Session Transcript For Episode 1, Part 1
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alexandraerinA very mechanics-light session, mostly roleplay, as might be expected for an introductory session. Also a little disorganized in places... the downside of text compared to voice is the upside - more people can participate at the same time.
This continues from the teaser and will be continued by a bridge scene posted this weekend.
[9:09:27 PM] Alexandra Erin: Okay, then there you are: in the tavern, the nine of you, the bartender and the barmaid. The creature has just ran right through the crowd of you, plowed through the door, and vanished outside into a very suddenly clear blue sunny day. That's where we begin. (Action!)
[9:09:48 PM] Optima Brand: Optima
[9:10:36 PM] Optima Brand: Optima's got her longspear out, hoping to skewer the thing, but it ran through her so she's just standing there looking dumbfounded and scratching her head as she leans against the spear.
[9:10:43 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya Looks at the group standing near the door "ah well I did tell you to look out"
[9:11:16 PM] Alexandra Erin: The barmaid says, "You're a real collander full of good advice, you are."
[9:11:17 PM] Carrog: Carrog lowers his arms, giving up abruptly on whatever rousing tavern song he was beginning to bolt out, and instead he looks over at the door questioningly. "Well bugger all. I don't remember it looking like that when I came in."
[9:11:29 PM] Specter: Spectre unhooks his mace and approaches the door cautiously.
[9:11:35 PM] Alexandra Erin: The barmaid says to Carrog, "No, it was ON THE HINGES when you came in."
[9:11:44 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet regains her composure after being startled by the beast. "I've faced many a beastie in my time, but that one is new to me."
[9:12:13 PM] Optima Brand: "That's what she said," says Optima.
[9:12:49 PM] Janus: Janus is mostly interested in the new conditions outside, "Wasn't it near dark when you all entered?"
[9:13:05 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya turns to the Barmaid "Thank you I do try. Sharing knowedgle is important
[9:13:15 PM] Carrog: Carrog frowns at the barmaid, "Not the door, past that. It was raining like mad." He gestures to the various leaves and water stains still adorning his person.
[9:13:18 PM] Toben: Toben steps out the door, looking into the sky.
[9:13:22 PM] Dunbar: "It was definitly dark when I came in... and raining..."
[9:13:34 PM] Specter: What does it look like outside?
[9:13:35 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet appears confused. "It was well into the night when I was caught in that snowstorm."
[9:13:42 PM] Alexandra Erin: Toben - It's bright and sunny, with only a few wispy clouds high in the sky.
[9:13:43 PM] Alexandra Erin: The inn is situated on a hard-packed road in a rolling hilly country in the full bloom of spring. Strains of music and distant joviality reach your ears... the tops of festive tents are visible a mile or so down the road, just through some trees.
[9:13:45 PM] Optima Brand: Opty walks over to the door. "Okay, you all who aren't made out of metal or muscle stay back," she says, poking her spear out the door and then stepping through the doorway.
[9:14:07 PM] Specter: "The inn is not where it used to be."
[9:14:19 PM] Alexandra Erin: Optima, you can just see a glimpse of something blue disappearing into the trees.
[9:14:31 PM] Specter: Spectre follows Optima outside.
[9:14:40 PM] Toben: "So it would seem, sir" to Spectre.
[9:15:21 PM] Janus: Janus moves outside and inspects the ground and surroundings.
[9:15:21 PM] Specter: "Anyone heard of moving inns?"
[9:15:26 PM] Optima Brand: "It was stormy when I came here," says Optima. "But now it seems to be..." She pauses to put down the faceguard on her helmet, after a glance at the festive tents. "...fair weather."
[9:15:36 PM] Carrog: Carrog lumbers after the rest, "Well it bloody well better be here when we get back- I haven't had a drink yet."
[9:15:45 PM] Alexandra Erin: "If you're going to be moving in, we'll need to see coin up front," the barmaid says to Specter.
[9:15:56 PM] Lady Scarlet: "I believe we may have been bewitched."
[9:16:01 PM] Specter: Spectre studiously ignores the barmaid.
[9:16:37 PM] Gallifreya: Well technically I did not enter I returned..Or would it be better to say I resumed being?”
[9:16:49 PM] Toben: "I've heard tales, but only late around the fire. Certainly not where I was before." -to Spectre.
[9:17:16 PM] Specter: "Well, we're not in Breland anymore."
[9:17:43 PM] Alexandra Erin: The barmaid looks down at Harlan. "And who are you supposed to be, the mock turtle?"
[9:17:48 PM] Optima Brand: Opty is intrigued by the blue thing so she tries to discover what it is. By crashing into the woods. "Stop, whoever you are!" she calls out, blustering her way through the underbrush.
[9:18:33 PM] Alexandra Erin: Optima, you catch a glimpse of the marauder's whipping tail, but it moves much faster than you do and isn't slowed by bushes or trees... it's gone.
[9:18:44 PM] Toben: *Dashes after Optima "It's dangerous to go alone!"
[9:18:59 PM] Harlan: To the bar maid in more of a question then an answer “Well, I’m, an adventure”
[9:19:07 PM] Specter: Spectre follows Toben.
[9:19:13 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya looks out the door " I wouldn't do that if I was you Dimensional Marauders are clever predators. They'll go where people are, they'll stay out of sight until they get hungry. It is unsafe to try and hunt them alone"
[9:20:18 PM] Gallifreya: " Oh yes.. How much is it to rent a room?"
[9:20:18 PM] Alexandra Erin: The barmaid says, "Adventurers! Of course. Whenever the door gets broken and the furniture gets smashed, it'll be adventurers involved, sure as the sun's shining."
[9:20:19 PM] Janus: Hearing the words of the blue woman Janus decides to accompany the people trying to follow the beast.
[9:20:23 PM] Optima Brand: "Dangerous is my middle name! Well, no, actually, it's Mildred. I was named after my aunt," she explains to (uh, whoever Luke is, I gotta look it up), while scanning the nearby trees for other signs of attackers.
[9:20:24 PM] Harlan: Turning to Gallifreya “I, well, I beg your collective pardons… but if it’s unsafe to go alone, shouldn’t we go after her?”
[9:20:40 PM] Specter: (Luke is Toben)
[9:21:01 PM] Alexandra Erin: (I suggest using Skype to rename everybody as their character. That's how I keep track.)
[9:21:37 PM] Optima Brand: Optima peers around. (17 perception, if it helps.) She's looking for other creatures in the foliage.
[9:21:38 PM] Specter: (For the uninitiated, how does one do that?)
[9:21:54 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Right click their portrait, select Rename)
[9:21:55 PM] Carrog: Carrog perks up as soon as he sees the tents, then gets distracted by the sound of Optima crashing through the trees. "Oh... but.." He frowns, then starts striding after Optima and company, unsheathing a sword that's nearly as large as the one the Wilder (Wildling?) is carrying. "Bloody...buggerin..."
[9:21:59 PM] Gallifreya: "Oh you all wanted to hunt it? Well that deffinatly differant most people run away from them. This could be interesting" With those words she steps out the door to follow the others
[9:22:23 PM] Alexandra Erin: Optima, there doesn't seem to be anything lurking around but bugs and a few distant birds.
[9:22:38 PM] Dunbar: (( skype> profile> edit profile. should be at the top.))
[9:22:44 PM] Lady Scarlet: sighs and unsheathes her sword. "Where madmen go, sane women must follow."
[9:22:48 PM] Harlan: Hops after Gallifreya
[9:22:51 PM] Specter: "Madam." Spectre addresses Optima. "I suggest we return to the inn for time being."
[9:24:01 PM] Toben: (arcana 16) "I think we've lost it, and I doubt it leaves tracks we could follow."
[9:24:31 PM] Dunbar: *watches the chaos for a minute, then sits a respectable distance from the fire.*
[9:25:14 PM] Gallifreya: Reaching the group Gallifreya Pauses " well no not follow it presicly but if theres a large group of humanoids around it will head that way
[9:25:41 PM] Gallifreya: possiable a small village or anything like that will be it's next hunting ground"
[9:26:11 PM] Optima Brand: (( who are Jack and Dunbar/Travis? ))
[9:26:23 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Travis is Dunbar. Jack is Harlan.))
[9:26:29 PM] Harlan: (I'm Harlan)
[9:26:29 PM] Lady Scarlet: to Gallifreya "You seem suprisingly well versed in whatever that creature was. Are you saying it'll go to feed?"
[9:26:32 PM] Carrog: Carrog looks over at Gallifreya with interest, "Oh? Really? Then I know just where to go!" He's shifted from grumbling to gleeful again, about as quick as the weather's changed.
[9:26:37 PM] Optima Brand: (( Ah okay I see ))
[9:26:38 PM] Specter: Spectre turns to Gallifreya. "How dangerous is it, in your estimation?"
[9:27:17 PM] Gallifreya: "well oh course it will it's a predatory thats what they do how dangerous well that depends on how much you care about what they attack"
[9:27:45 PM] Optima Brand: Opty stops to look at Spectre. "You're ... one of those war-forgeries," she says plainly.
[9:27:58 PM] Specter: "I do not consider myself a warforged."
[9:27:58 PM] Toben: *cranes neck to look up at Carrog, quirks eyebrow* "If you know the way, lead on"
[9:28:08 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Toben, sorry, I missed your arcana roll - yes, you surmise it will not leave tracks while phased out.))
[9:28:13 PM] Optima Brand: "What are you then?" she asks challengingly.
[9:28:17 PM] Specter: Spectre is silent for a moment. "A peaceforged, perhaps?" he suggests finally, and attempts a laugh. It sounds mechanical and forced.
[9:28:41 PM] Gallifreya: "It really would not take long to take out a village..or two of course they prefer smaller prey frist Childern, pets, small races you know things eaiser to cacth"
[9:29:07 PM] Optima Brand: "..." says Optima, the breaks into a laugh. "Ha! Well, good enough then, if you're not takin' jobs away from good ol' flesh and blood soldiers, then I got no problem with you."
[9:29:23 PM] Harlan: ((Oh the dangers of being small and yummy!))
[9:29:31 PM] Carrog: Carrog grins broadly, "Oh yes- most *certainly!*" He turns and heads back towards the inn, then looks around. Once he again catches sight of the tent-tops, he raises his voice to levels meant to either address an audience or possibly defoliate small trees. "This way! This way! Everyone, this way!"
[9:29:38 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Tell me about it, JAck.:P))
[9:29:45 PM] Toben: *Toben follows*
[9:29:46 PM] Specter: "I see we will get along well," Spectre replies.
[9:29:48 PM] Gallifreya: (you are Canned meat:P)
[9:30:10 PM] Optima Brand: She sticks out her hand to Spectre. "Optima Brand, sword for hire."
[9:30:34 PM] Optima Brand: (( WARFORGED IS STEALIN OUR JERBS ))
[9:30:37 PM] Janus: "I believe the blue woman is suggesting that the beast will attack the settlement nearby." Janus says while following Carrog. "In which case we should at least warn them."
[9:30:44 PM] Specter: Spectre takes her hand and shakes it gently with his leather one. "You may call me Spectre."
[9:30:46 PM] Alexandra Erin: The barmaid, leaning on the doorway says, "If the sword's for hire, are the rest for fun?"
[9:31:33 PM] Gallifreya: "My name is Gallifreya Kasterborous not blue woman
[9:31:51 PM] Optima Brand: "Spectre? Like a ghosty thing?" she asks. And she laughs at the barmaid's wisecrack. "Nah, the fun starts when I put down the weapons and take off the armor!"
[9:32:02 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Since we're introducing ourselves, I am Lady Scarlet Moonbane of the Redhood Clan."
[9:32:14 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Oh, look, it's the scene where everyone says their names. Convenient!))
[9:32:25 PM] Harlan: “The music we heard upon exiting the inn! Do you think the beast will go there?”
[9:32:37 PM] Gallifreya: "Oh a prestige clan indeed" Gallifreya nods to Lady Scarlet
[9:32:38 PM] Specter: "It is a pleasure," Spectre greets Scarlet, bowing slightly.
[9:32:43 PM] Dunbar: (( I was beginning to wonder, lol))
[9:32:43 PM] Optima Brand: She looks over at Scarlet. "-We- were introducin' ourselves. Can't recall anyone asking you to do so."
[9:33:54 PM] Carrog: Carrog nods to Janus, seeming simultaneously excited and somber, "Yes, yes- definitely have to go." He takes a deeper breath and outright roars, "THIS WAY!" And as soon as he's done with that, he starts heading down the road towards the tents.
[9:34:21 PM] Optima Brand: Opty looks at Gallifreya. "So, if you don't wanna be 'blue woman', you got a shorter name than Gallyfragilisticexpialidocious maybe?"
[9:34:32 PM] Toben: "I am Toben Brausen, late of the Court of the Four Winds. Do you have a name, my mountainous friend?" -to Carrog
[9:35:03 PM] Dunbar: "In the interest of peace, we should know who everyone is. My name is Dunbar."
[9:35:34 PM] Specter: "I think our mountainous friend is departing quickly."
[9:35:50 PM] Alexandra Erin: (It can be assumed that Toben's following alongside him as he asked.)
[9:36:01 PM] Specter: "Court of the Four Winds, you say? I have never heard of it."
[9:36:03 PM] Toben: (What she said ^_^ )
[9:36:10 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Anybody -not- following, please say so.)
[9:36:12 PM] Specter: (Ah! Okay.)
[9:36:18 PM] Specter: (This is confusing. @_@)
[9:36:19 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya sighs "In the past others have called me simple Gallifreya or even simple Freya I prefer the longer but have used the shorter" She follows the two heading towrads the tent
[9:37:02 PM] Optima Brand: "Well, miss bartender, time for us to make like a wilden and leave," says Optima, going after the others. "Frey, you said? Yeah, that'll do. You can call me Opty if you like."
[9:37:04 PM] Carrog: Carrog glances down, seeming slightly confused, then jumps in recognition of what Toben was saying, "Ah! Yes- yes." Again, his voice drops down to conversational levels, almost joyous, like strange fat men in red suits who give out toys to other people's children, "Carrog the Bold, thespian by trade. Wonderful to meet you."
[9:37:06 PM] Specter: Spectre follows dutifully.
[9:37:11 PM] Lady Scarlet: pulls her hood over her head and departs out the door quickly to catch up with the others.
[9:37:38 PM] Gallifreya: "ugg a even shorter version deliteful"
[9:37:53 PM] Optima Brand: "I wish my damn horse hadn't run off," says Optima to nobody in particularly. Maybe Gallifreya.
[9:38:10 PM] Toben: "One of the Fey courts, but we can discuss that later, if you are interested." -to Spectre
[9:38:25 PM] Dunbar: *places 2 gold on the bar* "I'll be back, hold a place for me" *follows those heading for the tents*
[9:39:17 PM] Alexandra Erin: As the group heads through the trees, music and the sounds of the crowd become louder, only to be disrupted by the piercing shrieks of children and several cries of "Monster! Monster!" come from up ahead.
[9:39:30 PM] Gallifreya: "Horse? Canterokus beast alawys running off with things, I lost my last set of spectacls just because one of those dimwitted beast didn't want to go talk to a dragon"
[9:39:42 PM] Optima Brand: "Oh, crap, they spotted you, Carrog. Gotta stop scarin' the kids."
[9:39:46 PM] Specter: "They speak common."
[9:39:53 PM] Optima Brand: "Doesn't everyone?"
[9:40:01 PM] Specter: Spectre ignores Optima.
[9:40:03 PM] Gallifreya: "No"
[9:40:13 PM] Dunbar: "Those are children screaming"
[9:40:29 PM] Toben: *picks up the pace*
[9:40:39 PM] Specter: Spectre runs.
[9:40:44 PM] Dunbar: *takes the bow off his shoulder, nocks an arrow and breaks into a run*
[9:40:52 PM] Gallifreya: "yes a bad move on there part really it's better to just run away silently when begin chased by predotars"
[9:41:43 PM] Lady Scarlet: goes into an all-out run towards the screaming.
[9:41:54 PM] Alexandra Erin: Moving quickly, you break out of the trees in back of a dense line of merchants' tents at the outskirts of what seems to be a Festival of Renewal to welcome the spring. You cannot see the source of the disturbance, but it's coming from nearby.
[9:42:02 PM] Optima Brand: "Well, there ain't much point in calling something 'common' if everyone doesn't speak it. Why don't these people learn to speak common before they come to our country? And steal our mercenary jobs!"
[9:42:17 PM] Specter: (oh lol)
[9:42:29 PM] Toben: "It's common enough."
[9:42:38 PM] Carrog: Carrog chuckles a bit at Optima's comment, about to respond when he notices the group picking up the pace, "Ooh!" And he follows the rest at a trot. Or possibly a canter, it's difficult to tell.
[9:43:57 PM] Janus: "I believe we should follow the noises of destruction," says Janus
[9:44:00 PM] Gallifreya: Raises a eyebrow at Optima "I don't belive Oteranius of Cliferaka really care about leaving there home to 'steal your mercanary jobs' not that I've ever noticed at lest"
[9:44:04 PM] Toben: (perception 22) *searches for the source of the hubbub*
[9:44:33 PM] Gallifreya: Counties at a fast walk but does not run
[9:44:51 PM] Alexandra Erin: Toben, it's coming from directly on the other side of the wall of canvas tents.
[9:44:58 PM] Optima Brand: Optima runs cuz hey, she's in scale armor. You gotta hustle in that stuff if you wanna get anywhere.
[9:45:08 PM] Harlan: Already has to run to keep up with all the tall people.
[9:45:12 PM] Alexandra Erin: It's about fifty feet in either direction to a break in the line.
[9:45:59 PM] Toben: "Carrog, can you cut through?"
[9:46:20 PM] Specter: Spectre tries to rip a hole with his mace.
[9:47:11 PM] Carrog: "Cut through? Ah- you mean the tent?" He looks it over, "Yes, I think so." And with that he unlimbers his greatsword, readying for a blow and mumbling softly to himself.
[9:47:12 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet snarls at the obstacle and decides to go over instead of around. (16 athletics)
[9:47:48 PM] Optima Brand: "Oh for cryin' out loud. Back up you all!" says Optima, seeing the attempts to cut a hole. She switches from longspear to longsword, held in two hands, and attacks a tent. "Die, tent of evil!"
[9:48:18 PM] Dunbar: *takes the arrow from his and places it in his mouth. Pulls out a sickle and rips a hole through the tent directly in from on him*
[9:48:37 PM] Gallifreya: "It occurs to me it might not be very diplomatic to cut thruogh a tent the ocpants may take us for theives"
[9:48:47 PM] Alexandra Erin: Lady Scarlet gets a grip on a cross-pole of the tent and realizes that it won't hold her weight just as the others start cutting. As a result, the entire backwall of the tent falls away, exposing a fortune teller sitting at a table with a crystal ball on it, waiting for a client. She blinks at the sudden light and says, "Well... didn't see that coming."
[9:48:55 PM] Dunbar: (( that's supposed to be arrow from his bow, sorry))
[9:49:17 PM] Specter: "Pardon us, m'am. We heard screaming."
[9:49:30 PM] Gallifreya: "Ah greetsing Madam have you seen a largish blue creature with a mouth full of teeth come this way?"
[9:49:37 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Well, that's convenient." and dashes through the tent and out the opening on the other side.
[9:49:51 PM] Toben: *follows Scarlet*
[9:49:56 PM] Alexandra Erin: "What? Screaming? It's a fair," she says. "There's no need to sneak in, they don't charge admission." she start shooing anyone who's standing around towards the front flaps so she can fix her tent.
[9:50:11 PM] Carrog: Carrog gets ready to say something, stops when he sees the fortune teller, and then trots past, calling out, "Pardon us, dear woman!"
[9:50:30 PM] Dunbar: *runs through the tent, sheathing his sickle and re-nocking the arrow*
[9:50:39 PM] Gallifreya: pauses to help the woman fix her tent " Thank you so sorry for the mess"
[9:50:41 PM] Alexandra Erin: The screaming comes from a group of three girls being playfully "menaced" by a large man in a clownish troll outfit. Another group of children dance with ribbons and garlands of flowers around a pole a short distance from where a country conjuror in patched robes bedecked with faded stars and moons directs a couple of burly men in setting up a wooden stage. Minstrels strum their instruments. The smell of roasting meat and simmering stews fills the air. Merchants' carts and tents have turned the broad hilltop into a tiny town, with a veritable maze of streets.
There is no immediate sign of the dimensional marauder.
[9:51:20 PM] Optima Brand: Optima quickly puts away her longsword and holds her mace in her hand. She looks at Dunbar as he puts his sickle away. "Yeah, that was rude to chop down this poor woman's tent like that!"
[9:51:47 PM] Specter: "Indeed." Spectre hooks his mace to his waist.
[9:51:57 PM] Toben: *Raises eyebrow at Optima*
[9:52:17 PM] Harlan: "..... Oh." *aids the others in fixing the tent*
[9:52:18 PM] Optima Brand: Optima strides on through the tent and out the other side. "Huh. It's just a festival. You know what this calls for? Getting drunk!"
[9:52:30 PM] Specter: "We are going at this the wrong way. We should alert the local authorities of the presence of the marauder immediately."
[9:52:34 PM] Lady Scarlet: stops uponing seeing the peaceful sight before her. "By the Seven, this is embarassing."
[9:52:40 PM] Dunbar: "When it comes to children, I will cut through a stone wall to protect them." *is agitated, but is starting to calm down*
[9:53:14 PM] Janus (xaddom): "And perhaps they can tell us where we are." janus says to Spectre
[9:53:16 PM] Optima Brand: "C'mon, Carrog, Frey, and whoever the rest of you are. First round of ale's on the gnome!"
[9:53:31 PM] Carrog: Carrog steps out into the center of the whole fair and stops, a smile growing across his face as he spies the minstrels and then the crowd. He imbeds the tip of his sword in the ground, just watching the surroundings. "Ah, yes. It's been far too long."
[9:53:33 PM] Specter: "Yes." Spectre nods to Najus.
[9:53:37 PM] Specter: *Janus.
[9:53:38 PM] Lady Scarlet: "I agree with you Dunbar, no child shall suffer predations by a fiend if I can stop it."
[9:54:15 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya looks around " I did say they like to hide before they attack trust me it's near here theres is to much prey for it to not be, I doubt the local authorities will be able to handle the beasty...If they belive you "
[9:54:28 PM] Alexandra Erin: The fortuneteller doeswn't know what to make of Gallifreya, but is grateful for the help of her and Harlan. She seems quite charmed by the diminutive "knight" and asks if he would like his fortune told.
[9:54:49 PM] Harlan: "Sure!"
[9:54:58 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Shall I look back first, or forward?" she asks.
[9:55:22 PM] Harlan: "Forward, if you please."
[9:55:33 PM] Optima Brand: "Ha, I gotta hear this," says Optima, turning around to hear the fortune being told. "You know they just make this all up, right? It doesn't really come true or anything."
[9:55:38 PM] Alexandra Erin: "I see... great adventure. Much excitement. Horrible beasts."
[9:55:50 PM] Dunbar: *attempts to help with repairing the tent*... mumbling "I know I have a needle and leather punch here somewhere..."
[9:55:54 PM] Alexandra Erin: "You are a great hero."
[9:56:10 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Or... you will be."
[9:56:18 PM] Optima Brand: "That's no horrible beast, that's Lady Scarlet."
[9:57:22 PM] Harlan: *stares blankly at Optima, then looks back at the fortune teller* Madame, if I may ask you... where is the beast we are looking for?
[9:57:34 PM] Alexandra Erin: "The beast? You seek a beast?
[9:58:06 PM] Gallifreya: After fixing the tent Gallifreya walks out of the front looking around at the gathering, mumbing to herself about likly spots for for cacthing prey
[9:58:12 PM] Optima Brand: "Shouldn't you already know that? I thought you know things."
[9:58:13 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Why... I sense you will find the beast you seek... at the stage of the great magician, across the commons."
[9:58:25 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Tell all your friends," she says.
[9:58:47 PM] Alexandra Erin: The fortuneteller shoots Optima a glance. "The presence of skeptics and non-believers clouds the mists of fate."
[9:59:16 PM] Optima Brand: Opty laughs. "Uh huh..."
[9:59:17 PM] Alexandra Erin: "But anyone who seeks a beast should go and see the magician."
[9:59:43 PM] Optima Brand: "Maybe this magician summoned up that ... whatever she said it was."
[9:59:57 PM] Specter: "Dimensional marauder."
[10:00:08 PM] Harlan: *grabs Optima's wrist*Come along. To the great magician's tent. We'll give you more faith in tellers
[10:00:20 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Oh, he can summon up all sorts of things," the woman says. "Go and see him!"
[10:00:21 PM] Specter: "I don't see any officials at this gathering. I suppose we have to deal with this ourselves."
[10:00:24 PM] Alexandra Erin: "And ell your friends!"
[10:00:30 PM] Alexandra Erin: *tell
[10:00:43 PM] Optima Brand: "Yeah, dimensional maurader, that," she says, and looks down at the gnome in amusement, but follows him anyway.
[10:01:07 PM] Lady Scarlet: "We might as well check out this magician. Even if we don't find the beast there, we should still be able to hear anything should it appear."
[10:01:08 PM] Dunbar: "I'm not arguing with a seer. We shall see this magician."
[10:01:36 PM] Specter: Spectre reluctantly follows Optima and the gnome, keeping an eye out for blue beasts and possible authority figure to report to.
[10:01:38 PM] Toben: *flips a silver to the Fortuneteller*
"I've met oracles who've done worse."
*winks and follows the others.*
[10:02:01 PM] Alexandra Erin: The magician is supervising a group of men who are erecting curtains in front of a stage that consists of a simple wooden platform with rows of haybales in front of it for seats. A banner hanging across the length of the stage proclaims him to be "IMPOSTRO, THE MAESTRO OF THE IMPOSSIBLE."
[10:02:26 PM] Specter: (catchy)
[10:02:30 PM] Dunbar: *hands the seer a ration packet from his back pack, nods, and follows*
[10:02:49 PM] Carrog: Carrog's still standing outside the tent, soaking up the sounds and sights of the fair. He suddenly bursts into a roar of laughter, returns his blade to its sheath, and and looks over at the others as they emerge from the tent, "Oh look! They have a *STAGE!*"
[10:03:03 PM] Alexandra Erin: The side of the magician's wagon, next to the stage, is covered with a faded and peeling mural of the night sky. The splintery wheels still have flecks of gilding on them from better days. Only the sign leaning against the wagon looks new, and hastily made.
[10:03:10 PM] Optima Brand: "Hey, gnome, what's your name anyway?" she asks, then glances over at Carrog. "I have a bad feeling about this..."
[10:03:31 PM] Alexandra Erin: The words read, "SEE the BEAST from BEYOND!" The simple black painting of the "beast" in profile shows a bloated body on chicken legs, with a long, whip-like tail and a curved, beak-like mouth. It wouldn't be a perfect likeness of the marauder, but judging from the rather drippy quality it's not a perfect likeness of anything.
[10:03:36 PM] Gallifreya: Causaly follows the others
[10:03:46 PM] Harlan: "Oh, sorry. My name is Harlan"
[10:04:03 PM] Optima Brand: "Harlan, got it. I'm Optima Brand. You know how to swing that sword you got?"
[10:04:46 PM] Harlan: "...No. I can't even pick it up, yet. But I'll get the hang of it."
[10:05:01 PM] Specter: Spectre approaches and addresses the magician. "Excuse me, does your performance conform to local laws regarding the summoning and containment of dangerous magical creatures?"
[10:05:17 PM] Optima Brand: "... we are so screwed if we find that marauder."
[10:05:23 PM] Carrog: Mumbling something about lucky bastards, Carrog doubletimes it over to the stage, ready to bother one of the workmen with questions about what else the stage will be used for- particularly relating to any sort of plays or similar things.
[10:05:26 PM] Alexandra Erin: The magician looks at Spectre, blinking in disbelief.
[10:05:34 PM] Specter: Spectre fails to blink back.
[10:06:18 PM] Alexandra Erin: One of the workmen spots Carrog and says, "Oh, good, you're here." and hands him a heavy crate. "Get this up there in the center. We're behind schedule."
[10:06:18 PM] Lady Scarlet: "I swear, it feels like I've 'fallen down the rabbit hole'."
[10:06:23 PM] Harlan: "We'll be fine! We're the heros. We save the day and such."
[10:06:41 PM] Janus: "You wouldn't happen to know anything about an inn that moves would you?" Janus says to the magician
[10:06:47 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Does it... conform?" the magician says finally. "It will conform to your wildest imaginations!"
[10:06:55 PM] Optima Brand: "Yeah, well, I hope you're right about that, Har."
[10:07:04 PM] Specter: "Your sign suggests that your performance involves a creature referred to as a dimensional marauder. Is this the case?" Spectre continues, realizing the magician isn't going to answer his previous question.
[10:07:16 PM] Alexandra Erin: "An inn that moves? I? Impostro? I know all things," he says. "Watch my performance and I will explain any wonder you wish to hear about."
[10:07:28 PM] Carrog: The goliath hops to, though that doesn't stop him from asking questions, "I don't suppose you'll be doing anything with this stage besides magic acts? A play, perhaps? Maybe something involving Lord Temeritus?"
[10:07:46 PM] Alexandra Erin: "The beast in my performance has many names, but none know the truth of it. I conjured it from regions beyond with the help of my vast magical knowledge and power."
[10:08:08 PM] Specter: Spectre contemplates this.
[10:08:08 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Termites?" the workman says to Carrog. "I hope not. This is quality lumber."
[10:08:28 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Anybody with an insight score higher than -10: you doubt the magician's claims of expertise.)
[10:09:00 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya smiles at everyones antics, apoun hearing the Magicains words turns to regard him trying to detrimne how powerfull he just might acctully be
[10:09:01 PM] Specter: Spectre is skeptical. "Is it dangerous?"
[10:09:36 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Is it fluffy, white and comes out of your hat?" scoffs Scarlet.
[10:09:38 PM] Optima Brand: "You know, I'm not real sure this magician conjured our beastie."
[10:09:46 PM] Optima Brand: "I
[10:10:15 PM] Alexandra Erin: Gallifreya, at first glance you see nothing to suggest he's anything more than a typical stage illusionist of the mundane type, but then you notice that his chin seems to be illuminated from below within the hood of his robe with a green glow similar to the thing the marauder had in its mouth.
[10:10:21 PM] Carrog: "No, no- you know. Lord Temeridus? Stone giant?" He sets down the crate and gathers himself, switching over to that same, tree de-leafing voice he'd used earlier. Which is now recognizable as a stage voice, scaled to a stone giant. "What Sooth! Is this an army I see before me, its serried ranks, its gleaming arms, arrayed with bold demeanor! Gleaned not terror from my countenance, yet upon this day they stand, these lands so rightly claimed! Such blood they spilt they seek again, to wring it from my grasp- yet hound and hunt they shall not find, nor tremor in my arms. For though pursued and driven forth, this fate yet is my own- for I am Lord Temeridus as none may yet unsee!" He looks down at the man, hoping for a glimmer of recognition.
[10:10:44 PM] Alexandra Erin: "No more questions! All will be answered during my show!" Impostro says, and turns to stride off towards the stage."
[10:10:48 PM] Toben: "I think it would be a good idea to watch his...performance. We should watch him VERY closely."
[10:10:58 PM] Optima Brand: Optima gawks at Carrog. "What. The. Hells."
[10:11:15 PM] Specter: Spectre pauses, then claps.
[10:11:15 PM] Alexandra Erin: The men are all staring at Carrog like he's got a flower growing out of his head.
[10:11:29 PM] Gallifreya: cuirous as to what the glow is Gallifreya moves closer to the man. "pardon me sir would you be needing a asstinet?
[10:11:32 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Optima, you got any whiskey? I feel the need for a drink after that."
[10:11:33 PM] Optima Brand: ( Oddly enough, Dunbar DOES have a flower growing out of the top of his head. )
[10:11:40 PM] Specter: (XD)
[10:11:46 PM] Dunbar::P
[10:11:57 PM] Harlan: (to Opti) “…Maybe he just knows it will show up here?” (to Fray) “Can the movements of these creatures even be predicted?”
[10:12:05 PM] Optima Brand: "Do I look like a serving wench to you?" she responds to Scarlet, bristly.
[10:12:25 PM] Specter: Spectre wonders why no one else is clapping, and so, awkwardly, stops.
[10:12:30 PM] Carrog : Carrog slumps slightly, looking a bit defeated. "Ah, well. It was a favorite back home."
[10:13:02 PM] Toben: *pats Spectre's shoulder, shaking his head*
[10:13:08 PM] Lady Scarlet: to Optima "I take it that we're probably not going to get along. Alas, I just hope we keep each other alive till we know what is going on."
[10:13:51 PM] Gallifreya: "with in the paramters I already explained yes, Sir I would like to voulanter to be your assistant it seems I might learn so fasanting technigues by doing so"
[10:14:52 PM] Alexandra Erin: "The great Impostro needs no assistant," the magician says. "But... you are an interesting group of... whatever. How would you like to be on exhbition?"
[10:14:54 PM] Optima Brand: "I keep myself alive just fine. You're the one who's gonna have to watch herself," she says, then turns back to look at Harlan. Well, she kneels down to talk quietly to him. "Why do we think this guy's got anything to do with it? Just because the fake seer said so?"
[10:15:13 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Fake seer?" Impostro says. "Don't you talk about my wife that way!"?
[10:15:43 PM] Lady Scarlet: looks crestfallen and takes a seat away from the group.
[10:15:55 PM] Optima Brand: She laughs. "See? It wasn't a prophecy, it was an advertisement! Oh, well played, Impasta."
[10:16:19 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Impostro! Maestro Impostro to you!" he says. "Do you doubt my power?"
[10:16:31 PM] Gallifreya: "Ah sir if you feel it will help your show I would be delighted to take part in your show mayhap you could lend me more apporitate clothes?"
[10:16:37 PM] Dunbar: *steps back a little bit*
[10:17:00 PM] Optima Brand: "What, are you gonna card-trick me to death or something, Mister Apostrophe?"
[10:17:12 PM] Gallifreya: Treis to wave Optima quiet behind her back
[10:17:36 PM] Specter: "Please. Let's just watch this gentleman's show and then be on our way?"
[10:17:48 PM] Alexandra Erin: He reaches into the folds of his robe and pulls out a "wand" made of a simple common twig, but bound with twine to the end is a small irregularly shaped green stone, glowing palely.
[10:17:59 PM] Harlan: “…The teller can’t be all wrong. They never are in books. But they are vague. Maybe his show will clear things up.”
[10:17:59 PM] Alexandra Erin: "This is the dire artifact with which I conjured up my beast," he says.
[10:18:19 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Pray I do not use it again to unleash a thousand torments upon you."
[10:18:35 PM] Optima Brand: (( Clark clutches his chest as the green light glows on him. "Ugh... meteor rock..." he says, slumping over. ))
[10:18:36 PM] Specter: Spectre tries to take it from him.
[10:18:40 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya looks at the stone (arcna )
[10:18:54 PM] Alexandra Erin: Spectre, make a Strength check.
[10:19:08 PM] Optima Brand: "A glowing rock. You're gonna try to scare me with a glowing rock."
[10:19:10 PM] Alexandra Erin: Freya, I need a roll with that.:P
[10:19:11 PM] Specter: Oh joy. 18!
[10:19:15 PM] Dunbar: *looks at the men setting up the stage* (( how are they taking this exchange?))
[10:19:35 PM] Alexandra Erin: The men are watching with the interest of bored men in anything not boring.
[10:19:52 PM] Alexandra Erin: They appear to be local laborers, not Impostro's personal employees.
[10:20:07 PM] Gallifreya: (arnca 15 sorry hit the dang button to soon)
[10:20:11 PM] Specter: Spectre finds that his joints are working properly today (strength 18)
[10:20:25 PM] Specter: as he lunges for the magician's stone.
[10:20:53 PM] Alexandra Erin: Specter, you manage to snatch the "wand" from his hand. Gallifreya, you recognize that there's more magic about it than a cheap glowing rock that a traveling magician might buy from a real wizard to spice up his act.
[10:20:54 PM] Toben: *moves near to Scarlet* whispers: "Perk up. I have a feeling things are about to get interesting."
[10:20:56 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet, sensing conflict on the horizon, uses her cloak to hide her hands as she prepares her crossbow.
[10:21:10 PM] Carrog (stormcaller): Carrog finishes up what work they have for him, and then, it seems, the thespian muse is not done with him yet. He remains on stage, although he reins in his voice to just loud enough to be heard by... well... everyone. He strides about the stage, and it's clear he's acting out various scenes, "Let not you forget, bold ones, whom it is you face- I shall not fall so easily before your might, have at thee!" He makes several cutting motions with his hands in the air, wandering about.
[10:21:16 PM] Gallifreya: "please let me see that"
[10:21:36 PM] Specter: Spectre moves quickly away from the magician, and hands it to her.
[10:22:03 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Give me that back!" the magician howls. "You don't know its power! You don't know its danger! I found it and it's mine so give it back!"
[10:22:03 PM] Optima Brand: Optima stares at Carrog again, distracted. "Is he mad? Who is he talking to?"
[10:22:32 PM] Gallifreya: Exmains the stone very closly and ask the magican holding it out of his reach "where did you aquire this item?"
[10:22:52 PM] Specter: Spectre stares at Optima.
[10:22:53 PM] Janus: "I have a feeling we were all on the receiving end of its danger, sir."
[10:23:10 PM] Alexandra Erin: The magician says, "I won't tell you, and it wouldn't do you any good if I did. The rest are gone."
[10:23:15 PM] Carrog: "A hit, a hit, a palpable hit- your love doth buckle beneath my blade, and with it you shalt know the fear that lies upon the heart; though vengeance boil thy mind doth dull- you shall not claim my life this eve!" He continues, swinging around in broad twirls that look utterly pointless to anyone who knows how to actually fight with a sword, backing up across the stage as he goes.
[10:23:30 PM] Gallifreya: "the Creature this stone summons can you descript it to me?"
[10:23:37 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Yes, I believe you to be correct. So prepare yourself." Scarlet whispers at Toben.
[10:24:06 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Why, it's the most frightful, most bizarre, most out of the world beast you've ever seen! It has clawed legs, and a whippy tail, a beak of razors, and eyes like death itself."
[10:24:22 PM] Optima Brand: "So, a lot like Lady Scarlet."
[10:24:32 PM] Gallifreya: ponders the info (arcna 10)
[10:24:53 PM] Specter: "You must realize the danger you've put the people of this village in," Spectre admonishes the magician.
[10:24:56 PM] Alexandra Erin: Gallifreya, his description sounds like it could be a dimensional marauder, but you can't tell anything else about the stone.
[10:24:59 PM] Toben: *grins, planting his glowing staff before him* "I'm always ready, kitten."
[10:25:29 PM] Alexandra Erin: "I? I have done nothing to endanger anyone," the magician says. "I caught the beast the stone brought forth. Captured it and broke its will towards mine. It is dangerous, but in my hands, harmless."
[10:25:43 PM] Optima Brand: "I bet that stone is a gateway to hell," says Optima. (Arcana 10!)
[10:26:03 PM] Alexandra Erin: Optima, for all you know it could be true.:P
[10:26:15 PM] Harlan: “Then M. Magician, what was your beast doing in the inn?”
[10:26:15 PM] Carrog: Finally Carrog drives his hand forward, then draws it back, "Your breath, your life, I claim it this eve! Let your blood pool with your beloved, and your flesh fall before me!" He bends down, making some motions towards the ground, having stopped himself behind the crate. "And let your people... know..." And he leaps up upon the crate, as if upon the stones of a castle's battlement, "Their LORD!" One hand is lifted, as if holding something- in fact, you might even think it was a head, held by the hair.
[10:26:46 PM] Alexandra Erin: As Carrog jumps onto the crate, there is a horrific crack as the sides give way under his weight.
[10:27:06 PM] Optima Brand: Optima looks up at Carrog again. "Have you -ever- killed anyone?" she asks plainly.
[10:27:22 PM] Carrog: "Oop!" And he tumbles as the crate disintegrates, falling to the stage.
[10:27:32 PM] Alexandra Erin: The sides of the crate fall away, revealing a flimsy metal cage that also sags beneath his weight. Just before he squishes it flat its occupant manages to knock the front off of the damaged cage and jump out into the bright sunlight.
[10:27:34 PM] Toben: "I think it's more likely to be some sort of dimensional anomoly, as Freya mentioned earlier." (arcana 12 @_@ )
[10:27:35 PM] Optima Brand: Optima facepalms.
[10:27:54 PM] Alexandra Erin: It is indeed a beast as the magician described.
[10:27:58 PM] Alexandra Erin: However, it is not the marauder.
[10:28:03 PM] Alexandra Erin: It is much smaller.
[10:28:11 PM] Alexandra Erin: And more like a chicken.
[10:28:20 PM] Alexandra Erin: Less like a chicken in that it has a snake's tail.
[10:28:28 PM] Gallifreya: Looks at the new creature (arcna 22)
[10:28:40 PM] Alexandra Erin: It's not a creature of eldritch realms at all, Gallifreya, you know that much.
[10:28:51 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Dunbar, you know the beast: a cockatrice. One bite is enough to petrify a living being.)
[10:28:55 PM] Toben: (I should know better than to roll. Taking 10, ftw.)
[10:29:21 PM] Alexandra Erin: "The beast!" the magician screams. "The beast is loose, you've doomed us all!"
[10:29:23 PM] Alexandra Erin: He turns to run.
[10:29:32 PM] Dunbar: "Carrog, get away from that thing! Now!"
[10:29:36 PM] Alexandra Erin: Going to turn based.
[10:29:48 PM] Alexandra Erin: Carrog, what do you do? (Dunbar is next)
[10:30:19 PM] Carrog: Given he's got no idea what's going on, he'll frown at the strange chicken thing as he stands up, looking over at Dunbar, "Eh?"
[10:30:39 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Done?)
[10:30:44 PM] Carrog: (Yes)
[10:30:55 PM] Alexandra Erin: Dunbar. (Toben is next)
[10:31:25 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Everybody except Carrog is at far range from the beast. You can get a good shot at it with a move action to reposition.)
[10:31:57 PM] Specter: "Your majesty, I have need of your service," Spectre says to no one in particular.
[10:32:39 PM] Optima Brand: "It's a chicken. A really ugly chicken."
[10:33:35 PM] Specter: "Pardon. I meant no offence."
[10:34:09 PM] Dunbar: *Dunbar nocks an arrow, moves to get a clearer shot, and fires at the cockatrice (spider spirits, 14 vs AC, 16 damage if hit)
[10:34:42 PM] Alexandra Erin: The thing is small and nimble, it moves aside with a twitching hop. (miss)
[10:34:56 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Toben.)
[10:35:26 PM] Dunbar: "Oh, poison sumac!":P
[10:35:52 PM] Toben: Toben slams the butt of his staff into the ground. A clap of thunder crashes around the beast, but has no affect. (Stormwalk 4 vs Fort Q_Q )
[10:35:58 PM] Specter: "Now is not the time," Spectre continues.
[10:37:20 PM] Toben: (done)
[10:37:28 PM] Specter: "Yes- I thought his performance was very good."
[10:38:05 PM] Alexandra Erin: The deadly cock-beast is rattled by the unkind attention and in a hopping, fluttery flight it exits the stage, moving away from you and towards the children doing the ribbon-dance, several of whom have let their streamers fall and drawn closer to see what's going on. (Cockatrice is now far from Carrog and farther from everyone else, ~15 squares)
[10:38:30 PM] Optima Brand: (( "deadly cock-beast" ))
[10:38:38 PM] Toben: ^_^
[10:38:50 PM] Alexandra Erin: A particularly feckless child wanders right up to it and holds out his hand as if to pet, then shrieks as he's bit.
[10:39:00 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Optima's turn)
[10:41:00 PM] Optima Brand: Optima pulls her longsword, holds it over her head, and charges at the beast. (move action, action point-> move action, charge.) (19 vs ac, wait 20 due to charge, and 9 points of damage if that hits.) "Die, fowl mockery!"
[10:41:21 PM] Optima Brand: (And the critter is marked. Done. ))
[10:41:30 PM] Alexandra Erin: The cockatrice is hit, marked, and jumps with a squawk.
[10:41:45 PM] Alexandra Erin: The child's complexion is rapidly graying.
[10:42:17 PM] Optima Brand: "This is why you should never take children for granite."
[10:42:35 PM] Harlan: ((*applauds*))
[10:42:41 PM] Toben: *Toben facepalms*
[10:42:51 PM] Lady Scarlet: ((and i thought my puns were awful))
[10:42:57 PM] Specter: (ouch)
[10:43:41 PM] Alexandra Erin: Before anybody else can react, the bizare claw-like mouth of the dimensional marauder bursts out of side of a tent near the fray. Spotting the bleeding and hopping morsel, it snaps its triangular jaw at the cockatrice and, while on a dead run, swallows the monster cock.
[10:44:03 PM] Optima Brand: (( "swallows the monster cock" ))
[10:44:05 PM] Toben: (Player facepalms)
[10:44:18 PM] Janus: (I hope the cock doesn't have a piercing)
[10:44:27 PM] Specter: (groans)
[10:44:35 PM] Alexandra Erin: Without breaking its stride, the dimensional marauder shifts intangible and dives into the ground.
[10:44:58 PM] Specter: "Yes, and as we stood here arguing, a child was bit."
[10:45:07 PM] Optima Brand: "I can't believe I've been cock'-blocked by a dimensional marauder."
[10:45:09 PM] Specter: "I know he is not one of your subjects!"
[10:45:11 PM] Gallifreya: Moving after the beast as it heads away "Dunbar was that thing a cockatrice?" Gallifreya asks pointimg the strange wand in her hand at the Maruder.
[10:45:30 PM] Harlan: ((Can we heal NPCs?))
[10:45:51 PM] Specter: (warlocks sure can't)
[10:46:05 PM] Dunbar: "Yes it was. That child needs help, now, before she turns to stone."
[10:46:12 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Yes. However, you are seconds too late: the child is stone.))
[10:46:30 PM] Optima Brand: (( If we can't, then I know a good place we can fence a statue. 13 Streetwise. ))
[10:47:00 PM] Janus: "This child may still be saved if the feathers of the beast who bit him are found quickly
[10:47:09 PM] Alexandra Erin: As the adrenaline of battle fades, you all realize that the bitten child is completely petrified, a look of terror frozen on his face. The rest of the fair seems to have noticed, too... the crowd is staring at you all.
[10:47:33 PM] Lady Scarlet: At the sight of the child's stone form, Scarlet unleashes a howl of fury that is not unlike a great cat's roar.
[10:48:08 PM] Optima Brand: "... what in the hells?" says Opty, staring at Scarlet. "Am I the only sane one here?"
[10:48:11 PM] Carrog: Carrog blinks at the comment about feathers, then looks down at the destroyed crate- and the destroyed cage that was within it. Feeling a deep, draining dread, he begins to search through it for some bit of fluff left behind by the beast.
[10:48:15 PM] Toben: "The beasts feathers? That means catching the maurader..."
[10:48:24 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya looks around for another living smallish animal like a pig or rabbit
[10:48:27 PM] Alexandra Erin: The magician screams. "What have you done? What have you done? You've ruined my act. I've lost my star for good..."
[10:49:13 PM] Optima Brand: "Don't worry, we'll catch the marauder, and pluck that cock."
[10:49:14 PM] Janus: "Blue woma... Gallifreya can that wand summon the beast back?"
[10:49:44 PM] Gallifreya: "give me a few days to study it and I might be able to tell you"
[10:50:16 PM] Optima Brand: Optima looks around the crowd. "Who does this child belong to?" she says, pointing down at the statue.
[10:50:43 PM] Alexandra Erin: A woman comes running up. "Jared? Jared!" she cries, throwing her arms around the statue.
[10:51:09 PM] Toben: "perhaps if we combine our knowledge, we can shave that down" approches Gallifreya
[10:51:11 PM] Optima Brand: "Yeah, Jared's kinda fucked right now. But don't worry, we'll fix it."
[10:51:26 PM] Alexandra Erin: "What has been done to him?"
[10:51:26 PM] Janus: "Well I doubt I can track it through solid earth, so I'm open to suggestions as to how we find it."
[10:51:43 PM] Specter: "He has been bit by a cockatrice, which was unsafely harboured at this fair."
[10:52:22 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Everything was perfectly safe! I had things under control!" the magician says.
[10:52:30 PM] Gallifreya: "This whole thing makes no sense how could a creature of the nature world be summoned by this item" turns toward the magican " YOU tell me now where did you get this dangerous item." Turning to Janus "It came out when it sensed wounded prey I would say recreate those condactions"
[10:53:08 PM] Dunbar: "Is that the best way to bring it back?"
[10:53:11 PM] Optima Brand: "Maybe if we wounded someone to use as bait..." says Optima, eyes lingering on Lady Scarlet for a moment or two.
[10:53:11 PM] Carrog: At the magician's outburst, Carrog stops. And then he stands up. He stares towards the man with what might be best described as the coldness of stone. And then he strides forward. He does not step- he STRIDES. And with each step, his expression grows more angry, until he is absolutely filled with fury as he reaches the small man and attempts to lift him off the ground with one hand.
[10:53:12 PM] Alexandra Erin: "I told you, it won't do you any good," the magician said. "That's the only one that was left."
[10:53:20 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Freya, if one of us was bleeding, could that attract it again?"
[10:54:00 PM] Optima Brand: Opty chuckles. "Gimme about a week and a half, and I -- wait, I'm oversharing again, aren't I?"
[10:54:49 PM] Gallifreya: "it possiable would it appeared when the cocktrice was wounded it would make sense for it to react the same way"
[10:55:10 PM] Lady Scarlet: "I'd willingly be the bait for the beast if you think my blood could call it to us." Scarlet skins the leather back from her forearm. "Anyone got a dagger?"
[10:55:32 PM] Optima Brand: "I've got an axe..." says the fighter, lifting her battleaxe.
[10:55:35 PM] Toben: "It ate and ran once already. No doubt it would do so again. We need some way to stop it from phasing out again." (arcana 10)
[10:55:44 PM] Dunbar: *looks pointedly at the magician, hand going to his sickle*
[10:56:03 PM] Alexandra Erin: Toben, unfortunately your knowledge of the arcane arts stops short of the dimensions which spawned this beast.
[10:56:04 PM] Harlan: Ooh! In my backpack! *tosses stuff out in search of the dagger*
[10:56:40 PM] Alexandra Erin: The magician shrieks as Carrog hauls him off his feet.
[10:57:01 PM] Gallifreya: Turning to the magaican she pulls a small vial of greenish liqued out of her pocket. " I did not ask if ther ehwere more I asked where you aquired this item tell me or I pour this over you (bluff 18)
[10:57:43 PM] Alexandra Erin: "In the quarry! Behind the old temple!" he says. "There were more, but that... thing... got them. I barely got away with mine."
[10:58:11 PM] Specter: "What do you know of that thing, as you call it?"
[10:58:38 PM] Gallifreya: "Descirbe 'that thing'"
[10:58:53 PM] Carrog: Carrog lifts him up until he's roughly eye level with the much larger goliath, and there's nothing short of a roar coming from the 'thespian.' "YOUR STAR? YOUR JOB? IT WAS SAFE?! You DARED to bring such a CREATURE to a TOWN, AMONG CHILDREN! YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE! I SHOULD TEAR YOUR HEAD FROM YOUR SHOULDERS AS BAIT FOR THAT BEAST!"
[10:59:01 PM] Alexandra Erin: "I don't know! I saw it and thought it would make a good act, but I couldn't catch it... it moved right through my snares. I tracked it to the quarry, and there were these crystals."
[10:59:16 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Everything would have been fine if you hadn't jumped on its cage!" the magician says.
[10:59:19 PM] Optima Brand: "... hey, Rocky is talking like a normal person now."
[10:59:39 PM] Alexandra Erin: "You saw it! The great scaled thing."
[10:59:47 PM] Harlan: *finds the blasted dagger and hands it to Lady Scarlett* If you’d like to be monster bait…
[11:00:05 PM] Gallifreya: "Carrog I understand your angrer but I need him to be able to answer questions"
[11:00:38 PM] Toben: "A man can still talk with no legs."
[11:00:47 PM] Gallifreya: "your saying the creature that ate the other stones was the same thing that ate the cockatrice?"
[11:01:16 PM] Alexandra Erin: The petrified child's mother is starting to wail. More people and more are gathering around. It's mostly a human crowd, with a few halflings and dwarves. They seem like simple farm folk. You all feel badly out of place with your weapons and armor and implements, terribly exposed.
[11:01:20 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Thank you, Harlan. I would rather use myself as bait that sacrifice an innocent, no matter how stupid he is." Scarlet takes the dagger in her right hand. "I'll wait to see if we have another plan, and if not, then I'll draw blood."
[11:01:31 PM] Carrog: Carrog growls and flings the magician back to the ground, standing over him and drawing that sword again. This time, it's worth noting, there's no lack of skill there- he knows perfectly well what he's doing with it by the grip and stance he's using. "If the child cannot be brought back to life, you shall follow him into death."
[11:02:01 PM] Dunbar: "Carrog, bring the magician alive. We're going to this... quarry... You can question him on the way, Gallifreya."
[11:02:02 PM] Alexandra Erin: "You killed the child!" the magician says. "Not I."
[11:02:09 PM] Optima Brand: Optima looks impressed. Why can't Carrog be like this ALL the time?
[11:03:15 PM] Alexandra Erin: The crowd has drawn around you in a tight knot. It seems like the whole festival is watching now. Some of them are armed... mostly with farming implements or lengths of wood.
[11:03:21 PM] Alexandra Erin: But here and there is a sword or axe.
[11:03:36 PM] Alexandra Erin: The magician, noticing the attention, repeats his claim, pointing all around at you.
[11:03:40 PM] Alexandra Erin: "It was them! It was them!"
[11:03:50 PM] Gallifreya: "No wait Everyone please just wait somehting is not right EVERYONE JUST SHUT UP" Gallifreya's voice surpisingly carries wieght as though echoing from a distant point
[11:03:51 PM] Alexandra Erin: "They unleashed the beast, and it killed the precious child!"
...TO BE CONTINUED
This continues from the teaser and will be continued by a bridge scene posted this weekend.
[9:09:27 PM] Alexandra Erin: Okay, then there you are: in the tavern, the nine of you, the bartender and the barmaid. The creature has just ran right through the crowd of you, plowed through the door, and vanished outside into a very suddenly clear blue sunny day. That's where we begin. (Action!)
[9:09:48 PM] Optima Brand: Optima
[9:10:36 PM] Optima Brand: Optima's got her longspear out, hoping to skewer the thing, but it ran through her so she's just standing there looking dumbfounded and scratching her head as she leans against the spear.
[9:10:43 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya Looks at the group standing near the door "ah well I did tell you to look out"
[9:11:16 PM] Alexandra Erin: The barmaid says, "You're a real collander full of good advice, you are."
[9:11:17 PM] Carrog: Carrog lowers his arms, giving up abruptly on whatever rousing tavern song he was beginning to bolt out, and instead he looks over at the door questioningly. "Well bugger all. I don't remember it looking like that when I came in."
[9:11:29 PM] Specter: Spectre unhooks his mace and approaches the door cautiously.
[9:11:35 PM] Alexandra Erin: The barmaid says to Carrog, "No, it was ON THE HINGES when you came in."
[9:11:44 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet regains her composure after being startled by the beast. "I've faced many a beastie in my time, but that one is new to me."
[9:12:13 PM] Optima Brand: "That's what she said," says Optima.
[9:12:49 PM] Janus: Janus is mostly interested in the new conditions outside, "Wasn't it near dark when you all entered?"
[9:13:05 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya turns to the Barmaid "Thank you I do try. Sharing knowedgle is important
[9:13:15 PM] Carrog: Carrog frowns at the barmaid, "Not the door, past that. It was raining like mad." He gestures to the various leaves and water stains still adorning his person.
[9:13:18 PM] Toben: Toben steps out the door, looking into the sky.
[9:13:22 PM] Dunbar: "It was definitly dark when I came in... and raining..."
[9:13:34 PM] Specter: What does it look like outside?
[9:13:35 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet appears confused. "It was well into the night when I was caught in that snowstorm."
[9:13:42 PM] Alexandra Erin: Toben - It's bright and sunny, with only a few wispy clouds high in the sky.
[9:13:43 PM] Alexandra Erin: The inn is situated on a hard-packed road in a rolling hilly country in the full bloom of spring. Strains of music and distant joviality reach your ears... the tops of festive tents are visible a mile or so down the road, just through some trees.
[9:13:45 PM] Optima Brand: Opty walks over to the door. "Okay, you all who aren't made out of metal or muscle stay back," she says, poking her spear out the door and then stepping through the doorway.
[9:14:07 PM] Specter: "The inn is not where it used to be."
[9:14:19 PM] Alexandra Erin: Optima, you can just see a glimpse of something blue disappearing into the trees.
[9:14:31 PM] Specter: Spectre follows Optima outside.
[9:14:40 PM] Toben: "So it would seem, sir" to Spectre.
[9:15:21 PM] Janus: Janus moves outside and inspects the ground and surroundings.
[9:15:21 PM] Specter: "Anyone heard of moving inns?"
[9:15:26 PM] Optima Brand: "It was stormy when I came here," says Optima. "But now it seems to be..." She pauses to put down the faceguard on her helmet, after a glance at the festive tents. "...fair weather."
[9:15:36 PM] Carrog: Carrog lumbers after the rest, "Well it bloody well better be here when we get back- I haven't had a drink yet."
[9:15:45 PM] Alexandra Erin: "If you're going to be moving in, we'll need to see coin up front," the barmaid says to Specter.
[9:15:56 PM] Lady Scarlet: "I believe we may have been bewitched."
[9:16:01 PM] Specter: Spectre studiously ignores the barmaid.
[9:16:37 PM] Gallifreya: Well technically I did not enter I returned..Or would it be better to say I resumed being?”
[9:16:49 PM] Toben: "I've heard tales, but only late around the fire. Certainly not where I was before." -to Spectre.
[9:17:16 PM] Specter: "Well, we're not in Breland anymore."
[9:17:43 PM] Alexandra Erin: The barmaid looks down at Harlan. "And who are you supposed to be, the mock turtle?"
[9:17:48 PM] Optima Brand: Opty is intrigued by the blue thing so she tries to discover what it is. By crashing into the woods. "Stop, whoever you are!" she calls out, blustering her way through the underbrush.
[9:18:33 PM] Alexandra Erin: Optima, you catch a glimpse of the marauder's whipping tail, but it moves much faster than you do and isn't slowed by bushes or trees... it's gone.
[9:18:44 PM] Toben: *Dashes after Optima "It's dangerous to go alone!"
[9:18:59 PM] Harlan: To the bar maid in more of a question then an answer “Well, I’m, an adventure”
[9:19:07 PM] Specter: Spectre follows Toben.
[9:19:13 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya looks out the door " I wouldn't do that if I was you Dimensional Marauders are clever predators. They'll go where people are, they'll stay out of sight until they get hungry. It is unsafe to try and hunt them alone"
[9:20:18 PM] Gallifreya: " Oh yes.. How much is it to rent a room?"
[9:20:18 PM] Alexandra Erin: The barmaid says, "Adventurers! Of course. Whenever the door gets broken and the furniture gets smashed, it'll be adventurers involved, sure as the sun's shining."
[9:20:19 PM] Janus: Hearing the words of the blue woman Janus decides to accompany the people trying to follow the beast.
[9:20:23 PM] Optima Brand: "Dangerous is my middle name! Well, no, actually, it's Mildred. I was named after my aunt," she explains to (uh, whoever Luke is, I gotta look it up), while scanning the nearby trees for other signs of attackers.
[9:20:24 PM] Harlan: Turning to Gallifreya “I, well, I beg your collective pardons… but if it’s unsafe to go alone, shouldn’t we go after her?”
[9:20:40 PM] Specter: (Luke is Toben)
[9:21:01 PM] Alexandra Erin: (I suggest using Skype to rename everybody as their character. That's how I keep track.)
[9:21:37 PM] Optima Brand: Optima peers around. (17 perception, if it helps.) She's looking for other creatures in the foliage.
[9:21:38 PM] Specter: (For the uninitiated, how does one do that?)
[9:21:54 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Right click their portrait, select Rename)
[9:21:55 PM] Carrog: Carrog perks up as soon as he sees the tents, then gets distracted by the sound of Optima crashing through the trees. "Oh... but.." He frowns, then starts striding after Optima and company, unsheathing a sword that's nearly as large as the one the Wilder (Wildling?) is carrying. "Bloody...buggerin..."
[9:21:59 PM] Gallifreya: "Oh you all wanted to hunt it? Well that deffinatly differant most people run away from them. This could be interesting" With those words she steps out the door to follow the others
[9:22:23 PM] Alexandra Erin: Optima, there doesn't seem to be anything lurking around but bugs and a few distant birds.
[9:22:38 PM] Dunbar: (( skype> profile> edit profile. should be at the top.))
[9:22:44 PM] Lady Scarlet: sighs and unsheathes her sword. "Where madmen go, sane women must follow."
[9:22:48 PM] Harlan: Hops after Gallifreya
[9:22:51 PM] Specter: "Madam." Spectre addresses Optima. "I suggest we return to the inn for time being."
[9:24:01 PM] Toben: (arcana 16) "I think we've lost it, and I doubt it leaves tracks we could follow."
[9:24:31 PM] Dunbar: *watches the chaos for a minute, then sits a respectable distance from the fire.*
[9:25:14 PM] Gallifreya: Reaching the group Gallifreya Pauses " well no not follow it presicly but if theres a large group of humanoids around it will head that way
[9:25:41 PM] Gallifreya: possiable a small village or anything like that will be it's next hunting ground"
[9:26:11 PM] Optima Brand: (( who are Jack and Dunbar/Travis? ))
[9:26:23 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Travis is Dunbar. Jack is Harlan.))
[9:26:29 PM] Harlan: (I'm Harlan)
[9:26:29 PM] Lady Scarlet: to Gallifreya "You seem suprisingly well versed in whatever that creature was. Are you saying it'll go to feed?"
[9:26:32 PM] Carrog: Carrog looks over at Gallifreya with interest, "Oh? Really? Then I know just where to go!" He's shifted from grumbling to gleeful again, about as quick as the weather's changed.
[9:26:37 PM] Optima Brand: (( Ah okay I see ))
[9:26:38 PM] Specter: Spectre turns to Gallifreya. "How dangerous is it, in your estimation?"
[9:27:17 PM] Gallifreya: "well oh course it will it's a predatory thats what they do how dangerous well that depends on how much you care about what they attack"
[9:27:45 PM] Optima Brand: Opty stops to look at Spectre. "You're ... one of those war-forgeries," she says plainly.
[9:27:58 PM] Specter: "I do not consider myself a warforged."
[9:27:58 PM] Toben: *cranes neck to look up at Carrog, quirks eyebrow* "If you know the way, lead on"
[9:28:08 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Toben, sorry, I missed your arcana roll - yes, you surmise it will not leave tracks while phased out.))
[9:28:13 PM] Optima Brand: "What are you then?" she asks challengingly.
[9:28:17 PM] Specter: Spectre is silent for a moment. "A peaceforged, perhaps?" he suggests finally, and attempts a laugh. It sounds mechanical and forced.
[9:28:41 PM] Gallifreya: "It really would not take long to take out a village..or two of course they prefer smaller prey frist Childern, pets, small races you know things eaiser to cacth"
[9:29:07 PM] Optima Brand: "..." says Optima, the breaks into a laugh. "Ha! Well, good enough then, if you're not takin' jobs away from good ol' flesh and blood soldiers, then I got no problem with you."
[9:29:23 PM] Harlan: ((Oh the dangers of being small and yummy!))
[9:29:31 PM] Carrog: Carrog grins broadly, "Oh yes- most *certainly!*" He turns and heads back towards the inn, then looks around. Once he again catches sight of the tent-tops, he raises his voice to levels meant to either address an audience or possibly defoliate small trees. "This way! This way! Everyone, this way!"
[9:29:38 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Tell me about it, JAck.:P))
[9:29:45 PM] Toben: *Toben follows*
[9:29:46 PM] Specter: "I see we will get along well," Spectre replies.
[9:29:48 PM] Gallifreya: (you are Canned meat:P)
[9:30:10 PM] Optima Brand: She sticks out her hand to Spectre. "Optima Brand, sword for hire."
[9:30:34 PM] Optima Brand: (( WARFORGED IS STEALIN OUR JERBS ))
[9:30:37 PM] Janus: "I believe the blue woman is suggesting that the beast will attack the settlement nearby." Janus says while following Carrog. "In which case we should at least warn them."
[9:30:44 PM] Specter: Spectre takes her hand and shakes it gently with his leather one. "You may call me Spectre."
[9:30:46 PM] Alexandra Erin: The barmaid, leaning on the doorway says, "If the sword's for hire, are the rest for fun?"
[9:31:33 PM] Gallifreya: "My name is Gallifreya Kasterborous not blue woman
[9:31:51 PM] Optima Brand: "Spectre? Like a ghosty thing?" she asks. And she laughs at the barmaid's wisecrack. "Nah, the fun starts when I put down the weapons and take off the armor!"
[9:32:02 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Since we're introducing ourselves, I am Lady Scarlet Moonbane of the Redhood Clan."
[9:32:14 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Oh, look, it's the scene where everyone says their names. Convenient!))
[9:32:25 PM] Harlan: “The music we heard upon exiting the inn! Do you think the beast will go there?”
[9:32:37 PM] Gallifreya: "Oh a prestige clan indeed" Gallifreya nods to Lady Scarlet
[9:32:38 PM] Specter: "It is a pleasure," Spectre greets Scarlet, bowing slightly.
[9:32:43 PM] Dunbar: (( I was beginning to wonder, lol))
[9:32:43 PM] Optima Brand: She looks over at Scarlet. "-We- were introducin' ourselves. Can't recall anyone asking you to do so."
[9:33:54 PM] Carrog: Carrog nods to Janus, seeming simultaneously excited and somber, "Yes, yes- definitely have to go." He takes a deeper breath and outright roars, "THIS WAY!" And as soon as he's done with that, he starts heading down the road towards the tents.
[9:34:21 PM] Optima Brand: Opty looks at Gallifreya. "So, if you don't wanna be 'blue woman', you got a shorter name than Gallyfragilisticexpialidocious maybe?"
[9:34:32 PM] Toben: "I am Toben Brausen, late of the Court of the Four Winds. Do you have a name, my mountainous friend?" -to Carrog
[9:35:03 PM] Dunbar: "In the interest of peace, we should know who everyone is. My name is Dunbar."
[9:35:34 PM] Specter: "I think our mountainous friend is departing quickly."
[9:35:50 PM] Alexandra Erin: (It can be assumed that Toben's following alongside him as he asked.)
[9:36:01 PM] Specter: "Court of the Four Winds, you say? I have never heard of it."
[9:36:03 PM] Toben: (What she said ^_^ )
[9:36:10 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Anybody -not- following, please say so.)
[9:36:12 PM] Specter: (Ah! Okay.)
[9:36:18 PM] Specter: (This is confusing. @_@)
[9:36:19 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya sighs "In the past others have called me simple Gallifreya or even simple Freya I prefer the longer but have used the shorter" She follows the two heading towrads the tent
[9:37:02 PM] Optima Brand: "Well, miss bartender, time for us to make like a wilden and leave," says Optima, going after the others. "Frey, you said? Yeah, that'll do. You can call me Opty if you like."
[9:37:04 PM] Carrog: Carrog glances down, seeming slightly confused, then jumps in recognition of what Toben was saying, "Ah! Yes- yes." Again, his voice drops down to conversational levels, almost joyous, like strange fat men in red suits who give out toys to other people's children, "Carrog the Bold, thespian by trade. Wonderful to meet you."
[9:37:06 PM] Specter: Spectre follows dutifully.
[9:37:11 PM] Lady Scarlet: pulls her hood over her head and departs out the door quickly to catch up with the others.
[9:37:38 PM] Gallifreya: "ugg a even shorter version deliteful"
[9:37:53 PM] Optima Brand: "I wish my damn horse hadn't run off," says Optima to nobody in particularly. Maybe Gallifreya.
[9:38:10 PM] Toben: "One of the Fey courts, but we can discuss that later, if you are interested." -to Spectre
[9:38:25 PM] Dunbar: *places 2 gold on the bar* "I'll be back, hold a place for me" *follows those heading for the tents*
[9:39:17 PM] Alexandra Erin: As the group heads through the trees, music and the sounds of the crowd become louder, only to be disrupted by the piercing shrieks of children and several cries of "Monster! Monster!" come from up ahead.
[9:39:30 PM] Gallifreya: "Horse? Canterokus beast alawys running off with things, I lost my last set of spectacls just because one of those dimwitted beast didn't want to go talk to a dragon"
[9:39:42 PM] Optima Brand: "Oh, crap, they spotted you, Carrog. Gotta stop scarin' the kids."
[9:39:46 PM] Specter: "They speak common."
[9:39:53 PM] Optima Brand: "Doesn't everyone?"
[9:40:01 PM] Specter: Spectre ignores Optima.
[9:40:03 PM] Gallifreya: "No"
[9:40:13 PM] Dunbar: "Those are children screaming"
[9:40:29 PM] Toben: *picks up the pace*
[9:40:39 PM] Specter: Spectre runs.
[9:40:44 PM] Dunbar: *takes the bow off his shoulder, nocks an arrow and breaks into a run*
[9:40:52 PM] Gallifreya: "yes a bad move on there part really it's better to just run away silently when begin chased by predotars"
[9:41:43 PM] Lady Scarlet: goes into an all-out run towards the screaming.
[9:41:54 PM] Alexandra Erin: Moving quickly, you break out of the trees in back of a dense line of merchants' tents at the outskirts of what seems to be a Festival of Renewal to welcome the spring. You cannot see the source of the disturbance, but it's coming from nearby.
[9:42:02 PM] Optima Brand: "Well, there ain't much point in calling something 'common' if everyone doesn't speak it. Why don't these people learn to speak common before they come to our country? And steal our mercenary jobs!"
[9:42:17 PM] Specter: (oh lol)
[9:42:29 PM] Toben: "It's common enough."
[9:42:38 PM] Carrog: Carrog chuckles a bit at Optima's comment, about to respond when he notices the group picking up the pace, "Ooh!" And he follows the rest at a trot. Or possibly a canter, it's difficult to tell.
[9:43:57 PM] Janus: "I believe we should follow the noises of destruction," says Janus
[9:44:00 PM] Gallifreya: Raises a eyebrow at Optima "I don't belive Oteranius of Cliferaka really care about leaving there home to 'steal your mercanary jobs' not that I've ever noticed at lest"
[9:44:04 PM] Toben: (perception 22) *searches for the source of the hubbub*
[9:44:33 PM] Gallifreya: Counties at a fast walk but does not run
[9:44:51 PM] Alexandra Erin: Toben, it's coming from directly on the other side of the wall of canvas tents.
[9:44:58 PM] Optima Brand: Optima runs cuz hey, she's in scale armor. You gotta hustle in that stuff if you wanna get anywhere.
[9:45:08 PM] Harlan: Already has to run to keep up with all the tall people.
[9:45:12 PM] Alexandra Erin: It's about fifty feet in either direction to a break in the line.
[9:45:59 PM] Toben: "Carrog, can you cut through?"
[9:46:20 PM] Specter: Spectre tries to rip a hole with his mace.
[9:47:11 PM] Carrog: "Cut through? Ah- you mean the tent?" He looks it over, "Yes, I think so." And with that he unlimbers his greatsword, readying for a blow and mumbling softly to himself.
[9:47:12 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet snarls at the obstacle and decides to go over instead of around. (16 athletics)
[9:47:48 PM] Optima Brand: "Oh for cryin' out loud. Back up you all!" says Optima, seeing the attempts to cut a hole. She switches from longspear to longsword, held in two hands, and attacks a tent. "Die, tent of evil!"
[9:48:18 PM] Dunbar: *takes the arrow from his and places it in his mouth. Pulls out a sickle and rips a hole through the tent directly in from on him*
[9:48:37 PM] Gallifreya: "It occurs to me it might not be very diplomatic to cut thruogh a tent the ocpants may take us for theives"
[9:48:47 PM] Alexandra Erin: Lady Scarlet gets a grip on a cross-pole of the tent and realizes that it won't hold her weight just as the others start cutting. As a result, the entire backwall of the tent falls away, exposing a fortune teller sitting at a table with a crystal ball on it, waiting for a client. She blinks at the sudden light and says, "Well... didn't see that coming."
[9:48:55 PM] Dunbar: (( that's supposed to be arrow from his bow, sorry))
[9:49:17 PM] Specter: "Pardon us, m'am. We heard screaming."
[9:49:30 PM] Gallifreya: "Ah greetsing Madam have you seen a largish blue creature with a mouth full of teeth come this way?"
[9:49:37 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Well, that's convenient." and dashes through the tent and out the opening on the other side.
[9:49:51 PM] Toben: *follows Scarlet*
[9:49:56 PM] Alexandra Erin: "What? Screaming? It's a fair," she says. "There's no need to sneak in, they don't charge admission." she start shooing anyone who's standing around towards the front flaps so she can fix her tent.
[9:50:11 PM] Carrog: Carrog gets ready to say something, stops when he sees the fortune teller, and then trots past, calling out, "Pardon us, dear woman!"
[9:50:30 PM] Dunbar: *runs through the tent, sheathing his sickle and re-nocking the arrow*
[9:50:39 PM] Gallifreya: pauses to help the woman fix her tent " Thank you so sorry for the mess"
[9:50:41 PM] Alexandra Erin: The screaming comes from a group of three girls being playfully "menaced" by a large man in a clownish troll outfit. Another group of children dance with ribbons and garlands of flowers around a pole a short distance from where a country conjuror in patched robes bedecked with faded stars and moons directs a couple of burly men in setting up a wooden stage. Minstrels strum their instruments. The smell of roasting meat and simmering stews fills the air. Merchants' carts and tents have turned the broad hilltop into a tiny town, with a veritable maze of streets.
There is no immediate sign of the dimensional marauder.
[9:51:20 PM] Optima Brand: Optima quickly puts away her longsword and holds her mace in her hand. She looks at Dunbar as he puts his sickle away. "Yeah, that was rude to chop down this poor woman's tent like that!"
[9:51:47 PM] Specter: "Indeed." Spectre hooks his mace to his waist.
[9:51:57 PM] Toben: *Raises eyebrow at Optima*
[9:52:17 PM] Harlan: "..... Oh." *aids the others in fixing the tent*
[9:52:18 PM] Optima Brand: Optima strides on through the tent and out the other side. "Huh. It's just a festival. You know what this calls for? Getting drunk!"
[9:52:30 PM] Specter: "We are going at this the wrong way. We should alert the local authorities of the presence of the marauder immediately."
[9:52:34 PM] Lady Scarlet: stops uponing seeing the peaceful sight before her. "By the Seven, this is embarassing."
[9:52:40 PM] Dunbar: "When it comes to children, I will cut through a stone wall to protect them." *is agitated, but is starting to calm down*
[9:53:14 PM] Janus (xaddom): "And perhaps they can tell us where we are." janus says to Spectre
[9:53:16 PM] Optima Brand: "C'mon, Carrog, Frey, and whoever the rest of you are. First round of ale's on the gnome!"
[9:53:31 PM] Carrog: Carrog steps out into the center of the whole fair and stops, a smile growing across his face as he spies the minstrels and then the crowd. He imbeds the tip of his sword in the ground, just watching the surroundings. "Ah, yes. It's been far too long."
[9:53:33 PM] Specter: "Yes." Spectre nods to Najus.
[9:53:37 PM] Specter: *Janus.
[9:53:38 PM] Lady Scarlet: "I agree with you Dunbar, no child shall suffer predations by a fiend if I can stop it."
[9:54:15 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya looks around " I did say they like to hide before they attack trust me it's near here theres is to much prey for it to not be, I doubt the local authorities will be able to handle the beasty...If they belive you "
[9:54:28 PM] Alexandra Erin: The fortuneteller doeswn't know what to make of Gallifreya, but is grateful for the help of her and Harlan. She seems quite charmed by the diminutive "knight" and asks if he would like his fortune told.
[9:54:49 PM] Harlan: "Sure!"
[9:54:58 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Shall I look back first, or forward?" she asks.
[9:55:22 PM] Harlan: "Forward, if you please."
[9:55:33 PM] Optima Brand: "Ha, I gotta hear this," says Optima, turning around to hear the fortune being told. "You know they just make this all up, right? It doesn't really come true or anything."
[9:55:38 PM] Alexandra Erin: "I see... great adventure. Much excitement. Horrible beasts."
[9:55:50 PM] Dunbar: *attempts to help with repairing the tent*... mumbling "I know I have a needle and leather punch here somewhere..."
[9:55:54 PM] Alexandra Erin: "You are a great hero."
[9:56:10 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Or... you will be."
[9:56:18 PM] Optima Brand: "That's no horrible beast, that's Lady Scarlet."
[9:57:22 PM] Harlan: *stares blankly at Optima, then looks back at the fortune teller* Madame, if I may ask you... where is the beast we are looking for?
[9:57:34 PM] Alexandra Erin: "The beast? You seek a beast?
[9:58:06 PM] Gallifreya: After fixing the tent Gallifreya walks out of the front looking around at the gathering, mumbing to herself about likly spots for for cacthing prey
[9:58:12 PM] Optima Brand: "Shouldn't you already know that? I thought you know things."
[9:58:13 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Why... I sense you will find the beast you seek... at the stage of the great magician, across the commons."
[9:58:25 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Tell all your friends," she says.
[9:58:47 PM] Alexandra Erin: The fortuneteller shoots Optima a glance. "The presence of skeptics and non-believers clouds the mists of fate."
[9:59:16 PM] Optima Brand: Opty laughs. "Uh huh..."
[9:59:17 PM] Alexandra Erin: "But anyone who seeks a beast should go and see the magician."
[9:59:43 PM] Optima Brand: "Maybe this magician summoned up that ... whatever she said it was."
[9:59:57 PM] Specter: "Dimensional marauder."
[10:00:08 PM] Harlan: *grabs Optima's wrist*Come along. To the great magician's tent. We'll give you more faith in tellers
[10:00:20 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Oh, he can summon up all sorts of things," the woman says. "Go and see him!"
[10:00:21 PM] Specter: "I don't see any officials at this gathering. I suppose we have to deal with this ourselves."
[10:00:24 PM] Alexandra Erin: "And ell your friends!"
[10:00:30 PM] Alexandra Erin: *tell
[10:00:43 PM] Optima Brand: "Yeah, dimensional maurader, that," she says, and looks down at the gnome in amusement, but follows him anyway.
[10:01:07 PM] Lady Scarlet: "We might as well check out this magician. Even if we don't find the beast there, we should still be able to hear anything should it appear."
[10:01:08 PM] Dunbar: "I'm not arguing with a seer. We shall see this magician."
[10:01:36 PM] Specter: Spectre reluctantly follows Optima and the gnome, keeping an eye out for blue beasts and possible authority figure to report to.
[10:01:38 PM] Toben: *flips a silver to the Fortuneteller*
"I've met oracles who've done worse."
*winks and follows the others.*
[10:02:01 PM] Alexandra Erin: The magician is supervising a group of men who are erecting curtains in front of a stage that consists of a simple wooden platform with rows of haybales in front of it for seats. A banner hanging across the length of the stage proclaims him to be "IMPOSTRO, THE MAESTRO OF THE IMPOSSIBLE."
[10:02:26 PM] Specter: (catchy)
[10:02:30 PM] Dunbar: *hands the seer a ration packet from his back pack, nods, and follows*
[10:02:49 PM] Carrog: Carrog's still standing outside the tent, soaking up the sounds and sights of the fair. He suddenly bursts into a roar of laughter, returns his blade to its sheath, and and looks over at the others as they emerge from the tent, "Oh look! They have a *STAGE!*"
[10:03:03 PM] Alexandra Erin: The side of the magician's wagon, next to the stage, is covered with a faded and peeling mural of the night sky. The splintery wheels still have flecks of gilding on them from better days. Only the sign leaning against the wagon looks new, and hastily made.
[10:03:10 PM] Optima Brand: "Hey, gnome, what's your name anyway?" she asks, then glances over at Carrog. "I have a bad feeling about this..."
[10:03:31 PM] Alexandra Erin: The words read, "SEE the BEAST from BEYOND!" The simple black painting of the "beast" in profile shows a bloated body on chicken legs, with a long, whip-like tail and a curved, beak-like mouth. It wouldn't be a perfect likeness of the marauder, but judging from the rather drippy quality it's not a perfect likeness of anything.
[10:03:36 PM] Gallifreya: Causaly follows the others
[10:03:46 PM] Harlan: "Oh, sorry. My name is Harlan"
[10:04:03 PM] Optima Brand: "Harlan, got it. I'm Optima Brand. You know how to swing that sword you got?"
[10:04:46 PM] Harlan: "...No. I can't even pick it up, yet. But I'll get the hang of it."
[10:05:01 PM] Specter: Spectre approaches and addresses the magician. "Excuse me, does your performance conform to local laws regarding the summoning and containment of dangerous magical creatures?"
[10:05:17 PM] Optima Brand: "... we are so screwed if we find that marauder."
[10:05:23 PM] Carrog: Mumbling something about lucky bastards, Carrog doubletimes it over to the stage, ready to bother one of the workmen with questions about what else the stage will be used for- particularly relating to any sort of plays or similar things.
[10:05:26 PM] Alexandra Erin: The magician looks at Spectre, blinking in disbelief.
[10:05:34 PM] Specter: Spectre fails to blink back.
[10:06:18 PM] Alexandra Erin: One of the workmen spots Carrog and says, "Oh, good, you're here." and hands him a heavy crate. "Get this up there in the center. We're behind schedule."
[10:06:18 PM] Lady Scarlet: "I swear, it feels like I've 'fallen down the rabbit hole'."
[10:06:23 PM] Harlan: "We'll be fine! We're the heros. We save the day and such."
[10:06:41 PM] Janus: "You wouldn't happen to know anything about an inn that moves would you?" Janus says to the magician
[10:06:47 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Does it... conform?" the magician says finally. "It will conform to your wildest imaginations!"
[10:06:55 PM] Optima Brand: "Yeah, well, I hope you're right about that, Har."
[10:07:04 PM] Specter: "Your sign suggests that your performance involves a creature referred to as a dimensional marauder. Is this the case?" Spectre continues, realizing the magician isn't going to answer his previous question.
[10:07:16 PM] Alexandra Erin: "An inn that moves? I? Impostro? I know all things," he says. "Watch my performance and I will explain any wonder you wish to hear about."
[10:07:28 PM] Carrog: The goliath hops to, though that doesn't stop him from asking questions, "I don't suppose you'll be doing anything with this stage besides magic acts? A play, perhaps? Maybe something involving Lord Temeritus?"
[10:07:46 PM] Alexandra Erin: "The beast in my performance has many names, but none know the truth of it. I conjured it from regions beyond with the help of my vast magical knowledge and power."
[10:08:08 PM] Specter: Spectre contemplates this.
[10:08:08 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Termites?" the workman says to Carrog. "I hope not. This is quality lumber."
[10:08:28 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Anybody with an insight score higher than -10: you doubt the magician's claims of expertise.)
[10:09:00 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya smiles at everyones antics, apoun hearing the Magicains words turns to regard him trying to detrimne how powerfull he just might acctully be
[10:09:01 PM] Specter: Spectre is skeptical. "Is it dangerous?"
[10:09:36 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Is it fluffy, white and comes out of your hat?" scoffs Scarlet.
[10:09:38 PM] Optima Brand: "You know, I'm not real sure this magician conjured our beastie."
[10:09:46 PM] Optima Brand: "I
[10:10:15 PM] Alexandra Erin: Gallifreya, at first glance you see nothing to suggest he's anything more than a typical stage illusionist of the mundane type, but then you notice that his chin seems to be illuminated from below within the hood of his robe with a green glow similar to the thing the marauder had in its mouth.
[10:10:21 PM] Carrog: "No, no- you know. Lord Temeridus? Stone giant?" He sets down the crate and gathers himself, switching over to that same, tree de-leafing voice he'd used earlier. Which is now recognizable as a stage voice, scaled to a stone giant. "What Sooth! Is this an army I see before me, its serried ranks, its gleaming arms, arrayed with bold demeanor! Gleaned not terror from my countenance, yet upon this day they stand, these lands so rightly claimed! Such blood they spilt they seek again, to wring it from my grasp- yet hound and hunt they shall not find, nor tremor in my arms. For though pursued and driven forth, this fate yet is my own- for I am Lord Temeridus as none may yet unsee!" He looks down at the man, hoping for a glimmer of recognition.
[10:10:44 PM] Alexandra Erin: "No more questions! All will be answered during my show!" Impostro says, and turns to stride off towards the stage."
[10:10:48 PM] Toben: "I think it would be a good idea to watch his...performance. We should watch him VERY closely."
[10:10:58 PM] Optima Brand: Optima gawks at Carrog. "What. The. Hells."
[10:11:15 PM] Specter: Spectre pauses, then claps.
[10:11:15 PM] Alexandra Erin: The men are all staring at Carrog like he's got a flower growing out of his head.
[10:11:29 PM] Gallifreya: cuirous as to what the glow is Gallifreya moves closer to the man. "pardon me sir would you be needing a asstinet?
[10:11:32 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Optima, you got any whiskey? I feel the need for a drink after that."
[10:11:33 PM] Optima Brand: ( Oddly enough, Dunbar DOES have a flower growing out of the top of his head. )
[10:11:40 PM] Specter: (XD)
[10:11:46 PM] Dunbar::P
[10:11:57 PM] Harlan: (to Opti) “…Maybe he just knows it will show up here?” (to Fray) “Can the movements of these creatures even be predicted?”
[10:12:05 PM] Optima Brand: "Do I look like a serving wench to you?" she responds to Scarlet, bristly.
[10:12:25 PM] Specter: Spectre wonders why no one else is clapping, and so, awkwardly, stops.
[10:12:30 PM] Carrog : Carrog slumps slightly, looking a bit defeated. "Ah, well. It was a favorite back home."
[10:13:02 PM] Toben: *pats Spectre's shoulder, shaking his head*
[10:13:08 PM] Lady Scarlet: to Optima "I take it that we're probably not going to get along. Alas, I just hope we keep each other alive till we know what is going on."
[10:13:51 PM] Gallifreya: "with in the paramters I already explained yes, Sir I would like to voulanter to be your assistant it seems I might learn so fasanting technigues by doing so"
[10:14:52 PM] Alexandra Erin: "The great Impostro needs no assistant," the magician says. "But... you are an interesting group of... whatever. How would you like to be on exhbition?"
[10:14:54 PM] Optima Brand: "I keep myself alive just fine. You're the one who's gonna have to watch herself," she says, then turns back to look at Harlan. Well, she kneels down to talk quietly to him. "Why do we think this guy's got anything to do with it? Just because the fake seer said so?"
[10:15:13 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Fake seer?" Impostro says. "Don't you talk about my wife that way!"?
[10:15:43 PM] Lady Scarlet: looks crestfallen and takes a seat away from the group.
[10:15:55 PM] Optima Brand: She laughs. "See? It wasn't a prophecy, it was an advertisement! Oh, well played, Impasta."
[10:16:19 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Impostro! Maestro Impostro to you!" he says. "Do you doubt my power?"
[10:16:31 PM] Gallifreya: "Ah sir if you feel it will help your show I would be delighted to take part in your show mayhap you could lend me more apporitate clothes?"
[10:16:37 PM] Dunbar: *steps back a little bit*
[10:17:00 PM] Optima Brand: "What, are you gonna card-trick me to death or something, Mister Apostrophe?"
[10:17:12 PM] Gallifreya: Treis to wave Optima quiet behind her back
[10:17:36 PM] Specter: "Please. Let's just watch this gentleman's show and then be on our way?"
[10:17:48 PM] Alexandra Erin: He reaches into the folds of his robe and pulls out a "wand" made of a simple common twig, but bound with twine to the end is a small irregularly shaped green stone, glowing palely.
[10:17:59 PM] Harlan: “…The teller can’t be all wrong. They never are in books. But they are vague. Maybe his show will clear things up.”
[10:17:59 PM] Alexandra Erin: "This is the dire artifact with which I conjured up my beast," he says.
[10:18:19 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Pray I do not use it again to unleash a thousand torments upon you."
[10:18:35 PM] Optima Brand: (( Clark clutches his chest as the green light glows on him. "Ugh... meteor rock..." he says, slumping over. ))
[10:18:36 PM] Specter: Spectre tries to take it from him.
[10:18:40 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya looks at the stone (arcna )
[10:18:54 PM] Alexandra Erin: Spectre, make a Strength check.
[10:19:08 PM] Optima Brand: "A glowing rock. You're gonna try to scare me with a glowing rock."
[10:19:10 PM] Alexandra Erin: Freya, I need a roll with that.:P
[10:19:11 PM] Specter: Oh joy. 18!
[10:19:15 PM] Dunbar: *looks at the men setting up the stage* (( how are they taking this exchange?))
[10:19:35 PM] Alexandra Erin: The men are watching with the interest of bored men in anything not boring.
[10:19:52 PM] Alexandra Erin: They appear to be local laborers, not Impostro's personal employees.
[10:20:07 PM] Gallifreya: (arnca 15 sorry hit the dang button to soon)
[10:20:11 PM] Specter: Spectre finds that his joints are working properly today (strength 18)
[10:20:25 PM] Specter: as he lunges for the magician's stone.
[10:20:53 PM] Alexandra Erin: Specter, you manage to snatch the "wand" from his hand. Gallifreya, you recognize that there's more magic about it than a cheap glowing rock that a traveling magician might buy from a real wizard to spice up his act.
[10:20:54 PM] Toben: *moves near to Scarlet* whispers: "Perk up. I have a feeling things are about to get interesting."
[10:20:56 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet, sensing conflict on the horizon, uses her cloak to hide her hands as she prepares her crossbow.
[10:21:10 PM] Carrog (stormcaller): Carrog finishes up what work they have for him, and then, it seems, the thespian muse is not done with him yet. He remains on stage, although he reins in his voice to just loud enough to be heard by... well... everyone. He strides about the stage, and it's clear he's acting out various scenes, "Let not you forget, bold ones, whom it is you face- I shall not fall so easily before your might, have at thee!" He makes several cutting motions with his hands in the air, wandering about.
[10:21:16 PM] Gallifreya: "please let me see that"
[10:21:36 PM] Specter: Spectre moves quickly away from the magician, and hands it to her.
[10:22:03 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Give me that back!" the magician howls. "You don't know its power! You don't know its danger! I found it and it's mine so give it back!"
[10:22:03 PM] Optima Brand: Optima stares at Carrog again, distracted. "Is he mad? Who is he talking to?"
[10:22:32 PM] Gallifreya: Exmains the stone very closly and ask the magican holding it out of his reach "where did you aquire this item?"
[10:22:52 PM] Specter: Spectre stares at Optima.
[10:22:53 PM] Janus: "I have a feeling we were all on the receiving end of its danger, sir."
[10:23:10 PM] Alexandra Erin: The magician says, "I won't tell you, and it wouldn't do you any good if I did. The rest are gone."
[10:23:15 PM] Carrog: "A hit, a hit, a palpable hit- your love doth buckle beneath my blade, and with it you shalt know the fear that lies upon the heart; though vengeance boil thy mind doth dull- you shall not claim my life this eve!" He continues, swinging around in broad twirls that look utterly pointless to anyone who knows how to actually fight with a sword, backing up across the stage as he goes.
[10:23:30 PM] Gallifreya: "the Creature this stone summons can you descript it to me?"
[10:23:37 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Yes, I believe you to be correct. So prepare yourself." Scarlet whispers at Toben.
[10:24:06 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Why, it's the most frightful, most bizarre, most out of the world beast you've ever seen! It has clawed legs, and a whippy tail, a beak of razors, and eyes like death itself."
[10:24:22 PM] Optima Brand: "So, a lot like Lady Scarlet."
[10:24:32 PM] Gallifreya: ponders the info (arcna 10)
[10:24:53 PM] Specter: "You must realize the danger you've put the people of this village in," Spectre admonishes the magician.
[10:24:56 PM] Alexandra Erin: Gallifreya, his description sounds like it could be a dimensional marauder, but you can't tell anything else about the stone.
[10:24:59 PM] Toben: *grins, planting his glowing staff before him* "I'm always ready, kitten."
[10:25:29 PM] Alexandra Erin: "I? I have done nothing to endanger anyone," the magician says. "I caught the beast the stone brought forth. Captured it and broke its will towards mine. It is dangerous, but in my hands, harmless."
[10:25:43 PM] Optima Brand: "I bet that stone is a gateway to hell," says Optima. (Arcana 10!)
[10:26:03 PM] Alexandra Erin: Optima, for all you know it could be true.:P
[10:26:15 PM] Harlan: “Then M. Magician, what was your beast doing in the inn?”
[10:26:15 PM] Carrog: Finally Carrog drives his hand forward, then draws it back, "Your breath, your life, I claim it this eve! Let your blood pool with your beloved, and your flesh fall before me!" He bends down, making some motions towards the ground, having stopped himself behind the crate. "And let your people... know..." And he leaps up upon the crate, as if upon the stones of a castle's battlement, "Their LORD!" One hand is lifted, as if holding something- in fact, you might even think it was a head, held by the hair.
[10:26:46 PM] Alexandra Erin: As Carrog jumps onto the crate, there is a horrific crack as the sides give way under his weight.
[10:27:06 PM] Optima Brand: Optima looks up at Carrog again. "Have you -ever- killed anyone?" she asks plainly.
[10:27:22 PM] Carrog: "Oop!" And he tumbles as the crate disintegrates, falling to the stage.
[10:27:32 PM] Alexandra Erin: The sides of the crate fall away, revealing a flimsy metal cage that also sags beneath his weight. Just before he squishes it flat its occupant manages to knock the front off of the damaged cage and jump out into the bright sunlight.
[10:27:34 PM] Toben: "I think it's more likely to be some sort of dimensional anomoly, as Freya mentioned earlier." (arcana 12 @_@ )
[10:27:35 PM] Optima Brand: Optima facepalms.
[10:27:54 PM] Alexandra Erin: It is indeed a beast as the magician described.
[10:27:58 PM] Alexandra Erin: However, it is not the marauder.
[10:28:03 PM] Alexandra Erin: It is much smaller.
[10:28:11 PM] Alexandra Erin: And more like a chicken.
[10:28:20 PM] Alexandra Erin: Less like a chicken in that it has a snake's tail.
[10:28:28 PM] Gallifreya: Looks at the new creature (arcna 22)
[10:28:40 PM] Alexandra Erin: It's not a creature of eldritch realms at all, Gallifreya, you know that much.
[10:28:51 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Dunbar, you know the beast: a cockatrice. One bite is enough to petrify a living being.)
[10:28:55 PM] Toben: (I should know better than to roll. Taking 10, ftw.)
[10:29:21 PM] Alexandra Erin: "The beast!" the magician screams. "The beast is loose, you've doomed us all!"
[10:29:23 PM] Alexandra Erin: He turns to run.
[10:29:32 PM] Dunbar: "Carrog, get away from that thing! Now!"
[10:29:36 PM] Alexandra Erin: Going to turn based.
[10:29:48 PM] Alexandra Erin: Carrog, what do you do? (Dunbar is next)
[10:30:19 PM] Carrog: Given he's got no idea what's going on, he'll frown at the strange chicken thing as he stands up, looking over at Dunbar, "Eh?"
[10:30:39 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Done?)
[10:30:44 PM] Carrog: (Yes)
[10:30:55 PM] Alexandra Erin: Dunbar. (Toben is next)
[10:31:25 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Everybody except Carrog is at far range from the beast. You can get a good shot at it with a move action to reposition.)
[10:31:57 PM] Specter: "Your majesty, I have need of your service," Spectre says to no one in particular.
[10:32:39 PM] Optima Brand: "It's a chicken. A really ugly chicken."
[10:33:35 PM] Specter: "Pardon. I meant no offence."
[10:34:09 PM] Dunbar: *Dunbar nocks an arrow, moves to get a clearer shot, and fires at the cockatrice (spider spirits, 14 vs AC, 16 damage if hit)
[10:34:42 PM] Alexandra Erin: The thing is small and nimble, it moves aside with a twitching hop. (miss)
[10:34:56 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Toben.)
[10:35:26 PM] Dunbar: "Oh, poison sumac!":P
[10:35:52 PM] Toben: Toben slams the butt of his staff into the ground. A clap of thunder crashes around the beast, but has no affect. (Stormwalk 4 vs Fort Q_Q )
[10:35:58 PM] Specter: "Now is not the time," Spectre continues.
[10:37:20 PM] Toben: (done)
[10:37:28 PM] Specter: "Yes- I thought his performance was very good."
[10:38:05 PM] Alexandra Erin: The deadly cock-beast is rattled by the unkind attention and in a hopping, fluttery flight it exits the stage, moving away from you and towards the children doing the ribbon-dance, several of whom have let their streamers fall and drawn closer to see what's going on. (Cockatrice is now far from Carrog and farther from everyone else, ~15 squares)
[10:38:30 PM] Optima Brand: (( "deadly cock-beast" ))
[10:38:38 PM] Toben: ^_^
[10:38:50 PM] Alexandra Erin: A particularly feckless child wanders right up to it and holds out his hand as if to pet, then shrieks as he's bit.
[10:39:00 PM] Alexandra Erin: (Optima's turn)
[10:41:00 PM] Optima Brand: Optima pulls her longsword, holds it over her head, and charges at the beast. (move action, action point-> move action, charge.) (19 vs ac, wait 20 due to charge, and 9 points of damage if that hits.) "Die, fowl mockery!"
[10:41:21 PM] Optima Brand: (And the critter is marked. Done. ))
[10:41:30 PM] Alexandra Erin: The cockatrice is hit, marked, and jumps with a squawk.
[10:41:45 PM] Alexandra Erin: The child's complexion is rapidly graying.
[10:42:17 PM] Optima Brand: "This is why you should never take children for granite."
[10:42:35 PM] Harlan: ((*applauds*))
[10:42:41 PM] Toben: *Toben facepalms*
[10:42:51 PM] Lady Scarlet: ((and i thought my puns were awful))
[10:42:57 PM] Specter: (ouch)
[10:43:41 PM] Alexandra Erin: Before anybody else can react, the bizare claw-like mouth of the dimensional marauder bursts out of side of a tent near the fray. Spotting the bleeding and hopping morsel, it snaps its triangular jaw at the cockatrice and, while on a dead run, swallows the monster cock.
[10:44:03 PM] Optima Brand: (( "swallows the monster cock" ))
[10:44:05 PM] Toben: (Player facepalms)
[10:44:18 PM] Janus: (I hope the cock doesn't have a piercing)
[10:44:27 PM] Specter: (groans)
[10:44:35 PM] Alexandra Erin: Without breaking its stride, the dimensional marauder shifts intangible and dives into the ground.
[10:44:58 PM] Specter: "Yes, and as we stood here arguing, a child was bit."
[10:45:07 PM] Optima Brand: "I can't believe I've been cock'-blocked by a dimensional marauder."
[10:45:09 PM] Specter: "I know he is not one of your subjects!"
[10:45:11 PM] Gallifreya: Moving after the beast as it heads away "Dunbar was that thing a cockatrice?" Gallifreya asks pointimg the strange wand in her hand at the Maruder.
[10:45:30 PM] Harlan: ((Can we heal NPCs?))
[10:45:51 PM] Specter: (warlocks sure can't)
[10:46:05 PM] Dunbar: "Yes it was. That child needs help, now, before she turns to stone."
[10:46:12 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Yes. However, you are seconds too late: the child is stone.))
[10:46:30 PM] Optima Brand: (( If we can't, then I know a good place we can fence a statue. 13 Streetwise. ))
[10:47:00 PM] Janus: "This child may still be saved if the feathers of the beast who bit him are found quickly
[10:47:09 PM] Alexandra Erin: As the adrenaline of battle fades, you all realize that the bitten child is completely petrified, a look of terror frozen on his face. The rest of the fair seems to have noticed, too... the crowd is staring at you all.
[10:47:33 PM] Lady Scarlet: At the sight of the child's stone form, Scarlet unleashes a howl of fury that is not unlike a great cat's roar.
[10:48:08 PM] Optima Brand: "... what in the hells?" says Opty, staring at Scarlet. "Am I the only sane one here?"
[10:48:11 PM] Carrog: Carrog blinks at the comment about feathers, then looks down at the destroyed crate- and the destroyed cage that was within it. Feeling a deep, draining dread, he begins to search through it for some bit of fluff left behind by the beast.
[10:48:15 PM] Toben: "The beasts feathers? That means catching the maurader..."
[10:48:24 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya looks around for another living smallish animal like a pig or rabbit
[10:48:27 PM] Alexandra Erin: The magician screams. "What have you done? What have you done? You've ruined my act. I've lost my star for good..."
[10:49:13 PM] Optima Brand: "Don't worry, we'll catch the marauder, and pluck that cock."
[10:49:14 PM] Janus: "Blue woma... Gallifreya can that wand summon the beast back?"
[10:49:44 PM] Gallifreya: "give me a few days to study it and I might be able to tell you"
[10:50:16 PM] Optima Brand: Optima looks around the crowd. "Who does this child belong to?" she says, pointing down at the statue.
[10:50:43 PM] Alexandra Erin: A woman comes running up. "Jared? Jared!" she cries, throwing her arms around the statue.
[10:51:09 PM] Toben: "perhaps if we combine our knowledge, we can shave that down" approches Gallifreya
[10:51:11 PM] Optima Brand: "Yeah, Jared's kinda fucked right now. But don't worry, we'll fix it."
[10:51:26 PM] Alexandra Erin: "What has been done to him?"
[10:51:26 PM] Janus: "Well I doubt I can track it through solid earth, so I'm open to suggestions as to how we find it."
[10:51:43 PM] Specter: "He has been bit by a cockatrice, which was unsafely harboured at this fair."
[10:52:22 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Everything was perfectly safe! I had things under control!" the magician says.
[10:52:30 PM] Gallifreya: "This whole thing makes no sense how could a creature of the nature world be summoned by this item" turns toward the magican " YOU tell me now where did you get this dangerous item." Turning to Janus "It came out when it sensed wounded prey I would say recreate those condactions"
[10:53:08 PM] Dunbar: "Is that the best way to bring it back?"
[10:53:11 PM] Optima Brand: "Maybe if we wounded someone to use as bait..." says Optima, eyes lingering on Lady Scarlet for a moment or two.
[10:53:11 PM] Carrog: At the magician's outburst, Carrog stops. And then he stands up. He stares towards the man with what might be best described as the coldness of stone. And then he strides forward. He does not step- he STRIDES. And with each step, his expression grows more angry, until he is absolutely filled with fury as he reaches the small man and attempts to lift him off the ground with one hand.
[10:53:12 PM] Alexandra Erin: "I told you, it won't do you any good," the magician said. "That's the only one that was left."
[10:53:20 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Freya, if one of us was bleeding, could that attract it again?"
[10:54:00 PM] Optima Brand: Opty chuckles. "Gimme about a week and a half, and I -- wait, I'm oversharing again, aren't I?"
[10:54:49 PM] Gallifreya: "it possiable would it appeared when the cocktrice was wounded it would make sense for it to react the same way"
[10:55:10 PM] Lady Scarlet: "I'd willingly be the bait for the beast if you think my blood could call it to us." Scarlet skins the leather back from her forearm. "Anyone got a dagger?"
[10:55:32 PM] Optima Brand: "I've got an axe..." says the fighter, lifting her battleaxe.
[10:55:35 PM] Toben: "It ate and ran once already. No doubt it would do so again. We need some way to stop it from phasing out again." (arcana 10)
[10:55:44 PM] Dunbar: *looks pointedly at the magician, hand going to his sickle*
[10:56:03 PM] Alexandra Erin: Toben, unfortunately your knowledge of the arcane arts stops short of the dimensions which spawned this beast.
[10:56:04 PM] Harlan: Ooh! In my backpack! *tosses stuff out in search of the dagger*
[10:56:40 PM] Alexandra Erin: The magician shrieks as Carrog hauls him off his feet.
[10:57:01 PM] Gallifreya: Turning to the magaican she pulls a small vial of greenish liqued out of her pocket. " I did not ask if ther ehwere more I asked where you aquired this item tell me or I pour this over you (bluff 18)
[10:57:43 PM] Alexandra Erin: "In the quarry! Behind the old temple!" he says. "There were more, but that... thing... got them. I barely got away with mine."
[10:58:11 PM] Specter: "What do you know of that thing, as you call it?"
[10:58:38 PM] Gallifreya: "Descirbe 'that thing'"
[10:58:53 PM] Carrog: Carrog lifts him up until he's roughly eye level with the much larger goliath, and there's nothing short of a roar coming from the 'thespian.' "YOUR STAR? YOUR JOB? IT WAS SAFE?! You DARED to bring such a CREATURE to a TOWN, AMONG CHILDREN! YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE! I SHOULD TEAR YOUR HEAD FROM YOUR SHOULDERS AS BAIT FOR THAT BEAST!"
[10:59:01 PM] Alexandra Erin: "I don't know! I saw it and thought it would make a good act, but I couldn't catch it... it moved right through my snares. I tracked it to the quarry, and there were these crystals."
[10:59:16 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Everything would have been fine if you hadn't jumped on its cage!" the magician says.
[10:59:19 PM] Optima Brand: "... hey, Rocky is talking like a normal person now."
[10:59:39 PM] Alexandra Erin: "You saw it! The great scaled thing."
[10:59:47 PM] Harlan: *finds the blasted dagger and hands it to Lady Scarlett* If you’d like to be monster bait…
[11:00:05 PM] Gallifreya: "Carrog I understand your angrer but I need him to be able to answer questions"
[11:00:38 PM] Toben: "A man can still talk with no legs."
[11:00:47 PM] Gallifreya: "your saying the creature that ate the other stones was the same thing that ate the cockatrice?"
[11:01:16 PM] Alexandra Erin: The petrified child's mother is starting to wail. More people and more are gathering around. It's mostly a human crowd, with a few halflings and dwarves. They seem like simple farm folk. You all feel badly out of place with your weapons and armor and implements, terribly exposed.
[11:01:20 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Thank you, Harlan. I would rather use myself as bait that sacrifice an innocent, no matter how stupid he is." Scarlet takes the dagger in her right hand. "I'll wait to see if we have another plan, and if not, then I'll draw blood."
[11:01:31 PM] Carrog: Carrog growls and flings the magician back to the ground, standing over him and drawing that sword again. This time, it's worth noting, there's no lack of skill there- he knows perfectly well what he's doing with it by the grip and stance he's using. "If the child cannot be brought back to life, you shall follow him into death."
[11:02:01 PM] Dunbar: "Carrog, bring the magician alive. We're going to this... quarry... You can question him on the way, Gallifreya."
[11:02:02 PM] Alexandra Erin: "You killed the child!" the magician says. "Not I."
[11:02:09 PM] Optima Brand: Optima looks impressed. Why can't Carrog be like this ALL the time?
[11:03:15 PM] Alexandra Erin: The crowd has drawn around you in a tight knot. It seems like the whole festival is watching now. Some of them are armed... mostly with farming implements or lengths of wood.
[11:03:21 PM] Alexandra Erin: But here and there is a sword or axe.
[11:03:36 PM] Alexandra Erin: The magician, noticing the attention, repeats his claim, pointing all around at you.
[11:03:40 PM] Alexandra Erin: "It was them! It was them!"
[11:03:50 PM] Gallifreya: "No wait Everyone please just wait somehting is not right EVERYONE JUST SHUT UP" Gallifreya's voice surpisingly carries wieght as though echoing from a distant point
[11:03:51 PM] Alexandra Erin: "They unleashed the beast, and it killed the precious child!"
...TO BE CONTINUED
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RAAAAR
on 2010-07-30 04:37 am (UTC)no subject
on 2010-07-30 04:00 pm (UTC)I now understand why people play characters that are so close to themselves. As much as I adore Harlan, I really want to sell the little child statue (which would be so un-Harlan).
I don’t know what on earth I was thinking when I said “Then M. Magician, what was your beast doing in the inn?” because… yeah.
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on 2010-07-30 04:54 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-08-01 09:26 pm (UTC)(i say this as someone who DMed an online D&D game for a year and a half, and found it necessary!)
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on 2010-08-01 10:26 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-07-30 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-07-30 08:08 pm (UTC)And then there's the part in my head reminding me that he's not just a Valorous Bard, he's also supposed to be an Inspiring Warlord. It's difficult to inspire your comrades to fight on, or fight harder, when you're just the comic relief. Which is partially why I made a point of the change in his attitude and competency when he confronted the wizard. But I also don't want that to end up being a lightswitch sort of thing or resembling multiple personalities, where it's as if there's two separate characters involved.
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on 2010-08-01 09:25 pm (UTC)