I didn't think so but wanted to make sure.

Post coming soon... but first, lunch!

Generally speaking, Morgana's puppets and dolls go on a scale of combat to non combat. There are exceptions, but those are  unique.

For the humanoid scale, it goes like this:

On the fully combative side, there's the puppets that Aranwen has seen - proportions are outside that expected of humanoid, generally longer and thinner arms, magically reinforced in strength and durability, and its movements are incredibly shifty and jerky; no effort is made to conceal its nature, aside wearing a cloak or other loose clothing about it. Let's call these the alpha puppets.

Midway between combat and noncombat is the puppet Ch'dau and Kithran just fought - proportions match any of the races, depending on the specific puppet design. More likely to be overlooked in a crowd because the shape is right, and it generally moves in the right way, but it is still ball-jointed and can move in unusual ways. Sometimes she reinforces the deception with an illusion, to better disguise this kind of puppet in a crowd, ie disguise self type effect, but usually she just has them with cloaks or other loose clothing. Let's call these the beta puppets.

Finally, there's the noncombative dolls - they blend in extremely easily with people, aside the aforementioned traits - dull/distant eyes, always with a gemstone at their forehead, typically disguised by jewelry, and colder temperature than normal. Morgana often hides their eyes in some way. These are her crystal dolls. She does not have many of them.

Morgana does have and play with smaller felt dolls, usually for her own amusement.

My next Little Kithran post is even longer than the last. I am so sorry. I don't know why I keep doing this to you two and to myself!

I'm so self-conscious about these long ass posts hahaaaaa I'm still just wrapping part 4 up now so it'll be a minute, but maaaan. You guys don't even really need to read them. You know what? I'll just burn these *throws laptop into a oil drum fire*

Good thing I am some level of proficient with Shadowrun 

Just have to deep dive, apply marks to access the device, and then retrieve the file before the fire can cause critical structural damage...  

(No but really if you don't post it I will bug you until you do because I want to seeeeee )

I'll have Saina show up out of nowhere and bother Kithran in the past if I need to

Yeah but . . . Now IIIII want to see these Shadowrun skills

Haha okay okay okay, I was hoping to finish last night, but I was writing in my bed and just . . . Fell asleep with the laptop open. But have no fear, the novella will be out shortly!

@Saina: that WOULD do it haha

Kithran: *being sneaky sneak and risk taker*

Saina: Hiiiii, are you being robber?

Kithran: Ack! Where did you come from?!

Saina: I want to play too, who is being cop?

Kithran: Uhh, that annoying guy I can't shake

Saina: Leave it to me *waits and trips him and blows raspberry before running away to be a distraction*

* * *

Present Kithran: ... Wait... That girl seemed familiar. Nah, couldn't be.

Haha oh wow. Or she's just randomly popped up throughout her life and every time is jarring but sort of helpful, and Kith just thinks she's like, a guardian angel or a g-g-g-ghost who is haunting her lol

Present Kith: y-you guys see her too?

Reralae: If they flee the apothecary and find some place to hide, will that shopkeeper puppet give chase?

The shopkeeper doll is not a combat one. She won't pursue. 

In a way what she did was to get Kithran, Ch'dau and Mosic out of the store so she could lock it up and start repairing the combat puppet. If they happened to be susceptible and fall quickly to the powder's effects, that was more a bonus than the intent.

She steps outside of the apothecary briefly, about a minute after letting the group leave uncontested, to flip the sign to closed and going back inside the apothecary, presumably locking the door afterwards  

Thanks! I'm gonna do the Eol rando rolling to see how Kith fairs, using myyyyy dice this time! *sounds of metal dice in a dice box* Aaaaaaaaannnnnd . . . Ch'dau's going to have to keep it together  Seriously, 100% of the time I fail this "random" system *throws table over* the average of my rolls came to 54, and I rolled a 33. I just did it again for s***s and giggles with a different set of dice, the average came to 44, and I rolled a 29.

Kith really shouldn't have turned her back on the goddess of luck lol

I saw Eol say he was working on a post before the yucks got him, so I'll start a post but maybe wait until Cat-Daddy is feeling better enough to make his before I finish up mine. Just know, Kith got GOT by that haha

Dunno about 2e but I was just thinking along the lines of

Initial effect: drowsiness

Secondary effect: sleep

Failing to resist initially just means it got in your system, get drowsiness. Have to fail again after a minute to actually fall asleep. At least if going by that. I left it vague so it was more up to you two how to handle the effects on your characters  

I was thinking along those same lines. I just enjoy rolling dice so much, you understand, they just are not in my favor at all when it comes to this game.

Anyhoo, one sleepy thief, coming up!

Just a Sunday shorty before bedtime.

Eol: Took some liberty in assuming we were going to flee, lemme know if Ch'dau would wanna try to eff ish up some more or anything and I can revise.

G'night friendos!

Take all the liberties you like! That's about how I saw it playing out, myself.

Ch'dau, of course, would have loved to have made more of a mess in the shop but I figure he took in a pretty big whiff of the "powder bomb," himself, so getting the F out was definitely the best choice.

Finally feeling much better, today, so hoping to get some posts done at last.

*shake shake shake*

Do the happy healthy dance!

*shake shake shake*