NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spyscribe" data-source="post: 2111223" data-attributes="member: 5808">vectors of infectionDay 11Lira is awakened in a manner that has become her routine since she started sitting the last watch before dawn.  By tiny teeth tugging at her ear and Euro in her head thinking, Come on, Boss.  Time to get up.  You’re on watch, Boss.  Come on!“Okay, okay,” she whispers back, sleepily.  “I’m coming.  I’m com—ah-chooo!”Euro hastily backs off, blinking rapidly.“Crap.”*****That afternoon, Reyu, at the back of the column, is the first to notice something following behind them as they march.  For maybe half an hour she hears a faint sound of footsteps and sometimes catches a glimpse of something green out of the corner of her eye.She sends a discrete signal up the line for the party to halt and whirls around.Behind them, a tiny green head pokes up over a rock, sees her looking, and vanishes.  Then, a few feet away, another head appears and ducks back down.  In a minute, Reyu counts four or five, but it’s hard to know if any of the heads are the same ones.“Hello,” Reyu calls out in Sylvan.  “We are not here to harm you.”There is a bustle of activity, with heads popping up and down very rapidly, accompanied by a squeaking, twittering noise, which then ceases as abruptly as it began.The party continues on their way, and after a few minutes realizes they are still being followed.Kiara turns to swallow form to spy on their pursuers and gets a glimpse of a small green scaled creature clutching a short spear.She tries talking to them in Sylvan again, which causes another burst of activity and chatter, but no comprehensible response.*  It seems plain that while the creatures recognize they are being spoken to, they are unable or unwilling to respond in kind.*(Several members of the party suspect the creatures were saying, “Holy crap, a talking bird!”)Whatever they are, they follow the party for the rest of the day and into the dusk.The party posts extra watches overnight, and by morning, their followers are gone.Day 13Benedic and Lira both wake up feeling better than they have in days.Annika however, is now distinctly under the weather.  Anvil watches as Kiara flutters around her, making sure she drinks plenty of tea when they make stops, and that she doesn’t exert herself too much.It is a pity, he thinks, to see those not gifted with the blessings of Kettenek’s strength to overcome such adversities.He glances around to see that no one is watching, and surreptitiously wipes his nose on his sleeve.</blockquote>

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