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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2819263" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Synopsis of 7/11/05 Session - "A Wyld time in Highwatch"</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 7/11/05 Session</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>"A Wyld time in Highwatch"</strong></span></p><p></p><p>During the month of down time, Gareth approached each of the members of the Circle about disturbing dreams and visions he was having. A-dom‘s dreams of ale and women were unlikely to have been from a past life. At least, Gareth hoped they weren’t since they also involved Elephants. Bucket had no clue, but was informed that Gareth had talked him up to the slave and it had better not come back to bite him in the ass.</p><p></p><p>Out of the others, only Jahar seemed to have a clue about what Gareth was talking about. It seems that, in the past, the Circle went their separate ways after ‘Gareth’, Lightbringer (Jahar), and Fortune (Jade’s Luck?) had a disagreement (since it was Gareth’s vision, he didn’t know what he was called back then). Something about Lightbringer and Fortune always getting delayed by going off to save some mortal. ‘Gareth’ had relayed this information to a large egg with lots of feet and a mouth. He wasn’t happy the thing was there and wanted it gone. When he realized there was something wrong with the fact he was relaying this information, ‘Gareth’ died. Jahar simply said that, after that point in time, something <strong>very bad</strong> happened.</p><p></p><p>Jahar, apparently, had had some visions/dreams of this time as well as some of a recent incarnation. Before they parted, Gareth did mention that, in a dream before he woke up, he heard a woman’s voice that he was sure was his own say, <em>“This time, I won’t let the little things get in the way.”</em></p><p></p><p>In his discussion with Luck, she asked Gareth if he could make her a war fan that wasn’t as flimsy as the paper one she owned to compliment her new fighting style. Over the course of fifteen hours, he proceeded to make the most perfect example of a good war fan.</p><p></p><p>------------</p><p></p><p>Jahar got approached by one of his elders about ‘that thing that needed to get done.’ To which point, Jahar sent A-dom to collect the Circle and meet at Jade’s to go on a short journey while Tiger prepared horses for the three of them. A-dom, being A-dom, proceeded to mess up those directions when he met with Luck and Bucket. He told them to meet outside of town, as it would be more discrete. Finding neither of them had access to horses, A-dom cursed and told them to just meet outside the city. Luck told Mother Jade she had an errand to run for a few days and was taking the new servant/messenger boy. Gareth, at least, knew a guy he could borrow a horse from. He assembled a sales case and told the slave he’d be gone for a few days.</p><p></p><p>While Gareth, Luck, and Bucket each made their way to outside the city, A-dom proceeded to successfully and stealthily steal three nice horses from a nearby stable and bring them outside the city. Why three, we don’t know. Either he thought Gareth needed a horse or he was just bad at math. He got back to Jahar’s estate only to find Jahar and Tiger gone. He caught up with them at Jade’s and informed them he had made an un-executive decision to change the meeting place.</p><p></p><p>Once they met up outside the city, everyone went on their way. Jahar was fairly tight-lipped about where the circle was going. Empty Bucket kept asking where they were going and why, but Jahar ignored him and got distracted elsewhere. No one else pressed him. Seemed to be a lot of trust going on there. After a few hours, it was pretty evident that Bucket, Luck, and Gareth knew nothing about riding. They stopped for food and sleep at an inn for the night. After stopping at the inn, Jahar recognized something about the saddle of the stolen horse Jade’s Luck was riding. While the group was eating, Jahar had a new saddle delivered. While the group was stopped the next day for lunch in the wilderness, he tried to spook the horse and get it to flee. It just looked at him like he was nuts. He brought A-dom over and started to berate him about stealing the horse, saying the owner was a Dragon-Blood and had a grudge against Jahar. Through this conversation, the horse responded by nodding and shaking its head to questions semi-posed to it, which freaked out Jahar. It was then that they realized that A-dom had stolen this woman’s intelligent familiar. Jahar had A-dom lead the horse over to an apple tree, so they wouldn’t be discussing the horse’s fate around the horse. A long discussion ensued. At some point Rob was consulted. </p><p></p><p>Rob pointed out killing or getting rid of the horse wouldn’t matter, as the group was clearly seen at the inn by the innkeeper and the stable boy with the horse in question. So any perusing Dragon-Bloods didn’t need to find them with the horse to determine their guilt. There was strong objection (even from the less compassionate people) to burning down the inn and killing everyone who saw them to cover up an honest mistake... that was made while stealing horses.</p><p></p><p>Jahar then had Tiger hold the familiar by the apple tree, while he berated A-Dom. This lead to A-dom stating, <em>“I apologize, sir, and next time I will quiz the horses before I steal them.”</em></p><p></p><p>While they were talking, Empty Bucket filled Rob with apples. However Rob refused to swallow them. <em>“Great, I have a finicky magic bucket.”</em> At the end of the conversation, Jahar took the horse’s saddle and tossed it on the fire. Empty Bucket immediately called dibs and tried to grab it off the fire. It took Jahar a few seconds to explain why the saddle needed to be torched.</p><p></p><p>The Circle continued to make way towards Highwatch, as they were later told by Jahar. It was later found out that Jahar was sent to collect some taxes, but for now the group remained ignorant.</p><p></p><p>When they got close to their destination, sounds of screams and calls for help were heard from Highwatch by Bucket and Luck. Bucket didn’t care, but Luck forced her horse (the familiar) to speed off towards the town to help. Since Bucket’s horse was tied to Luck’s, he was forced to follow. Gareth sped up to follow after them, but proceeded to fall off his horse shortly after. A-dom noticed a fight happening ad decided to join it. Jahar though he heard a sound behind him and proceeded to investigate with Tiger.</p><p></p><p>When Luck, Bucket, and A-dom arrived at the town, they found a bunch of Shrabbits (rabbit sized half shark/half rabbits) and some floating jellyfish with spears chasing around and attacking some children. Luck proceeded to fall off her horse onto a small child she was trying the save (botch). A-dom gracefully fell off his horse onto a shrabbit. Bucket attempted to pelt the shrabbits with apples... then gave up and started squishing them with the bucket, which turned out to be much more effective. Luck tried to jump up and hall herself onto a rooftop while carrying the child. However she miscalculated where to grab the roof (botch) and fell back to earth... landing on the child, again.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/shrabbit.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/jellyman.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Gareth, Jahar, and Tiger eventually made it to the battle and there was much squishing of the shrabbits and a few squishings of the jellyfish. Bucket was amusing himself by knocking shrabbits into the air. Unfortunately he wasn’t paying much attention and lost his grip on Rob (botch), which didn’t amuse Gareth because Rob hit him in the head. The jellyfish retreated back up the hill, leaving the shrabbits behind.</p><p></p><p>It was clear that they had wandered into a Wyld area. Gareth was very happy to have learned Integrity Protecting Prana and for having the forethought to put it up every day since leaving Atlantis. He extolled the charm’s virtues several times throughout the day. </p><p></p><p>Gareth and some of the others heard screaming coming from the town hall. Still armed and armored, Gareth charged in to find a giant cookie eating Fred (a random villager). He took two large chunks out of the cookie. As Jahar pointed out, it was one tough cookie. It fought valiantly, but under one of Tiger’s blows, the cookie crumbled.</p><p></p><p>Bucket ate a piece of the cookie, which he found to be quite tasty. So he tried to put more pieces of the cookie into Rob. Rob however, kept spitting them out, saying something to the effect of, “No way!” So Bucket put some pieces in his saddlebag for later.</p><p></p><p>Gareth and Tiger kept the living villagers busy while the others gathered the bodies of the dead villagers so Luck could give them a proper burial. Gareth’s method of keeping them busy was to show them his wares. </p><p><em>“Step right up folks, As you can see in today’s world, one needs to own a good weapon to protect yourself from shrabbits...”</em></p><p></p><p>He made two sales.</p><p></p><p>While torching the building the bodies had been moved to (to cover up for the fact that Luck incinerated the bodies magically), an armored penguin arrived in town. It challenged anyone there to try and close the chaos portal, calling everyone weak and useless. It then called out the name of a move and slid all the way back up the hill. A-dom felt a very real need to follow the penguin and defeat its challenge.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/armorpenguin.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The group spent two hours “relaxing” as most people wanted to regain some essence, and heal a little. During this time Bucket tried to cook a shrabbit to eat. However when the shrabbit juices fell into the fire, the fire jumped up and attacked Bucket. He and Jahar put down the fire before it spread. However Jahar noticed that the grass around the dead shrabbits was uprooting itself and forming grass phalanxes, using other pieces of non-animated grass for spears. Jahar then talked to Bucket about why it is a bad idea to eat Wyld food. Bucket pointed out he ate the Wyld cookie, and was fine. He even had more in his saddlebag for later. Jahar looked over at the horses to see the saddle bag in question crawling away from the bones of Bucket’s stolen horse. The Saddlebag looked quite full.</p><p></p><p>The group decided to not dilly-dally anymore. Although they did tell the horse familiar to stomp the grass creatures, and protect the other horses.</p><p></p><p>Reaching a cliff, they found the trail continued off onto some particularly solid clouds. It was found that, whenever anyone but Gareth spoke, his or her words rose up from the ground in massive blocks of hardened ink. This caused the group to have to climb over them. After everyone pantomimed and got on their way, they reached a floating island.</p><p></p><p>It was an island of earth floating in the sky with a large maple tree upon it. The island appeared to be experiencing every season simultaneously, as part of the tree was in full bloom of spring, part covered in leaves of summer, part sparsely covered in autumn leaves, which also cover the ground, and part of it was bear and had ice upon it. Under the tree were a tiny lake (or a large puddle) and a small fire. Next to the fire was a silvery looking tent.</p><p></p><p> A-dom was the first to charge onto the island and quickly got caught up in the autumnal leaves of the tree. One by one the group got trapped by one element or another upon the island. Luck was the last one, but managed to escape the fire. She later remembered that Fire was related to Dawn castes. Realizing fire was related to Dawn caste Solars, she ran around trying to remember who the dawn caste was while being chased by said fire. Once she remembered (luckily Jahar’s anima symbol was glowing), she dived into the bubble of water encasing Jahar. The Fire followed, and extinguished itself. Through trial and error, dumbfounded looks, ROB being surprised at the Circle’s stupidity/uneducatedness, and Jahar making himself very loud to be heard outside his water bubble, the group was able to work together and escape their entrapment. Luck hamster balled the water to earth to push Tiger out of the earth encasing him, Tiger pulled Gareth out of some silvery air he was entrapped in, Gareth pulled A-dom out of the leaves, A-dom pulled Bucket out of the ice entrapping him, and Bucket pulled Luck & Jahar out of the water. Most of the group was glowing greatly at this point, and Jahar was even totemic with a giant Octopus around him.</p><p></p><p>Jahar forgot to reduce his volume again once outside the bubble, which led to everyone within a hundred miles or so hear him yell the word “PENGUIN!” As he was trying to direct the groups attention to where he was pointing. In a more, subdued voice, he asked people to start digging. A-Dom asked if anyone had a shovel, to which a shovel fell from the sky. A-Dom then asked if anyone had a naked woman. A naked elephant faced beast-woman fell from the sky and landed on A-Dom. She then promptly got up and, looking at the Circle, screamed “Solars!” and ran away. A-Dom shrugged and started digging while Gareth commented, “At least she knew what we were and not just demons.” </p><p></p><p>Digging into the earth of the floating island, they found a small figurine of penguin armor that started spouting insults at them. While closing its beak seemed to cancel out the Wyld area, it also made the floating island plummet. It was quickly figured out that closing the beak was a bad idea. However, A-dom found sticking his finger in the armored penguin’s mouth stopped it from speaking while not making the island plummet. They were quite a ways down the cliff now, though and needed to get back up. Also, with the figuring spouting insults, words were appearing next to island still, obstructing the cliff. It was somewhat quickly found out that different words and languages could affect the landscape. Seaspeak made watery letters while Flametongue produced fiery ones. Jahar made said some slithery letters and made a slope back up to the cliff top. Once there, the group clamped the penguin’s mouth shut and all were saved from the Wyld.</p><p></p><p>About this time, Gareth actively tried to break the others out of their hallucination that they had stopped the Wyld. They didn't seem to notice anything he did, but did continue talking to him (just not responding correctly to anything he said). Smashing the penguin with his sword probably would have eventually worked, given enough time.</p><p></p><p>------</p><p></p><p>Fast forward to the rest of the group waking up, in pain with a lot of bashing damage. They were all alive, minus one magic horse, one stolen horse, and Jahar's horse (Jahar's saddle & saddlebags remained, however). A-dom’s skin was now the exact color and shade of brown as his hair.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 2819263, member: 9758"] [b]Synopsis of 7/11/05 Session - "A Wyld time in Highwatch"[/b] [i]Synopsis of 7/11/05 Session[/i] [size=5][b]"A Wyld time in Highwatch"[/b][/size] During the month of down time, Gareth approached each of the members of the Circle about disturbing dreams and visions he was having. A-dom‘s dreams of ale and women were unlikely to have been from a past life. At least, Gareth hoped they weren’t since they also involved Elephants. Bucket had no clue, but was informed that Gareth had talked him up to the slave and it had better not come back to bite him in the ass. Out of the others, only Jahar seemed to have a clue about what Gareth was talking about. It seems that, in the past, the Circle went their separate ways after ‘Gareth’, Lightbringer (Jahar), and Fortune (Jade’s Luck?) had a disagreement (since it was Gareth’s vision, he didn’t know what he was called back then). Something about Lightbringer and Fortune always getting delayed by going off to save some mortal. ‘Gareth’ had relayed this information to a large egg with lots of feet and a mouth. He wasn’t happy the thing was there and wanted it gone. When he realized there was something wrong with the fact he was relaying this information, ‘Gareth’ died. Jahar simply said that, after that point in time, something [b]very bad[/b] happened. Jahar, apparently, had had some visions/dreams of this time as well as some of a recent incarnation. Before they parted, Gareth did mention that, in a dream before he woke up, he heard a woman’s voice that he was sure was his own say, [i]“This time, I won’t let the little things get in the way.”[/i] In his discussion with Luck, she asked Gareth if he could make her a war fan that wasn’t as flimsy as the paper one she owned to compliment her new fighting style. Over the course of fifteen hours, he proceeded to make the most perfect example of a good war fan. ------------ Jahar got approached by one of his elders about ‘that thing that needed to get done.’ To which point, Jahar sent A-dom to collect the Circle and meet at Jade’s to go on a short journey while Tiger prepared horses for the three of them. A-dom, being A-dom, proceeded to mess up those directions when he met with Luck and Bucket. He told them to meet outside of town, as it would be more discrete. Finding neither of them had access to horses, A-dom cursed and told them to just meet outside the city. Luck told Mother Jade she had an errand to run for a few days and was taking the new servant/messenger boy. Gareth, at least, knew a guy he could borrow a horse from. He assembled a sales case and told the slave he’d be gone for a few days. While Gareth, Luck, and Bucket each made their way to outside the city, A-dom proceeded to successfully and stealthily steal three nice horses from a nearby stable and bring them outside the city. Why three, we don’t know. Either he thought Gareth needed a horse or he was just bad at math. He got back to Jahar’s estate only to find Jahar and Tiger gone. He caught up with them at Jade’s and informed them he had made an un-executive decision to change the meeting place. Once they met up outside the city, everyone went on their way. Jahar was fairly tight-lipped about where the circle was going. Empty Bucket kept asking where they were going and why, but Jahar ignored him and got distracted elsewhere. No one else pressed him. Seemed to be a lot of trust going on there. After a few hours, it was pretty evident that Bucket, Luck, and Gareth knew nothing about riding. They stopped for food and sleep at an inn for the night. After stopping at the inn, Jahar recognized something about the saddle of the stolen horse Jade’s Luck was riding. While the group was eating, Jahar had a new saddle delivered. While the group was stopped the next day for lunch in the wilderness, he tried to spook the horse and get it to flee. It just looked at him like he was nuts. He brought A-dom over and started to berate him about stealing the horse, saying the owner was a Dragon-Blood and had a grudge against Jahar. Through this conversation, the horse responded by nodding and shaking its head to questions semi-posed to it, which freaked out Jahar. It was then that they realized that A-dom had stolen this woman’s intelligent familiar. Jahar had A-dom lead the horse over to an apple tree, so they wouldn’t be discussing the horse’s fate around the horse. A long discussion ensued. At some point Rob was consulted. Rob pointed out killing or getting rid of the horse wouldn’t matter, as the group was clearly seen at the inn by the innkeeper and the stable boy with the horse in question. So any perusing Dragon-Bloods didn’t need to find them with the horse to determine their guilt. There was strong objection (even from the less compassionate people) to burning down the inn and killing everyone who saw them to cover up an honest mistake... that was made while stealing horses. Jahar then had Tiger hold the familiar by the apple tree, while he berated A-Dom. This lead to A-dom stating, [i]“I apologize, sir, and next time I will quiz the horses before I steal them.”[/i] While they were talking, Empty Bucket filled Rob with apples. However Rob refused to swallow them. [i]“Great, I have a finicky magic bucket.”[/i] At the end of the conversation, Jahar took the horse’s saddle and tossed it on the fire. Empty Bucket immediately called dibs and tried to grab it off the fire. It took Jahar a few seconds to explain why the saddle needed to be torched. The Circle continued to make way towards Highwatch, as they were later told by Jahar. It was later found out that Jahar was sent to collect some taxes, but for now the group remained ignorant. When they got close to their destination, sounds of screams and calls for help were heard from Highwatch by Bucket and Luck. Bucket didn’t care, but Luck forced her horse (the familiar) to speed off towards the town to help. Since Bucket’s horse was tied to Luck’s, he was forced to follow. Gareth sped up to follow after them, but proceeded to fall off his horse shortly after. A-dom noticed a fight happening ad decided to join it. Jahar though he heard a sound behind him and proceeded to investigate with Tiger. When Luck, Bucket, and A-dom arrived at the town, they found a bunch of Shrabbits (rabbit sized half shark/half rabbits) and some floating jellyfish with spears chasing around and attacking some children. Luck proceeded to fall off her horse onto a small child she was trying the save (botch). A-dom gracefully fell off his horse onto a shrabbit. Bucket attempted to pelt the shrabbits with apples... then gave up and started squishing them with the bucket, which turned out to be much more effective. Luck tried to jump up and hall herself onto a rooftop while carrying the child. However she miscalculated where to grab the roof (botch) and fell back to earth... landing on the child, again. [img]http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/shrabbit.jpg[/img] [img]http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/jellyman.jpg[/img] Gareth, Jahar, and Tiger eventually made it to the battle and there was much squishing of the shrabbits and a few squishings of the jellyfish. Bucket was amusing himself by knocking shrabbits into the air. Unfortunately he wasn’t paying much attention and lost his grip on Rob (botch), which didn’t amuse Gareth because Rob hit him in the head. The jellyfish retreated back up the hill, leaving the shrabbits behind. It was clear that they had wandered into a Wyld area. Gareth was very happy to have learned Integrity Protecting Prana and for having the forethought to put it up every day since leaving Atlantis. He extolled the charm’s virtues several times throughout the day. Gareth and some of the others heard screaming coming from the town hall. Still armed and armored, Gareth charged in to find a giant cookie eating Fred (a random villager). He took two large chunks out of the cookie. As Jahar pointed out, it was one tough cookie. It fought valiantly, but under one of Tiger’s blows, the cookie crumbled. Bucket ate a piece of the cookie, which he found to be quite tasty. So he tried to put more pieces of the cookie into Rob. Rob however, kept spitting them out, saying something to the effect of, “No way!” So Bucket put some pieces in his saddlebag for later. Gareth and Tiger kept the living villagers busy while the others gathered the bodies of the dead villagers so Luck could give them a proper burial. Gareth’s method of keeping them busy was to show them his wares. [i]“Step right up folks, As you can see in today’s world, one needs to own a good weapon to protect yourself from shrabbits...”[/i] He made two sales. While torching the building the bodies had been moved to (to cover up for the fact that Luck incinerated the bodies magically), an armored penguin arrived in town. It challenged anyone there to try and close the chaos portal, calling everyone weak and useless. It then called out the name of a move and slid all the way back up the hill. A-dom felt a very real need to follow the penguin and defeat its challenge. [img]http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/armorpenguin.jpg[/img] The group spent two hours “relaxing” as most people wanted to regain some essence, and heal a little. During this time Bucket tried to cook a shrabbit to eat. However when the shrabbit juices fell into the fire, the fire jumped up and attacked Bucket. He and Jahar put down the fire before it spread. However Jahar noticed that the grass around the dead shrabbits was uprooting itself and forming grass phalanxes, using other pieces of non-animated grass for spears. Jahar then talked to Bucket about why it is a bad idea to eat Wyld food. Bucket pointed out he ate the Wyld cookie, and was fine. He even had more in his saddlebag for later. Jahar looked over at the horses to see the saddle bag in question crawling away from the bones of Bucket’s stolen horse. The Saddlebag looked quite full. The group decided to not dilly-dally anymore. Although they did tell the horse familiar to stomp the grass creatures, and protect the other horses. Reaching a cliff, they found the trail continued off onto some particularly solid clouds. It was found that, whenever anyone but Gareth spoke, his or her words rose up from the ground in massive blocks of hardened ink. This caused the group to have to climb over them. After everyone pantomimed and got on their way, they reached a floating island. It was an island of earth floating in the sky with a large maple tree upon it. The island appeared to be experiencing every season simultaneously, as part of the tree was in full bloom of spring, part covered in leaves of summer, part sparsely covered in autumn leaves, which also cover the ground, and part of it was bear and had ice upon it. Under the tree were a tiny lake (or a large puddle) and a small fire. Next to the fire was a silvery looking tent. A-dom was the first to charge onto the island and quickly got caught up in the autumnal leaves of the tree. One by one the group got trapped by one element or another upon the island. Luck was the last one, but managed to escape the fire. She later remembered that Fire was related to Dawn castes. Realizing fire was related to Dawn caste Solars, she ran around trying to remember who the dawn caste was while being chased by said fire. Once she remembered (luckily Jahar’s anima symbol was glowing), she dived into the bubble of water encasing Jahar. The Fire followed, and extinguished itself. Through trial and error, dumbfounded looks, ROB being surprised at the Circle’s stupidity/uneducatedness, and Jahar making himself very loud to be heard outside his water bubble, the group was able to work together and escape their entrapment. Luck hamster balled the water to earth to push Tiger out of the earth encasing him, Tiger pulled Gareth out of some silvery air he was entrapped in, Gareth pulled A-dom out of the leaves, A-dom pulled Bucket out of the ice entrapping him, and Bucket pulled Luck & Jahar out of the water. Most of the group was glowing greatly at this point, and Jahar was even totemic with a giant Octopus around him. Jahar forgot to reduce his volume again once outside the bubble, which led to everyone within a hundred miles or so hear him yell the word “PENGUIN!” As he was trying to direct the groups attention to where he was pointing. In a more, subdued voice, he asked people to start digging. A-Dom asked if anyone had a shovel, to which a shovel fell from the sky. A-Dom then asked if anyone had a naked woman. A naked elephant faced beast-woman fell from the sky and landed on A-Dom. She then promptly got up and, looking at the Circle, screamed “Solars!” and ran away. A-Dom shrugged and started digging while Gareth commented, “At least she knew what we were and not just demons.” Digging into the earth of the floating island, they found a small figurine of penguin armor that started spouting insults at them. While closing its beak seemed to cancel out the Wyld area, it also made the floating island plummet. It was quickly figured out that closing the beak was a bad idea. However, A-dom found sticking his finger in the armored penguin’s mouth stopped it from speaking while not making the island plummet. They were quite a ways down the cliff now, though and needed to get back up. Also, with the figuring spouting insults, words were appearing next to island still, obstructing the cliff. It was somewhat quickly found out that different words and languages could affect the landscape. Seaspeak made watery letters while Flametongue produced fiery ones. Jahar made said some slithery letters and made a slope back up to the cliff top. Once there, the group clamped the penguin’s mouth shut and all were saved from the Wyld. About this time, Gareth actively tried to break the others out of their hallucination that they had stopped the Wyld. They didn't seem to notice anything he did, but did continue talking to him (just not responding correctly to anything he said). Smashing the penguin with his sword probably would have eventually worked, given enough time. ------ Fast forward to the rest of the group waking up, in pain with a lot of bashing damage. They were all alive, minus one magic horse, one stolen horse, and Jahar's horse (Jahar's saddle & saddlebags remained, however). A-dom’s skin was now the exact color and shade of brown as his hair. [/QUOTE]
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