Heart of Artifice: Part I--Engineered Enigma

"Well, if ye say so, but it don't be of any matter either way. What be with that scroll?"

(OOC: You can use the scroll if you like--roll the appropriate stuff)
 

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ooc: I'm not sure, but I believe that will render Anvuss concious once more.

Anvuss's eyes open, to find Kharas standing above him.

"Excellent! Our ruse must have succeeded. I bought you enough time to finish building your device, and you accomplished the rescue. Extremely well done, it must have been difficult."

Then he notices Fiora.

"Is this a new ally? And where are we? Still on this foreign plane? I don't think I've ever been anywhere before where I've been attacked by people I don't know for no fathomable reason and without provocation. Is this a particularly hostile place, do you think? Does this plane have a name? I do not believe I have heard any legends of it, so perhaps it does not. Perhaps we could call it the 'Demiplane of Hostility.' Although, I do understand you should study a thing thoroughly before naming it, so it is likely we do not as yet have sufficient information to give the place a name. It has occurred to me lately that I may have erred in choosing my own name, for instance. Most of the Warforged I have encountered have given themselves extremely simple names, such as 'Weapon' or the like. Do you think 'Anvuss' is too complicated? I intended it to evoke the notion of an Anvil, as my primary interest is in the creation of enchanted items. Perhaps I should have chosen 'Anvil' instead?"

Eventually, even Anvuss realizes he has lost his audience, and winds down his stream of questions and thoughts, blinking up at the two others for a moment before it occurs to him to get to his feet.

"Might I reclaim my equipment from you, good comrade? Thank you."

Anvuss begins adjusting his gear, getting everything into place.
 

OOC: it should heal him. If he is 0 or mroe hp, he is awake.

"Well, i'm sorry to tell you that, but we don't have time to give to you. I would rather say we need a ship, and your being avalaible, it would be perfect. But I am not without a to pay you for the trouble. I think talking with teh captain would be much profitable for both of us."
 

"Excellent! Our ruse must have succeeded. I bought you enough time to finish building your device, and you accomplished the rescue. Extremely well done, it must have been difficult."

"A rescue?" Fiora laughs heartily, "Yer mate Kharas was hidin' in the crates on the guards' barge, that he was. They were bringin' ye in. Ye two would be prisoners both, like skyfish in the net, but fer the Cap'n."
 

"Well, i'm sorry to tell you that, but we don't have time to give to you. I would rather say we need a ship, and your being avalaible, it would be perfect. But I am not without a to pay you for the trouble. I think talking with teh captain would be much profitable for both of us."

"I don't think ye understand me, matey. I don't be asking, I be telling. If'n ye think yourself too high and mighty fer yer friends to follow the code, well then, Mister Terrorist, we can get ye both back to the Leywytch right easy."
 

"Code? Sorry, I'm not familiar with it. But what I know, it is the life of five kids that I am playing with and a false god that want me dead and will probably try to get these kids killed too. I'm offering you the skills of two Spark in exchange of some help. How many time that offer will happen to you?" asks Kharas, showing some irritation.
 

"If'n they wanted ye dead, ye'd be dead, or at least yer friend would be. It is clear that they be wantin' to take ye alive. The Artifex Maximus be a strict god, but he not be a truly evil one. He would never order someone killed, especially not a helpless child," Fiora replies, and she rolls her eyes at Kharas's arrogance, "Aye, I be thinkin' that ye should meet the Cap'n as well, though not for the reason ye think. Follow me."
 

Anvuss, having been unconcious at the begining of the conversation, isn't completely followeing the debate.

"You would like us to meet the captain? Are we on a ship? Yes, I see that we are. Excellent! I would be pleased to meet your captain. Perhaps he could come up with some way that we could assist you to repay you for your assisstance. Do you happen to have a fully stocked laboratory on board? I am lamentably lacking in supplies, but if you have them perhaps I could build you something. Or perhaps the ship has some part in need of repair? I have spent too much time pounding the skulls of irritating people, and not enough time building things. Lead on!"
 

"No need of a laboratory. you just need to use some Thelanium and some materials. It's pretty easy once you know how to use Thelanium." explains Kharas, following Fiora.
 

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