Kiss of Darkness: Part 1--A Hint of Shadow

[unleashed]

Baeleth Dawnmist, Male High Elf Swashbuckler/Wizard

*Baeleth grins at Elenia’s response to his anagram comment, before listening more soberly to the plan.*

“Well, while I’d hoped to spend more of my time experiencing human culture, I suppose a little historical tour couldn’t hurt,” he remarks, grinning again.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Ah, a historical tour. Almost makes it sound boring, though I'm sure it will be terribly exciting! Ah, if only I could go too...but alas, I'll just have to hope you can take care of yourselves--Daddy would never let me get that far before the guards caught up."

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Rhaka replies to the barkeep. "Nature's finest - only water for me. I'll have no expense or debt to owe, I'm sure my friends will make up for me. Although if you can provide a few berries I can more than make them worth your while, sir."

She replies to Aileen's assertion, "Rightly so, i should add. Royalty ought not leave their people behind, especially royalty that claim to be generous and have their best interests in mind. Those are rare."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"H'ain't got no berries, but durn if y'aren't the strange one. Still, any friend of Aileen's is welcome here. She may look tough, but has a heart of gold, that dame does. She helped me little Katie get ta school, so's she didn't have ta work here as a wench or grow up working these docks like her da," the barkeep offers, giving Rhaka some water.

"Oh, I'm sure a fair few of them will make the claim, but I don't know how many actually live up. Frankly, most of the royalty I meet from other countries are conceited, spoiled, and selfish...Still, I know it may be a bit selfish on my part as well, but...one day when I'm Queen, may that be far far in the future, I will have a duty to my people as their ruler...I'll never be able to do anything else, pinned...trapped...That's why now, while I'm still young, it's my only chance...to live free, like a wild songbird soaring through the skies, not trapped in a cage...For though the pet songbird is beloved for its sweet music, and it is pampered and well-fed, would anyone truly prefer that life to the one of the bird soaring wild and free?"

 

[unleashed]

Baeleth Dawnmist, Male High Elf Swashbuckler/Wizard

"Ah, a historical tour. Almost makes it sound boring, though I'm sure it will be terribly exciting! Ah, if only I could go too...but alas, I'll just have to hope you can take care of yourselves--Daddy would never let me get that far before the guards caught up."

“Only historical, in that it’s something people think buried in the past, Aileen,” Baeleth chuckles, taking a swallow of ale, “I’m sure it’ll be quite exciting and dangerous... far more dangerous than we’d like in the end, if our encounter with the conjurer is anything to go by.”

 

[Bront]

"Ale for me," Val says as she takes a seat.

"That's why now, while I'm still young, it's my only chance...to live free, like a wild songbird soaring through the skies, not trapped in a cage...For though the pet songbird is beloved for its sweet music, and it is pampered and well-fed, would anyone truly prefer that life to the one of the bird soaring wild and free?"

"Somehow, I think you'd find a way to open the cage and soar free on occasion," Val says with a smile.

"But, to matters at hand, if this conjurer is any measure of power, then those that plot against you are quite strong, or at least cunning and well connected. The authorities still haven't connected any of the disapearances, or at least they hadn't when we left, and he managed to make things on us rather rough, and apparently he's naught but a henchman."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I don't know, Val. From what I've seen, Wizards are extremely cunning and dangerous from the get-go. I'm afraid anything more than an apprentice could have probably set up an extremely dangerous ambush. If he was truly a powerful Wizard, I fear you'd all be dead now, and from a single birst of flame..."

 

[Bront]

"He was clearly able to outclass us while we were there. Perhaps it speaks more to our lack of skills than his own," Val says in a worried tone.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"It may...that's why this is a scouting mission, Val, not a seek-and-destroy. I don't know what I'd do if something happened to you, Val...or to any of your friends, if you were harmed under my patronage."

 

[Bront]

"I'm rather fond of myself as well," Val says with a wink. "But at least we stoped him, even if he did get away."