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Flanagan leans on his weapon as he takes a moment to rest. "She's right, we can't keep going like this as much as I hate to admit it. We need to fall back before we lose more people." The large man glares at the retreating forms of the Grimm. No one back home was going to believe this...

Aquila stares at the drone distastefully. He doesn't know what fell magics power it but they can't be good. His gaze briefly turns to the one who wants to further fuck with it with a similar look of distrust.

Ricewine stands up. Something was different around... Hm.... He couldn't quite put his finger on it. After a couple seconds he goes inside. With a nod he decides to look for a basement entrance, not being in the mood to listen to Mask bitch at him just yet. Besides, maybe they'll have more booze. He smirks to himself as he jogs around the manor.

The revelation of just WHAT he was looking at was met with silence from Varg. He started his way back to their home ship, but one question gnawed at his mind. "How'd they capture it without news ever reaching us? You'd think that'd be something people would notice really quick right? It's not like it's a small ship..."

Arminius had been silent while Calvera hugged him. He was silent the whole trip out into the woods in fact, he could tell that the star had something important to tell him after all. But the admission that she'd be leaving him, and that he'd most likely never see her again. It really hurt him in a way that he hadn't been hurt in a long time. And unlike last time there was nothing he could get angry at, nothing to blame and rage against and fight. As he watched the dust be swept up in the wind he finally found the words he wanted to say. "Please don't leave me..." He whispered, the words getting carried away into the wind just as Calvera had been. Tears finally feel as he saw the glow in the sky appear and then disappear. He went to sit but, seeing the necklace, instead grabbed it and stared at it. He closes his hand around it as he shuts his eyes, steeling himself. With that he started back to the village. Calvera wouldn't want him to shirk his duty for her.

Ricewine continues trying to gel the booze.

Ricewine looks at his new stock with a smile before frowning. He should probably help out with the whole "fight" thing. Combine the wine with other wine to make gellied booze.

Arminius blinks before going to get his clothes on. That was fucking creepy and he had work to do, so he started back to the village at a notably slow pace. When he got there, he looked for the Dryad and found the plant woman easily. "Hey, I'm here for that camouflage I was asking about. You got time to make it?"

Varg was slouched in his chair, making it seem a little more like it fit his size, but not much more so. He leans back straightening to his full height as he considers whether or not he needed to ask anything. Sure, this was suspicious as all hell, and it seems like it was going to be a trap... but that's a about it. It's not like anyone could possibly hide all but one life sign on a ship or anything. He shrugs before speaking. "No questions here sir."

"How about you shut your mouth." If the Grimm responds he quickly switches to his weapon's second form and shoots it in the mouth. Flanagan uses Fey Advice, switching his weapon to it's second form and giving him Critical Power for three turns.

Ricewine just sneaks in behind the others. He tries blending in so he can steal their booze.

Arminius has to think on that for a while. "We don't interbreed actually outside of specific circumstances. In fact, used to be aside fron Enchidna couples the children were always the mother's race. Now it's easy to find someone that can make it a 50/50 chance for human or monster though. As for where monsters came from... no clue. They've just always been there."

"No no, Fingers is as innocent as they come now. She's only a goblin, they don't get THAT bold without a group or a Hobgoblin about." Arminius shrugs. He considers if he should keep this private but decides he might as well just tell her about it. "Actually, she was claimed while the runes weren't quite perfected. Lost quite a bit of power since she was a shaman rather than a warrior. As for the others... Well, it's their nature as monsters from my world. Rather than getting their fill from murder, fear, eating people, whatever it was that they originally fed on they eat spirit energy. Essence, mana, soul bits, all of those are names for spirit energy on my world. It used to not be all that important actually, until the new Demon King took over. All of a sudden, the monsters were uh... how do I put this? Succubized? Basically they became more like succubi, happens whenever a different monster type becomes the demon king I guess. Anyways, they started to eat like Succubi. It was a real problem for ages, until the Margrave treaties. Anyways, the only way to get spirit energy is from uh, a male's essence so monsters became lewd in response. They're pretty much like humans other than that though. My minions shouldn't be a problem since they get a constant stream of my mana due to our connection, and they're forced to follow my orders so it's not like they could do it even if they wanted to... Uh, I'm sure you have more questions so just ask them now."

The Goblin quickly takes the cup and bites her thumb, the cut little fang cutting it so blood drips out into the cup. She hands it back and quickly goes to get onto the Dragon Cat. Meanwhile, Arminius is getting his clothes on, having apparently finished bathing during this little interaction. "Don't feel to special about Fingers, she wants to ride Kusuke to!" Arminius shouts at Lucille jokingly.

The Goblin nods. "Sure thing Boss! Tell me where to put it and I'll cough it up for ya'!~" Arminius yells from the river. "Keep it appropriate Fingers!" The goblin slumps a little before straightening up with a roll of her eyes. She's very slightly hopping in excitement.

Aquila curses and gives the sectopod a final smack before running away, gathering his weapons from where he dropped them on the way out and keeping in cover from the Sectopod as best he can.

Arminius shrugs as he gets to washing his hair. After the water is out of his face he speaks. "I have no clue. She's dumb as shit though so that may influence it. You can ask her yourself." Arminius snaps his fingers and with a pop Fingers appears on the bank. Before Lucille can even say anything the goblin speaks. "I wanna' ride da' dragon'."

Arminius shrugs as he goes back to washing up. It seems he had some soap from some place. "Oh, I know I won't stop them with traps. I won't stop them with the poisonings either. Or killing their leaders, sucking out their essence and putting up the bodies, bombing their supplies, burning their shelter... None of that is to stop them, but every little bit of what I plan is going to make them paranoid, afraid, and weak. And those are all traits you want in an attacking army. I've worked on such things before, probably will do again... But if you need some samples from a goblin, I could help with that." He pauses and turns to her, frowning slightly. "But you might need to offer something in return."

Arminius hadn't bothered turning to face the intrusion. He had already seen her coming thanks to his ward. It only took closing his eyes to conjure up the image. That said, he doesn't bother covering himself. He was already waist deep and the girl was blind. Not that he'd really bother if anyone else was there, they're all adults and it's not like they shouldn't have seen this by now. He does straighten up before he speaks up though. "Hey. Yeah, I typically get up at the crack of dawn. Gives me time to set up traps and stuff before enemies start moving. Why are you up though?"

Arminius is internally grateful as he walks down to the bathing area. He hadn't taken a bath last night so this was as good a time as any to do so. He put down an invisible sight ward and wadded into the water, ready to wash up for the day.

Arminius nods. After a few moments he pauses and sticks the knife and stick away. "We should get back before people get worried."

Arminius pulls out his knife before pausing and tapping his chin with the branch. "Well, you remember the eyes? I have a whole bunch of essence from them now. So I figured I'd see if I could make some kind of ward or something that uses the essence so I can always be watching an area." Having seemingly found the inspiration he needed, Arminius starts carving the branch.

Arminius thinks for a bit before nodding. "Yeah, that sounds like it could work out really well actually. Only problem is making the tubes but I'm sure someone can do that." As Arminius talks he starts breaking off the smaller limbs from the branch.

Arminius stands and stretches. Internally he laments the loss of warmth as he gets the blood flowing as normal again. "Yeah, run it by me. Also could you toss my that branch over there, I had an idea." Arminius points to a fairly thick branch on the ground.

Arminius smiles as well. This was nice. Definitely something to do again. "Anytime 'Vera."