Tales of Totems Posts

“There’s a bigger one!” shouted Jade. She saw it with her eyes, a glimpse of a dark robe. She hadn’t felt it. Perhaps it had been there all along, perhaps it was just created. She couldn’t tell. The swarm was messing up her senses. Morn stopped shoving handfuls of insects into their mouth, swallowed and said: “There! It is burrowed.” Jade’s toes bumped into something hard and solid. She found her balance and realized that she stood on a floor. The bugs were disappearing into it, or through it. She wasn’t sure. The floor felt solid enough, though the many…

“And they sat down and made themselves comfortable,” said the voice.Jade ignored it and looked around. “What a strange house,” she said. She stood in a room with furniture, much like the craft lords’ cottage. But unlike the cottage, it was arranged neatly and there was no stuff lying around, like tools, or half emptied mugs of tea or that sock that Decker pulled off his foot after stubbing his smallest toe on the corner of the table. The room looked inviting enough, but something was putting her off. She gently touched the wall with her fingertips and it shied…

It was a lot more peaceful now that Jac had left the hovercraft. The sun was beating down on them, but in a pleasant way. Jade felt herself relax. She smiled at Kevins and Kevins smiled back. For the first time since long, she felt included, she was a part of something greater. Wind brushed softly against Jades hair, gentle like a mother’s caress. The sun warmed her up inside with a feeling that she had always longed for. Jade shifted her gaze to the others on the hovercraft. They were all smiling. It was almost as if they all…

There was not a hint of wind and the smell of smoldering hairs spread around the hovercraft without hesitation. Jade sat herself on the other side, so that she wouldn’t have to watch the orcs eat the large beast they had hunted to fuel their baby production. The little clump of meat was as small as a songbird, but had started to form little limbs. It was an interesting process to watch, but after holding hands for a day, Morn insisted that the goodberries were not doing the trick and that they should go hunting to find a little more…

“Jade, word has spread of your endeavor,” said a familiar voice. The owner of the voice was not there. Also, it was not the voice Jade had expected to hear. Jade was about to pray to Morrigan, but right before she had opened her mind, someone instead prayed to her. “I have a request of you to make on behalf of the Chroma.” Jade considered this, she couldn’t just outright ask him who he was. Perhaps he could just hear him out, so she kept quiet, hoping he would understand that she was listening. “I need you to avenge the…

Jade looked from Thiago to Daphne, then to Lumira for confirmation. When Lumira noticed her friends looking at her, she scraped her throat. “Well then-” “I’m the only one left,” Daphne interrupted her. She addressed Thiago as if the others were not even in the room. “My brothers have been changed. Taken by the Sun.” “About that-” Lumira tried again. “I am sorry to hear that, Your Royal Highness. What would you have me do?” Responded Thiago. “Take them into custody. Perhaps with time we can find a cure.” “If you want,” Acantha offered, “We can ask Aoda to help…

Lumira crouched down besides Morn. She should probably check if they were dead, but the orc was bloody and gross looking. She was glad that Acantha hurried over to turn them around. Lumira stepped aside and turned to the chrysalis, she was pretty sure she saw something moving inside of it. She went to look for her spear. Kevins pulled Iratus off the battered corpse of the massive insect that had toppled after Lumira attached its legs together with her magnetism spell. Kevins was glad he didn’t have to get his hands dirty. It was better to just step aside…

Morn swung their axe and it landed on the insects hard shell. The orc gritted their teeth. Morn was used to swinging their axe through ligaments, not getting their axe stuck in what seemed to only be the outer part of the skin. Iratus’ luck wasn’t much better. He punched the creature, but instead of a satisfying crack of the shell, he heard only a soft thumping. The insect was roughly three times the size of the regular black-robes and its shell appeared to be roughly three times as thick. Lumira sat on all fours, panting on the floor. A…

“Prepare to fight,” Jade said under her breath. “We have been found out.” “I don’t see the King,” said Lumira. “Or any other Sloan.” Jade slid quietly down the pile of coins and Sang back: “I’ll try and locate them, you distract the big guy.” Lumira winced and looked from Jade to Morn, at whom she started gesturing for them to come over.Morn jumped over the pile of coins and let out a fierce battle cry. From between the coins, small bugs crawled out and swarmed. Jade had no idea how she was going to find anyone while the floor…