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"Killing, Tudi."
You put down the bottle of "noisop nogrog" you were about to drip your Dagga wiv. It's unlikely, but if you died because you accidently nicked and poisoned yourself you'd be beyond angy.
"Yaz Sweetfuds. Derrs a biggy mutt wot bit me at the end ovva Plague Town Mains. Bin meaning ter take his bwolls offem but I wuz busy dat time. Mutt gotta Boss, I callem Stumpy cuz he's one leg missen. I figger I gotsa fix him first."
"And what is that you are going to fix him with."
"ionno. Once I stabbem wivvit we both find out, I guezz."
"What a clever idiot, a ready answer for everything. Give it me."
You do so almost unthinkingly. Your eyes widen when Seafood lifts it to his lips. But he doesn't drink, just inhales through the mouth, thoughtfully flapping his tongue over his top teeth with his mouth open. You stifle a snigger; Seafood looks retarded.
"le le le le le. hff. hffhff. mm. Petrifier Poison, with some inert adulterant for volume. Forced calcifaction and ferrication of soft tissue seems to be the main mechanisms; a partial interfeeding process. No Bestial Odor; seems an Alchemic imitation of a known substance. Not bad."
"nner. Wazzat mean. Wazzut do."
"Turns them stone, to your eyes. It must hurt terribly, mfufu."
>Identified GORGON POISON
>Does additional immediate damage with piercing or cutting attacks
>Target loses 1 Defense roll for the next three turns
>eg if they decide to Attack, they will not have any Defense
>if they decide on full Defense, it will only be Defendx1 + Act, or Defendx2 no Act.
this is revealed because you gibb Stumpy in one turn; no chance to see the effects otherwise
Now that you know what it does, you save it for when you need to <span class="mu-i">really</span> cheat. Stumpy's too weak to waste this on. So's Towser, without his Boss. You can take em one at a time just cheating normally.
•••
You start by breaking through the back of the Town, from the Dedder Dump side; you're avoiding the end of Mains, where Towser is.
From there you dip a little into Mart Street, and you're here: the back of Stumpy's house.
You get entry from the kitchen window, figuring Stumpy will have his sleepies somewhere downstairs, because he's stumpy inna leg.
You smell a bitty booz breath and follow it. There he is: Stumpy the Humie, asleep onna couch in front of the fire. He's older and leaner than Sordy, smells of animal and blood; bathes just the right amount.
He doesn't snore, even when boozed; must be a habit. Should be a light sleeper then, but he's fully out. Musta been working hard all day huh, da poor fing.
You get out Daggy n Sicky and one ferocious <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-r">SUICIDEY</span></span> later, he's beddybye forr evah.
You peek out the living room window: Moar Ow's still where you sent him: across the street towards the Mayorate Court, looking this way.
Towser's not making a sound. Probably not asleep, knowing that sneeky bastich mutt, but Moar Ow has gotten his full attention.
