[pnpgm] Game Update #-17b - File #132 - Ix's IBT 2/2

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   HT         Player       Character Name     Type    Status/Notes   Sex
   -- ------------------------------------------------------------------
   FH.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid  .Normal/Alfar... Ma
   ...Kevin Newark..........Dorhak............Warrior.Normal/Dwarf....Ma
   --.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry.. Fe
   W2.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human  ..Ma
   ...Don.Kerr..............Maelorna..........Dancer..Normal/Human....Fe
   ...Gilbert.Isla..........Mournath..........Sailor..Normal/Human....Ma
   R3 Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma
   R4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human  ..Fe
   R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human  ..Fe
      Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra

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           [Janaq 12th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 12:10 am]

             After a long day learning dagger in the city and now just
           finishing up her dexterity training for the night, Ix finds
           a nice place to rest outside.

             It is a full moon so the area is not fully dark.  Suddenly
           a 20 foot giant appears from the darkness about 50 feet from
           the cabin.  What is this land with giants?  The one eyed
           skin wearing giant holds a club.  It seems to stare at Ix for
           a good 2 minutes.  Then it just decides to move on.

             Later at breakfast Kaz explains it could've been a Searbhani.
           But they are Sidh friendly so he isn't sure why it didn't
           attack her the human.  Ix just eats her food quietly.

           [Janaq 13th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             Ix decide to try 3 more orient self and 3 more shape changing
           spells.  All trances work but only 2 shape changes work.

           [Janaq 14th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 10:07 pm]

             Ix and Kaz are walking home from a nearby farm.  While he
           is a hermit he does have some friends.  So this night he
           attends a old fashioned barn raising party.  Dancing and good
           food are there as they finish a new barn for the farm.

             As they walk over the hills in the darkness they spot a
           20 foot 800 pound hill giant.  Since the wolf is not here
           both run for cover.  Ix asks why this land has so many
           giants?  But Kaz just shrugs. After 20 minutes of fleeing
           the giant they finally lose it and head home.

             Ix casts 3 more trance spells and 3 healings but all 3
           fail so she ends up with a cut finger.

           [Janaq 16th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             Ix finds a deformed rabbit with a skin disease.  She
           decides to try to practice her shamanic cure disease spells.
           She casts 3 trance spells and 3 cure disease spells.  Two
           of each pass.  It seems the skin disease begins to get
           more normal color.

           [Janaq 17th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             Ix casts 3 more Orient and 3 more healing spells.  Two
           each work and she heals.

           [Janaq 18th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 7:55 am]

             Ix is more confident on this city stuff so decides to head
           to town to explore alone with the wolf at the cabin watching
           Kaz.  Suddenly Ix feels a man bump up and paws her.  She
           whirls around to find a beggar trying to steal from her.  But since
           she has no money it is pointless.

             Then Ix's smiles as she recognizes the beggar as the same
           man who begs for money in the park recently  The man sees
           this as well and begins to run but Ix stops him.  She smiles
           and explains she also tried to learn the skill of pick pocketing
           in her home land.  Mainly to take food and things the others
           refused to give her.  She demands the beggar teach her city
           skills and how to steal as he did or be thrown to the city guards.

             The man weighs his options and finally nods.  He'll teach her
           Deftness but will not come to her rescue if she is caught.  So
           over the next week the two watch the crowd and learn how the
           people walk and act.  The beggar feels a blind girl might actually
           have a chance of such things if not for duty alone.  Over the
           next week during the day they try to steal things from vendor
           stalls or pick pockets.

           [Janaq 19th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 4:04 pm]

             Ix and the beggar are in a military area near some barracks.
           Ix is about done for the day to return to the cabin.  When
           they discover a dozen men in 2 columns marching past.  The
           military column walk in step and Ix is amazed at the shiny
           chainmail and weapons.

             Ix practices some more cure disease by finding what may be
           diseased animals to practice on.  But only 1 spell each seems
           to work.


           [Janaq 20th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 2:32 pm]

             Ix is standing near a private shop of some sort.  She
           can't read the writing but it is small.  The beggar is
           on the street trying to talk a merchant in giving him two
           rice balls to eat.  A man exits the shop and stops a man
           passing.  Ix listens and the man seems to be a recruiter
           for the military.

             Ix notices that the man just ignores her full presence
           completely.  Is this how men act here?

             Later that night Ix practices her healing spell.  She gets
           2 trance spells and 2 healing spells working.

           [Janaq 21st, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 11:41 am]

             While walking down a alley Ix encounters a black cat.  She
           stops and pets it.  Cats here are pretty friendly.  At least
           its not giants.  A minute later though a small boy around 8
           comes and says its his cat that it ran away.

             Ix casts 3 more Shamanic Orient spells and 3 more Communicate
           spells with all three each working.

           [Janaq 22nd, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 12:30 pm]

             The beggar takes a nice haul and steals 3 copper. So today
           both eat lunch at a tavern.  Ix ignores the beggar talking
           about great hauls as she watches a man at a nearby table.  The
           man is gambling with cards.  In the tribe cards really were
           not around.  But they did gamble with bone dice.

             Here food gets cold as she watches the man win several hands
           and the victims at his table leave.  Ix asks the man if she
           could teach her cards.  The man laughs and agrees for some coin.
           Disappointed Ix returns to her table.

             Ix practices 3 more times with her cure disease with only
           two of her trance and cure spells working.

           [Time: 8:40 pm]

             Ix and Zol Zim are outside the cabin getting fire wood when 2
           creatures surge forward. Ix can tell they are spider like.  As
           they charge the black spiders with red bands on their torso stand
           about 10 inches. The first lunges at Zol Zim who dodges and skirts
           away.  The second one tries to bite Ix but she does an acrobatic
           flip and gets away.

             Ix runs to get her cane-sword and prepares to fight.  She stabs
           the torso but the tough hide only grants 1 point of damage.
           The wolf lunges for one spider but its too agile.

             Both spiders attack both targets again but fail to make contact.

             Ix stabs the spider again this time doing 5 points of damage.
           Wolf tries again but the spider is too fast.

             The spiders again try to bite both subjects but fail to hit.

             Ix fails to hit the spider near her.  But the wolf clamps down
           on his spider and kills it.

             The lone spider tries its final poisoned bite but it fails
           to make skin contact.

             Both Ix and the wolf fail to make contact with the spider.

             The spider done with its poison for the night decides
           to turn and run.  The wolf gives chase but the spider seems
           to have magical speed.

           [Janaq 22nd, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 7:26 pm]

             At the cabin helping to stack fire wood Ix notices a lone
           small white cat approach.  Ix pets it and falls in love. But
           when Zol Zim sees it and growls the cat runs fast into the
           darkness.

             The next morning both do not find the spider.  But in fact
          find only dust fragments.  Kaz wonders if the spiders may have
          been Fusin.

           [Janaq 23rd, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             Today is the last day of Ix's dexterity training.

             At the cabin Ix casts 3 more healing spells.  Two of the
           Orient spell and 2 healing spells work.

           [Janaq 24th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             In the late afteroon Ix reflects on her last week trying
           out her deftness skills.  She had 2 good days and 5 bad days.
           But at least she was never caught.  She examines her haul.
           From one merchant on 2nd day she collected 8 silver, 2 copper
           and 2 brass bits.  She doesn't understand much on this coin
           stuff.  But Kaz explains the concept to her later.  On the 5th
           day she collects 9 silver, 2 copper  and 2 brass bits.

             For the next 16 days Ix will train at night with her
           agility to improve it.

           [Time: 11:45 pm]

             Ix hears the wolf whimpering and goes outside.  She sees
           some creature on the wolf's back.  It looks like a winged
           bird.  No.  Its a bat of some sort. It is attached to the
           wolf's back and feeding off his blood.  Ix draws her dagger
           and tells the wolf to remain still.  Ix creeps up to it
           and stabs the bat.  It screeches and releases the wolf.
           But Ix stabs it again and the vampire bat is killed.

             Kaz wakes up to help treat the wolf.

             Ix misses her forest.  These hills have forests as the far
           tundra has warm pools.  She asks Kaz if there is a forest
           around.  He says north of the city about 3 miles on the coast
           is a small one.

             Ix decides that she will want to go to this forest and
           be there for a week or so.  Kaz shrugs and collects some
           camping gear for her and some food.

           [Janaq 25th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Forest]
           [Time: 10:14 am]

             Ix finally finds the forest with her backpack on. Having
           left before sunrise.  She enters the forest and feels at
           ease.  She begins to explore and look for plans.

             She tries 3 more attempts at cure disease.  Three trance
           and 2 cure disease spells work.

           [Janaq 26th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Forest]

             At the cabin only 1 of 3 orient spells and healing spells
           work.

           [Janaq 27th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Forest]
           [Time: 10:31 am]

             Ix is inspecting a bush for berries when suddenly 2 large
           spiders leap from the trees to the ground.  This spider is
           not like the Fusin but has heavy fur with large eyes.  Ix
           knows these from her own forest - Great Spiders.

             She takes a acrobatic flip and grabs her cane-sword.  She
           charges one stabbing it in the torso doing 8 points of damage.
           The wolf leaps at the other large spider but it leaps away.

             The wounded spider thrashes with 2 legs and rams Ix.  The
           second leg would've hurt Ix but her leathers protect her.  But
           she is thrown onto her back. The spider moves over her.

             The second spider attacks the wolf.  With its first leg
           it hurts the wolf doing 3 points.

             Ix grabs her dagger and tries to stab up at the spider
           but it uses his legs to parry.  The wolf tries to help
           her by leaping at the spider but the second spider blocks
           his path.

             The spider over Ix bites down onto her chest and injects
           the poison.  Ix suddenly loses control of her limbs.  She
           wonders if this could be the end.

             The wolf bites the spider hurting Ix and does 5 points of
           damage.

             Soon both spiders easily over power the wolf and paralyze
           him as well. Ix stares at the trees wondering if this will be
           the end.  Desperate she whispers a few words as her lips
           seem to still be able to move ever so slightly.

             The spiders move around the captured ones and then
           gather leaves for their webs.  Time to store the food
           for later.  It seems like hours but around 8 minutes
           after taken down a roar is heard.

             A large black shadow leaps over Ix as it leaps and
           attacks one spider.  Ix can't see it but can hear
           caws like a cat and soon the spiders flee.  It seems
           their poisoned doses are gone so no longer have the
           ability to take more prey.

             The shadow comes over Ix's head. It is a large maw
           of some kind with whiskers.  Then the shadow moves
           out of the darkness and Ix smiles inside.  A jaguar!
           Her in this forest near the river.   A miracle.  Her
           tonah was called and it heard.

             The jaguar lays near Ix and purrs.

             Ix resigns to the fact that she will be unable to move
           a long time.  At least her tribal training says it will
           not kill` her.

           [Time: 11:09 pm[

             The 2 spiders return and another battle ensues.  The
           jaguar protects the shaman who called her.  Ix is awoken
           to the fight but can't tell what is going on.  Soon the
           jaguar comes back with blood on his face.  It licks Ix
           to ensure she is still alive.  Then lays down and purrs.
           Did he chase off the spiders or kill them?  Ix returns to
           sleep as it will be a very long day.

           [Janaq 28th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Forest]

             Ix does 3 more orient self and shape changing spells.  But
           only 1 of each work.

           [Janaq 29th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Forest]
           [Time: 3:39 am]

             Ix tries her fingers for the 10,847th time.  Finally
           they wiggle.  Soon she is able to move her arm.  Then
           a leg.  Then turn her head.  Soon she sits up and stares
           at the forest.  Two spiders lay dead and flies are buzzing
           all over them.  Almost 40 hours after being bitten the
           spiders were killed during the night battle.  Ix hugs the
           jaguar and gives thanks.

             the large jaguar stands and paces.  Then seems to find
           Ix safe and move into the forest. Ix has to clean up
           after her body relieves itself during the day and a half.
           She finds the wolf soon is able to also move.

             Lightning a fire near the dead spiders the smoke makes
           the bugs mostly leave.  She has almost lost 2 days in
           the forest and hungry.  But she is determined to get something
           from this.  She begins to cut the fur off the spiders.  It
           is too late for the poison to be milked and she doesn't have
           a crystal goblet anyways.

             Ix orients herself and then casts healing upon her own
           wounds.   Later that night she casts 2 more each to
           practice healing. Two of the 3 each pass that day.

           [Time: 10:26 pm]

             Ix is awoken by grunts.  She soon discovers a boar is
           in the bushes.  She goes to the fire and draw a burning
           limb and waves it around to scare the boar away.  Most
           boar won't care but this one seems scared and leaves.

           [Janaq 31st, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Forest]
           [Time: 10:34 am]

             Ix and Zol Zim are walking in the forest when 2 hyena
           charge barking.  Ix raises her cane sword but then she
           notices 3 small pups near the adults.  The hyena seem
           upset the human is in their territory.  Ix could probably
           take out the two adults.  But killing pups is not her thing.
           so she tells the wolf to simply back off slowly.  They will
           avoid the area.  The hyenas watch as they leave the area.

           [Febris 1st, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru]

             Ix leaves the forest and enters the city.  She finds
           a shop after 3 tries that is willing to buy the great
           spider fur.  Ix for the first time in a long while uses
           her "blindness" and makes the clerk feel pity.  But
           in the end she only gets 8 gold for it not the 10 usually
           due to the damage and decay.

             Ix then tries to locate some teachers for teaching her
           local herbalism and husbandry.  Jamir who owns a herb
           shops offers to teach her for a week.

             At a corral she finds a very tall muscled man named Bor
           to help teach her a bit of husbaandry.  But it is her 10th
           try as most feel a blind girl can't teach a cat to drink
           milk much less other animals.  She figures it will be
           41 copper for both.

             Jamir takes Ix and the wolf to the hills.  He goes
           on and on about the local plants.  Over the next week
           Jamir will meet with Ix and teach her herbalist skill.

             At the end of the day Ix wants to practice her shape
           changing spell.  After grooming the wolf she grabs a clump
           of hair to use. Then casts orient self and shape change
           into the wolf.  This causes Zol Zim to growl a bit confused.
           Ix tries twice more each doing the orient self using her
           drum and 2 more shape changing but only 1 each work.

           [Febris 2nd, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru]
           [Time: 9:43 pm]

             While doing acrobatics outside to hone her agility Ix
           hears a loud rumble.  She soon sees shadows that looks
           to be a dozen horses.  They get near and ride past. Ix
           counts maybe 10-11 riders.  All wearing armor and heavy
           weapons.  But she can't tell if they are military or not.
           They simply ignore the cabin and move on.

           [Febris 3rd, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru]
           [Time: 1:41 pm]

             Jamir and Ix notice a small army of Ba'ru uniformed
           men walking in the hills about half a mile away.  Unsure
           what is going on.  They simply march eastward.

           [Febris 6th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru]
           [Time: 1:41 pm]

             Jamir and Ix are looking for some healing herbs when
           Jamir yells.  He grabs the small woman and pulls her
           to a bush.  Thinking he is about to assault her she
           grabs her dagger.  But he points.  In the sky there
           is a flying...thing.  Is that yet another giant?  This
           land of giants no only has mean giants but they fly
           too?  Ix stares as the giant seems to fly from one
           side of the hill to another.  Jamir later explains it
           is called a firbolg.

           [Time: 6:56 pm]

             Ix is heading back to the cabin when she finds a body
           on the ground.  Inspecting the middle aged man she
           finds him dead.  It looks like the man died from the
           severe wound on his chest.  Seeing as half of his chest
           was eaten by something.  She hurries to the cabin not
           wanting to find his killer.

           [Febris 8th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             Bor who doesn't seem too bright teaches how best to
           control a ox, horse and cattle over the next week.
           He is not a strong talker but gives fast and quick
           orders.  It is very rough training but ix takes it in
           stride and learns over the week.

             Ix completes the last day of her agility training late
           that night.

           [Febris 9th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 5:57 pm]

             Ix is heading to the cabin and in the hills when she
           hears a noise.  The roar was talked about by Kaz as
           a mountain lion.  Picking up stones she begins to clank
           the stones to scare the beast away.

           [Febris 10th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 5:47 am]

             Ix is up early eager to learn from Bor again.  She
           notices a large adult deer buck in the area and watches
           as it grazes then moves on.

           [Febris 12th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             Three orient self spells give her a trance but only 2 of the 3
           soul sight spells work today.

           [Febris 13th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 10:41 pm]

             Ix is using the outhouse again and notices a few animals
           leaping in the nearby hills.  She has seen them during
           the day so figures they must be a half dozen antelope moving
           cross country.

           [Febris 14th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             Ix asks for Kaz to teach her better sign language.  So
           for the next week he helps her around the cabin learning
           some local dialects using signs.

           [Febris 17th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 12:11 pm]

             A lone rider approaches the cabin as Ix is inside having
           lunch.  Kaz is off to the general store buying more spices.
           The rider dismounts and Ix sees him a tall tanned man
           with long hair.  He is wearing leathers and a red colored
           snake is wrapped around his neck.  Ix is amazed by a man
           with a snake like this.

             "Hello. Can I get some water for my horse?"  The man asks.

             Ix points to the well and bucket.  The man thanks her after
           giving the horse some water.  Then she is amazed at the
           snake flying!  The man mounts up and smiles at her.  "Thank
           you miss.  I'm Caladan.  Heading north to visit my home.  Have
           a nice day miss."

           [Febris 21st-24th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             Ix spends the next 3 days practicing acrobatics to help
           hone her body.

           [Febris 24th- Marqi 2nd, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             Ix enters the city and hires a dance teacher at a dance
           studio.  But there are actually 3 teachers who help her
           this week not just one due to time constraints.

           [Marqi 1st, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 8:57 am]

             Ix is heading to town when she spots 3 falcons in the air
           above her circling.  She watches  as it gains air currents to
           go higher.

           [Marqi 3rd, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 8:57 am]

             Ix enters the city and finds a teacher to help improve
           her ocarno instrument.  It takes 4 music shops before she
           can find a teacher.  She pays the 7 copper for a week's worth
           of training.

             Ix finds a lot of scornful folks and people who lie.  She
           decides to practice her soul sight on random folks to see if
           she can tell things from them.  She casts 3 orient self and 3
           soul sight spells.  Three trance and only 1 soul sight work.

           [Marqi 6th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             IX practices her soul sight spell 3 more times today.  Two
           of the 3 spell sets work.

           [Marqi 9th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             Two of 3 soul sight attempts work today.

           [Marqi 10th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             Ix heads to the city to find the gambler who turned her
           down at the tavern.  Now that she has money from selling
           the spider fur and plants she can pay for help.  She
           finds the gambler at his table taking more money away from
           innocent victims. She waits till the table is empty and
           approaches the gambler.

             "Show me the money." He orders.

             Ix jiggles the coin bag.  He waves her down and begins
           to explain the concept of cards.  Over the next 10 days
           the gambler named LaQor teaches her cards and dice.

           [Marqi 15th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]

             Only 1 orient spell and all 3 soul sight spell tries work.
           In fact one spell fails abysmally and Ix is stunned for 8 hours.
           She loses energy and some of her casting ability for that day.

           [Marqi 18th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 9:41 am]

             Behind the tavern at the outhouse Ix encounters a wild
           dog.  Since her wolf is not there she decides to grab some
           of her dried meat from her pack and toss it to him.

             Ix wants to practice her Detection spell to detect some
           simple things like silver in her coin bag or other things.
           She tries 3 attempts.  Three of her trances works but only
           1 detection seems to work.

           [Marqi 19th, 1636TH] - [Ba'ru Hills]
           [Time: 7:53 am]

             Ix is walking near the food market and encounters a strange
           beast.  It looks like a horse of sorts but has a large hump
           on its back.  There is a rider on it as he rides pass.  Later
           during gambling practice the gambler says it was a war camel.

             Over the course of her stay with Kaz, Ixkin does warm up to
           him, although it seems she sees him as more of a father figure
           or big brother.  Several times, she will start to open up to him
           but then she'll suddenly shut herself off emotionally, which
           would likely alert Kaz that someone she was close to or even
           trusted had hurt her in the past, which has likely made her
           afraid to get close to others.  I imagine he would attempt to
           get her to talk about herself so he can learn more about her and
           where she came from, and perhaps even try to chip away at the
           wall and get her to talk about what's bothering her.  She would
           answer some basic questions but wouldn't elaborate much into
           personal things.  She might talk about certain things once  she
           feels more comfortable and maybe even talk more about the
           personal things.  If parentage comes up, because I assume he
           might ask her if she's half elf or fae at some point, she'll
           simply reply that her mom always avoided the question, so she
           has no idea who or what her father is, and that she didn't even
           know what elf and fae were, or that other people had pointed
           ears until just recently.

           [Time: 5:45 pm]

             Ix has decided her stay at the cabin may be too much.
           She is grateful but she bought Zol Zim today not caring
           what others think.  She bought all of her gear since she
           was almost planning just leaving and not coming back.  But
           she owes Kaz a explanation. So she decides to head to the
           cabin.

             Ix is leaving the tavern after many dice games today
           learning the local gambling rules.  The gambler is charming
           but can be cruel in his support of bad luck.

             She is walking down a alley for short cuts to leave this
           city to go back to the cabin.  From behind the street is
           that way and in front the alley turns left and right.  Right
           should take her to the east gate to the hills.  She gets to
           about 20 feet from the edge and a figure rounds the corner from
           the left.  It is a short man with a shaggy beard.  He is only
           about the same size of Ix. The short man looks behind him
           and back down the alley.  A face of panic seems to be showing
           as he runs on short stubby legs.

             Ix then realizes this short man isn't quite human.  Could
           he be a dwarf?  The short man suddenly stops and stares. No.
           He is looking over Ix's shoulder .  Ix turns around and sees
           3 humans with swords moving this way.  She turns around just
           in time to see another man behind the short man round the
           corner.

             Trapped Ix figures this isn't her fight.  The short man gets
           to 3 feet and since he has no weapons looks around for options.
           The short man begins to speak in a strange language.

             Then men behind Ix also speak in another odd language.
           IX draws her cane sword up ready to fight.  But suddenly
           from above a very large net drops onto the short man and Ix.
           Zol Zim growls and begins to move toward the 3 men.

             One of the three men raises a blowgun and a dart hits the
           wolf. Then another dart just as the wolf leaps.  But the
           wolf is then knocked out.  The short man tries to free himself
           from the net as Ix tries to figure out what is going on here.

             Then a dart hits Ix in the waist.  Then one dart hits
           the short man.  Within a few seconds both collapse into
           darkness.

           [Time: 8:17 pm]

             Ix wakes up into darkness.  She is in a damp, dusty
           enclosed place.  She finds herself in iron chains holding her
           hands to some cold iron.  Glancing around it seems like
           she is in some kind of iron cage of sorts.  Her gear and
           all of her stuff is missing.  Ix smells the air and a
           scent of salt and body odor is around. She then notices
           several other cages to the left and right of her.  Inside
           are several humans all look small.  She notices the
           small man or at least one that looks like him in the
           one cage to the left.  Then again the other men in
           this place all look the same with those shaggy beards.

             She shakes her chains eager to escape but it is futile.
           In the far corner to the right is another cage separate
           sits her wolf.  Why did they take her wolf?  HE is sound
           asleep or dead.  Ix feels groggy still and loses her will
           to fight sleep.

           [Marqi 20th, 1636TH] - [Unknown]

             Ix is awoken to sounds at the cage.  Two men grab
           her and hoist her up.  One laughs and begins to paw
           her chest.  She screams but the other man punches her
           in the stomach knocking her breath out.  She is then
           taken by the armpits out of the cage.  Then down a
           dark hall.  She is pushed inside another room and
           forced to stand.

             Once she recovers her breath she sees the windows in
           the far side of the room. It is bright and she sees a
           lot of water.  There are bits of trees to the right
           that seem to move away but also back and forth.  She
           then realizes she is on a ship.  The type she saw at
           the port exploring.  Strange craft that sail the waters.
           A man sits behind a desk in front of the windows.  He
           looks up and points to a young girl standing
           nearby.

             "Who are you and why were you with the dwarf?"  The
           girl asks.  The man speaks in that odd language and the woman
           translates.  "Those ears of yours are Sidh like.  Why is
           this so?"

             Ix stands confused and hesitant to answer.  If she says
           the wrong words.  She might die.  If the right words she
           also may die.  She needs more information.  She stands
           firm.  The man asks the questions over and over.

             The man shrugs and adds, "the wolf will fetch a nice
           profit.  It is a strange one.  But you....maybe for the men
           they can have some use for you."  He waves a hand and speaks.
           The other girl rushes to Ix.  "You must tell them they
           will throw me overboard!"

             But before Ix can speak she is pushed out by one of the
           men back to her cage.  Behind her she hears the other
           man dragging the girl up some stairs.  As she a clank of
           the cage is heard she hears a scream then a splash.

             The man leaves and soon the short men or the dwarves it
           seems per the man begin to murmur.  But she can't understand
           them at all.

           [Marqi 23rd, 1636TH] - [Unknown]

             Ix has been given food and water.  But so far no one has
           touched her.  The other dozen or so dwarves seem to also
           be fed a bit better than her.  Every so often they are given
           time to relieve themselves up on deck as well as Ix.  But
           it is awkward doing so in chains whlie others watch.

             She has lost all track of time.  Has it been 2 or 3
           days?  She still can't figure out a way to escape.  But
           after going on deck to be splashed by water bucket to
           wash some of her odor away and relieve herself she
           feels the boat rocking less.  She can only guess they
           are docked at some port or not moving at sea.

           Actions? Comments?

           Next Update....Soon!

           GM: This IBT was done last year.  So after 3-4 months I can
               finally post it.  Welcome to the game!

           GM: Stats

           * Expenses

                      Item               Price
              Buy Longbow w/24 arrows    20 SC 26 BB
              Busy Spear                  3 SC
              Buy Leather Helmet          4 CC
              Buy Rope                          4 BB
              Buy Clothing               41 CC
              Teacher fees               48 CC
              Other Town expenses        13 CC
              Deftness/IBT 'gains'     + 17 SC  4 CC 6 BB
              Great Spider Fur         + 80 SC

                          Total        - 83 SC  7 CC 6 BB

           * Skills/Stats

                Skill          Expertise   Notes
              Strength             -      +4
              Stamina              -      +4
              Dexterity            -      +4
              Agility              -      +4
              Spear - Fight       12      +1 EL
              Short Sword         76      +4 EL
              Marentian           96      Learned, +35 EL
              Sword               14      +1 EL
              Dagger - Fight      16      +3 EL
              Hand to Hand        14      +3 EL
              Deftness            25      +8 EL
              Forester             5      Lost 2 days
              Herbalist           14      +2 EL
              Husbandry           14      +1 EL
              Sign Language       14
              Acrobat              6
              Dancer              14      +1 EL
              Ocarno Music        14      +1 EL
              Gambler             20      +1 EL

              CEP: 278  +1 CEL/+1 OCV/+1 DCV!


           * Magic

                Spell      MEP    Expertise   Notes
             Orient Self   116       150      +3 EL
             Communicate    30        48      +3 EL
             Healing        20        31      +1 EL
             Shape Changing 54        58      +2 EL
             Cure Disease   14        22      +1 EL
             Soul Sight     28        37      +2 EL
             Detection       2         3

             MEP : 264 +3 MELs!


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