"A Foreshadowing" | Agent Wimble, Order of the Martyrs, Maki, Beakerson, Sukoshi, Ananias, Tovian, The Professor
In the cave, not far from Adventurer's Outpost, in the Forest of Middlemarch...
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias rubs his tired eyes as he looks over a map of Adventurer's Outpost. Much of his scouting had been complete, but with so few people, he wasn't sure just how to get in. "Elyon give me wisdom."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 A quiet scuffling, clinking noise toward the cave entrance.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias hears the noise and immediately forms an ice spike in his hand. He runs to the entrance, keeping in the shadows. He eyes scan the area.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 A raccoon waddles out from behind a rock. He's very noticeably mechanical looking. Stands on his back legs and sniffs the air with his button nose.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias isn't sure what to make of it, but he watches it carefully.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 The raccoon rubs his face with a paw and starts to move deeper into the cave.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Before it goes in too deep, Ananias throws his ice spike in front of it's path before leaping from the shadows and grabbing it by the scruff.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Has a very mechanical scruff. Makes a grumpy churring sound at Ananias and tries to free himself.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias holds as tight as he can while trying to figure out exactly what it is.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Francis: "Boss, why does the critter have iron in it's back? "That's weird."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Gives up and just lets Ananias hold him until he's put down.
Little song09/03/2019 Leaning against the side of the cave.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Professor: Stares one eyed at the creature. "Blah foweembajob, moppity dwerp imbobbin?" He asks it.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson glares at the Professor. "What got stuck in your throat?"
Dark Matter09/03/2019 One ear twitches. Sniffs the air.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Why don't you try talking to it Andy?"
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Tries to wriggle free again.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "I've mastered many languages Barney, but talking to animals isn't up my alley." Beakerson: "Is it a spy?" Ananias: "Why don't you ask it yourself?" Beakerson: "Hardee har har."
Little song09/03/2019 "I don’t think knights would make that."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Makes a churring sound again and sneezes.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias to Sukoshi: "I don't suppose you can speak to this creature yourself?" Beakerson: "Nah, he only speaks chicken."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Starts messing with some gears on his belly. Turns a little knob and starts playing music.
Little song09/03/2019 "No. You need an elf for that." Stares. "I don’t trust it."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson stares for a moment. "Well it's got pretty good taste in music. Maybe you can harmonize along with your chicken chanting." Ananias. "Barney."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Happy sigh.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson. "Sorry." Beakerson: "It seems rather harmless." Ananias turns it around and looks into its eyes, not really sure what to do with it.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Makes an almost laughing sound.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson: "Heh, he thinks you look funny Andy."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Gets carried away with twisting the music knob and it plays super fast.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias nearly drops the racoon on the floor.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Arnol: "Enough games." Kicks it out of the cave.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Loud squeak and the music fast forwards to the end of the song very rapidly.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Arnol: "There! Shall we focus?" Speaking to the group.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson to Arnol: "What the heck dude? What did it ever do to you? Runs out to retrieve the racoon."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Brushing itself off. Looks up at Beakerson with seeming indigence.
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki stumbles into the cave, wiping at eyes, stops dead in tracks staring at raccoon.
Little song09/03/2019 Sukoshi shakes head.. "I’ll be back in an hour."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson picks up the racoon. "Aww, there there now. Arnol is just a big old meany. But you just want to be friends don't ya?"
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki, voice flat, "WHAT is THAT."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias to Sukoshi. "Where are you going?" Beakerson to Maki: "Oh hey Maki. Not sure what this is exactly, but it's kinda cute."
Little song09/03/2019 "To ... I just got to move right now."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Seems to calm down a bit.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias: "I'd advise not wandering off alone. Baldwin's men are everywhere and you could easily be caught."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: looks at Sukoshi. "If you're going into the camp, you better take us with you. It's bad enough that Beakerson and Andy snuck away last without us earlier." Annoyed.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson to Maki. "Well sorry for trying not to disturb your beauty sleep." Beakerson gently strokes the racoon's head as if it were a normal racoon. "We figured you needed the extra rest to regain your abilities to full strength."
Little song09/03/2019 "I’m not going there." Totally going there.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Raccoon starts playing music again. Seems very amused by itself.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias: "And just where are you planning on going all alone for an hour? You know Baldwin's men are hunting you."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki, fascinated by music, shrugs. "Yeah, I guess sleep is good..."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Professor jigs to the music.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson to Maki: "Your welcome."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki still keeping her eye on Sukoshi though. "So...when ARE we going? We need to get Gusicard and Kashi and Donindor back."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias: "If we go head first into the camp without a plan, no one is going to get any of our friends back."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 [Arnol]: "Martyrs, mount! We are done wasting time with these people! And your stupid vengeance quest."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson: "It's not a vengeance quest. We're just trying to free our friends."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Tries to dig through Beakerson's doctor bag.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Arnol: "I wasn't talking to you Doctor"
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: Sticks out tongue at Martyrs.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson: "Whoa hey now! You can't go digging through that." Beakerson holds up the racoon to face Arnol and makes a hissing sound.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Tries to nibble on a bandage that he snagged but figures out quickly it's just cloth and starts playing with it.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Arnol gives Maki and Beakerson an indignant stare. Pushes past Ananias, glaring at him with hate. Humphrey backs her up. Francis slouches, a bit disappointed at his bosses call. ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019
Beakerson: "Boy did somebody wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." Sees the racoon playing with the bandage. "Hey, don't you lose that now."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Francis: "Don't you think we'll need em, to get Guiscard back?" Arnol: Snaps back. "Guiscard is in Elyon's hands, as any martyr should. We are too small, we will all die assaulting that fortress."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: "All one of us has to do is sneak in and destroy it from the inside." Rolls eyes.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Professor: to the racoon, "Chuck! chuck! Hemoglobin?"
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 "Or better yet, draw them out. So that we can get behind them and take the fort."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Playing with the bandage, balls it up and "accidentally" throws it in Arnol's face.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson to the professor: "Gesundheit."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Arnol: "There are HUNDREDS of them! And more scattered across Middlemarch, and Ashnew-- What the!?" When ball hits face.
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki shrugs. "We just need a really big diversion." Thinking. "We need a spy. "Someone who can figure out why they're bothering us in the first place. Figure out their weak spots."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Squeaks loudly and stops playing music.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson to Maki: "What do you think Andy and I have been trying to do?"
Little song09/03/2019 [Spy just went to scope out the situation.]
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Ignores. "You all waste your time with that creature, like children. We will get busy."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson hold up the racoon to Arnol again and makes a hissing sound.
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: yawns. "I feel lost without a leader person." Stretches. "I don't want to go alone." Whines.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Makes a chuckling noise.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 The knights mount up. "Let's scout out that fort, so we can return to base with intelligence," he addresses to his men. Francis: To Maki. "You don't have ta be. It's safer with us." Arnol: "Enough of that! Let's ride."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson hears the chuckling noise. "Heh, he's laughing at your ugly face."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: Eyes widen, shakes head firmly.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Starts playing oddly peppy music again.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson: "I like this racoon. Can we keep it?"
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: Likes music. "Let's keep it, yes."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "I shall call him...Squeaks! Unless you think Beethoven is a better name."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Professor: "How about Sir Shalaman-III"
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson looks at him. "I'm not naming him after your dumb mutt."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 "But Shalaman was such a master of music, unprecedented!"
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Gives Beakerson an acorn he picked up.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Yeah but your dumb dog did no favors to that name." Takes the acorn. "Aw, thank you Squeaks."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: Gets another acorn for Raccoon. "What about Jukebox?" Grins. "That's an old Aizdiharian name for a magic music box!"
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Polishes acorn
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Looks at the racoon. "Well, what do you think? Shall we call you Squeaks, Jukebox or something else?"
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Makes chuckling sound and plays more music.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Or maybe we should call you chuckles perhaps."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Professor: gestures to the sky. "I DUB THEE...TROUBLECLEFT."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Plays pompous ceremony music.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson to the Professor: "That's stupid."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Okay little guy, what do you pick? Take the acorn you gave me if you want to be called Squeaks. Take Maki's acorn if you want to be called Jukebox. Knock both out of my hand if you want to be called something else." Holds out acorns.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Matches the racoons jig with a dance.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Takes both of the acorns and tosses them, incidentally hitting Arnol.
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki watches, half dozing. "Huh, it wants something else..." "...or it can't understand a WORD we're saying and just liked two acorns."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Acorns hit him [Arnol] as he is about to spur his horse, his rage towards the wretched critter is obvious.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Either that Maki, or he just really doesn't like grumpy ol' Arnol." Ananias steps in. "If you are all quite finished with your new friend here, can we please get back to figuring out a way to save Kashi and Guiscard?"
Anonymous User09/03/2019 Walks into cave. "I searched the area within 5 miles..." Stops short. "Well at least you all aren't trying to kill each other this time." Studies raccoon.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias sees Tovian approach. "Don't get hooked to it or you'll be spending the rest of the day just trying to figure out a name for it."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Contentedly playing music.
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Ah, we have similar creatures in Torria but not as functional. And I don't think anyone has ever thought of making one to play music. "Why would you want it's name?" Directs question to Ananias.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Ask Barney that. But what news do you have for me Tovian?"
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Goes off to explore the cave, still playing cheerful music in the darkness.
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Beside the point. What have you figured out about Guisgaurd and Kashi?"
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias to Tovian: "Other than they're under heavy guard and will be almost impossible to free if we don't have a solid plan to get in there."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Are there any gaps in there defenses and patrols?"
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "It's not the patrols I'm worried about. It's the fact that it's an entire army we're dealing with."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki, thinking hard.
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Well I don't know about you but I would rather not face an entire army right now. You know, I'm just not in the mood for it. Maybe I will be tomorrow though." Stares keenly at Ananias.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Stares right back at him. "I don't care what kind of mood your in. If your here, then you're here to help us rescue Guiscard and Kashi. If not, then you may return to Torria."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: "We don't have to face an entire army, we just have to divide them up and take them in bite size pieces. All we need to do now is GET GUISCARD back. And we really need to hurry, because after we get HIM back, I really need to leave."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "So then what did you decide to name the raccoon?"
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: Headdust. "I'm going back to sleep." Walks back out the cave to find a tree.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Forget the racoon! We've got a job to do."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "My point."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Your point?"
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Yeah. You were naming the thing, while I was scouting. We leave at night fall for the fortress and set up some sort of distraction on the opposite side."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "I was not a part of the naming. I've spent the last few days trying to find a way in. But what do you have in mind for a distraction big enough to lure an army away? Or at least most of it."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Say we light the forest on fire near the edge."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Facepalm. "Not good enough. Plus you'll tick off every Fenwomple and Kin sapling and the last thing we need is them after us as well."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "As long as they don't know that it was us than it will add to the distraction."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Can you tell the difference between a Kin sapling and a regular tree?"
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "No, then we get someone to talk to the Kin sapling and tell them to leave so that we don't set them on fire."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Good luck with that." Ananias thinks for a moment. "Unless Maki and I throw a couple of inferno bombs around."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Will do. And the rest of us will go around back to unlock the prisoners."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "That's assuming we know exactly where they're being held. I have to get close enough to pinpoint their location. We may have one more scouting mission to do."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Ok, us two can go first while the others stay here until we find the prisoners location."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias nods. "We'll leave tonight. Let's scout the fortress, find the prisoners and get back here to form a plan with the others."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 Nods. Grabs canteen of water and leaves the cave.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "We'll only have a short window of time. I think I know their patrols well enough to get us in close. Be we have to get out fast or we'll be caught."
[The two begin to make preparations.]
Dark Matter09/04/2019 Makes a chattering noise and scampers after Tovian.
Anonymous User09/04/2019 Waits in bushes outside cave entrance, surprised by the third member of the stealth operation.
Dark Matter09/04/2019 Blinks innocently up at Tovian with his little black eyes.
Anonymous User09/04/2019 Blinks back. Hands raccoon shiny coin.
Dark Matter09/04/2019 Seems very appreciative and takes the coin with both of his paws, experimentally nibbling on the edge before turning it around and examining it.
Anonymous User09/04/2019 Cocks head.
Yankee Samarai09/04/2019 Professor stands alone in the cave...all is now quiet...he raises his brow, smacking his lips. "I said I had a map of the Outpost," but there is now no one left in the cave [at that time] to hear him. He struts out, looking for which path, left or right, will take him on the next phase of his grand, continent sized adventure. "Doodedy dee da Doo, deededy deededy dum..." He goes left.
To be Continued
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias rubs his tired eyes as he looks over a map of Adventurer's Outpost. Much of his scouting had been complete, but with so few people, he wasn't sure just how to get in. "Elyon give me wisdom."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 A quiet scuffling, clinking noise toward the cave entrance.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias hears the noise and immediately forms an ice spike in his hand. He runs to the entrance, keeping in the shadows. He eyes scan the area.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 A raccoon waddles out from behind a rock. He's very noticeably mechanical looking. Stands on his back legs and sniffs the air with his button nose.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias isn't sure what to make of it, but he watches it carefully.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 The raccoon rubs his face with a paw and starts to move deeper into the cave.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Before it goes in too deep, Ananias throws his ice spike in front of it's path before leaping from the shadows and grabbing it by the scruff.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Has a very mechanical scruff. Makes a grumpy churring sound at Ananias and tries to free himself.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias holds as tight as he can while trying to figure out exactly what it is.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Francis: "Boss, why does the critter have iron in it's back? "That's weird."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Gives up and just lets Ananias hold him until he's put down.
Little song09/03/2019 Leaning against the side of the cave.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Professor: Stares one eyed at the creature. "Blah foweembajob, moppity dwerp imbobbin?" He asks it.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson glares at the Professor. "What got stuck in your throat?"
Dark Matter09/03/2019 One ear twitches. Sniffs the air.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Why don't you try talking to it Andy?"
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Tries to wriggle free again.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "I've mastered many languages Barney, but talking to animals isn't up my alley." Beakerson: "Is it a spy?" Ananias: "Why don't you ask it yourself?" Beakerson: "Hardee har har."
Little song09/03/2019 "I don’t think knights would make that."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Makes a churring sound again and sneezes.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias to Sukoshi: "I don't suppose you can speak to this creature yourself?" Beakerson: "Nah, he only speaks chicken."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Starts messing with some gears on his belly. Turns a little knob and starts playing music.
Little song09/03/2019 "No. You need an elf for that." Stares. "I don’t trust it."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson stares for a moment. "Well it's got pretty good taste in music. Maybe you can harmonize along with your chicken chanting." Ananias. "Barney."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Happy sigh.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson. "Sorry." Beakerson: "It seems rather harmless." Ananias turns it around and looks into its eyes, not really sure what to do with it.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Makes an almost laughing sound.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson: "Heh, he thinks you look funny Andy."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Gets carried away with twisting the music knob and it plays super fast.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias nearly drops the racoon on the floor.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Arnol: "Enough games." Kicks it out of the cave.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Loud squeak and the music fast forwards to the end of the song very rapidly.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Arnol: "There! Shall we focus?" Speaking to the group.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson to Arnol: "What the heck dude? What did it ever do to you? Runs out to retrieve the racoon."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Brushing itself off. Looks up at Beakerson with seeming indigence.
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki stumbles into the cave, wiping at eyes, stops dead in tracks staring at raccoon.
Little song09/03/2019 Sukoshi shakes head.. "I’ll be back in an hour."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson picks up the racoon. "Aww, there there now. Arnol is just a big old meany. But you just want to be friends don't ya?"
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki, voice flat, "WHAT is THAT."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias to Sukoshi. "Where are you going?" Beakerson to Maki: "Oh hey Maki. Not sure what this is exactly, but it's kinda cute."
Little song09/03/2019 "To ... I just got to move right now."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Seems to calm down a bit.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias: "I'd advise not wandering off alone. Baldwin's men are everywhere and you could easily be caught."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: looks at Sukoshi. "If you're going into the camp, you better take us with you. It's bad enough that Beakerson and Andy snuck away last without us earlier." Annoyed.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson to Maki. "Well sorry for trying not to disturb your beauty sleep." Beakerson gently strokes the racoon's head as if it were a normal racoon. "We figured you needed the extra rest to regain your abilities to full strength."
Little song09/03/2019 "I’m not going there." Totally going there.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Raccoon starts playing music again. Seems very amused by itself.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias: "And just where are you planning on going all alone for an hour? You know Baldwin's men are hunting you."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki, fascinated by music, shrugs. "Yeah, I guess sleep is good..."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Professor jigs to the music.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson to Maki: "Your welcome."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki still keeping her eye on Sukoshi though. "So...when ARE we going? We need to get Gusicard and Kashi and Donindor back."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias: "If we go head first into the camp without a plan, no one is going to get any of our friends back."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 [Arnol]: "Martyrs, mount! We are done wasting time with these people! And your stupid vengeance quest."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson: "It's not a vengeance quest. We're just trying to free our friends."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Tries to dig through Beakerson's doctor bag.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Arnol: "I wasn't talking to you Doctor"
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: Sticks out tongue at Martyrs.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson: "Whoa hey now! You can't go digging through that." Beakerson holds up the racoon to face Arnol and makes a hissing sound.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Tries to nibble on a bandage that he snagged but figures out quickly it's just cloth and starts playing with it.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Arnol gives Maki and Beakerson an indignant stare. Pushes past Ananias, glaring at him with hate. Humphrey backs her up. Francis slouches, a bit disappointed at his bosses call. ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019
Beakerson: "Boy did somebody wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." Sees the racoon playing with the bandage. "Hey, don't you lose that now."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Francis: "Don't you think we'll need em, to get Guiscard back?" Arnol: Snaps back. "Guiscard is in Elyon's hands, as any martyr should. We are too small, we will all die assaulting that fortress."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: "All one of us has to do is sneak in and destroy it from the inside." Rolls eyes.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Professor: to the racoon, "Chuck! chuck! Hemoglobin?"
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 "Or better yet, draw them out. So that we can get behind them and take the fort."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Playing with the bandage, balls it up and "accidentally" throws it in Arnol's face.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson to the professor: "Gesundheit."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Arnol: "There are HUNDREDS of them! And more scattered across Middlemarch, and Ashnew-- What the!?" When ball hits face.
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki shrugs. "We just need a really big diversion." Thinking. "We need a spy. "Someone who can figure out why they're bothering us in the first place. Figure out their weak spots."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Squeaks loudly and stops playing music.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson to Maki: "What do you think Andy and I have been trying to do?"
Little song09/03/2019 [Spy just went to scope out the situation.]
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Ignores. "You all waste your time with that creature, like children. We will get busy."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson hold up the racoon to Arnol again and makes a hissing sound.
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: yawns. "I feel lost without a leader person." Stretches. "I don't want to go alone." Whines.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Makes a chuckling noise.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 The knights mount up. "Let's scout out that fort, so we can return to base with intelligence," he addresses to his men. Francis: To Maki. "You don't have ta be. It's safer with us." Arnol: "Enough of that! Let's ride."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson hears the chuckling noise. "Heh, he's laughing at your ugly face."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: Eyes widen, shakes head firmly.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Starts playing oddly peppy music again.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson: "I like this racoon. Can we keep it?"
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: Likes music. "Let's keep it, yes."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "I shall call him...Squeaks! Unless you think Beethoven is a better name."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Professor: "How about Sir Shalaman-III"
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson looks at him. "I'm not naming him after your dumb mutt."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 "But Shalaman was such a master of music, unprecedented!"
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Gives Beakerson an acorn he picked up.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Yeah but your dumb dog did no favors to that name." Takes the acorn. "Aw, thank you Squeaks."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: Gets another acorn for Raccoon. "What about Jukebox?" Grins. "That's an old Aizdiharian name for a magic music box!"
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Polishes acorn
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Looks at the racoon. "Well, what do you think? Shall we call you Squeaks, Jukebox or something else?"
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Makes chuckling sound and plays more music.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Or maybe we should call you chuckles perhaps."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Professor: gestures to the sky. "I DUB THEE...TROUBLECLEFT."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Plays pompous ceremony music.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Beakerson to the Professor: "That's stupid."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Okay little guy, what do you pick? Take the acorn you gave me if you want to be called Squeaks. Take Maki's acorn if you want to be called Jukebox. Knock both out of my hand if you want to be called something else." Holds out acorns.
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Matches the racoons jig with a dance.
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Takes both of the acorns and tosses them, incidentally hitting Arnol.
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki watches, half dozing. "Huh, it wants something else..." "...or it can't understand a WORD we're saying and just liked two acorns."
Yankee Samarai09/03/2019 Acorns hit him [Arnol] as he is about to spur his horse, his rage towards the wretched critter is obvious.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Either that Maki, or he just really doesn't like grumpy ol' Arnol." Ananias steps in. "If you are all quite finished with your new friend here, can we please get back to figuring out a way to save Kashi and Guiscard?"
Anonymous User09/03/2019 Walks into cave. "I searched the area within 5 miles..." Stops short. "Well at least you all aren't trying to kill each other this time." Studies raccoon.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias sees Tovian approach. "Don't get hooked to it or you'll be spending the rest of the day just trying to figure out a name for it."
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Contentedly playing music.
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Ah, we have similar creatures in Torria but not as functional. And I don't think anyone has ever thought of making one to play music. "Why would you want it's name?" Directs question to Ananias.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Ask Barney that. But what news do you have for me Tovian?"
Dark Matter09/03/2019 Goes off to explore the cave, still playing cheerful music in the darkness.
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Beside the point. What have you figured out about Guisgaurd and Kashi?"
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias to Tovian: "Other than they're under heavy guard and will be almost impossible to free if we don't have a solid plan to get in there."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Are there any gaps in there defenses and patrols?"
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "It's not the patrols I'm worried about. It's the fact that it's an entire army we're dealing with."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki, thinking hard.
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Well I don't know about you but I would rather not face an entire army right now. You know, I'm just not in the mood for it. Maybe I will be tomorrow though." Stares keenly at Ananias.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Stares right back at him. "I don't care what kind of mood your in. If your here, then you're here to help us rescue Guiscard and Kashi. If not, then you may return to Torria."
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: "We don't have to face an entire army, we just have to divide them up and take them in bite size pieces. All we need to do now is GET GUISCARD back. And we really need to hurry, because after we get HIM back, I really need to leave."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "So then what did you decide to name the raccoon?"
Commando Chipmunk09/03/2019 Maki: Headdust. "I'm going back to sleep." Walks back out the cave to find a tree.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Forget the racoon! We've got a job to do."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "My point."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Your point?"
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Yeah. You were naming the thing, while I was scouting. We leave at night fall for the fortress and set up some sort of distraction on the opposite side."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "I was not a part of the naming. I've spent the last few days trying to find a way in. But what do you have in mind for a distraction big enough to lure an army away? Or at least most of it."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Say we light the forest on fire near the edge."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Facepalm. "Not good enough. Plus you'll tick off every Fenwomple and Kin sapling and the last thing we need is them after us as well."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "As long as they don't know that it was us than it will add to the distraction."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Can you tell the difference between a Kin sapling and a regular tree?"
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "No, then we get someone to talk to the Kin sapling and tell them to leave so that we don't set them on fire."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "Good luck with that." Ananias thinks for a moment. "Unless Maki and I throw a couple of inferno bombs around."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Will do. And the rest of us will go around back to unlock the prisoners."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "That's assuming we know exactly where they're being held. I have to get close enough to pinpoint their location. We may have one more scouting mission to do."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 "Ok, us two can go first while the others stay here until we find the prisoners location."
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 Ananias nods. "We'll leave tonight. Let's scout the fortress, find the prisoners and get back here to form a plan with the others."
Anonymous User09/03/2019 Nods. Grabs canteen of water and leaves the cave.
ThatGuyOverThere09/03/2019 "We'll only have a short window of time. I think I know their patrols well enough to get us in close. Be we have to get out fast or we'll be caught."
[The two begin to make preparations.]
Dark Matter09/04/2019 Makes a chattering noise and scampers after Tovian.
Anonymous User09/04/2019 Waits in bushes outside cave entrance, surprised by the third member of the stealth operation.
Dark Matter09/04/2019 Blinks innocently up at Tovian with his little black eyes.
Anonymous User09/04/2019 Blinks back. Hands raccoon shiny coin.
Dark Matter09/04/2019 Seems very appreciative and takes the coin with both of his paws, experimentally nibbling on the edge before turning it around and examining it.
Anonymous User09/04/2019 Cocks head.
Yankee Samarai09/04/2019 Professor stands alone in the cave...all is now quiet...he raises his brow, smacking his lips. "I said I had a map of the Outpost," but there is now no one left in the cave [at that time] to hear him. He struts out, looking for which path, left or right, will take him on the next phase of his grand, continent sized adventure. "Doodedy dee da Doo, deededy deededy dum..." He goes left.
To be Continued
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