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Guess we'll see. Might be good to have that gone as an incentive...

[ still, he'll work on unwrapping the shape. ]

Yeah, Pesti said they'd look into it. I was... well, I was originally gonna leave 'em to Rondo, if somethin' happened to me. So that we know that they're with one of us instead of gettin' lost or taken by the cult.

[ grabs the copypaste for this directly as alfyn opens the box and shows her what the other thing is.

1. A small wooden box, with runes engraved into its cover. Inside is a torn-off wing. Even bisected from its body, it flaps on occasion, charged with some kind of pure, holy energy.
2. A glass keepsake bottle, plugged up tight with a cork. Inside is a very large, fossilized millipede with an overabundance of eyes, unmoving but unsettling to look upon. ]

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I'll ask Pestilence about it, too, in that case. I've been mostly talking about it with War. They have more experience with magic, so...

[she frowns, looking the items over.]

Are those the only two your group brought back? I'm a little worried Pickles had one that he didn't give away.

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I think Pesti was gonna take it to the overseers as a whole, but now that we're gettin' more... maybe they've all made progress.

[ he gives the box a little jostle, to cause the wing to move. heh does not do this with the millipede because it creeps him out. ]

Yeah, this is it. Pickles wasn't gonna carry anythin' in his mouth, Geto was too hurt, and I still had my satchel, so... [ shrug ] We found a room full of this kinda stuff, but this was all we could grab before we'd get caught by the folks talkin' on the other side of the door.

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So it's only been two for each group that's gone through the fog. I wonder if there's a specific reason why we've only been allowed to grab that much.

[HMMM...]

Did you notice anything else while you were in that room? Though I guess you might have been too rushed to notice what else was there.

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It is weird that it keeps bein' like that... two things, and it's always Thursday. Pesti said it was just Scawwy, like how we get a new place through the tree door every week - just the Thursday ones are always more dangerous.

[ :thonk: but... ]

Ahhh... voices that weren't familiar, but we couldn't make 'em out. Then a bunch of shelves and nooks, full of scrolls, used candles, jars... these two stood out, though, so we just. Grabbed 'em.

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[... she frowns, thinking.]

Maybe... it's the magic of this world sending us to the cult's storage room or something? I don't know where else that room could be.

[concoctive]

Hm... [ hand at his chin, thinking, too. ]

Maybe. Like we're windin' up in the... the path that they take to get from this place to the storage?

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Or something like that. There must be a reason why you all wind up there in the end, no matter what sort of stuff you ran into before.