Academy of Drell, Part 7

[Argent Silvermage]

"STOP! ENOUGH OF THIS!" Lyrique yells. "Keith, Paendaerig and Travellios. I'm sure you are all aware of how raw everyone's nerves are. This behavior is so wrong right now. Take your anger and focus it on the Orcs who may be rapeing and slaughtering our people not on each other."

 

[Velenne]

Travellios raises a brow and smirks at the thin blade. Such a fragile ego that even a mispercieved slight should lead to bloodshed. Quite the bark this little dog has. But only a warrior...

"My point is now proven to an intellectual's satisfaction, I believe," he says in calm, lecturing tone, "The druids are fond of likening us- Elves that is- to creatures in nature. As it pertains to a single family, they seem to prefer the metaphor of a tree. Thus the term 'family tree' originated with elven druids. The phrase is meant to teach that a family should not squabble amongst itself. Insofar as the group of us are joined together by fate, the lesson could apply in this circumstance correspondingly.

"My first statement was intended satisfy the amends you so earnestly seek to your precious family honor. Incidently, it was not besmirched by anyone, but rather the observation was made in a rather undiplomatic way that there are others in this group who would serve as better scouts than you. The same could be said of myself or Boromir but no one else is brandishing weapons over it.

"Now might I suggest you heed the good troubadour's advice and turn your blade and your thoughts toward our orcish enemies instead of those who travel beside you?" He finishes with a slight grin and raises a hand toward the exit.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Lyrique looks at the foppish elf and says" That was not needed."

 

[Jeremy]

"I don't know any fancy druid or elf ancient sayings, but my Da always said not to fan the fire when you are standing in it. For someone who knows as much as you and uses all those fancy words, you sure are close to getting run through. Don't you know when to shut your mouth?"

Rallyn grabs him by the back of his belt with his stupid grin and all and hurries him out the door before Keith kills him. "Let's go people! Enough already."

 

[Tokiwong]

Rallyn grabs him by the back of his belt with his stupid grin and all and hurries him out the door before Keith kills him. "Let's go people! Enough already."

Keith watches Rallyn drag Travellios towards the exit, he relaxes, and sheathes his blade, "This is not over," he gathers his things, "Lets go, we have work to do. Paendaerig, Sildarin, due to the requests of our fellows, you two shall scout ahead, the rest will follow up."

 

[Dalamar]

Sildarin nods, glad to get out of the angry mood hanging over the group.

How long do you think it'll take somebody to impale Keith?
Don't know or care. Why?
Because that would cause Charlotte to be free again after a short mourning time.
Don't you think _anything_ else?
Usually not.

The elven psion strides out of the tower and then stands still, waiting for the group to decide which direction they're going to take.

 

[Calim]

Paendaerig nods to Keith and moves out to get ahead of the group readying an arrow as well but moving to not be seen or heard.

 

[Zhure]

Exiting the tower is much easier than entering it. The doors need no magical commands to be opened from the inside.

A map of the island the group is currently on is here: http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=827534

(I had to search high and low to find that dang map; I almost reposted it from my notes. Stupid brain.)
It is probable that the dark dot in the center represents the tower. To where does the party wish to go?

 

[GnomeWorks]

Family honor... who cares? Honor as an individual, yes, that I could understand... but I think Keith is over-reacting to everything. Travellios didn't need to get involved, either, though. And Paenderig... well, I don't know enough about him. But I don't like his attitude.

Keith
"This is not over,"

"Yes, it is." Charlotte says simply from where she had been standing, silently observing the argument.

"Travellios, Keith, Paendaerig, you should all be ashamed of yourselves. There is no time for argument here, in this place! We can't stand around and fight amongst ourselves. If we do that, then all is lost. We have to keep together."

She looks to Keith. "You've always been a little rough, Keith, but really, was all that threatening really necessary?"

She then looks to Travellios. "I know you're an arrogant... person, Travellios, but that's no excuse. Rudeness won't get you anywhere in this particular company."

She then looks to Paenderig. "And you... we have to stick together. You know what happened earlier, as well as the rest of us do. We cannot split up again, even though I suggested that we do just that... it was a bad idea for me to even think of it."

Now that I've thoroughly - well, as thoroughly as I'm going to get right now, when we're in the middle of something slightly more important than them - berated them, we can move on...

"And Lyrique has a point. You three should stop channeling this energy at each other and instead focus on finding the orcs and killing them, rather than waving your rapiers around and threatening each other."

"Now, Paenderig, Sildarin, you two are scouting, so get moving. I'm a little edgy right now... hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn, so I'd get moving if I were you."

I hope Sildarin doesn't take it too hard... he didn't do anything wrong. Yet. He doesn't deserve that kind of treatment, even if Paenderig does.

[Edit: I remembered what the phrase was that I was trying to use!

She then looks pointedly at Keith. "You are staying right here, next to me. I'm not going to let you run off and get into more trouble..."

I need to keep an eye on this whole thing... if they're arguing amongst themselves, someone could get killed... and I can't allow that. I won't allow that.

OoC: Oi, I lose access for awhile, this is what I come back to... you peole need to learn how to behave yourselves!

 

[GnomeWorks]

(I had to search high and low to find that dang map; I almost reposted it from my notes. Stupid brain.)
It is probable that the dark dot in the center represents the tower. To where does the party wish to go?

OoC: Charlotte speaks orc... assuming that this is intelligible, and some known dialect, can she translate it? Or have we already done that, and I've just forgotten?