Reprise! Act 1!

[Carthrat]

Carthrat eyes Relm. "What's with *you*?" she asks. "Geez. Some kind of karmic spirit is telling me you shouldn't be acting like that. I mean, if I acted like that, it'd be ok, but *you*.."

The ball of fire hits.. someone, who screamed in pain.

<->

Elsewhere, Ryoma hears a scream of pain, coming from rather nearby.. well, if he can hear anything beyond the throbbing in his severed arm.

[Rezantis]

"Pfft, I got sick of discussing it.  We all know he's there."

Relm snaps her finger and the fire gutters out.

"Anyway, shall we go and see what he wants?"

[Carthrat]

"Sure thing!" replies Carthrat, ambling over to the slightly-scorched area, reaching into it, and hauling out... a singed-looking elf, wearing a simple tunic and holding a bow in one hand.

"What should we do with him? Her. It."

[Rezantis]

"Oh, get out of the way,"  Relm stepped past Carthrat and crouched next to the . . . elf . . .

"Dammit,"  Relm sighed, "Well, at least it was only a small fireball."

[Carthrat]

Carthrat shakes the elf around a bit. "I dunno. He looks pretty beat up, too. Maybe it wasn't just you," she replies, shrugging, then unanimously dropping the (male) elf on the ground.

[Rezantis]

Looking at the elf with a pained expression, Relm gestured a few times and muttered an incantation, a white light glowing around her hands . . .

OOC: Cure Moderate Wounds.  <_<

[Carthrat]

The Healing Light of Goodness spreads across the elf, who looks up at Relm, shocked. "Back! Why would a defiler heal me?" he shouts, stumbling back.

OOC: By the way, Ryoma is hearing all this. >_>

[Rezantis]

"Oh, shut UP.  I'm not in the mood for all this 'defiler' garbage, I'm enough on edge.  Unless you've got a particularly pressing reason for following us, do me a favour and rack off, alright?"

Relm is tactful!

[Carthrat]

The elf spits out. "You're an elementalist! I can feel it! Twisting the forces of Gaia to your own devious ends.. no matter how many good deeds you may do, no matter what you may accomplish, you're still just a servant of darkness because of the twisted methods that bring you power!"

Carthrat, for her part, blinks. "Oh, yeah. You know that black box?"

[Rezantis]

"Yeah, yeah.  I'm also a sorceress, I eat the occasional animal, and wouldn't you know it I probably knocked down a couple of trees on my way here.  I'm so black hearted you'd better get away before I change my mind and spread you across the damn forest, right?"

Relm, not waiting for a response, then turned to Cathrat.

"Black thing, buried, so what WAS it?"

[Carthrat]

"It defiles shit," replies Carthrat, blandly. "It's probably not a good idea to dig it up right now.

I give the forest maybe.. oh.. seven days?"

[Rezantis]

". . . what?"

Relm looked dangerously at Carthrat.

[Carthrat]

"Well, uh, complexities aside, I think we better leave," replies Carthrat, looking around nervously. "Do elves have some kind of weird connection to the forest like they do in movies?"

[Rezantis]

"Explain, right now."

[Carthrat]

"Well, that black box is actually a container for something called 'Tendrils of Evil," replies Carthrat, cheerfully. "It's not really magical, and that's just a silly dramatic name. It's used on forest ecologies to completely wipe out the ecosystem in order for terraforming to easily commence, thus allowing the prompt population of new areas.

Basically, the ground is going to turn black, the trees are going to fall over, and any nonintelligent life is probably going to die.

Nothing burns, though!"