"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! LADIES AN' GENTLEMEN!"
"STRIX WELCOMES YOU TO THE PACT WORLDS THEATRE!"
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{GRP} Perhaps because they were trying to make it neat and mystical?
{GRP} It may be an 'intangible' that you just 'know' things in your gut or something? They've figured how to model darkvision and language, so I'm sure they figured something out to give you a hint? Maybe you're more centered or something? "Anyone else feeling a little bit cramped?"
The strix will be a bit fidgety as she gets into tighter and tighter spots, and relaxes a bit at the more open ones. "See 'em. Traps? {GRP}That's what THAT is? I thought it was night-vision or something. Neat. Hope I'm not pointing out where my location is, though.
"Don't make me come down and fly you up. You won't like it." The winged humanoid's comment is half-threat, half-joke, and it may be hard to tell if Ahzuma is being serious.
"*grunt* As if." The Strix launches herself skywards and attempts to get to the window offered without smashing into the tower. If she's able to do that, then she'll hook the rope into place and head on back down.
{GRP} Okay, someone toss me a rope, and I'll fly up there and see what's what about getting it tied down. Hopefully there's no AA emplacements or anything silly like that. Ahzuma will start stretching her wings and hopping on her feet a little bit, preparing to take off as soon as someone else in the party gives her the rope she requested.
"Fine, fine, we'll do the job. It beats not being able to do anything by far." {GRP} Someone PLEASE gussy that up and talk to the local woman and make it good, because I can't seem to talk without pushing buttons and being like a customer?
"Why would he? Not from around here, right?" Despite the almost barked tones, Ahzuma is forcing herself to be at least a bit 'nicer', trying not to pick a fight with the locals. {GRP}grrrrrrrrrr
{GRP} I can't seem to find the 'Report a Bug' feature. Can any of you? This is a bit disturbing.
{GRP}Hey, watch the language, okay? It's probably just a bug. Document it, move on. Ahzuma tries to calm down and was about to say something else witty and intelligent but stops when the first sound that emanates from her is the start of a grumble. Her wings slump a little bit and she looks a bit cross-eyed for a moment before recovering. {GRP} *sighs*
Well, that is what Ahzuma thinks to say. She wasn't expecting the rather harsh implications of the Charisma dumping she did, though. What actually comes out is.. a lot worse. "Look, 'Lady', we're here trying to get to the bottom of whatever situation caused that noisy collapse before, and we're here between jobs after our last employer was a complete idiot. Didn't know we were supposed to touch base with you when we entered in town, whups?" As the words tumble out of her mouth and she hears what she's saying she takes on a bit of a mortified look and kind of takes a few steps back, looking for another party member to hide behind. I can't believe I just said that.
"Do we have... yes... Tsugumi, you're probably the best bet if the wizard's human. If he's got the door trapped to non-humans, I'm not a good choice, and neither is Ixen or Galahot. Just a thought?"
"You mean you've never seen 'Blazing Saddles'? Eh. Classic. You'll have to watch it sometime after we're done with this beta-testing." The strix will follow along after Ixen.
"So, are we going to do the Candygram for Mungo approach or actually, I dunno, be cool about it? I vote for being cool and all! Because a really pissed off wizard can make it rain in your sever room." Ahzuma will land and rejoin the party and hopefully head to knock on the key NPC's door to trigger the quest chain, but won't take the glory from anyone else wanting to do it.
{Party}"Laaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggg!" Ahzuma assumes it's lag, at any rate. She *hopes* it's just lag and not something worse, like a disconnect.
From her aerial vantage point, Ahzuma looks for any injured folks that might need help. For the moment, she's not pulled her bow out, though the idea of plinking a couple of arrows to live up to the 'Strix mystique' is an entertaining thought. Thankfully, she played in Society play, and one of the rules there is 'don't be a jerk', so she refrains from that for now.
The winged humanoid flies a little bit higher, catching a little bit of a breeze as she pushes to get a better vantage point Witch Tower is it, anyways? is the rather tongue-in-cheek thought running through her head as she tries to avoid making too much of a spectacle of herself while en route.
"Huh. They've even apparently got plate tectonic action scripted. Should check it out to see how accurate it is, even." She grabs the remainder of Galahot's veggies, and makes her way outside, taking two steps and launching herself airborne to get a 'bird's eye' view of any potential devastation...
"That'd actually be kind of handy but let's leave that until we get to that point? I mean, it's not like we're going to take your horse into a dungeon, right? And just because I have the skill doesn't mean it doesn't scare me a bit." The strix considers as she totally *yoinks* some of Galahot's veggies. "Either that, or it'll come to us. What are you looking for?"
The strix looks at her armor, the sickle on her hip, and the bow plus arrows she's got, then back to Galahot. "Weight and clumsiness actually. That, and I was trying to go with the idea that perhaps somewhere in my past I'd scavenged it from a human farmer's tools somewhere. It's hard to fly with a scythe -- while it looks cool and while it murders when it crits... I'd be more worried about getting it caught in a wing or something." The answer is both mechanically sound and fitting to the description. "Nothing saying I wouldn't use one if I ran across one of the ground, but I'd have to drop it to get airborne. I'm on a really tight flight budget... can't wait to get lighter armor and gear, actually."
Ahzuma glances over at Ixen.
She glances over at Danfarth. "Well, we look like we've got a party here, so I'm kind of keen to see how it plays out? First time I haven't been b!*#$ed at for taking a sub-optimal melee weapon, which is really refreshing." When her one word is censored she sort of blinks a few times, making a confused face before shaking her head and laughing. "Swearing filter: Needs to be able to be toggled." She makes that comment to the air, as if hoping that gets logged somewhere. "I'm much bigger on the roleplay, to be honest. Getting away from work and y'know, just living in a different world and all? Yeah. I'm really glad that the interface is so immersive, it makes so many things a lot easier to do. Getting the first day in game or so down was a bit of a nightmare, but... it's not that bad now. Beating the content is part of the deal, the other part is having fun and being with friends and all."
"I'd rather not PvP, thanks. I mean, we're supposed to be Beta-testing, but at the same time I really don't like that method of play. Enough dangers in a given world and all? And Dan? They DID have paladin in the options? Or didn't you get that one? And you played WoW? What race/class?" The strix picks up her haunch of meat and gnaws on it a bit more, smacking her lips a few times before tossing the bone to the side and grabbing another leg. "Hmm. Burnt flesh. Nom nom." She gives a bit of a smirk.
The caravan's 'night guard' made her way into the tavern, sniffing the air a bit at the aromatic smells of the offered food while she moved to the edge of the room, folding her wings down and perching on a stool as she gnawed ferociously at a leg of some animal. After a few moments of growly-stomach toll being paid, she glances up, gives a small belch as she washes down the meat with the local beverage of choice. With only the party really knowing about her, not too many people (read: NPCS) had been able to ask questions of the strix. "Meat's a bit burnt. Wonder if maybe that's the race tastes coming into play, or just the way it's made. Anyways, the flying is awesome so far, pretty intuitive even. Enough stealth options to make any rogue eat their heart out, but at the same time a bit beefier with whatever a 'slayer' is." Ahzuma pauses for a second. "I think the most disturbing thing so far has been how... graphic it has been when some of our attackers have bit it." She makes a bit of a face. "Could have done without *that* bit of realism after that arrow in the neck of that one bandit..." She drifts off a bit and puts her shaking to use by nibbling on the leg a bit more. "Also curious how they got the balancing figured out. I mean, my race isn't all that common but they were able to have code for it... that's gotta mean something, right?" She glances to make sure any NPCs are out of earshot -- it wouldn't help for any GMs listening, but better to be at least somewhat immersive even in Beta. "About the only design feature I've had to put a bug report in on is my vest hanging up a bit uncomfortably, but that could just be explained away as trying to fit 'human' clothing on the frame. Overall, though, I'm really enjoying this so far?" There's a bit more musing as she considers. "Also hope there's a chance to respec somewhere along the way. I went heavy on the hp, but could probably back off of that to get more and faster shooting. OOOH! IXEN! We could totally be a spec ops pair! I'm in yer base, killin yer dudes!" She laughs a bit at that.
Having seen RL interfere with some folks and them having to leave in other threads, would it be possible to keep the 'runners-up' on the 'short list' in case we need to replace someone? Just a thought, so folks who spent time on this may still have something to show for it? |