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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:25 pm
Eliot stopped. And pushed Roarke away from her.
"Wait, what do you mean they don't come out free?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:30 pm
"So it is from Deepwater. the shipment must be the Oracle, since she's on Tarathiel's ship, and the payment of course being the two Coldain items in my vault. good then. in two days I'll have my visit with the Oracle. not to mention aroudn that time is my appointment to see the Academy of magi. should prove for quite the interesting day. Would you like to come with me for that, Piper, Keiran? provided they don't throw a major fuss about it/"
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:37 pm
Ashlyn growled and bit Malik's foot. No! It wasn't from the drow! You think it would have taken her over a week to find a damn ship? She held her beak in the iar. She had thought they had noticed her absense before that!
Gees, didn't he know a black scroll case when he saw one? She squaked at him. He had it all wrong!
He raised an eyebrow at her, thinking she should have made this conclusion already. "Uh...it's a salve mill. Who would come out free?" He stopped on the stairs, looked down at her with that look, and tucked some hair behind an ear.
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:45 pm
"Hey don't yell at me. I don't know where the hell you got this from. lord knows how many people might use black scrolls, not to mention Tarathiel's ship isn't exactly easy to find. only othr things I can think of that might give you soem trouble are the damned dragons. and I didn't make any purchases from teh oracle or the mage academy so I don't know what that would relate to."
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:02 pm
eliot was annoyed. Really annoyed, and she tried to caonvey said annoyance to Roarke, through her facial expression.
She put a finger to her temple. "Roarke, you are not being very clear here. You tell me you want to free slaves and you bring me to a slave mill where I myslef may not be able to come out? I thought we were going to be sloothing, not marching around everywhere and declare ourselves. I thikn you need to stop the game your playing and tell me exactly whats going on here."
She had a really bad headach.
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:04 pm
Well judging from Ashlyn's reaction, Piper made her own guess. "Actually. When one came about Bode...didn't we think it to be that third party the slaves were talking about, but we didn't know existed or not" However, Ashlyn didn't get off scott free for the bite to Malik either...Piper's finger hooked under Ashlyn's collar and gave a little jerk. No biting. Then a look to Malik before she looked away. "I'll think about going..." She didn't want to leave the fortress...yet she didn't want to be left there either.
Kieran on the other hand, always up for an adventure. "I'd be happy to attend with you Malik. This Academy of the Magi seems overly fascinating..." Scholor in him was having fun again. Though a look down to Piper who was still on the floor with griffin.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:13 pm
The collar jerk hurt, and she hadn't thought she had done anything worng. Either way, yeha Piper was right about where it ame from. She laid her head back donw on the ground. I'll stay here....
Here he gave her an incredulous look. "Uh..." he pointed behind him at the white building. "This is the Academy. We have yet to reach the slave mill." He gave her another look, than turned around and marched up the stairs.
Outside it had been strangely quiet. Inside was a cocophony of teachers taking students to calssrooms, or working in the large circular entry chamer, which also held n enormous fountin that depicted the First Mage and the First Oracle locked in a deadly battle with what looked like a succubus. Groups of two or three sat around the fountin adge, taking advantage of their study period. Which mean they were waisting it.
"Violin!" He siad, the reference to the intsrument all in jest of course. "The Academy."
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:18 pm
"if it is from our mysterious third member of the triumverate. then we'll pay them, recieve our goods, and then perhaps Ashlyn would be so kind as to lead us back there."
And grab a few more bits of food, and just enjoyed a bit of quiet when those imps were around.
"How are you doing, Piper?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:29 pm
She stayed at her spot on the floor, still petting over Ashlyn. Well...seemed she had a friend in that feeling utterly exhausted and battered land. So what this meant that there was a third person to this all...just great...she couldn't deal with another shady person right now. But a look up to Malik when he questioned her, the elf probably responding more out of the sound of her name than anything else seeing as she seemed to take a moment to process the question."Hm...oh...I'm okay I guess...I think I ate too fast." Or too much. Usually she ate like a bird.
Kieran had taken to one of his journals he had on him. Making notes on several things at the moment. Though he kept turning a page and took to sketching. Sketchign what? The two imps that occupied the tablespace in front of him. Malik maimed someone to relax the current tension, Piper used idle things to distract herself, and Kieran took to his scholarly ways.
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:34 pm
What the hell is a violin? thought Eliot., no matter she didn't really care. and was obviously fed up. This guy did nothing but confuse her and piss her off yet there she was, folowing him like a good little pup should.
"I hate you." she said over and over again under her breath. she had no doubt that Roarke could here her either, but she didn't really care. She walked with him, looking at the students and th ebooks, trying hard not to be imoressed.
There was a problem though. She couldn't stand the smell of the place. It hurt her nostrels and tickled the back of her throat in a very unpleasant way. She had no idea what the smell was or if it was even dangerous. But she oucld nto wait for some fresh air.
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:12 pm
"Right then!"
And off he lead her. It was a good twenty munite walk to pass the class rooms and reach the dormitories. And then they had to travle up...up...and still up sommore. In the tallest tower where the master bedroom stood. It was a huge room, looked like a small house really,w ith all of the things inside. indeed, this had been the First's home, and right now it belonged to Roarke. He clapped his hands togther. "All right, lets see what we can find shall we?"
The place was adorned with hundreds of magical items, piled with books and staffs and what looked like ingrediants. "Don't touch anything!" He cautioned.
From a large wardrobe he started to pull out bits of clothing. Soon, the pile he kept throwing on the the out wieghed the sace in the wardrobe, and yet he kept pulling things out. He pulled out some black silk wraps for Eliot's arms, legs, face, hands, feet, and torso. "Will these do?"
Jaun busyied himself with dunking his head in a pitcher of wine.
Jell, interested, crawled over to Keiran. "What ya doing?"
He reached over and tipped the top of the journal down so that he could see over top of it.
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:25 pm
Malik ate some, and watched Kieran.
"What are you putting in that journal this time? I take it something about the twins here?"
Then reaching down and petting Ashlyn, before getting up and walking out to the main room, picking up a book and bringing it back, flipping through it...then handing it to Kieran.
"You might find that of interest. it's my journal from my tiem as part of the Dragoons of Neriak."
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:41 pm
Kieran looked up from his scribblings as first Jell took to looking at what he was doing and then Malik asked the same. "Indeed, the imps." And he let Jell look at the sketching of the two he had been doing as Malik left and then came back and handed him a book. That got a raised eyebrow before Malik explained what it was...then he was repressing scholarly delight. "Thank you Malik...interesting reading no doubt. I'll try not to permanently swipe it from you. Another nod and a smile to Malik before he leaned slightly in his chair to look at the elf on the floor. "You shouldn't be sitting on the floor...you're in nothing but night clothes and you've been through enough. A cold on top of it won't do you any good." The father in Kieran was showing again.
Piper had been in a little trance, petting over a now dozing Ashlyn, but she seemed to snap out of that and looked over to the two elves as well as imps in her company. In fact she was in just her night clothes...or rather Malik's. Hey, loose fitting and comfortable, perfect for someone who didn't like the feel of anything touching them right now. And with a little node to her father she pushed herself up off the floor, cringing a little at the actions. "Sorry..." Piper wrapped her arms around herself again lightly watching them both a few moments.
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:15 pm
he smiled lightly at Piper, and nodded to Kieran, and clapped twice for a servant, who came and then he whispered to her, and she ran off, comign back a few moments liter with a heavy cloak for Piper, lightly drapping it over her shoulders.
Then Malik reguarded her with a titl of his head.
"Why did you want to take off thier collars?"
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