Q'Barra: Facing Truth Chapter 2

[Pebele]

(Let me know if there was anything that anyone wanted to do during the night, and I will edit this if so.)

Darrick walked the town for a short while, and he realized it would be very hard to defend the town as a whole. He thought the best plan was to fortify the meeting building, and keep the villagers inside.

On his way back to the Inn, he paused and looked around the town, and strained his ears trying to hear anything out of the ordinary. He heard and saw nothing, so he headed up to his room.

Trebuchet, still wanting to use his destructive capabilities, kept watch out the window for anything that moved. He was quite disappointed that nothing seemed to move.

Catherine was already in her room, studying before bed.

Sepoto, Charles and Kaelan made their way back to the Inn.

The night passes rather uneventfully, until Catherine is awakened by pounding on her door.

"They are demanding to speak to you! Please come quickly!" Blinking away sleep, she recognizes Gilda Cooper's voice. The pounding on her door continues. "Please! They will not speak to any of us!"

 

[Yeoman]

"They are demanding to speak to you! Please come quickly!"

Blinking away sleep, she recognizes Gilda Cooper's voice. The pounding on her door continues. What in the world is going on? Did the rest of the team find something?

"Please! They will not speak to any of us!"

"Of course ma'am, I'll be right there. Just let me get dressed and I'll be right there."

Catherine quickly throws on her traveling clothes and heads downstairs to the common area. Although there is no time to secure her armor or halberd, she takes the time to grab her pair of daggers just in case. She secures both of them in the customary spots on the small of her back, and then heads to the common area of the inn.

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Today's spells
0 Level: Cure Minor Wounds x3, Detect Magic
1st Level: Cure Light Wounds x3, Lesser Vigor
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[Pebele]

After she has alerted Catherine, Gilda moves on to the other doors, again pounding on them and relaying her message. "Wake up! Quickly! They will not speak to any of us!"

 

[BRP2]

Charles is in a disappointed daze as he awakens. I was having such a pleasant dream too... he sighs.

Not one who likes to be rushed, as he finds his weapons, belt, and backpack he sarcastically yells to Gilda: Maybe they don't hear you! You might not be yelling loud enough! Try the voice you are using right now, I think they will respond.

 

[Rolzup]

Darrick sits bolt upright at the commotion, one hand scrabbling for the sword by his bedside.

"I knew it," he groans, leaping to his feet. "Damn me, I should have stayed awake!" He dresses rapidly, throwing a longing glance at his armor as he does. "Ah, well," he mutters to himself, grabbing his shield, "Not much else to be done."

One hand falling automatically to the hilt of his sword, Darrick opens his door and heads for the stairs....

 

[Rookseye]

Sepoto slept little that night. For some, a comfortable bed was bliss, for him it was an oddity. Better to be in one of the taller banyans, in the high branches, as the wind blew through the boughs. Just as the shifter decided to rise and find better lodgings in the arboreal canopy overlooking the inn, he heard the older inn-woman's voice shouting down the hall in the vicinity of Catherine's room.

Better, it is, this way.

He rose, retrieved his kukri, bow, and pouch, and opened the door just as Gilda Cooper's hand was about to rap upon it. Her determined expression faltered for a moment on seeing him, and then she regained herself and moved on to Kaelan's lodgings. The shifter took a deep breath, and exhaled as the inn-woman walked away. Sepoto felt his instincts would soon be free from the constraints he had shackled upon them, and he was glad for this.

As he checked the razor-sharp edge of his kukri he whispered something that Brother Othos had once told him when he was trying to awaken the aggression that the monk felt lay dormant within the once-docile chakit shifter.

"I'Katra has many faces...and not all of them are kind."

 

[EvolutionKB]

Kaelan

Kaelan jumps at the sound of the pounding, he was up early dressing. He quickly slipped the rest of his weapons in their places, and opened the door, only to find Gilda outside his room in mid-pound. "Problems? The missing hunters I assume?" Joining the rest of his companions, Kaelan hurries downstairs.

 

[Shayuri]

Having heard the commotion well before she got to his door, Trebuchet jerks the door open just as she's about to pound on it. He gazes at her for a moment, then says, "I am awake, thank you. I believe they will speak with us."

The warforged moves out into the hall, then asks, "Who is it? More druids? The lizardfolk?"

 

[Pebele]

Nonplussed by the few students who seemed rather rude when awakened, Gilda followed them to the common room of the Inn. "It's Viktor and the others. They're outside, in the middle of town. They demanded to see you. Master Kassel tried to speak to them, but they threatened him and said they'd speak to no one but you."

She stopped when the group got to the door. "I don't know what they want. I don't know anything anymore. I just know I love this place; it's my home. And I thank you for what you've done. And I know most everyone does, too."

 

[Yeoman]

"I don't know what they want. I don't know anything anymore. I just know I love this place; it's my home. And I thank you for what you've done. And I know most everyone does, too."

Catherine smiles at Gilda as she heads out the door. "I'm glad we have been of service to you, and I assure you that we will do everything in our power to make sure no one has to leave their homes. Ok?"

Catherine heads out towards the center of town, and addresses the three hunters. "Alright gentlemen, you've got our attention. Now what can we do for you?"