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Out of the City

A Sadistic, Mysterious, And Dangerous Entity Hangs In The Darkness, Gleaming In The Firelight.

Vulcarisksk the githyanki, Buddha - [xido]
Brother Deren, Priest of the Great Temple--[Nightshadow]
Kim char - [Kim_Lundin]
Angel Dreamer Char - [Angel Dreamer]
Aramil Nightbreeze - [medianduel]

Out of the City 01

Vulk helps himself to a few chunks of the meat as well, but picks at it slowly in his hands, unsure of the extravagant flavor to which he was not typically accustomed. Still, he finishes his portion, and begins working on the horses once more as the others are still eating.
"He must have led a pretty hard soldier's life wherever he came from," Buddha admits to Angel finally, now that the githyanki was out of hearing range.

"Yes, I think you're right." Kim sais and looks to the gityanki "He seems rather tense, well, we are probably hunted by some really powerful beings as we speak, so I can't blame him."

"Neither can I," says Medi. "Considering the plane that he was on when we ran into him, I can imagine that he had to learn to survive pretty harshly. I wonder if he had any other githyanki with him when he was trapped there, and maybe they died and he kinda blames himself for surviving when they didn't."

"I don't know, and I'm not sure it's any of our business," Angel says, then yawns. "If you're taking first watch, Medi, I'm going to sleep. See you all in the morning." With that, Angel curls up in her cloak, props herself on Buddha, and seems to go right to sleep.

Kim eats the last of the meat he had taken "I think I'll try to catch some sleep too..." he sais and curls up close to the fire "Wake me up when it's my guard... or if my hair catches fire." less than a minute later, light snorings can be heard from him.

As Kim falls asleep, and with Angel's head leaning softly against his shoulder, Buddha guides her slowly down to his lap, where he lays her head on his leg, which is quite a bit more comfortable for him.

Vulk is finally satisfied with the state of the horse's bridles and saddles, giving them all one last look over and stretching, when Buddha pipes up lightly.

"Hey, uh, Vulka..riks.. Hey, man, come here," he speaks to him so as not to wake Angel and Kim.

Vulks abides and walks back to them.
"It's Vulkarisksk. Don't attempt the double-skedtsis, humans don't often speak in what you would call 'clicking'. Just call me Vulk," he replies as courteously as he can in his bland tone.

"Well, hey. What, um, what did you do before...? I mean, what was your life like before all of this? You know, what happened to you? Well, not that there's anything wrong with you or anything, just that... I don't know, you've got a lot riding on your shoulders all the time, you know?" Buddha fumblingly replies.

Vulk sighs. He hated this part. The times when your party suddenly wants to get in touch with you. Get personal. Be petty.
"I was never this way before. I hated order. I hated the laws of my kind. Hell, I hated my kind too..."
Vulk looks up, giving Buddha a meaningful stare for just long enough to make him lower his eyes.
Taking one more deep breath, he begins, "I am a rebel. I am in exile for all eternity, and if I were to be found by a militant Githyanki mercenary, I would be slain at all costs.
"I was trained in a city called Tu'narath for twenty-two years of my waking adult life... In the Umbra, which you might call the Astral Plane, if you know of it. It is the metropolis of Githyanki cities, a place of stark warriors and revenge.
"When I had gone through the ranks to become a general's personal crony, I had come to the point of pure apathy toward all living things because of my militaristic and warped perspective which is burned into your mind from a very young age in Githyanki society. I cared for nothing, since there was nothing to care for.
"I was working border patrol for the general on the outpost of Kildareknka, in a troop of five men and myself, conducting interrogations on any stray travellers in our circumfield... It was very uneventful until a group came through, nearly flying through the umbra. They looked like they were fleeing when we intercepted and halted them, and they said they were fleeing from a Dreadnaught, an astral beast that terrifies even the most prepared and courageous Githyanki.
"Three men in black cloaks carried a small elven child in their custody, whose hands were shown to be tied beneath his robe behind his back upon inspection. The men would not reveal and dismiss their weapons when asked, which means that we had to disarm and suppress them at all costs. Two of the men drew weapons, a crossbow and a magical sword, while the other tried to grapple with the bound child..."
Vulk looks down, obviously torn over this past moment. He takes another deep breath, sighing.
"It was something about the innocence of this child.. Something I could see in his eyes... Not fear, or even grief, but a true need for freedom, and for justice. He saw his moment and fled, at our expense. I lost three of my men by the time we had stopped the child and contained the men. They turned out to be drow slavers in disguise, and the child was part of their complex scheme to overthrow an elven power center... The young elven girl was as innocent as I could find, and after having sought shelter from a potential Dreadnaught encounter, my troop dealt the men justice as we recooped from the attack, jailing the final two drow and child.
"It was because I showed mercy to the child, and because I was charged with having assisted a non-githyanki that the child was deemed a drow spy without trial, and both the men and the child were executed. I was beginning to become angry with the Githy justice, when I was told that I would suffer the same fate as them if I spoke further heresy. I was brought before a Githy council, where I was stripped of my clothes and fifty lesions were seared into my back with an iron branding spear. I survived the pain, and recovered quickly enough to fake my re-integration into the ranks. The next chance I got, when on another patrol squad, I diverted my troop's attention just long enough to escape, fleeing into the open umbra, where I found a portal to the outer realms."

Buddha looks thoughtfully at the githyanki, realizing that this was not an easy story for him to tell.

"When I found a sanctuary in the Hills of Ysgard," Vulk continues, "I was practically a hermit for three or more years, living off the constant wild game on my own, when a tracking party stumbled across my camp and we came to be good allies. I was told of a new establishment seeking peaceful relations with all realms and cultures. The Order of Peace was my salvation. With my race's most hated enemy, the Githzerai, I found peace, balance, and inner harmony. With them, I found that I could make a difference without killing everyone I come into contact with.
"It has not been easy, since I am at all times an enemy of my state. I was re-trained by my new allies to fight for the cause of peace at all costs, and with as little death as possible.
"My eighteenth mission was so successful that I was due for a reward. It was a critical moment in the Order's evolution, and something had just come into our hands that was a definitive moment in the peace for our realms. The Order had secured a scroll that many Devils, Demons, Celestials, and Dragons of the highest ranks were searching for, and had hidden it safely in my temple. We were informed of a raiding party which would come to capture the powerful scroll, which held the schematics of a ritual so powerful that it could upset the great balance, and put so many races in jeopardy that we had to flee with it.
"I was instructed to flee to another outer realm, once where no one would dare to think we would hide the scroll, perhaps right under their noses in the most regardless realm of mundanity. I found my way to the Abyss, on a land of quiet mercantile absolve, outside the mercenary post of Aggrazzat. I had successfully hid the scroll in that underground cave for nearly a year when I found all of you sliding into madness in that field."
Vulk reflects on his story.
"I'm not sure now if it was such a good idea to have become so involved with mortals. I was informed of the direness this scroll would create... How dangerous it was to be found by someone that truly sought the scroll... All of its prophecies..." he rambles on, perhaps to himself.

"Wow," Buddha says, blinking.
As he rubs his eyes, he says, "Whoa, man. That's really, uh, incredible.... But it's getting pretty late, and a lot of what you just said went over my head. As for this scroll, maybe it's just best if we didn't talk about it. Every time we bring it up, I feel like we're inciting some kind of curse or something... I can't help but wonder about this whole Order of Peace thing... I've never heard of them until now. Where are they located?"
He's now leaning his head on his thumb and forefinger, eyes closed in what looks like deep concentration, still trying to grasp the ideas behind the githyanki's already strangely accented words.

"The Order was started because of a pact between the Celestial Courts of the Mount of Heaven, the guardinal infantries of Elyisum, and the Githzerai monks of some of the orders of Limbo, mostly because of the actions of the monks of the temple-city Loklokomora, a steadfast suburban temple remaining untouched in the sweeping elemental chaos of that realm... The outer realms are unlike most mortals have ever seen, though you have witnessed among the worst in the Abyss."
Vulk tears off another chuck of meat from the cooked deer, which now rests on the spit after the fires have mostly died away.
He begins to chew at the meat, when there is a snapping crunch from the darkness of the woods beyond the firelight.
Vulks eyes and ears perk up immediately, and he remains silent and still where he is.

"What was that?" Buddha asks, looking out into the darkness in surprise.

Coming quickly and silently into the camp from the opposite side of the noise, Medi looks to Buddha and gives him a look
that says "be quiet". He looks to Vulk and signals to flank whatever it is.

Vulk nods in agreement, and stands quickly and silently, unsheathing his sword. He walks to Buddha's left, opposite from Medi, and as Buddha begins to make another sound of curiosity, Vulk shuts him up with a meaningful stare, then keeps walking into the woods.
Stopping to listen every so often for more sounds, he hears none, and keeps walking.

Buddha sits listening intently for a few seconds, until he thinks it best to wake the others, since they could be in danger.
"Kim, Angel, shhhh, wake up," he whispers, nudging them.

"Huh?" Kim quickly opens his eyes "What is it?" he sais with a voice that is barely louder than an ordinary breath of air.

Angel blinks and sits up, looking around. Sensing how tense Buddha was, she rolled quietly to her feet and called her daggers into her hands. What is it?

Moving silently Medi hops up onto a tree branch to get a better look.

Kim reaches for his staff, which is leaning towards a small tree, just to be prepared for whatever everyone's so tense about. He moves really slow to not cause unnecessary noices, all the while scanning the surroundings for anything that seems out of the ordinary.

From up in the branches, Medi can faintly pick out the figure of a woodland deer nearly thirty or so paces away in the forest, which is also alert and silent for the most part, and which suddenly runs quickly and in a panicked fashion in a direction that makes him think that the creature was frightened by another presence. Some ways away in the forest, he can catch just a glimpse of moonlight shining on the armor of the cleric who was following them. The priest sits on his motionless horse, staring up at the sky above their camp quite a long ways away, and does not seem to see the flying Aramil.

Below him, Vulk reacts in caution as the deer quickly scampers off into the woods in an erratic and panicked fashion, running like lightning further into the shadows behind their campsite.
At nearly the same moment, a similarly frightened woodland creature, much like that of a squirrel, but with a strange and eerie screeching that could be heard for most of the night, comes quickly into the clearing, and spotting the group of adventurers, pauses as if frightened, though unsure of where to go. It skitters quickly back and forth between the clearing and the forest's edge a few times, as if it is confused of where would be safest to be, and instead stops dead in its tracks, hopping up on its hind two legs and staring blankly at the rest of the group.
Vulk looks at the creature with curiosity, though does not move.
"Aramil, do you see anything?" he asks aloud, though the creature looks at him and does not move from its place.

Kim gives the squirrel a skeptical look "You've gotta be kidding me..." he sais "We can't have been so stressed up because of a Qorian.".

Angel blinks at the Qorian, then scans the forest. Something's still off, she thinks.

"Okay... all who vote for us scolding that quorian for disturbing our sleep, raise your hands." Kim sais.

The tiny animal squeaks in a momentary call of pessimistic reprimand at the standing humanoids, and leaps into the air only a hand's length from the ground, when his body becomes completely immobile and still. The creature simply stops acting altogether, suspended in the air above the ground without activity, save for the eyes looking around frantically, its nose which pants quickly, and its chest, which seeks to breath more vehemently.

For only two or three moments' pause, the frantic Qorian Teef remains immobile, until its fur begins to ripple along the underside, then its back, and finally around its tail. The invisible force winds itself around the creature like a tentacle, though by the look of the shapes on the rippling fur as it surrounds the creature's body, it is more like that of the texture of a chain or durable braided cord. Its silent encroachment over the animal's flesh brings the Teef into full panic, its eyes wide with fury as it begins to ascend into the air further above the ground.

For only a few brief and definitively silent moments, the Teef's contricted fur-covered body lifts into the air before them all, as if it being lifted along a track or invisible cord. It slowly brings the creature's underside into full view while the animal breathes heavily, its eyes dashing from side to side and blinking uncontrollably as its body lifts up.

For a very brief second it pauses in mid-air, and the creature looks directly into each of their eyes one by one in a flash of reckoning.

At once, the tiny being is torn in two opposite directions uin what looked like a blender ripping him apart in the middle of the dark woods. An invisible force has torn the creature asunder in one definitively evil act, the blood dripping from the unseen tentacles, which gleam sanguine and thorny in the firelight. Small spatters of blood lie suspended on an unseen body, surrounded by unseen tentacles, which also drip from the spray of the creature's internal fluids.

The head lands at Kim's feet, the eyes still fluttering violently.

The tentacles writhe on themselves, slowly wiping away the blod which coats them.

Kim, surprised and more than a little disgusted, takes an involuntary step away from the severed head "It's invisible!?" he exclaims, stating the obvious. He swings his staff at the blood stained parts of the creature, the only parts he can be sure of where they are.

The invisible being's long appendages wipe the blood off their length without difficulty, followed by one lashing out at Kim's quarterstaff, attempting to snatch it from his hands (check: DC19 to hold on).

As the scene before them unfolds, the cleric Deren walks from between the foliage behind the entity that floats invisibly in front of them.

Kim struggles to keep the staff from being snatched away. (20)
As the entity's invisible tendrils reach out and take hold of the staff in Kim's hands, he reacts quickly and pulls the staff back away from the creature's grip.

Now looking more intently at Kim, Deren backs up in reluctant doubt over the situation.

The entity, now completely focused on Kim's movements, tilts what looks like a head atop a set of shoulder, which is only barely visible from the gleam of firelight on Teef blood. The tentales pull back from in front of the body of the entity as it lowers to the ground slowly, coming to a crouching position on the ground, its head peering directly at Kim.

A strange wavering in the air and a low hum in the eardrums of the group lies beneath them as the entity causes a strange tremor in the earth below them. It makes them all shaky on their feet. (check: 14 : to stay standing)

"Whoah!" Kim shouts surprised as the ground starts to shake.(10)
He tries to keep his balance but falls down to the ground.

Proceed to the encounter with Imorphixius for a continuation.

Back to Purple Vortex

2004-08-22 [xido]: oh, good... a new personality for you..... how many is that now, 731? :P

2004-08-22 [Nightshadow]: I list (most of) my PCs at Role-Playing Characters. Even though a lot of my NPCs are really developed, too...of course, I know someone else guilty of that. :p

2004-08-25 [xido]: who? not me!! *looks abashed* I would never even think of having so many personalities in my head....! ;P heheheheh

2004-09-21 [Nightshadow]: *runs around screaming about purple flying monkeys*

2004-09-21 [Nightshadow]: Well, had to get your attention and comments-box somehow.... ;)

2004-09-21 [Kim_Lundin]: ... that was odd.

2004-09-21 [Nightshadow]: I can get stranger, try me.

2004-09-21 [Kim_Lundin]: ^_^ I belive you, you don't have to prove it.

2004-09-23 [xido]: *looks around for the purple flying monkeys* I don't see them...... Liar. >:( :P

2004-09-23 [Nightshadow]: They're here! They're everywhere! You just have to be special to see them!

2004-09-23 [Kim_Lundin]: :P Xido's not special enough.

2004-09-23 [Nightshadow]: Xido's very special. Just not that special.

2004-09-23 [Kim_Lundin]: I said that, didn't I? :P

2004-09-23 [Nightshadow]: You left the possibility; I actually clarified it. ;)

2004-09-23 [Kim_Lundin]: Ah, I see ^_^ I wasn't detailed enough... but I still noticed the purple flying monkeys before xido :P

2004-09-28 [xido]: Well, I think you're both talking smack... I don't see any purple flying monkeys, and I think you're both nuts. All I see is blue glowing turnips of power.... Why aren't you talking about THOSE? Don't you see them, or aren't you special enough to see them? x.op

2004-09-29 [Nightshadow]: I'm not special enough to see them. *cries*

2004-09-29 [Kim_Lundin]: Turnips of power? As in those über powerful thingies that only ravens can see?

2004-09-29 [Nightshadow]: We need to drag blood raven in here and test that theory...

2004-09-29 [Kim_Lundin]: Sure, I'll send him a message, this will be interesting.

2004-09-30 [Blood Raven]: turnips? yeah sure, them's everywhere. Them's eeeevil i tell you, one tried to kick me...

2004-10-02 [Kim_Lundin]: It seems I was right... ^_^

2004-10-02 [Blood Raven]: ;P

2004-10-02 [Kim_Lundin]: So... we have both purple flying monkies AND blue glowing turnips of power... which one should we fear most?

2004-10-03 [Blood Raven]: well, the mutated blue glowing flying monkeys of course... foul magic takes place whens the monkeys eat the turnips *nods head in confirment*

2004-10-03 [Kim_Lundin]: Gah! Blue GLOWING flying monkies!? How do we stop them?

2004-10-03 [Blood Raven]: I dunno, I usually run as far as possible in the opposite direction...

2004-10-03 [Kim_Lundin]: How do we know when it's time to run then?

2004-10-03 [Blood Raven]: listen to the sounds of drums in the dark... when the darkness beats "Oh when the saints..." to you, run, and don't look back untill you're out of breath...

2004-10-03 [Kim_Lundin]: Thanks, I'll remember that.

2004-10-03 [Blood Raven]: you quite welcome :P

2004-10-03 [Kim_Lundin]: Just quite? That tip may save my life someday.

2004-10-03 [Blood Raven]: yes well, avoiding monkey trees and turnips fields, especially monkey trees near turnip fields, works very good as well. That is, of course, untill the monkey start their world dominating plans...

2004-10-03 [Kim_Lundin]: World dominating plans? Don't tell me thay have those too!

2004-10-03 [xido]: AGH!!! What are you talking ABOUT?!?! We...I mean, THE Flying monkey turnip glowers thingiemabobbies don't have any plans of WORLD DOMINATION!!!! How ridiculous, how silly, how incredible that you would ever accuse us, I mean them, of that!!! Whispers: Alright, guys, they're onto us, get going....

2004-10-03 [xido]: Dang it, Raven, why you gotta say stuff like that!?!?! Giving away all the secrets...I mean plans... I mean, uh, the information that no one is interested in hearing about..... ahem. *runs*

2004-10-04 [Kim_Lundin]: Catch that blue, flying monkey... and xidoraven too! *shouts*

2004-10-04 [Blood Raven]: Hey, don't touch Poco! He has yet to return me some lunchmoney! *runs to protect little blue flying monkey* O, and sorry xido, I thought we were soppused to inhabit the moon before we destroye Earth? Why doesn't anybody ever tell me the new plans? Er, ideas, I mean, of course...

2004-10-05 [Kim_Lundin]: Et tu, Blood Raven? Et tu?

2004-10-05 [Blood Raven]: no not really... er.. I mean, it was the banana! I swear!

2004-10-05 [Kim_Lundin]: The banana? *Suspicious* Not THAT banana I hope.

2004-10-06 [Blood Raven]: no, 't was monkey's banana... I think... could have been the other one though... but probably not THAT one.

2004-10-08 [xido]: Oh, it was THAT one, alright... it's always THAT one.... damn banana. x.op

2004-10-08 [xido]: Wait a minute... Holy dialects? What kinds? Celestial, Abyssal, Infernal, etc? Vulk knows all three of those, plus Githy, common, and slaadi. Any of those?

2004-10-08 [Nightshadow]: Oh, I don't know...you know the order, probably Abyssmal.

2004-10-10 [xido]: :P It's the language of the temple order? That would be Abyssal and Infernal.... Okay, so it wasn't SO important, but yeah, Vulk understood the cursing.... ;)

2004-10-10 [Nightshadow]: Whoops...never did get to editing the page...sorry. ^_^;;;;

2004-10-10 [xido]: no biggie

2004-10-23 [Lexicon]: xido the temple was risen by the infernal so hta would be more promonent then abyssmal, and nice spell Night hehe very fine touch :)

2004-11-06 [xido]: okay, okay, okay......infernal it is, then.... damned devil lords making their cult orders here on our beautiful, wonderful, peaceful planet......ahem.........uh.......yeah

2004-11-19 [xido]: Unstringing a bow would be to take it apart.... To ready an arrow, you 'nock' it, and to drop your aim, you are loosening your arrow, or "falling back"...god, anything aside from unstringing it.....you don't want to lose your weapon, Kim. ;)

2004-11-21 [Kim_Lundin]: I looked for when you takes off the string, if you don't do that the bow looses it's strenght after a while.

2004-11-30 [Angel Dreamer]: *pokes everyone*

2004-12-01 [Kim_Lundin]: *pokes angel*

2004-12-01 [Angel Dreamer]: *pokes xido*

2004-12-01 [Kim_Lundin]: *pokes nightshadow*

2004-12-01 [Angel Dreamer]: *superpokes medianduel*

2005-01-11 [xido]: gets red in the face from all the poking, and drops a *SKYLAB* on everyone! >:PPPPPP

2005-01-11 [Kim_Lundin]: SKYLAB!!! *hides under rock*

2005-01-11 [Angel Dreamer]: ahh! *hides behind buddha*

2005-01-12 [xido]: Buddha: *hides behind Angel* ;P

2005-01-12 [Nightshadow]: *wonders why no one else seems to care about the "*SKYLAB* Bunker: This Way --->" sign*

2005-01-13 [xido]: Ooh, ooh, a bunker!?! What a grand idea.... See The Abyss comments to see what I mean....

2005-01-13 [Kim_Lundin]: Oh no! I'm just fine here under this rock!

2005-02-15 [xido]: *SUPERPOKES MEDI*

2005-03-22 [Kim_Lundin]: *MEGAPOKES XIDO*

2005-03-22 [Angel Dreamer]: *ultrapokes them both*

2005-03-22 [Kim_Lundin]: *Stealth-pokes Angel*

2005-03-25 [xido]: I will make a huge, super-big, super cool post soon.... but I must gather thoughts... It will be a damn good storyline... so I will try to cut to the chase as soon as possible, rather than take forever in trying to make you guys figure it out.... Gimme a sec.... and no more ultra-poking me... I put up an anti-ultra-poking cloaking device, with ultra-stealth mode equipped. so haha, so there. o.xp

2005-03-25 [Nightshadow]: *extreme-pokes him*

2005-03-26 [xido]: grrrrr....... x.xZ

2005-03-27 [medianduel]: sorry everyone ive been busy trying to get settled in at my new place of living, lewisville texas. that and looking for a job.

2005-03-28 [xido]: looking for a job is the worst and most diffiult part... I empathize.... No worries.......... We just figured a harpy got ya. ;P

2005-03-28 [xido]: Okay, guys, its a big post. please read it all, and look back on things if you need to. I'll edit Purple Vortex again soon, to include all the in-between wikis and everything we've done.... hopefully.... unless someone else wants to do it..... *shrugs* Okay, Ems, Deren now officially has purpose. Keep with us on this one. you will like.....everyone else I am table-topping with this stuff is LOVING it..... Grammaticum Primeaval shit, elder gods and the like. x.o) Angel, Buddha loves you! x.xp

2005-03-28 [Angel Dreamer]: akk! write enough? and of course he loves me :P

2005-03-29 [Nightshadow]: *laughs* Appreciated, thanks. I've really, really been struggling with fitting him into this, especially since I don't even know what the hell is going on to a great extent. X)

2005-03-29 [Nightshadow]: O.O Awesome post, xido. *golf-claps*

2005-03-29 [Kim_Lundin]: O.o Now THAT's a post.

2005-03-31 [medianduel]: i have one now .... a job that is ..... i work in the recieving dock of a neiman-marcus.

2005-04-01 [xido]: Thanks.... Sweet, dude. That will give you some big forearms.... ;P Good to see you around now too. ;) I figure I'l take total control of storyline, since there is so much cool stuff happening around you guys... and I'll just whip you right up into it.... it will be a lot of fun. I promise.... the purple vortex crew lives on forever!

2005-04-01 [Nightshadow]: I'm strictly reactive, atm, anyway, so whatever you want and are willing to do works for me.

2005-04-01 [xido]: okay... you can do what you want... you know the Rite's instructions to him, so I figure you know to follow them until the 'right moment'.... I will let you know... but post as you wish in the meantime.... no worries.

2005-04-01 [medianduel]: hey xido hows it going? i finally am able to get on regularly again so YAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY for me.

2005-04-01 [xido]: Huzzah for Medi!!!! *claps* ;P It's going, man... just slowly for me..... just glad I can still post storylines on my favorite website.... ;)

2005-04-01 [medianduel]: hehe ... yeah .... i know what you mean. well gotta go to bed got work in the morning ttyl.

2005-04-01 [xido]: sweet, man. Keep with us when you can.... Love to make this another good time for you guys. :)

2005-04-01 [Nightshadow]: xido's a wild man. Off the hook ;p

2005-04-04 [xido]: o.O you think so? x.x Hm. :P

2005-04-16 [medianduel]: what happened? did everyone but me disappear?

2005-04-16 [xido]: Lord, I certianly hope not.... I was just giving everybody some time to catch a post if they hadn't already.... I'll do one soon. I have one, but I am lazy today.... :P

2005-04-16 [Nightshadow]: Huzzah for lazy days. We all need 'em. ^^

2005-04-18 [medianduel]: yes tomorrow is my lazy day .... although it is now technically today but it doesnt count cause i havent gone to sleep yet

2005-04-22 [xido]: lol...been there.

2005-04-25 [medianduel]: people should read my updated char page ..... most of the history and stuff done by x420

2005-05-12 [xido]: lol.... you can still call me xido or will if you want..... the new names are just for kicks. But yeah, I hope to give you one more good update after I get your page all together. Got a few ideas in mind for both yours and a few others....... One of these days, I have decided, I will do a full lineup picture of Angel, Buddha, Kim, Medi, Vulk, Deren and a few other opponents you have yet to meet....... >;) heheheheee

2005-05-12 [xido]: And, just for Angel, I hope to one day give the Androntel a picture of its own, too. ;)

2005-05-12 [xido]: And, some day, after Emily puts all of the information together from the Great Temple wiki-stories and this one, she will understand what this old man Deren is all about...... and make a pretty post for us. *puppy eyes* *pokes Night*

2005-05-12 [Nightshadow]: I be poked! T_T *bites in return, and goes to read in various places*

2005-05-12 [Kim_Lundin]: I put my answer to Buddha's question directly beneath it, thought it would look better than giving the answer after Buddha's and Vulk's dialogue.

2005-06-12 [xido]: sweet, thanks for saying so.... I sometimes do that and forget to tell about it..... :P

2005-06-14 [xido]: I know Russ knows what I'm talking about, after having granted him that massive post I promised him some time ago. I still need to give one to Angel and Kim.... perhaps soon, perhaps not. But at least I did Medi's..... That's what I needed to do..... Now we are all sure on how much of what happens next is smei-familiar territory. Now, where is Deren? <.< >.> x.x|

2005-06-14 [medianduel]: lol .... yes thank you again for that massive post has a lot of great info in it ..... and any one intrested and have a somewhat working knowledge of d&d should check it out

2005-06-27 [Kim_Lundin]: I've finally taken myself the time to read it ^^ I've never heard of the warlock class, but that might be because I'm still just a newbie to the game.

2005-06-29 [medianduel]: i never had either till will said something about it ..... any who tis great tis it not?

2005-07-02 [xido]: It's actually a newly-published class featured in their book 'Complete Arcana', which encompasses a few of their earlier prestige classes from the 'Tome and Blood' accessory, plus a couple really cool diversions and additions to the background for magic-using characters, and a whole gammut of new feats that I've only barely begun to use in-game outside of the wikis. It's a good time.

2005-07-27 [medianduel]: have now moved back to lubbock for those here who care to know that

2005-07-27 [Nightshadow]: Is this a good thing?

2005-07-27 [medianduel]: quite a good thing

2005-07-28 [Nightshadow]: Cheers, then. ^^

2005-08-01 [xido]: CHEERS!!!

2005-08-01 [Kim_Lundin]: Wohoo! ...or... something.

2005-11-02 [Kim_Lundin]: Yet again, I glued in my answer to Buddha between posts. *dries glue off his hands*.

2005-11-06 [Kim_Lundin]: Whoah, nice story, xido, it answers some questions I didn't know I wanted answered.

2005-11-06 [Angel Dreamer]: @.@

2005-11-07 [Kim_Lundin]: *laughs at Angel's eyes*

2005-11-11 [xido]: lol!!! Oh good.... I'm glad I'm just that damned informative..... ;P

2005-11-11 [Kim_Lundin]: You're the unknown master of descriptions... either that or you just write a lot :P

2005-11-11 [Kim_Lundin]: Eeek! It's a DEMON! Or a cute fuzzy forest animal.

2005-11-11 [Angel Dreamer]: What about a cute fuzzy demon?

2005-11-11 [Kim_Lundin]: Hmm...

2005-11-15 [Kim_Lundin]: How loud was that sound? Loud enough to wake me up?

2005-11-15 [medianduel]: i dont think so, the only reason i think medi heard it is because of his elven traits.

2005-11-15 [Kim_Lundin]: Right, I'll keep sleeping 'till someone wakes me up, then.

2005-11-16 [medianduel]: sounds like a plan to me.

2005-11-16 [Kim_Lundin]: ZzzZzzzZZzz

2005-12-09 [medianduel]: hey every body .... i am going to move part of this page over to out of the city 2 okay.

2005-12-10 [Angel Dreamer]: no! you mustn't! :P

2005-12-10 [medianduel]: too late.

2006-01-15 [xido]: huh? should I go post there instead? I will post it both places, I think. Nevermind, better idea, so we don't have to move to a new page.... one of my pet peeves. Thanks for helping anyways, Russ.

2006-01-15 [xido]: okay, before we go on.... What do all of you THINK it is? Any idea is a good one...... I know what it really is, but I don't want to post it until I have adequately kept you all on the edge of your seats..... I know, I'm a jerk.

2006-01-15 [Kim_Lundin]: I've got three ideas on what it may be. 1: Some kind of demon. 2: Some kind of dangerous beast, owlbear or the like. 3: A squirrel...

2006-01-20 [xido]: *chuckles* ok.... any others? ......................*ironically, a squirrel pops out of the bushes, and the group sighs heavily. Angel is angry she was awoken and hits Buddha* XP

2006-01-20 [Kim_Lundin]: *Kim walks up to the squirrel and pokes it with a stick* Hey! This one doesn't look dangerous.

2006-01-21 [xido]: *THWACKs Kim across the head with his quarterstaff* Hey, now goddamnit, quit messing with that poor defenseless squirrel! Give me that stick! *pokes squirrel with stick* Hey, this suirrel doesn't look dangerous! *squirrel attacks* AH!HHH!!!!

2006-01-21 [Kim_Lundin]: OW! *laughs at xido being fiercelly attacked by squirrel* serves you right for hitting me with my own staff!

2006-01-21 [xido]: Any other takers? O.o.

2006-01-24 [Angel Dreamer]: stray cat ^_^

2006-02-06 [xido]: lol.... here it goes, are you all ready?

2006-02-06 [Kim_Lundin]: ... That squirrel is freakish.

2006-02-06 [xido]: LOL! it's not a squirrel... technically, it's a Qorian Cooing Teef, but compare it to a squirrel and you have a visual... cute and scampering... but freakish? you have no idea..... hehehehehehehe....hahahaahaahhaaaaahahahaaa....MuUAHAHAAAAHHAAAHAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Ehem, I mean... cute and scampering.

2006-02-06 [Nightshadow]: Cute and scampering it is, then. I therefore see no potential harm in putting my fingers right near its mouth to scritch its head.

2006-02-06 [Kim_Lundin]: *laughs* Qorian Cooing Teef? Who gives such a weird name to such a small creature? Why not call it "Scamper Squirrel"?

2006-02-06 [xido]: Because that sounds like a Barney Character, and because I just named a damned bit of biological information on Jashnia, dammit... If I say it's a Qorian Cooing Teef, it's a damned Teef, alright??!?!?!?! Geez, Kim, why do you gotta be that guy about it? ;P :P ;P ;P ;P

2006-02-06 [xido]: I'm going to give everyone a chance to edit as they'd like... if you'd prefer not to react to the woodland creature, simply comment so... ;)

2006-02-07 [Kim_Lundin]: I called the creature a Qorian just because I'm too lazy to write the whole name :P

2006-02-07 [xido]: LOL! ;P

2006-02-07 [Kim_Lundin]: Yeah

2006-06-13 [xido]: qx.x

2006-06-16 [Kim_Lundin]: ... That was gory. Poor qorian.

2006-06-18 [xido]: I know, sorry. The check is for when you are editing the page, Kim. Post what your result (D20) is on the page as you're editing your next post. I am going to do some chance results for the next little while, just because. If you'd rather free-form, that's fine too.

2006-06-22 [Kim_Lundin]: Chance results are fun, makes it a bit more exciting. I got a real lucky roll ^_^

2006-07-04 [xido]: good job on that first roll, Kim. ;) I got you with the second. I'm gonna let the others post, and I'll make a post for Buddha and Vulk the next time I get to log on again. I am super busy, but wanted to see the reaction. I agree, chance rolls are fun for effect. When Angel and Medi see this, I hope they have time to post. This story will get amazingly fast after the first few chance efforts and actions. I know exactly where this is going. ;)

2006-07-04 [xido]: I am doing some update work for this, and linking: purple vortex

2006-07-09 [Kim_Lundin]: Mmm... sadistic, mysterious and dangerous: my fauvorite kind of bad guy... creature... whatever. Planning is good, too bad I suck at it, my games would be much better if I could keep a buffer of events ready.

2006-07-15 [xido]: Good, then you'll enjoy battling it out with this one as the grander scheme of this story pans out.

2006-07-22 [Kim_Lundin]: <_< >_> ... ... ... Guys?

2006-12-27 [Kim_Lundin]: I'm just guessing... but it seems this one's starting to feel a bit... dead?

2006-12-28 [xido]: I swear, I posted. :(

Angel is in and out, and mostly working with me on the Creature_List, because of the Elftown Creature Marathon. I think Russ is out of internet commission for the time being. I could just keep posting, and do some major powerplays to write out the storyline..... You guys are right at the coolest part in the story.... >:D
*shrugs*

Does everyone know how to make a 'check' in the wiki? There is a box at the end of the right-hand sidebar, which lists all the info for the page, and the very last statistic above the page version viewer is a stat that says, "D20 : ##" Anyone who plays a D&D-style RPG will recognize that this number is the roll of a 20-sided die (random # 1-20). When you edit the page to make your response post, also post the number that is listed as you are make the edit to the page, and that is your check result. You are all trying to beat a dice check of 14 or higher:

"A strange wavering in the air and a low hum in the eardrums of the group lies beneath them as the entity causes a strange tremor in the earth below them. It makes them all shaky on their feet. (check: 14 : to stay standing)"

-will

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