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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2486631" data-attributes="member: 63"><p><em>October 29, 2005</em></p><p><em>3:47 pm</em></p><p></p><p>"Now," Debbie says, "we don't know for sure that this is your boy Terry, but there's some pretty weird stuff going on, so we think we got the right place."</p><p></p><p>Robert and Scarpedin exchange glances at the 'weird stuff' comment, and both of them give one quiet and mirthless huff of laughter. Belladonna waves for them to be quiet, and John hides a wry smile behind his cigarette.</p><p></p><p>They can't see Debbie. Her s ghost, Chandler, is relaying the message in Debbie's voice.</p><p></p><p>"There's this place not too far from here, Lover's Lane. It goes behind the jousting field, has a nice little treeline so you can't really see inside it. Basically it's a long road with bends and lots of benches for people to sit and be romantic. But everybody who's gone in there the past hour or so left in a hurry. David, one of the guys who works for me, he said it was cold in there, and he thought something was watching him. But he's a good man, so he went in anyway. Said there were two guys - a big guy and a short black one - standing around like they were on lookout. They told him to git, so he done git."</p><p></p><p>They recognize the descriptions - Rex and Hex, the two men who attacked them right before Terry somehow got the four of them stuck on Gaia.</p><p></p><p>"Stupid Terry," Scarpedin says. "His ass is lucky he's our only way back."</p><p></p><p>The group thanks Debbie, and then Chandler hands them a specially-prepared candle that, when they light it, will let the group see into Terra, and give them enough solidity to interact with people and things there. Meanwhile, Robert has been looking at the PDA Wiji-wiji gave him. There's only one interesting file - a scan of an old book, in French, with a few of the pages translated into English. Everything else is in Japanese.</p><p></p><p>When Scarpedin gets a look at the PDA, he realizes the scanned book is the same one that he was trying to get back in the New Age magic store right before they were attacked by Rex and Hex. Scarpedin thinks it was a spell book, and indeed, once they take a look at the translations of the French text, it appears that the book has instructions to cast a few spells -- invisibility from fey, some sort of animation/divination spell, a spell to locate magic, and then many more still in French.</p><p></p><p>While Chandler gives Belladonna and Robert directions on how to get to Lover's Lane, Scarpedin and John decide to give one of the spells a try. After a minute of struggling over awkward French pronunciations, they manage to make Robert's folding straight razor hop out of his pocket, open itself, and then walk around and dance like it had two legs. The spellbook has instructions for interpreting the dance in order to read the future, but none of the group bothers. They're just stunned that they did magic.</p><p></p><p>Robert glowers and takes his straight razor back -- it still is slightly rusted from when the nymph blew on it. But he's not angry. Instead he takes a look at the spellbook and tells them, "Alright, do this one now."</p><p></p><p>He's pointing at the "invisibility from fey" spell.</p><p></p><p>"That one looks kinda hard," Scarpedin says. "I haven't really, y'know, <em>done</em> this before."</p><p></p><p>"I don't care," Robert commands. "Do it. Look, if I'm going to believe I'm really in a fairy world, I'm not going to be stupid about it. Do you see that title?"</p><p></p><p>Belladonna looks now, then smiles and says with a charming Southern drawl, "It definitely does look useful."</p><p></p><p>Scarpedin wavers, and John sighs impatiently, takes the PDA from him, and reads what the spell will require. Almost too soft to hear, he mutters something about ". . . are all pussies."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 2486631, member: 63"] [i]October 29, 2005 3:47 pm[/i] "Now," Debbie says, "we don't know for sure that this is your boy Terry, but there's some pretty weird stuff going on, so we think we got the right place." Robert and Scarpedin exchange glances at the 'weird stuff' comment, and both of them give one quiet and mirthless huff of laughter. Belladonna waves for them to be quiet, and John hides a wry smile behind his cigarette. They can't see Debbie. Her s ghost, Chandler, is relaying the message in Debbie's voice. "There's this place not too far from here, Lover's Lane. It goes behind the jousting field, has a nice little treeline so you can't really see inside it. Basically it's a long road with bends and lots of benches for people to sit and be romantic. But everybody who's gone in there the past hour or so left in a hurry. David, one of the guys who works for me, he said it was cold in there, and he thought something was watching him. But he's a good man, so he went in anyway. Said there were two guys - a big guy and a short black one - standing around like they were on lookout. They told him to git, so he done git." They recognize the descriptions - Rex and Hex, the two men who attacked them right before Terry somehow got the four of them stuck on Gaia. "Stupid Terry," Scarpedin says. "His ass is lucky he's our only way back." The group thanks Debbie, and then Chandler hands them a specially-prepared candle that, when they light it, will let the group see into Terra, and give them enough solidity to interact with people and things there. Meanwhile, Robert has been looking at the PDA Wiji-wiji gave him. There's only one interesting file - a scan of an old book, in French, with a few of the pages translated into English. Everything else is in Japanese. When Scarpedin gets a look at the PDA, he realizes the scanned book is the same one that he was trying to get back in the New Age magic store right before they were attacked by Rex and Hex. Scarpedin thinks it was a spell book, and indeed, once they take a look at the translations of the French text, it appears that the book has instructions to cast a few spells -- invisibility from fey, some sort of animation/divination spell, a spell to locate magic, and then many more still in French. While Chandler gives Belladonna and Robert directions on how to get to Lover's Lane, Scarpedin and John decide to give one of the spells a try. After a minute of struggling over awkward French pronunciations, they manage to make Robert's folding straight razor hop out of his pocket, open itself, and then walk around and dance like it had two legs. The spellbook has instructions for interpreting the dance in order to read the future, but none of the group bothers. They're just stunned that they did magic. Robert glowers and takes his straight razor back -- it still is slightly rusted from when the nymph blew on it. But he's not angry. Instead he takes a look at the spellbook and tells them, "Alright, do this one now." He's pointing at the "invisibility from fey" spell. "That one looks kinda hard," Scarpedin says. "I haven't really, y'know, [i]done[/i] this before." "I don't care," Robert commands. "Do it. Look, if I'm going to believe I'm really in a fairy world, I'm not going to be stupid about it. Do you see that title?" Belladonna looks now, then smiles and says with a charming Southern drawl, "It definitely does look useful." Scarpedin wavers, and John sighs impatiently, takes the PDA from him, and reads what the spell will require. Almost too soft to hear, he mutters something about ". . . are all pussies." [/QUOTE]
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