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May 05 09:07:17 ❨✽❩	Topic for #divinegame-ic is: Hasim 23/Tiberius 22/Kimihiro 20/Owlbears 19/Li Mei 12/Percy 6
May 05 09:07:17 ❨✽❩	Topic for #divinegame-ic set by Brand!~Brand@Rizon-710AE43D.stmartin.edu at Sun May 01 11:48:25 2011
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May 05 11:56:34 ❨❢❩	HLeviathan is now known as Percy_Agetro
May 05 11:57:05 ❨❢❩	You are now known as Kimihiro_Kisuke
May 05 11:58:06 ❨❢❩	Nacht is now known as Hasim_Al-Baqir
May 05 12:05:24 ❨❢❩	Mr_Rage is now known as Li_Mei
May 05 12:06:55 <@Brand>	It's morning.  Mirtul 23rd.  Tonight's supposed to be a quarter moon.  Alice is gone, a note left in her loopy handwriting so contrary to her actual attitude, saying that she was summoned by Sir Tolgrith for some magician's work, since she was awake.
May 05 12:09:07 <@Brand>	Tiberius, as you awaken, Tiny asks if you spent any of the booze going drinking last night.
May 05 12:09:28 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot declines to answer, since the answer is obvious.
May 05 12:09:54 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot also indicates that he's going to thump Tiny's smart ass, as soon as he can open his eyes without having iron spikes driven through his brain.
May 05 12:10:29 <@Brand>	Tiny asks how Tiberius spent 500 GP worth of booze money in one night.
May 05 12:10:58 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot immediately opens his eyes.
May 05 12:11:01 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot>	"AHRGH"
May 05 12:11:04 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot closes his eyes.
May 05 12:11:14 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot>	"The hell? Five hundred? the hell?"
May 05 12:11:23 <@Brand>	The window, now that you guys can see, is cracked a bit open.
May 05 12:12:01 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot>	"......"
May 05 12:12:25 <Li_Mei>	"...?"
May 05 12:12:26 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot worms his way back into his bedroll, taking his pack with him.
May 05 12:13:00 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot>	"I think Percy drank five-hundred gold worth of booze last night."
May 05 12:13:38 <@Brand>	The owl gives you a blank look.
May 05 12:14:13 <Percy_Agetro>	Clearly this is impossible because Percy is up doing sword drills because he is not a lousy drunk.
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May 05 12:15:38 <@Brand>	Regardless, for whatever reason, be it leaky purses or leaky doors, the team is down 500, for now.  Daylight's a burning.
May 05 12:16:36 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ burrows even deeper into his bedroll.
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May 05 12:24:03 ✽	Hasim_Al-Baqir yawns and gets to his daily morning preparations for the day. He looks to everyone currently assembled. "We have an entire day's worth of work, I suggest we go search for the rest of the owlbears." Hasim suggests, waving his map.
May 05 12:25:13 ✽	Percy_Agetro nods.
May 05 12:25:18 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke agrees, yet asks, "Uh, guys. I was rather badly beaten up yesterday. Could I request for a spot of healing?"
May 05 12:25:26 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"MMMRMRPH" comes a sound from Tibbs bedroll.
May 05 12:27:01 <@Brand>	It's a knock on the door!
May 05 12:27:05 <@Brand>	Knock knock knock
May 05 12:27:32 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Yoou get eet."
May 05 12:27:41 ✽	Hasim_Al-Baqir answers it.
May 05 12:28:09 <@Brand>	It's a young boy, maybe 12?  "Hullo, milord.  Remember, five days until the tainting of the river!  Buy yourself water while you can!"
May 05 12:28:39 <@Brand>	The boy smiles cheekily, in peasant clothes.  "I can sell you some water cupons, if you wish!"
May 05 12:28:47 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ sniggers from inside his bedroll at the thought of Hasim buying water.
May 05 12:29:06 <@Brand>	"Three silver a barrel!"
May 05 12:29:07 <Hasim_Al-Baqir>	"Maybe later." Hasim answers, looking down at him, smiling. "I've filled up my personal stores already."
May 05 12:29:29 <@Brand>	"Alright.  Have a good day, milord!"
May 05 12:29:49 <@Brand>	The boy runs off, but a cool wind blows through the door.  Wake up you faggots.
May 05 12:30:32 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ refuses!
May 05 12:30:33 ✽	Hasim_Al-Baqir looks to the rest of his traveling companions. "Alright, let's get a move on. Soemone drag Tiberius out of bed."
May 05 12:30:34 ✽	Percy_Agetro rolls his eyes and walks back into the barracks and wake up Tibs by force if neccessary.
May 05 12:31:07 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ clings to the bedframe!
May 05 12:31:35 ✽	Percy_Agetro prods Tibs with his strength 17 index finger.
May 05 12:31:39 <Percy_Agetro>	"Wake up."
May 05 12:31:44 <@Brand>	Tiny is a traitor!  He pecks at Tib's fingers!
May 05 12:31:52 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke says, "So, shall we proceed on owlbear tracking?"
May 05 12:31:59 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ jumps irritably, tries to escape, and rolls out of bed onto the floor.
May 05 12:32:05 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Bhlarghgasdf."
May 05 12:32:37 <Percy_Agetro>	"You going to dress yourself?" Percy asks.
May 05 12:32:51 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Actually, I had an idea about that."
May 05 12:33:06 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ staggers upright, wearing pants, but no shirt.
May 05 12:33:34 <Percy_Agetro>	:I
May 05 12:33:37 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	Diving into his pack, he produces an ordinary shirt, and tugs it on, followed by a simple belt, and the cloak of elvenkind.
May 05 12:33:41 <Percy_Agetro>	"I don't think that's going to impress the owlbears."
May 05 12:34:14 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ tracks down the cold iron longsword, and hangs it off his belt.
May 05 12:34:40 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"I've decided to not look like a wizard, today," Tiberius explains, stuffing his robe and hat into his pack.
May 05 12:34:59 <@Brand>	It's a sword, jim.
May 05 12:35:11 <@Brand>	You know
May 05 12:35:16 <@Brand>	Tiberius actually looks kinda snazzy.
May 05 12:35:38 ✽	Hasim_Al-Baqir waits patiently right outside the door. His psicrystal is perched on his shoulder again. It skitters around frequently as he waits.
May 05 12:35:59 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ strikes a pose. His owl looks unimpressed.
May 05 12:36:02 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Everyone's a critic."
May 05 12:36:06 ✽	Percy_Agetro heads outside to join the others.
May 05 12:36:16 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ follows, tugging his spellbook out.
May 05 12:36:19 ✽	Li_Mei peeks at the wizard. "Well, I think it's nice."
May 05 12:36:29 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ smiles.
May 05 12:36:42 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"THANK you, Li. See? THIS person has taste," Tibbs says to his owl, irritated.
May 05 12:36:59 <@Brand>	And eventually, you're checked out of the fort, the guards waving your group well.
May 05 12:37:09 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"So, owlbears?"
May 05 12:37:13 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ consults his spellbook.
May 05 12:37:33 <Percy_Agetro>	"Owlbears," Percy confirms.
May 05 12:37:48 <Hasim_Al-Baqir>	"Owlbears. Meanwhile, we'll search for resources or potential resource areas, but that's a secondary concern."
May 05 12:37:51 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Righto. Anything in particular you want, in the way of phenomenal cosmic power?"
May 05 12:37:57 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke then proceeds to scout the land, searching for owlbear traces.
May 05 12:38:20 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ goes right ahead and casts Mage Armor to start the day.
May 05 12:40:42 <@Brand>	Kimihiro_Kisuke: Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssouthea
May 05 12:40:44 <@Brand>	no
May 05 12:40:44 <@Brand>	no
May 05 12:40:46 <@Brand>	That's not right
May 05 12:40:47 <@Brand>	Uhhhhh
May 05 12:41:21 <@Brand>	Due north, you can see some tracks across the river?
May 05 12:41:56 <@Brand>	Yeah.
May 05 12:42:02 ✽	Hasim_Al-Baqir checks his map. Is this right? It's right, right?
May 05 12:42:03 <@Brand>	That's definately tracks across the river.
May 05 12:42:20 <@Brand>	Can't be more than 3 days old.
May 05 12:42:50 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke scratches his head, noting that tracks disappear when faced with running water. This must be the exceptionally strong kind of tracks, then, the ones called "Plot Device".
May 05 12:42:58 <@Brand>	across
May 05 12:42:59 <@Brand>	as in
May 05 12:43:03 <@Brand>	on the other side
May 05 12:43:07 <@Brand>	You ESL fucker
May 05 12:43:31 ✽	Li_Mei rubs hir temple. The ancestors are particularly irritable today.
May 05 12:43:33 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke says, "I find some owlbear traces across that river.", to the others, pointing in the direction of the tracks.
May 05 12:43:35 <Li_Mei>	Or maybe it's a hangover.
May 05 12:44:06 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ slings himself up on Teamane, and points dramatically into the distance!
May 05 12:44:06 <@Brand>	t.
May 05 12:44:11 <Kimihiro_Kisuke>	"So, shall we?"
May 05 12:44:13 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"TROT!"
May 05 12:44:41 <@Brand>	Teamane starts trotting across the river.  It goes up to his nose at one point, when he pushes his head up, but you both manage to get across.  Wet.
May 05 12:44:55 <Percy_Agetro>	This is what prestidigitation is for.
May 05 12:45:17 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ lets himself stay wet. He's playing Fighter today.
May 05 12:46:01 ✽	Hasim_Al-Baqir looks at the river. "Why was I born so short." He grouses.
May 05 12:46:26 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Hey, you're a smaller target for archers!" Tibbs comments from across the river.
May 05 12:47:50 <@Brand>	Evryone eventually gets across the river.  Owlbear tracks head.... north, towards the hills up north.
May 05 12:47:51 ✽	Percy_Agetro simply swims across. Swimming. Fucking miracles.
May 05 12:48:07 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke avoids getting his feet wet by vanishing in a puff of black smoke and reappearing in the shade of a tree on the other side of the river.
May 05 12:48:36 <@Brand>	Yeah, those owlbear tracks, head... north.
May 05 12:48:40 ✽	Li_Mei dripdries after the long, careful walk, braid heavy on hir head.
May 05 12:48:48 <@Brand>	It must be a parliment, there's a lot of the fuckers, it's a pretty big group.
May 05 12:48:51 <@Brand>	er
May 05 12:48:53 <@Brand>	Big set of tracks.
May 05 12:49:00 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"That is so much bullshit," Tibbs says, looking at Kimihiro. "Bullshit I wish I could do, however."
May 05 12:49:07 ✽	Hasim_Al-Baqir takes absolutely forever to get across, but does so eventually. Just soaking wet, and grumpy.
May 05 12:49:23 <@Brand>	Teamane shakes wildly.
May 05 12:49:29 <@Brand>	Water goes everywhere!
May 05 12:49:46 <@Brand>	Thankfully, not violently enough to hurt Tiberius... but enough to rattle him a bit.  |>
May 05 12:50:11 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	Tibbs little owl squawks, high and dry on top of Tibbs head.
May 05 12:50:29 <@Brand>	Follow the tracks? y/n
May 05 12:50:36 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	y
May 05 12:51:11 <Hasim_Al-Baqir>	y
May 05 12:51:46 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Hey. You."
May 05 12:51:56 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ snaps his fingers, trying to remember a name.
May 05 12:52:47 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Guy. Who poofs. You. How many friggin owlbears are we following, here?"
May 05 12:52:57 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ looks at the ground, worried.
May 05 12:53:02 <@Brand>	The tracks go north, almost straight fucking north.  Half a mile, two, three, four.  You can see the hills peeking out occasionally over the trees, and occasionally even the non-trackers can see an occasional tuft of fur.
May 05 12:53:06 <@Brand>	*tuft of feathers
May 05 12:53:35 ✽	Li_Mei grabs a piece of feather on her way by, playing with it out of boredom.
May 05 12:53:40 <Li_Mei>	hir
May 05 12:55:08 <@Brand>	On the third hour of walking, you see a small hillock, smack dab in the middle of your tracks.  It's covered with grass, and has no trees over it.  The owlbears must have gone over it, since you can't see any other signs of their trail going left or right.
May 05 12:55:48 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Weeell, that's wierd."
May 05 12:55:57 <Percy_Agetro>	"Maybe it's a burrow or something?" Percy offers.
May 05 12:56:02 <@Brand>	Advance?
May 05 12:56:31 <Percy_Agetro>	Poke around for a bit.
May 05 12:56:41 <@Brand>	Poke around what, exactly?
May 05 12:56:58 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	I'm going to ride around the hillock briefly, see if the tracks continue on the other side.
May 05 12:57:15 <@Brand>	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_: By riding a bit to the left, you can see they do.
May 05 12:57:33 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ communicates thus to the rest of the group.
May 05 12:57:43 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"It's just a hillock."
May 05 12:58:00 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ does not step onto it, however.
May 05 13:00:09 <Kimihiro_Kisuke>	"Let me check. I'll scout it out on the other side and report here."
May 05 13:00:31 <Kimihiro_Kisuke>	"Please stay put."
May 05 13:01:34 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ stays put.
May 05 13:01:53 ✽	Percy_Agetro will follow, though at a large enough distance to give Kimi his space.
May 05 13:02:10 <@Brand>	Kimihiro, when you approach the hillock, climbing on top of it... you don't see, none of you see, the little glimmer of runes over it, not before it stands, no amount of fucking hide able to truely evade something when you're stepping on it.
May 05 13:04:21 ❨❢❩	Brand has changed the topic to: 26 Kimihiro/24 Hasim/23 Tiberius/9 Percy/7 Li_Mei/2 PLANT THING
May 05 13:04:48 <@Brand>	You're barely given time to curse before the thing rises up, a large, grassy maw opening to engulf you.
May 05 13:06:18 <@Brand>	Nom!
May 05 13:07:24 <@Brand>	It's almost comical, this massive plant creature nomming you, like a toothless giant playfully catching you in its mouth, but it bites and pain shoots through your body, the pain of a monsterously huge creature with massive strength crushing your sides.
May 05 13:08:14 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Oh holy humping whoreballs."
May 05 13:10:41 <@Brand>	"Neeeeigh."
May 05 13:10:44 <@Brand>	"Tweeeeeeeeeet."
May 05 13:13:17 <Kimihiro_Kisuke>	"What the fuc... hell?", Kimihiro states, as he disappears in a puff of smoke and lands 50 feet away, safely. He staggers backward, and looks in fearful awe at the thing.
May 05 13:14:36 ✽	Li_Mei scrunches hir nose. "Be careful with magic. I think this thing is messing with the Weave."
May 05 13:15:22 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ looks up at the towering beast and does some swift mental arithmetic.
May 05 13:15:26 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Okay, not good."
May 05 13:16:26 <Kimihiro_Kisuke>	"I am so going to take a trophy out of that thing's body after this."
May 05 13:16:35 <Hasim_Al-Baqir>	"This is a tendriculos." Hasim begins. "To put it short, it eats people. Only bludgeoning weapons are truly effective, along with acid. This particular one likes to eat spellcasters." Hasim helpfully tells everyone. "As a side note, I have strong suspicions that there is a load of treasure nearby. Keep me covered!" He begins channeling his most potent power.
May 05 13:17:50 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ dismounts and pats Teamane on the side, but keeps a hand on her reigns. He withdraws a scroll from his pack, just in case.
May 05 13:18:20 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Anything you'd like me to do, Hasim? Looks like this is your show. Unless we want to bombard it with arrows from back here."
May 05 13:21:31 <Hasim_Al-Baqir>	"Just do something. Don't you have fire available?"
May 05 13:21:56 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"I do," Tiberius confirms. "I've got enough oil, we could soak it and launch a flaming arrow at it."
May 05 13:22:16 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke responds, "For that, acid is much better. Fire won't be able to do enough damage."
May 05 13:22:30 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"... it won't? Damn."
May 05 13:23:58 <Hasim_Al-Baqir>	"Just do *something*." Hasim hisses.
May 05 13:24:26 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"I'll wait and see," Tiberius says. Li's comment on the weakness of the Weave has clearly made him wary.
May 05 13:25:02 ✽	Percy_Agetro draws his sword and dashes towards the enemy, weaving about to avoid it's tentacles and getting to the main body, striking only a glancing blow. He plants his feet. He's where he wants to be.
May 05 13:26:33 <@Brand>	The tendriculos (Spell that shit ten times fast) almost starts to move hungrily towards... Tiberius... but pauses when it sees Percy before it.  You little fucker, I want arcane meat!  It attacks!
May 05 13:27:26 <Percy_Agetro>	tendriculos tendriculos tendriculos tendriculos tendriculos tendriculos tendriculos tendriculos tendriculos tendriculos
May 05 13:28:15 <@Brand>	A flurry of attacks, and Percy can ward off a tendril before the maw catches him, holds him hostage.  food.
May 05 13:29:14 <Li_Mei>	"Percy!"
May 05 13:29:28 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"I'
May 05 13:29:32 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ coughs
May 05 13:29:39 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	Fucking pollen!
May 05 13:29:51 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke gathers his courage and moves up, stopping at 20 feet away from the monster. He has a plan.
May 05 13:30:52 <Percy_Agetro>	"What is it with monsters manhandling me?" he manages to get out as he hacks futily and it's tentacles.
May 05 13:34:34 ✽	Hasim_Al-Baqir drops the construct at the tendriculos' metaphorical feet. The construct attacks, and Hasim greases the underside of the massive plant titan.
May 05 13:35:01 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Percy! Get the fuck out of there!"
May 05 13:35:17 <@Brand>	Tealeaf, by the way, Tiberius, fucking bolts.
May 05 13:35:17 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ weaves his hands in the air, chanting intently, and the shine of grease appears on Percy's armor!
May 05 13:35:31 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	And that, son, is why I am not on Tealeaf's back anymore.
May 05 13:36:37 ✽	Percy_Agetro manages to slip out, though just barely.
May 05 13:36:49 <Hasim_Al-Baqir>	"Good going, Tiberius." Hasim calls back.
May 05 13:37:12 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"About time, eh?" Tiberius says, pleased despite the danger.
May 05 13:38:48 ✽	Percy_Agetro manages to slip around and across from Li, dividing the monster's attention, his sword readied again, he grits his boots. Good. He's solid.
May 05 13:40:28 ✽	Li_Mei shoves hir sword into the mess of vines, unsure what, if anything, was accomplished.
May 05 13:40:54 <@Brand>	You deal damage, Li_Mei, but it's just growing back.  You ahve to figure something out.  Fuck.
May 05 13:42:14 <@Brand>	The creature continues to try to eat Percy, severely injuring him.  Damnit I want spellcaster meat go away
May 05 13:42:26 <@Brand>	Once more, Percy is pulled into the creature's maw.
May 05 13:43:17 <Percy_Agetro>	quit eating me and let me kill you you stupid plant.
May 05 13:49:26 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke attempts to bodily pick up the thing and throw it, but alas, it is to big and cumbersome.
May 05 13:56:59 ✽	Hasim_Al-Baqir directs the construct to do anything it can to help Percy. Meanwhile, Hasim begins floating... upwards. "I think we may have to run." He says aloud.
May 05 13:57:40 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Indeed," Tiberius says. "I've got something that can lock it down, but we need to get Percy out of there!"
May 05 13:59:58 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ shakes his head. There's only one thing he can do.
May 05 14:04:19 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ raises his hands high, and chants the magic tounge!
May 05 14:05:19 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	A blast of cold air stirs the tall meadow-grass, and darkness begins swirling ten feet above the monster. Suddenly, the sky breaks, and a wall of wind and screaming sleet come hammering down upon the creature!
May 05 14:07:40 ✽	Percy_Agetro struggles futiley against this fucking fucker.
May 05 14:12:15 ✽	Li_Mei whispers tersely to the heathenous gods of the Realms, giving Percy a last bit of juice before backing off out of the range of its tendrils.
May 05 14:13:08 <@Brand>	Percy, you suddenly feel yourself being dragged into the creature, deeper, deeper, a kind of venom tries to paralyze you but you're too strong, too fucking mad, what the fuck is this thing doing in the forest, mystra you whore
May 05 14:16:55 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke tries to trip the creature again, fails again, then decides that discretion is the better part of not getting eaten alive and runs the fuck away.
May 05 14:16:58 <@Brand>	Li_Mei, you escape the sleet!
May 05 14:17:03 <@Brand>	Kimihiro_Kisuke, you escape the sleet!
May 05 14:17:25 ✽	Hasim_Al-Baqir steadies himself in midair and growls in frustration. "Guess I'll keep trying."
May 05 14:18:38 <Hasim_Al-Baqir>	The construct faisl to do anything.
May 05 14:18:59 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ reaches for his pack and plucks a scroll out, readying it for use.
May 05 14:19:38 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"HEY! TENTA-CRUD! I FUCKED YO' MOMMA AND SHE WAS ONE DRY HUMP! YOU WANT A SPELLCASTER? I'M RIGHT HERE, FUCKER! LET THE GREASY FOOD GO!"
May 05 14:24:20 ✽	Percy_Agetro draws the dagger on his belt with his other hand and cuts a bloody swath into its innards. Finally fighting back he is invigorated.
May 05 14:32:31 <@Brand>	In the dark, thanks to the AC having attacked the Tendriculos previously, it manages somehow to grope and grab the creature, dragging it into its mouth.  Nom!
May 05 14:33:04 <Hasim_Al-Baqir>	"Everyone!" Hasim barks. "I have the best chance of killing this creature! Unless you can join me in the air, I suggest you flee!"
May 05 14:33:31 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke agrees.
May 05 14:43:58 ✽	Hasim_Al-Baqir continues floating up. Meanwhile, he leaves behind another construct. It charges the plant creature with an axe-like, while its elder thrashes about in the maw of the beast.
May 05 14:46:53 <@Brand>	GULP.
May 05 14:47:07 <@Brand>	The first astral construct goes down the hatch.  Percy, did it just get crowded in here?
May 05 14:49:08 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke dives back into the storm, attempts yet another futile attempt to free percy by throwing the creature, and fails.
May 05 14:51:32 <Hasim_Al-Baqir>	Maybe you're imagining things, but the ectoplasmic creation doesn't quite look pleased, Percy. The moment it drops down, it takes entire fistfuls of the creature's insides in its hands and climbs its way back up. The younger astral construct attacks the tendriculos again, while Hasim continues pouring power from his mind into reality.
May 05 14:53:00 <@Brand>	It's uncomfortable, the way the goddamn creation uses your head as a footstool, but ultimately, good comes out of goddamnit Hasim, when the creature pauses, forcing the creation back down, with several, shuddering spasms, before a final gulp so forceful it pushes you into your own cut, out, out, and suddenly through the creature, free, like some kind of fucked up childbirth, you
May 05 14:53:00 <@Brand>	fall to the ground, covered in sleet and fucking acid.
May 05 14:53:34 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	And grease.
May 05 14:53:39 <@Brand>	And grease.
May 05 14:54:26 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ contemplates the huge cylinder of sleet and darkness, and the horrid screams coming from within.
May 05 14:54:30 <@Brand>	The creature collapses, sliding finally, covered in grease and cold. MOST DISPLEASED
May 05 14:54:37 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	A loud CRASH! soudnds from inside.
May 05 14:54:42 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Yeah, fuck this."
May 05 14:54:45 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ runs like a bitch.
May 05 15:00:17 <Percy_Agetro>	Damn. Percy quickly rights himself, keeping his feet despite the difficulties and beats a neccessary retreat. That thing is ridiculous. He makes a note to get some sort of magic item of freedom which is a spell he totally knows about, thanks mom.
May 05 15:01:02 ✽	Li_Mei runs away.
May 05 15:01:52 <@Brand>	The plant continues to attack the construct outside its body, completely unaware of the retreating party members.
May 05 15:03:31 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke is enveloped in shadows as he disappears and reappears, running invisibly towards Li_Mei.
May 05 15:08:38 <@Brand>	Hasim stays, a battle between his little minions and the monster itself, while the rest of the party flees...
May 05 15:08:40 <@Brand>	~~~~~
May 05 15:09:13 <@Brand>	It's out of sight.  It's out of several sights, you're sure.  Hasim hasn't caught up, but Psionic Levitate isn't that fast, and you sure as hell weren't taking your time.  You hope.
May 05 15:09:28 <@Brand>	Tiberius, you soon see Teamane, nervously peeking out behind grass.
May 05 15:10:07 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Yo! Teamane!"
May 05 15:10:10 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ waves stupidly
May 05 15:10:20 <@Brand>	Teamane gives you a look like "SSHHH WHAT IF IT HEARS YOU"
May 05 15:10:59 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"If it can outrun you, boy, we're boned anyways. Besides, it had a little late spring snowstorm just now."
May 05 15:11:07 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ realizes he's talking to a horse and feels a little dumb.
May 05 15:11:30 <@Brand>	Teamane can sense your somewhat calm demenor, and steps out.  Neeeigh.
May 05 15:11:42 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"C'mere boy."
May 05 15:11:47 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ pats his thigh invitingly.
May 05 15:11:51 <@Brand>	It waaaalks over.
May 05 15:11:52 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Now where the hell did everybody else go?"
May 05 15:12:09 <@Brand>	Li_Mei, Percy_Agetro, and Kimihiro_Kisuke are already by you, having all decided to flee.
May 05 15:12:41 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke prays, intoning, "Forgive me, Gaia, for what I must do." He then grabs the nearest squirrel he can see, then proceeds to suck out its life.
May 05 15:13:22 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ stares at him uncomfortably.
May 05 15:13:36 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"You know what? That was almost as fucked up as the gigantic spellcaster-eating plant monster."
May 05 15:14:17 <Percy_Agetro>	"Li, you got that wand on you?" Percy asks, tired, bruised, cut up and kinda slimy too.
May 05 15:14:28 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke then is healed to full, as the squirrel gasps its last, dying breath. It probably was a bad squirrel, anyway.
May 05 15:15:00 <Li_Mei>	"Of course." Li retrieves the stick, touching Percy's wounds one by one.
May 05 15:15:33 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ waits until Percy's been somewhat healed, then touches him on the forehead gently.
May 05 15:15:36 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Skadoosh."
May 05 15:15:56 <@Brand>	And then Percy was clean!
May 05 15:16:12 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Percy..."
May 05 15:16:16 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ strokes his beard thoughtfully.
May 05 15:16:20 <Li_Mei>	"Run away and leave everything to the caster. So typical." Li folds hir arms.
May 05 15:16:25 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"What in the holy HELL were you thinking!?"
May 05 15:16:34 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke stares at Li Mei. "You could've told me before I ate the squirrel.", he says.
May 05 15:16:46 <Kimihiro_Kisuke>	"Anyhow, could I have a spot more healing?"
May 05 15:17:05 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"You BARELY escaped that fuckers clutches the first time, but you stuck around for MORE? It almost squeezed you out like a tube of calk the first time it laid tentacles on you!"
May 05 15:17:34 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ shakes his head.
May 05 15:17:59 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"And you KNEW there was damn little the magic users could do to back you up on that one. You didn't even hang back long enough to request any defensive spells on your person."
May 05 15:17:59 <Percy_Agetro>	"Because its my job," Percy says, "And I'm already thinking up how we can kill that thing.
May 05 15:18:10 <Percy_Agetro>	"
May 05 15:18:53 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Your JOB," Tiberius nearly roars, "is to not get your ass killed. You can be a stubberon asshole sometimes, but I like you, damn it, and I don't want to see you get eaten alive by a shrub with a bad attitude. Please."
May 05 15:19:05 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ fhlumps to the ground wearily.
May 05 15:19:19 ✽	Li_Mei tosses another charge towards Kimi, before taking up lotus position just off the road.
May 05 15:19:45 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"... I know how we can kill it, anyhow," Tiberius offers after a few minutes.
May 05 15:20:15 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"It can't fly, but Hasim and I both can. If we can find something that will hurt it..."
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May 05 15:20:39 <Percy_Agetro>	"Trees," Percy says simply.
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May 05 15:20:49 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"... trees."
May 05 15:20:52 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ ponders this.
May 05 15:20:53 <Percy_Agetro>	"It's an ambush predator. It doesn't move until the prey is right on top of it."
May 05 15:21:13 <Percy_Agetro>	"so once we've all fully retreated it will go back to waiting for prey. All we have to do is drop several trees on top of it."
May 05 15:21:27 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Sooo... are you about to disclose a hithero-unknown talent for seige engineering...?"
May 05 15:22:14 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ shakes his head.
May 05 15:22:18 <Percy_Agetro>	"You chop a tree down. You use a wedge shape in the direction you want it to fall. You do this in advance with several trees, and then do the last of the work simultaneously."
May 05 15:22:40 <Percy_Agetro>	"It's not engineering. It's firewood," he says simply.
May 05 15:23:14 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"I can do you one better. Acid... or whatever the more knowledgable determine it's vunlerable to. I can make a fair quantity without too much trouble, if I can beg, borrow or steal the equipment."
May 05 15:23:41 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Because I doubt you'll be able to drop many trees on it in the middle of a grassy plain."
May 05 15:23:48 <Percy_Agetro>	"It may be an ambush predator, but that doesn't mean it will neccessarily stay there forever. I'd prefer doing it this way."
May 05 15:24:03 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ shrugs.
May 05 15:24:14 <Percy_Agetro>	"Also, if you haven't noticed, I hate losing," he says pointedly.
May 05 15:24:29 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"If you want to stand within twenty feet of it swinging away with an axe, instead of dropping acid on it from sixty feet overhead, be my guest."
May 05 15:24:41 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"We can even let you do the dropping. The spells will work on you."
May 05 15:28:00 <Li_Mei>	"We could gather enough manpower to do both."
May 05 15:28:16 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"... indeed."
May 05 15:28:24 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ snaps his fingers.
May 05 15:28:59 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"If that boss-man moron tells us he doubts this thing exists, why, I'm gonna..."
May 05 15:31:01 <Li_Mei>	"Did anyone else feel the Weave around it? It was...wrinkled. Stained. There's a distinct possibility this creature and those fae are related somehow."
May 05 15:31:31 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke pipes up. "I have a small proposition. Given that that thing out there is mature enough to be able to coat Percy here with poison, I propose that we enlist the help of our Dwarven Merchant friend to put it down. And tell him that after it dies, we help him collect its stomach poison."
May 05 15:31:32 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ looks pensive.
May 05 15:31:49 <Kimihiro_Kisuke>	"I believe that the poison is rare enough and expensive enough to at least interest him in attempting to collect it."
May 05 15:31:53 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"Can it, you mercenary SOB," Tiberius says absently, with no real venom.
May 05 15:32:41 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"... I don't like this place, Li. That thing is one wierd anomaly too many. A Chimera, perhaps. Fucked-in-the-head fey? Sure. But THIS thing?"
May 05 15:32:45 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"And the weave?"
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May 05 15:32:53 <Kimihiro_Kisuke>	"Its venom would be quite useful, both as an article of trade, and as proof that there is something wrong with the weave."
May 05 15:33:26 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"As if a few vials of green goo are going to convince some loggerhead military commander that the Weave has been damaged."
May 05 15:34:22 <Kimihiro_Kisuke>	"It won't convince him that the Weave is damaged, but it will convince him that there is a... thing... out there."
May 05 15:34:31 <Kimihiro_Kisuke>	"An aberration of nature worth investigating."
May 05 15:35:24 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ emulates Li and remains silent.
May 05 15:35:38 <Kimihiro_Kisuke>	"I don't know about you guys, but I think I'll be, uh, um, er, 'checking up' on Hasim."
May 05 15:35:52 <Kimihiro_Kisuke>	With that said, Kisuke stretches, exerts himself, and re-enters the fray.
May 05 15:37:05 <Kimihiro_Kisuke>	On second thought, Kisuke stays put.
May 05 15:40:21 <Brand>	Teamane walks over to Li and nudges hir in the head.
May 05 15:40:29 <Brand>	Nuuudge.
May 05 15:40:30 <Brand>	Nuuuuuudge.
May 05 15:41:08 <Tiberius_McSpellsalot_>	"This is a holdup!" Tiberius narrates for the pony, slipping an apple into Li's hand. "Hand over the fruit and nobody gets nibbled."
May 05 15:42:35 ✽	Li_Mei blinks, laughing and offering the apple. "Don't hurt me, take it all~"
May 05 15:44:05 ✽	Kimihiro_Kisuke says, "So, what do you propose we do?"
May 05 15:45:17 ✽	Tiberius_McSpellsalot_ reclines in the grass, and closes his eyes.
May 05 15:46:42 <Li_Mei>	"Find the commander. Get some men. Go at it, but prepared this time. Even if we can't convince him of the larger suspicion, a creature like that could easily end up killing their entire workforce." Li pets the horse as hi talks, watching Tiber flop.
May 05 15:47:19 ✽	Percy_Agetro nods.
May 05 15:47:31 <Percy_Agetro>	"If nothing else, to warn them of this area."