"Don't mention it, Harmony. I don't know too terribly much about Tieflings, but from what I've seen so far, you're sweet and I won't sit by and let him talk that way about you because you have some pointy parts on you."
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"Bahaha! There's yer laughing rhino, gnome lassie. Now I ain't for knowin' what a tiefling or a Toril is, and I ain't much for carin' as long as yer coin is good. As for what's goin' on 'round 'ere, I take it yer all here for the Ice Basilisk? Least ye don't seem a bad sort like the last few came to see it. I'll warn ya, they dinna return the same what they left!" the dwarf responds.
For Abraxas:
You can't recall anything of how you got here or how that might have happened. You can recall bits and pieces of the conversation from your dream, especially the phrase "great orb", and vaguely recall Jove reverently mentioning at times something along those lines.
"What's the Ice Basilisk and what happened to the last group who came to see it? Because I don't care to be led into some death trap and neither do my friends most likely."
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Abraxas puts his hand on Jove's shoulder. "Do you remember hearing the phrase 'a great orb' before this dream? Before we got here?" He turns toward the halfling with the giant owl. "Did you hear that phrase?"
Then his mouth drops open and he looks at the barkeep. "Did you just say you don't know what a Toril is? It's the sphere in the Material plane on which we reside. Right now. Right? Ice basilisk or not?"
Harmony had heard Isabella as she put away her lute, thinking. "I could help you with practicing your lute, if you would like." she then said to her with a friendly smile. She heard as Jove spoke to the dwarf and talked about denying Toril it's destiny. What is Toril? She tilted her head in confusion, wondering what it could possibly be and how it must be really important to Jove. Then she listened as Olive thanked her and said that even though she didn't know much about Tieflings, she thought that she was sweet and refused to let him talk that way about her just because she has some pointy parts on her. "You're the best! You are also so sweet and kind." Harmony had said back to her with a happy grin, glad to be making some new friends. But soon she heard the dwarf ask if they are here for the Ice Basilisk and how the last party that came to see it were a bad sort, confused as Olive questioned him. "Yeah, what is it and what happened to the last group? Definitely, none of us really want to die." she said back with a nod, wondering what an Ice Basilisk even is. That sounds scary and normally she is not one for fights unless she has to in order to protect herself or to help save and protect others like back at the Midwinter Gala.
"I did hear something about a great orb, but I couldn't see who was talking about the giant orb, so I assumed that it was part of a dream. But as for this Ice Basilisk, I don't think that we should be dealing with it at all until our host explains what it is and what it did to the last bunch who saw it."
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Isabella (the halfling) and Roxy (the owl) both turn their heads to look at Harmony at the same time in an unsettling fashion, but Isabella has a huge smile on her face. "Why yes! I'd love that! Are you an expert lute player? Not that you need to be, but I just want to get reaaally good at it, reeeeaally fast! Orb? Ice Basilisk? Laughing rhino? Wait... you don't know Toril? That's... our world! What are you... where are we exactly?" Isabella squints again trying to take the place in despite her myopia.
Jove sits down with his arms crossed. He is quite upset with the situation right now. Then he hears Abraxas ask about the orb. He seems uneasy.
He speaks to Abraxas using telepathy:
Hey. Um. Remember my spellcasting focus? The black orb? That can't be what he is talking about, can it? I am keeping this a secret for now. Don't act like you can hear me or anything.
To Olive: "A statue that appeared near Loch Varokaj. The Lugat think it's put some sorta curse on the area. Now I dinna know abou' tha', but the Order of Thalassa put out a call for someone to find out. Last group that went out came back...different. Mutated; said the basilisk done it. If ye wanna know any more I'd head to the Order cross town in the mornin'."
To Abraxas and Isabella, the barkeep cocks an eyebrow: "The world, you say? Now I ain't fer knowin' how far yer comin' from, but 'round 'ere in Xenek we call it Rikirta. Ain't ever heared o' it as Toril."
"Now, I gotta get back to the bar afore that line gets any bigger," the dwarf says, picking up the coins from the table. "I'll have yer rooms done up shortly."
Harmony had heard Olive, nodding and agreeing about wanting to know about this Ice Basilisk first. Then she also heard Isabella, smiling and nodding back. "Yeah, the lute is one of the instruments that I can play. I even have one too. Oh, that might be a little hard to do unless you practice it constantly for hours every single day." she then said back to her, knowing that practice makes perfect. Soon she heard Isabella talk about Toril being their world, now remembering that as well. How could she possibly forget the world she lives in after all? Then the dwarf explained that the Basilisk is a statue that is putting a curse on the area and that the Order of Thalassa is putting out a call for someone to find out. Apparently the last group that went there came back different, mutated and said that the statue did it, shocked. He told them to head to the Order cross town in the morning before he told Abraxas and Isabella that they are in Xenek and this is Rikirta, stunned. What?! "How did we end up in another world!?" Harmony exclaimed to everyone, so so confused right now. There is no way that she would have woken up and traveled to another world without remembering that. What happened after she had gone to sleep?
"Then we'll talk to the Order tomorrow morning. Because my friends and I have a ton of questions that need to be answered before we do anything else."She turns back to the party once the Dwarf walks back to the bar with their coins. "The morning? We must really be somewhere else. We just woke up, but it's night right now. Should we go back to sleep again?"
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Xenek and Rikirta. A nation or town and a world? Abraxas tries to recall if he has ever heard those words before in all the history he's read.
He agrees with Harmony's question. "How do we even figure out how we got here?" He thinks for a moment. "A statue appeared near this Loch Varokaj. We appeared. This Order knows something about the statue, apparently. Might the Order know something about us and our appearance?" He rubs his face. "We could try to sleep, if we can."
Abraxas replies to Jove, without looking in his direction.
Do you have your focus with you? I'm honestly not sure, Jove. What do you know about your focus? Do you know where it came from?
And are you sure you don't want to ask the others? They look experienced.
Isabella looks at Roxy and Roxy stares back at her for a moment, then Isabella shrugs and puts her slightly hairy, bare feet up on the table. Roxy flutters to the back of the chair as Isabella leans backward and the bird's weight nearly causes the chair to fall backwards, but Isabella manages to maintain balance with a quick wave of her arms. She acts as if it never happened.
"Ahhahaha! Uh-oh." Isabella kicks her feet on the table causing her chair to fall backwards and the halfling tumbles out of the chair and onto the floor with a light thump. Roxy flies up and lands on one of the beams in the rafters.
Iz rolls over with a groan, then picks herself and then the chair up, but elects to stand on it rather than sitting. She's still shorter than most of the folks seated around the table.
Olive giggles a little as Isabella falls out of her chair. "Sorry about that but I couldn't help myself. Your feet were just right there, up on the table, asking to be tickled. And then your bird almost knocked you over."
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Xenophon: Topaz Dragonborn Fighter (ixi's Dragon of Icespire Peak)
Jove has been rather upset and serious this whole time, but cannot help but crack a smile when a halfling falls over.
He smiles and says "I think we are all on edge because none of us can remember how we got here. We should let it sit for a while and go rest, I think. We can meet back in the morning."
"Don't mention it, Harmony. I don't know too terribly much about Tieflings, but from what I've seen so far, you're sweet and I won't sit by and let him talk that way about you because you have some pointy parts on you."
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"Bahaha! There's yer laughing rhino, gnome lassie. Now I ain't for knowin' what a tiefling or a Toril is, and I ain't much for carin' as long as yer coin is good. As for what's goin' on 'round 'ere, I take it yer all here for the Ice Basilisk? Least ye don't seem a bad sort like the last few came to see it. I'll warn ya, they dinna return the same what they left!" the dwarf responds.
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You can't recall anything of how you got here or how that might have happened. You can recall bits and pieces of the conversation from your dream, especially the phrase "great orb", and vaguely recall Jove reverently mentioning at times something along those lines.
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"What's the Ice Basilisk and what happened to the last group who came to see it? Because I don't care to be led into some death trap and neither do my friends most likely."
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Abraxas puts his hand on Jove's shoulder. "Do you remember hearing the phrase 'a great orb' before this dream? Before we got here?" He turns toward the halfling with the giant owl. "Did you hear that phrase?"
Then his mouth drops open and he looks at the barkeep. "Did you just say you don't know what a Toril is? It's the sphere in the Material plane on which we reside. Right now. Right? Ice basilisk or not?"
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Harmony had heard Isabella as she put away her lute, thinking. "I could help you with practicing your lute, if you would like." she then said to her with a friendly smile. She heard as Jove spoke to the dwarf and talked about denying Toril it's destiny. What is Toril? She tilted her head in confusion, wondering what it could possibly be and how it must be really important to Jove. Then she listened as Olive thanked her and said that even though she didn't know much about Tieflings, she thought that she was sweet and refused to let him talk that way about her just because she has some pointy parts on her. "You're the best! You are also so sweet and kind." Harmony had said back to her with a happy grin, glad to be making some new friends. But soon she heard the dwarf ask if they are here for the Ice Basilisk and how the last party that came to see it were a bad sort, confused as Olive questioned him. "Yeah, what is it and what happened to the last group? Definitely, none of us really want to die." she said back with a nod, wondering what an Ice Basilisk even is. That sounds scary and normally she is not one for fights unless she has to in order to protect herself or to help save and protect others like back at the Midwinter Gala.
"I did hear something about a great orb, but I couldn't see who was talking about the giant orb, so I assumed that it was part of a dream. But as for this Ice Basilisk, I don't think that we should be dealing with it at all until our host explains what it is and what it did to the last bunch who saw it."
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Isabella (the halfling) and Roxy (the owl) both turn their heads to look at Harmony at the same time in an unsettling fashion, but Isabella has a huge smile on her face. "Why yes! I'd love that! Are you an expert lute player? Not that you need to be, but I just want to get reaaally good at it, reeeeaally fast! Orb? Ice Basilisk? Laughing rhino? Wait... you don't know Toril? That's... our world! What are you... where are we exactly?" Isabella squints again trying to take the place in despite her myopia.
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Jove sits down with his arms crossed. He is quite upset with the situation right now. Then he hears Abraxas ask about the orb. He seems uneasy.
He speaks to Abraxas using telepathy:
Hey. Um. Remember my spellcasting focus? The black orb? That can't be what he is talking about, can it? I am keeping this a secret for now. Don't act like you can hear me or anything.
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To Olive: "A statue that appeared near Loch Varokaj. The Lugat think it's put some sorta curse on the area. Now I dinna know abou' tha', but the Order of Thalassa put out a call for someone to find out. Last group that went out came back...different. Mutated; said the basilisk done it. If ye wanna know any more I'd head to the Order cross town in the mornin'."
To Abraxas and Isabella, the barkeep cocks an eyebrow: "The world, you say? Now I ain't fer knowin' how far yer comin' from, but 'round 'ere in Xenek we call it Rikirta. Ain't ever heared o' it as Toril."
"Now, I gotta get back to the bar afore that line gets any bigger," the dwarf says, picking up the coins from the table. "I'll have yer rooms done up shortly."
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Harmony had heard Olive, nodding and agreeing about wanting to know about this Ice Basilisk first. Then she also heard Isabella, smiling and nodding back. "Yeah, the lute is one of the instruments that I can play. I even have one too. Oh, that might be a little hard to do unless you practice it constantly for hours every single day." she then said back to her, knowing that practice makes perfect. Soon she heard Isabella talk about Toril being their world, now remembering that as well. How could she possibly forget the world she lives in after all? Then the dwarf explained that the Basilisk is a statue that is putting a curse on the area and that the Order of Thalassa is putting out a call for someone to find out. Apparently the last group that went there came back different, mutated and said that the statue did it, shocked. He told them to head to the Order cross town in the morning before he told Abraxas and Isabella that they are in Xenek and this is Rikirta, stunned. What?! "How did we end up in another world!?" Harmony exclaimed to everyone, so so confused right now. There is no way that she would have woken up and traveled to another world without remembering that. What happened after she had gone to sleep?
"Then we'll talk to the Order tomorrow morning. Because my friends and I have a ton of questions that need to be answered before we do anything else." She turns back to the party once the Dwarf walks back to the bar with their coins. "The morning? We must really be somewhere else. We just woke up, but it's night right now. Should we go back to sleep again?"
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Xenek and Rikirta. A nation or town and a world? Abraxas tries to recall if he has ever heard those words before in all the history he's read.
He agrees with Harmony's question. "How do we even figure out how we got here?" He thinks for a moment. "A statue appeared near this Loch Varokaj. We appeared. This Order knows something about the statue, apparently. Might the Order know something about us and our appearance?" He rubs his face. "We could try to sleep, if we can."
Abraxas replies to Jove, without looking in his direction.
Do you have your focus with you? I'm honestly not sure, Jove. What do you know about your focus? Do you know where it came from?
And are you sure you don't want to ask the others? They look experienced.
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Isabella looks at Roxy and Roxy stares back at her for a moment, then Isabella shrugs and puts her slightly hairy, bare feet up on the table. Roxy flutters to the back of the chair as Isabella leans backward and the bird's weight nearly causes the chair to fall backwards, but Isabella manages to maintain balance with a quick wave of her arms. She acts as if it never happened.
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In a bit of mischief, Olive reaches over with her pointer finger and gives Isabella's feet a little tickle.
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"Ahhahaha! Uh-oh." Isabella kicks her feet on the table causing her chair to fall backwards and the halfling tumbles out of the chair and onto the floor with a light thump. Roxy flies up and lands on one of the beams in the rafters.
Iz rolls over with a groan, then picks herself and then the chair up, but elects to stand on it rather than sitting. She's still shorter than most of the folks seated around the table.
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Olive giggles a little as Isabella falls out of her chair. "Sorry about that but I couldn't help myself. Your feet were just right there, up on the table, asking to be tickled. And then your bird almost knocked you over."
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Iz grins back at Olive, "No harm done, but watch out!" She rubs the back of her neck.
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Jove has been rather upset and serious this whole time, but cannot help but crack a smile when a halfling falls over.
He smiles and says "I think we are all on edge because none of us can remember how we got here. We should let it sit for a while and go rest, I think. We can meet back in the morning."
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Olive agrees with Jove and heads up to her room
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Abraxas follows Olive and Jove's examples. His spell book under his pillow, he eventually sleeps.
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