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Into Darkness - A Dungeon World Adventure

About halfway done my post folks, stay tuned.

Into Darkness - A Dungeon World Adventure

Sounds like I'd better get posting then! I should have something up tomorrow night, so that's more or less the time frame if anyone else in the party wanted to react before Zogolli.

Into Darkness - A Dungeon World Adventure

Done! I'm loving these appetites. Also feel like I've a reputation to live up to with so many bonds saying Zogolli lives under the shadow of constant peril.

Into Darkness - A Dungeon World Adventure

Serah was a vexing sight as she interposed herself between Zogolli and his fanged foe, made all the more perplexing for her efforts to parley with the peregrine predator. A strange breed--as were all the runtfolk to his eyes--halfway to being human and wholly something else; it bewildered him at how bashful their diminutive diplomat seemed in delivering the creature's demands. It was hungry, the druid told; a motivation elegant in its simplicity. As a Dosvean he could respect the common ground they shared, however small it was; eat when you're hungry, sleep when you're tired, kill what you want dead. Shame then that it was this same heritage that ensured he could not abide the animal on its own terms.

Power is like fire in that it makes a fine slave but poor master, indeed the pursuit of it had long consumed the swordsman. Of food he had plenty but it was more than a morsel that the monster sought, the very askance avowed of overt threat. So was how he saw it, and Robbin too Zogolli surmised once a cursory glance ran over the skullduggerer's bow. Yet the fact that their band was far from unanimous in this notion was an obvious one; Serah had met malice with mercy and the bard had banged out a melody alongside her. Woe as he was to admit it he could not accomplish this undertaking alone, and alienating them now would be foolish. Should he force their hand by attacking the corrupted thing it seemed Alexandria could very well be the fulcrum on which opinion turned, not being especially close with the woman this made for a poor gambit. In truth there was only one road open to him.

He took it, dulcet tones surfacing over the brassy knells of Linoleum's pervading percussion.

"Then you'd aught explain to this half starved scavenger we're on our own hunt, and like as not to leave bodies in our wake. It can choose here and now if it wants it's belly full my steel or our quarry, either answer will scarcely break my stride."

Into Darkness - A Dungeon World Adventure

I'm throwing together a post currently

Into Darkness - A Dungeon World Adventure

I hope @Aristo hasn't given up the ghost, that would be a crying shame.

Into Darkness - A Dungeon World Adventure

I'll wait a little longer for Aristo to post on how well Linoleum's gong solo went before posting a reply to Serah, since what I intend may be moot depending on the roll.

Into Darkness - A Dungeon World Adventure

Wait, instead, can I actually can I try to seduce the beast with my gong skills?

Clocktowerechoes

"Hungry for 'man-flesh', eh?" Pelvic thrusts gong.

Into Darkness - A Dungeon World Adventure

Top notch narration so far Aristo, it's the little touches like the reasoning behind our encounter (monster is a victim of the wilderdeep as well) and asking for the one thing Serah doesn't have on her, forcing that juicy co-operation.

I wonder who just volunteered their lunch?

Into Darkness - A Dungeon World Adventure

speaking of, I think the momentum of the encounter is better served by someone else stepping into the spotlight as Zogolli and the beast circle each other, maybe Serah could step between them if she was still set on calming the creature. Or Alexandria or Linoleum could capitalize on the distraction somehow.