(DEADLY PREMONITION) Half Sleep

[Toshihiko Two]

Sleep opened her eyes to a destroyed basket. It must have been carefully woven by skilled familiar paws, at some point, and now there were only patches left of the craftmanship.

There was food, too, fruit cores, sloshed seeds, chewed and stomped plants.

Sleep could smell the half-spoiled food, heavy and over-sweet. She lowered her nose to the ground, getting a better whiff. It was a crime. She felt pretty sure about that.

Her furby kicked over a part of the basket.

They were on the case.

...Was there a way out of here?

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 75
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 0/5
Section notes: -

 

[Toshihiko Two]

Sleep set to work on the tough vines, cutting them with her hooves.

"Ahahhh, look at this," she said, pleased, as she found a knotted clump of fur. "Somebody got through here."

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 75
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 1/5
Section notes: 4-5: You try tearing at the roots with your hooves. It doesn't work, but you do turn up a clue.

 

[Toshihiko Two]

Next, Sleep tried biting.

This wasn't such a great idea.

She smacked her teeth and tongue. Ouch! Okay. No for hooves, no for teeth. But there had to be a way through.

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 72
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 1/5
Section notes: 1-3: The vines have thorns! As you reach in to bite through a likely-looking gap, you learn this the hard way. Lose 3 HP.

 

[Toshihiko Two]

This time Sleep used the remains of the basket, looping it through a chunk of vine and giving it a tug.

She ended up flat back on the ground, and with....was that a flower? Not one for eating, either.

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 70
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 2/5
Section notes: 6-7: You break free a chunk of vine. It's not enough to get through, but as it tumbles down you reveal a clue. Unfortunately, it came at a price. Take one clue; lose 2 HP.

 

[Toshihiko Two]

Sleep went for the gap made from the pulling.

She was not the super brightest.

It had about the same result as biting the vines did the first time.

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 67
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 2/5
Section notes: 1-3: The vines have thorns! As you reach in to bite through a likely-looking gap, you learn this the hard way. Lose 3 HP.

 

[Toshihiko Two]

So Sleep used another basket piece.

More clear.

Not quite enough to get out, and falling back on her haunches still hurt, but she found something else- a ribbon.

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 65
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 3/5
Section notes: 6-7: You break free a chunk of vine. It's not enough to get through, but as it tumbles down you reveal a clue. Unfortunately, it came at a price. Take one clue; lose 2 HP.

 

[Toshihiko Two]

Maybe she'd be able to find more in the ground...and hey. She did.

A...this was less identifiable. Not hair. Not a flower. It was...a tooth?

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 67
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 4/5
Section notes: 4-5: You try tearing at the roots with your hooves. It doesn't work, but you do turn up a clue.

 

[Toshihiko Two]

Sleep wasn't sure if this was a mystery she wanted to solve. Maybe they were eating really hard and...broke their tooth? Or there was a food competition.

Where was Waking, anyway?

It wasn't like him to be- not here.

She looked at the gap in the vines, wiggled her shoulders, and made a mighty leap through. Her landing was triumphant, plus completely unscathed. She shook her mane. Bring it on.

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 67
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 4/5
Section notes: 8-10: Success! No clues, but a way forward presents itself.

 

[Toshihiko Two]

Sleep brightened at the murky water, looking across the distance at the far riverbank.

After fighting through those thorns, a swim was just what she needed.

When something bit her hoof, she felt like a fight would be pretty great too. She bit it right back.

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 61
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 4/5
Section notes: Pike HP: 5

 

[Toshihiko Two]

And a kick for good measure.

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 57
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 4/5
Section notes: Pike HP: 0

 

[Toshihiko Two]

Sleep always felt great after a swim and a fight. She licked some of the water from her legs, and took a few drinks from the pool, before moving towards the hill.

A swim and a climb.

Whatever thief she was facing must be fit. She bared her teeth, pleased, and got to climbing.

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 57
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 4/5
Section notes: 6-8: You move upwards 5 feet.
Feet Climbed: 5/20

 

[Toshihiko Two]

Her muscles burned, and it was a good burn. The water kept her cool. But the ground was slick. The mud beneath her feet gave in.

She braced her shoulders. Even better.

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 57
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 4/5
Section notes: 1: You slide backwards 3 feet. Boo. (Luckily, you can't drop below zero!)
Feet Climbed: 2/20

 

[Toshihiko Two]

Then there was a rat, and Sleep was back at the bottom.

Climbs usually didn't give her this much trouble.

She looked at the mound suspiciously.

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 57
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 4/5
Section notes: 15-18: You chose a bad path: the route is occupied by the nest of a rat that is none too pleased to be interrupted by clumsy Kin. Lose 2 HP OR slide backwards 3 feet.
Feet Climbed: 0/20

 

[Toshihiko Two]

There, at the bottom of the hill, was another piece to the puzzle.

Not just a tooth.

A piece of a skull.

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 54
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 5/5
Section notes: 2 - 5: You don't progress at all, but in the course of your scrabbling you turn over a stone and find beneath it a clue.
Feet Climbed: 0/20

 

[Toshihiko Two]

More than bits of skull. Meat? Wow. That was pretty messed up.

OOC Footnote

Current HP: 54
Chosen familiar: Furby
Clues acquired: 6/5
Section notes: 9-14: You move upwards 5 feet, and find, snagged on a branch jutting over the water, a clue.
Feet Climbed: 5/20