comments to Lanneth, rolling her eyes. "I'll go and scout a bit around." The 'werefox' turns into fox form and sneaks out to check, what's going on there.
Yorikata continues to the other side to have sure footing on solid ground.
"We have to get over there?" Yorikata asks. On confirmation she shrinks into her dangerously cute fox form and hops over the lilly pads to the other side.
Yorikata waits for Lanneth to act.
Yorikata sneaks up besides William and touches him with her paw.
Yorikata wakes up from Williams shouting and gives the intruder the evil eye for waking the group in such a rude way.
Yorikata lets go of the twigjack and runs afterthe others, before the portal closes.
Yorikata jumps at that tiny thing hiding in the greens.
Yorikata hops through the portal.
Yorikata climbs out of the bag and jumps to the ground. She sneaks over to the stone circle to look and smell around.
Yorikata jumps into the bag. With her head and front paws out, she looks over the shoulder of Lanneth to not miss anything.
She shrinks, until she is fox sized and then with a few jumps, hides behind Lanneth.
Yorikata crawls out of the backpack.
Yorikata has full cover.
The 'newt' giggles in the backpack, which makes a strange noise.
Yorikata's fox spirit starts walking away, looking back at the whole battle scene like a bad dream that fades into a blurry background while trotting towards the woods.
Yorikata isn't interested in playing games and hides away in fox form. She lays down somewhere in the dark, where she can keep an eye on Melira.
Yorikata enjoys some peaceful alone time with Lanneth in the stables.
Yorikata leans at Lanneth putting her head on her lap letting out a sigh.
Yorikata crawls out from the straw halfway to Lanneth. It is surprising how well she can guilt trip someone just with the look in her eyes. Or at least she tries.
A faint bark like noise comes out of the corner of a box.
Yorikata stays hidden.
GM: Hiding and pouting.
Trunau is no fun these days. How happy everything was at the Hopeknife Ceremony. The places were full of people, there was food on every corner and happy kids running around everywhere. But today everything is dull. Everyone is either mourning their dead, or busy with rebuilding what the orcs have destroyed. Frustrated Kuma hops through the town in search of something interesting. Until she finally stops at the Hopespring. Sitting in safe distance she watches Silvermane. He has something of that which attracts her to Lanneth. Maybe because he's an elf too? Or his magic? The close connection to nature? She can't tell. But there is something in these old wise eyes.
And a moment later, Yorikata is nowhere found in Trunau.
What she said. 20 Minutes of game time before going to bed, or the chance to play out the morning routine, which is a full hour anyway. It would probably pause the fighting for a day or two in real time. Characters who think the only fluff needed is the one on Yorikata's neck might consider that boring ;) But I'd enjoy that very much.
Yorikata hides her face with her paws. She doesn't want to go out there again. But with Lanneth waiting for her in silence with a smile she finally comes out for their mutual contemplation.
As everyone takes their place, Yorikata moves into the bedroom and hides under the first bed - in fox shape. She leaves the double doors open to be able to watch the corridor.
As Balder is getting pulled away he yelps "But..but.. I had it! Aw nuts." Paralysis (Ex) A gelatinous cube secretes an anesthetizing slime. A target hit by a cube's melee or engulf attack must succeed on a DC 20 Fortitude save or be paralyzed for 3d6 rounds. The cube can automatically engulf a paralyzed opponent. The save DC is Constitution-based. Let us be a little metagamy here. This thing is going to slam at you with +2 with a 35% chance to hit and for you a 25% chance to make the save. This is a 26.25% chance per round of you ending up inside the cube. Assuming none of us misses the cube as its AC is really low for the following damage per round:
That's actually not that bad. But as soon as one is lost to the cube it gets harder to finish it off. At least we'd need better tactics than to stand in a row in a tunnel approaching this thing one after another, to wait for our turn to get swallowed.
Yorikata has some more small-talk with Brinya but once she feels something else but the emotional equivalent of snoring from Lanneth, she excuses herself to return to the ramblinghouse. On the way she changes to fox form, as that is needed for the morning ritual Lanneth and Yorikata go through every day.
Kuma of course joins Lanneth for the meal, indulging the offered meat. She then moves in high spirits to the room, but that changes quickly. With the door locked and Lanneth starting the interrogation Kuma's tail gets tucked between her hind legs and she disappears under the bed. Lanneth percieves shame and fear from Yorikata over the link. The fateful night comes up in front of Yorikata's mind's eye. The shouting mob, her screaming mother, her desperate father. What will happen now? And how does Lanneth know she is a kitsune? She has never seen her as such. And what will Lanneth do? Leave her as her father left her mother? Or bring in a mob with pitchforks and torches to drag her in front of Halgra of the Blackened Blades? And what will she do, if she is accused of being a kitsune? Deny, and flee like her mother did? If there were a god that cared for her, a hole would open in the ground for her to disappear in. But instead there are these eyes staring daggers at her. Not that she could see them from under the bed. Until this morning she saw a steady gaze that radiates confidence and causes trust. But now she doesn't know if she could hold that gaze anymore.
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