ooc: Anni and Hembar first met in W@RF 8, starting
here (I believe Kix and Jim were showing Anni the pump they'd installed in her garden at the time) and going on to about page 25 (Anni runs off but meets Hembar again). Gretin, you and I are the only ones involved so you don't need to read anyone else's stuff.
Did I used to control Kix? o_O
Looking back has made me think W@RF 8 wasn't as bad as it seemed at the time. It's just a shame that the good players from then all left pretty quickly, so no plots were developed.
I meant to read back and then post IC: But I cleverly just pressed the post button, so I'll edit IC in soon.
And now I have to go, sorry. I've got a post planned and I'll type it out in a couple of hours. It has paramites!
EDIT: Sorted.
IC:
Anni looked uncertain, "Um, I think if I said I'd caught you the sligs would probably just shoot you. And if I took a note or something, I'm not sure they'd believe it. You wouldn't have to throw away your stuff, just hide it." Then another question just osrt of burst out of her, "Anyway, why do you want a job here anyway?! You're a native! Shouldn't you be doing... native... things?"
She turned her head suddenly when she heard a paramite hiss.
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The different colonies and species of creatures living in Rupture Farms' unused parts may not have gotten on with each other, and they didn't exactly talk to strangers, but they understood and watched each other enough for a colony of paramites living back in the derelict building to know that creatures living under the factory itself had been disturbed by some frightening, stinking intruder.
Then other creatures had come into their territory. One of them was an odd-smelling mudokon, similar to the one they knew they weren't supposed to attack. But the other one was strange, something none of them had smelt before, though the previous generation of their pack might have recognised the scent of a meech.
What they did recognise was that neither mudokon nor animal smelt like an industrial, which were dangerous to hunt. And they were disturbed by the rumours of the towering creature that had walked through the shadows earlier that day, in a place where they did not live, but where they often hunted.
And now they were hungry.
Five paramites moved through the shadows behind Hembar and Crunchy, silent and invisible in their own territory. Then one of them let out a hiss and they leapt at their prey.