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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 3057854" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><em>Synopsis of 8/28/06</em></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">"A-dom Has A Perfectly Normal Ego" </span></strong></p><p></p><p>After a couple of days the group realized they were ordinary voodoo mice; they were cannibalistic voodoo mice. They were very effective in hunting down all the other vermin on the ship and eradicating it.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck spent time trying to teach the mice to pray to the Unconquered Sun. She was limited in communication but got them to continue praying to the altar Gareth built.</p><p></p><p>After eight days of travel they spotted a much more normal looking island. It had normal vegetation and had a decent sized hill. It was normal sized. The pirates pointed out a fresh water stream.</p><p></p><p>While Gareth prepared a dinghy, Ceri jumped overboard to swim in. A-dom followed, but watched as Ceri turned into a fish and swam away. He ended up making a big splash. The pirates took another dinghy over with water barrels.</p><p></p><p>The pirates went about collecting fresh water and bananas while the Circle explored. Gareth was pretty sure there was a town further on down the beach, so he walked off with Tiger and Jahar following him. </p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck asked Ceri if she could search underneath the island to make sure it was normal.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (mocking Jahar) <em>Can you find out what the principle imports and exports of this island are?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>Not by swimming under the island.</em></p><p></p><p>Ceri turned into a bird and did an aerial survey instead. She found a village at the top of the forested/jungle covered hill. She found some odd hills on the other side of the island that might have been some ruins. She also noticed another island further away that was within traveling distance for the locals.</p><p></p><p>A-dom spent this time making sand angels. Ceri had the urge to fly over head of the group that had wandered off and crap on them. She decided instead to land and relay the information she had gathered to Jade’s Luck. Eventually Tiger realized Gareth was wrong about a town being on the beach and convinced them to head back.</p><p></p><p>Once they were reassembled, they briefly discussed not being flashy and not harming the jungle before heading up the hill. A-dom decided to charge head first.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>We were just talking about not doing that.</em></p><p></p><p>All this talking broke A-dom and he went to have a little cry.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I’m sorry for all that I’ve done, Unconquered Sun. Please make it stop!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>That is why Jahar is here. To punish you for your sins.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>I don’t see how what is so odd about what I said.</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom charged again to get away from Jahar. Gareth grabbed on to try and anchor him and make him go slow this time.</p><p></p><p>The jungle was very rain foresty with lots of housecat sized spiders. The spiders weren’t attacking but they were keeping an eye on these large mammals moving through their forest. There were also lots of small furry creatures that spiders would eat. Gareth noticed none of this since he was paying attention to A-dom.</p><p></p><p>As they approached the town they saw a little kid who ran into town.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I don’t want to kill him at all.</em></p><p></p><p>The group stopped to discuss things for a bit.</p><p></p><p>As they moved up they saw a decent sized barbarian village with some people carrying spears approaching.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> (in Seatongue) <em>What language do you speak?</em></p><p></p><p>The town guard then said something in Yuk Yuk Glor.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> (in Yuk Yuk Glor) <em>Ah. Good. Greetings.</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth explained that they had stopped for fresh water and wanted to explain their presense and make sure it wasn’t a problem. The town guard said that was fine and went to get the Chieftain. The Chieftain wore an old panther headdress.</p><p></p><p>Gareth made pleasantries with the Chieftain and made an offer to trade. Gareth consulted with Jahar to see if there was something in particular he wanted to trade for. Jahar didn’t have any initial ideas. He negotiated some trade of citrus fruits and other foods for tool type metal weaponry. The villagers wanted to buy foreign foods, but mostly they just had staple foods on the ship, so some grains were added to the deal.</p><p></p><p>They found out that the Great Forest Spirit protected this village and no one could hunt the spiders because they were its followers.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (speaking slowly and loudly) <em>I LIKE SPIDERS TOO! ESPECIALLY IN SOUP!</em></p><p></p><p>Gareth found out the other island was the island inhabited by the evil ones. People lived there that invaded, torched their beach village and stolen some of their women five years ago. Now the Great Forest Spirit protected them from the invaders. </p><p></p><p>Gareth proposed staying at the village for the night to trade stories. The villagers liked that idea.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck went back down to the beach to talk to the pirates and tell them not to kill any spiders.</p><p></p><p><strong>Pirate #3:</strong> (sticks a sack in the dinghy) <em>Right. No more killing spiders.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck told them that one was likely okay, but no more killing and no eating it till after they’d left. When she got back, she quickly discussed the spider problem with Ceri. Ceri thought that one spider would be okay and they shouldn’t mention it.</p><p></p><p>A-dom and Tiger quietly discussed how they were going to go about killing the two villages.</p><p></p><p>During story time one of the village warriors told story of the night the evil ones came and raided their village. They set the village ablaze and they fought them off with sticks and rocks. After the evil ones ran off with most of their young women folk to be raped and eaten the Great Forest Spirit told them they could come live in the center of the forest and he would protect them. Ever since then the evil ones had not had a successful raid. Gareth had to act as translator.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck told a story about a man with a feathered hat. Jade’s Luck used some shadow puppet imagery to make it look nifty. Gareth had to act as translator again. The villagers loved it.</p><p></p><p><strong>Random Villager:</strong> <em>Yeah Volcano spirit!</em></p><p></p><p>Some little kid told a story about hunting a vicious badger. He talked about losing his spear and the badger eating his shoe and having to bash the badger with a rock.</p><p></p><p>Ceri told a modified version of her exaltation. Gareth messed up the translation a little.</p><p></p><p><strong>Random Villager:</strong> <em>She fell and broke her banana?</em></p><p></p><p>Ceri was able to get the point across by getting those that understood her to get the point across.</p><p></p><p>Jahar tried to tell a story about a man who wandered into the forest and got attacked by plants and was rescued by the sun. Gareth failed to get the point across and the people didn’t believe it.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck distracted the confused people by getting dancing going. Alcohol was spread around. A-dom got more drunk than normal but managed to stay awake all night so his disguise charm wouldn’t go down.</p><p></p><p>In the morning Ceri asked about the shaman and stating her desire to meet him. She was told that the shaman was a hermit and only wanted visitors with serious questions. Ceri told the group they shouldn’t visit him. She then changed her mind and suggested they approach him about his god to better understand their own.</p><p></p><p>The entire group took the path down to the shaman’s hut. The path started having lots of spider webs around and became an eight foot tall tunnel in spider webs. Jahar put up spirit detecting glance and saw a lot of wood spider spirits. As they went on they saw some broken pillars. Eventually they got to a house on stilts surrounded by spider webs. A little old man came down the ladder to great the group. Jade’s Luck bowed and offered him tea. That made him happy.</p><p></p><p>As they asked him about the great forest spirit the old man went into a very long and boring story about the great forest spirit being very nifty. He wouldn’t allow anyone to interrupt so Gareth had to wait til the end to sum up what the man said.</p><p></p><p>When asked what the ruins were the old man said it was a representation of the map of future history. This confused the group a lot.</p><p></p><p>They asked about the great evil ones. They were apparently rapists, demon worshippers, cannibals, touched by the Wyld, and had three tongues.</p><p></p><p>Jahar, A-dom, and Tiger started discussing going out and killing the Great Forest Spirit and subjugating the people into worshipping the Unconquered Sun. The shaman wanted to know what they were talking about. Ceri fast talked to explain they were discussing his great god and its relation to their own. She explained that their god created protectors for people. He said that they had room for multiple gods and that, if they went an destroyed the evil ones’ town and brought back proof, they’d worship the sun too.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I do believe he said Wyld-touched in a negative term? You completely lost me.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck supposed that something bad was going to happen over there and they would end up destroying something anyway, so they might as well take advantage of the situation. Ceri explained that they may not crush the evil ones, but they would bring the women back without problem.</p><p></p><p>Gareth ushered people out before more promises could be made.</p><p></p><p>On the trek out, Jahar decided to stop and talk to one of the wood spider spirits.</p><p></p><p>*<em>Paul belches</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (giggling) <em>Hey Jahar, that spirit just belched at you!</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar expressed his desire to talk to the Great Forest Spirit. The wood spider spirit told him to wait. While they waited, they each inspected the pillar through the cobwebs to try and see if there was any writing. They each determined that there was no writing on it.</p><p></p><p>After two hours Jade’s Luck and Jahar heard a large thunking noise as a big spirit approached. As a large hairy spider leg thunked down in between the party, the spirit noticed them. Looking up, the two of them could see a forty foot tall wood spider spirit. The others had no clue what was going on and were getting bored.</p><p></p><p>Jahar explained that they wanted to get the people to worship the Unconquered Sun in addition to it. It didn’t have a problem with it. They talked for a long time. It was very small when the ruins were whole and it was very far away from him then. They weren’t a temple to any god and they were populated by people like the group. The spirit wandered off while Jahar was talking.</p><p></p><p>They went back to the boat and started to sail over to the other island. Ceri turned into a bird and flew. Jade’s Luck told the crew it was okay for them to eat the spider now.</p><p></p><p>Ceri flew over the other island and surveyed. It was a much larger island with several settlements. The island was more rocky and less jungley, more foresty.</p><p></p><p>As they approached the island, A-dom noticed that it looked familiar to him. Ceri returned to the boat and let the others know what she had seen.</p><p></p><p>Since it was getting on towards evening by this point they dropped anchor and slept on the boat for the night. In the early morning they took a dinghy and sailed over. Since it was early morning they met up with the fishermen as they were headed for their boats.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck tried to say hello but the fisherman didn’t speak any language she did.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (in Uk Muk Muk Luk Chuk) <em>Hello!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Fisherman:</strong> (in Uk Muk Muk Luk Chuk) <em>He’s Back! He’s Back! He’s Back! </em></p><p></p><p>The happy fishermen then ran off back towards town.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Do they know you here?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I don’t know. There was a lot of drinking involved. Don’t really remember.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck dragged out of him that he had been here five years ago. There were many accusations about what A-dom had done here. A-dom denied everything.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>What didn’t you do here?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I don’t know.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>Our current theory is that he led a raid against the other island</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>You know, if you hang out with some people from the north, you lose a few months here and there, but you wake up and you’ve got money in your pocket. So it must have been good.</em></p><p></p><p>The group headed inland after the fishermen while Jade’s Luck badgered A-dom about not being properly respectful and honest to his mother.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>You told her you had a kid already. Cough it up.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Can we go adventuring without the women?</em></p><p></p><p>As the group got to the village, it looked more civilized. The warriors had metal spears and looked better trained. They didn’t look like the half-assed militia the other island had.</p><p></p><p>A-dom greeted the warriors. They were very happy to see A-dom and told him that the chieftain and his daughter were coming.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (in Old Realm) <em>Aw <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><strong>Jahar:</strong> (in High Realm) <em>What are they saying?</em></p><p></p><p>Since A-dom didn’t know High Realm, he just looked at Jahar funny.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> (in Seatongue) <em>What are they saying?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (in Seatongue) <em>Oh, uh, the chieftain and his daughter are coming.</em></p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck found out that the villagers knew a few words of Seatongue, so said they shouldn’t speak in that. The group decided that, since everyone but Ceri spoke Old Realm, that should be the language they used.</p><p></p><p>A-dom got more nervous when he asked the warrior how the chieftain and his daughter had been since he left and they responded lonely.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck enjoyed watching A-dom squirm and needled him a little.</p><p></p><p>Eventually a procession arrived with the chieftain, who was wearing a tiger headdress, his moderately beautiful daughter, and a five year old child with brown hair that looked like A-dom.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> (to A-dom) <em>Aren’t you glad you didn’t lie to your mother?</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom was grappled by the overly affectionate woman as she yelled out <em>Husband!</em></p><p></p><p>She introduced their son as Yuk-Dom.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>What’s her name, A-dom?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Uk-Dom.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> <em>No, your wife. You do know it, right?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I know it. I’m sure!</em></p><p></p><p>She said she had been lonely since he had been stolen and that they had taken retribution on those that had taken him.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom’s wife:</strong> <em>We thought you were dead!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I thought I was dead too… On the high seas! And finally I found my way back!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom’s wife:</strong> <em>Yes! Now you can stay here forever!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Yes………</em></p><p></p><p>The others tried to get A-dom to tell them his wife and the villagers that he hadn’t been stolen by the spider people. He ignored them.</p><p></p><p>He found out that he hadn’t been coordinated prince yet and they needed to do that. A-dom thought it was neat that he was a prince.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck:</strong> <em>A-dom, what a lovely wife you have. Won’t you introduce her to me?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (groaning) <em>Ohhhh.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jahar:</strong> (taking pity on A-dom) <em>Allow me to introduce myself.</em> (in Uk Muk Muk Luk Chuk) <em>We have heard so many stories, many of them vague, about A-dom’s lovely wife. He told me that only you can tell us your name.</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom was shocked, and a little disappointed, that Jahar could speak the language.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom’s Wife:</strong> (looks at Jahar funny and speaking in Uk Muk Muk Luk Chuk) <em>I am Princess UkYuse. This is my father, Great Chieftain UkFoojoo. This is our child, UkDom.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I told you that Jahar. How dare you forget these things. This is my wife!</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom explained that he had been hit on the head with a rock and found himself on the seas, but didn’t believe the spider people did it. UkYuse said that it had been them and they had witnesses who saw him dragged off. A-dom said he wanted to meet these great heroes and she said they’d be at the ceremony.</p><p></p><p>They were all lead to a big ceremony area where A-dom was led up onto a stage with his wife, father-in-law and his child. Jade’s Luck looked for spirits in the area, but found none. Everyone did see three demons walk up onto the stage from behind the stage, though. One was a puddly thing, one was a purple woman and one was an eight armed ape. The people looked up in reverence.</p><p></p><p>The ‘Great Ones’ greeted A-dom and told him he looked different than the last time they had seen him. He said he had learned more of the ways of the world. He got the distinct impression that the puddle of ooze didn’t believe him.</p><p></p><p>Jahar looked over the demons from the crowd. He got the impression the ape was an barely intelligent combat demon. The puddle of ooze could have been related to disease or poison and could be intelligent, but couldn’t communicate well with non demons. The purple lady had shark eyes and had something to do with flesh. Not overly powerful, but fairly intelligent.</p><p></p><p>A-dom told the demons he was a child of the dawn. They said it was good the village would have such a strong protector. A-dom said he was glad they thought so.</p><p></p><p>The purple demon then told him they would need a piece of flesh for the ceremony. A-dom hesitantly held up his arm. When it peeled off a strip of brown skin, A-dom had to explain that there were complications in the Wyld.</p><p></p><p>The purple demon asked what he would you the skin combined with. A-dom didn’t know what his choices were, so was told any living creature on this island. He tried to say his wife, but they said he already had a binding relationship with her. He pondered this for a bit. Eventually he said the chieftain. The demon chopped off chieftain’s little toe and turned away from the crowd. A-dom watched as it combined the toe with the brown flesh and formed it into a baby that looked very much like the chieftain and A-dom. A-dom apologized to the chieftain. The purple demon then held the child up for the crowd to see.</p><p></p><p><strong>Purple Demon;</strong> <em>Welcome the newest member of the island of Uk Luk Muk Muk Chuk.</em> (to A-dom) <em>What is his name?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>SteveUk.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Purple Demon:</strong> <em>Uk goes first.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Oh. UkSteve.</em></p><p></p><p>With the ceremony over, the demons walked off the back of the dais, apparently off a cliff. The chieftain, highly confused by what to refer to his new son grandson, called for more drinks. A-dom happily also called for more drinks. Party commenced.</p><p></p><p>Jahar went off on his own in the party to gather information. He talked to UkYuk and found out there were three villages on the island. One village was ruled by the Great Chieftain’s cousin and the other by a binding creation. He found out the chieftain’s daughter, the old witch doctor, and the wise women summoned the Great Ones to go rescue the captured A-dom. They were the ones who saw A-dom being dragged off, along with one other. The witch doctor and several of the wise women had since died, as well as the other witness.</p><p></p><p>Jahar excused himself and explained things to Jade’s Luck.</p><p></p><p>Jahar went over to A-dom and explained things to him. This went on a strange tangent that led to the following line.</p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>A-dom, they want you to put the Romance back in Necromancy.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar noticed that he was seriously annoying A-dom’s wife by his presence, so he finished up by telling A-dom they needed a hut close to his, since there were demons about and the group was strongest when together.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (cheesy voice) <em>Okay. I will see what I can do. I am the PRINCE, after all. I do have a lot of pull.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe:</strong> <em>I wander off. I leave you with my wife…. Your wife.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>He probably would be all over a wife swap.</em> (cheesy pick-up voice) ‘So, you summon demons, aye? So do I.’[/i]</p><p></p><p>A-dom went off to party some more while the rest of the group plotted. Jade’s Luck commented to Gareth that it would be very nice to have a matching fan.</p><p></p><p>A-dom talked to his wife about after he left. She told the wise woman she would do anything possible to get him back. The wise woman brought the others to summon the demon. His wife just held the knife; she didn’t do the chanting. After they had two ‘Great Ones’, the ‘Great Ones’ suggested they summon one more. She said they had been great advisor.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> (cheesy voice) <em>But now I’m here! Though I may have to go on a trip now and then. I shall show you the WORLD! And possibly my mother.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>UkYuse:</strong> <em>We can make a special trip to see your mother. And we can bring her back to join the tribe.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Yeah… I don’t think she’d like that.</em></p><p></p><p>After the party died down, A-dom and his wife went back to their hut where A-dom performed his husbandly duties. He was rather drunk, so passed out afterwards.</p><p></p><p>The group, at least, remembered A-dom’s problem with sleeping and charms ending and decided it would not be good if his wife woke up to the beast. Jade’s Luck made a nice flower arrangement for A-dom and gave it to Tiger. So Tiger snuck over to the hut in the early morning and put his hand over A-dom’s mouth.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>Clearly I’m being attacked.</em></p><p></p><p>It took a little bit of work for Tiger get A-dom to not attack him anymore and to explain to A-dom what the problem was. A-dom put his charm up, then rolled over and went back to sleep. Tiger woke him up again and made sure he stayed awake this time.</p><p></p><p>After Tiger left, A-dom waited for his wife to wake up.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I’ll spend some time with you, but I have important business to attend to with talking to my friends. Look, I have flowers for you.</em></p><p></p><p>She liked the flowers.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>Don’t summon any more demons, I mean Great Ones today.</em></p><p></p><p>She said that the island would be crowded, since they already had three. She said the ‘Great Ones’ were advisors and dealt with angry spirits for them and protected them from invaders.</p><p></p><p>The next day Jade’s Luck wandered around looking for spirits. She found it odd she wasn’t finding any. She finally found a rock spirit that was trying to hide. She found out that the demons had killed most of the spirits to eliminate the competition.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck went and got Jahar to talk to the rock. The rock was all for killing the demons. It said the mucky one liked to live in the pool in a specific direction. He said the big one just wandered around and the purple one liked to be in the villages.</p><p></p><p>Jahar started to ask a time question of the spirit, but stopped, saying it couldn’t answer that. They finished up quickly and wandered away from the rock spirit to make sure it didn’t get in trouble.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck relayed this new information to the rest of the group. There was lots of talk about letting Tiger ‘solve the problem.’ As we have come to know, letting Tiger ‘solve the problem’ means letting Tiger kill things.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck wanted to know if the demons could possess the people on <strong>The Grumpy Craftsman</strong>. Gareth had no clue. Jade’s Luck suggested sending the ship away for a bit to make sure they couldn’t. Gareth was unsure about this course of action. He did tell Jade’s luck that he had just recently learned a charm that grievously injured demons.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth:</strong> <em>I like killing demons. Almost as much fun as killing pirates. Only thing better than killing pirates is killing demon pirates.</em></p><p></p><p>Jahar checked A-dom over for spells to see what this binding to the island meant. He found nothing beyond the brotherhood spell, but he couldn’t see the Eclipse pacts upon him either.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I’m sure it is just something about having to protect the island and its people from harm. I should be able to leave on occasion.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ceri:</strong> <em>And, seriously, they’re safer with you gone.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom:</strong> <em>I have to say, this is true.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 3057854, member: 9758"] [i]Synopsis of 8/28/06[/i] [b][size=6]"A-dom Has A Perfectly Normal Ego" [/size][/b] After a couple of days the group realized they were ordinary voodoo mice; they were cannibalistic voodoo mice. They were very effective in hunting down all the other vermin on the ship and eradicating it. Jade’s Luck spent time trying to teach the mice to pray to the Unconquered Sun. She was limited in communication but got them to continue praying to the altar Gareth built. After eight days of travel they spotted a much more normal looking island. It had normal vegetation and had a decent sized hill. It was normal sized. The pirates pointed out a fresh water stream. While Gareth prepared a dinghy, Ceri jumped overboard to swim in. A-dom followed, but watched as Ceri turned into a fish and swam away. He ended up making a big splash. The pirates took another dinghy over with water barrels. The pirates went about collecting fresh water and bananas while the Circle explored. Gareth was pretty sure there was a town further on down the beach, so he walked off with Tiger and Jahar following him. Jade’s Luck asked Ceri if she could search underneath the island to make sure it was normal. [b]A-dom:[/b] (mocking Jahar) [i]Can you find out what the principle imports and exports of this island are?[/i] [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]Not by swimming under the island.[/i] Ceri turned into a bird and did an aerial survey instead. She found a village at the top of the forested/jungle covered hill. She found some odd hills on the other side of the island that might have been some ruins. She also noticed another island further away that was within traveling distance for the locals. A-dom spent this time making sand angels. Ceri had the urge to fly over head of the group that had wandered off and crap on them. She decided instead to land and relay the information she had gathered to Jade’s Luck. Eventually Tiger realized Gareth was wrong about a town being on the beach and convinced them to head back. Once they were reassembled, they briefly discussed not being flashy and not harming the jungle before heading up the hill. A-dom decided to charge head first. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]We were just talking about not doing that.[/i] All this talking broke A-dom and he went to have a little cry. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I’m sorry for all that I’ve done, Unconquered Sun. Please make it stop![/i] [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]That is why Jahar is here. To punish you for your sins.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]I don’t see how what is so odd about what I said.[/i] A-dom charged again to get away from Jahar. Gareth grabbed on to try and anchor him and make him go slow this time. The jungle was very rain foresty with lots of housecat sized spiders. The spiders weren’t attacking but they were keeping an eye on these large mammals moving through their forest. There were also lots of small furry creatures that spiders would eat. Gareth noticed none of this since he was paying attention to A-dom. As they approached the town they saw a little kid who ran into town. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I don’t want to kill him at all.[/i] The group stopped to discuss things for a bit. As they moved up they saw a decent sized barbarian village with some people carrying spears approaching. [b]Gareth:[/b] (in Seatongue) [i]What language do you speak?[/i] The town guard then said something in Yuk Yuk Glor. [b]Gareth:[/b] (in Yuk Yuk Glor) [i]Ah. Good. Greetings.[/i] Gareth explained that they had stopped for fresh water and wanted to explain their presense and make sure it wasn’t a problem. The town guard said that was fine and went to get the Chieftain. The Chieftain wore an old panther headdress. Gareth made pleasantries with the Chieftain and made an offer to trade. Gareth consulted with Jahar to see if there was something in particular he wanted to trade for. Jahar didn’t have any initial ideas. He negotiated some trade of citrus fruits and other foods for tool type metal weaponry. The villagers wanted to buy foreign foods, but mostly they just had staple foods on the ship, so some grains were added to the deal. They found out that the Great Forest Spirit protected this village and no one could hunt the spiders because they were its followers. [b]A-dom:[/b] (speaking slowly and loudly) [i]I LIKE SPIDERS TOO! ESPECIALLY IN SOUP![/I] Gareth found out the other island was the island inhabited by the evil ones. People lived there that invaded, torched their beach village and stolen some of their women five years ago. Now the Great Forest Spirit protected them from the invaders. Gareth proposed staying at the village for the night to trade stories. The villagers liked that idea. Jade’s Luck went back down to the beach to talk to the pirates and tell them not to kill any spiders. [b]Pirate #3:[/b] (sticks a sack in the dinghy) [i]Right. No more killing spiders.[/i] Jade’s Luck told them that one was likely okay, but no more killing and no eating it till after they’d left. When she got back, she quickly discussed the spider problem with Ceri. Ceri thought that one spider would be okay and they shouldn’t mention it. A-dom and Tiger quietly discussed how they were going to go about killing the two villages. During story time one of the village warriors told story of the night the evil ones came and raided their village. They set the village ablaze and they fought them off with sticks and rocks. After the evil ones ran off with most of their young women folk to be raped and eaten the Great Forest Spirit told them they could come live in the center of the forest and he would protect them. Ever since then the evil ones had not had a successful raid. Gareth had to act as translator. Jade’s Luck told a story about a man with a feathered hat. Jade’s Luck used some shadow puppet imagery to make it look nifty. Gareth had to act as translator again. The villagers loved it. [b]Random Villager:[/b] [i]Yeah Volcano spirit![/i] Some little kid told a story about hunting a vicious badger. He talked about losing his spear and the badger eating his shoe and having to bash the badger with a rock. Ceri told a modified version of her exaltation. Gareth messed up the translation a little. [b]Random Villager:[/b] [i]She fell and broke her banana?[/i] Ceri was able to get the point across by getting those that understood her to get the point across. Jahar tried to tell a story about a man who wandered into the forest and got attacked by plants and was rescued by the sun. Gareth failed to get the point across and the people didn’t believe it. Jade’s Luck distracted the confused people by getting dancing going. Alcohol was spread around. A-dom got more drunk than normal but managed to stay awake all night so his disguise charm wouldn’t go down. In the morning Ceri asked about the shaman and stating her desire to meet him. She was told that the shaman was a hermit and only wanted visitors with serious questions. Ceri told the group they shouldn’t visit him. She then changed her mind and suggested they approach him about his god to better understand their own. The entire group took the path down to the shaman’s hut. The path started having lots of spider webs around and became an eight foot tall tunnel in spider webs. Jahar put up spirit detecting glance and saw a lot of wood spider spirits. As they went on they saw some broken pillars. Eventually they got to a house on stilts surrounded by spider webs. A little old man came down the ladder to great the group. Jade’s Luck bowed and offered him tea. That made him happy. As they asked him about the great forest spirit the old man went into a very long and boring story about the great forest spirit being very nifty. He wouldn’t allow anyone to interrupt so Gareth had to wait til the end to sum up what the man said. When asked what the ruins were the old man said it was a representation of the map of future history. This confused the group a lot. They asked about the great evil ones. They were apparently rapists, demon worshippers, cannibals, touched by the Wyld, and had three tongues. Jahar, A-dom, and Tiger started discussing going out and killing the Great Forest Spirit and subjugating the people into worshipping the Unconquered Sun. The shaman wanted to know what they were talking about. Ceri fast talked to explain they were discussing his great god and its relation to their own. She explained that their god created protectors for people. He said that they had room for multiple gods and that, if they went an destroyed the evil ones’ town and brought back proof, they’d worship the sun too. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I do believe he said Wyld-touched in a negative term? You completely lost me.[/i] Jade’s Luck supposed that something bad was going to happen over there and they would end up destroying something anyway, so they might as well take advantage of the situation. Ceri explained that they may not crush the evil ones, but they would bring the women back without problem. Gareth ushered people out before more promises could be made. On the trek out, Jahar decided to stop and talk to one of the wood spider spirits. *[i]Paul belches[/i]* [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (giggling) [i]Hey Jahar, that spirit just belched at you![/i] Jahar expressed his desire to talk to the Great Forest Spirit. The wood spider spirit told him to wait. While they waited, they each inspected the pillar through the cobwebs to try and see if there was any writing. They each determined that there was no writing on it. After two hours Jade’s Luck and Jahar heard a large thunking noise as a big spirit approached. As a large hairy spider leg thunked down in between the party, the spirit noticed them. Looking up, the two of them could see a forty foot tall wood spider spirit. The others had no clue what was going on and were getting bored. Jahar explained that they wanted to get the people to worship the Unconquered Sun in addition to it. It didn’t have a problem with it. They talked for a long time. It was very small when the ruins were whole and it was very far away from him then. They weren’t a temple to any god and they were populated by people like the group. The spirit wandered off while Jahar was talking. They went back to the boat and started to sail over to the other island. Ceri turned into a bird and flew. Jade’s Luck told the crew it was okay for them to eat the spider now. Ceri flew over the other island and surveyed. It was a much larger island with several settlements. The island was more rocky and less jungley, more foresty. As they approached the island, A-dom noticed that it looked familiar to him. Ceri returned to the boat and let the others know what she had seen. Since it was getting on towards evening by this point they dropped anchor and slept on the boat for the night. In the early morning they took a dinghy and sailed over. Since it was early morning they met up with the fishermen as they were headed for their boats. Jade’s Luck tried to say hello but the fisherman didn’t speak any language she did. [b]A-dom:[/b] (in Uk Muk Muk Luk Chuk) [i]Hello![/i] [b]Fisherman:[/b] (in Uk Muk Muk Luk Chuk) [i]He’s Back! He’s Back! He’s Back! [/i] The happy fishermen then ran off back towards town. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Do they know you here?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I don’t know. There was a lot of drinking involved. Don’t really remember.[/i] Jade’s Luck dragged out of him that he had been here five years ago. There were many accusations about what A-dom had done here. A-dom denied everything. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]What didn’t you do here?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I don’t know.[/i] [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]Our current theory is that he led a raid against the other island[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]You know, if you hang out with some people from the north, you lose a few months here and there, but you wake up and you’ve got money in your pocket. So it must have been good.[/i] The group headed inland after the fishermen while Jade’s Luck badgered A-dom about not being properly respectful and honest to his mother. [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]You told her you had a kid already. Cough it up.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Can we go adventuring without the women?[/i] As the group got to the village, it looked more civilized. The warriors had metal spears and looked better trained. They didn’t look like the half-assed militia the other island had. A-dom greeted the warriors. They were very happy to see A-dom and told him that the chieftain and his daughter were coming. [b]A-dom:[/b] (in Old Realm) [i]Aw :):):):).[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] (in High Realm) [i]What are they saying?[/i] Since A-dom didn’t know High Realm, he just looked at Jahar funny. [b]Jahar:[/b] (in Seatongue) [i]What are they saying?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] (in Seatongue) [i]Oh, uh, the chieftain and his daughter are coming.[/i] Jade’s Luck found out that the villagers knew a few words of Seatongue, so said they shouldn’t speak in that. The group decided that, since everyone but Ceri spoke Old Realm, that should be the language they used. A-dom got more nervous when he asked the warrior how the chieftain and his daughter had been since he left and they responded lonely. Jade’s Luck enjoyed watching A-dom squirm and needled him a little. Eventually a procession arrived with the chieftain, who was wearing a tiger headdress, his moderately beautiful daughter, and a five year old child with brown hair that looked like A-dom. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] (to A-dom) [i]Aren’t you glad you didn’t lie to your mother?[/i] A-dom was grappled by the overly affectionate woman as she yelled out [i]Husband![/i] She introduced their son as Yuk-Dom. [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]What’s her name, A-dom?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Uk-Dom.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] [i]No, your wife. You do know it, right?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I know it. I’m sure![/i] She said she had been lonely since he had been stolen and that they had taken retribution on those that had taken him. [b]A-dom’s wife:[/b] [i]We thought you were dead![/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I thought I was dead too… On the high seas! And finally I found my way back![/i] [b]A-dom’s wife:[/b] [i]Yes! Now you can stay here forever![/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Yes………[/i] The others tried to get A-dom to tell them his wife and the villagers that he hadn’t been stolen by the spider people. He ignored them. He found out that he hadn’t been coordinated prince yet and they needed to do that. A-dom thought it was neat that he was a prince. [b]Jade’s Luck:[/b] [i]A-dom, what a lovely wife you have. Won’t you introduce her to me?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] (groaning) [i]Ohhhh.[/i] [b]Jahar:[/b] (taking pity on A-dom) [i]Allow me to introduce myself.[/i] (in Uk Muk Muk Luk Chuk) [i]We have heard so many stories, many of them vague, about A-dom’s lovely wife. He told me that only you can tell us your name.[/i] A-dom was shocked, and a little disappointed, that Jahar could speak the language. [b]A-dom’s Wife:[/b] (looks at Jahar funny and speaking in Uk Muk Muk Luk Chuk) [i]I am Princess UkYuse. This is my father, Great Chieftain UkFoojoo. This is our child, UkDom.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I told you that Jahar. How dare you forget these things. This is my wife![/i] A-dom explained that he had been hit on the head with a rock and found himself on the seas, but didn’t believe the spider people did it. UkYuse said that it had been them and they had witnesses who saw him dragged off. A-dom said he wanted to meet these great heroes and she said they’d be at the ceremony. They were all lead to a big ceremony area where A-dom was led up onto a stage with his wife, father-in-law and his child. Jade’s Luck looked for spirits in the area, but found none. Everyone did see three demons walk up onto the stage from behind the stage, though. One was a puddly thing, one was a purple woman and one was an eight armed ape. The people looked up in reverence. The ‘Great Ones’ greeted A-dom and told him he looked different than the last time they had seen him. He said he had learned more of the ways of the world. He got the distinct impression that the puddle of ooze didn’t believe him. Jahar looked over the demons from the crowd. He got the impression the ape was an barely intelligent combat demon. The puddle of ooze could have been related to disease or poison and could be intelligent, but couldn’t communicate well with non demons. The purple lady had shark eyes and had something to do with flesh. Not overly powerful, but fairly intelligent. A-dom told the demons he was a child of the dawn. They said it was good the village would have such a strong protector. A-dom said he was glad they thought so. The purple demon then told him they would need a piece of flesh for the ceremony. A-dom hesitantly held up his arm. When it peeled off a strip of brown skin, A-dom had to explain that there were complications in the Wyld. The purple demon asked what he would you the skin combined with. A-dom didn’t know what his choices were, so was told any living creature on this island. He tried to say his wife, but they said he already had a binding relationship with her. He pondered this for a bit. Eventually he said the chieftain. The demon chopped off chieftain’s little toe and turned away from the crowd. A-dom watched as it combined the toe with the brown flesh and formed it into a baby that looked very much like the chieftain and A-dom. A-dom apologized to the chieftain. The purple demon then held the child up for the crowd to see. [b]Purple Demon;[/b] [i]Welcome the newest member of the island of Uk Luk Muk Muk Chuk.[/i] (to A-dom) [i]What is his name?[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]SteveUk.[/i] [b]Purple Demon:[/b] [i]Uk goes first.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Oh. UkSteve.[/i] With the ceremony over, the demons walked off the back of the dais, apparently off a cliff. The chieftain, highly confused by what to refer to his new son grandson, called for more drinks. A-dom happily also called for more drinks. Party commenced. Jahar went off on his own in the party to gather information. He talked to UkYuk and found out there were three villages on the island. One village was ruled by the Great Chieftain’s cousin and the other by a binding creation. He found out the chieftain’s daughter, the old witch doctor, and the wise women summoned the Great Ones to go rescue the captured A-dom. They were the ones who saw A-dom being dragged off, along with one other. The witch doctor and several of the wise women had since died, as well as the other witness. Jahar excused himself and explained things to Jade’s Luck. Jahar went over to A-dom and explained things to him. This went on a strange tangent that led to the following line. [b]Paul:[/b] [i]A-dom, they want you to put the Romance back in Necromancy.[/i] Jahar noticed that he was seriously annoying A-dom’s wife by his presence, so he finished up by telling A-dom they needed a hut close to his, since there were demons about and the group was strongest when together. [b]A-dom:[/b] (cheesy voice) [i]Okay. I will see what I can do. I am the PRINCE, after all. I do have a lot of pull.[/i] [b]Gabe:[/b] [i]I wander off. I leave you with my wife…. Your wife.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]He probably would be all over a wife swap.[/i] (cheesy pick-up voice) ‘So, you summon demons, aye? So do I.’[/i] A-dom went off to party some more while the rest of the group plotted. Jade’s Luck commented to Gareth that it would be very nice to have a matching fan. A-dom talked to his wife about after he left. She told the wise woman she would do anything possible to get him back. The wise woman brought the others to summon the demon. His wife just held the knife; she didn’t do the chanting. After they had two ‘Great Ones’, the ‘Great Ones’ suggested they summon one more. She said they had been great advisor. [b]A-dom:[/b] (cheesy voice) [i]But now I’m here! Though I may have to go on a trip now and then. I shall show you the WORLD! And possibly my mother.[/i] [b]UkYuse:[/b] [i]We can make a special trip to see your mother. And we can bring her back to join the tribe.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Yeah… I don’t think she’d like that.[/i] After the party died down, A-dom and his wife went back to their hut where A-dom performed his husbandly duties. He was rather drunk, so passed out afterwards. The group, at least, remembered A-dom’s problem with sleeping and charms ending and decided it would not be good if his wife woke up to the beast. Jade’s Luck made a nice flower arrangement for A-dom and gave it to Tiger. So Tiger snuck over to the hut in the early morning and put his hand over A-dom’s mouth. [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]Clearly I’m being attacked.[/i] It took a little bit of work for Tiger get A-dom to not attack him anymore and to explain to A-dom what the problem was. A-dom put his charm up, then rolled over and went back to sleep. Tiger woke him up again and made sure he stayed awake this time. After Tiger left, A-dom waited for his wife to wake up. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I’ll spend some time with you, but I have important business to attend to with talking to my friends. Look, I have flowers for you.[/i] She liked the flowers. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]Don’t summon any more demons, I mean Great Ones today.[/i] She said that the island would be crowded, since they already had three. She said the ‘Great Ones’ were advisors and dealt with angry spirits for them and protected them from invaders. The next day Jade’s Luck wandered around looking for spirits. She found it odd she wasn’t finding any. She finally found a rock spirit that was trying to hide. She found out that the demons had killed most of the spirits to eliminate the competition. Jade’s Luck went and got Jahar to talk to the rock. The rock was all for killing the demons. It said the mucky one liked to live in the pool in a specific direction. He said the big one just wandered around and the purple one liked to be in the villages. Jahar started to ask a time question of the spirit, but stopped, saying it couldn’t answer that. They finished up quickly and wandered away from the rock spirit to make sure it didn’t get in trouble. Jade’s Luck relayed this new information to the rest of the group. There was lots of talk about letting Tiger ‘solve the problem.’ As we have come to know, letting Tiger ‘solve the problem’ means letting Tiger kill things. Jade’s Luck wanted to know if the demons could possess the people on [b]The Grumpy Craftsman[/b]. Gareth had no clue. Jade’s Luck suggested sending the ship away for a bit to make sure they couldn’t. Gareth was unsure about this course of action. He did tell Jade’s luck that he had just recently learned a charm that grievously injured demons. [b]Gareth:[/b] [i]I like killing demons. Almost as much fun as killing pirates. Only thing better than killing pirates is killing demon pirates.[/i] Jahar checked A-dom over for spells to see what this binding to the island meant. He found nothing beyond the brotherhood spell, but he couldn’t see the Eclipse pacts upon him either. [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I’m sure it is just something about having to protect the island and its people from harm. I should be able to leave on occasion.[/i] [b]Ceri:[/b] [i]And, seriously, they’re safer with you gone.[/i] [b]A-dom:[/b] [i]I have to say, this is true.[/i] [/QUOTE]
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