Start of #Odal buffer: Wed Jul 29 21:57:13 2009 [16:56:47] * Charles (CHBoucher@dsl2-161.gsinet.net) has joined #Odal [16:56:47] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Charles [17:10:37] * Demota is now known as Eilenia [17:11:28] * Cecil (rustangel@ip-117-113.atvci.net) has joined #Odal [17:12:55] * Yon (dlarmour@wnpgmb1309w-ad05-60-188.dynamic.mts.net) has joined #Odal [17:12:59] * Yon is now known as Paera [17:22:04] * NovaSeaker is now known as Eve_Kasnora [17:25:35] * When last we left their heroes, they had followed a green dragon into a deathtrap, stone walls rising out of the earth around them, and the very ground shaking under their feet. [17:25:43] [Session start] [17:41:19] * Charles changes topic to '[Eilenia] 23 [Eve] 22 [Dragon] 19 [Cecil] 14 [Paera] 6' [17:47:01] [Eilenia's turn] [17:53:14] * Eilenia hurls a spray of fey daggers at the dragon, then darts away. "Spread out!" [17:57:02] [Eve's turn] [17:57:28] * Eilenia misses, but the daggers stay in place, ready to wound the dragon [18:00:19] "Shit being on toast! I knew it!" [18:00:35] * Eve_Kasnora hunkers down, her already drawn swords now up and ready. [18:01:18] Even fear feels dull and muted in the world, see? [18:03:59] * The dragon swoops down, the daggers cutting at its wings, and glares at Eilenia, before turning towards Paera and Eve. It breathes a cloud of noxious toxic gas over the two of them, and then turns to fly away [18:04:07] [Paera's turn] [18:07:56] * Paera begins to pray as she moves away from Eve and Elena. A bolt of light flies from the sky towards the dragon, but misses harmlessly. [18:08:58] [Eilenia's turn] [18:14:20] [Eve's turn] [18:14:22] * Eilenia darts away from the dragon and raises her hand. She hurls a ball of flame at the dragon, which explodes and falls to the ground as a humongous burning mass. The ball, not the dragon. THe dragon's just fine. [18:15:00] * Eilenia whispers and performs arcane gestures. A glittering hoard worthy of ancient dragons appears in the flame... [18:19:38] * Eve_Kasnora turns away from the blast of the noxious breath, choking as she sheaths her grandfathers sword. She turns back as she removes a handaxe tucked into her belt at the small of her back and chucks it up at the dragon, where it bounces harmlessly off its scales. [18:25:44] * The dragon spares the illusory treasure only a sidelong glance, and then darts at Eilenia, but isn't quite able to close his jaws on her, and then pulls up, flying up to the edge of the wall again [18:25:49] [Cecil's turn] [18:25:58] * Cecil appears from a high wall. Standing about 4 foot tall, as stout as a dwarf, is a frog-like, humanoid creature. He is dressed in noble attire unsuited for a barbaric bullywug, with a fine red cloak blowing in the wind. He leaps from a high wall, with a sword as large as him, if not slightly longer than his body length, between his arms, pointed downward underneath them, falling towards the dragon. This blade appears to be made of light. [18:31:12] [Paera's turn] [18:31:15] * Eve_Kasnora blinks. "What is that? Is... frog?" [18:32:06] Oh, a frog! [18:32:11] The most convenient frog imaginable! [18:32:38] * Paera stares at the...frog? briefly, then shakes her head. "Well, looks like it's on our side at least." She begins praying again. [18:32:48] "Begone, ye fiend! Thou hast done enough harm to wayward travellers." [18:34:04] [Eilenia's turn] [18:36:31] [Eve's turn] [18:36:36] * Eilenia concentrates, trying to sustain both the fire and illusory treasure, and summons another swarm of fey daggers from the wilderness around her to assaul tthe dragon [18:36:56] * Eilenia backs off to keep from being too close to the others [18:38:31] * Eve_Kasnora reaches behind her back again and produces her other handaxe. "Well.. let us be trying to help." [18:38:54] * Eve_Kasnora closes one eye and lines up her throw carefully, trying not to hit the Frog. She overcompensates and misses completely. [18:45:41] * The dragon thrashes, trying to get Cecil off its back, and then rolls towards Eilenia, breathing a cloud of poison gas over her, which blows away in the wind. [18:45:49] [Cecil's turn] [18:49:10] * Cecil hops to the ground, lashing upwards, his blade turning into pure cold as he cuts. The strike misses, and he grins. [18:49:36] [Paera's turn] [18:52:30] * Paera continues trying to track the dragon's movement as she prays, but continues to miss. [18:56:14] * The rumbling builds to a crescendo, and the ground midway through the arena slams upwards, forming a wall between the two halves of the stone ring [18:56:41] [Eilenia's turn] [18:56:56] Hello, convenient frog! [18:58:21] "Woah-aha!" [18:58:50] [Eve's turn] [18:58:52] * Eve_Kasnora rises up with the newly formed wall, riding on top of its formation. [18:59:12] * Eilenia summons another spray of daggers and hurls them at the dragon. She backs away. [19:01:07] "Hah! Bad move, dragon!" [19:01:43] * Eve_Kasnora runs across the wall to the edge of the circular encampment, hacking at the Dragon with her magic blade. [19:09:13] * The dragon takes the blade hard across his neck. "Sweet fancy Tiamat, that hurt! That actually hurt!" He fixes Eve with a glare. "Why don't we take a moment to reconsider this, as you *leap off this wall*." As Eve is briefly bowled over by the compulsion, he reaches in and snaps his jaws at her [19:09:24] [Cecil's turn] [19:09:40] * Cecil dissapears mid-fall for a brief moment and reappears several safe feet from the ground. As he lands, he looks looks upwards, the energies from his sword somehow linked to the dragon below. He jerks his arm and yanks it down. [19:11:28] * Cecil 's blade freezes over again as he lashes at the throat of the beast. "Fight fair!" [19:11:28] [Paera's turn] [19:16:44] * Paera grits her teeth, concentrating as she prays. Finally, a beam of light pierces the dragon from above. [19:18:13] * The wall sinks into the floor of the arena once more, and five pillars rise instead, with rough-hewn edges. Eilenia is lifted up on the southern pillar [19:18:48] [Eilenia's turn] [19:28:29] * Eve_Kasnora watches the ground come up and braces herself, setting her feet against it and legging go of the sinking wall. [19:28:31] * Eilenia pulls a rope out of her pack and unfurls it, letting one end drop to the earth below while hanging onto the other side. She speaks words of power, and points her orb at the dragon. A flood of daggers with iridescent wings flies out and surrounds the dragon, cutting into it. The orb flashes a bright green, and a faint laughter can be heard. Eve no longer feels the ravages of teh poison. [19:29:10] [Eve's turn] [19:30:03] * Eve_Kasnora looks up at the dragon and then around the shifting arena. She spots one of her thrown axes and runs for it, diving and slinging back up at the dragon. [19:40:57] * Eve_Kasnora expclaims "Yes!" as the handaxes slams into one of the dragons's wing's filangees. [19:45:23] * The dragon gazes at Eve again. "Come here for a second, will you?" As he's teleported to the ground, and Eve stumbles forward, he breathes poison gas across Paera, Eve, and the frog, then takes wing, snapping at Eilenia as he heads towards the center column to roost [19:47:16] * Disconnected [19:50:18] * Attempting to rejoin channel #Odal [19:50:19] * Rejoined channel #Odal [19:50:19] * Topic is '[Eilenia] 23 [Eve] 22 [Dragon] 19 [Cecil] 14 [Paera] 6' [19:50:19] * Set by Charles!CHBoucher@dsl2-161.gsinet.net on Wed Jul 29 17:41:21 [19:51:12] [Cecil's turn] [19:56:02] [Paera's turn] [19:56:16] * Cecil blinks from sight, reappearing on the dragon's back, moving to strike, but losing his grip momentarily. [20:03:11] * The columns collapse again, and the ground begins falling away, creating a set of five-foot-deep trenches in the ground. [20:03:16] [Eilenia's turn] [20:05:35] [Eve's turn] [20:05:56] * Eilenia launches a series of fey daggers at the dragon [20:06:07] * Eilenia doesn't manage to do any damage, though [20:08:04] * Eve_Kasnora spots another one of her axes in the poisonous slush and sluggishly moves to retrieve it. As she turns around and throws, the handaxe bites into the dragon's pointy snout before bouncing off and landing in the snow again. [20:09:11] * The dragon winces, and takes to the air, sailing over Eve and Paera, and hovers near the frog, snapping at him to no avail [20:09:20] [Cecil's turn] [20:17:29] * Cecil rushes beneath the dragon, throwing out his blade at the creature, driving it deep into its flank, He yanks his arm back, pulling the dragon to him and the rest of the group. [20:17:46] [Paera's turn] [20:20:57] * The arena spasms again, the floor in the center spasming and slamming upwards, bringing everybody level with the edges of the arena [20:21:02] [Eilenia's turn] [20:24:40] * Eilenia rushes up to the central platform from her column, and unleshes a thundering explosion of sound, shoving the dragon away from her and down towards the ground. [20:25:33] [Eve's turn] [20:32:07] * The dragon lifts up, shaken from its shove, and bites at Cecil, to no effect [20:32:13] [Cecil's turn] [20:33:49] [Paera's turn] [20:34:03] * Eve_Kasnora moves sluggishly to one of her axes she found lying on the platform and shucks it at the dragon, only to watch it bounce off a flapping wing. [20:34:27] * Cecil throws out his sword again, lightning trailing along the blade as it bolts into the wing joint of the dragon. He pulls it up from the strands as if he were playing with a giant dragon yoyo [20:44:17] * The arena begins contracting, pulsaing as if alive [20:44:21] [Eilenia's turn] [20:44:41] * Paera backs away from the dragon, praying feverishly. She glows faintly and straightens up a bit. [20:45:16] "Hold on Paera!" [20:46:09] [Eve's turn] [20:47:05] * Eilenia unleahes another burst of thunder, but the sound is too unfocused. SHe backs away to spread out more [20:55:04] * Eve_Kasnora looks around, not finding any handaxes on the platform. She draws her grandfather's blade from it's sheath and kisses the pommel before reeling back and launching it in front of her. She then chases after the thrown blade, wielding her magic sword in two hands, screaming. "MY GRANDFATHER SENDS HIS BLESSING!" [20:56:54] * The dragon wheezes, visibly in pain, as it turns to begin retreating [20:56:58] * The thrown weapon pierces the dragon's chest. Eve then jumps up, kicking the sword further into the dragon as she uses the pommel as a step to slash the dragon in the face. [20:57:29] * Eve_Kasnora drops back onto the platform, wrenching her grandfather's sword free. [20:57:29] * Eilenia cheers on Eve! [20:58:29] * As Eve wrenches the sword free, it's awash in the heart's blood of the dragon. From deep within the blade, a radiant glow begins throbbing, with the stolen heartbeat of the green dragon [20:58:50] * Eve_Kasnora blinks. [20:58:53] "Gah!" [20:59:18] "Blasted dragon is cursing grandfather's sword!" [20:59:30] Uh oh [21:00:05] * The dragon turns, its cool demeanor broken. "Not worth it! No meal is worth this! I can't die yet!" It begins flying to the east, spreading its wings to their fullest [21:00:46] * Eve_Kasnora inhales deeply, then screams at the fleeing dragon. "BAHAMUT IS BEING VERY DISSAPPOINTED IN YOU!" [21:00:58] * Eve_Kasnora looks back down at her sword. [21:01:09] "What is happening to grandfather's sword?" [21:02:12] Nothing's happening. [21:02:23] THAT'S RIGHT, RUN, YOU SCALEY OBNOXIOUS ASS! [21:02:35] * Eve_Kasnora blinks and looks at Paera. [21:02:40] We had a deal, where is Coldheart? [21:02:47] * Eve_Kasnora smirks at her. [21:02:56] * Paera covers her mouth. [21:03:33] * The dragon flaps over the horizon [21:03:48] * Paera might be blushing but it's hard to tell, as usual. [21:04:21] * Eilenia looks over Eve's sword. "It's just magical. How long has it been magical?" [21:04:25] * Cecil clears his throat, calmly throing his sword back over his back, its energies becoming latent. [21:04:32] "It.. was never being magical." [21:04:35] "Are the lot of thee all right?" [21:04:54] "Oh! Mr. Frog person. Much thanks being to you!" [21:05:05] * The arena collapses into the ground, leaving a wide, circular ditch [21:05:25] "Greetings. I am Cecil Voldencamp Derkrithen." [21:05:33] * Eve_Kasnora sheaths her right-handed blade, keeping her grandfather's out but down and non-threating. She walks over and extends a hand to the frog person. [21:05:34] Hello Convenient Frog Cecil. [21:05:40] I am Eilenia Amastacia. [21:06:10] "Greetings Cecil, I am Eve Kasnora of Tsavarogorov, knight errant of Bahamut." [21:06:14] "I am afraid that I hast misassumed mine form upon reincarnation." [21:06:33] "Sorry?" [21:07:03] "As it be, I am cursed. Seeking out the source of the evil that hast befallen me." [21:07:22] I'm Paera Tress. Thanks, you really saved us there. [21:07:48] Don't mind Eilenia, she talks like that to everyone. [21:07:58] "This land is dangerous. What art thou doing ere?" [21:08:42] * Eve_Kasnora frowns. "We are being here to stop Coldheart." [21:09:04] I wonder if this ground will give way to a pit. [21:09:09] "Convenient indeed. Coldheart hast placed this curse upon mine form." [21:09:17] "He is hunting people. For sport. I am not tolerating such behavior." [21:09:17] How deep can a pit go, I wonder... [21:09:24] Oh dear. So you have seen him? [21:09:41] "He killed my progenitor." [21:10:09] "Your parent?" [21:10:33] * Along the edge of the forest, you notice the bone piles, presumably left by the dragon, if this is where he typically hunts. [21:10:34] "In a sense, aye. I art a Deva." [21:11:03] "Cecil Voldencamp Der...kriken Deva?" [21:11:18] "That is being a lot of names!" [21:12:02] "...Oh!" [21:12:11] "Oh, like... Deva, being, yes?" [21:12:23] Fascinating. I've heard of your kind. [21:12:25] "Mine lineage traces back thousands of years. One accumulates them over time." [21:12:31] You seem a great deal less purple. [21:12:58] "Mine natural skin tones are green and white, hence the colorations." [21:13:47] * Paera sighs. [21:14:33] * Eve_Kasnora offers her hand again. "Well I am being very glad to meet you, Cecil." [21:15:26] * Cecil reaches out, and shakes it. "And I you madame. I am flattered to be in the presence of such a beautiful woman." [21:15:52] "Would you be knowing where Coldheart i- ...ahaha, why thank you." [21:16:51] "I am not often recieving complements. I am thinking the swords scare men away, yes?" [21:16:54] * Eve_Kasnora grins. [21:17:10] "I am afraid that I do not know such a fear, nor the whereabouts of that deviant." [21:18:59] Oh dear. [21:19:05] We were looking for him [21:19:27] Wanted to have a few words with him. Like Explosive Runes. [21:19:41] * Upon another cursory glance, you notice that the top of the bone piles are covered in gold. [21:19:42] "As I hast percieved. It seems we have similar agendas. Shall we band together?" [21:20:57] "That is being a wise course of action, yes." [21:21:03] Oh, look. Prosperity. [21:21:18] "Then let us partake of these baubles before we continue on our quest." [21:22:18] * Eilenia looks over the bone piles and gold [21:22:42] * There are four bone piles, each with a gold-covered skull of a humanoid [21:22:55] * Eve_Kasnora grimaces at the grisly treasure. [21:23:13] * On one of the skulls, a pink coral diadem that looks a bit like brain matter sits, exuding a subtle magical aura [21:23:18] * Eve_Kasnora finally gets about to cleaning her grandfather's sword of the dragon's blood. [21:23:53] I wonder what this does. [21:24:28] * Slightly deeper into the forest, there's a small shelter made of interlaced branches. Inside the shelter is some loose dirt, along with a massive pile of copper coins, large enough for the dragon to sleep on, and a small book, with a place marked [21:25:25] * Under the loose dirt is a small chest, made of crudely woven wood, containing two hundred and fifty gold pieces, along with two hundred and fourty silver. [21:25:53] * Eve_Kasnora inspects her family sword as they travel. [21:26:02] "O-oh!" [21:26:15] "It.. it is wanting to shine..." [21:27:03] * Eve_Kasnora holds it aloft. The blade bursts into light, shining brightly for a hundred paces around. [21:27:08] Ooh. [21:27:18] What else does it do? [21:28:07] * At Elena's question, the metal of the blade stops shedding light and becomes light itself, shining with the pure radiance of the sun. [21:28:29] "Is... Is this because of the dragon?" [21:28:38] Maybe. [21:28:54] The sword seems to be happy drinking blood. [21:29:10] * Eilenia looks over the book. [21:29:12] * Eve_Kasnora frowns. "No it isn't." [21:29:15] No? [21:29:22] "I wiped the blood away." [21:29:26] Well, I'm sure it's mature enough to make its own decisions [21:29:42] * Eve_Kasnora quirks a brow at Elena. [21:30:31] * The book seems to have been recorded by the dragon, listening to the elven nobles inside their retreat. It's a record of the stories they told each other, of a nature such that, at her age, she either understands nothing or understands it entirely. [21:32:11] * It would probably be worth a modest sum to collectors of eladrin erotica, and I assure you, they're out there. [21:33:09] * Eilenia starts packing up the gold pieces and other notable objects. She pokes and prods at the circlet a bit more. [21:33:31] * Eilenia realizes that it's a Phrenic Crown! [21:34:55] Oooh, fascinating. [21:34:59] * Eilenia pluts the circlet on her head [21:35:06] "The book?" [21:35:17] Oh, the circlet. [21:35:26] The book's full of things. [21:36:00] * Eve_Kasnora takes a look at the book. [21:36:31] "Are... you allowed to be seeing this sort of thing, Elena?" [21:37:01] I dunno! [21:39:44] What do you think? [21:41:36] "I can't read elven. But it belonged to an evil dragon, so I am not knowing what sort of thing might be inside it." [21:42:56] Oh, it's a transcription of those stories that the nobles were telling each other. [21:45:18] Grown-up stories. [21:45:29] "Hm." [21:47:01] * Cecil (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) [21:47:18] Of grown-ups. [21:47:21] Doing grown-up things. [21:51:52] * Paera is now known as Yon [21:53:34] * Eve_Kasnora (novaseaker@c-24-129-25-205.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) Quit (Ping timeout: 180 seconds) [21:55:19] * Eilenia gets back to organizing things. [21:55:41] [4 humanoid skulls covered in gold (250 GP total, can be melted off if you don't feel like carrying around the skulls of the dead) [21:55:41] One of the skulls was wearing a Phrenic Crown [21:55:41] Under a eave made of interlaced leaves, there was a pile of seven thousand copper pieces, just about the right size for the dragon to sleep on [21:55:41] A book in elven, containing what appear to be stories told by the nobles in the nearby village (16 gp) [21:55:41] Buried under loose dirt is a small chest containing 250 gp and 240 sp [21:55:51] [Session End] [21:56:38] * Yon (dlarmour@wnpgmb1309w-ad05-60-188.dynamic.mts.net) has left #Odal End of #Odal buffer Wed Jul 29 21:57:13 2009