Author Topic: Augury Part I: New Beginnings (Read 147881 times)

phaedrusxy · « **Reply #140 on:** December 12, 2011, 08:56:18 PM »

A tall man with an emotionless face quickly stands up and sticks his head out of the door to see if anyone was chasing the three as they came barreling in. Not seeing anyone, he comes back to the table and bows before the newcomer "Greetings Lord. I am Thurston Howell. How can we assist you?"

Garryl · « **Reply #141 on:** December 12, 2011, 11:24:38 PM »

Sorrel

"Wait, what? Who? They, you?... What?"

Shiki · « **Reply #142 on:** December 13, 2011, 05:30:09 AM »

Snowy

The girl blinks two times, ignoring the "storm" that just entered in the tavern(?). Still holding firmly her map, she gets up to examine the newcomer from a bit closer, though still at polite reach. She says to herself: "Lord Fountains' son?"

((Knowledge (nobility and royalty) (1d20+7=8)

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Flay Crimsonwind · « **Reply #143 on:** December 13, 2011, 06:49:29 AM »

"And how angry are we talking here? Should we be worried or not?" Isaac jumped half out of his seat when the bolted in, and is now out of it with his pack and sword half-on.

skydragonknight · « **Reply #144 on:** December 13, 2011, 08:00:44 AM »

Kara

"Okay. This is getting crazy. You guys go first, then Isaac will cover what he found, then we'll cover what we found." she says. Standing up, she walks right up to the newcomer and stares straight up at him apparently unimpressed. "But first, why were you chasing my 'brother'?"

She stares at him with the school-teacher look, despite being much shorter than he was.

Garryl · « **Reply #145 on:** December 13, 2011, 11:09:59 AM »

Sorrel

Sorrel looks momentarily bewildered at the buzz of activity, then gives his head a quick shake.

"How many of you are there?" And what have I walked into?

"Your broth-. Oh. No, I wasn't chasing him. I was chasing that jerk of a book thief." Sorrel motions in Kyle's direction. "And I was about to just give it to him, anyways, to be a nice guy... Is he going to be alright?"

zook1shoe · « **Reply #146 on:** December 13, 2011, 04:35:31 PM »

Willow

Hides under a table, listening to the gasps and random half-orc noises

dna1 · « **Reply #147 on:** December 16, 2011, 05:58:20 PM »

BOOOOOOON

Mid drink, at the mention of Kyle being a 'jerk' and a 'book thief' Boon laugh's so hard he ends up spitting beer all over table. He cough's, giggles and chokes for a moment before regaining his composure.

He continues to watch Kara give the newcomer a hard time with childish glee

skydragonknight · « **Reply #148 on:** December 16, 2011, 10:01:08 PM »

Kara shakes her head. "Tsk. Tsk. Scaring poor Kyle senseless. Take a seat, Mr. Mountain while we get Kyle sorted out."

She walks over to Boon. "I think you've had enough of that, 'Brother'." she says, taking the half-empty drink from Boon's hand.

Moving to the unconscious Kyle she splashes the drink on his face. "WAKE UP, KYLE. IT'S STUDY TIME!"

DrHorrible · « **Reply #149 on:** December 18, 2011, 07:54:31 AM »

Kyle

Regaining consciousness, still agitated, Kyle jumps up and turns to Kara.

"Quick guys, I made a mess! I'm being chased, we must hide, now! I took a b-" then notices Sorrel and his nervous speech and gestures stop. "Oh..."

Flay Crimsonwind · « **Reply #150 on:** December 19, 2011, 02:10:59 AM »

Isaac tries to help Willow out from under the table, confused but firm. "Alright, Kyle, why did you steal a book? We found a useful book too... or rather, it might be. It's just some letters that look similar to the tablet. If we had more, we might be able to decode some of it. What was so important about this one?"

zook1shoe · « **Reply #151 on:** December 19, 2011, 02:36:38 AM »

Willow
Accepts the help out
unfortunately, I won't be able to help much with those books

DrHorrible · « **Reply #152 on:** December 19, 2011, 06:00:28 AM »

Kyle

Still winded, the young wizard takes a couple of steps away from Sorrel, then turns to Isaac. "Same reason. The symbols on the cover... They look like the ones that we found on the stone, so I thought the book might help us solve the mystery. Only problem was that we sneaked in the library without permission and Sorrel was onto us so I had to do something... I'm sorry" says finally turning to Sorrel.

skydragonknight · « **Reply #153 on:** December 19, 2011, 08:13:20 AM »

Kara

"Not bad." she said. "That might help us find the third one. We've already got a lead for the second."

"We found an associate of Khatyan's - you know, that not-so-dead guy. Khatyan was some religious scholar who discovered the stone in some temple. Temple was surrounded by dead animals that didn't stay dead. Something about a propecy, but the guy didn't know any details. What the guy did know was a cave he ran across a while back with a lot of dead animals around it..."

Shiki · « **Reply #154 on:** December 19, 2011, 09:05:28 AM »

Snowy

"So, what do we do with 'Sir', hum, Sorrel, was it? I'm sorry but we're in a hurry. Do you have any reason outside of that book to stick up with us?" says the now stressed girl. She thens proceeds to jump gracefully on a chair next to the nearest clean table to place and unroll a map she was holding all this time. She points out a mark on it and says "We're going there, as soon as possible, okay guys?"

Garryl · « **Reply #155 on:** December 21, 2011, 01:44:29 PM »

Sorrel

"Oh, no. You're not getting rid of me that easily. Whatever you're up to, it must be important for you to go through all this effort. I'm not leaving until I get the full story. And not just the simple version you tell people to get them to stop asking questions."

skydragonknight · « **Reply #156 on:** December 26, 2011, 09:17:54 AM »

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"Weren't you listening? The dead guy we ran across earlier near our home of Springley Downs had the stone" she points at the stone Boon is carrying "in this weird language - the same on your book- and tried to kill us as an undead thingy. He's some kind of scholar or something from some eastern country and was looking for another stone around here that's part of some prophecy that we're a bit iffy on the details about. You see, on the back of each stone is a map telling more or less where each one is.

"If we go to this one cave place on the map Snowy got from the trapper guy, we might find a second one and might have enough words to decipher the mumbo jumbo. Who knows? Maybe some collector will buy them. But would be fun to know what they say regardless."

zook1shoe · « **Reply #157 on:** December 26, 2011, 03:29:30 PM »

Willow
Thinking of the good memories of home
at least a cave would be much more comfy and peaceful, than this noisy, creaky old place

sirpercival · « **Reply #158 on:** December 28, 2011, 08:18:35 PM »

((Assuming Sorrel takes that info at face value...))

You all share and compare your information ((and are free to read spoilers)).

Both of the books that you found are by a dwarf named Gurdin, and both have his name written in the runic script on the front of the books (and nowhere else). One is a book on crafting wands, and the other is a book about crafting ritual incense.

The third group has Zim Widdle's map, and Snowy recognizes some of the landmarks drawn on it (it's a very good map). You're pretty darn sure that you can find the place.

At this point, you're all tired and hungry, so you eat some more of the Tiny Lancer's hearty halfling fare, and rest for the night, promising to get a good start in the morning. It occurs to some of you while lying in bed that the elders of Springley Downs may be looking for you... and it might be a good idea to leave town.

Morning dawns bright and clear, with a brisk wind snapping the pennants of the Keep. An auspicious day, it would seem.

((Where to next?))

phaedrusxy · « **Reply #159 on:** December 28, 2011, 09:31:53 PM »

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Author Topic: Augury Part I: New Beginnings (Read 147881 times)