WITCH ASTEROID

  Scotty: Drim. Calvin: Brooke/Cliff. Grandaunt Ngeng will not wed! Middle Month of Summer.  Day 6, beginning of night watch.  HEX L. Tree, and rebirth Drim, Brooke, Shiri, and Alira discuss the next course of action. Alira must head north with her two children to rejoin her village. Shiri must head north with Yamin to return the scepter to Grandaunt Ngeng. Krun will follow the duo of Drim and Brooke. The duo decides they will head north as well, after Krun shows confidence in Nana's raid of Once Soot. Shiri explains that only Children of the Forest can pass under the shade of Grandaunt Ngeng's tree, and that if Brooke wishes to travel north he will have to undergo a Cleaving at the hands of Krun. There's a 5% chance of immediate death. The "Zum" will be shred from Brooke's body, birthing a Child of the Forest with his memories. Brooke agrees. Krun takes a wicked curved blade from the wall of his shack and rips it through Brooke, vertically bisecting him. The ...

  Scotty: Drim. Calvin: Brooke. Grandaunt Ngeng will not wed! Middle Month of Summer.  Day 5, 2 hours into morning watch (8AM).  HEX G > HEX M. The surviving soldiers of Captain Quill's crew emerge from the forest and chase after Jubilo. Jubilo is separated from the group. Drim, Brooke, Shiri, and Yamin remain together. Shiri appears dominant and in her element. Yamin declares he is in love with her. He swats away mosquitos and wipes sweat from his upper lip. After comparing plans and information the next steps are clear. Shiri needs to return the bone scepter to a grandaunt northward; Grandaunt Ngeng , an armless matron that Drim recalls helping raise him when he was a younger child. She tells of the power the limbs of Granduncles and Grandaunts retain. Drim and Brooke still need to deliver Lord Zaq's letter so that Nana and her army of hunters can storm Once Soot unimpeded. After, Cold Cave village will need to be saved from the fate foretold in the fire.  Shiri...