Day 26B: Skinning the Cat

[Iron Dragoon]

Session Start: Wed Nov 26 13:00:53 2014
Session Ident: #evildunes
* Now talking in #evildunes
* Topic is 'Pepo(27)>Lucy(23)>Veren(16)>Moore(15)>Arrower(9) '
* Set by Kotono on Mon Nov 17 13:30:05
<Kotono> -------
<Kotono> OOC: Just running off for some solitude, cat-style?
<Kotono> Style, even?
<Pepo> OOC: yes. Maybe find a rat for comfort food or something.
<Kotono> roll 1d100
* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d100 and gets 9." 12 [1d100=9]
<Kotono> Pepo dashes into an alley. It's here he finds some solitude - boy they're all making a bunch of noise in the streets - down a few winding alleys. It's relatively dim here, the buildings stopping much of the glow's light. Trash and broken things are littered here, tossed and forgotten. It's here Pepo would hunt, except that something odd is nearby. It smells of sulfur, from behind one of
<Kotono> the piles of trash.
<Pepo> He takes a minute now, just to look at his odd humanoid body. It's all wrong... certainly it's *his* in a way he'd know his own paw now that he's overcome whatever mental block had kept him from realizing, but at the same time... it feels uncomfortable, like a garment rarely worn. After a few minutes of self-examination he reaches the conclusion that it needn't change anything. He can keep
<Pepo> in his proper cat form except for occasions when he absolutely positively must have the use of opposable digits and doesn't have a spare power point to make an ectoplasmic minion. Yes, that soothes him, so he reverts back to being a feline and spends a while grooming himself before finally working up the will to investigate that sulfurous scent.
<Kotono> Going over, you find it waiting and watching. A small thing like a miniature gargoyle, covered in spines all over. Its red eyes glow and it has a face split in a permanent, too big smile. It has dozens and dozens of needle like teeth and a snake tongue that comes out when it speaks. "Hi. You in Little's territory now," it says, "You stay here, you not tell anyone else where Little is."
<Pepo> Pepo is not so petty that he would take out his unhappiness on another... although certainly there's room to bargain. 'And you tell no one that you saw me here,' he impresses his voice on the creature's mind with a little more force than usual.
<Kotono> "Okay," The creature agrees, "You strange cat, someone looking for you too? You really not anyone that Little here!"
<Pepo> 'But I am a cat,' Pepo insists vehemently. Yes, a cat that can turn into a man, not a man that can turn into a cat. He's sure there's a proper term... cat-were, maybe? But simply cat, stripped of all pretense, is better. 'And why are you concerned about hiding? Are you being oppressed?' he asks, wondering if it's worth occupying himself with.
<Kotono> He nods rapid-fire quickly, "Yes! Oppressed good word! Master vanishes and green man oppressed master's other servants. Little doesn't want to be oppressed by him! Bad oppression! He bad oppression! Master good oppression!"
<Pepo> 'Yes... this green man has caused me distress as well,' Pepo says with a mental purr, though he's silent physically. 'Perhaps something ought to be done about him.'
<Kotono> "Yes!" Little nods fiercely, "Needs to have accident and vanish. Master say that before he got oppressed. But green man really strong. Opposition, master say. Strong opposition. Strong enough not to hide."
<Pepo> 'Yes, attacking so mighty a foe must not be done lightly. A moment, then,' Pepo says, settling down and tapping into the aetheric currents of mind and potential, so that he may discern the future. When will Lost Hero be at his weakest?
<Pepo> roll 1d100 5+ wild surge
* Hatbot --> "Pepo rolls 1d100 5+ wild surge and gets 73." 12 [1d100=73]
<Pepo> OOC: Divination, CL 10
<Kotono> Pepo learns the following: When the green teardrop flies over the towers above.
<Pepo> Oh. So the pirates are going to attack again... within the week. Well, that gives them a rather narrow window in which to kill him while not being killed by pirates... and if he fights the pirates won't it be a conflict of interest. But more importantly - pirate attack! 'I must go. Remain here,' he tells Little, unsure if he'll be back anyway. For now he needs to find his shipmates and warn
<Pepo> them, so he goes back to where he left them to find their scent and track them down!
<Kotono> As you come out of the alley, you notice a four-some of guards heading towards it. "Over here," he gestures, "Saw the streaker thisaway."
<Pepo> He doesn't have time to deal with that. The pirates could attack at any moment!