Day 52B: Pepo and the Mouse Dust.

[Iron Dragoon]

Session Start: Wed Feb 04 07:18:51 2015
Session Ident: #evildunes
* Now talking in #evildunes
* Topic is 'Pepo(18)>Pepo that is not Pepo(11) '
* Set by Kotono on Mon Feb 02 14:22:58
<Kotono> ----
<Kotono> OOC: Just going to wander the town then, you two? Anything you're looking for in particular.
<Pepo> OOC: small edible creatures
<Moore> OOC: Anyone noteworthy they may not have met yet.
<Kotono> OOC: Okay.
<Kotono> Moore and Pepo go out into the city. For Pepo it's to hunt, Moore to find noteworthy people. As they go through, Pepo catches a curious scent. It's the scent of a mouse, but more so somehow. Like a mouse MOUSE. It's a normal street as Moore flies about, the remnants of the celebration about
<Kotono> .
<Pepo> 'I smell a curious mouse...' Pepo tells Moore as he goes into hiding, blending with the shadows as he follows this scent!
<Pepo> roll 1d20+35 stealth
<Serith> Pepo roll for Serith < 37 > 12 [d20=2]
<Moore> Moore tilts his head but nods, sniffing the air to see if he catches anything else.
<Kotono> Noting but the normal street scents, for alas, a pixie's nose is not a cat's nose. Pepo soon blends into the shadows. The smell is coming from a nearby building. There's a man there, carrying out a box of something. There's a few other boxes stacked around back - the smell's coming from them.
<Pepo> Pepo gets close enough and high enough to look inside a box!
<Kotono> The box is filled with...dust? But it smells amazing, like the best mouse ever.
<Pepo> He can't eat dust! What's going on... is this some sort of cat poison? He decides to read the mind of the man carrying boxes around to see just what's going on here!
<Pepo> OOC: DC 20 will read thoughts
<Kotono> roll 1d20+4
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 16 > 12 [d20=12]
<Kotono> He's thinking about how he has to move a few more boxes of the failure out. He's annoyed - it doesn't seem to have worked.
<Pepo> What hasn't worked? Deciding to provoke a bit more context out, Pepo emerges out of hiding and goes to rub against the man's leg, mewing cutely and looking upwards.
<Kotono> The man looks down - an actual human, albeit an unremarkable one. He pets Pepo as he thinks that it's a cute cat. Reminds him of the cat his grandfather had. That one was a mouser, just about lived in the barn and fed himself. He signs mentally, wishing for simpler times.
<Pepo> Alright, not trying to feed him suspect stuff, nor showing any signs of dislike towards cat-kind. Reassured at least that there's no anti-feline conspiracy at work here, Pepo goes over to some of the boxes and meow inquisitively, his tail swaying back and forth while still happily upright.
<Kotono> "No, bad kitty," he says, even while mentally amused. The failure - wait a minute. His thoughts screech to a halt, "Do you like how that smells, kitty?" he asks, getting a little dust on his hands and holding it out to Pepo. "You got an owner around here, kitty?"
<Moore> Moore will fly over once he spots Pepo. "Oh, Mister Pepo, there you are."
<Pepo> Pepo sniffs the hand with every indication of happiness, but he doesn't actually lick it. It's doubtful it's actually harmful at this point, but why take chances? 'I am trying to determine what is going on with this mouse dust,' he tells Moore. 'Apparently it is a failure, but I do not know what a success is meant to be.'
<Kotono> "Oh, this cat is yours?"
<Kotono> OOC: Gah.
<Kotono> "Oh, this cat is yours?" The man asks. He's really unremarkable - a human with brown hair, brown eyes and average height. Not too fat or too skinny. Just plain.
<Moore> "Ah... in a manner of speaking." Moore says with a smile. "I think he smelled whatever it is you have in the boxes."
<Kotono> "It's just some leftovers," he says dismissively, "A bit of an experiment gone wrong. It was supposed to be...well, do you know magic at all?" he asks.
<Moore> "Yes." Moore says with a smile. "What was it supposed to have been... and what did it turn into?"
<Kotono> "A dust to change the flavor and scent of food as a simple spell can," The man shakes his head and sighs, "It doesn't work. I don't know why your cat likes it so much."
<Pepo> 'It smells like mouse,' Pepo tells Moore.
<Moore> Moore flies over to a box and pretends to cast some magic. "Ah, I see. It looks like he was attracted to it because it smells like mice do. Does that help you at all?" OOC: I can do a Bluff check if I need to for the 'pretends to do magic' part.
<Kotono> OOC: Sure. Bluff.
<Moore> roll 1d20+18
<Serith> Moore roll for Serith < 28 > 12 [d20=10]
<Kotono> roll 1d20+10 actually has a shot
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 14 > 12 [d20=4]
<Kotono> "Oh. That's not what I expected," The man goes on over, "I'm not even sure why this batch failed."
<Moore> "Well, maybe I can take a look at it for you. I'm sure if you could perfect it..." Moore considers, then looks at Pepo. "Maybe we could use it to flavor all sorts of things."
<Pepo> 'It would be interesting,' Pepo agrees, willing to investigate a bit further.
<Kotono> The man shrugs and then gestures, "Come on in," he says, going to the door and inside.
<Moore> Moore will nod and follow the man!
Session Close: Wed Feb 04 16:20:02 2015