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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2819347" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Synopsis of 11/26/05 session - “30 Minute Manse (repairs)”</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 11/26/05 session</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>“30 Minute Manse (repairs)”</strong></span></p><p></p><p>As the Circle was standing on top of (well, Gareth was still crawling his way out from underneath) four feet of obsidian butterflies, Essense started flaring off the walls and fires started popping up all over. Monkey Ninjas appeared out of the walls and landed on Jade’s Luck and Tiger. The second was an impressive feet, since Tiger was standing on the ceiling. Still, they’re monkey ninjas; they do that.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/monkeyninjas01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>Head Monkey Ninja:</strong> <em> WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em> We killed the bad guy.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Head Monkey Ninja:</strong> <em> WE’RE ALL GOING TO DROWN!</em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Random sputtering from Jade’s Luck and Tiger</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Head Monkey Ninja:</strong> <em> ACTUALLY WE’RE ALL GOING TO BLOW UP BEFORE WE DROWN. THIS IS VERY BAD!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>How do we fix it? He cast the spell. Maybe he knows.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Head Monkey Ninja:</strong> <em> SOMEBODY HAS TO BE THE MASTER!</em></p><p></p><p>As Jade’s Luck and Jahar tried to extract more information from the monkey ninjas, the monkeys got very irritated. Apparently the dead Death knight Jade’s Luck was standing on was the former master. And, apparently Tiger killing the guy didn’t automatically make him the master. After a monkey ninja helped Gareth out of the butterflies, Jahar got the ninjas to tell him that becoming the master had something to do with the Master Room. The head monkey ninja instructed them to take the important stuff off the body before pointing them towards the Master Room (he couldn’t get down on the floor because the butterflies would hurt is feet).</p><p>They collected a multifaceted-gem that was about an inch and a half in diameter and made out of five materials (Ruby, Sapphire, Diamond, Emerald, & Gold) all fitted together. The other item was a bird egg-shaped stone that was made out of five different colors of Jade (Black, Red, Blue, Green, Ice Blue) all swirled together.</p><p></p><p>Each member of the Circle started to regain Essense at an enormous rate since it was bleeding out of the walls and soaking into everything. They weren’t sure why, but they knew it couldn’t be a good thing if they absorbed too much Essense.</p><p></p><p>The Master Room was at the top of the building. It was a large room with clear walls (like big thick glass) so one could observe the areas surrounding the Manse. In the center of the room was an S-shaped loveseat (so a couple could sit and face each other). There was a pedestal on each of the armrests (one was faceted and the other was smooth). Gareth found the chairs were amazing and he couldn’t possibly make something this nice. The chair looked like it was a single polished uncut diamond, but comfy. Tiger and Jahar sat down and tried to attune to the Manse, but couldn’t figure it out.</p><p></p><p><strong>Head Monkey Ninja:</strong> <em> FASTER! WHY CAN’T YOU DO THIS FASTER? WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar noticed the word Cindy written in Old Realm on the side he was sitting on and Tellus was written on the side Tiger was sitting on. Jahar felt it working, but felt something was wrong. Gareth stood around with nothing to do. He offered to rebuild the wall, but Jahar didn’t think that was a good idea.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Jade’s Luck! Sit in Tiger’s chair!</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck sat down in Tiger’s lap. Monkey ninjas slapped their foreheads. Once Tiger got up, Jade’s Luck properly sat in the seat. Jahar got up and let Tiger sit in the spot he had been in. This time, it seemed to work right. The head monkey ninja then started referring to Tiger as Mistress and Jade’s Luck as Master. The group (Circle & monkey ninjas) then all went to talk to Rocky to see how they could fix this. As they ran through the rubble room again, a monkey ninja (Bob) went up in flames. Gareth sent away his armor. Several Circle members started activating charms willy-nilly to burn essense.</p><p></p><p>Once they got to Rocky’s room, Tiger asked him to tell him how to make the Manse not go boom.</p><p></p><p><strong>Rocky:</strong> <em>Unh-unh. I’ve been stuck here for 367,682 days longer than necessary. And I’m not going to help you unless you get me out of here.</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger got Rocky to promise that the island wouldn’t disappear when they let him out of the binding circle and he agreed to let Rocky out. While Tiger waited for Jahar and Jade’s Luck to verify this, Gareth started burning with light and let out a scream of pain. Tiger sanctified the deal and they let Rocky out.</p><p></p><p>Rocky instructed them on how to summon an Earth Elemental the fast and dangerous way. Jahar, Tiger, Jade’s Luck, and Rocky formed a circle around the binding circle and started summoning. Gareth went outside the room. When a new Earth Elemental splorted into the binding circle, Rocky apologized to him and told the Circle to go to the wood circle. </p><p></p><p>Tiger and Jade’s Luck, with their lightening speed and monkey leaping, were the first to arrive. Rocky, having passed through the earth, was already waiting for them. Once Gareth got there, he screamed out in pain as his body burst into flames again.</p><p></p><p>They could all see huge flames of essence were shooting into the building from all four directions, riding up the sides of the building and shooting out the top in a big pillar making a miles high light show. Gareth then pointed out to the others exactly which plants were the binding circle and which were the nasty plants. A short fight ensued where the others squished the demon before Gareth could join the fight.</p><p></p><p>Rocky, Jahar, and Jade’s Luck then summoned a new Wood Elemental while Gareth wandered inside to check on what he suspected would be Cindy’s remains. The building stopped burning as the new Wood and Earth Elementals repaired the Manse. While Jahar and Gareth wanted to get rid of the Fire demon, they were outvoted by Tiger and Jade’s Luck, because they wanted time to heal and regain willpower. Gareth and Jahar really didn’t like the fact that the other two were now connected to a demon, but couldn’t convince them that time was of the essence. So, they decided to sit around till the second morning to heal and regain willpower. Gareth’s normal damage healed, but the aggravated burns across his body resisted his healing charms. The last time he remember feeling this bad was when he was stabbed by something more powerful than a god.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong><em> Guys, I really don’t like the fact that the rest of this isn’t healing. Let’s not do that again. No more obsidian butterflies inside the house.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar wandered off to the dining hall to be alone. After Jade’s Luck had healed up, she went off in search of Jahar and muffins to destroy <span style="font-size: 9px">(she didn’t want to destroy Jahar, just the muffins)</span>.</p><p></p><p>Tiger made a note to have muffins made once they had restored the Fire Elemental and cooking staff, as right now, the cooking staff would be demonic cooking monkeys. This would be funny, but dangerous.</p><p></p><p>After discussing with Jahar, Luck and Tiger set the monkeys to the task of emptying the water from the fire elemental’s room and the wood elemental to the task of making more buckets for the monkey bucket brigade. As Gareth laid down in the doohickey room on the bedding he had put together for Cindy, he watched monkeys walk past with clearly inferior buckets. If he was in less pain, he’d have cared more.</p><p></p><p>The night before they went to take care of the Fire Elemental, Jahar approached Tiger.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong><em> I assume you are expecting me to help with this?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong><em> Might be a good idea. We’re going to need help with the summoning, at least.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong><em> Then I’m going to have to use sorcery and rest afterwards.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong><em> Okay.</em></p><p></p><p>In the morning, after Jahar had cast Bones of Stone and regained the essence from it, a grumpy Gareth, a slightly sulky Jahar, a peppy Jade’s Luck, and an eager Patient Tiger gathered outside the Fire Elemental room. Tiger took a certain sadistic pleasure in powering up in front of the demon.</p><p></p><p><strong>Dan:</strong><em> I’ll be making eleven attacks the first round. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Alex:</strong><em> Do I really need to be here?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong><em> It’s possible he might miss and the demon might attack him for you to take the blow.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Alex:</strong><em> Nah, I’ve taken enough damage and he’s really good at dodging. I’m going to leave my sword in its sheath, though.</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger blurred in a flurry of blows (punches, kicks, head butts and then sword blows). Amazingly enough, the demon was still standing when he was finished. Jade’s Luck tried to slash an X in the demon’s face with her war fan, but it ended up being more of a Y. The demon attacked Jade’s Luck before Gareth drew his sword and lopped its head off.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong><em> Okay. Go about your business of summoning. I’m going to go and see about laying down.</em></p><p></p><p>One banishing and summoning later.</p><p></p><p><strong>Fire Elemental:</strong> (waves)<em> Hello. Sorry, I’m talking to some monkeys. They apparently want orders. I’m a little confused. Give me a little bit to get used to the job.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar wandered off to find the Air Elemental place. Once he got there, he sat down and waited for the others. Jade’s Luck wandered back to talk to Ralph and get him to take all of the Porposing Worms off the list. She then dragged Gareth (probably not literally, since he can way a ton when he wants to) off to find the Air Elemental circle with Tiger. They found Jahar outside on a big deck with a nice view and railings all around and a hole in the deck, which Jahar was looking at.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong><em> Hey, what’s that?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong><em> It’s a hole.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong><em> Well, why are you looking at it?</em></p><p></p><p>It was a wooden circle with lots of runes around it and a big crack through it on one side (don’t ask me how a circle has sides). Jade’s Luck tried to get Wood to fix it, but he couldn’t. Strange how Elementals don’t know how to make Elemental Binding Circles.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong><em> So, we need to wait to summon an air elemental until after Gareth can fix the circle.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong><em> Umm. I’m not Magical Mojo Boy. I don’t know how to fix this.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong><em> I know, but you’re Mr. Fix It, so I figure it will take a combination of the two of you.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong><em> I know how it can be fixed.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong><em> So you’re good on the theory but light on the actual know-how.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong><em> He has the know how, just not the ability. I think that’s what he is trying to say.</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger then proceeded to change the subject, ignoring Jahar.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong><em> So, who was the guy we killed [on the second floor]?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong><em> Don’t know. We killed the Porposing Worm of Hate. The Porposing Worm of Vengeance got away. Lets call the third one The Porposing Worm of Lust.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong><em> I don’t even want to think about the Porposing Worm of Lust.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Liz:</strong><em> Too late.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck questioned Gareth about acceptable weather patterns. He explained to her how the island was now mostly a tropical rain forest and how she could go about changing it to something else gradually, if she wanted. She and Tiger wandered off to check on the monkeys’ progress on the water and butterflies. Gareth looked around, remembered he was in a good amount of pain, and went back to laying down. Jahar stayed up there and sulked. </p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck and Tiger figured they’d talk to Squishy about rain later and, with the now active volcanoes, talk to Fire about no lava. The monkeys had finished removing the water from the Fire Elemental room and were mostly done with throwing the butterflies into the forest around the Manse. Jade’s Luck told the cooking staff not to make muffins and Tiger told them to make them. The result was the monkeys made muffins, but made sure Jade’s Luck didn’t see them. She then told them that there shall be no muffins in her presence. Every once in a while, she saw a monkey running away from her with a covered platter.</p><p></p><p>The two wandered down to the former butterfly room to look at the destroyed vertical arch. Wanting to repair it, Luck went to go talk to Squishy to find out what it looked like so Earth could repair it. She negotiated with Squishy, conceding a part of the island he could always rain on and occasional escapes from the circle so he could wander around. She then let Squishy out so he could now talk to newRocky and describe it. Rocky physically fixed it, but the magic was another story.</p><p></p><p>Jahar wandered by and, upon seeing it reconstructed, remembered walking through it and ending up somewhere else. He had a clue of how to re-enchant it, but it would require a lot of rare components. Then he wandered back to the Air Elemental circle.</p><p></p><p>Gareth brought Jahar up some beer, then went to teach monkey how to properly create furniture. Some indeterminate time later, Jade’s Luck went back up to the Air Elemental place to find Jahar sitting there with an empty tankard next to him.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong><em> You’ve been up here a while. Find anything more out about the circle?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong><em> Not since I was first here. (pause) Easy enough to fix.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong><em> How do we fix it?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong><em> Just need Gareth.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong><em> Gareth knows how to fix it?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong><em> I need to tell him what to do.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong><em> Oh. Well, You should have said that.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong><em> You all wandered off.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck wandered off to find Gareth. Down in the monkey caverns, she found Gareth trying to get the monkeys to not stick a square peg into a round hole. She told him Jahar needed his assistance in fixing the circle.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong><em> One second. Nono NO! You. THIS way. NoO. …I need a whip…</em></p><p></p><p>He decided what he was doing was probably a hopeless cause anyway and went up to see Jahar. He found Jahar exactly where he left him.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong><em> Did you want more beer? </em></p><p></p><p>Jahr rattled off a list of much more wood than he actually needed. He asked for multiple cubits of certain types and a couple of whole trees. Gareth came back with all the wood Jahar requested. Jahar instructed Gareth which tiny sections of the wood he brought back they actually needed and exactly how they needed to be cut. He then filled in the crack to complete the circle, as instructed by Jahar.</p><p></p><p>With all this extra wood, Gareth had lots of fun. He made himself a walking stick out of some of the silvery wood. He also made a perfect excellent carving of Jeeves. </p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong><em> How do you get the monkeys to cart this wood away?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong><em> I don’t get the monkeys to do anything.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar got the attention of a wandering monkey.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong><em> You there! Can you put the wood somewhere better than up here?</em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Monkey shrugs</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong><em> Stupid monkey.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth proceeded to start chucking the trees off the balcony a la caber toss. He went for style for half of them and distance for the other half.</p><p></p><p>While Jade’s Luck and Tiger were roaming the grounds around the Manse, they heard lots of crashing in the distance. They had several ‘good’ ideas while out wandering around. Jade’s Luck wanted to make a little pond near the Manse with a miniature ship so they could have monkey pirates. Tiger wanted to get Squishy to make a rain clock (three columns of rain that rotated at different speeds).</p><p></p><p>Jahar started getting impatient while watching Gareth have fun.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong><em> Yeah. Okay. I did that stuff. Now what?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong><em> Well, once you get the monkeys to move the wood off the roof we can continue.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong><em> I can’t get the monkeys to move the wood off the roof. Sides, this is fun.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong><em> Well, I figure Jade’s Luck or Tiger will wander by eventually and they can get the monkeys to move the wood off.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth went back downstairs and talked with Chef, giving him the idea to make sundrop candy. They thought it was a good idea, so made a small batch. Gareth then took a nap.</p><p></p><p>Eventually Jade’s Luck and Tiger came back. A monkey offered Jade’s Luck candy. Gareth got around to informing Jade’s Luck that Jahar was looking for them. Just as Jahar was getting impatient enough to go down and find them when Jade’s Luck was coming upstairs.</p><p></p><p>Along with Tiger, Luck and Jahar went up and summoned an air elemental. Tiger found the head scout monkey and instructed him to look for the Porposing Worm of Vengeance and any other Porposing Worms. They didn’t find the Porposing Worm. They didn’t find the Friendly Maiden. They didn’t find the canoes. And, finally, there was no barrel on the shore.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck had Gareth make a little stone urn for Cindy’s ashes and took them outside to bury them. While she was outside burying, a muffin appeared in her hand with A-dom standing next to her.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong><em> Hi A-dom.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong><em> Ha Ha.</em></p><p></p><p>The muffin was alright. Jade’s Luck added the rest of the Circle to Ralph’s list. Ralph still wouldn’t add A-dom to the list, though.</p><p></p><p>Eventually Squishy came up to complain to Jade’s Luck cause the Air Elemental kept messing up his rain patterns.</p><p></p><p>When the Circle got together, they discussed searching out the other villages to inform them of the management change. Gareth wandered off to draw up new boat plans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 2819347, member: 9758"] [b]Synopsis of 11/26/05 session - “30 Minute Manse (repairs)”[/b] [i]Synopsis of 11/26/05 session[/i] [size=5][b]“30 Minute Manse (repairs)”[/b][/size] As the Circle was standing on top of (well, Gareth was still crawling his way out from underneath) four feet of obsidian butterflies, Essense started flaring off the walls and fires started popping up all over. Monkey Ninjas appeared out of the walls and landed on Jade’s Luck and Tiger. The second was an impressive feet, since Tiger was standing on the ceiling. Still, they’re monkey ninjas; they do that. [img]http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/monkeyninjas01.jpg[/img] [b]Head Monkey Ninja:[/b] [i] WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i] We killed the bad guy.[/i] [b]Head Monkey Ninja:[/b] [i] WE’RE ALL GOING TO DROWN![/i] *[i]Random sputtering from Jade’s Luck and Tiger[/i]* [b]Head Monkey Ninja:[/b] [i] ACTUALLY WE’RE ALL GOING TO BLOW UP BEFORE WE DROWN. THIS IS VERY BAD![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]How do we fix it? He cast the spell. Maybe he knows.[/i] [b]Head Monkey Ninja:[/b] [i] SOMEBODY HAS TO BE THE MASTER![/i] As Jade’s Luck and Jahar tried to extract more information from the monkey ninjas, the monkeys got very irritated. Apparently the dead Death knight Jade’s Luck was standing on was the former master. And, apparently Tiger killing the guy didn’t automatically make him the master. After a monkey ninja helped Gareth out of the butterflies, Jahar got the ninjas to tell him that becoming the master had something to do with the Master Room. The head monkey ninja instructed them to take the important stuff off the body before pointing them towards the Master Room (he couldn’t get down on the floor because the butterflies would hurt is feet). They collected a multifaceted-gem that was about an inch and a half in diameter and made out of five materials (Ruby, Sapphire, Diamond, Emerald, & Gold) all fitted together. The other item was a bird egg-shaped stone that was made out of five different colors of Jade (Black, Red, Blue, Green, Ice Blue) all swirled together. Each member of the Circle started to regain Essense at an enormous rate since it was bleeding out of the walls and soaking into everything. They weren’t sure why, but they knew it couldn’t be a good thing if they absorbed too much Essense. The Master Room was at the top of the building. It was a large room with clear walls (like big thick glass) so one could observe the areas surrounding the Manse. In the center of the room was an S-shaped loveseat (so a couple could sit and face each other). There was a pedestal on each of the armrests (one was faceted and the other was smooth). Gareth found the chairs were amazing and he couldn’t possibly make something this nice. The chair looked like it was a single polished uncut diamond, but comfy. Tiger and Jahar sat down and tried to attune to the Manse, but couldn’t figure it out. [b]Head Monkey Ninja:[/b] [i] FASTER! WHY CAN’T YOU DO THIS FASTER? WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE![/i] Jahar noticed the word Cindy written in Old Realm on the side he was sitting on and Tellus was written on the side Tiger was sitting on. Jahar felt it working, but felt something was wrong. Gareth stood around with nothing to do. He offered to rebuild the wall, but Jahar didn’t think that was a good idea. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Jade’s Luck! Sit in Tiger’s chair![/i] Jade’s Luck sat down in Tiger’s lap. Monkey ninjas slapped their foreheads. Once Tiger got up, Jade’s Luck properly sat in the seat. Jahar got up and let Tiger sit in the spot he had been in. This time, it seemed to work right. The head monkey ninja then started referring to Tiger as Mistress and Jade’s Luck as Master. The group (Circle & monkey ninjas) then all went to talk to Rocky to see how they could fix this. As they ran through the rubble room again, a monkey ninja (Bob) went up in flames. Gareth sent away his armor. Several Circle members started activating charms willy-nilly to burn essense. Once they got to Rocky’s room, Tiger asked him to tell him how to make the Manse not go boom. [b]Rocky:[/b] [i]Unh-unh. I’ve been stuck here for 367,682 days longer than necessary. And I’m not going to help you unless you get me out of here.[/i] Tiger got Rocky to promise that the island wouldn’t disappear when they let him out of the binding circle and he agreed to let Rocky out. While Tiger waited for Jahar and Jade’s Luck to verify this, Gareth started burning with light and let out a scream of pain. Tiger sanctified the deal and they let Rocky out. Rocky instructed them on how to summon an Earth Elemental the fast and dangerous way. Jahar, Tiger, Jade’s Luck, and Rocky formed a circle around the binding circle and started summoning. Gareth went outside the room. When a new Earth Elemental splorted into the binding circle, Rocky apologized to him and told the Circle to go to the wood circle. Tiger and Jade’s Luck, with their lightening speed and monkey leaping, were the first to arrive. Rocky, having passed through the earth, was already waiting for them. Once Gareth got there, he screamed out in pain as his body burst into flames again. They could all see huge flames of essence were shooting into the building from all four directions, riding up the sides of the building and shooting out the top in a big pillar making a miles high light show. Gareth then pointed out to the others exactly which plants were the binding circle and which were the nasty plants. A short fight ensued where the others squished the demon before Gareth could join the fight. Rocky, Jahar, and Jade’s Luck then summoned a new Wood Elemental while Gareth wandered inside to check on what he suspected would be Cindy’s remains. The building stopped burning as the new Wood and Earth Elementals repaired the Manse. While Jahar and Gareth wanted to get rid of the Fire demon, they were outvoted by Tiger and Jade’s Luck, because they wanted time to heal and regain willpower. Gareth and Jahar really didn’t like the fact that the other two were now connected to a demon, but couldn’t convince them that time was of the essence. So, they decided to sit around till the second morning to heal and regain willpower. Gareth’s normal damage healed, but the aggravated burns across his body resisted his healing charms. The last time he remember feeling this bad was when he was stabbed by something more powerful than a god. [b]Gareth:[/b][i] Guys, I really don’t like the fact that the rest of this isn’t healing. Let’s not do that again. No more obsidian butterflies inside the house.[/i] Jahar wandered off to the dining hall to be alone. After Jade’s Luck had healed up, she went off in search of Jahar and muffins to destroy [size=1](she didn’t want to destroy Jahar, just the muffins)[/size]. Tiger made a note to have muffins made once they had restored the Fire Elemental and cooking staff, as right now, the cooking staff would be demonic cooking monkeys. This would be funny, but dangerous. After discussing with Jahar, Luck and Tiger set the monkeys to the task of emptying the water from the fire elemental’s room and the wood elemental to the task of making more buckets for the monkey bucket brigade. As Gareth laid down in the doohickey room on the bedding he had put together for Cindy, he watched monkeys walk past with clearly inferior buckets. If he was in less pain, he’d have cared more. The night before they went to take care of the Fire Elemental, Jahar approached Tiger. [b]Jahar:[/b][i] I assume you are expecting me to help with this?[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b][i] Might be a good idea. We’re going to need help with the summoning, at least.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b][i] Then I’m going to have to use sorcery and rest afterwards.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b][i] Okay.[/i] In the morning, after Jahar had cast Bones of Stone and regained the essence from it, a grumpy Gareth, a slightly sulky Jahar, a peppy Jade’s Luck, and an eager Patient Tiger gathered outside the Fire Elemental room. Tiger took a certain sadistic pleasure in powering up in front of the demon. [b]Dan:[/b][i] I’ll be making eleven attacks the first round. [/i] [b]Alex:[/b][i] Do I really need to be here?[/i] [b]Paul:[/b][i] It’s possible he might miss and the demon might attack him for you to take the blow.[/i] [b]Alex:[/b][i] Nah, I’ve taken enough damage and he’s really good at dodging. I’m going to leave my sword in its sheath, though.[/i] Tiger blurred in a flurry of blows (punches, kicks, head butts and then sword blows). Amazingly enough, the demon was still standing when he was finished. Jade’s Luck tried to slash an X in the demon’s face with her war fan, but it ended up being more of a Y. The demon attacked Jade’s Luck before Gareth drew his sword and lopped its head off. [b]Gareth:[/b][i] Okay. Go about your business of summoning. I’m going to go and see about laying down.[/i] One banishing and summoning later. [b]Fire Elemental:[/b] (waves)[i] Hello. Sorry, I’m talking to some monkeys. They apparently want orders. I’m a little confused. Give me a little bit to get used to the job.[/i] Jahar wandered off to find the Air Elemental place. Once he got there, he sat down and waited for the others. Jade’s Luck wandered back to talk to Ralph and get him to take all of the Porposing Worms off the list. She then dragged Gareth (probably not literally, since he can way a ton when he wants to) off to find the Air Elemental circle with Tiger. They found Jahar outside on a big deck with a nice view and railings all around and a hole in the deck, which Jahar was looking at. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b][i] Hey, what’s that?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b][i] It’s a hole.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b][i] Well, why are you looking at it?[/i] It was a wooden circle with lots of runes around it and a big crack through it on one side (don’t ask me how a circle has sides). Jade’s Luck tried to get Wood to fix it, but he couldn’t. Strange how Elementals don’t know how to make Elemental Binding Circles. [b]Tiger:[/b][i] So, we need to wait to summon an air elemental until after Gareth can fix the circle.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b][i] Umm. I’m not Magical Mojo Boy. I don’t know how to fix this.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b][i] I know, but you’re Mr. Fix It, so I figure it will take a combination of the two of you.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b][i] I know how it can be fixed.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b][i] So you’re good on the theory but light on the actual know-how.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b][i] He has the know how, just not the ability. I think that’s what he is trying to say.[/i] Tiger then proceeded to change the subject, ignoring Jahar. [b]Tiger:[/b][i] So, who was the guy we killed [on the second floor]?[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b][i] Don’t know. We killed the Porposing Worm of Hate. The Porposing Worm of Vengeance got away. Lets call the third one The Porposing Worm of Lust.[/i] [b]Paul:[/b][i] I don’t even want to think about the Porposing Worm of Lust.[/i] [b]Liz:[/b][i] Too late.[/i] Jade’s Luck questioned Gareth about acceptable weather patterns. He explained to her how the island was now mostly a tropical rain forest and how she could go about changing it to something else gradually, if she wanted. She and Tiger wandered off to check on the monkeys’ progress on the water and butterflies. Gareth looked around, remembered he was in a good amount of pain, and went back to laying down. Jahar stayed up there and sulked. Jade’s Luck and Tiger figured they’d talk to Squishy about rain later and, with the now active volcanoes, talk to Fire about no lava. The monkeys had finished removing the water from the Fire Elemental room and were mostly done with throwing the butterflies into the forest around the Manse. Jade’s Luck told the cooking staff not to make muffins and Tiger told them to make them. The result was the monkeys made muffins, but made sure Jade’s Luck didn’t see them. She then told them that there shall be no muffins in her presence. Every once in a while, she saw a monkey running away from her with a covered platter. The two wandered down to the former butterfly room to look at the destroyed vertical arch. Wanting to repair it, Luck went to go talk to Squishy to find out what it looked like so Earth could repair it. She negotiated with Squishy, conceding a part of the island he could always rain on and occasional escapes from the circle so he could wander around. She then let Squishy out so he could now talk to newRocky and describe it. Rocky physically fixed it, but the magic was another story. Jahar wandered by and, upon seeing it reconstructed, remembered walking through it and ending up somewhere else. He had a clue of how to re-enchant it, but it would require a lot of rare components. Then he wandered back to the Air Elemental circle. Gareth brought Jahar up some beer, then went to teach monkey how to properly create furniture. Some indeterminate time later, Jade’s Luck went back up to the Air Elemental place to find Jahar sitting there with an empty tankard next to him. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b][i] You’ve been up here a while. Find anything more out about the circle?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b][i] Not since I was first here. (pause) Easy enough to fix.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b][i] How do we fix it?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b][i] Just need Gareth.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b][i] Gareth knows how to fix it?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b][i] I need to tell him what to do.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b][i] Oh. Well, You should have said that.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b][i] You all wandered off.[/i] Jade’s Luck wandered off to find Gareth. Down in the monkey caverns, she found Gareth trying to get the monkeys to not stick a square peg into a round hole. She told him Jahar needed his assistance in fixing the circle. [b]Gareth:[/b][i] One second. Nono NO! You. THIS way. NoO. …I need a whip…[/i] He decided what he was doing was probably a hopeless cause anyway and went up to see Jahar. He found Jahar exactly where he left him. [b]Gareth:[/b][i] Did you want more beer? [/i] Jahr rattled off a list of much more wood than he actually needed. He asked for multiple cubits of certain types and a couple of whole trees. Gareth came back with all the wood Jahar requested. Jahar instructed Gareth which tiny sections of the wood he brought back they actually needed and exactly how they needed to be cut. He then filled in the crack to complete the circle, as instructed by Jahar. With all this extra wood, Gareth had lots of fun. He made himself a walking stick out of some of the silvery wood. He also made a perfect excellent carving of Jeeves. [b]Jahar:[/b][i] How do you get the monkeys to cart this wood away?[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b][i] I don’t get the monkeys to do anything.[/i] Jahar got the attention of a wandering monkey. [b]Jahar:[/b][i] You there! Can you put the wood somewhere better than up here?[/i] *[i]Monkey shrugs[/i]* [b]Jahar:[/b][i] Stupid monkey.[/i] Gareth proceeded to start chucking the trees off the balcony a la caber toss. He went for style for half of them and distance for the other half. While Jade’s Luck and Tiger were roaming the grounds around the Manse, they heard lots of crashing in the distance. They had several ‘good’ ideas while out wandering around. Jade’s Luck wanted to make a little pond near the Manse with a miniature ship so they could have monkey pirates. Tiger wanted to get Squishy to make a rain clock (three columns of rain that rotated at different speeds). Jahar started getting impatient while watching Gareth have fun. [b]Gareth:[/b][i] Yeah. Okay. I did that stuff. Now what?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b][i] Well, once you get the monkeys to move the wood off the roof we can continue.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b][i] I can’t get the monkeys to move the wood off the roof. Sides, this is fun.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b][i] Well, I figure Jade’s Luck or Tiger will wander by eventually and they can get the monkeys to move the wood off.[/i] Gareth went back downstairs and talked with Chef, giving him the idea to make sundrop candy. They thought it was a good idea, so made a small batch. Gareth then took a nap. Eventually Jade’s Luck and Tiger came back. A monkey offered Jade’s Luck candy. Gareth got around to informing Jade’s Luck that Jahar was looking for them. Just as Jahar was getting impatient enough to go down and find them when Jade’s Luck was coming upstairs. Along with Tiger, Luck and Jahar went up and summoned an air elemental. Tiger found the head scout monkey and instructed him to look for the Porposing Worm of Vengeance and any other Porposing Worms. They didn’t find the Porposing Worm. They didn’t find the Friendly Maiden. They didn’t find the canoes. And, finally, there was no barrel on the shore. Jade’s Luck had Gareth make a little stone urn for Cindy’s ashes and took them outside to bury them. While she was outside burying, a muffin appeared in her hand with A-dom standing next to her. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b][i] Hi A-dom.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b][i] Ha Ha.[/i] The muffin was alright. Jade’s Luck added the rest of the Circle to Ralph’s list. Ralph still wouldn’t add A-dom to the list, though. Eventually Squishy came up to complain to Jade’s Luck cause the Air Elemental kept messing up his rain patterns. When the Circle got together, they discussed searching out the other villages to inform them of the management change. Gareth wandered off to draw up new boat plans. [/QUOTE]
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