D&D Transcript: Episode 1, Part 4

[alexandraerin]

[8/19/2010 10:09:06 PM] Alexandra Erin: We're going to start things off with Gallifreya and Toben closing the rift, as Gallifreya can't stay on with us tonight... I'll let Gallifreya direct what Toben's doing here.
[8/19/2010 10:09:32 PM] Gallifreya: umm dang that means I have to think now
[8/19/2010 10:10:17 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((I have a feeling if I'd gotten those posts up a few days earlier we'd be past the "split screen" now. Sorry!))
[8/19/2010 10:11:07 PM] Optima Brand: (( Nah, we wouldn't have discovered them until today anyway. And by "we" I mean "me." ))
[8/19/2010 10:11:10 PM] Dunbar: it's ok. we am patient.
[8/19/2010 10:11:55 PM] Gallifreya: ok using the sword nicly loaned by Optima bard Gallifreya will use her abilties to charge it with magical enrgy via her niffty blue crystal tipped wand then holding the wand across the rift signals to toben to prepare his jump which he does using his fey step to teloport himself across the rift
[8/19/2010 10:13:04 PM] Gallifreya: menat hloding the sword gah
[8/19/2010 10:13:37 PM] Alexandra Erin: Okay. As Toben steps through the Feywild, a thread of normal space is carried along the charged conduit, allowing you to neatly "stitch" the rift closed. Or not so neatly... you're dealing with a tear into the Elemental Chaos, electrcial energy lances out through the sword and into yours and Toben's bodies. The rift is sealed, but the two of you are rendered conveniently unconscious.
[8/19/2010 10:13:40 PM] Alexandra Erin: Completely! I meant completely.
[8/19/2010 10:13:49 PM] Optima Brand: (( Opti will use BRUTE STRENGTH to seal the portal. ))
[8/19/2010 10:14:11 PM] Carrog: ((I'd make a Acrobatics check reference to a sci-fi television series, but I don't know that it's worth it))
[8/19/2010 10:14:26 PM] Gallifreya: ( oh look Optima gets to carry us)
[8/19/2010 10:14:59 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Freya, you can wake up in a moment if you want to, but feel free to use the loopiness as an excuse to not participate, and pass out again if you need to leave.))
[8/19/2010 10:15:16 PM] Harlan: ((Opti will eventually have carried everyone))
[8/19/2010 10:15:33 PM] Optima Brand: (( that's why i got the 18 strength ))
[8/19/2010 10:15:53 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Fighters: Not just meat shields anymore! They're also pack mules.))
[8/19/2010 10:16:47 PM] Dunbar: (( fighters are now dubbed shield mules. or if you prefer, meat packers. ))
[8/19/2010 10:16:50 PM] Gallifreya: Freya will stagger along for now but she is very incorrenant Optima almost has to lead her by the hand and deffiently gives off the finger in the light socket vide
[8/19/2010 10:16:52 PM] Optima Brand: (( I'm gonna buy a bicycle rickshaw. ))
[8/19/2010 10:18:01 PM] Optima Brand: Opti throws Toben over her shoulder, and sighs a little at Freya being all ditzy. Now she can't seduce her back at the Inn cuz she wouldn't take advantage of someone like that. Oh well!
[8/19/2010 10:18:05 PM] Gallifreya: ( and trust me from this ppoint on lexy will likly strat translating for me cause normal I type in open office before posting)
[8/19/2010 10:19:38 PM] Alexandra Erin: Okay, so that's the rift sorted. Optima is leading Toben and Freya back towards the tavern, with the impedience conveniently slowing them down to the point that they rejoin the rest of the group as Harlan and Janus are finishing the poultice preparations. ((So much convenience... obviously some extra synchronocity leaked out of the rift.))
[8/19/2010 10:20:42 PM] Lady Scarlet: (we're riding a synchronicity wave? if i meet a cut blonde englishman, i'm cutting and running._
[8/19/2010 10:20:57 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Don't worry, you're only in danger if he befriends you.))
[8/19/2010 10:21:16 PM] Optima Brand: (( cut? ))
[8/19/2010 10:21:34 PM] Dunbar: ((cute))
[8/19/2010 10:21:47 PM] Optima Brand: (( OHHH, I thought Scarlet meant ... er nevermind. ))
[8/19/2010 10:21:57 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Yeaaah, when you pointed that out, my train of thought completely derailed.))
[8/19/2010 10:22:14 PM] Optima Brand: (( Back to the swallowed cock. ))
[8/19/2010 10:22:43 PM] Carrog: ((No, no- it spit, remember? Otherwise we couldn't make the poultice.))
[8/19/2010 10:23:16 PM] Lady Scarlet: (first it swallows and then it spits.... why can't monsters make up their minds?)
[8/19/2010 10:24:13 PM] Janus: (variety is the spice of life)
[8/19/2010 10:24:34 PM] Dunbar: (( i thought the spice of life was paprika...))
[8/19/2010 10:24:39 PM] Alexandra Erin: Okay... so here's where we pick up: Optima arrives back at the tavern with Toben over her shoulder and Gallifreya in tow. Spectre has been pestering the staff, and has just ( http://alexandraerin.livejournal.com/152409.html?thread=1056345#t1056345 ) been told off by the barmaid. Harlan and Janus have just finished their gloopy infusion.
[8/19/2010 10:25:08 PM] Optima Brand: (( We don't have rooms, do we? ))
[8/19/2010 10:25:25 PM] Alexandra Erin: The bartender looks at the concoction skeptically and says, "Iffen any of you gets sick eatin' that, it's on your own heads."
[8/19/2010 10:25:35 PM] Dunbar: *looks at the bowl of porridge* "You made... bugbear snot?"
[8/19/2010 10:25:45 PM] Harlan: ((Nor do we have time! To the batcave!))
[8/19/2010 10:25:56 PM] Dunbar: "Meh, as long as it works."
[8/19/2010 10:26:06 PM] Spectre: "Is it ready?"
[8/19/2010 10:26:17 PM] Janus: "It should be sufficient."
[8/19/2010 10:26:25 PM] Lady Scarlet: "I have the strangest feeling that the porridge is just right..."
[8/19/2010 10:26:27 PM] Optima Brand: Optima approaches the innkeeper, carrying Toben over her shoulder. "We need a room. I'll pay in gold after I set him down to rest. And her too." She shrugs a thumb in the direction of Freya.
[8/19/2010 10:26:36 PM] Optima Brand: "It looks too cold to me."
[8/19/2010 10:27:00 PM] Alexandra Erin: The man looks at Optima and says, "You need another room? Well, I guess you would."
[8/19/2010 10:27:27 PM] Dunbar: (( I prepaid! 2 gp! lollz ))
[8/19/2010 10:27:33 PM] Optima Brand: (( Oh, I forgot. ))
[8/19/2010 10:27:49 PM] Gallifreya: "Fasanaiting...so much more power went through then I though twould...oh have you seen my libary card I seem to have misplaced it...." Gallifreya has a strange lopsided smile on her face
[8/19/2010 10:27:49 PM] Optima Brand: (( Well, tell me! ))
[8/19/2010 10:28:02 PM] Carrog: ((Just tell him we already used that one))
[8/19/2010 10:28:11 PM] Spectre: "What has happened to them?" Spectre asks Optima.
[8/19/2010 10:28:59 PM] Optima Brand: "Oh, they got zapped by lightning or something. I was hoping that the sword would insulate her from the electric current. But resistance was futile."
[8/19/2010 10:29:21 PM] Spectre: ((d'ohhhh, your puns))
[8/19/2010 10:29:48 PM] Spectre: "Will they recover?"
[8/19/2010 10:30:34 PM] Carrog: ((Only if they meditate. They'll have to stay current on their ohms.))
[8/19/2010 10:30:55 PM] Gallifreya: "Accutly the resistance of the metal was perfect...it wa shte delightfull combonation of...." Gallifreya's words trail off as the woman topples over
[8/19/2010 10:31:07 PM] Optima Brand: She stares blankly at Spectre. "Do you remember who you're asking? I'm not the brains around here."
[8/19/2010 10:31:14 PM] Spectre: Spectre tries to catch Freya.
[8/19/2010 10:31:37 PM] Optima Brand: (( Oddly enough, Freya's typing patterns are in character tonight. ))
[8/19/2010 10:32:01 PM] Spectre: (reflexes 13)
[8/19/2010 10:32:06 PM] Gallifreya: (wasntme)
[8/19/2010 10:32:36 PM] Alexandra Erin: Spectre's not quite close enough to catch Freya, though the fall doesn't seem to do her much harm.
[8/19/2010 10:33:03 PM] Spectre: He kneels down beside her. "Harlan, could you have a look at them?"
[8/19/2010 10:33:23 PM] Optima Brand: "So, yeah." She carries Toben upstairs (?) and dumps him on a bed somewhere.
[8/19/2010 10:33:46 PM] Alexandra Erin: "So the blue one'll be wanting a room as well, then?" the barman says. "It's four copper to bed down in the common room, and you have to wait until things die down for the night"
[8/19/2010 10:34:40 PM] Alexandra Erin: Optima, you get as far as the hallway connecting the tavern to the rest of the inn... the sight of four doors on each side, with your names (minus Gallifreya's) engraved on wooden plaques stops you.
[8/19/2010 10:34:58 PM] Harlan: *looks them over and tries to detect any injuries* ((Heal 26)) “It looks like they just need some rest.”
[8/19/2010 10:35:11 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((It looks like they just need some rest. Toben is suffering form mild plot complications.))
[8/19/2010 10:37:11 PM] Optima Brand: She peers at the doors. "This is odd. Our names on the doors." Still carrying Toben, she goes over and tries to open the door that has Scarlet's name on it.
[8/19/2010 10:37:31 PM] Alexandra Erin: It's locked.
[8/19/2010 10:38:04 PM] Janus: "I think Gallifreya would prefer a bed if that's not too much trouble."
[8/19/2010 10:38:22 PM] Optima Brand: Next, Opti tries the one that says "Optima Brand" on it.
[8/19/2010 10:38:40 PM] Alexandra Erin: That one opens.
[8/19/2010 10:38:44 PM] Spectre: "What was that, Optima?" Intrigued, Spectre wanders down the hall to investigate. Is there a door with 'Spectre' on it, or is there a door with 'Archimedes Lens' on it?
[8/19/2010 10:38:59 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((There's one that says Archimedes Lens.))
[8/19/2010 10:39:20 PM] Gallifreya: Gallifreya's eyes flutter open "Oh a bed? what a lovely celing...how did I get here?"
[8/19/2010 10:39:23 PM] Optima Brand: Opti goes inside and if there's a bed, she dumps Toben on it. The door still open, she calls out, "Yeah, it's got our names on the doors, and a few people I never heard of."
[8/19/2010 10:39:40 PM] Lady Scarlet: "I see no harm in letting Freya rest in my quarters for a while, at least until we get things sorted."
[8/19/2010 10:39:45 PM] Alexandra Erin: There's a bed. The furnishings inside the room are serviceable and on the nicer side of travelers' inns but not opulent.
[8/19/2010 10:39:46 PM] Spectre: Spectre tries to follow Optima into her room.
[8/19/2010 10:39:55 PM] Alexandra Erin: Nothing about the room prevents you from entering it.
[8/19/2010 10:39:57 PM] Optima Brand: (( bow chicka bow ))
[8/19/2010 10:40:18 PM] Spectre: (( Spectre is sexless, so, not really ))
[8/19/2010 10:40:45 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Tell me somethin' neu-tral)
[8/19/2010 10:40:50 PM] Gallifreya: ( is waiting for the envitable)
[8/19/2010 10:41:08 PM] Optima Brand: (( You'd be surprised what you can do with sexless inanimate objects. ))
[8/19/2010 10:41:26 PM] Spectre: (( what about animate ones?))
[8/19/2010 10:41:39 PM] Gallifreya: ( oh yeah saw that coming it rsvped)
[8/19/2010 10:41:47 PM] Janus: Janus tries to help Gallifreya to Scarlett's room. "Lady Scarlett can you get the door?"
[8/19/2010 10:41:51 PM] Alexandra Erin: Optima, once you've deposited Toben on the bed you notice that in addition to more standard furnishings "your" room has a weapon rack, with spaces for your current arsenal and more.
[8/19/2010 10:41:53 PM] Optima Brand: Opti looks over at Spectre. "You don't need to be repaired after that battle, do you? You caught on fire and stuff. I mean... You are fully functional, aren't you?"
[8/19/2010 10:42:11 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Surely." Opens door for Janus.
[8/19/2010 10:42:36 PM] Spectre: "I could use an artificer's mending, but I can still fight for the time being."
[8/19/2010 10:42:46 PM] Lady Scarlet: (rocks out to Morgue than Words)
[8/19/2010 10:43:06 PM] Janus: Janus deposits her on the bed.
[8/19/2010 10:43:19 PM] Dunbar: *mumbles "Better go see what everyone is up to..."
[8/19/2010 10:43:20 PM] Optima Brand: "I don't think you're gonna find an artificer any time soon," she says.
[8/19/2010 10:43:31 PM] Dunbar: *heads in the directions of the rooms*
[8/19/2010 10:43:43 PM] Spectre: "Worrisome. But I will make do for now."
[8/19/2010 10:43:44 PM] Harlan: Harlan wonders if the door to the room with his name on it is also unlocked. He walks over to it and reaches for the handle… but instead of trying it decides to join the group gathering in Optima’s room.
[8/19/2010 10:44:26 PM] Optima Brand: (( Harlan can't reach the door handle ))
[8/19/2010 10:44:32 PM] Janus: Then Janus walks over to the door with his name on it swings open the door and peers in.
[8/19/2010 10:44:43 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((No, in fact the door handle on Harlan's is positioned at the right level for him.))
[8/19/2010 10:44:53 PM] Dunbar: (( tha's why his has a doogy dor ))
[8/19/2010 10:45:00 PM] Dunbar: ((door*)
[8/19/2010 10:45:08 PM] Optima Brand: (( ... now I am imagining a little tiny door next to the normal sized ones, and LOLing. ))
[8/19/2010 10:45:29 PM] Gallifreya: ( tiny door in a door)
[8/19/2010 10:45:48 PM] Dunbar: ((normal? you haven't seen Carrog's door yet? :P)
[8/19/2010 10:45:53 PM] Lady Scarlet: (is there a hall table next to harlan's room with a bottle on it that says drink me?)
[8/19/2010 10:45:54 PM] Harlan: (( :P )) *knocks on the door to Opti’s room, or door frame if the door is open*
[8/19/2010 10:46:11 PM] Optima Brand: "C'mon in, party's in my room," she says.
[8/19/2010 10:46:25 PM] Optima Brand: (( Harlan is a vampire. He can only enter if invited. ))
[8/19/2010 10:47:20 PM] Dunbar: (( he'd have to be a vamp. a gnome needs that 18/76 STR just to wear the platemail. ))
[8/19/2010 10:47:22 PM] Alexandra Erin: Janus, when you open you feel a brief sensation of vertigo as you seem to have lost your sense of direction... though you should be looking at a room in the middle of a large building, you're looking out at grass and trees with a small stream running past you. After a moment's re-orienation you realize that you're looking at some odd combination of forest and room... you can make out walls lightly obscured by vegetation, and a ceiling high above you. Still, the space seems slightly larger than it should be, given that there are rooms on either side of it.
[8/19/2010 10:48:00 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet follows the crowd into Optima's room while munching on a cookie looking bar
[8/19/2010 10:49:16 PM] Optima Brand: (( Gallifreya doesn't have a room. She has a blue box. ))
[8/19/2010 10:49:32 PM] Optima Brand: (( ... that's not meant to be dirty. ))
[8/19/2010 10:49:34 PM] Janus: Janus is quite taken aback by the room's furnishings, but tries to take it in stride and concentrate on something else. "Well all of this is certainly interesting but we should probably get going now that those two are stowed safely."
[8/19/2010 10:49:51 PM] Dunbar: *looks around, then follows the gathered voices to Opti's room*
[8/19/2010 10:50:20 PM] Gallifreya: (maybe but if she does she mispalced it to)
[8/19/2010 10:50:21 PM] Optima Brand: "You know, I think this Inn wants us to stick around for a while."
[8/19/2010 10:50:29 PM] Harlan: ((oh my gosh. I laughed so hard. And you saying it's not meant to be dirty just made it so much better))
[8/19/2010 10:50:42 PM] Spectre: "Disturbing."
[8/19/2010 10:51:58 PM] Dunbar: "Honestly, I'm up for a little rest, but we need to see about the boy."
[8/19/2010 10:52:18 PM] Optima Brand: "Oh, yeah, the kid. Rocky or whatever his name was. We gotta fix him."
[8/19/2010 10:52:21 PM] Spectre: "Indeed."
[8/19/2010 10:52:35 PM] Harlan: “Yes. We have a boy to heal. With our duty done, we may return.”
[8/19/2010 10:53:41 PM] Dunbar: "Well, then... let's go. Kid's not gonna heal himself."
[8/19/2010 10:53:48 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet shrugs and heads downstairs to await the others departure.
[8/19/2010 10:54:34 PM] Optima Brand: "I just hope I don't have to carry statue-boy around too," says Optima. "Hey, anyone got a sword you're not using? Mine sort of melted."
[8/19/2010 10:55:04 PM] Spectre: Spectre looks meaningfully at Harlan.
[8/19/2010 10:55:36 PM] Carrog: Carrog's still downstairs, and unusually quiet. He's mostly just staring at the bowl of poultice/porrige, and repeatedly flexing his hands, lost deep in thought.
[8/19/2010 10:56:04 PM] Dunbar: (( it's alive! wondered where you were. ))
[8/19/2010 10:56:25 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet sees Carrog sitting alone and walks over to him to gently place a hand on his massive shoulder. "Copper for your thoughts?"
[8/19/2010 10:56:43 PM] Harlan: With a smile and a short laugh, Harlan hands his sword to Optima.
[8/19/2010 10:57:10 PM] Optima Brand: "You sure you don't need it?" she asks him.
[8/19/2010 10:57:26 PM] Carrog: ((Here, just didn't really see a place for Carrog yet))
[8/19/2010 10:57:40 PM] Dunbar: *goes back down stairs*
[8/19/2010 10:57:54 PM] Harlan: "Need it? I can't pick up. I'll get more use out of it in your hands."
[8/19/2010 10:59:18 PM] Carrog: Carrog blinks and refocuses on the world surrounding him, then shakes his head to Lady Scarlet, "No- nothing worth the trouble." He notices people starting to file back down and stands up, "So, are we ready to travel then?"
[8/19/2010 10:59:44 PM] Dunbar: "After we eat. I'm starving, here."
[8/19/2010 10:59:46 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Aye, I believe we are. Let's go and make things right."
[8/19/2010 11:00:24 PM] Dunbar: (( we've been running around for about 6 or 7 hours. get some food, then we can go, yeah?))
[8/19/2010 11:01:38 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((I don't think quite that long... it's been that long real time, but combats don't actually take an hour for everybody to swing once. :P))
[8/19/2010 11:01:51 PM] Janus: (Maybe we got food while we were preparing the poultice.)
[8/19/2010 11:02:19 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((You have walked a few miles back and forth, though. And who knows how long you went without eating before arriving at the inn... but as Janus said, there's half an hour in which you could have eaten off-screen.))
[8/19/2010 11:02:37 PM] Harlan: ((We could also eat at the festival, yes?))
[8/19/2010 11:02:44 PM] Lady Scarlet: (I ate onscreen)
[8/19/2010 11:02:52 PM] Optima Brand: (( Should we move ahead to the festival, everyone wrap up what they need to do here? ))
[8/19/2010 11:02:58 PM] Dunbar: (( ok, retcon me eating something then. Off we go!! lalala ha ha ))
[8/19/2010 11:04:28 PM] Spectre: ((Spectre felt hungry once. It turned out to be a broken pump. He's been fine since.))
[8/19/2010 11:05:53 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet sees everyone looking down and grabs the bowl of poultice. "I'm leaving, now. Come if you're coming." and out the door she goes.
[8/19/2010 11:06:15 PM] Janus: Janus follows immediately.
[8/19/2010 11:06:25 PM] Carrog: Carrog does the same.
[8/19/2010 11:06:51 PM] Alexandra Erin: Okay. According to my wandering monster random encounter table, you are attacked by three displacer beasts and a behol... oh, wait, wrong edition. A horseback-riding group of men in chain shirts and tabards with an emblem of a wyvern on them returning to the festival overtake you when you're almost there. "Magistrate Wallace has been looking for you," the captain says. "And your slippery friend with the robes."
[8/19/2010 11:07:35 PM] Harlan: *runs after*
[8/19/2010 11:07:45 PM] Janus: "We were just on our way to see him."
[8/19/2010 11:08:02 PM] Dunbar: "Now he's found us. Keep up." *keeps walking to where the child was*
[8/19/2010 11:08:06 PM] Optima Brand: "He's not really our friend, you know," she says pointlessly.
[8/19/2010 11:08:28 PM] Lady Scarlet: "I apologize for my companions lapse in judgement, but we've returned to fulfill our end of the bargain. I have here the cure for the child. If you could please escort me to the boy, I'm sure we can remedy the plight as soon as possible."
[8/19/2010 11:08:30 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Well, he'll be in for it if he shows his face around here... if you've got something, best put it to use quickly."
[8/19/2010 11:09:10 PM] Alexandra Erin: The man waves you on, and directs some of his men to keep an eye on you, then rides off, presumably to scour the countryside for the fugitive eladrin.
[8/19/2010 11:09:50 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Sometimes it pays to have manners."
[8/19/2010 11:10:05 PM] Spectre: Spectre eyes the remaining men, trying to determine if the party could best them. (insight 9)
[8/19/2010 11:10:13 PM] Janus: "Has the boy been moved," Janus asks one of the men on horses.
[8/19/2010 11:10:34 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Nay, none have gone near him. The wizard said that if he was disturbed the curse could go awry."
[8/19/2010 11:11:05 PM] Alexandra Erin: Spectre, they look like capable men-at-arms, but nothing special. However you guess you're looking at a fraction of the county's strength.
[8/19/2010 11:11:43 PM] Dunbar: (( specifically, the fraction with weapons and looking at us like we don't belong ))
[8/19/2010 11:12:09 PM] Alexandra Erin: The boy's still standing where he was. His mother is being held back by a couple of guards. The magician Impostro is arguing loudly with Magistrate Wallace a short distance away. Both stop and stare at the approach of your group.
[8/19/2010 11:12:38 PM] Lady Scarlet: I had the cure to the healers. "Make it good boys."
[8/19/2010 11:13:07 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Ah, the criminals return to do more mischief, I've no doubt," Impostro says. "If I had not been relieved of my wand, I would have undone their harm already."
[8/19/2010 11:13:56 PM] Janus: "Well it's about to undone now so no harm no foul."
[8/19/2010 11:14:10 PM] Janus: be undone*
[8/19/2010 11:14:12 PM] Optima Brand: "Does a cockatrice count as a fowl?"
[8/19/2010 11:14:45 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Indeed! Magistrate, when you are apportioning the blame and any reward for this incident, I hope you mark well that they took my wand to affect their cure," Impostro said. "That is assuming they have any cure at all there."
[8/19/2010 11:14:54 PM] Dunbar: "Only partially. The rest counts as serpent."
[8/19/2010 11:15:37 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Quite, magician," the magistrate says. "That's no wand they're using."
[8/19/2010 11:15:50 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((*quiet))
[8/19/2010 11:16:21 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Strange, last I remember the wand was returned to him. Then again, he's already proven himself a clumsy hedge wizard. Doesn't suprise me at all that he's misplaced something and will blame us for his folly. What a foolish little man." Scarlet says just loud enough for the crowd to hear her.
[8/19/2010 11:16:35 PM] Janus: "Harlan should we begin?"
[8/19/2010 11:16:56 PM] Harlan: "Yes, lets."
[8/19/2010 11:17:17 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((No roll necessary, by the way.))
[8/19/2010 11:17:36 PM] Harlan: *spreads the goopy mixture across the boy’s body*
[8/19/2010 11:17:45 PM] Janus: Janus starts applying the poultice to the boy.
[8/19/2010 11:18:43 PM] Alexandra Erin: The lumpy mixture begins to seep into the stone like water into a sponge, and you're only half done when the first portions you applied have sunk in, turning the stone from dead gray to a healthy ruddy tan.
[8/19/2010 11:19:11 PM] Alexandra Erin: The whole crowd stands breathless as the boy's vestments, hair, and flesh all fade back to their natural hues.
[8/19/2010 11:19:25 PM] Alexandra Erin: All except for Impostro, who is full of snide comments: "They make such a production out of this, I would have finished already."
[8/19/2010 11:19:34 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Then why aren't you?" the magistrate asks.
[8/19/2010 11:19:41 PM] Alexandra Erin: "For want of my wand!"
[8/19/2010 11:19:51 PM] Alexandra Erin: "I see no wand," the magistrate says. "It seems a rather convenient excuse for doing nothing."
[8/19/2010 11:20:01 PM] Dunbar: (( woot!))
[8/19/2010 11:20:12 PM] Optima Brand: (( AE, if you roleplay with yourself too much you'll go blind ))
[8/19/2010 11:20:32 PM] Alexandra Erin: Within a minute of the application, the boy's body begins to tremble, and then he gives a shuddering breath and sinks to the ground.
[8/19/2010 11:20:40 PM] Harlan: ((Yay! Now let's have a beer and go back to the inn? y/n/6?))
[8/19/2010 11:20:48 PM] Dunbar: *offers his waterskin to the boy*
[8/19/2010 11:20:56 PM] Janus: ( (beer))
[8/19/2010 11:21:02 PM] Alexandra Erin: "They've killed him!" Impostro cries, and the boy's mother runs elbows one of the guards and knees the other in the groin, then runs forward to her child.
[8/19/2010 11:21:20 PM] Alexandra Erin: It is apparent to everyone that Jared is not dead. :P
[8/19/2010 11:22:21 PM] Optima Brand: "See? Everything was fine with our hunt for the dimensional marauder, until the cockatrice was released by dickless here." She points at Impostro.
[8/19/2010 11:22:22 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Well, that's a lot of necks saved," the magistrate said. "The... stranger stranger are in the right here," he declares to the crowd. "Drag the magician to the festival square and fit him with stocks."
[8/19/2010 11:22:35 PM] Alexandra Erin: (("Is that true?"))
[8/19/2010 11:22:42 PM] Optima Brand: (( "Yes, it's true. This man has no dick." ))
[8/19/2010 11:23:35 PM] Alexandra Erin: "And for your troubles," the magistrate says to you, then pulls his guards over. "Go fetch that strongbox the imposter took such pains to hide when you accompanied him to his wagon."
[8/19/2010 11:24:48 PM] Alexandra Erin: One of the guards hurries to the magician's wagon and returns with a box of sturdy wood, reinforced with iron brackets.
[8/19/2010 11:25:50 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Whatever's in here is yours," the magistrate says. "Spend it in good health, but spend it far from here. I don't want to see any of you again. Leave the festival, and be out of my county by sunup tomorrow."
[8/19/2010 11:26:43 PM] Dunbar: (locked?)
[8/19/2010 11:26:49 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((Yes.))
[8/19/2010 11:26:52 PM] Optima Brand: "What's the name of this county again?"
[8/19/2010 11:27:12 PM] Dunbar: (the county of spanky poo the slippery monkey )
[8/19/2010 11:27:34 PM] Alexandra Erin: "Malrovia," Wallace said. "Just passing through, then? I thought as much."
[8/19/2010 11:28:25 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet walks to the box, kneels while pulling a few metal bars from her claok pocket. She inserts them into the lock and wiggles them around. (Thievery 27
[8/19/2010 11:28:49 PM] Alexandra Erin: The magistrate interrupts you at your task, Lady Scarlet. "Here, be off with you, I said!"
[8/19/2010 11:28:50 PM] Dunbar: (oh crap )
[8/19/2010 11:29:12 PM] Harlan: “We should be off before we overstay our, ah, generous welcome. To the inn?"
[8/19/2010 11:29:25 PM] Dunbar: "Agreed. Let's begone."
[8/19/2010 11:29:35 PM] Spectre: "Thank you, your grace. We will depart these lands as quickly as we are able." Spectre bows, slightly, and turns to leave.
[8/19/2010 11:29:57 PM] Harlan: *walks off twords the inn*
[8/19/2010 11:30:13 PM] Lady Scarlet: "As you wish, sir. And as they say in my country "May you get everything you've ever wished for.""
[8/19/2010 11:30:46 PM] Lady Scarlet: (gotta love old gypsy curses)
[8/19/2010 11:31:24 PM] Spectre: ((I assume Scarlet takes the box with her))
[8/19/2010 11:31:36 PM] Carrog: Carrog watches most of this in silence, then turns and starts walking back towards the inn, noticably taking pains to ensure he remains with the group, rather than the rapid strides that threatened to take him far ahead of the rest on the way to the quarry.
[8/19/2010 11:31:38 PM] Lady Scarlet: (why not, it's about all i'm gonna get to do action wise)
[8/19/2010 11:32:30 PM] Harlan: (Nothing's stopping you from opening it at the inn)
[8/19/2010 11:32:45 PM] Optima Brand: (( You can go back to the inn and open your box in private. ))
[8/19/2010 11:33:04 PM] Lady Scarlet: (yet logically it would be easier to carry the contents seperately from the box considering we're all not muscular powerhouses.)
[8/19/2010 11:33:05 PM] Janus: (Take the time necessary to really explore it)
[8/19/2010 11:33:11 PM] Dunbar: *looks to Carrog* "... mountains are most silent before they erupt. Speak your mind, giant."
[8/19/2010 11:33:38 PM] Optima Brand: (( So you're saying you'd like me to take possession of your box? ))
[8/19/2010 11:34:11 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((If you say that in character, you could stop and open the box outside the festival grounds. :P))
[8/19/2010 11:34:44 PM] Lady Scarlet: (i'll just haul it back, just call me Nodwick)
[8/19/2010 11:34:53 PM] Carrog: Carrog looks down at Dunbar, then grunts, "That's not true." As the group continues, he does speak up again, though: "Do you remember what Optima asked me, earlier?"
[8/19/2010 11:34:56 PM] Dunbar: (nodwick, lol)
[8/19/2010 11:35:06 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((A++ reference.))
[8/19/2010 11:35:13 PM] Optima Brand: "... Optima doesn't remember what Optima asked you."
[8/19/2010 11:36:22 PM] Carrog: "You asked me, rhetorically, whether I'd ever actually killed anyone. No, I haven't. And this was as close as I've gotten to seeing someone die. A child. And on top of that, I would have been at least partially responsible."
[8/19/2010 11:36:49 PM] Dunbar: "...Ah."
[8/19/2010 11:37:37 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((The DM has to run to the bathroom, so feel free to continue to have any dramatic personal moments/conversation that happens on the trip back to the inn. :P))
[8/19/2010 11:37:58 PM] Optima Brand: "Eh. You get used to after a while."
[8/19/2010 11:38:14 PM] Dunbar: "Sorry, Opti, not really."
[8/19/2010 11:38:25 PM] Optima Brand: "You have to."
[8/19/2010 11:38:36 PM] Spectre: "There is a good chance an incident would have occured with the cockatrice in any case. It is a dangerous animal."
[8/19/2010 11:38:44 PM] Lady Scarlet: "I was raised to understand that sometimes killing is necessary. The sheep kill the plants they consume, the wolves kill the sheep and we kill the wolves. And sometimes the wolves kill us."
[8/19/2010 11:38:47 PM] Optima Brand: "Or else it tears you up inside, and then you can't feel anymore, and that's a kind of 'getting used to it'."
[8/19/2010 11:39:04 PM] Dunbar: "Carrog..."
[8/19/2010 11:39:20 PM] Optima Brand: "Killin' people ain't ever necessary. It's not a matter of what you need to do. It's just a matter of doin'. Kill or be killed, that's what war's about."
[8/19/2010 11:39:49 PM] Dunbar: "I've never forgotten anyone who died in my village."
[8/19/2010 11:39:49 PM] Spectre: "We're not in a war, Optima."
[8/19/2010 11:40:07 PM] Janus: "Killing is never necessary but death is part of the world."
[8/19/2010 11:40:19 PM] Harlan: “Optima? You’re a mercenary, right?”
[8/19/2010 11:40:20 PM] Optima Brand: "Not right now. But it's just a matter of time until the next one comes along. We were almost at war with that sheriff."
[8/19/2010 11:40:33 PM] Optima Brand: "I've been a mercenary."
[8/19/2010 11:40:37 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((The DM's back but doesn't want to interrupt this. :P))
[8/19/2010 11:41:05 PM] Lady Scarlet: "My clan carves the names of our fallen into the walls of the great hall along with their accomplishments. Just because someone dies doesn't mean you have to forget."
[8/19/2010 11:41:07 PM] Harlan: “So you didn’t have say in who was to be he killed. Other then not you.”
[8/19/2010 11:41:38 PM] Janus: "And who says it's a bad part of the world."
[8/19/2010 11:42:09 PM] Dunbar: "It was the most excruciating, terrifying thing that ever happened to me. Trakkanar was my friend. Hell, it still tears me up just saying his name."
[8/19/2010 11:42:17 PM] Optima Brand: "Harlan, have you ever -tried- to kill a person? Or even actually -thought- about it?"
[8/19/2010 11:43:01 PM] Dunbar: *pats Carrog on the arm* "What we need is a drink."
[8/19/2010 11:43:26 PM] Janus: "The loss always hurts, but it's not evil just painful. And then only to the people it doesn't happen to."
[8/19/2010 11:43:44 PM] Harlan: “No. At the most I wanted to put enough fear into someone that they’d be repentant.”
[8/19/2010 11:43:46 PM] Dunbar: "I can tell you more while we get intoxicated."
[8/19/2010 11:44:33 PM] Optima Brand: "Well, you don't know then. It's not like fighting mud toads and fire snakes and dimensional whozits and whatzits."
[8/19/2010 11:44:57 PM] Alexandra Erin: You're now drawing near to the increasingly familiar sight of the odd inn.
[8/19/2010 11:45:01 PM] Harlan: “You’re right. People seem much less innocent.”
[8/19/2010 11:45:02 PM] Optima Brand: "It's completely differently to look a man in the eye and know that either you're gonna kill him, or he's gonna kill you, and either outcome is just as likely."
[8/19/2010 11:45:47 PM] Lady Scarlet: "Aye, Optima. Especially when they're your kin." Scarlet's eyes water
[8/19/2010 11:46:16 PM] Carrog: Carrog grunts noncommitally to Dunbar, listening to everyone. "Drunk sounds good. And I think we all need it."
[8/19/2010 11:46:17 PM] Optima Brand: (( We are all so fucking angsty. I love it. ))
[8/19/2010 11:46:22 PM] Spectre: "Before any alcohol is ordered, I warn you all, you may need your wits about you. Recall that the tavern and its denizens are more than they seem."
[8/19/2010 11:46:45 PM] Optima Brand: (( We're not an adventuring party, we're group therapy. ))
[8/19/2010 11:47:04 PM] Dunbar: "F*@# wits. We're remembering the dead and celebrating the living."
[8/19/2010 11:47:51 PM] Carrog: ((Oh, Carrog'll be back to his old self in a day. It'll just be half acting. Which, come to think of it, is what he does half the time anyhow.))
[8/19/2010 11:47:52 PM] Harlan: ((We could go into cheesy lameness about how that’s a part of what he have to *~learn from each other*~))
[8/19/2010 11:47:55 PM] Alexandra Erin: ((http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Qe6yDz1HI))
[8/19/2010 11:48:14 PM] Dunbar: (( that's IC, not meaning to be an ass to you spectre. ))
[8/19/2010 11:48:20 PM] Alexandra Erin: So, you've arrived back outside the tavern by this point.
[8/19/2010 11:48:26 PM] Lady Scarlet: (we'll either become a stronger party or all drink hemlock. either way it's a party)
[8/19/2010 11:48:51 PM] Janus: (I'll take the live forever option, thank you)
[8/19/2010 11:48:56 PM] Optima Brand: "Well, I do need a drink."
[8/19/2010 11:49:40 PM] Lady Scarlet: Once Scarlet reaches the in she heads upstairs to her room.
[8/19/2010 11:49:44 PM] Spectre: ((Dunbar: no worries. Spectre's just voicing the last thing any of the PCs want to hear right now))
[8/19/2010 11:50:00 PM] Alexandra Erin: Scarlet, as soon as you cross the threshold with the box, it begins to rattle and jump around in your arms.
[8/19/2010 11:50:12 PM] Dunbar: (oh shit)
[8/19/2010 11:50:20 PM] Alexandra Erin: An eerily familiar eerie green glow shines through the cracks.
[8/19/2010 11:50:44 PM] Carrog: ((So, about that 'living forever' thing...))
[8/19/2010 11:50:55 PM] Spectre: Spectre steps between Harlan and the box.
[8/19/2010 11:51:04 PM] Janus: (What about it?)
[8/19/2010 11:51:07 PM] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet grunts. "Hells bells, what is it now?"
[8/19/2010 11:51:35 PM] Harlan: *walks up to the bar and politely buys a honeyed drink*
[8/19/2010 11:51:57 PM] Carrog: ((Just expecting the box to kill us all))
[8/19/2010 11:51:58 PM] Alexandra Erin: The light and movement subside almost at once. Anybody who's still outside the tavern feels a sense of urgency about entering it.
[8/19/2010 11:52:12 PM] Dunbar: *rushes in*
[8/19/2010 11:52:16 PM] Spectre: Spectre rushes in without thinking.
[8/19/2010 11:52:23 PM] Lady Scarlet: "I swear by all the gods in the heavens i'm going to open this frickin' box and if i don't like what I find, I'm going back there and killing me a wizard!"
[8/19/2010 11:52:58 PM] Carrog: Carrog throws his arms wide and tries to basically shove everyone in, in front of him.
[8/19/2010 11:53:02 PM] Optima Brand: Optima blusters her way in.
[8/19/2010 11:53:50 PM] Optima Brand: (( "Lady Scarlet! You have to get out of here! Your box is haunted!" ))
[8/19/2010 11:54:19 PM] Alexandra Erin: As Carrog enters the tavern at the rear of everyone else, a sudden howling wind slams the door shut. The windows darken and all the torches and braziers flicker down to embers for a moment before coming back up. When they do, everybody is out of the taproom but you seven and the staff.
[8/19/2010 11:54:39 PM] Spectre: The half-elves are still present?
[8/19/2010 11:54:56 PM] Alexandra Erin: Yes. The two half-elf youths, the human barmaid, and the bartender are still there, cleaning up the mess left at several tables.
[8/19/2010 11:55:20 PM] Janus: "Is... Is this normal?"
[8/19/2010 11:55:27 PM] Spectre: "No."
[8/19/2010 11:55:34 PM] Dunbar: *tries to open the door*
[8/19/2010 11:56:30 PM] Alexandra Erin: Despite being latched with nothing more than a loop of hemp rope, it stays firmly in place... it's like pushing or pulling on a wall. Through the cracks, you can see nothing but darkness... black, like the sky on a cloudy, moonless night, like a void. A cold draught flows in from it.
[8/19/2010 11:56:42 PM] Spectre: Do any of the staff seem startled by the sudden disappearance of any other patrons?
[8/19/2010 11:56:49 PM] Alexandra Erin: No, they're all business.
[8/19/2010 11:57:05 PM] Alexandra Erin: The bartender's clearing the bar, the barmaid is mopping up, and the two youths are cleaning tables.
[8/19/2010 11:57:06 PM] Optima Brand: "It's cold outside."
[8/19/2010 11:57:46 PM] Lady Scarlet: I continue up to my room with the box from hell.
[8/19/2010 11:58:01 PM] Spectre: Spectre follows Scarlet, curious at to its contents.
[8/19/2010 11:58:07 PM] Lady Scarlet: (single minded determination helps when faced with the impossible)
[8/19/2010 11:58:38 PM] Janus: Janus stays with the box as it seems to be the cause of this turn of events.
[8/19/2010 11:58:38 PM] Dunbar: *sighs, shakes his head, goes behind the bar and grabs a bottle, any drinkable looking bottle*
[8/19/2010 11:59:22 PM] Carrog: Carrog looks around at the various windows, then proceeds to the bar. He sets both hands on it, and looks at the barkeep, "How much for a pitcher of mead?"
[8/19/2010 11:59:53 PM] Alexandra Erin: The bartender says, "Oh, your money's no good here."
[12:00:42] Optima Brand: "What?! You won't take our money? How are we supposed to buy drinks?!"
[12:00:47] Alexandra Erin: "Have a pitcher," the bartender says, and he draws one out for you.
[12:01:11] Optima Brand: "..."
[12:01:15] Optima Brand: "There's a catch."
[12:01:22] Alexandra Erin: "Did you want something, Missus?" the bartender says.
[12:01:44] Optima Brand: "... are we prisoners here or something?"
[12:02:01] Dunbar: *sits down next to Carrog, takes a long pull from his purloined bottle*
[12:02:07] Alexandra Erin: The bartender says, "Everyone's something."
[12:02:18] Optima Brand: "Are we free to leave?"
[12:02:38] Alexandra Erin: "Have you tried the door?" the bartender says.
[12:02:39] Harlan: “Optima! I doubt this good man means us to be prisoners. He’s just about to explain everything, right?”
[12:02:51] Lady Scarlet: (what does Scarlet's room look like? just curious.)
[12:03:11] Optima Brand: (( It's scarlet. ))
[12:03:22] Alexandra Erin: ((Like a room from your clan's hunting lodge. The shadows seem unusually dark to you, and you're an expert in shadows.))
[12:03:28] Dunbar: (( no no no, crimson))
[12:03:46] Alexandra Erin: "Wellll now, I can't explain what I doesn't know, and I doesn't know everything, does I?" the bartender says.
[12:03:47] Carrog: Carrog stares at the barkeep for a moment, then looks at the pitcher. "The implications of this are staggering. I'd prefer if I was. So I intend to do something about it." He then uses the pitcher like most anyone else would use a stein ((of the non-Franken variety)), and proceeds about the work of draining it.
[12:04:20] Dunbar: (+1)
[12:04:30] Optima Brand: "... eh, fuckit. Free beer you say? I'm in."
[12:04:40] Harlan: "No, but you can tell us what you do know."
[12:04:47] Spectre: "May I come in?" Spectre asks Scarlet.
[12:05:01] Alexandra Erin: The barmaid stops pushing the mop. "By all the angels in all the hells... they -always- ask Absolom to explain."
[12:05:25] Carrog: Carrog points out the obvious, "He's closest."
[12:05:28] Dunbar: (yay, namedrop)
[12:05:45] Harlan: “I implore your forgiveness, my good lady. You seemed to be otherwise occupied.”
[12:06:05] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet eyes the shadows in her room for a moment, then sets the chest down on a table. "Sure, Spectre." A quick flick of her wrist pops open the lock. "Let's see what we have, shall we?"
[12:06:11] Alexandra Erin: "Of course I am," she says. "I'm the one who does the work around here. He just holds the bar down, keeps it from floating away."
[12:06:28] Spectre: Spectre steps across the threshold and stops.
[12:06:50] Alexandra Erin: [pause]
[12:08:44] Alexandra Erin: Scarlet - The exact contents of the box are quite varied (and will be detailed in an LJ post after the session), but they include a number of coins and valuable goods, four stoppered potions, some sheets of parchment written with arcane formulae and alchemical symbols, and a small, holey and patchy drawstring pouch that... though it bulges temptingly... is disappointingly empty
[12:08:50] Alexandra Erin: [/unpause]
[12:09:30] Alexandra Erin: ((Note: the sheets are alchemical formulas, not McGuffins.))
[12:10:17] Janus: Janus looks to see what in the box could have caused the glow. (perception 17)
[12:10:38] Spectre: "Perhaps that sack contained a green stone."
[12:10:49] Alexandra Erin: There's nothing in there at all that color. You're perceptive enough to realize the glow was the same color as the green crystals that disappeared when brought into the inn.
[12:10:50] Spectre: "They appear to react to entering the inn."
[12:10:54] Lady Scarlet: "Interesting. Some of this I can't identify, but I'm sure between all of us we can figure it all out."
[12:12:15 AM | Edited 12:12:46] Optima Brand: "I also think we should get drunk.
[12:12:49] Lady Scarlet: "I wonder if those strange crystals are some sort of...what's the word?...Cata-something for the strange things this inn does." (8 arcana)
[12:12:51] Dunbar: (( opti in the bar, or scarlet's room?)))
[12:13:15] Optima Brand: (( In the bar, you silly people aren't getting drunk ))
[12:13:36] Carrog: Carrog nods, and takes another deep draught from his pitcher, "I agree."
[12:13:42] Alexandra Erin: Lady Scarlet: You deduce that the crystals might be magical. :P
[12:13:52] Alexandra Erin: "If you ask Absolom to explain everything he knows twice, it'll take just as long as it does once," the barmaid says.
[12:14:07] Lady Scarlet: (i suck at this magic stuff)
[12:14:11] Spectre: "Catalyst? I don't see how, but anything's possible." (arcana 6)
[12:14:11] Optima Brand: She takes another drink from her stein. "Here's to us! We kick ass."
[12:14:29] Alexandra Erin: The bartender nods slowly and says, "Never was much for maths."
[12:14:42] Alexandra Erin: Spectre: You aren't sure if anything is possible, or not. :P
[12:14:56] Janus: "We should probably bring this down t the rest of the group, maybe they can help out."
[12:14:57] Dunbar: "Here, here!" *Dunbar cheers, and drinks some more*
[12:14:59] Harlan: “Miss?” Harlan asks the barmaid, “Perhaps you could tell us what you know?”
[12:14:59] Spectre: Spectre is very confused.
[12:15:16] Lady Scarlet: "I'll ask the smart ones when they wake up form their naps. For now, I'm gonna join the others and drink myself into a stupor."
[12:15:21] Alexandra Erin: "What do you want to know, little man?" the barmaid asks.
[12:15:34] Optima Brand: Opti blinks and looks at Dunbar. "Can you even get drunk? You're a fuckin' tree. No offense."
[12:16:04] Spectre: "I would rather you didn't," Spectre says, as he falls Scarlet down to the bar.
[12:16:11] Harlan: “What you know of the inn. And your name, of course.”
[12:16:13] Dunbar: ((actually, me and scarlet were having that discussion about an hour ago...)
[12:16:46] Janus: Janus follows to the taproom
[12:16:52] Dunbar: (( we decided, that yes, I can get drunk))
[12:16:54] Alexandra Erin: "You can call me Tessa," she says. "And what I know of the inn? I don't think you have that much time."
[12:17:19] Dunbar: "Damn skippy, I can get inereberteereded. Hehehe."
[12:17:35] Lady Scarlet: "Would you mind if I at least had a drink or two? I'll keep my wits about me, but with all the weirdness going on, I'd at least like to tempt fate to let me have some fun."
[12:17:38] Alexandra Erin: "Let's narrow it down to specific questions, but keep them more interesting than mopping... I bore easily," she says.
[12:18:03] Harlan: *smiles* “You’re right, Tessa. We probably don’t. Did the inn choose us specifically? And if so, why?”
[12:18:23] Spectre: "Use your discretion."
[12:18:49] Janus: "I always do when drinking."
[12:19:05] Alexandra Erin: "Ahhhh, now those are good questions," Tessa says. "But one's not very interesting and the other I can't tell you... isn't that the way it always goes?"
[12:19:50] Alexandra Erin: "If I saw my name pinned up somehwere, though, I'd figure it was for a reason," she says.
[12:20:27] Harlan: “Do you like it here?”
[12:20:33] Spectre: Spectre pauses on the stairs and listens.
[12:20:36] Alexandra Erin: "Depends on where here is," she says.
[12:20:54] Janus: "You mean like our rooms?" Janus asks Tessa
[12:20:54] Optima Brand: "She's not gonna tell us anything. Let's just enjoy our drinks. Do you even drink, Harlan?"
[12:21:07] Harlan: *laughs* You’re clever.
[12:21:15] Alexandra Erin: "You know, though, I do believe you're the first person who's asked me that," she says.
[12:21:38] Harlan: *smiles at Opti* "I'm drinking, I'm drinking!"
[12:21:53] Harlan: "I don't hold much!"
[12:22:17] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet approaches the bar. "Excuse me sir, but would you happen to have gingerbread beer and scrumple?"
[12:22:45] Alexandra Erin: "You can't afford to have many scrumples when you're a bartender," Absolom says.
[12:22:54] Alexandra Erin: "You learn to turn a blind eye to a lot."
[12:23:19] Harlan: “Tessa, does this inn act on it’s own or does it take direction from somebody or something?”
[12:23:27] Lady Scarlet: "Heh. No, it's made from apples. and more than likely poisonous. but if it doesn't kill you, you'll sleep like the dead."
[12:23:30 AM | Edited 12:25:23] Optima Brand: "Good," she says to Harlan. "Don't get too drunk; I may drag you off to satisfy my curiosity about whether gnomes are proportionate in all ways or not."
[12:23:41] Alexandra Erin: "Oh! I have something like that," Absolom says.
[12:24:37] Alexandra Erin: Tessa says, "Ah, you're just full of interesting questions, aren't you? Yes, yes, and yes."
[12:24:46] Dunbar: (( gnomes are nature's tripod. and they can lick their own eyebrows. ))
[12:25:41] Dunbar: (( converstation killer FTW))
[12:25:46] Carrog: (( You know, that list is now up over 1700 things))
[12:26:02] Harlan: “What were the others before us like? Surely there must have been others.”
[12:26:08] Alexandra Erin: Absolom produces a jug of something with a smell between apple cider and wood varnish.
[12:26:11] Dunbar: (( yeah i know, it's freaking awesome. ))
[12:26:19] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet takes her drinks and goes to an empty table near the fire. She sits the apple drink in front of an empty chair and sits down with her drink in an opposite chair. She toasts the air before her and drinks her beer.
[12:26:43] Alexandra Erin: Tessa says, "No one -quite- like you."
[12:27:37] Harlan: To Optima: “If the bed in my room isn’t too small for you, you can take it tonight and I’ll take the floor. We probably shouldn’t disturb Toben.”
[12:28:24] Optima Brand: She chuckles. "You're deliberately not getting my meaning."
[12:28:29] Harlan: To Tessa: “Must be dull here. I doubt you ever get to take a holiday.”
[12:28:51] Harlan: To Optima: "Yes, that's some of the fun with you."
[12:28:59] Alexandra Erin: "Dull? Things are rarely dull here," Tessa says. "People, on the other hand..."
[12:29:34] Optima Brand: "There's a lot more fun to be had with me. You know I could just pick you up, right?"
[12:29:42] Harlan: “Then what sort of interesting things happen here?”
[12:30:10] Harlan: "I did only say it was -some- of the fun"
[12:30:13] Dunbar: *starts singing. the words not slurred are: Corellon, wanker, bastard, pretty. make of it what you will.*
[12:30:22] Alexandra Erin: "Oh, well, just today some bizarre blue interplanar interloper with a giant mouth appeared in my bar," she says. "And a dimensional marauder did, too."
[12:30:39] Dunbar: (lol)
[12:30:56] Harlan: *laughs* "And before that?"
[12:31:23] Carrog: "Before that, the door went unhinged.
[12:31:33] Alexandra Erin: "No, that was after," Tessa said.
[12:31:39] Lady Scarlet: *hearing Dunbar singing drunkenly inspires Scarlet to sing a song of her own. the words are in a strange language, but the voice behind them is strong and sweet.*
[12:32:30] Harlan: “So who is in charge of this inn?”
[12:32:51] Alexandra Erin: "Didn't I say?" she says. "Haven't I made it plain?"
[12:33:45] Harlan: “Obviously not for poor little me. But I’m willing to ask you a million more questions.”
[12:34:06] Alexandra Erin: "Each more tedious and obvious than the last, I'm sure... who's bar did I just say it was? Who did I say does all the work around here?"
[12:35:02] Harlan: *smiles* “Then where, my lady, are we to next?”
[12:35:14] Carrog: Having neither found a seat before nor likely capable of finding one now, Carrog sets down his pitcher on the bar, then staggers backwards. Whether the latter partis on purpose or not is entirely debatable. However, he does manage to do something of a controlled fall towards the stairs, grumbling something under his breath as he makes his way up, and then down the hall.
[12:35:21] Lady Scarlet: "It's her bar, which means she's in charge. Now who she is, that's the important question." Scarlet says before returning to her refrain.
[12:35:33] Alexandra Erin: "Wherever you're needed," Tessa says.
[12:36:01] Spectre: Spectre steps quickly aside as Carrog stumbles past.
[12:36:28] Spectre: He tries to recall if the name Tessa has any meaning to him (20 history).
[12:36:53] Carrog: ((First name Tessa, last name Ract))
[12:37:04] Harlan: “Why us, Tessa?”
[12:37:04] Alexandra Erin: ((You can't think of any, but it occurs to you that Tessa is not a proper name in itself, but is often short for something.))
[12:37:12] Spectre: (( My guess exactly. : P))
[12:37:38] Alexandra Erin: "That I couldn't begin to tell you," she says. "You wouldn't have been my choice. A knight in shining armor? You're not a squire. You're not a page. You're barely even a paragraph."
[12:37:48] Alexandra Erin: ((With apologies to Mark Twain.))
[12:38:09] Harlan: “Tessa’s a very pretty name. Does it happen to be short for anything?”
[12:38:21] Alexandra Erin: "No, it's quite deliberately so," she says.
[12:39:24] Spectre: Spectre descends the stairs, picks a table not far from the bar, pulls out a chair, and stands beside it.
[12:41:05] Janus: "How long have our rooms been here?"
[12:41:25] Alexandra Erin: "Your rooms? Just since the storm," she says.
[12:41:32] Harlan: ((Ooo, I like that question))
[12:41:41] Spectre: "How long will we be living at the inn?"
[12:41:52] Lady Scarlet: "I was going to hazard the guess since the place was built/"
[12:41:59] Janus: "Why isn't there one for Gallifreya?"
[12:42:02] Optima Brand: Optima looks around at the people trying to sing. "You know, that ain't much of a drinking song," she says pointedly to Scarlet.
[12:42:03] Alexandra Erin: "Time's a relative matter," she says. "No time at all, or until you're not needed, depending on how you look at it."
[12:42:28] Alexandra Erin: "For who?" she says to Janus.
[12:42:39] Carrog: Having slight trouble finding his own door, Carrog finally steadies himself enough to open it. But that's about as far as he gets; removing his sword and baldric, he manages to lean both up against the doorframe, and then settles onto the floor in a seated position, leaning up against the doorframe as well.
[12:42:46] Lady Scarlet: "No, it's not. But it was my brother's favorite when he was a boy."
[12:42:46] Harlan: "The young blue woman."
[12:43:34] Optima Brand: "You gotta do it like this," she says, and stands up, lifts her stein, and belts out a tune. "I love a gangbang, Oh yes I do,
'Cause a gangbang gives me such a thrill,
When I was younger, and in my prime,
I use to gang bang all the time.
But now I'm older and turning gray,
I only gang bang twice a day."
[12:43:55] Alexandra Erin: "Oh, that's her name," Tessa says, her nose wrinkling. "Well, she wasn't called here, was she? Just stumbled in by accident. She'll be gone by now, I expect... left behind in whatever establishment we took the place of back in Malrovia."
[12:44:32] Optima Brand: (( nuuuuuu we like the blue lady ))
[12:45:13] Lady Scarlet: "Nah, the old girl is still sleeping like a baby in me bed."
[12:45:23] Optima Brand: Optima looks around. "C'mon, you guys, you know the song, right? Sing along!"
[12:45:32] Optima Brand: "I learned that one when I was like 9."
[12:45:44] Alexandra Erin: Tessa looks at Scarlet. "Is she? Now that's... interesting." She seems less fond of interesting things than she was before.
[12:45:47] Dunbar: "Hey! The purty lady knewed where we was. Ain't dat nifty? *hic*"
[12:46:24] Spectre: Spectre addresses Tessa. "When you say, 'wherever we are needed', what do you mean by 'needed'? What sorts of activities are you expecting of us?"
[12:46:32] Dunbar: *mumble, slur* "Gangbang!" *slur*
[12:46:56] Harlan: “My mysterious acquaintance, what’s up in my room?”
[12:47:02] Alexandra Erin: "Nothing you're not evidently inclined to do anyway," Tessa says. "After all, you managed to stumble through it once already."
[12:47:35] Alexandra Erin: Tessa says to Harlan, "I wouldn't know, I haven't been. Your rooms are yours, no one can enter without your permission."
[12:48:01] Optima Brand: "Y'all ask too many questions. Sing, sing!" says Optima. "How about this, then?
Beer, beer, beer, beer
Beer, beer, beer, beer
Drunk last night
Drunk the night before
Gonna get drunk tonight
Like I've never been drunk before
Cause when I'm drunk I'm as happy as can be
Cause we're all part of a merc'in family!"
[12:48:47] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet stands and hold the empty scrumple glass into the air. "We's big damn 'eroes and we do whats big damn 'eroes always do! We kill the monsters and rescue the perty girls or visa versa!"
[12:49:05] Dunbar: *gestures wildly* Beer! beer! beer! *thump*
[12:49:06] Harlan: *Laughs* “Ms. Optima, I do believe you know more drinkin’ hymns than anyone alive.”
[12:49:12] Spectre: Spectre remarks to Optima. "Better. I prefer songs that do not encourage gang violence, even ones that encourage alcoholism."
[12:49:14] Optima Brand: "That's the spirit!" she says to Scarlet.
[12:49:21] Janus: "Kill the girls and rescue the monsters?"
[12:49:33] Dunbar: *is now on the floor, drooling like a baby on vicadin*
[12:50:21] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet starts to sing a drinking song that starts with "Sit on my face and tell me that you love me!"
[12:51:21] Dunbar: *drools some more*
[12:52:30] Harlan: "Tessa, would you like to get off your feet? Perhaps even have a drink? I can finish your duties."
[12:53:08] Alexandra Erin: "Oh, no," Tessa says. "If I'm not mopping, then I have nothing to do, do I?"
[12:54:04] Harlan: "You could drink or sing, or just relax. Or talk more circles around us."
[12:54:57] Lady Scarlet: "why would ye wan talk in circles? Me thinks ye'd get dizzified."
[12:55:03] Alexandra Erin: "It's not my fault nobody's asking the right questions," she says. "It's not your fault, either, really... you've had some good ones. But all in all, this is a dull and incurious lot, and so socializing isn't really all that appealing an alternative."
[12:55:24] Harlan: "So what questions would you be asking?"
[12:55:32] Alexandra Erin: Tessa laughs.
[12:55:41] Optima Brand: "I don't care what questions to ask her, I just want another beer! I'm empty again!"
[12:56:32] Lady Scarlet: Scarlet walks to Dunbar and tries to rouse him from his stupor.
[12:56:36] Alexandra Erin: "Now that's a great one! Nobody's ever asked that one, either," she says. "Now if I were in your position, I'd have asked things like: how does an intangible beastie knock a tangible door off its hinges? And what's with the green glowing crystals? Why did they disappear when brought inside?"
[12:56:44] Optima Brand: "How about limericks? Do you guys know any limericks?"
[12:56:59] Spectre: "And what answers would you give?"
[12:57:56] Harlan: "Mmmmm *takes a long sip and then smiles his most winning smile* And the answers would be?"
[12:59:27] Alexandra Erin: "Well, in the first place, a dimensional marauder isn't really intangible," she says. "Like the vagabond said, it's in more than one dimension. So is the inn. It's solid in all the planes the marauder overlapped. In fact, the thing couldn't have teleported in under its own power... we just had the misfortune to manifest around it."
[1:00:37] Alexandra Erin: "The inn landed there because of what was in its gullet: the green crystal," Tessa says. "That's what you might call a reality shard. It's exactly what it sounds like: a shard of reality. When something really catastrophically epic happens, sometimes reality gets a little... chipped around the edges. Those things were chips."
[1:01:12] Dunbar: *snerk*" huh?"
[1:01:33] Alexandra Erin: "Reality shards lying around are really sort of dangerous," she continues. "To everybody. Everywhere. And so there's a call for a sort of clean-up crew who goes around retrieving them."
[1:01:46] Lady Scarlet: "Think ye can stand, me boy? If'n not, we'll have to see about gettin ye in bed."
[1:01:58] Alexandra Erin: "It's one of the functions of the inn."
[1:02:07 AM | Edited 1:05:28] Optima Brand: "So we're supposed to clean up some of this ... planey-waney... stuff."
[1:02:14] Dunbar: " 'm comfy here, danks."
[1:02:38] Janus: "What are the other functions of the inn?"
[1:02:44] Lady Scarlet: "Me thinks he be rooted to the spot." Scarlet giggles at her own joke.
[1:02:51] Alexandra Erin: "Apparently," Tessa says to Optima. "Like I said, you wouldn't have been my first choice."
[1:03:04] Harlan: To Opti: “But why defeat the function of the inn?”
[1:03:15] Dunbar: (( we may not be smart, but we can be dedicated. ))
[1:03:27] Alexandra Erin: Tessa says to Janus, "Oh... various things."
[1:03:56] Carrog: ((But only one of us per Gnosis point.))
[1:04:09] Alexandra Erin: "The inn is a gate. It does everything a gate does."
[1:05:05] Dunbar: ((sorry, Get of Fenris fan. Don't need Gnosis))
[1:05:33] Alexandra Erin: ((Harlan needs his Gnosis to smell.))
[1:05:53] Janus: "So it keeps things seperated?"
[1:06:05] Spectre: "Except when it doesn't?"
[1:06:05] Alexandra Erin: "Ah! Clever," Tessa says to Janus. "Most people miss that."
[1:06:13] Lady Scarlet: "So the inn lets us move from one place to another?" Scarlet asks, suddenly seeming very sober.
[1:06:24] Alexandra Erin: She looks at Scarlet. "See what I mean?"
[1:07:40] Harlan: *laughs* Optima? Will you walk with me up to my room? We can see what's in there.
[1:08:25] Optima Brand: "There once was a lady from Greyhawk, who wanted to try some Fey --
Oh, yeah, let's head on up, Harlan."
[1:08:27] Lady Scarlet: "A gates purpose to is either keep a passage closed or allow passage between two places you normally couldn't move through. My guess is still sound."
[1:08:31] Alexandra Erin: ((Hey, by the way: 3 hour mark. I think we're going to start winding down... anybody who's got to get to bed, feel free to have your character pass out or stumble to your room.))
[1:09:26] Dunbar: (already did. just don't pee on me)
[1:09:55] Optima Brand: (( He's asleep like a log. ))
[1:09:59] Alexandra Erin: "Now, this is getting more than a little boring, so I think I'm going to go back to my mopping," Tessa says. "I suggest you all get a good night's sleep, or a bad night's passing out, or whatever your preference is."
[1:10:09] Janus: Janus is going to eat some food and ignore everything until he's done.
[1:10:26] Harlan: *heads upstairs, excited to see what's in there but not fast enough to lose the stumbling Opti.*
[1:10:41] Alexandra Erin: ((Could you move fast enough?))
[1:11:00] Harlan: ((Probably not.))
[1:11:13] Dunbar: (( oooOOOhhh. lol)
[1:11:15] Optima Brand: Optima is not nearly as drunk as she made on to be, and is excited to see what she'll find, too.
[1:11:57] Alexandra Erin: Harlan's room is pleasantly furnished, with a stand for his armor. Not only is the furniture gnome-sized, but the room is, too.
[1:12:23] Alexandra Erin: There's a small bookshelf with heroic sagas on it.
[1:12:32] Alexandra Erin: Many titles familiar to him.
[1:12:58] Harlan: Books! *runs happily to them*
[1:13:07] Optima Brand: Optima sighs.
[1:13:10] Alexandra Erin: Hee. :)
[1:13:44] Harlan: "You can sleep on the floor if you want, Opti."
[1:14:23] Optima Brand: "I've slept worse places."
[1:14:34] Spectre: After Optima and Harlan leave, Spectre quietly strikes up a conversation with the chair beside him.
[1:18:01] Alexandra Erin: Anyway, that's it for tonight. Goodnight!