BLACK CRATER

[Tom Cashel]

Lucius, it's been a while since you worked in the carnival, but you never get tired of seeing kids with eyes wide and their mouths gaping in disbelief.

"Me! Me! Me!" they shout. Even Kolya seems to snap out of his funk. "Me first!"

Wisp: The Featherless certainly are strange...

 

[Mahiro Satsu]

::mutters under breath:: oh, a human into a pegasus is cool, but Hin with wings isnt impressive. I hate kids.

:ut loud:: can we get going now?

 

[Van Dyksun]

ooc

I may be dead, but I can still see your signature, Mr. AC23.

 

[Mahiro Satsu]

is a joke van, you'd kill me when resurected

 

[Lucius Foxhound]

"Okay children, two of you come aboard and hang on tight."

A worried Lucius, scans his mind for that Feather Fall spell he's got memorized (a verbal-component only life-saver!)

"Master Bramblefoot, let's fly to the other side of the wall and rest there ... we'll determine if we want to fly down the mountain later."

OOC: Matt -- I love the way you play familiars!

OOC: Should we prop Van up against gateway #1 with his hands outstretched menacingly? That way, if someone open's the gate, Van will fall on them and freak them out (see p. 143 DMG "Freaking Out"). See? Even in death, he's still a fearsome warrior of Selune.

 

[Mahiro Satsu]

Good idea. and it saves me the trouble of carrying him. We have to take Kaermis, however.

 

[Tom Cashel]

[OOC: Pegasi can't talk. This isn't Mr. Ed. ]

 

[Van Dyksun]

That's it!

You keep 'em honest, Tom. Especially when they're talking about playing "Weekend with Bernie" with my body.

 

[Lucius Foxhound]

Lucius is surprised when his comments come out only as snorts and nays.

Hmmm. As the two kids climb aboard, I'd like to check out those portals a bit more. I'm trying to figure out what happened to the druid ... and why the portals seemed to stop working after a certain number of uses. [Knowledge Arcana roll, 19+7=26 total].

Let's go!

OOC: I liked Weekend at Vannie's II the best.

 

[Tom Cashel]

Extremely perceptive, Lucius.

You learned a bit about portals during your apprenticeship, and a bit more during your many travels. You know that an ancient network of them criss-crosses Faerun, mostly created by Netherese magi. They are a very old (and sometimes uncertain) means of travel.

This particular network consists of 16 portals connected to 16 other portals--a total of 32 magical connections (that actually conjoin locations rather than acting on a simple teleport function). You surmise that such a large network may have grown unstable over the years--this one could have been created as many as 1500 years ago.

Whether the network has been unstable the whole time, became unstable from overuse and will regain stability in time, or has simply stopped functioning correctly, is open for debate. Lucius, you'd guess that either of the latter two possibilities is more likely than the former.