Session Six: The Return of the Old Ones...?
[2024/11/08 16:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me cracks knuckles, opens files and stuff
[2024/11/08 16:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hmm, no music, but, we'll get by
[2024/11/08 16:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, last time: I think you all got back to the cart to be serenaded by a chorus of birds who flew away
[2024/11/08 16:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: and Dahlia got pelted with acorns for rudeness
[2024/11/08 16:40] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Birds and a skunk and some squirrels
[2024/11/08 16:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: and.... Oh, Mecha got an eyeful and faceplanted on a unfortunately placed tree root
[2024/11/08 16:41] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben is mostly just watching her step and trying not to offend.
[2024/11/08 16:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: and with that recap out of the way... GGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGSSSSSSSSSSS Adventurers! Other players get to dodge boulders hurled by mighty giants, you get pelted with nuts by forest flauna.
[2024/11/08 16:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: Probably wise.
[2024/11/08 16:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: So, who's going to do what?
[2024/11/08 16:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra (as the birds scatter): "This is a most bizarre dar."
[2024/11/08 16:43] Mecha (alicia.frakture): "You can say that again.Can we just try to leave this place?"
[2024/11/08 16:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: Porphorin (points): "This one thinks there might be a problem."
[2024/11/08 16:44] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me flies up close to where the big people are talking, "Leaving, moving along, getting away from the rude squirrels and their obviously hidden leader sounds like a wonderful idea!"
[2024/11/08 16:44] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "What sort of problem?"
[2024/11/08 16:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: If you look back, the trail we came by has vanished. It's as if you reversed the horse and cart down a long trail that has no end. The trail we passed is gone, there's just trees, trees, and more trees.
[2024/11/08 16:45] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me "A problem, that does not sound good...."
[2024/11/08 16:46] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "So the trees are moving...."
[2024/11/08 16:47] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Considering the stuff we have seen. how can we be sure it isn't some big illusion?
[2024/11/08 16:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Maybe we should be too, following Gordelphus's divine action seems like a good idea."
[2024/11/08 16:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: It looks pretty real.
[2024/11/08 16:48] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me listened, looked to her companions as they spoke of trees being a problem, "But if the trees are moving with us, are they smart trees like Ents? Big huggable wonderful happy Ents, or ewww an illusion, a fake tree ?"
[2024/11/08 16:48] Mecha (alicia.frakture): How do we know the difference?
[2024/11/08 16:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: Who are you asking?
[2024/11/08 16:49] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "trying to climb them. An Ent would throw you for it."
[2024/11/08 16:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Maybe it's best not to meddle with things best left unmeddled with."
[2024/11/08 16:50] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me looks at the trees nearest and rubs her chin looking as if in thought, "Yes Ents are really strong and smart and sometimes even nice."
[2024/11/08 16:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: Leesha?
[2024/11/08 16:52] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Well we can either check or keep moving. I say keep moving and keep an eye on the tress to see one way or the other
[2024/11/08 16:52] Mecha (alicia.frakture): But there would still be a trail between where the trees moved
[2024/11/08 16:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Aye, let's get out of this place."
[2024/11/08 16:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: so..... moving on? Or?
[2024/11/08 16:53] Mecha (alicia.frakture): /me nods
[2024/11/08 16:53] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me glides along between the trees searching for any kind of trail and even stops to poke a tree gently and see if its real or not, but gently not in a mean way
[2024/11/08 16:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay, we get a move on... it's an hour or two past sun up when you spot something by the trail....
[2024/11/08 16:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dahlia pokes a tree. It's a larch tree, or, maybe, an oak tree. It doesn't seem inclined to do anything.
[2024/11/08 16:55] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: what do we spot?
[2024/11/08 16:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: As for the thing you find... it's like a hoop of branches, with a vaguely manlike figure inside, limbs stretched out to the hoop. There doesn't seem quite enough to have made the head. A nearby sign reads "Beware the Which!"
[2024/11/08 16:58] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha just pauses and looks
[2024/11/08 16:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's not something you see everyday, certainly.
[2024/11/08 16:58] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me reading the sign and seeing the spelling of which and looks confused, "What's a which? Iv'e heard of a witch and even a ditch but not sure what they mean by which?", looking around then, before speaking directly towards her companions now, "So this place is getting stranger, I like it", smiles and flies up high to get a better look around
[2024/11/08 16:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Evil. Dragons, which... er... witches... and moving trees. There's something evil here, mark my words!"
[2024/11/08 16:59] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "The Which? with an h?"
[2024/11/08 17:00] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Can I suggest we don't mess with the circle thing
[2024/11/08 17:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "I think that is wise."
[2024/11/08 17:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: Moving on? Or, messing with the circle thing?
[2024/11/08 17:01] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Moving on but being extra careful
[2024/11/08 17:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: Another hour rattling along the trail and....
[2024/11/08 17:02] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me flying back down slowly keeping up with the group and looking around for anything interesting or shiny or both
[2024/11/08 17:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: The party encounters a split in the trail; LEFT with a signpost "Evile Wizad Malavara Nitewhisperer" and RIGHT with "Evile Dragone Sylvanthrax the Cursd Wispers."
[2024/11/08 17:03] Mecha (alicia.frakture): So what do you all think?
[2024/11/08 17:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "....so, do we want to face a wizard or a dragon...?"
[2024/11/08 17:04] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): i think evil wizards are scary and usually have scary stuffs all around in their scary towers....but evil dragons might actually talk and we could learn something from them maybe possibly, but I don't know really ...
[2024/11/08 17:04] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "I'm thinking we were supposed to see what the Which was about.... think.... hmmm."
[2024/11/08 17:04] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Who's putting these signs up?"
[2024/11/08 17:05] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me examines the signs closely
[2024/11/08 17:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "I think the signmaker is the least of our concerns."
[2024/11/08 17:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: The signs are on large wooden boards, with dark paint, reasonably neatly written capital letters
[2024/11/08 17:07] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha sighs." All right I'm not making a solid decision before hearing from everyone. What do you think is a better idea
[2024/11/08 17:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "We didn't do too badly with that other dragon."
[2024/11/08 17:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Valyra: "This is an insane dar, of all the Prime, I had to wind up here?"
[2024/11/08 17:09] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Only if you take the writing of the signs literally, Katana."
[2024/11/08 17:09] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "I think we're being messed with. This is the acorns all over again."
[2024/11/08 17:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Is there any other way?"
[2024/11/08 17:10] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Agreed. Thinking about it the wizard might be the way to go. Starting to think the magic of the area might be from them.
[2024/11/08 17:11] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Good plan."
[2024/11/08 17:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: So, down the wizard path?
[2024/11/08 17:11] Mecha (alicia.frakture): /me nods
[2024/11/08 17:11] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me "Big people plan sounds ok, wizard might not really be evil after all."
[2024/11/08 17:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay... along the trail.... and after ten minutes....
[2024/11/08 17:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: ....another sign!
[2024/11/08 17:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: "The Wizad is Very Evile and Crule."
[2024/11/08 17:13] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me looks around quietly for any sign of toadstools or hedge archways or anything that might look like any of her people might be in the forest
[2024/11/08 17:13] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Ah, but what sort of Crule? Like the pastry?"
[2024/11/08 17:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: Stopping to examine the sign/area or moving on?
[2024/11/08 17:14] Mecha (alicia.frakture): There's crule and theres Cruller, wonder which one they are
[2024/11/08 17:14] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): yes taking a moment to examine all
[2024/11/08 17:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: It looks like the other signs. Wooden board, with dark paint, capital letters, reasonably well written. Or painted.
[2024/11/08 17:16] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me stops searching and lands in the wagon to keep up
[2024/11/08 17:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: Moving on?
[2024/11/08 17:16] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Leesha looks behind them to see if the trail is gone
[2024/11/08 17:16] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: proceeding towards the Cruller Wizard
[2024/11/08 17:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: The trail is still there.
[2024/11/08 17:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: Moving on... another ten minutes and....
[2024/11/08 17:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: Another sign! "You will probabli dye if you go further."
[2024/11/08 17:17] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me giggles at the writing on the sign as they pass by
[2024/11/08 17:18] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Keep moving
[2024/11/08 17:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Only probably?"
[2024/11/08 17:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: On we go.... and....
[2024/11/08 17:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: sign #3: "Serlysly, you will dye."
[2024/11/08 17:18] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Noted. Particularly the spelling."
[2024/11/08 17:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Probably to definitely now."
[2024/11/08 17:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: stopping, moving on?
[2024/11/08 17:19] Mecha (alicia.frakture): I say keep going
[2024/11/08 17:19] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "I say we keep going."
[2024/11/08 17:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: oh-kay....
[2024/11/08 17:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: ....and....
[2024/11/08 17:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: ten minutes later #4: "The Evile Wizad nos you ar here."
[2024/11/08 17:20] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Well yeah, of course. Might as well talk to them, see what they know."
[2024/11/08 17:20] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me keeps laughing at the signs
[2024/11/08 17:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: There's no sign of anyone here, as far as you can tell, unless you want to stop and search? Or, move on?
[2024/11/08 17:21] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Okay Let's look around and see what there is.
[2024/11/08 17:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: Trees. Trail. Sign. Some loose leaves blowing along the trail.
[2024/11/08 17:22] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me "Who thinks the evile wizad is the one making all these signs?"
[2024/11/08 17:23] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Let's just keep going maybe the next sign will say that the wizad is weatching us rit new
[2024/11/08 17:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "I am not sure a wizard would put signs out...."
[2024/11/08 17:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: well, you move on and....
[2024/11/08 17:23] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me "but its not a wizard, its a wizad!"
[2024/11/08 17:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: sign #5 after ten more minutes: "DON'T annoy the Wizad!"
[2024/11/08 17:24] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Wait a minute. What if this wizad is the way out. But instead of confrontation, we you know sneak around where they are and keep going.. If that is possible."
[2024/11/08 17:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Sneak around? Through a forest? With a cart?"
[2024/11/08 17:26] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me "we can make the cart really quiet, a stealthy cart and sneak by the wizad while they aren't looking."
[2024/11/08 17:26] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Yes. If they are in a tower or a castle or something we just you know. walk around the place and keep going
[2024/11/08 17:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20
[2024/11/08 17:26] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Who?
[2024/11/08 17:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: idk... you!
[2024/11/08 17:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: You look around, but see no tower or castle.
[2024/11/08 17:27] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me decides to fly around the immediate area to see if she bumps into anything she cant see
[2024/11/08 17:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: D20
[2024/11/08 17:28] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben listens.
[2024/11/08 17:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: Dahlia flies about at random, and doesn't fly into anything she can't see, but, she does fly into a tree that she can see.
[2024/11/08 17:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: Debben listens... hears birds twittering and squirrels chattering.
[2024/11/08 17:29] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me squeeks when she hits the tree, then rubs it and apologizes before flying back to the wagon
[2024/11/08 17:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: Now what?
[2024/11/08 17:30] Mecha (alicia.frakture): keep moving forward
[2024/11/08 17:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay...
[2024/11/08 17:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: what will you find?
[2024/11/08 17:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: After ten minutes, you come to a large stone platform, flanked with stone pillars supporting an ornate lintel with a velvet purple curtain dangling down, in the foreground there are two blazing braziers. There is a giant tranclusent human head glaring at the party with an expression of furious annoyance. The braziers flare with bright flames and a loud clashing of a giant cymal, and the whoosh of flames sounds. "WHO DARES TO COME DISTURB THE GREAT WIZARD MALAVARA NITEWHISPERER? NAME YOURSELVES,IF YOU DARE!"
[2024/11/08 17:32] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "I am known as Debben," she says simply. "Wandering mage. I had heard of a great wizard, and wished to discover more about my craft."
[2024/11/08 17:33] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me whispers to the party when she sees the huge head speaking to them, "Is this like a really big person , like bigger than the other big people?"
[2024/11/08 17:35] Mecha (alicia.frakture): No idea how they are that big.
[2024/11/08 17:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: Nothing from Leesha?
[2024/11/08 17:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: The braziers flare again and there's a whoosh of flames and the loud clash of a cymbal. "SILENCE! I KNOW EXACTLY WHY YOU ARE HERE! WHY ARE YOU TRAMPING THROUGH MY FOREST?"
[2024/11/08 17:36] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Hold it, if you know why we are here. Care to tell us? I am feeling very confused!"
[2024/11/08 17:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: The braziers flare once more, another whoosh of fire and a loud cymbal crash. "YOU HAVE TO PASS ME AND I DEMAND APPEASEMENT! I DEMAND COINS FROM THE EVIL DRAGON TO PROVE YOUR WORTH! GO BACK AND FETCH ME COINS FROM THE DRAGON! NOW GO!"
[2024/11/08 17:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana mutters: "'Said we shoulda gone the dragon path..."
[2024/11/08 17:38] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me glides along quietly around the stone platform curiosity and awe drawing her in to look closer at the big floating head while hopefully staying out of its gaze while the conversation went on
[2024/11/08 17:38] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben considers this, feels they'd be asked to see the wizard if they'd gone to the dragon first. "Thank you for your forthwith'dness, great wizard."
[2024/11/08 17:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: The head turns to track Dahlia, and there is a loud crash of a symbol of the fires flare up, almost incinerating Dahlia. "I SEE YOU, YOU SPARKLING TWINKLING LITTLE THING! NO GO AND YOU GOT TO GET ME TWO COINS!"
[2024/11/08 17:41] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me flies back quickly wide eyed and a bit stunned at the epic giant head speaking directly to her, "I'm sorry mister giant head thing , your just shiny so had to look, sorry for that", making her way back to the wagon
[2024/11/08 17:41] Mecha (alicia.frakture): You know what? no! We have to pass you and I demand your appeasement. Bring me a sandwich!
[2024/11/08 17:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: The fires flare again and there's another loud crash of a cymbal. "SUCH RUDENESS! I SHOULD TURN YOU INTO A TOAD. LUCKILY FOR YOU I AM IN A RARE GOOD MOOD - FOR NOW!"
[2024/11/08 17:43] Mecha (alicia.frakture): No, I'm calling you on this. Do it, turn me into a toad. I've had enough of the screwy magic of this forest.
[2024/11/08 17:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20
[2024/11/08 17:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: You're certain that everything else is growing suddenly. Trees loom higher and Katana becomes a giant and even Debben is bigger than you. And then you realize.... you're shrinking!
[2024/11/08 17:46] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben moves to pick up Leesha and put her on a shoulder.
[2024/11/08 17:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: You're now three feet tall.
[2024/11/08 17:46] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Okay, did not see that coming
[2024/11/08 17:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: The fires flare again and there's another loud crash of a cymbal. "THERE! SERVES YOU RIGHT! NOW GO TO THE DRAGON AND YOU GOT TO FETCH ME THREE COINS!"
[2024/11/08 17:47] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me flies over quickly to hug Leesha, "It's ok your still alot bigger than me and the big giant head didnt make you a toad"
[2024/11/08 17:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: you fucked about, you found out!
[2024/11/08 17:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: so.... to the dragon path...?
[2024/11/08 17:48] Mecha (alicia.frakture): Guess so
[2024/11/08 17:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: well. I think this'll be the cliffhanger... if I get too tired I'll be all short tomorrow.
[2024/11/08 17:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: And that might be a big problem.
[2024/11/08 17:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me tries to keep a straight face
[2024/11/08 17:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: but, on a serious note, I -do- have to sleep sometime ;)
[2024/11/08 17:51] Mecha (alicia.frakture): /me smirks at the joke.
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