<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/8/89/Warforged.jpg)</div>Ratwarden (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=254604.msg12584200#msg12584200)<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Stats</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Hit points:</strong> 66/66 <strong>Hit die:</strong> 7/7d8 <strong>Initiative:</strong> +1<br/><strong>Conditions:</strong> <br/><strong>Abilities:</strong> Spell Slots 11/11, Wild Shape 2/2, Natural Recovery 1/1, <br/><strong>Equipment:</strong> Immovable Rod, Druidic Staff, Explorer's Kit</div></div><br/><hr/><em>"Metal-rat is leaving."<br/><br/>"Okay! Metal-rat is full? Show new food-places when metal-rat comes back."<br/><br/>"No, metal-rat is going far away." <br/><br/>"Okay! Metal-rat knows crawl-places. Metal-rat will be safe."<br/><br/>"No, metal-rat is going very far away."<br/><br/>"Okay! Metal-rat finds new crawl-places?"<br/><br/>"That's... yes, I suppose that's accurate."<br/><br/>"Okay! Avoid cats and crackle-shine."<br/><br/>"...yes. Be well, my little friend."<br/><br/>"Okay!"<br/><br/>Well that had gone... about as well as could be expected, Ratwarden thought as it left the tiny tunnel, unfolding into a humanoid with all the little clicks and clacks that came with that. Its charges weren't exactly long-term thinkers, that's why it had to be. But with the right stimulus (which was to say, treats) it could be gone for years and remembered as though it had only been gone an hour. Or it might be completely forgotten. It very much came with the territory. At any rate, there was no need for long goodbyes. Not when it had so many to get to...</em><br/><hr/>Ratwarden was going to run out of recording space before it even got past the first day, there was so much that was new and incredible that it had to cross-reference with historical material and had to empirically determine things that should have seemed obvious but weren't, like could the stars be plucked from the sky, was the reddening of the sky dangerous when the sun was going down, and the trees! They were all discolored! Were they diseased? Was that supposed to happen? Rini might have felt physically small, but Ratwarden's expertise was going to have to grow at least three sizes to encompass what was currently going on. (Shouldn't a body of water that size dry up without something in place to recycle it?)<br/><br/>And then there was the crew, another blank spot full of questions that all seemed difficult to ask. At least they seemed happy. Possibly? The return of light brought another reddening of the world and one of its companions was behaving very strangely. There was that feeling that so often came up when dealing with other intelligent beings. A feeling that it should say something. Do something. But all it can think of is only half a joke, "Blackbird, do you require assistance? You appear to be leaking..."