Reprise! Act 1!

[Carthrat]

Carthrat reaches over, grabs a skin of water, and starts washing down an amazingly quickly-eaten quarter-cooked dear down. "Thanksh."

[Rezantis]

Blink-blink.

"Handy.  I should learn that one sometime.  Sure, I guess you can tag along then."

Relm promptly went back to munching on her jerky.

[Carthrat]

Done eating, Carthrat lies down and promptly falls asleep.

[Ginnezumusha]

Ginn waits for morning.

[Carthrat]

Morning breaks...

Ryoma wakes up, and much to his consternation realises that someone is watching him, but he can't tell where or when. He just *knows* it..

Meanwhile, the other little group of people wake up.

From their respective clearings, the four wanderers can see that it's going to be a rainy day, judging by the huge clouds in the sky.

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma growled irritably, unable to sleep in with the slightly annoying feeling of eyes on him. Getting up, he began gathering his sleeping materials, and packing them up, keeping a wary eye on the sky.

Fortunately, he traveled light, and withing moments, his campsite equipment had vanished into his duffel. Picking up the long, wrapped bundle, he moved into the forest...

[Carthrat]

Thankfully, it dosn't immediatly start raining when Ryoma gets up. After a short amount of walking (in no particular direction), he happens across a treasure chest, just sitting in the middle of the woods. It looks stacked to the brim.

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma examined the contents of the treasure chest curiously, without approaching it. He looked for anything of obviously greater worth than most of the contents, portability in mind...

OOC: If it 'looks stacked to the brim', I assume I don't have to open it to see inside. If this is in fact NOT the case, say so. >_>

[Carthrat]

The entire chest looked somewhat expensive; it really was filled with all sorts of expensive-looking items. Standing out in particular was a huge, flawless ruby, a few inches in diameter.

OOC: It's more that you can't properly close the chest because there's so much stuff in it. i.e, you can see a portion of the goodies, but to actually rifle through the junk, you'd have to open it. Make sense?

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma frowned, setting his duffel on the ground for the moment. "This seems a little too convienent..." he decided, taking the long, wrapped bundle fron his shoulder, and gripping it in both hands.

"But, some extra items to hock wouldn't be a bad idea..." Extending his admittedly rudementatry senses, he tried to find any energy surrounding the chest that would give a hint as to the nature of the trap. "'Neechan, where are you when I need you...?"

[Ginnezumusha]

Ginn wakes up, and notices the other two still sleeping peacefully...

He creeps up on them, does a quick mana weave, and two buckets of water appear and overturn over the sleeping couple.

[Carthrat]

Splash.

"Y'know, there are more polite ways to wake someone up," says Carthrat, chucking her now-wet blanket over Ginn.

[Carthrat]

Ryoma detects that the chest in general, and that ruby especially, are giving off a minor aura of an indeterminable type.

[Rezantis]

Splash.

Relm yawned and got up, paying little attention to the fact that she was sopping wet, and looked over at Ginn.

"You want something?"

[Ginnezumusha]

"I'd have thought that adventurers would be more inclined to wake up with the sun, so they can slay as many goblins as they could before lunch."