The Nexus

[Undertree Manor] Skye's spear thrust forces the first mummy to back off and the thrust floors the second, which Lex quickly pounces on with his side-sword. It turns out mummies don't like getting stabbed with swords slicked with blazing alchemical fire. Who would have guessed? With one mummy burni...

[Ruined Observatory] It dies. Hiep will find the battered, broken body of a completely normal goose laying at her feet. Considering her strength it should come as no shock that the animal is exceptionally dead. Though the may be puzzled why it took so much effort to kill an unremarkable, if horrible...

[Ruined Observatory] With a doleful honk the stellar horror swoops after Hiep, spewing its cloud of oblivion all over everything as it flies and leaving ruination in its wake. Then it gets a wall collapsed on top of it. The monster begins flickering again, and this close Hiep will probably be able t...

[The Mound] Well Koshal has hooves too and he manages! Honestly it's that equestrian flexibility. Khannie's bones aren't actually made of marshmallows but you could be forgiven for thinking that. "It's a dumb villain thing. They think that just cuz they're smart or powerful that means they can ...

[Undertree Manor] "So endurance?" Lex says, drawing back his crossbow and loading a new bolt as he scampers a bit further away from the approaching before firing at one of the mummies. This time around the mummy blocks the bolt with its shield! Though now the wooden shield is on fire and ...

[Not a Date] Is Bismuth blushing too? That opalescent glow is a little stronger around her cheeks, like someone shattered a prism and stuffed the shards full of soft light. She's definitely having a nice time! Darko is fun and friendly and she likes both of those things. And being called nice thing...

[Aiko's Bad Day] Juibi knows little to nothing about psychoanalytics so the talk about Frued is totally lost on the slime princess. "Oooh, someone with slime ancestry? That's neat! I haven't run into many other people with that problem," Juibi says, immediately curious. But. BUT! Their fo...

[Green Goo] Burning tentacles are definitely intimidating! Going "Myeh!" is a little less so. "You refuse to embrace me of your own will? Doh ho ho ho! Spoken as if you had a choice!" the blob burbles as several red, weeping eyes begin opening up on Mariblex! Their legs will beg...

[Not a Date] Everyone needs to know cool things about goopy creatures! Allegedly. "Yeah! I'm a white slime. Slime dragons can be any of the slime colors," Bismuth replies, then glows a little brighter when Darko says slimes are cuter. He'll definitely notice a little bit of a chill. "...

[Abandoned Motorway - Alice's Camp] Khannie just stands there dumbstruck for a few moments as she process what's she's just been told. This is Arthfael's mom . The unicorn offers a broad smile, her tail giving a little lash behind her. "Okay so I got some good news then! Your son Arthfael's he...

[Not a Date] Oh getting turned into rats sounds pretty bad. Rats don't live very long and lots of things eat rats, too. Bismuth doesn't say that, though, since hope is important. Getting turned into a dog doesn't sound very good, either. But that's still probably better than being a rat. So instead...

[Not a Date] "With your magic? Oh no! Well, I hope you can find them. Do you know what kind of animals you turned them into?" Bismuth asks. Hopefully not pigs like in Spirited Away. Someone might have eaten them! "I'm sure that the faculty will find good classes for you!" Bismuth...

[Aiko's Very Bad Day] Juibi scarcely has time to process what's going on when Koko suddenly leaps off her to go hug Asami and then there's ANOTHER Aiko! Three of her?! And she isn't even supposed to split like slimes do! "Hey Darko! Hi Asami! Hello new friend I haven't met yet!" Juibi the ...

[For Whom the Bell Gnolls] Okay so the gnolls with the big claws are crazy fast Khannie's gunna need to keep that in mind. The monster is attacking Octavia and Blank is carrying the gnoll paladin over to help so that just leaves Khannie to prevent the gnolls from chowing down on the dead gnolls. The...

[Crash Site] Suddenly a huge guy bursts into the room! Olympia tenses, briefly, but it looks like the threat of violence is simmering at worst. Just chatting and moving aside. Great. It really sucks that the boarding party might still be on board. That's almost definitely gunna result in a fight. Gi...

[Not a Date] "It wasn't as hard as you might think! I didn't even KNOW I had a twin since my parents never told me. It felt more like... Discovering a villain was related to me before I had to stop his evil plot? He was just another bad guy. I'm mostly just sad that the BEST kind of heroism di...

[Not a Date] "Well, kind of?" Bismuth replies after thinking about how best to explain this. "After the other adventurers and I traveled through the ruined city and into an offshoot of the Slime Pit where all the slime was growing out of we met my evil twin! " That's a terrible ...

[Richard's Residence] "I'm not sure if I understand what the problem was?" Geneva says, utterly perplexed. "Dad's making a joke that he hasn't gotta wear 'em anymore," says Khannie who, unlike her father, is wearing a skirt that drapes over her back legs with a little belt-like ...

[Richard's Residence] Geneva looks positively perplexed at this point. "Where jeans a problem for you before? I was under the impression that leg wear is a normal aspect in most human cultures," the hippogriff asks. Khannie, for her part, snorts with laughter over yonder. That comment mig...

[Undertree Manor] Lex stands tall at the challenge! "We can beat whatever you throw at us!" be boasts in typical hot-blooded hero fashion. Even though he doesn't have any blood to speak of. When the pair of mummies appears he draws his crossbow and fires a single bolt at the foe Skye DIDN...

[Ruined Observatory] Now that Khannie has a pretty sizable collection of projectiles she lights her horn again, forming a sphere of absolute blackness above it about the size of a basket ball. Instead of lobbing the dark orb at the creature she instead begins catching the earth cubes in her magic a...

[Green Goo] Mariblex has about the right idea; the objective is the crown! Not fighting the queen slime. The queen slime is just a challenge to overcome in order to GET the crown. For now it's time to run away! Rowan, however, is focusing on paddling the queen for the terrible crime of not being ag...

[Not a Date] "Yeah! I know in some stories the gods make people for different reasons. In the stories about Juiblex he's just the source of all ooze and slime. But when the stories are about Abhoth he's the source of everything alive. Maybe none of those stories are historical but maybe they'r...

[Not a Date] That's definitely a question isn't it? What even IS real, anyway? "The Slime Pit is part of the Abyss, which is another dimension sure. But Juiblex isn't a demon; he's older than them. Older than mortals. He's called Abhoth, too, and in the stories under that name he's called the ...

Since Englebrook is waaaay over there we'll just go with- [For Whom the Bell Gnolls] Well Blank have you considered how helpful it might be to invest in a +3 Shield of Holiness? That seems like it could be something that's really helpful. Khannie, for her part, focuses on her illusion magic and caus...

[Green Goo] Bounces and rolls is about right. Mariblex dives and tucks into a ball, rolling out of the range of the attack before springing back to their feet and lashing out with their side sword. At the same time they pull a potion from their bandoler and hurl it into the queen slime's bulk! The p...

[Aiko's Bad Day] (Hallway) "The sort of bad is really important! Is she 'oh no that villain is stealing cakes!' sort of bad or 'oh no that villain is releasing the binding on Blorgag the Annihilator' sort of bad?" Juibi asks. Because these are important questions! "Maybe you're BOTH A...

[The Mound] Khannie eyes the device for a few moments, lightning her horn as she examines it. It doesn't feel as corruptiony as the bone heaps did so maybe... "I think this one already went off. Like many things temple got yanked into the Nexus on top of it and it blew." That would explain...

[Not a Date] But the question is, is this REAL mold and dust? Or just eldritch PROP mold and dust? And if it is... Is that better or worse? "I think it's your stomach?" Bismuth says, not sure on this one herself. So. On to wizard things. And gross black mold smell. Bismuth doesn't speak u...

[Not a Date] "It's not as much help as you might think; it takes energy to keep warm. Humans stay warm like that, too, but I think the heat comes from inside you?" Bismuth says. Sadly she doesn't know enough about mammal biology to be aware that thermal regulation is mostly powered by BRO...