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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 5979572" data-attributes="member: 9255">CREATION SCHEMASEGMENT 328“THE GATHERING”RHAAN 27, 999Just north of Sharn, on the edge of the King’s Forest is a walled in compound.  This was recently built by House Deneith. Catti d’Deneith of the Blademarks Guild is in charge of it.  She is a Kensai warrior of the blade.  She shares a high level of discipline for her blade and her house.  She leads and trains others with her love and fellow Kensai warrior- Jasyne Symtex.   Today they are watching the archers do targets.  Jasyne watches them carefully.   They are hitting near bullseyes every time but he is neither happy nor impressed.   They are over confident and not ready for being a Kensai.He steps up and excuses the over seer Marcus d’Deneith from his current duties.   Normally this would not happen except for the genuine respect the house has for both his skills and being the fiancé to the compound leader.  He asks the group to strike the targets again.  They lift their bows to take aim but before they begin to fire he pulls a lever that makes the target move.    Some frown and glare.  A shifter at the end tries.  The first two hit the target (not within the ring) but the rest miss.Noting the looks on the archers, Catti suggests the Kensai Archer to try it.  With a slight smirk he agrees and begins to immediately run and swerve around people as he fires at the targets.  6 of the 7 are bull’s eyes and the one shot is within the second ring.  The men are impressed and the shifter thinks he will do that soon…. Very soon.Within the forest, next to a state sign that clearly prohibits any sort of hunting of the wildlife within this forest, is a large reptilian creature eating a deer.  A halfling sits nearby cleaning a bloodied arrow he just retrieved from the body.  “We should be close now Screecha.   I wonder what adventures we will have this time?  Do you remember our last adventure with Kim Elderich?   The look on that Centaurs face as you leaped up and onto his back!  Good times…. Very good times.”Once finished with the royal snack, the Megaraptor and the druid ranger halfling continue towards their final destination- the Deneith Compound.  They find the high wall that surrounds the compound.  They search for the entrance.Nearby but on the opposite side stalks a Mantis-warrior.  It too has consumed some of the royal deer within the forest.  It watches other deer run by.  It flicks it’s antennae in both excitement and irritation.  It has something to do.  Kim Elderich needs it.  Kim Elderich knows and has magic.  Will pay services with magic.  Like magic.  Klik Clik.The wall is high…. But not high enough. The thri-kreen takes a few hopping steps before leaping into the sky as it easily clears the wall.  It clears the wall and lands within two hundred feet of the archery targets.   All of the archers swing their aim at it.  Two release but miss as the creature easily dodges it.  Jasyne calls for them to stop.  They do.Arcanis hops up to him.   He fits the description given of the man that will bring it to Kim.  Bring it to magic.Jasyne is uncertain what to make of the creature.  Kim Elderich has strange friends.  He has a way of collecting powerful and resourceful people that have unique outlooks and backgrounds.  He has heard of the Mantis Warrior race but never seen them before.  They have scattered small groups of nomadic tribes within the Blade Desert of the Talenta Plains and some are said to be in Xen’drik.  Its language skills are limited.  Its mandibles clik and clak regularly as it attempts to speak the common tongue.“I am Arcanis”“Welcome.  I am Jasyne Symtex.  This is Catti d’Deneith.”“I come for Kim Elderich Klik Klik.  He has summoned me.  He pay with magic I hope.”“I suspect he will pay whatever is owed.  Magic, Money or a debt of Honor.  Kim always pays his bills. You are the first to arrive.  I would rather explain Kim’s situation to everyone than repeat myself.  If you wish, you may wait in the mess hall.” He points to a building nearby.  The thri-kreen is disappointed.  It wanted magic now, not later.  But magic will come.“Warriors- back to the lessons.”  The archers stop staring at the strange creature and go back to aiming at the targets… some still watching the kreen as it walks around the building.It is not long before the lessons are interrupted again by a shout of alarm.  Something is at the front gate.  When Jasyne  looks he spots a halfling riding on a large oversized claw foot or raptor.  He has seen these creatures before in the grasslands and jungles of the Talenta Plains.  They are to be respected for the powerful, cunning and skillful hunters and predators they are.   More of Elderich’s agents he figures.Marcus d’Deneith gives out a yelp and command to hold action as he turns his attention from charging dinosaur to the archers whom are redirecting their aim to the dinosaur intruder…. With him in the middle.  He quickly back peddles to avoid a stray shot released from these new recruits.The large dinosaur slows down and saunters up to Jasyne.  The rider waves and introduces himself.  “I am Alton Clawvin and this is my friend Screecha,” the creature gives a short screeching honk and nods its head, “We have come for adventure!  Where is Kim?”“That is the question of the day.  We wait for two more people.  They could be here at any time.”  He watches the halfling gracefully slide off the back of the dinosaur.  His ritual hunting mask hangs on his chest.  Bright colors of skin paint decorate the halfling.  The dinosaur swings its head in a bobbing motion as if anticipating something.   “Go ahead Screecha…. But be good.  We are guests here.”  “Please avoid this building…” the host begins as he points at the armory and hopes the Kreen did not go there.  The dinosaur catches a scent and moves ahead… in the direction the kreen went.   Sensing probable trouble coming up with the two pets he is about to stop the creature when an audible pop is heard behind him.  He whirls around as it to use his bow as a club and disarming tool.A beautiful tall and slender woman stands there.  Her robes are silky and hint at her natural form below.  She smiles as her eyes caste a look of intensity and raw emotion.  Another one of Elderich’s friends has arrived.  A mage.   No doubt a mage with strange powers and secrets knowing Kim’s attention and appreciation for the odd and the unusual.“Hello.   Am I interfering?”  She says with a haughty voice.  Catti instantly dislikes this woman.  Yet another predator on the grounds.“No but it is highly disrespectful to House Denieth to teleport onto the grounds unannounced.” Declares Catti stiffly.“Your name?” asks Jasyne hoping not to start a battle between the women.“I am Shy-Anne Shard. I have come out of respect to Kim Elderich.”“I am waiting for one other.  If you….”“Teltis Hammerthrower will not join us.”“How do you know-…:“A few years ago, when I was with Elderich last, he had a dwarven friend with him.  He was killed last night in Sharn.”Jasyne ponders this silently and looks to Catti whom returns a stern look.“Let us meet the others and discuss Kim.”</blockquote>

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