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Sun 20th Jul 2025 12:07

Cat- astrophic Hellscape

by Gidget Tvorca

So the cat is out of the bag, (no offense to Silas) or rather the Kelien. Sarge is oddly okay with it and no one else seems to give a shit. Lux has created a fake persona for her so she can pass as not frightening, just really rich. Which is half right. Project EMP is up and running., it was part way done when the kid scared the shit out of everyone in the middle of the night screaming, for joy thank the Gods. Xoya somehow figured out how the cube works-ish, I don't know how that big brain keeps on cooking in the middle of the night. That next morning surprise, surprise Sarge was impatient to get going. Our travels turned street racer and we found the tunnels his superior told us about and passed by some shady mega gambling city in the middle of no where's ville. (Its got me wondering if there are two sides to their military? The goody toe shoes, straight laced, probably mean well sorts like Sarge and then the rest of them. That's the lot I worry about. They're generally pulling the strings and most often for their own gain.
 
Speaking of strings, we landed in the land that time forgot and Sarge's patience was apparently thread bare, so we went wandering. Hell of a time for a walk about! I am laterally sticking a tracking device to his ass, or somewhere near it. We met an nice, albeit weird gal who ran an inn, but kept disappearing and we decided to sleep in the pocket dimension that the princess had on her person. I wish I could say it was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen, but a somewhat blocky poly pocket reality is just another drop in the bucket of random weirdness that is our daily existence.
 
We woke up to find that someone had guarded us during the night and it turned out to be a Tabaxi druid named Little Orange Man (Don't shorten it! No pun intended). He kindly led us to a dragon born who breathed rust and kindly gave us a coating to protect ourselves from himself and all the other metal eroding critters that seem to love this area. We chatted about the cave we're looking to enter near scorpion point, where all the bad shit is supposed to go down. You know, a cult unleashing a giant monster of the apocalypse, who has enslaved a bunch of people to free the monster. It sounds like they are guarded by a bunch of robo enforcers and who knows how many flesh and blood bad guys. So, were sneaking in.
 
That means we have to brave rust mites (which won't work on the Gazelle but might come in handy), rust breath (sadly not bottleable) and some sort of zombie plague you can inhale (I'm not touching that shit with a 10 foot pole). So It was up to us gals to devise a plan. Xoya, Lux and I crafted some sweet gas masks with the help of the Cindy and some salvaged glass pains. (My poor guild's baby is going to be nothing but bolts when this shit is done!) Though it was nice to tinker in peace for a minute!
 
Then With some help from our odd new friend, ever vanishing inn keeper we made some disguises. She can and can't talk, moves fast then has something else to do, and somehow bought our story that we are here to study migrating rocks. Echo and Lux are going to pretend to be smokey the people stealer and the rest of us are going to try blending with the scenery.
 
Hopefully we can find a way to take command of the robot army, free the slaves, defeat the cultists, and keep the beasty from getting free. Oh and also build a fake cube from the metal we find so we can set a trap for the metal murderer known as the Gazelle. Honestly I keep wondering if this plan is so crazy it just might work or if we've all just gone straight off the deep end and don't know it yet? Maybe a bit of both?
 
I think I need to sign off by saying hope to write another day! Bye for now!