Hmm, I'm spotting a pattern here. Crass didn't harm any fuzzles nor tiny friends and was spared. Gobbat didn't harm any fuzzles nor tiny friends and was spared. Krunluc didn't do anything to any fuzzles nor tiny friends and was spared. The Phystal shot a bird and Timur and was obliterated in to mist by Nym. The Teachers made Many afraid so he hid in a backpack, and killed some big wolf fuzzles and so their final form was targetted by all of Nym's most powerful spells so they were basically two shotted in to oblivion withlout mercy.

I think the ranger is just dead. Dead man walking. Poor ranger rogue. He will be Rague sauce (if he's lucky).


Oh, and despie what Meri saw, and just to OOC reassure you, Farren didn manage to recover both his poor little fuzzle's head and body. Just saying... I'm not necessarily killing off poor little rat friend to be mean and make ranger seem evil and that's that. You are going to a town after all... a town with clerics and religious people of all persuasions... Who knows whatthey will do, if they don't think it's beneath them, of course. Maybe some judicious application of moral rage and some GPs might turn things around...

Aww, did Meri not want to answer Nym's question about whether the other fuzzles are okay?

And I hadn't even noticed that all the nice-to-furry-things people are the ones who've been obliterated the most thoroughly...that's pretty funny :D.

And I think if Ryn "dies", Nym will know that she's going to come back, since Ryn is basically a small chunk of Nym's magic given physical form, so is part of her - Nym would probably not be happy if someone "killed" Ryn, since she would know that any other creature would be properly dead under the same circumstances. But she would feel the chunk of magic return to her as it loses form, or whatever, so she can let Ryn recoalesce at the first opportunity (ie when they take a rest ;)).

OOC: She did.

Oh, whoops, I thought Meri had gone in and was talking to someone else. Didn't read it properly, sorry.

Nym follows Meri to the edge of the wagon but doesn't lower herself down, instead sitting and watching the half-elf momentarily disappear from sight before popping back out to answer the question.

"Okay, good. Yes. Right. No scary people allowed here. No. Mean and nasty people, no. Yuck."

Nym wrinkles her feline nose in distaste and sits peering in the direction of Blackwood as though expecting some shady-looking rat-murderer to pop into view. Ryn keeps looking up at her and eventually makes some weird sort of squeaky-grunty noises.

"Hmm?" inquires Nym vaguely, glancing downward. She then blinks, apparently having taken in whatever it was Ryn said to her. "I what?"

She looks a little confused, but also sort of excited and starts staring right back at her familiar.

[Private to GM: So a few posts back, when Nym (or someone) was saying about passing secret messages or something like that, I had the brainwave of "Duh, I can already do that, with my telepathy power thingy I took as part of that Feat!". So I set up the end of that post for Nym to shortly work that out, with a little hinting from Ryn. But then I forgot about it. And then remembered during the last post, I think. And now Nym can probably figure it out, or at least manage to succeed at it - since Ryn is made from her magic, after all, she should have some idea of what Nym is capable of, even if Nym herself isn't always sure ;).]

Should I leave you both to talk to your respective tiny friends for a few moments? :)

[Private to Nym: Yeah, that's cool that Ryn can spot the possibilities in Nym's magic and be the focus Nym doesn't have!]

Sure, I think Nym's about to hit onto something here >:).

After a few more moments of staring at Ryn, Nym's eyes suddenly go wide in an expression of a kind of happy surprise while Ryn stats bouncing up and down in similar excitement. Nym practically falls off the top of the wagon in her haste to clamber down and go inside. Ryn bounces around some more but stays atop the wagon.

Crit on Athletics roll to climb down if needed :D.

"Meri! Meri!" says Nym excitedly. "I did a thing! Look, look, I'll show you!"

She stares at Meri for several moments and suddenly Meri hears Nym's voice. But not out loud this time - Nym's feline mouth doesn't move. Instead, the voice is inside her head.

"Meri! Can you hear me? Look, I can talk like this! Isn't it super-amazing?"

Nym is staring at Meri waiting for a reaction.

Yeah, so Nym's got a telepathic power now. I just haven't had the chance for her to discover it till now. Or I've been forgetting about it. Or possibly both, sometimes at the same time ;).

I mean, you didn't need the athletics roll, getting down is the easy part. It's only required to make the downwards journey both voluntary and painless - both of which you succeed in :D

Can you do me a favour and figure out how you want to represent your voiceless messages as a different text somehow? It will make it easier later for me to quickly spot the different between what Nym says out loud and what she maybe says to Meri when she doens't want to be overheard. I'd suggest italics without the speech marks (maybe single quotes) or perhaps putting it in a pale colour, but I'll leave it for you to decide.

Meri looked wearily at Nym as she scrambled back down excited about something.
Her look changed to surprise at the voice speaking in her mind though.  She glanced towards Timur, who shrugged as if to say 'It wasn't me!'

"How did you do that?" she asked, looking a little uncertain of this new ability.


[Private to The Altweaver: OOC: My first thought was, if that's a power with the Psychic keyword, I could potentially give Nym a nasty jolt from the amulet here ;)  hehe.]

Oh, yes. Good point. I'll probably use Italics and/or use those ~wiggly line thingys~ in place of speech marks. Just didn't think of it yesterday.

Nym gives a happy shrug.

"Well, I don't really know." she says. "Magic! I'm sure there's lots of other stuff I can do, I just haven't worked out I can do it yet..."

[Private to GM: Incidentally, Ryn is staying up top to keep lookout, so she should notice if anything obvious starts happening :). She'll keep bouncing from one end to the other, or sometime sit in place and look from one direction to another. Generally just trying to cover all avenues of approach, really, and then she'll come and let Nym know if she sees anything noteworthy enough (like someone approaching the caravan or Geekaar doing anything weird, for example).]

Many wakes up, and notices Nym is back. "Yay!" he says, then says 'yay' with a quieter voice notiicng Farren and the three rodents are still asleep. He seems to have picked up on the word 'magic' without understanding what is going on, and just looks with happy curiosity and the two friends.


[Private to Nym: Oddly, when Nym would have first tried to sent a message to Meri, therer would have been an odd resistance and she'd have felt a shiver.It went away quickly, and didn't feel as if it was caused directly by Meri's mind, but more like something magical attached to her.

As for Ryn, that's cool. It will be her passive perception, obviously. She can increase that score a little by jumping ahead to where Dott is on the other wagon so can can benefit from any reactions he or the horses have too. Plus it would be easier for her to try and spy on Geekaar. It would be a single athletics check to negotiate the jump between the two bound wagons. The good news is that if she falls, rather than forcing the whole wagon train to stop, she'll just reappear next to Nym when she gets too far out of range and can try again :p So the check would merely be for fun to see how long it took to get her there. Plus if you want to use up resources to make it easier and succeed, I won't stop you :p]

[Private to Meri:
Yeah, funny as that would have been, and almost appropriate as Nym's new power is an at-will, but it's maybe deliberately got the 'psionic' rather than 'psychic' keyword to make it not resember an attack. Still, maybe Nym might have felt something odd narratively. Meri would have felt the amulet stir and might want to interact with it to make sure it doesn't go off if she's psychically contacted again :D ]

"Curious" remarked Meri, apparently relaxing again.
Something seemed to occur to her though and she glanced down at the amulet she was wearing with a concerned look.
"Should be ok" she muttered to herself.

Glancing over at Many with a smile, she then looked back to Nym.
"So, can you read minds too?" she asked, her smile looking a little forced as she brought up the question.

Nym gives Meri a slightly confused look.

"Um. No?" she says, as though she isn't sure herself. "I mean, not so far. I hope. I mean, that would be rude, wouldn't it? Poking around in someone's head? But it's nice that I can just tell you stuff now. Then I can...um...tell you stuff. You know, if...erm...I need to...if, erm...if we're trying to be all sneaky and quiet about it. Or if we just don't want to wake people up."

She seems to realise what she's saying and glances over at the sleepnig Farren and rats with a somewhat guilty expression, then a slightly sheepish grin in Meri's direction.

[Private to GM: I want Ryn keeping watch out the back as well, though, in case this mysterious rat-killing ranger guy shows up. Should I actually make a Perception check for her, since she is actively keeping watch?]

"Just curious" replied Meri, with a fleeting look of what might have been relief in her eyes.

Leaning over to reach deep into her pack, she pulled out Davius' Granduncle's journal again, skimming quickly through the pages as if looking something up...


[Private to The Altweaver: OOC: Out of curiosity, does the journal mention anything about Oldham/Old One/Ianter/etc.?]

Many buzzed over to Nym with an 'ooooooh' noise. "Me me me say some-ah-thing to meeeee!"
He then seemed to recall the mention of not waking people up, and put one eystalk close to his lips. "Shhhhhh," he said, nodding, then looking too innocently about the previous source of the noise.


[Private to Nym: Yeah, doens't hurt to roll Perception, it will carry for the afternoon if there's anything to see in the back.]

[Private to Meri: Give me a Perception check for quickly flicking through the journal just now, and even if nothing jumps out right now, Meri may still generally figure out something if she gets the chance to study it during down time in the afternoon. ]

Meri seemed intent on searching the pages of the journal for something, although a hint of a grin appeared at Many's excitement...


[Private to The Altweaver: OOC: Perception: 33 (19 + 14) - Using up my good rolls again...]

Nym giggles and looks at Many, a brief expression of concentration on her face.

[Private to GM: Sending telepathically to Many - "Hello, Many! Look! I have a magic mind-voice!"

Also, Perception roll for Ryn's general keeping-an-eye-out...ooh not bad - 24 :).]

[Private to Nym:
Cool, Ryn may well spot something later if there is anything to spot. Ir at any time feel free to 'burn' that roll looking for something specific to do with the wagon or surroundings.]

Many suddenly looks around startled then giggles. "Ah heard it ah heard it!" he says excitedly and bombs aroudn the wagon a few times. He then turns back to Nym, and looks to his fourth eyestalk After a moment's hesitation - and for no good reason keeping his eyestalk away from the front of his face, he points it in Nym's general direction, screws up his face to concentrate really hard, and then says something apparently under his breath, because it is not audible.

After a moment he looks to Nym expectantly to see if she heard anything.

[Private to Meri:
That's an impressive roll. Anyway, so the journal makes it a little hard to find thingd at first, because the granduncle initially journeyed to the other elven lands around Yarneholme, and so lots of his initial encounters are with them. And his style of writing later notes and so on make it hard to spot when this set of journeys north stop, and actually he encounters different elves on his journey south to the coast.

It really only stands out because he starts describing two brothers and a sister, all 'stranger elves' who are some form of bounty hunters or militia hunting a killer. The recent encounter with the far guard captain flag these up as sounding a lot like more of them. That focuses attention on a small section where he seems to be trying to speak to some local elves - which seems odd in context unless they are new elves rather than the Yarnholme ones. Piecing it together he does seems to have make a small detour in to the elvish lands near Fivemaidens. His encounter with a few villages and with the far guard make him realise theyare perhaps less happy with casual explorers and humans roaming around, and so he turned back.

Oldham nor it's elvish derivation does not leap out. However, there is an elvish name that, given the way human and elvish names get corrupted, suddenly seems familiar. It might be a corrupted spelling of a name of another elvish village Meri had heard reference to, not too far away from her own village. She might have even passed through there when she finally fled. ]

Nym gives Many a sympathetic look.

"Aaw, sorry, Many." she says. "I didn't hear anything. But maybe if you practice, you'll be able to do it too. And then we can have proper secret conversations!"

She says "proper-secret" in a hushed voice, though it would still be clearly audible to those within the wagon. She giggles and sits back.

"Hmm, I wonder what else I can do..." she says looking at her hands as though expecting something else to happen.

Meri frowned slightly, reading over a few pages in the journal before closing it again and placing it aside, laying back and peering up at the ceiling of the wagon seemingly deep in thought...


OOC: Still here, but Meri isn't doing much for now :)

Nym starts looking around inside the wagon, looking at things and concentrating as though willing something to happen. She starts waving her hands around a bit too, flicking her fingers and apparently experimenting. Occasionally a tiny burst of flame or a spark might erupt from her fingertips, but she always stops it before it can grow any bigger or touch anything that might be flammable or otherwise damaged by such magic.

After a little while she sticks her head out of the door and looks at the view. She starts concentrating on that, too, and eventually seems to achieve something and her eyes go wide in surprise. She automatically sits back, stumbling back into the wagon, at which point she blinks and looks around.

"Oh, it's gone." she says to whomever might happen to be listening inside the wagon. "I mean...I was looking at...there was a tree. And I was looking at it and it looked kind of interesting. But then we sort of went past it so I tried to lean out and see it better, but then I was seeing it from closer! I mean, it was like I was closer to it except it was only my seeing-ness that was closer - the rest of me was still here, I could feel it. But then I moved backwards and it stopped."

She seems rather excited to have discovered yet another thing she can do, and gives an excited little clap of her hands.

[Private to GM: Just realised as I was looking through the last few posts that I had been for some reason thinking the word limit on Thought Projection was 25. But it isn't, it's 10. So I'll remember that for the future (my message to Meri was more than ten words long).
And I figure this is as good a time as any for Nym to discover her other Wild Talent abilities. I just need an excuse for her to find out she has Mental Tools as well, but that may not come up until she next sees Meri (or perhaps someone else) using tools to do something, or needing a tool to do something.]

Will update for Many in the morning or at some point!

[Private to Nym: The robe of objects i also a way in. Nym can play with that, produce objects, then I'm sure Meri can point out the robe isn't active yet because Nym hasn't actually worked out how to use it yet or something. ]
This message was last edited by the GM at 10:44, Tue 24 Oct 2017.

Think you missed a Private tag there ;).

[Private to GM: I thought of that, remembering it from earlier, but checked my inventory and it doesn't seem to be there so I must've not taken it - the dagger, belt, fire potion, and firebox are all in my list so presumably I didn't just forget about that one.]

I made it secret rather than private, so poor Meri will still not know what it says. Wahahahha.

[Private to Nym:
You took in in that you either refused all the items or you took them all. I can see since you weren't going to wear it then you might not have noted it, down at the time but Nym would have it if she has the belt. The details are on the magical item thread if you need them.]

Many wandered over to Meri to look over her shoulder at what she was reading, but despite bobbing around for a while didn't seem to say anything. When Nym came back in he then bobbed over to see what she was speaking about, though didn't remark upon it either.
This message was last edited by the player at 10:44, Tue 24 Oct 2017.

Ahh okay. Easy to miss, as a player ;).

[Private to GM: Okay, have added it to my sheet. Not sure why I didn't put it on there in the first place, thought I'd just taken the dagger and the belt. Oh well, it was weeks ago IRL so I can't remember now ;).]

Nym giggles as Many comes over.

"Hey, Many!" she says. "I have magic eyes now! Well, um, not quite like yours, but...um...magic!"

Many zips up to Nym's eyes, looking at each on with his big eye while his little eyes dark around left and right.

"...?" he says excitedly, clearly asking a question but with nothing coming out of his animated mouth.