Sounds like a big old herbivore. They can be very preemptively aggressive to deter predation.

>>1108996
>>1109000
Yeah. The issue is getting close enough without getting pasted. Ask the lizzbolds how fast they go. Maybe they could distract it while Martah sneaks up from behind to grab the tail?

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Murdoc: "Magnificent. We must have it and pet it and ride it around."

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Murdoc: "So what do we do? You're the expert here."

Gnapper: "Me? We just avoid them. If you get too close they stomp you, and they're faster than they look. And then there's the snappers."

Murdoc: "Snappers?"

Gnapper: "Nasty little biters that come in big flocks. They're too quick to get stomped so they hide near stompers for protection."

Burgo: "You think there's some here? What do they look like?"

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Gnapper: "They look like that."

Clever girls…

>>1109351
Tactical retreat!

A wise man once said, get in my belly!

Try to flirt with them.

>>1109351
Quick Martah, unleash the biomancer's secret weapon to scare them off: absolute rancid stank smell.

>>1109373
Sounds about right. Can't dodge a room-filling chemical spray.

>>1109351
Quick are these "run away!" type bitey things or "Stand you ground and look intimidating" type bitey things.

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Everybody tries a different approach, pandemonium ensues.

Tippitoe: "Ackpth! Why're you smelling like spicy fruit?"

Martah: "Well salamanders are like lizards, and lizards are like birds, and birds hate capsaicin."

Hilgar: "No dude, you got that backwards. Birds love spicy things."

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Martah: "Oh, maybe I shoul- GLOMP

>>1110059
It's touching you which means you're touching it! Use your power to disable it!

Bite it back!

Quick! Change the creature into a narcoleptic!

It can't eat you if it falls asleep on top of you!

>>1110059
Mouth is dangerous because of sharp things, stomach is dangerous because of acid. Ideally, you want to lodge yourself in the throat somewhere to buy time for any internal biomantic attack.

>>1110059
Quick mimic the noble pufferfish

Super-speed your legs, then scream the following:
"AAA GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF"

1/3 Nalthar 2025/06/26(Thu)21:34 No. 1110384 ID: fd169b
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> Mouth is dangerous because of sharp things, stomach is dangerous because of acid. Ideally, you want to lodge yourself in the throat somewhere to buy time for any internal biomantic attack.

Martah: (Actually it doesn't seem to have any teeth at all. Y'know I've never thought about it before, but leaf matter is pretty weak right? Herbivore stomachs probably have weak acid. And I wouldn't want to choke the poor thing. So maybe I should just let it...)

> Bite it back!

Martah: (That's going to be hard with a mask on and my arms are stuck.)

> It's touching you which means you're touching it! Use your power to disable it!
> Quick! Change the creature into a narcoleptic! It can't eat you if it falls asleep on top of you!

Martah: (Oh yeah good idea I'll- wait a minute. You're trying to trick me aren't you? Getting smushed does sound pleasant though. Mmm, but wouldn't it be even better to get squished into a tight wet throat?)

> Super-speed your legs, then scream the following: "AAA GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF"

Martah: (I mean really I wouldn't mind staying- Ow Ow Ow something's biting my foot! Owowowowowow getitoffgetitoffgetitoff)

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> Quick mimic the noble pufferfish

Stomper: "Owrlowoawoawoa!"

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Good news: the biters are running away

give chase! hop onto its back and bull ride it! you will acquire a noble steed

>>1110387
I LOVE IT

No teeth is weird, usually herbivores have grinding teeth at least.
Anyway, evade with augments if you have too, then get on its back to pacify it. Make it fall asleep.

>>1110391
Hopefully its not a gizard of rocks to crush us into paste

>>1110384
Inconvenient time to awaken your vore fetish, Marty. Anyways, herbivores probably have strong stomach acid, green plant matter is hard to digest.

Hunters, aim for the eyes.

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Murdoc: "Get em!"

Everyone rushes around to pile on the stomper's back. Even with four robolds and four lizbolds clinging to its rubbery hide it isn't really hampered, so Hilgar climbs up its neck to deliver a close range psychological attack.

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Hilgar: "Mwah Mwah Mwah!"

With the stomper calmed down Martah does a little brain probing.

Martah: "Oh hey, you're right, it does have gizzard stones. Time to let it think we're friends. Which is only unethical if we have malicious intent which we don't so its fine."

Lets give the stomper a name

Dick Flattener the third

Moistah

Chewy
It's a classic

What kind of Pokemon brainwashing are you doing here? As for the name Stompy.

>>1110746
No need to get complex "Stompy"

Please don't name the stomper stompy.

Chewy seems good actually, since it tried to chew on you.

let's compromise. chewy + stompy = chompy

>>1110794
I like it!

>>1110794
Haha nice

>>1110747
What about Moist? Can call her or him Moi as thats what you felt in there throught awakenimg your weird desires to be squished under wet skin and fat

>>1110747
Gizz, since it has gizzard stones.

>>1111018
Seconding this because it made me giggle.

>>1111018
I like this, but we should dress it up a little. How about... Glizzy!?

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Martah: "Gizz!"

All: "Gizz!"

Martah: "Gizz the glompus. Genus; stompus."

Murdoc: "Pfft, nerd"

Gizz seems to like it. He makes a sort of warbling hum.

The robolds set to making a cart, which very quickly devolves into a sledge since there's a reason none of them are craftsbolds. So they end up not doing that at all and just take Gizz to meet the others at the forest edge. The shon are suitably impressed at their new large friend.

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And they are even more suitably impressed when they reach camp and get a good look at the robold's even larger though slightly less new friend. Jormun excitedly contacts the party now that they are in telepathy range again.

Jormun: (You guys are back! Can't wait to meet who you brought, but check this out!)

By the edge of the portal is a sort of oversized wooden bucket, with a huge canvas canopy.

Jormun: (We made an air cart to get back and forth easier. You push it off and it floats down until someone in town can hook it. It's kinda rickety, but if it messes up you can just fall over to me and climb up.)

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Jormun: (Someone also made a way to get water from the stream to the town. It's really neat!)

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Jormun: (Anyway get over here quick, Pitreh wants to have a meeting.)

Everyone piles into the tub, except the lizbolds who would prefer to stay on the ground for now. The ride is surprisingly gentle, though that doesn't keep the shon from huddling in the center until they reach the town. Except for Palla, who is right at the edge the whole way, wide eyes taking in as much of the wyrm as she can.

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The party makes a successful landing and head to the meeting, but Solfar intercepts you spirits and leads you aside.

Solfar: (Hey hey, how's it going? So, I wanted to make something to thank you for sticking around and giving advice and all. What do you think? It's kind of a little shrine you can hang out in, and people can come to you if they need advice. I left it simple so you can decorate it later, if you like. I dunno, it came to me in a weird dream. There was a snake lady and everything. Well, see you later!)

The spirits enter the ghost house, in as much as vague souls can be in anything.

Give the newcomers a tour of your home/best friend.

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Samsara: Surprise! I was the narrator the whole time! Aren't you pleased and shocked? hee hee

Now the robolds are settled in, relatively speaking, there isn't going to be anything much happening for about a week, so I thought it would be a good time to deal with your, erm, compatriots. Remember, the ball of conglomerated psyche formed from the spirits of humanity from the previous universal incarnation who where in heaven for a little too long? And now they're dissoluted into a sort of... mush?

Well, a planet opened up that would be just perfect to give them a second chance. No spoilers, but it has a lot of familiar, earthy things. Just go through this uh, Metaspacial Linkage...
https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1111738.html
...and I'll have you back here before anything interesting happens.


End of chapter one

Oh, no! I am bamboo-nuzzled or however it's said!