[IC] HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
"Can I set more of the bad things on fire if I see them?" Aggoth asks, smiling a little. Elli sorta looks scared of the sergal leader, and tries to get out of his arms, and get back to Aggoth. Aggoth sees this, and he walks over. "Can I carry her? She scared of you." Aggoth says, looking down at the sergal sergeant.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

"aye, it's best not to leave her with strangers" he replies evenly, handing her back off to the ogre before leading them back to the walled colony, turrets swiveling to them for a bit before going back to their routine scans. "welcome fort squeaker. you'll want this" the squad leader says evenly, his men going back into the fort while he messes around at a terminal for a bit before handing Elli a bracelet like his own, pressing a small button on his hazard armor before it changes into some regular clothes, at least for a sergal anyway, and he steps inside, the gate opening for Aggoth and Elli once she puts the bracelet on

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
Aggoth and Elli enter the fort, Aggoth getting rather distracted with the many shiny things within the walls of the city. Elli looks around for children her age. Soon, they manage to make it to where the medical facilities were, Aggoth gently banging on a medical device, asking it for good stuff to help Elli. Elli seems to find this funny, as she just giggles as Aggoth goes about this, until he gets mad, and swings at the machine, aiming to flatten it with a shockwave ((33)), hitting it, and denting it slightly. "Aggoth, be nice. That's not yours." Elli tells him, and Aggoth walks over, and gives the machine a hug. "I'm sorry metal thing." He says, and Elli laughs loudly, finding it both funny, and adorable.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

the Squad leader enters after a bit in more comfortable clothing with a white coat over it as he gets some medical equipment out, haveing Elli lay down while he treats her, going through a small surgical procedure to embed a chip in the base of her neck, though the process is relatively painless due to the size of it and numbing agents.

"alright, you'll need to see me weekly and a change in diet is warranted. you should also get yourself a shower and a tooth brush in the ward." the sergal says evenly, giving her a quick once over to make sure she's alright before showing her to the ward where the children live and showing Aggoth to a barn which was the only building big enough to house him comfortably.

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
Elli seems rather happy to be near kids her age, trying to make friends, reading them stories and such, seeming to like how to read. Aggoth heads in, and makes a bed with hay bales, tilting his straw hat, blocking the light. Soon, his snoring makes the entire barn shutter at times, as he sleeps, club in hand, with a death grip on it, keeping it from being taken with any sort of ease. In his sleep, he mumbles about different foods, and drools.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

Elli is left with the cubs for the most part, taught with them, treated like them, and trained with them to the point that after a few years she's just another part of the colony, the locals having either been pacified or removed from positions where they could do harm, colonies spreading out over the planet until there are more sergals than humans

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
((Gonna have to cut off the time skip.))
One day, both Elli and Aggoth vanish, her bracelet letting them know they left the fort, and headed off into the forest. Soon, they head off, looking for something to eat, and most likely stumble into some lord's village. Elli looks around, and scratches her head. "Odd, this places looks like a dump compared to the sergal fort." She says. "....The people aren't fuzzy either..." Aggoth says, seeing a few peasants.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

The peasants give them a wide berth, shutting themselves indoors as the local lord deigns to come out of the small fort on the hill guarded by ramparts, asking evenly "what are you doing in my village monster? i see you've kidnapped one of the peasant's children. come, i shall rid us of you" before getting out his sword, his men forming up in a loose formation with spears, axes, and shields at the ready

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
"He didn't kidnap me. I'm Elli, and this is my friend Aggon. He's no monster." Elli says, from Aggoth's shoulder. Aggoth tilts his head. "Monster? Where?" He asks, looking around. "Who kidnap kid? I'll smash em! No one hurts kids when I'm around." Aggoth says, club held at the ready. Elli sighs. "They're talking about you." Elli says, and then looks at the lord. "..Who are you?" She asks him.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

"lord Reginald B. Dickus, of the largest, most imposing clan of the valley. now monster, prepare to die by my hand" he calls evenly before charging his men hanging back a bit as he unknowingly gets smashed by aggoth's club back into his men while aggoth is looking around for the monster.

"a smart one i see, well you shall not out smart me beast! Charge men!" the lord calls out before charging, his men charging slowly so as not to out pace their obese lord

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
Aggoth shrugs, and puts his club in front of his mouth, as he takes a deep breath and (71) Unleashes a torrent of fire from his mouth, two streams tangling into one, the flames taking on a dark red hue, sticking to the men, and their horses, and anything in its path. A small wide swath of grass is burnt to charred ground, as Aggoth laughs loudly. "That outta teach him to try to fight Aggoth Mail-Breaker!" Aggoth says, smiling, as Elli sorta peaks out from behind him, scared to see how the lord and his men ended up.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

the lord is bowled over by the force of the magic, which seems to do more damage to his men than aggoth's flame breath, though they imediately turn around to the cries of "save the shrubbery you idiots! hurry!" the men returning to their fort while the nearest peasant pokes his head out of the window, saying evenly "he won't be back for a while. the lord loves his shrubbery so he'll probably spend a few days trimming it. you lot from around here?"

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
"Nope." Aggoth says, scratching his back with his club now. Elli walks over, and looks at the man. "Who was that guy, he seemed like a jerk." She says, innocently. Aggoth begins to look around, most likely finding a cabbage or a potato, pulling it out of the ground, and using his flame breath (59) to cook it, charring it badly, but he still gobbles it down, letting out a mighty belch afterwards.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

"that was lord dickus, the current lord of this town... at least until the fuzzy dragons put him in his place" the peasant replies, whispering the last part before being pulled inside and beat by his wife with a rolling pin, the shouting easilly giving it away evenly though the shutters had slammed in her face

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
"...Fuzzy dragons..they must mean the sergals......Aggoth, where are you?" Elli says, turning around, and seeing Aggoth has vanished.
Near by, Aggoth is petting a piggy, sitting it in his lap as he feeds it carrots.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

a peasant soon comes out of a house, shouting "clover!" causing the pig to jump up and squirm out of his arms over to the peasant which rushes back inside with it.

It doesn't take long for the sergals to arrive at the village, the peasants locking their windows and doors while the lord comes out with a bandage. "what do you beasts want?" the lord asks evenly, the squad leader of the sergal force stepping up and saying evenly "we're here to confiscate your town due to reports of abusive governmental, military, and economic practices. come quietly and we won't have to hurt you" which seems to infuriate the lord, causing him to start on a tirade as he draws his sword only to be downed by laser fire to the head, leaving a burnt hole where his brain was as he falls to the ground, uttering with his dieing breath "tis... merely... a flesh wound..." before keeling over and voiding his bowels rather noisily, seeming to shed a fair chunk of his fat into his pants.

"good people, you are now citizens under sergal rule. please report to fort squeaker for debriefing and job alottment. your co-operation would be appreciated" the squad leader calls out evenly, the peasants comeing out to thank him before making the journey

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
Aggoth sniffs the air. "....Who sharted?" He asks, looking around, confused. Elli covers her nose, and gags a little. "Eww..." She says, as she sets off, and finds Aggoth, but not before swiping a few of the swords and bits of metal left behind from Aggoth's battering of the lord and his men. She climbs onto his shoulders, and he pats her on the head. Standing up, Aggoth starts to trot off, deeper off into the world, seeking his next adventure. This most likely takes him, again, to another village, this time with Elli walking in front of him, and with a rope lead around Aggoth's neck, making him almost look like her pet.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

They find a battered village, a woman hung on the village gate, her torso cut open almost surgically with her innards on the ground beneath her along with what looked to be a nearly fully complete fetus with the words 'witch' carved in the remains of her broken and battered face. The village past the gate looks none better for it as houses against the walls look smashed and burnt with a woman tied and emaciated in the village square, surrounded by a mound of rotting corpses, the only house left untouched being the lord's manor

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
Aggoth's face turns slowly from a jolly smile to a angry frown, and Elli gasps, holding a hand over her face. Slowly, the two walk over to the woman tied to the square, Elli gently getting some water from somewhere uncontaminated by the corpses for her. "What happened here..." Elli asks, and Aggoth just stays silent. He roots into his robes, and pulls out some beets, gently mashing them in his hands, which were surprisingly clean. He gently keeps mashing the beets, and mixes them with some water, to help water them down as to allow the woman an easier time eating them, which he would try to feed her gently.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

she eats and drinks as much as she can, cough a bit to clear her throat before replying raspily "cut me down from here and i'll tell you all about what happened in this forsaken place" her hands bound to the stake that had been freed from the flames that seemed to scorch most everything else to a certain extent