Saurig |
Welcome Zigel, this is Traveller Smurf, and I am Saurig. Karrin, warming the port in your hands allows it to get to know you slowly. Flame heat is a bit too much. Just hold the glass in both hands and think of someone or somewhere you love. That will allow put you in the right mood to savor the wine. Patience can lead to many rewards.
Karrin Kind |
"There yeh go ducks, enjoy. Anyone want any more food?"
"Thank you Sharinda," Karrin says, "I don't think I need anything else, but stop by sometime after your shift and I'll buy you a drink."
"Now Mr Traveler," Karrin says to her small blue companion, "have a taste of this."
Karrin pushes her glass toward the smrf.
Zigel Za Elric |
as zigel slowly enjoys his drink savoring the taste he notices the small blue person. "odd looking fellow he things to himself,strange way of talking"
"Sm*rf was it. From what plane or world you you hail, From ribcage myself. I do not know of your kind. And yes the smell is excellent is it not."
Traveller Smurf |
as zigel slowly enjoys his drink savoring the taste he notices the small blue person. "odd looking fellow he things to himself,strange way of talking"
"Sm*rf was it. From what plane or world you you hail, From ribcage myself. I do not know of your kind. And yes the smell is excellent is it not."
on a tangent: Smurf
Traveller Smurf looks bewildered
"Plane? World? I come from Smurf Forest, where my village is. I was just smurfing along, minding my own smurfness, when this big glowing smurf opened up and smurfed me here."
Karrin Kind |
Traveller Smrf looks bewildered"Plane? World? I come from Smrf Forest, where my village is. I was just smrfing along, minding my own smrfness, when this big glowing smrf opened up and smrfed me here."
"Wow, you're lost just like me!" Karrin says, "I grew up in the mountains but I traveled a lot of the world before I accidentally stumbled into a portal that brought me here. I've been working as a mercenary ever sense. Not a bad spot to end up as far as the planes go I guess, there's lot to eat and they only charge for the booze, and I guess we're pretty close to indestructible here as well. Let me show you! Anyone got a knife?"
Zigel Za Elric |
Zigel pulls his pipe out and loads it
"well know the inn has got ya great big multivers out there cutter never heared of your home or your kind before."
smoke from the pipe starts to float about the table it feels the air with a thick aroma
"looks like your stuck here cutter best learn the way it works before ya end up in the dead book ,or take your chances with the doors"
Saurig |
"You have both lost your homes when you journeyed here? That is hard luck. It was much easier for me- I am out among the planes on a search for someone of great importance to my homelands. I had time to prepare for my journey, which you were not able to do. How do you find your way if you are so lost? Knowing how to return home allows a being to stay on course, physicaly and even morally."
"Traveller, you say you have only just arrived? Perhaps we can find you a way to return to your village. Tell me, what did you first see when you realised you were no longer home?"
Traveller Smurf |
"You have both lost your homes when you journeyed here? That is hard luck. It was much easier for me- I am out among the planes on a search for someone of great importance to my homelands. I had time to prepare for my journey, which you were not able to do. How do you find your way if you are so lost? Knowing how to return home allows a being to stay on course, physicaly and even morally."
"Traveller, you say you have only just arrived? Perhaps we can find you a way to return to your village. Tell me, what did you first see when you realised you were no longer home?"
Traveller Smurf looks up at his large reptilian frined.
"I ended up in this big round room with all these smurf-looking jugs, bottles and smurfs all about. This big fellow who looked a smurf like you was talking to this littler guy and they smurfed through another glowing smurf. I smurfed after them and I ended up in the smurfway that led here."
Karrin Kind |
"Karrin, I realize this place assists in limiting the effects of physical strife, but there is no need to prove it by stabbing anyone. That's rude."
"Someone else?" Karrin asks as if the idea only just occurred to her, "That's kinda dangerous even for here Saurig. There are all kinds of strange beasts and monsters who call this place home, some might even be able to bash well over the protective properties of this realm, and there's no telling what might be a deadly insult to one and matting rituals to another. Also, I for one would never stab someone unless the deserved it or if they asked for it. Quite frankly I'm not sure the sort of tieflings you've met in the past, but my father raised me better!"
It's not hard to tell that Karrin is slightly insulted by the suggestion that she'd stab someone.
Karrin Kind |
"S'ok," Karrin says taking another swig of the port, "there are all sorts out there, and we only just met. I was gonna show you a knife trick is all," Karrin says as she places her hand on the table and spreads her fingers and holds up a butter knife gently stabbing between her fingers to demonstrate what she had in mind.
Traveller Smurf |
aveller, have you asked Sarinda about this place you saw? She might be able to help you.
Traveller Smurf looks up at Saurig.
"That's a smurfy idea! I'll have to smurf her the next time she smurfs around."
"S'ok," Karrin says taking another swig of the port, "there are all sorts out there, and we only just met. I was gonna show you a knife trick is all," Karrin says as she places her hand on the table and spreads her fingers and holds up a butter knife gently stabbing between her fingers to demonstrate what she had in mind.
Traveller Smurf claps his hands in delight
"Mumblety-smurf! I used to play that with Grumpy Smurf all the time! He always lost, that's why we smurfed him Grumpy Smurf. It was either that or Stump-finger Smurf."
Traveller Smurf unhooks a tiny dagger from his belt and expertly stabs it along his spread hand to show Karrin, Zigel and Saurig his skill.
Saurig |
Saurig draws his side weapon as well.
"I don't think I'll try that. I usually rely on power, not finesse." he comments as he presents a rather brutal warhammer, fashioned to appear as a clawed reptilian fist. He lays it on the table, where it appears to twitch and shiver, the lamplight in the inn glinting off its decrotive scales of inlaid metal.
Karrin Kind |
"Ya, me too, but there's something to be said for agility and finesse. You know a master elven duskblade could kill a lesser warrior with a single strike, not that a regular swordsman couldn't do that, but a duskblade could get that shot without damaging the other warriors armor!"
Karrin speeds up her stabbing.
"Here in the inn you really don't have to worry about making mistakes! I think your friend grumpy would be happy here!"
Traveller Smurf |
Traveller Smurf increases the speed of his small dagger. The small sliver of steel dances between his spread fingers like a trout leapping over rocks in a stream.
"As a small smurf in a big world you have to be quick, else you will most smurfly be dead. I once had to fight off three Dire Moles that smurfed out right from under my smurf while I was smurfing in the Great Forest. Then of course there is Azriel."
Traveller Smurf shudders.
Traveller Smurf |
"What's an Azriel?" Karrin asks. Her own butter knife banging into the table with a quick rhythmic thumping. "That sounds like a demon or a devil."
Traveller Smurf shudders again, but keeps his spread hand steady.
"Imagine a cat that was the size of ten smurfs. Give him a taste for smurf blood and a master that was looking to capture smurfs so that he could smurf lead into gold with our boiled smurfs. Definately not a smurfy duo."
Traveller Smurf |
"I like cats," Karrin says, "but they do have a tendency to kill anything smaller then themselves. You every try giving this cat some catnip? They go insane for that stuff!"
Traveller Smurf ponders this idea.
"I have never smurfed this 'catnip' you smurf of. Perhaps if I can get my smurfs on some I can use it to distrct Azriel."
Traveller Smurf |
"Brother Cadfael used to grow it in his herb garden, he said it was like a weed, and so I don't think it would be hard to get your hands on some."
Traveller Smurf ponders this information.
"If I can smurf some it will make life at Smurf Village a lot smurfier. That will be smurf the trouble of being smurfed here. Thank you Karrin!"
Traveller Smurf drinks a bit more of the Port from his thimble-sized glass. His tiny eyes are looking a bit glazed and he is saying 'smurf' a lot more now.
Saurig |
Aye, I think some solid food for our small friend would be good. Also, do you have any of the 'catnip' herb? He's interested in seeing some. For myself, I wonder, are pancakes available? And perhaps a strong coffee with them? We may need a clear head if we wish to get Traveller home.
Sharinda |
Sharinda smiles at Saurig
"I'll bring yeh a stack of buttermilks, no problem. I'll make some blueberry pancakes for the sprite, I'll wager he'll like 'em. Coffee is fine as well, do yeh want the ground bean type or the thicker stuff? I think I can scrounge up some Catnip, we gets enough cat people in here. Maybe some sausages and bacon as well, yeh? I know how young Karrin likes to eat."
Sharinda gives Karrin a motherly glance.
Sharinda |
Sharinda arrives back at the table bearing several plates balanced precariously. She starts dishing out the provender with a practiced hand.
"Here we go, buttermilk pancakes, blueberry pancakes, Fhorge sausage, some real nice rashers of Bytopian bacon, and a mess of veg for a bit of greens. I figured yeh'd want some hash browns too, they always go good when yeh've been bubbing a bit much."
Sharinda stares disapprovingly at Traveller Smurf.
"Let me grab the pot of coffee."
Sharinda hurries off, then returns with a large silvery jug, several smaller containers, and several mugs.
"Opaline Blue Mountain Uplands coffee, some of the best. I left some cream, sugar and honey with it."
Karrin Kind |
Sharinda arrives back at the table bearing several plates balanced precariously. She starts dishing out the provender with a practiced hand.
"Here we go, buttermilk pancakes, blueberry pancakes, Fhorge sausage, some real nice rashers of Bytopian bacon, and a mess of veg for a bit of greens. I figured yeh'd want some hash browns too, they always go good when yeh've been bubbing a bit much."
Sharinda stares disapprovingly at Traveller Smurf.
"Let me grab the pot of coffee."
Sharinda hurries off, then returns with a large silvery jug, several smaller containers, and several mugs.
"Opaline Blue Mountain Uplands coffee, some of the best. I left some cream, sugar and honey with it."
"Thank you Sharinda," Karrin says as the plate is placed before her, her tongue licking her lips, but Karrin waits till all the food is placed in front of her before moving to eat, and her firt move is to clasp her hands together and tilt her head down in silent prayer . . . then she tears into the meal with amazing vigor. Karrin isn't a big girl, she couldn't be more then 130ibs soaking ringing wet, but she eats like a man twice her size.
"I love this place," Karrin says between mouth fulls, "At home I never I never ate this good! I guess monks don't like good food or something, we ate a lot of porridge, gruel, stew, and sometimes salt meat like fish or pork. It was real bland. I never even had spicy food till I hit the road. Tell me what's the best food you've ever eaten?" She asks her companions.
Traveller Smurf |
Traveller Smurf looks up at Karrin
"Oh, I smurf a lot of Smurfberries. In my village we smurf them into pie, cake, roasts, and other smurfy things. We don't eat a lot of meat as a smurf. We're kinda down low on the smurf chain."
Traveller Smurf looks dizzy
"Man I could really smurf for a Smurfberry pie from Baker Smurf right smurf."
Traveller Smurf gets up and totters over to the hot coffee. He picks up the small mug Sharinda left and then looks at the pot that is about 1 1/2 times his size.
"Can anyone smurf me get some of this hot smurf here?"
Karrin Kind |
"How's it taste? I'd have some but people tell me that Coffee makes me hyper. I don't think it does but then again I almost never elbow complete strangers in the face and I did the last time I did was after a cup of hot java. To be fair though he was trying to cut in front of me. Oh and a bashed a combat dummy to bits . . . but those things could happen to anyone."