Notail Simulator Beta (4/4)

You watched as the decommissioned creature stuffed its face full of bait before twisting its body around wildly again and swinging its tail at what you assumed to be air until you watched the tail disappear, and listened to an audible slap sound.

Another of the decommissioned beasts came tumbling out of thin air.

Well, most of it.

It seemed as if it was sliced in an awkward fashion, but it was still alive and moving just fine. As it moved parts of its body would disappear and others would reappear. The original decommissioned beast swung its tail in and out of the “current dimension” seemingly in a display to scare the other one. It seemed to not impress the oppressor who also wanted to feast as you could hear it make a piercing scream even though you could only see two of its legs and just a 6th of its body.

It charged forward and leaped on the original one, now fully in the current dimension, thus fully visible. There was a quick scuffle. Dust was flung in the area as they bit each other and rolled around, disappearing and reappearing over and over. Finally, the original beast scared off the other one, or, at least it seemed that way to you.

The other beast had simply fully disappeared from your view and never came back.

The victor quickly scarfed up as much food as it could as it swung its head around to make sure no one else came for it. You asked Hawk kid for the rope.

It seemed weary of you, but not scared. It wasn’t because of the bait, after all, it would take a few days for it to fully affect it. Instead, it seemed to not be scared because you didn’t flip in and out of view like the other of its species did. You signal to Hawk kid to go jump on the creature so you could tie it up easier. Hawk kid shot you a worried glance but did what he was told.

As he approached the creature, it suddenly turned its head to look him in the eye. Hawk kid froze, waiting for you to signal the next move, but you told him to just do it. He nods, but you know he doesn't want to go through with it. He gets ready to jump when the creature turns its whole body and screams loudly. Hawk kid backs up in fear, suspecting it was about to attack-

-but that's not what it was screaming at.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 1 is rolled.

The other decommissioned beast appeared from out of the air. Its head lunging forward and the rest of its body pulling itself outwards. It bites down on Hawk kid before dragging itself back into its dimension.

That's when you saw the trick to the whole thing. It was not popping in and out of dimensions, just controlling its invisibility as it moved to appear as if it could. While the creature had disappeared Hawk kid seemed to be impossibly floating on his side as the beast tried to take him away. You yelled out to Slithers to stop the monster from taking Hawk kid away.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 3 is rolled.

But Slithers had his head down a hole he dug in a crude attempt at preparing for winter.

It was all up to you.

You took out your knife and chased in the direction Hawk kid was being taken. You were slow, but it was slower due to carrying Hawk kid.

You were so close to it.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 2 is rolled.

But its tail reappeared. Everything slowed down as you watched it descend upon you, and yet you were unable to move. It slammed into your side and you lost your vision for a few moments.

You made sure to keep a death grip on your knife this time though.


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You couldn't have been down for more than a few minutes, but when you started to rouse again you were instantly hit by wave after wave of pinging. The swarm of notails that had gone into the ruins was alerted to the attack on Hawk kid when one of the tailmics they were traveling with seemed to have made a beeline out of the ruins and went after the attacker.

The one that you were baiting had consumed all the food and ran to avoid being attacked by the swarm.

The tailmic bit into the neck of the reptile over and over until the beast was forced to let go of Hawk kid and turn its attention to the tailmic. It wasn't fooled by the tailmic's disguise at all, seemingly immune to all psychics, explaining why the other one could see the invisible one attempting to steal food.

You got up but immediately was hit with a wave of pain in your leg and toppled over only because you didn't expect it.

Some of the swarm took out bows and shot at the creature while the tailmic still fought it off with Hawk kid just underneath the battle.

Sensing it was outnumbered the monster swung the tailmic off it and attempted an escape, turning invisible as it ran. The arrows that had pierced its hide ruined its disguise. A notail and her capture creature blocked its original exit path. It twisted around and attempted another, but one good shot to the head finally brought it crashing to the ground.

Some of the swarm ran excitedly into the ruins to tell the others about slaying such a powerful looking creature, others went to go prod the creature and ponder how its body could be used, and an S-class went to go pry the tailmic off of Hawk kid as it attempted to protect him so he could get a better look at Hawk kid.

For a moment you considered hiding just so no one would notice your failure.

But no. There just had to be one notail who exited the ruins and looked you dead in the eye as if you were a target to hit.

No, you were a target.

The short notail moseys on over. You were normally confident now, but the sight of the smaller notail made you shrink and look at the ground in an attempt to distance yourself.

They place their hand on your shoulder as if trying to reassure you.

But it just burns.

"E-2732! How nice to see you again! Looks like you lost your friends from before huh? You know E-2732, an F-class isn't an E-class. If you were attempting to build a swarm you should really start with the right classes. <:)"

Why did it have to be E-4?