Godly Bonus Mission: Vs. Python

[fair_trouble]

Setup:
Emery, the Mysterious Weirdo who’s been spotted around Elysium, Flotsam, and Asphodel, is recruiting powerful fighters to help him take down a monster created by Imperial experiments that was disposed of on Hesaeth.

The monster is a giant lizard nicknamed “Python” which continually leaks toxins from its skin and orifices. These toxins poison the land around it and quickly sicken anyone who breathes them in or absorbs them through their skin. It is mindlessly aggressive and will eat just about anything living it finds.

It has not been eating well on Hesaeth. This means it’s weaker than it otherwise could be, but also far more ornery and desperate.

To take this monster down, Emery is primarily in need of combatants, but any Corsairs who can provide transportation there and back again can also take part. Also useful would be anyone with purification abilities or resistance to poisons.

Technicalities:
To (hopefully) keep the boss battle moving at a brisk pace, I’m going to try and respond at least once a day. Participants are also free to skip over one another as long as they only post once a “round.” A round will consist of at least one post from participants plus a god post detailing what Emery and the Python are doing. So it might look like Person A posts, then Person B, then Emery. Or it might be Person B, Person C, and then Emery. Or just Person A, then Emery.

I’ll assume anyone who doesn’t manage to post for their character during a round is doing okay- neither seriously inflicting damage nor receiving any serious damage- so if you’re busy and wind up missing a round you won’t have to worry about it. You’ll just miss out on some notoriety.

Rewards:
Anyone who helps out will get a modest amount of money from Emery, and the satisfaction of knowing they did a good deed.

If that isn’t enough, participants are also free to take parts from the dead Python, such as teeth, skin, organs, etc. as long as they have a way of safely storing the toxic materials.

(Or they can make themselves seriously ill trying to take materials from Python’s body that they don’t have a safe way of handling, but they might get yelled at by Emery if he catches them and they will definitely wind up in the clinic.)

Sign Ups:
Comment below if interested! I’ll take up to four participants for the battle thread, and if anyone is interested I can also do other threads playing out your character’s recruitment. Might also do a socialization-centric thread for the trip to Hesaeth.

Comments

[heaven_rooted]

Oh, I'm game for punching a thing.

[fair_trouble]

Hopefully not with bare hands! Unless Tsuyukusa's poison resistance is really strong.

[heaven_rooted]

Oh fine. Guess the healer would know better than to do so with his bare hands. He'll get a log. Although he is more tolerant than normal peoples, it'll probably just affect him more slowly. This is going to give him some serious flashbacks of his cursed forest though.

[fair_trouble]

Here is the log. The plot log, not the like. Log Tau will be using to punch things.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link is absolutely up for some monster fighting! And also making off with some of its parts does his enchanted korok pack count as 'safe storage'?.

[fair_trouble]

The general rule of thumb is not to touch Python with bare skin or breathe in the fumes, so if Link's korok pack can seal them in it should be fine! Might possibly contaminate other stuff in the pack though, idk how the lore on the pack works/how much of a danger there is of stuff getting jumbled together.

[newmemorywhodis]

Honestly I tend to assume everything is indeed kept in their separately otherwise all those meals he cooks would jumble together into one unholy disgusting mess, so I don't think contamination would be an issue!

Guess Link will just need to get out some gloves :P

[fair_trouble]

Here is the log.

[frost_and_shinies]

Color me actively interested in this battle!

[fair_trouble]

Here is the log and hopefully Kaitlyn will not melt when they're at Hesaeth.

[theriflespiral]

I too am actively interested.

[fair_trouble]

The log is now available here.

[spacetogrow]

Ilphyl is also interested, but I see you have four people already. If need be, they can offer some magic to both protect against poison or cure it if it happens, but stay out of the fight itself.

[fair_trouble]

Emery's gonna be busy detoxifying the area once the Python's dead, so having extra people around to patch up the group after the battle would probably be helpful!

If Ilphyl has learned how to steer a boat around by now then they could also be one of the people helping to transport everyone- I figure they'll be traveling overnight so someone with darkvision could potentially be very helpful in that regard as well.

[spacetogrow]

Given Ilphyl has a houseboat in Flotsam, they probably have rudimentary boat-handling skills.

[fair_trouble]

Here's the log if you wanna try tossing Ilphyl up for pre-mission stuff!