The History of Peter
| The History of Peter | |
|---|---|
| Date | 2/20/2025 |
| Storyteller | Doug |
| Tier | Trainee |
| Player Characters | Anima, Ser Bewwy, Evalynne Stoneking, Samara Slitherslime, Ione Icesickle |
| Rewards | 250xp, 30gp for each of us, plus 10 more for Anima. |
| Result | Success! We learned creepy stuff! |
| Author | Evalynne Stoneking! |
| Downtime | 0 |
HI It's Evalynne again! Today I'm with Ser Bewwy, Anima, Ione, and Samara Candylady! We're all the bestest of friends, we've been helping so much lately!
Today we're all gonna meet Sir Egg to help maybe fix Peter! I heard he's a f̶e̶t̶i̶l̶ fertility specialist, which means he helps people make babies! Or not make babies, depends on what they want. I think that's really cool of him.
When we finally got there, I brought jam toast for everyone! The jam was mostly apple and berry, but it seemed like everyone liked it. And then, after a bit, a nice nurse opened the door! She was really nervous, but it's okay because we're fine waiting a couple minutes.
She brought us to Sir Egg, and Peter, and this magic person named Illiam too! We all said hi, and now we're all friends! Sir Egg was happy to meet Ser Bewwy, too, so that was super cool! Two Sir/Ser's!
Sir Egg then took us to another doctor-ey room, and told us everything about him! We're bestest friends now! Then he briefed us on Peter's... Sperm? I guess it's cursed, in a lot of ways, like he can't have girl babies... At all! He gave us paper thingies explaining how to babies, which... I learned a lot, actually. I didn't realize that a baby wasn't a baby at first, we're just a pile of goo for a while!
This is really cool, so I guess we learned all this 'cause we're trying to find out __where__ the curse happens and what it does. And why, or something. 'Cause Illiam or Sir Egg can't figure it out.
We're going in!... ... In a egg?
It's a massive goo circle, that's no egg. Anyway I guess we're getting fancy suits then shrunk and put into the goo circle to see how and why the curse works. I'm gonna be honest, after looking at this paper, I don't wanna do this. But, it's to help Peter, so...
Oh lordy apparently this is gonna age us six months?! I'm gonna turn 58! Even worse.
Well, after Anima crowbar'd her way in, Ser Bewwy clawed through, Ione wrestled in, *I* punched through, and Samara slid in, Sir Egg was in our heads! He told us we was about to get shrunk, and we... Didn't feel great, leastmost Ser Bewwy. But it was one of those "we're already in it" situations, y'know?
Once we got shrunk'd up, we saw... So many sperms come to attack this egg. Attacking, forcing their way inside, melting on the surface of the ooze... I thought we were gonna get attacked, but... Turns out, the spermies didn't care about us.
Dark blue glow overwashed, after one spermy got in. And then I guess we were in some sort of void? Of icky ooze and this void? Strange, I think Sir Egg did it to make sure he knew what was happening.
Ione saw a small lil swirly of orange, like the halloweeny colors from the flame. It's oozey this time, though, it's not mixing with the whiteish icky, and is movin' around. Like it's a livin' eel, squirmin' and swirling around. Maybe a snake? It was wiggling around and living for sure. I don't get why it's only orange though, it's not black like the flames.
Sir Egg, with his magic, made the things go faster! The oozey orange went super fast, and the egg began dividing into about like.... I had to count, but it was eight, cause stuff started happening and we had to ask him to pause.
The orange oozey got way longer, like four times longer, and while it was squirmin, it suddenly snapped-to! Like, it started to move around and LUNGE at parts of the cells that were dividin' and breakin' up, and jump through 'em with much more ease than we could. It left behind black specks, which explained the lack of that in the orange oozey ooze. Turns out, those black specks are the orange thingy 'editing' the cell. Must be the curse changing things to make it a certain way. Accordin' to Candylady, it's apparently i̶n̶c̶o̶r̶p̶r̶e̶ i̶m̶p̶o̶r̶ incorporeal, the oozey bit...
Another fast-forward, and now we're surrounded by TONS of lil cells breakin up into bunches and bunches! The Orange oozey snake is now starting to go... More snake-ey with black swirly-wings. And working at top speed, to fix with its things it thinks are wrong with it. I dunno why it thinks its wrong all over the poor thing, but it's working hard. Once it finished up, though, when the fast forward was over, it stopped.
It just.. Floated, like us, in the ether of this eggvoid. Anima asked Ione what that snake was, and he said that most wingey snakes have feather wings and not bat-skin-like wings, so he was stumped. So was I, honestly, I'm not really smart about magic stuff... Samara and Ione both said that the Hellknights might know something about this though, so I included a drawing of it that my best friend Ione drew just in case-
Weirdly, it never goes near us though. Like, around us, sure, but not NEAR us. I think it thinks we're not part of its job?
Smart snake.
More fast forwarding, and the egg started to get a lil cramped. Once the cells started to change though, and stopped being all lil eggies, the snake went NUTS. Diving and sliding through everything again, leaving black speck dot changes throughout the whole thing again. We contemplated touching the curse snake, as it bit and attacked the cells, but then Anima threatened us with a crowbar so we didn't. Apparently though, for some reason, the snake was doing more than we thought? We thought it was gonna make a male baby, but it already went through this stage earlier... Why was it making MORE edits?
So this is apparently it was making changes to like, the intestines..? I dunno why, but I guess that's why we're here, huh? The flying demon snake thingy was still going nuts on this clump of cells though, making changes all throughout the bodies, and Anima felt like this thing was enjoying whatever the heck it was doin'. I dunno, it looks to me like that thing can barely think, but she's pretty sure so I'm gonna trust her on that.
Though after some time, it became pretty obvious to all of us that Anima was right. That lil beast was having too much fun with this. Her instinct was tellin' her that that was no beast, though... That creature was actin too smart. Somehow, that was growin' alongside the cells in the egg.
MORE fast forwards, and we saw what apparently was the heart starting to develop! It looked kinda cute, even as it was forming, but then the snake went in for it! Wrapping it up real tight, and staying there close instead of flying around. It still wasn't touching, but it was making changes to the heart nonetheless, and it looked real unpleasant. According to Ione, the snake was giving off an energy of sheer hatred. Pure malice, it's startin' to sound more fiendish by the second! Orange and black icky tentacles swirled and turned to chains around the heart, and then... It projected at us, hard. We ALL felt SUPER angy for a bit, it wasn't nice.
Ione felt it the worst for sure, just... A RAW hatred, for nothing in particular, as if something were Not Like Us in the most primal sense.
Everyone hypothesized that the cavemeanies were related to something WAY back in the lineage, like how it all started. We heard a muffley distant voice, that was super DUPER deep, sayin' indistinguishable words from very amazingly far away as the snake curled down to settle against the baby fetus heart. Wrapping around it, burning as it turned skeletally humanoid in morbid detail. Orange and black flames shooting outright clinging to the heart, pouring hatred over this heart it squeezed such fervor.
We couldn't tell what it was sayin', but it was mad as a bull in the rain and makin' sure that heart knew it. Apparently, Anima and Samara figured out that it was speakin Diabolic words, words of the Devils.
Yep, gotta bring up the Hellknights on this, there was another wingey snake on this thing's back. It was still growing, too, gripping and tightening around the heart as we left the eggy bit. Trying to slap the acid that melted the eggy away, keeping the heart healthy until.. Well, it all got melty.
It screamed REALLY hard and loud, scared the crap outta all of us and hurt our ears a bit. But Samara's ears were glittery, so we think the spirit thingy has the same rules as the Cavemeanies. Once we got out of the big vat, we briefed Sir Egg on what we thought was going down, and got out of the giant safety suits. He seemed as interested as we were scared, so I guess that's a good sign for Peter.