“Kitty!” Corrin squeals happily, very quickly picking up the cat and smooshing it against her face. “Can we keep it?!” She asks as she puts on the puppy dog eyes. “Pleeeeeeease?”

Obsidian wriggles as his dignity is affronted as such, and gives Corrin a look that says "if you're gonna be doing this, I at least better get petted".

Sana blinks. "Uh...I guess so? As long as it doesn't try to kill us or anything."

Misha gasped and grabbed the thing by the nape, yoinking it away from Corrin in an attempt to save her from something terrible. “Coreen, no!! Be careful!” Misha said as she wound up, about to chuck the creature into the rock field. “Do you not know what zeez beast ees? Eet ees catastrofee! A vile, selfish, evil beast..destroyer of whole star systeems! We must be free of eet! Misha weel save us all! HrRGhh!!” She wound up even harder, about to heave the nightmare far, far away.

Jill looks curiously at Misha. "I think that you are going overboard, mon amie. It is just a cat. C'est vrai that it is a little persnickety, but there is no need to put the hammer down on it."

Misha froze and gave the cat a very vary look, but she did trust Jeel. Still holding Obsidian like a science experiment, she turned him around while her arm was outstrecthed, examining it quite distastefully. After some consideration, Misha put the cat down. Not the hammer. Slightly embarrassed, she said, "Where I come from thees..creatures..are very dangerous. However, thees one ees very small, much to Misha surprise. Ees possible Misha went over zee board."

Yasei right now:

"Hmm, I did not know that. Well unless this cat is feral, I do not think that it poses any threat to us, unless someone is allergic."

Obsidian gives Misha a very offended look and flicks his tail while he very deliberately turns his back on the Acheronian and prances back over to Corrin.

Sana nods. "I'm pretty sure this guy's friendly. And it can be good to have a ship's cat." She grins.

Misha nodded, giving Obsidian an embarrassed look. "Sorry leetle keetee." she admitted. "Misha tend to act first and theenk later. Ees uh, genetic doing, ya?" She sighed and rolled her eyes slightly, feeling a bit bad at such a horrible first impression.

But when you have cats the size of pick up trucks on Acheron, you tend to get a leetle wary, if Misha even knew what a peek up truck was.

"You weel not grow beeger, ya?" she asked, just to be sure. "Can you understand us?"

Obsidian turns to look at Misha, then casts a long look down at himself like "why would I want to grow any bigger?". He gives Misha a regal nod and tail flick.

"Chto za khren..'" Misha breathed. "You can? Do you speak? What are you doing here?" she kneeled down. "How does leetle keetee manage to appear een such a random place weeth us. Here. Of all places." It was a line of questioning for both Obsidian, and to herself, based on the volume of her voice. One thing was for sure. It was not an interrogation, but questions based on intense curiosity.

Obsidian flicks an ear and shrugs before shoving his head under Misha's hand that isn't holding a hammer.

Misha spent a good few minutes enjoying Obsidians affections while on her knees, hammer free. The cats of Acheron were definitely unlike this cat and Misha was lost in how this one was actually friendly - feel very bad that almost a moment ago, she was about to add it to her list of creatures she thrust into orbit. She smiled, giggled at times, and was completely distracted with the opportunity to have a second chance to introduce herself to this small animal. She pet Obsidian carefully while talking to him in a cutsie voice.

Jill takes a moment to join everybody in petting Obsidian. The last two rooms had proven to be harrowing experiences for her and her friends and surely the next rooms wouldn't be much easier. So she decided to enjoy what was happening right now, since they likely wouldn't get something like this again. Unless I make Obsidian go poof again shortly after Stella summons him back.

In order to sail to the largest center asteroid in this cube, someone will need to pilot the skiff. To pilot the skiff safely through the field, you'll need to pass five DC15 WIS checks. You may help each other. Each failure results in the ship getting hit and you all taking bludgeoning damage. 

Yasei turns to Sana and meekly suggests “Captain Sana-san....the skiff is yours to Captain. You’re the best pilot we’ve got!  May the spirits of my ancestors faithfully guide your hands as they steer a path towards that (she points to the center asteroid) big rock!”

(Yasei Helps Sana pilot the skiff)

Jill will also aid Sana

"And then.." Misha whispered to Obsidian, sitting cross legged on the deck, petting him in her lap, "after we dealt weeth zeh two aboleth, we saw zee enormous kraken underwater een zee wreckage, twisted and mutated een the bottom of zee temple - at first, eet tried to run away, but Wolf was too fast for eet and caught up to eet. Eet had Kali een eet's tentacles, and her attacks were reckless and powerful, just like her! We even hed cat named Pork Loin, but sometimes I would call heem keetee meow meow. Eventually, we all managed to.."

This storytelling continued for as long as Obsidian would show he was paying attention.

Obsidian listens to Misha's story with great interest, tail flicking back and forth.

Sana nods. "Right, let's get this thing through the field."

1: 21

2: 19

3: 7

4: 14

5: 16

Yasei cheers for Sana as she wonderfully pilots the skiff through the asteroid field, before realizing that is't improper for Samurai to have outbursts of excitement.  She then quietly sinks back to her normal, sullen bearing.