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FH.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid
.Normal/Al.. Ma<br>
...Kevin
Newark..........Dorhak............Warrior.Normal/Dwarf....Ma<br>
--.Tobie Bonahoom....YY..Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry..
Fe<br>
W3.Mark
Murtha.......HN..Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human....Ma<br>
W2.David Sanders.....HN..Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat
Normal/Human ..Ma<br>
R4.Wout
Broere.......YY..Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe<br>
...Don.Kerr..............Maelorna..........Dancer..Normal/Human....Fe<br>
...Gilbert.Isla..........Mournath..........Sailor..Normal/Human....Ma<br>
R3
Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma<br>
R4.Alex
Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe<br>
Fake-Kell/Raki........Npc...............Normal..Normal/Shaper...??<br>
Z'layha
..............Npc...............Normal..Normal/Shaman...Fe<br>
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra<br><br>
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Game Update #143 sequence (file #977)<br>
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[Recap]<br><br>
From Fremea: [Re:
Actions]<br>
She watched the
magics flow out, Kiet's strong and ...<br>
GM:
Ack.
<br><br>
From Z'leyra: [Re:
Actions]<br>
As the realization
that they had been subject to...<br>
GM: Ack.<br><br>
From Mae: [Re: Actions]<br>
Maelorna pauses at
the threshold, the magic spent and...<br>
GM: Ack. <br>
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[New Stuff]<br><br>
[Febris 9th,
1635TH]<br>
[Time: 5:01
pm??]<br><br>
Moments before the escape happens. <br><br>
Fremea
watched the magics flow out, Kiet's strong and steady;<br>
Arawn's not as
powerful as he usually does. Does this mean they<br>
can go through the
door? Does she dare hope things will be over<br>
in the place and
she can get back to her parents and kids again?<br>
That 'vision' in
this place, where Varange shows up, is that<br>
something that
will actually be happening? Does she need to make<br>
sure she
understands her artifact better now, rather than later.<br>
She will have to
start understanding it much better and have her<br>
new spell ready
just in case this is going to be true.<br><br>
<br><br>
<br>
Once
the party escapes back into the Middle World.<br><br>
As contemplates all this, the 'door' opens and she sees her<br>
freedom from this
cage/prison. Bolting fast through the door,<br>
she stops
suddenly. Realizing how hungry and thirsty she<br>
actually is now.
Pulling out some of her powder food she always<br>
has for nutrients,
she gets a little nourishment, but will<br>
really want to
have fresh fruit soon. Then the others come from<br>
the hole just as
fast. She hadn't realized her hair had gotten<br>
so long suddenly,
until she flew out of the way as the others<br>
piled out. She
also saw, as they came out of the whole a very<br>
strange
transition, from a bit scruffy to not hurt, but<br>
completely unkempt
with their beards and hair. Very strange to<br>
see the instant
aging. Fremea then smells the foul odor of<br>
Kell's decayed
body.<br><br>
Fremea
hovers there for a bit, when Mae suddenly jumps on<br>
Dorhak and some
strange transfer begins. She starts to drain<br>
the little man and
does not really like it. Then Arawn<br>
steps/falls
through and has a large hole in him. This is not<br>
good. The stranger
that walks in she cannot determine, even<br>
with her sight.
All so much at once, but he seems to have known<br>
this all was going
to happen.<br><br>
Fremea
decides quickly to cast Sleep Touch on Mae, using her<br>
Sidh tongue.
Hopefully Z has used/placed the amulet on Arawn at<br>
that time, or she
will make sure it is done.<br><br>
As the
realization that they had been subject to Upper World<br>
or Lower World
time without having cast protections hit Z'leyra<br>
she startled to
find someone pressing something into her hand<br>
and telling her to
"Use this on him."<br><br>
So she
does. Immediately taking it to the wound in Arawn<br>
while trying to
figure out what it is and how to work it. She<br>
concentrates on it
healing his wound and restoring Arawn back<br>
to life.<br><br>
Maelorna pauses at the threshold, the magic spent and she<br>
wondered if it had
worked or not. But shrugs as she passes<br>
through the
threshold and a pain more intense than she had ever<br>
experienced before
hits her as the hunger was no longer<br>
something she
could ignore, it was now an immediate need.<br><br>
As she
stepped through her human form changed into her<br>
winged half demon
form in a heart beat.<br><br>
'Him,
that one, now you stupid girl!' the voice screams and<br>
Maelorna can't
stop herself as she gives an almost guttural<br>
scream and
changes, as wings burst from her back, horns jut<br>
from her forehead
and the tail curls about her legs, then her<br>
gaze lands upon
Dorhak and she leaps at him.<br><br>
'Yes!
YES! now you know all they're good for!' the voice<br>
screams
exultantly, as Maelorna can't stop herself, she can<br>
only manage,
"I.. No!" as instinct kicks in and shows the worst<br>
of what a hungry
Succubus can look like as she wraps her arms<br>
about Dorhak,
managing to latch upon his arm and hold firmly<br>
as she starts to
feed upon the life force, feeling the energy<br>
flowing into her
and filling the ever empty void.<br><br>
Dorhak
is knocked down to the ground with such force that<br>
it draws his
breath out. Unsure what is going on he soon<br>
realizes something
or no someone is on him. While most humans<br>
are not night time
trained dwarves are used to darkness. But<br>
even so he will
take a few moments to adjust. With mace in one<br>
hand and shield in
the other he uses these items to try to<br>
get the person
off. But whoever it is they are latched on strong<br>
to his stomach
with their knees.<br><br>
Then a
few fingers brushes against naked breasts and he<br>
realizes this must
be Mae. Since she was practically naked<br>
already.
Then his eyes adjust and a glimpse of horses is<br>
seen. She is
back into her hellish form! Is she trying<br>
to eat him or kill
him? Dorhak swings his shield once and<br>
then twice trying
to bash her off him but the vice grip<br>
her knees have on
his stomach is too great.<br><br>
Kiet
and Z'layha saw this attack as the light from the prison<br>
world was still in
the room. But now with it gone it<br>
is total
blackness. They both try to grapple and pull the<br>
woman
free.<br><br>
On the
other side of the room Z'leyra reaches for her<br>
satchel to find
her Amber and realizes it is now in the<br>
lava. She
curses silently and without any vision she tries<br>
to paw the
item. In the few seconds the room did have<br>
light she noticed
she had been healed as if days or weeks of<br>
natural healing
came about. Then a horrible though comes<br>
to her. If
she healed does that mean passing through the<br>
threshold that
Arawn also healed? If so what did he look<br>
before that
hole! But no if he was dead no natural healing<br>
would've occurred
likely.<br><br>
Z'leyra figures there is little hope if Arawn lost half<br>
his heat and it
was exposed even her powerful heing<br>
could not save
him. Yet she paws the item and kneels.<br>
IT has a chain it
seems and is a round object. It must<br>
be magical but she
can't see Fremea to ask. Every second<br>
or even half
second could mean Arawn's spirit would leave<br>
this area and no
healing wouldn't matter.<br><br>
How to
use it? She considers yelling to Raki or Fremea<br>
but even asking
that could doom Arawn. She places the<br>
object onto
Arawn's rear head. She begins to trace around<br>
and tap it a few
times. Nothing happens. Then a flash<br>
of yellow so fast
it blinds her for a few seconds.<br><br>
Kiet
drops his own shield and tries to get behind<br>
Mae and push his
arms under one arm. The other is<br>
so moving so fast
its hard to grab but he is a trained<br>
juggler. He pulls
both arms behind her and upwards to<br>
do a brace hold on
her. He then flushes a bit red as<br>
he realizes his
hands fumble a bit too close to her<br>
major
assets.<br><br>
Then
Kiet hears wings and wonders if that is Mae.<br>
But he realizes
her wings is now up against his own<br>
chest.<br><br>
Fremea
lands and touches Mae's left neck. With speaking<br>
the words Mae
collapses in Kiet's arms.<br><br>
The
mysterious object glows green and blue and it begins<br>
to emit green fog
like magic onto Arawn. Z'leyra watches<br>
as the magical fog
touches his entire body. In seconds<br>
bones, tissue,
heart, ribs and holes quickly begin to<br>
heal on a massive
scale not seen by mortal Healers.<br><br>
Z'layha glances over her shoulder at the now glowing<br>
thing on
Arawn. It gives enough dim light to see<br>
Mae now slumped in
Kiet's arms.<br><br>
Kiet
pulls Mae away and ensures she is knocked out.<br>
Whatever Fremea
did she is out cold.<br><br>
Fremea
flies toward Z'leyra and explains Mae should<br>
sleep for half a
day unless woken up. Fremea lands<br>
and stares at the
magical item. Then she stares at<br>
the work on the
gaping hole. She knows Z'leyra is<br>
a high healer but
even her best work would take a dozen<br>
spells to heal all
this. Yet this item seems to do<br>
it as if a common
thing.<br><br>
Kiet
considers getting rope and tying up Mae but<br>
realizes what
Fremea just said. So figures she<br>
should be out for
a few hours.<br><br>
Z'layha stands and stares at Raki. "Why are you<br>
staring at that
wall?"<br><br>
Even
as Healer and Fae stare at a closing hole they<br>
both notice
Arawn's heart reform and regenerate and<br>
begins to
pump. Fremea glances at Z'leyra and wonders<br>
what power this
has to be from. But as she glances<br>
back down tissue
is being regenerated so fast she<br>
can't keep up
watching the cobwebs structure of skin.<br><br>
Pyan
with the new glow of the magical item sees the<br>
body of
Kell. It is now mostly bones with a few clumps<br>
of tissue It
seems the trader has decayed so fast there<br>
was no hope.
But the smell is daunting. Pyan tries to<br>
back away but the
room is so small there is no escape.<br><br>
Dorhak
rolls over and grunts. He stands and raises<br>
his mace toward
the ex-slave. Then realizes she is<br>
not moving.
He grunts as the beard is now so heavy<br>
it become s chore
to breath. Upset he would seek<br>
justice but
harming a person-thing in this state is<br>
not right.
He grunts and lowers his mace.<br><br>
Kiet
stares at Kell and a deep sadness takes him.<br>
Then anger.
Such a senseless death.<br><br>
Then
in what seems like two minutes at most it<br>
seems Arawn is
fully healed and alive. But what<br>
of his mental
capacity? Z'leyra checks his pulse<br>
and finds it
strong. Then she reaches for the<br>
device but as she
nears her fingers it simply fades<br>
from all
sight. Darkness comes back into the room.<br>
Z'leyra begins to
run her fingers all around the<br>
ground but there
is no device. It just faded and<br>
disappeared.
Such power lost she sighs.<br><br>
Z'layha coughs at the stench. "Darkness again?<br>
We need
light. Anyone have flint?"<br><br>
Unali
recalls she may have in her bag and begins<br>
to dig in
them.<br><br>
Raki
then turns to glance at the group. Though<br>
not seen he flexes
his hands. They reform into<br>
glowing yellow
finger like things. "When I was here<br>
last time those
fireflies always fascinated me. I<br>
learned to change
my body chemistry to do this."<br><br>
The
room is not brightly lit now but is enough<br>
to see.
Z'leyra and Fremea soon realize that<br>
Arawn begins to
stir.<br><br>
Slowly
both Healer and Fae help roll the Alfar over<br>
and help him sit
up. <br><br>
Arawn
stares at the new room. His heart fails as he<br>
stares at Kell's
new decayed form. Then he sees the<br>
strange glowing
hands of Raki. Then he can sense great<br>
disgust and anger
from Dorhak who is now standing over<br>
a dead Mae?
Now he can see her chest heaving a bit<br>
she is still
alive.<br><br>
Arawn
checks his body and finds his tunic has fallen<br>
off as it was
halfway on. He reaches behind his back<br>
but finds no
hole. Confused he tries to recall the<br>
last few
moments. Kell! He looks around.<br><br>
Raki
then looks to the group. "It is good to see you<br>
alive again
Arawn. But we should leave soon."<br><br>
Z'layha raises a hand, "wait. That man who was he or<br>
she or it?
What did he give you?"<br><br>
Raki
frowns a bit. "I have no idea who he was.<br>
The Guardian said
we might expect someone. To hand<br>
him what the
Guardian gave to me. The other one gave<br>
me
this." With both hands he pulls down the flesh-like<br>
clothing that
looks like Kell and reveals under his<br>
collar a
necklace. "When I touched the person I<br>
sensed his
thoughts and he said it would hide me from<br>
the gods. If
I take it off I would be doomed." He<br>
then puts the
necklace back in place and it seems to<br>
merge into his
neck and disappear.<br><br>
Kiet
figures that trick would be handy for a smuggler<br>
like Kell.
Who needs bags when can just put items<br>
inside
you.<br><br>
Raki
then stares at the party. "The Lone Shifter<br>
is here.
Nearby some distance away. I can sense him.<br>
He has to be
protected as I am. But I can still sense<br>
him and he is
moving away. If we don't find him he<br>
he might get
away."<br><br>
Z'layha raises both her hands now. "If this is the<br>
Fortress that
could be very difficult. All of you are<br>
not allowed in
this area. If this is the bowels of<br>
the citadel then
it is a fate we don't want to know.<br>
I could pass
around the area but hiding all of you..."<br><br>
Raki
frowns as he looks to the left. "Yes. Yes."<br>
He says to the
air.<br><br>
Arawn
stands on shaky legs as he listens to all of<br>
this
Mentally he seems back to normal. But there<br>
is something
nagging at the fringes of his mind. Aside<br>
from who saved his
life.<br><br>
Raki
turns to Kiet. "Please approach fast."<br><br>
Kiet
does a double take. Then shrugs and steps<br>
toward Raki in
Kell's form.<br><br>
Raki
grabs Kiet's hand and touches his mind. Then<br>
with glowing
fingers points to the side. Kiet almost<br>
faints not only
from the smell but from wonder. There<br>
standing is
Kell.<br><br>
"Hey pal. My time is almost up. I wanted to just<br>
say you have been
a great friend. Don't be so hasty<br>
and enjoy
life. That gruff posture you play works for<br>
others but we know
its fake." Kell smiles. "Also<br>
avoid those snakes
will you."<br><br>
Kiet
forgets to breath. Why is he seeing Kell? Is<br>
it the connection
Raki has? Does the others see him?<br><br>
Kell
steps forward. "Can I?"<br><br>
"Yes." Raki nods and Kiet watches as Kell steps into<br>
Raki.<br><br>
"One last hug." Kell says in Raki's body. Kiet
is<br>
amazed it is true
voice! Kiet stammers and hugs the<br>
oversized shape
shifter-Kell.<br><br>
Then
Kell leaves Raki's body and steps aside. Kiet<br>
then watches a
bright white oval appear. "Good luck<br>
to you and be wary
Kiet. I have promised not to reveal<br>
things. But
the fates are still at work even now<br>
to hinder our
lives."<br><br>
With
that Kell pulls his floppy spirit-form hat from<br>
his head.
"See you." Then he steps through the portal<br>
to into
what? A afterlife? Then the oval fades and<br>
Raki releases
Kiet.<br><br>
Z'layha shakes her head. "If you two are done holding<br>
hands should we
figure out our next step?"<br><br>
Kiet
then realizes that only he and Raki must've seen<br>
Kell. Kiet
turns away to not show the others his moist<br>
face. He
glances at Kell's skeleton. At least it will<br>
have to be
buried. But here or in Ba'ru?<br><br>
Raki
looks to the door to the room where Pyan found<br>
the hallway when
the Stranger left. "I say we take<br>
our chances.
Every moment here gives him time to flee."<br><br>
Actions?
Comments?<br><br>
Next
Update....Friday...<br><br>
GM: A fun
update. I will do a bit more next time.<br>
But this is a good place to stop. Will do next<br>
update Wednesday afternoon. By the way I have<br>
scheduled my vacation tie from Sept-Dec. I have<br>
a bunch of Mondays (all but 2 I think for those<br>
4 months) off and 2-3 Thursdays a month off. So<br>
this will give me 3-4 day weekends every week. So<br>
I may try to get back to the Monday/Friday updates<br>
since will have those days off.<br><br>
As to adventure we are 99.5% done. If the party<br>
decides to chase the lone shifter then it'll be<br>
dealt with. After that party will have to decide<br>
what to do. Z'leyra wants to stay at least another<br>
month here. But that may change once a certain<br>
fact is learned. :) Once that is done back to<br>
Marentia I assume via teleports. Once there <br>
will be one final fun scene and adventure is over.<br><br>
At that point it will be IBT for this fall I assume.<br><br>
GM: Arawn - Hope I
didn't depress you on your actual death. :)<br>
But some form of 'this' was always planned. But as<br>
far as you know you are at 100% for health, energy and<br>
even mana it seems.<br><br>
Dorhak: I assume you don't kill Mae? She (Don) might<br>
be a tad upset if so. The choice of targets was<br>
a pure D7. Yuu just lucked..err I mean had the bad<br>
roll. As to any energy loss it will heal. But at<br>
least your not dead huh? :)<br><br>
Fremea: MEP/Expertise 4 each for sleep touch.<br><br>
Kell: We'll miss you mark!<br><br>
Kiet: I should give you that experience for Unarmed Combat.<br>
So earned 4 expertise but got lucky as with the ward<br>
and did it even unskilled. Course it wasn't that<br>
hard to grab her. :)<br><br>
Mae: Still alive!!! For now? Party will have to decide<br>
what to do with you. I will figure out the math<br>
for next update to see if that Control is back so<br>
can not attack anyone again.<br><br>
GM: I rather work
on final sheet edits once back in Marentia.<br>
So can have clean slates for IBT. I will post as I did<br>
last time MEP/CEP earned. If you don't want on this<br>
list let me know. It will just be earned this adventure.<br><br>
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