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<blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 3198134" data-attributes="member: 11574"><p><strong>Finding the password</strong></p><p></p><p>Haimish returned to the Scholar's Inn and explained to the rest of the group what had gone on all night and to show off the vial of liquid sunlight.</p><p></p><p>"What does Menthos gain by helping you?" Kessen inquired</p><p></p><p>"I don't believe anything." Haimish replied</p><p></p><p>"I don't believe that for one second, I bet he's in the back pocket of the Kadors. That's why I never bothered to get into religion, wipe away the varnish and they're just like every other organization, all about control." Kessen offers</p><p></p><p>"Doopa have religion, Doopa's tribe fell from heavens after winning freedom from giants." The ogre says proudly</p><p></p><p>"Too bad when you fell you all landed on your heads, permanently contorting your skulls into inhospitable places to house a brain." Turgar counters</p><p></p><p>"I don't want to think about conspiracies and plots right now, I want to get out of the city for a while. I need to hone up some of my skills before I try to bluff a vampire with sunlight." Haimish relates</p><p></p><p>"Where would you go to do that?" Xanthos asks</p><p></p><p>"How about the Mermist? It's close and along the edge you find a few scouting lizardmen, you can practice sneaking up on them while we practice killing them." Kessen suggests</p><p></p><p>"That might be a good plan." Haimish agrees</p><p></p><p>"I think I should stay here, I do not want to upset the balance on nature in the swamp. The Mermist lies next to the Silverwood Valley, my homeland, and I can ill afford to bring about vengeance upon my family if the Mermist lizardmen see a centaur involved." Xanthos states</p><p></p><p>"We'll wait until they attack and we'll make sure they're all dead and buried before moving on." Kessen says </p><p></p><p>"I am not sure that would be better." Xanthos replies</p><p></p><p>Xanthos packs anyway along with the rest of the group as they wait for Menthos to return. They grow restless and Kessen offers to go drag him back from the temple when Menthos finally arrives bearing a stripped holly branch in his left hand.</p><p></p><p>"Eek! What did you do to the tree?" Xanthos asks accusingly</p><p></p><p>"Statinistor told me if I was ever in distress, to strip a holly branch and carry it forth in my left hand. Someone would be along shortly to assist me. I'm just trying it out to see if it works." Menthos answers</p><p></p><p>"Does it work?" Haimish asks</p><p></p><p>"I don't think so, all I found was you guys." Menthos responds</p><p></p><p>"Let's get going before we lose daylight." Kessen presses, "and you're with me teifling, I don't want you wandering out of my light of sight." </p><p></p><p>"It warms my heart so to know of your fondness for me, shall we consummate this relationship now or once you get me alone in the woods?" Menthos answers</p><p></p><p>Kessen shoves Menthos out the door as the rest of the group follows, it takes an hour to wind through the streets and exit the city, Kessen leads them along a well worn hunting path heading west from Highcastle for about two hours before the party notices the group getting less firm and the grass begins to get extremely wet, as though it was laden with dew.</p><p></p><p>"Be on the lookout, the lizardmen like encroaching the swamp onto farmland and cities, I expect to see a few scouting parties soon." Kessen states</p><p></p><p>The party reaches the point where standing water is the norm and good sized mud hills about four feet high start to dominate the landscape.</p><p></p><p>"This is where the lizardmen would most likely ambush from, those mud hills are built with shallow pools behind them so that the lizardmen can spring up unseen as people pass through the swamp. Very effective if you don't know to look for them." Kessen relates</p><p></p><p>"How does one combat that?" Xanthos inquires</p><p></p><p>"With these." Kessen reaches into a belt pouch and withdraws a few small yellow pellets. He transfers all but one into his left hand and then tosses the remaining one over a small mud hill. The sound of splashing water coincides with a brilliant flash of light.</p><p></p><p>"Flash pellets, how amateur." Menthos states</p><p></p><p>"They'll keep you alive long enough for me to kill you." Kessen retorts</p><p></p><p>"Ooh, can hardly wait. You keep promising me but I'm not seeing any action." Menthos replies</p><p></p><p>Haimish and Turgar turn around to pull apart the two warring men, as a blowgun dart whizzes into the shoulder of Doopa.</p><p></p><p>"Ow, Someone shot Doopa with big splinter!" The ogre roars</p><p></p><p>The fighting quiets down as another dart ricochets off of Haimish's shield.</p><p></p><p>"We're under attack, that way!" Kessen yells and points off to the left</p><p></p><p>Doopa charges in the direction of Kessen's finger and crests a mud hill looking for the offenders, the rest of the party spreads out trying to get a better look at where the attack is coming from.</p><p></p><p>"So much for being sneaky." Haimish laments</p><p></p><p>A lizardman raises his head above the water line in front of the hill Doopa is on and blows a dart into the thigh of Kessen.</p><p></p><p>"Argh! There, behind you Doopa!" Kessen yells and crouches to the ground as the lizardman disappears below the surface of the water.</p><p></p><p>Doopa leaps off the mud hill and lands in waist deep pit filled with water, a startled lizardman rises next to Doopa, who promptly brings his club down on the creature's head, crushing it's neck and sending it crashing back into the pit.</p><p></p><p>"Doopa like whack a mole game!" The ogre gleefully shouts</p><p></p><p>After a few moments and no further lizardmen surface, a dejected Doopa reaches below him and feels around for another lizardman. He grabs a hold of a leather strap and yanks the stunned lizardman out of the water. A prepared and waiting volley of attacks are launched into the quickly turning corpse.</p><p></p><p>Disappointed at not being able to off the one he pulled from the water, Doopa searches again but only finds the dead one he killed. Nonetheless he hauls up that body and tosses it towards the party. Five arrows and an eldritch blast are wasted on the dead carcass as it flops unceremoniously on the ground weighted down with extra iron and wood.</p><p></p><p>Doopa stands there chuckling at the party's response, as he retrieves the other lizardman's body and begins to rummage through it's belongings. Kessen obtains the blowgun and the remaining darts from the one in front of him as Turgar finds a few copper pieces but nothing else.</p><p></p><p>"Nothing else? Not even a dagger?" Haimish asks</p><p></p><p>"No, usually it's not needed. The poisoned darts do the trick and there's no need for hand-to-hand combat, if it comes to that they just flee and hope you follow them while they shoot you again with their darts." Kessen explains</p><p></p><p>Mostly uninjured the party presses on, but finds no more takers for their practice, the sun begins to slip in the western sky.</p><p></p><p>"I need to start heading back to town, I've got a gig in a few hours." Haimish advises</p><p></p><p>"We're a bit far north of the city, we can either head due east and link up with the King's Road into Highcastle, or we can take the overland route. Both will take about the same amount of time." Kessen advises</p><p></p><p>"I'd like to take the road, I need to dry out a bit and don't want to go singing smelling like I've been sleeping in the fields all day." Haimish answers</p><p></p><p>The party reaches the road in due time and begins their journey south. The road is bordered by tall grass to either side, rising as high as five feet in some places, after a few hundred feet Kessen holds his hand up to stop the group.</p><p></p><p>Sniffing the air and looking about Kessen whispers, "We're being stalked."</p><p></p><p>"Yeah, by your over-active imagination." Menthos counters</p><p></p><p>Kessen spots the moving grass up ahead and to the right of the road, he advances up the road to be parallel with the movement and unleashes an arrow into the grass. A shout of pain and a flurry of motion erupt from the grass as six bandits rear up and fire into Kessen, nearly downing the scout.</p><p></p><p>Doopa charges into the fray, crashing his club through the gathering of men like a bowling ball, Turgar activates his vigor aura and moves up to keep Kessen within thirty feet of him. Haimish breaks into a song of encouragement.</p><p></p><p><em>Our team is dynamite</em></p><p><em>Our team is dynamite</em></p><p><em>tick tick tick tick </em></p><p><em>BOOM dynamite</em></p><p><em>BOOM dynamite</em></p><p></p><p>Xanthos heads off into the tall grass behind Doopa, but Menthos hesitates, speculating that the rest of the party has the bandits well in hand. He scans the opposite side of the road and he catches a glimpse of movement out of the corner of his eye, spinning around he faces more bandits. This group however has an obvious spellcaster as well as archers in chain shirts and with the look of competency in their eyes.</p><p></p><p>"Flanked!" Haimish yells out as see noticed Menthos did not advance and turned to see what his problem was and noticed the line of attackers behind them.</p><p></p><p>Three arrows shot into the chest of Haimish as he finished his shout, dropping the bard prone and bleeding badly from severe chest wounds. Xanthos halts his advance behind Doopa and switches to take a wide circle back towards the new threat. Doopa continues to pound away at the frightened bandits in the grass, his massive club hiding the sun just before he crams two-hundred pounds of wood into their skulls.</p><p></p><p>Kessen rips out the arrow piercing his side and turns to fire a shot at the attackers behind the party, hitting the far right one in the shoulder. Menthos watches as the spellcaster begins the somatic portion of a spell, he raises his hand to throw an eldritch blast into the mage but miss aims and the blast kicks up a cloud of dirt in front of the spellcaster.</p><p></p><p>"They've got spell resistance!" Menthos shouts as the mage completes his spell and Turgar is over come with fatigued and drops down to sleep in the middle of the road.</p><p></p><p>Doopa finishes off the last of the bandits he was attacking and turns to face the new threat, Kessen hobbles up to Haimish and shoves a goodberry into his mouth. While not enough to bring the bard to consciousness, it does stop the flow of blood from his chest.</p><p></p><p>Outnumbered six to one, Menthos reviewed his options. Flee or fight, he decided to hold up the holly branch in hopes someone would come to his aid. The spellcaster paused as the sight of Menthos holding the branch up perplexed him, at first he thought the teifling was casting a spell but he could detect no other components of a spell, then he though the teifling had activated a magic item, but it appeared to do nothing.</p><p></p><p>"Surrender now, and we'll let you live." The spellcaster announced</p><p></p><p>"Well, you'll be blind and deaf, but alive nonetheless." the archer next to the mage spoke</p><p></p><p>"I chose option C." Menthos replied and willed the magic ring he found in the Duergar Ale Chute to activate while he gave the opposing wizard the universal "peace" sign with his finger.</p><p></p><p>Brilliantly colored hues of light issued forth from the ring, dazzling all six bandits. The rest of the party took a moment to realize what had transpired, once they saw the bandits staring off into space they attacked en masse and quickly killed their dazed foes.</p><p></p><p>As Menthos looted the dead mage's body, Xanthos tended to the downed Haimish, filling him with enough healing magic to make him nearly as good as new. After receiving a brief recollection of the battle's events, Haimish went to thank Menthos personally, and found the teifling holding up a silvered thin stick in the fading sunlight.</p><p></p><p>"Wand?" Haimish asks</p><p></p><p>Menthos nods.</p><p></p><p>"Magical?" Haimish asks</p><p></p><p>Menthos turns and gives the bard a disgusted look, "Duh."</p><p></p><p>"Can I see it?" Haimish asks</p><p></p><p>"No, I don't know what it does yet." Menthos replies</p><p></p><p>"I've studied a bit of magic, I might know what it does, a bard's magic has many qualities." Haimish tells Menthos</p><p></p><p>"No, because if it's a wand of fireballs, I'm keeping it, or a wand of lightening, or cone of cold, or scorching ray, or ray of enfeeblement, or chest enhancer." Menthos explains</p><p></p><p>"They make those? I promise to give it back after I look at it." Haimish pleads</p><p></p><p>Menthos sighs and relents to Haimish's inspection, the bard runs his hands over the wand and concentrates on trying to activate the wand.</p><p></p><p>"Is it a wand of constipation? Because it appears to be doing that to you." Menthos says annoyed with how long Haimish was taking</p><p></p><p>"I'm concentrating, be quiet." Haimish replies</p><p></p><p>"Give it back." Menthos says as he grabs it from the bard's hands</p><p></p><p>"Hey! I wasn't done yet." Haimish decries</p><p></p><p>"Allacazoola mythicaboula bipitty bopitty boo." Menthos says while shaking the wand</p><p></p><p>"What kind of words are those? Sounded like a baby golem's lullaby." Haimish wonders</p><p></p><p>"Aw, shoot something dammit!" Menthos yells and shakes the wand. Five small energy missiles are discharged from the wand's tip and slam into the back of Haimish</p><p></p><p>"You shot me?! Why? You bastard." Haimish breathes as his newly healed body is torn apart by the magic missiles from the wand.</p><p></p><p>Kessen runs up to the scene and instead of checking on Haimish, he cold-cocks Menthos, knocking the teifling to the ground. Xanthos advances to the downed Haimish again while Turgar re-ignites his vigor aura in hopes of stabilizing Haimish.</p><p></p><p>"What was that for?" Menthos asks incredulously</p><p></p><p>"Your time is up pal!" Kessen announces as he notches an arrow at Menthos</p><p></p><p>"He wanted to know what it did? Can you not think of a better example?" Menthos asks while waving his holly branch in the air</p><p></p><p>"Quit whining and take you death like a man!" Kessen shouts</p><p></p><p>Doopa nudges the bow with his club and Kessen's arrows slices off into the grass.</p><p></p><p>"What? What are you doing?" Kessen asks</p><p></p><p>"Menthos help Doopa with troll problem, Doopa not let human kill Menthos now." The ogre speaks</p><p></p><p>"What are you talking about? It was Kessen that got us out of jail that night, the teifling wasn't even there." Turgar lies to Doopa</p><p></p><p>This confuses the ogre who re-evaluates that night's events.</p><p></p><p>"Hey Doopa." Menthos calls while brandishing a couple gold crowns in his hand</p><p></p><p>"Shiny!" Doopa yells and advances to take the coins from Menthos' hand</p><p></p><p>"Enough." Haimish speaks as Xanthos helps him to his feet and then helps him walk over to Menthos, "I'm taking this, you obviously have no idea how to handle one of these." </p><p></p><p>Haimish takes the wand from Menthos' hand, "Oh, I think I can handle my stick. You're the one that had no idea how to work it."</p><p></p><p>Haimish points the stick at Menthos and speaks "Shoot dammit!" but nothing issues from the wand</p><p></p><p>"See, the wand rejects you. Clearly I should be the one to operate the thing." Menthos states</p><p></p><p>"Doopa will use toothpick." The ogre replies as he tries to snatch the wand from Haimish</p><p></p><p>"Oh please let the idiot shoot his head off with it. In fact I think after Doo-pah is dead, Menthos should have to carry it in his scroll case." Turgar says well pointing to his rear end.</p><p></p><p>"How do you work this?" Haimish demands</p><p></p><p>"Takes one to know one." Menthos answers</p><p></p><p>"What the hell is that? I want to know the trigger word!" Haimish demands</p><p></p><p>Okay, but if I tell you, you have to promise not to you use it inside the house." Menthos answers</p><p></p><p>Haimish is so upset at this point that he can't muster a response.</p><p></p><p>"The trigger words are Amanda Huggenkis." Menthos replies</p><p></p><p>Detecting no attempt at deceit, Haimish holds the wand up high. Confused stares abound as Haimish tries out the trigger words while Menthos falls to his knees laughing hysterically. The party heads back to town with Haimish trying out the trigger words ever so often an Menthos overcome with fits of laughter he explains off as a side effect of his magical ring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hairy Minotaur, post: 3198134, member: 11574"] [b]Finding the password[/b] Haimish returned to the Scholar's Inn and explained to the rest of the group what had gone on all night and to show off the vial of liquid sunlight. "What does Menthos gain by helping you?" Kessen inquired "I don't believe anything." Haimish replied "I don't believe that for one second, I bet he's in the back pocket of the Kadors. That's why I never bothered to get into religion, wipe away the varnish and they're just like every other organization, all about control." Kessen offers "Doopa have religion, Doopa's tribe fell from heavens after winning freedom from giants." The ogre says proudly "Too bad when you fell you all landed on your heads, permanently contorting your skulls into inhospitable places to house a brain." Turgar counters "I don't want to think about conspiracies and plots right now, I want to get out of the city for a while. I need to hone up some of my skills before I try to bluff a vampire with sunlight." Haimish relates "Where would you go to do that?" Xanthos asks "How about the Mermist? It's close and along the edge you find a few scouting lizardmen, you can practice sneaking up on them while we practice killing them." Kessen suggests "That might be a good plan." Haimish agrees "I think I should stay here, I do not want to upset the balance on nature in the swamp. The Mermist lies next to the Silverwood Valley, my homeland, and I can ill afford to bring about vengeance upon my family if the Mermist lizardmen see a centaur involved." Xanthos states "We'll wait until they attack and we'll make sure they're all dead and buried before moving on." Kessen says "I am not sure that would be better." Xanthos replies Xanthos packs anyway along with the rest of the group as they wait for Menthos to return. They grow restless and Kessen offers to go drag him back from the temple when Menthos finally arrives bearing a stripped holly branch in his left hand. "Eek! What did you do to the tree?" Xanthos asks accusingly "Statinistor told me if I was ever in distress, to strip a holly branch and carry it forth in my left hand. Someone would be along shortly to assist me. I'm just trying it out to see if it works." Menthos answers "Does it work?" Haimish asks "I don't think so, all I found was you guys." Menthos responds "Let's get going before we lose daylight." Kessen presses, "and you're with me teifling, I don't want you wandering out of my light of sight." "It warms my heart so to know of your fondness for me, shall we consummate this relationship now or once you get me alone in the woods?" Menthos answers Kessen shoves Menthos out the door as the rest of the group follows, it takes an hour to wind through the streets and exit the city, Kessen leads them along a well worn hunting path heading west from Highcastle for about two hours before the party notices the group getting less firm and the grass begins to get extremely wet, as though it was laden with dew. "Be on the lookout, the lizardmen like encroaching the swamp onto farmland and cities, I expect to see a few scouting parties soon." Kessen states The party reaches the point where standing water is the norm and good sized mud hills about four feet high start to dominate the landscape. "This is where the lizardmen would most likely ambush from, those mud hills are built with shallow pools behind them so that the lizardmen can spring up unseen as people pass through the swamp. Very effective if you don't know to look for them." Kessen relates "How does one combat that?" Xanthos inquires "With these." Kessen reaches into a belt pouch and withdraws a few small yellow pellets. He transfers all but one into his left hand and then tosses the remaining one over a small mud hill. The sound of splashing water coincides with a brilliant flash of light. "Flash pellets, how amateur." Menthos states "They'll keep you alive long enough for me to kill you." Kessen retorts "Ooh, can hardly wait. You keep promising me but I'm not seeing any action." Menthos replies Haimish and Turgar turn around to pull apart the two warring men, as a blowgun dart whizzes into the shoulder of Doopa. "Ow, Someone shot Doopa with big splinter!" The ogre roars The fighting quiets down as another dart ricochets off of Haimish's shield. "We're under attack, that way!" Kessen yells and points off to the left Doopa charges in the direction of Kessen's finger and crests a mud hill looking for the offenders, the rest of the party spreads out trying to get a better look at where the attack is coming from. "So much for being sneaky." Haimish laments A lizardman raises his head above the water line in front of the hill Doopa is on and blows a dart into the thigh of Kessen. "Argh! There, behind you Doopa!" Kessen yells and crouches to the ground as the lizardman disappears below the surface of the water. Doopa leaps off the mud hill and lands in waist deep pit filled with water, a startled lizardman rises next to Doopa, who promptly brings his club down on the creature's head, crushing it's neck and sending it crashing back into the pit. "Doopa like whack a mole game!" The ogre gleefully shouts After a few moments and no further lizardmen surface, a dejected Doopa reaches below him and feels around for another lizardman. He grabs a hold of a leather strap and yanks the stunned lizardman out of the water. A prepared and waiting volley of attacks are launched into the quickly turning corpse. Disappointed at not being able to off the one he pulled from the water, Doopa searches again but only finds the dead one he killed. Nonetheless he hauls up that body and tosses it towards the party. Five arrows and an eldritch blast are wasted on the dead carcass as it flops unceremoniously on the ground weighted down with extra iron and wood. Doopa stands there chuckling at the party's response, as he retrieves the other lizardman's body and begins to rummage through it's belongings. Kessen obtains the blowgun and the remaining darts from the one in front of him as Turgar finds a few copper pieces but nothing else. "Nothing else? Not even a dagger?" Haimish asks "No, usually it's not needed. The poisoned darts do the trick and there's no need for hand-to-hand combat, if it comes to that they just flee and hope you follow them while they shoot you again with their darts." Kessen explains Mostly uninjured the party presses on, but finds no more takers for their practice, the sun begins to slip in the western sky. "I need to start heading back to town, I've got a gig in a few hours." Haimish advises "We're a bit far north of the city, we can either head due east and link up with the King's Road into Highcastle, or we can take the overland route. Both will take about the same amount of time." Kessen advises "I'd like to take the road, I need to dry out a bit and don't want to go singing smelling like I've been sleeping in the fields all day." Haimish answers The party reaches the road in due time and begins their journey south. The road is bordered by tall grass to either side, rising as high as five feet in some places, after a few hundred feet Kessen holds his hand up to stop the group. Sniffing the air and looking about Kessen whispers, "We're being stalked." "Yeah, by your over-active imagination." Menthos counters Kessen spots the moving grass up ahead and to the right of the road, he advances up the road to be parallel with the movement and unleashes an arrow into the grass. A shout of pain and a flurry of motion erupt from the grass as six bandits rear up and fire into Kessen, nearly downing the scout. Doopa charges into the fray, crashing his club through the gathering of men like a bowling ball, Turgar activates his vigor aura and moves up to keep Kessen within thirty feet of him. Haimish breaks into a song of encouragement. [I]Our team is dynamite Our team is dynamite tick tick tick tick BOOM dynamite BOOM dynamite[/I] Xanthos heads off into the tall grass behind Doopa, but Menthos hesitates, speculating that the rest of the party has the bandits well in hand. He scans the opposite side of the road and he catches a glimpse of movement out of the corner of his eye, spinning around he faces more bandits. This group however has an obvious spellcaster as well as archers in chain shirts and with the look of competency in their eyes. "Flanked!" Haimish yells out as see noticed Menthos did not advance and turned to see what his problem was and noticed the line of attackers behind them. Three arrows shot into the chest of Haimish as he finished his shout, dropping the bard prone and bleeding badly from severe chest wounds. Xanthos halts his advance behind Doopa and switches to take a wide circle back towards the new threat. Doopa continues to pound away at the frightened bandits in the grass, his massive club hiding the sun just before he crams two-hundred pounds of wood into their skulls. Kessen rips out the arrow piercing his side and turns to fire a shot at the attackers behind the party, hitting the far right one in the shoulder. Menthos watches as the spellcaster begins the somatic portion of a spell, he raises his hand to throw an eldritch blast into the mage but miss aims and the blast kicks up a cloud of dirt in front of the spellcaster. "They've got spell resistance!" Menthos shouts as the mage completes his spell and Turgar is over come with fatigued and drops down to sleep in the middle of the road. Doopa finishes off the last of the bandits he was attacking and turns to face the new threat, Kessen hobbles up to Haimish and shoves a goodberry into his mouth. While not enough to bring the bard to consciousness, it does stop the flow of blood from his chest. Outnumbered six to one, Menthos reviewed his options. Flee or fight, he decided to hold up the holly branch in hopes someone would come to his aid. The spellcaster paused as the sight of Menthos holding the branch up perplexed him, at first he thought the teifling was casting a spell but he could detect no other components of a spell, then he though the teifling had activated a magic item, but it appeared to do nothing. "Surrender now, and we'll let you live." The spellcaster announced "Well, you'll be blind and deaf, but alive nonetheless." the archer next to the mage spoke "I chose option C." Menthos replied and willed the magic ring he found in the Duergar Ale Chute to activate while he gave the opposing wizard the universal "peace" sign with his finger. Brilliantly colored hues of light issued forth from the ring, dazzling all six bandits. The rest of the party took a moment to realize what had transpired, once they saw the bandits staring off into space they attacked en masse and quickly killed their dazed foes. As Menthos looted the dead mage's body, Xanthos tended to the downed Haimish, filling him with enough healing magic to make him nearly as good as new. After receiving a brief recollection of the battle's events, Haimish went to thank Menthos personally, and found the teifling holding up a silvered thin stick in the fading sunlight. "Wand?" Haimish asks Menthos nods. "Magical?" Haimish asks Menthos turns and gives the bard a disgusted look, "Duh." "Can I see it?" Haimish asks "No, I don't know what it does yet." Menthos replies "I've studied a bit of magic, I might know what it does, a bard's magic has many qualities." Haimish tells Menthos "No, because if it's a wand of fireballs, I'm keeping it, or a wand of lightening, or cone of cold, or scorching ray, or ray of enfeeblement, or chest enhancer." Menthos explains "They make those? I promise to give it back after I look at it." Haimish pleads Menthos sighs and relents to Haimish's inspection, the bard runs his hands over the wand and concentrates on trying to activate the wand. "Is it a wand of constipation? Because it appears to be doing that to you." Menthos says annoyed with how long Haimish was taking "I'm concentrating, be quiet." Haimish replies "Give it back." Menthos says as he grabs it from the bard's hands "Hey! I wasn't done yet." Haimish decries "Allacazoola mythicaboula bipitty bopitty boo." Menthos says while shaking the wand "What kind of words are those? Sounded like a baby golem's lullaby." Haimish wonders "Aw, shoot something dammit!" Menthos yells and shakes the wand. Five small energy missiles are discharged from the wand's tip and slam into the back of Haimish "You shot me?! Why? You bastard." Haimish breathes as his newly healed body is torn apart by the magic missiles from the wand. Kessen runs up to the scene and instead of checking on Haimish, he cold-cocks Menthos, knocking the teifling to the ground. Xanthos advances to the downed Haimish again while Turgar re-ignites his vigor aura in hopes of stabilizing Haimish. "What was that for?" Menthos asks incredulously "Your time is up pal!" Kessen announces as he notches an arrow at Menthos "He wanted to know what it did? Can you not think of a better example?" Menthos asks while waving his holly branch in the air "Quit whining and take you death like a man!" Kessen shouts Doopa nudges the bow with his club and Kessen's arrows slices off into the grass. "What? What are you doing?" Kessen asks "Menthos help Doopa with troll problem, Doopa not let human kill Menthos now." The ogre speaks "What are you talking about? It was Kessen that got us out of jail that night, the teifling wasn't even there." Turgar lies to Doopa This confuses the ogre who re-evaluates that night's events. "Hey Doopa." Menthos calls while brandishing a couple gold crowns in his hand "Shiny!" Doopa yells and advances to take the coins from Menthos' hand "Enough." Haimish speaks as Xanthos helps him to his feet and then helps him walk over to Menthos, "I'm taking this, you obviously have no idea how to handle one of these." Haimish takes the wand from Menthos' hand, "Oh, I think I can handle my stick. You're the one that had no idea how to work it." Haimish points the stick at Menthos and speaks "Shoot dammit!" but nothing issues from the wand "See, the wand rejects you. Clearly I should be the one to operate the thing." Menthos states "Doopa will use toothpick." The ogre replies as he tries to snatch the wand from Haimish "Oh please let the idiot shoot his head off with it. In fact I think after Doo-pah is dead, Menthos should have to carry it in his scroll case." Turgar says well pointing to his rear end. "How do you work this?" Haimish demands "Takes one to know one." Menthos answers "What the hell is that? I want to know the trigger word!" Haimish demands Okay, but if I tell you, you have to promise not to you use it inside the house." Menthos answers Haimish is so upset at this point that he can't muster a response. "The trigger words are Amanda Huggenkis." Menthos replies Detecting no attempt at deceit, Haimish holds the wand up high. Confused stares abound as Haimish tries out the trigger words while Menthos falls to his knees laughing hysterically. The party heads back to town with Haimish trying out the trigger words ever so often an Menthos overcome with fits of laughter he explains off as a side effect of his magical ring. [/QUOTE]
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