Session 44

Meany has connected.

TMG has connected.

Ghostwish has connected.

Meany:Yo. :D

Liatai:Yo! :D

TMG:so, 20 minutes, if ze hatari awakens?

Liatai:We need the fae. :o

TMG:ohyes! Alex too.

Liatai:And Hatari's said he may be slightly late on account of a case of cookie-rush-order exhaustion.

TMG:ohdear. o.o

You whisper to TMG: In the meantime, want to hop over to the Talespinner and arrange/adjust Calrach however you want to? :3

TMG whispers: oh, sure!

You whisper to TMG: Any NPCs aside from Darroth, Damien, and Haron can be moved, so don't feel like you're confined to just the open seats. x3

TMG whispers: hmm...everything looks fine where it is, actually. ^^

TMG whispers: oh, putting in his leftover gold, actually.

TMG whispers: and when you can, get back to me on the 'extra-strength elixer of love', so I can deduct it. :U

You whisper to TMG: Price 350 GP. :3

TMG whispers: hokay, deducting now

TMG:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;806-350 = 806 - 350 = 456&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

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

</i>Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Hmm?

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">YoTezkat.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's a Tezkat! :o

* Tezkat visits randomly.

* Tezkat rawrs.

* Meany gives cookies to the audienceJaguar.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">One moment, I'll get you an -- oh, there's already a teeny Rin on this map. x3

TMG whispers: oh, and you know, though Calrach does't have any actual skill with him, I think I'm going to give him an ordinary banjo, ocarina, and maybe even a little drum. Not for serious playing, he just strums them when he feels like it

You whisper to TMG: ... Now I'm picturing Calrach as Link from Majora's Mask. :B Add a flute or a trumpet and it's pretty close to Link's array of instruments in that game!

TMG whispers: Hmmmm~ &gt;:3

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

</i>Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">YoFae. :V

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Is a Fae! :O

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Yu :U

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Yo

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Fff, I can't even type 2 letters right.

* Liatai pats. ^^;

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Well.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">If it's any consolation.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Yu is chinese.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">It means jade. =3=

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Sorry, I figured to myself &quot;Oh, well, game isn't until 2PM, time to do things in EVE for a bit.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

TMG whispers: Done. Ocarnia, banjo, trumpetpipes, and mini-bongos. :&gt;

You whisper to TMG: XD

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

</i>Liatai:<font color="#000000">:o

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's a Hatari! :D

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">YoDoktor.

* Meany offers a mace to beat Ghostwish with. =3=

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Shall we call for rolls? :o

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&#171; &#160;1d8 = 8&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187;

GM:<font color="#000000">ROOOOOOOOLL CAAAAAAALL!

* Faerie rolls :U

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOW

GM:<font color="#000000">... Faerie rolls well. :B

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

Faerie:<font color="#006666">They see me rollin'

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Yoyoyoyo.

GM:<font color="#000000">We'll give Hatari a little time to wake up. =3= In the meantime.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">It is now 2:00 PM.

* Dr. Hatari is activated. =3=

GM:<font color="#000000">Last time on Akellon...

GM:<font color="#000000">POP QUIZ!

Faerie:<font color="#006666">D: Faerie:<font color="#006666">There are four lights! D: TMG:<font color="#000000">Pffft. x3

GM:<font color="#000000">You tell me, so I know how much to recap. =3=

GM:<font color="#000000">What do you remember of last session?

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">I GUNNA DISPEL JOO. :O

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Evil harpy is here. We go there, kill her, and take her castle for our own.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Then we go visit the dragon lady to compare lairs. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">Terri arrived in the morning, we went asking around about the alchemist's fire heist, then we went to the Toris shop, Tathi going crazy on poor Papa, talking with max and Tharky about visiting Salishea?

GM:<font color="#000000">Isn't Coralline the evil harpy? =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ohyes, and the stating of a possible location for Pamela to have retreated to, and the plan to go after it

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Oh yah, make me to be the villian. Dwarf murderer!

Tokens dropped onto map 'Pearldust Pawn Shop'Dorf Aias:<font color="#6600CC">WHO'S MURDERING DWARVES!?

* Dr. Hatari loads everything.

* Dr. Hatari explodes. Darn UAC ammo. &gt;:O

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Sounds about right to me.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">UAC ammo?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">IRC ref. :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Well, a very nice, succint recap, all told. :3 The one thing that was missed from the conversation at the Pearldust was a reference to a potential new ally, a halfling named Calrach, and advice to visit the Sign of the White Rose to find someone who knows where he might be.

TMG:<font color="#000000">As an aisde; I know I've mentioned it before, but I have to say again, I love how you use all the adorable minkfaces for tone and inflection in your GMtoken. It's just one of those little things that enhances the game. ^^

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi seems to be keenly eyeing that snaggletooth game. What is it with this crazy maiden and games of chance?

* Dr. Hatari slithers off to put shrimp in oven. Mmm. Weird breakfast. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">I love shrimp. :O

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Shriiiimp :O

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">PUT ON ON DAH BARBIE! *jarates*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">So, we taking it away?

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Any other questions for us?&quot; Max looks over at Sszeyl briefly with a hint of concern before looking back at the rest of the party.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi nudges Aelian slightly. &quot;Remind me to chat with that bard-friend of yours.&quot; She says to him.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm...plan to investigate this Castle Osyluth set out...plan to visit this Salishea...checking out this 'Calrach'...&quot;

* Aelian nods.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And our own plan to continue that investigation we were working on earlier this morning.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's everything I can think of!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus raises his brows. &quot;I must not have been there; I'm not sure what investigation you're talking about, friend.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;..It is, perhaps, as well. I believe I'm duty-bound to visit the mace first, anyway.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;High explosives robbery.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see..!&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'd send you off with some tea for the road, Sszeyl, but it technically belongs to my brother. So I'd rather not give away his tea without asking him first.&quot; ^^;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi smirks. &quot;Did anyone say explosives?&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;High explosives robbery?&quot; Ping!

TMG:<font color="#000000">It's not an explosive. xD

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;It's okay. =3=&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I know someone who can connect me to a merchant.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Sip. &quot;A few barrels of alchemist's fire was stolen earlier.'

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Tathi pings: Immolate, aslpode, fry, mayhem, etc.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;The entire city is on fire watch. =3=&quot;

* Tharky 's eyes widen. &quot;Understandably so! Any idea who the culprit was?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're pretty sure it's the same people who are after us.&quot;

* Tharky takes out his old, beaten notebook and scribbles down a few notes.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're trying to use the link from this robbery to find out where they're hiding.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm.. I'll make sure to keep more than one water genesis spell ready.&quot; o.o

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who's after you? More of those necromancers?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi sighs softly. &quot;An entire barrel of alchemist's fire.. That's enough to put an entire city block on fire.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Actually, drow assasins.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Drow assassins. =3=&quot;

* Tharky whistles. o.o

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Apparenly, they don't like Sszeyl. And they don't like us for being with Sszeyl.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Curiouser and curiouser. Going after one of their own -- well, from what I know of drow, it happens all the time, but you seem like a decent enough sort, Sszeyl. What did you do to earn their wrath?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As far as we can tell, 'being decent'.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I defied the second in command of my nation, and wasn't put to death as per our laws for it.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;....Oh.&quot; Gnogglebolt looks to the side.

* Thomas Lazarus looks contemplative for a moment after the mention of keeping spells prepared. He speaks aside to Max in a quieter tone, &quot;That reminds me of a spell component I should get. Might you have a platinum ring here? Just about any should do.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">Scratch scratch scratch in the notebook. :9

* Sszeyl looks at Gnogglebolt.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;A platinum ring? I'm sure we have one somewhere. Have you asked Brian?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;You don't remember that first lengthy chat we had?&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Grandfather has a few, I know, too.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I told you that there is no dissent allowed in my order.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah. I will on the way out, thank you.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Oven, etc

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's starting to leak out my brain, I'll admit. But refresh me later.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">Later? &gt;: Max:<font color="#000000">You're incorrigible. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Tharky, may I see your pencil and paper, please?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt stands up. &quot;Well! If there's nothing else, I think I'll go meander downstairs for a little bit before we all head out.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Also, Terri should have a gift for you from me. =3= &quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Huh? Sure, one moment, I know I've got a blank sheet around here somewhere...&quot; After a bit of searching, a blank piece of parchment and a pencil are procured. Well, mostly blank. There's a small pen mark on the corner where a writing utensil was tested for ink.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+9+mod = 19 + 9 + 0 = 28&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

TMG:<font color="#000000">...near-epicsketch. o.o

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">A few notes and illustrations of the inner-workings of Orgolloyss.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;And...there. :3&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">aw, fug.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Sorry, I futzed up the fog.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's okay. ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hello again, miss Terri.&quot; Gnogglebolt says, smiling to her as he passes.

Terri:<font color="#000000">You see a small eavesdropper trying to peek up the stairs. o.o

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi glances at the work, and quirks an eyebrow. &quot;Sszeyl, have you ever considered a career as a painter?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">OM NOM SHRIMP :O OW ITS HOT AND ITS DELICIOUS OM OW NOM :O

* Terri jumps! &quot;-- Oh, hi!&quot; ^^;

* Faerie snrk

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I have a few paintings on sale at Ebonwood. =3=&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmmhmmhmm. Trying to find out what the grownups are up to? Well, somewhat-grownups?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus stands.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank you, both, for your help.&quot; He bows curtly

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... don't tell Bri?&quot; &gt;.&gt;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">And now with the phone &gt;:O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt laughs. He'd ruffle her hair, but...he's the same size she is. -3- &quot;Wouldn't dream of it, miss Terri.&quot; he says with a wink.

* Tharky waves it off. &quot;Not a problem. Austrat karif.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Yes, thank you. :o&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">The parchment is handed back to Tharky. =3=

* Swallowtail looks up as Gnogglebolt enters, having been talking in a constant stream of Amayan with Nathaniel.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt moves back into the main room, going to go talk to 'papa' who--he sees isin his human form. He was also going to ask about--oh! Well! There's 'Mama'!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt nods to Swallowtail as he passes, letting her continue to talk to Nathaniel.

* Tharky takes it and looks it over eagerly, before folding it carefully and tucking it into a pocket on the inside of the notebook's cover. &quot;Thank you.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;No thanks necessary. =3=&quot;

Tokens dropped onto map 'Pearldust Pawn Shop'Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hello again...Matthew.&quot; Gnogglebolt says, as he approaches. &quot;Oho, and you must be 'Mama', correct? Gnogglebolt Sparkgear.&quot; He bows. &quot;And your proper name is...?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I've bene told...that perhaps spreading this info can help avert my species' extinction.&quot;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Ah! Gnogglebolt!&quot; :D

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Which reminds me...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Just a second.&quot;

* Lauren Toris looks down at Gnogglebolt... now you know where Brian's serious demeanor comes from. &quot;Lauren. Lauren Toris.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Aha, Terri. :3&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi smirks broadly. &quot;So, who's up for a game of Snaggletooth?&quot;

* Matthew Toris puts an arm around his wife's shoulder and squeezes fondly. &quot;My darling wife.&quot; :3

* Lauren Toris snorts and pokes Matthew's shoulder. &quot;You're incorrigible.&quot;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;I know.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Pleasure to properly meet you, miss Lauren Toris.&quot; Gnogglebolt says with another smile. He turns back to Matthew. &quot;By the way, I am so sorry for Tathi' behavior earlier. Had I known she'd act that way, I wouldn't have said anything even though terri said it was okay.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus unerringly wanders over and located Brian, to pull Liatai's attention in a fourth direction. |D

Brian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your armor's not quite ready yet.&quot;

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Leaning over the railing slightly to speak to Terri, &quot;Do you still have that present for Tharky? :o&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's quite alright. Brian mentioned I might be able to purchase a platinum band from you?&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, you know how to play?&quot; :D

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Of course!&quot; She's played it before, but the player forgot. hurr-duuur. XD

* Terri scrunches up her face for a moment and thinks. &quot;-- Ohhhh! The pictures!&quot; :O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I want to make sure our front-line faces for this upcoming expedition are more than one arm's length away from old Death.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Yes. :3&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think he has been rather impatiently following us about.&quot;

Brian:<font color="#000000">&quot;... who mentioned?&quot; The man arches an eyebrow. You're an odd one, templar.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Wasn't it just rolling a d20? :&gt;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/9104/1276162493039.jpg

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Oh dear. I mixed up Max and Brian. xD

TMG:<font color="#000000">hatari, Thomas just said Brian mentioned it to himself. x3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Heh. x3

Brian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Check the shelves in the shop room. Talk to Grandfather.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I mean! Ah! Your brother!&quot; D|

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;(Crap. :x)&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">&quot;I mean, your both brothers, so similar...almost like twins...&quot; Max: &quot; :D &quot; Brian: &quot; :| &quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">*you're

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">x3

* Thomas Lazarus just excuses himself to shop. D|

* Brian just slowly shakes his head and returns to his work. Blue, orange, white, and gold light is playing over the man's hands and Thomas' armor.

* Dr. Hatari adds another 50gp platinum ring to inventory~

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's perfectly fine, Gnogglebolt. I think we've sorted it out now.&quot; :3 &quot;As long as she doesn't bother the children about it again, it's fine.&quot;

* Max shuffles the cards. &quot;Do you know how to play, too, Elros? Want to be dealt in?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, I got 'em, somewhere in the front room -- I'll go get 'em!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Thanks. :D&quot;

* Terri returns and holds the pictures up to within Sszeyl's reach. :D

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I like how Thomas' streak of looking like a total douche in front of Brian hasn't broken since the Drowparty. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I just hjope she's dropper her harebrained scheme to start blasting you with spells in an attempt to 'cure' you.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*dropped

* Sszeyl picks up the whole of Terri with them. =3=

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Big evil vanquishing plans are done.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;You can come up now.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">:D!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Le transit!

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wow! You're strong!&quot; :O

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Strongest drow of my age group for fifteen years consecutively. =3=&quot;

* Matthew Toris laughs! &quot;I'll have to tell her not to waste her time.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Out of the corner of his eye, Gnogglebolt notices that Sszeyl has picked up little Terri, and feels a fleeting pang of jealousy. ''Damn tall-legs. That's so adorable.''

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;I guess he doesn't want to play.&quot; Tathi says with a shrug.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Hello again. :3&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Max, Max, Max, Tharky, Tharky, Tharky!! Pictures!!&quot; :D

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;A bit too strong for your own good sometimes.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Well, there's our sneaky little eavesdropper.&quot; Tathi says with a smile.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Uh --&quot; &gt;.&gt;

Amadre:<font color="#6600CC">The big 'puppy' follows Terri, tail wagging. Hi! ^_^

Max:<font color="#000000">The bards both laugh. &quot;Taking a page out of Vira's book, are we, Teria?&quot; x3

Ezer:<font color="#006666">Yes. Good. Stay there. On the other side of the table. &gt;.&gt;;;

* Terri holds out a hand for the doggy to sniff. :D

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Want to be dealt in, Sszeyl? We're just about to start a game of Snaggletooth.&quot; :3

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

Amadre:<font color="#6600CC">SniffsniffsnuffsnuffSNEEZE! Lick. ^_^

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Snaggletooth!!&quot; :D &quot;I wanna play, can I play, can I?&quot; :D :D

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;A game of what?

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;It's a card game. A game of luck, really.&quot;

* Tharky ruffles Terri's hair. &quot;I don't know, have you been good and been helping around the shop?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Dogsneezes are so cute. Love it when Monster does it. &quot;sssssSSSHEW!&quot; *headshake*

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros thinks maybe he'll wander downstairs. Never was one much for cardgames.

* Thomas Lazarus muses over a shelf of odds and ends on sale idly, even after picking out a suitable ring for his spell focus.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Indeed. x3

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-hmm! Just this mornin' we cleaned to fox standards!&quot; :D

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fox standards, hmm?&quot; :3

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">my last dog would always sneeze like a cannon. And he'd do this weird corkscrew shake of his head while he did it. snnnBLURF!! Weirdest sneeze ever. XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">What. xD

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">He was a pit/boxer mix, the giant doofus. XD

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-hmm! Mr. Tom said that there was a fox faerie that went around in the places of the world where people don't walk, and he sometimes comes around and helps clean up, or he does somethin' and messes a place all up with bits of bone an' dust an' stuff! An' if you're good, he helps clean, but if you're bad...&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi giggles. &quot;What an interesting story.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;..Say, Gnogglebolt. I'm wondering now; how soon could we leave for the north? I understand we still have errands, of course. I was just considering what supplies we would need, compared to what we have.&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;A whole barrel of holy water might not be a bad idea, considering.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wellllll. A fox fey's standards are high enough for me. Pull up a chair.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, well...not entirely sure. I guess it depends on wheather or not we want to try and take care of the assasins here first. I don't think anyone does, though.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yaaaaaay!&quot; :D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As far as supplies go, well, once everyone's done enjoying themselves, we can put our heads together and think on anything we might want to bring with us. Any supplies we need we could get tonight.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Did Terri hand off the slides? :o ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;True. If they're any good, we'll never find them. I've lived here for years and still haven't seen the half of it.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">As a refresher, the actual rules for Snaggletooth are on the wiki, but as we play it in-game, just roll 1d20, and whoever gets highest wins. x3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If we tried for it, we could leave tomorrow morning if we wanted to.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh! Pictures pictures pictures. :O&quot;

* Terri hands off the pictures.

* Thomas Lazarus nods at that.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 9&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; snaggletooth!

Aelian:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 16&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; snaggletooth!

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Max:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 16&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Well I&quot;m off to a wonderful start.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;You've been practicin', Tharky!&quot; :o

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your brother's a very good teacher.&quot; ^^

* Lauren Toris looks over at the approaching Elros. &quot;And who might you be?&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Do you think that the assasins would attempt to target us whilst we are out of the city?&quot;

Brian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mr. Lazarus. The enchantment's complete.&quot;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Assassins?&quot; o.o

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ahh. Thank you very much.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">...is elros asking Gnogglebolt?

* Brian hands over the armor; a small orange gem, warm to the touch, has been added to the back of the gorget of the armor, and it feels like some extra padding has been placed on the inside. It's quite comfortable now.

Brian:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Now remember.&quot; Brian closes his eyes and goes lecture-tone.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">|D !

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Elros, not in polite company.&quot; Gnogglebolt frowns. &quot;Though I really have no idea. Ask Sszeyl. But later, now, introduce yourself!&quot;

Brian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just because the armor's enchanted for sleeping in doesn't mean you should do it all the time. It's enchanted to be able to wear while sleeping, not to clean itself. Make sure to air it out every now and then, and clean it regularly. Otherwise, you're a healer. I'm certain I don't need to tell you about ringworm and athlete's foot and all other sorts of vile contagions that can grow in improperly-cleaned armor.&quot; &gt;|

* Thomas Lazarus tries on a vambrace and gauntlet immediately, flexing the digits. He's clearly pleased and not paying very much attention. &quot;Wow, it's even nicer than before.&quot;

Brian:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Have you heard a word I've said?&quot; -.-

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">IM GUNNA SLEEP IN IT RIGHT NOW

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">SNOOOOOOOOOOOOORE

* Sszeyl watches the game while sipping tea.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thanks so much!&quot; |D

Brian:<font color="#000000">&quot;... you really haven't... fine, not my problem.&quot; -.- &quot;You're... you're welcome.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Ahahaha. Brian is fun.

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;My apologies. It seemed that might affect our strategy. But, some other time.&quot; He clears his throat. &quot;Elros Saelian, incidentally. To whom do I owe the pleasure?&quot;

Lauren Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lauren Toris. I've seen that you already know my children. A pleasure.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Well come on then, let's see who does better in the next round!&quot; Tathi says. &#171; &#160;1d20 = 5&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; snaggletooth!

Aelian:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 10&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Max:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Remind me to never play strip snaggletooth.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Strip snaggletooth?&quot; :.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;When you're older.&quot; ^^;;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Much older.&quot; ^^;;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi quirks an eyebrow at Max and Tharky. &quot;Wait, are you saying you'd let her play that? Ever?&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Likewise, madame.&quot;

* Max turns red and flails. &quot;-- N-no! I meant we'd tell her when she's older!&quot; D: Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm older than I was a year ago!&quot; :\

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi smirks. &quot;I'll have to keep an eye on you.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ohgawd, now her child curiosity isn't going to cease until she finds out. xD

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Amusing. |3&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Sip.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">...

Faerie:<font color="#006666">snrk

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Right then! Next hand!&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20 = 8&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Aelian:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 8&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Are you mocking me, Aelian?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">xD

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Arississtyth Ioth, there are things in this world you never want to picture...&quot; D: &#171; &#160;1d20 = 5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">What did he say&gt;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">*?

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;She might go through that phase, you know.&quot; |3 &#171; &#160;1d20 = 1&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Does Tathi speak Draconic?

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Ah ha! And the winner's luck has left you!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Spasm.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't you start, too!&quot; D: Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Ow. o-e&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">No, drat.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Your hand, Terri?&quot;

You whisper to Meany: Old Red would recognize it as just an oath, &quot;Our Holy Lord.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Sszeyl whispers: Cool. :3

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Oh I see. We won't tell you the strip version of the game, so you get revenge by flattening us? I see how it is.&quot; She says with a mock huff.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Brb. Sacred canine duty. &gt;:o ))

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Will you tell me now that I've won?&quot; :D

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Kor steals Tharky's winning cards.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;NO D:&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi giggles, and draws her next hand. &#171; &#160;1d20 = 4&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

* Tharky facepalm-laughs.

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 4&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Aelian:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 13&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Max:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Kor:<font color="#6600CC">Munch-munch-munch, mmmm, cards.

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh-ho! A challenger appears!&quot; :D

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Kor! Stop that! Those are min- you know what, you can have them.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 18&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Oh, so, we might have a Lisky coming to at least spectate in ~half an hour.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Finally!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 17&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Max:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">A Lisky? What's that? :o

Faerie:<font color="#006666">A Slut Puppy. :o

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Basilisk, a forumgoer. He hangs out largely in #BasChat.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Oh, I think I've heard of that. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">He's this weird dude who lives in the sewers and eats fungi and stuff. Don't make eye contact.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;And so the tables have turned! Let's see if I can't keep this up.&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20 = 3&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi looks crestfallen. &quot;Why do these cards mock me so?&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 17&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now what's this about assassins?&quot; o.o &quot;Is there anything we can do to help?&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">He just called me on my phone, you see.

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 4&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">She glowers at Aelian. &quot;You'd really be enjoying this if we were playing strip, wouldn't you?&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Ohhhhh, so THAT'S your boyfriend. :P

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Stop referring to --&quot; D: Faerie:<font color="#006666">Pft

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah! Stop referring to it unless you're gonna tell me what it is!&quot; &gt;:|

Faerie:<font color="#006666">And if he was, why would I complain about him being across an ocean? :P

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi quirks an eyebrow at Terri. &quot;Tell you what, win three times in a row and I'll make Max tell you.&quot; She says, and then grins at Max.

* Max facepalms, bright red. ^^;;;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">stir the fire? I pour gasoline in that sucker! &gt;:)

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's play let's play!&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Max:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 16&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm? Oh, yes, um, that..&quot; Gnogglebolt shuffles, looking up to Matthew.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi chuckles at Max. &#171; &#160;1d20 = 8&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Aelian:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 8&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Mocking me again, I see!&quot;

* Max looks over at Tharky with a look that clearly says &quot;thank you, I'm saved&quot; ^^;;;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">x3

Max:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 7&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi just smirks at Max. &quot;That's okay, we could play alllll night. Elves don't sleep, you know.&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20 = 2&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, it seems Sszeyl has some people back home who really, really don't like him, and sent a gang of assasins after him, and they're after us too since we're associated with him.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 2&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi reaches over and playfully whaps Aelian. &quot;Quiddit!!!&quot;

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Elves may not, but little sisters do.&quot; ^^;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;...&quot; &gt;:3

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;How about it, Terri? Going to sleep before you know the secret?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But don't worry, we're trying to manage the situation and stay one step ahead.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&quot;Akellon: After Dark&quot; :U

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Will you tell Tharky if he wins three times?&quot; &gt;:3

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tharky already knows, nice try.&quot; ^^;;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;I think he already knows. He probably plays it all the time.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">lolbards

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, it loses its meaning when you play it with dragons.&quot; :P

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Awwww now I REALLY wanna know!&quot; &gt;:O

TMG:<font color="#000000">Tathi, you are so, so evil.

TMG:<font color="#000000">And if Matthew or Nathaniel come upstairs, you are in for the beating of your -life-.

TMG:<font color="#000000">;P

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi quirks an eyebrow. &quot;Dragons, Tharky?&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I thought my reputation had spread a bit farther than that.&quot; The bard chuckles.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Back. ))

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Tom the Douchebag and Tathi the Terrible. WOW this party must have one hell of a reputation. XD

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;You've never heard of Dragonfriend Tharky of the Thousand Tales?&quot; :O !

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi laughs! &quot;Sounds like a bard's title!&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Tharky! Tharky Tharky Tharky, forget Snaggletooth, you've gotta tell them a story!&quot; :O !

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">But but but I'm not D|

* Tharky laughs. &quot;Wellll... How about one more round, then we'll see.&quot; :3

Terri:<font color="#000000">Goodness gracious look at how fast that little girl deals those cards. :O &#171; &#160;1d20 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Max:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 6&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Twitch twitch twitch.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 8&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Aelian:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 12&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;And the defender of the strip wins!&quot;

Kor:<font color="#6600CC">Excuse me. &#171; &#160;1d20 = 8&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;... On second thought, Terri, the story will have to wait.&quot; The bard looks over at Sszeyl, concerned.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Hey! Give me back my cards!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi blinks, and looks over at Sszely, right as she had grabbed Kor.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;No, don't stop on my account. ^^;&quot;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, if there's anything we can do to help, don't hesitate to let us know. We've been known to cast a spell or two, and I don't mean to brag, but I do have a good nose for trouble.&quot; :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, we have reason to suspect they're behind a recent theft of barrels of alchemist's fire. Heard anything about that?&quot;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;A whole barrel?!&quot; o.o

Brian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Arississtyth Ioth persvek Celestia. That's enough to set half of the city ablaze.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The stuff isn't that potent.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The stuff isn't that potent.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But if it were dumped on a building, there'd be no way to save that building...&quot;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;You've clearly never seen the things my eldest can do with a flask of alchemist's fire.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt just raises an eyebrow and decides not to inquire further.

Vira Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;M... Max breathes fire.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;...&quot; :o

* Brian scowls. &quot;Not like that. He's picked up a few dangerous skills from his desert friends. It's a wonder he still has eyebrows.&quot; &gt;:|

* Matthew Toris chuckles.

* Thomas Lazarus raises palms in defense. He didn't say a word! ^^;;

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

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Well still, the theft of the alchemist's fire is the only thing we have to go on right now.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Still. They would probably not strike at us outside the city without having a strong lead on us, and trackers. And had they those, I imagine we might've met them by now.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well...&quot; The bard leans back in his chair, looking up at the ceiling for a few moments. &quot;If you insist. Let's see...&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;What about the Sun of the Night Sky?&quot; :D

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">SUDDENLY, FIREBALL IS THROWN IN FROM THE DOOR.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( *shot* ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;...What.&quot;

* Tharky shakes his head. &quot;That one has Alazphraxion in it. One without a dragon for Sszeyl...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't feel as though we have the option of waiting them out our whole lives, afterall.&quot; He pauses to reflect on his lifespan within the very inhuman group. &quot;..Or.. I can't, anyway. They would win. ^^;&quot;

Sszeyl whispers: Twitch?

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alazphraxion's not a bad dragon, though.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm concerned about what'll happen to that village pointed out on the map, if we don't chase after you-know-who.&quot;

Player &quot;Sszeyl&quot; is not connected. You whisper to Meany: Alazphraxion is a pretty notable great brass wyrm, but he was not involved in fighting Old Red.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">No twitch.

* Tharky raises an eyebrow. &quot;... Hmmm. Any objections to Ulhararasvim, either?&quot;

You whisper to Meany: Ulhararasvim was a blue dragon, dead before Old Red's time. Small-time for a dragon.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, I imaine at the very least we'll end it one way or another once we get back from the Castle.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*imagine

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Which village? What castle? You can't mean Lorellon, could you?&quot; o.o

Lauren Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lorellon is hardly a village.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus chuckles nervously. &quot;Well, you know; adventurer business. I'm sure all of your customers have some dangerous tale to tell, and didn't want to be a bother. But..&quot;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Normally when you hear The Castle, it's the royals' castle.&quot; ^^;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">No twitch.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Blackwood, I meant.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. Perhaps it's safe to tell that tale after all.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I rather doubt if Lorellon was in any danger, we would be of much use.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Lia, isn't Bable Fish supposed to translate words into nonsense? :o ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It sometimes ends up that way, but no. :B

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Dang. ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">babel fish is supposed to be a genuine translator.

* Tharky takes a moment to collect his thoughts...

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">ack, brb

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Sun of the Night Sky is the story of a great treasure, from the lands beyond Chardem where the wind sweeps over plains of glass, polished by the sand...&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20+21 = 7 + 21 = 28&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Perform check. &quot;In the times before any of us here were even born, before the kingdom of Akellon had even begun to be formed, there was a great mountain of black and red glass that rose from the ocean of sand, with a core of fire. It was atop this mountain that the great wyrm Alazphraxion made his lair, even before he had reached that great age. Even in his youth, however, noble Alazphraxion was wise beyond his years, and was often sought by the nomads that roamed the desert for his insight and advice.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Storytime. :o *sits wide-eye. o.o *

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;One day, a young man exiled from his desert tribe came to the mountain, climbing to the peak to speak with the wise dragon. 'Alazphaxion,' he said, 'I am weary. I have travelled for many miles over the sands, carrying a heavy burden of shame. My family, my people, have told me to leave, and to never come back until I had found something of great value to return to them. You are wise, and you know these lands and their treasures like no other. Tell me, where should I search?'&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Updated Safe Passage with a concrete translation. :3 ))

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">back!

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Welcome back. ))

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;The dragon bowed his head and thought, before replying in his deep voice that reverberated through the lands of glass like a bell. 'There is a great treasure,' he said, 'the greatest of all. One found upon no map, a jewel brighter than the sun, that shines even in the darkest night. Travel east through the desert, and return here when you have found it.'&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now, while Alazphraxion was speaking, a little blue wyrmling had been spying on the man. This was the insidious little worm of a thousand lies, who never worked for her treasures, only stealing them from those who happened by. Her name, we have learned, was...&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ulhararasvim!&quot; Terri hisses dramatically. &gt;:D

* Tharky nods to Terri. &quot;She's heard me tell this story many a time.&quot; |3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">x3

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ulhararasvim heard the story of the great treasure, the jewel brighter than the sun that shines in the darkest night. 'What a wonderful addition that would be to my hoard!' she thought, rubbing her paws together with a wicked grin. 'I will follow this man over the sands, and when he discovers the treasure, I will take it for myself!'&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;And so the young man set out to the east, using the sun as his guide. One month later, he found himself under a rocky cliff at night, watching the wind scour over the plains of glass. He sat there for three days, watching, listening to the sound the air made as it moved over the strange shapes of glass. But Ulhararasvim was impatient.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;She sneaked into the man's camp in the middle of the night, and stole his waterskin. 'There,' she thought, with her wicked, wicked grin. 'Now he will have to move to find water, and bring me closer to the jewel brighter than the sun!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Sip.

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;When the man awoke, he found his water missing, but he did not despair. He searched the rocks until he found a flower growing in the middle of them... much like this one,&quot; he says, drawing a glittering green gem from his pocket and placing it on the floor. The gem is carved to look like a lily flower. &quot;Knowing the lore of the desert, he placed the flower on the sands...&quot; The bard makes a gesture.

Tharky:<font color="#000000">Suddenly, the gem grows into a gleaming green fountain, with fresh water rising from the center.

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;And so he reprovisioned himself.&quot; :3

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20+11 = 12 + 11 = 23&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; spellcraft! -5 if its necromancy or illusion, +2 if it's evocation!

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now Ulhararasvim grew angry. 'So he will not seek water,' she growled, and plotted.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's a wondrous item found among the desert folk -- a portable fountain. :3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sandstorm for the description.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">:}

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;'I have it!' she said, smiling her wicked, wicked grin again. 'I will conjure the sands to blow stronger over the land, forcing him to seek shelter! Then he will have to move, and he will bring me closer to the to the jewel brighter than the sun!&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;So she spoke the ancient words of ruin, and a great windstorm began to blow across the land. The man's tent was no protection. But he did not despair. Instead, he searched the rocks again. With a little shove... he pushed aside a stone and discovered a cavern. He picked up his fountain --&quot; He makes another gesture, and the fountain leaps back into his hand, a jade flower again. &quot;-- and waited out the storm there, listening to the roar and whistle of the sand and wind over the opening of the cave.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now Ulhararasvim was really angry. 'Is there nothing that will make him move from those rocks?!'&quot; she snarled... then smiled her wicked, wicked grin again. As the storm calmed, she breathed the ancient words of beguilement, and suddenly, she was no longer a greedy little blue wyrmling. She was a greedy, but beautiful young woman, much like one from the man's tribe. She approached the cave, smiling pleasantly, and the man invited her inside.'&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;'Why are you here?' she asked. 'I am here to seek a gem brighter than the sun, that shines even in the darkest night,' he replied. 'The dragon Alazphraxion has told me that I would know where to find it, and here is where I think it is.'&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;'You poor, deluded fool,' she said, shaking her head sadly. 'Don't you know? Alazphraxion is a great trickster. There is no gem brighter than the sun that shines even in the darkest night, don't you see? He has sent you out to be swallowed by the sands on a fool's errand!'&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;The man was filled with despair, and Ulhararasvim left... smiling her wicked, wicked grin. 'Let him sit there,' she cackled. 'I will find the treasure myself!'&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;The man sat in the cavern for three more days... before finally standing, and returning to the mountain of glass. 'So you've returned,' Alazphraxion said as the man reached the peak, one month later. 'Have you found the gem, the Sun of the Night Sky?'&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;The man nodded... and sat before the dragon, closing his eyes. And he sang. He sang a story of his time in the cave, of the hardships he overcame, and the wicked woman who tried to convince him that the treasure did not exist. He sang for an hour, before finally falling quiet, his tale told.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;The wise Alazphraxion nodded. 'You have found it, indeed,' he said. 'Go, return to your people, and tell them.'&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Now where, do you suppose, did he find the Sun of the Night Sky?&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Terri, you can't tell them.&quot; |3

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

* Thomas Lazarus would compete with Terri energetically for the role of the answering party, but he is downstairs. |B

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;It sounds like a quest of self-discovery to me.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Exactly.&quot; The bard smiles.

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Sun of the Night Sky is a treasure that everyone holds... if they just look for it first. The man returned to his tribe and lead them to the foot of the mountain, where they live to this day under the watcful eye of Alazphraxion, upon the mountain that bears his name.&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;As for Ulhararasvim?&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, the story goes that she got lost trying to find the gem and gave up after a few months, convinced herself that the old foolish wyrm was telling a lie.&quot; ^^

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;As for how I know the story's true? Well, it's impossible to tell, after so many years. But I have spoken with Alazphraxion, and he confirms it... and the story is passed down through the tribe to all its children.&quot;

* TMG applauds

TMG:<font color="#000000">Excellent storytelling, GM. ^^

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi smiles, and applauds the story teller.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sorry if I put folks to sleep ^^;;;;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">There is no nom for sucking up. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">Did you just make that story up, or did you write it beforehand, or did you get it from somewher else?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">A bit of all three.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">If anyone snores, I'll break one arm and one leg a peice. :&gt;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Any way, though, was still awesome. ^^

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Look up &quot;The Sun of the Night Sky&quot; or &quot;Yaten no Hi&quot; on Youtube for the inspiration. :B

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Agreed. :o ))

* Thomas Lazarus muses for a bit longer over the journey to come.

* Tharky bows. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Hmmm.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Well, you seem to be quite the bard then. Might I bother you for something?&quot;

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ask away.&quot; :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;We ought to split off between the Hostel and White Rose to inform and gather our allies, first.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;It's a bit of a project really. I am trying to start up a group dedicated to finding the displaced wood elves a new home, either by making an existing forest suitable, or restoring our lost home. Would you mind spreading the word amoung any dark-haired, pointy eared folk?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;You're so smart, knowing where he found it right away! I thought it was the flower at first.&quot; :D

Tharky:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll see what I can do. I don't spend as much time among the elves as I do among the dragons, but I've crossed paths with them a few times.&quot; :3

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi smiles at Terri. &quot;Self-discovery is a familiar setting to me. I continiously discover more and more power within my own mind, and then use it to blow stuff up.&quot; She says, and smirks. &quot;Very fulfilling life, it is.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh yeah! Forgot you're a wizard.&quot; :o

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wizards are always smart.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;... But not as smart as Grandpa.&quot; |3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You sure? Hmm. Who then, should be present at this Calrach's introduction and judging whether or not he's okay to accompany us?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Sip. =3=

* Max glances out the window. &quot;-- Hlal's wings, it's later than I thought.&quot; ^^; &quot;Hope your friends are still around...&quot;

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

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll go see!&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">Tromp tromp tromp skiiiiiiid!

Terri:<font color="#000000">Tromp tromp tromp skiiiiiiid!

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;They're still here!&quot; :O

Max:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wow, they must have had a lot of shopping to do. Or Father's been telling a tale of his own.&quot; ^^

GM:<font color="#000000">... Dare I call for a roll call, just to make sure I'm not lagging? =3=;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Ah, your grandpa must be a wizard then.&quot; Tathi says, smirking.

* Thomas Lazarus scratches a cheek. &quot;I.. actually, hadn't thought of that.&quot; ^^;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;To tell you the truth, I'd just as soon report to the Hostel by myself. But I know everyone would fuss over it.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-mm!&quot; Terri shakes her head. &quot;Grandpa's not a wizard. He's a... a historian!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I can hear Thomas clanking about.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl: &quot;I can hear Thomas clanking about.&quot; :27

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Probably still downstairs.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Clank clank. Help me put on my armor, Max. |O

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">well crap, puppy didn't have vision, last him. XD

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">*lost him

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh yes, and Tathi made an appointment to go to the courthouse to get access to the piece of metal recovered from the scene of the robbery.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">^^;

Amadre:<font color="#6600CC">Pant, pant, I like this game!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Just politely waiting on God to wrap it up. ;B *brick'd!!*

* Thomas Lazarus muses for another moment.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;..I'd gather up Swallowtail, but I know all of three Amayan words. I wouldn't want to alienate her in a new place meeting new people like that.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">CHEESE. DOOR. DOG.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Of course, -before- we split up, we're going to need to determine what supplies we're going to need before beginning the journey tomorrow.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll go get everyone.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I didn't think their card game would take this long...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Certainly.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">vworp me plz, so I don't break fog again? :o

Amadre:<font color="#6600CC">GNOME! *pounce!*

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">oh crap :24

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Heeeere? :24

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( :24 ))

Faerie:<font color="#006666">:25

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">You just HAD to be special, huh fae? :P :25

TMG:<font color="#000000">Present! :25

Faerie:<font color="#006666">:U

Faerie:<font color="#006666">But my clock said :25

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">EXCUSES. :25

Faerie:<font color="#006666">LIES :26

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi smirks. &quot;So are many wizards.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">... ... ... Yeah, her download died during the story and upload was fine. =3=;;

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">crap. :26

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Afk. Asperin.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, no more token moving.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">I sent her a text. :27

TMG:<font color="#000000">Wait for liatai to catch up, maybe she can do that trick where she resets her download

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Just did so.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">TMG: Wait for liatai to catch up, maybe she can do that trick where she resets her download :29

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Up to date. :30

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:30 received at :30!

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Yo. :30 ))

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Up to date :29

TMG:<font color="#000000">Sweetness. ^^

* Dr. Hatari shoots Ghost with a timegun.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">I appear to be a minute behind everyone else. :30

TMG:<font color="#000000">Anyway, carrying on.

GM:<font color="#000000">Mid-session roll call! Everyone still awake? ^^;

* Ghostwish comes out in a zoot suit. &quot;WRONG SETTING, JACKASS.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Beh?!&quot; Gnogglebolt is tackled by a big green doggy. &quot;I thought these things only liked elves!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">oop. Present!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Present. =w=

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi smirks, hearing the commotion. &quot;That must be our gnome.&quot; She says, turning in her chair and calling out, &quot;You're roughly the size of a child, Gnogglebolt. I don't think she can tell the difference.&quot;

Amadre:<font color="#6600CC">Wag wag wag. ^_^

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Yo. ))

Faerie:<font color="#006666">I'm here, honest. &gt;.&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmph.&quot; Gnogglebolt scritches the doggy and squeezes out from under it, standing up and moving over to the others.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay, just checking. x3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyway, we're thinking of leaving soon, or some of us at least.&quot;

* Terri scritches Amadre. :D

Amadre:<font color="#6600CC">Pant pant pant. ^_^

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;So cute~!&quot; ^.^

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;As far as Thomas and I have discussed, the current plan--barring objections--is to head out to the Castle tomorrow.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can everyone come downstairs and get together so we can plan what supplies we need to buy tonight in preparation?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Allright.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">TATHI GANG. ROLL OUT.

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

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">*TRANSFORM SOUND*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">They become a tree.

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Hey, wait up!&quot;:O

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait wait wait wait! I just thought'a somethin'!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi glances over. &quot;Hm?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mr. Tom said he was a little low on money for enchantment... You guys're adventurers, right?&quot; :O

* Thomas Lazarus rubs the back of his head. ^^;;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Oh Tom, going into debt already? What would the church think?&quot; Tathi teases, and then looks back to Terri. &quot;We quite are.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Eheh. No, I paid my debts. I'm in no hurry to return. But cash does have a way of flying out as fast as it comes in. The life of an adventurer, I suppose.&quot;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think I know what Teria's aiming toward. Have you ever tried doing small jobs for people to earn some extra money? This is Castleton, after all, there's always something that needs doing.&quot; :3 &quot;In fact, Tharkiel was just talking about... oh, what was it.&quot; The man frowns and thinks.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I paint, manage a hunting lodge, and do chores for the church. =3=&quot;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Some sort of job or another that someone at the White Rose was talking about. A pack of gargoyles, I think?&quot;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or maybe it was the Bronze Boot and those troublesome troglodytes...&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi raises both her eyebrows. &quot;Sounds like there's work to do.&quot; She says.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;hmm. I must admit, I haven't put much thought towards work like that, especially mercenary type...but if my collegues think it's a good idea, I suppose we can look into these things some time.&quot;

Ian Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or perhaps if they feel ambitious, the giant sewer lobster and its hidden store of treasure.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sweatdrops.

Brian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Giant sewer lobster...? Just what kind of tales is that talespinner telling?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Of course, current missions come first. We can look into these after finishing our investigation of Pamela.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;..You would think work like that would be a little scarcer, what with this town being what it is.&quot; ^^;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Trouble and adventurers go hand in hand.&quot; ^^

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though if you're preparing for a journey... and seiging a castle, from what I can figure... it might be worthwhile to take the opportunity to gather more supplies and funds for the road ahead.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmmmm.&quot; He considers.

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though of course, being shopkeepers, you might say we're biased.&quot; ^.^

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;It might be worth it to take these side jobs before going to the castle.&quot;

Lauren Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Silly.&quot;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;But practical!&quot; ^^

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Funds we have--most of us, at least--, we just need to figure out exactly what we can use when heading out. Though...I don't like the idea of letting Pamela get entrenched.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">After pondering for a moment. &quot;... Perhaps. We can inquire, atleast, before deciding.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suppose that works, too.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;First things first. We need to atleast get our allies up to speed. They need to prepare as much as we.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Gnogglebolt, she's in a castle. You don't get much more entrenched than that!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;A castle that hasn't been used until now, from what I understand.&quot;

* Swallowtail is getting the conversation translated by Nathaniel. :o

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It will be empty aside from her and whatever minions she can conjure.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">He doesn't seem all that compelled by the stories of rock lobster and trogs. But he's atleast considering it.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Irrevelent. Repairs on castles take months, and it's still a castle.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;How long has it been unused for? Castles don't just spring from no where, after all.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Somewhere over the horizon, a monster hunter flips her wig.

* Sszeyl absorbs Amayan language from Nathaniel.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not sure, but...yes. Decide later. Inquire now.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;For the sake of hypothetical, if we do depart tomorrow morning, what supplies are critical to have?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've stocked up on fresh healing implements. All that springs to my mind is holy water.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;... And, perhaps, a battering ram.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;One of Thomas's suggestions was a lot of holy water, which I agree with.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Food. Camping supplies. Something to breach a castle of unknown integrity.&quot;

Ian Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;I believe it is said rope, a light source, flint and steel, water, and rations are the five essentials for any expedition.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Plenty of arrows for Aelian.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Since when did you take Adventuring 101?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">If only there were a create rope cantrip. I have all the others covered!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt shakes his backpack with a smile. &quot;I've got all five for myself already...actually, I should refil on rations. How about everyone else?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus waves a hand.

Ian Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;It was an elective.&quot; |3

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;I still have 11 days rations.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;We won't be starving so long as I have magic.&quot; He proved his feast conjuring powers before. Luckily, no one has ever needed Tom to cook.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I have recently harvested a rather sizeable supply of food for that express purpose. =3=&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And yes, a battering ram...that could be useful, if I don't have time for anything else. Battering ram and crowbar.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Glass cutter?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll also refil on alchemical devices on my own.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus chuckles at Sszeyl.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're not burglarizing the place.&quot; |D

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Funny, we often seem to.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros coughs

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We may have to break down another stone door, though.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Aside from the battering ram, I'll see if there's anything I can do about that.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;So. To recap so far...everyone double-check your five essentials, a lot of holy water for all, someone get a battering ram, I refil my alchemical items...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus folds his hands into his robe sleeves. &quot;I'll pick up a gallon or so of holy water from the Mace.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi snickers. &quot;Definitely not getting a battering ram..&quot;

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Spoken like a true wizard.&quot; |3

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Hmm.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Fatcat using feet as pillows. D|

Matthew Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Beware of surfaces that reflect spells, though.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I guess I will.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Perhaps, some manner of bursting object, as you have been working on?&quot;

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

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

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Unless you know of anyone else who has. Do you think you could make one large enough to be effective against a building?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Eh-heh...no, nothing so big. But I've got ideas for something smaller...I may be able to work on the road.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll get back to you on that.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anything else, critical supplies-wise?&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;A grapplin' hook?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ah, as a matter of fact, I've got one!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Very good, then. I hadn't thought of such a thing.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Wait.&quot;

Terri:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good! You can climb up the walls!&quot; :D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed we can!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">=3=;;;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Doesn't Barbarus have a bunch of gear we can use, too?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Since he's not going anywhere. =3=&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">FatTom does not verbally protest.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm? Oh, we'll ask him when we get back to our building.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( At this point, I direct people to check out the inventory spreadsheet on the swap in the Malibu Backstabbing Barbie draft. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. Meet you all there by sun-down? I imagine you have a Mr. Calrach to find.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Who?

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alright. And yes, if that's out of the way for critical supplies...time to figure who's going where.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">^^; &quot;The bard Tharky's sponsoring.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;First: this Calrach that Tharky has told us about. Who wants to go meet him, and judge whether or not he's capable enough to accompany us?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Second: Finishing the investigation from this morning. Tathi, didn' you make an appointment to get access to the evidence recovered from the robebry to have it looked at with magic?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs. &quot;I have to report our findings to the mace, anyways. Circumstance permitting, I'll have an Inquisitor to bring back.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't imagine our beasts would follow me obediently, or that'd be enough of an escourt.&quot; ^^;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I am going to be departing to purchase that ram, and see if I can arrange a transport for us.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">shoot, I think there was something else to be done, but I can't remember what it was...

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Unless Elros and Tom think they can control those...mules of the Barbarus'.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Quite, I believe they said to come back tomorrow.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Tom's expression seems to indicate no wai. D|

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, really? Thought it was this afternoon. Oh well, nevermind that then.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;..if meeting Calrach and getting supplies is the only thing we have to do--aside from you reporting to the Mace, thomas--shall we all just go meet this calrach, so everyone meets him together?&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;I...may be able to. I was at least once.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;It depends on how troublesome they're feeling, I suppose.

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Was it? I can't remember now. Too many card games.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you insist. I merely don't want to keep them waiting. I imagine the commander will be keen to recon the castle ahead, and a six day journey isn't something to spring on anyone the night before.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let's be about it.&quot; He nods.

Nathaniel Toris:<font color="#000000">&quot;Take care, then, travellers. Come back soon.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh, um, Gnogglebolt meant 'everyone but thomas, since you're going somewhere else' x3

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Twitch twitch twitch.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Oh, whoops!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Ow. Sure. :D&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Nevermind then.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh, let Tom go along if you want. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">In hindsight, I wasn't clear enough, my bad. ^^;

* Thomas Lazarus offers the Toris collective a wave.

TMG:<font color="#000000">if Tom -wants- to come along he can!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">There's some hefty RP at both locations.

TMG:<font color="#000000">your choice, hatari

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Truth be told, I just didn't want to anchor everyone into a scene of just Tombusiness or such. Better to keep everything animated.

TMG:<font color="#000000">What Would A Lazarus Do?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">It matters little really. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">well, I'll brb for bio while you think and decide on that

TMG:<font color="#000000">My token is with all of Ghost's and ready for vworping

Tokens dropped onto map 'Leaden Mace Society'Amadre:<font color="#6600CC">*POUNCE!*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">He'll just stick to the original plan for now. I don't think it'll be much of a detour, unless OH NO WHO ARE YOU. D: Tokens dropped onto map 'Leaden Mace Society'Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">where are we going again?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Talespinner Tavern, AKA White Rose

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I did warn you there was hefty RP in both places. ^^;

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">You really did it, Liatai. xD

TMG:<font color="#000000">(Team Rocket)

TMG:<font color="#000000">This is going to be fun to watch. x3

GM:<font color="#000000">As you approach the tavern...

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">x3!

GM:<font color="#000000">You may want to step away from the door. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh shiesse, I didn't realize no one else could see it. -3-

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

GM:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+12 = 20 + 12 = 32&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; versus &#171;  &#160;1d20 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt approaches the door...

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

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">I think someone just got their ass Comet LAUCNHED. ^^;

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros has a bad feeling about this. In a Harrison Ford accent, too.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">You are opening Pandora's box allowing those classes, you know. A certain alt of someone is going to be dynamite now, should the day ever come. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">*LAUNCHED

* You roll to yourself: 32-9 =&gt; 32 - 9 = 23Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">If she survives the boss fight in DF. &gt;:)

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Oh no. I'm so scared. :B

Troublemaker:<font color="#000000">And the door is SLAMMED open as... a man in black goes flying a good 30 feet down the road. &quot;AAAAAUGH!&quot;

Troublemaker:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;4d6 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; damage as he lands flat in the street.

Hakutaku:<font color="#000000">(:O

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Nice shirt kid. XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">...I hope he wasn't a level 1 anything. &gt;&gt;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Amadre, no!&quot; But too late.. both elven hounds shoot off and start savaging the poor bloke.

Damien:<font color="#000000">&quot;When you're sober enough to stop heckling the performers, you can come back in.&quot; &gt;:|

Troublemaker:<font color="#000000">&quot;STUPID DOGS --&quot;

* Damien crosses his arms and just watches. &gt;:|

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Down! Heel!&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tathi, they barely know Come --&quot;

Amadre:<font color="#6600CC">They both come back.. Amadre with that silly hat of his.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt is just standing there, frozen, hand outstreached for the door handle, which is not there anymore.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;You're right.. apparently she just fetched instead.&quot;

Troublemaker:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll -- I'll get you for that!&quot; &gt;:O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He slowly closes his hand and pulls his arm back. ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Hahaha.

Damien:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can keep throwing you all day.&quot; &gt;:|

* Damien looks down at the gnome. &quot;... Oh. Sorry.&quot;

Damien:<font color="#000000">&quot;You can go in. It's just this troublemaker.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's okay.&quot; He says nervously.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Take a walk before I start teaching the puppies how to sic.&quot; Tathi says glaring.

Amadre:<font color="#6600CC">Rrrrrrrrrrr *gnawgnawgnawonhat*

* Troublemaker charges -- &#171; &#160;1d20+12 = 8 + 12 = 20&#160;  &#187; versus &#171;  &#160;1d20 = 2&#160;  &#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt edges carefully through the door, away from the big man and nodding politely to him as he passes.

Troublemaker:<font color="#000000">... and is promptly tossed away again. He then scarpers.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi was smart enough to hold the dogs by their scruff this time.

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros thinks he'll follow Gnogglebolt's lead.

Damien:<font color="#000000">&quot;Come on in.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi gets the hat away from Amadre. &quot;Souviner?&quot; She offers to the bouncer.

* Sszeyl uses his recently stolen vocabulary of Amayan from Nathaniel to explain what's going on to Swallowtail. :o

* Damien smiles grimly. &quot;No thanks, I've got a collection from him already.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">To Damien &quot;Why thank you.&quot; Polite half-elf is polite.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">One moment, sacred canine duty. ^^;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Kay. :3 ))

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">Inside, the various patrons are going about there business. One, a small halfing in a red cloak seemingly too big for him, whistles approvingly to the performer onstage, who just finsihed a number. He flips a gold coin over to her, and turns back to the canine-fellow next to him.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">And as the party of adventurers ambles in, the place gets 10 times weirder.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Wait a second.

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, that story about your tribe was facinating. I wish further good fortune to you in the future, great warrior.&quot; As the large dog-man gets up to leave.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">IN THE CORNER IT'S THAT GUY GIT EM

TMG:<font color="#000000">(and waiting for Liatai to return, now)

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">.. for a split second, I thought that said flatulent raptoran woman.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Well. If memory serves from BoF4, she does specialize in wind attacks.

* Dr. Hatari is killed with bricks a lot.

* Meany flies up high, and dive-bombs Ghostwish.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">&gt;:U

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Developments, sah.

* Ghostwish hides in the bunker, made out of the bricks that hatari attracts.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Padre has phoned from Texas, said if I can 'prove I'm willing to work' he'll summon me down to Texas to help find a job. &gt;:U

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">o.o!

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">GUNNA CHASE YUU WIFF MAH SHAWTGUNN!

TMG:<font color="#000000">...whoa!

TMG:<font color="#000000">Whoa whoa whoa!

TMG:<font color="#000000">That's...great?!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Jorb, eh.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Depends.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Finally getting away?

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Historically, he's been unreliable. :B

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">But, yeah, it's away.

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh. &gt;: TMG:<font color="#000000">Well, one can hope, huh?

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Yep.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">True.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">His new wife is much less nice than my mom is.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Hopefully she whipped him into shape. ^^

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Also, on the case of shotguns.

* Meany picks Ghost off from a distance with a rifle. :V

Canine Fellow:<font color="#000000">The canine fellow... gnoll? Something else? Nods to the hafling. &quot;Same to you, little one. Safe travels.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">We gunna fued boy. :&gt;

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Especially if le Dad lives near Dallas. &gt;:V

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Meany, himself, joins the IE party.

Darroth Denbury:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's a familiar sight. How's yer cat faring?&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">The halfling turns to see the commotion near the door, and the large gaggle that arrives in. He just raises an eyebrow and sits back in his seat, and pipes a few notes on...a small ocarina.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Hahaha, seriously?

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Waging an eternal war against our staircase.&quot;: Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">That's pretty awesome.

TMG:<font color="#000000">(actually, no. ^^;)

TMG:<font color="#000000">(He only has ranks in perform Sing)

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Oh. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">(but he's got four instruments hekeeps with him for the heck of it. One being an ocarina)

* Blue-Haired Woman gasps.

Blue-Haired Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;Kitty!&quot; :D

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Much better now, although he seems stubbern on the detail of getting his eye fixed.&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">He doesn't seem to play any real music on the instrument, just piping a few notes, midning his own business.

* Blue-Haired Woman tries to slip a scrap to Ezer. :3

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">*minding

* Sszeyl sees an Elf and a Raptorian.

* Sszeyl pointedly tries to steer Swallowtail away from them.

Smug Elven Woman:<font color="#000000">The elf and raptoran seem to be too deep in their own discussion to pay you much mind.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Best not to hope they remain so. &gt;:U

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;We are looking for a...Calrach, was his name, methinks? &gt;&gt;&quot;

Darroth Denbury:<font color="#000000">&quot;What brings yeh here tonight? Pull up a chair, anywhere, if yeh like.&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">Peep. The halfing suddenly speaks up. &quot;Who wants to know?&quot;

Darroth Denbury:<font color="#000000">&quot;Calrach, heh?&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">er, &quot;Who's looking for him?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Agents of doom and despair. :V Recommended to you by Tharkiel.&quot;

Ezer:<font color="#006666">Kitty? Where? Oh, you mean me. *nuzz*

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Him*&amp; ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( recommended to him* ))

Blue-Haired Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;So cute~&quot;

Green-Haired Man:<font color="#000000">Blast it! Upstaged by a cat! &gt;&gt; Think fast, think fast...

Ezer:<font color="#006666">Omnomnom tablescraps :d

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">The halfing turns in his seat to face the group, rests an elbow on the table, and his head on his hand. &quot;Really? You folks might as well sit down, I can see a long explanation coming when I see one.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Wait. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( wait wait wait. :V ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Green hair... ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( *looks atl Elros* ))

Elros:<font color="#006666">No, I don't think he's my clone.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Could that possibly be his twin as an NPC. |B ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">?*

Green-Haired Man:<font color="#000000">And that guy totally stole my look. :\

Elros:<font color="#006666">I don't think cloning has been invented yet, either.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Actually there's a spell -- *brick'd* :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Besides, Tadrim has teal hair. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">I was just about to say myself. x3

TMG:<font color="#000000">So, are folks going to sit down?

* Darroth Denbury catches Sszeyl looking at the elf and raptoran.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi gang pretty much just takes over the room. &gt;&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">gnogglebolt goes to take a seat, at least

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">The halfling scoots over to let the others in.

Darroth Denbury:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't worry about them. This here's a safe place for anybody who's not lookin teh cause trouble. Yeh cause trouble, yeh soon get very familiar with Damien over there.&quot; The man points his pipe stem over toward the bouncer briefly, who nods.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#CD7F31">Canine fellow, grab my teeth.

Teeny Rin:<font color="#CD7F31">ADVENTURE~*rainbow*

Darroth Denbury:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeh're not lookin' teh cause trouble, are yeh?&quot;

Kor:<font color="#6600CC">I am such a table surfer.

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros sits himself at...a seat. Not really sure which table everyone is facing though.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Just to be sure, everyone can see Mr. Silverthrush, yes? I think I have him set to visible, but I'm not sure. ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Yesm

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Yup!

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">The halfing is a semi-average specimen in terms of size. His hair is yellow, and his eyes are an unusual blue-green. He is, of course, dressed in the big red cloack, but as he parts it and puts his hands ont he table, a few other things are noted. He seems to have several belts and pockets underneath, with little things stached away, but more obviously, he wears two gloves with little gems set into the backs. He also has some kind of amulet or brooch around his neck.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay, just checkin'. :3

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">He peeps away a few more notes on the ocarina as everyone's taking a seat, and then puts it away and pulls out a small banjo, and starts idly strumming that.

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;So. Better start from the top. Who are you folks again, and did you say Tharky sent you?&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">He strums three notes, then waits for an answer.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;That would be the one. Bard of dragons, they call him?&quot;

Darroth Denbury:<font color="#000000">You can see, or at least sense, a few ears pricking up at that name. Seems the bard is a regular.

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">Something at the corner of the halfin's mouth twitches for a moment, but then it's gone. He strums a few more notes. &quot;Yeah, that's Tharky alright. But who is it he's sent my way, and why?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Twitch.

One-Eyed Druid:<font color="#000000">Meanwhile, at the Leaden Mace hostel... Thomas is greeted by a strange sight. A rather large man with long grey hair and a thick black suede strip over one eye is crouched by the entrance of the hostel, looking out over the street silently.

TMG:<font color="#000000">(also, I'm trying to keep Gnogglebolt fairly quiet, so I'm not talking to myself, and to give others a chance to speak more. ^^; )

* Thomas Lazarus raises his brows in slight wonder at the sight of the man.

* Thomas Lazarus continues his approach.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;An adventurer's guild.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;..Good afternoon, sir. Did you have need of the Leaden Mace?&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh? Which on--wait.&quot; He strums a small sequence of notes.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Presently hunting...Black Widow Lundy, is her title, yes?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;The Vigilant Guardians, we're called.&quot;

One-Eyed Druid:<font color="#000000">The man glances up at Thomas when he approaches. &quot;No. Waitin'.&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gnome with a bag too big for him.&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Elf with a gem in her forehead.&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ascetic drow.&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Green-haired half elf.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;How very perceptive.&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;The..Vigilan Guardians, huh?&quot; he picks a few more notes on the banjo again. &quot;Where's the Pelor preist?&quot; he asks with a small grin.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Spasm.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Ow.&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">He leans over. &quot;...You okay?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I'm fine.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">He pauses for a moment, curious. But he can read faces and moods well enough. &quot;I see. Well... I'll leave you to it. If there's anything at all you need, feel free to step in.&quot; He bows his head for a moment before continuing inside.

One-Eyed Druid:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm.&quot; And he stays there, just crouched by the entrance. What a strange person.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;The priest is not with our group formally. He is reporting to -his- adventuring guild.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;The Leaden Mace.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Tom slips inside quietly.

Smoke:<font color="#000000">Hi! :D

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;So! The Vigilant Guardians have grace me with their presence.&quot; He smiles fully now. &quot;yeah, I've heard of you folks. There was this cockamamie scheme with goblins, and you guys have smacked down a Blackskull hideout. I think there was something about the Redtree village and a druid, wasn't there?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus beams compulsively at Smoke and stoops down to offer ruffles and pats. |D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt's cheecks acquire an ever so slight red tinge at the disparaging mention of the goblins.

Flint Carthan:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's Templar Tom.&quot;

Gilric Golrunn:<font color="#000000">&quot;Did yer friends like the ducks?&quot; :D

Smoke:<font color="#000000">Yaaaaay pats :D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey boy.&quot; |D He stands.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi glances. Good, so they didn't hear about her drunken escapades.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Why yes, they did. You're in my debt, brother.&quot;

Aureate Paladin:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see... I didn't know you had people who served gods other than Saint Cuthbert in the Leaden Mace.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus dons a slightly more serious look and steps away from the door.

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Soooo. I have the good fortune of meeting one of the newest adventuring groups around, but to what do I owe this fortune? Why'd old Tharky send you guys to me?&quot;

Flint Carthan:<font color="#000000">&quot;You haven't met Robin.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus offers a gracious nod to the unintroduced Paladin.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're on a mission, currently. We know Tharky, and he said you could accompany and assist us.&quot;

Trevor Merrimac:<font color="#000000">&quot;Brother Lazarus was one of the people who helped me recognize the Calling,&quot; Trevor explains to the paladin.

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">The halfing strums a few more times. &quot;Did he now?&quot; he asks as another grin creeps up his face.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good afternoon. Thomas Lazarus.&quot; He pauses for a bit before glancing to Flint. &quot;..Perhaps, part of the company belonging to that gentleman out front?&quot;

Aureate Paladin:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see! An honor to meet you.&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, I better introduce myself properly. Calrach Lightweave, the Nonreal Band.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi tilts her head. &quot;Nonreal band?&quot;

Flint Carthan:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gentleman out...? Ah, no. That's one of Richter's friends. That over there is, from what I understand, Brother Trevor's new mentor from the Palm.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I totally read that as 'brand'. Like he was dodging copyright infringement on Lightweave. :B

Aureate Paladin:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've heard many good things about the Leaden Mace... I might even ask your commander to join.&quot; ^^

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;It'll make sense when you see it.&quot; he strums again. &quot;Suffice to say I'm primarily a vocalist.&quot;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;...If yous ee it.&quot; He corrects himself.

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">*you see

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see, I see. If that's so, then I won't fret about him.&quot; He nods.

Flint Carthan:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, you've got my vote. You're a paladin, that proves you're devoted -- and get this, Tom!&quot; Flint grins and gestures to the paladin. &quot;He's got an easy name for me to remember!&quot; x3

* Landon Skar chuckles.

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">He puts the banjo way, and pulls out a set of small bongos, and idly taps away at those.

* Thomas Lazarus raises his brows at the paladin. &quot;Is that so? That would be quite welcome, I imagine. I had actually assumed membership in the Palm precluded almost any other business.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi quirks her eyebrow again. &quot;Just how many instruments do you have?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Or, atleast, I feel like we funnel no end of trouble your way to deal with.&quot; ^^;

Halfling in a Cloak:<font color="#000000">&quot;Four.&quot; he says. &quot;I don't really play any of them seriously though, I just keep them for practice and...reference.&quot;

Calrach:<font color="#000000">&quot;So. 'Assistance'.&quot;

Calrach:<font color="#000000">&quot;Does that mean I'll be mixing it up with you folks as you take on this adventure?&quot;

Aureate Paladin:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes, I've heard the tales about the Blackskulls. Orrin Oakley,&quot; he introduces himself with a smile.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Presumably.&quot;

Calrach:<font color="#000000">He smiles again. &quot;Well, I can certainly help with that. I might not look like much, but I've got my fair share of tricks up my sleeve, believe me.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;There is one thing, though.&quot; Gnogglebolt says solemnly.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">He pauses before offering a nod of acknowledgement. &quot;Pleased to meet you, sir. It's heartening to know Trevor has found his way and has such a guide.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Although, on that note, Blackskull business does bring me here. I should speak with the commander shortly.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is a -dangerous- mission. We're going after a powerful necromancer. One who we've already fought and nearly killed one of us, and a companion we had at the time who was a career witchunter.&quot;

Flint Carthan:<font color="#000000">&quot;He's upstairs. Just watch out for the girls.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus bows to the four of them, and pats Smoke while down there.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;This is not going to be easy or pleasant. If you don't watch yourself, you could die, and we cant afford to look after someone who can't pull their weight.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus ascends the stairs mutely, and blinks at the gathering.

Robin Malino:<font color="#000000">As you come upstairs, you can hear excited female voices talking. Robin seems to be showing the people upstairs something held in her hand.

Richter Malino:<font color="#000000">Well. Female and one male voice, though Richter isn't saying much. He does look pleased and proud, though.

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;You know what this means, right?&quot; :D

Richter Malino:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anise, you just got off enforced bedrest from an overdose of partying.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;...?&quot; He waits a bit more.

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

Calrach:<font color="#000000">Calrach raises an eyebrow as he taps out on the bongos. &quot;Most adventuring business is like that, but I get you're saying this one may be tougher than your usual fare. I get it.&quot;

Robin Malino:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Brother Tom!&quot; :D

Robin Malino:<font color="#000000">&quot;Look, look!&quot;

Robin Malino:<font color="#000000">&quot;I got promoted!!&quot; :D

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Or it could not be. We'll just have to see where the dice roll.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh? Is that so?&quot; He offers a smirk.

Calrach:<font color="#000000">He leans forward. &quot;And I'm okay with that. Trust me, I'm tougher than I look. Taking down a necromancer is an excellent cause, and what's more...&quot;

* Robin Malino displays a new badge -- no longer Junior Inquisitor, but full Inquisitor. :D :D :D

Calrach:<font color="#000000">He grins. &quot;I'll be the first to really chronicle the Vigilant Guardians from an outside perspective. Not like that lazy Edaric who was here a few nights ago.&quot;

Calrach:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can't pass this up.&quot; He sits back and taps a little more.

* Thomas Lazarus examines the badge and offers a fake glower, albiet he continues smiling. &quot;Well, that just figures. Another youth outranks me. Don't let it go to your head.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Somewhere in the distance, Edaric has been running around for eight hours without a break. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( :B ))

* Robin Malino giggles. x3 &quot;Aw, you'll get there one day!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus offers a good-natured chuckle. &quot;Congratulations.&quot;

Laughing Woman:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe someday your commander will look at my application too, hmmm? That way we can go on adventures together!&quot;

Richter Malino:<font color="#000000">&quot;Be patient. The commander's a busy man, after all.&quot; ^^;

Robin Malino:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thanks!!&quot; :D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm.&quot; He glances to the new blue-haired face briefly. Nope, don't remember.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;..Speaking of which.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus raps several times.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Junior Inquisitor Lazarus, sir.&quot;

Alberic Ashmore:<font color="#000000">&quot;Enter.&quot;

Cadamon Gardner:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Oh, good evening, brother.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus shuts the door behind him quietly and nods to Cadamon.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well...as long as you understand the danger.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;--Beg your pardon if I interrupted business.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What about the rest of you? Do you think he's okay?&quot;

Alberic Ashmore:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not at all. Merely a discussion of a trio of new applications. What business do you have?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi nods. &quot;He's free to come and go as he wishes.&quot;

Calrach:<font color="#000000">Meanwhile, he puts away the bongos and pulls out a set of small trumpet-pipes, and buzzes a few notes on them.

* Sszeyl waves a hand flippantly. &quot;He seems eager. Might as well follow Tharkiel's advice.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Agreed. If he knows what he's getting into, I see no reason why not.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">He nods and grows a bit somber. &quot;Speaking with some associates of ours has revealed the most likely destination of the fugitive, Pamela Lundy. We believe her lair is the castle Osyluth. Apparently, she was, in name, married to the late owner. Who, along with his entire staff, died mysteriously not all that long ago.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;It seems to match the results you observed, being through days of thick forest.&quot;

Alberic Ashmore:<font color="#000000">&quot;The name is unfamiliar to me, though ominous. Where is this Castle Osyluth?&quot;

Calrach:<font color="#000000">&quot;So, where should I meet you folks again?&quot;

* Sszeyl rattles off their address. :V

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Thomas doesn't have a map personally, but there is likely one to be had in the office. He was pretty good about commiting the details to memory. &quot;About three days march north of here, situated just east of this town, Blackwood.&quot;

* Alberic Ashmore nods, looking over the map. &quot;A highly likely location, indeed.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">He folds his arms while studying the map. &quot;The guardians are already preparing themselves for a trek.&quot;

Cadamon Gardner:<font color="#000000">&quot;Already? My word.&quot;

Cadamon Gardner:<font color="#000000">&quot;The stores of holy water are still at a low ebb.&quot; ^^;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. We haven't yet decided for sure when we're going to depart.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Come to this address tomorrow at dawn...&quot; Gnogglebolt scrawls down the address of the Vigliant Guardian's HQ.

Cadamon Gardner:<font color="#000000">&quot;I suppose, given a day or two, I could bring them back up to their levels from a few days ago... but a castle seige...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">However, he stops just before handing it over. &quot;Oh. Um. One more thing, almost forgot.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt leans over and speaks in a hushed voice. &quot;We...are actually currently being hunted by drow assasins. If you travel with us, you may be targeted, too.&quot;

Calrach:<font color="#000000">The halfing raises an eyebrow again, and toots away on the trumpet-pipes for a moment. &quot;...Do you think you can take them?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;It remains to be seen what the morrow actually holds. There was some consideration of gathering more extensive supplies. But, there's something of a great interest in following that woman's heels.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;In any case.&quot; He looks up.

* Haron Silverthrush rolls a Listen check. :.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;If we find them first, maybe.&quot;

TMG whispers: DC 15, but he probably made it. x3

Calrach:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good enough for me. Not the first time I've had people after me, myself.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I, of course, defer to your judgement, sir. Now that we know what we're dealing with, I had no intention of making this anything but our last encounter with Ms. Lundy.&quot;

* You roll to yourself: 1d20+12 =&gt; 10 + 12 = 22Alberic Ashmore:<font color="#000000">&quot;Indeed. A larger and stronger force will likely be needed to breach the gates... Return tomorrow with the Guardians, and we will discuss this further.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus salutes rigidly. &quot;Yes commander.&quot;

Alberic Ashmore:<font color="#000000">&quot;If the scrying results hold true, she is still far from any civilization. There is time to prepare. Dismissed.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods, and slips out.

Robin Malino:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sooooo? What's the news?&quot; :3

Richter Malino:<font color="#000000">&quot;Robin, it's rude to pry...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus assumes a casual pose. &quot;Oh. You know.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alright, well...I suppose we should go now. See you in the morning, mister Lightweave.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Nothing interesting.&quot;

Calrach:<font color="#000000">&quot;Just call me Calrach, really.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're just going to besiege a haunted castle full of necromancers and giant undead.&quot;

Robin Malino:<font color="#000000">:O

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi takes the time to ask the barkeep what they have to drink in the way of elven wines.

Robin Malino:<font color="#000000">:O :O :O

Robin Malino:<font color="#000000">&quot;LUCKY!&quot; &gt;:O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">:D

* Richter Malino and Anise both laugh. XD

* Thomas Lazarus chuckles, quite amused with the reaction his chain-pulling yielded.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;..Well.. it remains to be seen, anyway.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll have a meeting about it tomorrow, it appears.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Cross your fingers if you want in.&quot;

Darroth Denbury:<font color="#000000">&quot;Supply's a little low right now. We don't have anything as exotic as yer elven moondrop, but we have a mead.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I'm looking at you, though.&quot; He points down the hall with a serious look and smirk.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Be ready.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt gets up to leave, and waits for the others to move.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi shrugs. &quot;I'll take a mug of that then.&quot;

* Darroth Denbury pours one expertly and passes it over. &quot;That'll be two silver pieces.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;And here you go!&quot; She says, paying for her drink.

Anise Berilan:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yes sir!&quot; Anise salutes cheekily. :3

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros moves to follow Gnogglebolt

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20+1+fortitude = 8 + 1 + 4 = 13&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; uh oh! She's drinking again.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">She's safe. :3

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">You mean the party is safe. :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt heads out the door, and...shopping time. :U

* Thomas Lazarus departs. &quot;I ought to catch up with the others. Good evening sisters. Brother.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">need a refill on crossbow bolts. 3 sp.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Oof. One sec. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( need to redownload AEG. :B ))

Darroth Denbury:<font color="#000000">On the way out the door, you may catch the bartender saying to the back corner of the inn, &quot;How're yeh doin' back there, Mr. Silverthrush?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">He likewise offers his goodwill to those downstairs, and begins making his way back to Guardian HQ.

Haron Silverthrush:<font color="#000000">&quot;I haven't been chased out the window this time, so that's an improvement.&quot; |3

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Getting a pack of 20 arrows for Aelian.. 1 gp.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Speaking of who, I needs his sheet-a!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">D: Liatai:<font color="#000000">I forgot! D: TMG:<font color="#000000">:o Liatai! Are the alchemical items in AEG open (generally, maybe with some exceptions?)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Most of it except skills is on his token, though. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And yes, Tech, they are.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;...&quot; ((That one-eyed man seems familiar somehow.))

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( That's what I was downloading for. :D Yay. ))

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Bad Liadragon! :P

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">I'll just annotate it on his token for now. :&gt;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Moving Sszeyl to Bronze Boot Map. ))

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Annnd.. I am going to be mostly afk for around 30 minutes. Need to make meself some dinner.

* One-Eyed Druid still hasn't moved, though he watches you leave before going back to waiting around.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Perhaps Swallowtail too, if she doesn't feel like venturing out alone yet? :B ))

Elros:<font color="#006666">ELros probably ought to get more bolts and lamp oil. And hmm, what about getting Blacksword enchanted?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">To the Bronze Boot?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Why to the Boot?

TMG:<font color="#000000">..after the ghoul stench fiasco, he's getting a vial of Clearbreath. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Stank-b-gone. &quot;You're lettin' all the stank out.&quot;

* Dr. Hatari is bricked!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Getting the Blacksword enchanted will take two days and 2,000 GP.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Liatai. :V ))

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Ah, well, I don't believe we have two days.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Any 'monk weapons' from the AEG are no longer 'monk' unless they are also in the PHB, yes? ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">We probably do, really. But mayyybe.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Case in point, warfan? ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The tessen is considered a monk weapon.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">But why are you going to the Boot, Meany? ^^;;;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Purchasing stuff from the General Store there. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Carriage, horses. &gt;&gt; ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That's not on that map. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That map is now Mini-Quest map. ^^;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Some adventuring nick-naks. ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Oh? ))

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Raaaam. :O

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Yes, that too. ))

Elros:<font color="#006666">Well, just in case we do have to leave in short order, Elros buys just bolts and lamp oil. For...just a few GP, presumably.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">We're rogue and martial adeptless. We need tools. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">1 flask of oil - 1 SP. Crossbow bolts - 10 for 1 GP.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Pamela Lundy: &quot;Hmhmhmhm~! I know your one weakness!&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">&quot;STRONG HINGES.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Gnogleybolt: &quot;D:&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( One battering ram-10 GP. Carriage, and two heavy horses-300 GP. ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">okay, refilling on thunderstones, 30 gp each. 90 for 3

TMG:<font color="#000000">2 more alchemist fire flasks, 20 gp each, 40 total

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( And...two springwalls. &gt;:o ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( 120GP. ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">already got 2 vials of holy water, just getting one more..oh

TMG:<font color="#000000">For those,w e hit up all the local temples.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt says everyone should get at -least- three.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( 75GP altogether for holy water. ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">25 gp each

TMG:<font color="#000000">tanglefoot bags, Expensive, at 50 a pop, but still getting 3. 150 gp total

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Alrighty, holy water too then...

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( &#171; &#160;10+300+120+75 = 10 + 300 + 120 + 75 = 505&#160; <font color="#cd7f31">&#187; ))

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">*checks back in* Still shoppin?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Replacing the prank smokestick. &gt;.&gt; gonn aget 2, 20 gp each.

TMG:<font color="#000000">40 total

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&#171; &#160;9867-75 = 9867 - 75 = 9792&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187;

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">and...from AE--wuh?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I am copying and pasting your tokens to the VG HQ map. :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">right now?

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

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">okay, pasuing tokenediting for a minute.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Let me know when you're ready.

* TMG ready

* Thomas Lazarus steps inside --- probably blithely setting off the alarm. &quot;|D&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">This time, with no animals to stop him, Edaric is ready. &quot;Welcome back.&quot; :3

TMG:<font color="#000000">okay, continuing shoppin'

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Good evening.&quot; He also nots to Barbarus.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where are the others?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">One vial of Clearbreath. 50 gp.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm. Tharky had a bit of advice; that they pick up a friend of his. A 'Calrach'. Apparently, a bard. Perhaps you've met?&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Last stuff. Butterfly sword, and three section staff. &gt;:U ))

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Calrach.... hmm.&quot; Bardic knowledge - &#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 8 + 6 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( &#171; &#160;505+14 = 505 + 14 = 519&#160; <font color="#cd7f31">&#187; ))

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've heard of him. The Nonreal Band, they call him.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Well, Calrach knows about -him-, from the Bardly Fraternity, sorta. :B

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1100-519 = 1100 - 519 = 581&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187;

TMG:<font color="#000000">alos from the AEG, 2 Sparkstones, 50 gp each, 100 total

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Bardic Knowledge. Not to be confused with Bardic knowledge. Knowledge check to see if you know bards. *brick'd!!!*

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think he tried to drive Gnogglebolt bonkers with a Dancing Lights spell when I first took him to the Talespinner.&quot; =3=

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">*peeks again*

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh yeaaaaaah!

TMG:<font color="#000000">I'd forgotten about that! xD

* Thomas Lazarus smirks. &quot;With as much as he hates magic, I imagine he got pretty close.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;In any case.. there's definitely going to be activity in these coming days.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;What it is remains to be seen. But our rest is surely over.&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">though no one else was around, I thought it was funny. Calrach had cast Dancing Lights right -above- Gnogglebolt's head, and controlled it to follow him around. And none of the other patrons reacted to this, leading Gnogglebolt on that he was falling ill. x3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;(And thank goodness for that.)&quot; |3

* Thomas Lazarus cracks his knuckles!

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;You found a lead?&quot; :D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Probably. A haunted castle up north. It's looking like we'll be detouring all over the place before we even pack up a wagon, though.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll see.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Afk a few shakes for more noms, myself./

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Okay, Gnogglebolt is set for supplies, I think.

GM:<font color="#000000">Then getcherselves back to HQ! :P

Tokens dropped onto map 'Vigilant Guardian HQ'Tokens dropped onto map 'Vigilant Guardian HQ'Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros returns to the HQ after his shopping trip with supplies. But nothing too heavy, as he prefers to travel light.

GM:<font color="#000000">... I think Darroth's accent is rubbing off on me. =3=

Tokens dropped onto map 'Vigilant Guardian HQ'Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well hey, there's two more Guardians!&quot;

* TMG giggles

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt approaches the door with everyone else, and whispers 'cheesecake' before crossing.

Tokens dropped onto map 'Vigilant Guardian HQ'* Edaric handwaves. &quot;No need, Thomas already set the thing off. It's down for now.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Lia, behold the carriage. :o ))

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Eventful trip, I take it?&quot;

Tokens dropped onto map 'Vigilant Guardian HQ'Tokens dropped onto map 'Vigilant Guardian HQ'Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Fairly.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;This 'Calrach' seems level-headed enough.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Though apparently, part of his motivtion for accepting the job is that he wants to 'chronicle' us....&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wouldn't have thought you'd say so after the last time you met.&quot; :3

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, that's what songwriters and storytellers do, chronicle and share stories... You don't remember?&quot;

* Edaric waves a hand and puts some dancing lights over Gnogglebolt's head. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Remember what?&quot; (OOC: Yes, I do, but IC.)

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Knock knock.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt blinks for a moment, then drops his jaw. &quot;That was HIM?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Eheheh.. sorry about that.&quot; |D

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yep. He's pretty famous as a jokester. You might want to watch out.&quot; |3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt slups against the wall, covering his face and shaking his head. he doesn't know whether to groan or laugh.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ch-ee-ss-c-ae-ke?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">back!!!

* Sszeyl speaks in Amayan &quot;Alarm...dropped.&quot;

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

* Sszeyl then turns to Elros. :V

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Elros, if you have a moment?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, that does it. I'm summoning cheesecake tonight.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hey, Ael.&quot; ^^

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Pelor forgive my impertinence.&quot; :9

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;If you're more patient.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I can make you some.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros looks over to Sszeyl. &quot;Hmm, yes?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Want you to meet our new additions.&quot;

* Sszeyl makes a gesture to follow. :V

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Tavia is stuck in movement transition.

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros follows Sszeyl, to...new horses?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">There we go.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I purchased these horses for our use. The white mare is Norway.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;The dark stallion is her foal, Denmark.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I got a good deal for not breaking up the pair. :3&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Such odd names you come up with.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">*cough*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">x3

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;They actually already had those names. &gt;&gt; But anyway.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Well, if you need my help driving them, I shall offer my services.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hello. Been enjoying the quiet?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Norway is actually very relaxed, according to her previous owner.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;But Denmark has had some history of anger issues. Could you take a look at him?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;No.&quot; D: &quot;It's too quiet! I'm a musician, not a security system! When are we going out to this castle thing?&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Hey! I tried to be musical!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus smirks a bit. &quot;Coming with, are you..? I don't blame you. I never want to retire.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Aah, I'm stuck.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;;;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Not my fault you can't get your voice low enough for that one verse.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">There.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Now he's sent to back, so you will always be able to free yourself. :3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;In any case, since you mention that.&quot; He glances to Gnogglebolt but speaks openly.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm also a lute player and not a singer, you know.&quot; ^^;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Bah, lute.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Yes, of course.&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 6 + 9 = 15&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187; Handle Animal. Is anything the matter, dear horse?

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Edaric, I've been meaning to ask you.. I suppose you're privy to quite a bit of information in the urban sprawls?&quot;

* Edaric looks to Tom. &quot;Well, Aelian can't be seperated from his girlfriend, it seems, and someone's got to keep him out of trouble.&quot;:3

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;The guitar would do good for you. &gt;.o&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Normally, yes, though I've sort of been stuck to within a mile of this place because of the alarm spell.&quot; &gt;.&gt;;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I informed the commander of our findings. We should probably delay our departure past morning; he'd like to meet with us tomorrow about the journey and assembling a stronger force.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;I was wondering if I could ask you to help spread the word of my little project?&quot;

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. A good idea, I suppose. I told Calrach to meet us here at dawn.&quot;

Denmark:<font color="#CD7F31">Liatai, if you're a bit too busy, I could handle this? (:3

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

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">She nods. &quot;Seeds, I call it. An attempt to find all the displaced wood elves a new home.&quot;

Denmark:<font color="#CD7F31">*I dun wanna be away from Mama. D:*

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps it's for the best that we gather more supplies, anyway. Pamela off her turf and with just her mount was a lot to handle.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;And... you're looking for wood elves in an urban environment?&quot; ^^;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;This is Castleton, Edaric.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'd rather we didn't arrive there short-handed and find three more Chimeras, or Pelor-forbid whatever else and a horde of ghosts.&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;If it can be found anywhere, it's here. :V&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">She smirks. &quot;You'd be surprised how many of us there are.. There simply wasn't enough elven wood to take on all of us.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's Lorellon or Resca.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus nods. &quot;So you found him? How is he?&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Elitists, the both of them!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That is a good point....&quot; Gnogglebolt nods to Thomas.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Fae, still here?

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Sorry, distracted for a tick. &gt;.&gt;ll

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, I can try... if someone else can man the alarm. Edarics were not meant to be kept on a leash! They should roam!&quot; =3=

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;So there's more than one of you? Gods help us all.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Could Barbarus man it?&quot; She says, and then breaks into a fit of giggles at Aelian's remark.

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not really. It's tied to whoever casts the spell.&quot;

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">It's okay. :23

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros reaches one hand out gently to Denmark, and gestures the other slowly towards Norway. You two are together, see?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;And Barbarus can't even defeat the great Stair Monster yet.&quot; =3=

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;If an assassin showed up with him alone, he'd hardly stand a chance.&quot;

Denmark:<font color="#CD7F31">*Mean people at stable wanted to sell me all alone. ;~;*

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I'm getting better!&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I can throw a dagger straight now!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Mmmm, good point.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Straight down doesn't count.&quot; =3=

Elros:<font color="#006666">&#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 2 + 9 = 11&#160; <font color="#006666">&#187; Handle animal check. Don't worry, you're not in the stable now, and you're staying with your mom, see?

* Barbarus sputters for a minute, then-

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Derp derp &gt;.&gt;;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Venezuela and Honduras. &gt;.)&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I can just call them in if there's trouble.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">I do feel like I need a globe to keep your animals straight.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;They can't fit through the door, though.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Mules, enter stage: Kool-aid.

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">The Murder Mule gives everyone the Eye of Sauron through the window.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">D: Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, someone's gotta watch barbarus, or Barbarus has to go somewhere else where he'll be safe...&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;If you can't find a door, make one, as Grandma always said. =3#&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't think we can afford constant wall repairs...&quot; =3= &quot;We are renting the place, after all.&quot;

Denmark:<font color="#CD7F31">*Okay. ;~; Okay, I'll be good.*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;None of us can be alone with the assasins lurking about, but especially Barbarus.&quot;

* Swallowtail speaks in the windy tongue.

You whisper to TMG: &quot;Gnogglebolt. Is there problem?&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Ah, yes. The best defense against ninjas.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">One ninja.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's the Inverse Proportion Ninja Law. :B

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Except.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Ninjas cannot catch you.

Meany:<b><font color="#CD7F31">When you're on fire. &gt;:D

</b>Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros pets Denmark gently. See? It's going to be alright. He looks over to Sszeyl. &quot;There shouldn't be a problem, as long as we keep these two as a pair.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt blinks, and looks in Swallowtail's direction, and he replies to her in that weird language.

* Dr. Hatari pictures Barbarus as blackbeard again. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Very good. :3&quot;

Gnogglebolt whispers: &quot;Oh, we're trying to plan our next move to go out and find that Pamela, but Barbarus can't go with us, and someone has to stay behind and watch him.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Thanks, Elros.&quot;

* Swallowtail tilts her head, then taps her chest and smiles, replying.

Gnogglebolt whispers: &quot;Mainly because there are assasins after us, who may attack when he's alone.&quot;

You whisper to TMG: &quot;I stay. I can watch him. I know how assassins work.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;You're quite welcome. We might want to give Denmark some greens or something along those lines to cheer him up for now, but I think he'll calm down now.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus watches the mysterious communication idly. But his mind appears to be elsewhere. He patiently waits for them to conclude.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt bilnks and tilts his head at Swallowtail.

Gnogglebolt whispers: &quot;Are...are you sure? It may be dangerous if they try to attack you, we don't know how many there are or what they brought with them.&quot;

You whisper to TMG: &quot;Besides. My skills. Not work so well against zombies.&quot;

* Swallowtail bows, replying.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt takes a deep, semi-sighing breath.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Swallowtail has offered to watch over Barbarus while we're gone. And yes, I told her about the assasins.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Very good.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I'm going to unhitch them, and put them into the corale with the mules.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">He nods. &quot;It's perhaps for the best. I've never known precision strikes to do any good at all against the undead.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;She mentioned something like that, yes.&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Mrmph. &gt;.(&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">or, &quot;Funny, she said almost exactly that herself.&quot;

* Barbarus is obviously unhappy with everyone going out of their way for him.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">EXTREME UNHITCHING.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Grazie.&quot; He nods to Swallowtail.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">EXTREME CORALLING.

* Swallowtail beams, then bows to Thomas.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt glances over to the catfolk. &quot;Barbarus, you're missing an arm and an eye. I'm sorry, but that's just the way it is. This is what happened because you were left alone.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thank the gods it wasn't actually the assasins themselves, or you wouldn't still be here at all.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">Elros sees that the horses have been put in the stable without incident, then goes back inside.

* Thomas Lazarus nods to Gnogglebolt. &quot;It was just part of our introduction to protecting the people from the Damned. Most of them don't even need their heads to keep fighting. The abominations.&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Mrmph!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;No amount of skill with a light blade will stop one.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&gt;.&gt;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;What madness is all this, then?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">But yes... Gnogglebolt turns back to Swallowtail and says something to her.

Gnogglebolt whispers: &quot;Thank you very much for the offer, by the way. It means a lot.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Talking about cat-sitting -- sorry,&quot; he adds quickly to Barbarus. ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">X3

* Barbarus gnaws on the table.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Barbarus: Demoted to pet.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I...see. &gt;&gt;&quot;

* Swallowtail bows and replies.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;There's a matter I'd like to take care of with you when you have a free minute, Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Well, the new horses have been put to the corale.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;barbarus, that's a nice table!&quot;

You whisper to TMG: &quot;It's a step toward repaying my debt.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I'll beging stocking the carriage tonight.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;And we should be good to go.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm? Oh, sure, Thomas. What is it?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">OOC: &quot;What'd I do this time?! D: &quot;

Ezer:<font color="#006666">Ooh, ooh. Can Barbarus be MY pet? :D

* Thomas Lazarus takes a seat. &quot;Just a trivial favor. See me in your workshop in about ten minutes.&quot; He looks to be entering prayer.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Edaric, Tathi, could you come over here for a minute? =3=&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh...kay?&quot; Gnogglebolt says, tilting his head confusedly.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I seem to be in high demand tonight.&quot; =3=

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

* Sszeyl takes out a few sheets of blank paper, and a pencil.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Ghost? ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">After some bit of idle time, Thomas opens his eyes and goes through a soft chant in some esoteric caster's tongue.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Okay, to be frank, I can't remember if we've done something like this before.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">A set of hot steamed meat dumplings and bowls of porridge manifest on the table!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;This being drafting our group's coat of arms.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Something like -- dumplings from heaven!&quot; :O

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi tilts her head. &quot;A coat of arms?&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus smiles to Sszeyl. &quot;Cheesecake later would be nice.&quot;

* Edaric snags a few and returns to the corner, munching. =3=

* Sszeyl nods.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt raises his eyebrow, but then goes into the workshop room.

* Thomas Lazarus stealthily rises and walks off.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Yes, it's a symbol that people can identify our group with.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;The Leaden Mace's logo you can see on Tom's badge.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. Well, what do we want the group to be known for?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ahh. Anyways.&quot; He smiles a bit at the Gnome. &quot;I just wanted to know if, amongst your tools, you had a pair of scissors I could borrow. Or, shears would also be fine.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;We are guardians, and the shield best symbolizes that...And I think...hawks and falcons symbolize vigilance, yes?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Perhaps also a mirror if you've got one.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Tom wants to cut his hair. :V ))

Thomas Lazarus: <font color="#0">(( Bingo. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">He sighs. &quot;It's pretty silly... but.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus waves a hand in the air. &quot;--Anyways. Might you?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;We also need to be...open. Available to people of all walks to come to us for aide.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uh...&quot; Gnogglebolt does, in fact, have a small polished steel mirror, and surely -something- in his extensive toolkit is scissors.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hawks, falcons, eyes, dogs are considered loyal and watchful guardians... dragons are watchful and powerful, but it's a bit arrogant to put a dragon on our shield right out of the gate.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;You two and myself are the most...artly inclined individuals in our group, so..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Twitch.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He pulls them out. &quot;Do you intend to give yourself a haircut or something?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Yeah, no dragons just yet.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Better here than the dining room floor.&quot; He eyes the workshop with a small smile.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi smirks. &quot;I'm artly inclined? Well, if you mean the arcane art.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, here you go...&quot; Gnogglebolt hands them over.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Quite.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;i'll just leave you to that, then.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">He tugs his gauntlets off and sets them aside.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thanks.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;You said dogs, hmm?&quot;

* Sszeyl looks down at the cu sith.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt returns to the main room, and notices the congregation. &quot;Hmm? What's all this, then?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Perhaps....&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+9+mod = 7 + 9 + 0 = 16&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Lions are a common choice for warrior guilds, too, but that would blend us in with the masses.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Rough sketch of a shield flanked by a cu sith, and a dog eerily similar to Papa.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Chop chop chop, fwump, snip snip.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">She beams. &quot;A cooshie. Nice touch!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Perhaps something...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">He examines himself in the mirror and shakes his head ever-so-slightly. &quot;... Mom will so kill me. Oh, well.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;What's this about lions?&quot;

* Sszeyl looks over to Barbarus...

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;What about..mountain lions?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;How common are they in symbols?&quot;

Ezer:<font color="#006666">Friends of mine? :3

* Thomas Lazarus cleans up a bit before heading back into the dining room. &quot;Thanks, Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Barbarus is talking about a coat of arms. For the group --&quot; Edaric does a bit of a double-take.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt turns to take the items back. &quot;Oh, you're wel--...&quot;

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

* Thomas Lazarus smirks. &quot;You can laugh if you want.&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">Mouth Agape. .O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;..But..&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;..Frankly.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...Anyway. Seriously, you folks, what are you doing over there? I'm curious.&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Tom. You look handsome. .3&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I would so totally set you up with my sister if I had one.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;If I were a betting man, I would put our money on us. But just in case.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I just wanted insurance that I wouldn't spend the next decade with braided hair, as that succubus' vanity doll.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;You do look nice, Thomas. :3&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;A bit rough in pathces, but that will smooth out over time.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;That...is indeed a horrifying thought...&quot; Gnogglebolt says, getting a solelm look on his face.

* Edaric nods in agreement with Sszeyl. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Anyway, yes. We are discussing a coat of arms for our group.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus knits his brow and waves it off.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...O! About the thought of loosing, not the hair thing.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's supposed to be. Don't worry about it.&quot;

* Sszeyl shows the sketch to Gnoggle.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'd have gone to a barber if I wanted nice.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Well now, that's different.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Capture would indeed be worse than death in this case.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Edaric, about the mountain lions? :o&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Powerful, stealthy, and we've got one in the group.&quot; :3 &quot;Why not?&quot;

* Sszeyl takes up the pencil again!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+9+mod = 13 + 9 + 0 = 22&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, um.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">...a powerful, stealthy barber?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt's asked THREE TIMES now

Edaric:<font color="#000000">I answered you. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">is ANYONE going to say 'a symbol for the--really?

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Adding a puma lounging to the bottom of the shield.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( So did I. ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh! I see, sorry, missed it

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( It's cool. =3= ))

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Actually...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh, an identifying symbol? Hmm.&quot;

* Sszeyl fixes it, so the puma is playing with the cu sith's tail.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;The shield seems blank though.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Shield I like, cat, not so much....hmm...&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Seems we need a coat of arms.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh! How about a tower, like a sentry tower, behind the shield?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;What style of tower?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Castle tower, wizarding?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;We don't want it to be too busy, though. We want people to be able to recognize it at a glance.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">&quot;Why a tower?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt explains what he means, and OOC, I'm talking about looking like a rook chess piece, that kind of tower

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Too many details make it difficult for people to remember.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well, towers are fortifications you guard and watch from.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Simple kind

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;What about a tower on the shield?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Hmm, perhaps the puma's face should be -on- the shield.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Oh, that would work. :o&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+9+mod = 13 + 9 + 0 = 22&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm, that looks weird, though...&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not as weird as those noble families that put drawings of flowers on theirs.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Flowers are just not things you should wear on implements of battle.&quot; =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Flowers hold symbols just as well. :3&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Point taken.&quot; he says with a slight grin.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I actually intend to start a garden after the winter is done.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus chuckles. &quot;Sounds fine to me. But I'm not picky.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I was just speaking on the arrangement, te tower on the...wait.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Did you mean the tower standing on -top- of the shield, or inscribed on the -face- of the shield?&quot;

Kethanis Whitebranch:<font color="#000000">Far away, a druid feels a disturbance in the force. Flowers can be deadly. Urbanites, sheesh. :/

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;On the face, from my understanding.&quot; Sketch.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;ohh! Oh yes, that's good.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;On the face, yep.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#006666">You druids and your hokey religions.

Elros:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Anything else to add?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Or should I go working on a finalized product?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's pretty good. Distinct enough to not run over other emblems, but simple. Easy to reproduce and recognize.&quot;

* Edaric tilts his head and looks at it. &quot;Looks pretty solid to me, too.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;I agree.&quot; She says and then OH DEAR SWEET GODS WHAT HAPPENED TO THOMAS. :O

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;..We certainly can't personalize it any more, lest it be covered in cogs and trees and suits of armor with arrows stuck in the back.&quot;

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Never updated Gnogglebolt's token info

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">I FOUGHT A LAWNMOWER IT WAS HORRIBLE

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeaahhh. Nothing personally identifiable to any of us, individually. That just doesn't work.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Needs to be something that we all have common ground on.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">'Which is protecting those who need it.&quot; :)

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Very good.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Let's see...&quot;

* Sszeyl takes some books from the shelf for referece images, and goes upstairs to work.

* Swallowtail looks over at Thomas... then walks over, looks up...

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

</i>* Swallowtail is about a foot shorter than Thomas. :\

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

* Thomas Lazarus hides his embarassment by nomming a dumpling. =3=;

* Swallowtail heads over and grabs a chair, then stands on it and pats Thomas on the head three times, saying something in Amayan.

You whisper to Meany: &quot;There. Pat on the head after a haircut, good luck.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus doesn't protest. Or move much, for that matter. Still biting dumpling, &quot;o.o ?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt just looks bemused, and says something to Swallowtail.

Gnogglebolt whispers: &quot;What was that you said?&quot;

* Swallowtail pats her own head three times then points at Thomas, replying.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;She says it's good luck.&quot;

You whisper to TMG: &quot;Old custom. Pat on the head after a haircut, good luck.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;..Oh. I thought, perhaps, she was giving last rites to my hair.&quot; |3

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

</i>Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Hmm. I can take ten on crafts, but can I take twenty? \V ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Yo. ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">welcome back alex, last line you saw?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">If you want to take a lot of time, yes, in this case. x3

Faerie:<font color="#006666">* Sszeyl takes some books from the shelf for referece images, and goes upstairs to work.

Gnogglebolt whispers: &quot;Facinating.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Sorry, that was stupid on my part.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Screw dat. :V ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt says one word to Swallowtail, and continues looking amused.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Didn't notice that my laptop was on critical low battery.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+9+mod = 16 + 9 + 0 = 25&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

TMG:<font color="#000000">okay, whispering, one moment.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Et viola.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">25 is still quite solid.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">And then my laptop was all &quot;If you're not gonna plug me in, I'm just gonna turn off.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">It just won't summon Corgis.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Et viola? And a string instrument? :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Thank goodness.

TMG:<font color="#000000">* Sszeyl takes some books from the shelf for referece images, and goes upstairs to work. * Swallowtail looks over at Thomas... then walks over, looks up... Faerie is disconnected. * Swallowtail is about a foot shorter than Thomas. :\ TMG: ohnoes! * Thomas Lazarus hides his embarassment by nomming a dumpling. =3=; * Swallowtail heads over and grabs a chair, then stands on it and pats Thomas on the head three times, saying something in Amayan. * Thomas Lazarus doesn't protest. Or move much, for that matter. Still biting dumpling, &quot;o.o ?&quot; Gnogglebolt: Gnogglebolt just looks bemused, and says something to Swallowtail. You whisper to Liatai: &quot;What was that you said?&quot; * Swallowtail pats her own head three times then points at Thomas, replying. Sszeyl: &quot;She says it's good luck.&quot; Swallowtail whispers: &quot;Old custom. Pat on the head after a haircut, good luck.&quot; Thomas Lazarus: &quot;..Oh. I thought, perhaps, she was giving last rites to my hair.&quot; |3 Faerie has connected.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( :P ))

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

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Yes. ))

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

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Et voila.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Frackle. That was supposed to be whispered to Alex. :/

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

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Derp

Faerie:<font color="#006666">xP

* Dr. Hatari draws in a breath.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">TEEEEEEXT!

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

* Sszeyl brings down a positively bitchin' full sized painting of the full coat of arms.

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;You like? (:3&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;!&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#006666">If you don't like text Hatari, I'm afraid you're in the wrong place. :P

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt raises an eyebrow. &quot;Impressive!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">He's making fun of Ghost, I think. x3

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh-ho.&quot; He smiles. &quot;Better than I imagined it could look.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">:B

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Not bad.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Question is..&quot;

* Sszeyl hangs it up on the wall. &quot;There. :3&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;What to we brand it on?&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I know some engravers for signet rings. :3&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Our door will need it as a sign, I think, at least.&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">.3*

* Thomas Lazarus nods.

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;And a brand maker, for burning it into goods.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Signet rings and doors. Good place to start.&quot;

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

* Thomas Lazarus laughs.

* Edaric guards his lute. &gt;.&gt;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, Barbarus, I don't think we need to go that far.&quot; ^^;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;All of Gnogglebolt's bombs!&quot;

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

* Edaric laughs! XD

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;&quot;Love, Guardians&quot;&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Yes, Gnogglebolt actually puts on that face.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;If no one minds, I'll go paint it on our new carriage. |3&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Giving the enemies a facefull of Guardian justice!&quot; XD

* Thomas Lazarus pats the Gnome's back. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+9+mod = 6 + 9 + 0 = 15&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Craft (painting) check!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;You people are terrible.&quot; He says, shaking his head, and yet, chuckling slightly. &quot;let's just stick to the door and signet ring for now.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Not -quite- so detailed, but still good.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...No. Wait.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;On second thought, let's not do the door...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Assasins. Don't need to make their job any easier.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;How will people know where to find -- ohhhhhhh.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;At least, let's not do the door -now-.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs slightly. &quot;Perhaps...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;After we've engaged them and hopefully come out alive.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;In any case. Tomorrow is going to be busy.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Quite.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;A new face, a meeting with the commander - and I've a feeling - job hunting.&quot;

* Sszeyl goes to make cheesecake. &gt;:U

* Thomas Lazarus grabs another dumpling.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 9 + 3 = 12&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Profession Cooking check!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please excuse me.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Gah, it's so runny~&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've been slacking on my demonology reading.&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 19 + 2 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; assist?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Upstairs he goes.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">:.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Holy -- Ninja Chef. :O

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">How about I assist you? :.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">x3

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Yeah, sure, we can do that. :3

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Yay for not having sentient food. :U

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">:B

* Dr. Hatari goes afk a few.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Hmm. I should start setting the password to delicious food more often.&quot; :9

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Careful.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Or I won't make dragon beard candy tomorrow morning. &gt;:o&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Dragon beard candy?&quot; :.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Never heard of that. What is it?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Spun sugar wrapped around crushed peanuts.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;You have to eat it quickly after making, as it will only keep for six minutes after it's done.&quot;

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

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;... But why is it called dragon's beard? Dragons don't have beards.&quot; :. &quot;Do they?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;The ones...of the gold variety do.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I think.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;And in some depictions, blues.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Reds...&quot; Twitch. &quot;Could be stylized as having a goatee.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And silvers. :D

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;And silvers.&quot;

GM:<font color="#000000">Be quiet, dragon fan self. =3=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hey, why are you shushing me? &gt;:O

* GM fights self under the stairs. =3=

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">x3

GM:<font color="#000000">Anyway! If everyone would kindly move themselves to sleeping positions.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Oh, good timing then.

* Faerie has to run to dinner.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt yawns, and heads upstairs.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&quot;And then the assasins attacked while we were sleeping.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">THIS IS THE PART WHERE SHE KILLS YOU Act 2.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;;

* Sszeyl trances...making some weird sounds while doing so.

* Thomas Lazarus sits at the foot of his bed reading a grimoire by lantern-light for much of the evening.

* Faerie locks scroll, then leaves to dinner

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hmm. Wonder how long everyone in the HQ is kept up for tonight.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...and what is Swallowtail's reaction. -3-

GM:<font color="#000000">Well, to you guys. Do we wait for Fae, or continue?

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( DC 10 Listens will result in hearing &quot;Worthless, mindless meat...&quot; DC 15 will result &quot;I -will- be free.&quot; DC 20 will result &quot;Cursed Salishea....&quot; ))

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( I vote wait. :V ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hmm. How long do you think you'll be gone, Alex--ah, darnit. he's gone already

Faerie:<font color="#006666">No, not yet.

Faerie:<font color="#006666">&gt;.&gt;

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">How long do you think you'll be gone for fooding?

TMG:<font color="#000000">if it's like, half an hour, I suppose I'm okay with waiting

Faerie:<font color="#006666">Umm...I'm just eating here at home, so...20 minutes maybe?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">We could perhaps muck about in the twilight hours until he gets back?

GM:<font color="#000000">Does anyone have any preemptive noms while we wait?

* Faerie doesn't know exactly. &gt;.&gt;;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Just go then, shoo, scat. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Begin the timer~

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Everyone for COAT OF ARMS.

* Faerie flees~

TMG:<font color="#000000">ah, cool, can wait that long then. Though brefi nighttime antics are okay, too.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Let's see, I'm sure I do.

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

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Tom for EXTREME MAKEOVER.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Tathi for Barding. Non-armor variety.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Tathi for YOU ARE A TERRIBLE CORRUPTOR OF CHILDREN

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">ololol strip-poker Tathi.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">XD

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">What's going on? We're waiting for Fae to return and doing noms?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Basically.

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

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Just a quick timekill.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ghost, I know you're going to flinch and hiss in revulsion, but I must. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImportantHaircut

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Then we go to kill things.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl for Arteestic. Entirely his idea to get an emblem, and we got a good one.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I mean, fuck.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">We could barely decide an acceptable name. :B

* Dr. Hatari SNRKS.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Hmm. Anything for Gnogglebolt or Calrach? :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I didn't consider it such a big trope. It was just a Pamela spite thing. XD

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Gnoggle for THAT WAS HIM?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Funny, though.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Calrach for ENTRANCE.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt for usual logistics leading. Someone has to buy food and corall the cats. |U

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It may have been, but if this was a book, I'm sure people would pin it as an Important Haircut. :B After all, Tom's changed a lot since he joined the Guardians.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Tom for haircut. XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Alex for veterinarian.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">True, he has.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I secretly, perversely hope he dies and everyone is sad.

* Dr. Hatari revels in the shadenfreude!

TMG:<font color="#000000">D: Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Brb, makin' bakon'

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I can picture it now... Pamela in her watchtower, talking to Mr. Giggles... &quot;Isn't that cute~? They're trying to seige the castle~ .... wait.&quot; *takes out a spyglass and peers* &quot;... 'What happened to the pretty hair!!! &gt;:O' &quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Heh. x3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Anyway. I really do wonder if Swallowtail reacts in any way to the...noise in the night. That'd be ighttime antis until Alex gets back, surely. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">*nighttime antics

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">I spent most of my youth in a communal academy. This is nothing new. =3= She stays quiet, presumably sleeping through it if there are any elven antics.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ah, heh.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">XD XD

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">TAKE THAT.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Pamela I love you. ;~;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">SHUT UP, BRAIN.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">In the meantime, I'm going to make HQ dark in a bit. So if you want to give yourselves candles, feel free. :3

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Darkvision.

TMG:<font color="#000000">eh? Oh, okay. o.o One moment.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, I've done mine, dunno about anyone else

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Barby has one.

TMG:<font color="#000000">...I can see with the vision of the two audience tokens, thoug

TMG:<font color="#000000">*though

Liatai:<font color="#000000">How about now?

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Cant see outside the tokens.

TMG:<font color="#000000">okay, no more audience vision for me

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Okay, lights out in 3...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">2...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">1...

TMG:<font color="#000000">alright...now what? :.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">My heart... it hurts so good... =3= *nom*

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">We wait for Fae some more.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh. Thought Liatai was up to something. :B

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Nope, just prepwork.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">She probably is.

GM:<font color="#000000">In the meantime! All - 100 XP - Coat of Arms.

GM:<font color="#000000">Tathi - 100 XP - Corrupting the Youth.

GM:<font color="#000000">Tathi - 100 XP - Using your Resources.

GM:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl - 100 XP - Arteest. 50 XP - You gave Tharky a story when others said 'another time!' :B

GM:<font color="#000000">Thomas - 100 XP - Haircut.

GM:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt - 100 XP - That was HIM?! 100 XP - Logistics Man, here to save the day!

GM:<font color="#000000">Elros - 100 XP - Doctor Doolittle.

GM:<font color="#000000">Oh yes! And another 50 XP to all for sitting through Tharky's story. I'm sorry, I didn't expect it to take that long to type. ^^;;

* Dr. Hatari pats. :B

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

</i>* Dr. Hatari levels from cutting his hair!

TMG:<font color="#000000">does Calrach count for the two 'all' EXPs?

TMG:<font color="#000000">...seriously? xD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I FEEL PROFESSIONAL.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">No not seriously. :&gt;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh. :P

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... did you really -- oh XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Would have been lulzy though.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Like Aelian levelling up from getting a girlfriend. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Still have like 5000.

TMG:<font color="#000000">That would have been just one step below Aelian leveling for getting laid. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Talk about grinding XP.

* Dr. Hatari is brick'd!

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Anyway, no, Calrach doesn't get the All awards. ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh, darn. What about his Entrance nomination, though?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Tech, do you plan to bring both Gnogglebolt and Calrach on the group's trips?

GM:<font color="#000000">Oh right! 100 XP - Calrach - Entrance.

TMG:<font color="#000000">-I- didn't plan on it. o.o

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Just for this one, is the plan.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">One moment, sacred canine duty.

TMG:<font color="#000000">but yeah, that seems like how it's working out, this time at least. This was mentioned already, it's like when Ghost had Derish and barshal, and Meany having Sszeyl and Barbarus(at the beginning)

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Kay. I assumed he would dissapear for some reason, but if not, that's cool. :B

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

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">((Also it took like forever to find another white-haired blue eyed person that matched Thomas' exact mug and expression. :B:B))

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

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Brb.

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I should probably have checked for the 2nd most important bacon ingredient before making that.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">#1: Bacon.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">#2: Infinite paper towels.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">I return.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">With chips.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">And chicken noodle soup.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">&gt;:o

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

</i>Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Yo.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">wb

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Of sorts.

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">I'll be switching computers when I can.

* Faerie points to LiaTalk

GM:<font color="#000000">Well, let's get a roll call while Fae's here. Who's here?

* Dr. Hatari is here.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20 = 5&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187;

* Meany rolls poorly. Damn fat.

GM:<font color="#000000">Fae's here, Meany is here... Hatari is here...

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Meowmix.

GM:<font color="#000000">Ghost is here... Techmeister!

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Sorry, friend came over.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Back now

* Dr. Hatari throws an EMP at tech.

TMG:<font color="#000000">did anyone shoot what Alex missed?

GM:<font color="#000000">Good question. What's the last you remember seeing, Fae?

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">One sec.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Thaaat's what I should have gotten at the filler fair.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Mink plushies.

GM:<font color="#000000">In the meantime. Would everyone please roll a Wisdom check, at -4?

* Dr. Hatari smacks forehead.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-2 = 17 - 2 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-2 = 7 - 2 = 5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 11 - 1 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20-2 = 4 - 2 = 2&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-4 = 13 - 4 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20+floor((wisdom-10)/2) = 18 + floor((13 - 10) / 2) = 19&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; wisdom check!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20-2 = 4 - 2 = 2&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">15!

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Sonuvafour. ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Ghost your macro baffles the ever-living hell out of me. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh wis check, okay..

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">XD!

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">It's to keep it from spitting out decimals.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">It's just a d20!! XD

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-4 = 15 - 4 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND

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

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Hm? &gt;.&gt;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Roll a Wisdom check at -4.

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">One sec

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Liatai...since Elves and Drow don't sleep..

Liatai:<font color="#000000">1d20+Wis modifier-4

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">How long has it been since Bed was called for? :V

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Fuck

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Fuck fuck fuck

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">If you insist.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">*shot*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Elros' Wis is on his token, don't worry. ^^;;;

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Laptop is...cooling, but BIOS is still throttling it down to unusable levels.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">D: Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Why do you run your laptop with burning coal. D: Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&#171; &#160;1d20+2-4 = 16 + 2 - 4 = 14&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187; ?

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">I think I just need my lptop to reach a certain nominal temperature before boot.

GM:<font color="#000000">Tathi, Aelian, Gnogglebolt, Swallowtail, Elros... you wake up in the middle of the night, hearing a dull, steady roar of some kind from downstairs, with some crackling thrown in, and... good gods. Is that smell... Is that ... smoke?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Apparently, a fortuitous night to be sleepy armored.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi awakes with a start, quickly donning a nightshirt as she shakes Aelian awake.. only to find he's already awake.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">TATHI GANG. DOWNSTAIRS.

Tavia:<font color="#000000">WHAT'S HAPPENING D: Kor:<font color="#000000">HEY!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt stirrs as he hears the strange things going on, then snaps open. &quot;What the-?!&quot;

Kor:<font color="#000000">Don't leave me! &gt;:O

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;WAKE UP EVERYONE!&quot;

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

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Elros mutters something in Elven as he bolts out of bed. SOmething not suitable for children.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi's eyes widen.. is that what she thinks it is?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;The hell --?!&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He can't put on his armor, but he does grab his blunderbuss and rushes downstairs.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Wait for people to get to the stairs and/or wake up. :3

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Pleasedon'tbeanattackpleasedon'tbeanattackpleasedon'tbe--&quot;

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

</i>* Thomas Lazarus presses himself out of bed with a few bleary, increasingly irritated blinks. &quot;....&quot; He stumbled upright and hooks a hand under his scabbard's belt before tromping out of his &quot;room&quot;.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Fae has errors.

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

</i>Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">:o

* Barbarus grabs his whistle blearly and BLARES.

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Tathi! Get back!&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">Venezuela and Hondruas should wake and begin scanning for strangers with their scent ability.

* Thomas Lazarus coughs harshly and looks over to the others.

* Sszeyl wakes, and calmly moves over to the main room.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;You two, stay behind us, okay?&quot; Tom storms downstairs, not knowing what he'll find.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gnogglebolt said fire --!&quot;

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;Crap crap crap, where's our water?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Edaric.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Get Tathi to blow a hole in one of these walls.&quot;

FIRE:<font color="#000000">One corner of the house is engulfed in quickly growing flames, and through the hole in the wall, and the leaping flames, you see..

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;And use the bedding as ropes.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Down the stairs smoothly.

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;I have rope, with my things. It'll be safer.&quot;

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">A metallic creature, as tall as a halfling, skittering around on its eight legs. Flaming liquid drips from its dark metallic mandibles. Roll initiative.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Init: &#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 2 + 1 = 3&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Damn you're downstairs already.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20+floor((dexterity-10)/2) = 3 + floor((17 - 10) / 2) = 6&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; initiative!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 14 + 1 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 12 + 1 = 13&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Dex check!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Clever girl.

* Dr. Hatari is overtaken by a raptor.

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Init &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 3 + 3 = 6&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Tathi, Gnogglebolt.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Hurry, out the window, and get the water from the bath.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Aren;t you the quicker one!?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;No.&quot; He pulls his sword from its scabbard and scowls. &quot;They're here.&quot;

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 3 + 7 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d20+7 = 11 + 7 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Yes.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;But you're specialty is fire.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;So you cannot fight indoors without -killing us too.-&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi rolls her eyes. &quot;My speciality.. is magic.&quot; She says. Might she be able to roll a reactionary knowledge check to identify this construct?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Forget about the rental building for now. Watch your friends.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 9 + 4 = 13&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Ask me when I'm not rolling initiative!

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">Barby is assumedly locked out of combat by the others?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Roll init for him, too.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Tom, this has nothing to do with the building. Get your priorities straight. :T&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 12 + 1 = 13&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 3 + 2 = 5&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Dex check!

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 14 + 3 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I'm just gonna have him stop arguing cuz, its been 6 seconds. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Also, lolcleric. 36 gallons of water here. :B

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Blast the on-fire parts away! Forget the building, we've money for it!&quot;

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;Gnoggle! What about your bursting materials?&quot;

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">The metallic spider clicks its fangs and moves with a series of clicking clacks across the stones toward a different part of the building...

* Swallowtail shouts something in Amayan.

You whisper to Meany: &quot;Why are we all crowding the stairs?!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">?!

Thomas Lazarus has received initiative.* Thomas Lazarus knits his brow and whispers darkly. &quot;Remember what Rhylinar said... they're going to be out there, waiting for a chance.&quot;

Sszeyl whispers: &quot;Fire! Killers!&quot;

* Sszeyl shouts back.

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Elros wonders if something Gnogglebolt has could blow a hole in the wall...or whether that would blow everything else up, too.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">no reactionary knowledge check?

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">Want a hole in the wall? Just wait for my turn.

* Thomas Lazarus raises his blade to his forehead and intones a powerful prayer of vigor. Everyone in the party recieves the effect of Aid. +1 to hit, and &#171; &#160;1d8+5 = 3 + 5 = 8&#160;  &#187; temporary HP above and beyond their maximum.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't have anything that big yet!&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh, go ahead on your turn.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Done.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">doh. : Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Blast it -- where'd they go?!&quot; Aelian coughs, nocking an arrow and scanning the smoke.

Sszeyl has received initiative.Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;What Rhylinar said-?! The hells you talking about?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Helvirahel opportunistic assassins.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Hmm. It's a reflex check to douse fire, right? ))

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

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Oh, them.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 6 + 6 = 12&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Ref save!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Roll a second Reflex save.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 5 + 6 = 11&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Ref save!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl has now caught on fire! D: Liatai:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d6 = 5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; damage.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">D: * Sszeyl seems oddly nonschalant about it.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Ohgawd, dorf fortress flashbacks. @_@

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Now that you're on fire, Sankis, go punch them to death.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">You're ninja-immune.

* Edaric runs down the stairs with a blanket in hand -- and freezes for a moment before running to Sszeyl's aid!

TMG:<font color="#000000">Yes. That. xD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I forgot to mention, the Aid is 5 minutes.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">... Or, 6 minutes.

* Dr. Hatari keeps forgetting more things! &gt;.&gt;;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+4+5 = 3 + 4 + 5 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Reflex save, with something to help smother the flames.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+4+5 = 20 + 4 + 5 = 29&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Reflex save to avoid catching on fire D: Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( =3= ))

* Edaric doesn't put out the fire just yet, but pulls his hand back in time to avoid being burnt. &quot;-- Tch!&quot;

Elros has received initiative.Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Edaric what are you doing?!&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Barbarus Swallowtail and Ezer are still upstairs!&quot; the bard coughs.

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Reflex save &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 19 + 3 = 22&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187; to put Sszeyl out.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl, you are no longer on fire. :D

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Thank you.&quot;

Tathi has received initiative.Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;It doesn't do us any good if you're a pile of ashes.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Jeeze, I got two other details of the aid spell wrong... x3

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Figures we'd make a place with no back door!&quot; Tathi mutters, trying to help put out the flames.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Just forget it, for this combat.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20+reflex = 18 + 5 = 23&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

TMG:<font color="#000000">so I don't have +1 attack and +8 temp hp? D: FIRE:<font color="#000000">One part of the fire is extinguished!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">No, keep them.

Barbarus has received initiative.TMG:<font color="#000000">oh, whew

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">It merely should have been stronger. The short description lead me to believe it caps at 1d8+5. It doesn't. It also gives us +1 to fear saves.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">But those are minor details. Now I know, atleast.

Gnogglebolt has received initiative.Liatai:<font color="#000000">Barbarus, you can move if you want to.

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&gt;.O

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I'm just moving on to give Tech time to type. ^^;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">Mules should be hammering at the wall, or one of the spiders. :P

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh boy, what can Gnogglebolt do, what can Gnogglebolt do...

TMG:<font color="#000000">...I can't think of anything Gnogglebolt can do. D: Barbarus: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Get the inscindigas? ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">We have holy water, no?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">It's still water.

Barbarus: <font color="#cd7f31">(( So it doesn't catch fire? ))

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Help with the fire!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Grab a blanket?

TMG:<font color="#000000">He can't help with the fire without either getting in the way or making it worse. :B

* Thomas Lazarus frowns.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Gnogglebolt, is your lab going to explode if fire reaches it?&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">His expression reads: Guess so. D: Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He runs into the workshop and works on securing the explodey stuff.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">end turn)

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 12 + 3 = 15&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; WHAM.

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 1 + 3 = 4&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; WHAM.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">That is not even the right wall, Honduras.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No good! The walls are too thick for mule feet to knock down.

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">SILENCE.

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">I KILL YOU. D: Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">You hear a whistle, like a boiling teakettle, and then a FWOOSH.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Barbarus, keep blaring on that whistle! Get the locals to call the fire brigade!&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">FWEEEEEEEEEE.

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;I see one!&quot; Aelian snaps off an arrow as a readied action -- &#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 11 + 8 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d8 = 1&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; damage!

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">The arrow strikes the creature hard, but barely scratches it. The construct doesn't seem to notice.

* Swallowtail runs down the stairs, calling out in broken Common -- &quot;What I do?!&quot;

* Sszeyl replies in Amayan. :V

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Okay. Long story short, my laptop is out of commission for a while. I'm going to give it a few hours to reach room temperature.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Kay. ))

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Thomas seems highly distracted by the firey construct to the west. He hesitates and gestures to the fires. &quot;Help, please.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Righto. You on desktop now?

Sszeyl whispers: &quot;Help crush fire!&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Capisco!&quot; She practically leaps over Aelian and Edaric to help with the fire!

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 17 + 6 = 23&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Reflex...

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Ninja fire brigade. =3=

Thomas Lazarus has received initiative.Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">Fwee is still going. God damn the lungs on that cat. o.o

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Swallowtail soundly disproves her people's stereotypical aversion to fire.

You whisper to Meany: That was &quot;I understand!&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Well those are the Japanese ninjas. I'm an Amayan ninja. =3=

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sooner or later,&quot; He raises his blade and invokes more divine magic, &quot;-we'll be forced to bring the fight to them.&quot; He raises his magic defenses sharply and moves near the door. (Casting Shield of Faith, +3 Deflection AC)

* Aelian snaps off two more arrows! &#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 1 + 6 = 7&#160;  &#187; &#171;  &#160;1d20+6 = 16 + 6 = 22&#160;  &#187; &#171;  &#160;1d8 = 6&#160;  &#187; &#171;  &#160;1d8 = 4&#160;  &#187;

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">One arrow lodges in the wall, but another hits -- and bounces right off.

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;What are these things made of?!&quot; he growls.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Adamant.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Ael, they're called adamantine spiders.&quot;

* Aelian doesn't bother with a reply.

Sszeyl has received initiative.Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">... I totally forgot my knowledge check,.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;If I recall...magic weapons can damage them easily...&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Tom, you and me. &gt;:O&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Total defense is +5 to AC right? ))

* Thomas Lazarus whispers a curse. &quot;Tathi, I didn't get a magic weapon spell prepared last night. This is probably going to be all you. But I'll keep you covered.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">+4, I think.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( -10 to Attacks? ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">+4 as standard action.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Even still. ))

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Fighting defensively is -4 attack, +2 AC.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Total defense, moving outside.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;There's only two!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Done.

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">Straight into the waiting jaws of a spider. &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 4 + 7 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Haha, no.

* Sszeyl is just too quick. &gt;:o

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">Its jaws clack shut right where your ankle was point-five seconds ago.

* Edaric takes his blanket and heads west! &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 17 + 9 = 26&#160;  &#187;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Hah! Take that!&quot;

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">The little spidery thing clicks its jaws menacingly.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- crap.&quot;

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">Wait, anything on our Scent ability? &gt;:o

Liatai:<font color="#000000">If you can see t in your range of vision, you can smell it.

Venezuela: <font color="#cd7f31">(( so, no? :B ))

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I gave Venezuela and Honduras 30-foot light sources. So, no.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">SOMETHING SMELLS LIKE *SNIFF*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">NOTHING.

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">The little thing snaps at Sszeyl again! &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 18 + 7 = 25&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d4 = 3&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;, and if it hits, make a Fortitude save.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Damnit.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Just five feet out of range.

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">Fort save, Sszeyl?

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 12 + 5 = 17&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Fort save!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Good, good. :3

Elros has received initiative.Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Question, would it be unreasonable to say that Elros has a sword on him?

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">&gt;.&gt;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Not at all.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Assume you grabbed your weapons.

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">And armor, or no?

TMG:<font color="#000000">Armor actually take time to don, unfortunately

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Unless you slept in your armor, no.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You have light armor, so it's not unfeasable.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Aw yeah.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">I have a ring.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">And Dex.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">And Wisdom.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">=3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">Weapons are okay because I assume since the assasin alert -everyone's- been keeping weapons by their beds

TMG:<font color="#000000">But nope, can't sleep in armor without having a penalty the next day, even light armor I think.

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">AoO! &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 4 + 7 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d4 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Light armor has no penalty, I believe.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Padded armor is practically pajamas anyway. =3=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It would be silly to sleep in padded armor and wake up fatigued. =3=

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Battle-pajamas.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">You're right, it -is- only medium or heavy armor

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( ...Wait. ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">but really, sleeping in even light armor repeatedly would be unpleasant, for the reasons Brian was pointint out eralier, so...

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( We're fighting in our pajamas. ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">Alex, guess it's up to you.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Did Tathi and Aelian remember to don pants? :B ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">Did elros not bother to take his armor off before going to bed?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">ololol.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">She did narrate throwing something on.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">But that would be amazing.

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Well then. Elros pushes his way outside, dressed (presumably) in his sleep clothes but carrying his swords, drawing the +1 longsword on the way. &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 3 + 9 = 12&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d8+4 = 8 + 4 = 12&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187;

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Elros had, unfortunately, decided to sleep with his armor off, and hat bolted because of fire. So, takes 2 damage.

Aelian:<font color="#000000">Of course I remembered pants. &gt;| Or at least shorts.

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Also, whyfor 2 divverent HPs?

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">The skittering thing dodges the mighty blow!

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Tom buffed everyone's hp by +8.

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">oic

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Carry on

Tathi has received initiative.Liatai:<font color="#000000">Go Tathi go!

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Silly drow, move!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">I occupy only five feet of space on token. &gt;&gt;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20+17 = 4 + 17 = 21&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; Knowledge Arcana!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">... is that even the right check? One moment. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yep, it is. :D

* Dr. Hatari wishes it were simplified into Knowledge: Dangerous Bits.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oop, yup. I know wut dat is.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">http://www.finechineseclothing.com/eng/Product/detail.aspx?ProductID=168

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Is their slogan seriously &quot;for you care you charm you&quot;?

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( :B ))

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">These little creatures are adamantine spiders, small constructs normally used as miniature assassins or as guards. They often carry poison in their internal chambers, which they can inject with their bite. Being made of adamantine, they are tough, but their carapaces can be pierced by adamantine or magic weapons (DR 5/magic or adamantine). They also have limited repair capabilities (fast healing 1).

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">No magic immunities? Excellent. :&gt;

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">None whatsoever.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Sszeyl, as soon as you can, move!!&quot; Tathi says, indicating a straight line of her and the spiiders. She readies an action to cast a spell as soon as he does this.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">All done!

Barbarus has received initiative.* Barbarus is continuing to fwee while going downstairs.

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">When suddenly. &gt;:o

* Barbarus fwees in a pattern at Vene and Hon.

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 5 + 3 = 8&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Handle animal check.

* Aelian winces as the whistle blasts right behind him. MY EARS O~@

Gnogglebolt has received initiative.Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">Yo, he wants us to go...that way...

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">IN A DAMN MINUTE. &gt;8O

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Six econds a round, so...Gnogglebolt is rushing back and fourth in the workshop, gathering up all incindigas and gunpowder horns. Will be done when GM says so. End turn.

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt can hear a noise from the northwestern corner of the wall... fweeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Adamantine Spider 3:<b><font color="#000000">FWOOOOSH

</b></i>Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">I'd say now might be a good time to stop. :3

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Aww. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Really? :.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">We haven't even gotten to hammer them.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I meant Gnogglebolt. XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">.... Or, oh, wait.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Oh. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I meant time for Gnogglebolt to stop running around. XD

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Ah. :B

* Dr. Hatari gets it now. |B

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Dummies. XD

* Meany shotguns Ghostwish.

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">The spider skitters over the charred remains of the wall and snips at Edaric! &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 4 + 7 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d4+1 = 4 + 1 = 5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">WHAT'S THAT FEUDBOY? :V

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I thought it was one of those TUNE IN NEXT TIME fade-outs. XD

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Damnit!&quot; Tathi curses.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yow!&quot; Edaric leaps back as the red-hot mandibles snip shut just two inches away from him.

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">Dare I hope that third spider is close enough for me to smell? &gt;:.

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

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">OI.

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">I smell something strange and smokey! Over ther!

Venezuela:<b><font color="#CD7F31">Commence the murderlization.

</b>Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">x3

* Swallowtail leaps past Thomas to try and help the bard! &#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 13 + 6 = 19&#160;  &#187; &#171;  &#160;1d4+1 = 2 + 1 = 3&#160;  &#187;

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">Damn the thing's thick carapace!

Thomas Lazarus has received initiative.Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;We have this one! Help them!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Wait, I think I can still get them.. going to damage the house a bit though.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus squints harshly at the invading spider. He turns to Sszeyl briefly and slaps his shoulder through the door. &quot;The front's yours. Don't get sniped.&quot; Thomas casts Shield Other on Sszeyl, causing his ring to put off a dull silver glow. +1 deflection AC, +1 to saves, and 1/2 damage soaks to Tom.

Denmark:<font color="#CD7F31">I don't know what those sounds are, but I'm not leaving mommy. &gt;:[

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Meanwhile, the templar boldly wades right on top of the spider accosting Edaric!

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 10 + 7 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; AoO!

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">Yeah no. :B

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;--See if--&quot; He flinches and wrestles with it, but is far from harmed, &quot;--Gnogglebolt is okay!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Done.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;I sincerely hope Thomas isn't where I think he is..&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Right on top of it.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Right!&quot; Aelian, finding that his arrows aren't doing much, heads for the back room.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi facepalms. &quot;Whyyyyyyy?&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">FWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;It's Tom.&quot;

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;We've got a third one!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">What are nukes herp derp. :B

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">You are about to find out.. painfully so.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Aelian barges in on a midget issuing a string of unmentionable words in languages Aelian doesn't understand.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">The corner of the workshop is on fire.

Aelian:<font color="#000000">I don't know, I speak Gnoll, I may understand some of them.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Oh well. I am better prepared than I have ever been. Bro.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Come at me!!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt also has an armful of vials and powder horns.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">This is SO going to crit.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">ololol

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Oh, Aelian catches some -very- nasty things in Gnoll interspersed with the other speech

Aelian:<font color="#000000">Aelian moves to try and extinguish the flames next turn.

Sszeyl has received initiative.Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Alright, now this is bizarre.

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">So, I'm trying to get my computer working.

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">It boots fine, and acts just fine.

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Start the little program that reads the temperature.

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">And suddenly it all goes to shit, and the temperature program says &quot;Clock Modulation: 12.5%&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+5+mod = 16 + 5 + 1 = 22&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Drow punch!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That's a hit!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">For &#171; &#160;1d8+3 = 7 + 3 = 10&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; magical damage.

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">(Which means, crap slow due to the BIOS throttling the cores down to 12.5% normal power.)

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Weird. O_o

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">WH-CRUNCH.

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">There's a BIG dent in the creature now.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Nice! now MOVE!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Five foot step?

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Crap what do I do what do I do --&quot; Edaric decides on running to the back room to help back there.

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">FWEEEEEEEEEEE. &gt;.X

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Another one?!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus keeps the thing's jaws away from Ed's ankles. &gt;:O

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 10 + 7 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d4 = 1&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; damage to Sszeyl!

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">Nip nip nip :O

Elros has received initiative.Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Ow I took .5 damage. :o

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">(Not really. :B)

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Well, maybe this will work better now that he's woken up. &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 17 + 9 = 26&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187; steel +1 longsword for &#171;  &#160;1d8+4 = 6 + 4 = 10&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Better indeed.

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">KER-SLASH. The sword slices through the metal like it was barely there.

Tathi has received initiative.Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Holding up a small glass rod as she chants, Tathi sunders the battlefield with a blinding blue streak of lightning! DC17 for half damage, or suffer the full &#171; &#160;6d6 = 20&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; damage!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 9 + 3 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 13 + 4 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">So about that new haircut....

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 4 + 4 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">But but I was on top of you. X_x

TMG:<font color="#000000">The spider made the save, but Thomas didn't Wonderful. xD

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">So wrong on so many levels.

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">One spider wobbles around on two legs.

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The one Tom was squishing was the one that didn't make the save. ^^;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Oh, okay.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Good. :B

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">My shirt smells like McDonald's fries.

* Swallowtail jumps and lets out a string of curses in Amayan. :O

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Dafuq?

Barbarus has received initiative.Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">FWEEEEEEEEE.

* Thomas Lazarus is wracked with some convulsions as the lightning passes through him and arcs off of his armor for a split second. &quot;!!!&quot;

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 12 + 4 = 16&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; HOOF

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">Not a hit.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Still, he's tough, and isn't even close to letting that knock him down. &gt;:O

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">Going around the long way. &gt;:o

Gnogglebolt has received initiative.Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;WhatdoIdo?!&quot; D: Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sand! Water! What do you have?!&quot; D: Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;You've gotta have something here to put out fires!&quot; D: Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;...I forgot! DX &quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">x3

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- You mean --&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">It should be noted he's still cluthing an armful of explody stuff

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">*clutching

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Never mind put that somewhere safe I'll help Ael!&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;The abrasive sand for smoothing out metal!&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">FWEEEEEEE

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">He rushes into the main room and dumps it all on the table

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">but still for easy pick-back-up- if necessary

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">end turn

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">crap.. should've made tathi take a 5 foot step back. Doh.

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">The spider moves... AoO, Honduras!

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 18 + 4 = 22&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; &gt;O

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">THOCK. Roll mule damage!

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d4+3 = 3 + 3 = 6&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">The most embarassing damage type.

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">A hoof catches it in the midsection, sending the light little construct flying, but it flips over with a clacking of pincers and scuttles east.

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">Uhoh. You've triggered Vene's chase instinct.

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 5 - 1 = 4&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; grapple check against Thomas...

Venezuela:<b><font color="#CD7F31">Get over here! &gt;8O

</b>Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Opposed &#171; &#160;1d20+4+4 = 8 + 4 + 4 = 16&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">The skittery thing is held fast, flailing its many legs and clacking its still-flaming pincers. &gt;::::E

* Thomas Lazarus growls and holds the thing at bay while smoldering a little.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Swallowtail looks left and right again, then calls to Thomas in broken Common, &quot;You want help?! I help!&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus flicks his eyes north. Nuffin. He flicks his eyes south. Nuffin.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;..Sure!!&quot; He nods.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 9 + 5 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; touch attack, followed by &#171;  &#160;1d20+3 = 13 + 3 = 16&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Grapple attempt to assist!

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 15 - 1 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">Now the skittery thing is being grappled by two people. &gt;::;:O

Thomas Lazarus has received initiative.* Thomas Lazarus bares his teeth and lays a hand on the thing's head. (Blowing domain power, and full power attack. Grapple check: &#171; &#160;1d20+4+7 = 18 + 4 + 7 = 29&#160;  &#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">The templar's eyes briefly glow blue, and a staggering amount of crushing force impacts the spider. &#171; &#160;1d3+7+4 = 1 + 7 + 4 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Barbarus: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Almost half a minute, and still no one's come to help us yet. :V Some town. ))

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">Uh... OW.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">*shot*

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">It would take my lazy ass like 2 minutes to even get to my neighbor. :B

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Wait...

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">This seems familiar.

* Meany deja vus all over the place.

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">The creature's carapace crumples like paper in the rear section in Thomas' grasp -- and a few drops of flaming liquid fall to the ground, but they quickly burn out before they can set fire to anything.

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 2 + 8 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Reflex...

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 1 + 8 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Reflex...

Aelian:<font color="#000000">Tathi, your beau's on fire. &#171; &#160;1d6 = 4&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">*fwoosh*

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- AEL! Hold on!!&quot;

Sszeyl has received initiative.Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+6+mod = 3 + 6 + 1 = 10&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Drow strike! &#171; &#160;1d8+3 = 1 + 3 = 4&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Magical damage.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Fff.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">I know isn't he so hot- wait what.

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">It skitters away, clinging to the wall and clacking its joints. Well, what joints it has left.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 20 + 9 = 29&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; to extinguish Aelian!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Elros, Tathi, can you finish this? &gt;&gt;&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Oh, well. Nix that then. :V ))

TMG:<font color="#000000">Critical extinguish!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">You're cold!

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Edaric, I owe you a drink!

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;Here! Blanket! Use it!&quot; Edaric tosses the blanket to Aelian.

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">A minor scratch in the thing's shell seals shut as it bites at Sszeyl again! &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 14 + 7 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d4 = 1&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;!

Elros has received initiative.* Thomas Lazarus staggers and grunts while still wrestling with the warping metal of the spider. &quot;Gnoggle---bolt! I don't see any actual Drow! Anyone??&quot;

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">SONOVAONE! &gt;||||E

* Thomas Lazarus takes another .5 damage. Which rounds down to not helping Sszeyl. :(

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Once more for the queen! Or...whoever. &gt;.&gt; &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 13 + 9 = 22&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d8+4 = 5 + 4 = 9&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">WITH FEELING.

Adamantine Spider 2:<font color="#000000">Well whoever you were slicing in the name of clearly helped guide your stroke. The construct falls apart with a great screech of metal, spilling out a small puddle of violet liquid before laying still.

Tathi has received initiative.Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Elros wonders if what's setting their building on fire was the stolen Alchemist's fire.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">For the record, we got a storm blowin' around and a little thunder.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">So, if I drop, just continue and shoot me a log later.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Go Tathi go!

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi heads back inside, and then eyes the spider that the (shocking) Tom is wrestling with. Tathi points her hand at it, &#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 2 + 6 = 8&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; and unleashes a deadly beam of fire at them for &#171;  &#160;4d6 = 15&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; points of damage!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">D|

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Make a reflex save, Tathi. =3=

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Craaaap I hope their touch AC is low- fffffffffffff

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20+reflex = 16 + 5 = 21&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">D| D| D|

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You did not set the wall on fire!

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">YOU SAID COME AT ME BRO

Liatai:<font color="#000000">But you didn't hit the spider.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">But you didn't hit Tom or Swallowtail! :D

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Oh, so, Tom's haircut looks even more outrageous now? XP

* Thomas Lazarus ducks briefly and pauses. He cries out in an uncharacteristically high tone; &quot;Friendly fire?!&quot;

Barbarus has received initiative.Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;It's not very friendly, actually!!&quot; Tathi says a little shakely. &quot;Sorry!&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">Fweee!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I forgive you -- just mop up!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Right- Why are you wrestling with that thing anyway!? Just beat the crap out of it!&quot;

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">Go around the other way!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Thomas doesn't answer, but the spider probably does for him. It is grappling all up ons, at this point.

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">Mule on the hunt!

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">DEATH &gt;::::E

Gnogglebolt has received initiative.Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">Yes, we have lots.

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">Here, let's share some with you. 8D

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">ROFL@the spider smily. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt! What will you do? D: Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I do like those. x3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Especially the one earlier with the single tear. xD

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

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Poor gnogglebolt is confused, still half-asleep, and has no idea what to do. He has very little of his equipment with him, and if he did, most of it isn't useful anyway. There's nothing he can do to help put out fires without likely catching fires as well. he has no effective weapons.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Well, Thomas is struggling with a spider on his face. Maybe can help with that.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt vaults over the table and tries to grab the spider, too.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Touch attack! &#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 1 + 4 = 5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Grapple check if success; &#171;  &#160;1d20-1 = 3 - 1 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">Make a 10, I'm pretty sure I've lost my Dex bonus to --

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">D: Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Nuthin. End turn.

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">Thomas and Swallowtail are just too tall for the gnome to reach the spider where they're holding it. :B

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">XD

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt jumps up and reaches like a child trying to get a ballon.

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">fweeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

</i>Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">AoO, Honduras!

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 15 + 4 = 19&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; HOOF

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">That's a hit!

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d4+3 = 3 + 3 = 6&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187;

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">The mule makes a small dent, but the spider ejects another jet of flame!

Guard 1:<font color="#000000">Huff huff huff huff damn full plate! D: Guard 1:<font color="#000000">&quot;What -- FIRE!!!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Around the back!&quot;

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 19 - 1 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Grapple -- why do I even bother.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 8 + 3 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Grapple...

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Uh oh. &#171; &#160;1d20+4+4 = 19 + 4 + 4 = 27&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">CURSES. D||||

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">Well, Swallowtail can't damage the creature anywhere near as well as Thomas can... but at least she can hold it still. &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 7 + 3 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Grapple opposed by &#171;  &#160;1d20-1 = 3 - 1 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;!

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">The spider is now pinned. You can probably reach it now, Gnogglebolt. :B

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">*squint*

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Are those Hyrule guards?

Thomas Lazarus has received initiative.Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yes.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">That's the triforce alright.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yes they are.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Heh. xD

* Thomas Lazarus staggers upright now that the spider is pinned. He nods rapidly a couple times while catching his breath and picks up his sword. &quot;Good work, ma'am.&quot; Bastard sword power stab! &#171; &#160;1d20+4+1+1+4 = 2 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 4 = 12&#160;  &#187; (Power attack versus prone + pinned. &#171;  &#160;1d10+6+8 = 2 + 6 + 8 = 16&#160;  &#187;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Weeelllll it's not a oooone?

* Dr. Hatari winces.

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">You suuuuuuck D||| The creature is sliced in two -- roll Reflex, Tom, Gnogglebolt! For Swallowtail, &#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 18 + 6 = 24&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 17 + 3 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Yike! &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 20 + 7 = 27&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">We expertly team ninja away, then pose.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">...okay, so maybe I had a -really good- chance of putting out fires. &gt;.&gt;

Adamantine Spider 1:<font color="#000000">You do not catch fire from the alchemist's fire spilling out of the creature's abdomen... and your 20 means that nothing catches fire!

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

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+8+5 = 16 + 8 + 5 = 29&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Reflex --

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Haaah... haaah... haaah...&quot; He looks around slowly.

Aelian:<font color="#000000">The fire in the back goes out! At least, one of the fires.

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Here! Take it back!&quot; Aelian passes the blanket back to Edaric.

Sszeyl has received initiative.Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;What-the-

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;The other one's this way! ..I think.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Barbarus' somewhat sane mule is attacking something back here.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">AHA. &gt;:O

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Double move, done.

* Edaric takes the blanket and runs over toward the fire!

Edaric:<font color="#000000">SO CLOSE DX

Elros has received initiative.Liatai:<font color="#000000">Go Elros go!

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Go go Elros Ranger!

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Elros...wonders where the third one is. =3=;

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Erm...

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Sszeyl shouted where.

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">I...probably should've zoomed out, huh? &gt;.&gt;;

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">And started running toward it. =3=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Other way, Elros. ^^''

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">x3!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">To the northeast.

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

</i>Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Move that poor half-elf. XP

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

</i>TMG:<font color="#000000">helpimbeinattackedbysister

Liatai:<font color="#000000">X3!

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Hiiiii sister. ^_^

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hi Tech's sister. x3

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oof. Okay, she's gone. @_@

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Elros takes a double move action as well, to join Sszeyl.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Yo. =3=

TMG:<font color="#000000">She was trying to cut my hair. :/

Tathi has received initiative.Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">o.o

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">Apparently I have a 'tuft' or 'tail' of hair on the back of my head.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi darts out the door and rushes down the side of the house to find the other spider. End turn!

Barbarus has received initiative.TMG:<font color="#000000">And she was chasing me with the scissors everywhere. X_X

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">FWEEEEEE

* Barbarus grabs one corner of the blanket and-

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 6 + 7 = 13&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Reflex save!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">SCISSORMIND.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Roll a second Reflex save, Barbarus.

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 16 + 7 = 23&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Reflex save!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You didn't put it out, but you didn't catch fire!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">This is almos as bad as the river of doom! :O

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Except fire hurts! D: Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">Fweee-&quot;Not so useless after all, huh?!&quot;-eeeeeeeee!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">((I was secretly hoping we all rolled terribly and chain-fired each other and the whole building on accident.))

Gnogglebolt has received initiative.Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 19 + 4 = 23&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187;

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d4+3 = 4 + 3 = 7&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187;

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">THOCK. QUIT IT. D||||

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">Then stop dodging!

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">&gt;:d

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

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">You're just annoying me! D|||| &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 10 + 7 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for&#171;  &#160;1d4+1 = 3 + 1 = 4&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for Sszeyl!

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think I hear one mm--!!&quot; Thomas suffers a minor bite wound.

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">A minor, but searing bite wound.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">He eyes the mark. &quot;--Sszeyl's fighting one.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">afk, makin' a snack

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt moves to look outside, but doesn't see anything. &quot;Where?&quot;

* Swallowtail digs in her pockets and offers a vial to Thomas -- it's a clear red liquid. It looks kind of like cough syrup.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;Here! Take!&quot; She mimes drinking.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Although he has no idea what it might be, he accepts the vial.

Thomas Lazarus has received initiative.Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Imbibe mysterious Italian fluids. =3=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 3 + 1 = 4&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; healed! It tastes like cherry.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">:9

* Thomas Lazarus steps out the hole in the building and mutters a curse.

Guard 1:<font color="#000000">Tromp tromp tromp tromp tromp tromp

Guard 1:<font color="#000000">Hut hut hut hut hut hut

Guard 2:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where's the fire?!&quot;

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">Wait...you're also strangers! &gt;8O

Venezuela:<b><font color="#CD7F31">Murderlization commencing!

</b>Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I think that'll do it for this round, unless Swallowtail was feeding me the potion with her action. Done!

Unknown command: &quot;mr tries a shot -- [1d20+8] for [1d8]!&quot;. Try /help for a list of commands.* Aelian tries a shot -- &#171; &#160;1d20+8 = 15 + 8 = 23&#160;  &#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d8 = 4&#160;  &#187;!

Aelian:<font color="#000000">It bounces off the spider. Aelian lets loose a very fluid string of Elven curses.

Sszeyl has received initiative.Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+6+mod = 6 + 6 + 1 = 13&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Drow strike! &#171; &#160;1d8+3 = 3 + 3 = 6&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Magical damage.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">D: Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">Whiff!

* Thomas Lazarus squints at the guards in the darkness. &quot;Oh -- hello!&quot; Still somewhat winded. He points a gauntlet to the smashed and smoldering adamantine spider by the door.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Clockwork spiders I guess?&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 8 + 9 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Reflex!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Barbarus, call off Venezuela! She's on a rampage where there's guards!&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">And the bardic fire brigade saves the day! :D

Elros has received initiative.Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;A Clockwork Spider&quot;

* Barbarus mutters around the whistle. &quot;She doesn't -have- a back off command!&quot;

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Elros moves up, and tries to attack the spider from around the corner. &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 5 + 9 = 14&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d8+4 = 6 + 4 = 10&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187;

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">lol, no.

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">HAH. &gt;::::D

Tathi has received initiative.Liatai:<font color="#000000">... bwahaha. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">My music player just came on with &quot;We Didn't Start the Fire.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Go Tathi go!

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">lulz

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Hm.. unpingable, even. :.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">One moment, I may be able to grab him on Trillian.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">crap, sorry. XD

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

Liatai:<font color="#000000">There you are. XD

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">I know, made snack. XP

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi shoots off a series of dazzling bolts, each one zipping through the air shaped and flying like autumn leaves! &#171; &#160;1d4+1+1d4+1+1d4+1 = 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 4 + 1 = 13&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; for that damned spider!

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">The force rips through its adamantine shell, sending sprays of flaming sparks everywhere!

Barbarus has received initiative.Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">FWEEEEE.

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 8 + 3 = 11&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Handle Animal.

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">Wait, what do you mean guard the gnome?!

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">Fine.

Gnogglebolt has received initiative.Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">An evil looking mule with slightly reddish eyes stands protectively over Gnogglebolt.

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">Come on, mule, try it, I dare you. &gt;::::E

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 16 + 4 = 20&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d4+3 = 1 + 3 = 4&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; There. :3

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">HAH. Didn't hurt. &gt;:D

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">To the guards, Gnogglebolt says &quot;Hurry! Around the back, there's more!&quot;

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">*&gt;::::D

Honduras:<font color="#CD7F31">Take a good long look to your immediate right.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">end turn

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 8 + 7 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d4+1 = 3 + 1 = 4&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; to Sszeyl!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Lolnope.

Guard 2:<font color="#000000">Hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">but.. your AC is 15..

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

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Boosted by Tom.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">:3

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">AH. XP

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Silly me.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;... What I do?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus has received initiative.Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Where did that come from? :.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">From the initiative counter? :B

* Sszeyl speaks in Amayan &quot;Look if more spider!&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I meant Swallowtail's remark. XD

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I can't see her.

TMG:<font color="#000000">aw heck, my browser locked up, I think

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;S&#236;!&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">oh, nope, it's back

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Doesn't matter I suppose.

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;More spider?!&quot; she tries.

* Thomas Lazarus shrugs uncertainly. He invokes Light of Lunia so the Humans have half a shot of seeing anything, first.

* Thomas Lazarus squints down the side of the house and gestures towards Gnogglebolt.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Done.

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;... I'll go check the front.&quot; Grumble grumble adamantine...

Sszeyl has received initiative.Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Getting you some adamantine tipped arrows for your birthday, sweetie!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+6+mod = 1 + 6 + 1 = 8&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Drow strike! &#171; &#160;1d8+3 = 7 + 3 = 10&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Magical damage.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Suddenly.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Charlie horse.

* Sszeyl hits the wall of the bathroom instead. &gt;:o

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Sszeyl! We don't need more holes in the wall!&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- Birthday -- gods, we missed our birthdays! -- No, wait, this isn't the time.&quot; D: Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Ahahahah

Sszeyl:<b><font color="#CD7F31">&quot;If you feel you can do better, -you- try punching the damn thing. &gt;:o&quot;

</b>Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;At least I wouldn't hit the damn house!&quot; &gt;:o

* Sszeyl 's eyes shine malevolent red for just a second, then he shakes his head and holds his temple. &quot;Ow. Ow ow ow.&quot;

* Edaric throws the blanket at the spider and tries to hold it still -- &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 2 + 5 = 7&#160;  &#187; touch attack, &#171;  &#160;1d20+3 = 12 + 3 = 15&#160;  &#187; Grapple opposed by &#171;  &#160;1d20-1 = 4 - 1 = 3&#160;  &#187;...

Edaric:<font color="#000000">Failed. D: Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi looks taken aback. &quot;Sszeyl? You allright?&quot;

Elros has received initiative.* Sszeyl opens his eyes, showing a blood vessel has popped in the right one.

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Alright, let's try that again. &#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 8 + 9 = 17&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d8+4 = 8 + 4 = 12&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Just fine, why?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Tom frowns and squints. He also rubs his temple. &quot;...?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">She stares a bit, concerned. &quot;You don't look it or act it..&quot;

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">Now THAT'S a hit!

Tathi has received initiative.Elros:<font color="#0099CC">...oh, really? Yay. o.o

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;So I hear you like burning things..&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi chants softly and gestures, and then sends out a mobile ball of fire after the enemy! It's going to last for 5 rounds!

Tokens dropped onto map 'Vigilant Guardian HQ'Flaming Sphere:<font color="#6600CC">VOOSH! Reflex 16 or take &#171; &#160;2d6 = 10&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; damage!

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Liatai: Counting around-the-corner defense? &gt;.&gt;;

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 4 + 4 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; -- wait.

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">Why am I rolling.

Adamantine Spider 3:<font color="#000000">You melted it even if it had saved. XD

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi dusts her hands off. &quot;Allright, let's get the rest of these fires out!&quot; End turn

GM:<font color="#000000">Combat OVER! :D

* Sszeyl listens keenly.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Says the Pyro.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I don't hear any more fires.&quot;

* Ghostwish celebrates with the mink token.

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Pyros can compression blast. ))

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Where are the rest of the fires?&quot; Gnogglebolt calls out

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Put out fires. :3 ))

Guard 3:<font color="#000000">Hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">Stop moving!

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;Are the fires not out?&quot;

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">*chomp*

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">The guards have startled a Tathi! FIREBALL-

Guard 3:<font color="#000000">&quot;-- FIRE!&quot; one calls, pointing at the flaming sphere. D: * Sszeyl holds up a hand.

Guard 2:<font color="#000000">Not one bit of Spellcraft among any of them. =3=

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;...Tathi, I don't suppose you could recall that?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi rolls her eyes, and directs the ball up into the air.. and then makes it dance around above the guard's heads.

Guard 3:<font color="#000000">D: D: D: Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;She was using it to melt our arsonits. =3=&quot;

* Guard 4 whaps Guard 3 with a gauntlet.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt, meanwhile, rushes back into the house and check the interior for more burning.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Thomas comps over.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;--Well, I rounded the house. Looks clear.&quot;

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">Oi!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They're...all out? It's over?

Venezuela:<font color="#CD7F31">I'm supposed to guard you!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt rushes back outside

* Thomas Lazarus glowers around at the nearby rooftops. &quot;I doubt we're not being watched.&quot;

* Edaric leans on the bench in the workshop, looking a little ashen from all the smoke he's probably inhaled by now putting out the fires. &quot;-- It's safe, no more fires.&quot;

* Sszeyl looks at the mule.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I think it's safe to say the corale is broken again.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Spot check, Tom.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Where's Aelian?&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 1 + 2 = 3&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;Over here!&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Critical human vision. =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">At Thomas's words, Gnogglebolt looks around as well. Spot: &#171; &#160;1d20 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">What pretty stars. =3=

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 4 + 5 = 9&#160; <font color="#CD7F31">&#187; Spot check!

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20+2+floor((wisdom-10)/2) = 10 + 2 + floor((13 - 10) / 2) = 13&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; Spot!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Anyway.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Shall we relocate? :/&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Aelian! Are you allright? I did not order my boyfriend extra-cripsy!&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;This place is..now significantly damaged...I think we should probably have someone inspect it for structural soundness.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus reaches into his belt kit and fumbles around a little.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 6 + 1 = 7&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 7 + 1 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;Gnogglebolt, are you qualified as a structural engineer?&quot;

Assassin:<font color="#000000">Atop a roof, Gnogglebolt catches a glint that doesn't come from starlight... A glimmer of red eyeshine. It fades away a few seconds later.

* Thomas Lazarus gives Sszeyl a wand tap, as well. &#171; &#160;1d8+1 = 7 + 1 = 8&#160;  &#187;

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm okay. Thank the priest for that.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus breathes a sigh of relief. &quot;There..&quot;

* Sszeyl 's burst eye vessel clears up.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt narrows his eyes and grits his teeth as the aparition vanishes.

Amadre:<font color="#6600CC">Hey! Who're all the humans!? Grrrrrrrrrrr!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;They WERE here!&quot;

Tavia:<font color="#6600CC">Yah! Rrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But they're gone now. They watched the whole thing.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And yes, I know a log about buildings, give me a minute...&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Where!? Was the building they were on occupied?&quot; Tathi says, whirling around.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks over the building himself. Knowledge (arch &amp; Eng): &#171; &#160;1d20+13 = 5 + 13 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 4 + 6 = 10&#160; <font color="#6600CC">&#187; knowledge architecture! Assist!

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's too late, they're gone. He was on the roof of an adjacent shop.&quot;

* Sszeyl gathers up the spiders to hand to the guards.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Damn.&quot; Tathi says, canceling her fireball mortor idea.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's not terribly structurally damaged, in the long run. The biggest hole is the first one, in the southeastern corner. If that was patched up, the rest would just be simple patch jobs.

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">eek, is you lagged, liadragon? :52

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:52 received at :53.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Not lagged.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Huh! o.o

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Why huh?

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

* Thomas Lazarus sighs and pats Sszeyl's shoulder. &quot;Gonna check inside on Barbarus.&quot;

Sszeyl: <font color="#cd7f31">(( Wb. ))

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Thought you might have been responding to sszeyl. XP

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;The building will live, it's not coming down yet.&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I'm fine. .|&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Aelian was on fire.

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;See to him.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;You - ? Oh.&quot; He frowns.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can everyone please gather around the front so we can figure this out?&quot;

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

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Not that way.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And tend to those who need tending easier, in one place?&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;He's out front.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">=3=;

* Barbarus cracks a sunrod, and gives it to Tom.

* Edaric focuses on catching his breath. &quot;Okay... I take it back... You... You did good. We all did good.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Down!&quot; Tathi barks at the hounds, who had been growling at the guards.

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;Well then. I see no reason why we should leave tonight, it would just do more harm than good. But whoever's not...or only lightly...injured...should rotate guard.

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I have completed my trance. And quite frankly, this headache wouldn't let me sleep anyway.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;I have to agree.. Alarm spells only do well if the enemy intends to enter, not outright destroy the building.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I'll take first shift.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">By now, Thomas' enchantments wear off, and everyone's adrenaline plumets rather noticably.

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

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt calls over. &quot;Please, come to the front, everyone?&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Picky, picky, picky.

* Aelian teeters and leans on the wall for a moment. &quot;... Note to self... magic bow...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus sticks his sword in the road and leans on it. He's still glowering at various roofs.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Oh, and Thomas dear? We need to have a chat about you soaking up my arcane power.&quot;

Guard 1:<font color="#000000">Hut?

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Hut over here!

* Thomas Lazarus looks flatly at Tathi. &quot;Uhm, I apologize.&quot;

Guard 2:<font color="#000000">Hut hut hut

* Barbarus leans against the door frame.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Who does she think she is. =3=

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alright...who's injured and needs healing?&quot;

Guard 3:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, start from the beginning. What the heck happened here?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've got a spare cure potion in the room...&quot;

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

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think I got the injured. Calm down.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;I am slightly injured, but I will live.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt gathers up the remains of a spider and shows it to the guard. &quot;We were attacked by these.&quot;

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Ah, yes, Alex. To clarify.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Temporary HP from Aid is lost first, before your real HP.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Not your fault.&quot; Tathi says flatly. &quot;But, in the future, when you hear me clamoring for folks to get out of the way, please don't start a wrestling match with one of our adversaries. I don't care how much gold you put down on the bet, one of these days I'll be casting spells not even an armored lug like you could survive. What if I had gotten a wild nilly in my head and cast a gender swapping spell? We'd be calling you Tomiko or something.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">So, Elros should be just fine.

* Thomas Lazarus staaares. D|

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;R..... right.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;No...a lot of this is my fault, actually.&quot; Gnogglebolt says, hanging his head.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">She blinks. &quot;What?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm so sorry, everyone. I wasn't being useful, or being where I should have been. To top it all off, I -should- have been prepared for this.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I didn't know, anyway. I couldn't see you. Just a spider jumping at Edaric.&quot;

* Sszeyl facepalms.

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;Oh, derp. Then I'm fine.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I've got the workshop of flammable things, and we -knew- they had stolen the alchemist's fire...&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus quiets down and looks to Gnogglebolt. &quot;?&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;On that count, yes.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;On the first count.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I should have seen this coming. I should have gotten barrels of water out here.&quot;

Sszeyl:<b><font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Don't make me slap you.&quot;

</b>Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt glances to Sszeyl, and it looks as if he's about to argue, but for once, the gnome falls silent and hangs his head in shame.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Yes, you should have had better fire stoppers on hand.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Gnogglebolt, really, don't beat yourself up over it.. another thing is, if they had decided to use barrels of the stuff on us instead of filling those constructs with them, no amount of water would have helped.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Yes, however, you were useful.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;In getting the explosive materials out. :|&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus whispers urgently. &quot;Don't beat yourself up over such things!&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Stop echoing me, spell-sponge.&quot; Tathi says teasingly.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Alright, alright, well...&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Your head is still spinning. A lot of folks were clamoring.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please. In the morning, you'll see it's okay.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'd say our location is well and truly compromised.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't worry.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;But I think someone had a point, they'd be crazy to attack again tonight.&quot;

Guard 3:<font color="#000000">&quot;... uhm.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi glances back at the house.. &quot;Odd they'd use the alchemist's fire in constructs instead of mass dumping it.. I guess they must have assets nearby.&quot; Tathi says, pondering that little bit.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Meanwhile.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">MIRON ROLLS IN HIS BED AND YOSEMITE SAM SWEARS.

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;We'd be crazy to leave tonight anyway. Several of us tramping about would be sure to draw attention, at this hour.&quot;

Guard 3:<font color="#000000">&quot;We'll keep a watch on the area tonight. Do you want to go to a local temple or hostel to sleep the rest of the night off?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyway...man. We've got the money for it, but not looking forward to explaining to the landlord what happend and covering the cost of repairs.&quot; Thinking of logistics in the face of stress. Coping mechanism go!

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

Guard 3:<font color="#000000">&quot;And, well... this is adamantine. You could probably sell the salvage for a good amount of money.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think I, for one, would actually like that.&quot;

Guard 3:<font color="#000000">&quot;We only need one spider for the evidence locker.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi raises both her eyebrows. &quot;The good guard has a point. This is quite a bit of salvage, party.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">EVE skills go! Loot the spiders for their minerals!

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Take the one Tathi melted.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus leans his hands on the crossguard of his sword.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt walks closer to the uards.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;The Mace probably doesn't have enough beds for all of us plus their own.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Might I suggest we go to Pelor's hall?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyway, so you have a full and complete report...&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;A sound idea...&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We are the Vigilant Guardians adventuring group. This drow here, Sszeyl, is part of our group.&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Ahem.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;His homeland doesn't like him anymore. They sent assasins after him, and by extension, us.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'll go gather up our stuff. In case someone tries to break in while we're out and loot the place.&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;If I might interject?&quot;

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

* Thomas Lazarus looks around to Barbarus, seeming tired again. &quot;...?&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;We have two modes of transport available right now.&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I suggest we load up, and link with my old caravan.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Anyway, yes. The Pelor temple would be a peaceful place to go.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus frowns at that.

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Much better protection than some temple. .3&quot;

* Ezer bounds up and nuzzles Elros' ankes. It was scary D: Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'm going to get all of my things.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;I don't wanna live on the move.&quot; =3=;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;And, er...barbarus...I have to respectfully disagree with you there.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Elros pets Ezer. There there, it's over.

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;They are still outside the city walls.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We just need the temple for the night.&quot;

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Elros supposes that for Ezer, it was probably &quot;Ohgodthestench D:&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;The temple will have clerics and paladins and wardings. A caravan of any size will be hard pressed to compare with that.&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;A caravan of any size has more people.&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;More eyes open and wandering around.&quot;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;You haven't... been to Pelor's temple, have you...?&quot; The bard chuckles.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Barbarus...please. Not now. We know the temple.&quot;

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">She glances to Edaric. &quot;Me?&quot;

Barbarus:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;What's this we? &gt;.#&quot;

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">&quot;All the same, considering the nature of our opposition, better eyes may be preferable to more eyes, regardless.&quot;

* Thomas Lazarus just frowns. He doesn't seem to want to push the idea against Barbarus.

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;I just know if we spend more time standing around I'm going to keel over.&quot; ^^;;

Edaric:<font color="#000000">&quot;No, not you, I meant Barbarus.&quot; ^^;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;..Right. Let's secure what we can't afford being looted tonight and make the walk together. Okay?&quot;

Swallowtail:<font color="#000000">&quot;What we doing?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;Can't we just load everything up in Barbaru's carraige, at least?&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">&quot;We can take that.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Speaking in Amayan; &quot;Flee to temple. For night.&quot;

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;If you wish.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt looks over to Swallowtail and replies in the Auran language.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;I actually loaded the other carriage too. =3=;;&quot;

Gnogglebolt whispers: &quot;Gather everything important, we must go somewhere else.&quot;

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Before coming to trance.&quot;

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt goes inside, and starts hauling all of his equipment out.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">&quot;Let me go there now and notify Father Trebedis so they can prepare a bit of space, atleast.&quot; He looks to the guards for their consent to escort.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Think we need anything in particular, Aelian?&quot; Tathi asks?

* Sszeyl goes to hitch the animals.

Guard 3:<font color="#000000">Two guards break off from the group to accompany Thomas.

* Aelian looks down...

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Off we go to the official temple of light.

Elros:<font color="#0099CC">Elros goes inside, pulls on his armor, and gathers the remainder of his belongings.

* Aelian fidgets.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">Aka, in front of the bronze boot in the street. Historically speaking. :BBBB

Aelian:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Proper pants.&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">HA HA, I was wondering if you'd catch that, Liatai.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">XD

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi tilts her head, blinks, and looks down. &quot;Oh, right. I guess the temple of pelor wouldn't appreciate my nightskirt.&quot;

* Aelian returns, armored. With pants.

Tathi:<font color="#6600CC">Tathi heads inside as well, and comes back out properly attired.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">as a street hooker *BRICK'D*

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt finishes haulting his stuff, and it's notable to see he suited up his studded leather armor as well. Just in case, it appears

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">TURNIN' TRICKS FOR +'S.

Gnogglebolt:<font color="#000000">And if no one else did, he makes sure the other two spiders were collected.

GM:<font color="#000000">And so the party heads off to the temple of Pelor to wait out the night...

GM:<font color="#000000">Does anyone have any other noms?

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Tom for tanking through lightning.

GM:<font color="#000000">And before I forget. Should you sell the spiders, you will find 2,000 GP worth of adamantine salvaged.

* Dr. Hatari noms Tathi for unfriendly fire and subsequent dialogue.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Gnoggle for 'IT'S ALL MAH FAULT.'

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Tathi for balls. Nearly lighting the guards on fire...when they came to investigate reports of fire.

TMG:<font color="#000000">Szeyl for &quot;I'm not an elf, I'm a dorf. What do you mean I'm on fire?&quot;

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

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Or.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">&quot;Drow don't over react.&quot;

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Fire for omnomnoms. Eating through buildings and spiders, etc.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Definitely nomming Thomas for &quot;What the -ZZZZZZZT!!!&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">And Sszeyl for an even better dorf fortress imitation than me or tech could manage. XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">Oh yes, Elros for &quot;Bring a PROPER weapo to a construct fight&quot; Way to go with a +1 sword. :U

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Magic fists beat out swords any day. :V

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I thought about that. :B

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Gnogglebolt for OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD - repeat, etc etc :P

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">I also kind of liked the scene where it was like,

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">&quot;Say.. does.. can your lab explode? Is that okay? D:&quot; Gnogglebolt: *stoneface* o_o

GM:<font color="#000000">Sszeyl - 50 XP - Cool Under Fire. And I mean dry ice cool. What do you have in your veins, liquid nitrogen?

TMG:<font color="#000000">&quot;OH MY GOD. Sankis is on a bloody rampage! He mauled a baby and a cow, and now, at this very instant, he's beating the Elite Marksdwarf Kadol Lokumad into paste! DID I MENTION HE IS ON FUCKING FIRE!?? &quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Ahahahahah

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">The Legend of Boatmurdered.

GM:<font color="#000000">Gnogglebolt - 50 XP - WhatdoIdowhatdoIdo?! D: D: D: 50 XP - Dealing with stress with logistics.

GM:<font color="#000000">Thomas - 50 XP - Friendly Fire?! D: Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Hmm.

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Boat...murdered...

GM:<font color="#000000">Tathi - 50 XP - Unfriendly Fire. 50 XP - For scaring the heck out of some guards. I think Guard 3 is named Sir Robin.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">No meany.

Sszeyl:<font color="#CD7F31">Next on list of improvised weapons; row boat.

TMG:<font color="#000000">And for the future. &quot;OH MY GOD. Sszeyl is on a bloody rampage! He's mauled a spider, a drow assasin, and at this very instant, he's beating the &#171; &#160;REDACTED = Invalid expression: REDACTED.&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; assasin captain into paste! DID I MENTION HE IS ON FUCKING FIRE?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Not cart murdered.

GM:<font color="#000000">Elros - 50 XP - Prepared for Anything. Especially adamantine spiders.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">*snrk* You liked the creative use of controlled spells huh? XD

GM:<font color="#000000">Oh yes. One last thing. I'm sorry, Gnogglebolt. =3=

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Ah, yes. Anything for the base XP of the spider encounter?

GM:<font color="#000000">-10 XP for the fact that your lab full of explosive materials... has no means to put out a fire in it. ^^;;;;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Yeah. Faaaaail. ^^;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Ouuuuch. She's got a point. XD

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Heh

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">&gt;.&gt;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">You herped when you should have derped.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">DERP MY HERP?

TMG:<font color="#000000">hey, at least my EXP is a nice round hundred again. x3

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Hey TMG, my college has a Fire Protection Engineering department...

* You roll to yourself: 2700/8 =&gt; 2700 / 8 = 337.5GM:<font color="#000000">325 XP for all for the spider fight!

GM:<font color="#000000">Sorry, Tech. ^^;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Dammit. -3-

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">x3

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">&#171; &#160;15870+325 = 15870 + 325 = 16195&#160; <font color="#0099CC">&#187;

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">Only five thousand away from next level.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">16215 total.

GM:<font color="#000000">All right, any last words for the server?

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Who, me?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Ashes to ashes =w=

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

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">God damnit, Nappa.

* Dr. Hatari is buried.

GM:<font color="#000000">We really should map out the temple of Pelor some time. =3=;;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Suddenly, an extra head pops out of Thomas' armor!

Tokens dropped onto map 'Vigilant Guardian HQ'Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Thoughts going through my head when the guards made the suggestion: Dorf Aias:<font color="#6600CC">ARE YE FOLKS DONE YET!?

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well. The pelorite temple is just the better choice.&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">&quot;But... the hostel... is mapped. =3=;&quot;

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh well. Imaginaaation.&quot;

Dorf Aias:<font color="#6600CC">Bloody 'ells man, dunt you evar clean dis armorr!?

* Thomas Lazarus punches spare head. =3=

Brian:<font color="#000000">I tried to tell him. D|

Brian:<font color="#000000">Not my fault he didn't listen. -.-

* Dorf Aias bites!! Oh no! You've contracted dorfism!

Brian:<font color="#000000">Now he's got dorfs.

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">OCH

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Anyway

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">See you all starside?

Thomas Lazarus:<font color="#000000">I NEED TO RUB GOLD ALL OVER ME.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Indeed.

Dorf Aias:<font color="#6600CC">GROW A BEAR FIRST.

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">token EXP logged for me, yup--

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

TMG:<font color="#000000">I just realized.

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Wut. We still have IRC. :B

TMG:<font color="#000000">Calrach is going to see an empty half-burnt building in the morning.

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

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">What a wonderful first impression.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">This is true! XD

TMG:<font color="#000000">&quot;....?!?&quot;

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">And the sign on the door will say..

Meany:<font color="#CD7F31">With guards.

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">&quot;Tathi got drunk - Gone to Pelor's temple&quot;\

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">x3

TMG:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is...is this the right address?&quot;

TMG:<font color="#000000">Okay, I'm done. x3

Dr. Hatari:<font color="#000000">Venezuela looms from behind a broken burnt-out crack in the second floor. Eyeglow.

Faerie:<font color="#0099CC">Alright. See you all on the IRC.

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

</i><font color="#0000ff">Faerie is disconnected.

</i>Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Saving..

TMG:<font color="#000000">Got the log and campaign saved, dragonlady?

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

Ghostwish:<font color="#6600CC">Shutting down the server.

Dorf Aias:<font color="#6600CC">OCH

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

</i><i> You have disconnected.

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