>Check out that item to the South

Ew. Ew. The ground here is nothing but congealed, compacted blood. It squishes with every step like a soggy, matted old rug.
FERN:

Any idea what we do now, Willis?


WILLIS, POINTING NORTHEAST:

Smells like home thataway! The other two smell...super weird.

It's making me real hungry in here...but mom says it's rude to drink somebody in their own endozone and also it'd make us both unexist.


FERN:

Ah. Great.


You're just gonna see what that metal thing is and be on your way as quickly as you ca-

L10 MACROBOBBY ATTACKS

The globular figure seemed to ooze up out of the ground, hat and all, as if it were thin as water. Its surface glistens and ripples as it speaks.
MACROBOBBY:

'EY! Nah foreign particles allowed in me patrol zone!!!


WILLIS:

AW BEANS! IT'S THE FUZZ!!!


CHOOSE YOUR ACTIONS!

FERN (L13) - ATK:8



WILLIS (L15) - ATK:0




>FERN: TALK, WILLIS: SHIELD

FERN:

Hey, we don't want any trouble, we're just passing throu-


MACROBOBBY:

Yer a'ready trobble!!! I'll bonk 'ya good n' 'ave me good-bonked trobble fer DINNEH!!!


WILLIS USED "SHIELD!"

A web of veins erupt from seemingly nowhere, forming a tough and springy basket around Fern and Willis. Damage reduced to ONE this turn!


MACROBOBBY USED BONK!

STRIKE ROLL: 10+6 (HIT!)

DAMAGE ROLL: 4, 11, 2, 15, 13, 14 (3 DAMAGE...REDUCED TO 1!)


FERN LOSES 1 HEALTH!




WILLIS LOSES 1 HEALTH!





>FERN: SLASH, WILLIS: DRINK

FERN USED SLASH!

"Sorry!! I'm sorry! I just can't be anyone's dinner and we've REALLY got to get going!!"

STRIKE ROLL: 11 (HIT!)

DAMAGE ROLL: 4, 8, 14, 15, 17, 13, 12, 12


WILLIS:

I can't drink this guy! He hasn't gots bloods, Fern!!!


MACROBOBBY USED BONK ON WILLIS!

"Evaluatin' an officer's potability eh!? 'At's DELINQUENT!!!"

STRIKE ROLL: 5 (+100 CONTEMPT FOR YOUTH BONUS)

DAMAGE ROLL: 7, 1, 7 20, 13, 15 (3 DAMAGE!)


WILLIS LOSES 3 HEALTH!




MACROBOBBY LOSES 6 HEALTH!





>FERN: THROW THE BOOK AT HIM!!!

FERN:

Of...of COURSE! It's so simple!!!


FERN THROWS THAT BOOK SHE JUST FOUND AT THE BOBBY

It bounces lightly off the monster's cytoplasm and lands softly on the ground in front of it.


MACROBOBBY:

WOT THA 'ECK!?!? WHO TOLD YEW!?!?

...Oooohhhh me missus'll be mighty cross when I come 'ome dead again! Don't think I'm forgettin' this one!!

MACROBOBBY LOSES ALL REMAINING HEALTH!



The huge cell, helmet and all, deflates like an empty balloon and dissolves into the floor...but leaves something behind.
ITEM FOUND: HAIRBALL

Feels wet, cold and squishy through the plastic "evidence" bag.


FERN:

...sigh...I guess I really need to get used to the fact that if something's dumb as hell, it's probably what works.

Are you okay, Willis?


WILLIS:

Yeah...but he said I broked a laws!!! Am I in trouble?!


FERN:

Even then it shouldn't be okay for a policeman...or a blood cell, whatever, to hurt a little kid. Where I'm from, that's fro...

I mean.....

...Well, it's frowned upon by MOST people.







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