|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:35 pm
Roarke loved the sunlight. It really was unfortunate that the surace was not ahbitable. "Armour?" He put his chin in his hand, poored more wine for Eliot. "Armour..." He seemed to be making some kind of decision. "I have soemthing that is very...durable, and sturdy. But," he held up a piece of cheese like it was a tool. "But you can't let Alaran know. She'd kill me."
He mucnhed. "Ships? Yeah, I think we can come up with that." He ticked off a few things on his hands. "Wood from Lostagrace, a few protection spells, some non magic defensis..yeah. We could pull that off."
Roarke watched Piper with an odd look on his face, one that spoke of wanting to do soemthing. She had sometihng he was certian he would never have, and here he had soemthing that he could offer...it was selfish of him to keep this place to himself, when someone loved it so dearly. "You know, Piper, you and Malik are welcome to visit this place any time you want. Anytime."
Moonstone listened, interested. So that's what life had been like...watching a movie. He nodded, it sounded accurate. He rubbed at his chest though, the new heart was a bit painful, his insides weren't use to it.
His ears perked up. "What was Father....oh. Nevermind. You mean, Whirlwind might become your heart?" He thought about that for a long time. technically, his heart was borrowed....he wouldn't feel the same affection for Aella that Onyc did, would he?
And he had his first taste of worry, which struck like a baseball bat to the back of his head. The lack of need....Onyx no longer felt any love for his parents, even though he knew it should be there. He felt no kinship with Moonstone, he felt no affection for a pretty girl he once helped. Was it therefore, wrong of him to keep this heart, and emensly enjoy everything that was comming with it?
"Just an earing?" he threw the damnn thing in the water, far enough away that Kat could try to reach out and scoop it up before it sank. "these places are filled with magic kat, there could hjave been anytihng wrong with that earing. Hell, he might have just taken it off a fresh corpse." He started up the motor and headed on his way.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:42 pm
Eliot accepted the wine and put a hand on Roarke's back in a thank you gesture. She snorted into her wine at the mention of Alaran. She ate another piece of cheese. She liked cheese but she could relly go for soem raw meet....
Even though the thought of a corpse disgusted her Kat said "Cool!" just to annoy her father. She hoped she was getting on his nerves. She wanted to go home, aftter all this realy cute guy at just moved into the farm next to her father's... "So where are we goign dadd?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:15 pm
Malik sat at the table crosslegged, eattign very little, drinking very little. this place made him a bit uneasy. Too long back underground he supposed.
"So, Eliot. tell us about this dream of yours."
He looked to ELiot, sipping at his wine, and smiling lightly at Piper obvious drunkenly enjoyment of the surroundings.
Onyx walked with him.
"How does it feel to have anger, or fury, or fear, or worry?"
A similar question right back at him, and then grinned lightly, pointing his head over to an actually really attractive looking womand wearing practically nothing at all. obviously new resident, and probably her first night on the street.
"Or maybe a bit of lust?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:22 pm
Eyes half opened to look at Roarke, oh indeed half drunk on surrounding nostalgia. The magi got a smile from her and a little nod of her head. "Thank you Roarke, I appreciate that very much..." He had no idea how much she appreciated it. With a rather contented sigh she walked over to the little group, coming to stand behind Malik where she rested her hands on his shoulders. "I suppose someone knew the knowledge of surface worlds then to come up with this?" But her look went down to Malik a little, she could tell when he was somewhat uncomfortable with things...this was apparently one of them. So her hands too to rubbing lightly at his shoulders. Her eyes though turned to Eliot...wait did Piper want to hear that story?Oh well she was going to find out if she could handle it now wasn't she?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fractured Moonlight Captain
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:28 am
Speaking to hismelf a moment, lost in space. "Alaran doesn't know I have some of Tanundra's dragon scale armour...she'd kill me if she knew." He shook his head, brining him back to his surroundings.
"We think that surface was habitable for a short period some time ago, roughly 500 years I think. A few of my ancestors went up, took some samples back, some scetchings. Then they came down here and made this. Those butterflies are from the surface too. They were said to be everywhere."
Moonstone glanced back. "It feels..." and then his attention was drawn elswhere, and he swollowed. "...good..." He looked away though, and refused to look back, because if he did, he knew that his blush would show.
The motor sounded eery in the black of Labyrinth, as nothing but a light mounted on the front of the bout showed them the way. It would be a long trip, and somewhat of a dangerous one. Should one of them got tossed overboard for any reason, there was no hope to ever finding their dead bodies. "We are going to Triumverate Fortress."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:21 pm
The bronze dragon dropped the steel create infront of the fortress, and flew away. The twelve foot square cube that had a few holes cut into it, which were barred. The create made strange noises, smiliar to the sound a fairly large ogre would make if he was so rudely awwaked. Though, this was no ogre.
Inside the metal box was a fairly large humaniod with one eye. It would normally stand at ten feet tall, and would normally be able of great feats of strength, if its arms were not binded to the cage. Around its neck, it wore a collar that looked suspiciously like one from the Fortress.
Engraved on all the sides of the cage was a note, A gift for Malik. He's a trained Weaponsmith and Armouror. Eats smaller humaniods, but prefers birds. He is called Tremor. -The Good Captain.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:36 pm
Aella threw on her cloak, made sure her hair was done up properly. She grabbed her staff, and headed out the door.
"Not hungry, Aella?"
"While your exotic mish mash of meat and veggy is usually really good, I'm afaraid I must decline." She puased to put on some gloves. It was cols out. "I'm going to have dinner with a freind tonight."
"Don't stay out too late."
She smiled. "Yes, Ma." She left, but no less then ten seconds later she had pocked her head back in. "Save me some?"
Meilikki chuckled. "Certainly."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:43 pm
"Smells good, can some of my crew have some? Tames would ever be so happy?" The drow paused, "What, where is she going?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:50 pm
Meilikki smiled. "Just don't tell them what's in it. They might consider it...sacriligious." She paused and thought about this a moment. "Perhaps, as the Son of Chaos, you should not be having any either."
She fetched a ladle to stir the chilli, lest it burn. "She's trying to cure herself of her awkwardness with sexuality. She's decided that she doesn't like become frightened every time someon touches her shoulder, or gets too close." She shrugged. "She's gone to see Onyx."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:53 pm
"Oh." Tarathiel said as he leered at the soup, "Sacralicious you say?"
"I guess W.H. will have to pass, but Orko, Jin, Tames, Aven and Sstrl probably wont care... Is there lizard in it?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:57 pm
"No. Lizard is too expensive." She shook her head. "You won't find a live one in Lostagrace now." She sighed. "It's rock spider." She seemed sad about that.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:04 pm
Tarathiel smiled very widely at that, "Oh, Oh, I love spider! Just because its so Sacralicious."
He went to the stairs and called up rather quickly about the stew, not bothering to wait for a reply.
Within moments, seven people marched down the stairs. Warhammer streched and went to his post by the door. "Thank you but no."
Stoneshaper and his daughter, Rydia, had come with the five slaves to try this stew. Assuming that Meilikki forsaw this, there was plenty to go around.
Tarathiel smiled at the gathering, it was the first time he had sitten down with his keen crew for a meal in a few weeks. Reorginizing his crew after the loss of half his soldiers and a third of his wizards took up much of his time, and orginizing the different rebellions also required some... Inspiration.
He silently sat with the gathering, Listening to the misdeeds of Jin in Lostagrace, and the gamekeeping that Aven had taken up in the nearby fields. Apparently, a type of subterranean beetle had appeared recently, and started to eat crops. He was hunting them to help restore the vegitation that he so loved.
Stoneshaper mentioned that he was planing on adding a few more layers to the maze, and the spiders that Tarathiel had requested would be along in a few weeks.
Sstrl mentioned that the lizard mounts of the south seemed to be decreasing in population, and that several ships and rafts that transported meat from the main land to the city kept disappearing.
Tames cooed.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:09 pm
Kat let her fingers trail in the water. Sure was dark down there. Triumverate Fortress? She had never heard of it before, but she was sure it was nothing but a dumb old castle filled with dumb nobles or soemthing as equally boring. She sighed, she couldn't wait to get out of this stinking boat though...
Eliot's happy mood floated away on the wings of the butterflies surroundign them. She didn't want to talk about the corn fields, she didn't like thinking about them. She sat her wine down, no longer wantign to taste it on her tongue and she sat down next to Roake. It took sometime before her answer came.
'It was not so much a dream... as it was a... memory, more like." She had let her tail come out, and was nervously pulling on it, twisting the hairs into little wirls all over.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:15 pm
Meilikki, while knowing the chilli would be popular, hadn't expected such a rush. Consiquently, she didn't know where to step, lest she step on someone, bump in to someone, or spill the chilli. She had a pretty good feeling that the latter would have made a desaster of the little gathering.
At least everybody seemed to be in a good mood, that was nice. The keep had been on pins most of the time Tarathiel had been away. It was like having a family dinner to break the tension.
She smiled, gave a short laugh. "I'm glad everybody is...keen on the choice of meat."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:22 pm
As one, Tarathiel, Warhammer, Sstrl, Jin and Aven all said, "Sacralicious." Tames yipped.
Tarathiel stood up, and walked behind Meilikki, "Let me guide you.." He placed his hands on her shoulders, and tilted them the direction she should turn. "I am sorry, I forgot that you were blind..."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
