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<blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1837971" data-attributes="member: 11574"><p>As the party enters Mirwood, Paquito is approached by Valriand and given a note. He tells Paquito it is from Luinphayl the headmaster at the elven mage school. Valriand then asks that Finrod follow him, as he has a few things to discuss with the elf. </p><p></p><p>"What's the note say?" Benat asks</p><p></p><p>"It says that Master Luinphayl can no longer instruct me at the mage school. No?" Paquito says mentioning only half the letter, and saying nothing about a key waxed to the bottom of the letter.</p><p></p><p>"I see you've finally grated on another elf." Benat says as she leaves to go to the festival hall.</p><p></p><p>"I shall need to think on this. No?" Paquito says as he returns to his room at the school. </p><p></p><p>Once there he finds another note on his pillow, this one however appears to be penned by a minotaur. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Great Horned One,</p><p>Your exploits here yesterday have left a distinct impression upon me. My name is Corridorian, and my tribe is dying. Tauranous is week! He lets those infiltrators wander our halls, learn our secrets, dwindle our already small numbers. I sense great power lies within you, untapped yearning to rise above your meager beginnings. My tribe was strong, we needed no one to defend us, no one to ally with. Yet Tauranous seeks help from the ogres and the cursed one, I am sure your blood boils upon hearing of this news. It is time Tauranous is replaced, with our combined arcane might we could lord over these tree huggers! Think of the power my abilities would grant a leader such as yourself. We number but a dozen of us now eight of those are minotrices, wouldn't that be a strong foundation for your wives! </p><p></p><p>Tauranous is far too arrogant to see his own failings, challenge him for control of the tribe. Become the bullord you want to be. I know who your father is I know it haunts you, I know my visage haunts your dreams as well. You cannot deny that which you are. The time of elven reckoning is a hand, there are allies all around you. Did you not think it odd that you were even allowed into the elven mage school, let alone allowed to study at it! It has been foretold that the blood of our creator will return, you carry within you that very blood! Let it show you the way to lordship, let it show you the way to me. </p><p></p><p>Your giant friends will have to be brought low before the battle, Tauranous is too paranoid to accept your challenge if he thinks he won't have the upper hand. The elf with the stinging twigs is like the fly that refuses to get swatted, if you wish, I will gladly destroy this pest myself. The other two elves are so pathetic, I think a good trip on their faces will put them out of their misery. </p><p></p><p>If this is acceptable to you, then the next time you enter my home, find your way to the northwest trap door. You have already seen it through your little rock. I look forward to long years in your powerful service. </p><p></p><p>Corridorian</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Paquito digests the letter's content, and decides he needs to speak with Gronar. He finds Gronar sitting with Korg drinking kegs of thin elvish wine. Paquito manages to get Gronar to join him a fair distance away from Korg so he could speak privately with the giant. </p><p></p><p>"What Pokey want? Gronar not yet drunk enough." Gronar says, his alcohol tinged breath reeking through each word.</p><p></p><p>"I need you to teach me how to fight. No?" Paquito answers</p><p></p><p>"Huh? Gronar not understand. You wish to fight Gronar? OK, let me get sword." Gronar answers</p><p></p><p>"No! I want YOU to TEACH ME how to fight. No?" Paquito replies </p><p></p><p>"Wait, Gronar confused. Pokey wants me to not teach how to fight?" Gronar answers, the wine dulling the already dim light in his head. </p><p></p><p>"I wish to fight like a giant, you can teach me. No?" Paquito answers</p><p></p><p>"No, Gronar not teach Pokey how to fight like Gronar. Gronar is giant, Pokey is small. Pokey not a giant." The hill giant answers</p><p></p><p>"Soon I will be as tall as you, I should begin my training as soon as possible. No?" Paquito replies</p><p></p><p>"No, Gronar chop off knees if that happens. Ha!" Gronar says laughing</p><p></p><p>"Please, I need to know the proper technique to swing a greatsword such as your own. No?" Paquito pleads</p><p></p><p>"Wait a minute, Pokey not trying to steal from Gronar?" Gronar ask misinterpreting Paquito's response</p><p></p><p>"I would not dream of such a elvish thing as that. No?" Paquito replies</p><p></p><p>"Hmm, ok. But Gronar keep two eyes on you." Gronar answers holding up three fingers</p><p></p><p>"I am in your debt. No?" Paquito responds</p><p></p><p>"First thing Pokey have to do, is look like giant." Gronar says while pulling out a large mirror from his backpack "Like giant in painting. See?"</p><p></p><p>Gronar hands Paquito the mirror.</p><p></p><p>"I see myself. No?" Paquito tells the giant</p><p></p><p>"What? Pokey break painting?" Gronar says snatching the mirror from Paquito's hands. Gronar looks into the mirror again. "Ah, Gronar sees handsome giant. See?" Gronar asks Paquito while turning the mirror around so that it faces the minotaur</p><p></p><p>"It's a mirror, it shows my reflection. This concept, it is lost on you. No?" Paquito answers</p><p></p><p>Gronar quickly turns the mirror to face him. "Gronar think Pokey blind, Gronar sees handsome hill giant in painting. Look handsome giant even smile at Gronar." </p><p></p><p>Gronar turns the mirror back to Paquito. "Ah yes, I see your visage perfectly now. I do not understand how I could have missed such a blatantly obvious thing such as this. Perhaps it is a magical mirror. No?" Paquito says sarcastically</p><p></p><p>"Pokey think painting is magic? Ha! That funny cow man." Gronar replies and puts the mirror away. </p><p></p><p>"First lesson is called catch rock." Gronar says while digging a rock out of his pouch</p><p></p><p>"W.w.w. What? Did you say catch rock. Surely you misspoke. No?" Paquito asks</p><p></p><p>"No, Gronar throw rock at Pokey, if Pokey catch it, then Pokey learn first lesson. Ready?" Gronar asks</p><p></p><p>Actually *yawn* I'm getting tired, perhaps we should initiate this when I am more rested, and you are no so drunk. No?" Paquito replies</p><p></p><p>"Gronar be here all night, when Pokey ready to play catch, Pokey know where to find Gronar." The hill giants answers</p><p></p><p>Paquito flees the inebriated giant, and runs to the festival hall where he locates Benat and asks to have a word with her. </p><p></p><p>"Hey, I found out some news for you, turns out Luinphayl is needed to shore up the magical defenses of the village. So you shouldn't feel so dejected about him no longer tutoring you, although I have my doubts about his sanity letting you learn there to begin with." Benat tells Paquito as they sit at a corner table.</p><p></p><p>"I need your help. No?" Paquito tells the elf</p><p></p><p>"What? The great, magnificent, awe inspiring, second coming of Belesarda, divine inspiring, kingdom leveling, fabulous dressing, Paquito the mighty needs help?" Benat replies incredulously</p><p></p><p>"It is true I am all of those things, but sometimes one must get their own hands dirty. No?" Paquito responds</p><p></p><p>"Absolutely not, I will not fetch another kidney stone for you." Benat remarks</p><p></p><p>"No, it is not that. I have heard you speak of dark elves, ones that did not embrace an edict of peace and harmony with nature. No?" Paquito asks</p><p></p><p>"I don't like where this is headed, but yes that is correct." Benat answers</p><p></p><p>"And killing them, you felt no remorse towards this? What if the only race you ever knew were these dark elves of which you speak? You would find it difficult killing them then. No?" Paquito asks</p><p></p><p>"What are you trying to say? I may have felt a twinge on the moral reader, but all was righted after I spilled the blood of some lowly humans." Benat answers</p><p></p><p>"Well, perhaps not all the minotaurs are evil. Perhaps there are some allies to be found among the decrepit. No?" Paquito inquires</p><p></p><p>"And you know who that could be?" Benat presses Paquito for info</p><p></p><p>"Perhaps, I may have a contact within the maze." Paquito replies</p><p></p><p>"I knew it! You've been yanking our chain the whole time." Benat accuses Paquito</p><p></p><p>"No, I assure you. If I was yanking your chain, I would not be telling you now. No?" Paquito replies</p><p></p><p>"Hmm, unless that's what you want me to think." Benat responds</p><p></p><p>"I do not want you to think, apparently that activity causes your brain to become overworked. No? I merely want you to listen to my plan. No?" Paquito tells the elf</p><p></p><p>Paquito then goes into his grand plan of avoiding attacking the minotaurs in favor of wiping out their support base of goblinoid creatures.</p><p></p><p>"I'll think on it, but I still think wiping out the minotaurs is our best option, but feel free to bring this up with the giants." Benat says with a smile a returns to the bar.</p><p></p><p>Dejected, Paquito returns to his room and sleeps restlessly through the night.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hairy Minotaur, post: 1837971, member: 11574"] As the party enters Mirwood, Paquito is approached by Valriand and given a note. He tells Paquito it is from Luinphayl the headmaster at the elven mage school. Valriand then asks that Finrod follow him, as he has a few things to discuss with the elf. "What's the note say?" Benat asks "It says that Master Luinphayl can no longer instruct me at the mage school. No?" Paquito says mentioning only half the letter, and saying nothing about a key waxed to the bottom of the letter. "I see you've finally grated on another elf." Benat says as she leaves to go to the festival hall. "I shall need to think on this. No?" Paquito says as he returns to his room at the school. Once there he finds another note on his pillow, this one however appears to be penned by a minotaur. Great Horned One, Your exploits here yesterday have left a distinct impression upon me. My name is Corridorian, and my tribe is dying. Tauranous is week! He lets those infiltrators wander our halls, learn our secrets, dwindle our already small numbers. I sense great power lies within you, untapped yearning to rise above your meager beginnings. My tribe was strong, we needed no one to defend us, no one to ally with. Yet Tauranous seeks help from the ogres and the cursed one, I am sure your blood boils upon hearing of this news. It is time Tauranous is replaced, with our combined arcane might we could lord over these tree huggers! Think of the power my abilities would grant a leader such as yourself. We number but a dozen of us now eight of those are minotrices, wouldn't that be a strong foundation for your wives! Tauranous is far too arrogant to see his own failings, challenge him for control of the tribe. Become the bullord you want to be. I know who your father is I know it haunts you, I know my visage haunts your dreams as well. You cannot deny that which you are. The time of elven reckoning is a hand, there are allies all around you. Did you not think it odd that you were even allowed into the elven mage school, let alone allowed to study at it! It has been foretold that the blood of our creator will return, you carry within you that very blood! Let it show you the way to lordship, let it show you the way to me. Your giant friends will have to be brought low before the battle, Tauranous is too paranoid to accept your challenge if he thinks he won't have the upper hand. The elf with the stinging twigs is like the fly that refuses to get swatted, if you wish, I will gladly destroy this pest myself. The other two elves are so pathetic, I think a good trip on their faces will put them out of their misery. If this is acceptable to you, then the next time you enter my home, find your way to the northwest trap door. You have already seen it through your little rock. I look forward to long years in your powerful service. Corridorian Paquito digests the letter's content, and decides he needs to speak with Gronar. He finds Gronar sitting with Korg drinking kegs of thin elvish wine. Paquito manages to get Gronar to join him a fair distance away from Korg so he could speak privately with the giant. "What Pokey want? Gronar not yet drunk enough." Gronar says, his alcohol tinged breath reeking through each word. "I need you to teach me how to fight. No?" Paquito answers "Huh? Gronar not understand. You wish to fight Gronar? OK, let me get sword." Gronar answers "No! I want YOU to TEACH ME how to fight. No?" Paquito replies "Wait, Gronar confused. Pokey wants me to not teach how to fight?" Gronar answers, the wine dulling the already dim light in his head. "I wish to fight like a giant, you can teach me. No?" Paquito answers "No, Gronar not teach Pokey how to fight like Gronar. Gronar is giant, Pokey is small. Pokey not a giant." The hill giant answers "Soon I will be as tall as you, I should begin my training as soon as possible. No?" Paquito replies "No, Gronar chop off knees if that happens. Ha!" Gronar says laughing "Please, I need to know the proper technique to swing a greatsword such as your own. No?" Paquito pleads "Wait a minute, Pokey not trying to steal from Gronar?" Gronar ask misinterpreting Paquito's response "I would not dream of such a elvish thing as that. No?" Paquito replies "Hmm, ok. But Gronar keep two eyes on you." Gronar answers holding up three fingers "I am in your debt. No?" Paquito responds "First thing Pokey have to do, is look like giant." Gronar says while pulling out a large mirror from his backpack "Like giant in painting. See?" Gronar hands Paquito the mirror. "I see myself. No?" Paquito tells the giant "What? Pokey break painting?" Gronar says snatching the mirror from Paquito's hands. Gronar looks into the mirror again. "Ah, Gronar sees handsome giant. See?" Gronar asks Paquito while turning the mirror around so that it faces the minotaur "It's a mirror, it shows my reflection. This concept, it is lost on you. No?" Paquito answers Gronar quickly turns the mirror to face him. "Gronar think Pokey blind, Gronar sees handsome hill giant in painting. Look handsome giant even smile at Gronar." Gronar turns the mirror back to Paquito. "Ah yes, I see your visage perfectly now. I do not understand how I could have missed such a blatantly obvious thing such as this. Perhaps it is a magical mirror. No?" Paquito says sarcastically "Pokey think painting is magic? Ha! That funny cow man." Gronar replies and puts the mirror away. "First lesson is called catch rock." Gronar says while digging a rock out of his pouch "W.w.w. What? Did you say catch rock. Surely you misspoke. No?" Paquito asks "No, Gronar throw rock at Pokey, if Pokey catch it, then Pokey learn first lesson. Ready?" Gronar asks Actually *yawn* I'm getting tired, perhaps we should initiate this when I am more rested, and you are no so drunk. No?" Paquito replies "Gronar be here all night, when Pokey ready to play catch, Pokey know where to find Gronar." The hill giants answers Paquito flees the inebriated giant, and runs to the festival hall where he locates Benat and asks to have a word with her. "Hey, I found out some news for you, turns out Luinphayl is needed to shore up the magical defenses of the village. So you shouldn't feel so dejected about him no longer tutoring you, although I have my doubts about his sanity letting you learn there to begin with." Benat tells Paquito as they sit at a corner table. "I need your help. No?" Paquito tells the elf "What? The great, magnificent, awe inspiring, second coming of Belesarda, divine inspiring, kingdom leveling, fabulous dressing, Paquito the mighty needs help?" Benat replies incredulously "It is true I am all of those things, but sometimes one must get their own hands dirty. No?" Paquito responds "Absolutely not, I will not fetch another kidney stone for you." Benat remarks "No, it is not that. I have heard you speak of dark elves, ones that did not embrace an edict of peace and harmony with nature. No?" Paquito asks "I don't like where this is headed, but yes that is correct." Benat answers "And killing them, you felt no remorse towards this? What if the only race you ever knew were these dark elves of which you speak? You would find it difficult killing them then. No?" Paquito asks "What are you trying to say? I may have felt a twinge on the moral reader, but all was righted after I spilled the blood of some lowly humans." Benat answers "Well, perhaps not all the minotaurs are evil. Perhaps there are some allies to be found among the decrepit. No?" Paquito inquires "And you know who that could be?" Benat presses Paquito for info "Perhaps, I may have a contact within the maze." Paquito replies "I knew it! You've been yanking our chain the whole time." Benat accuses Paquito "No, I assure you. If I was yanking your chain, I would not be telling you now. No?" Paquito replies "Hmm, unless that's what you want me to think." Benat responds "I do not want you to think, apparently that activity causes your brain to become overworked. No? I merely want you to listen to my plan. No?" Paquito tells the elf Paquito then goes into his grand plan of avoiding attacking the minotaurs in favor of wiping out their support base of goblinoid creatures. "I'll think on it, but I still think wiping out the minotaurs is our best option, but feel free to bring this up with the giants." Benat says with a smile a returns to the bar. Dejected, Paquito returns to his room and sleeps restlessly through the night. [/QUOTE]
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