>>6199578>"Nah, can't do everything cool at once. Being a rich and famous soldier-pilot-adventurer-wizard-researcher-explorer-polymath seems cool in the comics and pulps, but I don't have that many hours in the day."You see you are finally getting close to the island.
<span class="mu-b">"I don't think the factotums DO part-time anyways. It's probably a reason Zhenji left. You have to be pretty into it. They all have a sort of -focus- to them."</span>
The beach comes into view. It looks as though all the large fires have been put out, maybe all of them. This is not the same place you visited earlier. The cave is collapsed there is fine ash in the air and the very surface is a mixture of jagged craters and strangely angular and precise cuts in the rock. The surrounding cliffs have been clattered and crumbled making the whole island more easily accessible but definitely smaller as well.
Everton pulls up to the beach in a cool side stop. Rinstock does the same so as not to let you down.
<span class="mu-b">"We made good time. I got about 6 minutes before I change back."</span>
Highball dismounts and rubs her backside a little. She is having a pleasent conversation with Everton.
About 100 feet from your landing point, you can see 2 FACTOTUMS.
They are clad in padded leather dress tunics with an optional hood. Both wear laden tool belts. One has a large humming backpack, the other a single armored arm with a glow in its shoulder. They are both wearing helmets in the shape of an armored dragon's head bearing a simplified crest of the dragon god GAR for its front grill.
They talk to each other, doing some sort of back-and-forth check list.
You hear that their voices ARE different, but they are both talking in a flat, calm manner using the back of their throat. The acoustics of their helmets puts a slight flange on it. They either haven't noticed you or they don't care.
>a. Approach them immediately>b. Wait for Burstock to change, talk to Everton>c. Wait for Burstock to change, talk to Highball>d. Just wait>e. Call out to the Factotums>f. Attack the Factotums>g. Have a smoke>h. [INSERT OWN]First to two
