[21:37] <Ana> Haziness is the order of the day for Elaine and GAvin. Hazy visions and dazed ability, the world going into shades of gray on the dais being reached. Then, cutting through it, "Sir Gavin!" A weary but commanding voice, one that is familiar to Gavin rather strongly. Wind swept sea cliffs loom above you as you walk on a beach, GAvin and Elaine together, yet none of your other friends there. (More)
[21:41] <Ana> Sand is warm beneath your feet, sand and sea stone at the shore. Walking in careful pace is a man - a tall man, a world weary, lined face. A face that has seen much, a droopy brown mustache and plate armor. A brilliant red rose is enscribed onto it, a heavy two handed sword at his side. "Sir Gavin," Master Knight Sturm repeats, "Are you unwell? Both you and Lady Elaine look as if you have seen a ghost."
[21:48] <SirGavin> Gavin turned. "No, not unwell, though I think I lost my place for a moment there. Forgive me..." He glibly ran off, trying to get a moment to figure out where they are.
[21:49] <Elaine> "What happened to the others?" Elaine asks as she looks around and doesn't see them anywhere. "Hell, what happened to us?"
[21:50] <Ana> It's a warm if windy seaside walk, cliffs looming above, occasional recesses showing. Sea caves and seashore, salty spray scenting the air. Sir Sturm is here...but Gavin hasn't seen him in over a year! "Aye. Keep your center, Gavin. The monster that stole the treasures is nearby. The path leads to these caves."
[21:51] * Elaine blinks and looks towards the other knight, trying to place if she should know the man. He certainly seemed to know her name.
[21:52] <Ana> "Others? Lady Elaine, we have travelled alone for four nights now." Frowning slightly at the wayward young woman but keeping his tone polite and level, "Are you weary? We can take a short break if that is required."
[21:53] * Elaine blinks at that and looks towards Gavin then, raising an eyebrow. Opening her mouth, she silently mouths, "What. the. hell. is. going. on?"
[21:54] <SirGavin> "Um, perhaps a moment for the lady to catch her breath." He responded. "Would be bad for her to be unwell when catch up to the monster."
[21:56] <Ana> "Aye, this is true. M'lady," Sturm demurs, a small pack taken off. A small blanket is spread on a relatively even stretch of the ground, "Rest as you wish, but remember - 'tis a dangerous beast, and we shall need awareness and iron hearted courage to prevail."
[21:59] * Elaine nods, deciding to take the moment to sit down as offerred, maybe putting her thoughts back on track. Something screwy was going on right now. "Alright, I suppose rest wouldn't hurt then."
[22:00] * SirGavin kneels a bit nearby and pats, whispering under the pretense of offering encouragement. "I've got no idea what's going on... best though to go along with him. Sir Sturm has never lead us wrong. We'll have to be on our guard against this monster."
[22:01] <Ana> Standing a little away, "I shall look ahead and ensure no trap is waiting for us," Sturm allows, going a little away and ahead as Gavin talks.
[22:04] * Elaine sighs with a little bit of relief. For a minute she thought she was the only one who was misplaced. Gavin must just be better at adapting to odd situations. Nodding at both's statements, she takes a few deep breaths to get back into a fighting mindset.
[22:06] <Elaine> "So what can you tell me about Sir Strum, Gavin?" the bardic blade asks of her companion as she watches Sturm move on ahead. "He seems to know me, despite the situation not being the same on my side."
[22:10] <SirGavin> "He's an old teacher of mine. Haven't seen him in about a year though. Excellent swordsmen and a pretty good story teller. He's almost certainly leading us here."
[22:12] <Elaine> "Wonder where he's heard of me," Elaine ponders. Pausing, she grins as she looks up at Gavin, craning her neck from where she sits. "You haven't been telling tales about me to your old teachers have you?"
[22:13] <SirGavin> "From what I can tell, we're somewhere on the coast." Gavin blinked and blushed a second. "Of course not, Elaine. I don't know...maybe saul would have a better idea of why things are going on like this...all we can do is run with it."
[22:15] * Elaine nods as she extends a hand towards Gavin. "Help me back up," she states.
[22:16] * SirGavin takes her hand, pulling her to her feet.
[22:17] <Elaine> "Thank you, kind sir," the half elf says as she gives a small courtsey, and then looks in the direction Sir Sturm left for. "Shall we just catch up to him, or wait for him here?"
[22:22] * SirGavin glances after him to see if he's already coming back.
[22:23] <Ana> Sturm indeed is, a strong but measured pace as he returns. "Do you feel better, m'lady?"
[22:26] * Elaine nods. "Yes, quite so. Thanks, though I do apologize for delaying us."
[22:30] <SirGavin> "Any signs, Sir Sturm?"
[22:31] <Ana> "Nay. Only the shoreline contuning on." Stretching his neck then patting his mustache down, "If you are ready, we shall continue on."
[22:34] * SirGavin nods. "We are."
[22:34] * SirGavin moves to a following position.
[22:36] * Elaine stands behind, watching Gavin's rear.
[22:38] <Ana> Off the group proceeds. It's high noon as they go on, waves licking the shoreline as they continue on. A few jellyfish and seashells line the shore - really, it would be nice enough. In fact, it rather is...mmm. The sea caves look quiet, the little winding beach path continuing. "Hmmm." Sturm stops, looking on. "I believe one of these caves must lead us to the monster and be it's den."
[22:40] * SirGavin looks around, checking the entryways for signs of passage.
[09:24] <Anastasia> Wiping his brow, Sturm does likewise. There are three easy cave entrances here and a few minor enclaved, places where the water has only begun it's centuries long mission of making another scar on the face of Mother Earth. OOC - 1d20, Gavin.
[09:25] <Anastasia> roll 1d20
[09:25] <Rei-chan> 12,0Anastasia rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 14
[09:25] * Anastasia sets mode: +o SirGavin
[09:27] <SirGavin> roll 1d20
[09:27] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 5
[09:30] <Anastasia> The two search on and deep, the men of the group earning their own. In the last cave to check, Sturm's call gets the attention of Gavin. "Gavin, to my side," he says quietly, drawing his sword. "Blood." In the sunlight that just pokes in, barely reaching from the mouth of the cave and not illuminating the depths ahead...a bloodsplatter. Reddish blood, not entirely rusty red, either.
[09:31] * SirGavin nods coming and drawing his own sword, ready to assist. "Fresh... shall we try and lure it out of its cave?" Gavin asked softly.
[09:31] * Elaine moves behind them. "So you think it's this cave then?" Elaine asks, as she stretches her hearing senses, trying to pinpoint any noises from deep within the cave.
[09:33] <Anastasia> "Aye, m'lady," Sturm squints into the darkness, considering. "That may be wise, Gavin, but tales tell of caves that go deep in these shores. Trolls are not the only beasts that lurk therein - shore dragons are not unheard of, by the Crown."
[09:34] <Anastasia> OOC - Make a listening check, yes.
[09:34] <Elaine> roll 1d100
[09:34] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 1d100 --> 12,0 30
[09:36] <SirGavin> "Shore dragons?" Gavin asked softly, not recognizing that specific breed.
[09:36] <Elaine> "Those tales might be right. In spite of the silence, there's a lot of echoing going on inside. There's some water drips echoing all over the place."
[09:37] <Anastasia> "Legends - that occasional dragons with scales like the ocean foam or the sky live near the ocean in sea caves." Sturm speaks quietly, echos still heard faintly deeper in the cave. "If one is accursed enough to stumble on one, it is said they are often angry and spiteful beasts."
[09:38] <Elaine> "Aren't all dragons like that?" Elaine jokes.
[09:39] <Anastasia> "Perhaps, perhaps not." Sturm is calm enough about that, then, "Aye, this is not the time to discuss the lore of dragons. Our prey is likely within."
[09:39] <SirGavin> "Well, have to be careful not to wake one then." Gavin looked in, trying to figure out whether they'd need a torch or not.
[09:40] <Anastasia> You would indeed, or some source of light. The cavern is deep, snaking into the gloomy black with no end visible from what you can see(Not that you can see much.)
[09:41] <SirGavin> "Elaine, carry a torch behind us, and let us head in?" He looked to Sir Sturm for confirmation.
[09:42] <Anastasia> Sturm nods, "A sound plan. I shall take point. Take my back and keep a watch on Lady Elaine," Sturm finishes, shifting his sword's grasp and preparing.
[09:44] * SirGavin doees as Sturm said, standing in a defensive stance and following slowly behind.
[09:44] <Elaine> "I don't have a torch with me, one of you will have to give one to me. Are you sure you don't want me in front though? I can see better than both of you," Elaine comments. Men and their overprotective tendencies.
[09:47] <Anastasia> "I have one." Sturm kneels and gets one from his pack, handing it and tinder to Elaine. "I could not allow you to proceed afront in good concious, m'lady, not with men in good steel with you."
[09:48] * Elaine smiles wrily. "Oh, very well. Walk onward then, good sirs," Elaine replies as she takes the offered torch and lights it.
[09:49] * SirGavin nods, waiting for Sturn to lead the party onward.
[09:49] <Anastasia> So lit, the cave ahead is illuminated! The group goes on, but it is not long until another blood splatter is see on the right wall - water smoothed stoned stained with crimson, Sturm eyeing it and resolutely continuing forward.
[09:53] * SirGavin keeps an eye out for any signs of others having passed through here, or possible traps that might be responsible for the bleeding.
[09:53] * SirGavin whispers a question to Sturm. "What color is Troll blood usually? Red like ours?"
[09:54] <Anastasia> Whispering back softly, "Nay. It is a disgusting substance...trolls...this is not the blood of a troll." OOC - Gavin, roll 1d20 again.
[09:55] <SirGavin> roll 1d20
[09:55] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 2
[09:57] <Anastasia> Gavin finds nothing of note, only stalagmites here and there as you go on. The passage is widening, a bigger cavern room ahead. It's like a circle, the center having a smallish pool of dark water a few inches high. This goes on a goodly ways, lots of nooks, half eroded stones and cover ways, and so on.
[09:59] <SirGavin> "Perhaps we should hurry then...this blood looks fresh, and he may have captured a victim?"
[10:01] <Anastasia> "It stole a treasure from the town in it's rampage...a victim is not unlikely as well," Sturm nods tersely, looking about this wide cyst in the shoreline. This place goes on a goodly ways, beginning to twist to the left. But no blood as you walk on at the moment, only a thin layer of water on the ground, sitting and peaceful. SMells salty like the sea.
[10:03] * Elaine walks on silently behind the two knights, keeping her eyes focused on ahead and her ears open for any danger.
[10:03] * Anastasia is now known as Kotono
[10:04] <Elaine> roll d100
[10:04] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 d100 --> 12,0 71
[10:06] <Kotono> It's quiet here, but Sturm stops halfway. "Aye...something about this bothers me," he stops a moment, "Trolls aren't known as treasure hoarders, yet it took treasure and a victim. The last makes sense, but why would it take valuables?" Looking to Gavin, "Did you ever come to a satisfactory conclusion to that?"
[10:12] <SirGavin> "Mmm... Perhaps it is working with someone else?" Gavin hid his surprise by rambling off the first thought in his head. "Someone strong enough to force the troll to do its bidding who would appreciate the valuables but would find it inconvienent to travel out into the open."
[10:15] * Elaine nods in agreement. "Sort of like Volte with the goblins, right?"
[10:16] <SirGavin> "This though would mean that there's something more dangerous than the troll in here."
[10:16] <Kotono> "...possible," Sturm frowns further, "Aye, that means that we have another foe, yes."
[10:20] <SirGavin> "Regardless...we should head on quietly. Catching them unaware and getting to see what we're facing would be wise. Assuming the worst, we're facing as many as a few trolls and at least one creature stronger than it. If we find that's the case...we can send Elaine for support while hampering them here?"
[10:24] <Kotono> "...aye." Sturm finally agrees after about ten seconds of thought, looking up and ahead. "Lady Elaine...it is not your sworn duty to proceed. If you wish to go..." Sturm looks to her, "I will understand if you do not have the courage, nor is this a slander. But it is more and more likely that something vile awaits us."
[10:27] * Elaine merely shrugs and grins. "Uncle's always said I have plenty of courage, and not enough sense. Might as well prove him right. I'll keep up with you two."
[10:27] <Kotono> Smiling at that, even in this situation, "Courage indeed. Aye." Sturm's voice tilts with approval, "Let us hope your courage is well founded."
[10:28] <Elaine> "Tally ho and forward!" Elaine exclaims as she points the torch in the direction they're heading.
[10:29] * SirGavin nods in agreement following Sturm ahead.
[10:31] <Kotono> Elaine's voice echos as they go on, the caves throwing her call of tally ho and forward about like a rag doll. On you go, the path winding to the left. It's getting cooler now as you go on, but a stop. This is easy to see at the mouth of this next passage -a large blood splatter, a scrap of cloth and flesh on the ground, a single gleaming and red stained coin besides it.
[10:32] * SirGavin stops a moment to examine it, not expecting anything special but thorough none the less.
[10:34] <Kotono> Sturm does as well, glancing down. A small bit of cloth, stained red and some gruesome gore still attacked. Besides it is a golden griffon, as if it fell carelessly from the pouch of a traveller. "...a victim...by the Gods, it looks as if..."
[10:34] * SirGavin glances at Sturm. "As if?"
[10:36] <Kotono> "I would say ripped apart, but..." STurm frowns. "No drips around it. It's like it was dropped here, aye?"
[10:37] <SirGavin> "Same as the others. Perhaps an unwounded victim at the entrance...a part ripped at each spot as a path?"
[10:37] <Elaine> "Dropped?" Elaine asks with a blink of her eyes as she looks at the knights for an explanation.
[10:38] <Kotono> "No blood trail, only deposits and splatters. Wounds drip and bleed, m'lady." Sturm rises up, looking ahead in the dusky torchlight.
[10:38] * Iddy is now known as Iddy-Nap
[10:41] <SirGavin> "Hmmm... Possibly a trap, though I haven't seen anything...maybe an ambush?
[10:44] <Kotono> "Aye, perhaps." Sturm's agreement comes after a bit of thought, "M'lady, do you have any magery that may illuminate the situation?"
[10:45] <Elaine> "Err, I can cast a magic detection spell, but I don't know how helpful that would be..." Elaine answers.
[10:53] <Kotono> "Hmm. I leave it to your discretion, m'lady," Sturm allows, ready to go on carefully if everyone else is.
[10:57] * SirGavin is clearly ready to follow Sturm onward, standing ready to go.
[11:01] <Elaine> "Hmm...well, it can't hurt, I suppose," Elaine replies. "I'll have to take off my chain mail temporarily though to cast it. Does someone want to hold the torch in the meanwhile?"
[11:01] <Kotono> Sturm offers his hand, taking the torch without comment.
[11:01] <SirGavin> OOC: /me nods and takes it. "We'll stand guard." grawr
[11:01] <SirGavin> OOC: =p speedy!
[11:03] * Elaine nods and begins slowly pulling off the chain mail, letting it slink to the ground as she rotates her shoulders to get some of the kinks out that result from wearing chain mail. Once her muscles get a bit of stretched relaxation, she proceeds to cast the magic detection spell towards the direction they're heading.
[11:06] <Kotono> Magic creeps into Hotaru's view, visions of blue fields enabled! While she doesn't get anything from that way, she notes that naked sword in Sturm's hand glows with a pale blue radiance, like how magical scrolls or potions do.
[11:08] <Kotono> *Elaine's
[11:12] <Elaine> "Okay, done," Elaine replies as she finishes out the spell, and goes grab her chain mail to put it back on. "There doesn't seem to be any magic of sorts on up ahead."
[11:13] <SirGavin> "Well, that's a small blessing at least." Gavin nodded to sturm, waiting for him to lead on.
[11:14] <Kotono> On the group goes! This passage winds and forks rather quickly - two passages now, snaking away from each other. Two ways, though the left hand side has a nasty splatter of blood on the floor by it, wide and big.
[11:16] <Elaine> "Well, they're definitely setting up a path for us. Seems like you were right, Sir Strum," Elaine notes as she looks at the blood splatter with some distaste.
[11:16] * SirGavin takes a brief look down the right, checking it.
[11:17] <SirGavin> "You know, we're missing an alternate purpose... instead of a trap, it may just be markings for themselves? Leading the right way down the caves...even though its a pretty crude way and shouldn't be fresh if so."
[11:18] <Elaine> "I think the fact that it's fresh would probably make that unlikely," Elaine comments with a shrug.
[11:19] * SirGavin nods.
[11:20] <Kotono> The right passage winds forward and then left, the gradient sloping up from what you can see.
[11:20] <Elaine> "So do we go in the direction of the splatter, or the clear path to the right?"
[11:20] <Kotono> "Possible...this pattern of random splatters speaks of intelligence or a purpose." Sturm considers as Gavin checks out the next passage.
[11:23] <Kotono> Considering further, "I vote for the clear passage."
[11:24] <SirGavin> "In case the other one is misleading?
[11:24] * SirGavin queried. "Hmm, odds are he won't sneak by us either way, no harm in examining it."
[11:25] <Elaine> "We can always backtrack if the right path is in actually not the right path for us to go through," Elaine says. It doesn't really matter which way they head, eventually they'll reach their goals after all.
[11:26] * SirGavin nods and follows sturm in!
[11:28] <Kotono> So they go! The path indeed travels upward as it turns to the left, a slow but steady gradient up. Up and up it goes and eventually - a hole here, no more ground to walk on! But it pokes uot the side of another circular cyst in the earth, about twenty feet off the ground. Below...wow! There! A dismembered arm is besides a beast. (More)
[11:29] <Kotono> Greasy tangles of hair fall down the lanky body of the troll - a naked and grimy body, one that rests as it stares. Amid a small pile of golden coins sits a single slim sword, glowing softly. The troll stares at it raptly, silent and still...
[11:34] * SirGavin moves back, gesturing the others and whispering. "We'll, we've found it...perhaps swing around and hopefully corner it down the other path?"
[11:35] <Elaine> "That sword it's looking at, it's pulsating with magic," Elaine notes, making sure the other two are warned lest the troll fight with it. "It's much more powerful magic than your own blade, Sir Strum."
[11:36] <Kotono> A step back as Sturm considers the situation, "We must be wary of that, but courage will win the day." So saying, "That must be the treasure that was taken - the troll looks enraptured with it."
[11:37] <SirGavin> "Best then to ambush him and separate him from the blade so he can't wield it against us?"
[11:41] * Elaine nods. "I'm surprised it hasn't noticed our approach from the torchlight. It's completely focused on the sword," Elaine comments silently.
[11:42] * SirGavin glances at Sturm as leader of the group.
[11:43] <Kotono> "Hmm...we lack long range tactics against it," he observes, "Any other ideas?"
[11:44] * SirGavin shakes his head, not having any.
[11:56] <Elaine> "I have an idea. One of the spells I learned might be of use here. I can make sure the sword stays out of the fight, at least for a while," Elaine comments as she has an idea. "I can make the sword very slippery and greasy so it can't grab hold of it."
[11:59] <Kotono> "That would be excellent," Sturm says, "Can you do it for here?"
[11:59] <Kotono> *from?
[12:01] * Elaine nods. "Yes, I can. Of course, I'll be without armor again while casting it, so you'll have to keep it occupied until I can put the chain mail back on. I doubt the troll'll ignore us once I cast the spell."
[12:04] <Kotono> "Right. Sow e go back down, you cast it and we deal with the troll," STurm recaps, making sure he has it straight.
[12:04] * SirGavin nods. "Sounds right."
[12:06] * Elaine also nods.
[12:06] <Kotono> OOC - Going to go along without anything else, wrapping around and taking the other path?
[12:08] <SirGavin> OOC: That's my thought. We go, sneak near him, let her cast her spell, and leap out in attack
[12:08] <Kotono> OOC - Okay!
[12:09] <Elaine> ooc - Wait, am I sneaking with you guys and holding back or just waiting here for you guys to reach near the troll?
[12:10] <SirGavin> OOC: Thought you couldn't hit it from here?
[12:10] <Kotono> OOC - Yeah. You'd have to lean ass over teakettle to hit it from the ledge, so to speak. It's just at the very edge of your range, maaaybe.
[12:11] <Elaine> ooc - ah, okay, I misread
[12:11] <Elaine> ooc - onward then!
[12:11] <Elaine> ooc - to VICTOLY!
[12:13] <SirGavin> OOC: TO VICTOLY
[12:13] <Kotono> OOC - OKAY!
[12:14] <Kotono> Around you go! This takes a couple of minutes of backtracking, but the way is fairly direct. On reaching the mouth of the passage, straight ahead, to the floor level of this grotto, you see the troll still where it is. It stares at that sword, clawed hand caressing it with a loving, slow stroke.
[12:17] * SirGavin gestures with his hand at Elaine to start, getting in position but staying back until the spell is cast.
[12:19] * Elaine nods as she careful pulls off the chain mail once again, and grabbing a bit of butter from her supplies, proceeds to cast the spell, gesturing with her arms as she commands the spell with her words to cover the sword in grease.
[12:19] <Kotono> Sturm does the same, sword ready and face keen, ready to strike once the signal is now!
[12:20] <Kotono> The magic flows from Elaine, the sword glimmering greasily a moment as the magic finishes! Elaine's last word echoes softly, called out!
[12:22] * SirGavin moves quickly, trying to strike and disable the troll quickly, expecting the troll to react quickly
[12:23] <Kotono> Sturm follows as the troll turns, groggy a moment before roaring out! OOC - I'm gonig to let you two strike first this round and the troll acts last.
[12:23] <Kotono> Water splashes as you charge through shallow puddles, steel at the ready in this musty, ill lit paradise!
[12:26] <SirGavin> OOC: *nods*
[12:26] <SirGavin> roll 1d20 to take off the arm!
[12:26] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d20 12,0to take off the arm! --> 12,0 6
[12:27] <Kotono> But Gavin's slash is a miss, the aim too errant, the slash too much! Grasping his greatsword in two hands, Sturm follows up, a massive slash at the vile troll!
[12:27] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[12:27] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 2
[12:28] <Kotono> But this is for naught as well, both attacks managing to totally miss the mark! As both warriors go to the side of the beast and miss, it grasps at the sword...and slips, hands unable to grasp it! A confused sound, a grunt of displeasure from the troll! OOC - Initiatives.
[12:30] <Elaine> As the two knights proceed to attack the troll, Elaine goes through the process of slipping her chain mail back on before she can join the battle.
[12:30] <Kotono> roll 1d10 troll
[12:30] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d10 12,0troll --> 12,0 2
[12:30] <Kotono> roll 1d10 Sturm
[12:30] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d10 12,0Sturm --> 12,0 9
[12:31] <SirGavin> roll 1d10 Gavin
[12:31] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d10 12,0Gavin --> 12,0 3
[12:32] <SirGavin> OOC: Count 6. 3-2+5
[12:33] <Kotono> Troll (5), Gavin(6, attacking) Sturm(15 or so, attacking. Oi.)
[12:33] <Kotono> The troll roars out this time in unspoken anger, lashing out at the closest - Sturm, a pair of claws and ragged teeth gonig for the knight!
[12:33] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[12:33] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 1
[12:34] <Kotono> But it's first attack is a total failure - it slips instead, as if some of the grease spread and caused it to slip! Falling down onto it's back, the troll is stunned!
[12:35] * SirGavin moves quickly to take advantage, striking quickly at the Troll while on the ground with his blade.
[12:35] <SirGavin> roll 1d20
[12:35] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 16
[12:36] <SirGavin> roll 1d20
[12:36] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 11
[12:36] <SirGavin> OOC: Thac0 18.
[12:36] <Kotono> OOC - What ACs does each hit score on?
[12:36] <SirGavin> OOC: 2 and 7?
[12:37] <SirGavin> roll 2d4+2
[12:37] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 2d4+2 --> 12,0 7
[12:38] * SirGavin brings the sword fiercely down, striking through the troll's torso and then twisting it back for another strike, slightly misjudging as it slides over harmlessly.
[12:38] <Kotono> A vicious slash as so, Sturm advancing to try and press it, to further cut open the trollish monster!
[12:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[12:38] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[12:38] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 4
[12:38] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 19
[12:39] <Kotono> roll 3d6+1
[12:39] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 3d6+1 --> 12,0 14
[12:40] <Kotono> His first heavy stroke is a airball, but the second one plunges deep into the gut of your quarry, a gaping hole opened as his two handed sword is ripped out! Sturm's grunt is heavy as he goes, "For courage and for the Knight hood!"
[12:41] <Kotono> OOC - Initiative and reactions.
[12:41] <SirGavin> roll 1d10
[12:41] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d10 --> 12,0 6
[12:41] <Kotono> Wounded and scrabbling back, it's beady eyes looking towards the sword that is so greased, the troll gets up even as the first slash starts to close up!
[12:41] <Kotono> roll 1d10 troll
[12:41] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d10 12,0troll --> 12,0 5
[12:41] <Kotono> roll 1d10 sturm
[12:41] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d10 12,0sturm --> 12,0 6
[12:41] * SirGavin is moving to try and cut off it's arm and thus reduce its ability to do damage knowing that trolls don't go down easy.
[12:42] <SirGavin> OOC: count 9
[12:42] <SirGavin> OOC: Going to be concentrating my blows until otherwise stated on his arm/shoulder, figuring it's a decently large target, unarmored, and would most quickly reduce its ability to do damage.
[12:45] <Elaine> Once the chain mail is once again covering her body, protecting her more from harm, Elaine pulls out a pair of daggers, planning to join the fight.
[12:45] <Elaine> roll 1d10
[12:45] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 1d10 --> 12,0 10
[12:45] <Kotono> Troll(8), Gavin (9, attacking, arm slice(Called shot, -3 mod to attack roll for that.)) Elaine(10 or so, last. Ouch, mean Reichan.)
[12:46] <Kotono> OOC - Sec, forgot Sturm's roll to be adde din
[12:46] <Kotono> Troll(8), Gavin (9, attacking, arm slice(Called shot, -3 mod to attack roll for that.)) Elaine(10 or so, last. Ouch, mean Reichan.) Sturm(16, attacking.)
[12:46] <SirGavin> OOC: Sturm has a +10?
[12:46] <SirGavin> OOC: ewww
[12:46] <Kotono> While a nasty beast, it's unfairly and stupidly fast, lunging at Gavin this time! Claws out and screaming it, the troll looks to cut up Sir Gavin!
[12:46] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[12:46] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 19
[12:46] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[12:46] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 4
[12:46] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[12:46] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 6
[12:47] <Kotono> OOC - One hit, claw. Rolling damage.
[12:48] <Kotono> roll 1d4+4
[12:48] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d4+4 --> 12,0 5
[12:48] * SirGavin braces with his shield quickly, wincing as one claw strike slips through, his sword thrusting out for the arm in question as it does so.
[12:48] <Kotono> While one claw swipe bounces off steel and a bite outright misses, a slash gets through! Cutting into Gavin's front stomach, blood is send flowing! (5 damage)
[12:48] <SirGavin> OOC: 18 hp remaining.
[12:49] <SirGavin> roll 1d20-3
[12:49] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d20-3 --> 12,0 10
[12:49] <SirGavin> OOC: Hit AC 8.
[12:51] <Kotono> It's a good swing, just too heavy and too slow. The troll is already moving to the side from wounding you! So you miss, it's arm intact!
[12:52] * Elaine throws both daggers the moment she gets a clear shot, letting them fly towards the troll's eyes.
[12:52] <Kotono> OOC - Making that a called shot to the eyes
[12:52] <Kotono> ?
[12:52] <Elaine> ooc - yes
[12:52] <Kotono> OOC - Okay, you know the mod. Go for it.
[12:53] <Elaine> ooc - get a +1 bonus on called shots from being a blade. so -2?
[12:53] <Kotono> OOC - Sounds good.
[12:53] <Elaine> roll 1d20-2
[12:53] <Elaine> roll 1d20-2
[12:53] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 1d20-2 --> 12,0 1
[12:53] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 1d20-2 --> 12,0 0
[12:53] <SirGavin> OOC: OW
[12:54] <Kotono> But both daggers sail far past, clattering on the ground a good ways past the battle and a total miss! Sturm grunts as he hefts his sword again, a cutting blow coming, over his shoulders and down!
[12:55] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[12:55] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 1
[12:55] <SirGavin> OOC: ...please don't kill me ;_;
[12:56] <Kotono> OOC - Hmm. I'll assign a thaco of 18 here.
[12:56] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[12:56] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 17
[13:02] <Kotono> Urgh! It's a horrible misaim, his blade sailing out of his hands as it goes up and flies back, right towards Elaine!
[13:02] <Kotono> roll 1d10
[13:02] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 and gets 10."12 [1d10=10]
[13:03] <SirGavin> OOC: We're doomed!
[13:03] <Kotono> Right into Elaine's shoulder, a greatsword plunging on in! Pain flares as she's half pinned to the wall, Sturm gasping. "M'lady," he says in tones of utter shock and worry, blood draining from his face.
[13:04] <Kotono> (10 damage, if it wasn't obvious.)
[13:06] * Elaine screeches at the pain, her other hand moving towards her pinned shoulder going towards her shoulder, the pain of movement causing her to wince at the pain.
[13:07] * Kotono changes topic to 'It's "Dicebots can burn in hell!" week! Does this even need a witty title?'
[13:08] <Kotono> roll 1d10 troll
[13:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 troll and gets 6."12 [1d10=6]
[13:08] <Kotono> roll 1d10 sturm
[13:08] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d10 sturm and gets 7."12 [1d10=7]
[13:08] <SirGavin> roll 1d10
[13:08] * Hatbot --> "SirGavin rolls 1d10 and gets 2."12 [1d10=2]
[13:08] <SirGavin> OOC: 5. I WILL CRUSH YOU TROLL!
[13:09] <Elaine> roll 1d10
[13:09] * Hatbot --> "Elaine rolls 1d10 and gets 7."12 [1d10=7]
[13:10] <Kotono> Gavin(5, attacking, TROLL CRUSHING), Elaine(5, sword yank out time!) Sturm(7, going over to Elaine) Troll(9),
[13:10] <Kotono> OOC - Go, Gavin and Elaine.
[13:11] * Elaine clenches her teeth as she attempts to grasp the sword on her shoulder and pull it out from where it's stuck.
[13:12] <Kotono> Elaine is able to do so, blood freely gushing out and her vision going dizzy as she withdraws the magical sword of Sir Sturm! It's heavy in her hands yet not as much as one may think, even as it shines with her blood...
[13:12] * SirGavin continues, bringing his sword in quick succession against the troll's arm, seeking to drive it back and cut off it's arm.
[13:12] <SirGavin> roll 1d20
[13:12] * Hatbot --> "SirGavin rolls 1d20 and gets 12."12 [1d20=12]
[13:12] <SirGavin> roll 1d20
[13:12] * Hatbot --> "SirGavin rolls 1d20 and gets 10."12 [1d20=10]
[13:12] <SirGavin> OOC: Forgot the minus 3. By history, I see two misses.
[13:12] <Kotono> OOC - Luck hates you.
[13:13] <SirGavin> OOC: *thinks he needs a... 15 or higher to hit the troll's arm?*
[13:13] <Kotono> TWo quick slashes, but but miss - one bouncing off a bad patch of arm and the other just missing! As this happens, Sturm dashes back, "Be strong, m'lady," he says, taking his blade as the troll continues it's assault on Gavin!
[13:13] <Elaine> ooc - yeah, with called shots you need a 15
[13:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[13:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 and gets 15."12 [1d20=15]
[13:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[13:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 and gets 6."12 [1d20=6]
[13:13] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[13:13] * Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20 and gets 12."12 [1d20=12]
[13:13] <Kotono> OOC - AC - 2, right?
[13:14] <Kotono> All miss, the first coming dangerously close, but errant by only a clash of claw on steel! Whew!
[14:07] <SirGavin> roll 1d10
[14:07] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d10 --> 12,0 5
[14:08] <Kotono> roll 1d10
[14:08] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d10 --> 12,0 1
[14:08] <Kotono> roll 1d10 sturm
[14:08] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d10 12,0sturm --> 12,0 1
[14:08] <Elaine> roll 1d10
[14:08] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 1d10 --> 12,0 3
[14:08] <SirGavin> OOC: 8, stabbing, no called shots against the arm since we've seen that's sort of exceedingly ineffectual. =)
[14:08] <SirGavin> OOC: o_O Fast troll this round =)
[14:09] <Elaine> ooc: going to try and throw daggers at the troll's eyes again, if I'm not too ineffectual due to pain (still have 5 HP after all). Would put me on 3.
[14:10] <Kotono> Elaine (3, throwing daggers, called shots. You can function.) Troll (4), Gavin(8, slashing!) (Sturm 11, Slicing!)
[14:10] <Kotono> As you go the troll's body is mending at a rate that is fully inhuman, stitching itself back together almost as fast as you can hurt it!
[14:11] <Elaine> Despite the hurting she's feeling, Elaine proceeds to grasp two of her daggers, and aims them towards the troll's eyes, letting them fly and wincing in pain as her shoulder flares once she lets the daggers fly.
[14:12] <Elaine> roll 1d20-2
[14:12] <Elaine> roll 1d20-2
[14:12] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 1d20-2 --> 12,0 18
[14:12] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 1d20-2 --> 12,0 9
[14:14] <Elaine> roll 1d4
[14:14] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 1d4 --> 12,0 1
[14:15] <Kotono> A dagger flies, one at least well thrown! Right into the eye of the troll, sticking a few inches in and the rest sticking out of it's left eye! It stumbles at this, eye pierced and popping with a loud, horrid deflating sound! Yet even as this happens the troll staggers forward, attacking the nearby Gavin! OOC - -1 to it's to hit rolls thanks to being an eye down until further notice.
[14:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1
[14:15] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20-1 --> 12,0 4
[14:15] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1
[14:16] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20-1 --> 12,0 7
[14:16] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1
[14:16] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20-1 --> 12,0 2
[14:16] <Kotono> A bevy of claws and rotten teeth against Gavin, but each is thwarted quickly and easily, metal repelling troll!
[14:17] <SirGavin> OOC: Let's see, it's an odd attack round?
[14:17] <Kotono> Round 5, so yes.
[14:18] * SirGavin swings horizontally, seeking to drive it back!
[14:18] <SirGavin> roll 1d20
[14:18] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 4
[14:18] <SirGavin> OOC: And misses. Again.
[14:18] <Kotono> OOC - Dice hate.
[14:19] <Kotono> A good swing but it's too much to the side, cutting only air! If only air had claws and was attacking you, you'd be doing great! Meanwhile Sturm returns tot he fray, sword bloodied by intent total. "Foul Monster, for the honor of the Knights!"
[14:19] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[14:19] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 1
[14:19] <Kotono> OOC - Oh fuckin' a.
[14:19] <SirGavin> OOC: Can sturm sit out the rest of the fight...really?
[14:20] <Kotono> OOC - I'm tempted!
[14:20] <SirGavin> OOC: I mean not that I mind help and all but...
[14:20] <SirGavin> OOC: 0/2 and all
[14:20] <Kotono> It's a vertical slash, but it's a total failur eof an attack! Perhaps Elaine's grease spell affected his sword somehow or he just really sucks, but the gist is that his blade flies out! Flies all the wall to the far wall, a spinning projectile as it escapes his grasp! At least Elaine's not in that direction or she'd be visiting Orial now!
[14:21] <Elaine> ooc: if he throws his sword, it better not be at me again -_-
[14:22] <Elaine> "Sir Sturm, no offense, but hold your sword tight!" she says, paling at the sight of another flung sword.
[14:22] <Kotono> "By Orial," he says in utter mortification and shock(Again), staring as the troll is unhurt. "Is there magery in place?"
[14:22] <Kotono> OOC - Initiative.
[14:23] <SirGavin> roll 1d10 for 'morale', initiative, I dunno anymore!
[14:23] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d10 12,0for 'morale', initiative, I dunno anymore! --> 12,0 3
[14:23] <SirGavin> OOC: 6
[14:23] <Kotono> roll 1d10 to give poor Gavin a break?
[14:23] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d10 12,0to give poor Gavin a break? --> 12,0 7
[14:23] <Kotono> roll 1d10 to give poor Sturm a break?
[14:23] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d10 12,0to give poor Sturm a break? --> 12,0 10
[14:23] <Elaine> roll 1d10-2 (going to go for the other sword since round 6 and it should be degreasing)
[14:23] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 1d10-2 12,0(going to go for the other sword since round 6 and it should be degreasing) --> 12,0 1
[14:24] <Kotono> OOC - To clarify, you're going for the swordt hat had the troll entranced?
[14:25] <Elaine> ooc - yeah
[14:25] <Kotono> Elaine(1, going for the sword!) Gavin(6, chopping?) Troll (10, doing it's evil troll monster thing!) Sturm(10, going to get his sword, yo!)
[14:26] * Elaine heads towards the sword that held the troll enraptured, knowing her spell should be breaking right around now. Hopefully she'll be able to figure out what it does and use it against the troll. (OOC: not grabbing it unless the troll tries to go for it, going to try to do the "analyze magic item" thing)
[14:27] <Kotono> OOC - Roll a check and I'll PM you details at the end of the round.
[14:28] <Elaine> roll d100
[14:28] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 d100 --> 12,0 55
[14:28] <Elaine> ooc - fail by 40
[14:28] <Kotono> SKirting aside the battlefield, the troll turns to Elaien as she gets closer to the blade! Meanwhile...OOC- Go, Gavin.
[14:29] * SirGavin seeing Elaine move, he strikes quickly, seeking to drive the troll back and away from where she's moving.
[14:29] <SirGavin> roll 1d20
[14:29] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 10
[14:29] <SirGavin> roll 1d20
[14:29] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 13
[14:29] <SirGavin> OOC: yay, hum, let's see, 8 and 5 I think? Thac0 18
[14:32] <Kotono> OOC - I'll call the five a hit, since a +1 to AC because of it's eye is reasonable.
[14:33] <SirGavin> roll 2d4+2
[14:33] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 2d4+2 --> 12,0 7
[14:34] <Kotono> Yah! Your second slash tears into it's shoulder, freshly mended and now rewounded! You stagger the troll back, yeti t continues on as your lightsource, the torch left behind, flickers slightly! Meanwhile Sturn races back, picking up his once again thrown sword!
[14:35] <Kotono> As this happens the troll turns, leaping towards Elaine with an enraged cry!
[14:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1
[14:35] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20-1 --> 12,0 4
[14:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1
[14:35] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20-1 --> 12,0 1
[14:35] <Kotono> roll 1d20-1
[14:35] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20-1 --> 12,0 12
[14:37] <Kotono> roll 1d20+4
[14:37] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20+4 --> 12,0 14
[14:38] <Kotono> Gavin protects Elaine, shield coming forward to stop it's vicious teeth! A tooth breaks, falling away from the troll's mouth, embedded into your shield!
[14:38] <Kotono> But the troll is stopped, within inches of Gavin and his body!
[14:38] * SirGavin grunts holding the troll back.
[14:39] <Kotono> You can smell the vile breath from the troll, a horrid stentch of rotted flesh and unwashed body! OOC - Initiative.
[14:39] <Kotono> roll 1d10 troll hate
[14:39] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d10 12,0troll hate --> 12,0 8
[14:40] <Kotono> roll 1d10 Sturm is bound to commit seppuku after this for his dicing
[14:40] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d10 12,0Sturm is bound to commit seppuku after this for his dicing --> 12,0 10
[14:41] <SirGavin> roll 1d10 for SMASH
[14:41] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d10 12,0for SMASH --> 12,0 10
[14:41] <SirGavin> OOC: I sense this will be a slow round
[14:41] <SirGavin> OOC: Did sturm go last round?
[14:42] <Kotono> OOC - He went and got his sword again. -_-
[14:42] <SirGavin> OOC: Oh, he went and picked up his sword I guess
[14:42] <SirGavin> OOC: 13
[14:42] <SirGavin> OOC: Same thing as every round
[14:42] <Kotono> roll 1d10
[14:42] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d10 --> 12,0 6
[14:44] <Elaine> roll 1d10 for grabbing sword and going into defensive spin. (modifier is -2 for initiative and +whatever for sword)
[14:44] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 1d10 12,0for grabbing sword and going into defensive spin. (modifier is -2 for initiative and +whatever for sword) --> 12,0 2
[14:45] <Kotono> Elaine(2, heh heh heh heh!) ???? (6, ????) Troll (11), Gavin(13, attackin'!) Sturm(Acting fucking last, coming back to attack)
[14:47] * Elaine grasps the sword, panicked by the sight of the incoming troll just moments earlier, stopped only by Gavin's heroic block. Not wanting to get out though and be called a coward, the girl pulls the sword up and goes into a defensive spin with it, whirling it dangerously around herself, daring the troll to attempt to attack her.
[14:47] <Kotono> OOC - Make a ego check. Combine your Int and Wis and roll 1d100 against that score. You want to roll under or equal to that number.
[14:48] <Elaine> roll d100
[14:48] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 d100 --> 12,0 12
[14:49] <Elaine> OOC: le w00t!
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Exerpt from PM:
[14:50] <Kotono> As you grasp the sword, overwhelming feelings flood you! A feeling to worship, to bow down...this sword is everything! With it you will easily slay the troll and save the day, making stories at will with your powerful weapon! It would be simplicity to take them further into wars, perhaps even carving out your own small kingdom...NO! Your mind resurges, countering! You feel power knocked back from the blade, potent but repelled, at control! (More)
[14:52] <Kotono> Elaine senses the nature of the blade - she feels a will there, subdued and repelled for the moment. It's power offers itself to you, potent! OOC - Elaine instristically understands this to be a Long Sword+4, if not in those terms. It also functions as a Defender - she can shift poitns from the plusses each round to bolster her AC on a 1-1 ratio.
[14:53] <Elaine> neat
[14:53] <Kotono> Will you shift any of those points into AC for the rest of this round or attack? You can make an attack if you want.
[14:53] <Elaine> so I can cancel out of defensive spin and go for another action?
[14:54] <Kotono> If you want.
[14:55] <Elaine> nah, I'll stick to the defensive spin. I'll toss the points to AC as well.
[14:56] <Elaine> so AC -4
End Exerpt
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[14:56] <Kotono> Elaine spins back, protecting herself as the blade in her hand glows soft red, visible to all! A reddish aura surrounds Elaine, cloaking her body!
[14:56] <Kotono> OOC - The trolli s going, ???? went in it's way.
[14:57] <Kotono> It's eyes are focused on Elaine now, but it stops as it shakes it's head! The troll just stands there, slack and unmoving! OOC - Go, Gavin.
[14:58] * SirGavin attempts to strike it's neck quickly to disable it!
[14:58] <SirGavin> roll 1d20-3
[14:58] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d20-3 --> 12,0 16
[14:58] <SirGavin> OOC: hit o_o =)
[14:59] <Kotono> OOC - Roll damage. +4 to damage for a good neck shot, as well as something else I'll describe.
[14:59] <SirGavin> roll 2d4+2+4 for beheading!
[14:59] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 2d4+2+4 12,0for beheading! --> 12,0 12
[15:00] <Kotono> It's neck is severed cleanly, the troll's head falling to the ground! The head gnashes it's teeth and the body stays up, a smelly dark liquid gushing out! Yet even as it geysers the body stays up, flailing around! As it does, Sturm returns, lunging with a fercious, corageous cry at the body of the troll!
[15:00] <Kotono> roll 1d20
[15:00] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 1d20 --> 12,0 19
[15:00] <Kotono> roll 3d6
[15:00] <Rei-chan> 12,0Kotono rolled :12,0 3d6 --> 12,0 10
[15:01] <Kotono> A brutal impalement, one that runs through it's chest! With a cry the troll falls, body disabled by regeneratign! "Finally!" Sturm sighs a moment, breathing heavily! "Quickly, the torc...Lady Elaine?" Sturm turns, looking at the glowing bardess.
[15:03] * Elaine stops her defensive spin as she notes the sight of the disabled troll, sighing in relief.
[15:07] * SirGavin turns slightly but not entirely from the troll. "Elaine hurry..."
[15:10] * Elaine nods as she quickly goes towards the troll, holding the torch in her other hand as she cauterizes the wound lest it regenerate back to life.
[15:12] <Kotono> The troll's body twitches as it's burnt, searing to death! Slowly it's struggles stop, the fire doing it's job to slay a nasty beast!
[15:12] * SirGavin breaths out, finally relaxing.
[15:13] <SirGavin> "About damn time it went down..."
[15:13] * SirGavin examines elaine a bit, glancing over her wounds.
[15:14] <Kotono> Elaine's wound is hard to see, thanks to the sword she holds and the glow she has.
[15:14] * Elaine nods. "Yeah, no kidding. I think it lost its thoughts once I grabbed hold of the sword."
[15:14] <Kotono> "Thank the Gods," Sturm seconds, before still staring at Elaine. "Lady Elaine...and you have been glowing since then, like a candle light."
[15:16] <SirGavin> "Perhaps we should cover that sword in something safe?"
[15:16] <Elaine> "Yeah, remember when I said it was a magic sword? It apparently enchanted the troll. Tried to enchant me too, but I was too stubborn for the thing," she says with a grin. Raising the sword to her eyes she says to it, "Aren't I?"
[15:16] <Kotono> A moment later Elaine stops glowing, the luminence gone. Her shoulder has a nasty wound, still bleeding. Elaine's gonna need medical attention and fairly fast.
[15:18] * SirGavin blinks.
[15:18] <SirGavin> "An intelligent sword? Sir Sturm, do you have any bandages on you?" Gavin asked.
[15:20] <Kotono> "Aye." Sturm goes back to his pack, handing over cloth bandages to Gavin "We must gather what is here and leave - our task is done, and both of you require attention of a cleric."
[15:31] * SirGavin gets to work bandaging Elaine up as best he can.
[15:31] * Elaine nods, and gives Gavin a look of thanks as he bandages her shoulder.
[15:36] * SirGavin finishing he glanced a bit apprehensively at the sword.
[15:37] <Elaine> "Don't worry too much, I think it knows who's boss," Elaine says with a grin, noting Gavin's apprehension. "It hasn't tried anything since that first time anyhow."
[15:39] <SirGavin> "Okay, Elaine." He turned to sturm, expecting him to lead on the way out just the same.
[15:42] <Elaine> "Okay, you gathered everything, Sir Strum?" Elaine asks, since Strum said they needed to gather everything before leaving.
[13:22] <Kotono> Sturm has been gathering the splattering of shining golden coins into his backpack, and then, "There is platinum at the bottom. A small noble's ransom..." Murmuring as he hefts the now straining pack, "Aye. We must return safely and swiftly now that this affair has been done. Even if there is another, it would be folly to go further on now."
[13:30] <Elaine> "Just lead the way, Sir Strum," Elaine replies, her eyes taking in the treasure, curiously wondering just how much it's all worth.
[13:33] <Kotono> "Aye." Sturm begins, but stops in front of Elaine. "I beg your apology...there was nothing honorable in my mistake and your wound, nor is there in partial retreat. Yet I cannot in honor allow you to go on, and there is no courage taking a woman to a possible grave."
[13:38] <Elaine> "It's fine, Sir Strum, I know you did not mean to harm me," Elaine replies. "And I won't complain, I certainly wouldn't mind getting my arm looked at and a bit of rest."
[13:41] * SirGavin stands a bit confused, watching the byplay silently.
[13:42] <Kotono> "Aye..and m'lady," Sturm takes a moment, "My name is Sturm." Clearing his throat and sheathing his sword, "Allow us to go."
[13:43] <SirGavin> "Anyhow... Let's see about getting Elaine some more solid treatment." Gavin followed Sturm bac.
[13:43] * Elaine blinks, and colors. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to mispronounce your name, Sir Sturm."
[13:44] <Elaine> roll d20
[13:44] <Rei-chan> 12,0Elaine rolled :12,0 d20 --> 12,0 20
[13:45] <Kotono> So the weary adventurer's go on! On and on, at last finding sunlight! Outside you are, Sturm takin ga moment to look up. "It shaln't be too far to recovery and aid now," h e notes as your boots squish into the sand.
[13:47] * SirGavin nods, his attention more on Elaine and making sure her wound doesn't get further aggravated by the travel.b
[13:49] <Kotono> On the group travels! The strange sword is quiet as you continue on, Elaine's head peaceful! A contrast to her ruined body as you go on - to a little seaside hamlet, Sturm smiling and turning back. "As we go, I thank you," he says to both, as you continue on.
[13:50] <Elaine> "Always glad to be of service," Elaine replies with a tired smile. Wouldn't mind a bed and that promised medical aid to finish off those thanks.
[13:58] <SirGavin> "Thanks are unnecessary, Sir Sturm." Gavin responded, glancing about for a temple, hostel, or some other place a cleric may be around.
[14:00] <Kotono> As you do, thew orld stops, then begins to fade. Everything save yourselfs, even Elaine's sword lifting out of her hand and vanishing! Sturm says something, lingering in the sound of the air! "I still...fought with courage, moreso than..." Then into a gray void for a moment, then a room. A wood room like the dais was on, standing on one. An empty room, save for two piles of leaves, a large basin of water, and two plates of fruit besides th
[14:01] <Kotono> and two plates of fruit besides that.
[14:03] <SirGavin> "Some kind of...mystic test?" Gavin looked around and then checked Elaine and his wounds to see if, by some chance, they had faded as well.
[14:05] * Elaine does the same as she checks her shoulder.
[14:05] <Kotono> No such luck there, but then, "Come and rest...you have done well." A voice that is faintly female, an invitation. "You will find rest and succor here, friends of the Ascendant."
[14:07] <Elaine> "Definitely a test, it seems," Elaine says in agreement.
[14:08] * SirGavin checked the food, taking a bite. "Who is this, if I may ask?" Gavin asked to the voice.
[14:09] <Kotono> "Indeed." That voice again, inviting you to lie down - a feeling of a presence, a lure to you. "Elaine, one with the blood of the elves - you fought well. You resisted the vile ego of the Greenslaker as I did millenia ago. Gavin...one of the human race. You fought with courage, courage only a true knight would possess."
[14:09] <Elaine> "So that uppity sword was called Greenslaker? Weird name. It wasn't even green..." Elaine asks.
[14:10] <Kotono> *Greed
[14:10] <Kotono> "I am the lingering shade of Corela...I am glad the Ascendant has worth and true friends." By the beds, a ghostly hand is extended. "Come to me, friends of the Ascendant."
[14:11] <Elaine> ooc - bah, fine. kill my line with your typo corrections =p
[14:11] <SirGavin> OOC: Heh
[14:11] <Kotono> OOC - Sorry!
[14:12] * SirGavin glanced at Elaine to see that her wound hadn't reopened...if that is the case, he walks over to the hand.
[14:12] <Elaine> "Any chance of some healing spells for an Ascendant's friend?" Elaine asks, looking hopeful as she grabs an apple and takes a bite.
[14:13] <Kotono> "When you sleep here, the body shall mend. The fragility of the body shall pass away into nothingess..." The hand waits, as if to be taken. It's a damn good apple, too.
[14:15] * SirGavin takes the hand in his gently.
[14:17] * Elaine starts for a second and looks at Gavin as he grabs her hand.
[14:19] <Kotono> Gavin glows a moment - as he does, a woman is seen, a ghostly elf in chain mail embracing the knight. "With what power I have, I bless you. Sturdy warrior, may your body be forever enduring..." She leans forward, a kiss on Gavin's forehead. OOC - Gavin, roll 1d6.
[14:19] <SirGavin> roll 1d6
[14:19] <Rei-chan> 12,0SirGavin rolled :12,0 1d6 --> 12,0 1
[14:19] <Kotono> OOC - Lucky!
[14:19] <SirGavin> OOC: oh? *blinks*
[14:20] <Kotono> You feel your muscles burn! As if new life is given to them, body replenishing! You feel a strength in your bones you never felt before, as if being freshly created! "This is my gift to the one that stands with the Ascendant. Noble friends are as important as a thousand magical artifacts." OOC - Strength +1, Gavin.
[14:21] <SirGavin> OOC: Neat O_O
[14:21] <SirGavin> OOC: *Goes to add that*
[14:22] <Kotono> OOC: Don't forget to react after, Gavin!
[14:23] <SirGavin> Gavin's face reveals a bit of awe, his voice hiding his surprise slightly. "Thank you, hero of times past..."
[14:24] <Kotono> Fading back, out of Gavin's arms, "I thank you...you are the first set of friends that have succeeded thus far in millenia, even imperfectly." Then looking to Elaine, "I shall bestow on you a mark of your conquest over the evil of Greedslaker. Your broad sword - give it to me." Her hand extends, waiting.
[14:25] <Elaine> "Alright," Elaine says in surprise as she pulls the sword out of its sheath and holding it horizontally in both her hands, proceeds to hand it over to the ghostly elf.
[14:28] <Kotono> So it is held! The blade rises up of it's own accord, sheathed in blue flames! It points to the sky that cannot be seen, "I shall bestow on you a weapon worthy of one that resists the lure of greed with her very soul. I name you, 'Silmara'. In the old Elvish, it means, 'Stout Hearted.' " So your broad sword floats back toyou - shining now, pure electric blue steel. It goes to your hands, as if to be taken, soft gold inlays in the hilt and
[14:28] <Kotono> soft gold inlays in the hilt and a green gem in it's pommel.
[14:30] * Elaine looks in awe at her new sword, examining it once it is back in her hands. "Silmara, huh?" she says before grinning wildly. This was turning out to be a -great- source material for future tales.
[14:30] * SirGavin resists the obvious jibe about now havin her own legend to tell.
[14:31] <Kotono> Knowledge is burned into Elaine's mind as she holds it - yes, knowledge, an instristic understanding of the blade adn what it is...OOC - See #mk.
[14:35] <Kotono> "Now..I shall go. The Ascendant continues on with Serith. I bid you to rest and allow your weariness to mend." With that the image and feeling is gone, leaving the two alone.
[14:39] <Elaine> "And uncle said I'd end up getting in trouble over my recklessness..." Elaine giggles excitedly. Looking upwards she shouts, "Well you're not the one with a magic sword now, are you uncle?!? Bwahahahaha..."
[14:44] * SirGavin sweatdropped. Despite it not being an anime. "Elaine, a bit excited?"
[14:45] * SirGavin sat down on one of the beds.
[14:50] * Elaine plops down in the other pile of leaves which they must call beds once she sheathes her upgraded blade. "Well, aren't you? What'd she do for you exactly anyhow?" she asks.
[14:55] <SirGavin> "I'm not sure...I feel stronger as if renewed."
[14:58] <SirGavin> "Anyhow...yes, I am...but not shouting at the ceiling excited." He smiled at her.
[14:58] <Elaine> "As if you weren't already tough enough," Elaine says jokingly.
[14:59] <Elaine> "Blame it on my exuberant youth," Elaine answers, sticking her tongue out at him childishly.
[15:03] <SirGavin> "Not many tell tales of frail knights, after all." He teased back. "You've stepped out of your exuberant youth yet?"
[15:07] <Elaine> "Not at all. Why, is there any reason to?" Elaine counters.
[15:09] <SirGavin> "Well then, how can I blame it on that?" He smiled.
[15:10] <Elaine> "Because I still have it, of course!"
[15:13] <SirGavin> "Right, Right... How about you just make a song of it and we call it even?"
[15:14] <Elaine> "Works for me, though I think I'll take a nap first," Elaine comments as she lies down on the pile of leaves. Not uncomfortable at least.