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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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 Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:21 pm
Serino's ears perked at that horrible sound that he knew all too well. He also knew better than to over react to it and throw Piper...because then he would have an angry Nightmare on his case and a wet elf. Neither which seemed too good. So what did he do? Merely let the mare over take him and when she turn back to n** at him in chastising fashion, he just let her. Besides...still didn't hurt. Piper only rolled her eyes. "Yes yes...the Nightmare goes first...can we just get on with it please?" Might as well simply appease the Nightmare, she wanted to get home...probably lock herself in her room.
Nerian, the ever skittish one, however did react to the rather angery Nightmare. A snort and a rear, kicking up a good bit of wind and thus water. But Kieran was just at ease about it as anything. Nightmares were Nightmares after all, they had tempers. "Tampa tanya." Which settled out the Zephyr who stood there in a rather upset looking fashion before he followed the two once more.
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:21 pm
Moonstone kept a careful watch out for those guards, but didn't see anything that struck him as suspicious. In fact, he didn't see much of anything at all. The crowds had conjested around the rubble of the half fallen collesium, sifting through for commards, family, and treasure. Not much to do but wait around for Onyx. Idaly, he watched a few pillars of fire race their way towards the cave's ceiling.
Aella huffed. "I've tried running away, damn b*****d always finds me." Then she smiled evily. "Stealing me? Oh yes, that would look good." She pondered it a moment. "Really tick him off, what with the recent murders he's been in a right tiff. Chaos serves me well at the moment." She wasn't a cruel half-elf, but she knew when to feel good about vengance.
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:40 pm
"Then consider yourself Stolen."
A chuckle, before sighting a small child running for her life. and she was his type too. liked to be downright mean when the mood was right for it...yep, he'd definatly get first shot over his brother.
"Bode! hey! It's Onyx! come on back here we gotta go sis!"
Malik and his nightmare, now that her herd got thier acts together..rode on quickly across the water. there wasn't any stopping until they came to land again, at thier home. home sweet home. Slaves greeted them, took Nightmare and Serino to hier stalls, and kept thier eyes from meeting Kerian's, asking if his horses needed stabling. and of course, all of these slaves were strictly human..save for teh Ogres that guarded teh main doors with massive sledgehammers.
"Welcome, Keiran, to our home."
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:50 pm
She gave have a husky laugh. "Pleased to meet you, Onyx." She hoocked one arm around his midriff to keep her balance, the other one clutched her flowing clothing, which she very much wanted to throw off at this moment. But she'd wait a little londer, she prefeered these scraps over being completely nacked. She sppke into his ear, "If you screw around with me, I'm taking you out. No questions asked, got it?"
She didn't want to stop running and the sound of voices barely got through the hum in her ears. But she was only a small child, and she couldn't run anmore, her little legs gave out beneath her. Once again, she fell face first into the mud. She pushed hersefl off the ground, great tears rolling down her cheeks. But she turned around when she heard them comming closer, "G-Gaurdian Onyx?"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:02 pm
Kieran patted a very worried looking Nerian. "Don't be skittish now, pluck up your courage and stay with Serino, he'll watch over you." Oddest thing was that Kieran didn't look fazed by this at all. He knew about this...just not in detail and he took to looking around as any scholar might. "Pip, you've got to learn to write in more detail about things. So I assume this is the, " He quoted the air with his fingers on hsi next word " 'slaving' that apparently other you does. Hm, I expected worse." And then he looked to Malik again, still in that Kieran way. "God, house, guild, spouse. I take it you handle all of this, yes?"
Piper clenched her fists. Oh great, were they going to talk about that now? Really, Kieran Silvercrest didn't know when to keep his mouth shut...then again she had no room to talk, she barely knew when to herself. "Home indeed. Far better here than anywhere else in this plane. And I write in plenty of detail...I just like to leave out the less favorable part." A glance between Malik and her father. Hm, two against one.
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:49 pm
Malik chuckled lightly.
"Yes indeed. though as before, I've taken that mantle upon myself."
Then a glance at Piper.
"God, House, Guild, Spouse. ah yes, the heiarchy of drow society. well I am Chosen to Innoruuk, the Prince of Hate. my House...I'm the last of it. Guild..the House of the Dead can offer no more to me..and when it did, I prefered not to use it's facilities. Spouse...Piper is second only to Innoruuk as far as I'm concerned."
Then a grin at Keiran.
"What about you? God, spouse, house, guild?"
"I thought screwing around was after the courting rituals. But I get the point. you can try..but I don't plan on screwing you around like that anyway."
A chuckled nad the Lozard cuaght up to Bode, bumping her affectionately.
"Who else would it be? Come on sis, time to go. This is Whirlwind, she's coming with us."
Adn he hefted Bode up on his lap, and grinned.
"Now to find my twin."
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:01 pm
She pinched the base of his ear. "The future is yet to be seen, feline." She regarded the child with a cold eye, but didn't think to much of the thing. Scrawny, covered in filth. Ah well, it could be worse than that. She frowned. "You say she is your sister?" All hoisted up, the lizard turned around and lunbered swiftly yet leisurely back into the city.
Bode was breathing hard, trying tp catch her breath. Ironsides, a happy and familiar freind, helped to calm her down a bit more. Then suddenly her demenor competely changed. She scowled at Whirlwind. "I don't like her!" And with a huff, she crossed her arms and set her jaw.
Moonstone was talking with Chief, getting a fe details on the fall of the areana and listening intently to the news of the murders. They didn't bother Moonstone or his ghostly friend, it was a matter that did not concern them, as far as they were concered. Yet it was very interesting just the same.
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:02 pm
She gave Malik one of those mock shows of being offended. "Second to him? What I can't be first? Careful what you say or else he'll go about smiting me thinking that I'm not important and a distraction." And she rolled her eyes, continuing the walk inside.
Kieran nodded. "Sounds right there. Not that much different except for the order a bit. And even that order among my own is mixed further. Depends on view points and such." He clasped his hands lightly behind his back as he walked with them. Then a slight laugh to Piper. "Really Pip choosing someone that high up in the ranks in the eyes of a God? I thought you had a thing about royalty and the like."
"I don't have a thing about it...I just things about aspects of it really. Don't pick on me, you do to. Where do you think I get it from?"
"Ah, touche' my dear." Then his attention turned back to Malik. "That's interesting, you usually only hear about Lloth." He seemed to search his mind for a moment. "Innoruuk...God to the Tier'Dal, a branch off from the main drow. I knew you weren't your typical Mori'quessir."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:13 pm
A smirk to Piper.
"It's because I say your second he doesn't smite you to affirm his superiority. and yes, not the typical Tier'Dal. form what I understand, the main branch of Drow are matriarchal, as Tier'Dal are not. though we are divided in that aspect. Warriors, Assassins and Magi serve the king, the Necromancers and Shadowknights and priests serve the queen."
He walked with Piper, before leading her to the Dining hall, snappign his fingers to servants to prepare it for guests and get proper food prepared.
"Though, we do speak in the same tongue as the typical drow, and we have the same reputation. And not without good reason. Neriak, city of my birth, in akin to a den of asps. the stronger destroy and eat the weaker. death is quite easy to find in the streets of Neriak, or in the arena."
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:29 pm
Poke. "So then you're lying to him?" Oh yes she was poking at him about it, not that she really cared really, it was just something to distract herself with. But she followed none the less, checking over her shoulder to make sure father didn't go off wandering like he usually did. and then in usual custom she made a face at the mention of Neriak.
Kieran was logging things away that he would later transcribe into his own journals, and probably sketch a few things too. That was his way. But he laughed as he caught Piper making her face. "Neriak...I recall being told about that in quite the ranting fashion." A nod as if he was answering something. "Speech through the Underdark as I hear it, is kept to the one tongue. Gestures and sign language vary somewhat among the different drow but that's all that I've really gathered." Then an inquisitive look again. "But drow do have a 'royalty' of sorts?"
A look to Malik and then one to her father. "En llie beth atar. I'm going to go change my clothes before dinner...hate this armor." Thus was her escape from them both where she made her way upstairs and locked herself in her room for a moment. Yes, she changed her clothes like she said she would but she was also concocting a series of answers in her head. Not to mention letting her ears rest a moment before she put her banadana back on to head back out.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:59 pm
"What's not to like?"
Then a glance at Whirlwind.
"Long story. summation is we're nto from tehis plane. and on this plane, our mother on our plane had Bode, so techinally she's our sister though not really. Hey Moonstone! look what I found!"
A gesture to Whirlwind and Bode.
"I found a woman and our sister. Damn lucky, aren't I?"
Malik nodded to Piper, and then turned his attention back to Kieran.
"at least our version do. the typical drow from my understanding are ruled more through the priesthood than a royatly. We only had the king and the queen, they had no children. thier marriage was not one of choice, but forced by the fact they were teh first of us. Innoruuk, angry with Tunare, stole the first king nad queen of teh Koada'dal. and over five centuries, molded them into the Tier'dal, and place them in the Underfoot."
A slight grin at Kieran.
"My turn. I want to know about what happened to cuase Piper to flee her home plane."
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:17 pm
"Yes that's the typical drow...at least the ones from Andal are that way and from other places that I have done studies. Though I must admit I haven't crossed paths with the Tier'Dal too easily as I have the others." A slight shrug and then at Malik's question, Kieran seemed to stare at him a long moment as if he was contemplating what words he wanted to use and how elaborate he wanted to be...but shouldn't Malik be asking Piper that question? And he cleared his throat. "Simple, she was born an Iaur'quessir, or commonly, a Bridge Elf. And she simply didn't want to be one. I'm sure that if your daughter came to you in tears and broken spirited then you would tell her the same thing I did; to forget what everyone else wanted and to find what she wanted for herself. Details, Malik, will have to come from her. Her father I may be, but the path is hers."
Giving a final check at her ears to make sure they were out of sight, Piper made her way back downstairs dressed in her usual three layer get up of grays and dark blues. Though she cast a look between them, perhaps suspicious of their few moments alone together. Walking over to Malik, she laced an arm around his waist, leaning into him. "So...what have we been talking about? Is father finding you overly fascinating?" She doubted she would be getting a real answer from either of them.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:24 pm
Moonstone smiled when he saw that Bode was indeed back and well, if a bit dirty. "I was wondering when..." his jaw dropped. He disregarded the fact that the woman seemed to be naked at this point.
"What are you doing picking up women?" he asked the question like it was the most normal thing in the world. "Goodness, Onyx! Did you stop at a brothle?"
"Not quite." was the response to that remark. She sneered at the white winged feline. "You're, ah, sister is fine, by the way." She gestured to the grumpy little child. "And I am Aella, thank you."
Bode screwed up her nose. "I just don't like her." She made an angry face and looked the other way.
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:37 pm
"Call her Whirlwind. I think that is a nice name...and for the sake of teh Ancestors I didn't stop at a brothel. I stole her, fair and square. You're just jealou syou can't meet women like that. and Sis, there's no reason not to like her. Quit being touchy."
Then back to Moonstone.
"So what's the plan? I take it we're leaving, but where to?"
Malik gave Piper a small hug and a kiss.
"I was just asking your father about why you left your home plane. and he of course was asking about Tier'dal society. And me and you, we're going to have a long talk later. but for now, we should all get something to eat."
And the dining area was lavished with fruits and pastries and meats..everything from crawfish to steak, apples to avocados. And, just becuae he could, he put his arms aroudn pipers neck, put his hands together, andup popped a cinnamon stick for her.
"Though I am curious as to exactly what Keiran knows about me form your letters, piper."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:49 pm
Well wasn't that pleasantly the truth and laid out right there in plain sight as the said truth. And he also mentioned that they would be having a long talk...hm, how long could she stall. Then again knowing her father she couldn't count on him...the man had a strict schedule for his revirie...she never understood why maybe it was one of his quirks. Though she did blink as he popped a cinnamon stick out of nowhere. "I"m starting to go with a dimensional pocket theory, am I closer?" And with a kiss to Malik she snatched the little stick and slipped from him, taking a seat at the table as she chewed on it in normal fashion.
"Still eating cinnamon I see...I don't see how you can stand to eat it like that..." But Kieran only follow suit of his daughter, taking a seat at the table and turned his attention once again on Malik. "That you are quite the elf. Strong, commanding, though you do have two sides to you it seems and that bothers her sometimes and you also have a temper that can bring the house down around your ears sometimes. Though in your free time you like to tease her about Underdark things, and when you're not teasing her you're usually pulling her out of some mess. Other than that it's a lot of fawning." Oh he answered it for her, all with a smile. "Really she writes about you like she was a teenager..." Yes, now he was picking on her too.
"Father..." He had just opened the floodgates for teasing didn't he? Really, he was rather free with his words...then again Malik was too it seemed . Though she was slightly surprised they hadn't gotten into a spat yet...maybe they just hadn't hit each other's nerves yet.
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