Session 60

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Ghostwish:ohai. :P

Liatai:Hai. :P

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</i>Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hmm. What's a good feat for a cleric aboard a ship? Or a cleric in general? :. Kelsey's got one more feat I never assigned.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Combat casting is always my first choice. But aboard a ship? Skill focus swim is worth looking at. :P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Or Athletic.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">What's going to be our starting map?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Lazarus Estate. Feel free to move your characters wherever. :3

<font color="#0000ff">TMG has connected.

</i>Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Let's see.. we were having breakfest, yes?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You were, but breakfast is over now.


 * You roll to yourself: 3000-125 =&gt; 3000 - 125 = 2875Liatai:<font color="#000000">Kor gets a chair all to himself? x3

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">You damn skippity I do.

Ezer:<font color="#006666">He needs it for all his fat. :o

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">KOR THE MIGHTY! &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 3 + 7 = 10&#160; <font color="#0000FF">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d3-4 = 3 - 4 = -1&#160; <font color="#0000FF">&#187;!

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">KOR THE MIGHTY! &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 13 + 7 = 20&#160; <font color="#0000FF">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d3-4 = 2 - 4 = -2&#160; <font color="#0000FF">&#187;!

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">&gt;:O

Ezer:<font color="#006666">Claw &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 3 + 5 = 8&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d3+1 = 1 + 1 = 2&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187;

Ezer:<font color="#006666">Claw &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 5 + 5 = 10&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d3+1 = 2 + 1 = 3&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187;

Ezer:<font color="#006666">:[

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">I squeak heartily at you.

B&#228;rli:<font color="#000000">Oh hello! What are we up to in here?

B&#228;rli:<font color="#000000">We're not fighting, are we?

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">He started it! He called me fat! *bawls*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... where -is- everybody? ^^;;;

Ezer:<font color="#006666">Pft. I called him fat because he is.

Ezer:<font color="#006666">Also, where are you, rat? I can't see you on my map. :[

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">Bwahahaha, in another room entirely. :&gt;

Ezer:<font color="#006666">OIC

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Tech, you with us?

TMG:<font color="#000000">I am with you.

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">GO AHEAD TACHCON.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Groovy. That's three. :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... Hatari's still MIA, and VAE said he'd be late...

TMG:<font color="#000000">and meany's gone entirely.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">:

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">:(

TMG:<font color="#000000">Can't play a game with this few people...

Faerie:<font color="#006666">We're doing well. &gt;.&gt;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">VAE is excusable for a little while, since he said Miron would be at the library.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Wonder what happened with VAE, though. His departure this morning was pretty sudden.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">I could ask Danny to come in, though he doesn't have a character active.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...we might as well just go into non-canon shenannigans in filler park if that's the case. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... heh, well, if he's got an ECL 7 character ready to go, a random Lorellon encounter could happen... drat, RAM's not here, otherwise his biker orc could make an appearance... =w=;

Tokens dropped onto map 'Lorellon - Lazarus Estate'Tokens dropped onto map 'Lorellon - Lazarus Estate'Faerie:<font color="#006666">matching tokens~


 * Faerie innocents


 * Liatai keeps statting in the meantime.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... so, while we wait... anyone want to open up the 365 Character Questions and do a few?

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Sure!! :&gt;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">I'm just statting the death of the Cold War party in the other window. :&gt;

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh, the charQs? Sure, why not. :o

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm sure you are. =3=

Faerie:<font color="#006666">I suppose it's either that or vidjagames.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">xP

GM:<font color="#000000">Let's see, let's see... today is December 3rd, right?

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Yes'm!

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Last I checked.

GM:<font color="#000000">This might be interesting, but might be precluded by alignment. x3 &quot;Where does your character fall on a kindness vs. cruelty spectrum?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Wow. That is scenario specific, that. On an normal, every day day, I'm pretty far over into the kindness side. But.. a wretched enemy? A petty fool to cross my path? I can be down right horrible.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...yeah, that one's a bit too simple to answer. :B

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">I balance all things as I can, but Tathi has started to rub off on me, in a good way. I'm leaning towards kindness.

GM:<font color="#000000">-- Bwahaha. XD And this one may create lulz if you'd rather not tackle a morality question. &quot;How do your character's neighbors view her and her living habits?&quot;

<font color="#0000ff">Dr. Hatari has connected.

</i>Kor:<font color="#0000FF">I AM THE MASTER OF CRUELTY.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's a Hatari! :D

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">.. Heh. Daytime or nighttime? :P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... but I'm curious as to the neighbors question. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&quot;GODS-DAMN ADVENTURERS NEXT DOOR WITH THEIR EXPLOSIONS AND MULES AND FLAMING SPIDERS. MUMBLE GRUMBLE.&quot; XP

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">During the day, considering the fact I just had a grand wood elf house constructed, tend to be tidy, and I'm extremely hygenic, I'd say I'm well liked.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Heh heh heh. xD

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Night time? GOD DAMN ELVES.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Hello.

Elros:<font color="#006666">In regards to morality, I try to do what good I can. I think the best goal in the world is to eliminate the most suffering possible. Regarding living habits, I've never heard the forrest complain. But I do keep myself tidy, and properly dispose of my waste.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Neighbors? Well, that depends. My neighbors back in my home of Mazio, or temporary neighbors in Castleton? If in Mazio, well, everything is business as usual.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It was a long shift at work. *rubs forehead*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sorry I'm late.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">In castleton though, I've gotten a few complaints about my day-to-day work...silly Kellonites can't take some metal clanging and booms every now and then.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Explosions, Gnogglebolt. It's the explosions that irk them. :P

Tokens dropped onto map 'Lorellon - Lazarus Estate'Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's okay. We were getting worried, though. Missing three players = no game. ^^; But we figured people were just late, so we've started throwing around character development questions as a warmup.

Calrach:<font color="#000000">I'm a bard! I have no neighbors, I live on the road!

Tokens dropped onto map 'Lorellon - Lazarus Estate'Liatai:<font color="#000000">Current one: &quot;How do your character's neighbors view her and her living habits?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I see.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">So Troll and Troll haven't shown up either. =w=;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">HEY

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">IM HERE.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You're amateur hour. :P

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Hate you. :P

Samuel:<font color="#000000">... neighbors? Well, Gray doesn't complain... =3=

Holdart:<font color="#000000">I rather live on the road too, and even if I didn't, I keep to myself. Though, at least if I've got a woman with me, we generally make noise only in places where it's already expected.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">THE HULL HAS BEEN BREACHED AND THE CAMPAIGNS ARE LEAKING OUT.

Tokens dropped onto map 'Lorellon - Lazarus Estate'Aaren d'Cannith:<font color="#0000FF">I think the whole nuking an entire nation thing may have put them off a bit. I hope the nutcake I sent makes up for it.

Alexander Lazarus:<font color="#000000">What's that? Builder of giant robots in my living room? Chance to fight against a giant robot? SOLD! *_*

Tokens dropped onto map 'Lorellon - Lazarus Estate'Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">x3

Mind Flayer:<font color="#0000FF">*slithering, slurping tentacle noises*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh! I can make you a fencing clank!

Alexander Lazarus:<font color="#000000">But will it be giant? :.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I can be if you want it. :&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*It

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*it can

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Magical growing gnomes. :B

Alexander Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Make it so.

</i><font color="#000000"> 8D

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">I was pondering doing one of Tasher, and that reminded me. *pounces Liatai* SKETCHIES!?!?


 * Liatai is pounced and bowled over. =3=;;;;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Didn't you already get a Tasher sketch? =w=;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I saw it. It was cool.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I owe him a full-body one.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Once I find my inking pens. ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ah I see.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... which I really need to find I need to start working on Christmas gi -- I mean. &gt;.&gt;

GM:<font color="#000000">So! Who's ready to game? :3


 * Dr. Hatari is warming up the oven for fish. And waking up. *bobble, backfiring car noise* =3=

GM:<font color="#000000">Or would you like one more character question before the game starts?

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">One more! :&gt;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I think Meany had that OS download thing he was expecting to kill his game today.. but I don't remember any VAE issues.

GM:<font color="#000000">... bwaha, I could see this being lulzy in Cold War. &quot;Does your character enjoy shopping? Hate it? Tolerate it?&quot; X3


 * Ghostwish kicks himself repeatedly.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">I forgot to bookmark the Tasher sketch. -.-

Liatai:<font color="#000000">One moment, I'll fetch it.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">lolololololololo shopping what's that..

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Interesting.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/Liatai/Tasher1.jpg

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Considering the fact we wizards have to fight tooth and nail for every gold peice we get while our upkeep rages out of control and the magical items we seek are some of the most expensive of them all.... Yes. Yes I do enjoy shopping.

Tokens dropped onto map 'Lorellon - Canal'Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">I tolerate it. Tathi keeps buying me absurdly expensive gifts while the above goes on. -.-;

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">thank you! :&gt;

Elros:<font color="#006666">Shopping is something that must be done occasionally. It can be nice to get something new, but I think my tolerance would wear thin if I had to do it for too long at once.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I like shopping a lot. It's a chance to get your mind off of things and enjoy the simple material pleasures of life. ... If only I ever had money and wasn't spiraling into debt. ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">When I shop, its usually to get parts for my next project. Not anything particularly special to me.

Terri:<font color="#000000">Shinies! :D

Calrach:<font color="#000000">I love buying the latest prank gear! :D

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Is that a cow following you? :P

Otto Werner:<font color="#FF0000">... Shopping. By shopping I assume you mean using the interest accrued in the Kundarak account to get Kan potions.

Holdart:<font color="#000000">I only buy what I need to continue my fight in the battle against the darkness. Anything else is a luxury...though yes, my origininal life was nothing but luxury and hedonism. I don't want to fall back into that again.

Kan:<font color="#000000">Speaking of which, I need to buy some more repair oil, we've got warforged with us again... and...

Tokens dropped onto map 'Lorellon - Canal'* Ghostwish searches about frantically, trying to figure out how Cold War is leaking all over Akellon..

Eisen:<font color="#FF0000">I remember someone jokingly refering to shopping when we were robbing a casino. In which case, yes. I enjoy the shopping. =3=

Tokens dropped onto map 'Lorellon - Lazarus Estate'Aaren d'Cannith:<font color="#0000FF">lol bitch imma artificer

Terri:<font color="#000000">I like shinies! :D

Tokens dropped onto map 'Lorellon - Lazarus Estate'Tasher1:<font color="#0000FF">What is this capitalism you speak of?

Tokens dropped onto map 'Lorellon - Lazarus Estate'Tasher1:<font color="#0000FF">Oh? Robbing the casino? Oh yes, shopping is very fun. Except for when it's rigged.


 * Tasher1 eyeballs the roulette table with pure hatred.

GM:<font color="#000000">Okay, shall we slip back into Akellon and close the boundaries between worlds? x3

TMG:<font color="#000000">BEEP BEEP BEEP RIFT COLLAPSING

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:B

GM:<font color="#000000">Everyone ready? Last time on Akellon...

GM:<font color="#000000">... I just realized this is the third session we've used the estate for. We've overshot my prediction. Huh.

Ghostwish:

<font color="#0000FF">*hugs the DM token!*

GM:<font color="#000000">Anyway! Last time on Akellon, it was a misty, rainy day in Lorellon. Sszeyl and Miron slipped out for a battle in the rain and a smattering of both pies and plot, while those at the Lazarus estate swapped adventuring stories.

GM:<font color="#000000">And there was soaping. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">SO MUCH SOAPING.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">WE RAN OUT OF SOAP.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...sorry, I'm done now. ^^;

GM:<font color="#000000">VAE's said he'll be late, and to assume that Miron was at the library until he gets back.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Is that so? Ah. Better news than no news.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Brb. Oven~

GM:<font color="#000000">Please distribute yourselves wherever you please, and take it away whenever you'd like. :3

GM:<font color="#000000">You do, after all, have mysterious portents to ponder.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt finally finishes the breakfast meal. &quot;Thank you very much for your hospitality, Lazaruses!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">(hmm. What is the in-game date today? And is the boat scheduled to leave today, or the next day?)

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Spellcraft time? :&gt;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Cooking going, sheets open, musics playing. =w=


 * Dr. Hatari has no idea where we are in the timeline. ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">wait a sec

TMG:<font color="#000000">there was going to be an entire stormy/rainy day before the boat leaves


 * Thomas Lazarus eats happily with cat equipped in lap. Fortunately he's big enough that this is scarcely even a space concern. &quot;:9&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">if this is the same day as Miron and Sszeyl going out in the morning, when it was raining, then the boat should be leaving the next day

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros, after breakfast, heads into the main room. And apparently Ezer decides to take up an entire chair, too.

GM:<font color="#000000">The boat is scheduled to leave tomorrow. Today is Yondallon 3rd, rainy, and late morning.

TMG:<font color="#000000">and today should be the day after arrival

TMG:<font color="#000000">Excellent. :&gt;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Spellcraft time? :&gt;

GM:<font color="#000000">Yes, you can roll Spellcraft. :P

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">YAY! Trying for ice storm, which is a 4th level, evocation spell. Here goes.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+12 = 11 + 12 = 23&#160; <font color="#0000FF">&#187; spellcraft! -5 if its necromancy or illusion, +2 if it's evocation!

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Nailed it. :&gt;

B&#228;rli:<font color="#000000">Purrrrrrr |3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So! Thomas, shall we go back to your training room and look at the trophies, for more stories?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The forecast calls for a 100% chance of Tathi &gt;:O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mph.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt reaches over and scritches the kitty. &quot;Cute cat, by the way.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi and Aelian are lounging in one of the sitting rooms, Tathi busily scribbling away in her spellbook with another open nearby, Aelian dozing quietly nearby, and Kor dozing not so quietly. The two pooches are snoozing in front of the fireplace.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He's a super-smart arcane familiar. Like Kor. But less of a grouch.&quot; |3

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;He says thank you.&quot; ^^

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">Kor suddenly jerks awake, sensing the need to bite someone.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">To Gnogglebolt's credit, he -doesn't- pull his hand back like he just realized he was reaching for a venomous snake. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You are not helping your case! :O

B&#228;rli:<font color="#000000">Purrrrrrr :3

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">I make my case by murdering all the witnesses! &gt;:)

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He does pause for a moment though, but then resumes scritching. &quot;Indeed. All these pets, almost makes me wish I had a Sparker again... I wonder if I can order one from Mazio...dunno if it would survive the trip... &quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's December, now, and the store has switched to the obligatory Christmas radio station loop.

GM:<font color="#000000">With your little 1d3-4 bite? =3=

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">So I've heard the Grinch song about 5 times in the past 24 hours.


 * Kor nibbles on the DM.


 * Dr. Hatari is now picturing Kor at the top of a mountain glaring down intensely at a village.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hatari; lemme guess, you -are- starting to feel like the grinch, huh? :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hey, who knows the &quot;What is Christmas&quot; song by TSO? The very grinchy/scrooge style one?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Naw. The only negative sentiment I have for Christmas is that I have worked in a bakery for the past 4.5 years.

TMG:<font color="#000000">and more importanly, who -doesn't-?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I remember it from last year.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">I don't think I know it.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">but eh.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I tell you that &quot;a fire hazard any other day&quot; line runs through my mind every time I tend the fireplace. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">... Christmas = month long spree of shifts 2 to 3 times harder than the rest of the year while everyone is pissed and for no pay grade difference. ^^;

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;A Sparker?&quot;


 * Dr. Hatari probably made 7000 red and green sugar cookies just last night. |I

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;A Mazian Sparker. They're an animal we domesticated.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I've never heard of such a thing. ... Uhm ... is it a living animal?&quot; =w=;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't know if Akellon has the wild version, and if you do, I don't know what you might know them as. Blue-scaled zappers? Sparkscales? Shocker lizards?&quot;

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh! Shocker lizards!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">:O

Dr. Hatari: <font color="#ff0000">(( One shake, flipping fish ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, so you do know them!&quot;

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've heard stories about them from the swamps... there are some eccentric sorts who keep them as pets, too.&quot; ^^

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mmm. Well, like I said, that's only the feral version. We actually domesticated them. Like wolves became dogs? We have Mazian Sparkers and Mazian Zappers now.&quot;


 * Edaric is, as usual, strumming his lute. He looks up, noticing Elros in the same room.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... So, Elros. Where do you come from, originally? Seems we're meeting people's parents and learning their histories more nowadays.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Two separate lines of breeding. Zappers are the bigger ones. They were bred to be bigger, and more powerful, and they're just big enough for us gnomes to ride. Very useful. And then there's the Sparkers, they went the other direction. They were bred to be more compact, more friendly. Small pets, but devilishlly intelligent. Since so many tinkers kept the Sparkers as pets and they were bred from that, most Sparkers have this uncanny knack to find their way around big devices.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I could really use one now. I use to have one, when I was a child...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*used to

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do they still spit sparks? That must be very dangerous.&quot; o.o

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Would.. it be a fire-hazard to keep such a creature in places that are always wooden and cloth-covered?&quot; =w=;


 * Thomas Lazarus suddenly wonders if the concept of fire hazards even crosses the cultural barrier. o3o

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I would imagine so.&quot; o.o

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Here and there, I suppose. My mom and her family are all dead of old age. I've lived with my dad and his group for longer, but they tend to travel.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;So your dad's the elf, then, I'm guessing. Unless your mom was a very old elf?&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh no. They were also bred for the ones that have much finer control over their own shocking. That's why we can ride the big ones without being shocked ourselves. Smae for the smaller ones, they can control their shocks much better too, if they're reared right. If a sparker is releassed to a wild and goes feral, then it won't be properly trained and, well, yeah.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*Same for the

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I see.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You just have to train them like any other pet.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=3=; He self-consciously rubs the head of the cat who is, entirely possibly, smarter than him. &quot;Yes. Yes you do.&quot;


 * B&#228;rli rumbles and purrs, curling his tail around his paws. |3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh, by the way.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... actually, Tom is smarter than B&#228;rli by one point. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">For those who do NOT know &quot;What is Christmas&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Yay. |D

TMG:<font color="#000000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr1X2u4mfLk

TMG:<font color="#000000">Enjoy. :&gt;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;No, you would indeed be corect.&quot;

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mazio is so far away... I've never been there. What is it like?&quot; :o

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Regular elf, or one like Tathi or Luethil?&quot; :.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, it's grand!&quot; Gnogglebolt says, settling back in 'storytelling mode'. &quot;The buildings are big, and there are just...devices everwhere! Clock towers, go-carts, workshops on every corner...well, depending on the city. Some have more than others.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...and now I realize you may not have really an idea of 'devices', if the pile of parts I brought is the only thing you've seen...&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Regular I suppose. Not that he ever really referred to himself that way. He was a ranger too.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hrm.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt rubs his chin and looks up. &quot;How to explain...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Don't worry.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oop, surprise family visit! Carry on. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We've heard this and that before. Such things occasionally come through Lorellon.&quot; |3 &quot;But such a cityscape must be pretty impressive.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's usually just an isolated merchant's novelty around here. ..We're still rather partial to magic.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, I grew up with it, so I was used to it. It's only my travels here to Akellon that makes me realize -how- great it was...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No offence! No offence!&quot; Gnogglebolt suddenly puts up his hands.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's still plenty of magic and mages all around Mazio. I've just...been a little homesick.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though, as I've said to you before Thomas, I somewhat hope to re-create home somewhere here in Akellon...&quot;


 * Dr. Hatari can has fish. |3


 * Thomas Lazarus shrugs. ^^; &quot;It's fine. It isn't as though Akellon doesn't have its fair share of magic-averse people.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Although I've been rather concerned since your story about what probably made you cross with it.&quot; :(

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt chuckles nervously and rubs his neck. &quot;Eh, it's no big deal, really...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I could probably, actually.. give you the ability to cast some spells. Purely good ones. Beneficent enegies to help others, or fix gadgets.&quot; He looks faintly hopeful. (:3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's not all terribly forces waiting to be amused, you know.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">brb!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">*ble

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">this is probably the closest thing to lopsided eyes o_0 you will ever see Gnogglebolt be.


 * Thomas Lazarus uses the face. {83

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Um...&quot; Gnogglebolt fidgets. &quot;Well...why?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Because!&quot; He immediately seems determined! &gt;:O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Well.. I think, maybe, if you yourself could wield some magic responsibly and to good ends, well.. maybe..&quot; He trails a bit and frowns.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Maybe it wouldn't be such a horrible thing anymore.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt sighs. &quot;Well, I do have to admit your magic is useful in places. Certainly the power to mend wounds instantly, whether from you or potions, has saved all our lives several times over.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But me with that stuff?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">^^;; &quot;... I just felt really awful after hearing that one story about your sis ...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...That'd just be weird...and a little icky.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's up to you.&quot; He rubs the back of his head.

TMG:<font color="#000000">(aw, darn. When you first mentioned this scenario, I was thinking Thomas would just pop it on Gnogglebolt. Much lulz would have been had. Ah well. x3 )

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That was the original plan, haha.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But ehn. ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ehhhhhh.&quot; It's clear that Gnogglebolt isn't comfortable with it, but for whatever reason, he doesn't want to out and say 'no' directly to Thomas, either.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hmmmm.&quot; &gt;:

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Perhaps one day we'll just have to happen upon one of the mechanus priests or the like.&quot; =w=; &quot;I'd rather not trouble you with it wouldn't do a thing but bother you for the day.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt noncomittaly shrugs.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Am I eavesdropping correctly? Gnogglebolt, with magic?&quot; Says Tathi as she turns the corner.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yeah.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And well, that seems to send him over the edge. 8[

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi smirks. &quot;He'd probably just blow it up. Somehow.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah. Maaaaybe another time. Maybe.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus clenches mouth. x3

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Now, if you could shove it into a tube and make it spray all over the place, he might be able to use it.&quot; Tathi says, sticking her tongue out.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. I suppose it may have also just been me wanting to use that power on someone. I'm not entirely innocent of hubris.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(and darn, Liatai still hasn't returned, I would have liked to hear whatever Nina has to say about this whole thing. Oh well.)

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I had no idea she was afk. o_o

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh, I see.

TMG:<font color="#000000">She's been afk for the last ten minutes or so. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Family and whatnots.

TMG:<font color="#000000">yeah, that


 * Thomas Lazarus smirks a bit.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well.. it's okay. I suppose it's not really any worse than our aversion to high-tech gadgetry.&quot; ^^; He reassuringly pats Gnogglebolt's shoulder. &quot;I can agree to let sleeping dogs lay.&quot;

Amadre:<font color="#0000FF">Amadre's head jerps up. Huh what-

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">THOMAS CASTS ENLARGE PERSON WHILE PATTING GNOGGLEBOLT &gt;:O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">... Just kidding. |3

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">OH GOD HE'S A DWARF- damnit.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thanks...&quot; Gnogglebolt says, though he seems to be getting lost in his own thoughts again. &quot; Nah, probably shouldn't order from Mazio. It might be -possible-, but it's best if one is there to actually pick out the Sparker...&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus cleans up his plate and pushes it away. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He then snaps his head up. &quot;So! SHall we go look at your dad's trophies for more stories now, Thomas?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;In any case, I can show you around some of dad's old this-and-that if you're still interested.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Alright.&quot; |3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Seems we're going to be here for most of the day, the rain isn't showing any sign of letting up...&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus sets B&#228;rli on the table to clean up. :9

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I bet Miron'll be totally soaked when he gets back..&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Kind of a shame though. Was somewhat interested in the capital of Akellon...but not that much. Oh well.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you again!&quot; Gnogglebolt bows to Nina.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's a wonderful city. But it would be no fun to explore in a dark and misty downpour.&quot; ^^;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">I waits for the Liatai to return before Tathi goes Arcane speak with Nina. :&gt;


 * Thomas Lazarus folds his arms behind his back and walks over to the display. He nods curteously to Elizabeta.

TMG:<font color="#000000">waiting for Liaturn. :U

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Don't want to play complex one-sided topic eh? XD

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt follows Thomas' lead and nods politely to the maid as well.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Quick! Someone do a monologue! :o

TMG:<font color="#000000">Thomas is about to. ;)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry guys, Christmas tree delivery :O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt peeks around at the rack of weapons. &quot;Hmm...oh! How about that one!&quot; He points to a large, double-sided pointed hammer.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What's the story behind that one?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liaturns! :o

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Hrm. Do a monk's improvements to unarmed damage apply to natural weapons, or just their fists?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">There are a lot of fine weapons available here, and not all of them of the same style. Well-maintained standard brands of every conventional size; longswords, bastard swords, a claymore, and daggers. A few wooden-ended implements as well. It seems the martial Lazaruses don't mess around when it comes to weapons training.

TMG:<font color="#000000">ghost; ah...context? Not quite sure

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">In D&amp;D terms, those are technically synonyms. So yes.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You could have a lizardfolk tail-monk.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Or some ridiculous awakened octopus monk.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Whatever really. |B

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">o.o!


 * Ghostwish jots that idea down.


 * TMG has the amsuing mental image of a lizardfolk beating down a mob of enemies by waving his tail at them. Whapwhapwhapwhapwhapwhap. |3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">x3


 * Thomas Lazarus looks slightly embarassed. ^^; &quot;Well.. a lot of these weren't weapons Dad ever actually used. His weapon of choice, in fact, was none at all.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But he did make a point of collecting interesting implements he noted others using. Especially companions of his.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, I kinda figured that. Wasn't it said that these were trophies? Weapons taken from enemies he defeated, or things he won?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus folds his arms. &quot;It's good to be flexible with that kind of thing. Or so he said.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Not all of them. We actually use most of these.&quot; ... ^^; &quot;Although by 'we' I mostly mean he and my sister.&quot;


 * B&#228;rli yawns, stretches, then goes over to Tathi, sniffing. You smell like a rat! :o

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm...&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus points to one particular sword held high over the others; a monstrous thing of such outlandish proportions that it seems like some kind of poor joke more than a warrior's balanced blade.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liatai; as you've probably read up, if you'd been here, would Nina have had anything to contribute to the conversations earlier? :o

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I could probably not even swing that..&quot; ^^;;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">She would have mainly been listening politely. ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wow. That's big.&quot;

<font color="#0000ff">Faerie is disconnected.

</i><font color="#0000ff">Faerie is disconnected.

</i>Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Looks like a weapon fit for steam armor.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi smirks, and pets the kitty. You probably smell Kor, silly. &quot;So, miss Lazarus, where is your focus in the arcane?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Apparently some fellow over the western seas used one like that. And used it well. They call them full-blades. I don't think Dad could resist not owning one.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..I'm not sure if he was Amayan or.. whoever their neighbors are.&quot; ^^;;;;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; I feel so cloistered now that I know a little about the world.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">That fellow, however, was a thin, blonde-haired bish. :B


 * Dr. Hatari is actually alluding to a character. XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">A not-Cloud character. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">So was I. :B Cloud?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh. x3


 * Dr. Hatari played a middle-eastern fullblade user once. |3

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Me? Oh, it's nothing as focused as your studies probably are, my dear.&quot; ^^ &quot;I prefer to focus on spells that help and protect people... healing, protective wards... If I had a copper piece for every time I used a Mending spell when our children were growing up!&quot; ^^ &quot;It's been so helpful.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi smirks a bit. &quot;Sounds like you could have gotten a ring of it made. So do you delve into the divine as well?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So...which weapons -are- trophies that your dad acquired on his adventures?&quot;

<font color="#0000ff">Faerie has connected.

</i>TMG:<font color="#000000">welcome back. Need a log?

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Sorry, my computer decided to take a dump on me.

TMG:<font color="#000000">last line you saw/remember?

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not exactly, dear. It's all arcane... though I do work with the temple of Pelor whenever they need me. Have you heard of those song-writers that can close wounds with their harmonies? I think they work the same way... but not as musically.&quot; ^^

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Ah, how about just whatever was past my timeout message?

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+17 = 11 + 17 = 28&#160; <font color="#0000FF">&#187; Knowledge Arcana!

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">What she be talkin' bout, baws?

TMG:<font color="#000000">kay. One sec.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Grrrr

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You know, especially since you've got one with you. :B Bards. And you've seen Edaric use Cure Moderate Wounds, albeit to damage a polar bear zombie.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'm going to apparently need to jump out of game for a 15-25 minute shopping errand in a little bit. But I'll rush back. &gt;:I

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Ohhhhhh. ^_^

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's okay.

TMG:<font color="#000000">hatari; ah, no problem

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Oh. Wait, I meant what -she- is. XP

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ohhhh. XP

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Adept.

TMG:<font color="#000000">I'll take this time to go afk for a sec myself...

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros does, for the record, seem to be answering Edaric's questions about his past, but isn't exactly volunteering information.


 * Edaric notices. &gt;.&gt;; &quot;... So, where did you find Ezer? I don't think I've ever seen a cat like that in the woods before.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hmm.&quot; He considers old stories and looks over the collection. He takes up a rather ornate and exotic blade, a cross between a saber and rapier. A straight-bladed stabbing and slicing brand with a generous curling cross-guard.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... He once told me a story about some unusual circumstances he got caught up in, escorting a talented little girl across Akellon. Emma Hendrick, I think was her name. She's probably ... my age, by now.&quot; o.o

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Oh! An adept! I suppose I get a bit too focused in the mastery of the arcane, I forget there's those who use magic for much simpler purposes. I wonder, do those of your training keep spellbooks?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Apparently, she had within herself some unusual power called Spellfire. I don't presume to know anything about it. Dad definitely didn't.&quot; ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">back--ohey, you're still here,hatari? o.o

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... But apparently she could blow up buildings and things with silver fire when she was provoked.&quot; =w=;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;That was...recently, I suppose. What, about a month or two back. And the woods hold many creatures that live in small groups, which don't always make themselves known.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt listens quite curiously.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">For a few.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">.... fffffff

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Adepts use -divine- spells.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;For whatever reaso--

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Although he can't help but interject.


 * Ghostwish boggles the DM. XP

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh, that. ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your age, huh...?&quot; He winks.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I hand-waved that since they were described as being a catch-all for community magic users. Shamans, hedge-wizards, witches, etc, all rolled into one.


 * Dr. Hatari shrugs. |3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ahhh. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's whatever you want it to be.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Well, we can continue to handwave. :B


 * Thomas Lazarus clears his throat. ^^;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I think she was like ten years old during this particular adventure.&quot;

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm sorry, dear, but I don't.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Rats.&quot; Kor: What? &quot;Pardon me, and my unquencable thirst for knowledge.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well of course then, I was talking about now...nevermind. Continue.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Her parents were killed, I believe, and she was basically alone on the coast when she crossed paths with my father and company.&quot;

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have you been to any of the city's libraries?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus taps the blade in his right hand once.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">She tilts her head a bit. &quot;Actually, no. I suppose I was a bit too busy meeting that silly cleric's family.&quot; She says with a wink.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;In the course of escorting her to a monastery out in the Metoran reaches, a number of foul things beset them. Like I said, I'm not an arcane scholar. But I got the impression that whatever this Spellfire business is, it's something special to someone in a position of power somewhere. Or ... positions, as the case may be.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;This was the sword of a man named Ravin Radaghast. He was an assassin.&quot; ^^;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm not sure whether to call him a good or bad assassin, since he crossed blades with dad more than once. And apparently enough times and casually enough that they traded names.&quot; =w=;;;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; But that's sort of his style, anyways..&quot;

<font color="#0000ff">Meany has connected.

</i>Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:o

Meany:<font color="#000000">8o

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Welcome. I take it you got your comp running? Or are you on craptop? :B

Meany:<font color="#000000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usfiAsWR4qU

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see. Very unusual assasin.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Woo! :D


 * Thomas Lazarus gives the blade an incredulous, amused smirk. &quot;..It's.. a lot more complicated an end than it probably seems. Believe it or not, he fell in love with someone in their adventuring group.&quot; ^^;;

TMG:<font color="#000000">(uhoh. Remember how I said that I can play today--for most of the day, at least?)

TMG:<font color="#000000">(May be a little shorter than I thought. &gt;.&gt; Dunno quite yet, though.)

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, dear! That simply won't do! The libraries here are beautiful -- oh dear. That reminds me.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wow. Very unusual assasin.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus chuckles nervously. &quot;I'm not even sure; I think there's some.. psychology term for whatever was going on there. A few months of dramatic cat and mouse and showy speeches apparently wins some people over.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;So yeah. He's actually still alive somewhere living with Miss Adara.&quot; =w=;;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Dad kept his blade as a memento after they became allies.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt gives another look at the rapier. &quot;I see.&quot;

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;How many members of your group are prepared for winter?&quot; D: &quot;Tommy used to go out without his coat all the time when he was little -- and going from a safe warm temple in a city to the rough life of an adventurer!&quot;

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's go out into the city.&quot; :O

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It wouldn't be an adventurer's story if it didn't head-twist. :B

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">She smiles. &quot;I'd be delighted to. I think Aelian is still snoozing in your sitting room. Let me go wake him up and bring him along too!&quot;

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;We can't have you all freezing -- and you'll get to see the libraries!&quot; :D


 * Thomas Lazarus sets it back on the display. &quot;I think the others were annoyed he didn't sell it. He was impractical and full of sentiment like that.&quot; =w=;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Thomas, your mother and I are going to go buy you long-johns.&quot; Tathi says ever so briefly as she scoots through the room. :3


 * Thomas Lazarus totally believes her. =3=


 * Thomas Lazarus huffs.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...do I even want to know? :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Want to know what?

TMG:<font color="#000000">&quot;long-john&quot;?

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Consider everyone to have a new cold weather outfit by the time the shopping party returns. =3=

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh. It's just long thermal pajamas, more or less.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh. Okay. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">you've lived in sunny climates all your life, aincha boi. XD

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hello hello hello.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">.... you don't know about long-johns? You poor sheltered California kid. XP

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oop, wrong room, sorry.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">I have lived in California my whole life, what do you think?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I suddenly feel like some kind of Nord with +50% frost resistance.


 * Dr. Hatari is brick'd.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">x3 !

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey you two.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Then call me some hair-brained dunmer. XD

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, Sszeyl!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Boo.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus waves at Sszeyl. :3


 * Elizabeta Marigold jumps! D:

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Greetings. And/or leave...ings.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm...&quot; Gnogglebolt looks around.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's just Sszeyl, Liz.&quot; |3

Elizabeta Marigold:<font color="#000000">&quot;O-oh. Good day, sir.&quot; ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Alright.. ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I should go.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I hope to only be gone a few minutes. It's a short drive.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Be back soon.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...If there's not much else to be done today except wait, I'd actually rather like to get to work on my device...buuut this environment is much too fancy for that. Something will break....&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Seeya. :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">kay, seeya

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Good luck

Meany:<font color="#000000">Ta.

Elizabeta Marigold:<font color="#000000">&quot;The walls are]

Liatai:<font color="#000000">cat

TMG:<font color="#000000">|3

Elizabeta Marigold:<font color="#000000">&quot;The walls are sturdy, sir.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hikitty. :&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm more worried about the paint on the walls...unless you've got some room out of the way meant for rough work?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's going to be a bit of a mess. ^^; &quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If not, that's alright. I can get all the parts moved elsewhere.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros, being mildly curious what's going on, wanders off to find...everyone else. :B


 * Elizabeta Marigold fidgets. &quot;... There is the basement, sir... in fact, I believe Sir Lazarus placed your metal objects there.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh hello, Elros.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&quot;I hope I'm not interrupting anything.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;I hope I'm not interrupting anything.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Fff &gt;.&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt nods to Elizabeta. &quot;Oh, that might work.&quot; Back to Elros, &quot;Oh, not at all!&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros nods

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">spring attack + monk's flurry of blows = lol slapfest?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Heh. x3

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Oh wait. I think you can only target one person at a time with spring attack. XP

TMG:<font color="#000000">yeah, only one at a time. And spring attack just lets you put an attack in between a move.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Whirlwind Attack.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Still.. the monk swings past the attacker, punching him in the side of the head, no AoOs.. and then goes to town on the wizard with the rest of their flurry. XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">Normally, you attack and then move, or move and then attack, but spring attak allows move, attack, and move

TMG:<font color="#000000">and I don't think spring attack denies AoO

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">It does, actually.

TMG:<font color="#000000">really? Interesting.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Moving in this way does not provoke an attack of opportunity from the defender you attack, though it might provoke attacks of opportunity from other creatures, if appropriate.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">JUST the person you are attacking, however. So if there's two guards.. that's the real reason I think it's single-target.

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Shall we consider the shopping party returned with a mound of winter clothes and books? :B

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Like a baws!

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hello, everyone!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And exit to find ninjas. :v

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Anyway, Gnogglebolt goes down to check the basement. DOes it look like an environment suited to workshop work?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yes, it does.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">(&quot;Hello, Swallowtail. I'm not sure if you heard from Miron or not, but there is a Man of the Dragon in town. :v&quot;)

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt approves, then. He doesn't get started on working just yet...what time o'pocketwatch is it?

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">(&quot;Seems to be a fighter for entertainment in the streets.&quot;)

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is everyone here? Oh, no, it seems not... would you please come to the front sitting room when you have the time?&quot; ^^

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;(A man of the Dragon?)&quot; :O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt returns to the main floor, and follows the others into the front sitting room.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">(&quot;Aye.&quot;)

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;(Kellon?)&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( Riding a pogo stick! ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">(&quot;I believe so, his voice had no accent. :v&quot;)


 * Terri seems to have been talking to Edaric, and fidgets when everyone shows up. o///o

Ezer:<font color="#006666">...

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( My cat is enjoying my new fuzzy blanket and throwcover. =3= ))

Ezer:<font color="#006666">Ezer EYES the dogs. :[

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi quirks an eyebrow at Terri. Crush senses tingling..

Elizabeta Marigold:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Excuse me... ladies and gentlemen...&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Hm?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">... we're in the wrong damn sitting room, aren't we?

Elizabeta Marigold:<font color="#000000">&quot;... but the front sitting room is the one closest to the front of the house. Please, follow me.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Called it.

Elros:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

TMG:<font color="#000000">you know, that's what I thought. :B

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shall we follow them?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">...there should be a couch along this wall, too. :B

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;.. mm, we probably should. Thanks.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anytime.&quot;

Elizabeta Marigold:<font color="#000000">&quot;Excuse me, Vigilant Guardians. The Lady Lazarus has summoned you to the front sitting room.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Ninja vanish.

Elizabeta Marigold:<font color="#000000">&quot;Would you please follow me?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Thomas continues to derp out at the weapon rack.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Monks cannot ninja vanish. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Monk vanish then.

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">There seems to be a veritable pile of folded clothes in this room.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liatai? another couch or two in this room, plz? :.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Why? =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">...eh, nevermind...

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is this everyone? Oh, almost everyone.&quot; ^^

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I hope I was able to find your sizes... it'll do no good for you to be adventuring during the winter months without warm clothing!&quot; D:

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please, help yourselves. No buts!&quot; ^^

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot; ... yep. She's a mom. &quot; x3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh! Why...thank you very much, mother Lazarus!&quot; He think of trying to offer recompense, but considering the woman's attitude type, he figures that's not a smart idea, and should just go along with it. :B

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi and Aelian have some fitted to them. ^_^

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Indeed, thank you. Handy to have something warm besides armor.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aye. :v&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Everyone gains +1 cold weather outfit. No exceptions. Yes, even jackets for the dogs, serval, and rat.


 * Dr. Hatari catches up. D:

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Tathi and Aelian have aelian and Tathi, respectively, to keep them warm?

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... um... Mr. Tom?&quot;

Ezer:<font color="#006666">...what's a jacket? =3=;

Tavia:<font color="#0000FF">Woof. I feel so silly.

Terri:<font color="#000000">Terri looks more like her little sister Vira than herself as she approaches, wringing her hands a little.

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS MOCKERY. REMOVE THIS FROM ME AT ONCE.

B&#228;rli:<font color="#000000">Nonsense! You look fine! :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt tentatively looks through the pile, and picks out a nice set that seems to fit him.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liatai; thomas is afk, remember?

TMG:<font color="#000000">er, hatari. :B'

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hatari just got back, he's reading up.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh

Elros:<font color="#006666">Pft, as if Kor needed to move any more slowly. :o

Elros:<font color="#006666">...

Elros:<font color="#006666">That was supposed to be Ezer.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Alright, new rule: Whenever I say anything, assume it's being said by whoever isn't saying it.


 * Swallowtail picks out the biggest, thickest coat she can find. =w=

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Okay Tech.


 * Faerie awesomeface

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">:P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">x3


 * Sszeyl picks out one that is the most pleasing of colour. =3=

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros picks out something that fits him well. And hopefuly isn't toop garish a color. And something cat-sized, of which surely there can't be too many?

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">^^ !

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">*snrks* Oh party.


 * Thomas Lazarus jolts and drops a blade on the ground. Clatter clang rattle. =w=;;;;


 * Thomas Lazarus spins around.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Uhm! ... Yes, dear?&quot; ^^;

Meany:<font color="#000000">And he steps on the sword.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's fun roleplaying AFK.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">which flies up and hits him in the face.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;.. uhm... are you busy?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus chuckles and recomposes himself. He puts the weapon back where it belongs. &quot;No, no. I'm the opposite of busy. Please excuse my zoning out.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What can I do for you?&quot; :3

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... it's just, I could use some advice, an' you're a priest, an' Bri an' grandpa are priests, an' they give good advice, so...&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Is that so?&quot; He raises a brow very faintly and smiles.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well then.&quot; He takes a seat on the floor mat and crosses his legs.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'd be glad to try. What's bothering you, Terri?&quot;


 * Terri sits down, too. &quot;... It's about Mr. Miron.&quot; She fidgets, then seems to pick up the pace of her speaking as if to try and get it all out at once. &quot;It's just I know I said I'd do it an' it seemed like the right thing to do when I said it but then I did it an' -- I did warn him, but --&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... it doesn't feel like I did the right thing anymore.&quot; &gt;:


 * Thomas Lazarus takes a moment to cradle and rub his chin.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">(He's totally also using it to hide his compulsive DAW smirk.)

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus lowers his hand, looking totally serene and serious. &quot;Terri..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's easy to forget, since he is just like us otherwise, but Miron is our elder by more than a century.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;(Swan Song, you said you met a man of the Dragon... how did you know?)&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't think he actually thought he was doing anything wrong or bad. He's just.. used to speaking that way, and not being around children.&quot; ^^;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know... an' that's why I don't think soaping him was the right thing to do anymore.&quot; &gt;:

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;For what it's worth, his superior officer also scolds him for his colorful language.&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">(&quot;He wore The Dragon upon him, and gave his name as Sirocco, and his style of fighting was congruent to Dragon style Overwhelmingly powerful and offensive-based.&quot;)

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. He's simply a man very set in his ways. Unfortunately, that does not make them all right. He just has a lot of precedent to use as an argument against change.&quot; ^^;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Listen..&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;(... You fought him?)&quot; :O

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">(&quot;Oh yes.&quot;)

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">(&quot;He trounced me.&quot;)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Question: are they using Auran or Amayan?

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( :v Auran, probably, given it's all about The School. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He may be flustered now, but it's not such a horrible thing.&quot; He smiles in faint amusement. &quot;..We rather routinely pull worse pranks on each other at the hostel on an every-other-daily basis. He'll be over it and mumbling and grumbling and chuckling within the day.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm more proud of you for seeing that there might be a difference in what is right and wrong by context. That's a lot of wisdom and perception for someone your age.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;But... he said 'I see no one here would miss me much.' That's a horrible way to feel.&quot; &gt;: &quot;An'... I worry it's 'cause of me.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">That totally wasn't a small chuckle. x3

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Silly Terri.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">It's because he is a racist, hateful little troll. :v


 * Thomas Lazarus smiles a bit more, however sadly. &quot;... I agree. But I'm not sure he really meant it like that. Tell you what.&quot; ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">That has random moments of non-assholism.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">SHUT UP SSZEYL &gt;:O

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;?&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;(How were you fighting? Display, or real?)&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">(&quot;A bit of both? I could tell he was serious, and so was I, but we mutually agreed to not fight as if we wished each other dead.&quot;)

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;When he gets back from doing whatever research it is he feels like he needs to get out of his system, we can confront him and let him know how you feel. That there're no hard feelings and we're all still friends. I'll be there to keep him in line if he's still feeling surly. (Which he normally does, like, half the time. It's not even your fault.)&quot; |3

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Okay. We can do that. Mr. Ed was sayin' somethin' similar.&quot; Terri nods resolutely.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Mr. Ed. XD &quot;TEH-H-H-HERRI&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus smiles warmly.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Hey, I'm not a horse. x3

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">HE'S A BARD O'COURSE.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">*snrk!*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Very good. I think you'll see that there's little to feel bad about. Sometimes Miron does get a little out of hand.. but he's a lot tougher than he looks. He's almost as tough as me, you know. I don't think such a gnome who has been burned by the fires of hellhounds and crushed under battleaxes of minotaur zombies would have his feelings too seriously damaged by a little jouvenile discipline.&quot; ^^;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..But I'm glad you've that much empathy. You're a good girl, Terri.&quot; |3

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;(Sirocco... that is a wind, yes? Why would a Dragon take on a wind name? The Dragon is fire in the Kellon school, yes?)&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">(&quot;A sirocco is a desert wind. A cyclone of hot air and sand.&quot;)

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;He was crushed under a battleaxe of a minotaur zombie?&quot; O_o

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yes. ... Me too, actually.&quot; ^^;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Suddenly, wood elf. &quot;THOMAS! What are you doing in here, sparring with Terri? She'd kick your butt all over the house. Now get in here, we've got pink long johns with hearts on them for you.&quot; She says, before vanishing. Tathi'ized.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But I'm not sure that's an appropriate story for the moment.&quot; =w=;;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">D|


 * Ghostwish troll-lololololols.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are you okay?&quot; D: &quot;... um...&quot; She fidgets, covering a nervous smile with one hand as Tathi appears and disappears with that proclamation.


 * Thomas Lazarus sulks. =3=;;;;;;;;;;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh well.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... should we go?&quot; ^^;;;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sure. But, before that. One thing..&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus clasps his hands in prayer pose. T_T

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Don'tevereverswearinfrontofyourdadhe'llkillme&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi did worse than drive Thomas to drinking. She drove him to prayer. XP

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ahahahaha. |D


 * Terri giggles! x3 &quot;Don' worry! I won't. Besides, he gets mad at Max an' Brian for swearin', too. I wouldn't wanna make my dad mad.&quot; :3


 * Thomas Lazarus smiles and pats Terri's head twice. &quot;Thank you.&quot; ^^;;


 * Terri gains +2 headpats! :D

TMG:<font color="#000000">I like the qualifier in that, though. Don't swear -in front of your dad-


 * Thomas Lazarus stands and goes to discover what the others are up to.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Getting your sailor mouth on with us is just fine. x3

TMG:<font color="#000000">or better yet, when you -think- your dad isn't watching.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">She's a child. Thomas is trying to be reasonable. XD

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-hmm. An' thank you, Mr. Tom.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You're welcome.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">(Yeah, I know, just teasin'. x3 )


 * Thomas Lazarus sighs and looks about.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;So what's this about pink long-johns.&quot; =3=

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;There you are!&quot; :O


 * Nina Lazarus promptly pushes a pile of warm clothes into Thomas' arms. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">BUT I CAN'T AFFORD--oh wait. Thanks mom. |3

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;You haven't changed sizes in a year, have you?&quot; :3

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Depends on what spell he casts.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">x3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Touche.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... where the heck is VAE? I thought he'd be back with the research by now. ^^;;;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">And then his mom made a GIANT set of warm clothes, and insisted he take them, too.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;No. And.. well.. I'm usually in full kit and robe most days. But these look really comfortable!&quot; ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Miron in in the library version of a wiki-walk

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;No freezing while you're off having adventures.&quot; D:|

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Perhaps we'll have to drag him along with a bunch of books in tow and his nose buried deeply. =w=;

TMG:<font color="#000000">He read one book, that mentioned a topic in another book, and he jumped to that book, and now he's got ten books open at once

Liatai:<font color="#000000">x3 !


 * Thomas Lazarus hugs his mother. =w=; &quot;I won't, I promise.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Miron has been put on an omnibus.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Reminds me of the first time I heard the term.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We made a point of dramatically delcaring, &quot;CONSULT THE OMNIBUS!! &gt;:O&quot; for weeks.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">We might need to. I'm running out of things for you to do in Lorellon. ^^;;;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That's fine. I think it's high time we bid the estate adeau. |3

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Wait, wait, wait.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">I haven't shocking grasped any doors yet.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Which one's your room, Thomas? :P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I have a cat after my chestnuts. D:{

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">...


 * Ghostwish totally got the wrong idea of 'chestnuts'


 * Ghostwish bricks self.


 * Dr. Hatari was not mature enough to not derpface either.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You people. XP

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">For shame. x3

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">hey i'd be after them t- OH GOD THE BRICKS

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Normally I would be all, &quot;GROW UP HYUU HUFFF &gt;:O&quot; but no that totally got me that time. |3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">x3

TMG:<font color="#000000">.....I tab out for a minute and this is what I come back to.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">ololol

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">roflroflrofl

TMG:<font color="#000000">*GlaDOS slow clap routine*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">xD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Give me a few minutes to extricate the cat from my bowl of fireplace-roasted nuts. ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well, I'm still dressed from drugstore trip.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Afk a few to get back into day-off clothes.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'm ready to timeskip or scenetransition to wherever. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">If it's still around r before noon o'pocketwatch, Gnogglebolt goes down to the basement and continues work on pieces-parts for eight hours

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">What's next on our itenerary anyway?

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">That letter delivery?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Getting back on the boat the next morning when the rain has let up. :B


 * Dr. Hatari has a comfort.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well~

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sounds like something could come of Miron's revelation.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">... Whatever it is.

TMG:<font color="#000000">So...

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But other than that, I think that is the next place of interest on the journey.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Barring any eventful pit-stops along the way.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Shall we assume that the rest of the day passes uneventfully (unless there's anything in Lorellon proper to play out) and as everyone' getting ready to sleep, Miron comes stumbling in, carrying a bunch of books, oblivious to everyone else, and goes to to collapse in a bed? :B

<font color="#0000ff">VAE has connected.

</i>Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I would take greater joy in exploring Lorellon, but... I'm broke. And Thomas technically knows his way around anyways. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:O


 * VAE returneth

TMG:<font color="#000000">...wow.


 * VAE said he'll be VERY late

TMG:<font color="#000000">Speak of the lynx. :B


 * VAE mroweth

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Good timing.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Okay, holding off Gnogglebolt's going down into the basement to work.

Meany:<font color="#000000">Yo. :V

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:O

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:O

Liatai:<b><font color="#000000">:O

</b>* Liatai pounces the lynx! &gt;:O

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Where the hey you been boy. XD


 * VAE mrow!


 * VAE is pounced upon


 * VAE had his mother and one of her colleagues coming around

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Get your gnomish butt into the estate! XP We were about to try and finangle a way to advance the plot without you!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ahhh. I see.


 * VAE SAID he'll be late and that Miron is stuck in the library in the meantime XD

Meany:<font color="#000000">Mudslide.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">He has been, now everyone's waiting on Miron. XD

Meany:<font color="#000000">Everyone in the library is trapped inside.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Need a refresher on what Miron learned, or are you good to go on that front?


 * VAE also had about a litre of hard cider in him XD


 * VAE remembers most.. the drow was seen in central akellon, riding a black pegasus, no doubt corrupted

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">=w=;

VAE:<font color="#000000">the precise cities i don't recall

VAE:<font color="#000000">any more stuff that was said? a

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Western Akellon.

VAE:<font color="#000000">also Hatari's question... were the mentionings positive negative or neutral?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Neutral, but there's no doubt that there are a number of them in places where bad things have been occuring. Monster attacks and whatnot.

TMG:<font color="#000000">that was my question, actually. :B


 * Dr. Hatari accepts credit. =w=

VAE:<font color="#000000">brb.. nature calls

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... the cat muted my music again. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I just spent these past few minutes wondering why there was no sound coming out of my headphones. *hangs head in shame*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">... ... ... I have the most inappropriate music playing for this scene possible. =3=

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWk5S5lE2PI

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">While Thomas gets a sweater and hugs his mother.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">XD

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">This sweater isn't made out of orphans or something by chance, is it? D| *brick'd*


 * VAE back

VAE:<font color="#000000">also! miron's token!

Meany:<font color="#000000">cat attacking

VAE:<font color="#000000">also

Meany:<font color="#000000">trying to steal sammich

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It is south of the doors on the Estate map!


 * VAE got the humble bundle with Darwinia in it, as a side effect ,he is able to add people on Steam. He added owl earlier.

Meany:<font color="#000000">back, fuzzy demon

Liatai:<font color="#000000">x3

Meany:<font color="#000000">back

Miron:<font color="#000000">*bangs at the door*

Elizabeta Marigold:<font color="#000000">The door is opened. &quot;Good day, sir.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm? A visitor?&quot; Gnogglebolt looks up as the thumping sound echos.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'll bet that's brother Miron now.&quot; |3

Miron:<font color="#000000">An inquisitor works even if at rest....Saint Cuthbert held his hand in my favour when I didn't give in at their cheap jokes... the situation is grave... now.. i hope someone comes in fast.

</i>Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Get the soap ready.&quot;


 * Terri fidgets.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good day, miss.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Welcome back.&quot; His hands in pockets.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitor Steelsprocket at your service...Tom!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I had figured you gone for the whole night.&quot; ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Listen Tom.. before the others learn, even..&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus half-turns his face back to spy Terri before looking back to Miron.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 5 + 7 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Hide check behind the templar. &gt;.&gt;;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Test

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yo.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">IRC disced.

Meany:<font color="#000000">Cat wins sammich war. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">hey hatari, I see you

Miron:<font color="#000000">(whispering) &quot;Tom... it took a little more time than I expected, but.... that drow has been seen all over Western Akellon... most mentions are just of his passing, as unusual as such courageous Drow are... but quite often, in conjunction with disasters or crime.. no direct links to him, but you know what that suggests... Nevermind the fact that asides from the Mithril armour he also has a black , winged horse... from the desctiptions, no doubt it's a pegasus and I bet my robes it's a corrupt one...&quot;

Meany:<font color="#000000">Okay, seriously.

Meany:<font color="#000000">Next NPC we get?

Meany:<font color="#000000">I vote Paladin.

Meany:<font color="#000000">So we can just hurl Detect Evils at things to sate Miron's paranoia.

Meany:<font color="#000000">

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;An inquisitor works even when resting.. I said it once and again I have to repeat it.. before the others learn... .this is fire we are playing with. That letter.. who knows what can come from it? We shouldn't just walk into it like that ..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That's pretty curious..&quot; He frowns. &quot;..especially the accompanying monster attacks.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Not sure of that

Liatai:<font color="#000000">SMILEEEEEEYS &gt;:O

VAE:<font color="#000000">Evil people can be of all allignment

VAE:<font color="#000000">XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">x3

VAE:<font color="#000000">especially if they are persuaded they are doing the right thing.

Meany:<font color="#000000">...As evidenced by Miron.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Or are evil merely by .. helping a scheme run along

VAE:<font color="#000000">No, not Miron. He's lucky to be on the right side.

VAE:<font color="#000000">well, unless you are a drow

VAE:<font color="#000000">but that's my point

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The only evil forces in earth that have ever been evil for its own sake are the criminally insane. The rest think they're doing the right thing. |3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Evil is relative

VAE:<font color="#000000">Right thing, or best thing

TMG:<font color="#000000">Just get back to roleplaying, you people. DX

VAE:<font color="#000000">that's what separates neutral and good

VAE:<font color="#000000">XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:B

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron is looking .. rather excited

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I agree that we should use caution. However.. I also think we should proceed with the delivery and not break the letter's seal. If only because I also believe it would betray a tenetive ally's trust and cause undue retribution for our faithlessness. There will likely be plenty to learn when it is delivered. But...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps... if only to go along with the scheme and not let out what we have learned.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus does a sweeping side-step and rests a hand on Terri's shoulder. ^^

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;However, he looks much less like a tentative ally, compared to a really sly enemy.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">Metal Gear Solid &quot;!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I believe our young guest had something to speak with you about.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">x3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who? Young guest?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Which one?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... um...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=w=;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">is the irc fluipping out for anyone else?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Yes

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It is for me, too.

VAE:<font color="#000000">no?

Meany:<font color="#000000">Yes.

VAE:<font color="#000000">actually it is

VAE:<font color="#000000">no response to /list

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... um, Mr. Miron...&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">ah bugger, looks like I dc'd from irc a while ago

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Won't reconnect. Oh well.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I'msorryaboutwashingyourmouthoutwithsoap.&quot; D:

TMG:<font color="#000000">...and the page won't load.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hrm. Yeah, looks like it's down


 * Thomas Lazarus makes a gesture like he's about to fold his arms into his robe sleeves. |3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's not reconnecting for me, either. It's probably a server-wide outage.


 * Thomas Lazarus forgot he was wearing casual clothes. =w=;;;;;


 * Thomas Lazarus awkwardly folds arms instead.

Meany:<font color="#000000">This is a test of emergancy server broadcast.

Meany:<font color="#000000">&quot;AAAAAH, OH GOD, THE BOX IS RIPPING MY LEGS OFF, HELP-&quot;

Meany:<font color="#000000">This has been a test of the emergancy server broadcast. This was only a test.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;It seemed like the right thing to do at the time an' now that it's done it doesn't feel like it was the right thing -- I'm sorry for making you feel bad.&quot; &gt;:

TMG:<font color="#000000">Pfft. xP


 * Thomas Lazarus looks on approvingly. |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Hmmm.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">I get this feeling my conscience is trying to make me feel guilty.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">*beats it a bit with a dead horse*

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">There, that's better.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Meany, stop aggravating llearch.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

<font color="#0000ff">Meany is disconnected.

</i>Faerie:<font color="#006666">:x

Miron:<font color="#000000">*sigh* ...&quot;Look.. Terri.... I.. can't really be angry at you, can I? For one, I know who persuaded you to do it....&quot;

<font color="#0000ff">Meany has connected.

</i>Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Besides... I guess you are right, in principle... Seriously. With the determination you have, never mind strength, you should apply to the Leaden Mace when you grow up.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ever the recruiter, eh, Miron. XP


 * Thomas Lazarus smiles and shakes his head.


 * Thomas Lazarus pats Terri's shoulder once.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You beat up someone who's .. probably fifteen times your age, you know?'

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Well. See, now? Miron's too tough to be mad at you over such a thing. It's okay.&quot; |3

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">oh crap, need to make sure there's something out for dinner

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">brb

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">CONSULT THE OMNIB--*brick'd* &gt;XO

<font color="#0000ff">Meany is disconnected.

</i>Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's not somethin' to be proud of, Mr. Miron... but...&quot; She looks up at Thomas and nods.


 * Thomas Lazarus considers that point with a look of amusement. &quot;I suppose by Human standards it does seem rather bad.&quot; =w=;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The only thing i'd be angry about is embarrassing an inquisitor... but after all didn't the Wise Fool make fools of the learned? And, it served the higher good.. I found out many things about the man with the symbol in the library.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Wise Fool?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A book of tales... written by the priests of Saint Cuthbert many, many years ago. They are quite amusing at times... and very helpful.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Know what? I'll find you a copy back in Castleton.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Okay.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">And everything turned out better than expected. |D

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who knows.. maybe you'll really join us when you grow up&quot; *smiles*

TMG:<font color="#000000">Was that two or three recruitment attempts in one conversation?

TMG:<font color="#000000">I think Miron's going for the record.

VAE:<font color="#000000">AHahah

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That might be fun,&quot; He remarks with a jokingly serious tone and nod.


 * Terri just smiles. &quot;... So, are you gonna tell the others what you found out? They're all in the room over there.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well... she reminds me of Anise a bit.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh my goodness.&quot; He just covers his face.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot; A less drunk Anise, and less humorous one.. but she has the same.. strength of body and personality.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Drunkmonk Terri. Why am I picturing this. XD


 * Dr. Hatari just pictures Suika without horns. =w=;;;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either way... How much shall we tell them, Thomas?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Especially the d..Sszeyl and Tathi..their stakes are greatest.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus considers for a moment. &quot;Well...&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's not so much strength as it is usin' it right. That's what Papa always says, anyway.&quot; :3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Papa is a wise...man?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's not too much concrete to go on yet. It just tells us to keep our guard up and ears open. So let's do that, shall we? I imagine, in all seriousness, they would probably not have much.. ahem.. constructive criticism to add.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right... so nothing said?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm largely curious about that symbol and how it correlates to a small river town and apparent crises, now. I suppose we'll find out.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus simply nods.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I... see.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I leave the decision to you. But I do not think it would change much.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though.. i'd still want to speak to the local Mace branch about it.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Probably just invite jeering from the elves.&quot; ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If anyone can help us, it is them.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus shrugs faintly. &quot;It's not impossible they have a profile on such a person if monster attacks are occuring in his wake. But it's getting late and we have an early departure tomorrow. You may wish to go now if ever, brother.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I wonder if we can both arrange.. leaving under an excuse.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or.. even myself.. true..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That might work.. I probably won't be gone long..&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus pats Terri on the head and closes one eye. &quot;... This is all secret inquisitor business between we three for now, of course.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Of course!&quot; :o

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If noone went to look for me when I was sitting there for hours... they won't go *now*... and you are to make sure, Thomas&quot; *grins*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">D'aaaawwww I'm so glad we brought Terri. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And Terri, of course. You are good at distracting people are you?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt has been double-checking the cloths for awhile. He heard thomas walk over to meet up miron, but neither have come back yet.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Heh. Don't sweat it, brother. Just keep warm. It's getting that time of the year and the rain is chilly.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Cruious, Gnogglebolt gets up and heads to the front door.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;My mom actually got you a sweater.&quot; =w=;;;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+14 = 18 + 14 = 32&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Listen check

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, hello again Miron! So it was you that came back.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, Gnogglebolt....&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well.. back...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have you been standing here this whole time?&quot;


 * Terri stifles the &quot;mayday, mayday, Guardian agent approaching!&quot; she was about to say. =w=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes.. well.. I had a few things to go over with Thomas.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And did you find out whatever it was you were looking for on that wandering drow or something?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He simply nods, straight-faced.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mainly notes on Sszeyl...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...notes on Sszeyl?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You would understand if you were there for the briefing, friend.&quot; He simply smiles.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either way... I still have some business to go about.. mainly in the library... I think I left the notes I was making in there..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Um...okay.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;In any case. Please excuse me while I pack a few extra things and say my goodbyes. I won't want to wake mom and dad when I leave in the morning.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wouldn't be too eager on anyone else finding them... you understand. I'll be back soon.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">So, Inquisitor Steelsprocket. What do you tell the Mace?


 * Dr. Hatari adds Cold Weather Outfit (From Mom) to inventory. =w=;

Miron:<font color="#000000">With that said... Miron walks off, his apparent direction straight to the library.


 * Liatai turns on secret agent music. =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...That was strange.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">actually.. that anome soundtrack would be better

VAE:<font color="#000000">remember? the one you found...

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But, Miron found notes on Sszeyl? Where? And what about?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;How on earth would any record of Sszeyl make itself into a Lorellon library?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">bloody hell, waht was it called?


 * VAE wants to set it on

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;It was about the dragon, I think. Right, Mr. Tom?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't believe he was referring specifically to the corporeal Sszeyl.&quot; He nods at Terri.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Which soundtrack? Need more hints than that. ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, the dragon-thing.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">Sekrit agents. |D

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkjTq_nHB90

VAE:<font color="#000000">got it myself i think

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anyways

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ohhhh, that one. x3


 * Dr. Hatari was going to propose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf_jgNPR-iU

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;RIght, well...I'm going to go down to the basement and work. I'll probably be done after everyone else has gone to bed * so, see you in the morning, then.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The Vocaloid song I mused would make a good Mace-based anime opening. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*If it's noon or past noon o'pocketwatch

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It is.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">x3


 * Liatai had http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi2fGqBYXAw

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You should draw a dramatic suited lineup of Mace members some time when you're bored. |3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I don't think anyone but Skar would fit in. x3

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron comes into the mace branch.. assuming all goes right.. these are reasonably trustworthy people so .. nothing said about Sszeyl *yet* but mentioned the passing drow, the symbol, and the fact some in the group they are co-ordinating have been offered.. a reward that *isn't* turned down (seeds) to take a sealed letter with the same symbol somewhere.. Fake name of sender is told, so are the names of recipients and a bacground check is requested on everyone.

GM:<font color="#000000">Hooboy. Give me a bit to roll some checks behind the scenes.

VAE:<font color="#000000">In other words, he says all that is relevant to the case at hand, and nothing more

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Right then, Gnogglebolt excuses himself from everything and begins work. And excuse me while I find the record of what I've done so far on it...

VAE:<font color="#000000">Asides from name, rank, and badge

VAE:<font color="#000000">ookay... VAE migth dart off to ..certain places... anyways

VAE:<font color="#000000">rebellion in his gut again, it seems

VAE:<font color="#000000">brb

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It must be going around. =w=;


 * Dr. Hatari heads off to drug store again for VAE. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">&quot;No digestion without representation!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hokay! for record, finally getting around to deducting that 666.5 gp for the trucktrain from gnogglebolt's token.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">How forboding. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;20091-666 = 20091 - 666 = 19425&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

TMG:<font color="#000000">It should be. I originally paid 333 gold pieces.

TMG:<font color="#000000">The double in materials cost is due to failed checks and ruined materials.

TMG:<font color="#000000">This one's a tough nut to crack. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Well, the name of Cal'tel sends up all kinds of red flags, but I don't suppose that's a surprise to anyone.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Roast it on an open fire.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Being as it's that season.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh great.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">GASP

TMG:<font color="#000000">Mor paranoia for Miron. Now he's gonna go Inquisition on the dude next time we see him. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We've went inquisition mode on Cal'tel many times. XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He probably instinctively lowers his drink and checks the nearest window when he hears us approach. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Arivan Marathal, Sornala Marathal, and Pellan'zyne pull up nothing, but the archivists suggest asking at the Mace branch closest to Thalinde, Braxton Falls, will probably pull up more if they're residents of Thalinde.

Haron Silverthrush:<font color="#000000">You say that like I didn't do that before you came along. =3=


 * Faerie hands Miron a dish rack and a comfy chair.

GM:<font color="#000000">One other thing.

GM:<font color="#000000">The operatives there suggest confiscating the letter and/or seeds and bringing them to a Mace office for analysis.

GM:<font color="#000000">Covertly, if necessary.

Elros:<font color="#006666">You hear that Tathi? That means -don't- set fire to everything.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...

TMG:<font color="#000000">who has the letter?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I believe Sszeyl.

GM:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl does. ^^

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh, we're safe then.

GM:<font color="#000000">... speaking of which, where did Meany go? o.o

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He dropped some time ago during IRC outage mentions.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Over the river and through the woods.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I haven't even been bothering trying to get back in.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's back up now, I'm in. Meany's coming back in in a bit.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ah.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I be working' in the workshop, clankin on metal... Craft check! &#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 18 + 18 = 36&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Woot! Success!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;36*30 = 36 * 30 = 1080&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

TMG:<font color="#000000">...wait a minute..

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas doesn't have much business left for the evening, and certainly less packing. But he does big his parents an early farewell, assures them he'll be careful, and thanks them again for their hospitality and understanding in his new Inquisitorial career. :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh, right.

TMG:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;679-108 = 679 - 108 = 571&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; crafting by day is by silver piece

Terri:<font color="#000000">Terri seems to be practicing her sneaking skills using the potted plants as cover. &gt;:O

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Whose footprints are these?

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 16 + 7 = 23&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Hide check :d

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Anyways. Shall we advance a day, then? |3

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Yup. :&gt;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm kind of curious what Miron's reactions to the orders will be. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">But sure. Whenever you're ready, hop over to the Cygnet!

TMG:<font color="#000000">I want meany to get back first and Miron to return so we can see hilarious drama as Miron tries to wrestle the letter away from him...

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liatai; Question.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We can do that at any point in the trip.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Was it an -order- that branch gave him, or was it really just a suggestion? The distiction may be important later

Tokens dropped onto map 'The Cygnet'* VAE returneth

GM:<font color="#000000">The operatives Miron spoke to were not his superiors, so it wasn't an order, but a very heavily weighted suggestion.

VAE:<font color="#000000">no need for drug store quite yet

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm, is Miron still there?

VAE:<font color="#000000">got a few.. questions he'd ask

GM:<font color="#000000">By all means, ask away!

Miron:<font color="#000000">*Miron looks sombre and worried* &quot;Any sort of things that this.. Cal'tel has been going in? He.. isn't very well known in our Castleton branch... he even found out about our.. covert agents.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">The next day (perhaps in a simultaneous separate timesteam) Thomas has left home early with the others and their gear in tow, helping Gnogglebolt with hauling his possessions, and boards the Cygnet - armored and robed once again.

Cuthbertine Priestess:<font color="#000000">&quot;Espionage, mainly. Several counts of theft and murder. Suspected covert agent of a non-Kellon power, but no solid details have appeared regarding who he may be working for.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Also... my speciality is dealing with undeath.. suppose I bring the letter to one of the facilities around.. can brothers analysts 'round these parts investigate its contents without damaging the seal? I'd have looked at it myself, but it'd alert them that we know something's fishy.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Murders? What sort of murders? Commoners.... nobles.. priests.. political?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">brb

Cuthbertine Priestess:<font color="#000000">&quot;We have ways of repairing a broken seal on a letter. Surely as an archivist, you are familiar with spells of mending.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Lemme know when it's spellcraft time. :&gt;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=w=;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Like a dog with a bone.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am.. but surely as an Inquisitor you are familiar with what's done to make sure that's obvious to the addresee... our group has several with arcane and divine powers, and the man isn't an idiot for Cuthbert's sake.&quot;

Cuthbertine Priestess:<font color="#000000">&quot;The most prestigious victim, if you can call it that, was a member of a minor drow great house. A simple wax seal is easy enough to repair without a trace, though if the letter has magical warding, that's a slightly different problem.&quot;

Cuthbertine Priestess:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have you examined the letter with magic-detection spells?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suspect it has.. .I can check on-place, though&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They.. didn't let it near me as ... i have been rather vocal about the whole problem.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's .. .well known I don't trust the man.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;He.. has a history with the group I serve as a liaison for... he has provided useful information several times.. no doubt in an attempt to thwart common enemies and insinuate himself into their favour..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's surprising how often the easiest way to occlude someone's brain isn't a spell or poison., but a simple favour.&quot;

Cuthbertine Priestess:<font color="#000000">&quot;Make use of whatever strategies or allies you must, but especially in light of that, getting ahold of the letter and deciphering its contents becomes even more advisable.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either way.. i do have... ways... a plan, so to say....&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's put it this way. unless his seal is some sort of an alchemic wonder resistant to magical effect... but i'd doubt that.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Secret weapon: Have Terri do the face.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">XD

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll... have someone check it. If it's magically warded, I wait. If it isn't .. we'll bring it to you.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Actually, that's Miron's plan, in part

VAE:<font color="#000000">persuade Terri to help

VAE:<font color="#000000">She can snuck in, grab it... perhaps swap wih a fake

Cuthbertine Priestess:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you must leave tomorrow, then bring it to Braxton Falls. Deciphering the letter will take time that your group seems not to have.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You could just ask Tom. Ever the recruiter. =w=;

VAE:<font color="#000000">he'll of course instruct her, with Thomas if needed

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed I shall. May the Cudgel sweep your path clear, and the light of justice shine on your path.. Sister...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*Miron does blush slightly.. *

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I cannot stop chuckling at the memory of the bakery girl now.


 * VAE just couldn't help but play the joke along.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl did accuse him of staring at her earlier and missing him due to that.

GM:<font color="#000000">Everyone ready to hop aboard the ship now? :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">alright miron, enough oggling the hot preistess.

GM:<font color="#000000">Dawn of a New Day - Yondallon 4th, a clear, crisp autumn day.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Get back with everyone else now.

TMG:<font color="#000000">:P

VAE:<font color="#000000">yes

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Lemme know when it's spellcraft time. :&gt;

TMG:<font color="#000000">I am transferrring my token to the ship...

VAE:<font color="#000000">map?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The Cygnet, silly.

Miron 1:<font color="#000000">I have a twin?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">They're suspicious of each other.

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh, nevermind it's already there. And up to date.


 * VAE noticed

TMG:<font color="#000000">Deleting token from estate...

Miron:<font color="#000000">MIron... looks a lot more composed this time on the ship... he still doesn't like it, but he's planning furiously


 * Thomas Lazarus hails the captain.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">In the new day, Gnogglebolt works with Thomas and maybe a a few coppers for a hired hand (unless Alexander accompanies them) to get all the pieces-parts transported to the ship

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Upon initial approach; &quot;Aha, so this is the ship you chartered! Looks like a good, sturdy ship.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where's the steamstack?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It's too early to go waking dad up to haul something. I'll handle it. ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron, at earliest opportunity, seeks out Thomas.. and possibly Terri.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Steamstack?&quot; :.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You know. Giant tube sticking up as an exhaust for the steam engine.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">There'll probably be an opportunity below decks before long.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...oh, wait. This is an ordinary ship, isn't it?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh. Well.. we don't have steam engines in Akellon.&quot; ^^;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;This ship uses sails, oars, and the river current.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right, it has not paddlewheel, of course.&quot; Gnogglebolt smacks his forehead.

VAE:<font color="#000000">XD!

VAE:<font color="#000000">that's an easy mistake

VAE:<font color="#000000">especially since paddlewheels are like, SO SMALL

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hoy there!&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hello. We've brought a friend and some new cargo. I hope that's alright.&quot; ^^;

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Welcome back aboard...&quot; The captain pauses, pushing up his headband a little and peering at the pile of metal doohickeys with some wonder.

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Mazian?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yep.&quot; =w=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed so! Greetings to you, good sir.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Gnogglebolt should totally invent railways.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://bash.org/?5300

VAE:<font color="#000000">like this

TMG:<font color="#000000">I'm sure there's already a few in Mazio

TMG:<font color="#000000">but laying some in Akellon was a plan, yes. :&gt;

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;As long as he can pay his way and a bit extra for such heavy cargo, he's welcome. What's your name, sir? Jack Selkirk, captain of the Cygnet. This here is Swoop.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Wow. :B

Swoop:<font color="#000000">The bird's bigger than Gnogglebolt is. =v=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;My short name is Gnogglebolt Sparkgear, and it is a pleasure to be aboard. And indeed so, I have some money on me. What's the charge?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He also eyes the bird cautiously.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">'Some money', he says.

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Seventy-five gold pieces will take you and your devices to Resca.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">as an aside. Stars is SUCH A GOOD theme for Miron

VAE:<font color="#000000">Asides from Uncertain Weather.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Stars?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Les Miserables.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ah.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&quot;There, out in the darkness/a fugitive running, fallen from grace ... God be my witness/I never shall yield/'til we come face to face...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can indeed pay that. Here you go...&quot; Gnogglebolt counts out the coins, and hands them over.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KA6q0_cfVA

VAE:<font color="#000000">Stars from Les Miserables, and Uncertain Weather by Genesis

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It actually played as Liatai posted.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">deductan 75 gp

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">... In a deep manvoice. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">*snrk*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry, soprano here. XP

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WtT115C9zU

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's Uncertain Weather


 * Jack Selkirk counts it, then hands it off to the bird. &quot;That'll do nicely! Thank you very much. Connor, Selda! Show this man where he can put his inventions.&quot;

Selda Griswold:<font color="#000000">The two crew members help put the metal scraps in the hold safely.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Funnily enough... at first I chose it just because of the melody.. then I read the lyrics, and they ... fit too. It's the whole mess with Kemmer there.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well! Let's get you settled in.&quot; He helps move the truck parts.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you, sir!&quot; Gnogglebolt says to the captain, then edges closer. &quot;Oh, and listen to this. If I make another run into Lorellon to get supplies, I could upgrade your ship...add a proper steam engine to power a paddlewheel and everything!&quot; He looks rather like an excited child.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm not sure which room you'd prefer. Tathi and Aelian and their hounds took this one, Ed and Elros have been in here, Swallowtail and Terri took the other, and Miron and Sszeyl and I took the last.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;(Yes, really.)&quot; =w=;

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">The captain doesn't look so enthused, but he smiles politely. &quot;Let's get this trip out of the way first, shall we?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">What were the brackets for/

VAE:<font color="#000000">?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">An undertone.

VAE:<font color="#000000">ah

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aw.&quot; Gnogglebolt goes to help move his stuff belowdecks.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Yep. Parenthesis or smalltext are when Tom speaks in lower/quieter tones.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">ack sorry, had to go afk

GM:<font color="#000000">I was just about to call roll. :3

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;How goes it, captain? Quiet days, I hope?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">SPELLCRAFT TIEM? :P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">NOT YET. XP

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Huhwhat?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Now that Thomas is belowdeck, Miron could easily catch him for some conspiratorial whisperings, if he were so inclined.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">durnit.

Miron: <font color="#0">(( Actually ))

Stanley Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Quiet as ever!&quot; Ouch. Bet you didn't miss this, Tathi.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Have you been on a ship before, Gnogglebolt? Mazio is a watery nation, isn't it?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 7 + 5 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Listen

Miron:<font color="#000000">Does he hear Gnogglebolt and Thomas talking?

<font color="#0000ff">Meany has connected.

</i>Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Och, don't need a listen check for that one..

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; You should have seen the fuss Miron and Sszeyl were making of being on deck. =w=&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Probably.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">He does. And he also hears the deck boss, who drowns out Thomas' whispering somewhat.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed, I have been on ships before, and yes, Mazio has many rivers and canals. We rely on the waterways quite frequently for trade and supply.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And transport.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wow! You're really high up!&quot; :O

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah!&quot; :D

Miron:<font color="#000000">Hmm... two targets, one spell...

</i>Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can I come up there, too?&quot;

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sure!&quot; :D

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Careful now, Terri!&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">Up the rigging, up the rigging... :d &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 16 + 5 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;


 * Terri climbs up with hardly a problem. :D

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron, in the meantime, walks through the door and joins the group.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Busy discussing shipmaking, you two?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's actually rather comforting to be on a ship again.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;No, I think that's what Tathi and Aelian do.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's no pipes or engine room anywhere, but it's the closest thing to home I've seen yet.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">Cough.


 * Thomas Lazarus waves.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Just getting ourselves sorted.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;You've spent much time on ships, then?&quot;

Stanley Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;'''Haul aboard! Ready to shove off!'''&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Comforting? On a ship?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus has a dog fall on him. D:

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Even underneath Sargano's crypt it was more comforting.. solid ground under me legs.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Landlubber.&quot; Gnogglebolt sticks his tongue out at Miron.

Scarlet:<font color="#000000">Hello again! :D

<font color="#0000ff">Meany is disconnected.

</i><font color="#0000ff">Meany is disconnected.

</i>Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's just a little sway, brother. I think it's slightly soothing. And, you know, it's just a river.&quot; ^^;

Scarlet:<font color="#000000">Hello, snack!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I guess that makes ya a frog!&quot; *grins&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You deal well with water and dry land, and are quite green yet!&quot;

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">Hiss sputter!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I hear the ocean waves can roll twice as tall as a house.&quot; =w=;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Perhaps I'm a natural.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*pales slightly*


 * Edaric clambers down the ladder.

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Barring any major storms, I shouldn't imagine we'll see anything that bad though. I'm sure you needn't worry.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you... say so..&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I couldn't take it anymore. That guy must be related to a bullhorn.&quot; &gt;.@


 * Thomas Lazarus chuckles.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Queue those storms that the GM owes us.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;(Heavens help us if he talks in his sleep.)&quot;

<i><font color="#0000ff">Meany has connected.

</i>* Edaric flees for the relative quiet of the galley. =w=;;;


 * Dr. Hatari staples Meanyflesh to the server. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">You with us, meany?

Meany:<font color="#000000">Gah.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either way.. I think I need a bit of fresh air...&quot;

Meany:<font color="#000000">Froze. =w=;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sure.&quot;

Stanley Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;What's the signal, Lil' Mat?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron climbs on top of the board.

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Free an' clear, Stan!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">meany; do you mean your earlier connection froze, or you froze just now?

GM:<font color="#000000">Fort save versus sonic damage, Miron. :P (I kid.)

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 8 + 8 = 16&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Elektronik Supersonik!

Miron:<font color="#000000">Either way... once he's above board, and watching around...

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey Terri! Come over here!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Also... a Sending spell to Thomas

Miron:<font color="#000000">(needs any rolls?)

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Wow. I actually got the reference VAE.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Nice. XD

Terri:<font color="#000000">A red-haired head peeks over the edge of the crow's nest. &quot;Me?&quot; :O

Meany:<font color="#000000">Please stop.

Meany:<font color="#000000">Thank you.

Meany:<font color="#000000">I froze earlier.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Are you good now?

You whisper to VAE: No, no rolls needed.

Meany:<font color="#000000">You may resume, I'm already loading another map.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, cool.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Question.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">We'll only need the Cygnet and the world map now.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl has the letter, yes? Where exactly is he keeping it? In a bag, on his person?

TMG:<font color="#000000">This is...about to become important. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">why do *you* care of all, tech? XD


 * Thomas Lazarus recieves a sending? :o

VAE:<font color="#000000">and it's metagamey as hell

TMG:<font color="#000000">Because it's about to become important. I'm not asking so much for -myself- as I am for meany.

VAE:<font color="#000000">they have to find out that, too

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I don't know. He said &quot;fuck no, I ain't tellin' you. :P&quot; last time he put the letter away.

<i><font color="#0000ff">Meany is disconnected.

</i>TMG:<font color="#000000">Just making sure -he- knows where it is. He doesn't even ave to say where exactly--dammit

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It's probably not that big a deal if Thomas simply asks to see the letter. =3=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">VAE, contents of the Sending?

Miron:<font color="#FF0033">&quot;Tom... come upstairs at the earliest opportunity you can find an excuse for. Make sure noone follows. &quot;

Miron:<font color="#FF0033">&quot;It's Leaden Mace business&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus ..... sweatdrops.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 1 + 5 = 6&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; ;d

Terri:<font color="#000000">D: !

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, you, miss Terri.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus wonders how clear the deck might really be. =w=;

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 12 + 7 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Climb check to catch!


 * Mateo Selkirk catches Terri just before she slips and falls off the rigging.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm...Well, with all my stuff moved down here, I'm going to enjoy the air until I decide to get working again. Been awhile since I've been on the water, I miss the experience.&quot;

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Whoa! That was close! You okay?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Seeya around the ship, Thomas.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Mm.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Oh well. =3=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas ascends to the deck.

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros shrugs. &quot;I might as well head up, too.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">8O

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Y-yeah, I'm okay now.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tromp tromp. =3=

Miron:<i><font color="#000000">Oh damn..gotta wait 'till they are gone

</i>* Thomas Lazarus peers up at the rigging. &quot;Hey, now. Be careful up there.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks up over the front rails.

<i><font color="#0000ff">Meany has connected.

</i>Kor:<font color="#0000FF">Terri falls and breaks her neck. Tom gets saddled with the blame.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">u_u

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's really dangerous if you're not careful. Dad always says you can break your neck if you don't watch yourself. Here, try climbing on this side instead...&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 3 + 5 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; with a &#171;  &#160;1d20+7 = 16 + 7 = 23&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; assist!


 * Terri makes it down safely with help.


 * Thomas Lazarus glances to Miron, and simply shrugs. ^^;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wow, you're good at climbin'.&quot; :o

Miron:<font color="#000000">*shrugs, too*

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thanks!&quot; :D

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 8 + 7 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; re-ascending.

Terri:<font color="#000000">... o///o

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There'll surely be a quiet moment to pray and read in the cabins.&quot; He rests his hands on his waist and frowns slightly at Terri.


 * Terri skitters over to the inquisitors.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You're not getting into trouble the instant my back is turned, are you?&quot; :O

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Gyah, stupid crush sense. Hush!

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nuh-uh!&quot; &gt;.&gt;;;;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't think she is... she's a skilled girl..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. Alright then.&quot; =3= Talk about the most easily duped babysitter ever.


 * Thomas Lazarus descends back below deck.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8+mod = 9 + 8 + 0 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron follows.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=3=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8+mod = 6 + 8 + 0 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

VAE:<font color="#000000">rooms!

VAE:<font color="#000000">why i no understand u?


 * Thomas Lazarus takes a moment to spy on Sszeyl's painting. :.

VAE:<font color="#000000">where did Thomas go?


 * Connor Buxley is squished by a gnome? Weird dream. =w=;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">35, 0

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas is in his room for the moment. Since the door is technically open, Miron could see that Sszeyl is chilling in there.

Miron:<font color="#000000">(whispered) &quot;Anyways, Miss Terri.. remember us talking last time?&quot;


 * Terri nods. :.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">A...peculiar figure is depicted here.

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh! Heya, meany

TMG:<font color="#000000">finally stable?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...Hm...?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">It is not a person, let us be clear about that.

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( No. ))

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well.. I guess i'll have to retell it when Thomas comes. I went to speak with my brothers at the Mace.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">It...is best described by an outline of a person.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;But Mr. Tom is right there.&quot; :.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 2 + 5 = 7&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Spot


 * Terri gestures not five feet to her left, toward the open door. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Success. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You see Tom. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">x3

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">A rich purple robe, veil, an poofy hat, all seemingly worn by an invisible person. A huge mandala of dark twisting webs is in the background, and you can determiine the invisible person is elvish by the pointed ear-wrap around jewlery.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Hm~?&quot; :.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Is that some kind of metaphor?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Nothing's last incarnation that is depicted in the history books.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah.. why isn't he..uh..&quot;


 * Terri whispers. 'Mr. Sszeyl's in there, too.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Interesting.&quot; :.

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( I has kitten. ))

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 5 + 5 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Listen, to hear Sszeyl

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You hear Sszeyl. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm not sure what the 'Nothing' is, but you're rendering it well.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Nothing is the leader of all Orgolloyss Drow.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">(whisper) &quot;Sszeyl is here now.. that makes the talk.. a little hard..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;For the Nothing is Orgolloyss.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I see.&quot; His slightly disappointed tone clearly indicates that he does not see. :B


 * Sszeyl rolls up the painting.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thomas, what is worse than a monster?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">... SPELLCRAFT TIME!? :P


 * Thomas Lazarus hesitates. He seems to grow a bemused look.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nothing.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">NO. XP

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... I see.&quot; He sounds a bit more confident now.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... oh fine. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">rofl, brb, getting dinner

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The absence of anything.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Do something other than pester about spellcraft XD

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;A yawning chasm.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Orgolloyss is Nothing, and No Thing is Eternal.&quot;


 * Terri listens in. :.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's actually only possible to describe Orgolloyss this way because of your language's...oh how to put it politely.&quot;


 * Dr. Hatari peers at the rest of the work materials briefly.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Surplus of descriptive words. :B&quot;


 * Dr. Hatari smiles a bit. &quot;Well.. I suppose we're a race of bleeding hearts.&quot; :3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">CRAP &gt;:O


 * Thomas Lazarus peers at the rest of the work materials briefly.


 * Thomas Lazarus smiles a bit. &quot;Well.. I suppose we're a race of bleeding hearts.&quot; :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">x3

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;.&gt;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">SMILEEEEEYS. &gt;:O

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">:P

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That reminds me.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Much better. =3=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There was something I had been meaning to ask you about Orgolloyss.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ask and you shall recieve. =3=&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;But bear in mind the subject you ask about.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">bare*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Bear, actually.

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( No...bear works. ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">:V

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Bear - to carry. Bare - to expose. :P


 * Thomas Lazarus folds his arms along the top bunk and peers at the wall. &quot;I know you and Miron butt heads a lot about this kind of thing, but, you know.. his reaction to surface Drow really isn't baseless. He's just really crass about it. Even I.. well.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mankind has had nothing to go on regarding the Drow but centuries of them coming here for bloodsport and slaving raids. We've never had diplomatic relations with any Drow nation for a reason.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Is your order going to change that now that it's taking over?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes and no.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus listens. :.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, for the here and now, possibly the length of your lifetime, they will be willing to work with you while they slowly strangle the remnants of Lolth's clergy to death.&quot;


 * Terri eavesdrops. :d

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;But after that...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron tries eavesdropping, too

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Orgollyoss' teachings dictate a boogeyman.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;An object of fear that the populace can actually lash out against.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;After Lolth is dead and wiped from History, they'll content themselves with a slow genocidal war against all other denezins on the deep places.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;But eventually it will come topside.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Which is why I am here.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">okay, if Miron heard that...


 * Thomas Lazarus raises a brow slightly, but doesn't really sound surprised or anything.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I see.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;To cut off this serpent before it grows too large.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;And no, I do not butt heads with Miron over the issue of Drow in general.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Miron probably did hear that.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..I suppose there are a lot of cultures that operate like that, in the grand scheme of things. I suppose I was just hoping it wouldn't be the case. You're a good person. I wonder if it is perhaps wishful thinking alone to hope you're more than an outlier.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;He is totally justified in that.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And also that.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">=w=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;And to answer your question, my Order doesn't intend to change that. But I do.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's why I'm here, why I'm going to be away from home for literal centuries risking my life to find another way.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;And when I go home to submit my findings, I'll be sentenced to hang from the neck until dead regardless of what the Monsters decide.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; o_o;

Ghostwish whispers: How's about sum plottinz and possible character swappin' leading to some story developments? :&gt;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;But that's neither here or there.&quot;

Miron:<i><font color="#000000">I... no.. he's probably lying... but if he's right... this Order has to be uprooted before it's late. Order, organisation gives strength which the old drow didn't have... this way .. like a cancer.. if allowed to grow they'll take everyhing over.. like I told brother Cadamon..

</i>Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The reason I butt heads with Miron is this.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;He's being stupid.&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: You could also... talk with other PCs. :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;His paranoia is too blatant, too easily flared.&quot;

Ghostwish whispers: I thought they were bein' all secretive and all that? :&gt;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;If I were a Boogey, or actually evil, I could play him like a fiddle into starting a civil war in Akellon.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">While it usually just makes problems for everyone in the party, I will say, this is one of those few times where I find it amusing that Sszeyl is so nonchalant towards matters of his own risk/death. x3

You whisper to Ghostwish: Elros, Edaric, Aelian, and Gnogglebolt aren't.

VAE:<font color="#000000">i'd say more like he's an idiot

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;And if he doesn't at least learn control, someone else will do just that.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">but clearly.. that's mutual XD

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Hmm..&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Suddenly, quite loudly, &quot;Why are you two hanging outside the door like this?&quot;


 * Terri makes a shushing motion toward Tathi. D:

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;.&gt;

Tathi whispers: ^_^

You whisper to Ghostwish: You troll. XP

TMG:<font color="#000000">Nahahaha. Busted. xD

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well.. Just waiting for Thomas, really..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tathi, come on in.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;He wanted to show something to both of us.. see..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Uhm.&quot; =w=;;;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're discussing why we fight with Miron.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi looks up, and heads in.

Miron:<font color="#000000">*phew*

Terri:<font color="#000000">^^;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... It's been fascinating, Sszeyl. Love to continue sometime -- gotta go.&quot; =w=;;;;;;;;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ta~&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">TEMPLAR ESCAPE! &gt;:O

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">DYNAMIC EXIT?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">This is the silliest secret agent squad ever. XD

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Which is like Godzilla throwing a bulldozer through a skyscraper.

VAE:<font color="#000000">it is!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Amusingly

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( Brb bio. ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The whole thing

VAE:<font color="#000000">it consists of a paranoid inquisitor, a massive templar and a small kid

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Was just Thomas playing off his entrance.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And he totally got side-tracked into actually leaving the others hanging. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">X3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">^^;


 * Thomas Lazarus decided Terri's room may be a safer bet. =3=

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Something on your mind, silly drow?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's go to my room.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">NINJA'D.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">:|

VAE:<font color="#000000">which room that is?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt comes bursting into the room. &quot;Hey, terri, I just thought I should show you how to build explosives!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;.. Hi there?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(kidding x3 )

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">... by which I mean there is a ninja in here writing in a journal.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">...and unecessary. :.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; =3= Thomas decides to try a new approach.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">:. ?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Swallowtail please go to the deck and do something.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;... why?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">ookay.. people usually have this sort of trouble when looking places to fuck at

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Said in one breath emotionlessly. XD

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Crap it didn't work. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">Also, I am snerking very much that this misbegotten secret agent squad can't find any place to be secret in on the ship. x3

VAE:<font color="#000000">We are looking to fuck up... so it's not that different I guess


 * Thomas Lazarus sulks. =w=

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please, Miss Swallowtail? We just gotta borrow the room for a few minutes.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">In Dwarven: Any of you understand me?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh, fine. It doesn't matter.&quot; =3=

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh? Okay.&quot; She closes the book, then looks at Miron and Thomas appraisingly.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Swallowtail joined the Force! (Without consent or notice.)

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi tilts her head.. &quot;Helllooo? Arcane to drow, arcane to drow, are you receiving this sending?&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">A kidnapped ninja joins the team? :o

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Meany's AFK, Ghost. :B


 * Thomas Lazarus sits on a lower bunk.

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( Ghost, I said I would brb. ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh, there he is.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah.. I suppose.. she has no stakes in this.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Anyways.&quot; He sighs.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What's on your mind brother?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyways...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I went to talk to our brothers in Lorellon,remember?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt, meanwhile, is just exploring the ship in general if it matters.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They.... it seems Cal'tel is a lot more known in these parts.&quot;


 * Swallowtail blinks, slightly confused, but listens in.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who's Cal'tel?&quot; :.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I love how, instead of bothing to make up an excuse, Swallowtail was just recruited. XD

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;One minute.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8+mod = 4 + 8 + 0 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Terri.. you seen the man who handed us the letter?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The one Sszeyl has been shoving around.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8+mod = 17 + 8 + 0 = 25&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">An actual secret agent joins the squad. Shock. :P

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Cal'tel is a false name of his, as is Heron Silvertrush&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Listen. Don't cramp our style. We're an elite unit here. =3=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">We don't need none of that smooth operating successful stuff.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't remember seeing any heron or silver thrush.&quot; :.


 * VAE is having reminders to Kebre

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's ... just how it works

VAE:<font color="#000000">the whole group

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Tathi is handed a painting of a dark-trunked tree with leaves of purple, teal, and dark blue. She should notice it distinctly as being a relative of her forest's trees of old.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Crystal is the Swallowtail there

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hiding man, young one.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">and the rest of them.. out of the wate

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">She does. &quot;You called me in here for another painting?&quot; She comments, admiring the painting.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;He's a half-elf, Terri.. he did the guardians a few.. favours.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is one of your trees.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As also turns out... he's a thief and murderer.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Should you choose to scry the forest in the deep.&quot;


 * Terri gasps. :O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">o_o; &quot;..Well.. I kind of got the vibe like he did.. 'errands'. But. Murder? Who..?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;What's wrong with the leaves?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nothing, that's how they adapted to survive.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;We do not get much sunlight, so they adapted to capture what light we do produce.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now.. his most.. let's say .. high-profile target was some sort of a drow from some Great House of theirs. While... I hate the drow... this is merely the window dressing here..&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi sighs. &quot;So why are you showing me this?&quot;

<i><font color="#0000ff">Faerie is disconnected.

</i>Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;A few months ago, you lit up at the prospect of having your trees back.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Our brothers suspect the man works for another government.. some place not in Akellon,&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is, Terri.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you still want them, now that you have more traditional seeds in your sight?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We don't know what he's up to, or who exactly.. but let's be frank ,don't think it's Mazio&quot;

<i><font color="#0000ff">Faerie has connected.

</i>Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( YoFae. ))

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Now that I have seen them? No.. they are not our trees, anymore. They are some kind of subterrean offshoot.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Sorry, my wifi crapped out for a moment.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm getting lines in fits and starts. ^^;

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( :C ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:00 lagtest.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:O

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( Lagtest :00. ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:01

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay, good. :3

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( :D ))

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either way.. they didn't know that much about the drow, or the symbol itself.. .however, it was strongly suggested we should bring the letter to a Mace branch for analysis.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;You mean... he's a spy?&quot; :O

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Oh please, gnomeboy.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A spy, yes.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thought so.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Go ahead and try.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">See how much blood you lose. =3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A foreign spy.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus folds his arms.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Well. He has often alluded to us having friends in high places, looking out for us. He did help avoid disaster back on the road to Sszeyl's home.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either way.. they can fix the seal and remove any traces of handling... provided it isn't magical&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I said it to my brothers and sisters here, and i'll say it again&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;:O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We never checked it for that..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is amusing how the easiest way to cloud a mind isn't poison or a spell, but a favour.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Precisely. It is my failure in part... that ... idiot drow was right in one aspect.. i should make my suspicions a bit less.. open and obvious.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And he did say the letter would help avoid catastrophe and bloodshed..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I should sense on it and make sure it doesn't have a death rune or something in it.&quot; &gt;:O

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah.... catastrophe and bloodshed.. probably for his own kinsmen.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Be sure to say please. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And if you open it, I will break your hand off.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">=w=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Excuse me.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The penalty for espionage is death in pretty much everywhere, you know?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Hi.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I'm Thomas.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You must be new here. :P


 * Thomas Lazarus hesitates.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;So... he wasn't likely lying all that much&quot; *grins*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... I'm not yet willing to pass any kind of bad judgement on Mr. Silverthrush. He's helped us more than once. And I'm pretty sure from the circumstantial evidence, he was the one that killed one of the assassin Drow after us.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Look, Brother... not everyone is Pamela, you know?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But I do want to make sure we're doing a safe thing.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus furrows his brow. &quot;?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Anything else, Sszeyl?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We are his friends as long as we are unknowingly furthering his aims.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not unless you have something to say.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or a request for a picture.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;He may even be helpful to us, pull us out of tight spots.. but that doesn't change anything about the big picture.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus adopts a different tone. &quot;I'm well aware.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">She ponders for a moment.. but shakes her head and heads out.

You whisper to Ghostwish: You can now roll Spellcraft... or Move Silently and/or Listen to eavesdrop. ;3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either way... the letter needs to be checked for magic, and checked well.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ta~&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And we need to get it to the Mace branch at our destination.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I haven't dismissed the possibility that this isn't an opportunistic political assassination being framed on us. I'm not so naive as to completely trust him in light of everything we've known. And not known.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I propose.. swapping it with a fake could work perhaps.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That... honours you Thomas.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..But I do still generally trust that he's not 'after us'.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's irrelevant, I hope you know..&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Would need to see the real one to make a realistic fake.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;For him, we are pawns in his game.. but just about now, we might have gotten promoted.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 3 + 5 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Listen check!

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">For the lulz.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">:B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl does not hear this.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We don't know that it's like that.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You've got two sturdy walls between you and the conspirators. :P

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't want to speculate such a thing.&quot; =3=

Elros:<font color="#006666">&#171; &#160;1d20+13 = 17 + 13 = 30&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187; Listen, just because?

Cob Oress:<font color="#000000">&quot;... and that's the basics. The rest of it is just practice.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">....

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">ELROOOOOOSSSSS &gt;:O

Liatai:<font color="#000000">ELROS'D. XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">as usual, Elros hears to infinity.

You whisper to Faerie: Elros -does- overhear the conspirators.

Elros:<font color="#006666">And as usual, Elros with the high sense checks.

Elros:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I didn't think it was that easy. Guess I always thought there was magic involved.&quot; :.


 * Thomas Lazarus rubs his brow. &quot;Anyways..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You don't want to...but that's precisely why we have to act.&quot;

Cob Oress:<font color="#000000">&quot;Easy, he says.&quot; |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;May I try my hand at settling the matter?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+2+floor((wisdom-10)/2) = 11 + 2 + floor((13 - 10) / 2) = 14&#160; <font color="#0000FF">&#187; listen!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Tathi does not overhear.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What do you propose?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I think I know what technique will work best on a person like Sszeyl.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Dun dun duuuuun.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I... the lack of cooperation of this group is .. rather the stone in the clockworks.&quot;

<i><font color="#0000ff">Meany is disconnected.

</i>Liatai:<font color="#000000">She does hear Cob and Edaric discussing circus-style fortune telling, though. :B

<i><font color="#0000ff">Meany has connected.

</i>Meany:<font color="#000000">Miron: &quot;What do you propose?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Miron: &quot;What do you propose?&quot; Thomas Lazarus: &quot;I think I know what technique will work best on a person like Sszeyl.&quot; Thomas Lazarus: Dun dun duuuuun. Miron: &quot;I... the lack of cooperation of this group is .. rather the stone in the clockworks.&quot; Meany is disconnected. Liatai: She does hear Cob and Edaric discussing circus-style fortune telling, though. :B Meany has connected.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas Lazarus: &quot;I think I know what technique will work best on a person like Sszeyl.&quot; Thomas Lazarus: Dun dun duuuuun. Miron: &quot;I... the lack of cooperation of this group is .. rather the stone in the clockworks.&quot; Meany is disconnected.


 * Thomas Lazarus stands up.

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros sits quietly, as is his way, but perks an ear.


 * Thomas Lazarus pauses.


 * Thomas Lazarus gives Swallowtail a curt nod. =3=


 * Thomas Lazarus heads out.


 * Thomas Lazarus returns to His/Sszeyl's room.


 * Swallowtail nods back. &quot;It's a secret to everybody.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas prepares himself mentally for his masterstroke plan of manipulation.... &gt;:|

VAE:<font color="#000000">What do you propose.. nad he just goes?

VAE:<font color="#000000">XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">initiative -- +20!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sszeyl can I see the letter we got from Mr. Silverthrush please.&quot; =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sure, just don't let Miron open it.&quot; =3=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Thank you.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or I'll drug you.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;And take you to a tattoo parlor.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;And let your imagination fill in the blanks.&quot;


 * Sszeyl hands over the letter. =w=

VAE:<font color="#000000">ahahah

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron doesn't want to open it, silly

VAE:<font color="#000000">he just wants to get it to people who can

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well..&quot; He takes it and narrows an eye. &quot;First I wanna detect magic on it to see if anything untoward is going on here. I'm getting kind of nervous about what all this stuff means. The symbol on this letter was also the symbol on a free-ranging surface Drow's armor, you know. That's just a really suspicious thing for us to be delivering.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#000000">Thomas wakes up to find himself covered in Maori tattoos.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There's definitely something else going on here. But first..&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus casts detect magic.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Oh, this reminds me of something from a Tintin book.

GM:<font color="#000000">You do detect magic coming through the envelope. Abjuration, if you focus.

VAE:<font color="#000000">wbhich one, alex?


 * VAE read most of 'em

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">D: &quot;It does have magic on it.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... But atleast it isn't killer magic.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;What type?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 16 + 3 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Knowledge Arcana check.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Tintin thinks he's carrying a letter that warns of an assasination, or something. I forget exactly. But the letter says &quot;This man is insane and should be locked up immediately.:

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">On Abjuration magic. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">Aw, darn. I was hoping for a &quot;Not a damn thing. This is an utterly ordinary evelope.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">I can't recall the title of it, but I think it was in India.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Abjuration. It's probably a ward. Or an obfuscation. Or perhaps just something to smack me in the face if I open the letter. In any case, it means we wouldn't be able to tamper with it without being found out.&quot; &gt;:I

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait, you wanted to tamper with it?&quot; &quot;... I MEAN. &gt;.&gt;&quot;

Sszeyl:Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Excuse me?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus looks up innocently. &quot;By the recipient.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl gives you that look your mother gives you when you try to move around your vegies and pretend you've eaten them.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt comes wandering by. Is Thomas and Sszeyl in one of the bedrooms?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">They are. Want to roll a Listen check?

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Yep.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Listen: &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 17 + 2 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;


 * Thomas Lazarus furrows his brow and shrugs. &quot;What Come one, this could be really serious.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You can clearly hear them talking in Cabin 3.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">*What? Come on

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">=3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, it could.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;But burning a bridge isn't worth the knowledge just yet.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt stops at hearing Thomas and Sszeyl talking. What the...

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I advise just doing this favor, and investigating the recipiant.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Cabin 3. Click the doors. :P

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm grudgingly inclined to agree now that I know it's warded.&quot; He flops the letter back onto the bunk at Sszeyl's feet.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt knocks on the door.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;And hell, if the recipiant is a Drow, I have the legal authority to strangle them to death.&quot; =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thomas? Sszeyl? Is everything okay in there?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yep.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hello.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Come on in.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Which reminds me, you haven't picked a room.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What's this about burning bridges?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Burning bridges is a very bad thing.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We like bridges.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus just waves a hand in the air. =3=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&quot;They let us cross pits and rivers.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh I was just trying to snoop the letter.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's warded though.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Wow. He's actually sort of really good at maneuvering. Just using honesty and directness and openness. How paradoxically effective.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks up at Thomas with an expression of small horror. &quot;Uh...didn't I hear that when you guys were given the letter, you were supposed to not open it?&quot; (I -think- Gnogglebolt IC found out about this by now. I can't remember, but I think so)

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Best awful spy ever.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">He did ICly hear about it. From Sszeyl, I believe.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yeeaahh.&quot; :/

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But, you know, it's just really mysterious.&quot; &gt;:o

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Silly Tom.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sszeyl, did messenger silverthrush say anything about what might happen after the letter reaches its destination?&quot;


 * Sszeyl yoinks the letter back. =w=


 * Thomas Lazarus shrugs.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Stopping some bloodshed.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;More to the point, did he perhaps say anything about everything making more sense when we got there?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... he's takin' a real long time...&quot; &gt;.&gt;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He said we might learn more about it after delivering it and speaking to the recipient than we would from reading it.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;I listen.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aha. Well, there you go.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Ninja vanish!

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 14 + 5 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Listen check!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I love a good mystery as much as anyone else, but at least if I'm given a puzzel, I play by the rules.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh well. Thanks Sszeyl.&quot; =w=

Tathi whispers: So I'm just gonna run this whacky idea by you. Tathi has to take a break to deal with political matters involving a few human lords who are a bit antsy about a wood elf lot setting up right next door. She recommends an old college of hers.. the deathless raising wee jas sorcerer. :P He dabbles along for a single arc, and then it turns out the human lords are a lot more trouble than Tathi bargained for, and now the party needs to help. Too silly? :&gt;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Ninja eavesdrop. &#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 17 + 8 = 25&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Move Silently.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+2+floor((wisdom-10)/2) = 20 + 2 + floor((13 - 10) / 2) = 23&#160; <font color="#0000FF">&#187; listen!


 * Thomas Lazarus waves it off again goofily. |D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I cheat all the time.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah...&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: Heh. Just wait until you get back to Seeds HQ. You ain't seen silly yet. =3=

Tathi whispers: o.o!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And thus far, everything silverthrush has done when he interacts with us has been to help us. Until such time as something he does harms us, or we catch him in a lie, then if he says the letter will avert bloodshed, then that's what it will do.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It's actually true. CABER TOSS.

Tathi whispers: Okay, that is WAY too much teasing. GIMMIE A HINT.

You whisper to Ghostwish: Nyehehehehe.

Tathi whispers: I -will- tickle you!!!!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm...really surprised and a little disappointed in you, Thomas.&quot; The gnome gives the man almost three times his height a disapproving stare.

You whisper to Ghostwish: Here's your hint. &quot;Hi! 8D&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt is lucky Miron isn't hearing


 * Sszeyl shrugs and goes back to painting.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8+mod = 7 + 8 + 0 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Is that so?&quot; He raises a brow slightly and offers a mysterious smile. &quot;Maybe you don't know all the details?&quot;

Tathi whispers: asfasfdasfadf that's like all of your characters -ever-. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">He... is like he had pullstrings

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If I don't know all the details, then by all means, enlighten me.&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: &quot;You're so silly. 83 &quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">do this this and this, he'll do exactly C

VAE:<font color="#000000">or X, for a different sequence

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Nah. You can be disappointed if you want.&quot; |D

VAE:<font color="#000000">Tech, are you *sure* he isn't Lawful Good? XD

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Excuse me!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Also...&quot; Gnogglebolt looks over to Sszeyl. &quot;Keep an eye on that letter. Miron will probably try something cute, if he catches wind of this.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=3= !

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;!&quot; Ninja vanish!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=w=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah. =w=&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's why I got this nifty belt.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's me do all sorts of cool tricks.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">The ninja poofs back into visibility back in Cabin 2. &quot;Thomas is coming.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;So?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">How did you.. o_o

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right. Well, carry on...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Oh holy crap.

Tathi whispers: yer so mean. -.-

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Ninja. |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">That is an evil laugh.


 * Thomas Lazarus resumes his seat and shrugs. &quot;Bad news.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Seriously, ninja. Ghost Step. =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt continues wandering around the ship.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As I expected. Bad in what sense?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You can roll Spellcraft now if you want, Ghost. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It has an abjuration on it. We can't tamper with it, or the whole errand is in the chamberpot for sure. But atleast it isn't a deathrune or something.&quot; (... Spellcraft &#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 18 - 1 = 17&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;)

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Does it really matter?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">also, I -know- the DM must be cackling madly at all this. The only question is -who- is she cackling at. &gt;:.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well, yeah. 'Course it does.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Let's try for thunderlance, a 4th level, evocation spell.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Deathrune or abjuration, we know the man isn't totally incompetent... &quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+12 = 5 + 12 = 17&#160; <font color="#0000FF">&#187; spellcraft! -5 if its necromancy or illusion, +2 if it's evocation!

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Aye yi yi, too close.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Is this really a conspiracy, or is it really a good thing...we will have to find out while the DM enjoys herself immensely in the teasing.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Which we knew before, of course.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nyahahaha. |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;An abjuration means it isn't going to kill its reader. It means its a defensive spell to keep us and our nosey noses out of it.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We'll just have to behave ourselves and see what the situation is when we arrive.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It should be enough that we are there to keep things under control.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know that much... either way it means it isn't sure even our brothers at the Mace would be able to analyse it.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is, without alerting everyone and their brother.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alternate plan, perhaps&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;A baseless hunch isn't worth soiling our relationship with Mr. Silverthrush, afterall. Let's just see who these people are and what they say when they read the letter.&quot; :.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't think our relationship with him is anything other than soiled either way. He's got us for shit.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Come, now. That's not really fair.&quot; =w=;


 * Terri gives Miron a small glare before correcting herself and fidgeting. &gt;.&gt;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyways... notifying our brothers in there might be the best idea... to keep an eye on us, as we deliver the thing.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">XD


 * Thomas Lazarus wags a finger at Miron. &gt;;.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then, if we spot something we don't like.. or things go odd, they can help sort the whole thing out.. never mind they might be able to-&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus rolls his eyes. &quot;Language.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Nevermind. She knows better I suppose.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*actually looks to the floor* &quot;Sorry.. i guess... I'm just too old to change..&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Amusingly

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">No you're not.


 * Terri pats Miron's shoulder.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I am so disinhibited to swearing that I did not even register that until Terri reacted. =w=;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">XD

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either way.. - to collect the letter once it was opened by the recipient.. assuming they don't burn it or something immediately after read..&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">To be honest? I almost didn't notice it myself until my Terri muse stood up and went &quot;He said a bad word! &gt;:O &quot; ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Heh heh. xD

<i><font color="#0000ff">Faerie is disconnected.

</i><i><font color="#0000ff">Faerie is disconnected.

</i>VAE:<font color="#000000">You should all hear Sequence's character in Far Recon. Eva. She swears beautifully

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Think of it as the rational lesser likelyhood of two courses of action that could elicit catastrophe, brother.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">sentence-longs accretions of swearwords.

<i><font color="#0000ff">Faerie has connected.

</i>Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Think of what?&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Sorry, wifi again

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Nevermind.&quot; ^^;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Anyways. I'm going to get some lunch. We're still days and days off from the next stop.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Allright.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Expecting Miron to be rational.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Shame on you, Tom.

GM:<font color="#000000">Fatigue check, how is everyone doing?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I can't help it. It's my super-power.

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( Yo. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I am super-rational.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Somewhat tired

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( I'm good, though. :V ))

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, I guess this meeting is over, as such....&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Explorer reporting!

Miron:<font color="#000000">*sigh*

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">getting a bit wonky here. x.x

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8+mod = 1 + 8 + 0 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good day, commander!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And another one for the fire. =3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">AHAHAH

TMG:<font color="#000000">Present and alert. Surprisingly safe from interruptions as well.

VAE:<font color="#000000">He painted modern abstract art

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Sorry, brother. But there's just no way we can open the letter without pissing off literally everyone around us except the Leaden Mace. =w=;

VAE:<font color="#000000">is this said aloud?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">No. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">because... funnily enough, Miron realises that

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas doesn't swear. ((On purpose XD))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I imagine I have accidentally had him do it atleast once.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and it isn't pissing off, but the fact that the buggers would be alerted about the course of action what keeps him from it

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">While in the galley at dinnertime, the captain comes by. &quot;Hoy, adventurers. Enjoying your trip so far?&quot; :3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It was fun getting another chance to demonstrate why Thomas is neutral on the law/chaos axis and not super lawful. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">hee

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh, timeskipping to dinnertime?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt gets crafty in the cargo hold! Craft check: &#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 15 + 18 = 33&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Sweet, success.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;33*30 = 33 * 30 = 990&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Been a pleasent, quiet trip so far. Any dragons strafe the ship yet, captain?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;571-99 = 571 - 99 = 472&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yes, sir. Beats sitting on a carriage bench for three days.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">A few more bits of metal take shape.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron's way is... protecting law and order even by chaotic and orderless means if needed

Meany:<font color="#000000">So, Neutral.

Meany:<font color="#000000">:D

Faerie:<font color="#006666">I'm here as much as I ever am. &gt;.&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Lawful neutral. Yes

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;None yet, thankfully!&quot; He laughs, then sobers. &quot;I should warn you that we'll be passing close to the Deepfoot Swamps tonight and tomorrow, though. This is the most dangerous leg of the trip for any ships carrying valuable cargo.. and given that you're adventurers with adventurers' treasure, we'll err on the side of caution.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">...and I had scroll-lock on. Derp.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh? What dangers, specifically?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">also.. VAE will be gone for quite some time agan

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Mmm, we might want to post a few of our own company on you watch, just in case then.:&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:o

VAE:<font color="#000000">if he's lucky he'll make it to the game next week..

VAE:<font color="#000000">but after that.. well.. probably will see next Akellon in january

VAE:<font color="#000000">Slovakia and all that

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Bummer. :x


 * VAE sads.He knows

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">MIRON ARE YOU GETTING SICK AGAIN GET IN BED NAOW &gt;:O

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;The swamps are black dragon territory, but they rarely leave the swamps. What we'd be watching for are more along the lines of bandits and the occasional river monster. It'd be appreciated if you could help us stand watch.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus nods several times.

Elros:<font color="#006666">Can we just dump him overboard maybe? We can make sure no one sees.

Elros:<font color="#006666">I mean... &gt;.&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Elros was the BBEG all along D:

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Don't worry, sir.&quot;

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;We can manage a small team of bandits, but it never hurts to have extra swords aboard and visible in these parts.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You've a pair of Inquisitors aboard.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">Secretely, I am only here to observ you so that I can plot against you.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It'd be our duty to secure anyone else from such a danger, besides. Of course we'll help.&quot;


 * VAE is wondering how to play it into the corner

Elros:<font color="#006666">You have been playing into my plans all along.

Elros:<font color="#006666">Etc.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Seriously.. .what can happen with Miron that'd make him gone?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Seasickness. :B

Hakutaku:<font color="#FF0000">Just as planned~ (:3

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Storm hits, Miron gets lost in a lifeboat?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We lose Miron in our luggage at port.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Or gets thrown overboard and does the Bourne Medieval?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It gets mailed back to us weeks later.

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I could take a shift.&quot; Aelian offers. &quot;My eyes and ears are quite sharp.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;I can help as well. I can hold my own in a fight, if it comes to it.&quot;

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's great! Sorry to trouble you with adventurer business while you're passengers, but the extra hands will be a godsend.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ter--&quot; Where's Terri. &gt;:|


 * Thomas Lazarus stands with a light sigh and walks off to look for her.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Mark my words, captain. There's not an adventuring company out there that likes an ambush.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm... lost in water.. they did that in Final Fantasy VI

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;And don't worry. Even if something happens during the night, you'll hear my cousin.&quot; |3


 * Thomas Lazarus folds his arms and peers about. |.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... ... ...&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus smirks faintly.

VAE:<font color="#000000">also how much ETA?

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have a good night, adventurers. See some of you on deck.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hm.&quot; Perhaps I'll just wait on the deck for the afternoon.


 * VAE just wonders.. he'll be travelling tomorrow, and is getting a bit tired, too

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">Aelian will show up for the first watch.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Place yourselves where you will for the night watch, and then let's get noms rolling. :3


 * Thomas Lazarus primarily longers around watching the waves. Atleast while Terri remains on deck in the crow's nest.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">*lingers

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">What the heck is longers =3=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The opposite of shorters. :B

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 15 + 5 = 20&#160; <font color="#0000FF">&#187; climb!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Tathi for 'OPPORTUNIST &gt;:D'

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">Looks like someone has a high view. :&gt;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hi Mr. Aelian!&quot; :D

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">rofl, can I nom everyone as compensation for being a victim to my trolling? :P

Meany:<font color="#000000">Noming Tom for Lessons~

Meany:<font color="#000000">Miron for Schemes.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Miron for mission impossible.

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Hello Terri. Keeping a good watch?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yakkety Sax would fit beter

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Nomming Sszeyl for PLOOOOTZ

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Lessons? :.

Meany:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt for I DISAPPROVE OF THIS.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-hmm!&quot; :D

VAE:<font color="#000000">As Saph says.. it's the music for any one bunch that supplants ability with enthusiasm

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros perches himself against the base of the mast. A restful position, but he's in place if anything happens.

Meany:<font color="#000000">Hmm.

Meany:<font color="#000000">Tathi for Trees.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh, Sszeyl for the backstory Orgolloys bits.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Umm. hmm...

TMG:<font color="#000000">Thomas for Dad Story :&gt;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It was just cannibalized from my favorite campaign. xD

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">thomas for hilarious afk shennigans. :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But the characters still worked.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">All of that actually happened, by the way.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">I'm tempted to say Tom's mom for &quot;Fighting things that want to kill you? Not without coats, you won't.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">heehee. |3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Can I nom myself for Reasonable Marines? :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">brb

Meany:<font color="#000000">Reasonable Marines?

Meany:<font color="#000000">Nom'd.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Sometimes plans just get in the way of the simplest and most effective course of action. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">pfft. Might have been reasonable, but you are not Reasonable Marines. :P

GM:<font color="#000000">Any more?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">The important part is the contrast. *bricked*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Gnogglebolt for Magic/Mazio talk?

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">At this point I could nominate everyone for words words words XP\

GM:<font color="#000000">Tathi - 200 XP - OH HAI GUYS WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS BOAT.

GM:<font color="#000000">Thomas - 200 XP - Priestly Advice. 200 XP - Cue Mission Impossible. Or possible, with rational thought. =3=

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Bleh. :P

GM:<font color="#000000">Miron - 200 XP - Plots! 200 XP - Cue Mission Impossible. Damn letter wards.

GM:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt - 200 XP - Gnome disapproves of this. &gt;:I 200 XP - Magic and Mazians.

GM:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl - 200 XP - Orgolloyss backstory.

GM:<font color="#000000">Swallowtail and Terri - 200 XP - Cue Mission Impossible.

GM:<font color="#000000">Any others?

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">IOH

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">TERRI

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Crush-aholic. :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">x3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas sooo thinks that now. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">...huh?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He's keeping an eye on more things than just safety hazards. &gt;:3

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh, wait, are you saying Terri has a crush on the sailor-boy? x3

Meany:<font color="#000000">Aye.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Heh.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well she's back up there, isn't she? |3

Terri:<font color="#000000">It's fun! High places are fun! :I

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Uh-huh.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Have fun. I'll just be here. |3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Saving campaign....

Terri:<font color="#000000">Well that half-elf popped up here, so it's moot now. &gt;:\

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Are you really sure you want to tell her to &quot;have fun&quot;?

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">What's moot? :.

Terri:<font color="#000000">Never you mind! &gt;.&gt;;;;

VAE:<font color="#000000">any XP everyone got?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">A terrible, terrible forum operator. *bricked*

VAE:<font color="#000000">i mean, asides from nominations

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nope, just noms tonight.

VAE:<font color="#000000">good

VAE:<font color="#000000">Failing to write up XP would be fail


 * VAE proposes an unit of 1 Talvin (Ta) as a measure of forum mod/admin incompetence XD

GM:<font color="#000000">The server may go down at your leisure, o spectral one. :3 See you next week!

GM:<font color="#000000">Also, I may as well say it now. No Akellon game on the 24th this month.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">WHAT


 * Dr. Hatari is bricked.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Heh, fair enough.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The DM will likely be furiously working on Christmas presents that day anyway. XP

TMG:<font color="#000000">Heh.

VAE:<font color="#000000">is 24th a sunday?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The 24th is a Saturday. The 25th is a Sunday.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's gameday silly.


 * VAE .. is still mentally stuck on old schedule

<i><font color="#0000ff">VAE is disconnected.

</i>Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">All done then? :&gt;

TMG:<font color="#000000">I believe so

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Yup

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Aye.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Allrighty, shut down? :&gt;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Aye.

<i><font color="#0000ff">Ghostwish is disconnected.

</i><i> You have disconnected.

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