Outskirts

...Oh.
So on a scale of one to "run, you idiot!", how bad of an idea was fighting instead of trying to get away right at the start?

Ignatius

You swoosh behind the enemy while he's swatting at the annoying butterfly and stab your knife into its back.

Kobold received 2 damage.

The kobold growls, reaches over his shoulder, and grabs your arm. The next thing you know, you're flying through the air. The, suddenly, you aren't flying anymore as you slam into a tree and slump to the ground.

Iggy received 7 damage.

"Hey! That's not nice!" the pixie yells out. She starts sparking again, then releases another burst of electricity at the kobold.

Kobold received 12 damage.

The kobold collapses, twitching as it slowly begins to fade away.

BATTLE END
Winners: Ignatius and Pixie

The pixie flies over to you at the base of the tree. "Hey, are you OK? Oh, that looks painful. 'K, I'll make it all better!" She lands in your lap and holds her hands up.

Ignatius recovers 7 HP
Ignatius Cthulhu Mythos/Occult checks: Failure

You have no idea what she did, but the results are noticeable. You feel a lot better, but still pretty sore, and very tired.

Ignatius

Pixie's occult check: (failure)

"Iunno!" she says cheerfully.  "A lotta demons do!"  She hops off you and skips over to where her chestnut landed after she chucked it at the demon.  It's got a lot of dirt and grass and a bit of fur on it.  She picks it up and her eyes immediately start tearing up and sniffling.  "M... M... My... ch-chestnut..."

Ignatius

The pixie lets out a long, deep gasp, then tosses her soiled chestnut aside and charges you with shocking speed. She flies past, snatches the nut out of your hand, and does a few flips as she slows to a stop, all while repeatedly yelling "Thankyouthankyouthankyou!"

She loops back around and plops down in your lap. She cracks the nut and begins gnawing on it. "Ish sho shweet... Wan' shome?" she asks through a mouthful. She holds up half the nut.

Ignatius

"OK!" the pixie says. "I'll sit with you so you won't die if it does!" She continues to sit in your lap and returns to gnawing at her chestnut. It's certainly a change of pace to have company. And she's relatively tolerable when she's too busy eating to prattle on and on endlessly. Eventually you realize in horror that feeding her candy and sugar might backfire horribly...

Fortunately, about halfway through eating, she starts to doze off.

Ignatius

It is indeed too dark to read. On the other hand, out here, this far from the light of the city, the stars look amazing through the large gap in the trees...

Iggy's Luck check: Success
Iggy's CON checks: 20, 95

You try to stay up on alert. You manage to make it until midnight easily, and well past. But not long after that, you start feeling drowsy, and finally fall asleep.

Ignatius

You have an unusually pleasant dream. You're in a huge field of flowers that seems to span all the way to some giant mountains visible far off in the distance. You get a vague feeling of deja vu; it's as if you've been here before. You gradually realize that everything is still. No animals, no wind, no movement, no sound. Even the clouds are motionless. Everything about this feels... wrong. As if the world as frozen, other than yourself. You look around again. There are still the mountains far off the distance. A huge ocean is faintly visible behind you. To either side, the field of flowers seems to go off endlessly. Or... maybe you should just wait here. And go to sleep. You do feel rather tired.