[Artifact PRP] The Orphic Wildwoods (Ignatius/Brenley)

[Smerdle]

There! Brenley slowly rose to his feet and crept after the lights.

HP: 60/60
Stamina: 10/13  

[Smerdle]

Shocked to find the toadstools again so quickly, Bren looked up at them with relief, failing to notice that he was slowly sinking. It took him a little under a minute to pull himself out, and he was definitely winded when he had done so.

HP: 30/60
Stamina: 9/13  

[Seiana_ZI]

No matter how ninja Ignatius was trying to be, that spike pit really wanted to get a bit closer to him, and it would find a way to do so.

Ignatius rubbed at the new gash in his side.

HP: 25/50
Stamina: 20/22  

[Seiana_ZI]

Maybe the owl was just attracted to fresh wounds?

That was his last thought before getting taken away, again.

HP: 25/50
Stamina: 19/22  

[Smerdle]

Was that the owl? Yes, it was.  

[Smerdle]

When he awoke this time, he was finally numb.  

[Smerdle]

Even the cold from the arctic portal was nothing more than a curiosity.  

[Smerdle]

Chilling.  

[Seiana_ZI]

It was surprising how easy even Ignatius could go from excited to just ... mutely frustrated.  

[Seiana_ZI]

Very mutely, really. Ignatius enjoyed adventures, but he didn't necessarily enjoy repetition.  

[Smerdle]

He did step completely through into the town this time. Maybe he hoped he would get lost there for a time. That would have been exciting. But all that happened was that the portal back to the forest gleamed dully while he looked over the shell of a school.  

[Seiana_ZI]

Really, he wanted to be the swashbuckling hero, the one that swept in after a long, hard battle, and finished the enemies off with a mighty blow that would leave the others starry-eyed.

Yeah, that was the life.  

[Smerdle]

There was no way he was exploring the freezing wastes, however.  

[Seiana_ZI]

This, on the other hand, was more of a grind, and there was a place for that, but it wasn't really what Ignatius thought of when he thought of adventures. At least, not adventures that he personally wanted to go on.  

[Smerdle]

Even if the forest seemed to really want him to.