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 Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:59 pm
The two imps were almost hanging over the side of the building, wathcing and making sure they had counted properly.
"Five! Only five! That's really good for a first try."
"But now you have to eat five veggitables."
"Carrot, celerey, tomato, pepper, and....onion." The two made ugly faces, and held up the raw veggies to Star Flower.
"Eat up, Princess." they were just throwing out nicknames.
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:12 pm
She glanced at the vegetables distastefully but that was the way this 'fun' thing went. She was nto going to question where these vegetables came from, she couldn't remember them balancing veggies with teh china. She'd had veggies before just not celery. She ate the carrot quickly, that was easy and finished fairly quickly. Tomato made a mess. Juice was all over her chin, her fingers and she licked them to clean it off. Now the pepper. She ate that fairly quickly, it had an intersting taste, kind of a spicy taste to it. Now the celery. The greatest thing about that was the crunch. She'd never had celery before, it was interesting. She got teh strings stuck in her teeth though and had a devil of a time getting all of them out. She saved the worst for last. Raw onion...gross. That made her eyes water and tasted awful but she forced it down. Then she made a face and looked at the imps. "There. Gone."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:18 pm
"They stuck out their tounges. "Totally gross, aren't they?" Jell's lower lip trembled. "But those are the rules..."
Then came is turn, and Star Flower was invited in the plate throwing. All in all, he only missed fifteen, which was better than he usually did. it took him some time, with lots of cheering and cajoling, to get all the veggies down, and looked like he might be sick afterwards. "Okay, okay," he waved a hand "that's it! I'm done!"
"Next round, five plates!"
they went on and on like this, the lightning rounds having larger numbers of breakables, until there were no dishes left. Jaun was the winner, only having missed some five or six dishes. Then was Star Flower, who had missed about twnety or so. Jell was ded last, having missed most in the last lightning round of seventy-five. He looked....very full.
They looked at the drow. "So....was it fun?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:25 pm
Well finally took you long enough...the idiocy radiating from the imps is...ugh, giving me a headache. A snort to the slave who brought the tinker bags pull of whatever Piper had on that list. In her time with Malik...the little mix elf had learned to love those things. Shoved everything under the sun in them...or rather everything in the Underdark in them. A paw at the slaves as he took the two bags, which were tied together for Serino's convience and he made his way back outside and back to the elves. Soon enough he was nudging at Piper's shoulder, her and Malik standing near Tanundra.
She turned to him and pet his nose, taking the two bags from him. "Thank you Serino." And she hugged his head. For some reason she was feeling really out of sorts what with not having Serino go along...he was always with her on her mishap adventures. "You be good, you hear me?" A final pet to him, taking a step back. "I'll be okay...now go on."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:31 pm
Malik was investigating the packs the oracle had left..and while he wasn't really one for rockspider jerky..he'd make due. and glanced at Serino who looked none to pleased to not be going.
"There is probably some kind of force, spiritual or magical, that isn't good for horses of shadow and wind. well...a nightmare probably won't help our image for getting a weapon blessed..and perhaps there are artifacts there so old that a wind could damage them."
Then a walk over to Serino, pating his nose lightly.
"You take care of Nightmare. and the house. between you and the griffin I want things taken care of, alright?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:40 pm
He twitched his ears. Did Malik just pet him affectionately? Whoa. Take care of Nightmare...yeah I can do that...but the house...well it's already under sige and the like from imps who've enlisted a Drow. Hope you have more dishes than what they're breaking. But of course you don't have to know till you come back home. A happy nicker to the drow, nudging at his hand before he backed off. Yeah and you better take care of my elf. Anything happens to her because her noble steed isnt's around and a tornado is ripping right through your place. That was said in a gust of wind so that Piper could convey it if she wished. Another nicker and twitch of his ears and faded out of view.
Piper sighed lightly and shook her head, giving a little laugh. "He says that if anythign happens to me because my noble steed wasn't around he's going to have a tornado ripping through your home." Well that was quite the little zephyr endearment...took a lot of energy to genereate a tornato of destructive force. "Shall we get going then?"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:44 pm
Tanundra shook his giant head. Forces, artifacts...yeah it was sometihng like that. He was just glad they didn't put up a fight about it. And now that Malik had another sword, and not Malevolence, they could not communicate with words. Tanundra didn't mind, he wasn't usually one for words. They would all make do, he was certain.
He extended one wing, offered his shoulder as a step up. It was a long way up too, Tanundra was not a small creature. How did he travel aroudn this place so easily? Well, dragons had their ways, didn't they?
He gave a great snort, eager to be off.
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:45 pm
She glanced at the lawn littered with broken fragments of china. "You didn't use all of the plates did you? Just what you could carry right?" She suddenly thought that they may not have anything to eat off of. That would be bad. She sat down, tired and full and layed back against teh roof. "Yes, I do believe it was. I like fun." She smiled tentatively at the imps and then said, "So what do you do next?" It had been a bit like torture watching Jell eat all of those raw vegetables. Maybe that's the way they should torture. Force them to eat raw onions. Zahara's eyes watered just thinking about it.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:55 pm
Jaun and Jell each crawled over, laid a head on each on of her shoudlers, laying down lick she had. They were a cuddly bunch when they were a bit tired. They were both smiling happily. "Nah, we left the pots and forks. Takes big rocks to dent the pots."
Staring up the ceiling, voered in thos rock deposist that looked like spikes...the imps copuld never remeber what they were called....it was a bif word that started with an s. But it was too big, so they just ignored it. "Is Star Flower tired? We can take a break before we go for something else."
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:02 pm
Come to think of it she was kinda tired. It felt kind of nice to have them curl up against her. Almost like they wanted her company. Nobody had ever wanted to lay down with her before. She wasn't tired but at this point she just didnt want to move. So she said, "Yes..." and just laid there while they curled up against her. She was laying on a rooftop with two imps. What were the odds?
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:11 pm
Lets get philisophical.
"Hey Jaun?"
"Hmm?"
"Do you ever think about what's above the ceiling?"
"I've been there. I know what's there. And so were you."
"Yeah but...do you miss it?"
"The stars. Yeah, I miss them."
"Me too." He cuddled in a littel tighter, feeling that odd....sadnness that they so rarely had. "Do you remeber when it was all nice and green and sunny up there too?"
"Yeah. People are stupid."
"I don't like war, Jaun."
"We almost didn't get out in time because of it."
"Do you like war, Star Flower?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:11 pm
Malik hopped up on Tanundra rather easily. didn't take him long, anyway. then he helped Piper up, then shook his head at the Zephyr's comment.
"He tears apart my home a bottle is the least of his worries. I'll put him in Tanundra's belly so he can play with dragonfire for the rest of existance. So then...shall we be going, so we can get back all the sooner?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:16 pm
She let him help her up mostly because she wans't used to the boots she was wearing...or the clothes for that matter. Figured the day she picked to not wear pants they were going adventuring. Hopefully Serino had people do as they were told and she had a change of clothes. "You two are always butting heads, aren't you?" A small laugh and a look at the dragon, then to Malik. "Better now than later. She said three days right?" Yup, didn't want to procrastinate on this. Kind of runined her plans for the evening though. Oh well...
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:30 pm
What a question to ask a Drow? Did she like war? She lived for war, it was every part of her being. She shook her head. There was no answer she could really give. Fighting had just been a part of her life. Had she ever really thought about it? No, come to think of it she hadn't. "I think sometimes it's necessary." How best to say this. She could fight with the best of them. Did she really want to though? She didn't know. Befuddled was really the way to describe her these days.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:39 pm
Tanudnra shrugged his shoulders a bit, making sure they were in good spots and wouldn't fall off. And with that, he pushed hard with his hind legs and launched himself into the air. A few flaps of his wings carried them high into the caverns, and well on their way. It would be a long ride; a long, dark, and cold ride.
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