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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2819344" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Synopsis of 11/14/05 session - "Extreme Home Makeover – Manse Edition"</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 11/14/05 session</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>"Extreme Home Makeover – Manse Edition"</strong></span></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck and Tiger went outside because she wanted to learn monkey leap in the clearing. But, when they got out there, they found it gone.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>Did we heal the wood elemental without realizing it?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ralph:</strong> <em>Uhh, no. They wandered over yesterday after that guy, Wejin, threatened the demon.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Do you know why it wandered over? </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ralph:</strong> <em>I think the demon made it.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck proceeded to insult Ralph by calling him a door.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck spent the two days the trio were gone bouncing around the large room with the doohickey. Tiger spent that time getting friendly with the water elemental (his words, not mine).</p><p></p><p>Once they got back (carrying exceptional umbrellas), A-dom noticed that all the plants in the clearing were poisonous or man-eating or aggressive in some shape or form. Gareth’s idea of just mowing them down with his cuisinart sword were dampened by the pollen that would be kicked into the air. He didn’t feel like dealing with tactile poisons or delivering nasty things to the villagers downwind. A torrential downpour might do the trick, though.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>You’re going to want to avoid the area of Death! That one is poisonous, that one shoots barbs, and that one, I think Jahar knows intimately.</em></p><p></p><p>It took a little convincing to get Jahar to not Obsidian Butterfly the clearing (and possibly Ralph). Instead, they just made their way around the clearing to the door. Ralph denied A-dom’s positive actions in preventing the butterflies.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>So, what do gargoyles like, anyway?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ralph:</strong> <em>Keys. Passwords. Riddles. Occasionally getting to stab people to death; that’s fun. Kittens.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>What are you going to do with a kitten?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ralph:</strong> <em>Pet it and call it George.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Do all gargoyles like kittens?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ralph:</strong> <em>No. What kind of a stupid question is that? Do all Solars like necromancy?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Yes… umm… (pause) No. No! </em></p><p></p><p>Ralph then proceeded to confuse them by trying to explain what Gargoylesevania is like. He said he’d need a patch of pure Wyld to truly show us what it was like.</p><p></p><p>Gareth got bored and asked Ralph to let him in. Jahar continued to stand around questioning Ralph.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>You’d better get in here before the door closes, cause you can’t say it.</em></p><p></p><p>This hastened Jahar to move along. Once in the doohickey room, they found Jade’s Luck bouncing around the room.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>A-dom is now armed and armored.</em></p><p></p><p>*<em>A-dom growls and roars dramatically</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> (to Jahar) <em>Mind the vile moss. Now, this over here is.. uh, what is your name?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Old Lady:</strong> <em>Cindy.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar, of course, was intently staring at the blood moss and ignoring the rest of the Circle. Jade’s Luck got his attention by yelling in his ear. She then questioned him about Squishy, since she felt bad about sticking him back in his circle.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>If someone put YOU in a barrel, and you weren’t a skeleton, would you like it?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Oh, so THAT is where he is hiding! Thank you.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Damn it, Jahar! </em></p><p></p><p>Tiger bound a pact between A-dom and Jade’s Luck that Jade’s Luck couldn’t kill Skelly if A-dom got her a muffin. They probably would have liked it better if he had done it with their consent.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>A-dom, can I borrow your rock thingy?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>If you give me a muffin. </em></p><p></p><p>Jahar held the rock on a string and it started spinning around wildy.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>We’re in the center of a magic building, dumbass. </em></p><p></p><p>Jahar felt non-Creation energies coming from the East and the South and a complete lack of energies coming from the North. There was Creation energies in the West and from below. He told Luck that he was going to go have a conversation with Squishy, and then promptly walked back to Ralph.</p><p></p><p>When Jahar eventually got to Squishy, the conversation consisted of Squishy saying <strong><em>RAIN!!!</em></strong> and <em>Scrubby Scrubby</em> a lot. They did manage to get out of him that he let Air out of his circle. Someone let Squishy out a long time ago. They also found out that he now had orders to make it rain. Before he had orders not to. He didn’t know what happened to Wood, because Ralph wouldn’t let him go out. He got rid of Fire because he made Squishy boil with anger.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck tried to expedite matters by dunking Jahar under the water to get him to look at the binding circle. Squishy got the bright idea to make the water swirl around in a vortex. This dragged Jade’s Luck underwater too.</p><p></p><p>Back up in the doohickey room, A-dom broke out the keg and mugs he swiped from the inn back in town. A-dom, Tiger, Gareth, and Cindy proceeded to drink heavily and sing.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck managed to get her head back to the surface and yell at Squishy to stop. When Jahar got a good look at the circle, he found that Squishy was partially powering the Manse. He explained to Jade’s Luck (away from Squishy) that Squishy didn’t have a whole lot of self awareness and or actual feelings and that he needed to stay in the circle. She told him that the Fire Elemental area was filled with water. They went back to Squishy and asked him if he was keeping the water inside the Fire Elemental room. He said he had only filled it. When she asked him if they could just poke a hole in it to let it drain, he got a terrified look on his face and told them they didn’t want to do that. When asked why, he didn’t know, and told them to just go talk to Rocky.</p><p></p><p>They eventually headed back up to the doohickey room to find the others drinking and singing. Cindy was rather drunk by now. Jade’s Luck tried to convince Gareth to make a bucket to hold some water, but he told her he didn’t have the materials. An argument ensued about procuring the materials from the forest, which A-dom refused to do.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>You don’t have a problem being told to go fight with stuff when it’s a six year old child.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Yeah, but a six year old child doesn't explode into poisonous gas. </em></p><p></p><p>After a lengthy discussion about mountain building, they headed down to go speak to Rocky. Gareth put together some bedding for Cindy so she could sleep it off. While going through a lengthy corridor, they came to a large, stone door on the east side of the hallway. Inside was a long dining room with a big double table. There were a whole bunch of ghosts sitting around and a guy sitting at the other end. He was a pale-faced man with black hair and was holding a muffin in his hand.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Can I buy that muffin from you?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Muffin Man:</strong> <em>Who the hell are you? </em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>We’re Adventurers!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Muffin Man:</strong> <em>Get rid of them! </em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Ghosts all stand</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Can I have a muffin? </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Muffin Man:</strong> <em>No! </em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (quietly) <em>Please? </em></p><p></p><p>Big battle ensued. The Muffin Man escaped through a back door while the Circle dealt with the ghosts. A-dom smashed ghosts with the table, which had the unfortunate affect of destroying the muffins on it. Jahar did a leg-sweep, taking Gareth down. Most of the ghosts dematerialized once Gareth went into ginsu mode. Tiger ran along the wall and on top of ghosts’ heads to follow behind the Muffin Man.</p><p></p><p>Tiger found a smaller room beyond this one. Inside along one wall was a smaller door that started about waist high on one wall and a larger, normal door along another. When A-dom came in right behind Tiger, Tiger told him to take the larger door while he took the smaller one. A-dom smashed through the door, splintering it. Water started spraying from some pipes immediately after he smashed the door to the pantry. Water was getting all over the flour, so A-dom crimped the pipe to stop the water. Tiger dove into the small hole in the wall and started climbing down. He found a rope going down the center of the hole and a box farther down. Jade’s Luck entered the room and yelled at A-dom for the piping. Gareth entered the room and thought what A-dom was doing was okay, so he dived down the hole in the wall. Jahar entered the room and told A-dom to stop or he’d blow up the Manse.</p><p></p><p>In the dumbwaiter shaft, Tiger looked up to see Gareth filling up the shaft above him and rapidly approaching. He flattened himself against the wall. As Gareth went scraping by, Tiger was wedged between him and the wall, scraping him along a little. Gareth was much too heavy for the roof of the dumbwaiter. When Gareth came to a stop at the bottom, he was wearing a wooden dumbwaiter like a shirt, wedged underneath his armpits. Gareth wiggled down out of dumbwaiter, making more cracking and crunching sounds.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Stop that before we all die! </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>I found the hole. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I think you made the hole! </em></p><p></p><p>Gareth found himself in a large cavern with a couple of doorways going off in various directions. There were also a bunch of monkeys walking around.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>I found monkeys! </em></p><p></p><p>One of the monkeys walked up to Gareth. He offered it candy. The monkey took the candy.</p><p></p><p><strong>Head Monkey:</strong> <em>Thank you. Do you want something?</em></p><p></p><p>When questioned, the monkey told them there were no more muffins, that another guy did just come down there, and which way he went. </p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Get down here quickly!</em></p><p></p><p>As Gareth and Tiger went after the guy, Jahar carefully went down the dumbwaiter, making sure not to break anything. Jade’s Luck also went down carefully. A-dom, however, took the Gareth approach to getting down.</p><p></p><p>*<strong><em>CRUNCH! </em></strong>*</p><p></p><p>Jahar bitched some more at A-dom. They ran after Gareth and Tiger. Luckily for them, Gareth is slow enough that they would catch up. Gareth and Tiger came to an intersection, where one path led back up and another led down. They chose down.</p><p></p><p>The others caught up as they ran down this tunnel. The tunnel went up again and down and squiggled, but mostly went south until they reached water. The room looked like Squishy’s, but it was filled to the top inch with water. The water itself was a placid, foul blackish green. Jahar picked up a rock and chucked it in the water.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Hello Mr. Demon come out. </em></p><p></p><p>*<strong><em>Strange bubbling/hissing noise comes from the water</em></strong>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>I’m pretty sure that was demonic. </em></p><p></p><p>While Water Elemental sounded like a weird amalgamation of Sea tongue and Old Realm, this sounded like a foul bastardization of High Realm that just sounded like a long string of curses.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Wash your mouth out with soap!</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger stuck his head in the water and saw a red, fiery guy sitting in a binding circle.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>I’ll help you out of this. Have you seen anyone else come down? </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Fire Demon:</strong> <em>No. Letmeoutletmeoutletmeout. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>I need to talk to my friends to figure out how to get the water out for you.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Fire Demon:</strong> <em>Break the circle. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Do you have candy? </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Fire Demon:</strong> <em>Nooooooooo. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Okay. We’re not going to break the circle if you don’t have candy. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Fire Demon:</strong> <em>I’ve got candy. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Yeah, that’s what I thought. </em>(to Circle)<em> That’s a demon. </em></p><p></p><p>They backtracked to the intersection and went the other way. It led back up some stairs to an intersection with a hallway they had been in before. They raced back to the doohickey too to check on the little old lady. Gareth ran over to Ralph and found out the Muffin Man had run outside. Apparently the Muffin Man was a recent addition to the list. This annoyed A-dom. Gareth, A-dom and Tiger ran the way the guy had gone while Jahar and Jade’s Luck discussed. They found the guy’s path, which ended in a giant gopher hole. After fetching the other two, Jahar figured out that the guy had burrowed through the Earth to get away. Must have been the Porposing Worm of Hate.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Hmm.. If we got Squishy to make it rain really hard for about half an hour… </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>We need subjects, not water zombies. We’re not going to catch him. Lets go inside. </em></p><p></p><p>Back in the monkey room, three monkeys were huddled around the dumbwaiter trying to fix it.</p><p></p><p>Talking with the talking monkey, they found out his name was Jeeves. This amused A-dom and he asked Jeeves if he knew how to make more of himself. Jeeves responded with pelvic thrusts. They explored the storage rooms before going on to talk to Rocky.</p><p></p><p>They found another water filled cavern down a hallway. Jahar stuck his head in to see a pile of mud within a binding circle.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Are you happy like that? You don’t look happy. </em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Mud grumbles</em>*</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Jade’s Luck was having a conversation with Tiger and A-dom in the background.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>I am not a sorcerer! </em></p><p></p><p>When Jade’s Luck spoke, the mud stood up in a vaguely human form.</p><p></p><p><strong>Muddy (gravely voice):</strong> <em> Familiar! (pause) You sorcerer! (pause) Contract over! Let me out!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (meekly innocent voice) <em>I’m not a sorcerer. I’m only seventeen.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>And she’s a virgin. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Muddy:</strong> <em> Summoned for year and a day. Been here… </em> *pulls out chalkboard* <em>. Me been here 367,682 days longer than necessary.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (meekly innocent voice) <em>I don’t want to argue with you, but I’m only seventeen. I don’t remember doing any of this.</em> (to Gareth) <em> Do you? </em></p><p></p><p><em>Gareth got a vision of himself, with breasts, talking to a really handsome looking guy named Tellus the Fierce. Tellus was talking about sticking elementals into binding circles to run a magic building that his wife designed. Gareth then said that that was a bad idea.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>I remember a conversation, well, I had boobs, which was weird, with a guy called Tellus the Fierce, about sticking elementals in binding circles to run a magic building. I thought that was a bad idea. </em></p><p></p><p>Jahar found out from Muddy that his job in the Celestial Court was to be an island. If he wasn’t in the circle, he would leave and the island would cease to exist.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>We want things to be in the circle. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Muddy:</strong> (gravely voice) <em> No! Bad!</em></p><p></p><p>They left Muddy to go back to the monkey area. Tiger and Gareth stuck around there while A-dom, Jade’s Luck, and Jahar went to check out the Air area. Gareth went around fixing the broken stuff (dumbwaiter, door, water pipe)</p><p></p><p>At an intersection, the trio found a plaque on the east wall.</p><p></p><p><em><strong>The loving home of Tellus the Fierce and Cindy</strong></em></p><p></p><p><em>Jahar got a vision of himself as a very ugly woman (Wejin the Hideous) talking to some guy who was very self righteous and annoying and handsome and always talking about all of the women he could shag.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> (to Jade’s Luck) <em>There was a time when you liked whores. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>I don’t dislike whores.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>You liked to use them as much as you could.</em></p><p></p><p>The plaque did nothing for Jade’s Luck.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I don’t remember who Cindy was. You were Tellus the Fierce.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I wanna remember stuff.. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>You’d remember being a compassionate little girl..</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Did I shag him a lot.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>You remember how I said Rosewind was a little girl. Well, Tellus was Rosewind’s father. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (hysterical laughter) <em>I’m your daddy! Ha ha! </em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Right… My daddy is back on the island, somewhere.</em></p><p></p><p>They continued on until they heard some demon summoning going on upstairs. Jahar recognized it as being the fast and loose, uncontrollable way of summoning.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Umm. That’s bad. We need to go get Gareth and Tiger now. </em></p><p></p><p>The chanting stopped and then started again. To Jahar, it sounded like the demons were helping to summon more more quickly. Jade’s Luck ran back while Jahar had A-dom protect him.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I need you to protect me from the demons, but don’t get in front of me cause of the butterflies.</em></p><p></p><p>When Jade’s Luck was a reasonable distance away, she started yelling for help.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Demons Coming! Demons Coming! Help! Help! </em></p><p></p><p>A-dom and Jahar snuck closer to get a closer look at the summoning. They saw a big room with an upright stone circle. There was one guy in purple and four ugly demons (two small, two bigger) dancing around and chanting.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/demonbird.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Gareth was the first to hear Jade’s Luck yelling.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Hey Tiger. Demons. </em></p><p></p><p>The two ran off in her direction.</p><p></p><p>*<em>Clankity Clankity Clankity Clank</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>I need to remember to yell at Jade’s Luck about all these stairs.</em></p><p></p><p>When Jahar heard the clanking of Gareth’s armor, he began casting. Jahar started to glow as he began sucking huge amounts of energy from the surrounding area. Three demons broke off from the chanting to head towards A-dom and Jahar. Jade’s Luck did some fancy back flips, diving through Jahar’s legs, and chucking her chakram. She also jumped on Jahar’s shoulders and tried to scare the demons.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Cease Your Naughtiness!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>Cute Puppies Do Not Appreciate This! </em></p><p></p><p>The demons botched their summing and created a hole in the building. The raging bonfire that was Gareth dove in front of Jahar to protect him from a poison dart. A second later, a giant octopus with flailing tentacles formed around Jahar as Obsidian Butterflies came over his shoulders. Gareth drew up his sword to block the butterflies from hitting him. As Gareth dropped to the ground, a Golden Bear appeared around him. Jade’s Luck leapt off of Jahar’s shoulders and onto his head to avoid the butterflies. Tiger folded out of the way. When the dust settled, Garath was buried four feet deep beneath the butterflies. The guy was decently hurt and standing waist deep in butterflies. There were a couple of demons standing their seriously hurt. The stone circle was gone, as well as the far wall. Both rooms were filled in obsidian butterflies. There was an image of an obsidian monolith off in the distance behind Jahar giving off the impression of smiling.</p><p></p><p>The demons dematerialized, leaving the guy along. Jahar ran across the butterflies with his swords drawn, kicking up obsidian butterflies at the guy’s face with the tips of his swords. Gareth luckily took no damage as Jahar ran overtop him. He just worked on digging himself out. The guy glowed darker and darker as he wiggled out of the way of several attacks. Before Tiger dealt the killing blow, the guy was had a Vampire Bat glowing around him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 2819344, member: 9758"] [b]Synopsis of 11/14/05 session - "Extreme Home Makeover – Manse Edition"[/b] [i]Synopsis of 11/14/05 session[/i] [size=5][b]"Extreme Home Makeover – Manse Edition"[/b][/size] Jade’s Luck and Tiger went outside because she wanted to learn monkey leap in the clearing. But, when they got out there, they found it gone. [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]Did we heal the wood elemental without realizing it?[/i] [b]Ralph:[/b] [i]Uhh, no. They wandered over yesterday after that guy, Wejin, threatened the demon.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Do you know why it wandered over? [/i] [b]Ralph:[/b] [i]I think the demon made it.[/i] Jade’s Luck proceeded to insult Ralph by calling him a door. Jade’s Luck spent the two days the trio were gone bouncing around the large room with the doohickey. Tiger spent that time getting friendly with the water elemental (his words, not mine). Once they got back (carrying exceptional umbrellas), A-dom noticed that all the plants in the clearing were poisonous or man-eating or aggressive in some shape or form. Gareth’s idea of just mowing them down with his cuisinart sword were dampened by the pollen that would be kicked into the air. He didn’t feel like dealing with tactile poisons or delivering nasty things to the villagers downwind. A torrential downpour might do the trick, though. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]You’re going to want to avoid the area of Death! That one is poisonous, that one shoots barbs, and that one, I think Jahar knows intimately.[/i] It took a little convincing to get Jahar to not Obsidian Butterfly the clearing (and possibly Ralph). Instead, they just made their way around the clearing to the door. Ralph denied A-dom’s positive actions in preventing the butterflies. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]So, what do gargoyles like, anyway?[/i] [b]Ralph:[/b] [i]Keys. Passwords. Riddles. Occasionally getting to stab people to death; that’s fun. Kittens.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]What are you going to do with a kitten?[/i] [b]Ralph:[/b] [i]Pet it and call it George.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Do all gargoyles like kittens?[/i] [b]Ralph:[/b] [i]No. What kind of a stupid question is that? Do all Solars like necromancy?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Yes… umm… (pause) No. No! [/i] Ralph then proceeded to confuse them by trying to explain what Gargoylesevania is like. He said he’d need a patch of pure Wyld to truly show us what it was like. Gareth got bored and asked Ralph to let him in. Jahar continued to stand around questioning Ralph. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]You’d better get in here before the door closes, cause you can’t say it.[/i] This hastened Jahar to move along. Once in the doohickey room, they found Jade’s Luck bouncing around the room. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]A-dom is now armed and armored.[/i] *[i]A-dom growls and roars dramatically[/i]* [b]Gareth:[/b] (to Jahar) [i]Mind the vile moss. Now, this over here is.. uh, what is your name?[/i] [b]Old Lady:[/b] [i]Cindy.[/i] Jahar, of course, was intently staring at the blood moss and ignoring the rest of the Circle. Jade’s Luck got his attention by yelling in his ear. She then questioned him about Squishy, since she felt bad about sticking him back in his circle. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]If someone put YOU in a barrel, and you weren’t a skeleton, would you like it?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Oh, so THAT is where he is hiding! Thank you.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Damn it, Jahar! [/i] Tiger bound a pact between A-dom and Jade’s Luck that Jade’s Luck couldn’t kill Skelly if A-dom got her a muffin. They probably would have liked it better if he had done it with their consent. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]A-dom, can I borrow your rock thingy?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]If you give me a muffin. [/i] Jahar held the rock on a string and it started spinning around wildy. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]We’re in the center of a magic building, dumbass. [/i] Jahar felt non-Creation energies coming from the East and the South and a complete lack of energies coming from the North. There was Creation energies in the West and from below. He told Luck that he was going to go have a conversation with Squishy, and then promptly walked back to Ralph. When Jahar eventually got to Squishy, the conversation consisted of Squishy saying [b][i]RAIN!!![/i][/b] and [i]Scrubby Scrubby[/i] a lot. They did manage to get out of him that he let Air out of his circle. Someone let Squishy out a long time ago. They also found out that he now had orders to make it rain. Before he had orders not to. He didn’t know what happened to Wood, because Ralph wouldn’t let him go out. He got rid of Fire because he made Squishy boil with anger. Jade’s Luck tried to expedite matters by dunking Jahar under the water to get him to look at the binding circle. Squishy got the bright idea to make the water swirl around in a vortex. This dragged Jade’s Luck underwater too. Back up in the doohickey room, A-dom broke out the keg and mugs he swiped from the inn back in town. A-dom, Tiger, Gareth, and Cindy proceeded to drink heavily and sing. Jade’s Luck managed to get her head back to the surface and yell at Squishy to stop. When Jahar got a good look at the circle, he found that Squishy was partially powering the Manse. He explained to Jade’s Luck (away from Squishy) that Squishy didn’t have a whole lot of self awareness and or actual feelings and that he needed to stay in the circle. She told him that the Fire Elemental area was filled with water. They went back to Squishy and asked him if he was keeping the water inside the Fire Elemental room. He said he had only filled it. When she asked him if they could just poke a hole in it to let it drain, he got a terrified look on his face and told them they didn’t want to do that. When asked why, he didn’t know, and told them to just go talk to Rocky. They eventually headed back up to the doohickey room to find the others drinking and singing. Cindy was rather drunk by now. Jade’s Luck tried to convince Gareth to make a bucket to hold some water, but he told her he didn’t have the materials. An argument ensued about procuring the materials from the forest, which A-dom refused to do. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]You don’t have a problem being told to go fight with stuff when it’s a six year old child.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Yeah, but a six year old child doesn't explode into poisonous gas. [/i] After a lengthy discussion about mountain building, they headed down to go speak to Rocky. Gareth put together some bedding for Cindy so she could sleep it off. While going through a lengthy corridor, they came to a large, stone door on the east side of the hallway. Inside was a long dining room with a big double table. There were a whole bunch of ghosts sitting around and a guy sitting at the other end. He was a pale-faced man with black hair and was holding a muffin in his hand. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Can I buy that muffin from you?[/i] [b]Muffin Man:[/b] [i]Who the hell are you? [/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]We’re Adventurers![/i] [b]Muffin Man:[/b] [i]Get rid of them! [/i] *[i]Ghosts all stand[/i]* [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Can I have a muffin? [/i] [b]Muffin Man:[/b] [i]No! [/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] (quietly) [i]Please? [/i] Big battle ensued. The Muffin Man escaped through a back door while the Circle dealt with the ghosts. A-dom smashed ghosts with the table, which had the unfortunate affect of destroying the muffins on it. Jahar did a leg-sweep, taking Gareth down. Most of the ghosts dematerialized once Gareth went into ginsu mode. Tiger ran along the wall and on top of ghosts’ heads to follow behind the Muffin Man. Tiger found a smaller room beyond this one. Inside along one wall was a smaller door that started about waist high on one wall and a larger, normal door along another. When A-dom came in right behind Tiger, Tiger told him to take the larger door while he took the smaller one. A-dom smashed through the door, splintering it. Water started spraying from some pipes immediately after he smashed the door to the pantry. Water was getting all over the flour, so A-dom crimped the pipe to stop the water. Tiger dove into the small hole in the wall and started climbing down. He found a rope going down the center of the hole and a box farther down. Jade’s Luck entered the room and yelled at A-dom for the piping. Gareth entered the room and thought what A-dom was doing was okay, so he dived down the hole in the wall. Jahar entered the room and told A-dom to stop or he’d blow up the Manse. In the dumbwaiter shaft, Tiger looked up to see Gareth filling up the shaft above him and rapidly approaching. He flattened himself against the wall. As Gareth went scraping by, Tiger was wedged between him and the wall, scraping him along a little. Gareth was much too heavy for the roof of the dumbwaiter. When Gareth came to a stop at the bottom, he was wearing a wooden dumbwaiter like a shirt, wedged underneath his armpits. Gareth wiggled down out of dumbwaiter, making more cracking and crunching sounds. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Stop that before we all die! [/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]I found the hole. [/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I think you made the hole! [/i] Gareth found himself in a large cavern with a couple of doorways going off in various directions. There were also a bunch of monkeys walking around. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]I found monkeys! [/i] One of the monkeys walked up to Gareth. He offered it candy. The monkey took the candy. [b]Head Monkey:[/b] [i]Thank you. Do you want something?[/i] When questioned, the monkey told them there were no more muffins, that another guy did just come down there, and which way he went. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Get down here quickly![/i] As Gareth and Tiger went after the guy, Jahar carefully went down the dumbwaiter, making sure not to break anything. Jade’s Luck also went down carefully. A-dom, however, took the Gareth approach to getting down. *[b][i]CRUNCH! [/i][/b][i][/i]* Jahar bitched some more at A-dom. They ran after Gareth and Tiger. Luckily for them, Gareth is slow enough that they would catch up. Gareth and Tiger came to an intersection, where one path led back up and another led down. They chose down. The others caught up as they ran down this tunnel. The tunnel went up again and down and squiggled, but mostly went south until they reached water. The room looked like Squishy’s, but it was filled to the top inch with water. The water itself was a placid, foul blackish green. Jahar picked up a rock and chucked it in the water. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Hello Mr. Demon come out. [/i] *[b][i]Strange bubbling/hissing noise comes from the water[/i][/b][i][/i]* [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]I’m pretty sure that was demonic. [/i] While Water Elemental sounded like a weird amalgamation of Sea tongue and Old Realm, this sounded like a foul bastardization of High Realm that just sounded like a long string of curses. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Wash your mouth out with soap![/i] Tiger stuck his head in the water and saw a red, fiery guy sitting in a binding circle. [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]I’ll help you out of this. Have you seen anyone else come down? [/i] [b]Fire Demon:[/b] [i]No. Letmeoutletmeoutletmeout. [/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]I need to talk to my friends to figure out how to get the water out for you.[/i] [b]Fire Demon:[/b] [i]Break the circle. [/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Do you have candy? [/i] [b]Fire Demon:[/b] [i]Nooooooooo. [/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Okay. We’re not going to break the circle if you don’t have candy. [/i] [b]Fire Demon:[/b] [i]I’ve got candy. [/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Yeah, that’s what I thought. [/i](to Circle)[i] That’s a demon. [/i] They backtracked to the intersection and went the other way. It led back up some stairs to an intersection with a hallway they had been in before. They raced back to the doohickey too to check on the little old lady. Gareth ran over to Ralph and found out the Muffin Man had run outside. Apparently the Muffin Man was a recent addition to the list. This annoyed A-dom. Gareth, A-dom and Tiger ran the way the guy had gone while Jahar and Jade’s Luck discussed. They found the guy’s path, which ended in a giant gopher hole. After fetching the other two, Jahar figured out that the guy had burrowed through the Earth to get away. Must have been the Porposing Worm of Hate. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Hmm.. If we got Squishy to make it rain really hard for about half an hour… [/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]We need subjects, not water zombies. We’re not going to catch him. Lets go inside. [/i] Back in the monkey room, three monkeys were huddled around the dumbwaiter trying to fix it. Talking with the talking monkey, they found out his name was Jeeves. This amused A-dom and he asked Jeeves if he knew how to make more of himself. Jeeves responded with pelvic thrusts. They explored the storage rooms before going on to talk to Rocky. They found another water filled cavern down a hallway. Jahar stuck his head in to see a pile of mud within a binding circle. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Are you happy like that? You don’t look happy. [/i] *[i]Mud grumbles[/i]* Meanwhile, Jade’s Luck was having a conversation with Tiger and A-dom in the background. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]I am not a sorcerer! [/i] When Jade’s Luck spoke, the mud stood up in a vaguely human form. [b]Muddy (gravely voice):[/b] [i] Familiar! (pause) You sorcerer! (pause) Contract over! Let me out![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (meekly innocent voice) [i]I’m not a sorcerer. I’m only seventeen.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]And she’s a virgin. [/i] [b]Muddy:[/b] [i] Summoned for year and a day. Been here… [/i] *pulls out chalkboard* [i]. Me been here 367,682 days longer than necessary.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (meekly innocent voice) [i]I don’t want to argue with you, but I’m only seventeen. I don’t remember doing any of this.[/i] (to Gareth) [i] Do you? [/i] [i]Gareth got a vision of himself, with breasts, talking to a really handsome looking guy named Tellus the Fierce. Tellus was talking about sticking elementals into binding circles to run a magic building that his wife designed. Gareth then said that that was a bad idea.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]I remember a conversation, well, I had boobs, which was weird, with a guy called Tellus the Fierce, about sticking elementals in binding circles to run a magic building. I thought that was a bad idea. [/i] Jahar found out from Muddy that his job in the Celestial Court was to be an island. If he wasn’t in the circle, he would leave and the island would cease to exist. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]We want things to be in the circle. [/i] [b]Muddy:[/b] (gravely voice) [i] No! Bad![/i] They left Muddy to go back to the monkey area. Tiger and Gareth stuck around there while A-dom, Jade’s Luck, and Jahar went to check out the Air area. Gareth went around fixing the broken stuff (dumbwaiter, door, water pipe) At an intersection, the trio found a plaque on the east wall. [i][b]The loving home of Tellus the Fierce and Cindy[/b][/i] [i]Jahar got a vision of himself as a very ugly woman (Wejin the Hideous) talking to some guy who was very self righteous and annoying and handsome and always talking about all of the women he could shag.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] (to Jade’s Luck) [i]There was a time when you liked whores. [/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]I don’t dislike whores.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]You liked to use them as much as you could.[/i] The plaque did nothing for Jade’s Luck. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I don’t remember who Cindy was. You were Tellus the Fierce.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I wanna remember stuff.. [/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]You’d remember being a compassionate little girl..[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Did I shag him a lot.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]You remember how I said Rosewind was a little girl. Well, Tellus was Rosewind’s father. [/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (hysterical laughter) [i]I’m your daddy! Ha ha! [/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Right… My daddy is back on the island, somewhere.[/i] They continued on until they heard some demon summoning going on upstairs. Jahar recognized it as being the fast and loose, uncontrollable way of summoning. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Umm. That’s bad. We need to go get Gareth and Tiger now. [/i] The chanting stopped and then started again. To Jahar, it sounded like the demons were helping to summon more more quickly. Jade’s Luck ran back while Jahar had A-dom protect him. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I need you to protect me from the demons, but don’t get in front of me cause of the butterflies.[/i] When Jade’s Luck was a reasonable distance away, she started yelling for help. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Demons Coming! Demons Coming! Help! Help! [/i] A-dom and Jahar snuck closer to get a closer look at the summoning. They saw a big room with an upright stone circle. There was one guy in purple and four ugly demons (two small, two bigger) dancing around and chanting. [img]http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/demonbird.jpg[/img] Gareth was the first to hear Jade’s Luck yelling. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Hey Tiger. Demons. [/i] The two ran off in her direction. *[i]Clankity Clankity Clankity Clank[/i]* [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]I need to remember to yell at Jade’s Luck about all these stairs.[/i] When Jahar heard the clanking of Gareth’s armor, he began casting. Jahar started to glow as he began sucking huge amounts of energy from the surrounding area. Three demons broke off from the chanting to head towards A-dom and Jahar. Jade’s Luck did some fancy back flips, diving through Jahar’s legs, and chucking her chakram. She also jumped on Jahar’s shoulders and tried to scare the demons. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Cease Your Naughtiness![/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]Cute Puppies Do Not Appreciate This! [/i] The demons botched their summing and created a hole in the building. The raging bonfire that was Gareth dove in front of Jahar to protect him from a poison dart. A second later, a giant octopus with flailing tentacles formed around Jahar as Obsidian Butterflies came over his shoulders. Gareth drew up his sword to block the butterflies from hitting him. As Gareth dropped to the ground, a Golden Bear appeared around him. Jade’s Luck leapt off of Jahar’s shoulders and onto his head to avoid the butterflies. Tiger folded out of the way. When the dust settled, Garath was buried four feet deep beneath the butterflies. The guy was decently hurt and standing waist deep in butterflies. There were a couple of demons standing their seriously hurt. The stone circle was gone, as well as the far wall. Both rooms were filled in obsidian butterflies. There was an image of an obsidian monolith off in the distance behind Jahar giving off the impression of smiling. The demons dematerialized, leaving the guy along. Jahar ran across the butterflies with his swords drawn, kicking up obsidian butterflies at the guy’s face with the tips of his swords. Gareth luckily took no damage as Jahar ran overtop him. He just worked on digging himself out. The guy glowed darker and darker as he wiggled out of the way of several attacks. Before Tiger dealt the killing blow, the guy was had a Vampire Bat glowing around him. [/QUOTE]
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