[LPF] The Lady of Lake Laguna

[Caim]

Mortar looks at Etan curiously before asking. "So Pan is human in all ways except for the fact that he is immortal?" Mortar looks over the rest of the group before he speaks again. "Has anyone asked the boy if he is tired of being immortal? You said theres a chance he would lose it if the shrines are destroyed. Maybe he is simply of watching those around him grow old and die. I assure you Etan we would have never destroyed your Mistress' alters." Mortar finds a rock and sits down and searchs for his own pipe but can't find it.

"We need to investigate the alters further and find out what is causing these animals to attack innocent people." Mortar looks over the group and then back to Etan.

"Etan do you know if this 'boy' Pan has any magical powers? Perhaps ones that allow him to control creatures of the wild?"

 

[Deuce Traveler]

"Yes indeed he wields powers. Pan is the strongest nature priest in these parts. I wouldn't be able to handle him. And long ago he was given a few scrolls from the Mistress to use in case of emergencies, and so he could wield power beyond his considerable abilities. His only real limitation was that he was bound by a geas to remain only a few miles from her tree." Etan puffs furiously at the pipe as he considers Mortar's words. It seems as if the pixie has trouble imagining that a boy might want to give up immortality and grow old. Finally the thought penetrates and the pixie drops the pipe and tobacco in panic. The pipe bounces on the forest floor when Etan shouts, "He's mad! Now that you've shattered her two altars the only thing keeping any of her power is the tree that holds her spirit. Pan isn't trying to hurt her. He's going to destroy her tree and kill her. No time. I've got no time. I need help. Cannot take Pan alone. Must tell the Fey Court, but they'll want me to play their courtly games before I speak. No time. NO TIME!" With a shriek, Etan launched into the air and flew to the northeast at a speed that the party could not match.

Kanli
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You are somewhere between awake and asleep when you sense the absence of the man who wasn't there. The negative man says, "So much of what we did in the other time you did again. The destroying of the altars and slaying of animals whose will was not their own. But you and I killed the pixie at the time that isn't. Our friends tried talking this time. That was new. Perhaps you'll save her this time. He's going to kill her, you know. Or try to. He will set her on fire. Watch her burn."
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[CootaR]

KRAG AM NOT DIM! Krag have sun god...dess to give him light. Me am bright like sun. Little pixie man!

Krag yells at the departing pixie. Then turns to the group.

So Krag am confused. Do we not slash angry piggy lady? It was the boys who make birds attack Krag?

 

[deisenhut]

Yoshiki struggles to piece together all that he is hearing. "We should quickly head back and find Pan and Chip. We should hear their sides of the story while trying not to reveal what we know or what that pixie just realized."

 

[Caim]

"Aye, I would be in agreement Yo. This bit of new information would suggest we seek the truth of the matter." Mortar gathers his things in preporation for the journey back.

"Kanli, are you fit travel?" Mortar goes to his side to help the half-orc to his feet.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

OOC: 240 XP for each PC for that pixie encounter, except Elros who earns nothing. See talking the talk for more details. Update shortly.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

The party gathered their possessions and headed southwards. It was well into dusk by the time they had arrived on the outskirts of the ramshackle village of Boredton. But the heroes pressed on instead of entering, intent on reaching the abode of the two boys that had started the current quest.

By the time they reached the shrine and the boys' cottage it was the beginning of night, and vision was limited except for a faint light cast by the lights inside the structure. The building was vacant, however, although Mortar saw some signs of recent busied activity. Following the trail of kicked up dust, Mortar led the party from the front door of the abode, past the small shrine to the Lady, and to the docks that housed the boats used to ferry people to the Lady's tree on the isle in the middle of the lagoon.

One of the smaller vessels was missing, and the small, broken body of Chip was found lying on the nearest dock. His body was twisted oddly, with welts swelling in black and blue places along his skin, blood trickling from the side of his head, and an arm that was bent the wrong way and obviously broken. A broken rake lied next to him, and was obviously the instrument used to break his bones and skin.

As Elros leaned down to touch the boy the party leapt in surprise as the boy took a shuddered, rasping intake of air. His eyes remained closed, and his breath was ragged, but somehow Chip was still alive, though barely so. His breath remained ragged, he was still unconscious, and it was not doubtful he would survive without help.

Gripped in Chip's right hand was torn, green fabric of the kind that Pan wore in his clothes.

 

[InVinoVeritas]

"Fit as a thousand fiddles!" Kanli replies as he jumps up. "Wait, where are my hands? Ah! There they are, at the end of my arms again! So unoriginal of them..."

As they head on, before reaching Chip, Kanli continues talking to anyone who cares to listen.

"I wasn't talking about how this all never happened before. But certainly, the fire that didn't happen is what isn't happening. I'm glad I had that nap when I did, because I didn't accidentally eat the pixie that way. Out with the frying pan, in with the fire!"

When they arrive to see Chip, Kanli rushes to action. "Stand back, this boy needs blood!" He splays the fingers of his hand, and blood seeps and pours from his fingers into Chip's mouth. It seems to help fill his body.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Chip's bleeding stopped, most of the bruising disappeared, and his arm set itself with a sickenly grinding noise, though the arm was still a bit swollen and likely still broken. Chip's eyes fluttered open as his breath grew even, then was broken up again by his sobbing. Kanli took a minute to calm the boy and ask what happened.

"There's something wrong with Pan, sir. After we shared lunch he asked me to help him transport brush and our firewood across to the isle near the Lady's tree. He said he wanted to get ready to do a bonfire for the upcoming celebration at the spring festival. I helped him for a only a few hours but started getting tired. I think I made him mad since he started to push me. I got scared and kept working, but then I remembered the time I once went to the festival and there was no bonfire. Something didn't seem right so I threw down the wood and started to argue with Pan. He grabbed a rake and started hitting me, then he struck me in the head and..."

The boy broke off and began to sob once more.

 

[deisenhut]

"We must get to the Lady's tree before he starts that fire." says Yoshiki to the group. Turning to Chip, "Do you have a boat or other means to get to the island? Do you think you can move? We must move quickly!"