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<blockquote data-quote="Hedrin" data-source="post: 2273107" data-attributes="member: 31867"><p><strong>Liadan's Journal 5</strong></p><p></p><p>Liadan's Journal (5-3-2003)</p><p> </p><p> I grabbed for the coil of rope I keep with my saddle (As Auntie Skya says, rope is handy!). As I am about to tie it off to the pommel of my saddle, a girl leading a horse appears around the corner of some rubble. Everybody stopped as we sized each other up.</p><p> </p><p> It looked like she came to a decision about us pretty quickly and started towards us again. Sandrue and I started forward while Rock guarded our rear and Fallon circled. Sandrue talked to her and got her story. When we realized that she wasn't a danger, I left them to go back and try to help Erim out of the pit.</p><p> </p><p> Being an inquisitive sort, he didn't want to come up, so I went down after him. He had already cast a spell to let him read the glowing runes on the wall so I figured a little time down here wouldn't hurt as nothing seemed to have moved through there in a long time. He read the runes in the hall we were in and I was ready to object if he went into another hall, but he stuck to the first one. Apparently it stopped in mid-verse and ended with a wall with a large metal box of some sort, covered with a tarp of leather or animal hide. Some sort of strange symbol was pressed into the skin and Erim seemed to find it fascinating. He said it was some kind of wizard lock and looked like he was maybe about to fool with it when I had to put my foot down. (Auntie Skya's told me once about an adventure she had and that locked rooms in ancient temples may be locked for a reason!) Anyway I wanted the others to look at it first before Erim messed around with it and I also wanted to get back to camp alive. I don't want to sound like a coward, but my ribs were still hurting pretty bad and climbing down a rope didn't help my point of view!</p><p> </p><p> He insisted on rereading part of the wall and said he'd go up after that. I agreed but told him to be quick. We were making too much noise and I was afraid we would attract the attention of anything that might still be down there. Luckily, if anything was down there, it was asleep or out visiting relatives. When we finally got to the rope again I had to argue with him to get him to go up first.</p><p> </p><p> Hello! I was covering our retreat like I was taught to!</p><p> </p><p> Anyway, he gets up the rope just fine and then it's my turn. I start to climb the rope when I move wrong and the muscles in my side spasm where the orc slashed me with his axe. I think I tore the wound open as it started to bleed again. I tried to hold on but fell back down. Fortunately I hadn't got very far so it just knocked the wind out of me. I heard Rock laughing when I fell and at the time I thought he was laughing at something up above, but when I got to the top and he kept trying not to look at me and then when he did, starting to laugh again, I guess he found my pain funny. Stupid dwarf! Maybe I'll sucker punch him some time!!!!</p><p> </p><p>(badly drawn caricature of Rock's head with crosses for eyes and spiral lines coming out of his head)</p><p> </p><p> After Shadowcast helps pulls me up, we try and cover the hole to make it look somewhat natural again. With a combination of people who know woodsy stuff and magic wiping out traces of our being here, it looked really good! Then the others started arguing about how it looked too good and we might never find it again in the rubble, blah, blah, blah! So I picked up a hefty boulder and beat a big chunk out of the corner of one of the walls and placed the stone upon my cairn of wall chips. "OK everyone, it is near the wall with the dent!" That seemed to shut them up. Not the most diplomatic solution, but it worked and I really wanted to go and have someone look at my side. It was starting to throb pretty badly and I could tell I was getting a bit cranky.</p><p> </p><p> We started out at a brisk pace and Nekaya and I rode by each other and we talked about our mentors. Her's sounded pretty neat too. Too bad he was dead. </p><p> </p><p> Then she noticed I was hurt and used some kind of healing magics on me I didn't recognize. It felt so good not to be riding with a slash wound in my side! At this point I still liked her.</p><p> </p><p> We got back to camp and everybody was very sombre. Nekaya offered her self to Covenant as he had discharged her vengeance debt for her by slaying the priest who killed her mentor. And he said "Sure, I'll take you on as my follower. I already split my time between two students and neither are getting near enough attention as it is, but don't worry, they won't mind." RRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p><p> </p><p>(Stick figure character of a girl with a knife stuck through her chest)</p><p> </p><p> The afternoon meal appeared by magic and was really good, but the camp was very downbeat. Even Califax hardly seemed to try and bite me when I brushed him. I checked for any signs of sickness, but found none.</p><p> </p><p> Then after lunch we all kinda broke up to be with our mentors and I had mace practise with Covenant. I waited until we were near the edge of the circle to ask him my question. I was hoping to surprise him with knowing a little about the death prophesy. Then he surprised me by answering me directly instead of waffling or asking me how I knew about it. He said quite earnestly he didn't know who would die. Then Havin called us all together to talk to our group. GRRRR!!! That man has the worst timing!!!!</p><p> </p><p> We sit down in a group and Covenant tells us a little of the prophesy. It seems that his group, when they were all together, was once called a chorus by some being of power. The disturbing line in the prophesy is that if they go on this quest the chorus will be silenced. Most of us jumped to the conclusion that it meant that one or all of the singers would die. Telemnar tried to put a better spin on it saying that it could just mean that they would never all be able to get together again, but I don't think anyone gave it much credence.</p><p> </p><p> Then Covenant started talking about leaving us behind again. I saw red!!! As it turns out I misunderstood him somewhat and he just didn't want to take us up to the Dragon's lair, but at the time I didn't understand what he had said and I thought he was trying to dump us off at some town again permanently.</p><p> </p><p>(BTW, that is actually true, I didn't get what Devin had said until later)</p><p> </p><p> While we were breaking camp I passed Sandrue and told him I WAS right and they HAD sent us off on a useless errand to the temple. He looked on it as an important discovery that we might have to come back to investigate later... After we save the world. We talked for a bit and he seemed to loosen up somewhat. I was glad for that as he seems really nice, but a bit too formal for my tastes. At times he reminds me of some of the courtiers in Suzail, and I didn't like most of them. He asked if he could call me Liadan, and as I had been trying to get him to do that since I had met him, I was more than happy to let him. Phaele seems to be warming a little more after our big goblin adventure. I'm happy about that too.</p><p> </p><p> Our little party of followers got together and talked and said we would go as far as they let us. Rock made a good point in the discussion (damn his eyes!) that a chorus needs a leader and while we might have joined in the song with our mentors, ultimately the chorus director tells you where and when to sing. So I didn't make any more objections, well any out loud anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hedrin, post: 2273107, member: 31867"] [b]Liadan's Journal 5[/b] Liadan's Journal (5-3-2003) I grabbed for the coil of rope I keep with my saddle (As Auntie Skya says, rope is handy!). As I am about to tie it off to the pommel of my saddle, a girl leading a horse appears around the corner of some rubble. Everybody stopped as we sized each other up. It looked like she came to a decision about us pretty quickly and started towards us again. Sandrue and I started forward while Rock guarded our rear and Fallon circled. Sandrue talked to her and got her story. When we realized that she wasn't a danger, I left them to go back and try to help Erim out of the pit. Being an inquisitive sort, he didn't want to come up, so I went down after him. He had already cast a spell to let him read the glowing runes on the wall so I figured a little time down here wouldn't hurt as nothing seemed to have moved through there in a long time. He read the runes in the hall we were in and I was ready to object if he went into another hall, but he stuck to the first one. Apparently it stopped in mid-verse and ended with a wall with a large metal box of some sort, covered with a tarp of leather or animal hide. Some sort of strange symbol was pressed into the skin and Erim seemed to find it fascinating. He said it was some kind of wizard lock and looked like he was maybe about to fool with it when I had to put my foot down. (Auntie Skya's told me once about an adventure she had and that locked rooms in ancient temples may be locked for a reason!) Anyway I wanted the others to look at it first before Erim messed around with it and I also wanted to get back to camp alive. I don't want to sound like a coward, but my ribs were still hurting pretty bad and climbing down a rope didn't help my point of view! He insisted on rereading part of the wall and said he'd go up after that. I agreed but told him to be quick. We were making too much noise and I was afraid we would attract the attention of anything that might still be down there. Luckily, if anything was down there, it was asleep or out visiting relatives. When we finally got to the rope again I had to argue with him to get him to go up first. Hello! I was covering our retreat like I was taught to! Anyway, he gets up the rope just fine and then it's my turn. I start to climb the rope when I move wrong and the muscles in my side spasm where the orc slashed me with his axe. I think I tore the wound open as it started to bleed again. I tried to hold on but fell back down. Fortunately I hadn't got very far so it just knocked the wind out of me. I heard Rock laughing when I fell and at the time I thought he was laughing at something up above, but when I got to the top and he kept trying not to look at me and then when he did, starting to laugh again, I guess he found my pain funny. Stupid dwarf! Maybe I'll sucker punch him some time!!!! (badly drawn caricature of Rock's head with crosses for eyes and spiral lines coming out of his head) After Shadowcast helps pulls me up, we try and cover the hole to make it look somewhat natural again. With a combination of people who know woodsy stuff and magic wiping out traces of our being here, it looked really good! Then the others started arguing about how it looked too good and we might never find it again in the rubble, blah, blah, blah! So I picked up a hefty boulder and beat a big chunk out of the corner of one of the walls and placed the stone upon my cairn of wall chips. "OK everyone, it is near the wall with the dent!" That seemed to shut them up. Not the most diplomatic solution, but it worked and I really wanted to go and have someone look at my side. It was starting to throb pretty badly and I could tell I was getting a bit cranky. We started out at a brisk pace and Nekaya and I rode by each other and we talked about our mentors. Her's sounded pretty neat too. Too bad he was dead. Then she noticed I was hurt and used some kind of healing magics on me I didn't recognize. It felt so good not to be riding with a slash wound in my side! At this point I still liked her. We got back to camp and everybody was very sombre. Nekaya offered her self to Covenant as he had discharged her vengeance debt for her by slaying the priest who killed her mentor. And he said "Sure, I'll take you on as my follower. I already split my time between two students and neither are getting near enough attention as it is, but don't worry, they won't mind." RRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Stick figure character of a girl with a knife stuck through her chest) The afternoon meal appeared by magic and was really good, but the camp was very downbeat. Even Califax hardly seemed to try and bite me when I brushed him. I checked for any signs of sickness, but found none. Then after lunch we all kinda broke up to be with our mentors and I had mace practise with Covenant. I waited until we were near the edge of the circle to ask him my question. I was hoping to surprise him with knowing a little about the death prophesy. Then he surprised me by answering me directly instead of waffling or asking me how I knew about it. He said quite earnestly he didn't know who would die. Then Havin called us all together to talk to our group. GRRRR!!! That man has the worst timing!!!! We sit down in a group and Covenant tells us a little of the prophesy. It seems that his group, when they were all together, was once called a chorus by some being of power. The disturbing line in the prophesy is that if they go on this quest the chorus will be silenced. Most of us jumped to the conclusion that it meant that one or all of the singers would die. Telemnar tried to put a better spin on it saying that it could just mean that they would never all be able to get together again, but I don't think anyone gave it much credence. Then Covenant started talking about leaving us behind again. I saw red!!! As it turns out I misunderstood him somewhat and he just didn't want to take us up to the Dragon's lair, but at the time I didn't understand what he had said and I thought he was trying to dump us off at some town again permanently. (BTW, that is actually true, I didn't get what Devin had said until later) While we were breaking camp I passed Sandrue and told him I WAS right and they HAD sent us off on a useless errand to the temple. He looked on it as an important discovery that we might have to come back to investigate later... After we save the world. We talked for a bit and he seemed to loosen up somewhat. I was glad for that as he seems really nice, but a bit too formal for my tastes. At times he reminds me of some of the courtiers in Suzail, and I didn't like most of them. He asked if he could call me Liadan, and as I had been trying to get him to do that since I had met him, I was more than happy to let him. Phaele seems to be warming a little more after our big goblin adventure. I'm happy about that too. Our little party of followers got together and talked and said we would go as far as they let us. Rock made a good point in the discussion (damn his eyes!) that a chorus needs a leader and while we might have joined in the song with our mentors, ultimately the chorus director tells you where and when to sing. So I didn't make any more objections, well any out loud anyway. [/QUOTE]
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