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 Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 6:49 pm
Setting Bode gently down her other hand came to join the other on Warren...where then she roughly shook him. "I knew this damn tournament was dirty." Another shake of Warren...beofre her hand dropped, grabbing the hilt of the sword she had put on this morning without even realizing it. The blade of Malvolence, held under where Warren was looking in threat. "Don't you look away from me. You best get to spilling on what and how before I throw you down these stands, and then I will let my griffin chew on your head." Shake. "If he ends up poisoned, lord help you and your king." Yes, she was taking precautions.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:07 pm
Waren's fingers were about two inches from his bag of sugar, which of course she did not know he had. But he wouldn't take that rout yet. "Don't go slicing the messenger, or I won't be able to tell you how to fix this will I?" He put his hands on her wrists. "Now release me, there you go. I haven't done anytihng to hurt your, now don't hurt mine. Now, in case you haven't noticed, if I hadn't told you anytihng, you'd never know...and Malik might die without you ever knowing why."
He cleared his throught. "As far as I know it it's a rock spider venom and lead mixture. The lead will drive him crazy, while slowing the affects of the spider venom. And you don't want to know what that will do to him..."
He saw the look in her eyes and got on with it. "You have a few days before anytihng really takes effect. Problem is, I am not the one who knows the antidote."
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:13 pm
Onyx's next match went fine, He was getting the hang of this jousting thing. Lances hit shields, the other guy fell off. Easy as pie, when you weighed probably twice as much as your competitor. Back to just Malik and Onyx. Malik had been in the arena tunnel, but when he came back out, he hand no shield, that arm still hanging limp. but he still had his lance and was still intent on a victory again over Onyx.
Onyx couldn't beleive what he was seeing. that arm had to be broken or dislocated or something..and he was still going to compete? what in the hell did it take to stop that elf? But Onyx took his position, Ironsides pawing and bellowing, and Nightmare returning the gesture in kind. Onyx shook his head, but Malik lowered his lance in the ready posistion. So the flag was lowered, adn they came at eachother. The impact was incredible, and both riders flung off thier mounts. Onyx was able to glide to the ground safely, Malik landed heavily on his back. Thier match was a tie.
Malik got himelf up, slowly, using the one hand to support himself, while Onyx walked over and offered his hand. Malik took it and Onyx helped him into the underside area for the combatants.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:16 pm
She lowered Malvolence, but didn''t sheath it. Though she didn''t care to be creeped out by the thing right now, she had bigger worries. And she let Warren go, allowing him space. Piper didn''t like what she was hearing at all though. Not one bit of it. And it only agitated her more that he seemingly liked to stop like he did in his explanation, as if he wanted her to beg the information out of him. "Well then, who does?" Trying very hard to not scream at him and shake him again. Though her attention was drawn back to the ring to see Malik and Onyx hit each other to the dirt. Malik''s arm still not looking any better. This was getting scary now and she had to force herself not to run off down to Malik.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:30 pm
He took a large breath. "The one who does....lives in the catocombs." The catocoms was a large place, light could not penitrate it's dark passages...none save for the glowing moss that grew there. The iar in the tunnles snuffed any other flame. It was full of monsters..."It is...far from here. And there is no garauntee that she will give it to you."
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:40 pm
With jousting done and other events going to be starting, Onyx came up the steps to Piper and the others, giving a glare to Warren.
"Okay what in the hell happened? Not that I really mind tieing for first place, but for crying out loud it's like someone crippled his arm or something. he has trouble moving the thing. And I know that lance didn't hit that hard. it barely got past his armor."
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:43 pm
"Um...Onyx dear brother...did any of the lance tips pierce your skin?"
Bode too, was loking at Onyx in an odd way, when she should have been jumping and holering. "I don't like the guards anymore."
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:46 pm
Catacombs...sounded horribly dangerous. Didn't care. "I don't care how dangerous it is or how far away it is, or anything, what will guarantee that whoever she is will give me what I want?" A glare at him. "Are you enjoying toying with me like you are? Because when you play with fire, you get burned." Though with the arrival of Onyx, she pretty much shoved Warren away and mostly into Moonstone. "Find those answers from him." And she was off, taking down the stands like it was nothing, using all that elven agility that she possessed. For once she wasn't looking at her feet when she was running. Eventually she would come skidding down to where the competitors kept themselves. "Malik!"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:01 pm
Onyx shook his head.
"Nope, they didn''t touch me. put some heavy dents on the shield though. What''s going on? and why does it matter if they poked me with a lance..?"
And then Piper went tearing out like a bat out of hell.
"Warren...I suggest you have answers when she gets back. or you might not be going much of anywhere except a graveyard."
Malik was sitting in a chair by Nightmare, the armor and chainmail that covered his upperbody removed and holding his shoulder, though the shirt was soaked abit with blood.
"Piper..what are you doing down here? don''t you have the kids to manage? it''s just a scratch. nothing more than that. probably dislocated my shoulder but nothing too serious."
He tried to move his arm, and barely was able to get it to do so.
Xsa da''re ol jivviimen
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:13 pm
"It matters because Warren here says that the lances were tipped." He gave his brother a once over anyway. "Some kind of rare poison that only some old lady knows how to cure."
Bode through herslef and Onyx, tears in her eyes. "I don' wnat anytihng to happen to you gaurdian Onyx! Please don't let anytihng happen! And Mrs. piper, her ring won't mean nothing if Mr. Malik dies!"
Moonsotne turned to warren. "You heard the elf. Stop p***y footing around and give us some answers."
"Look, all I kow is that she's in the catacombs. She's an oracle of some sort, she can tell the future. And it's a good idea to bring her a gift."
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:15 pm
Piper subconciously sheathed Malvolence which she still had hold of as she walked over to Malik to look him over. Disloacted shoulder wouldn't of bothered her, broken arm wouldn't have bothered her. It was the blood that bothered her. "I think you know why I'm down here." Though her tone held much more to it that the simple worried lover reaction. In truth she was trying to keep herself together. She moved his hand from his shoulder, pulling aside his shirt some to get a look for himself. "Scratches don't matter when lances are tipped with highly toxic poison." Clearly there was that little hint of panic in her voice and in her eyes as well.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:44 pm
"What do you mean poison..I thought they were cheating with magic."
A little bit of concern there.
"And how di dyou find out about this? that guy come and tell you like he warned everyone about them using magic? and if he did..he know about a cure? and what's in this poison?"
Awfully calm for finding out your poisoned. but that's years of experience. panic leads to increased heart rate, and that means blood pumps faster and so does the poison.
"Okay. so we go to these catacombs, find this oracle, bribe her with somethign fancy, get the cure, and some back so I can beat Malik fair and square, and he can kick the living s**t out of the guards, and probably Dimitri while he's at it? that the game plan?"
He patted Bode, and mussed her hair.
"You're not going to lose anyone, lil sis. and Malik ain't about to die. he's to damn conceited to die."
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:50 pm
Warren shurgged. "It's more like she'll ask for a favor. The rumor is that she's looking to activate something..." he snapped his fingers, "looking for...keys. Keys for soemtihng." Yeah, that would really help, wouldn't it? Here old lady, have these keys I found lying around, maybe they are the ones you are looking for! "I suggest you see her first, find out what she wants."
She sniffed. "No one's gonna die then? We are all gonna be able to finish the tournament together...and still have fun?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:55 pm
"Seems the king upped the stakes." She nodded to him, getting fidgety now. "Yes, he decided it would be a fine time to tell us that little fact. I say he should of warned us, before. Apparently this stuff is rock spider venom and lead. Supposedly you'll go crazy before...well he didn't tell me what the venom is supposed to do but I don't want to know. And the only one who knows the cure is some woman in the catacombs this place holds. When I get my hands on that little guy again I am shaking the rest of what I want to know out of him." No need for him to panic, she could do a fine job of it for them both. By this point she had her fingers around her collar again, tugging rather hard. "Few days....that's damn vague." She focused on Malik again. "Apparently this stuff isn't' going to start bothering you for a few days...I'm to kill that son of a b***h." Panicky one moment, furious the next. Fun. "Which means you're staying here and I'm going to go do whatever it is this woman wants so she'll fork over this antidote." Rash decision, yes.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:29 pm
"Of course. once we get Malik all fixed up. and lord help that woman if she don't help. Piper's liable to kill her. and that sword, Malvolence..that thing isn't just a shiny toy. Father said it could speak, and it had powers of it's own. and it bites. Remember that Moon? when dad picked ot up and tried to put it down and it had bit into his hand?"
Onyx picked upo Bode, and bounced her a bit.
"And man oh man are those guards really gunna get it when Malik gets back on his feet."
"You will do no such thing on your own. I won't allow it. Take that guy with you. and at least one of the twins. going alone is far to dangerous for you. And I know what rock spider venom does. and no, you don't want to know about it."
A smirk.
"So I get to go insane before I die. oh Joy. when I get my hands on that guard..I'm going to make him wish I used rock spider venom on him. and then I'm going after that king of thiers. pompus arrogant twit."
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