Into the New World, Chapter 1: Amongst the Verdant Towers

[Shayuri]

"That's what I mean," Erin says. "A loincloth is pretty useless for protection. All it does is keep your modesty safe. But these things haven't got anything to be modest about... Which is itself pretty creepy."

 

[Dire Lemming]

Enko is clearly confused by Erin's choice of words. "You're 'modesty'? Wait, does that mean genitals? Oh, right, well that is weird... That's another reason why we need to try to talk to them... They must be somehow related to the spirits of the forest, so we should do our best to make peace with them."

 

[Masquerade]

"If you are serious about this, just do it quickly," Cleyra commands Enko. She is still more concerned with the safety of the party than the wounded thing. "I would still like to move from here as soon as possible. As per Ryon's suggestion, that would be the moment the sun shines its first rays."

 

[Zurai]

As soon as Ryon gets a good grip on the creature, Enko summons the spirit of the Blackfrond to him and allows its healing powers to ease from his hands and into the broken, malformed body at his feet.[sblock=Enko]At first, there's a strong feeling of resistance, as if the creature's body and organs just don't work the same way yours do. Then, the resistance suddenly collapses and the creature gasps in a deep breath.[/sblock]Enko's brow creases in concentration, then relaxes as the creature shudders and gasps in a deep breath. It opens its eyes, sees Ryon glaring down at it, and instantly squirms and scrabbles at the ground in an attempt to escape, screeching "Szas fhel!" in a voice filled with terror.

 

[Dire Lemming]

Enko heaves a sigh of relief as the the small creature's breathing becomes regular and it's eyes open. However, when it's distress at Ryon's presence becomes apparent, he quickly leans forward to try to force the creature to concentrate on his face. "Ryon, try not to look so imposing. You're scaring it." He speaks in a soothing voice to it, though he has no idea if it can understand his words. "No one will hurt you. You do not need to be afraid."

[sblock=ooc]I guess I want to make a diplomacy check here, but I can't really think of a minute's worth of words to say... Enko is mostly trying to calm the creature with his voice and make it trust him.[/sblock]

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Thane stays behind the creature, keeping an eye on it. He shoots Enko a look after his reassurances, but doesn't speak, instead paying close attention to the thing and seeing if he can't figure anything out about it from its behavior.

[sblock=OOC]Rolled a natural 20 on a sense motive check for 25:
Into the New World Sense Motive (Post 356) (1d20+5=25)[/sblock]

 

[Shayuri]

"This is a bad idea," Erin says flatly as she glares at the little monster.

"Remember these guys tried to gut us with bone knives?"

 

[WarShrike]

"Yeah, well, let's give Enko his chance. Not that i agree with him. I'm all for reducing the numbers of things trying to kill us. It's odd though, we're still so close to Cuirlen, yet i've never seen or heard of a creature like this before. If we can communicate with it, it wouldn't hurt to learn more about it."

 

[Masquerade]

"It doesn't seem to know any words. At least not any that we can understand," Cleyra observes, talking to nobody in particular.

 

[Zurai]

[sblock=Thane]You don't think the creature is faking its terror, but at the same time, it's not Ryon that it's scared of.[/sblock]Seeing that Ryon has a strong grip on it, the creature ceases struggling, whimpering and moaning in abject terror. However, a few seconds later, it surges upwards and manages to pull itself free from Ryon's grasp. It immediately turns and tries to run again. Artemisia nocks an arrow and takes aim...[sblock=OOC]If no one else takes action, Artemisia will shoot. Ryon rolled really low and the creature rolled really high on the opposed grapple - there was a 17 point difference in the die roll and even the massive penalties the thing was under weren't that massive. So it's free. For now.[/sblock]