>>6066250>UARRRRR-!You charge again! You don't remember why you cared about not fighting him! Now you're PIZZED and he's FUGGED! You WANT him!!!
"Stop. I've seen enough. Stop, I said!" But you don't! Nothing's stopping you now! You gonna cut him an gut him an eat his fuggen EYES-!
There's a big thud right in your belly, stopping you right in your tracks, and another, same place, and you piss and shit yourself.
You got kicked by a fleeing horse once; this was like that, but with both hooves, and twice.
You crumble kneeling, both hands flat on the ground. It takes everything you have left not to collapse. You're not sure the stuff running down your chin is blood or snot; your eyes are almost fully shut and won't stop watering.
Another pebble, with a lot less force, about the same as a determined elbow, knouts you on the forehead. Seafood pulls up a chair, backrest and one leg broken, and lounges on it against a wall.
"You wish to die this early? Maybe in three hundred years I might take you on halfhearted!"
He laughs, shrill instead of booming from the little girl's chest. He makes to stroke his face before realizing he doesn't have a beard anymore. He caresses his lips instead, thoughtfully.
[TWO DECISIONS TO MAKE]
What does your Seafood say to you?
[SKILL UP DECISION]
>"For you there are no Muscle Groups or Limbs, but your body is fully in Unity. No movement is separate, but all one. Thus your strength is thrice your weight, all effort with no waste. The Mad Naga Descendent Form is ideal for you. [Strength based checks and melee damage +3; all DC/100]>"Your body flies as fast as your senses, with no leave between Think and Done. So you change direction midstep and midair, thrice crossing a courtyard in one breath. The Flenser Mantis Form is ideal for you. [Agility based checks and melee hit / melee dodge chance +3]>"You are vicious and tenacious, unthinking and unfeeling in pursuit of prey. When you pierce you gouge, and every slash made sees blood twice. The Thousand Segment Carrionpede Form is ideal for you. [melee hit chance and melee damage +4][QUEST DECISION]
Seafood continues.
"You will need a better lair to train, and I to cultivate and recoup. None of my defenses work well here, and you have wasted enough time for that little cup of blood. We leave here immediately.
"I will teach you a little of herbs as we go, and the foundations of the Form, but before long I must have blood, or this body will decay, even before the Soul Well fails. Blood, Tudi! Wasted red in seas and rivers, worth 112 living Men! Beasts or men or your own sort, I care not, but living red and fresh! Tudi, whereof near shall this be found?"
What do you tell your Seafood?
>Easy! The Fisheye Hamlet! An arched cliff over a shadowed bay! [~200 pop, worth 120 Living Men]>Pffft! The Muckies of course! The Bayou Caves! [Several rival goblin tribes, ~40-80 each; worth 180-420 LM]>Nuffzed! The Wars! It keeps moven though... [300-800 LM; no shelter] 