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Topic: The Would You Rather Game
Subject: Ooo! :D
Camping!
Plain or Bus?
Posted on 2008-06-04 at 20:39:22.
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Topic: Rhyme time!
Subject: Hmmm...
I could not find one that rhymed just right, but here's one that should hopefully work...
Translator
Posted on 2008-06-04 at 20:38:29.
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Topic: Staff Go 10/10!!!
Subject: :P
Yay applauds! I couldn't smite you if I wanted to, Grugg....it...well it's just not right! lol And so, I have applauded you instead.
Posted on 2008-06-04 at 10:12:42.
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Topic: Vote for the Inn
Subject: ack!
Come on people, the 7th place is gaining on us fast! VOTE! Get all your friends to VOTE! And remember, vote FIVE (5) NOT one (1) !!!
Posted on 2008-06-03 at 13:41:39.
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Topic: Forgotten Realms: The Unsung Heroes
Subject: Artanis
With Xaris beside her, Artanis tried to look like she was not in a world of pain as she walked carefully to the Inn. She followed him up to his room, moving a bit slower up the stairs than she would have liked.
She took the potion from Xaris with a smile, “Thank you, my friend.” Closing her eyes, she placed the bottle to her lips, and tilted her head back drinking every drop.
Now Artanis was feeling much more up to par, “Now, let’s get back out there and see if we can help put that fire out.” She grabbed the biggest pot she could find, filled it with water, and quickly made her way back out to the fire. She knew this wouldn’t do much, but she had to do something.
Once back at the fire she threw her meager contribution onto the base of the fire, and turned to reach for the next container filled with water to add it to the attempt at extinguishing the blaze.
"You seem to be well on the road to recovery. That gnome friend of yours...Zoris?... either has quite the knack for the healing arts or has several more of those potions stashed away somewhere."
Artanis turned and looked up at the man who had helped before, and smiled at him. “Xaris? He has this way of having just the right healing potions when they are needed. Don’t ask me how he does it.” She smiled at Xaris, then turned back to the man as he spoke again.
"I'm sorry for earlier. I did not mean to be rude and ignore you, I was... lost in thought. My name is Talus Er..."
Artanis looked at him curiously as his smile faded, then returned in the next second. A brief thought flashed through her mind of how nice his smile was, and then he continued.
"...just Talus. I admire your bravery in running into a burning building to save the child of a perfect stranger. You don't see that kind of selflessness much anymore. Forgive me being so bold, but I wondered if I might impose and ask to travel with you and your companions for a time?
A seemingly uncomfortable look crossed his face before he quickly added assurances that he was not trying to take the place of their fallen friends. Artanis placed a reassuring hand on his arm and smiled encouragingly.
“Do not worry, Sir Talus. I would be happy to have you accompany us. We will, of course, have to confer with our companions, but I would be surprised if they said no to the idea.”
Once the fire had died down, Artanis wanted to sift through the ashes to see if there were any chance at all they could find the remnants of their friends. The ashes, however, were still much too hot. She knew it would be morning before the ashes would be cool enough to go through.
Weary from the events of the last couple hours, and looking as though she had not bathed in weeks, she turned to Xaris and Talus. “I’m headed back to the Inn. Perhaps the inn keeper will have a drink available before I retire for the night.” Looking down at her filthy clothes and skin, entirely covered with ash and soot, “And a bath would certainly not be unwelcome.”
After a few steps in the direction of the Inn, the pot she'd grabbed from the Inn in her hand, she paused and looked at Xaris. “Perhaps it would be best if we wait until morning to inform the others of what has happened tonight. I see no reason to disrupt their sleep, as there is nothing they can do about it now. What say you, Xaris?”
Once back at the Inn, Artanis looked for someone that could assist her. Once she had acquired her drink, she sat at a table and leaned back in the chair, exhaling a long exhausted sigh. She took a long swig of her drink and rolled her head side to side. Her neck and shoulders were a bit sore from the repetitive movement of having been tossing the water at the fire.
Posted on 2008-06-02 at 23:50:07.
Edited on 2008-06-02 at 23:57:57 by DarkAutumn
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Topic: Vote for the Inn
Subject: :D
Well, You know the Inn has My vote on a daily basis!
Posted on 2008-06-02 at 15:05:04.
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Topic: Forgotten Realms: The Unsung Heroes
Subject: And the fire burns on...
" Don't get up too fast now Artanis, let the mending work its way through. You’re still pretty hurt."
She smiled at Xaris, reaching up and patting his face weakly. “No need to worry about me, Xaris. This is nothing compared to the blast that tried to turn me into a crispy critter.” A short coughing fit cut off her chuckle, and she grew serious again. “At any rate, I’m not as weak as all that.”
Artanis groaned slightly as the stranger helped her to sit up. “Thank you.” She took the baby back into her arms gingerly, wincing slightly as her bones and muscles protested.
"That potion seems to have you on the mend already."
With a slight nod of her head, she replied, “Yes. The potion has helped. Thank you for having pulled us away from there.” Her head tilted in the direction of the fire.
“My name is Artanis. This is Xaris. It was two of our companions, Kasenerrion and Loriel, that were claimed by that fire.” Her eyes closed and her voice cracked as she spoke their names. She took a deep, shuddering breath, and sighed.
(leaving room for any possible response and back-posting)
Artanis watched, with Xaris, as the man went over to the member of the Fire Brigade. She watched in dismay as the fire continued to burn. “There is no way we can get them out of there for a proper burial.” She thought sadly.
" I could get more potions Artanis, or we could try to get you out of here now. Your call."
She thought about that for a moment, and was about to answer that she’d stay since she still had the child. However, the child’s mother suddenly emerged from the crowd of people to reclaim her daughter.
“Thank you, oh thank heavens, my Maribelle!”
Artanis smiled up at the woman as she grabbed her child. “You have a very beautiful daughter, Ma’am. I am only glad that she is ok.”
Artanis watched the touching reunion as the woman cooed and awed at her daughter. Then the realization sunk in on the woman that the others had been lost. It seemed as though she tried to find something to say, but was unable to. Instead, the woman simply slipped back into the crowd and was gone. Artanis looked up at Xaris curiously at that, then back in the direction the woman had gone off in.
After a moment, Artanis looked up at Xaris again. “I’ll come with you to get those potions. I don’t think I can be of any assistance until I’ve had at least one more of your potions.”
((Once they’ve retrieved the potions, and Artanis has consumed at least one, if the fight against the flames is still ongoing, she will return with whatever container she can find filled with water to assist in any way she can.
Unless, of course, the devious DM has some other sort of thing in mind for them during their trip back to the Inn and the potions))
Posted on 2008-06-01 at 20:22:43.
Edited on 2008-06-01 at 20:24:53 by DarkAutumn
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Topic: Vote for the Inn
Subject:
I voted!! We are pretty far behind 5th, and much too close to falling back down to 7th....So vote vote vote!
Posted on 2008-05-31 at 12:07:35.
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Topic: Blatantly Obvious Lies
Subject: What?
Of course we care where Waldo is! Don't you know he holds all the secrets of the universe inside that hat on top of his head? Why do you think he's in the witness protection program?
Why do they call chop sticks...chop sticks?
Posted on 2008-05-30 at 20:22:29.
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Topic: Rhyme time!
Subject: :)
Noble
Posted on 2008-05-30 at 19:36:19.
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Topic: Add On Story. Fill in 3 words!
Subject:
inside a bag
Posted on 2008-05-30 at 12:09:40.
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Topic: Broken
Subject: :)
 Welcome back! @'--,--
Posted on 2008-05-30 at 11:01:42.
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Topic: The Return of the Prodigal Son
Subject: Not much, but here it is
The last note of Vaskar’s song had barely faded away when there was a sudden noise, followed by an uprising of earth that appeared to be preceding something much worse. And oh did it!
A monstrous, three-headed beast, breathing fire from its shell of a skull brimming with the same, emerged from the billowing dust.
It was all Darlthenia could do to calm her horse. She drew her sword and leaped from the back of the beast beneath her. She moved to stand on the opposite side of Lyra, poised and ready to fend off the beast’s attack.
Posted on 2008-05-30 at 10:52:35.
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Topic: Rhyme time!
Subject: :P
troll
Posted on 2008-05-30 at 09:45:09.
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Topic: Forgotten Realms: The Unsung Heroes
Subject: Pain and loss
Artanis was so relieved to see a familiar face. “Xaris!…” her voice was but a horse whisper, “Loriel..” she looked at the blazing rubble, no longer a house, her voice broke, “…and Kas…” she closed her eyes and sobbed all the more, her words could hardly be understood through her coughing and sobbing, “I didn’t save them.” Her body was wracked with a fit of coughing, her lungs burning from the smoke and heat she had inhaled while inside the house.
She laid her head back and slowly swallowed every bit of the potion Xaris poured into her mouth. “Thank you.”
…
A man came over and began speaking to Xaris. She recognized him as the one who had taken Maribelle from her arms, and saw he was still holding her.
“…Perhaps ones that would want to kill her and her baby?”
She blinked in surprise, and actually smiled at the stranger. “Sir, I am most grateful to you for having helped pull Maribelle and me away from the heat. The child is not mine. There is a woman here somewhere. I don’t know her name, or how she escaped the fire. She alerted us to the fire and told us the baby was in there.”
She took a deep breath glancing at the remnants of the house that were still burning, then back at the man, pain beyond that of her broken body, and loss evident in her eyes, and now anger. “I know that fire was sent intentionally. What it’s purpose was, I do not know. There was a man…Jethro, he was also in the house. He had some kind of control of all the fire elementals that were setting fire to everything.”
A slightly less intense coughing fit delayed her next words. As she recovered she took a deep breath and continued, “He mentioned something about the fire having succeeded in separating me and my friends. I don’t know what he meant by that, but…” the tears began streaming down her face again, and her voice cracked, “they were still in there….Oh Kas, Loriel…I’m so sorry.” And she turned her head as if wanting to hide her face as she was overcome by grief and tears once more.
Posted on 2008-05-30 at 09:28:23.
Edited on 2008-05-30 at 09:29:43 by DarkAutumn
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Topic: Hi all.
Subject: HELLO! *waves excitedly*
Welcome from yet another, if slightly more insignificant, member of this great world Olan saw fit to bless us with.
Now, I see that everyone thus far have failed to mention one important factor...
There is one requirement that is absolutely imperative you stick to as a member of this place.
VOTE!!!
 And make sure to vote 5, not 1
Other than that, woot! Glad you both decided to join!
Tell all your friends! hehe
Posted on 2008-05-30 at 09:04:38.
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Topic: Rhyme time!
Subject: Smarty Pants?
Think
Posted on 2008-05-29 at 23:01:52.
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Topic: Rhyme time!
Subject: cool
stark
Posted on 2008-05-29 at 18:09:43.
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Topic: Q&A: The Return Of The Prodigal Son
Subject: Hmmm...
hehe, ok, just had to ask.
And that's a good question Hammer.
Posted on 2008-05-29 at 15:27:46.
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Topic: Q&A: The Return Of The Prodigal Son
Subject: Uhhh...Question!
This isn't like the Hydra (if i'm not mistaken) that grows two heads in the place of one, shld it be severed?
Posted on 2008-05-29 at 14:57:01.
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Topic: Forgotten Realms: the Unsung Heroes Q/A
Subject: CD Points
Well, as far as I understand it, each week you have the chance to give one CD point to whomever you feel deserves props on their posts.
Just tell Kaelyn who you'd like your point to go to. You can also choose not to give any to anyone if you don't feel any has earned it. And no, they don't roll over.  You don't give it one week, that point is lost. So it's not like you'd have 2 points to give out the following week.
There are times when Kaelyn is in an exceptionally good mood and allows bonus CD points.
Ok, Kaelyn....did I about get it? Or do I need to be corrected on anything?
Posted on 2008-05-29 at 04:39:22.
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Topic: Forgotten Realms: the Unsung Heroes Q/A
Subject: Charisma too high?
lol That was cute.
Great first post btw.
And might I add my welcome to both Solvy and Deucalion.
Posted on 2008-05-29 at 04:27:37.
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Topic: Vote for the Inn
Subject: Movin' on up! hehe
YAY 6th place, but not by much. VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!
Posted on 2008-05-28 at 15:34:43.
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Topic: Forgotten Realms: the Unsung Heroes Q/A
Subject: Yay Xaris!
Well, as much of a bummer as it is that two of the team is dead, I'm glad you were NOT there to possibly die as well. But you can go help Artanis now!
Posted on 2008-05-28 at 15:32:16.
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Topic: Forgotten Realms: The Unsung Heroes
Subject: Victory and Loss
Suddenly it was as though time had slowed, and Artanis could see everything with amazing clarity even as it happened. She rushed the deranged man the elementals had referred to as Jethro. As she did this, Kas, it seemed, cast a spell causing the man to cry out in pain. She gasped in fear as she saw the baby suddenly launch into the air, her head snapping at an unnatural angle. The child’s screams only echoed those in her mind of the child she had lost so long ago.
As Loriel crashed into the man’s legs, bringing him down, Artanis suddenly changed her course and jumped for the child, reaching her arms out desperately in an attempt to catch her. The gods had smiled upon the child that night as barely, on the tips of her fingers, Artanis caught the child by the blanket that surrounded her.
Artanis clutched the child to her breast and crashed through the window, her only thought was to get Maribelle out of the inferno that had once been her home. Realizing, much too late, that there was no stable place to land, Artanis did the only thing she could. She curled her body and shield into a ball around the child, effectively sandwiching Maribelle between her body and the shield as they rolled down the roof, over the side and fell to the ground below.
A loud crunch could be heard as Artanis’ body made contact with the stones that were the street outside the house. Her collar bone shattered, and her shoulder crushed, Artanis’ cry of pain was lost in the sound of the roaring flames. Her body shuddered uncontrollably and she tried to move the shield to see the child, only to find that she could not. Her arm was apparently broken as well.
And then she heard it. The most blessed sound ever to touch her ears. Tears streamed down Artanis’ face as she heard the child’s cries. Maribelle was alive.
The joy of knowing the child was safe suddenly faded. A loud crash was heard and Artanis’ eyes snapped over to see the house collapsing in on itself. Instinctively, Artanis tried to hide behind the shield, another cry of pain escaping her lips as her entire body protested the sudden movement.
In almost more pain than she could bare, she was unable to move herself and the child away from the house that was now so thoroughly engulfed in flames. Bystanders, thankfully, moved her further away from the heart radiating from the house, and they took the child from her arms.
Suddenly the house crumbled down with Loriel and Kas still inside. Artanis could only lie there and watch in horror, a barely audible, hoarse cry on her lips protesting the loss of her friends. And she cried.
Posted on 2008-05-27 at 17:35:04.
Edited on 2008-05-27 at 17:37:41 by DarkAutumn
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