White Lynx:
"You're right, that's fair," Lynx muttered, rubbing her arm. It felt weirdly nice to hear someone putting her life ahead of the mission, even in a hypothetical. As a scout, it was her job to act as the canary in the mine. Still, she supposed that, since they had someone as immortal as Goodwill with them, it probably didn't make that much sense to split off.
"Roger that. Left it is." With a nod, Lynx began heading down the left tunnel, following behind the Wonder-Dog.
It's a long way, and there's an intersection at one point-- offering the choice of going straight or a sharp left again-- but Scraps goes straight. He wants to find out what's down this path-- what sort of creature is down this way... because it's not human... but it's not... not... bad? Necessarily...?
Finally, the tunnel opens up into a 20-by-20 area... and it's clear that someone lives here. There's a bed-- well, a very messy bed, more of a big nest made of very dirty blankets and old clothes-- and an old chair with the back broken off, and an old crate that's been used as a table or desk, and some bookshelfs, with old dirty books, and some lamps and lanterns and candles burning...
And the alligator.
It's about a six-foot alligator (not counting the tail and the fact that its head is bent downward).
It's standing in the middle of the room, between the desk and one of the bookshelves, and it's poring over a book.
It's wearing some sort of wire thing on its face, bent to resemble glasses frames, and it's holding a large meerschaum pipe (that isn't lit).
It's also wearing a couple of large, stretched-out sweaters (the top one is an old Christmas sweater with a reindeer on it), and some ill-tailored black slacks.
The alligator looks up and sees the heroes and Scraps walk in.
It's hard to say if what comes out of its mouth next counts as speaking, but if written down, it would look like: "Uhhhhhhhh..."
The alligator's eyes dart back and forth around the room suddenly, as if it's thinking
I have a rational explanation for all this-- quick, what is it?
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:38, Wed 25 Nov 2020.