Welcome to a land of strange stories and weirdly-spun yarn, where oddities and unmentionables lurk behind every tale. Here you will witness the plight of the mysterious Heckbender, suffer the misadventures of Derring-Do Dan, learn the unsettling secret of the Slynderfell Ice Cream Cavalcade, and behold the unraveling of The Bogey. A word of caution: stay on the sidewalks, avoid shortcuts through Halfrock Swamp, and do NOT under any circumstances make business transactions with C. Percival Trullus.
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waycyber said, 5 months ago
L-R (possibly) Jenny, Jamie, Piper, L’Omino, Beast, Mama Yaga
waycyber said, 5 months ago
With Flimm in the centre?
Zyreenesque said, 5 months ago
she’s one too, betcha
waycyber said, 5 months ago
@Zyreenesque
That;s kinda what I meant. How else would she know all this?
Fairportfan2 said, 5 months ago
Ummm … “They needed sustenance, and had to feed on this world’s occupants…”
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Does this bode ill for getting back the Taken?
carl craig said, 5 months ago
excellent . its all starting to make sense now .
RockHouse said, 5 months ago
I wonder if Goatsucker is either a former host for a Taker or a victim of one, having been altered by the experience and forced to become a kind of taker herself. That might explain her willingness to help out.
waycyber said, 5 months ago
@Fairportfan2
Maybe, as they are not physical beings, they do not need physical food, but emotion or other energy
Jamie Jones could feed on hope
Piper could feed on love
The Beast could feed on fear
and so on.
Three Steps Over Japan said, 5 months ago
@waycyber
“L-R (possibly) Jenny, Jamie, Piper, L’Omino, Beast, Mama Yaga”
You’re missing Rafer. Flimm’s not in this line up of the usual suspects…
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago
Wow! Almost too much information! But Biff and Rufus and Margo now know much more than they did before and may be able to use this knowledge to their advantage….
Three Steps Over Japan said, 5 months ago
@RockHouse
“I wonder if Goatsucker is either a former host for a Taker or a victim of one, having been altered by the experience and forced to become a kind of taker herself. That might explain her willingness to help out.”
When we first met goatsucker, she said that Takers are the monsters her kind were told about by their parents to keep them in line as children. There’s very little chance that she’s related to the Takers herself, especially since she tried so hard to avoid being dragged into this hunt. The only reason she’s helping out now is that Margo gave her fresh dead rats, and Rufus treated her nicely. She still doesn’t like anyone else, and probably hangs around Margo like any cat would – hoping to get a free handout.
aircraft-engineer said, 5 months ago
not all Russian Baba Yaga stories are about “monsters”. Baba had a human side as well – much like the translation of “grandmother” as “baba”
Three Steps Over Japan said, 5 months ago
@waycyber
“Maybe, as they are not physical beings, they do not need physical food, but emotion or other energy
Jamie Jones could feed on hope
Piper could feed on love
The Beast could feed on fear
and so on.”
Jennie drowns her prey. Does this mean she feeds on the crayfish that eat waterlogged corpses?
waycyber said, 5 months ago
@Three Steps Over Japan
Maybe she feeds on the despair of a dying person.
waycyber said, 5 months ago
@Three Steps Over Japan
Hasn’t it been established that Rafer is a puppet rather than a Taker? Sort of an UnderTaker?