After Sam and Tamako walked off towards the river, Jen sent her bird on a full reconnaissance of the area, and discovered there were about another 50 or so gang members with similar colors. She thought, "They definitely look to be on a rendezvous course with the smaller gang that Slim was following." Jen then used her link to call Slim back.
As Slim strutted back into the camp, he asked Jen, “Why am I wasting my time coming back here?” He was pissed thinking that she was going to try and stop him from playing with the bandits he’d found.
Jen replied, “There’s another very large group heading our way, and we’re going to try and stay hidden. However, we’re preparing a lot of traps and fighting positions just in case. Make sure you message me and get updated on the locations of our traps before you come back into camp next time.”
Slim did his best to keep up the appearance of being put out by Jen, as a result of her signaling him again to come back to the camp so soon, but then her news about the rest of the gang really helped him feel a lot better. As Slim was heading back to the smaller group of bandits, he thought to himself, “With that many passing through here, there’s no way they’ll pass by without noticing Jen’s jump pad. Sam is…” Slim paused, shook his head, and berated himself for getting too familiar with his Lackey. He then finished his thought, “Not Sam, ‘Log’, Log boy is going to make this a lot of fun!”
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Slim was pleased, well the word ‘pleased’ didn’t accurately describe how he was feeling… maybe ‘giddy’ with the way things were turning out. What was left of the small gang, was jumping at their own shadows. Slim’s satisfied smirk grew as he listened to the remaining gang members whine in terror.
Raty Drop said to the seven remaining gang members, “Quit shitting yourselves and stay focused! Stone Fox and everyone else will be here soon.”
Diamond Card replied, “But Raty, there’s a fucking demon out there! We heard Jack Pot’s screams, and all we could find was pieces of him all over the trail. Then Hearts, Folds, and Mavs disappeared. Last, Craps just disappeared an hour ago, and we haven’t seen nothing!”
Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
Raty barked his reply, “Exactly, so shut the fuck up, and keep your eyes pointed outward. Nothing can sneak up on us if we stay in this circle! Plus, Stone Fox will be here soon, and no one fucks with her! Are you saying Stone Fox can’t handle this!”
Diamond Card knew it was death to cast any doubt on Stone Fox’s ability, and she meekly replied, “Of course Stone Fox can handle it. I didn’t say she couldn’t.”
Raty retorted again, “Then shut the fuck up until she gets here!”
Slim contemplated killing them all before the rest of their gang linked up with them, but he thought it would be way more fun for these idiots to spread the terror to the others.
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The Oracle was bored, she had been bored for hundreds of years. She lost her System Gambling Quest with the 'gods', so now she was forced to be the Oracle of Cognitio. The Oracle's prison held several mirrors on the wall. With these mirrors, she was able to cast a spell on them to allow her to watch the activities and progress of the Oracle Hunters. The Oracle was flipping through multiple scenes thinking to herself, "Please let there be at least a few interesting groups. With each quest, more and more just sit around base building and mining for gold. Boring! At least a few groups will be trying to kill each other, but they are almost just as boring!"
The Oracle then paused one of the mirrors, when she recognized a man and woman jumping in with a group of twelve other fighters. Her eyebrows raised in curiosity, as she wondered aloud, "Only two of them?! I wonder what happened to the other three? Maybe they didn't come...or maybe they are working with other Hunter groups?"
She started flipping the mirror scenes through all the other Hunter groups looking for the other three. She stopped when she finally found the old man. She watched the scene for a few minutes as the old man directed his golems to lumber the trees "How's the crazy old man working without being tied in place?" She then changed the view and could see a young girl talking to a cat. The Oracle turned her head a little to the side in more confusion thinking, "Why would a beast master use a cat... and a really fat one on top of it?" She then scrolled the screen to show any other members of the hunting group..."What the fuck is that man doing? Why is he cutting open that tiny woman's arms... is he carving on her bones!?" The Oracle was excited and thought, "I've got to watch what they've been up to!" as she immediately started rewinding the scene back to when the party first jumped in.
Ohhhhh how I wished I had some of that popcorn we used to eat on Earth to watch this with. The Oracle sped up her mind as she spent the next few hours watching the group on fast-forward. The more she watched, the bigger the grin on her face became.