Reprise! Act 1!

[Rezantis]

"Janaak?"

[Carthrat]

"Yeah, that's the one," replies Carthrat. "It's, like, north of the forest or something. I forget. I just want to make sure I never go there again.

I figure, if I play my cards right, I could be ostracized from every town in the country before next Friday."

[Rezantis]

"Wow.  It must have been one impressive run, then, since Janaak's two mountain ranges and an ocean to the east of here."

Relm arched the other eyebrow, then grinned.

"I am all that, sort of, but I never said anybody cared.  Besides, it doesn't sound as impressive if you don't make titles out of it."

[Carthrat]

"Fair enough," replies Carthrat, grinning. "I prefer lugging around this thing," she says, indicating the bigass club currently leaning around the tree.

"Welllll, it *usually* scares people off, anyway. I've had a run of bad luck, recently."

[Rezantis]

"How so?  Apart from the fact that fifty foot centipedes don't take well to intimidation, of course," Relm muttered, "too stupid to be scared, those things."

[Carthrat]

"The last town, *before* the centipede," grumbles Carthrat. "There's nothing I hate more than fearless morons. I swear, it's like that in every other town. I got arrested for not eating a special kind of cake once, just 'cos it was apparently some sort of holy day."

[Rezantis]

"Oh, yes.  Ryshcate, and those'd be Cor'elly'ans.  It's good cake, but still."

[Carthrat]

Carthrat shakes her head. "Bah, I'll never get used to this, I swear. Y'know how much it sucks being displaced?"

Suddenly, there is a noise from the bushes!

[Rezantis]

Casting her senses out for a moment, Relm noted the figure to be roughly human sized.

'Watching' it carefully, she nonetheless outwardly ignored it.

"Displaced?"

[Carthrat]

Carthrat's method of recieving the thing is a little different. She pulls out her little gun and shoots the thing. This is followed by a muffled thump.

"Bwaha!" she says, ignoring Relm and rushing over to the bushes.

[Rezantis]

Relm blinked.

The hell?

And turned to look at Carthrat.

"What was that?"

[Carthrat]

Carthrat reaches into the bushes and pulls out a deer, with a hole in it's head.

"Dinner, naturally. You up for it?"

[Rezantis]

Relm shook her head, still looking at Carthrat with a surprised expression.

"No, what was the weapon?  And what's displaced?"

[Carthrat]

"This little beauty? It's a .45 autoloader, of course," replies Carthrat.

[Rezantis]

Relm motioned for him to continue.  "Which means . . . "