Grinn/Memory Books

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They had all laughed at the druid. It had actually been pretty entertaining to watch him try to talk Smirrk into letting him borrow some of their artificers and creators to make stuff. He was so skinny and bouncy, excitably talking as though Smirrk would care or even be interested. Fun fact- she let him talk because it made her laugh.

It was even funnier when they called Maas and Ripp in to eat him after watching his face fall when Smirrk told him to fuck off, and the Druid turned into a giant hyena too – Grinn would have to admit, it was actually pretty cool to watch the two fight. He didn’t think such a skinny looking human could turn into something so big. But then Smirrk chased him off when the druid bit at Maas, managing to slash across his back with her claws as he disappeared through a huge tear in the sky he had created for himself and Smirk got very serious very quickly about no one going near it or touching it.

No one fucking argued with Smirrk on that shit. Not even Grinn even though he desperately wanted to slap his hand against the glowing edge of the glitch to see what it would do. Even at night it seemed to still emit light from the other side.

The only one who was allowed to even come close to anything with it was Chuukle who had brought her entire collection of Bolgias to it and sent in the Rocketmen to see what would happen upon contact. The whole event was watched under the strict supervision of Smiirk and her generals, although a few of the cubs had scurried up onto the rooftop to watch and threatening to throw each other in.

When the Rocketmen didn’t explode or change, they began throwing other stuff through. Rocks. Broken daggers. Then they threw in the kangaroo rat and all watched in wonder as it squeaked and twisted bouncing off the glitch as if it were being thrown against a gooey glass. When it hit the ground it gave a little shake, a hundred quills puffing up across its body.

“What if we throw something bigger in?” Grinn suggested, watching the now porcupine-kangarro rat bound off with some of the cubs chasing it off into the night.

“Shit no.” Smirrk shook her mane. “If that crap happens to the rats, what the fuck do you think will happen to you?”

“I wasn’t going to go in!”

“You aint throwing in a goat.”

“But the goat would be funny! I want to see how it’d look.”

Grinn elbowed Giggle hard in the stomach to get him to agree. Giggle barely noticed that Grinn had touched him and continued to stare blankly at the glitch. Chuukle looked across at Grinn, jaws opening into a smile to agree but Smirrk cut her off and she dipped her head to continue writing up her notes.

“No one is throwing anything that’s alive you fuckwits.” She snarled as she spoke, pacing slightly. “You can already fucking see that if anything touches it, it messes your shit up. I aint having anyone with fucking extra claws and arms in my clan. You want to be an octopus, you can fuck off to the sea with that pissery.”

She shot Laff a glare as he had already found a much larger honeybadger and was holding it snarling and spitting by the scruff of the neck. Letting the badger go, they all steered clear of it as it snuffled and growled, trotting away from the glitch.

“A spikey honeybadger would have been so cool.” Grinn grumbled, watching with respect to the vicious creature as it disappeared into the night.

Smirrk went to swipe at him but her claws stopped inches from Grinn’s face. She gave one sniff and her lip curled back into a snarl, head snapping in the direction of the glitch. It closed for a moment, then opened up wider and dark. A huge yellow eye blinked from the glitch, sending Chuukle lightly leaping back away and aiming one of her many Bolgias at the glitch. Grinn eyed it with intrigue. Maybe this was the one that launched the exploding heads. He couldn’t wait to see.

Laff bounded up high, daggers at the ready to strike whatever came through down from above, with Cacklynn taking aim already behind Giggle. Grinn however rushed to the front.

A tiny bright blue Kobold popped out of the glitch. Immediately the Gnolls began laughing and wheezing at the sight. Even Grinn was taller than this little thing.

It stared up at them wearing a big necklace of amber stones.

“Greetings dear gnolls. May I have a moment of your time?” It said in a polite voice. Before Smiik could even spit, several more figures stepped through the huge glitch.

The Vampire smiled down at Grinn and the bloodlust to stab out the man’s red eyes was immediate.

Smirrk tapped a claw against her guitar, staring disgusted and bewildered by the bizarre entourage that he had brought with him. What looked like a human with a gigantic beehive on their head, a weird bald stork with no feathers along with strange overgrown lizard-birds that were nearly as tall as Smiirk. They were cool, menacing and vicious.

So transfixed by the weird monsters the vampire brought with him, Grinn barely listened to the conversation being had between Smiirk and the beehive lady and the Vampire.

“Get fucked!” Smiirk’s laughing roar snapped him out of his staring. “We aint fucking mercenaries for hire for some backwater dick-leech corpse party. You want to destroy a city you go and do it your fucking self.”

“No, no, I can see that, and I am aware of how advanced you are, I am merely asking for you to educate.”

Smirrk stared unimpressed down at him. “We aint going to some mystery island tour just to make a chopstick like you happy. If you want an envoy go find that mangey-anused Enioii, you deserve him”

“We can pay. My employer Saracen must have already spoken to you about-”

“We don’t want any fuckin’ money, we aint selling you shit or teaching you how to make crap either. Now get going back to the hole you crawled out before we bury you here.”

The vampire was annoyed, but the beehive lady was incensed. Immediately she began shrieking and Smirrk drowned her out with a few simple chords. The guests covered their ears, unappreciative of Smirrk’s talents as Grinn crept forward, hoping to stab the vampire in the heart. Out the corner of his eye however he caught sight of the blue kobold sneaking around Chuukle’s inventions with a greedy look in his eye, tiny hands reaching out to one of the Bolgias.

As he launched himself at the Kobold, a brand-new glitch opened up beneath them from where Chuukle had been standing prepared with her Bolgia along with Cackklyn. With a little yelp both she and the entire table of creations disappeared into the glitch with the blue kobold and Grinn struck the reformed ground head first with Giggle looking round in confusion as to where the two had gone. Blood in his teeth, he span round to stab at the Vampire who caused it. Laff beat him to it but as claws swiped through the Vampire’s skin the big stork-bird jabbed forward, stabbing Laff through the shoulder and tossed him into the glitch behind them.

The effect on the Gnolls was immediate as they charged, Smirrk enraged and Giggle charging forward in a bulldozing stamped. Grinn however was faster and as the visitors turned tail to retreat, he leapt forward and bit onto the end of the tail of the huge double-crested dinosaur, holding on with all his might as he was pulled in through the glitch.

The gnolls chased the vampire as he leapt between worlds, opening up knew holes to escape. At one point he ran through a place where Chuukle was and in great glee Chuukle took a chunk out of him as he rushed by. The flashing through worlds made Grinn dizzy and sick. Something larger than him, more teeth, grabbed at him as he went through still holding onto the dinosaur, claws digging under his skin, burning hot and rageful.

Then the howling and roaring quietened as the Vampire lost most of the gnolls somewhere along the ways through the tunnel he had carved for himself through the worlds, landing in a vast desert.

As he spat out unfamiliar desert sand as the dinosaur whipped him off its tail, Grinn rushed at the Vampire who stood over the unconscious Laff, quill and paper in hand. Grinn shrieked in rage and the Vampire looked over and smiled at him.