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[Raid] An Ink(l)ing Jul 24, 2019 12:49:24 GMT -5

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Post by admiral on Jul 24, 2019 12:49:24 GMT -5

Contrary to what other bloblings might think from Soma's current actions, the blobling itself actually is... pretty worried about Ichor, from what it'd heard about the God itself.

Terrea isn't full enough of life yet. It's not lively enough yet. It's not full of bright enough colours and places and things yet. The Climate Caves themselves are almost the best thing that could have happened to Soma with regards to housing, and it's actually quite happy with it.

So, what Yume said to it, about the fire being bad for Ichor, really stuck with it. Although Soma's pretty sure he just did everything to spook the bloblings-- the ring of fire at the perimeter should only have spooked the blobs until it ran out, and the Fire pens shouldn't have really messed up anything except huts with chromillia roofs-- and it's not like those were very heavy, so those bloblings shouldn't die...

Soma frowns. Either way, it'd done Ichor a disservice. But what's good is that with what it'd learned about what each God told their followers to do, it could do something about it.

After all, the best chaos is the one that matters, right? So why not mess around with... everyone's plans.

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[Raid] An Ink(l)ing Jul 24, 2019 13:15:31 GMT -5

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Post by admiral on Jul 24, 2019 13:15:31 GMT -5

It's not even that hard. He'd already messed up some of those plans already-- Soma is pretty sure that any blobling looking for lambfruit with Themis' quest should be really frustrated with the lambfruit being painted blue and thus indistinguishable from the blue mossy ground, but it could run a repeat performance.

But Soma wants to help Ichor this time. To make up for the fire. Ichor said it'd wanted life, and the Carnivians killing each other definitely didn't create life. So it'd like to stop that.

Carnivians liked gems. Carnivians stole the gems of other Carnivians. They found them tasty.

There's a really simple solution to that. What if they weren't coated in tasty things? What if they were coated in a thick, sticky black substance that smelled like gasoline and also tasted bad?

Soma gets to work. He finds a branch, a goodly Y-shaped one, breaking and whittling it down with its teeny bone claws and sharp rocks, and wrapping a small glow grape vine between the prongs, sticking part of a chromillia leaf to the center. He tests it out, and the slingshot works fine, if a little weak.

Simple's probably good as well, so Soma gets another length of Glow grape vine, with a pouch-like division cut in the center and reinforced with leaves stuck to 'bandage' it, and on both ends, looping around both ends and sticking them together to form tabs. This one actually works better, and Soma's pretty pleased with it.

Last Edit: Jul 24, 2019 13:16:17 GMT -5 by admiral

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[Raid] An Ink(l)ing Jul 24, 2019 13:37:39 GMT -5

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Post by admiral on Jul 24, 2019 13:37:39 GMT -5

So, onto the next phase of the plan. Honestly, this one's pretty simple. Soma looks for Carnivians fighting. He puts a re-stuck bleeding heart fruit mixed with about an equal amount of tar into the pouch, and targets the Carnivian with the fruit, attempting to smack them with the tar.

It doesn't go well for the first few times. Soma misses, a lot, and then the Carnivians are after him, but he'd thought about it. He had the advantage of flight!

And Carnivians, once stuck with tar, didn't, even if it wasn't in the right place!

Once the Carnivian's completely loaded down with tar, Soma approaches, and slingshots an open half of bleeding heart fruit into or onto its beak, which takes... quite a few tries, but it works. Hopefully, the Carnivian should thrash about, and then sleep.

Which is good, because now Soma can go to any closeby Carnivian dens and find their gems!

Two problems immediately surface-- it's not always that he can find one, and that when he does, he finds out that he's grossly underestimated their greed. Gems lie everywhere. He doesn't have any recourse but to bury the ones he can't take with them, which is terrible, but he has the tar to spare.

He has to go back to the tarry pits for several more runs, but he's gotten quite a few fighting Carnivians in the process. While he'd done so, he'd also dropped the bleeding heart fruit step completely, realizing if the Carnivians couldn't fly anyway, then they weren't really in need of being put to sleep as well. He carries a few in case, though. Just in case.

A few more dens raided, a few more Carnivians splattered with black. At some point, Soma realizes that the Carnivians that weren't fighting might become targets anyway, so they were splatted with black too.

No more fighting!

He hopes he's done Ichor a favor!

It's at the very end that Soma remembers that the Themis request involved 'Carnivians that had tasted blood'. But with quite a few Carnivians themselves having black-painted gems, it'd probably be really hard to tell which ones had fought with their brethren.

Whoops. Well, he got the one he was trying to help, so mission accomplished?

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[Raid] An Ink(l)ing Jul 24, 2019 13:38:02 GMT -5 osha likes this

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Well, what's missing now? Soma supposes he's already burned a bridge. Two out of three. Might as well go for broke. More fun with colour!

This one, he'd have to tell other bloblings to do. He's too tired to do this, and although he's sure the Eris bloblings would have lots of fun pranking others, he's not so sure about going in person.

So he grabs one blabbing Eris blobling, and hushedly tells them a... 'secret.'

"Hey, hey, I've totally thought of a great way to prank Themis bloblings. You'd even be able to figure out who they are from that..."

"But you gotta keep it quiet, just between the both of us. It's a very cool plan, you see!"

"You see, I heard the Themis bloblings are looking for Galanthilla tea. Those plants grow around bleeding heart trees... Say, why not lie in wait so that you can ambush those Themis non-believers, then splash them and the Galanthillas with tar so they can't find the vines?"

Yume said that Eris liked subversion of expectations. They're supposed to be chaotic, and tricky, and messy. So, what would an Eris blobling do? They'd have lots of fun. They'd do a lot of things that'd BE fun.

The fun thing here? A secret! It'd definitely have the time of it's life...

--Telling everyone else, that is.

Soma hopes it'd spread faster that way. But just in case, he tells a few groups out loud, too.

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[Raid] An Ink(l)ing Jul 24, 2019 13:54:19 GMT -5 osha likes this

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Soon, there is chaos. The Tarry Pits are blacker than usual, Eris bloblings getting muddy and quite deviously ambush-y.

Some bloblings forgo the ambushes, just painting the Galanthillas black. Some go waaay too far and pull out the Galanthillas, disliking how they look in the first place. Of course, they're quite hard to destroy, so uh-- wait, no, what are those bloblings doing they're using fire, that's way too wild.

Soma's starting to see why Yume didn't really want to be seen as a firestarter. I mean, it seems like fire's like a hammer, eventually every problem's going to look like a nail, or just kindling in this case.

Regardless, Soma's got his own job to do. Some of the pools in the climate caves had some surprising properties to them, being that they maintained their chilly-ness when brought down into the sands. An absolute delight, especially proving Soma's earlier flights over the scorching sands.

They'll be used here to cause trouble.

Soma gets jugs and bowls of the stuff, noting that he'll need to make more mud-baked containers soon, and looks around the Themis camps.

From there, it's easy to see where camps have set up places to brew the Galanthilla tea, boiling hot for their quest-giver to sip at while they were still warm.

Soma flutters over the pots when people aren't looking, and pours the clear, indistinguishable water into the mixes, making them lukewarm or cool at best. A few close shaves discourage him, and after the third he calls the operation off, realizing he really probably isn't good for hands-on stuff.

Well, one day he'd be good, but probably just not today. Not a good time to be caught, he mumbles to himself.

Instead, he does the easier thing, simply pouring the rest of his stock into the small pool of water that they're drawing the water for the tea from. Good luck boiling that.

He heads back. Another task for the more active Eris bloblings, he supposes. He tells them about how to mess with the tea, and there's that.

Hopefully, that's enough chaos. But for now, he has to go back, restock, and experiment. He's done as much as he can for Yume at the moment.

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[Raid] An Ink(l)ing

Post by admiral on Jul 24, 2019 12:49:24 GMT -5

Post by admiral on Jul 24, 2019 13:15:31 GMT -5

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Post by admiral on Jul 24, 2019 13:54:19 GMT -5