You're on the hunt for capture creatures! You and your group couldn't find the sinner arise (apparently it got caught...), but whatever, it wasn't that cool anyway! Checking around you see signs of a few creatures!

The first is towards a strange equipment room that the hohuns are eating outside of.

The second is a path to some sort of abandoned restaurant! Huh....What's that doing all the way out here?

The last one is leads into a hot cave. The markings leading towards it look like someone burned into the trees.....

Your group heads forth towards the equipment room. The hohun eating outside speaks up to you.

The hohun struggles to speak, obviously still not used to limbolish.

Starlis motions with her claws when speaking, and holds up a hand to motion for non movement.

Phi leads onwards with definitely not misplaced confidence!

The hohun turns his head, not quite understanding, but he sees you all nod your heads and assumes you all got approval by Larp.

The group heads down into the equipment room. You were expecting this place to be small, but it's huge.

A LEGENDARY NUMBSKULL HAS APPEARED!

The numbskull is moving items back and forth, attempting its best to fix up the items. It dusts and cleans. It hasn't seemed to notice you yet......

The numbskull looks at you and your group......

"..........................................................."

It very very VERY slowly starts to inch away, dropping its box of neat rocks.

The numbskull panics as Strawberry drops a box, but as the others come together to help, it calms down more. The place is getting fixed up nicely which it very much likes.

It chuckles very very quietly. It appears to like you guys!

But....it suddenly returns to being stressed out. It knows you shouldn't be here. It shakes and puts its hand to its head and points to leave the equipment room.

It wants friends....but you can't be here......

There's heavy footsteps coming from deeper in the equipment room........

The numbskull panics and puts its hands to its head and slinks backwards. It rapidly points outwards! Outwards!

It's not scared of you. It's scared for you.

Starlis focuses her powers, creating psychic eyes on her wings to get a better view of the equipment room so she could see what's around them.

Knight begins to look for a weapon and some armor. He wants to be a real knight, and One shall be his noble steed!

Strawberry panics and kicks a box on purpose. "Socks, help me make a mess!"

The numbskull turns around and waves its hands in an attempt to distract the creature but it doesn't work.

Rushing towards the ground is a large shadowy bird.

It's all wrong.

All wrong.

"hhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

YOU THROW A BOX ON THE FLOOR AND OUT SPILLS A TON OF ROCKS. MESSINESS LEVEL 1!

WHILE LOOKING FOR AN OBJECT A BOX FALLS ON YOU. YOU'RE TRAPPED!

YOU CANNOT MOVE.

Crimes automatically grabs the numbskull and runs back to you. GOOOOOO [THEFT!!!!]
Trasher attempts to grab the box. (No plus yet cause it's just a grab)

But it's just SLIGHTLY too heavy!!!!

MESS LEVEL 2

MESS LEVEL 3!!!!

GRABBING THE NUMBSKULL HAS MADE IT EXTRA ANGRY. IT'S ATTACK IS NOW +8

IT ATTACKS KNIGHT!

Despite being a black empty mass.....as it opens its mouth, you could swear you saw its teeth.

KNIGHT IS OUT AND BEING MAULED.

Chitter looks for anything that can do some damage to the beast!!!
Your thornhead kicks a rock!!!!!!

It misses.....

His one power and he fails it.

YOUR ATTEMPTS TO KNOCK OVER OBJECTS END UP KNOCKING OVER YOURSELF! YOU FELL ON THE FLOOR BUT AT LEAST YOU'RE NOT TRAPPED.

YOU ALSO ACCIDENTLY SLAP A BOX WHICH THEN FALLS AND BURIES YOU.

You FIND A KNIFE........IT'S OK.

THE MONSTER SPRINGS FORWARD AT THE MOTH.

WOAH.
THAT'S A LOT OF DAMAGE.
STARLIS IS OUT.

Phi gets up again and is booking it!! Putting a lot of trust into their teammates and not thinking about the unpacking of this situation they're gonna have to do later.
Strawberry takes a step back once out from under the box and sends Socks to attack the beast!
Taffy grabs the box! She's so good at stealing!
Socks attacks with a level 3 mess!!!!

The beast hisses and backs away. It wasn't expecting a fight. But it'll fight if it needs to!

YOU FINALLY GET TO THE STAIRS, BUT LIKE, TRIP ON THEM. WOW.

LIKE.

I KNOW YOU'RE PANICKING BUT THEY'RE STAIRS.

THE BEAST ATTACKS CRIME RAT!

Crime rat is RENDERED TO BITS BY THE BEAST!
Only strawberry.....socks......And a flight of stairs is in the way now.

Phi climbs the stairs... with determination and yes, panic, but also with actually looking at where they are stepping.

PHI FINALLY. FREAKING FINALLY CLIMBS THE DANG STAIRS AND RUSHES OUT AND AWAY LIKE THE WIND!!!!!

Now, it's just strawberry....socks......and the beast.

Strawberry tries to use one more attack and sends Socks forth!

It holds the beast back, but just barely.

While the beast bites into Sock, it doesn't do enough damage to kill.....there's still time to run.
Does strawberry run while socks holds the beast back?

...

Strawberry gives a mean sign to the beast and stands her ground.
Socks sees its owner still standing there in support, even against this giant monster........in a way, love is the biggest mess of all.....

MESS LEVEL 5!!!! BUT WILL IT BE ENOUGH?

Socks pushes back against the monster! It bites at any bit of shadow it can, the monster is decaying, but it has just a little more fight in it! It attacks! (only +5 as the numbskull is out of its sight!)

SOCKS AND THE MONSTER ARE EVENLY MATCHED. Only a coinflip can decide.
1. Socks
2. Monster

But sadly, love can only hold so long.........

At least strawberry and socks were able to hold the monster back. Phi has escaped safely with creature in hand.

The monster has only won the war fought in the basement.........
It climbs out and up the stairs hissing as it can no longer find what it had lost.

The hohun begins to say something to the monster in its own tongue.

If only....someone was here who could translate.

The beast hisses and slinks back into the equipment room, as if something the local said scared it.

The kitsch walks downstairs, and after a few minutes, walks out with the rest of the party members who died.

The pink fella leads the rest back to the event hall. When they remark "didn't we die?" he just says...