Session 129

Glitch has connected.

RAM has connected.

VAE has connected.

Meany has connected.

Meany:My vote for the route hasn't chainged.

Meany:So you know.

Meany:changed*

Tokens dropped onto map 'World Map'<font color="#0000ff">Dr. Hatari has connected.

</i>Liatai:<font color="#000000">.... ffffffffffffffffffffff this version of Ed's token is missing a third-level spell. &gt;:O

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hmm, that reminds me.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I should probably pick out Adulian's spells for the day. :.

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

Meany:<font color="#000000">What's the mark up for an item not in the usual slot?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Cost *1.5 as far as I know.

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

Meany:<font color="#000000">Tullia can now heal 60 points of damage per day.

* Liatai has snorecat. x3

Meany:<font color="#000000">I miss my fatcat.

Tullia:<font color="#000000">I'm on the World Map, Skydragon's area for Lia's references, and token pasting.

Tullia:<font color="#000000">Still adding macros and stuff.

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

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Relief showed up late. =3=

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We're still short Rail.

Meany:<font color="#000000">Railock no longer exists.

Meany:<font color="#000000">He successfully divided by zero.

Meany:<font color="#000000">We had to silence him.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Is Tullia the dragon shaman you've sometimes mentioned?

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ahh, thought so.

Meany:<font color="#000000">10 shaman/ 2 swordsage.

Meany:<font color="#000000">The ten is for auras and +3 bonus, also breath weapons.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That seems like appropriate arts for such a class.

Meany:<font color="#000000">It also makes my job of halving her class level for initiator levels easier.

Meany:<font color="#000000">Lia found it for me in her image hoard.

Meany:<font color="#000000">I only had to sell her four fifths of my soul to use it.

Meany:<font color="#000000">What a bargain!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'm just glad it's not black beefcake and/or pop singers.

* Dr. Hatari bricked.

Tullia:<font color="#000000">She is now voiced by Della Reese.

Meany:<font color="#000000">NOT THE KNIFE BRICKS

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I don't know who that is.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But my kneejerk impression.

Meany:<font color="#000000">Black woman from Touched By an Angel.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Is that horrible woman from -

GM:<font color="#000000">Newwww tokennnnns |D

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

Meany:<font color="#000000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CZKIrRTIRs&amp;list=LLdR2ugZL-G62ePGfAbKxzWg

Ghostwish:<font color="#9900FF">Oooo, tokenz. Sec

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

</i>VAE:<font color="#000000">okay, i have zero idea what you and hatari are going on about owl

GM:<font color="#000000">There we go, now we have everyone!

GM:<font color="#000000">I may just be showing off new tokens. *brick'd*

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

GM:<font color="#000000">So how are folks today? Good? Ready to leave Yoriver at last?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Prettymuch. brb afk, grabbin snack

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Some head/neck/assorted ache

VAE:<font color="#000000">but coping x3

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I also will be leaving sometime in the vening... I -hope- no earlier than 7pm my time, which by then we will have hopefully finished the game.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">going to see Iron Man 3 with family

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">If were not out of yoriver by end ot this session, gamal will start next session by attacking all the braxtons in the open just for kicks

Miron:<font color="#000000">Bring it on

</i>Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">you'd be down before you had a turn,

Miron:<font color="#000000">You will be rolling in your own piss, slobber and blood, screaming for the pain to stop.

GM:<font color="#000000">I may also need to duck out briefly at one point. I've just recieved word that relatives are inbound to spend the night.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Are they bringing kids =3=

GM:<font color="#000000">Yes =w=;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">OH LOOK. THE PARTY IS ARGUING AGAIN. OH JOYS OF JOYS.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Session canceled.

GM:<font color="#000000">Luckily we have cupcakes.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">You're still in Yoriver.

GM:<font color="#000000">They can be distracted by cupcakes. =3=;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">I forgot I had that banner image. |P

GM:<font color="#000000">So let's kick things off before the distractions begin! First off, character questions.

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

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">leaving yoriver.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">sorry, had to

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">A job well done.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">My devices!

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Success.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">My skill with blades

Tullia:<font color="#000000">Praise.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Try harder. =3=

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Really?

</i><font color="#9900FF"> Wow. I feel pride from the ever growing community that I founded.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Just seeing people better off.. safe and happy. ^^ Well I guess I'm only proud of that if I helped cause it. I'm not an egomaniac. *bricked*

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Seeing folks succeed, especially if I helped. :3 A great performance is also something to be proud of, however rare it is. ((Ed nooooo I gave you artist syndrome T.T *brick'd* ))

* Edaric offers Tom a high-five.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">We're helpers! \o/

Miron:<font color="#000000">A lot of things. A job well done is indeed one of them.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Success? No. That's not good enough. It's to be expected of me. Supremacy. I'm above everyone and everything else around me because of what I am. It's not completely first nature, either. I only have a fraction of a drop of holy blood, a hundred generations removed. I need to work to bring out my rightful superiority in all things. And I succeed! And I am proud when the weak and mortal and fearful cower and whisper in hushed tones at my passin! \o/

Miron:<font color="#000000">That said. . .the whole of Veld makes me proud. Like the peasant who watches over his field, getting rid of weeds that'd seek to strangle his crop, and ends up with a rich harvest, we have seen towns and cities sprout from almost nothing.

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#FF0000">My sister is an egomaniac. =3=

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;If your character needed a security clearance for a job she wanted, would she be able to get one?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">I'm an inquisitor already. Why wouldn't I be able to?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Probably!

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Getting security clearance is my job. =3= *slides fraudulent papers out of sight*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Maybe...depends on what clearance I need and who I need to talk to.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">I'm kind of a noble. As much as I hate to admit it...

Burmice:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who wouldn't want to give me one, especially after I had a little talk with them? Oh, and what makes me proud? I'm the best necromancer in all of Chel, that's what.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Well... probably. I'm doing pretty well as an Inquisitor. I don't think there are many things Commander Ashmore wouldn't trust me with, now. Except maybe co-leading a branch ha-haaa oh man. =w=;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Most of the time, yes, as long as i Need To Know. That's the perks of working for a pseudo-counterintelligence agency.

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">You sell yourself short, brother.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">WOLVES. &gt;:O

* Thomas Lazarus bricked.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Anything that eats meat and is bigger than me.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">... the first thing that comes to mind is monkeys.

Miron:<font color="#000000">But, dogs and wolves probably count.

Tullia:<font color="#000000">Lice.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Lice aren't animals

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">No dishonor meant to the hadozee people. Monkeys are tricky, thieving, biting, mean things.

Miron:<font color="#000000">Lice are insects

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

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Animal? Can't say I have one. Now start talking aberrations and magical beats and yeeeeah.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I dunno.. I rather like animals. Does 'what the hell; psychic bullshit' count?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Insects are animals. =3=

Meany:<font color="#000000">Kingdom Animalia includes insects.

Meany:<font color="#000000">We've debated this before.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Does Miron know that?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">How many ranks does he have in nature knowledge?

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Jellyfish.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Zero, I suspect

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Whoof. Tough question.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Because I'm not all that fond of crystal scorpions and flying brains and big blue gorilla things with tar for blood.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">As you can imagine.

</i>VAE:<font color="#000000">Acana Local Arch+Eng, Religion, Planar

VAE:<font color="#000000">those are the ones he has points in

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Haven't met any animals in particular I don't like, yet...

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Do horseflies count?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Oh boy, apartment fire alarm is going off.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Be safe!

Glitch:<font color="#000000">hoshit

Glitch:<font color="#000000">...if the server drops, we'll know it's because your comp is up in flames. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is your character ambitious?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">x3

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">... Somewhat. Yes.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Nah, it should be fine. I don't smell any smoke.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF"> HA.

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;83

Tullia:<font color="#000000">No.

RAM:<font color="#990000">But, I should probably go. x3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Not really. I kind of drift along. =3=

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hopefully be back soon.

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">I don't care all that much.

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

Miron:<font color="#000000">First of all, I do my duty. Besides, I was never much of an officer type.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Hmmm... I dunno. I wouldn't have thought so a while ago. But I guess I do what I need to do, and support my friends, and I have been having more personal goals I'm pursuing lately..

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Maybe a little.

Burmice:<font color="#000000">''Do you even need to ask? ''

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot;Does your character have any psychological hang-ups where money is concerned?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">There's just not a lot of room for ambition when you primarily live to serve. |D;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I suppose wanting to make a great city is ambitious...

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I gotta pay everyone back! From the loans I keep.. taking.. |D;;;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">NOPE. |3

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Not really personally ambitious, no. I just do my job.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Oh, right, that reminds me, I've gotta send some more home! :.

Tullia:<font color="#000000">The elders tell me to hoard. I spend so they aren't tempted to push the issue, and I carry my 'hoard' with me.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">no ed no, keep it. use it. don't send it all home!

Burmice:<font color="#000000">Besides, show me a drow without ambition and I'll show you a damn slave. Even commoners try to make themselves better off and get above their peers. It's our nature, and it's right.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">But... &gt;:

Miron:<font color="#000000">Money ... Tiamat's three arses, I got so much of that over the last few months. ..

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'm having a moment where I can't get over how Goku Thomas is becoming. Now that he can instant transmission. *bricked*

Miron:<font color="#000000">More than I have even seen put together.

Burmice:<font color="#000000">Just like magic, money is power. And just like magic, there's never quite enough of it.

GM:<font color="#000000">Let's get going now, shall we? Who's ready to rock?

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

Tullia:<font color="#000000">Tookening, but I can game still. :V

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Me!

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

Burmice:<font color="#000000">That said, no, I'm not really the type who'll go rushing like a pissed off rothe after some damn flimsy chance to profit. Slow and steady wins the race, y'know?

VAE:<font color="#000000">&#1044;&#1072;!

Glitch:<font color="#000000">back!

GM:<font color="#000000">Last session on Akellon, peace finally seems to be settling on the war-torn town of Yoriver. The Vigilant Guardians have been preparing to move on, though their paths diverge. Some remain, to head to the north and meet a silver dragon. Some have gone to the havens of law enforcement, preparing for the trials yet to come. Some have returned to lovers' arms, far away from the strife in the north.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">And one who has an interest in joining paths...

GM:<font color="#000000">We return to Yoriver as some members return from their jaunts to the south, preparing for their journeys and for their quests to continue...

GM:<font color="#000000">Carry on, gentlemen! Teleporters, enter wherever and whenever you please.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I'll assume that parting with Lyle and Falstaff happened offscreen, then, just to streamline it a little.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Well, might as well hop to it as soon as the teleporters return...

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">ZOT. The elves appear outside of the temple of Pelor. &quot;Well! That was fun!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">(unless you think it's worth playing out)

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;You openly harassed a powerful drow wizard. How, exactly, is that fun??&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are you prepared now, inquisitor?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;I have an open mind.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ready to depart, Senior Analyst.&quot;


 * Gamal-Junayd sticks around altonor till his teleport time

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;And. . thank you again.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;For what?&quot; The halfling looks confused.


 * Swallowtail has been sticking close to Sszeyl.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi heads inside, and goes looking for her Dad- or wait did he already leave?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">guah, brb a few ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Okay, don't freak out.

Raerarael:<font color="#000000">&quot;TAAAATHIIIIII!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">She's just following you around.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">GYAH. Elf'd!

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi looks over, blinking. &quot;Oh THERE you are!&quot;


 * Raerarael laughs. &quot;And there YOU are! The teleport block is gone, I see!&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;For allowing me to part ways with a few folks. Given our situation. . . if I was in charge, I might have ordered immediate departure.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">well, guess I'm waiting a bit...aaand I just got called for a short chore. Brb afk

Malachite:<font color="#000000">Hiiiiiiii -- Why do you all smell like spearmint? &gt;:.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Oh! I didn't even think about that.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;You what.&quot;

Kor:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi was harassing beings more powerful than herself again. Par for the course.

Amadre:<font color="#9900FF">And they had tea!

Tavia:<font color="#9900FF">And cats!

Kor:<font color="#9900FF">HOW IS THAT MORE IMPORTANT THAN- gah, nevermind.

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">&quot;There is little more we can do. Our duty, for now, is complete. Taking time to say proper farewells is acceptable.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Anyway, daddy, a moment?&quot; She asks, in elven. &quot;You remember that paladin you kept trying to fry?&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">Another Leaden Mace officer passes by, looking at Gradia evenly for a moment.

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

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Thank you for your help, brothers, sister. ... That said. Your actions will not go unreported.&quot;


 * Gradia Thorngage looks back at him coolly. &quot;Nor will yours.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;Neither will yours, Lieutenant.&quot;

Roy Stanford:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fair.&quot; And off he goes.

Meany:<font color="#000000">Veld Commander: &quot;Braxtons. Yorivers. Calm your tits and pretend you're not going to kill each other.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;New cock on an old dungheap.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">(as soon as the lieutenant is out of earshot, of course)


 * Gradia Thorngage double-takes at Miron. &quot;... I trust you mean a rooster.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do indeed, Senior Analyst.&quot;


 * Gradia Thorngage nods, opening her spellbook. &quot;Prepare yourselves. We're going home.&quot;

Gradia Thorngage:<font color="#000000">And... poof. The Braxtons disappear without much further fanfare.

Raerarael:<font color="#000000">&quot;The drow? Oh, don't worry, tinuamin. I'm pretty sure that's behind us now.&quot; |3

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">and the people REJOICE!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Okay sorry about that. |D;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">A drow appears at the forge area.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">BUT NO ONE IS THERE.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">RAM, you aboot?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Toms business in Castleton is more or less resolved, barring a few boring odds and ends he can handle behind the scenes. Paperwork, bleh. Buuut.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Except he's been arrested. For crimes against that sphincter of Akellon, Braxton Falls. And the only good news we have concerning that is that he's going to Lorellon and not there.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">and back

Raerarael:<font color="#000000">&quot;What?!&quot; Apparently the flying hair when angry is an Eyllisaearsithek thing, since it looks like someone just turned on a fan beneath Raerarael.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He left Shankfang to his devices in the HQ for several hours. Will Shankfang be returning via Recall teleport along with the others? Anise is staying in Castleton atleast. And I think Talfeera knows teleport..

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">No wait that was a scroll. =3=c

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Right. Remember that foul-mouthed little gnome? The ugly one? He's responsible for it. They're going to try and hang him, Daddy. I was told to tell you.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">''I thought going home would have felt better.But then. . .we haven't won the battle, it just got postponed. Ah well, such is life. ''

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can see you, you know.&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">Hang him? Way to overstate it.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Did you need something, Swallowtail?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">OMYGOD I'M ON FIRE AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!


 * RAM flails!

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

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Fire, exclamation mark.

VAE:<font color="#000000">ask Drayco about it

VAE:<font color="#000000">he watched IT crowd

RAM:<font color="#990000">What'd I miss?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Braxtons leaving

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Nothing much, we just started.

RAM:<font color="#990000">No one will miss the.

RAM:<font color="#990000">*them.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But, I direct you to Toms most recent lines

RAM:<font color="#990000">He'll be coming back, if only to grab his bike.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">I think Tathi being such a brilliant gossip is nomworthy

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, just practicing following. Must practice harder, if I have been seen.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Because I doubt Tom could teleport a ton of Deffibke along. :P

VAE:<font color="#000000">THEY ARE GOING TO HANG ALL THE DRO!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Righto then. A couple hours past noon, Tom finishes writing a proper operation report for Ashmore, drops it off, and returns to VGHQ.

Raerarael:<font color="#000000">&quot;''Not if I can help it! Where are those little devil-spawned snakes?!''&quot; &gt;:E

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He prays there for fifteen minutes, and prepares another recall. He designates the gates of the Yoriver temple his destination point. Ed, Shank, and Shr&#246;dinger's Gnogglebolt get gathered up.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ready to head back?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yep. I exchanged all the funds from the sold items for equivalent in small gems, for lightweight carrying.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Daddy, I know this sounds insane, especially coming from me, but calm down. We've got all manner of plans in the works, to include Gamal going to vouch for Altonor's character. I think that's what they want you to do too. Now, of course, if Miron suddenly perishes for unknown reasons-&quot;

Captain Henry Mackenzie:<font color="#000000">If it's past noon, then by now, the Shepherds and company have teleported out, unless anyone has anything more to say to them?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shakes a single cloth bag.

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Tathi.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Will dispense the appropriate amounts to everyone.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Oh, fine. Yeah, just make your way to Lorrelon, I guess.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;O-kay!&quot; He begins the spell.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">The same simple little bead of light as before appears overhead. It widens into a halo, with the interior being a different location entirely, and then lowers around the teleportees. As simple as that, they're now standing before the temple of light in Yoriver.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl is waiting for Grant to appear at the forge area.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And that's that.&quot; |3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vell, ve're back!&quot;


 * Raerarael takes a deep breath, and his hair settles down. &quot;... Lorellon. All right, I'll plan on it.&quot; &gt;:|

Glitch:<font color="#000000">A Dinosaur's Story!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und now, Hy go again!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Long drive back to Kastleton, best to get started.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Great. That's one more in Altonor's favor. Let's.. move on to a lighter hearted topic. How's mom?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. Farewell, Shankfang.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I didn't bother to ask.. I figure it's your business, but.. what do you mean? Are you heading back alone?&quot; :.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vell, ja. Hy hef to get Dragula back.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus didn't bother Shank and Talfeera during the trip.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Don' vorry, it vill not be de first time Hy hef traveled alone.&quot; x3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I figured, but, you mean you're leaving?&quot; ^^;


 * Raerarael pauses. &quot;... That reminds me, I should send to her and let her know we're still alive.&quot; |D;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ja. Hy hef been avay too long, und ve hef to get vorkink on de veddink in earnest.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;You mean you haven't? Trees, Daddy, she's gonna have three full sets of your skin!!&quot;

Raerarael:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know, I know! It slipped my mind!&quot; |D;;; &quot;Same as she always is. Worried about you. She'll be very interested in meeting your little boyfriend.&quot; |3c

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ah.&quot; He nods up once. &quot;Well.. that's a pretty good excuse.&quot; He smirks and pats Shank's shoulder.

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let us know when it is, all right?&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Alright then. See you later, friend. Stay in touch. I'd love to be there when it happens.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Oh! Well, after meeting yourself, sir, I'm certain that will be fine and easy.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;My mother is like, ten times scarier than my dad.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">Aelian'

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Uf kourse, hyu are all invited. Eckspekt a sendink ven ve get de date settled.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">s a little paler now.


 * Malachite looks to Tathi. You didn't warn him? |3c

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sorry I can't teleport your bike.&quot; |D;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Of course I didn't. I didn't want to tell him right off my Mom's the strict, evil one.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Iz hokay, Hy figured it vould be a bit much for dat.&quot; x3

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">Ghost-pale.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Or that she's a necromancer.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">Reflecting the sun.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Technically, he perhaps could. But the bike would count as four regular people. And so Thomas would have to recall with only himself, and Deffbike.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">And that's just silly. *bricked*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Hey, hey GnoggleTomEd.

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">An angry smith stumps into the forge. &quot;Out of the way. I need to hammer something.&quot; &gt;:|

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Lemme guess, group--yep

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Wait, hold on. How does an elven community have a necromancer!?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Squoosh!

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Crypt Warden. Wood elves don't cremate their dead like most other elves do.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus returns the brohug with only slight reservation. |D;

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">&quot; Oh gods help me. &quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy vill miss hyu guys! Don' forget to visit ven hyu get back!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Bad day?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Anyway, yes, I've been meaning to try scrying on her. Is she on her usual schedule, set in stone like she has been her entire life?&quot; She asks her dad.


 * Edaric pats Shankfang's shoulder when he can breathe again. &quot;Sure thing.&quot; :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Hey, hey TathyAelianDogs.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">BAM! Hug'd!

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;AUGH-what- oh. Hi Shank.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">How did you not expect this? =3=

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">He elf'd me. &gt;:|

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">This person appears outside, searchin'.

Tavia:<font color="#9900FF">Lick lick slobber on the half-orkie.


 * Thomas Lazarus chuckles a bit.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy em goink home now, gots to prepare for de veddink! Hy vill send hyu all ven ve set a date!&quot; |3

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Well congratulations! We'll look forward to that! Have you chosen a location yet?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Nein, ve hef not.&quot;

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

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Elven sanctuaries make for very lovely weddings.&quot; :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, Hy vill keep dat in mind.&quot; :3

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Tathi are you trying to draw everything into Eytherinu?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Squeeze, and released.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;It will be a national holidy when we annex Akellon.&quot; &gt;:3

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">*holiday

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Now where the hell are Sszeyl and Swallowtail. &gt;:.

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Braxtons,&quot; he growls in reply, fishing something out of his pack after stoking the fire. The cat on his shoulder hops off to relax in the warmth of the forge. ... That doesn't look like steel, or silver, he's holding. A chunk of mithral?

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

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There you are.&quot; The Guardians get mostly disregarded as she approaches Raerarael and folds her arms.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Swallowtail and Sszeyl are scooped up by a running Half-Orc! XD


 * Swallowtail squeaks in an undignified manner.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. I remember Mion being quite annoying.&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy'm goink home to get ready for de veddink! Hyu're both invited, uf kourse!&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I haven't seen you around for days. I was beginning to wonder if you already buggered off. Or got arrested..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I stopped by to take you up on your lesson, before we left for the Nievas.&quot;


 * Raerarael laughs! &quot;Got conscripted to make celebratory fireworks!&quot; &gt;:3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Eckspekt hyu invitations by Sendink ven ve get a date und place set!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oi, Sszeyl!


 * Tomiko Lazarus smirks faintly.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">You're being hugged!

Gamal-Junayd whispers: since everyones back, gonna assume we got cash. okay if I take out cash for that once a day sending...hat? stupid item limitations and x2 cash for not being a limited item. and then perhaps send a bag of money on down the the bee and flower with one of the pelorites for the sawyers to help grease things?

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well.. I guess we're finally done.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">We are fifteen feet apart.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And underground.


 * Tomiko Lazarus offers a hand.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">But alright.

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Lesson?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Use your damn imagination. =3=

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ack whiny dog.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I just had a funny thought, Ram. xP

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl hugs back. SQUUEEZE.

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

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Shankfang goes to hug some big strong person.

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

Glitch:<font color="#000000">&quot;You are already hugged.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oof, hyu strong.&quot; x3

RAM:<font color="#990000">...Eh?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">aw, thought you knew anime better than that

Glitch:<font color="#000000">http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/i-cant-take-credit-for-this-joke

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I prefer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAizwLfZbUA&amp;feature=player_detailpage#t=155s

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oh, Fist of the North Star. x3

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( would you stop masterbating to that anime already? :P ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Never ever.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">....who me? This is the first time I've ever brought it up ever. O.o

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">No me.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hennyvay, ve vill send hyu ven ve pick de date und place! Hyu better be dere!&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's ridiculoustastic.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Let's see, anyone else that needs goodbyes?

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">FLYING TACKLE HUG!

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#FF0000">DOOOOOOOODGE

Glitch:<font color="#000000">and for those else who don't know FotNS: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-are-already-dead-%E3%81%8A%E5%89%8D%E3%81%AF%E3%82%82%E3%81%86%E6%AD%BB%E3%82%93%E3%81%A7%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B-omae-wa-mou-shindeiru

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(that's a weird link, sorry...)

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Dang. http://knowyourmeme.com/videos/58363-you-are-already-dead-%E3%81%8A%E5%89%8D%E3%81%AF%E3%82%82%E3%81%86%E6%AD%BB%E3%82%93%E3%81%A7%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B-omae-wa-mou-shindeiru

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

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

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">...&gt;Well, anyway, getting this show on the road...

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain heads out to find the recently teleported-in Thomas, Gnogglebolt, Ed, and Tathi.

RAM:<font color="#990000">We're waiting for Lia to return.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We can probably handle this bit though. PC to PC.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Mmm, fair enough.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">He waves to them as he approaches. &quot;Ho, vigilant guardians.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus raises a palm in greeting.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Trawling sessions for the line.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Haven't seen you around for celebrations. Been busy?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;This might seem a little out of the blue, but I'm sure you're all going to be leaving soon. Before you do, I'd like to have a word with your whole group. Not terribly urgent, take your time if you still have things to do.&quot;


 * Gamal-Junayd attempts to dodge the hug. damn orcs

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain blinks for a moment, but replies quickly. &quot;...Busy. Yes.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;And I've never been a drinking man.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Must you attempt to hug everything you see?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I have enough problems with, ah. Maintaining control over myself as it is.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That's fine, that's fine.&quot; He offers an understanding smile.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;But yes, some point in the near future, it would be a favor to me if you could gather up your group and meet me somewhere.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We'll probably be lingering around saying farewells and gathering ourselves for another hour or so.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;The basement meeting room's a good place as any, I suppose.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry, back now. ^^;


 * Thomas Lazarus seems a little curious about the seclusion. &quot;Mm.. very well.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl's stomach dragon waves at the cat, while player trawls session logs.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">:V

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Right. Swords. I remember now.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus involuntarily shudders. *bricked*

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain nods and wanders away.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Huh. Wonder what that's about.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Probably business, if he wants to rope us all into a private place. We ought to oblige before we go.&quot;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">The mithral chunk gets put away again. &quot;There's only basic stuff here, but enough for a quick education.&quot; He heads over to the weapon racks.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Meanwhile, Gnogglebolt goes to reunite with his pet. He takes a seat on the pew near Crow. &quot;Hey there. How's Snarky been?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus heads off to the fountain.


 * Grant Warner points to a basket-hilted sword, and draws it out of its sheath a bit. &quot;Rapier. You said you know rapiers, so no need to stay longer here.&quot; He searches the racks. Holds up a knife. &quot;Dagger. Not a sword.&quot; It gets replaced. &quot;Here we go. Shortsword. Light, anything between a dagger and a longsword. One-handed blade, usually double-sided.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">I assume Daddy confirms? :3

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl analyzes the weapon.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;From what I can see the blade is short to make for a side-arm of a dual-sword user, or for people who cannot manage a longer blade.&quot;

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

Raerarael:<font color="#000000">&quot;Guess so.&quot; Raerarael takes the hand and shakes it. &quot;Good working with you, Tomiko. Maybe we'll romp again together sometime. Say hi to your dad for me?&quot; |3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Is Rail even here?

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Right then. I'm off to scry on a woman even scarier than Tomiko.&quot; Tathi says, and heads inside.

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right. You can thrust with it, but it'll always leave a wider wound than a rapier.&quot;


 * Tomiko Lazarus draws in the shake and pulls Rae into a one-armed brohug, smirking.


 * Aelian has become a frost elf.


 * Tomiko Lazarus scowls over her shoulder briefly. &quot;...&quot;

Raerarael:<font color="#000000">Brohug reciprocated. |3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ack, barkin' dog, may be company.

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Ohright. :. Serrierr gives Thomas a nod of acknowledgement from hovering over the fountain's water as Thomas approaches.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Session over. |D;

Raerarael:<font color="#000000">&quot;My wife,&quot; Raerarael explains to Tomi. |3;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Obviously, his 'wounds' from last night are all gone.


 * Tomiko Lazarus grumbles under her breath, &quot;She keeps using me as a standard of comparison.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">False alarm.


 * Tomiko Lazarus gets over it and releases the elf. &quot;... I will.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl examines the blade again. &quot;Not for sneak attacks.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I was glad to have worked with you. Having one of my fathers allies as my own for a time -- it's been an honor.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The blade isn't thin enough to fit between the ideal ribs or the vertebrae.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;So...the threat is over, and the reconstruction begins;

Gamal-Junayd whispers: since everyones back, gonna assume we got cash. okay if I take out cash for that once a day sending...hat? stupid item limitations and x2 cash for not being a limited item. and then perhaps send a bag of money on down the the bee and flower with one of the pelorites for the sawyers to help grease things?

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Good luck on your journeys. I'm going to head off to home for a while.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">(erp, didn't mean to send that yet...oh well)

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Crap. Which room were the elves using again?

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or is that determined by the maker?&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">*Serrierr says to Thomas.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Why would anyone know better than you? |D;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Because I keep using the wrong one apparently, you git.

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Longsword. This one's a pretty standard straightsword, arming sword. Crossguard hilt, double-sided -- right. Determined by the maker. This one's just mass-produced shit.&quot; Clatter.

Raerarael:<font color="#000000">&quot;Right. Have fun out there.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd whispers: actually masabel might be a better choice if she's willing

Glitch:<font color="#000000">heh. Grant would despise House Cannith. xP

You whisper to Railock: Yeah, spend whatever you want to spend.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">they -terally- managed to apply a Ford-style moving assembly line to sword forging. xP

Glitch:<font color="#000000">*literally

Gamal-Junayd whispers: okay. and gamal sends a bag to the sawyers with 100 platinum with a note about hope this is enough to buy all the grease you can get your hands on.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why do the short and long swords not featue a cup hilt?&quot;

&quot;Crow&quot; :<font color="#000000">Poof. &quot;.... Fine.&quot; =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is a better safety feature than just a crossguard.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Heh heh, good boy, Snarky.&quot; |3

Snarky:<font color="#000000">k-k-k-k-k-k-chitter!

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi and Aelian take a seat on the benches, with dog platoon nearby. &quot;Ready for this?&quot; Tathi asks as she extracts her mirror from the bag.

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;No.&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tomi departs without really even saying goodbyes to the others. She lingers at the Bee &amp; Flower for a while and makes the most of the bardswarm and taking advantage of the now-concluded liquor drought before leaving the city for good.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Too bad.&quot; She says, and starts getting the scrying ready.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ack can we mini that Tathi ^^;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">I DUNNO CAN YA ANSWER YOUR TEXTS. |P

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">*pokepokes Thomas*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Indeed.&quot; A belated response to Serrierr.

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">ah, hello. x3


 * Thomas Lazarus nods and smiles. He glances to Mother Selaren. &quot;We'll be leaving soon.&quot;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;'Cause of the way you use a longsword. A basket hilt only protects one side of the hand, and can't trap a blade coming in half as well as a crossguard. Basket hilts are better used to deflect light blades and piercing attacks. A flowery little basket hilt's not gonna stop a longsword with strength behind it -- it'll either break the guard or bounce off it into your arm. Sayin' that, though, there are heavier blades that use a cup hilt or reinforced basket. Cutlasses, for example.&quot;


 * Liatai is weaving that mostly out of thin air and hopes it makes sense. |D; *brick'd*

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">You rolled high on your bluff.

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( THE QUALITY OF THIS ASSPULL IS EXCEPTIONAL. ))

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Serrierr regards Thomas for a moment. &quot;...Though the conjuring portal below was was source of the fiends...it would never had been used if the climate and leadership of this town had been different.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Serrierr says, seemingly jumping right into the subject with no lead-up.

Luanne Selaren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh? Well... There aren't enough words to thank you for all that you've done here. The Shining One smiles upon you and your company, Father Thomas. ... Though... perhaps you could answer one thing, before you leave?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Probably not.&quot; He raises a brow and considers the Hextorite leadership. &quot;I can only begin guessing at the events that lead up to this. Planning spanning back years, it could've been. Decades.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..I don't especially envy the investigators that are put to Montclaire's case.&quot;

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lG06m_NDbM&amp;list=UUwV9tHhLphiEo_EHM9LF6lg

RAM:<font color="#990000">I agree with the top comment.

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed..&quot; Serrierr then quiets himself for a moment to allow Thomas to respond to Mother Selaren. Even he yields respect to her.


 * Luanne Selaren tips her chin toward the far wall, and Sszeyl's mural, then looks to the silver symbols adorning the fountain. &quot;... Who may we thank for these stunning additions to the temple?&quot; {:3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And since Railock seems to be AWOL, Shankfang bids farewell to Gamal before leaving the temple.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">I did say somethign to shank but you ignored it

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't have one here. Got paper, pen, anything like that?&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">(wait, is she referring to the divine-lightnign-etched symbols all over the temple? Or just Sszeyl's paintings?)

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oh, so you did. &gt;.&gt;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I completely missed it.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl produces a journal and a pen.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Uf kourse, but did is special occasion.&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy em leafink for home to get ready for my veddink!&quot;


 * Grant Warner sketches a cutlass. &quot;... Like that. One-handed curved blade. A heftier cousin of the scimitar. You see 'em more on the coast. Sailors' fashion.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu are invited, uf kourse. Eckspect hyu invitation by Sendink once ve get de date und time settled!

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ahh.&quot; He looks over the walls. &quot;Sszeyl's work.&quot; He smiles. &quot;The.. old man that was with us. It's hardly a secret now, though, that he's actually the young Drow fellow that usually walks with us. Sometimes I wonder why he bothers with disguises when he doesn't care about people knowing.&quot; ^^;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm going with the shepherds, so it'll depend on if it's after the trial. &quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;But really,not everyone enjoys being hugged. You should perhaps find that out before you hug someone.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The weight of the blade is helpful for cutting ropes, I see.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Too bad, dead vit it.&quot; :P

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Scimitar, that's a thin curved blade. That Moscran you travel with's got some. Altonor's got one, too. Desert folk like 'em, and so do cavalry, 'cause they're easy to use on horseback and lighter than a longsword. The curved shape helps widen the cut as you ride past and keeps your blade from getting stuck in your target's neck as easy.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And, you're infinitely welcome. I'm sorry we didn't arrive sooner. We knew for some time that you were in need..&quot; He looks faintly guilty and deflates a bit. &quot;..Atleast things are getting better. The break of dawn, right?&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;No really, it can aggravate wounds, especially old ones.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">I ususally don't bother with it because I lost the token. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Need to remake it.

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Well, your Negative Nancying fails to bring Shankfang down, and he's already bouncing away. &quot;Ja, ja. Hy hope to see hyu at de veddink!&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Unless your intention is to cause pain to others...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Difficult but not impossible to stab with it. Easily dual-wield able. Can be used in demonstration if the blade is curved enough.&quot;


 * Gamal-Junayd sighs

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;The other main cavalry sword you'll see is a saber. Looks a lot like a rapier, but thicker and heavier, and sharpened on its length as well as its tip. The end is curved for the same reason scimitars are. They're slashing swords, but you can pierce with 'em well enough if you don't have the space or momentum to pull off a good swipe.&quot;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">D&amp;D doesn't have stats for 'em, either. Fuckers. *brick'd!*

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I recall many of the Shepherds using them.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">I take &quot;S-WORDS&quot; for four hundred.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">A few minutes later...

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Pathfinder SRD does, actually. They've statted a great number of esoteric and specialized blades.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Oh come on let me paste the damn Deffbike over fucking Maptools! &gt;:O

RAM:<font color="#990000">...Why do I not have ownership of the Deffbike over on Autumn Road?

Meany:<font color="#000000">Because you didn't respect her enough.

Meany:<font color="#000000">She's found someone else.

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Talking about flashy swords, sometimes you'll see a longsword with a wavy blade, like this.&quot; Sketch. &quot;That's called a flamberge. You'll see daggers and shortswords done that way sometimes, too. Seen a greatsword done that way once, too. Mostly just flash, but some folk swear by 'em.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#000000">Someone who doesn't leave her in bushes.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Fix'd.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Ah, there we go.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Thanks Lia!

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

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">sometime after loots been split and before the teleport out, gamal approaches masabel and holds a bag out to her &quot;Would you be so kind as to take this over the bee and flower and hand this either to one of the Bakers or the Sawyers? &quot;

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">VROOOOOOOM!

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The curve of the blade makes it more flexible than a straight sword.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Since I don't think I have time before we head out to get there.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Many Ezzebek Drow use a flamberge style rapier.&quot;

Masabel:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sure. Got a message?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">A Half-Orc riding a bike skids to a halt in front of the Temple!

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you can use it right, you can shatter the opponent's sword, assuming it is a straight blade.&quot;


 * Grant Warner looks at Sszeyl oddly. &quot;That shit'd snap faster than a twig in a vise.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;Break of dawn indeed....but, at any rate. If you recall, Thomas...my two conditions for serving you here was to first find out where the fiends were coming from...and then ensure, to the best of your ability, that such an incursion cannot happen in this place again. The first has been complete, and without the conjuring portal...it is unlikely the resources to effect such an incursion no longer exist here, even if there was still corrupted leadership. So, for the most part...the second condition is likewise fulfilled, and I hold your oath to me complete.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Everyone freaks out, thinking the engine is a Hellhound.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps it is the metals we use. I do not know what they are constructed of.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;...But I do have a question.&quot;

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

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Rapiers are fuckin' thin. The moment you tried a thrust with one of those against anything hard, it'd crumple in on itself.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">&quot;Flamberge-style rapier&quot;?

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I was a border guard in training, not a forge-master.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Please tell me you just made that up on the spot and didn't pull that from somewhere.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Because that makes no sense, no sense at all.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's in the bag, but it's for helping gather up evidence for&quot; he motions his head back in altonors direction &quot;I figured if anyone could know someone that might be friendly to the cause in braxton, it might be the talespinner network. And I'm just making sure they won't have any shortage of grease.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Not going OOC for you, Glitch.

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

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">That's what I'm sayin', parrot. =w=# ((DM apologizes for Grant's coarseness. =3=; *brick'd* ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean, flamberge is a two handed sword


 * Masabel nods with a grim smile. &quot;Right. I'll do it.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oh come on, no one's gonna see the Half-Orc off? &gt;:

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Assume it's some Drow architecture thing, where they have goofball obsidian impractical glass weapons. Except for in-universe reasons, it's actually a really good, functional, magically tempered design.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">SOUND FAMILIAR, STAR WARS? *bricked*

Glitch:<font color="#000000">eh, good point. :B

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamberge

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">There are no active volcanoes in the Girns anymore.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Flamberge is simply a style of blade.

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

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

Glitch:<font color="#000000">wiki -does- say that rapiers get flame-bladed...


 * VAE has very little idea

RAM:<font color="#990000">A rapier could definitely be a flamberge.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Huh. Well then nevahmind. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame-bladed_sword

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;But yes. Drow from Ezzebek often have flame-bladed raipiers. If you find one, you can identify the drow carrying it.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">The term flamberge was misapplied to refer to two-handed swords and was used later to refer to cup hilt rapiers with a straight blade.

VAE:<font color="#000000">why would you, RAM

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

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Why wouldn't you?

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Speaking of greatswords. Greatsword. Catch-all term for a two-handed, heavy blade. For your purposes, that's enough. No need to get into claymores versus zweihanders.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">It's mainly decorative.

VAE:<font color="#000000">The term flamberge, meaning &quot;flame blade&quot;, is an undulating blade found on both long blades and rapiers. When parrying with such a sword, unpleasant vibrations may be transmitted into the attacker's blade. These vibrations caused the blades to sl

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

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Lets not get into this..

Glitch:<font color="#000000">IRC! IRC!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">This is like going into a gun club and calling magazines clips.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sounds mainly cultural anyway.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Except no one fucking cares Akellon. :B

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">*pokepokes the cleric*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000"> I'M HERE

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Bastard swords are greatswords small enough to where it is possible to wield them one handed, correct?&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Well, if no one is gonna see the Half-Orc off, I guess he rides off into the sunset.

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Between longswords and greatswords -- right. Inquisitor Lazarus has got one.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">What with hugging everyone, what more of a send-off does Shankfang want? :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">that -was- the send-off. :B

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wielding 'em one-handed's tough and takes training, so most people end up usin' 'em just like greatswords if they find 'em.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">ram. most of hte party doesn't like the bike. thinks its loud and obnoxious and have already been hugged. of course they'd avoid you riding off :)

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Thank you. I imagine it will actually me months -- perhaps years -- before the entirety of this event has blown over, in the courts and offices of investigators and local inquisitors. I've no doubt the nation et al will be girding up and scrutinizing not only this city, but others, now that this has happened.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But... we've done what we can.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I would like to point out that the statement most of the party dislikes the bike is false.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">I like the bike.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">There.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Thank you for your help. It was truly invaluable.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;A true greatsword is one like mine.&quot; The warlock, having heard the conversation from the room over, wanders aside and unsheathes and presents his own personal custom-forged greatsword, Hellcleaver.

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">This is also the bike that took Aelian to get resurrected.

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's the basics. Sometimes folks do weird shit like double-bladed swords, and there're things called fullblades that are even bigger than greatswords, though they're fuckin' cumbersome to use. Most folks just think of 'em as dick extenders.&quot; =w=


 * Gamal-Junayd backs up next to altonor. and finally asks him the question he really want's to know

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">I'm lookin' at you, Sephiroth. *brick'd*

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;So...do you actually have a plan with all this?&quot;

Tokens dropped onto map 'Yoriver - Temple of Pelor'Serrierr:<font color="#000000">Serrierr nods. &quot;I was only too happy to assist in fighting the forces of darkness. But, as for my question.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;...What is the difference for your craft, in the term double bladed weapon, and one with parallel blades?&quot;

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

Espada:<font color="#990000">You're just jealous you aren't strong enough to wield one. :P

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;...How many days remain in your power to keep me tied to this world?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas looks caught off-guard. Sweatdrop. :D;;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;When I was in Castleton, I had to ask Ed what day it was.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And he had to ask a passerby.&quot; |D;;;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Parallel blades -- fuckin' stupid show weapon if you ask me.&quot; &gt;:\ &quot;That kind of shit takes too much effort to learn how to do what you can do with a single-bladed sword in half the time.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm sorry. I've completely lost track.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus chuckles weakly.

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">There's an odd twinkle in Serrierr's eyes. Like he's trying not to laugh.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ah, but.. let me try to think... I'm sure I can figure this out..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. The parallel blades are fielded in areas where healing magic is minimal, from what I've seen. The two custs, so close together, cannot be treated with mundane medicine.&quot;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;A two-bladed sword looks kinda like this.&quot; Sketch. &quot;Desert folk're usually the ones using those. Sometimes you see orcs with dual-headed axes, too. Think that whole race's got a fetish for axes.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">cuts*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hint -serrated edge does just that x3

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Well. Then I suppose I'll just have to make do...with your leave, Thomas Lazarus, I would have you not dismiss the connection, and I would remain here and not use the return clause myself for as long as your power remains, even as you depart this town.&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">the only thing I can think of that two blades with a spacing would be good at is trapping someone else's sword and disarming them with a twist

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It was from.. Lyle's scroll..&quot; He considers. &quot;And that's usually..&quot; He looks up.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Or stabbing someone and twisting.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">That would be nasty.

VAE:<font color="#000000">which works just as well wiht any other blade

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;I would like to stay here and continue helping with the healing and reconstitution of the citizens...and I would also like to keep a personal eye on the immediate proceedings of the fallout from the removal of the corrupt leaders.&quot;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">Specialized blade for tricks. You can disarm somebody just as well with a fuckin' longsword. &gt;:/ ((Grant don't start this. |D;))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">https://d44ytnim3cfy5.cloudfront.net/assets/2694212/lightbox/MS-001-ST%20Silver%20triple_001.jpg?1292715708

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Any questions?&quot;

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

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">And I like it

VAE:<font color="#000000">It reminds me of myself

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am hoping that with the cavalry of the kingdom seeing the situation with their own eyes, they will be calling for the importation of more enforcers than just the agents of the Unyielding Cudgel, if you will pardon me.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">when someone mentions titanium *brick'd*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">X3

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;None related to swords, you've explained it well.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;On another note; how difficult is is to find adamantine ready to be worked?&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;As it is said, those who spend too long staring at the Dark and trying to learn about it...often to not realize that the Dark is staring back and learning about them.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Adamantine is NEVER ready to be worked

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Ingots man. Ingots.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Have you ever tried working one?

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ask the dwarves.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">ffff gotta help clean.

Tokens dropped onto map 'Yoriver - Temple of Pelor'Adulian:<font color="#990000">I'm never gonna get to make my entrance, am I? ;_;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are there ones here? In town?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mm.&quot; He shrugs faintly. &quot;It's not my place to argue. Don't let them poison your opinion too much, though. This all has been.. pretty exceptional.&quot; &gt;.&gt;; &quot;I'll be glad to get back home to my own branch before long.&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, you forget Thomas Lazarus, I've visited His Cudgel's Basillica before.&quot; Serrierr says with an amused air.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Crossing lines. &gt;:P

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">wait, huh?

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">that line was directed at someone else?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. I'm glad to hear you'll be looking after things, atleast.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">(Seriously, what was that there about 'crossing lines'? &gt;.&gt; )

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You can figure it out. Or don't. Moving on.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">......*rolls eyes* whatever, be that way...

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. I guess we'd better gather up and speak with Mr. Seldriot. Will you be alright from here?&quot;

Serrierr:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. Thank you, Thomas Lazarus.&quot;

Glitch whispers: do -you- know what the heck he meant there, by any chance? Seriously, I'm confused...


 * Dr. Hatari wonders if Lia actually is disposed for the rest of the session. =3=;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">ohshiz, that's right, she's afk.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Well!

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Yeah, might as well get the PC-to-PC chat out of the way. :U

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt goes and collects Gamal and Tathi, wherever they are! &quot;Vonain would like to see us in the meeting room.&quot;


 * Gnogglebolt pokes Railock and Ghostiwhs, to be sure

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom snoops about and collects the other Guardians, too.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">gamal is likely to be sticking near altonor at this time I don't think the teleport out is far off and he's not about to miss it

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Hrm? Oh.

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

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Oh? What about?&quot; She asks.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh right, Gamal's leaving...

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">They teleported out immediately.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Yeah, nevermind Gamal.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It was at the beginning of the session.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Unless I read that wrong.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not sure. Vonain just said he wanted to talk to all of the Vigilant Guardians before we left.&quot;


 * Dr. Hatari notes the tokens are sitting there still..

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">I missed it but I've been waiting for it to happen soon

Glitch:<font color="#000000">right then, Gamal's in the past and not &quot;here&quot; xP

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">so either it's happened, or gamal is sticking to altonors side cause he expects it any minute

Glitch:<font color="#000000">No matter, Gamal's not actually needed since he's &quot;leaving&quot; the active group anyway.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Will also assume Edaric and Swallowtail get yanked in as well...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Frackin' surprise relatives.


 * Teeny Rin 5 dances on the table top for everyones amusement then

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Shr&#246;dinger's Gamal is invited to the meeting then.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi shrugs, and heads for the meeting area.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh yes, and Sszeyl.

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">hey liatai. has gamal technically left already then?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Better than surprise buttsecks *brick'd*

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">depends on which end of the suprise you are on.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey Sszeyl, if you're not too busy! That guy Vonain wanted to talk to all of us.&quot;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fuck if I know, aside from Horm, but he's been here and I'm pretty fuckin' sure he doesn't have adamantine.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you for answering.&quot;


 * VAE 's pretty sure he has no business on either.

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

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

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your gnome's got some, but think it's spoken for. Word of advice. Never ask for adamantine chain if you don't want to make a smith your enemy. Ever.&quot; &gt;:\

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have -all- of the adamantine Tomiko carried out of the underground fortress...granted, most of it is tied up in making a chainshirt for her. But the rest of it's for me...&quot;

Tomiko Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I didn't ask. It was a price. |3

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's why I was looking for alternate sources.&quot;

Grant Warner:<font color="#000000">Too goddamn steep, I woulda told you. &gt;:\ *brick'd*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And yeah, this is some of the damndest metal I've ever worked with.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But I relish the challenge! Proving my skills!&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yeah, Gamal's teleported out by now.

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">crazy gnome

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Note to self; find an adamantine mine.&quot;

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

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom settles in. &quot;So.. what's on your mind, Mr. Seldriot?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt goes into the meeting.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Is it just me or does this group seem really tiny

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">It doesn't come from mines, silly.


 * Altonor shrugs, and cracks a half-smile. &quot;... Maybe.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">That's why it's rare and expensive.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">It comes from spess.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fallen from meteorites, or found in magic-infused ores&quot;

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">10 tokens is tiny?!

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I know! It shouldn't be but it seems so!

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">we still have over twice the amount a usual adventuring party has!


 * Edaric was dragged along. &quot;?&quot;


 * Gnogglebolt jazzhands. AKELLON.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;So... what's this about?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Anyway.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain looks about at everyone. &quot;Right then. First off, I wanted to thank all of you again, properly, for getting me out of that jail.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus handwaves. &quot;S'no problem..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; His expression hardens briefly.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...?&quot; Then he glances around.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;If you guys had been any later, well....I don't like thinking about that.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; Oh, wait, Miron isn't here. I was expecting someone to bitch and complain immediately.&quot; =w=

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi snickers at Thomas.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt fails to supress a snork

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">see thomas! give in to your inner miron hatred! :P

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">The corner of Vonain's mouth twitches. &quot; Quite.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;...Anyway.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus coughs modestly. &quot;Indeed.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;That said then,&quot; Vonain nods to Sszeyl. &quot;now that I know your story...then as an official agent myself, you can probably guess I'm a little leery of just letting that pass me by.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I haven't reported anything about it to my superiors yet, I am under the impression you're still trying to keep it under wraps, but I'd like to let them know about it soon.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..It'll be everyone's concern if something is never done about it. We're trying to take care of that. A low profile on the way is.. preferable.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain nods. &quot;Oh, aye.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;So, that said. I know that you guys are heading out to work on that bit of business some more, and if you'll have me, I'd like to accompany you.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; He mulls it over. &quot;..Is that okay?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Sure. I'd happily have you as a replacement to Miron. Those are some very small shoes to fill- crap, is that racist?&quot;

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

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain nods. &quot;I am--was--part of a mobile squad. Mobile squads like mine have a bit of autonomy when we aren't directly handed agendas from higher-ups. But, now that I'm not in a Squad...that actually brings me to the third thing.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">Aelian nods. &quot;Not sure how much my vote counts for it, but I'm for it too. I'd always imagined warlocks to be these diabolical beings.. you're a welcome wake-up call.&quot;


 * Swallowtail folds her hands on the table and looks at Vonain evenly.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;... How you with loud noises?&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">A look at Gnogglebolt. :| *brick'd*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't mind, you understand. You're a professional fellow, and skilled, and agreeable. You're a proven ally already. It just surprises me that it's your choice to follow.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAI6awt5fpM

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain amusedly huffs at Tathi, and seems to jolt slightly, then turns and smiles at Aelian. &quot;Yeah, well...I suppose it helps I didn't choose this. It was, as I explained, forced on me.&quot;

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

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">He glances at Swallowtail. &quot;Erm...I can't say I was particularly trained for stealth, no.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">The day's spells have been chosen for Adulian!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, I can't see any reason why not to have you around...&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">That was a lot more time consuming than I thought it would be. x3

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain then finally looks back at Thomas, and nods again with a smirk. &quot;Actually, that does bring me to my third point. What I did tell my superiors...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I honestly know nothing about you as a prson.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">person*

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because I've known you less than a week.&quot;

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">adn you get to do it every day

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;...was that I'm scouting some potential new recruits.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;For your order, or ours?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;We have cats handling our recruiting down south.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi quirks an eyebrow..

RAM:<font color="#990000">Most of it will probably be the same spell list, with minor variations depending on what I need to focus.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\][poiuytrewqasdfghjkl;'

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Mine, the Radiant Trinity. It's semi-common knowledge we bankroll adventuring parties. I wanted to pitch the offer to you folks.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Mainly if I need to switch out nuke spells for healz or not. &gt;.&gt;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Hello cat.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">No cats. Checking to make sure all keys are pressed down correctly.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I didn't worry too much about that because Tom, but I do have Cure Moderate Wounds as a third level spell; I can use my Lesser Quicken Rod with that.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">The only Good members of this party are Tom and Ed.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Maybe Gnogglebolt on a good day.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;You lot seem to have a lot of potential....but, if you'll pardon me, your teamwork is in serious need of work. The Trinity can help with that. We can give you access to some of our information and supplies, and just having your group associated with the Trinity, even if not full agents, does carry some authoritative weight.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">What. |3;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">I am fucking Good. &gt;:[

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">On a good day.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Almost everyone is Good.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Except Rin.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">She's Evil.

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">&gt;:3

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;There is a screening process, though. I have to officially vouch for you, then each of you individually has to pass some entrance and aptitude tests. Nothing too major, just answering a lot of questions, and a couple magical scans for deception.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi smirks. &quot;Sorry Vonain, but unless your organization accepts nobles, both Aelian and myself are a no go.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;And you won't even be 'under our thumb', if any of you are worried about that, you'll still retain pretty much all of your autonomy as long as you're fighting the good fight on your own.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus looks a little overwhelmed. &quot;Oh. Like.. an alliance or.. sponsorship or like. I.. dunno, actually. I've honestly only learned about you from.. you.&quot; ^^; &quot;..Maybe we should wait and speak with Gamal and Barbarus around about that. They're very invested in the direction of our 'organization' proper.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain grins at Tathi. &quot;We accept anyone no matter their station, so long as you just pass the initial tests.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt glances to Thomas. &quot;I think this is a pretty good idea, actually...we are being handed a chance at some kind of legitimacy on a silver platter without having to fight for it on our own. I have quite a bit vested in us as well...&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Well.. That begs the question. What does your order expect of its members?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Of entrance-level sponsored adventuring parties? Not much aside from keep doing what you've been doing, as long as we like what you've been doing. And I like what you've been doing.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gotta say, I side with Tom. Let's wait until we know each other for longer than a week, aye?&quot; :3

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;A bit more is expected of anyone aiming to become a Squaddie, though.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt: I am fucking Good. &gt;:[ That's not what she said the day after.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain waves a hand at Edaric. &quot;Right, right, none of this would go forward until we all get back to Castleton anyway.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;As much as I like what I have seen so far, I agree. And frankly I'm more interested in adding some of your organization to my town.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#990000">Zing!

Glitch:<font color="#000000">what the flipping hell. xD


 * Thomas Lazarus shrugs again. ^^; &quot;I just.. pitched into joining when you guys picked a name for yourselves. Its been a welcome run, and I'm still here. But.. yeah.&quot; ^^; &quot;I'm practically just a part timer. I have Mace duties too. The ones that pushed for the charter and are aggressively swelling our membership -- I think they need to hear and agree before we go affiliating the guild.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We are registered as one, and all.&quot;

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">yes yes...quash this talk and get on to a new map so that we can all do rp

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">ololol Barbarus' crew who are like a third evil monsters.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;But anyway... it is possible for any sponsored adventuring party to remain such and never advance to Squad positions, but for obvious reasons, we like it when people do and try to encourage that. Speaking of which, I do think you are probably the best candidate for a Squaddie--&quot; Vonain nods at Thomas &quot;...but...yeah. The Mace thing is a bit of a stumbling block.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">I woul appreciate that, actually.


 * Thomas Lazarus gives Tathi an overwhelmed glance. |D; &quot;..You want a Mace branch and Trinity in your colony?&quot;

Miron:<font color="#000000">I heard that all the wway to Braxton

Miron:<font color="#000000">Poaching members, pfah.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;You, individually, might not even be able to get in as a sponsored individual. Split loyalties are unnecessary complications that the Trinity doesn't care to deal with. But, as said, nothing's decided yet.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;She was joking about annexing Akellon. At least I think she was joking. &quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Just being upfront about my agenda.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi grins.

RAM:<font color="#990000">It would be a nice birthday present if I actually got to play my new character today. *wink wink nudge nudge hint hint*

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Oh shut up already I'm just about done

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">its your birthday?

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


 * RAM turns 23 today.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;So....you folks fine with me accompanying you?&quot;

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">okay new plan. faff off all day and let ram go out and party

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Happy birthday!

RAM:<font color="#990000">x3

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

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

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi nods. &quot;I am.&quot; So does Aelian.

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">happy b-day ya git

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( BIRTHDAY BEATINGS. ))

RAM:<font color="#990000">And I already had a little party at the shop yesterday. :P

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I might even be able to try and give you guys advice and maybe a little bit of training on teamwork, help pull you guys more cohesively together if you'd like that too.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Lemme get a picture...

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Honestly? Our teamwork problems are gone.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Its name was Miron.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We're quite a mixed hodge podge of factions and nationalities and races and professions, now.&quot; He smiles. &quot;..Just so you know.. we do have some.. ah.. ... ..characters in our ranks back home.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus eyerolls.

RAM:<font color="#990000">https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/913861_10151591597868480_713421139_o.jpg

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


 * Edaric nods. &quot;Why not? Just... yeah. Expect surprises.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/964072_10151591598138480_1522578678_o.jpg

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; Hardly. But maybe arguments will be fewer.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;...I see. Well, for what it's worth, the offer extends only to the people in front of me.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">First time I used by ZT knife, cutting my birfday cake. XD

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;If you have underlings of your own back home, then they don't apply.&quot;

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

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( Ram. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( Ram you have the most Hitler mustache to ever exist. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( I salute you. ))

RAM:<font color="#990000">Pfft, this is no Hitler stache.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'l....think about this. I'd be happy to have you along, but this is indeed something interesting to consider...good thing we have until Castleton, at any rate.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Of those assembled.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">RAM looks badass and hillarious at the same time

VAE:<font color="#000000">I didn't think that was possible

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The only Founders are me and Gnogglebolt.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'll leave the sponsorship and recruiting business to a meeting back at the HQ.&quot; |D; &quot;Thank you for your interest regardless, I guess.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The third Founder is at home.&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Cut the stache, add a beard, and put on paler hair, and you'd look like Saph

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Of course you can come with us.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;And we have no underlings. Because someone wanted no rank system.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Well! Then speaking of, I suppose we might as well plan our departure, unless there's anything else anyone had to do before we leave?&quot; Gnogglebolt pulls out a map.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It looks to me like ther's...several paths we can take to the mountains where Skydragon Citadel is.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, right! Tom, do you have that map from the Torises? &quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Not really. Shankfang already drove off. I think Tomi is leaving, too.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus snaps. &quot;Thanks, Ed.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Tom used the map to wrap a sandwich.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">It is covered in tomatoe.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">-e

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Whichever way we go though, I'll probably have to abandon the trucktrain at the base of the mountains, no matter which path we take...it wasn't build for mountaineer--oh, a map from the Torises?&quot; Gnogglebolt perks up.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;We stopped by the Torises' while we were in Castleton. Terri says hi to everyone, by the way.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom leans to Gnogglebolt and produces a parchment; a local map of the mountains, with routes marked and annotations added for travel guidance. &quot;Nathan gave us this.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">-Silverslide is broad and gently sloped, but runs a greater than normal avalanche risk. Monkshood is steep and craggy, but would give you a fairly straight path to the citadel. Snowgate is a gentle path, but a roundabout one.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh!&quot; Gnogglebolt accepts the map, and looks over it...

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He reads the annotations, and points at it. &quot;Snowgate. That sounds like I could actually take my trucktrain up it. I wasn't even counting on that.&quot;


 * Swallowtail looks over at Vonain. &quot;Nobody warned you about trucktrain, did they.&quot;

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">so if were taking the train, we can't go monkshood

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;....truck-train?&quot;

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">silverslide could take the train as well probably

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yoriver to Feldspar to Warren Rock, to Monkshood.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus smiles. &quot;We..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Left it outside the city walls.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;There, my vote is cast.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's like a set of carriages. But a Mazian engine pulls it. Fast. Really fast.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very loud.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And loud. Really loudly.&quot; |D;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Dragula could traverse Monkshood.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'd rather not risk an avalance on Silverside, and my trucktrain is fast enough that a roundabout route won't matter.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;...I see.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;I've only seen a few pieces of Mazian artifice before...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We actually drove up here from Castleton in just a couple days.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Won't avalanches be a risk no matter where we go?&quot; :.

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">but but..if you go silverslide we can see the place with the awesome description!

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is Nieva in the winter, after all.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Just pick one already! &gt;:O

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">WE AIN'T GOIN' THERE JUST BECAUSE. =w=;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks at Sszel. &quot;If we go Monkshood, it's likely I won't be able to bring my trucktrain at -all-...I'd like to take a path I could use it, if at all possible.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Relatives arriving. =3=;;;

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">come on. that's like THE best reason to go someplace

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Carry on.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And if Snowgate's the lesser avalance risk than Silverside...seems best to me.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyone else?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Snowgate sound good?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Less risk.. yes. I can endure an extra day of riding. Or what have you.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Also...if avalanches are a possible risk anyway...I still have a way of dealing with that.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have cast my vote, and see no reason to change.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;A trick we have in Mazio...is to deliberately shoot a snowbank with a cannon to induce an avalance on purpose before travelling. Then just waltz up the no-longer-at-risk snowfield.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt quickly looks up.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;ButIwon'tdothatunlesswehavetodon'tyellatme.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl breathes an arm of smoke at Gnogglebolt.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">|D; &quot;That seems like it would.. cause.. trouble.. for indigenous life.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus thinks back to trucktrain.

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


 * Thomas Lazarus remembers the havoc.


 * Thomas Lazarus considers Shankfang.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aside from Sszeyl, it seems that the majority opinion is Snowgate pass.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus Sudden Clarity Clarence. Mazio is like Escape From New York people, everywhere.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyone else have anything to say? If not, Snowgate Pass it is.&quot;

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

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi shrugs noncommently.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sounds like we're ready.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alright then! I'll go get the trucktrain from where we hid it and bring it up to the front gates. Oh yes, and...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnoglebolt then pulls out a clock sack, and...starts passing gemstones to everyone. &quot;The funds and proceeds from selling all the looted equipment back in Castleton, shares for everyone.&quot; (everyone now gains the lootsplits fo realz :U )

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Uuuunngggh. Do we have to take that obnoxious contraption?&quot; Tathi says with a groan.

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

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Once he's done dispensing that, he dispenses it out to anyone else in the temple not currently present, then goes to get the trucktrain!


 * Thomas Lazarus frowns a little. &quot;..It's not that bad. What else would we take? We don't have horses. And I'd rather not march and camp for a month.&quot; ^^;


 * Shankfang the Deffrider roars through the temple on Dragula, aquires loot, zooms away! *brick'd*

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Leaving two holes in the temple walls.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl goes off.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">INTO THE CITY.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">ach, I need ownership of trucktrain on the autumn road map

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hurry hurry hurry I've thought of a great entrance for my new character! :D

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Let's see.


 * Dr. Hatari is beginning to wonder how awkward this clingy addition will be if you rush it this much. :B *bricked*

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">At 1250 for each house.

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">pfft

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">I could get 10 easily.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Now to pick an executor.


 * Glitch pokepokes Lia

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#FF0000">Maybe you should consolidate your real estate instead of just wtfrandom buying houses and forgetting about them forever like you're the Fable protagonist.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">I can't consolidate when my property is half a continent away.

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#FF0000">It's half a continent away because you keep impulse buying the things that enter your line of sight.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">I've only bought eighteen children, I'll have you know.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">oh right, Lia's afk...

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


 * Glitch goes to grab a snack

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Hmm.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">I could just donate the houses to the Pelorite temple.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Let them give them out to people who need them.


 * Liatai gasps D8 &quot;Talkative kiiiiiids&quot;

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">invest in duck tape

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's a whirlwind and it's only two of them. D|;;; Halp.

GM:<font color="#000000">So it's been decided. Snowgate?

GM:<font color="#000000">Any other stops along the way?

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( duct tape! ))

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( also? brb, oven and supper time ))

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

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

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I guess Navigator!Gnogglebolt will ping-pong between...

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( ...Liaaa. ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Also VAE -- you may be amused. I came back to my computer to find The F Plus playing, since I left it on Shuffle.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Feldspar, Warren Rock, Zanderston, and North Marraburg

Glitch:<font color="#000000">then Snowgate

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( How much is about...oh, a pound and a half of Adamantine? ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( :V ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The episode? A Frottage in the Woods. ^^;;;

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( I may or may not be looking at Marvellous Pigments. ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It isn't sold by weight. &gt;.&gt;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">also be adviced, I will be leaving in about two hours for movie with family.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">This is the SUPER-CONSERVATIVE BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN AUNT. |D;;;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">*advised

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( Ruh-roh. ))

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Also lia. Ownership of trucktrain on autumn road? ^^;

GM:<font color="#000000">Now hang on, because there's a scene waiting when you head to the road. Is everyone heading out?

GM:<font color="#000000">Adamantine isn't sold by weight; you buy what you need for a project by crafting rules.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Yes. Gnogglebolt passed out all the lootsplits to everyone relevant, then left the town to go grab the trucktrain and bring it to the front gates, where he intends to meet everyone

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Hence ownership plz. ^^;

GM:<font color="#000000">Is EVERYONE going to the trucktrain or just Gnogglebolt?

GM:<font color="#000000">That's what I'm asking, and I'm sorry, but I'm torn with talkative kids.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Just gnogglebolt, as far as I know.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Just gnogglebolt is going to the trucktrain now

Glitch:<font color="#000000">everyone else should be making their way to the gates

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Lemme just get the relevant pieces in place.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Where's Gnogglebolt's token?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Just outside the temple

RAM whispers: If'n you don't mind, I'd like to intro my character with, say, singing/dancing around a campfire, since we're gonna come in during a caravan stop.

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">liatai. you must addict the kids on dnd

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Roll call, who's here?

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Present! For two more hours.

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


 * VAE mrow

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Here!

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">I'm here maybe. I don't know

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

Cat:<font color="#000000">As Gnogglebolt approaches the trucktrain again, he sees something there that wasn't there before. An orange tabby cat, laying in the sun, that looks like it's stuck inside the cut-off arm of someone's mithral chainmail shirt. A white cloth is draped across its back like a saddle, and he can see from a distance some kind of gold design on it.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt approaches cautiously, trying to inspect the cat further.

You whisper to VAE: Get ready. Here we go. :3

VAE whispers: check out liatalk

VAE whispers: #yoriver i meant

Teeny Rin 5 whispers: shouldn't the dragula be missing from next to truck train?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uh...shoo. Shoo, kitty. Go home. Shoo.&quot;

Cat:<font color="#000000">Oops. Forget the armor bit. DM was a derp and forgot a detail. It's just an orange cat, sunning itself.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh, well. :x

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt approaches less cautiously and just makes shooing gestures at the cat as he moves towards the cabin of the trucktrain.

Cat:<font color="#000000">The cat eyes him carefully, but does not budge.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt huffs. &quot; Don't say I didn't warn you, cat...&quot;

Cat:<font color="#000000">Spot check, please, Gnogglebolt?

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( brb, pizza in oven ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He pulls off some of the camauflage tarps from the trucktrain, climbs up the ladder into the cabin, unlocks it, and sets down to starting turning it on. Spot: &#171; &#160;1d20 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

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


 * You roll to yourself: 1d20+17 =&gt; 14 + 17 = 31Cat:<font color="#000000">Listen, please?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Camouflage, actually.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Listen: &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 17 + 2 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

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

You whisper to VAE: Candlestand can roll one, too. Whisper it to me. :3

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I can -never- get that one right.

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

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( back ))

Gnogglebolt's Trucktrain:<font color="#000000">The engine, presumably, roars to life, provided it doesn't malfunction.

Cat whispers: &#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 13 + 8 = 21&#160;&#187;

Cat whispers: Listen

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Was going to take 10, or Cool Under Fire.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And yes, he revs it loudly, taking a perverse moment of plause as he looks out the window at the cat that -should- be scramming with fur all puffed up...

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

Gnogglebolt's Trucktrain:<font color="#000000">CHFFFFFF. The trucktrain lets off an enormous gout of steam!

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And the cat is now dead.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Blaugh! What the?!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He quickly kills the engine, if it's not dead already.

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

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh god Lia you didn't

You whisper to VAE: Candlestand hears a THUNK, and a whined &quot; Owwwwwwwwww... &quot; as soon as the trucktrain makes its first move.

VAE:<font color="#000000">everything dies on gnogglebolt

Liatai:<font color="#000000">NO! XD

Cat:<font color="#000000">*hiss* The cat springs from the place it was lying at, fur standing on end.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The noise was just the trucktrain starting. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That's all!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Okay good I was thinking for a moment their the cats babies were in the engine.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You and your leaping to wrong conclusions.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">How do you even leap to that conclusion?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That's pretty ridiculous of you. :B

RAM:<font color="#990000">Lia's nowhere near that cruel.

VAE:<font color="#000000">With a pogo stick?

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">A wild Drow buys a masterwork artist's kit, and some marvellous pigments if they're available, and heads to the gate.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">They're certainly available. :3

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Lia was just talking about cats living out in unsual places recently! I don't know what goes through her head! Dx

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Woo. :&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">So, um.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Not the insides of an engine though

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Trucktain started normally, then?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yep. You've got a startled cat sticking close, though.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Okay, well then.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt puts it into gear and vrooms off to the front gate.

You whisper to VAE: Uh-oh, Candle -- your quarry's getting away!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(also I still need ownership of trucktrain itself)

VAE whispers: I presume kitty follows

You whisper to VAE: Gonna try to hop on board, or just follow as fast as your little cat legs can allow?

VAE whispers: Does it look like it's accelerating?

You whisper to VAE: With Gnogglebolt driving? Yes.

VAE whispers: If so, hop on board. If not, follow - it's pretty big

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Everyone's been copied to Autumn Road. :3 Please use that as the front gates of the city.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl sees a cat in the distance.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">It must be mine.

You whisper to VAE: Candlestand smells blood in this carriage... the fellow he was watching must've whacked his head when the trucktrain accelerated. He's currently looking around, pressed under the bench in this carriage.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Lips chapped, can't find my damn chapstick. &gt;:|

Cat whispers: &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 9 + 3 = 12&#160;&#187; Untrained heal. How bad does it look?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Ed looks off to the distance. &quot;... Yep, here he comes. I can hear it.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Liiiaaaaa ownership of trucktrain pleeeeease? ^^;

You whisper to VAE: Well, it'll be a nice goose-egg.

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

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( pizza is ready, afk ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well that's taking unusually long to load.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">so I can actually impersonate it and write notes and stuff with it?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay, there. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Also making monkey bread and chicken btw. Somewhat distracted. :v

Gnogglebolt's Trucktrain:<font color="#000000">Thank you.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl sees a cat sitting on one of the carriages.

Cat whispers: In that case, Candestand just curls up and waits, watching,. Presumably the spell got screwed up as he was disturbed by engine?

Gnogglebolt's Trucktrain:<font color="#000000">vrrrrrrroooooOOOOOOOM! The trucktrain pulls up to the Yoriver front gates.

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">so he can make it think Vae's next char is insane cause the truck train is talking to her

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who has some meat?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Aha, found it! \o/

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

You whisper to VAE: Yep. ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Meat? What's this about meat, sszey?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Ah, relief. |3

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot; ...So, that's the trucktrain...interesting.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl produces jerky from his rations and just jumps up and over the truck train onto the carriage behind it.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">He approaches cat, if it's still there, jerky offered well ahead of him, and rolls it to the cat once he reaches the second carriage.

Cat whispers: And the kitty is sending-less for today. Bummer

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Spot check, Sszeyl?

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+11 = 4 + 11 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Spot check!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yep, the cat's still there.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....What are you doing, Sszeyl?&quot;

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( back ))


 * You roll to yourself: 1d20+3 =&gt; 12 + 3 = 15 Vonain (Goldeneye) whispers: anything on Detect Magic, btw?

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;What the.. why would an animal be anywhere near this mad device?:&quot;

You whisper to Glitch: Lemme see...

Cat whispers: Blah, should have rolled for Hide. Ah well, assume Candle is still too shaken by the truck to think sensibly

You whisper to Glitch: Yep -- there are two collections of auras in the back wagon, plus Sszeyl and Swallowtail's magic items.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;....Aren't Mazian devices nonmagical?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Yes. Which makes them even worse.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Unless you're dealing with one of those eccentric 'technomages', yeah...why?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Then there's something magic inside your trucktrain that shouldn't belong.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Not saying a word. Not looking at the cat in the eyes, but in it's direction. Moving slow, giving it plenty of time to see, and not moving closer until it inspects the jerky.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;.. There is a cat.&quot;

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

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

Teeny Rin 5:<font color="#000000">quick tom, is it possessed!

Cat:<font color="#000000">The cat looks at the piece of jerky with interest.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt kills the engine and hops out of the cabin. &quot;Tathi! Need your expertise here!&quot;


 * Swallowtail snaps her tessen into her hand quickly.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Your device is insane and should be dismantled.&quot; She says with a sagely nod.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What is with you? It's just loud..&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not that you sparkle-brained elf!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The man says there's something magic here that shouldn't belong, can you look at it, please?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">SParkle-brained eh? GLITTERDUST- ow.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;It's in the rear-wagon...two auras.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Fine, fine.&quot; Tathi says with a sigh as she casts detect magic.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't know what they are.&quot;

Player &quot;Glitch...&quot; is not connected. You whisper to Glitch: ... One of them is moving.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;....And one is ambulatory.&quot;

You whisper to VAE: You can smell the man with the forehead wound trying to sneak out the back of the wagon.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt recoils, and pulls out his blunderbuss.

Cat whispers: Observe. If he does, follow.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot; Everyone, help. &quot; Swallowtail tries to sneak around the back of the wagon.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot; (Swan Song, you see anything?) &quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain flicks his wrist, and a ball of energy collects in his palm as he walks around.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+11 = 6 + 11 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Spot check!

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Can you tell what it is?&quot;


 * Swallowtail swaps her tessen for her trusty crossbow, waiting for everyone to get into position.

You whisper to VAE: He's frozen now, just watching the party with a touch of... amusement? :3

Cat:<font color="#000000">The cat suddenly begins to wash its face.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">ghostwish? :B

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Come on, man, get your head in the game...


 * Thomas Lazarus stands on tip-toes and peers into a window. :T

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( learn some fucking patience, geezus ))

Cat:<font color="#000000">Tom sees a cat, unless he rolls Spot?

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Spot: &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 4 + 5 = 9&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Listen: &#171;  &#160;1d20+5 = 16 + 5 = 21&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Cat:<font color="#000000">Nope, just a cat.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He uses Detect Evil, leery of devil leftovers.

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( ...? Okay, DM? Waiting on you. ))

Cat:<font color="#000000">Yes?

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: No evil detected.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">I think a spellcraft needs to go with the Detect Magic...


 * Thomas Lazarus shrugs. &quot;..I don't sense anything.&quot;

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

You whisper to Ghostwish: Two collections of auras.

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( only if you want to id the spell specificall. ))

Tathi whispers: schools?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's probably just a bauble the cats owner gave it.&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: A whole hodgepodge on both collections. More illusion-flavored on one, more abjuration-flavored on the other.

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

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi narrows her eyes.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">darn fatcat, harassing me for food he doesn't want. =w=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000"> &quot;I see nothing.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl does the unimaginable.

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

Tathi whispers: Knowledge arcana to identify any known magical monster under the sun that has more than one aura so as to not immediately discount this as a disguised magic user? |D

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">He risks approaching the cat.

Tathi whispers: ((there isn't but this is borderline metagaming |P))

Cat:<font color="#000000">The cat stops washing itself, and looks at him.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Has it eaten the other jerky?

You whisper to Ghostwish: Sure, but you already know the answer. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Cause I got more. :V

Tathi whispers: yeah he should have removed his magic items first. It's the cat?

Cat:<font color="#000000">It has sniffed on it, but seems cautious.

You whisper to Ghostwish: The abjuration one is the cat. The illusion one is near the cat, but is clearly much bigger than a cat by the outline of the aura...

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl produces a journal, and a paint brush.


 * Thomas Lazarus blinks slowly.


 * Thomas Lazarus glances to the others.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+14+mod = 16 + 14 + 2 = 32&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Tathi whispers: Can she locate it enough to dispel magic on it?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..If there's no greater source of alarm, here..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And paints a branch of the catnip plant on the page. Which he proceeds to peel off the page.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Let's isolate these magic auras and get going.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Suddenly, a fully healthy sprig of catnip.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Waiting on Tathi for that...&quot;

You whisper to Ghostwish: She can try, but there are a heck of a lot of auras. A collection of magic items, maybe?

You whisper to Ghostwish: Liiiike the kind seen on adventurers hint hint? XP

Tathi whispers: yeah. obviously a person wearing them. Looking for the big illusion spell that's invsibility. |D

You whisper to Ghostwish: Yep, you can pinpoint it.

Tathi whispers: Right. XD

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi sighs, and rolls her eyes sarcastically.

Cat:<font color="#000000">The cat seems. . . interested. It watches him intently.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It doesn't seem like a problem.&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">She walsk up to the trailer in the back, and starts an arcane gesture, wholly ignoring the cat.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">He waves the catnip, far ahead of him, and creeps forward.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">ZOT. Dispel magic.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;A bit of advice.&quot; She says, seemingly to the air.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;If you're going to go sneaking about, invisible?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;REMOVE YOUR MAGIC ITEMS FIRST.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You know that doesn't just automatically work, right

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

Cat:<font color="#000000">The cat watches his hand, but readies itself.


 * Swallowtail snaps her tessen up, ready. &quot;Come out, hands up.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">*crossbow

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+12 = 9 + 12 = 21&#160; <font color="#9900FF">&#187; caster check! +1 if it's evocation! +4 to overcome spell resistence!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">What the -- the illusion aura disappeared, but no sign of anybody manifesting, until --

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;FINALLY! Yes! Took you long enough!&quot; A smiling long-haired fellow steps out of the shadows, hands behind his head. &quot;You're lucky I'm not an assassin! I could have killed Sszeyl twenty times over already!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Five. You'd be surprised how stupidly lucky he gets.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;....And who is this?&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">He grins, showing empty hands. &quot;Fair cop, though, fair cop! Next time I'll remember the Nystul's.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Good. And you are?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">The eldritch energy has not yet been dismissed from his hand.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;.... waaaaaait a minute. I know you.&quot; &gt;:.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl keeps creeping closer, and pushing the catnip as far ahead of himself as he can.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Voice matches the shape shifter.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That's not Izzyl..?&quot; :.c

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're... uh... 'Izzy,' right? ... Why are you here? How did you get here?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;You folks know this person?&quot;


 * Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles holds up a finger with a smile. &quot;With extreme difficulty!&quot; |D

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Oh. Izzy. Hells but we haven't seen you in a while.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;And great ungodly hells, don't be sneaking around like that! I normally sniff out invisible folk with fireballs!!&quot;


 * Swallowtail lowers her crossbow. &quot;... Yes. Think so.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt stows his blunderbuss. &quot;Oh, it's you.&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;But then you'd run the risk of scorching your kitty.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Or worse. I should have thought of that. It's what I normally use..&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Please don't hide in my trucktrain anymore.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Why're you invisible in our carriage?&quot; =_=;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;... It is your kitty, right?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...No, that is not my kitty. It should have been scared off the moment I started the engine.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Not your familiar? Right then, I can either dispel them or chain lightning, which one does it want?&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not invisible! Just hiding. Nice trick, but you just got my mask. No invisibility at all.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why is it still here?&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Huh. Well who's kitty is it? It's sure not mine.&quot; :.c

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That doesn't answer my real question.&quot; =w=;;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">*whose

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....Tathi, is there any magic on that cat?&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just a minute, just a minute. Mysterious cats acting not at all like cats are a mystery to be solved.&quot; He kneels. :.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000"> &quot;If you attack the cat I'm trying to be friendly with I will eat your face.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000"> &quot;You have been warned.&quot;

Cat:<font color="#000000">The cat watches the shapeshifter, but doesn't let go watching Sszeyl. After a moment's consideration, it grabs the jerky and moves under one of the benches.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Darn.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;A mystery that needs to be solved right out of my trucktrain&quot; :|

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Been dismissed.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; It's cold out, and it's a cat, and this is a dry spot. I don't see how the cat is a greater mystery than our hidden agent friend.&quot; =3=;;;

Tathi whispers: the cat had auras too, right?

You whisper to Ghostwish: Yep.

Barbarus' Carriage:<font color="#000000">it's a myster cause people wat to faff around so long ram and I do'nt get to intro our chars :P

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;The cat has auras too. Same as Izzy. It's either a familiar or another disguise.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But Thomas, the cat was sitting outside of my trucktrain before I started it up, then I fired up the engine. That should have been the last I saw of it, but now it's in my trucktrain.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do not trust this.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus resigns himself out of the argument. =w=;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sszeyl, if you can, please get a hand on the cat and bring it out of the carraige.&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't suppose any of you have a cloth I could use real quick?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas slips his coat off with a sigh and threads half through the window. &quot;Here you go... don't get scratched please.&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;Eh? Oh, no, not what I meant. Here, Sseyl, you use that. I meant something more... bandagey.&quot; |D

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not fun to wake up banging your head when your sleeping place starts to move at a breakneck pace, not at all.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Are you hurt?&quot; D: Heal inspection through the window!! &#171; &#160;1d20+17 = 2 + 17 = 19&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Eh, with this new development I've already resigned myself to waiting another damn week to intro my character. =3=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm sorry, I didn't plan on relatives. |D;;;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Yeah it's basically impossible now.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">The color drains from Gnogglebolt's face from the implication that he started the trucktrain without even realizing there was a man inside.

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">Yyyyep, he's got quite the goose egg starting. =3=;


 * RAM sighs. No, it's alright. I almost expected it, really. =3=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;| !

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi sighs. &quot;Okay look. I am not wasting another dispel magic. If the cat or someone concerning the cat doesn't fess up soon, my next spell to solve this dilemia is going to be chain lightning.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;A bandage won't do for that.&quot; Thomas steps in and minor cures the goose egg.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;It's bad enough I have to ride in this ungodly contraption, I am not putting up with some eavesdropper.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">You can hear voices from farther down the road. &quot; Caaaaaaaaandlllllllllllllle! &quot;


 * RAM goes off to play video games, ping me when you're all done and I can drop the server.

Railock:<font color="#000000">your mothers met ram. tell her to run intereference on the relatives so ram's char can be introduced on his birthday! heh

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl hears this.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Takes the coat.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi crosses her arms. &quot; Like a charm. &quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And nabs the cat. =3=

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot; Heeeeeeeeere kitty kitty kitty! &quot;

Cat:<font color="#000000">*HISS!*

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">I have gauntlets and a Too Kinky to Torture pain threshold.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Bring it, kitty.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglbolt's ears perk up as he hears the voice, and can't help but smirk at Tathi's words that brought it.

GM:<font color="#000000">&quot; Candle! Where are you? &quot; The voices are getting closer.

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

Cat:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-7 = 1 - 7 = -6&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Grapple?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll have to remember next time.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">AHAHAHAHAA.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I told you the teamwork problems and arguments weren't 100% Miron. *lightning'd*

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+12+4 = 5 + 12 + 4 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Grapple.

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot; ... What in Cuthbert's name. &quot;

Cat:<font color="#000000">&quot;MROOOWWW&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl hops out of the cart and trots to the people.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns as the two people approach.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom looks up from his work with a sigh. He waves out the window to the Inquisitors.

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ho there, um, mysterious travelling machine --&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Coat full of cat.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now, I presume the magical cat hiding in my vehicle belongs to you.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please explain why this cat was in my vehicle before I run someone over with it.&quot;

Cat:<font color="#000000">The cat is clawing at the insides of the coat, making gurgly noises

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000"> My coat.. &gt;|

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do not appreciate uninvited guests in my things.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl throws the sprig of catnip in with it.

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Candle -- oh Cudgel's sake, let him out, he's probably smarter than some people here. Candle are you all right?&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl lets him out.

Tokens dropped onto map 'Autumn Road'Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;and speaking of uninvited guests in my things...&quot; Gnogglebolt shoots a glance at Izzyl.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">IT'S A BOMB.

Cat:<font color="#000000">The cat mrows. &quot;That drow has a nasty grip&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Next time I'm going to have defensive measures in place. Do keep that in mind.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Smart enough to call his master when a wizard roars.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">O_o &quot;The cat talks.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We know you were bluffing.&quot; =3=

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Master? Nah, Candle's one of us. Are you coming to or going from Yoriver?&quot;

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

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

Cat:<font color="#000000">&quot;Such is life. You pick things up on the way.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus distracted by talking cat talking. =3=c

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Enjoy the jerky and the catnip.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus observes.

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot;What news? Are they letting people in yet?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Looks like. Army pulled out.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt seems a little taken aback by the talking cat, but, adventurers. &quot;And you.&quot; Gnogglebolt points at the cat. &quot;You'd do best to not go poking into strange contraptions that are just sitting all by their lonesome, not doing anything.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Did not. We're pulling out.&quot; =w=;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh. Uh. Inquisitor Alexander Pauling. Rorebok branch. This is Inquisitor Fredrick Soames. And Candlestand.&quot;

Cat:<font color="#000000">The cat grabs the jerky and begins snacking.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It could have, for instance, had an electric array running through it. It will next time.&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;... And who are you?&quot;

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


 * Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles is very pointedly hiding again. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Vigilant Guardians. We assisted the Mace in resolving the issue.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt sighs. &quot;We're adventurers who helped solve the Yoriver Crisis. Speaking of which, people should have been allowed in yesterday.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't know why you don't know that already.&quot;

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's resolved already?! Gods damnit, I told you we were late.&quot; &gt;:E

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas leaves Izzyl to his faux stealth aftet Minor Curing his goosebump.

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

Cat:<font color="#000000">&quot;If it wasn't, think they'd be letting people in?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The rebuilding is beginning.&quot;

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you know if they caught the traitors?&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, we did.&quot;

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot;All ten?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, one of them, at least.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sorry, yeah.. the army rolled in and wiped up the fiends. We captured and handed over Count Montclaire and Commander Whittaker.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Count Montclair and the former Commander Whitaker are awaiting trial.&quot;

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

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot;...&quot;

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot;What?!&quot;

Cat:<font color="#000000">The cat seems startled

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">O_o

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...All 'ten'?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus squints. &quot;...&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;They lead a Hextorian revolt.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I think I see what the problem is.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Name the 'ten' please.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;And were planning to demolish the temple of Pelor on arrival.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You're referring to... the 'rebel' group headed by Roy Stanford.. right?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Commander Mackenzie ruled them to be the traitors, and they have been arrested.&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, the former -- yes, them! What's this about the commander?!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, I suspect so too, Thomas.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sszeyl, quit confusing them.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;My friends, you are terribly misinformed, but it is not your fault.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Captain Mackenzie, then.&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">They look pretty darn confused already without Sszeyl's help. O_o

Cat:<font color="#000000">&quot;Commander Whitaker is the one who called for hunting traitors. . no?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;You humans need one universal ranking system.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Mace commander and the Count were the traitors.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, to cover his own treason.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They led a fiend takeover of Yoriver.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They framed Roy and his men, because they were the true loyalists.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;He was having Macers and citizens possessed by devils.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Even had about ten or so cats possessed.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... This is probably a lot to hear all at once, and a bit hard to swallow.&quot; He shakes his head slightly at his friends, just going at it with buckets of overload.

Cat:<font color="#000000">*hiss*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..You're doing this on purpose, now.&quot;

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

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi sighs. TIME FOR A TOKEN SWAP.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If any of you have any reason to doubt this, go see the Temple of Pelor.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">This one also does great for hangovers.

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Who the devil are you lot anyway? Not just a 'mercenary group.'&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The commander of the Akellon Steel Shepherds is about, and there is a true Celestial residing in the Temple at the moment whocan give a full account.&quot;

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

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;The name you are searching for amoung this overload is Vigilant Guardians.&quot; Tathi says from the back.

Cat:<font color="#000000">&quot;And who's the sneak in the vagon, more importantly?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">Vonain sighs and steps forward, and shows his badge.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;It

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot; That explains the talking over each other. It's the Arguing Guardians. &quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;It's alright friends, it's--&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Yep. That's the name.&quot; Tathi says with a roll of her eyes.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt's jaw drops.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=w=; Tom also indicates his badge. &quot;Inquisitor Thomas Lazarus.&quot;

Cat:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's them, sure. They got Tomiko Lazarus's brother in, last I heard.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Where did you hear a name like that.

Cat:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mousing in taverns and inns, one hears a lot.&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's all over the place. This adventuring group going around doing good deeds, but arguing with each other the whole time. Explains why you're all so different and hodgepodge, too...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And, my friends.. to attempt to clarify your confusion a little.. it turns out quite a few Inquisitors were recalled to Yoriver to put down a 'traitorous uprising'. You're not the first to be shocked by all.. this news.&quot; He folds his arms. &quot;..But.. as you've perhaps begun putting together.. things weren't all they seemed to be.&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;........&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Holy shit, you're a drow.&quot; O_o

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Then 'ten traitors' you're speaking of? They were loyalists. Hold-outs, resisting a corrupt plot.&quot;

Cat:<font color="#000000">&quot;He is.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus suddenly deflates and looks at the ground. &quot;...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt's face is buried in his hands.


 * Thomas Lazarus gives up. =w=;;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; Arguing Guardians...Garl's gold, that is a disaster.&quot;

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot;... And you say... whoever's responsible's been caught already?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've been standing in front of you for seven minutes.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; We're never going to live that down now.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;And you're just now noticing.&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, I was worried about Candle.&quot; =3=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Damn, I'm good.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Well.&quot; He sighs. &quot;Probably, yes. There were a lot of devils in the city. They were possessing Inquisitors left and right. The majority of the law enforcement and city leaders here were swayed under the Hextorian plot.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But the devils have been all but wiped out, and arrests made.&quot;

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Well now what are we going to do?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Who actually planned what..? Remains to be seen.&quot;

Cat:<font color="#000000">&quot;Was the Commander possessed, then?&quot;

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( I am now making it my player goal to have a party that is known for getting into fist fights with each other at every tavern they go to. ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As far as we were able to investigate...no, the Commander was not possessed.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Especially the town of Fisticuffs

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And we had a fairly good system going that was able to root out dozens of possessees.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus shakes his head a little. &quot;I'm a demon slayer and exorcist. He checked out. I examined him carefully. Same for the count.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Plus Thomas here is a top-notch exorcist.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Clues point to them starting this willingly. But ... who knows.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's under investigation still.&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh, right, Candle, here, your armor.&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">The distracted inquisitor takes out what looks like the sleeve off someone's mithral chain mail.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thanks. 's a bit cold 'round here without the padding.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">The cat slides into the sleeve.You aren't quite sure how. But .. . cats.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Don't know how strong you men are from a glance. But you might've missed your deaths. There were Hamatula and possessed purple worms and ...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">By the way, this -should- be taking place in view of the front gates...are there Steel Shepherd soldiers manning the gates?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. It was bad. And we've lost souls.&quot;

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

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

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Spined devils. Or barbed devils, if you prefer.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">There's a golden symbol on the side of the armor, on the aforementioned mistakenly-mentioned saddle-patch. Knowledge (religion), but it's pretty obvious, DC 5. Especially since a silver copy is hanging around both Tom's neck and from his wrist.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">KNOWLEDGE

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+20 = 16 + 20 = 36&#160; <font color="#9900FF">&#187; knowledge religion!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It warms my heart that you always remember that. *Minkpets*

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi closes her eyes briefly.. and opens her mind to the wealth of knowledge within. Loremaster check. &#171; &#160;1d20+12+5 = 13 + 12 + 5 = 30&#160; <font color="#9900FF">&#187; knoweldge check, much like bardic knowledge, on various topics.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Pelor, you goof. :P

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">KNOWLEDGE

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">HAVE KOR AND TAVIA ROLL.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I wonder if the you goof was a part of the check

VAE:<font color="#000000">I totally imagine Miron's book occassionally contained such disparaging remarks

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom shrugs a little, raising his brows.

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh man, now what are we going to do. The commander's gonna have our heads.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Steel Shepherd soldiers are patrolling the city and the reconstruction has begun. You can go inside and flag any down and get pointed in the right direction to get the rest of the information.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If there's nothing else, we rather have places to be, things to do, stuff to adventurize.

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, not yours, Candle, you could just head off somewhere and wait for this to blow over.&quot;

Kor:<font color="#9900FF">''Thou craven flap-mouthed death-token! ''Comes a disparaging remark aimed at candlestand. An armored head pokes out of Tathi's robes.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Roy Stanford is performing his duties as the acting commander of the leaden mace society, until this massive shake-up in the chain of command has been resolved properly.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You should probably report to him before you go.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;And leave you to take all of it?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Like that'll happen.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Also, not to pry..&quot;

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot; ... say, Candle. Didn't you say someone was hiding from us in the wagon? They don't seem keen on talking about it. Mind waiting here while we check things out? &quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yep&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But.. how is it exactly that you're having a conversation with your cat?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;The lot seem to know him, if I heard them right.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;He should be still in. Has a goosebump the size of my paw on his noggin&quot;

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

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh. Uh. He's awakened. He's not our cat. Or, well, anybody's, really. Used to belong to our senior archivist. Now he comes and goes. Doesn't have a rank or anything.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Oh wait. My badge is attached to my coat. Attached to the cat.

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thought we'd, uh... Well...&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Candlestand, by the way.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're adventurers, the man in the carriage is one of those strange mysterious aquaintances every adventuring group picks up.&quot;

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

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;They say one of the, uh, not-traitors? Real cat lover.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is normal for this crazy country, right?&quot;

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not really, but who am I to talk about normal&quot; *licks his paw*

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Maybe. Mind waiting here while we check this out some?&quot; to Gnogglebolt.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Us waiting here?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We...kinda do mind, actually.&quot;

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's the one. Real crazy cat lady, but male, I've heard.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Heading up to the Nieva Mountains.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Just don't let him hear you say that.&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;It'll just take a few minutes, I'm sure.&quot;

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;You could, also, you know, let me down.&quot;

Carriage:<font color="#000000">quick everyone, pile inn and let gnoggle hit the gas!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Come on, Izzyl, we appreciate you, but out of my carraige already, please.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The nice men won't bite.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Thrown to the wolves without a second thought.

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">Siiiiiilence. =3=

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Tathiface is *awesome*

Glitch:<font color="#000000">oh gosh I'm sorry I;m giggling too much. xD

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, just... Candle, go talk to whatever or whoever here while we get the details. Find out why they're in such a rush to get to Nieva and split?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">ARGUING GUARDIANS AT YOUR SERVICE, GODDAMNIT.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt groans and rolls his eyes. &quot;Fiiiine we'll stick around for however long it takes you to get an official word in the city.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Actually, it's business that beckons us on. But if you insist, brothers.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot; Even procedure must be observed some of the time, they have no real reason to trust a single word we;ve said.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's a bit hard when I'm still being held, Alex. The drow has quite some grip.&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good good, okay, we'll be back! ... Oh hey, Pelor. You two'll get along great. ... Uhhhh. Can't you, like, cat your way out or something?&quot; =3=

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot; What was in that pipe you had. &quot; =w=;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 13 + 4 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Escape artist?

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">I let you out.

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot; Pipeweed, I told you. &quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">When I opened the coat.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">You've been sitting in it.


 * Thomas Lazarus gives Ed a brief glance that says These Guys &gt;.&gt;;


 * Thomas Lazarus glances back.


 * Edaric just nods back. Mm-hmm. &gt;.&gt;;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">The cat cats its way out unresisted, then.

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">Le inquisitor depart -- though the cat stays.

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">Unless Tom had something to say and the DM cut him off? ^^;


 * Thomas Lazarus retrieves his dirty and scratched up coat. |3;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; Mrs. Torris just fixed this, too.. |D;&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sorry for the coat. . .lemme see.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt hops into the carriage and stares flatly at Izzyl.

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot; You people are dangerous. &quot; =3=;


 * Thomas Lazarus lowers his coat enough to get line of sight on Izzyl. &quot;The second rumor about us is;&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl examines the coat.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We keep a high profile for those around us.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Is it made of any material worth more thank 2k?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Whether they like it or not.&quot; =w=

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can see that now!&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">The cat glares at the coat intently, and the cuts begin to stitch themselves. Mending.


 * Thomas Lazarus jolts.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..You can cast?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot; You know your buddy is arrested, right? I hope someone told you your buddy's been arrested.&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well now things get tricky, because the fuzzy fuzz is sitting right there.&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot; ........ Which buddy. &quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;He can also hear you.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;And smell you.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nah. I just channel the power of the sun.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt just facepalms again.

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

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot; Hey, c'mon, c'mon. I have a lot of buddies. &quot;

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Never could quite figure out real casting.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom flashbacks to B&#228;rli. He has now also met a cat that can cast spells.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Silverthrush at least had better timing than you. I miss him. Tell him I miss him next time you see him, will ya?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Cats are the master race.


 * Thomas Lazarus bricked.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;I, uh, prefer napping on books to reading them, for most.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus dons his coat.


 * Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles blinks, as something chimes in his pocket.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;An awakened cat divine anchor...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The paladin one.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Even in the world of magic, that's uncommon.&quot;

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;But, now that that's done with...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl produces, of all things, a tape measure-er.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And starts measuring Tom while he's busy dealing with cats.

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm sure odder things have happened.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;There was the time I tried riding a dire wolf.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I dunno, a clerical cat's up there.&quot; o.o;

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

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh most certainly, I've experienced odder things.:&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;But, speaking of odd things. . .where exactly are you off to in such a hurry?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus is measured. &quot;What're you doing?&quot; |D;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Frankly?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you helped to clean the city up, one'd gues you'd stay for a bit, recover, resupply, get in all the fun. . .&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;It's official business and a need-to-know basis.&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Unrelated to the Yoriver crisis.&quot;


 * Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles watches the stone a moment before pocketing it. &quot; ... Well. That complicates things. &quot; =3=;;;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;If you want to know more contact the Mace commander in....Castleton branch, was it?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tom, what color scheme do you like?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Does the two fellows of mine asking me to ask count as a need to know?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Black gold white?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm, that's better.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">^^;; &quot; I look good in black and white..&quot;

Carriage:<font color="#000000">oh the usual, stop one apocalypse and theres always another. main reason were all arguing so much, were all about to crack and go insane from the preassure of constant impending doom. Oh sorry, that's another DM's tactic

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;It does not, I'm afraid.&quot; Vonain replies to the cat.


 * Edaric looks like he's resisting the urge to scritch the cat behind the ears. &gt;.&gt;;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, bugger, as they say. Still, at least something.&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;Might wanna be careful. I hear there's dragons up there.&quot; |3c

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though. . Castleton.. that's way out of here, isn't it?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl doesn't bother resisting.

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;It's up to his superior--&quot; Vonain nods at Thomas, &quot;Whether you're in the know.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; =3=;;; &quot; Do you really want to come with us -- you don't even know our names.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And scritches Candlestand whenever possible.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">*purr*

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;Adventuring groups are mobile, surely you know that.&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;Big dragons~ lots of dragons~&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Black and white, alright. How are you on fanciness?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;But Mace commanders aren't, not that often. Got to be something big if someone down from Castleton is sending his lot up north into another. . . &quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What are you doing Sszeyl&quot; |D;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Asking your input.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 5 + 8 = 13&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Listen on izzyl's talk

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Does 'going on an adventure' count, Mr.... uh, Candlestand, right?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus seems embarassed. =w=;; &quot;..Not.. very.. fancy.. I guess.&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">He hears it, it's not like he's trying to be quiet.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm, there goes that design.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mister? That's a new one.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I like the coat I have, thank you.&quot; |D;;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is a spare.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Folk just call me Candle. Or &quot;Here,kitty!&quot; like your drow friend.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">......waaaaait a minute.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or rather, for the spare.&quot;


 * Edaric gestures vaguely. &quot;Well I don't know what to call a talking priestcat.&quot; ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I didn't call you anything.&quot;

Glitch:<font color="#000000">This cat isn't controlled by Lia? &gt;:.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I offered meat and catnip.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That only took you forever. XP

VAE:<font color="#000000">This makes it all that better.


 * Liatai holds a hand up for VAE to high-paw.


 * VAE high-paws

VAE:<font color="#000000">Thank lIa and The Sims


 * Carriage stabs vae. violently

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">At any rate, Vonain goes and leans up against the carriage in silence, waiting for the other two inquisitors to return.

Carriage whispers: sorry, vae getting to play around while ram and I sit waiting to get char into hasn't been fun

VAE:<font color="#000000">What gave it up, the listen roll ? x3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt likewise is waiting for the other two inquisitors to return so the party can leave.

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;I bet they're going to have a lot of adventure up there.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You are really not helping, you know that, right?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, he is!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Urge to throttle our Raiders contact rising.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Again!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tell Silverthrush I want him back next time regardless of what Thomas thinks of him. -3-


 * Thomas Lazarus bricked.

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;A sharp nose like yourself would be useful~ you found me, after all! It took them ten minutes!&quot; Revenge~

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom sighs. &quot;...Izzyl... seriously.&quot; |D;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Get out of my carriage already, darnit!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Why are you here?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It isn't your carriage, Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let him be!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;That one is Barbarus'.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt leans over and starts swatting at Izzyl.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;I mean, I had a good few folks I tracked try to kill me, but he's the first that tried to hire me.&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fine, fine. Well I was here to ask how you liked meeting the last founder, but now that's out the window, and to ask how everything in -- ow ow ow quiddit!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tathi give me a copy of your face.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl measures Tom's shoulder to lower jaw. &quot;How on your sleeve do you wear your religion?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Everything would have been more fine if you had waited for us in the mountains.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;By the way, mister, you smell a bit funny. Gives you away straight off.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">MINE.

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;But come on, let's be honest! He said he comes and goes as he pleases. You guys didn't find me; it took him a few seconds, and you guys wasted time for ages. If I was an assassin, you'd all be dead before you stopped arguing. You're going to be a high-profile target up there.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not hard to pick you out.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Was there any pressing mysterious message that needs to be delivered at this exact time?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I...&quot; He goes a little slack-jawed and becomes flustered. |D;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just trying to look out for your general welfare. I'm not even all that great of a sneak!&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Ehn?&quot; He raises his left hand. A pelorite rosary is chained around his coat's sleeve.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm, I'll say nine then.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Probably not what Sszeyl had in mind.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then the first order of business, as soon as we stop in the next town, is me to upgrade my carraige with its own defenses that won't rely on us.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you like pockets?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're not good at covert things, you should know that by now.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;If so, how much?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Our specialty is big and loud.&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your first upgrade should be cushions.&quot; =3= He rubs the top of his head.


 * Thomas Lazarus murmurs, slightly flushed. &quot;Pockets.. are good. A couple.&quot; =3=;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I'm saying, small and sneaky'll beat out your big and loud unless you build up your own defenses, not just your toys'!&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;That said, I'm not that great sneak either. Forgot to take off the collar.&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;The cat'd be a good bet, am I right? Besides, look! Sun and sun. You match!&quot; |D

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;And. . well, not like I can do that myself.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well of course it will which is why we shouldn't be getting into any situations where we're up against small and sneaky in the first place.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl measures the length of Tom's shoulders. &quot;How much give you you like in your coat? Lots of room to move around inside, or a bit tight?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you have a preference for fabric, because I'm thinking leather.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If the--if our Big Friends knew we'd be running into things like that in the mountains they shouldn't have sent us there. They..should have been ferrying our charge themselves.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;As if I would go with them.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks out the carriage. &quot;Ah, finally.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus is being tailor assaulted. *bricked*

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;You really expect your 'big friends' to do all the work? They're 'big friends,' they never do their own work.&quot; =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Would you like a hood?&quot;

Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles:<font color="#000000">&quot;But fiiiiiine, I can take a hint. Think about the cat~&quot;


 * Isaac &quot;Izzy&quot; Kiles steals away.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Safe travels Izzy.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He hops out and walks over to the approaching inquisitors. &quot;Alright, you corroborated our story?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Safe travels, mister.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're free to punch Gnoggle whenever you like.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can you take your cat and go now?&quot;

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">The cat approaches the pair.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Seems like they're in some hush-hush stuff, on orders of Castleton commander.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Involves hauling around some charge, dragons, and going to Nieva.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you want an extended collar, like you have now, or a more traditional one.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">As Izzyle is walking away, Gnoglebolt turns his head and cups his hands over his mouth. &quot;Silverthrush next time!&quot; He calls out.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;They aren't very good at hush-hush stuff, see.&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uh... yyyyeah... sounds like it...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well you're not helping.&quot; &gt;| *bricked*

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;They're trying to get better about it.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm not.&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Big mission, huh. Need any extra hands?&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot;So, if you can go with your friends, cat, we can be on our way and they can get back to practicing.&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;I mean, we're not all that tough, but Candle...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=w=;;;; &quot; Well.. not especially.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not...really.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The best way to keep a secret is to keep it to yourself. Second best, tell one person, if you must. There is no third best.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Since more than two people no, I do not consider it a secret worth keeping.&quot;

You whisper to VAE: Well... unless Candle decides to hop on board, that's all I can do. ^^;;; I tried to drop all the tantalizing hints I could. Narfing Gnogglebolt.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Would you like it to be all-weather conditions, or specialized?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can't promise the specialization will hold up.&quot;

Candlestand whispers: Now I'm not even sure myself.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, really. Is there anything else you need us to stay for, or are we free from interdiction and we can leave now?&quot; Gnogglebolt asks the inquisitors.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well we've.. been to the coast, the desert, forests, and been snowed on.&quot; ^^; &quot;All-weather..&quot;

You whisper to VAE: I tried to make it tantalizing and exciting-sounding, a breath of fresh air... ^^;

Candlestand whispers: I know.

Candlestand whispers: And the cat is curious, to be honest.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl puts the tape measurer away and goes into a cart.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And starts PAINTING.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+14+mod = 20 + 14 + 2 = 36&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!


 * Thomas Lazarus recomposes himself. =3=;; &quot; Well that was silly.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Mmf.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Yeah.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Just like that.

Candlestand whispers: It's just, think of it. The two of them are probably gonna get shouted at by their CO, and him leaving would prob'ly make it worse, or so it was made to sound.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom turns to the Inquisitors. &quot;So... ah. What're you heading for now?&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;I sent word to the commander... he just said 'do whatever you think you can do.' So, uh... I dunno. Doesn't sound like we're gonna get yelled at. We're on autonomous mode.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Heh.&quot; ^^;; &quot;Good and bad, huh..&quot;

Vonain (Goldeneye):<font color="#000000">&quot; Wow, that sounds familiar.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl appears with a bundle of black leather over one arm.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sounds better than expected. Wonder what got into him&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Here ya go.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If I could make recommendations, there's still celebrations going on in Yoriver, not to mention all the rebuilding and citizen-relief?&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Whaddo you think, Candle? Where do you wanna go?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...???&quot; He looks bewildered.

Glitch:<font color="#000000">ahhhh shit and now I gotta go.


 * Thomas Lazarus takes the bundle.

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

Glitch:<font color="#000000">Goodbyefolks

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( Ta. ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">see ya glitch

Glitch:<font color="#000000">leaving stuff connected.

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're probably gonna stick around here, but you're... you. You're not ranked. So, uh...&quot;

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Say, is that fellow with the purple hair one of yours?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;.... Technically? I mean, he did sign up as a Guardian.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;I like him. He's amusing.&quot;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'll assume Glitchcharacters huff off into the trucktrain to speed things along.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot; You should meet his buddies. &quot; =3=;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Should I? Who are they?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Adventurer contacts. You know the kind of thing.&quot; =3=;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">The cat kinks its head.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I assume Meanster is creating something. :v

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">It is a coat. Black leather, sized perfectly for Tom, with roominess. White cotton lining, with two large pockets on the outside at the waist, two on the inside near the chest region. The buttons on the coat, pockets, and cuffs are all shaped like tiny Pelor holy symbols- going into exacting detail on the face. The coat's outside has gold stitching shaping out to anti-Evil runes primarily along the back. A black hood is included, with string to allow it too close, with the ties being two halves of another Pelor symbol that can dock together. On the coat arms are gold stitches of Dwarven runes translating to 'Redeemer' on the arm Tom holds his shield with and 'Destroyer' on the arm he holds is sword with.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;And the Arguing guardians. . . Hmm. Perhaps I wouldn't mind sticking along for a trip north. I mean, it's not like you're going up there for a year, is it?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;But then, I'm just a cat, so.. . &quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Probably a month or less.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;The sooner we go, the sooner it will be over,&quot; a ninja calls from the carriage.

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


 * Thomas Lazarus is speechless for a moment. &quot;...How...???&quot;

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

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just a cat? Candle, you keep selling yourself short...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=3=;; !

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I paint something, and it is made real.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's how I made the catnip.&quot;

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;.... Okay, seriously, how widespread is the name Arguing Guardians? &quot; ^^;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. A month wouldn't be too bad. . . and I like snow.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;How widespread?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well. Warren Rock, Feldspar, and a few other places, for sure.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus takes a while to process 'oh, I made it with magic paints =3=' &quot;.......&quot; D|

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;--Ahh.. thank you!&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Haven't been elsewhere anywhere recent, so hard to say.&quot;


 * Dr. Hatari catches self nodding off. |D;; *seeks caffein and sugars*

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, uh... Whatever you decide, Candle. That guy in there had a really scary eye, so we're gonna head back before he comes glaring at us for slacking off and being late.&quot; |3;;;;

Inquisitor Fredrick Soames:<font color="#000000">&quot; It wasn't that scary. &quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;No wonder he got taken for a Hextorian then.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Those folks are usually scary, right?&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot; It glowed! &quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Magic, huh?&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;All right, so, uh... Seeya later, Candle. In town if you're comin', and if you're not, just shoot us a Sending, all right?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. That's a bit hard.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- The cat can Send?!&quot; O_o

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;The one I had got .. well, when the gnome started the thing.. . I was about to..&quot;

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uhhh... well. Tomorrow then? Or, uh, hang on... I got a scroll somewhere.&quot;

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

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, here you go. Don't tell old Yorick. &quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't worry. Cat's don't talk, after all.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">*Cats


 * VAE being a derpass

Inquisitor Alexander Pauling:<font color="#000000">&quot;Seeya around either way, Candle.&quot; Scritch scritch.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">*purr*

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;See ya&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uh, I hope you don't mind me tagging along for a while more, then.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now we are done, yes?&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;We can go, yes?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, we can go.&quot; Sweatdrop. &quot;... Welcome aboard, I guess?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;The board is nice and dry. I like that.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Up, up, and away we go! ... Unfortunately, I forgot to ask Gnogglebolt how far the trucktrain can travel in a day. Luckily, the next map's destination is flexible.

RAM:<font color="#990000">It can travel as far as it can travel.

GM:<font color="#000000">I think it can make it to Snowgate in a day.

RAM:<font color="#990000">40 MPH speed limit, right?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yep... come to think of it, Shankfang got to Oakridge in under a day. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yeah, we'll pick up at Snowgate. x3

RAM:<font color="#990000">Som depends on how long they travel for before stopping.

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( in and out.. brb ))

RAM:<font color="#990000">If they travel hard, probably about 600 miles in a day.

RAM:<font color="#990000">That's 15 hours of travel, enough time to stop, set up camp/get a place to stay, eat real quick and get 8 hours of sleep.

Carriage:<font color="#000000">most people don't actually travel more than 8 in a day normal walking/riding

RAM:<font color="#990000">Indeed. That's pretty much a forced march pace.

GM:<font color="#000000">The DM is preparing the next map, so if you've got any travel RP, by all means, go ahead! :3

RAM:<font color="#990000">Which isn't so harmful in an vehicle. &gt;.&gt;

GM:<font color="#000000">If not, noms before we switch scenes?

Carriage:<font color="#000000">snowgates under 10 hours travel for hte truck train...

RAM:<font color="#990000">Which would make it a good stopping point if they're setting a leisurely pace

GM:<font color="#000000">Let's assume, then, that the party stops for the evening at a roadside inn.

GM:<font color="#000000">Eight hours' travel and all.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;.... I spy with my little eye --&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;NO.&quot;

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">At least no one is singing '99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.'

RAM:<font color="#990000">Or 'The Song that Doesn't End.'

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;I spy with my little eye something beginning with naps&quot; *stretches*

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Scritch scritch scritch the cat.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">*purr*

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyone else want some new clothes while I'm in the muse?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can't make anything with value. Like gold, or ivory, or that. But I can make food and plants, clothes, and objects.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The plants are all dead though.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;They still smell the right way.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though. . . I'd have thought food, plants and clothes have value?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's fincky.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">finicky*

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The instructions say anything worth less than two thousand gold, able to be made with easily summoned materials.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">After what seems like far too long... The Guardians are back on the road again! The scrublands of the Charred Veld pass by in a blur, as you toss up snow as you travel. Luckily, Gnogglebolt's learned his lesson, and slows down whenever he can detect people coming by.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Does he?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Does he really

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

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

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( back ))

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I guess if you're here with us for a while... Candle's okay, right? We should probably make with introductions.&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">No you're not.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Liar.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sure&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus rides with folded arms. The uncomfortable silence continues.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;'s what everyone at home calls me, anyhow.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Around the carriage? I'm Edaric Tonmor -- Ed's fine. That's Vonain Seldriot over there -- he's with the Radiant Trinity.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Swallowtail.&quot; The ninja doesn't even open her eyes. Trying to meditate. =3=

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;I heard. . . . must be quite some story.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;A drow, an inquisitor and a dynamic walk into a bar. . . &quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus smirks faintly.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+14+mod = 1 + 14 + 0 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Even with a 1 I am good. &gt;:U

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. Like I said earlier... Inqusitor Thomas Lazarus.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">But as a touchup.


 * Thomas Lazarus rubs the back of his neck a bit pensively.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+14+mod = 3 + 14 + 0 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... I'm sorry. But.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I was a little wrapped up in tailoring..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Why did you decide to ride with us??&quot; =w=;;;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">The cat looks at him.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl quickly paints down a image in his journal, and ninjas over by Swallowtail, and produces a handful of blooming apple flowers, and places them in her lap.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And returns to his seat.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Not one word said.


 * Swallowtail blinks her eyes open at the touch... and then smiles, bringing them up to her face to sniff. :)

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well,the short story is that you're an amusing lot. The long one's a bit longer.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;The drow fellow's name is Sszeyl... HEY, AEL!&quot; the bard shouts into the next carriage.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Fortunately, apple blossoms are white.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And thus I couldn't screw them up too badly.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">|D

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Yeah?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;INTRODUCE YOURSELVES TO THE CAT!&quot; |D

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why haven't the dogs attacked yet, I wonder.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;I WISH I COULD SAY THAT'S THE STRANGEST THING YOU'VE SAID YET.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus still looks incredibly uncomfortable with the surreal events unfolding as they are.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Could you explain, please?&quot; ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;He's a cat.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Imagine him as a smaller form of Barbarus.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It makes sense.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I KNOW, RIGHT?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Oh juxtaposition.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">You silly.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;You lot are the Arguing Guardians, aren't you. And the purple haired fellow I was tracking turns up to be quite amusing, too. See, I noticed him sneaking in.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Tathi Eyllisaearsithek.&quot; She says simply, and glances to Aelian.

Aelian:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Aelian Cyadarith!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..It's just..&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We do some really dangerous stuff..&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;But really. .. I signed up for the Yoriver trip to get a bit of fresh air, and we showed up with a cross after the funeral, didn't we?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's not the sort of thing you should just follow us around for no reason over.&quot;

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shouldn't I? Worked fine for me over the last fourteen years.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Scritch scritch scritch.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">*purr*

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">I got catitude *brick*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; He still has a kind of haunted, incredulous look. He clearly doesn't like this. &quot; Whatever..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;We probably should ask for a...oh, what's the word.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Easy quest when we get to the dragons.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus tenses his fists. &quot;--No!&quot; He knits his brow and frowns. &quot;No, not whatever.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Given how horrifying the Yoriver thing was for you guys.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth whispers: so..what's going on in this new map? why so many outside in the cold? heh


 * Edaric looks over at Tom.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The last time we were fighting something hard, people almost died all around us.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's not right.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't worry too much about it. I can handle myself fairly well. Catching rats in the archives isn't the only thing I have done, see.&quot;

You whisper to Railock: A caravan's pulled up to stop at the inn for the night. You guys are with the caravan. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That's not the poooint.&quot; He grimaces.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's ... why??&quot;

You whisper to RAM: Woodside Inn is the map. A caravan's pulled up to stop at the inn for the night. You guys are with the caravan. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You'll be in danger!&quot;

Adulian whispers: Bitching.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;So will you. And that purple-haired fellow.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You should have reasons for doing things!&quot; He clutches his head. =3=;;;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;He does have reasons, Tom.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;They're good enough for him, but not good enough for you.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Speaking of which, did anybody see where he went?&quot; Ed checks under his seat.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's the problem with subjectivity.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Also no.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's just.. arbitrary and crazy and he doesn't get it! This is irresponsible!&quot; D:

Adulian whispers: Is there an area in the inn for performers, or will that have to be outside? :.

Adulian whispers: No big deal either way, just wondering.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth whispers: and we are on out way to slay red and white dragons plagueing the mountains, right?

You whisper to RAM: It's outside; it's a teeny tiny inn beside the road. x3

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;If he were a child, I'd agree. He is not; he's an adult, and fully self aware.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You should be taking note of this RAM. *bricked*

Adulian whispers: Mkay.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's around a month, anyways. I've been gone for longer. Besides. . . responsible to who?&quot;

You whisper to Railock: You could be! :3 NPCs will drop that exposition when they get there, but you'll be well aware of it by now.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;He has the right to make decisions on his own reasoning with his own threat level judements and have those descisions respected unless they are objectively wrong.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus looks increasingly frustrated. &quot;What kind of excuse is disregard for your own destruction??&quot; =3=;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That doesn't change anything!&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;If this is my own destruction, then it's a rather nice means of doing so.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Warm and dry means.&quot;

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">The cat looks thoughtful.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're a cat all right.&quot; =3=;


 * Thomas Lazarus swivels a look down and squints in disbelief and consternation. &quot;?!&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">As the sky begins to darken, you see lights on the horizon, and if you listen very closely over the roaring of the wind, you can hear music and many voices.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..I don't believe you.&quot; He squints and sobers.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Why're you so set on this?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're an inquisitor, right?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What's your angle?&quot; =3=c

GM:<font color="#000000">When you're ready, switch to Woodside Inn; I've copied your tokens. :3

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;You can check if I'm lying.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth whispers: there, got that pic as something cause he's proabbly not got his helmet on right now


 * Thomas Lazarus stands. &quot;I am gonna kick you out if you don't stop playing games. This isn't a joke! People have died following us -- it's not some joy ride for fun! This is serious!&quot; He tries his best to impress the gravity of the situation on the cat. Which is sort of funny in itself.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You shouldn't be taking it so absurdly lightly!&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth whispers: and due to that know noble I rolled that day, I'll at least recognize who tathi and thom are so I can introduce myselves? probably too early for knowledge of yoriver to have spread...

You whisper to Railock: Yep! Actually, the news of Yoriver has begun to spread through the caravan network; not much more than rumors, though. You'd be best off identifying the Guardians or Tathi.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">brb pretty tokens *bricked*

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">The cat looks at him with a curious expression.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth whispers: could I just say I've seen pictures and so can spot and have at least cursery knowledge f both the noble families in the group?

You whisper to Railock: Heard descriptions would be more accurate, but aye.


 * Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth approaches the truck train curiously, not sure what sort of...thing...it is

GM:<font color="#000000">Trucktrain's not quite there yet; it's approaching.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">We haven't stopped yet.


 * Bryne ap Emyr follows a step or so behind, shadowing Mael

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;People die everywhere. In our branch, over in Yoriver. . .&quot;

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

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">oh

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;People die everywhere. In our branch, over in Yoriver. . .&quot;

Aelian: <font color="#9900ff">(( need to go to bed soon. =3= ))

Halfling Skyrider:<font color="#000000">A magical flare is thrown into the air, exploding in a shower of cheerful sparks over a tree.

Sszeyl: <font color="#0">(( Away with you, foul sleepyhead. ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Which busts into fire.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Don't let us keep you too close to the edge of your seat. =_=

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;'s not like one becomes immortal by huddling in a corner somewhere. &quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus is all but pulling his hair out. &quot;But--wh--that--&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">The trucktrain pulls to a stop slowly, and a shout of welcome goes up -- there are wagons surrounding this teeny roadside inn, and small bodies milling about everywhere. Looks like a halfling caravan!

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;We are in the business of death.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;--That doesn't explain why you want to follow us into combat, specifically, so badly!&quot;


 * Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth approaches the truck train curiously, not sure what sort of...thing...it is


 * Bryne ap Emyr follows a step or so behind, shadowing Mael

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Great.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Now we're the arguing guardians here too.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Isn't that where I was off to, anyways?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">=3=

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tom, you grew up with cats, right?&quot; ^^;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;We were off to catch some traitors, before we met you lot.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't know where you were going or why or why you're trying so hard to cling to us now!&quot; &gt;|O

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think we've been 'adopted.'&quot; =3=;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Because you're amusing.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But I'm telling you, it's not something to do without a reason!&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;And I have reasons.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;--And that's not good enough!&quot; &gt;8|

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh hey! Caravan!&quot; :O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I won't--&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus fumes a little and glances over.


 * Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth DOES wonder at all the arguing coming from inside the contraption

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:55 lagcheck?

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( :56 ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">:55, all fine

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:55 at :55, yep. :3

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Less than a day, and we're already arguing. I suppose that makes me fit right in with the Arguing Guardians.&quot;


 * Edaric leans out and calls out a greeting in Halfling, waving to the caravan guards. &quot;(Warm nights and safe travels to you!)&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi sighs, and looks to the fellows watching on. &quot;Hi, sorry. Living up to our namesake as the Arguing Guardians.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus looks back to the cat with a curdled expression. &quot;..Do you want to adventure and make money or something, then?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not too many uses for money when you're a cat.&quot;

Railock:<font color="#000000">See. soon as no one else was, thomas DID pick up the slack. He truly IS one of us.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It would be a little different if you had... ANY actual sane reason for subjecting yourself to what we get into..&quot; =_=;;;;;;

Yondallan Protector:<font color="#000000">A halfling smiles brightly. &quot;(And also to you!) Welcome, travellers! Staying the night or just passing through? The inn has rooms left!&quot; :3

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( Well, he's pretty much the symbol now, isn't he? Dumb, strong, arguing. Arguing Guardians. XP ))

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Staying the night. Does the inn have any sound-proofed rooms?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( I just found a plausible RP thread to play up and try to reduce the overwhelmingly surreal shoehorn'd character insert that was threatening to otherwise shatter my suspension of disbelief. ))

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( It's working out okay. :B ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">It is

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( Still, bad form. ))

Yondallan Protector:<font color="#000000">&quot;You'll have to ask the innkeeper.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Around one of the fires outside the inn is what seems to be a small party; the fire crackles happily, revelers are reveling, drinks are being drunk, and a Bard plays music while a...surprisingly attractive Half-Orc dances and sings along! &#171; &#160;1d20+22 = 5 + 22 = 27&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Song, &#171;  &#160;1d20+22 = 16 + 22 = 38&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Dance! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxBKgOyMzSc She is tall, like most of her kind, but unlike most of her kind, her body is lithe and supple. She is wearing what appears to be some kind of tribal cold-weather gear, consisting mostly of furs and leather, but as she moves you can catch glimpses of shining chainmail underneath. Feathers make a prominant appearance in her outfit, with two trails of them hanging down her back, and a feathered headband adorning her head.

Tathi: <font color="#9900ff">(( no it isn't. perfect form! ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry, mea culpa. Lesson learned. ^^;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Bam!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Eh. It's actually plausible as far as kitty's concerned.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You rationalize bullshit as devil's advocate all the time, your opinion is irrelevant. =3=

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Just replace the city and such references in the song with ones that would be appropriate to the setting. &gt;.&gt;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do my eyes decieve me, or are you actually Thomas Lazarus, and Tathi Eyllisaearsithek? What are such members of noble houses doing riding in such a...unusual contraption? &quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Uh, I came up with the cat, along with lia

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;That song sounds familiar...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">See this is why you find a song without references like that.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">:V

Adulian: <font color="#990000">(( Oi, keep the bitching to IRC! I'll not have my new character's appearance marred by it! &gt;:O ))

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


 * Edaric idly strums, waiting for the party to disembark. &#171; &#160;1d20+21 = 8 + 21 = 29&#160;  &#187;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Arguing.&quot; Tathi says with a small smile. &quot;But, we're headed north. In the noisiest, most uncomfortable fashion possible, thanks to our mazian tinkerer.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl dons a disguise.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;North, what buiseness would you have their noble of House Eyllisaearsithek?&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">The Half-Orc's head cocks slightly at the sound of the new performer, but she does not miss a step in her own performance.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;Well- wait. How'd you know about not only me, but my family as well?&quot; Tathi asks quizzically.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot; Been a long time. &quot; Ed begins to play the familiar tune, keeping pace with the half-orc's singing.


 * Edaric wanders through the caravan, schmoozing and playing, in his element. Ahhh, it feels good to get out of that tense carriage!

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmmph, like my parents would of let me grow up without studying the noble houses of the world.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who are you?&quot; Swallowtail asks the winged folk.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;You have... strange accent.&quot; She's one to talk.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Once the song finishes, the Half-Orc bows to some applause, and puts a hand on Ed's arm as he passes.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;You're a noble as well?&quot; She asks.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Old man looks out the window.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;What is being celebrated?&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;You're good. Would you like to perform with me?&quot; :3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;? Aha, you're the singer! Sure, I'll play a few numbers.&quot; :3

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am Maelqwyn ap Gwardneth, possible scion to house ap Gwardnerth, this is my companion Bryne ap Emyr.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Her voice is smooth and light, and not the least bit happy.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth whispers: um...do you havea city name that we came from or just...some port in aldusia?

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+15 = 12 + 15 = 27&#160; <font color="#9900FF">&#187; knowledge, nobility!

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Called back over his shoulder; &quot;Caravan!&quot;

You whisper to Railock: Nah... Just make something up. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Wait, so... is she angry, or happy? ^^;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Excellent! Would you like to pick the next song, or shall I?&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth whispers: argh I'm BAD with names! I'm liable to name it BobPort!

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Happy.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That turn of phrase always confused me.

You whisper to Railock: The town of Bigby, then.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Not the least bit, meaning more that least happy.

VAE:<font color="#000000">u h, nope

VAE:<font color="#000000">not the least bit means there's not a bit of happiness there

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Yeah. Other way around.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Always better to pick something the singer knows. I can fudge if I have to.&quot; :3 Ed gestures to the half-orc.

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">It's an english.. misnomer?

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">It says exactly what it is not.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Eh, it's how I've always used it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">how it says what it is not

VAE:<font color="#000000">It's pretty damn clear what it means

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

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, very well. Let's see if you know this one.&quot; :d

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;What is being celebrated?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">To IRC with your arguin'! &gt;:P

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">Tathi taps her lips a moment, then snaps her fingers. &quot;Bigby! Aldusia, isn't it?&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20+22 = 3 + 22 = 25&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Song, &#171;  &#160;1d20+22 = 16 + 22 = 38&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Dance!

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">'Yes, I see you've been made to study noble houses as well.&quot;

Yondallan Protector:<font color="#000000">&quot;... You're one of those hermits that lives under rocks, aren't you, sir?&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">She launches into a new performance, this one a far cry different from the last! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7R5FnVoq9M

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">She shrugs a little. &quot;Not really. I don't study anything in particular. I study everything.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+21 = 14 + 21 = 35&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Lute!


 * Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth chuckles

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom decides to disengage from his frustrations and depart the trucktrain. He looks over the exotic folk with a long face, heading for the building. He stops when Maelgwyn catches his name, though. &quot;..?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9900FF">&quot;So what are you doing all the way over here though?&quot;

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

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Whether Ed knows the song or not, he's clearly able to follow along. :B


 * Edaric calls to Sszeyl as the song finishes. &quot;It's a halfling caravan! Think of it as a mobile marketplace!&quot;

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;If there's one thing halflings know, it's how to have a good time anywhere!&quot; :3

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, you are good. What is your name, fellow performer?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's.. rare.. that anyone recognizes me these days.&quot; :. &quot;..Did we perhaps meet somewhere when I was younger, sir?&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Family issue actually...a..ah...well, basically the.court scribe forgot to note down which of us came out first, my twin or I. Kind of embarrasing. So to settle matters of succession, we both got sent opposite directions at the urging of an oracle...not really sure on the details of what or why, but something about whichever of us comes back in such a way that makes the household better. So I'm kind of out here...being me.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tom, the inquisitor, is he always like this?&quot; *to Ed, I think He's still in truck, isn't he.*


 * Edaric offers a hand. &quot;Edaric Tonmor, with the Vigilant Guardians. And you? You're not half bad, yourself!&quot; :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">he is't

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Ed is off in musicland, so Swallowtail answers instead. &quot;Thomas... worries.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">In the past, Candle. But Ed is out by the strangers, now.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Eh, I was setting tea to boil, besides, the neck ache isn't adding to my int

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;He worries, and is kind. Has seen much suffering and death.&quot;

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is not a task to take up lightly. He is right.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;But what is the reason for celebrating.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suppose if you were the lot who cleaned Yoriver up, it's expected.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do believe we met once, though you were but a boy, I did visit lorellon a few times when younger...and later on, during my time in the military. You had a sister, didn't you?&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Adulian takes the offered hand, giving a firm shake. &quot;Adulian, Chandak of the Spirit Walker tribe. Thank you, Edaric Tonmor of the Vigilant Guardians.&quot;

Caravan Driver:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who needs a reason? To life!&quot; \o/

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lots of rumors about what's been going on, besides the actual message&quot;


 * Bryne ap Emyr just...tries to blend in, not saying much, but obviously watching. his eyes seem to pay the most attention to swallowtail

Bryne ap Emyr whispers: he's paying attention cause she's not kellon,

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh, yes.&quot; He smiles. &quot;..It's surprising.. I'd think I would remember a gentleman with your impressive countenance.&quot; Tom gestures as politely as he can to Mael's wings. &quot;But.. ah.. I suppose I don't remember a lot of important things from back then.&quot; ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Tathi, since when you're into healing people?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;And Ed's fine.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Beg your pardon. It's nice to make your acquaintance -- again.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because you show up as the Red Cross

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Indeed. Tathi's token (the base) seems to have failed to load. It's a red x for me.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yeep. Yep, she shows up as a red X to me, too. ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl just cannot parse celebration for no reason.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">same

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">So he goes back to the cart.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ah, it is a term my people use. I am a...Shaman, in your language. I deal with Spirits; they provide me with my magic, and in return I deal with their...troublemakers.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ahhh. So kind of like my friend Tom, but tribal. He's an exorcist. He's...&quot; Ed scans the crowd. &quot;There, the tall one with the white hair. Pelorite.&quot; :3

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;The same, though I will admit I was usually at awe of being in the presence of your legendary father when I met your family. So what brings a man of such impressive lineage up north? Are you here for the dragons as well?

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yes, much like that. Ghosts, Fae, Elementals, even Demons and Devils fall under my purview.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Let me eat her face.


 * Adulian catches sight of Tom, and nods.


 * Thomas Lazarus widens his eyes a little. &quot;..Y..yes. In a round-a-bout way.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">No.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">You never let me have any fun.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We're heading to the citadel.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Curious. You are, too?&quot;

Lynx Warrior:<font color="#000000">&quot;You are very brave. Especially in these times, warrrriorrrrs.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">My face, pesky Spirit?

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth whispers: is the citadel famous enough to know about or has he just heard of hte infestation of hte evil ones?

You whisper to Railock: He's heard stories.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Careful he's an epic level spirit. =3=;

Lynx Warrior:<font color="#000000">&quot;They say the skies are thick with drragons therre, lately.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">I'll ge there, eventually. &gt;.&gt;

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

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not directly, no, were here for the ones plagueing the trade rouges. It might be a place to ask if they have information...but Were hoping to find the ones that have been attacking people. I've heard there are whites, and posisbly a red at work in the area&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Once I hit level 20 I basically become a Fae. After that I have all the time in the world. :B

Yondallan Protector:<font color="#000000">&quot;You don't know the half of it. Not two days go by without hearing about dragons fighting.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">trade rouges

VAE:<font color="#000000">export lipstick

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">routes*

Tokens dropped onto map 'Woodside Inn'Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">From negative intrigue to all the intrigue!!!

Lynx Watcher:<font color="#000000">&quot;They say, the drragons hungerrr. The white ones do not darrre encroach on the silverr lands, yet now, they come in great numbers.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus sweatdrops. o_o; &quot; Wow.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hmm, it seems Tom has already met my husband.&quot; :B

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;So I take it you aren't here to help deal with the problem then?&quot;

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">(Listen Check : &#171; &#160;1d20+FLOOR(Wisdom/2-5)+0 = 2 + FLOOR(14 / 2 - 5) + 0 = 4&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;)

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Surprise development?!

Lynx Watcher:<font color="#000000">&quot;Something stirrrs. It makes trrravel verrry dangerous. But, the people must eat, yes?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your husband?&quot; Ed scans the crowd.


 * Thomas Lazarus holds his chin thoughtfully, at the dragon comments.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We didn't actually.. know about it.&quot;


 * Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth is just obvlivious to the chandaks comments

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl turns inward.

Sszeyl whispers: How much trouble could a group of Whites give us?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...&quot; He knits his brow and begins to look concerned as he pieces thoughts together.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yes, the man with the ridiculously fancy armor, right there.&quot; Adulian points.

You whisper to Meany: The dragon remains silent, just smiling.

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">what man?


 * Adulian lowers her voice to a whisper.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Presumably Maelgwyn, with his very fancy armor.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh...Well, They are a plague on those north of here...would you be interested in trying to help put them down? While I'm confident in my ability...when facing dragons, more skilled blades are always welcome.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot; Lots of fancy clothes here... ... The winged one?&quot; :. &quot;Wow, those are impressive. Is he celestial-blooded?&quot;

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">this one also has wings. just not the fancy armor

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm... not sure, friend. This may require a meeting and some thought.&quot; :oc

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot; It is noisy here. &quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..We did just come over from Yoriver. And there were some purple worms we put down under the city. But we've hardly ever.. opposed a dragon or anything.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ah, no. He's Raptoran, as is his Aid standing next to him.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000"> &quot;He won my hand in a tournament my Tribe held, but he's completely oblivious to it. It's actually rather amusing.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Understood...yoriver? theres been some..rumors going on about that place? And purple worms you say? That's a feat in and of itself...what did happen down there?&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">lulz

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not that different from the. .truck train, right?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aheh.&quot; ^^; &quot;I... see.&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20+13 = 20 + 13 = 33&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Sense Motive. &gt;.&gt;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's quite a story..&quot; He glances around to all the halflings and catfolk and such.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">She is being entirely truthful.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We've been riding a while. Would you like to come in and have a seat with us? I'd be glad to talk about it. And hear more of this upset dragon business.&quot; o_o;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Also, she is clearly amused by the thought. x3

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;But of course. It is far chillier out here than the weather I'm used to&quot;

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Finally&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Just gonna go ahead and point out; anime haflings? Fucking adorable.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Regular halflings? Not even a little.

Adulian:<font color="#990000"> &quot;I don't think his Aid likes me very much, though.&quot; &gt;.&gt;


 * Teeny Rin bricked.


 * Thomas Lazarus smiles and heads in. He nods to Ed as he goes, seeing that he's entertaining company as he goes.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just so we're clear, if I accidentally just entered a contest with you, I'm taken.&quot; :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">A wild Sszeyl appears.

Bryne ap Emyr: <font color="#0">(( so ed's already saying tom's claimed him? ))

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Haha! No, no. Don't worry yourself there.&quot; x3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">I just don't wanna get snap-married without my knowledge. =3=; *brick'd*

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">&quot;So who are your...less famous...companions, Sir.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">|D ! I mean.. RIGHT.

Massive Dog:<font color="#000000">A MASSIVE dog lounges in tront of the fire. |D

Dwarven Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;Welcome to Somewhere Else. Speak up if you want somethin'.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Besides, as clueless as my poor husband is, he's not half bad. Capable, refined, and more than a little attractive under all that armor.&quot; ;3

Ghostwish: <font color="#9900ff">(( g'night.. =3= ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Am I really famous??&quot; ^^; Tom stammers a little, unused to the idea. &quot;I've been just a humble templar for years.. I guess I can understand people picking up the name, but..&quot; |D

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your father and sister are famous.&quot;

Adulian: <font color="#990000">(( Ah, uh, nini Ghost! ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;They are Great Names.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;By association, so is yours a Great Name.&quot;

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sheesh what a wet blanket.

Lone Soldier:<font color="#000000">The other current people in the inn are a bustling halfling, a messenger sorting a stack of papers, and what looks like a Kellon soldier in a fur-lined cloak far gone into his drinks.

Adulian: <font color="#990000">(( Eh, can't blame him. We've all been there; dead tired and unable to really give a fuck. &gt;.&gt; ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I was there. An hour ago. That's just his status quo, with exceptions where he stops playing FTL and emotes. =3= *bricked back to game*

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;So, where are you all headed to? I can't imagine you're braving the snowy mountains just for fun.&quot; :B

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">&quot;You've begun to make a name for yourself as well Sir. You and you're...&quot; he checks a notebook &quot; Vigilant Guardians...have begun to gather a name all your own.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Exceptionally agreeing with Rail

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's Arguing Guardians.&quot;

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll note that&quot; and he proceeds to do so.

Adulian: <font color="#990000">(( Eh, hard to argue with you there. *shrug* His loss. ))

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nah, you're right. We're on a... quest.&quot; :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Granted, I usually pull through, but still. there's tiered, and there's Tired which makes for fail RP.

VAE:<font color="#000000">*tired, not tiered

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl...paints.

VAE:<font color="#000000">wait, that was RAM, not rail


 * VAE headdesk

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oooh, so are we! Tell me, one performer to another, is it the kind they'll sing ballads of for years to come?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+14+mod = 14 + 14 + 0 = 28&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're headed to the Pinacle of the North. Skydragon Citadel itself.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I guess that's encouraging to hear..&quot; He smiles.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">:O

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">A bottle of apple cider, and four glasses is pulled out of his journal.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Wow~!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Although..&quot; He ^^;'s at Sszeyl's remark.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;So what really went on down in YoRiver?&quot;

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

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;I didn't think they usually let outsiders in!&quot;


 * Edaric holds up his lute. &quot;Well, I don't know about singing, but it's been a tale to tell so far! We just came out of Yoriver.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Want some, Tom?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can't tell how it's going to taste.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; No thanks. It might be toxic. It's paint.&quot; |D;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yoriver, Yoriver...isn't that the place with the big Devil incursion? Something about the local Mace branch going corrupt?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl pours some cider.


 * Thomas Lazarus clears his throat for Mael. &quot;Well.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And le drink.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;And that's not saying anything about our adventures in Castleton -- that's our home base. We spent a little time in Resca helping a dragon champion round up a group of slaving pirates a few months back, so we've got, let's say, a few connections to the Citadel that might be able to help.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You've met me. This here is Sszeyl. A monk, fffformerly of Orrrr--I'm sorry I always fail at this.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Orgollyos -- no..&quot;

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

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;You guys have Dragon friends?!&quot; :O


 * Thomas Lazarus snaps and points. =3=;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It tastes fine.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Adulian is clearly impressed.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;We've met a few.&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It tastes like it was made from yellow apples, not the red ones I grow at home.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus peers at the painted wine uncertainly as he goes on. &quot;..And you're familiar with Tathi.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Here, try some.&quot; He pours glasses for the two raptors.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, Yoriver was overwhelmed with devils. A full-on Hextorian incursion.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Wow. My husband has connections, but I don't think even he is friends with Dragons!&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Never heard of this orgollys&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">^^; &quot;Well.. former member.. so.. perhaps that's for the best.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;We helped put a stop to it, fighting devils on the surface, exorcising possessed people, investigating, delving deep into the Underdark... We even closed a portal to the Nine Hells itself! Tom's sister was the one to deliver the final blow -- you'll never guess what finally closed the door to Hell down there.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, not worth following after you learn what he's really about or somethign?&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;And you made it out in one piece? You must be incredibly lucky, or incredibly skilled! I've dealt with a few Fiends myself, I know how troublesome they can be-Oh? Do tell~.&quot;


 * Swallowtail looks to Candlestand.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The half-elven gentleman with Tathi is her boyfriend, Aelian Cyadarith. He's a fine archer and tracker. And the fellow playing music outside is Edaric Tonmor. A fine musician and magician himself. The gnome driving our vehicle was Gnogglebolt Sparkgear -- inventor -- he made the whole thing himself.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Give it a guess, first.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Am I the only one who keeps reading Candlestand as Candleja-


 * VAE groans

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;He's also idealistic to the extreme, intolerant of many things, and has problems with people thinking he isn't totally correct some times.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is he a noble as well? Perhaps a minor family I haven't heard of?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sip.

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

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hmm...&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">... is the cat even awake?


 * Adulian ponders. &gt;:.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mr. Vonain Seldriot is with us.. he's a Radiant Trinity member and a warlock. There's a young woman with us lingering behind, Swallowtail. She's an excellent scout and.. security expert.&quot; |D;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">It appears napping. Or at the very least its eyes look closed.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;You must be tolerant to be able to deal with Mazians...crazy, every single one of them.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can drop kick him if he gets out of line.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus chuckles lightly. &quot;..Well..&quot; ^^;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Was it...A Devil's corpse?&quot; :.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yes, yes we are tolerant.&quot; *bricked*


 * Thomas Lazarus seems like he understands.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, so more forced servitude. Still, the things they make usually blow up. Often sooner rather than later.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;....&quot; Swallowtail looks around, then sits, crossing her legs. &quot;.. Is it rude to ask for lap sits? &quot; &gt;:.c

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That's everyone, right?&quot; He glances to Sszeyl.

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

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">In response, the cat leaps into her lap.

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;It isn't.&quot;

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're warmer than the floor, for one.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Cats, Dogs, Rats....Do you always have sucha collection of pets?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't care about introducing people who aren't people.&quot; =w=; &quot;..Although..&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Dammit Sszeyl, that was totally your chance right there!

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">For?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=_=; &quot;..And.. the cat.. yes..&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth: <font color="#0">(( lap sits ))


 * RAM points at Swallowtail.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;A cat that can speak and cast spells seems to be following us now.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">I weigh as much as two swallowtails.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">The cat begins purring, and pawing at Swallowtail's knee

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">I'd kill her.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">So no.

RAM:<font color="#990000">No no no.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I was just arguing with it when we arrived, trying to convince it to stop.&quot; =w=;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;This... is true.&quot; Swallowtail begins to scritch the cat's ears. &quot;...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..It won't listen..&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Her sitting in your lap.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;He's a cat.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're not going to convince him of anything he hasn't already convinced himself.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Barbarus is a cat

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">OH WOW.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">LOOK HOW MY POINT STILL STANDS.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">OH WONDER OF WONDERS.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't know why you see that as some sort of excuse. We shouldn't allow it to get itself killed just because it doesn't understand. That's irresponsible!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">haha yep

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Interesting. Well, I've been traveling north with Bryne here, and since we went through the plains, Adulian, the half orc dancing outside when you arrived, has been following me ever since I won a tournament of strength they were holding at a festival.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It does understand.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;We are in the business of death, Thomas.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;And if they insit on traveling into danger, one can only do what you can to protect and shield those weaker than oneself.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dammit, Ed, don't keep me in suspence! Am I right or not!&quot; Ed gets slugged in the shoulder- not too hard, of course.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, Swallowtail, is it? A bit unusual name for a person.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">This one only has 12 Str. &gt;.&gt;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_620.php

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well then it is a very silly creature and I do not abide a creature wandering into the clutches of death and demons and dragons just because it is foolhardy and flippant. The same goes for children and greenhorn warriors with too much ego and cats.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus huffs. =3=

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hah! No, but close!&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;A cabinet door.&quot; :3

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;...&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;BWAHAHAHAHA!&quot; XD

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;She whacked it with a cabinet door.&quot;

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Weeeeeeeell granted it was made out of adamantine. Still!&quot; XP

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He sighs back to Maelgwyn. &quot;..I guess..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I have accepted that I will die eventually.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Adulian clutches her sides and doubles over from laughing so hard! XD

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't fear it, I seek to avoid it where I can, but I don't let the possibility of me dying stop me from doing things.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is... chosen name. Not given name.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am a student of the Four Beasts.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;|

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Four Beasts?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Once upon a time, those Beasts had proper names.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You should let it stop you from walking into fireplaces for no other reason than curiosity!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">They are lost now.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wind swallow, fire phoenix, water turtle, earth tiger.&quot;

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

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;H-How did you guys manage that?!&quot; XD

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;The cat walks into fireplaces? were they lit?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let him learn on his own.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Schools of martial art.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you fear his death, be there to help when he'll need it.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's the only way to let the prideful learn prudence.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. Not much of a common thing around here.&quot;


 * Edaric makes a gesture of whacking something into the ground. &quot;Kind of like that, I'd imagine. I didn't get to see it, I was invisible at the time and around the corner.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus knits his brow. &quot;If that is how we let creatures learn all their lessons, there would be a lot more grieving mothers in this country.&quot; The topic curdles his mood and he sighs through his nose. &quot;..But I guess I'll do just that, since no one seems to feel the same way.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Akellon is big.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It isn't that way for everything.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sip.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Well, yeah, but HOW?! I mean, you would have to destroy the Circle keeping the gate open, which was probably on some kind of hard surface! How could you hit it that hard?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;The closest thing to martial arts I have seen is drunks with bottles and chairs.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Only those whose hearts are full of pride over how great they see themselves.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Look at Barbarus; he went out to face a serial killer alone and paid for it. Would have making the case have stopped him from doing it? No. Harsh reality had to do that.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..If he just.. wanted to adventure.. that'd be different.. he can cast spells. He can't be any more fragile than Tathi..&quot; =3= *bricked*

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is true. But you can't run someones life for them. If they insist on going into danger, sometimes you have to make sure it's at least at your side, so you can shield them from the worst of it.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There's just no reason!!&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;But yes, 's a big country. We had a map hanging in the archives.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's insane.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tom's sister is really strong. Tom's just as strong, himself, if not stronger. I've seen him cut down Nessian warhounds by himself, while keeping the rest of us alive with magic.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're thinking like a Human, Thomas.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth: <font color="#0">(( hell he's like TWO tathis in hp ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Candlestand isn't a human.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;You need to understand that.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( I know right, it's amazing ))

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( I want to see the cat jump in front of an arrow in slow-mo for Tathi, and survive. ))

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

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;My husband might be able to pull it off; he's a follower of some kind of crazy martial voodoo...&quot; :.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Old Archie showed me how to find our town on it, and the ones around, and Lorellon.&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">The cat's got 60 HP

VAE:<font color="#000000">and an AC of 20

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, that is quite impressive.&quot; :.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and it's got a bunch of levels in cat x3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, that's what Tom's sister does. Sublime Way?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus grumbles and bumbles in a most UnThomasy consternation. =_=# Suicidally whimsical sentients..

VAE:<font color="#000000">like, cat 3/cleric 8.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth: <font color="#0">(( it is well known that unleveled cat &gt; unleveled human ))

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who is Archie?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Have some cider.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It will help.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Used to be.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He does. Sip. =3=

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who was?&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Yeah, that's it! His style mostly focuses on just standing there and taking a beating, but he does it well.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He then remembers himself and glances to Maelgwyn. &quot;--Ah. I'm sorry, sir.&quot;

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

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

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Used to be one of the Mace folks. My master, or how you'd say.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I got kind of.. lost in my rambling there.&quot; |D;

Adulian: <font color="#990000">(( And we all know a common Housecat can oneshot a level one Wizard. ))

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;He's the one who awakened me.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;You know, made it so I can talk to people and all that. Was with him since I was a kitten&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Level one wizards &gt; commoners. |D

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">Cats in nethack were epic

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I can't make the appropriate symbol in maptools.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;From what I could tell, Tomi deals more with dishing out the beating than standing there and taking it. She's a berserker. Tom's a protector. But that's not even touching the other members of our troupe -- we have one of the world's best archers with us, too, if I dare say so myself!&quot;


 * Dr. Hatari fail.

Adulian: <font color="#990000">(( Strike that, reverse it. ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Commoners &gt; level one wizards?

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">I tended to go as wizard, and the kitty pet I had was better at killing stuff than I was, unless spells

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


 * Dr. Hatari bricked.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Commoners &gt; level one wiz-ninja'd.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Commutative property! XP *brick'd*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... I think. |D;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is fine. you do seem to be dealing with...a lot&quot;

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

VAE:<font color="#000000">how is &gt; commutative

Liatai:<font color="#000000">What's that math property, I dunno. |D;;;

VAE:<font color="#000000">a &gt; b and b &gt; a mean the opposite thing

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Haha.. yeah..&quot; ^^; &quot;It's been a bit of a rough journey.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Commutative is addition for example. a + b = b + a

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yes, but A is greater than B is the same as B is less than A. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm sorry. I must have missed your names.&quot; He smiles and glances to Bryne. :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">In this case -- I'm taking it to IRC. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">The DM is put in OOC time out.

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Scritch scritch scritch. &quot;I am sorry for your loss.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, sounds to me like you have quite the adventuring groupe there! I wouldn't be surprised if Maelgwyn smooth-talked our way into going with you guys, especially if we're going the same way. He's smooth like that.&quot; :3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where are you headed?&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;'s how life goes. Nobody's around forever.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth, and my companion is Bryne ap Emyr&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I swear to god.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">If Tomi were here.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">She would be stealing that catfolk explorer child.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tom has a big heart. Filled with compassion, and weighed down by the injustices of the world.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">There's no two ways about it. =3= *bricked*

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

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Into the mountains. There's some rogue Dragons up there causing trouble; we're going to clear the route.&quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">The cat stops pawing for a moment, and just stares into the wall

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I distinctly remember giving you advice on this subject, Thomas, after the Lundy incident.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh.. goodness..&quot; ^^;; &quot;And here I am bad with names..&quot; He tries to commit them to memory.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, hey, might happen, then!&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Injustices are made to be fought against, not let weigh on your heart.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">haha nope

VAE:<font color="#000000">injustices are made because someone can. and profits x3

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, yeah. If you're heading up to the Citadel, you'd be making your way through the same route we are.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">'It is long...I blame my Parents. I used to go by Mael during my time in the army. and I usually just call him Bryne.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;We could put on some more performances together!&quot; :D


 * Thomas Lazarus looks briefly pained and annoyed by the mention of Lundy. &quot;Hey. That was.. different.&quot;

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000"> &quot;Bryne is fine, sir.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know I'd appreciate having another entertainer around, if nothing else. Thanks for those numbers, Chandak Adulian -- you have no idea how much I needed that, after Yoriver.&quot; {:3

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;A monster hurt a lot of people by being a monster and not seeing the reality of the situation.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Except without devils, and with zombies.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He sighs. &quot;I.. just wanted to not drag a creature into unnecessary danger. It won't really matter what its attitude was if it ends up that we are the reason it loses its life later.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Heh, I can imagine. Being in the thick of a Fiend incursion must have been pretty stressful.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't want to talk about that right now..&quot; He frowns.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Thank you for performing with me; it has been a long time since I performed with someone of your skill.&quot;


 * Edaric stares into the fire a moment. &quot;... Yeah, it was.&quot;

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

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You asked what really happened in Yoriver, sir.&quot;


 * Edaric shakes it off. &quot;Hey, no problem! I'm probably gonna be playing around out here for a while before heading in for a meal if you're up for it again.&quot; :3

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh Ed, I'm always up for a performance!&quot; |3

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Scritch scritch scritch. &quot; ... You are very soft. &quot;

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">&quot;Winter fur.&quot;

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">&quot; think of this sir, Danger is everywhere. While you may be heading into great danger...can you garuntee he won't be in danger if he stays away from you? Can you garuntee that no dragon will raid the caravan he travels with, or some crazed necromancer won't start a plague in whatever town he goes to? At least this way, you actually have a chance at helping the cat should he be in touble.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes yes, what did happen in that place? the rumors are so..inconclusive.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He considers Bryne's words with a soft sigh.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Adulian stands, stretching her arms waaaay up high. &quot;Ah, I do believe it is your turn to pick the number, my friend!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..I'll still feel responsible if something happens. But I guess that's just my fate, now.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Cats -- forces of destiny.

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

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Responsibility comes with rewards. Primarily the gratitude of those you help.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;It need not have lyrics, I can dance just as well as I can sing.&quot; :3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lessee... Don't know many songs with lyrics -- All right, lemme see here.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's still under official investigation. I should probably not go blabbing every detail of it I know in the first tavern we pass.&quot; He huffs in faint amusement at the thought. &quot;..Although about a hundred bards were there as soon as the gates opened, anyways, so there'll be no secrets to keep within the week.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There was a plot within the leadership of the town. Secret Hextorians. They made their proverbial move.. their master stroke.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Ed begins to play a little something like this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcjAXI4jANw

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Found some Duergar infernal gate in the Underdark caverns deep below the city.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+21 = 5 + 21 = 26&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh dear...did you...close it?&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, yes, this is definitely a tune I can dance to.&quot; |3


 * Adulian closes her eyes and lets the music flow through her, directing her limbs as she begins to dance. &#171; &#160;1d20+22 = 3 + 22 = 25&#160;  &#187; Dance!

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Ah, the joys of having a high mod. Even a shit roll still nets a nice total. x3

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">The cat folds its paws. &quot;You scratch with practice, Swallowtail.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Tell me about it. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;They used it to bring an army of devils into the world. The ones that weren't bodily enforcing their twisted plan were spiritually enforcing it -- dozens and dozens and dozens of soldiers, guardsmen, Mace operatives.. possessed. Purple worms from the under-wilderness, possessed. I've been exorcising and bringing sword and spell to Hell's soldiers and corrupt men night and day for the past week.&quot; He rubs his brow wearily. &quot;Thankfully, all of us proved to be strong enough to, yes, break their foundation and hold the line.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The army came through very recently and cleared out the fiendish tides. Took Count Montclaire into custody.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Thank you.&quot; Unsure of what to say to that. :.


 * Adulian finishes with a pose!

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sounds as if it was a grea responsibility to deal with them, but it seems you were strong enough to do so. Hopefully peace can once again settle over the town&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The people, atleast, can rebuild their lives now.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">It's almost midnight.


 * Thomas Lazarus glances briefly to Sszeyl. &quot;I don't know what the trials will be like.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ahh, yes. It's so much nicer when you have such a skilled musician!&quot; |D

Adulian:<font color="#990000">It's well past midnight.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know little of your human courts.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">But the game just started for two players so ehn.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">yeah perhaps it is time to wrap it up

Adulian:<font color="#990000">I could totally keep going.

VAE:<font color="#000000">your call

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">I got to play some, and we can continue with it next time

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just enough to know that Coralline would have died if tried under it.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">I can go either way

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;The elven system is more forgiving.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">The person who whines most about wanting to quit already quit, so who cares?


 * Thomas Lazarus bricked.

VAE:<font color="#000000">If you and RAM can go on, fair enough

Adulian: <font color="#990000">(( XD ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Montclair's trial will likely end with... what's the official name for it.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">*want, not can


 * Railock just worries if hatari and ram and meany will get up in time for game tomorrow

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl clears his throat and speaks purposefully and deeply.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sentenced to hang from the neck until dead.&quot;

Adulian: <font color="#990000">(( I will. I always wake up well before ten. ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Up to you guys. I've got to get up at 7:30 - grandmother wants us to go to church with her for Mother's Day (even the non-Christian ones of us). ^^;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. If he is, indeed, guilty... then that is that. And less than the punishments in store for him at the hands of the gods above and below.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm considering it networking. Half my clients go to that church. :B *brick'd*


 * Railock is glad I put something of a map together ahead of time

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

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

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

Adulian: <font color="#990000">(( That's like seven hours from now, Lia. &gt;.&gt; ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">if it's to be networking

VAE:<font color="#000000">you gottan hand out flyers

Adulian: <font color="#990000">(( You're gonna be exhausted. ))

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

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

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

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Do you know how many games I've had 3 hours of sleep and showed up anyways


 * Dr. Hatari bricked

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's -church.- :B

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

Meany:<font color="#000000">Do what I do.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">exactly, she can sleep through it

Meany:<font color="#000000">Sleep during the sermon.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I can doze through it. XP *brick'd*

Adulian: <font color="#990000">(( Ah, good point. ))

Meany:<font color="#000000">Doze?

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

Meany:<font color="#000000">I -truely slept- through every sermon I ever went to.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Well, you've gotta say Amen or something every now and then, right? ^^;

Meany:<font color="#000000">My family -hated- me. =3=

Meany:<font color="#000000">Especially when I snored.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;So, my new friend, shall we head inside and get us some food? You can introduce me to the rest of your group.&quot; :3


 * Liatai hasn't been to a church service really since she was a kid. ^^;;; *brick'd*


 * Thomas Lazarus shrugs.

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

Adulian: <font color="#990000">(( Eh, you don't have to. ))

VAE:<font color="#000000">&quot;Jesus saves your soul, but who'll take care of the pets? Call *NAME REDACTED*'s petsitting service&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;What is this about dragons? :V&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">-- I know, I'll consider it anthropological research! &gt;:9 Sociology!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;In truth, it was only a stop in our journey.&quot;


 * Liatai is brick'd.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Our true destination was the Citadel all along.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sure thing! After you.&quot; :3

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth whispers: what ws the specific rumors we've heard about dragons again?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;So, indeed... what's this of... upset dragons? Especially the chromatic ones..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I would never have expected that news.&quot;

Adulian: <font color="#990000">(( Though, you shouldn't take advice from me; I would probably spontaneously combust the second I walked through the doorway. ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I asked the red about the whites.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ah, thank you my good sah!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;He smiled, and I have gained...disjointed words from his memories.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">haaha RAM you win


 * VAE . probably too. Hasn't been in church since he was 18i

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Eats ice. Small. Singular words.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus gives Sszeyl such a look.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ah, there you are mein Liebe! Already schmoozing, I see.&quot; :P

You whisper to Railock: What the folks outside were saying. White dragons are being sighted in silver dragon territory, and not a week goes by without news of at least three battles between silvers and whites. Some say they've seen a red one, but most of those reports have been dubious.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..I did not mean describe them.&quot;


 * Adulian sits herself across the table from her husband.


 * Thomas Lazarus is interrupted. &quot;Oh, hello.&quot;

Dwarven Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;Welcome to Somewhere Else. If you want somethin', speak up,&quot; the dwarven woman says automatically.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Theres been rumors of dragons fighting in the area.. Primarily whites fighting silvers but some are saying theres a red one as well. My companions and I came north to see what we could do to help the local people that live in the area. It's never easy being in the presence of battling giants.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Come on over, Ed. This is .....&quot; He strains. &gt;|3;; &quot;..... Maelgwyn and Brynne?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( Typed from memory ))

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( |D ))

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ah, a hot meal and a stiff drink, if you would! Whatever you suggest!&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Wow! You've already got their names down! Color me impressed!&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey Tom, Sszeyl -- This is Adulian. Chandak of the... Spirit Walker tribe, am I right? A shaman, and a dancer and singer to boot.&quot; :3


 * Thomas Lazarus smiles and waves. &quot;Nice to meet you, Adulian.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Spirit Walker, yes. Pleased to meet you both!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You all know each other, then? Are you also an adventuring troupe?&quot;


 * Bryne ap Emyr watches adulian with an obviously chilly expression.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ed tells me you are of a similar profession to mine; an Exorcist, yes?&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Adulian is the one I mentioned that's been following me since I won a tournament on the plains traveling north.&quot;


 * Adulian pointedly ignores Bryne.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;And a pleasure to meet you two... Maelgwyn and Brynne.&quot; :3 &quot;Exotic-sounding names. Aldusian?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl paints up two more glasses, and pours some cider for Ed and Lady.


 * Adulian aquires drink!

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ah, thank you!&quot;

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">&quot; Slowing us down unnecessarily&quot;

Dwarven Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ale and stew, coming up.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">'Yes, My family controls the port of Bigby, in the south.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ah, you can hold on the ale; seems my new friend is providing!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;You should take the ale too.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm working on combining different alcoholic beverages to make new ones.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;We can experiment with it.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;...The ale is back on!&quot; XD

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 13 + 7 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d20+4 = 1 + 4 = 5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d20+12 = 3 + 12 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Knowledge away~


 * Adulian sips.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom is startled. owo; &quot;Ah--hahaha--I.. dunno about that! I must confess, I don't know what a Chandak is, precisely. This is my first time hearing the term. Shaman..&quot; He cradles his chin and considers. &quot;..Perhaps. I serve Pelor, and strive to carry out his ideals in the world. And in return, he lends me his powers and magic.&quot; ^^ &quot;..I only very recently decided to become a fiend slayer, though. I only picked up exorcism as part of my training. ..I would never have expected to.. use it as much as I've had occasion to, already .&quot; He sobers a little before refreshing his smile. &quot;I used to be a templar. Hardly a dancer or singer, myself, but I'm not afraid of making a fool of myself trying.&quot; |D

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, this is good. How did you manage to make drink from ink and paper?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Bigby! Wow, that's a huge city. Isn't there an archmage that was supposed to be from there? Can't remember his name...&quot;


 * Edaric rolled a natural 1 on his arcana knowledge. |D

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ah, close enough. I draw power from the Spirits, and in return I take care of their...undesireables.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Fae, Ghosts, Elementals, even Fiends.&quot;

Bryne ap Emyr whispers: is the city named after hte archmage or mage after city?

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Conjuration magic, to anwer your question.&quot;

You whisper to Railock: City after archmage. Kellon!Bigby was a very popular political figure in Aldusia -- an archmage lord.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, I am impressed. I can conjure many things, but alcohol is not one of them.&quot;

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">&quot; The city was actaully named after him, Bigby had...much influence in Aldusia.&quot;

Dwarven Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;How many orders?&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Uh, anyone else want some ale?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;.... Oh. So the archmage was -- I knew that.&quot; |D;;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom doesn't order anything for now. He already had a meal and drinks in the morning.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">..Whatever time this is. |D;

Dwarven Woman:<font color="#000000">It's nighttime now. Are you sure?

Adulian:<font color="#990000">^

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

Adulian:<font color="#990000">You know what time it is?

Adulian:<font color="#990000">It's Beer-Thirty!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Nah, I'm pretty sure it's Ale 45

VAE:<font color="#000000">* Ale:45

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sure, let's get some stew around, at least. Are you guys hungry? I'll buy.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Wow.. it sounds like your family is a lot more powerful than mine or Tathi's.&quot; :o

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;If there is wine, I will take some.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, I know meine Liebe and his Aid will pass; they have rings that provide for them.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Rings, eh?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;And Sszeyl's got his magic tattoo... so.... Stew for the three of us mortals who still need to eat?&quot; :B

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;I am fine, And I've told you, my name is Maelgwyn, if you can't remember it, Mael will do, no need to make up names.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm starting to feel like the only person who draws power from the ocean.&quot;

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


 * Swallowtail seems to be drifting off to sleep.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; Are you resentful of more people not magically sustaining themselves with the ocean?&quot; =w=;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;And I've told you, I'm simply using your title in my own tongue.&quot; :P

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">&quot; Sure you are. &quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;I am~&quot; *pout*

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, I'm just wondering why they don't.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is only a moderately torturous experience.&quot;

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">&quot; I am not that up on the rings creation methods...but perhaps the magicians that made them tie them into the oceans power, sir.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tom glances to Ed. &quot;Sir Maelgwyn here was just telling me that the citadel has been beset by white dragons.. with mention of perhaps a red in the area..&quot; He murmurs with a somewhat meaningful stare.

Candlestand:<font color="#000000">The cat appears to be doing much the same, its tongue sticking out somewhat.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm, I wonder if it's his wife mate thing.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;He did send out correspondence a while ago.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;I've already filled Ed in on our mission, Tom.&quot; :B


 * Thomas Lazarus drums his fingers and gives Ssyzel an annoyed look. &gt;:|

VAE:<font color="#000000">(player is feeling mindfucked too, with it being close to 6, and more importantly, friggin' neck)

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Bowls of hearty chicken stew, ale and wine for those who want them, and a loaf of bread to split are placed on the table -- Ed pays for it.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl looks Tom in the eye.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">And sips his drink.


 * Adulian noms. |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He seems perplexed by Adulian's remark.

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

Adulian:<font color="#990000">As in, the dragons and such. That we are going to take care of. &gt;.&gt;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..What.. might that be?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#000000">She's going to take care of the dragons.

Meany:<font color="#000000">All night long.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;...To deal with the dragons. Mael already told you, did he not?&quot;

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


 * Thomas Lazarus tries to puzzle out if they're an adventuring troupe or not... |3c;

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


 * Edaric raises an eyebrow at Tom's look. &quot;Well now, that's something.&quot; He takes a sip of ale to hide his expression a bit. &quot;Adulian was telling me that she and her fine feathered friends were planning on heading into the mountains to fight the dragons. Clearing trade routes, right?&quot;

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">yes I did

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Ha! I'm not crazy!

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">'Yes, protecting those that cna't protect themselves.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Beating up on some nasty Dragons as a bonus.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Always a worthy cause.&quot; :3 Ed raises his glass in a half-toast to Maelgwyn, before taking another sip.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Perhaps we should relay this news back to Castleton.. ... ..but regardless, it is still our duty to press on to the citadel.&quot;


 * Edaric grimaces a bit and looks into the tankard. &quot; ... Dwarven ale. &quot; ^^;


 * Thomas Lazarus smirks.

Dwarven Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;We only serve real ale around here, boyo.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;What's wrong with Dwarven ale?&quot; Adulian takes a swig.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Know what? I'm gonna pull a ghost and go nap. Which, given it's what Swallowtail and Candle are doing, works. Noms so far - Sszeyl for Painter Man, Tom for WHY U NO MAKE SENSE CAT! , Tathi for solving problems with chain ligthning, Tathi for Rumor Train, and Stanford for Passive-Aggressive! Also, honorary noms for Rail and RAM for having to wait so friggin' long

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">THAT COPPERY POISONY GRISTLE TASTE'LL PUT 'AIR ON YER CHEST.

VAE:<font color="#000000">i'll keep this open, too

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;And it is good ale, ma'am!&quot; :9

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;So, Sszeyl is it? What is this you say about mixing drinks?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nothing, just used to watered-down human ale, what with the shortages in Yoriver.&quot; :3 &#171; &#160;1d20+15 = 5 + 15 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Bluff~ smaller sip this time. Dwarven ale should be sipped. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Dwarven ale is known for high acidity, strong flavors, and a high alcohol content.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">see y'all tomorrow. And dwarven ale should be gulped

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 7 + 4 = 11&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Sense Motive!

VAE:<font color="#000000">ask Mirn

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is speculated to be the entire reason Dwarves are naturally resistant to poisons; to survive their own drink.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, fair enough.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">I'm a bard. &gt;:P *brick'd*

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">'Castleton, who would you let know there? Is there a dragon hunting group there?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Less hunting, more prisoner transport.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's our home base. Tom's a Leaden Mace inquisitor; his commader's down there.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Sip.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;First, a control test.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Though I will still call you a pansy-ass girly-man!&quot; &gt;:D

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;A drink of ale, and cider, unmixed.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, so serve the mace as well as adventure?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mm. We happen to know an expert or two. Part of our own dragon-seeking business at the Citadel.&quot;


 * Adulian happily takes a swig of both.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Alright then, what next?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I hope you'll forgive us, but we should probably keep the precise details close to our chests for a while.&quot; He offers a smile in apology.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Were you three here.. alone? None of the others outside are also adventurers with you?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, this distinctly non-girly man wants to not have a shrivelled pickle for a liver by the time his elven-ass girly-man best friend gets married to his girlfiend at last.&quot; &gt;:P

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fifty percent control. One part cider, one part ale.&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, just us three.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">A mixture is made.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;From here we adjust the amount of ale or cider to produce a favorable drink.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Just you three, against mountains full of dragons?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;You must be good.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;You keep telling yourself that, I'll just set your purse down on the floor over here for you.&quot; &gt;:P


 * Adulian takes a swing fo the mixed drink!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Indeed.&quot; :o &quot;Good, I hope, or facing down poor odds..&quot;

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aye, If we had to. Though as I mentioned to Thomas here, If you are going the same route and wouldn't mind company, numbers are never to be refused when hunting dragons.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's called a haversack, you barbarian.&quot; &gt;:P Munch.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I can't say I especially relish the idea of getting waylaid by a white dragon while we trek for the summit and citadel.&quot; He considers.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Perhaps we should, at that.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh, is that what you girls are calling them these day? And what would you cann that dress you're wearing?&quot; &gt;:3

Adulian:<font color="#990000">*call

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nonexistent.&quot; &gt;:P

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

Adulian:<font color="#990000">So, how's this mixed drink taste?


 * Thomas Lazarus glances to Maelgwyn.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Vae.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">What is ale made from?


 * Thomas Lazarus suddenly understands everything. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">This is an apple cider.


 * Bryne ap Emyr chuckles a bit &quot; Barbarian. that she is...&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Strong! Dwarven ale tends to overpower most other flavors, but you do get hints of apple.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Really, because such a girly-man could only be wearing a dress.&quot; &gt;:P

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Says the woman wearing a dress.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">I'm not wearing a dress.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">Oh?

Adulian:<font color="#990000">No.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Warm fur and leather clothing.

Tokens dropped onto map 'Woodside Inn'Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Mmm, still strong. I can mostly taste the ale, but I'm getting hints of apple.&quot; :9

Adulian:<font color="#990000">With chainmail beneath.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, one part ale, two parts cider.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Give it a try.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Another swig!

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">actually. you are now wearing a dress. Still spell + silent spell and major image. you now appear to be wearing a peasents dress.very poor quality

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Make up what you like. Tastes are very subjective. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... Who is? :B

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

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">Adulian

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Oooh, you're lucky I don't have any shenanigan spells in my list today. &gt;:P

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">on the back, stitched in elven is the word barbarian.

Sszeyl:<font color="#000000">I think this is as good a time as any to fade to black.

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">cept I didn't utter a word, or say anything.

Massive Dog:<font color="#000000">A massive dog trundles by and lays its big ol' head on Tom's lap.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">That doesn't make it any less obvious who it would be.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Heh..&quot; ^^; &quot;..Well. I think we can all ag-ghA!&quot; OwO

Massive Dog:<font color="#000000">Wag wag wag. {83 Scraps?

Adulian:<font color="#990000">'Hmm, who here has an unexplained grudge against me and can cast spells like this?'


 * Thomas Lazarus wavers briefly as he acclimates to the giant beggin' dog. |D;


 * Thomas Lazarus pets.

Massive Dog:<font color="#000000">The dog closes its eyes and soaks up the pettings, tail wagging slowly. |3

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Bryne, knock it off. keep it civil. Really, I don't see why you dislike her so much.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hmm, it seems someone has decided they want pain visited upon them.&quot; &gt;:P

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

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">the spell fades...except for the word barbarian in elf accross her back....at least when mael cant see it. &quot; &quot;She slows us down, sir.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. If you are amenable to the idea of traversing the mountains with us, I suppose there's wisdom to safety in numbers. ... I don't know what to expect from a ... dragon confrontation.&quot; He frowns.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..I should prepare for that..&quot; {:.c

GM:<font color="#000000">I think we should probably fade to black soon, if only so Gnogglebolt and Vonain can get some RPs.

Adulian whispers: Would I be allowed to zap people with lightning for shenanigans, given that I specialize in it? {:3

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">yes. so we can start mael arguing with the mazian

Adulian whispers: Nothing harmful, just small shocks.

You whisper to RAM: Static is about all you can bring up without causing damage.

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;My thanks. Do you plan on taking that...Mazian death trap into the mountains?&quot;

Massive Dog:<font color="#000000">Mmmm. You have a warm sunny aura. |3 Wag wag wag.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;How much farther, I can't say. We picked this route because it's a good road. But Gnogglebolt already said he doubts it can handle mountain range.&quot;


 * Adulian kicks her foot forward under the table, and Bryne is subjected to a shock of static electricity!


 * Thomas Lazarus continues weakly head-kneading with his fingers.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">POOF goes his hair!

Massive Dog:<font color="#000000">Mmmmmm. |3

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Probably for hte best. even if it doesn't explode, it's likely to cause an avalanche.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;......... He was saying, earlier, sometimes Mazians fire cannons at mountains to provoke avalanches, so they don't cause avalanches when they climb.&quot; |D;;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Oi, don't you ignore my retaliation! &gt;:o

Maelgwyn ap Gwardnerth:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmmph. barbariac Mazians, always using explosions as the answer to everything. No Finesse.&quot;

Adulian:<font color="#990000">&quot;...This seems rather odd.&quot; &gt;:.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Okay okay, you can sleep now.

Massive Dog:<font color="#000000">... Tom's likely going to have a drool spot on his leg when the dog eventually moves. =3=

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">of course he ignores it. one does not acknowledge the actions of barbarians

GM:<font color="#000000">Let's fade out and get noms!

Bryne ap Emyr:<font color="#000000">and yeah if we don't end here we'll go on forever

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Troof.

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

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Sszeyl for drink mixing!

Railock:<font color="#000000">okay tom and worrying about the cat. Vae and tom for cat fight Sszeyel for why doesn't everyone use the ocean as an unholy fuel sorce, it isn't THAT painful

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Ed for 'yaaaay another performer! :D'

Meany:<font color="#000000">Too tired to nom.

Meany:<font color="#000000">Can't remember things.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'll have to logreview and catch all the bits the others shared while Tom was chatting with Mael and Bryne.

Railock:<font color="#000000">Ed for ooh, performer, MUST JOIN. Swallow for suspicious who are you and then...let everyone else dealw ith it while you pet cat in lap

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Also I wonder when that catfolk explorer is going to notice. |D


 * Dr. Hatari bricked.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sure thing. I'll be allowing noms throughout the week. :3

Meany:<font color="#000000">Is Tom going to actually wear his new coat?

Railock:<font color="#000000">haha. should of been behind her facing

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That was one of the things I'd need to logdive for.

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

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

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I didn't notice XD

Adulian:<font color="#990000">x3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Its been there for a half hour or so.

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

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

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


 * Dr. Hatari bricked again.

Railock:<font color="#000000">I've had tokens selected who can't see out there,

Adulian:<font color="#990000">Husband, we didn't get any noms! We need to try harder! D:

Meany:<font color="#000000">Artz is not an acceptable answer. =3=

Meany:<font color="#000000">But alright.

Meany:<font color="#000000">It is midnight here, I am relying on pepsi to stay awake.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">As in, I'd like to accomodate the change with imagery.

Meany:<font color="#000000">You'll get noms when I can type without yawning.

GM:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl - 100 XP - Painting in the real world! 100 XP - Amateur mixologist. 100 XP - Why doesn't everyone just use the ocean? Tom - 100 XP - CAT. Y U NO MAKE SENSE. Candlestand - 100 XP - You worry too much. Tathi - 100 XP - Solving problems with chain lightning. 100 XP - Chain of rumors. Edaric - 100 XP - Yaaaaay performances! :D Maelgwyn - 100 XP - Welcome aboard! 100 XP - Adventuring business talk! Adulian - 100 XP - Welcome aboard! 100 XP - Performance talk! Swallowtail - 100 XP - Suspicions distracted by cat.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's just personal preference. I know I could easily emote the change alone.

Railock:<font color="#000000">oh god save me now

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That kind of thing is invisible to some slackers assholes who would never in a thousand years deign to remember or notice.

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


 * Dr. Hatari not sublte.

GM:<font color="#000000">Saving campaign!

Meany:<font color="#000000">So what you're saying.


 * RAM closes the server right now!

Meany:<font color="#000000">Is we should put together like.

Meany:<font color="#000000">Twenty five dollars.

Meany:<font color="#000000">And commission Lia.

Meany:<font color="#000000">*knife brick'd*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's probably not that hard to fine a white-haired white guy in a hooded coat. |B

Railock:<font color="#000000">night all I go to crash

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I just haven't.

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

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

Railock:<font color="#000000">see if you can get to GV in time. would love to have plenty of time to end it with a bang or at least make ending not be bad

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Plus Tom is going to mostly wear his uniform coat regardless, yes.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Last thing we need; a session name.

Adulian:<font color="#990000">FINALLY!

Railock:<font color="#000000">FREEEDOM! from yoriver

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Exit velocity: Yoriver. Barely escaping the faff gravity well.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">All righty. Server can go down at your leisure. Thanks for the game, guys; sorry it took so long to take off. Lesson learned. Next time, folks don't mind playing NPCs. ^^;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Indeed, was fun when I got to play!

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It turned out okay ........ in the end.

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Good thing too because that would've been the most miserable session. *bricked*

RAM:<font color="#990000">Server coming down!

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

You have disconnected.