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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aust Thale" data-source="post: 7236575" data-attributes="member: 6804768">Vale - A Conversation With Able The Axe, and One Small Step For Dwarves, One Large One...Oh Whatever...~ Able, if you indeed have something to offer, now's the time to speak up! ~Vale views the jumping into the teleport circle as a significant risk.  Militarily, you send one ahead, and hopefully they come back.  However, in the short while he's known these adventurers, they are better as a group than as individuals.  He looks at Able to make sure that nothing Undead has come upon them quietly.  He asks his questions, "Able, any thoughts you'd like to share?  I already know that to teleport somewhere unknowingly is at best risky, and I am loathe to proceed off our main mission, but I'm think I am fine pulling on this thread until it unravels the mystery. What say you?"[gm]The axe, which had been silent up until now, finally speaks up, in an exasperated tone: "I'm not Able; I am Valoran. My friends call me Val. You can call me Mr. Valoran, or Mr. Axe." at this point the axe begins to cackle with laughter. "Relax, laddie, I'm joking. At least about being friends. We're bonded, after all. We are connected by the threads of your spiritual essence. You are now a part of me, just as I am a part of you. But I'm not your dog, and you don't get to name me. I already have a name. My name is Val. And you should like that, seeing as how your name is Vale. Double V. Great name for a team, if you ask me. But listen up, I will not stand for indecision. Either jump on the plate, or don't. I don't want to hear you whine, and I don't want to watch you waffle back and forth. It's not respectable for a Dwarf to be so indecisive. If I were you, I'd grow a spine, and step on the plate with your friends. They need you, anyway."[/gm]Vale proceeds toward the teleport circle behind the main group.  He steps through the portal, and appears behind the others in the edges of the invisibility sphere.  Disconcerted for a moment, he hears Sylvar's instructions to remain in the sphere, and nods to himself to that action.He turns back to look at whence he came to find nothing but dirt.  No teleport circle.  No magical trace of where they were before in Skorane.  "Able, even if you'd have had reservations, it clearly doesn't matter right now.  At least in this downpour, other creatures have the same disadvantages that we have vis-à-vis sight and hearing.  Can you make out the shapes we see?  If so, what say you on our surroundings?"[gm]The axe says, "Nothing of note. Anyone foolish enough to be out in this gulley-washer doesn't have enough sense to be much of a threat to anyone."[/gm]</blockquote>

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