Sadly starting to look that way. I'd still be interested in finding someone to take over but I know better than to volunteer myself. I'm still happy to pick up again when/if Norv makes it back of course.
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Understandable Callie, I don't want to drive anyone away, and I agree with giving a bit more time for Norv to come back. It wouldn't hurt to ask around in other games we're in to see if we can get any prospects for a replacement GM to get a slight headstart on it though.
Yeah, I already am running a game over on RPOL and that's about my limit when it comes to running them unfortunately. If we want to run a frsh one it might not be as difficult to find a GM willing to start a game fresh as it would be one part way through.
It's up to all of you, I'm realistically good whatever, and I do have other character concepts still stockpiled I'd like to try out.
It concerns me Norv isn still missing as well. I would like to see this campagin keep going myself as it's been enjoyable so far and I have fun with this character. I don't want to see you have to quite playing to run it for us if Norv doesn't return but it's far easier to get someone to step up and become GM in the game and recruit a new player than hunt for a replacement GM. I like Callie and think she's a fun foil to Lantressa, particularly since they don't entirely get along. Heck Tressa still hasn't realized you stole all her money on entrance to the game.
As the fight suddenly began Lantressa saw the lights flood into the hallway and cursed in annoyance. She glared at the stupid fiend and chanted, gestured, and then a wave of magic surged from her to wash over the monstrosity and slow her reactions.
"Thanks," Lantressa said as she took the potion and swallowed it. She put the empty bottle in her pack and then continued, "True, I hear much, but knowledge on fiendish creatures rarely comes up up in pillow talk and the Wound was all demons and no one wanted to speak of them when they came to me, I was a distraction, someone to keep their minds off of the horrors they encountered."
Lantressa was not pleased with what she heard about what was ahead. It was quite worrisome that they'd fight something else vicious after what they had just been through but she figured that it was a necessity. "Yes," she said to Callie, "I am still somewhat hurt, but I don't know that we need to use something as strong as that wand to deal with it right now."
As Callie asked Tressa if she knew whether Silver would help against the thing or not she shook her head and said, "You already said it Callie, I am a prostitute, most of my knowledge revolves around knowing who my customers are and a little bit of magical knowledge. Outside of that I just sing, dance, and...well you know the rest."
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Tressa smile in amusement, "Well of course I'm forward, it's part of the job." She reached out to lay a hand against Meliya's breast, "and I can be as demanding or submissive as you wish." She backed away then and said, "but you are right, first things first." With that she kept one eye on Meliya and the other watched what happened with Vencarlo.
As they moved forward Lantressa pulled potion from her pack and downed it then pulled out a second. She didn't want to be down here and injured more than necessary.
Lantressa looked Meliyah over carefully and considered the woman before she finally said, "You know you are really quite attractive in either form Meliyah," she paused a brief moment before continuing, "I had made a bargain with Glorio, I'd like to make the same offer to you. I've been looking for a sponsor to help me sell my services as a courtesan to those in higher positions in the city than I can reach on my own. If you would be willing to sponsor me, promote my abilities to them, I'd be willing to provide those same services to you, free of charge of course, and provide any information I come across that you might be interested in during the course of my work." She gave the foxy woman an inviting smile, "Of course you could sample what I can offer before you make a decision."
Lantressa saw Sivit take a lethal blow and pulled her spell back before it was too late. She was quite pleased that the fight went as well as it did and nearly waved a hand to dismiss the grease. She remembered the rune though and thought better of it leaving the puddle in place. She carefully stepped around it and joined up with the others. "Yes, I think pushing on a little further would be good before we rest. I wouldn't be surprised if Orsini needs to rest a bit before we leave again anyway."
Lantressa began to weave a spell once more, her movements and words slower and slower with each repetition. When she was done she released the spell at the dark sphinx.
Lantressa cried out in pain as the energy hit her. The pain was excruciating and left her feeling sick as she tried to shake off the spells effects but she didn't let that stop her from fighting. Lantressa chanted and gestured and conjured a large patch of grease over the rune. It would hinder them and the sphinx but it should keep the rune covered up for now.
As they made their way through the rooms and stumbled on the dark sphinx Lantressa felt fear. The thing was huge and this was a very bad place to have to fight her. Knowing she needed to do what she could Tressa quickly casta spell and a pall of glittering dust fell all over the sphinx.
Lantressa considered Meliya's suggestion and then nodded her agreement with the others. "I agree, we'd best take longer and stay together. If this Sivit ambushes any one of us it will go very badly."
I'll be going to Origins this coming week so after I leave for work on Tuesday posting will be sparse/non-existent until I get back on Sunday. Please bot me as needed.
Lantressa looked down at the ring as it was mentioned and sighed in annoyance. She really liked the ring but it seemed everyone was saying the same thing. With a sigh she slipped it off, wrapped it tightly in some cloth, and dropped it into her pack. "There, if he is trying to watch us through it all he'll see now is the inside of the cloth and the backpack and it should muffle sounds so he can't hear much." Lantressa looked back to Meliya, "Your words make sense and the fact that you have both revealed your true self and told us the unblemished truth about whether we could trust anything you say as far as guarantees of not turning against us makes me willing to help you. It seems you have as much to lose as we do if you turn on us, at least while your brother lives. I'm in agreement that we should help you."
Lantressa was surprised at what it turned out that Meliya actually was. She had thought the woman was attractive before but this new form was maybe more so. Or it could just be that Lantressa was more than a bit twisted in her tastes due to her dark side. Still she had requested this and it went a long way to make her willing to change sides. Lantressa gave the foxy woman a smile as she looked the rakshasa over and said, "My my, my, aren't you the lovely one Meliya?" Shaking her head slightly to gather her wits at this turn of events and shove down her dark side Lantressa said, "While what you are should mean I trust you less the fact you were willing to show us this makes me willing to accept your offer if the others agree." She cocked her head to one side, "Of course my friend," she gestured at Matoska, "brings up a good point, there must be some trust you won't turn on us when this is over with and you do have ample reason not to let us get away." She considered a moment and then said, "Is there anything you would swear on, that would be binding to you, to relax their," she gestured to her companions, "concerns?"
Happily we got our water working again while I was at work yesterday. Ah the joys of hot and cold running water!
Lantressa was quite startled by the chain of events and information that they received. It seemed that this Vencarlo was actually a woman and a shapeshifter and even more that implied that their "employer" was too. Their method was strange as well, not the usual magic she thought, it wouldn't last that long, but more of a true change. She knew there were beings that could do this but she didn't know much or anything really beyond that. Lantressa noticed the ups and downs of the conversation and sensed that it might be going a different way than Meliya intended. Lantressa found no particular deceit in what the woman wanted, and she was more than a little attractive which tickled her darker nature as much as the task that was asked of them. While committing fratricide seemed extreme she thought that at the least letting the two weaken each other in the fighting would make the survivor easier to deal with if it came to that. Lantressa gave the woman a curious look and said, "Obviously you are not what you appear, that shape change was far too smooth. You ask us to trust you about what you want but still could be hiding who or what you truly are." Lantressa slipped through the group to stand before Meliya and said, "Why don't you show us the real, as a sign of goodwill?" She reached out with one hand, palm up and waited to see what would happen next.
We just got power back a little bit ago so i can finally get started catching up on games. Sadly I have multiple games with 15+posts to go through and not enough time to get them caught up in due to work tomorrow. Sadly we still can't take a shower as our well pump conked out on us. Good thing my Sister's in-laws live nearby and we get along with them!
So, we watched a tornado form on Monday which promptly side swiped our house and tore through the area dropping trees all over the place. We've been without power since Monday evening and hope to have it back sometime today, fortunately our house came through unscathed. This has caused significant issues with posting and if it doesn't come back on tonight it will be fri/sat before I can get caught up on posting. If those of you I play in other games with me can pass it along I would appreciate it in case I miss a few.
Lantressa ceased attacking when Teodor started speaking. She was willing to let it talk rather than outright kill it. She was on her guard, though, ready for a return to hostilities.
Lantressa cursed when her spell failed to take effect, though she somehow felt that it wasn't resisted, and the only thing she could come up with was that this fake had some kind of resistance to magic. She called out as she moved forward, "It has a resistance to magical spells!" Then she promptly began to cast a spell and a quintet of energy bolts shot out at the man.
Lantressa managed to dodge the worst of the electrical blast and what little did hit her was mostly negated due to her natural resistance to such things. She wasn't pleased at this turn of events but it could have been far worse. She turned her gaze to the false Vencarlo as she chanted and gestured and then said, "So a woman died and got brought before Pharasma and her life was so balanced they didn't know what to do with her. She was given her choice of destination and she chose to go to the Abyss. Phasrasma looks at her and asked, 'Why would you want to go there? It's a terrible place!' The girl looks at her and says, 'but didn't you know? Demons are a girl's best friend!'."
Lantressa gave a surprised cry at the appearance of Vencarlo that turned into a sigh of relief as he spoke to them and identified himself. She thought this might be easier than expected until the others began to demand to know who he was and gave a compelling reason why. She was now on her guard and ready for a fight if it turned out one was in the offing.
Lantressa described what she saw with each rotation of the room to Korriban since he couldn't see it for himself. There wasn't much to it, just clear or murky water but it was still good to know. She felt a great wash of relief to see Callie and Teodor made it back safely after the last rotation of the rooms.
Lantressa was rather surprised when the wall spun around and she simply stared at it in surprise. After a moment she said, "Huh, that was unexpected." She glanced at Matoska when he whispered to her and the glance turned into an annoyed glare but she didn't deign respond to his words. Didn't they realize it didn't matter if they had the ring or not? If Lord Arkona wanted to spy on them they were in his sanctum and she was certain he knew this place well enough to scry on them if we wished even without the ring. After all he scryed on them in the room earlier without it so why would having it make it any easier on him? Lantressa saw Korriban move up to the wall and pound on it and felt she felt sorry for him. There was nothing they could do just then so she stepped forward to reach out and place a hand on his shoulder and pull him back as she said, "There is nothing we can do but wait just now, we can only hope they come back safe on their own."
Seeing as everyone else seemed to hesitate Lantressa sighed in annoyance and stepped up to the doors. She looked for a handle of some kind but baring that simply pushed the doors opened and stepped just inside the room. With the doors opened she stepped inside and said imperiously, "The Master of this household has sent us to retrieve a victim from this labyrinth." She gave any living creatures she saw in the room a challenging look, "Who here will gainsay his chosen envoys?"
With the fighting over Lantressa looked at Korriban in concern. Whatever he had inhaled was nasty and seemed to be lingering. She was just relieved that Teo could do something to help him. While he did she gazed at what she could see of the area and when they were all ready proceeded to explore the labyrinth. As they continued forward Lantressa felt herself on edge, particularly once the strange prints were found. What in the world would be that big, walk on two legs, and leave cat prints?! She wasn't sure she wanted to know. When they found the "craft" room Lantressa was surprised. She had never expected to see such a thing down here, the fact that it held things that might be worth selling was bot as and not as surprising. Still she felt relief that they left them be, they had been given permission to be down here and it was better to not abuse that permission. The discovery of the secret door was surprising, and potentially helpful, and so she followed along while keeping a watchful eye out for trouble. The discovery of the tiger doors made the tiefling trollop very nervous. Lantressa didn't like the idea of large cats being down, even more so if they were tigers. She was just relieved that the doors didn't appear to be trapped and prepared herself to go through them.
Lantressa growled at the two floating skeletons and called out, "Hey bone bags! I didn't tell you to come out of the pit yet!" With that she sent another bead of fire out that exploded amidst the pair of floating skellies above her pit.
I'll get a post up after work this evening. I can't see the map at work right now.
Knowing there was another invisible creature around Tressa had no idea where it exactly was so she decided to do something about the ones still in the pit. She chanted again and cast out another little bed of fire that streaked out and then dropped down into the hole far enough that when it exploded it would catch the creatures inside.
Lantressa saw the approaching undead and knew they needed to be slowed down somehow. Fortunately she had just the spell for that. She moved closer then chanted and gestured while one hand dipped to her pouch of components and pulled out a tiny shovel before releasing her spell not on the undead but the ground beneath them.
Lantressa was uneasy as they entered the labyrinth. The place was unpleasant, damp and smelling of fungus, and oddly pretty. The way the lichen and fungi were sculpted was obviously not natural but it seemed someone or something tried to make it look nicer. It meant the place might not be totally bad. Still Tressa kept an eye out for trouble as she didn't trust the place at all.
Mmmm, Korri and Callie are making me into a Tressa Sandwich! It seems like a good plan to me.
Lantressa cast a spell to provide herself more protection against whatever they ran into down there and said, "because I am ready."
Lantressa was pleased with the way things were turning out, mostly, and was almost sorry to see Glorio leave. As he slipped out the doors she blew him a kiss and said, "Later handsome." Tturning to the others Lantressa arched one eyebrow and said, "Are we ready?"
See, there is no "Demon Dagger" since we have a perfectly viable explanation right there.
Lantressa was a bit disappointed about Lord Arkona's lack of reaction to her kiss but she didn't let it show. She had no further questions about the Labyrinth she let the others ask any that came to mind. She had stepped back when Glorio rose but stayed near him, keeping an acceptable social distance and waited until the questions were finished. When the others were finished with their immediate questions Lantressa asked before they left the room, "About the other business I spoke of M'lord." She smiled at him as enticingly as she could, "Would the proposal be interesting enough to you to pursue," she paused a second, "Assuming we come back alive?"
Lounge: Lantressa's face was understanding as she said, "Look at me, do you really think a past association with fiends would bother me? I'm a abyssal spawned tiefling so I too have connections with creatures of the lower planes. I won't judge you for it." She rose and did something more than a bit forward and moved up close to Lord Arkona. She leaned in close and said quietly to him, "Thank you for your honesty M'lord." Then she leaned in and kissed his lips gently.
Lantressa caught what Lord Arkona said, and what he didn't, and knew they needed to know more. "You said no mortal creatures? What about immortal ones, other than undead?" She leaned forward then and gave Lord Arkona a good view of her assets as she asked with a sensual pout, "Or don't you want us to succeed?"
Lantressa slid the ring she'd been given on her finger and looked at it. It was very ice and she suspected magical, but she would worry about it's properties later. She looked at Lord Arkona and gave the man a smile as she asked, "What kinds of dangers lurk down there M'lord? I'm assuming traps of some kind but are there creatures as well?"
In the Lounge: Lantressa was relieved at Lord Arkona's reaction to the news and when he took out the ring her first thought was to turn him down but she suppressed that and said, "Thank you M'lord, I will make sure it is both kept safe and used well,." It seemed getting caught and being honest with the man had been the right decision after all. As Lord Arkona changed to the subject of the Seneschal Lantressa listened as he explained the problem. She remembered Korri mentioning this place last night as they discussed their plans and hearing that the Seneschal and Vencarlo were both there was very concerning. "I have heard of this Vivified Labyrinth before Lord Arkona but I'm afraid I know nothing more than the name and a vague purpose. How is it that getting them back out is a problem?"
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