MTG Salvation

In addition to the timely reference, Shalin also notices a strange patch of goop on the ground. Hmm.... There seems to be a trail of it .... Which leads to ... A stopped carriage, which is still dripping this greenish goop out of the bottom. There was a lone Greel trying to sop up the Goop rather futilely with Leaves.

Seeing the spill caused Shalin to stop at the carriage. She felt awful for the individual trying to clean this up. "What happened here?" she naively asked. "Do you need a hand?"

"YES!" Shouted the Greel. He was missing a patch of hair, maybe from stress. The leaves were not working well. "I need you to follow the trail of the spill backwards! I don't know when it started spilling! If it got on some animals, they could be mutated already! Here, take this! It will help you clean animals!"

The Greel went back to the passenger area of the carriage and grabbed a Legacy Journal. It contained the spells Soak, Scour, and Filter.

"Once you Soak'em, you'll have to get close enough to Scour'Em, and after that when you Filter'Em it'll make them all clean! Kitty Kitty Cat, Kitty Kitty Cat, Kitty Kitty Cat But if the animal is already mutated, Cleaning it won't un-mutate it! So take these!"

The Greel then retrieved a pouch of vials, five in all.

"This is the anti-thingy. Kitty Kitty Cat, Kitty Kitty Cat, Kitty Kitty Cat. Make them eat this and they'll return to normal! I have to stay here and clean up this mess!!!!"

The Greel then began to turn in circles, muttering Kitty Kitty Cat under his breath.

Shalin laughed at the Greel's directions--it sounded like a sales pitch. She shrugged upon looking at the seemingly-ordinary vials. "Alright, I'll follow them back. You can count on me!" She took the items, then left the area with a smile on her face. She loved joining hunters, but they didn't like her style of "fighting" very much. Now that she was alone, no one could criticize her...unorthodox ways.

In short order, shalin came across an exceptionally slimy toad which was flattened in the middle. It looked like a carriage had run over it. It hopped a very short distance and lazily unrolled its tongue.

Shalin approached the toad, a naive smile across her face. "Poor thing...are you hurt?" She recited the words to give the toad a good rinse. "This should make you feel better."

The toad died. It was crushed.

Saddened she was too late, the girl continued following the trail of goop backwards. "Of course it wouldn't survive, silly. Its poor heart was probably crushed," she said quietly to herself, tilting her head from time to time to keep an eye in all directions she could.

Soon, Shalin spotted a small fire. Wait, it wasn't a small fire, it was burning bush. Oh no, if only someone with some water spells was nearby!

With the tree on fire, Shalin's first instinct was to find a way to douse it. Casting the Soak spell from the book the Greel handed her, she shouted, "Flames be gone!" and tried to do just that.

Soak was fairly effective, dousing much of the fire. It hadn't spread too far yet, as it was a recent development. All of a sudden, from Shalins left, she heard

"Squa-BURN(whatever the sound a fire makes, it comes in addition to a Squawk)"

Oh, it's a fire-breathing Parakeet up in that branch. Makes sense.

Shalin stood directly underneath the branch the strange creature was standing on, holding her arms out as to encourage the creature to jump down. "No kidding when he said these things are mutated," she thought.

Parakeets are not partial to jumping and falling, and instead flew over to another branch. In midair, it Squ-fwooshed again, creating an overlarge burst of flame from its beak that nearly touched the ground.

"What the...?" Shalin thought. A parakeet that breathes fire? That was a hell of a mutation. The girl first tried to soak its back in water, keeping the water away from its face as to not agitate its fire-producing organ by accident.

Soaking it suddenly caused it's weight to increase, which made it drop slightly, and it flapped its wings harder, causing water to spray off its wings, which caused the wings to change how effectively they lifted it, but the parakeet wasn't accustomed to these sudden changes, and it flew headlong into a branch and fell unconscious.

With the parakeet unconscious, Shalin got close to it and scoured the goop on it away in all directions. "Poor thing...weird, and poor. I wonder what that stuff does to hunting cats?" she thought, then tried to imagine it herself.

Soon the unconscious parakeet ost the reddish tint to its feathers, indicating it was no longer fire-themed.

The trail continued, and probably led to an even more dangerous creature....

ooc: So she has four vials left since she made the animal normal again?

Intrigued by the effects of the strange oil, Shalin continued down the trail, her curiosity getting the better of her.

Soon, Shalin discovered a small clearing just covered in Oil.

In it, a large red creature hopped back and forth, clipping grass with it's massive claws. It was clearly well armored, and had 4 powerful jumping legs.

Shalin sighed--there was no clear way to the creature without it. Her first instinct was to clear a path, applying some water pressure in front of her to try pushing the oil out of the way. Once she was in range, she gave the creature a good soaking to clean off the oil on it.

Shalin managed to subdue the Kangobster, and made a longtime friend.

After meeting a Cheetupine which was just big enough to ride (but only about as fast as a really fast horse, and bearing spines on its back, so it needed to be well groomed in order to be rideable) Shalin returned to the carriage to announce her victory only to discover a LEAF GREEL MONSTER, which she then had to defeat in an EPIC BATTLE.

Phew, good thing that's over with.