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<blockquote data-quote="simmo" data-source="post: 1508208" data-attributes="member: 9744"><p><strong>We Interrupt This Adventure</strong></p><p></p><p><u>Act2 Scene 1 The Cell</u></p><p></p><p>Leese slowly woke up in the cold cell on a hard metal table. She felt the chill surface beneath her skin leeching the warmth from her body and shivered uncontrollably. At first the tiefling tried to rise, but after several failed attempts she sighed in resignation.</p><p></p><p>Never one to give up easily Leese gritted her teeth in determination and gave one final and forceful push. With a hoarse cry born out of sheer frustration and fear the young woman was able to sit up straight. Blood came rushing to her head and Leese groaned as she felt the blackness of unconsciousness closing in on her again.</p><p></p><p>“Awake, I see,” a gentle and soothing voice came from nearby. Leese looked over her shoulder and saw an attractive elven woman with a crooked smile studying her intently.</p><p></p><p>“What do you want with me? Where am I?”</p><p></p><p>“So many questions,” the elf chuckled as she walked over to a small metal table mounted on wheels.</p><p></p><p>Leese's eyes widened in terror as she saw the blood-stained tools that were neatly laid out on the other table. Her hand covered her mouth to stifle a scream as she scrabbled away from the elven woman.</p><p></p><p>“Oh don't worry dear, these are not for you. They are for the my other guest.” The wheels on the small table squeaked loudly as the elven woman ponderously manoeuvred it out of the room.</p><p></p><p>“Where is Petter?” Leese was unable to tear her gaze away from the cruel implements and she hugged herself reflexively. “What have you done with him?”</p><p></p><p>“Done to Petter?” The elven woman spat after she mentioned the name. “Nothing as yet, but soon dear. Very soon.” The door closed and Leese heard the key turning in the lock. She walked up to the door to look through the grill and recoiled in shock when the elven woman's rage contorted face suddenly appeared staring in to the cell. “Petter will wish that he'd never met me. He'll wish that he'd never broken my heart and left me bleeding in the gutter.” </p><p></p><p>The woman's face disappeared from sight. Her voice changed to a whisper and for a moment she sounded like a lost child. “He loved me once. I can make him love me again.”</p><p></p><p>Leese cried and threw herself against the stout wooden door. Splinters bit in to her shoulder through the thin gown that she was wearing but the tiefling girl did not care. Her nails raked the door and she called out for her captor to come back to no avail.</p><p></p><p>Exhausted from her efforts Leese slumped to the ground and bitter tears stung her face. The memory of being shot in the stomach returned like a crashing wave. Each time that she sobbed a ripple of pain spread outwards from her middle section. She tentatively lifted up her gown and felt coarse stitches brush against her finger tips.</p><p></p><p>Leese gently rocked back and forwards as each of the memories of her capture and subsequent auction in the Gatehouse Night Market came flooding back. She whimpered briefly and let the black tide of unconsciousness blissfully wash over her.</p><p></p><p><u>Act 2 Scene 2 The Change</u></p><p></p><p>It was the screams that woke her up. At first Leese was unsure whether she was screaming or not, but she soon determined that it was someone else. Leese clamped her hands over her ears in a bid to block out the sounds of her friend Petter screaming in agony.</p><p></p><p>After several minutes of sitting on the cold hard floor with her hands over her ears and her eyes closed - the noise suddenly stopped. Leese sat up, pinched herself and winced in pain. Her mouth opened and her eyes stared blankly ahead but she found that there was no way that she could express herself adequately. Instead she sat in silence with her mouth open, spittle drooling out of one corner and stared blankly at one of the walls.</p><p></p><p>Time passed and the screams came and went. The next time that the screams came they were not as loud as before.</p><p></p><p>After some time Leese heard a key turning in the lock and the door swung open. She could hear the squeak of small metal wheels and room by her elven captor.</p><p></p><p>On the table lay a figure covered with a white blanket that was stained dark red in large ugly patches. Leese struggled to rise and scanned the chamber for a weapon but could not find one. The elven woman paid her no attention as she heaved the figure on to the metal table that the tiefling girl had woken up on.</p><p></p><p>“Please stop doing this to him,” Leese pleaded. She held her breath as the elven woman reached over to pull off the stained sheet and let it out in relief when she saw that Petter was still breathing.</p><p></p><p>“Such a waste,” the elf brushed a stray lock of hair behind her pointed ear. She unslung the leather bag that she had over her shoulder and began rummaging inside, singing a sweet melody as she searched.</p><p></p><p>“What have you done to him?” Leese's gaze darted up and down the length of Petter's body. She saw the same coarse stitches that she had in several places on the fire genasi, but no other signs of trauma or torture. She silently thanked the goddess that her friend was whole in body. “Please can't you just let us go? I promise that I will not tell anyone about what has happened here. Just please let us go.”</p><p></p><p>“Us,” the elven woman sneered. “He's in love with you, did you know that?”</p><p></p><p>Leese stared at the woman in disbelief. She had no words with which to respond.</p><p></p><p>“But don't worry dear, I'll not harm you.” The elven woman pulled out a belt, a pouch and a several rings from her leather bag. “It's him who must suffer for his sins. Him who will bear the guilt of causing me to be cast out from my family and from my people.”</p><p></p><p>The elf opened the pouch and placed several gem stones on different parts of Petters body. Next she carefully put the rings on his finger and finally tied the leather belt around his waist.</p><p></p><p>“I delved in to his mind and read the thoughts that he never wanted me to see. He was always holding something back, but I thought that love would overcome all in our path.”</p><p></p><p>“I understand your pain...”</p><p></p><p>“You understand nothing child!” Leese stepped back from the elven woman who shook with righteous fury. “He never loved me! Not even for a single day. All that I was to him was a conquest and then a source of unwanted attention. Well it's time that he learned his lesson.”</p><p></p><p>“Please don't.”</p><p></p><p>The elf paused during her preparations of the ritual and a single tear rolled down her beautiful cheek. “Those were the exact words that I used at the moment that he walked out of my life.” Leese stepped forward the comfort her, but the elf recoiled away and raised a dagger to ward her off.</p><p></p><p>Leese wavered between attacking the elven woman with her bare hands, removing the objects from Petter's body or trying one more time to comfort her captor and thereby prevent the ritual from taking place. As she stepped towards Petter's body her captor spoke a single arcane word and suddenly her body went entirely rigid.</p><p></p><p>Unable to move a muscle or even draw breath the tiefling girl watched in horror as the elven woman chanted hate-filled words of power from an scroll. The parchment burnt up as the spell was cast and Leese was forced to watch the transmutation take effect. An aura of dark light surrounded both Petter and the elven woman and then faded away.</p><p></p><p>Leese gasped for breath when she felt the effects of her magical imprisonment suddenly disappear. Pain shot outwards from her stomach and she doubled over as it drove her to her knees.</p><p></p><p>A hand reached down to help Leese stand back up. When the tiefling girl had regained her feet she stepped back in surprise as she saw that her elven captor had changed. The same crooked smile was still there but this time it was on the face of a handsome elven man.</p><p></p><p>Leese looked at her friend lying on the metal table. There was no doubt in her mind. Petter had become a female fire genasi.</p><p></p><p>“Why?” she asked as she held on to the table. Leese's mind was reeling from shock as it was almost too much to take in.</p><p></p><p>“Now we are even,” the elven man said as he left the room and walked away.</p><p></p><p><u>Act2 Scene3 The Rescue</u></p><p></p><p>“I'm having a nightmare.” Those were the first words that Leese heard Petter say when she woke up on the table. It had been some time since their captor had left.</p><p></p><p>Leese draped the stained blanket over Petter's slim shoulders and gave her a hug. She looked at Petter's face and felt her heart ache in sympathy for what her friend was going through. The tiefling girl continued to support Petter and tried to think of something comforting to say.</p><p></p><p>“Hey, I've found their belongings,” a voice called out somewhere beyond the cell door. It took several heartbeats for Leese to realise that it belonged to Tallus.</p><p></p><p>“Search the other rooms,” Axiel commanded.</p><p></p><p>“This door is unlocked,” Rianna said as she pushed open the cell door. The air genasi, aasimar knight, gnome scholar and dwarven warrior burst in to the room.</p><p></p><p>Leese tried to climb off the metal table in order to intercept her friends, but Rianna got to her before she could say anything. As Axiel reached out to help Leese off the table, Rianna and Tallus began to help Petter stand up.</p><p></p><p>The stained blanket fell to the floor and everyone in the room stared at the fire genasi in shock and amazement.</p><p></p><p>“What happened to you?”</p><p></p><p>“Lady's Grace, but you've got some nice curves.”</p><p></p><p>“Shut up Tallus, this is serious.”</p><p></p><p>“I was being serious.”</p><p></p><p>“Well, you're not being helpful.”</p><p></p><p>“We're going to have to get some new clothes for her.”</p><p></p><p>“Mole, try to be a bit more considerate.”</p><p></p><p>“I was just pointing out the obvious.”</p><p></p><p>“Will you all just shut up!” Petter jelled in a high pitched voice. “I'm having a nightmare and you're all uninvited.”</p><p></p><p>Some of the others laughed nervously unsure whether it was a joke or not. Leese fought to hold back her tears.</p><p></p><p>“Petter, you can't deny what's going on.”</p><p></p><p>“Yes, I'm certainly not going to deny what my eyes are telling me.”</p><p></p><p>“For the last time Tallus, just pike it.”</p><p></p><p>“Not that I'm complaining about Leese either. She sure hides it well.”</p><p></p><p>“Shut up!” several voices all shouted together.</p><p></p><p>“It's a good job that Rianna has friends in low places, else we'd never have found this place.”</p><p></p><p>“Are you trying to start a fight? Or are you simply angry at the whole of the Multiverse?”</p><p></p><p>“At least I don't retreat from the Multiverse in to tomes and books. They can offer you no sanctuary.”</p><p></p><p>“Listen, let's just collect their things and get to a safe place.”</p><p></p><p>“The Harmonium guard station?”</p><p></p><p>“No, somewhere else.”</p><p></p><p>“Why not there? It's much better than a room at an inn.”</p><p></p><p>“Because I'm supposed to be on patrol at the moment and not partaking in a rescue mission.”</p><p></p><p>“You disobeyed an order to join the Harmonium patrol?”</p><p></p><p>“Yes and I don't want to discuss it further. Now can we please move on?”</p><p></p><p>“Sure thing Captain. Well, Petter my lovely - let's be going.”</p><p></p><p>Petter leapt forward and slapped Tallus hard in the face. Leese watched as the dwarf stood in stunned silence and the fire genasi cradled her bruised hand to her chest.</p><p></p><p>Rianna intervened quickly by covering Petter with the blanket and hustling her out of the room to get changed. Leese followed them to the another room and heard the men begin to argue in the cell. Despite her exhaustion she managed to get herself dressed and helped Rianna getting Petter dressed as well.</p><p></p><p>The dispirited group made their way out of the underground complex and back on to the streets of Sigil. Leese felt a twitch in the corner of her mouth and realised that she was actually happy at seeing the muddy streets of the Hive once again. She looked back at the dilapidated tower that they had emerged from and burned the image of it in to her memory.</p><p></p><p>By the time that they got to an inn several streets away they were all soaked from the constantly drizzling rain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="simmo, post: 1508208, member: 9744"] [b]We Interrupt This Adventure[/b] [u]Act2 Scene 1 The Cell[/u] Leese slowly woke up in the cold cell on a hard metal table. She felt the chill surface beneath her skin leeching the warmth from her body and shivered uncontrollably. At first the tiefling tried to rise, but after several failed attempts she sighed in resignation. Never one to give up easily Leese gritted her teeth in determination and gave one final and forceful push. With a hoarse cry born out of sheer frustration and fear the young woman was able to sit up straight. Blood came rushing to her head and Leese groaned as she felt the blackness of unconsciousness closing in on her again. “Awake, I see,” a gentle and soothing voice came from nearby. Leese looked over her shoulder and saw an attractive elven woman with a crooked smile studying her intently. “What do you want with me? Where am I?” “So many questions,” the elf chuckled as she walked over to a small metal table mounted on wheels. Leese's eyes widened in terror as she saw the blood-stained tools that were neatly laid out on the other table. Her hand covered her mouth to stifle a scream as she scrabbled away from the elven woman. “Oh don't worry dear, these are not for you. They are for the my other guest.” The wheels on the small table squeaked loudly as the elven woman ponderously manoeuvred it out of the room. “Where is Petter?” Leese was unable to tear her gaze away from the cruel implements and she hugged herself reflexively. “What have you done with him?” “Done to Petter?” The elven woman spat after she mentioned the name. “Nothing as yet, but soon dear. Very soon.” The door closed and Leese heard the key turning in the lock. She walked up to the door to look through the grill and recoiled in shock when the elven woman's rage contorted face suddenly appeared staring in to the cell. “Petter will wish that he'd never met me. He'll wish that he'd never broken my heart and left me bleeding in the gutter.” The woman's face disappeared from sight. Her voice changed to a whisper and for a moment she sounded like a lost child. “He loved me once. I can make him love me again.” Leese cried and threw herself against the stout wooden door. Splinters bit in to her shoulder through the thin gown that she was wearing but the tiefling girl did not care. Her nails raked the door and she called out for her captor to come back to no avail. Exhausted from her efforts Leese slumped to the ground and bitter tears stung her face. The memory of being shot in the stomach returned like a crashing wave. Each time that she sobbed a ripple of pain spread outwards from her middle section. She tentatively lifted up her gown and felt coarse stitches brush against her finger tips. Leese gently rocked back and forwards as each of the memories of her capture and subsequent auction in the Gatehouse Night Market came flooding back. She whimpered briefly and let the black tide of unconsciousness blissfully wash over her. [u]Act 2 Scene 2 The Change[/u] It was the screams that woke her up. At first Leese was unsure whether she was screaming or not, but she soon determined that it was someone else. Leese clamped her hands over her ears in a bid to block out the sounds of her friend Petter screaming in agony. After several minutes of sitting on the cold hard floor with her hands over her ears and her eyes closed - the noise suddenly stopped. Leese sat up, pinched herself and winced in pain. Her mouth opened and her eyes stared blankly ahead but she found that there was no way that she could express herself adequately. Instead she sat in silence with her mouth open, spittle drooling out of one corner and stared blankly at one of the walls. Time passed and the screams came and went. The next time that the screams came they were not as loud as before. After some time Leese heard a key turning in the lock and the door swung open. She could hear the squeak of small metal wheels and room by her elven captor. On the table lay a figure covered with a white blanket that was stained dark red in large ugly patches. Leese struggled to rise and scanned the chamber for a weapon but could not find one. The elven woman paid her no attention as she heaved the figure on to the metal table that the tiefling girl had woken up on. “Please stop doing this to him,” Leese pleaded. She held her breath as the elven woman reached over to pull off the stained sheet and let it out in relief when she saw that Petter was still breathing. “Such a waste,” the elf brushed a stray lock of hair behind her pointed ear. She unslung the leather bag that she had over her shoulder and began rummaging inside, singing a sweet melody as she searched. “What have you done to him?” Leese's gaze darted up and down the length of Petter's body. She saw the same coarse stitches that she had in several places on the fire genasi, but no other signs of trauma or torture. She silently thanked the goddess that her friend was whole in body. “Please can't you just let us go? I promise that I will not tell anyone about what has happened here. Just please let us go.” “Us,” the elven woman sneered. “He's in love with you, did you know that?” Leese stared at the woman in disbelief. She had no words with which to respond. “But don't worry dear, I'll not harm you.” The elven woman pulled out a belt, a pouch and a several rings from her leather bag. “It's him who must suffer for his sins. Him who will bear the guilt of causing me to be cast out from my family and from my people.” The elf opened the pouch and placed several gem stones on different parts of Petters body. Next she carefully put the rings on his finger and finally tied the leather belt around his waist. “I delved in to his mind and read the thoughts that he never wanted me to see. He was always holding something back, but I thought that love would overcome all in our path.” “I understand your pain...” “You understand nothing child!” Leese stepped back from the elven woman who shook with righteous fury. “He never loved me! Not even for a single day. All that I was to him was a conquest and then a source of unwanted attention. Well it's time that he learned his lesson.” “Please don't.” The elf paused during her preparations of the ritual and a single tear rolled down her beautiful cheek. “Those were the exact words that I used at the moment that he walked out of my life.” Leese stepped forward the comfort her, but the elf recoiled away and raised a dagger to ward her off. Leese wavered between attacking the elven woman with her bare hands, removing the objects from Petter's body or trying one more time to comfort her captor and thereby prevent the ritual from taking place. As she stepped towards Petter's body her captor spoke a single arcane word and suddenly her body went entirely rigid. Unable to move a muscle or even draw breath the tiefling girl watched in horror as the elven woman chanted hate-filled words of power from an scroll. The parchment burnt up as the spell was cast and Leese was forced to watch the transmutation take effect. An aura of dark light surrounded both Petter and the elven woman and then faded away. Leese gasped for breath when she felt the effects of her magical imprisonment suddenly disappear. Pain shot outwards from her stomach and she doubled over as it drove her to her knees. A hand reached down to help Leese stand back up. When the tiefling girl had regained her feet she stepped back in surprise as she saw that her elven captor had changed. The same crooked smile was still there but this time it was on the face of a handsome elven man. Leese looked at her friend lying on the metal table. There was no doubt in her mind. Petter had become a female fire genasi. “Why?” she asked as she held on to the table. Leese's mind was reeling from shock as it was almost too much to take in. “Now we are even,” the elven man said as he left the room and walked away. [u]Act2 Scene3 The Rescue[/u] “I'm having a nightmare.” Those were the first words that Leese heard Petter say when she woke up on the table. It had been some time since their captor had left. Leese draped the stained blanket over Petter's slim shoulders and gave her a hug. She looked at Petter's face and felt her heart ache in sympathy for what her friend was going through. The tiefling girl continued to support Petter and tried to think of something comforting to say. “Hey, I've found their belongings,” a voice called out somewhere beyond the cell door. It took several heartbeats for Leese to realise that it belonged to Tallus. “Search the other rooms,” Axiel commanded. “This door is unlocked,” Rianna said as she pushed open the cell door. The air genasi, aasimar knight, gnome scholar and dwarven warrior burst in to the room. Leese tried to climb off the metal table in order to intercept her friends, but Rianna got to her before she could say anything. As Axiel reached out to help Leese off the table, Rianna and Tallus began to help Petter stand up. The stained blanket fell to the floor and everyone in the room stared at the fire genasi in shock and amazement. “What happened to you?” “Lady's Grace, but you've got some nice curves.” “Shut up Tallus, this is serious.” “I was being serious.” “Well, you're not being helpful.” “We're going to have to get some new clothes for her.” “Mole, try to be a bit more considerate.” “I was just pointing out the obvious.” “Will you all just shut up!” Petter jelled in a high pitched voice. “I'm having a nightmare and you're all uninvited.” Some of the others laughed nervously unsure whether it was a joke or not. Leese fought to hold back her tears. “Petter, you can't deny what's going on.” “Yes, I'm certainly not going to deny what my eyes are telling me.” “For the last time Tallus, just pike it.” “Not that I'm complaining about Leese either. She sure hides it well.” “Shut up!” several voices all shouted together. “It's a good job that Rianna has friends in low places, else we'd never have found this place.” “Are you trying to start a fight? Or are you simply angry at the whole of the Multiverse?” “At least I don't retreat from the Multiverse in to tomes and books. They can offer you no sanctuary.” “Listen, let's just collect their things and get to a safe place.” “The Harmonium guard station?” “No, somewhere else.” “Why not there? It's much better than a room at an inn.” “Because I'm supposed to be on patrol at the moment and not partaking in a rescue mission.” “You disobeyed an order to join the Harmonium patrol?” “Yes and I don't want to discuss it further. Now can we please move on?” “Sure thing Captain. Well, Petter my lovely - let's be going.” Petter leapt forward and slapped Tallus hard in the face. Leese watched as the dwarf stood in stunned silence and the fire genasi cradled her bruised hand to her chest. Rianna intervened quickly by covering Petter with the blanket and hustling her out of the room to get changed. Leese followed them to the another room and heard the men begin to argue in the cell. Despite her exhaustion she managed to get herself dressed and helped Rianna getting Petter dressed as well. The dispirited group made their way out of the underground complex and back on to the streets of Sigil. Leese felt a twitch in the corner of her mouth and realised that she was actually happy at seeing the muddy streets of the Hive once again. She looked back at the dilapidated tower that they had emerged from and burned the image of it in to her memory. By the time that they got to an inn several streets away they were all soaked from the constantly drizzling rain. [/QUOTE]
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