Gearing up (Moore, Ithea)

[Anastasia]

"We're working on that," Tepen says, "Now that we know the location, we'll see about sorting out this treasure," he gestures at it, before returning through the portal.

Good to skip along?

[Merc]

Sure.

[Anastasia]

Soon enough Ithea is back at Aurora. Moore, Stille and Crystal join her, the four in one of Aurora's sitting rooms. A simple lunch of finger foods - little fruits, bits of fried chicken, cubes of cheese and so forth - is set out to snack on. "So," Stille says brightly, "We were sent to a Prime Material world of little note, until we returned to Aurora. Did the same happen to all of you?"

[Nephrite]

"I'm not sure where I ended up, but I managed to get back to the Deep Ethereal and then Sir Tepen found me." Moore explains, leaving out a few things. "Sorry for all the trouble, but at least we did find the ship."

[Anastasia]

"Strange and stranger," Crystal remarks, nibbling on a grape. "Ithea, what of yourself?"

[Merc]

"It never managed to get rid of me, actually. It being a black slaad. It kept calling itself after dead beings for whatever reason and claiming to be all powerful and so on. Typical power-crazed behavior, until...well, I'm not sure if my continually mocking him and rejecting his power claims or avoiding his attacks drew away any sanity it had because by the end it seemed to be behaving more like a typical slaad and just being crazy. It finally ran off in fright after it tried to marry the angel cat in my shoulder."

Ithea pauses and shrugs. "I think it got really weird for me mostly because it had felt sane at first. Its eventual insanity just rang weirder afterwards."

[Anastasia]

"...right." Crystal says, rather flatly. Meanwhile Stille chuckles, "I fear your good manners were too much for him to deal with."

As all of you chat and nibble on food, Elena appears. "Good news," she announces, "They've brought all the wreckage and treasure we could get through to Aurora. We're sorting it out in the courtyard now."

[Nephrite]

"Oh, that's great!" Moore says with a nod. "I wonder what ended up still being there."

[Merc]

"My manners were implacable for the given situation," Ithea says with a sniff before turning to Elena. "Great! Oh, by some chance diid they find a grey slaad there? I had one tied up to the mast of the ship, but when the black slaad blew the ship up, I didn't spot it anymore. If you found any vegetables that might count. It seemed like some sort of common theme to them when they wanted to vanish to turn into potatoes or some such."

[Anastasia]

"We found a cat, actually," Elena says, "A gray tabby cat. It was hurt, but a little bit of healing fixed it right up."

[Merc]

Typo above, I assume you mean Elena not Ithea.

"A cat? Weird, don't recall seeing one at all. Poor thing, getting caught in all that. Well, at least assuming that really is a cat and not some new slaad form. I did mention that tied up slaad was gray and I did beat it up a fair bit? Eh, someone with true seeing can confirm that, I guess."

[Anastasia]

"I'll have someone do that," she says, vanishing away.

Do y'all wanna get involved in sorting the treasure at all or just move along?

[Merc]

Move on, unless there's anything exciting there, but I assume Elena would tell us if so.

[Nephrite]

Moore's curious about the treasure since Crystal approached him about it but not enough that you'd need to split us up again for it.

[Merc]

If you want to go look at it, we can! I'm not that picky! Just figured we'd get a treasure post if anything =)