[pnpgm] Game Update #17c - File #53 - Z'leeyra's IBT - part 3
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HT Aliaver/Player Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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R1.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar Ma
--.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry Fe
R3.Mark Murtha...........Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human..Ma
R1.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human Ma
R4.J H Hooten............Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
W4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human Fe
R1 John.Stowman..........Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human..Ma
R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human Fe
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Squirt (Ferret) Kell
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Admin Notes: IBT3 - Part 3.
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[New Stuff]
[Augado 11th - Sepes 24th, 1634TH]
[Location: Marentia (Maren)]
[Augado 11]
Z'leyra now in her cowl with green side out looks like a
woods woman. Z'leyra casts mana sensing to check the spot she
is at. But she detects nothing but herself.
The wizard then casts a ward into the forest ground where her
camp will be setup at. She casts Orient Self, Divination which
fails but she doesn't know this, Purification, Ensorcellment
and Sending to place the sending ward onto the spot. She casts
Perception but the first fails so she has to repeat it to
ensure the ward is in place and it is.
[Augado 12]
Z'leyra in eagle form does some hunting and acquaints herself
t with the forest. It is a small forest but compact. Back at
camp she summons some eagles and shares some of the meat from
her hunt. She shows them she is both human and eagle so they
can get used to her.
As she is flying she finds some dead bodies. There are 4
human males. She lands and changes to human form. Naked and
without her satchel she can't do much for them. But it looks
like they died a week or two ago. Based on the decay and
bugs looks like it might've been some animal or monster. She
decides to bury the four men. Based on their woodsman like
clothing and some bows she can only guess they are hunters.
But there is no way to identify them or where they might have
come from.
[Augado 13]
Z'leyra spends the day listening to the forest and she knows
there is no humans here, that she can detect, but she wants
to ensure she is alone. She spends the day working on tanning
the hides from the hunt.
Around 3pm she hears noises in the forest and goes to check
them out. She soon discovers there are 7 men in leather armor
and various swords. Two are a few feet away from her facing
her in the bushes relieving themselves. She listens to
the group talk for a bit and realizes these men were hired to
find a pirate ship that is on the south shoreline of Marentia
roughly due south west of Sivas city on the Sea of Tears They
are staying here for a hour or two to hunt and gather food. She
learns they do plan to camp but it seems they are harmless to
her at least. The 7 men do make camp and speak of the reward
money paid by a merchant house if the pirate ship can be found.
[Augado 14]
Z'leyra flies over the forest to ensure the adventurers have
left and they have heading to the coast in the south west.
Today Z'leyra starts to work on a new artistic sheath for
her new sword from the hides from the last time travel weeks.
[Augado 15 - 16]
Z'leyra spends the two days making artistic leather goods
from the hides from the last time travel period at the hill.
[Augado 17]
Now that her agility is improved Z'leyra plans to spend the
next month working on her dexterity. For these tedious set
of routines she will do simple juggling, sewing, knitting,
embroidery, braiding and some manipulation of ball like tricks
she has seen entertainers do on the streets. She will also
practice throwing things from rocks to daggers at targets. The
simple act of dart throwing has helped Balrog for example in
the past improve his dexterity. But he did that with years of
throwing darts.
[Augado 18 - 20]
Z'leyra continues to work on improving her body dexterity.
[Augado 21]
Z'leyra practices her dart and dagger throwing on a few
targets she makes from wood. At times she throws off handed
or even blindfolded just to chance the pace.
After dinner Z'leyra is sitting at the campfire. She is trying
to playing her flute or at least trying to. She is still unskilled
in it and would be chased out a tavern but to her is music. It
reminds her of her childhood around the home listening to others
play.
A bit after 7pm Z'leyra is alerted to something approaching.
Sadly in a forest like this it could be anything from a large
deer to a bear. She is still wearing her armor and while it is
night she stares at the trees. She waits and waits. Then
about 100 feet away she sees a monster with a squat flat body
and a tail that loops over it's back and shoulders. The heat seems
to be under the body guarded by fangs. It almost looks like a
spider but then she realizes it its a scorpion beast. The
beast charges and as it does it shrieks some inhuman call.
Z'leyra draws her sword and readies for battle. Back earlier
this year around first of the new year was the first time she
saw these beasts. She was flying and see a couple of these beasts
attack and eat a bear. But she did not do intense research on
the beasts.
With chainmail, helmet and sword in hand she watches the
single beast charge. Z'leyra side steps and swipes her sword
at the monster and slices its back almost at the base of the
tail doing 13 points of damage. But as Z'leyra backs away she
notices the sword smoking slightly. A sign of acid and she
curses the air. If she had known about these beasts she could
have dropped the blade and maybe gotten to her castor item. But
she did not reach them. Z'leyra drops the sword into the campfire.
That should burn the acid and not affect the blade since is not
hot enough to do damage. She moves toward her bedroll to grab
her war staff.
The beast lunges his tail at Z'leyra as she leaps and hits her
in the left shoulder. The tip of the tail impacts on the
shoulder but does not penetrate but the chainmail there takes
damage from the acid.
Z'leyra tumbles and reaches her staff. She grabs a tunic
and wraps it around a hand batting away the acid as she can.
Then she charges to handle the creature. She bashes the
creature with the staff killing it for strike on his back.
Z'leyra looks around but sees no more. Just in case she
reaches for her satchel to see if she can get her castor d'fay out.
As Z'leyra opens the bag two more beasts appear out of the
bushes and charge. She is too slow to find the castor so
stands and defends herself. The first uses his tail to try
to sting but Z'leyra is too agile. The other one does sting
her in the left middle ribs but her armor protects her flesh
but the armor takes a hit on the armor.
Z'leyra ducks and rolls then stands to bash one of the creatures
in the back killing him instantly.
The beast tries to sting her and lands the tip on her left
arm but the armor protects and this time the acid does not seem
to affect the armor.
Z'leyra tries to bash the last creature but the staff misses
him by a foot. The creature tries to bite Z'leyra's leg but
at the last second she steps away.
Z'leyra bashes the creature doing 12 points to his flat body.
The creature tries to sting the healer but fails to strike.
The magical staff strikes the creature killing him. Z'leyra
decides then to grab her satchel and climb the nearest tree.
As she reaches the first limb two more beasts come The
first beast tries to sting Z'leyra but the tail hits her left
boot but it is tough enough no damage is done and she has
no metal for the acid to hurt.
Climbing the tree another 15 feet she sits on a limb. She
watches as two more than a final one comes She waits another
minute or two and the 5 circle the tree. Lucky for Z'leyra
they seem to ignore the camp items including the sword.
The five scorpion beasts circle the tree biting and stinging
the poor harmless tree. But Z'leyra waits up in the tree safe
and watches. She notices her sword get a bit red from the fire.
While the fire itself can't harm the sword in time it could.
The healer waits and waits. Two minutes later 2 of the beasts
decides to stalk away. A minute later the other 2 join their
friends. Z'leyra waits another 2minutes then climbs down to
remove the magical sword from the fire.
Z'leyra is sad to see her sword damaged again as it was in
a fight previously. Now her new armor damaged more. Who
would have thought improving her self being is more dangerous
than being at home. Z'leyra walks the perimeter of the camp
for almost 20 minutes then decides to clean up the camp. It
takes some effort but she is able to drag the corpses away at
least 200 feet from camp. She tosses the body into a small
natural ditch dug by long ago storms.
[Augado 22]
Z'leyra examines her damaged sword and chainmail a bit. Then
she starts her dexterity training. That night at bedtime she
resumes her nightly watchful sleep routine by casting the spell.
[Augado 23]
Today Z'leyra continues her dexterity improvement. Around
2pm her camp ward alerts her of movement in the forest. She
stops and sees 5 men on horseback moving through the forest.
There seems to be one sick almost falling off the horse.
Z'leyra can tell from their uniforms they are Marentian
patrolmen. This far from the nearest city or village? She
creeps close and can hear a couple talking about looking for
certain plants to cure a poison. Z'leyra sees her chance
and figures these men need help. She grabs her satchel and
makes herself seen.
After startling the men the wary military men explain
they were attacked by some creature that to Z'leyra sound
like hill or rock trolls. As they were in pitched battle
killing the trolls the man was attacked by an asp and he
was bit. The man is placed on the ground and Z'leyra gets
her Bezoar and brass goblet out of her satchel. She swirls
it in water and he drinks the potion. The man needs a hour
or two of rest but she determines he will be fine. Z'leyra
then checks the other men for their cuts and wounds. The
men did well up against 4 trolls with very little damage.
Z'leyra explains she is searching the forest for herbs and
does not tell them of her camp. Would not want them to
come daily and disturb her. The men explain they were on
patrol then a village constable asked help to chase some
men who murdered 2 farmers. The men explain they must
leave after they rest a couple hours as they are still on
the man hunt.
Z'leyra casts her watchful sleep at bedtime.
[Augado 24]
Early morning Z'leyra does some light hunting and then
summons some eagles to commune and share the rewards of
her hunt with the others. She asks about the stupid young
eagle she met at the hill and wonder if the forest eagles
know of him. They seem not to but will ask about.
A couple hours later Z'leyra resumes her dexterity training.
Around 2:35pm Z'leyra is warned by her ward again. This time
she sees men on horses and people following. She moves to
get a better look. She notices there are 8 men 6 on horses and
two walking. Following behind are 7 people as young as 12 and
as old as low 30s. The language she recognizes as Rogizini but
she doesn't know the words. Every so often one man speaks in
Climan to them and she recognizes the words. Her blood boils
as she determines these men are slavers. Marentia has no part of
slavery even in indentured means. It is very very rare. A noble
could have one if allowed by the King if a prisoner of war or
the like. The men are all wearing leather and holding swords
or maces. Z'leyra heads back to camp. From their voices they
are hiding from a posse of villagers who are likely wanting to
rescue the once villagers now slaves. Z'leyra slowly and with
deep malice dons her sword and helmet. She places her satchel
on her back and moves to attack. She has seen first hand the
treatment of slaves in Clima and the prison there. These
men are not welcome and she will not tolerate them.
The wizard follows the group to a heavy area of trees and they
make camp to avoid the posse. The men are brave to come this
far inland and likely their ship is anchored off the coast somewhere.
These slaves would be stopped at the port of Sivas. As she watches
them laugh and talk about their profits only 2 are guarding the
actual prisoners. There are 2 men who the rest are females. The
young girl around 12 or 13 seems to be developed yet and will sell
for a huge profit. The other teen girl around 16 who has ripped
clothing seems to have already been mistreated. Some look to the
girl and whisper as if thev intend to do more. The other
females are in their early 20s or young 30s. The two men seem to
be quite fit and will make good labor slaves or gladidiators. All
are bound and gagged.
Z'leyra could attack and slaughter them easily. But the
slaves could be hurt. She wished she had Corona to distract
them. She waits some time to see what routine might be in order.
Thirty minutes later rum bottles are shared. The men seem to be
wanting to drink. They are really stupid or brave with a posse
on the look out for them. She figures they are just stupid.
Soon one of the 2 guards watching the slaves goes to relive
himself. As he is looking for leaves to use Z'leyra swipes
her sword and beheads him in one swoop. The head rolls to the
ground without a sound.
One down and 7 to go. She stalks through the bushes and
gets within 10 feet of the other guard. There is no cover
beyond this point so just charges. Before he realizes what
is going on she stabs him in the ribs killing him. Z'leyra
swipes the rope connected to a tree and frees the slaves in
one slice. She tosses a spare dagger to one of the strong
men to free the rest of the ropes. Then she goes to clean
up the trash.
Twenty four seconds later all of the slavers are dead or
in mostly pieces here and there. The drunk men didn't even
damage her. Z'leyra checks the slaves out and explains she
is a healer on a herb hunt. As she suspected the young girl
was used hours ago by three of the men before the posse stopped
the rest of them sharing the girl. In fact she is seriously
bleeding and Z'leyra has to treat her for some time. The
others have only cuts, bruises and some strangle marks as if
from choking ropes. Two of the other females had also been raped
as well but they are not badly hurt.
Z'leyra gives the villagers the horse and any gear they wish
from the slavers. She does not even want their gold as it is
just blood money. One them asks her name and she almost says it.
Then realizes if word gets back to Sivas her name could be known
and questions asked of why she is there and here. She supplies
a fake name. The two strong men lead the group out of the forest
and with Z'leyra in eagle form find the posse and reunite them.
Z'leyra doesn't even bury the slavers as they deserve to be
treated as trash and scum. Let the animals give them justice
in their bellies.
Z'leyra goes back to training and realizes she actually
got a bit of blood on her boots the scumbags. That night
she casts watchful sleep.
[Augado 25 - 26]
Z'leyra spends more days trying to improve her dexterity.
[Augado 27]
Around 5am Z'leyra is awaken by her ward. It is still a bit
dark with a twinge of blue on only clouds high up. As Z'leyra
moves to get her armor and some clothing on a man walks into
camp. Z'leyra just finished placing her shirt on when he sees
her. The man is holding a sword and then smiles. The man
must've enjoyed the view of some woman dressing in the forest.
"Do I know you?" The man asks.
Z'leyra grabs her sword not having time to get her armor on.
She eyes the man in the campfire light. Then she does recognize
him. She asks if his name was Jonson?
"Jensen. Captain Jensen. Yes. We met when that tavern in
Sivas was attacked. I investigated the situation." The
man from Sivas sheathes his sword. "I saw your light while
exploring. Might if I warm up a bit?"
The captain of the local barracks near Cholan's tavern goes
to warm up his legs and hands. Then he explains he is on
a bit of vacation. He likes to hunt and since Marentia is
not full of heavy forests he tries to find the best woods
to do hunting. This is on his routine list for this trip.
He likes to hunt foxes and sometimes bear.
Both sit and the man digs out some items to make a nice
pot of tea. After they enjoy the tea they share some
of her biscuits. Jensen doesn't ask her what she is doing
there. She hopes he doesn't ask too many questions how long
ago did he leave Sivas? Surely he wouldn't know of her being
at the manor as they share the tea at this very instant?
Jensen seems to not say much or care. So as not to make
him ask questions she explains she is there to do herb
collection and some physical training. The man nods knowing
how it is to train though the herb stuff he has no green
thumb. Soon Jensen returns to his hidden horse and continues
to hunt for the rest of the day. The forest is so small
that at most he'll be gone in a day or two.
That night she casts watchful sleep again.
[Augado 28 - 29]
Z'leyra continues her training for dexterity. Each night
casting watchful sleep at bedtime.
[Augado 30]
Z'leyra does a bit of light hunting and summons eagles to
join her and have some fun flying. Then she continues her
dexterity training.
[Augado 31]
Z'leyra spends the full day juggling to go from 2 balls to
four balls. She isn't good enough yet to do 5 balls but
hopes to be in a few weeks.
[Sepes 1]
Day 17 of more dexterity training including dart and throwing
daggers.
By 11pm Z'leyra is deep in sleep after a long day of exhausting
physical work. High above three Baobhan Sith watch the campfire
light. They whisper to each other. They've been scouting this
human for a day. They have shape changed into smaller animals
to test the camp defenses. They found the ward through their
senses and know how to bypass it. They figure the silly human
is waiting for dumb creatures not people like the Sith. But
just in case they have a plan.
Thanks to a Kotothi shaman who visited this forest a few
moons ago they bypass the ward. They land near the campfire
and examine the place quietly. They can sense the watchful
sleep brooch on her. They know it only activates if threatened.
But she isn't threatened - yet.
The three Sith surround her and then some distance away
cast three spells. The plant growth and vines all tangle
into a magical tangle vine patch. They immediately start
to crawl and leap for Z'leyra. Z'leyra is immediately
awaken by the brooch and she looks up to see a patch of
growth cover her body. She tries to roll using her dexterity
but the path is too fast and she isn't able. This is the
whole point of improving her dexterity and it fails her.
Not one patch of tangles but three have encased Z'leyra
in their magical embrace. One would be bad enough to
struggle free but Z'leyra is not a person like Raban and
has not that much strength. She can't see or speak
now that the plant growth is on her face. If it was
just one of these creatures she might have a chance.
At least if she dies here the other Z'leyra at the manor
will continue on in that timeline.
The three Sith giggle at their success. This wizard
has great power and could easily take them down. But
a good plan is no excuse for ignoring the risks. They
debated a long time in fascinating this female. They can
sense the carbuncle in that leather bag and find it revolting
that it could have helped her.
The Sith move closer reach to take some of her energy. To
improve their chances they have agree to fascinate the woman
three times once they uncover her eyes. At once they uncover
her eyes. For the first time she sees a winged faerry in
some green garment of some sort. A faerry doing this? She
isn't worried then she is friends with the Sidh. This must
just be one of their pranks.
All three then cast the spells to fascinate the woman in
a language the healer does not know. All three finish
the words and for a second Z'leyra feels nothing. Were
they speaking to her? Then the one above her head jerks
her head, her eyes roll back and she falls backwards.
The other two she can't see. But one goes deaf and moves
closer for the draining. The third on her right suddenly
becomes ravenous and the closest food source that is not
with salad on the plate, Z'leyra, is the other Sith.
Z'leyra sees a Faerry leap over her and attack possibly
another faerry? What is going on. Using this as a good
time she summons her eagle friends.
The deaf Sith claws at the hungry Sith and they tumble
in a rolling ball. Z'leyra can't still feel but she hopes
her eagle friends can help. She can hear noise to the
side but can't turn her eyes.
Suddenly the hungry Sith rips the deaf one's neck open
and the Sith begins to drawn the energy and blood from her
once ally. Two minutes later a victorious Sith stands with
flesh and blood on her lips. By now eagles have heard the
Shaman's call but are on the other side of the forest and
moving fast.
The now ravenous turned cannibal looks to the Sith that
has fallen into a coma. She looks to the woman who has
far more energy and food for her. Normally she would have
been sated. But the gods struck her with this abysmal
failure effect and now she must eat and drain more.
There is the one with nice salad or one sitting with
open flesh. The salad is not energy and not for her. So
the Sith moves to her friend in the coma. She rips open
her throat and begins to drain.
Two minutes later the Sith hovers over Z'leyra ready to
finish the meal. Blood drips from her mouth onto Z'leyra's
forehead. A hand full of entrails primes for the final strike.
Then a shriek is heard. From somewhere in the forest. The
Sith looks around and sees nothing. Then a blur goes past
Z'leyra's vision and the Sith is knocked out of her view.
Soon the sound of eagles maybe a dozen or more is heard
squawking and screeching. Then the noises stop a few moments
later. Z'leyra sees nothing but darkness above her in the
forest canopy. Long moments pass and then a eagle waddles
into focus. He stares down at Z'leyra and crinks his head
as if confused by the bed she has made of plant growths.
Soon a few more eagles come into view and they begin to
peek at the plant growths. As they start to remove strips
and strand the spell finally ends. The tanglevine growth
settles away and loses the strength. Z'leyra tears it open
and sits up to see the three Sith. Looks like one was
attacked by the flock of eagles now around her. Her eyes
have been removed by beaks and claws. There are numerous almost
too many claw marks on her body to count. Z'leyra then
realizes for some reason the Sith attacked the other two?
Z'leyra can only determine that they all failed in their
magic whatever they were trying on her. The vines were not
direct magic so worked but direct magic on her usually fails.
One fall as if knocked out then other started eating the
other but she doesn't know what happened to the deaf Sith
as there are no obvious signs of her failure. But regardless
it was luck.
Z'leyra is sad to also see 2 dead eagles and the other 8
are in various shape of good to moderate damage. Z'leyra
treats the birds and then helps to bury the other 2 with
high honor. Her Tonah tie to these birds create a bond that
not even dogs and man have at times. It also brings back
bad memories of Fisherking's death at the gargoyls's on the
Climan base. As she buries them the Shaman wonders if even
Corona would spend his life for hers?
That night she stays up till sunrise and communes with
the birds as she examines these new Sith creatures. This
is the first she has encountered them. Even the party
old and new has not encountered these before.
[Sepes 2]
Z'leyra continues her dexterity training. Around 2:30pm
her ward warns her. At least it still works. She enters
the forest to see what the problem is this time. She
encounters 3 humans, 2 male and 1 female in their early 20s.
She listens to them speak and seems they are talking about
being thrown out of their village. From the bits and pieces
she can picks up they were claimed to be dark witches and
set curses on people. The oldest male seems to disagree that
the curse they are claimed to have done will end and they
can return. He argues that the blight on the farms and
crops will turn around in spring.
Z'leyra watches as they collect firewood and food like
berries. Seems they have some tents on the edge of the
forest. Z'leyra watches as they work and figures they
are harmless. Superstitious peasants do things like this
all the time. Even in a land where magic is known to exist
if not tolerated the uneducated can do damage.
There is little to do here but leave so Z'leyra returns to
her own camp. Even a healer can't heal bigoted minds.
That night watchful sleep is cast again.
[Sepes 3]
After flying to scout this outcast camp she determines
they are on the south end of the forest at least half
a forest away. Z'leyra then gets to work on her dexterity
training. At night she then recasts watchful sleep.
[Sepes 4]
More juggling exercises today but with a bit of a twist.
She tries to juggle while standing on a tree limb. Using
the other branches as obstacles for the balls.
Around 10am her ward goes off again. She loses two of
her balls and grumbles. This place for a small forest
is a highway! Looking around she then sees a horse running
this way. No. A horse creature? No. She knows what that
is from conversations with Arawn. It is a single Satyr.
The Satyr gets near camp and seems to sniff the air. He
seems to ignore Z'leyra's he enters the camp and looks around.
Z'leyra speaks a few words of Elder tongues and the Satyr
grunts. He picks up the bag with Sidh Biscuits and unwraps
them. Z'leyra finds this greatly rude but doesn't decide
to kill him yet. The Satyr sniffs the bag and looks inside
and grins. Well they say the way to a man's heart is with
dry old biscuits. Z'leyra nods and he grabs two. He
begins to gnaw on them. As he does he explains back in
the Sidh Tongue that he was tracking some Sith scum. A
Centaur family was attacked many miles from here a moon ago
and they were tracked here.
Z'leyra is impressed to see a single Satyr challenge 3
Baobhan Sith as she was almost killed by them. She collects
her balls and explains they are dead and goes into the
details. The Satyr grunts and looks sad. But then shrugs.
"Good. Then I can return home. May I have a couple more?"
Z'leyra shrugs not caring much at this point. Next a forestal
and a Green lady will probably arrive and disturb her training.
Soon the Satyr leaves as he stashes two biscuits into his bag
and hops away.
That night even though it wasn't too good for the Sith she
casts watchful sleep.
[Sepes 5]
Before breakfast Z'leyra hunts in eagle form with summoned
eagle friends. They share in the hunt spoils. Then Z'leyra
starts her tedious workout for improving her body.
Around 11pm Z'leyra is again awaken at the warning of the
camp ward. In the distance to the north she can hear grunts.
The campfire is low and she notices the wind must've burnt
a lot of it out. Z'leyra recognizes the grunts and grabs
her food bag and climbs a tree. Soon 2 large Boars and a
small piglet enter the camp. They sniff around and rummage
through things. Then Z'leyra recognizes them as Sidh Boars.
She could kill them and sell the prized meat. But she is
a friend of the Sidh. It would not do her reputation well
to let Arawn and Fremea know she killed Sidh Boars. So she
decides to let them do their thing then they soon leave.
Z'leyra restokes the fire and tries to go back to sleep.
[Sepes 5 - 6]
More training on dexterity as well as her normal routine
of casting watchful sleep.
[Sepes 7]
Day 22 of her dexterity training. Today she wakes up
freezing. The temperature has lowered and it seems the
first bit of winter prelude is here. She starts her
knife and dart throwing exercises.
That night close to midnight she is alerted to the return
of the outcasts she saw previously. One of the man seems
to be alone and hunting at this hour? She notices it is
a full moon and wonders if these people are looking for
items only found on full moons? A sign of possible
witchcraft? In eagle form she follows the man which seems
to only collect berries, plants and herbs. What a odd time
of night to hunt. Soon he leaves the forest to return to
the tent camp on the outskirts of the forest.
[Sepes 8 - 10]
The dexterity training is starting to end soon and she
is eager to do normal stuff. At the end of the night
she recasts watchful sleep at night.
[Sepes 11]
Z'leyra does some early morning eagle hunting with her
friends and scouts the outcasts again. She wonders how
long they will return to their village.
On a break Z'leyra is out around 1pm looking for some
natural magic materials in the forest in a section she
has not explored yet. She is seen by a brown bear but
as soon as the bear sees her it runs away.
Z'leyra casts watchful sleep at bedtime once more.
[Sepes 12 - 15]
Z'leyra continues her dexterity improvement studies and
physical training. Each night casting watchful sleep at
night.
[Sepes 16]
Z'leyra wakes up knowing that her training ended yesterday.
She relaxes her muscles today and communes with nature and
the eagles. She does some more tanning as well.
Near 10pm (9:53pm) the camp ward alerts Z'leyra from the
approach of someone. Still dressed in her armor she dons
her helmet and ensures her sword is in her sheath. Looking
around with her helmet she spots or rather smells it first.
A foul odor in the wind drifting her way. A few seconds
later she sees the creature, a one eyed giant breaking through
some trees knocking them down. The giant now she figures them
to be Orchi now, charges. Then she sees 2 more from different
directions. One is bad enough but three. She draws her sword
ready for battle.
Z'leyra engages the first Orchi who is carrying a tree limb
as a club. Z'leyra stabs the giant's left lower hip area doing
12 points of damage slicing tissue off the giant's hip.
The orchi swings his club but misses the agile healer.
Z'leyra swings cutting a bit of left leg out doing 7 more
points to the wounded orchi. The other two are moving toward
the melee area.
The orchi tries to bash Z'leyra but she ducks just in time.
In her quick duck she swings at the Orchi but the blade misses
the giant by a foot. The second is almost in range to strike
with a thick club of his own.
The wounded Orchi (#1) swings at Z'leyra knocking her back
hard but her chainmail protects from the damage. The second
Orchis tries to swing his own club but she is thrown back by
the first and misses.
Z'leyra works her talents and speed as a small person.
The giants can't maneuver fast enough making her a quick
attacker. Z'leyra comes behind and thrusts her magic sword
at the wounded Orchi in his right butt cheek doing 11 more
points. The giant roars in anger.
The wounded orchi charges and slaps Z'leyra hard squarely
in lower right hip doing 2 points of damage and damaging her
armor some more making it much weaker. Outnumbered and
wounded Z'leyra sees the 3rd Orchi approaching. She turns
her head and activates her firestone in her helmet. The
fire dart shoots out The fire dart hits the giant in the
center of his chest doing 21 points of damage knocking him
back in surprise. Then she swings at the first wounded
orchi but her blow is too far and she misses. The other
two Orchi try to bash with tree limb and his own hands
but Z'leyra is too quick and the miss.
Z'leyra then turns to the Orchi not wounded with her
helmet and fires another fire dart at him. This fire
dart hits him in the side doing 24 points burning through
his right ribs. She turns back to the first Orchi thrusting
at him but misses. The first wounded Orchi tries to strike
Z'leyra but misses. The other two Orchi wounded by her
fire darts bat out the flames.
Z'leyra uses this chance to flee into the forest to catch
her breath. She then does a summon call to her eagle friends.
She knows these giants can track great distances so there is
little chance of escape unless she flew. But the giants would
have her things and she can't have that. Hopefully in a few
moments the eagles will arrive to help at least distract
them.
The Orchi storm around the camp looking for the human
sniffing the air. Z'leyra runs forward swinging at one of
the orchi but misses and goes back into the bushes.
The orchi turn to that direction but Z'leyra is already
moving around to go behind them fast. Again Z'leyra
runs out swings at one but he hears it and she misses as
she dashes back into trees.
The orchi are not stupid, well much, so they figure
out her hit and run tactics. Two of the Orchi turn
in opposite directions back to back. The third looks
forward and hopes that 3 directions are covered. That
is when one sees her moving and charges into the forest.
The orchi hits her in the right shoulder doing 2 points
of damage to her. Z'leyra turns and swipes at the giant
doing 8 points of damage in his right ribs. The other two
charge and tries to swing wildly but both miss the agile
human.
Z'leyra stabs the same orchi hit last time and wounds
him 13 more points in his left thigh doing 13 more points.
The Orchi begins to sway a bit from the damage. Two of
the Orchi try to bash Z'leyra but misses. The 3rd one
does hit Z'leyra in the back shoving her into a tree hard
doing 4 more points of damage to her.
Winded and cornered Z'leyra runs away into the forest. She
scans the sky. Where are her friends? She takes in some
good long breaths and inspects her armor it is in tact
but damaged for now. The one acting like drunk and swaying
is almost dead. She will target that one. She runs past
a tree to draw him after him. The other two round the trees
to block her but she backtracks and turns around. She lifts
her sword and the giant runs into it killing him finally.
One of the Orchi throws a limb and hits Z'leyra but her
armor protects her. The other tries to swing but misses her.
Then she hears eagles. She yells to distract one of them
as they can so she can finish the other. But not to engage
them as they could be killed. The eagles do this around
3 of them swirling around the giant's head making him bat
at them like flies.
As one is distracted she charges the first orchi she saw
in this encounter. She swings at his right arm cutting deep
doing 8 more points to him. The distracted continues to
try to bash the eagles but misses. The other orchi bashes his
club hitting a foot behind Z'leyra but missing.
Z'leyra stabs the first orchi in the left hip again doing
the final damage to kill the giant. The distracted giant
tries to swing his club but the agile birds are too fast.
Z'leyra sheaths her sword and begins to climb a tree. It
is time to level this field a bit. Over the last month she
has climbed many trees and gotten decent. As she climbs she
sees the other giant hit one of the eagles wounding him. The
eagle breaks off and heads to a tree. Leaving 3 more eagles
to confuse the giant. Almost ten seconds later the giant
fails to hit the others.
Z'leyra yells to bring the giant toward her direction.
They do this and the giant chases the birds. As the giant
passes Z'leyra is up 20 feet up and with sword in and leaps
down onto the broad shoulders of the giant. As Z'leyra falls
she bends her body to swipe the neck of the giant and slices
it open doing 21 points of damage. Z'leyra continues her
fall down the chest of the giant but using her agility and
dexterity training of gymnastics and somersaults to land on
her feet. At least this is the plan. In fact she lands on
the leather boots and stumbles to her knees damaging them
a bit. Now the giant only has to stomp on her.
But with only 1 hit point left the giant grabs his neck
dropping the branch. Z'leyra leaps to the side just as
the branch hits behind her. The giant begins to sway and
she realizes that he might fall on her. She scrambles to
her feet and begins to run. Behind her the giant falls
to his knees as blood pours out his neck.
Z'leyra calmly walks back and the giant looks at her in
confusion, hatred and sorrow. Z'leyra can see in his one
eye a bit of sadness. For a fleeting second Z'leyra fears
bad for the beast. Cetric always said that all life should
be honored even if they are evil beasts. But these creatures
damaged her nice armor and she is pissed. She reaches up
and stabs the giant in his eye killing him.
Not even cleaning the sword she calls the wounded bird
down and has one fetch her satchel. She gets a few items
and then heals the bird thanking him for his aid.
With three dead giants near her camp it would create a prey
buffet. So she casts Oblivion to hide the bodies for now. The
second one fails so she has to repeat it. But now all three
are gone and the eagles are back to their nests. She casts
watchful sleep at bed.
[Sepes 17]
Z'leyra wakes up to inspect her damaged armor. About 20-25%
of it is gone now. Disgusted she goes flying with her eagle
friends. She goes to check on the outcasts camp. But she
is sad to find the 3 bodies of the outcasts. The Orchi must
have been tracking them or lucked on them. At least 80%
of their bodies show signs of being eaten. The rest are in
decay and victims to other animals in the forest. Sad back
in human form she buries the bodies. As she is doing the
second body Jensen comes out of the forest and looks at
Z'leyra naked and holding a shovel. But it is clear what
happens and he helps to bury the other body. But at least
Jensen was not attacked. He says is heading back to town
in a week but going south to check out some woods there. She
figures a week will be good as she will return by then.
After some sad hunting she tans the animal hides and shares
the meat with her eagle friends. She realizes this could cause
problems if the birds got dependent on her meat. So she will
have to cut down a bit each time and ensure they do most of
the hunting.
That night she casts watchful sleep again.
[Sepes 18]
After some relaxing and a day of tanning Z'leyra rests for
camp that night.
Around 1am the ward goes off. She hears rustling noises in
the bushes and spots two eyes peeking out. She recognizes
the nose of a bear. Suddenly it charges as if possibly spurred
on by the smell of the dead orchi or other stuff. Z'leyra
rolls to grab her staff. The bear is only going on instinct.
The bear reaches her and tries to paw at her but she rolls
to the side missing his large claws. She turns and twists
and hits the bear in the head and knocks him out immediately.
Z'leyra decides the bear was only hungry. He could have
a family and so sending him to oblivion would harm the cubs
if they are young. With winter here she doesn't want more
bears to die. She is not as strong as Raban but she can lift
for a short time. She grabs her jade to ensure it is nearby
to help her strength. Then she drags the limp bear. She
may not have much time. She decides to make a bear sled out
of tree parts and drags the bear about 200 yards away. First
she casts sleep touch to ensure it will not wake and eat her.
Z'leyra leaves the bear under a tree where she saw a nice
bee hive. She also leaves some of her hunted meat and leave
sit for a snack. This should keep him away. He should be
smart enough to avoid the human with that long stick that
knocks him out.
[Sepes 19]
Z'leyra checks on the location she left the bear and
finds him gone as well as the meat. The hive was knocked
down and likely the honey was attacked. She goes back
to camp and clean a bit and works on her tanning.
[Sepes 20]
Z'leyra is exploring the perimeter of the forest on the
north side and sees a lone rider ride past a couple miles
away. The traveler looks to be dressed in Maren capital
fashions. She is unsure if he is a merchant or a messenger
but likely one of them.
[Sepes 22]
A bit after noon Z'leyra spots 2 fire snakes flying
around a neat high in a tree. She watches them fly
and dance in some possible courtship or just having fun.
The scene makes her miss Caladan and his fire snake.
[Sepes 23]
Today with her second time travel almost done she
intends to meditate. Right now as she does this two
copies of herself exist in the hills and in Sivas.
She is no time expert but the studies on these things
are clear. They can cause little subtle issues or huge
paradoxes if treated wrong.
Z'leyra meditates with the spirits and with the great
vast life around her.
When done that evening she removes her boots and places
them in front of her. She intends to reenchant the speed
spell on them so improve her magic effect.
Using her shamanic drum she casts herself into a trance
using Orient Self, casts divination, enchantment, Speed
and finally perception to test the results.
Looks like all the spells worked. Now her speeds will
be three as fast. She ends the night with watchful sleep
as usual.
[Sepes 24]
After some breakfast of her final batch of sidh biscuits,
it would not give honor to this forest creatures to eat meat,
Z'leyra breaks camp. She first removes the camp ward. She
casts divination, purification, dispel and detection to ensure
the ward is gone and it is.
As a shaman she intends not to leave any scrap of her camp
to let nature reclaim the entire camp. She is looking for
her lost dart when she hears noises. Two men are running
straight for her. She sighs the ward is gone so she was
not able to be warned. She then hears 2 more behind her.
The leader in front tells her to disarm and disrobe while
grinning. Z'leyra sighs bandits of course why not everything
else found her in this forest. Where are those patrolmen
now?
Z'leyra drops her satchel and shakes his head. She tells
the leader it might be best to walk away before they feed
a certain hungry bear in the woods. The man takes the
thread with the usual bravado of a stupid male. He lifts
his sword and threatens to first have his way then cut off
her head afterwards. Z'leyra fakes her way to remove the
sheath but instead draws her magic sword. The bandits
laugh and say "look at the lady with a sword..." then
makes scoffing noises. This is when Z'leyra steps a few
feet forward and slices off his right arm at the elbow.
The bandit screams and the others look startled and do not
react.
Z'leyra then draws her sword up and does a dancing twirl
to slice at the first bandit near her behind her. In her
haste she misses. All three bandits move in and swing at
Z'leyra but fails to hit her as she weaves.
The healer who should do no harm impales one bandit in
his upper left ribs killing him. Two of the bandits lunge
forward and swipe but miss. The one with half a arm tries
to fumble to his off hand and waves a dagger. But the swing
is so high that Z'leyra can read the move and dodge it.
Z'leyra then slices another bandit's upper chest full across
his chest cutting deep enough to do enough damage to kill him.
The unhurt bandit thrusts at Z'leyra but misses. The half arm
one tries as well and hits. The dagger slices across her
left chest doing 1 point drawing blood.
Z'leyra looks down and shakes her head she was going to
wear this back to the manor. Now it has blood on it. She
thrusts at the half arm man killing him with a single deep
wound into his stomach.
The last bandit with his pals all dead and still unhurt
decides to get smart. He runs for it. He runs about 600
feet as Z'leyra watches. She could give chase but the
man is not worth it. Suddenly the man falls down and a swarm
of bees is seen swarming him. This must be the beehive the
bear knocked off. The bees which should be dormant this time
of year swarm and attack the man. A few seconds later from
the bushes the bear charges and tackles the bandit. Z'leyra
can't help but smile at the irony.
Now with the lost ball back she looks around one last time.
It is time to get back to Sivas and fix the time lines.
Z'leyra prepares by casting levitation, invisibility,
insubstantiaiity and finally teleport to get back to Sivas.
Back in Sivas she watches as her alter ego walks down the
alley in the market area of Sivas. Z'leyra watches herself
cast the time travel spell then disappear. If all goes well
the loops will be set in place. That Z'leyra will always
teleport and time travel back and forth. The only way that
time line would be affected would be herself affecting the
other Z'leyra. Present Z'leyra walks back to the place she
left Gus and rides back to the manor. Time travel gives
her such a headache. The thought of meeting herself could
create paradox. She has heard such things debated at Ticasi
but never saw the arguments.
Back at the manor she watches Corona. The eagle is clever
and seems to just give a subtle nod. Only Corona, Kaylle and
Jensen really may know what happened. Even for Jensen it would
take some work to piece together. To Corona's eyes he is not
sure if this is the old Z'leyra or the one that replaced her.
Inside her workshop she retrieves the 2 powders and green
potion she got from Clima during the raid on their ship base.
That was 16 months ago. Over a year ago and it seems like
it was yesterday. Since then the party has shrunk and grown.
From losing Bertram to losing Zhou and gaining him back.
The wizard considers a Akasha spell to inspect the three
items but that would only give her 64 weeks of info at this
point. A month shy of what she needs. She already knows
the basic info on the items and so gives them to the butler
to sell in Sivas for manor maintenance.
Z'leyra goes over the books and counts the number of students
she taught including Will to be a total of 95. At 18 copper
per student per time that's 171 Silver. Out of 11 teaching
days that's a nice profit for manor expenses.
Soon the butler will head to the market to sell the three
items. This is a long term goal and Z'leyra may be away
or busy when or if they sell. In fact they do sell in a week.
The Green Potion of mana resistance sells for 25 Gold. The
powder of blindness immunity sells for 64 Gold. The powder
of constitution sells for a cool 90 gold. This gives the
manor 179 gold. But after the merchant takes his 15% of
27 gold this leaves the manor 157 gold for future expenses.
Z'leyra heads to the house for a nice nap in her warm and
soft bed for a change.
Actions? Comments?
Next Update....???
GM: So there you have it. She used the old Time Travel
trick. She used 2 IBTs to improve her Agility and
Dexterity to increase her multiplier. In fact Arawn
was the first to use that tweak. Time Travel can have
it's own issues. Normally I post a summary of her
spells with EL changes. But with over 700 spells
it is difficult. So just see the MEP figure below
and see it was a heck load of them.
GM: Z'leyra's Skills -
Armorer - (65)
Artist - 45 +9 EL
Blacksmith - 11 +2 EL
Carpentry - 7 +3 ELs
Flute - 10 Still learning
Great Sword - (20) [To CEP]
Healer - (47)
Sword - 186* +5 EL
Survival - Forest - 20 +1 EL
Survival - Hill - 20 +1 EL
Tailor - 28 Still learning
Tanner - 107 Maxed/+8 EL
War Staff - (124) [To CEP]
* If Stats change again Max EL may change if not points
will go to CEP.
CEP: 2114 +1 CEL!
MEP: 5926 +1 MEL! [774 Spells casts]
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