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Message Date: 2007-02-03 16:49:01
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: 9: Over the dam

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It's still early when the reveille is sound, but captain Satlin seems already mostly packed, a couple of minutes later he walks out the tent with his gear. You hear him being greated by stablehand that has brought the donkey's and loads his possessions.
When you get out of the tent you notice that again two bags like what your tents where in are loaded on the packdonkey, and a new basket.

As soon as the last items have been packed and loaded captain Draga shows up
"Good morning.
Your work is still the same, we haven't gotten any new information overnight, only one last thing, you best cross the valley before going over the dam, this side is mostly big rocks and not passable with the donkeys. On the left you can probably find a path over rock and dirt"
"Good luck"
Captain Satlin salutes to Captain Draga and then rides away.
You move down into the valley, cross the stoney dry riverbed and when you aproach the dam on this side you see it's a lot less rockgrey
At the foot of the dam Satlin stops, dismounts and looks at you a short moment and then starts climbing the dam, leading the donkey. Satlin tries to keep as much as possible to the rocks, and soon you notice why as for the first time the soil gives way under a foot, and quite regularly a foot or hoof sinks deep into the soil till halfway up.
There when Satlin takes his first step on the soil to cross over to the next rock his foot just keeps going down, he tries to move back and get his balance back, and his donkey bray's and stiffens as a gaping hole forms where you where planning to cross. And Satlins other food slips and he slides into the hole, but he manages to hold on to the reigns of his donkey as he falls and then only his head and shoulders are still above the rock, one hand on the reign the other grabbing a ridge while he grasps for air.

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Message Date: 2007-02-04 01:57:31
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Lepus was ore than a little grumpy at having to get up at reveille, but then that isn't exactly an unusual state of being for the cunicul to be in on this journey. He traipsed along behind the others in unhappy silence, which was probably better than constant whining, which would have been the other option.When Satlin breaks through the floor, Lepus doesn't exactly react quickly his first act is to try and get himself away from the edge and then to look at the others. "What do we do?!" He asks with near-panic.

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Message Date: 2007-02-05 06:05:14
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Probably being up as early as Satlin is, she helps packing everything up after packing her own stuff in her backpack. Seeing that there are new tents, she doesn't bother taking down the tent they had been sleeping in.
She thanks Captain Draga for his advice, although a bit haughtily, and then follows Captain Satlin into the valley, accepting that he would probably know about this region better than she did, so he would probably know the best route to take.

At the dam, she follows Satlin's example as closely as possible, stepping over the rocks as gingerly as possible with a donkey's reign in her hands. At the sight of Satlin's descent into the ground, she lets go of her donkey immediately and jumps over the rocks until she's standing on a rock closest to Satlin's position. Then she tries to extend a hand to the Tolv, hoping to grab his.
Should she succeed at this, she shouts backwards at Lepus,
"Help me pull him out! Quickly!" realizing that she probably wasn't strong enough herself to get him out of the ground.
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Message Date: 2007-02-07 08:35:25
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Lepus dithers for another moment before finally stepping forward to help Tyranael.

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Message Date: 2007-02-22 20:40:39
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Vladimir flies to the captain's feet and try to push him up.

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Message Date: 2007-02-23 07:50:40
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Meinozsé also carefully moves over to help pull the captain up, and with the combined efforts do you manage to heave Satlin back on the solid rock where he stays seated a while, looking around to your faces giving a stiff thankyou nod as if it's a normal day at the office event, but his true feelings are given away by his eye's that shine with a thankfull glow.
Meanwhile he rubs his arm that got stuck in the reigns
After a while he stands up and looks at the side of the dam
"This is a setback, we'll have to make a detour around this hole,"
meanwhile looking back at the others, especially his fellow tolvs
"and decide on some extra safety precautions"

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Message Date: 2007-02-25 19:59:22
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"Extra safety sounds like a really good idea right now." Lepus agrees rather emphatically and eyes the whole suspiciously.

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Message Date: 2007-03-02 17:24:38
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"Yeah, you should all grow some wings! Oh wait, you can't... maybe you should see a docter about it. I could construct some wings for you I'm sure."

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Message Date: 2007-03-04 07:20:54
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"Having abnormal ears is more than enough for me, thanks," Tyra responds, eying Vladimir.
"Maybe we can tie ropes to each other so that the next time someone falls in a hole we can pull him out more easily. And someone should use a long object to probe the road ahead of us. Unfortunately, I have neither. Maybe something like that has been packed for us?"

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Message Date: 2007-03-04 08:01:20
From: Meinozsé Stensalil
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Meinozsé walks to her donkey and takes a rope of her backpack
"I have some rope that we can use. See that double checking if you aren't forgetting anything till the last minute pays off?"
She ties herself at about on third of the lenght to the rope and holds to other ends out for others to tie up
"Maybe we can use a sword or something to probe?"

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Message Date: 2007-03-05 19:09:05
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"Actually I prefer not to be tied up to large heavy people that can't fly at all, especially when there is danger of sinking through the ground. If you don't mind."

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Message Date: 2007-03-06 07:04:44
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"!Well you're not going to fall off a cliff, and if we do you're hardly going to be saving us with your awesome strength. SO there's no point in letting you join the little cavalcade that'll probably just drag us all down." Lepus gripes at Vladimir. He isn't mad at Vladimir per se, but he's worried and complaining is the best cure for that that he knows.

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Message Date: 2007-03-06 07:38:37
From: Captain Jutzef Satlin
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Satlin sighs a bit when he takes the long end of the rope and then walks over to Lepus
"Well, hold out your arms a moment"
And as soon as Lepus complies he ties lepus halfway between Meinozsé and the end of the rope.
When that's done he ties himself to the end
If Tyranael hasn't tied herself to the other end by then he will respond to that
"What are you waiting for?"

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Message Date: 2007-03-06 13:17:55
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"Uh.. yeah that's what I said!"

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Message Date: 2007-03-23 14:50:00
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Tyranael ties herself to the other end as soon as Meinoszé is done. She sighs when Lepus starts complaining, although it's hardly something new by now.
"Given the rate with which Captain Satlin descended in the loose ground last time we will have enough time to respond in case someone slips. And if we don't have a suitably long stick I suppose I could use one of my swords to probe the ground, although they aren't really long enough to do it effectively."

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Message Date: 2007-03-31 03:42:45
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"Maybe you should try one of your ears?" Vladimir says very seriously.

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Message Date: 2007-04-12 07:39:51
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Tyranael raises an eyebrow at Vladimir.
"My ears aren't nearly... wait, stop making fun of my ears. It's not as if your ears are any less long relatively. Now hold your tongue or I will use you to probe the ground."
She frowns at him angrily for a moment, before looking around to see if she can find a stick lying around somewhere.

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Message Date: 2007-05-09 19:06:29
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"Oh come on!! How long does it take you guys to find a stick? In the time were wasting now you all cóuld have taken flying lessons!"

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Message Date: 2007-05-12 03:32:53
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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In the immediate surrounds you don't see any sticks, but you see something a bit up the hill and for now you use the tools that you have to go around the hole.
After a while you find piece of gnarled root stick out. When somebody gives it a pull to see if it's loose and long enough, you get it out of the ground some more that you get the feeling it might be long enough, although a clumsy tool, but also that the ground here is unstable and that you have no idea what might happen when you pull it completely free

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Message Date: 2007-05-14 03:14:28
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Lepus eyes the ground and then steps away from the root. "What is it with the ground here? I say we don't pull anything out of it for now and just keep going carefully."

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Message Date: 2007-05-16 06:06:10
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Eyeing the root and the ground it is rooted in, Tyra nods at Lepus.
"Yes, you're right. I'll just try to stick close to the ground and probe with my sword. It'll make us slower, but falling in holes will make us even more slow."

She draws one of her swords and crouches, slowly moving forward and sticking the sword in the ground in all directions in front of her. She then tries to set out the shortest path to the top of the dam that isn't dangerous.

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Message Date: 2007-05-18 06:06:13
From: Meinozsé Stensalil
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Tyranael has just started crouching when she feels the rope holding her back, when she looks back she sees that Meinozsé has taken her knife and is carefully digging the root out some more. When she's 5 centimers into the ground she finds it stuck between to rocks and she cuts it off just above it.
"here you go, maybe it works this way"

When moving on Captain Satlin doesn't really seem to mind to have lost command for the moment after his experiences on front. But he has hardly guided his donkey off the next rock or things start sliding away after him. And the rock he's on feels like it's going down also, causing him to quickly catch up to Lepus and then Meinozsé.
The rock he was on goes down aswell, and the one with Lepus and Meinozsé starts to move a bit, but in the end holds.

The rest of the travel up takes some detours as Tyranael finds some soft places, and there are some landslides close by, mostly below you.
In the end, after some hours of climbing you reach the top. And after hours of seeing not much more then rock and dirt you suddenly see a grand, but misty, panorama of the valey behind the dam.
The upper slopes of the mountain closing it off on your side is suprisingly green, and in the depts it looks much like the last part of your trip through the valey on the other side yesterday, but it's hard to see any details with the mist hanging in the valey.
You don't see any tracks of the scouts, and maybe just a bit of blinking where you expect the river bed.
When you look down to see if you can find a path down you notice that after 20 meters or so, the dam starts to look green like a long grassy pasture on the hill sides.

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Message Date: 2007-05-18 11:21:42
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"Well, this is nice. Why don't we stop and enjoy the view for a moment." Judging by the way he's panting and his slackened pace for the last stretch of the journey Lepus is just making this up as an excuse for a rest.

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Message Date: 2007-05-26 09:45:18
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"We should at least move towards the grass before we take some rest. The ground here might still be treacherous. Once we reach harder, more stable ground we can take a small break."
Nonetheless, Tyra does look at the view below her before moving on, enjoying the pretty sight.

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Message Date: 2007-05-27 19:50:00
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"How come this side of the dam is so green? Shouldn't there be water her instead of grass??" Vladmir asks stroking his chin.

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Message Date: 2007-05-28 12:35:55
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"Wait a minute!!" Jumping up and down in excitement. "Wasn't our mission to find out what was causing the drought problems in this area?! Doesn't grass need water to grow?!"

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Message Date: 2007-05-28 18:27:35
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"Of course. Something must be stopping the water from getting through to the other side. I guess the dam is stopping it all instead of letting some through". Lepus scratches his chin thoughtfully and looks around evidence to support his theory.

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Message Date: 2007-05-30 17:24:16
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"The dam is obviously preventing water to come from this end to the other," Tyra said, looking pensively at the valley below, "but the stream down there seems rather small as well, so I surmise that the stream is partially blocked somewhere further along the stream as well."

She looked at Vladimir for a moment.
"If you were suggesting that there is no water because there is grass, that's just ridiculous."

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Message Date: 2007-05-30 18:31:09
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"No you braindead swordswinger!! I mean: how does this grass grow?? These people don't have food and water to drink but this area is green with long lushious grass! If you keep treating me like I'm an idiot like you I'm going home and tell the king!"

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Message Date: 2007-06-02 05:18:17
From: Meinozsé Stensalil
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Meinozsé looks suddenly like what Vladimir was saying makes the penny fall like a brick as she realizes what he means.
"Captain, this dam wasn't here till recently right? Nothing of it"
She get's a confirming nod from him while he stands there looking down and slowly scratching his chin
"Then how did the dam become overgrown already with full pastures, and even here and there already some bushels? It should look the same as the slope we just scaled"

"And Tyranael, I'm also not completly sure about that water, we could just not see the extend of it in the mist, maybe there is a lake at the bottom, or the water has found some other way to flow, or maybe something really wild like it is being turned into raw energy that's making everything grow so fast. Who knows what that would do, can you imagine a mantis getting a growthspurt?"
She shudders at the thought

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Message Date: 2007-06-02 18:10:35
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"If this wasn't so green before the I'd be careful. The gods or magic might be involved." Lepus looks around with the typical supersticious dread of someone who's heard stories of the capriciousness of such forces.

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Message Date: 2007-06-22 16:21:58
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Tyra shoots an angry glance towards Vladimir and clenches her fists.
"You aren't generally the most remarkably intelligent conversation partner. I don't think you have any right to call me braindead or an idiot."

She looks like she wants to say more for a moment, but then apparently thinks better of it and turns her attention towards the others.
"Hmm, it is indeed most curious that there seems to be plantlife growing on the side of this dam. I don't have much experience in botany, but I do know plants don't grow this quickly. This only means however that we have to investigate this quickly before the trouble gets out of hand, whatever that trouble might be. We take a short break at the base of the dam and then we move on."

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Message Date: 2007-06-24 14:52:37
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"Ok, I'm going back to the camp now, good bye see you later". *Takes of, walking*

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Message Date: 2007-06-26 00:10:04
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Lepus looks between Vladimir and Tyranael and seems to be a little uncertain what to say.

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Message Date: 2007-06-29 07:13:28
From: Meinozsé Stensalil
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Meinozsé looks from Tyranael to Vladimir and back.
"Hey, quit te fighting"
looking at Tyranael
"For somebody who tries to be a leader you did take a bit long to realize there was something funny about this side of the dam. I wouldn't call that braindead"
turning to look at Vladimir
"but Vladimir has a bit of a peculiar way of saying and doing things which are obviously to advanced for a braindead creature."

she scratches her neck

"Now let's move on before all our talk about braindead things makes them come into being" she shivers "My back tingles strangly and I'm not yet sure if it's from the idea of undead beings creeping up to us or the feel of magic in the air, but I don't want to stand here still and wait for things to happen"

And she starts moving down quickly followed by a headshaking Satlin.

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Message Date: 2007-07-03 06:11:46
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Looking decidedly unbothered by Vladimir heading towards the camp Tyra turns her attention to Meinozsé.
"I am a warrior, not a gardener. How should I know how fast grass grows? Sure, it is weird that this side of the hill has so much growth, but it is not something I would be looking for. I thought it might be the lack of water on the other side that prevents plantlife from growing there. Well, let's not dwell on this any longer."

She looks around for a moment and then walks after Satlin to the bottom of the dam, keeping her ears focused on the area ahead.

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Message Date: 2007-07-03 08:01:23
From: Meinozsé Stensalil
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"You don't know how fast grass and plants grow?"
Meinozsé looks really unbelieving and surprised at Tyranael
"Haven't you trained on grass? Looked around at the palace gardens and fields? Maybe noticed how long you weren't allowed on the fields when they freshly seeded them and you have to wait till the grass was strong enough? That can take weeks."
Going into a fanatical explanation spree
"This here, is a knee high pasture, that takes a month on fertile ground in the spring to grow this high. And that while the damm's here only a couple of days, it should be almost barren.."
See sucks in fresh air after her wordspree
"now let's see if there is water behind those way to high plants down below"

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Message Date: 2007-07-03 19:24:20
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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With a last glance at Vladimir and an annoyed sigh at all the bickering Lepus heads off after the others.
Meinozsé Stensalil (Ref) wrote:
"You don't know how fast grass and plants grow?"

Meinozsé looks really unbelieving and surprised at Tyranael

"Haven't you trained on grass? Looked around at the palace gardens and fields? Maybe noticed how long you weren't allowed on the fields when they freshly seeded them and you have to wait till the grass was strong enough? That can take weeks."

Going into a fanatical explanation spree

"This here, is a knee high pasture, that takes a month on fertile ground in the spring to grow this high. And that while the damm's here only a couple of days, it should be almost barren.."

See sucks in fresh air after her wordspree

"now let's see if there is water behind those way to high plants down below"

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Message Date: 2007-07-05 04:56:35
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Walking down what seems to be like a lush mountain meadow on a foggy morning makes all start to feel a bit more relaxed, although Meinozsé still moves her shoulders now and then as if to get rid of an itch without scratching.
Then suddenly Satlin shouts an "AHHHHH" in alarm and rushes forward dragging his donkey (which seems to understand his predicament and actually is eager to hurry along) seemingly upward as another sinkhole appears.
Tyranaels donkey backs away to keep clear of the growing sinkhole and the rocks starting to show down there.

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Message Date: 2007-07-05 05:09:40
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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As expected for the coardly cunicul, Lepus immediately leaps as far back up the hill as he can to avoid the sinkhole.
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Message Date: 2007-07-09 06:05:24
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Tyranael's donkey, manages to find solid ground under its hooves in the form of another big rock.

Tyranael herself, holding on to the reins falls into the hole till with a nasty jerk that causes a nastry cracking/popping sound from her shoulder as she dangles on the reins. The donkey momentarily sliding forward by the jerk backs away in terror draging Tyranael up and against the rock till she can get a foothold and climb a bit while being dragged.

Getting on top she collapses holding with her other arm a very sore and twisted looking right shoulder.



quite returns for a moment as an eerie silence before a storm.

Then it's broken by Captain Satlin shouting

"MEDIC!!!  Vladimir get back down here!! Your needed"

And he runs over to Tyranael with a wide arc around the sinkhole

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Message Date: 2007-07-17 20:04:30
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Vladimir looks back and even flies up to have a better view of the situation, when he lands he shouts (surprisingly loud)"Tyranael is in trouble? She doesn't want my help! You'd better find some special bladesinger-doctor to help here. But you can send me the donkey if somethings wrong with it". That beeing said the little guy keeps walking in the direction of the kamp.

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Message Date: 2007-07-17 20:13:00
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"Oh come on Vladimir, don't leave us stranded here just because Tyranael is annoying!" Lepus calls after the retreating figure.

Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka wrote:
Vladimir looks back and even flies up to have a better view of the situation, when he lands he shouts (surprisingly loud)"Tyranael is in trouble? She doesn't want my help! You'd better find some special bladesinger-doctor to help here. But you can send me the donkey if somethings wrong with it". That beeing said the little guy keeps walking in the direction of the kamp.


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Message Date: 2007-07-23 17:22:22
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"Aah, it hurts damn it," Tyra manages to grunt between gritted teeth. Still, being too stubborn to call for Vladimir, she gets back on her feet slowly, making sure she only uses her legs. Keeping her hand carefully on the broken arm, she starts chanting, softly and with pauses in which she takes small agonized breaths.
"Great Rally... who watches upon us... and guides our lives... Please grant me... the strength to... move on... Please heal my wounds... so that I may... bring justice and peace... back to this land..."

Then she remains silent, only breathing irregularly, waiting for the healing powers of Rally to put her arm back together.

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Message Date: 2007-07-24 06:04:04
From: Captain Jutzef Satlin
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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ooc: the arm is only broken in the sense of not working any more. Not the bone broken, it's a dislocated shoulder.

ic:
Satlin just stands quite and looks at Tyranael's attempt to heal herself and waits a minute while nothing seems to happen except Tyranael might seem a bit less in pain, but the arm is still unusable.
"Maybe you should try getting that arm back into it's socket before healing it. This doesn't seem to work, probably because you need summoning to magically put that shoulder back and he doesn't grant that. But I bet Vladimir can instruct me on how to do it manually for you"
And he grins a bit

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Message Date: 2007-07-26 08:44:11
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Fine, apparently not even the gods wanted her to save her pride. She could take a hint (eventually). She considered for a moment to try and relocate her shoulder herself, but she was smart enough to know that would probably fail horribly. And she didn't want to jeopardize the mission.

Still clutching her shoulder, but in decidedly less pain she shoots an angry glance at Satlin before turning to the hill, and in extension to Vladimir.
"Vladimir! P..please return here. I require your assistance to continue our mission."
She still refused to appologise.

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Message Date: 2007-09-23 21:19:13
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"I knew you couldn't go on without me" There's  a big grin on Vladimir's face, in his opinion that Tyraneal needs him is apology enough. "I'd offer you something for the pain, but you are probable to stubborn to admit it hurts as if a group of satyr is clogdancing on your little toe." He rummages through his bag and hands Tyraneal a piece of wood: "Here, bite this, it might help". The teethmarks on the piece of wood show it's not the first time someone refuses painkillers.
"Ok let's do this, Tyraneal please lie down here, in these situations being small is an hindrance so you two", he nods at Satlin and Meinoszé, "will have to help, Lepus can take notes for the next time she makes me run away. Meinoszé please let me see your coat.. hmm it seems strong enough. Could you please sit here next to her uninjured shoulder and take off you coat? Now put your coat under her with one sleeve across her chest and one under her, so that both sleeves meet in her armpit and you can hold on to them firmly. Be careful not to tickle her! She will not like it if you make her laugh! Satlin you should sit next to the injured shoulder, take her arm and bend the elbow so her fingertips will be pointing to her beloved Rally-in-the-sky.  Now we get the tricky part, captain you are going to pull the elbow away from the shoulder. Be carefull, do it gentle but firm. Meinoszé you have to pull the sleeves of your coat so Satlin won't just drag her along on her arm. Be care!
 ful and pull together, how much I would like to kick her, she's a patient now and we want to restrict the amount of pain as much as possible. Satlin, while pulling you should slowly move the arm back and forth on the shoulder joint. If you keep tension on the arm while doing that the shoulder should slide back in it's socket." While telling his two assistants what to do Vladimir's absently stroking Tyraneal's forehead to keep her calm.  After the shoulder's popped back in it's place he looks at Tyra: "We should put your arm in a sling now for a while, give it a rest, or do you think you can pray your way around that?"

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Message Date: 2007-09-24 04:22:51
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Tyranael Kyliries
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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The moment Tyranael seems to pass out, she gets a momentarily comforting feeling of being embraced by Rally

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Message Date: 2007-09-24 04:28:00
From: Captain Jutzef Satlin
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Satlin gives a stern nod to Vladimir to confirm he will follow every direction to solve this situation and makes himself ready in the appointed way.
The moment he starts to pull it seems Tyranael passes out, he looks worried at Vladimir "I thought this wouldn't hurt that much to make one pass out"
But he sticks to the orders and pulls and gently tries to wiggle the shoulder back in place. The next moment he seems to make a bit relieved sigh when Tyranael seems to instantaneously wake up now the pain is mostly gone

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Message Date: 2007-09-24 08:35:26
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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"It shouldn't hurt enough to make her pass out, maybe she's taking a leave of absence to escape the embarrassment of accepting help. She'll be ok."

Captain Jutzef Satlin (Ref) wrote:
Satlin gives a stern nod to Vladimir to confirm he will follow every direction to solve this situation and makes himself ready in the appointed way.

The moment he starts to pull it seems Tyranael passes out, he looks worried at Vladimir "I thought this wouldn't hurt that much to make one pass out"

But he sticks to the orders and pulls and gently tries to wiggle the shoulder back in place. The next moment he seems to make a bit relieved sigh when Tyranael seems to instantaneously wake up now the pain is mostly gone
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Message Date: 2007-09-25 05:15:26
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Lepus doesn't actually take any notes, he just unhelpfully stands around and watches the others work. After a while he sits down on the ground crosslegged to make himself more comfortable.
Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka wrote:
"It shouldn't hurt enough to make her pass out, maybe she's taking a leave of absence to escape the embarrassment of accepting help. She'll be ok."

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Message Date: 2007-09-25 07:07:30
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam

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Looking vaguely suspicious as Vladimir gives orders to the others, Tyranael is still thankful that her diminutive companion had returned. She looks at the teeth marks on the piece of wood and frowns, but she puts it in her mouth without complaint. As far as she can, Tyra listens to the orders of Vladimir and stored it in her memory, in case she would need it later. When the time comes for the actual work, Tyra grits her teeth, leaving her own marks on the stick. But soon after she appears to faint.

Moments later she opens her eyes again and looks at the arm. Smiling, she lifts it carefully and balls her hand into a fist. Satisfied with the lack of pain she uses both arms to lift herself up from the ground.
"It appears that Rally's blessing has graced me and made my injuries whole again. I will not require a sling for my arm is fully healed."
She pauses for a moment as she looks at her fellow travellers.
"Thank you for your assistance everyone... especially you, Vladimir. Now, we must move on again. We have lost too much time already."
Picking out a path, she started moving slowly, waiting for the rest to catch up before picking up a brisk pace.

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Message Date: 2007-09-25 07:45:22
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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Tyranael, clearly feeling better, takes the lead in the walk down through the long grass. The surroundings seem quiet with only the rustle of a breeze through the grass.

Vladimir, leading his donkey starts to get an itch at his nose as the grass tickles it regularly causing him to sneeze furiously a couple of times.

Ten minutes later, being about half way down water can clearly be seen glittering through the leaves of a patch of forest at the bottom of the dam. Well, for all except Vladimir that is standing in grass that is as tall as himself by now and it only seems be getting taller. Here and there are patches of blackberry like bushes.

The breeze still moves the grass a bit, but through this rustle there seem to be other sounds of things moving through the grass.

Satlin looks around a bit worried, urges Meinozsé to keep up and stay in the center of the group and guards the rear himself.

"I sure hope we find those missing soldiers soon, their orders shouldn't have taken them very much further then the bottom of the dam unless there is something really strange down here, and even then, somebody should have come back to give a report"

He seems really concerned about those scouts.

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Message Date: 2007-09-25 08:20:02
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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"You're welcome." Lepus replies drily to Tyranael's thanks before walking off after the others.The mention of missing soldiers briongs out the typical cowardly reaction in Lepus, as could be expected. "Maybe we should go back and get more people, in case there's something dangerous. Or...to form search parties!" He adds the last bit hastily, so as to seem less of a coward.

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Message Date: 2007-09-26 21:55:39
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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"Hmm Rally works fast, maybe I should become a bit mor godly, it seems usefull. You don't have to thank me, it's my job, besides the captain and miss Stensalil did the hardest part, well... and you.."
He just goes along with the party, struggling through the grass (apparently :P ).

"Aaatsjie stupid grass, trying to get me to sit on the donkey, eh?"

"Maybe those soldiers got lost in the long grass, I know I would if it wasn't for the donkey! Or my wings..  Are you sure there are no bars around where they could have lost the way to? I've seen it happen before, soldiers that go astray and magically end up in bars or shabby taverns. The food and drink rations in the camp here could easily bring about such an incident."

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Message Date: 2007-09-28 05:33:26
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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Nodding at Satlin, Tyranael ponders for a moment.
"We should proceed with caution, but we should keep moving," she mainly directs this comment at Lepus, "it will take too long to go back over the dam and the path is too treacherous. Besides, we've got Rally and the sun on our side," she smiled as she held her palms open, displaying the sun tattoos.

When Vladimir makes his last comment, she suddenly turns around and looks at him for a long time.
"Are you insinuating that these soldiers have deserted? The army doesn't look kindly upon those that abandon us and it's rather rare for soldiers to do so, no matter the hardship they face. But we'll find out the truth of the matter when we find them."
She once again turned around and started walking.

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Message Date: 2007-09-29 08:34:35
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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"No, I only meant they could have taken a roundabout route to have drinks. I don't always assume the worst of people.
Those Tattoos rock! Didn't it tickle when you got them?"

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Message Date: 2007-09-29 14:10:53
From: Meinozsé Stensalil
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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Meinozsé chuckles a bit and sais with a smile
"You mean they might have gone foraging in the local pub you mean.
Shouldn't you get on your donkey Vladimir, you seems to be almost going down in this long grass."

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Message Date: 2007-09-29 14:22:06
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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"Yeah your right, maybe I'm shrinking, I'll have to look for my books on extending once legs when I get home. Somehow I've never been able to find someone to try that operation on, so I may have to be my own guinea pig.... Patient! I mean patient!" Spreads his wings, flies up and get's in the donkey."

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Message Date: 2007-09-29 14:26:55
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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"If I ever need treatment, kill me first." Lepus mutters under his breath as he follows.

Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka wrote:
"Yeah your right, maybe I'm shrinking, I'll have to look for my books on extending once legs when I get home. Somehow I've never been able to find someone to try that operation on, so I may have to be my own guinea pig.... Patient! I mean patient!" Spreads his wings, flies up and get's in the donkey."

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Message Date: 2007-09-29 14:37:16
From: Meinozsé Stensalil
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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"Don't worry, you'll be fine"
and she moves closer to Lepus so she can give him a conforting stroke bewteen the ears

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Message Date: 2007-09-29 14:48:40
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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"Treating a dead person, that may be interesting! But I can anaesthetize you if I'd ever have to treat you, that's a little less drastic. Though the batch of narcotics I bought from a dwarven alchemist at Rohob-Island could have the same effect."

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Message Date: 2007-09-30 08:32:18
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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Vladimir is bored looking at the back of the donkey's head so he crawls up it's neck and sits between it's ears. He takes off his shoes and tries to steer the donkey by pressing his feet down on it's head like he has seen circuspeople do when riding elephants.

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Message Date: 2007-09-30 14:46:32
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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Lepus mutters something unintelligible, but he obviously doesn't mind being stroked between the ears at all.

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Message Date: 2007-10-03 07:34:27
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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Tyranael shakes her head when Vladimir tries to explain himself better, but she smiles when he compliments her tattoos.
"It would still be dishonourable conduct and the military doesn't look kindly upon that. They wouldn't be as heavily punished as real deserters, but their actions would reflect poorly upon them and their families."
She then lifts her hand and looks upon the tattoo.
"I don't know if it tickled because it hurt too much at the time. But the strength of my faith helped me through that as it did help me through more difficult phases in my life."

She remains quiet the rest of the time, carefully watching their surroundings for signs of the scouts or anything else unusual. Eventually the talking apparently bothers her and she turns around sharply.
"We should be quiet from now on. If there is a hostile presence here then we shouldn't alert it to our presence, if we haven't done so already."
She turns around again and quietly moves on.

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Message Date: 2007-10-04 04:53:13
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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While moving on in silence for a while you can now and then hear rustling of constant movement through the grass.

Moving your legs through the long grass seems to become slowly tougher the further you come, but maybe that's just a first sign of fatigue.

On moment Meinozsé trips over a blackberry vine hidden in the deep grass bringing the group to a momentary halt while she get's up and dusts herself off.

Captain Satlin uses the moment to gaze at the path to take down to the water and frowns a bit

"Tyranael, aren't we slowly moving left more and more to go around that bush ahead?"

Meinozsé, being ready again looks back to see if your tracks through the grass indead make a curve and looks in wonder.

"Should our tracks be visible for much longer then they are? A hundred meters back they already seem to vanish!!"

Then indicating a line from where your tracks vanish upwards

"And didn't we walk about there? But that bush wasn't there. And I also see some small tree's now on the hill, I can't remember seeing any trees besides those still down there by the water"

She looks around worried for a moment noticing there are more bushes and small trees everywere then she can remember.
"I think we should hurry up before we get all grown in!!"

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Message Date: 2007-10-04 10:38:24
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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Lepus looks around with growing anxiety and furiously scribbles a few notes on his parchment before he starts fretting full time. "I don't want to be killed by something dinner's meant to be growing on." He mutters, eyeing a nearby tree.

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Message Date: 2007-10-04 18:10:45
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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"Whoohoo!! I'm probable not shrinking! Isn't that great news? You talll people think being small is enviable, but being small isn't all that, try helping to deliver a pakordin baby when your my size!"

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Message Date: 2007-10-08 06:16:51
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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Tyra eyes Vladimir quickly and shushes him, putting a finger before her mouth. Then she looks at the bush for a moment and some of the points she was using as reference.
"Hmm, yes, you appear to be quite right," she whispers, "the forest seems to be growing as we walk through it. We'd better pick up our pace and try to find a way through before we are grown in. The good thing is that we don't have to bother covering our tracks though."
She starts moving again, more quickly and making decidedly more noise as she pays less attention to where she is walking. Still, she hoped they'd find a clearing or something soon as she knew she couldn't keep up a swift pace for very long.

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Message Date: 2007-10-08 15:42:32
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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"Uh, if we press on, how are we going to get back? My maps won't be worth much if the landscape changes this much." The nay-saying cunicul points out from the back.

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Message Date: 2007-10-08 17:28:02
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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Meinozsé stay's close to the worried cunicul and tries to reassure him a bit

"Don't worry Lepus, I'm sure those swords of Tyranael are sharp enough  to cut us a way back up the dam if that's what's needed. And look up the slope, it's not even all the way that it seems to be growing this fast. It's not like the animal life is growing fast and out of proportions as well."

The idea of that last comment seems even to worry herself a little bit making her look carefully around to see if there aren't any huge grasshoppers or worse around.



Captain Satlin has been carefully watching the grove your heading towards.

"We can handle the plantlife here, I think that grove we're heading to isn't as fast growing, so whatever is causing it might be some kind of magic to fast-forward through a series of landscape evolutions to get to a certain type, probably forest by the looks of it."

And he ignores the animal comment.



The donkeys seems to feel that there is a real need to keep up a good pace and keep it up without urging them much. You'll travel through the ever more more bushy grasslands without any serious problems, but you did make an even wider curve then planned. Arriving at the foresty patch the donkeys slow down, you hear water flowing and falling further down.

Then Vladimir's donkey suddenly takes a spurt and gallops ahead between the trees towards the sounds of water

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Message Date: 2007-10-12 13:23:38
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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Lepus isn't exactly reassured by the suggestion of giant animals either, if anything he's even more spooked now.And that is what causes him to dive off his own mount to hide when Vladimir's gallops off.

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Message Date: 2007-10-14 17:45:25
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, moving down the green pastures in silence, or not?

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"What the...!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH" Vladimir's hands claw into the hairs on the donkeys head, his feet dig into the animals coat as he tries to hold on. "HELP! Stop donkey stop! Eeyore halt! Midas or whatever your name is stop running!" If the donkey keeps running Vladi releases his grip on it's furry head and flies up. He remains floating a couple of feet above the ground. "I think the darn thing smells water, that's what we were looking for isn't it?" he yells at the rest of the party.

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Message Date: 2007-10-15 06:24:04
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water

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When Vladimir gives up to try to keep the donkey under control he's easily 50 meters further. When he looks back to shout to the others he sees them all stopped, except for Lepus who he doesn't see at all, only his donkey trudging ahead towards him. And of course he sees a bush moving just behind the donkey.

By now Vladimirs donkey seems to have vanished into the woods, although it left a pretty clear track and a while you also hear him running, till that stops as well.
You don't see any signs (yet?) of the trail of it vanishing.

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Message Date: 2007-10-15 15:34:39
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water

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The moving bush causes the cowardly scribe to yelp in surprise and he gets off to a surprisingly fleet running start after the others, easily outpacing his donkey with no intention of stopping any time soon.

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Message Date: 2007-10-15 18:59:48
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water

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Vladimir is startled by the sprinting cunnicul and forgets to move his wings for a moment, causing him to fall down a few inches before regaining himself. He was sure the cunnicul was hiding in the bush, causing it to move, Lepus voice and sudden spurt took him by surprise.

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Message Date: 2007-10-16 16:53:06
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water

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Lowering and shaking her head, Tyra follows the running Cunicul more carefully. She halts when she comes to the point where Vladimir was and surveys the situation.
"Well, at least the donkey has left us with a trail to follow. A trail that doesn't seem to grow closed behind it. Maybe we have come to the end of the quickly growing part. Well, let's move on. I don't care much for giant insects attacking us from behind or something."
She draws one of her swords and starts following the trail, ready to cut down the surrounding greenery should it try to grow back. She didn't want to do so earlier for silence purposes, but the time for silence seemed to have passed.

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Message Date: 2007-10-18 04:26:00
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water

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Startled by all the sudden movement the others halt and look suprised at Lepus as he dashes out of the bushes on all four past them towards Vladimir startling his donkey causing that to bolt after the pack donkey Vladimir was riding and vanishes out of sight the same way.
Looking at the way Lepus runs on al four makes you wonder if he has a hare in the family. The bush he left quickly comes to rest, not revealing anything that might have set of the cunicul.
Satlin, a bit carefull get's of his donkey and uses his sword to hold some branches to the side to see in the bush, revealing nothing but a blackberry vine.
Reasonable sure all is clear he remounts.
"Let's follow them"
And he takes the rear watch again spending most of his time looking over his shoulders.

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Message Date: 2007-10-23 07:51:14
From: Meinozsé Stensalil
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water

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Catching up with Vladimir (And Lepus or were did he come to a halt?) Meinozsé looks at the others and the trail of the donkeys.
"Let's try to catch the donkeys, they ran off with our camping gear."
And if others aren't reacting fast enough to her liking she even goes first on the trail.

Soon you all hear again something thrashing through the undergrowth, but this time it's coming towards you.

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Message Date: 2007-10-23 10:22:45
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water

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"You're right!" Vladimir turns pale "The Donkey's got my bag!! Ohno, all my stuff is in there! We must find it as soon as possible!" He's clearly seized by panic now. "I can't go on without my bag! Oh no! What if someone finds it and takes it?! I must save my bag!" He lands and starts running in the direction the donkey went. He runs remarkably fast, though flying would probable be faster and more efficient.

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Message Date: 2007-10-24 09:28:18
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water

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"Don't worry, we'll find the donkeys and our possessions," Tyranael ascertains Vladimir, "come on, you can sit on my shoulder, that way we can be faster."

She waits a moment for Vladimir to respond and potentially sit on her, when she hears something charging towards them. Instinctively she draws her second sword and takes up a combat stance.
"Everyone behind me, quickly. Something's coming this way."

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Message Date: 2007-10-25 18:23:42
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water

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"Thank you Tyranael, that's very nice of you" When Tyra reaches for her swords he realizes her shoulder may not be the saves place to be, but he's so touched by Tyra's offer that he doesn't really care.

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Message Date: 2007-10-26 06:56:15
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water. Actions please

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It seems Lepus was really freaked out as he didn't manage to stop at Vladimir, so it's the four of you that are getting ready for any events.
I like to know if you prepare any actions, like if Tyranael is just holding weapons ready to defend to whatever is comming or is planning to attack right away. As soon as I have that we'll move on.

Meinozsé quickly moves back to hide behind Tyranael to defend her, and looks a bit nervously around for some kind of weapon.
Satlin dismounts and ready's his weapon to defend and keeps an eye on both the front and rear leaving the first defense up to Tyranael but ready to come to her aid if needed.

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Message Date: 2007-10-26 07:10:31
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus
Subject: 9: Over the dam - Alone in the woods

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Lepus, panic-stricken quickly past his donkey causing the creature to turn it's path a bit away from him. Then past Vladimir and of through the woods in the direction of Vladimir's donkey. After a while you calm a bit and find a thick bush which the donkey clearly just went past to hide and calm down. You get the feeling the ground here is starting to get moister and the sounds of the water are suggesting it's not much further.
A little while later you hear crashing again followed by the sight of your donkey following the trail now, already a bit calmer then when you startled it.
It's past for just ten seconds or so when you hear a panicked bray and  it comes racing back, taking an edge as it cuts the corner of your bush and the sounds vanish in the distance.

ps. I hope I didn't asume to much/wrongly, if so correct his behaviour

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Message Date: 2007-10-26 11:34:30
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water. Actions please

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Tyranael keeps her sword ready in a defensive stance, ready to block or parry whatever's coming for them. Or should it be a large target coming at great speeds, she'll jump out of the way and tell the others to do the same.

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Message Date: 2007-10-26 11:57:43
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water. Actions please

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ooc: LOL, that sounds like if it's a stampeding elephant she would jump to the side and then tell the flat remains of the rest they should do a step to the side, so not to get crushed!!

bic:
As soon as the group braced itself for whatever seemed to be coming a foam mouthed donkey appears on the trail just before you. As you block the path it's forced to come to a sudden stop after which it's stares at you with huge panicked eye's
It's Lepus's donkey.
The moment somebody moves it's eye's quickly dart left and right looking for the best opening to run of to.

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Message Date: 2007-10-26 12:27:40
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam - Alone in the woods

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Since he's tired from his last sprint, Lepus isn't ready for another one just yet unless fear forces him to. So he ducks deep into the nearest bush and hides from whatever is coming.

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Message Date: 2007-10-26 14:31:28
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water. Actions please

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Preparing for the worst, Tyra is quite surprised to see the donkey coming to a halt in front of her. She lets her stance drop a bit and looks a bit uncertain.
"I am not experienced with handling wayward animals. What should I do now?"
Still blocking the path, she sheaths her swords and makes an attempt to look non-threatening.

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Message Date: 2007-10-26 16:50:43
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam - Alone in the woods

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He hears supprisingly few sounds for being in a forest. Mostly the water close by.

ooc: I'll wait first what the others do to see if you'll hear anything of them and when or if something else might let itself be noticed in your area

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Message Date: 2007-10-28 18:40:24
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water. Actions please

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"I don't usualy deal with burro's, I have no idea what to do know, I'm sorry. Asses on the other hand I've dealt with a lot of them!" Vladimir had been holding on to Tyra's coat to stay on her shoulder, his fingers are white from the effort, but he relaxes them now, he doesn't expect her to make any sudden moves. "Maybe we need to do something with a rope around it's neck? Or a tranquillizer dart? It doesn't look very wild, maybe we can get it's reins. Our runaway cunnicul may be a whole other story".

Tyranael Kyliries wrote:
Preparing for the worst, Tyra is quite surprised to see the donkey coming to a halt in front of her. She lets her stance drop a bit and looks a bit uncertain.

"I am not experienced with handling wayward animals. What should I do now?"

Still blocking the path, she sheaths her swords and makes an attempt to look non-threatening.

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Message Date: 2007-10-28 19:54:32
From: Meinozsé Stensalil
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water. Actions please

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Meinozsé dismounts her donkey and walks up to distressed animal. She puts one hand behind it's ears and one just above it's nose, while gently applying pressure, and whispering soothing words in it's ear she gets the donkey to put it's head down. It seems to help and after a while of Meinozsé stroking it's neck the donkey kalms down.
"They put there head up when they panic, carefully pressing it down usualy helps them relax, my mom thaught me that. She's the best horsetrainer I've ever met"

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Message Date: 2007-10-31 05:45:30
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water. Actions please

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Tyranael smiles slightly at both Vladimir's comments about the asses and Lepus, who she does look around for for a moment.
"Yes, it seems that he's going to be a problem, I hope he hasn't gotten himself into any kind of trouble he won't be able to escape out of."

She steps backwards when Meinoszé comes forward to have a look at the donkey. She nods appreciatively as Meinoszé manages to calm the scared animal.
"Your mother has taught you well. I only received basic training in animal care from both my mother and the order. Although my mother was rather excellent at dealing with horses, being a Paladin of Rally and all. But enough talking for now, we have to find the pack mule and Lepus."
Looking to see if the path is not overgrown yet, she moves past Meinoszé and the calmed donkey and resumes her path.

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Message Date: 2007-11-01 06:19:04
From: Meinozsé Stensalil
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water.

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Meinozsé holds out the reigns of Lepus's donkey up for Vladimir
"Care to ride this donkey till we find yours back?"
Then she'll follow Tyranael, guiding the donkey if Vladimir didn't take control of it.

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Message Date: 2007-11-01 06:23:00
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam - Alone in the woods

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After about 5 or 10 minutes you hear some quite movement on the trail made by the donkey's.
What does Lepus do? come out, sit still, look out of the bushes, something else, a possible combination of the previous options? Roll some dice for actions like hiding and searching and the like if you do something like that
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Message Date: 2007-11-01 15:57:39
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water. OOC: Roll some dice

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"I'll sit on the donkey, but I'd rather like you to hold the reins, I tried leading a donkey but I was'nt very succesfull as you might recall."
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Message Date: 2007-11-02 05:20:45
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam - Alone in the woods

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Lepus tries to peek out fearfully while keeping himself as hidden as possible. The last thing he wants is to get eaten.

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Message Date: 2007-11-02 09:53:49
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam - Alone in the woods

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While hiding you hear a distant conversation start but can't tell much about it. It moves closer though and you start to get the feeling it are indead the others and when about a minute has passed you can understand the last few sentences and you expect them to come into view any moment now to confirm it are indead the others.
That moment you hear a second sound, a rustling of plants, and vibration in the ground. It's hard to pinpoint a direction but seems mostly from behind. When you carefully move around in your bush to look that way it seems in the distance a dark, low, curved wall has formed in the forest, the bottompart a bit brownisch, the top half more green, you can't see an end of it and it's moving towards you.
If you turn back to look at the group you see the wall is all around, getting closer and higher. The group has also just appeard and Vladimir looks up in a way like he just hears a strange sound.


OOC: you are slightly ahead of them, I expect them to talk a little bit over what Meinozsé is saying and getting in sight about 6 spoken sentences further. If any reaction of you will get you clearly into view you can post that in their thread. If your giving a reaction earlier just post in this one and I'll bring it up the right moment.

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Message Date: 2007-11-02 09:56:32
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water.

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Meinozsé smiles at Vladimir
"I'll lead the donkey, can't have this one flee again" and she winks at him, clearly making a friendly tease.

Tyranael carefully leads the group over the trail left by the donkey's. Meinozsé following her and leading Vladimir and Lepus's donkey behind her. Satlin still keeps the rear guard.
After a minute or so the trail forks as if the two donkeys both made an other choice of directions when a massive tree came upon their path. Tyranael holds in for a moment to look over both paths and then picks one without much worry. Her sense of direction didn't fool her, it leads in a reasonable straight line through the forest and a couple of minutes later the second trail joins yours again.
By now the sounds of distant water have become more clear and the ground a bit muddy.
"Don't you find it strange that we hear clearly water moving right behind a dam?" brings Meinozsé up "I would have expected a lake here, if I'm not mistaking in the capacity of the river and our current dept in the valey it should be flooded here."
Satlin looks turn a bit darker at Meinozsé's words. "That sounds strange indead, but that does mean we have less of a worry that removing the dam might cause a flood wave"
Meinozsé seem to listen carefull for a moment at the distant sounds.
"The sound has even a bit of a hollow ring to it."
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Message Date: 2007-11-02 10:02:00
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Heads up for Vladimir

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About a minute/6 spoken sentences into the talk that's probably following the latest talk of Meinozsé you'll be the first of the group to hear something strange in the forest.
If you look up and around you'll notice a dark rim in the distance in the forest, all around you. It's like there's a bit of a wall there and you can't remember seeing that before.
If you spend a bit more time looking at it you get the idea it's getting closer and higher and even seeing some colour difference in it, the bottom half is a bit brownish like the ground, the top more green.

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Message Date: 2007-11-02 17:51:37
From: Lepus
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water.

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"Movingwallmovingwallmovingwall." Lepus shouts as he brusts from his hiding place in a hedge just in front of the group and dashes behind them with surprising agility for a bookworm.

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Message Date: 2007-11-02 18:07:27
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water.

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ooc: I seem to have been unclear. As I will be unavailable till sunday evening I set the next step ready to react once people had a chance to respond to Meinozsé's comments and whatever response comes from that.
A Lepus bursting out of his hiding place won't be happening for a little while after she starts talking. I was guessing it would be 1 minute/ 6 sentences spoken in game till things would show up.
So please, try to ignore this post till the moment it will be relevant.
Sorry for the breaking of chronology.

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Message Date: 2007-11-02 19:39:19
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water.

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Vladimir doesn't respond to Meinoszé teasing him, because it was exactly what he meant.
He sits quietly on the donkey, worrying about his belongings.

When Meinoszé speaks of how the valley should be flooded he grins sarcastically and says: "Thank the gods it's not! I'm not a very good swimmer."

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Message Date: 2007-11-05 17:48:18
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water.

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Even though Tyranael is closely watching her surroundings, she listens to the conversation going on behind her. She looks over her shoulder with a worried expression.
"So there is clearly water flowing freely around here by the sound of it. But it's not going through the river to the dam the way it's supposed to. It's not being blocked, or it wouldn't be flowing. Then where in Rally's name could the water be? This is very troubling indeed. Along with the rapid growth around us, something seriously strange is happening. I hope we can find some clues soon, instead of more mysteries."

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Message Date: 2007-11-06 09:10:28
From: Captain Jutzef Satlin
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water.

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Satlin seems to hmm a bit

"who knows, maybe it's flowing upwards to the blue moon, with all the magic around you never know. Or it is"



And then Lepus crashes in.

ooc: Repost Lepus:
Lepus wrote:
"Movingwallmovingwallmovingwall." Lepus shouts as he brusts from his hiding place in a hedge just in front of the group and dashes behind them with surprising agility for a bookworm.

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Message Date: 2007-11-06 09:34:14
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water.

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Stopping dead in her tracks, Tyranael turns around and looks at the frightened Cunicul.
"What are you talking about? Which moving wall? Please calm yourself and explain clearly what's going on."

Just in case, Tyra draws her swords and looks in the direction Lepus came from, should something leap out at them.
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Message Date: 2007-11-06 10:01:46
From: Neanie (Ref)
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: 9: Tyranael looks around and sees:

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When you look around you'll notice a dark rim in the distance in the forest, all around you. It's like there's a bit of a wall there and you can't remember seeing that before.
If you spend a bit more time looking at it you get the idea it's getting closer and higher and even seeing some colour difference in it, the bottom half is a bit brownish like the ground, the top more green.
By now(now being right after Vladimir posts) your clearly getting what Lepus is talking about

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Message Date: 2007-11-07 07:58:01
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water.

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Vladimir points in the direction Lepus came from: "Look there, there seems to be a rim of some sort."

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Message Date: 2007-11-07 10:34:52
From: Tyranael Kyliries
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water.

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As she watches the walls rising higher and higher, realisation dawns upon her.
"The wall isn't moving... we appear to be going down."
This is the last rational thing that comes out of Tyra at the moment, as she starts frantically looking around for a way out and not spotting one immediately, she starts running towards the supposed edge of the affected area.

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Message Date: 2007-11-07 10:47:05
From: Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
To: Neanie (Ref), Lepus, Meinozsé Stensalil, Tyranael Kyliries, Vladimir (aka The Butcher, aka
Subject: Re: 9: Over the dam, forest and water.

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Vladimir doesn't like that idea at all! It makes him forget his fear of flying and he shoots up in the air. He'll float a couple of metres above the rest of the party, looking around to see what is going to happen next.

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