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At his hand closing around hers, an electric thrill runs through her body, making her feel more alive than she could remember in years.
Raising her hand over mouth, Vashti stifles a giggle as Ered leads her after the music.
She keeps a firm grasp of his hand, taking tremendous enjoyment from the simple, small act of affection.
Lady's Bodice!!! Did I just titer!?! WHAT IN THE NINE HELLS, PITS OF THE ABYSS....I am so easily reduced to a lonely half-child? No, I'm not... but he is a good man...and I've been alone for much to long...look AT THAT HAIR...control, breath, calm...we are in a dangerous place, alone...I want to be alon...nope, follow the music...his fingers are so long...
this is not funny, my Lady...some...help? please? I hope you are finding this of great entertainment, my Lady...I expect some recompense for this, Seer of the Fates...Lady of Graves...I need some clarity of thought here...no? Nothing? I small reduction then? I slight relief, some brief respite...just a little bit off the top, perhaps? No?
Allie frowns as the cat walks away from her. "Are we just going to ignore the fact that Mamushka just kissed the weird elf? Here kitty kitty!"Be nice, Bright Spot. He is no stranger than the rest of u....what, you saw me?
"Well, yes, we did, you two weren't saying anything either so we didn't comment to make you awkward..." Zses trails off as Mamushka goes back and forth between giggling and panicking.
Stifling a laugh, he follows after the others.
You follow the music to a clearing surrounded by trees. There, a pool of strange silvery water stands. On its surface, ripples begin at its outermost edges and rush inwards to a single point, where drops of water fall up toward the sky. The entire pool rains skyward while snowflakes float down between the droplets. A brisk wind rustles through the trees.
Seemingly oblivious to your arrival, a flame-haired fey stands at the water's edge playing a pipe. Nearby, a trio of spriggans stand listlessly. They look up as you near.
On the far side of the clearing, the cat hisses at the fey before bounding off into the forest.
"Yea, it wasn't the weirdest thing I've seen so I didn't say anything."
Hobbes watches the fey gathering closely.
This is your domain little ones, I do not know what those are...
Stay a good distance away. Those are not to be messed with. Percy skirts around the very edge of the clearing.
"We should kill it."
"We need to move. The hut is...in pain?"
We need not kill everyone we meet Bright Spot, but, if we are attacked...yes, we should kill them.
For the time being, let us follow your sisters path and leave them alone.
The Hut is our goal, not unneeded battle.
Pain..what kind of pain? How...do you know that? Nevermind, you know it...I shouldn't ask silly questions about strange things happening anymore.
Zses nods at Vashti, but looks puzzled at what Ered just said.
"I thought the hut was a...hut. How could it be in pain? Anyway, let's just leave that piper and those guys alone and move on."
With a sigh, the Piper stops playing and looks disapprovingly at the gnomes. "You're polluting this place with your presence, fey rejects. Begone from here, and take these other lesser beings with you." At his nod, the trio of spriggans shamble toward you.
"Hey, watch yer mouths." Hobbes replies, one hand on his bow.
Hila starts a low growl.
Are they the cause? And how can the hut be in pain? Is it...alive? Conscious?
Raising an eyebrow beneath his partial mask, the elf steps forward, his hand resting casually on the pommel of his darkened blade. His hand releases from Vashti's, as the elf speaks with a cold military precision.
"I suggest [i]you stand down. We are on a mission, and you are the lesser ones, in comparison to She who sends us and He who walks with us."
Percy gulps as the others fail to recognize that they are lesser creatures here. All she can do is shush them and hope that the fey weren't too offended.
He was doing mental addition and he didnt like the figure he was coming to, no not at all. An eldest some sort of magical wall. Dawn pipers stealing parts of the world... the hut.. the hut come off its...
His eyes widend and he let loose the most feral hiss he could.
You will not steal the hut with your music magics fey creature!
He moved forward to intercept the spriggans from his friends.
Sigrun's hand falls onto her hammer as the spriggans approach.
Closing her eyes for a moment, she shakes her head.
Upon opening her eyes, she scans the group and their enemy.
No, I think not. DO IT.
Allie wheels around and steps up next to Silence.
"OKAY!"
She lets forth a blast of fire to the stupid creatures who dare back up the insult her and her sister.
On the tails of Allie's got of flame a wave of Imbrex's divine approval washes over the party.
Zses was ready to walk along and leave the fey alone, when they insult Allie and her twin. Freezing in place, the witch turns around and stares at the piper and her entourage.
"Could you say that again?" he says, glancing menacingly at the piper.
"Oh, sorry, I'm being silly: of course you can't. Mark my words, in a minute, you won't have the breath to sound that pipe anymore."
Vashti's words are all the approval Sigrun needs. Exploding forward, drawing her hammer as she moves, the flame tressed warrior brings her weapon slamming down on one of the spriggans with brutal force.
Neverhome charges one of the spriggans.
Hobbes draws his bow and fires at the dawn piper.
Hila jumps into the fray against a spriggan.
Watching every action, spell and weapon stroke, Vashti patiently waits to commit to battle.
Few could stand the massed wrath of the party very long.
Drawing his blade with one hand, the elf squeezes his hand, a hardened orb of ice and tightly packed snow forms. His eyes narrow, and he hurls the hardened orb at the Piper. For a brief moment, as the orb leaves his fist, his form flickers, and darkness surrounds him, but just like a blink of the eye, the elf is back to...normal?
"This is your one and only warning!"
Your response to the insult is swift and brutal. Two spriggans are killed within moments of each other, and the third is seriously wounded. The Dawn Piper takes a hit from Hobbes - and a nastier one from Ered. It looks pretty hurt but retaliates by summoning an enormous globe of water from the strange pool and rolling it toward your front line. The injured spriggan takes a powerful swing at anyone the water misses.
Dawn Piper: 29pts damage, entangled, evil eye (saves)
Spriggan 1: dead
Spriggan 2: 20pts damage
Spriggan 3: dead
"As the one bearing the mark of the Black Rider, I swear on this blade: I will end you all!" the elf yells out
Hobbes fires a trio of cold iron arrows at the dawn piper.
Hila, attacks the remaining spriggan.
Percy readies some music of her own, a bolt of sonic death formed from the quiet inferno burning in her arms.
Ered's weapon grows black and for the first time, wisps of visible ice and cold come off the weapon. Intoning in words that had not been spoken in front of the group, the elf moves to a clear lane. In one swift motion, his body rockets forward to the Piper, leaving ice-like after images of his body, as he strikes out at the insulting being.
This is the first proper dance of blade the group has seen, and it is something unlike even their experiences in Irrisen would have prepared them for.
Even as his blade attempts to connect the first blow, he spins on his heel and sets his hand on the pommel, rotating it to bring the blade to bear against the other side of the Piper's torso
Nimbly sidestepping the swirling ball of water, Sigrun growls as she sees Lyosha take a wicked hit from the remaining spriggan. Closing in on the fey for flank him with her lover, the icy maiden brings her hammer slamming down on the enemy's shoulder.
Water?! He certainly didnt like water all that much, especially not big huge orbs of it. He deftly rolled to the side out of its path and whistled grabbing a hold of the pommel of Mules saddle and mounting as his friend and steed charged for the dawn piper. His blade flashed clear of its scabbard as he neared and he brought it down hard at the wicked fey thing.
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As soon as the Piper falls, the water in the strange pool rushes inward and falls upward until its lost from sight. All that's left is an expanse of muddy earth and twoscore oysters.
We must hurry then and find our way back to the hut to safely protect it.
Shaking his weapon free of the blood and other fluids, he looks about.
"We need to move fast. This helped, but the hut was still in danger. We need to keep moving."
Opening the bag at his waist, he grabs the oysters. Food might be scarce in the coming days.
"You heard the elf. Let's move." Hobbes says following Ered.