Looking into the bag, Killian can see a small string net with about twenty small scallop shells. You know that in your home realms, water dwellers might use such things for currency, but it doesn't seem to mix well with her comment of the next area being a desert.

Mara will listen and take mental notes about what the woman says, finishing with changing before she moves to rejoin the rest of the group. Her eyebrows can only raise at how excited Killian seems by the shells. She shrugs it off when he mentions them being used as a form of money, noting that it would be wise to keep the shells safe then.

Dark somewhat ashamed that he startled the old lady had been watching and listening to the conversation.  Hearing the talk about a desert and fishing nets,  Dark asked with a hopeful attitude "Does the other level have a sky or high ceiling?"

"Oh, it is like a whole island in there." The crone responds. "I can't tell how high the sky really goes, but it is very high. Now..." She begins to rummage into the chest again. "If you are taking the children with you, I need you to take care of them as best you can." She pulls out of the chest a couple of items; a poor quality shortsword and a suit of poor quality leather armour. "There's a couple of things that haven't disintegrated over the years, so feel free to take them with you."

Rumble chuckles and shakes his head at Killian's excitement, but doesn't really let it break his concentration on honing the blade. "'course mister birdman would ask that." He mutters, shaking his head again. The work done, he perks up in time to see the new offering and cants his head. "Well, uhh..." He glances back briefly to the others, giving their current gear a once over. "Mister Birdman? The Sword? It /has/ been awhile since we managed to find something that you could use." He'll pause at that, waiting for an answer in one form or another.

"And uh... *clicks tongue*... Well, hm! 'less Mister Leo would prefer the lighter stuff, 'nd I'd just take that heavier stuff off his hands -- for at least now, I-I... I dunno. I could carry it around just in case? Never know. Might meet some folk that ain't so far gone. Speak'n of which.... actually, that's a weird seg--ANYways! Uhm.. don't s'pose ya happen to have any scabards lying around as well? Oh! And, uh, while we on the subject of hold'n stuff, uhmmm.. not sure you magic folks'll need'em or not, but I picked up some candles a while back? Long with a bottle. Soooo...." He trails off there, looking at the others expectantly.  

Killian looks at the shells and sniffs them in the hopes they smell like the ocean still. He turns to Rumble's comments, "maybe Leo or Mara can hold the backpack, I am okay with this Pouch for now. Killian takes his waterskin out that has the mushroom mash alcohol and dumps it out. "We're gonna need plenty of water right?" asking the crone, "no need for this anymore" Killian fills up the waterskin 1/4 way from the other one he has with water.  swishing it around and dumping it again to be sure to clean it out thoroughly. "Hey, Leo mind doing that water switcheroo thing you do?" Holding up the empty waterskin.

Dark say to the old lady, " thank you for the extra supplies.  We will do our best to protect the children.  Do they have weapons and armor for their protection?"  Hearing Rumble tease him about his questions, Dark looks at Rumble and says "I just want to help and try to find ways that my particular skills" he flaps his wings a couple of beats "can be useful to our group.  I am unsure that I will ever see the real sky again but I was made to fly. This walking around everywhere wears out my talons and hurts my legs."  He looks closer at the offered weapons.  "I really could use a bow and arrows.  If it comes down to close combat, a good punch or hard kick will serve me well."

"So could we all." The crone replies to Dark. "If I find something around here that makes string good enough and a piece of wood capable enough, I'll let you know. I think you can find the feathers for yourself." She looks to the others. "If you've got someone who can make water," she gestures to the chest. "Just take one of there, it needs a container to fill, correct?" Inside the chest she gestures to, there are still a couple of belongings she hasn't given out yet; another pouch and several old scraps of blank parchment (one sheet).

Rumble only defense is to raise his hands in surrender and bow his head. Although he cannot help but still grin. Seeing as how the matter of the shortsword was still up in the air, he'll look to Darnell next, then gesture to the blade (if the halfling hasn't already snagged it). If even /he/ refuses it, well... he'll just awkwardly offer to hold on to it 'till they kids get back. Even if neither one of them were all that good with the sort of weapon, an added promise of teach him the same way he learned the blade. 

Though if things come to that, the others would note an almost wicked cast to his visage that briefly comes over the earth genasi. 

"LEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOO" Killian says while holding up the two waterskins waving them back and forth, "is he sleeping, in a trance standing there?" 

Leojym nods and removes the items from the chest as he kneels next to it. He picks up some of the spilled water from Killian's waterskin before chanting as he flicks the water off his finger into the chest, becoming 10 gallons of water.

"I am fine with either set of armor, or none if someone can make better use of it."  He begins loading the candle, bottle and chest contents into the backpack. "I can carry this if it doesn't get too heavy."

Mara takes the backpack and carefully puts it over her shoulders, nodding to the others as she waits for them to decide who would be getting what. She will go sitmto the side and wait since they are going to wait for the elves to continue.

Killian still holding an empty water skin, "well that works too I guess" and fills it up from the chest of water. "Are we supposed to carry this with us now? Might be pretty heavy filled with water. Maybe you should have saved that for when we are out in the ******* DESERT!" He says jokingly. After he sits next to Mara, leans into her and says quietly "what's the odds you think I can get that staff from her?" 

Rumble bites his lips to keep from laughing. But even nearly piercing them fails to keep a few muffled snickers from slipping past. "Alright, alright. If someone takes the sack, I'll take care of the chest. It's pretty light by comparison, and I managed to rig into uh.. uhm.. what'cha-ma-call-it? A hobo bundle? Yea! That's it. So in an emergency, just yank off that javelin, and you'll be golden. Plus, I ain't the one using a shield, so..." Rumble scratches his head, only to again flinch and grumble about it for a bit. 

"'Anyways, uhhh… *finger snaps*… Right! The armor. Let's do that swap real quick then, and I s'pose we'd be all set then?" He says, passing the leather armor over to Leo while he took the other once its off the elf. While awaiting an answer he'll start getting suited up. 

"I can not say but it would be wise to just leave her be. We do not want to anger her as we truly have no idea what she is actually capable of and I myself would not like to fight her if she is a powrful witch or something." Mara said to him as she waited to see what his reaction would be to this possibility before she goes to fill the bottle with water.

Killian is just starring at the staff thinking to himself, 'she has a point, it's a really nice staff though, but shes an old lady she'll be dead soon anyways, maybe I can ask her for it, could just take it, maybe some mage hand as we leave, damn I really want it' he looks at Mara "guess so" he said as she gets up to fill her bottle with water. "Where are these kids of yours? Expect them back anytime soon?" 

Leojym takes off his breastplate to give to Rumble and puts on the leather armor.

(The breastplate is very poor)

"Well fill your waterskins now and use what's left to give your faces a wash; they're filthy." The crone says, gesturing to the water in the chest. She then looks Killian, "They should be back in a few minutes. I suggest you gear up and we'll be ready to go as soon as they are back."

Mara moves tomthe water, making sure to be careful so that no dutt from clearing her face off got into the water. She will move back to where she had been sitting before and wait for the rest of the party to either copy her or do whatever else they needed to do to move on,

Killian washes his face, and double checks all his stuff in the pouch. "hmmm ain't gonna be able to carry much more than what I got here" looking at the tome he has been carrying all this way. "Suppose I should change also", Killian grabs some new threads and with no shame at all, changes in clear view of everyone. takes the shirt he was wearing and folds/rolls it up to fit into the pouch. "Oh would ya look at that, forgot I got a second pouch from them halflings back there, Wonder if this tome will fit." Killian opens the pouch and tries to fit the book into it.