Session 73

TMG has connected.

Railock has connected.

RAM has connected.

NotGhostwish has connected.

Ghostwish has connected.

Liatai::10 lagcheck!

Ghostwish:Welcome!

RAM::10!

Liatai::10 at :10. :3

RAM:Wee!

Meany has connected.

Dr. Hatari has connected.

Liatai:Who's NotGhostwish?

RAM:Ghostwish being a troll.

Meany:Nicodemus, methinks.

Meany:Also.

TMG:<font color="#000000">I has yaygecko on my desk. |3

Meany:<font color="#330000">Guys.

Meany:<font color="#330000">I need halp spamming VAE.

NotGhostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">IT IS NOT ME.

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

NotGhostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Because the viewing screen is very grainy. XD

Ghostwish:<font color="#990099">Shutup you wank.

Meany:<font color="#330000">....

Meany:<font color="#330000">NotGhostwish, why do you have Drayco's textcolour?

Meany:<font color="#330000">=3=

NotGhostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Why are you still breathing?

Meany:<font color="#330000">I'm not.

Meany:<font color="#330000">I died five weeks ago.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Your mother killed me with her cooking.

NotGhostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Good. Dibs on your stuff.

TMG:<font color="#000000">heeheehee, gecko crawling on arm. tickles. |3

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Gecko doing good, then?

GM:<font color="#000000">Well, while we're waiting for VAE, want your noms from last session? :3

Ghostwish:<font color="#990099">YES

RAM:<font color="#990000">I DEMAND NOMS!

TMG:<font color="#000000">Gecko doing very good. His tail's getting huge! It's like, triple the size it was when we got him, and still getting bigger!

GM:<font color="#000000">200 XP to all for finally getting to Resca!

TMG:<font color="#000000">His front limbs are still rather skin and bones, but getting better too.

GM:<font color="#000000">Thomas - 50 XP - Makeover! 50 XP - Discussions of mortality.

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

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

GM:<font color="#000000">Miron - 200 XP - Elven Nightmares 200 XP - Suddenly, Mace history! TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL ELSE. (And 200 XP because you signed on just after that was given to all.)

GM:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl - 100 XP - I see you have tattoos. I also have tattoos.

GM:<font color="#000000">Swallowtail - 100 XP - &gt;8| Edaric - 100 XP - No, no, after you.

GM:<font color="#000000">Tathi - 100 XP - The Adventures of Kor 50 XP - Chasing down the Easter egg NPC. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt - 200 XP - Disregard dragons. Acquire technology.

GM:<font color="#000000">Shankfang - 100 XP - No, no, after you. I insist. 100 XP - Discussion of mortality. 100 XP - Orky counzzelor.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">Awwww. He gets xp for the nightmares I wrote up? :(

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You're the one who nommed him for it.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">Ahhh, so it's the players that need murdering...

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">&gt;:(

Meany:<font color="#330000">? =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hokay, gecko got really fiesty and jumpy, put him back in his cage. x3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You changed your text to Fae color.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">To invisible color. *bricked*

Meany:<font color="#330000">No that's /emote green.

Meany:<font color="#330000">=3=

Meany:<font color="#330000">Mmmm.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Windy day.

* Dr. Hatari cloaks. From Ghostwish, anyways.

Meany:<font color="#330000">My favorite. |3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Addin' EXP....

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">HEY WHERE'D HATARI GO

GM:<font color="#000000">Righto! So. Anyone want a character question to warm up, or shall we dive right in? :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;29350+200+200 = 29350 + 200 + 200 = 29750&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">I'm tempted to say dive right in..SCRYINNNNNG

VAE:<font color="#000000">Why not, actually

RAM:<font color="#990000">30600 now.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Scrying? So can Miron :3

RAM:<font color="#990000">5400 to level 9!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You say that like they would ever cooperate enough to scry for each other.

Meany:<font color="#330000">=3=

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">lulz, truly.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Dive in says I.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">I'm good for recap and diving right back into the game.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Come on, questions are fun.

TMG:<font color="#000000">If we do a charQ, Railock must also participate for his characetr yet-to-be-seen. :U

TMG:<font color="#000000">Other than that, let's dive in

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ussCHoQttyQ

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">Speaking of which.. Given the importance and plot relevance of Tathi scrying, I am almost tempted to ask for a handwave on the spellcraft to learn the spell... ^^;;

TMG:<font color="#000000">we an hour and a half down from start already.

Meany:<font color="#330000">I'm glad it's only almost.

Meany:<font color="#330000">:V

Meany:<font color="#330000">*shot*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Go to arse, ghost

GM:<font color="#000000">Have you all eaten? You know that thing about having to wait an hour before going swimming after a meal is a myth.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Failures add to the story ,too

* VAE just eating now

* Dr. Hatari has had rice and muffins.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">No, fail lynx, in this case, it would delay the story for another level. =3=

GM:<font color="#000000">And goodness gracious, is there a lot of water to go swimming in now. You're in Resca! Huzzah! At long last!

* RAM nommed his pizza.

VAE:<font color="#000000">So it would

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">But, we'll see how the roll goes.

* VAE no care

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">This is Akellon. Delaying the story IS the story! *BRICK HOUSE*

GM:<font color="#000000">You'll have to roll Spellcraft like anyone else, Tathi. Luckily, natural 1s on skill checks are not autofails.

* Meany is jamming and has had my burritos.

* Meany is ready to go.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">BACK TO THE BOAT FOR YOU, MISTER.

Meany:<font color="#330000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLnkwRkFYR8

Meany:<font color="#330000">=3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">Not unless it's a Use Technological Device check, of course. :B (or unless the device in question is so simple it has an MR of 0 )

Meany:<font color="#330000">Loved this song since first grade.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Right then! Unless there be more recap, I'm ready to go. :U

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

* Ghostwish sweatdrops...

GM:<font color="#000000">Where we left off, the Guardians were soaking up some of the local sights, enjoying the feel of dry land again. Or of salt air. Or of the ocean itself, since some have decided to delve into the depths for a guided underwater market tour.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Oh my god.

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://i1029.photobucket.com/albums/y353/nonsensical2/gifs/no1curr.gif

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Yes, I am divine, aren't I? =3=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I forget everything we were just doing. Like it's suddenly been a week or something.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Well.

GM:<font color="#000000">... speaking of Sseyl, I do wonder how he's taking seeing the ocean.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">You were being pounced by a cat.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Not. Looking. At it. At all.

GM:<font color="#000000">Anyway! Onward!

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Just a moment.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;... hmm. That's a new face.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;I do believe we've seen all there is to see down here. At least for today.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Do you carry hats of disguise? =3=&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Excuse me a moment, going to pay my proper respects.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Ooo, a little dragon.&quot;

Flamboyant Mage:<font color="#000000">&quot;In all sizes, shapes, and colors! Feather? Wide brim? Small brim? The fedora is a classic.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;It's so koooool down here!&quot; :o

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Wide brim, with a feather please. =3=&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Well then! Gnogglebolt continues his personal tour of the underwater market with Kerithlan, in another part of the market where Miron at least isn't. After an hour or two of swimming around, Gnogglebolt is tired and achey, but has seen enough amazing watery sights to last him a lifetime. Eventurally, he's taken back to the original launching point where he left all his other stuff.

* Thomas Lazarus offers a thumb of approval.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm, i did subtract the scrolls from Miron's gold last time, right?

* Max begins speaking Draconic... and the dragonling just looks at him like he's speaking gibberish.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">No.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Subtract them again.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&gt;:U

* Max headtilts.

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( *shot* ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">hrm...lia, I'll probably break fog if I try and move my token back to the upper market. -3-

VAE:<font color="#000000">Shopping in DnD is almost as bad as IRL

Flamboyant Mage:<font color="#000000">&quot;One thousand eight hundred gold pieces, sir!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Dude.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Cut, then paste.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">=3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Le hand over gold.

Flamboyant Mage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Color preference?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Hmm, something in a blue?&quot; =3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">yep, I did

Flamboyant Mage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Here you are.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;I... don't think this is a real dragon if he doesn't speak draconic..&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hey, Terri! Try dis!&quot; Terri is offered a delicious underwater fruit.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Except for soften earth and stone

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt crawls back up the steps back onto dry land, wringing water out of his plain clothes. &quot;That was....one of the most amazing days I've had in a long time!&quot; He says to no one in particular.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and that one is second level, I think

* Max chuckles. &quot;I was just thinking the same thing. Clever, sir, but I'd recommend you pick that up before your next polymorphing.&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Thank you~&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Or cast tongues in unison. That does remind me, I need to scribe in this scrying spell..&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 5 + 18 = 23&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for a DC of what, 12?

Confused Bronze Dragon:<font color="#000000">&quot;It wasn't my choice to be polymorphed,&quot; the dragon grumps, looking over at the mermatron, who's looking rather innocent. Or trying to.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Oh ho ho, you signed up for a part time job without checking the fine print?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">As Sszeyl dons the hat, and walks over to Tom, a whole new person appears. =3=

* Thomas Lazarus blinks a few times while petting Vuz.

Avashtana:<font color="#000000">&quot;Excuse me! Avashtana's group! You have about ten minutes left on your water breathing spell! Please finish your exploring and come to the stairs!&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">An elf complete with wood-themed gear, and yellow/white clothes, and a blue headband.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt collects his leather armor and pack, double-checking that all his items are there, and skips off down the market to go back to the tinker stalls.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I know. It is far too easy to play this role.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus glances at the pool of water.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;And I do it far too well.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Aww, but Hy vanted to heng out vith Terri...&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm goin' back up, too.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Lia, I have my shopping list for him prepared. Taking care of it now...

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron is stuffing purchased scrolls into various pockets of his robe.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I wonder if you could do Raerarael and then try to scare the daylights out of Aelian..&quot; |3

NotGhostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">IMPORTANT SERVER ANNOUNCEMENT: Tengu's cooking smells delicious. That is all.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I don't think so.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Never seen him. =3=&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Well Tathi, I think that's us. Let's head back up.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Neither has he.&quot; He smirks.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Aw, allright.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh, hokay!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;You are evil.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Let's do it. =3=&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Bloody hell, this was worth it.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus dons an innocent look. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl starts warming up his voice, adjusting it's pitch, until he gets a nod from Tom that he's doing a decent impression.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy em glad everyone enjoyed demselves!&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I spy a Kethie.

Young Sorcerer:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you! Hope you enjoyed it!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus ruffles Amadre's head again.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 1 + 7 = 8&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Move silently check!

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi comes up, wringing the water out of her hair.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">=3=;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">First item on the list; Gnogglebolt notices despite his ability to shoulder larger loads than he should rightly be able to, it's starting to not be enough. The first thing he gets is a Cargo Pack. It's a big pack that cleverly distributes weight around the wearer, and can hold up to 400 lbs of things, but only a quarter of that is actually transferred to the wearer a weight counting against carrying capacity.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">CLANG CLANG CLANG- wait, you don't even wear armor what

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;How was the underwater market, everyone?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Incredible! You should go!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Yes,&quot; hopefully in a voice to make Aelian start running away fast. =3= &quot;How -was- it?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good thing, brother. Got a bunch of druidic scrolls... you can't get those often elsewhere.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;It vas pretty much avezum.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;It vas pretty much avezum.&quot;

* Edaric shakes a fish out of his lute. &gt;:d

* Thomas Lazarus chuckles. &quot;I'll pass.&quot; ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Did I do it? =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Did I impersonate that guy's voice right?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I don't think he has heard his voice, either.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;See, plenty of druids can't even write... well, the only drawback is that they smell slightly of wolf piss.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi glances over.. and peers. Her eyes go wide for a second, before she breaks down into giggles.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:38 lagcheck?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh dear. :39

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">The Cargo Pack is 100gp, too. He also gets several Alchemical Grenades. Three electricity, three fire, and two ice, plus two flash bombs. (80 gp per alchemical grenade, 45 gp each for the flash bombs). He gets five vials of incindigas (20 gp each), and lastly, a set of Adaptive Shackles (125 gp)

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">oh no nono no:39

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think you're confusing druids with barbarians, Miron.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:39 at :39.

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Tathi, uhm.. who is that?&quot;

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh, whew.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry, MapTool reverted some of my token moves and I had to check.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;I think it might be Sszeyl, doing a terrible impersonation of my dad.&quot;

Vuz:<font color="#330000">Vuz pounces on Tathi. :O

Vuz:<font color="#330000">You smell like fish!

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">=3=

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Oh..&quot; He says, and glances at Sszeyl. &quot;So that's who I need to avoid if I value my life.. good to know.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">So, expenditures for tinkergear! &#171; &#160;100+(80*3)+(80*3)+(80*2)+(45*2)+(20*5)+125 = 100 + 80 * 3 + 80 * 3 + 80 * 2 + 45 * 2 + 20 * 5 + 125 = 1055&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;It is? :.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Oh hush you- oo! Hi kitty!&quot; She says, scritching Vuz behind the ears.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I just adjusted my own structure to a...Hmm. I can't really tell if I'm a wood or High elf in this.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I should fix that.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">subtracting &#171; &#160;20027-1055 = 20027 - 1055 = 18972&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; from gold

* Thomas Lazarus feels broke again. All is right with the world.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy got zum tasty fruits und veggies dat grow ondervater around here, too!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">(( And brb, bafroom. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Underwater fruits..? I didn't even know there were such things.&quot; :.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Funny thing is, you're close to his height. He's freakishily tall for an elf, something mother would never let him forget. However, and please don't take this as a challange.. he's heavier than you. More muscular.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Eh.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;However, what really gave it away? YOu don't scream sorcerer pride enough.&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Tathi's father looks lolworthy

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I haven't met any sorcerers though. =3=&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That's not Tathi's father. :P

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh well. It was worth a try.&quot; |3

TMG:<font color="#000000">(and lastly, for Lia's information, the Cargo Pack is in More Magic &amp; Mayhem (and the old M&amp;M too, but updated in More M&amp;M) the Alchemical Grenades are out of M&amp;M, the flash bombs are actually out of Alliance Player's Guide, the vials of incindigas are standard, and the adaptive shackles are out of old M&amp; )

VAE:<font color="#000000">At least

VAE:<font color="#000000">Pity this is so far in the past... I could otherwise see Miron linking sorcerer pride to gay pride

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">They do shoot rainbows sometimes. *bricked*

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Good rendation though! You got the face more or less right..&quot;

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

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;So hold on.. My father-in-law, if he doesn't vaporize me, is this tall as a mountain elf who's built like Thomas' dad?&quot; He says, and then... pales a little.. &quot;Gods and goddesses help me.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">rendation is rending her face

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Little tip.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Don't run. =3=&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, Aelian, you stepped into that shit all of your own.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus waves a hand in the air. =w=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;You must never run from elves, it attracts their attention.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;I didn't know!!&quot; He protests.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;My family are kind of weirdly large-built for Humans.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi is laughing too hard to comment.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If there were an elf our size.. it would be pretty darn unusual.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Who knows, though.&quot;

* Edaric pats Aelian's shoulder. =3=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;So, have you heard the good news?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Anyway, I'm also recalculating Gnogglebolt's load with the new cargo pack. I haven't been keeping track of his load in, like, forever.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">There are elves that size

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Oh, Aelian's just being a weirdy again.&quot; Tathi says between giggling. &quot;My dad is fairly robust for an elf, but no where near, dare I call it that, Lazarus caliber?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Everyone else carry on while I do this. :U

VAE:<font color="#000000">They are called Dragaerans

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;We're leaving for the dragon's lair tomorrow.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs slightly. |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Really, really early in the morning so we can hunt sharks too.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yah, Tomas. Dey are delicious. Vant to try vun?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Long, slightly sardonic look at Tathi and Aelian.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I hear in the southern lands, there are humans routinely taller than even me.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well.. my old maester used to say that the strongest poison is stored in the small vials.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Food for thought, I suppose.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh yeah! I forgot!&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Kethie talked with us about meeting arrangements. We'll be headed to the beach a little before dawn.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;We should be there about sunrise time!&quot; :3

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;The...beach? (:3&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">While 'm still doing his load calculation, Gnogglebolt comes ambling over to the party. Goodness gracious, he has an even LARGER backpack on him this time, and--it looks to have all kinds of supports and straps and buckles and marionette-like rods going all around Gnogglebolt.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;What's a beach?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm, that makes me wonder

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi nods.. &quot;Guess we'll have to go shark hunting earlier- oh wait.. I can't.. I need to get scrying down. I don't have a divine hand guiding my hand in that regard.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yay! Hy luv beaches!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ahh. You're in for a treat.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Shark punching

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;I could help, Sszeyl.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;The shark hunting will be taken care of. Don't worry about it.&quot; |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;A beach is a type of.. uh.. ground. It's a bank of sand that borders a body of water. In this case, the sand banks around the ocean.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You've heard what the ocean is, right?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Ah.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What the hell do you need scrying for?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Well shoot. I was kind of hoping to.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is ocean if no.&quot;

* Swallowtail gestures toward the water.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl slowly looks out in Swallowtail's indicated spot...

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">And seems to wilt.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;It....goes on forever....&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;How...where does it all come from?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's vaster than the land itself.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yah, most uf de vorld iz ocean.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Who knows.&quot; She shrugs.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">She?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">She?

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">who

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">whoa

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

Aelian:<font color="#006666">Thomas! You're so hot now! We're through, Tathi!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Tom are you sre that vest didn't have a genderswap curse? :P *brick'd*

* Dr. Hatari looks up.

Railock:<font color="#000000">did tom put on a gender swap belt?

Tathi:<font color="#006666">SLUTTY FUCKING CLERIC - *FIREBALLS*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh. That was just a typo. :P

Miron:<font color="#000000">Tom, a lot has changed about you since we visited the Rescan Mace branch

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I hadn't even slipped into a different persona. Just a regular old wrong key press. :B

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( A likely story. ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh.. now see for the jokes

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( But onward. ))

* Ghostwish continues to harass him over it regardless.

* VAE start. Thomas's member is so short that it doesn't really matter what pronoun he uses

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Atleast I didn't invent a bumlauncher. *launch'd*

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">brb, water.

Priestess of Deep Sashelas:<font color="#000000">&quot;The oceans were created when the world was young, sir. They are replenished from above, from below, from the rivers, and from the land.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;O-oh.'

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh.&quot; He glances aside. &quot;... Well. There you have it!&quot; |3

Priestess of Deep Sashelas:<font color="#000000">Clericly dose of exposition given. =3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Do hyu hef zumddink against de ocean, Sszeyl?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Never seen so much water....&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I would be so screwed if anyone asked where the sun came from. {:3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;...Is it -moving?-&quot;

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Swan Song is from deep ground, Shenkfang.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;From the wind, and underwater currents... I guess. It's very different from sailing on a river, like we did. Or so I'm told. Sailor stories tell of stormwaves that can crest as high as these buildings.&quot;

Priestess of Deep Sashelas:<font color="#000000">Just say it was created when the world was young by the power of the gods. You'll be fine. =3= *brick'd*

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">back what I miss?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ah, right. Hy doubt de hef hennyddink as vast as dis onderground.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">The gods solve everything. =w=

RAM:<font color="#990000">You missed a sexy party.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;We have lakes. =3=&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;That's as big as our water gets.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Lia was dancing topless on the table.

* RAM flees!

* Ghostwish dodges out of the way of the brick-cannon.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Interesting.. are underground lakes safe to drink from?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Technically.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I would think it would get stagnant and dangerous.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;The water itself is safe.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;What lives in it, not so much.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Depends on whether or not it has a inlet and outlet.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hmm.&quot; He glances about at everybody assembled.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">But wait.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;M'ah. I think I've had my fun in the market.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;If you're headed back, I'll come with you.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He chuckles, &quot;I kind of forget where we were planning to stay the night, anyway.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy hef fruits und veggies und a souvenir for Talfeera. Hy'm ready to moff on.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat vun place. Vith de beds. Und schtuff...&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm, folks

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Didn't we pick out a tavern?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Yes.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">MEMORY CHECK. Which one did the party pick out again? XP

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Uhhhhhh theeee wyvern.. something..? Tail maybe?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">You have logs.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Check.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">=3=

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;You mean the Drunken Wyvern?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">NO U

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Thaaat's the one.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Yes, that one. How could you forget?&quot;

Tathi: <font color="#6666">(( trollololololol ))

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi glances over, and giggles. &quot;Oh look. Kor went for a swim.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There were like five of them and my mind was on diamonds.&quot; {|3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy didn' remember, eidder...&quot;

Kor:<font color="#006666">I HATE EVERYTHING

* Max chuckles. &quot;You think three taverns were overwhelming? Don't look up the Resca Registry.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Tathi's Katamari-mass reaches Kan-like levels.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dere are a lot, Hy assume?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ah well. What's next, what's next..&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well over fifty. And that's just the taverns!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;I have a spellbook to add to.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;We seem to have left Miron behind.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Damnit local farmers.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Stop shooting your guns so I can enjoy music.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">=3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;(5/4)+(3/4)+(2/4)+(5/4)+(3/4)+(2/4)+(25/4)+(1/4) = 5 / 4 + 3 / 4 + 2 / 4 + 5 / 4 + 3 / 4 + 2 / 4 + 25 / 4 + 1 / 4 = 11.50&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; okay, weight tally in progress...

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Noooot as much as I thought it would be...

TMG:<font color="#000000">But continuing with tally now

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Vorel-Svent.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Really.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Elsewhere in Resca.

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Never going to let you live that down, Railock. =3= ))

RAM:<font color="#990000">MEANWHILE, AT THE LEGION OF DOOM...

Miron:<font color="#000000">What do you mean, left behind?

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is starting to get a little dark. What say we head back to the Wyvern, get a meal, and turn in to prepare for our early morning tomorrow?&quot; :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">(5/4)

TMG:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;5/4 = 5 / 4 = 1.25&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Very well. By the way..&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Sounds good to me!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, that is a hillarious name. Vorel goes for eagle in czech. Krocan-Svent would be more ppropriate as such

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Agreed.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..How in the world are we going to catch a shark?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy tink dat's a great idea. Hope de Tavern hes zum vegetarian meals...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;With nets? =3=&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">The Wyvern's menu for the evening is as follows...

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Simple. First, we tie a rope to your foot..&quot; Tathi says, grinning.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm, PHB 2 actually has a neat item

GM:<font color="#000000">Stewed Mutton and Soft Cheese, Tankard of Bitter (10 cp) Salted Shark and Lettuce, Tankard of Perry (8 cp) Rye Porridge, Mug of Beer (4 cp) Roasted Mutton and Rye Biscuits, Tankard of Bitter (10 cp) Vegetable Stew, Mug of Cider (4 cp) Vegetable Stew, Mug of Perry (2 cp) Smoked Crayfish and Dried Carrot, Tankard of Bitter (10 cp) Roasted Lamb and Hazelnut Bread, Tankard of Bitter (12 cp) Poached Trout with Saffron and Leek, Glass of Port (4 sp) Dried Partridge and Sharp Cheese, Tankard of Stout (11 cp) Poached Salmon and Walnut Bread, Glass of Whiskey (1 sp) Smoked Oxen and Soft Cheese, Tankard of Beer (10 cp) Vegetable Stew, Mug of Mead (5 cp) Stewed Mutton and Leek, Tankard of Stout (10 cp) Buckwheat Biscuits and Soft Cheese, Mug of Beer (4 cp) Stewed Asparagus, Mug of Ale (5 cp) Roasted Sausage and Buckwheat Biscuits, Tankard of Cider (11 cp)

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I'll take the *buried*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt is idling following along, though he actually steps away from the party for a few hours first before meeting back up with them at the Wyvern

VAE:<font color="#000000">Mantle of second chances -allows for a single reroll per day

GM:<font color="#000000">Why yes, I do enjoy this tavern generator. =3=

Tathi: <font color="#6666">(( you triple rolled. :P ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I'll take the crayfish.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Still tallying weight...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yep. One poor, one common, one good. :P

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Veggie Stew and Cider for me!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Wait.. why does the tavern make a difference between 10cp and one sp

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The generator does for some reason. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Bloody hell, that's a huge menu. I thought they'd have one, two thing daily, tops.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Vegetable stew, with a mug of cider for me, 4 copper down, and Aelian will have the stewed mutton and soft cheese, with the tankard of bitter. 14 copper total.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I suppose they want to remain competitive with all the other inns around.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just how many guests this place has per day?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Vegetable Stew, Mug of Perry. :3

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&#171; &#160;1d20+fortitude = 17 + 4 = 21&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187;

* Thomas Lazarus buys his absurdly cheap meal. =w=;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Well he's not getting drunk. :P

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy em chust heppy dey hef zum non-meat meals.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Also.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Bitter what? =3=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It's just bitter.

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">.04 gp paid!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's a type of beer, I believe. :P

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It's a surface world thing.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 9 + 5 = 14&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Fort save!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_%28beer%29

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I didn't know what perry was until the generator kept tossing it at me and I looked it up. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Stewed mutton and leek with a tankard of Stout for me. And don't pour below the mark. &quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">The cider, is it regular cider, or Irish Cider?

* Thomas Lazarus sips his drink while peering at the others, presumably in the common room of the ground floor at the Adjective Wyvern. :9

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Seriously though. How's it work? They don't just hang out near the surface for us to.. harpoon or something, do they?&quot; =w=;

* Terri nibbles salmon and walnut bread. Her whiskey gets passed off to Max. At least she obeys drinking laws. |3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang enjoys his soup and cider immensely.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy imagine ve vould hef to go divink for dem.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Ditching hooded lantern and lantern oil, to save on some weight...

Max:<font color="#000000">Mm, beef and cheese... Max swallows a bite. &quot;Don't worry about it.&quot; |3 &quot;Let's revel in the mystery for a bit, hm?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">After eating, Sszeyl vanishes. &gt;:9

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8+mod = 7 + 8 + 2 = 17&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8+mod = 11 + 8 + 2 = 21&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's say that meeting times weren't the only things Kethie talked about with us.&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Wootz.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tough, if ve go diff feeshink, Hy'm gunna need an enchantment for my gun so it kan schoot ondervater.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Now for number 2.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Fishing with a gun?&quot; =w=;;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron takes a strong gulp of the stout. '&quot;Maybe they use spells.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">As far as the cider, it's your choice whether you want it to be alcoholic or non. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8+mod = 20 + 8 + 2 = 30&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">:O

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vell, Hy kould go feeshink vith my axe, but Hy'd prefer my gun.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sound burst and such.. it goes deep. Stun a few fishes, they float belly up.&quot;

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The Creation of Adam.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Vuz goes down to Terri, with two canvases rolled up on her back a span of time later.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi starts working on her spellbook.. here goes.. :&gt;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;It vouldn' vork normally, tough. Black powder doesn' burn ven it's vet.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus glances over to Tathi.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Does she open 1 or 2 first? :.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&#171; &#160;1d20+14 = 10 + 14 = 24&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187; spellcraft! -5 if its necromancy or illusion, +2 if it's evocation!

Tathi:<font color="#006666">PHEW! Scrying get. :&gt;

Max:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+12 = 10 + 12 = 22&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Fort save for lulz. Non-dragon-form Constitution is lower. :9

Terri:<font color="#000000">:. &quot;For me?&quot; &#171; &#160;1d2 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 20 + 4 = 24&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Fort save. Delicious Irish cider.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Well. When in Rome I guess. &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 4 + 7 = 11&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Resisted like a baws!

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+10 = 9 + 10 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Save against the tankard of stout

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Drunk Thomas time?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">But I'm one of like two actual recreational drinkers in the party =w=;;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">More like buzzed, it's just one glass. :P &#171; &#160;1d2 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; temporary Dex damage and &#171;  &#160;1d2 = 1&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; temporary Wis damage.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm... weak as piss.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">The portrait depicts Terri seated beneath an oak tree at night, with Papa sleeping over her legs. She is looking up into a night sky filled with more stars than normal, and swirling clouds. A bright full moon hangs in the sky, while a Gold dragon flies over it's face. A little halo of gold light shines around Terri, and a arrow with a silk ribbon for a shaft hangs on one of the tree branches.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">On the back is the title: &quot;The Dreamer.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">8O

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

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oooh, dat iz very goot.&quot; Shankfang says from over Terri's shoulder.

* Terri 's face is stuck like that for a while. *o*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;(5/4)+(3/4)+(2/4)+(5/4)+(3/4)+(2/4)+(25/4)+(1/4)+(1.25/4)+(4/4)+(2/4)+(2/4)+(5/4)+(0.5/4)+(2/4)+(2/4)+(8/4)+(8/4)+(2/4)+(4/4)+(12/4)+(1/4)+(12/4) = 5 / 4 + 3 / 4 + 2 / 4 + 5 / 4 + 3 / 4 + 2 / 4 + 25 / 4 + 1 / 4 + 1.25 / 4 + 4 / 4 + 2 / 4 + 2 / 4 + 5 / 4 + 0.5 / 4 + 2 / 4 + 2 / 4 + 8 / 4 + 8 / 4 + 2 / 4 + 4 / 4 + 12 / 4 + 1 / 4 + 12 / 4 = 27.9375&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">... might as well unroll painting 1 too, right. *shake shake shake head* :3 *unroll*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;10+2.5+20+28 = 10 + 2.5 + 20 + 28 = 60.5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Damn. Gnogglebolt's bee in medium oad for a -long- time. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Even with this fancy new cargo pack...oh well. Taking it.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I suppose I can upgrade the cargo pack later to also have some kind of strength enhancement exoskeleton or something.

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

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Oh DM! Oh DM! Are you ready for some great unicorn man? :&gt;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Save it for later, okay? We need to get the plot rolling in the dragon direction so Railock's not waiting in the wings for too long. :B

Tathi:<font color="#006666">No problem. :&gt;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">One Month Later...

* Dr. Hatari is bricked.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Wouldn't surprise me.

TMG:<font color="#000000">It's supposed to take a full day to scribe a spell anyway, like crafting or any other shite like that... :B ANyway.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Getting back into the game!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh yes, and expending GP retroactively from Resca for device materials...

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">This one is much more active, and from an odd perspective. Shankfang rides upon Dagula in a rocky, desert terrain. Dagula is leaving a trail of flames in it's wake, and in the distance you can see shattered hulks of other Deffbikes. The odd perspective is that the picture focuses on Shankfang, leaning to one side on Dagula, and pointing a pistol at the viewer, while a bullet launches forward, just out of the barrel. Words are carved into the bullet: Say Goodnight. The shadow Shankfang and Dagula are casting here not what they phyiscally appear as, but as a hooded horseman with a scythe in mid-swing. An arrow with a silk ribbon for a shaft hangs on a boulder. And on the back is the title: The Fourth Horseman.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Dragula* =3=;

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

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Now it's Shankfang's turn.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Three nets can potentially be made at once, so 170 divided by thre...would then be -multiplied by, giving be 170. Hmm. :B and for the banisher grenade, &#171; &#160;370/3 = 370 / 3 = 123.3333333333333333333333333333333&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">He stares at the painting for a little while, mouth gaping open.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;123.3+170 = 123.3 + 170 = 293.3&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; plus unspecified extra.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">100 of that is in the tinker materials Gnogglebolt already has, so &#171; &#160;293.3-100 = 293.3 - 100 = 193.3&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">|3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I know I say it all the time.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">But damn I'm good.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And then suppose Gnogglebolt buys another 500 gp worth of random unspecified materials again. So, all in all, &#171; &#160;193.3+500 = 193.3 + 500 = 693.3&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Finally, he comes back to reality, and smiles.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy really need to get Sszeyl zumddink. Dis iz amazink!&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah!&quot; :O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Expending gold... &#171; &#160;18972-693 = 18972 - 693 = 18279&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... What do you get an ascetic, though?&quot; {:3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hmm...Hy vonder if Hy kan make him zumddink. Hy'm not bad at buildink technological tinks...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You get him an experience.&quot; He remarks while stirring his stew.

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat's it!&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;What? What's it?&quot; :O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Oh ho ho. Look what I've done, Sszeyl.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">You monster.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">83

* Tharky is off somewhere canvassing the crowd. :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu'll see!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt comes ambling into the Drunken Wyvern after he vanished again somewhere else for a few hours. He's got that fancy new pack, but even with it, it's loaded to the brim, and Gnogglebolt's moving a little slower.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He comes in, unstraps the pack, and sits down at the table. &quot;Ho, everyone.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Dragonlady, about what time is it?

Thomas Lazarus whispers: as a brief heads up, Tom's going to Send to Ashmore the next day to report.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, there's our inventor. Where've you been?&quot; :3

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron nods.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's about 5 or 6 o'pocketwatch.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang peeks out the window, then smiles.

Thomas Lazarus whispers: Or tonight, on second thought.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Out and about. Getting things and such. Seeing more sights. I love this city!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's quite lively and exotic.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dere's enough time.&quot; Shankfang takes the painting, rolls it back up, and heads upstairs to find Sszeyl.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I mean, there's always home of course, but today has been one of the most amazing sight-filled days I've ever had in my life.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Yo.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Sszeyl!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Yes? =3=&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Incoming Half-Orc bear hug!

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl looks up from a warbook.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Oof!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt orders the salmon minus the whisky next time the waiter comes around, swapping the whisky for pressed fruit juice of some local underwater fruit, 1 sp.

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

* Thomas Lazarus cleans his bowl up pretty well before pushing it in towards the middle of the table.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The constructs were indeed interesting.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">How about a coconut, Gnogglebolt?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tenk hyu! Dis paintink iz great! Hy know Hy'm not very goot at makink tinks, eksept technological tinks, but hyu don' hef much use for doze. So, as tenks, Hy got a betta idea! Kome vith me!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus walks stands and walks over to Miron, briefly patting his shoulder.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm going to send a status report to the Commander.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Not that you have much choice, as Shankfang is dragging you along anyway.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He makes his way off to his room for the evening.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Was more thinking of one of those fruits in the underwater market that Shankfang kept getting. :. But I suppose coconut works (hate coconut IRL though, but this is pretennnnnd! :U )

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Le dragged. =3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">The Half-Orc comes back downstairs, dragging Sszeyl along, gives a quick goodbye to everyone, and out the door they go!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas meditates in his room for a time as the evening winds down.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Sszeyl is dragged to Dragula, and Shankfang takes a seat, motioning for Sszeyl to sit behind him. &quot;Tomas suggested Hy giff hyu an eksperience, since hyu hain't much for material possessions. So, sit. Und hold on tight.&quot; &gt;:3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Ye Olde Sending is prepared in his usual open 4th level slot, and after about twenty-five minutes of focused relaxation and prayer, the spell goes out to Ashmore.

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( Olololol. I hit ctrl-v to paste the line. The result was &quot;Vegetable Stew, Mug of Perry&quot; ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Le sit.

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( True story. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Arrived in Resca. No ambushes since swamps. All is well. Met local Mace. Arranged to meet with Lady Salishea on the morrow. Any Yoriver news?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;This is going to be terrifying, isn't it? =3=&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">*how* can you hate coconut, tech?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Don' vorry, Hy em a very goot driver. Hy promise hyu vill be chust fine.&quot;

* VAE LOVES it

Tathi:<font color="#006666">SCRYYYINNNN

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I don't care for it, usually. Although.. I do love me some somoas.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Besides, hyu tried to ride a...Dire Volf, vas it?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Yep.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It killed me. I got better, though.&quot;

You whisper to VAE: Crud. What's Elizabeth Feldman's rank again? The halfling geometer?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dragula von' even try to kill hyu. Hop on!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I'm already on.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">=3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oh, right. Missed that. As I was!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und here ve go!&quot;

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">Vroom vroom VROOOOOOM!

TMG:<font color="#000000">I will note that Shankfang should be making a lot of UTD checks. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">one every time to start it up, and maneuvering checks when actually riding. :B

VAE whispers: Analyst, unless she was promoted after Miron left Jones's rock for Castleton

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Isn't the latter more of a Ride thing?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Nope, it actually is a UTD.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Meanwhile, Gnogglebolt eats his salmon meal, enjoying bold the similarities and differences of the ocean seafood to Mazian river seafood

RAM:<font color="#990000">Lia, would you like UTD checks?

* Dr. Hatari keeps reading them as Unreal Tournament checks for some reason.

Alberic Ashmore:<font color="#000000">&quot;Report recieved. Two reports recieved from Senior Inquisitor Thorgar Garral and Analyst Elizabeth Feldman, upon sending from Inquisitor Steelsprocket. Devils confirmed, containment procedures are underway.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Just one, if you don't mind. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Hmm..&quot; He muses quietly, still sitting in a peaceful stance.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh, Thorgar made it big

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20+12 = 10 + 12 = 22&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Use Tech Device!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas reflects on how much more he feels like an Inquisitor now that he, also, now has an enormous coat collar. *bricked*

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang revs the Deffbike a few times, before gunning the throttle! There's a loud screeching sound as the bike does a burnout before rocketing away!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas eventually returns downstairs for what remains of the evening.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang does his very best to give Sszeyl a hell of a ride, shooting forth at breakneck speeds, jumping everything he can, pulling donuts, making hairpin turns, doing wheelies and stoppies, just everything he can possibly think of.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Sounds like about what I expected to happen.&quot; As the deffbike fills Resca with the sound of its racing.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi remains down in the tavern, spending time with Aelian as she goes over the specifics of the scrying spell.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;(... One day I'd love to test my flight speed against that thing,)&quot; Max muses in Draconic, sipping at his tankard as the bike peels out of the tavern's yard.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Through the city, down the beach, even over rooftops if he manages to find a way up.

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;(Where would you ever find the open space to have that sort of challenge?)&quot; |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Atleast there are other tinker-tech things here. He probably won't be arrested.&quot; He chuckles.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;(Good point.)&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sorry.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Coughing fit struck.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Needed tea. =3=;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Max and Tharky are at the same table as the party, yes?

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">It's a good thirty minutes at the least before they return, as Shankfang drifts the bike around a corner and to a stop in front of the tavers.

* Thomas Lazarus sits near Miron, but doesn't speak in any tone the others couldn't overhear.

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

Tharky:<font color="#000000">Granted, I've just come back to the table. Been collecting tales from the sailors. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt sips the coconut milk and eats some more salmon, and shoots across the table in Draconic; &quot;(Gyrocycle though it may be, I would bet on it in a race. We tinkers...like to make things fast.)&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The Commander responded. Nothing we didn't already know about, though. Confirmed reports of.. the issue in Yoriver after your contacts forwarded information to him.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh Garl it's goot to kut loose. Hy hefn' been able to ride like dat in ages.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He said they're already arranging to contain the problem.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Enjoy de ride, Sszeyl?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks up to Thomas and nods.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;At least someone trustworthy is doing soemthing about it.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">How did you do a wheelie...

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">When your bike has one wheel?

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;(I can see that. Yet, I can tell you haven't seen one of us in flight. Besides. The 'gyrocycle,' as you called it, still needs to deal wth the terrain.)&quot; |3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">It has two, the front wheel is just smaller.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;That was...entertaining. |3&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I suppose. ... I'm starting to think I should just try to put the thoughts out of my mind until we're free to actually do anything about it.&quot; He frowns a little. &quot;I'll just lose sleep thinking about the people.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;(But that's not fair! If it's a real challenge, you gotta have an even footing. Flat space for the cycly thing!)&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I should probably paint something from the perspective of a rider now.&quot;

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

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;If it's any consolation, I should be able to contact my father tomorrow.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy em glad hyu liked it. If hyu ever vant anodder ride, lemmee know.&quot; :3

Miron:<font color="#000000">That sure is a lot of consolation 

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">...

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt nods to Thomas. &quot;It's hard, I know. I'm still dealing with that we haven't been able to account for each and every poor soul in Granch's ledger yet...&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( For the lulz, I tried to reduce 80mph to feet per round. ))

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang kills the engine and dismounts, smiling widely.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And probably never will.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Multiplied by 5280, divided by 60, divided by 10. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Got 704. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( =3=; ))

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron says nothing just throws a weary look at Tathi.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I suppose that's so.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That's way too high.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl; actually, it's given in the books as--yep.

TMG:<font color="#000000">705 feet per round.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Tha's -given-

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... actually, no, it's just right.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">A device with 80 MPH move speed ACTUALLY has that as top speed

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I got a little confuzzled, because I did the calculation with gold dragon flight speed.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Meany got it almost exactly right. They just round to the nearest 5

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I doubt it's actually 0 to 80 in 6 seconds though. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hatari; no, you're correct on that one.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Devices with omove speed have maneuverability ratings that determine their speed increment

RAM:<font color="#990000">Which book had all the stuff for it, again?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I did it once at 200 feet/round, once at 400/round, and 800/round for full-tilt. I forgot at the time which one turned out to be about 96 miles per hour. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ram; it's all in the core book.

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm, this is odd

RAM:<font color="#990000">Oh, by the way...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It was the 800 feet/round.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl dismounts much slower. =3= Obviously trying to get used to not going 705ft per six seconds again.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Dragula has a -perfect- maneuverability rating.

VAE:<font color="#000000">The choker of eloquence has a different price in AEG and different one in Complete Adventurer

VAE:<font color="#000000">1.5k/6k AEG 6k/24k CA

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Go with Complete Adventurer, it's more current.

Meany:<font color="#330000">AEG is 3e.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I paid extra for it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Looks like the dollar isn't the only thing undergoing huge inflation

Meany:<font color="#330000">=3=

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">How could it even get the traction to launch itself out at 80mph from a stop without dismounting or destroying the rider? It's a motorcycle. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">Indeed.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">http://gifs.icanhascheezburger.com/2012/03/06/funny-animal-gifs-just-improvise-dog/

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">JUST BECAUSE

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ram; perfect maneuverability rating, yes, but the speed increment for perfect rating (5) is still less than your top speed

VAE:<font color="#000000">That said, a +5 bonus wouldn't be worth it, which kind of solves that part of my dilemma

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Perfect maneuverability rating gives you a speed increment of 220 feet per round or something

RAM:<font color="#990000">I know.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ah. Well. That's fine then I suppose.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Just saying.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hatari..would that mantle that allows a single reroll per day for 6k be worth it? It seems to be a neat gimmick given my terrible dice rolls

TMG:<font color="#000000">So no, Dragula can NOT actually go from 0 to 80 in six sconds.

TMG:<font color="#000000">But it still goes pretty damn fast.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I've never actually heard of that item.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Actually, 5 is only Excellent.

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's in PHB II

VAE:<font color="#000000">Mantle of second chances

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But, 6k for a good use/day item isn't bad. Go for it if you wish. *shrug*

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">why are we still discussing this.. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">Alternative would be a +1 dex and +2 int item

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because I had a fuckbusy week

RAM:<font color="#990000">It doesn't actually have &quot;perfect&quot; listed in the book, but going with the same progression, I would imagine it being 30 mph per round.

VAE:<font color="#000000">five supervisions in four days ,then I sort of crashed for most of friday

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Yes, let's get back into the game

Meany:<font color="#330000">I VOTE.

Meany:<font color="#330000">WE MOVE ONWARDS WITH THE PLOT.

Meany:<font color="#330000">:E

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Just got distracted, sorry. :P

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll, we've got an early morning tomorrow. I'm going to go turn in. It's about a thirty-minute walk to the beach meetng spot, so... an hour or so before sunrise, to grab some breakfast before we leave?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Yes, agreed.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Meanwhile, in Tom's head...

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well...was there anything else anyone wanted to do today?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">... Nothing interesting. *bricked*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang walks back into the tavern, Sszeyl in tow, a massive grin on his face.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't suppose Resca is known for any events or new sights when the sun goes down?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well.. I did get myself a stash of scrolls...a bit of reading..&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ve're back!&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I should totally give Sszeyl a waddle, just for the double entendre.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Or is it innudendo?

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;More than you can imagine, Gnogglebolt, but there will be plenty of time to see them when we dn't have an early-morning meeting to attend.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm dying for some pancakes.&quot; :9

RAM:<font color="#990000">You had it right the first time.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I think...

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;An'if you're not up, I'll pounce you!&quot; &gt;:3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good point. Early to bed tonight it is.&quot;

* Terri holds up her hands like claws. &gt;:3

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Silly people and their sleep.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;You hush.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy tink Sszeyl might need to schlow down his heart rate first.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">And yes.. it would make sense story-wise: &quot;Miron: This .. it will makes sure I won't trip again in a critical moment&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus bites a spoon and ruffles Terri's head. |9 It clacks as he speaks, &quot;I won't be surprised if you all're the ones asleep when I finish praying.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, I would be.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't Pelorites pray either at sunrise or at noon?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As an aside, Thomas.. I managed to get a copy of the druidic scrying spell.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll be waking up before sunrise, after all.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The underwater market truly has everything.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... I suppose you got me there. &gt;.&gt;&quot; He rubs his chin.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu so silly, Terri.&quot; Shankfang chuckles and reaches down, lifting Terri up and giving her a big Half-Orc hug.

* Thomas Lazarus nods at Miron.

Terri:<font color="#000000">Hugg'd! ^.^

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Druidic version.. huh?&quot; He muses.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;How's that work?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You don't have to dance naked around something in the woods singing, do you?&quot; =w=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It works..,. it's a little less potent, but easier to cast, and you just need a lake or a water puddle.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Brother.. do you think i'd be up to it if it did? An inquisitor dancing naked in a forest?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu betta be up tomorrow too, Terri. Or Hy'll pounce hyu!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Right then, I'm going to bed now then.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hey, I don't know how druidic magic works.&quot; |3

* Thomas Lazarus gives Aelian a brief wave.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Heyyyy, what about-&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Sh! Not in front of Terri!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">To le upstairs. =3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know just a few bits.. it isn't entirely different from regular prayers.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Oh. Right.&quot; ^.^

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt finishes his meal and takes his own pack upstairs, too.

* Edaric is reading a book from the market in Elven and waves distractedly good-night to the couple.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm.. should the mantle be taken care of in the morning, or should I just assume Miron bought it and said to noone.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. Perhaps I'll get a chance to pray on the beach.&quot; :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because, given the IC reason stated, i'm pretty much going with that one.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Schleep vell, everyone!&quot; Shankfang sets Terri back down, waving goodnight to the group before heading to bed as well.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Assume he bought it and said nothing.

VAE:<font color="#000000">*nod*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Just say he got it. We spent a day in the market and all.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Unless he feels like shopping at 4 AM. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">Don't need to do all your purchases IC, danman. Look at me, I bought a bunch of stuff, the only thing mentoned IC was the new pack it was all carried in.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas asks the owner if the chef could have a few servings of pancakes ready early in the morning, then heads off to his room.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron heads to his room as well and unpacks a few of the scrolls to look over before going to bed.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Elros clings to the ceiling, watching. Watching.

GM:<font color="#000000">Well, then, let's turn in, and wake up. Dawn of a New Day, Yondallon 18th... slightly cloudy, but no rain. Your pancakes await before sunrise. It's about 5 AM o'pocketwatch. Has anyone disregarded Terri's warning and slept in? |3

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron might be.. he's more of a night owl type.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Trance from 12am-4am.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">So no.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Especially when there are spells to learn.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">=3=

Aelian:<font color="#006666">Hrnple grumph, I wish...

Tathi:<font color="#006666">I made sure he got up. ^^

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt wakes bright and early!

Miron:<font color="#000000">I imagine he got the first bout of proper sleep in the last week at least, given he was thoroughly occupied studying spells which took his mind off the trouble.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang tries to wake up even earlier than Terri so he can pounce her instead! &gt;:3

* Thomas Lazarus rubs the sleep from his eyes and peers out a window. It's still dark out.. =w=;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Does he succeed? Do I need a roll of some kind?

* Thomas Lazarus murmurs, &quot;Oh well.. I suppose all my spells from yesterday are still ready, even if we're busy.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">PREPARIN' A SCRYIN'.

Miron:<font color="#000000">So yeah. The inquisitor is fast asleep, snoring.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Whom does Tathi scry? :V

* Thomas Lazarus gets dressed, but.. has to pester someone to help him with his armor underlay. |9

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Who to pester, though.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt checks and makes sure his stashes of materials and parts are all secure, as well as all his other things.

Terri:<font color="#000000">Shankfang finds an adorable fluffy dog in the bed.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Yo.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Or DOES he...???

* Dr. Hatari is bricked.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Consider yourself pounced, TerriDog! &gt;:D

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;I'll help, Thomas. Something to help me wake up.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">Yip! O_o

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Alright. Honestly I'm not even sure if I should wear armor today.. considering all our business is over an ocean.&quot;

* Terri wiggles and squirms, tail wagging sleepily.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Time to vake up!&quot; :3

Terri:<font color="#000000">Yip. |3

Terri:<font color="#000000">The dog gets up, trotting to Miron's door, and winks at Shankfang.

Terri:<font color="#000000">One... two... three...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang grins and follows.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Of particular note...among the items strewn about in Gnogglebolt's stash...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Door, opened!

Terri:<font color="#000000">INQUISITOR POUNCE! By a Shetland sheepdog!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And a Half-Orc!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He picks out the pendant, charcoal stick, sash, and target shield.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">The sound of a lute from one room tells you that your bard is awake.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Where is that ninja...? Oh, there. Eating pancakes.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh yeah. He's STILL got those.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He takes particular care of the pendant and sash.

Amadre:<font color="#006666">Who is that dog!?

Amadre:<font color="#006666">Sniffsniffsniff.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He stows the items in his cargo pack, and heads around to find Tathi as she wakes up as well.

Terri:<font color="#000000">Sniffsniffsniff. Hi Amadre! :D

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Invasive sniffing is always the correct answer.

Miron:<font color="#000000">In his dream, he's still in Jones's Rock. Inexplicably, Thomas, Flint and Albert Wurtz, a malconvoker colleague are present as well. Thomas is attempting to strangle Albert while Flint and Egon are in a slap-fight. Elizabeth is laughing her ass off...

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl's nomming some leftover pancakes. |u

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, Tathi.&quot; He says when he finds her. &quot;You still have Asterac's spellbook, right? Isn't that the one you've been reading the whole trip?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi looks over, raising a quizzical eyebrow. &quot;Why are you asking about a spellbook?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">When suddenly, a yeth hound summoned by Albert pounces at his throat, missing Thomas by a wide margin.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;ARGH-&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Swan Song?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">An armored and coat'd Inquisitor descends the stairs and looks about, totally as spry as he ever is. :3 &quot;Mornin'.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;What is this called in Common?&quot; Swallowtail holds up a jar of jam.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron wakes up, with Terri sitting on his chest and licking his face.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, you've forgotten. Well, I know Salisha basically said we could have it--I think--but I still wanted to make sure we have it on hand when we go to see her.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;WHO WHAT GET DOWN I WHY&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It was one of those items we found in her cave, so long ago, when the first of us met originally.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus just glances upstairs. =w=;

Terri:<font color="#000000">Hi hi hi hi! It's mooooooorniiiiing~! 83

* Thomas Lazarus goes to get pancakes. :9

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And Shankfang sitting on the foot of the bed, laughing his ass off.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Oh. I'd nearly forgotten its origins.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why do the dogs always.. and what time is it even? GET DOWN' *attempts to push off the unknown canine*

Railock whispers: so...if half a day at the town has taken them 2 hours to sleep, how many days were planned in town? hehe

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang takes pity on the poor Gnome, and picks Terri up off of him.

Terri:<font color="#000000">The dog hops down, wagging her tail.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I kind of wish I had slept in, now. {|3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Terri deed varn hyu vat vould heppen if hyu schlept in.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">But pancakes om nom :9

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, Asterac and Salishea were close in Asterac's life. So, I just wanted to make sure the items we, erm, lifted from her hideout got back to their true owners today. You weren't there it was.....well, most of us felt bad when we realized we had stumbled onto some good person's very private hideout rather than a goblin den.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That.. Is that Terri?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good mornin',&quot; Terri greets properly, suddenly sitting on the floor. :3

Amadre:<font color="#006666">I like this puppy already. :&gt;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yah!&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Come on, come on, it's time to get goin'!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But after contacting Salishea later, she did give permission to peruse the book of spells for your own purposes. I just wanted to double-check and make sure you were bringing it in person today.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang gives Terri and Amadre scritchies and pettinz.

Miron:<font color="#000000">*sigh* &quot;Why the fuck does it have to be a bloody dog...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So you are, right?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Because.&quot; :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und Hy kan schmell pamcakes!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi and Aelian are already enjoying breakfest. :&gt;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Morning, everybody.&quot; :3

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ready to go?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... the silence is deafening. &gt;.&gt;;;;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:31 lagcheck?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Ghost? Answer to Gnogglebolt? :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">The short inquisitor rubs his eyes before putting glasses on, puts on his robe and packs up the prayerbook and his scrolls.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt is downstairs at breakfast with everyone else.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ready as I'll ever be! Oh, question.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Kome on, Terri! Let's go get zum pamcakes!&quot; Shankfang lifts Terri up onto his shoulders, carrying her downstairs to grab some food before they have to leave.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;We are!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">He descends downstairs.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're coming back here, right? I can leave my piles of parts and materials in the other room here?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Sure.&quot;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Never mind my quote about the silence, apparently I'm lagging. ^^;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">He's quite used to people of Terri's size riding on his shoulders.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Maybe.&quot; =w=; &quot;Should I leave my armor packed? Are we diving?&quot; {|3

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">craaaap :31

Miron:<font color="#000000">A thing of note is that on top of his usual robes, the inquisitor is wearing a rather worn, holey mantle, that once perhaps looked similar to what Thomas has on.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh dear. Liatai: :31 lagcheck? :31

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:31 at :33

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh no! Lagz! D: Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">A holey holy mantle? :P

RAM:<font color="#990000">CURSE YOU HUGHESNET~!

Miron:<font color="#000000">Well, asides from the clearly retrofitted large pockets on the outside.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">uhoh. Liatai DC'd from the irc

VAE:<font color="#000000">aw fuck

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Quite. *bites pipe*

RAM:<font color="#990000">FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I quit the IRC to hopefully cut down on lag.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Liatai: :31 at :33 (:34)

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">As a complete aside.

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( :35 ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:34 at :34

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Seems that did the trick.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Daylight savings hour tonight~

VAE:<font color="#000000">wait, what?

VAE:<font color="#000000">is it the fucking time switch fucking already?

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:35 at :35, too.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Lag gone, yay!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Daylight Saving Time (United States) begins Sunday, March 11, 2012, 2:00am&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;You may be going underwater, but I wouldn't leave your armor behind. Bring it along if you're not going to wear it.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;We should be back here, so just leave a little for the innkeeper to let him know you're planning to come back.&quot; :3

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hlal knows how many inn lost-and-found items turned up at the Rewyn Market later... There's a story about a pair of shoes that got lost in a Resca inn and turned up in Kista Pass.&quot; :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... uh-oh, it's looking oddly silent here agin. Is it quiet, or is it just me again? :38

VAE:<font color="#000000">Okay, we 'ere in the UK start on 25th. Jolly good.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;My armor iz made uf Middral. It schould be fine if Hy vear it.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And my things, Max--ah, splendid, very well.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I suppose it wouldn't do to tangle with a shark in the buck.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. As ready as I'll ever be.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I just have a studded leather under my robes... isn't heavy much.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Same here!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;I'm sure that would go over marvelously with you, Thomas.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He doesn't look like he knows exactly how to interpret that one. =w=;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">:39

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why am I not surprised? The market looks like the place where they can strip the unwary off their pants, even.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:39 at :40?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You're lag-spiking. It's been a regular stream of chat. :39

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The only time I've ever even seen a shark were those undead ones in Pamela's moat..&quot; {:3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Liatai: :39 at :40? (41)

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Zombie sherks?&quot; :O

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( :41 ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:41 at :41.

RAM:<font color="#990000">You're back in the present!

RAM:<font color="#990000">You need to stop time traveling.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;They were pretty forboding.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">This happens again, I'm confiscating the phone. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">Good idea.

* Dr. Hatari struggles to maintain consciousness. |X

Max:<font color="#000000">The dragons and storyteller lead you out of town... even now, the streets of Resca show signs of life. Night owls turning in, day-walkers starting their morning routines.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">weird.. I am having the exact same problem.. damn flight.

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Dude, are you sure you're okay? ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ghost stop it. XD

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">what flight?

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">I'm in pittsburgh now. ^^

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">Visiting me mum

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang pulls Terri onto Dragula with him as he rolls along with everyone. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;There are a few breeds of freshwater sharks in the big lakes of Mazio. I even heard of a story where one alchemical factory had exploded and created this lake of acid, and yet, there were things that decided to make a living there.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang pulls Terri onto Dragula with him as he rolls along with everyone. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Seriously. Acid-breathing fish and things. At least, so the story went.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas points the beach and ocean out to Sszeyl as they approach.

VAE:<font color="#000000">which map?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">O_O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;This is the 'beach'.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And this....would be the ocean, Sszeyl.&quot; Gnogglebolt says as he takes in the sight for the first time himself.

VAE:<font color="#000000">got it

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The ocean before us is easily as large as the whole continent of Akellon behind us.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy remember dat schtory!&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">Eventually, the stone streets of the city give way to more dirt paths, and finally, sand. The sun is just barely starting to peek over the horizon now, giving the clouds a slight red cast.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;... it's bigger than even I imagined. Wow.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">curious as to whether or not Tathi has seen the ocean...

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed... Imagine being forced to sail there, with no land in sight.. &quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">The storyteller looks noticeably more nervous the more ocean talk is told. &gt;.&gt;;;;;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas has visited the ocean once or twice in his youth, but not at Resca.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;It hes been a vile since Hy hef been to de ocean...&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Eh, live a hundred years, see everything.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's not like river or lake water. It's very salty. Don't drink it.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Ahhh. I wonder if the legends of the bottomless ocean are true.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">A deserted, quiet stretch of beach is your final destination. Well, deserted except for one armored woman. &quot;(Good morning, Kethendaustrat.)&quot; :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy made dat mistake de first time. Very onpleasant.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think we all tasted it yesterday with the water-breathing spells, Thomas.&quot; Gnogglebolt makes a 'blech' face.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;(Mornin', Kethie!)&quot; :D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Knew I should have bought a seahelm...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ah. Very good then.&quot; |3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Haloo Keddie!&quot; Wave wave wave!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Man, Shankfang's accent continues to amuse me.

Miron:<font color="#000000">''Not if you go for a swim, Tathi. Because then, there'll be an arse in there for sure. ''

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">...in fact, yes. Can I say Gnogglebolt decided to buy a seahelm on their way out?

Kethie:<font color="#000000">The kid clanks against the armor as she hugs the woman. &quot;Good morning.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">it's like, 650 gp

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yeah, go ahead. :B

* Thomas Lazarus raises a hand in greeting. |3

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;Has Maxissoren told you exactly what you'll be doing today?&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not entirely.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Magic &amp; Mayhem page 178, if you'd like to check it out yourself.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hello... and not at all.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Not eksactly, no.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hardly. He's been teasing us.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Where does it get the salt from?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;I'm afraid not miss.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;18278-650 = 18278 - 650 = 17628&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for Seahelm

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">To Sszeyl, &quot;I have no idea, actually.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">brb

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;De salt hes chust alvays been dere, really.&quot;

* Kethie looks flatly at Max, who shrugs.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;I wanted it to be a surprise.&quot; :3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Surprises almost always mean a bad thing.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;I take it 'Kethie' does not like surprises..&quot; Tathi says with a smirk.

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;A surprise? Maxissoren, that's irresponsible.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">''I like her already. ''

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;If it were irresponsible, I wouldn't have brought the harness.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Harnesses are usually a bad thing.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Allright, anyone mind telling what this mess is all about?&quot;

* Kethie sighs. &quot;... fair enough.&quot; She looks over at your group. &quot;My grandmother's been looking forward to meeting you all. However, she lives on an island northwest of here.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I mean. Unless you're into that. I don't judge--*BRICK*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yah, Hy vant to know vat ve're gonna be doink!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...I don't know what we're doing, but I will note if we intend to go for a swim, I -did- come prepared, but I'll have to leave almost all of my equipment behind,, most of it isn't waterproof.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;A harness? Are we catching a magical animal?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">I aren't and that's sick, Thomas.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll leave you to provide exposition, Kethie.&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">Bards. 9.9

VAE:<font color="#000000">note no quotes

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, we did hear she lives out in the ocean. Are we...taking a ship there?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;A boat, something?&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;A ship would take far too long, and from what I've heard, you've already spent far too long on a ship.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus stoops by the water and submerges a glove to feel the temperature.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">THOMAS. :P

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

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...So, how -are- we getting there?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;We certainly did. Enough for two lives.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Ker-shapeshift, and the two bards seem to be working on something in a bag of holding.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh goodnesws, I think sister just accidentally let the dog out. xD

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're travellin' with dragons. How d'you think?&quot; :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Dogs *indoors* are the odd thing

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Oh lords and ladies.. we're flying!?&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt blinks, processing.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Then it hits him.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wha--seriously?!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Flyink!&quot; :D

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's quite an honor. Treat it as such.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You--you yourselves--are going to fly us there?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">A badly concealed smile crosses the inquisitor's face.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; I hope they're better at it than I was..&quot; =w=;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not I. I have business transporting someone else there. But these two siblings should more than be able to carry you.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I thank you in advance for that...&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ack, BRB.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt blinks and tilts his head. &quot;Wow. Huh. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I haven't reallyheard much of dragons, but the few stories back in Mazio...well, they suggested this kind of thing would be unheard of.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He smiles. &quot;But I'm glad the stories are being proven wrong.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;May I ask whom?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus casts a raised brow at Terri.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Back.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy vanna fly vith Terri, den!&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Will be interesting to see how this compares to, say, a heli-flyer....&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">durnit, don't have mah books.. polymorph grants flying if the form has wings, yes?

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

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A hell-i-flyer? What he hell is that?&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">It owuldn't make sense otherwise

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mazian flyink machine.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus shakes out his wet glove.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks back at Miron, and tries to figure out how to verbally describe it.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Think if a short, wide spring. A very very big one, about the size of a person.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*Think of

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;First the ocean, now flying.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Can't we...walk somewhere for once? =3=;&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Allright.. and what do you do with the spring? Launch something like a catapult?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That'd .. be a poor method of travel&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, think of a shaft going through the center. Then think of a canvas going from the edges of the spring to the shaft, so it's...a sort of a spiral.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Oh yes, and shark ridden oceans, and flying are so much better. =3=&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ah. Ork-style rapid transit.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus is bricked.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm not big enough to carry someone big yet, Mr. Shankfang.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;The Dragon is busy reminding me of all the possible ways flying can go bad.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right... so ... like when you peel an apple in one piece... and if you were to wrap it around a shaft.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Like, a spiral canvas. Anyway, then imagine a metal engine and place to sit underneath it. Now...imagine that spiral canvas spinning, really really fast.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That makes you fly.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dey schpin really really fast und generate enough lift to fly.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sweatdrops. ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Unless they're Kor.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Kor, Dragon Rider.

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It makes you fly? How does that work? I mean... When something flaps its wings.. i think .. it's pushing air below itself.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Red never flew like a gold,&quot; Max interjects, and you can see what the bards have been working with now. A... complex amalgam of leather and rope, all tangled from being in the bag, but it's soon sorted out.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't see how a screw does that if it has nothing solid to screw into&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dere's...a lot more to it ten dat.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And the spiral does the same thing, it pushes the air.&quot; Gnogglebolt winks at Miron. &quot;Dn't worry, you'll have to see it to believe it. And maybe one day you will see it.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait.. hmm.. Right...but how does it change direction?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns back to the dragons.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dere's tinks like drag und lift und schtuff. It gets komplicated.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So! How are we going to do this?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you incline the shaft?&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;A man by the name of Gamal-Junayd of the Vorel-Svent is who I am to transport. He is closer than we are to the lair.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas is distracted from both the dragons and the aviator talk. He's looking at the ocean horizon very quietly. {:3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Oh?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's .. an odd name.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;I am half tempted to just polymorph myself into a dragon for this trip.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt approaches the dragons curiously.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Are hyu gunna be able to karry my bike, too? It iz very heavy.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Somehow, I doubt your spell would last long enough.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Depends.. how long does it take to get to this island?&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, first, this needs to go on unless you feel like making your first dragon ride bareback.&quot; The dragon shakes his head, jingling some buckles. |3 &quot;Shankfang, I can carry half a dozen oxen in the air with no problem. Your bike will be fine.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Have you carried half a dozen oxen before?&quot; Tathi asks teasingly.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Would I use that comparison if I hadn't?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay, chust makink sure.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:3

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, he'll have to do with one cow.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">He really wanted a big bowl of beef stew.

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">not no

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">'Alright...who is going with whom, then? Are you to carry all of us, Maz?&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maxissoren has informed me that he has a short excursion planned for those who wish it before making the journey proper.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks over.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh? Where to?&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll be carrying you all. Kethie's not going to be here, remember?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Is that so..?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He's basically kidnapping us at this point, so I suppose whatever plans he has are his to reveal at his leisure..&quot; :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;A short excursion? Do tell.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;You've probably guessed at it already. After all, you planned it.&quot; :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Unless...yeah. Unless you're deliberately being hush-hush about it.&quot; :P

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Kidnapping? Brother, we're gonna be flying.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Sherk huntink!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....Oh, Sszeyl's shark-getting thing? Right.&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tharkiel? Salishea had an additional message for you.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Which reminds me.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, keep in mind to keep mine and SHankfang's stuff out of the water...a lot of it wouldn't survive being submerged.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">The bard freezes mid-buckling of a strap before turning nervously. &quot;-- Ahem. Yes?&quot; ^^;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I still don't know what I'm supposed to do..&quot; {|3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Did we ever get Madame Salishea's perferred type of shark? =3=;&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; I should make a submarine....&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Do henny uf hyu know an enchantment so my gun kan fire ondervater?&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;You will not be skipping out of this visit. No exceptions.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..It can't fire underwater?&quot; :.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Oh that poor bard..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks back at SHankfang. &quot;I think I could do something like that. Not soon, but someday...&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot; ... I was afraid of that. &quot; &gt;.&gt;;;;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns to Thomas. &quot;That explosive powder we put in our guns?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I guess it can't.. extinguishes the flame or something.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Tharky.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Useless if it gets wet.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll be there. Thank you, Kethendaustrat.&quot; ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">We all know you're a bronze half-dragon.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">*shot*

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Right then. Max, do you think a polymorph spell would last long enough to make this trip?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not unless we use the imbued kind.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I.. see. I suppose I'll have to remember that if we cross enemy gunmen.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Actually, hall uf my schtuff vill be fine ondervater, eksept maybe my deffbike.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Which I don't have right now...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Someone should make a gun using alchemist's fire. That thing burns everywhere.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;My gun chust vill not be able to fire. Like Gnogglebolt saeed, black powder does not burn if it gets vet.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt grins at Miron. &quot;Someone already made that, yes.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Depends on what you polymorphed into, and how long your spell lasts. It's about a two-hour flight as the bronze flies.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We call them--&quot; He looks over his shoulder.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;--Dragon guns.&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;Which reminds me.&quot;

Railock whispers: seems like its getting close, but wanted to check if your doing anything else before heading to the island

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, that's what I call good news, then.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;So, hennyone? Enchantments for gun? Yah, no?&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">The woman kneels in the sand, and great wings unfurl from her back as a thick, frilled tail grows.

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Did Shankfang not hear Gnogglebolt?

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;None of us are enchanters proper.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus is distracted by Klethie's transformation.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;You'll see when we get there. You won't need to wet your powder.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">He means now, not 'eventually'

Kethendaustrat:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have you any further questions for me that cannot wait? I must be going.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... No, ma'am.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks over at the new dragon. &quot;I'm just seeing all kinds of new things this past week!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Bah. That's a bit out of my range. Guess I'll be just flying on someone else's power for this flight.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, miss.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right then, might as well get this over with...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vo vould vin in a fight, hyu or Max?&quot; X3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt steps forward and volunteers to be the first to be strapped in.

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Not a one, ma'am.&quot;

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

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

Kethendaustrat:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't say a word, Maxissoren.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">''She's kinda gorgeous like that. :.''

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not a word said.&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Shut up, she's ugly as hell.

Kethendaustrat:<font color="#000000">&quot;Those were words.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Ahh, Max. So modest.&quot;Tathi says, smirking.

Miron:<font color="#000000">She looked better in human form...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Troll'd.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">What's that miron? You've got a thing for the tall girls?

Sszeyl whispers: &quot;And how are you today?&quot;

* Maxissoren looks innocent. 0:3

Miron:<font color="#000000">Shut up Tathi. Unlike you, she has a serious attitude.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Uh huh.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Sure.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">We believe you.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I feel a disturbance in the force.

Sszeyl whispers: &quot;Feeling talkative? You know she might want to address you.&quot;

You whisper to Meany: That reminds me. Are you still planning to play out the Red's reaction to Salishea? It would be a load off my shoulders if yes. ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt waits patiently until the giant winged lizards are done bantering. |3

Sszeyl whispers: :O Sure!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy guess Max vould. Onless hyu seduced him first, Keddie.&quot; X3

Miron:<font color="#000000">What do you care, anyways. Go snuggle with your baby boy there.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Somebody's jealous...

Miron:<font color="#000000">Or how do you call that sort of things, anyways.

* Thomas Lazarus seizes up. =w=;;;;;;;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Okay, stepping away from Shankfeng now. Here, Thomas, you make a nice blast barrier..

Kethendaustrat:<font color="#000000">&quot;He's my cousin, in deed if not by blood, half-orc.&quot; Dragon disapproves. :|

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron follows as well.

* Maxissoren chuckles. &quot;Hold on, there.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Reputation lost!

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Awk-war~rd.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">It's cool.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Second cousins are like, totally hitable.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">*shot*

Miron:<font color="#000000">Jealous.. I at least got standards high enough to not be a sugar daddy.

* Thomas Lazarus rememebers something.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">.. you don't even know what that term means, do you?

* Thomas Lazarus glances back at the others. Namely Swallowtail.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Also glance.

Kethendaustrat:<font color="#000000">&quot;I will see you on the island.&quot; The dragon's wings unfurl, and two powerful wingbeats that send sea spray and sand flying later, she rises into the air, then disappears over the horizon to the north.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;How're you?&quot; |3

* Swallowtail is praying in Amayan.

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Oie, Ed, you cannot be telling me you're going to be missing out on a dragon flight?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang is chaotic, he doesn't care about reputation.

* Thomas Lazarus covers face. x3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Bai!&quot;

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Heck no!&quot; :O

Miron:<font color="#000000">It's related to the fact that he's what, an eight of your age, never mind ability?

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">Reputation has nothing to do with alignment. Nothing. XP

Miron:<font color="#000000">You practically speak in his stead and drag him about like Elros did his cat.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Nope. You don't know what that term means.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Ah..&quot; He falls quiet and doesn't disturb her further.

Miron:<font color="#000000">No, I didn't even START on that.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">You're done.

Miron:<font color="#000000">After all, who was it that paid for his ressurection?

Miron:<font color="#000000">And for how many other things?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's kind of amusing.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Sugar daddy is a slang term for a man who offers money or gifts to a younger person in return for companionship or sexual favours

Meany:<font color="#330000">From the wiki article.

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">=3=

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I would probably have never thought Lumi's stock art, in itself, was all that cute.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But in contrast with the other dragons, and pinned to her persona...

VAE:<font color="#000000">Which is what Miron accuses Tathi of being.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's actually somehow adorable. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">No, that's what -you- are accusing tathi of being. If miron did, he'd be backhanded in short order.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt's still waiting to be strapped into the crazy harness, apparently.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">By Aelian.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay, time to go? Hy'm lookink forvard to schootink zum sherks!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">He wouldn't be .. as this conversation is happening in 4th wall-space

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">And unless you're asking for Aelian to start taking a divvy of your loot, you might want to shutup. Just saying. ^^

VAE:<font color="#000000">I actually wouldn't give a fuck

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">Ladies, ladies.

RAM:<font color="#990000">You're both pretty.

Meany:<font color="#330000">You're both pretty.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now, then.&quot; The harness is strapped in place, and the dragon gives it a good shake. Long strands of rope form a sort of hand-bridge from the dragon's neck-frills back to the behinning of his tail. He chuckles. &quot;Patience, patience~ I was waiting for Kethie to leave to explain.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Now shush.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Ninja'd!

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

* Thomas Lazarus peers at the harness-platform.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oooh, dat looks interestink...&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sacred warder she may be, but she's as stifling to conversation as Aross... Anyway.&quot; :3 &quot;I only wanted to offer the shark-hunting to those who wanted to take a short flight before the long haul, to get a feel for it and to make sure this is in place properly.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Sure.&quot; =3=

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;I wasn't going to pry, but she is quite a bit stiff in the social graces department, isn't she?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well, mister, are you finally going to reveal how it's supposed to work?&quot; =3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Stiff? She speaks briefly and to the point, unlike some..&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy vouldn' mind schootink zum sherks first.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Kethie mentioned a dead whale a short flight away that sharks were gathering at. Close enough to the surface that attacks from the surface would damage them.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Quiet, nadorhuan.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Kethendaustrat was raised in draconic company, in draconic society, unlike us. So she has a little trouble relating to the younger races' mannerisms.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Did Miron just get called a ninwah?

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Like. A. Boss.

VAE:<font color="#000000">what the fuck is ninwah

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;A what-the-fuck?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Call him XBALZ!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Morrowind elf insult. :P

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Really? But.. All the coppers were so.. chatty.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm gonna stay here with Tharky, so if anyone wants to stay here instead an' watch the sun rise, you can stay here too.&quot; :3

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's copper. Bronze dragons are an entirely different breed.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;And if you thought they were chatty? Wait until you get to the desert.&quot; |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;As lovely as that sounds, I imagine I should go along.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;I am definitely coming. Fishing for sharks by fireballs sounds delightfully silly in a way.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Remember, the idea is for them to be a gift later.&quot; =w=;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Don't just blow them to pieces.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I suppose I'll head out with the first flight.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">erp, that was meant to be in quotations.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suppose I'll head out with the first flight.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi giggles. &quot;Actually, contrary to popular belief, unless a spell is actually oriented in such a way, there is very little concussive force.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;So, they'll be roasted. I suspect she'll like that.&quot;

* Maxissoren lays down on the sand, spreading his wings out flat. &quot;All aboard for shark-hunting?&quot; :3 &quot;Tharky can show you how to climb up. From the shoulders, please.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Bang bang, heheh...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hmph. Well. The backdraft is misleading, then.&quot;

* Swallowtail looks paralyzed. o.o;;;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I wouldn't know. You haven't hit me with that yet.&quot; |3

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Ahhh, that's fire reactiing with air. A very funny elemental play, really.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus ceases his teasing for a moment.

* Thomas Lazarus looks back and speaks quietly.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;How are hyu gunna karry Dragula?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Swallowtail, I've noticed you've been treating our dragon friends with especially great reverence.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;C'mon Swallowtail, it'll be fun.&quot; Tathi says, offering a hand.&quot;

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

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mr. Sszeyl!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">Aelian practically runs up dem wings. XD

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Kethie forgot!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Is it okay with you to ride Max out to the island?&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#006666">Hi! Hi! Hi! We're staying with you. :&gt;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">The dragon grumbles. &quot;Hey! Watch the wings, please.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Hmm?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi grins. &quot;You should be more worried about me, Max. I am so going to be preening you for scales.&quot; &gt;:)

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot; I cannot believe it. Is too great of an honor for me. The emperor does not ride dragons &quot; O_o;;;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Think of it as bragging rights, Swallowtail!&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Those grow back. Torn wing membranes make it difficult, if not impossible, to fly.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;So if you want your free ride, take it easy.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Neither does the emperor almost get sacrificed by Nerullians. Life has its ups and downs.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Enjoy the ups while you are at them.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus smiles and pats her shoulder. &quot;Well. Circumstance has a strange way of favoring you then. It is our friend's invitation, you know.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mr. Sszeyl, Salishea doesn't like shapeshifters. It's your natural form in her lair, or nothin'.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi heads up the dragon's wings as well, a bit more careful than Aelian the eager. She stays on the scale portion. ^^

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Oh poo. =3=&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Just a minute.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Need to log off, then log back on.

* Maxissoren rumbles again as Tathi steps on the wing. &quot;Tathi, please. Climb up my shoulder instead.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Kome on, Svallowtail. Hyu've earned dis.&quot;

TMG whispers: Okay, check my roleplaying. Would it be a good idea if Gnogglebolt did this; &quot;Well, looks like what you need is an injection of Mazian arrogance. Doesn't matter if it'll blow up, just gotta do it!&quot; Gnogglebolt pumps a fist into the air nd closes his eyes as he shouts. &quot;YEAAAAAH!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Unfortunately, you are obliged to accept! The Lady Salishea summoned the Guardians. Which you reluctantly counted yourself as. So, come, come.&quot; |3

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">... oh... player's goof. XP

You whisper to TMG: Go for it. x3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Please excuse me.&quot; Thomas boards the dragon express. :9

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks back, notcing Swallowtail's relutance and apparent reason for it.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">ignroe that then. They went up the shoulder. ^^

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;... you have point, Thomas.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">quick! cover up his token! :P

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">OH HAY *sits on face*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm, can you lot go for a few minutes without me? Nature calls

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sounds like what you need then is an injection of Mazian arrogance.&quot; Gnogglebolt stands and strikes a pose, with his crazy backpack drawing him. &quot;Doesn't matter if it'll blow up in your face, just gotta DO it!&quot; He puches a fist in the air and closes his eyes as she shouts. &quot;YEAAAAAAAH!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang makes his way up Max's shoulder. &quot;Hy assume hyu vill be karryink my bike?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*crazy backpack dwarfing him

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;We won't be taking the bike this time, Shankfang. When we come back to pick up Tharky and Lumi, we'll pick up the bike.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus raises a brow at Gnogglebolt and smirks.

VAE:<font color="#000000">it does draw him backwards, actually

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

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Wow Gnogglebolt.. You almost sounded like Shankfang there.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's a good one, gnogglebolt.&quot;

* Maxissoren chuckles.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... That doesn't sound like you at all.&quot; |B

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;He's a fellow Mazian. Ve are hall prone to bouts uf silliness.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who cares if it's something emporers have never done? We of the tinker's trade live for doing things no one's ever done before!&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Someone take a screenshot.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Just enough to cover the token. :B

Meany:<font color="#330000">I miss anything?

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

Tathi:<font color="#006666">*smother dragon, we are the adventurers, we are the 1%*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Preparing to depart.

TMG:<font color="#000000">One sec, meany, whispering...

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;You do not understand, Gnogglebolt, is a matter of honor. Dragons are not for riding.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I think I understand what she means..&quot; He smiles, a bit amused.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 20 + 8 = 28&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187; knowledge religion!

* Maxissoren chuckles again. &quot;Miss Swallowtail, how do you think Tharky and I got to my lair so long before you did?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Still. We have little recourse.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, like I said, that's what I was told back in Mazio, but you don't see me refusing the offer. x3 &quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Nonsense. Bahamet gave them powerful wings and broad backs. A riding dragons we shall go!&quot; :&gt;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Friends get the privelege. Every now and then. Everyone strapped in?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Ready!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Ready!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Yep.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Strapped in--holyshitsszeyl :U

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Da!&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">rofl

TMG:<font color="#000000">Whatever happened to your original tokenart, anyway?

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">that originl 'rapeface' one done by someone on the forums?

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">lololololllolo

* Maxissoren stands up -- careful there, might be a little jarring to suddenly be ten feet above the ground.

Meany:<font color="#330000">On the wiki.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;How about now?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Can fetch when needed

Meany:<font color="#330000">Also, afk.

Meany:<font color="#330000">-.- Family drama.

* Thomas Lazarus keeps a firm hold of a spine.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Don't fall in the ocean with -12 to swim, Thomas... {:3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;My Chi iz mad focused, yo!&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hold on tight --&quot; The dragon raises his wings, crouching down into the sand a little... I invite you to picture this. You know that wiggle cats do before they pounce with their hind feet?

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;I am already having fun! You know, you dragons could corner the entertainment industry by charging for rides..&quot;

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

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Picture a fifty-foot-long dragon doing that.

Aelian:<font color="#006666">I WILL. NOT. LAUGH.

* Thomas Lazarus bobbles. {83

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Pity, that's what I was aiming for, a laugh. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">Heeheee. xD Dragonwiggle. |3

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

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

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Reckless elf, go! There's your laughing. &quot;Really? I thought you were reptelian, not feline!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">AELIAN HOLD ME.

Aelian:<font color="#006666">I'LL NEVER LET GO.

* Aelian drops Thomas in the water. Swim check, sucka.

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

Aelian:<font color="#006666">|)

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">With my dying breath... I...

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Send to Raerarael that you've banged her like 40 times doing the kinky thiiiingggssss *die*

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;And here... we... go!&quot; The dragon suddenly surges forward, a few galloping bounds toward the water -- and suddenly -- a leap! The sail-like wings surge downward, and in a rush of air -- You're airborne!

Aelian:<font color="#006666">*engage khan mode* THOOOOMAAAAASSSS!!!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;WOOOOHOOOOO!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus clings a bit more tightly.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Whoah--It's--a lot different from doing it yourself--!&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Once the shock wears off, you quickly notice a few things. For one, gold dragons don't exactly fly like your standard Western dragon. They ripple through the air smoothly, wings rising and falling in smooth waves that continue all the way down to the tail.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Weeeeeeeeeeee!!!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron is laughing like mad as well. &quot;For once, Tathi is right. This is simply awesome.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;FASTAH!&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Second? Gold dragons fly fast.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">PAINT MAX RED!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Wait, our standard dragn?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">and a but of non-canon sillyness &quot;~You know we never listen, we think we've seen it all ~ like everything we're doing no one's ever done be-fore ~&quot; from the earlier 'doing things no one's ever done before' :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">RED WUNZ GO FASTAH!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Dragons aren't that common.. so whatever ones are there, are the standard

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">golds and coppers have the eastern style of wings.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Even a leisurely pace of 400 feet per round, double-moving, it's still... very quick.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">Spine-wings, I call em.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I know.. it's just.. it'd likely be as standard as any in Akellon

VAE:<font color="#000000">Since they live there

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">Feh, I'm faster.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">I'm not gunning it, Dragula. :P

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is interesting.. .Instead of like a bird.. he swims through the air like a fish through water.&quot;

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">Bring it, you oversized lizard!

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;How are you all holding up back there?&quot; :3

Miron:<font color="#000000">Shut up, bike.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Back.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Weeeeeeeeeeee!!!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">Aelian gives a whoop of joy!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Are we there yet?&quot; {83

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">The beach has long been left behind, though you are flying along the coast northward.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Enjoy the ride, brother!&quot;

* Edaric is laughing joyfully. Swallowtail is quiet and awed, clinging to a spine.

* Thomas Lazarus does not like rides, clearly.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;~ Well I'm a horrible dancer, I ain't gonna lie ~ but I'll be damned if that means that I ain't gonna try ~ Yeah I'm a shitty romancer, baby ain't gonna lie ~ but I'll be damned if that means that I ain't gonna try ~&quot; okay, enough noncanon sillysong. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;First you sgo abo

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt is looking every which way, getting the feel of the motions, comparing it to what he knows of flying machines.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl is cling all +4 strength to Max. =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Very close. Very very close in awe-striking.

Miron:<font color="#000000">*go about it like if you were selling turnips speaking to Swallowtail, and now you just complain.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;There, I see it. The dead whale feeding ground.&quot; The dragon turns his head slightly, and you can see a trace of a mischievous grin. &quot;We'll be there in about a minute at this pace... or thirty seconds if we go all out. What do you say?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I didn't say anything!&quot; X3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Lazarus: &quot;Are we there yet?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;All out!&quot;

Sszeyl whispers: &quot;You're quiet. First giving you problems again?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt brightens up.

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;All out!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;All out, all out! Let's fly!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I realize now I should have asked this sooner.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;FASTAH!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">{83 !!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Um... you won't dump us into the water,?!?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;But what's a whale? =3=&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's... like a fish.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;But it's big... and it breathes like animals.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;I won't dump you into the water.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus shouts, &quot;It's the largest animal.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">I have no idea what {83 is suppoed to be... knitted brow, goggles, cat face? XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Big eyes you pleb. :P

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

* Ghostwish blinks.

* Ghostwish staaaaarrrresss...

* Ghostwish shrugs.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">Yah I don't get it :P

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hold on tight!&quot; And when he says that, he means it. He lifts his wings, and then with a series of quick, forceful pushes -- you're now flying at 96 miles per hour. O_o

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">-_-

* Thomas Lazarus clings for dear life.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Cling. ._.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, what the fuck is sszeyl's icon now?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He is notably silent.

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">SHANKFANG! I NEED UPGRADES!

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Holy crap too fast!!&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">The coastline is a blur. Luckily, the harness has an enchantment to keep the wind from shearing off your face, or shearing you from the dragon's back.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Yes, yes you do.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;WOOHOO!&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's just some other Drow. His hair has been growing out a while. Why is is some huge revelation/shocker to you guys.. :P

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">It's no time at all before the dragon's wingbeats slow, and you're hovering over the remains of a gigantic whale. It's clearly been eaten at quite extensively, but there's still enough meat left to attract the scavengers. Birds that fly off as the dragon approaches... and sharks.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because this drow is butt-ugly/

VAE:<font color="#000000">He looks like Krow from String Theort

VAE:<font color="#000000">*String Theory

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Different artist, stick your shitty opinions back in your ass. :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">How's this?

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">says the dude with the fugliest token here... XP

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well... find me a better one :3

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Take your shot if you'd like it, but they'll scatter afterward, so make it count.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy see sherks!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Tathi!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Besides, it wasn't as much to do with the way he was drawn, as much as...

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;You're up!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus is too busy clinging.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">What's the range?

* Maxissoren lands, very gingerly, on the back of the whale.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">found one! http://www.myfarmville.org/images/arobins28.jpg

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Not far, about 30 feet.

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

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Are there any that are punchable? :V

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yeah, That was unexpected.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks over the side as they slow and circle the shark feeding.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Shark Punching Center!

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Right then, everyone hold on..&quot; Tathi says as she looks for the largest cluster of them...

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Not from dragonback, though you're welcome to try and jump on a nearby rock to punch a shark if you want. :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; ...wish I had a dwarven fishing pole...or better yet, a goblin fishing pole...&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Take it easy, Tathi, we only need one or two. Three, maximum.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">do I need to get out PUNCH THE FISH ? :B

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Now, are the sharks close enough to the surface to be affected by a fireball?

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Hmm. Would require a Jump Check.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Die sharks, die!! &#171; &#160;1d20+15+1 = 6 + 15 + 1 = 22&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;3d6+1 = 17 + 1 = 18&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187;! Quickload! &#171; &#160;1d20+10+1 = 11 + 10 + 1 = 22&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;3d6+1 = 11 + 1 = 12&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187;! DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Darnit! What about a lightning bolt?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Really?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">No?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Lightning bolt works.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;G-go wild.. I'm just.. here for medical emergencies..&quot; {83

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&gt;:)

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Holding up a small glass rod as she chants, Tathi sunders the battlefield with a blinding blue streak of lightning! DC17 for half damage, or suffer the full &#171; &#160;8d6 = 32&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187; damage!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Last chance, Sszeyl, you can punch a shark if you want.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">The ocean is electrocuted.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;So! Max! Have you ever been a mobile fishing platform before?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Le jump.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">And le punch. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/063/4/c/PUNCH_A_FISH_IN_THE_FACE_by_Booter_Freak.png

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Roll your attack roll. :B

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">You get: 126xShark.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm.. I suppose Saint Cuthbery would approve...&quot; Sound Burst on a 10 ft circle area for &#171; &#160;1d8 = 1&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; and DC 15 Fort save for stunning

TMG:<font color="#000000">^ the above is Sszeyl right now. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 11 + 8 = 19&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; PUUUUUNCH.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">The damage sucks, but the stun is why I try it.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I once went ocean fishing.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">KER-PUNCH.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Caught a fish.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Now for damage.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Released it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">SHARK PUNCHING CENTRE

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Bone-CRUSHER.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">And punched it in midair.

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's a foundation meme

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well. That's the first time I've seen anyone fish like that.&quot; |3

RAM:<font color="#990000">It bled.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d8+4+4d6 = 5 + 4 + 16 = 25&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Also the shark needs to make a dc14 fort save, or have it's skeleton totally messed up.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Then swam away.

TMG:<font color="#000000">but...sharks don't -have- bones...they have cartilige.

TMG:<font color="#000000">So is like, the cartalige turned to soup or something? :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Why do we punch them? ''Because they don't have hands. ''

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well he didn't use cartilige crusher now did he?

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Three sharks are now yours! Max reaches over with his long neck to pluck the lightning-fried one out of the water gingerly.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Can't deny it's effective! Now how many did we get?&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">And so, that is how Sszeyl spent his best day ever. Riding a dragon over the ocean, to punch a shark in the face.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl snatches the punched, and shooted ones.

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">&quot;Holy shit these things are heavy. And their skin hurts.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Awww, I would have at least thought I got a couple if I aimed down into the water..

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Free,&quot; the dragon mumbles around the shark before depositing the shark in a pouch hanging from the harness -- the bag of holding he had earlier.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sszeyl: *Flat Nappa voice* &quot;Wheeeeeee!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">OH SHIT

Aelian:<font color="#006666">Guess who I forgot. ^.^;;; may I, dm?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">:P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Wanton cruelty to sharks? Why? :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszely hauls the two sharks over to the bag of holding area.

Aelian:<font color="#006666">BECAUSE WE CAN. XP

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">=3=;

* Maxissoren takes them and puts them in the bag. &quot;There we are. Any more and there won't be much room left in there.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Awww...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Aelian! I would have expected better of you! You live in a tree! *bricked*

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Le climb back onboard.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Do we get exp for killing sharks?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Incidentally.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">way below our CR. XP

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">What type of sharks did we just massacre?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Great Whites? (:3

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">*pulls out Pokedex*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Uhhhhh Medium sharks. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">let's say we got multiple kinds.. :P

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">A palette, if you will.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">They know &quot;Bite, Leer, Swim, and Bite again.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">You mean Crunch.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll need that room for your... gyrocycle, was it, Shankfang?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Crunch, yes.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;All strapped in, Sszeyl?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Deffbike, I think it was.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Aye.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Panel five, Krow. Just rthe same face as the bloody drow token. http://www.stringtheorycomic.com/comics/chapter-three/page-two-2/

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

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">A short flight back to the beach later, at a leisurely 400 feet per round again. Faster than your average horse, by a fair bit.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They're all called gyrocycles, Shankfang just calls his particular one a deffbike(cycle, I still say) because that's the gang he was with.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;No, Gnogglebolt. It hain't a gyrocycle. It iz a Deffbike.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And now... I'm going to go AFK for a wee bit. Would someone ping Railock?

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">PING CANNONS LOADED.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">LOCKING ONTO TARGET.

VAE:<font color="#000000">http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/10-30-a-m

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Gyrocycles are lame. Deffbikes are avezum.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Read this guys. It explains the meme I was referring to

VAE:<font color="#000000">It all comes from a) the &quot;SPC&quot; typo which is the sign of proofreading fail and b) The &quot;his teeth became 'shark'&quot; meme

VAE:<font color="#000000">When you all came in here, there was a copy of Sun Tzu&#8217;s The Art of Punching Sharks on your chair. You are all to have read that by the time you report in tomorrow morning. Now get out of here. Those sharks aren&#8217;t going to punch themselves. Because they don&#8217;t have hands.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Djoric won the internetz when he wrote up that one.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und if hyu ever kall my Deffbike a gyrocycle again Hy vill sick Talfeera on hyu.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">What did Hyuu ever do to you?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shut up I have a thick accent. =3=

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Am I with you all? =3=; :19

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:20 D: Liatai:<font color="#000000">:20 at :19. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">:20

VAE:<font color="#000000">okay, wut

VAE:<font color="#000000">negative lag?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Stop time traveling Lia!

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">SHE'S TIME WARPING

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">GODDAMNIT RENIA

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Tell Railock to ping in when he's here. We can RP while we wait, I suppose.

* Dr. Hatari glances in.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Rail is non-responsive.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I was reading comics. :P

Meany:<font color="#330000">Been pinging him on the IRC.

Meany:<font color="#330000">:V

RAM:<font color="#990000">Saving the Quarian homeworld, flirting with Tali in the middle of a mission...

RAM:<font color="#990000">I love this game so much.

Railock:<font color="#000000">my irc has been neither sounding off, or even blinking that it is being pinged

VAE:<font color="#000000">well, duh

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">Heh, texting him got him. :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">neither does mine

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you mind possibly getting a little wet?&quot; The dragon angles down, aiming toward the shore. &quot;A water landing will throw less sand at our fellow travelers.&quot;

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

Railock:<font color="#000000">normally it does though

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy em kool vith dat.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Go ahead.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Er!&quot; Gnogglebolt quickly reaches back and tries to cover up the particularly waterphobic things in his back with a tarp.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Why not? Second time today.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*in his cargo pack

Railock whispers: so what map should I be on for my..getting off the boat and incoming dragon riders?

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">The dragon folds his wings out flat into a glide, coming to rest easily with his back out of the water. Your boots might get a little wet, but it's not so bad. &quot;Ready to go?&quot; :3

* Thomas Lazarus extra-clings. 8E

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ready as I'll ever be.&quot; ^^;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Da!&quot;

Vuz:<font color="#330000">Gnoggle-pounce.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron holds as tight as he can.

Vuz:<font color="#330000">Purr purr purr. |3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*gasp* Kitty! :o

You whisper to Railock: Resca - Coast and Market. I'll drag Gamal to where he should appear.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt protectively holds the kitty close.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">...which remiiiiiiinds me!

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Vuz:<font color="#330000">You smell like copper. :o

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hey Liatai, remember that brainstorming we did so long about about Mazian Sparkers and Mazian Zappers?

Vuz:<font color="#330000">Lick.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... how odd.

Railock whispers: okay he's still in the elswhere then of that map with his really horrid token I made

Vuz:<font color="#330000">And you taste like it too!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Fg of war's not clearing.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Aha, there.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I was just a derp. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">ALL IS LOST

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Oh nevermind there it is.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Are you sure your clearing token has vision?

Meany:<font color="#330000">Oh, derp. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Put a token in the fog of war.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hi Terri!&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hi! Let's go!&quot; :D

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liatai, remember about the Mazian Sparkers and Zappers?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yes, I do, now I'm typing narration. :P

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Ten people, plus animals. Good thing a number of them are small.

Gamal-Junayd whispers: okay, so I';m off the boat on the employers island, and...dragon? is that my guide to the employer or just showed up?

Tharky:<font color="#000000">The bard doesn't take a place on the dragon's back with the rest of you; instead, he finds a seat behind the dragon's horns.

TMG:<font color="#000000">(okay, well, for after your narration, by aaaaany chance...if Resca has markets in tinker things, were they imported, tinkers or their devices, from Mazio around a big coastal sailing trade, or was it all developed elsewhere as well and traded from there? I ask because if the former, by any chance, would a merchant/breeder of Sparkers have found his way into Resca? :. )

You whisper to Railock: Hold on, I'll give you narration.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Silly tech, with your clogging fussing and quandries and details. The answer is simple.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It Can Be Found In Resca. =w=

Kethie:<font color="#000000">Meanwhile, on an island off Modai... a ship pulls out, headed toward Gamal's employer's lair. &quot;Are you prepared?&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am Kethendaustrat, granddaughter of Salishea. I will be your escort on the island.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Pardon moi a few shakes.

* Gamal-Junayd nods at his guide

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you know ho many others are being hired?&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;Salishea is expecting a number of other guests who may assist you. You will certainly not be fighting alone should they accept.&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;If they do not, you will be welcome to stay on the island until more mercenary sorts are hired to assist.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you, It will be helpful, from what I've heard, they have abilities that will require magic to counter, and I doubt my ability to deal without magic on my side to do so.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Flying along from Resca, the Guardians approach a lush island with a large mountain in the center. A yawning cavern entrance high on the mountainside, with a flat stone ledge nearby, is clearly visible. &quot;Finally. There it is.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">You can always summon evil demons to fight for you.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Because lord knows the archons are so damn picky.

Meany:<font color="#330000">:B

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Awww.. is flying time over now?&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">The ship approaches the same island. &quot;You are not a shapeshifter, correct?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">You heard her Tharky.

Meany:<font color="#330000">No more shapeshift. :V

Meany:<font color="#330000">*shot so many times*

* Kethie looks south, toward the sky. &quot;They come. Look.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Alright, Hy em lookink forvard to meetink more dragons!&quot;

Sszeyl whispers: &quot;Still being silent, I see?&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Salishea is something of a stickler for manners, I should warn you.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, I am no shifter of forms.&quot;

Sszeyl whispers: &quot;Well, if she does speak to you, no violence. Otherwise, vent your spleen as you see fit.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom spends most of the flight sitting next to and hugging one of Max's spines.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I'm looking forward to yet another step towards getting rid of one of them.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus points a finger in the air lecturely.

* Tharky is muttering in Draconic. &quot; (Please, by the Platinum Dragon, no 'swimming lessons' this time...) &quot; =w=;;;;;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ghost of a red, brother. Don't lump them all together. It would be like them lumping Drow and Gnomes together for being bipedal humanoids.&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you see, Gamal-Junayd?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">MIron shudders at the comparison

Tokens dropped onto map 'Resca - Coast and Market'Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">How the heck does Thomas know what the word 'bipedal' means, anyways?

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">A humongous gold dragon, with a number of passengers riding upon its back, glides in for a landing on the mountainside, touching down near the top.

B&#228;rli:<font color="#FF0000">I am the greatest teacher. |3 *bricked*

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;They look like a bunch of idiots.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;Because they are.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Must be someone of import to ride on one of the darastrix&quot;

Kethie:<font color="#000000">&quot;And you shall meet them shortly. Come.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd whispers: since he's fluent in draconic, using the draconimicon word for dragon

Meany:<font color="#330000">Vworpin' time? :V

VAE:<font color="#000000">Warp 8, captain!

* Gamal-Junayd follows his guide

Kethendaustrat:<font color="#000000">The woman kneels by the opening of another cave, near the foot of the mountain, and grows into a reptilian creature easily twice as tall as Gamal.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Right, so, Miron, no talking.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">THEY GROW UP SO QUICKLY.

Kethendaustrat:<font color="#000000">&quot;Keep that respect in mind, and you will fare well with my grandmother. Come.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shut up&quot;

* Gamal-Junayd nods and follows, keeping a respectful distance fromt he dragon

* Lumisteria flutters, landing beside Max on the stone balcony. &quot;D'you think Hesjing'll be there?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Tech.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Techtechtech.

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

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">What was that series of vids called.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Someone firebombing esteemed citizens at a whim is gonna teach me manners.&quot;

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">That had a forbidden love with a cat and a rabbit thing.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can't think of any reason he wouldn't be.&quot; :3 &quot;Come on, let's go.&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">THERE SHE IS

TMG:<font color="#000000">The &quot;There She Is!!&quot; series

TMG:<font color="#000000">can all be found on Newgrounds

Meany:<font color="#330000">Thankee.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Fun stuff

Meany:<font color="#330000">I prefer youtube.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Can pause it there.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Antolle ulua sulrim, Miron.&quot;

* VAE loved the music on two ,three nd five. Especially three

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I see ....I'm sorry miss, I don't know how to pronounce your name.&quot; =3=;;;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Everybody off.&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Le hop off.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas adjusts his uniform briefly. It had been thrown all over the place for two hours, afterall.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi climbs down with Aelian..

* Thomas Lazarus wobbles off Max. &quot;Thank you..&quot; ^^;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alright....we're finally here!&quot; Gnogglebolt unstraps himself and stretches his legs. That was a crazy ride!

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tathi, come back, please.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;... all of you, please.&quot; ^^; &quot;Draconic decorum.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">which map?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Same as beach.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Just zoom out a bit.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right. Be very respectful.&quot; Gnogglebolt says as he holds a kitty in his arms.

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah. Max an' I need to pay our respects first, an' introduce you.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Will do so.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;So we gotta go in first.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;I hope it's not in draconic..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Very formal, then..&quot; He muses.

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Well? =3= ))

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

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Don't see you two moving. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Reminds me of meeting nobles.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can you get behind me an' Max, please?&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Salishea is nobility, Thomas,&quot; Max says gravely.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Odd lair for nobility. Compared to Max's, it's positively spartan.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;S-sorry. I meant in reference to human nobles back in -- I'll just be silent until spoken to.&quot; ^^;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tom, Dragons are fireproof, so Tathi shouldn't be an issue.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Don't worry Thomas. I'm right there with you.&quot;

Kethendaustrat:<font color="#000000">The cave is cleanly swept, but sparsely decorated, if decorated at all. A sigil of Bahamut etched into the wall here, a small floating crystal in another cavern...

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt does as Terri asks.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Lasta lalaithamin, Miron, and your ignorance is showing again.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">But I'm not afraid. I've met the King.. |I

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">...

Kethendaustrat:<font color="#000000">Most of the floors are rough and unfinished, and you'd swear you saw a mouse or two.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Taaaathi.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Get baaaack here. =3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Like I give a shit about your elven wordsoup anymore.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">You too, loverboy.

* Maxissoren nudges Tathi with his head. &quot;Tathi? Behind me, please.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I wonder if Tathi is being stubborn or Ghost is just not paying attention. :P

Tathi:<font color="#006666">BITCH THERE'S NO ROOM!

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Oh. ^^

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Both, probably.

Kethendaustrat:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maxissoren. Lumisteria. I see you've upheld your side of the bargain.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">IF ONLY BARBARUS WERE HERE.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">I'm half showing tenguson sims 3. ^^;

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">Otherwise known as visitor. :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglewbolt looks through hsi back, double-checking for the items he brought. He quietly nudges Aelian. &quot; Ask Tathi if she can have Asterac's spellbook ready? Just want to double-check.&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#330000">You summoned?

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">He is watching by the way. SO BEHAVE, MOTHERSNUFFERS. :P

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I see you've upheld part of yours, Kethendaustrat. Is your grandmother in?&quot; The large gold dragon tilts his head around the cavern wall, peering at Gamal-Junayd.

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

Barbarus:<font color="#330000">I can choose to send -right now- if you'd like shenanigans.

Barbarus:<font color="#330000">|B

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;... A desert-dweller? That explains the name.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Suddenly, Sszeyl's cell-phone rings and begins blaring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLnkwRkFYR8

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

* Gamal-Junayd just bows before the dragon

Meany:<font color="#330000">|3

Meany:<font color="#330000">Still love that song.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt just keeps quiet and waits for the dragons to do their thing.

* Thomas Lazarus folds his hands behind his back and stands at casual attention. He tries to peek at the newcomer, but is obscured by cave wall. So instead, he simply waits for the dragons to complete their posturing and procedures.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron just stands quietly, not particularly curious or excited.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">There is a period of waiting, before you hear something large moving in another tunnel. Piercing sea-green eyes, pupilless and luminescent, peer at you from beyond the cave entrance before their owner strides forward into the light. Whereas Maxissoren is long and whip-thin, Salishea is just plain big. The scarred dragon stands silently, battle-tattered wings slightly unfurled and head held high. Her gaze slowly sweeps over all of you, before alighting on the dragons.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang waves at the cave guy. :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Er, desert guy.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt quietly, but sharply, intakes breath as the gigantic dragoness reveals herself.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi is -not- moving. If you don't move they can't see you...

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I cast Detect Evil *BRICKED!!!*

* Gamal-Junayd bows before the newcomer

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He is standing so still, he can hear his pocketwatch ticking. Click, click, click, click, click....

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I wonder if it would be in poor taste to wave hello...

Aelian:<font color="#006666">That watch is entirely too loud..

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl rubs his forehead, as if having a headache.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;Of all the times he chooses to start talking...&quot;)

* Maxissoren, Kethendaustrat, and Lumisteria lower their heads nearly to the floor in the draconic equivalent of a bow. &quot;(Salishea, Storm Knight of the Platinum Dragon. We bring greetings, and the guests you so graciously have allowed to pass your threshhold,)&quot; Max says in Draconic formally. &quot;(The storyteller, Tharkiel Sunaxissor of the Thousand Tales. The adventuring company, the Vigilant Guardians, and all within.)&quot;

Kethendaustrat:<font color="#000000">&quot;(And Gamal-Junayd of the Vorel-Svent, the mercenary you have sent for.)&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt slowly tries to make a bowing motion of his own when he hears the name Vigilant Guardians mentioned in draconic. But for those who don't speak it, it probably looks like Gnogglebolt is reacting to nothing.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">The dragon slowly inclines her head. &quot;I bid you welcome. There is much to discuss.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Or rather, reacting to something, but those who don't speak draconic know what or why.

* Salishea looks toward Lumisteria... and smiles. &quot;You've done well in remembering your manners, Lumisteria. You may do what you wish now.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt finishes his bow, looking up and nodding, not even trusting himself to speak right this moment.

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">The wyrmling dashes across the room and nuzzles the old dragon's shoulder. &quot;Hi, Aunt Sal.&quot; :D

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Wave wave wave! :3

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron keeps straight, seriousface for once.

* Thomas Lazarus cracks a warm smile at that.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt barely contains a snorting sound. Well, so it seems there may not be -that- much to worry about after all...

* VAE imagines Shenkfang doing anime wave

Salishea:<font color="#000000">The dragon chuckles, a deep alto rumble, nudging the young one lightly with her nose. &quot;You've grown longer, Lumisteria. And taller.&quot; And then her head lifts... and her gaze seems to pin Tharky to the wall.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;And just where have you been, Tharkiel?&quot; &gt;:|

* Tharky laughs nervously. &quot;A-across Akellon and back, Lady Salishea -- terribly sorry for --&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Nice knowing you, Tharky.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;'Sorry' isn't enough. Three years without any word? Honestly, Tharkiel. You have no idea how worried you made me.&quot; &gt;:|

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sorry you had to be lightning'd. =3=

Salishea:<font color="#000000">The dragon tsk's.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">She still notices three years passing by?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">How dare you call yourself ancient.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">=3=

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Not noticing time would make her senile, silly drow.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;A long time for your kin.&quot; &gt;:| &quot;We will talk later.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">My point exactly.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">:Y

* Tharky swallows. &quot;Of course, m-milady.&quot; ^^;;;;;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well? Come out into the light, Gamal-Junayd of the Vorel Svent, Vigilant Guardians. These conversations are not to be held in the dark.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot; Psst. That's your cue. &quot; :3

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Don't do it she's trying to get a bead on us-*brick'd*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt slowly takes a few steps forward.

* Thomas Lazarus weaves around Max's legs.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">annnnd dinner time. XP

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He finallly gets a good look at the other person, this 'Gamal-Junayd'.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Especially Sszeyl of Orgollyss. Come forth, boy.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl waits for Swallowtail to go first, then walks in after, holding his forehead.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;As you wish&quot; he approaches respectfully, taking his time to look over the guardians as he does&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus offers an uncertain nod to Gamal.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">minus the last &quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Haloo!&quot; Wave wave wave!

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi walks forward, stopping not terribly far from the dragon, and dropping into a respectful curtsie.

* Gamal-Junayd bows to the loud and happy one

Aelian:<font color="#006666">Aelian follows with a simple bow. Someone has ranks in nobility, someone else does not.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">That is a pretty good description for him.

Aelian: <font color="#6666">(( afk ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">We'll have to subtitle that under Shankfang during all future scenes.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;You summoned, Madame?&quot;

* Swallowtail kneels, bowing so that her head touches the floor. She seems to be offering a stream of Amayan regarding the &quot;daughter of Locarath.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt gives a quick glance back at Swallowtail. Well, if there was a perfect time for her reverence...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">What, &quot;Loud and Happy One&quot; or &quot;Wave Wave Wave&quot;?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Wave wave wave would be a terrible subtitle.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">... Maybe it's appropriate. *bricked*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Subtitle'd!

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;I did. Step closer, boy.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron bows his head slightly.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt, seeing Swallowtail's action...decides to follow suit, at least halfway. he doesn't bow to the floor, but he does kneel down.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">His cargo back clicks and makes noise as he moves.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*cargo pack

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl releases his forehead, and tries to keep his head up to look in the general direction of Salishea's eyes.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">By the twitching his eyelid is making, it isn't easy.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">well...since people who rode IN on a dragon are kneeling, Gamal follows suit. when faced with dragons much bigger than you, can't hurt to be extra polite.

* Salishea reaches out... and hooks a claw around the seal at Sszeyl's neck, leaning close enough that you can smell the ozone and a sharp metallic scent reminiscient of seawater on her breath. It'd be hard to ignore the eyes -- or the nose, now.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shoddy work. Not what I would expect of Nathokokasprithion.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;He was rushed.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;The dragon no longer feared his potential threat.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus watches the exchange evenly.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">Says Sszeyl while a humongous dragon has a claw hooked on his necklace. Wow. You really do have no fear.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He can't help but glance to Gamal and wonder what he thinks of all this. Or, indeed, who he even is and what's going on.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Of course I have fear.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">It just isn't of you.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">=3=

Aelian:<font color="#006666">How, exactly, would you ignore a dragon? Clamp your eyes shut with your hands over your ears and scream TRA LA LALA I DON'T SEE ALL 350 TONS OF YOU?

Salishea:<font color="#000000">The claw's as long as your forearm, boy. XP

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt likewise watches very carefully from down on one knee.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Fight with Zilvudar and survive.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Then we'll talk about fear.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">As he already is not much above three feet in height himself, he's made himself comically short. Excepting that huge-ass cargo pack on his back nearly doubling his size.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Does it raise his size class to medium?

VAE:<font color="#000000">that should be one of those Insanity Wolf posters

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">:B

* Dr. Hatari prenoms Sszeyl for Doesn't Afraid of Anything.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Fight with Zilvudar

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

Salishea:<font color="#000000">The dragon regards Sszeyl for a moment more. &quot;Brave. Or foolhardy. It often goes hand in hand. I had thought I would have to pin you down to examine the seal.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;My attention is split, madame.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I am trying to keep the dragon from manifesting until you bid it.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lumisteria.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes'm.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mr. Miron, step back, please.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron nods, and steps back

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well? What has he to say?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl's head suddenly jerks.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;If Vargachixeniejir he be.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Rolling around and makes several loud popping noises.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Then when it stops. Red eyes glowing bright magma orange.

* Gamal-Junayd just watches, haveing no clue as to what's going on

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi's eyes go wide, watching the grotesque display.. &quot;Lords and ladies, is he allright?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;We meet again, witch.&quot;)

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Leave it to the experts, Tathi.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Very interestink...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus tenses a little. His expression shifts into a frown. He may not be all in rapt awe of dragons these days, but..

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shudders as he hears that voice again, incidentally making hi cargo pack clatter a bit.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;(You are more foolish than before by far, Vargachixeniejir. Death has not been kind to you, it seems. Or perhaps the forced rebirth.)&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">..that one has his full and undivided attention.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He does not like the memory that voice brings back.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;You would know. It is through your fault I am bound to this carcass.&quot;)

* Gamal-Junayd just listens in, might as well try to find out as much as possible on his possible new working companions

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt, however, can understand every word that's being said. He considers translating for the others...but decides against it unless he's told to do so.

Miron:<font color="#000000">So does the inquisitor.. hence he's listening carefully.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Know your enemy and all that shtick.

* Dr. Hatari can't help but imagine the 4e Gnome translating Vargie's lines now.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">it is in draconic right?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Yep.

VAE:<font color="#000000">What's with 4th E gnomes?

* VAE never played a gnome there.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;(Another symptom of those drowned in anger. They lash out with blame at whoever is convenient. I did not bind you here, Vargachixeniejir. How could I? Why would I wish to? Your time is over. Tiamat's court calls to you. Yet you remain. Why?)&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's a series of videos featuring him, actually.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Very humorous, youtube them later.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(I am bound to this meat. I could not change that if I tried, and I have tried.&quot;)

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;The elf witch would make a much more suitable host if I could but leave this prison of positive energy you trapped me in, Salishea.&quot;)

Tathi:<font color="#006666">MAH EARZ R BURNIN'.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Awwwwww he wuvs us.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">A pause. &quot;(Intriguing. Yet your theory contains a massive hole, Vargachixeniejir. I am not one for planar bindings. Were your mind not so shattered, you would recall.)&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;I do recall. And if you take that claw from my neck, I could even show you how vividly I recall through illusion.&quot;)

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;I did evil in my life, witch. I will admit it. I did not deserve this, or being left with that....that monster down below.&quot;)

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;(This neck is not yours, Vargachixeniejir. In fact, I feel it is soon time for the boy to reclaim his rightful place. But know this. Know that we did not bind you. We have no interest in keeping you bound to this world, and never have.)&quot; The dragon's voice has sunk into a rumble.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;Then why were you there, when I was tied to this carcass.&quot;)

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;Why were you there when the Drow opened the gates to your precious heaven to carve me and force me into a long-dead husk?!&quot;)

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;And whty....why would you deny me even the semblance of being in control by reviving this husk, and forcing me to endure it's petty, meaningless existence?&quot;)

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">why*

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;(Sort the falsehoods implanted in you by rage, and the figments created by your tortured mind, from the truth in your time in imprisonment.) Boy. Awaken.&quot; And those within 15 feet feel a sudden mental push.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;I will be free, and I will come for y- Oh shut up you great lizard, you're making my throat hurt.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus crosses his hands before his waist and looks about idly while the conversation ensues in a language he can't comprehend. (&quot;... ... ... Oh hey, wait a minute. I've met like Four dragons now ... and ridden one! &gt;:3 !&quot;) Of course, then his stupid inner monologue is tripped up by psychic backlash. &quot;?!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt nearly stumbles over as he feels the sudden force...in his mind.

* Salishea looks vaguely amused.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;For the record, I don't think that was an implant he was talking about.&quot; =3=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;But regardless.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Huzzabuh!&quot; Shankfang shakes his head to recover from the sudden mental shockwave.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron feels a mental push as well, it's uncomfortable, but he still resists.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl's voice sounds hoarse.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;That explains much of how you were able to hold off the spirit before the seal was placed. But it reinforces the notion that the seal I had made will need to be reinforced.&quot; The dragon releases her hold on the seal. &quot;If only to make up for Nathokokasprition's shortcomings in his rushing of the first seal.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Yes, I'm afraid this one is too reliant on the initial seal.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">She then turns her head toward Gamal. &quot;You look lost. Fear not. This has naught to do with what I called you here for, beyond assisting these people in a short endeavor while the seal is reinforced, should they accept it.&quot;

* Gamal-Junayd nods his head, feeling relief

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vill ve get to kill tinks?&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have you anything to ask before we delve farther into business?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Another endeeeavvooorrrrr *whining*?

Salishea:<font color="#000000">The question is directed toward all present.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Not really.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I...I have a few things to ask, honored one.&quot; Gnogglebolt nearly gnommishly squeaks out

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh.&quot; Max sidles forward. &quot;Excuse me, I'd nearly forgotten.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Umm, actually, Hy do. But...Hy vould prefer to ask it in private.&quot;

* Maxissoren slides the sharks forward. :3

* Thomas Lazarus shoots Shankfang a flat look.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;It can wait until afterward, ma'am. It's more of a inquiry on my part.&quot; Tathi says.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Atleast he asked to ask in private.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;A gift, from the Vigilant Guardians for your table, ma'am.&quot; :3

* Salishea looks at the sharks approvingly. &quot;... is that lightning-charred? Impressive. And these other two have very slight external wounds, no sign of any arrowheads stuck in them. I accept. Thank you.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;The seal is most important at the moment, I believe. It is what brings us here as representatives of the Leaden Mace Society.&quot;

* Maxissoren bows his head and retreats. :3

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi beams.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt waits until he's called upon. He's still kneeling.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;As such, I shall delay any questions I may have until your esteemed self is done with the spell.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">She's gonna flip when she tastes the bullets.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">=3=

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Speak, Gnogglebolt Sparkgear.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Have you seen the size of her head? She probably never will.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu may vant to be kareful uf dat vun. Dere's a goot chance my bullets are schtill lodged in it.&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Look at her tongue.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Look at it.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">They're like two grains of pepper on one steak.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">Hardly noticeable unless you happen to have the misfortune of biting down on one.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Look at all the tastebuds.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt nods. &quot;Ah...honored Salishea. I believe we contacted you once before...or you were contacted by another Toris on our behalf. Anyway, it regards the matter of us...ah...finding your private hideaway in the foothills outside Castleton, and the tokens we found within before we discovered who they belong to.&quot; Gnogglebolt gets into his cargo pack and retrieves the pendant, sash, charcoal sick, and target shield. He then nudges Tathi's shin with his foot. &quot;The spellbook&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Toris, hm... so you're still using your father's name for the family,&quot; she muses toward Max.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;After discovering your identity, I finally wished to carry out returning them to you.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;It only seems right. The Pearldust was his idea, after all.&quot; :3

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Tathi hawks over the spellbook.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I'm impressed that you managed to carry a smokestick all the way here without breaking it.&quot; The dragon sounds amused by that.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sorry about the choclate stains&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I also wish to personally apologize for our intrusion of your hideaway, though in our defence we stumbled across it searching for the den of goblins, which happend to be in the same area.&quot; Gnogglebolt finishes, bowing his head again.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Shit shit shit wasn't there like a bag of a hundred old-kingdom coins or something oh fuck do I still have that where did it go oh gawd oh gaaaaaawd

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I really don't remember what happened to those. They were never in my inventory. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">...I think -Elros- had them last. xD

* Thomas Lazarus watches Gnogglebolt blankly.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;The pendant is all I would like to keep. The rest are yours to do with what you wish. It was not my hideaway you discovered, but one of Asterac's many.&quot; She gingerly lifts the pendant out of the pile. &quot;... He was a wonderful student. Keen-minded, and curious as all his kind. The spellbook would be better served in the hands of a student of the arcane in this age than in mine.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">I've heard enough! *yoink!* :D

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Oh damnit.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt smiles cordially, looking up. &quot;As you desire. Thank you, honored Salishea.&quot; He gathers up the remaining items and places them back in his cargo pack.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Training my low spec. defense fire pokemonz.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">And a graveller shows up.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">=3=

RAM:<font color="#990000">Metal Claw!

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though I am impressed that you kept a simple alchemical smokestick all this time and took it all the way across the kingdom to bring here.&quot; A wry grin.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">You.. wanted to give the 31HD dragon back her.. smokestick from the other side of the country. Really? =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is all I had to bring to your attention, for now.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Self destruct.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">You have a sickness, sir.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I...ah. When I set my mind to something, I tend to set my ind to it.&quot; ^^;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Honestly, I didn't even know that's what it was. Jus a smokestick this whole time?&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">'Wait, what?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Must be one made with an older method. I have a few modern smokesticks in my pack, too.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You lot never showed it to me.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">See what you've done.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">You surprised Miron.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have bloody training, i'd have been able to tell.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Miron, the super paranoid guy.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">You surprised him.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Way to break the univserse.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">universe*

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs faintly.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...but ys. Anyway. Er. That was all, yes. ^^; &quot;

* Maxissoren looks over, eyes glimmering with hidden mirth. &quot;Really?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">''Saint Cuthbert... is this really the best way I am to serve your aims.. ''

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do not lose that determination to do the right thing. It will serve you well.&quot; How tactful. :B

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Inquisitor Thomas Lazarus. You stated that you had questions.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yes m'lady.&quot; He remarks with no hesitation. Of note, he hasn't bent over backwards bowing or excusing himself at all during the introduction.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He furrows his brow and frowns. &quot;Why is.. Vargi..chixeniejir.. bound up in Sszeyl..? At all?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Why did this happen, and threaten our world?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;You mean like in the first place, or why he can't just leave? =3=&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I assume it's unusual. Even for great beings like yourselves.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not through our doing. A heavy question, that will lead you deep into the earth before all is said and done.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">SUCK IT, GRAVELLER.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">CLOSE COMBAT, BIATCH.

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

Salishea:<font color="#000000">How rude. :/ *brick'd*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Deep into the earth, m'lady?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt suddenly starts, as if he just realized something and is bursting to speak, but supresses it a mere second later and waits until Thomas is done.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;When we defeated Vargachixeniejir, we employed no soul magic. Our goal was always to remove him from the world, and have no desire to keep him here to threaten the world further.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;He disagrees.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Something occurred in the halls of Ezzebek, orchestrated by blood, by politics, by fear, by hatred, by trickery, and by force. More awaits you in the north.&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">The north...

RAM:<font color="#990000">I CAN SEE TALI WITHOUT HER MASK NOW!

RAM:<font color="#990000">Goddamn she's hot.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">His expression relaxes - slightly - although the frown remains. &quot;..Very well.. I suppose the how and why are not true concerns of the mortal world anymore. As long as we can see to it that it gets taken care of.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">There's enough of a clusterfuck in there even without the drow adding to it 

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That was all, m'lady.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Were there further queries that were not to be kept in private counsel?&quot;

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">I believe the term you are looking for is, in fact, fustercluck&gt;/i&gt;.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, honored Salishea. I just thought of one further question.&quot; Gnogglebolt adds.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Speak.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Shut up, bike

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">Make me.

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">I'll run you over.

Miron:<font color="#000000">You won't tell me what to say, much less what to think.

Miron:<font color="#000000">And I'll blow you up.

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">You'd have to catch me first!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Sugar in the phlebotium tank!

Miron:<font color="#000000">That's it.. I have a spell slot left. I'm learning Sonic Lance. Just to run it through your engine block one day.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is there anything in particular you wish done with the hideaway itself back near Castleton? Sszeyl here has taken up residence in a cave right next to it. What there anything else you wanted from it, or wanted left alone, or..&quot; Gnogglebolt smirks slightly with a guess. &quot;Does it fall under the catgeory of old things of Asterac's that you are giving us to do with as we will?&quot;

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">I can be in and out of your range in less than a round, buddy.

Miron:<font color="#000000">You can run but you can't hid.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Astute. The latter.&quot;

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

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">I can go 80 MPH, I don't need to hide.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very good. Thank you, honored Salishea. I'll let you know if I think of any other questions. Do carry on.&quot; Gnogglebolt says.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">What if we ride Max? |3

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">OOOOOOOOO ICE BURN

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very well. This is where it begins to concern you, Gamal-Junayd of the Vorel-Svent.&quot;

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">Just wait until I get my upgrade. =3=

Miron:<font color="#000000">you think you don't need to. But once, you bugger will run out of oil... or whatever fuckery you ride on.

Miron:<font color="#000000">And I will be there.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Ready.

* Thomas Lazarus looks to the heavily robed man again.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">you know, we're practically in a three-way with three massive dragons.. if they all loosed their breath weapons, there would be -no- survivors. Just sayin'. :P

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Speak for yourself. I could Delay Death Edaric. NOTHING CAN STOP HIM.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;The seal is made. However, it will take further time to attune and adjust to work in harmony with the Seal of the Healer. In that time, there is a matter that I had hired Gamal-Junayd to assist in dealing with. However, the assistance of a seasoned adventuring company such as yourselves will expedite matters and relieve the seas of a scourge that has plagued them for several years.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Yay no survivors! ...wait.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are you familiar with the vessel, the Sahuagin Queen?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 13 + 8 = 21&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187; knowledge local!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt suddenly jumps up.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait a minute...I think...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas merely shakes his head.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He suddenly gets into his pack and pulls out a familiar tattered notebook. Granch's ledger, some may recognize.

RAM:<font color="#990000">F is for fire, burn down the whole town!

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 4 + 8 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Local knowledge

RAM:<font color="#990000">U is for Uranium...Bomb!

RAM:<font color="#990000">N is for no survivors!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">His eyes furiously scan over the annotations he's made in the margins himself, until... &quot;The Sahuagin Quen!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So that's what it is! It's a ship?&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;A lesson is in order. You, in the corner. Swallowtail is the name you go by. Amayan. You are perhaps most closely acquainted with these matters.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...?&quot; He looks to the gnome.

Miron:<font color="#000000">?

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

* Gamal-Junayd watches his possible companions, apparently theyv'e been told less then he has

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas looks back to make sure our dear ninja's heart has not exploded in her chest.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt jumps again as he looks over his annotations in the ledger once more. &quot; How could I neglect this for so long...I need to fing 'Mark Tanger'...&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;In Akellon, slavery has been outlawed for several centuries. However, an underground sentient-trafficking market persists, despite the best efforts of the crown and all organizations that take an interest in putting an end to it. In the island nations of Dartane and Amaya, however, it is a different story. Slavery is quite legal there, and 'exotic' slaves are in quite high demand.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;What is the matter, Swallowtail?&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; He stares back at Salishea.

* Swallowtail looks utterly paralyzed, murmuring something about not being worthy of Salishea's notice in Amayan.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have heard something to that effect from the local Mace branch. Pirates and all that.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He snaps the ledge4r shut after flipping through the pages and looks back up. &quot;Yes, the Sahuagin Queen. Their symbol, a trident with a skull, is in this book--&quot; He shakes the ledger &quot;--that details the...sale of people the deplorable bugbear Granch Redmaw made to them.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now that's interesting. Why would they buy slaves so bloody deep inland?&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Sahuagin Queen is but one gear in an extensive network of criminals designed to sell sentient beings.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;In fact, it was fighting Granch Redmaw, recovering his ledger, and vowing to locate ever sale he made was what brought our group together in the first place.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Hrm. That is...most disconcerting.&quot;

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

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Deep inland? perhaps it has other abilities besides entire ship invisibility then...&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, we may not be able to stop the machine today, but I suppose we can at least remove this one gear and fulful our vow. Or my vow, at least.&quot; Gnogglebolt glances back at the others.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Entire ship invisibility? Is that even possible&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">The inquisitor looks most concerned.

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

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

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Magic kan do a lot.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Elven slaves are said to be in quite high demand in Dartane. This Mark Tanger you spoke of. He is a broker, who moves their 'cargo' from wherever they can get it along the river to the coast, where they are sold by the connections of the Sahuagin Queen.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;According to rumors about the ship...even people who survive an engagement can just..up and disapear from sight&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus flicks his eyes to Gamal for a moment.

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Full ship invisibility is the least of our concerns.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know.. but permanent spells of that scale are difficult and expensive.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;As if just setting foot on the ship ties you to when it goes invisible.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd whispers: or at least that's how he's enterperting the rumors you gave me

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt jumps again. &quot;You know this 'Mark Tanger'...oh dear. That one's a little more complicated, and makes our job a little harder.&quot; Gnogglebolt pulls out... a second ledger.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you excuse me, I would disagree. It points to them having a concerning amount of magic prowess and money available.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 15 + 8 = 23&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Local - Mark Tanger?

* Thomas Lazarus frowns.

* Thomas Lazarus holds a hand up to the gnomes. &quot;Please.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks back to the dragoness.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Never mind the fact that someone can conceal a ship... same can be done to carriages.. other vehicles...&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's a nightmare for anyone attempting to defend a border.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Granch made several sales to one Jonah Restren in the village of Redtree. He took the captives and pretrified them with a cockatrice, then intended to sell the 'statue'. He succeeded in one sale of a...well...a gnome, to one 'Mark Tanger'. That this Mark Tanger apparently links back to the Sahuagin Queen out of the first ledger....well. What a web this is.&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see. You have a better memory than I do.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;My sincere apologies, honored Salishea. Do continue with what you wish to tell us.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;'Swallowtail' spoke of my father. Locarath, the Rock of Largiza. He has been following the motions of the Sahuagin Queen extensively, and before that, of her captain, a Tanish half-elf by the name of Daeravel Ashidar. However, we have encountered, as your vernacular goes, quite the snag.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sighs lightly. Little chatterboxes, the whole species. |I

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy'm sure dey die ven hyu schoot dem, same as everybody else.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Sahuagin Queen is a spiritbound vessel.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Arcane or religion?

VAE:<font color="#000000">because I honestly don't recall, except seeing that mentioned in a book somewhere

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Arcane, Planar, or even Local might dredge up something.

TMG:<font color="#000000">it's an Eberron thing, actually.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 12 + 18 = 30&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Arcane &#171;  &#160;1d20+5 = 16 + 5 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Planar &#171;  &#160;1d20+8 = 15 + 8 = 23&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Local

Miron:<font color="#000000">I'm the knowledgeman

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Why not. &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 2 + 9 = 11&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Knowledge: Planes.

Miron:<font color="#000000">*pumps fist*

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 20 + 18 = 38&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187; Knowledge Arcana!

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

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 14 + 8 = 22&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187; knowledge planes!

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 15 + 8 = 23&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187; knowledge local!

Tathi:<font color="#006666">I'm sorry were you saying something?

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Tanes bind elementals and natives of the outer planes to their ships occasionally. In some cases, such as a celestial-blessed vessel, this is voluntary. However, this is most often not the case. The Sahuagin Queen was captured by Captain Ashidar and his crew, and somehow, they have coerced whatever spirit is bound in that ship to grant extensive boons to the vessel... including the most embarrassing one.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Bitch outdoing my every roll. Fail.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Between Tathi and Miron, I think our party knows everything.

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

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;They have coerced the spirit to manifest a ward that hides them entirely from the senses of any dragon-blood, at all times.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Salishea gave you your Knowledge roll results. :B

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah... that explains it.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Oh my god.

TMG whispers: wow, so glad Calrach isn't here. xD Not that he'd consent to meeting dragons anyway. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">They actually pulled the Hide From Dragons trick.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;...What spirit can even -do- that? =3=&quot;

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

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

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes. That is why I hope to commission your group, and Gamal-Junayd, to perform a task for us.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Nonono.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">You have to say.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Clever girl.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....and I think I can see where this is going. This is where we come in, isn't it?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Dat iz impressiff...&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... If they've slaving pirates, it'd be our duty to stop them for crossing our path to begin with. At your disposal, m'lady.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy'm heppy as long as Hy get to schoot tinks.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">You should probably not tell the dragon they can dispose of you.

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

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;We have been tracking the Sahuagin Queen's suppliers, and they all eventually come to Saurosha Island before their slaves appear on the Tanish, Amayan, or Kellon underground markets. Your duty is simple. Go to Saurosha Island. Investigate for signs of the Sahuagin Queen, and if at all possible, disable their wards. That is all that we ask of you. What you do beyond that is your affair. However, use caution. Daeravel Ashidar and his crew are formidable opponents to the last.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. It is our duty as inquisitors to deal with this kind of .. trouble.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;However, we should probably inform Commander Ashmore.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maxissoren.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, ma'am?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anything you know about them in specific?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">AGH worst time to go afk!!!

* Ghostwish scrambles for notes. XO

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your wings are fastest among us. You will be able to transport them to the island safely. I will grant you a ward to hide your approach as best possible, however, it will only last during your time in the air.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see.&quot; Gnogglebolt turns to the others. &quot;Well, this has to do with investigating the ledger than originally brought us together as a long-term group in the first place. This task will help tie up another end in this ledger. Does anyone have any objections to looking into this, especially since it will take some time before Sszeyl's seal is ready?&quot;

Dr. Hatari whispers: So is there any chance I don't already know what Daeravel looks like? :B :B :B

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">bathroom again.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy'm in!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Lynx has teh running disease it seems

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;... so to land and assist would alert them. I am disappointed, ma'am, but I defer to your greater wisdom.&quot;

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: Signs point to no. :B :B :B

Dr. Hatari whispers: x3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Oh pshaw.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Accept a quest from a dragon to cripple slaving pirates? Why would I have an objection? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">She only has 9hd on you.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">=3=

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Two of my HD are bard HD. =3=

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">She's a 4th-level paladin, too, man. =3=;;;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Not hearing any objections, and so far hearing nothing but affirmatives, Gnogglebolt turns back to Salishea. &quot;Well, unless anyone among us opts out individually, I think I speak on behalf of all the Vigilant Guardians when I say; honored Salishea, I think you've got yourself a strike team at your command.&quot; He says, smiling widely.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Well. That too.&quot; He smiles faintly.

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;I think I understand quite clearly.&quot; Tathi says quietly. &quot;We're dealing an opponent who relies on agility and stealth. Big and powerful, like a dragon, will just send them scurrying away. What we need here is something small and deadly. An adventuring party.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Plus, dey're pirates! Dey'll hef hall kinds uf loot! It's, like, Pirate Kode or zumddink!&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I had already agreed to the job before coming here.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">*with an

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh yes.&quot; Gnogglebolt looks sideways at the newcomer.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;...Just to clarify.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;You don't want any of the slavers to be left alive, per chance, do you?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're to be working with you? We should introduce ourselves properly, then!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt quickly glances over to Sszeyl. &quot;I think she was quite clear when she said all she wants us to do, personally, is disable their wards. Anything we do aftwer that is at our own discretion...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though I suspect the whole reason for disabling the wards is so at least she can potentially smite them herself if we don't get them.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;You may take this time to become acquainted, and prepare. The sun is rising.&quot; Salishea looks to the drow. &quot;Defend yourselves as you see fit, and should a challenge prove to be too difficult, there is no shame in retreat. Once the wards are disabled, we will be able to clean up any mess left behind.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am Gaml-Junayd, of the Vorel-Svent tribe from the Moscra desert.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;I am actually curious of that myself. Are we the calm before the storm, or are we to carry out their sentences ourselves?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Sszeyl of Orgolloyss, Ezzebek.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not that I have any love for slaving pirates, nor do I think I'll have any mercy myself, I just don't like going into things thinking any part is a foregone conclusion.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">www.youtube.com/watch?v=arN_9QvuqqA

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">It's so fitting.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns back to the new man. &quot;Gamal-Junayd? Well, I am Gnogglebolt Sparkgear, from Mazio. My full gnome name is obviously much longer, but tall-legs typically don't bother with it. It is good to meet you, and I look forward to seeing what your capabilities are.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Of course, should the opportunity to capture one of his crew present itself and it would not debilitate you, a live capture would lead well into informing us of the reach of the rest of the criminal network.&quot; Salishea examines a claw.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas looks aside to the new &quot;face&quot; and nods. &quot;Interesting. Is just 'Gamal' alright? ..I'm Thomas Lazarus, Inquisitor, Leaden Mace Society. Tom's fine.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#006666">&quot;Tathi Eyllisaearsithek, of Elsaeothi Forest.&quot; Tathi says, inclining her head slightly.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Shenkfang de Deffrider, also from Mazio, und soon to be Gnogglebolt's brodder-in-lav.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang glances over at Gnogglebolt, to see if he gets a reaction out of the gnome.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">...Sigh.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gamal is fine, Junayd is my family name.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt stiffens. &quot;...try not to mention things like that to everyone we see, Shankfang.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;It goes against my vendetta.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;But as you wish.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods.

Aelian:<font color="#006666">&quot;Aelian Cyadarith

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Edaric Tonmor. From Oakridge. Though more recently from Castleton.&quot; :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang sticks his tongue out at Gnogglebolt. &quot;Nyeh!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#006666">The player totally didn't forget where Aelian is from..

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Comments on the music? :3

* Dr. Hatari is listening.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">I just reminded you, at least. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I've been looping my usual pre-battle quest track; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWWgEKwwBB8&amp;feature=autoplay&amp;list=WL92EF79A2EACC1B6B&amp;lf=plpp_video&amp;playnext=4

* RAM is playing Don't Fear the Reaper.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I have.... a track whose name is in Japanese but reminds me of Salishea going. :B I'll look it up.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Pleased to make your aquiantance, then, Gamal. We'll have to get to know each other and swap tactics and such on the journey.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..But, for now, if our esteemed hostess would excuse me, my hour of prayer is nigh.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I think this is the track. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKjFB1DneM4

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;By all means. You may use the balcony if you wish. Its view of the sunrise is pleasant.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;If Hy may, Saleeshea, ven vould ve be able to schpeak in private? My qvestion hain't incredibly pressink, so it kan vait if hyu vould like...&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">urgh, back

* Thomas Lazarus offers a modest bow. &quot;Thank you, m'lady. I think I shall.&quot;

* Dr. Hatari prepared spellslots. :9

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Oooh. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Nice. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Reminds me faintly of My Neighbor Totoro. ))

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;We may speak now, if you wish, though I must profess some confusion as to what you may wish to speak with me about.&quot; The dragon nods to all assembled. &quot;And Tharkiel. Stay there. We will talk while the adventurers take care of the Sahuagin Queen.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Something to be said for keeping them alive... temporarily, though.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">Shallow nod. He looks very like someone being sent to speak with their boss about a sensitive matter. If said boss was also taller than a house.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;You have said yourself that they are but cogs in a machine... well.. extracting information from them could bring more such cogs to ruin.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay!&quot; :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">This should have been said way earlier

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I dislike them being alive right now in all honesty.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">The dragon turns and walks back into the tunnel, and a corner is rounded before she stops.

VAE:<font color="#000000">but my mouth was shut and the ass spoke

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You think you have it bad, my boss is a god. *lantern archon'd*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang follows, somewhat hopeful.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas, meanwhile, makes with the prayer in preparation for the day's assault.

Miron:<font color="#000000">*turns to Gamal* &quot;I .. believe I haven't introduced myself. Inquisitor Miron Steelsprocket, Leaden Mace Society as well.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Lia, that song is awesome

Salishea:<font color="#000000">No matter how many times you see it, it must be unnerving to see a being taller than your average inn suddenly transform, in the space of six seconds, into a humanoid shape and size. &quot;This form is more conducive to counsel among smaller folk. Speak your query.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">MUST LINK ME TO MOAR TOUHOU MUSIC!!!21111!!!11w121314e12!!!!11

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">While Shankfang's off with the big dragon, and Thomas is off doing...magiky things, Gnogglebolt looks back over to the robed man. &quot;So, Gamal! Tell us about yourself. Where are you from, what's your skillset?&quot;

Gamal-Junayd whispers: is the leaden mace well known, or only in small parts of hte country?

You whisper to Railock: The Leaden Mace is known across the country.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang, for his part, keeps his cool while Salishea shapeshifts. He's had some experience with magic. For what it's worth, though, she has a very pretty human form.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">He's our melee dps.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vell...as hyu kan see, Hy em obviously a Helf-Orc.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am a warrior from the tribes in the Moscra desert. While I can use a bow somewhat, I prefer to be up close and personal, my blades dancing around my opponents&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron uses the time to retrain a few spells.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">The 50-foot-long golden fly on the wall is back. |3

Tathi:<font color="#006666">Someone get a dragon swatter. &gt;:O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Moscra Desert, you say? We have a catfolk back in Castleton, I think he said he was from there.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy...heppen to hef fallen in luv vith a Gnome, Gnogglebolt's sister to be precise. Ve are kurrently engaged to be married.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You'd probably like to meet him. That is, if you can stand morbid-looking incorrigible pranksters.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Congratulations. Many go their whole lives without finding someone they can devote themselves to that completely.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Morbid looking?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;He lost an eye and a limb in an attack.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tenk hyu, Saleeshea. It iz goot to meet pipple vo hain't opposed to us, given our...differences.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;He wears a lot of bones. And a cloak made of the pelt of a fiendish wolf, I think, last we saw him.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;But, vell, it also poses a problem.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think...I'd get along perfectly well then. Battle scars are perfectly acceptable, and not really morbid at all.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, that. Armor of bones, pelt of a fiendish wolf, missing an eye and an arm...&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">just a note. Gamal's eyes are the only thing that isnt covered on him

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps none no better than the dragons that love knows no species boundaries at times. You speak of the lifespan difference, I assume.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Her kind iz very long lived, up to tree hundred years.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But he's about the perkiest morbid-looking feline you'll ever meet. Never stops pranking or joking.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Basically, picture that one Fate sister from Disney's Hercules. You know, the short one-eyed one that thought everything was hilarious. He's like that but a cat. *bricked*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It can actually amke it all the -more- unnerving, someone who looks like he does cracking so many jokes.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yah. Hy vill be lucky to reach eighty.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;At least he hasn't let the wounds get him down though.&quot;

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's such folks that are often the best pranksters. Like Egon.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm243/BennyBenz3000/Disneys%20Hercules/Fate3.jpg

* Salishea seems to be waiting for Shankfang to continue.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">... Okay maybe he doesn't look quite that bad. =w=;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ve...are tryink to find a vay to ekstend my own lifetime, to match hers. A vay dat does not involff necromancy und negatiff magics.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But yes, if you're from Moscra, and you had any contact with the Catfolk tribes, you might like to meet him.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Barbarus of the Rolling Clouds, I think is his full name.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;It might have been Cloudy Rolls for all my memory goes, though. =3=&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und Hy vas hopink dat hyu might know uf a vay, or at least kould point us in de right direction. Hyu youself hef lived a long life, und must hef gadered an incredible amount uf knowledge.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah yes, the Rolling Clouds. Have you heard of them?&quot; (if you haven't backstory'd anything like this rail, you can say you have and just start making stuff up on the spot)

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;No no no, the rolls must be completely transparent.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;Ugh, you'll never be a chef.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(and you can ask liatai and meany to fill in any details you need)

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;A dangerous path to tread.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">They aren't from the desert itself.

Meany:<font color="#330000">But the border area, around it.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(but yeah. If you -want- to say you're familiar with them and you haven't figured it out yet, don't be afraid to just do so)

VAE:<font color="#000000">I can totally see Miron's response

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I TOLD YOU BRO. I TOLD YOU ABOUT DEM PATHS. *brick!*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Extend life in ways that don't involve necromancy or negative energy? That's like saying you want to take a dump in ways that don't involve arse or squatting.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tomas saeed de same.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Danman; basically, yes. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hey, all the ways can't be bad and evil.

RAM:<font color="#990000">That's just retarded.

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's Miron's outlook

TMG:<font color="#000000">But there -could- be a away, especially with all that they're asking. It's not like he's asking for eternal life, just a temporary extension.

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

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;My tribe didnt have too many dealings with the catfolk tribes, mainly fought for territory with other human tribes, and untill I left I prefered spending my time in weapon practice over learning about the world...something I probably should have if I knew what the future held. After that, I left the desert. I think I've heard of his tribe some in passing, but I know little of where they are in the desert.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Look, as a player I don't give a fuck as long as it isn't deathless

RAM:<font color="#990000">Big difference between 'immortality' and 'just an extension'

TMG:<font color="#000000">And it's for a good reason, too, so that's another point in his favor.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I'm saying what the opinion of my character would be, which I thought amusing.

Tokens dropped onto map 'World Map'Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Lynx verdict: &quot;AS LONG AS IT AIN'T DEATHLESS (rabblegrumbles of approval from crowd)&quot;

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

* VAE haet deathless

* VAE haet

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy chust...Hy do not vant her to suffer de pain uf my passink, und hef to vait so long to join me in de afterlife.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">There's a word for fixing that.

Meany:<font color="#330000">It starts with an s. :V

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">So, what about this Deathless thing I've been hearing about? Is that an option.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron approaches Thomas for a moment.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt tilts his head curiously. &quot;...and...why did you leave the desert, if you don't mind me asking? I mean, you don't have to say anything if you don't want to, everyone's reasons for travelling are their own--&quot; Gnogglebolt quickly adds, &quot;--just curious.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Brother.. I wonder..&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can offer you only wisdom from the perspective of the longer-lived partner, as I have been in your situation, in the reverse case. Cherish those short years that you have together. All things must end eventually, and fond memories of time with a partner well-spent endure longer than the pain of a failed quest for extended life. I am not the one to speak with about such quests. My duty lies in protecting life, not in manipulating it.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus was finishing up his prayers, anyways.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps a more relevant question would be how did you get mixed up in this?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus turns his head back just enough to point an ear at Miron. &quot;?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus is presently still knelt at the lair's balcony.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I wonder if I should Send to the commander about this part of the plant.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( Wherever that is. :B ))

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's through that tunnel. :B

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;My tribal leader and I have a...disagreement. Untill it has been solved, I wont be returning.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;You'll want the sorcerer for manipulating life.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;He's good at it.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thing is... you have already messaged him today.. and our bodies can only channel so much energy any day.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If you seek my advice on the matter..&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat iz also vat Tomas saeed. Belieff me, Hy do not plan to make a lifelong qvest out uf dis. Chust...hyu know, if Hy hef de opportunity, vy not go for it?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thing is, the pirates look to be a problem we might need all we can muster to deal with. Especially since being people.. there are hardly any specifics my books offer.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">&quot;View any such opportunities through as many lenses as possible. If there is one thing to learn from stories, it is thus; there is always a catch.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It is not necessary. Not today, anyways. He has heard of the Lady Salishea and understands that she is a paladin, herself. It's ... probably not all that unexpected for such a personage to have a charge for a group like ours. Conserve your power for the success of today, and report tomorrow, brother.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see. Thank you.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy em an adventurer. Hy em gunna encounter mhenny tinks. Vith henny luck, vun uf dem vill be chust such an opportunity.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus smirks faintly without turning his head, &quot;Besides.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Need tea, BRB.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Max can only carry so many Inquisitors on his back before he'll need saddle-bags for more of us.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Smiles. &quot;Odd how it goes... these days I'm the one seeking your counsel-&quot; At the mention of saddlebags, Miron bursts into laughter

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;heh... I .. I see.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ve are villink to meet zumvere in de middle, if it komes to dat.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus speaks softly, &quot;It's quite fine. I'm humbled you seek me for it. I'm sure I'll return the favor before our days are done.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Doo doo dee doo.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;But, tenk hyu, for you vords, und you vell veeshes. Maybe hyu vill be able to meet Talfeera zumday. Hy tink hyu vill like her. She iz a sorceress.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And once again, I thank you for putting my mind to rest, brother.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Certainly. I'm told I'm good at that kind of thing. ... Nice to think I have more use in the world than a sword arm.&quot; |3

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;What about you...you must of done great deeds to arrive inm such an honored fashion.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm? Oh! Ah...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt glances back at Max and Terri.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's just say we've been close friends with people who we didn't even know were dragons for several months, until just now.&quot; He says, smirking.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Miron nods, then takes out his book and begins working on the last of the spells to deal with.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Interesting...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Other than that, we're an adventuring group just...trying to do what good we can in the world.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As you heard me mention repeatedy, I have this ledger, an acquisition from the very first excusion the very first of us went on together.&quot;

Tokens dropped onto map 'World Map'Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's quite a story. A bit of a long one though, tall-legs tend to not like long stories...&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;In the desert, there is often little else to do for entertainment but to tell stories. And as your friends have gone off, I believe we have time while we wait, and if it is too long..we can always split it into multiple retellings.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt smiles widely. &quot;Very well then! Story time it is.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt waves his hands as he gears up. He's certainly no bard, but from seeing the storytellers in his own tribe, Gamal would see that like any gnome worth his height, Gnogglebolt is no stranger to telling grandiose stories.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As many things in this world do, it all began with a big coincidence...&quot;: Primera:<font color="#330000">When suddenly, the sending stone the Drow has recieves it's daily message, not in Barbarus' voice, but one much deeper, and with a thick accent. &quot;Barbarus sleep. I, Primera, send. School almost done. All else good. Pearldust people send love to Terri. Luethil say she cannot find good food merchant herself. Reply?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And then he is most rudely interrupted by a talking rock. Gnogglebolt's arms hang in the air as he freezes. -3-

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Akellon hs mobile phones now

* Gamal-Junayd chuckles, and then since most of the people are gone, decides to relax by sitting down

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Gnogglebolt's stories are forever henceforth interrupted with spam txt's about free offers and penis sizes.

RAM:<font color="#990000">That's 27 words!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Back, reading up.

Meany:<font color="#330000">No it aint. &gt;:V

Meany:<font color="#330000">I counted.

RAM:<font color="#990000">So did I.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Four times.

Meany:<font color="#330000">I await a second opinion.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Looks like 27 to me too. But.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The exclusion of the last two words does not change the message in any way.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Never doubt me when it comes to numbers.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">So who cares.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shakes his head and finds his rut again. &quot;As I was saying, all things start with a coincidence...&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Enlarge your penis.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">I know it doesn't, just saying.

VAE:<font color="#000000">With our patented Viagra Scrolls

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It was back in the city of Castleton. There was a band of goblins, the 'Redmaws'--if you were paying attention, that one's -not- a coincidence, by the way--who were giving the city a rash of trouble with pickpocketing, and worse.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I, and several others, happened to be traveling through Castleton at the time.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;(... Swan Song, I wish for advice. Have you some?)&quot; Swallowtail asks in Auran.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I and the several others were either victim of, or witness to, pickpocketings-in-progress by the Redmaw goblins.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Satisfied customer: Just two scrolls, and my member went from Tiny to Small! Now it occupies its own five-foot square!

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;I think so.&quot;)

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Uhhhhggggg the ledger stories agaaaaiiiiiinnnn I've heard these like six times. =w=;

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

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The only one here right now who was there back then is Sszeyl. There was also Elros, a half-elven woodsman, but he stayed back at the inn today.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Then get down here and interrupt! :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's the only exciting thing to happen to the gnomish engineer ever.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;(I am unsure of something. You said you were a government agent in your home. I am not sure whether this is treason. Performing a quest for the daughter of the Rock of Largiza.)&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He asked for the story, anyway. Don't blame me. :P

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Well. Thomas does finish his prayer, and pushes up to a stand before brushing off his knees.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I wonder.. I've never actually heard of how pirates fight, before.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Somewhere in that time region, Miron finishes reading through his prayerbook

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Anything more from Salishea, or are we rejoining the others?

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;(She did not ask in the name of Largiza, yet performing a duty for one with such close ties to another nation...)&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">Rejoin the others at your leisure.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I doubt they're just a lot of rabble with swords if they're successful enough to earn a dragoness' ire.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I haven't heard too much, either. After all, up in the mountains.... they'd have to sail through rock.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;It benefits no one to aggrivate a dragon,m but benefits everyone to have one owe you a favor.&quot;)

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mm. Maybe Swallowtail will know.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom walks back to the main chamber casually.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Well then, with one last thank you, Shankfang does just that.

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;They might have magicians with them. Wizards and sorcerers are quite the smugglers when they take such act up.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyway. We all met at the gates of Castleton, and since we all were seeking the same goblins who had wronged us, we decided to band together at that time.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I was there, too!&quot; :D

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;'sup, peeps?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus returns with his arms folded into his sleeves.

* Gamal-Junayd listens the the story that the others are obviously tired of hearing hah

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He nods at all assembled.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And we set forth to find the goblin den. At the time though, we weren't really a 'group'--just some people with the same goal of knocking the same heads around.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I've finished my prayers for the morning, whenever we're all ready for the voyage.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus glances to Max. &quot;Dare I ask how long off this island is?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy em ready, as vell.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And while there wouldn't have been anything...well..legally wrong with just beheading each and everyone one, outlaws as they were, I felt that was a bit harsh for pickpockets, and got the rest of the group to agree--Oh, hello, Thomas.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus waves off-handedly. He doesn't disrupt Gnogglebolt's tale too much.

* Thomas Lazarus remembers that one. :B

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;I was going over it in my head just now. It would be about an hour by the bronze wing, but if we hustle, we can make it there in forty-five minutes or less.&quot;

Salishea:<font color="#000000">The sharks have mysteriously vanished. Seems Salishea doesn't like to eat in public.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Oh bastet

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He turns back to Gamal. &quot;Anyway, I got the rest to agree that it would be in better interest to capture the goblins alive. I appealed to the material in everyone else, as live captures would net a better bounty than a wagon full of goblin corpses, so it was a win-win-win situation all around. Everyone else got paid, the goblins didn't die, and my concience was appeased. |3 &quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;Are these slavers acting under an Amayan flag? I seem to recall it mentioned that only Amaya's undergound was recieving shipments.&quot;)

VAE:<font color="#000000">I wanted a trofim token to shout &quot;I was there too&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is one thing you should know about me, I do have quite a concience.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">I looked in my old pics folder

VAE:<font color="#000000">Oh bastet did my eyes bleed

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">is the auran talk in the main room?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;If they are not publically sanctioned, they are fugitives, and must be stopped.&quot;)

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...it's sometimes a bit loud for it's own good, but I'm trying to be better about that.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">No, just the (words in parenthesis.)

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">I meant is it taking place in the main room?

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;(From what I recall, no. I have heard of Captain Daeravel Ashidar. He is Tanish by blood, and operates under his own flag.)&quot;

Gamal-Junayd whispers: did I happen to take launguages that people use for secret communications with draconic/ignan/auran?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I wonder.. I've never been so far out in the ocean as to lose sight of the mainland.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Are we still far from Amaya?&quot; :.

You whisper to Railock: Did you? Usually we'll note which language we're using when we use parentheses. In this case, between Swallowtail and Sszeyl, it is Auran.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very far.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ah. Pitty. Perhaps some years down the road.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very, very far. I couldn't reach Amaya in a day of flight.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">(&quot;If your superiors give you grief over it, cite the spiritbound vessel as a reason to defeat them. No good spirit would grant slavers more power than they force from it.&quot;)

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh yes, and of course, how could I forget, miss Terri was there in the original goblin excursion as well. Of course, we didn't know who she really was at the time, we didn't even know she -as- part of a powerful family, let alone a family of dragons.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd whispers: I'm just noticing that so far all laungauges used are ones I've got. picked up draconic cause of the dragons in moscrea, then auran and ignan cause air and fire styles and time spent in moscran desert and those plains where air is

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

* Ghostwish blink blink blink.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">okay, durnit.. I clocled out. x.x

TMG:<font color="#000000">Yeah, seems we're at a wrapping-up point anyway.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">jet lag getting to you?

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">yeah.. definitely think it was the flight that did this.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Where you at, Ghost?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Tiny baby man!

GM:<font color="#000000">While Gnogglebolt finishes his story, why don't we nom?

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">Pittaburgh

TMG:<font color="#000000">Perhaps we can end here for most everyone while me and Rail just personally finish up storytime.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">cause it's not even 9:30 your normal time

TMG:<font color="#000000">Or that. :B

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

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

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">For SHARK PUNCHING CENTRE

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">nomming sszeyl for I GOT DRAGONS UP IN MAH BRAIN

RAM:<font color="#990000">Gnogglebolt: &quot;STORY TIME?!&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sszeyl for Doesn't Afraid of Anything. 2.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, that's what we did. We went through the entire den, taking every single goblin as a live capture. Not a single one died.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">and the fact his title still has my trolling on it.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Return of the Doesn't.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Art of Shark Punching by Sun Tze? He's got it

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">second gnoggle for story time

Meany:<font color="#330000">Shankfang for Shooty Shooty, Vroom Tiem, and &quot;I dun wanna die soon.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Shankfang's bike

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">seconding shankfang's.

VAE:<font color="#000000">For continuously trolling Miron

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Halfway through, we were even mistaken for 'customers', and led straight to the goblin's leader--the bugbear Granch Redmaw.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Tathi for Sisterhood of the Travelling Spellbook.

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">I don't even earn exp...

* Dr. Hatari honestly just pictures Shankfang shaking complete strangers hands and talking to them about Talfeera and deffbikes at this point. :B

Meany:<font color="#330000">Gnogglebolt for dedication.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Everyone in the party, for Not Consulting the Alchemist

Meany:<font color="#330000">A smokestick.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Really.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though, by the time we got there, we found there wasn't anything left of Granch Redmaw except his skeleton. But his skeleton decided to give us a fight anyway.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">But everyone

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;What had happened to him?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">as in, everyone except Miron, past and present

Meany:<font color="#330000">Tom for mischief maker.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Swallowtail for &quot;I am not worthy! I am not worthy!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">hey, Gnogglebolt IS an alchemist. He just failed the check the first time cuz he was first level. :B

Meany:<font color="#330000">Swallowtail for The Dragon's Prayer.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">Seconding that. :&gt;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt is an engineer

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Daaarg I'm 385xp away from level 9. Quick nom me! *hop hop* x9

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;Oh Salishea who art in caves. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in Amaya, as it is in caves. Amen.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Hmm.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Tom for Prayer talk.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Danman; no seriously. Gnogglebolt has maximumx ranks in craft alchemy.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Sszeyl for awesome paintings!

Meany:<font color="#330000">Tom for Travel Interet.

TMG:<font color="#000000">It's used for gunpowder and incindigas and other things.

VAE:<font color="#000000">So he does. XD

Meany:<font color="#330000">interest*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It took some investigation that happened later. First, we destroyed his animated skeleton, rounded up the last of the goblins, and found two more skeletons. We also found two live people in cages in another room.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'll nom Gamal for outstandind patience award.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sitting in the rafters for a month.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Gamal for entrance.

Meany:<font color="#330000">And yes.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">Seconded! And nomming him for entran- what meany said.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Seconding that.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Tom for &quot;This story? Again? I've heard it, like, six times already. =3=&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Seconding.

Meany:<font color="#330000">No let's see...

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That was then when we found the ledger. As it turned out, Granch Redmaw was commanding the goblins to kidnap people who he then sold to necromancers and other parties, all recorded in this book.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">We destroyed an animated skeleton

VAE:<font color="#000000">By cutting down on its frame rate

Meany:<font color="#330000">Miron for &quot;I like these Bronze Dragons. They will be saved. For last.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">hah. see, now we can spend the next month just talking in the caves before getting to the action

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Gods, don't talk like that.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">We actually could.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;He was also the one compelling the goblins to pickpocket.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">...

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's seriously making me wonder.. it *does* seem like Miron has a thing for tall women.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">I' done with noms

Meany:<font color="#330000">Why does my brain hate me.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, anyway, we freed the captives, took the ledger, and carted the goblins back to Castleton. Then we began lying in wait and attempting to investigate these people Granch had been selling to.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">I just pictured Miron.

Meany:<font color="#330000">As The Major from Hellsing.

Meany:<font color="#330000">=3=;;;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's been an ongoing operation, continuing even now, as you know.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Or was it colonel.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron is totally Alexander Anderson

VAE:<font color="#000000">just less cool one

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see. how much luck overall have you had?&quot;

* Dr. Hatari noms Sszeyl for the Kan of Akellon. Immutable faces have begun.

Meany:<font color="#330000">The nazi guy with the glasses, that called the shots.

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

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He's sort of too light-hearted.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Even in his grim moments.

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

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Miron or the Major?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He'll like, skip rope with Shroedinger and stuff. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Any more noms coming?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Miron isn't goofy enough to be the Major. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As for the goblins, well, I felt bad for the way Redmaw had controlled them, and since they were actually very reasonable upon their own capture, I defended them at their trial, arguing to give them a reduced sentance for good behavior and for cooperating with us to capture the worse criminals. They served out community service, and today, they are living in their own house right in Castleton.&quot;

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

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">Swallowtail.

Ghostwish:<font color="#006666">done

Meany:<font color="#330000">For &quot;How do you do it?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">I've got nothing more.

TMG:<font color="#000000">I think all the noms were covered that I would have given, been a bit busy for that though. :x

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&quot;How do you do it?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Did someone nom Shankfang for &quot;Know any way to extend life? No? Okay, np.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Overall luck? Ah...well, I've managed to account for over half of the people sold in the ledger by now.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's almost ominous how he keeps closing it up with, &quot;Okay, okay, well, if I stumble across one...&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'd say we're doing pretty good. The Sahuagin Quewen counts for almost half of the remaining unaccounted for.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl - 100 XP - You rode a dragon to punch a shark. Does it get more awesome than that? 100 XP - Paintings! 100 XP - Eh's a cool guy, he stares down dragons and doesn't afraid of anything. 100 XP - Dragonbrain.

Tokens dropped onto map 'Resca - Coast and Market'Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But yes. After the first business with the goblins, and the first fight with a few of the Blackskull necromancers whom Granch was selling to, we formally formed our group, the Vigilant Guardians.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Shankfang - 100 XP - Gregarious! 100 XP - City Ride. 100 XP - Consulting the elders. &quot;Know any way to extend life? No? Okay, np.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt - 200 XP - You do realize smokesticks are like flavored toothpicks to some dragons? 200 XP - Story time!

GM:<font color="#000000">Swallowtail - 200 XP - I NOT WORTHY!

Eisen:<font color="#FF0000">Can you imagine Shank as an immortal Elan? :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Thomas - 100 XP - Encouraging travel speaker.

GM:<font color="#000000">Gamal - 200 XP - Entrance! At long last!

GM:<font color="#000000">Miron - 200 XP - For being genuinely in good humor this session. I think he laughed more this session than he has in a long time. o.o

GM:<font color="#000000">Tathi - 100 XP - Sisterhood of the Travelling Spellbook. Aelian - 200 XP - Oh gods I'm going to die. Again.

GM:<font color="#000000">Anyone I missed?

Meany:<font color="#330000">3.3k to next level.

Meany:<font color="#330000">&gt;:9

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Any last responses from Gamal?

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I like to think of this as a minor holiday.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">and adding EXP to token...

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

NotGhostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">YES I WOULD LIKE TO NOM THE ENTIRE PARTY FOR BEING DELICIOUS

VAE:<font color="#000000">29088 now

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Saving campaign...

VAE:<font color="#000000">29055 actually

TMG:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;29750+200+200 = 29750 + 200 + 200 = 30150&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

RAM:<font color="#990000">5100 left til level 9.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Jeeze this is like the slowest final stretch of 500 xp ever.. &gt;:9

NotGhostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;34822+100 = 34822 + 100 = 34922&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Campaign ker-saved!

NotGhostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">&#171; &#160;13200+200 = 13200 + 200 = 13400&#160; <font color="#7F00FF">&#187; for aelian

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;At least everything did work out then.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. And, as you've also probably surmised, our i&gt;other current overarching task is dealing with the dragon in Sszeyl's head.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. And, as you've also probably surmised, our other current overarching task is dealing with the dragon in Sszeyl's head.&quot;

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">What's the dealio for next Wednesday?

NotGhostwish:<font color="#7F00FF">Shuttin down, biatches.

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

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

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