[GRIM TALES] Wulf Ratbane's SLAVELORDS of CYDONIA

[BryonD]

Joshua is as close as possible to getting the drop on one of the goons without drawing any more attention to himself.

Can't attack right now, don't want to flee, so it is wait and see.....

 

[Old One]

Brigitta

Brigitta looks at Dr. Parthenis.

"Well?"

She looks back at Teddy and grins just a bit.

"It will be OK, Teddy...this is fate."

Despite her bravado, she holds for a moment to see what Parthenis will do. She also notes the advance of the fat man.

'Whatever happens,' she promises herself, 'you will not live to see another sunrise.'

~ OO

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Dr. Parthenis took a step back and sat down heavily on the ground. He was trying to stroke his scraggly beard, and his shaking hands finally belied his own carefully hidden surprise.

"Well... Well... I don't know. I wasn't completely expecting this. I... well, I'd like more time to study it. There are a few more runes I may be able to puzzle out..."

The chubby man wandered close to the wavering surface-- but not too close.

"Mr. Malouz... sir, please do keep your distance," said Dr. Parthenis.

"So. What is it?" Malouz asked.

"I will tell you when I know."

Sabib Malouz grinned. "As long as there is profit in the thing, I do not care. But be quick about your studies."

Malouz whistled for two of his men, who came running. "I want guards at the door, all day, all night. No one enters or leaves but me and the Doctor. Anyone else tries, you shoot them.

"You," he said, pointing at Brigitta, "You can have your stone back when we are finished with it."

He took out a notebook, looked around the room, quickly scribbled something down, snapped it shut, and stumped off.

Dr. Parthenis looked at Brigitta and shrugged. "I am sorry. I need to get to work. I suppose it would be best for you all to wait in the camp. Would you or your companions like something to eat?"

He yelled for one of the tribesmen, who came running immediately. "Sutoko!" Words passed between them that Brigitta could not understand.

"Sutoko will see that you are made comfortable in camp."

The tribesman gestured for Brigitta to follow.

 

[ragboy]

"Well," Rawley says, brightly, throwing a worried glance at the archway. "I sure could use a drink!"

"Got anything stronger than river water back at that camp of yours?" he asks a nearby guard.

OOC: He'll follow the group out.

 

[Fenris]

"Yes, preferably port, but I'd settle for whiskey and my pipe. If you blighters haven't run me dry yet." and Haskins turns his back on the glowing arch to avoid looking at it and having to contemplate what it could mean or be, and follows the guide.

 

[BryonD]

"So we're just prisoners now?"

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

"So we're just prisoners now?"

One of the armed men mumbled, "Prisoners wouldn't get to keep their guns..."

 

[nakia]

Teddy looks at Parthenis, Malouz, and the others, then turns to Brigitta.

"We should, ah, take a little break, I think. Rest up, get somethin' to eat. Den ya can figure out what the crystal is doin'. I'll come back wid ya."

Teddy thinks he still has some whiskey in his pack.

 

[Fenris]

"So we're just prisoners now?"

"Come, come Mr. Hambrick, these men, well the good doctor at least, is being very civil towards us. Don't insult our host now."

 

[BryonD]

"Come, come Mr. Hambrick, these men, well the good doctor at least, is being very civil towards us. Don't insult our host now."

"No insult intended. Just making an observation. And we get to keep our guns. It does make one wonder what exactly they expect us to need to shoot.

Well Mam, are we set for the countryside now?"