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Aug 16, 2016 5:45 pm
Silene makes her way to the cage on the left, upon getting there she is struck with shock by the occupants. Inside the cage are two rats, with large crested horns protruding from their heads and white scales covering their entire bodies. Upon coming up to the cage the air is noticeably colder. The means to open it is rather simple, a door, hinged at the bottom, held close by a pin at the top. You can guess pulling the pin the door falls open. Silene hears a voice in the back of her head "I wouldn't if I were you, they are calm in their confinements, much safer for your group to have a safe chat with me."
Aug 16, 2016 5:55 pm
Silene visibly shudders from the combination of chilled air, the voice in her head, and the seemingly unnatural creatures before her. She whispers to herself, repeatedly chanting a toneless phrase. Silene looks to the white-scaled rats and with a twitch of her nose, makes a series of chirps and squeaks.
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Casting Speak with Animals
What... happened? Are you hurt?
Aug 16, 2016 6:14 pm
They both stand on their hind feet and start to sniff the air, then one of them returns a few chirps and squeaks "Food man gone, food pain now."
Aug 16, 2016 9:56 pm
Wishing that she was anywhere other than in this place, talking with rat the size of a melon, Béke takes a moment to regain at least a bit of her composure.

"How would we know that you have truly changed allegiances should we accept your offer?"
Aug 16, 2016 11:40 pm
"My allegiance has and always will be to my brothers and sisters," he gestures around the room " the rat-king promised of freedom but now a days he is rarely seen. When he is seen he is rambling to himself, paying attention to no one. If you can get us freedom, then i'll be in your debts."
Aug 16, 2016 11:49 pm
Silene continues to squeak with the rats, moving on to include others nearby in her conversation. All of you in this way? Where is food man?

In the hopes of appealing to their natural animal instincts, Silene takes some of her rations (a mix of dried fruits and nuts with seasonings) and portions out small doses for each creature, moving along the cages.
Aug 16, 2016 11:49 pm
"If you are truly as intelligent as you say, don't you have means to leave?" Ramiel asked, looking at the cages with uncertainty. If we do this, then we unleash into the world a horde of rodents that could kill.
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Aug 17, 2016 12:32 am
"We no see food man. Food man gone." they all cautiously take the food, one by one Silene makes her way around, seeing one abomination after the next. In one cage, there are two rather large bulky rats with the snout of a boar. In another, there are two more rats covered in yellow down feathers and have beaks instead of mouths. Past another, there are two more rats, that have been inflated like a balloon with an eye grafted onto their raised bloated bellies, with two eye stalks writhing at its sides. Second to the last cage, there is only one rat in it, it looks extremely miserable, its body is bloated beneath its transparent skin you can see a dim neon green light being emitted by what you assume is some sort of chemical liquid. The last cage, contains nothing at first glance until you look up, you find perched on the ceiling two rats with eight legs protruding from their bodies and eight red eyes staring back at you. You find one completely empty open cage. You return back to the scaled rats, they stand on their hind legs again letting out some more squeaks "You new food man?"

Nibbles lets out a chuckle "The means to leave, sure, it doesn't require much brains to walk out of this place. Even the dumbest of dumb can find their way out eventually. It is thanks to my intelligence why we are still here, the rat-king has a kill switch installed in us all. Was he bluffing? Perhaps, but I don't want to risk it, especially after seeing his creations I wouldn't put it past him to have put a kill switch in us. Which is where, hopefully, you come in."
Aug 17, 2016 12:43 am
No, I am not the new Food Man, squeaks Silene. Satisfied for now that the animals have each gotten food and won't sicken themselves by eating too much, the druid asks, What can you tell me about the Food Man?
Aug 17, 2016 12:46 am
"Food man give food. Take babies, bring back us."
Aug 17, 2016 12:48 am
Where does he take you? Silene continues. Does he go north past the tunnel and stream?
Aug 17, 2016 12:55 am
"Take us babies, think no there. Carries in bag."
Aug 17, 2016 3:16 am
What did you smell with your keen nose? Silene asks, squeaking the words to the white-scaled rats. She provides another portion of food, enough that the amount does not shock their systems.
Aug 17, 2016 3:29 am
It sniffs out in the air, as if trying to recall some scents. "Us good at smells. Smell bag other rats been. Smell pain and point sticks. Smell nice flower. Smell odd, go black, think no there." it grabs the food, less cautiously but still on-guard, breaks it in-half and shares it with his cagemate.
Aug 17, 2016 3:43 am
While her spell lasts, Silene will repeat the questions to the other rats, as well as dole out a tiny reward of food. She is interested in seeing if the other animals recall the same observations, and also assessing their state of mind. For example, the white-scaled rats seem reasonably astute despite their hunger; will the othes prove the same?
Aug 17, 2016 3:51 am
The answers are pretty much the same only a sliver of more intelligence, however you learn from the spider-rat and the rat with the belly eye and eye stalks, that smelling pain means blood and smelling point sticks means swords or similar metal.
Aug 17, 2016 3:51 am
"Can you reproduce?" Ramiel asked Nibbles. "Do your offspring share your. . .modifications? Or are they just normal rats?"
Aug 17, 2016 4:04 am
"While I am capable of reproducing, I lack the appropriate mate. Something about my magical augmentations make it dangerous for them, perhaps my offspring would carry over my modifications but the others birth normal rats or giant rats depending on what they were before."
Aug 17, 2016 4:32 am
"But not spider-rats, rat-bear-pigs. . .or whatever else you are?" Ramiel asked.
Aug 17, 2016 4:36 am
"I am simply a rat with heightened intelligence..." he smiles and a voice breaks into your mind "..and a drip of magic."
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