BLACK CRATER

[Mahiro Satsu]

Aww, Abyss!!

slaps bear's arm.

I keep telling people magic isn't to be trusted!! No one listens to me!!

Sits heavily on the floor. Drops his sword and stares ahead blankly.

Now what?

 

[Lucius Foxhound]

IC: "Aaaaaah---!"

OOC: "Aaaaaah---!"

 

[Tom Cashel]

Squawwrr--kk?

Confused, mama griffon looks all around where Lucius stood barely a moment ago. Then she leaps up and catches the night wind with powerful wings and swoops off into the night. She is silhouetted against the moon for a second, then gone. Her cry echoes into the valley.

Skreeeeeeeeee

"Wh-what happened to Master Foxbrown," asks Herjolf Rolf, "i-is he okay?"

"Foxhound," corrects Horsa Lenumbrar.

Kolya Seveniss begins to cry.

"There, there," says Quidam, "We'll have you back with your families soon. Won't we, my friends?"

 

[Van Dyksun]

(following Dalabrac's return of my symbol)

"Thank you, little one--I admired the audacity at which you attempted to snitch from me, but it would take a truly sneaky thief... The symbol, while it meant more to the past me, still is needed. Why don't you reach into my sack and pull out something a little more useful to you such as the goggles that will allow you to see in the dark. I have no need for these anymore."

(following the rift that swallowed Lucius)

"Selune! Just because I thought it didn't mean you had to send the annoying wizard to hell!

Wait. Is there a spell that could have been cast by our wizard enemy to do something like this? Should we run to his aid the only way we know how?"

 

[Tom Cashel]

Quidam holds up one hand.

"Let caution be our watchword. To trust in luck does not mean abandoning oneself to fate."

 

[Mahiro Satsu]

Quidam, I like you and all, but you're becoming a bit cryptic.

OOC: Serously TC, yer freakin me out.

Wizards....

I begin to quiver.

 

[Tom Cashel]

"We are nothing if not cryptical."

 

[Van Dyksun]

Okay

"I hear you, Quidam. Let us keep to our original plan--open the portal, sniff and scout, Quidam doors the kids, we try to concentrate on getting back to the caravan, and only engage if we are forced to or a clear reason to do so (advantage, necessity to save lives) emerges.

Druid, are you ready? Thief? Quidam? I'm thinking we need to do this before the griffin thinks we were responsible for her friend being sucked away."

 

[Roman Gemmalee]

"I am ready. Just to review, we are opening the portal, sending in Dalabrac, dimensioning door the kids and then Bear and I will wait for Dalabrac. We should expect you in two minutes or so and if not then we move in."


I drag the orc bodies away from the direct site of the portal and I cover them in an attempt to hide them. I will move to the side of the portal and get ready to open it. I will position myself in such a way as to be hidden by anyone looking through the portal.

 

[Mahiro Satsu]

Uhm, without the wizard I wont be invisible, but i guess that won't matter.

Ready when you are. Who is going in first.