Session 93.1

Ghostwish has connected.

Ghostwish:Why is Hord here? O.O

Liatai:Because Meany wanted Hord to tag along. If he doesn't, I'll delete him, easy as pie.

Ghostwish:'tag along'??? Ugh, meany...

Liatai:Well, technically, Hord -is- supposed to be a cousin of the Tonmors. I was kind of hoping to just have a small knot of PCs and NPCs, but... &gt;.&gt;;

Liatai:-- Horses! I forgot horses :o

Ghostwish:He's what. XD

Dr. Hatari has connected.

TMG has connected.

Liatai:... you didn't catch that during the minion introductions? ^^;

Ghostwish:Nope. XD

Liatai:Ed's family is pretty big. Hord is a distant cousin.

Meany has connected.


 * Meany kicks down the door.

Liatai:Heck, I can remember just a few sessions ago Ed asked Barbarus if he'd turned his cousin into a mobster. :B

Meany:The answer was no.

Meany:He's a loanshark.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Everyone should have horse ownership, pick your horse if you like. :B

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">ALL OF THEM. *_*

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Ready ready ready. :3

GM:<font color="#000000">Vacation, vacation~

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There, there.. I'm not too heavy, right..?&quot; Pat pat. {:3

GM:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d100 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d100 = 26&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d100 = 32&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d100 = 98&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Horse 2:<font color="#9933FF">I could care less about the weight and more about these DAMN DOGS. THERE! She just zipped between my legs again!! XO

GM:<font color="#000000">It figures. :B

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Here comes the sun- wait that's no sun

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Yaaaaaay---oh. D:

GM:<font color="#000000">Three days of sunny, clear, pleasant travel have brought this small knot of Guardians and associates to just outside Oakridge... and...

GM:<font color="#000000">It's snowing.

GM:<font color="#000000">Instant snow cover go~!

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Looks like Yenearsira is on its way..&quot; Tathi comments amoung the snowfall.

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

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

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

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Winter Solstice. ;)

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's still a ways off, I think.&quot; :. &quot;What's today, the 14th?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh yes. What is the month?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Today is Damarron 14th. :3 November 9th by our calendar.

GM:<font color="#000000">Boccon 9th is the winter solstice. And now you know~ :3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, by the way. I sent a letter ahead. I'm pretty sure my mom's going to insist that we eat at our place tonight.&quot; :3

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi glances towards Aelian.. &quot;I hope your parents won't throw a fit about that?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus takes out a map during the trip. :9

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm pretty sure they'll be invited.&quot; |3

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Spot check to notice Thomas has the map upside down? :P

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I'm just hopping Baba doesn't notice we're here too soon.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mom's a born entertainer. I wouldn't be surprised if she's been trying to invite the rest of the family.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Or the entire trip will be one awkward event after another.&quot;

You whisper to Meany: Help me out here. :P

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ohhh~ I'm sure it'll be fine.&quot; |3

Hord whispers: Baba is a common nickname for Grandma. :B

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;A whole family of bards, or so I hear.&quot; :3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;We~ell, not exactly. I don't think there are any entertainers on your side of the family, are there, Hord?&quot; :.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I think Cousin Sha went off to become a stage magician.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Other than her, no. (:3&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Hmm.. Thomas paid Sszeyl back that last 1200gp at some point, right?

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Yep.


 * Dr. Hatari just noticed the reminder was still written. Le erase.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Dad used to wander Akellon with his fiddle, though.&quot; :3

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh hey, Ael, that reminds me. You made sure to tell your mom you were coming, right? She's not off questing?&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Ooh, if you visited without telling her -again-, she'll beat you so hard~&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus rubs his chin and looks to Ael in a bit of wonder.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Oh I've been sending letters back and forth.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh, yeah.. do you mind if I ask how old you are Aelian? Is your dad..(?).. still around?&quot; :.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi smirks over her shoulder. &quot;So your mother is a paladin, hrm? This should be interesting..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Whoah, really?&quot; &gt;:o &quot;That is interesting! Is she from the order of the Aureate Palm?&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;She's terrifyng.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">terrifying*

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

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Aelian chuckles. &quot;My mother is the human, so yes, my father is still very much around. I, however, am 26.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ohh~, okay. I'm used to everyone being over a hundred or something I guess.&quot; ^^;;;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Aelian laughs heartily! &quot;Well, imagine how I dread meeting some of Tathi's family!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi just huffs. &quot;Oh please. The average is only about three centuries!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Only three centuries, she says. And what about that great grandfather of yours? I hear elves have to be pretty old to start going senile!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi rolls her eyes. &quot;Just make sure you speak loudly and clearly to him. Repeatedly, if needed.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Suddenly Hord goes vacant-eyed.


 * Dr. Hatari was unannounced afk for noms. :9


 * Dr. Hatari can has chicken.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;The maximum possible lifespan for an elf is seven hundred years. Unlike other races, with the exceptions of dragons, which show physical signs of age, elves become more etheral in personality and to a very minor degree physical. Elvish scholars tie this to the race's close ties with the fey.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 1 + 5 = 6&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d20+6 = 19 + 6 = 25&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; and &#171;  &#160;1d20-2 = 15 - 2 = 13&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d20+10 = 17 + 10 = 27&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; ... Carry on. :3


 * Edaric glances back. &quot;... Hord, you feeling all right?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus nods a little. :.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Yeah. Just remembering all the stuff on elves I've read, and heard from Ana.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Don't you believe it. I've seen elves well into their eigth century.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It always amazes me how similar we seem, yet for all the pysiological differences, you would think we were from different worlds or something.&quot; ^^;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Crazy, isn't it?&quot;

Tokens dropped onto map 'World Map'Esaleth:<font color="#9933FF">Shit! They're on to me! *flashy flashy!*


 * Dr. Hatari has a big fat purrin' invader. &gt;:O

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;You just went a little glassy-eyed there for a minute. That cat didn't really induct you into a hivemind, did he?&quot;

Tokens dropped onto map 'Autumn Road'Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Hord turns on Ed, points, and begins this awful unearthly screeching. *bricked*

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Countersong! COUNTERSONG! D: *brick'd*

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Huh? No.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;He just showed me the city library.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Ed, they have millions of books there.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Millions!&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I spent the first week in there just -reading-.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus begins to feel like the only city-guy ever. ^^;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Pretty amazing, huh?&quot; :3

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

You whisper to Ghostwish: How tall is Tathi again? :.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Oh yes. Tom would likely have asked long before now, but, how long is this trip planned for?

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I'm told I do the glassy-eyed thing when I'm trying to remember something really specific.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus chuckles.

Tathi whispers: She's a b-cup-BRICK'D!! Ow. She's 5'3. XP

Tokens dropped onto map 'World Map'GM:<font color="#000000">The DM doesn't care as long as you're back by Damarron 18th. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Only city-guy? What am I, chopped liver? :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Depends, though. Are you planning to ride back or teleport back?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Aw, you're not here right now.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">There was talk of teleporting back! :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It's just me and the bumpkins. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Then it could be up to three days. :3


 * Edaric chuckles. &quot;Couldn't remember ever seeing you do that before. Then again, being --&quot; Ed blinks. &quot; You guys hear that? &quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 14 + 5 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Hear what?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus immediately dons a serious look and glances at the treeline. &quot;...&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 8 + 6 = 14&#160; <font color="#CC0066">&#187; Listen. :O

GM:<font color="#000000">Spot and Listen, if you like, though you take a -4 penalty on Spot due to the snow.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Spot: &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 20 + 5 = 25&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Listen: &#171;  &#160;1d20+5 = 10 + 5 = 15&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+2+floor((wisdom-10)/2) = 4 + 2 + floor((13 - 10) / 2) = 7&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; listen!

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">D'oh.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+2+floor((wisdom-10)/2) = 1 + 2 + floor((13 - 10) / 2) = 4&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; Spot!

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+13 = 9 + 13 = 22&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; spot

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+13 = 20 + 13 = 33&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; listen!

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&#171; &#160;1d20+6-4 = 14 + 6 - 4 = 16&#160; <font color="#CC0066">&#187; Spot.

Tavia:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 13 + 5 = 18&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; Spot!

Tavia:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 5 + 5 = 10&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; Listen!

Horse 5:<font color="#FF0000">Spo--*bricked*

Kor:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 16 + 3 = 19&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; spot! Where's the cheese?

Kor:<font color="#9933FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 4 + 3 = 7&#160; <font color="#9933FF">&#187; listen! Someone just unwrapped some cheese!

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

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">Tom and Kor spot, and Aelian sees and hears, a really short person (shorter than Tathi, even!) trying to sneak up through the woods toward the horses, with a mischievous look and a rope in one hand. She shoots a look at Aelian when he looks over and holds a finger to her lips in a &quot;shhhh&quot; gesture. &gt;:3

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

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Aelian spots her.. and smirks.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">He gestures for the others to be quiet, out of Edaric's notice. :3


 * Thomas Lazarus doesn't recognize this person. He keeps his eyes locked. &quot;...&quot;


 * Edaric is looking around, but his +0 modifier doesn't stand a chance in this snow. He looks over toward where Tom's looking, but his eyes pass right over the woman's hiding spot. &quot; What is it? &quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=3=;;;;; &quot;Uhh..&quot; Oh no. Peer pressure!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I DON'T WANT TO SMOKE. D: *bricked*


 * Thomas Lazarus glances guiltily to Aelian.


 * Tiana Tonmor begins to twirl the rope, eyes locked on Ed...

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

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

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

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Ever wonder what the cow at the rodeo feels like?&quot; :3

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">Yes! Thanks for making him look the other way! &gt;:3 &#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 9 + 8 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; touch attack go!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; I'm pretty sure it's that ornery sister you talked about about to jump you here she comes.&quot; He blurts out rapidly. ^^;;;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;!&quot; Ed is promptly lassoed. &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 16 + 2 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; versus &#171;  &#160;1d20+8 = 10 + 8 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Sorry cousin. She scares me more than you. :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... what happens? Higher modifier wins? :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's a trip attack.

Aelian: <font color="#9933ff">(( Yup. :3 ))

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">*mic grip* CROSS-COUNTER?! &gt;:O

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">The bard didn't stand a chance. Thud, there he goes into the snow. Nope, Ed didn't win, his was the +2.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He gets a free counter-trip attempt unless Tiana chooses to drop the rope.

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


 * Thomas Lazarus gasps and looks highly concerned. He's about to charge over just in case. &gt;:O

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Aelian is laughing so hard right now.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi looks over with a bewildered expression.

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">The woman laughs, stepping out from behind cover. &quot;Ha! I thought adventurers were supposed to be quick! What's the matter, did turning to stone freeze your joints?&quot;


 * Edaric picks himself up, pulling off the rope. &quot;I'll show you quick -- C'MERE!&quot; &gt;:3

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">And off goes the laughing lady with the bard in hot pursuit.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi smirks, watching with her chin cupped in her hand. &quot;Sooo, which one is that?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Oh.. he doesn't mind. That's good. ^^;;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">After Aelian's laughter finally subsides, he answers, &quot;That's Tiana. She's as wild as she is short.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus breathes a relieved sigh.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">He glances back at Thomas, still smirking. &quot;Best get used to this. It's the norm around here.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Those of you who roll Spellcraft or just have an ear for music might hear the chords Ed uses for a Haste spell. &gt;:3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; Protector's instict, I guess. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't a bandit or something, I dunno.&quot; ^^;;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Well she's in trouble now. Edaric's stacking the deck.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 9 + 9 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Gotcha! &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 2 + 9 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 2 + 7 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Around here sweetheart we call that 'sonnovatwo'.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Ed and the short lady return after a little while, both snow-covered and laughing. Ed looks triumphant. |3

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, okay, maybe you did get a little better, lazybones.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Not by much.&quot; Aelian quickly adds in. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well that only spooked the living daylights out of me and your horse.&quot; ^^; &quot;Introduce us, Ed?&quot;


 * Tiana Tonmor goes to catch the horse while Ed dusts himself off.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Hord waves. :3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sure, sure. Tom, Tathi, this is my big little sister Tiana. Teasel, you know Aelian and Hord. The other two are folks who adventure with us -- the fellow in the black coat is Thomas Lazarus, Pelorite priest and inquisitor. The elf's Tathi Eyllisaearsithek, she's the arcanist of the bunch, you point, she makes it explode.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;With a fireworks display as a tombstone.&quot; Tathi says, winking.

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;What about the... what is that on her shoulder?&quot; Squint.


 * Edaric laughs. &quot;That's Kor.&quot; |3

Kor:<font color="#9933FF">BOW BEFORE ME, MORTAL.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot; Tathi is Aelian's girlfriend, &quot; he adds, leaning in conspiratorially. |3

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;This little sack of cheese and disease goodness that rhymes entirely too well is Kor. My familiar. Yes, he's wearing armor. Familiars can be a weakpoint of a caster to a knowledgable fore.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Okay back. ^^;

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( Dog emergency resolved. ))


 * Tiana Tonmor arches an eyebrow, looking Tathi over, then to Aelian, and then back again a few times.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hello.&quot; He smiles simply. ^^

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well damn. I always figured you'd end up a hermit, Ael.&quot; |3 &quot;What brought this around?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Well she- HEY.&quot; &gt;:|


 * Thomas Lazarus chuckles.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Ohhh, that gave Tathi a one-way ticket to giggle town..

Tavia:<font color="#9933FF">Giant green missile on your 3-*POUNCE!!!*

Tavia:<font color="#9933FF">Hiiiiiiiiii~

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's a long story it'd be better for them to --&quot;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Either that or you'd hook up with my brother in some romance-novel setup.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Hey!&quot; DX

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">:D !

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

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;... My arrows are very accurate, and I can hit small targets with ease.&quot; &gt;:P


 * Tiana Tonmor kneels down and takes dog treats out of her pockets. &quot;Well hey there, aren't you good dogs! You smelled these, didn'tcha? You wanna treat?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus bites back his smirk. :B

Tavia:<font color="#9933FF">Hi! Hi! Oh! She has treats! Treats! *_*

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

Amadre:<font color="#9933FF">I like her already! Well, I liked her to start! But now I like her more! *_*

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... And how could I forget Tavia and Amadre.&quot; |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">We need reinforcements - board up the homes, they're getting treats :O


 * Thomas Lazarus grins a bit more openly. &quot;Hmmm~&quot;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 17 + 9 = 26&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &quot;Lessee how well you've been trained. Sit!&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uh, Teasel, they're elven hounds, they don't usually listen to humans --&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus peers at Ed. &quot;This reminds me of that 'big sister' conversation we had. If you recall the one.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Now what's the DC cuz I think she might have made it. XP

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#FF0000">&quot;I have to admit I pictured your big sister bigger.&quot; &gt;|3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">20 for getting an animal to perform a trick it doesn't know. 10 to perform one it knows. There might be a DC adjustment for elven hounds and a non-elven trainer, lemme check.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;She's big in personality.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">It was a 5 or a 10 I remember. XP

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;And she probably heard you and will charlie-horse your leg.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You have a lot to learn about big sisters. =3= *Vietnam-eyes*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">+5 for a non-elven trainer. So... 25, 15 if they know how to sit.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">So despite the odds, the elven hounds just want the treats too damn badly to disobey. :B


 * Edaric looks over to Tom. &quot;Makes it all the more impressive that she catches cows bare-handed, doesn't it?&quot; :3

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">actually she doesn't know sit. XP

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Do they know Perform? Sit is part of that trick array. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">She learns for treats. :O

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Nope. ;3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">So the DC would be 25... which she still beat by one. XD

Tavia:<font color="#9933FF">She sits. The world gasps.

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


 * Thomas Lazarus begins laughing.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Well, she can certainately handle her animals.&quot;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good dog!&quot; |3 Tavia gets a treat and a scruff on the shoulders.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That's amazing! Aelian can't get them to heel, much less sit.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;I can too get them to heel!&quot; &gt;:(

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh, my mistake. You just don't then?&quot; |3 &quot;We've only greeted about a dozen guests with dog missiles.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uh-huh, that's why they bowl over every short person they meet.&quot; |3

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;So they're friendly!!&quot;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;I heard that.&quot; :P

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">x3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well it's true! Tiny Teasel.&quot; XP

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well! That's out of the way. Which way are you headed? Mom's put a roast in the oven.&quot; She chuckles. &quot;I still can't believe it. A day has come when Aelian has a girlfriend and Ed doesn't.&quot;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;You headed to the Cyadariths', or home?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus just beams. ^^ It's a joy to be coming into this kind of situation. Family visits on a little vacation. Just what the doctor ordered.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Oh!? And where's your boyfriend, huh Tiana?&quot; &gt;:3


 * Edaric rubs his chin. &quot;I don't think we've talked about it yet.&quot; To the group; &quot;Which way first?&quot;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Some of us are too busy to go galavanting around and practicing for the bedroom athletics championships.&quot; XP

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh..&quot; He looks to Aelian and Tathi first. &quot;?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Seems like your mother is intent on bringing us all over for dinner. Maybe we should check there first. My folks might already be there.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; If one is a lot closer than the other, maybe that.&quot; Tom pats his poor horse. &quot;I don't think this poor guy was bred for carrying hefty armored folk like me..&quot; ^^;

Horse 5:<font color="#FF0000">Help me D:

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nah, they're not coming over until later this afternoon. They wanted to catch Ael at home if he stopped there first.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Well I suppose it's not too late to try and throw Thomas at you, then.&quot; |3

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Then there's our first destination.&quot; :3

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's not far of a walk in either direction, so you can give that poor girl a break.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Dangit... ^^;;

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

Horse 2:<font color="#9933FF">Bwahahaha, I can't even -feel- my passenger. What do you think of THAT Wilbur?

Wilbur:<font color="#FF0000">Seriously I am like dying here, help. D:


 * Edaric laughs. &quot; Don't feel too bad, Tom, Teasel's just got an eye for these things. &quot; |3


 * Thomas Lazarus feels the fatness. =3=

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Huh, well hi there, Hord. Barely recognized you with your new hair.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">But then why is she named Wilbur?! &gt;:O *bricked*

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Thanks! :D&quot;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;What's the deal with that spikey thing?&quot; She gestures to point out the hair protruberance.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Hord pulls the hair, and it pops off.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">There's a dagger blade attached. ._&gt;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">._.*

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;... You're gonna poke your eye out.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#FF0000">He's a soldati now. :D *knife'd*

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;You'd think so.&quot; Hord pushes his finger against the dagger tip, and the blade slides into the hilt.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;It's to scare off people who think they've taken me by surprise. :3&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Any more roadside family ambushes I should brace my nerves for, Ed..?&quot; /3

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ha! Now that's clever!&quot; x3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not unless the twins are laying in wait up ahead.&quot; :3 &quot; Are they? &quot;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nah, Mom's commandeered theme into helping clean the house.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ooh. So beware of surly Kirstie. Good to know.&quot; :B


 * Thomas Lazarus chuckles. &quot;I look forward to meeting everyone.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Let's go, let's go.&quot; |D

Wilbur:<font color="#FF0000">KILL ME D: *bricked*

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you guys are headed to the Cyadariths', I'll scoot on home. The sheep'll need bringing in.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;A pity. I'd have thought it rather hilarious to watch Edaric get ambushed by one family member at a time.&quot;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;You know... Tom, right?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mm? Yep, that's me.&quot; :3

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're in Oakridge, you don't need to ride around everywhere. The Cyadariths' place is easier to reach on foot, anyway. You know elves.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ahh. Alright then!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;We may have the finest horses in the realm, but we don't ride them around everywhere. I swear you humans are so impatient sometimes.. &quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus swings off his horse carefully. Clank-thud.


 * Thomas Lazarus pats his mount a few times and keeps a hold of her reigns.

Wilbur:<font color="#FF0000">IT'S SO HEAVY D:

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;:O FAKER.

Wilbur:<font color="#FF0000">=3=;

Horse 2:<font color="#9933FF">He's not even on you anymore!!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Alrighty, let's go!&quot;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll have to see about getting you a courser for your return trip. Warmbloods like her aren't bred to support armored people.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't think we'll need to.&quot; :3


 * Tiana Tonmor shoots Edaric a look.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi just smirks. :3


 * Edaric holds up his hands. &quot;We have Tathi.&quot; :3


 * Tiana Tonmor looks at Tathi, then at Thomas.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh, yes. Our wizard lady-friend has grown quite powerful. Pops in and out of her estate miles to the south of Castleton every day.&quot;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;... She doesn't look like she's bred to support armored people either.&quot; :P

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Teasel!&quot; X3


 * Thomas Lazarus laughs!

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Well, I haven't tried Aelian in armor yet..&quot; Tathi says with a mischievious grin.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Aelian turns a little red. &quot;Tathi.&quot;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;You comin' with me, Hord, or are you following the others?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus just walks his horse along at a decent enough pace to keep up with the others trotting. Huff huff! &gt;:3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;So, Tathi, after all of Aelian's sweating, are you at all worried about meeting his folks?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;See you in a few hours, Ti.&quot; :3 Ed turns toward the woods. &quot;Lemme see... which way was it again... over the brook, across the fallen log...&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;I'd be lying if I said I didn't. But, you know, a fireball solves all problems.&quot; Tathi says with a smirk. Wait was she joking or-

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

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Ohhh that grin.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=w=; &quot;I wonder if you'll get along with his mother, then, considering you're ornery as all get-out.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Ornery better be a compliment in your language.&quot; &gt;:P

Edaric:<font color="#000000">The way is led through town toward the forest... and passers-by in the snow can be heard.

GM: <font color="#000000">&quot;Is that...?&quot; &quot;It is, Ael and Ed come back to visit.&quot; &quot;Well isn't that nice! And with an inquisitor along --&quot; &quot;Uh-oh. I bet it's because of Ed.&quot; :B &quot;What do you think he got himself into this time?&quot;

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">gonna start a quick supper. eggo waffles and peanut butter. :3


 * Thomas Lazarus shrinks a little inside his collar.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Looks like your fame hasn't faded in the slightest, Ed.&quot; :3

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I'll go with eveyone else. Kinda not used to going off on in small groups anymore. &gt;&gt;&quot;

GM: <font color="#000000">&quot;Look, an elf!&quot; &quot;Wow, she's pretty.&quot; &quot;That's a mage, she's got to be. Only mages carry rats on their shoulders, and only mages would be crazy enough to put 'em in armor.&quot; |3 &quot;Or maybe she's a druid!&quot; &quot;Three copper says she's hooked up with Ed.&quot; &quot;No, see, I heard from Linda Aelian got himself a wood elf girlfriend.&quot; &quot;Aelian has a girlfriend?!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;HEY.&quot; &gt;:|


 * Edaric laughs. &quot;And neither has yours.&quot; XP

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi must look a little silly from giggling so much.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; I guess it's kind of nice to be recognized.. but.. I feel like everyone is scared of me now..&quot; ^^;;;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Given what they've been whispering, I bet there'll be a rumor by sunrise about you being our probation officer or something.&quot; :P


 * Thomas Lazarus laughs nervously.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;It could be worse.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;When Barbie stopped by, everyone assumed a Halfling caravan was in the neighborhood. (:3&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus handwaves. &quot;Doooohhh~ I'm sure he didn't care. He probably likes the attention.&quot; =w=;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; He transformed right in front of a freakin' Inquisitor, I don't think he's afraid of anything in the world.&quot; =3=;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Except Tabris.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hmm~? Is that his brother he mentions now and then?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">We can arrive anytime, just making small talk.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Yep.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't think I've ever heard about this brother.&quot; :.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;For some reason I always pictured Barbarus as an only child.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'd love to meet a catfolk tribe some day, but..&quot; {:3 &quot;..I'm not really sure it's the sort of society that would want me visiting all willy-nilly, from the sounds of it.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh.. you hadn't heard those macabre odd mentions of his?&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Barbie is the older of a set of twins, it seems.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He's enemies with his brother. They have some sort of bad blood between them enough that there might be murder when they cross..&quot; He trails off quietly.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Less might, more will.&quot; ^^;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Don't really know the details. Wasn't something that I thought I should pry into.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Tabris is a druid. And given they're twins, they look exactly alike.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Tabris got married, but his wife mistook Barbarus for Tabris.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;And Barbarus mistook her for a streetwalker.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Why would twins want to-... oh dear.&quot;

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">O_o &quot;Uh-oh.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi immediately gives a mock glare to Aelian. &quot;I have no twins!!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;What.&quot; |D


 * Thomas Lazarus chuckles nervously. ^^;

Casavan:<font color="#000000">Over the river and through the woods~ until a small, neat cabin comes into view, tucked under two large trees. A timber wolf is snoozing on the porch, though it looks up when you approach, barks once, then lopes toward Aelian, tail wagging like any domestic dog's.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, there's Cassie!&quot; :3

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It's a friendly wolf! And it doesn't have stupid hair! \o/


 * Thomas Lazarus is bricked.

Casavan:<font color="#000000">Sniffsniffsniff -- after a thorough inspection, Aelian is thoroughly licked all over amid quiet happy whines. :3

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Casavan! Goodness but it feels like ages since I've seen you. Meet Tavia and Amadre. I know you are going to get along splendidly.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;D'aawww!&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#9933FF">Oh myyy gooood you're a wolf!!! :D

Amadre:<font color="#9933FF">Wolfy wolfy wolfy! :3

Casavan:<font color="#000000">:3 ! Elven hounds! Sniffsniffsniffsniffsniff.

Casavan:<font color="#000000">You smell like my friend's pup. :o Play?

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

Amadre:<font color="#9933FF">First rule in play club, we do not - OH! Play! Yay!

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">A red-haired woman, followed by a white-haired elf with a quiet smile, come out of the house. &quot;Aelian!&quot; The half-elf is quickly drawn into a hug. :)

Casavan:<font color="#000000">The wolf has moved on to sniffing everyone else. Who are you, who are you... oh hi Ed. :D

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Oh shit grapple grapple grapple!! oh who am I kidding I might as well go against Tomiko. ^^;


 * Thomas Lazarus beams during the approach. &quot;Ohhh..&quot; :D

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Hi Mom.&quot; Aelian says, smiling.


 * Thomas Lazarus whispers blatantly, &quot; They look like really cool folks!&quot; |D &quot;More than I expected..!&quot; &gt;:9

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're alive, you're okay... let me get a look at you.&quot; {:3

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Pet pet pet.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Linda isn't actually in armor, is she? :P

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">The elf in the background offers a quiet, pleasant nod to the company while Aelian is fussed over. :)

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">No, no actual armor.

Hord: <font color="#cc0066">(( I'm picturing her with Marie's voice from everybody love Raymond? ))

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Doris Robert's!

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Oh gods it'd be like cramming me into a sandwich masher. XP

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Roberts*

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;I'm fine, I'm fine, and yes I'm eating well!&quot; Aelian complains, fending off the potentional barrage. XP

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi can't help but snicker at that. She waits until the reunion subsides.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yJgWFTuCEY


 * Thomas Lazarus watches Tathi and the parents with a total 83 face.

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">The ranger gets hugged once more. &quot;Oh, it's so good to see you.&quot; {:3 And released.

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;And your shadow,&quot; says the elf, nodding to Edaric. |3


 * Thomas Lazarus suddenly freezes like a stone. &quot;--...&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hi, Mr. Cyadarith.&quot; :3

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Wave. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Do they know? ... But he just returns to smiling in a moment.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Doesn't matter.

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are these your adventuring companions?&quot;

Casavan:<font color="#000000">You all smell like horse. :.


 * Thomas Lazarus nods in respectful acknowledgement. &quot;Ma'am. Sir. Pleased to meet you.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus offers Casavan a palm to sniff. :o

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;This is Thomas, their propbation officer.&quot; And Hord spins out of arm's reach of the party. 0:3

Casavan:<font color="#000000">Sniffsniffsniff. :.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Argh, no, I'm not..!&quot; ^^;;;


 * Edaric sticks his tongue out at Hord. XP &quot;Trying to spread rumors in the woods, too?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi curtsies, rather gracefully at that. &quot;Tathi Eyllisaearsithek, ma'am.&quot; She says sweetly.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I wouldn't have worn this if I had known it would bother people!&quot; X3

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">The woman's face hardens a little, and she scrutinizes Tathi. :|

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Hord just tips his wig. :3

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">^^;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Aelian, expecting a fireball, is just a little bewildered by this sudden.. professionalism.


 * Thomas Lazarus pauses for a moment, looking at Linda. &quot;...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">''You're detecting evil on your son's girlfriend aren't you. =w=;''

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Lit up like the sun-*BRICK'D*

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">No! -- Yes! -- Maybe. &gt;:|


 * Linda Cyadarith is brick'd.

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

Kor:<font color="#9933FF">Oh, wait, it's just the rat, his aura is - SWEET HOPPING HORNY TOADS.


 * Kor hums the imperial march song.

GM:<font color="#000000">... come to think of it I don't think I've ever seen a non-ornery familiar on a PC. *brick'd*

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

Kor:<font color="#9933FF">Think of it from their position. They were mere animals, up until they were caught, and magically bound to some two-leg. Now, their sentience, their very elevated existance hinges on this 'superior' being. It's a bit of an ego leak.

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">Anyway! &quot;Tathi, then. Aelian's written a lot about you in his letters home.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Good things, I hope? I've only heard the summary of you and your husband. Ranger and paladin, yes?&quot;

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's right.&quot;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Suddely, cat.

Tathi: <font color="#9933ff">(( Hi cocoa. :3 ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">t56344

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi smiles, and quirks an eyebrow. &quot;So now I have to ask for clarafication. Right as to the paladin and ranger arrangement, or only good things about me?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Why do I feel like I'm still in the spotlight here?&quot; -.-;;

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


 * Thomas Lazarus pets on Casavan while Aelian gets embarassed. A good day! \o/

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;The arrangement, though he has been very complimentary toward you in his letters. And who are the others, Aelian?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;This is Thomas Lazarus, of Pelor and a member of the Leaden Mace.&quot;

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;A Pelorite inquisitor? How rare.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus bows slightly. &quot;Curious circumstances. A pleasure to meet you, ma'am. Your son has been an upright and supporting influence on our band, and helped save many lives.&quot; :3

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Except like three quarters of the time when his girlfriend is calling the shots and attracting Oblivion guards --

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

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't doubt that in the slightest.&quot; :) &quot;My apologies -- Daelaer Cyadarith, and my wife Linda. And of course, you know our son.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;I've been looking forward to meeting the both of you. Unlike Aelian, who seems to dread my family.&quot; She says, poking Aelian in the side.

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I can't place your face, but I know I've seen you in town,&quot; the elf says to Hord.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Eyllisaearsithek is not a name without history, Tathi.&quot; ^^;


 * Thomas Lazarus titters. :B

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm. Which branch of the family are you from, dear?&quot;


 * Linda Cyadarith is still scrutinizing Tathi closely. :|

Liatai:<font color="#000000">How long have you got left tonight, Hatari? :.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Well, all the same, I'd like to hear about the Cyadarith history. And I hail from the Autumn Leaf branch of the family. Raden, in the old tongue.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;I'm Hord. Ed's cousin.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh, bout 45m.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">He lifst his wig off his head.

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Ah, yes, the bald one.&quot; :3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ael, do you and Tathi want a little alone time to chat with your folks?&quot; :3 &quot;I don't want to give Teasel much more of a chance to lay more ambushes.&quot; |3

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Yes, go right ahead. And remember, watch above as well as below.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Well, atleast Tathi is implacable. ^^;

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Ah, yes, your mother invited us all to dinner.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You could learn from her, Ael. :O


 * Edaric nods. :3

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">I can hit LARGE targets even easier. &gt;:P

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">brb

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I'm just saying crazy people can smell fear, I am I social worker you know. *arrow'd*

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;See you there, then! Good boy, Cassie. &quot; :3 The wolf gets a thorough petting. &quot;Let's go, Tom, Hord, we can stable the horses at my folks' place.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sure thing.&quot; Tom offers a friendly wave to Aelian's folks.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;... Mother, she is not a vampire or a doppleganger, stop that.&quot; Aelian chides.

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Sorry, stop what?&quot; Bluff is not a paladin class skill. :B *brick'd* She waves to the departing humans.

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

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi's giggling again. &quot;Oh Aelian. You take after your mother so very much.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;I do not!!&quot; Aelian blurts.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Ed leads the way north... and the first things you notice are sheep. A flock of sheep, crossing the road in front of you, Tiana and a sheepdog herding them along. Ed waves.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Think they'll be okay, Tom?&quot; &gt;.&gt;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ohhhh~ probably. And if not.. well.. it's something they really should just get out of their system sooner than later.. you know? But I'm pretty sure it will be okay.&quot; ^^;

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">The elf is quietly chuckling. &quot;Shall we head in out of the cold?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Yes, let's, before I get embarrassed even more.&quot; -.-;;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;They're always like this, aren't they?&quot; Tathi says to Daelaer. :)

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Now then!&quot; Tom claps his hands together once. &quot;I can't wait to meet the rest of your folks, too.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you say so. I just worry. Tathi means a lot to Ael. ... That reminds me, sometime I'd appreciate your advice on something. But not right now, now's family time.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh..?&quot; He glances aside. &quot;Absolutely. You can ask me any time.&quot; He nods.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, if you listen, I bet you can get your first introduction to my dad,&quot; Ed says with a grin, pointing north toward a large farmhouse.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&gt;:3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Spot: &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 15 + 5 = 20&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187; Listen: &#171;  &#160;1d20+5 = 13 + 5 = 18&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">yeah that cinches it. Thomas needs to take leadership and snatch up edaric as his cohort. STEAL ALL THE NPCS. &gt;:3

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Well it would eliminate some combat overhead, but who else would follow Thomas around? =w=;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">But.. I can be the guy.. D|

Glynn Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+10 = 3 + 10 = 13&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Perform check... An older human is sitting on the front porch, playing a fiddle with a huge fluffy sheepdog laying across his lap.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">You don't wanna be the guy. :O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You're right I don't. |X

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Sounds like he's tuning. |o&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Well! I'm eager to know more about you, and I'd be downright silly to think anything else of your intent concerning me, so who should start, hrm?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ohhh.. that reminds me. Maybe we should visit.. mm.. sorry, I forget his name. That boy who was the sun of the choir leader here?&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Son.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">*son not sun. FREUDIAN SLIP?


 * Edaric unslings his lute and starts playing a melody in reply as they walk. :3 &#171; &#160;1d20+18 = 14 + 18 = 32&#160;  &#187; &quot;Lemme see, who else to tell you about... I'm the second oldest... Oh yeah. Terin Talodor. Do you think the ship would have made it back from Resca already?&quot;

Glynn Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+10 = 12 + 10 = 22&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Hmm? Assist check...

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Good point. I forgot all about our shortcut. Perhaps not.&quot;

Kathy Tonmor:<font color="#000000">There's a bustle and hustle from inside the house, and a few flits of magic can be seen dancing around the windows.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;--Ohhh~ haha, that's right, you rode a dragon and we're visiting your little sister!&quot; |3!


 * Edaric laughs! &quot;Oh man, I can't wait to tell them about that part. Look here -- oh wait, my hands are full.&quot; Strum. |3 &quot;I asked our esteemed dragon friend for a souvenir before we parted ways.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Oh lords. Recounting our adventurers? Sec, lemme consult our xp log.. XP

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lessee, you know Teasel already -- that's Tiana. And that's my father Glynn on the porch. Rachel's the middle child; she's always been a little on the sickly side, but she knows the woods as well as an elf. Ehlonnan. And then the twins, Kathy and Kirstie.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's kind of a tall tale. I guess..&quot; He seems to sort of fade into wonder for a moment, &quot;..we have sort of become.. big guys, huh?&quot;


 * Edaric strums contemplatively. &quot;... yeah, I guess we have. Dragons... dark elves... demons.. necromancers... pirates...&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">What say we merge the groups as dinner approaches? Let's not split RPs. :3


 * Thomas Lazarus offers a high wave at the woman on the porch. :3

Glynn Tonmor:<font color="#000000">Woman...? =3=;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I assume she's power-leveling through the Tonmor family before I have to go. XP

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yes, I am. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">=3= WELL. *bricked*

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;You'll know Kathy, she'll be the one in the heaviest cloak. She's the one who works with the Pelorite church.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It was just a wave you're none the wiser. :3;;

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


 * Thomas Lazarus nods. :3

Glynn Tonmor:<font color="#000000">The man heads inside, followed by the dog.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;And Kirstie's her twin. She probably won't have Sheldon inside, otherwise I'd tell you to look for the chicken.&quot; |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh dear.. so many names.. I'm doomed.&quot; ^^;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's not even getting into the cousins.&quot; :P

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Don't worry, they all have nametags on their tok-*BRICK'D*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">That's not the Thomas way. My player has to actually just remember! ... Which is why I'm doomed! =w=;


 * Edaric knocks on the door, knocks the snow off his boots, then puts his hand on the door handle. &quot; Given Dad went inside, ambush in three... two... one... &quot; |3 And then he opens the door.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh. Before I go earning the stink-eye, how old are your siblings? I brought a bottle of wine to share.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Teasel's 25, I'm 24, Rachel's 20, and the twins are eighteen.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ahhh, very good, then.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">brb, bio!

Kirstie Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;BIG BROTHER!!!&quot; Ed is tackle-hugged from both sides as soon as he steps inside. :D !

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oof!&quot; XD Oh no, they're flanking! They get a +2 bonus on hug attacks!


 * Thomas Lazarus is paralyzed with the effort of restraining an enormous DAWWW {83


 * Thomas Lazarus simply raises a palm in greeting. ^^

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Group hug! :D &quot;These can't be my little sisters! They're too tall!&quot; X3

Kathy Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aww! C'mon, c'mon, everybody in! Don't leave the door open!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Please excuse me, then.&quot; Tom ducks inside while smiling.

Shannen Tonmor:<font color="#000000">The house is warm and bright inside, and the smells of baking and cooking fill the air in addition to the occasional floating wisp of magic dusting and sweeping.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Into the house~

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">So awesome. |O

Kirstie Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hoooord! Nice new look!&quot; |D Hord gets a hug, too.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Even more friendly and homey and good-smelling and friendly than I had imagined. |O

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Le hug. =3=

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Being an adventurer has it's perks. Like wigs in the loot!&quot;

Kathy Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh.&quot; The other twin looks up at Tom, slighly wide-eyed. &quot;... Ed, did you get in trouble? ... But you're wearing a Pelorite amulet. Hmmmm.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus snorts. &quot;Don't tell me that's where you got that.&quot;

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">:D


 * Thomas Lazarus smirks involuntarily and allows the investigation to continue unimpeded. X3


 * Edaric laughs. &quot;Right! I almost forgot. Kathy, Kirstie, this is Thomas Lazarus, the adventuring Pelorite priest and inquisitor.&quot;

Kathy Tonmor:<font color="#000000">:o

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's wonderful to meet you.&quot; ^^


 * Kathy Tonmor curtsies. &quot;It's very nice to meet you, sir.&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus waves a little at Ed. &quot;Hey, hey, I've never been a priest. That's way too hard for me. I'm just good with magic and try to help here and there.&quot; ^^;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, then, what would you rather I call you?&quot; :.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Even though alternate-me in dorf fortress is the head priest. &gt;.&gt; *bricked*

Kirstie Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is it against the law to hug an inquisitor? I don't remember.&quot; |3

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

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;He's also here because Ed hopes one of you'll marry him and he can stop worrying about you all. |3&quot; And dancing out of arm's reach again.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Nahhh! People do it all the time.&quot; |3 &quot;Hugged a dragon once, you know.&quot;

Rachel Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ed and Hord didn't warn you that she hugs everyone, I take it... Good evening. Welcome home.&quot; :3 Ed gets another hug.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hi, Rach. It's good to be back.&quot; :3

Kirstie Tonmor:<font color="#000000">8O

Kirstie Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;You hugged a dragon?&quot; 8O

Kathy Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;What kind? Was it big?&quot; 8O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; So did Ed, but she was still disguised.&quot; &gt;|3

Rachel Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where's your shadow?&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus holds a hand aside and humbly guesses Terri's height. Holds a palm at that level. :B

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;At his parents', with his girlfriend. He'll be along later.&quot; :3

Kirstie Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aelian has a girlfriend?!&quot; XP

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;More like a master. Ohhh, I can feel the sparks already.&quot; |3

Kathy Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Dragons come that small?&quot; :o

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sure! Was only four years old, apparently..&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;.. Sheesh this is like my go-to story for meeting new people. I'm bad at secrets.&quot; &gt;|9

Glynn Tonmor:<font color="#000000">The man who was on the porch is sitting in a chair on the far side of the room, watching the goings-on with a warm smile. The dog is sprawled out across his feet. :3

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Le wave to uncle. |3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Kathy Tonmor: &quot;Dragons come that small?&quot; :o

Kirstie Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;C'mon in, c'mon in, take your coat off and stay a while! How long've you been on the road?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Can Tathi and Co show up? ;3

Glynn Tonmor:<font color="#000000">Le nod back.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Suddenly I imagine what if young dragons got the Frightful Presence ability early.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sure, sure. :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Tries to imagine Terri with Frightful Presence.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">DAMNIT TECH

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">I WAS DRINKING WATER

TMG:<font color="#000000">Terri: &quot;RAWR! &gt;:D &quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The deadly d'awwws. x3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Level 1 dungeon. Terri is the end b'aaawwwws. *BRICKS*

Rachel Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, please, come in. I'll take your coats so they can dry. How do you do, sir? I'm Rachel Tonmor, Edaric's younger sister.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Tathi and co. can show up whenever.

Shannen Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;Kathy! Kirstie! The pie's ready!&quot;

Kirstie Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- PIE!&quot; :D

Kathy Tonmor:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're coming!&quot;


 * Thomas Lazarus unslings his pack, shield and holy sword scabbard, then folds his overcoat over an arm.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Tavia! Amadre! Heel! Sit! You don't have to assualt every house you come to!&quot; Well there's a way to announce their arrival.

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">&quot;Brace yourselves. :V&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;A pleasure to meet you!&quot; X3 as the siblings run off for pie.


 * Tiana Tonmor is watching Aelian from the porch. Can he get them to heel, or was Ed telling tales again...? |3

Hord:<font color="#CC0066">Hord opens the door for new arrivals.


 * Thomas Lazarus sets his heavy gear down unobtrusively against a wall and offers his coat.

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


 * Rachel Tonmor takes it and drapes it near the fire so it can dry.

GM:<font color="#000000">We can fade out here if you need to leave, Hatari. :3

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Looks like it was half truth, half lie. They do, after a bit of coercing, heel. He's not the master yet. XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Well as totally awesome as the families seem and as much as I wanna stay, I'll have to settle for a log. Time to get ready for work. =w=;;;;

GM:<font color="#000000">Assume stories and a hearty dinner follow. :3

Hord: <font color="#cc0066">(( (:3 ))

Hord: <font color="#cc0066">(( Ta. ))

Meany:<font color="#CC0066">And so a marriage contract was arranged for Thomas and Rachel.

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

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

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">I am literally a quarter your age...

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

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

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Could we keep going, just for the in-law inquisition? :P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sure, I'll just need to grab a drink and do some thinking, and then we can wind back the clock to pre-dinner.


 * Tathi makes the mari warp whistle sounds. :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oh by all means, continue. I don't want to swoop someone else's mini just cuz of timecrunch.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Although since everyone is apparently visiting for three days, maybe continued RPs another time..? {:3

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">And so he quietly plots our murders behind our backs...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Of course! :3


 * Thomas Lazarus flicks out butterfly knife. *_*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Pick a day and time, any time. :3 Always up for RPs.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">In any case, gotta go.

Tathi: <font color="#9933ff">(( Bye! :3 ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">-- right, tea. *goes off to bre*

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

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

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">H'okay back.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Had an interesting conversation with my mom. &quot;I'm having a bit of a roleplaying dilemna.&quot; &quot;Oh?&quot; &quot;... say your son was bringing home his girlfriend to meet for the first time. It's obvious they care for each other deeply, but the girlfriend is... a known troublemaker.&quot; &quot;... What kind of troublemaker?&quot; &quot;... We-e-ell...... &gt;.&gt;&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's Tathi.&quot; &quot;Oh.&quot; &quot;Yeah.&quot; :B

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">OH. MY. GOD. My character is a known name in your household!? XP

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I talk with my mom about Akellon all the time. XD She knows the PCs' exploits pretty well.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Especially since I come to her to brainstorm sometimes when I'm stuck. Example: Thalinde. &quot;I don't know what I'm going to do if Tathi actually -does- blow up the law enforcement D| &quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">So, yes. Tathi is a pretty well-known name. XP

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">Speaking of which, back to the woods, whenever you're ready. :3

Casavan:<font color="#000000">Hounds~ |D

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Bwehehehe! I so wanna have an inperson game with you some day -with- your mom. Oh the hilarity. XP

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... I think I'm lagging. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">I'm... painfully well aware that adventurers become nothing short of godly in power after a certain curve, so I try to avoid rampaging the locals. ;)

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">She's.. infamous!?!? *_*

TMG:<font color="#000000">...oh mah goodness this is precious. xD

TMG:<font color="#000000">Liamom is awesome-mom!

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Ready! My crew doesn't return from the abandoned zombie town in like.. 28 minutes. XD

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

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


 * TMG wonders what Liamom says about all the other characters. :.

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">:21?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:23 lagcheck

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:21 at :23. ^^;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">:23 at :23!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:23 at :24, though it just ticked over. :3

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">The inside of the small cabin is cozy and simple, and the stove heats the interior amply. &quot;I'll put a pot of tea on. Do you drink tea, Tathi, or is there something else you'd like?&quot;

Casavan:<font color="#000000">Tussle romp play play |D

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Bring me the strongest moondrop you've got.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Oh no no, tea sounds lovely! I should have thought to bring a few of the herbs out of the forest for this.&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#9933FF">Good lord what a racket two giant hounds and a timber wolf must be making..

Tavia: <font color="#9933ff">(( crap, am I still here? IRC crashed out.. ))

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:31 ?

Tavia: <font color="#9933ff">(( yay! ))

Tavia:<font color="#9933FF">:31 at :31!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:31 at :35. ^^;

Tavia: <font color="#9933ff">(( huuuughesfaaaail. &gt;:)

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:39 lagcheck?

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">...was that just me?

Tavia: <font color="#9933ff">(( yup ))

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

Tavia:<font color="#9933FF">:39 at L:38.. wth? XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:38 at :44. ^^;;;

Tavia:<font color="#9933FF">oh, just clicked over to :39

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:39 at :44.

TMG:<font color="#000000">I just caught myself trying to mentally manage my schedule tomorrow to avoid conflicting with Cold War. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Bwahahaha, brainwashed. ;)

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">FFFFFFFFFFFFF-

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">*siiiigh* I guess with hughesnet being such blah, we should just postpone this fo another time. :\:44

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:44 at :45.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It seems to be rubberbandy. :.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">You back with us? ;3

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm afraid the Cyadarith side of the family isn't as... storied as the Eyllisaearsitheks'. There isn't much to tell compared to your family.&quot; |3

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are you allergic to anything, Tathi?&quot; Aelian's mother asks from by the stove.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Oh please, we could bore ourselves to death all night talking about my family's hijinx! Everyone's already heard those.&quot; She says, and then calls over to the stove. &quot;No ma'am, not a thing.&quot;

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">She returns with a modest tray of tea and biscuits. &quot;... Yes. ... I can still scarcely believe it. Petrified, restored... it was only a few months ago that we started getting your letters again. And now look at you, a full-on adventurer standing tall, back in the saddle again, with your own elven hounds.&quot; She smiles at her son.

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're so proud of you.&quot; :)


 * Daelaer Cyadarith nods agreement. :)

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Aelian smiles, serving Tathi her tea and biscuit first. &quot;It has its ups and its downs. I don't suppose I've written about our new home, have I?&quot;

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;... No, I don't believe you have. Where is it?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... my music player has a sense of humor.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;South of castleton, near Redwood! Lords, Mother, did you ever think I'd be living in an elven great home?&quot; Aelian says excitedly. Now there's a bit of pride showing.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It keeps throwing final boss themes at me. XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">It's trying to tell you something.

TMG:<font color="#000000">THE FAMILY IS THE FINAL BOSS. :U

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Psst. Redtree, not Redwood. XP

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">SAME THING. XP

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;South of castleton, near Redtree! Lords, Mother, did you ever think I'd be living in an elven great home?&quot; Aelian says excitedly. Now there's a bit of pride showing.

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;A great home! A true great home in the Vale? How far west is it? Straight south of Castleton?&quot;

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll have to come visit.&quot; :3

Aelian: <font color="#9933ff">(( *checks world map to make sure...* ))

Aelian: <font color="#9933ff">(( *.. changes redtree to redwood* ))

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry, the tree the town is named after has red leaves, not red wood. :P

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Almost completely straight south of Castleton, and straight west of Redtree. We're in the old fey wood, and know what's even better? We've already picked up a batch of elves, and they've all started their own homes out there.&quot;

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;I was about to ask whether you've met any fey neighbors.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;That would be Miacherry!&quot; He says, taking a sip of his tea. &quot;The little fellow is a fey-blooded fox, -and- there's dryads in the area too!&quot;

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Greenwood Vale is ancient feywood, though of course some areas are thicker with them than others -- dryads as well!&quot; :.

Miacherry:<font color="#000000">Hey! Es-cuse me, I'm a vixen! |P *brick'd*

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Can't you fey swap gender with a thought? :P

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;The start of the... what did you call it in your letters, SEEDS project?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;We've practically got a tiny little hamlet going out there.&quot; He says, and then nods to his mother. &quot;That's Tathi's plan. SEEDS, a project to make a new home for the wood elves. So far, it's off to a smashing start.&quot;

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;What does that stand for, by the way? I've been curious.&quot;

You have disconnected.

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

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

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Linda Cyadarith: &quot;What does that stand for, by the way? I've been curious.&quot; Ghostwish: Darn you. XP Liatai is disconnected. Ghostwish: HEY I WAS KIDDING. D: Liatai has connected.

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">There you go. :3

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">And guess what? CHECKMATE. &gt;:3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I honestly thought you'd kicked me to avoid answering the question. XD

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Sae'Elessdarshe. A green world of wood for elves, for all of time.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">75 Sae : wood 29 El : green -ess (-esti) : elves, elvin -dar (-adar; -odar) : world 79 She : age, time

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And it's finally been answered. x3


 * Liatai applauds.

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;Apt, for a sanctuary.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">crap.. what did we name the village proper again? XD

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I have to ask. Why is your rat wearing plate armor?&quot;

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

Kor:<font color="#9933FF">I AM THE ALL MIGHTY.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi smirks, and crams a bit of her biscuit in Kor's face to keep his squeaking quiet. &quot;It just struck me one day how easy it would be for an archer to pluck him right off my shoulder, not only wounding myself in the process, but possibly killing him! So, I've begun to take steps to get him properly equipped for adventuring life.&quot;

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see. I'd wondered if he was awakened.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Mmm, only in so much as his mind is enchanced by our link. Otherwise, he's just another rat.&quot;

Kor:<font color="#9933FF">WELL I NEVER. I shall eat my biscuit in scorn of you, wench.

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;Speaking of the adventuring life... from your letters, you've been very busy these past few months.&quot;

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;With all of the adventures you've been describing, I'm half surprised you even had the time to strike up a romantic relationship. How did that start?&quot; She sounds pleasant enough, but she's watching Tathi.

TMG:<font color="#000000">EVIL-DETECTING EYE. :u

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

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Uhhh..&quot; Aelian murmers, scatching the back of his head nervously.. Oooo, he's turning red.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Tathi snorts in laughter, and speaks up. &quot;He went and got himself deathly ill after a dive into some less than clean water, and I helped nurse him back to health. That's where it started.&quot;

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm, and you have our gratitude for that. Aelian's always been a little prone to catching sick.&quot;


 * Linda Cyadarith raises an eyebrow a little and leans forward a little more, resting her arms on the table with a &quot;go on&quot; expression.

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;I do not.&quot; Aelian protests under his breath.

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">Son, I've taken care of both you (and your mother, before she became immune to disease) every time you were sick. Who do you think you're fooling? |3 *brick'd*

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;We teased each more often than not off the start. It seemed the start of more of a rivalry than a romance. But I guessed we matched more than we clashed.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Hilarious matchup really. He, who takes after his paladin mother, and myself, who takes after her wild sorcerer of a father.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;How often have I been called your anchor again?&quot; ^^;

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

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;.. wait you've seriously been counting!?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;I'm a wizard.&quot; :3


 * Daelaer Cyadarith chuckles. &quot;Unfortunately we're short on undead-infested castles to destroy around here. I hope you're not disappointed.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Both Tathi's eyebrows raise as she smirks. &quot;You do know my family history.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Wait WHAT happened?&quot; O_O

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Mmm, distant relative of mine. Cleared a castle of zombies and the like, by leveling the half that the zombies were in.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">O_O;

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not as well as I'd like, apparently, since the version I heard had Raerarael Eyllisaearsithek as the castle-destroyer.&quot; :.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Oh no no no, it was his uncle. My father, Raerarael, is responsible for blowing away that series of fronts of criminal organizations. You know, half the block?&quot;


 * Linda Cyadarith clears her throat quietly.

Aelian: <font color="#9933FF">&quot;Yes please I don't want to hear any more about how terrifyingly powerful her family is.&quot; ^^;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Oh! So sorry. You know how we elves like to go out on a limb. Where were we?&quot; :3

Tathi: <font color="#9933FF">&quot;Wait.. it wasn't my dad's uncle.. it was my mother's. Doh.&quot;

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's starting to get darker outside, in any case. Even if we were going to keep sharing family stories, it would be more entertaining to do so in the company of the Tonmors. Shannen is probably waiting for us.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Ah, yes, I can't wait to meet all these wild sisters Aelian's gone on about. Apparently, they could give a whole tribe of catfolk a run for their money they way he goes on about them!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">|3

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;... though that reminds me.. Tathi, Aelian, when we come to visit, I would like to bring something as a gift. Is there anything you'd prefer? Anything missing from your home that you need?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">A crib ;D


 * TMG flees!

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;It seems we're a bit late for a housewarming gift, so this will have to suffice.&quot; She smiles.

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

Linda Cyadarith: <font color="#0">(( WHAT &gt;:O You've only known each other for a few months WHAT ARE YOU DOING &gt;:O ))

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">We already have one- *BRICK'D(

TMG:<font color="#000000">Nyeh heh heh. No wonder A &amp; T are being dodgy of how they -really- met. ;D

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">I've.. been making it up. XD

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;Oh no no, don't be silly! If you must, bring some home cooking. Really, we'd love it if you just visited!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">&quot;.. could I request my favorite desert then?&quot;

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&quot;Of course, honey.&quot; :)

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Score. |D

GM:<font color="#000000">Shall we leave off there? :3

Ghostwish:<font color="#9933FF">Sounds good to me.

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">BY THE WAY WE'RE HALF WAY THROUGH THE ELVEN KARMA SUTRA. *brick'd!*

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">|D

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">&gt;:O !

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">AND IT'S FIVE TIMES THE SIZE OF THE OTHER ONES. *brick'd again!*

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">WE'VE WRITTEN A FEW LETTERS TO THE EDITORS. *the bricks! so many of them!*

Daelaer Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">Ah, kids |D

Tathi: <font color="#9933ff">(( shall we save a log or two? :3 ))

Linda Cyadarith:<font color="#000000">WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY BABY BOY YOU STRUMPET &gt;:O &gt;:O &gt;:O

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

Aelian:<font color="#9933FF">Mom, I know why you 'let' me sleep over at Ed's so many times. &gt;:(

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">OH MY 

Edaric:<font color="#000000">For the last time! Not gay! DX *brick'd*

GM:<font color="#000000">Okay NOW let's shut 'er down. :B

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">... you know you were awful quick to jump to &quot;not gay&quot; instead of the obvious &quot;four sisters.&quot;

Tiana Tonmor:<font color="#000000">And you wonder why I used to ship you two. :P *SO MANY BRICKS*

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">saved as mini-session FAMILY. We'll have to do the countess encounter some other ime. :3

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">I wonder if I could convince her we had a three-some.. Hmmmm.. gee that's an awfully big bric-

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay, server can go down at your leisure. :3

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Allrighty! :3 My computer's been hankering for a shutdown for a while. XP

Tathi:<font color="#9933FF">Bye bye!

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

You have disconnected.

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

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

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

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

Tokens dropped onto map 'Grasslands'Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">HALOO!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... I can't find the mom's token. Oh well, she's out and about. :B

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Fair enough.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">So, you ready to kick this off? :3

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

GM:<font color="#000000">There we go. Shall we? :3

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

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

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

Tokens dropped onto map 'Grasslands'Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Oh it's this person. &quot;&gt;:3!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Anyway, ready to go!

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


 * RAM opens the jagerizer.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Okay, -now- I'm ready. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Off to the Pearldust with you! Bells chime softly as you open the door.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Which are swiftly followed by a not so soft, &quot;HALOO!&quot; :D

Nathaniel Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Welcome. Is there anything we might help you find today?&quot; The customary greeting didn't stand a chance against the HALOO. :B

Terri:<font color="#000000">Or its answering &quot;HALLO, SHANKFANG!&quot; |D

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang rushes in, scoops up Terri and *HUG'D!*

Brian:<font color="#000000">My ears. D|{ Noisy orcbloods.

Terri:<font color="#000000">Hug! ^^

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oi oi, guess vat!&quot; :D


 * Vira shrinks back a little and hides behind Brian. o.o;;;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Vat, vat?&quot; :O

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy hef a gift for hyu!&quot; :D

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;What is it, what is it?&quot; :D

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang sets Terri back down, grinning.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Close hyu eyes!&quot; :3

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


 * Brian watches like a hawk. :|

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und no peekink!&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm not peekin'!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Goot, now, hold out hyu hands.&quot;


 * Terri holds out her hands, eyes shut.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Once Shankfang is sure Terri isn't peaking, he pulls out his old flintlock and places it in her hands.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hokay, hyu kan open dem now.&quot; :3

Terri:<font color="#000000">... :. &quot;But Mr. Shankfang, this is yours! How're you gonna protect yourself without it?&quot; &gt;:

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy made anodder vun.&quot; :3


 * Shankfang the Deffrider pulls out Rose and shows it to her.

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Woooooow! It's so fancy!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tenk hyu!&quot; :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;But Hy vanted hyu to hef dat vun. It vas de first vun hy ever hed.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;It got me out uf a lot uf tight schpots.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und Hy hope it helps hyu as much as it helped me.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;..... an' you... you'd trust me to keep it safe for you?&quot; Wibble, sniff... HUG. ;o;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Uf kourse!&quot; Hug'd! :3

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I promise I'll keep it safe an' clean an' everything, Mr. Shankfang!&quot; ;o;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;An' when I get my own lair you can come over an' see it whenever you want!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Tenk hyu, Terri.&quot; :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy know hyu vill. It hed tventy fiff schots vith it, und it's enchanted so hyu never hef to load it youself. Chust put ammo und powder into its liddle pocket dimension, und it vill load itself every time hyu pull de flintlock back.&quot;

Brian:<font color="#000000">... I should be miffed that someone just gave my baby sister a weapon. ... but this is cute. &gt;.&gt; *brick'd!*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oh don't worry, I taught her how to use it. :B

Brian:<font color="#000000">Still! &gt;:O

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">She'll be fine!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">These things don't even explode on you!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Well, technically they do...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">But never catastrophically!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Just as their normal functioning!

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... uh-oh... pocket dimension... uhhh, Mr. Shankfang?&quot;

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;It won't explode if I put it in a bag of holding, will it?&quot; &gt;.&gt;

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

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

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


 * Shankfang the Deffrider reches for the gun...then seems to reach inside the gun.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">When he pulls his hand back, he's holding a small handfull of ball ammunition.

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">:. !


 * Shankfang the Deffrider puts the ammo back.

Ian:<font color="#000000">&quot;An intriguing conglomeration of arcana and technology.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh, dis is nottink. Hyu schould see vat Rose has.&quot; &gt;:3

Brian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not in the shop.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Outside, den?&quot; :3

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aw, Mr. Shankfang won't fire in the shop, right, Mr. Shankfang?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Uf kourse not!&quot;


 * Terri stows the old flintlock in her backpack, and pats it once the flap is closed again. &quot;There! I'll keep it nice an' safe there!&quot; :3

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu are very velkome, Terri.&quot; :3 *Hug'd*

GM:<font color="#000000">So... that's that, then. :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Unless any of them would like to see Rose's enchantments in action. &gt;:3

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">SUDDENLY, EVERYONE IS DRUNK

Dorf Aias:<font color="#9933FF">*brick'd*

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

Ian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps another time, sir. Mazian constructions have a habit of frightening off potential customers in Akellon.&quot;


 * Shankfang the Deffrider tackles!

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

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And... there we go. :3

RAM:<font color="#990000">Mmm, short, but sweet.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Server may go down at your leisure, spectral one. Thank you. :3

RAM:<font color="#990000">Danke, Ghost!