Start of #Odal buffer: Mon Aug 18 20:47:14 2008 [17:06:22] * Paera (a@wnpgmb0809w-ad06-104-14.dynamic.mts.net) has joined #Odal [17:10:05] * Eve_Kasnora (Novaseaker@cpe-24-168-45-216.si.res.rr.com) has joined #Odal [17:18:26] * juna (macbelles@pool-71-168-124-129.cncdnh.fios.verizon.net) has joined #Odal [17:18:41] * juna is now known as Devia [17:24:20] * Where last we left the party, they had killed quite a few nobles and began making plans for new leadership of Harborhead. After dropping off some evidence with Rana Wellmot, local warlock, they... Well, what did they do? [17:24:25] [Session start] [17:25:27] * Eilenia goes to the inn for the night, and will cehck with Wellmot again in the morning to ask about the pillar. [17:26:29] * Devia mills just outside the inn, not having any money to pay for a room. [17:28:53] * Paera stops at the door of the inn and looks at back at Devia. "If you don't have any place to stay, you can come stay with us, I guess. As long as you don't mind having Eili watch you sleep." [17:30:13] "She is being mostly harmless." [17:30:29] "To us, leastwise!" [17:30:31] * Eve_Kasnora laughs. [17:30:36] * Devia blinked her large eyes, "watch me...sleep?" [17:30:37] You rolled at lesat three combined feet last night. [17:33:42] I guess its better than nothing, and she's kinda cute when shes nto being weird. [17:33:53] "As button." [17:34:00] * Eve_Kasnora pats Eilenia on the head. [17:34:35] * Paera quirks an eyebrow. "If you say so." [17:35:17] * Eve_Kasnora smiles at Paera. "Make nice to the dagger-swarm summoning girl, yes?" [17:35:53] * Devia giggles, mostly at Eve's acent. [17:37:12] You guys look interesting, I'll take you up on your offer. I'll even pay you back someday. how bout that? [17:37:30] * Eilenia accepts the patting. :D [17:37:55] We got a nice room. [17:38:14] "It is sounding excellent." [17:38:28] "The more being merrier!" [17:38:34] * Eve_Kasnora opens the door to the inn. [17:39:00] * Paera sighs. "Whatever you say, Eve." [17:39:42] * Eilenia steps in! [17:39:47] * Devia follows in [17:40:02] * Eve_Kasnora heads straight for the bar. [17:40:35] * Paera trails after the rest of the group, taking one last slightly wary glance around before heading inside. [17:42:21] * The bar of the narrow building is behind the main desk. An elven man with a patchy beard is behind the desk, paging through a book. He closes it on a finger and looks up as Eve approaches. "Oi?" [17:43:54] * Devia followed Eve to the bar. she scolds herself for not being some one pretty at the moment, seeing as she wants a drink and has no coin. [17:51:49] "I am not having with the money todays." she anounced sitting at the bar; imitating Eve. [17:51:58] * Eve_Kasnora approaches the bar and slides into a stool as the barkeep looks up. She subtly slips into a pose, slightly arcing her back to excentuate her figure. "Hello there stranger." [17:52:28] * Eve_Kasnora glances at Devia when she mimics her accent. [17:52:47] "Me and friend are from being out of town." [17:53:20] * Paera watches Eve and Devia. "Oh, they're not really gonna..." she mutters, a smirk forming. [17:54:07] * The barkeep nods. "Are you, then? From where?" [17:55:05] * Eilenia watches them alongwith Paera. [17:55:13] far in the coming [17:55:18] Is this common among the people of the World? [17:55:24] "I have come a long way from a province being north of here, called Tasarogorov. We are having spent our last coin on travels and room for night, but have none left for drink. Perhaps you would being kind enough to open tab for us ladies?" [17:56:22] * Devia shifts into a duplicate of Eve in all but clothing, "we can be twins for you yes?" [17:57:31] I...don't know. [17:57:51] * Paera says "I've certainly never seen THAT before." as Devia shifts. [17:59:01] * The barkeep swallows. "Boss's rules are that you've got to pay up front." He shifts slightly on his stool. [18:00:00] * Devia pouts [18:00:32] "It seems the having of good times it is being postponed..." she said getting up. [18:01:01] * Eve_Kasnora leans forward, just enough to show off a tad more of her figure, and makes a plantative expression. "Is there nothing you can be doing?" [18:02:02] * Devia puases waiting to see if Eve makes any head way. [18:02:29] * He pauses. "I guess if you leave something, so I can be sure you'll pay later, it'd be alright." [18:03:12] * Devia looks from the barkeep to Eve and back again. [18:04:55] * Eve_Kasnora reaches to her hip and rumages through her pack and produces a long metal rod. "Will this do?" [18:06:00] * He shrugs. "Yeah, that'll work." [18:07:23] * Devia smiles brightly and takes her seat again. [18:08:28] "You are hero." [18:08:49] * Eve_Kasnora smiles prettily for the barkeep. [18:09:42] "be getting with the vodka." devia added mildily impatient giving an identical smile. [18:10:06] * Eve_Kasnora looks over at Devia. "You are being gorgeous." [18:11:07] " is having good teacher helps." [18:11:22] * The bartender grins, and gets a dusty bottle off of the shelf. "Not much call for potato-wine down here. You've either got discriminating tastes or you want to go blind." He wipes the bottle with his shirt, pulls a pair of short glasses from under the counter, and pours them half-full. [18:11:46] * Eve_Kasnora waits for the other half. [18:12:27] * Devia takes her glass has it half way to her mouth then stops looking at eve like she is nuts. [18:12:43] * The bartender's already replaced the bottle when he notices that Eve isn't drinking yet. He gets the bottle back, turns, and refills the shot glass. [18:13:21] "What? In Tsararogorov, this is being like water!" [18:13:41] * Eve_Kasnora picks the glass up and salutes the bartender, then throws it back. [18:14:08] * Devia follows suit [18:14:24] but makes a face when she clinks the glass back down. [18:14:33] This is educational. [18:15:12] * Eve_Kasnora sets her glass down a little harder than Devia, but not excessively so. "Aaah! Tastes like home!" [18:16:04] "does your home country burn your ahsuphacust* ona regular basis?" she asked dropping the acent. [18:17:49] "It was to leaving a sour taste in mouth when I left..." *She frowns slightly.* [18:19:22] "oh" she siad quietly. [18:19:52] "But other than that, no!" [18:20:03] * Eve_Kasnora grins and clinks her glass for another shot. [18:20:31] "Please to be filling me up, elven man!" [18:20:43] * Eve_Kasnora winks at him. [18:20:57] * Devia turns her glass upside down and shakes her head. [18:21:21] * Paera snickers quietly. [18:22:24] * The bartender looks up from his book, turns back to the bottles, and refills Eve's glass. [18:22:40] "you drink like crazy person." [18:23:10] "In Tsararogorov, crazy drinks you!" [18:23:19] "...what?" [18:23:22] * Eve_Kasnora knocks her second doubleshot back. [18:24:24] * Eve_Kasnora giggles. [18:24:53] "you are getting with the being drunk quick." she took up the accent again. [18:25:24] "Not quite yet. Am needing four more before I am being *Really* drunk." [18:25:37] * Paera shakes her head. "I'm going to bed. Try not to trip and land on me or anything when you decide to actually sleep." [18:28:11] Ooh. Me too. [18:28:49] * And so, the responsible half of the party went to bed as Eve stayed up and demonstrated why she was drummed out of the Holy and Upright Platinum Knights of Tsavarogorod [18:34:22] * Eve_Kasnora wakes up a little too close to Devia the next morning. [18:35:39] * Devia shifted into xan and waited pateinty. [18:35:43] * You wake up the next morning. Except for Eilenia, who, of course, never sleeps. [18:36:42] * Eve_Kasnora stretches and sits up. [18:37:03] * Eve_Kasnora looks over at Xan. [18:37:04] Good morning. [18:37:17] * Devia makes eyebrows. [18:37:39] "Good morning. Someone got a little too comfortable. I am guessing it was being me." [18:38:07] * Paera sits up, looking around the room blearily as she yawns. "Wait, what the hell is going on?" [18:38:33] she frowned a little hoping for a little more fun out of the gag, "Yeah, you were getting withthe comfortable." she shifted into a human with short red hair and freckles and stretched. [18:39:26] * Mechazawa (rustangel@ip-50-075.atvci.net) has joined #Odal [18:39:33] * Mechazawa is now known as Xan [18:39:36] "Are appologies in order? Or was entire experience altogether pleasant?" [18:40:24] * Paera scratches her head as she watches Eve and Devia. [18:40:35] * Devia laughed, "naw, you got me free a free drink. free drinks are free drinks" [18:40:58] "Good." [18:41:16] * Eve_Kasnora smiles and gets up to get dressed. [18:42:52] * Devia turns to the others, "so what are we doing today?" she asks a little too chiper. [18:43:01] * Paera mutters "All that drinking, and _I'M_ the one with a headache." [18:43:45] "You should be joining us next time!" [18:44:07] * Devia nodds [18:44:17] "Things are to be serious when they are to be serious. You must take time to relax when you can." [18:46:20] * Eve_Kasnora sits down once she has her pants and tunic on, then drags out the communal coin purse they have from the huge sale of loot they got way back at the kobold infested checkpoint. [18:46:33] "We are needing to be splitting this." [18:48:08] * Paera shrugs, and lies back down, propping herself up on an elbow. "We don't all relax the same way." [18:48:44] "so you are saying you're just borign then?" [18:49:13] * Eve_Kasnora looks up from spilling the coins onto the floor. "True! But, I have not seen you relax at all since joining you at Odal's gates." [18:51:36] * Paera sputters a bit. "I..." [18:52:24] "You?" [18:54:22] * Xan comes downstairs if he isn't already, taking a seat. [18:56:10] * Paera grumbles a bit, turning over. "Maybe if we weren't so busy trying not to die all the time." [18:57:15] Oh, I'm sure we'll have time for lots of things while we're travelling [18:57:23] "oh well thats probably the best reason to relax. No need to die in a bad mood" [18:57:33] We don't get attacked by little lizardy dragony gnomely things every day. [18:57:38] "I seem to be remembering two to three hours of lightheadedness last night where I was only in danger of making out with scruffy-beareded elf." [19:03:14] "I'll be donating my share of things to an increase in the security of this township. With the lack of leadership, the town guard coule use whatever support they can handle." [19:04:07] How nice! [19:04:16] "That's very noble of you." [19:04:31] I hope that works out for you. [19:05:17] "And I hope it works out for them." [19:05:28] that too [19:05:42] "Unfortunately, I cannot be so charitable. My equipment is being outdated and worn." [19:06:10] * Paera nods, smiling. "That sounds fine to me, Xan." [19:07:08] "Paera! You are not to be getting off hook so easily!" [19:07:19] "Next time I drink, you will drink with me!" [19:07:56] "Or at very least, you will be showing me how you relax and I will join you, yes?" [19:08:12] * Paera pales. Well, as much as one can pale with red skin. "Well, I've lived a good life." [19:09:08] "Ha-ha! Yes, you understand. It is relax, or it is drinking acid-fire-potatoe-liquor. Choice being yours." [19:09:22] * Devia laughs [19:10:16] * Eilenia smiles. [19:10:25] Either way will be fun for you. [19:10:51] "I can be having fun anywhere. Even at bottom of 10 foot pit." [19:10:51] * Devia turns to Eilenia, "did you have fun watchign us sleep?" she asks curiusly. [19:11:27] Oh, some. It lasts for some time, you know. [19:11:47] Yeah, I've noticed how much fun you have there. [19:12:08] * Devia ignores talk of ten foot pits, "must be boring." [19:12:53] * Eve_Kasnora smiles at Paera. "Actually, there was this one time...." [19:15:07] Pits must be hard for you to get out of. [19:15:28] I think hers might be a special case [19:16:33] "That is what story is about!" [19:17:14] "You see, some one found my cabin in the swamp, and dug a pit trap in front of door while I was away hunting for a few days." [19:17:38] "When I came back, I am to be falling in pit!" [19:19:09] "Perhaps you should invest in a rope and grapple." [19:19:30] ...wait, that's the end of the story? [19:19:34] "Trappers turn out being kobolds. But I fool them into thinking I am injured and trick them into coming into pit to finish me off." [19:19:58] "That is when I kill them and use their tiny kobold bodies as makeshift stepladder to get out!" [19:20:11] you are a classy girl. [19:20:23] * Eve_Kasnora laughs. [19:20:38] "I gave them proper burial in pit afterward." [19:20:58] ...that's...one way to do it, I guess. [19:21:39] "I belive that while our travels have been difficult, we've duties and meetings we must attend." [19:21:49] "Indeed!" [19:22:04] Oh yes. I forgot about that. [19:22:14] We hvae to ask them about that flesh-eyeball-pillar-idol-stick. [19:22:16] * Eve_Kasnora gets back up after having separated the piles of coin and empties her pile into her purse. [19:22:23] "can I come?" [19:22:25] "That we do." [19:22:33] * Eve_Kasnora puts her armor on and gets ready for a day of who-knows-what. [19:22:34] * Xan looks to Devia. "That you can." [19:22:51] huzzah. [19:24:37] Well, let's hope they've got good news. [19:24:43] * Eve_Kasnora walks up to Devia and pokes her. [19:24:55] what? [19:25:03] "Can you to be transforming into me again?" [19:25:39] * Devia does as she's asked with out a second thought, "any particular reason?" [19:25:53] * Eve_Kasnora stares at Devia blanky and fixes her hair. [19:26:09] "Is fun." [19:26:16] "..." [19:26:19] * Eve_Kasnora walks off. [19:26:51] * Eilenia gets ready to visit [19:27:26] * Paera watches Eve walk away. "This just keeps getting stranger every day." [19:27:32] Or better. [19:27:39] "Strange is just other word for interesting!" [19:28:00] * Eve_Kasnora marches off to the meeting. [19:28:06] * Xan moves off as well. [19:28:36] * Devia gets up and follows "this is gona be great. I can tell" she says getting over her initial shock of beign used as a miror. [19:28:46] * Eve_Kasnora pays the barkeep on the way out, retrieving her sunrod while making a comment about how she hoped the barkeep enjoyed it as much as she did. [19:29:40] * Paera follows the group, after having finally gotten dressed. [19:30:09] * As you make your way to Rana's house, you notice a plume of black smoke rising in the distance, in her house's direction. [19:30:55] * Eilenia starts hurrying [19:31:04] that can't be good [19:31:36] * Xan breaks into a silent, lithe run. [19:31:45] Oh, HELL. [19:31:51] * Paera runs. [19:32:11] * Eve_Kasnora dashes after Xan. [19:32:16] * Devia runs too [19:33:06] * You run to the house to find it ablaze. The roof is fully wreathed in flames, and the shuttered windows on the second floor have been burned through, fire licking out of them. [19:33:22] I think we're late... [19:34:18] * Xan coats himself in water from his waterskin, rushing in. [19:34:37] "Xan!" [19:34:42] * Eve_Kasnora runs in after him. [19:34:44] Hmm... [19:34:52] .... [19:34:53] * Eilenia rushes in after. [19:35:11] * Devia lools at paera [19:36:01] * Paera hesitates, then curses and runs after them. [19:36:15] Well crap [19:36:24] Sum em up! [19:36:28] * Devia runs in behind her [19:36:38] ((wrong chan)) [19:40:17] * The bottom floor isn't on fire yet, though the ceiling is starting to smoulder. It has been ransacked, though, and a few bookcases are overturned near the bottom of the stairs, forming a crude blockade. Books and loose sheafs of paper cover the ground. [19:41:36] * Eve_Kasnora rushes in and with a quick glance around, decides if anyone's in danger they're beyond the crude blockaid at the stairs. She runs full tilt toward them before leaping forward into a handstand and vaulting over it, hitting the stairs at a run. [19:44:35] * Xan rushes towards the staircase without hesitation, vaulting over the stair at the same time Eve does, placing his steps carefully as he ascends, light and deft enough on his feet to pass her up. [19:45:18] * Devia decides that its amusing to copy eve cuase she looks like her at the moment. and atemps the same vualt over the blockage. [19:46:13] * Eilenia rushes forward, trying to get over the book case, but trips. [19:56:28] * Paera does her damndest to scramble over the bookcase. [19:58:22] * Devia turns and trys to pull who ever will tak eher hand over. [19:58:51] * Eventually, you get over the bookshelf. The flames have begun to spread to the top of the staircase, and thick black smoke obscures the air. You can hear Rana shouting for help behind a door which has several heavy pieces of furniture stacked in front of it. On account of most of the furniture being made into a barricade, this floor is fairly bare. [20:01:45] * Eve_Kasnora gets up the stairs after falling across the baricade on her back, miscalculating her vault. She moves toward the blocked door and tries to push the burning furnature out of the way. "RANA HOLD ON!" [20:03:14] * Devia takes the stair up two at a time vualting up them. she puts her shoulder into a large shelf and tries to shove it so it helps disloge other peices as well. [20:03:26] * Xan weaves his way through the furniture, kicking over a rough path as he moves past the burning furniture as if if were a tangle of razorvine in the feywild. [20:09:53] * Paera gives a quick look over the structure of the building and how much seems to be on fire, and yells how much time they've got left. [20:10:25] * Eilenia tries to get goingand helping out with moving the furniture out of th eway and get past it. She's not very fast [20:11:40] * You disassemble the barricade and shove it out of the way and, just as you move the last piece of furniture from the door, it's swung open from the inside. Rana collapses to the ground, clearly the worse for wear, as the thick black smoke pours out of the room she was trapped in [20:14:43] * Eve_Kasnora looks back out at the windows in the main room. [20:14:54] "Someone throw her to me when I'm on the ground!" [20:15:20] * Eve_Kasnora runs toward the window and jumps, balling up to crash through it, then trying to go for a full sommersault to land safetly. [20:18:25] * Eve_Kasnora comes out of her flip relatively gracefully, but stumbles upon landing. She turns around, ignoring the slight injury in her ankle to await the body hopefully to be flung out the window. [20:18:29] * Eilenia looks to Rana, and whispers a word of arcane power. The dust near her seems to lift a moment. She grabs Rana and hurls her out the window after Eve. [20:20:15] * Eilenia doesn't actually get around to hurling her. "She should be shielded from harm from falling now." [20:21:42] * Xan looks around the smoke-filled room, looking for anything of value or clues as to who may have done this, keeping a weary eye on the rest of the party as they escape. [20:24:24] * Paera takes a leap out the window born of desperation, and manages to land mostly okay, somehow. [20:24:43] * Devia picks up Rana carefully and runs to the window, aims carefuly, "READY??" she doesn't drop her but throws her down with force, only to watch her float down softly like tryign to throw a napkin. [20:26:14] * Eve_Kasnora 's eyes bug out when she sees Devia, as Eve, about to hurl the girl to her death and rushes forward to try and catch her, and ends up having to wait while Rana floats down. [20:26:29] * In the room Rana was in, Xan finds a pice of cloth that looks torn from a uniform. A gold crest etched with platinum is attatched to it. With Rana evacuated, the heroes evacuate the building as quickly as possible. A bucket chain has formed, but it's too little, too late as the house begins to crumble from the flames. [20:26:30] "Oh... " [20:27:41] * Xan leaps from the house just as the place collapses, emblem in hand. [20:28:16] * Devia scrambles out the way they came. [20:29:27] * Eve_Kasnora catches Rana, who is disconcertingly upright as she floats unconcious to the ground, and immediately places a hand on her chest, just below her neck, and channels healing energy into her. [20:29:34] * Eilenia summons a patch of fey ice, to try to fight the fire as best she can, then she glances out the window and vanishes in a burst of fey light. She reappears on the ground, next to Eve. [20:30:16] * Rana (CHBoucher@dsl2-161.gsinet.net) has joined #Odal [20:30:49] * Paera rushes over to Eve, looking Rana over. "How is she?" [20:30:55] * Rana coughs as she fades back into consciousness. "Oh, thank Ioun, it's you!" [20:31:07] "She is being okay." [20:31:16] "nice catch" [20:31:19] "Hello again, Rana." [20:31:31] * Eve_Kasnora eyes Devia. "Did you know she would be floating?" [20:31:38] * Xan holds the badge over Rana's vision. "Who wore this badge?" [20:31:41] "I guessed." [20:32:50] * Eve_Kasnora makes a dissatisfied face but ignores the issue, turning to Rana and setting her down on her feet gently. "Can you be standing?" [20:32:54] * Rana coughs. "It was... One of the palace guards. They broke into my house not too long ago, said that the queen wasn't going to take the death of her drones kindly." [20:33:13] * Rana staggers a little as she is put down, but steadies herself against a well. [20:33:30] What's this about a palace? [20:34:06] Her drones? The hosts of the parasites? [20:34:14] The ducal palace, where the duke- Well, the duchess now- lives and directs the council from. [20:34:36] * Rana nods. "If I had to venture a guess, it sounds like the cult wasn't quite the end of it." [20:34:47] I suppose we should act fast. [20:35:15] * Eve_Kasnora doesn't like how Rana is wavering on her feet and picks her up again, walking over to a bench or fountain anywhere nearby to seat her on. [20:35:44] "this sounds biger than you guys lead me to belive" [20:35:48] "They are to be knowing we interfered here." [20:36:12] We should pay her a visit and let them know their plan did not succeed. Nonverbally. [20:36:13] "Then we've got another former noble to kill." [20:36:23] * Xan nods to Eilenia [20:37:49] * Rana nods. "The good news is, I did some translation on the scrolls you found. It seems that the queen parasites are fairly rare, and can open the rift through their own will in a... weak spot, I think. And that it's only being kept open through her continued effort. If you can keep her from making that effort, the hostless parasites should die soon enough. [20:38:04] * Eve_Kasnora looks across the city to the ducal palace and frowns. [20:38:39] Any idea how a queen would compare to the one we found in the sewer? [20:38:43] "But we can be doing nothing for the ones that have found hosts.... yes?" [20:38:58] "Nothing but ending their existences." [20:39:24] * Eve_Kasnora nods grimly. [20:39:25] Without the queen's direction, it's likely they'll turn on each other. It's not a pleasant end, but at least they'll do no more to the people of Harborhead. [20:39:26] "Now, we've got the town guard to meet with as well. This evidence may gain us valued allies." [20:39:28] * Devia shivers knowing she almsot hada bad end concernign these parasites. [20:40:59] Oh, and the idol... It seems like they were crafting a facsimile of some kind of... more advanced form of the parasite, using the flesh of the men they sacrificed. It's disturbing, but on its own, it's none too dire." [20:42:00] * Paera covers her mouth, looking more than a little nauseated. [20:42:05] "I am to being nauseas." [20:42:11] thats...er...pleasant. [20:42:50] Eew [20:45:08] * With that image, you set off to meet the city guard, and find how they can help in destroying the Ug-Ts Queen. [20:45:14] [Session End] [20:45:19] * Rana (CHBoucher@dsl2-161.gsinet.net) Quit (Quit: Ashamed to be involved with this lot) End of #Odal buffer Mon Aug 18 20:47:14 2008 [20:47:54] Oh, everyone gets 125 XP for the skill challenge