[GM] The Torn Belly... a portent of things to come, perhaps?

After a short while of exploring, Callan came upon a large hut that sat nestled in a clearing. The plants around it looked to have been freshly pushed aside, as if the building had only been established here recently.

The hut had enormous leather tarpaulins stretched over the top of it, acting as the building's roof. A gash ran along one side, from which multicoloured smoke emerged and dispersed into the upper canopy. Taken as a whole, the building somewhat resembled an enormous pregnant belly that had been torn down one side.

In the open entryway, Callan could see a cloaked figure stirring away at a large cauldron. They had their back to him and their hood up, and the cloak stretched all the way to the floor, so it was difficult to discern much about them.

Just then, his attention was pulled elsewhere by a scream on the other side of the clearing. He looked and saw a small rosy-skinned fairy come flapping frantically out of the undergrowth. A blur crashed through the bushes right behind her, pounced, and snatched the fairy right out of the air!

"Heeeelllp- mppph!" The fairy's scream was cut short as her captor put a finger over her tiny mouth. She was in the clutches of a cobra humanoid, reptilian from her head to her toes (with a couple of bulging rest stops at her chest and crotch visible with no obstruction from her immodest scale armour).

The cobra looked at the tent and tutted. "The Torn Belly... so this is where it's moved to now."

When Callan looked back to the tent, he saw that the cloaked figure had disappeared from view while he'd been distracted.

[GM] Roll KNOWLEDGE on your hunt for a victim.

[P] D20 (9) + KNO (2) - HRN (0) = 11

[GM] You encounter an apothecary hut in a clearing. Tarpaulins stretched over the roof give it the appearance of a pregnant belly with a rip down one side.

[GM] A cloaked figure stands in the doorway with their back to you. You can't make out much about them from this angle, since their hood is up and their cloak trails all the way to the floor.

[GM] You gain 25 XP.

[GM] You hear a scream, and see a cute fairy girl fly hurriedly into the clearing. A visibly-futa cobraperson follows on her heels and snatches her out of the air, muffling the fairy's screams with her hand.

[GM] You hear the cobra call the tent "The Torn Belly".

[GM] Gain another 25 XP.

[GM] While you were distracted, the cloaked figure vanished from view.