You give a slow wave back to the White creature, it peers back, and returns it yet again with a crooked smile, before returning to its 'Home'.
>"You... know that thing?"<statement>The last trip into the Wood was an attempt to find it, it came to us it seems.
>"And it just... gives free gifts? No strings attached?"<statement>Not on that puppet, not everything in the Wood has been 'evil', sometimes it's just strange.
JJ ignores the pun, instead watching you move towards the Gift. You look for anything strange, any trace of Monster blood or other juices, but everything seems pretty normal. You nudge it with your foot and there's nothing living inside, at least.
With JJ a few feet back, you open the gift ribbon first and carefully open the box...
...
<profanity>Holy shit.
>"Sir that's... how did it get that-" You lift in your arms a Double-Barreled Shotgun, inside of the box in addition is four shells. It is not currently loaded.
There are also two bananas and what appears to be a conch shell.
You hope it was just stolen from a Hunter in the Wood, ideally without violence involved. There’s no real way to tell.
It feels good in your hands, at least you assume it would if the Hive had proper feeling, a good friend to Friendly.
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>Schllllrrp. Schlllrp.>Prcht. Prcht. Prcht. >”That’s from the Entrance.”>Schlllrrp. Schllrrr. JJ immediately picks up on the issue, and you follow shortly after. Something is slowly moving in from the South. Something very, very big.
>Prcht. Prcht. Something moist.
Celebration is cut short.
