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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taboo" data-source="post: 308631" data-attributes="member: 5912">The mysterious womanMy co-writer for facts and some details was Paulewaug. His story is: <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17275" target="_blank"> The Heroes of Haven</a> It's our alternate game, hosted by our other DM who plays Turk in this game!***************Our castaways were tired and filthy. They hadn’t found a place to rest, and who knew what it was that was leaving that glowing, slimy trail on the ceilings and walls! In spots, the place was relatively dry, but most of the place had moss and slime on the walls. The floors had puddles of water and sometimes one or two inches of muck. They were glad the place seemed to be basically deserted, but none of them had any real experience dealing with circumstances like this.  They were nervous, a little excited, but mainly wondering how they could possibly get back home.They turned the corner of the corridor they’d been walking down, hoping to find clean water and a place to rest. Instead, they saw a sight none of them had expected- a beach and a beautiful, naked woman lying beside a large pool of water?!  She was singing an odd tune; no one could make out the words. On the opposite wall, across the pool, was a door? On the door was painted a sun.All of them blinked, shook their heads and looked again. Thorin and Turk looked at each other to see if they both saw the same thing. They did. Ok, this was weird. Something was wrong. Definitely. Totally wrong!!!Turk wanted to talk to her, of course!  Kierwin didn’t want him to. Everyone in the group was convinced she was a siren or something. Turk was convinced she could help them. Minx was REALLY convinced she was evil.Quietly enough so that only the group could here her, Minx said “Nothing good is going to come from this, we should just turn around and leave or kill her now before she gets a chance to kill us!”Turk stepped forward and tried to get her attention. “Excuse me madam, we’re strangers here and I was wondering if you could be so kind as to help us out or answer a few questions?”She stopped singing and quickly stood up and smoothly dove into the pool.  She left hardly a ripple in the surface of the water. After a brief moment her head broke the surface and she said “My what a handsome man. If you want any answers, you’ll have to come over here. How can I talk to you if you’re all the way over there?”Against the rest of the party’s better judgment, Turk went over to the water’s edge to talk to her. She wanted him to come into the pool to swim with her. Turk looked down where she had been laying moments before and noticed what he had thought at first to be sea foam was actually a beautiful and delicate white scarf. Turk bent down and picked up the scarf.As soon as he picked it up, she stomped up out of the water and back onto the beach. She stood unashamedly in all her naked glory before him and thrust out her hand, “Give it back!”  Turk immediately complied. “My apologies, madam, I meant no harm or disrespect. Please forgive me.”  Turk was polite and courteous, respectful even, but made sure he got a good eyeful while still somehow appearing to make eye contact, a trick he had developed some time ago. He found it came in pretty handy, like now.Before he could finish speaking she was back in the water. He looked into it trying to see her but could find no trace. The pool appeared to be fairly deep since he couldn’t see the bottom despite the fact that it was crystal clear and yet somehow blue in color, as if it were a beach on a tropical island. Well, at least a beach that was on the Outside of a pyramid on a tropical island that had sun and blue skies! Turk started walking back to the group. While his back was turned he couldn’t see the water start to churn in the middle of the pool behind him. The group had been watching the whole exchange, and when the water started churning and splashing they yelled at Turk to run.He got back to the group, disappointed and obviously with no news. They watched the water carefully, wondering what, if anything was going to come bursting up out of it. They saw some sort of fin, then nothing. The water still churned.They had noticed a stairway on the other side of the room, it was the only exit besides the one across the lake and that one was pretty much out of the question! Turk decided to go first. Getting to the stairway meant getting fairly close to the water. It was about 60 feet from where they were to the stairs.As Turk got about halfway across, they saw the nymph surface and heard her giggle. Then, she pursed her pretty pink lips and spit what appeared to be a stream of water at Turk, hitting his armor with a hiss.  He felt a bit of a sting, but kept running. He made it to the stairway, and motioned for the others to follow.The others raced across the room one after the other, and the nymph had fun with her target practice, hitting Kierwin, stinging her with her acid through her leggings where her chainshirt didn’t protect her. When they’d finally gotten across the room, they descended the stairway and entered a large room. Turk brought his torch around to get a good look and couldn’t believe his eyes. They were back where they’d started. There was the big, ugly, crab they’d killed! But this time, there was one slight difference a trail of glowing slime across the floor between the door they had originally gone out and the shell of the crab…….Thorin piped up “Well, I guess we won’t be having crab tonight after all.”</blockquote>

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