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  1. Eric Zephlaer

    Short Straws

    Cycle: 500: Day: 16. Season: Rebirth. (6 days until the ship returns) Gretda and Forrest are of a different opinion and feel that they should remain at the base camp in order to protect the party’s newly acquire boat. It is still a friendly departure, especially since Astarte felt a sense of...
  2. Eric Zephlaer

    Short Straws

    The following morning, after confessing her frustration to her brother, Laurel rose from her bed before first light, draped on a heavy robe, and quickly padded on bare feet to a subterranean room of the palace. The entrance was hidden from common view, and no one else, aside from Linstahl, knew...
  3. Eric Zephlaer

    Short Straws

    Cycle: 500: Day: 15. Season: Rebirth. (7 days until the ship returns) Kite puts away his second sword as Coldtree satisfies his further curiousity about the room. Terrendale shrugged at the question and Kite shook his head. Neither had any idea how to begin investigating the mist, but both felt...
  4. Eric Zephlaer

    Short Straws

    Cycle: 500: Day: 14. Season: Rebirth. (8 days until the ship returns) The armor begins to rise to a standing position, despite the fact that the wooden dowels reinforcing the silk armor are visibly broken where Coldtree had punched them. Kite takes one running stride toward the armor and...
  5. Eric Zephlaer

    Short Straws

    Cycle: 500: Day: 14. Season: Rebirth. (8 days until the ship returns) The monstrosity had only take three strides when Nigel Coldtree and Eitleog Kite reach it. Despite it size, or perhaps because of it, its movements where more deliberate than reactionary. A ripple rolls over the skin of...
  6. Eric Zephlaer

    Short Straws

    Cycle: 500: Day: 14. Season: Rebirth. (8 days until the ship returns) Gathering an overall assessment of the pieces of metal equipment remaining within the room, especially the weapons, the three men realize that it should be worth a small fortune. All of it will need to be repurposed, but that...
  7. Eric Zephlaer

    Short Straws

    Cycle: 500: Day: 14. Season: Rebirth. (8 days until the ship returns) The cursory examination revealed that this structure was even more immaculately decorated with wooden carvings than the dojo had been. There were no exterior portals on the first floor, other than the previously barred doors...
  8. Eric Zephlaer

    Short Straws

    Cycle: 500: Day: 14. Season: Rebirth. (8 days until the ship returns) This island or at least this particular section must be heavily populated with birds of all kinds. Even as the light of day fades, Nigel can hear the sounds of nearby birds cooing to one another as they take to their roosts...
  9. Eric Zephlaer

    The Lunaedriac

    Ceo and Tori immediately run to the aid of Falk. The others began strippng the Deviards of any useful gear, particularly looking for their own personal items that had been confiscated. Jad hugs both Jei and Abe, expressing her appreciation of finding them unhurt. She then motions for them to...
  10. Eric Zephlaer

    Short Straws

    Cycle: 500: Day: 13. Season: Rebirth. With the regrowth of vegetation, Forest had estimated that the villagers had departed several hundred Cycles back. The strange bird was certainly semi-sentient, but Nigel almost immediately discounted his previous statement, faulting it to effects of having...
  11. Eric Zephlaer

    The Lunaedriac

    Noticing that the movement of air seems to be the most effective against the Deviards, everyone employs that tactic, even though only Jade and Tori are particularly suited to it. Since the outlying Deviards have not yet returned, Ceo and Tori focus on helping Falk. Jei and Abe focus on helping...
  12. Eric Zephlaer

    The Lunaedriac

    Tori, realizing that Ceo is not free, immediately moves to help her, manipulating mystical waylines to make herself less noticeable to others. Jei quickly picks up a rock, and remembering that the Deviards are also psionicists, he manipulates mechanical way lines to push his target with it...
  13. Eric Zephlaer

    Short Straws

    Cycle: 500: Day: 13. Season: Rebirth. With the room as sufficiently illuminated as it is going to be, Coldtree and Terrendale both move toward the far right corner of the room, from the entryway. As the first impression was that this structure was once a temple of some kind, the second...
  14. Eric Zephlaer

    The Lunaedriac

    Jade says to Falk, “We should move, now!” Falk nods, not looking at her but the group of five Deviards. “Go!” Falk dons the other buckler and holds the extra hammer in his left hand, as he has a rock in his right. Jade adopts the same initial strategy. They move as quickly and deliberately...
  15. Eric Zephlaer

    The Lunaedriac

    Falk halts Jade short of completely returning to their previous height vantage. “They are going to be more cautious, but the others are going to have to releave themselves. It is not something that can be ignored. I say we push our luck before these monsters can be reinforced or choose to kill...
  16. Eric Zephlaer

    The Lunaedriac

    Falk moves as quickly yet quietly as he can to the Deviard he knocked out. He hopes to find something on his body, even a simple carving knife, to kill him quickly and silently. He will then remove all of the enemy’s useful gear, especially food and water. The only things he intends to leave is...
  17. Eric Zephlaer

    The Lunaedriac

    Falk nods once at Jade then moves toward the man, his skin mystically blends with the environment as he moves. He tries to be very quiet. Once he can, again, see his enemy, he will imbue a rock with chemical waylines to make its contact toxic to another and throw it at the Deviard. Jade will...
  18. Eric Zephlaer

    Short Straws

    Cycle: 500: Day: 13. Season: Rebirth. There is no physical door preventing egress. There is only a rather wide entryway. Entering the structure first, Terrendale, with his enhanced vision can see that the room is large, rectangular, with a high ceiling, and the entry is about the middle on the...
  19. Eric Zephlaer

    The Lunaedriac

    Jade shrugs at Falk, implying a question. Falk moves close to Jade so that he can keeps his voice very soft. “We need to rise before the morning light to get as close as we can. The Deviards will want to move away from the other before relieving their bladders or bowels. That will give us the...
  20. Eric Zephlaer

    The Mystery in Bridgetown

    Whisper suggests to Jaguar, “If we try to specifically track that woman, I think it will take too long, and she will be more likely to escape. Separating but keeping each other in close proximity, I think we quickly move in the same direction she did and hope something presents itself.” He...
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