Our Ranger threw me for a loop today. He had chosen the Wild Empathy move when last he levelled, and I wasn’t aware.
Ranger: “Are there any animals in the town?”
GM: “One dog, a couple of cats, a few goats”
Ranger: “I go down to the docks first thing in the morning, buy some fish and sit down to feed and speak with the cats”
GM: “…um…okay?”
Ranger: “I ask the cats what has happened to bring the townsfolk so low”
Cat: “Hungry.”
Ranger: “I just gave you some fish. What’s wrong with the town?”
Cat: “Hungry. Hungry. Sad. Hungry.”
Ranger: “Why are the people unfriendly?”
Cat: “Hungry. Broken. Town, people broken. Spirits broken. Hungry.”
Ranger: “Do you ever go up to the graveyard on the cliff?”
Cat (hair standing on end, hissing): “Not there. Don’t like light there.”
Ranger: “The moon?”
Cat: “Not sky-light. Rain-light. Rain-growl.”
Ranger: “…Lightning? Thunder?”
GM: * Grins *
Clever responses. Not sure I would know how well to speak Cat on the spot. Lightning to me will now forever be known as Rain-growl.
I reckon the next time I will have a broader vocab for animals. Rainlight falls, crawls, jumps, dances. Rainlight burns, scratches. Rainlight never stays, rainlight runs away.
Love it!