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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 927324" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter 56, “The Return of Kulp’s Comfortable Castle”, July 13th, 1019, 2:30 P.M.</strong> </p><p></p><p>The party had spent the morning making final preparations for the auction, as Serita transformed into a pegasus to fly to the town of Gelorynth with Fiona as her rider. The Wizard Derieki completes the recharging of the Orb of Culp, and then gives both half-elvan women instruction as to how to activate it. He also explains how the key works, that turning it one-third will override the protection spell, another third will override the password, and the final third will shut down the Castle by removing the key. Serita teleports back to the auction house. </p><p></p><p>The group gets into a very lengthy discussion <em>(taking over an hour of game time)[</em> about where to activate the castle, who to tell the password to, what password to use, and what protection spell to put on it. Narg gets impatient, stating that he wants his wife back. He has Jamie cook up a Hawaiian Pizza to give to her once the door is opened, saying “She’s been craving these during the whole pregnancy. She’ll want this more than anything.” </p><p></p><p>They decide to put the entrance in the side room at the bottom of the stairs and ten specific party members to tell the password to, but cannot agree on the password. Mojo suggests it should be something about killing King Matthan, but the party say that won’t work as phrase comes up too much in casual conversation. Lannon suggests “How about ‘Have you seen my copy of the Ukko Articles of Faith?’ Nobody would ever say that.” They eventually decide on the word “Baseball”, which people of this world would be unfamiliar with. They accept Fiona’s suggestion of making Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere the protection spell. </p><p>The door to the inter-dimensional castle is activated. Narg reminds the others “They’ve been trapped in there for over five days. Be prepared for anything.” The door to the great all is opened to reveal Ailsheir, Blake and Dennismore sitting in their underwear, drinking beer, eating pretzels and playing cards. Mojo looks around and comments “I’m surprised the room itself isn’t a lot messier.” Dennis answers “That’s only because it keeps magically cleaning itself.” </p><p></p><p>Blake sees the pizza in Narg’s hands and says “Great, you’ve brought more food.” “It’s for my wife, where is she?” he asks. “Bedroom around the hall,” Ailsheir answers. “She’s been in there with her lady friend for days now. I don’t know what they’re doing in there….but I can only imagine that..” Dennismore kicks the drow under the table to get him to shut up before he says something that Narg will kill him for uttering. </p><p></p><p>Jamie enters with food for everyone, which the three at the table all begin to consume. Furynick comments to the guys “A card game between a drow and two thieves? I guess that means that all of you are cheating.” Ailsheir answers “Yeah, we’ve found that trying to catch your opponents is actually more of a challenge than winning.” </p><p></p><p>Narg knocks on the bedroom door and Vallessa says “Come in.” He sees that she is busy talking to her former employee Florine, who she introduces to her husband. While she appears pleased to see her husband, she is even happier to see the pizza, and pulls it out of his hands and immediately starts to dig in. Florine tells Narg “This time together has given Vallessa and I an opportunity to catch up on what each of us has been doing for the past decade. Your wife also thought that it would be safer to keep me away from those other guys, as they were all rather upset about what my associate Wister had done. She was afraid that they might try taking their anger out on me.” </p><p></p><p>Jamie brings food down to Ebony, who is still in her room guarding the items, having never been told about the Castle’s disappearance. The players comment about how the items have probably been used as cat toys, and the old Steve Martin line “And you can’t return them because they’ve got cat spit all over them” is stated. Once those inside of the castle have all eaten a significant amount of food they leave the Castle. Florine is brought out to the barn to be guarded alongside her mentor Wister. </p><p> </p><p>Other preparations for the auction are made. The waitresses are brought over from the Twin Gods church and assist Jamie and the crewmember cook Frenchie in preparing food and beverages for the dinner. The now visible hengeyokai Lee-May exits the Castle, assumes human form, and joins her half-sisters on waitress detail. Young ‘Ming’ also helps, being told to stick close to Jamie and act the part of a servant boy. An invisible Cassie is positioned to watch the goings on from the landing atop the stairs, where she can also keep a very close eye on her apprentice Hiroshi. </p><p></p><p>The Stealth Team is pulled back in, being transported in by Cassie’s owl inside of the Bag of Holding. Aradyn is pleased to see that the party’s three other archers are now freed from the castle, and positions the four of them in the catwalk along with the crewmembers. Blip and Fiona also take up concealed positions in the catwalk. </p><p></p><p>The Wall of Force Wand is used to erect an invisible wall from the door to the room with the items to the stage, to keep any guests from being able to get at the items. Blake, Dennismore and Lono are made invisible and each assigned a third of the room to patrol during the auction. </p><p>Mark takes charge outside the door, as Narg, Vincenzo and Timothy take up positions by the interior entrance as official greeters. </p><p></p><p>The first guests to arrive are the elves of Silvanost, followed by the orc chieftain Hargash and his entourage. Jaime makes sure that guests are given appetizers and beverages while they wait. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Approximately half the guests have arrived when Mark notices the appearance of a crimson-colored hawk swiftly flying at him. He recognizes it as being the bird companion of the Queen’s General Aaron, and opens the door for it, the following the bird inside. “What? Not asking it for a ticket?” a player comments. As the bird flies into the room Timothy does a quick aura check, and then nods his head up and down. Aradyn whispers down the line “Hold, it looks legit,” to the sixteen archers whose bows are all trained on the bird. </p><p></p><p>The hawk flies directly towards Serita, who holds her arm up for it to land. She speaks with it, the bird telling her that the royal family is under attack. Serita immediately yells out to the entire room “The Royals are under attack!” This creates a lot of commotion in the hall, with the auction guests all quite concerned. Kindor mutters “I need to teach her when to be more discreet.” Serita continues to translate what the bird is telling her, yelling out “The Queen’s carriage was tipped over. They are being shot at.” </p><p></p><p>The Silver Moon Adventurers all begin to mobilize with Serita now heading swiftly towards the front door. Narg looks to Kindor and yells out “Wait. This could just be a diversion. Most of us should remain here.” “I’m going,” Mojo emphatically states. “Me too” both Mark and Furynick say in unison. It is also obvious that Serita is not going to let be told to stay. Narg replies “Fine, you guys go,” and he also gestures to Vincenzo to accompany them. Timothy holds open up a Bag of Holding which the four men designated to go then climb into. Timothy then hands the bag to Serita. She hurries out to the street, instructs the hawk to take the lead, and transforms into a white dragon. The hawk and dragon both take to the air.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 927324, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter 56, “The Return of Kulp’s Comfortable Castle”, July 13th, 1019, 2:30 P.M.[/B] The party had spent the morning making final preparations for the auction, as Serita transformed into a pegasus to fly to the town of Gelorynth with Fiona as her rider. The Wizard Derieki completes the recharging of the Orb of Culp, and then gives both half-elvan women instruction as to how to activate it. He also explains how the key works, that turning it one-third will override the protection spell, another third will override the password, and the final third will shut down the Castle by removing the key. Serita teleports back to the auction house. The group gets into a very lengthy discussion [I](taking over an hour of game time)[[/I] about where to activate the castle, who to tell the password to, what password to use, and what protection spell to put on it. Narg gets impatient, stating that he wants his wife back. He has Jamie cook up a Hawaiian Pizza to give to her once the door is opened, saying “She’s been craving these during the whole pregnancy. She’ll want this more than anything.” They decide to put the entrance in the side room at the bottom of the stairs and ten specific party members to tell the password to, but cannot agree on the password. Mojo suggests it should be something about killing King Matthan, but the party say that won’t work as phrase comes up too much in casual conversation. Lannon suggests “How about ‘Have you seen my copy of the Ukko Articles of Faith?’ Nobody would ever say that.” They eventually decide on the word “Baseball”, which people of this world would be unfamiliar with. They accept Fiona’s suggestion of making Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere the protection spell. The door to the inter-dimensional castle is activated. Narg reminds the others “They’ve been trapped in there for over five days. Be prepared for anything.” The door to the great all is opened to reveal Ailsheir, Blake and Dennismore sitting in their underwear, drinking beer, eating pretzels and playing cards. Mojo looks around and comments “I’m surprised the room itself isn’t a lot messier.” Dennis answers “That’s only because it keeps magically cleaning itself.” Blake sees the pizza in Narg’s hands and says “Great, you’ve brought more food.” “It’s for my wife, where is she?” he asks. “Bedroom around the hall,” Ailsheir answers. “She’s been in there with her lady friend for days now. I don’t know what they’re doing in there….but I can only imagine that..” Dennismore kicks the drow under the table to get him to shut up before he says something that Narg will kill him for uttering. Jamie enters with food for everyone, which the three at the table all begin to consume. Furynick comments to the guys “A card game between a drow and two thieves? I guess that means that all of you are cheating.” Ailsheir answers “Yeah, we’ve found that trying to catch your opponents is actually more of a challenge than winning.” Narg knocks on the bedroom door and Vallessa says “Come in.” He sees that she is busy talking to her former employee Florine, who she introduces to her husband. While she appears pleased to see her husband, she is even happier to see the pizza, and pulls it out of his hands and immediately starts to dig in. Florine tells Narg “This time together has given Vallessa and I an opportunity to catch up on what each of us has been doing for the past decade. Your wife also thought that it would be safer to keep me away from those other guys, as they were all rather upset about what my associate Wister had done. She was afraid that they might try taking their anger out on me.” Jamie brings food down to Ebony, who is still in her room guarding the items, having never been told about the Castle’s disappearance. The players comment about how the items have probably been used as cat toys, and the old Steve Martin line “And you can’t return them because they’ve got cat spit all over them” is stated. Once those inside of the castle have all eaten a significant amount of food they leave the Castle. Florine is brought out to the barn to be guarded alongside her mentor Wister. Other preparations for the auction are made. The waitresses are brought over from the Twin Gods church and assist Jamie and the crewmember cook Frenchie in preparing food and beverages for the dinner. The now visible hengeyokai Lee-May exits the Castle, assumes human form, and joins her half-sisters on waitress detail. Young ‘Ming’ also helps, being told to stick close to Jamie and act the part of a servant boy. An invisible Cassie is positioned to watch the goings on from the landing atop the stairs, where she can also keep a very close eye on her apprentice Hiroshi. The Stealth Team is pulled back in, being transported in by Cassie’s owl inside of the Bag of Holding. Aradyn is pleased to see that the party’s three other archers are now freed from the castle, and positions the four of them in the catwalk along with the crewmembers. Blip and Fiona also take up concealed positions in the catwalk. The Wall of Force Wand is used to erect an invisible wall from the door to the room with the items to the stage, to keep any guests from being able to get at the items. Blake, Dennismore and Lono are made invisible and each assigned a third of the room to patrol during the auction. Mark takes charge outside the door, as Narg, Vincenzo and Timothy take up positions by the interior entrance as official greeters. The first guests to arrive are the elves of Silvanost, followed by the orc chieftain Hargash and his entourage. Jaime makes sure that guests are given appetizers and beverages while they wait. Approximately half the guests have arrived when Mark notices the appearance of a crimson-colored hawk swiftly flying at him. He recognizes it as being the bird companion of the Queen’s General Aaron, and opens the door for it, the following the bird inside. “What? Not asking it for a ticket?” a player comments. As the bird flies into the room Timothy does a quick aura check, and then nods his head up and down. Aradyn whispers down the line “Hold, it looks legit,” to the sixteen archers whose bows are all trained on the bird. The hawk flies directly towards Serita, who holds her arm up for it to land. She speaks with it, the bird telling her that the royal family is under attack. Serita immediately yells out to the entire room “The Royals are under attack!” This creates a lot of commotion in the hall, with the auction guests all quite concerned. Kindor mutters “I need to teach her when to be more discreet.” Serita continues to translate what the bird is telling her, yelling out “The Queen’s carriage was tipped over. They are being shot at.” The Silver Moon Adventurers all begin to mobilize with Serita now heading swiftly towards the front door. Narg looks to Kindor and yells out “Wait. This could just be a diversion. Most of us should remain here.” “I’m going,” Mojo emphatically states. “Me too” both Mark and Furynick say in unison. It is also obvious that Serita is not going to let be told to stay. Narg replies “Fine, you guys go,” and he also gestures to Vincenzo to accompany them. Timothy holds open up a Bag of Holding which the four men designated to go then climb into. Timothy then hands the bag to Serita. She hurries out to the street, instructs the hawk to take the lead, and transforms into a white dragon. The hawk and dragon both take to the air. [/QUOTE]
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