Session Start: Fri Jun 23 18:22:26 2006 Session Ident: #Aeoth [18:22] * Now talking in #Aeoth [18:22] * Demota is now known as Lucy [18:23] * Robin has joined #Aeoth [18:25] * Arwen is now known as Garret [18:45] [Are you ready to rumble?!] [18:45] ( YES! ) [18:46] (YES SIR.) [18:46] (Robin, you are not.) [18:46] [Get your butt in character then, Robin.] [18:46] * Robin is now known as Kardos [19:01] [Whoho! Rock'n'roll time! June 11th, two days after the raid on the caravan and one day after the fighting took place with the orcish shaman. Since then you've met up with Elfy McE- err, I mean Huthar, who assisted in taking out the orc by being a target and going unconcious. Elfs need more HP, really. Regardless, you awake with the sun not in your eyes (stupid trees) and a spring probably not in your step (who's a morning person here?)] [19:04] [The watches you guys set up passed by uneventfully, with the wildlife doing its normal thing and pleasently ignoring you crazy humanoids for the time being. You've had time to prepare your spells and get ready to kick ass, so it's time to go save (or find) what's left of Biggs. And take the orc's phat lewt in the process.] [19:04] [Session start!] [19:05] * Clarissa whistles cheerfully as she pages through her spellbook. [19:06] * Kardos is doing his morning exercises, although he may be more cheerful than normal; it's hard to tell. [19:06] * Garret is sitting on a conveniently shaded log, his hat on top of his propped up staff. He's eating breakfast - rations wrapped in some leaves - and sipping a cup of tea. [19:07] * Clarissa snaps her book closed. "Everybody ready?" [19:07] Mmm hmm. [19:07] * Lucy is finishing up her morning stretches and warmups to prepare for the day. "I'm fine to go whenever you are. [19:08] * Garret chews up the last of his ration and downs the rest of his tea. "I needed that. Barely ate anything yesterday." [19:08] * Kardos flips up. "Quite." [19:09] * Garret stands, brushes himself off, and sets his hat on his head. He grabs hold of his staff. "Huthar?" he calls. [19:09] * Clarissa slips her spellbook back into her pack and quickly summons Starbright. [19:09] * Clarissa reaches up and pats her on the flank. "Feeling better this morning?" [19:10] * Huthar is up and has been scouting around for some of the morning already. "The surroundings are clear, we're free to move on so your Biggs friend isn't kept waiting much longer." [19:10] Good to hear. Let's go, then. [19:10] * Kardos nods. [19:11] * Garret smothers out any remaining fire and starts heading back to the trail. [19:11] It's really a nice day for a walk. [19:11] We can't really afford to walk. [19:12] * Huthar starts leading back to the trail and the fight location, casting a spell of speed on himself (Longstrider). [19:12] If we can finish this quick, we could still take a walk today. [19:12] Well. It is a good day for a run, as well. [19:13] * Kardos hurries after Huthar. [19:13] * Garret did that right before breakfast, so no stupid elf is going to outdistance him like that. [19:13] * Clarissa snorts at the silly elf and trots Starbright along through the forest. [19:14] [It's about an hour before you reach the scene of the Big Fight where the orcs and humans scuffled earlier. The direction you came from is the one with the smaller amount of prints. The path with the huge amount of tracks going south is still there, although a little weathered. You just came from the east.] [19:16] * Garret looks to the ranger. "Do you see any other tracks besides the two obvious sets?" [19:17] * Ruthar shakes his head, taking a close inspection of the ground. "Unless you want to follow an owlbear, no." [19:18] * Garret thinks about that. [19:18] He wasn't an owlbear last I saw him. [19:18] * Garret follows the pile o' tracks. [19:18] I hope not. [19:18] (Huthar.) [19:18] * Huthar follows the pile o'tracks too. [19:18] (Unless this is his evil twin.) [19:18] * Lucy nods, and follows along. [19:18] (Right, Huthar. x.x) [19:19] [Following tracks! Whoho! This is what we went to ranger school for, kids! That's right, tasting guano and smelling dirt.] [19:19] ( Well, all elves do look alike, you know. ) [19:19] [This is true.] [19:19] ( Y'know, like Canadians. ) [19:20] (Those commies across the border!) [19:23] [Going on for another couple hours, it's approaching midday, but still hasn't hit that timeframe yet. I need spot checks from people.] [19:23] [And listen checks.] [19:27] [All of you notice some unnatural rustling and movement ahead of you that just seems to be too common for the wind to cause.] [19:28] * Huthar puts his hand out, motioning for the group to stop, and puts out a splayed hand counting 'five', pointing in one direction, and then points on the other side of the trail and nods. [19:40] * Kardos has quit IRC (Quit: Woo!) [19:46] * Kardos has joined #Aeoth [19:50] * Huthar points forward and nudges Kardos and Lucy to get them to move into the trap to spring it so he can flank some bishes. [19:51] * Kardos shrugs, walks forward, and draws his sword in an obvious 'here I am, all out of bubblegum' sort of way. [19:55] * Lucy draws her greataxe, and rides forward alongside Kardos. [19:58] * Clarissa reins in Starbright, surreptitiously cutting a slit in her left palm. [19:58] * Garret reaches to his symbol with his left hand and murmurs, "Fharl, help me take to the air." He hovers a couple of inches off the ground. [20:01] * A wolf charges out at Kardos as yelling of many orcs can be heard, the wolf trying to take a bite out of Kardos's leg. [20:01] * Clarissa sketches an glowing pentacle in the air with the speed of great practice as a wolf comes barreling out of the woods. Just behind Lucy, some twenty feet off the ground, a large four-winged bird with no legs pops out of a larger pentacle. Almost immediately, it screeches angrily and slams a bolt of lightning off its wings into the wolf. [20:11] * Kardos frowns as the wolf takes a bite out of his leg, but does not fall as the wolf had planned. [20:12] * Kardos pivots and attempts to bring his sword down upon the creature, but the wolf disengages and avoids the blow. [20:12] * Huthar quickly draws his bow as he moves forward, taking a shot at the orc that's advancing at Kardos from behind, taking it out in a single arrow to the head. [20:15] * A pair of arrows flies from the cover to the south, one clinking off of Lucy's armor but the other managing to slip between the plates in the shoulder and making a wound. [20:15] Eugh... [20:16] * Lucy tries to take her mind off the pain and the distance attacks to focus on more immediate, closer threats [20:17] * Lucy swings at the nearby wolf, but aims a bit too high. The axe goes over its head. [20:19] * Lucy 's horse attempts to strike at the wolf, but fails to hit as well [20:20] * An orc steps out from behind the brush onto the road and fires with his bow, missing Kardos wildly. Meanwhile, another orc charges at Lucy, who's falchion chinks off of Lucy's shining armor to no ill effect. [20:24] * Garret jumps to the air and zooms, flying past the melee, his feather waving in the wind. Once safely out there, he yells, "Help us protect your trails! Guide our blows in this battle!" [20:25] * Garret is now known as NotGarret [20:26] * Arwen has joined #aeoth [20:27] * Two orcs charge out and try and smash Lucy, flanking her, while another takes a pop shot at Garret. The arrow, fortunately, goes very wide and lands somewhere out -> there. [20:31] * Clarissa trots Starbright up to just behind Huthar and draws another pentacle in midair. "By right of blood bond with the Celestial Courts, I, summon the Archons to battle!" [20:31] * A tiny speck of light, radiating holy menace, appears in midair, and lashes out with a laser at a wolf, singing its fur. [20:31] * One of the orcs shudders at the summoning, clearly moved. The rest don't seem too bothered by the celestial appearance. [20:32] * Arwen is now known as Garret [20:34] * The wolf that was giving Kardos so much trouble keeps at it, biting at the human elf-friend! [20:37] * Kardos is bitten, again, and takes another swipe at the wolf, once again whiffing royally. [20:39] * Huthar sees Kardos missing horribly and charges in to help him out, stabbing the wolf with his elven whimpblade. [20:40] * The two orc rangers back there who were firing earlier fire at the flying cleric, one of them managing to strike him heavily in the leg. [20:46] * Arwen has joined #aeoth [20:48] * Garret has quit IRC (Ping timeout) [20:50] * Lucy brings her axe to one side, then performs a wild, wild swing. Two orcs happen to be in the way. [20:51] * The orcs don't see what's coming as the axe cleanly chops off their heads in one fell swoop, the heads rolling away as the bodies convulse and fall into bleeding heaps on the ground. [20:52] * Arwen is now known as Garret [20:53] * Garret flies down to hover by Kardos and lays a hand on his shoulder. "Here's a bit of a pick me up." [20:53] * Kardos nods. "Much obliged." [20:56] * One of the orcs misses Garret with his bow wildly as he flies across the landscape, while the second wolf manages to bite nothing but horse barding. The orc flanking Lucy, however, manages to find a weak point in her armor and shove his falchion into it, causing a good amount of blood in her side. [20:59] * The arrowhawk zooms around foliage to hover directly over the head of an archer before zapping the life out of it with a massive bolt of lightning. At the same time, the lantern archon hovers forward and to one side, and lashes out at that damned immortal wolf with two LASERs, managing somehow to miss a massive dog TWICE. [20:59] * Kardos is completely dumbfounded. He doesn't even notice the pain in his leg. [21:04] * The wolf manages to get a bite on Kardos's leg again, shaking wildly as his teeth tear through flesh. He doesn't manage to bring Kardos to the ground, though. [21:05] * Kardos sighs, mutters under his breath, and strikes at the wolf AGAIN, this time with magic making it possible; he bisects the wolf, who probably looks confused. [21:06] * Huthar steps past the wolf that was giving Kardos trouble, lines up behind an orc and quickly slits its throat as it's attention is diverted onto Lucy and her horse. [21:09] * Lucy swings her axe, striking the orc, but narrowly missing the wolf. Her horse attempts to correct that mistake, but fails to hit as well. [21:11] * The orc falls down, a gaping wound where his heart used to be. [21:13] * Garret keeps healing Kardos. "Done getting hit yet?" [21:16] * The remaining wolf misses Lucy wildly. One of the two remaining orcs bolts off in the other direction, running for his very life [21:16] . [21:19] By all that's holy, I certainly hope so. [21:20] * Clarissa kicks Starbright into gear, scrambling past Lucy as the wolf tries to take a bite out of Starbright's flank. Even as that's happening, the angel and the arrowhawk are combining to fry the life out of the wolf, though the thing is tough as nails and refuses to fall. [21:24] * Clarissa rides Starbright into the undergrowth and hurriedly sends a spell zipping after one of the two remaining orcs. [21:26] * Kardos attacks the last wolf with a dramatic flourish of his sword. How he can flourish a sword that big is anyone's guess. [21:27] * Kardos leaves the wolf dead, and leaves fall dramatically around him afterward, as there are no sakura here. [21:29] * One of the orcs ambles through the brush, growling menacingly at the rest of the group, standing between Clarissa and the rest of them. [21:30] Hey, buddy. ease up. they're cool. You're cool. We're all cool, right? [21:31] * The orc doesn't seem to understand Clarissa. [21:31] ...actually, the weather is rather pleasant, here. [21:32] * Clarissa rides up behind the orc and taps him on the shoulder. [21:32] Clarissa, what did you do this time? [21:32] * Garret floats down to the ground. [21:32] * The orc looks at Clarissa quizzingly. [21:32] * Kardos frowns. [21:32] This... is not typical behavior for an orc, is it? [21:32] I opened his eyes to the benefits of friendship, Garret. He was obviously charmed by my radiant beauty and stunning intelligence. [21:33] Apparently he doesn't speak human, though. You know orc, right? [21:33] * Kardos blinks, then nods. "Ah, you cast a spell on him." [21:33] * The orc laughs, instantly having an almost about-face. "You funny. I like. Oh, yes, me speak orc. Speak silly human language too... sorta." [21:34] This is kinda neat. [21:34] Oh, good! [21:34] I do, but... that solved that problem. [21:34] Who friends of cute little girl? [21:34] Garret, Kardos, and Lucy. Oh, and Thundar the barbarian warhorse and Starbright. [21:35] * Kardos frowns. [21:35] You were with those raiders, right? [21:36] * Garret sidewhispers to Kardos, "He's really well-spoken for an orc." [21:37] * Kardos glances at Garret to Garret and back before whispering back, "Oh, is he?" [21:37] * Orc pets Starbright. "Nice horsie. I speak good, other orcs don't like it so they challenge me to fight. I too strong though!" [21:38] * Kardos doesn't respond, although he wants to. [21:40] What's your name? [21:40] * Garret laughs. "Lucky for you." [21:41] Me um... Oh! Khrosk! Means smasher of many things! [21:41] * Khrosk beats his chest boldly. [21:41] * Kardos mutters under his breath, "My, what an efficient language." [21:42] That's a good name, Krosk. [21:42] Now tell me... you were part of that raiding party, right? [21:43] * Khrosk shakes his head rapidly. "Nono, didn't help raid stuff." [21:43] What were you doing all the way out here, then? [21:44] * Lucy stands by, admiring the diplomacy. [21:45] You think Khrosk stupid! Some of tribe go to raid, not whole tribe! That silly. [21:45] * Khrosk bellows a large laugh again. [21:46] Oh. Did a bunch of humans and orcs come by here, oh, a day or so ago? [21:46] * Khrosk thinks hard. "Oh, yes yes! They charge through! Much too fast to stop." [21:47] Could you lead us where they were going? [21:50] * Khrosk shakes his head. "Nono, they no like humies there. They definetly not like you." [21:51] Well, we don't have to go in. We just need to see it. [21:52] Okay, but I not go with. They no like it when others show where they are, and espically don't like visitors. [21:52] They like it when you bring back prisoners, though, right? [21:53] * Khrosk nods. "Oh, yes yes! They like prisoners lots! Where we get some though?" [21:53] Easy. I surrender. Take me where the other humans were taken. [21:53] We'll have to ride fast, though, no time for shackles. [21:54] * Kardos blinks, opens his mouth, closes it, blinks, then smirks faintly. [21:54] I'll even get a horse for you. [21:54] * Khrosk blinks. "No? I take you when you surrender, you get sold! That silly, you don't want that!" [21:54] That's okay, Krosk. I'm sure I'll manage. As long as we get there quick enough. [21:55] * Kardos is turning away to examine tracks when Khrosk says that - he stops suddenly and turns back. [21:55] * Huthar sighs and mutters under his breath in elvish as he continues on without you as you talk to the orc, leaving barely a trace. [21:58] Well, um... I guess. What about Clarissa friends? [21:58] They surrender, too. You'll be the most powerful orc ever. [21:58] Legendary, even. [21:59] * Garret smiles. [22:01] * Khrosk roars. "Khrosk like this idea! Go go!" [22:01] * Clarissa summons Starlight. "Mount up, Krosk. We've got to hurry." [22:01] * Kardos shrugs. He's surrendered, alright. [22:02] * Khrosk mounts the rainbow horsie. "Why is horsie such a girly color?" [22:02] Because I'm a girl, obviously. [22:02] * Clarissa laughs. [22:02] It is bred to be pretty. [22:03] * Khrosk roars and grins. [22:03] * Lucy rides along, smiling a bit. "Looks like a good day." [22:04] * Kardos sweatdrops... and saves it for later use as a spell component. [22:04] * Garret shields his eyes. [22:04] Looking good on that horse, Khrosk. [22:05] Khrosk look good on any horse! [22:05] ( "No! Mongo straight!" ) [22:05] [Session end![ [22:05] ] [22:05] * Clarissa is now known as NinjaDebugger [22:07] Khrosk: A Cooler Ranger Than Huthar. [22:08] Oh hell yes. [22:09] It's too bad we probably can't keep him. [22:09] I wonder how long it'd take to retrain Huthar. [22:09] Oh, well. [22:09] If I just get Kardos Leadership, that'll let us keep him. [22:10] I'll note that I am NOT letting people take the feat leadership. [22:12] We like pets! [22:12] Not even if they have a negative charisma mod? ;P [22:12] Maybe someone could buy him as a mount. :( [22:14] ...don't joke about that. [22:15] One of the first characters made for Living Greyhawk was a master/blaster pair. A half orc paladin and a halfling paladin. The halfling rode the half orc. [22:15] ooh [22:19] * NinjaDebugger is now known as SleepDebugger [22:19] o_o Session Close: Fri Jun 23 22:24:10 2006