Start of #Sharn buffer: Wed Dec 26 21:10:05 2007 [18:29:10] * Loharath (~CHBoucher@dsl2-161.gsinet.net) has joined #Sharn [18:29:22] [The party stumbles through the city, preparing themselves for a second trip into the Cogs to find Aurelis. On the way to meet up with Loharath in Malleon's Gate, Aurora runs into Sev, who hasn't seen the rest of the party in 2 days. She fills him in on the jist of things on the way.] [18:29:30] [Session Start] [18:29:36] * NovaSeaker is now known as Phanos [18:29:55] "Ya mon, dis rahd, it be good for makin me juju lagah." [18:30:34] * Phanos shows Loharath his new magic rod while they wait at the industrial lift for the others. [18:31:16] * Sev rubs his eyes as he stumbles after Aurora. [18:31:35] "Lemme get this straight, Aurelis is finally out of our hair and we're going LOOKING for him? [18:31:36] "* [18:31:52] Right [18:32:03] We dragged him down there, and we're going to drag him out. [18:32:18] He's a bastard, but I don't leave people behind. [18:32:33] And that's a fine rod, Phanos. You should be proud. [18:33:12] "Psh, I didn't drag him anywhere. That I remember anyway. Anyway!" [18:33:35] Bad form to leave someone like that. Comes back to haunt you. [18:33:46] Sometimes literally. [18:34:19] * Mauz looks surprisingly refreshed, given the last bit of trouble. "Yeppa." [18:34:28] [Everyone filters in to the meeting pretty steadily until they are all present. They begin the half-hour decent down the lift tube to the Cogs.] [18:34:28] "If I see any freaky goblins my maul wants to say hi." [18:34:55] "Give em a taste of mah rahd too, mon." [18:35:04] "Your road?" [18:35:37] Rod, I think. We found a bunch of treasure down there [18:35:48] "My rahd." [18:35:50] You make it sound like he ditched us or something. Instead of, y'know, being left for dead. [18:35:53] "Oh yeah? Where's mine?" [18:35:56] * Phanos shakes a rather ornate rod at Sev. [18:36:10] * Sev taps his foot, glancing at Phanos. [18:36:25] "Psh. Too fancy.." [18:36:54] "Whin yo get off ya bum an into dah crazyplace and fight yo own crazypeeps, ya get ya own rahd." [18:37:15] * Mauz raises an eyebrow. "Fancy or not, if it does the job, it's worth having around. Anyway, now that I don't feel like death and despair, I'll try not to be as much of a pansy as I was before." [18:37:25] "I don't need a rod you crazy juju-thrower." [18:37:38] * Sev nods at Mauz. [18:37:44] "Ya mon, much juju." [18:38:11] [Soon conversation gets too hard as the pounding of the underground foundries strangles all other noise.] [18:38:43] [The lift reaches the bottom and dity, beaten, downtrodden foundry workers file out of the large industrial lift and toward their respective jobs.] [18:39:39] * Sev steps off the lift, wiggling a finger in his ear for a moment as he grimaces at the pounding noise. [18:40:03] "WHO REMEMBA DA WAY TO CITY-DEL?!" [18:40:17] * Loharath steps off the lift and ignites his blade, heading towards the Citadel. "I THINK I DO." [18:40:26] "WHO ELSE?" [18:40:50] [Lots of random passerby flinch and rear back from Loharath.] [18:41:18] "WHO CARES?" [18:41:27] * Sev unhitches his maul, trudging after Loharath. [18:41:31] [The party is soon given a wide berth as the day laborers avoid the crazy burning-sword man.] [18:41:44] * Mauz grinds his teeth a little... and just kind of gawks at Loharath for a second before shaking his head. [18:41:55] * Phanos shrugs and follows Loharath. [18:42:01] * Aurora follows along! [18:42:56] * Marianysa tries not to laugh. [18:43:12] * Aurora grins. Half awkward, half genuinely excited. [18:45:14] [The party follows Loharath as he stomps down the crowded, unbearably hot tunnels and over bridges suspended over lava flows. Eventually the air cools but is no less stagnant, and slightly more odiferous. The structures carved into the sides of the tunnels start turning into more residential businesses and even homes.] [18:46:11] * Sev grits his teeth, continuing to walk after Loharath. [18:46:23] * Mauz takes a moment to wipe the sweat from his skull, then goes back to looking slightly gobstopped by crazy sword man. [18:46:25] "I could prolly light a torch just by holding it up in this friggin' place." [18:48:10] [Loharath eventually has to halt as the everburning torches ensconsed in the tunnel walls become further and futher apart, some even stolen, and others actually destroyed. It becomes too dark to progress.] [18:48:49] "Speakin' of which..." [18:48:57] Hmph. [18:49:02] (oh wait) [18:49:10] (Sev's maul constantly glows) [18:49:27] * Sev hefts his maul up, over his head and out in front of him. [18:49:39] My name is Kincade. This maul was my great grandfather's. Let's keep going. [18:50:01] We missed you. [18:50:31] ... heh, more characters. [18:51:01] * Mauz smirks, just a touch. "How long until one of you bursts into song?" [18:51:43] [Sev's maul helps light the way, and the party continues down the tightening tunnels toward the Citadel. They've spent about an hour down in the Cogs when they find an unexpecting dead-end. Boulders and rubble block the passage before them. A cave-in.] [18:51:45] "Stop talking before Phanos gets an idea." [18:52:06] "..So did you guys walk through this somehow I don't know about? Or is this new?" [18:52:15] "Ey, ya neveh even herd mah tribal ballahds." [18:52:31] "Dis be new..." [18:52:49] We didn't go the wrong way...did we? [18:52:57] ... strange. [18:53:02] "I don't recall any other paths. Oh well. [18:53:03] "* [18:53:18] Hmm. [18:53:21] "How ya recall anything ya neveh saw in de first place?" [18:53:23] I'm sure this is the place. [18:53:35] Yeah. What the heck happened here? [18:53:38] "Shuddup Phanos." [18:53:47] * Mauz snerks... then grumps. "Cavein, natch. Wonder if it was intentional or not, though." [18:53:48] "Mebeh we find 'nother way in." [18:53:50] "What happened here? Who knows? I know what's gonna happen." [18:53:52] We find a local and ask if they heard a giant section fo tunnel collapsing, and when. [18:54:00] But first, let's figure out what we can here. [18:54:10] Right, because the locals down here are SO helpful. [18:54:21] "They will be when I punch the smartass out of them." [18:54:35] "Mehbeh not, but dey sure like dem green pickles were dey be." [18:54:45] * Phanos pets his planthounds. [18:55:03] "...What?" [18:55:19] "De pickles. De green ones." [18:55:28] "Nev'eh min." [18:55:28] What he said. [18:55:53] * Sev scratches his head for a moment, shrugging and starting back out the tunnel. [18:55:56] * Mauz idly prods at the stone, looking at it with only a small amount of passing curiousity. Sure, he's indebted, but he's not THAT eager to return. [18:57:49] * Aurora looks around for anything that might help. [18:58:16] Hey, give me the light for just a little longer here. [18:58:35] * Sev grumbles, turning back around and towards Marianysa, holding his maul out. [18:58:42] * Marianysa starts to examine the rubble. [18:58:43] "Ooh, I didn't see those rocks before. Or those, or those." [19:02:00] This is one hell of a cave in. Some of these rocks seem to be from the surface. [19:02:18] ... wow. [19:02:24] * Aurora looks up. [19:02:36] "Din we just go down fo `alf an our?" [19:02:40] It started up there, huh? [19:02:51] "The surface? So what, something fell onto the surface and came all the way down here?" [19:03:55] ... say. [19:04:03] How did we get up to the library? [19:04:11] "Wha?" [19:04:17] "..Wait a minute.." [19:04:26] "...Ya dink we was... shot outta da Cogs?" [19:04:47] Heh. Well, mebbe it collapsed it all. Might be hell to find that guy now. [19:04:48] ...maybe not, but whatever took us out maybe blew this place the hell up when it did. [19:05:13] "We got no scratches on us fo people exploded thru rock an dirt." [19:05:34] "Hm, true." [19:05:35] "If this took you all the way out, there's gotta be a hole that leads all the way back down here." [19:05:48] I wonder if anyone up there noticed. [19:06:17] "We was kinda in a rush to get to ya before ya chahged in `ere by yaself." [19:06:38] * Sev grunts. [19:06:41] "Mebe we shoulda read some info rags." [19:06:45] Dunno. Think we could ask someone if they heard or saw something? [19:06:48] ... that's a good idea, Phanos [19:07:33] "We could ask `round too. Peeps down `ere haf ta be def not to notice dis." [19:07:35] Where's a good spot to find some recent papers? [19:08:06] "...Shahn?" [19:09:27] * Mauz rubs his chin. "Well, I could try to pass through a few dives." He grins for a moment. "Eh, news works, too. Although you get the best gossip straight from people." [19:09:55] "Looks like we're heading back up. Awesome. An hour of my life wasted." [19:09:55] * Sev sighs. [19:10:00] "At least there's actual booze up there." [19:10:57] Well, we found something out, so it wasn't a total waste. [19:11:33] * Sev glares at Loharath. [19:11:42] "I blame this on you, Mr. LETS GO NOW." [19:12:05] I don't recall inviting you. [19:12:06] Booze. I like how you think. [19:12:21] "..Don't make me kick your ass. We're leaving!" [19:12:25] * Sev starts out of the tunnel. [19:12:34] Calm down. [19:12:56] "Me dink da booze be least best ding fo ya, mon." [19:13:19] "Make ya mo crazy den ya ah." [19:13:22] * Loharath also walks out of the tunnel! [19:13:29] Oh, quit bitching. We did all that work while you were busy being hung over. [19:13:30] That, my rustic friend... [19:13:35] * Marianysa follows Loharath. [19:13:40] * Mauz slaps Phanos on the back. "... is exactly the point." [19:14:11] "Yeh, but I be happy crazy. Sev just get angreh crazy." [19:14:21] * Phanos follows. [19:15:35] * Aurora walks out. [19:15:39] "Whatever. You guys still came to me, so don't act like it's so bad." [19:15:41] Well, we learned SOMETHING, at least. [19:15:42] [In front of the group, on the way out, stand an ogre, barrel-thick arms crossed over his chest. He stands hunched over in the corridor, completely blocking the tunnel.] [19:16:07] * Phanos is now known as Ogre [19:17:04] "You the same *punks* who came 'ere da other day. Wavin ya shiny *weapon* `round. Den the tunnels crash. Now ya back. Who do you think you are?" [19:17:16] Legendary. [19:17:22] * Mauz grins all shit-eatin'-like. [19:17:22] Oh, for crying out loud. [19:17:29] "This be *Daask* territory. And I neveh heard of ya." [19:17:37] ... Daask, huh? [19:18:03] WHO DO I THINK I AM? [19:18:09] * Mauz clears his throat. "Okay. Let's assume for a moment I knwo who or what Daask is. Assuming that, how much should I fear and respect this entity or organization?" [19:18:20] "...Who do YOU think you are?" [19:18:24] * Loharath draws his sword. "There's a fearsome power in my blade, ogre. Don't test my courage!" [19:19:09] My question, sir! I'll need but a moment to settle matters in a somewhat less boisterous manner. [19:19:21] We've dealt with Daask before. [19:19:26] Daask? Didn't we kick your ass enough already? [19:19:33] The arena with the slaves? [19:19:35] That was us. [19:19:45] And there were dozens of you. [19:19:47] * Sev grips his maul in both hands, smirking. [19:19:56] You're a big one, aren't you. [19:20:01] (ANyone gonna roll intimidate?) [19:20:40] (Was about to! Just setting things up.) [19:21:54] In any event, I will have you know that I have spent an indeterminate amount of time with my guts hanging out in a location that I'll likely have nightmares about for the rest of my days, and that SOMEHOW managed to top the day I heard something that Should Not Be whisper my name when I was but a wee boy. Now, taking all this into account... [19:22:23] * Mauz sneers. "... I am very, very irritated at the moment. Move." His right hand crackles with vile magics for a second. [19:25:43] * Ogre looks down at Mauz. [19:27:15] "You talk at me like I'm new. You think Daask be stupid enough to send some punk ogre alone against people that bring down da tunnels? I AM GRAGNAR. I AM YOUR DEATH!" [19:27:24] [init] [19:39:01] * Ogre changes topic to 'Init: Loharath Aurora, Phanos, Mauz, Sev, Mari' [19:39:06] [Loharath's Turn] [19:42:55] * Loharath leans forward and charges, concentrating the silver glow into the tip of his blade, and plungles it deep into the ogre's gut, yanking it up and out of its stomach [19:43:14] DO YOU SEE WHO I AM NOW? [19:43:39] * Ogre is now known as Gragnar [19:43:48] "rrrrrRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGH!" [19:44:23] [Aurora's Turn] [19:44:30] ... crazy, but effective. [19:45:28] * Aurora pulls her bow out and fires. She misses. badly. [19:45:45] [Aurora pulls out her bow and fires, but Gragnar's howl of fury startles her. [19:45:45] ] [19:47:07] [Phanos points toward Gragnar and commands his dogs to move into the side alcove, then moves up himself and begins to chant dark syllables.] [19:47:28] [Mauz's Turn] [19:48:53] * Mauz smirks all the while, even as he feeds his way back into a proper shooting angle and fits in a few hand gestures to boot. The final one ends with him stomping the ground... [19:49:49] * ... and two more Mauzes appear at his side, all three of them flipping Gragnar the bird. [19:50:09] [Sev's Turn] [19:50:52] * Sev roars, his fists tightening around his maul. [19:50:57] "WE TOLD YOU TO MOVE AND IF YOU DON'T MOVE YOU DIE." [19:53:09] * Sev rushes towards the ogre, swinging his maul in an overhand arch into its head. [19:53:32] [Mari's Turn] [19:55:58] * Marianysa runs towards the ogre. "You're just wasting our time. Move." She slashes at it. [20:00:25] * Gragnar 's eyes go bloodshot as his scream finally dies down and veins throb visibly and almost audibly on his neck and forehead. Almost to fast to see he pulls out a very large club from his back. It's wooden, but gleams like bronze, and is bounded by two black iron bands. He swings it mercilessly, frothing at the mouth, at Loharath and Sev. [20:03:22] * Gragnar swings his club mercilessly, but more importantly uncontrollably, hitting the sides of the cavern and the ceiling, and everything BUT Loharath and Sev. [20:03:31] [Loharath's Turn] [20:04:33] * Loharath ducks and weaves back. "You don't understand it, do you? I'm going to show you again, you bastard!" [20:05:21] * Gragnar swings at Loharath, roaring as the thing he wants to bash into bloody pulp tries to flee! [20:08:40] * Loharath grimaces as ribs audibly snap. "Is that the best you've got? I've smoten dire rats with more bite!" [20:08:57] RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH [20:09:04] [Aurora's Turn] [20:14:35] * Aurora rushes up to Loharath. "The Flame's here for you!" She places her hand on him and heals his wounds somewhat [20:15:41] [Phanos finishes chanting darkly just as Loharath's wounds begin to knit. Behind Gragnar is a blot of darkness and then a tearing sound as something dead crawls into existance.] [20:16:07] "Dukey, Fred! Chew!" [He points at Gragnar.] [20:20:35] [Phanos begins to chant again after ordering his planthounds to attack. He then points at the ogre and fires a sickly green ray at it.] [20:21:28] [Phanos misses with the ray.] [20:21:33] [Mauz's Turn] [20:22:11] * Mauz takes a moment to crack his fingers. "So! Time to see if the old dark magics work!" A fierce gesture later, a familiar line of vile energy leaps from his hand, much larger than the last time he used it. [20:25:02] [Mauz's much more intense line of reality-tearing energy misses as well.] [20:25:07] [Sev's Turn] [20:25:08] ... oh come on! [20:25:39] "DONT HIT ME WITH THAT NONSENSE OR I'LL MAKE YOUR HEAD ROLL TOO." [20:25:42] * Sev looks at the ogre. [20:25:59] * Gragnar looks at the human. [20:26:03] "YOU'RE HUGE. THAT MEANS YOU MUST HAVE HUGE BONES. I'M GONNA BREAK SOME." [20:27:18] [Sev swings his maul just as wildly as Gragnar swings his greatclub.] [20:27:30] [Mari's Turn] [20:31:31] * Marianysa explodes into a flurry of motion, slicing the ogre three times. [20:33:08] [Mari leaves a bloody "M" in Gragnar's side.] [20:33:31] "GGGGGRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!" [20:33:41] * Gragnar swings at Mari and Sev. [20:36:20] Hey! Don't mess up the cutie! I haven't even chatted her up yet! [20:36:48] * Gragnar smashes into their bodies with his solid bronzewood club, breaking bones. [20:36:54] [Loharath's Turn] [20:37:16] * Marianysa staggers, gasping. "That...all you got?" She spits out some blood and glares up at the ogre. [20:38:43] [Gragnar swings his club over-head, ready to smash Loharath into paste before he gets anywhere near him.... but he extends to far and hits the ceiling before bringing the club over his head, stopping his swing and leaving him completely open.] [20:39:05] * Sev grits his teeth, spitting out blood onto the ground. [20:39:12] If I wanted a kiss I woulda talked to your mom. [20:41:17] * Loharath sprints up to ogre and leaps, turning a somersault in midair, and drives his sword into the ogre's forehead, hanging desperately from the hilt. At eye-level to the giant, he spits in the creature's face. "This was for Mari! Do you see yet? DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHO I AM?" [20:41:57] [Aurora's Turn] [20:45:26] * Aurora holds up her holy symbol and speaks to the Flame. A spiritual longbow appears in the air before her and Loharath, trailing brightly colored energy. Its light is stunning. It nocks itself, and a shaft of light appears in it. It points itself at the Ogre. [20:47:45] We are the Silver Flame's agents in this world. [20:48:04] * Aurora points at the Ogre. The shaft of light flies forward. [20:52:42] * Gragnar (Novaseaker@24.168.117.0) Quit (Ping timeout) [20:53:48] * Phanos (~Novaseake@24.168.117.0) has joined #Sharn [20:54:25] * Phanos walks up to Mari. "Heah, this be good juju." [20:54:44] * Phanos touches Mari's broken arm with a green glowing hand. [20:55:38] * Mauz claps his hands. "Not bad, folks, not bad at all! I knew I was hanging around the lot of you for a reason." [20:55:39] * Marianysa rubs her healed arm with a relieved sigh. "Thanks, Phanos." [20:56:50] * Marianysa looks up at Loharath, grinning. She blushes a little. [20:57:02] [Gragnar is pierced through the chest by the light and blood sprays outward.] [20:57:42] [Gragnar roars as he falls to his knees, and leans forward onto Loharath's blade. His scream dies out, but he still glares with hate even as the blood drains from his chest and forehead.] [20:57:58] Hmph. [20:58:11] * Aurora streeeetches. [20:58:13] Hey, Sev. [20:58:22] What do you think of his sword? [20:59:17] * Loharath begins wrenching his sword out of the ogre's head. "Well, that's some good work done." [20:59:24] * Sev looks back at Aurora. [20:59:30] Who, Silver Flame boy? [20:59:39] "He's got mightyfine shillelegh..." [20:59:47] ( Er, not sword. ) [20:59:50] "Too bad `bout the metal pahts.." [20:59:54] Er, not sword. The club. [21:00:00] * Sev eyes the ogre's beatstick. [21:00:02] Whoops. [21:00:10] It ain't my great grandfather's, but I'll carry it. [21:00:25] It's not like he needs it anymore. [21:00:36] * Mauz spits on the guy. "How dare he not respect Mauz the White." [21:00:59] * Aurora looks over him for anything else of note. [21:01:15] Nice tricks you did there, Mauz. [21:01:45] [Sev hefts the greatclub. It weights close to 20 pounds, is as tall as he is, and would be terribly unweildy in a fight. However, it is of superb construction.] [21:02:14] Looks like it'd make a nice trophy. [21:02:25] Hang it on the wall. [21:02:51] Mmh. I'm takin' it alright. [21:02:57] [Gragnar is wearing a ring with runes engraved on it, and his hide armor is also very exotic and might be from a magical beast rather than a normal animal.] [21:03:33] Actually, nah. [21:03:37] I think my least favorite part of smiting evil is disrobing evil afterwards. [21:03:40] * Aurora collects the things. "Well, we better take credit for this kill. It might worry people if this giant ogre got taken down and nobody knows who did it. [21:03:57] Someone in Daask might come looking for it, or might see me carrying it. I'm gonna sell it to some carpenters or something. Those Daask suckers'll have to run all around the city if they want it back. [21:04:16] * Phanos stares at Aurora. [21:04:17] Tricks? They're life-saving measures, you know. A man needs to keep himself alive in this fast and dangerous age. [21:04:35] "Worry who? Deh otha monstas? Let em." [21:04:48] Leave him here for the rats. [21:04:52] True. It might scare them into behaving. [21:04:55] * Phanos nods. [21:05:08] * Marianysa wipes her swords off and sheathes them. "This doesn't seem like the kind of place where people worry if they find a dead body." [21:05:31] "No. It will help keep one less ding from traiyin ta kill us." [21:05:54] True. [21:05:56] I agree. Now... about that booze you mentioned, angry man. [21:06:40] Wha? Oh, yeah. Booze. Well I'm just now off my hangover so I think it's time for another one. [21:07:42] My kind of thinking! [21:07:45] * Phanos grumbles something incoherently. [21:08:06] * Sev starts towards the elevator lift. [21:08:15] * Aurora walks along [21:08:33] [The party strips Gragnar's corpse of it's valuables, then proceeds to either get drunk or follow the original plan and get some info.] [21:08:37] [Session End.] [21:08:45] * Sev is now known as Kesuke [21:09:16] * Marianysa is now known as Yonjuuni End of #Sharn buffer Wed Dec 26 21:10:05 2007