[P] Awake and Nude

Kalina awakes under a tree in a vast forest, naked, and having no idea how she even got here. Briefly groaning at the lack of her clothes, she's at least glad that nothing has taken advantage of her as she begins trudging through this forest, looking for anyone who might be able to help out with her clothes situation.

As she steps away from the tree she awoke, she barely makes it two steps before her leg sinks into a soft patch of mud. She softly swears as a cackling laughter is heard from her right. Looking over, Kalina sees an old human woman cackling as she says, "Don't be going that way, dearie! You'll be in up to your tits before you know it." She gestures behind her, and she sees a quaint wooden cottage with the gentle flicker of a hearth shining through the windows. "Why don't you come inside and we can get you looking decent, before the midges get their bites all over your unmentionables."

Kalina takes another good look at the woman, before deciding that she might as well take the woman up on her offer.

CAUTION ROLL: 1D20+0 = 12

Kalina successfully makes it over to the cabin without tripping over any more mudholes. As she enter the cabin, Kalina is greeted by a smell of cinnamon so strong it's almost pungent. The inside of the cabin is a quaint living room with a log fire, a sofa, and a table laden with tea and scones.

The old woman enters the cabin after her and shuts the door. "Now, I'm just going to nip upstairs and find you something to wear. Please, have a seat, and help yourself to some treats..." She wanders away through a side-door, cackling to herself. Kalina waits patiently for the woman to return, making a point to not eat anything she offered, only wanting to get clothes and continue on. She waited for what seemed like an hour, ultimately deciding to go looking for the woman, since it's odd how long it's taken her to find some clothes. Going through a side door and climbing up a set of stairs, Kalina steps into a modest bedroom, seeing the old woman sitting on a bed with a pile of grey cloth in her lap and a sewing needle and thread in her hands. She is clearly struggling to thread the needle, one eye closed and tongue stuck out in concentration as she tries to steady her shaking hands.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, dearie. I'm afraid I didn't have anything in my closet that would fit your skinny bones, so I thought I'd whip something up quickly. Almost... got it..." She continues to awkwardly attempt to align the frayed end of the thread with the tiny needle hole. It doesn't look to Kalina like she's going to be making any progress any time soon. Kalina steps over towards the old woman, and says "Is there anything I can do to help? Not to rush you, I just wanted to get on my way and see if I can find a way out of this forest, and I figured two people would go faster than one." As she does so, the old woman cackles to herself, responding "Out of the forest? Oh I don't think so dearie. You might as well say you're off to the moon." She then sighs, and hold the needle and thread out to you. "Alright, could you be a dear and thread this for me? I can do the rest from there."

Kalina grabs onto the thread, and awkwardly holds onto it for a moment, not actually knowing how to sew. The old woman gives her a look before saying "...Y-you do know how to thread a needle, dont'cha? You just... ye gotta just get the end there, put it through the hole on the needle, tie it nice and tight... didn't yer parents ever teach ya?" Kalina apologizes and then tries to pull the thread through the needle.

PRECISION ROLL: 1D20+0 = 3

Try as she might, the end of the thread is simply too frayed to behave. Without some kind of adhesive to hold the fibers together, they simply splay themselves around the eye of the needle on every attempt, utterly thwarting her at every turn.

The woman cackles again. "Eeee, not so easy, is it?"

Kalina, not one to be defeated so easily, says "That's when we have to rely on more obtuse tactics," before taking the end of the thread and putting it into her mouth to moisten the end, and then trying to thread it again.

As she does so, the woman's beady eyes eagerly follow the thread as Kalina brings it to her mouth, and her lips peel back into a hideous toothless grin. Just moments after withdrawing the thread, now matted with Kalina's saliva, she is hit with a wave of nausea and dizziness. Unbeknownst to Kalina, the end of the thread had been sprinkled with a coating of poisonous dust.

6 DAMAGE TO ENERGY.

Kalina stumbles and collapses to the floor. The last thing she sees before blacking out is the woman stand up over her and shed her illusionary visage. Her skin shifts to a sickly green, her fingernails stretch into dirty yellow claws, and her face breaks out into an unseemly collection of warts and boils as matted grey hair droops around it. Kalina passes out into unconsciousness to the sound of her wicked, raspy cackle.

[End of chapter, take 25XP]