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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4549718" data-attributes="member: 13966">Grackle "Grubeater" Granitetop, gnome sorcerer 9Grackle rises in the morning with a yawn, tossing the weasel aside inadvertently, waking up the enraged rodent.  It jumps at him and claws at his face a few times, then swats him in the nose with its tail.  Grackle's chin quivers and he almost cries, but skulks away to go sit under a gnarled swamp tree instead, moping for a few hours.When he returns, though, he's regained what semblence of composure the gnome ever has, and has focused on drawing in more magic for today.  The weasel stands around expectently by Grackle's backpack, tapping a foot, as Grackle slowly picks up his things and stows them away, donning the backpack and his cross-striped cloak when finished.With a squeak from the weasel, Grackle hurries up and gibbers again, renewing his protective ward, then follows the others inside, again at a safe distance.When the group makes their way back inside to the colorful room, the weasel squeaks again, and Grackle takes out a wand, gibbering and tapping it to his forehead.  Grackle's face goes slack when the healy-man with the glowy hands asks him a question.  "Uh?" is all he says for a minute.Then, "Why ask Grackle?  I not builds it.  I's SMART.  If I's builds it, it not have hurty things, an' I makes it all colorfulul an' fills it wit' bugses an' shroomies an' shinies OH SO MANY SHINIES I LOVES THE SHINIES!!!"He just stands there grinning stupidly up at Leif for a minute, dribbling a bit, hands clasped together in joy, thoughts wandering.When people start to look at him a little funnier than usual, he adds "Oh, an' mebbe I's share some shinies wit' you, if you nice.  But whats we talking about again?"As soon as someone, anyone, reminds him, the gnome blurts out "OH AND I FINDS FUNNY HOLES WIT' SHINIES AN' STUFFS AN' MEBBE BUGS OH YEAH BUGS YAAAAAY!!!"  He jumps up and down, excited, then remembers something and says more quietly "Oh yeah but I's never tells you that a'fore.  Grackle talkeded to rockses an' heard 'bout emppy spaces that HAS TO HOLDS SHINY-SHINIES AN' BUGSES AN' STUFFS!!!!  I jes' knows it has to!"He scurries over to the spot on the wall with the mural of a door holding something nasty back, points at it and mutters "Ya-hah!" then scampers over to the spot on the floor where a pit trap had been, one Jill disabled yesterday, pointing down at it and muttering "O-hoh!" and giggling.  Then he hops back from that spot and does a wierd little dance.After that, Grackle just stands around grinning and dribbling a bit.  It's getting kind of creepy.  The weasel shakes its head in dismay and opens up Grackle's backpack, slipping inside as it closes the flap.(ooc: Recasting Mage Armor on himself.  Then False Life on himself.)<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1813397/" target="_blank">False Life wand (1d10+3=10)</a></blockquote>

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