The Slayers Quest

[thepanda]

"R-right." Amelia raises a fist half heartedly. Even doers of Justice needed sleep every so often. Then again, there were more bandits to be defeated.

More strongly she calls out "Right!"

[Carthrat]

"Well.. have fun. Was nice to see you again, cousin, and an.. experiance to meet Miss Inverse, herself."

With that, Kylen excuses himself..

[Merc]

Kizel shrugs, "Okay, just remember to stay on the lookout. We might encounter a rival bandit gang or something else."

That said, he begins to walk out of the rubble at a leisurely pace, his hands behind his head, as he heads towards the east exit of the town. Once at the exit of the town, he pulls out a bottle of wine from within his jacket, and opens it, looking at his companions with a shrug and a chuckle. "Old habits die hard."

Taking a long drink from the bottle, some of the clear liquid dripping past his mouth, he smiles. "Ah, that hit the spot. So do you guys want to just walk over there, or break into a run?"

He didn't really care, he was still happy over the whole still-being-alive bit. Besides, did it matter? It wasn't like there was anyone to steal the treasure, he was the last remaining member. Ex-member anyhow.

OOC: regardless of answer, I'll timeskip to forest entrance unless you want to chat along the way *shrugs* Bean and Asrana, you guys can follow from behind if you want, catch up with them at a later date, or just split off and form your own little group in this adventure. If you want the latter, I'll form a new thread for you guys to work in.

[Corwin]

"We'll walk," Lina says, frowning. "What kind of idiot runs in the night?"

[Merc]

Kizel wisely withholds from saying 'idiots with loot on their mind', lest the redheaded sorceress take it too personal. Instead shrugging, he leads them towards the east where the forest in question lays.

After about three hours of travel, they arrive at the entrance of the forest, where Kizel stops. Pausing, he looks back at those following him, and asks, "Anybody here can spare a Lighting spell? Moonlight isn't gonna do us much good once we're inside and the leaves cover up most traces of light."

[thepanda]

Amelia casts a lighting spell.

[Merc]

Kizel gives a nod of thanks to the princess as he begins to wander in. "Be careful of what you do, and whatever you do, don't rush in, we set some traps to discourage other possible bandits. Just follow me, and we should all be fine."

Fifteen minutes later, they're standing in front of what looks to be the entrance to a cavern, the path leading in a downward direction. "Home sweet musky home," Kizel says, wincing a bit at the pungent dragon odor coming from within. "I really wish they could have made Roy clean up more often than he did."

[Corwin]

Lina twitches, but then recites 'treasure' to herself.

[Merc]

Kizel continues to walk in, picking up one torch on the way in. "There aren't any traps from here on out. Cavern is pretty big, and has a few passages here and there, but mostly, we just want to follow the big one."

He keeps walking, ignoring the smaller man-sized passages, heading in deeper as he adds with a joking tone, "We kept the treasure with Roy. I mean really, even if someone got past the traps, would they really mess with a dragon? Present company excluded, of course."

A few minutes later, they reached the end of the cavern, and found something that would probably be making Lina drool. It was almost a miniature hill of gold and gems, just the right size to work as a dragon's bed. Along the cavern wall, numerous other random artifacts were littered, such as paintings and sculptures.

[Corwin]

"Yay, treasure!" Lina exclaims, and takes off her cloak, piling the gold and gems on it. Once done, she checks the rest of the items for magical enchantments and the like.

[Ebiris]

Gourry grabs enough gold coins to fill his money pouch to its capacity, but doesn't take any more than that. Being burdened down with loot isn't much fun, and wealth isn't really a motivating factor in his life.

Once that's done, he looks around the treasure hoard to see if anything else catches his eye.

[Corwin]

Using her keen eye for anything valuable and the rest of her trained senses, Lina seeks out the items that would fetch the largest price, and then points them out. "Zel-chan, it would be really nice if you carried those for me," she says in her sweetest voice, batting her eyelashes.

[thepanda]

Amelia idly browses the area looking over trinkets, disapointed that there are no more bandits.

***

Gourry notices a portrait of the holy tree of Flagoon, which Sylphiel might like. Other than that, nothing really catches his eye. Amelia doesn't find anything of possible interest either.

[Ebiris]

Gourry smiles as he notices the painting. It looked like a nice thing to give Slyphiel, especially after her home had been blown up by Rezo, and then that nasty business with Hellmaster...

Humming cheerfully, he carefully removes the painting from its frame and rolls it up for easier storage in his pack.

[Ranma_007]

After giving Lina a withering look, Zelgadis looks around the treasure for anything remotely related to a cure. Enchanted items, old books, scrolls, etc... Zelgadis also fills his belt pouch with treasure.