Notail Simulator Beta (4/4)

You bush away your thoughts of sitting in this nest forever, and you bush away your invasive thoughts for now. Surviving was most important right now.

They call to you again, you jump to your feet and make a slashing motion at your neck, a movement that was more visible than a finger to the mouth but still got the same message across. Stop whatever you were doing.

You couldn't have them yelling at you. It would attract the mother for sure.

Running across the bridges, you felt once again the intense presence of a pair of eyes drilling into your back, getting closer and closer an unseen horror.

You whip your head back this time to look, but nothing was there.

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

But when you turn back there she was. She appeared so suddenly, and it felt impossible to believe anything could move so fast. She showed an interest in you, but it was one of more confusion than anything. Why would you be leaving her nest? Yes, she screamed at you and forced you there, but who would leave her nest? She could only fathom one reason why you would attempt an escape, and that would be due to the intruders.

She would not be kind to them.

Fortuna rolls a 6 sided die. A 5 is rolled.

She grabbed E-31, the one closest to E-4, and flew into the void below.

The others realized their plan would do nothing due to her speed and ran themselves.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 16 is rolled.

You didn't see E-31 after that, and the mother never flew back up, possibly assuming that stealing away another child would scare away the intruders and you would go back to the nest like a good child.

Inside and far away from the platforms, you were safe, and yet the stress felt like it was pushing down on you. You stopped paying attention, and everything became a blur like when you were screamed at.

You just didn't want to be stressed out.

"E-2732, come on, we're moving, that's enough resting for now. <:)"

You could tell by the light coming in from the dreaded tunnel to the bridges that you had apparently slept at some point. Taking a deep breath, you acted like everything was ok. You were fine.

"Where are we going? =3"
"This is a bit of a set back E-2732. Sadly we're going to have to reprepare and work out our plans again. Get everyone informed about where we can't and can go, and figure out a better plan in case we do have to deal with this again. I fear that when we figure all of that out, we'll have to wait for a more preferable season. Might be a whole year until we have to come back. <:)"

You don't get it.

How did they not care? How are they doing it? Just brushing off this whole incident as just some sort of minor failure while you felt like your inners were ripping you apart. How could E-4 be so heartless?

"That's it? =3"
"That's it. <:)"

You wanted to yell, but you acted like a professional, like a notail, and showed no emotions with your next words.

"Oh, what about E-31? =3"
"A-Ah well we-we have to leave E-31 behind w-we don't...don't know if they're alive, E-2732. <:)"

They take a deep breath, just like you did, recomposing themself.
They're fine.
They're a professional.
A notail.
No emotions.

But you already knew now. E-4 cared about what happened. You knew a weakness.

"One loss isn't too bad for the situation we dealt with. It could have been much worse, which is why we must pull back and correct our plans. While in comparison one loss in our large group is not much, it is still important to minimize our losses as much as possible to get the best amount of profit. <:)"

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What would you like to do in this situation and for the rest of the year?

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I would also like everyone to know that due to a misroll this 1 was rerolled.......

into a 1.