Rock-Spin watches Ephebe eat, grudging respect painted on his purplish-granite features, "And I thougth i could eat... speaking of which."
And he goes and helps himself, downing one - two - three - four - then finally another half-plate of food. When he finishes - his rock stomach oddly distended - he looks over at Ephebe in defeat, holding up his hands (which are covered in food). "Okay, I give. You win. You are the queen eater! Geez!"
He squeezes his eyes shut, hands balling into rocky-fists. His whole body looks like he's flexing...
His eyes and body de-squinch and he stands up, giving a wink (that makes soft crunching sound) to Ephebe in the process.
She winced a little. Then finished off the last couple of pizzas and a massive sheet cake.
Spin:
::Ooookay...you really do need those classes in psychic control. You don't need to shout.....and I eat a perfectly normal amount for what I am....the winged cat is Ruji. He's pretty awesome, but don't ever tease him. Ever. Anyways, I'll explain everything in just a bit. Asch has a way to make an extradimensional space so that all of us can have a private conversation.::
She gulped down a large mixing bowl of chocolate pudding and a couple pitchers of root beer and sighed contentedly.
"Okay, that's better," she said, coming back over to the rest. "It's hard to think straight when I'm hungry."
Asch stands from his chair offering his arm to Amada. "Everyone ready?" He asks as he starts to leave.
"Let's roll," says Rock-Spin's gravelly voice as he gets up from the table to follow Ephebe, watching his own rock-biceps as he flexes them in rhythm. khkhkk - khkhkk - khkhkk - khkhkk - khkhkk - khkhkk.
"You're really going to have to tell me what you are, Marra. This is totally freaking amazing."
Ephebe laughed.
"Rock and roll again Spin?" she asked jokingly
"Well if you've been around for 300 then you know I'm a dragon there for you have to listen to me." Silver says and then a thoughtful look comes over his reptilian features. "You know if we used your experience and my agility we could get more food."
"I've flown with Draco, and I am a cat. I have to listen to no one." He images, flicking his tail for emphasis. "But you do make sense. Look for new students, they're the ones who don't know about me yet."
Rock-Spin laughs, tossing a granite leg up on the bench as a slate guitar grows from his hands.
His air-rock-guitar routine shakes the table and floor around him, "ROCK AND ROLL!"
Perception
Sees Nala eyeballing the table and decides to take her down a peg or two...
Gaze attack DC 23 (Will)
Ephebe dissolved into giggles and then grabbed Spin's hand to drag him along with the rest of the group.
"Come on, I don't think Asch is the most patient person you'll ever meet, and we want to be quick about this so we can find you a band to play with."
"The new students huh.." Silver says as he looks around the cafeteria.
When he notices a young boy sit down with wide eyes looking all around him a smile spreads on Silvers face. He fades from sight and flys towards the table. He makes a voice call out to him from the other side of the cafeteria with what looks like a person as well. As the boy trys to see what it was he swoops in and grabs his tray and flys up to the rafters with it. The boy blinks in confusion as he looks back to the table and sees his tray missing.
"Well that was easy. Oh by the way my name is Quicksilver yours is?"
Spinning back to normal form, Spin grabs one last Swiss Roll as he's dragged along. Stuffing it in his mouth, he looks back at Marra and his new roomie (though he doesn't realize what krays is doing), "You're coming, too, Marra."
"That is why I have the oozes in place. But my means of acquiring them was...questionable." The kobold swallows the pastry in one bite.
Sinh laughs appreciatively. "You're a cagey one, no doubt, Master Vakkler. I'll keep my eyes open if I happen to visit the sewer. I'd appreciate a look at yer map in the meantime. I'm of a mind to check more of the drains to see if I can keep tabs on where that little Roto-Rooter is goin'. He seems to leave clean drains where-ever he's been."
1d20+10
Nala shrieks and runs out of the cafeteria, her confused sycophants trying desperately to catch up to her.
Gives a deep throaty chuckle at the spectacle, then looks back at the others, his eyes gleaming with mischief...
and realizes they're leaving. He gets up to follow looking very pleased with himself
"She's gonna do something awful to you later for that you know...but it was kinda awesome," she added with a grin. "Now come on you guys. Time's a wasting."
"I'm Ruji. You know, I usually don't take all of someone's food..." He images as he selects a bit of fish to eat delicately. "Ruins the 'hunt' for food when they start watching carefully."
Vakkler nods. "I'll ask around. I think I'll start by paying Sunwake a little visit."
"She's gonna do something awful to you later for that you know...but it was kinda awesome," she added with a grin. "Now come on you guys. Time's a wasting."
"Well...she just looked so...damned smug...you know? She needs to realize there are things and forces that should not be triffled with. School started early for her, I guess."
An evil grin spreads accross his face
Bidding Mr. Sinh farewell, Vakkler heads off to the cafeteria. He watches Nala fleeing and can't resist a chuckle.
Once more like a kobold.
He enters the cafeteria and looks about for Jiminy.
In the empty, well nearly empty dormitory wing, a snake-like, nearly transparent pseudo-pod creeps from a drain, slides across a hallway and enters beneath the door of a room emitting curious and tasty odors...
The group quickly headed to Asch and Amada's room. Ephebe was feeling a little uncomfortable. How had three people who knew the secret turned into six? Well, only three knew, but she had to tell Amada or Asch would, and....well, anyways, it was hard to actually tell people the truth after having it drilled into her head for so long that it must be kept a secret. But she really needed allies right now.
Perception:
Is oblivious as he continues to read 'In the defense of mages' by some guy named Tamm...
When everyone arrives at their room Asch and Amada begin to detrap their door. Removing different defensive spells before allowing anyone in. When you walk in you see a dark room with weapons of different time periods from staves to guns along the walls. There are different divination supplies neatly tucked away on a desk along with different books on arcane lore.
"Just a moment." Asch says as he walks over to the closet. He begins an incantation in dark speech as Amada relayers their door with spells. When Asch finishes there is a rope suspended from the ceiling disappearing as it goes up. "All right after everyone then I'll go in." He says as he leaves a few other 'surprises' for anyone who makes it in.
Spin takes one long sweep of the room with his eyes, saying in a sing-songy voice, "Clean freeeeeeeaaaaaaakkkkkk!' Then, smiling, he surprises you all with a huge flat-footed leap, clearing the first 8 vertical feet of the rope, grabbing on and swinging himself up into the hidden space with ease.
A muffled voice calls out from inside, "Cool! Does my room have a little secret hidden compartment thing?"
Climbs the rope
"No, it doesn't, sorry"
"Not unless you know how to cast that spell." He says with a sigh.
Ephebe shimmies up the rope with ease and crawls out of the way of the next person climbing up, sitting at the far end of the space. She twirls her hair nervously.
The snakey pseudo-pod winds its way up the wall, wraps the corner and touches gingerly on the shelf with jars of eyes, bat wings, and other consumables. It tastes the still air...
Jackpot! A grocery store!
Greedily it tries to worm its way into the jar of eyes but the lid is on too tight. The pseudo-pod wraps around the morbid jar and carries its sack of groceries back down to floor level.
:clunk : clunk : CLUNK : :
H'Tor sees that something is trying to pull the jar of eyes beneath the door and that spiderweb cracks are appearing across the surface of the glass...
"Wait....where'd Mistress Amada go!" Silver says as he flys off in the direction of the room he flits in just as the door closes. "YOU ALMOST LEFT ME!" He says angrily as the door almost catches his tail.
"So...ummm.....well.....Some of you already know what we're here to talk about, but for the rest of you....If you don't think you can keep a secret now is a good time to walk away. It's not a little secret and if it got out....we're pretty much talking life and death here. So. Uh, yeah."
Ruji, now that Silver has left, returns the new students tray and flies around in circle to track down his next target...
"Hm... who's not watching their OH LOOK SOMETHINGS MOVING!" Ruji thinks as he spots the rag and changes his course so he get's directly in it's path.
"Hm... who's not watching their OH LOOK SOMETHINGS MOVING!" Ruji thinks as he spots the rag and changes his course so he get's directly in it's path.
The rag leaps up to meet the flying cat. As it does so, it slips down a little, revealing Slarrow. The slurk grabs at the cat, trying to pull it down.
With furtive peeks at Vakkler's map as a reference, Mr. Sinh pursues the wily gelatinous beast. He follows the trail of piping, checking into every drain, looking for signs of the creature's passing. Having found immaculately clean pipes in three of nine drains checked of help me Gods! 130 total drains located across campus, Sinh expects this hunt to be long. So far, no pattern of travel has emerged.
The sheer absurdity of his task strikes him. In a freak whimsical moment, he looks dramatically at his mop and vows "We'll get that rascal, Betsy. Never you worry." Then he laughs. Well this job sure ain't boring...
"So...ummm.....well.....Some of you already know what we're here to talk about, but for the rest of you....If you don't think you can keep a secret now is a good time to walk away. It's not a little secret and if it got out....we're pretty much talking life and death here. So. Uh, yeah."
"Right. So. Nobody's leaving? Ummm.....okay. Er, I'm not sure how to say this...."
She took a deep breath.
"I'm a dragon."
The rag leaps up to meet the flying cat. As it does so, it slips down a little, revealing Slarrow. The slurk grabs at the cat, trying to pull it down.
Ruji hisses in shock as the tiny slurk jumps for him, and brings all four sets of claws to bear in this mid-air grapple. His wings beat furiously as he rises up even higher. Soon they are both wrestling in the confines of the rafters...
Meanwhile back in the cafeteria...
Jiminy was in the center of a crowd of students putting on an impromptu show as tried to see how many of his empty plates he could balance on a stick being held up by a nervous looking freshman. He was up to fifty three.....
Vakkler knows better than to shout out. He grabs a random student from the crowd. "Fetch Jiminy Sunwake for me," he snaps, and sends them off.
The rag leaps up to meet the flying cat. As it does so, it slips down a little, revealing Slarrow. The slurk grabs at the cat, trying to pull it down.
Ruji hisses in shock as the tiny slurk jumps for him, and brings all four sets of claws to bear in this mid-air grapple. His wings beat furiously as he rises up even higher. Soon they are both wrestling in the confines of the rafters...
Slarrow (being about the size of Ruji)is making it hard to stay in the air. The slurk croaks and holds onto the cat stubbornly.
The student, alas, did not know not to shout, and called out, "Hey, Jiminy!" causing the youngest Sunwake to become distracted and the plates to come crashing down to resounding chorus of disappointment from those who had been placing bets.
Jiminy grinned and hopped off the table and out of the mess.
"You wanted to see me, sir?"
The kobold rolls his eyes. "Yes. I want to talk to you about that ooze you dropped on that student's head."
Nasima looks around at the others as Ephebe tells everyone her secret. The sylph was lucky enough to know a couple elder cloud dragons and thought they were just about the most splendid beings in the sky, so she was still having a hard time with the whole 'hunting' thing, though she recognizes it comes from a place and time in the past that she knows nothing about.
'Tradition' or something, I'm sure. Sheesh.
'Tradition' or something, I'm sure. Sheesh.
"I think I have a handle on dragons, though I do have a couple questions about the kind of dragon you and your family are, but first...what are these 'hunters'? That's what you called them, right? Are they people? Ghosts? Trolls? Are they...are they other dragons? Why are they hunting?"