Start of #Dragonstar buffer: Thu Jul 31 20:56:36 2008 [19:43:33] [Last time on Dragonstar, our heroes avoided falling down a pit trap and into a jail cell.] [19:43:45] [We pick up as they walk along the wilderness.] [19:43:47] [Session Star] [19:47:39] * Xivilai walks along in the wilderness. She seems to be enjoying herself although, mercifully, she is silent. [19:48:26] * Jadel stalks through the wilderness. [19:48:35] * Jadel is being very quiet too. Quiet is good. [19:51:53] * On the ground, Jadel spots a little metal tablet. [19:52:59] * Naddross follows along, as well, his rifle shouldered in case they run into anything. [19:54:17] * Hex (Segev_Stor@67-43-246-250-cablemodem-roll.fidnet.com) has joined #DragonStar [19:54:22] * Jadel inspects the tablet. [19:55:02] * Hex looks under Jadel's shoulder. It's a lot like looking over, but for short people. [19:55:22] * Upon flipping it over, Jadel finds a display. It looks like it's a datapad. [19:56:36] * Jadel takes it up and reads it over. [19:58:42] * THe datapad goes out of sleep mode, and the display powers on. On it, he sees a map of the surrounding area, drawing a route to Castellan Keep. [19:59:07] * The route is highlighted up until this valley [19:59:15] * Naddross looks at it, as well. "...Maybe it was the merchants?" He offers. [19:59:54] * Xivilai walks over to the datapad. [19:59:59] Maybe? [20:02:56] * Jadel uploads the information to his datapad. [20:03:54] Do you think he made it there? [20:04:03] Could be. [20:04:10] * Jadel idly sniffs the datapad. [20:07:01] * Hex looks at the datapad again, then at the real world path, reconciling them in his mind, and walks silently off in the proper direction. [20:11:33] * Xivilai calls out. "Heeex, don't go off on your own." [20:13:28] * Hex pauses and looks back questioningly. [20:14:15] * Xivilai beckons. [20:14:41] * Jadel tosses the pad to Xivilai and starts changing shape, eventually becoming a large dog on all fours. He barks then looks back at the rest of the group. "I've picked up the scent." [20:15:02] ... This suddenly explains your taste in drinks. [20:15:23] * Hex walks back over to Jadel. "It's this way," he says, pointing off in the direction he was walking. [20:15:58] * Xivilai immediately finds the games folder and starts playing minesweeper. "Right, let's go. Stay with us, Hex. One bad orc with a magic axe is all it takes to hurt you." [20:17:35] Okay. [20:17:49] * Naddross looks over to Jadel, nodding. "Righto." He says, stretching his shoulder, and would follow Jadel as she sniffs about. [20:18:30] * Jadel follows his nose. After some travel, he finds a box of brightly colored ring-shaped breakfast cereal. [20:19:08] ( srsly? ) [20:19:18] * Hex walks a little ahead of Jadel. If the datapad's projected path matches the scent trail, he's right ahead of the party. [20:19:43] * A qiuck glance at it finds that it was manfuactured off-planet. [20:19:47] * He must be on the trail [20:20:05] * Jadel sneezes at the froot loops. "I hate these things." [20:20:10] * Xivilai inspects the breakfast cereal. What condition is it in? [20:20:13] * Naddross looks at the breakfast ceral. "...Wow. Nice work." He says a bit sarcastically. [20:20:33] Why are there life savers here? [20:20:54] * THe outer box is slightly damp from being outdoors, but not at all decomposed. The inner container, however, is tightly sealed. [20:20:55] Not life savers. Fr00t lupes. [20:21:15] They are delicious and sugary. [20:21:33] * Xivilai takes the plastic inner container and stashes it in her haversack in case she needs a power-up later. [20:21:50] Oh. Why are there fr00t lupes here? *picks up the box and carefully--looks sad when Xivilai takes it from him* [20:22:16] They're manufactured off planet, so yeah, our merchant prolly came through here-- oh, did you want to try them? They are sweet and sugary and loaded with artificial flavor. [20:22:28] * Xivilai says these things in a tone indicating that they are good. [20:22:30] And you're not hoarding them? Amazing. [20:22:46] Actually, hold on a minute, shouldn't you check them for disease first? [20:22:56] You wouldn't want to give the kid fr00t lupus. [20:23:18] "...Can we do that on the move?" [20:23:19] I think he's out of the risk area for most diseases. [20:23:40] * Xivilai squeezes the bag, causing the air sealed inside to move around. "And look, the seal's still airtight." [20:24:54] * Hex holds out a hand, palm up, to Xivilai, as if expecting something. "Please?" [20:25:19] * Xivilai smiles and puts a handful of fr00t lupes into Hex's hand. [20:25:40] Air-tight my ass. I can still smell that. [20:26:25] Fine, fine. Don't eat any then. They're still crispy, they smell right, and I've never been sick anyway. It'd be something new and different. [20:26:49] * Naddross uses SUPER POWERS OF WHATEVERNESS (not really) to say, "Hey, Jadel, you still have a trail, or did it just lead you to the fruit loops, here?" [20:27:25] * He still has a trail [20:28:26] Thanks. *puts one in his mouth, carefully holding the others as he heads back along the trail* [20:28:38] * Xivilai munches on a few. [20:29:03] * They're delicious! [20:30:10] * Hex slowly works through them as he walks, leaving a trail of multicolored circles of not-even-dampened cereal behind him at fairly long intervals. Maybe 100+ feet or so between them. [20:31:42] * Jadel continues down the trail. "Ye- yes, got it, here." [20:31:45] * Jadel runs along. [20:32:35] * Hex follows! He's not as fast. [20:33:13] * Some time later... [20:33:22] * Xivilai follows! [20:35:18] * The terrain grows more rocky, and the scent soon takes Jadel before a cave. [20:35:42] A cave! [20:35:55] How fortuitous. It is known that goblinoids and kobolds often live in caves! [20:35:58] * Hex is out of fr00t lupes. [20:36:14] * Naddross looks at the cave. "Ah, cool. So, go in, kick in doors, kill what's inside, take their treasure, 'n all that?" [20:36:27] * Xivilai looks ot Hex. "Want some more, or you wanna wait until we're done with the dungeon?" [20:38:55] More, please. *holds out hand, offering a small but happy smile* [20:39:25] * Xivilai supplies Hex with his next fix, then puts the sack away so it doesn't get spilled. [20:39:42] * Naddross starts walking into the cave, ready to shoot stuff into itty bitty peices. [20:42:20] * Jadel starts padding into the dungeon. [20:42:28] * Jadel err... cave [20:43:54] * The inside of the cave is nice and cool. However, it doesn't appear to go too deeply into the mountain... [20:44:07] * JAdel follows the sent over to a wall. [20:44:19] * Xivilai starts checking for secret doors. She doesn't seem to be good at it, but she may get lucky. [20:45:22] Is it behind the wall? [20:45:32] "...Huh." [20:46:16] * Naddross looks over the wall for the secret entrance. [20:46:29] * Hex points at the wall at which Jadel has stopped. "Does the scent stop here?" [20:46:37] (There -is- a secret entrance, right?) [20:47:02] * Jadel hmms. "If there isn't, we could try going through." [20:47:20] * After some examination, Naddross discovers a small and perfeclty round indentation in the wlal [20:48:07] * Naddross pokes at the indentation with a pointy stick he picked up in the woods. [20:49:40] * There's a slight beeping sound. [20:50:05] * A large section of the wall slides into the ground, revealing a large smooth metal corridor. [20:50:15] "Sweeeeeeet." [20:50:32] What a fancy goblinoid cave. [20:50:42] * Hex walks down it, leaving fr00t lupes on the floor in his path. [20:50:58] * Naddross gives his rifle a sharp shake, making another mechanical gun sound, and heads into the corridor. [20:53:46] * Xivilai takes out her sharp and pointy pistols and walks merrily into the corridor. [20:56:14] [And so our heroes step into the corridor.] [20:56:17] [Session End] End of #Dragonstar buffer Thu Jul 31 20:56:36 2008