Session 97

Glitch has connected.

Meany has connected.

Ghostwish has connected.

Tasher:No I wasn't. *flashy flashy*

Meany:Wasn't what?

Tasher:&gt;:3

RAM has connected.

RAM:Wow, that connected quick. :B

Tasher:&#171; &#160;8+4+5+4+5+4+5+4+5+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4 = 8 + 4 + 5 + 4 + 5 + 4 + 5 + 4 + 5 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 = 88&#160; &#187;

GM:Wow this computer's so much faster than the old one.

RAM:\o/

RAM:Yay fastputer!

Tasher:The Mink has been gifted with tateari tech. &gt;:3

GM:I wonder how much lag was Hughesnet and how much was just my computer being a brick.

RAM:Good question. :.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Guess we'll see today.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Anyway. Shankfang/ram needs to be brought up to speed...

Glitch:<font color="#000000">...eh, guess that will happen anyway during the recap...

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

GM:<font color="#000000">Go ahead, I need some time to get character questions ready.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">...buuuut I feel like disgorging more details early so Ram can get in the proper frame of mind. :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Oh. You got the session log?

GM:<font color="#000000">Meany needs a summary anyway.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Oh, right. Meany too. :.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Did you not notice me leaving maptools up when I went to bed? :B

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Um.

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

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Oh riiiiiiight. xD

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Y'all forget.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">I read the log. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Oh right! :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Meany; oh, did you? :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Okay then. :B

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Or at least skimmed it to the parts that concerned me.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I guess...that's everyone up to speed, then. :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Oh.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066"> :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Today's character question -- waitasecond.

GM:<font color="#000000">We're missing a Hatari. :.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Well then you might have missed this; -everyone- in the party is decked out in desert wraps to protect from the sand.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">He's asleep, and short of calling him or something, we won't wake him.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">His irc doesn't ping.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Liasilly. PC or NPC starting gold for dork dorf?

GM:<font color="#000000">PC.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Even though only a few tokenimages have been changed, and they're all still different, 'in game' everyone except Gamal's wearing the same style of desert wraps (we bought bulk from a single clothier, unless anyone decides to say they deliberately went to a different tailor), and in-character we're telling each other apart by differently-colored sashes on the outside of our wraps.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">the desert wraps are to protect from getting sandblasted.

RAM:<font color="#990000">And if Shankfang had a higher Fort save, he'd be going shirtless. :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Good god man, shirtless in the cold is one thing. -3-

Glitch:<font color="#000000">This will -peel the skin from your flesh-. :B

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">dude. sandstorms do just straight hp damage you'd need like damage reduction

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">I call dibs on the red sash.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">.....that said.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Ram, you're the one who is -actually- in a desert right now. :.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Moscra is a Sahara type.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">We had Gamal be our in-character infodumper on the dangers of desert travel, have you anything to add? :.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Nope, I already told Lia everything I have as far as deserts go. :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">What kind of basic precepts must everyone be familiar with about desert living/adaptation, and other protections? Or did Gamal get everything?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Though, I do have one thing to add.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Ah, coolies then.

GM:<font color="#000000">Moscra is actually closer to scrubland on the outskirts. Less Sahara.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Avoid the deep desert.

RAM:<font color="#990000">That's where the biggest Sandworms live. :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">pfffft. xP

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">bring the thumpers!

GM:<font color="#000000">Today's character question is... &quot;What person has most influenced your character's development as an adult?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Parents.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">That wouldn't be just one person, to be honest.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">All of the Deffriders had a part in raising me after my parents died.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Zairith.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Tie between mother, father, and siblings. The whole whacky family really.&quot;


 * Aelian clears throat, takes a breath... and shoves the GM up to the podium while making for the exit!!!


 * Sszeyl trips.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Shall we?


 * Glitch smacks self

Glitch:<font color="#000000">get out of Dominic Deegan and get in RPing frame of mind, you. -3-

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Is it slapstick day already?

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;What makes your character embarrassed?&quot;


 * Meany creeps up behind Glitch with a baseball bat.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Putting my foot in my mouth. Happens more often than I'd like.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">... why would you put your foot in your mouth?

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Vernacular for making a faux pas.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Feet are very dirty.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Screwing up a spellcraft check.&quot; -.-;;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Missing a shot..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Having to ask for help. :|

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">That's a tough one. :.


 * Shankfang the Deffrider has no shame. :B

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">My Common vocabulary. I know I do things wrong and do not know the idioms. It is very frustrating.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Makes me feel embarassed...okay, I -know- there's answers to this one but can't remember them off the top of my head...

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Being seen in public with us.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">*rimshot*

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">Embarassed? Hmm...

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">I can't remember the last time I was 'embarrased.' Sure, failing a mission is shameful, but embarassing? Embarassing is more like waking up with drawings all over your face next to a pile of your own puke. I can't remember the last time that happened. That elven wine came awful close, though.

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;What does your character most like to do to celebrate his birthday?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&gt;:4

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Pass.

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">Do you need to ask?

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Archery competition.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Not die.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">not notice it passes

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Party! |D With friends and family.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Ride around and shoot things! :D

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">I have a tradition of visiting the beach on my birthday each year. I do not know if I will be able to do it this year. That is strangely concerning to me.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Do for my birthday? A party with friends and family does the trick.

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;Someone tries to rob your character on the street. What does he do? What is he carrying that the robbers might want? Is it a random incident or was he targeted?&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">They're trying to steal my bike! &gt;:E

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Ugh. Folks always think we wizards carry around liquid gold in our pockets or something. Most find out that I actually have fireballs.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Someone tries to rob me...or, in other words, pick my pocket?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And what do I do?

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">Come at me, robbers. &gt;:3 You're under arrest. Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way. ... They always pick the hard way. |3

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I reform a tribe of goblins. -3-

Liatai:<font color="#000000">*SNRK*

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Equally viable to be random or targeted, and I am carrying expensive gear and gold.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Probably the fresh furs I'm bringing in to trade. I beat them down and arrest them.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">I beat them to near death and leave them somewhere to be arrested.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Steal back from them, of course.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">... what?


 * Sszeyl highfives Swallowtail.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">It is especially fun if you trail them to pawnshop and see the looks on their faces when they cannot find their loot. |3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">...I should probably hide the body, too. :.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Give it to Barbarus.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">He'll put it through the butchery, and sell the meat.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">If they get away, then they have greater skill than I and I must train harder.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Probably make the bones into fashion.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">... so much murder in response to pickpocketing... &gt;.&gt;;;;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I know! This how everything STARTED for me!

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Remind me never to take you guys to a Talespinner. =3=;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Because i DIDN'T want to murder pickpockets! Dx

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Hey hey hey.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Hey, this isn't pickpocketing!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">I just asnwered with blunt force trauma.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Except for me. We've been to Talespinners together. &gt;:

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">This is Grand Theft Auto!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">They're trying to steal my bike!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">In fact, I had you lead me to a few of them. :B

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Shankfang, how do you think the average Kellon thief is going to go anywhere on that bike? :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">It doesn't matter!

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">erk, brb

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">They tried to steal it, so I shot them!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">If they didn't want to be shot, they shouldn't have tried to steal from a big Mazian Half-Orc with a gun!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I mean, really. My entire introduction to this game was me being savvy enough to see that everyone -wanted- to kill pickpockets (which would have been within rights as they were 'outlaws'), and I convinced everyone not to. -3-

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">You did not convince me not to. :E You asked, and I decided to comply.

GM:<font color="#000000">So, Meany, Railock. Mind if we kick off your scene, then switch back to the desert folks after a while? That gives Ghost and Hatari time to return/get here.


 * Glitch sits down to watch

GM:<font color="#000000">Last session in Akellon... Sszeyl got kidnapped by a dragon. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Sure.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">This oughta be good. :&gt;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">okay


 * Gamal-Junayd clings to that dragons tail for all he's worth after teleporting

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Speak of the devil.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Doktor.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">FfffffffPOP. The desert night sky vanishes in an instant, and with a sudden lurching feeling, the area around Gamal, Sszeyl, and the dragon shifts to a warm sandstone chamber with a high, dark ceiling, flecked with small silver points. A number of magical... things float through the air here; stones, rings, circles, orreries, spheres of unidentifiable substances, sparkling gems... and is that a stuffed crocodile, even? Not that there's much time to appreciate it. The dragon swiftly plops Sszeyl down on a floating chair in the center of a floating multicolored bubble.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Much worse than a devil.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">I suggest using pun-weaponry.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">It's super-effective.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;And how are you faring this day, Sszeyl? And Vargie, old bean, never expected to see you again.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">May I do the Vargie, or are you?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(hatari, F.Y.I., this is a Sszeyl/Gamal/Dragon-only scene. Not doing parallel scenes for once, they're gonna do this and then we'll scene-change back to party in the desert)


 * Gamal-Junayd, hoping against hope he's not gonna die for this, lets go of the tail to drop down to the ground

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;'''Spawn of dustformed detritus. You will regret releasing me, Kerishorak.'''&quot; Vargachixeniejir is trying to take control of your body, Sszeyl. You may roll a Will save if you wish.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&#171; &#160;1d20+11+mod = 1 + 11 + 0 = 12&#160; <font color="#CC0066">&#187; Will save!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Nope.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Uh oh. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">In other news: Unlike normal light sources, the lenses produce no shadowy illumination.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Ghostwish just bought 6,000 units. &gt;:|

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Releasing you? Oh quite the contrary, old sport --&quot; The massive dragon glances down at Gamal. &quot;-- Oh. Hello. Do stand behind me. Now.&quot;


 * Gamal-Junayd scoots over to be behind. one does not argue with dragons taking tones of voice at you.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Oh joy.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">You're provoking animals larger than us again.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">He has a bad habit of that.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">It's like one of those tiny dogs that barks at bigger dogs.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl's seals suddenly flare as the 'old man' stands up, and Sszeyl can feel strength leaving his body, but not quickly enough. 'Sszeyl's' mouth twists into a grin as 'he' steps forward, hands flashing in arcane gestures. &quot;'Both of you, shut up. Wer gul yunaic ekess sia geou!'&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">I thought the seal locked his ability to cast spells?

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Apparently that part has worn thin.


 * Gamal-Junayd gets ready to draw blades if need be. If nothing else, he can help subdue.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">An explosion of ice and snow blasts across the room, but the dragon makes an almost bored arcane gesture and a flick of his tail. The ice hits a massive invisible wall, not touching Gamal or the dragon, but leaving a nice pattern on the far wall. &quot;Cone of Cold, as expected. Very good.&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">''Always with the flashiness, never with the practicality. We're in a desert, and you're sapping what little moisture is in the air for ice-spells?''

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't patronize me, whelp,&quot; he growls, eyes flaring red. &quot;'''I've looked forward to this. Your little plan has a flaw, Kerishorak.'''&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Here comes the Anti-Magic field.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh? Gamal, please step to the north, behind the ruby crystal ball. &quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">And don't question how the dragon knows your name already. Dragons be mystical and powerful. :B


 * Gamal-Junayd doesn't so much as step, but flow, making sure nothing was damaged in the damn near suicidal jump and grab, he tumbles his way behind it.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He just reads his e-mail.


 * Sszeyl begins another Draconic string of arcane words... ow ow ow, Sszeyl, roll a Will save, this spell hurts.


 * Gamal-Junayd draws his blades as he puts his back against it and looks over at sszeyel.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&#171; &#160;1d20+11+mod = 20 + 11 + 0 = 31&#160; <font color="#CC0066">&#187; Will save!

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;That is enough.&quot;

Tokens dropped onto map 'Kerishorak's Lair'Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Testing.


 * Kerishorak blinks, then smiles. &quot;Haha! That's the spirit, boy. Can you still move?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Test success.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">''&quot;He is fighting for control of the central nervous system. Please hold.&quot;''

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, no, by all means, this is perfect, do stay on the line.&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;What are you --&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;You may feel some momentary discomfort -- feelings of exposure or nakedness are completely normal. If you do feel any burning sensations, though --&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Does burning hatred count?&quot; the growling voice grumbles, beginning another series of arcane gestures. Will save, Sszeyl. &quot;Yobolat xkhat yobolat, mamiss lae sepa...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&#171; &#160;1d20+11+mod = 1 + 11 + 0 = 12&#160; <font color="#CC0066">&#187; Will save!

Sszeyl: <font color="#CC0066"><i>&quot;Error.&quot;

</i> Glitch:<font color="#000000">-damn-. What's with RNG today? xD

Glitch:<font color="#000000">first a 1, then a 20, then a 1...

* Kerishorak sighs as Sszeyl's body hunches over, thickening, growing, deep red scales beginning to grow... &quot; Don't do that, that's most unbecoming, old sport. The hard way it is. &quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Well looks like I'm going to have to take some precedent right now.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066"><i>Why?

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">I'm the only one of us that remembers being in a dragon's body with any clarity.

Sszeyl: <font color="#CC0066">Admittedly it was a -Blue- Dragon, but....

Sszeyl: <font color="#CC0066">Admittedly it was a -Blue- Dragon, but....*

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Wings sprout from what was formerly Sszeyl's back, as does a thick tail, and with a roar, the dragon -- freezes mid-pounce. In midair, in the middle of the bubble.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;'''.... WHAT DID YOU DO?! '''&quot; &gt;:E

* Gamal-Junayd just stares. this is bad

Sszeyl: <font color="#cc0066">(( Are we in the Lair map? ))

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Simple deduction and preventative wards, old sport. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, after all! Now do sit tight.&quot; ^^

* Dr. Hatari nods approvingly.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000"><b> &quot;KERISHORAK!!! I WILL REND ALL SIX OF YOUR LIMBS --&quot;

</b> Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Did Sszeyl's tattoos translate to the Dragonskin? :B

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Also again with the map question, just to confirm we're in mapless time.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;And feed them to the carrion crawlers, yes, yes, I know.&quot; |3 The dragon turns to the red sphere next to him, humming, and begins to play his claws over the surface.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">were in the lair

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Kerishorak's Lair is the map.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Then I don't have a sighted token on there. ^^;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">brb!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">I've been running off the Autumn Road token.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Glitch's Maptool has locked up.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hmm? You should.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Zoom out really far.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Aha.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Got it.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Use Map Explorer. And yes, the tattoos translate to the dragon skin.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Gotcha.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066"><i>See, this is why you need to let go of this hate, it's messing with your ability to plan.

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">You're smarter than this. And your anger is just making you lash out randomly without planning, which is exactly the opposite of what you've been trying to achieve.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">Clickita clackita clicka clack. &quot;I have to confess, I didn't expect any hitch-hikers. Any vertigo from the teleportation, Gamal-Junayd? It's absolutely horrid teleporting when you don't expect it.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000"><b>You imbeciles have no idea. Hrrr...

</b> Glitch:<font color="#000000">yay, unfroze

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">Draconic runes mixed with various other ones from other languages begin to fill the air as the circle beneath Sszeyl glows, and a circle of gems begins to gyrate around the bubbled red dragon.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">in draconic to be polite. &quot;I am fine, sir. It could of been worse. but did you really have to take him alone without the others? Wouldn't it have been better to wait for us to arrive as a group? Just on the off chance that something catastrophic chould go wrong We could help subdue him....&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066"><i>Whether you like it or not, we're a part of you now.

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">And your acting as an independent entity is not doing you any favors and putting all three of us at risk.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066"><i>Do you really think you have the self control to not provoke -her- into murdering you again by yourself?

</i> * Kerishorak switches to Draconic as well. &quot;On the off chance something catastrophic happened? That's why I was to insist on Sszeyl coming alone for this initial meeting. Old Vargie always did have a particular coin in his wing joint regarding me.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;MY NAME IS NOT VARGIE, DRETCH.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#CC0066"><i>&quot;For someone with natural armor, you've got very thin skin.&quot;

</i> Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">in draconic &quot;Still, should something horrible happen, and he finds a loop hole in your planning...we ARE with him to help in just such a situation. We do know the risks, and have accepted them.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;'''Final warning, both of you shut up or I'll make you. The indignity of it all. A drow, a pompous oversoul, and a brass charlatan. '''&quot;

Gamal-Junayd: <font color="#0">(( I hope we all have at least ))

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oversoul, hmmmm?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well now that does explain that. Hmm, hmm~&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066"><i>Fine.

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066"><i>Let her murder you again. We will no longer help you.

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#000000"><b>I don't need your help. You are nothing more than a puppet.

</b> Sszeyl:<font color="#000000"><b>A broken puppet at that.

</b> GM:<font color="#000000">It's about time we rejoined our friends in the desert, following the beckoning claw left behind.

GM:<font color="#000000">Ready, desert people?

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066"><i>Says to dragon stuck in a rainbow bubble.

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">And the two minds slither off.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">the*

Glitch:<font color="#000000">*TWENTY MINUTES EARLIER...*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Dat vas unekspekted.&quot; :.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi jerks awake, and jostles her player to wake him up. XP

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where did they go?!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( *glances up from grill* =3= ? ... ! ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Though no one of course can see him, wrapped up -and- in the cabin as he is, Gnogglebolt is grinding his teeth furiously and has a white-knuckle grip on the steering wheel as he follows the floating light beacon.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy vould imagine de dragon's place.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;It seems we have a very eager dragon we are about to go and meet.. I suppose now all we can do is follow that hand?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Stupid idiotic impatient dragons...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt's eyes are peeled for the circle of stones landmark they need.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Y..yeah..&quot; He frowns deeply and watches the sky.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's who we came to meet. It's probably fine...&quot; He still seems wracked with anxiety, but there's nothing he can do but ride.

GM:<font color="#000000">The trucktrain rolls on through the desert night, over the sandy hills and crushing various dry plants as it goes.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Everyone feels the trucktrain begin to slow down. Once the engine is quieter, Gnogglebolt calls out. &quot;We're here, everyone!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000"><i>Good thing it's big enough for our vehicles...I was worried about that.&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Dragula is driven right into the center. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt tries to carefully drive the trucktrain through two of the stone pillars.

* Thomas Lazarus jumps out of the carriage promptly.

GM:<font color="#000000">Eventually, the tall spires of red stone appear on the horizon, and the claw beckons toward the center before vanishing. Faint white and orange lights dance around the tops of the stones. It's not much light, but I'd imagine you have light sources, yes?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">If nothing else, Gnogglebolt bolted a few sunrods to the front of the trucktrain. :B

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi's got an everburning torch.

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

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">COMMENCE SQUAREIZATION.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Once inside the circle of stones, Gnogglebolt cuts the engines and hops out.

GM:<font color="#000000">Getting out of the cart, Tathi, Aelian?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang kills Dragula's engine and heads to the funny rock in the center.

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">How big is the funny rock in the center?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alright, everyone--this is where we need to be. Everyone stick together, there's an incantation that will take us to the lair.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Here we are... where is dragon? Swan Song? Gamal?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Yep, they do!

* Thomas Lazarus looks around with a frown. He murmurs a few syllables and invokes a simple Light orison.

Tathi: <font color="#9933ff">(( just found the right map.. :3 ))

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

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sheesh... this'll make an interesting story, at least, eh Dorf?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We're to stand on..&quot; He gestures uncertainly at the center platform. &quot;..and recite a draconic phrase.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Shall I?&quot; Tathi asks.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Kan Hy try?&quot; :D

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've got no idea what the hell's going on. Sure, go ahead.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Not unless you speak draconic.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Alright, everyone on the stone. Keep your arms and everything else inside it.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy kan schtill try!&quot; :B

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Allright, here goes..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's what the instructions say, and I imagine something bad will happen if a bit of you is sticking out.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;'Origato udoka tir arcaniss.'&quot; Tathi intones.

GM:<font color="#000000">The air is still for a while... very still. It feels like even the wind has cut out.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Wait, wrong syllable.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi grins from ear to ear. Such a troll.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Dammit, Tathi.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">You hear a child's voice, floating above you. &quot;Human presence detected. Adjusting ambient light levels.&quot;

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

GM:<font color="#000000">Small floating multicolored orbs of light appear, lazily spiralling through the air near you, lighting up the desert night. &quot;Is this comfortable? Please say 'yes' or 'no' now.&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ja.&quot; :B

* Thomas Lazarus is lying. *bricked*

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Quite.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do not understand 'ja.' Please rephrase your answer.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Does anyone look toward the source of the voice?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt does.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes.&quot; Gnogglebolt repeats. &quot;The light is fine.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi's glancing about.

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

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

Dragon Sprite:<font color="#000000">It's floating in the air about eight feet off the ground. A small draconic form, hovering looking down at your group.

Dragon Sprite:<font color="#000000">&quot;Greetings. Welcome to Charir Tonash. You may call me Sart if you wish. I will be your guide through the entry process.&quot;

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

Dragon Sprite:<font color="#000000">&quot;Commencing initial scans.&quot;

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

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;What a curious spell.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom's earlier nervous concern for his friend and the fate of the world isn't overcome by curious new experiences. &quot;Ah.. is Sszeyl alright?&quot; D: Dragon Sprite:<font color="#000000">The little draconic creature begins to recite, looking over your group... &quot;One (1) human male, adult, hair white, eyes blue, skin pale, bearing one (1) Leaden Mace badge (Inquisitor) and two (2) symbols of Pelor. One (1) human male, adult, hair brown, eyes brown, skin fair, bearing one (1) enchanted lute. Identified as Doss lute. One (1) human female, adult, hair grey, eyes hazel, skin fair, bearing one (1) Leaden Mace badge (Inquisitor). Detecting faint anomaly... scanning. Anomaly identified as intoxication, alcoholic. Commencing neutralization protocol. If you do not wish to be sober, please say &quot;no&quot; now. &quot;

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Wha?! I'm not drunk!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks at Anise flatly.

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Are twa.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm sorry. I do not understand your response. Please repeat.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dis is interestink.&quot; :.

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;No!&quot; &gt;:|

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Understood. Cancelling neutralization process.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(a magic computer. Never thought I'd see it in Akellon. |3 )

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Oh I like this spell. Remind me to steal it and take it home with me.&quot; Tathi says, beaming.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(but then again, dragons. :B )

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;No stealing magical spells, Tathi.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;One (1) human female, young adult, hair... scanning. Detecting dye, pink. Eyes black, skin olive. Detecting faint anomaly... scanning.&quot; The floating creature peers at Swallowtail, then makes an odd chiming sound.

* Thomas Lazarus points, still bearing flat stare. &quot;Wait. Why did you say 'no' then?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ping?&quot; :.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Is not dye!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi quirks an eyebrow at Swallowtail. &quot;Dye, hrm? What is your natural color?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi grins. &quot;Busted.&quot;

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

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because I don't want to be sober!&quot; &gt;:E No need for a Bluff roll here, she's clearly trying to save face.

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Poison detected: oil of taggit.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- ?!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy knew it. Hy hef nefer seen sumvun vit pink hair before.&quot; :B

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Poison detected: venom, giant wasp.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Now dat iz unsurprizink.&quot; :B

* Thomas Lazarus just sighs and folds his arms.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und iz dat.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Stop!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Well she IS a ninja.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; This doesn't sound good.&quot;

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">Whatever that is.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Aelian chuckles softly. &quot;Are we going to be standing here all night listening to it list off all your secret weapons, Swallowtail?&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Poison detected: carrion crawler brain ichor.&quot; The little creature continues to recite, despite Swallowtail shouting at it in Amayan and trying to get it to shut up. &quot;Poison detected: venom, monstrous scorpion. Poison detected: venom, black adder. Commencing neutralization protocol. If you do not wish to have these poisons neutralized, please say &quot;no&quot; now.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=_=;; So much poison.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Might want to answer quick!!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und dat, und dat, und dat.&quot; :B

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;''Stop! No!''&quot;

Tathi: <font color="#9933FF">And you thought she was sweet. &gt;:P

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Understood. Cancelling neutralization process.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">=.=;;;;;;

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;........&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tink hyu hef enuff poison dere?&quot; :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Well, at least it's not considering us hostile for all that.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;One (1) half-human half-orc male, adult, hair black, eyes red, skin green. Detecting unknown substance. Scanning. Unknown substance identified as incindigas, Mazian. One (1) dwarven male, adult, hair brown, eyes blue, skin tanned, bearing one (1) symbol of Moradin. One (1) cog gnome male, adult, hair black, eyes blue, skin pale. Detecting high amounts of oil and grease. Detecting unknown substance. Scanning. Unknown substance identified as incindigas, Mazian. One (1) sparker lizard female, adult, Mazian Sparker breed, green coloration. Two (2) elven hound females, young adult. Detecting divine link from one (1) elven hound to half-human half-high-elf male. Animal companion. One (1) black rat male, adult. Detecting magical link to wood elf female. Familiar. One (1) wood elf female, adult, hair olive, eyes blue, skin olive. Detecting magical link to black rat male. Familiar. Detecting magical anomaly. Scanning. ... &quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Magical anomaly scanned. One (1) gem, carnelian, moderate aura of necromancy.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi smirks.

* Thomas Lazarus looks at Aelian weirdly. &quot;... What is that?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Aelian glances over, and pats Tavia. &quot;A ranger's companion is a steadfast companion. Much like the druids of the wild, we build a bond with one animal.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dis tink is goot&quot; :o

* Thomas Lazarus assumes he'll get told it's something ridiculous if he asks Tathi. :B

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;One (1) half-human half-high-elf male, adult, hair red, eyes green, skin fair. Detecting divine link to one (1) elven hound. Animal companion. Is this correct? Please say &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;no&quot; now. &quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF"><i>Sorcery.

</i> Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Yes.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt's cloth-wrapped head is oddly turned towards Snarky. &quot; You know, even though I owned a Mazian Sparker when I was a kid, I never bothered to learn how to check your gender...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Learn something new every day.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">I can just imagine it in the summary.

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Kerishorak is expecting you. Welcome. Scans indicate high levels of anxiety. Do you have queries I may answer? &quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Gnogglebolt learns how to sex lizards.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">*all of the wrenches*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vat are hyu?&quot; :o

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Yes, actually. How much did you cost to construct, and which spells were used?&quot; :3

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am an illusion designed to guide guests through the transport process.&quot;

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">I can't say nuffin. I got dragon all up in my beard.

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;I cannot answer that question.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus barks out again, &quot;--Is Sszeyl okay??&quot; Dx

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Bah! Narfing illusions!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have a question, though it may need to wait.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">I am floating several feet above your head, dwarf male.

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">STILL IN MAH BEARD.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why did Kerishorak steal Sszeyl from us early? We were planning to deliver him anyway, and it scared us all half to death.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">To Gnogglebolt: &quot;I cannot answer that question.&quot; To Thomas. &quot;Please describe individual known as 'Sszeyl.' &quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;De Drow.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;He vas taken earlier.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sighs harshly. &quot;Well, he has Vargachixeniejir's soul inside of him, for starters.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Understood. Submitting query. Please wait.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">The creature's eyes turn white for a moment, and a chiming melody fills the air as it hangs there motionless.

* Thomas Lazarus folds his arms and watches impatiently.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang reaches up to touch it. :.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;While you're at it, make sure Gamal arrived okay, too.&quot; &gt;: Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">He can totally reach it, he's tall enough. :B

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Gods. Elevator music. I hate this spell now. :P

Tathi: <font color="#9933ff">(( brb by the way, feeding the dogulas. :O ))

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( Spare ribs ready. *tableflips, afk* ))

Sart:<font color="#000000">Your hand phases through it, though the melody clinks to a halt and switches to a different one.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Change the station.

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy kan change de muzak!&quot; :D

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang does it again!

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Hey, lemme try!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And keeps doing so until he gets some good music. :B

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, don't try! I'm trying to recognize it!&quot;

* Dr. Hatari returns.

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

* Dr. Hatari bricks. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt just stares flatly at the people's hands fighting each other over the floaty lightdragon.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang uses his superior height to his advantage!

Sart:<font color="#000000">It's all various chimey things. Eventually the drake's eyes fade back into blueness. &quot;Error. The individual known as 'Sszeyl' is currently within the warded testing chamber, as is Kerishorak and an unknown individual.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Ram; I am reminded of the scene in The Sun Warriors ep of Avatar.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Aww, not efen henny goot muzak.&quot; :/

Glitch:<font color="#000000">You should be able to guess which one I'm thinking of. :B

* Thomas Lazarus now hears Sart's voice in GlaDOS voice. D: Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;One (1) human male, brown hair, skin damaged by extensive burn scarring.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Can you take us there?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Aanf trying to take some of Zuko's fire? :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">*Aang

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Yes. :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yep, that's Gamal. Now.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;No. I am designed to guide visitors to the lobby.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;How about taking us to the lair, please?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und gettink zum better muzak!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Alright, take us to the lobby, then.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Quick-like.&quot;

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

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Scans indicate adequate levels of hydration and nourishment. Would any of you like a complimentary drink or snack, regardless? Please say &quot;one&quot; for water, &quot;two&quot; for snack, &quot;three&quot; for both, &quot;four&quot; for a surprise, or &quot;five&quot; for none.&quot;

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

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

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

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Oh lords what-

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

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

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;You get the most brutal snack of all.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Understood.&quot; A small, shoddy clay mug appears in Shankfang's hand, and a small raincloud appears over his head. The same happens to Gnogglebolt.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066"> &quot;Nothing.&quot;

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

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

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

Sart:<font color="#000000">SPLOOOOOOOOOSH. A DELUGE of water drops onto the people who asked for four. It smells like lemonade, but in all respects seems to be plain old water.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, certainly a su--&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Blagh!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">x3

Sart:<font color="#000000">Except the bits of it that landed in the cups; those become actual glasses of lemonade.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang drips, and laughs.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi cracks up laughing.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I need to ask gamal if it's a good thing or a bad thing that my wraps are soaking wet. ;~; &quot;

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

* Thomas Lazarus is frozen into a stone-like state from disbelief and mortification. &quot;...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, tastes like lemonz.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Would you like to make use of our complimentary cleaning service during your transport? This noninvasive arcane process will remove dirt, grime, stains, damage, and sand from one's body and clothing. Please say &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;no thank you&quot; now.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ja.&quot; :3

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Yes.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Yes.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do not understand 'ja.' Please rephrase your reply.&quot;

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

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

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

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Och. Serve ony booze?&quot;

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

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do not understand 'ja.' Please rephrase your reply.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Javol?&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do not understand 'javol.' Please rephrase your reply.&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Did tink needz a better translator.&quot;

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

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Try Auran.

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

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">:v

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do not understand 'ja.' Please rephrase your reply.&quot;

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

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">Oh, oh, make it divide by zero.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;SLowly shankfang. Yyyyyyeeeeesssss.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Say it slowly.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">YOU'RE NOT HELPING. T_T

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

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do not understand 'ja.' Please rephrase your reply.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;.... yes.&quot; =3=;

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sure.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do not understand 'sure.' Please rephrase your reply.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">=3=

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes.&quot; &gt;:E

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Su -- yes.&quot; =3=;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Try Auran. :O

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do not understand 'ja.' Please rephrase your reply.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt can't figure out whether to laugh or groan.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Kitty.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please take us to the lobby now!

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

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;It appears to not have a half-orc translator..&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;&quot;Yes!&quot; = &quot;Yes!&quot; = Yes!&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187;

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

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Loading Orcish dictionary.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Understood.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">((Yes.))

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">=3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ja, bettah translator.&quot; =3=

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please dismiss all dimensional anchors and other anti-transport magic from your person now. When you are ready, please say &quot;tlush.&quot; &quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Tlush?&quot; :.

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( *noms* ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tlush!&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Scanning... scans do not indicate magic which would interfere with the transportation process. Please stand upon the red rock platform in the center of the circle. If you cannot all fit upon the stone with your belongings, please say &quot;letoclo.&quot; &quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Letoklo!&quot; D: * Thomas Lazarus double-facepalms.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dragula kan' fit!&quot; D: Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Dammit, Shankfang, it will be fine out here...er...actually.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;.. why are we dragging a mechanical contraption into a dragon's home?&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Understood. Commencing levitation procedure.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Floaty magic thing, I have a question. Is this area within the stone circle warded against extreme weather and environent?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy vill not leef Dragula out here in de desert!&quot; &gt;:|

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Will our metal objects be undamaged out here?&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">Everyone feels a sudden weightlessness as they, the trucktrain, Dragula, and everything within the circle rises a good ten feet into the air, along with the rock beneath your feet.

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Whoa!!&quot;

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

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Ahhh, practical!&quot;

* Swallowtail scrambles and grabs ahold of the rock. o_o;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; The world could already be over by now. We don't know. We're letting this disembodied golem -- ack!&quot;

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

Sart:<font color="#000000">Suddenly, the sand beneath you ''heaves&gt; momentarily with a loud, click. And Tathi? Your elf senses are going haywire.''

Sart:<font color="#000000">Ack.

Sart:<font color="#000000">Suddenly, the sand beneath you heaves momentarily with a loud, click. And Tathi? Your elf senses are going haywire.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">SECRET DOORS. SO MANY FUCKING DOORS. FLARGA*flail*

Sart:<font color="#000000">And then, the whirring starts.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I SEARCH FOR TRAPS! :D

Sart:<font color="#000000">The sand is flung outward, spraying the rocks (but mercifully leaving you untouched) as a spinning massive stone platform rises out of the desert floor.

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

Sart:<font color="#000000">The platform spins to a stop and settles back onto the ground as you, your transportation, and the stone all drift downward. The stone vanishes as it hits the platform.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; ...Why do I get the feeling Max's lair was modest in terms of dragon standards?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus is just trying his best to keep himself upright during all this commotion. Magical this &amp; that, everywhere! D: Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;You may now step onto the stone platform. Please make yourselves comfortable. Initiating transportation process. &quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt does so.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Keri at least knows good showmanship.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi and Aelian follow. :3

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please silence all communication devices. Refreshments are available in the lobby. And please, keep our lair clean by disposing of all trash in designated receptacles.&quot; The platform begins to shift, sinking downward into the earth. &quot;Enjoy the show.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oooh...&quot; :o

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Wait. This sounds familiar.. |.

Sart:<font color="#000000">The little illusion lands in the center of the platform, and small glowing lights begin to dance around you as you descend. Slowly, you begin to pick up speed, and the platform begins to move at an angle, blocking out your view of the night sky. Mood music; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17njWo-Q9dU

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

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Hear that, Thomas? Madness.

* RAM can't get youtube to load. &gt;: Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dis is fancy schmancy.&quot; :o

Sart:<font color="#000000">The lights create a sparkling show on the wall, however. There's something in the stone here, it seems, that sparkles, and a regular prism show is cast upon the wall... wait... is the platform going even faster now?

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

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">WIlly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory!

* Thomas Lazarus clutches the dogs around their necks. &gt;8

RAM:<font color="#990000">The ferry ride! :D

Sart:<font color="#000000">The walls begin to display images as you pass. The desert sky at night, shifting into the day, then back again. A carnival. A dancing desert tribe -- you'd swear they waved at you.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Called it! :D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">oh gezus if we start seeing random horrifying images...

RAM:<font color="#990000">Wait, wait wait wait...

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">Suddenly VIETNAMESE FLEEING VILLAGES *bricked away!!*

RAM:<font color="#990000">Dammit Google freaking looooaaaad. &gt;:E

Sart:<font color="#000000">A geometric mosaic flashes by, and the little illusion speaks up. &quot;If you suffer from motion sickness, do not look down.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Or up.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Naturally, Ed, Swallowtail, and Anise all look down.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Or to the sides.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi looks down! :3

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Or diagonally.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Or spiraled.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt just holds Snarky close.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dere's no Earthly vay uf knowink...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vhich direction ve are rowink...&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">A swirling wall of multicolored fog churns beneath you, getting closer all the time! You swear you can see flashes of something leaping within it -- jeez that's coming up fast!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dere's no knowing vere ve're goink...&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shenkfang that is creepy!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Or vich vay de river's flowink...&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Wow, Thomas, look!&quot; Tathi says. &gt;:3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Iz it rainink, iz is snowink?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Iz a hurrikane a-blowink?&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Not a schpek uf light is showink so de danger must be growink.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Iz de Grizzly Reaper mowink?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yes, de danger must be growink for de rowers keep on rowink!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus whines quietly while keeping the dogs vicegrip pinned under either of his arms, &quot;Why couldn't he just have a big door..?!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und dey're certainly not showink!&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">You hit the wall of fog with a loud FLOOMPH, followed by a K-KRACK! Flares of white light bleach your vision -- and then --

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000"><b> &quot;HENNY SIGNS DAT DEY ARE SLOWINK!&quot;

</b> Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Aww, I didn't even get to finish it. &gt;: Glitch:<font color="#000000">(yeah you did. Perfect timing. x3 )

RAM:<font color="#990000">And that was all from memory, too. :B

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">That's because it's freaking long. Assume you get interrupted. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">Google is being an ass.

Sart:<font color="#000000">Bing-bong.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I missed a line, though.

Sart:<font color="#000000">Please move over to Kerishorak's Lair.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Between &quot;not a speck of light&quot; and &quot;is the grizzly reaper mowing.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Scanning...&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">I couldn't remember it. &gt;: Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Scanning...&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Scans indicate that all members of the initial party are present and unharmed.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat vas fun!&quot; :D

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you for using the Charir Tonash transportation system. Please proceed through the southeastern portal. We hope you enjoyed your transportation. We value your feedback. Please adress all comments and criticisms to Kerishorak, Charir Tonash, Moscra Desert.&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have a pleasant evening.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You need to check!?&quot; Dx

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi spins slowly in a circle, looking all about. &quot;Would you just look at this place?&quot;

Sart:<font color="#000000">A little chiming melody, and the image bows before sinking into the center of the platform.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;''Garl's gold, this dragon must simply be an unusually showy one. No way this can be normal, even for dragons...&quot;''

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Garl's gold, this dragon must simply be an unusually showy one. No way this can be normal, even for dragons...&quot;

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;......&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas stumbles back up to his feet with a weary look around. Tavia and Amadre can now breathe.

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;Woo! Are all dragon's lairs like this?!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;No way..&quot; =_=;;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Not eksaktly.&quot; :B

* Edaric stands back up; he'd been holding onto the platform. &quot;... Everybody okay?&quot; @.@

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;I... fine...&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy em hokay!&quot; :B

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Everyone still alive?

* Meany rifles through pockets.

You whisper to Meany: Could you please switch Sszeyl's token back to normal? :3 Any form is okay.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Ah, here's the line I missed.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">'Are the fires of hell a-glowing?'

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Hehehehe! I'm fine. Better than fine.&quot; She says, walking by Swallowtail and ruffling her hair as she keeps walking. &quot;Come on. We've got dragons to find.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Okay..&quot; He sighs wearily and looks about. &quot; Where do we go now..&quot;

Meany whispers: Done.

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

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

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">Directions are North, South, and Dennis.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang points at a random...I assume those are doors?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;This-a-way.&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Naturally, it's the opposite direction of Gnogglebolt. :B

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">A chime goes off from the black rock in the chamber where Gamal, Sszeyl, and the dragon currently are. &quot;Ah, there, your friends have just arrived. Excellent timing. How do you feel, Sszeyl?

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">that..is one big door chime

GM:<font color="#000000">Four archways filled with glimmering golden fog are present in the lobby. They glow softly, and small globes of light follow your group, casting a comfortable light level around you. The chamber you're in is made of humongous sandstone blocks, and... doesn't appear to have a ceiling. It just disappears into darkness.

Ghostwish whispers: You should make that door go in the -opposite- direction just to mess with tech. :3

GM:<font color="#000000">There is also a large open barrel labeled &quot;Waste Receptacle.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Which way, Guardians?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Southeast as directed by the floaty thing earlier, of course. :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">The opposite direction! :B

GM:<font color="#000000">The portal glimmers before you; you can faintly see a sandstone room beyond.

GM:<font color="#000000">Shankfang, you can see something similar, but the floor has a reddish cast.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shankfang that's not southeast.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">in draconic. &quot;Are they coming here then?&quot;

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

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;They should be, I left Sart with very clear directions.&quot; ^^

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hmm, is red.&quot; :.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shenkfang, do not poke through the dragon's lair. Is a good way to die or be maimed.&quot;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Squaaaaaare. :B *brick'd*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Come on. Let's stick together and move. I still haven't heard if Sszeyl's doing okay with that thing inside him..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know. We've wasted a lot of time already.&quot;

* Shankfang the Deffrider breaks the shape. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">&gt;:3

GM:<font color="#000000">It feels like you're walking through a curtain of warm blowing air as you step through the portal -- and yes, all of you have been rendered clean and smelling of warm sand.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt tries to move through the arch.

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

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">...you people are terrible. :[

* Ghostwish flees.

RAM:<font color="#990000">&gt;:E

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">OH NO.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">You're gonna make Lia lock token movement, you know that right? :B

* RAM hisses!

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Forgot to change it on your new lappy, huh? :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">-- FFFFF

Liatai:<font color="#000000">BROKEN FOG &gt;:E

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Broke fog. Broke fog everywhere.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... and it's not lettimg me fix it. ^^;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Of course.

GM:<font color="#000000">The portal gleams behind you, and a silver door gleams before you.

RAM:<font color="#990000">That's Murphy at work. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">Murphy's an ass.

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

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

GM:<font color="#000000">&gt; open door

GM:<font color="#000000">... OH HECK.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">ALL OF THE THINGS.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Bai bai fog! :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">broke fog EVERYWHAR.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Iz like a maze!&quot; :o

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;To answer your question, I have a splitting headache because the red one won't stop swearing vengeance.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;He's started a rant about how he's going to use parts of your corpse to decorate his lair.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">The door chimes. &quot;And here they are!&quot; The dragon jauntily presses a rune on the sphere, then pauses, looking toward Sszeyl. &quot;Hmm, really now? That should be fixed by the time you see Calaseian, have no fear.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd whispers: when did sszeyel un dragonify? been watching party tokens, and didn't see the token go back

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">The sphere dims, and the floating runes and bubble vanish.

* Kerishorak opens the door. :3

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;And we're all one big happy group again.&quot; ^^

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....Well, finally we're here.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Kerishorak, would it be too much to ask why you dropped in on us unannounced and took Sszeyl from us when we were already bringing him to you?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Sszeyl floats in the rainbow ball, waving idly.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Was something terrible that imminent?&quot;

* Gamal-Junayd slips over to the group, assuming it's safe to get out from behind the red gem, sheathing his swords now

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Ayup.&quot;

* Gamal-Junayd whispers in tom's ear &quot;Sszeyel became a red dragon for a bit, the dragon was trying to fight it's way out of the bubble&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Don't suppose you'd let my cleric friend fix up the injuries from the Red's temper tantrum?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt has since removed the headwrappings around him, as well.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He looks shocked at what Gamal just said.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wha--Sszeyl almost turned into a dragon?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Of course! You're free to step down any time, Sszeyl.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That can happen?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;The spells Alter Self, and Polymorph.&quot;

* Kerishorak looks down at Gnogglebolt. &quot;Yes. Polymorph. Wonderfully useful spell. Though very easy to counter.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I thought...I thought the whole reason we're collecting the seals to prevent that!&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;He won't be able to do it anymore.&quot; ^^

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Apparently the seal that prevents the red's magic was an incomplete part of Nathaniel's seal.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Kerishorak has repaired it.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not quite! 3 points.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Well, if you'll pardon my skepticism, Kerishorak, we've been told certain things shouldn't have been possible with the seals we did have before, and things still happened.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">^^;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not almost. did. small one..but one nonetheless&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Sszeyl slips out of the rainbow bubble as if it wasn't even there, his passage leaving a person-shaped hole for a second before it fixes itself.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nathokokasprithon's seal is a base. Low-level binding, simple, a dampener. Salishea's seal binds old Vargie's physical power, you see. Quite fitting for the Storm Knight, yes?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;What of the base seal which Nathokokaspirithon's seal amplified?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Is it defunct now?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Magic, voice, then capstone, then the seal will be complete.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aha, hmm, you have done some research.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So...have you put on your part of the seal yet? And what is it supposed to do, exactly?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;This will take some time to explain. Shall we go somewhere more comfortable than the lab?&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait, er, lemme think...prevent him from using 'magic'?&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;He's wondering how a non-coporeal entity's innate magic is being disabled.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is that what your seal is doing? Preventing magic? That's the third of the five parts you just mentioned, and you're the third part...&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, the seal? That's done already.&quot; The dragon waves his tail dismissively as he opens up the wall, humming a little tune. &quot;Come, come, we'll talk in the Hall of Stars.&quot; ^^

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I'm actually concerend with how the red has -kept- his magic. First doesn't have any power in this world at the moment, not until he manifests, and First has been at least three dragons.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">okay, I think there's a miscommunication there, despite my best efforts.

* Thomas Lazarus is staring up with a kind of disheveled, numb, gaping expression. &quot;...&quot; D: Glitch:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt is asking for confirmation of the purpose of Kerishorak's seal.

GM:<font color="#000000">-- when did that happen? Sszeyl's bronze and gold seals have been joined by a brass scale with a star of blue gemstones, creating a crescent shape.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Is it the one that's supposed to keep Red from using magic or not?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Kerishorak hasn't said. He's trying to get you to go to a different room to talk.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hall uf Stars?&quot; :o

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Yes. It will presumably drain my Cha, the casting stat for Sorcerers.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alright, alright, let's go to this 'hall of stars'...&quot;

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

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

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">Sigh! Adventurers. And they wonder why I kidnapped them. You need to drag them by the nose everywhere. =3= *brick'd*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu need to fix hyu doorschpell tink!&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sart? Is there something wrong with him?&quot; o.o

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Did you shoot it?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Iz bac vit ackscents!&quot; :O\

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Tom? Can you do some healing while travelling, please?&quot;

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

* Thomas Lazarus snaps out of his stupor. &quot;...&quot; He blinks and approaches Sszeyl quickly. &quot; Are you okay now..?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;You shouldn't need any, but if you insist, Sszeyl.&quot; The dragon slaps his tail against the wall, and the walls sink down into the floor with a shoonk-shoonk.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">There's a blue flash -- curing wounds~ &#171; &#160;1d8+5 = 7 + 5 = 12&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I've lost some strength in my arms, that's it.&quot;

* Kerishorak continues to hum as he leads the way through the expanded hallway. &quot;Come along, now!&quot; ^^

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">He's had that HP damage for like four sessions. *bricked!!*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Individual move, or do you wanna keep the rectangle?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Rectangle it is, then!

* Kerishorak gasps with delight at the objects in the lobby. &quot;Mazian vehicles! Marvelous!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Chust don' break de bike!&quot; D: Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, glad to see someone appreciates our work...&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Always intriguing to see how the younger races manage without magic. Unrefined, yes, but functional and so unpredictable.&quot; ^^

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu kan do vatever hyu vant vit de Trucktrain.&quot; :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ooh, hy hef zummdink hy tink hyu vill like, den!&quot; :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang produces Rose and holds it up to the dragon.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;An enchanted flintlock pistol. Force enchantment, if I'm not mistaken! A very good choice.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;I teknology und magic!&quot;

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

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They don't mix well, though. It's a little more prone to something getting gummed up.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;For all de kreepy krawlies vit de crazy enchantments und schtuff.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have you found a way to overcome the unpredictable nature of intertwining Mazian steamworks with arcana?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Yeah, only because you went and nerfed me. *glares*

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;No? Ah. A shame.&quot;

* RAM throws a block of C4 at Techy's head.

* Kerishorak leads the way through the next portal; the air in the next room is filled with floating, glimmering gemstones, and a glittering silver cloud in one corner.

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;So much shiiiinnneeeeeey...&quot;

* Kerishorak bats at some of the floating gemstones with a forepaw, and they glow and chime when touched, spiralling away. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Quite.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I must say, Kerishorak, that even though it's all magic, your lair has to be one of the most spectacular places I've ever seen.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Isn't it? I would love to create a smaller version of this someday. I can only imagine it would be a hit among the bards. I'm almost certain 'rock music' would catch on eventually.&quot; ^^

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">B-dum-tsch.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Rok muzak?&quot; :.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please, take a seat wherever you like if you wish. Sorry about the lack of chairs. I don't often get this large of a group in the testing chambers.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks about uncomfortably. &quot;...&quot; Standing suffices.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Sszeyl doesn't move. :v

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vat's dis?&quot; :.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang points at the cloud.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;You called this the room of stars, do the gems mimic positions of the stars for some purpose, then?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt just shrugs and stays where he is as well. &quot;Now that we're all settled...would you entertain answering a few questions of mine?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">AThe massive dragon curls up beneath the floating gemstones, smiling. &quot;That would be a view of the Aovbiajikliss nebula in the astral plane. Remarkable, isn't it? Sadly it's only a replica.&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang walks into it!

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very handy for determining the location of color pools prior to a planar foray.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shankfang I don't think that's a good idea--&quot; -3-

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

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">You pass right through the cloud without disturbing it.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">As I figured. :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Vat? He said it vas chust a view.&quot; :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt just watches flatly before shaking his head and turning back to Kerishorak.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Do you happen to keep your shed scales anywhere?&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">if only I knew about dragons, I'd know better than to keep going with direct question-asking and try small-talking him first! But...

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now then, I've heard a lot about you from old Nathokokasprithon. How is he? How are the children, and the grandchildren?&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well..&quot; He sighs and bows. &quot;..Thank you for your prompt help with the seal, and our friend.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt opens his mouth as he's about to say something, then gets hit with Kerishorak's query, freezes, and lets his hand fall to the side flatly again as he sighs.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;So stiff, all standing around in a group. Do you normally all stand in a regiment?&quot; :.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nathan Toris, as we know him, is doing quite well. Their shop gets lots of business from us.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...... Good.&quot; He remarks a little awkwardly. &gt;.&gt;;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The children of Nathan are also doing well managing the shop.&quot;

* Edaric breaks the square. =3=;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The grandchildren are doing very well. We've forged quite close friendships with them.&quot;

* Shankfang the Deffrider already broke the square!

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Forcing us to move? How dare you.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Such a rebel!

Tavia:<font color="#9933FF">TWO HOUNDS. INCOMING.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Beg your pardon, good Kerishorak, but we did just finish panicking in response to a possible life or death emergency..&quot; =w=;

Tavia:<font color="#9933FF">Sniff sniff sniff!

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

Amadre:<font color="#9933FF">Sniff sniff sniff!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Terri iz really kool!&quot; :D

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As what was going to be my first question..&gt;&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aha! How big are they now? It's a shame, the last time I saw them was two years ago.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why, exactly, did you show up unnanounced and steal Sszeyl from us?&quot;

* Kerishorak ruffles the dogs' heads gently. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Before I forget, we did bring you some modest gifts.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We were fearing for our lives and about to shoot you.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh! Yes, yes, we brought things for you as well. Almost forgot in all the hubbub.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus passes a brief glance back at Gnogglebolt. Sheesh. Mazians. As clueless to our high-arcana county as we are to high-tech contrivances. =3=

* Kerishorak laughs, a clear booming sound. &quot;I thought perhaps that might happen! But, you would have had more reason to fear for your lives if I had let Sszeyl stay with your group.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....So, Red really was on the verge of breaking through? Right there, as we were travelling?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">And then a pause. :. &quot;Gifts, you say?&quot;

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

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">Because he's eccentric now quit asking! *bricked!!*

* Anise Berilan seems pretty dumbfounded by the whole affair.

* Anise Berilan glances over at Dorf. How's he taking this whole thing?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot; .... who has the gifts? &quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Don't look at me.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I removed some GP from Tom's wallet, so, gifts have I suppose!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I forgot allabout them. :B

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">The gift of HUG! :D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Just a few little things we thought might be nice.. ... ..I hadn't entirely expected your lair to be such a wonder.&quot; ^^;

* Thomas Lazarus approaches and presents the goodies collected from the town.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Books!&quot; 8D

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">The dwarf steps forward, removing his helmet out of respect. &quot;Pardon me dragon, bit micht ye ken anythin' o' th' ancient dwarven outposts in this area? A'm oan a quest tae fin' them.&quot;

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

* Kerishorak leans his head down closer to Thomas, to inspect. Sniffsniff. &quot;Tarova, by the glue and paper composition. Such a rarity for Tarovan books to come through here! Thank you. You can put them on the cushion, there, I'll put them in the library straightaway. And Ostelia will love the candy. Thank you!&quot;

* Kerishorak pats Shankfang lightly with a massive paw, before peering at Dorf and tilting his head. &quot;... I have to admit, I have no idea who you might be, good dwarf. Who are you, anyway?&quot; :.

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

* Thomas Lazarus nods and paces over to do as instructed.

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Oh, och, a'm Dorf Aias.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus treads lightly. He can't help but feel like he's visiting Terri's estranged crazy uncle or something, and remains super-tense. {:3

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I'm wondering when he notices I'm a Drow and tries to set me on fire.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see! And what brings you here with the Vigilant Guardians, Dorf Aias?&quot; :3

* Swallowtail has knelt formally before the dragon, and those nearby might hear some quiet Amayan prayers.

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Common goal locations. 'N' dinnae mynd th' drow. He aye thinks ah haven't clocked him or something. Is that dragon up in his brain daein' that tae him?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;No the fact that every single dwarf I've met before you has tried to set me on fire leads me to believe that.&quot;

* Kerishorak sighs. &quot;Some things are best left mysteries. Dwarven structures you say. Take a look around. This hall, and the Diamond Maze, were once of dwarven make.&quot; :3

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;The forms lend themselves marvellously well to stone magic.&quot; :3

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Well that's a lie. If ilka single dwarf tried tae set ye oan fire, you'd be charcoal by noo. 'N' aye!? This is dwarven stonework?! Whilk clan?&quot; Says the dwarf, looking about again.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt sighs again. Well, as long as there isn't anything -immediately- urgent, the important questions can wait...

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Basalthearth, I believe is the Common translation. Alazphraxion commissioned many such structures in his youth.&quot; ^^

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">Dwarven clan check..

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I believe my experiences more than I believe your stance on your race, but that is beside the issue.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good old Alazphraxion. It's such a shame this electrum dragon business is happening. I would direly love to see Nathokokasprithion and his descendants again without jumping through hoops.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(crap, I vaugely remember the name Alazphraxion and I vaugely remember a mention of electrum dragons before, but I can't remember what the details were...)

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">Well, you do have a talkative dragon right here. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">...good point, I just wanted a recap of what I -do- already know. :B

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Ahh, braw that. Bit whit's this aboot thay best remain hidden? A've bin sent by th' clans tae fin' them!&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">And really, when the DM is on just -one- NPC, it's fine to hound them. I speak from experience. ;)

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Searching for an Aias clanhold, I suppose?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">ED, SWALLOWTAIL, WHAT DO YOU THINK?!

* Ghostwish starts asking Edaric and Swallowtail and ANise all kinds of questions. &gt;:3

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">DAMNIT HATARI XD

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">I think I be quiet.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Wait, I...I remember something about this. Why can't you and Nathan see each other? Who's Alazphraxion and this 'electrum dragon' thing? I remember mention of this before, but not all of it...&quot;

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">I need a drink. =w=

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;A merger of the bloodlines is abhorent to Dragons.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;So old-fashioned.&quot; :.

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Them, bit ony ah kin fin'! Twasn't juist Clan Aias that bode me come oot 'ere, nay! Twas hauf th' damn bens that sent me oot here!&quot;

* Kerishorak sighs. &quot;Sszeyl is right. There's a gold dragon going around now that seems to be purposefully trying to create electrum dragons. It's not so much a matter of tradition, as it is one of safety.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;safety?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Out of every three hundred attempted electrum crosses, only one is successful. That's if the parents happen to guess the correct conditions required for the proper incubation and hatching of the wyrmling. And then... there are often defects.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;So..safety for the child, not anyone else then? We aren't likely to see one that was birthed going on a rampage or something?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;The current situation nowadays, with two living electrum dragons? Practically unheard of.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">And thus, Fazshmere. *BRICK'D*

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;A gold-silver cross, and a gold-copper cross. Both hatched exactly 25 years apart.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;You know, call me an overly curious wizard, but I might just hazard a dangerous question.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...And because of this, you aren't allowed to meet with Nathan's family?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;What would be the ramifications of a metallic and a chromatic dragon inter-breeding?&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm..if someone had figured out how to safely give birth to electrum dragons...would that not negate the taboo then?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;You would need to find two individuals willing to do so, unlikely.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;We are approaching the next 25-year mark, and Alazphraxion is worried that some of his descendants might be targeted and saddled with a difficult wyrmling and brooding cycle. So... hoops.&quot; The dragon huffs. &quot;No gold dragon can pass through the desert without a whole bunch of rigamarole.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">He then stops, and peers at Tathi. :|

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi takes a step behind Thomas. *BRICK'D*

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">In Draconic, &quot;(Prismite?)&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;(Yeah what WOULD you call it? I can't fathom a good name.)&quot;

* Kerishorak seems relieved.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suppose that will be a question for the ages.&quot; ^^

* Thomas Lazarus seems hopelessly lost and out of place. He just stands politely with his hands folded at his waist. Even as Tathi uses him as soft cover. o_o;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Though...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;First seems to think it's possible.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;If unethical on both sides.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Speaking of that, shall we get to the hard questions?&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hard questions! Yes indeedy.&quot; Gnogglebolt suddenly perks up.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sszeyl! And First, if that is what your oversoul calls himself.&quot; ^^

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">allright, I need supper,. Will be in and out.

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

* RAM is getting sleepy. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;It's what I call him. I'm not important enough to know his proper name.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;First off. Red really was about to break through Sszeyl during our travel, and that's why you came out of nowhere?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;You will both be pleased to know the results of the testing. You are not the father! Metaphysically speaking.&quot; :B

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What?'

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Sszeyl sighs.

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy like dis guy!&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Vargachixeniejir is not one of the manifestations of the oversoul. He seems to be a graft, so to speak.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Is it bad that I kind of wish he -was- part of us? He didn't have a good life, or a happy one.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;And if he was part of us, we could take him with us when we die.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....Wait, so Red isn't part of Sszeyl's vaunted reincarnation cycle?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That...explains a few things, I guess.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;I will try not to drown you in jargon.&quot; :3 &quot;Someone essentially took ahold of Vargachixeniejir's soul and shunted it inside your friend's body.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;He may not have been my past self, but he is still a part of me. Much of my personality comes from his influence.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;..&gt;Which then begs the question.&quot;

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

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;The first seal that you referred to, I imagine, Sszeyl.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who did this to him, and why?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Zilvudar, probably.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;So it's someone elses baby implanted into them to grow maybe?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;To weaponize the Dragon.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Zilvudar is -terrifying.- For a time, he had more of Vargie's fear than this Tiamat person. And he's also very efficient with subliminal programing.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I have an entire book of comamnds I'm programed to respond to in certain ways.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....If that's true, then it begs the question of why you were exiled. Kinda ruins the whole point, just kicking you out like that if they wanted to use you as a weapon?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;So does every member of our order.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shhhh!&quot; The dragon glances around with a touch of fear.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Unless they already determined you a 'failed experiment'...this this is all pretty baseless speculation at this point.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do we actually have anything to go on?&quot;

* Kerishorak lowers his voice. &quot; Speak not the Chromatic Queen's name so loudly! &quot; o_o;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Sorry.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Zilvudar, in recent years, has become unstable it seems.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Perhaps he's going insane from being Monstrosity for so long.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Yeah they do that. This one time we were standing on a profane sacrificial altar while we attacked its priest and trash talked The Many. It's not like anything bad came of that though. e_e

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;We have quite a bit, actually! Now, let's get back to the mechanics of the seals.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Very well.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait, so Kerishorak, do you think it was this 'Zilvudar' jasper who 'grafted' Red to Sszeyl;?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or has your examination turned up evidence in another direction?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nathokokasprithon's seal was designed to be a redundant system. A failsafe, a buffer should the initial seal binding old Vargie fail again, giving time to get the seal back under control.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus glances ever-so-slightly aside to Anise, then back to the dragon. &quot;...&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Eh?&quot; He looks at Gnogglebolt.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sszeyl only said just now that Zilvudar was his guess, but you didn't say anything...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Sszeyl closes his eyes and scrunches up his face. &quot;I had some of Vargie's memories of the event from when I ripped open his mind a while back...&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Depends. Is this Zilvudar Jasper a competent planehopper? But we're getting off-topic.&quot; ^^

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;The only one relevant to this line of thought is a Door, and Salishea, and pain. Lots of pain.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Alright, very well.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, the seals.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Salishea, you say. Hmmmm.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suppose that may be a moment-of-death memory. Salishea was... what do you adventurers call it nowadays, our 'tank?' She kept Vargie's attention in melee.&quot;

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

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is what kept him occupied long enough to allow Vaerithosgix to deliver the final blow.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;And to answer your question, Zilvudar is...well. Orgolloyss is a demigod, and Zilvudar is a magnitude of power weaker than him at most. I don't know what that makes him.&quot;

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">Salishea kept insisting Kerishorak stop calling himself the 'deeps'. *bricked!!*

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;So it makes quite a lot of sense that the last thing he saw was Salishea.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I disagree.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Two different environments.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;The dying memories were of a plain, with distant mountains, and scarred earth.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">So, it's past 6 here, and I'm starting to doze off. ^^;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's going to be more metaphysical talk from here on in, you can get the log. :3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We'll get you a dragonlog.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;The pain memories were of...light, and faint plants? A very tall object in the distance.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Told you to nap. At least, you could have laid down -without- sleeping just to rest. :B But oh well, seeya round

RAM:<font color="#990000">So, yeah, Imma do that. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;It hurts to see them, even in memories.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">I *was* laying down, Techy. =3=

RAM:<font color="#990000">G'night, everyone.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Salishea isn't even in a battle posture in the pain memories.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Because we have such a good track record of people napping and getting back up in time for Akellon. :B

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm. That fits with what Nathokokasprithon was conveying... but it will take more research. Hmm...&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">And I couldn't have napped, anyway.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Like I said three times, I share a room and wouldn't have been able to set an alarm.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cc0066">(( Night. ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Out of curiosity, do you have headphones?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Because I know an online eggtimer if you do.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Yeah, but no way I could sleepwith them. :B

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

* RAM heads to bed. Gonna keep this open.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, do you know a Zairith? I would imagine you do. Do thank him for his research, would you? This would have been nigh impossible in this timeframe without his assistance.&quot; ^^

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Is that so?&quot; &gt;:.

* Thomas Lazarus suddenly gives a damn. *BRICK'D*

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I do. And I'll send your thanks, but he will likely just grump and insist it was nothing.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyway! The seals. Nathokokasprithon's is the base. It was a simple background seal that we could all build off.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm surprised he's involved so far ahead of us.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Time and space mean little to an advanced arcanist, old sport.&quot; ^^

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I meant.. ... ..well, it doesn't matter..&quot; =w=;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Seals! I keep getting sidetracked.&quot; The dragon laughs.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Salishea's seal is meant to bind Vargie's physical power. Namely, by reducing his capability to move. This, unfortunately, has side effects on the body of the host. Calaserian's seal will be less damaging and have less long-lasting side effects.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Naturally, as a scholar of the Art, it fell to me to bind his magic.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;You won't be facing any more spellcasting from old Vargie anymore, as long as the seals stay intact and on the host.&quot; ^^

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aha...so, that mention of him trying to transform was just his magic, and now your seal will keep him from--casting magic?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt grimaces and unconciously rubs his chest as a very painful memory resurfaces. &quot;Good.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">back! *burp!*

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Unfortunately... the trickiest bit, and one of the most dangerous to allow to roam unchecked, is still left unsealed until Calaserian finishes his portion.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Voice.&quot;

* Tasher chokes.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What about Red trying to break through and take control of Sszeyl's emotions, speech, or actions?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... what did I do this time? XD

Tasher:<font color="#9933FF">N-Nothing. Nothing. ^^;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Every now and then, when Sszeyl experiences high stress or emotion, Red almost gets through and the seals barely hold him back.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Emotions and speech are Calaserian's area. Better to leave that kind of sealing to the experts rather than do a hackneyed, easily-broken job.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus takes a step forward.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Excuse me. But.. about that..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Ah. So....our next stop will put a stopper on that one for good?&quot;

Ghostwish whispers: The Tateari's language, a multi-vocal language that is impossible for humans to speak due to their having one set of vocal coords and the Tateari possessing multiple sets, is called 'The Voice'. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That's my biggest concern. The next part of the seal -- we don't know exactly where to look.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's the one we've been most worried about, the fact that Red can speak through Sszeyl at all, or even control his body.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;.... Nathokokasprithion didn't tell you?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...wait, Thomas.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Both of you SHUT IT.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Didn't Terri's family tell us to go further north after Yoriver?&quot;

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

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">HAY. HAY. HAY.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Must be getting forgetful in his old age. Not that I'm much younger, haha!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;North West.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;We go North West from here.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Skydragon Citadel.&quot; :3

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Remember the little chat we had about electrum dragons?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;From Yoriver, due West I think.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Er, sorry, can I interdict with another question? I promise it doesn't involve breeding of any kind.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Skydragon Citadel, that was it.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But wasn't there a dragon living near the charred veld..?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;One moment, Tathi Eyllisaearsithek, I'll finish the breeding talk and get back to you in a moment.&quot; |3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Thomas, the one in Skydragon Citadel is near the Charred Veld...&quot; Gnogglebolt pulls out his map. &quot;Aha, yes. The mountain range just north of the Veld.&quot;

Tathi: <font color="#9933FF">&quot;But it's not about breeding, honest.&quot;

<font color="#9933FF"> |D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Whose version of 'near' is that??&quot; &gt;|

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He points at where a little mark was made as per Terri's family's directions.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;The gold-silver cross... He was Calaserian's daughter's son.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Gnogglebolt, have you ever crossed a mountain range? It's not a small distance.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt freezes at Kerishorak's words.

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Entire dwarven nations spread o'er ben ranges.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;She was killed in battle by line purists.&quot; The old dragon looks away, tail curling closer to his body. &quot;He remains there to raise him in her stead.&quot;

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">A gold-silver cross.. would that make it a mithril dragon? &gt;:3c

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">That would be steel-silver, good youkai. :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">.&quot;...Okay, if anyone was going to suggest looking into this 'electrum' thing, I was going to say it really isn't any of our business and there's not like we could do anything anyway, but is there anything we ought to know about this electrum business if we're going to be going to someone who was related to it?&quot; -3-

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">Sounds like pokemans to me!

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mmmm...&quot; The dragon looks up at some of the spinning gems, and idly spins a few with his tail tip.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Unless you want to get terribly, awfully involved in politics?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think I've told you all you need to know.&quot; ^^

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No. No. No we do not. We have plenty of our own humanoid politics to deal with.&quot; ^^; Gnogglebolt says quickly.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Dragon politics, or politics in general?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's leave the affairs of dragons to the dragons.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Yes, quite enough with the politics!&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Dragon politics.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Quite!&quot; ^^

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now, where was I... Tathi's question.&quot; :3

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then no, No offense, but not interested in political debates where the other side could squash us just by not paying attention to where they sit when they sit down to talk. &quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;It's more of a pair of personnel ones. So unless the rest want to stay around and hear it?&quot;

* Kerishorak laughs! &quot;Fair enough! Better to leave the politics to the politicians, anyway, say I. Too easy to lose track of what's really important.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...as long as we get back to the seals after this...&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's not much more to tell about the seals, unless you have questions.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Two things, after Tathi's done.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;No wait, three.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Vaerithosgix's is the capstone. When hers is complete, Vargie will no longer be able to control Sszeyl's body, and for all intents and purposes, he will be completely sealed. Still there, but deprived of any means of influencing the mortal world.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Hrm. No response. Okay. Well, first, I've been searching high and low for a particular copper dragon. Might you be any help with that?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;To truly banish him...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Back to two.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah yes, with the banishing. What's the final step there when all seals are in place?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;The first seal will need to be undone, first.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That sounds like a stupendously bad idea.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;The seal which is now Defunct, Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;So does lighting a fire in a vehicle to make it go faster.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Trust the engineers of the seals.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;The one before Nathokokaspirithon's.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;It does, doesn't it. But until that seal is gone, ours won't be able to do what it needs to in order to finish the job.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Point made and taken.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Down to one.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*Gnogglebolt says to Sszeyl and Thomas

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So. Remove the very first seal...then what? Who do we go to?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;No wait, back up to two.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;The second thing we will need is some sort of physical tie to Vargachixeniejir.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Er, rather, who do we go to first to remove the original seal, and carry out the final step?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;We have his corpse.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Salishea says she may have a lead on that. We should be able to tell you more later.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....A physical tie to a century-dead dragon.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Or rather a vague idea of where his corpse is.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That would have been wonderful to know months ago...&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;You do? Wouldn't that be gone if he's a century dead? Or at least most of it? &quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh. Well, okay then...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Oh no.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;They have mages keeping it in one piece.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;A century?&quot; =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Sort of a monument, it seems.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;The Red's making plans to try and animate it as a zombie, or become a lich if he can finagle with the seals a bit.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;And he's very angry that I've told you that. Ow.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not quie that long, it was only 1132 CA when he was killed...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Complete lack of facial expression.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt glances deadpan in Sszeyl's direction.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....Kerishorak, should we be worried about that?&quot;

* Kerishorak snorts. &quot;No mages needed. The Dance is now a wild-magic area.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm surprised Nathoko didn't include a headache remedy in his seal.&quot; :.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;His seal is incomplete. We need to take it back to him some time for a refit.&quot;

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">Fact: Red dracoliches cannot handle it anymore when adventurers come barging in and start back up with the bone puns.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I meant the plan of Red's that Sszeyl just managed to helpfully convey to us, but I can't imagine those headaches are plesant...&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm, no, I wouldn't be too worried. Good to know, though.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus remains pointedly mute. &quot;...&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;The headaches should go away the more seals are in place.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right. Sszeyl, if Red makes any more plans, keep trying to let us know about it if you can.&quot;

* Kerishorak looks at Thomas. &quot;... Becoming a dracolich requires devouring over one hundred thousand gold pieces in treasure in one day, and a specially-brewed toxin. Has your friend been eating precious metals?&quot; =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">...and I just realized Gnogglebolt STILL doesn't know about that time Red took over and had Sszeyl go talk to a bunch of kobolds!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">No one ever told him!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Sorry, but First got annoyed with him, and said something to shut the Red up for a few minutes.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks up and blinks once, slowly. &quot;... Uh ... no, sir.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I think he's kinda scared. What does 'I know the spell Sanctify the Wicked' mean?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then I wouldn't be worried about dracolich plans.&quot; |3

* Thomas Lazarus simply nods without elaboration.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now then, Tathi, your copper dragon question.&quot; :.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you have anything more to go on than 'copper dragon?'&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, if he ever buys a REALLY expensive magical item that might be edible, should we be worried then?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Not much more than that he was unusually large for his apparant age, I'm afraid.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Any noted spellcasting ability?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;The ability to raise the dead.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tathi, just tell him the story you know about him that you repeat all the time.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where he was and when.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">To Gamal, he chuckles. &quot;Possibly, though it would need to be... goodness, practically an artifact.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;If he wants to hear it, I will tell it.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Probably for the best if you tried to keep Decks of Many Things out of your friend's mouth anyway. They can't be tasty.&quot; |3

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tell away!&quot;

* Dr. Hatari is now imagining Rupee gems that taste like sour apple candy. :9

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... that would be tasty.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Allright. Towards the end of the Burning, both my father and my eldest brother had been slain. We were preparing the funeral when an unusual copper dragon showed up.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And so we all wanted to eat gems. Achievement unlocked: Gorgons.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Maybe Rupee-shaped Jolly Ranchers. Green apple - 1 rupee. Cherry, 20 rupees. Blue raspberry, 5 rupees. :B

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi looks a bit wistful as she recounts the tail. &quot;He offered barely any explaination, and did not give name or reason.. But.. he brought my father back to life that day. Yet refused to do the same for my brother, before leaving.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Gorons. Gorgons = either Medusa's species or strange bull things from the MM. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">There are a lot of mythological variants, nerd. &gt;:B

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;All we have on him is that he was.. strangely large. By his scales and eyes, so my mother says, he couldn't have been more than a new adult. But he was almost wyrm-like in size.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or a whole bunch of magical boots and cloaks...they could be made edible by his system without too much work.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nya! XP

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;What's your father's name?&quot; :.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I wonder...&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Might be old Bahskehaism.&quot; |3

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Raerarael Eyllisaearsithek.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aha, that cinches it!&quot; |3

* Thomas Lazarus is dealt a painful mindblow by the names. @.@

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Talk to Vaerithosgix when you see her. She'd best be able to tell you the story.&quot; |3

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Really? Are the rumors true, then? I've got copper dragon blood from my father's side?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;A question for your elders, really.&quot; |3

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Well, thank you. My second question involves Skydragon Citadel.. Has there been a wood elf in attendence amoung the dragons up there?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, as a matter of fact. Your younger brother?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">She raises and eyebrow, and smirks. &quot;Well I think that pretty much settles that. Yes, my baby brother.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Marvellous! Calaserian suspected that was the case when he heard your name.&quot; ^^ &quot;Maybe you stand a chance of getting past those stuffy guards after all!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Oh I've heard fire works marvelously.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Kidding! Kidding!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Quite.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now then, your questions?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;The amount of energy you'd need to spend to create effective fire in a low-oxygen, extremely cold climate?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Not worth it.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Go with electricity.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Or acid.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot; Since when did you become an expert on the elements, Sszeyl? &quot; :.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alright, so, to recap all of this and make sure I've got it all straight...now that we have your seal, the third one, to get the fourth one we must go see 'Calarerian' up at Skydragon Citadel, which will lock down Red's emotions. Tread lightly, because this dragon's involved with the electrum thing. After that, for the fifth and final seal we must find 'Vaerithosgix'. Where is Vaerithosgix? And then, with all five seals, we must get a physical tie to Red, and then...who must we see to remove the original seal to prepare for the banishment? And who do we go to to actually perform the banishment, with whatever steps are involved then? And is the one who removes the original seal and the one who banishes one and the same?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot; Forgot one, though. Sonic. &quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Those questions will be revealed with time. But Vaerithosgix...&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#CC0066">&quot;Since I spent a few months living with a wizard, reading wizard books, and mentally fighting a socrerous dragon in my head.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;I wish I had an answer for you. But she comes and goes as she pleases. She will likely find you, not the other way around.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus frowns hard, but doesn't speak up.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....'Revealed with time'? Why--oh, wait, can you not say it because Red can see and hear everything Sszeyl does and you don't want him to know ahead of time?&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Even I have trouble sending her messages sometimes. Me! And I'm no slouch of a spellcaster if I dare say so myself!&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes and no. For most of your questions, I don't know the whole answer yet.&quot; =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...So, for the fifth seal, we just have to wait randomly for some tart of a dragon to drop in unannounced on us.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;It will take more research to turn up a worthwhile answer.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is most irritating.&quot;

* Kerishorak laughs. &quot;Tart?&quot; |3

* Thomas Lazarus blinks and looks over at Gnogglebolt in astonishment. &quot;...&quot;

* Glitch is giggling too much x3

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;A tart that killed a old and powerful red dragon before said red dragon could even see her.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Luckily for you Vaerithosgix and I both have a sense of humor. Don't say that anywhere near those stuffy silvers.&quot; =3=

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;SO the only actionable things on our part is going to Skydragon Citadel for the fourth seal, then seeing if Salishea has any lead on a physical tie to Red.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then the waiting game, the worst game of all.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Things may come up between now and then, my staggeringly impatient Mazian friend. As if we can just waltz up to Skydragon Citadel.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Watch me!&quot; Gnogglebolt sticks his tongue out.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot; (The younger races are always in such hurries all the time...) &quot; the dragon mumbles amusedly in Celestial. |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Though if Calareian pulls a stunt like this, it'll be much easier.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;For me.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks up to the dragon. &quot;I'll have to beg your pardon, sir Kerishorak, but, you are right. Lives are on the line. If that concludes all of what needed to be done and learned, I'm afraid duty is already calling.&quot; He bows. &quot;Thank you very much for your hospitality.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Already? But it's barely getting near morning.&quot; &gt;: Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah yeah, was just about to say. Is there anything else we should know, any other question someone wants to ask? Bceause several of our members have family knee-deep in demons.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;My questions.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Exactly. Can use another hour or two to travel through the desert before we have to stop during the daytime as per our desert expert's recommendation.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh. Hmm. Tathi, do you have a sending stone in your pocket?&quot; :.

* Tathi checks. ^^;;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;An evocation aura just lit up over your pocket. You're due to get a message in the next two minutes if you do.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....Tathi, who did you leave the other stone with?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Oh dear.&quot; Tathi says, pulling out the stone.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">No, it's a note with Delayed Symbol of Insanity.

GM:<font color="#000000">It's the sending stone with the Raiders' symbol in a square on it. (No one else in the party has seen this aside from drunk Aelian; Tathi got it in Eytherinu.)

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;While Tathi recieves her message. My questions are thus: Has your investigation turned up any data on the base seal itself?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;The one that Zairith undid, then tried to reapply?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Pardon me. Likely SEEDS business.&quot; She says, and hastily steps out of the room, awaiting the message.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Research is ongoing.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus folds his hands behind his back and waits respectfully. But he's apparently anxious about letting the dragon chat them up all day, given the situation. He's antsy.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">He's a Copper.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt glances closer at Tathi and notices the symbol on the stone.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">We were at risk of this from the start.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Second question then, can you edit people's memories?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tathi, where did you get that? That's got the symbol of our drow friends on it.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">She stepped out of the room to get the message.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Just hasn't moved her token.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">oh, oops

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">nevermind then

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">scratch that. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(....or, in other words, RETCON! NYAH HAH HAAAAAAA okayI'llstopnow. :B )

Sending:<font color="#000000">Two small images of hands float out of the stone, forming a message in drow sign language. &quot;(Alert. Helvirahel assassins have teleported. Be on guard. In other news: Backup sent north to assist pegasus in Yoriver. Need help? Can send your way.)&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">'Mayday, mayday. Currently under fire. Red Dragons. Send immediate help.'

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">*bricked*

* Dr. Hatari is now remembering the movie, 'Dragon Wars'. Shudder.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">... and I'm a brass dragon, not a copper! =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">=3=

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are you sure I can't treat you to breakfast before you go?&quot; &gt;: Glitch:<font color="#000000">Hatari; you mean D-Wars? The, uh...was it Korean-made one?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">the one where they were called 'Imoogi'?

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;...Sir, my questioon? =3=;;;&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cc0066">(( No, he's referring to the one where dragons killed the dinosaurs, have been hibernating, ermerged from under England, and destroyed the world. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#cc0066">(( I think. ))

Glitch:<font color="#000000">No, that's Reign of Fire.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Which was at least barely watchable.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">D-wars was one of the most goddawful things I've ever seen. -3-

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Shut up. XP

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Memory modification. Ehhhhm. Not particularly my cup of tea. Memories are one of the few things we have that are truly ours, aren't they when you get down to it? Tricky, highly intrusive business to do that sort of thing.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi thinks.. and thinks.. and thinks.. damn sending.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Negative, thanks for information. Getting Sszeyl next seal, then heading for Yoriver. Possible meet up location? Next location is skydragon citadel. Not sure if you can help there?&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">ERK

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Ghoooooost!

Glitch:<font color="#000000">We're going to YORIVER first!

Glitch:<font color="#000000">THEN to the citadel

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Yeah. Thank you captain obvious. Read the -entire- thing.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;True. But the Red has taken the knowledge that he is not actually shackled to me, and run with it.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Speculating all sorts of disturbing things.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">aand you just said &quot;Getting Sszeyl next seal, then to Yoriver. Next location, Skydragon Citadel&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi comes back in after that. &quot;Well, darnit, it had nothing to do with SEEDS at all. It turns out they've lost tail of our assassin 'friends'. Seeing how they've teleported.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;About the possibility of becoming a true ghost when I die, perhaps finding a new host. Or simply animating my corpse.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">That's what you said. :B

Tathi: <font color="#9933ff">(( The way your brain works never ceases to boggle me... ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;My line of work is not conducive to long and safe lives, so this is a major concern.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">It works -logically-. You said things exactly in the wrong order.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Or, in the words of xkcd

Glitch:<font color="#000000">&quot;Those who say they are good at communication but people are bad at listening is confused as to how communication works.&quot; :B

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">The dragon frowns. &quot;Mm... then the best advice I can give is just to try not to die.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">You basically said &quot;We're going to Citadel first, then Yoriver&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Glitch, your reading comprehension sucks. It always does.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;You hear that, Tom? Your job just got a magnitude of power more difficult.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The next seal we're getting in reference was Kerishorak's.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;However, we've got help inbound towards Yoriver. I told them we're headed to Yoriver, and that the next location in our route is Skydragon citadel. Asked about possibly meeting up with them.&quot; There, nice and explained. You can shush now.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">What part of &quot;Next location, Skydragon Citadel&quot; can POSSIBLY be interpreted any other way?!

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;And look out for kobolds. Oh yes. Watch out for kobolds.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">our next location will be -yoriver-!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I guess everyone else just magically understood it for no reason. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Apparently.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Yes, the red put a tribe of them to work for something.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Apparently!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I'm sure Nath told you about it.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">He still doesn't get it, does he...

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

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;He did. Be careful on the way to the Citadel, especially. All sorts of kobold warrens in the Veld. They seem to enjoy the old copper dragon lairs...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Dragon lairs are very comfy, yes.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, old bean, I know you already knew that.&quot; He doesn't seem to be addressing Sszeyl, exactly.

Glitch whispers: I really wish you'd speak up more as a DM when things like this happen, by the way... &gt;.&gt; Even if not in my favor, I hate things like this happening without some authority stepping in. :/

Vargachixeniejir:<font color="#000000"><b>Stop calling me 'old bean' and 'Vargie,' whelp!

</b> &gt;:E

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066"><i>You've used up your speaking privledges for the day.

</i> Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066"><i> Begone.

</i> Vargachixeniejir:<font color="#000000"><b>Very cute.

</b> Vargachixeniejir:<font color="#000000"><b>My voice is mine for a while longer, puppet. Get used to it.

</b> Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;... hmmm, and I know I should have a headache remedy somewhere for your friend.&quot; =3=;

* Anise Berilan offers a bottle toward Sszeyl.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Sanctify. The. Wicked.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Sszeyl takes it, takes a swig, and returns it without even really looking. &quot;Thanks.&quot;

* Swallowtail slaps the bottle away lightly and gives Anise a look. &quot;Alcohol weakens the will.&quot;

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">... heh, Sszeyl, make a Fort save. :B

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">You just drank dwarven whiskey.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&#171; &#160;1d20+9+mood = 9 + 9 + 0 = 18&#160; <font color="#CC0066">&#187; Fort save!

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">Avoided intoxication, though.

* Anise Berilan gives Swallowtail a look back. &quot;... That reminds me, girliie.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus glances aside to Sszeyl mutely. &quot;...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;There is not enough alcohol outside the Dwarven realms to make up for all this madness. I can partake of some to lessen the sting.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">In reference to the earlier statement (when I was distracted),

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Knew what?&quot;

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;Poison is illegal, you know that. Let's have a talk later.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The gravity of my job, and what it meant if you died.&quot;

* Swallowtail swallows a little, but doesn't move.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Sszeyl smiles. &quot;Good.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Wait -- you mean -- you knew all this time?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's why I always ward you with 'that'.&quot; He glances to Sszeyl's ring.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yeah.&quot; He remarks quietly. &quot;I always knew.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">...I can't remember if I knew. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Or rather, Player doesn't remember if Character knew.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Nobody but the Macers knew.

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;That -- gods. Tathi's gem.&quot; o_o;;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Wait, so, if Sszeyl dies, Red can just take over someone else?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That was our assignment all along.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;...First could fight the Dragon after our death. Maybe slow it down. But he won't.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's probably who it would be...&quot; Ed quietly mutters an oath. &quot;... no wonder...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;So I don't know how to help here.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....I can understand not talking about this when Sszeyl's around to avoid giving Red any ideas, but you kept this from us the whole time, Thomas?&quot; Gnogglebolt looks...rather horrified and upset.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Gnogglebolt, stop.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus knits his brow and looks angry.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;This is why I wanted to ask about editing the Dragon's memories.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Its magic is gone, it's voice and will are not.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;In all likelihood, Sszeyl? He already knew.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;If it gets angry enough, it can make me walk off a cliff that I can't compensate for.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Or into a fire.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Vargachixeniejir is not an idiot.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;His actions around your party notwithstanding.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;If he had done research into soul magic... he likely had knowledge of possession.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;And while he may not be an idiot, he certainly could use some clarity of thought, getting his emotions under control, and some basic common sense.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Until just this moment, it was a safe secret from him. Now it is not - but atleast he has been further disarmed somewhat. And if I had deemed you capable of keeping your mouth shut about such an incredibly sensitive matter, I may have. But we have repeatedly failed to keep even the simplest of sensitive information kept safe. Over, and over. That is why. But it doesn't matter now.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, well.&quot; =3= &quot;Vargie's always had a bur up his bum when it came to me.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066"><b>&quot;The thing tried to out-betray me. A drow.&quot;

</b> Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;So we all know.&quot; Thomas sounds unusually condemning and upset.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Offended that a 'sand-born worm' was a better mage than he ever was, I suppose.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;When have I let sensitive information slip if I was actually told of it's gravity?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The only times I've let things go incidentally is when no one told me it was supposed to be secret!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;When you told Cadamon he was possessed. When you threw Raider information all over public avenues. When we visited Pellanzyne with paladins on short notice. Why do I even need to justify this? Keeping it as secret as possible and hurrying our course along was the best thing to do.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I have no interest in continuing this fight in front of our host.&quot; He glances to the dragon.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And each of those examples are exactly the times when I wasn't informed of the proper gravity to which I just mentioned.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Gnogglebolt didn't tell Cadamon that.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I did.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">Apparently all dragons practice the fly-on-the-wall technique at some point.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">Some are more obvious than others. Kerishorak's leaned his head closer to the group, neck stretched out. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Now may we please go?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Seriously, every one of those incidents would have gone better if I had actually properly been in the loop.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not staying for breakfast?&quot; &gt;: Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">Hello dragonface near the group.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose. &quot;No, I'm sorry mister Kerishorak, Thomas is right. We really ought to get going while we can.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Ohgod.

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are you sure?&quot; &gt;: Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">I'm imagining Grandpa Longneck from the Land Before Time series as Keri's voice.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Can't unhear.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Keeping people alive has been my business. You wanted me to risk a dragon's hearing? Spying? Leaks? There was no reason to chance it.&quot; He waves a hand through the air. &quot;And now he's plotting in his cage. So we'll just have to be more on guard than ever.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now we can be more on guard.&quot;

* Kerishorak feels snubbed. :/

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He is. Thomas is trying to get out, you gabbing dragon. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Thank you for the offer, Kerishorak.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;But there are demons to murder.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not even a spot of tea before you go vanquishing demons?&quot; &gt;: Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's iced...&quot; &gt;: * Thomas Lazarus snaps his head in the dragon's direction. &quot;...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... No ... thank you, though.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Perhaps on the return trip? :3&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns back to Kerishorak. &quot;Well, I thank you very much for your assistance with Sszeyl's problem. And now, without further delay, we shall take our leave. So sorry we can't stay and chat longer, you and your home really is quite interesting. Perhaps another time.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, on our way back, if there's nothing else urgent that comes up.&quot;

* Kerishorak perks up. &quot;Perhaps! That would be nice. A chance to check on the progress of the seals, too!&quot; :3

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sart can show you out. Just take the portal on the left and repeat the keyphrase you used to get in.&quot; :3

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">Travel rectangle ACTIVATE!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Noooooooooo! DX

* Liatai is brick'd.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">We're missing someone.

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

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Oh! Kerishorak!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;I absolutely love your home.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;My descendants are so going to take over it after your gone.&quot; :3

* Kerishorak laughs! &quot;They'll have to win it from whichever of mine decides to stay here!&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;You are of course assuming that the lair survives his death.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Poker. Best hand wins all, then!&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;With how much layers went into the enchantments, the whole thing could simply cease to exist.&quot;

Kerishorak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Safe travels!&quot; ^^

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Note that he did not refute me.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;And the same to you.&quot;

Teeny Rin of the Wastes:<font color="#FF0000">Bythewayyourartsucksless*zwip*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Once in the chamber, Gnogglebolt waits for Tathi to repeat the phrase to send them topside again.

GM:<font color="#000000">Nom time while Sart leads the party through another process to get out? :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Actually, had one more thing to do.

Sart:<font color="#000000">Please press one for more options.

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

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Presses ALL the numbers. &gt;:O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">before/after getting out, while everyone's walking about, Gnogglebolt tugs on Thomas's sleeve and gestures aside before whispering to him.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Thomas for Wait, you had to check!?

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Gnogglebolt for complaining about large magical creatures. Again.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Sszeyl for ALL THE MADNESS

Sart:<font color="#000000">I do not understand '&gt;:O.' Please rephrase your reply.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Shankfang for shamelessly ripping wonka. Wait until he meets Tathi's uncle. XP

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Que?

* Thomas Lazarus offers a frustrated glare in response, but grudgingly follows.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Gamal for dodging the dragonfight games. XP

Gnogglebolt whispers: (resent to Lia) &quot;This is just like back on the boat. Every time I think I can trust you again, something new comes tumbling out.&quot; He sighs.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Seconding Gamal and Shankfang.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Tathi for ARE YOU MAH GRANDDADDY?

Gnogglebolt whispers: &quot;And why is it always you?&quot; That question seems more rhetorical.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">Thomas for Predictions Confirmed.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">tathi for going to take the lair after thomas for I know we can't let you die why do you think you have that ring

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">sszeyel for his lines when V was trying to break free

Gnogglebolt whispers: &quot;I mean, sometimes I think you represent the very best of us...and every now and then, the worst.&quot; Gnogglebolt says glumly. (resent to Lia)

Thomas Lazarus whispers: &quot;I thought you might feel that way. But -this is my job-. It is my duty to do the best job I can. It's not about what I like doing, or what you like hearing, it's what will get the fewest people killed. I can't do any less.&quot; He squints. &quot;And I am genuinely, truly sorry... but I followed my judgement. And until now, nothing got screwed up or put is in undue danger. So I'd say it wasn't a wrong call. Sorry.. Gnogglebolt.&quot; He frowns down at the gnome.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... you know, in retrospect, it's funny how nonchalant everyone was about the fact Swallowtail was carrying so many poisons. :B

Gnogglebolt whispers: Gnogglebolt sighs. &quot;Well, I guess I can't argue with results. Still...I just hate secrets if there was the possibility they aren't necessary. I certainly agree it would have been a good idea to make sure Sszeyl couldn't hear, but the rest of us couldn't help...just tread lightly when you use shadows, deception, and omission as your shield. For you will inevitably be sharing them with some far nastier things than you. I just prefer things out in the open whenever possible...just the way I am. Sorry for seeming too upset there.&quot; (resent to Lia)

Sszeyl:<font color="#CC0066">I'm immune, and wasn't around.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I'm carrying a sword. I'd argue Tathi in general is just way worse than like 20 poisons. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Swords and magic aren't illegal. XP

Gnogglebolt whispers: ERK COULD'VE helped, COULD'VE helped, not Couldn't

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Poison in this setting is illegal like pot is illegal. *handwave -- bricked!!*

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

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">We're still gonna have a 'talk,' Amayan chica.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">That is Tanish, not Amayan -- I mean. NINJA VANISH *POOF*

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">You can't hide forever! You've got to get back on the trucktrain or be lost in the desert!

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000"><i>You will never know if I am or not.

</i> *w*

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">What the f... bat guano is a CONTROLLED substance now!?

Thomas Lazarus whispers: &quot;Yeah.... I know. I feel the same way.&quot; He sighs and looks aside, sadly. &quot;... Oh well. We're here. Before we leave, let me hold a meeting on the truck. To bring everyone up to speed on precise life-saving measures we can take from now on. That's.. something.&quot;

* Tathi explodes the everything.

Gnogglebolt whispers: Gnogglebolt nods approvingly. &quot;That'll do. That'll do.&quot; (resent to Lia)

GM:<font color="#000000">Any more noms?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">dangit, I forgot to track noms during session. -again-. &gt;:E

* Dr. Hatari blinks vapidly.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sorry. I dunno what it was, but I just sat down today utterly uninterested in Akellon. =w=; Been pretty uninvolved this session.

* Tathi looks up what vapidly means..

Glitch:<font color="#000000">well, -everyone- for dragonchat, I suppose. That was worth an encounter. :B

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Hollow.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Empty.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Pointless.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Petty.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Hollywood Blonde Highschoolers are vapid.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Like totally.

GM:<font color="#000000">Thomas - 100 XP - I knew. 100 XP - Wait, you had to check?! Gnogglebolt - 100 XP - BUGGERING MAGIC. 100 XP - Secret talk. Gamal - 100 XP - Dragon fight! Shankfang - 100 XP - A shiny! I must touch it. Sszeyl - 100 XP - Madness! 100 XP - Debating with the dragon. Tathi - 100 XP - Ooh! We simply must get a golem doorbell for our place. :3 Everyone - 500 XP - Third seal get! For reference, this seal ups the Calm Emotions charges by 1 and upgrades the amulet's Wisdom bonus to +3.

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">Wootz. :3

GM:<font color="#000000">Saving campaign..

Glitch:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;46800+100+100+500 = 46800 + 100 + 100 + 500 = 47500&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

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

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Acwait I haven't edited my token yet!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I thought of one.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Lemme know when you have... Oh, Hatari?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Anise's face when Swallowtail was busted for illegal possession: http://s8.postimage.org/tg6sjsh7n/1347181797603.png

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Hokay, token edited -and- saved to my own comp.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">49072. I suspect Tom levels?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">No. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Level-up is 55k.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">50565

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Uup. So it is. Darn.

GM:<font color="#000000">Swallowtail and Anise - 100 XP - Busted.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I love that picture.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Campaign saved! :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">So. Was Kerishorak talkative enough? :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Saved!

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">G;night everyone. :3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well, that got me interested towards the end, anyways. |3

Tasher:<font color="#9933FF">Soon! Soon! BWAHAHAHAHA- holy mackarl you're a big reptile. O_O

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">So talkative! And super friendly. :3

Glitch:<font color="#000000">He was indeed ADD enough. x3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He would have had more opportunity for endearment if things had been different.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Well, Ig otta go. mann vs machine waits. :3

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Ta!

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

</i> <i>You have disconnected.

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