"Maybe should lock my panty drawer..."
"Some panties are just worth chasing"
Rath says straight-faced, "Well, Burnsten, that is very flattering. But must warn you that, as a Monk, I don't have freedom for a love affair with you. But you go right on chasing after my panties. Your persistence may win you my heart."
"Some panties are just worth chasing Pete. Just sometimes there out of reach, but there is nothing wrong with looking at the menu."
"Well, Burnsten, that is very flattering. But must warn you that, as a Monk, I don't have freedom for a love affair with you. But you go right on chasing after my panties. Your persistence may win you my heart."
Alexis rolls her eyes briefly at Burnsten's complete and total lack of tact, yet snickers a bit at Rath's comment. "Well the more exclusive restaurants typically have doormen who turn away those who have no business even seeing the menu." She pauses for a moment, and a slight smile plays across her face. Burnsten suddenly finds that everyone is staring above is head except Alexis who is now grinning fiercely and staring into his eyes intently.
"Fortunately, most such establishment are gracious enough to offer complimentary water to beggars."
With that, Alexis upends the bucket of sea-water that she'd levitated over his head before flinging it aside.
Laughs at Alexis reply thinking it was funny she got mad at something so simple "Lady Alexis you are right in all your words, but still I never sed I was going into every restaurant, like I sed just sometimes some of them are out of reach, ment that I know some restaurants are just not for me" as he gives a friendly smile "I'm still working in my wording, since I'm used to be straigth forward like Gregor, it's a normal thing for an ulfen, say things as they are no time for subtle things" looking at himself all wet "Well in the other hand so much for clean clothing" looks with a piercing gaze at Alexis "Yeah I've met some people like this in past... you probably didn't have as much problem since yer still of noble bearing, I had to fit in two cultures, two diffrent races very almost completly diffrent social structure" as he calms down for a moment "Well you know how it is probably trying to fit in with both yer families even tho you have none" as he notices he might be saying to much of himself "Well let's just say I got someparts of one culture some of the other and no help of from any of them, but only select few people I can count in one hand and probably still have like 4 or 3 finger left"
With that, Alexis upends the bucket of sea-water that she'd levitated over his head...
Rath's face splits in a broad grin. "Rajkumari, don't be jealous! Burnsten clearly can't help his attractions for me. I'm sure it not meant as insult to your beauty."
"Tracant might be a part of me that likes you Ravarath" as he pet's Tracant "He is fond of you and I do admire your prowess as a warrior" smiles happy "But in those kind of panties I might use some if they look nice on me Ravarath" as he laughs out loud, knowing Rath is trying to cool things
"Yeah I've met some people like this in past... you probably didn't have as much problem since yer still of noble bearing, I had to fit in two cultures, two diffrent races very almost completly diffrent social structure."
"Hmm, it's rather... fascinating that you would arrive at a conclusion that could not be further from the truth."
"Well you know how it is probably trying to fit in with both yer families even tho you have none."
"That's odd, I could have sworn I was just talking about members of my family only a minute ago. No matter..."
Biter does his best to follow the banter back and forth, then abruptly turns to Pete...
Biter does his best to follow the banter back and forth, then abruptly turns to Pete...
"Hey Biter. Are you asking him a Truth or Dare?"
Biter's expression is of someone caught slightly off-guard, but he responds by replying slightly overly-loud, "NO, FRIEND RATH, WAS'ING TO ASK STINKY HERE WHAT'ING WAS THE BIG DEAL BOUT ALEX'S UNDERPANTS!"
Then he shrugs, "Also notting to know why we is'ing discussing restaurants."
Biter's expression is of someone caught slightly off-guard, but he responds by replying slightly overly-loud, "NO, FRIEND RATH, WAS'ING TO ASK STINKY HERE WHAT'ING WAS THE BIG DEAL BOUT ALEX'S UNDERPANTS!"
Then he shrugs, "Also notting to know why we is'ing discussing restaurants."
Pete gives a shrug at Biter, although he did get a hearty chuckle at the unexpected bath Burnsten took. "Dunno, Biter, mebbe we returned ta Cassomir 'n th' Anchors tavern, he he. Shore feels like we is in a tavern. Kinda glad us lowlifes ain't got no undies ta worry 'bout, he he."
"Pete you ignoring yer answer to my question or ya just forgot" turns to Alexis "I was talking about my family also Alexis"
Rath looks a little surprised and amused at Biter's explosive comment."Maybe you still drunk, hey? Burnsten is interested in MY panties. First, thought he was in love with me. Now, turns out, he just wants to borrow my loin-cloth and Tracant is in love. Dunno, maybe everyone is drunk or crazy. My advice to you, drink more, pick someone, and say Truth or Dare." Rath nods as if he has handed down a great bit of wisdom.
"We all is'ing know Friend Rath noting to wear underpants." Biter shrugs and turns his eyes to Alexis, "Truth or Dare, Alexis-Huuc'Mar?
"Pete you ignoring yer answer to my question or ya just forgot" turns to Alexis "I was talking about my family also Alexis"
"Pete you ignoring yer answer to my question or ya just forgot" turns to Alexis "I was talking about my family also Alexis"
"Pete! What is your personal goal in this "adventure" or whatever you want to call it"
"NO, FRIEND RATH, WAS'ING TO ASK STINKY HERE WHAT'ING WAS THE BIG DEAL BOUT ALEX'S UNDERPANTS!"
Alexis very nearly chokes on her wine when she hears Biter's outburst. She completely misses the next few interchanges as she regains her composure.
"We all is'ing know Friend Rath noting to wear underpants. Truth or Dare, Alexis-Huuc'Mar?"
Taking a deep breath and giving a strong exhale to settle herself, the princess raises one eye-brow with a hint of amused worry on her pretty face. "Goodness, with all this bawdy talk, I think that perhaps there have been a few too many truths divulged outside the boundaries of this little game..."
She looks down for a moment, grits her teeth a bit and then finishes the last of her wine. "Dare!" she says defiantly.
Gods if Alis was here to see this...
Biter shakes his head ruefully, holds up one finger in a 'just wait' gesture, and walks away from the group without another word.
He is gone for a couple of minutes, leaving you wondering what is up the goblin's sleeve.
When he finally returns, your eyes first land on his beaming, toothy grin, then they slide to what is in his hand… a stein sloshing with a thick, sludgy sound.
"Biter is'ing to dare the lovelying Huuc'Mar to drink one of Biter's Victory Suicides." He makes a mollifying gesture, "If'ing Alexis is'ing to think to be up to it, of course."
"Alex could'ing always back out and take a Truth, though… if'ing to be necessary."
"Pete! What is your personal goal in this "adventure" or whatever you want to call it"
Pete looks over at Burnsten, with a look like the Ulfen warrior has lost his mind. ”Well thar Burnsten, seems like ye have na run inta too many dwarves out ‘ere, so lemme tell ye, we is a simple people, as long as we kin keep our tankard filled, ‘n our picks sharp, ‘n our coffers full, we be honoring our creator, Torag. We seek riches ‘n treasures wherever our paths take us. That be th’ answer ye be gittin from me.”
He then looks over to Alexis and gives her a wink, as he sees her trying to drink the foul concoction.
Alexis gaze narrows a bit and she asks pointedly, "Please tell me you weren't in the privvy with this..."
After Biter assures her in no uncertain terms neither he nor anyone else on board or off contributed any bodily fluids or other by-products, she frowns a bit, not entirely convinced.
"Alex could'ing always back out and take a Truth, though… if'ing to be necessary."
Giving the short Pathfinder a look that would chip mithril, she takes the tankard and says, "That won't be necessary."
Just before she downs it, she raises the ante a bit and adds, "Of course, if I end up bed-ridden, naked, or worse, then I'm giving Elorin your job and making Pete your new roommate..."
With that, she pinches her nose, shuts her eyes and throws it back...
Rath elbows Biter and gives him a Did you see that? look. The Princess never fails to surprise.
Biter returns Rath's look with a suitably impressed expression of his own, hopping gleefully over to the slight woman and clapping her mightily on the back. "Nowing to keep it down! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!"
Under the pretext of congratulating her, Rath watches Alexis carefully to ensure she is OK before saying quietly:
Pete claps his hands in appreciation at the brave show Alexis put on for Biter's benefit.
"He he he he! So, methinks ye had a dwarvish ancestor thar 'Lexis, or p'haps Torag gave ye 'is blessin'!
"Nowing to keep it down! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!"
Alexis winces with one eye squinted shut and her tongue stuck out from her mouth as if she's trying to get it as far away from herself as possible. Her tummy makes a rumbling noise not unlike what you might expect from an engineer wondering what the hell the person piloting the HMS Kirmoon is doing to his damned engines. The princess she puts both hands over her mid-section in embarrassment leaving the empty tankard bobbing upside-down in the air along side her head.
"Oof!" is her initial reply, though somehow she avoids gagging or turning into a fountain. After a moment she rakes her tongue with her fingertips and says, "Wha ith thith?"
She looks down at her palm and when her focus returns she gives Biter a looks that says, 'really?' and says, "Biter, I know that elven ways are strange to you, but did you really put leaves in this?"
After listening to Ravarath's praise, she replies:
"He he he he! So, methinks ye had a dwarvish ancestor thar 'Lexis, or p'haps Torag gave ye 'is blessin'!"
"Hmm, well my Uncle Morgaard is from Highhelm, so you never know... Gods, that tasted like the castings from his pipe!"
With that, she uses telekinesis to fix herself a plate of food to get the taste out of her mouth.
As she's doing so, she looks around at the group and ponders who to query next...
Rath becomes nonchalantly invisible while the crafty Dwarf and hard-drinking Princess debate their choices. I'm sure Pete has forgotten all about that accident with his chair...
Pete is about to relax on a different chair, this one slightly more sturdy, when he gets a nudge from Alexis, reminding him he needed to continue with the contest.
He looks over at Biter, who can barely contain his glee on putting the Princess through his unique brand of fun, and waves the goblin over.
"Truth or Dare, Biter?"
Let's see, I picked Gregor last time, Burnsten will just pick me back and ask that same question again, it wouldn't be sporting to challenge Biter right back, Pete just went...
Noticing that Rath is doing his best to become invisible, Alexis smirks and says, "I still see you there, Rav er– Rath."
She looks down, finger hooked over her chin in contemplation. You're quite certain that she's thinking to herself but yet you hear her murmur, "Oh wow, that actually still came out sounding just like his full name..."
She waves her hand in the air and looks up, hesitating for a moment as she looks to either side of the monk, before reaching out and placing her hand on his clavicle. "Ok, so you were in the middle after all! Right, truth or dare?"
Biter looks over at Rath, "What shoulding we do?"
"This might be intresting" waiting for Rath answer
In answer to Biter's query and the intense look in both Pete's and Alexis' eyes, Rath says "Normally suggest we knock out the closest two and jump overboard while we have surprise! ... but not nice in party game. Think you must look at Pete and decide whether you want risk answering possible embarrassing question or performing crazy stunt. Can't help you more than that... Have my own Beargle to skin right here." His leery nod indicates his 'Beargle' is a slip of a woman with a devilish look on her face...
The Princess' turret-like (though slightly stoned) gaze bores into Rath...
Maderchod! I think this is about to get interesting. A wise man once said to truly know someone you need to see them through the bottom-end of their own drinking glass. So, wrecked as she is... Rajkumari is likely to ask a very interesting and unguarded question which will tell me something about her... a fair exchange. But it may also tell the others more about her than she cares to reveal. She is a private woman... and it wouldn't be nice to 'disrobe' her that way. And her last question to me was a 'barn burner'. I don't know how much more salacious her questions could become.
On the other hand, I can't even imagine what sort of nefarious dare she might have in mind. She could ask me to mud-wrestle Tracant and kiss him in the process! Eeeiigghghhhhh... What to choose?
Rath looks at her levelly and prays he picked the safer answer by saying, "Dare!"
Alexis cracks a grin so big you can't even see her eyes. After a moment, she shakes her head and points to the table and a wine bottle come hurtling towards her then flies over board splashing into the ocean some distance away. Frowning slightly, she telekinetically grabs another one more slowly this time and sets it one the deck of the ship in your midst.
"Oooooh kay!" she says, clearly feeling the effects of 5 glasses of wine topped by Biter's Suicide Special™. "Well Burn stein doesn't think I have a family, but I'm not gonna let my sister have the last laugh on me!"
She scoots forward on the crate so that her feet finally touch the deck.
"Rav! I dare you to spin that bottle and kiss who-even er– who-ever it points to!"
Spin results (d6):
1: Alexis
2: Biter
3: Burnsten
4: Gregor
5: Pete
6: Tracant
"Now hold on just a damned second, a dare for Rath is one thing, but this puts us all at risk."
Alexis blinks and pouts looking like a scolded puppy, "Well, I'm included too, so it's all fair, right?"
Rath visibly deflates... Uluu ka Bacche! I chose wrong!
Rath says with sarcasm, "Gregor, don't be jealous.. my heart will always belong to you."
Looking for a loophole, Rath says, "Rajkumari, you not specify TYPE of kiss... Can I use best judgment? Or do you mean spinning-bottle kiss?"
If Rath owned a lucky rabbit's foot, he would be rubbing it now...
Looking for a loophole, Rath says, "Rajkumari, you not specify TYPE of kiss... Can I use best judgment? Or do you mean spinning-bottle kiss?"
"Damnit you fool! You shouldn't have given her the option. She hadn't specified before, there's your @#*&# loophole, now she will."
"Yes!" she answers emphatically. After a moment she puts her finger to her lips and muses quietly at first, "No, that question was an exclusive or... um... so yes, whatever a spin-the-bottle kiss is supposed to be."
She looks at Gregor and shrugs her shoulders.
"From the sound of her reaction, she doesn't even bloody well know what a 'spin the bottle' kiss is."
Gregor seriously considers using a storm burst to change the direction of the bottle should it stop on him.
Upon hearing Gregor's assessment, Alexis folds her hands in her lap, twiddling her thumbs and whistling (badly) as she tries to look innocent.
Rath sighs, shrugs, and spins the bottle like a top....
Irori don't fail me here...
And the bottle slowly, sloowly stops at Alexis. Rath is utterly relieved and totally dismayed.
Gregor lets out a sigh of relief...
"Alrighty, lass. Looks like you're about to find out what a spin-the-bottle kiss is."
Alexis looks as the spinning bottle slows down and finally stop. You see her close one eye and line up her index finger with it at arms length tracing the direction in which it is pointing. Her eyes go wide and she repeats her 'calculation' a few times looking up to see all the men huddled as far opposite from her as possible.
"Alrighty, lass. Looks like you're about to find out what a spin-the-bottle kiss is."
With a chagrined look, Alexis scatches the side of her head with her other hand, swallows hard and says:
Unsavory?
Putting the word out of her head, the princess' forehead furrows in determination.
Alexis steels her nerves and hops to her feet staggering momentarily yet steadying herself without help. Placing her hands on her hips, she looks up at the dark-skinned monk (who is looking a bit less dark than usual right now) and says, "Alright, pucker-up Ravarath!"
As Rath moves towards Alexis, he has a long moment to debate what sort of kiss is 'right'... and realises he has no f&#*ing clue. And how often do frogs GET to kiss Princesses? Well, this will make twice for me. That's gotta be a record, somewhere...
He looks down at Alexis. "Please to forgive this impertinence, Rajkumari." He holds her gently, his hands supporting her head. He kisses her softly for a span of three heartbeats, his lips moving slightly, and then releases her slowly. He brushes her hair with his fingers. He is as red as a nutmeg-colored man can get. He takes a step back, "Please excuse for one moment." He turns, strips his gi off, and runs headlong to the side of the boat and dives off. He swims like a maniac for 50 strokes and then returns. Climbing on deck, in his soaking hakama, he puts his gi back on. "OK. That better."
"Ok soggy, I believe it is your turn to pick someone."
Rath looks like the last thing he cares to do right now is form a cogent thought. He grabs a name out of the air, "Tracant - Truth or Dare."
Alexis closes her eyes when Rath kisses her and is quite certain that her heart was going to jump out of her chest she was so nervous. By the time their lips finally part (which she would later estimate at a good 3 minutes), she finds the whole ship spinning around her and that he paper fan is in hand fluttering like the wings of a hummingbird as she tries to cool down.
When Rath jumps overboard, she looks at the gawking faces of everyone else and quickly turns red. "Um... haven't any of the rest of you ever gone for a moonlight swim in the sea?"
With that, she hops over the rail, pearls and all, and decides to go for a midnight swim herself.
Pete wishes he had a way to record the image he saw when Rath kissed Alexis, it felt like his heart would explode with joy, Aye, too bad they canane be wed. They be parfect fer each other.
Once Rath returns from his swim, he just says nothing but gives him a look of understanding. After Alexis returns from her dip, he nods at her as well, again saying nothing, but letting the moment speak for itself.