Ya, sorry, I am going through with it :) Stonz to dissapear into the fog, never to be seen again X(
Not getting a reply from Firebeard, Stonz shrugs and hoists the barrel over his head and crouchs until it rests on the ground.
"Now I'm going to follow the wall on the left, I want you to keep calling out to me an I'll call back. I don't want to lose the sound of your voice, ya hear?"
With that, he gingerly sets out, keeping the barrel scraping against the wall.
STONZ!!!!! HERRRRRREEEEEEE STONZ!!!!! HOW'RE MY BARRELS WORKING? REMEMBER WHEN YOU LAUGHED AT ME?? STOOOOOOOONZ
You make your way down the tunnel when you feel a slight pressure as you snap a tripwire. Then there is a massive impact as a swinging boulder hits the side of the barrel shattering it and sending you flying and knocking you out.
Firebeard hears the impact but cant see Stonz from were he is.
I'll give everyone another will save vs the suggestion as something is clearly happening at the end of the tunnel. Dc 19.
STONZ??? BUDDY? ARE YOU OK?
Min shakes off the effect and can go down the tunnel now.
Will save
I really don't see the point if going this way! We're obviously wasting our time!
"Sputnikk and I are leaving, you all have obviously gone mad."
Min rushes down the passageway
From down the hallway, assuming I at least hear the barrel being broken, I drop to my knees and cry...
" Stony! Stony, get up for God's sake! Get up! They've killed Stony! They've killed Stony! Those lousy stinking yellow fairies! Those horrible atrocity-filled vermin! Those despicable animal warmongers! They've killed Stony! Take that! Take this! Take that, you green slime! You black hearted, short, bow-legged..."*
And I fire fake arrows in every direction in my grief, while muttering, pew, pew, pew
Ronin, Xarol and sputnikk head back the way they came compelled by the magic. Min rushes to the end of the tunnel were he finds Firebeard waiting at the edge of the mist.
There is no sign of Stonz...
and Wag indeed seems to have lost her mind...Or never had it your not quite sure.
Stonz becomes stable at -4 and wont bleed out!
Min and Firebeard go into the fog and manage to find him and bring him back out.
[Ooc]That's it? The barrel to keep the fog out was for nothing D:
But my brilliant (and backfired) plan![/b]
Once he is out of the fog you guys can get a good look at him for the first time. The left side of his face is caved in, bloody and turning an ugly shade of purple. His breath coming out in ragged gasps as more than a few ribs must be broken. But at least he is breathing.
Under the chatter of the Lonely Drake's Inn the door gently opens up. A young woman, in her early twenties steps in. She seems to take in her surroundings cautiously, yet with a good dose of curiosity.
She walks up to the bartender.
"Good evening Innboss, may i purchase some nourishment?"
The bartender raises an eyebrow at the woman's unusual use of words.
"All..right. Today's special is sliced pork, bread and mead, have a seat at that table and i'll come bring it shortly."
She nods and pays the innkeeper, then walks towards the appointed table. She sits down and puts her luggage next to her. The innkeeper puts down the meal. Here you go, enjoy.
A few men point toward her. One of them, quite a muscular fellow, stands up from his seat and starts walking towards her table.
"Well 'ello there li'l missy. Care fer someone te talk to, while ye enjoy the food?"..he says in a rather intruding way.
She looks at him with big eyes, and replies with a kind smile; "No thanks sir."
Seems this somewhat upset the guy. He looks down on her, and with a loud voice; "Do ye know who à am? I be Fergus the Mighty. See this 'ere lot in this 'ere inn? All grown men, they got nothing on me, and you 're refusin me? I got only one answer to that....."
As he was about to finish his sentence, the irisses of her eyes briefly turn a voidly black, while she whispers some words. Fergus' eyes started to have a rather confused look in them, and while drooling the only sound that comes out of the mouth was...""flrbr, nnunnu flabbbb"
This turned Fergus into the mocking of the Inn that night. With Fergus wobbling back towards his buds while being laughed at, she resumed her evening meal.
Min shall carry Stonz back to the rest of the group. He will then demand we pour one of our potions of CLW down his throat. He will then assist carrying him back to the safety of the inn, so he ran rest (unless the party is opposed)
The potions heals the gravest on Stonz's wounds and he regains consciousness. You decide to return to the Inn to rest for now.
Ronin bids you farewell and explains he must get back to his duties with the militia and says he will check in from time to time to see how the exploration goes.
Lilly is eating her meal at the lonesome drake when a very strange looking group of people come out of the door behind the bar with one man looking like he was beaten nearly to death.
Min bursts in with Stonz slung over his shoulder.
We need whiskey and meat pies for everyone, and extra whiskey for Stonz here! The idiot thought it would be a good idear ta mess around with empty barrels and got his head bashed in!
Min sees the beautiful lady sitting alone and drops Stonz to the ground with a *thunk*.
He saunters over to her and orders her a drink as well, and then does his best James Dean.
Well hey there pretty lady, what brings you round these parts...
He flex his muscles a bit...
Yup, we've just been down in some caves fighting monsters and stuff. You know. No big deal.
Sputnikk rolls his eyes and grabs a seat in a quiet corner, removes his spell book from his pack and begins reading.
Lilly looks at the group with mere a glance of surprise. As she is about to finish the last bit of bread, she starts hearing voices again.
Y....you willl take....closer look....at wounded man.
As Lilly was about to stand up to do so, she sees a burly looking fellow walking towards her, flexing his biceps as he stands at her table.
"Pardon mr. Machoman, 2 things:
1. How is your friend going to consume a meaty pie, he's passed out".[B]...totally ignoring his question.
2. I'm not enthralled by your flex, maybe you would glance upon that man behind you, and contemplate if that is how you desire to spend your night.", pointing at Fergus.
As Maximus is distracted, Lilly slips away and walks casually over to the wounded Stonz to look more closely.
aw shucks did he lass out again? I swear he was just up and chatting away...
Min will take his shot of whiskey, and not one to be so easily rejected, he will then grab the ladies drink and offer it to her again.
Lilly doesn't see Maximus flexing and accepts the drink. But she uses it for another purpose.
Thank you, this will make a fine bactaer killer. ....and she pours it onto the wounds. After which she attempts CLW. (+6 mod)
The spell that Lilly cast on the fallen miner has done wonders for his caved in skull and you can visibly see it begin to patch itself up and fill out, not enough to dissapear or remove the huge gaping wound there, but enough to return the skull to something at least resembling a skull.
Eyes fluttering open and seeing an unknown face above him Stonz jolts up to a sitting position aaaand immediately falls back to the floor. Groaning as he comes too again.
"Uggggnnn. Is that you Stella? No.. Nevermind..." Confusing Lilly with his late wife for a moment. Then putting his hand to his head to quell the raging headache he has, he realizes in horror as his hand continues past where his head should have been. Horrorstruck he inspects the still dented form of his skull, the peeled skin, the warm, sticky wetness of his blood covering the side of his head and caked with dirt and the sharp fragments of wood literally imbedded into his skull.
Obviously shellshocked he starts muttering something under his breath
"Ferrakus, heal my wounds"
"Ferrakus, heal me."
But nothing happens.
"Ferrakus, heal me."
Again nothing happens.
"Ferrakus, HEAL me."
"Ferrakus. Ferrakus.Ferrakus"
Min walks up behind Stonz and heartily slaps him on the back.
STONZ! Good ta see yer back amongst the walking talking drinking folks
Firebeard was quiet as they dragged Stonz back to the inn. It seemed as if they could go 20 feet without someone being injured so badly they couldn't continue. At this rate, it would be a hundred years before they got to the bottom of things. Not that that's a long time for a dwarf, but for humans? The lot of them would be dead long before they even found the next chamber at this rate.
He looked up from his musing to see a new human female pouring perfectly good whiskey onto Stonz's head. " 'Ere now! Dontcha go wastin' perfectly good liquor on a man's head. Send 'im t' th' baths if'n ye want him cleaned up. Whiskey's fer drinkin', not bathin in. That come t' think o' it, I did hear a story 'bout a man named Clancy, oncet, who fell in a giant vat o' whiskey. Luckey fella drowned wit' a big smile on 'is face."
"I'm gonna need better shoes."
"Hello browneyes,The name is Waglinde Howard Claire,"
I extend my right hand hand to the young woman aiding my friend, and smile.
"Thanks for helping Stony. He's a good friend, and our spiritual soft chewy center. The others here are ElFuegogotee, the dwarftus with the mostus in hand to beard combat, Radish wound, the gnome in the corner. He’s the brains behind our expedition, and then there is Minamummy Maxamallimus, who is like the glue that holds the macaroni of our hearts to the construction paper of our souls. It’s nice to meet you. What’s your name? Hey, wait a minute! Would you like to join us? See we are a band of newly acquainted adventurers who are exploring a strange expansion of catacombs and passageways beneath the city. The entrance to this hidden world was recently discovered in the basement of this very tavern, go figure. Now you should know that the rest of us are seasoned and stalwart underdark adventurers, but don’t let that make you apprehensuave, apporensovel, approstopopol, cautious in your decision making. We are careful, well most of us are anyway.”
I grimace and raise my shoulders as I roll my eyes toward Stony
”You wanna join us? Oh, and don’t worry about a thing, we’re never away from town for more than a few minutes at a time, so there are lots of opportunities to go shopping. Hey, can we go shopping? I need some more arrows.”
As Lilly was looking at the now somewhat more able Stonz, she heard a voice saying something about wasting whiskey.
"Why are the voices talking about alcohol?"
Then hearing a woman's voice she snapped aware the voices weren't in her head. She turned around to see 2 new faces. A short bearded man and a perculiar blonde woman.
Having seen only humans and elves, the dwarf and gnome were a completely new sight to Lilly.
Taking a look at Firebeard;
"You appear like no one elf I've yet gazed upon, red nosed bearded one."
Noticing the extended hand from the woman, she shook her hand.
"Hello Wagli. If that does not obstruct you, I'd merrily take the offer."
"Finally a normal woman to converse with."
There somehow was something to her though.
Suddenly while still holding Waglinde's hand, Lilly got a brief splitsecond vision, then let go with a slightly flustered look.
Firebeard was taken aback at being called an elf. At first, he was inclined to educate the woman in a physical manner, but restrained himself.
" Tha's because ain't no elfs lookin' as good as a dwarf! An' if'n ye be wanting t' keep yer purty eyes un-blackened, I suggest ye don't be callin' no dwarf an elf again! Not all me folk are as courteous as me! Fer all tha' yer sadly uneducated, ye be having me thanks fer healin' up my friend there."
Lilly smiles back at the dwarf. Having learned something new.
And...since she didn't use all of the whiskey on Stonz, she offers the remaining half to firebeard.
Seeing the young woman’s expression, one I am well acquainted with, I give her a wink, lean forward, and slightly to the left, and say,
“Didn’t catch that. Your name, browneyes?”
and then, turn my attention to Stony
"Stony! I am the happiest one in the room to see you coming around. Now, come on, come, sit here at the table and tell me everything that happened down that completely uninteresting tunnel. I'll write it down, and then turn it into an epic tale so magnificient. Gee, I'm sorry your face got pushed in, but it looks, no seriously, it looks good on you. Give me a kiss."
After the pat on the back he takes his hand and gets up, leaning in close to Min as he does
"Thanks buddy. I know it was you who came in an got me, an I know it was you who carried me back. I owe ya one."
Then, a little unsteady on his feet, he turns to the new lady
"I suppose I got you ta thank fer healing me? Names Stonz and I got rock down to ma bones, well more then I used to..."
While everyone is getting acquainted, I slide over to Sputnikk
[whisper, whisper, whisper]”You’re absolutely right. We need to buy this place. I’ll open on Thursdays and Saturdays in my Howard Claire persona, slick hair, twelve string guitar, sing the ballads, the regular shtick, then you come on with me as your ‘lovely assistant’. We do the woman in half bit, the rabbits and ducks, people love the rabbits and ducks, and on Friday we blow off the matinee entirely to explore below the basement. It’s gold jerry, gold.”[/whisper, whisper,whisper]
Lilly proceeds with the introduction.
"Greetings, I'm Lilly."
Turning towards Stonz and then Maximus,
"No issue mr. Stonz".
"Mr Macho, to answer your inquiry why I happen to be here.... the voices told me there was a strong lost item below this town. They said i must find it so i can understand better my powers."...she said very casually.
She then walks casually towards Waglinde, since she asked for her name.
Voices in the head eh? Yep. My poor, sweet mother had the voices in the head too. Used to sit up on the roof and go 'phew phew phew' and try to shoot the neighbors... with an... imaginary bow...
His mouth falls open and he stares as Wags.
He then quickly orders up another whiskey.
"So how does the exploration fare? It seems you ran into some danger at least."
oh what? Down there? Nah no trouble at all. Nothing dangerous. I distinctly remeber there being nothing interesting or troublesome or anything. Right guys?
"Ya. Min was right... There was nothing interesting there, just some rocks... Next time we go down the other path..."
"Maybe bring a firestick or two along just to be secure."
"Oh, oh, oh! Yes we need torches incase we run into any undead. I've alwasy wanted to sing that one song..."
"This Ghoul is on fire!
"This Ghoul is on fire!
"It can walk while its on fire!"
" 'Cause it's a Ghoul that's on fi ah!"
Xarol sits quietly having listened to this entire frenetic exchange. He shakes his head and announces "Fine, Fine, we have a new comrade, woo. Good to meet you. Now, I am off to bed."
"
Lilly remembered some stories the folks who visited the fair told about ghouls. Undead nasty things with sharp teeth.
Turning to Waglinde;
"Waglinde, is an undead nasty thing not better off not-ablaze, I don't appreciate such a thing trying to hold me like a teddybear."
