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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 975105" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUNSEGMENT 086   “Day Two”It took a few hours, but Dessantee and Mania have located a shaded area to rest and stay by daytime.  They will try traveling at night to avoid the desert heat.  A large rock outcropping provides shade and some shelter from the wind.  During the search, Mania reinspected the elf.  He was tall, as per his race; he had a long billowing robe and cloak.  The cloak was designed to cover his face in case of sandstorms.  Most of his material goods where hidden under the robe and cloak.  He had a club.  Mania knew that from the brief show of defiance he had against the giant insects.Why did he distrust the elf so much?  Because Cosa doesn’t trust him?  Because Stonecrusher outright growls at him?  His greatest fear is because of his race.  Mania feared being judged with his father.  He didn’t want to be just as guilty of judging one wrongly.  He was better than that…right?It was a long delay.  Everyone was restless.  Glaze played her flute this time.  She chimed in with a poem about a dwarf and his focus on completing a task asked of him by a town leader.  It was in good humor and everyone laughed.  Even Stonecrusher whom laughed more since the others were.Mania felt bad for the ½ Giant.  He was dim witted but not stupid.  He just didn’t understand much of anything.  He was much like a 10-foot tall super strong child.  In that way, Mania was envious.  Crusher was happy so long as the others were.  He didn’t understand that they could die fighting undead.  All he knew is he had new friends and they asked for his help.  Mania hoped he wasn’t subconsciencely using the big guy. Glaze was something else.  She rarely didn’t have a smile and twinkle in her eyes.  She was fun to be around.  Mania liked her.  Cosa knew this.  He hoped they wouldn’t avoid being friends because of this.  Women.  He was certain that he would never figure them out during his lifetime.With the sun finally setting, everyone picked up their gear and headed out.  The ½ Giant led as directed by the elf behind him.  Cosa was in the middle watching the elf.  Glaze and Mania followed in the rear.  Once she felt the others were out of earshot Glaze began to speak softly to Mania.“I know it is Bodach we go to but why?  Is it to search for an artifact?  Is it to retrieve something for The Silent One?”  Rising his eyebrows and sighing, Mania gives in and says this to her.  “Cosa and I go to Bodach for unclear reasons.  The Silent One is knowledgeable.  She wants us to come here.  She feels once here we will know what to do.  I seek…for my past to find the future.  Cosa seeks for items of the past that tells of the future.  Weird isn’t it.  We seem compelled to go backwards to go forward.“Drop 10 and punt.  It was a term I once heard in a unique gladiator game in Urik.  I think I understand.  It will make a wondrous story.”“About that…do you have to tell everyone who I am and what I am?  There are things I may learn about myself that I don’t want to know.  It would be worse to tell every city-state from Balic to Urik.  There are people, evil people, whom would kill me and use others to further punish and torture me.  This is no party we are going to.”Stiffening up and looking proper and serious Glaze begins to recall what she knows of the famed and doomed city.“Bodach city of the dead.  Said to have been the richest city in Tyr Valley until something awful happened 100’s even 1000’s of years ago.  A great war between defilers and preservers raged.  The demi-humans were targeted within the war.  Bodach was one of the first great war zones.  Magic and psionics were unleashed and killed everyone.  But everyone is not resting in death.  Now they are undead.  They are protecting their city and it’s secrets.”“Ah com’on!  Lighten up Mania…Scot.  The stories I create and tell give people hope and a sense of being.  It has to be good.  Templars chase us out of the cities on sight.  Except for Nibenay.  Oh Course there you must sing and play what they want.  Most people don’t know that.”Mania looks at her and can’t help but to smile.  “You are something else Glaze.”They talk in silence for several more hours.    Then they see Dessantee wave them into a patch of piled rocks.  “The brute saw it first.  Look there- to the west.”  Mania looks and sees nothing then he spots it.  “What is that mammoth?”“A Cloud Ray.  To be safe we should stay here for awhile. We are not equipped to deal with such a creature should it see us.”The enormous creature seems to float on the air and the wind currents.  It is flat with large flap growing from its main body; a tail that looks barbed and dangerous trails behind it.  It is big…too damn big.  They hide a while longer after it has gone.Mania is certain that in the daylight they would have been seen.  “Okay, one for the elf.” Thinks Mania.</blockquote>

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