The Reclamation of Zahvroma (Inactive)

Game Master Signore di Fortuna

As the group nears the town, Roshan spies six people emerging from below a ruined building.

Pointing out the figures he says, "Well, at least we know there are people here. Just not sure if they're good people, or bad people."

Rosa squints to try and see who's approaching. Unsure of who it is, Rosa stops and takes a defensive stance. Bringing her gun up, she holds it at the ready until the strangers can be identified as friend or foe.

Thorgr pushes down the barrel of Rosa's gun. "Let's not do that."

Jerrica wipes some dirt from her brow. "Either we go see who they are for ourselves or we go let Arista know."

Sienna squints for a moment before turning to Roshan. "No idea who'd be out here. I guess we should find out."

Rosa sighs, "I wasn't gonna shoot em', but not knowing who they are....I just don't feel comfortable leaving ourselves unprepared for a possible assault. I also don't like the idea of turning my back to strangers." Gently taking her gun back away from his fingers, she raises the barrel back up where she had it. At least if they proved to be hostile, she'd be prepared.

She looks to see how far they are from Arista's house. They weren't that far from her house, so she waits till the group of five strangers are about forty feet away. Not close enough to get in a brawl or make out details, but far enough away that she could raise her voice loud enough for Arista to hear her from her house.

Keeping her weapon level she calls out in a loud voice, "That's far enough. Who are you and what are you doing here?" Rosa asks loudly, squinting at the approaching group. She hoped they understood that she was only being cautious, and she supposed that if they were going to attack them, that they would have already done so, but she just didn't want to take that chance. Better safe than sorry. Rosa thinks to herself, as she waits for a response from the group of people approaching them.

I'm sorry, but after all the crap we've been through, I'm not gonna just walk up to people I don't know, or let them walk up on us without some kind of protection. It's nothing personal.

You didn't know Dagmarr when you, "walked up" to her.

Frostine groans and shakes her head while bringing her hand to her face, "Ohhh no."

*squints* That wasn't thed same. I was escorted there byh a God and I knew she wasn't a threat. I don't know that about these people. It's different.

*sighs* We've seen Sadhana before. At that restaurant in the common house that time Magestreia was staring at Sig. We just don't know her name, and can't see them well enough to recognize her yet. Please dontg do anything to get us killed. We'd be road kill compared to what they can do.

Shaking her head, Frostine steps in front of Rosa's gun. Putting her hands on her hips, she levels a look at the trigger happy gunslinger, "Put the gun down right now. They can tell us who they are without you pointing a weapon at them. Not knowing who they are, is exactly why pointing a weapon at them is a bad idea. We're all here together, and Arista isn't far away if there's trouble...but, we WILL NOT instigate it. Am I making myself clear?"

Rosa takes a step back without realizing it, "But..."

Frost appears on the ground around Frostine as she cocks her head edver so slightly to the side, "No buts, drop it...now."

Getting a pouty look on her face, Rosa lowers her gun. Sticking out her lower lip she says, "Fine, but if they kill us...I'm gonna haunt your spirit for the rest of eternity."

Frostine just sighs and turns around to face the approaching group, while looking in the direction of Arista's house to see if she heard the commotion that Rosa had made.

She wasn't really sure who these people were either, and they weren't really close enough for her to see them clearly....but something about the very tall one seemed somehow familiar.

Pssst....Sadhana. I know you're really busy at the moment, but please don't forget about the letter I gave you to give to my older sister for me. You know, the one that basically says, "Sorry I acted like such a Jackass in Lysse." Thank you so much, and may the odds forever be in your favor. Arista out.

Okay, found the letter. I'm gonna repost it here, so Henry can see what it says. It's a bit lengthy, but I never was good at saying things simply.

"Must be angry townsfolk," Sienna says to the group. "We killed the giant fire worm thing. No need to fear, good people."

Arista comes out of the house with a scowl on her face. She looks from Frostine and the others to the approaching group. Narrowing her eyes, she spreads her wings and walks between both parties. "Why are you here? I told Arista I didn't want to see her again and that sentiment extended to you lot as well."

"Good to see you too, evil...I mean chaotic-er Arista."

"Arista seems to recognize them," Thorgr says.

"We should support Arista in case things go poorly," Jerrica says, hand on her rapier.

Frostine gets a confused look on her face as she looks up at Arista, "Arista...but....you are Arista. I don't understand...." She gets quiet as she tries to figure out what's going on.

Rosa nods, "It looks like she's not to happy to see them."

Arista's eyes fall on Roshan, her ruby gaze piercing. "You are new to their group, eh? And poisoned, no less."

He nods, "Yes ma'am, I'm new to their group. There was this huge fire worm thing, it liked chewing on me." He says in way of explanation.

Seeing the expression on the stern looking woman's face, Roshan gulps and takes a step back. He might not find help here afterall, and then what? He could only delay the poison for so long. If he didn't find some help soon, he would surely die....but it was his choice to join them, to look for answers about what happened to his family, and it was his own fault that he got chewed on. He shouldn't have gotten so close to such a dangerous creature.

Not wanting to give Arista the wrong idea, and attempting to diffuse some of the hostility from the situation, Roshan feels the need to explain his situation a little better.

Looking up at Arista he says, "I'm sorry that our coming here has upset you. I just...I thought you should know that I joined them willingly. No one forced me to, and I wanted to find out more about my family, and traveling with them seemed safer than wandering about by myself. A fact proven when they kept me from wandering around in a place with vengeful spirits. Getting poisoned wasn't their fault either, I thought I could handle getting close the colossal beast.....but, I only succeeded in being it's chew toy." He says with a shrug, "Live and learn I guess. Well....that is if I can find someone capable of removing this poison. I...was able to delay it, but I'm unable to do much more than that, and I can't delay it forever."

Sighing he gives her an imploring look, "Please do not be too angry with them. I'm sure they wouldn't have come here and disturbed you unless they thought it was really important. At least give them the opportunity to tell you why they came, and what they need. Please? I mean, it couldn't do any harm to at least listen....right?" Roshan visibly flinched as if expecting to be hit. He just really hoped that she would understand what he was trying to say, and that they weren't there to cause her harm, or upset her on purpose.

I'll roll a diplomacy check if you want me to. I just didn't know if it was necessary or not. I didn't know if Arista was actually considered a "hostile" or whatever.

"Oh, we know those two," Thorgr says, pointing at Celia and Sadhana. "We saw them back at that one town...what was it called? Valwall? Halfwick?"

"Valwick."

Sienna sighs at Arista. "Stop scaring Roshan."

Arista snaps her fingers at the sorceress. "I don't come to your home and tell you what to do. If I frighten the boy, then that's his issue, not mine."

She steps towards Roshan. "You are very fortunate to come here because I always have a spell handy for situations like these."

Her hand glows with a bronze light and she touches Roshan's chest, drawing the poison out of him.

Roshan looks from Sienna to Arista, "I'm not sscared, just trying to explain things really. There's no need for anyone to get upset...right?"

Feeling much better after having the poison removed from his body, he gives Arista a polite bow. Standing up he looks at her, "Thank you very much for getting rid of that foul creatures poison. Left untreated, it would have proved very detrimental to my health. Is there anything I can say or do to convince you to at least let them tell you what they're looking for?"

A look of remembrance comes to her young face, "Oohhh yeah, it was that lovely town with all those lovely people and delicious food. Hey, isn't that where your friends were Jerrica?"

Jerrica nods. "Derika and Vishanti, yeah."

"I'll listen to a good enough reason."

I don't think any of you actually told me what it was you were looking for, or why we came here, other than we saw a town in the distance after fighting that thing. I also don't know anything about Arista's letter to this Arista, so other than telling her my own reasons for being here....I don't think I'll be much help.

Looking up at the fierce looking woman he says, "I can only speak for myself on this matter, as I know not their reasoning for coming here...other than it's the first sign of life we saw after fighting with that thing. I was travelling around before they found me, searching for answers to what happened to my family a long time ago. My great great grandfather was Tobias Sparrowhawke, and it was information about him and what happened so many years ago that I was looking for." He kind of shrugs, "That's about it for me...my story really isn't that interesting."

Arista taps a finger to her chin. "Sparrowhawke...sounds familiar."

Getting a curious expression on his face he looks up at Arista, "Really? If you'll pardon me for saying so, you don't seem nearly old enough to know anything about my great great grandfather. I mean...I guess stories could have spread. We were at the ruined first Temple of Iomdae before making our way here. I found some clues there about Lt. Commander Tobias Sparrowhawke and what had been going on there. Apparently they were attacked and overrun by orcs in some united war, and he was supposed to escort a group of civilians and non essential personal to the neighboring town, by the way of an underground tunnel."

He pauses for a moment as if in deep thought before continuing, "Come to think of it, I seem to recall that Ms. Sienna told me they were looking for some item to help them combat some great evil called Cthulhu or something like that. Nearly getting eaten by that enormous fire worm thingy kinda rattled me a little bit, so I can't remember exactly everything they told me."

Looking back at Sadhana and the others, "Was there anything else you wanted to say, or something that I missed or forgot about?"

I'll wait for Sadhana, Cyna and/or Celia to chime in before moving this forward.

Almost caught up. Posting in a few hours

Yeah, sorry it got kinda crazy with all the questions and back and forth. My bad. *sad face*

Sādhanā?

I was just wondering if Rhy had any other questions for Maera before coming to bed?

Frostine shares a look with Rosa before stepping up to stand next to Arista. Even though she didn't really understand everything that was going on, she felt like she needed to show Arista that she had their support.

Rosa gives Frostine the slightest nod of her head before taking up a position on the opposite side of Arista as Frostine so that they were flanking her. Even if they didn't actually do anything, it was more of a show of support than anything.

"Yes actually," Sadhana says, she moving her Shield to retrieve the letter from her pack. " Arista...our Arista, wanted me to give you this." she says handing over the letter.

Frostine gets a very confused look on her young face, "Are....are there two Arista's?"

Arista addresses Frostine with only a nod before she opens the letter. A look of mild amusement crosses her face as she reads. Once finished, she folds the letter and tucks it a pocket. "Fine...let's go inside and we'll talk."

Sienna takes Cyna's arm. "Arista must've written a pretty good letter."