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: HP = 61, PP = 47, EP = 44/56, Status = Other warning for readers: Senka smells French.Full disclosure:
I rolled perception and stealth for Senka earlier to determine if she'd successfully find an isolated place to kill these two. These rolls met the DC required.
From there, I decided to make 2 interruption rolls based on the amount of time it took her to kill the two men and the amount of noise they managed to make before she did it.
Interruption roll for during the meal result was no interruption.
Interruption roll for after the meal result was no interruption.
Senka gains +4 Body in total from eating the hearts, based on a bit of GM fiat around the difficulty of the fight versus the rewards gained. We'll have more discussion about house ruling further balancing fixes to Feast of Flesh as we go, as while I want to reward her for her cannibalism (what a sentence), I don't want her to scale too quickly to be able to provide a decent fight for her.
Senka doesn't gain a dodge buff from eating the livers because she already ate their souls with their hearts. It's a good source of iron though.
Also she finds 2 denarii. Good job.
I rolled perception and stealth for Senka earlier to determine if she'd successfully find an isolated place to kill these two. These rolls met the DC required.
From there, I decided to make 2 interruption rolls based on the amount of time it took her to kill the two men and the amount of noise they managed to make before she did it.
Interruption roll for during the meal result was no interruption.
Interruption roll for after the meal result was no interruption.
Senka gains +4 Body in total from eating the hearts, based on a bit of GM fiat around the difficulty of the fight versus the rewards gained. We'll have more discussion about house ruling further balancing fixes to Feast of Flesh as we go, as while I want to reward her for her cannibalism (what a sentence), I don't want her to scale too quickly to be able to provide a decent fight for her.
Senka doesn't gain a dodge buff from eating the livers because she already ate their souls with their hearts. It's a good source of iron though.
Also she finds 2 denarii. Good job.
The kumiho's methodical nature served her as well as it ever did. Her earlier efforts had ensured that she'd picked a nice, isolated alley for both hunting and feeding. Now, as any predator would, she set about the task of securing the remains of her prey to ensure that none would disturb her meal. After sidetracking for a moment to clean off her knives with a quick cantrip, Senka would summon her privacy veil without issue. While the patch of inky blackness would almost certainly look out of place enough at that time of day, even in the shadows provided by the alley, to warrant any passersby calling the guards, but it would provide valuable time and hide her identity even in the worst case scenario.
And time and privacy were extremely important for Senka, given her nature and the state she preferred to take when sating it. A young, half-nude woman stripping the shirts off of dead bodies in the alley and beginning to surgically remove their organs would be difficult enough to explain, but when she revealed her fox-like appendages and fangs and took a bite out of the newly liberated heart of the lanky man, staining her chin, cheeks, and hands in his flowing lifeblood, it would've gotten her burned at the stake by witch hunters even in fractured Badarian territory.
But for Senka, the risk would be well-rewarded. There was nothing greater for a kumiho who had given into their basest instincts even once than to consume the vital organs from their fresh kills. In most it was an addiction. For the demonic fox, taking that first bite out of the man's heart would cause a sense of euphoria and satisfaction to wash over every inch of her body. Like a smoker who'd lit up after a few weeks spent abstaining or an alcoholic who'd taken a drink after a time spent sober, her body rewarded her efforts to feed that base impulse with a rush of general pleasure powerful enough to make her shiver.
And whether she was knowledgeable enough or simply introspective enough about her maligned race's feeding process to figure it out, the animalistic consumption of the hearts of the men also allowed her to feast on fragments of her victims' souls. Happiness, love, friendship... a little bit of terror. She tasted some of their emotions with every bite, only adding to her own sense of bliss and fullness. And if she let them, those stolen feelings might take her back to the sense of belonging and love she'd felt when she had still been with her mentor. Perhaps they might even briefly fill in as a substitute for the happiness that she'd been deprived of so long ago during her childhood, given the harsh realities of growing up in the backstreets of Acheron without her parents. Or maybe she'd just accept it all as raw bliss without allowing herself to think too deeply about it or dwell on her own past.
Because the souls of the men had already been ravaged beyond repair when she'd eaten their hearts, their livers were noticeably less satisfying, though that wouldn't stop Senka from enjoying them and using them to sate the more physical side of her hunger. A sense of deep satisfaction would wash over her after she finished the second liver, leaving her feeling something akin to an afterglow. For a brief while she would be sated and free of the ever-present hunger of her race. Though for one such as Senka, who had long since given into the impulse and become a full-fledged predator, it likely wouldn't be viewed as an outright relief. It was probably more akin to a cooling off period that would only serve to make the next hunt more enjoyable.
From there, she would be able to clean up, though it took several applications of her cantrip, redress, and make herself presentable again. Rifling through their belongings, she would only find two denarii between them. If they were ransomers, they either hadn't been successful at it or were keeping their wealth elsewhere. Once she was satisfied with her search, Senka would also find no sign that anybody was anywhere nearby, at least as best she could tell. Given the state she'd left the two men in, her choice to use her spiritual powers in order to warp away as a precaution was likely wise regardless of her level of confidence in how populated the surrounding area might be. But she'd be able to return from the direction she'd arrived without incident.
That left her to decide what she wanted to do next. Putting as much distance between her and the dead men was probably a wise starting point. There was also still the matter of securing lodging before nightfall. The sun had noticeably moved across the sky in the time it had taken her to indulge, and by any best guess it was probably late afternoon. She could also make her way elsewhere, if she'd changed her mind on her priorities. The choice was Senka's alone.
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