Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Siobhan Veykayan 10-23-03, 05:03 PM	You have failed me.... The pale green glow of ill and condemnmed souls was the only light in that dark temple hall deep below the earth.Siobhan received her god's words upon her knees beside the disgustingly clean altar. Her forehead, marred by a scar shaped vaguely like a sunburst, pale and moist was pressed againt the cold marble. Her hands still in white gloves were she held down and out beside her in an attitude of supplication. I will not fail again...
Dahreen Illurienne 10-23-03, 05:22 PM	Far away in the plane of Greyhawk... Dazed and in pain, Dahreen lay upon a clean pallet in the main hall of healing of the Earthen Jug. She'd had as much healing as others could give and her remaining wounds washed and dressed. It was for her to rest now and let her body heal, but rest would not come... Thoughts swirled through her mind...She saw Jaco's eyes as Siobhan had tried to rip his sould out, heard his scream...saw synik lying pale and near lifeless when his soul was gone....a scream of pain...that horrible low laugh...Alighan's bloodstained angry visage, and the pale wraith thin form of the halfling a gaping wound in her belly, draped across the wizards arms...flame surrounding Nugan...Siobhan still lived... Maj'Kall had his instrument well hidden from her again. Tears slid down the sides of her face from under closed eyelids. What can I do against this foe? Who can help me?
Nugan 10-23-03, 05:27 PM	Nugan moans and opens his eyes as he lays on another bed with his burns bandaged. "Ugh..." He tries to sit up, but winces in pain and collapses back onto the bed. "Great... Little help?"
Nugan 10-24-03, 12:40 AM	Nugan sighs in relief as a healer near him casts a healing spell on him. He forces a smirk. "Yeah... Thanks..." Nugan braces himself on the sides of the bed, and pushes himself to a sitting position. He glances about the Earthen Jar. "Um... Anyone feel like telling me how I got here? Or, better yet, what 'here' is? Nah, why don't we go with an even more basic question: How long till one of you calls Gaspy, and holds me down while she sucks my essence out through my nose or whatever?"
Dahreen Illurienne 10-24-03, 01:00 AM	Nugan's wry and nervous voice pierced her semi conscious thoughts. She opened her eyes a little. "My Lady why are you not asleep?" Came a voice from above her and just to her right. She shifted her gaze to the one tending her. "That man I brought in," she whispered, "make sure he lies down and rests. I certainly don't want his band after me if he doesn't heal properly." She closed her eyes again managing a dry smile. "My Lady..." "See it done." She opened her eyes again and looked at her attendant sideways. "Besides, how can I sleep with his yelling?" She winked at the underling and then closed her eyes again. Even as she heard her orders being carried out she formed a mindvoice...a soothing one. "Relax Nugan, please? You are in my healing hall and you need your rest."
Nugan 10-24-03, 01:06 AM	Nugan blinks at the voice, and sighs in relief again. He smirks, drops to his bed and makes a few gestures with his left hand. o0(tp, Dahreen> Oh, is that all? Any reason why you don't feel like talking face to face? You got me beaten to the point that I can't try to take out my frustration on you if that's what you're scared of. Or are you just afraid of seeing how my already wince-producing face looks with 3rd degree burns?) Nugan settles into his bed and closes his right eye completely, keeping his left open just slightly to watch the healer besides him.
Aesynil 10-24-03, 01:06 AM	The slender fey wisps into being seated at the foot of Dahreen's pallet, unscathed despite the condition of the others. Casting a faintly aloof glance about, he does nothing beyond offering those who take note of his presence a small nod
Sharp 10-24-03, 01:12 AM	Just in the last two days she had finally been given permission to walk about for up to an hour. The healing was done, she was tired more than anything and still slightly weak, but she liked walking around, yearning to regain her usual range of motion. She was one one such walk...a walk around the upper story of the Earthen Jug...the sort that gave one a fair idea of the layout. It was a habit only, she had no plans to rob a Healing hall. Walking also helped her think she decided, something she had a lot of to do... A familiar voice jolted her out of her reverie. Nugan?
Dahreen Illurienne 10-24-03, 01:22 AM	"Hello Aesynil," Dahreen whispers without opening her eyes. "Nugan, your burns are being healed and they are no longer so dire, I have seen to that myself, though they may pain you still." Quite unintentionally her mind voice has grown weaker. "I will gladly speak to you face to face as soon as I myself can stand..." She could no longer summon mindspeach...or any other kind, she discovered. In moments her dark thoughts swirled finally into black unconsciousness.
Nugan 10-24-03, 01:26 AM	Nugan continues to lay quietly as he 'listens' to Dahreen. He blinks as she's cut short. o0(tp, Dahreen> Um... Dahreen... You kinda trailed off there... Dahreen?.... Great...) Nugan opens his eyes and looks up at the healer in his room. He supresses a smirk. "You mind? I'm not big on sleeping with someone hovering over me... Force of habit you know..."
Datieveh Veykayan 10-24-03, 01:34 AM	This can only end badly... The tall elf was all but sprawled in a large chair, her long legs bent at the knee, her graceful skirt trailing on the floor. The top half of her torso hung over the arm of her chair, she clung to the edge white knuckled as she cried behind a curtain of long blond curls. Badly... Josander had still not written. Melandi is gone. Mother has Melandi. She had been back to Eliiya, to the house of Acaed Demonsbane and Wizard Damon...she had found neither of them. No aid. No answers. Badly...
Nugan 10-24-03, 01:48 AM	Nugan waits for the healer to depart, and his smirk widens. o0(Well, that couldn't have been easier. Now, let's see what we do about getting home boy.) Nugan slides out of his bed and sets his feet quietly on the floor. o0(Bingo...) Nugan takes a few steps forward, winc ing with each one. He raises his foot for the fourth step, and the rest of his body goes down with it. He groans. o0(Great...) Nugan doesn't try to resist as the healer rushes back to him, lectures him briefly, and them moves him carefully back into bed. He groans again and loses consiousness.
Nugan 10-24-03, 01:50 AM	((Ugh, tried to fix a typo and made a new post. *sigh*))
Sharp 10-24-03, 03:00 PM	It was morning before the healers would tell her anything and even then they hadn't let her see Nugan, until Dahreen intervened... It was midday now, and she was sitting crosslegged on the edge of Nugan's bed, her negligible weight barely making an indentation. Dahreen had said it was a fireball...and that it had been in a fight with Siobhan. Her black hair hung down loose as it had since she came to the Earthen Jug and she fiddled with the ends of it as she pondered Siobhan. None of it made sense to her, but then there were many things about Men and Elves that made no sinse to halflings. She tucked her feet up under her skirt ((yes, skirt, her own clothes were destroyed and all she has to wear are what the healers give her)), and sighed sadly. Something must be done... She made herself look at Nugan, something she had been mostly avoiding and bit her lip. Something must be done fast!
Nugan 10-24-03, 03:06 PM	Nugan groans and opens his eyes. He murmmers weakly to himself. "Uhh... Great... Uhh... Ugh... Uhh..." Nugan raises his head off the pillow slightly and blinks as he spots Sharp. "Uh.... Sharp? Don't tell me they're having you gaurd me now... I was going to go home is all... What's with the house arrest?"
Sharp 10-24-03, 03:09 PM	Sharp looked back at him very unhappily. "Nugan? What are you talking about? You are at the Earthen Jug, and you....aren't better yet." Her voice is rife with genuine concern.
Nugan 10-24-03, 03:13 PM	Nugan forces a smirk. "What makes you think that? I'm one-hundred percent recovered. Look..." Nugan braces himself self on the bed and forces himself into a sitting position, wincing painfully as he does. "See... I'm fine..." Nugan loses his grip and slumps back into his bed with a moan. "Well... Maybe not, but Straak can take care of me back at the tower, no reason to stick around here... I need to get back to Apathy so I can have then start tracking down Gaspy... and..."
Sharp 10-24-03, 03:18 PM	"Nugan!" Even as she spoke a healer descended upon them and cast yet another healing spell on Nugan, as he was obviously strong enough to take it. "Who is gaspy? What are you talking about?" She looks at him very worriedly, the expression more pronounced by the lingering paleness of her skin, too sharp cheekbones, and the dark cirlces under her eyes.
Nugan 10-24-03, 03:21 PM	Nugan breathes another sigh of relief as the new healing spell takes effect. He looks up at Sharp, and forces a smirk. "You now, Gaspy... Siobhan. She almost killed both of us, and Straak... Ring a bell? How do you think I ended up like this? Well, technically that was Asthnar, but... They're in league... or something..."
Sharp 10-24-03, 03:25 PM	"Straak too? Is he here?" She looked around. "I know Asthnar is in league with Siobhan. So is another Illithid named Kyrazil, kyzaril...or whatever it was and she's getting more." This she said absently as she looked around and then back to Nugan.
Nugan 10-24-03, 03:28 PM	Nugan shifts uncomfortably in his bed. "Straak? I don't think so... Last I saw, he was fighting Gaspy and company with the others... Yeah... I saw that other mindflayer..." Niugan winces. "Uh... Did you say 'more'? ... Great..."
Sharp 10-24-03, 03:30 PM	"Yeah she seems to like Illithids. Her temple is crawling with them." She shudders slightly.
Nugan 10-24-03, 03:34 PM	Nugan sighs. "I did say 'Great'... Right? How long till I'm on my feet again? Oh... And Dahreen was 'talking' to me earlier through telepathy or something... Then she faded out... It'd be nice if she was a bit more attentive to her patients." Nugan smirks at the healer next to him. "That's not to say you aren't doing a wonderful job... But I feel kinda ripped off getting the new guy when I risked my life and my guild and all..."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-24-03, 03:39 PM	"He can stand your whining, I cannot," came Dahreen's cool voice as she stepped into the room. She was wearing the cream colored robes of a Healer of the Earthen Jug.
Sharp 10-24-03, 03:40 PM	Sharp looked up as Dahreen came in.
Nugan 10-24-03, 03:43 PM	Nugan smirks as he overhears Dahreen. "Whether you can stand it or not, looks like it worked again. Hello Dahreen... Now, could one of you please cut the sideays talking and fill me in on what I missed while I've been held prisoner here..."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-24-03, 03:53 PM	Dahreen walks the rest of the way over to Nugan and Sharp, looking not much healthier than either of them now that she is up close. "Prisoner? I hauled your sorry rear off the battle field and threw everything I had left into healing you right after! You are going to recover fully and all but unscarred! I might have done more, but my deities will not allow me to use more power than I can both wield and survive the wielding! Your friend has sat by you most of the day! The healers in this hall care nothing but for your continued healthy existance and work tirelessly to that end! And you have not one kind word!?" Her voice is both great and terrible, a paladin's voice.
Nugan 10-24-03, 03:56 PM	Nugan smirks, and holds his arms in front of himself defensively. "Woah, woah... Careful there... Don't want to have to waste even more time and resources healing me again, do you? Anyway... Yeah, yeah, I'm thankful and all... I was joking... Seesh..." Nugan sighs. "Now... How bout that explaination?"
Dahreen Illurienne 10-24-03, 04:01 PM	"Mister Wracod, it would be wise to use consideration when you speak regardless of waht you do and do not mean. Now what explaination is this? What is it you think I know that you do not? Is this just another part of your conspiracy theory?"
Nugan 10-24-03, 04:05 PM	Nugan sighs again. "Yes, I'm just that paranoid... I've created a complex web inside my head that indicates you could only be working with Gaspy, and I will not hear otherwise..." Nugan smirks. "No, not really, but... Any idea where Gaspy is? How about my people? What happened to them? Are we going to actually... I don't know... Kill Siobhan, maybe?"
Sharp 10-24-03, 04:19 PM	She controlled the urge to hide when Dahreen started yelling at Nugan, and then listened if a little shakily after... "You can't kill Siobhan unless the black claw at the base of Maj'likkhan is made white," she spoke up suddenly.
Nugan 10-24-03, 04:20 PM	Nugan smirks "Oh, is that all? .... Okay, I have no idea what you just said..."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-24-03, 04:22 PM	Dahreen frowns at Sharp. "What did you say?"
Nugan 10-24-03, 04:24 PM	Nugan smirks at Dahreen. "So you were wondering that too then?"
Sharp 10-24-03, 04:25 PM	"That...thing, " Sharp goes on a little agitated. She closes her eyes remembering and then opens them. "At the base of the altar, there is this claw looking thing...it's black and it smells like...ah nevermind, point is that is how the One Without a Name speaks."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-24-03, 04:27 PM	She blinks at the halfling. "You saw!?"
Datieveh Veykayan 10-24-03, 04:34 PM	She wondered where they all were. What was happening? Where is Aesynil?...What can I do?
Sharp 10-24-03, 04:36 PM	"It would have been prety hard not to considering I was..." She trailed off.
Aesynil 10-24-03, 04:38 PM	Aesynil glances up, commenting I saw the claw as well, although I had no way of discerning its purpose. After his brief moment of speaking, he fades back into silence, doing nothing but observing.
Dahreen Illurienne 10-24-03, 04:48 PM	She looked to Aesynil, not having seen him come in, and then back to Sharp. "It is amazing what some overlook as unimportant details. Aesynil, this is the first I have heard of the presence of such a thing. That is not good, but no matter. Now I may fill in another piece of the puzzle. That claw like think is a powerful artifact, each named for the god who channels through it, yes that is what it does...it allows a specific temple and all it's acolytes a close connection with the deity. Make it white? Cut it's power...that is what Alighan was trying to do."
Aesynil 10-24-03, 04:55 PM	The fey gave a soft frown, watching her for a moment... It gives a target, yes...But we've always known that we must cut her source of power. Do we know how to achieve this with the claw, or is this knowledge worth nothing?
Nugan 10-25-03, 05:26 PM	Nugan, who had lay wincing and furrowing his brow through the exchange, forces a smirk. "So... I'm going to pretend I understood any of that and say 'What do we do now?' I'll need to contact Apathy, becuase I don't think any of us feel like lynching Gaspy only four people deep."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 01:11 AM	"Lynching? Nugan..." She sighed.
Sharp 10-26-03, 01:12 AM	"Really Nugan, what can they do? This is a job for mages not theives."
Aesynil 10-26-03, 01:19 AM	Curiously, the fey glances between each of them before speaking What point does attacking her again serve? Her power will simply be restored, while ours will suffer further casualties. Our only option is to..whiten the claw, I believe it was how Sharp described it? Nothing else holds any sense.
Nugan 10-26-03, 01:21 AM	Nugan smirks at Sharp. "Now that just sounds like an excuse to get yourself out... Don't tell me you don't want to face Gaspy again..." Nugan sighs and shifts in his bed. "Honestly though... My people could provide back up, and its better to keep a nice balance of skills and be safe than bring a bunch of wizards out there, run into a locked door, and, bam, we're all in sixteen pieces in a ditch. I'm not big on the idea of risking that needlessly..."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 01:25 AM	"Exactly Aesynil. Now that I know what this is, I can probably figure that out...but Alighan already knows how and time is of the essence. Did you have any luck finding her since last we spoke?"
Sharp 10-26-03, 01:28 AM	She sighs. "I never said I wasn't going to do anything, I said the guild...Nugan, think. Stealth is not the strong point of most of Apathy anyhow. Others might get hurt. Haven't we had enough casualties?"
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 01:30 AM	She kept half an ear on what Nugan and Sharp were saying even as she asked her question.
Aesynil 10-26-03, 01:32 AM	He gives a faint sigh, shaking his head Rather then...argue over who is going to act...perhaps we should decide how we are to act?
Nugan 10-26-03, 01:34 AM	Nugan smirks. "Listen... I have to be careful how I put this... Don't want to come off as too... self-centered... Ah, who am I kidding... Let me be straight: There's probably going to be casualties, and, the more people there are, the less like one will be me. Plus, never know when you'll need a small army... Although, you mightbe right about some of Apathy... Atleast give me a couple of them? Straak definately..."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 01:38 AM	"Right again, Aesynil." She makes a face. "I take it that means you have not found Alighan."
Sharp 10-26-03, 01:40 AM	"Straak, Noc, and maybe The old man, but..." She looks up at Dahreen. "What do you mean? Did something happen to Wizard Damon?"
Nugan 10-26-03, 01:43 AM	Nugan nods to Sharp. "Well... I'm with you on everyone, but Gramps... Not that either of us will have any say if he decides he wants to go..." Nugan winces. "Um.. I hate to say it, but... What if Gaspy wasn't lying about... err... killing her?"
Sharp 10-26-03, 01:44 AM	Sharp frowns. "What?"
Aesynil 10-26-03, 01:44 AM	Slowly, he shakes his head Nothing, I'm afraid. I wish once again that I had better news...but I've yet to find even a hint of her. I'm still confident that she lives yet..I'm simply not certain where.
Nugan 10-26-03, 01:46 AM	Nugan blinks "No one said anything to you? Well, one day while you were gone... Gaspy came in, said she had a 'present' from Alighan, and the next thing I know she's waving around someone's scalp... Now, that might not have meant what I thought it did, but..."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 01:50 AM	"Oh. No, Siobhan was certainly lying. Alighan went home after bringing Sharp to me. Siobhan didn't go after her." She turns to Sharp. "Alighan left greyhawk the same night she got you out of the temple. She went home to Eliiya where there is war now. She is not at home and we have had no luck so far in finding her."
Nugan 10-26-03, 01:52 AM	Nugan smirks. "Oh good... Then she's not dead... She's just a coward... That's so much better for us..."
Sharp 10-26-03, 01:52 AM	She frowns and mutters under her breath...something about wizards. She scowls at Nugan, then sighs. "Why did she leave us like this? There must be a reason."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 01:55 AM	She glances at Nugan ever so briefly. She looks at Sharp, her expression pained. "There was."
Nugan 10-26-03, 01:56 AM	Nugan continues to smirk. "Yeah, there is a reason... It's called being afraid of Gaspy, and not wanting to die... Not a bad reason either. I'm honestly surprised I haven't done so myself..."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 01:58 AM	Dahreen looks back to Nugan, her expression a great deal less than kind. "Haven't you? Master ill, diseased, and bedridden?"
Sharp 10-26-03, 01:01 AM	Sharp makes a face at Dahreen's tone. She looks to Nugan then back to Dahreen, then at Nugan again. Whoa, what happened here?
Nugan 10-26-03, 01:03 AM	Nugan shrugs. "I wouldn't be ill, diseased and bedridden if I did... You know what, I think you're right though... Maybe I will follow Alighan's example..." Nugan sits up and begins to get out of bed.
Sharp 10-26-03, 01:05 AM	"Nugan!" She automatically reaches out a hand. "Careful!" "Dahreen, what is this all about?!"
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 01:07 AM	She ignores Sharp and reaches out herself to push Nugan back down. "Is that really what you want?"
Nugan 10-26-03, 01:12 AM	Nugan winces and drops back into the bed as he's pushed by Dahreen. He forces a smirk. "And what if it is? Are you going to hold me here against my will? Force me to fight Gaspy and lay down my life for goodness and holiness and so forth?"
Aesynil 10-26-03, 01:14 AM	Idly, the fey comments If you did not have your own reasons, I'm fairly certain you wouldn't be here this moment...I doubt any seek to force their own ideals on you, Nugan. Fight for whatever purpose you wish, an be satisfied with that.
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 01:18 AM	She just stands there, waiting for Nugan's answer.
Nugan 10-26-03, 01:22 AM	Nugan sighs. "Okay... So, can I have my people or not? And what do you plan on doing about our other coward? Apparently Alighan is a necessity?"
Sharp 10-26-03, 01:34 AM	Sharp who has been listening carefully began to frown...and finally speaks. "Nugan, Wizard Damon isn't a coward. She was angry...at you, and Kat, and Simon....and....and Jaco, and Synik, and Dante and Fenmarel....and me too....she was...." She looks up. "She left greyhawk to live as they had chosen." She blinks and shakes her head as if suddenly totally confused by her own words.
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 01:36 AM	Her eyes widened a little. "She...told you that?"
Sharp 10-26-03, 01:38 AM	"Ah no, I...." Sharp suddenly looks rather ill.
Nugan 10-26-03, 01:39 AM	Nugan smirks. "Excuses, excuses... Point is, she's the only one that can take down Gaspy, and, what do you know, she opted to stay alive rather than help us... Don't call that cowardice if you want... But it doesn't make us any less trapped..."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 01:42 AM	This time she simply ignores Nugan. "Aiy Sharp, what else do you know?" She smiles a little. "Think of it as a little bit of unorthodox thieving."
Sharp 10-26-03, 01:45 AM	"Unorthodox thieving...right." She looks at Nugan. "What a short sighted thing to say." She ponders uncomfortably.
Nugan 10-26-03, 01:47 AM	Nugan shrugs. "I guess I'm short-sighted then, but all I see is us with a Gasping loon out for our necks and minus the only way we can get rid of her... Sounds like trapped to me..."
Sharp 10-26-03, 01:52 AM	"Nugan there is no such thing as trapped. Seriously. There is a way out of every....that is, there is no such thing as an unsolvable puzzle, only lazy puzzle solvers. " She looks at Dahreen. "Does the word, "Weatherhaven" mean anything to you?"
Nugan 10-26-03, 01:58 AM	Nugan smirks. "Guess I'm a lazy puzzle solver then.... Because I don't see a way out of this one... Short of finding Alighan, tying her up, and torturing her until she agrees to help.... Of course, then you'll definately need Apathy..."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 04:52 PM	"That we need to find Alighan is a given!" She smirks. "Torture? No. What we need to do," she laughs with dry incredulity, "is prove ourselves "worthy". She shakes her head.
Sharp 10-26-03, 04:53 PM	Sharp makes a face. "You're kidding, right?"
Nugan 10-26-03, 04:59 PM	Nugan smirks. "Well... Couldn't we 'prove ourselves worthy' by capturing her and torturing her into helping... Because I have a feeling it'll be easier than whatever you're thinking of..."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 05:03 PM	Dahreen looks at Nugan even more incredulously.
Sharp 10-26-03, 05:04 PM	She just shakes her head.
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 05:06 PM	"Nugan you are not a fool as hard as you try to make me believe that of you, I know becasue if you were Alighan would never have bothered with you. Your act may save your skin often, but it is helps nothing here. "
Nugan 10-26-03, 05:13 PM	Nugan smirks. "What act? Maybe Alighan's just incompentant too... Judging by the way this whole thing has gone down, I'd say we all have a pretty good shot at being complete idiots..." Nugan sighs. "Ok, ok... What do we have to do to prove ourselves worthy or whatever then... I'm listening.."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 05:28 PM	She pinched the bridge of her nose with her thumb and forefinger. "Don't think that I find this any less...galling than you do. Typical wizardly meaness, leave people to the consequences of their own deeds....yes she blames us for not seeming to care enough whether or not Siobhan went free. "Now the only way we can maybe persuade her to help us again is to find her and ask for it."
Nugan 10-26-03, 05:33 PM	Nugan smirks. "Ohhhhh, I get it... so she wants us to beg... Well, I can handle that..." Nugan gets on his knees in his bed, bows his head, licks his hand, and wipes it across his face to give the appearance that he had been crying. "Oh, Alighan... You have to help us... We're ever so lost without you... Gaspy's killing everyone... everyone... We need you... so desperatately..." Nugan drops back onto the bed, laughing to himself. "How was that?"
Sharp 10-26-03, 05:35 PM	Sharp pinches Nugan. Hard.
Nugan 10-26-03, 05:39 PM	Nugan winces, rubbing his arm. "What? I thought I did a pretty good job... More tears maybe? Or should I have added more 'please'es? I know, it needed a better ending... I think I shouldn't gone with 'We're doomed without you'... Yeah, that would've done it..."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-26-03, 05:43 PM	Gives Nugan a look that almost (but not quite) suggests contempt. "How about proof that we mean to do what she wanted us to do? That is, help find what she needed to enact that spell."
Nugan 10-26-03, 08:01 PM	Nugan shrugs, smirking. "Oh sure, we could do that... How?"
Aesynil 10-26-03, 11:24 PM	Once again, the fey curiously voices his thoughts -.- Am I to understand..that..she is allowing many to suffer and die..because she was offended? My my...It's wonderful to see I'm not the only capable of such callous behavior...The fact remains, however. If she can't be found, we can do nothing. If she's refusing to help just because we made her pouty, I have no desire to further risk my life to redeem myself to her. I have children that I would prefer to return to when this is through. I will not jeopardize that because she's incapable of coping with the realities of life. He gives a soft chuckle To be blunt..What I'm saying..is that I have no intent of begging for her forgiveness, nor of scrambling about to atone for sins I did not commit. 'Proving ourselves worthy..' Bah. That Is nothing but the excuse of a coward.
Nugan 10-26-03, 11:33 PM	Nugan nods to Aeysil and smirks. "Bingo. What he said... Aside from the 'children' part... Unless you count Straak and that homeless kid in the ditch outside the Guildhall..."
Dahreen Illurienne 10-29-03, 11:45 PM	"Have you a better idea?"
Nugan 10-29-03, 11:56 PM	Nugan forces a smirk. "Point taken. When do we leave?"
Sharp 11-03-03, 10:00 PM	((Yes, the GM has mandated a time lapse)) It had been three days since Dahreen had gone with Aesynil in search of Alighan...with no word and no luck. She sighed, fiddling with the edge of her skirt unhappily. Finally she was well enough to mind her own inactivity...there was much to be doing. Restless she wandered off to find Nugan. He had been even more horrible as he was getting better than usual. She knew it was because he had more than just a passing stake in the matter at least. She had caught a hint in his eyes of something deeper than his usual misplaced determination. She smiled as she walked silently down the hall. Nugan certainly kept her mind occupied...
Nugan 11-03-03, 10:05 PM	Nugan nods to Sharp as she enters from where he's seated on the side of his bed. "Hello Sharp... What's going down? Or are you just bored?"
Sharp 11-03-03, 10:09 PM	She frowned at him, trying not to smirk, noting he was sitting and not lying down as prescribed. "What are you doing up?"
Nugan 11-03-03, 10:11 PM	Nugan smirks. "Combatting bed-sores... How am I going to be able to help take out Gaspy if I can't move my legs because of muscular atrophy? Oh, and I just got back from a little visit to the 'Roads..."
Sharp 11-03-03, 10:19 PM	She smirks as she can't conceal it any longer and sits on the floor in front of him. "Anything new?"
Nugan 11-03-03, 10:21 PM	Nugan continues to smirk. "Oh... Nothing, nothing at all... Oh wait... I think there was one thing... I was talking to Dehreen and Silk, and apparently... Ah, its not important, but... Gaspy's dead."
Sharp 11-03-03, 10:29 PM	She looked up at him with an expression of dubious curiosity.
Nugan 11-03-03, 10:33 PM	Nugan chuckles to himself. "What? Don't believe me? Silk killed her... Or so he says. Bunch of lightning bolts or something... Looks like we won't have to sacrifice ourselves for the cause after all. Which, of course, means business as usual again... Nugan shifts uncomfortably and groans. "Um... Maybe after I have a little more time to heal..."
Sharp 11-03-03, 10:36 PM	"Silk?....Dahreen is back? Was Alighan there?...Is Silk ok?...Are you sure she is..."
Nugan 11-03-03, 10:42 PM	Nugan shrugs. "Just saying what I overheard... As for Silk, he's just poisoned or something... He and his woman are off looking for an atidote, or so I heard... No biggie."
Sharp 11-03-03, 10:46 PM	Her eyes grow increasingly wide as she listens..."Nugan!" Silk is poisoned.... "Tell me the whole story....please?"
Nugan 11-03-03, 10:51 PM	Nugan shrugs again. "Don't know it... I told you what I know. Silk fought Gaspy, Gaspy poisoned Silk, Silk killed Gaspy, Silk left to get antidote... That's all I picked up... Oh, by the way, what do you know about Gaspy's granddaughter, Mela-something-or-other?"
Sharp 11-03-03, 11:25 PM	She jumped up and began to pace, suddenly having a lot to think about, a frown on her still pale and slightly hollow cheeked face. "Where's Dahreen?"
Nugan 11-03-03, 11:30 PM	Nugan shrugs yet again. "Good question... I left the 'Roads before she did... She was hanging out with Hector last I saw... They could be back by now, for all I know though.... But, you didn't answer my question... What do you know about Gaspy's grandkid?"
Sharp 11-03-03, 11:36 PM	She sits down again, looking slightly overwhelmed. "Okay...granddaughter? Somehow I can't imagine Siobhan with children let alone grandchildren." She frows up at him. "Besides, what do you care?"
Nugan 11-03-03, 11:39 PM	Nugan smirks. "I overheard Dahreen talking about her... Somnething about possesion, and her being powerful... But... As for why I care... Well..."
Sharp 11-03-03, 11:40 PM	Sharp simply looks at Nugan expectantly.
Nugan 11-03-03, 11:42 PM	Nugan eyes his healer and lowers his voice so only Sharp can hear. "Well... You're still loyal to Apathy, right? ... Compared to, say, Dahreen?"
Sharp 11-04-03, 01:40 PM	She slides herself closer to Nugan's bedside along the floor and lowers her own voice, grinning, a glimmer of her old excitement in her eyes at the prospect of working again. "I am still yours, my friend, now what is this all about?"
Nugan 11-04-03, 02:28 PM	Nugan keeps his voice low and gestures to the healer. "Think you can get him out of here? I'd rather not risk him running off the to his bosses and filling them in. Hector was already about to throw me to the Marshals earlier tonight, don't want to give him a reason."
Sharp 11-04-03, 02:45 PM	Still grinning to Nugan she gets to her feet, adopts a bleary eyed almost weepy expression and walks over to the healer who was reading a book. "Sir, a soft pillow and a warm blanket I beg. I wish to visit with my friend, but the floor is so cold." That she punctuated with a shiver that was not entirely feigned. The healer stood at once. "Of course, little one," he said with a smile and got up to get what she had asked for. She walked back over to Nugan, but did not sit back down, the floor was cold indeed. "There," she said with a smile, lowering her voice again.
Nugan 11-04-03, 02:51 PM	Nugan smirks and applauds. "Not bad at all... And hear I thought you were our most trustworthy member... Anyway, here's the thing, I overheard Dahreen and Hector talking about some grandkid of Gaspy's that's apparently somewhat on the powerful side.... And I was thinking, since we got denied the chance to get back at Gaspy... And since this poor, poor child is now familyless.... Maybe Apathy should.... 'adopt' her... If you follow."
Sharp 11-04-03, 02:57 PM	I wasn't lying... She frowns thoughtfully at Nugan's words. "You say she is powerfull...would that not be more trouble than it is worth?"
Nugan 11-04-03, 03:02 PM	Nugan shrugs. "She's a kid, and her Grandma just died... I'm guessing she's vulnerable right now... If we go about it the right way, we can have her eating up every word we say, and, before you know it, Apthy's got a new all-powerful elven kid member.... Well, that or she'll just realize we plotted against her gandma and kill us, but... Hey, you don't get anything without risks, right?"
Sharp 11-04-03, 03:05 PM	She sighs. "Nugan, powerful people, especially untrained have this nasty way of causing more harm than you want to think about in ways you can't possibly imagine...before it happens."
Nugan 11-04-03, 03:10 PM	Nugan smirks. "Awww, but that's half the fun... Plus, Apathy has taken Gaspy on and won numerous times... I beat her single-handedly once... And this is just her Grandkid... We're talking push-over here... I hope..."
Sharp 11-04-03, 03:12 PM	"I don't know...I'd get a better sense of who this "grandkid" really is and what she's about first."
Nugan 11-04-03, 03:13 PM	Nugan nods. "Of course, of course... That's why I was questioning you, but if you don't have any idea... Hmmm... Do you know of anyone around here who might?"
Sharp 11-04-03, 03:17 PM	She thinks. "Not yet. Tell me everything you remember people saying. Never know what might help."
Nugan 11-04-03, 03:23 PM	Nugan furrows his brow. "Well... I think I sdaid it all already.... Wait... kat mentioned that Flenogardt was watching her... Maybe someone should check up with him? Also, your relationship with Dahreen is a bit more comfy than mine... Maybe you could get something out of her? I don't know how much Hector might know..."
Sharp 11-04-03, 03:32 PM	"Dahreen is too smart for that, and hector will probably tell Dahreen anything I say to him anyway and then she will be smart for him. This Flenogardt sounds promising, though. Any idea where to find him."
Nugan 11-04-03, 03:35 PM	Nugan shrugs and shakes his head. "Not the slightest...I've heard his name thrown around at the 'Roads alot.... I think I might have run into him there once or twice... But I don't know where he lives or anything..."
Sharp 11-04-03, 03:39 PM	"In that case..." She paused as the healer returned with the blanket and pillow. These she accepted greatfully. Wrapping herself in the blanket and putting the pillow underneath her, she sat down again. "Maybe it is time we went on an outing." It was a perfectly innocuous thing to say out of context.
Nugan 11-04-03, 03:42 PM	Nugan smirks, standing. "Maybe it is..." Nugan glances at the healer. "I'm going out for a little while... All my stuff better be right where I left it when I get back... Don't think I haven't heard the horror stories about you clerics..."
Sharp 11-04-03, 03:47 PM	Wow, he must have had bad experiences with healers in the past or... She winced as the healer promptly told Nugan he was not going anywhere. "I'll go with him!" She spoke up suddenly. "It is me who really wants the outing and I haven't been anywhere today yet. Please?" The healer's sterness melted. "All right. Go ahead. But keep that blanket and take good care of mister Wracod." He looked up at Nugan. "And you, take care of her."
Nugan 11-04-03, 03:50 PM	Nugan glances at Sharp. "Really, I could've gotten out on my own, shouldn't have to give some attendant who spends half his day emptying bed pans the satisfaction of.... Oh well, thanks for the help." Nugan shoots the healer a smirk as he walks towards the door. "And don't think I wasn't serious... I'm even going to count buttons..."
Sharp 11-04-03, 03:55 PM	Nugan you idiot! "Hold it." The healer said, his hand rather roughly on Nugan's arm. Sharp grimaced within the folds of her blanket. Can't you ever just play along and stop making things so... "Isn't she going with you?" He gestured to Sharp. "Yes." Sharp said getting to her feet and walking toward the door herself the blanket still wrapped around her. Don't blow it...
Nugan 11-04-03, 03:59 PM	Nugan shrugs. "And if she wasn't? Would you hold me here against my will? I'm sure your god would just love that... I mean, there's nothing more holy than false imprisonment..." Nugan sighs. "Anyway, yes, she's coming with me.... Sheesh, its not like you weren't just waiting to get me out the door so you could start rummaging through my stuff anyway..."
Sharp 11-04-03, 04:03 PM	She rolls her eyes under the blanket and then pushes it back slightly and mouthes something to the healer as she walks out. "Do the words "for your own good" mean anything to you?" She asked sorely as they went down the stairs and into the tavern.
Nugan 11-04-03, 04:06 PM	Nugan shoots Sharp a smirk as he follows her down the stairs. "Have they ever?" Nugan opens the door at the bottom of the stairs and steps into the tavern. "So... To the 'Roads then?"
Sharp 11-04-03, 04:09 PM	She tries to conceal a shiver under her blanket and then takes it off and puts it aside. Don't let him down... She nods. "Let's go."
Nugan 11-04-03, 04:11 PM	Nugan nods, still smirking. "Poor Gaspy, first she get's killed by Silk, now this... I can just here her screaming 'dhie' from the afterlife..." Nugan opens the tavern door and steps outside.
Sharp 11-04-03, 05:23 PM	Sharp forces a smirk...and follows her boss.
Melandi Veykayan 11-05-03, 11:17 AM	In the Temple at the foot of the altar lies burned and huddled form, lifeless, unmoving... A soft green light gathers somewhere from within it...gathers, lifts and wafts away... ...away into the depths of the darkened temple, like a green burst of flame suspended and moving...with a purpose. It waft through hall and over stair...into a room wherein lay an elvish child. The flame of MajKall passed on. *** They are coming. Are you ready? "I am ready." Melandi smiled. ((Notes that this post will get edited 25 thousand times because the poster is a perfectionist when it comes to writing ;) ))
Sharp 11-05-03, 11:10 PM	Now bundled in a good warm coat, Sharp walks along beside Nugan. "Well that was easy..."
Nugan 11-05-03, 11:32 PM	Nugan smirks. "Wasn't it though..." Nugan walks in front of Sharp, watching the road in front of his feet. "About how much of a walk are we talking here? Hours? Days?"
Sharp 11-06-03, 04:40 PM	"Half a day's walk is all, but we are going to be there by dawn." She grins.
Nugan 11-06-03, 04:44 PM	Nugan smirks, continuing to walk. "Oh, half a day, is that all? That should be fun... I knew I should've called dibs on Pasitte's rickshaw..."
Sharp 11-06-03, 04:48 PM	"What you think we are going to walk all the way?" She keeps grinning as she moves to the side of the road suddenly. "He should be right...here," she said and whistled. A great tan horse with fluffy white fetlocks stepped out of the trees, more than large enough for two large men to ride, let alone one smaller man and a halfling.
Nugan 11-06-03, 04:52 PM	Nugan blinks at the horse and turns to Sharp. "Oh... That should help... I just have one tiny issue..." Nugan smirks. "I hope you know how to steer a horse... Cause I don't..."
Sharp 11-06-03, 04:55 PM	"I do," she winked. "Don't worry. All you have to do is hold me on the beast so I don't fly off. I'll worry about the reins."
Nugan 11-06-03, 04:57 PM	Nugan walks over to the horse, smirking. "I'll do my best..." Nugan looks at the horse and furrows his brow. "Um... Question... How do I get on?"
Sharp 11-06-03, 05:00 PM	"Like this." She whistles again, this time in a slighlty different pitch. The horse lowers itself to the ground, making mounting up simple. "Big people usually put their left leg in the stirrup and swing the right leg over, me...I always use this way for obvious reasons."
Nugan 11-06-03, 05:02 PM	Nugan nods, setting himself on the horse's back, and strapping himself in the saddle as best he can. "Well... This should be... fun..."
Sharp 11-06-03, 05:07 PM	She laughs and climbs on herself taking the reins. "Hold on to the pommel." She made sure Nugan did so and then grabbed the horses mane before whistling a third time. The horse got slowly and as gently as possible to its feet. "Now put your feet in the stirrups and hold on to me, then dig your knees into the horses sides gently."
Nugan 11-06-03, 05:10 PM	Nugan nods, following her instructions step by step. "Now... How fast does this thing go? Should I close my eyes and try not to cry like a six year old? Or is it more of a just shaking nervously and praying not to die pace?"
Sharp 11-06-03, 05:13 PM	"The horse wont go any faster unless you make it, but we have to make it go a little faster than this." They were moving along at a walk. "Need a minute first?" She asked.
Nugan 11-06-03, 05:15 PM	Nugan shakes his head. "Nah... I'll be fine... I gave my will to Kat before my last fight with Gaspy..." Nugan sighs, grips the saddle harder with his legs, and half-closes his eyes.
Sharp 11-06-03, 05:17 PM	"Okay, now dig your knees in harder once like a nudge...and for all the gods dont let go of me..."
Nugan 11-06-03, 05:19 PM	Nugan nods, does as requested and forces a smirk. "Don't worry... I don't plan to..."
Sharp 11-06-03, 05:24 PM	She held the reins as the horse assumed a faster walk. Snow lined the road away form greyhawk. The clouds from the the last storm still obscured the moon. It was very dark.
Nugan 11-06-03, 05:31 PM	Nugan tenses as the horse speeds up and closes his eye completely. He pauses this way for a momment before opening his eyes again and looking down at Sharp. "Well... This is kind of a let down... I was expecting atleast a little nasuea... Instead... This is actually... Not that bad..."
Sharp 11-06-03, 05:39 PM	"Most things in life aren't..." she said with a smirk of her own. "Got any lighting spells?" She asked as the lights of the city faded behind them. "Our road is about to get darker."
Nugan 11-06-03, 05:43 PM	Nugan nods slightly. "That I do... But..." Nugan sighs and looks down at his hands. "I'm too afraid to let go to cast them..." Nugan winces, lifts one hand off Sharp slowly, while clinging to her harder with the other, and begins gesturing. "Well, here goes..."
Sharp 11-06-03, 05:48 PM	She keeps her attention on the road, guiding the horses steps, trying to make their ride a smooth as possible while Nugan casts.
Nugan 11-06-03, 05:52 PM	Nugan finishes gesturing and a globe of light pops into existence just above Sharp's head, and remains fixed there, moving at the same speed as the horse. Nugan puts down his arm again, and smirks. "How's that?"
Sharp 11-06-03, 05:57 PM	"That's just fine," she said a smile in her voice as well as on her face. The road did indeed grow darker until the spell provided the only light. It glinted on the white snow on the ground and on the bare tree limbs. "The portal ground we need to find to get to Kan Homa...that's the nearest civilized spot near Siobhan's temple...is about two hours ride at this pace. It may take longer for us though the part we have to ride off the road isn't easy riding and while I may be a fast learner, I am no expert rider."
Nugan 11-06-03, 06:01 PM	Nugan winces and grips the horse tighter with his legs. "Great... Well, guess its to late to do anything keep going now... Just do me a favor if you get out... Make sure my will is followed to the letter... Nugan forces a smirk. "Oh and make sure those healers keeper their hands off my stuff... My death doesn't make it their's..."
Sharp 11-06-03, 06:07 PM	Sharp yelps as the horse suddenlly starts moving faster.
Nugan 11-06-03, 06:11 PM	Nugan's caught off gaurd as the horse speeds up, and quickly throws his arms around the saddle to steady himself, letting go of Sharp in the process. "Wha!"
Sharp 11-06-03, 06:17 PM	Sharp gets thrown from the fast moving horse, the reins ripping out of her hands. She hits a tree with a muffled thud and then falls down into a deep snowbank. The horse, noticing something wrong, slows immeadiately.
Nugan 11-06-03, 06:21 PM	Nugan winces as Sharp flies off the horse, and spins around, trying to spot her. "Great..." Nugan loses his grip on the horse as he spins around, and falls over its side onto the ground, but the horse had slowed by this point, and he lands on his side next to the road. "Uhhhhh...."
Sharp 11-06-03, 06:25 PM	Sharp lies unmoving in the snow... Beyond Nugan the horse is stopped. It whickers unhappily.
Nugan 11-06-03, 06:31 PM	Nugan winces again, and forces himself to his feet. He begins scanning the roadside. "Sharp? .... You there? ... Great..." Nugan limps along the side of the side of the road, keeping his eyes fixed to the ground, watching for any sign of Sharp. "Sharp? .... Come on.... I think we may have done something wrong.... Sharp?"
Sharp 11-06-03, 06:36 PM	Sharp's small prone form comes into view in the snowbank on Nugan's left.
Nugan 11-06-03, 06:39 PM	Nugan squints as he spots Sharp. "Sharp?" Nugan walks towards her and looks closer. "Sharp!" Nugan struggles through the snow bank as quickly as he can, and kneels next to Sharp. He winces as he sees that she's not moving. "Sharp? You there? ... Sharp?"
Sharp 11-06-03, 06:43 PM	Her body is crumpled in a fairly unnatural angle. She is covered still by her thick coat. The hood has fallen over the back of her head, obscuring her face from either side. A tiny spot of snow jsut under the shadow of the hood is stained dark red. Sharp makes no sign.
Nugan 11-06-03, 06:46 PM	Nugan winces and pauses for a momment in shock. "Great... Great... Great... Great... Great... Great!" Nugan shakes his head in anger, knocks some snow out of the way with a desperate gesture, and stares down at her a momment trying to determine whether she's breathing or not.
Sharp 11-06-03, 06:52 PM	No sign can be seen of breathing through her thick coat...but a faint coughing sound issues suddenly and the red stain gets ever so slightly wider.
Nugan 11-06-03, 06:54 PM	Nugan takes a deep breath and winces harder. He reaches out, and gently tries to turn over Sharp so she's on her back.
Sharp 11-06-03, 07:00 PM	She stirrs slightly as he moves her, but does not yet wake. Her face is unmarked, but a thin line of blood trickles from the edge of her mouth.
Nugan 11-06-03, 07:05 PM	Nugan shakes his head again, and looks at her more closely. He stands after a momment, walks over to the horse, unpacks an extra blanket from their gear, and lays it over Sharp. "I'm pretty sure you can't hear... But I'm going to try to get in touch with help... Just don't... you know... In the meanwhile..." Nugan stands, withdraws a small case from his pocket, pops it open to reveal a mirror, and begins gesturing and muttering to himself.
Sharp 11-06-03, 07:12 PM	Ow....Damn.... She whimpers. Tears escape from her closed eyelids. She opens her eyes and blinks her sight clear. Deep purple clouds move across the sky. "Nugan?" she cried out weakly. Where is he...is he ok?!
Nugan 11-06-03, 07:13 PM	Nugan shuts the mirror and spins around as Sharp speaks. "Sharp? That you?"
Sharp 11-06-03, 07:18 PM	"Nugan!" She calls out again, thinking to let him know where she is.
Nugan 11-06-03, 07:45 PM	Nugan hurries over to Sharp and keels next to her. He leans over her with a relieved smirk. "Yes?"
Sharp 11-06-03, 09:04 PM	"You're ok." She smiles as best she can. "When you let go I thought..." She breaks off in a wince.
Nugan 11-06-03, 09:09 PM	Nugan nods, giving Sharp a worried look. "I'm fine... Mostly... But you.... You don't look so great... How do you feel?"
Sharp 11-06-03, 09:14 PM	She closes her eyes. "Honestly? Terrible." She starts to sigh but coughs instead. More blood trickles out of her mouth. She frowns worriedly. "It is a bad hit, Nugan. I c-can tell."
Nugan 11-06-03, 09:17 PM	Nugan winces. "Yeah... That's kinda what I... Well... I'm was just about to try to dig up some help for you... Try not to... um... Just try to hold yourself together... Yeah.... Oh, and try not to go to sleep... I've heard... Well, just try not to..." Nugan gives Sharp another worried glance, then he stands, reopens the mirror, and resumes mummbling and gesturing.
Sharp 11-06-03, 09:23 PM	"There is a preist in Kan Homa. If that is....faster. The portal isn't far." She closes her eyes again.
Nugan 11-06-03, 09:25 PM	Nugan pauses again and turns back to Sharp. "Kan Homa? But... How far is it? Which way? ... I'm also not sure if I should move you... I've heard that moving someone when they're hurt like you are can... Well... I heard it wasn't always a good idea..."
Sharp 11-06-03, 09:32 PM	"I know what you are worried about...but I think...I think it may be too late to worry about that..."
Nugan 11-06-03, 09:36 PM	Nugan pauses and stares nervously at Sharp for a momment. "Well... Well... I'm not... I don't know if... Oh, damn it!" Nugan leans over Sharp and tries to lift her as carefully as possible.
Sharp 11-06-03, 09:45 PM	Sharp cries out in pain as she is lifted out of the snow, but clings as best she can to her boss. "Don't put me down it'll only hurt more," she whimpered, "just get me on the horse."
Nugan 11-06-03, 09:49 PM	Nugan winces, edging carefully towards the horse. "Okay... You're going to have to give me some idea which way to go... You're sure you can handle the ride?" Nugan eases Sharp onto the horse, and holds her up as heclimbs on and steadies himself. He looks down at the riens and winces again. "Um... New problem... I can't drive this thing... remember?"
Melandi Veykayan 11-06-03, 09:52 PM	In the darkness of the temple a set of unfreindly green eyes watched Nugan and Sharp through a scrying crystal. This could not have gone better had I myself planned it... Indeed. Such things will come often for your faith in me. Thank you my master...
Sharp 11-06-03, 10:04 PM	"Dig your knees in gently." She whispers. "Then down the road just the way we were going. Pull the reins in the direction you want the horse to turn just.." She coughed. "...hold them if you don't want to turn at all."
Nugan 11-06-03, 10:09 PM	Nugan nods, holding up Sharp with one arm, and takes the reins with the other. "Well... Just don't hold me even more responsible if you... Nevermind... Here goes..." Nugan digs his legs into the horse's side slightly, forcing it to begin to trot foward, and uses the reins to direct it down the road. He looks down at Sharp. "I think I might be doing it right... I guess... I dont want it to go too fast though... I might not be able to keep it under control... So you'll have to try not to... um... Just try to stay together is all...."
Sharp 11-06-03, 10:21 PM	"You're...doing...fine..." She cries in pain as they go, unable to help it. It hurts... "Just...don't dig in any harder. And don't...panic." It hurts...
Nugan 11-06-03, 10:24 PM	Nugan gives Sharp a worried look as he continues to steer the horse. "You're sure we shouldn't try to wait for help?" Nugan looks up at the road ahead and winces again. "Yeah... Remember that rough patch you meantioned? ... We're there..."
Sharp 11-06-03, 10:37 PM	She whimpers. "What help do you think will...careful!" She coughed again. "The rough spot...right...." It hurts... "Turn left...ride between...the trees..."
Nugan 11-06-03, 10:41 PM	Nugan nods, slowly the horse some, and trying to ease it through the trees. "Okay..." Nugan ducks a limb as he directs the horse to close to one of the trees and leans over Sharp to sheild her from some of the branches. "Uh... Sorry bout that..." Nugan directs the horse out from between the trees, wincing as a sharper branch cuts the side of his neck, and looks ahead.
Sharp 11-06-03, 11:03 PM	For Sharp the pain was growing almost unbearable. "There is a boulder ahead," she got out. "Ride toward it." She coughed...there was more blood. "Go slow....carefull...roots...trees..."
Nugan 11-06-03, 11:06 PM	Nugan nods, steering the horse slowly towards the boulder, keeping his eyes fixed on the ground. "Well... This is... Just... Great..." Nugan leads the horse nearly to the boulder. "Almost there... And now?"
Sharp 11-06-03, 11:13 PM	They are at the edge of a steep and rocky gully. There is a small stream at the bottom. Much of it is frozen. Sharp blinks at Nugans question. "Down...only...way..."
Nugan 11-06-03, 11:17 PM	Nugan sighs, looking into the gulley. "Of course..." Nugan shifts his weight on the horse and tries to edge it down the side, but it begins to slip and back up onto the bank, refusing to go farther. He looks down at the horse. "Great... He doesn't seem to want to move... How much farther is it? Walking distance?"
Sharp 11-06-03, 11:21 PM	"...path..."
Nugan 11-06-03, 11:23 PM	Nugan blinks and looks down at Sharp. "What now? Path? ... Did you hear me? ... Or... Well... Did you hear me?"
Sharp 11-06-03, 11:29 PM	Darkness swirled around Sharp. It hurts...so cold......"hear me!" Nugan's voice jarred her, forcing her awake. "There..." She pointed to a particular spot at the gully's edge. "There is a path, the horse will go there."
Nugan 11-06-03, 11:31 PM	Nugan gives Sharp another worried look and nods, directing the horse towards the path. He watches as it descends into the gully. "Um... How you doing? You don't sound..."
Sharp 11-06-03, 11:39 PM	She shakes her head. "I know."
Nugan 11-06-03, 11:48 PM	Nugan gulps and glances down at Sharp again before turning his attention back to the road. He steers the horse out of the gulley and further down the path. "How much farther are we talking here? I'm not sure... Well... Nevermind..."
Sharp 11-06-03, 11:55 PM	The path here is rocky and icy...a cold wind blows.... Sharp shivers.
Nugan 11-06-03, 11:59 PM	Nugan slows the horse more, but it still slides and struggles on the ice, making the movement foward even slower. Nugan gives Sharp a worried look as she shivers and sighs a little. He looks at the horse. "Come on... Can't you do better than that? ... This is complete..." Nugan sighs again, gives Sharp another worried look, and continues to ease the struggling horse foward.
Sharp 11-07-03, 12:06 AM	Darkness swirled once more... A warning somewhere in the back of her mind kept her from sleeping. Somehow she had to stay awake as cold as it was as much as it hurt...and it did hurt... She coughed up more blood. It hurt. She wanted to scream and scream, but she had no strength. At length they came to a clearing. She couldn't make words come, so she made a motion to pull back on the reins, to stop the horse, with her hand.
Nugan 11-07-03, 12:08 AM	Nugan nods, and pulls the horse to a stop. He looks down at Sharp and gulps at the blood on her face. "So... Where do we go from here?"
Sharp 11-07-03, 12:17 AM	For a long moment she was silent. "Down," she whispered at last. "This is it."
Nugan 11-07-03, 12:19 AM	Nugan nods, manages to get the horse to sit after a brief struggle, dismounts, and carefully eases Sharp onto the ground. He looks from side to side. "I don't.... think I see anything..."
Sharp 11-07-03, 12:23 AM	She screams, blood trickling faster, as she is moved from the horse. On the ground she just lies there a moment concentrating on breathing.
Nugan 11-07-03, 12:25 AM	Nugan winces as Sharp screams and stares uneasily at her for a while on the ground. "Um.... Careful... I mean... You don't want to... I mean... You might... I mean... We're almost there..."
Sharp 11-07-03, 12:31 AM	Almost there... She took as deep a breath as she could manage and then spoke. "In my pocket...there is a flask...magic...water." She coughs. "Pour some...on the...runestone...across from us."
Nugan 11-07-03, 12:34 AM	Nugan kneels next to Sharp, reaches into her pocket and withdraws the vial. "Guess this is it..." Nugan takes the vial over to the rock, uncorks it, and pours it out. "Um... I did it... I guess... I think... I hope..."
Sharp 11-07-03, 12:36 AM	Sharp sees the light reflecting off the trees as a portal opens beyond the stone...and then only darkness...
Nugan 11-07-03, 12:41 AM	Nugan forces a smirk as the portal opens. "There we go... Guess I did it... Now..." Nugan turns towards Sharp. "Well Sharp, you're going to owe... Sharp?" Nugan hurries over to Sharp, and kneels down to look at her. "Sharp? .... Damn it!" Nugan picks Sharp up, and hurries through the portal with her.
Sharp 11-07-03, 12:44 AM	Sharp remains unconsciouss as Nugan brings her through the portal to Kan Homa. They are in another clearing now. Through the trees the lights of a township are visible.
Nugan 11-07-03, 12:50 AM	Nugan limps towards the lights of the township, struggling not to drop Sharp as he does. He winces harder with each step. "Come on boy... Almost there..." Nugan manages to limp to the very edge of the township, where he drops to his knees and eases Sharp to the ground. He looks up weakly and scans the village. "Little help... Someone?"
Melandi Veykayan 11-07-03, 01:16 AM	She watched... Heads poked curiously out of windows. The nightwatch was there in an instant. The foremost guard took one look at Nugan and the Unconscious Sharp and shouted to his companion. "Go get Brother Minson! At once!" The guard ran off to do as he was told. The towsnfolk came out of their houses and began to gather around concernedly. ...her expression darknened. The portal from greyhawk has closed behind them...your enemies have come. I see that, but they shall come no closer. Good. Good....
Nugan 11-07-03, 01:52 AM	Nugan watches the townsfolk gather and forces a smirk. "Um... Hi... I've kinda got some issues... Could you..." Nugan sighs as the townsfolk call for the healer. "Yeah... Do that..." Nugan struggles to his feet, wincing as he places weight on his leg. "Well... That was just... great..." Nugan swoons, takes a deep breath, and collapses.
Sharp 11-07-03, 02:02 AM	Through it all Sharp lies there, breathing shallowly... A older man in preistly robes and bearing a candle enters the scene. "To the church at once! Help me," he says to the present watchmen. The preist took up the small halfling in his arms. A litter was brought for Nugan. As the townsfolk returned to their homes both newcomers to Kan Homa were borne swiflty to the church for healing.
Nugan 11-10-03, 11:00 PM	Nugan shifts in his bed in a room behind the church, and his eyes flicker open. He groans, sits up, and scans the room. "Um... Hello?" Nugan, after seeing no one, steps out of bed, walks towards the door, and pockects a statuette that was sitting on a shelf on the way. He then opens the door, and steps outside.
Sharp 11-10-03, 11:16 PM	In the main sanctuary at dawn.... Sharp lay upon a covered stone as the last healings spells were cast, four monks knelt by it in prayer. The fifth, Brother Minson, was chanting... What the...where...? Unseen, Sharp stirred. At length the Brother sat back on his knees and then stood to check on the halfling.
Nugan 11-10-03, 11:25 PM	Nugan steps out of his room into a hallway. He pauses for a momment, and listens before overhearing the chanting coming from the healers. After ducking back into his room as a cleric passes by, he slips back outside, follows the chanting to a door, and leans against it, trying to see inside. He catches a glimpse of the clerics and Sharp, opens the door quietly, and slowly slips inside while they're distracted. He shuts the door and smirks. "Hello... Now, what's going on here?" ((Edit: Worse typo ever. :P))
Sharp 11-10-03, 11:41 PM	She felt a cold hand checking her vital signs...and heard Nugan's voice... Nugan...the ride... She stretched, taking a deep breath and opening her eyes. "Since I can sit up," she said coughing away a bit of hoarseness and doing just that. "I guess healing?" The Brother blinked. Sharp looked around her and forced a mortified grimace into a fairly cute grin she directed at Minson. "I am tougher than I look."
Nugan 11-10-03, 11:48 PM	Nugan winces as he sees Sharp, and then forces a smirk. "Apparently... And heavier than you look too..." Nugan leans in to one of the healers and whispers to him. "So... Is she going to... well... be okay?"
Sharp 11-11-03, 12:00 AM	She rolls her eyes good naturedly at Nugan and then works on getting of the stone. She does so slowly, the task being more difficult than she was willing to admit even to herself. To her her it made no differece. There was work to be done... The preist lowered his voice and replied: "She should be, all our spells were granted." He grins slightly. "Only a halfling can take that much healing and be awake so quickly." He shook his head a little obviously charmed by this. If Sharp heard Nugan's question or the preist's answer she made no sign. She simply walked, slowly, over to Nugan. "Ready to move on?"
Nugan 11-11-03, 12:03 AM	Nugan blinks and looks down at Sharp. "Um... Yeah... But... Are you? I mean... well... nevermind..."
Sharp 11-11-03, 12:13 AM	"Trust me." She winked. She turned to brother Minson and his followers. "My thanks," she said and tossed them a small leather pouched that chinked when the rather surprised Brother caught it. "Farewell," she curtsied and lost her balance but managed to discretely inch her skirt in the way in time to disguise it as tripping on her hem. With a sheepish grin, she put her small hand on the back of Nugan's elbow and made an effort to get him headed to the door as well.
Nugan 11-11-03, 12:16 AM	Nugan shoots a smirk at the brother. "Yeah... Thanks... Oh and she paid for me too..." Nugan nods to Sharp, turns, and walks out of the room. He turns to Sharp. "So... Where to now?"
Sharp 11-11-03, 12:21 AM	"First to find food, unless by some chance you brought ours from greyhawk, and then back on the road. Lost a bit of time there..."
Nugan 11-11-03, 12:24 AM	Nugan shrugs, continuing towards the temple's exit. "Now, when was the last time you knew me to have that kind of foresight... So, yeah, we need to pick up something to eat... I'm sure there's a resturant or market that's not so big on security in town..."
Sharp 11-11-03, 12:26 AM	"Not so big on..." She sighs. "Nugan, there are times when honesty is more expediant. This one of them."
Nugan 11-11-03, 12:29 AM	Nugan smirks, opening the temple's main door, and stepping outside. "Sounds like a cop-out to me... Developing a conscience, are we Sharp?"
Sharp 11-11-03, 12:41 AM	She smirks. "Relax Nugan, please. My reasoning is as follows," she winces a bit taking the steps down to the street. "I am not at my best. I care more about getting the food than how it is gotten." She looks at him with just a hint of pleading in her eyes. "Today the honest way is just...easier."
Nugan 11-11-03, 12:47 AM	Nugan chuckles, walking into the street and scanning for a merchant or restuarant. "Okay, okay... But I'm gonna get worried if this starts happening a lot..."
Sharp 11-11-03, 12:59 AM	Sharp laughs. "Carefull, never know when I am going to start doing...this..." She held up the statuette Nugan had stolen from the church. "And returning them."
Nugan 11-11-03, 01:03 AM	Nugan fakes a gasp, still smirking slightly. "You... Wouldn't.... Dare...."
Sharp 11-11-03, 01:05 AM	She just laughs, casually flipping it back to him.
Nugan 11-11-03, 01:09 AM	Nugan catches the statue, and chuckles. "Thought so..." Nugan glances from side to side. "So... Where to eat? Any preference?"
Sharp 11-11-03, 01:19 AM	"Nope...but I'd take the busiest tavern, means the food is good." They did find the busiest tavern, the fare was decent. Sharp ate heartily and more than one meal's worth. She had even caught Nugan eating inspite of his ever present complaints. They bought more food for the journey on, and then some more supplies, and finally they took to the road again... ...only seven hours or so behind schedule.
Nugan 11-11-03, 01:24 AM	Nugan walks besides Sharp, smirking. "Well, if that was the best food available... I'd hate to see what taverns went out of business... Oh well, I'm just spoiled... Straak's a better cook than the people that worked for my father... But, as always, don't tell him I said that... Anyway, how much longer are we talking here?"
Sharp 11-12-03, 11:38 AM	"Wouldn't we all like to be home with the familiar staff." She smiled as they walked. "How long? Five or six hours." The mainroad in the town led them to the gate. No one asked them any questions or even paid them particular notice as they headed out of Kan Homa.
Nugan 11-12-03, 04:22 PM	Nugan winces as he steps through the gate, and begins walking away from the town. "Five or six hours? Oh yeah, this'll be fun... I just hope Hector breaks his pattern, and actually does what we wanted him to this time... I'd hate to get there only to find its just you, me, and lil' Gaspy..."
Sharp 11-12-03, 08:55 PM	She drew her hood more tightly around her face and shivedred slightly, but smiled. "I am not going to worry about that. There is safety in numbers but also other dangers. My biggest concern is that we know too little about what we are up against. "
Nugan 11-12-03, 08:58 PM	Nugan shrugs, picking up his pace some. "Isn't that always how it is? ... Really though, what more is there to know? She's Gaspy's kid. She's young, impressionable, and alone. She's got some of her Grandma's powers. And soon she'll be Apathy's."
Sharp 11-12-03, 09:01 PM	She glances sideways at Nugan. "I think you are fooling yourself if you think that is all there is to it."
Nugan 11-12-03, 09:08 PM	Nugan shrugs again, continuing down the road. "Oh, I'm sure I am... But if I didn't, I'd be back in the Guildhall, shaking under the table, crying to myself already..."
Sharp 11-16-03, 07:22 PM	"So why are you doing this again?"
Nugan 11-16-03, 07:27 PM	Nugan pauses in place for a momment, and blinks. "Um... Well... You see... I... I think it had something to do with getting back at Gaspy since I didn't get to kill her.... That and getting that kid under Apathy's influence before she ends up wasting her powers healing people in the dirty top room of a tavern... That and I think I might have a death wish... Mostly the latter probably..." Nugan shrugs and resumes walking.
Sharp 11-16-03, 07:29 PM	She picks up a wad of snow, balls it theive's hand quick and lobs it at Nugan with all her negligable strength.
Nugan 11-16-03, 07:32 PM	Nugan winces as the snowball collides with his left leg. He looks down and the to Sharp with a smirk. "What? Was that the closet to my face you could get?" Nugan chuckles, and takes another step foward.
Sharp 11-16-03, 07:39 PM	Makes another and hurls it angrily, jumping to put additional force behind it, aimed at his hip.
Nugan 11-16-03, 07:43 PM	Nugan yelps lightly as he's hit by the snowball, and slips on a patch of ice, skidding into a snowdrift along the roadside. He disappears from sight under the snow. "Great..."
Sharp 11-16-03, 09:30 PM	She walks over to where Nugan is, cleans any snow off his face to be sure he sees her and then places her hands on her hips. "Not funny."
Nugan 11-16-03, 09:35 PM	Nugan pushes himself into a sit in the snow, and smirks at Sharp. "It wasn't? I know I got a good chuckle out of swallowing three mouthfulls of this brown roadside snow..." Nugan stands, and shakes himself off. "Ah well... I'll take everything back if you promise you won't do anything that's likely to leave me in bed for a month with hypothermia for the rest of the trip... Deal?"
Sharp 11-16-03, 09:39 PM	Sharp coughs, closing her eyes and grinning faintly she shakes her head. "Deal."
Nugan 11-16-03, 09:42 PM	Nugan chuckles, brushes himself off again, turns, and begins walking down the road again. "Good..." Nugan shoots a look back at Sharp. "Oh yeah Sharp... One more thing..."
Sharp 11-16-03, 09:45 PM	Stops, sighs and steels herself. "Yes?" A smirk tugs at the corners of her mouth.
Nugan 11-16-03, 09:47 PM	Nugan smirks and slides a hand into his pocket. "Oh its just..." Nugan pulls a small ball of snow from his pocket and tosses it at Sharp. "This."
Sharp 11-16-03, 09:54 PM	She tries to catch it, only to have it burst into white fluff. She wipes her now wet hand on her coat and blinks at Nugan, through the snow melting on her face and hair. "Thank you, Nugan. I was not wearing frost before now I am. Thank you very very much."
Nugan 11-16-03, 09:56 PM	Nugan smirks, turning back to the road. "You're welcome..." Nugan begins walking foward again. "Oh yeah... Now we have a deal...."
Sharp 11-16-03, 10:02 PM	Sharp is well about to throw a snowball anyway...when the ground rumbles, a low and horrible sound.
Nugan 11-16-03, 10:04 PM	Nugan winces and pauses in place. "Great... I'm thinking that wasn't one of those 'good earthquakes'..."
Sharp 11-16-03, 10:06 PM	She drops the snowball she was holding. "No that was..." She pauses making a face. "You really don't want to know what that was."
Nugan 11-16-03, 10:08 PM	Nugan sighs and takes a step backwards. "I bet you're right... But why don't you tell me anyway..."
Sharp 11-16-03, 10:10 PM	"That was the Invokation." She shivered. "Something has happened at the Temple."
Nugan 11-16-03, 10:16 PM	Nugan shifts his position nervously. "Well... Maybe it was something good for us... You never know... Right?"
Sharp 11-16-03, 10:18 PM	"Did you hear what I just said? That was the Invokation. The only one who could have done that is..." It came again, that low horrible rumble.
Nugan 11-16-03, 10:22 PM	Nugan forces a smirk. "Oh, I heard you... I just didn't understand a word you said... But, let's prentend I do for a second... Who's the only one who can do... whatever it is that just happened?"
Sharp 11-16-03, 10:25 PM	"That grandkid you were talking about? Well something's got her mighty miffed. Siobhan only did this the night..." It happened again stronger this time, the ground actually shaking, the low sound reverberating in the depths of the earth.
Nugan 11-17-03, 10:59 PM	Nugan braces himself against a nearby tree until the quake subsides. He then looks down the street nervously. "Well... That just means she's distracted... right?" Nugan sighs. "Who am I kidding... I'm not even gonna be a job for the Earthen Jar after this is over... Well, besides the one you'll be carrying what's left of me back to the guildhall with...."
Sharp 11-17-03, 11:02 PM	"You mean you want to keep going?!" Sharp said from the ground, the quaking having knocked her on her rear.
Nugan 11-17-03, 11:04 PM	Nugan shoots a forced-looking smirk back at Sharp. "You mean you want to turn around?"
Sharp 11-17-03, 11:07 PM	"Nugan I love a challenge as well as the next theif and I admit that temple is begging for a raid, but...!" The ground quaked again, the low sound sending a shiver through her this time. "...but I am not an idiot!"
Nugan 11-17-03, 11:12 PM	Nugan pauses in place and stares down the road for a momment. "Well... I am an idiot... But you might have a point... Still..."
Sharp 11-17-03, 11:15 PM	Sharp scrambles to her feet and looks back down the way they'd come. "I think it has been decided for us." In the distance are the shadowy shapes of cloaked forms bearing what could be polearms or staves...
Nugan 11-17-03, 11:18 PM	Nugan follows Sharp's gaze and winces. "Great..." Nugan sighs. "I've had to say that a lot since we left the Earthen Jug, haven't I? ... Did I mention that I was an idiot?"
Sharp 11-17-03, 11:23 PM	Sharp looks both ways. "I'd say forward. Probably safer." She begins hopping nervously from foot to foot.
Nugan 11-17-03, 11:27 PM	Nugan begins to jog down the road, shooting looks behind his shoulder. "I'm gonna trust you on that one..."
Sharp 11-17-03, 11:29 PM	She skitters after him without another word.
Straak 11-17-03, 11:44 PM	Straak ducks under a snowy tree limb as he steps into a clearing, his eyes fixed on the map in front of him. "Yah... Let's, ya know, see here... If I'm, ya know, reading dis right..." Straak stops near the center of the clearing. "Yah... We're here."
Siobhan Veykayan 11-17-03, 11:59 PM	((OOC: I would just like to note for any all posters that off-color posts and themes are not welcome here. This is my setting, and I do not appreciate even implied uncleanliness. This thread deals with evil chars true but that by no means makes it ok to break the CoC on account.))
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 12:26 AM	Nocturan stomps his way through the woods, just a few yards behind Straak. When he comes to the tree limb, he simply walks through it, not even flinching as his metallic hide causes the branch to snap off and crash to the ground. He enters the clearing and looks at Straak. "Here? And just where is here?"
WraithOfHouseToHouse 11-18-03, 12:32 AM	Yanen blinks back into existence, the children a few feet behind him. He peers over at Straak and shakes his head. "I knew you were powerful Straak, but not that powerful.."
Straak 11-18-03, 12:39 AM	Straak scans the clearing. "Yah... I'm not, ya know, sure..."
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 12:49 AM	Nocturan half snarls at that. "You're not sure? That's just great... a map to who knows where, and a map reader with no clue... Makes life in the Abyss seem like fun..." He looks around the clearing, snarling at the snowy setting. "Makes the Abyss look like home too..."
Straak 11-18-03, 12:59 AM	Straak narrows his eyes and begins looking over the clearing again. "Yah... This is where tha, ya know, map ends... I don't think tha boss would give us a, ya know bad map... There must be somethin' here... Yah..." Straak blinks as his eyes fall on the boulder near the clearing's center. "Yah... What's, ya know, dis?"
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 01:01 AM	Nocturan looks at the boulder, then at Straak and raises an eyeridge. "Hmm, could it be... yep, I think it is. A rock. What about it?"
Straak 11-18-03, 01:06 AM	Straak kneels down next to the rock, and stares at it closely. "Yah... Its kinda, ya know, interestin' lookin'... Ain't it?"
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 01:10 AM	Nocturan moves up alongside Straak next to the rock and looks at it. "It's a rock Straak, there's nothing interesting about a rock...." Almost as if to prove his point, he taps the rock with one of his claw blades twice.
Straak 11-18-03, 01:16 AM	Straak gives Nocturan a worried look. "Yah... Are ya sure ya shoulda, ya know, done dat?" Straak shimmeys back from the rock, and watches it.
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 01:26 AM	Nocturan's eyeridges go up as he sees the rock begin to shimmer as the moisture from one his claw blades lands on its surface. He takes a step back. "Uhh... that's not supposed to happen... This might be bad..."
Straak 11-18-03, 01:29 AM	Straak crawls backwards more. "Yah... Or it could be, ya know, good..."
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 01:32 AM	Nocturan continues to back away. "Straak... when have you ever known any of my 'accidental happenings' to have a good result?"
Straak 11-18-03, 01:36 AM	Straak gulps. "Yah... Good, ya know, point..."
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 01:40 AM	Nocturan steps back a bit farther and looks to Straak. "I've got an idea, go back behind the tree line and get some cover."
Straak 11-18-03, 01:48 AM	Straak nods, and scurries to his feet. "Yah... Okay..." Straak hurries back to the edge of the clearing and crawls into a bush for cover.
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 01:55 AM	Nocturan stoops down and picks up a handful of snow from the ground. He steps back to the treeline and eyes the rock, steadying himself on his powerful hind legs. He takes aim and hurls the snowball at the rock, launching himself backward and behind the nearby foliage in hopes of cover. . o O ( Please don't shock me, please don't shock me, please don't shock me.... )
Straak 11-18-03, 01:58 AM	Straak watches as the snowball collides with the rock, making it shimmer again, harder than before. He looks down at Nocturan in the bush. "Yah... I think ya can, ya know, come out now... Its jus', ya know, glowin' some more..."
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 02:04 AM	Nocturan stands up and smirks at Straak. "Right, of course it's safe. I wasn't worried about a blast of lightning, nope, not me..." He walks back into the clearing and looks at the glowing rock. "Well, now what?"
Hector Puern 11-18-03, 02:09 AM	Hector lifts his snow-covered helm slightly out of a bush on the other side of the clearing and fixes his gaze on Nocturan and Straak.
Straak 11-18-03, 02:14 AM	Straak furrows his brow and looks from the boulder to Nocturan and back again. Eventually, a small smile passes across his face. "Yah... I think I might have a, ya know, idea...But... Yah... Ya might not, ya know, like it..."
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 02:19 AM	Nocturan looks down at Straak and raises his eyeridges. "And idea that I might not like, eh? And just what might that be?"
Straak 11-18-03, 02:29 AM	Straak looks down at his feet. "Yah... Well... Maybe... We could... Sorta... Ya know.. 'Jolt' it inta workin'..."
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 02:38 AM	"Jolt it? You'd better not be going where I think you're going with this... If it involves me and electricity, you've been smelling coffee too long kobold..." Nocturan looks down at Straak with a serious expression, one of absolute objection.
Straak 11-18-03, 02:44 AM	Straak gulps and shifts nervously. "Yah... Not, ya know, exactly... It involves ya and water makin', ya know, electricity... Yah... Ya see, ya'll lie on dat, ya know, rock... Yah... And then I'll... Ya know... melt some snow... And then... Yah... I'm gonna... Yah... Ya know..." Straak lowers his voice to almost a whisper. "Pour it on ya..."
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 02:57 AM	Nocturan snorts, his nostrils going wide at that. "Pour it on me?! Pour it on me?! Have you lost your mind, or is the air just thin down there? If you pour water over me, I'll get shocked from the electric static as well. You know damn well what that means: Paralyzed mecha lizard. Why don't we just douse you in oil and throw you in a fireplace and see how you like it? Huh?!"
Straak 11-18-03, 03:00 AM	Straak gulps again before slowly raising his eyes and looking Nocturan in the face. "Yah... If that would, ya know, let us get ta tha boss ta help him... I'd do it in a, ya know, second... Yah... But its not gonna... This, ya know, might though..."
Hector Puern 11-18-03, 03:06 AM	Hector ducks back into the bushes and carefully crawls closer to the edge of the clearing before poking his now more snow-covered helm out again.
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 03:06 AM	Nocturan snarls, a low hiss escaping his throat. He looks at the rock and growls. . o O ( Lousy rock... ) He looks back to Straak. "You really mean that don't you? You'd actually sacrifice your life for the weasel and not think twice about it..." He trails off and half mutters. "Kobolds.... Go figure..."
Straak 11-18-03, 03:09 AM	Straak narrows his eyes at Nocturan and nods. "Yah... Don't ya think he would, ya know, do tha same for one of us?"
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 03:16 AM	Nocturan just barely manages to not fall over, as he starts to laugh loudly. "Nugan? Sacrifice himself for anything? Not bloody likely Straak. He's one of the most self centered people I've ever met, and I was put back together by a demon. The odds of Nugan putting himself at risk for either one us are about as good as me secrely being a paladin."
Straak 11-18-03, 03:19 AM	Straak sighs, and looks down at his feet again. "So does this, ya know, mean ya won't do it?"
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 03:23 AM	Nocturan looks at him. "Let's review. I'll get electrocuted and paralyzed for a while. It will serve to put me in an annoyed mood the rest of the trip, and generally, that's a bad thing. If I get paralyzed, there goes the muscle on this expedition of ours. So you're asking if I'll go through with it?"
Straak 11-18-03, 03:27 AM	Straak sighs again. "Yah... So dat's a, ya know, no... Yah... So...What else can we, ya know, do? Yah... I'm outta ideas... I guess ya might as well go back ta tha guildhall... I'll prolly jus', ya know, freeze ta death tryin' ta work dis anyway..."
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 03:31 AM	Nocturan smirks. "We could do that, but this is more fun, get the water little lizard."
Straak 11-18-03, 03:33 AM	Straak blinks and looks up. "Yah... Really?" Straak pulls a small bucket from his pack, and shovels some snow into it. He starts a fire, and sets the snow-filled bucket on top of it.
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 03:36 AM	Nocturan smirks. "Of course really. I'm not going back to the guildhall now, there's nothing going on there anyway." He sits on the rock, wrapping his mechanical tail around one side and resting his feet at the other. "Just be quick about it, I feel rediculous."
Straak 11-18-03, 03:39 AM	Straak nods, lifts the bucket from the fire, and walks over to Nocturan. "Yah... Sorry bout dis..." Straak tips the bucket and tosses the water at Nocturan before throwing himself to the ground.
Nocturan Deadfall 11-18-03, 03:51 AM	Nocturan braces himself as the water flies toward him. He grits his teeth and closes his eyes as the water splashes over his form and then shudders painfully. Arcs of electricity play across his form, blue white like normal lightning at first, but then transforming to a gleaming green-black as the abyssal magic that powers his form is tapped into. The unusual energy crackles and sparks as it covers his metallic and flesh form, the water beginning to scintilate as it drips off of him and onto the rock. He continues to shudder as if in wracking pains and then suddenly shoots up as the rock starts to shimmer more than it did before. He lurches forward, having no control over his limbs for a moment and plumets into the snow like a rock being tossed into a pond. His form twitches as he lays there, more jolts of the green black electricity snapping out from his body. (( Over to you DM, when ready of course ;) ))
Melandi Veykayan 11-20-03, 11:39 PM	The rock begins to glow brightly...but nothing happens *** Do you see that? yes...
Nugan 11-20-03, 11:41 PM	Meanwhile... Nugan continues to flee from the gaurds. "Did I already say great?" ((Yeah, this is just a poor attempt to cover accidently posting under the wrong SN))
Nocturan Deadfall 11-20-03, 11:44 PM	Nocturan twitches on the ground, his metallic hide magnetized by the electricity still arcing over his form. With a great amount of strain, he forces his head to turn to see the rock. With a low metallic hiss, he mutters. "Great..."
Straak 11-20-03, 11:45 PM	Straak sighs. "Yah... That was a, ya know, waste..."
Melandi Veykayan 11-20-03, 11:53 PM	The stone flashes brighter and then brighter and then a gateway opens to another plane... *** clearly...
Nocturan Deadfall 11-20-03, 11:53 PM	Nocturan eyes Straak, a very slight snarl crossing his face, the most he can manage with his metal jaws. His entire form twitches once. "Yeah... that... was... a... waste... alright... Now... what... in... the... Nine... are... we... going... to... do...?" He blinks as he sees the gateway open. "Well... how... about... that..."
Straak 11-20-03, 11:56 PM	Straak hangs his head. "Yah... I have no, ya know, idea..." Straak blinks and looks up as the portal opens, a small smile crossing his face. "Yah... How bout we, ya know, go in there?"
Nocturan Deadfall 11-20-03, 11:59 PM	Nocturan's body twitches as an arm demagnetizes and a spark of green lightning jumps off of his form and strikes the ground. Another twitch sends a second bolt off from his other arm and strikes the ground as well. "Yeah... sounds good Straak... Give me... a minute..."
Hector Puern 11-21-03, 12:00 AM	Hector stares blankly at the open portal from behind the bush. He then ducks out of sight into the foliage again.
Straak 11-21-03, 12:02 AM	Straak give Nocturan a worried look. "Yah... Are ya gonna be, ya know, okay?"
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 12:08 AM	Nocturan twitches again, two arcs of the green electricty sparking off from his legs and scorching the snow covered ground. He slowly plants his hands on the ground and starts to push himself up, looking at Straak. "Yeah... just fine." He growls as his feet get a hold beneath him and he stands to his full height. Turning his neck with a loud pop and venting steam from along his throat, two more arcs of electricity leave his wings. His tail however remains still as the electric binding holds it fast.
Hector Puern 11-21-03, 12:13 AM	Hector sticks his helm-covered head out of the bushes just intime to be hit by one of Nocturan's bolts. He moans and collapses, breaking the bush under his weight in the process.
Straak 11-21-03, 12:16 AM	Straak blinks and turns towards the bushes. "Yah... What was, ya know, dat?"
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 12:20 AM	Nocturan glances over at the bushes as well, twitching as the last spark leaps from his tail, striking a tree limb behind him and knocking it to the ground. "I don't know, but I say we find out... Follow me..." He starts off toward the bushes, growling low as he searches for heat signals instead of standard color vision, also sniffing the air with his flaring nostrils.
Straak 11-21-03, 12:23 AM	Straak nods, puts his hand on the hilt of his short sword, and follows Nocturan. "Yah... Right, ya know, behind ya..."
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 12:28 AM	Nocturan snarls as his claw blades snap down with a clang, he plants his feet, lowering down low to the ground, bringing his shoulders down to Straak's normal height. He looks at the shrubs and launches forward, aiming to slam the full weight of his frame, put behind a massive shoulder, into who or what might be behind the plant cover.
Hector Puern 11-21-03, 12:35 AM	Hector lays on the crushed bush in front of Nocturan, twitching slightly. He moans softly.
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 12:38 AM	Nocturan raises up as he looks at Hector, returning to his normal vision. "You again. What in the Nine are you doing hiding in the bushes? Do you have some kind of death wish or something?"
Hector Puern 11-21-03, 12:41 AM	Hector moans again and looks up at Nocturan. "I...I...I hurt... A lot..."
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 12:46 AM	Nocturan smirks at Hector. "I'm sure you do. Maybe you'll know better than to trail me next time. And you look like the healer type, so if you hurt, fix it." He snarls and mutters to himself as he walks back into the clearing to examine the portal. "Damn fools following me around... they get what they deserve the bloody oafs..."
Straak 11-21-03, 12:46 AM	Straak edges around Nocturan. "Yah... What, ya know, was it?" Straak looks down at Hector and winces. "Yah... Oops..."
Hector Puern 11-21-03, 12:51 AM	Hector sighs painfully. "I... I don't think I.... Can move my limbs... Could one of you... Move them.... For me... For the spell's... Components?"
Straak 11-21-03, 12:55 AM	Straak gulps. "Yah... I'll get ya a, ya know, potion..." Straak reaches into his pant's pocket and withdraws a flask. He kneels over Hector and tries to pour it into his mouth.
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 12:58 AM	Nocturan smirks at Hector and Straak. "Well, good thing I didn't charge claws first like I normally would have." He then looks toward the portal, then back to Straak. "Leave the cripple behind, we need to get moving before this thing closes, I'm not getting that electric treatment again."
Hector Puern 11-21-03, 01:02 AM	Hector swallows the potion, and groans again. "Thanks Straak..." Hector winces as he tries to sit up.
Straak 11-21-03, 01:06 AM	Straak stands again, and looks to Nocturan. "Yah... I'm , ya know, coming..." Straak turns and starts walking towards the portal, giving Hector a worried glance. "Yah... Sorry..."
Hector Puern 11-21-03, 01:10 AM	Hector struggles to his feet and begins to limp behind them. "Wait... I'm coming..."
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 01:12 AM	Nocturan snorts and looks at the portal. "Well, here goes... Ah hell, here it goes." He ducks a bit and steps through the gateway, clawblades still extended, his step cautious as his head turns from side to side, glancing about.
Straak 11-21-03, 01:16 AM	Straak pauses midstep, and looks at Hector. "Yah... I'm not, ya know, sure if Nocturan..." Straak glances back at the portal just in time to see the end of Nocturan's tail disappear inside. He looks back at Hector. "Yah..." Straak shrugs and turns, hurrying into the portal.
Melandi Veykayan 11-21-03, 01:16 AM	Nocturan finds himself at the edge of another forest. The new daylight illumines a town not to far in the distance. *** A low laugh echoes through the room. More guests...splendid...
Hector Puern 11-21-03, 01:19 AM	Hector grits his teeth, straightens his helm, and limps into the portal behind Straak.
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 01:20 AM	Nocturan snarls and glances back behind him from where he came, looking down at Straak as he sees him appear. "Great, another forest... Which way do we go?" He smirks at Hector. "You too? Just stay where I can see you." He snarls, muttering to himself. "Lucky he didn't wind up skewered on the blades..."
Straak 11-21-03, 01:24 AM	Straak emerges from the portal, and looks up at Nocturan. "Yah... Looks dat way..." Straak furrows his brow, and, after a momment, points towards town. "Yah.... How bout we try, ya know, over dere?"
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 01:27 AM	Nocturan shrugs at Straak. "Seems just as good as anywhere else on this... wherever we are... Let's go..." Nocturan starts off toward the lighted town, moving slowly and keeping his mind on where he is going, holding up his cautious attitude for now.
Hector Puern 11-21-03, 01:29 AM	Hector stumbles out of the portal, and looks to the two. "Yes, me too... I'm coming with you..." Hector pauses to take a deep breath and braces himself against a rock. "Nugan and I had a conversation a few nights ago... And I don't like where this whole thing seems to be headed..."
Straak 11-21-03, 01:39 AM	Straak begins walking towards the town and shoots a look back at Hector. "Yah... Please don't do anthin' to hurt tha boss's, ya know, plans... I don't wanna see ya two, ya know, fightin' again... Yah... I don't wanna be in the, ya know, middle..."
Hector Puern 11-21-03, 01:44 AM	Hector opushes himself off the rock, wincing, and hobbles after Straak. "I'm sorry Straak... But I'll do what I have to do..."
Straak 11-21-03, 01:47 AM	Straak glances back at Hector as he continues towards the town. "Yah.... That's what, ya know, worries me..."
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 02:05 AM	Nocturan returns to walks along the path, narrowing his eyes a bit as he switches back to his heat vision to get a better view of his surroundings. He mutters a bit to himself. "Great, no clue where I am, and these two are yapping..." He shoots a look over his shoulder at Straak and Hector. "How long do you think it will be before we make it to that town?"
Straak 11-21-03, 02:09 AM	Straak looks to Nocturan and then shifts his gaze towards the town. "Yah... Prolly not more a few, ya know, minutes now..." Straak blinks and looks down at the ground, gesturing towards a dry redish stain on the ground. "Yah... What's, ya know, dat?"
Hector Puern 11-21-03, 02:14 AM	Hector limps over to the stain, and drops to one knee to look at it. "Well..." Hector opens his helm, and stares at the stain for a few momment before looking up at Straak. "Its blood... From someone's lung... Less than ten hours old..."
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 02:14 AM	Nocturan raises an eyeridge as he looks at the town. "A few minutes?.." He trails off and looks back to the stain Straak points at, then focuses to switch back to his normal sense of sight. "Looks like blood to me." He glances back toward the town and blinks. "How do you like that, it is just a few minutes away..." Looking back to Straak and Hector he smirks.
Straak 11-21-03, 02:18 AM	Straak gulps, looking at the blood. "Tha boss..." Straak spins on his heel and makes a dash for the town.
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 02:21 AM	Nocturan smirks as Straak runs off. "Well that's a leap of logic from blood on the ground to Nugan..." He shakes his head and continues along toward the town at his usual pace, keeping the long clawblades extended.
Hector Puern 11-21-03, 02:25 AM	Hector forces himself to his feet, groaning again. "I suppose that is quite the leap... But still... I can't help but admire Straak.... I just wish.... Hector clears his throat. "Nevermind...." Hector limps foward, struggling to keep up with Nocturan.
Straak 11-21-03, 02:30 AM	Straak rushes into the town, and stops, leaning foward and breathing heavily. "Yah... Has... Anyone... Ya... Know... Seen..." Straak's words are cut off by his deep breathes, and he drops to his knees.
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 02:31 AM	Nocturan raises an eyeridge at Hector. "Wish he... No, nevermind... I don't want to know." He walks forward, studying the buildings that he can see carefully as he surveys the town, muttering to himself. "The weasel has no normal friends... What am I talking about, I was rebuilt by a demon..."
Hector Puern 11-21-03, 02:36 AM	Hector stumbles into town behind Noturan, and stops to lean against a sign-post. He opens his helm and looks around. "Where are we?"
Nocturan Deadfall 11-21-03, 02:42 AM	Nocturan growls a low rumble from his throat. "I don't know, but Straak doesn't seem to be too well..." He points to where the kobold fell on his knees. "As for where we are... check the sign post you're leaning on if you're that interested."
A Goat 11-21-03, 02:42 AM	The goat trots towards the outskirts of town, still on Oerth and well behind the others, chewing on his can. o0(Mmmm.... Can) The goat spots some pasture land and freezes in places, moving his head from side to side he looks it over till he spots a small herd of domestic goats in an enclosure. He picks up his head and trots towards them. o0(Mmmm.... Can?)
Sharp 11-23-03, 08:22 PM	Down the road Nugan and Sharp all but dashed... Their pursuers were no longer in sight and the earth had stopped shaking, but the low and horrible moan remained in constant counterpoint to all other sound. Sharp was tired...very tired, but now was not the time...not the time... She ran on giving no outward sign of how she felt.
Nugan 11-23-03, 08:31 PM	Nugan continues to run, his breath becoming shallower. He gives a glance his shoulder. "You... Think... We... Lost... Them?"
Sharp 11-23-03, 08:40 PM	"No idea," she muttered and kept running.
Nugan 11-23-03, 08:43 PM	Nugan slows, keeping his face turned to the road behind them, his breathing growing more heavy. "Maybe... We... Should... Rest... For... A... Second..."
Sharp 11-23-03, 08:44 PM	She looked over her shoulder just as the ground lurched again, pitching her forward. She winced and looked back at Nugan. "Fine."
Nugan 11-23-03, 08:46 PM	Nugan trips over a rock as the ground spasms again, tumbling to the ground, and landing on his back. He forces a smirk and looks over at Sharp. "Looks like that's a 'yes'..."
Sharp 11-23-03, 08:52 PM	Sharp sprawled on the ground for a moment, then shifted on to her back. The ground was cold. "I am not going to say, I told you so."
Nugan 11-23-03, 08:58 PM	Nugan winces as he pushes himself up to a sit. "Told me so? We're not done yet... Well, effectively we are... But..." Nugan sighs, and runs his back. "Yeah... You were right..."
Sharp 11-23-03, 09:05 PM	She looked up and sqinted. "Bullfinches!" Sharp sprang to her feet, crying out in pain as she did so. "They're still following!"
Nugan 11-23-03, 09:27 PM	Nugan winces and struggles to his feet. "Great... Of course they are..." Nugan takes off down the road at a sprint, stopping for a breath every few seconds.
Sharp 11-23-03, 09:31 PM	Sharp runs at a consistent jog, wincing painfully but very quietly with each step. She glances back at Nugan. We will never make it like this... From side to side she looks around wildly...and sees what she is looking for. "Nugan, this way!" She calls to him and runs off the path.
Nugan 11-23-03, 09:37 PM	Nugan nods and struggles off the pathy after her. "Sure... Why... Not... Couldn't... Be... Worse... I... Hope..."
Sharp 11-23-03, 09:42 PM	She leaps over the edge of the snow bank and rolls in the snow... She suddenly wonders if Nugan can do the same...
Nugan 11-23-03, 09:45 PM	Nugan scurries up the snow bank, tryies to jump, but slips and rolls over and down the other side, landing next to Sharp. He smirks and looks over to her from where he lies in the snoe. "Good enough... right?"
Sharp 11-23-03, 09:48 PM	Sharp smiles greatfully. "Yes, good enough. She turns her head to look behind her. "See that cave there? If we hide behind it, it should obscure us from the road long enough to recover a little."
Nugan 11-23-03, 09:52 PM	Nugan nods and crawls to his feet. "Looks good to me..." Nugan sprints for the cave after Sharp.
Sharp 11-23-03, 09:54 PM	Sharp scrambles behind the cave and collapses again, wincing. "I am not cut out for such dire straights," she whispers.
Nugan 11-23-03, 09:56 PM	Nugan drops to the ground besides Sharp, and forces a smirk. "And I am?"
Sharp 11-23-03, 10:00 PM	She looked over at Nugan and grinned. "One wonder what in world possessed us to..." The ground rumbled but only lightly. The ominous sound, however, grew uncomfortably loud.
Nugan 11-23-03, 10:02 PM	Nugan winces and braces himself against the cave wall. "I'm not sure... But I'm guessing it wasn't Lady Luck..."
Sharp 11-23-03, 10:08 PM	Sharp winced again. "Lets get a little further away from the cave away from the road if those tremors gets worse..." She motioned to the loose rocks on top of the larger boulder behind the cave.
Nugan 11-23-03, 10:11 PM	Nugan nods and struggles to his feet again. "Yeah... That'd probably be for the best... Is there some way to the church of Gaspy without going back on the road?"
Sharp 11-23-03, 10:14 PM	"Not that I..." The ground shook then stronger than ever before. Sharp lost track of up and down for a second...and then she was on the ground with something pinning her legs...
Nugan 11-23-03, 10:16 PM	Nugan stops and shoots a look back at Sharp. "What'd you say?" Nugan winces as he sees her. "Great..." Nugan runs back to her, and looks down at her. "You okay? Uh.... I mean..."
Sharp 11-23-03, 10:23 PM	"I am still breathing," she muttered. Rocks...that's what's pinning me... She squirms a little. "I can't get out on my own..." The ground tremlbles a little. She winces as a tiny pebble clatters from a top the boulder behind her, succelny imagining what will happen when the ground shakes next...
Nugan 11-23-03, 10:27 PM	Nugan shrugs, and kneels next to her. "You can't? Well, I wasn't exactly expecting you to be able to... Let's see if two sets of tiny iffeminate arms can handle it though..." Nugan moves to the rocks and begins to attempt to carefully move them aside.
Sharp 11-23-03, 10:36 PM	Sharp is almost free when the ground begins to shake again...this time harder than the last. "Nugan move!" She shouts as more rocks begin to fall. She pitches forward trying to shove him ahead of her.
Nugan 11-23-03, 10:40 PM	Nugan blinks as he's pushed, and stuumbles backwards. "Who the what now?" Nugan sees the falling rocks. andtakes a quick steps towards Sharp again, just in time to take a small rock to the side of his head. He wavers from side to side for a momment. "Great...." Nugan swoons and falls unconsious to the ground.
Sharp 11-23-03, 10:49 PM	Realizing she still can, Sharp pitches further forward toward Nugan. She feels pebbles on her back and puts her head down, trying to sheild herself with her arms. The ground goes still again. A dry laugh rises in Sharp's throat, her initial pitch had manuevered them out of the way of the worst of it. She was sore as she had ever remembered being but she wasn't pinned. She had only heard a couple of rocks larger than pebbles fall anywhere near them. "Nugan, this is just not our day." This she says without raising her head.
Nugan 11-23-03, 10:52 PM	Nugan groans and opens his eyes. "I guess its kinda too late to take your advice and turn back... isn't it?" Nugan tries to sit up, but moans and falls backwards again.
Sharp 11-23-03, 10:58 PM	Sharp sits up and looks around. The boulder behind them is cracked in half, the bottom crumbled away into a pit... She opens her mouth to speak as she looks around and sees Nugan on the ground. She frowns down at him. "Nugan?"
Nugan 11-23-03, 11:00 PM	Nugan looks up at her and forces a smirk. "Yes? Is there a problem?"
Sharp 11-23-03, 11:07 PM	"There is a yawning pit behind us." She scrambles a little closer to it. "That moan is coming stronger from there." She shudders and then stifles a wince and then blinks. Her gaze fell between teh cracked boulder. Beyond the boulder, their grey robed pursuers stood at the roads edge. She tries to say something, but it comes out a more garbled fear filled sound...
Nugan 11-23-03, 11:10 PM	Nugan forces a smirk and sits up. "Oh? Phew... I was pretty sure it was coming from me... I thought I had..." Nugan blinks as Sharp murmmers. "Something else wrong?"
Sharp 11-23-03, 11:14 PM	The grey robed figures advance. Sharp whimpers again, this time is sounds vaguely like Nugan's name.
Nugan 11-23-03, 11:16 PM	Nugan gives Sharp a worried look. "That'd be me... Uh... Why?"
Sharp 11-23-03, 11:19 PM	She scrambles backward. The grey figures advance.
Nugan 11-23-03, 11:22 PM	Nugan blinks, and follow's Shartp's gaze, turning his head and looking over his shoulder at the figures. "Ohhh.... That'd explain it... Great..." Nugan begins to push himself to his feet.
Sharp 11-23-03, 11:31 PM	Sharp looks around...and notes that they are surrounded by the grey figures with their gleaming polearms. Don't panic....Don't panic...Don't panic...Think!
Nugan 11-23-03, 11:35 PM	Nugan turns towards the figures and forces a smirk. "So... What do you guys want? I mean... Seems like you've gone through a lot of trouble and all..." Nugan slips a hand into his pocket.
Sharp 11-23-03, 11:38 PM	Sharp sees Nugan's words have no effect on the advancing figures. Desperately she looks around...and sees an angry looking weapon swinging down at her neck. It was no longer about thinking... Sharp gritted her teeth and leapt into the pit in front of her...the angry blade missing her by a hair.
Nugan 11-23-03, 11:44 PM	Nugan sighs as the figures continue to advance. "Sure, sure... I can see why you wouldn't want to talk about it, but... Really, if you go through all that work wouldn't you want us to-" Nugan sidesteps an attack. "Yeah... Nevermind..." Nugan smirks, waves to the figures, and lets himself fall backwards into the pit.
Sharp 11-23-03, 11:56 PM	Sharp's shoulder connected with stone, her vision went white with pain. It took her a full moment to realize she had fallen into a sort of tunnel and was rolling painfully down it's less than smooth edge. Suddenly weight impacted her other shoulder and then she landed on soft earth, the weight and the accompanying grey robes rolling over and off her then a few feet away.
Nugan 11-24-03, 12:00 AM	Nugan blinks and sits up, looking up at the pit's opening. "Well... I expected that to hurt a lot more... Hey, maybe our luck's turning around a little... Eh Sharp?" Nugan turns towards were Sharp lays and winces. "Great..."
Sharp 11-24-03, 12:07 AM	Sharp just lay there for a few moments. She had bitten her tongue when Nugan had crashed into her. She decided she had tasted blood far too often in these past couple of days. The deep ghostly moan was louder than ever. It smelled in here of... She heard the skittering of stones from somewhere up in the tunnel. Oh no...
Nugan 11-24-03, 12:10 AM	Nugan gives Sharp a worried glance, then sighs, and looks towards the noise. "Somehow I'm thinking that's not Apathy come to bail us out..."
Sharp 11-24-03, 12:13 AM	Any minute there are going to be more rocks on top of me....any minute.... She rolls herself over once, away from the hole and bites back a cry. "Help," she whimpers.
Nugan 11-24-03, 12:17 AM	Nugan stands, and hurries over to Sharp. "Yes..." Nugan looks down at her more closely and grimaces. "Oh..."
Sharp 11-24-03, 12:23 AM	She hears a louder rumble in the tunnel above... "Back...back" she rasps, trying to roll further back away from the hole.
Nugan 11-24-03, 12:26 AM	Nugan up at the tunnel opening, and winces. "Oh... Great..." Nugan attempts to grab Sharp by the shoulders and drag her with him to the wall of the tunnel, away from the opening.
Sharp 11-24-03, 12:32 AM	Sharp is dragged by Nugan away from the hole..and no sooner have they reached the far wall than the wall they left shakes. They are hit by a spray of gravel as rocks tumble down the tunnel blocking the way, preventing them from climbing out. There are things on the ground with them where they are now, hard, and sometimes sharp things, they cannot see clearly in the darkness. The ground is also no longer dry.
Nugan 11-24-03, 12:36 AM	Nugan spits out a mouth-full of gravel and wipes off his face with the back of his hand. "Well, looks like we're going to live a few minutes more... Yay... I guess..." Nugan leans down and looks at Sharp. "How are you doing?"
Sharp 11-24-03, 12:40 AM	"I'm..." she coughed, "still breathing." She coughed some more and tried to blink the dust out of her eyes. "And still conscious too...what a," she coughed some more, "bonus."
Nugan 11-24-03, 12:43 AM	Nugan winces. "Yeah... And it looks like you about to stay that way for all of a few seconds too..." Nugan begins rummaging through his robes. "Maybe I got something here somewhere..."
Sharp 11-24-03, 12:46 AM	She nodded. "How are you doing?"
Nugan 11-24-03, 12:51 AM	Nugan continues searching through his pockets. "Me? I'm regretting this self-destructive conscience-inflicted plan to get myself killed more than most.... But, other than that... I'm okay..." Nugan pulls a tin flask from his robes, and looks it over before kneeling down and handing it to Sharp. "There... That might help... Some... I hope..."
Sharp 11-24-03, 12:53 AM	She takes it from him. "What is it?"
Nugan 11-24-03, 12:55 AM	Nugan shrugs, smirking. "I took it from that healer for going through my stuff... Well, I assume he did... Anyway, I think its a healing potion..."
Sharp 11-24-03, 01:00 AM	She opens the flask and sniffs it. "Never been drunk...whiskey." She chuckles. "A brand new flask of whiskey." She snickers. "This is as medicianal as we get I imagine. Should dull the pain a little." She takes a swallow and then closes the flask. "By the way," she said. "We're here."
Nugan 11-24-03, 01:04 AM	Nugan smirks. "I wonder if Dahreen knows her healer's a drunk... Just think of the lives that she's putting in hands that are probably too shakey to hold a spell-compenent puch most of the time... Sheesh, she might as well have given Gramps a knife and told him to opperate on me..." Nugan blinks. "Did you say 'we're here'?"
Sharp 11-24-03, 01:11 AM	"Nugan whiskey has more uses than getting people drunk. You have got to stop ragging on the...yes we're here."
Nugan 11-24-03, 01:19 AM	Nugan sighs and rolls his eyes. "Yes, yes, I know... They commited their lives to helping people continue not dying, so of course they could not possibly be-Wait-What is here, anyway?"
Sharp 11-24-03, 01:22 AM	"We are in a part of the temple. Though i have never been here before...the smell is the same.
Nugan 11-24-03, 01:27 AM	Nugan smirks. "Oh, so that's what that is... No wonder I thought Apathy was coming for us..." Nugan narrows his eyes and stares down the tunnel. "So... Where's lil' Gaspy at?"
Sharp 11-24-03, 01:33 AM	"I don't know, as I said I have never been here before. As to where the granddaughter is...to be safe I will assume around every corner." She glanced down the corridor, her eyes fairly adjusted to the miniscule amount of light. "The corridor extends both ways. This room must be used for something." She feels the ground and then sniffs her fingers. "Blood." She picks up somthing and plays it through her fingers carefully. "An arm bone if I am not mistaken."
Nugan 11-24-03, 01:39 AM	Nugan winces, keeping behind Sharp. "Great... I'm thinking that's not one of those bloody disembodied arm bones that would be a good omen for us..."
Sharp 11-24-03, 01:44 AM	She looks about the room. "Ooh there's an altar in here too...and those grey things know we are here. In any other circumstances I'd say stay here and play dead until they give up on us, but given the nature of the place that course is no safer. So...left or right?" She looked at him. "Oh and we should probably stay as quiet as we can. Noise is about as common here as light."
Nugan 11-24-03, 01:48 AM	Nugan lowers his voice. "Well... I'm guessing both ways end with us as sacrifices to the Gaspy-god, but... I don't know..." Nugan shrugs. "Left?"
Sharp 11-24-03, 01:53 AM	Sharp nodded and got to her feet. Left...alright She started down the left hall. The way sloped downward...deeper. There was no sound in the corridor save the constant moan.
Nugan 11-24-03, 01:58 AM	Nugan braces himself against the wall as he follows the hall down. He smirks. "You kniw, I'm starting to think-Wait-Maybe it'd be better if I cut back on the snide comments what with not wanting to break the silence and all... Sorry..." Nugan sighs and continues down the hall behind Sharp.
Sharp 11-24-03, 02:01 AM	Sharp nods, smiling slightly, but not speaking as they go.
Melandi Veykayan 11-25-03, 05:55 PM	Brilliant blue eyes stair into the scrying pool... Oh well well well....what is this....
Nugan 11-25-03, 06:00 PM	Nugan slips on something, quickly braces himself against the wall, and open his mouth to say something, but shuts it again. He looks at his feet, glances at the human ribcage he had trpped on, shivers, shakes it free from his foot, and continues on.
Sharp 11-25-03, 11:57 PM	Sharp walks on trying not to think about the stuff on the ground. She frowns suddenly...her magic detection pendant is glowing. With an expression of abject misery, she turns to Nugan and shows him the glowing gem.
Nugan 11-25-03, 11:59 PM	Nugan pauses and look down at the pendant. He winces and whispers. "I'm not one-hundred percent sure what that means, but I'm thinking there's no possible way it could be good."
Sharp 11-26-03, 12:01 AM	Sharp shakes her head sadly. "We have got to get out of here." She leans against the wall, trying not to whimper.
Nugan 11-26-03, 12:05 AM	Nugan takes an uneasy step backwards "Um... Yeah... Good idea..." Nugan glances nervously from side to side. "But... How exactly would we go about doing that? Without getting.... ya know.... killed...."
Sharp 11-26-03, 12:08 AM	"I don't knoooow..." she wailed quietly. Low horrible laughter filled the corridor...the deep moan suddenly rose to a shout!
Nugan 11-26-03, 12:10 AM	Nugan backs up against the wall, shivering slightly. "I've said it a thousand times before... And I'm hoping I'll get to say it atleast once more.... Great..."
Melandi Veykayan 11-26-03, 12:14 AM	She grinned... That's right halfling, I see you....Two ripe souls.... She laughed and laughed and laughed.
Sharp 11-26-03, 12:15 AM	Sharp shivered as icy cold air filled the corridor and the sound rose to near deafening levels...
Nugan 11-26-03, 12:17 AM	Nugan pressed himself harder against the wall, shivering harder, and slips his hand into his spell component pouch.
Sharp 11-26-03, 12:22 AM	This is it isn't it.... Sharp felt sick. The air was getting colder, the noise louder... The ground got more and more slick...*Thud* The ground shook...the things upon it rattled...
Nugan 11-26-03, 12:25 AM	Nugan removes something from his component pouch and gesrtures to Sharp. "I'm gonna need you to come closer..." Nugan begins muttering to himself and making gestures.
Nugan 11-26-03, 12:28 AM	((Edit: Accidentally quoted instead of editing. *sigh*))
Sharp 11-26-03, 12:29 AM	Sharp begins to move closer to Nugan... *Thud* The ground shakes and more rattling ensues.... Sharp stumbles, catching herself on the wall and barely avoids knocking into Nugan.
Nugan 11-26-03, 12:32 AM	Nugan shoots Sharp a nervous glance and finishes gesturing. He and Sharp ((if successful)) fade from sight. ((Invisibility))
Sharp 11-26-03, 12:39 AM	In a stroke of forethought, Sharp wrenched off her pendant, casting it aside just as Nugan finished his spell...and she turned invisible too. *Thud* *Thud* The ground shook so hard Sharp lost her footing and slid and noticed the ground was dry. The rattling became a clatter...shapes rose in the dark.
Nugan 11-26-03, 10:21 PM	Nugan presses himself harder against the wall. He opens his spell component pouch again and slips his hand inside, but doesn't withdraw a component.
Sharp 11-26-03, 10:26 PM	Sharp picked herself up and stood beside Nugan, peering into the dark and ignoring the urge to run instead of observe. ok, maybe there is a way out... The shapes grew into clear skeletal forms...
Nugan 11-26-03, 10:30 PM	Nugan shudders against the wall as he sees the skeletons. He slides to his knees and lifts a severed pinky finger off the floor, throwing it towards the other end of the hall.
Sharp 11-26-03, 10:32 PM	Sharp blinks at Nugan and then grins as the skeletons as a unit turn toward the direction of the sound.
Nugan 11-26-03, 10:35 PM	Nugan leans down towards Sharp with a smirk. "Think we should maybe move on now?"
Sharp 11-26-03, 10:37 PM	"Now, yes!" She whispers harshly and follows Nugan which ever way he runs.
Nugan 11-26-03, 10:39 PM	Nugan pushes himself away from the wall, and hurries down the hall in the direction that they were headed.
Sharp 11-26-03, 10:41 PM	As soon as they begin to run, the skeleton's having heard whispers turn around....and see nothing.
Nugan 11-26-03, 10:45 PM	Nugan shoots a smirk over his shoulder at the skeletons, looks to Sharp, opens his mouth, but closes it again, and continues jogging down the hallway.
Sharp 11-26-03, 10:48 PM	Sharp grins back at Nugan and runs along. At one point she seizes his arm and directs him down one fork as opposed to another. The light grows even dimmer, the noise even louder... The skeletons cannot be seen behind them. "Are you sure you want to go find this grandkid?" Sharp whispers.
Nugan 11-26-03, 10:49 PM	Nugan pauses for a momment and takes a few breathes, then he turns to Sharp with a smirk. "I thought you were the guide..."
Sharp 11-26-03, 10:51 PM	"Yes, I'll guide you which ever way you want to go, you're the boss. But given what has happened so far, are you sure you want to do this?"
Nugan 11-26-03, 10:53 PM	Nugan shrugs, shifting his gaze down the corridor. "Well, all things considered... Are you sure you want to turn back?"
Sharp 11-26-03, 10:55 PM	"I don't know but I am seeing this grandkid having less dramatic objections to us fleeing than coming closer...maybe I'm wrong, just my opinion..." Sharp realizes she is babbling and stops.
Nugan 11-26-03, 10:58 PM	Nugan turns back to Sharp and smirks. "And when was the last time I did what someone else wanted me too? Let alone a little kid related to Gaspy..."
Sharp 11-26-03, 10:59 PM	"Nugan...I want you to be around to say "great" billions more times at least...and I want to be around to hear it."
Nugan 11-26-03, 11:01 PM	((Edit: *sigh* Another extra post, who would've thought?))
Nugan 11-26-03, 11:03 PM	Nugan shrugs and takes a step foward. "Well, you never know... Although I wouldn't see it as a huge loss if I never had to say 'great' again..." Nugan raises his foot to take another step, but pauses and looks back at Sharp. He waits for a momment and then sighs. "Ah forget it... Let's see if we can find Straak and Noc before they almost kill themselves too..." Nugan turns and walks back to Sharp.
Sharp 11-26-03, 11:05 PM	Sharp sighs with relief and turns around and begins leading Nugan back the way they'd come.
Nugan 12-08-03, 11:37 PM	Nugan hurries a bit to catch up with Sharp, and smirks slightly. "If we get killed on the way out, it's on you..."
Sharp 12-08-03, 11:41 PM	Sharp chuckled nervously. "Let's hope it doesn't come to that. We shouldn't talk anymore down here."
Nugan 12-08-03, 11:43 PM	Nugan nods and tip-toes along next to Sharp, still smirking.
Sharp 12-08-03, 11:46 PM	Sharp was feeling a little better. They were leaving. Cold air blew by the back of her neck. She shivered. More cold air blew past her legs and the side of her face. She shivered again, this time is was not only cold...
Nugan 12-08-03, 11:47 PM	Nugan shudders at the cold air, holds his robes closer to him with one hand, and turns towards Sharp, opening his mouth, but he closes it again before he says anything.
Sharp 12-08-03, 11:50 PM	Gusts of cold, thick air kept at her, pulling almost. It was as if every step grew harder.
Nugan 12-08-03, 11:52 PM	Nugan closes his eyes almost completely and tries to shield his face with his free hand. He turns to Sharp, and actually tries to say something, but his mouth fills with a gust of cold air, and he leans foward coughing instead.
Sharp 12-08-03, 11:56 PM	In a suddenly rush of presence of mind, Sharp grabbed Nugan's hand and pitched herself forward, running. Get away from it. Get away from it.
Nugan 12-08-03, 11:58 PM	Nugan struggles behind Sharp as she pulls at him, stumbling and coughing from the surprise and cold with every other step. "W-woah... C-careful..."
Sharp 12-09-03, 12:00 AM	"It's..trying...to...make...us...slow," Sharp breathed. "We need...to move!"
Nugan 12-09-03, 12:01 AM	Nugan picks up his pace some, but still stumbles and coughs as he goes. "Well... Its... Succeeding..."
Sharp 12-09-03, 12:08 AM	It was at that moment that Sharp gave Nugan's arm another tug, almost leaping forward. Whether it was Nugan's own burst of speed, Sharp's pull, or some other barrier, they were suddenly free of the icy air, the force shoving them forward a little.
Nugan 12-09-03, 12:10 AM	Nugan stumbles as they get free, coughing up the last of the cold air in his lungs. He then picks up his pace giving a glance back at Sharp. "Yeah... Thanks..."
Sharp 12-09-03, 12:12 AM	Sharp was too busy breathing to reply verbally. Instead she nodded with a faint grin. She looked ahead...and stopped short. Before them in a row were the skeletons, blocking their path through the hallway all the way across. Every pair of empty black sockets, it seemed was trained upon them.
Nugan 12-09-03, 12:18 AM	Nugan skids to a stop in front of the skeletons. "Great..." Nugan forces a smirk. "I guess you guys don't take brides... Money? Spell components? My soul? Anything?"
Sharp 12-09-03, 12:21 AM	"Not the soul, Nugan!" She whimpered. "Down here that's not funny." Think! The skeletal forms advanced, their weapons raised. Think!
Nugan 12-09-03, 12:29 AM	Nugan gives Sharp a worried glance. "Good point..." Nugan looks from side to side, watching the skelletions anxiously, and shifting from foot to foot. "Ok, ok... So you don't want a bribe... Well... How about... Your freedom... Yeah... Gaspy's gotta be a cruel master... And... Well... Didn't think so..."
Sharp 12-09-03, 12:35 AM	"It's them or the cold stuff...and at least they are tangible..." She looks straight ahead and lowers her voice. "Way I see it we have one chance...if we can somehow fend off the attack and get behind that line. The only way I can think of to do that is to..." She whispered something to Nugan, finishing just as the skeletons attacked.
Nugan 12-09-03, 12:39 AM	Nugan nods and forces a smirk. "I'm with you... On everything but the last couple of words..." Nugan walks up to the skeleton on far left. "So... Not taking any of my offers... I guess..."
Sharp 12-09-03, 12:42 AM	Sharp saw the sword come down... It was too high to grab. She dashed forward instead of pulling back and pushed through the leg bones She was free. Run...
Nugan 12-09-03, 12:47 AM	Nugan grabs the skeleton's wrist as it swings for him, and slides between its open legs, rolling to a point a few feet away. He moans from the ground. "Uhhh... I heard something snap... I think I broke a rib or something... Funny I don't feel that hurt maybe its just the shock keeping away the pain...." Nugan moves to push himselfup and sees the skeletons arm is still in his left hand. He shivers and tghrows it aside. "Ewww... Or maybe it was that..." Nugan jumps to his feet and hurries down the tunnel after Sharp.
Sharp 12-09-03, 12:53 AM	Once she saw Nugan get up and run, she bolted further down the tunnel.
Melandi Veykayan 12-11-03, 06:39 PM	See! They escape you! No...no they won't... She began to chant again...
Nugan 12-11-03, 06:46 PM	Nugan continues to race down the tunnel after Sharp, while wiping the hand the was holding the skeleton's arm on his robes. "I'm guessing our chances of us still being undetected are about as good at the chances of my mother being sober at six in the afternoon.... right?"
Sharp 12-11-03, 06:57 PM	"Oh they know we're here. That much is certain. We have to get out of here."
Nugan 12-11-03, 07:04 PM	Nugan shoots Sharp a smirks as he catches up with her. "Really? I'm thinking that's a good idea... What would you say our chances of not dying in the next tren minutes are?"
Sharp 12-11-03, 07:09 PM	Sharp grimaces. "It has been my experience that our chances our better if we don't think about that. "
Nugan 12-11-03, 07:13 PM	Nugan forces a chuckle keeping pace with her. "So... We're that dead, are we? Great..."
Sharp 12-11-03, 07:15 PM	She looked at Nugan. "Let's hope not." She looked ahead and kept walking. "I have survived worse, allright. The best we can do is to just keep going."
Nugan 12-11-03, 07:17 PM	Nugan continues to run with Sharp. "Yeah... I guess that beats laying down to die... Although I might disagree if I have to run too much farther..."
Sharp 12-11-03, 07:18 PM	"Nugan that is really not a helpful thing to say," she told him, almost in tears.
Nugan 12-11-03, 07:20 PM	Nugan winces, continuing to keep pace. "Just trying to keep our spirits up with a bit of humor... Come to think of it, it was sorta in bad taste...."
Sharp 12-11-03, 07:23 PM	They passed the spot they had entered from. The passage they were in extended before them. "Aiy Nugan, we are both to young to...never mind." She sighed. "I say straight ahead, the way over there is blocked up with rocks."
Nugan 12-11-03, 07:25 PM	Nugan nods. "I'd say I'll go with the opinion of somone who's actually left this place without dying once before..."
Sharp 12-11-03, 07:28 PM	Out of here alive...Wizard Damon carried me out of here...I didn't do a thing... "Forward then..." The ground shook so violently Sharp was thrown. She landed on her shoulder and saw white.
Nugan 12-11-03, 07:31 PM	Nugan skids to a stop as Sharp falls, and turns to look down at her. "Sharp? Great... We've been here a few too many times before... Come on... Sharp?"
Sharp 12-11-03, 07:35 PM	"I'm fine!" She growls. "But until you teach me how to keep my feet when the ground decides to play horseback I dont want to hear it!" She got to her feet on pure adrenaline. "Let's go!" The ground began to shake again...this time it didn't stop.
Nugan 12-12-03, 12:53 AM	Nugan looks down at his feet and then at Sharp, smirking. "Yeah... That's something, isn't it? I learned it at the accademy... Nah, I have no idea why I'm not lying with the inside of my head leaking onto a rock right now... Let's chalk it down to luck and not ask questions..." Nugan takes a step foward to help Sharp up just when the ground resumes shaking. He loses his footing this time, and falls backwards, hitting his head against someone else's skull on the ground. He opens his mouth, but his eyes close, and he lets out a low whine before going completely silent.
Sharp 12-12-03, 01:07 AM	Sharp hit the ground again...and again...and again...and... ...The white pain finally faded to black.
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 01:16 AM	There, my Lord...I shall simply bring the ceiling down upon them and it will be done. No. Leave them living. There is a more pertinent use for them. Melandi promptly let the ground stop quaking. What is your bidding? It is time you learned how to harvest a soul, Melandi...
Nugan 12-12-03, 01:35 AM	Nugan groans as his eyes open. He feels something wet on the stone slab he's laying on, and tries to shimmy away from it, but doesn't move at all. "Ewww... What the hell is that? ... And why the hell can't I move?" Nugan shifts his gaze around, taking in as much of the room as he can with moving his head, but he can't make out much in the room's pale green light. "Uh... Sharp... I think I kinda paralyzed myself with that fall... And I really hope that fluid I'm laying in isn't blood... And if it is... I hope even more that its not my own..."
Sharp 12-12-03, 01:43 AM	I know that voice.... Sharp was suddenly awake, and she realized, in less pain than she had any right to be in. She took a deep breath...and shuddered. She knew where she was. It was the smell. This was the same room... ...and Nugan is here too! No...this... She knew she couldn't move, so she didn't bother to try. Rather she set to the task of making her mouth work.
Nugan 12-12-03, 01:48 AM	Nugan groans as he tries, and fails, to move again. "Sharp? Sure... Go save yourself... Probably for my own good anyway...Maybe divine justice will see that I provide that poor skeleton with a new arm...Guess that wouldn't be too terrible... I'd be making myself useful... That's something..."
Sharp 12-12-03, 01:52 AM	Aiy, Nugan... "Nugan, please..." It came out more of a tearful wheeze. ...it's not about being locked up, but how to get out...
Nugan 12-12-03, 01:57 AM	Nugan smiles slightly. "Oh... You're still here... How bout making a crude cart or something to haul your boss back to those healers? I think I must've damaged my spine in the fall... I can't move from the neck down..."
Sharp 12-12-03, 02:04 AM	"It's a holding spell, Nugan. You...can't move, but you can...feel your toes."
Nugan 12-12-03, 02:08 AM	Nugan sighs. "Great... I think I'd perfer the broken spine... Oh well... Probably with time the way things are going..."
Sharp 12-12-03, 02:11 AM	"Nugan that is not helpful..."
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 02:13 AM	"It is not as though it matters, halfling. There is nothing and no that will be "helpful" to you...if you mean in keeping your lives." A familiar, yet lighter, horrible laugh filled the room.
Nugan 12-12-03, 02:15 AM	Nugan winces. "Uh... That's not just another skeleton, is it Sharp?"
Sharp 12-12-03, 02:19 AM	Whether out of fear or plain despair, Sharp remained silent.
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 02:22 AM	"Decide for yourself." Melandi stepped into Nugan's line of sight. The features, were finer, smaller, younger, and the eyes were blue, but he family resemblance was unmistakeable. She laughed again. "Thank you for coming." She paused with something that might have been a snicker. " I have a lesson to learn. It seems you two are to teach it."
Nugan 12-12-03, 02:25 AM	Nugan forces a smirk. "You must be Lil' Gaspy... I was expecting... uh... someone less like big Gaspy.... Come to think of it... I'm not sure why..."
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 02:28 AM	"You came to find me?" She asked with a laugh.
Sharp 12-12-03, 02:31 AM	This is horrible...gods!
Nugan 12-12-03, 02:31 AM	Nugan gulps. "Sorta... We... uh... Came to tell you how sad we are about what happened to your poor old Grandma... It was a tragedy really... Anything we can do for you? To help ease the grief I mean..."
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 02:35 AM	There is a silent pause. "Ah. Kind folk. Of course. Thank you for your touching concern. Be assured that you will indeed honor my grandmother's memory." She snickers. "What a lesson this shall be." A light ring of metal against leather can be heard, a knife leaving its sheath.
Nugan 12-12-03, 02:39 AM	Nugan winces. "Ah... Great... I'm guessing talking you out of sacrificing us to your god would kinda be wasted breath, which would be kinda tragic since we have so little left, right?"
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 02:43 AM	She walked over to Nugan holding the gleaming blade in both hands...and grinning. "That's correct."
Nugan 12-12-03, 02:47 AM	Nugan forces a smirk. "I don't even get a last request? You are cruel..."
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 02:51 AM	"Oh, and what would that be?" The knife came down fast...and stopped a hair above his clothing. She grinned. "Go on, tell me...this will take a while."
Nugan 12-12-03, 02:56 AM	Nugan tries to force back a smirk. "Well... See that platinum chain on my right arm... The one with the weasel on it? That's my good luck charm... I'm a pretty sad superstitious little man... So if you'd just take off the band and bring it to my face so I can kiss the charm... My ignorant little thief mind would be relieved... And I'd be given a little bit of futile hope.... Please?"
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 02:58 AM	"Mmmm no. I'd rather you be terrified." Her grin widened. She began her work.
Sharp 12-12-03, 03:02 AM	For a half moment already, Sharp was forcing a laugh...a dry laugh, that didn't sound forced at all.
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 03:05 AM	Melandi stopped...and turned her head. "This amuses you?"
Nugan 12-12-03, 03:08 AM	Nugan smirks, hiding a anxious expression after the blade touches his chest. "You want me to be truely terrified? Tell me I'll have to live till past my father's age, and still be running Apathy and spending all my free time in the 'Roads watching drow and cat people make out... Then I'd be horrified." Nugan sighs as he hears Sharp laughing. "See... Just talking about it has horrified her into a state of delusion..."
Sharp 12-12-03, 03:10 AM	For the moment, she was greatful for the holding spell. It alone prevented her shaking with fear. "You amuse me." She continued to laugh. "The quintessential villain...complete with maniacal laugh and shiny dagger...how pathetic."
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 03:12 AM	Melandi's knife hand twitched.
Nugan 12-12-03, 03:17 AM	Nugan smirks. "Well... I didn't want to say anything... But she's got a point... I mean, atleast Gaspy had a cool voice... But Straak's "yah"s are more intimidating than your full sentances... And those 'yah's are used followed by things like 'i'll get thaty, ya know, coffee ya spilled cleaned up.' and 'ya dinner is ready'... Yep, I'd be quivering right now if only I could..."
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 03:21 AM	"This shiny dagger..." she hissed, wheeling around a moment is going to be in his belly in a moment...and then in yours!" This time she simpy began to do as she threatened without hesitation. The blade did not stop this time...
Nugan 12-12-03, 03:27 AM	Nugan grits his teeth as he's cut, trying his best to hold his smirk. "Oh... sure... now... you... have to... try to... prove... yourself... I think... we hit... a nerve... Sharp..."
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 03:31 AM	Melandi continued, seemingly unmoved.
Sharp 12-12-03, 03:33 AM	Oh...gods...gods! Sharp continued to make herself laugh, hiding a breif note of hysteria in a well placed cough. "Really, Veykayan. That dagger, or one much like it, has been in my belly before. You know this. What makes you think you will suceed where your grandmother failed?"
Nugan 12-12-03, 03:38 AM	Nugan continues to smirk over cleched teeth. "And let's not forget how many times I beat Gaspy... What was it? Two? Three? ... I mean, your already a weak continuation of your family's legacy... You really think your gonna be less of a failure than her... Seems a bit... hopeful, doesn't it?"
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 03:43 AM	"You'll never know," she said coldly twisting her wrist slowly. "And you, halfling, have no such chance this time. You and he are both trapped by my power."
Sharp 12-12-03, 03:46 AM	"How do you know?" Sharp was ready to faint it seemed all her energy was devoted to keeping her breathing even. Her voice was frigteningly calm. "We got in this far. You have already admitted that was not by your design. How much control do you really have over anything?"
Nugan 12-12-03, 03:46 AM	Nugan winces as the knife turns. "Your power? Funny... That's not how I hear it is..."
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 03:49 AM	Melandi wrenches the dagger out angrily and whipps around, lunging at Sharp. There is little in her mind beyond her own sudden desperation....
Sharp 12-12-03, 03:51 AM	Sharp saw the knife descending. "Imbecile! You kill me now and my soul is lost to you."
Nugan 12-12-03, 03:53 AM	Nugan's left arm twitches foward and grabs at the wound in his chest and he blinks. "Well now... How about that..." Nugan spins off the altar and to his feet, flicking a dagger from his right sleeve into his left hand, he aims a stab at the shoulder of the arm she's holding her dagger in.
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 03:55 AM	Melandi stopped again. She had made a mistake. There was something wrong. Master...what do I do? Pain lanced through her dagger arm. Her mind was a whorl of confusion. She let her spells go.
Nugan 12-12-03, 03:57 AM	Nugan's usual smirk breaks, and anger flashes across his face. "Yeah, ha ha ha, you were having some fun cutting out my damn kidney weren't you?" Nugan aims a swift kick at the child's leg, trying to knock her over.
Sharp 12-12-03, 03:59 AM	Sharp raised her entire body up on her arms and in a sudden motion kicked out violently at Melandi's face.
Melandi Veykayan 12-12-03, 04:01 AM	Melandi is tripped by Nugan and takes Sharp's kick full on the side of her head. She falls to the ground as the side of her face grows bloody.
Nugan 12-12-03, 04:05 AM	Nugan smiles saddistically, letting out his own manacial laugh (which is less impressive than even Melandi's), and begins to kick furiously at her while she's on the ground. "If I'm going to have to have a bag hanging out of my stomach for the rest of my life so will you..." Nugan catches site of the young child sprawled on the floor, and pales, stopping his kicks. "Damn... Did I just beat up a little kid?"
Sharp 12-12-03, 04:09 AM	"N-no....you beat up a murdering sorceress who would kill us if she has the chance." She felt a rush of cold. "We have to get out of here. Now!"
Nugan 12-12-03, 04:14 AM	Nugan chuckles. "Oh, in that case..." Nugan levels one more kick at the fallen Melandi, picks her dagger off the floor, and turns to towards the door. "I couldn't agreemore Sharp... Although I wish I didn't have to leave so much that I hold dear here... Namely all of me that's on that slab..." Nugan shrugs and begins to limp-run out of the room.
Sharp 12-12-03, 04:19 AM	Sharp springs off the slab she was on and dashes out after Nugan.
Sharp 12-19-03, 02:23 PM	The ground was still shaking though not as badly as before. This time Sharp knew the way. As they ascended, the green light faded and it grew dark again. Seeing became impossible. With a sigh Sharp grasped Nugan's arm so as not to lose him, shut her eyes and ran on, following her memory...
Nugan 12-19-03, 02:26 PM	Nugan stumbles along with Sharp, holding his stab wound with one hand. "Woah.., Careful... She left a pretty big hole, and I'd rather not leave any more of me in here..."
Sharp 12-19-03, 02:33 PM	"Stuff your fist in it, ok? If the blood doesn't stop in a few minutes we will stop and bind it." She didn't open her eyes. Sharp remembered... Wizards Damon made a sharp intake of breath...screams squeals...a curse? The hesitation was breif and they were running again. Left and upward...the smell grew worse, but that was becasue the bone stores were near...center fork...bones rising...Wizard Damon raised her sword...rattling...rattling...hiss of flame...cold..."Domi"... rattling...his of flame...Sharp opened her eyes to dim red light and screamed.
Nugan 12-19-03, 02:36 PM	Nugan skids to a stop, and eans foward painfully, narrowing his eyes to see source of the hiss and fire in the dark. He shudders slightly. "I'm not sure what I'm looking at... But I'm sure it callls for a 'great'..."
Sharp 12-19-03, 02:38 PM	Sharp stopped screaming. The deamon advanced. "Nugan...this is it. I am no wizard...there is no way..." She was almost gibbering as the huge hulking black forms began to close in about her.
Nugan 12-19-03, 02:42 PM	Nugan looks the dmon in the face and forces a smirk, still grasping his chest with his right hand as his left moves towards his spell component pouch. "Good, finally Lil' Gaspy has pulled out I servant I can reason with... So, what is it that you want from me?"
Sharp 12-19-03, 02:49 PM	"Ya hiiide," Sharp heard one of the deamons say along with the hissing of more flames. There was no time to contemplate what that meant...a black claw descended.... Sharp grabbed it and swung...the third claw of the deamon slid along her stomach in a burning line...but she locked her knees around the deamon's elbow, drawing her dagger and letting go with her hands. The other demonic form was advancing behind her....she ignored it and stabbed at the deamon she cling to's underbelly.
Nugan 12-19-03, 02:54 PM	Nugan jumps backwards as the demon swings. "i'm thinking I'm not gonna be able to oblidge on that one... Well, I might be forced to, but... uh..." Nugan pulls something from his spell component pouch, and makes a quick gesture. He seems to blink from existence for a momment, then blink back in with three identical copies of himself. All four speak. "look at it this way... You get to kill me four times over now..."
Sharp 12-19-03, 02:59 PM	The deamon facing Nugan looked about this way and that...and then charged in, claws swinging... Sharp felt hot deamon blood on her hand...and then she was swung violently. She heard a roar and felt heat on her face and then she was was thrown, her knees unable to hold...her head hit the wall and her teeth into her tongue. She spat out blood and opened her eyes, widening them as two demonic forms advanced.
Nugan 12-19-03, 03:07 PM	Nugans one through three wince as the fourth Nugan is hit by the demon and dissipates. They reach into their spell compents pouches again, and smirk at the demon. "Well... I'm sure you want my hide and all... By twenty-six years of cynicism has made me hopelessly bitter... I'd probably be willing to settle for me to if I were you... If there wasn't a young evil girl lying on the floor back there... Unconsious but still breathing... Seems like the perfect situation... Right?"
Sharp 12-19-03, 03:13 PM	The deamon swung at Nugan again, but with a little less fervor. One of the deamons advancing on Sharp turned suddenly, and moved off toward Nugan, thinking there were many more enemies then there were. Sharp blinked, the scene just coming together in her slightly blurry vision. The deamon was making no sound. "Nugan!" She shouted...just as she caught a black demonic claw in the corner of her eye. She dove forward at the last possible second striking again at the deamons under belly. She cartwheeled through the deamon's legs. It reared back roaring...and then staggering.
Nugan 12-19-03, 03:17 PM	Nugans one and two wince again as Nugan three is hit and dissipates. They then make a few gesture and blink out of existence, blinking back in behind one of the demons. They flip daggers from their right sleeves in thier left hands and aim a stab at the back of its neck.
Sharp 12-19-03, 03:23 PM	Sharp thought she was hearing the roar echo... The deamon Nugan stabbed, roared and thrashed wildly, spinning around as he thrashed. Sharp rolled to her feet and shoved her dagger into the base of the deamon's spine...and barely rolled out of the way in time to avoid being crushed as the deamon's legs crumpled. From the ground, Sharp looked dizzily at the twitching deamon before her...and got up again
Nugan 12-19-03, 03:27 PM	Onev of the Nugan's is caught in the chest hard as gthe demon trashes about, but instead of dissipating he groans and doubles over while the other Nugan dissipates. He drops to his knees and cough up a small pool of blood on the floor.
Sharp 12-19-03, 03:32 PM	Sharp jabs her dagger into the deamon's throat and then whipps around. When the room stopped spinning she saw another deamon lying twitching...and a third advancing on Nugan. She ran , dagger raised, ready to sever another deamon spine...but a blast of burning air met her as the deamon rounded on her roaring...
Nugan 12-19-03, 03:35 PM	Nugan sees Sharp and the other demon and struggles to his feet. "Woah... Just a-" Nugan takes two stps foward before dropping to his knees, and coughing up more blood, clutching the stab wound in his chest (which is also where the demon hit him) with both hands.
Sharp 12-19-03, 03:38 PM	The deamon paused...and grinned. Sharp's face was burned, her eyes watered. The deamon was grinning...they were within a ring of skeletons...
Nugan 12-19-03, 03:47 PM	Nugan tries to stand again, but falls foward again before he even fully straightens his back. He begins to wobble slightly from side to side, staring blankly at Sharp and the enemies, his lower lip covered in blood. "I..."
Sharp 12-19-03, 03:52 PM	The deamon roars again, this time in victory. It picks up Sharp in one claw and then rounds on Nugan.
Nugan 12-19-03, 04:00 PM	Nugan simply stares blankly up at the Demon, more blood flowing from his mouth.
Sharp 12-20-03, 06:26 PM	Sharp lay still in the deamon's claw... The deamon swung startlingly fast at Nugans neck.
Nugan 12-20-03, 06:33 PM	Nugan takes the full force of the swing, unable to dodge it. The side of his neck is ripped open by the claws, and his lower jaw is knocked out of position. An involutary smirk twitches on his face, and he falls limpy to the side, his left hand lightly brushing the charm on the band on his right arm as he collaspes.
Bandit, Nugan's Familar 12-20-03, 06:39 PM	A small brown weasel blinks into existence a few momments after Nugan touches his band. He couches along the side of the wall, his eyes twitching from Nugan to Sharp to the demon and skeletons and back again.
Sharp 12-20-03, 11:05 PM	Deamon claw...deamon breath..........deamon chin......... Sharp kicked with all the might she could muster. The deamon's head snapped back. The deamon roared....and loosened his grip. Sharp wiggled free. She couldn't see, but she felt the deamons foot beneath her. She pulled her last knife and struck upward from beneath. The deamons began to thrash. She dug deeper...twisting and slashing. She felt more hot deamon blood and then the deamon toppled over her.
Bandit, Nugan's Familar 12-20-03, 11:14 PM	Bandit scurries towards Sharp, but scurries backwards as the demon falls on her. He pauses, stands on his rear legs, and looks from Nugan to where Sharp is trapped, to the skeletons, and back again. Bandit drops to his feet again, scurries over to Nugan, and taps his staff several times. A wall of force springs up between the demon and the two Apathy members. Bandit then scurries down the hallways in the direction that Nugan and Sharp had come.
Sharp 12-20-03, 11:19 PM	The skeletons rattled forth...closer and closer...and waited. The wall of force dissapeared.... They advanced. They raised their swords and stabbed downward....and crumpled to the ground, breaking apart. The ground stopped shaking, and the moaning quieted a little.
Bandit, Nugan's Familar 12-20-03, 11:26 PM	Bandit scurries down the hallway, his nose to the ground, following the trail of his master's blood into the room where Nugan and Sharp had left the young Veykayan on the floor. He perches on his rear feet and scans the room.
Melandi Veykayan 12-20-03, 11:39 PM	((The placement of this post made no sense, see later ))
Nugan 12-20-03, 11:50 PM	Nugan moans on the cold stone floor, and blood bubbles from the torn vein on the side of his neck. He grows increasingly pale with each passing momment.
Melandi Veykayan 12-20-03, 11:50 PM	Healing... What's this...WHY HAVE I BEEN BLINDED! The god could no longer see the two in the hall...they were blocked from his sight... Thoughts reached him... "So this is what I stayed for...and hello...you are too late...I have touched them already...oh, and don't even think about it..." NO!!!!!!!!!!!
Sharp 12-20-03, 11:59 PM	Sharp felt a light breeze, cool on her scorched face. There was a beating and a rush as large wing moving through the air. She opened her eyes. Outside... She turned her head and saw rocks and looming winter trees. Where....?
Nugan 12-21-03, 12:06 AM	Nugan moans and opens his eyes. He blinks and sits up, feeling at the spots that used to be bleeding. After a momment, he sighs in relief and looks around. He notices Sharp and smirks. "Okay... Either the abyss froze over or the gods of Celestial really got lax on their entrance requirements... Or we're outside siomehow..."
Sharp 12-21-03, 12:10 AM	Sharp makes a dry sound something like a laugh, closing her eyes. She doesn't dare speak...moving her mouth that far as little as it was was just too painful. She was outside, but she was not much healed.
Nugan 12-21-03, 12:16 AM	Nugan winces as he finishes speaking and rubs his jaw. "I think whatever it was left my mouth unhealed on purpose... Owww." Nugan winces again, and closes his mouth.
Sharp 12-21-03, 12:20 AM	She must have had some healing, she realised as full memory hit. She did not think there was any other way she could be living right now. Sharp turned her head to look at Nugan. He was sitting up. His jaw was black and green, but his now red robes were not getting any redder. She smiled and then winced.
Nugan 12-21-03, 12:27 AM	Nugan returns Sharp's smile, struggles to his feet, and walks over to her to help her up without saying anything.
Sharp 12-21-03, 12:35 AM	She lets herself be helped up. Looking down at her legs she sees the charred remains of her coat and lower skirt and shudders. She did not want to know she decided what her legs had looked like before healing. Now they supported her weight. She looked around. The midmorning sky was grey. There would be more snow soon. There was already some on the rocks nearby. Behind them, was a slighy rocky incline leading up to a cave mouth. There was blood on the rocks and around them and also trailing away to the other side of the clearing.
Nugan 12-21-03, 12:40 AM	Nugan takes an awkard step foward, scanning his surroundings, and sighs. He opens his mouth to say something, winces from the pain, and just points at the nearby road instead.
Sharp 12-21-03, 12:43 AM	Sharp looks where Nugan points and nods. She sees the rocky slope and just sighs, trying desperately not to show expression on her bright red face.
Nugan 12-21-03, 12:46 AM	Nugan waits for Sharp to catch up, and then stumbles down the road beside her. Every few momments he opens his mouth to say something and shuts it immediately with a painful look.
Sharp 12-21-03, 12:55 AM	Sharp picked her way instinctively down the slope. She was cold, more so for her burns and sore in some places. There was a bandage on her right hand and some kind of a salve on her face. Inside, she smirked. They were alive, the deamons were dead. They reached the road and she looked ahead down it. "You okay to walk?" She made herself ask looking up at Nugan and biting the inside of her cheeks agains the pain on the outside of them.
Nugan 12-21-03, 12:57 AM	Nugan nods, and forces hismouth open for a momment as he continues to walk. "You?"
Sharp 12-21-03, 12:59 AM	"Yes." She said simply and started walking.
Nugan 12-21-03, 01:03 AM	Nugan nods again, smiling slightly. He rubs his jaw and continues down the road.
Straak 01-19-04, 12:02 AM	Straak gathers his breath, and forces himself to his feet. He turns towards the town and raises his voice. "Yah... Has anyone here, ya know, seen tha boss... Yah... I mean... Nugan... Yah... I mean... A thin man with, ya know, brown hair, and grey robes... And... Yah... Have ya seen him?"
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 12:07 AM	Hector blinks and cranes his neck down, looking at the sign. "Oh... How about that..."
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 12:11 AM	Nocturan glances over at Straak with a smirk as he watches the kobold calling out for aid and mutters to himself. "Now if this works, I'll go without ale for a month.... wait, no I won't." Nocturan glances around again, keeping aware of his surroundings.
Straak 01-19-04, 12:15 AM	Straak waits for a momment for a response, sighing when none comes. He scans the area closer, before wincing and shifting his gaze to the ground. "Yah... I don't think anyone's, ya know, here..."
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 12:17 AM	Hector looks up from the sign post at Straak, then at the surrounding town. "Oh... I think you're right... Funny, I dont see anymore blood though..."
Straak 01-19-04, 12:18 AM	Straak blinks as he hears a door slam shut down the street. "Yah... Boss?"
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 12:18 AM	Nocturan narrows his eyes as he scans the area once more, switching between normal and heat vision as he does. "I think you might be right Straak. It looks that way to me." He blinks as he hears a door slamming sound further up the roadway. "Maybe not entirely deserted afterall...."
Straak 01-19-04, 12:20 AM	Straak looks up at Nocturan with concern. "Yah... Should we, ya know, check it out?"
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 12:22 AM	Nocturan smirks at Straak and seems to roll his eyes, and actually would if they weren't just sensors composed of light. "Let's review. We don't know what it is, or what it isn't, we don't know the terrain so we're at a disadvantage. What do you think?"
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 12:23 AM	Hector follows Nocturan's gaze down the street. "I'd say we're obligated to Straak... The blood earlier, the state of the town... Something's wrong... I'm not sure which end of the wrong your boss is on though..."
Straak 01-19-04, 12:24 AM	Straak scowls at Hector for a momment, before turning to Nocturan. "Yah... but... ya know... tha boss..."
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 12:26 AM	Nocturan smirks down at Straak. "No, no, you misunderstand me gecko. Imminent possible danger, unknown territory. It all adds up to fun. Let's get moving."
Straak 01-19-04, 12:29 AM	Straak nods. "Yah... Ohh... right..." Straak puts hit hand on the hilt of his dagger and begins to strafe along the opposite side of the street, approaching the house.
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 12:32 AM	Hector follows behind Nocturan, one hand on his holy symbol. He listens as door and windows shut around him. "Well... There's nothing left on the streets that isn't bolted down... People are seccuring their houses... I think Nugan's fine Straak..."
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 12:33 AM	Nocturan shakes his head slightly and moves close to the buildings on the same side of the street as the closing door and moves quietly along. At his height he covers most first floor windows and doorways as he passes them. He raises an eyebrow slightly as he hears windows closing and a faint wailing. . o O ( Well that's unusual for a deserted town.... )
Straak 01-19-04, 12:35 AM	Straak smiles up at Hector as he continues to strafe along the side of the street. "Yah... Do ya really, ya know, think so?"
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 12:37 AM	Hector narrows his eyes, looking over one of the houses whose window recently shut. "Well... Let's see..." Hector walks up to the house, and wraps on its door.
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 12:37 AM	Nocturan glances at Straak with a smirk. "He's implying that Nugan would be stealing from them, hence the securing themselves." He continues along the sides of the buildings slowly, his chains held close to him.
Straak 01-19-04, 12:40 AM	Straak sighs, and looks at the ground again. "Yah.... Oh..." Straak looks up when Hector knocks. "Yah.... uh... Ya sure bout, ya know, that?"
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 12:42 AM	Hector blinks as a frigthened voice tells him to leave. "Oh... Is something... wrong here? If you'd let me know... Maybe I could do something..."
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 12:44 AM	Hector grimaces as he hears crying from inside the building. "Listen... Is something going on in there? Are you in trouble?"
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 12:45 AM	Nocturan shakes his head at Hector. "If the people aren't smart enough to know that hiding inside a house won't protect them, they don't deserve to be helped. Leave them to soil themselves in their hiding place and be done with it." Nocturan snarls slightly and mutters. "Scaleless cowards....."
Straak 01-19-04, 12:45 AM	Straak gulps when he hears the weeping. "Yah... I don't, ya know, think tha boss is behind this... I've never heard tha boss make some one, ya know, cry like that..."
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 12:48 AM	Hector hears the person inside insist that they leave before the can not, and he sighs. "Ok... I'm going to get you help..." Hector looks back at Nocturan. "Can you... ahem... do something about the door?"
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 12:49 AM	Nocturan smirks at Straak. "You might be right there, that person actually sounds frightened. It's not Nugan's doing. If they were laughing and crying on the other hand...."
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 12:52 AM	Nocturan blinks at Hector. "Breaking and entering? Now that's a step in the right direction..." Nocturan walks up to the door, eyes it for a moment, then draws his right hand backward into a big fist before slamming it forward at the doorknob, his iron plated knuckles being the first thing to connect.
Straak 01-19-04, 12:52 AM	Straak smiles at Nocturan. "Yah... Tha boss has great, ya know, wit, doesn't he?"
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 12:55 AM	Hector winces as Nocturan punches the door. "Well... Its a neccessity... The person inside might need real help..." Hector steps inside as the door swings open. "Ahem... Hello... Sorry to barge in, but... Do you need help... or something?"
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 12:55 AM	Nocturan smirks as the door opens up, and looks to Hector. "There you go, one open door." He then turns to Straak. "Right... wit. That's what I meant."
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 12:57 AM	Nocturan blinks as he loses sight of Hector after he enters the house, as Noc is still outside. "Great... Now where did that goody-two shoes go?"
Straak 01-19-04, 12:58 AM	Straak follows Hector into the house. "Yah... I'll... ya know... look around..." Straak turns his back to Hector and pockets a brass candle holder before moving deeper in the house.
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 01:00 AM	Hector spots a woman and two young children near the back of the house, and hurries towards them. "I'm sorry... Did you hear me? Do you need help?"
Straak 01-19-04, 01:01 AM	Straak sees the woman and children, hangs his head, and carefully replaces the candlestick.
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 01:02 AM	Nocturan blinks as he watches Straak walk in, and then sees the kobold disappear as he enters. "Well that can't possibly be a good sign. Oh well... It should at least be interesting." Nocturan ducks down down and sets his ale keg down beside the doorway, then tries to creep inside, but is blocked by an invisible barrier. "Awwww damnit.... I bet there's something entertaining going on in there too...."
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 01:05 AM	Hector hears the woman say something about a curse between sobs. He takes a step closer to her, and tries to set a hand on her shoulder. "Curse? Ma'am, I'm a priest... Maybe I can do something for you..."
Straak 01-19-04, 01:08 AM	Straak blinks and takes a step backwards, putting a hand to his head. "Yah... I feel kinda, ya know, light-headed..."
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 01:10 AM	Hector frowns as the woman insists that he can't help, and that he's cursed now as well. "I'm afraid I don't.... Understand..."
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 01:10 AM	Nocturan sits down on his haunches as he looks over the door. "Hmm..... There's got to be some way around this.... Maybe...." He stands back up and lengthens one of the lengths of chain from his side, relenquishing the animating effect on it. He spins it in hand a few times and then tries to lob the end through the doorway and barrier, as if testing something.
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 01:17 AM	Nocturan watches as the chain passes smoothly through without dissappearing and brings it back to his hand. "Well that didn't go as planned.... hmm...." He glances about, looking for something in particular.
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 01:22 AM	"The Curse....of Death, Father Black...there is no escape..." Hector opens his mouth to respond, but is cut off by a convulsion. He drops to his knees on the floor, and moans.
Straak 01-19-04, 01:25 AM	Straak sees Hector drop, and begins to hurry towards him when he's hit with a similar convulsion, and falls, face foward, on the floor. "Yah... Owwww.."
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 01:26 AM	Nocturan raises an eyeridge at Hector's moan, noting the pain in the tone. "Great.... I knew I was missing the fun...." He steps over to one of the windows and peers inside, hoping to be able to see inside that way.
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 01:30 AM	Hector drops to his side on the floor, convulsing more. He slides his hand to his holy symbol, and begins mummbling something between convulsions.
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 01:30 AM	Nocturan snarls as he doesn't see anything out of the ordinary within the house through the window. He draws his hand back and punches the glass in frustration. "Damnit! What in the Nine is going on in there?!"
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 01:34 AM	Nocturan growls and turns around as the glass shatters from his fist. He finds several grey robed figures around him and sneers. "Great... First one of you even mentions property damage and you'll regret it."
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 01:36 AM	Hector's convulsions cease, and he goes rigid. He stares blankly at the wall for a momment before begining to shake again. "I... I don't..."
Straak 01-19-04, 01:38 AM	Straak curls into a fetal position on the floor, shivering violently, and gives Hector a pathetic look. "Yah.... Ya can't, ya know, do anything?"
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 01:40 AM	Nocturan blinks as he watches the robed figures draw weapons and rush toward him. "Well.... wasn't expecting that." The mechanical, stitched up lizardman ducks down beneath the first swing and raises up, aiming a huge fist for the first figure's jawline, lashing out with his other hand as a clawblade extends to slash at another's midsection. As he divides his focus, a blade sinks into his shoulder, between two plates of armored skin.
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 01:41 AM	Hector forces his face to turn towards Straak, and opens his mouth to speak, but instead he moans again, and begins banging his head against the floor.
Straak 01-19-04, 01:42 AM	Straak winces at Hector. "Yah... guess not..."
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 01:46 AM	Nocturan groans as he feels his body begin to weaken slightly from the wound, as black oil-blood trickels from the gap in the plates. The punched figure is knocked back and lays motionless on the ground. The one slashed at dodges back just in time to have its robes sliced up by the end of the blades. Nocturan grimaces at them. "Well, welcome to by bad side." He raises up and aims a spinning uppercut with his left hand for another of the figure's jawbones, aiming the extended claw blade for its throat. His chains lash outward in the spin, not animated, but spinning more like a chain-link whip for any close enough to get stricken.
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 01:47 AM	Hector lets out a long groan, stops pounding his head, and goes limp.
Straak 01-19-04, 01:49 AM	Straak curls into a tighter ball on the floor, shivering harder. "Yah... I don't usually, ya know, pray... But... Boss, if ya can hear me... help..."
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 01:56 AM	Nocturan snarls as he continues to batter the figures close by with fists, claws, chains, and slams. His eyes go wide as the farther back figures begin casting spells that possess a slight green glow on him at a distance. He growls as he feels his mockery of life being pulled at. . o O ( How is this... possible.... ) The figures closest by try to rush into the midst of Nocturan's attacks and crowd him, wrapping up his arms and trying to off balance him as the casters continue to work.
Hector Puern 01-19-04, 02:00 AM	Hector's eyes flicker open and he pushes himself to his feet, returning to staring blankly at the wall, but without convulsing.
Straak 01-19-04, 02:04 AM	Straak whimpers as the shaking gets worse. "Boss..." Straak collapses and stops convulsing.
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 02:15 AM	Nocturan continues fighting around the figures, and winds up tossing one to the side as it tries to grapple with him, into a small grouping of spellcasters, knocking them to the ground in a heap. He rears back to hammer his fist into another as another spell breaches his defenses and drops to his knees, his gears moving more slowly as his psuedo life force weakens and his movements slow to a crawl. "This... can't... be... happening..."
Nugan 01-19-04, 02:29 AM	Nugan walks down the road away from the temple, his jaw rested in onehand. He looks over at Sharp every few momments and smirks, but doesn't say anything. After a few steps he blinks, spotting a crowd of people down the road a short distance. "Great..." Nugan groans after he speaks and craddles his jaw again.
Sharp 01-19-04, 02:40 AM	Sharp walks beside Nugan, glancing sideways now and again to make sure he continues to be ok. Her face stung but the cold air felt good. When Nugan spoke, she glanced at him and then looked where he was looking. "What..." She squinted in the morning sun and then winced. "Nugan...those aren't all strangers." Her keen eyes picked out Noc and Straak.
Nugan 01-19-04, 02:41 AM	Nugan follows Sharp's gaze, narrow his eyes. His eyebrows go up, and he starts to open his mouth, but shuts it again. He gestures towards Straak and Nocturn, and begins to hobble towards the crowd.
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 02:45 AM	Stands among the crowd like an automaton, his eyes glazed over and his arms hanging slack for the time being. He doesn't seem to notice the approaching pair yet.
Straak 01-19-04, 02:53 AM	Straak sits on the ground among the crowd, his head in his hands. "Yah.... I wish I had some, ya know, idea what just happened..."
Sharp 01-19-04, 02:53 AM	Sharp sees the townsfolk there two talking and wincing and picking themselves up. They were robed in grey, all of them, but their hoods were down. Her mind raced. She walked toward them all, forgetting for a moment her burnt coat and the pain in her face. "Noc?...Straak!?"
Nocturan Deadfall 01-19-04, 03:04 AM	Nocturan's head twitches a bit as he looks down at Straak. "I honestly have no idea...." He shakes his head and looks down at the likely ill fitting grey robes. "But it must have been one hell of a long night...." He blinks and looks up as his strong ears pick up Sharp's voice calling his name, then looks back to Straak. "Sounds like we found them after all."
Nugan 02-03-04, 12:19 AM	Nugan limp-runs behind up to the Apathy members behind Sharp. He smirks. "Well, weren't you guys help-Owwwww" Nugan groans, and closes his jaw, rumbing it.
Nocturan Deadfall 02-03-04, 12:28 AM	Nocturan looks at Sharp and Nugan as they near, a slight smirk forming. "You try being helpful with goody-two-shoes Hector here tagging along. You try being helpful when you can't remember what the hell happened last night. Eh, I can't speak for the gecko, but I didn't really try that hard, so you've actually got a point." He shakes his head and looks around, shrugging his shoulders slightly as if testing for something that isn't there and mutters to himself. "Now where's that ale keg...."
Hector Puern 02-03-04, 12:29 AM	Hector steps from between two hooded figures, reaching Nocturan and Straak. He smiles at them in relief. "There you guys are! When I woke up, I looked around and you weren't there, an-" Hector's gaze falls on Nugan, and he sighs. "Oh... Hello Nugan..."
Straak 02-03-04, 12:37 AM	Straak spots Nugan, and rushes over to him, smiling broadly. "Boss! Yah... I was sooo, ya know, worried...." Straak stops when he reaches Nugan and gies him a worried look. "Yah Boss... Are ya, ya know, okay?"
Nocturan Deadfall 02-03-04, 12:40 AM	Nocturan glances at Hector and just shakes his head slightly with a smirk. "We try to get rid of you and you keep coming back.... What are you, some kind of scent hound?"
Sharp 02-03-04, 12:41 AM	Sharp's eyes smiled. She stayed quiet.
Nugan 02-03-04, 12:43 AM	Nugan gives Straak an annoyed look, and points to his jaw.
Sharp 02-03-04, 12:48 AM	She sighed and looked around at the other grey clad apathy members. She gazed at Noc questioningly.
Hector Puern 02-03-04, 12:48 AM	Hector blinks and looks at Nugan, a small smile running across his face. Is there... something keeping you from... talking... Nugan?" Hector raises his hand to cover his mouth and looks away, forcing a cough.
Nugan 02-03-04, 12:51 AM	Nugan shifts his annoyed look from Straak to hector and points at his jaw and then at Hector's holy symbol.
Straak 02-03-04, 12:53 AM	Straak looks from Nugan to Hector. "Yah... I think tha Boss needs, ya know, healing..."
Nugan 02-03-04, 12:54 AM	Nugan looks at Straak and rolls his eyes.
Nocturan Deadfall 02-03-04, 12:56 AM	Nocturan looks down at Sharp and raises an eyeridge a bit. "Don't ask me how we got here if that's what you're wondering. We came through that portal stone and got to that town, then it kind of goes blank a little bit after that...."
Hector Puern 02-03-04, 12:58 AM	Hector clears his throat and turns back to Nugan, forcing a serious look. "Oh... right... I should... probably..." Hector trails off and walks over to Nugan, examining him.
Sharp 02-03-04, 12:58 AM	She facepalms and then yelps at as her burnt face is touched. A tear in her eye from pain, she shrugs at Noc. "You missed the party," she said softly.
Nugan 02-03-04, 01:02 AM	Nugan glares at Hector as he's examined, and withdraws whenever he gets close to touching him.
Nocturan Deadfall 02-03-04, 01:03 AM	Nocturan blinks slightly at that. "Party eh? Looks like it was a real bonfire. What happened to you two anyway?"
Hector Puern 02-03-04, 01:05 AM	Hector finishes looking Nugan over, takes a step back, and begin muttering under his breath, and gesturing. When he finishes he reaches foward, and touches Nugan on the jaw.
Sharp 02-03-04, 01:06 AM	She answers Noc, her mouth opening only a little so as not to stretch the burnt skin. "Earthquakes...bad footing...rockfalls..Sorcery...angry deities..and deamons."
Nugan 02-03-04, 01:09 AM	Nugan winces, and takes a step back. He glares at Hector. "I know I left you to die and made fun of every you place value in and all... But that's no reason to get all sadistic on me..." Nugan blinks, and touches his jaw. He smirks. "By which I mean... Thanks..."
Nocturan Deadfall 02-03-04, 01:10 AM	Nocturan nods a bit. "Sounds like home.... Sorry I couldn't make it."
Sharp 02-03-04, 01:11 AM	She shrugs again and turns away.
Straak 02-03-04, 01:12 AM	Straak smiles up at his boss, and turns to Hector. "Yah... I think he's, ya know, better..."
Hector Puern 02-03-04, 01:15 AM	Hector nods to Straak and turns towards Sharp, kneeling done to look her over. "Are you okay?"
Sharp 02-03-04, 01:17 AM	She turns and looks at him, with her bright red face and seared and tattered coat. "Fine."
Nugan 02-03-04, 01:17 AM	Nugan shoots a smirk at Hector. "She really looks it, doesn't she? I almost got her and Straak confused a second ago..."
Sharp 02-03-04, 01:19 AM	She blinks. "Nugan!" ...and then cries out shutting her eyes against being suddenly dizzy.
Hector Puern 02-03-04, 01:21 AM	Hector winces, and moves closer to Sharp. "I'm afraid... And I never thought I'd say this... That I'm going to trust Nugan over you on this..." Hector repeats the muttering and gestures he used on Nugan, and touches her shoulder lightly.
Nocturan Deadfall 02-03-04, 01:22 AM	Nocturan watches Sharp turn away and raises an eyebrow. . o O ( Sheesh, these people get all touchy just because they got a little crispy. Mammals.... ) He glances around and growls at the ill fitting robes and starts to shred them away from him with his taloned fingers, grumbling and muttering to himself. "I still want to know who put me in these damn mammal robes..."
Sharp 02-03-04, 01:24 AM	Sharp relaxed as she was healed and then opened her eyes. "Thanks,"she said while giving Nugan an odd look over the cleric's shoulder.
Nugan 02-03-04, 01:25 AM	Nugan continues smirking. "Wow... Careful there Hector, those kinda statements are going to lead to dancing horses and my mother going wiskey-free on a Saturday night..."
Straak 02-03-04, 01:30 AM	Straak looks over at Sharp. "Yah... Hi..." Straak leans in closer to Sharp and whispers. "Yah...And thanks for, ya know, taking care of tha boss..."
Sharp 02-03-04, 01:33 AM	She put her hand on Straak's arm breifly in response as she walked by him. "Nugan," she said wearily. "Are we done here now?"
Nugan 02-03-04, 01:39 AM	Nugan looks over at the others. "I hate to remind you guys of it... But we are kinda in a bad place right now... Maybe we should be getting back back to the Guildhall... Not that it'd be any safer... If its even still standing..." Nugan winces and glances from side-to-side before sighing. "Great... There couldn't have have been a tree or fence or anything, could there?"
Straak 02-03-04, 01:42 AM	Straak nods to Nugan and Sharp, smiling. "Yah... That sounds like a, ya know, good idea..."
Nocturan Deadfall 02-03-04, 01:43 AM	Nocturan tosses the now shredded rags to the ground and shakes from head to toe, his chains coming loose and rattling as they hang freely. He glances around briefly at anyone else gathered nearby, then looks back to the group. He smirks at Nugan and nods. "Good idea, I think I left part of a keg somewhere along the way too...."
Hector Puern 02-03-04, 01:47 AM	Hector just nods, closes his helm, and starts back in the direction that they started.
Nugan 02-03-04, 01:54 AM	Nugan smirks, and follows Hector, glancing back at the Apathy members. "Well, that was all just about as successful as my father could've guessed..."
Nocturan Deadfall 02-03-04, 01:57 AM	Nocturan smirks at Nugan as he follows along with them. "That bad eh? Now I really am sorry I missed it."
Sharp 02-03-04, 02:02 AM	Sharp sighs and gestures down the road. "Well on we go, then," she said not quite brightly. Back down the road they trooped through the town and to the portal. Sharp threw some more magical water upon the rock and soon enough they were back in greyhawk. The portal closed behind them.