Hidden Oasis Camp hums under a ragged canopy of scrap and shade cloth. Dust hangs in the light. Blue the Colossus steps into the center ring as voices snap like dry wire.
Green the Colossus clutches a small human child against her chest, her moss skin dim with pain. The child shivers, fever bright and limp.
Red the Colossus
We cannot feed another mouth. Not now. Not for a human.
Green the Colossus
They are alive. That is enough.
Orange the Colossus grips a cracked tool, looking from Green to Red. Yellow the Colossus keeps a pale hand raised over the child, healing light flickering thin and unstable.
Yellow the Colossus
Hold still. I am trying to cool the fever, but it is slipping through me.
Purple the Colossus stands apart at the camp edge, half turned toward the horizon, shadow pooling at her feet as if she is listening for something beyond the walls.
Purple the Colossus
Blue. Decide. Or this fracture becomes permanent.
✓ Quest Accepted
Reach a consensus to commit to the child's survival
✓ Quest Accepted
Prevent a permanent split among the remaining Colossus
“Keeping this child safe coukd be what helps us prove to the humans we are not threats. We must keep her healthy until we can find the human settlement she belongs to.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled +0)
Blue the Colossus
If we keep her alive, we show the humans we are not their enemies. We protect her until we find where she belongs.
The ring goes still. Red's jaw works once, angry words held back by the weight of the child's breathing. Orange lowers the cracked tool a fraction, watching faces instead of hands.
Yellow the Colossus
Then let me keep working. If the fever breaks, that is one less death on our hands.
Green the Colossus
She stays with me. No one takes her away while I can still stand.
Red the Colossus
I do not like it. But I will not be the one who sends a child out to die.
Purple the Colossus
Good. Then we have an answer. We guard her, together, and we speak to the humans when we can.
The relief costs Blue a sharp sting in the side, his old sickness flaring from the strain. Around him, the tension does not vanish, but it bends, enough for the child to keep breathing under the canopy.
Quest Complete
Reach a consensus to commit to the child's survival
Quest Complete
Prevent a permanent split among the remaining Colossus