To Utopia, Hell...

[Carthrat]

"Can you translate this?" she asks Yomi, showing him the book.

[Dracos]

"I try to stay out of things that suck you in.  Bad for the back, you know." He responded.  "Mmm, starstones you say..." He pondered, as if trying to remember.  "I knew a story about starstones once."

Dracos

[Dracos]

"Bah.  The boring notes on those old sticks?" It responded.

Dracos

[Shukuen]

"Well, it was rusted beyond use. Unless I was planning on clubbing monsters to death."

"Don't suppose you might recognize this?" Leets asked as he glanced at Yomi.

[Olvelsper]

"Tell it to me on the way, sir. We need to pick up another friend at the gates of town." Jan lead the way out. They finally had a way to keep Ryder close at hand that wasn't risky.

Imagine that.

[Dracos]

They reached the gates with no trouble, slipping out of the city where they spotted Ryder playing her guitar.

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

"Ryder! Where's Darx?" Jan walked up to the slightly odd member of the group. Then again, due to recent arrivals, she wasn't nearly that bad at all.

[Carthrat]

"Yes," replies Mei-Ling, flatly.

[RyderHakubi]

"He went off exploring somewhere or another... told him not to go, but he was his usual self." Ryda mentioned softly while she continues to strum a bit on the bass.

[Dracos]

And so progressed a long explanation of spears and such, putting most of them quite to sleep.

Leets then got a chance to reask his question.

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

"Well...damn. Just when we had discovered something important." Jan sighed. "At any rate, we found a magical artifact that'll let us get you or anyone else in and out of places easily."

Lifting up Pandora's Box, he continued. "It draws you into another world. Everyone else in the group is in there already."

[Shukuen]

Leets yawned, stretching a kink out of his neck from the long explaination.

"So, I ask again. Can you please tell me anything about this sword, Yomi?"

[RyderHakubi]

Ryda stops playing in mid-note.

"Jan, you're telling me that that tiny little box is a gateway to another world where we can go to hide?"

[Dracos]

"That's about the right of it." The old man chimed in.

Dracos

[Dracos]

"That...I don't know about.  It is quite powerful though."

Dracos