[TINY CAT PEOPLE] VOID SESSION: ACT 4

[skinstealer]

VOIDSY: Nah, I think we’re good here. 
VOIDSY: Let’s keep moving.

 
You pass on the instruction to Marnet, and by the look of it, everyone else. The group gathers and starts moving, albeit with a bit more caution this time around. Looks like the bungle encounter has everyone on their toes.



 
You decide to check in on the group at the pit, and to your relief, they’ve reached the surface. Everyone seems okay...aside from Jetter, who staggers out of Writhe and nearly falls over.

WRETCH: what happened?! his health is going down-
EASTWOOD: I don’t know, you ask him! He’s your TCP!
EASTWOOD: Of course something had to happen while we were occupied…

 

 
You can hear Jetter mutter that he got hit with something on the way up, and pulls what looks like a dart out of his shoulder. Dad demands to know why he didn’t say anything, to which the razorblade type mumbles that he didn’t want Jasper to freak out and drop them. Your fatherly TCP sighs and drags the bag over, asking Jetter to put his hand in every so often and soak up some jelly. At least that would keep him stable until whatever it is wears off.


 
Jetter places his hand in and presumably heals, based on Wretch’s relieved sigh. He seems guilty over the whole thing, and doesn’t say much else. Dana pats him on the back as she starts looking around at the spiral’s steep walls. How far was it to the exit? Jasper says that they can fly up and scout, and Dad seconds it as a good idea. The ghostly TCP flies up, taking a moment before dropping back down- it’s a long way, but they can vaguely see the other group way in the distance. With any luck, they’d meet up in the middle.
  

EASTWOOD: Why the hell didn’t you notice your own TCP get hit?!
EASTWOOD: The game tells you when a status effect gets inflicted!
WRETCH: i dont know ok!! i dont know!
WRETCH: i got distracted with the whole giant bird monster thing
WRETCH: it was fuckin terrifying and slick wasn’t able to do anything and i dont fuckin know get off my back about it
MILLER: Please be more careful, Wretch...but I understand.
MILLER: Don’t give her too much hell over this, Eastwood. Her TCP suffering is enough of a rough time as it is.
EASTWOOD: Fine. But watch it next time.
VOIDSY: Let’s just relax…

 


You decide to check in on Primus and Buddy next, eager to distract yourself from your team’s bickering.

Oh god.



 
Primus looks like he’s been through a horror movie, covered in Buddy’s fluid and looking completely shell shocked. You ask him what’s wrong, what happened, and take a look at Buddy- to your relief, its leg is amputated and both it and its facial wound are sealed cleanly, with the TCP itself looking like it’s resting...but judging from the stray knives and stained blanket, it wasn’t an easy time.


Primus says that he can barely think right now, and asks one of the nearby clowns (equally spattered with fluid) if they can explain. While a little confused about talking to some unseen person above them, Numfi takes the reins and says that they just did surgery on Buddy, and the scalpel that Primus used did a great job! But...it looks like the pain rebounded into him, or at least that’s what he warned them it would do. Frankly, she’s surprised he was able to hold up through that, something that Slop seconds. The revenge type is impressed with the guts Primus had on display, and he did a great job, too. There was just one problem…


 
Primus weakly says that he doesn’t know what to do for Buddy so that it can walk again, or at the very least, get around safely. Slop volunteers to carry it around in the meantime, but they really should get something figured out. Is there anything they can use around the tower that could work? She’s not familiar with what’s here.

Primus is quiet, deferring to you on this one.

[OOC Note: it’s suggested that you look back through old panels to see what you can find- you do not have to come up with something right this second, but you cannot create things currently, and will have to improvise if Buddy is to get a mobility device now.]