> Proper: Be lost and... hungry? What?
( closed starter for @runictrolls )
You are starting to suspect that you may be lost.
This is, frankly, kind of embarrassing, but you’ve become so dependent on having a built-in positioning system in both your thinksponge and your ships that when you ended up planetside and got Kyzame’s coordinates, you just headed off in the general direction without much of a second thought.
(Well, you had plenty of second thoughts, and third thoughts, but most of them were about how weird seadweller bodies are, how you really hope that you’re not offending Cateex by visiting someone she clearly dislikes, and the weird familiarity of being back on Alternia even though you’re sure you’ve never been anywhere near this part of it before, not ‘oh, gee, I should download a map in case I lose wifi connectivity and have to use the old fashioned way to get around!’)
Shows how smart you are. Half your friends would be laughing their asses off right now. Especially Tizmik.
You’d managed to wander into a densely forested area which, last you checked, is actually en route to Kyzame’s hideout when you realized that you were no longer connected to the internet. Now, you have to make the decision between backtracking until you hit wifi or something and downloading a map, and heading in what you know to be the generally right direction until you hit internet again.
To be honest, walking around in a six and a half foot seadweller, you don’t feel particularly in endangered, and you’ve wasted enough time being weirded out by the gills already. Or, that’s what you tell yourself when you head forward - the forest isn’t particularly terrifying, but the deeper you go the more uncomfortable you start to feel.
The trees are white in your area, something you thought was interesting and beautiful at first, but is getting increasingly creepy as you realize that they are covered in weird symbols and - is that tree whispering at you??
Horrors above and terrors below, and here you thought you were the weirdest thing you’d ever seen. You stop at a particularly creepy-looking talisman that seems to have been attached to the tree with a freaking arrow, of all things, and peer at it more closely.
There doesn’t seem to be anything special about it aside from the fact that looking at it is making you kind of hungry, but you would bet your unlife that the strange sensation feathering around the edges of your mind is coming from the thing. When you touch it, the whispering gets louder and even more unintelligible, and something pulls at you.
You yelp, embarrassingly, and jump back, which is less embarrassing because damn is this body nimble in a pair of heels.