Sagiro's Story Hour Returns (new thread started on 5/18/08)

[The Lemon Merchant]

Dranko & Morningstar married!!! Was I sleeping through something when I read through the groups adventures on the other continent? Was there any foreshadowing of this? Now I'm gonna have to go back and reread that just to make sure I wasn't asleep on the job.

 

[Wolfspirit]

Dranko & Morningstar married!!! Was I sleeping through something when I read through the groups adventures on the other continent?

Darn, I was looking for it, but I'm betting that it's on the Charagan webpage

They got engaged just a bit before Dranko got in trouble for raising a stink in the morgue (?) where they kept the corpse that had been killed by Null Shadows.

Smooth timming huh? If he'd waited another couple of days she probably would have said no

Sorry if the details are a bit sketchy, but I have to run to work now

 

[Aravis]

They got engaged just a bit before Dranko got in trouble for raising a stink in the morgue (?) where they kept the corpse that had been killed by Null Shadows.

Smooth timming huh? If he'd waited another couple of days she probably would have said no

Sorry if the details are a bit sketchy, but I have to run to work now

Actually, it was just before we were sent off to search for Carbuncle in the Orc caves in the Kalkas Peaks. Just before the Spire meeting in run 111 (http://home.attbi.com/~dorian/diary111-120.html).

Dranko elicited advice from all of us as to how to go about it. He ended up using the Snow Globe to create a very romantic field of stars. However, much to Kibi's dismay, he forgot to offer her beer. Even without the beer though, she accepted.

I believe they still have another 8 months to go before they actually get married.

-- Aravis

 

[KidCthulhu]

I faced some of the ogres, and they didn’t hurt me much. Kibbe came back, and that was good, although it made Greywolf’s tummy hurt. Kibbe made a big Lightning Bolt, which hurt a lot of ogres. I don’t know how long he will stay, but it’s good he’s here now.

Flicker used his new giant killing sword while he was Blinking (Moving in and out, that is, not moving his eyelids). He slew an ogre with one blow. One for the halflings!

And then Aravis got used as a battering ram. It hurt him (& Dranko) very much. If he hadn’t been sharing Dranko’s life force, he would have died. He’ll certainly have a sore neck for days.

More ogres came, but we saw them soon enough to Fireball them. Mackel’s wand actually did something useful, and made a green ball of file. The ogres went after Kibbe, but Morningstar Protective Slept him so the ogres couldn’t kill him. They sure do hate dwarves. They last ogre tried to flee, but we cut him down.

Flicker disappeared after the ogres. Sometimes he doesn’t have the common sense Yondalla gave a mule. He wasn’t hurt, and he didn’t get waylaid. He spotted some LSL lizards, so we piled up the ogre bodies for the lizards to eat and slow them down.
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Oh dear. What a busy day. We’ve just managed to escape from one band of ogres, only to be sitting in the pantry of another band of ogres. No, don’t worry, they’re not going to eat us. At least I don’t think they will. They seem to be slightly more civilized than the last group.

Getting taken prisoner is really a terrible thing. We were trying to sneak into the ogre caverns and they had a very scary monster guarding the entrance. It looked like a stalagmite, which is a big stony, pointy thing that sits on the floor of the cave, but it had tentacles and a mouth full of teeth. The tentacles hit Aravis, Kay and Mackel and made them feel very weak. Then, when we were weakened a whole bunch of ogres cam pouring out.

I wanted to fight, but I couldn’t stand against all of them, and they would have killed my friends. Big bullies. I hate being taken prisoner.

 

[KidCthulhu]

The ogres threw us in some dark, smelly cells. They didn’t bring us food, but it was terrible! What the ogres didn’t know was that Dranko and Pewter were free. Dranko was invisible, and Pewter is just naturally sneaky.

Dranko found our stuff, and managed to make himself look like the ogre chief. He sent all the ogres off to fight an imaginary dwarven army. He found us, and we got out by Morningstar summoning some earth creatures to dig us out. We ran and ran and finally came to a set of gates which marked the line between the two ogre kingdoms.

The other ogres had wanted to buy us from the old ogres as slaves. We convinced them that it would be better to let us buy our way out. They have proposed that we restore one of their first warlords who had been turned into stone and pay them some money.

I hate to pay these bullies, and I hate even worse to do them any favors, but we don’t have a whole lot of choice.

So we’re waiting tomorrow morning when Morningstar can cast the spell to turn the warlord back from stone. We’re having a very good talk about our plans. Boy, do we have a lot of things to do. Oh, and I can’t forget to add “Help the halflings in Appleseed” to the list. It’s kind of a divine command.

It’s been very weird. I don’t feel any more good than I used to, but I get closer and closer to the goddess. It gets harder and harder to live the right kind of life. The things around me are so complicated and sometimes the line between the good way and the bad way is so very thin. I guess I must be doing all right, as Yondalla has not withdrawn her grace from me. But I sometimes wish I could go home where things are simple and good.

If I go home before this is done, though, there won’t be anything good and simple anymore.

 

[Dinkeldog]

I like the nonchalant

They last ogre tried to flee, but we cut him down.

"Hey Ma! We just cut down a fleeing ogre!"

"That's nice, dear. Just don't track blood into the house."

 

[KidCthulhu]

Yeah, Ernie kind of found it tough to describe things to his mom. He wanted to tell her about his life, but yet not shock her so much that she ordered him to come home this instant.

 

[KidCthulhu]

I’m not sure we won’t pay for this day. Thinking about it makes my flesh crawl. This is exactly the kind of grey, shifty moral thing that makes me so scared and angry. We released the ogre’s warlord and he turned out to be a terrible, scary, bad, evil looking creature with bat wings. Dranko thought he was a dragon creature. Morningstar thought he was a demon. All I know is that I fear for the dwarves. This creature is probably what drove them out in the first place. And we’ve released it.

I hope the Crossers Maze is worth it.

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We’re now making our way out of the ogre caverns by a river which has tunneled through the rock. I nearly fell in, but we’d roped ourselves together and Kay caught me. We got past a waterfall and a slippery narrow bank, but now there’s no bank.

Oh, boy. I think I want to give up this adventuring thing. Aravis turned into an otter to explore the river, and got shot out the side of a cliff. The drop is apparently over 1,000 feet. Kay just went out the tunnel, protected by the sleep of El. Oh sweet Yondalla, I don’t want to do this.

We’re supposed to tie ourselves to Greywolf and then fall out the hole and Feather Fall (a spell which makes you fall slowly) together. I hate heights!

Water and heights. Sweet Yondalla’s cinnamon bun, why did I ever leave home.

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Aaaaagh! That was the single scariest thing I’ve ever done. We floated and then we fell and then we floated and then we feel into a pool. It was awful. But we all survived and weren’t hurt, so I guess it’s all for the best.

I hope I can be a good person; ‘cuz if I’m not, Hell is going to be making that fall, again and again..,

 

[Plane Sailing]

Water and heights. Sweet Yondalla’s cinnamon bun, why did I ever leave home.

Ernie has the cutest way of taking his gods name in vain!

- I love seeing his point of view on these events... when Sagiro gets back into this life I'll start looking out for Ernie with a new pair of eyes

 

[Nail]

KC-

Keep it comin', KC!!! This is priceless stuff!

-Nail