Session Start: Fri Feb 16 17:50:25 2007 Session Ident: #Aeoth [17:50:25] * Now talking in #Aeoth [17:51:11] * NinjaDebugger is now known as Clarissa [17:53:07] * Robin (YU-Mei@host-206-54-194-142.entouch.net) has joined #Aeoth [17:53:16] * Robin is now known as Kardos [18:02:01] * Hank (chamelaeon@ip68-229-190-130.om.om.cox.net) Quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [18:02:02] * Hank (chamelaeon@ip68-229-190-130.om.om.cox.net) has joined #aeoth [18:02:20] * CCD is now known as Leo [18:02:29] * Zegon cracks his knuckles. Hokay. [18:13:26] [Last time on Aeoth, they finally made their way to the village of the Wild Elves, with the aid of Spring Rabbit, and met Unicorn Flower. Eventually it came to meeting Big Bird to help your cause as well as, for... uh... there wasn't any other real reason given. When you got to Big Bird's treestumphut, you encountered another group of adventurers whom some of the players recognized, in particular one paladin of Heironeous.] [18:15:01] [But your characters don't know that! Anyways, the date is still August 20th, 1221 ECE, and fortunately no hyperactive red furry creatures with high-pitched voices have popped out of nowhere to tell you to share or be nice or some other childhood lesson.] [18:17:10] [* Big Bird regards you as you all sit down and nods. "You all have very much you are looking for, even if you don't realize it yet." There is a moderately sized fire set in front of you in a pit, as you take 6 of the 20-some odd seats around the first row of the fire.] [18:17:15] [Session start!] [18:18:05] * Kardos looks thoughtful for a moment and then nods. [18:18:26] ...I'm pretty sure I don't have any fey with me. [18:18:33] ...though I could be wrong. [18:18:43] * Lucy sits down. She looks comfortable and willing to listen. [18:18:47] * Hank sits down. "Not unless they're hiding in some gold." [18:19:04] I believe he meant that there is much we are seeking that has yet to be found by us. [18:19:09] * Leo shrugs and sits being quiet still. [18:20:46] Riiiiiiight. [18:21:58] * Hank shrugs. "Lot of many things I haven't found yet." [18:22:56] * Big Bird suddenly laughs screechingly and loudly, possibly catching you off-guard. "I see a lack of faith between you. Could it be fear? Or maybe something more... primal. It isn't unusual for those of your profession to be distrustful, but it can cause you to fail when you would otherwise succeed. No matter, what have you come here for? I am surprised by all the visits, it has put me in a busy state." [18:23:25] I'm just following the others. Just going around to see the world. [18:23:40] You certainly didn't come to hear the ramblings of an old man about your shortcomings. [18:25:17] That better not be a short joke. [18:25:45] Down, Clarissa. He's just bein' old. [18:25:55] Hm. [18:26:29] The fey have set us some tasks to gain entrance to their court. One of them involves proving ourselves to you. [18:26:59] * Kardos looks at Clarissa and Hank in confusion. [18:27:06] That's the first step. The rest are kinda... vague and possibly upleasant. [18:30:49] * Leo (CCDWork@69.150.84.193) Quit (Ping timeout) [18:31:04] The fey? It has been long since I've sent someone past me to seek their council, but if that's what you seek I can test you. If you would follow me, as soon as you are seated in the other room I can begin the ritual. [18:31:26] * Big Bird motions off to another room to the side, a smaller meditation chamber you'd guess. [18:31:44] * Lucy follows along. "Sure. What's this ritual involve?" [18:32:46] All will become clear when I begin. [18:33:14] * Kardos stands and follows. [18:34:10] * Big Bird enters the other room and motions at the simple straw matts, one in the room for each of you. [18:34:20] * Lucy has a seat. [18:35:02] * As you enter, he begins lighting some incense and burning some scented oil while chanting. While very strong, the pungent odors aren't overwhelming. [18:36:02] * Kardos has a seat on a straw mat. [18:37:37] * Clarissa frowns as she enters, counts the mats, and chooses one for herself. [18:40:07] * Hank follows! [18:41:47] * Khrosk clunks in and sits down too. He's fairly oblivious to the whole ordeal, but is ready to smash stuff. [18:45:09] [Big Bird begins chanting, the smoke starting to swirl around he room, making it difficult to see anything as he continues. In one moment you're here, and in the next moment as it clears you're each at your own individual crossroads designed after your own idea and mind. The rest will be carried out in /msg, so please pay attention.] [19:12:01] [Session on hold.] [19:12:11] * Zegon (zegond@c-24-15-245-98.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has left #aeoth [19:26:35] * Leo (CCDWork@69.150.84.193) has joined #aeoth [19:35:28] * Zegon (zegond@c-24-15-245-98.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has joined #Aeoth [19:35:28] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Zegon [19:39:00] [Resuming Session] [19:51:56] [As you progress down your respective paths, there's an engulfing white light that overcomes each of you. Momentarily drifting in an abyss, you're drawn to a location in the heart of a populated city that's on the verge of destruction. An overview as you have sees that most of the buildings are on fire, and the former runic walls signify this as Oriel in a state of siege.] [19:54:48] [Warships are raining cannon fodder as an army stationed in the north is running through the streets. Each of you has a front-row seat as the eyes set upon Leo, who is battling an elven cleric in straight-on combat. With a chanted spell that she didn't see coming, Leo covers her in flame as she falls to her knees, offering the hilt of her sword to him in surrender.] [19:57:04] [Calling upon what he thinks he knows of this cleric, he believes she has committed countless atrocities, including killing the innocent for her own gain, starting this battle, and decieving him about something... very important.] [19:57:16] [What it is, he can't recall.] [19:59:40] * Leo frowns heavily taking the sword. He struggles a moment and turns away keeping her sword. She surrendered and he wasn't going to kill her himself with the surrender. [20:02:38] * She bows her head as the flames die out, taking his hand and kissing it when he grabs the sword. At this point the vision goes to bright white, then comes upon Clarissa standing in a circle, surrounded by smoke.] [20:05:30] [Accross the way from Clarissa is a young man, slightly older than her, with the emblem of crossed swords with a red dragon battling a snake, surrounded in flames. He's dressed similarly to her, and two creatures are between them fighting: a Hell Hound battling a Shadow Mastiff for supremacy. With a swift bite, the Shadow Mastiff rips out the throat of the Hell Hound, causing it to vanish as the Mastiff starts to stalk torwards Clarissa.] [20:06:40] * The young boy laughs at Clarissa. "I knew you could do this! You just wasted my time. I can't believe you'd challenge me." [20:07:11] [The swirling fog and blackness surrounds both of you, assuring that nobody can interfere.] [20:07:14] (Err, couldn't) [20:07:30] ( could ) [20:07:35] ( and can is correct ) [20:07:52] Wasting time is sub-optimal. I'll beat you. [20:10:00] * The boy snorts. "Sure, sure. Just like your hell hound beat my shadow mastiff. Optimal or not, I'm just plain better." [20:13:14] Then I'll beat you next time. [20:14:01] I look forward to it Clarissa. [20:16:03] [With that, the scene flashes white briefly, and we come upon ACTION HANK! He's currently in the vaults of some tomb or another. There's sand everywhere, and if you didn't know better this was Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it's not. He looks tuckered out as he approaches the object he's been looking for in this god-forsaken place, having passed the guards with a few spells and bypassed the traps easily enough.] [20:18:40] [Just as he's about to reach for it, an Illumian (Humans with words around their head) slips out of the shadows behind the item and grabs it. The idol is clearly trapped, and both of you know it too, but as the trap starts bringing the guards in, the Illumian backs up...] [20:19:47] It was really nice for you to guide me here, I couldn't have gotten this without your help. [20:24:26] * Hank backs up slightly. "Hey, that's not precisely sporting." [20:25:16] No, but it is a good way to get what I want. What are you going to do about it, hmm? [20:26:20] * Hank pulls a dagger out of his belt and leaps at the Illumian. "Think I'll follow your lead." [20:29:28] * The Illumian ducks as Hank leaps torwards him, Hank catching the telling features of the Illumian as the view shifts to white again, centering on Kardos, who is high in the mountains battling another human sword user. She's dressed in armor, and with a mighty blow Kardos knocks her off-balance, opening an opportunity to kill her out with one swift strike.] [20:30:58] [Kardos can't remember if she's done anything wrong, if any, although he feels a certain amount of both rage and kinship torwards her. She has done questionable things, but nothing he can remember specifically.] [20:36:25] * Kardos focuses his ki, rotates the grip on his sword, and brings the flat of his sword sharply against the woman. As she falls, he accelerates, catching her; she has lost, but she will not die this day. [20:37:27] [Getting knocked off, she instinctively reaches up for something to grab and gets Kardos's hand, blushing at the gesture.] [20:38:16] * Kardos hauls the woman back onto steady ground. It takes him a while to realize why she's blushing, but once he does he quickly follows suit. [20:40:37] * As Kardos gets a better view of her, the scene flashes white to Lucy whom appears to be in a body-building contest of some type, herself and a VERY LARGE half-orc being the finalists. She remembers the half-orc doing a few underhanded things previously in the competetion, but has no evidence nor is there any way in the rules for her to prove he's cheating.] [20:42:12] [The only way she could prove he was cheating would get her disqualified, and basically ruin the competetion for years to come. But if she doesn't, there stands a very likely chance she'll lose to a cheater.] [20:45:38] * Lucy frowns. Then shrugs. The competition will recover. Lancing a boil's always unpleasant and painful, but it's so much better in the long run. [20:47:32] * Lucy approaches a judge, and begins a polite but sternly concerned-sounding discussion. [20:48:38] * The judge's eyes go wide and he starts bringing other judges over, discussing among themselves when a noble also overhears and gets ready to place a blow to the sport that it won't ever quite recover from... [20:50:36] [The scene flashes white once more as you find Khrosk at sea on a boat at storm. The waves crash against the ship as one goes over and takes someone with it; after thinking about it you know it's someone of authority to the crew, but has also been openly disgruntled and planning something mean.] [20:52:22] * Khrosk runs to the side of the ship and looks ready to jump in to save the man, but turns his back a moment later to tell the captain of the 'terrible' news. You get a sense of forboding as one of the gnomes on board has a gleam in his eye when Khrosk is wandering to the Captain...] [20:53:17] [And finally, the scene fades to a solid black, and each of you can suddenly feel yourselves breathing again, and Big Bird smiling as he looks on to you when you open your eyes.] [20:54:30] Man, what a jerk. [20:56:18] Interesting, yes... It's not what you do when people are watching, but what you do when they aren't that shows who you truly are. When handed victory or defeat, how you take it shows how strong you truly are. [20:57:17] * Kardos looks like he's commiting that to memory. [20:58:17] * Leo looks up at Big Bird, half confused. [20:59:20] * Clarissa just watches the elf. [21:02:40] By finding your way to our village and deciding to listen to a crazy old man like myself and do what I say, you have my, and therefore the people of this village's, permission to traverse our lands to find what you seek. [21:03:10] Works for me. [21:03:11] * Lucy nods. "Thanks." [21:03:13] * Clarissa stands up. [21:03:28] Let's get moving. [21:03:40] * Khrosk stands up and stretches. [21:03:43] * Lucy gets up, stretches a bit. [21:04:07] * Kardos stands up, bows to the crazy old elf, and walks out. [21:04:10] Thank you. *Slowly stands up bowing his head.* [21:04:13] * Hank gets up, and shakes a little. Then leaves./ [21:04:30] * Lucy starts to move out. [21:04:57] * Big Bird laughs. "Now, if you are done taking up the floor space, I have a young elf to tell of her father to. So shoo shoo!" [21:05:11] * Clarissa heads out. [21:05:46] * Clarissa looks up at Hank as she walks out. "Did that make any sense at all?" [21:07:53] No. Not really. [21:08:02] I didn't think so. [21:08:18] * Clarissa mounts up and makes ready to leave. [21:08:29] * Clarissa makes like a tree and LEAVES, bitches. [21:10:21] [And away from CRAZY SHAMAN DOOD people go. Uh... not too surprisingy. He was pretty creepy and crazy.] [21:10:50] * Lucy liked him. D: [21:11:01] [Lucy likes anybody who gets her high.] [21:12:04] * Clarissa is now known as NinjaDebugger [21:12:17] [Session End! Next session: Finding dragons! Or something.] [21:12:47] * Leo is now known as CCD [21:35:46] * NinjaDebugger (NinjaDebug@ip24-252-56-222.om.om.cox.net) has left #Aeoth [21:37:19] * Hank (chamelaeon@ip68-229-190-130.om.om.cox.net) Quit (Quit: ) [21:37:52] * Disconnected Session Close: Fri Feb 16 21:37:52 2007