Emily and her party were in the boss encounter on the second floor of the dungeon at Tonin's Harbour. They had been facing off against a creature that began as a four headed crocodile but had gained extra when they were decapitated in a hydra like manner. She had summoned a metal box in which she was hiding with her friend who had taken the form of a fairy and a man wielding a halberd.
Outside Barbara, the party tank, hefted her battle axe and aimed it at the creatures tail with the theory that it would strike the body or the soil of the arena floor if she missed. She felt compelled to shout "Called shot: tail" as if it were the missing task to a spell she was casting. She did indeed completely miss the creatures form.
The crocodile tried to bite Barbara in response but she dodged to the side before hitting it with the flat of the blade then the haft, which the crocodile soon bit down on. The battle axe might need to be repaired or replaced, Barbara didn't know never having a weapon damaged in a dungeon before.
At this point the spell maintaining the metal box dropped and the rest of the team was forced to reenter the fray. The fairy shot a magical lightning bolt at the creature, which its sodden form seems especially susceptible to. Emily thought it would be a good idea to further boost such spells and started singing a medly of songs from Grease. It did not have the intended effect, instead making the floor slippery underfoot which worked to the crocodile's advantage. With a final snap of its many jaws, the group found themselves back at the entrance in the state they had been in before the attempt.
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Carmen still only had the two cases on hand, the rouge barber-surgeon and the reporter, though that would gradually change over time.
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Drath had been unconcerned about the various undead, creating them via a dungeon core was not against his tenets, only raising them from those who had been subjected to funeral rites broke that rule, so it wasn't something Carmen would have to add to his workload.
The investigation into the barber-surgeon was still with the guard since there was no evidence of sacrilege yet. Carmen was still scrying when they found new victims but the only noteworthy thing was the recently graduated Ffanya who covered when Olia was off had been a woman and midwife who had retrained, reflecting the difference between the gender norms of the two realities since here that was perfectly normal.
Carmen's primary case, The Reporter, who was turning people into animated bulldog costumes if the new reports were to be believed, was ongoing - he had yet to prove a single allegation but was not in a place where he could leave to investigate personally. Either it would need to become even more serious or the guard would need a breakthrough in their case.
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Featherford, Rochcock, Rochdale, Rosterdale, Roosterdale, Rosterton, Roosterton and Dale were all names rejected for the town of Scoop where the Bulldogs are due to play.
The Reporter was feeding lies to its latest victim about the nature of baseball and getting fitted for a uniform. As a result they were currently donning a costume. A few minutes later and they were undergoing a process that on Terra was known as plushification where they turned into a sapient teddy, though like the others they had the bipedal bulldog form. As a red six appeared in several places on the t-shirt that was part of the costume including written as if it were a surname, the victim asked "What now coach?" But knew without having a reply spoken the answer was batting practice to get use to the rest of the team, the thought unclear on if it was there own or transmitted from elsewhere.