Session 80

TMG has connected.

Ghostwish has connected.

RAM has connected.

Meany has connected.

Railock has connected.

Liatai:... waitaminute.

Liatai:Ghost, which campaign file did you load?

Ghostwish:33- shit. XD

Liatai:Yeah, I was gonna say, there are missing maps. XD

Ghostwish:I forgot to transfer the campaign over. XP

TMG:..uhoh. server needs to close down for a moment to load proper file?

Liatai:Yup. :B

Liatai:No biggie. I'll use this time to make a snack. :9

Ghostwish:Right one loaded. :3

RAM:Silly.

Meany:DAMNITY RAILOCK.

Meany:<font color="#330000">You forgot to remind ghost to replace his brain fluid.

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

Railock:<font color="#000000">that was your job this week

RAM:<font color="#990000">Doesn't matter. I switched it out with liquid he.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Ghostwish never listens to anything I say.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Because I kinda owe him fifty million dollars from poker.

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

Railock:<font color="#000000">he doesnt listen to anyone

RAM:<font color="#990000">Who would?

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Phew, okay, done with crime. XP

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">By the way? Dunno who's brain yall just fucked up.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Mine's fan cooled.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">And I sold your kidney, Meany.

Meany:<font color="#330000">But I don't have kidneys.

Meany:<font color="#330000">I have a fishtank filter.

Meany:<font color="#330000">http://senorgif.memebase.com/2012/05/04/funny-gifs-japanese-swim-team/

Meany:<font color="#330000">Wouldn't falling from that height, even via human ladder, be fatal?

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

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Silly japanese.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Ohey, Ghost!

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">?

RAM:<font color="#990000">I got my upgrades suspension on my IS-4!

RAM:<font color="#990000">I have all my modules now!

RAM:<font color="#990000">Er, Equipment.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Nice!

RAM:<font color="#990000">Now I can start grinding to the turret.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Suddenly Ram somehow invents an Abrahms tank on WoT.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Abrams, Meany.

RAM:<font color="#990000">No H.

TMG:<font color="#000000">....you know...that almost sounds like a special expansion/reward event....for certain matches, certain people are allowed to use one modern tank...

* Meany attaches a ham to the Abrams tank.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Now it's an Abraham tank.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Downloading maptools 87...

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">just for steamroller lulz. Maybe a temporary event.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I used to drive by the Lima tank plant and military base on the way to college every morning.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">They have an Abrams parked right by the road.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Which was really distracting. :B

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">They -are- coming out with a game mode like that.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh, really quick, just remembered. Heads-up.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Except instead of a modern tank...

RAM:<font color="#990000">It's a German Ratte.

TMG:<font color="#000000">ram; :O :O

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Ram.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'll need to leave sometime between 5 and 6 PM Eastern for about 40 minutes to an hour to let the spaniels out.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">That was an april fools joke.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">The Ratte is never coming. XP

TMG:<font color="#000000">Holy crap, that would be awesome--baw

RAM:<font color="#990000">It was?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Huh, musta missed that.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Mkay, Lia. :3

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">What's a Ratte? ^^; *brick'd*

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lia; gotcha

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">An impractially enormous tank.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lia; oh. Heh.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">*snrk* Liatai, planned nazi super heavy tank.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">A bit of Nazi German crazyness.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Had naval guns, was 35 meters long.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">o.o;;;

TMG:<font color="#000000">The largest tanke the Germans ever -seriously- built was called a &quot;Maus&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">But it was only a [prototype.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Is it even practical in a fight by modern standards?

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">The then -designed- a tank twice the size and called it a 'ratte'

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Modern standards? No, it wasn't even practical by ww2 standards.

RAM:<font color="#990000">And then designed an even bigger tank and called it the Monster.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Not the guinea pig? Or the chinchilla? Or heck, the capybara? They didn't run out of rodents by a long shot! :B *brick'd*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... come to think of it, are chinchillas rodents? I can't remember. *research!*

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

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1000_Ratte

Meany:<font color="#330000">The biggest baddest tank ever was useless in a fight.

TMG:<font color="#000000">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1500_Monster

TMG:<font color="#000000">Meany; that's correct

Meany:<font color="#330000">There is some symbolism there.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yep, they're rodents. :3

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">They could have gone for Squirrel, even. :B *brick'd again*

RAM:<font color="#990000">The Monster was meant to carry an 800 mm railway gun.

Meany:<font color="#330000">It fires railways?

Meany:<font color="#330000">Or just the trains?

RAM:<font color="#990000">No, the gun was meant to be mounted on a train.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Meany; no, the kind of gun that was normally mounted -on- a railway. :P

RAM:<font color="#990000">A very big armored train.,

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">METAL GEAR?!

Meany:<font color="#330000">I say using a train engine as a bullet would have been better.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hell, the shells for that gun were bigger than some tanks.

RAM:<font color="#990000">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/80cm_Gustav_shell.jpg

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;Sir, what is that?&quot; &quot;Offhand, I'd say it's the 3:50 locomotive.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Who are we waiting on, again?

TMG:<font color="#000000">I think we're all here, except for danman...

Railock:<font color="#000000">is he back now?

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">He has finals on monday.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Quick check. Where was TGUM last confirmed?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Nah, danman's still out

Meany:<font color="#330000">He will not be here except as an audience.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He still has two exams on Monday.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Then let's get this train wreck rolling!

* Meany throws Ram down a well.

* Meany throws Lassie in after Ram.

* RAM blows up the well.

GM:<font color="#000000">Mmkay! Anybody got character questions, or should we jump right in?

* RAM uses the explosion to propel himself out if the well.

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">What are your thoughts on explosives? &gt;:3

GM:<font color="#000000">Ghost, do you mean in the scrying, or...?

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Technology's futile attempt to match magic's power.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Yes. ;3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">In an alley behind a tavern called the Boar's Head.

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Loud, noisy, and destructive.. Only a simple minded fool would deal in such things.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">What town? :3

Terri:<font color="#000000">Ka-BOOOOOOOM! :O I like fireworks!

TMG:<font color="#000000">...was that ever asked?

* RAM detonates C4 in Aelian's spleen.

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

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

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">But I'll be nice. Yoriver.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Baw. DX

Tokens dropped onto map 'World Map'TMG:<font color="#000000">Would've thought you wouldn't say anything since I thought it -was- forgotten to ask that...ah well. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It could have been gleaned from his dialogue. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It was heavily implied enough, anyways.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">It's been mentioned several times before where the trouble is, dummy. :P

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">If your character was a marvel super hero, which one would they be?

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">What's a Marvel superhero? :.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Anyway. On with the show? :&gt;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Marvel superhero?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Only one with guns.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">dont know enough of em to judge

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*looks at lineup*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Do I really need to say it?

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Hulk. &gt;:3

* Gnogglebolt Unibeams Tathi

RAM:<font color="#990000">Gnogglebolt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSRQCMq1gB8

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Wrong!

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">Hawkeye!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">ah, -that's- more like it. &gt;:3

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Yeah, wasn't guessing. Was saying who I would be.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I don't know what Marvel is. =3=

Edaric:<font color="#000000">... Spiderman, maybe? {:3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I just lump it together with DC into Super Hero comics.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh, mah bad Tathi

RAM:<font color="#990000">brb, bafroom.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Dr. McNinja. =3= ((Swallowtail that's not even a DC or Marvel comic book, that's not a superhero))

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Next? ))

Terri:<font color="#000000">Hmmmmm... Oh! I got one! What's your opinion on campfire ghost stories? :D

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh, enjoy them. Of course, they're all about the ghosts and gremlins in our machines...

Terri:<font color="#000000">Who was your favorite teacher, and why? I couldn't pick between Max, Mama, Papa, an' Grandpa!

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Ouch. &quot;Um.. I'm going to pass on that one.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;My uncle&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Swallowtail. =3=&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;She hasn't tried to kill me yet.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">There was one teacher I had who took us fishing to teach us patience, stillness, and concentration. We did not use lines or spears.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">There was this gunman in the Deffriders. Taught me how to shoot a gun, ride a bike, build things...

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">He's the one who inspired me to become a Gunman myself. :3

Meany:<font color="#330000">Hmm, Oh Lia?

You whisper to Ghostwish: Speaking of teachers... could you throw me a bone? ^^; Which organization was Tathi's mentor a part of, the Burning Mountain or the Naira?

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

Tathi whispers: Er.. crap. The wood elven one. XP

Meany:<font color="#330000">Still looking for Tebryn potential images? :v

You whisper to Ghostwish: The Naira, then. :3 Burning Mountain is mixed high and wood elven.

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs32/f/2008/204/3/4/346fdf3016b5f7e1004ac7742cb1374d.jpg

* Dr. Hatari winces.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">There's a fellow in the most recent DrowTales chapters I would use, but I can't find a shot of him without full Sarghress plate armor. ^^;

* RAM pokes Herr Doktor.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Why for wince?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... looks... too old to be Tebryn. ^^; I'll keep looking.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Because the picture sucked as much as I expected it to. :P

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">Next question?

Snarky:<font color="#000000">*sparksparksparks everyone into firing up ze game &gt;:O*

Vuz:<font color="#330000">KOR.

Vuz:<font color="#330000">JOIN ME.

Vuz:<font color="#330000">TOGETHER WE CAN TAKE HIM.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">There is another one I'm considering, though it also looks older than what I'm looking for...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The white-haired fellow. http://th06.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2012/108/6/9/zerrandaes_familly_by_drowtales-d4wkfz5.jpg

RAM:<font color="#990000">I like that one.

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">Dat chest. :d

GM:<font color="#000000">H'okay, where did we leave off...

GM:<font color="#000000">Oh yes, preparing to give Aelian nightmares. :B

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">I've already mailed some.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh! Don't forget the EXP for the figurine conversation, like you said you'd add :o

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

GM:<font color="#000000">Today is Yondallon 20th, the day after the Vigilant Guardians and company brought the Sahuagin Queen and its captives back to Resca. Since then, it's been a whirlwind of sendings, scryings, and sparks. And yes, Sszeyl, Gnogglebolt, Tathi, and Thomas all get 300 XP for the figurine conversation.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Also, let's retroactively figure out where we stashed the rescuees for the night... what -would- be a good idea for that, for people who've just been rescued from a fate of slavery?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;38400+300 = 38400 + 300 = 38700&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

GM:<font color="#000000">We ended last session with the end of Tathi's scrying, speaking with her father in Yoriver (who seems to be convinced that his daughter's had a screw knocked loose...)

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

GM:<font color="#000000">And your DM will be right back, two shakes. Carry on.

Meany:<font color="#330000">To make sure they're not disease ridden or hurt?

* Gamal-Junayd is in the inn then

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Good for me. That's settled that then, we took the rescuees to the nearest medical place, be it a Pelor temple or a mundane healing building, and Gnogglebolt could cover any costs for the crowd.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And Gnogglebolt made a second copy of the entire Sahuagin Queen Ledger and breifly left the inn to go take it to the Rescan authorities. Just because it could only help with both them and Salishea having their own copies as they coordinate to hunt down more of the slaver ships.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Afte returning to the Inn...he sees Gamal sitting idly, then remembers something, and goes over to sit by Gamal.

GM:<font color="#000000">The temple of Pelor is more than happy to take them in.

Snarky:<font color="#000000">Snarky hops off Gnogglebolt's shoulder to look around the table.

GM:<font color="#000000">In the meantime... you have a free day in the second-largest city in Akellon. Have fun! :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey there, Gamal. Just remembered, I wanted to ask you about something...&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm? sure, ask away.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think I heard you say you learned some things from that red-haired man before we dropped him off with Salishea along with the others? And how he was removed from the rest of the seawolves because he had cooperated?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;How did that go originally, anyway? I wish now I hadn't spent time on my device and been there instead...&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">And, of course, should you find yourself bored and looking for an urban encounter, just tell the DM. ;3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Just finishing up a little work.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just talked to him. He may of been powerful, but he was a captive pressganged into the group like many of the others.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang spends his time browsing for parts. He's gonna need them for the gun he and Gnogglebolt are cooking up.

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

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;He wasn't willing to spill too much right off the bat..but he didnt really have any ties of loyalty to them either.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's...interesting.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Urban encounter being...?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Being the DM rolls the dice and sees what happens. ;3

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;He came from around castleton even. wonder if his name was in your book, Alexander. He was ambushed by some goblins in an inn while sleeping.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Ah. Sure, why not!

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 14 + 6 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ooh. Hmmmm. &gt;:3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Carry on while the DM researches.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Pardon. Haven't fully woken up yet.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Shopping withh Swallowtail~

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;He--wait, what?&quot; Gnogglebolt looks up at Gamal in surprise, then fishes out Granch Redmaw's ledger.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I'll take an encounter if it's okay. :3

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Same encounter, or different?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">A MAZIAN HALF-ORC BIKER! :O

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Well that works. x3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Go ahead and RP while I research.

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

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Really, the hardest thing about getting stuff out of him was his pride. Don't think he liked revealing how bad of a situation he'd been in cause of the captain and his slavers.&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">It's hard not to notice the approaching biker, as his deffbike is hardly subtle. &quot;Oi, Sszeyl, Svallowtail!&quot; :D

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">Vrrrrrrmmmmmmm...

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hallo, Shenkfang.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 8 + 6 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Carry on.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">We're over here, man. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">40, 15ish.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu tvo on a date?&quot; &gt;:3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Shopping. =3=&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Buying weapons.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Schoppink date for veapons? Hyu sure know how to treat a lady, Sszeyl.&quot; &gt;:3

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

Young Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;Excuse me, could you move your device for a moment, please?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Huh? Oh, sorry.&quot;

Young Guard:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you.&quot;

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">Vrrrrrmmmmmm.

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

You whisper to RAM: Shankfang, please roll a Will save.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:O &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 14 + 2 = 16&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Will save. My worst one. =3=

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

???:<font color="#000000">What was that feeling... a fleeting notion passed through your head that throwing some money into the water would have been good luck. That was strange.

* Teeny Rin holds out donations box. &gt;:3

* Sszeyl puts apples in the Rin box.

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

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">Yessss, my pretties, get me shinies for cheese!

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;What was odd?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy don' know. Hy hed de oddest urge to trow money into de vater.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang peeeeers down. O.o

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">9.9

???:<font color="#000000">The water looks watery. Spot check?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 5&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Spot check!

???:<font color="#000000">Yup, that's some water, all right.

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">Firefox is being stupid.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">back, and sorry, but uh...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Hop off deffbike, and...

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

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">gotta be out for about half an hour. kaze's here for a bit, he left his phone here, but my sis has it and she's not here

TMG:<font color="#000000">rail, you okay to continue our conversation later? ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... How tall are you, Shankfang? ^^;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">6'3&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The water is about 3-5 feet below you currently, depending on where the waves are.

TMG:<font color="#000000">I suppose you could fast-froward and play Gamal 'after' the conversation to interact with everyone else, then rewind when I get back

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

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Shank: SWALLOWTAIL HOLD MY LEGS.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Oh, let me handle it. I can breathe under water now.&quot;

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

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why are we looking underwater?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeeyl puts down the arm chair he was inspecting.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Boredom mostly. =3=&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und to find out vy Hy vanted to trow money in.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">And Sszeyl walks up to the edge of the water and keeps going.

Young Sorcerer:<font color="#000000">!!!

Kerithlan:<font color="#000000">An aquatic elf boy quickly swims up to Sszeyl. &quot;Sir!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Don' vorry, he kan breath ondervater.&quot;

Kerithlan:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are you all right, sir?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Yep. Wow there really is salt in this water.&quot;

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

Kerithlan:<font color="#000000">Swim check, Sszeyl.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Thanks for your concern. :3&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">And haha no, I'll just sink to the bottom if that's okay.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">*awooga*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang heads for the stairs, and...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Headdunk take 2!

Kerithlan:<font color="#000000">The elf boy follows, at least for a few feet until it's clear Sszeyl can breathe water.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Wave wave at the elf boy. =3=

Young Sorcerer:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Can we help you, mister?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 2&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Spot check, take 2!

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Now let's have some spot.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Okay, tired of waitin' on hatari. XP

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Up for air!

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 5 + 7 = 12&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Spot check!

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

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

???:<font color="#000000">You get a splendid view of the underwater market.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Forgot you were gonna torment the half-elf huh? :P

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ah, no, Hy'm fine. Chust lookink.&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Movin' Token.

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

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Go ahead, I'm still getting my head into gamemode.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy kan' see a tink, tough...&quot;

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

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

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

Tokens dropped onto map 'Resca - Coast and Market'Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Shankfang now has the voice of Gru. ))

Kerithlan:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is the elf your friend, sir?&quot;

Kerithlan:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can he swim?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi heads out into the market for some browsing.. and soon notices the strange and unusual company she calls a party. &quot;Now what is going on here..&quot; She mutters in elven.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy need a breath ondervater schpell, please! Und yah, he iz. Und...Hy tink so?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Swallowtail, what are those crazies up to?&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do not know, Tathi. I do not know.&quot; =w=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Let's try some swimming then. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 3 + 5 = 8&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Swim check!

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Doggie paddle~

RAM:<font color="#990000">Flail flail.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Sszeyl uses Splash!

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shenkfang said he felt like throwing money in the sea, and then he and Swan Song started searching underwater for some reason.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">It's not very effective.

Aquatic Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;Heehee~! Very good, sir. How many people are in your group?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I wonder if this ring lets me talk underwater too.&quot; =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Gurble gurble blub.

Aquatic Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can we interest you in a guide?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Svallowtail, Taddi, hyu vant to kome?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 19 + 7 = 26&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Spot check!

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;No thanks, I've already been on the underwater tour.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">For people floating near the surface, or otherwise not shopping down here. =3=

Aquatic Ruffian:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl spots a young aquatic elf hanging out under the docks, clad in what looks like it may have been a thin robe at some point, peeking up and watching the people walking on the surface.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;I could not. My ring would make me float.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Walk walk walk oh my this is strange. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 7 + 5 = 12&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Swim check!

Aquatic Ruffian:<font color="#000000">&quot; -- !!!&quot; Flee!

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Does he take the time to notice the two platinum in the elf's hand? =3=

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Chust me, den!&quot;

Aquatic Ruffian:<font color="#000000">-- ???

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und no tour, Hy hef been down before.&quot;

Aquatic Ruffian:<font color="#000000">Does Sszeyl say anything?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I'm not sure, as the player if he can talk underwater. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Other than blub.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Assume yes.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Unles you'd like to play out blub silliness. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;If you needed a small donation, all you needed to do was ask. =3=&quot;

Aquatic Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;That'll be 150 gold pieces, then, and you'll be good for ten whole hours underwater.&quot; :3

Aquatic Ruffian:<font color="#000000">&gt;.&gt;;;;;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy...don tink Hy need dat long.&quot; ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I assume platinum can float long enough for me to just toss the coins out and he could snatch them.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I suppose I could just cast water breathing on the party myself. I do still have an open spellslot today.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">But that would be stealing the mer-folk's business. And they're so cute! |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">And they'll break your shins.

Aquatic Ruffian:<font color="#000000">The aquatic elf does catch the coins, looking between them and Sszeyl confusedly.

Aquatic Woman:<font color="#000000">It's a cunning business strategy, really. |3 *brick'd*

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">The cute or the breaking shins?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I couldn't hear you over how adorable you all are. *_*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Iz dere a schorter vun for cheaper?&quot;

Aquatic Woman:<font color="#000000">Hee~ I meant the cute, buuuuuut... 0|3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Like, tvo hours?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy chust need to track down my friend.&quot;

Aquatic Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sorry, that's as low as our prices per casting of the spell go. If you want to go cheaper and for a shorter period of time, you'll need more people in your group. Sad to say magic's not cheap.&quot;

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

Aquatic Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh? Just looking for someone?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">The elf inclines his head. &quot;A gift. You may keep it. If you want someone to talk to, as well, I have all day. Monks don't have much use for money.&quot; =3=

Aquatic Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;There is a cheaper option for you.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">'''Except being land barons. =3='''

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

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Also just so you know. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( I smell potential new token cute kid for Terri to hang out with. *_* ))

Aquatic Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;You can make use of our free courier service. Just give one of our guides a description of who or what you're seeking, and they'll do the finwork! Tips encouraged of course. &quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Wouldn't it be convenient for Thomas to suddenly show up ready to cast his own spell? *wink wink nudge nudge hint hint*

Meany:<font color="#330000">No no no.

Meany:<font color="#330000">It's wink wink nudge nudge hint hint kick.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Flying Thunder Kick?

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Look, it's meta enough that you know to look into the water for the person who failed to suggest on you.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You can walk back into the tavern and ask atleast. *brick'd*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">In all fairness, it's kinda obvious.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Huh, I had a sudden urge to throw money into the water.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I wonder why?

Meany:<font color="#330000">You want to order the fish~

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Let's check!

Meany:<font color="#330000">You want to order -all- of the fish~

Aquatic Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;Normally, we run our service to fetch goods for people who don't have enough money or the desire to go underwater and get them themselves, but who's to say we can't find people, too? Hee~&quot;

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

Aquatic Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;Pick your courier and describe your friend, and we'll do the rest!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Mergirl, I choose you!

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

* Thomas Lazarus has been in the Wyvern's Something (Thomas' official mental acknowledgement of the inn) contemplating magical matters for the coming journey.

Aquatic Ruffian:<font color="#000000">The aquatic elf speaks in Aquan, bowing a little in a show of gratitude before swimming off.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Wave~

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">And now for shopping. =3=

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hello!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Do hyu vant to find somevone for me?&quot; :3

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who is it that needs finding?&quot; :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;He's an elf, kinda muscly, tank skin, blond heir. Ansvers to Sszeyl.&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Not tank skin

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">He's not that tough yet.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Tank skin? What DR is that? :B *brick'd!*

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll do my best, sir!&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">IT'S OVER 9000!

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

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">The little mermaid disappears below the water's surface with a shimmer of blue-green scales and a flip of a fish tail.

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">Hmmm... &gt;:9 Aha!

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">A merchild swims up to Sszeyl. &quot;Excuse me, mister. Is your name... Sssssssail?&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I have a new alias. =3=

Hakutaku:<font color="#FF0000">It's a lie. {:3

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">&quot;A half-orc man's looking for you on the surface.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I see, I guess I should go see him. =3=&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Have a platinum, little girl. =3=

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Would you like me to guide you to him?&quot; -- :O !

Hakutaku:<font color="#FF0000">That's like several hundred dollars tip. =w=;

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

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is that -- is that for me?&quot; :O

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Quite.&quot; =3= &quot;Not much else a monk has need of money for other than to give it away.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I just occasionally get stuff for giving it away. (:3

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

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Th-thank you, sir! Is there something more I can do for you?&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Do you know any merchants that deliver fish upriver?&quot; &gt;:3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Fuzzy wakes up to find his cave exit blocked by a pile of fish.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Fuzzy: Cue the Hallelujah chorus, please.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Death by food. Mood: ambivalent.

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Several, sir. Are you looking for tropical fish? Live? Dead? Ornamental? Edible? Pets?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Edible. :3&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Live would allow them to keep for the trip, but dead would allow for more bulk, hmm. :d&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">Aelian's been moping about like he's expecting to be struck by lightning any moment. He shuffles over to Thomas and pokes him in the arm. &quot;So, uh, Thomas? Did Tathi speak with her father?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus looks up from his book in slight bewilderment for a moment. &quot;...?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You mean she didn't tell you about it?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I tried to talk to her about it, but she skipped off before I could catch her.&quot;

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">The merchild gives you the names of several fisheries, both above and below the waves. &quot;A number of them use magical preservation to ensure freshness for long journeys, sir.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus breaks into an involuntary smirk.

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

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;W-.. why are you smirking like that?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Excellent, thank you. |3&quot;

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">&quot;You could also buy some salted fish, or smoked, which would keep for longer.&quot;

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

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He's looking forward ever so much to meeting you.&quot; |3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">A strumming bard eavesdrops. :d

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Oh, well.. wait, is there some hidden meaning in there!?&quot; &gt;:O!!

* Thomas Lazarus awesomefaces. &quot;We~ell~&quot; |D

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're very welcome, sir!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He almost blew up a building when we said hello. But he was pretty friendly. I kind of wish you were there for it, though.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">To exasperate the issue with another platinum or not.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Such a touch decision. &gt;|d

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Just the tone with which he suddenly asked, who is that man? when I spoke up.&quot; |D

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Exacerbate, I think you mean... ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Exasperate means something quite different.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Exasperate also works. *brick'd*

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Headdunk again, &#171; &#160;1d20 = 7&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Spot check!

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">His face has been steadily getting paler.. XP

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vat's takink so long...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Why not. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Have another, little mergirl~

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Also you got brought up in passing.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;What!? What did Tathi say?&quot;

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Here, sir, I'll guide you to the surface if you like. Your friend is probably getting worried.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Casually, &quot;You're her half-elf lover and you might give him grandchildren.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He was pretty interested in that part.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">Utter, complete deadpan.

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">... I think you broke him.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Twang. o.o

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It was about then that he squinted at us and asked where we were.&quot;

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

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">And then sheer terror! &quot;Oh gods did you tell him!? Sorcerers and wizards like him cross entire continents like we put our pants on!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus trembles faintly while clamping his expression down, trying not to laugh in Ael's face.

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

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Half-Orc. :3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">O_o

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh but don't worry.&quot; =w=

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl walks up to Shankfang and promptly dog-shakes.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We told him we would be coming to Yoriver in a few weeks, probably.&quot;

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you very much for using our courier service today, sir and sir!&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">'re welcome. |3&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;So he relented in setting out to find us right away.&quot; |3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 11 + 9 = 20&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Reflex to avoid dogshake.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Bitte, liddle gurl!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Have another platinum!

Mergirl:<font color="#000000">!!!

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Oh forests and trees, why me!? He could be scrying on us right now!&quot; Aelian says, looking around wildly, as if expecting TGUM to be leering out from a corner at any moment, lightning crackling and wild-eyed..

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">We're going to have urchins following us like stray cats now.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">And on that day, Sally gained the money that would one day allow her to start up an international shipping company.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Hey, I'm a monk. |3 Stereotypically we're supposed to care for urchins.

* Thomas Lazarus laughs!

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I could teach them how to punch people, paint, and run inns.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'm just a big teddy bear.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;There, there. Don't worry so much.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;D-don't worry, just -- maybe -- stick near Tom and Tathi for a while...&quot; o_o;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He seems like a good man. Just a little quick on the trigger.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Just concerned for his daughter.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Quick on the trigger-&quot; He almost looks ready to faint..

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If it's any consolation, I think you're a fine young man yourself, Ael. It would put my mind at ease knowing a child of mine were with such a level-headed person. It'll be alright.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..You know. Eventually. After he scares you to death a few times.&quot; |d

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot; He's off to a fine start.. &quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;So, vat deed hyu find?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus pats the half-elf on the shoulder once. |3

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">And with that.. Aelian hits level 7. *levels* |D

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Little elf kid who really needed a donation box. |3&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Reminds me, I should probably start doing that taking care of orphans part of my job when we get to Castleton.&quot; (|3

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ah. Hy assume hyu gaff him zum gold?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;On a totally unrelated note, I have been learning magic protection prayers..&quot; He returns his gaze to his book with a mischievous smile.

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">Oh god he just jumped up and started shaking Thomas. &quot;Teach me every protection you know!!!&quot; What.

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/spellResistance.htm ))

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

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

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

* Thomas Lazarus chuckles while being bobbled.

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;... how is your back, Swan Song?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Stings slightly from the salt. |3&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;You were tattooed last night. Are you stinging?&quot;

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

* Terri sits on a bar stool, kicking her feet and watching the bobbling. ^^;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Say, where did Miss Tathi go, anyway?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Probably went out to buy a nice casket..&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ael, if she really cares for you, she's not going to let her dad try to kill you.&quot; ^^;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;.... so stick near her or Tom with his protection spells for a while maybe.&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

* Thomas Lazarus ceases his chuckling for a moment. &quot;Sorry, Ael. I'm not that knowledgable on natural magic. And it's easiest to make yourself resistant. But I do know one powerful prayer to loan other people magic defense for a few minutes.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Speak of the troll. &quot;Who's killing who now?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh hi Miss Tathi.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Hello Terri. Seen any dragons?&quot; Tathi asks with a wink.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Railock, still around? :.

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

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">still in the inn. decided to wait,

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Okey-dokey. Lemme find out where we left off...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang returns to the inn, his bike loaded up with parts and materials.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Moar shopping!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Wait, Lia, did that halfdragon mage have a 'pointy beard'? :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Think I found him in Granch's ledger

Liatai:<font color="#000000">A few months is lots of time to shave off a beard. :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Gnogglebolt!&quot; He yells out as he walks in. &quot;Hy got de parts for de gun!&quot; :D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Male human, adult. Red hair, brown eyes, pointy beard, pointy nails. MAGE. Delivered alive on Loda. Recipient: (trident with skull) Payment: 20 GP &quot;

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

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

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( The great cat migration. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( All over my legs. =3= ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt flips through the ledger as he listens to Gamal.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sounds a likely canidate.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah...I think this was him right here...I'll be.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt closes the book and shakes his head. &quot;He wasn't afflicted with the curse, yet he helped them anyway...&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;He was givena choice..a life of slavery on the Isles, or to join the crew. Guess since he wasn't human, they couldn't simply just turn him.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Gnogglebolt?&quot; Watch out, you have an excited Half-Orc looking for you. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He looks up to Gamal. &quot;But you said the only reason eh didn't seem keen on talking was his pride? Otherwise, he--&quot; Gnogglebolt blinks and looks up.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, hello Shankfang!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy got de parts!&quot; :D

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'd say the choice hit him where it hurt, his pride. and he viewed workign for the ship the lesser of the two evils.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, I see! Excellent.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks back to Gamal. &quot;Huh. Well...he's in good hands now, I suppose.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Swallowtail, what does Amaya do with it's street urchins?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus watches Aelian evolve. :O

* Swallowtail blinks.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Look Vegeta, a pokeamon.. *detonated*

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;A strange question.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dey're sittink in my bike right now, so ve kan schtart venever hyu're ready!&quot; :D

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I ask many of those. :3&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good to hear he at least was agreeable to spilling information beyond his pride.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns and waves his hand at Shankfang. &quot;I'm still working on my own things, I'll let you know.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;What really opened him up was convincing him that his position in the crew was nothing more than a different kind of slavery...especially after the captain quite obviously used him as a throw away distraction to gain time to escape.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(speaking of which, I -really- oughta design my omniwrench, like, now...)

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;... It is hard to say. It is a very broad question.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( WRENCH WENCH. ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns and looks at Gamal. &quot;Hmm. I see.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Let me specify then.&quot;

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

* Thomas Lazarus looks up from his book, musing.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Did Max say when he would like to leave?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks over to Thomas (assuming in the Inn?) &quot;Either tonight or next morning.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;He's at his art show today.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;T'morrow mornin' would be the earliest. He's at Dorian's gallery today.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Are the children left to fend for themselves in the streets, or are they taken somewhere to be raised? Like, a temple, or other location.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ah hah. Thank you.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Dorian is the Akellon Hugh Hephner. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Oh god the bricks- ))

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Hrm. Where is this glasswork display located?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think he said if we needed to talk to him to send Terri here...&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can show you!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think he understandably doesn't want rowdy adventurers crashing his presentations. ^^; &quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Come on Aelian, let's go see the glassworks!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oorrrr not...&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;But what if your father shows up and-&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ohh, I was just curious about our schedule. I imagine he's occupied.&quot;

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've been there lots of times. Just be sure to be real careful. Art collectors from all over come to see Mr. Dorian's art shows.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Get yo grill out mah lunch!

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi rolls her eyes. &quot;Oh hush. He's busy hunting fiends right now.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sometimes he auctions off things adventurers've found, too.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hopefully someone put them in safe display cases.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Wait, Terri.. does your brother know any powerful magical protection spells?&quot; ^^;;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-hmm. Mr. Dorian's really careful about the art. There are some pieces that're too big for the cases, though.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;AllrightLet'sGo!&quot; :O

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;Aelian, if you're that scared, why not get a few rings of protection?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi sighs, rubbing her forehead. &quot;Look, if he kills you, it'll be swift and painless. I promise!&quot; Oh gods that grin.

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;But they don't give much of a bonus!&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;They improve your touch AC and Deflection bonuses stack with each other.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">Aelian got a little paler, than glared at Tathi. &quot;Not funny.&quot;

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Like one 'a the ones Max is sellin' today, I think. It's a phoenix made with stuff left over from broken glassworks and some'a Bri's metal an' gem scraps recut.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">*dodge bonuses stack with each other. Sorry. :B

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You know, do you mind if I duck out to take care of the dogs now? :3

Aelian: <font color="#ff">(( Go for it. :3 ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">'Kay. You know, I'm a little surprised no one's called me out on the literary reference yet. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh, taking a break with DM goign out?

TMG:<font color="#000000">I'm cool with that

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I don't remember catching a last name. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I've been avoiding the last name for that reason. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay, out I go.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Dorian?

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

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">Deflection also stacks, from what I saw. :V

RAM:<font color="#990000">As in Dorian Gray?

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Deflection doesn't stack with itself, no.

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's the most potent AC type.

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">Musta misread something.

* Meany flying thunder kicks.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">gonna go cook some food. afk

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ping meh in IRC when game is back on. Gaming. :3

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">STOP PLAYING ALL THE HALO GAMES AT ONCE.

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

Aelian: <font color="#ff">(( AC guy is here! ))

Meany:<font color="#330000">Gasp!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">H'okay, back. :3

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

Aelian: <font color="#ff">(( looks like the last guy didn't fix all the chewed through wires.. and found a blown fuse. AC lives agaaaain. :3 ))

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

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Makin' a cup of tea...

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

* RAM has pizza and Mountain Dew.

RAM:<font color="#990000">My Chi is mad focused, yo!

Meany:<font color="#330000">I haz doritoz and pepsi.

* Meany brandishes pepsi lightsaber at Ram.

* RAM bashes Meany over the head with a 2 liter dew bottle.

* Dr. Hatari has been browsing musics.

* Meany deflects with the power of the Dark Drink.

* RAM presses on with the power of Green Drink!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Absinthe? *brick'd*

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

* Meany uses Sugar Lightning on Ram.

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

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

* RAM reflects it back with Caffeine Shield.

* Meany converts it into Carbonization Bubbles.

* Meany sends them after Ram.

* RAM uses Soda Burp, sends a shockwave at Meany that destroys the bubbles.

* Meany activates his Limit Break: Sugar Rush.

* RAM activates his own: Caffeine Rush

RAM:<font color="#990000">*high. Caffeine High.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Your Caffeine High may last longer than my Sugar Rush!

Meany:<font color="#330000">But my Sugar Rush deals more damage than your Caffeine High!

RAM:<font color="#990000">My Caffeine High gives me damage resistance!

Meany:<font color="#330000">My Sugar Rush gives me double damage!

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;It depends on who finds the child. Some are adopted. Some become servants. Some apply to the schools. Others do none. What is the word... orfanotrofio (orphanage). They exist, as they do in Akellon.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">I just have too tank your Sugar Rush!

TMG:<font color="#000000">alright ram and meany, get your heads back in the game. :P

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

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">So Tathi and Aelian and Terri head off to the art show? : Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">*:3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;So, ven are ve gunna go to de gallery? Hy vanna see it!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyway...&quot; Gnogglebolt gets up from the seat next to Gamal. &quot;I think I'll go followup with the rescuees, help set them homeward bound.&quot;

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

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll return later.&quot;

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

GM:<font color="#000000">If you're off to the art show, you can go up to the Elsewhere in Resca box if you like. :3 Give me a moment to describe the scene...

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can I come along, Gnogglebolt? I'd like to follow up with Terin.&quot;

Dragula the Deffbike:<font color="#990000">Vrrrrrrmmmmmmmm...

* Thomas Lazarus continues doing work in preparation for later days. He has a book open and a few curious magical nickknacks laid out on a table, and it currently fiddling with inscribing something upon one of his gauntlets.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He's sitting in the common floor at the inn.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang lets Terri ride on his Deffbike with him. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;In Ezzebek all orphans are taken in by Orgolloyss, if they are young enough, or sent to one of the noble families to be a servant. There are not so many...'free' orphans as there are here.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh yeah, sure thing.&quot; Gnogglebolt replies to Edaric.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you want another companion? I dont have much else to do right now.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uh..sure? If you really want.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just gonna help them plan out their routes home and pay for their passage, but there's nothing wrong with company.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then it'll be something to do&quot;

* Gamal-Junayd gts up, ready to follow gnoggle

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt heards out the door with Edaric and Gamal in tow, going to the Pelor temple where all the rescuees had been dropped off for the night to rest and heal peacefully.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">brb, starting laundry

GM:<font color="#000000">The gallery is in an ivy-covered building, a few blocks away from one of Resca's larger museums. A small garden with a number of statues of people, animals, and even one coatl about leads up to a round building with one large central chamber, flanked by smaller rooms. A glass dome lets light into the central room of the gallery, where a statue of a tree with a number of colorful glass birds on it sits. The crowd looks decidedly well-to-do, and a number of artists mill about, describing their pieces to hopeful admirers, buyers, and collectors. The crowd is mostly human, but other races can be seen here and there, including a number of high elves.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Description muscles flexed. Now for tea. &gt;:9

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Yay descriptionmuscles! :D

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang goes to look for Max.

GM:<font color="#000000">The temple of Pelor in Resca is not so much a single temple building as it is a collection of eight buildings surrounding a central courtyard in a circle. The southernmost one is the central house of worship, flanked by templar barracks to the west and a monastery to the east. The rest of the buildings seem to be houses of healing and shelter for the poor.

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

* Thomas Lazarus sets down his tools and redons his gauntlet. He flexes it a few times. &quot; There..&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 19 + 5 = 24&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Hide, &#171;  &#160;1d20+5 = 15 + 5 = 20&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Move Silently. :3

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

Max:<font color="#000000">You do realize you're trying to sneak up on someone with blindsense? :P

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

Max:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+29 = 13 + 29 = 42&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Spot, &#171;  &#160;1d20+29 = 12 + 29 = 41&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Listen. There's this factor, too. :P

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'm banking on the fact that there's a lot of people here. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Say, Ed. Could you cast something at me? I'd like to try out this defense spell.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&#171; &#160;1d20+14 = 9 + 14 = 23&#160; <font color="#0000FF">&#187; hide and &#171;  &#160;1d20+14 = 7 + 14 = 21&#160; <font color="#0000FF">&#187; move silently!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">No fair. =3=

Edaric:<font color="#000000">... eh, let's say you caught me on the way out the door. :B

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">Aelian's not taking any chances. That wood elf could be anywhere.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Eh? Cast something at you?&quot; :.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Oops. But. You were on the beach. {|3

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi keeps pulling Aelian along though, smirking at the poor half-elf's fear.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sure. Something harmless is fine. I'd like to see if I can resist it.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, where in the complex are we heading?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm...&quot; :9 Think, think.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Does Tathi manage to find Max amidst all this artsy stuff? :3

Meany:<font color="#330000">Ed pulls out a scroll of disintegrate.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Rolls a 20 on the UMD.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I've been putting together a few slightly more complex spell components.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">And Shankfang! Don't forget Shankfang's looking too!

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Would a calming spell work?&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Stuff better suited to earthbound work than in flight.&quot; He smirks.

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

Max:<font color="#000000">You do manage to find him, sitting in the back of a section of the gallery displaying glasswork. &quot;Hm? Hi, Terri, everybody.&quot; :3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Ed is missing 1 hp for some reason. :.

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

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

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt leads Gamal (and temporally-split Edaric) to the one building where the Sahuagin Queen rescuees had been taken, turning a corner to find most of them together in one of the large rooms of beds.

Dorian:<font color="#000000">Shankfang gets shushed by no less than five patrons of the art gallery.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Shankfang is so loud, all the glass breaks.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Everyone just looks at him. *_*

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- !! Easy, easy! This place is full of glass!&quot; D: Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang is too busy hugging Max to notice the shushing. |3

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Vedui', Max. Sorry, but our boisterious friend insisted on coming.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Doesn't Tathi have Silence? (:3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That's Miron.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Illusion magic? Who the fuck do you take me for, cur!? &gt;:O

Meany:<font color="#330000">Your father. |3

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">.. pride repaired. ^^;

* Edaric strums his lute. &quot;Okay, here it comes...&quot; Casting Calm Emotions, DC 17 Will save to resist -- and here's Ed's CL check. &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 14 + 7 = 21&#160;  &#187;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Tom rolls a 1 on the save. =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Dunno if there's any need to really play this out, could gloss over...but Gnogglebolt does as he said he would, greets each rescuee individually, pulls out his book where he recorded everyone's desired destinations, and chats with them to figure out how to best get them there. Once that's figured out for each individual person, he gives each one enough money to pay for the ship fare, or caravan fare, or anything else.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Curses. &gt;:9

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">The CL check is exactly high enough to beat Tom's fleeting spell resistance. He is calmed! ... Which doesn't really affect him in any way whatsoever, since he was also calm before.

GM:<font color="#000000">100 GP for each of the 20 captives will get them all where they need to go with some extra. 80 each if you're feeling stingy.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I asked because...well, I see Akellon has quite a lot of children that don't have anyone to look after them. I might turn my little inn into a sanctuary for urchins and such. |3&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Shoot.&quot; ^^; &quot;..Well. I think I know how to swing it a little better next time. Thanks for the experience, Ed.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Who's footing how many? ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Let it never be said that I am stingy. 100*20=2,000 GP dispensed all total.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Especially not to people who've been through what they've been through. :)

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(gold deducted)

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;No problem.&quot; :3 &quot;... It's kind of nice to know that that spell works, to be honest. The only other person I tried it on was Miron when he was drunk.&quot; :B

* Thomas Lazarus scoffs lightly.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh well. I imagine he needed it.&quot; |33

* Gamal-Junayd just hangs out through the whole process, helping as he can

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Hug hug hug SQUEEZE! :D

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;It was when he was trying to arrest the Sszeyls, remember that?&quot; x3

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Umph -- hi Shankfang.&quot; ^^;

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

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Shankfang for the love of all that is silly, let go of him. You're making a scene!&quot;

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

Aelian: <font color="#0000FF">&quot;Yeah and help me keep a watchout for sorcerers..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well.&quot; He lowers his volume, &quot;Hopefully it'll be less of a concern here in the future.&quot; ^^;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Bap!

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">Ow. x.x

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I think he's warming up to Sszeyl a little. They have a lot of experiences and interests in common.&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Aaand releas'd.

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Really?&quot; :. &quot;That'd be nice.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">With all that done, Gnogglebolt turns to TemporallySplit!Ed and asks, &quot;Oh, and you wanted to speak to Terrin specifically...didn't you mention something about him--&quot; Gnogglebolt lowers his voice &quot; living where you used to, out towards where we're going?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oop, they're leaving without me, gotta go.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;So, vere's you vork? Hy vanna see vat hyu decided to display!&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Back to the future!

RAM:<font color="#990000">Pictures relevant. http://jaynaylor.com/betterdays/comic/BD512.08-03-10.gif

RAM:<font color="#990000">http://jaynaylor.com/betterdays/comic/BD502.08-02-04.gif

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Over here.&quot; :3 &quot;If you see anything from Soren Glassworks, that's me. -- Aw, you missed Phoenix Dawn! I sold it a few hours ago. Most everything else I've got here is pretty standard. A few miniatures, a few glass flowers (those are always a hit), some globes, some bottles and goblets... nothing too fancy.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Dinner's on me tonight, by the way.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas returns to his work, looking between a few large open tomes and some spell foci he occasionally adjusts and tempers.

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

* Thomas Lazarus follows instructions for preparing a few planar rods. :.

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

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Glass flowers? Oh this I have to see!&quot; Tathi says, having a look.

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Have anything you could appease a dangerous sorcerer with, Max?&quot; ^^;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oooh, how much for vun uf de flowers?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">'planar rods'? :.

TMG:<font color="#000000">for which spell is that, again?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... yeah. I know his folks. My sister helps with the uniforms for the church choirs around town... his dad's the director of the Pelorite one.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">The Plane Shift spell requires rods designed to the specified plane you're traveling to.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Okay, what the hell is &quot;:.&quot; supposed to be? I keep seeing it and it's bugging the shit outta me not knowing.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas is making a few in advance.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;What's the matter, Aelian?&quot; :.

TMG:<font color="#000000">aha, thought so. Neats.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">A face with the mouth shifted to one side.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ram; go to CMF

TMG:<font color="#000000">Put that smily in, preview post

RAM:<font color="#990000">...I don't see it.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">An expression of curiosity, like, &quot;Oh.&quot; or &quot;Huh.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">You'll see it.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Just hit 'reply' to any old thread, type that in, and just preview

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

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Tathi contacted her dad. He knows about me. And there was talk of grandchildren in his presence. .&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Exactly. *brick'd*

RAM:<font color="#990000">I don't like it.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;... oh.&quot; o.o

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You don't have to. |3

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, have you been taking steps to prevent any unexpected arrivals, just in case?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang awaits a price quote on the glass flowers. |3

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;A yes or no answer is fine. It's not exactly something you should go into around this company.&quot; |3

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Idon'tknowwhattodo!!&quot; He blusters, probably earning more shushing.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The DM was fetching sample pictures. :B http://glassart.craftgossip.com/files/2009/04/cg090411a1.jpg

Liatai:<font color="#000000">http://xeontribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/glass-flower-01.jpg

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

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;... what to do to prevent unexpected arrivals, or what to do regarding the incoming potential in-laws?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Oh I know the second one. Hide.&quot; ^^;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;They're labeled, Shankfang.&quot; :3 They range from 10 GP to 120 GP.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">:3!! Tathi wants to buy the blue one in the top left corner of the 2nd pic.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...Aelian didn't actually answer Max's questin... &gt;.&gt;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas, now (relatively) alone in the inn, leans back in his chair and looks at the ceiling with a worried expression. &quot;...&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I suppose you should count yourself lucky she's an elf.&quot; ^^; &quot;No one's talked about it with you? At all?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">He has imagined impending death hanging over him and you expect him to be reasonable? :P

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy'll take...dis vun!&quot; Shankfang points to (one of the purple ones in the first picture) :3

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Hrm? Lucky she's an elf? What do you mean? And, well, Tathi keeps bouncing back and forth between telling me everything is fine, he's not going to kill me, and then teasing me with stories of how absurdly powerful her father is.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">If only Miron were here.. u.u

* Thomas Lazarus glances at bot Miron flatly.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;...hmm, maybe I was being too obtuse.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I mean the real Miron. =3=

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Eh, nothing's happened at the temple for a while. Fast-forward. :B

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;What I mean is, she mentioned grandchildren, right?&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt returns to the inn

RAM:<font color="#990000">http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljt6ft2dpV1qj1oyno1_500.jpg

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Yes..&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Let's say it's one of the nicer flowers. 120 GP spent!

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know that elves tend not to have a stigma about children being born out of wedlock due to the low fertility rate, but it would still be quite the faux pas to meet him if you haven't been taking steps to prevent 'unexpected arrivals' and one is on its way. Have you been taking steps to prevent that?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Here Max! For de flower!&quot; :D 120 GP given!

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;...&quot; Tick tock tick tock. &quot;Oh!&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you kindly, sir.&quot; :3 &quot;Would you like me to wrap that up for you so it doesn't break on the way home?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">No he hasn't./

* Max chuckles. &quot;Sorry, it gets automatic after a day of saying it.&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">He's still going to kill you, Aelian.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;No, it's hokay. Hy hef a Bag uf Holdink!&quot; Into the bag! :D

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( He'll just wait until the baby knows you a bit first. ))

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">He laughs nervously. &quot;Oie, I thought you meant something else, concerning a teleporting sorcerer. And, yes, we've been taking measures to, eh, control the population. We're career adventurers right now.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">SHUTUP SHOULDER DROW.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's a point in your favor.&quot; :3 &quot;Showing that you're responsible, and thinking in the long-term.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Curious bard peeks. &quot;What're those, Tom?&quot; :.

* Thomas Lazarus rests his chin on knuckles while observing his work.

GM:<font color="#000000">Lemme know when you're ready to jump to the next day. :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hey, Max, vould my Deffbike kount as art?&quot; :D

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Right! So, now, all I need is some points that reflect spells and stuff, you know- OW.&quot; Aelian says, jumping as Tathi comes up behind and pinches him.

* Thomas Lazarus blinks aside.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Enough, silly half-human. Max, how much for this one?&quot; She asks, holding up the blue flower.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt goes somewhere to continue to spend time crafting an undetermined device, which I will set down and design momentarily.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;De price iz listed, Taddi.&quot; Shankfang points.

* Max chuckles. &quot;Maybe as utilitarian art. Not exactly Dorian's display material.&quot; |3 &quot;That one is... &#171; &#160;1d12*10 = 5 * 10 = 50&#160;  &#187; gold pieces, I think. There should be a label near the bottom of the stem.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Suddenly, in the shopping.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Planar keys.&quot; There are various very small metal rods bent into still more varied configurations, swirls, patterns and bulbs - each from a different variety of soft metal. Silver, gold, copper, etcetera.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">A wild Elf and ninja appear by the Fishmonger's.

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

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

* RAM throws an Ultraball!

* Sszeyl Appeared to be Caught!

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">Aelian quickly butts in. &quot;I'll pay for it!&quot;

Quick Fishmonger:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fresh fish! The freshest fish about, unless you catch it yourself off the pier!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi glances over, quirking an eyebrow. &quot;What? Save up for your next peice of equipment!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Nope. Gotta show the in-law I can provide for you.&quot; =3=

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi just rolls her eyes. &quot;Could you wrap it up please, Max?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl inspects the fish. =w=

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I was told you also send fish upriver at a fee? =3=&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Certainly.&quot; :3 &quot;Oh, by the way, Tathi, have you invested any study and spellcraft in learning means to detect divination?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt also looks curiously at what Thomas is working on even as he pulls out some half-finished contraption himself.

Quick Fishmonger:<font color="#000000">&quot;That we do, sir, treated with Gentle Repose for any locations past Passage.&quot;

Snarky:<font color="#000000">Snarky again jumps off his shoulder and onto the table, and goes to sniff one of the completed rods.

* Thomas Lazarus sighs. &quot;... I seem to have stumbled upon yet another ethical quandry.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;One even more daunting than who to save and who to let pass with the power of ressurection.&quot;

Tathi: <font color="#ff">(( her player quickly scrambles to find which spell that is. XP ))

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Which would be...?&quot;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sor/Wiz 4.

Tathi: <font color="#ff">(( derp. XP ))

* Thomas Lazarus narrows his eyes slightly, still holding his head up with an arm resting on the table.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Also Bard 4, but Ed's only got up to level 3 spells. :B

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;How much would it take go get about forty pounds of fish up to Castleton? |3&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi nods. &quot;I plan to see if I can't find a scroll of it to copy into my spellbook today.&quot; She says as she carefully takes her glass rose, and gives Aelian a peck on the cheek.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..The heavens are the place of our afterlife. Our.. afterlives.. divided such as they are between the care of the respective gods.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;When a virtuous soul passes on, they move past this world to the side of their lords..&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Curious note, noticing the topic of Thomas' conversation: Has he considered asking the one party member who's seen the afterlife? :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He has never discussed Aelian's experience with him before.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Well, Vanya sulie, Max, good luck with the rest of your pieces. I'm going to head into the marketplace to hunt down that scroll.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sighs again. &quot;..Is that not sacred? The most sacred thing there could ever be?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What do I do with this..?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Aelian did mention he saw the infinite woods. Elven afterlife. I know thomas was there for that. :P

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Terri, stay with Shankfang allright? Shankfang? Bang bang if it looks remotely threatening.&quot; Tathi says, and heads off to the market.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Now that I can visit the heavens in life. Now that I can.. visit the deceased in their paradises. Now that I can take the living off to meet their lost loved ones? Would that be terrible? ... Would it be wonderful? Would it even do them good? Or would it just draw out unnecessary feelings? Would it be blithely commited harm to the peace of mind of those people..?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... I just don't know.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks down at Thomas's rods, then back up to him, and nervously chuckles. &quot;I...hmm. I suppose the implications of that &#171; &#160;i = 0&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;are&#171;  &#160;/i = Invalid expression: /i.&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; staggering, ah...&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What if I offend those that reside there..?&quot; He rubs his brow.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu don' haf to tell me dat.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks down at Thomas's rods, then back up to him, and nervously chuckles. &quot;I...hmm. I suppose the implications of that are staggering, when you put it that way, but ah...&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi goes and finds the Meany-Mage in the market place. &quot;Hello! Do you happen to have any copies of the scrying detection divination?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I...suppose I come from a place that maaaay take it for granted.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus seems highly distracted as he sighs once more.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Woman, that guy is too handsome to be me.

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Terri now has a Half-Orc Gunman bodyguard!

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Pbbbbbbt. :P

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Some extremely talented tinkers like to go world-hopping, and I'm not sure how your magic does it, but I've heard tell that such tinkers quiite literally blast themselves to another plane with a special bomb.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The're called 'dimensional rippers'.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No joke.&quot; ^^;

* Thomas Lazarus slowly looks aside with an expression of worry and alarm.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I see.&quot; He remarks somewhat gauntly.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'll quote you a fishprice in a bit. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Assume it's at least 250 GP.

Meany:<font color="#330000">It's aight. |3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But...I do see where your conundrum comes from. And...it's a very twisty one indeed.&quot;

Flamboyant Mage:<font color="#000000">&quot;We do indeed, milady!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't have any answers for that one.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Found the price for you, DM. 700 GP. :3

* Thomas Lazarus lightens up and nods a few times.

Flamboyant Mage:<font color="#000000">&quot;Seven hundred gold pieces will buy you a scroll with that spell.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... I was just thinking about Jolenta.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And it got my thoughts to wandering.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think this is one of those personal quandries that everyone gets. Only you can solve yours.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I imagine you're right.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I'll get i-&quot; He starts, and promptly gets whapped.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;No you won't. Stay out of a wizard's transactions unless you want to be a frog.&quot; Tathi says, and pays the 700 gp for the scroll. &quot;Thank you!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt blinks and looks up as well. &quot;Hmm! That....I think I see where you're going with that. You're wondering if you might be able to hop and find Jolenta's ancestor?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks down in thought. &quot;That...is indeed an idea.&quot; He says slowly. &quot;...Can't say if it's a good or bad one, but it is an idea...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't know. It was just a musing thought. Even if I did do that.. I mean.. how could I? Such a place would be vaster than our entire world. Many times over.&quot;

Snarky:<font color="#000000">Meanwhile, Snarky sniffs closer to one of the rods...and experimentally shocks it.

* Dr. Hatari growls.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, Snarky! You don't know what could happen. Heel!&quot; Handle Animal &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 7 + 3 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

* Terri giggles.

Snarky:<font color="#000000">Snarky turns and hops back onto Gnogglebolt's shoulder.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;You know, Mr. Shankfang, you don't hafta watch me too close. I can protect you, too.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;&quot;Hy know hyu kan, Terri.&quot; :3

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Now Tathi goes to scribing the scroll.. er, I forget what crazy houserules we had in effect. Lemme check my token notes.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mm..&quot; Thomas seems mostly unconcerned with the rods being electrocuted. As long as the table doesn't catch on fire, it's fine. =w=;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Was there something you needed me for, or were you just coming to see the art?&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Well I'm shopped out. =3=&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Chust lookink at de art.&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Want to see if there's an Amayan resturaunt somewhere in here?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">AH! There it is. 25 GP per page. So, 100 GP to scribe this sucker. :#

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">:3*

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very likely.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hey, Terri, hyu vanna go for a ride?&quot; :D

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not in the gallery!&quot; D: Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Uf kourse not in de gallery. Hy meant outside. Ve kan ride down de beach!&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sounds fun!&quot; :D

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">ONE CHA CHECK LATER.

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

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I found nada. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">What about you?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I just.. ... ..I don't know. I don't think I would actually do it. But I thought about doing it. And what would happen because of it. How right or wrong would it be to re-unite someone with someone they had already finished grieving over..? And temporarily, at that? For all I know now, I'd be commiting a grievous offense to the god watching over them by trespassing upon such holy grounds. And what kind of theological damage would I be dealing to a young and impressionable mind by simply showing them an afterlife..?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oop, phonecall. Cat lady.

* Thomas Lazarus sighs and rubs a temple with a slight chuckle.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; ..Don't mind my worried musings.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Spell list updated! Heads up to the DM, Tathi's gonna wanna scry on her dad again come the next day. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's just been a little overwhelming, trying to adjust to all this power I keep getting seated with. I am.. overwhelmed, these days. I meant only to be a simple guardian and healer. A swordsman. And now, all of these possibilities.. ... ..I simply want to know I'm going to use them the way Pelor wished.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm.&quot; Gnogglebolt thinks for a moment.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Gnogglebolt: &quot;Think think think.&quot; *taps head*

* Thomas Lazarus collects the planar foci and carefully tucks them away with the other esoteric spell components.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Cannot unhear the Pooh.

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

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi presently returns to the inn. &quot;Hello everyone.&quot; She says, and then glances to Thomas. &quot;Why does our healer look so troubled?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus waves. &quot;Oh, you know. The usual.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, unless I miss my mark, the gods don't actually control any of our minds, which means they don't actually control those whom they grant their power to, like in you. I know you're more versed than I am in the matteras of the dieties, but if I had to guess...&quot; Gnogglebolt looks up.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think they would just want to see what you would do with it. As long as you're trying to uphold the ideals of your patron, I would think that it doesn't matter if you choose one way or the other. It's up to you.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;An interesting way of looking at it. Perhaps so.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt quickly holds up a hand nervously. &quot;Buuuut then again I'm not at all educated in the matters of the entities beyond, especially not outside Garl, so I'm not sure how my word holds up in this.&quot; ^^;

* Thomas Lazarus nods calmly.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And besides...we already did tell Jolenta of the place beyond, didn't we?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;How did we say it... a place of light, inhabited by beings of light? Something like that?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry about that, cat lady wanted to chat.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Suddenly Gnogglebolt wants to go visit Jolenta before his vacation.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Reading up.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Certainly. But actually.. stepping there.&quot; He rubs his chin.

Meany:<font color="#330000">The entire party drags him off in the night.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Meany; that's been on the Castleton To-Do list for awhile now. :B

* Thomas Lazarus looks away and frowns. &quot;And the other... much... less... nice... possibilities.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't know how comfortable I am knowing some of the things I can do now.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">WE SHOULD INVADE HELL!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Ah, you mean the fel locations?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shakes his head. &quot;Indeed. Best to just leave that alone. It could only end badly.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Yes. I could send a being, bodily, into Hell. A fiend, perhaps.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;An unnerving thought.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus reaches over and closes his tome with a soft 'clop'.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, you can...do it to someone else?&quot; Gnogglebolt looks up strangely at that one, the shrugs.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;What's all this about visiting the outer planes?&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Guess that's not much different from the banisher grenade (if it would have worked) I made, to send those back where they belong...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus glances to Tathi. &quot;Musing over the implications of interplanar travel. New powers I've been studying and preparing for.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I suppose you're right. Maybe I need to stop reading into it so closely and relax.&quot; ^^;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Oh! How interesting! And you were musing over how to use this power correctly?&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Speaking of which, I should really produce some more of those...&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">If you Plane Shifted someone.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Could you summon them with Summon Monster?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Yes. It ... feels like something that could be used very irresponsibly. I want to be careful.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Why not ask them, then?&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 1 + 6 = 7&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Gather Information...

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">lulz, good question. Probably not. I imagine they need to be natives.

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;Hi. I summoned you to chat you up and end your torture for one minute per caster level.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Nope, I did worse than you. ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">meany; nope, they have to be Native. :P

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">SWALLOWTAIL GETS HIT ON.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Fun fact, -we- gain the Extraplanar subtype when we're anywhere but the Material plane

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ask 'them'?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Yes. Your patron deity and their agents.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH, FAIR SWALLOWTAIL.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 9 + 1 = 10&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Cha check!

TMG:<font color="#000000">Summon spells obviously don't get things that count as Extraplanar on the location you want to bring from.

* Swallowtail finds a TANISH restaurant. &gt;:|

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">oops, need to feed doug. afk!

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 8 + 6 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; retry!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks up oddly at Tathi.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">We found one! :D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(and waits in limbo for her to continue. :B )

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Yay! :D

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Lasange. :9

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I suppose I could. But I believe it is the duty of any responsible cleric to resolve such matters within themselves, as well.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">We found one! :D

RAM:<font color="#990000">So, if someone from -another- plane cast summon monster, they could possibly summon one of us?

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Ack cat go away

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Lasagne! :9

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

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Zeal has its place. But left unchecked, it can be a grievous evil.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">And I don't think Summon spells work on anything from the Material Plane, period. ^^;

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;I summon a 17th level CLERIC.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Why not?

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">She smiles. &quot;I think you'll do fine with such power, Thomas.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt makes a face. &quot;I actually disagree, I don't think zealotry is -ever- a good thing...&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;By definition, it means you stopped questioning what you see.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt sighs. &quot;...Part of the reason I have such a big problem with Miron.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs faintly. &quot;It is certainly not a state of mind you should adopt in the long term.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Why should the Material Plane, amongst all planes, be the only plane you can't summon from?

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Because you're on it.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Because the Material Plane is cosmologically the core of the multivers

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Summon spells pull things from -other- planes.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ghost, he said someone from -another- plan casting Summon Monster

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... you know, that would be an interesting one-shot or campaign concept.

RAM:<font color="#990000">^^^ That.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Then, yes, you might get something from the material plane.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">summon something from another material plane

Liatai:<font color="#000000">An extraplanar being calls the party with a Planar Ally spell.

RAM:<font color="#990000">So what if it's the core? How does that make it exempt?

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">It doesn't.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Well, I'm out of my depth here. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;But sometimes, when you need it most, a moment of passion, certainty, and supreme faith in your cause.. that can be the difference between life and death, success and failure, for you and those under your protection. ... Atleast, for one who wields powers fueled on that faith.&quot; He smiles a bit.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I would be inclined to agree with you on matters of zealous soldiers and the like.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Lia, we should totally do that!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Also, I submit Summon Nature's Ally spells to muddy the waters more. *BRICK'D*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt doesn't respond, but he still doesn't look comfortable with the idea.

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang and Terri go screaming down the beach! :D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Don't worry about it overmuch. I'm not going to go smiting anyone just for having horns or something.&quot; He smirks.

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">Roll a Use Tech Device check, Shankfang.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20+13 = 7 + 13 = 20&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Use Tech Device!

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Shank crashes. Terri dies in the wreck. AKELLON RUINED FOREVER.

Terri:<font color="#000000">You do not get stuck in the sand!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Still enough to operate even at top speed.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shrugs noncommitally and returns to poking at the unfinished contraption in his hand with his tools. He seems to be working...very quickly, as well. Far quicker than anyone's ever seen him work before, yet he looks totally calm and focused.

Meany:<font color="#330000">But what about at...

Meany:<font color="#330000"> LUDICROUS SPEED?

Meany:<font color="#330000">Terri goes to Plaid.

GM:<font color="#000000">Anyone got additional business for the day, or may we jump forward?

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Jump forward! :3

Meany:<font color="#330000">Forward march!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Nope, good for jump.

GM:<font color="#000000">Let's get some mid-session noms up ins. :3

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Thomas for aelian-trolling.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Sszeyl and self for epic shennanigans.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Thomas for divine magic worries (another reason arcane casters are so much better. They DON'T worry. :P)

* TMG remembers the idea of keeping a txt file running through the game to record noms and ideas. &gt;:.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I'm still very drowsy. Sorry. =w=;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl and Shankfang for shenanigans. :3

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Shankfang for bull in a glass shop. Literally? XD

GM:<font color="#000000">Max gladly pays for the inn fare and meals tonight with some of the earnings from the show. Maybe with your money. Who knows? :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Sszeyl for breaking the economy. So much damn platinum.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Swallowtail for &quot;TANISH restaurant?!&quot; &gt;:|

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Giving children hundreds of dollars unsupervised in the biggest blackest market on the planet? Totally responsible.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Seconding Swallowtail's. ^^;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">gnoggle for finally asking about alexander

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Max for buying us dinner!

TMG:<font color="#000000">Gamal for talking about Alexander. That was good roleplaying. ^^

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Gnogglebolt for &quot;Don't ask me, I'm a Tinker. We blow our way into other planes.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;We don't give a shit.&quot; :|

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Seconding Gnogglebolt's. XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">Again, that wasn't a joke. Actual tech device. :P (out of EMM&amp;M, the 'fan' supplement that actually involved one or two of the actual devs from the official publication, but still)

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Aelian for &quot;OhgodohgodI'mdeadI'mdead deadeadeadeadead.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dammit Shankfang, stop looking at art and help me watch out for Tathi's father&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Thomas - 100 XP - Aelian-Trolling. 200 XP - Divine Magic Worries. Sszeyl - 200 XP - EXTREMELY Heavy Tipper. 100 XP - Thinking of the Children. Shankfang - 200 XP - Suggestion spell? DUNK HEAD. 200 XP - Half-orc in an art gallery. Not the glass, nooooooo! D8 Swallowtail - 200 XP - TANISH restaurant?! &gt;:E Gnogglebolt - 200 XP - Pride cometh before a fall. 200 XP - &quot;Don't ask me, I'm a Tinker. We blow our way into other planes with bombs.&quot; Gamal - 200 XP - Pride cometh before a fall. Aelian - 200 XP - &quot;OhgodohgodI'mdeadI'mdead deadeadeadeadead.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">TGUM is gonna mess with that boy. Watch. XD

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">NOTHING for Tathi? You will die before dawn. &gt;:(

GM:<font color="#000000">Hey, it's only mid-session. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Now then! &#171; &#160;1d100 = 99&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">O_O!

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">If that's a weather roll.

GM:<font color="#000000">... it's a stormy dawn of a new day in Resca. Yondallon 21st.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Does anyone else hear the Wicked Witch theme? &gt;.&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;38700+200+200 = 38700 + 200 + 200 = 39100&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Almost Velocirapture!

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">lololo, hey, I'm gonna have to jet for a bit. Brother needs ride, and is promising dinner. :3

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

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">I almost forgot!

GM:<font color="#000000">And what a storm! Rain is coming down in sheets when you wake up.

TMG:<font color="#000000">A bit of RP with Max after he returns from the gallery, before the next day! D: * Gamal-Junayd rises and heads on downstairs

* RAM was really hoping for Velocirapture.

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

* Ghostwish shoves Tathi and Aelian into Hatari's lap. :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Very important, almost forgot! *Temporal Shifts-self*

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;.... does anyone mind if we don't start flying in this weather?&quot; ^^;

Max:<font color="#000000">Oh, sure. Roleplay.

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

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

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">what the gawdum fuk-

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Ownership list for Tathi: Dorf Aias.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">HE'S EVERYWHERE. XD

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I was actually really hoping to get going. But I suppose safety first.&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">When Max returns in the evening from his Gallery, Gnogglebolt asks if he can talk aside with him about the travel arrangement

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">allright, afk folks!

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll see if it clears up by midday.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">that was probably when you were at your mothers and connected

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

Max:<font color="#000000">Last night... &quot;Sure, sure.&quot; Max looks somewhat giddy from the day's events still. :D &quot;What's up?&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, remember how I mentioned about stopping in Reed, then Thalinde?&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I, ah, thought it over, then realized there's actually no need for that second stop. You could just stop in Reed, drop me off...and I'll meet back up with everyone in Castleton.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;... eh?&quot;

* Max kneels down to get to gnome level. &quot;What's going on, anyway, Gnogglebolt?&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Where's Tharky?!

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, um. The reason I wanted to stop in Reed was to pick someone up...then I realized how absolutely rude of me it would be to ask you to take on another passenger.&quot; Gnogglebolt says. ^^;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And then I was thinking over what I've been doing lately...I can easily make myself my own transport.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">You can't see me. Pay no attention to the man in the corner with the notebook. 83

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

Tharky:<font color="#000000">Reporter, thank you very much. XP

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 14 + 5 = 19&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Hide, &#171;  &#160;1d20+5 = 11 + 5 = 16&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Move Silently...

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Does this have something to do with the repentant drow?&quot; |3

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

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt blinks.

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....Who told you about that?&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Draconic secret.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;HI THARKY!&quot; Hug'd!

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl is not so sneaky. =3=

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Le sit near le Tharky. =3=

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Well, I suppose there's nothing wrong with you knowing, you are quite trustworthy...enough...but yes, it does have to do with that.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;... namely, a little eavesdropper with big ears and a big heart told me.&quot; |3 &quot;She was quite interested.&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt moves even more out of earshot from the people in the tavern, starting to walk upstairs, and lowers his voice further.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;I wouldn't mind getting a look at the situaton in Thalinde myself. It's certainly an interesting one.&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh goodness, that little one...&quot; Gnogglebolt shakes his head. &quot;...Yes. I was planning to bring a Palm member from Reed to Thalinde to meet with the 'repentant'. He...really needs a strong, connected ally.&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;For his whole group.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Any luck in confirming the story I gave you? I apologize for giving you one that was...unsubstantiated indepently, is what I think the term is?&quot; =3=;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But again, I can't ask you to take on another passenger...really, I can get myself there. And if you're going there anyway, well...eh, I'll just go on ahead after we all stop in Reed.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's one thing that I don't understand... would you indulge me in a question?&quot;

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

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why are you being so secretive with this?&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;From the looks on your companions' faces, you haven't discussed this with them at all.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas takes this opportunity to step outside and sit under the edge of the inn's roof. He enjoys the stormy weather and slight misty spray while drinking wine. :3

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....Because he wants to be, very understandably? He's been in disguise this whole time.&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Actually, I did tell them about it, and was going to tell them more about it as we went along.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm.... Very well then, I've decided.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl draws out some wooden slats and his artisan's kit. Retroactively deducting 50 gp for materials. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">And le paint.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Bring the Palmsman with you when you reach Reed. We'll all go to Thalinde. We're all going that way, and it'd just be poor manners to pass over a town without stopping in to say hello, after all. I'll bring you, your compatriots, and the Palmsman to Thalinde. Together.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;You, on the other hand...&quot; Max smiles, crossing his arms on his knees, &quot;will need to talk to your compatriots about your plan before we get to Reed. Else, I won't stop there.&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Errrr...&quot; Gnogglebolt looks around. &quot;Well, -if- we're going to do that, I'd still have to set up the meeting between the Palmsman and the repentant, -alone-...and that's difficult with how everyone else is. I can certainly fill in everyone on the details after the fact, up to whatever the repentant allows me to, but this is a need-to-be-there kind of meeting... I could go ahead from Reed to Thalinde and the rest of you could catch up, after it's all over, that would work.&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And fine, I'll tell the others.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Wheee, relaxing in a rainstorm in a beautiful city, nothing to do today. |D Fort save &#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 16 + 8 = 24&#160; <font color="#FF0000">&#187;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though, I don't think anyone could or would stp me if I built a Tinker's Teleporter in Reed...&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why are you excluding your compatriots?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+10+2 = 3 + 10 + 2 = 15&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Painting muse, don't fail me now! &gt;:9

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">You're lucky this is a process.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is what I don't understand. You all met the repentant together and recieved the same information. It seems clear that it was something for every member of your group to hear. So... why choose to cut them out now?&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;You trust each other with your lives on a daily basis. Why can you not trust them now?&quot; :.

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's not me excluding them, it's just this one meeting. Everyone else can meet and talk with the repentant on their own time, for their own reasons. As I said though, the meeting itself is a need-to-be-there basis. Politics and things. Audiences and peanut galleries, as the vernacular goes, are prohibitively disruptive.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Because not all of us agree his squirrel hyperactive nature is useful here.

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's just sensitive, is all.&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's not that I don't trust them, I said I'd tell them everything after the fact, it's just that it's not necessary for anyone to be there at the time.&quot;

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

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I suppose it's not my business. But I do think you should allow them to come if they're interested.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Once more, with feeling!

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+10+2 = 20 + 10 + 2 = 32&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Painting muse, don't fail me now! &gt;:9

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Muse, you may come out of the iron maiden now. =3=

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And as I said, I'll tell them the plan. And they can go meet with the repentant on their own time. What I've got going is simply a closed meeting between two representatives of two organizations with one broker.&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Critical art!

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Is that the Mona Lisa?

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, well. We'll see how things go on the road with the discussion.&quot; |3

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I wouldn't even be there if it wasn't necessary.&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Heck, I might even leave halfway through if that's how things go.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now remember. Before we reach Reed. That gives you a day and a half after we take flight.&quot; :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang plops down next to Thomas, a tankard of Mead in hand. &quot;Guten Morgen, Tomas.&quot; :3

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm just an enabler here, the one who gets the process started. I'm not actually a part of it--wait, what?&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gives me a day and a half for what?&quot;

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

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;To talk this over with your compatriots, of course.&quot; |3

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....I was just going to get that over with right now.&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Blah. Maybe the morning's better. Tired now.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;If only I were a druid.&quot; He sips while watching the clouds overhead.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;No talk, no stopping in Reed. Ah, well, that's fine, too. May I come along when it happens, to make sure it's done?&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl seems to painted over the slats in a way that they form an oversized puzzle.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vy do hyu say dat?&quot; Shankfang sips along with Thomas, reaching a hand out to catch some of the rain. &#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 19 + 4 = 23&#160; <font color="#990000">&#187; Fort save!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;To stop the rain, of course.&quot;

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You-i_it-wha&quot; Gnogglebolt's face wrinkles. &quot;Obviously, you're in the same inn as us. Sheesh, what's got you in a tizzy over this?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's nice. But I'm so anxious to get home..&quot; {|3

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If I didn't know better, I'd say you were a gnome in your insistence of sticking your nose into this.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's interesting, and I'm a bard.&quot; XP

Past!Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Blah. Goodnight max, there will be talk in the morning.&quot; Gnogglebolt wanders away, grumbling.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hmm, fair enough. Hy feel de same. Hy vanna see if Hy kan find a place for Talfeera und Hy to schtay. De sooner Hy do, de sooner she kan teleport over, und Hy kan see her again.&quot; Shankfang splashes some of the rainwater on his face, enjoying the cool, refreshing feeling.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good night.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Now in the present!\

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Do you know where you want to look for property?&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You're a tough guy and all. But Castleton is a dangerous city. The underworld thrives like crazy. The murder rate is pretty high.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">allright, back only temp.. need to make supper now. XP

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Will be back 30 minutes to an hour

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt yawns and comes down to the main inn where everyone else is...speaking of which, -who- exactly is present at what tables?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">dammit!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Just when I needed Tathi, too!

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Holy shit is it already 8:00... =w=;;;;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy vas a gangster in Mazio, und Talfeera iz an accompleeshed Sorceress. Hy'm not too vorried.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">We need to get going *_*

* Dr. Hatari is bricked.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I thought you might say that. Just mentioning. There are nicer properties in Akellon, to be sure.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're always welcome at our place. Our new place, in fact.&quot; Gnogglebolt says, sitting down next to Shankfang.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh, hey Gnogglebolt. Vat place?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you're interested. It should be finished by now.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Our new headquarters. I made sure to have extra rooms built in case our group expanded more.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas and Shankfang are sitting outside under the lip of the roof, watching the rain.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks at Shankfang, then to Gamal. &quot;Which was apparently a smart idea

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

Max:<font color="#000000">A large fluffy dog follows Gnogglebolt outside, watching the rain. :3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Oh? Vere iz it?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">This is why I asked WHO was sitting WHERE. &gt;_

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Scratch all that.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt is not on the room, he is in the main in..

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

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Oh, nevermind then.

Max:<font color="#000000">Dogshadow remains. :B

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

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">gamals in the main inn

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">You're worse than me, canine. &gt;:E

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy em sure, Tomas, und Hy appreciate hyu kvuncern.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Alright, can -one- person please describe where -everyone- is?

Max:<font color="#000000">But at least I'm fluffy. |3

TMG:<font color="#000000">In one line?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Question, do Sorcerers still use spell components?

RAM:<font color="#990000">Or does that not apply to them?

* Thomas Lazarus is just outside on the veranda. It's not like all conversations were voided. Hearing isn't even impeded. :.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorcerers still use spell components.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">They still use components when spells call for it.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">They just have an inherent knack for knowing and working the spells.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Mkay, thanks.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;But Hy tink a big kity vould be best, or at least a place vith a big market. It vould be herd to get Mazian goots und materials oddervise, not to mention Talfeera's schpell komponents.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">Max is following Gnogglebolt, tail wagging. Thomas and Shankfang are outside on the veranda, and the door is open. Everyone else, I would assume is in the inn.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Atleast in 3.5. Pathfinder sorcerers automatically get the eschew materials feat.

Max:<font color="#000000">Ed is strumming as usual, Tharky is writing, Sszeyl is painting, Terri is eating, Swallowtail is trying to read a book, everyone else is doing whatever they're doing.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt rubs the sleepies out of his eyes and looks down at the dog irritably. &quot;Breakfast first, you cheeky bastard.&quot;

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

Max:<font color="#000000">Wag wag. |3

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Maybe vunce ve get older und retired ve kan moff out to a nize place in de kountry.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Anyway, since one important guy is sitting outside and the other important guy is gone for halfhour/hour, Imma go grab an RL snack.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Hee, reminds me of when Terri threatened to wake people up as a dog, and Shankfang threatened to wake Terri up, and he woke her up, then they both woke Miron up.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well, Castleton is an adventurer hub. You can get a lot of crazy things there, and it's still along the river, so it has good trade circulation of all other sorts, too. There's also the capital of Lorellon. My family estate is back there. It's very nice. Much cleaner and safer than Castleton. That's why I left, actually. Castleton simply needed the 'help' more, speaking as a Pelorite. Then, of course, there's here.&quot; |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And I haven't been to any other Kellon city. The towns have all been nice enough, though.&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">Max just curls up by the fireplace and grumbles with comfort. |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;.. Except Braxton falls, anyways. But you were there.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hmm, Kestleton vould probably be best ontil Hy retire, den. No schortage uf vork dere.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Den Lorellon or zumvere in de kountry aftervards.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Depends how much you keep back in savings. Housing in Lorellon is at a premium.&quot;

* Swallowtail spies on Sszeyl's painting. :.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vell, if tinks keep up like dey hef been, ve von' hef to vorry about dat.&quot; ^_^

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">The entire scene is set before a towering castle of white stone and blue slate roofs. A group of people is arranged in front of the stone bridge that would lead into the courtyard. At the far right is Thomas in his armor, with a strange feathery cape in place of his current cloak/coat/whatever. At his knee is Miron, avidly reading a tome as large as he, dubbed 'The Book of Ages'. Next to Miron, Terri sits on the ground starring intensely at a ball of magic that Papa is about to lick. Behind Terri and Miron, Papa stands with the Elven Hounds towering over him and strangely grinning. At the center of the arrangement is Gnogglebolt, sitting in a metal chair with moveable legs that makes him as tall as the rest of the group. On the left of him is Sszeyl, wearing a blank white mask and using a huge paint brush as a staff. Elros and Ezer give the viewer an intense look from the left of Sszeyl. Shankfang stands on Dragula's seat, apparently in the middle of a victory dance, while juggling Calrach and Talfeera. Tathi stands to the left of Shankfang, along with Aelian, both dressed as Elven Nobility. Swallowtail is smiling pleasantly from the left of them, but is in the process of becoming invisible. Gamal is next to her, having a vastly nicer cloak/hood, and apparently mid-bow. Barbarus, with one rainbow colored eye and one normal eye. A strange, much taller than Barbarus catfolk with black fur, and bluegreen eyes stands to the rogue's left, grinning. The background around the group seems purposefully bland. Perhaps to allow for later additions?

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Wall of Text no jutsu! ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I wouldn't mind a nice little town in the country some day..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..or.. wouldn't have, I should say. That was before I became an Inquisitor.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">nothing wrong with my cloak/hood

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Now it seems skulking through cities and hunting foul things is to be my lot in life until my dying day.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">No, but it needs MOAR PIMP.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hey, dere's alvays retirement.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Who's Calrach again?

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Techy's halfling bard. ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Before your time. A halfling bard.

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

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">But how does Sszeyl know what Talfeera looks like?

* Thomas Lazarus scoffs softly.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Presumably talking and sendings that were done over the -literal weeks on that damn boat.-

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Though, I guess we could say Shankfang described her in detail. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Demonhunters don't retire.&quot; He remarks before taking his last drink. &quot;Atleast, I've never heard of one doing that.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Vat about ven hyu get too old to go beatink demons to death?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">I return with supper. Observing. :3

* Thomas Lazarus glances aside. &quot;...&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">YOU HAVE TOO CHEW QUIETER GHOST.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hey, if Hy hef to deal vith my mortality, den so do hyu.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">OM NOM NOM NARF SNARF BURP

Shankfang the Deffrider: <font color="#990000">&quot;Schtill not givink up on dat, tough...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You simply don't understand.&quot; He looks back to the horizon idly.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Don't worry about it.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Den help me onderstund.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I said demonhunters don't retire.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's because the mortality rate is too high for us to get old.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat's no guarantee.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You will never understand. There's fire and courage in your blood. You can take on the world.&quot; He remarks quietly.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Like I said. Don't worry about it.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We've got plenty of adventures left.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und how are hyu henny different?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy, for vun, kan' see henny demons takink hyu out. Hyu're vay too tough.&quot;

* Terri creeps up, watching the painting take shape.

* Thomas Lazarus frowns and glances aside.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..That is exactly my point.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Hey, Mr. Sszeyl... do you take commissions?&quot; :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">back--ah, and Ghost returns? Excellent.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You don't know. You don't know what a Cornugon is. You do not know what a Glabrezu can do.&quot;

* Ghostwish looks up with a mouth full of sausage and rice. :X?

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You haven't studied the depths to which that horror can go. You don't understand the scale of their threat.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy don' need to.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;And it is good that you don't.&quot; He frowns.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I thought'a somethin' I'd like to see drawn by a good artist, an' I'd be willin' to pay you to do it.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Please stop prodding me about this.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;For you, Terri? I'll charge the fee to Gnogglebolt. =3=&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000"> What you gonna do about it, Gnome? =3=

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Naaaaah, I've got the gold.&quot; x3

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mr. Sszeyl... um...&quot; And Terri mumbles something in Draconic.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt, who is halway through eating his breakfast meal, snarfs and turns an accusing (but ultimately unserious) glare over in Sszeyl's direction.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I don't speak Draconic yet, Terri.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Maybe you could teach me some on the way back. :3&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;O-oh.&quot; &gt;.&gt;;;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Chust remember, hyu've got hall uf us at you side, too. Und Hy'm pretty sure dat, kollectively, ve kould rule de vorld if ve vanted to.&quot;

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

* Thomas Lazarus closes his eyes and doesn't respond.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uhm... well... Y'know how I'm a wyrmling, right? In two, three years, I won't be anymore. That's not a real long time. &quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">It's enough to soak in the ambience and relax in his chair.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">All we need now is a couple of rocking chairs and we'd be set.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot; So... d'you think you could draw what this shape might look like as an older teen or a young adult? &quot; ^^;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot; I needta practice. &quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt glances outside, where Thomas and Shankfang are, and shugs and continues eating, waiting for them to come back.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">THEY GROW UP SO FAST.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">....Question. Where is MironBot?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;But just as a bit of a preview?&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Look at Edaric. =3=&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Could he still be up in his room, doing his archavist thing? :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Ah, excellent

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;But I'm not a boy.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">To be straightforward, I was having Thomas sort of just kill time.

* Edaric looks up, hearing his name. :. ?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I am trying to provoke timeskip. :B

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I want to move on.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Oh, everyone, this might put you at ease.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">So if you have something you'd like to do first, go ahead and take the initiative.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Well, since MAAAAAXDOG won't let Gnogglebolt go without telling anyone else--eh, hey, good idea.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Today, I added a particular defense spell to my books. It allows me to detect scrying on us, and it lasts all day long. Tomorrow will be its first casting.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...?&quot; He glances aside slightly.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu ever schoot a gun before?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;'Course not. I didn't know what a gun was until I saw Gnogglebolt's shotgun.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt tells everyone else (except the thankfully not-present Miron) that when they stop in Reed, Gnogglebolt is going to go on ahead with someone from the Palm and meet with Pellan, and then wait for everyone to catch up. There, let's timeskip. x3

Max:<font color="#000000">|3 I'm not getting in your way. I'm just observing. And being fluffy. And begging for the occasional table scraps. :9

* Thomas Lazarus chuckles. &quot;Not especially. Maybe as a diversion or something. But I'm a lousy marksman with a crossbow. I've spent all my martail arts training on swordsmanship.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi tempts Max with evening ham. :3

Max:<font color="#000000">:9 !

Max:<font color="#000000">... also, perhaps I was being obtuse.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas knew the meeting bits already, anyways.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He has been privy to the plans for a long time.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Yeah, I know.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Doesn' mean hyu kan' giff it a vurl. Hy'm sure hyu kan at least do as goot as Terri.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Sszeyl gets out a canvas. *_*

Max:<font color="#000000">Max was saying &quot;I don't mind, bring your paladin aboard, we'll all fly to Thalinde together.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt said that to Max, but noooooo, &quot;Must tell everyone again!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">And a brush. *_*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I don't know..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+10+2 = 15 + 10 + 2 = 27&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Painting muse, don't fail me now! &gt;:9

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who's Pellan?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And Gnogglebolt insisted that he's going on ahead by himself. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Would you like to try casting some spells or swinging a sword around?&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Bwaha! Now for the followup! &#171; &#160;1d20+10+2 = 20 + 10 + 2 = 32&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187;

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Y u ruin plots. XD

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#ff0000">(( You seem to be overlooking the major flaw in your travel plan vis a vis removing yourself from the party / gameplay / narrative focus for, potentially, multiple game sessions. =w=; There were plans for this trip with an out-of-game timeline, remember. We could be en route for 2 to 3 realtime weeks. ))

* Liatai is brick'd.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And actually, because they are in a public place, Gnogglebolt uses only the name 'Arivan'. So, oto reply to gamal; &quot;Arivan's someone we met awhile ago.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy'm afraeed Hy kan' kast schpells. But Hy'm a pretty goot hend vith my ax, und Hy know my vay around a blade.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hatari; I said to Liatai we should minisession this...but one way or another, it's -not- happening with anyone else present. :B And I'm fine with that.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You don't understand.

TMG:<font color="#000000">*fine with the possible removal

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And I said to you, &quot;You don't know what's been happening in Thalinde.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Please take the hint? ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I mean if Gnogglebolt is gone? We could go two saturdays of game before he's back.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Lia; no, I don't. And neither does Gnogglebolt. ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">I understand, hatari.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">So don't do it.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Do I need to dragon-railroad you more &gt;:E *BRICK'D*

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">liatai want's more than just you at the meeting for a reason.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Might actually even be a good thing, more housecrap's been happening.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Here's the real question.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">What was the Captain's son's name? =3=

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is it important? I thought Thomas said there was somethign to be done in some town..something about demons.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">M-something?

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

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

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">(( Yes! ))

RAM:<font color="#990000">What IC reason does Gnogglebolt have for going by himself, if Max already said he has no problem carrying an extra person?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Forget it. Just expect to get railroaded into the party's company.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ram; because Gnogglebolt doesn't want to go through the trouble of trying to set up the meeting -without- any tagalongs.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Why?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hm? Oh. That's Yoriver. Different town entirely.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">He'd either have to ask everyone to hang back, or wait for everyone else to go forward and talk their talk, then go in after like he did last time.

RAM:<font color="#990000">What possible reason could he have for excluding the rest of the party from a potentially plot-important meeting?

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">also would of been nice if it had been a real RP intro...cause Gamal doesn't have as many ties or knowledge of what's gone on before...

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">In practically no time at all, Sszeyl has an image of a teenager Terri, with a strangely elaborate arrangement of braids in her hair, teasing a really embarassed and confused teenage Mateo who seems to have bulked up in the years, while both of them are on a bench in Max's gardenroof thing. A scandalized ChibiMax, ChibiBrian, and ChibiPapa look on from the corner of the image.

* Thomas Lazarus stands and heads inside, taking his empty bottle with him.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I don't have a map. Ael, do you have one?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">And again, I will say Gnogglebolt is NOT trying to bar anyone from going to Arivan/Pellan. He doesn't mind that.

TMG:<font color="#000000">It's simply that the Arivan/Palm talk MUST happen behind closed doors.

* Terri takes the image... and giggles uncontrollably, turning somewhat pink. x3

TMG:<font color="#000000">That's it.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Why?

RAM:<font color="#990000">What possible reason is there for that?

TMG:<font color="#000000">You have no understanding of sensitive politics and information.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Eee! I love it, Mr. Sszeyl!&quot; :D &quot;How much do I owe you?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Not the least of which it was never meant to be that 'important' anyway.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi tilts her head at the giggling, and leans over for a look. &quot;Oh now that is adorable.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Just a side-project of Gnogglebolt's.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Five gold pieces for the canvas. =3=&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">More understanding than you, my friend.

TMG:<font color="#000000">It doesn't even need to be played out at all.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Here, have a platinum. Thank you!&quot; :D

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">NOW WHO'S GETTING MEGA TIPPED.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Actually, it does.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;You're welcome.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">^^^ See?

* Thomas Lazarus smiles faintly.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt just puts the two together, and leaves and lets them figure it out between themselves, as was always intended.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh.. impressive work, friend.&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">It's plot important.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Now stop trying to break the plot.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh -- wait!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;You should check out the other piece I did earlier, too.&quot; =3=

* Thomas Lazarus peers.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">could we at the very least, rp answer gamal's questions about it? instead of just trying to blow off the entire thing that the DM obviously wants to make into a plot point.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I turn your attention to the large wall o Text from way back when.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What's this?&quot; Thomas points to the feathered cloak he is wearing in the portrait.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mr. Sszeyl, I miscalculated. Here, take this, too. This is for another canvas.&quot; 5 GP given?

Terri:<font color="#000000">* given!

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Thank you. :3&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang finishes off his own drink before heading inside, and making his way to the gathered group.

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Goot job, Sszeyl! Dat looks chust like her!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;It's a design for something fancy I thought of. |3 A cloak made entirely out of different types of feather tokens.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Here... there we go, here's a map. Here's Thalinde, here's Castleton, and here's Yoriver.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Just pull one off and use it.&quot;

TMG whispers: I tried to warn you of this... Gnogglebolt is flat-out absolutely-not going to want anyone else there for that exact meeting. Anyone else can talk to Pellan anytme they want, Gnogglebolt can tell everyone about it after the fact, but the meeting itself Gnogglebolt it setting up by simply beign a liason between two organizations, and neither of them are the 'Vigilant Guardians'. This is just a Raiders/Palm thing. Gnogglebolt doesn't even intend to direct it.

* Thomas Lazarus scoffs.

TMG whispers: &quot;Yes I'm sure I want to do that&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You sure do like those.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;But vo's de helflink?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">*w*

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thalinde, here, we know a healer named Arivan Marathal.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mr. Lightweave, I imagine.&quot;

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

TMG whispers: and -if- we di in fact bring along the Palm guy with Max, then Gnogglebolt sill simply hold him back until everyone else has met with pellan and talked about whatever they want to

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Calrach Lightweave, a bard we left in Castleton.&quot;

You whisper to TMG: Here's my question, then... why is he so intent on going to Thalinde alone? ^^;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;A bard we met in Castleton. Helped us assault a haunted castle.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I'm going to ask him to tag along with us probably after Gnogglebolt goes on his vacation.&quot;

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

TMG whispers: but one way or another, the meeting with happen alone

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Less than you might expect.&quot;

You whisper to TMG: Aha. Okay. That's fine.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Had a few tough fights in it against giant monster zombies, though.&quot;

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

You whisper to TMG: The way it was worded sounds like Gnogglebolt was planning to ditch the party entirely to do something skulky. :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Und Hy missed it?!&quot;

TMG whispers: and him -going- to Thalinde alone was just for the ease of not even having to deal with holding the Palm guy back until everyone else has run throught. That's irritiating, I and OOC.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">: Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&gt;: Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It was months before we even met you.&quot; He smirks.

You whisper to TMG: Don't worry about it. :3 I have a plan that will erase those worries when you get to Thalinde.

You whisper to TMG: Just trust in the DM for a bit, and don't worry about holding the Palm guy back or meeting logistics. There is a plan in the works. Besides, the halfling would be a poor halfling to pass up a dragon ride. :B

TMG whispers: Hoy.

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

* Dr. Hatari watches typing notification.

TMG whispers: Okay okay. I'll trust you.

You whisper to TMG: Thank you.

* RAM does the same.

TMG whispers: but I am really, really on edge about it regardless.

* Gamal-Junayd is still waiting on an answer to his earlier question. but it seems we really arent going to rp any chance to talk about it

You whisper to TMG: Because otherwise I'd have to pull out the dragon-stalking-railroading big guns, and nobody wants that. XP

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Hey, I'm trying to answer you, Gamal. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">What Gamal's earlier question? Wasn't it answered?

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is it important? I thought Thomas said there was somethign to be done in some town..something about demons.&quot;

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">That was answered, Rail.

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's Yoriver, a different town.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">sorry, missed that. especially as I don't remember the towns name so it didn't click.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;See, here, on this map. Yoriver's way up here, beyond the desert. We're talking about Thalinde, here. We know a healer named Arivan Marathal there.&quot;

* RAM paints Rail's brain red.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Red wuns go fastah!

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;But if we seperate, wouldn't responding to that be delayed?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Um. Well, everyone's planning to go to Thalinde anyway.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">need to change laundry, brb

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We're not taking the initiative on that one.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's just a stop on our way back to Castleton.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;If everyones going to Thalinde..why split up in the first place?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Ve already hef several pipple dere kickink names und takink ass.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;The Commander of the Mace in Castleton has been made aware of the situation, and is currently analyzing facts, establishing communications, planning with other branches, and making plans.&quot;

* Max leeeeeeans his head on the table. :3

* Shankfang the Deffrider scritchies. |3

Max:<font color="#000000">Don't mind me, just here for scritches and snacks. |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'll be defering to his judgement on how best to approach. Just flying there and making accusations is probably not the way to handle it.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Expediency for my sake, but considering it might be difficult even for me to cobble up a Tinker's Teleporter in the middle of Reed (though I'm still -sure- I could do it), probably won't.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We don't know who all the badguys even are, remember.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd whispers: I wonder if one of the main reasons he want's a private session is to avoid the ooc ridicule the peanut gallery starts up every time he does try diplomacy

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

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Then no need to bring it up, we'll just travel together.&quot;

You whisper to Railock: It's been worked out. Don't worry.

GM:<font color="#000000">Ready to move on to a new day? I know Hatari is. :3

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

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

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

GM:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d100 = 76&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Tally-ho

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Aww, still no Velocirapture.

GM:<font color="#000000">Yay! The rain lets up during the night, and now, it is the Dawn of a New Day, Yondallon 22nd, cloudy, crisp, and with a light breeze.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">WAIT HOLD ON I NEED TO DELAY FOR ANOTHER SIX SESSIONS

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">*choke slammed by hatari*

* RAM Exterminatuses.

* Gamal-Junayd slits ghosts throat

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ahhhh, that looks -- and feels -- much better.&quot; :3

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

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt gets all the pieces of his trucktrain and other materials and devices and gets them all into a nice big pile, ready for transport.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hopefully the weather holds.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">However Max wants to do it.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Everyone should notice by now,.

* Max starts putting the technology in a bag of holding. :3

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;.... Swan Song, are you feeling all right?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">That Sszeyl has not gone to trance, hasn't drunk anything, and outside of that lasange that only Swallowtail knows about, hasn't eaten anything.

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

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;You have not been eating or drinking.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Svallowtail iz right. Ve kan' hef hyu schtarvink to death on us.&quot;

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">.... :| Ninja inspect. &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 6 + 3 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; untrained Heal check.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Absolutely nothing is wrong. |3

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">The ninja is puzzled.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I have no need of that stuff. The Ocean gives me power.&quot;

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

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">It's about this time that someone notices the fish in Sszeyl's tattoo are moving.

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">O_o

* Swallowtail pokes a fish. o_O

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">...doesn't Swallowtail know about this? xD

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang shoots one of them. *brick'd*

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Swallowtail agitates a puffer fish so that it balloons.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Isn't this one of her Schools schitck things?

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

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Say, Gnogglebolt -- and anyone with pets.&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#0000FF">Arooo?

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

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you have means to secure them during the flight?&quot;

Snarky:<font color="#000000">Bzzp?

Vuz:<font color="#990000">Purr.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Vuz secures herself. =3=&quot;

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

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I suppose hugging the giant dogs for several days may be a little tiring.&quot; |3

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;They could hang out in an open bag of holding, or however you choose; I just don't want to risk them falling off mid-flight.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Oh that would be nice. Thank you. :3&quot;

Vuz:<font color="#330000">But.

Vuz:<font color="#330000">I'd get all poofy!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt thinks, then pulls out a few strips of leather and a pouch from his pack, and qith his hands moving faster than anyone's seen them move before, makes a small harness on the inside of his vest, which he coaxes Snarky into.

Snarky:<font color="#000000">Zzp. :3

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's start heading to the beach while we talk, eh?&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt closes his vest and pats the slightly moving bulge lightly.

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I wonder if we could fit all the pets in a single bag of holding.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I mean, Thomas follows.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;The better question is, who would win?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;... wait, what?&quot;

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, that's clever, Gnogglebolt.&quot; :D

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I wonder if you could hook up something similar for Kor? Would he even allow it?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....Better question is if Tathi would let my hands that close to her.&quot; &gt;.&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;To attach the harness to her clothes, of course.&quot; :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">...what exactly -is- she wearing, anyway?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Can-can girl dress.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Kor is a familiar. I imagine he's safe. They're very smart, you know.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">......... I think you meant Tavia? XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">who meant Tavia?

TMG:<font color="#000000">me or Edairc? :B

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">I meant Kor. :B

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">A rat-harness.

Meany:<font color="#330000">It's a really pink sunset here. :.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh yeah. And Gnogglebolt'shair starts rising to stick on end...and anyone who brishes past his arm gets a tiny static shock.

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

* Tharky starts helping Max get the harness in place again. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He doesn't appear to notice at all, however

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh! Hey!&quot; :O

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mr. Gnogglebolt! Mr. Gnogglebolt!&quot; :O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Huh? What is it?&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;I just thoughta somethin'! How much do you weigh? With everythin' an' Snarky?&quot; :O

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Kor hides in the hood of Tathi's cloak.

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;I could probably carry you or Mr. Miron!&quot; :D

Vuz:<font color="#330000">Vuz hides in Sszeyl's open bag of holding. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uh...hang on!&quot; Gnogglebolt does a mental calculation.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Oh dear.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">By which he means his palyer pulls out a calculator. xP

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">But on the tangledweb sheet it calcs for you and puts it OHHHHHHH WAIT.

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

* Maxissoren chuckles. &quot;Maybe for part of the journey, Teria.&quot; :P &quot;You don't have a harness, and you haven't made a trip this long without long rests yet.&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh boo, c'mon, lemme try if they wanna try.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;You'll be welcome to land on my back as always if you want, Teria.&quot; |3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">164.75, erring on the side of heavy

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Maybe when you're older. I'm probably still too fat.&quot; |3

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">Oof, that is too much for Terri to carry aloft.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Miron it is!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;My gear and myself comes to...probably in the realm of a hundred and sixty pounds.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Miron is a Dragon Rider now.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">236 pounds. Way too heavy. =3=

Meany:<font color="#330000">What is this I don't even.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">280lbs.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Doesn't Miron wear heavy armor? :B

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Er, no.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He's an archivist.

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not yet, then.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">He wears a robe. And like, studded leather.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though, if I ditch my gear into one of those spatial bags...&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;All set!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;My weight is really all in this.&quot; Gnogglebolt shuffles from side to side, with the towering pack on his back teetering.

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

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

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hehe, you're old hands at this by now, aren't you?&quot; |3

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

* Maxissoren crouches down and spreads his wings. &quot;Next stop, the Hills of Gilforen.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas!Dash! *_*

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Transportation~

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So...no putting my gear in one of the bags? Allright...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus is seated. |3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt moves to clamber up Max.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Welcome, audience!

Tharky:<font color="#000000">Tharky also climbs aboard -- of note, he doesn't climb up and sit on the dragon's back like the rest of you. He's up behind Max's head, holding onto the horns, where there is no harness.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">No I'm not burning holes in the beach to get out of here, why do you ask?

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">This riding crop is just a joke. *_*

Inumo:<font color="#666666">Heyo!

TMG:<font color="#000000">We're all on Resca Coast &amp; Market, and the party is on a beach, gearing up to ride a big dragon.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">back!

TMG:<font color="#000000">We've got a DragonTaxi. :B

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Two new maps are now available for preloading.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;So. Have you ever wondered what the top of a cloud looks like?&quot; :3

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not overly&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, well. At least you'll be able to say you've seen it.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Mmm, Ed.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">So...Gnogglebolt's gear is not simply to be carried by Max or in one of the Bags so Terri won't carry him? :B

Aelian:<font color="#0000FF">YOU CHEATING WHORE.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt does actually like the idea...not to mention that Mrion would be all PUTMEDOWNPUTMEDOWN.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">You know it to be tru. xP

Inumo:<font color="#666666">*suddenly, loaded!

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Miron enjoyed his last dragonflight, silly.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Ed' i'ear ar' elenea, the top of the clouds!? Let's go!&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Miron actually enjoys flying, if you recall. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh, did he? Eh.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Will have to be more insistant next time.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I CAN SEE ALL OF YOU FROM HERE.&quot; *_* /Orwell

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

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

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Two and a half...&quot;

Inumo:<font color="#666666">What map should I be on?

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Come on, Max, they've waited long enough.&quot; :P

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

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Three seconds to three?&quot; :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Resca Coast &amp; Market, like I said. Scroll up. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Max!&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh fine -- what, Thomas?&quot;

Inumo:<font color="#666666">Sorry, it came as a big wave. I kinda skipped a lot of it.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Wait, the top of which clouds? =3=&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Let's go!&quot; *_*

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

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;All of them!&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Now hyu're chust beink mean.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Isn't that a thunderhead over there which are extremely tall?&quot;

Inumo:<font color="#666666">As it's going to do again once this map loads...

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;These clouds, here. They're within -- oh, you'll see soon enough!&quot; :3 LEAP!

* Thomas Lazarus hops. *_*

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

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">As the dragons climb in altitude, the air around you becomes thick with fog -- no, wait. You're inside a cloud.

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang tries to catch some of it!

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your showing us the inside of a cloud, not the top. are we too much for you to rise above it?&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;These are low-hanging clouds. Terri, stick close so that the harness' enchantment covers Miron too, all right?&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mmkay!&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nonsense, Gamal.&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Don't provoke the dragon.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;He can fly just as well upside down.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;That'd be a test of your grip, wouldn't it now?&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">And unlike you, I have +5 strength.

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">+2 here!

Inumo:<font color="#666666">+1/0~

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Sszeyl's got muscles.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, if he flips...wouldn't the best place to be be on top of him? might bea challange, but would be interesting to try to keep on top as he spun.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">The dragons keep rising. Eventually... you break through the fog to see a clear blue sky above, the ocean below and behind you, and... http://ttcshelbyville.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/cloud.jpg

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">I wouldn't intend to hang.

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

* Thomas Lazarus smiles at the sight.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">The river below you looks like nothing more than a thick blue-grey river.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">*ribbon, not the second river. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Was gonna say. :B

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">The river looks like a river?

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

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

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

Inumo:<font color="#666666">Madness? This! Is! Akellon!!!

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Where's Dragula?

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">The Bag of Holding.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">With the stuff.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Oh. ~=3=~

* Maxissoren smiles, and gives a short roar mid-flight. :D

* Thomas Lazarus edges a little closer to Max's neck and peers about. &quot;...&quot;

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

* Thomas Lazarus makes note of the Teria. &gt;.&gt;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">RAAAAAAAR! &gt;:D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;...sssssSssssooooo Max.&quot; He looks back to the older dragon.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeeeees Thomas?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Now that Teri's out of earshot, I was uh. Wondering about something.&quot;

Inumo:<font color="#666666">&quot;Is she single?&quot; *brick'd*

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ask away.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">For crying out loud, audience, she's four. XP

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I swear to all that is holy, Thomas.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;If you're about to ask about draconic mating rituals..&quot;

Inumo:<font color="#666666">:P

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

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Dragons added to initiative just to make them easier to impersonate.

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

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

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">SHIT MAX IS IN THE INIT WE'RE BONED.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;We're been inserted into dragon business. This is not my fault.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Troll!Tathi is Troll.

* Maxissoren turns his head around a little. Tharky looks curiously at the group as well from his spot behind Max's head.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Shankfang is also curious what Thomas is asking about.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;As you know, we fought a half-dragon lately. That's cool ... that's cool.. and I mean. The fellow earlier was a pretty attractive gentleman. Half-dragon and half, you know, -human-. Not the first one I've met, perfectly run of the mill, I'm sure. ... Buuu~uuut... well.&quot; He looks aside and bites his lower lip while squinting. &quot; ...I've been thinking about how to ask this... and... I'm sorry, but I just can't think of a tactful way to lead into this one; --We fought a half-dragon half-bush.&quot;

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

* Thomas Lazarus glances the other way. &quot; Yeeaahh..&quot;

Inumo:<font color="#666666">...?

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;A what.&quot; XD

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">*glance back with slightly more severe half-lidded look* &quot;..yeeaahhh..&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">(inumo; heard of Shambling Mounds? Fought a half-dragon version awhile back)

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">He's chuckling, at least.

Inumo:<font color="#666666">Nope, sorry.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Also, so nomming for this. xD

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r959I00kE7I/TNcrD-0TqTI/AAAAAAAAAgc/-ErIDhRq5EY/s1600/MM35_PG223a.jpg

TMG:<font color="#000000">^ SHambling mound

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;In the swamp.&quot; Staring into space in strained bewilderment. &quot; ... Annnnd I have just had -all kinds- of questions in my head since that revelation. I mean. ... -Wow-. So ..., -plants-.&quot; Squint. &quot;So apparently that is a thing that works.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He glances over. &quot;So can dragons breed with, like, ... -literally anything-?&quot;

Inumo:<font color="#666666">Half-dragon half-shambling mound, then?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;What about flowers?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;... Or is that already a thing? Do we already have half-dragon-half-flowers? Dragon-lillies? Snapdragons?&quot;

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

* Thomas Lazarus is on a roll.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Look, who else am I going to ask about this?&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Apparently so! I've never given much thought to it, myself, buuuuuut....&quot; x3 &quot;Hehehe. Oh the talks Uncle Austratorix could give you. I will admit. I'm torn now between saying it's a draconic mystery and telling you the little I know about the whole thng.&quot; x3

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">He extend a palm in air questioningly. &quot;What about...&quot; Squint. &quot;What about you; can you get pregnant? In a different form, obviously.&quot; =w=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">OH GOD THE BRIIIIICKS

Inumo:<font color="#666666">XD

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">I ain't gonna lie.

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">That is the weirdest pickup line I have ever heard.

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">And probably the creepiest.

Kor:<font color="#0000FF">Squeak.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;There are limits. What they are, I'm not entirely sure, it's not my cup of tea. But from what I understand... if it's living and corporeal, and there's some way a dragon could take the shape of the creature, or just something compatable, it can produce a half-dragon. ... and I don't care to experiment with that.&quot; =w=;;;;;;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;...Hy'm gunna need zum mind soap after hall dis.&quot;

* TMG is cracking up xD

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Apparently Thomas has been hitting the wine a little harder the past few days than usual!

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I mean... wow. So, a bush.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's never been a documented case of a male dragon becoming pregnant while in a female form, though. Say someone used a Polymorphing spell to change their gender. Would they be able to become pregnant if they changed to female? Would they abort as soon as the spell wore off?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'm sorry for fifty question, Max. That just blew my mind.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Really, it's just a sticky mess I don't want to get involved with.&quot; =3=

Inumo:<font color="#666666">Heh, sticky.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please, I don't mind. Thanks for waiting until Terri was out of earshot.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;That's fine. Yeah, of course.&quot; Sway.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Count yourself lucky. If it had been Salishea you asked, you'd probably be seeing stars right about now.&quot; :P

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or heavens forbid. Arosstherajix.&quot; x3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt has been listening to the conversation with a deadpan expression, yet he's convusling like he's trying not to burst out in raccous laughter.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well I wasn't going to ask Lady Salishea about what happens if a dragon cranks one off on some bushes, no.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Snrrrrrrk. XD

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

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;It doesn't quite work that way.&quot; :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt settles for a subdued

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

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

Inumo:<font color="#666666">Pretty much.

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Heyyyyy, what're you all laughing about? Are you talkin' about me?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sir, I remain baffled.&quot; Slightly inebriated Thomas finally relents in his questions.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Hey, it's no worse than you humans.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I've seen half-orcs, half-elves, half-giants, half-ogres.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Adult stuff, Terri.&quot; :P

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I half expect to see half-gnomes, and half-dwarves.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Believe me, Thomas, I'm baffled, too.&quot; :P

* Thomas Lazarus points at Sszeyl and nods.

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

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Many of those are a product of rape though.&quot;

Inumo:<font color="#666666">Halfs everywhere!

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just... a bush?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Not me!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus throws his arms into the air in bewilderment.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Yes, that is so very much a topic to have when the youngling just come back into earshot, thank you.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Was it a bush-monster, at least? Tendriculos, maybe? Shambling mound?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hy hed great parents!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I'unno.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 2 + 3 = 5&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Knowledge Arcana check.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Terri, go play with a cloud for a bit.&quot; :P

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Boo. Stupid adult stuff.&quot;

* Lumisteria flits off to fly circles with Miron.

Thomas Lazarus whispers: So yes, that was the dumb thing I had to say to Max. XP

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">It would be Nature, Sszeyl. Or just a Wisdom check to remember, it was shouted often enough mid-battle.

* Thomas Lazarus settles in for a nap. |3

You whisper to Dr. Hatari: That. That was amazing. XD

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(Inumo; also for context, 'Buggering magic' is about Gnogglebolt's catchphrase. He dislikes magic, and utters that whenever there's weird goings-on. :B )

Thomas Lazarus whispers: Thank you.

Inumo:<font color="#666666">Mm.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(It happened to be more appropriate than usual this time. x3 )

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 10 + 2 = 12&#160; <font color="#330000">&#187; Wis check!

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;I said many, not all&quot;

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

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ahhhh. That explains it.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">brb, bio

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've heard that black dragons are up there with silvers when it comes to purposefully creating half-dragons. And they're known to choose very weird partners sometimes.&quot; :B

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Granted, I've never met one to deny or confirm that. My major scrapes with chromatics have been with greens and one red.&quot;

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

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not counting the Sealed One.&quot;

TMG whispers: and oh man from all this talk I just had an idea for an adventure for low-ish level characters if I ever get back into DMing.

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

TMG whispers: ...heck, you could even use it if you want.

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Now that ascent has leveled off, Thomas has settled into a light nap along Max's shoulder. |3

RAM:<font color="#990000">Someone mind giving me a hand? I see absolutely nothing and it's starting to bug me. http://www.randompics.net/?p=6457

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">In some cases, that's the point.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;All of this Dragon talk has reminded of the...new recruit Barbarus has. From his sendings, I managed to get what he looks like, and his name, Primera.&quot; Sszeyl passes the panel with the black furred tall catfolk up to Tharky. &quot;Does that jar any bardic memory?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">There is just nothing.

Inumo:<font color="#666666">I think its the hitman in the lower left corner.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And OP was being a troll.

TMG whispers: a half dragon...rat. Just a little rat. But not just one. A whole swarm. Some chaotic dragon, for shits and giggles, makes multiple half-dragon rats, then looses them together in a city, where they breed and breed and breed, creating a plauge of half-dragon rats sweeping the city

TMG whispers: Think about it. Hundreds of tiny little things like that xD

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">I see your troll.

Meany:<font color="#330000">And raise you: http://www.randompics.net/?p=20177

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Primera... Primera...&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20+14 = 3 + 14 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &quot;The one you said held... that sword, right?&quot;

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Damn you, Meany.

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aside from the legend of the sword, I'm afraid I don't know anything. I don't keep much of an ear on the islands.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though from his markings, if that's accurate, he looks like a Kaduan catfolk.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I didn't know they had catfolk in Kaduar.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">back!

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;What sword?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Can't tell you that while we're in the air.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;All over the place. If you see a yellow or orange catfolk with stripes, or spots, or an all-black one, you can bet that they have some ancestry in the jungles of Kaduar.&quot; :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;People might start nose-diving.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now you've piqued my curiosity.&quot;

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

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;A dragon-slayer's sword, Max.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Okay, I'll damn it, but I don't see how that'll help.

Meany:<font color="#330000">http://www.randompics.net/?p=27298

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh? Hmph. As long as this Primera isn't using it to slay wantonly.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;A dragon slayers blade? is it enchanted against dragons then?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Oi. Let's keep a precedent of no random bullocks randompics in the gamechat atleast. =w=;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;We don't know.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Even with such a blade..you'd almost have to be a fool, if not desperate, to use it for it's intended purpose.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;We can ask him.&quot; =3=

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">By the end of the day, you've arrived back in Max's lair in the Hills of Gilforen. You can map-hop if you like, or stay in Resca.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I have a sending stone that we can use.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">|D~ Zzz..

TMG:<font color="#000000">Next stop is Reed, right?

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

Tavia:<font color="#0000FF">Hey! Hey! Look! I'm as big as you now. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh! Not bothering to maphop to Hills, but when they get there, Gnogglebolt -does- visit the Fire Elemental

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And speaks in much better Ignan. :&gt;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Make yourselves at home. Gamal, you're welcome to explore, too.&quot; :3

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Make yourselves at home. Gamal, you're welcome to explore, too.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Somewhat groggy Thomas slides off of Max when they arrive at the lair. He's in a good mood, though. |3

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

Shineclaw:<font color="#000000">The blink dogs blink about, sniffing curiously. o.o

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">ooooh okay, maphopping for this :D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hey, wiggle-pups.&quot; |3

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

Falterpaw:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ahhh, you have returned.&quot; :3

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where is here by any chance?&quot;

Falterpaw:<font color="#000000">&quot;All is well, Maxissoren.&quot;

Snarky:<font color="#000000">Snarky peeks out of the neck of Gnogglebolt's vest, sniffing about the blinking doggies with his two spire-like ears sticking out

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;A very good thing to hear, Falterpaw. No signs of the ooze coming back?&quot; :3

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is Max's lair.&quot; :3 &quot;We're in the Hills of Gilforen right now.&quot;

Snarky:<font color="#000000">The Mazian Sparker wiggles its spire-ears at Stoneseat

Falterpaw:<font color="#000000">&quot;None, sir.&quot; :3

Stoneseat:<font color="#000000">Sniffsniffsniff. o.o

Stoneseat:<font color="#000000">Earwiggle?

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I know where this is going.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;I assume were resting here for the night?&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mmhmm!&quot;

Snarky:<font color="#000000">Sniffsniffearwiggle...spark on the nose! Made your hair poof!

Stoneseat:<font color="#000000">Poof! :O

Snarky:<font color="#000000">Bzzp.

Stoneseat:<font color="#000000">And the dog blinks in and out of existence a bit. o.o

Snarky:<font color="#000000">Snarky wiggles harder to swuirm out of Gnogglebolt's vest.

Stoneseat:<font color="#000000">Snifffsniffsniffsniffsniff. Blinksniffblinksnifffsniff.

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

* Thomas Lazarus seems fascinated.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ack--okay, okay, hang on, Snarky...&quot; Gnogglebolt opens his vest and lets the sparker out of the harness.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot; What happens if someone is there when you blink back?&quot; |O

Falterpaw:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is, ah, not pleasant.&quot;

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

* Thomas Lazarus keeps a couteous distance.

Snarky:<font color="#000000">The little sparker is on the ground now, looking up at the much bigger dog, sniffing noses again, his spire-ears and tail wiggle just a smidge, and then another static shock! Hey, the lizard's got a tell.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Do you have a chef here already sir, or would it be of no problem to use the kitchens to provide us all with food?&quot;

* Maxissoren blinks at Gamal. As in, with his eyes, to clarify. :B

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

Snarky:<font color="#000000">The lizard quickly gets enamored with a game with Stoneseat of trying to shock him before he blinks.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm? Oh, by all means. Afraid there's no real solid kitchen yet -- that's on the expansion plan for the next five years or so -- but you're welcome to make use of whatever's here. Come on, I'll show you the larder and the guest rooms.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt just watches on, shaking his head.

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

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

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, Shankfang?&quot; :O

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Let's go see de puppies!&quot;

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">:O !

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;YEAH!&quot; :D

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

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you. After all that flying, will be nice to spend some time in more normal activities&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hi Mistvalker!&quot; Pet pet. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas takes a seat in the main hall for a while and joins the blinkdogs company.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hello, Mistwalker.&quot; :3 &quot;Larder's to the north, guest rooms and sitting rooms are to the east.&quot;

Mistwalker:<font color="#000000">Thump, thump, thump. That's the sound of a thick tail wagging against a cushioned chair. :D

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hi Frostfur! Hi Whisperfang! Hi puppies!&quot; :D

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're of course welcome to explore anywhere, on this floor and above.&quot; :3

Snarky:<font color="#000000">Oh, 'engrossed' was the word I was looking for...

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Pet pet pet for Frostfur first.

Fireback:<font color="#000000">A blink dog leans on Thomas, clearly asking for petting.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Eventually, Gnogglebolt collects Snarky and heads to the furnace.

Rufus:<font color="#000000">Hoo! ovo

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">...Audience, don't apply Occam's Razor to that. ;P

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas happily drapes an arm over Fireback and gives generous pettings.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">... He then begins casting a Sending.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Then play time with the puppies! :D

Fireback:<font color="#000000">Whatcha doin' with your hands? o.o Sniffsniff.

Fireback:<font color="#000000">That's not petting me. Nudge. |3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Hi~ mom~.&quot; |3 &quot;We're flying back from Resca~. We stamped a pirate ring on the coast and saved a buncha people. Sorry, I'm a little drunk.&quot; |D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">At the furnace area, Gnogglebolt sees Kivan out and about. He calls out a greeting in much more improved Ignan tongue.

* Thomas Lazarus then uses his free hand to also pet.

* Gamal-Junayd sets about cooking dinner for everyone. with some left over.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">(Profession(Cook) Check : &#171; &#160;1d20+12 = 9 + 12 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;)

Vuz:<font color="#330000">When suddenly!

* Gamal-Junayd will then set about bringing whatever he prepared to everyone, so they all have a good dinner. and a vegetarian option for Shankfang

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">Shankfangs special meal (Profession(Cook) Check : &#171; &#160;1d20+12 = 2 + 12 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;)

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

* Gamal-Junayd is not as good at all vegetarian meals

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

Nina Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tommy!&quot; :D &quot;... Flying? You're flying, you said? On what?&quot; :O &quot;-- Oops! Sending! It's good to hear from you -- sleep well, drink water, be safe! Love you!&quot; :D

Dr. Hatari whispers: Sorry about the spontaneous Sending. It was just too good to pass up. :B

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;..Oh, wait.&quot; {|3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Tom, you're so drunk.&quot; =3=

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I wonder.. would it be appropiate to scry on my father from inside a dragon's lair?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well I got bored waiting off-duty.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus hugs his blinkdog and prepares to doze off again.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I found the token this time! &gt;:D

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

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

GM:<font color="#000000">Lemme know when you're ready to jump ahead!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And since poor DM is pulled many different ways (The game CPU is loaded to maximum throughput!), Gnogglebolt just offsceen chats with Kivan, much smoother than the last time, genuinely interested in the elemental and asking him question about what it's like back home, what kind of things he does, stuff like that.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Ready to skip ahead.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Detect Scrying is a go-go. :3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">All done with today's shenanigans.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">I think we'll wait on scrying until we're in castleton.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">I'm good.

GM:<font color="#000000">No scrying spell detected.

GM:<font color="#000000">DM's grabbing tea. One moment.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">You detect Neverhead scrying on you. You hear heavy breathing into the receiver. *brick'd*

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;And here I thought for sure Atar would be peeking in on us.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">KEPPLER. YOU SON OF A SWITCH.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Time to get Har-tea.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">By which I mean, pop. =3=

GM:<font color="#000000">Weathercheck! &#171; &#160;1d100 = 42&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Aww, still no Velocirapture.

GM:<font color="#000000">Dawn of a New Day, clear and sunny, Loda, Yondallon 23rd! The leaves of the trees in the hills around you are becoming quite colorful. This is the second-to-last day of the month of Yondallon.

GM:<font color="#000000">Your next stop is the village of Reed.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">DETECTIN' AH SCRYIN. :O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">er, shall we bother regrouping on the Hills map, or will you keep copying over from the Resca map?

GM:<font color="#000000">Regroup in the Hills, please. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Ah. Okay then.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Mornin' Max.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">Breakfast time! (Profession(Cook) Check : &#171; &#160;1d20+12 = 16 + 12 = 28&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;) and the veggie option of the morning (Profession(Cook) Check : &#171;  &#160;1d20+12 = 12 + 12 = 24&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;)

* Maxissoren yawns widely, displaying long, sharp teeth. &quot;Good morning. Rest well?&quot; :3

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Max, I do have a question about your flying.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ooh.&quot; :9

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Heh. Yep. Ow.&quot; ^^;

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

* Gamal-Junayd brings a much better attempt at breakfast than last nights dinner with him

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gamal, that smells amazing.&quot; :D

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">even the veggie option should be good eating. hehe

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;You made this with just what was in the larder? Color me impressed.&quot; :3

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

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Did you ever, you know.. strafe some random bandits on the road, or maybe make a fly-by on some evil baron's castle?&quot;

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

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">:9

* Thomas Lazarus rubs his head and says relatively little during departure preparations. =w=;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do what I can. Proper diet can reinforce a warriors strength, while a poor one can drain it.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;No and no. Though I have swooped down to rescue a few travelers from monsters in these hills, and there was one time when I helped with getting people out of that burning cabin a few years back.&quot; :.

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#FF0000">&quot;Lucky travelers indeed.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Dat must hef been qvite an eksperience.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;It is almost always more prudent to protect than to destroy. To leap toward the path of destruction as one's first option is an incredibly dangerous path, for all,&quot; Max says, with a faint distant look. &quot;Especially when one has the power that is our birthright as dragons.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...I couldn't agree more...&quot; Gnogglebolt says softly

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;A responsible outlook.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Even one errant use of your breath weapon can set a forest fire that blazes for miles.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Only you can prevent forest fires.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;It may kill the marauders, but it will harm hundreds more inadvertently.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Sorry, was I rambling?&quot; ^^;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Maybe a little. I think Tathi was just getting ready to coo in awe if you said yes.&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;But she's still cooing in awe.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Also, Max?&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, Sszeyl?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Do the dragons have a government?&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;... You're asking a question that has no solid answers.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;.. so the fire breath is the problem, hrm?&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Well. You don't pay anyone dragon-taxes, I imagine.&quot; |3

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Or have to wait at dragon-crossings..&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;How is a government to be defined, after all? When is it needed, and when is it not? What is the scope of its power? ... oh drat. I'm rambling again.&quot; ^^; &quot;That among other things, Tathi. Have you ever wondered why elder metallic dragons rarely take direct action in the world?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;I kind of have the idea that they sat around and rambled on about how things were so much better in the good old days.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;The Sealed One says it's because they're afraid that they've lived so long, that they aren't really in-tune with the world anymore, and so leave it to the younger generations.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Though he said it a bit less objectively.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's because they have such tremendous power that they must consider and reconsider all factors at play before making a move. A misstep could easily lead to catastrophe. Even one small, hastily-made decision. ... Unfortunately, the world doesn't operate on a dragon's timescale typically.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">I know that feel, bro.

TMG:<font color="#000000">(...that is the best explanation I've ever heard for uberpowerful entities anywhere to be all mysterious and wise by not taking direct actions)

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Small, subtle motions that can be easily corrected or adjusted as time goes on. Such is the way of the elders.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Sounds like a dilemma with power I've had myself, lately..&quot; {|3

TMG:<font color="#000000">(and more so)

TMG:<font color="#000000">(Very nice, Liatai. I have -got- to remember this one...)

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;... So if you ever feel like Grandfather or any of the elders are being slow and mysterious, that's probably why.&quot; :P

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyway! Let's get going.&quot; :D

* Thomas Lazarus nods.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Suddenly, Thalinde.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed!&quot; gnogglebolt secures Snarky, and this time makes sure his pack of gear is either in one of the Bags, or simply carried by someone else

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Thus making him not exceed 60 pounds, clothing and Snarky included

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Not quite yet! First, Reed. A riverside town, much like Thalinde, but with less variety of clothing and silk.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Ah.. I can't wait to get back to Castleton.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">And my goodness do you ever get a crowd about you when you land on dragonback. :B

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I need to see how many adventurers raided my house while I was gone.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus waves. ^^;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He landed in public?

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">On the outskirts. But a 50-foot-long dragon coming in for a landing is hard to miss. :B

Teeny Rin:<font color="#FF0000">Dragonbard don't give a fuck.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">.....well! At least this will do wonders for our fame. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">'Wide Renown', here we come. :B

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">Surprisingly... it's not as large of a crowd as you'd expect.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh you teasing little-- xP

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">People seem more curious about you than the dragon you came in on.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Soo.. are we picking up another guest, or..?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt politely answers questions that people ask, making sure to be modest where appropriate.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">A guard even refers to Max by name. Well. That explains it. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks over to Thomas. &quot;Ah, yeah, I...guess.&quot;

Inumo:<font color="#666666">What map are you on?

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

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">Thalinde is being switched to.

Inumo:<font color="#666666">Ah.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I mean, though, really. I could get myself and him to Thalinde in a few -hours- ahead of you guys, and not burden Max with another passenger...&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">We're still on the Hills, we just moved. Zoom out.

TMG:<font color="#000000">We're going to Thalinde next.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But, no one seems to like that idea.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll be back.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just passing through this time, picking up someone. Though if someone could send a shipment of vegetables to the usual place in the hills, that would be very kind of you.&quot; :3 &quot;Here you are... this should cover it...&quot; Busines business in the background.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And Gnogglebolt skips through the crowd and into town.

Tathi:<font color="#0000FF">Tathi goes looking for a noble to blast-

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Ow! Ow! I was kidding!

* Thomas Lazarus lineman intercepts. =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Separated token from the group for quickchat...and anyway, he arrives at the local Palm station and goes inside.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">If the halfling paladin isn't immediately visible, he asks the secretary if he's about, or if he's on a mission.

GM:<font color="#000000">The secretary directs you to the halfling paladin you met before.

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

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt approaches and waves. &quot;Ho, Gilas Lightfingers! Remember me?&quot;

Gilas Lightfingers:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I believe I do! You're missing your tallfolk friend this time! Unless that's him?&quot; The halfling grins, gesturing toward Snarky.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;So, Sszeyl.&quot;

Gilas Lightfingers:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're the Mazian, Sparkgear, right?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Still planning to see the Commander about that meeting matter when we return to the city?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm? Oh! No no, this is just a pet. And yes, that's me!&quot;

Gilas Lightfingers:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, that's a relief! Though we've got people who could break such a curse if it came to it. There was one guy who got turned into a newt! What can I do for you?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt makes doubly-sure the sparker is secured in his vest so he doesn't go shocking the paladin who's help he needs. &quot; Snarky behave.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;After I make an inventory of what I need to replace in my house, yes.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus smirks. &quot;You sure sound confident the place has been ransacked.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#330000">&quot;Because there is no way a city full of adventurers woulld allow a Drow's house in the middle of nowhere be left alone.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;If not by adventurers, then possibly by the people I hired to expand the caves.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;Speaking of that, I need to set aside some gold and have it expanded again.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hah! That's magic for ya...and you could do much for me, or rather, for someone I know, if you're willing to hear a proposal for a little mission you could undertake, as a knight of the Palm.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Now, now. That's just pessimism.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are you engaged at present, or expected to be in the next few days?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;In any case, the commander requested you come along when I report back in with him upon our arrival.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;Would you mind coming with?&quot;

Gilas Lightfingers:<font color="#000000">&quot;Depends on what the mission is. What's the story?&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Hyu hef a lair here, Sszeyl?&quot;

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

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It may be a prudent time to announce your intentions. As long as we're there, and all.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well...&quot; Gnogglebolt makes a small gesture for the halfling to lean in closer as Gnogglebolt lowers his voice. &quot;I can't exactly tell you -all- the details right now, as some are not mine to give, but I can tell you the outline.&quot;

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

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Si. A cave-house. Loo-i-thil has one, too. Elf. Very loud.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I...know someone. Someone who used to be part of...let's say a group of very bad people. And I know a few other friends of this someone, likewise.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;It's very comfortable. |3 And it's limestone.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">&quot;I can find little fossils in the walls sometimes.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But this someone, he left the bad people a long time ago. He's a good man, a vessel of divine power, in fact. The problem is...he would normally be recognized as part of the bad people he used to be with. So, he's been living in disguise this whole time, to protect himself. If people knew who he used to be with, he could be mobbed.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">...ugh this sucks. fire alarm started going off at random. nothings smoking...checked around, stove/ovens off, nthing burning..try to take it off the wall and find out some moron painted it long ago and now it wont turn and open up to get at battery. it is now randomly turning on and off...off for now..but if it's an issue caused by low battery, all I can do is tear it off the wall because the paint bond is stronger than the screws holding it in the wall

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

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Sorry to hear that.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Hammer is the answer to all problems.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">apartment might take offense at me destroying their property

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;He and his friends are a close group who are trying to get more people to leave the bad group they used to be a part of...but it's hard for them, because they're so easily recognized. They...they just need some friends, powerful friends that they can trust to protect them. And to grant them sanctuary for their refugees.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Fuck them, they don't have to live with it.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">if it comes on enough I might just. but for now it's stopped

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'd...like you to meet this person, and see if you can help him and his folks out. He's in Thalinde.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Having the battery inacessible is also a health risk. :}

Meany:<font color="#330000">If you can't replace the battery, it might not go off in the case of a real fire.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Call the landowner.

RAM:<font color="#990000">They're required to fix that.

Gilas Lightfingers:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is all awfully vague to be going off on. Is there any way you can give a more detailed story to my commanding officer?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Scroodge McDuck: &quot;Och, no laddie. Thanks for te joke, tho.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uhh.&quot; Gnogglebolt looks back and forth. &quot;Let me think...trying to come up with what more I can say without giving away secrets that aren't mine...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What...specifically would you want me to elaborate on now?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">If they refuse, get a copy of your lease agreement and shove it in their face.

Gilas Lightfingers:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, for starters, who's the bad group and why're they so easily recognized?&quot; :.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can tell you the man himself is a channel for Pelor, if it helps.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">With a shotgun.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Attached to a lawyer.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">due to management changes I'm on month to month. lease expired back in dec and I'm really looking to move out.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">but Ill be telling em about it monday if they actually show up

Gilas Lightfingers:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is it a racial issue, or something more like a tattoo?&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Fine, grab the local building safety laws.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt winces. &quot;Eeeeugh....that's...kinda the biggest, most important secret that's not mine that I shouldn't give away...&quot;

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

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">The agreement should still be good, even if you're paying month to month.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suppose I can say that much.&quot;

Gilas Lightfingers:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're definitely gonna have to tell the story to my CO, then. Getting involved in race poilitics is always tricky business, and I'm only a Knight of the Fifth.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Snarky burns the word &quot;DROW&quot; into the ground with electricity.

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">That part just means that you're -required- to pay them and live there for the duration. If you're still living there and paying even after the period has expired, you still have an agreement.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm just...trying to be careful.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've inadvertainly given away other's secrets before.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's always ended in disaster or near-disaster.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Learn from your mistakes.

GM:<font color="#000000">Does anyone have any noms while we wrap this up? :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Before you find someone -not- disinclined to de-spine you.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas remains hanging out with Max for the interim. {:3

Meany:<font color="#330000">Tom for &quot;Phone calls while drunk.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Thomas for Dragon-Pervert.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Gnogglebolt for BIZNESS

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;I wonder if everything is going okay..&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">The dragon seems to be surrounded now by merchants. :B

Meany:<font color="#330000">Ed for spy spy twang.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Noms from me: TMG:<font color="#000000">Shankfang/Thomas for Home&amp;Future Talk Sszeyl for New Painting Thomas for So Um Dragons Can Bone Plants Huh?

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

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Yes, some of the copper'll do nicely.&quot; :3

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">second for drunk phone calls

TMG:<font color="#000000">Shankfang/Thomas for Home&amp;Future Talk Sszeyl for New Painting Thomas for So Um Dragons Can Bone Plants Huh?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But, okay, uh...I suppose we can go talk to your commander...please understand I can't say much more to him than I have to you, though.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Better watch out. I can send you to Hell now. *_*

Meany:<font color="#330000">Let's see.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Max: &quot;Go play with a cloud, Terri. Grown-ups are talking.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">*driving trucktrain* WE'RE GOIN' TA HE--*brick'd*

Gilas Lightfingers:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll go flag him down. ''Sir Varten! Got a potential mission here that could use your say-so, sir!''&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">Aelian for OH MY GOD I'M SO DEAD.

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">Gamal for Impossibly delicious food. /tropes

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt blinks as he sees the 'commander' approaching. &quot;Oh! Hello again....Locke Varten, was it?&quot;

RAM:<font color="#990000">Sszeyl: &quot;Damn adventurers, get off my property!&quot;

Locke Varten:<font color="#000000">The Pelorite knight you'd talked to before approaches. &quot;Hello -- I'm sorry, you look familiar, but I can't quite place a name.&quot;

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">Swallowtail: &quot;Sszeyl, why u no eat?&quot; D: Worry worry fret fret.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gnogglebolt Sparkgear, of Mazio.&quot;

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">No noms for fishback?

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

Locke Varten:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sparkgear, I remember now. You played twenty-questions in the yard with me while I was walking Sirelin.&quot; :3 &quot;What can we do for you?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, yeah, eh-heh, that was me.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And it's not what you can do for me...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt goes through and recites almost exactly what he explained to Gilias, adding on the end that yes, it's a race thing. And stressing that he can't give away secrets that aren't his, bit Gilias will know everything once he meets.

Locke Varten:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. We are sworn to protect the downtrodden. However, granting sanctuary may be beyond our power... It wouldn't hurt to go speak with this fellow. Though, I would prefer it if I were the one to go instead of Sir Gilas. How are you getting to Thalinde? Boat? Horses?&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">(gawddammit, DM! ) Gnogglebolt looks left and right, and leans in and whispers &quot;Dragon.&quot;

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

Gilas Lightfingers:<font color="#000000">O.O

Meany:<font color="#330000">YOU OWE ME ONE CARBON ATOM, RAM.

Locke Varten:<font color="#000000">O.O

RAM:<font color="#990000">NEVER!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's, uh, it's a logn sory, and he doesn't actually have anything to do with it!&quot; Gnogglebolt quickly waves his hand.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*long story

Gilas Lightfingers:<font color="#000000">&quot;Awesome!&quot; 8D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just, um. A friend. Helping out not just me, but my entire company, actually.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who, uh, also don't have anything to do with this.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're just travelling together.&quot;

Gilas Lightfingers:<font color="#000000">&quot;How did you manage that?! A dragon flight -- now I want to go just to fly on dragonback.&quot; :D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Speaking of which, I'll cover all costs for the return trip, as the rest of us will be continuing onward past Thalinde.&quot;

Locke Varten:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sir Gilas...&quot; The knight chuckles a little. &quot;... Still. Even if you are friends of the Gilforen dragon, it's a bit of a shady, risky-sounding situation to send a Knight of the Fifth into with that little to go on.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;What if we offered him a Faustian Deal?&quot; =3=

Meany:<font color="#330000">&quot;OH GOD THE HOLY WATER AIIEEEE&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, it'll stop being shady once one of you, any of you actually is able to meet the person..I just can't say ahead of time the exact details. It shouldn't be such a big problem though.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's just that it's never ended well when I let my mouth flap loose...&quot;

Meany:<font color="#330000">You ask that.

Meany:<font color="#330000">In a universe where a reasonably powerful wizard can rewrite your memories.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Where a monster can pass as you perfectly.

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">And where dragons can do both.

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Doppleganger: I take reference to that. :|

* Dr. Hatari for some reason suddenly pictures a random Doppleganger encounter where they're clone-morphed into annoying celebrities.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Betty White is sick of your shit.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;You encounter Jack Black and Adam Sandler. They're both brandishing tridents. Roll for initiative.&quot;

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">Paula Deen riding a worg.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Charlie Sheen/

Meany:<font color="#330000">Mrs. Doubtfire and Mary Poppins.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">&quot;Sean Connery turns the corner, and starts casting a spell&quot; What the goddamn fuck-

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And in case it wasn't obvious by now, yeah, when I was hear last time, I was basically auditioning to try and find someone who would click best, someone who's own situation was a close enough match that they'd easily connect...two ideal representatives of two groups, to perhaps open up an alliance of sorts.&quot;

Locke Varten:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is your dragon friend willing to accept two passengers?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm just a broker here, honestly.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oogh.&quot; Gnogglebolt rubs his forehead. &quot;I...suppose I can ask. Although I feel bad enough having him bring on one extra passenger already... I was just going to build a Tinker's Teleporter right here to get us there on our own, but the rest of the people I'm with won't hear of it.&quot;

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">The dust clears.

Meany:<font color="#330000">And you are facing down Clint Eastwood, Chuck Norris, Teddy Roosevelt, Bruce Li, and the Deus Equis guy.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Why aren't you running yet?

Locke Varten:<font color="#000000">&quot;Could you, please? If he says yes, then Gilas, you'll get your dragonriding chance. But it'd be preferable to have a more experienced knight present at such a meeting, if racial politics are getting involved.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And yes, to clarify, this meeting won';t actually include anyone else I'm travelling with. It might not even include me.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm just setting this up and letting the relevant parties work it out.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, I'll ask. Meet me at the west gate?&quot;

Locke Varten:<font color="#000000">&quot;Certainly.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">A chill just ran up my spine.

Meany:<font color="#330000">You called?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Tomi destroyed something in Yoriver.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Eventually, Gnoggleblt comes running back to the party...though he's alone.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, Max? Uh, Max?'

Teeny Rin:<font color="#330000">AND THE THING SHE DESTROYED WAS YORIVER ITSELF.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He goes up to the dragon.

* Thomas Lazarus looks over. &quot;...?&quot;

Teeny Rin:<font color="#330000">Seriously, she picked up the whole god damned town, turned it upside down, and slammed it repeatedly into the ground.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">The crowd of merchants around the dragon is thinning now. &quot;-- Ah, Gnogglebolt! How did it go?&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm really-really-really-really-really-really sorry, but...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus folds arms. &gt;|3

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, I really must insist, they're lovely apples, but only two bushels, and that's all.&quot; Back to Gnogglebolt. &quot;But?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can't believe I'm rude enough to ask this, but...could you...maybe...take two extra passengers? If not, that...well...it'll still work, but...they wanted me to ask.&quot;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Are they both human-sized and in plate armor?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...One is. The other's my size.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Hey, Tathi.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;It's still amazing to me how friendly folks around here are with you, in your full grandeur and all.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Can you cast Freedom of Movement yet? :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;.. Then again, I guess I've gotten pretty comfortable with it, too.&quot; :.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I can cast it. :.

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

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've been working to set up trade agreements between Gilforen and Reed. Keeps the dogs fed while I'm away, and the complex warm.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I've been able to cast it for like, weeks. :B

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

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hence the merchant tide.&quot; :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Do you realize how more efficient our Get-you-to-the-front-Lines would be with that spell? =3=

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, very well, I'll take some of the pumpkin, too.&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shuffles and waits for Max's reply.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Not at all? =3=;

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;... It may get a little heavy... but I should be able to manage it.&quot;

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">unless theres entangle/tentacle fu going on..not at all

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay...and I'm really sorry again, I know it's terriply imposing...&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Besides. I still have 40ft combat movement. And I can short range teleport now. I'm not spendin' a 4th level spell on being carried around. &gt;|I

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt runs back to the gate.

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll say you'll owe me a favor.&quot; |3

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

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I could spend a 4th level spell to turn into a freakin' winged angel and fly myself around.

* Maxissoren chuckles.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt rushes back to the gate, presumably Gilas and Locke are already waiting.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">Of course you know.

Sszeyl:<font color="#330000">That your mother is going to want to see that.

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

Maxissoren:<font color="#000000">&quot;Should I tell him the favor has to do with improving this harness, or let him sweat a little... hmhm.&quot; |3

Lumisteria:<font color="#000000">&quot;Evil Max. Evil.&quot;

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">&quot;Let him sveat.&quot; &gt;:3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">&quot;He seemed unduely distracted to me. What's he so worried about?&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt arrives slightly out-of-breath.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, you both can come. It'll be tight, but it'll work.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Let's play out the journey to Thalinde next session, hm? :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, and I should warn you.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Any additional noms?

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Nope. Trailing smoke as is. ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The company I travel with is...quite exccentric. As, well, I suppose many adventuring parties go.&quot;

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

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

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">You wanna psych out the paladins?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don'tmakeeyecontactorthey'llstealyoursooooul.&quot; Gnogglebolt makes wiggly-fingers

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">Hmm...I've got nothing.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">All of us, matching dresses. I've got Fabricate ready.

GM:<font color="#000000">Swallowtail - 200 XP - Y u no eat -- fishback. o.o Sszeyl - 200 XP - Paintings galore! Thomas - 300 XP - So... dragonplants. 200 XP - Talk of the future. Shankfang - 200 XP - Talk of the future. Gnogglebolt - 200 XP - Business Gnome.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;39100+200 = 39100 + 200 = 39300&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Talk of the future? :.

Shankfang the Deffrider:<font color="#990000">5950 for next level~

TMG:<font color="#000000">Your chat with Shankfang

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">43115xp.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Home&amp;Future

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas is actually not all that far off from level 10 already. o.o;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">HEAR THAT COLD WAR?! &gt;:O

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

* Shankfang the Deffrider is jealous~

Meany:<font color="#330000">&gt;:3

* Dr. Hatari checks what happens in the next demonhunter level.

Meany:<font color="#330000">Only six thousand exp away from next level.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Annnnnnd campaign file saved. :3

Meany:<font color="#330000">At this rate of 800exp from noms alone, I should be there in no time with combat.l

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

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

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

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Chosen Foe +1.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">I get favored enemy: demons. Except for the damage part. =w=;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Ohhhh boy. Better sense motive checks versus the multiverse's best liars. =w=;;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Is that demons and devils, or just demons?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Evil outsiders, technically.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ah, 'kay. :3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">So yugoloth daemons, too.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ah, so demons, daemons, and devils.

TMG:<font color="#000000">And Rakshasa.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Yes, there is a third type of common fiend.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The NE ones, yes?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Thomas reads his books.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Indeedy. They don't get much screentime though.

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">Rakshasa aren't fiends in this universe. &gt;:O

RAM:<font color="#990000">Oooh, Special Gun (+1)

TMG:<font color="#000000">Demon- CE. Daemon - NE. Devil - LE

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#FF0000">They're just evil kitties. *brick*

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

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">I'm gonna have to think of a name~

Meany:<font color="#330000">They are evil outsiders.

Meany:<font color="#330000">They just have the native outsider subtype. :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I think we're ready to shut down. Unless anyone has last words for the server? :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">I'm good, methinks.

RAM:<font color="#990000">I'm thinking Rose.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">We'll meet the paladins and get to Thalinde next sesson.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Dunno why, but it strikes me as a Rose.

Gamal-Junayd:<font color="#000000">after thalinde is seeds and then castleton?

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

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">Scorpion Revolver? :V

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

RAM:<font color="#990000">It's not a revolver.

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

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">I've been wondering something.

Meany:<font color="#330000">IT SHOULD BE A DAMN REVOLVER.

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">How can you say it's a gun when it fires HE shells with a 15ft explosive radius? &gt;.&gt;

RAM:<font color="#990000">There are no revolvers in Akellon.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Saving campaign file.

* TMG is still wondering why -no one- asked once what a &quot;Tinker's Teleporter&quot; is?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hatari; oh, he dropped that

TMG:<font color="#000000">And that's what -I- kept telling him.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It's self-explanatory, that's why. :P

RAM:<font color="#990000">Because, it is a gun.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Just woulda fired HE rounds, is all.

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

Meany:<font color="#330000">It's a stargate.

RAM:<font color="#990000">There -are- guns that fire HE rounds.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">So this HE round.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">It has bullet diameter.

Ghostwish:<font color="#0000FF">Ready for shutdown, liasilly? ^^

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">And it also has a 15ft explosive radius?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">With bullet diameter?

TMG:<font color="#000000">actually, no.

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Because that's retarded if so. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">It would have been very wide.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Like, mortar-shell wide.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I think so, lest guntalk take over the chat. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">Exactly. Which means it is no longer a &quot;gun&quot;.

RAM:<font color="#990000">Still a gun.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Back to Liatalk, please, gentlemen. :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">But noo, Ram don't listen...

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">No, you're being obstinate, that is blatantly not a gun. :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#FF0000">That's a cannon. Atleast.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Back to Liatalk!

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

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