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Don't know if Zanword wants to react to Rana or not? I'll wait a day and see Re level-up, Rana is definitively going Pact of the Chain (spider) -- I have this vision of the group gathering odd little things and allies at each quest end (bits of deklo tree, music boxes, spider familiars...

"Humble," drily commented the witch after Zanword's speech, "and so respectful of others' beliefs." She promptly struck the would-be hero in the shin with the heavy end of her cane.

Behind, Zanword could hear the witch cackling. "That's it. That's *it*!" As she looked up at the hand. === Afterwards: "Hm." The witch's voice sounded odd in the sudden silence. She raised her brow. "And how did you meet Her exactly?"

Or as the Lady saw fit. Either version obviously more than met Rana's expectations as she stepped aside, allowing access to her self-appointed charge. Communicating this to the female proved a bit more challenging than expected though, until the witch plain gave up on her miming. "Oh for-" She...

"You are named; you now exist," explained the witch matter-of-factly, with at least minimum attempt to sketch back the bow. Names were important... But so we're other things. "Can you tell us what awaits these two in FellReev?" Her pale eyes grew more intense, almost sparkly, "And when did you...

"Well met, nameless horse," agreed the witch, if a bit testily -- those big hooves had gone *way* over her head. She covered the fear by laying a hand on what rested below her throat and whisper: "She is love." Almost a prayer. She was trying to boost Gwylla and the other's stealth rolls by...

Emmyr's question made the witch in question chuckle. "Don't you enjoy surprising people, guard dog?" A gesture from her gnarled hand and bits of web, broken and torn in the battle, reknit themselves between them, now thicker and more concealing. OOC: Minor illusion to better conceal the...

"Subtle," commented Rana after the ettercap's reaction, with just a hint of approval. When it came she turned towards the sound of hooves, a resigned expression on her lined face. "Centaurs," she wagered... "The rest of you hide." OOC: Cast Shillelagh and then Favor of the Fey/Guidance on...

"Certainly not what I was expecting," admitted the old witch, looking a bit lost... "*Is* something coming, my dear?" she asked the spider. "And where could we find that center you mentioned?"

"Hm," confirmed Rana with a look at the still-sizzling spider (not to mention the pile of ice over there). "And your mother?" When the bear suddenly wasn't one anymore: "Oh, so you can change *back*?" puzzled a surprised witch. Well that was practical. Bears ate rather a lot, she feared; and...

Rana gave Zanword one of her looks, before pointedly glancing at the amount of webbing covering the trees going forward into the grove; and the marked absence of anything resembling a deklo tree... "This wasn't done by a single pair, boy. Balance isn't *that* easily disturbed... Or righted. If...

(Rana glanced back at the creature. The old woman hadn't actually considered putting herself between the two parties, but...)

"Yes," drily agreed the old witch, creakily getting up from her kneeling position, "spirits forfend she gives birth to mad creatures who go around the countryside killing *everything* they see for coin. That would be plain horrible... Almost unthinkably evil, wouldn't it?"

"Thank you, child," nodded the old witch, looking at least reluctantly impressed.... "And how did you say you learned your magic?" Rana tightened the last knot on her binding and then looked at each of the others, somehow darkly expectant....

"Oh for pity's sake." Rana blithely walked between Hexiros and Zanword, by Templeton and the spider, to a spot by the downed spider thing -- near *under* the spider's arched legs, actually! "If you kids would go play farther away, please, the adults would like to have a little talk. (And...

"Well that's very reassuring, child," acknowledged the would-be witch in a tone that said the exact opposite of that. "But a little warning would be very nice the next time you decide to..." words failed her... "change your looks." A (nasty) twinkle was born as she took-in the whole bear scene...

It can be surprisingly... decadent in moderation though. I remember when things slowed down - way down - in 2013-14. One day I was in my livingroom; I looked up and realized with a sort of child-like wonder: "hey, I'm bored!" And then did nothing for the rest of the afternoon just to enjoy the...

One and a half steps was all Rana had time to take before Aridah's cocoon exploded and the beast roared! The old girl nearly toppled sideways in the instinctive drive to finish her step-duck-attack and *see*, all at the same time! "Aw, what new hell is *this*...? The moons aren't even out...

The little spider feasted, and ignored the cackle. It had been a good cackle too. "Hm..." Being ignored, she... It made her doubt herself. Somehow made plain the disconnect between what she was and what she wanted to become... What was she *doing* here? She'd never done anything worthwile...

Anything in there in reaction to Rana?