Rolled 1 (1d100)
>>5283706You inject the blood into a carved-and-notched engraving upon the arcane work-bench, augmented by chalk outline specifying the spell parameters. With chants and gestures of arcane might, you two work at directing the flow of blood into an emptied amulet at the centre. When the work is done, it is nearly the time at which you would normally awake and begin your day. You are tired beyond reason, and desperate for rest… But it is done, and you are proud to have done it.
>16You allow the Novice to do the honours, if only so you can shut your eyes for a moment and take a moment of respite; the Novice, whether play-acting at toughness or genuinely too excited to feel the effects of fatigue, leaps at the opportunity. She places the amulet upon the worm-princess, pressing Glowie into a corner when she flinches away from the Reptilian female…
>DC 18 for exhaustion and novelty>Partial success…But as you open your eyes, and you and your co-creator of this amulet survey the result, you are less impressed than you were with your own transfiguration.
“Well… A single-source amulet IS often uncanny,” the Novice says.
“Making excuses for your failure?” you chide her.
“OUR failure,” she reminds you, “oh Participant One.”
You grunt a vague and noncommittal acknowledgement as Glowie cowers shyly. She resembles nothing more than a poor, wall-eyed mimic of the Novice herself, swaddled in fabric and silk and with slightly oblong proportions: her tail too long and thick, midsection too wide, neck stubby, face wide-set, muzzle squat and foreshortened. She could pass for a Reptilian this way… But not a well-bred one. She looks faintly deformed, dwarfish, and dumpy. As she steps forwards, she waddles awkwardly, and nearly trips over her own feet.
“What do we DO with it?” the Novice asks.
> “Forget it. We’ll fix the amulet later, but for now, let’s just introduce her as a bug-person servant.”>“She is still easier to disguise this way than as a worm. Get her clothing, and make sure nobody looks too closely at her.”>“It will do. Just tell everyone she is a pet invalid or defective—a handmaid and experiment-aide.”>Write-in[Rolling for kobold probabilities, chance of finding one
20%, higher is better. Continuing post.]
