Shavaris yelps with a start as Delph pulls at her earlobe. She grabs the piece of fabric she used earlier and hands it to Delph, "Here, keep yourself busy. We'll let you know when we're ready for you."
As she listens to Kerwyn's observations things seem to just unravel around her. She was suspicious when they arrived, but she had no idea the depth of deception was going on here. "Apparently only the acrobats that arrived separately are the only things that appear real. I'm going to try and get a better look at this wizard."
And with that, she tries to sneak off into the crowd and get a better look at the wizard. And if she can, the ringmaster as well.
Great, so is everything a lie with this performance? They poison the food and they don’t even have the decency to hold an actual show. He sees Shavaris sneak into the crowd. Before she is out of earshot he will whisper to the others, Let me know if you want a distraction, I can get the ringmasters attention for a bit if you need it. I could pretend to be the stone child’s parent and start making a scene. I’ll only do this if things start to get out of control.
Johnathan will then slip out of the crowds view in some dark alley or corner and summon the black flames around himself. When they disperse he looks like a common man in simple clothes. His head is bald with a small beard and has some similar features to the child statue. He returns into the audience and starts blending in with the audience, making sure not to eat any of the food.
Delph takes the fabric from Shavaris and says "Oh! Sorry, didn't mean to hurt your ear. I just wanted to know if it was made of metal or not." They look at the fabric trying to determine what to do with it then seem to decide on... "Oh! Should I try to catch the colors? Okay!" They take the fabric and zoom off to catch who knows what in the air. Zooming back and forth like a hummingbird on speed they seem unstoppable. They even put the fabric over some poor person hallucinating which seems to make them worse. Delphinium apologizes to them and the zooms off again. They seem to catch something in the air. They let out a triumphant "WHOOP!" They then look around for their allies and upon seeing Kerwyn rushes over and tells them "I caught the yellow! Wanna see? Oh! Also, why are we stopping the illusions? Are they doing something wrong? Are they not just for entertainment?"
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Shavaris smiles at the thought of Johnathan pretending to be the stone child's parents and nods at him before heading off to the wizard. She weaves between the crowd making her way towards the back and is surprised when Delph suddenly takes off with her fabric. Well, the rest of the Dawn Guard can worry about them for a little while. Hopefully whatever he is on wears off soon. As she gets near an empty supply wagon, she ducks behind the screen where the wizard is concentrating on his book.
"So, nice charade you've got going on here. Is everything in this carnival an illusion, mister?" she says that last part like asking what his name is, while she comes out of the shadows right next to him to throw him off a bit.
The wizard jumps and chirps something when Shavaris speaks. The action clearly scares the shit out of him. He's flustered for a moment before the illusion he's holding up collapses completely. Suddenly, the audience has front row seats to a shaggy old lion lounging in a bed of luxurious straw that, only moments ago, had been a manticore. The Midgard Serpent turns out to be a snake resting in a coil in the center of its cart, and the roaring ape falls silent as a marmoset appears. Its sitting on a perch and looking out at the crowd while it scratches its butt.
The Satyr lowers his book and looks out of the bars of his cage and has a stunned look plastered on his face.
"Uh oh." He says.
Mommy Baba is strutting up and down the centerstage where she had been commanding the performance until only a second ago. The string of obscenities that leave her mouth are horrid, far worse than anything the Dawn Guard heard when traveling with the band of ruffians known as the Skullsplitters. It may be the worst torrent of bad language any of them have heard in their entire lives. She is very, very angry.
"What happened?" A child asks in the crowd. "Mommy, where'd the manticore go? Where's that big ape?"
Someone else asks why the monkey is pink. The monkey isn't pink. Well, maybe to those eating the nectarine but...
The crowd begins to slowly disperse, muttering amongst itself. Some of the people are stumbling or swiping at objects that aren't there, tryin to fan flashes of color out of their face.
The wizard throws his screen to the side and slams his book closed with a resounding bang before storming out, revealing his hiding place and Shavaris, who had snuck up on him.
"Bunch of f***ing a**holes!" The ringmaster shouts as she tosses her whip to the ground and kicks it. "Can't even let someone make a living! I hope you're proud of yourselves!"
The lion that had been a manticore stretches out and yawns before rolling on to its side very lackadaisically.
Shavaris starts after the wizard, "Sir, sir please, those illusions you were doing, I had no idea you were performing so many at one time! That was incredible!! I do apologize for scaring you, that wasn't my intention. I just wanted to get near you without being stopped so I could tell you how good a job you were doing and I had no idea how much!"
She follows him as she is saying this, but he if leaves the vicinity, she stops. She doesn't want to leave her friends.
The Wizard doesn't even turn to look at Shavaris while he storms off. He just releases a string of foul language and says a few choice phrases that let her know he's not interested in talking to her and keeps walking. Most of these words start with the letter F. He indicates what she can do to herself with her questions and comments.
The ringmaster picks her whip back up and looks menacingly at Shavaris.
"Just leave. Haven't you done enough tonight? Go!"
The Thri-Kreen acrobats and the Kobold stable hands watch in shock and awe.
Aoe stands perfectly still, his bandore hanging from his shoulder, pretending to be a statue… he casts gift of alacrity on himself and then guidance, as he watches the chaos unfold…
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he thinks to himself analyzing the situation…. [… firefists deep into the carnival psychodelics … ward presuming the animals are on his side… we’d have to work on group cohesion… otherwise ‘dawn guard’ was gonna turn into ‘dawn-why-did-wake-up-in-a-holding-cell’ pretty fast.. on the bright side, maybe this mess would help us know where the mare was… breaking eggs to make omelets and all… but then again, it probably was gonna reveal more about our own presumptions than the world at large..]
aoe smiles a bit, breaking his statuesque composure for a moment; and placed his off hand on the butt of the staff still on his back nesr his hip almost unnoticeably… well… just in case.
While at one moment Delphinium was having fun with plans to free some animals later now the fun seems to have stopped. The elaborate illusions all dispelled as the wizard off to the side. Delphinium in their state of confusion becomes even more confused as they say "Wait! Where did the illusions go!?!? They were so good! Now all I have are the pretty colors. Oh! Like that one!" Delph zooms into the air away from Kerwyn to try and catch something only they can see. Once up in the air they can see the ringmaster glaring at Shavaris and the wizard brings Delphinium's attention over there. As Delphinium sees the wizard storming off the tiny fairy heads towards the Wizard and shouts trying to bring attention to them "Hey! Bring back the illusions! You're so talented! It was super entertaining! You don't even need these animals to make a show! Everyone was having fun! You're the real ringmaster! You're amazing!! Encore! Encore! Encore!" The fairy starts flying around the wizard as they shout encore trying to parade them as the talent Delphinium sees them as. trying to get the crowd involved as he shouts at the Crowd too "Wasn't he amazing people!? Let's see what he can do without the animals!!! Give it up for the amazing Master of Illusions themselves! Cheer them on!! The real hero of the show!!!!" Delphinium will fly about trying to catch bubbles of colors as they giggle and pop them and try to get the wizard to make more entertaining illusions a the same time. As he does so Delphinium tries to encourage the wizard to make illusions for them "Oh great Master of Illusions! Make lots of colors for me to fly with!!! Add to all the colors I see!!"
Johnathan keeps up his disguise of the common man up, standing in shock with the rest of the audience. He mutters, in an older and gravelly voice, What is happening here, where are all the monsters?He tries to blend in with the audience but also keeping within earshot of the rest of the band. As the wizard is making his way, Johnathan will make his way to the other cages while pretending to be confused by the situation. While he is pretending to inspect the cages for “real” monsters, Johnathan will make his way to the unicorn cage to see if there is anything interesting there, while trying to keep the attention off him as he does so.
The wizard reaches out with his book and snaps it at Delphinium menacingly, like he's trying to crush the fairy between the bulk of pages. The book makes a loud thump as it is opened and closed quickly. The wizard curses something at the Fairy and it becomes clear that he is no longer in the mood for crap. He doesn't seem to be interested at all in making friends and is more interested in sulking and being pissed off.
The calls for an encore fall on deaf ears. The crowd is already slowly filing away. Some look over their shoulders, one child pulls his mom's coattail, and then is dragged along as the crowd disperses and heads home.
Johnathan's inspection of the empty unicorn cart shows a dried horse turd in one corner that seems to have been there for many, many years.
The elf squares off with the ringmaster, with a smirk on her face. "Do you enjoy swindling people for their money, drugging them and caging up innocent animals? How is that a decent living? I mean, what the hell is in those nectarines??"
If the ringmaster holds her whip in a threatening way, Shavaris will put one of her hands on her rapier's hilt.
Delphinium is surprised that the wizard tries to hit them with their book. Delphinium complimented them and said they were good, they don't seem to understand why they got angry about that. The fairy is just so confused as they try to figure out if they said something wrong or maybe the wizard didn't believe them? The wizard even threaten Delph. Delph backs off and looks back at the crowd but everyone has already begun leaving and their tiny voice falls mostly on deaf ears. Despite the colors floating around their head the tiny one doesn't feel happy. The fairy looks around sadly as all the fun stops. Shavaris and the lioness seem very angry at each other. Delphinium may feel big but right now they look around and feel small. They were having fun, enjoying the show, planning to help animals caged up, enjoying colorful lights dancing around them, and even got to participate in the show. They flutter low and dejected. Making their way to the closest member of the dawn guard and landing on their shoulder as they say "Why did the circus have to stop?"
Ward goes behind a wall and out of view, the figure of a kobold in a trencbcoat in the style of the other kobolds attire and the height of Ward. The kobold figure will walk over to the monkeys cage and bring it out like he is taking it away from the show and whisper to it “Hi, I’m the friend from before, come over with me.” Ward says before taking him over to the group. “Is it time to release the harpy?” Ward asks motioning towards Shavaris and petting the monkey on the head.
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"Yes I enjoy it!" The ringmaster says indignantly like this is the stupidest question she's heard in a long life of stupid questions. "This is a freaking carnival sideshow! It's a circus! People come here to be entertained! The know what they're getting in to before they get here! Who hasn't heard of a desert nectarine! People get high with them all the time! Look at your stupid Fairy!"
The lioness points toward poor little Delphinium who looks like their good time has been deflated like a balloon.
"Let me ask you a question. Did you ride here on a horse!? Do any of your friends or family have a horse or beast of burden!?"
Shavaris's smart ass answer of 'Why? So you can steal those animals too?' does not seem to please her.
"Because I'm sure you do! I'm sure everyone you know has an animal they ride, or an animal they milk, or an animal they raise for food which is WAY worse, by the way! At least mine don't have to worry about my heavy ass crawling up on their back, or putting them in a stall to milk against their will, or their babies getting raised for food! I think you're an idiot and a hypocrite!"
The Satyr comes walking into the midst of the commotion. He's pulled on some trousers and put on a pair of glasses and has a mug of steaming drink in one hand. He takes one look at the way Mommy Baba is holding her whip, and then at Shavaris's hand on her rapier hilt, turns, and just walks off like he has seen nothing. The four wagoneers, however, seem to get the idea that something is up. They're slowly handing out various weapons and other implements to the Kobolds and Thri-Kreen.
“I think that is our quene friends, would one of you wish to help me with the Harpy cage.” Ward says walking over to the cage and talking to the Harpy. “Before you take your leave, would you mind.” Ward says pointing towards the commotion between Shavaris and the ringmaster. “The elf is with us.” Ward adds
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Shavaris heaves a big sigh and relents. "Damn woman, I don't think I've ever let anyone call me those names and live, but well, there's a first time for everything." she lets go of her rapier, "You don't know anything about me and how I treat my beloved elk, but its not fair for me to judge you either. I do apologize for breaking up the party. I was just trying to understand it and apparently pissed off your wizard. I think he might be in need of some of your nectarines."she says without humor in her voice. She feels bad for letting it come to this, almost fighting over what? Why were they the judge of a freaking carnival? Apparently, they were letting this AURYN thing get to their heads. No, I shouldn't be talking for my band, I let it get to my head.
And with that, unless the ringmaster stops her, she steps away from the fight and leaves the area.
Kerwyn walks over to the ringmaster saying, “All of this, an illusion? Well, where I come from, you would be called a Charlatan. I suppose you’ll be giving everyone their money back right? Wait a minute, I don’t recall paying anything, oh well.And that Cornlizard gave me diarrhea! Has the local health inspector checked your snack making methods? I didn’t think so. Where is that Harpy?” Kerwyn turns around to look for it and its current status. “You should be more careful with giving hallucinogens to your customers, you should be ashamed!”
The next subjects of Kerwyn ire are the Kobolds and Thri-Kreen, “You better watch yourself before you start rolling up on us here, you will see some truly dangerous creatures of the night come to light.” Kerwyn puts his hand casually on his thrown glaive.
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"It's a shame you didn't shit yourself to death." The leonin says to Kerwyn.
The troop of performers, taking up their spears and daggers and whatnot, don't seem terribly frightened by Kerwyn. Neither does the harpy. It stares across the clearing with a calculating gaze and shifts on the huge pole it uses as a roost.
Aoe hears kerwyn declare ‘where I come from’… and turns to walk slowly toward his mount… none of her knew the rules of this region, and no ruler he ever served in his illustrious career of barding and advising would accept ‘where I come from’ as a validation for an opinion.
aoe gets to his horses, one riding and the other draft, and turning them to give himself cover, just in case, begins tightening the straps, preparing to leave this imprudence behind… he note dM that shavaris was ready to go, and messages John privately:
Unless you think we have something to prove here… this really isn’t our fight… the mare is missing… the stakes for us Is stopping the end of the world…
Aoe watches over the saddle and finishes preparing, finally mounting… and waiting to see what the others would do amid their various temper and narcotic swings …
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Shavaris yelps with a start as Delph pulls at her earlobe. She grabs the piece of fabric she used earlier and hands it to Delph, "Here, keep yourself busy. We'll let you know when we're ready for you."
As she listens to Kerwyn's observations things seem to just unravel around her. She was suspicious when they arrived, but she had no idea the depth of deception was going on here. "Apparently only the acrobats that arrived separately are the only things that appear real. I'm going to try and get a better look at this wizard."
And with that, she tries to sneak off into the crowd and get a better look at the wizard. And if she can, the ringmaster as well.
Stealth 25
Perception 10
Great, so is everything a lie with this performance? They poison the food and they don’t even have the decency to hold an actual show. He sees Shavaris sneak into the crowd. Before she is out of earshot he will whisper to the others, Let me know if you want a distraction, I can get the ringmasters attention for a bit if you need it. I could pretend to be the stone child’s parent and start making a scene. I’ll only do this if things start to get out of control.
Johnathan will then slip out of the crowds view in some dark alley or corner and summon the black flames around himself. When they disperse he looks like a common man in simple clothes. His head is bald with a small beard and has some similar features to the child statue. He returns into the audience and starts blending in with the audience, making sure not to eat any of the food.
Delph takes the fabric from Shavaris and says "Oh! Sorry, didn't mean to hurt your ear. I just wanted to know if it was made of metal or not." They look at the fabric trying to determine what to do with it then seem to decide on... "Oh! Should I try to catch the colors? Okay!" They take the fabric and zoom off to catch who knows what in the air. Zooming back and forth like a hummingbird on speed they seem unstoppable. They even put the fabric over some poor person hallucinating which seems to make them worse. Delphinium apologizes to them and the zooms off again. They seem to catch something in the air. They let out a triumphant "WHOOP!" They then look around for their allies and upon seeing Kerwyn rushes over and tells them "I caught the yellow! Wanna see? Oh! Also, why are we stopping the illusions? Are they doing something wrong? Are they not just for entertainment?"
Shavaris smiles at the thought of Johnathan pretending to be the stone child's parents and nods at him before heading off to the wizard. She weaves between the crowd making her way towards the back and is surprised when Delph suddenly takes off with her fabric. Well, the rest of the Dawn Guard can worry about them for a little while. Hopefully whatever he is on wears off soon. As she gets near an empty supply wagon, she ducks behind the screen where the wizard is concentrating on his book.
"So, nice charade you've got going on here. Is everything in this carnival an illusion, mister?" she says that last part like asking what his name is, while she comes out of the shadows right next to him to throw him off a bit.
Insight 24
The wizard jumps and chirps something when Shavaris speaks. The action clearly scares the shit out of him. He's flustered for a moment before the illusion he's holding up collapses completely. Suddenly, the audience has front row seats to a shaggy old lion lounging in a bed of luxurious straw that, only moments ago, had been a manticore. The Midgard Serpent turns out to be a snake resting in a coil in the center of its cart, and the roaring ape falls silent as a marmoset appears. Its sitting on a perch and looking out at the crowd while it scratches its butt.
The Satyr lowers his book and looks out of the bars of his cage and has a stunned look plastered on his face.
"Uh oh." He says.
Mommy Baba is strutting up and down the centerstage where she had been commanding the performance until only a second ago. The string of obscenities that leave her mouth are horrid, far worse than anything the Dawn Guard heard when traveling with the band of ruffians known as the Skullsplitters. It may be the worst torrent of bad language any of them have heard in their entire lives. She is very, very angry.
"What happened?" A child asks in the crowd. "Mommy, where'd the manticore go? Where's that big ape?"
Someone else asks why the monkey is pink. The monkey isn't pink. Well, maybe to those eating the nectarine but...
The crowd begins to slowly disperse, muttering amongst itself. Some of the people are stumbling or swiping at objects that aren't there, tryin to fan flashes of color out of their face.
The wizard throws his screen to the side and slams his book closed with a resounding bang before storming out, revealing his hiding place and Shavaris, who had snuck up on him.
"Bunch of f***ing a**holes!" The ringmaster shouts as she tosses her whip to the ground and kicks it. "Can't even let someone make a living! I hope you're proud of yourselves!"
The lion that had been a manticore stretches out and yawns before rolling on to its side very lackadaisically.
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Shavaris starts after the wizard, "Sir, sir please, those illusions you were doing, I had no idea you were performing so many at one time! That was incredible!! I do apologize for scaring you, that wasn't my intention. I just wanted to get near you without being stopped so I could tell you how good a job you were doing and I had no idea how much!"
She follows him as she is saying this, but he if leaves the vicinity, she stops. She doesn't want to leave her friends.
The Wizard doesn't even turn to look at Shavaris while he storms off. He just releases a string of foul language and says a few choice phrases that let her know he's not interested in talking to her and keeps walking. Most of these words start with the letter F. He indicates what she can do to herself with her questions and comments.
The ringmaster picks her whip back up and looks menacingly at Shavaris.
"Just leave. Haven't you done enough tonight? Go!"
The Thri-Kreen acrobats and the Kobold stable hands watch in shock and awe.
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Aoe stands perfectly still, his bandore hanging from his shoulder, pretending to be a statue… he casts gift of alacrity on himself and then guidance, as he watches the chaos unfold…
…..
he thinks to himself analyzing the situation…. [… firefists deep into the carnival psychodelics … ward presuming the animals are on his side… we’d have to work on group cohesion… otherwise ‘dawn guard’ was gonna turn into ‘dawn-why-did-wake-up-in-a-holding-cell’ pretty fast.. on the bright side, maybe this mess would help us know where the mare was… breaking eggs to make omelets and all… but then again, it probably was gonna reveal more about our own presumptions than the world at large..]
aoe smiles a bit, breaking his statuesque composure for a moment; and placed his off hand on the butt of the staff still on his back nesr his hip almost unnoticeably… well… just in case.
While at one moment Delphinium was having fun with plans to free some animals later now the fun seems to have stopped. The elaborate illusions all dispelled as the wizard off to the side. Delphinium in their state of confusion becomes even more confused as they say "Wait! Where did the illusions go!?!? They were so good! Now all I have are the pretty colors. Oh! Like that one!" Delph zooms into the air away from Kerwyn to try and catch something only they can see. Once up in the air they can see the ringmaster glaring at Shavaris and the wizard brings Delphinium's attention over there. As Delphinium sees the wizard storming off the tiny fairy heads towards the Wizard and shouts trying to bring attention to them "Hey! Bring back the illusions! You're so talented! It was super entertaining! You don't even need these animals to make a show! Everyone was having fun! You're the real ringmaster! You're amazing!! Encore! Encore! Encore!" The fairy starts flying around the wizard as they shout encore trying to parade them as the talent Delphinium sees them as. trying to get the crowd involved as he shouts at the Crowd too "Wasn't he amazing people!? Let's see what he can do without the animals!!! Give it up for the amazing Master of Illusions themselves! Cheer them on!! The real hero of the show!!!!" Delphinium will fly about trying to catch bubbles of colors as they giggle and pop them and try to get the wizard to make more entertaining illusions a the same time. As he does so Delphinium tries to encourage the wizard to make illusions for them "Oh great Master of Illusions! Make lots of colors for me to fly with!!! Add to all the colors I see!!"
Johnathan keeps up his disguise of the common man up, standing in shock with the rest of the audience. He mutters, in an older and gravelly voice, What is happening here, where are all the monsters? He tries to blend in with the audience but also keeping within earshot of the rest of the band. As the wizard is making his way, Johnathan will make his way to the other cages while pretending to be confused by the situation. While he is pretending to inspect the cages for “real” monsters, Johnathan will make his way to the unicorn cage to see if there is anything interesting there, while trying to keep the attention off him as he does so.
Perception: 8
Deception: 16
The wizard reaches out with his book and snaps it at Delphinium menacingly, like he's trying to crush the fairy between the bulk of pages. The book makes a loud thump as it is opened and closed quickly. The wizard curses something at the Fairy and it becomes clear that he is no longer in the mood for crap. He doesn't seem to be interested at all in making friends and is more interested in sulking and being pissed off.
The calls for an encore fall on deaf ears. The crowd is already slowly filing away. Some look over their shoulders, one child pulls his mom's coattail, and then is dragged along as the crowd disperses and heads home.
Johnathan's inspection of the empty unicorn cart shows a dried horse turd in one corner that seems to have been there for many, many years.
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The elf squares off with the ringmaster, with a smirk on her face. "Do you enjoy swindling people for their money, drugging them and caging up innocent animals? How is that a decent living? I mean, what the hell is in those nectarines??"
If the ringmaster holds her whip in a threatening way, Shavaris will put one of her hands on her rapier's hilt.
Delphinium is surprised that the wizard tries to hit them with their book. Delphinium complimented them and said they were good, they don't seem to understand why they got angry about that. The fairy is just so confused as they try to figure out if they said something wrong or maybe the wizard didn't believe them? The wizard even threaten Delph. Delph backs off and looks back at the crowd but everyone has already begun leaving and their tiny voice falls mostly on deaf ears. Despite the colors floating around their head the tiny one doesn't feel happy. The fairy looks around sadly as all the fun stops. Shavaris and the lioness seem very angry at each other. Delphinium may feel big but right now they look around and feel small. They were having fun, enjoying the show, planning to help animals caged up, enjoying colorful lights dancing around them, and even got to participate in the show. They flutter low and dejected. Making their way to the closest member of the dawn guard and landing on their shoulder as they say "Why did the circus have to stop?"
Ward goes behind a wall and out of view, the figure of a kobold in a trencbcoat in the style of the other kobolds attire and the height of Ward. The kobold figure will walk over to the monkeys cage and bring it out like he is taking it away from the show and whisper to it “Hi, I’m the friend from before, come over with me.” Ward says before taking him over to the group. “Is it time to release the harpy?” Ward asks motioning towards Shavaris and petting the monkey on the head.
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"Yes I enjoy it!" The ringmaster says indignantly like this is the stupidest question she's heard in a long life of stupid questions. "This is a freaking carnival sideshow! It's a circus! People come here to be entertained! The know what they're getting in to before they get here! Who hasn't heard of a desert nectarine! People get high with them all the time! Look at your stupid Fairy!"
The lioness points toward poor little Delphinium who looks like their good time has been deflated like a balloon.
"Let me ask you a question. Did you ride here on a horse!? Do any of your friends or family have a horse or beast of burden!?"
Shavaris's smart ass answer of 'Why? So you can steal those animals too?' does not seem to please her.
"Because I'm sure you do! I'm sure everyone you know has an animal they ride, or an animal they milk, or an animal they raise for food which is WAY worse, by the way! At least mine don't have to worry about my heavy ass crawling up on their back, or putting them in a stall to milk against their will, or their babies getting raised for food! I think you're an idiot and a hypocrite!"
The Satyr comes walking into the midst of the commotion. He's pulled on some trousers and put on a pair of glasses and has a mug of steaming drink in one hand. He takes one look at the way Mommy Baba is holding her whip, and then at Shavaris's hand on her rapier hilt, turns, and just walks off like he has seen nothing. The four wagoneers, however, seem to get the idea that something is up. They're slowly handing out various weapons and other implements to the Kobolds and Thri-Kreen.
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“I think that is our quene friends, would one of you wish to help me with the Harpy cage.” Ward says walking over to the cage and talking to the Harpy. “Before you take your leave, would you mind.” Ward says pointing towards the commotion between Shavaris and the ringmaster. “The elf is with us.” Ward adds
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Shavaris heaves a big sigh and relents. "Damn woman, I don't think I've ever let anyone call me those names and live, but well, there's a first time for everything." she lets go of her rapier, "You don't know anything about me and how I treat my beloved elk, but its not fair for me to judge you either. I do apologize for breaking up the party. I was just trying to understand it and apparently pissed off your wizard. I think he might be in need of some of your nectarines." she says without humor in her voice. She feels bad for letting it come to this, almost fighting over what? Why were they the judge of a freaking carnival? Apparently, they were letting this AURYN thing get to their heads. No, I shouldn't be talking for my band, I let it get to my head.
And with that, unless the ringmaster stops her, she steps away from the fight and leaves the area.
Kerwyn walks over to the ringmaster saying, “All of this, an illusion? Well, where I come from, you would be called a Charlatan. I suppose you’ll be giving everyone their money back right? Wait a minute, I don’t recall paying anything, oh well. And that Cornlizard gave me diarrhea! Has the local health inspector checked your snack making methods? I didn’t think so. Where is that Harpy?” Kerwyn turns around to look for it and its current status. “You should be more careful with giving hallucinogens to your customers, you should be ashamed!”
The next subjects of Kerwyn ire are the Kobolds and Thri-Kreen, “You better watch yourself before you start rolling up on us here, you will see some truly dangerous creatures of the night come to light.” Kerwyn puts his hand casually on his thrown glaive.
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
"It's a shame you didn't shit yourself to death." The leonin says to Kerwyn.
The troop of performers, taking up their spears and daggers and whatnot, don't seem terribly frightened by Kerwyn. Neither does the harpy. It stares across the clearing with a calculating gaze and shifts on the huge pole it uses as a roost.
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Aoe hears kerwyn declare ‘where I come from’… and turns to walk slowly toward his mount… none of her knew the rules of this region, and no ruler he ever served in his illustrious career of barding and advising would accept ‘where I come from’ as a validation for an opinion.
aoe gets to his horses, one riding and the other draft, and turning them to give himself cover, just in case, begins tightening the straps, preparing to leave this imprudence behind… he note dM that shavaris was ready to go, and messages John privately:
Unless you think we have something to prove here… this really isn’t our fight… the mare is missing… the stakes for us Is stopping the end of the world…
Aoe watches over the saddle and finishes preparing, finally mounting… and waiting to see what the others would do amid their various temper and narcotic swings …