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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ferrix" data-source="post: 2134383" data-attributes="member: 6115">Before NoonBreakfast"Thank you dear, smells wonderful," as Bubbles serves Father Alton some omelette, when she asks Mero he looks up and nods at her. She proceeds to serve Mero as well before returning the omelette platter to the table and returning to her seat."Yes, Mero and Finn brought it back last night, it's out back at the moment."  He punctuates his sentence by poking a piece of omelette into his mouth.  Upon finishing chewing, "Wellsly is actually looking it over at the moment, seeing if he can figure out more about it's origins."  He takes a drink from his glass of water, then reaches for one of the warm Highdumple buns when Alton interjects.Picking up one of the buns, a warm wrinkled smile splits the Father's face, "we'll know more with Wellsly's help."  He takes a bite of the bun, chews and washes it down with some more water, "the rest can wait for now, finish your meal.  We'll head out once we're all done eating."  With that he snags the plate of bacon and slips a few pieces onto his own plate.Alton & Eddie [sblock]Eddie tucks some bacon away skillfully under his sleeve, thinking he isn't noticed as Father Alton and Mero enter. Although Alton catches it out of the corner of his eye when he stands up.<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=72029" target="_blank">Sleight of Hand check</a><a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=72030" target="_blank">Spot Rolls</a>[/sblock]For the rest of the meal Father Alton defers anymore questions about the boar until they've headed outside, although anyone trying to rush the Father finds it quite unsuccessful as his appetite is still quite good even in such elderly years.Mero having remained quiet for most of the meal speaks before the Father is almost finished with his omelette, "the six of you did quite well last night, better than I expected. Although I did not anticipate that the creature you were confronting was more than your average wild boar as it turned out, I'm glad that due to your quick thinking that you saved Kiylea from what could have been a tragic accident."  His voice wavers a bit near the end, as if uncertain as how to approach the subject of Kiylea's near death experience.The short silence that follows is broken quickly by Father Alton's warm reassuring voice, "well, I'm stuffed to the ears, and it seems everyone else was just waiting for me." He rises slowly, supporting himself by the arms of the chair, his right hand taking hold of his walking stick, he begins to make his way to the door. Mero is up and opening the door before the rest of you are out of your seats, as the Father moves through the doorway he calls back, "come along, we haven't all day to be sitting around eating."  He chuckles and continues.OutsideAs you follow, the two Brandworthy's lead the six of you around to the back of the Greenbottle home where a make-shift table has been setup atop which lies the seemingly well-preserved corpse of the boar from last night. Wellsly stands bespectacled across the table peering down at the boar, one hand keeping his glasses from slipping off of his nose and the other holding a book open, his finger tracing along the lines of some odd script as he simultaneously reads and examines the boar with his eyes. As the Father and Mero come to a stop across the table the six of you spread out to get another good look at the creature. Wellsly adjusts his glasses, looks up for a moment as if thinking about something and then let's out a yelp as he realizes there are people in front of him, nearly losing his glasses in the process."Whew... almost got me there, eh?" his breathing slowly returns from a hurried gasping to normal, he grins readjusting his glasses with a gloved hand, "ah, Ringly my boy! Seems you've brought down quite the specimen here, you remember reading Aevarius Str'en's work on cross-planar flux and contamination?"  He looks expectantly at the young wizard, an endearing smile on his face.Ringly: [sblock]You fail to remember really anything about Aevarius Str'en, although the name seems familiar enough. The term's cross-planar flux and contamination at least give you the basic idea that he's talking about something from outside this world or plane, as it's generally called in the arcane fields, spreading into this world. Perhaps all the books Wellsly thought you should read weren't so useless after all.[/sblock]Others: [sblock]You have no idea what in the world he's talking about.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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