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Arabesu's Eyes of the Lich Queen - IC
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Arabesu
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together at last.
After a day and a half of travel directly through the densest jungle terrain you have encountered to date, your group emerges onto a roughly tracked narrow road. This ancient paved road appears to be used by the locals to bypass the temple, perhaps out of superstitious suspicion of the sinister occupants.
It is late in the day and your two scouts catch the first glimpse of Kuma's camp as the reach the edge of a clearing. Well hidden by the jungle, they see that Kuma, a kobold, and his two House Deneith bodyguards, a man and a woman, are gathered about a fire. Their camp is to the east side of a fallen ring of standing stones; beneath the central elevated altar stone, they have piled their gear. A small lake lies to the Northeast.
[sblock=OOC for Shayuri]Sur'kil has provided Kuma with two bodyguards to escort him through the jungle. One, Rusach, is a competent trail-blazer, yet he has taken you off course by many miles. The other, the dragonmarked Thorinia, seems alert and active, as if she is always ready for trouble.
Rusach had realized that you were off course a day ago, and had spent the current and most of the previous day, trying to figure out where you are located. Quite frankly, you are annoyed with him; supposedly, he was to be better than this.[/sblock]
After a day and a half of travel directly through the densest jungle terrain you have encountered to date, your group emerges onto a roughly tracked narrow road. This ancient paved road appears to be used by the locals to bypass the temple, perhaps out of superstitious suspicion of the sinister occupants.
It is late in the day and your two scouts catch the first glimpse of Kuma's camp as the reach the edge of a clearing. Well hidden by the jungle, they see that Kuma, a kobold, and his two House Deneith bodyguards, a man and a woman, are gathered about a fire. Their camp is to the east side of a fallen ring of standing stones; beneath the central elevated altar stone, they have piled their gear. A small lake lies to the Northeast.
[sblock=OOC for Shayuri]Sur'kil has provided Kuma with two bodyguards to escort him through the jungle. One, Rusach, is a competent trail-blazer, yet he has taken you off course by many miles. The other, the dragonmarked Thorinia, seems alert and active, as if she is always ready for trouble.
Rusach had realized that you were off course a day ago, and had spent the current and most of the previous day, trying to figure out where you are located. Quite frankly, you are annoyed with him; supposedly, he was to be better than this.[/sblock]
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Kuma stamps angrily around the fire...looking rather comical in fact. A reptilian humanoid a little smaller than a halfling and if anything even more delicately proportioned, it's hard to take Kuma's anger seriously. His scales are a dark charcoal grey, with lighter grey-white mottling...and an unusual ripple of bright blue along his arms and sides. He wears a mail shirt too shiny and silvery to be anything but mithril, and a crossbow juts out over his shoulder from behind him. Around his neck is a heavy chain, with a bright blue crystal hanging from it like an amulet.
He has a funny pair of round lensed goggles on, that make him look blind because they're so dark. They don't add to his already negligible aura of danger.
Abruptly he stops his pacing and points a tiny-taloned finger at the man sharing his fire.
"Nnngh!" His voice is somehow both gruff and shrill at the same time. "We've been wandering the jungle for days! We should have been there by now! How much longer!"
He has a funny pair of round lensed goggles on, that make him look blind because they're so dark. They don't add to his already negligible aura of danger.
Abruptly he stops his pacing and points a tiny-taloned finger at the man sharing his fire.
"Nnngh!" His voice is somehow both gruff and shrill at the same time. "We've been wandering the jungle for days! We should have been there by now! How much longer!"
moritheil
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"Our apologies for the delay," comes a voice from the jungle. A female gnome clad in green cloth steps into the clearing. Here and there a hint of metal armor shows, but it is dull and nonreflective, and in some places smeared with mud.
"We have made contact with the natives, some of it hostile, and we had to travel with care to avoid leaving an obvious trail."
"We have made contact with the natives, some of it hostile, and we had to travel with care to avoid leaving an obvious trail."
The kobold whirls, obviously startled, and on seeing Rosa he hunches down a bit and bares his teeth with a hiss.
"Quickly you two, we've been ambushed!! Destr...wait, what?"
Kuma tilts his head slightly, birdlike, as he regards her.
"Who are you? Surely you can't be... Identify yourself!"
"Quickly you two, we've been ambushed!! Destr...wait, what?"
Kuma tilts his head slightly, birdlike, as he regards her.
"Who are you? Surely you can't be... Identify yourself!"
A massive dark shadow falls over the gnome from behind. The muffled scrape and clank of metal on metal preceeds the parting of the jungle above Rosa as Hightower's spiked form emerges, nonchalantly chewing on a ration. "About time you got here, we've been cooling our heels for almost two days. You know we could see this place from miles away, others might have too."
Fangor the Fierce
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Trent stays to the tree limbs, glancing back towards the west, towards the temple and it's inhabitants. Surely if something was out to get them, he would see movement... hopefully. The others seem to have it under wraps, as he stands guard.
"Our -guide- got lost," Kuma...as he must certainly be...grumps. "It's only the grace of Siberys you saw us in time!"
He grabs the shard of crystal hanging from his neck in his claws for a moment.
Then he's sweeping a rather credible bow, considering he's a kobold. His cloak looks unusual, possibly magical. It's made of scaly leather, and made to look like wings folded down behind his shoulders. It ends in a pair of tiny claw-like appendages that grip the kobold's epaulets, anchoring it in the stead of broaches.
"I am, as you must have realized, Kuma! Breath of Siberys! Vanguard of the glorious return to the sky for the great tribe of Magnesium Mixed With Copper!"
He pauses at that, a little nonplussed.
"It's a bit more poetic in Draconic."
He grabs the shard of crystal hanging from his neck in his claws for a moment.
Then he's sweeping a rather credible bow, considering he's a kobold. His cloak looks unusual, possibly magical. It's made of scaly leather, and made to look like wings folded down behind his shoulders. It ends in a pair of tiny claw-like appendages that grip the kobold's epaulets, anchoring it in the stead of broaches.
"I am, as you must have realized, Kuma! Breath of Siberys! Vanguard of the glorious return to the sky for the great tribe of Magnesium Mixed With Copper!"
He pauses at that, a little nonplussed.
"It's a bit more poetic in Draconic."
Finishing the bite of ration he had been wrestling down. then looks sternly at the kobold and in draconic continues, "Indeed it is good cleric, you are most welcome. I think your skills will be tested to the limits sooner rather than later in these steaming jungles." switching back to common, "Would you happen to be able to aleviate health, that's been sapped by poison? The denizens of these woods do love their plant extracts."
