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 Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:46 pm
Ziggy gently picks up the quited and sleeping Dimitri, stare "I'm taking Dimitri outside for a bit. Could do him a bit of good." stare Watching Brendon follow Ziggy, Faust picks up the table and starts to clean up the mess. After appologizing to Taps, Faust goes back to talk to Kyte, biggrin "Please have a seat. I have no doubt that you wonder why Dimitri reacted like that?" biggrin
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:33 am
I look up at the commotion, first with Velris, then with Dimitri, then turn back to my companion "Well, it's definitly an exciting time here, isn't it? I look at Nerezza, then decide to ask some questions. "So, how old are you?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:26 am
DimitriFate Ziggy gently picks up the quited and sleeping Dimitri, stare "I'm taking Dimitri outside for a bit. Could do him a bit of good." stare Watching Brendon follow Ziggy, Faust picks up the table and starts to clean up the mess. After appologizing to Taps, Faust goes back to talk to Kyte, biggrin "Please have a seat. I have no doubt that you wonder why Dimitri reacted like that?" biggrin " I wonder, yes. But, as one eldest sibling to another, if it's something personal or dangerous it might be better for all of us if you don't tell me. I'm not saying I don't want to know, because I'd like to help if I can. But......."
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:21 am
biggrin "Yes, I understand. I never had any intention of telling everything about us...especially our origins, let alone anything that would endanger you or your family. But what I can do is tell you why Dimitri is the way he is now. You know, Dimitri never had the sudden change in personalities. He was, in all effect, as normal as people like us get. I'm sure I have mention this at several points, but while we were growing up we raised in a monestary, I guess this we it began. Around the time when we were about 8 to 9 years old, we were sent out to find herbs to make medicine for the locals. I can't really remember who fell in first, but the other two tried to catch him and because of that the rest fell in with him. It turns out to have been some kind of cavern, but who or what carved it out at that point we tried not to think about. If I had to guess, we wandered lost in that thing for about a day. Even with us have one or two small spells from our future class, provided the moral boast we needed. Around the third or fourth day, we met them. The people that carved out the cavern and the ones that later taught us their song. We met the Raams." biggrin Looking at her reaction before continuing
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:29 am
Kyte tried to keep her expression blank, but she couldn't help widening her eyes slightly.
"Go on."
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:05 am
biggrin "It to my understanding that you probably don't know who the raams are. Before I continue, I'll give you a brief history of the Raams, for they play an important role in all this. The raams were once an ancient race of giants. I said once because their culture died out from attrition and an inability to sustain a viable birth rate. Eventually like anything else that was in this situation, they fell into melancholy and malaise, the ones that were still alive built monolithic granite cairns for themselves withing the deep canyons and beneath domelike hills. In the end the last survivors decended into their self made tombs and interred themselves alive. The despair and anger they felt at their fate cursed them to live on after death as undead relics, fovever preserving their lost society. Even as I close my eyes, I can still recall how they look even from so many years ago. They are massive gaints with iron grey skin that looks as dry and weathered as a desert peak. Their head is hairless with sunken, glassy eyes and craggy features seemingly carved from granite. Its skin recedes at their mouth and fingers revealing blunt grey teeth and long curving fingers. They stand at about 17' tall and weigh about 8,000 lbs. Even now, I know that adventures would try to slay them on sight. Reasoning that they detect evil. But can such lamentable creatures be so." biggrin
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:18 am
Kyte could understand both how adventurers might feel, and how the truth must be.
"So, now I know who the Raams are. That still doesn't help me understand why Dimitri reacted that way to Riven's question. It was innocent enough."
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:18 pm
biggrin "Everything I have said to you up till now has relevance to Dimitri's condition. It was no accident or mention in passing that adventurer would try to kill them. But I'll get to that later. We were triplets who that was lost, starving, and though noone would admit i, we were afraid. But we were determined not to die. When we first laid eye upon the raams we felt a sense of calm and belonging. Without saying a word he turned around and gestured for us to followed. Needless to say we ended up with him and his people. They treated us well better than any living person we've met up to then. By the first day we decided to stay, not because we recieved better treatment, but because we felt that we should return kindness with something. We wrote a message about trying to havesting a rare fungus found in some unknown forest when we got lost and and that we didn't know how long it would take. We placed the message in a bottle a sent a drift in an underground lake. Knowing it would reach the monks. We headed back. We spent nearly six years with the raams. Since they had no children, they became a family for us. Of course, they were a depressing lot, but a family none the less." biggrin
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:26 pm
Kyte nodded, wondering how having a family might feel like.
"So then what?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:48 pm
biggrin "For five years, we lived with the raams, they taught us much. They taught us about their remnants of their culture, their sorrowful history, they even taught us their beautifully haunting song. Another thing they did for us was help us with our magic. Every so often they would give us a reason to advance in ou magical skill. They did all this without ever asking for anything in return, just us being there was enough for them. Nearing the middle of the sixth year, a party of adventurer were exploring cavern. Though I never found out their individual names, I had a guess at who they were. They were called the Purging Flame, maybe you heard of them. They were a handful of humans went around ridding evil. But in reality they were murders and racist. I heard may flattering tales about them from humans, but from the other races came stories that would shorten the lifespan of elves. What happen was they came to the caverns in search of creatures that needed cleansing or their form of redemption. Some how they found the raams' home...their preemptive was quick and vicious. They struck down the first raam before he even had a chance to see them coming. Immediately the raams tried to get us to safety. After a bit of searching they on found me and Ziggy, Dimitri was no where to be found. As the party struck down a second raam and proceeded to attack a third. That's when the other raams found Dimitri, he was with the Purging Flame's new target and third victim." biggrin
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:05 pm
Kyte sat there, listening intently, horrified by what she heard.
"What happened?" she asked, the question barely a whisper.
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:30 pm
biggrin "Six years together, we learned a bit of their language and they a bit of ours. Neither were fluent in it, but we each know enough to get across what we mean. His last words were before pushing Dimitri backwards into the shadows, was different...it was something we never heard them say. At first we thought it was a battlecry of some sort, because he charged forth a fought valiantly. But even as strong as he was the Purging Flame had the advantage in numbers. He had the longest but in the end he laid dying on the ground with the members of the Fame mocking him. This was the first time in our lives that we felt helpless. There was no way for me nor Ziggy to fight. Cleric spells are useless offensively and the same was said for druidic spells. Though Ziggy was strong of arm, but without weapon charging in there was the equivilent of breaking your own neck. At this poin all but one member of that group moved on in attempt to finish off the rest of the raams. That was his last mistake. Faster than the human eye, he fell over sideways, dead. His body torn in half from the waist. directly behind was Dimitri with look of absolute hatred and malice. The man scream in pain and surprise, to this day, I know Dimitri allowed him to do that. Then without even the smallest hint of mercy he crushed his head. The rest of the party turn in time to see Dimitri bear down on them. Five minutes. That was all it took for him to reduce a party of well armed and experienced men and women into puzzle pieces." biggrin
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:41 pm
"Why did he do that? What happened to him?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:32 pm
biggrin "You said you and your sister were orphans, yes? Have you ever had a taste of what having a real family is like. If for the first time in your life you got a family. Then one day you had to watch helplessly as they got slaughter one at a time. Everything you had painfully longed for is that you finally recieved is about to be taken away from you. Chances are you would have done the same. Of course there is a difference between how you would have reacted and how Dimitri reacted. Yes, it only took about five minutes for Dimitri to have killed the party, but that was because he let them beg for their lives first. The raams are not evil, they live in seclusion. They never kill, rape, pillage, nor cared so much for the outside world. I'm not saying the Burning Flame deserve the way they died, but that is what happens. Evil is punished. Unfortunately, so was Dimitri. Before I continue my tale, I'm going to let you figure out something, by leaving you these two clues. The first, think back on what Dimitri was screaming about, especially pronoun-wise. The second, try to refer why the raams society perished and to what we saw that was missing that we derived to that conclusion. I'll leave you to your thoughts, I'll return in a few moments to recieve your whether or not you have arrived to what is ailing Dimitri." biggrin
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:52 pm
Kyte started thinking, basing her thoughts on the clues she had been given.
Reviewing the facts she had been given, she started to come to a conclusion.
Her eyes widening as she reached one, she decided that it was impossible.
But, it's the only one I've got.
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