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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ladybird" data-source="post: 2958145" data-attributes="member: 10689">Moving a little more slowly without Gyles’s expert tracking guidance and Varya’s overhead scouting, the party traveled on through the forest, winding their way towards the mage’s tower as the day wore on towards evening.  When they came to a convenient clearing to camp in, however, they found it already occupied, and by an extremely strange collection of tents: three sets of three identical tents. Something started to tug at Kit’s memory – threes. Something about sets of three.And then the triplets came out. One set of identical triplets from each set of identical tents. “Tangites,” Kit groaned.The little triplets were friendly enough, if a bit at loose ends without their One to lead them. The party decided to share the campsite – there was safety in numbers – and also shared their food with the Tangites, and the information about the basilisk. In return, the Tangites told the Canberrians what they had found on their long journey north, in which their One had been killed.“Beyond three small bandit villages to the south,” said one of the nine little men, “there is a very large encampment. And – forgive me! They are all Ones! They don’t want the slavers to be stopped! And they have great power.”“What kind of power?” asked Kit.“Boom!” exclaimed one of the…ten little men. One of the sets of triplets had now become a set of quadruplets, a fourth identical little man beaming at the others from his spot around the campfire. Kit groaned. “Toby.”The other triplets in the set sprang back from the campfire. “A doppelganger!” one of them cried, staring at the fourth – the magically-disguised Toby – in horror.“Toby,” Kit groaned again. “You’re really not helping…”“What?!” the fourth man protested, in Toby’s hurt voice. “It’s just a little spell…”“You have magic power?” gasped one of the other triplets in the set. “Do you have great power?”“Of course I do!” Toby declared, returning to his original form with a flourish.“We have no One to lead us anymore,” said the little triplet slowly. “Do you think…do you think that you could be our One? If Paranswarm has led us to you…”Toby glanced down at his holy symbol of Whimsey, doubtful for a moment. But Whimsey, in her eternal capriciousness, had decided to change his holy symbol – for the moment, at least – into the downward-pointing arrow of Paranswarm. “Of course!” Toby declared again. The nine little men clustered around him happily.While Kit and Honore saw to the assembly of the rest of the group’s campsite, Toby was starting to teach the Tangites to sing. In three-part harmony, of course.</blockquote>

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