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Eigla goes help Klimt up before he drowns. It's a hard task, considering neither of them is in a particularly good shape at the moment, but she manages to get his head above water.

Eigla: "I-I'm sorry Klimt, we were doing fine, and then I -"

Klimt: "I should have just run..."

He tries to get up, but his tentacles are too wobbly to support his weight. For the first time in a long, long while, he is confronted with the reality of his actual, non-mutant body. A scarred, limbless torso, incapable of even the simplest tasks. It is absolutely terrifying. The pain of having Eigla sew a new set of Entrails onto his ruined abdomen comes as a welcome distraction from his existential dread.

Eigla: "I hate this place..."

Klimt: "Thanks for the guts...

You nearly... your mind. You were laughing like you were sick. Please don't go, Eigla. Your Sword back home needs you."


Eigla: "I want to get out of here faster. I hate the snow, I hate the cult, I hate pretending to aid the Master, I hate waiting around while the meatblob gets closer and closer, but if we don't wait then everything might fall apart and there'll be more problems and everything we've done will be pointless and -"


Unable to hold herself any longer, the shieldmaiden vents by desecrating one of the nearby crab corpses. First chopping with her sword, then punching until its carapace cracks and her knuckles bleed. It's a rather cathartic exercise, and also helps process the carcass into Flesh.


Klimt: "I could barely tell you were pretending. Your pretending is saving us. I know it's disgusting and fake, what they believe. Eigla, you out-think the Priestess for sure."


Ripping off the largest piece of carapace she can find, Eigla makes a crude sled, and starts piling their loot onto it. Inside their crustacean shells, the crab's Flesh is... Surprisingly human-looking. Almost like one grabbed a dozen people, put them in a blender, then stuffed the result into a chitinous shell. Many parts look like faces, which is particularly unsettling.


Klimt lets himself be carried onto the sled, then begins regenerating using his Coffin. A leg bone, so he can at least walk with some effort, and his Boyhood, since it's probably the rarest among all his Parts.

The two of them leave the swamp, slowly going eastwards. On the sled, they manage to fit 11 Flesh, a fair amount of carapace bits, and a few un-hatched crab pods. Pierre wasn't lying when he said the things were resource-rich.


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Meanwhile, Peggy pops her head through the kitchen door.

Peggy: "Klimt and Eigla? They said they were going over to town. Probably to help rebuild ♥♥♥♥, I think. I'd have gone with them, but the blobgirl hates my guts."


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"I will go join them.
Hm. Curie, I would like to do, something, with everyone's hair, but I do not think we have time right now. The potential everyone possesses is, exciting."
> Head towards the village. Been too long since I was with Eigla.


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> Calm down. Look normal. Well, as normal as I can.

Locate Pierre.


"Are these parts safe to repair ourselves with?"


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"It didn't go so well."


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Slowly, wearily, Eigla makes her way back to the village. A few hundred yards before arriving, she comes upon Pierre, sitting on a tree stump by the road.

Pierre: "You guys started taking too long. Got me worried, you did. And from what I see- The crabs did a number on you. Or, at least on him. You, you look like you've seen the world end again."

Klimt: "It didn't go so well."

Eigla: "Are these parts safe to repair ourselves with?"

Pierre: "They should be. At least, we've been using them for a while with not many ill effects. The crabs, they're not like the mud kings. At their core, they were human, once."


Rosa heads over to the village, but doesn't find Klimt or Eigla around. Strange. Where could they have gone?


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> Odd.
Find a vantage point and look around with that new scope.


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> To Klimt -

"You should repair yourself fully. We can hunt more crabs later. It won't be as, rough as this time."


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>Make comprehensive repairs, preserving enough Flesh for our original purpose (supply).


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EVENTS:

Rosa slithers up to the top of the church tower. Ugh, it feels... Very noisy, up there. Must be all the radio equipment jutting out the roof. She raises her gunfish, looking through its enhanced eyes while magnifying using her cranial rangefinder.

Hey look, it's Eigla! And Pierre, they'd by the road. They're hunched over some sort of... Pile of broken Flesh and entrails.

Wait. Is that Klimt?!?!

Wait again. Look at the bags under Eigla's eyes, the way her mouth is trembling and curling up... She's not okay.



Meanwhile, Pierre and Eigla perform emergency repairs on Klimt's body. They use 7 Flesh to repair his Enhancement parts, and a few basic parts, just enough so that he can function. He still looks... Absolutely terrible, though, with organs and other bits poking out of his torn skin. Well, at least he can fight again!


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"I feel like a bag of organs. My stupidity brought me here. I thought I was an invincible fighter."


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> Leap off, over to them. Hurry.
Hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry.


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"No, it's my fault. I dragged you out there."

> Pull the sled with Klimt/Flesh back to the mansion.


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EVENTS:

Rosa leaps off the roof, landing on the snow with a gigantic thud. She slithers forwards, going as fast as her body will allow. It's... Still not fast enough. She has to hurry hurry hurry HURRY H̺̳U҉͕̻̲͇̘͈ͅR̟̺R̶̮̮ͅY̨̲͕



Meanwhile, Eigla begins pulling the sled back to the mansion, while Klimt sighs, trying futilely to close the large gashes in his chest.

Pierre: "You know, I don't mean to uh, imply you're not up to par, but maybe next time you should bring a few zombies as escorts? The wilds are dangerous, as you've just seen."


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> Faster faster Eigla is hurt Klimt is hurt Eigla is hurt why what did this why it was the priestess wasn't it i'll kill her Eigla is hurt why Faster


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"The issues we ran into were not purely combat related, but your advice is heard."

>MANSION


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