Start of #Odal buffer: Mon Jul 27 21:55:47 2009
[15:46:09] * Topic is '[Stalker 2]: 30 [Screecher]: 26 [Xan]: 25 [Paera]: 22  [Eve, Stalker 1]: 19  [Eilenia]: 11, 
[Myrmidons 5-8]: 10'
[15:46:09] * Set by Charles on Mon Jul 13 20:49:48
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[16:08:10] * Demota is now known as Eilenia
[16:08:19] * Eilenia is now known as Demota
[16:08:24] * Demota is now known as Eilenia
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[16:19:40] * NovaSeaker is now known as Eve_Kasnora
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[17:18:31] <Charles> * When last we left our heroes, they were catching their breath after being assaulted by terrible 
  man-things, after trying to attract the ire of a eladrin noble who hunted humanoids for sport.
[17:19:20] <Charles> * The creatures who had managed to evade the heroes' wrath had escaped through an arch to the north, 
  across the temple park, and seemingly disappeared
[17:19:25] <Charles> [Session start]
[17:26:55] * Eilenia watches for any sign of Ghaele Coldheart
[17:27:46] * Eve_Kasnora tilts her head to the side, stretching her neck muscles out... probably still sore from how she 
  slept.
[17:27:49] <Charles> * The streets are quiet again, except for the drone of strange insects and the distant, exhausted 
  baying of dead canids.
[17:28:27] <Eilenia> What now?
[17:28:30] * Eve_Kasnora looks around, after seeing no sign of attack. "Well, let us be trying again."
[17:28:33] * Paera watches the northern arch. "Think he'll send more before he comes out?"
[17:28:38] * Eve_Kasnora inhales....
[17:29:02] <Xan> "Perhaps we should go to where the animals are fleeing to."
[17:29:16] <Eve_Kasnora> "YOUR HUNT HAS FAILED, GHAELE COLDHEART! PERHAPS YOU SHOULD BE FACING ME YOURSELF?!"
[17:29:40] * Eve_Kasnora listens to her voice echo amongst the ruins for a few moments.
[17:29:45] <Eve_Kasnora> "Good idea. Let us be going."
[17:30:12] * Eve_Kasnora keeps her weapons drawn as she heads toward where the creatures fled.
[17:30:30] * Eilenia follows Eve
[17:31:12] <Charles> * The creatures leave a very clear trail, footprints and blood, on the way to the arch, but upon 
  reaching it they abruptly disappear
[17:31:39] <Eve_Kasnora> "They vanish?"
[17:31:43] * Paera nods, following Eve.
[17:33:06] <Xan> "Hold."
[17:33:13] <Xan> "It's likely a portal to the Feywild."
[17:33:20] <Eilenia> Of course.
[17:33:37] <Eilenia> Oh, to feel the Bright Beauty again.
[17:34:22] <Eve_Kasnora> "He is hearing me from all the way in the Feywild?"
[17:34:32] <Eilenia> I don't know.
[17:34:34] * Eve_Kasnora looks like she didn't expect her voice to be that strong.
[17:35:27] * Paera freezes. "We're not going in, are we?"
[17:35:46] * Xan descends.
[17:36:00] <Xan> "It's only a doorway. It's likely we can eventually find a way back."
[17:36:03] <Eve_Kasnora> "Innocent people are living in the Feywild too, Paera."
[17:36:12] * Eve_Kasnora steps through the arch.
[17:36:21] * Xan hops from the roof and steps through.
[17:37:01] * Eilenia steps through eagerly.
[17:37:36] * Paera sighs and follows them through the portal.
[17:39:42] <Charles> * As you step through the arch, the change is instant, and unmistakable. Around you, the insulae and 
  abandoned market stalls melt away to cyclopean fey standing stones wreathed in creeper vines. The ground is covered in 
  crisp, hard, clean snow that cracks under your feet, and stark silver flowers push their way up through the icy surface
[17:41:06] * Xan turns to the rest of the party, and grins.
[17:41:13] <Xan> "We may die here."
[17:41:21] <Charles> * Though it is spring, your breath hangs in the air as you breathe, along with a strange perfume, and 
  even the taste of your own breath in your mouth is move alive, more intoxicating. The stones cast hard, dark shadows, the 
  ground at their feet as black as midnight, and the creepers themselves are tight, as if strangling the strange monuments 
  out of sheer malice
[17:41:44] <Eve_Kasnora> "...I am being reminded of home."
[17:42:21] <Charles> * It wouldn't be hyperbole to say that this may very well be the most beautiful thing some of you have 
  ever seen, and you can feel the magic of the plane in your bones. Truly, you've entered the Feywild.
[17:42:32] * Eve_Kasnora sheaths her swords momentarilly to adjust her hare-fur-lined scale coat tighter over her shoulders.
[17:42:41] <Eilenia> This isn't the greatest place in the plane, but you can feel the difference, right?
[17:42:49] <Eilenia> The world just feels so dead.
[17:43:13] <Xan> "I miss the planes. If we do not return home, we will return somewhere else."
[17:43:15] * Paera shivers. "It's...kind of scary, though."
[17:43:42] * Xan looks to Paera. "There are ancient and powerful things here."
[17:44:04] <Eve_Kasnora> "And murderers."
[17:44:19] <Eilenia> Well, one confirmed murderer.
[17:44:26] * Eve_Kasnora finsihes adjusting her coat and draws her weapons, crunching through the snow without a thought to 
  the diffculty.
[17:44:27] <Xan> "We all are, depending on your definition."
[17:44:28] <Eilenia> And a number of cheerleaders.
[17:44:43] * Eilenia looks for signso f him
[17:47:12] <Charles> * The snow up ahead's been trampled by both foot and hoof, in many different directions. Though there 
  are clear trails left in the snow, it's hard to well where any given set of tracks lead
[17:47:30] * Paera glances oddly at Elena for a second, then goes back to taking in the surroundings.
[17:48:33] * Eve_Kasnora tests the accoustics of the immense standing stones. "COLDHEART! I AM COMING FOR YOU!"
[17:49:05] <Charles> * The sound echoes clearly, your voice ringing out crisp and loud for nearly half a minute after you 
  speak
[17:49:39] * Eilenia looks over the tracks, occasioally glancing uneasily at the cyclops stones.
[17:50:10] <Xan> "It would be best you not yell."
[17:50:44] <Eve_Kasnora> "Hmm. True. I was not expecting him to be avoiding me."
[17:51:15] <Eilenia> He's not a human.
[17:51:35] <Eilenia> We don't run right into danger.
[17:51:52] * Eilenia frowns, looking at the tracks. "Gnomes."
[17:52:22] <Xan> "I love killing gnomes."
[17:52:42] <Eilenia> Shush. Trying to concentrate.
[17:53:13] <Eilenia> I see a set of tracks of... some strange beings, walking alongside some horses. Their steps are weird 
  and unbalanced.
[17:53:47] <Eilenia> Then another set of eladrin footsteps headed in a different direction, following them then doubling 
  back.
[17:53:52] <Eilenia> Then, off in a third direction, gnomes.
[17:54:24] * Eve_Kasnora looks to Xan, horrified.
[17:54:28] <Eve_Kasnora> "I'm sorry?"
[17:55:16] <Eve_Kasnora> "I've hardly heard you carry any sort of emotional tone when you talk, and you reserve your 
  emphasis for the enjoyment of killing intelligent creatures?"
[17:55:28] <Xan> "I am just happy to be here."
[17:55:34] <Eve_Kasnora> ...
[17:55:44] * Paera edges away from Xan a bit.
[17:55:48] <Xan> "We want to go after the eldarin."
[17:56:03] <Xan> "So gnomes are not in the forecast."
[17:56:05] <Eve_Kasnora> "I am not so certain I want to be going anywhere with you."
[17:56:27] * Eve_Kasnora faces him directly, swords at her side. "Run back to your master."
[17:56:45] <Xan> "I am afraid that we may not survive here if we are not banded together."
[17:56:49] <Eve_Kasnora> "Tell him I am coming to kill him. Stand at his side, so you can die with your code."
[17:57:28] <Eve_Kasnora> "I am not being a stranger to harsh lands. Elena can help us to saftey. You. You do not get to 
  travel with me anymore."
[17:57:36] <Xan> "Mmh. you probably will yell yourself to your doom anyway."
[17:57:39] <Eve_Kasnora> "Leave now, or I will slay you here."
[17:57:59] * Xan shoulders his pack, and shrugs."
[17:58:06] <Xan> "Safe travels, Zealot."
[17:58:20] * Xan wanders off.
[17:58:31] * Eve_Kasnora watches him go.
[18:00:22] * Xan is now known as Mechazawa
[18:01:35] * Paera opens her mouth to say something, then hangs her head, studying the ground.
[18:02:40] <Eve_Kasnora> "I appologize. I made your decision for you..."
[18:02:56] <Eve_Kasnora> "If you want to go with him, you can follow his tracks. He doesn't seem to be hiding them."
[18:03:14] * Eilenia frowns.
[18:10:00] <Paera> I...I'm not sure I want to, either.
[18:11:40] <Eve_Kasnora> "If you still believe he can be saved... then you are more hopeful than I."
[18:12:13] <Eilenia> Oh, everyone can.
[18:12:14] * Eve_Kasnora sighs, then holds her breathe. She almost looks on the verge of tears, but seems to be holding 
  them back easily enough.
[18:12:19] <Eilenia> You just need the right touch.
[18:12:52] <Eve_Kasnora> "Maybe you are being right, Elena. But... I cannot be handling him anymore."
[18:15:35] <Paera> I don't understand...how could he say something like that?
[18:16:22] <Eve_Kasnora> "I am not knowing. He did not even try to explain himself."
[18:16:23] <Eilenia> I don't know either.
[18:17:27] * Eve_Kasnora faces away from the two. "We are going now, yes?" Her voice sounds strained.
[18:18:57] <Eilenia> Hm? Yes.
[18:19:58] * Paera nods, sighing.
[18:24:33] <Eilenia> There were three sets of tracks.
[18:24:58] <Charles> * You stand at a crossroads. Another crossroads, rather, a physical one, in addition to the emotional 
  one which was just crossed. Trails lead to the east, west, and north, respectively the gnomes, eladrin, and beastmen 
  tracks.
[18:25:10] <Eilenia> The strangely balanced eladrin-like forms, the eladrin who pursued tehm and left, the tracks with the 
  gnomes
[18:26:58] <Eilenia> We came for for Coldheart, yes?
[18:27:18] * Eve_Kasnora nods.
[18:27:22] <Eilenia> Then maybe we should go before Xan does what you told him to.
[18:27:46] <Eve_Kasnora> "Lead the way, Elena. You are knowing this place better than I."
[18:28:32] * Eilenia throws Eve a copper piece and follows the trail.
[18:32:04] * Eve_Kasnora blinks and catches it. "What is this being for?"
[18:32:15] <Eilenia> What is what for?
[18:33:56] <Eve_Kasnora> "This.
[18:34:03] * Eve_Kasnora holds up the copper.
[18:36:00] <Eilenia> Oh, that. It's for whatever you want it to be for.
[18:37:28] * Eve_Kasnora looks extremely puzzled. "Why did you give it to me?"
[18:38:09] <Eilenia> Hmm...
[18:38:12] <Eilenia> I'm not quite sure.
[18:38:16] <Eilenia> You seem to have a quality about you.
[18:38:28] * Eilenia walks down the western path
[18:39:10] * Paera stares at Elena.
[18:39:16] * Eve_Kasnora glances at Paera.
[18:39:40] <Eilenia> Oh, isn't the feeling in this plane great?
[18:39:44] <Eve_Kasnora> "Here PaePae. You seem to have a quality about you."
[18:39:57] * Eve_Kasnora tosses Paera the coin and jogs to catch up with Elena.
[18:41:34] <Charles> * The snow cracks under your feat, and the morning sun lances dazzlingly through the clouds above, 
  making the frost glitter like thousands of diamonds. As you walk, you have the feeling you're being watched by an 
  intelligent force, and not simply the darting pixies that flit between the monolith, chanting elven gibberish in singsong 
  voices
[18:43:14] * Paera fumbles a bit at catching the coin and sighs as she walks after Eve and Elena.
[18:48:44] <Eve_Kasnora> "Stay close to me."
[18:48:49] <Eve_Kasnora> "I am having bad feeling."
[18:52:24] * Paera nods and moves closer, clutching her holy symbol tightly.
[18:53:06] <Charles> * As you head down the path, you eventually get to a clearing in the forest of monoliths. It looks 
  like what might once have been an eladrin village, with exquisitely beautiful houses of faintly glowing crystal standing 
  on stilts built from the earth itself. In the center of the ring of low buildings is a fountain, spraying water high into 
  the air, which freezes into dartlike stones of hail as they fall
[18:54:27] * Eve_Kasnora blinks.
[18:54:36] <Eve_Kasnora> "This is being like a fairy tale."
[18:55:51] <Eilenia> A what?
[18:56:16] <Eve_Kasnora> "A fairy tale. You kn... never mind."
[18:56:31] * Eve_Kasnora continues to look around.
[18:58:11] <Paera> I wish I could enjoy this, but...there's just so many places they could be waiting to ambush us from.
[18:58:38] <Charles> * The houses are maybe not in as good condition as they first appeared, with thin cracks apppearing in 
  the crystal. From inside, you hear the murmured sounds of conversation in elven
[19:00:00] * Eve_Kasnora looks to the others.
[19:00:08] <Eve_Kasnora> "Maybe a greeting is being in order?"
[19:00:26] * Eilenia speaks in Elven. <Hello?>
[19:01:23] <Charles> * A voice rings out from inside one of the houses. <Hello!>
[19:01:33] <Charles> * Or, perhaps, it was all of the houses.
[19:01:42] * Eve_Kasnora takes a startled step back.
[19:02:18] * Eilenia looks around
[19:02:58] <Eve_Kasnora> "That was... being weird."
[19:05:21] * Paera calls out "Who's there?" also in Elven.
[19:06:10] * Eilenia looks into a door
[19:07:00] * Eve_Kasnora looks at Paera.
[19:07:13] <Eve_Kasnora> "What are you sayig?"
[19:07:15] <Eve_Kasnora> +n
[19:07:32] <Eilenia> Didn't you hear? <Hello>.
[19:07:40] * Eilenia says <Hello> again. Slower and louder.
[19:07:58] <Charles> * Through the door, you can barely see a group of maybe six eladrin sitting around an object on the 
  floor. One of them turns. <Just some humble eladrin, goodwife!>
[19:08:08] <Paera> I just asked who was there.
[19:08:41] <Eilenia> <Oh, yes. We were looking for someone. A Ghaele Coldheart. HAve you seen him?>
[19:10:10] * Eve_Kasnora stares blankly at Elena.
[19:10:20] <Charles> <Oh, yes, yes, not too long ago. Maybe, oh...> One of the eladrin pauses, and then another calls out. 
  <Ten years!> The first picks up again. <Right, ten years! He left us just a decade ago. He said he had an idea he wanted 
  to take care of.>
[19:10:24] <Eve_Kasnora> "Saying it slower is not making it any easier to understand your language."
[19:10:58] <Eilenia> Oh, sorry. I said Hello.
[19:11:25] <Eve_Kasnora> What is going on? Should I be putting my swords away?
[19:11:30] <Eilenia> <A decade? Any idea which way he went? Actually, I think I saw some weird, unbalanced footprints 
  around here. Do you know what they are?>
[19:11:40] <Eilenia> Oh, yes.
[19:11:53] <Paera> I'm not sure, honestly.
[19:13:17] <Charles> <Oh, I'm sure he went somewhere. It's not such a big world after all.> The eladrin laugh, somewhat 
  drunkenly.
[19:13:40] <Charles> <Footprints? Who knows! Perhaps a limping centaur! Perhaps fomorians!>
[19:13:54] * Eve_Kasnora nods to Paera and keeps her swords out, but lowered.
[19:14:01] <Eilenia> <Have fomorians been around here?>
[19:14:12] <Eve_Kasnora> "She.. is sounding... manic, no?"
[19:14:44] <Charles> <It's been a busy century, child. They were not when we arrived, but perhaps they've come since!>
[19:16:11] <Paera> More than a bit, yeah. I've got a bad feeling about this.
[19:16:33] <Eilenia> <So... who are you?>
[19:18:39] * Eve_Kasnora looks about while Elena is talking, making sure an ambush isn't happening.
[19:20:28] <Charles> <Bralani Frostbrow!> <Bralani Windswept!> <Ghaele Shalandra.> <Bralani Greywing!>
[19:21:28] <Eilenia> <Well, thank you for your time. I'm Eilenia.>
[19:22:01] * Eilenia looks to the others. "They're nobility. Three Bralani and a Ghaele.
[19:22:03] <Charles> <It was a pleasure, child!>
[19:22:12] <Eilenia> They haven't seen anything
[19:22:14] * Eve_Kasnora blinks.
[19:22:33] <Eve_Kasnora> "Thanking you."
[19:22:40] * Eve_Kasnora bows to them.
[19:22:42] <Eilenia> They also have liquor.
[19:22:47] <Eve_Kasnora> ...
[19:22:52] * Eve_Kasnora pauses as she rises.
[19:23:02] <Eve_Kasnora> "Maybe later. Let us be going."
[19:23:10] * Eilenia nods.
[19:23:27] <Eilenia> Oh, the gnomes, or the strange footprints...
[19:23:48] <Eilenia> Perhaps the strange footprints.
[19:24:33] <Paera> Why would nobility be here?
[19:24:47] <Eve_Kasnora> "Strange footprints is probably being Coldheart's hunting things."
[19:25:35] <Eilenia> I don't know. They said Coldheart left them a decade ago.
[19:26:07] <Eve_Kasnora> "A decade?!"
[19:26:26] <Eve_Kasnora> "Is... Is time being the same here, Elena?"
[19:28:31] <Eilenia> Of course.
[19:28:38] <Eilenia> But time is not the same to you as it is to us.
[19:30:04] <Eve_Kasnora> "So.. a decade is meaning something else, yes?"
[19:30:45] <Eilenia> Our people live for upwards of three hundred years.
[19:30:59] <Eilenia> A decade stops being so important after a while.
[19:31:15] <Eve_Kasnora> "...but it is still being the same as 10 of the world's years?"
[19:31:29] <Eilenia> Of course.
[19:31:34] * Eve_Kasnora sighs.
[19:31:51] <Eilenia> You have strange concerns.
[19:31:54] <Eve_Kasnora> "The tracks are being preserved so long?"
[19:32:10] <Eilenia> Oh, maybe.
[19:32:14] <Eilenia> Shall I ask?
[19:32:49] * Eve_Kasnora dismisses Elena calling anything about herself strange without even considering it, apparently.
[19:33:01] <Eve_Kasnora> "Please be doing so, yes."
[19:34:56] * Eilenia looks back. <Oh, I saw some footprints. Those are yours, yes? How long ago did you get here?>
[19:35:49] <Charles> <Oh, it must be almost a hundred years, by now!>
[19:36:25] <Eilenia> <What have you been doing since?>
[19:38:40] <Charles> <Telling stories, playing parlor games, and indulging in madame Greywing's fine wines. Why, her 
  family's stock much have gone all the way back to the civil war!>
[19:39:16] <Charles> <Why, I'm sure that when the world's righted itself, someone will come and tell us. Oh! Has the world 
  been put back together again?>
[19:39:45] <Eilenia> <Not quite, but it certainly is better without all the gnolls.>
[19:40:24] <Eilenia> <Well, it's still got gnolls, but they're not EVERYWHERE.>
[19:40:50] * Paera translates for Eve, slowly growing visibly frustrated with the conversation.
[19:41:37] <Charles> <Oh, they were quite dreadful. I do say, I'm glad all we have to worry about are the drow. And the 
  cyclopes, and the fomorians, and the lamias and whatever dreadful thing Coldheart has planned, but! No gnolls!> There's a 
  spate of fey tittering from the other side of the door
[19:42:05] <Eilenia> <Wait, planned? What's this plan?>
[19:42:11] * Eve_Kasnora just shakes her head slowly, sharing Paera's aggrivation.
[19:42:49] <Charles> <Oh, Correlon only knows! He was such a restless brute. He had said that if Nerath woulnd't come to 
  us, we would have to come to Nerath!> They laugh again.
[19:43:26] <Charles> <But that's silly. Who's got the time to build an empire, eh? Best to let them come to you. Saves on 
  quite a bit of walking!>
[19:43:59] <Eve_Kasnora> "Build an Empire!?"
[19:44:11] <Eilenia> <That's not what I heard he was doing.... oh. Do any of you speak Common?>
[19:44:14] * Eve_Kasnora yells in outrage.
[19:44:41] <Charles> <Oh ho! Just a bit. Just enough to keep the praetors away in dear old Nerath!>
[19:44:43] <Eve_Kasnora> "He is hunting innocent people! HOW IS THAT GETTING CLOSER TO NERATH?!"
[19:48:44] * Paera takes a couple steps back from Eve, wincing. "I...maybe he gave up?"
[19:51:02] <Charles> One of the eladrin nobles speaks in halting, yet beautiful common, "When the gnolls sacked your 
  cities, they got rather close, too."
[19:52:02] * Eve_Kasnora stares at the eladrin.
[19:53:35] <Eve_Kasnora> "Of course."
[19:54:14] * Eve_Kasnora backs down after a heated pause, cooling off. She inclines her head in apology and then turns to 
  face the winter splendor of the Feywild.
[20:00:22] <Charles> * The eladrin seem to return to their entertainment, a mild melancholy at civilization having not yet 
  been restored quickly fading into the haze of fine eladrin wine and strange eladrin games
[20:01:23] <Eve_Kasnora> "Let us get going."
[20:01:30] <Eilenia> Right
[20:01:46] <Eilenia> <Thank you for your time. When we find a decent place, we'll let you know>
[20:02:13] * Mechazawa (rustangel@ip-117-113.atvci.net) Quit (Quit: I am not ignorant, I am intelligent. I'm not an ape, I 
am the way, I am the truth. I am religion, I am politics, I am a psychoanalyst, I'm an inkblot shaped like Zeus)
[20:02:25] <Charles> One turns and calls out <Thank you, child!> before returning to their game
[20:05:36] * Eve_Kasnora starts following her own tracks back.
[20:05:50] * Eilenia follows along
[20:06:53] <Charles> * As you follow the trail back to the crossing, you notice, once again, that you are being watched. 
  Not because of a vague, paranoid sensation, but because a green dragon is crouched on a low-lying monolith, watching you 
  with reptillian dispassion
[20:07:03] * Paera shakes her head, trailing after the group.
[20:07:20] <Eve_Kasnora> Yaah!
[20:07:32] * Eve_Kasnora steps backwards startled, and draws her swords.
[20:08:00] <Charles> "You've been to the elf village, then?"
[20:08:03] * Eilenia raises an eyebrow.
[20:08:06] <Eilenia> Why yes, we have.
[20:08:45] * Paera narrows her eyes. "Are you with Coldheart?"
[20:09:21] <Charles> * He snorts, a thin green mist rising from his flared nostrils. "And I'm sure they were all very 
  helpful. More than willing to take a break from drinking themselves to death and fornicating in their glass huts to help 
  you out."
[20:09:57] <Eve_Kasnora> "You... are wanting to help us, then?"
[20:10:15] * Eve_Kasnora still remains in a cautious ready stance, but lowers her swords a bit.
[20:10:38] <Charles> * The dragon's eyes widen ever so slightly. "Allied with Coldheart? Whyever would I want to work with 
  an elf, let alone one that wants to bring the planes together? I rather like the Feywild being where it is."
[20:11:09] <Eilenia> Oh, so that was his plan.
[20:11:47] <Charles> * His gaze flicks to Eilenia. "Oh, hah, let that one go for free." He brings one of his foreclaws to 
  his snout in what must be a practiced gesture of humanity.
[20:11:57] <Paera> He WHAT? 
[20:12:56] * Eve_Kasnora blinks.
[20:13:05] * Eve_Kasnora begins backing away from the dragon.
[20:14:37] <Eve_Kasnora> "We'll just be going now, then. Thanks being to you for the information."
[20:15:35] <Charles> "I suppose the displacer beast's out of the bag of holding. Coldheart, and this is only what I've 
  heard from my dear gnomish friends, wants to bring the Feywild and Shadowfell together with the world."
[20:16:08] <Charles> "Oh, of course. If there's one thing that characterizes the draconic race, in all its many qualities 
  and incarnations, it's charity. Think nothing of it, my dear lady."
[20:16:09] <Eilenia> Really. How'd the gnomes hear about this?
[20:16:54] <Charles> "The little bastards are invisible as often as not! How do you think they hear about anything?"
[20:17:04] <Eilenia> Good point.
[20:17:58] <Eilenia> So what did you come talking to us for?
[20:18:06] <Eve_Kasnora> "Stop asking for information, Elena!"
[20:18:30] <Eilenia> Oh, fine.
[20:18:33] <Eilenia> I suppose we don't know his price
[20:19:12] <Charles> "Well, as it happens, you're in my territory. I'm... willing to overlook that, so long as you help me 
  with the, ah, Coldheart situation."
[20:20:02] <Eve_Kasnora> "We were on our way to confront him, as it happens."
[20:20:18] <Paera> Well, our problems seem to line up, so...
[20:20:23] * Eve_Kasnora winces, realizing she just unconciously mimiced the dragon.
[20:21:08] <Charles> Oh, excellent! I'm sure you wouldn't mind an escort, in that case. After all, I'm sure you're aware, 
  being such wise adventurers, that his camp is quite well defended, from nearly all sides.
[20:21:50] <Eve_Kasnora> "That... would certainly be welcome..."
[20:22:14] * Eve_Kasnora suddenly blurts out. "What are your feelings on Tiamat?!"
[20:22:39] * Paera blinks.
[20:23:01] * Eve_Kasnora curses something that doesn't translate out of Tsavarogorovian dialect.
[20:23:07] <Charles> Oh, I suppose she's a fine goddess, in theory, but what's she done for me *lately*, you know?
[20:23:37] <Eve_Kasnora> "Ahaha... sorry, I was not meaning to get personal."
[20:24:06] <Charles> I'm sure a fine and wise paladin such as yourself receives uncountable blessings from Bahamut, but 
  cruel, loving mother Tiamat leaves me to starve, as elves hunt my land, and here we are!
[20:25:19] <Eve_Kasnora> "M...maybe Bahamut brought me into your lands, knowing you'd be so generous to be overlooking the 
  intrusion, to help you?"
[20:25:44] <Charles> Perhaps so!
[20:25:50] * Eve_Kasnora laughs nervously.
[20:26:03] <Eve_Kasnora> "I am glad to be helping! Haha..."
[20:26:19] * Paera swallows nervously.
[20:27:40] <Eilenia> Isn't that WONDERFUL news, Eve?
[20:27:49] <Charles> "Well, beautiful! Let's get this enterprise underway!"
[20:28:00] <Eve_Kasnora> "Haha.. yes.. let us.. be going."
[20:28:32] * Eve_Kasnora eyes Paera. Her expression seems to be saying "help!".
[20:30:06] * Paera looks back, shrugging slightly, not looking any less terrified.
[20:31:22] <Charles> * The dragon lifts off the monolith, flapping lazily, the slow motion of its wings someone keeping its 
  horse-size frame aloft, and begins slowly moving to the northwest, slow enough to follow on foot
[20:31:44] * Eve_Kasnora follows the dragon... at a safe distance.
[20:32:08] * Eilenia follows
[20:32:25] * Paera follows after Eve timidly.
[20:35:44] <Charles> * The dragon stays in front most of the way, occaisionally looping back and behind the group before 
  returning to its flight path. Eventually, after something of a long walk, the rows of monoliths give way to a 
  snow-covered forest, skirting the edge of the cyclopean momuments
[20:39:41] * Eve_Kasnora nervously glances behind her whenever the dragon loops around.
[20:42:10] <Charles> * The dragon stops, flying in a loose pattern, looking off into the distance. He swoops down. "Good 
  job, heroes. We're just about there! We just need to get you inside the encampment, and I think I might have an idea. 
  Just wait here. if you please." 
[20:42:55] <Eve_Kasnora> "S-sure..."
[20:43:12] * Eve_Kasnora waits for it to leave, then turns to Elena.
[20:43:18] <Eve_Kasnora> "WAS THAT BEING A DRAGON?!"
[20:44:15] <Eilenia> If it looks like a dragon, sounds like a dragon, and tastes like a dragon, it's probably a dragon.
[20:45:00] * Eve_Kasnora completely ignores Elena's weirdness.
[20:45:12] * Eve_Kasnora looks to Paera. "That was being a dragon, yes?"
[20:45:22] <Paera> I...I think that was being a dragon.
[20:45:56] <Charles> * As it takes to the sky again, you notice the facts that surround the area, For one, the monuments 
  all have strange, arcane runes carved into the outward facing sides. Secondly, the ground seems to descend here into a 
  slight pit. Thirdly, neatly stacked piles of delicate bones are in the forest, just nearly out of reach.
[20:45:57] * Eve_Kasnora completely fails to notice Paera effective a Tsavarogorovian accent.
[20:46:43] <Eve_Kasnora> "How common are dragons being in the Feywild, Elena?"
[20:49:14] <Eilenia> Oh, not especially common.
[20:49:29] <Eilenia> I certainly don't see them every day.
[20:49:38] <Charles> * As you take these facts in, there's a sudden crack of magical energy as the monoliths flare to life, 
  throwing up a rough wall of dirt around the pit, and the ground begins to rumble under your feet. The dragon swoops back, 
  the flesh over its razor teeth peeled back in a rictus grin. "Oh, how generous of you! I'd wanted to deal with Coldheart, 
  but I suppose I wouldn't mind stopping for dinner first!" 
[20:49:52] <Charles> [Session End]
[20:50:55] * Paera is now known as Yon
[21:34:17] * Eilenia is now known as Demota
[21:39:36] * Eve_Kasnora is now known as NovaSeaker
End of #Odal buffer    Mon Jul 27 21:55:47 2009