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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2907918" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Synopsis for 6/12/06 session</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis for 6/12/06 session</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>"It’s All Skelly’s Fault!"</strong></span></p><p></p><p>The Circle continued to wait for Tiger, which was excessively boring.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I’m sure Tiger will show up eventually. After he’s done killing everyone.</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger should know better than to leave the group with nothing to do. This never leads to anything good.</p><p></p><p>Jahar continued his plans to figure out how to kill the mayor. But first he wanted to figure out what the mayor was smuggling with the rice. He wandered around town pestering people, trying to get people to talk about the mayors ‘dirty dealings.’ Jahar noticed that some residents of the town tended to follow him around. He also noticed that these people were intimidating those he talked to from afar. Jahar took note of the ones his shadows felt they needed to intimidate more than others, since he felt that meant they’d actually be willing to talk.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe:</strong> <em>I, uh, continue to be annoying for a little while.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>You’re going to stop?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe:</strong> <em>Them. Jackass. I’m not as annoying to them as I am to you guys.</em> (pause) <em>So, I wander around for a while to see if I can loose my tail.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Alex:</strong> <em>Jahar grew a tail?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Liz:</strong> <em>So go in the Wyld again and see if it falls off.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>It works. Trust me.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>As he subtlety rubs his large fang.</em></p><p></p><p>During this time, Gareth went out to see if his ship had arrived yet, but he didn’t see it. A-dom wandered around town for a while before returning to the inn.</p><p></p><p>During the day at the temple, Tiger joined the brothers in morning exercises. He found the human monks to be very well trained by Brother HollowTree. They even appeared to know a few charms from the Wood style martial arts. Tiger made himself look like he was at about their level of martial arts.</p><p></p><p>Jahar went back to the Inn and told the others about those following around. A-dom volunteered to follow behind and get rid of them. He even said he’d do it all non-lethal like, for a change of pace. Jahar said he’d like to question these thugs to find out what they knew.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Sir, you probably shouldn’t be…</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>Wrong game!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>You probably shouldn’t be there when I konk their heads together. It could probably get messy.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>A-dom. He’s not actually paying you. You don’t have to call him sir.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar then proceeded to be incomprehensible to the point that A-dom curled up in a ball and cried. Jade’s Luck said that A-dom could just not be A-dom after this happened, to avoid persecution on his part. Jahar emphasized that he didn’t want these men killed.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Can I make them ugly?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Sure.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>How can you make them ugly, A-dom?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (giggles happily) <em>How? Magic!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Very well, but I don’t want that getting back to my name.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>So you want me to kill them?</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar stated he wanted to proceed with the ‘konking on the head’ plan, not the murder plan. So, A-dom made himself look like a random villager and followed him out a little later.</p><p></p><p>Gareth went down to the bar to drink while Jade’s Luck chatted up Ceri.</p><p></p><p>About mid day, a bell tolled at the temple and Brother HollowTree called break and wandered off to the belltower. Tiger tried to be as sneaky as possible to follow him up the tower, but Brother Hollowtree heard him and told him the stairs couldn’t handle two people at once. Having been spotted, he excused himself and went back down.</p><p></p><p>While Jahar went to annoy some people again, A-dom stood back and observed. He saw that there were three thugs keeping watch over Jahar. Two of the thugs stood closer to Jahar, being rather overt (scowling, sharpening knives, etc). The third thug stood back further and went to talk to the person Jahar talk to afterwards while the other two followed Jahar.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Ooh. The leader. Wonderful!</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom watched this pattern a couple of times to make sure they always split up. He then went ahead to ambush the two thugs, planning to deal with the leader when he went to catch up. A-dom pulled them into a small alley as they walked past. The two thugs were clearly confused as A-dom made the Ugly Stick appear and smacked them both with it. The two now very injured and horribly ugly thugs ran off screaming. The snaggle-toothed man with a gimp, a bad haircut, and one ear way bigger than the other ran off towards the temple. The man with excessive body hair, nose hair mustache, no ears and no eyebrows, and twin humps on his back hobbled off towards the inn. A-dom then made himself look like somebody else that also wasn’t A-dom and kept an eye out for the leader. When he couldn’t see the leader anywhere, he got worried. A-dom erased himself from existence and followed behind Jahar to look for the leader.</p><p></p><p>Jahar now forgot he was being followed, so he conducted his usual business. He found out there was nothing illegal going on, besides Farmer George possibly having an opium field out two farms over. They didn’t have room to expand, because of all the rice fields. Jahar eventually headed back to the Inn.</p><p></p><p>While sitting at the bar, Gareth watched as the ugliest person he had ever seen ran past him.</p><p></p><p><strong>Excessive Body-Hair Man:</strong> <em>Uncle Larry! Uncle Larry! Something happened!</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck and Ceri heard the commotion and came down to the bar. An anathema was quickly blamed for what happened to the man and a small mob formed to take him to the temple. It was questioned, but quickly discarded that the guy had been turned into an anathema, since he didn’t have the mark.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>Mental note for next time. Dagger.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>Surprised you hadn’t thought of that, since you have met people with bleeding castemarks.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Alex:</strong> <em>Just need a stamp. Solar approved!</em> (makes ka-thunk sound of something being stamped)</p><p></p><p>Ceri and Jade’s Luck followed with the mob as they left. Gareth stuck around the inn to drink.</p><p></p><p>As Jahar was walking back to the inn, he saw a mob leaving shouting ‘<em>Anathema! Dirty Anathema!</em>’ He also saw the horribly ugly hairy man being dragged towards the temple. Jahar joined the mob.</p><p></p><p>Back at the temple, Tiger noticed some of the monks talking to a very ugly man. When he went over, he could hear what they were talking about.</p><p></p><p><strong>Buck-Toothed Man:</strong> (horrible lisp) <em>Athema made me fugly.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>Where did this happen?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Buck-Toothed Man:</strong> (horrible lisp) <em>Alleyway.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>What did it look like?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Buck-Toothed Man:</strong> (horrible lisp) <em>I couldn’t see it. Was Anasema. Was insisable.</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger proposed it could have been a Wyld patch popping up. This worried the monk that looked it up in a book, since it was possible. The Buck-toothed guy pointed out the alleyway from the door to Tiger, but wouldn’t leave the church. While there, they saw the mob coming with the hairy man. Tiger went to go get Brother HollowTree and tell him what was going on. He found HollowTree coming down the stairs, having seen the commotion from above. Once informed, Hollowtree whispered something. Tiger didn’t catch everything he said, but he did hear the words ‘Help’ and “Anathema.’ He was pretty sure Brother Hollowtree just used an Air charm to send a message.</p><p></p><p>A-dom watched the mob go passed and was pleased. He didn’t like that he still hadn’t seen the leader, though. He followed/joined the guy, looking for the guy.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>I should just stay home on Mondays, cause I can’t seem to do anything right.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>Sure you do. You advance the plot.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>Yeah, I could advance the plot really easily by jumping up and down and shouting ‘Look at me! I’m an Anathema!’</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Liz:</strong> <em>I’ve contemplated that a couple of times, actually.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>I need an obvious ‘fly away’ charm.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>It’s in Athletics.</em></p><p></p><p>Brother HollowTree ushered the mob inside and closed the doors to protect people from the Anathema problem. Brother HollowTree told the crowd to calm down and that he had called in help.</p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> <em>Yeah!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> (hiding in the crowd) <em>How long will it take them to get here?</em></p><p></p><p>Brother HollowTree said they were all going to stay in the church together. He said the brothers would protect them until the Brotherhood of Horses Irrevocably Cleansing Anathema arrived.</p><p></p><p>Looking around the temple, Jade’s Luck, Ceri, and Jahar could each see each other, figuring Tiger and Gareth were absent. Jade’s Luck missed She-dom and wished she was there. Not A-dom saw the three of them, noting Tiger and Gareth were absent. Tiger could pick the three of them out of the crowd, noting that Gareth wasn’t there.</p><p></p><p>Ceri knew exactly where one guy in the room was, but didn’t know why. She knew he was connected to this guy via her Eternal Vow, so there must be another Solar in the temple that she didn’t know. She also knew that the entire town was looking for an Anathema.</p><p></p><p>Back at the Inn, Gareth continued drinking. Since he was bored, he worked on fixing up the Inn a little.</p><p></p><p>Tiger snuck down into the basement and found the cellar door out. About this time Tiger realized that he waited too long to contact the party.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck tried to start some murmuring about the temple ceiling falling down. She failed to excite the crowd over Brother HollowTree’s calming words. Jahar tried to help her, but failed miserably. They both got a warning.</p><p></p><p>It took Tiger slightly longer than it should have to find Gareth, since he went to the wrong Inn first. He found Gareth drinking a mug of ale while fixing the stairs.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>Um, Gareth? The whole town is in the temple, and-</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> (cutting him off) <em>Who are you?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong><em> I’m Tiger.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth didn’t look like he believed him, since he didn’t look like him and was completely bald. When Tiger pulled out Diplomacy, he believed him. Gareth’s first question was where his boat was. Tiger filled Gareth in on the situation.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Right! Time to leave, now.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>We need to create a distraction so we can get people out of the Temple so I can slaughter the dragon-blood and his cronies.</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger explained that he needed a lot of noise and shouting to drag the dragon-blood out. Maybe knocking over some buildings.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>He just needs some help along the way. If all else fails, maybe he’ll get a sword in the back.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth said he’d see what he could do. He then waited around for a half an hour drinking so Tiger could sneak back in. He then brought is sword and armor out of Elsewhere and strapped on his armor the slow way. Some random farmer wandered into the bar during this time. Gareth knocked him out and then poured some beer in and on his mouth to discredit him. He also patched him up to make sure he would be okay.</p><p></p><p>Jahar wanted to go exploring, but he had a monk watching him closely now to make sure he didn’t start a riot. Jahar decided to bug the mayor instead.</p><p></p><p>Gareth wandered over to the other Inn and activated his sword to start taking it down. He did a good job of making lots of noise as the Inn blew apart spectacularly.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <span style="font-size: 18px"><em>RARRR!!!</em></span></p><p></p><p>Inside the Temple, Jade’s Luck started flipping out. She succeeded in making everyone step away from her and the monks feel she was panicking and needed to be knocked out. Tiger did a very bad job of convincing HollowTree someone needed to go out to take care of the problem.</p><p></p><p>Outside, Gareth looked around for something else to knock down. He didn’t want to take out personal dwellings or the Blacksmith’s shop, so headed for the Rice Silo.</p><p></p><p>Jahar noticed the strange monk talking to HollowTree was wearing Diplomacy, so went over to try and help.</p><p></p><p>Ceri, meanwhile, started a whispering campaign to sow decent with the populace about the cowardly dragon-bloods. Ceri was much more successful.</p><p></p><p>After Gareth made less spectacular work of the Rice Silo, he headed for the mayor’s house.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck eventually ‘calmed down.’ A little old lady got her to lay down and put a wet cloth over her head, saying soothing words. She gave Luck a minty type root to chew. She wasn’t sure what it was, since she lost her medical knowledge when the Yozi changed creation, so just pretended to chew it.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe:</strong> <em>Is the Circle’s name the Circle of Once Medically Endowed Solars?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>No. Doesn’t spell anything interesting.</em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Gabe works out the anagram for Jara’s brotherhood</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe:</strong> <em>B.O.H.I.C.A.? </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>It’s a engineering acronym. Bend Over. Here It Comes Again. </em></p><p></p><p>As he headed for the mayor’s house, he thought he heard a strange noise. Looking around, he thought he saw what looked like black rain falling off in the fields to the east of town. He then saw a black cylinder rise up from the ground near there and rain down. As another one went up, it looked like they were covering fields. Gareth stood confused as he saw more cylinders. He then quickly headed for the mayor’s house. He was very efficient in his destruction and noise of that house. He then heard more cylinders go off, so turned off his sword and went to back to the standing Inn.</p><p></p><p>The loud explosion across the street from the temple finally helped Tiger convince Brother HollowTree to send Tiger and Brother LeaningTree out to investigate and report back. Jahar went with, because he could. Once they got over to the inn, LeaningTree stood around confused.</p><p></p><p><strong>LeaningTree:</strong> <em>I don’t know what the hell did this!</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar and Tiger both heard the funnels and looked. To Jahar, it looked like someone was setting off lots of Death of Obsidian Butterflies.</p><p></p><p><strong>Alex:</strong> <em>It’s all Skelly’s doing.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>He is the mastermind, after all.</em></p><p></p><p>Back on the boat, Skelly raised his arms as if to say, <em>What’d I do?</em></p><p></p><p>No longer being actively watched, Jade’s Luck quietly made her way over towards Ceri.</p><p></p><p>Looking out at the field, Jahar thought he saw a black, clay pot about one hundred feet away, out in the fields.</p><p></p><p><strong>LeaningTree:</strong> <em>Cows! Maybe beavers. Anathema beavers did this!</em></p><p></p><p>LeaningTree picked up a mug to look at it.</p><p></p><p>Once Jahar pointed out the pot to Tiger, Tiger got LeaningTree’s attention and asked him about the pot. LeaningTree wandered over to the pot.</p><p></p><p><strong>LeaningTree:</strong> <em>Wow. Looks like a pot with runes on it. I wonder what is inside.</em></p><p></p><p>One funnel later, LeaningTree was blasted into the air and landed all around that field. Jahar and Tiger headed back towards the temple to tell HollowTree that the Anathema. Tiger noticed that the butterflies falling were setting off other pots and pointed this out to Jahar. Jahar decided he wanted to go collect a pot instead.</p><p></p><p>Tiger went to the Inn to go find Gareth again. Gareth was sitting there in her armor, having a beer. He explained the pots had circled the city and were working their way towards the city. As Tiger and Gareth walked out, they could see Jahar walking up carrying a pot gingerly. Its lid wasn’t well sealed, so he held it while leaning back.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>You’re not taking that into the Inn.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I just need some rope to tie the lid down.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>You’re going to destroy the inn with that thing.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I want to know how they did this. I want to make one.</em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Gareth smacks his own forehead</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>Put it down now. We need to stop the fields from being fully covered in obsidian.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth monkey leapt over towards the section of the unexploded fields while Tiger headed back to the Temple. Jahar ignored Gareth and took the pot inside the Inn. He brought it up to his room and tied the lid shut, putting it next to his stuff. He then wandered over towards the mayor’s house to see what he could steal from it.</p><p></p><p>Getting over to the fields, Gareth found two pots right away. He picked them both up and gingerly moved towards the already exploded area to set up a firebreak. Gareth jostled one of the pots just enough to make it go off. He quickly aimed it down to minimize the damage. A few seconds later he was standing on a mountain of obsidian with mildly chapped legs and an unexploded pot. He stood there a little dumbfounded.</p><p></p><p>Tiger ducked back into the temple and told them that the Anathema had gotten Brother LeaningTree and they needed reinforcements. He managed to get HollowTree to leave the remaining two monks to guard and come out with him.</p><p></p><p>Looking around, Not A-dom decided to try something and wandered up to Jade’s Luck.</p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> <em>You don’t know me, but I’m going to try and help.</em></p><p></p><p>Ceri knew this man used to be Marcus the Mad, but that left her confused, so she missed the next little bit of conversation as she tried to work it out.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>That’s.. nice…</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> <em>I’m a friend of US too.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>I have no idea what you’re talking about.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> <em>You know. Big guy. Encased in soulsteel.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (louder) <em>I have no idea what you’re talking about!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> (grumbles) <em>oh, alright. whatever. Do me a favor. Open the door and stand away from the door.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (louder) <em>Oh my. I think you must be an anathema to make a suggestion like that.</em></p><p></p><p>Everyone in the room turned to look at Jade’s Luck and Not A-dom.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (loud and pointing at Not A-dom) <em>He tried to tempt me!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> <em><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />! You <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ing Jezebel!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (loud and pointing at Not A-dom) <em>He told me he was my friend! And then he told me I should open the doors!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Monk:</strong> (pointing at Not A-dom) <em>Deceiver!</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom noticed his forehead was glowing and he knew he didn’t do that. Jade’s Luck noticed that A-dom now had a caste mark on his forehead that looked like an Eclipse. Ceri noticed that it looked like it was incorrectly drawn, like the one they had seen at the service the previous day.</p><p></p><p>The mayor started casting a spell as A-dom moved to the center of the room.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>No! Anathema!</em></p><p></p><p>Outside, Tiger and HollowTree ran towards where Gareth was. Tiger heard Anathema being yelled inside the Temple. HollowTree didn’t seem to notice, though.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> (yelling) <em>There he is!</em></p><p></p><p>Turning, Gareth noticed the guy he thought was Tiger and someone else in monk robes running towards him. He cackled maniacally from atop his hill.</p><p></p><p>Back inside the Temple, Jade’s Luck started heading towards the door.</p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> (pointing at Jade’s Luck) <em>You <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ed up my whole plan!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>I stopped an Anathema? I’m glad!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> <em>You brain-dead, <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ing… ARRGHH!!! </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Alex:</strong> <em>Never approach her.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>No. No.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Alex:</strong> <em>You should have learned this by now.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe:</strong> <em>Why did she do that?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>Because she wants to be anchored to a large, large, large, large stone and pushed over into the water.</em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Liz giggles a lot</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Liz:</strong> <em>You didn’t say anything like ‘I take her aside’ or I whisper to her.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em> Yes! That’s right! I should be punished for this. Thank you!</em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Liz giggles some more</em>*</p><p></p><p>Not A-dom moved over to the wall and punched a hole in it. He became all glowy and now had two caste marks (his normal Dawn one and the false Eclipse one).</p><p></p><p>Outside, Tiger heard the sound of breaking building and started to fall behind Brother HollowTree. Thankfully, Brother HollowTree was focused on the clear and present Anathema. He really didn’t see it coming as Tiger stabbed him repeatedly with Diplomacy.</p><p></p><p>As Brother HollowTree dropped to the ground, dying, Gareth sent his sword and armor to ElseWhere and got down off of his mountain.</p><p></p><p>A large group of mortals were trying to get out the large, front doors and a smaller group was trying to get out the small, back door. Unfortunately, it was hard for anyone to get the latch working in a panicked mob and those that were trying were getting crushed.</p><p></p><p><strong>Not A-dom:</strong> <em>That’s right. They don’t need to have a convenient exit. They can crush each other to death. I’m happy with that too! Cause that’s not my fault.</em></p><p></p><p>Ceri recognized that the mayor was casting Death of Obsidian Butterflies. Jade’s Luck thought he was casting a combat spell, and that’s the only one she’d seen. As Ceri popped claws on her hand to deal with the mayor, Jade’s Luck activated Graceful Crane Stance, jumped up and ran on people’s heads to the front doors. She then punched the latch, breaking it and allowing the doors to swing open.</p><p></p><p>Ceri slashed him with her claws, but he continued casting. Not A-dom ran over, producing the Ugly Stick, and brought it down at the mayor’s head. Unfortunately, he misjudged distances and clubbed the floor instead.</p><p></p><p>As the mayor’s spell went off, the chunk of mortals by the front door had escaped, as had Jade’s Luck. The butterflies tore through Ceri, Not A-dom, the chunk of mortals by the back door and the back door.</p><p></p><p>As Jade’s Luck saw the rubble of the Mayor’s House, the group all remembered who A-dom was. Jade’s Luck had the feeling she was going to need a very big muffin basket for this one.</p><p></p><p>Tiger saw the back of the Temple blasted out by butterflies and ran back towards there.</p><p></p><p>Inside, Ceri switched to hybrid form and sliced the mayor nicely.</p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>Okay, A-dom. There is a bird woman and Mr. Justshotyouwithdeathofobsidianbutterflies.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>Well, I’ll deal with the bird woman after I kill him.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Lori:</strong> <em>The bird woman hasn’t done anything to you.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (to the mayor) <em>You have angered a child of the dawn. This doesn’t end well.</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom raised the Ugly Stick and brought it down on the mayor, imbedding him into the floor and making a nice blood smear. He then turned towards the front door of the temple.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>What the <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />?!</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck saw a monk carrying a bloody sword, yelling for people to run the other way because there was an Anathema behind him and to avoid the pots. As A-dom looked out the door, he heard and saw this as well as the butterfly funnels, that were no longer that far from town.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ing butterflies everywhere!</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck turned around and saw the funnels as well. She and A-dom both saw that the people were now all heading towards the clear (read as yet unexploded) fields. She activated Terrifying Apparition of Glory and frightened the people away from the fields. The hoard of mortals split up with one group heading for the port and the other heading for the remaining Inn.</p><p></p><p>A-dom ran/leapt out to the fields and started chucking pots into the exploded fields. Tiger started tipping pots over so they were exploding towards the exploded fields, so they only lost half a field instead of all of it. Jade’s Luck followed joined Tiger in tipping.</p><p></p><p>Having left the mayor’s house before the mortals escaped the temple, Jahar slowly made his way to back to the inn. By the time he got there, he could hear lots of people cowering inside. Jahar stood outside, hesitant about going in. He wandered around the door, looking in at all the townsfolk. He wasn’t sure he wanted to deal with them right now. Then he heard a loud popping noise and the smashing of wood coming from the back of the inn. Running around to look at the damage, it looked like the pot he left there took out the entire third floor and half of the second floor. It also looked like it took out several mortals.</p><p></p><p>Once the pots were dealt with, everyone but Jahar met up and headed for the Inn. Even Gareth could see the carnage. Then they saw Jahar exiting the inn with a couple of buckets, looking for water. Ceri headed straight in to the inn to take care of the wounded.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>Gareth, do you have any idea what to do here?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Jahar, what did you do?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I did not do that.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> (exasperated tone) <em>Yes. Yes you did. </em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Jahar points at the townsfolk</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong> <em>The ship is parked up the coast a little ways. I think some people need to leave now.</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom explained about the leader thug to the others. When he found he couldn’t really describe the guy beyond perfectly normal, A-dom cursed. Jade’s Luck postulated that it was one of the star guys that are hard to find, but A-dom couldn’t confirm that. It was decided that everyone but Ceri and Tiger needed to flee town and go to the boat. Jahar stuck around long enough to find George, one of the townsfolk that didn’t hate him, and talk to him about setting George up nicely. He tried to get George to become a sailor in his mercantile company, but he wouldn’t budge.</p><p></p><p>While Tiger talked to people, he found no one could really describe the guy, but that he lived at the temple. After spending three hours searching the temple, he found a loose stone at the bottom of the bell tower. Behind the stone was a long, vertical earthen shaft with no light, ladder, or handholds. He went off to find A-dom, but remembered that he went to the boat. So, Tiger went and explained things to Ceri, including whom he was and dragged her off to check out the hole.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 2907918, member: 9758"] [b]Synopsis for 6/12/06 session[/b] [i]Synopsis for 6/12/06 session[/i] [size=6][b]"It’s All Skelly’s Fault!"[/b][/size] The Circle continued to wait for Tiger, which was excessively boring. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I’m sure Tiger will show up eventually. After he’s done killing everyone.[/i] Tiger should know better than to leave the group with nothing to do. This never leads to anything good. Jahar continued his plans to figure out how to kill the mayor. But first he wanted to figure out what the mayor was smuggling with the rice. He wandered around town pestering people, trying to get people to talk about the mayors ‘dirty dealings.’ Jahar noticed that some residents of the town tended to follow him around. He also noticed that these people were intimidating those he talked to from afar. Jahar took note of the ones his shadows felt they needed to intimidate more than others, since he felt that meant they’d actually be willing to talk. [b]Gabe:[/b] [i]I, uh, continue to be annoying for a little while.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]You’re going to stop?[/i] [b]Gabe:[/b] [i]Them. Jackass. I’m not as annoying to them as I am to you guys.[/i] (pause) [i]So, I wander around for a while to see if I can loose my tail.[/i] [b]Alex:[/b] [i]Jahar grew a tail?[/i] [b]Liz:[/b] [i]So go in the Wyld again and see if it falls off.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]It works. Trust me.[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]As he subtlety rubs his large fang.[/i] During this time, Gareth went out to see if his ship had arrived yet, but he didn’t see it. A-dom wandered around town for a while before returning to the inn. During the day at the temple, Tiger joined the brothers in morning exercises. He found the human monks to be very well trained by Brother HollowTree. They even appeared to know a few charms from the Wood style martial arts. Tiger made himself look like he was at about their level of martial arts. Jahar went back to the Inn and told the others about those following around. A-dom volunteered to follow behind and get rid of them. He even said he’d do it all non-lethal like, for a change of pace. Jahar said he’d like to question these thugs to find out what they knew. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Sir, you probably shouldn’t be…[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]Wrong game![/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]You probably shouldn’t be there when I konk their heads together. It could probably get messy.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]A-dom. He’s not actually paying you. You don’t have to call him sir.[/i] Jahar then proceeded to be incomprehensible to the point that A-dom curled up in a ball and cried. Jade’s Luck said that A-dom could just not be A-dom after this happened, to avoid persecution on his part. Jahar emphasized that he didn’t want these men killed. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Can I make them ugly?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Sure.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]How can you make them ugly, A-dom?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] (giggles happily) [i]How? Magic![/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Very well, but I don’t want that getting back to my name.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]So you want me to kill them?[/i] Jahar stated he wanted to proceed with the ‘konking on the head’ plan, not the murder plan. So, A-dom made himself look like a random villager and followed him out a little later. Gareth went down to the bar to drink while Jade’s Luck chatted up Ceri. About mid day, a bell tolled at the temple and Brother HollowTree called break and wandered off to the belltower. Tiger tried to be as sneaky as possible to follow him up the tower, but Brother Hollowtree heard him and told him the stairs couldn’t handle two people at once. Having been spotted, he excused himself and went back down. While Jahar went to annoy some people again, A-dom stood back and observed. He saw that there were three thugs keeping watch over Jahar. Two of the thugs stood closer to Jahar, being rather overt (scowling, sharpening knives, etc). The third thug stood back further and went to talk to the person Jahar talk to afterwards while the other two followed Jahar. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Ooh. The leader. Wonderful![/i] A-dom watched this pattern a couple of times to make sure they always split up. He then went ahead to ambush the two thugs, planning to deal with the leader when he went to catch up. A-dom pulled them into a small alley as they walked past. The two thugs were clearly confused as A-dom made the Ugly Stick appear and smacked them both with it. The two now very injured and horribly ugly thugs ran off screaming. The snaggle-toothed man with a gimp, a bad haircut, and one ear way bigger than the other ran off towards the temple. The man with excessive body hair, nose hair mustache, no ears and no eyebrows, and twin humps on his back hobbled off towards the inn. A-dom then made himself look like somebody else that also wasn’t A-dom and kept an eye out for the leader. When he couldn’t see the leader anywhere, he got worried. A-dom erased himself from existence and followed behind Jahar to look for the leader. Jahar now forgot he was being followed, so he conducted his usual business. He found out there was nothing illegal going on, besides Farmer George possibly having an opium field out two farms over. They didn’t have room to expand, because of all the rice fields. Jahar eventually headed back to the Inn. While sitting at the bar, Gareth watched as the ugliest person he had ever seen ran past him. [b]Excessive Body-Hair Man:[/b] [i]Uncle Larry! Uncle Larry! Something happened![/i] Jade’s Luck and Ceri heard the commotion and came down to the bar. An anathema was quickly blamed for what happened to the man and a small mob formed to take him to the temple. It was questioned, but quickly discarded that the guy had been turned into an anathema, since he didn’t have the mark. [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]Mental note for next time. Dagger.[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]Surprised you hadn’t thought of that, since you have met people with bleeding castemarks.[/i] [b]Alex:[/b] [i]Just need a stamp. Solar approved![/i] (makes ka-thunk sound of something being stamped) Ceri and Jade’s Luck followed with the mob as they left. Gareth stuck around the inn to drink. As Jahar was walking back to the inn, he saw a mob leaving shouting ‘[i]Anathema! Dirty Anathema![/i]’ He also saw the horribly ugly hairy man being dragged towards the temple. Jahar joined the mob. Back at the temple, Tiger noticed some of the monks talking to a very ugly man. When he went over, he could hear what they were talking about. [b]Buck-Toothed Man:[/b] (horrible lisp) [i]Athema made me fugly.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]Where did this happen?[/i] [b]Buck-Toothed Man:[/b] (horrible lisp) [i]Alleyway.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]What did it look like?[/i] [b]Buck-Toothed Man:[/b] (horrible lisp) [i]I couldn’t see it. Was Anasema. Was insisable.[/i] Tiger proposed it could have been a Wyld patch popping up. This worried the monk that looked it up in a book, since it was possible. The Buck-toothed guy pointed out the alleyway from the door to Tiger, but wouldn’t leave the church. While there, they saw the mob coming with the hairy man. Tiger went to go get Brother HollowTree and tell him what was going on. He found HollowTree coming down the stairs, having seen the commotion from above. Once informed, Hollowtree whispered something. Tiger didn’t catch everything he said, but he did hear the words ‘Help’ and “Anathema.’ He was pretty sure Brother Hollowtree just used an Air charm to send a message. A-dom watched the mob go passed and was pleased. He didn’t like that he still hadn’t seen the leader, though. He followed/joined the guy, looking for the guy. [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]I should just stay home on Mondays, cause I can’t seem to do anything right.[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]Sure you do. You advance the plot.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]Yeah, I could advance the plot really easily by jumping up and down and shouting ‘Look at me! I’m an Anathema!’[/i] [b]Liz:[/b] [i]I’ve contemplated that a couple of times, actually.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]I need an obvious ‘fly away’ charm.[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]It’s in Athletics.[/i] Brother HollowTree ushered the mob inside and closed the doors to protect people from the Anathema problem. Brother HollowTree told the crowd to calm down and that he had called in help. [b]Not A-dom:[/b] [i]Yeah![/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] (hiding in the crowd) [i]How long will it take them to get here?[/i] Brother HollowTree said they were all going to stay in the church together. He said the brothers would protect them until the Brotherhood of Horses Irrevocably Cleansing Anathema arrived. Looking around the temple, Jade’s Luck, Ceri, and Jahar could each see each other, figuring Tiger and Gareth were absent. Jade’s Luck missed She-dom and wished she was there. Not A-dom saw the three of them, noting Tiger and Gareth were absent. Tiger could pick the three of them out of the crowd, noting that Gareth wasn’t there. Ceri knew exactly where one guy in the room was, but didn’t know why. She knew he was connected to this guy via her Eternal Vow, so there must be another Solar in the temple that she didn’t know. She also knew that the entire town was looking for an Anathema. Back at the Inn, Gareth continued drinking. Since he was bored, he worked on fixing up the Inn a little. Tiger snuck down into the basement and found the cellar door out. About this time Tiger realized that he waited too long to contact the party. Jade’s Luck tried to start some murmuring about the temple ceiling falling down. She failed to excite the crowd over Brother HollowTree’s calming words. Jahar tried to help her, but failed miserably. They both got a warning. It took Tiger slightly longer than it should have to find Gareth, since he went to the wrong Inn first. He found Gareth drinking a mug of ale while fixing the stairs. [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]Um, Gareth? The whole town is in the temple, and-[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] (cutting him off) [i]Who are you?[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b][i] I’m Tiger.[/i] Gareth didn’t look like he believed him, since he didn’t look like him and was completely bald. When Tiger pulled out Diplomacy, he believed him. Gareth’s first question was where his boat was. Tiger filled Gareth in on the situation. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Right! Time to leave, now.[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]We need to create a distraction so we can get people out of the Temple so I can slaughter the dragon-blood and his cronies.[/i] Tiger explained that he needed a lot of noise and shouting to drag the dragon-blood out. Maybe knocking over some buildings. [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]He just needs some help along the way. If all else fails, maybe he’ll get a sword in the back.[/i] Gareth said he’d see what he could do. He then waited around for a half an hour drinking so Tiger could sneak back in. He then brought is sword and armor out of Elsewhere and strapped on his armor the slow way. Some random farmer wandered into the bar during this time. Gareth knocked him out and then poured some beer in and on his mouth to discredit him. He also patched him up to make sure he would be okay. Jahar wanted to go exploring, but he had a monk watching him closely now to make sure he didn’t start a riot. Jahar decided to bug the mayor instead. Gareth wandered over to the other Inn and activated his sword to start taking it down. He did a good job of making lots of noise as the Inn blew apart spectacularly. [b]Gareth:[/b] [size=5][i]RARRR!!![/i][/size] Inside the Temple, Jade’s Luck started flipping out. She succeeded in making everyone step away from her and the monks feel she was panicking and needed to be knocked out. Tiger did a very bad job of convincing HollowTree someone needed to go out to take care of the problem. Outside, Gareth looked around for something else to knock down. He didn’t want to take out personal dwellings or the Blacksmith’s shop, so headed for the Rice Silo. Jahar noticed the strange monk talking to HollowTree was wearing Diplomacy, so went over to try and help. Ceri, meanwhile, started a whispering campaign to sow decent with the populace about the cowardly dragon-bloods. Ceri was much more successful. After Gareth made less spectacular work of the Rice Silo, he headed for the mayor’s house. Jade’s Luck eventually ‘calmed down.’ A little old lady got her to lay down and put a wet cloth over her head, saying soothing words. She gave Luck a minty type root to chew. She wasn’t sure what it was, since she lost her medical knowledge when the Yozi changed creation, so just pretended to chew it. [b]Gabe:[/b] [i]Is the Circle’s name the Circle of Once Medically Endowed Solars?[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]No. Doesn’t spell anything interesting.[/i] *[i]Gabe works out the anagram for Jara’s brotherhood[/i]* [b]Gabe:[/b] [i]B.O.H.I.C.A.? [/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]It’s a engineering acronym. Bend Over. Here It Comes Again. [/i] As he headed for the mayor’s house, he thought he heard a strange noise. Looking around, he thought he saw what looked like black rain falling off in the fields to the east of town. He then saw a black cylinder rise up from the ground near there and rain down. As another one went up, it looked like they were covering fields. Gareth stood confused as he saw more cylinders. He then quickly headed for the mayor’s house. He was very efficient in his destruction and noise of that house. He then heard more cylinders go off, so turned off his sword and went to back to the standing Inn. The loud explosion across the street from the temple finally helped Tiger convince Brother HollowTree to send Tiger and Brother LeaningTree out to investigate and report back. Jahar went with, because he could. Once they got over to the inn, LeaningTree stood around confused. [b]LeaningTree:[/b] [i]I don’t know what the hell did this![/i] Jahar and Tiger both heard the funnels and looked. To Jahar, it looked like someone was setting off lots of Death of Obsidian Butterflies. [b]Alex:[/b] [i]It’s all Skelly’s doing.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]He is the mastermind, after all.[/i] Back on the boat, Skelly raised his arms as if to say, [i]What’d I do?[/i] No longer being actively watched, Jade’s Luck quietly made her way over towards Ceri. Looking out at the field, Jahar thought he saw a black, clay pot about one hundred feet away, out in the fields. [b]LeaningTree:[/b] [i]Cows! Maybe beavers. Anathema beavers did this![/i] LeaningTree picked up a mug to look at it. Once Jahar pointed out the pot to Tiger, Tiger got LeaningTree’s attention and asked him about the pot. LeaningTree wandered over to the pot. [b]LeaningTree:[/b] [i]Wow. Looks like a pot with runes on it. I wonder what is inside.[/i] One funnel later, LeaningTree was blasted into the air and landed all around that field. Jahar and Tiger headed back towards the temple to tell HollowTree that the Anathema. Tiger noticed that the butterflies falling were setting off other pots and pointed this out to Jahar. Jahar decided he wanted to go collect a pot instead. Tiger went to the Inn to go find Gareth again. Gareth was sitting there in her armor, having a beer. He explained the pots had circled the city and were working their way towards the city. As Tiger and Gareth walked out, they could see Jahar walking up carrying a pot gingerly. Its lid wasn’t well sealed, so he held it while leaning back. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]You’re not taking that into the Inn.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I just need some rope to tie the lid down.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]You’re going to destroy the inn with that thing.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I want to know how they did this. I want to make one.[/i] *[i]Gareth smacks his own forehead[/i]* [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]Put it down now. We need to stop the fields from being fully covered in obsidian.[/i] Gareth monkey leapt over towards the section of the unexploded fields while Tiger headed back to the Temple. Jahar ignored Gareth and took the pot inside the Inn. He brought it up to his room and tied the lid shut, putting it next to his stuff. He then wandered over towards the mayor’s house to see what he could steal from it. Getting over to the fields, Gareth found two pots right away. He picked them both up and gingerly moved towards the already exploded area to set up a firebreak. Gareth jostled one of the pots just enough to make it go off. He quickly aimed it down to minimize the damage. A few seconds later he was standing on a mountain of obsidian with mildly chapped legs and an unexploded pot. He stood there a little dumbfounded. Tiger ducked back into the temple and told them that the Anathema had gotten Brother LeaningTree and they needed reinforcements. He managed to get HollowTree to leave the remaining two monks to guard and come out with him. Looking around, Not A-dom decided to try something and wandered up to Jade’s Luck. [b]Not A-dom:[/b] [i]You don’t know me, but I’m going to try and help.[/i] Ceri knew this man used to be Marcus the Mad, but that left her confused, so she missed the next little bit of conversation as she tried to work it out. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]That’s.. nice…[/i] [b]Not A-dom:[/b] [i]I’m a friend of US too.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]I have no idea what you’re talking about.[/i] [b]Not A-dom:[/b] [i]You know. Big guy. Encased in soulsteel.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (louder) [i]I have no idea what you’re talking about![/i] [b]Not A-dom:[/b] (grumbles) [i]oh, alright. whatever. Do me a favor. Open the door and stand away from the door.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (louder) [i]Oh my. I think you must be an anathema to make a suggestion like that.[/i] Everyone in the room turned to look at Jade’s Luck and Not A-dom. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (loud and pointing at Not A-dom) [i]He tried to tempt me![/i] [b]Not A-dom:[/b] [i]:):):):)! You :):):):)ing Jezebel![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (loud and pointing at Not A-dom) [i]He told me he was my friend! And then he told me I should open the doors![/i] [b]Monk:[/b] (pointing at Not A-dom) [i]Deceiver![/i] A-dom noticed his forehead was glowing and he knew he didn’t do that. Jade’s Luck noticed that A-dom now had a caste mark on his forehead that looked like an Eclipse. Ceri noticed that it looked like it was incorrectly drawn, like the one they had seen at the service the previous day. The mayor started casting a spell as A-dom moved to the center of the room. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]No! Anathema![/i] Outside, Tiger and HollowTree ran towards where Gareth was. Tiger heard Anathema being yelled inside the Temple. HollowTree didn’t seem to notice, though. [b]Tiger:[/b] (yelling) [i]There he is![/i] Turning, Gareth noticed the guy he thought was Tiger and someone else in monk robes running towards him. He cackled maniacally from atop his hill. Back inside the Temple, Jade’s Luck started heading towards the door. [b]Not A-dom:[/b] (pointing at Jade’s Luck) [i]You :):):):)ed up my whole plan![/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]I stopped an Anathema? I’m glad![/i] [b]Not A-dom:[/b] [i]You brain-dead, :):):):)ing… ARRGHH!!! [/i] [b]Alex:[/b] [i]Never approach her.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]No. No.[/i] [b]Alex:[/b] [i]You should have learned this by now.[/i] [b]Gabe:[/b] [i]Why did she do that?[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]Because she wants to be anchored to a large, large, large, large stone and pushed over into the water.[/i] *[i]Liz giggles a lot[/i]* [b]Liz:[/b] [i]You didn’t say anything like ‘I take her aside’ or I whisper to her.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i] Yes! That’s right! I should be punished for this. Thank you![/i] *[i]Liz giggles some more[/i]* Not A-dom moved over to the wall and punched a hole in it. He became all glowy and now had two caste marks (his normal Dawn one and the false Eclipse one). Outside, Tiger heard the sound of breaking building and started to fall behind Brother HollowTree. Thankfully, Brother HollowTree was focused on the clear and present Anathema. He really didn’t see it coming as Tiger stabbed him repeatedly with Diplomacy. As Brother HollowTree dropped to the ground, dying, Gareth sent his sword and armor to ElseWhere and got down off of his mountain. A large group of mortals were trying to get out the large, front doors and a smaller group was trying to get out the small, back door. Unfortunately, it was hard for anyone to get the latch working in a panicked mob and those that were trying were getting crushed. [b]Not A-dom:[/b] [i]That’s right. They don’t need to have a convenient exit. They can crush each other to death. I’m happy with that too! Cause that’s not my fault.[/i] Ceri recognized that the mayor was casting Death of Obsidian Butterflies. Jade’s Luck thought he was casting a combat spell, and that’s the only one she’d seen. As Ceri popped claws on her hand to deal with the mayor, Jade’s Luck activated Graceful Crane Stance, jumped up and ran on people’s heads to the front doors. She then punched the latch, breaking it and allowing the doors to swing open. Ceri slashed him with her claws, but he continued casting. Not A-dom ran over, producing the Ugly Stick, and brought it down at the mayor’s head. Unfortunately, he misjudged distances and clubbed the floor instead. As the mayor’s spell went off, the chunk of mortals by the front door had escaped, as had Jade’s Luck. The butterflies tore through Ceri, Not A-dom, the chunk of mortals by the back door and the back door. As Jade’s Luck saw the rubble of the Mayor’s House, the group all remembered who A-dom was. Jade’s Luck had the feeling she was going to need a very big muffin basket for this one. Tiger saw the back of the Temple blasted out by butterflies and ran back towards there. Inside, Ceri switched to hybrid form and sliced the mayor nicely. [b]Paul:[/b] [i]Okay, A-dom. There is a bird woman and Mr. Justshotyouwithdeathofobsidianbutterflies.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]Well, I’ll deal with the bird woman after I kill him.[/i] [b]Lori:[/b] [i]The bird woman hasn’t done anything to you.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] (to the mayor) [i]You have angered a child of the dawn. This doesn’t end well.[/i] A-dom raised the Ugly Stick and brought it down on the mayor, imbedding him into the floor and making a nice blood smear. He then turned towards the front door of the temple. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]What the :):):):)?![/i] Jade’s Luck saw a monk carrying a bloody sword, yelling for people to run the other way because there was an Anathema behind him and to avoid the pots. As A-dom looked out the door, he heard and saw this as well as the butterfly funnels, that were no longer that far from town. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]:):):):)ing butterflies everywhere![/i] Jade’s Luck turned around and saw the funnels as well. She and A-dom both saw that the people were now all heading towards the clear (read as yet unexploded) fields. She activated Terrifying Apparition of Glory and frightened the people away from the fields. The hoard of mortals split up with one group heading for the port and the other heading for the remaining Inn. A-dom ran/leapt out to the fields and started chucking pots into the exploded fields. Tiger started tipping pots over so they were exploding towards the exploded fields, so they only lost half a field instead of all of it. Jade’s Luck followed joined Tiger in tipping. Having left the mayor’s house before the mortals escaped the temple, Jahar slowly made his way to back to the inn. By the time he got there, he could hear lots of people cowering inside. Jahar stood outside, hesitant about going in. He wandered around the door, looking in at all the townsfolk. He wasn’t sure he wanted to deal with them right now. Then he heard a loud popping noise and the smashing of wood coming from the back of the inn. Running around to look at the damage, it looked like the pot he left there took out the entire third floor and half of the second floor. It also looked like it took out several mortals. Once the pots were dealt with, everyone but Jahar met up and headed for the Inn. Even Gareth could see the carnage. Then they saw Jahar exiting the inn with a couple of buckets, looking for water. Ceri headed straight in to the inn to take care of the wounded. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]Gareth, do you have any idea what to do here?[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Jahar, what did you do?[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I did not do that.[/i] [b]Gareth:[/b] (exasperated tone) [i]Yes. Yes you did. [/i] *[i]Jahar points at the townsfolk[/i]* [b]Tiger:[/b] [i]The ship is parked up the coast a little ways. I think some people need to leave now.[/i] A-dom explained about the leader thug to the others. When he found he couldn’t really describe the guy beyond perfectly normal, A-dom cursed. Jade’s Luck postulated that it was one of the star guys that are hard to find, but A-dom couldn’t confirm that. It was decided that everyone but Ceri and Tiger needed to flee town and go to the boat. Jahar stuck around long enough to find George, one of the townsfolk that didn’t hate him, and talk to him about setting George up nicely. He tried to get George to become a sailor in his mercantile company, but he wouldn’t budge. While Tiger talked to people, he found no one could really describe the guy, but that he lived at the temple. After spending three hours searching the temple, he found a loose stone at the bottom of the bell tower. Behind the stone was a long, vertical earthen shaft with no light, ladder, or handholds. He went off to find A-dom, but remembered that he went to the boat. So, Tiger went and explained things to Ceri, including whom he was and dragged her off to check out the hole. [/QUOTE]
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