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Rathess

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• Zenleigha: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SCENE WIBBLE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
• Endless Chase: When last we left our fearless heroes...
• Story Teller: Endless Chase had been struck down by the mysterious man, and Maylin rushes to his side. Meanwhile, deep in the vast city complex beneath Rathess, Zen, Ruby, and Pathian follow Sth*ismach through the Underways
• Pathian: (we were?)
• Pathian: (i thought we were still in that room)
• Story Teller: ((yes))
• Story Teller: ((No, you are leaving the room as we speak
• Pathian: (ok)
• Zenleigha: ((to go with the DK))
• Zenleigha: (( i thought))
• Story Teller: The man takes a step back as Maylin rushes over, allowing her to get close to EC
• Pathian: (yeah, but i thought that we hadnt actually left... but anyways id makes about 30 seconds of difference so im not going to bitch:-P)
• Maylin: *looks up at the man in bronze (Wise Eyed Courtier)*
• Endless Chase: *Endless Chase snarls*
• Endless Chase: (Heals a single health level, back to -2 penalty)
• Story Teller: The man smiles."The little beast can sting, but its bark is worse than its bite."
• Zenleigha: ((ooooo slamed you....))
• Zenleigha: ((sorry... too much comedy central...))
• Endless Chase: Endless Chase spins his eight limbed body, remaining on his back but now with his head facing Filial Wisdom. Pushing with all eight legs, he slides not to, but under the goliath of a Solar,
• Endless Chase: and with all the might he has in his right arm, he thrusts himself upward, his left arm twisting wildly as he uses the Ferocious Biting Sword technique, slamming Silver Fang into not the man's body, but into his wrists and fingers,
• Endless Chase:, trying desperately to take that horrid weapon out of his opponent's grip, giving himself a slight edge in this obviously uphill battle.
• Maylin : *shrieks and throws herself to side* STOP IT! DAMN YOU JAKARI!
• Zenleigha ((ummm what happened to what May was doing??)
• Endless Chase: May was trying to do something while we were still in combat
• Story Teller: ((Give it a roll, jo))
• Endless Chase: Stunt dice?
• Dancing Ruby Wings: [well, everyone but you assumed the combat was over]
• Endless Chase: I tried really hard on that one
• Story Teller: ((1))
• Story Teller: no...
• Story Teller:((2))
• Zenleigha: ((hmm or everyone but him and brian))
• Story Teller: ((unless anyone thinks it should be three?))
• Pathian : (im ok by 3)
• Zenleigha: ((i think you should've listened to rach when she used *wise-eye before giving him stunt dice))
• Zenleigha: ((or are we going to ignore her??)
• Maylin: ((may's being ignored by now))
• Endless Chase: She's trying to do stuff in combat))
• Zenleigha: ((evidently))
• Zenleigha: ((the combat had come to a pause))
• Story Teller: ((Jilli: Private windows are a GM's best friend))
• Pathian: (i think that she reacted to what was happening by throwing *herself to the side)
• Maylin: ((keep playing, this is what I expected))
• Endless Chase: ((Rolling 23 dice, difficulty base of three for disarming, using FBS, no split on actions))
• Endless Chase: ((8 Extra successes, 11 total on disarm attempt))
• Endless Chase: ((WAIT!!!
• Endless Chase: ((Channels Valor for further 4 dice))
• Story Teller: okay
• Endless Chase: ((One more success))
• Pathian: (didnt you already do that in this combat?)
• Pathian: (last session)
• Maylin: ((no he didn't))
• Zenleigha: ((i don't think he did))
• Endless Chase: ((You can do it as many times as you have dots in the virtue))
• Pathian: (im pretty sure he did)
• Endless Chase: ((Per story))
• Zenleigha: ((ah))
• Pathian: (oh ok)
• Endless Chase: ((So I can still do it 2 more times))
• Endless Chase: ((So 9 extras, need double to defend))
• Pathian: (whats a "story" multiple scenes, or the entire game?)
• Story Teller: The man doesn't move as you slide toward him, nor does he move as you begin striking. But by the time you reach his arm, he is simply...not there
• Zenleigha: ((i'm assuming scenes))
• Endless Chase: ((Damn SSE))
• Endless Chase: ((I'm boned))
• Story Teller: You hear a moment's barking laugh, and have enough time to see the flash of gold in the sunlight as that sword comes back towards you
• Maylin: *looks around her, close to panic now* Endless Chase please...just stop this..
• Endless Chase: ((A Story is a part of the whole campaign, like all of our time in Rathess is one story))
• Pathian: (ok)
• Endless Chase: ((EC dies, right?))
• Endless Chase: ((I didn't split, so I have no defense))
• Story Teller: What's your soak?
• Endless Chase: ((12))
• Story Teller: And you have a stamina of ten...
• Endless Chase: And thirteen dice to resist the Agg))
• Story Teller: The sword slams down on your spine, sending a tremendous CRACK resounding through the air and slamming you down into pain-filled darkness
• Story Teller: ((roll))
• Endless Chase: ((I hate you all :-P))
• Dancing Ruby Wings: [its your fault lol]
• Zenleigha: ((thats the only time you've actually said that))
• Endless Chase: ((7 Sux))
• Zenleigha: ((you know May could've intervined))
• Story Teller: ((no agg, just lethal))
• Dancing Ruby Wings: [yeah right]
• Endless Chase: ((How Much?))
• Zenleigha: ((well, tried))
• Maylin: *screams at seeing the sword hit him in the spine*
• Story Teller: The man takes another step back. "You may wish to see to your friend."
• Story Teller: ((7))
• Zenleigha: ((thank the GODS Zen can heal))
• Endless Chase: ((Currently at -5, regaining one every 2 seconds))
• Endless Chase: ((*3 seconds))
• Maylin: *runs to EC again, kneeling by him* please just stop, let me talk to him, please Endless Chase, trust me
• Zenleigha: ((well then hope he's not up for more))
• Pathian: (does lunar healing cover spinal cord damage?)
• Endless Chase: ((IT can regenerate lost limbs, Greens :-P))
• Zenleigha: ((good question))
• Story Teller: "Talk?" He lowers his gore-stained blade and rests his hands on it, the light of a sunburst blazing on his forehead. "Well, what would you say?"
• Endless Chase: ((According to GCG, the game developer))
• Pathian: (just checking)
• Endless Chase: ((So yes, it heals everything save Agg))
• Endless Chase: ((Which means I have just over a day of real healing to go through...))'
• Maylin: *looks at the man* I explained why we were here, my lord.
• Pathian: (dont lost limbs count as agg?)
• Maylin: *stands, but keeps herself between EC and the man*
• Endless Chase: ((Not in Exalted))
• Pathian: (ok)
• Story Teller: ((He didn't technically lose any limbs...and yes, they do. According to the Solar Healing Charm descriptions))
• Endless Chase: ((Agg in exalted is just magical damage that has to be healed normally))
• Story Teller: "And I explained why I would prefer that you leave."
• Endless Chase: ((GCG said that Lunar healing charms will regenerate lost limbs, so those at least heal like lethal in that case))
• Maylin: *nods* and his condition we can't now. SO it seems we must come to a compromise
• Endless Chase: *18 seconds afer he fallsm he begins to stand, well kneel*
• Story Teller: He gestures to Endless Chase. "I would not attack you, if I can avoid it, but he..." He smiles. "He was asking for death. He is foolhardy, little bird. You should keep a shorter leash on him."
• Maylin: I don't keep him on any leash
• Endless Chase: I wear...no man's...leash...
• Story Teller: *as EC stands* "You take your blows well, little beast. Back for more, or are you convinced?"
• Maylin: But I regret the trouble he has caused. Is there--*realizes no one is listening and wants to cry*
• Endless Chase: I will break before I bend. I will not leave Rathess.
• Endless Chase: Though I will not stand in a fight that I cannot win.
• Story Teller: "...anything you can do? I cannot think of anything." He pauses as EC speaks. "Perhaps you can convince your friend not to throw away his life."
• Maylin: *rolls her eyes* the gods themselves couldn't do that
• Endless Chase: *Spends 3 periferal and turns into a strix, flies up in circles for a moment, then leaves them there*
• Story Teller: Meanwhile, Sth*ismach leads you through the tunnels. A ball of coruscating fire circles slowly around his head, providing light in the utter darkness of the Underways
• Maylin: *watches him and sighs in relief* I suppose asking for forgiveness is out of the question, isn't it?
• Story Teller: The man watches the other leave for a moment...then turns back. "Forgiveness for what? You haven't done anything to me yet."
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *sighs* I wanted to be done with this place....and I'm back the next day...
• Zenleigha: *blinks as she looks around, taking in the details as to not get lost if they have to make their way back alone*
• Zenleigha: Well, Ruby, at least we're going someplace new
• Maylin: I never intended to do anything to you, we came to seek allies. Rathess was also the agreed meeting place for another of our companions.
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *chuckles* It's not new to me.....and it all looks the same...
• Story Teller: The Underways curve in sinuous S shapes through the earth. There is no grass in these tunnels...the air is foul and smells of stale water and mold
• Maylin: you understand why we hesitate to leave then, don't you? *pauses* please, you know who I am, but I have no idea who you are. WOuld you be so kind?
• Zenleigha: *smiles as she readjusts the sling and child*
• Story Teller: "My name is Filial Wisdom."
• Maylin: *bows* my lord Filial Wisdom, I am honored.
• Story Teller: "I understand, but I am afraid it makes little difference to me. If a man trespasses in another's yard, does it matter if his companions are coming as well?"
• Maylin : I understand your anger, but I assure you we did not mean to trespass. As I said, we've been looking for the leader of Rathess and that seems to be you.
• Zenleigha: ((too bad you're lacking those seduction charms rachie...))
• Story Teller: He nods. "I am ruler of what is left, yes."
• Maylin: ((they wouldn't help right now, jillie....))
• Zenleigha: ((hehe just teasin'))
• Story Teller: ((well, now they might))
• Maylin: ((can I just roll to see if I can seduce him on my own?!))
• Story Teller: ((It'd be Charisma/Manipulation + Presence, depending on exactly what you say to him))
• Maylin: ((both rolls are the same))
• Story Teller: *sounds of water dripping, hissing, and so on in the Underways*
• Story Teller: ((what do you say, then?))
• Zenleigha: About how far is it Sith ?
• Maylin: Then perhaps there is some kind of arrangment we can make, just to allow us to gather our other companions, it would only be a few days at the most...
• Endless Chase: **Endless Chase fleis back to the tower that is crushed at the top, and flies in, the intent to search the place thoroughly now that he has no other plans.*
• Endless Chase: *Chopping at the evil vines of doom*
• Story Teller: "It is...a ways, Sthen-dono." He walks a little further before saying. "Quite a ways."
• Story Teller: "An arrangement? What kind of arrangement are you suggestion?"
• Story Teller: *suggesting
• Zenleigha: *she nods, bobbing her head silently*
• Story Teller: HACK HACK HACK goes Silver Fang.
• Endless Chase: ((Go poison to the evil plants of doom))
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *yawns as she walks*
• Maylin: something that will be mutually beneficial to both of us, of course. I need a few days to be sure all the members of my team are safe, now why don't you tell me what you need...?
• Maylin: *her fingers toy gently with a blonde curl as she looks up at him*
• Zenleigha: ((*blinks innocently*))
• Story Teller: He thinks a moment, staring off into the distance.
• Zenleigha: ((*flutter flutter flutter*))
• Maylin: ((insert 70's porn music here))
• Zenleigha (10:29:35 PM): ((LOL))
• Dancing Ruby Wings: [*sweatdrop*]
• Story Teller: Sth*ismach pauses in one of the octagonal rooms, then abruptly makes a right down one of the ramps
• Story Teller: ((NOSEBLEED!))
• Zenleigha: (( and she called ZEN the slut... hehe ))
• Zenleigha: *turns suddenly*
• Zenleigha: *following*
• Zenleigha: ((oh no!))
• Maylin: ((hey, *Maylin is a corporate slut...there's a difference.))
• Zenleigha: ((lol))
• Zenleigha: ((zen still has only had sex with two guys. you'll beat her with three after this))
• Zenleigha: ((and i liked the story))
• Zenleigha: ((by the way))
• Maylin: ((this will be her fourth, actually, remember the hunter in stonewall?))
• Story Teller: "And what guarantee do I have that I would find your offer worthwhile, *Maylin?"
• Zenleigha: (( OH yeah))
• Zenleigha: ((and May wins the prize))
• Maylin: *smiles knowingly* I never make a deal that I don't intend on makeing worthwhile, my lord...
• Endless Chase: *After a while of searching and tasting, he leaves, nothing special found*
• Story Teller: Sth*ismach walks straight over to the crystal wall panel and draws a complex glyph on it ((think Maya writing here)). The glyph glows a moment, then fades. A few seconds later, the tunnel is suddenly filled by a round car
• Story Teller: Taking up all the space that isn't part of the platform
• Dancing Ruby Wings: See Zen...this is what i rode in last time
• Story Teller: The doors in the car open, and Sth*ismach gestures to them. "This will make the journey shorter."
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *slides in*
• Pathian: (subway?)
• Pathian: *gets in*
• Zenleigha: Neat
• Zenleigha: *follows*
• Zenleigha: *Eyes wide in wonder*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: ....get ready for a ride.....try not to hurl
• Zenleigha: *holds onto something* all.. alright
• Story Teller: Filial Wisdom laughs. "No one else has tried that, I will admit. You do not need to follow through, unless you truly wish to--I am not that sort of man. You may stay for the time, if you promise you will leave soon afterwards."
• Endless Chase: *Endless Chase flies up to where the crystal hovercars are, and the Gold and Moonsilver Eagle*
• Story Teller: ((on top of the east tower))
• Story Teller: And the car goes WOOOOOOSH!!!!!
• Story Teller: ....and a scant twenty seconds later, there you are
• Zenleigha: *Braces herself*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *fixes her hair* That wasnt quite as bad the second time around...
• Story Teller: The doors open
• Endless Chase: ((Oh, EC brings one of the little animals he found, a lizard of some sort))
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *hops out*
• Zenleigha: *steps out slowly.....VERY carefully*
• Pathian: *gets out*
• Zenleigha: woah
• Zenleigha: fast
• Zenleigha: i want to ride it again!
• Maylin: *shakes her head* I intend on following my promises
• Zenleigha: *Stands up perkily*
• Story Teller: Sth*ismach steps out. "Follow me."
• Story Teller: He begins walking up the ramp
• Zenleigha: ((so she's given an out and she goes the way of the slut anyway?))
• Zenleigha: *follows*
• Endless Chase: Relzya, I have come to speak, if you would share words.
• Zenleigha: ((ahh i love this game))
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *follows*
• Story Teller: Filial Wisdom smiles. "If you are sure, though the decor is..." he gestures. "Less than romantic."
• Pathian: (relzya?)
• Maylin: ((not following through with her promises is bad for business...besides now she'll have have something to hold over EC's head))
• Zenleigha: ((hehe))
• Story Teller: *in EC's mind* "Speak."
• Endless Chase: ((The little god protecting the hovercars))
• Endless Chase: I have questions, and if you would answer them I will share my meal with you.
• Pathian: (when did you learn his name?)
• Endless Chase: ((I asked him))
• Maylin: *smiles* my home was a village in the trees, my lord...
• Endless Chase: ((:-P))
• Pathian: (when?)
• Story Teller: "That paltry thing?" Laughter echoes in your mind. "That is almost an insult."
• Endless Chase: *Burns a mote of essence to make anima glow*
• Zenleigha: ((in the jungle, the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight))
• Story Teller: "And I was raised in the sands of the desert," Filial Wisdom says. He gestures towards an open doorway leading into a nearly intact building. "After you, *Maylin."
• Endless Chase: But the dessert to the meal is what is more interesting.
• Maylin: *goes in*I see...
• Story Teller: "I know who you are."
• Story Teller: And *Maylin and Filial Wisdom fade to black...
• Endless Chase: You said you knew who I was. Tell me what you know of Sun's Setting.
• Story Teller: "He was Dancing Ruby Phoenix's mate. He has been gone for a long, long time."
• Maylin: *sighs and sits outside the door, giving himself a bath as he waits*
• Endless Chase: IS thta the best you can do, spirit?
• Story Teller: "For one as disrespectful as you? You're lucky I do that much."
• Endless Chase: I should show you that much respect? I come here looking, and the first sounds I hear are threats.
• Maylin: ((omg, if only *Maylin could have heard that))
• Zenleigha: ((lol))
• Story Teller: Sth*ismach leads you into an elevator and, as soon as you are all in, places his foot on the raised pattern in the floor. He cuts off the voice just as it begins, and as his toes click in the pattern, the elevator begins to rise
• Pathian: (:-P)
• Zenleigha: *follow follow follow*
• Story Teller: "Is it my fault that you are ignorant? I am not your keeper."
• Dancing Ruby Wings: Phew, finally getting out of the crazy catacombs....its stuffy down there *wrinkles her nose*
• Pathian: where are we off to now?
• Story Teller: Elevator: whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
• Zenleigha: Who knows
• Zenleigha: Rathess is huge
• Story Teller: "My home."
• Zenleigha: *smiles*
• Endless Chase: We worship the spirits of my home land as they wish, Ralzya. We do it because they return the worship with gifts.
• Zenleigha: what is it called, your home?
• Endless Chase: *He smirks* Enjoy watching the same crystal balls for another age, spirit. I hope you enjoy your solitude. *Eats the whole lizard as he walks to the edge of the tower*
• Zenleigha: we didn't have a name for our villiage... it was too small
• Story Teller: You hear faint laughter in your mind as you leave.
• Endless Chase: *Jumps off the tower, turning into a bird a third of the way down*
• Story Teller : "It is simply... mnasth*ac."
• Story Teller : "Home."
• Zenleigha: Ah
• Zenleigha: *smiles, not going to attempt the pronounciation*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *smiles* ...home...
• Zenleigha: *sighs*
• Zenleigha: *mumbles to herself about no one having one any more*
• Pathian: im looking forward to going home again
• Zenleigha: *huses herself*
• Pathian: i miss the trees
• Zenleigha: *hushes
• Zenleigha: Yeah, i do to
• Pathian: (and i want my frikken hearthstone;-))
• Story Teller: ((hehe))
• Zenleigha: ((lol))
• Story Teller: "There are plenty of trees here."
• Pathian: ha ha ha
• Story Teller: Elevator: whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...CLICK!
• Story Teller: *whoosh*
• Pathian : these trees are nothing compaired to home
• Story Teller: The hallway beyond is filled with Dragon Kings. Lounging around, sitting and talking in their hissing language, making weapons...there must be two dozen of them. All of them turn to look as the doors open
• Story Teller: When they see that you are with Sth*ismach, they grab their weapons.
• Pathian: *readys dawn and dusk*
• Story Teller: Sth*ismach: "M*!"
• Pathian: ambush!!
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *she cringes, fighting the urge to draw her weapon*
• Zenleigha: *Blink*
• Story Teller: The Dragon Kings look at Sth*ismach strangely, then lower their weapons. One comes up to it and starts talking in their language far too fast for you to follow
• Pathian: *drops into a crouch*
• Zenleigha: lower your weapons Paethion
• Pathian: ...
• Zenleigha: they were just defending their home... it's like back in the village
• Pathian: not just yet
• Endless Chase: *After an hour of regaining his essence in mild meditation, EC begins to walk the streets, trying to find his way to the others as best his direction sense tells him.*
• Zenleigha: if someone that you didn't trust walked up you would've had your darts ready
• Story Teller: Sth*ismach turns around. "I have told them how you have saved me. The Elders wish to speak to you."
• Zenleigha: *smiles* we would be honored
• Pathian: *relaxes *
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *grin* wonderful
• Zenleigha: *now speaking in old realm again*
• Zenleigha: *bows*
• Story Teller: EC: You can feel the pull from inside the Eastern Tower
• Endless Chase: ...
• Maylin: *picks up his head as she exits the building again "Aren't you missing someone?"*
• Maylin: *looks at Sayjin and rolls her eyes* be useful, see if you can use scent to find Endless Chase, huh?
• Story Teller: Sth*ismach: "Follow me, please."
• Zenleigha: *bows again and follows*
• Maylin: ((sorry, the second one wasn't supposed to be underlined))
• Endless Chase: ((Not easy to follow the scent of someone that flies as his primary mode of single travel ))
• Story Teller: Filial Wisdom steps out of the building as well, looking up at the sky. "I appreciate that, Maylin-san." He pauses, and smiles. "Thank you."
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *follows closely*
• Maylin: *smiles to him* my pleasure, my lord.
• Pathian: *follows werrily*
• Story Teller: ((and oh, there was pleasure))
• Dancing Ruby Wings: [hehe]
• Pathian: (that was quick  :-P)
• Zenleigha: ((=-O))
• Maylin: ((G'AH! ))
• Maylin: (*Maylin does good work...))
• Story Teller: ((well, it took an hour. See Scott's post? You were in the Underways a while))
• Pathian: ( :-P)
• Endless Chase: *Flies off towards the odd thing that he can make out from the air*
• Endless Chase: ssscccccrrrreeeeeee (Bird language for "The hell is that thing?")
• Maylin: *"You've got to be kidding, you want me to find him? I'm not a dog...you could at least say please"*
• Story Teller: Sth*ismach leads you through a few empty rooms to another room where four Dragon Kings lounge in a half circle. They start up for a moment, until Sth*ismach begins speaking quickly in them.
• Pathian: (thats got to hurt :-P)
• Zenleigha: *stops at the door, bowing deeply*
• Story Teller: When you get closer, you still can't tell exactly what it is...it's almost like the balloons of some of the stranger forest creatures, but made of metal
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *peers into room, looking around*
• Maylin: *narrows her eyes at the sight of the strix* wait that's him...
• Pathian: (how does one go about "talking in" someone else?)
• Endless Chase: *Lands, changes back to human form, and begins searching the area for anything of interest*
• Story Teller : *to them
• Zenleigha: ((LOL))
• Pathian: (yeah i know just being an ass ;-)
• Zenleigha: *stays bowed until addressed*
• Story Teller: The surface is cracked in many places, but none of them are very large. A few inches wide at most
• Maylin: *looks to Filial*if you want to come with, well, it is your kingdom *sees the bird land*
• Story Teller: Elder DK: "We thank you for saving our companions, friends." The accent is very thick, but it is possible to understand. Barely
• Endless Chase: *Positions himslef very carefully above one such crack*
• Dancing Ruby Wing: *old realm* It was our pleasure...
• Story Teller: "And what do you plan to do with your time?" Filial Wisdom asks?
• Zenleigha: We are honored, my lords
• Endless Chase: *And spends three motes to turn into a jellyfish, trying to guide himself through one such crack as he falls*
• Zenleigha: to be able to serve one of your kind
• Zenleigha: *stands again*
• Maylin: wait...you've already said you will not join in the battle between Lookshy and Thorns and there's only one or two *chooses her word carefully* positions I could take to convince you otherwise.
• Maylin: so all I can do is try to keep him out of trouble and wait for the others to meet with us here.
• Endless Chase: *And deftly falls into the crack, though how he plans to get back out is beyond him.
• Story Teller: Elder DK: "What brings you to these ruins that even the gods have abandoned?"
• Story Teller: FW: "While your offer is very tempting, Maylin, I cannot leave my city undefended for so long."
• Endless Chase: *Turns back into a human once he's through the crack*
• Endless Chase: *Spends a mote to make his anima flare*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *steps forward* I....had dreams of a life I spent here....my curiousity got the best of me, and my companions decided to come along...
• Maylin: *nods* I understand that. And I understand your hesitance to send any other form of aid.
• Story Teller: The inside of the thing is a mass of tangled vines, some of which move fitfully. A thousand thousand sounds of the jungle surround you. Frogs, snakes, insects, birds...
• Endless Chase: ((What niftyness do I see inside the thing?))
• Zenleigha: And so we did, as we would not leave her side, for we owe her much *smiles to Ruby* as friends
• Story Teller: Only a little light comes through the nearly opaque surface, which seems to be glass
• Pathian: ??
• Pathian: (opaque surface of what?)
• Endless Chase: *Begins to cut his way through, similar to in the eastern tower, letting his anima make enough light to see by(As per the above statement)*
• Story Teller : Elder DK: "I wish we knew more about our ancestors' city...but we know very little. We-" A snarling snapping sound from upstairs interrupts him, dying down after a moment into a yelp.
• Story Teller : "There is little enough that I can send all that way and still have enough to defend my city."
• Zenleigha: *looks upward*
• Story Teller: Sth*ismach hisses.
• Pathian: (hello)
• Story Teller: ((That was for Scott))
• Maylin: *bows* I thank you for at least listening
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *she cringes* You don't think...
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *glances up*
• Pathian: (there is an opaque surface?)
• Zenleigha: That doesn't sound well...
• Story Teller: Elder DK: "Are you...oh, that is simply the young. They are restless."
• Story Teller: ((By SCOTT, there is an opaque surface))
• Pathian: (ok)
• Endless Chase: *Drinks the blood of a ball python, gaining its shape, intentionally so that he may escape from this place when he wishes it*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *nods* I see...
• Story Teller: Elder DK: "Are your own young not so before they come into their minds?"
• Endless Chase: *Always staying to the right, he moves on to seach more of the crashed monstrocity that thins thing is*
• Story Teller: The Elder looks curiously at Ember and Onyx.
• Zenleigha: *Smiles as she looks down at her child* well, yess
• Maylin: If you would excuse me, he will want to tell me how wrong I was get in the way
• Zenleigha: restless is the word i suppose
• Story Teller: And a monstrocity it is indeed. It is huge, very dimly lit, and absolutely FULL of life. You can't clear it out--it would take DAYS to kill everything
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *chuckles* They're just....very tired at the moment...
• Story Teller: You also find some sort of panel next to what looks like a door
• Pathian: (where exactly IS scott?)
• Endless Chase: ((He doesn't kill what he doesn't have to to keep searching, wellm unless it's an animal shape that he could find useful that he doesn't have))
• Endless Chase: *inspects the panel*
• Pathian: (last i heard he was looking for us... and then there were these metal spheres?)
• Pathian: (baloons)
• Story Teller: The Elder blinks rapidly a few times, then flicks his tongue out through his teeth. He speaks for a moment to Sth*ismach, who clacks his teeth and leaves.
• Story Teller: Then he turns to the other DK's and begins to speak with them as well
• Story Teller: Filial Wisdom: "Announce yourself at the central pyramid if you wish to speak with me again. I will tell my servants to watch out for you."
• Story Teller: Scott: The panel emits a click, and the doors--ever so slowly--begin to grind open
• Endless Chase: ((If it looks like it's halfway stuck I help it open, putting some muscle into it))
• Maylin: *bows again* yes my lord. *heads off the direction she last saw EC in*
• Story Teller:Doors:Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgumblegumblewhirrrcomplainwhirrrclick!
• Endless Chase: *Grunts*
• Story Teller: The Elder DK turns back to you. "Have you found what you sought?"
• Zenleigha: *looks to Ruby*
• Endless Chase: *looks into the open doorway* (any weird vegitation in here, or was it pretty well sealed?)
• Story Teller: ((The open doorway leads outside))
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *runs a hand through her hair* I've found scattered memories.....I didnt know what I was looking for in the first place but....I'm happy with what I have found here.
• Endless Chase: ((Aha.))
• Endless Chase: *EC turns back and continues to search the inside of this thing*
• Story Teller : DK: "Memories?" It flicks its tongue. "Tell us, please. We have lost so much, and it is so hard to regain it..."
• Story Teller: *Maylin jogs across the city towards the place the strix landed
• Maylin: *moves around the tower, looking for an entrance* he had to get in somehow...
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *she nods* I can try.....In the first age, my name was Dancing Ruby Pheonix.....I lived here, my office is on the eight level of the catacombs.
• Endless Chase: ((It's not a tower))
• Story Teller: ((It's a big, eliptical balloon looking thing, except made of metal. There are two conspicuously open doors in its side))
• Maylin: ((sorry...insert proper description here))
• Endless Chase: ((Heh))
• Story Teller: ((You do, indeed, find such an entrace. And don't panic...I gave him the description in private window))
• Dancing Ruby Wings: I found scattered papers which I could not read, a few books, ancient keys, and a stone that used to belong to me......also a tapestry of my companions, whom fought by my side such a long time ago...
• Maylin: *her hand on the hilt of her dirk she enters the opened doors*
• Story Teller: Elder DK: "May we see them?"
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *nods, pulling the items from her bag one by one and laying them out before the Dragon Kings*
• Story Teller: ((for the inside, see my previous description))
• Endless Chase: *EC gets frustrated with the slowness of his search, and uses Finding the Spirit's Shape to take the form of his totem, hoping the eight limps are better equipped for traversing this place*
• Endless Chase: *Heads towards the center of this...place*
• Maylin: oh eww...Endless Chase! *flinches at the echo of her own voice*
• Story Teller: As you explore, you hear *Maylin's voice echoing through the thing
• Endless Chase: ...
• Story Teller: The DK looks at each of the objects in turn, touching the crystals. When he sees the tyrant lizard crystal, he picks it up and looks at it.
• Endless Chase: *Moves to where he thinks her voice is coming from, though he circles around her*
• Story Teller: Elder DK: "This is not merely a locking crystal. Do you know what it does?"
• Endless Chase: **And approaches, in spider form, from behind*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *she shakes her heads* I do not recall such details...
• Maylin: *is moving carefully, looking carefully from side to side*
• Story Teller: The Elder contentrates a moment, then the crystal glows and he and the other elders are suddenly surrounded by a shimmering dome of light
• Zenleigha: *blink*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: whoa....
• Maylin: *stops moving and sighs* oh come on, Endless Chase, please answer me.
• Story Teller: There is no answer to your reply. You can see some vines obviously cut through, however, and the edges are singed
• Maylin: *"Why do you even try?"*
• Maylin: *follows the path of cut vines*
• Story Teller: The dome collapses, and the Elder reappears. He flicks his tongue in and out several times. "Powerful sorcery, this. Now beyond our ability..."
• Story Teller: "So much is lost. Even we will soon be gone."
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *she frowns sadly* is there anything we can do?
• Maylin: *jumps at the feeling of being tapped on the shoulder, drawing her dirk as she turns*
• Zenleigha: *wrinkles her brow*
• Endless Chase: *Finishes spinning downward, and uses Finding the SPirit's Shape to turn Human again.
• Maylin: *sighs in relief and sheaths the dirk* there you are. All healed?
• Endless Chase: You should learn to see and hear better before you go wandering into the unknown, Maylin.
• Endless Chase: More or less.
• Story Teller: ((he still has a nasty gash on his side. The wound is slightly..black))
• Endless Chase: *Rubs the blackened cut on his shoulder*
• Endless Chase: ((Ok then, side it is))
• Maylin: Don't lecture me. You should be thanking me, actually. Because of me we can stay here until Alaethis arrives.
• Endless Chase: I can stay here as long as I desire, *Maylin.
• Endless Chase: And that has nothing to do with you.
• Maylin: no, you can't, because this is someone elses territory
• Story Teller: The Elder looks at you. "We are too few, and the dangers are too many. The Goblin King, the foul beasts in the Underways, the Mad Ones, the Leech things..."
• Maylin: You are a piece of work you know that? He could have just killed me when you left and you probably wouldn't care.
• Endless Chase: No, not really.
• Story Teller: "We will pass on, and when the last one of us falls in battle, there will pass the last of the Dragon Kings."
• Endless Chase: Perhaps a bit.
• Endless Chase: But only because your death would sadden the others.
• Endless Chase: And if you feel so inclined as to follow me here, I would appreciate silence.
• Maylin: *stares at him, obviously wounded at his words* I doubt you noticed...but I did try to save you.
• Endless Chase: *Turns back into a spider and climbs back up his thread, resuming his explorations*
• Zenleigha: *furrows her brow deeper*
• Zenleigha: If we can help it, that will not come to pass
• Maylin: *sighs* no...no I didn't think you'd care. *tries to follow him*
• Story Teller: Following him is hard work...the vines bar your way, and he slips by many of them like a...spider
• Story Teller: Elder: "What would you do to aid us? Our enemies are legion, and we are few."
• Zenleigha: *sets her mouth firmly*
• Zenleigha: A few can beat a legion, but battle is not always the solution
• Maylin: *"I really don't know why you try, Maylin. You're too different from them now. It really is depressing watching you get so upset. It's a pointless venture to try and stay with them, Endless Chase doesn't trust you
• Story Teller: "The Mad Ones cannot be reasoned with, the Goblin King will not listen to us, the Leech things catch us and sacrifice us to their foul gods..."
• Maylin: Zen is probably livid at you for leaving her behind and who knows how badly you scared those kids with your story. Now look at what you've gone and done, made yourself low to keep them up. When will you learn?"*
• Story Teller: "We can occasionally capture a Mad One and bring him to his mind. Nar*ith was once such." Another of the Elders nods his head, but says nothing
• Maylin: *bites her lip and follows Endless Chase, trying ignore Sayjin's lecture to her*
• Endless Chase: *Stops every little while, making it seem as though he is looking around, though he is really waiting for her to catch up*
• Zenleigha: *nods*
• Zenleigha: A task worth aiding with is never an easy one
• Zenleigha: it may take years, but i promise i shall attempt to aid you in any way i can
• Story Teller: "But it takes many, many turnings of the sun, and more of us die than we can save. We are no more than three score now."
• Zenleigha: *nods*
• Story Teller: In the depths of the ship, you find a room filled with bizarre, ancient machinary. In the middle are three chambers, cracked, from which an eldritch glow spills out of
• Story Teller: The hair on the back of your necks tingles
• Endless Chase: *Changes back to human, spending his last personal mote*
• Endless Chase: *EC places his hand against a crack, feeling if the light burns or hurts in any way
• Story Teller: After hacking her way through a few more vines, Maylin catches up with EC
• Maylin: *sighs and blinks at the sight* what-*stops, remembering his request for silence*
• Zenleigha: I want to thank you all for your hospitality
• Story Teller: The light merely...tingles. It is the same sensation as you felt in Pathian's place of power, though to a much, much lesser extent.
• Zenleigha: you have been kind to us
• Endless Chase: *Closes his eyes and concentrates,trying to feel if there is ambient essence here*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *nods in agreement*
• Story Teller: Elder: "No, it is you we must thank. You saved one of our tribe when no other would. We are in your debt."
• Zenleigha: *nods, blushing* it was nothing that i wouldn't do for anyone. thanks is not needed
• Endless Chase: *EC kneels, seeing if he is able to attune himself to this essence, as how Alaethis told him durring his tutoring*
• Zenleigha: i was glad to be of help
• Maylin: *stays back, letting him work and trying to be as respectful as she can be*
• Endless Chase: *EC rises, and begins to try to pry the middle doors open*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *she collects her things, placing them back in the bag*
• Story Teller: Elder: "Even so." It pauses. "You said you would help us?"
• Zenleigha: *nods*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *nods* Of course, in any way we can.
• Maylin: *goes to help him even thought she can't do much*
• Endless Chase: ((I was mistaken about the scene. There are no doors*
• Story Teller: "If you would give us back our city...bring back the glories our ancestors had...we would be forever in your debt, strangers."
• Zenleigha: We will certainly try *Smiles*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: It is a monumental task....but we will try....
• Dancing Ruby Wings: I do have one question...
• Story Teller: The Elder flicks his tongue in and out
• Endless Chase: *Searches around the chamber, looking for anything else interesting, checking out the glowyness as well*
• Maylin: *Stays out of his way and silent*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: In my tomb to the east....I found one of your kind, encased in a type of glass- is that how your kind were buried? Do you have any idea why they would put one of your kind in my tomb?
• Story Teller : Scott and Rachael: There is a lot in this room that you don't understand, but none of it is immediately useful
• Story Teller: Elder: "Glass? No...we place our dead on high, that the birds might carry them back to the sun from which we come."
• Endless Chase: *Tries to beat the damn thing open, fists first, then the daiklave if that doesn;t work*
• Maylin: *Endless Chase perhaps--*stops herself again and looks down*
• Endless Chase: *Shakes his fist*
• Endless Chase: Damn, that thing is strong...
• Story Teller: His attack didn't even dent it
• Endless Chase: There has to be more to this thing than jungle and a single room.
• Dancing Ruby Wings: Perhaps he's asleep? *feels kind of silly saying that* Maybe there's a way to free him...
• Maylin: *begins to look for a way out of the room other than the way they came* can you sense which way the others are?
• Zenleigha: Possibly.... *thinks*
• Endless Chase: *mumbles*maybe I should light the damn jungle part on fire and let it burn itself up...
• Story Teller: The Elder makes a complicated motion with its claws. "We have not found anything like that in our explorations. I am sorry."
• Maylin: not everything requires brute strength, as hard as that is to imagine.
• Zenleigha: Well, if we're going to help you first you need to tell us what exactly it is we're up against
• Endless Chase: No, but it often brings a simple solution to a complecated problem.
• Maylin: simple solutions aren't always the right ones.
• Story Teller: "I imagine you have met the mad ones?"
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *nods* A few times....they are mindless
• Endless Chase: It's only a solution when it works.
• Zenleigha: *nods*
• Story Teller: "They outnumber us greatly, and they attack anything they think would be good to eat. If captured, they can be brought to their minds, but it takes many cycles of the seasons."
• Maylin: We must have taken a wrong turn back there*stops* sorry, You must have been distracted by me...
• Zenleigha: *nods*
• Endless Chase: I'm going to search this place some more. I do not plan to wait this time. I will be coming back to this room before I leave this...thing.
• Endless Chase: *Turns back into a spider*
• Maylin: I suppose you want me to stay and wait then?
• Endless Chase: *Spider shrug*
• Endless Chase: *EC moves out into the more opem area and begins to cover the rest of the ship in a grid search pattern*
• Maylin: I'd rather stay with you...I'm worthless in the wild like this...but I understand if you want me to leave
• Endless Chase: *shrugs again*
• Maylin: *follows him*
• Story Teller: You find several small rooms, and some large ones. It is hard to tell the divisions due to the plant life. There is even a room on the very top with more strange machinery
• Endless Chase: *Fiddles with anything that looks remotely control like*
• Maylin: *"It's embaressing to be associated with you now, Maylin. Look at you, cowering from him! Pathetic."*
• Story Teller: "The Ghoul King is our greatest enemy...he serves one of the ancient gods from Before. He wishes to rule this city...the goblins serve him, as do some of the Wyld Ones and things from Outside."
• Story Teller: Your fiddling does no good
• Endless Chase: ((awwa))
• Dancing Ruby Wings: What does this Ghoul King look like?
• Maylin: ((he wears bronze armor....))
• Zenleigha: *listens intently*
• Story Teller: "He is tall, as your people go. He has skin like obsidian, and long...hair. He wears golden armor, and carries an enormous sword."
• Dancing Ruby Wings: an....enormous sword?
• Story Teller: "Like to the one you carry, but even larger."
• Zenleigha: *Blink*
• Maylin: *stays back and out of his way, double checking the panels he fiddles with to see if she can get it to work*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *turns to Zen* Doesn't sound good...
• Endless Chase: *Changes back to human at some random point later*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: He's probably a Solar....and much older than us
• Zenleigha: *nods*
• Endless Chase: It is almost impossible to search this place with all the...life...in it.
• Zenleigha : that's what it sounds like
• Maylin: is that's what's distracting your pack senses?
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *sighs, closing her eyes for a moment to concentrate, before opening them again* We need to find May and EC....they need to know about this
• Zenleigha: Yes
• Endless Chase: My pack senses?
• Zenleigha: and who knows where they have gotten off to
• Endless Chase: What are you talking about.
• Endless Chase: I'm not searching for the others.
• Maylin: yes, that little gift you have of knowing where they are or if they're alive
• Maylin: well why ever not?
• Story Teller: The Elder turns, speaking speaking to the others
• Endless Chase: They're that way *Points to where they are*
• Story Teller: *rapidly speaking
• Story Teller: Maylin presses a random switch, and the walls rumble a bit before sliding up, revealing transparent glass
• Endless Chase: ...
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *tries to stress the importance in her mind that she needs to see EC and May*
• Endless Chase: What in the ashes? What did you do?
• Maylin: *looks at him, eyes wide* I didn't mean to, I just flipped the switch
• Dancing Ruby Wing: *turns to Zen* Well, they will come looking for us eventually...
• Maylin: *looks at the glass, or through it rather*
• Zenleigha: True
• Zenleigha: *nods*
• Endless Chase: ((What do we see?))
• Story Teller: The Elder turns back to you. "Did you say...Solars?"
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *nods* Yes...
• Dancing Ruby Wings: Like myself...
• Dancing Ruby Wings: And my two companions here
• Zenleigha: *nods, smiling*
• Pathian: yep
• Story Teller: ((You see the outside. It's not that impressive))
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *she spends the motes to make her caste mark glow*
• Zenleigha: *same*
• Zenleigha: *glowy glowy*
• Pathian: *ditto*
• Zenleigha: It's how i was able to heal Sith-san
• Story Teller: The Elder flicks its tongue out rapidly, then kneels, knocking its forehead against the floor. You can hear it muttering something in its own language
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *blinks*
• Zenleigha: *blink*
• Pathian: ehh?
• Maylin: I won't touch anything else...*looks down and steps back, clasping her hands behind her back* I'm sorry again...
• Pathian: *goes over and pulls the elder up*
• Pathian: you need not do that
• Endless Chase: *shrugs*
• Pathian: we are not gods
• Endless Chase: Lets get out of this place.
• Story Teller: Elder: "You are servants of the Sun."
• Pathian: powerfull yes, gods no
• Endless Chase: *Begins to walk out from the place*
• Maylin: *nods*
• Maylin: *follows*
• Zenleigha: *nods* yes, we are so told
• Endless Chase: ((OOC-Honey Combs are the best snacking cereal))
• Pathian: (i like frosted flakes)
• Dancing Ruby Wings: [ooooooooooo]
• Zenleigha: ((i'm a fan of frosted flakes myself))
• Pathian: (or frosted mini wheats)
• Endless Chase: ((Right out of the box? You freaks))
• Pathian: (... your one to talk)
• Endless Chase: ((Honey combs don't make crumbs or leave your fingers sticky.))
• Pathian: (honey combs without milk?)
• Endless Chase: ((Goes back to the game :-)))
• Pathian: (pfffft... trivialties)
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *she turns to the DK* Is there an easy way to the surface of the city from here? There is another of my kind about, as well as a....*thinks of a term they would probably recognize easier*....Chosen of Luna....also our friends.....
• Endless Chase: *Leaves the...ship?...and makes his way back towards where he feels the others lounging at.*
• Story Teller: Elder: "We can open the doors out of the tower from the inside, but the Ghoul King patrols the streets."
• Maylin: *tags along, saying nothing and debating if she should tell him what happened*
• Zenleigha: You mean the goblins?
• Zenleigha: We did take out a legion earlier
• Zenleigha: *smiles*
• Maylin: ((ehem, I took out the legion, thank you))
• Zenleigha: ((yo you're not there)
• Zenleigha: ((and it needs to look like team work))
• Maylin: (give credit....))
• Story Teller: You arrive back at the tower, which is as featureless as ever
• Maylin: ((oh fine)
• Story Teller: Elder: "Thank you again, Chosen of the Sun."
• Zenleigha: *smiles*
• Endless Chase: *Begins to tap on the door with his daiklave, to the tune of a hunter song from the village (Though very inexpertly)*
• Maylin: is that the code?
• Endless Chase: No, it's called "Snare the Tiger"
• Endless Chase: We used to sing it at night on long hunts.
• Zenleigha: ((*sings* in Rathess, mighty rathess Maylin sharpens her knife...))
• Maylin: *laughs* I know the song, I didn't know if you were just tapping it out...or...nevermind, it's stupid
• Maylin: ((shut th hell up))
• Zenleigha: ((what.... is funny...))
• Endless Chase: But as I don't know how to open this door, and they;re inside some how.
• Endless Chase: I know Pathian knows it, maybe he'll recognise it if he hears it.
• Story Teller: Unfortunately, you're far too far up to hear his tapping...
• Maylin: I didn't know if maybe you had figured it out while I was in Heaven...then with Aleathis...
• Zenleigha: ((alas))
• Zenleigha: ((speaking of Alaethis....))
• Story Teller: ((no))
• Maylin: ((it will be days))
• Endless Chase: Heaven? It's real name is Yu Shan, at least in Old Realm.
• Zenleigha: ((aww))
• Maylin: *nods* that's what it said on the entrance
• Endless Chase: I wonder how old that tyrant is. I havn't ever been struck like that.
• Endless Chase: At least I cut him. I felt Silver Fang bite.
• Story Teller: Elder: "Do you wish to leave?"
• Maylin: he's not that bad...
• Pathian: (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!)
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *nods* We need to plan our next move....we need to find our friends
• Pathian: (that was great)
• Story Teller: Elder: "Follow me, then."
• Pathian: (do you wish to leave? *Story Teller has left the room)
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *nods, prepares to follow*
• Endless Chase: I dissagree. That sword left a wound that isn't healing like they normally do for me.
• Endless Chase: Since I was chosen, that's never happened.
• Maylin: perhaps it's a lesson...think before you swing?
• Endless Chase: I fight, *Maylin. I was chosen as Full Moon because that is what I do.
• Endless Chase: And I do it well.
• Maylin: Many great warriors have been great thinkers as well, Endless Chase.
• Endless Chase: He does it better.
• Zenleigha: *follow follow*
• Maylin: Perhaps if you had been more rational, he would have been happy to teach you a few moves...
• Endless Chase: My honor does not let me stand down unless it is hopless.
• Story Teller: The Elder leads you back tot he elevator, takes you downstairs, and presses a few parts of the elaborate mural near the door, which swings open, revealing the VERY surprised faces of EC and *Maylin
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *blinks* hi.
• Endless Chase: ((Not EC. HE could feel them coming ;-)))
• Maylin: *gasps and smiles to them* Ruby! Zen! Pathian!
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *grins* hiya!
• Endless Chase: *Looks quizzically at the Dragon Kings with them*
• Pathian: well that was a quick journey
• Zenleigha: *hugs may*
• Zenleigha: very
• Zenleigha: We've got important news
• Endless Chase: I thought you said they attacked you, Ruby.
• Zenleigha: Not these ones
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *chuckles* These DK's are very nice
• Maylin: *hugs back* I'm sorry...I thought it was smart to send you out of sight...
• Zenleigha: *smiles*
• Zenleigha: Very
• Pathian: what have you been up to?
• Zenleigha: We're fine may
• Endless Chase: *remembers something from a dream*
• Zenleigha: we're in good company
• Endless Chase: *Bows to the Dragon kings, and in old realm...*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: And they told us about the leader of the Goblins, we think he's a solar
• Maylin: *nods* so I see. *scowls as she looks at her* when did you have time for a bath?
• Zenleigha: *Smiles* the grass downstairs is soooo cool!
• Maylin: *stops at Ruby's words* A Solar...really...
• Maylin: *looks to Zen* Grass?
• Zenleigha: YEs
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *nods* They said his sword is even bigger than mine
• Endless Chase: Glory of the Unconquored Sun unto you, friends. I am Endless Chase of the Silver Pact, and I wish you the warmth of the sun in all things you do.*
• Zenleigha: Grass.
• Story Teller: ((And I see your Swartz is as BIG as mine!))
• Pathian: (oy)
• Zenleigha: And yes, we need to find this tyrant and liberate the Dragon Kings
• Zenleigha: before they die out
• Endless Chase: *He rises*
• Maylin: tyrant?
• Dancing Ruby Wings: If he's a solar, maybe we can talk to him
• Endless Chase: I met with this beast that you are talking about.
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *blinks* Really?
• Pathian: then again, maybe he is unworthy
• Zenleigha: I'd rather talk than fight one so old
• Story Teller: The Elder pauses a moment, then bows slightly. "Light shine on you, Chosen of the Moon."
• Maylin: maybe...*flinches as EC speaks*
• Zenleigha: *turns* really?
• Endless Chase: He is a giant of a man, and his sword bites deeper than anything I have felt so far.
• Dancing Ruby Wings: You FOUGHT him?
• Endless Chase: *Points to his wounded side*
• Maylin: fought isn't the word I would use
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *cringes* Why'd you fight him?
• Dancing Ruby Wings: Did he attack you?
• Zenleigha: *gapes* why? he's sooo old!
• Maylin: no
• Story Teller: His wound is, in a word, disgusting
• Endless Chase: I was to know this from looking at him.
• Endless Chase: I could hear dozens of his brats around, and I challenged those who were listning.
• Zenleigha: Let me heal that EC
• Endless Chase: He was as well, and he accepted the challenge after he tried to make me leave Rathess.
• Endless Chase: It does not heal well, Zen.
• Zenleigha: Let me try
• Endless Chase: Even when I am in my strongest form.
• Dancing Ruby Wings: You challenged him?? We're in the middle of nowhere....what good would that do?
• Pathian: (freaky solar healing magic:-P)
• Endless Chase: I had no idea he was there.
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *grimaces at the wound* Apparently, it wasnt a good idea...
• Maylin: *sits on the steps and sighs, her back to everyone else*
• Endless Chase: I thought there were only the lesser beasts near. I had no way of knowing he was there.
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *glances over at May...walks over to her and sits next to her* Hey...you okay?
• Zenleigha: *steps up to him and heals*
• Endless Chase: ((Agg doesn;t heal with magic))
• Zenleigha: ((she's trying))
• Pathian: (yeah but WE dont know that)
• Pathian: (stop metagaming)
• Endless Chase: ((I do. In my beastman form nothing happened to the wound))
• Story Teller: The wound seems to just...absorb the Essence you pour into it
• Zenleigha: *she whispers the chant her mother and her mother's mother knew to heal the worst of wounds*
• Endless Chase: As I said, it is not healing well.
• Maylin: I spoke with this "tyrant" as you call him. His name is Filial Wisdom, he is a Dawn Caste and he has allowed us to stay here until Aleathis gets here. He thinks we're emissaries from Lookshy
• Endless Chase: But it is not that bad.
• Zenleigha: Well at least we're on speaking terms
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *blinks* Dawn Caste....? *grins* Maybe he could teach me some things!
• Endless Chase: And it does look better than half a day ago.
• Zenleigha: That makes the negotiations easier
• Endless Chase: *Pathian, if you would be so kind as to lend me a knife...
• Endless Chase: All I have is silver fang, and it's not a good thing to use for the purpose that I have.
• Maylin: *sighs and rubs her forehead, marking her actions recently under "bad idea" on her internal tally*
• Zenleigha: *grimaces getting an idea of what he means to do*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *grins at May* Cheer up! Everyone's together again and okay....minus one side wound
• Pathian: *a throwing knife flips out of (seemingly) nowhere, and into patian's hand*
• Endless Chase: Thank you.
• Endless Chase: ...
• Pathian: *hands it off*
• Endless Chase: Actually, Zen, you're better at this sort of thing than I am.
• Maylin: *smiles tightly, glancing up at the sky*
• Endless Chase: Cut out the bad flesh, would you?
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *hears EC and grimaces* ......ow.......ew.....
• Zenleigha: *nods, steeling herself*
• Endless Chase: Don't worry about doing too much extra damave.
• Endless Chase: I can heal anything from that blade.
• Dancing Ruby Wings: So tell me about Heaven, May? What's it like?
• Zenleigha: *takes the knife and gingerly makes clean, straight slices around the bad flesh*
• Story Teller: ((MWAHHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!))
• Dancing Ruby Wings: [?]
• Zenleigha: *strips chunks of skin off of him*
• Maylin: *looks at Ruby's armor and hair*tell me where you both got baths and clean armor...
• Story Teller: The Dragon King Elder stands in the shadows of the doorway, listening patiently
• Zenleigha: *cleans each bit of "bad" out *
• Story Teller: And Foam has been gone for some time
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *blinks* Zen told you...There's grass down in the catacombs that cleans stuff
• Endless Chase: Don;t worry about bandages, Zen.
• Endless Chase: I'll close this up on my own.
• Endless Chase: As best I can, at least.
• Zenleigha: Alright... if you're sure
• Endless Chase: I have a feeling the wound isn't going to get much better after this, but here's to hoping.
• Zenleigha: *nods*
• Maylin: ah I see.
• Endless Chase: *Spends five motes of peripheral and changes to beastman, letting the new cuts heal*
• Zenleigha: *wipes her hands on a rag*
• Endless Chase: *Though the old wound remains, though with noticable healthier looking flesh instead*
• Endless Chase: *And spends another mote to change back*
• Story Teller: The cuts heal, slowly, but surely...but not all the way. Incredibly, the poison somehow reminds, and the the healing only heals the healthy flesh that was cut out. The cut remains, though slightly healthier, and is still blackene
• Endless Chase: Damnit.
• Endless Chase: Well, at least it looks better than it did earlier.
• Endless Chase: I'm at least closing up on mu own.
• Maylin: *bites her lip against the comment that enters her mind*
• Zenleigha: *Sighs*
• Maylin: *looks up at the sky again, checking the time of day*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *pokes May* you still didnt tell me about Heaven....is it pretty?
• Story Teller: It is late afternoon
• Endless Chase: *Turns to the Dragon King and speaks of the dream he had in which he say one.*
• Zenleigha: *turns, listening excitedly*
• Endless Chase: *saw
• Maylin: *jumps* sorry, distracted. Where's Foam?
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *shrugs* He didnt come to the hiding place with us
• Endless Chase: In my mind I knew that the language we spoke was called...High-Holy speak, I think.
• Maylin: yes he did...I watched him...*shrugs* he can hold his own I guess.
• Pathian: he was in the room witht the grass
• Zenleigha: Yes, he was with us
• Pathian: i didnt see him after that
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *blinks* Oh yeah....he saw you both naked
• Dancing Ruby Wings: I remember
• Zenleigha: hehe
• Pathian: :-D
• Story Teller: Elder: "Yes...that is what we call our language."
• Maylin: *tells them in detail about Heaven from the masses of fantastic looking people, some not all human looking to the exquisiteness of the food there*
• Endless Chase: And the Dragon King I saw was flying a Crystal Globe, the same as the ones I have seen at the top of this tower.
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *gapes* Wow....I wish i could go....*sighs* But I wouldn't want to run into you know who....
• Maylin: Everything there is controlled by someone named Chejok and the Bronze faction.
• Maylin: Hayako? She seemed very surprised to see me
• Maylin: I can't take you there anyway Ruby, Alaethis forbid it.
• Maylin: forbade*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *ponders for a moment* I dont think I want to see her......I wouldnt know what to say or do
• Zenleigha: *wrinkles her nose* he is not my keeper any more than i am his
• Maylin: I'm worried she would know *slides a thumb across her throat*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *nods* Exactly
• Zenleigha: We can still go May *smiles*
• Maylin: He is trying to look out for us. We should be gratful he is coming at all, he is supposed to be meeting with the other Lunars to dicuss the future
• Dancing Ruby Wings: Zen...Hayako is there....she will probably try to kill me...
• Maylin: she's saying that she and I could
• Zenleigha: *blushes*
• Endless Chase: Hayako, that bitch.
• Endless Chase: She's killed me before.
• Dancing Ruby Wings: Yeah EC, She's killed me before too
• Zenleigha: Be nice. you might've earned it with your bruteness *mutters something about "Violet Beer" *
• Maylin: Zen, I can't go back that yet *smiles* but don't worry, she didn't realize how much of a map she let me see. There are other gates
• Endless Chase: And from what she said in that dre...memory, it sounds like she has been doing it since the life after Sun's Setting.
• Dancing Ruby Wings: It's probably part of her job
• Zenleigha: *pats ruby's shoulder*
• Maylin: You're right, Ruby
• Zenleigha: *nods*
• Endless Chase: A Job that kills people because they exist.
• Story Teller: "I think that Violet Beer joke was quite warranted," says a clear voice from behind you all.
• Endless Chase: Yeah, she's definitly a bitch.
• Zenleigha: *turns*
• Endless Chase: *Turns suddenly*
• Maylin: She is supposed to ensure that things end when they are supposed to--*jumps and looks behind her*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *blinks, turns*
• Story Teller: "And I thank you for your opinion, *Endless Chase," Hayako says with a smile. "It is duly noted."
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *mouth drops open* uh....
• Maylin: *stands slowly* Hayako...hello
• Zenleigha: ((DOOOOOOOOOOOM))
• Dancing Ruby Wings: [AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH]
• Story Teller: "Ruby-chan," she nods. "Good to see you again."
• Zenleigha: *blink*
• Zenleigha: *blink blink*
• Maylin: *approaches Hayako* I did not think you would be coming here
• Story Teller: "You expected me to murder you all, I assume?"
• Pathian: *whips up dawn and dusk into guard position*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *she turns her face away, putting a hand to her face*
• Zenleigha: I've seen you before... you're that woman....
• Zenleigha: *lets her voice trail*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: It's Hayako, Zen...
• Pathian: yes
• Maylin: you sounded like what I told you would keep you busy for a while
• Story Teller: "...who slept with your mate? Yes, I am that woman."
• Endless Chase: *Raises Silver Fang*
• Story Teller: "It did keep me briefly busy, but the paperwork went faster than I anticipated."
• Zenleigha: *blushes*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *she takes a deep breath....her hand reaches for Answerers hilt and she stands to face her, face set in stone*
• Dancing Ruby Wings: W-Why are you here?
• Maylin: now what? *makes a point to ignore the others reaching for weapons*
• Zenleigha: *raises the DK sword stick to rest on her shoulder*
• Story Teller: "You can't do anything without filling out forms in triplicate these days. Disgraceful."
• Endless Chase: I think Ruby has a good point.
• Pathian: get to the point woman
• Maylin: it keeps things in order
• Endless Chase: What are you doing here?
• Pathian: why are you here?
• Maylin: *looks to them* don't be rude!
• Zenleigha: Well, i think we have a right to know May
• Story Teller: "Why am I here?" she smiles. "Put your weapons down. You can't hurt me."
• Endless Chase: Shut up, May
• Pathian: you want ME TO BE KIND TO HER?!?!
• Zenleigha: Not all of us got to go to Heaven
• Endless Chase: *Keeps SF raised in front of him*
• Maylin: and some of us are regretting coming back...*steps away, leaning against the doorframe to watch*
• Endless Chase: Just like an unarmed Gorilla man cannot hurt you?
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *she sighs, releasing her hold on the hilt of her sword, stepping forward, her arms out* Here? happy? Now what do you want?
• Story Teller : "If you insist." She ignores the weapons. She has on only a purple robe that perfectly matches her eyes, and doesn't carry a single weapon.
• Endless Chase: I remember slicing through your wrists, Hayako.
• Pathian: i would rather take my chances back in the labyrenth than trust her... especially after what i have heard
• Story Teller: Hayako smiles. "Your memory is dimmed, He-who-was-Sun's-Setting. A scratch only, easily healed."
• Zenleigha: *wrinkles her brow, putting the sword stick down and stepping forward*
• Story Teller: "And that was long ages ago."
• Zenleigha: What has brought you here?
• Story Teller: "To help you, of course. Why else would I come here?"
• Pathian: help?
• Zenleigha: Why would you help us?
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *she crosses her arms over her chest, staring her down with all the courage she can muster* Why would you help us?
• Maylin: *rolls her eyes* it's obvious isn't it?>
• Pathian: and why should we accept your help?
• Zenleigha: Exactly
• Endless Chase: We don't want your help, Hayako
• Zenleigha: EC, shut up
• Maylin: she's supposed to make sure things end when they are supposed to. The Abyssals are moving too quickly
• Zenleigha: you are no diplomat
• Story Teller: Hayako nods slightly. "I am here because I must be here."
• Dancing Ruby Wings: Fate again, yes?
• Dancing Ruby Wings: Can't you make your own decisions?
• Story Teller: "We all do what we must, Ruby-chan."
• Zenleigha: It wouldn't happen to have anything to do with a certain jade prison would it? *narrowing her eyes*
• Maylin: *sighs and looks at them all* Great merciful...
• Story Teller: Hayako's smile fades slightly. "So, you've heard about that, have you? And I imagine you've been having dreams as well. But do you know what happened then? Do you really understand?"
• Dancing Ruby Wings: We are TRYING to understand...
• Zenleigha: All too well. I am not her.
• Story Teller: "I was there. I saw what the Solars did with my own eyes. Mad gods, drunk with power, who trampled everyone else in their path towards destruction."
• Pathian: we slowly became evil... and then you helped lead a revolt against us
• Story Teller: "Exactly, Zen-chan. You are not her. That is why I am here."
• Pathian: even killed some of us
• Endless Chase: And what of me, Hayako? I heard you say that you had killed me before.
• Endless Chase: Just showed up too late this time?
• Story Teller: "If we had done nothing, you would have destroyed the world."
• Maylin: Hayako, perhaps it would help if there was some kind of promise?
• Dancing Ruby Wings (1:05:22 AM): *she cringes at her words*
• Pathian: *softly* and then again some of us killed each other
• Zenleigha: *turns to Pathian, her eyes wondering what he means*
• Story Teller: "The entire world, [you plural]. Could we stand by and let that happen?"
• Dancing Ruby Wings: I never said we were good people....or that we didnt deserve it...but you must understand our position...
• Zenleigha: ((she hasn't had that dream yet))
• Pathian: (yeah)
• Zenleigha: (( oh but she will ;-) ))
• Story Teller: "I understand perfectly well that you probably think I am a monster. And I tell you that I was, but I did it to save the world."
• Dancing Ruby Wings: I.....know that....althought it is hard to move past.....
• Dancing Ruby Wings: although*
• Maylin: *appraoches the Sidereal* a truce, we do not strike you and we will take what lessons you have brought to us, in return for the promise of our safety
• Maylin: so all of us will be able to sleep better at night
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *she sighs* It doesn't really matter, she could kill us all in an instant....We don't really have a choice.
• Story Teller: "You could ask me to leave."
• Pathian: and would you if we did?
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *looks her in the eyes* Do what you will...
• Maylin: We need your help in Lookshy, you know that as well as I, Hayako
• Maylin: *offers her hand* truce?
• Story Teller: "I would leave, but if I leave now..." She shrugs. "The stars are not kind to you."
• Zenleigha: ((shake the hand. shake the hand. shake the hand.))
• Zenleigha: We can change our fates. It's the beauty of being human
• Story Teller: Hayako pauses a moment, then extends her hand and shakes.
• Zenleigha: the stars, the wise women teach us, are ever changing
• Maylin: *bam!*
• Story Teller: "But the fates of men are constant things. You have seen the stars, Zen-chan, but I have seen the Loom."
• Pathian: (emeril style:-P)
• Maylin: *smiles* wonderful. NOw we can talk like rational people *looks at EC* well, maybe not all of us...
• Zenleigha: *quirks her mouth*
• Story Teller : "Does that satisfy you all?"
• Dancing Ruby Wings: As satisfied as I can be with the situation
• Endless Chase: *silence*
• Zenleigha: *nods*
• Maylin: perhaps I should clarify, I break my word--meaning if any of you attack her--I die a painful death. If she attacks us, she dies a horrible death
• Pathian: *lowers D&D, but still keeps them in his hands*
• Endless Chase: That makes it all the more tempting.
• Maylin: *looks at EC* but I trust all of you.
• Zenleigha: I wasn't planning on killing anyone
• Dancing Ruby Wings: *glares at EC* Dont make this harder than it has to be
• Dancing Ruby Wings: You'll just get us all killed if you do
• Endless Chase: I have no reason to trust this woman.
• Pathian: she still hasnt answered the question of
• Pathian: why she is here
• Dancing Ruby Wings: You don't need to...it doesnt matter if you do
• Maylin: Hayako, this is your stage now.
• Endless Chase: *Narrows eyes*
• Pathian: (how much later are we going to go?)
• Story Teller: ((we're going to stop now ;-)))
• Zenleigha: ((not too much ))
• Zenleigha: ((oh ok))
• Pathian (this would make one of your best cliffhangers to date :-P)

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