Session 66

Ghostwish has connected.

Liatai:-- SNRK

Liatai:Well, my hypothesis was right.

Ghostwish:lolololololololololololololo

Liatai:I thought, &quot;well, he hasn't defaced Pell's token, because he hasn't made a comment about the bajillion notes in it.&quot; :B

RAM has connected.

TMG has connected.

Faerie has connected.

* TMG is checking out da world map!

TMG:<font color="#000000">Heee. Point Modai. :&gt;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hey Ra, ya here?

TMG:<font color="#000000">*Ram

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">You remember every playing Jedi Starfighter with me?

TMG:<font color="#000000">*ever

RAM:<font color="#000000">Of course!

TMG:<font color="#000000">By any chance, did we ever play the one mission over an island city in the ocean that we have to defend against an orbital bombardment of Hex Missiles?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Don't think so.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ah, damn. Suppose I got the 2player medal with Andrew and never played that mission with you.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ah well.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Anyway, awhile ago Liatai was picking us all for city names, and it came to the coastal cities. I submitted 'Point Modai' because the Mere city in that mission was referred to as Point Modai by Reti in the cutscene ;)

RAM:<font color="#990000">Nice.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...if Liatai ever makes a plot where the city of Point Modai is attacked via a rain of green poison/acid... &gt;.&gt;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hee...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Don't mind me, writing notes... 0:3

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh man, having flashbacks to that mission already. x3

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">I don't think anyone even noticed. XP

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... I've got to figure out what day it is in Akellon today.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Um...hmm.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Is it...still the 10th?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Isn't it still the same day?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You guys finished Braxton Falls in fewer IC days than I thought you would, so my itinerary is all off. x3

TMG:<font color="#000000">We rolled into Thalinde as the sun was going down on the 10th, and we immediately went to Marathal?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yep, it's still the 10th. :D


 * Liatai just checked her trip itinerary for the Cygnet voyage and saw a note to that effect. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">&quot;Scanning the warheads of those missiles...Trihexalon?!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">&quot;I thought Hex weapons were banned by the Republic!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">&quot;The are, Reti...&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">*They


 * RAM knows it's still the same day because Shankfang hasn't been able to use Thomas to Send to Talfeera yet.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...oh man, now I gotta go -play- that mission. @_@

TMG:<font color="#000000">Should take me less than ten minutes! DOn't think we're going to start before then...

RAM:<font color="#990000">Thomas has become a glorified magical phone.

Ghostwish:<font color="#009999">brb, getting something for lunch. XP.. actually fuck it I'm ordering pizza. I earned 200 bucks today, might as well indulge.


 * RAM is going to do the same, actually. It is his tradition for Akellon game days.

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

</i>Meany:<font color="#660000">&gt;:U


 * Faerie sighs

Liatai:<font color="#000000">'Sup, Fae?

Meany:<font color="#660000">Yo.

Meany:<font color="#660000">Where Vae?

Meany:<font color="#660000">Und Doktor?

Faerie:<font color="#009999">Just...thinking.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I see a Fae.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Penny for your thoughts, or would you rather not?

Faerie:<font color="#009999">I'm here today. But past that...I dunno.

Faerie:<font color="#009999">I'm starting to think I'd like to find a way to bow out gracefully.

Meany:<font color="#660000">x:

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Well, that's your call. &gt;:

RAM:<font color="#990000">Aww...

RAM:<font color="#990000">But I don't even have an ulterior motive for hoping you quit anymore!

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

Faerie:<font color="#009999">If I do though, I'd like to not leave loose ends. On IRC some other time maybe, we can discuss.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">One thing that we may be able to do is have Elros turn into an NPC, working behind the scenes to help either the Guardians or Seeds grow as a guild/organization.

Faerie:<font color="#009999">Mmm

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Or he could slip quietly into the woods one day. You're right, though; it's something to discuss later.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... or heck, he could even join the Cygnet crew if he feels like being a sailor. :B

Faerie:<font color="#009999">No sense holding up the game with discussing how I'll stop being nonexistant. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hmm. Or, he could even take over the Vigilant Guardians reserve. :B

Faerie:<font color="#009999">...

Faerie:<font color="#009999">Well, stop being nonexistant by being more nonexistant.

Faerie:<font color="#009999">Or something. Narf.

TMG:<font color="#000000">still waiting for Hatari and others, I think

Liatai:<font color="#000000">So, I put the Akellon wiki as one of the search engines on my toolbar in Firefox.

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

</i>VAE:<font color="#000000">oh?

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It feels so official to type in, say, &quot;Swallowtail&quot; on the same bar I use to look for things on Google and Wikipedia and have it come up with the page. x3

Faerie:<font color="#009999">Heh, nifty.

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh, something you might like that I did before the holidays

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~dm510/dndmfa.odt I think, should be the dndmfa ruleset pulled from the wiki in a printable way

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


 * VAE printed it off himself, the reason for bothering

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ack, object not found.

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

Meany:<font color="#660000">No text after a link.

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

Meany:<font color="#660000">Text goes before link, or in next post.

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~dm510/dndmfa.odt

VAE:<font color="#000000">try?

Faerie:<font color="#009999">404

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

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Testing this out...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... hmm. Let me try that again.

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

</i>VAE:<font color="#000000">try *now*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Testing HTML code, please hold.


 * Dr. Hatari arrives fashionably.

Meany:<font color="#660000">Yo.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Is that everyone, then?

VAE:<font color="#000000">it shuld work now

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Let's see if this works...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Woo, HTML for the win. x3

Faerie:<font color="#009999">Both valid

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Access forbidden, VAE. :/

Faerie:<font color="#009999">Well, you've gone from 404 ro 403

Faerie:<font color="#009999">So, only that many more to go?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">For people who want to put a link in the middle of text, the &quot;a href&quot; HTML tags work. :3 Just be sure to include the http:// in the address.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">For the first time in months

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I actually stayed asleep. :O

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


 * Dr. Hatari doesn't feel like shit. *sparkle gleam* =3=

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

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">We can has Sunny Thomas! :D


 * RAM detonates C4 in Herr Doktor's spleen.

RAM:<font color="#990000">:3

GM:<font color="#000000">H'okay! Chime in when you're ready to go!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">My Chi is mad focused, yo.

TMG:<font color="#000000">hup! *reads faster*

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Lol.

VAE:<font color="#000000">mind waiting a little? VAE is finishing proofreading something for saph

VAE:<font color="#000000">about 8 pages to go, a few minutes

GM:<font color="#000000">No problem. Anyone want to do some character questions in the meantime?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Sure!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Mkay.

GM:<font color="#000000">Right, lemme just change faces real quick...

Ghostwish:<font color="#009999">I could change your face for you. :&gt;

GM:<font color="#000000">Today's date is January 21st, so...

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;What is your character's least favorite color?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Lemon yellow.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Whatever is the colour of Drow skin.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Hmm...anything exceedingly bright and annoying. Hurts my eyes.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=3= ... yellow.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">This has been an issue in the temple. *bricked*

Silly Sun:<font color="#000000">:P

Tathi:<font color="#009999">&quot;Grey. Could you be anymore dull?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#009999">&quot;Pink. Entirely too frilly.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Fae, stop stealing Tathi/Aelian.

Tathi:<font color="#009999">&quot;Hey! I like pink!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron doesn't approve. What's wrong with grey. anyways?

TMG:<font color="#000000">What about Grey Elves then? :U (back to reading!)

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Pizza's here! Back in a minute!

Elros:<font color="#009999">Wait, what?

Faerie:<font color="#009999">I'm not steaking anyone. :

Faerie:<font color="#009999">I was off tasting chocolate.

Faerie:<font color="#009999">&gt;:

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Fluorescent purple. Is so gaudy.

Meany:<font color="#660000">&gt;&gt;

Meany:<font color="#660000">Then Ghost has stolen your colour.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Bright yellow. Which it seems we have consensus on. :B

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Wait. We have fluorescents?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">D: Hey.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">I'm part fluorescent purple. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">where the are is my pizza? :

Elros:<font color="#009999">The color bright yellow killed his father.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Which is why she dislikes it. And I do, too.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Hush, Dwarf. =3=

Elros:<font color="#009999">Personally, I'm not too against any color. Though if you're trying to camoflague, it's important not to have the wrong color.

GM:<font color="#000000">Ooh. These two are interesting from a DM's perspective. &gt;:3

Miron:<font color="#000000">Shut it, spiderfucker.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">The DM is interested. D:

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who is your character's worst enemy?&quot; followed by &quot;Who is your character's best friend?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Answer to the first:

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Yazagh.

</i>Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I am amused by the memory of past campaigns.

Elros:<font color="#009999">Drow assasins. &gt;.&gt;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Ha.

</i>Ezer:<font color="#009999">An me!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Where Fox's answer could have been the same for both questions.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Well, I don't really have any enemies yet. Best friend? Besides my fiance? Prolly Swallowtail.

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

Elros:<font color="#009999">Respectively.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Lolthians....closely followed by the rest of drow.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Best friend... hrm. Wow. I don't have one.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Same here.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I have been decidedly careful in either not making enemies, or killing them very quickly. I guess whoever I happen to be aiming by bow at.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#009999">brb though, bio.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;As for best friend, it's that cheeky little fellow sitting across from me, next to the ninja.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Worst enemy? TANES. &gt;:| Best friend... currently, here? Swan Song.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;... yah, talking to you, loony tunes.&quot; :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">:D

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">I haz a friend!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Achievement Unlocked.

</i>Tokens dropped onto map 'Thalinde'Keppler:<font color="#FF0000">? *bricked*

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Right back atcha, forest nut. |3 As far as worst enemy... I try not to make many enemies, but those Braxton Falls guards are pretty high up there. &gt;.&gt;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;A while ago, I would have said the drow race. While not as extreme as some elves, I did want to see them pay for what they did. But now, it seems the criminals are all but wiped out, and have been replaced by an equally evil regime, and now there's these refugeees trying to live like.. well, elves. So much confusion. I can't mark down a single enemy right now.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">As for best friend...hard to say, what with shifting around... there are folks I haven't seen in decades, like Thorgar... we served together in the army and I later met him in one of the mace branches as my senior. These days... Flint is a good guy, so is Richter and Anise, and Thomas saved my life more than once.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Frankly, it's going to be anyone who crosses me or my projects. And just as a note this rivalry will be very short lived. About 8d6 fire damage short lived.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(popping in) I'm too young, fluid, and somewhat confused to have a best friend and worst enemy yet. (popping out, read fastah! )

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'm not your worst enemy?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">*brick'd*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Worst enemy? ... ... ... Ocahilon. Then again I'm not sure if it still counts because I cut his head off and sent him back to hell. &gt;.&gt;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">He'll be back.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Outsider, and all.

VAE:<font color="#000000">*nod* That was when he saved Miron's ass from baking

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Next question? :&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ocahillon or Oliver Frostvein

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ocahillon or Oliver Veinfrost?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I like Frostvein better, but I shan't retcon. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">And now moving away from mortal enemies...

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;If your character went to a zoo and didn't have time to see everything, which animals would he/she look at?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Reptiles.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">The arthropods. Such inspiration for machines! (Yback to reading!)

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">The cute, floofy ones!

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Seeeeals. :3 Definitely the seals.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Ew, a zoo? How barbaric. I guess you could ask what animals I'd seek out in the wild first.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#009999">Hmm...exotic animals, most likely. Or animals from frigid areas. Considering you see a number of things normally in the woods.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron isn't much of a sucker for animals, as you might know. Though, watching the organised labour of termites would probably make him stick to the display.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Unicorns, foxes, and then snow leopards. In that order.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">The aviary. Though I'd probably get yelled at for trying to climb one of the trees to get a closer look. :B

Tokens dropped onto map 'World Map'Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Lions. *_*

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Hoooo man.. This one is a tough one.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I would probably not be at a zoo by myself.. ^^; Whatever my friends wanted to see.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And brb again, nabbing drinkage!

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Well, some folk are copping out and doing catergories, so so will I. Magic beats first, then the aberrants, and finally? Vermin... by the way I want to see and study how to kill them.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">So the lions then. Let's go. Lions. *_* *Thomas abduct*

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

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">*beasts, not beats, although I just know Aelian is a trance man.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hokay! Read up in the last session log. Ready to pick up at any time.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Ooh! And the penguins. And the otters. :D

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Well if we're doing groups, I'd be looking for fey denizens. They have some of the weirdest, oddball animals...&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">... it occurs to me just how weird an Akellon zoo would be.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Miacherry in 3... 2...

GM:<font color="#000000">This must happen someday. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I KNOW YOU WERE THINKING IT. :P

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Oh hell. ANY D&amp;D zoo would be fascinating on two fronts.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">For some reason.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">One for the creatures in there.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I pictured the bears cage just set up

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">And two for how the fuck they keep them in there.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Like a reception office

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">With a bear seated behind a desk in the front. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">...Of course.

TMG:<font color="#000000">The mascot of ANY D&amp;D zoo.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Would be the Owlbear. :&gt;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Aren't they made out of rage duct taped to fury D:

TMG:<font color="#000000">Set's the proper D&amp;D 'dafuq' tone. :&gt;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I was looking through templates the other day, and tried to imagine a celestial owlbear.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Momentary mental blue screen of death. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Okay! So! Last session on Akellon...

GM:<font color="#000000">DROW. DROW EVERYWHERE.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">It's the last session? Nooo~ *bricked*

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">THEY'RE IN MY HAIR

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">AAAAAAA

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Oh wait. =3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">So many Drow!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">back, sorry, I HAVE PIZZAH


 * VAE mroweth

Miron:<font color="#000000">So. Many. Drow.

GM:<font color="#000000">There was a heck of a lot of plot. Basically summed up as, there was indeed a conspiracy behind the letter's delivery... but it seems to be a... not-malevolent conspiracy?

Elros:<font color="#009999">If there wasn't drow in your hair, Sszeyl, I'd be worried.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Non-malevolent my old arse.

GM:<font color="#000000">Starting off with the fact that the &quot;high elf&quot; you were to deliver the letter to wasn't a high elf at all.

Miron:<font color="#000000">I thought there was something fishy about hi,.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">A highly suspicious elf. =3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And Tea was served, if memory serves!

GM:<font color="#000000">There were mentions of Tathi's family, drow in mithral armor, friends from Castleton, the war, an old drow city near the western jungles, the Sun Raiders... And yes, tea has been served by now. :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Your memory serves tea? :U

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">*sip*

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">My dad. You guys think I'm nuts? The apple doesn't fall very far from the crazy house.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Like i'd drink anything at the house of a probable foe.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Damn, that's a versatile memory!

TMG:<font color="#000000">And we left off in the middle of conversation with Pellan offering to help us with our Helvirahel troubles. :U

GM:<font color="#000000">Yes, indeed! Take it away. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You can help us with the Helvirahel after us?&quot; Gnogglebolt says.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Well. Mind if I ask a rather personel question?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That would eb very much appreciated. They've been a terrible thorn in our side back in Castleton.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">We need help? =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">They're legitimate threats?

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can try, at least. And what did you have in mind?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">I thought they were morons bungling around.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">They burned down our house and we still haven't found them.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">They failed to burn down our house.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Its been like a million years. =3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">A moron judges everyone by his own class.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Why the Sun God?&quot; She asks in a neutral tone. &quot;While he is deeply respected by the High Court, he is still not an elven god. I don't want to sound accusing but..&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">(that was unsaid.. just a mental battle with Sszeyl)

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;It seems you might have been afraid of rejection.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt falls silent as he watches this exchange intently.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miss Eyllisaearsithek, do you honestly think any of the Selandrine would accept a drow as a divine anchor?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Vandria Gilmadrith was perfectly accepting of me. :V&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Not as an anchor, mind, but as a follower.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">shit, critical metagaming fail. Selandrine? XD

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Elf Gods.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">It's the proper term for their pantheon.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;In either case, it wasn't one of the Selandrine's followers who helped us in our hour of need.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt starts rubbing his chin again. The gnome is thinking about smething.

TMG:<font color="#000000">*something

Miron:<font color="#000000">Because they are too smart to do that kind of thing

</i>Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">But he doesn't look eager to share it, at the moment. he's still watching intently.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Did you ask them?&quot; She asks curiously.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron is trying to look calm and collected. It isn't easy.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ask who?&quot; He looks somewhat confused.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Miron calm in a room with a drow?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;The Selandrine. They did not become so old for being rash, impatient, and short-sighted. Did you try?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MIRON.


 * Thomas Lazarus remarks evenly, &quot;It's Pelor's way to help those who need it. There are no conditions, no bias, no judgement. There is no reason he would spurn any petitioner. Although I must confess some surprise that a Drow sought him out.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">SWEET GEEZUS DOPPLEGANGER GET IT.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Trying to. Didn't say succeeding.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... this is a serious question and I'm snickering over that doppelganger quip. XD

Miron:<font color="#000000">Face kinda works, but his knuckles are turning white-ish.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">'Scuse me, recomposing self. x3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang just sits there. He hasn't been with the party long enough to really know what everyone's talking about. =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt is silent and still, but his eyes keep flicking to watch whoever speaks at the moment. It's rare that you see a gnome find something -so- interesting that they don't interrupt.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Super-rare.

</i><font color="#FF0000"> *bricks!!*

Dr. Hatari: <font color="#ff0000">(( Also. Is it weird that I have Ennio Morricone music going for this scene? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILB0yIn6jBg ))


 * VAE is playing his favourite bit of dramatic music, which surprisingly fits

VAE:<font color="#000000">At the rock bottom of this page, there are several youtube-like music play links. Play the second .http://torzewska.blog.sme.sk/c/177925/Tisicrocna-vcela.html

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ignore the rest of page, it's in slovak.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tathi... I was in my mid-twenties and had been fed stories about the evils of the Selandrine my whole life. Of course I didn't, at that age. I was already afraid enough that Lolth would smite me for daring to show reverence to another god -- I didn't want to risk that from the Selandrine and certain annihilation by Lolth at the same time. And Pelor... showed something that I had never seen from any other god, even Lolth. True compassion.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">The correct one is titled Odborova variace na E.M.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;You do not pray to Lolth for solace, support, or favor. You pray that you please her enough to not draw her ire.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Sad but true. :v&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">Testing.

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

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

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( Yo. ))

Meany:<font color="#660000">Okay, router blinked.

Meany:<font color="#660000">Thought I'd drop. :v

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anyone listened to the music, as an aside? VAE is wondering what people thinl.


 * Dr. Hatari is.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It feels very Miron. :B

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;That does make sense.. but.. have you tried since then?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">(it was used in particularly dramatic sequences in one of my favourite movies ever. And yes. )


 * Liatai has a number of Les Miserables tracks on her playlist going currently.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;In the immortal words of Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;If it is not broke, do not fix it. :v&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yah, iz very goot policy.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt jumps slightly at mention of his name, but shakes his head and chuckles.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I thought it was, 'if it's not broken, add more explosives.'&quot; |3

TMG:<font color="#000000">(Thought, I don't think gnogglebolt's ever said that. And if he did, it would have been 'I it ain't broke, make it better anyway'. But oh well, this works. x3 )

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I was just thinking, &quot;Wait, no, no, he wants to add Vernier engines to riverboats and things.&quot; =w=;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Are you channeling me?

Miron:<font color="#000000">I was under the impression Lolth grants immense power to her champions. But no, clearly all of them are just poor victims.

</i>Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Lolth gives power under the terms of a heavy interest loan.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh, Hatari - might actually be. See, the place where the complete track was played, at the end is (takes place during WWI) when the protagonist, after all the messes, learns that another of his sons (only adult one then) remaining was killed, snaps , takes a sack of grenades and goes blow up a military train, dying in the process. It's awesomely played out- he's followed by an immense procession of family ,friends and people, all of whom are dead or not there at the moment, and only when the scene switches to the lookout of a tunnel guard you see he is in fact marching alone.

TMG:<font color="#000000">dangit, dog got out.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">mind pausing for a few minutes while I chase him down? ^^;

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Fetch, Techy.

TMG:<font color="#000000">brb!

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... probably not in the manner that you mean. But, I do have... a few friends in this town that both know my true identity and worship members of the Selandrine. Lyola Verelitas, for example... she maintains the town's apiary, and reveres Elebrin Liothiel.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Got the Monster. Back.

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">Pity they don't know of your intentions, too.

</i>Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Though that does remind me.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oh hush, paranoid fool.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Like I said anything

</i>Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miss Eyllisaearsithek, I have some of the seeds Cal'tel asked me to give you in the medicine cabinets. Would you like me to fetch those now, or would you rather harvest them from the tree yourself?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Her eyebrows climb. &quot;Seeds? From the old woods?&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes -- I have some because they make an excellent analgesic when powdered and mixed with the right ingredients. The trees are on Lyola's property, however. I buy them from her when we go to buy honey and beeswax.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;She would probably give them to you for free, given what Cal'tel says you have in mind for them.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Amazing..&quot; Tathi says almost breathlessly. &quot;How did she manage to save any of the trees?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Free stuff is always nice.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Except AIDS.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I'm not sure if Sszeyl told you one of the plans we had in mind for the trees of Elsaeothi Forest during the war.&quot; He looks to Sszeyl. &quot;But we weren't the only ones who took seeds, and saplings. Those who fled the fires took them, as well, and planted them where they could find space. Many did not survive... but some did.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lyola was only a child during the war, but her... father, I believe, was one of the wild priests.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;There were actual plans for them? :/&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;From what little I saw, they were just trophies.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Incredible.. But, yes, I'll gladly take these seeds. But I want to pay a visit to these trees as well.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;From what I understand, they were to be used to create a training ground for the new soldiers of Lolth. To better prepare them for future forest warfare. The notion of having easily-accessed fuel for fires helped to add to the appeal. ... How long will you be in town for? I can ask Lyola tomorrow morning if she'll bring you to them.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We...don't know how long we'll be here, actually. Our only reason for stopping here was to deliver the letter to you. But, I can speak to the captain of the ship we've chartered and ask him when he intends to set sail again.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt finally speaks up in the conversation.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We can most likely stay for a day or two. Though it will be difficult, what with the trouble earlier...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Why doesn't it surprise me. And here, over 100 years from the war, it does them yet another service. Even on the side of evil, law and order clearly wins against chaos

</i>Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;What trouble earlier?&quot; :.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh. We didn't tell you about that. Erm.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">You're lucky Keppler isn't canon in this universe. *brickpile*

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Burnination!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We, ah. Well, with Sszeyl with us in the big cities, we got complacent with having him around.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Keppler was fun

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can guess, I think. Margaret?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And, well, we simply walked through town openly with him. I'm sure you can imagine how that went.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">I most definitely aren't

</i>Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Sszeyl makes a dismissive gesture. =3=

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But anyway! Such is a small trouble to us, we can work around that.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt drops his earlier silent curiosity, and returns to be a key converser.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Thank you everyone.&quot; Tathi says smiling. &quot;This is going to help SEEDS immensely.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Our bigger trouble is, as you know, Helvirahel.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Excellent. :v&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Actually, I might jump back in a bit later. How exactly you came to know my father and, well, no offense but survived, is another story I would like to hear.&quot;


 * Pellan'zyne sighs. &quot;It would only make sense. She's a good soul... please don't let her attitude dissuade you. She tends to many who cannot afford to pay for her services, and has been helping the sick and injured here for half a century. But... she is rather prejudiced against any with 'monstrous blood.'&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;A squad of them is waiting for us back in Castleton. They've been needling us for almost a month now, forcing us to always move together and never alone. They attaked our headquarters once, and last we saw of them, they were creating a 'flesh golem' somewhere in the city. We--&quot; Gnogglebolt looks up to Tathi. Oh. Wwell. He was going to get to that anyway. Gnogglebolt quickly leans back and makes himself unnoticed again.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Where two fight, third man laughs. Perhaps setting the drow to fight among themselves wouldn't be all that bad an idea.

</i>Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;She didn' gimmee much trubbel, luckily.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... you didn't hurt her, did you?&quot; The drow looks over at Shankfang with concern clearly visible.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She quirks an eyebrow at Gnogglebolt. &quot;I didn't mean to interupt. Go on. I'll bug him about it later.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">If the drow considered you lot that valuable, you'd be dead. In fact, me too..but let's play along.

</i>Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh no no! I riled her up and caught her attention long enough for the others to slink away. But then Edaric here practically made the sea part before him as he calmed the crowd.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh, no. Hy left my days uf tuggery far behind me.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus closes one eye. &quot;The next time they cross our path... it'll be different.&quot;


 * Pellan'zyne seems slightly baffled at what &quot;tuggery&quot; is, but politely doesn't remark. ^^;


 * Edaric waves dismissively at Tathi's statement. &quot;It's a bard thing.&quot; |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We've very nearly doubled in strength since their prodding adamantine spider raid.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt nods to Tathi. &quot;Right then, ah, anyway. Last we saw they were making a flesh golem in the field, but we left Castleton on this trip before they could use it.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Humbleness is too.&quot; Aelian says, smirking.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I can't wait for them to give us another opening.&quot; He remarks grimly.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The big issue is if we could find them, we could destroy them.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Mmm.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But they stubbornly won't show themselves, don't leave any tracks or traces.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't suppose you have any advice for deducing where they might be hiding, so we can go on the offensive?&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What part of assassin don't you understand, for the Cudgel's sake?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I have plans for them.&quot; He frowns.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you know whether -- actually, scratch that, better question first. How many assassins have you seen in their squad, and do you know anything about them?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ahum....&quot; Gnogglebolt looks up and thinks.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;There was at least four...but one's dead now. Killed by our good friend Silverthrush, in fact.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Something gives me an idea.... Might be far-fetched, but might work.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Three. Two women and a man. Had a gold prosthetic eye on him. One of them women was also one-eyed. Lost a finger. The leader was white-haired, magician...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We heard her name.&quot; He rubs his forehead and frowns.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, what was the name...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt rubs his forehead, thinking hard.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Int check. =w=; &#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 16 - 1 = 15&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Thomas has -1 int?

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... hmm. The golden prosthetics point toward him being one of the magewrights...&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Thaticice is the name you heard.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And neither of the women was one-eyed. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lost a finger? What happened to it?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas isn't honestly all that smart. He's kind of derpy. He's just wise and from a family/region that uses eloquent speech.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;We weren't sure. Just a distinguishing trait.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">The Half-Orc is smarter than Thomes!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Hey I was just looking at token portraits, it was like half a year ago. =w=;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oops...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Actually -- SMILEEEEEYS &gt;:O


 * Dr. Hatari holds Liatai back. D:

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">SUDDENLY, A RAGING MOB MADE OUT OF DRAGON PLUSHIES.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Actually, you do know what happened to that woman's finger, probably. Ask Elros.

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( Sorry, forgot. New Maptool. ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">Probably. Thomas has experience, and common sense. A good inquisitor doesn't need all that much more.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">18 int bitches.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Small, hilarious, inside joke.

Miron:<font color="#000000">16 int AND wis

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi's sheet is listed as 'Liatai's Wizard'.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Directly above it?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Bloody Links.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Isn't Elros standing bloody right there?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">19

</i><font color="#000000"> Int. ;)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">If you were there when you got the ring to scry on from Silverthrush, you may remember, as well.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Danman; exactly. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">You know, Gnogglebolt, you don't act like it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, Miron asked about it aloud

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Hey, I do a -very- good job of hiding it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Not like he's earless

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Elros has that Kanon power where people can't fathom his existance. :B

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Just ask a certain drow. He's currently 76% certain I'm a hedge wizard.

VAE:<font color="#000000">He's like the Silence from Dr. Who

TMG:<font color="#000000">Well, um, not sure if Alex is 'present' at the moment. :B


 * VAE headdesks

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay, might as well recap. x3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Continuing on.

Faerie:<font color="#009999">Ah

Faerie:<font color="#009999">&gt;.&gt;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">If you were there when you got the ring -- Ah!

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh, there he is.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">There he is! :O

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Yeah, jackass. &gt;:P

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

Faerie:<font color="#009999">See, this is why.

Faerie:<font color="#009999">:T


 * VAE is guilty of going off at times to browse other things, or chat to Saph, but it's invariably during combat or such. Not when major plot is going on.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">... oh shit.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">We're all derps. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">tl;dr - Burn the heretic!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">People are asking what happened to that Helvirahel assassin's finger. The one Elros' father tangled with. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">HERESY?!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">It's 'Seldarine' not 'Selandrine'

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I've read it as Selandrine all these years XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, okay, calm down and focus, folks. x3 Let's try and get back in-character here.

VAE:<font color="#000000">You are all Derpy. Yes, that pony

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">SAY MY NAME.

Elros:<font color="#009999">&quot;The finger itself? Buried, I presume. It was long before I was born. Or, do you mean how it was severed?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps.. but more like.. where it is?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks in Elros' direction.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh yeah, I remember being told something about this, one of the assasins tangled with your father once...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If it is certain they are after us..even the smallest fragment of bone could be of immense value.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is that it?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sympathetic magic, as some of you might figure.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#009999">&quot;Indeed. It's how I came upon the ring that I hold. The older of the two that we've come across.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right, now I remember--I was told later you used that ring for a scrying, but it was cut off or something? Or they moved out of range? Anyway.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns back to Pellan'Syne. &quot;So, do you know of these assasins in particular? And do you have any advice for finding them?&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">*nods* &quot;Except that a body part is so much more powerful than mere possession in estabilishing a link to the target.&quot;

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

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;That in and of itself is interesting, that one seems interested in an elven family... do you happen to remember the name of the one you heard?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, what was it, the others told me...That-ice? Thaticice?&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">O_o

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">I know, right. =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...I take it you -do- know her.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thaticice?&quot; O_o &quot;Sun's light, she was ancient when I was a child.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah...huh. Interesting.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;She made disrupting commander Ashmore's spell look simple. She seems very powerful.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und she iz tryink to kill hyu guys? Iz dere hennyone dat hain't tryink to kill hyu guys?&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;She's no mage, certainly not... but she is one of the House's finest assassins. She was usually sent on undercover work -- deep undercover, as in, infiltrating a rival house's nobility, or surface spying... why is she...&quot; He pauses, thinking.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sure, there are lots of people. They're just less popular.&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Hmph.

Elros:<font color="#009999">&quot;...presently, or ever tried to?&quot;

Elros:<font color="#009999">&gt;.&gt;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Powerful is relative, Cleric.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... dismissing the spell may have been the magewright's work. Was he within the view of the spell when it was dismissed?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ain't trying to kill us? Well, the Aureate Palm, so far.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">For those who were there, he wasn't.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;No. =3=&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I...don't know. I wasn't there.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;He was not.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hmm.. no.. it looked like she did it. She noticed the scrying sensor quickly, grinned at us, and pointed. And then it collapsed.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy'm schtartink to tink my life ekspectancy iz droppink konsiderably de longer Hy schtick around vith hyu guys...&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed? -- Solomon Short

TMG:<font color="#000000">&quot;violates the law of conservation of energy&quot;? xD

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's likely what happened. Thaticice is an expert at altering perceptions. She likely did notice your sensor, then pointed at it to give the magewright a target.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Surprisingly relevant, fortune.

TMG:<font color="#000000">What's the explanation behind -that- joke?

VAE:<font color="#000000">I have no idea. Ask the makers of fortune, the program that tossed it at me

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. So, can you do anything to help us after all, any advice to give?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Perhaps so. It doesn't seem as though it particularly matters, though. We know for a fact they're on the surface tracking us for murder.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">*with the intent, we didn't murder any Drow &gt;.&gt;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Intentionally.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">*shifty eyes*

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I may... but one more question. Who was building the golem, and did you see whether the person was using a book or not?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Magewright.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't recall if he was using a book. It was a male with short white hair and the golden eye.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah...was there a book? I don't recall any mention when this was being related to me...&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... we'll assume not, then. It's best to prepare for the worst when dealing with Helvirahel.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... and this is indeed a very bad situation, if I may be frank.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+floor((wisdom-10)/2) = 3 + floor((13 - 10) / 2) = 4&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; wisdom check!

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">I DUN LURK BOOCS.

Miron:<i><font color="#000000">Why does it not surprise me?

</i>Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;You said that they attacked you once with a probing strike, and haven't been seen since. And you're all clearly alive, unless you happen to be extremely cleverly-hidden undead... not to mention Thaticice is involved. Do you know who called in the hit?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Hey fag brains. Stop thinking about things you didn't hear.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I think he meant another line. =3=;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not really. We just know they're after Sszeyl here because he's exiled and now a problem for them or something, and they wanted to take us out first for associating with him.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus simply shakes his head. He glances to Sszeyl.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Don't care. Still ragging him for a monologue that no one can hear!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">But we all do it. We're still doing it. =3=

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">STOP IT. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Shut up, cross eyed elf bitch. We wouldn't be here if not for you being wooed by seeds so easily.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE PLAYERS BEHIND THE CURTAIN. *bricked*

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... the Order, then, most likely. Through Yazagh of Orgolloyss, the Matron Mother's favored son. Now it gets clearer.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">also; doesn't Sszeyl know who it was who called the hit when Rhylinar literally shoved it into his face? Wasn't it Yasagh or something?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">He did it again. Can I slap him?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Seriously though - Why is tathi's token such ugly cross-eyedness?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Something like that.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus looks to Sszeyl.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">duuuude.. you draw and you don't understand perspective?

VAE:<font color="#000000">I don't understand it. I just apply it sometimes.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">She's not cross-eyed. It's looking down and to the side of her looking down at something and facing one of her cheeks.

VAE:<font color="#000000">And to be honest, it ends up looking like i don't, fairly often


 * VAE is the peasant sketcher - a Lysenko of art world, if you wish XD

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... I must admit, I've never really understood why they decided to kill you. I don't see the point. Are you not an exile already? Or.. performing for them some task? Does it not seem like an inordinate expenditure of resources to send a squad of four assassins and artificers to the surface world for you?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Go ahead, you can do it. Think with just one eye, and look down, over your cheek. Now think about your other eye. OH GOD YOU'RE CROSS-EYED.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;This may seem somewhat far afield, but this is the only thing that makes sense to me, given that they haven't attacked again. If this were truly a hit, you wouldn't be here. You'd still be fending them off in Castleton, or on the road, or wherever you would be. Their attacks would be relentless ambushes.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... and given that Thaticice is usually sent on spying missions...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks to Thomas then back to Pellan. Looks like that question was just answered.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good insight for once.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;More than likely, assassination isn't their primary duty. They're likely observing you, and reporting back to the Order.&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why attack at all, then, though?|

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;How bad is that, then?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's far easier to observe when the target doesn't know what you are doing.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Unless they collected samples.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">SAMPLES!

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Where's Quorach?!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">shutup qorach. :P

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">loljinx.

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

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

</i>TMG:<font color="#000000">...ewps. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hrm.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">oh gods we disgusted him. :P

Elros:<font color="#009999">&quot;Attacking us could have been part of their observation, if they wanted to know of our capabilities.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#009999">...

Faerie:<font color="#009999">&gt;.&gt;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very, very bad. And that was likely their intention, if not solely to gague your combat strength. That kind of information would be valuable to the Order should you choose to do something they wouldn't approve of. ... which you already are doing.&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You could do that far better by paying off someone who was with us at a mission. Or insinuating themselves inside.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vy do hyu guys hef so mhenny enemies?&quot; =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wonderful. So we do, in fact, still want to stamp them out.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Consider - attacking someone to gauge their capabilities is an absurd idea, as any weakness you uncover they will work hard to close up.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Advice on how we can do that? Or do you have something else in mind?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Only reason I can fathom was that they tried to distract you lot from something.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;It may have also been a test... Inquisitor Steelsprocket, yes?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Maybe dey vere bored?&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Orgolloyss, like Lolth, does enjoy throwing adversity in his disciples' paths to toughen or cull the weak.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus shrugs slightly at Shankfang. &quot;We are nosy. As Inquisitors, brother Miron and I make it our business to go out of our way to uproot this world's foul things. The Drow issue is.. just a matter of circumstances and poor luck.&quot; He glances briefly to Sszeyl and back. &quot;I guess.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Precisely.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Fair enough, Hy guess.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Not that Gnogglebolt's Guardians are any less vigilant about it.&quot; He smirks faintly.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;As far as drawing them out... I'll be frank. You have Thaticice, and a magewright skilled enough to create a golem, not to mention a woman of unknown strength, but clearly skilled in combat, to have only lost a finger and not her life that long ago.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And still.. in their disciples' paths. It makes no sense to cull the weak from amongst your foes.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you were going to face them all as a group, even as strong as you seem to be... I do not think it would end well for you.&quot; ^^; &quot;So, it would be best to draw them out individually. I do have some idea of how to... er, Inquisitor Steelsprocket.&quot; ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It must have been a distraction, nothing else seems reasonable .. especially not from foes who are several times my age over.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miron, please let the man speak.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sszeyl is, or was, a member of the Order of Orgolloyss. He would be a disciple of Orgolloyss.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And yes, that.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Miron!&quot; Tathi says tiredly. &quot;It is not a diversionary tactic. They are recon, do you understand?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then, they are going on at it worse than Robin when she was an Inquisitor In Training. &quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Except for the house. That made sense.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus waves his hand slightly. &quot;We're getting off-track.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... hmm. What happened to the Meanster? ^^; He's not in IRC, either.

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

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Must've had a total net crash

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">full crash?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I never noticed him disc.

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

</i>TMG:<font color="#000000">Hrm.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It was a while ago.

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

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">speak of the owl

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh, there he is.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Let me know when you're loaded, there was much talk Sszeyl would be interested in.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liatai; I'll whisper :o

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Wait, Tech.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We didn't notice you disc. Sorry. XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">your log isd the real one. Let's not put big blocks in it

VAE:<font color="#000000">The Real McCoy?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Meany usually doesn't like getting big blocks of text while he's loading. ^^; And his connection may still be unstable.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The genuine article.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">So let's wait until he chimes in.

Meany:<font color="#660000">No.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Right. Was planning to do that.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Was just saying that I would so you don't have too. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No? :.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Going to have to be a little more specific, meany. :/

Meany:<font color="#660000">No blocks of text, please.

Meany:<font color="#660000">Checking autosave.

TMG:<font color="#000000">well, you missed a lot then

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... hmm. That makes this awkward.

TMG:<font color="#000000">And you won't get it until after this is over.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Which, as Liatai says, is awkward.

VAE:<font color="#000000">pastebin?

VAE:<font color="#000000">slap it up on there

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Would anyone care to summarize? I need to go grab some tea, really quick. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">who says shit has to go in game only

TMG:<font color="#000000">FINE I'LL TRY THIS FRAKKIN PASTEBIN THING

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Whoa capslock -- oh, smiley. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">What? TMG is EVOLVING!

VAE:<font color="#000000">TMG evolved into Common Sense!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">BUN. DUN. BUN. DUN.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...Okay, just shut it, danman. And no smiliey there.

Meany:<font color="#660000">:B

Meany:<font color="#660000">Is a smiley.

Meany:<font color="#660000">:B

VAE:<font color="#000000">my furry arse will i ever

RAM:<font color="#990000">Besides, it would be more like &quot;Techy wants to learn Common Sense!&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">&quot;But, Techy already knows four moves!&quot;


 * VAE 5.89's Ram

RAM:<font color="#990000">&quot;Forget a move to make room for Common Sense? Y/N&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Pellan'zyne: &quot;... and given that Thaticice is usually sent on spying missions...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">From there, onward, please.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Here you go, meany http://pastebin.com/fEWsuRRi

VAE:<font color="#000000">And it didn't even hurt!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Answering questions in order of asking.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;I humiliate Yazagh by drawing breath. :B Under our laws, he had full right to kill me, but instead the Monstrocity ordered me out here.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;I already have a few obstacles in my path, namely, how to observe the Dwarves and Elves without losing my head sodoing.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;They are but gnats, in the grand scheme. :B&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... There's... likely more to it than simple humiliation, but it is not my place to say. The orders of the Monstrosity lend the theory more credence.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;You haven't spoken with Yazagh recently have you? But in any case, there is possibly more.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sszeyl, I haven't been anywhere near Ezzebek in nearly a century and a quarter.&quot; ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">:P

VAE:<font color="#000000">Translation: Hence shut up and don't be a wise-ass

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;I only know the news from there that Cal'tel and our friends there send.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Very well. :v&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Now about Tathi's sire? :V&quot;

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

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;I wasn't finished with the assassin business.&quot; ^^;;;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Sorry to pester, but she's liable to set something on fire if she's made to wait.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;He said he had ideas about luring them out one by one.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, one thingk at a time, Sszeyl. We'll get to that.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Did he now? Sorry, must be lost in my musings.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Meaningful flick of the seal in the light.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes. Agents of Orgolloyss and Helvirahel they may be, but they are still drow, and none are more driven by ambition and their own personal goals than Helvirahel drow.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you know of any of those goals?&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;You said that you had a tie to scry on them with. Keep that, and utilize it as often as you dare.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt doesn't ask question, just listens and rubs his chin.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thaticice, you won't likely be able to separate from the magewright. She travels everywhere with at least one.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;One of these days..&quot; He folds his arms and remarks quietly. &quot;..Soon, I think, I'll have the confidence to try my own scrying. Maybe then we'll have the means to do it regularly.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Eliminating the woman, however, will give you breathing space, and take care of at least a third of the problem. And you already have a clue toward what her motives may be.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That would be most excellent.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The third one...the one with the cut off finger?&quot;


 * Pellan'zyne nods to Elros. &quot;Do you happen to know why she targeted your father?&quot;

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

Elros:<font color="#009999">&quot;We've still not used my ring for scrying, so we have that, even if it's old. If that would be of any assistance.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... should I take that as a no?&quot; ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*sighs*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">3685 XP to go. Then scrying town. &gt;:O

Elros:<font color="#009999">&quot;Well, I believe the one with the cut-off finger seeks revenge on myself, for her past failure. But beyond that, I can't say for sure.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's another problem Drow are competitive, but these aren't idiots. If we get rid of one of them, we'd be forced to deal with the rest quickly - it'd put any plans they have into quick motion.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... hmm. There had to have been a reason she targeted your father in the first place. Single hits on surface elves, or humans, are rare.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks annoyed at yet another Miron interruption--but, it seems to quickly go awya. &quot;For once, I have the same question as Miron. Once we tip our hand and show we have it in for these spies, what will the remaining ones likely do?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Unless of course anyone had a plan on how to cause conflict among them..&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;If their true goal is assassination? They will attack. If their goal is observation, they will withdraw to reevaluate their position. Hopefully, by then, you'll have enough knowledge to use to draw the remaining two out.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Hmm. I suppose that's still better than what we already had.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;In other words, we must capture the one alive and interrogate her.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though...this idea of luring the third one out means using Elros as bait.&quot; Gnogglebolt turns towards him. &quot;It's your call.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;You may not need to.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you can find out why Elros' father was targeted in the first place, you may be able to tempt her with a similar target.&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. Furthermore, if their orders are to observe, she probably wouldn't attack either - or she'd have killed him already.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see. Elros, we'll talk later then, see what we can dig up, yes?&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can you think of any reason at all, Elros?&quot;

Elros:<font color="#009999">Elros thinks...

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Unless you can think of it now...&quot;

Elros:<font color="#009999">&quot;I could only guess something he did during the war, but I can't say I recall him mentioning.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;So he's elven... and that gives us something to work with, albeit a small thing.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Any idea what he might have done during the war? Maybe he took out a priestess?&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you can find out her name, or any other identifying characteristics, there may be a record somewhere of her actions during the war.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Cal'tel can likely bring those records to you if you keep him informed.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Elros, when we originall met and told each other about ourselves, didn't you say he was part of a scout squad or something?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The basics, What was your father's name and rank?&quot;

Elros:<font color="#009999">&quot;Possible. Do drow ever travel on the surface, through woods? It's possible he killed someone of import, while they were?&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Often, in those days.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shrugs. &quot;I suppose we'll have to look into this later.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can only suggest that you look into his actions during the war, and those of his squadron. Though... be careful. It is likely to be a painful road to walk.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Seriously. If he did something like that, it'd probably be archived. Those are the kinds of deeds medals are given or&gt;&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*for

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... your surname is Saelian, yes? Is that your father's surname, as well?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Yes.. now we only have to hope the archive in question didn't burn down..&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Fuego!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We must hope indeed.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#009999">&quot;Indeed, yes.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Talk to Cal'tel. Ask him to look for those records. If anyone can find that sort of information in record time, it's him.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Heh, punny.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'd be surprised if he wasn't already working on it, frankly.&quot; ^^;

Miron:<i><font color="#000000">.. but then, why not? Devil. pull the cart when you're carrying me.

</i>Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Now why do I get the feeling he's going to pop out of our underwear drawers while we sleep tonight?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right then...if that's it for our Helvirahel troubles, I believe Tathi still has unanswered questions?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Findink records in record time...&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#000000">Because he has a fetish for elven panties.


 * Pellan'zyne can't help covering his mouth with a small *snrk* at Tathi's statement. x3

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;That's totally within his character isn't it?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron seems unamused, for once.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Anyway, yes. Raerarael. I've already said all of what I know on the matter -- but if you're going to be in town tomorrow night, you can ask Altonor yourself.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/funny-pictures-cat-is-in-trash.jpg

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm!&quot; Gnogglebolt looks up. &quot;I'm looking forward to meeting him myself.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">wait what did he say? He only mentioned having known about tathi's dad. O.o

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm sure we'll be around for a day at least.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">One moment...

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">and I swear if you're changing your dm token.. :P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ooh, good idea. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">well, now she is. :P

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Wait, what? Who is that? What is that? I don't remember this. Did the DM explain that? Is that part of our objectives?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Pbbbbbbt. :p

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;You would need to ask him about any kidnapppings... I know he's brought people fleeing from Braxton Falls here to Thalinde. And... he'll definitely want to talk to you about Raerarael.&quot; ^^; &quot;We drow have... a well-earned reputation for causing trouble. And to those who don't know of the Raiders -- which is just about everyone sadly -- it's easy to assume that drow at the site of catastrophe are causing it instead of helping. ... I think Raerarael has fallen into that trap of thinking with Altonor. Several times.&quot; ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">In other words, Altonor is yet another drowish asshole looking for a kick.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">what? no. XD

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">he's apparently anti-drow.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I think he's one of them,

VAE:<font color="#000000">It was mentioned at several other times

GM:<font color="#000000">Yeah, VAE's got it.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Mmm. Looks like I'll be tracking down this Altonor tomorrow. Oh gods it'll be so embarassing if he recognizes me on sight.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Altonor is the drow in mithral armor.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Oh. OH. Wow. I completely misread that... stupid english!! Why you be must illogical so!?

VAE:<font color="#000000">.. . .it was pretty clear, i'd say

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; Thomas stares at the potted plant for a moment, as though it has spoken or something.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">You're a slov. You don't count.


 * Ghostwish runs away cackling.

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

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;He should be arriving here around sunset.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">Slovak.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I come from mordor, bitches

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">roflroflrofl!!!

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Remember that map before?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Tech's Maptool froze.

VAE:<font color="#000000">as a fun thing, I fitted an actual world map on top of it, using the vague outline of UK and Iceland as a positioning tool

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Suddenly, Tathi gets that mischievious look that makes both Gnogglebolt and Thomas fidget nervously. &quot;So, should I pop around the corner and yell about having a message from my father, or would he gut me for that?&quot;


 * Aelian spit-takes tea.

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

</i>VAE:<font color="#000000">http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~dm510/middle-earthpolitical.jpg

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


 * Pellan'zyne seems amused by that proposition. =w=

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're welcome to try. At least I know his preferred weapon is enchanted to do no permanent harm.&quot; ^^; &quot;The four of us all have that enchantment on the weapons we're most likely to reach for in combat.&quot;

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

</i>Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">that is -awesome-. Well it's true. Tolkien was more or less writing a satire of the world wars. Very mysterious.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Tathi: Wait, what? Who is that? What is that? I don't remember this. Did the DM explain that? Is that part of our objectives?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Last I saw

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">rofl, srsly tech? XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">Notice how Barad-Dur is roughly where Banska Bystrica stands

TMG:<font color="#000000">someone whisper to me, please? (preferably not Lia, so ehr log isn't filled with a chunk)

TMG:<font color="#000000">and can things be put on hold until I catch up?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Thank you ghjost

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Curious! What enchantment is that?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 6 + 3 = 9&#160; <font color="#660000">&#187; Knowledge Arcana check.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I honestly think that's way too little to go on, meany.

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


 * Pellan'zyne rubs his forehead. &quot;... that would have been a better question for Jane, she was a mage-smith in her spare time...&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, read up.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+17 = 7 + 17 = 24&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Arcana check oo

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Miron knows, and Thomas is right. The Merciful weapon enchantment.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Correct, Thomas. I think I heard Aureate Palm uses it sometimes to apprehend valuable targets in public. '


 * Pellan'zyne looks to Thomas curiously, following his gaze to the plant. &quot;... Is there something wrong, Sir Lazarus?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt is looking thoughtful again.


 * Thomas Lazarus closes his eyes and shakes his head. Something's certainly struck him, but he has clammed up.


 * Swallowtail stands up. &quot;I go check on Terri, one moment.&quot;

Miron:<i><font color="#000000">Now, why would a drow use something like that, ever....

</i>Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">Hey! Hey! Pay attention to me! Pay attention to meeeeeeeeeee-


 * Swallowtail pauses by Pellan'zyne briefly, squinting and leaning closer.


 * Pellan'zyne leans away a little. &quot;... Yes?&quot; ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">and here's hoping..

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hold still, please. You have a hair on robe shoulder.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Would not change when you changed back. Bad disguise.&quot;

Miron:<i><font color="#000000">Why isn't she in the mace? We could so use someone like her.

</i>Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh, a very good point, thank you.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus whispers: How interesting. Thomas has just realized that Miron and the Braxton Falls Mace have arrest warrants out for, and are actively trying to spy on and reveal, someone who has just been revealed to be one of 'the good guys' and a friend of Tathi's father. Who she wants to contact. CONFLICT OF INTERESTS. D:

Miron:<i><font color="#000000">3

</i>Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt wrinkles his brow, thinking how odd that was.

VAE:<font color="#000000">argh. That didn't go well

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;That spell is a very picky one. It won't change anything that isn't attached to you somehow.&quot;

Sszeyl:<i><font color="#660000">Because she's too far removed from Akellon's interests?

</i>Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Anyway.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">maptool doesn't print greater/lesser signs


 * Swallowtail picks off the hair. &quot;There.&quot; :3 And off she goes!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Actually it'll do greater. &gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I...suppose that's almost everything, we've imposed on you long enough...though, one or two more things, I just thought of.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">But not lesser. Start of code fragment, you see.

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: 0:3

VAE:<font color="#000000">&#9608;

VAE:<font color="#000000">it does do unicode, it seems

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt gets out of his seat, stands up, and turns around to face Miron. &quot;Miron? I'd like to ask you a few yes-or-no questions. Please just answer yes or no, I know how we both like to overcomplicate things, but let's avoid that for the moment.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus snaps out of his distraction and looks to Gnogglebolt.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's fine, it's nice to finally meet you face-to-face after all the stories.&quot; He falls silent after that, watching the exchange.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why am I the one being questioned, again?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...And we're already off to a bad start. Is it so horrible that a friend wants to ask you something, Miron?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">You assume he considers you a friend.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... well, to be fair, it did start out sounding rather harsh and insistent.&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. Especially in front of people that.. neither I or you know well.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, it's nothing deeply personal or anything. But anyway.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;But as a sign of my good will.. ask away, brother.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Rather. Since when do I use 'rather' in conversation frequently, I usually go for 'kind of' or 'kinda.' DROW YOU'RE INFECTING ME WITH YOUR SPEECH PATTERN. :| *brick'd*

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">I'm sorry! D:

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;First off. Let me guess. You do still rather suspect Pellan'Zyne here of...something, right? You don't trust him?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">There's the rather again! :|

Miron:<font color="#000000">*facepalms*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I will say, we can all see you do anyway, so there's not much point in being dodgy. You aren't exactly good at hiding it. Just yes or no, please.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus looks to Shankfang curiously. &gt;.&gt;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vy ask if hyu already know de ansver?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus begins to hypothesize Mazio as a culture doesn't have tact. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;He didn't give me particularly convincing reasons to trust him, yet. I didn't trust any of you on the first day we met, except for yourself.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang looks back at Thomas. &quot;Yah?&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Nothing. Pardon me.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Don't make me Sense Motive you, Thomas.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Bluff &#171; &#160;1d20 = 14&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Sense Motive! &#171; &#160;1d20 = 4&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 5 + 3 = 8&#160; <font color="#660000">&#187; Sense motive check!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt snaps his fingers near Miron's face. &quot;Hey. Hey. Yes or no, please. But moving on. Now, you serve St. Cuthbert, your prayers go to him. But, as a diety, do you trust that Pelor is a benevolent god who doesn't intend to harm anyone?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes or no.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay!&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">ololol I am elite agent

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron points at Thomas. &quot;My attitude to the church of Pelor is the same as to this man.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Wow.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">He can't grasp the concept of yes or no.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">:V

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy tink we know vere hyu are gun vith dis, Gnogglebolt, so vy don' hyu chust kut schtraight to de point?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">I didn't choose the questions, you don't get to choose my answers.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Still more than a yes or no. But at least not a response with a question. Okay, now. A question on magic, I'm not entirely sure. Some people, like Thomas, can call upon magic by drawing upon the power of a deity, who are all-powerfu. Am I correct in thinking that the only people who can call upon a dietie's magic are those who are -allowed- by that deity?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">(that's OOC of course. Just mentioning.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;No.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No? Really?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus nods with Miron.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or rather, not always.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can you tell the difference?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's actually true. A complex matter.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have you heard of ur-priests, for example?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, I have not. As said, I don't know much about magic.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">(and before anyone gets on me, Miron has been an inquisitor longer than half the party has been alive. He knows.)

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And this...is very much a rather troubling thing I've never heard of. But anyway. Can you tell the difference?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">(and I was hoping that ur-priests didn't exist here. &gt;.&gt; )

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... if I may... I don't blame him for harboring suspicion and distrust.&quot; He looks to Miron sadly. &quot;... judging from some things you've said, and your apparent age... Inquisitor Steelsprocket, I apologize. I know this is likely a painful subject... but I'm guessing that you either knew someone who lived in Kemmer, or were there yourself.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*eyebrows furrow*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As a matter of fact, both.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Regardless of whether their class and their source material is in play, as a concept, stealing power from the divines exists in many other prestige classes/monsters/ideas.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shuffles.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">His feet, that is.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Sszeyl blows on his nails a bit.


 * Pellan'zyne bows his head. &quot;...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;However, the life of myself, the maester I worked for, nor my family are the topic here, I believe.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Brb, sacred canine duty

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron looks at Pellan'zyne with not exactly a friendly gaze. &quot;Now as for what I was saying - I haven't witnessed one at work myself, but our books do speak of them. They can take spells from other priests and divine servants, somehow abusing their link to the deity &quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well. I don't know much about how this magic works...can you or can you not tell if the divine power is flowing freely?&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;No... and I know that you may not wish to do this, or have any desire to speak with him... but I would extend the invitation to meet Altonor to you, as well. ... We will never be able to fully atone for what we did in those times, but I believe he has something that he has been hoping to return to a citizen of Kemmer as a step toward that end.&quot; He listens to Miron's statements quietly, looking down.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Er, that was supposed to respond to Miron: &quot;However, the life of myself, the maester I worked for, nor my family are the topic here, I believe.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt nods to Pellan'Zyne.

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

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Why must you be so slow. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">*I know*

TMG:<font color="#000000">OOC, I'm assuming at least Miron can spellcraft stuff to tell the source of magic.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I'd say so, but i can't quite remember how well tellable it is

TMG:<font color="#000000">Guess we'll see, then. Miron's answer, 'maybe?'

TMG:<font color="#000000">back IC.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's more likely than not...though I have little experience in those matters.&quot;

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

</i>Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though, to answer your question, it gets more complex than that. I for example haven't been ordained as a priest of Saint Cuthbert, yet I can invoke his power with prayers... More than that.. I have been able to use a few spells that are far more often seen on druids than priests.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt 'Hmmphs', then speaks up again. &quot;Well, we'll hope you can. Next then. If you agree that Pelor is a benevolent god, would you then agree that he would never willingly grant power to a person with ill will or malice in their heart?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Miron, it's precisely what I was alluding too earlier. With the elven gods.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus frowns slightly. &quot;...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes or no, again. Assuming it is willingly granted, and not this theft of power you mentioned.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is a loaded question. My answer is that I agree, but the means of getting power from a god are so unclear it means little.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....Well, then.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns to Pellan'Zyne and clasps his hands. &quot;I'm sure you saw this coming.&quot; he dpreads his hands diplomatically. &quot;Pellan'Zyne, would you consent to invoking the power of the Shining One and casting a spell here, any spell, for Miron to scrutinize? I know he's been able to identify magic before, so I figure he could do the same here.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*spreads his hands

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... If I may, Mr. Sparkgear, there is a less easily-forged way to prove a divine link. Though... admittedly, I'm not certain how visible it would be in this situation, so a spell would likely suffice unless you had the means to detect the flow of positive energy.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't have the means of detecting these energies, but I've seen Miron do it before. That's what I'm counting on.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;... very well, I suppose we can try both. Let me know when you're ready, inquisitor.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm hoping he can discern the true source of your power.&quot; Gnogglebolt bows and steps back.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Most of what I have readied today is meant to heal wounds and disease... but there should be something.&quot; He falls into thought.

Miron:<font color="#000000">After a few seconds.. &quot;Ready as ever... Thomas, watch him as well.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">The other inquisitor, much more lax and leaning on the wall, nods.


 * Pellan'zyne begins to speak a prayer, and a feeling of comfortable warmth settles on all present -- +1 on attack rolls and saves versus fear for 11 minutes, not that you'll need it, likely. &quot;.. That was the spell... now...&quot;


 * Pellan'zyne shuffles. &quot;... it's harder when you don't have an undead in front of you to focus your energy against, one moment.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt feels a now-familiar itching..but he can't tell any more than that. Magic is magic to him.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+15 = 1 + 15 = 16&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Spellcraft on the spell

Miron:<font color="#000000">Uh-oh.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Lolnope.

TMG:<font color="#000000">NOT AN AUTO FAIL&gt;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Oh for the love of-

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron appears unconvinced.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+14 = 4 + 14 = 18&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; spellcraft! -5 if its necromancy or illusion, +2 if it's evocation!

TMG:<font color="#000000">SKill check! Skill check! Not attack or save!

VAE:<font color="#000000">ah, but those fail on 1 as well

VAE:<font color="#000000">At least ,so was it the practice up to now

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Tathi and Miron, that was Bless.

TMG:<font color="#000000">No, no they don't!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Liatai decides, i guess

TMG:<font color="#000000">Weh have NOT beenc ounting nat 1s on skill checks as auto fails. I've been insistant on this point for months.

TMG:<font color="#000000">*We

VAE:<font color="#000000">we were

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

</i>Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">... where does the +2 on turning checks come in from having ranks in Knowledge (religion) again? On the 2d6, the 1d20, or both? :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">No, we werent'.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I remember it, and in fact I do the same in my game.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Welcome back, meany


 * Liatai clears her throat. ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">As I understand it, both.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">danmna; YOUR game yes, but not here.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I distinctly remember such cases here

TMG:<font color="#000000">I -have- brought this up before. This isn't the first time

RAM:<font color="#990000">LIA DECIDES! NOW HUSH!

TMG:<font color="#000000">...yes, sorry.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Such as when Miron failed on a skill check and though the druid is a traitor

RAM:<font color="#990000">HISH VAE!

RAM:<font color="#990000">*HUSH*

GM:<font color="#000000">Unless it could be used for comedic effect, we will henceforth, as we have for the past month or so, assume that a natural 1 on a skill check is not an autofail.

VAE:<font color="#000000">*failed with a 1

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Tech, you thumb your rulebook bible as much as you want. We've been playing as natural 1s are always failures for months now. I'm sorry to admit I started the trend, because I figured, why not? Why do we even -roll- for skills in the first place?

RAM:<font color="#990000">And there you go.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Lia's executive decision.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Thank you, Lia.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Now, it remains to be seen if a 16 was high enough -anyway-...

VAE:<font color="#000000">it was, it appears.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It was. The DC was 16.

RAM:<font color="#990000">BACK TO THE GAME!

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">Turning check! &#171; &#160;1d20+3+2 = 15 + 3 + 2 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;2d6+2+8+3 = 7 + 2 + 8 + 3 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shields his eyes as bright golden light sweeps through the room!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+15 = 14 + 15 = 29&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Spellcraft and &#171;  &#160;1d20+17 = 5 + 17 = 22&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Religion knowledge

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He's seen that trick before.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oooh, schineeeyyy...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Sszeyl violently twitches, but calms down. =3=;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">That wave of positive energy could have turned an 11-HD undead. Yeah, even the non-magically-gifted probably felt that, even if you didn't see the flash.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">What are you turning, again?

Miron:<font color="#000000">For the second, wondering whether someone not within the deity's power could fake a turning, something far more fundamental than a spell.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Bleh. My tea tastes like positive energy now.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No. The only ones who can turn undead like that are clerics and paladins, as far as I know.

VAE:<font color="#000000">VAE same, he just was checking for nasty surprises

Meany:<font color="#660000">And certain PrCs where Turning is a prereq.

Meany:<font color="#660000">:B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yes. :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">but, they don't get it from thin air

RAM:<font color="#990000">Was just gonna say that.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yep, they get it from their deity. So, no one could pull that off without divine backing. The most &quot;evil&quot; you could get and still pull off a turning is neutral with a neutral deity. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Turning. That's a different matter alltogether Very well, he got means of drawing positive energy from *somewhere*&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt lets his hand down from under his face.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I hope you could tell where that came from, Miron.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh, yes. someone could. Someone of Trofim's kind

VAE:<font color="#000000">Worshipping a principle, and being neutral

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You get what I mean. :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you won't trust the man, at least trust the god. Could you tell -where- that came from?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If nothing else, it proves he isn't explicitly evil.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*nods*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Not as much as I was hoping for, but good enough, I suppose.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... and what does my music player throw on as soon as Miron nods.

Tokens dropped onto map 'Thalinde'VAE:<font color="#000000">?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&quot;Be Prepared.&quot; Lion King. Villain song. XD

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">What are you doing here.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">*stab*

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">*kick*

VAE:<font color="#000000">WHat about the Tom Lehrer's song?


 * Thomas Lazarus smirks faintly. &quot;I'm surprised you think you can ever fully eliminate brother Miron's sense of precaution. If we're quite done agonizing over that matter.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;... don't solicit for your sister it's not nice.. unless you ask for a percentage of her price..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt goes to take a seat again. &quot;My sincere apologies for imposing on you so much, mister Pellan'Zyne. I just tried to think of a way to get Miron to at least be somewhat more tolerant of you.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Lolnope.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">You just made him hate him more.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">=3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Good attempt, though.

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's fine. We don't tend to get many undead around Thalinde, anyway. Margaret alone is enough to scare most of them off.&quot; ^^

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;The necromancers, I mean,&quot; he quickly adds.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;She scares off most citizens too, as I have seen.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And heard.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt snickers.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">A wild hag appears!

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot; Sun's light she would kill me if she heard that. &quot; ^^;;;;;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyway....I believe that's about it for all of us. However, mister Pellan'Zyne...again, I must apologies for any further imposing, but there was one last thing I wanted to discuss with you.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns to the others

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please, ask.&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- And that reminds me, do you have a place to spend the night?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And it's just politics and things, and I know how things like that bore you all to tears, so if you're all ready to leave, go ahead. I'll catch up with you.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus glances to Tathi.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What matter of politics?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt glances at Sszeyl. &quot;And, er...sorry Sszeyl, you'll have to keep outside of the town most likely, in the forest or along the riverbanks if you want to get back to the ship.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I suppose if we are staying the night to meet.. that fellow who knows your father, and the keeper of one of the vale's trees.. then we can probably convince the captain to stay in port a day.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ve hef de Kygnet...&quot;

Pellan'zyne:<font color="#000000">That sentence was nigh impenetrable with that accent. ^^;;;

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


 * VAE actually can understand it fine

TMG:<font color="#000000">Jagers can pronounce an 's' sound. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Shankfang's. :B Pell is not used to Mazian accents. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Gnogglebolt, please. As long as that woman isn't around to raise a rabble and we're with him, we can atleast walk back to the ship. We are ordained officers of the law.&quot;


 * VAE is just wondering about it.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Anyone interfering with us could be justly arrested. I trust it would never come to that. Only a zealot would try.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Precisely.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">kay, I thought the town was smooshed up against the docks. Apparently there's a little distance....?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I do have a thick accent...

VAE:<font color="#000000">because VAE finds his accent kinda easy to understand

Liatai:<font color="#000000">There is a little distance from the Marathal residence to the docks. The docks are on the north side of town, the Marathal clinic is on the southern side.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu know, herr Maraddel, de schip ve kame on?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">...ah. But it's not possible to get -to- the docks without going -through- at least part of the town, unless someone keeps to the riverbanks?


 * Pellan'zyne just nods politely. ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Ordained officers of the law.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Really.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Cuz that's what I was thinking.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Fuck you too.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...Sszeyl's actually right, here. &gt;.&gt;

TMG:<font color="#000000">or at least, OOC sszey

TMG:<font color="#000000">Anyway, Continuing on IC!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right then. So, if you're all ready to go...I'll get Swallowtail and Terri.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">And up in the north, you wouldn't fart in our general direction.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Because I'd have set you on fire.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I would.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Inquisitors of the Leaden Mace. Yeah. That's kind of accurate, yes. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Hee.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt gets up and wanders away

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">OOOOOOOO! SHORT PERSON! *Dog missile, 12'oclock and fast!*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miss Terri? Swallowtail? The others are leaving soon, if not now--ackpth!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It's the mideval era. That's a much more official capacity as an officer of justice than almost any other recognized figure in existance, barring town guards, judges, and paladins.

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">POW! *Mission control, we have pounce. I repeat we have pounce!*

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">The drow fiddles with the band tying his hair back, and his appearance quickly shifts back toward the high elven direction.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Tackledgnome.&quot;Yes, hello to you too. Honestly, I thought you hated everyone but elves!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Just because you want to disrepect it doesn't make it false. ;B


 * Terri has lollipops! :O

Tavia:<font color="#7F00FF">Hi! Licklick! Don't be silly. You're just a child.

Twist:<font color="#000000">Purrrrrrrrrr :D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt reaches into his pack and picks out that clod ball of leather and gives it a quick toos.


 * Twist rubs up against Tavia and Gnogglebolt.

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

Twist:<font color="#000000">-- BALL

Miron:<font color="#000000">Indeed. I mean - the mace can already do things like break into houses and crypts, well, as long as an arrest follows, or the suspect wasn't too important

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Not as planned.&quot; Gnogglebolt mutters as the cat runs off instead of the dog.

Twist:<font color="#000000">Bat bat bat bat. Ball, ball! :D

VAE:<font color="#000000">the cat looks quite pretty OOC

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He settles for dragging his way towards the main room again. Tavia notes that, for some reason, when it comes to lifting, pulling, or dragging things, Gnogglebolt is -much- strong than he looks..and knows how to use leverage

VAE:<font color="#000000">Much strong?

VAE:<font color="#000000">He an ork?

TMG:<font color="#000000">*stronger

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">it just soudned funny

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Hey! I take offense to that remark!

VAE:<font color="#000000">I said ork, not orc

VAE:<font color="#000000">Orks are awesomer

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt also stops by the cat and play-wrestles with it for the ball. &quot;Come on, give that back now...&quot;


 * Terri enters, carrying a handful of freshly-made lollipops. :D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And he distracts with pettings and scritchies.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'm basically an Ork. I drive a bike, and use dakka.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:O

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Kandy...&quot;

Twist:<font color="#000000">Prrrrrrrrr! |3 The cat paws at Gnogglebolt playfully, but does relinquish the ball.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Oh please, you're J&#228;ger. You're much more like a greenskin Gobbo than an Ork. |3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt gives her several rubs from head to tail, and walks off.


 * Sornala Marathal pats Terri's head. &quot;Now remember, those are to share. Don't eat them all at once.&quot;

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I won't!&quot; x3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Jagers don't ride bikes

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">sorry, had to go afk. XP

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:O

VAE:<font color="#000000">happens to the best of us

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'm not Half-Orc/Half-Human!

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, aqwsome token for Terri

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'm Half-Ork/Half-Jaeger!

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ms. Marathal's a really good confectioner!&quot; :D


 * VAE got reminded of some of the RP profiles they were reading in that podcast

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Jaegers are high level fighters.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">With a Jaegermonster template.

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;He looks european, almost french but not quite..&quot; MST3K: So he's from Belgium

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">the Predator Moron one

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Which in turn reminded me of the Supper Killer. :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;A konfectioner? Kan she make Red Velvet Kupcakes?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">or the woman that had traits that supposedly allowed to deduce her mother was raped by a noble

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If there's nothing else of relevance to note from your letter, sir, I believe we've imposed on you long enough. Thank you for all the indulgence. And the advice.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And the None-Foot Gaint. :B

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed so.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miron moves, taking a place besides Thomas.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und tenks for de tea!&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nothing unless you'd happen to be in town during the week after the fifteenth. Just stay away from any drow named Vicigloth of Rilynasek and all should be well.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Very well.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Thank you.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang polishes off the last of his tea before placing the cup on the table and joining the rest.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt makes to move outside with everyone else, giving a quiet 'be right back&quot; to Pellan'Zyne /Arivan Marathal

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Sszeyl, why are you standing on the table?

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Any time. Feel free to stop by any time you're in the area.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's go then, brother.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt waits for everyone to file outside...

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mm.&quot; He looks back to Terri, briefly, making sure she's in the hands of the others. Seeing Swallowtail and Ed, he steps out.

GM:<font color="#000000">Oh yeah.

GM:<font color="#000000">Everyone please roll a Fort save.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 11 + 1 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 16 + 4 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">POISON TEA

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 12 + 9 = 21&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:O

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+fortitude = 17 + 4 = 21&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 10 + 8 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; I didn't drink any tea!?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">??? o.O Fortitude? D: &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 12 + 3 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;


 * You roll to yourself: 1d20+9 =&gt; 14 + 9 = 23Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+fortitude = 18 + 4 = 22&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 18 + 3 = 21&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Fort save!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The power of suggestion strikes again!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 15 + 5 = 20&#160; <font color="#660000">&#187; Fort save!

GM:<font color="#000000">Heh... the DM was a derp.

Elros:<font color="#009999">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 9 + 5 = 14&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187; fort

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

GM:<font color="#000000">She just remembered you were in the middle of a crowd of people during a disease outbreak last session.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">oh gods

Elros:<font color="#009999">...

Elros:<font color="#009999">:B

GM:<font color="#000000">Fortunately, it seems you've all avoided catching whooping cough. For now.

TMG:<font color="#000000">....Oh. You know, I was WONDERING why we didn't see any visible signs of that...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Thankfully, Fighters get the full fort save progression.

Tokens dropped onto map 'Thalinde'lolliatai:<font color="#7F00FF">Silly DM.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Bad ghost. xD

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

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

GM:<font color="#000000">asbksbdaksdba

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

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">:O

RAM:<font color="#990000">Is Cocoa saying hi?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Luckily you travel with a Pelorite acolyte, so a disease outbreak would hopefully be short-lived. =w=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Cocoa is asleep in my paint basket again. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">No, I think that's Lia flailing at Ghost. x3

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Oh.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Anyway, back IC...

VAE:<font color="#000000">Sabina used to sleep on my textbooks quite a few times

GM:<font color="#000000">Anyway, going to step outside, Sszeyl, Elros?

VAE:<font color="#000000">(was the first cat. Current ones are Vanya and Fiona)

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">now that everyone's outside...Gnogglebolt stays standing while he waits for everyone to start walking away...


 * Thomas Lazarus looks to Gnogglebolt.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Were you going to be long?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shouldn't take long. I'll rejoin you all at the ship soon.&quot;


 * Terri goes around to everyone. &quot;Here! These are for you!&quot; A grape lollipop is presented to everyone.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And what for, more importantly?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No more than an hour, at most.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:D

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">=w=

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Thank you.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh, why thank you!&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And still waiting...

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Did you help make these?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tenk hyu, Terri!&quot; Lick lick suck.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you...&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-hmm!&quot; :D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Readied action: the condition is the party starts walking away.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Hehe! Sweets!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron pockets the lollipop.Perhaps he'll eat it later, or give to someone..


 * Thomas Lazarus noms. :d

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;You don't get sugar rushes, do you?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I put the sticks in while Ms. Marathal poured the molds!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Shush.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Iz goot!&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... is it molds or moulds?


 * Liatai has a language derp moment. ^^;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Molds.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I want to say molds.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I believe.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Molds, i think

TMG:<font color="#000000">depends on if you're aAMerican or British

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Moulds looks foreign.

VAE:<font color="#000000">mould is fungus

Liatai:<font color="#000000">'Kay, cool. x3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Brits always do that ou thing

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">both work

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;So, Tomas, hyu are gunna be able to help me Send to Talfeera tomorrow, yah?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas concedes to leave the Gnome to whatever counteractive plot he suspects is going on, and walks with the others back to the ship.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Which makes me wonder, which one is the fungus

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Still waiting for the party to start walking away...


 * Thomas Lazarus speaks in a half-muffled tone that bobbles his pop up and down as he speaks.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's go, brother.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And, suppose there we go.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Actually I had just remembered that a few minutes ago.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">As the party begins to move... &quot;Miron? Thomas? A parting word?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I was going to offer to do it for you soon.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus pauses and nods.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">With everyone else walking, they should continue walking, leaving the three alone

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tenk hyu, Tomas!&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus waves.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Walk walk walk.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Right.. I suppose miron and thomas and maybe swallowtail will split off the rest at some point

VAE:<font color="#000000">Work to do and stuff to discuss, da?


 * Liatai revels in the rectangle-ness of the party. =3= *brick'd*

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

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

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

Tokens dropped onto map 'Thalinde'<i><font color="#0000ff">Meany is disconnected.

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

</i>Marius Venatore:<font color="#FF0000">WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST SYMMETRY?!?! *bricked*

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">supersymmetry?


 * Thomas Lazarus draws out the loli with a distinctive 'pop' and smile.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That reminds me, I need to add Soul Eater to the list of things I must watch more than one episode of someday.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and Le Chevalier d'Eon

VAE:<font color="#000000">it's brilliant

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt drops his voice to a whisper as Miron and Thomas turn around and stay with him. &quot;Just wanted to say...remember your promise to that man. Please don't tell the Mace people what you've learned here, I don't care what else you have to tell them. I cannot see it ending well if they stick their noses in this.&quot; Gnogglebolt then looks away from Miron, and straight up at Thomas with conviction in his eyes. &quot;I know they are your direct superiors, and you already did this once with Sszeyl, but....I have to say it. That man is trusting you, Thomas. More to the point, I am trusting you. I hope you know what that means.&quot; Gnogglebolt looks up with him with a solemn, sombre look. Nothing accusing, just...utterly serious.


 * Thomas Lazarus looks down at Gnogglebolt and significantly sobers. Although he's still wearing a smile, he looks sort of ... grim.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He then jabs a thumb towards Miron. &quot;And keep an eye on him.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miron doesn't react.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">And he apparently says it out.

Miron: <font color="#0">(( Because his player is an idiot who can't perceive interpunction ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Miron is now speaking in the third person. :B *brick'd*

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Gnogglebolt. I understand. Believe me. I do. It's been on my thoughts the entire time.&quot; He speaks calmly, evenly. Calculated.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good evening to you too, Mr. Steelsprocket.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But I need you to understand something, too. This is going into an issue.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">er, SPARKGEAR


 * Miron just headdesks hard.


 * VAE headdesks hard


 * Liatai pats and gives tea. ^^;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You need to begin to trust the Mace. You are beginning to want to believe brother Miron is wrong. I saw it earlier.&quot; He frowns faintly.

VAE:<font color="#000000">what you witness is an error in the matrix

VAE:<font color="#000000">We'll send reality spiders to deal with the issue

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We are an organization looking out for the public good. You need to trust that, because this man is innocent, he will not be harassed by us.&quot; He sounds a little sad.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not just the man himself.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We are not bogeymen you need to protect people from.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But the...others. In the jungle?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The hidden ones?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;He was right, this is easily a matter of life and death if the wrong people or person hears about it.&quot;

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

</i>GM:<font color="#000000">The rest of the party can go back to the Cygnet if they like, or even start mid-session noms.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;An entire Drow city doesn't have anything to concern itself with from the mace. We're not an army. We hunt apostate magi, undead, and demons. Murderers and heretics.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There's nothing going on here but a war refugee living his life, and doing good.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... You don't need to worry about 'us' so much, friend.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....I'll trust that, then.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right then. That's it.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus simply nods.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll see you back at the ship.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anything else, Inquisitor Sparkgear?&quot; *grins*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt knocks on the door and slowly slips back in.


 * Thomas Lazarus looks down at Miron as Gnogglebolt departs. His expression blank. &quot;...&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus sighs lightly.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron looks at Thomas. &quot;So.. brother... &quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">OOC, was hoping I could guilt Thomas into pulling the plug on the scrying plan. :U

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">The Marathals had been talking to each other when you entered. They look over at Gnogglebolt.

VAE:<font color="#000000">And IC, he isn't an idiot, especially not with Miron around

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You doubt the depths of his devotion and faith in his peers.

VAE:<font color="#000000">As that old poem about a dog goes, &quot;My conscience is the will of my master&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus folds his arms into his robe sleeves and turns. He walks towards the others with Miron.

VAE:<font color="#000000">And i don't mean master in a formal sense, that he long isn't. But, he does seem to have more experience.

Elros:<font color="#009999">Hey look, more grass. :U

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; I feel as though we are growing into the 'bad guys' within our own company, brother.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt ods to the marathals. &quot;So sorry about all that, by the way. Anyway, I was hoping to speak with you a little more at length Pellan'Zyne, or Arivan Marathal concering that refugee city.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That... is expected, brother.&quot;


 * Swallowtail is hanging back a bit from the group, waiting for the inquisitors.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Not you, Tom.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Just him.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm beginning to see why.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Evil isn't always screaming and hurling hellish curses, and good isn't always followed by fanfare.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm not certain how much I can tell you, but I'll try.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">goddamnit I glanced over and throught &quot;The fuck is arengle doing here- oh right&quot;

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

Liatai:<i><font color="#000000">Success.

</i><font color="#000000"> *brick'd*

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Before we deal with that... it seems Gnogglebolt has gone a lot more suspicious, especially on you, brother.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">This is why I chuckled when you chose that token for Arengle. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">lolololol

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt takes another seat. &quot;Well, surely as protecting it is the primary goal of your entire group, I'd hope you d at least keep tabs on major developments, at least. But that's neither here nor there, actually.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Well...&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm afraid I may not have been entirely clear if that's the perception you had, and for that I apologize. But please, continue.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">as an aside, I nominate Hatari for Thomas's response to Gnogglebolt.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm incined to agree.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Any idea what might have caused that to happen?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He thinks very highly of me, I think. It's humbling. Sometimes, though.. especially lately..&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... well. That went a lot differently from how I pictured it.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Mmm.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I think I would dissapoint him if he knew everything I felt and thought.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, you are a priest and an inquisitor. It'd be odd for anyone not to consider you in good light.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt did actually point out the two specific incidents where he started getting more suspicious of Thomas. :u But anyway...

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I just wanted to ask. What do you want for them?&quot; Gnogglebolt says, asking the loaded question unabashedly.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I didn't catch it.. and neither did Miron, we'll say

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;So.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you could achieve anything, what would be your end goal concerning the refugees?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Who wants to do some late night shopping? :V&quot;


 * Arivan Marathal reaches over and strokes Twist, thinking of how to word things.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He's an idealistic person. I'm honestly kind of jealous. ... I used to see things a little more like that.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But we just don't live in an idealistic world.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know. But, such ways lead nowhere.&quot;

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I've already done my shopping.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And this case shows why.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">ohhh man, if Gnogglebolt could be there. ^^;


 * Thomas Lazarus sighs, as though exhausted from the thoughts. &quot;...&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Man, I hope this can come to light someday. Someday.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy do not hef enough to buy vat Hy em lookink for.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I believe you and Swallowtail have succeeded. If there's something else I can do, don't hesitate to let me know. ... But ...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Neither Gnogglebolt, nor Pellan\zyne, seem to be evil themselves... however, they may be unwittingly aiding evil&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have seen that as well... now we should find Inquisitor Geas&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I should correct your perception, first. The city near the jungle... is still vastly Lolthian, by majority. I was hesitant to go into it in detail with Sszeyl there. There are many things related to that city which would lead him to condemn us and many of his truest allies if he based his decisions on Orgolloyss conditioning alone. There are barely enough Raiders living to even populate a hamlet if they were all together.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If it's alright, brother, I'd just as soon take the rest of the evening 'off' and meditate on some things. Perhaps speak with Terri or Shankfang on lighter matters.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus looks to him. &quot;I'm unfamiliar. Who is that?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt frowns. &quot;Hmm. That was actually going to be my next question...&quot;

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

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:D I'm making friends!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">And you would be correct, Illusionist.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just before that... as for our plans.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... but... I have to believe that if we found some manner of redemption -- a trained assassin, a cowardly deserter, a bloodthirsty warrior, and a mage whose specializes in the magic of the battlefield -- then redemption is possible for anyone.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Hey! All the anchors of the party are gone! Let's go light that old lady on fire!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You know what

Thomas Lazarus:<i><font color="#FF0000">Do it

</i><font color="#FF0000"> I don't care

VAE:<font color="#000000">wot?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=3=

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Can I shoot her?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt rubs his chin again. &quot;Hmm...Well then concerning the city, a first phase will be all the more important...&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;To answer your question, if any one thing could be done with the Lolthian refugees, in a perfect world, it would be showing them all that there is another way. Bringing them toward the light, so to speak. That it's not wrong to live a peaceful life. But that will never happen.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, the majority of the city is still, beholden to Lolth. That...makes things more difficult, but only that.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;So we focus on those that will be most receptive and are the least likely to be Lolthian spies. A word to the high priestesses, and we would all be swept away as surely as a group of Elemental Eye cultists.&quot; ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;it might be best that we play along with this for a while, and I will report the matters to the Mace as such, all I wanted to tell. &quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you think that, since they are no longer underground, since the majorty of the clergy and powerbase is gone and weakened...that Lolth's own grip likely isn't as strong as it used to be?&quot;

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

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I only wish that were the case.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So the power structure -is- still active.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;As you wish, brother.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We can't pull out the hook before the fish is on the shore.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, and growing stronger every year.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt frowns and looks down. &quot;Worse than I thought, then.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus frowns.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There is something I wanted to say, however.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Speak away.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt then looks confused. &quot;

<font color="#000000">How have they kept hidden for so long?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... I can see you've been making a big point of hunting down that Drow in the mithral plate. And he is highly wanted by the Braxton Falls branch, I know.&quot; He looks aside.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt then looks confused. &quot;How have they kept hidden for so long?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed, brother.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">I has kitten.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... But Tathi wants to speak with him about her father. And from what we've heard, he's simply a vigilante flaunting about laws while doing good deeds, of a sort.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, you mean that?&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Everyone's eyes have been on the Girn Mountains and other such regions in search of drow. Few think to look beneath the forests. They also have alliances, so to speak, with several tribes of yuan-ti in the area that help them to hide.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well.. I won't take steps to arrest him now.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I will try to convince the Inquisitor local to do the same.. which he probably will, given what's going on.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Thank you. That's all I wanted. You know how volatile she is. It would cause a garaunteed fissure in the party if anything happened. ... I feel like we're pulling away from them already.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If i'm to be honest with you... the drow city is the most troubling thing to me.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So...they are hostile to you?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you have heard the way he spoke about it.. it suggests nowhere near all of them have renounced Lolth's cult.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As such... they are an incredible risk to the public good.. like a blister that waits to spew pus.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus shrugs slightly. &quot;I am not an expert on those matters. And I am biased. Most of the Drow I've met are now my friends. I will leave what to do with that information up to you and our superiors.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Yes. Lolth's clergy, and Orgolloyss' Order, both want us dead for different reasons.&quot; He toys with his holy symbol. &quot;... It's a grim situation. But if none of us try to show the young ones a new way, and they simply feed into the cycle of hatred and violence... who will?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I feel like Thomas and Miron should have obnoxious authority shades.

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now, I believe I and Swallowtail have a place to go to. You can follow, but don't have to.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">While passing through town.


 * Thomas Lazarus nods.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Any stores open?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt clasps his hands. &quot;And you are absolutely correct. You just...need some help. And that also unfortunately kills any hope of this being a small operation...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;See you at the ship, probably.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He looks up.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And thank you for your cooperation, brother.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Of course. We're brothers for a reason.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You seem to have an upper hand in.. the manners of diplomacy.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy hope ve do not run into dat old voman again...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are you at least of the mind that the common citizens of this city, if deprived of all Lolthian overhead and left to their own devices, would come to accept other ways, as you and your fellows have?&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">There are some stores open, yes.


 * Thomas Lazarus huffs amusedly.

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's difficult to say.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&gt;:U

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'm 500 GP short of those bracers/gloves I want, so...meh.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">To the shopping.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Everyone just has a chip on their shoulder against you, is all.&quot; He smirks.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Heh. .. to be honest, I'm not used to anyone questioning my motives, except for Cadamon.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">I can lend you some gold.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang will just follow and make sure no one gives Sszeyl any grief.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:O

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And now, we must part.&quot;

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

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I just remembered.&quot; He pats his belt.


 * Thomas Lazarus counts out 110 platinum coins.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Here. Your loan, repaid. Thank you for that.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*laughs*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">You would do that?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Yes.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you, brother.. Any time you need.. just ask me.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:D

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Some would, yes. But others would likely rise to try and rebuild the Lolthian structure, if for one simple reason. To keep Lolth from growing wroth and destroying them -- us, perhaps, as well -- in her spite.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Don't ever let it be said a Lazarus didn't pay his debts.&quot; He departs with a wave.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Bracers of Dexterity +2 would be...4000 gold, correct?

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or an Inquisitor, for that matter!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*laughs*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Much bigger operation than I anticipated, indeed.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Now, where is Swallowtail? DId she follow with the rest?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Going to take years...but to start, no time like the present.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas returns to the Cygnet, for the time being. His player goes afk for a few minutes.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Bracers get!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tenk hyu, Sszeyl! Hy owe hyu 498.6 gold now!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Alright.&quot;


 * Swallowtail approaches the inquisitors. &quot;Mission accomplished.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have witnessed, and I appreciate.&quot;


 * Swallowtail hands over a brush, a lollipop stick, and a long white hair.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Pellan'Zyen, I've had a little experience with a matter like this, and in my experience, the ones in power grind those lower under their heel, and if given the chace, if the ones up top are removed, most down below weill accept the chance for something better if it's given to them.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I will admit, my experience is on a much smaller scale.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You know, you'd make a very fine inquisitor. An undercover worker like Robin&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But the principal is the same.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*pockets the items*

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I doubt any mortal has had experience with upsetting a many-millenia-old entrenched power base.&quot; ^^;


 * Swallowtail smiles.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;So, how do dey look?&quot; Shankfang asks, showing off his new super-awesome bracers.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sense Motive, Miron.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you. If any time you shall find yourself in time of need, I shall return the favour&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*bows sligthly*


 * Swallowtail bows.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;In this case, it's only one city. If it were the whole of drow society, as it were before the war, even I would have admitted such ambitions were impossible.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But it is just...one city. Right?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 11 + 7 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Sense Motive

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... one city that is the new capital of an entrenched drow nation.&quot; ^^;;;;;


 * You roll to yourself: 1d20+8 =&gt; 3 + 8 = 11Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">That little smile very clearly, to you, said I know.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">So, following Sszeyl, making sure the group isn't bothered by any locals. A big Half-Orc on a motorcycle can be intimidating, yeah?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh.. Miron hears none of that.. but yet, it's more and more in line with what he thought

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Still manageable. if...well, if not handled properly, very messy. Which is why this will probably take years to plan. In fact, I was hoping to start on that plan, but even that's probably going to have to wait.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... now you may understand why we're so small after a century and a quarter of work.&quot; ^^;

Faerie:<font color="#009999">Buh, sleepyfae

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And now, I have to go.&quot; The inquisitor departs, walks through a few random streets to make sure he isn't watched, then goes to the meeting place.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and lynx is nature-called. brb

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The key is to first begin building up. Fortify a position of power, build up a stronger infrastructure. And yes, you are still small...because you have, ultimately, been on your own.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What if I told you...I could change that? Let's talk about you, specificall. What you need is something official, ligitimacy, backing. A voucher from a high place. An ally on the other side.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What if I told you I could try and get you that?&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">And back

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I would say I already have one,&quot; he says with a wan smile, holding up the symbol on his necklace with three fingers, &quot;but continue.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">...You know.

Miron:<font color="#000000">After some time walking, Miron does arrive to the prescribed house, and approaches the doorway.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">I'm going to try my luck.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Listen check, Miron.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:O

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 17 + 5 = 22&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You hear something padding up to the east, beside the house... something big...

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;By Saint Cuthbert's mace..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt waves his heands. &quot;Yes, yes, but you know what I meant, more material than that. Anyway...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 11 + 4 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Hide - sneak near the corner.

Linc:<font color="#000000">Hi! &gt;:3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas pockets his hands in his robe and sighs up at the sky. &quot;...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">. ..

Linc:<font color="#000000">A wolf the size of your average horse starts barking at Miron and pounces! &gt;:O

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aargh!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">...When I read Sszeyl was going to &quot;try his luck&quot; I was expecting something to actually happen...

Miron: <font color="#0">(( Should I roll initiative? ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">GM, any Slippers of the Setting Sun, or Shadow Hands in town?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You can if you want, but it'll be short-lived combat if it is. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">There are if you look. :3

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oo, I like Aldwin's token. :.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Back in Mazio, though they are a declining breed, holy knights still walk the country in the name of the people and stand for all things good. The few I've met alwasy seemed to be eminently understanding, merciful, and humble. Holy knights here in Akellon are even more well-establish, they have the entire organization. The Aureate Palm.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">on one paw, less HD. On other, he's held

Linc:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+13 = 15 + 13 = 28&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Grapple check! GRRRRRRR.


 * Arivan Marathal chuckles.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Aldwin's token is rather smexy.

Meany:<font color="#660000">I'd hit it.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5-4 = 11 + 5 - 4 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I'm sorry, I forgot you haven't met Altonor. I'm well familiar with holy knights.&quot; ^^

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">And in any case, yes.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">I do look.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've brefily met one of two of their number as well, and what I saw looked good. If they're anything the same....As we're heading down to resca, I can try to get to know them better. I'll be stoping in all the Palm outposts, and strike up a rapport with them. And, all the while, seeing how they might react to the 'idea' of you.&quot; He quickly holds up his hand. &quot;Not about you though, I won't reveal your secrets! But...if I think they really can help...&quot;

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">The door opens, and a brown-haired head peeks out. &quot;-- Good boy, Linc! Bring 'im here.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;HELP!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What if I could set up a meeting between you and one of them?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The beginnings of an alliance?&quot;

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe. Once you tell me what you're doing on my property.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron lamely hangs from the wolf's maw.

Linc:<font color="#000000">Wuff. &gt;:3


 * Arivan Marathal considers this. :.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am Inquisitor Steelsprocket, And if you don't order our beast to release me, things could get very bad for you, Mr. ...?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Aureate Palm is about as high as it goes in this country. I hear they serve the king directly.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you could get them on your side, especially publicly...&quot;


 * VAE headdesks

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... The Palm would be a powerful ally. And an extra voice in our favor might help expedite --&quot; He blanches. &quot;-- M-m-maybe not publicly just yet!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Think of where you could go with that.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">I just see how the Aureate Palm are LEAPING behind such an offer

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, maybe not publicly. Not right away.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yeah! Let's help the cult of lolth!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I think it's to help the Drow depose Lloth. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Y..You heard?&quot;


 * Aldwin Geas 's face quickly goes from &quot;get off my property &gt;:| &quot; to &quot;... oh CRAP O_o&quot;

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Inquisitor Aldwin Geas.&quot; o_o;;; &quot;Linc let him go, it's okay.&quot;

Linc:<font color="#000000">Wuff. The wolf drops Miron on the grass.

Miron:<font color="#000000">*crash* Miron stands up, dusts himself off, and looks unamused.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">A dangerous prospect considering she's one of the most directly active deities in terms of manifesting events on the material plane.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But yes. If I can set up a meeting between one of them and you, and you can befriend that one, and you can then start building ties between the Palm and the Sun Raiders...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is this how you treat all of your visitors, brother, or just the official visits?&quot;

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm super sorry about that. Linc guards the house at night -- there've been problems with a group of local hooligans --&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Pellan'Zyne can see, with how excited yet controlled Gnogglebolt is, that building bridges is a specialty of his.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">GM pulled two ways.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Pellan'Zyne has just hired a broker. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Imma wait for her to finish. =3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah... let's see that excuses you, for now.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*shows badge* &quot;Here's proof, and now you might .. wish to send your ... beast .. further away. &quot;

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;Come on in, I got the sending from Braxton -- anything I can get you? Tea, coffee, towel?&quot; ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*retreats slowly from the wolf*

Linc:<font color="#000000">Wuff. =3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps all three.... but once we're done with business here.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You do find some!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Luckily the merchant is less prejudiced than Old Maggie.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Excellent.

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Really, I'm not the person you should be talking to about this.&quot; ^^;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Good, I don't have to pull out my nine and bust a cap in anyones ass.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">I'll buy one here, then the other on the way back.

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have the items here - In this pouch you will find a hair of Arrivan Marathal, and some other minor possessions of theirs, and here *fishes in pocket* are a few pieces of fur from their cat whom I have heard is a familiar of Sormala.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&#171; &#160;1d2 = 1&#160; <font color="#660000">&#187; 1 Is the slippers, 2 is the hands.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who should I be talking to, then? And is that really a no to a meeting with a paladin of the Palm?&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Rhylinar is more of the planner among us. It runs in his family. He'd be the one to run such a plan by. And I didn't say that!&quot; ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Three thousand gold later, one pair of Slippers of the Setting Sun get.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Liar? I do hope you're not referring to me!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Followed by a quarterstaff harvested from a nearby tree. =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt smirks. &quot;I didn't think so.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;With that dealt with, however... I don't suppose you have means of contacting Braxton Falls quickly, so perhaps some paper and a quill would be a good idea. &quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I was just jumping on the fact that you're, well, here. I did see Rhylinar in Castleton a few times, but he left before we did.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now... before anything happens.. may I ask as to what are your orders at the moment?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Where is the rest of the party not currently at some meeting? &gt;:O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas is aboard the Cygnet.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron is conspiring, Thomas is back in cygnet

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, since you are back, Hatari

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I would be honored to meet with a member of the Palm and start building bridges, but let's not jump into grand plans just yet.&quot; ^^; &quot;More than anything else, right now, we need a place for our young members to go. A sanctuary of some kind. The longer they stay within Lolth's grasp, the greater the risk to them and us.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">With you, silly. Providing muscle.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Everyone else is chronically afk. :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">Thomas not requiring a lot of explanation actually impressed the hell out of Miron

VAE:<font color="#000000">It confirmed he's on the same mental wavelength.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm very sure the Palm can help with that...wait.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;How many are we talking, here?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He's given it a lot of thought.

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;Paper and quill are on the desk near the aquarium. Hey, if you don't mind my asking... what are the Marathals suspected of?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tens, hundreds?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because assuring a third person is different, but once they were on their own, Miron practically expected having to justify what they are about to do.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They were suspected of aiding Cal'tel.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;By virtue of a letter that was to be passed to Arrivan Marathal.&quot;


 * Arivan Marathal thinks. &quot;... we lost Lirdavyll earlier in the year, and there's... ... My math may be off, but... I think thirty-four, maybe up to thirty-seven, at last count?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Sszeyl quickly trots, and even while trotting is almost a blur of motion, up behind Swallowtail to catch up. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">God I love being a Monk.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh, way to go, miron. Conventienlty leave out the fact that YOU delivered it :P (by proxy, that is, as you're part of the group)

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now, may I ask again, what are your orders as of present?&quot;

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;Currently? To wait for --&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang follows easily. I love having a motorcycle.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ssss- POP

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And...where are they? Still in the jungle city, or elsewhere?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">That is either irrelevant, or known.

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;... and there she is.&quot;

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

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">*whistles* &quot;Now, this is what I call efficiency.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">A halfling and an owl suddenly appear on the couch, dusting themselves off.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We in Castleton have a lot to learn here.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitors.&quot; She nods curtly.

VAE:<font color="#000000">she's the ocmmander, right?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">She's just a senior analyst. x3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">No, the commander was another fellow.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">She's the -- yup.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Thought so for a moment, then I confused myself

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Senior Analyst Thorngage.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The commander is Blake Coisurn. The lieutenant commander is Raven Nersoir. Gradia is close to third-in-command.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Their commander was the one that rez'd Aelian.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have you the foci?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The items are here.. *points* however, before anything is done.. I have learned a couple of things that might change the situation.&quot;

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

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Report.&quot;

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">If they scry while Gnogglebolt's talking with them...

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

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

Dr. Hatari:<i><font color="#FF0000">The rubber-band is on the other claw now!

</i>Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Firstly, the letter was intended for Arrivan Marathal, because he IS Pellan'zyne. As the hair proves - if you examine it you will find it is drowish.&quot;


 * TMG grabs onto roller-coaster saftey bar. HEEEERE WEEEEEE GOOO!

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot; ... oh goodness. Let me think...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait...oh, the young members of your 'Sun Raiders' group?&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... there are... about half of them on the surface, three in Ezzebek, and the remainder in Chel'issera.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And...what, they're scattered about, same as the full raiders--ahhh.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... that's the full Raiders.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What's Chel'Issera? I've not heard of it...&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;We four are the oldest members.&quot; ^^; &quot;Chel'issera is the jungle city.&quot;

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">(and DM back to mace...)

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;... what?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas lingers on the ship's deck for a while, simply letting the breeze tussle his uniform about while he stares at the clouds. Eventually, he grows restless, and walks back off the docks. He begins to search for Swallowtail and Shankfang and the others.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Hopefully the Deffbike will make the errand easy.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm...I wonder....if bridges can't be built fast enough with the Palm to allow your young members to seek sanctuary with their enclaves...I wonder....Tathi....&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll see.&quot;

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Well, that explains a lot!&quot; =w= &quot;I'd been wondering for years why a high elf would adopt a half-drow.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now. He himself was capable of deploying positive energy as a cleric or Paladin would.. hence he isn't evil. However, let's say that what I anticipated about all of them when speaking to Archivist Thompson is mostly true.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">Translation:

Meany:<font color="#660000">&quot;I was wrong, but let's pretend I was right.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">Welcome to Government. :V

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">Vroom!

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">There's a beat.

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">Then Arivan slaps a hand to his forehead.

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I completely forgot to give her the saetia seeds.&quot; D:

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh! Don't worry, I'll take them to her later.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;One moment, would you please wait here? Can you -- yes, I'll be right back.&quot; Zoom!

TMG:<font color="#000000">(and DM back to MAce...I'm almost looking forward to this. Though Hatari. I gotta warn ya.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now, he, Sornala, Cal'tel and Altonor- the drow in plated armour, are indeed front ends of a far larger conspiracy.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom walks along, following the Deffbike's motor. Search search.

TMG:<font color="#000000">The way Gnogglebolt was wih Shankfang? That was just uncontrolled, baseless, over-acting.

TMG:<font color="#000000">This is gonna cut -deep-.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I don't know what you're talking about OOC =3=


 * Gradia Thorngage is setting up her scrying implements while listening.

Meany:<font color="#660000">Miron's little reveal, methinks.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Before saying more, I have one request - none of them are to be arrested at this time. I believe that myself and Inquisitor Lazarus are on a good path of learning more about what's going on there.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">Best pray the party at large never finds out.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We don't want to tear the hook out before the fish is on the shore, so to say.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">Or Sszeyl will call for a vote of kicking him out.

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;... the Marathals, as part of a conspiracy... if it wasn't for the fact you're a Mace member, too, I wouldn't believe you for a second.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because, if what he said is to be trusted, this is something that may have far-reaching consequences for the safety of all of Akellon.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you don't, I am willing to submit myself to a truth spell or elixir.&quot;

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">VROOM! I'm over here!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas already openly voiced his opinion on the matter. He trusts the Mace with everything they've learned. Despite the (increasingly outlandish) opposition the party has to any/everything Miron thinks and feels, they're not going to just irresponsibly fly off the handle and bust down people's front doors and start shouting arrests without basis. ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt meanwhile reaches over and rubs Twist, while Pellan is walking away.

Meany:<font color="#660000">Could have fooled me.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The reason for the conspiracy is, they are apparently protecting a large population of non-ezzebek drow, and if I have inferred correctly from the way he spoke, most of them are still Lolthians.&quot;


 * Sornala Marathal clicks her tongue disdainfully. &quot;Dad's so forgetful. Sorry. So, you're really an adventurer, and you know Avar's impish friend.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">But for once.

Meany:<font color="#660000">It isn't about the Mace.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Seriously, you guys are taking the joke into actual perception. They haven't been irrational ever. =w=;

Meany:<font color="#660000">It's about Miron not being able to actually -keep a secret- when asked.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Foci, please. Continue, Inquisitor.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Apparently, the foolish man and their companions have been protecting them from being revealed, which they succeeded at, and trying to convert them to the ways of Pelor, which they largely haven't.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">No, Miron won't keep a secret if it protects evil, more than that, Lolthian evil

VAE:<font color="#000000">He was pondering it.. then it went away once the guy let it slip that there are lolthians among them.

VAE:<font color="#000000">remember? When he thought &quot;idiots...&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Confirmation bias~

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's when it became a foregone conclusion this is going up.


 * Liatai slips back IC.

Meany:<font color="#660000">Except there aren't any 'among them.'

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do not know about the location of the place, but we may find. Furthermore, there is another matter.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">The problem I have with it is the though that &quot;Lolthians? GENOCIDE THEM!&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitor, the foci, please.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As I suspected from the way the noble of Helvirahel was murdered by Cal'tel, there's internal strife among them, and the drow tha-&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh, we don't like their Godess. They should die now.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I thought Aldwin had them.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">It's like the Holocaust all over again.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;He is an inquisitor, as well.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ram; hush for a sec. ;P

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Right.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nope. It's more like - they are the same people, in belief, who destroyed Kemmer


 * Gradia Thorngage begins casting the scrying. &quot;Keep going, Inquisitor Steelsprocket.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Correctly, Holocaust. It's as if Miron was from Mossad, and found out the house of Dr. Mengele in Argentina

TMG:<font color="#000000">IC people, IC

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt tries to see if Twist will follow his scritching hand into his lap.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Kittins are soft. |3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either way... these drow, and the ones who currently reside in Ezzebek are at a conflict.&quot;

Twist:<font color="#000000">Of course! The cat practically takes a flying leap when invited. :D


 * Sornala Marathal clears her throat. A-HEM.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It appears the Ezzebek survivors have largely expelled Lolth's cult and follow the Order of Orgolloys. I have heard so from at least two separate sources.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt contentedly strokes the cat's back on his lap--huh? D:

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;So. You're an adventurer and you know Avar's impish friend. Right?&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">but yes, Aldwin did get the things.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Um...can't say I know any Avar....&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">First thing Miron did - he gave them in, said what's there, and asked for a quill and paper

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

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... You don't speak Elven. Right. Should have known. Avar means Father. Dad.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">you know who the Avars were IRL?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No. ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh. I see. Um...impish friend?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Which one? You mean Rhylinar?&quot;

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, him. How did you meet him?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">A horseback tribe that Slavs,especially in central-eastern europe defeated and that had died out

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nasty as fuck - for example they intentionally cut their faces to have intimidating scars.

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Normally he avoids gnomes if he can. Keeps from stirring up bad memories on both sides.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh. Oh! Um. Quite by accident, really. Can't remember the first time I met him, actually...&quot;

Twist:<font color="#000000">Purrrrrrrrrrrr |3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perchance you know a Zairith?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either way.. what I was saiyng, Senior Analyst, is that the matter requires a cautionate approach.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">More stroking the soft fur.

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, I don't.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, I met Sszeyl first. It was actually on the very first...welll..job we did. Clearing out a den of goblin theives. We weren't even an official group then.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Back on top of things. Right. =3=

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Avar said you knew Gelthrael, though. What about him? Does he still have that stick shoved up his rear end?&quot; Said with a joking tone.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now, Sszeyl at the time was living with Zairth.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And Zairth is a relative to Rhylinar, if I recall.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus approaches the group of Sszeyl, Swallowtail and Shankfang.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">brb folks!

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... oh, I see.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You were here? :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gethrael? I don't know any Gelthrael...&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">You were here?

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Surface name.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If they find out prematurely, as opposed to when it is favourable for us, not only would it make finding about the plot difficult, it might cause problems to another task that requires presence of myself and Inquisitor Lazarus in the group.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Zairth is Gelthrael?&quot;

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;A lot of drow and drow-blooded on the surface will take different names for themselves to hide from all the politics. That's my guess.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now -that- makes sense. Yes, Sszeyl was Gethrael's ward...yeah. Now Iget it.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right then. Well.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">Scry scry... &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 18 + 9 = 27&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Good evening.&quot; A rather sullen-sounding Inquisitor approaches the others.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As can be expected, I didn't know Sszeyl too well back then. But I did trust him due to circumstances in the goblin den as we fought togther.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+11 = 10 + 11 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*finally notices Gradia is busy*

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Yo.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">and I suppoe that's the first line the mace scriers get...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Haloo Tomas! Are hyu hokay? Hyu seem down...&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus waves.

VAE:<font color="#000000">you are forgetting something

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">The two places are not necessarily time-sync'd

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'll tell you when the scrying kicks in.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...that is true.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Alright then.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's been a lousy week.&quot; He offers a weak smile.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">Especially since this one fizzled.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Blast.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">She tries again, with a different focus.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Try the cat hair.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Thank you for the candy, by the way, Terri. It was pretty tasty.&quot; =w=

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">back

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Fair enough. Need zumone to talk to?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus looks over to Shankfang. &quot;On the contrary.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The cat is definitely present, and few would suspect such a thing.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyway, Sszeyl -was- quite dodgy and constantly referred to getting commands from elsewhere--I later learned that was indeed Zairith. I can't remember the first time I went to their house...but, I went with Sszeyl to Zairith's house quite a few times.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Rhylinar was ususally there.&quot;


 * Gradia Thorngage mutters. &quot;I know, inquisitor. A momentary lapse, forgetting that drow resist spells.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I was looking for you. To do some talking to me. Still wanted to have that Sending sent?&quot;

Twist:<font color="#000000">Mew? &#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 13 + 1 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;He always struck me as an easy-gooing flighty fellow, actually...I never spoke to him much.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;All I ever saw was he kept eating Lethiriss's snacks.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">Now the scrying kicks in.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Isn't that a little unstrategic?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;but yeah. No... 'stick up him', really.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">In theory, they shouldn't know when it kicks in :4

VAE:<font color="#000000">Enforced method acting

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;He didn't seem that kind of person at all.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right, sorry, here you are.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">I'm a good enough actor here, danman. :P

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I meant Gelthrael with the stick.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">I can do this.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh. OH!.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt laughs.

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Sornala!&quot; ^^;;;;;

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;What? He does!&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well -- yes, he does.&quot; ^^;;;;;;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, then. Zairith was quite uptight most of the time. Heh heh.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">ololol greater teleport

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Rhylinar would cause him no end in greif over that, that much I saw.&quot;


 * Arivan Marathal hands over a pouch of seeds.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt takes the seeds. &quot;Thanks, I'll make sure these go straight to Tathi.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please apologize to Miss Eyllisaearsithek for me. I can't believe I forgot.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll do that as well.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks down and strokes the cat some more.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And...well...I will talk to Rhylinar about all these plans next time I see him, like you told me to.&quot;

Twist:<font color="#000000">Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Or.. is.. now not a good time?&quot; :.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But, it's only fair I tell you what I have in mind for the long-term. Rhylinar may come up with other ideas, if he's the planner you say he is, but....here's what I see so far.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Well, GM is really busy.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're welcome!&quot; :D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And heck, the future is always changing. Circumstances may arise that may invaidate what I'm thinking of now.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh! Yah, uf kourse! Hy hef not schpoken to my fiance in a vile!&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We don't need the GM for interplayer discussion, that's why I walked over here. =3=

Terri:<font color="#000000">Well, however you say &quot;you're welcome&quot; with a mouth full of lollypop. Terri's tongue is quite purple now. :B


 * TMG wonders if any of the macers are going to comment amongst themselves. &gt;.&gt;

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( Sorry, distracted by a movie. Cowboys and Aliens. ))

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

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;By all means.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">oddly good movie, isn't it?

TMG:<font color="#000000">...brb, bathroom

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( Quite! ))

GM:<font color="#000000">Do we want to handle mid-session noms now?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Mid-session?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">We're closing in on session end.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Plus, Hy imagine she iz vaitink for me to Send to her, after Gnogglebolt's.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Nonsense! =3= *brick'd*

Meany:<font color="#660000">Brb.

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( What are you smoking, Meanster? ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Says you, I wanna get out of this town. =3=

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

</i>Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( I still have a litre of cola left! ))

GM:<font color="#000000">So. Noms?

TMG:<font color="#000000">yes, mid-session noms!

TMG:<font color="#000000">I've still got plenty of fire left in me.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">His response to Gnogglebolt was awesome.

GM:<font color="#000000">And you, Tech, keep talking. Lay out those plans so other players can start talking. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">Miron: &quot;okay so you're at LEAST not evil and I won't admit to being wrong about anything else.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Okay, okay. :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right then, well...&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Gnogglebolt for PLANNING AN EMPIRE. Miron for subterfuge and secret agent relay.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Swallowtail for slick evidence get.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ah, I second that

VAE:<font color="#000000">bboth of them

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I was trying to think all week how she'd get evidence. :B Her Sleight of Hand modifier, while good, is less than Pell's Spot check modifier. Ranger levels come in handy.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It really was rather disheartening how bad things are in the city, much more than your understatements. It certainly means my -original- thoughs of just sending a caravan of preists of Pelor and all the other elvish dieties to the city to make camp and start spreading the word. Not going to be that easy or small...&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also..

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Remember I said I had experience with this sort of thing before?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Tathi for &quot;My father! Tell me moar!&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Missionaries to a Lloth-held city??? O_O

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hatari; that was BEFORE he was told that.

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, indeed, that would have ended in utter disaster and slaughter.&quot; ^^;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Pay attention.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I nominate Gnogglebolt for the fiasco with questioning Miron

TMG:<font color="#000000">Even he knows that won't work.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">seconding. So much seconding. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean.. &quot;And you agree that one can't use God's power without him willing to?|

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miron, thomas: No.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt&quot; Oh crap

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well that was just an unlucky circumstance conspiring against Gnogglebolt's point.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It was a good thought. XD

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, ah...there is one little caveat. We kinda had to bonk them all on the heads first. At the risk of trivializing what I'm thinking of next to scale that up...&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">no, it wasn't

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You're European your opinion is eternally contrary. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If the entire city really has fully established Llolth control...a battle may be the only way to go. But.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hrm...

VAE:<font color="#000000">It was flawed in one way - as an excellent quote I have read in Saph's fanfic.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is why such a battle will take years of planning and building up.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;The definition of a bad man is often just that he's the enemy&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because only all the authority-holding positions can be targeted.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I want to give Tathi something for family allusions and seed plottings..

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But it was early in the session.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'm failing at grasping specifics.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean.. Pellan'zyne being good and misguided does't make him less dangerous

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Rank-and-file soldiers, the citizenry themselves...they have to be captured alive. As many as possible.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Something for Sszeyl...

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Mr. Sparkgear... if I may...&quot;

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

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I believe that you may be thinking about this the wrong way.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I might be. Your thoughts?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">brb again. -.-

RAM:<font color="#990000">Elros: &quot;My daddy beat her and took her finger!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ah.. in any case.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Terri: &quot;Lollipops for everyone!&quot; :D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I can relay any message of up to twenty-five words. I've sent to Talfeera before, so that should be easy. I imagine she's going to begin wondering who this strange priest is that keeps sending her messages.&quot; =w=;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You may wish to think on it a while. I know it's hard for me to come up with a good sending on the spot.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;A top-down approach has merit, but without the people under them, the priestesses would have little support, and the system would shrink with infighting. What we need is not a war, but an extraction. Much less life is lost in that way, and... for one, I do not want to subject either of our people to another Underdark War, above or below.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tomas, my fiance iz a Sorceress. Hy've dealt vith Sendinks before.&quot;&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That did cross my mind...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But something such as that could only go on for so long.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Just making sure, just making sure.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;We should focus on a way to get our people out, and safe, first. But, again, I'm not the planner.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Eventually, they'll have to notice their population is shrinking.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And then things will get -really- difficult.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( Also, I was under the impression that in this campaign you could Send for someone and it would be as if they were actually performing the Sending? ))

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( Like, their voice and image? ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But I don't know.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Your voice. There's no image.

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( Ah, gotcha. ))

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

</i>Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe it -would- work. Or maybe a top-down, single swoop is the only way to go.&quot;


 * RAM has been reading too much OotS.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Like I said, I can't be sure now. The future is always changing.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But if a fell swoop is a way to go...one single battle, to take the city and eliminate all leadership while leaving everyone else alive...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Going strictly by the rules, there is no fluff for sending. We make it up. It simply says the recipient knows who is sending the message. I'm just taking it a step further and figuring Talfeera can tell Thomas delivered Gnogglebolt's message. She would atleast obviously know he didn't cast a sending spell.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've read some short primer books on how things here in Akellon work. The Aurate Palm, while I hope they're as merciful as I think they'll be, are a military order under the king.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Ah, okay. I thought you were saying it was Thomas' voice coming through the Sending.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Since the GM seems a bit looser right now..

RAM:<font color="#990000">Heh, loose.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Sszeyl hands over the slippers to Swallowtail. =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;An operation of taking the city, capturing both soldiers and citizenry while only killing officers...If anyone has both the strength -and- the careful finesse to pull off an operation of sugh magintude and delicacy, it's the Aureate Palm.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">No preamble.


 * Liatai tosses a brick at RAM. :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Just bam.

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Bam, shoes? o.o

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And then, after that, in come the preists of Pelor and the elvish gods to shower those remaining with other teachings.&quot;


 * RAM catches the brick. With his face.


 * Swallowtail looks down at her shoes. Is Swan Song trying to tell me something...? =w=;;;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Bam, shoes.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Minimal bloodshed...but so many things could go wrong, indeed.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">(&quot;These are like my belt.&quot;)

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If there's any way to avoid this path, I'll look fr it.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">(&quot;But with what I think are Swallow techniques.&quot;)

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">(&quot;Hyu hef a schpecial belt?&quot; )

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Did anyone else see &quot;nice slippers&quot; and think of super-fluffy bunny slippers. =w=;;;;;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">=w=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I will most definitely speak with Rhylinar next I see him about this. Again, this is very much a long term plan, will take years to set up....&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That could be lulzy, a ninja in bunny slippers. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">I did, Lia!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And in fact, there's no actul [planning of it right now. Just an idea.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">But srs.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I find it's useful to always have an idea, even if the idea may change in the future. keep's one's efforts focused and active.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;(I... see. Thank you.)&quot; Swallowtail bows. What school are the slippers again?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">(&quot;Yeah. =w= Lets me break things.&quot;)

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Desert Sun.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Setting sun I believe uses slippers.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I thought I should share it with you.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">Or that.

Meany:<font color="#660000">:B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That's a combination of two schools Meany you will confuse her. XD

Meany:<font color="#660000">:BBB

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ooh, nize.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... well... thank you for sharing, at least. But really, please. Speak to him before you go too much farther in that direction?&quot; ^^;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;A top-down strike is... far too reminiscient of what Orgolloyss did in Ezzebek.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Most absolutely. Even -beginning- on such a thing won't happen until you're good friends with the Palm. And...ah. I see.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">back from unannounced gone

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt stands up.

VAE:<font color="#000000">was saving up lunch leftovers and dinnering

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">back

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Er, he gently scoots the kittin away first

Twist:<font color="#000000">Mew -- oh okay. =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So...the group and I are going to continue down to Resca, on the mission we already have.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll visit every Palm outpost on the way and get to know them.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes... good luck with that. Your mission.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If I think this will work, then on the way back upriver to Castleton, I'll get one of them to join us and come here, so you can have your meeting.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And begin forging alliances, if all goes well.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">as a total aside

VAE:<font color="#000000">Why do I find a halfling with glasses and skimpy clothing working for the bloody inquisition so damn hillarious?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt rubs the back of his head. &quot;...I really hope my other compatriots aren't going to be a problem...I'll let them know what I'm plannig here.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Everyone loves Gradia.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Let's face it. Akellon, officially, is an anime now.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Especially Thomas.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But I hope Thomas can at least keep Miron from blowing the lid on this for a -little- while. At least until we've passed on the way back to Castleton.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">She's also correct size for Miron XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">If I was actually drawing Gradia, she'd be in about five layers of clothing. :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">*eyebrow waggle*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">But tokenart is tokenart. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You should have seen what my sister did to her. =3= *hit by tree*

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Which is why it's hiillarious

VAE:<font color="#000000">Actually, the value dissonance of someone like that being an inquisitor is far too much fun to pass

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And even if Miron does break his promise to you and spout everything he learned to anyone who will listen, I hope he at least will have the ense o not make a fuss about the city. If the cover there is blow, -everyone- could die.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...What am I thinking, Miron will say everything.&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">That sounds like an awesome thing indeed.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, full steam ahead, and deal with obstacles as they arise. I'll try and keep Miron under control./&quot;


 * Arivan Marathal folds his hands. &quot;... Very well.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Miron: *Doctor Claw voice* &quot;YEEEESS.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right then. I suppose I'll see you tomorrow sometime!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And thank you for all of your time.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Stay safe. And do keep an eye on Sszeyl. There are... things brewing about him that he doesn't need to know of yet. He has enough burdens. But they may surface, regardless.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I look forward to helping with this...it will be good practice for my own ultimate goal.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus folds his arms into his robe sleeves. He looks to Swallowtail's new slipper and Sszeyl's belt.

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;See you tomorrow.&quot; ^^

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hmm. I should look into getting one of those, I think. When we uh.. come into some money again.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt waves, and heads out the door.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">The image begins to flicker...

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">:P

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;They're rather cheap.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Only three thousand gold.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Be that as it may, I'm still short. Later, I suppose.&quot; ^^;


 * Arivan Marathal sighs, leaning back against the bench and running a hand through his hair nervously.

TMG:<font color="#000000">did SHankfang do the sending yet?

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... so none of them even know.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There was one technique I saw my father trying to teach my sister once. Perhaps I could try it with one of those iron heart vests.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy know vat hyu mean, Tomas. After buyink dese sveet bracers, Hy'm flat broke!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">No. Thomas hasn't replenished his spells yet, remember?

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm. He doesn't need to know yet. He... really does have far too many burdens, for one so young. No need to add more.&quot;

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Are all gnomes like that?&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Like what?&quot; :.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He would enter combat without armor, always. It was enough for him to be as strong as he was. He said he once held his hand out and let an Ettin's boulder break around his palm.&quot;

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Eager.&quot;


 * Arivan Marathal chuckles. &quot;I've never met one who wasn't.&quot; ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Sorlanad: &quot;YES.&quot; :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">*Sorlana

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Ahem.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Miron.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron's response to Gnogglebolt's &quot;They could die&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://xkcd.com/810/

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt walks back to down.

TMG:<font color="#000000">*to town

Sornala Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... what if the worst happens? What if they do undo everything you've worked to do? What the Raiders have worked to do?&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I'm not certain. We adapt. We try to survive. We trust in the gods, and try again. That's all we can do.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">The scrying flickers, and dies.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">SCRYING NOO

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Wait a second.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Shankfang the Deffrider: No. Thomas hasn't replenished his spells yet, remember?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He has, actually. That's why he offered to Send just now. =w=;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Yeah, that's what I thought!

TMG:<font color="#000000">I was wondering why Thomas was bringing it up if it wasn't ready yet


 * Dr. Hatari was wondering why Shankfang didn't seem interested. :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oh! I thought we would have to wait until the next day!

TMG:<font color="#000000">No, clerics cna pray and re-slot spells, if I recall.

TMG:<font color="#000000">*can

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">According to my character sheet I'm good to go with two fresh empty 4th level slots, unless I jumped the gun or something. Its been ages OOG. =w=;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anything came out of it?&quot;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Miron could see and hear the scrying through the mirror. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">I thought EVERYONE was watching the scrying

TMG:<font color="#000000">not just the caster

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Everyone could see and hear.

TMG:<font color="#000000">that's what I thought

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

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

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;The gnome. Who was he?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">retcon then

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Well, either way, Shankfang doesn't know that Thomas can perform a Sending right now. He still thinks he has to wait until the next day.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Aw just this guy I know. &gt;.&gt;&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gnogglebolt Sparkgear. A mazian. He is a member of the adventuring group I and Inquisitor Lazarus are the liaisons for.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your thoughts on that exchange, inquisitors?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">But I just said I could do it. =3=;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">~Walking through the forest, walking through the treees~

Faerie:<font color="#009999">Not as if I've been doing anything, but dinner here.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Uhhhh well. It would take me about twenty minutes to get it ready to send, anyways..&quot; (:3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Their plan is.. rather ill thought out, for one.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Just let me know whenever you wish.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( Actually, you didn't. You asked if Shankfang still wanted to do the Sending, but he was still under the impression he had to wait until tomorrow. ))

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;... gods. Just... I've known the Marathals for years. I'm not sure what's real and what's not regarding them anymore.&quot; o_o;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Dear god what will it take.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I can cast sending today.&quot; :|

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Yep. That happened.

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well.. I believe I said it back in Braxton Falls. No real high elf would commit blood treason like .. raising a drow.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I was suspicious of him since the beginning. To his defense.. from what I have seen, he appears to be good, but severely misguided.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh! Oh, yeah Hy'm ready! Tenk hyu so much!&quot;

TMG whispers: someday, yyou have GOt to put in a real high-elf parent rasing a drow orphan, just to screw with Miron. |3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As for the drowish city... we must learn its location, and take steps.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang is literally bouncing on his toes and positively giddy with excitement.

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I thought it was bad, but from what they said, it seems it's literally run by the cult of Lolth.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you feel further surveilance of this family will lead to this goal?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not so soon... let me think.&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">the thing Pellan'zyne said about after the fifteenth, did miron hear it?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'll need to sit still for a while to get it ready. Back at the ship.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">close to when they were parting.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">He did, unless he was booking it out of there to get away from the drow. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">*nod*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We better speak with the captain soon. He could be having the crew make ready to depart in the morning.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">guh.. bored.. but don't want to butt in on rpin'.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I know, I'm sorry D:

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Why'd I have to go and play the loose cannon..

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Trying to speed this along D:

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If I recall, Arrivan has made a cryptic reference to something going to happen after the fifteenth of Ehlon.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Nuh uh, my fault.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vell, vat are ve vaitink for? Let's go!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And away towards the ship!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi's the wild child artillery. It's kind of expected she's the one you don't want around.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I just can't really relate to elf-concerns or I would pull you into something. Sorry I got nothin'. =3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">...When did I get off my bike?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Yeah. I've plotted and planned a lot with Liatai to hopefully way-leigh this in the future but for now.. stuck in my own mud. XP

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">dooot doo doo, getting back to the town...

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Also mentioned two names - Vicigloth and Pelinasek or something like that. Another drow, I suppose.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">headin' back to the Cygnet...

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The rectangleness of the group is restored. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">WHUUPSIE

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Everyone other than Miron is back on the Cygnet now.

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

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Very well then.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi is humming merrily about her new spellbook. Both she and Aelian are looking pretty swanky bling with their new gear.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;And...?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">holy shit that reminds me I probably need to update tokens still

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Speak plainly, inquisitor. Do you wish for us to cease surveilance and resume it on the 15th or maintain it?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">so, we shouldn't switch to the Cygnet?

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You have a map-switcher. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">we shouldn't switch to the cygnet map for now?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm not switching automatically because it would interfere with Miron's impersonation.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas takes a good while aboard the cygnet to commence his prayers.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, so, keeping everything on the Thalinde map just to avoid going back and forth?

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang...has trouble keeping still. He's too damn excited.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;For now, I believe it will do us little good. Furthermore, they might be checking for that sort of thing. Cease now, resume on the thirteenth - we want to have a good window of the critical time period.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus peeks through one eye, briefly, and smirks.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt reaches the Cygnet a little later, and walks upon deck, passing Shankfang and Thomas. He sees they're doing...something, so he jst nods to Thomas. &quot;I'll talk to you when you're done.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wise. Inquisitor Geas, your new orders.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Mind if I spellcraft me some spells, Liatainess?

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Make space on your couch.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus resumes concentration. The whole process takes about twenty minutes.

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;... huh?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus nods.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt goes looking through the ship for Tathi.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can only teleport once a day. I need to sleep and recharge before returning to Braxton Falls.&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Other than that.. I believe myself, and Inqusitor Lazarus can handle the situation inside our group. I shall alert you to any suspicious occurences via Sending - however at the present I can do it once a day at most.&quot;

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;... uhm. Sure. Watch out for Linc.&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I order you to let me crash for the night. *adjusts glasses* And make brownies.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">*Nods at Gradia and smiles* &quot;I see I aren't the only one with that problem.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;O~kay.&quot; He smiles after a looong pause.

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

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;Normally he sleeps on the couch.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Thomas suddenly has a big Half-Orc bouncing up and down in front of him.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;I trust your animal is well-disciplined enough to not do so tonight, inquisitor.&quot;

Aldwin Geas:<font color="#000000">&quot;Of course he is.&quot; &gt;.&gt;'

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And if that is taken care of...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang doesn't even hesitate, he immediately begins talking. Clearly, he has done this before.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;May Saint CUthbert guide your path, brother and sister.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus looks over. &quot;Oh, Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Hello?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Tathi?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">oh nevermind

Miron:<font color="#000000">I assume Miron departs.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We haven't spoken to the captain about saying a night yet. You might want to catch him.&quot; Thomas is still a little tied up.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt continues wandering around the cygnet, not seeming to be able to find Tathi for the moment, then heads back up to deck.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi is eyeballing thunderlance. It's a 4th level evocation spell.. so let's see..

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+14 = 10 + 14 = 24&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; spellcraft! -5 if its necromancy or illusion, +2 if it's evocation!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He sees Thomas still with shankfang...he stops.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You got it!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait a second. Thomas, where's Miron?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">And that's 400 gp down.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;In town I assume. He didn't come back yet.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">100 GP.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">25 GP a spell page, I think.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Materials and Costs: Materials for writing the spell (special quills, inks, and other supplies) cost 100 gp per page.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....where in town? And why is he alone after I asked you to keep an eye on him?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Rules why must you conflict &gt;:O

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Unless you're house ruling? I'm -totally- for that. :&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm, I wonder

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Haloo Talfeera! Iz Shankfang! Made it to Akellon! Got a job vorkink vith a group uf adventurers! Miss hyu so much! Hy luv hyu, Schparky!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">What sorts of shop are in town?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Boccob's Blessed Book description says 25 GP per page.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Most everything is closed now.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">lol, well, it's his blessed book. :&gt;


 * Thomas Lazarus looks slightly embarassed. =w=;;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Let's go with 25 GP per page.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Then, he goes to the pub, I guess. XD

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">YAY!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm sorry, I guess I missed that part.&quot; A lolful truth from the player.

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

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

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang's message is spoken in common, he has no problem with the others hearing his Sending.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are you seriou---that means he's...Garl, no!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well, I mean -- don't worry..&quot; =w=; &quot;I've got a second sending ready.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">&quot;Hmm.&quot;

Talfeera:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shankfang! My snugglebear! I'm so super happy to hear from you -- don't let my brother push you around, okay? Love you bunches, see you soon!&quot; :D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks about as horrified as you've ever seen him, and he immediately runs off the gangplank back to the docks and into town.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">(&quot;Looks like Miron's up to mischief again.&quot;)

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

</i>Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:D

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Gather Information, Gnogglebolt?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">(&quot;I'm going to be honest, I'm tired of putting the energy into dealing with him.&quot;)

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Ho boy.. Come on Aelian, I smell trouble.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm.&quot; ^^;


 * Thomas Lazarus seems highly distracted and distraught by the Gnome's departure. He frowns, and seems to forget Shankfang is there.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">(&quot;What about you?&quot;)

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Are you sure it's not you- OW, okay!&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Swimming party~ *brick'd*

Miron:<font color="#000000">So, Miron probably goes off to find the nearest pub and have a pint XD

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gather Info: &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 5 + 5 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Where's That Gnome?!


 * Thomas Lazarus remembers himself after a moment.


 * Thomas Lazarus smiles at Shankfang.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tap tap tap on Gnogglebolt's shoulder.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Need a little help?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. There you are, I suppose.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat vas nize. Tenk hyu again, Tomas...vere iz everyone gun?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ghost; wow, way to time it.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt's gone already.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Pay attention. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Wow, way to fail.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Tathi followed.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi and Aelian followed.

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Pay attention. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I believe the point is that Tathi followed.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+floor((charisma-10)/2) = 1 + floor((15 - 10) / 2) = 3&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; charisma check!

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">what...ooh

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">LOL the old lady shows up!

VAE:<font color="#000000">That'll be an amusing find, too.

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

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">*whups

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+floor((charisma-10)/2) = 11 + floor((10 - 10) / 2) = 11&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; charisma check!

TMG:<font color="#000000">sorry, -I- missed tha. My bad.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I am reminded of a friend's character

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah! Oh, there you are tathi..oh!&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Who rolled gather information on how to find a place we were at

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian's a bit more helpful. XP

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And he gets a 1, for like, -3.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ghost, I invite you to roleplay Tathi's fail if you like. :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt reaches into his vest and pulls out a small cloth bag. &quot;The seeds! Arivan forgot them, he said he was very sorry.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">THANK YOU-

Meany:<font color="#660000">Are we close to session end? :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He qquickly pushes it into her hand and runs off again.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Soon, yes.

Meany:<font color="#660000">We've been at it seven hours.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vy deed everyone leaff hall uf a sudden?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And he just grabs this random passerby by the collar and bellows at him while pointing at an Inn sign like, &quot;'EY YOU GIT. READ DIS TING FER ME!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( But...but I wanna keep going! ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Epic gather info was epic.

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh! Thank you!&quot; She says, pocketing the seeds. And then, so, Tathi goes about asking folks if they've seen a particular gnome... when she runs into a speck of trouble.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Meany quit bitching. You may quit without us. =w=;

TMG:<font color="#000000">besides, we used to do ten hours. :B

Tokens dropped onto map 'The Cygnet'RAM:<font color="#990000">Seriously! It's only 9!

fat noble:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;A gnome!? My fair flower, you should come to my castle with me!&quot; Says a rather, ahem, poor charisma score'd local duke.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Prepare for trouble.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;What.&quot; Says Tathi, and you swear if she were a cat, her fur would be on end.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tomas, vat's gun on? Vy deed everyone run uff?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Tathi, Tathi, come on, we need to find Miron..&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus sighs lightly.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Make it Double

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

Meany:<font color="#660000">Wait what.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">'s still looking for that gnome :U

Meany:<font color="#660000">What.

RAM:<font color="#990000">To protect the world from devistation?

Meany:<font color="#660000">Duke?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Gnogglebolt when charging off in terror to find Miron.&quot;

fat noble:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Pah, fair elven maiden, do you surround yourself in such rabble always?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">Duke?!

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;He's my lover.&quot; Tathi says through gritted teeth.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Meany; Liatai was saying she did forget most of the royalty titles you told her about. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">Anyways - in the meantime, Miron has a few ales, and then returns to the ship.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I didn't pick this. XP

TMG:<font color="#000000">Don't worry about it

VAE:<font color="#000000">let's say, Baronet

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh. Umm, iz dat a bad tink?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">DUKES ARE CLOSE PERSONAL FRIENDS OF THE REIGNING KING. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean, the general scenario of things

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Suggest a title then. XP

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">lowest title there is

Meany:<font color="#660000">Baronets aren't nobels.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Alfreds are nobels.

VAE:<font color="#000000">They invent dynamite

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Anyway, Gnogglebolt finds the gnome. At the tavern.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">They're musical instruments.

Meany:<font color="#660000">They're citizens that outrank civilians, and knights.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Just play the freaking game! DX

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">pfuh. Fine. Not like there wasn't hundreds of these fucks at any given time. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">ah, good

Meany:<font color="#660000">The lowest type of actual nobel is Baron.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I thought they were

Meany:<font color="#660000">Baronets don't have a succession.

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

fat baron:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;What!? How could you be a such a wanton whore!? Surely-&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus rests his hands on his waist and frowns.

Aelian:<i><font color="#7F00FF">SHITSHITSHIT-

</i>VAE:<font color="#000000">aahaha

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;They don't get along.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt hears from someone that they saw a gnome wander into the tavern...and while Gnogglebolt was very skeptical, he goes in, sees Miron, and rushes to him. &quot;Aha! There you are.&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Here I am.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Too late. Tathi's face goes pure fury for about one quarter of a second and then.. The local guard has a bit of a situation on their hand as Tathi hauls back and blasts him point blank.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...What are you doing in a tavern? I didn't think you were a bar-goer.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vy not? Miron vas nize to me ven Hy met him. He kan' be dat bad.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">...ohgawdammit tathi

Tathi:<i><font color="#7F00FF">You can hear the explosion from the ship.

</i>Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;At times, you'll even call Kuzma 'father'. &quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;They don't see eye to eye on a lot of matters. It's more like they see the opposite of eye to --&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">...


 * Thomas Lazarus siiiighs.

Ghostwish whispers: Now, obviously, Tathi did not muster the time or concentration for a full out spell. :P

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">(&quot;Should we get involved?&quot;)

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Um...okay, dunno what that means. Er...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Dat vas an eksplosion.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have you been here this whole time?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's an expression... comes from a story.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">and SHankfang notes it definitely didn't sound like a gunpowder one. :B

Ghostwish whispers: What she tossed in her lapse of thought was pretty much flash and bang. I'm thinking she tossed the fat lard into a nearby building, smoking and charred. XP

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

</i>TMG:<font color="#000000">welcomeback, alex

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Would you mind checking on Terri for me? I apparently need to go headlock someone.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">you jus missed Tathi blasting local nobility.

Guard:<font color="#000000">FWEET


 * Thomas Lazarus turns and storms off the ship.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Definitely noddink related to gunpowder...&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#009999">Sorry, my computer went to sleep while I was at dinner.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh, umm, hokay!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;See... there was a rude son who always called his father 'Kuzma&quot; - his name that was, and thought he could do everything better.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Belowdecks to see how Terri is doing!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What the--dammit, you're drunk.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;One day, they were going with drawn carriages to get some wood..&quot;

Tathi:<i><font color="#7F00FF">&quot;YOU MOTHERLESS SON OF A CHIMERA-&quot;

</i><font color="#7F00FF"> Tathi screeches in elven, arcane energies swirling up and down her arms and licking at her hair.. Aelian is doing everything he can to restrain the crazy elf.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt snatchesd the mug away.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Knock knock.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't care about the story.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have you been here this whole time?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Knock knock!

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;What is going on here?! Hey!&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No answer.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The father held up his carriage with his shoulder.. the son, though advised, didn't. His carriage turned over, and he got trapped under it.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Guard! Guard! Get that man out of here! Now!! I'll try and keep her from -ack- for the sake of the trees, hurry! She's a wizard!&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#009999">Where is Tathi, anyway? Not with the party?

TMG:<font color="#000000">In town

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hrm...&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">everyone except Shankfang is in town for the moment. Elros may be on the ship.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Open the door a tad and peek in, then!

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron doesn't seem to mind his question. &quot;He shouted &quot;Help, Kuzma, help!&quot; but the father did nothing.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;GET BACK HERE!!!&quot; She yells, sending off an errant bolt of lightning into the sky.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't care about your stupid story, miron!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Tathi for the sake of my sanity, calm down!!&quot;

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll be back for a statement!&quot; &gt;:| -- O_o Clank clank clank clank!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where have you been since you left the house? Have you been here?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas approaches the elven disturbance with the flattest. Look. I:|

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Finally, as he was weakening... he said &quot;Father, help me..&quot; at which point he did. As he crawled out from under the carriage... his father said. &quot;A lot of things happen in the world, brother. At times, you might even call Kuzma 'father'&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Terri?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Tathi! Tathi! Thomas? OH THANK GODS. HALP.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now... what is it that you were saying?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Empty...

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I WILL BURN HIS CORPSE TO ASH!!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oh, there she is!

Elros:<font color="#009999">Welp, I guess I'm on crow's nest duty again.

TMG whispers: you know, if we -aren't- delayed to deal with the proper consequences of the law, It'll be a missed opportunity...the PCs can't forget they're not above the law. Unless is would disrupt the stry that much.


 * Thomas Lazarus just stares flatly a few more seconds.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Haloo!&quot; The Half-Orc calls loudly as he enters the galley.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Tathi, wasn't this the town you wanted to find one of your home's trees in?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where. Have. You. Been.&quot; Gnogglebolt says, enunciating each word to Miron's face. &quot;Have you really been in this tavern the whole time?&quot;

Stanley Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hallo!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And where you were going to meet a man who knew your father?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Wave wave wave!

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">There's a fairly loud chorus of &quot;Hoy!&quot; s and &quot;Hello!&quot;s in response. Terri joins in with gusto. :B

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi, still doing a wonderful impression of a wolverine, stops waving her arms about for a moment. &quot;Right. Get the trees, get my dad, have HIM kill the fat prick.&quot; She says.


 * Dr. Hatari can just imagine this super-uncharacteristic barked, HELLO

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mind if Hy sit?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian looks like he could almost be gay for Thomas.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;In the tavern, in the town.. But.. wait a moment. Why are you asking me this? Furthermore, where were you all the time?&quot;

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right!&quot;

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now what happened here.&quot;

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;And who are you lot.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus stares, dumbfounded.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You should go chasing behind Sszeyl.. he's been in trouble once already.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I was there when the riot almost broke out.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I was back at Marathal's place. And I'll explain when you're not drunk. So...you left the house and you came here? You didn't go anywhere else?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus looks to the guard.

Thomas Lazarus:<i><font color="#FF0000">If there was ever a time to be an Enchanter.

</i>Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian is quick not to give tathi another target. &quot;Hello sir.. bit of a, um, explosive altercation. The noble accosted my lady-friend here in a most lewd and rude manner, and.. well, she is of quite a strong wood elf lineage. You know how they are with insults. He's not dead, is he?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;At Marathal's place? What were you doing there?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Where is he!? I'll finish the job if I didn't get him!!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I told you, I was talking politics with them. You're too drunk to get the details right now. And stop dodging my question!&quot;

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;He's quite singed. She'll have to pay damages.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#009999">Well, as long as I'm up here.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I'm talking to the nice guard Tathi, wait your turn.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#009999">&#171; &#160;1d20+13 = 16 + 13 = 29&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187; Spot check

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You've really been in this tavern the whole time, have you?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is interesting.. one who hides... his business from the rest of us wishes to question me? &quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mind if Hy sit?&quot; Shankfang asks, standing behind the empty chair at the table.

Elros:<font color="#009999">For any threats to the boat? (Not like I'd expect them in a safe harbor.)

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Damages!? Gladly! How deep shall I make his damned grave!?&quot;

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


 * Dr. Hatari catches up

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Politics... was it Mazio? What does .. your country want to have with him,or the drow?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt leans over and shouts in his face. &quot;I'll tell you in the morning when you're sober! I'm not hiding anything!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Of course Tathi, in good time.&quot; He says, quickly turning back to the gaurd. &quot;Great. How much?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt snaps and dope-slaps Miron upside the head. &quot;Focus!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You've been here the whole time, have you?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes or no?&quot;

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;You don't even need to ask, pull up a chair.&quot; The remnants of dinner are there, with plenty of leftovers -- fish chowder.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Like I care... been here for long enough. Sitting in a house as heated as the drow's makes you thirsty as hell.&quot;


 * Liatai pictures the gnomes starting a bar fight.. .oh dear. ^^;

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

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

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">THIS IS THE BESTEST PARTY EVAR.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tenk hyu!&quot; Shankfang sits, and goes at the food with gusto! OMNOMNOM!

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;A sum of 100 gold pieces total.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Hahaha, Miron's cover is awesome.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">ALL DAMAGE BILLS GO TO THOMAS. LET'S DRIVE HIM TO DRINKING.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt seems to rrelax and wanders around to the rest of the bar and orders a non-alcoholic drink. He keeps an eye on Miron from a distance.

VAE:<font color="#000000">He's an inquisitor

Miron:<font color="#000000">MIron rests his head on his arm, and with other one, fiddles with his tankard.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh yeah

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt gave Miron abck his mug

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

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Ten platinum, here you are. And please..&quot; he says pleadingly. &quot;Have that noble taught the dangers of believing those lewd stories about elves!&quot;

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;Possibly more if he presses charges, which he likely will. Your names?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus just stands nearby, somewhat hapless and still vexed. =w=;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Swallowtail I have a new mission for you. An assassination. =3= *bricks*

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">pfffffffffffft- damnit hatari XD

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ooh, dis iz qvite tasty!&quot; Shankfang says, before getting down to business. &quot;Hy don' know if hyu vere already told, but ve vere vonderink if it vould be possible to schtay here for a day or tvo. Dere iz qvite a bit uf business a fev pipple need to take kare uf.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">OM NOM NOM :O

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fair enough. The weather's due to get dicey tomorrow morning, anyway.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat iz qvite an appetite hyu hef dere, liddle vun. Hy approff!&quot; Shankfang says with a smile at Terri.

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


 * VAE pasting something for Saph


 * Thomas Lazarus puffs himself up in his most disgruntled-looking pose. It's pretty much laughable. &quot;=3=&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Eyllisaearsithek!&quot; Tathi suddenly butts in, puling around Aelian. &quot;Eyllisaearsithek! She repeats again, prodding the guard in the chestplate with a near made look in her eyes. Does her hair always rise up like that!?!? &quot;And you tell that fat!&quot; Prod. &quot;Pompous!&quot; Prod. &quot;Sack of FILTH I will find him, and finish what I started! TELL HIM!&quot; Prod!

Terri:<font color="#000000">Nomnomnom -- thumbs up of agreement/approval/solidarity! :9 !

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">=_=;; Halp.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You know I should let Gnogglebolt know about this just so you never hear the end of it.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">and all the guard can say is &quot;Uh.. could you spell that? .. slowly?&quot;

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;...&quot; He looks to Aelian. &quot;Spell that please.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">and done

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tenk hyu. Most everyone else ran uff into de kity. Dere vas an eksplosion. Hy tink maybe Taddi vas involved, since it kertainly vasn' a gunpowder eksplosion...&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Smart guard! XD

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebollt, meanwhile, is sitting in the tavern, jus watching Miron and making sure he doesn't go anywhere.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Do what now?&quot; Aelian looks actually shocked. &quot;Um. I know the elven lettering? It's a lot simpler than common..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron takes a drink from his tankard, again.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">This is funny.

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;I speak Elven, just spell it.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">OMNOMNOMNOMNOM!

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Eyl-lisa-ears-i-thek... Great Gods that's a long name in common..&quot; He says, and then spells it in elven.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">It's five letters.

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;And your name?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Say, Terri, do hyu vant to practice schootink zum more after dinner?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Aelian Cyadarith.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Hi my name is Tom. :B *bricked*

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">YES. THIS IS DOG. I MEAN TOM.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Easy on the practice. Gunpower and shot is pretty rare around here.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">You can really only get it from one gnome.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, Gnogglebolt..Want a drink, too?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">;P

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot; Easy to spell, at least. Get her out of the public and calmed down, and stay in town for the next few days. How may you be contacted?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;How about hyu, liddle vun?&quot; He asks Mateo. &quot;Vould hyu like to learn, as vell?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt, from a few tables over, raises the filled glass in his hand in response, and turns away again.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah. Good for ya.&quot;

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">:. &quot;...&quot; :O &quot;...&quot; He turns to his father and mother. &quot;Can I?&quot; :O

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Don't worry, Gnogglebolt. I made sure to stock up. I have over 200 shots.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt then takes out some tools and tiny parts and fiddly things, and fidgets the night away.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Uh oh. Thomas, how long are we staying in town for?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">and how many powder horns' worth?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Make that over 300.

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmmmmmm...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We were planning to stay another day. Just for Tathi.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I don't give two flying damns! We're leaving as soon as we can! I am not staying in this town so long as that fat lard is allowed to live!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Assuming there's not a warrant out for her arrest by then. &gt;:|&quot;

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Will you be safe and not go anywhere Swoop can't see you?&quot;

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aye, papa.&quot;

Jack Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then go ahead.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Tathi..&quot;

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yay!&quot; :D

RAM:<font color="#990000">As for powder horns worth...like, eighteen.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Maybe more.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ah. Impressive.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Right then, carry on. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">Plus, I have 100 shots stored in my flintlock's little pocket-dimension.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's almost comical considering how long Gnogglebolt slaved crafting his first one. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What, those? They're a dime a dozen just picked up eighteen. =3=&quot; :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">Yeah, Gnogglebolt spent and in-game -week- alchemy-ing some gunpowder for himself. :/

TMG:<font color="#000000">He didn't have a gun when he left.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy promise to make sure he doesn' hurt himself, Herr Selkirk.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That was before we made crafting tolerable.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">By multiplying it by ten.

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

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">He sighs. &quot;We're staying on the Cygnet.&quot; He answers to the guard. &quot;Thomas? Could you take Tathi to find Miron? I found out he's in that tavern, over there. I need to talk with the guard.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;What!? No! I want that man brought out to face my wrath!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Get me, damimit! get me!

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

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Tathi!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I'm the face! I do the legal finagling!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Ah well. :B


 * Thomas Lazarus whaps Tathi. &quot;You can't just haul off and murder some guy.&quot; =3= &quot;Is this your first day in human civilization?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Fine.&quot; She says, huffing. &quot;You didn't hear what he said about me!&quot; She hisses at Tom.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Come on. You'll be less dangerous drunk. Amazingly.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus escorts the spitfire elf to the tavern.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Dakkadakkadakka vrooooooooooooom-

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">sorry, spitfire made me laugh. XD

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You can tell me all about it.&quot; =w=;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">At the rate Shankfang eats, it doesn't take long for him to finish. Are Terri and Mateo ready to go play with guns?

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian finally sighs in relief.. &quot;Allright, now we can talk more like law-abiders. I am so terribly sorry for that, if that happens to be your first encounter with one of the more woodly elves. They are quite wild.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Some white people enter the scene! *bricked*

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron presumedly orders another ale.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Anyway...if Thomas and athi enter the same tavern, they see Miron at one of the tables getting smashed, and Gnogglebolt further back at a different table, with a constant stare at Miron as h fidgets with little metal things. He looks up as they enter though, and looks surprised.


 * Thomas Lazarus looks slightly relieved.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi looks over, and her eyes light up. She still looks pretty livid. &quot;Gnogglebolt!!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Guess nothing bad happened here atleast.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus gives Tathi a gentle nudge to the bar and sighs. &quot;Please buy something. I'll pay your tab.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Heya, Thomas.Anyone want an ale? &quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus waves at Miron.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt sees hat Tathi is... -really- riled up.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, barkeep, get those two on my tab!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Why in hells would I want to get drunk now!? I need a clear head to blast his head clean off!&quot; She seethes.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What the..&quot; He gets up from the table and wanders over. 'What happened?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Gnogglebolt!&quot; She says again, whipping away from Thomas.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ale for both, and a shot of brandy for the elf.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What's going on?'

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That's the point.&quot; =3=;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt says as he approaches Thomas and Tathi.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I need you to find someone. A fat human noble with a head like a deflated melon. He got away, and I want to finish him for what he said!&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">Whee, time to play with explosives! :D

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">WE ARE JUST

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay, follow me!&quot;


 * Ghostwish pokes the guard.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">OH MY GOD

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Elaborate, please?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">ARREST EVERYONE FOREVER

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...No, scratch that.&quot;

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;That, of course, does not excuse her from the law.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Geezus, there goes her hair again. And she's gritting her teeth too. Fireball Happy Taffi Tathi, in the flesh. &quot;He called me a whore for not wanting to sleep with him! And I didn't have the sense to blow him away! I only winged him!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns away from Tathi, ignoring her, and looks at Thomas. 'What happened?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt freezes and looks back up to Tathi.


 * Thomas Lazarus just gestures blandly at Tathi. =w=;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">His head falls down into both of his hands, and even through the din of the tavern, Thomas can hear a groaned &quot;Garl give me strength.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay!&quot; Shenkfang kalls as dey klimb to de deck. &quot;Terri, Hy know Hy already taught hyu, but a refresher never hurts, und Mateo needs to know as vell.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He slowly looks back up. &quot;Tathi...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You blasted a man...over a -word- he said?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">He pulls out his pistol and hands it to the boy, going over everything he told Terri last time, making sure to emphasize the points on handling the gun safely.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Of course not, but let's look at this with a level head. This was bad, highly disruptivem but it could get a lot worse. Tathi is a war survivor, and she did not get away unscorched, however pure her skin may be. She lost family, home, everything. She is.. scarred.. and it tends to show at the worst of times..&quot; He says, covering his face with his palm for a moment. &quot;Especially with her temper.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hokay!&quot; Shenkfang kalls as dey klimb to de deck. (His accent spreads to his narration? *BRICK'D*)

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

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( Yeah, my fault. Forgot to seperately type that. ))

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( threw it into the Jaegerizer on accident. ))

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

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I'm just.. fearful if what she may do if the man presses charges. In elven traditions, the man attacked her first. So she thinks she is right, regardless of how the law spells it ou the other way. She could get, and I am NOT trying to make a pun or any light of this, explosive if things escalate.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And here I thought you were typing his accent by hand all the time. Tricky, tricky! And yet schmott. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Tathi? :U

VAE:<font color="#000000">Guys, it's official

VAE:<font color="#000000">We are Last Days of FOXHOUND

VAE:<font color="#000000">Tathi's Sniper Wolf

TMG:<font color="#000000">Noooooooo! DX

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Dibs on the Pain.

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's hear how it started, then.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">...The Pain isn't FOXHOUND.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron probably Revolver Ocelot (conspiracies everwehre)

TMG:<font color="#000000">He was Cobra Unit. :B

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Yes! But not well enough! He's still alive! And Aelian's out there chatting with the damn guard who won't tell me where he took him! Get out there and fix it!&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">I am starting to pick up some of the words, however.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl is Psycho Mantis

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Then I won't have very much competition with my dibs. *bricked*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt's head falls in his hands again. there';s another groan and he looks back up.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Self assumed leader whom noone listens to - Gnogglebolt's Liquid Snake

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you realize that is exactly what Coraline did?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus folds his arms.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Self assumed leader? Excuse me?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Not gonna let you do that.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">We need a pervert for Octopus, and we're set

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you realize that is exactly what Coraline did to Sszeyl?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... *facedesk*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Thomas Lazarus: &quot;Not gonna let you do that.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">What about me?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And Thomas?

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

Liatai:<i><font color="#000000">Why did my mind immediately follow that with &quot;Star Fox.&quot;

</i>Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you remember how that ended for Coraline, Tathi?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Thomas.. I aren't quite sure who fits him

VAE:<font color="#000000">Vulcan Raven!

VAE:<font color="#000000">of course

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Hell no.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You are Coraline now! I'm good with the books, I'm not a miracle worker! There's only so much I can do!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">...I'm Star Fox?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Otacon. *bricked*

VAE:<font color="#000000">he's the bulky guy

VAE:<font color="#000000">and he does have the common sense thing going, too

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They're probably going to arrest you and hold you for trial!&quot;


 * Mateo Selkirk seems much less comfortable with the weapon than Terri was. He's probably never even shot a crossbow. Bow, yes, but not crossbow.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Right. We were trying to find out friend and ally, a fellow with the Leaden Mace. But, this noble, a baron I think he was, comes up and starts accosting her in a very lewd manner. Tathi made it clear she was not interested, and even stated me as her significant other, which is true.. And that's when he called her a whore. No, sorry, exact wording was 'wanton whore'. That was next to the last word he spoke before Tathi up and blasted him. THANKFULLY, she was so furious she did not cast a full spell on him. Or, this would be a murder and mass destruction of property.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why would you do this? We had plans for tomorrow! YOU had plans for tomorrow!&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">right, I don't remember coraline. XD

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">you were THERE.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">She was the elf. :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ran a paint shop.

GM:<font color="#000000">Do I need to pull out this token again. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">That crazy elf who attacked Sszeyl and was put on trial?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Tathi was there for it?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">The one with s- ah.

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

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

</i>Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Spent weeks on her plot.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay, now chust relax, take deep breadds, aim und fire.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Folks?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Spam.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Wait, what? Who is that? What is that? I don't remember this. Did the DM explain that? Is that part of our objectives?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Wait, what? Who is that? What is that? I don't remember this. Did the DM explain that? Is that part of our objectives?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Wait, what? Who is that? What is that? I don't remember this. Did the DM explain that? Is that part of our objectives?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Wait, what? Who is that? What is that? I don't remember this. Did the DM explain that? Is that part of our objectives?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Wait, what? Who is that? What is that? I don't remember this. Did the DM explain that? Is that part of our objectives?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Wait, what? Who is that? What is that? I don't remember this. Did the DM explain that? Is that part of our objectives?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Wait, what? Who is that? What is that? I don't remember this. Did the DM explain that? Is that part of our objectives?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Wait, what? Who is that? What is that? I don't remember this. Did the DM explain that? Is that part of our objectives?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">'Nuff said.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Don't spam

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


 * Faerie snrk

TMG:<font color="#000000">Just freaking play, ghost. Don't spam. &gt;:/

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1-4 = 14 + 1 - 4 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &gt;:d

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">... he does surprisingly well.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Idiot!&quot; She seethes, and crackling for a moment. &quot;I have done nothing wrong! That fool man is alive, and THAT is what I want you to fix! Find him!!&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 14 + 6 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&gt;:3 !


 * Thomas Lazarus furrows his brow. &quot;Forget it, Tathi.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You don't get the right to kill him just for taking an insult. And don't go pretending I'll put up with you trying.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We're going to have to skip town at this rate.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt cradles his head, then looks up to Thomas. &quot;Thmas, can you please get her and Miron back to the Cygnet, now? I've got to see what I can do about it, but they will probably come for her in the morning.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Very goot! Dat vas a fine schot! Hy tink hyu chust might be a natural!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And skipping town is the worst possible thing to do.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Any response from the guard? :&gt;


 * Guard is writing the story down.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And...I am not sure what Terri's roll was for.

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

</i>Liatai:<font color="#000000">It was an attack roll. Her shot.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shuffles over to the table where Miron is and starts hokking and arm under his own to get him on his feet.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">And - where the heck did you pull that notepad from? :O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Come on miron, up, up, time to go, got to go...&quot;

Guard:<font color="#000000">Armor hammerspace.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Allright...&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Amaaaazing. :O

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron tosses a gold piece to the barkeep. &quot;Keep the,.. change!&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">&gt;.&gt;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Much betta ten last time Terri! Very impressiff!&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">What's going on?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt escorts Miron to THomas's hands. &quot;Alright. You got them both? Going to get them back to the shi?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">What'd you see last?

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'll summarize.

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( Terri has a +6 attack mod? She's only, like, 8! ))

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very well. Thank you for your cooperation, at least.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You must be new here. Welcome to Akellon. :B

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;And that's when I grabbed Tathi as fast as I could, before she wound up into a full display of wizardry, and then you showed up, and there's the story... she's going to be gunning to kill him, I just know it.&quot; He says, rubbing his forehead again. &quot;Can we keep them both out of sight for a while?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">These are the Torrises.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Thomas? :U

Terri:<font color="#000000">With one R. Toris. :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sorry multi-tasking. Food arrived.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sorry Teri. :BBBB

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

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Right. And please, for the future, come to me, not her. I was raised in woods and city alike. She's a wood elf to the core.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Meany, where did you break off? =3=

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( And with the firearm penalty, that would make it a +10! Daaaaamn... ))

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do what you can to ensure that there are no future disturbances.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">...okay, I'll do the whispering for meany. Thiomas, please reply to Gnogglebolt. :B

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;We will do the same and come to your ship in the morning with news of the baron's condition.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">Dunno.

Meany:<font color="#660000">Comp shut down due to power fail.

Faerie:<font color="#009999">...

TMG:<font color="#000000">eh, I'll go back to a reasonable distance, then.

Meany:<font color="#660000">=3=


 * Thomas Lazarus pauses and looks back at Gnogglebolt.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Then looks to Miron.

Faerie:<font color="#009999">I just had a terrible thought.

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

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

Faerie:<font color="#009999">Toris R. Us

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No walls of text.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Understoof. Have a good day, sir. I hope you don't have any more sudden disturbances.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'll summarize.


 * Thomas Lazarus raises a brow. &quot;... Wait. What's wrong with Miron? What did he do?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, here you go--huh?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Basic summary.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just.. had a few beers.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't.. see what's wrong with it, either.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">Miron means a few dozen.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;For the love of Garl, Thomas, can you please just do this? he's drunk anyway! Just keep him on the ship where he won't get into any trouble.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Whatever I guess. Come along, brother. It's getting late anyways.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Tathi attacked a baron for calling her a whore and the rest of the party is dealing with the consequences. Miron is drinking a little and Gnogglebolt is watching him like a hawk. Shankfang is teaching kids to shoot. :B

Meany:<font color="#660000">Fun times.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alright. Thank you, THomas.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Tathi?&quot; Aelian pokes his head into the tavern.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And now...&quot; Gnogglebolt runs outside to find the scene of the disturbance.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">When Gnogglebolt is gone..

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Finally! Did they tell you where he is!?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh! Hello, Aelian.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay, now let's try hittink zumddink harder. How about...dat!&quot; He says, pointing to a seagull.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He looks to Tathi.

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;No!&quot; D:

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;No, Tathi, we're going back to the ship.&quot; He says, and glances down. &quot;Hello Gnogglebolt. I suspect you heard?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus whispers, &quot;See what you did this is going to haunt us for days.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt catches Aelian in the doorway. &quot;Aelian! Take me to where all this was going on. I need to get to work on cleaning up this mess.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas, apparently, seems to find Gnogglebolt a more oppressive punishment than the actual lawful consequences. :B

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;What madness are you talking about!? This is MY issue and I'm going to take care of it! With extreme prejudice!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh? The guard's leaving. Come, we can catch him if we hurry.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus knits his brow.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thomas! The two of them! Ship! Now! Please!&quot;

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's bad luck to shoot sea birds! Mama says gulls are the souls of dead sailors come to watch over us.&quot; D:

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt meanwhile is tugging on Aelian's cuff away from the tavern.

Meany:<font color="#660000">So much going on.

Meany:<font color="#660000">=3=;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron just observes the scene with an imparticipant look on his face.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yes yes yes.&quot; Thomas escorts Tathi back to the Cygnet. &quot;Come along please, brother.&quot; =3=

Meany:<font color="#660000">I dare say.

Meany:<font color="#660000">We are approaching critical mass of tangent activities.

Meany:<font color="#660000">&gt;:U

TMG:<font color="#000000">Nah, we actually were all in once place.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Hopefully it'll unwind shortly. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">You just missed it.

Meany:<font color="#660000">Ah.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yes, you, silly. I don't have any other brothers.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron follows, saying mostly nothing.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian speaks on the way. &quot;Now, something to note. I know why Tathi did this. Wood elves are kind of funny about insults. Most of us know that actions speak louder than words, but to wood elves, they're equal. You don't speak unless you mean what you say, get it? So.. an insult is much more grevious in their culture..&quot; He says, and sighs, hanging his head a bit. &quot;She believes, and her culture believes this too, that she is in her right to kill him for a grevious assualt on her soul.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;No? Hrm, hokay. No seagulls. How about...dat?&quot; This time, he points at an empty bottle lying on the dock.

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

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's okay.&quot; :D


 * Thomas Lazarus siiighs on the road back and murmurs to Tathi. &quot;Ohmygosh now this is going to become a whole thing.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;First rule of cross-culture tourism and diplomacy; you're in someone else's town, you play by their rules.&quot;

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 5 + 1 = 6&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; CRACK!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As best you can, anyway. Within reason.&quot;

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">-4, so that's a 2. The shot goes way wide.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I know. But.. it's getting this into Tathi's head. That, my friend, is wrestling the dragon.&quot;

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">... &gt;:d &#171; &#160;1d20-3 = 17 - 3 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Mateo Selkirk:<font color="#000000">Plink! :D

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Ah! Guard! Sir! A moment please!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, if I'm not mistaken, she's going to be wrestling antimagic manacles in the morning.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And frankly, I can't really do much to defend her in this case.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;She may get some jail time. Community service at best. Maybe some other recompense having to do specifically with the man...&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh, Gnogglebolt, come, what's the term.. Hrm. Ah! Cultural Misunderstanding.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ahe! A fine schot! Terri, hyu turn!&quot; He points at another bottle. Conveniently, there are a lot of them.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hello, sir guard.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 6 + 6 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &gt;:d

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I understand there was a bit of trouble between a man and a woof elf, recently?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I'm just saying. Tathi is not reasonable. She's emotional, and dangerously so.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm a...representative of thr group the wood elf is part of. If this is going to be a legal thing, I need to know the process.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;You're talking like some little girl, Thomas. Quit it. I'll finish this, just you watch.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shall we take a walk down to the courthouse and you can fill me in on how this is going to work?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Need tea. Hang on. ^^;


 * Thomas Lazarus stops and looks at Tathi with a seriously stern look.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or, take me to someone who can fill me in?&quot;

Guard:<font color="#000000">*legal stuff goes here*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vow, hyu are both turnink out to be fine schots! Hy chust might hef to see about gettink hyu firearms uf hyu own!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You had better make a plan to kill me too then Tathi. I am telling you to let it go for a reason. This is serious.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian sprouts a type-writer and horn rimmed glasses, and starts taking notes. Takkity tak tak tik CHING.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You need to put it out of your head before you do something catastrophic.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Augh! You don't understand! ''He. Called. Me. A whore!''&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#660000">TELL IT TO THE JUDGE.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#660000">AND THE JURY.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I know you're mad.&quot; he closes his eyes and keeps walking. &quot;Some people are like that. Intolerable, rude, ungrateful and caustic. I'm familiar.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#660000">AND THE EXECUTIONER.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#660000">ALL OF WHOM ARE TOM.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">TOM IS JUDGE DREAD!? AUTOGRAPH, NOW.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But at the temples, we do not get the luxury of talking back to them. You need to learn temperance.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Need, in the literal sense of speaking.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The world has too many of those people for your to get by without it. Not while doing public service.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Will resume when Liatai has tea'd up...

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">He speaks the truth.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;What?&quot; Tathi says incrediously, but not with the token fury impersonation going on. Looks like the nuke is finally cooling off. &quot;Why in the world do I need to learn to put up with slander on my character when I can hurl fire and lightning around? I swear, if he were in my forest, it wouldn't have mattered how poorly I did. A dozen arrows in every inch of his body!&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">(bit miffed by that last sentence, hatari.. hose people for your to get by without it?

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">*those


 * Thomas Lazarus casts an eye towards Tathi. &quot;You need to because you're with us now. Do you yet realize all the crap you've set in motion? Even if you and I are willing to run and duck under this, nobody else is going to! It's about to escalate into a whole song and dance with the guards and trials and weeks of waiting and house arrest and blah-blah-blah--we don't have time for this!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That guy is so irrelevant.&quot; He sighs in annoyance. &quot;Can't you just put off your wrath to keep things from going into the chamberpot for us?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;That is preposterous! We're not beholden to them! I could very well be older than that town! ME! And I'm young!&quot; She says, but finally huffs, crossing her arms. &quot;But you finally make a point. He's filth. Not even worth my ire. I'll outlive him and whatever bastard children he spawns.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus rolls his eyes away. &quot;Good. I guess.</small.>

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">I'll just polymorph his happy ass into a gibbering mouther.

Tathi: <font color="#7f00ff">(( *bricks! So many of them!* ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">That's Baleful Polymorph.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">She can polymorph Kor into a gibbering mouther and drop him in the chimney then. =3= *gibber'd*

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;*blah blah blah legalese* ... but I will inform you that is is quite serious. At best, the charges facing your wood elf are disturbing the peace and aggravated assault, both of which she is guilty of by all accounts. Not to mention paying the Marathals for coming out to do an assessment and healing.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Tiktiktakkitytaktiktakkityching!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">I'm sorry guys.. maybe it's the evil dm in me. I love rocking the boat way too much. XP

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed, yes, this is serious. So...the man is most likely to press charges. What then? Is she to be taken into custody for a trial?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus rubs one eye, not speaking for a little while. &quot;We could probably not convince the captain to leave port while we have a wanted criminal with us. Not to mention Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Don't rock the boat!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Don't rock the boat, baby!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Don't rock the boat!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Gods help us all if the DM ever whips out a big shiny red button. I will be -so- effed.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Yeaaaaaaah.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You know you're probably going to have to turn yourself into a bird and make scarce for a couple days.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vow, hyu are both turnink out to be fine schots! Hy chust might hef to see about gettink hyu firearms uf hyu own!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">I'm wondering, if Tathi actually gets jailed, we'll leave her behind, go to Resca, and pick her up on the way back.

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

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, unless she was to pay any damages that the baron asked for up-front.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">*we might leave her

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">*gasp!* You mean I get to bring in my deathless sorcerer!?!?!?

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Yes.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Do it.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">No, you stick with Aelian. :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Do it now.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">NO DIE

TMG:<font color="#000000">Continue on, Liatai.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And did no one realize the implications of what the guard said? &gt;:3

VAE:<font color="#000000">NO DEATHLESS ARGHLBLARGH MROW SNARL

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The Marathals got called out to heal the baron.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">They know about this.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'll wait for that to sink in. |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Seriously.&quot; In a flat tone. &quot;They're going to act like it's impossible to do anything but what the laws of this town tell you to do.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;WHat kind of damages repayment can he ask for, at best?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You're gonna need to pull something.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And at worst?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Bird? That is so silly.&quot; She stops, blinking. &quot;Wait, that's brilliant!&quot;

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gold repayment. Anything more would require a trial.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus points suddenly.

Sszeyl:<font color="#660000">Oh no.

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;The charge for disturbing the peace was covered by Mr. Cyadarith.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I'll turn into a dragon and use its scent to find his fat ass! I bet he smells for miles!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;AND NO ASSASSINATING.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Wait, what? Who is that? What is that? I don't remember this. Did the DM explain that? Is that part of our objectives?

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Amusingly I think polymorphing doesn't grant you scent. :P And I think I'm lagging. :20

Meany:<font color="#660000">Oh no. =3=

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">seriously though guys, I'm just bad with names. XD

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu might even be as goot as me zumday!&quot; Shankfang says, grinning at the two kids.

Meany:<font color="#660000">Ghostwish.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Yeah. That's screwing things up.

Meany:<font color="#660000">I am going to start beating you now.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's my job to hunt rogue killer magicians, please bear in mind.&quot; &gt;:| *puff*

TMG:<font color="#000000">And I have to honestly say, OOC ghostwish.

Meany:<font color="#660000">I don't know when I'll stop.

TMG:<font color="#000000">This was bad and pointless.

VAE:<font color="#000000">this was fun

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Why would you say that

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because he's boring

VAE:<font color="#000000">It was pointful.. in fact it was a stroke of luck that took attention away from Miron

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">'Okay. Well.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She smirks, giving Thomas a sidelong glance. &quot;Going to take me up to see Ashmore, hrm? I'm sure he'll love that.&quot;


 * Ghostwish blows a raspberry at Tech.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll have to assume the worst that the man will probably ask for more, from what little I've heard of this man. Anyway...ah. The, uh.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Marathals came in to do the healing?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus sighs in exasperation. &quot;I am trying to be serious about this. You seriously can't. It would change our relationship forever. No..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are they still here?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I am begging you not to. I don't want that to ever happen..&quot; He actually seems a little fightened.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">allow me to check. I'm pretty sure 'all abilities and powers of base form' or some crap like that. XD

Meany:<font color="#660000">Lagcheck.

Meany:<font color="#660000">:30

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:20

Meany:<font color="#660000">&gt;:U

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:20 at :22. CLOUUUUUUUUD

Meany:<font color="#660000">:20*

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She sighs, but nods, before smirking again. &quot;Am I that scary, Thomas?&quot;

TMG whispers: but yeah. This really was pretty bad of Ghost to do. :/

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;I believe Arivan is still there, yes.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't want to have to fight you.&quot; He frowns. &quot;Isn't that enough? We're comrades.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Well crap.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">The subject gains the Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores of the new form but retains its own Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. It also gains all extraordinary special attacks possessed by the form (such as constrict, improved grab, and poison) but does not gain the extraordinary special qualities possessed by the new form (such as blindsense, fast healing, regeneration, and scent) or any supernatural or spell-like abilities.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That's why I'm begging you to understand, and get this idea out of your head.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">It specifcally says no scent.

You whisper to TMG: IC actions have IC implications. This is fine. Don't sweat it and don't complain to me in whispers.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Way to go, hedge wizard. :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">=w=; :23

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh no! Not cloud!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:23 at :25

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She sighs, rubbing her forehead with a few fingers. &quot;Thomas, I wouldn't fight you. But don't use that against me, okay? Please? That man deserves to die for what he's done. If the party thinks he's not worth it, fine, I'll let it slide. This time. But if he does it again, you better propose marriage to him on the spot or something.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">That earns a weak laugh.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Yeah. Okay. ... Thanks, Tathi.&quot;

TMG whispers: Sorry, didn't mean to complain. And yeah, that's actually pretty much all I was wondering about

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">CAT MUSCLING IN ON CHALUPA &gt;:O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alright. And in the possible event the the man is going to press further charges and demand recompense beyond money, that would require arresting the wood elf Tathi and holding her for trial, as you said. Um...do you have means of neutralizing a spellcaster?&quot;

Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;We do.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because...I hate to say it, but I'm not sure she'd come quietly, from what I just saw. If it turns out this way.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian groans.. &quot;Neutralizing a very volatile and angry one, who, Mr Gnogglebolt here is quite correct, will not come quietly.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can only hope it doesn't....&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian doesn't know what just transpired on the ship. THOMAS USES INFLUENCE. IT'S SUPER-TATHI'D.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But must be prepared for any eventuality.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh.. Sszeyl and Miron would probably manage it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">one has SR and other Wrack

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">ha. ha ha. You don't know how to fight a wizard. Let thomas handle it. XP

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">No more arresting party members you Lawful Lawful. :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alright then. That's...all, for now. We're still at the ship docked at the town port, and we'll be here for at least another day, longer if this escalates. Anyway, I must go speak with Arivan Marathal...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt goes rushing out to find the healer.

VAE:<font color="#000000">am not saying fight, am saying arrest. it's one of the methods to not kill her XD

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;What are you thanking me for, silly? I'm doing what any of my people would do. Valor and tradition and all that, alliances run deeper than blood, and a dozen other old sayings.&quot; She says, and then sighs. &quot;Honestly the only thing I'm sorry for is losing my temper so quickly.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I'll come with you. Hopefully I can explain this mess a bit further, and I really must speak with this noble too.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Lagcheck: :33 Shall we nom in the meantime?

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( :O I just realized I lost all of the books I had on my other HDD! ))


 * Thomas Lazarus rubs his head with a frown. &quot;Just.. seeing things our way, I guess.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I feel like I'm drifting apart from you guys these days, or something.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She tilts her head. &quot;How come? I see you spending most of your time with the Leaden Mace, but that's not some terrible schism between us, is it?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't know. I hope not.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm, where did they deposit Miron, btw?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He's actually (supposedly) following drunkenly.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Well come on then, elaborate. What's going on?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nice to know

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">So...the healer? Do we find him?

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

GM:<font color="#000000">... why did I say that, I'm really interested in this Thomas and Tathi RP that's going on right now, please ignore me.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Liagcheck :32

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh, crap

TMG:<font color="#000000">forgot about that

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">fffffffffffff- is hugesnet being hugesnet? :32

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:32 at :35

Faerie:<font color="#009999">:33 at :33

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">:33 at :32.. wait what

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">oh. my clock just turned to :33. ^^;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">oh god so many noms/.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Please, keep RPing. I'll chime in whenever I can to lagcheck.

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


 * Thomas Lazarus frowns and clams up a little. &quot;..Maybe I will. Do you mind if we catch up on that later, though?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Thomas for anchor, FOREVER AND EVER

VAE:<font color="#000000">this was an awesome session

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">But talking with marathal! Let's just get that out of the way before closing. -3-

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Miron for I'm drunk I don't care!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Gnogglebolt for SHE DID WHAT-

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Miron: MGS: Metal Gear Slammed.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Aelian for Attempted Fixing

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Thomas for Escort Serive. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">If you follow Miron's plot.. he drank most after Gnogglebolt came in.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Taddi for &quot;You dare insult me?! I KILL YOU!&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">Seconding.

VAE:<font color="#000000">So, if he checks again, he's drunk properly

VAE:<font color="#000000">it's just.. he began later than expected

Meany:<font color="#660000">Aelian for Voice of Sanity.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I DIDNSHT TELL NUFFIN TO NOBODSHIES&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Gnogglebolt for The Lawyer who Hates His Job the MOST.

TMG whispers: wait, oh crap

TMG whispers: lemme check my EXP...

Meany:<font color="#660000">Seconding.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nominating Tathi for Feministing!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Mirion for Paranoia, Take TheCounterJustExploded.

Meany:<font color="#660000">Swallowtail for successful ninjaing.

VAE:<font color="#000000">i? a whore? *SLAMFIREBALLDIE*

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Terri for BANG! :&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Swallowtail for Social Engineering

TMG whispers: okay, 850 to go to level 8. Still need to play out the next day and do more crafting before then.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ghost for sticking to his RP-guns (eventhoughitderailedeverythingohgodOHGOD) but in the end made for good RP. :B

Meany:<font color="#660000">Shankfang for teacher.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">actually, ya, hatari? let's wrap this up?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Thomas for Voice of Reason

TMG:<font color="#000000">aw, crappies.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Shankfang for teacher! Seconded!

Meany:<font color="#660000">:35 at :36.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:36 at :38.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">hey. everyone start timestamping. XD:35

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nominating Senior Analyst Skimpy dress for awesome arrival

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">If the map is presently accurate, and Miron isn't, like, Right there then, okay.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Well, waiting for getting back on Marathal, then.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nominating gnogglebolt for saboteur

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He's only willing to elaborate alone.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Right o. :36

VAE:<font color="#000000">He is right there

VAE:<font color="#000000">it was said he's following drunkenly

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hatari; say you're at the ship and you put Miron belowdecks then

VAE:<font color="#000000">as in.. not just behind

TMG:<font color="#000000">Surely you've reached it by now

VAE:<font color="#000000">a few metres away, but he's loitering about

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Fair enough. We've been walking to the boat for like, an hour.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You should lay down brother. You always hit the cups too hard. You're not a drunken monk. Unless you've been taking lessons.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I ? I can.. outdrink Aniz... &quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Very goot, both uf hyu. Dat's enough for today. Ve kan practice again tomorrow, yah?&quot; Shankfang takes his gun back, noticing the arrival of Thomas, an angry Tathi, and a drunk Miron.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;But.. well enough.. it was.. an eventful day.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Goooo to bed. And don't fall down the ladder.&quot;

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

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

</i>Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi waits for Miron to addle away, and then peers intently at Thomas. &quot;Welll?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh, heloo! Vat heppened out dere? Hy heard de eksplosion.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron goes downstairs ,and to the bed, then &#171; &#160;1d20+0 = 13 + 0 = 13&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; climb check due to drunk

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liatai check :39 ...you'll probably respond about Marathal before you get this

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Gasp! Gnogglebolt! The guard! He's gone aquatic!


 * Thomas Lazarus frowns a little as Tathi's attention returns to him. &quot;...&quot; He turns to the river and leans on the railing of the ship. &quot; I just feel like..&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Haloo!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Suddenly! Half-Orc!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;To do my job, I've had to start hiding all these things from a bunch of you. Because.. I don't know.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't think everyone would agree with it. Or me. Or the Mace.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... But we're supposed to be allies.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We should be able to trust each other with anything.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; ... But we don't. ... We can't.&quot; He frowns more deeply.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We disagree, radically, about tons of things.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm beginning to feel like some kind of.. conspirator bad guy.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">okay, this is totally anime

VAE:<font color="#000000">the whole game.

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

Dr. Hatari: <font color="#ff0000">(( brb 1 second ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:44 lagcheck -- tallying noms.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;No.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She jumps a little, and turns to regard the (gasp) half-orc! &quot;Oh. Hello Shankfang.&quot; She says, and looks back to Thomas. &quot;I find it.. almost cute the way a lot of the younger races feel it necessary to reveal every little detail, every little aspect of their being. It's so innocent, if a bit naive.&quot; She says, smiling. &quot;It's sometimes necessary to hide things. For the sake of their safety, their health. And sometimes because no good can come of them knowing. The Truth is not always a virtue.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liatai lagcheck again :42 ....still waiting on Marathal, though you'll probably get to that before this reaches you...

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

</i>Liatai:<font color="#000000">:42 at :45. ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">...tathi you awful influence. :(

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ah well.

Meany:<font color="#660000">Shankfang the Deffrider: &quot;Very goot, both uf hyu. Dat's enough for today. Ve kan practice again tomorrow, yah?&quot; Shankfang takes his gun back, noticing the arrival of Thomas, an angry Tathi, and a drunk Miron.

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">ololol I didn't notice Shankfang's ling before my tirade.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Why is Tathi awful influence?

TMG:<font color="#000000">meany; one second.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">At least she isn't as horribly naive as Gnogglebol


 * Thomas Lazarus flinches. =w=;;;;;;

VAE:<font color="#000000">*t

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Wood elves are hilarious, if a bit tricky to play. Chaotic out the ass, but deeply ingrained in old traditions and beliefs, with a very rigid social structure. ELFFS.

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

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

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

</i>TMG:<font color="#000000">aaand nevermind about that whisper...

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">I'm saying it now.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Also as militaristic as all hell. XP

TMG:<font color="#000000">I'm really getting sick of everyone calling Gnogglebolt naive.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">what.


 * Thomas Lazarus hangs his head with a sigh.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Um.. that's like me being sick of people calling Miron paranoid

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">But, continue.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Thanks. I'm actually really glad to hear someone else thinks that way.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Eksactly. So hyu hef a fev secrets. So vat? Everyone hes secrets, it iz an inescapable fact uf life. Dat doesn' make hyu a bad person. It simply makes hyu normal. Hy mean, kan hyu imagine society beink successful if everyone knev everyddink about each odder? Sure, it's not zumddink to be proud uf, but it doesn' make hyu bad.&quot;

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

</i>Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's just been kind of rough on me. I guess. &quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liatai; got your :44 at 44.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Then are you shocked to tears to find you have something in common with a people who kill over insults?&quot; She says, smirking. TROLL TATHI, THE RETURN PART SIX.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">got your 45 at 45, liatai. Still waiting on Marathal, though you definitely saw the last message...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu helped me deal vith Gnogglebolt ven Hy first joined hyu. Vould a bad person do dat?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She laughs a little. &quot;Secrets are a part of life. There are secrets in the earth, secrets in the sky, and secrets in magic. What needs to be known and what needs to be hidden is the chaos of life.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Uh.. sorry. That doesn't translate to common so well does it?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu helped saff a kity uf assholes from evil Hegs. Vould a bad person do dat?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She ponders. &quot;You have like.. as half as many words as we do..&quot; She says, but then nods in agreement with Shank.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">WTF ITUNES.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">WTF.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;No, hyu are a very goot person, Tomas. Don' ever tink oddervise.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus closes his eyes and smiles weakly. &quot;I'm not really worried about being bad..&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Vengaboys Boom Boom Boom? REALLY?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:49 hopeful lagcheck.

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

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

</i>Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm just concerned we're not all always going to get along.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm really not willing to do this Marathal RP while lagging.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I wouldn't be doing my job if I wasn't supremely confident it was worth spending my life on. It just makes me sad when I see us butting heads this much.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She giggles a little. &quot;Fact of life, Thomas. Conflict happens. It's the space that gives happieness a little rest.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;We work together in the end, don't we?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Yes.. But are we going to be together at the end every time, forever?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat iz onavoidable. Not everyone tinks de same, und pipple are gunna disagree. Like Taddi saeed, a simple fact uf life. Hyu vork trough it, und moff on.&quot;

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

</i>Meany:<font color="#660000">English is easy compared to everything else?

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She sighs a little.. &quot;Aelian's recent... incident..&quot; She says, biting the word off.. &quot;.. has made me question that from an entirely new direction. Maybe a bit more cohesion could be useful to stave that fear off.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">49 at 49?


 * Dr. Hatari stamps. :10:49

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:49 at :51.

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">:49 at 49.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yah, dat iz vat iz important. Dat hyu schtick trough de konflict, und are schtronger for it in de end.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#660000">Immigrants are doomed.

Meany:<font color="#660000">Also.

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

Meany:<font color="#660000">I'm going to tf2 if I disconnect again.


 * Dr. Hatari pats. ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">it's okay meany, been there. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">When you get the timestamp :52, please give me the timestamp back, then pause for a bit? I'm going to try disconnecting and reconnecting.


 * Ghostwish grabs both sides of the boat and baarrreeelllrrrooolllllllllsss!!!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;As long as hyu are villink to vork trough it, Hy em sure ve vill hall schtill be togedder in de end. Friends for life, yah?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus shakes his head and rubs his temple. &quot;... Sszeyl. Gnogglebolt. Even you, just today... it feels like wedges are driving between us. If everything were out in the open... &quot; He sighs again. &quot;It just feels like things are getting tenuous.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Maybe it's all in my head.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">BRB. Nature calls.


 * Thomas Lazarus frowns at Shankfang's comment. &quot;...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm an Inquisitor for life.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">52 at 52

TMG:<font color="#000000">And pausing. Waiting for you to get this and DC.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If something happens that drops a choice at my feet between them and 'us'..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Then that's it.&quot;

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Pay attention. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">=3=?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:52 at :54. Disconnecting, prepare to send anything after Dr. Hatari: =3=?

<i> You have disconnected.

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

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

</i><i><font color="#0000ff">RAM has connected.

</i><i><font color="#0000ff">Ghostwish has connected.

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

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

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

</i>TMG:<font color="#000000">Liataichecking. :56

TMG:<font color="#000000">uhoh, she's saying she's timing out.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:56 at :57.

TMG:<font color="#000000">This could be a problem...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Let's try again. :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">:O Got your 57!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:57

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">You here?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Whee!

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm here!

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">:57

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Glad to hear.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Yay!

TMG whispers: Liatai

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

</i> TMG whispers: Liatai: When you get the timestamp :52, please give me the timestamp back, then pause for a bit? I'm going to try disconnecting and reconnecting. TMG: 52 at 52 TMG: And pausing. Waiting for you to get this and DC. Thomas Lazarus: &quot;If something happens that drops a choice at my feet between them and 'us'..&quot; Thomas Lazarus: &quot;Then that's it.&quot; TMG: Hey. &gt;:O TMG: Pay attention. :B Dr. Hatari: =3=? TMG: Liatai may miss those lines if she DC's as soon as she gets the timestamp back and we'll have to resend them to her. Shankfang the Deffrider: &quot;Vorry about dat if it heppens.&quot; Dr. Hatari: Oh well? TMG: Hey! Ram! Dr. Hatari: =w=; TMG: Now -that- was inexcusable! * RAM agrees with Hatari. Oh well? Dr. Hatari: We're RPing. You don't even have to ask. You know what Liatai would want. TMG: Um. TMG: Did you READ? she ASKED for a pause. Liatai: :52 at :54. Disconnecting, prepare to send anything after Dr. Hatari: =3=? TMG: Liatai: When you get the timestamp :52, please give me the timestamp back, then pause for a bit? I'm going to try disconnecting and reconnectin Liatai is disconnected. TMG: See? Like I said. TMG: and I'll take care of the resending, so it's not five people doing it... Dr. Hatari: =w=; Guess it's an exception. :B TMG: That's why I barked at you to pay attention. :B Dr. Hatari: Well you know what TMG: wait--ack! Sorry, I didn't mean that in a mean way! TMG: Keep the emotions in RP! Dr. Hatari: You've cried about that wolf a few too many times for me to really pay attention to it still. Sorry. :P TMG: ...Oh. Now that's just stupid. Liatai has connected.

TMG:<font color="#000000">that was weird. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, sent.

RAM:<font color="#990000">And there goes Meany.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Guess Meany's playing TF2 now. =w=;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Fair enough. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay, keep going. I'll get the Marathal RP going.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Allrighty then. :U

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">The guard directs you to a courthouse, where a very fat noble is complaining loudly to a frazzled elf. ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Aelian, you ready?

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Tiktik-what?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt approaches 'Arivan'.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Yeah. I can't even imagine how bad this must seem to you.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's no permanent damage, it should be -- ah, Mr. Sparkgear, would you please wait a moment?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;For what it's worth, Tathi's always been a bit of a loose cannon, but even I never thought she'd decend into outright attempted murder.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Patient confidentiality, you understand.&quot;

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

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian sighs heavily as he walks up. &quot;Mr. Marathal.&quot; He says in greeting, and then politely waits.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt bows and backs up.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Can we get our flu shot while we're here-*brickslide*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hennyvay, enough vith de emo schtuff! Cheer up! Ve're togedder now! Enjoy it for as long as it lasts!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Now, tell me. Vat heppened out dere? Vy vas Taddi so angry?&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">After a while, Arivan comes out, wiping arcane soot off his hands. &quot;... now. What happened? Is everyone in your group all right? Is Baron Digby the only casualty?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I want to knooooooowww! @.@


 * Thomas Lazarus groans softly and stands.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi snorts, tossing her hair. &quot;Some human mistake in breeding decided to insult me, and learned the consquences. Explosively so.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Everyone in our group is....managing. For the moment.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm sure you'll hear all about it in no time. Why not ask her yourself?&quot; He walks away with a sigh, apparently still not feeling all that cheery.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I still cannot believe Tathi did that. I don't think I can get her out of this one if, er, Baron Digby decides to press charges.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian sighs again, and recounts the entire story, added in with the little bits about wood elven quirks concerning slinging insults around.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;.. and combined with what experiences she had with the war and all, she is.. a bit volatile, as Gnogglebolt said. A loose cannon.&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;So, dat vas de eksplosion. How deed it end up? Iz he dead?&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... dear lord you didn't leave her loose in the city in such a temper, did you?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas makes a point of trying to reach Swallowtail for a moment while she's (relatively) unoccupied.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He looks aside at her and offers a shallow nod.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Sadly no!&quot; She huffs. &quot;I lost my temper and went off half-cocked. I think you're about the only one here that would recognize that expression. Firearms borrowed the term from us. He got singed, lost an ear maybe. It seems I missed my chance to kill him.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've seen what happens when evokers are in such moods, and among everything else that could be said right now, we do not need an arcane rampage in the midst of the disease outbreak. She'll wring us all dry.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:O

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Taddi!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">i guess i'll try joining the ow

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

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean, nothing i can do here now, since Miron's asleep

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... I'm sorry. I had no business involving you.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Miron - 200 XP - Subterfuge and secrecy. Secret aaaaagent gnoooome~ 200 XP - Drunkgnome returns.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Hy em disappointed in hyu! &quot;Hyu schould know not to do dese tinks helfvay!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, no no no. Thomas took her back to the ship.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Er, &quot; should be at the beginning of that sentence.


 * Swallowtail tilts her head, looking confused.

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;He called me a whore, okay!? I went livid and didn't concentrate!!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;HEAVENS no! She's under Thomas's watch now.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And, ah....would it break confidentiallity if you told me your guestimate as to the likelyhood of this baron pressing charges? Or do you know the kind of man he is already?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">o3o

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;So?! Never let you anger kloud you aim! Be kalm, be prufessional, make sure hyu fineesh de job!&quot;

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;It needed to be done, I did it. This cannot be changed, and I do not regret it. Do not let it weight you to the floor.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Thank goodness you understand, and yes, we're a bit concerned.. As far as Tathi even cares, she has a right to kill him. Prosecution could lead to a very nasty incident.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And Shankfang certainly isn't helping right now. XD


 * Thomas Lazarus smiles a bit.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Right. You did a good job.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">She sighs and hangs her head over the rail. &quot;I know. Aelian, however, has been raised in the woods and in the city. He has a soft spot for their laws and procedures. Apparently a person cannot be held accountable for what they say around here.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Let's just hope there's no more need to keep things from each other.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, good. Then I'm sure Sir Lazarus has the lecturing duties taken care of, I won't double up on it the next time I see her.&quot; The healer chuckles weakly, toying with his holy symbol nervously. &quot;At the moment, the baron wants some kind of recompense for his grievance.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">added the 400 XP to Miron

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..If that man ever gives us another letter.. I swear on the sun in the sky, I am feeding it to him.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Eksactly. De lavs, vile schtupeed, schould be followed, if chust to keep youself out uf trubbel.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Was easy job anyway.&quot; =3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;But!&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;It iz only illegal if hyu get kaught!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Please tell me he did not demand anything sexual.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What kind? Just money?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Pfffft.&quot; She says, giggling. &quot;That's so absurd. Is it true?&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;No! Of course not! He wants as little to do with seeing her face to face again.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Or, something els--&quot; Gnogglebolt 'blechs' at Aelian.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vell, uf kourse! How kan dey charge hyu if dey don' know hyu deed it?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Oh thank gods. He's twice as smart as some of the nobles Tathi has talked about.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;So, please, sorry for my interuption. What does he want?&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Monetary recompense, most likely, or a penal sentence if she can't pay. He may demand a steep price, however.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Steep prices we can likely deal with.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;Especially given that you're adventurers. Everyone knows about adventurers' deep pockets.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vich iz vy hyu schould hef vaited. Bided hyu time, den schtruck ven de time vas right!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or at least, she can deal with. For once, I'm not going to bail her out for her own fool action like this.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Hrm. Just how steep though? He cannot make too terrible a demand. As embarassing as Tathi's response is, he did accost her first.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Or, manipulate de situation in hyu favor.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">was, not is, dumb english. XD

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I couldn't tell you. You would need to ask a barrister or someone more acquainted with the law.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Still, one is not allowed to assault another for being a toad. Words are ephemeral, wounds stick.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom descends below decks.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well...alright then. At least we have a good idea of what to expect.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Get him to accost hyu, onder de lavs uf de kity. Den hyu simply klaim self defense.&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;... though, Lyola will be far less likely to immediately let her into the saetia groves if she's proved herself that volatile.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi looks incredolous(sp) but then shakes her head laughing. &quot;These laws of the younger races. They're so silly. But, I think Thomas' idea of turning into a bird suddenly has a lot more merit. I am going to remember this little quip you've taught me, Shankfang.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">RAM WTF HAVE YOU DONE. OH GOD. OH GOD.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I am so sorry about all this, mister Marathal. I hope this doesn't taint your view of us.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I hope that's enough to knock some sense into her.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">No! D:

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian sighs. &quot;Gnogglebolt.. that's something we need to talk about.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Saff dat, tough! If hyu do it here und now, everyone vill know it vas hyu.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Yes yes yes, I just meant for future reference.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know, Aelian, she was traumatized by the way, had bad experiences with human nobles in the past, etc etc.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That doesn't make our job any easier.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Close, but no candystick.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;But, de betta vay iz to manipulate dem into attackink hyu first. Den hyu pretty much hef free reign.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;What I meant is I need help healing her.&quot;


 * Arivan Marathal chuckles weakly, then lowers his voice, speaking in Elven. &quot;(I grew up among drow and raised a spirited daughter. These kinds of things happen every now and then, and can be fixed. It's not me you'll need to worry about.)&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh yeah, and in wood elf culture, words are equivalent to phsyical harm--&quot;

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

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...I am very glad you trust me with that. I will do the best I can.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is, if she is not jailed. Then there's not much I can do.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But, thank you for your trust.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns to Aelian and respectfully bows.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">A relatively emotionally drained Thomas staggers onto his bunk with a 'flump', and stares at the ceiling for a while. Time to meditate and unwind.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Especially for hyu, since hyu are a voman. Hyu kan pull de vole 'damsel in distress' bit.&quot;

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Shankfang, what are you doing?&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I know right? D:

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">He nods a little, to both of them. &quot;Tathi is a wood elf. But I know even the most aggressive of wood elves would have scoffed at some random noble insulting them. They're.. well, quite arrogant. They would have seen it like an insect shaking its fist at a dragon. But Tathi? She's hurt. She lashed out for a reason, and it had nothing to with the insult.&quot;

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

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi looks revolted at that. &quot;What!? I would never!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That....will help quite a bit. SHall we walk back and continue to talk?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Yes, let's. Mr Marathal, you can come along, if you like?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh, givink Taddi advice on how to deal vith potential accosters.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Her actions are not excused...but if we can get to the heart of this, perhaps we can keep it from happening again.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I'll just melt them, and turn into a bird. Or a cat! If the law can't catch me, ta-ta!&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;I should be getting back to the clinic -- I had to leave Sornala with the Dimmocks. All seven of their children caught the cough.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I feel as though I have scored a net 0 Karma today. =3=

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;But if there's anything I can do to help, let me know.'

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's fine, mister Marathal. You do have this town to care for.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think we'll be able to handle this.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Thank you, Gnogglebolt. It's very, very urgent. Tathi was still very young when the war occured. And now.. now she's grown up into a powerful wizard. You can see how this is becomming quickly volatile.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;And- ack!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I wanted to speak to the noble! I forgot!&quot; He says, slapping his forehead.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu hef been very qviet, Edaric. How are hyu today? Everyone else seems to be hevink problems...&quot;

Arivan Marathal:<font color="#000000">&quot;You may want to wait on that and do it when he's not obsessing over a minor burn.&quot; =w=;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I mean, really, just a little sense into him. How can you not recognize such a blatant wizard. Kor was perched on her shoulder for pete's sake!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Um...okay, take care of that real quick..&quot; Gnogglebolt trails behind Aelian as he backtracks.


 * Thomas Lazarus unwinds with some lazy daydreaming.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Good idea, mister Maratha.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Come on, Aelian, let's get back to the ship.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Hmmmmmmm... if I had leadership... what kind of cohort would I have...? =3= Hey Liatai can you shoot me that sleazy ninja tokena--*BRICKALANCH* =w=;;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Huh? Me? I'm all right. It's a lot to take in and sort through.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;I suppose it will have to wait.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, come on, let us walk and continue talking...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh, don' even get me schtarted. Hy didn' even know vat everyone vas talkink about part uf de time.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thanks for asking, though. How are you doing? Bet this isn't what you had in mind at all when you joined us in Braxton Falls.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And, while I am glad you think I can help with this, I must ask what you think I can actually do, even if you tell me all about what's hurtint her inside.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot; And you haven't even gotten into the whole dragon thing yet... &quot; =w=

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy tink my life ekspectancy took a sherp drop ven Hy joined hyu guys. So mhenny enemies! So much political intrigue! Und a Dragon now, too?! Oh Garl, Hy von' even surviff to my veddink at dis rate...&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">If only we had Sam here for a session to parrot &quot;What&quot; with Shankfang. :B

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I mean, you're really the only one close enough to her for something like this. I would hope that you two do more than her just bouncing on you every night, and you actually do care for and open up to each other, and speak to each other from the heart. No one else can do that but you.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">He sighs again. &quot;It is.. difficult.. There's a knot in her, spiritually. A bundle of hate, fear, pain, and sorrow, all seasoned with fury and helplessness. I.. don't know exactly what to do. I feel overwhelmed. She has opened up to me once or twice, and I've done what I can, but I feel like there is this part of her that believes there is no answer.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Ah, I see...&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">He stops dead, and gives Gnogglebolt a flat look. &quot;Bouncing on her?&quot; He says incredolously.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh don't even start. You two could wake the dead every night. But that's not the point.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">And then.. he starts smirking.. and he starts to look like.. Oh god it's tathi troll gone male. &quot;I mean REALLY Gnogglebolt, bouncing? We are far, far more articulate than that. I can go into great detail! Why, just last night..&quot; And he lets it hang. :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What do you think I can say to her that will help her?&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Ohhh. Wait a second. I still have a second sending ready..

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Yes, yes, sorry, anyway.&quot; He says, and forrows his brow. &quot;It's difficult. What do you say to someone who's youth was practically slain by war? A refugee, who's survived by being extremely dangerous?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;But...Hy kan do zum goot here, vith hyu guys. Und Hy know Talfeera vould be proud uf me for helpink, so Hy em gunna schtick vith it. Hy'll chust try not to die in de process.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I should call someone.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I mean, I really did say pretty much all I had earlier...though she was far too worked up to really hear any of it. I might be able to tell her the same things again, when she's more receptive...but I'm not sure how far that will really go...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt thinks.


 * Thomas Lazarus stares blearily at the bottom of Miron's bunk. Blink.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Who?


 * VAE is watching ,still

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You tell them....&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">if you need to wake miron up, it's OK

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aah, don't worry. We've already proven that we have the funds to bring someone back if the worst happens.&quot; Smirk that doesn't reach all the way up his face. &quot;Though, at least one of the dragons involved is nice.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Not really, I'm good. Just thinking aloud. Really aloud. :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Speaking of Talfeera, Shankfang smiles wide.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks somber. &quot;You tell them the war is over. It might have been that way, once...but it isn't anymore. You set an example...you show how acting properly gets good results.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Has anyone told you why we're headed to Resca in the first place?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And appealing, just a little bit, to pride never hurt. Point out what you said to me, that any other wood elf would have just scoffed at the man. Give him a big whatever. SHow him he's so worthless, he's not even worth the attention.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Er, show her that he is so worthless.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus continues to stares. A message, to anyone in the world, any time, no strings. The mana is dedicated. It's just sitting in your mind, ready to go, or be wasted today. &quot;...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und Hy got to talk to her today! Sure, it vas only 25 vords each vay, but it vas goot to hear her voice, to hear her say she luvs me. Hy needed dat. Hy hefn' been able to for qvite zum time.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">Aelian runs his hand through his hair. &quot;I tried that first part. She had a fairly good counter-arguement. Home burned to the ground, enemy still at large, possible new enemy on the horizon.. The way she put it really made me fear for the future. Like it might happen again. But, we'll discuss that some other time. That second point of yours is.. pretty good. Maybe I can play the wood elf hand against her.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ah, no. No vun hes saeed. Hy figured it hed zumddink to do vith dis vole overreachink konspiracy or vat hef hyu...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Thomas, call your cute little halfling crush. You know you want to.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;A counter-counter argument.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I'm like three times her -- oh wait.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Part of it, you should ask Sszeyl or Miron or Thomas about. But I can tell you who we're going to see on the coast.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You're weird. =3=


 * Thomas Lazarus is bricked.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is the enemy on your doorstep? Is the fire heading your way? No? Then the war hasn't started yet. Sure, it might...but as long as it hasn't, you keep the attitudes for war and the attitudes for peace separate.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">He snaps his fingers. &quot;We need to brush up on wood elf history.&quot; He says.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Is it really that weird? I mean, you have humans and elves, humans and drow, even humans and Orcs! But, a Half-Orc and a Gnome is suddenly unnatural?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;One must save their energy for when it really matters. Why act like every day is a war? You just hurt yourself fighting ghosts...&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus eventually casts another Sending.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">... &quot;Hiii mooom.&quot; |3 &quot;How're you and dad and B&#228;rli today~? We'll be in Resca before long.&quot;

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

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Lay it on me, Edaric! De more Hy know about vat iz gun on, de betta.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sszeyl and Terri were talking about Terri's 'Aunt Sal?' Well, as you heard, 'Aunt Sal' is a dragon. A bronze dragon. And not just any dragon, either. A real champion, from the stories. A paladin. A true-blooded champion of Bahamut.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... and that's who we're going to see.&quot; |3

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Listen, wood elves have been in a lot of wars, many battles. They've been hurt bad before. They always recover. It's practically a historical belief that the wood elves can never be defeated. Look what Tathi is doing! She's trying to rebuild her home!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's that, too.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Crud I need to find Mama Lazarus' token. x3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Life goes on. Sure, the war may return...but if we've lost our own souls in the interim, what's the point of even fighting?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You cannot ever forget what you are fighting for and why.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because if you do....it doesn't matter if you still walk the earth. Your life is over.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks back up to Aelian.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Think any of that will help?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Got it.

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">He nods a bit. &quot;I think so. Let's try and make sure she doesn't hear it all from just me.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt tilts his head. &quot;You're sure? You think it would mean more if it came from soneone other than you?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy hef alvays vanted to meet a Dragon...&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oops. I was scrolled up.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Glad you found it. ^^;

Aelian:<font color="#7F00FF">&quot;Strength in numbers, Gnogglebolt. In every situation.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very good point.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let me know when you want me to try and say something to her.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll do what I can. Again...thank you very much for thinking me worthy of matters such as this. Trust like that means a lot to me.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I dragged back to the main deck

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And my first thought;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Why are they in the water D:&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh yeah =3=&quot;

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

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">I think we may be nearing done? Anything else to do?

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Tom? Tommy!&quot; :D &quot;It's so good to hear your voice. We're all fine, B&#228;rli had a flea bath -- Oops! Sending! Stay safe, stay warm, love you!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">|3 !

GM:<font color="#000000">Righto!

GM:<font color="#000000">Any more noms before I send them along?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">That wasn't nearly as bad as when I sent the first one telling them I was an inquisitor. =3= *bricked*

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Gnogglebolt for good advice!

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Seconding Gnogglebolt;'s

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Nomming Shankfang for NOW SHE WILL BE MORE TERRIBLE THAN EVER BEFORE

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">One for Shankfang

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Nomming Thomas for Doubts

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;HVAT IS HAPPENINK &gt;:O&quot;

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Meany gets the Nemesis Cloud consolation prize nom. =3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nomming Thomas for My Worst Enemy Is Myself

VAE:<font color="#000000">He's the inquisitor who would likely enjoy MLP a lor

VAE:<font color="#000000">*lot

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why can't we just all get along?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">No, no, we established earlier during 365 character questions, my worst enemy is Ocahilon *bricked!!!*

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">My worst enemy is two - Myself and Ocahillon

GM:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt - 50 XP - Grandiose Plans! 50 XP - Spell Proof. 50 XP - SHE DID WHAT. 50 XP - Lawyer Gnome! 50 XP - And Advice Gnome.

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

GM:<font color="#000000">Swallowtail - 200 XP - Evidence get!

GM:<font color="#000000">Tathi - 200 XP - TELL ME ABOUT MY FAMILY NOW DAMMIT. AND GIVE ME MY SEEDS. 200 XP - WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?! 200 XP - GOOD ROLEPLAY FROM A BAD ROLL. THIS IS JUST IN CAPS TO KEEP THE PATTERN GOING.

GM:<font color="#000000">Aelian - 200 XP - Voice of Sanity 200 XP - Mr. Fix-It.

GM:<font color="#000000">Shankfang - 200 XP - Teacher! 200 XP - Finally getting caught up on the plot. &quot;HVAT IS HAPPENINK &gt;:O&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Thomas - 200 XP - The party's anchor is getting dragged across the bottom a little too much. ^^; 200 XP - Have you called your mother lately? Tom has. 200 XP - Deep Thoughts with Thomas Lazarus.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...&quot;spell proof'?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">M'I'unno. o3o

GM:<font color="#000000">The whole thing with Miron, Pellan'zyne, Gnogglebolt, and the spellcasting to prove a divine link.

TMG:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;27150+50+50+50+50+50 = 27150 + 50 + 50 + 50 + 50 + 50 = 27400&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">srorry, thought you meant int hte &quot;bulletproof' sense of the word. x3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ah, that was worth one

VAE:<font color="#000000">come on.Can't you add 250 XP by head

TMG:<font color="#000000">Can, and did.

RAM:<font color="#990000">27200. Just 800 more to level 9!

TMG:<font color="#000000">Felt better typing it out for posterity's sake.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">wait, level 9?

TMG:<font color="#000000">You mean level 8

RAM:<font color="#990000">Er, eight.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Yeah.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Saving campaign...

VAE:<font color="#000000">just 2145 or so

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Tathi was 31672.. now 32272. Aelian was 11600.. now 12000.. lemme check

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron is 25955

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And done. ... In that time, Cocoa has appeared and is stretched out asleep next to me. Ninjacat. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron is 25855

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hee, ninjacat.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">She's completely stretched out, too. Boardcat.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I have definitely caught a cold.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Goddamn, how'd Tathi get so far ahead of everyone? O.O

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

Faerie:<font color="#009999">By burning all the people in her way?

Faerie:<font color="#009999">I could see her doing that.

Faerie:<font color="#009999">&gt;.&gt;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Makes sense.


 * Liatai buries Hatari in blankets, adds chicken soup, orange juice, ginger ale, and crackers to the pile.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Is it terrible..

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That I hope it gets worse

RAM:<font color="#990000">:O

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Because colds are weak but still a good excuse to call in tomorrow &gt;.&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">want to slack off job, eh

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

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


 * VAE guessed it

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


 * Faerie snrk

RAM:<font color="#990000">Oh, fair enough.

VAE:<font color="#000000">The odd thing is.. I don't remember Tathi even getting more noms than everyone else

Ghostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Allright folks. I'm gonna save a log and then check in for the night. ^_^

VAE:<font color="#000000">She has to be getting secret stealth XP :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay. See everyone who's not asleep back in IRC! :3

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Axecop's theme is playing.

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The perfect credit roll music.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Axecop has a theme?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Lynx, out.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He sure does.

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

</i>Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7AYYzuEnoI&amp;feature=bf_prev&amp;list=LLSmb2NLz9nWaTVC40lOq06w&amp;lf=plpp_video&amp;shuffle=170296

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The theme towards the end is priceless.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">I...think my ability score is off.

RAM:<font color="#990000">No...wait...

RAM:<font color="#990000">Nevermind.

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

</i><i> You have disconnected.

</i>