[HQ Ignorance] Scene 21: Escape to Syran!

[Lev Lafayette]

Wonderful piece of work Sam... Especially liked the
blowing bubbles part :-)

You could "heal" Anzhur, at least in theory - what
abilities/augments are you using?

All the best,


Lev

--- Sam Elliot <SamClau at oi.com.br> wrote:

> Although not too happy at being called "kinfolk"
> with an assortment of
> darkmen, humans and even a stoneman, Icthya could
> see the fish's point of
> view. At least they all had legs.
> 
> Before returning to the mundane world, she had
> thanked the fish profusely,
> looking a bit ridiculous as she bent down to the
> water and blew bubbles.
> Slapping away Baros' roaming hand, she had insisted
> her companions did
> likewise, achieving only marginal success.
> 
> Back in the here and now, and quite exhausted, the
> prospect of entering a
> human city, however graceful its spires, made Icthya
> feel quite queasy.
> Hauling herself up on to the bank and helping her
> copmpanions, she proposed
> to Aalmon that she stay outside the city walls.
> Perhaps Baros could
> accompany her, and Karala too, should she wish. "It
> might be wise," she
> addressed the Hsunchen woman, "for us to check that
> you are free of any
> taint."
> 
> Noticing that Azhur was looking quite shaken, she
> approached the human, who
> was hunkered down on a rock. He had helped her once
> before and perhaps it
> was time to repay the favour. "I think I have an
> inkling of what ails you,
> human." Her violet eyes were quite tender and as he
> looked up briefly, he
> found a slight comfort in them.
> 
> "I know you are a religious man and I see that the
> rock upon which you have
> built your life is beginning to crumble. But you
> should know that this is
> the price for travelling and seeing the wonders of
> the world. I have
> travelled to the distant east and I warn you that
> when we travel east, as
> one day we must, you will be as far from your God as
> it is possible to be.
> You will see there many many wonders but perhaps
> what will surprise you most
> is that even your fellow humans do not think like
> you at all. If that rock
> upon which you stand is weak now, there it will
> crack assunder, as sure as
> the world is flat*
> 
> "You may even find that you and I, hailing from the
> far western reaches of
> the world as we do, have more in common than you do
> with those people. I
> know this for I have sat with a holy man of the east
> and it was as if I sat
> and spoke with a dragon, so alien was his thinking
> to me.
> 
> Although she was talking to the top of Azhur's head,
> Icthya could tell from
> his shoulders that she had his attention. She could
> see that the man was
> probably at the lowest point he had ever been and
> felt a twinge of pity.
> Pausing in her speech, she looked him up and down,
> finally noticing his
> hands. "Azhur," she softly called him out of his
> reverie, getting him to
> look up at her, "Look what you hold in your hands."
> He glanced down,
> noticing that each of his hands was tightly clenched
> about the standard.
> 
> "Put your faith in the Fellowship," she suggested,
> "however different we all
> may be from one another, for the next few months
> there will be but one
> constant in our lives. You have in your hands a
> piece of your home, you
> carry with you an ancestral treasure. I have seen
> the others looking at the
> strange writings which seem always to be changing. I
> myself have found
> myself eased looking at the banner; it is almost as
> if it is singing to me.
> 
> "Come," she says, lifting his head with a gentle
> hand on his chin, bringing
> him to his feet, "put your soul into the standard
> and I will do likewise. I
> will make an oath to you, I will invest a part of my
> being into your
> standard until the day I return to Erontree. You
> have stood in my defence at
> least once before, and I will ask you to bear that
> part of me until our
> quest is fulfilled."
> 
> 
> 
> OOC: Hope you don't mind me narrating your character
> a touch, Loran?
> 
> Ooh, I do love pulling those cliches out every now
> and then :)
> 
> Lev - Loran asked for the numerical side of the
> "death". If Azhur is, in
> rules terms, injured, then this can be an attempt by
> Icthya to heal him. If
> so, I can get the abilities out or not, as you wish,
> Lev. She would likely
> spend a hero point on this if necessary.
> 
> I think we never actually kicked that hero band idea
> off, so this here is
> Icthya explicitly proposing such a thing.
> 
> Also, Lev, I love reading those epic write-ups you
> do - good on ya!
> 
> * "As sure as the world is flat" I'm quite proud of
> that :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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