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"Grand Master Thraddic, good to meet you Frank. You are apart of the up and coming group... the Night Hawks was it? Oh that is good to know. Perhaps it would be best to collaborate then. After the ball of course. If you haven't figured it out yet most won't want to talk about the Dark Souls with you." He is confident and frank with you. Obviously enjoying someone not trying to flatter him.
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"Of course after the ball. This is a party after all. Besides as pleasant of company you may be I had my eye on a few young ladies. Time to play the field a bit. We don't stay in town so if there is a place you want to meet let me know before the night's end."
Frank nods and offers a smile. He then goes about the room with a lighter mood. Back to complimenting the ladies seeing if there is any interest.
Hope one of these girls has a dragon fetish or curiosity.
He does make sure to eye Jellena now and then and offer a warm smile. He will even steal her away for a dance if she permits.
He snickers quietly and says, "There is a gameplan? I am only here because everyone was going. I have no clue. But then I thought hanging out with you was a good idea."
Artemis just shifts, "Well, just letting you know right now, if you are looking for the best time, sticking with me will not achieve that goal. I'm both the most socially inept of the group and the most... off-putting. But if you still insist, I will be happy to hang out with you for the duration of the ball."
After a few minutes of looking, Joe rediscovers the halfling woman in the yellow gown. The paladin tries a different tact.
"મારા! તે એક સુંદર પોશાક છે, સેલી કોર્ટની બહેન!"
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Artemis just shifts, "Well, just letting you know right now, if you are looking for the best time, sticking with me will not achieve that goal. I'm both the most socially inept of the group and the most... off-putting. But if you still insist, I will be happy to hang out with you for the duration of the ball."
"If nothing else think of me as your wing man. I got Castria to go home to. Now let's see what we can cook up for you." He says quietly to you before he continues to introduce you and try to make you shine.
As we continue through the night, Delman gets slapped once. That doesn't stop him as he continues looking for a lady for Artemis. He does find a young lass that is interested in his strange blue skin but then unbeknownst to them one of the iron maidens has been stalking you from afar. She breaks through the group you had formed and says, "Do you really want some young tart or a real woman?!" You look to Delman and he shrugs, mouthing 'your choice'.
Frank using your guile you find that many more women are interested, at least to see how you skin feels or along that route.
The kitsumes keep showing up next to you, they flirt and timidly have small chat with you, then twirl away giggling with each other.
Eventually you find a note with your drink, 'Meet me at the gazebo soon, look for a red fan.'
She responds in sylvan as well.
"હું હમણાં જ formalપચારિક રીતે તમને મળવાની ઇચ્છા કરું છું. મારું નામ જોસેફ વાસ્કાલીસ છે, જે આ મિસ્ટ્રેસના ફેમિલીયા સાથે જોડાયેલ આત્મા પેલેડિન છે, અને સેલી કોર્ટમાં તાજેતરના ઉમેરો. તમને મળીને આનંદ થયો." Joe kneels down and offers his hand to the littlefolk.
Artemis just thinks to himself, 'I have a bad feeling about this...' before following Delman around the ball. However, once the Iron Maiden bursts into the group, Artemis would briefly look over at Delman for help before sighing internally as he turns to face her, "Look, I mean no disrespect, I'm looking not for a one night stand or something of that nature. I'm looking for someone I will have a pleasant evening talking to and hanging out with."
She takes Joes hand and shakes it simply.
The iron maiden shrugs and says, "Have your tart then!" Then storms off. You can see her red scaled tail twitching in agitation as she walks off.
Also at your announcement the young tart frowns at you and stomps off.
Artemis just pauses a little and just sighs, nodding just a little, "I yeah... lets go..." he says, waiting for Delman to lead the way, "I didn't mean it like that, I just said I wanted to have a great time here, and that I wasn't looking to screw around with someone... gah..." Artemis thinks for a moment before looking at Delman, "I... you got what I was trying to say right?"
Artemis would follow Delman out to the Garden, sighing a little as he takes a seat. "Look, Delman..." Artemis says, his face contorting a little in thought before relaxing back up, "Just get me a drink, and then enjoy the party. Our Mistress knows you need to relax... I need to stay here and not only think up of an apology for both of them, but make that apology as crystal-clear as possible without making things worse... Besides, I think we all need time to cool down and collect our wit."
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He pulls out his scroll case and says a few words. You hear the scroll flash, and then he repeats it again. Once the two spells are cast you are looking at yourself. Delman says, "Go be yourself and find someone to talk with. I will apologize for you, since I got you into that predicament." Looking into the water you see Delman's face and body staring back at you. "Dude, I have relaxed for over 100 years, go get em slugger!"
Joe stands back up with a bow.
"લેડી કર્સિગીવર, હું ફક્ત તમને જ બે વસ્તુ પૂછવા માંગું છું. એક, શું તમે ન્યૂ ફેસની આસપાસ અનસીલી પ્રવૃત્તિમાં કોઈ વધારો જોયો છે, અને બે, તમે મને ડાયમંડ ડ્યુઝની લેડી કોલ વિશે શું કહી શકો?"
Artemis just blinks as he looks at the water and sees Delman... as himself. This night just got a little weird thanks to magic. He looks back at the real Delman thinking a little before holding a finger up as he closes his eyes, "A few things to get straight. One, is this an illusion or did we actually switch bodies? Two, are we telling the others about well... this?" Artemis asks, pointing between the both of them as he looks at Delman. "If we are not telling the others about this, how are we going to... play this off? Also, last question... I hope, how long is this going to last? I don't want to be in the middle of a conversation and well, poof I'm... me again.""
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Frank flirts and laughs heartily with the kitsune ladies.
"Drink it in ladies." He flexes his arms and chest making his massive pecks bounce as they caress his skin.
Upon finding the note he goes around letting the other Nighthawks know he is off for some fun and to not wait up. He lastly finds the Grand Master before heading off to the Gazebo.
"Let us meet tomorrow for breakfast. It seems I am occupied tonight if you know what I mean. Would you prefer to meet at the inn or your place?"
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"It's just a minor illusion. That is up to you, I don't care either way." He quickly responds to Artemis.
Thinking on his questions, he then responds with, "We can tell them later. If they interact with us then just nod. It should last for 50 minutes. I will come by and renew it if you are indepth with a conversation."
Artemis just nods as Delman talks, "Ok, sounds fine to me and I say lets plan to meet back here in... forty-five minutes just to make sure we don't get caught up in anything." Artemis would begin to walk away before pausing as he turns around, "Also, before I go... thank you for this... second chance... or however you would call it." And with that, Artemis gives a small bow before heading back into the ball a little more relaxed now.
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Delman nods at his friend, getting ready himself for apologies...
He lets you go out first then moves out, first to the tart. He lays on the silver tongue to relay how sorry he was for the way he acted.
She accepts even without any recompense.
Then he goes to find the iron maiden with the red or was it pink tail. He thinks he finds her sulking away from everyone in the beginning of the maze of shrubs.
Having been caught somehow he went with the truth as he knew it. "Artemis my friend ment you no disrespect just unsure about his words. He chose to have this form, I know not why but he did. Now I wear his face as he wears mine to have a night of normalcy that he remembers."
At that she takes off her mask and
Frank you find only one woman in a big red frilled dress holding a red fan with a red mask covering the top of her face. She smiles as you come closer showing off her sharp canines. Her voice has a southern American drawl, "Please have a seat Mr. Steel. Now I do enjoy mixing my business with pleasure as I am sure you do too. But I digress what is on your mind?"
"લેડી કર્સિગિવર, તમારા સમય અને સલાહ માટે ખૂબ ખૂબ આભાર. આપણે ક્યારેક પીવા માટે બહાર જવું જોઈએ. હું આશા રાખું છું કે જલ્દીથી ફરી મળીશ." Joe gives the halfling a courtly bow and reenters the rest of the party.
Joe was pleased how well it went with Lady Cursegiver, hoping introductions go just as well with Lady Mol. Sadly, the godling was hoping for some insight on how to approach the beauteous seelie. The paladin was pleased about the unseelie staying away, but noted that the evil fey rarely do as they are told.
So Joe went to search out Lady Mol. Using sylvan worked well with Lady Cursegiver, Joe thought, and it might be a good conversation starter with Lady Mol. When Joe found the swordswoman, she was without her kitsune handmaidens. Wonder where they went of to?
"શુભ સાંજ, લેડી મોલ. મારું નામ જોસેફ વાસ્કાલીસ છે, મિસ્ટ્રેસનો આત્મા પલાઉદ્દીન અને સેલી કોર્ટનો નવો અધિકારી. કૃપા કરીને તમારી ઓળખાણ બનાવો."
The small halfling woman shakes her head and quietly says, "Paladins."
The lady before Joe smirks and does her best not to do a belly laugh, as some escapes. Once she recovers she shakes her head at you respondimg in Sylvan.
"My deepest apologizes, Lady Kol. I misheard your announcement", Joe spoke in Common, then switches back to Sylvan.
"મારો હેતુ ફક્ત મારી ઓળખાણ કરવાનો હતો. આ નાના સ્થાનિક મેળાવડામાં કોર્ટના સભ્યોને મળીને મને આશ્ચર્ય થયું. હું થોડા મિન્ટ્યુઝ પહેલાં જ લેડી કર્સિગિવરને મળ્યો હતો. મારા સામાજિક ફોક્સ પાસ માટે માફી માંગવાના સાધન તરીકે, શું હું તમને મારા જીવનસાથી સાથે રજૂ કરી શકું?"
Joe deftly draw his golden sword and hands the sword handle-first to Lady Kol.
"Excalibur. Legendary Holy Avenger. Sword of Kings."
She looks at you nonplussed.
Her demeanor changes quickly and as the sword is put in her hand she smiles. Shifting back to common as she is almost stunned, "Wow. Is this the legendary sword? I can feel its immense power."
As Joe says its name those around pay more attention and then at her confirmation pretty much everyone in ear shot pays attention.
"You know that Avolon is a kingdom here, right? Merely presenting it makes you king. And now the political target of the whole room!" She says as her wits come back to her. She returns it to you. Once you stow it she grabs your wrist and pulls you away to the entrance, now the closest exit.
"You know that Avalon is a kingdom here, right? Merely presenting it makes you king. And now the political target of the whole room!" She says as her wits come back to her. She returns it to you. Once you stow it she grabs your wrist and pulls you away to the entrance, now the closest exit.
"Wait! What! Avalon is HERE on Arcanium!??" Joe sputters as he is dragged away by the swordswoman.
"Yeah! You didn't know? You have the sword and didn't think to look for other aspects of it? Especially being in the court?!" she didn't care for politics before and now with a reason she is bullrushing forward.
The crowd seperates at her coming. Her natural chariama might have something to do with it since she really was a wisp of a thing but within moments they were out in front of the mayor's mansion. There she puts her fingers in her mouth and whistles.
A large rug bursts from a window with foxes stitched into it. Then it lands on the ground before them. She steps on pulling you with her. She then commands it, "South, at full speed! You better hold onto me!" Then the rug zooms into the air over the mansion, garden, then on Southward.
A large rug bursts from a window with foxes stitched into it. Then it lands on the ground before them. She steps on pulling you with her. She then commands it, "South, at full speed! You better hold onto me!" Then the rug zooms into the air over the mansion, garden, then on Southward.
"Wait! My friends are inside!" Joe cried, frantically trying to keep up with the swordswoman. "I must tell them where I'm AAAHHH!" Lady Kol and Joe have flown into the air heading south, the paladin hanging on to the carpet driver's waist.
Artemis would quickly grab a drink from the bar, and after giving the bartender a few gold pieces in a tip would head back into the crowd, not paying the commotion any mind - aside from a hope that the commotion wasn't Delman related. Artemis would spend the next forty minutes doing quick introductions of Delman, doing his best to not reveal the illusion magic going on. Aside from the pleasantries, Artemis would be on the lookout for any alchemists or gunslinger, making a mental note to engage with them later once Delman finishes his damage control.
"I am sure you can hold on tighter than that! Faster! she orders as the rug picks up more speed.
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Jellena notices the disturbance and gets to work. Telling Ryada, "Go out and see if you can find Frank. Joe just flew off." She zooms in on Artemis and is confused seeing Delman. She shrugs and says, "Sorry, emergency, we got to go, Joe is flying South." Then they head back and find Ryada... Frank might be missing... then into the garden to find 'Artemis' trying to fend off a naked pink half fiend woman who is trying to take off his clothes.
At the groups appearance she shrugs but then seeing ita your group, retrieving you ahe stops and says, "This isn't over, for either of you!" As she points to 'Delman' as well.
Group likely assembled she asks, "We need to go South, any quick ideas for travel? Artemis grab Ryada and Frank will grab me. Delman teleport and get Midnight, unless someone has a better idea?"
Artemis just holds his hands up and follows Jellena, "Fine by me, parties aren't really my forte."
Once the group is assembled, Artemis just holds up a finger, "I got nothing else other than flying South... Do you know where Joe is going?" Once his question is asked and answered, Artemis looks over towards Ryada, gesturing for her to grab on, "Uhm... I guess hold on tight and get comfortable? This may or may not be a bumpy ride..."
"I am sure you can hold on tighter than that! Faster! she orders as the rug picks up more speed.
"IF I HELD YOU ANY TIGHTER, I'D BE INSIDE YOU!" Joe yells over the winds whipping past the carpet. The godling looks back and sees the mansion quickly disappear into the evening as a speck.
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Holy s%&! is she a vampire?
"Evening miss. I was looking for a friend to share a bed for the night, but I didn't expect her to be a vampire. What is it you're playing at here? I can't say it doesn't register on a weird fantasy meter but my paladin friend and more so his sword would attempt to destroy you here and now if they were to find us. Unless I'm mistaken on what you are. If so explain. What did you want with me?"
He stands at guard. Not threatening but guarded.
She quickly slips out of her dress behind the shrubs and gives them to Jellena. Then she asks, "should I, how do you want me to ride?" She now is in a simple black silk shift with similar trousers. "Dont leave yet, she is going to get Frank. She is our homing pigeon basically, with these rings remember. Follow Frank. Otherwise I will stay with Delman and you can go with Jellena."
"Oh you wondering about my sharp teeth, well its better to bite you with! Ha ha, no silly, I should be scared of you with your rows of sharp teeth. Te he he! I am no vampire nor undead, but a lycanthrope of the saber tooth variety. I was hoping to share your bed, give you gold and a treasure that you seek besides those below my dress. My bed tonight, gold in the morning, and a quest to find your treasure! Interested?!" She says to you in a lazy fashion. While beckoning you with her finger to come closer.
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Artemis you think you see an alchemist, as she gets a drink from the bar. Dropping a tablet into it, it begins to fizz and build a foam which she begins to munch upon. For a half elf she seems a bit muted. Her makeup is caked on and her eyes are white. She has a simple blue dress that is not impressing most. Her vibrant blue hair and almost dead eyes are the only exceptional attributes she seems to have.
Artemis just opens his mouth before stopping, thinking a bit, "No, no, no, I can wait and carry you... uh... I would probably say on my back would be the best... but then I'm not sure if the wings would hit you in the face... could try on my shoulders I suppose?"
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Artemis briefly give her a glance before thinking a bit about the tablet. Thinking that its at least something to do while he waits for Delman, he takes a deep breath before walking on over, "Excuse me Miss, I was getting a drink and I uh... I was wondering, do those tablets of yours only work on alcohol, or do they work for any drink?"
She cocks her head at 'Delman' , her smile kinda falters for a moment. She looks around then asks, Why you talking to me, there is plenty of tarts about that would love to fall all over you! Dont make fun of me. Then she starts to walk away mumbling to herself, "Having a nice laugh, shesh!"
"Uh okay, let's try your shoulders first." She says getting into position and getting her arms around your neck, then the base of your horns which seems a better hand hold.
You begin to flap your wings and she quickly says, "Oh, yeah thats not going to work...I could take the beating but no."
Artemis would just try to interject before sighing as he looks down at himself, "Gods above... I didn't get to really say anythi-" Artemis mumbles out before looking down at himself, "So..." he says, talking to himself, "Either Delman gave me a really bad illusion, or they are powerful enough to see right through it and I'm not fooling anyone with this..." he gets out before sighing and rubbing his forehead. "Well... I suppose I could always test it on Sven... if I can even find him before I need to switch back with Delman..." Artemis says, going on the 'hunt' for the Tempest Wolves' alchemist.
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Artemis just nods, blushing a little at his inability to carry Ryada... even for a quick test flight. "Well... um..." he says, pausing as he tries to think on what to say exactly, "I'm pretty sure Frank will be able to carry both of you... yeah... Artemis nods a little, convinced at his own statement as he takes off his cape for now, "At least it is nice out... isn't raining... nor is it snowing... the wind isn't too bad, at least for me it isn't..." Artemis says, trailing off, letting the small talk go into silence as the duo waits for Jellena and Frank to return.
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Frank moves in close he extends his hand placing it on her hip while moving in smelling her neck and her hair. His hand moves to the small oh her back as he pulls her closer and lifts her. Then with a few powerful flaps of his wings, they are in the air.
"Show the way. Let's keep the biting to a nibble then yeah! I'm not sure if I'm flattered or offended you're offering me gold. I know I got to put in some extra work tonight though. Do you have a name? I just want to make sure what I'm supposed to call out later."
Frank will fly them to where she directs.
Artemis you find Sven with at a table with several that you recognize and others you don't, outside on the patio.
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The lady in red smiles even wider at Frank's approach. She whispers into your ear, "To the North, follow the road... Princess Bridgette Loaundon. Alone you can call me Bridgette. The gold is commission for you to take the mission. Take a left. Oh no your other left. Ha ha ha! Now to the Rusty Cauldron."
Seeing a sign with a red flaked pot, you land and she leads you inside. There she pulls out a key and locks the door. Then she leads you up stairs to the third floor. Opening the door to reveal a private room with a large elegant bed, tub, table, vanity with a mirror, chest of drawers, and glass doors with windows on either side giving a great view outside. "If you would untie me," she asks as she seperates her hair revealing a knot and the thread keeping the dress on her."[/b]
"Oh okay, I weigh too much dont I. Its okay. What's wrong?" she asks interested in you since you look disturbed.
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Jellena comes back to the four of you. By now the illusion has stopped or Delman dismissed it. She looks at the pink half fiend hanging on Delman still, then shakes her head. "Anyways not much we can do Frank left before I could reach him and he is out of distance of the rings. Hopefully Joe can handle himself. Have fun Joe!" the last sentence said up into the night sky. "Back to pleasantries or on your own. Ryada I leave you to your own devices as I have business to conclude."
She would stay there and answer any questions first but then departs to join the party again.
The pink half fiend smiles as Delman struggles against her, she pulls him away from the other two into the shrubs.