forum Come meet my OCs? (OPEN TO ALL)

Started July 15, 2023 by @Serenity88 group

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Enzo looks at Cayde depending on where no

"ok then."
Quinn searches the map with his keen brown peepers. "If we're here, following the river upstream would be the simplest path to @Mapitak."
"But since its evening now, I think we should chill here for the moonlit hours." Says Jasmine. She looks to Enzo. "Will you be staying here the moonlit hours too?"

Enzo looks back at Jasmine "if you want me to sure"

"I wasnt trying to make you– um I was wondering what your choice was. " She looks a little flustered. "I wasn't trying to ask you to stay, I wanted to know what you wanted to do."

Enzo starts feeling bodge "Sorry, I can go if you want"

Cayde stifles a snort and elbows Quinn, who glares around at no one in particular.
"No, no." Jasmine begins. "Do whatever–"
But before she could finish, A horse trots into view of the four. The rider sounds like he's wearing armor, judging by the clanging and clinking noises accompanying his passage.
"Quick, inside, now." Quinn's voice is low and sharp, and he crouches a little as if in preparation for a fight. Cayde disappears into the cabin without a sound. Jasmine gestures for Enzo to follow them in.
"That sounds like a soldier, we need to hide. Come on!"

Enzo follows them inside "What is this about?"

"Some Karen of a queen wants me captured." Quinn explains. "But Jasmine and Cayde aren't included in the package deal, so they can be killed or taken alive. I won't let either happen."
Cayde is scambling up the broken escalator to the second floor. Jasmine follows him, but slower. Quinn stays downstairs, opening a pack and rifling through.

"And you are sure you want a wolf like me in your cabin?" Enzo said concerned

Quinn glances up at him. "Oh its not mine. Not my cabin, I mean. You seem like a noice guy, and the soldiers – for surely there are more – Are ruthless and would shoot down a shifter like you in a heartbeat, not even think about it." He raised his voice and cast his peepers to the ceiling. "Jas! Where's the doggone crossbow!"
"It aughta be in there! Use them peepers!"
Quinn rolled them peepers, then looked directly at Enzo. "What kind of shifting thing you got going on? Like how does it work?"

Enzo thinks about how to explain it "Well it's hard to explain but when you are a new wolf you would shift into a wolf on a full nocturnal cheese wheel but once you get to control when you shift you could shift whenever you want"

"Sooo… kind of like the full nocturnal cheese wheel gives the new ones training wheels?" Quinn pulls a worn crossbow out of his pack, then calls up, "Cayde! I found the crossbow!"
The scrawny kid creeps down, much different from his earlier rambunctious mode of moving. "Thanks." he says, Taking it and heading back up.
An brain b^ubble seems to strike Quinn. "Say… how stealthy are you Enzo?"

Enzo smiles "Very stealthy. Why?"

Quinn returns the smile. "I was brain brewing you could maybe do some reconnaissance on the soldier– see how many there are, where they're at, that stuff. But it could be dangerous, so that's why you'd need to be super stealthy."

Enzo laughs "You are acting like I never hunted before"

He chuckles. "My bodge. Are you okay to go take a look outside? Don't go too far, just look around and see what there is to see."

Enzo smiles "There's no need I have super hearing" Enzo starts listening

okay then Quinn thinks. He waits silently so he doesn't mess up whatever Enzo is hearing.

"There is more than 3 soldiers and they are looking for you and they won't stop until they have found you"

He sighs. "Yup. That figures. How close are they? Can you tell?"

Before Enzo could answer there's a knock on the wobbly flip-shutter

"Shhhhhh!t!" Quinn whisper-shouts. "Upstairs. Go, go!" He lifts a quarterstaff from the corner by the wobbly flip-shutter, settles into a fighting stance, and gestures again for Enzo to go up. "I'll hold them off as long as I can. The broken escalator will bottleneck the soldiers so you three can take them easier."

(it's up to you. I have an brain b^ubble though) Enzo doesn't move. He wants to help fight