Ollie looks up at her mentor, her eyes wide and a slightly childish smile on her face. "No, Master Ozlem, I'm just fine! A little bit shaken I think, but that's to be expected given the shocking and unpredictable nature of their attack! You know, I think that I remember reading of a similar ambush in . . . oh what was that book . . . ? Oh well, I forget, but it was very similar because--"
Ollie continues to ramble on, speaking very quickly, about some book she read but can't really remember. Standing just about three feet high, the little sorcerer's untidy mop of white-blonde hair falls all about her face. She clumsily tries to fix it back in place, revealing bright green eyes and a very pale face, which looks . . . odd, almost blurry and featureless, though all the components of a face are present. Rather than traditional sorcerer robes, she wears flexible black pants and a light-colored shirt under a black jacket. She suddenly stops her story, as her eyes widen and she looks around, remembering that she's surrounded by people she doesn't really know. "Oh! Hi! Thank you for rescuing us! We were in quite a pickle and I don't know if we'd have made it out without your assistance. You all did a really amazing job!"
The little sorcerer looks at Li-Anne. "Wow you must be a druid or something like that? That was really amazing, turning into a bear like that. I've read somewhere . . . I forget the particular book . . . that bears can eat . . ."
She continues to ramble on about bears, and seems likely to go on until something stops her.
"Yes, yes, we can eat... but armored guys are a bit tough to chew through... I prefer mushrooms... or cheese... or fish..." she speaks impatiently looking at Ozlem amazed by his construction "...what is..." she asks and turns to Ollie "Oh, hi! I'm Li-Anne!" she says with a smile finally meeting someone her height. Her prominent green hair go in every direction and are filled with flowers, tiny twigs, blades of grass and feathers. "You definitely need some sunlight... Books are ok I guess but you can learn a lot more out here..." her words seam to be spoken on one breath "...and yes.. I am a druid... And who are you?"
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"I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me..."
Eila pauses in her tasks to allow Jade's magic to take hold, closing her eyes momentarily while her skin pulls itself back together. She recalls Ellidaey's instruction and silently makes a gesture like someone tying a knot to the paladin and nods at the two men.
She continues on toward the dead man, touching Millicent's elbow so as to not surprise her. "My apologies, I won't interrupt, but I have to see to it he has dignity in death." She doesn't touch the body so as not to disturb Millicent's investigation but she kneels beside him holding a second holy symbol, the pair of scales representing Kelemvor rather than Ilmater, and begins to administer his final rites with first an apology that she hasn't the means to bury him.
Eila pauses in her tasks to allow Jade's magic to take hold, closing her eyes momentarily while her skin pulls itself back together. She recalls Ellidaey's instruction and silently makes a gesture like someone tying a knot to the paladin and nods at the two men.
She continues on toward the dead man, touching Millicent's elbow so as to not surprise her. "My apologies, I won't interrupt, but I have to see to it he has dignity in death." She doesn't touch the body so as not to disturb Millicent's investigation but she kneels beside him holding a second holy symbol, the pair of scales representing Kelemvor rather than Ilmater, and begins to administer his final rites with first an apology that she hasn't the means to bury him.
Millicent nods, silently taking in the ritual as yet more information that makes up the tapestries that are her new friends.
"Denial of healing within your comrades for an enemy is puzzling," Ozlem says to Eila. The large metal being moves away stopping by Elliðaey. "You have found odd companions, Ell, even for you," the warforged adds trudging away towards Ollie. Ozlem then stands defensively near the sorcerer who's their apprentice. "Are you unhurt," the warforged asks their apprentice with concern in their tone.
"It's a conversation worth having Ozlem," Elliðaey begins. "Once we're out of the elements and within the keep," she adds looking to Eila and Jade before looking to Millicent. Millicent finds very little other than the plate armor the deadman is wearing, a sword, and the broken shield. "Leave them to their rituals. I do not think you'll find anything of value there," the monk explains placing a hand on Millicent's shoulder before joining the other Scholars of Allsight and Li-Anne standing back.
"I am an automaton created by wizards long ago," Ozlem answers Li-Anne's previous question as Bane comes jiggling up to her from his hiding place with the mule and cart. "Ah, what a fine fellow," the warforged says as the large goat stops short of Li-Anne giving her a nudge.
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Ollie raises an eyebrow at Li-Anne's comments. Taking a few moments to think about it, she suddenly and very quickly blurts out, "Sunlight? I need it? Why do I need it, and what's it going to do? I mean there is some right now. Should I be collecting it? How does one collect sunlight, anyway? I read in a book once that there is some radiant light that is like sunlight that some spellcasters can use, maybe that's it!"
"Oh! Is this one of those things that you learn out here?"the little sorceress asks after a significant pause, waving her arm around to indicate the out-here-ness of their current location. More silence.
"Oh! I'm Olivandra Landseer, but everyone calls me Ollie! Master Ozlem is my, uh, master, well mentor, uhhh maester. Anyway, he's training me to be a scholar of insight!" Ollie's eyes go wide again, and she whispers in a very loud stage whisper, "But I'm not incredibly smart like Master Ozlem. I'm a sorcerer, you see, so my magic is like inside me and whatnot. I like reading books and learning things, but I'm not like super, uh, wizard-ey about it."
Ollie grins widely at everyone, displaying a full-set of very clear, white teeth that seem oddly focused in comparison to her odd, blurry facial features.
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Eila doesn't react to being spoken to nor reply to the mechanical construct and finishes up administering the dead man's rite.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Ollie, though I'm sure we'd all prefer better circumstances," she says as she gets up out of the mud and walks over to Jade to retrieve her warhammer, "I wish we'd arrived before this came to blows." She nudges the two men Jade had tied up onward towards their cart, so they can be transported to Candlekeep with the group as per Ellidaey's instruction.
"An automaton?" Li-Anne says with clear amazement in her voice. "So something like a clockwork toy? But ... bigger... and I hope you do not explode like some of those one of my uncles made..." she asks taking a step back but turns to Ollie immediately as she starts to speak. "Well, you look little pale... Too much books... well not books but sitting in those buildings. You know everything needs sunlight... Every tree, every flower... Even us!" she speaks with a smile.
"In here, I can teach you which plants you could eat and how to find them... But I guess you could get it from your books..." she thinks for a second "...but you will not know how they taste like, and here you could!"
Felling Bane's nudge, Li-Anne turns to him giving him a big kiss between his eyes. "This is Bane. He's my goat! Do not leave your shoes unattended... Or your clothes... He just loves scarfs.... And hats... And sometimes gloves, so if you want to have one for archery, or without fingers at all, he's your goat!" she speaks while scratching Bane's ears.
Li-Anne picks up a flower and adds it to others attached to Bane's horns.
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"I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me..."
Millicent withdrew at Elliðaeys request and gave a shy wave to Ollie, she was certain they'd met in passing before but had never been properly introduced.
As Li-Anne notices the tending to the dead, she approaches.
"Why don't you just put him there?"she asks pointing to a very beautiful tree. "You might bury him, but that's optional if you ask me... And that would be only fair..."she shrugs.
Entirely unfamiliar with Li-Annes ways and unable to understand the way druids regard nature, Eila completely misinterprets her meaning and looks deeply affronted by the suggestion. "I beg your pardon? Hanging an already dead man from a tree is entirely inexcusable."
"Why should I hang him anywhere?" Li-Anne asks with clear surprise.
"I told, you may just leave him there... Put him on the ground or if you need, just bury him IN the ground..." She says just to make sure she is understood correctly.
"Well, you know, he..."she looks at the body from a distance "...was about... 40 years old?"She guesses hisnage "So for his all life he ate chickens, some cow and deers perhaps... He ate food grown and raised on the ground. Now it would be fair, his body should be dined upon as he dined upon the natures gifts."
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"I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me..."
"Sure, I just need to rest a bit... Changing shape is a bit exhausting you know."Li-Anne answers with a smile and starts to look for a good tree seed. Moments later she sits by the tree and closes her eyes... "Give me an hour or so..."
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"I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me..."
Jade's increasing frustration is clearly etched on her face.
"I really don't think it's wise to wait. Can we just load him in the wagon and bury him in Candlekeep? I'm sure they'll have a shovel an a cemetery there."
"It will be best to bury him somewhere secure lest his body attract beasts out here, or worse." With a good deal of effort, she moves the man's corpse into the back of the wagon between the prisoners. She opts to walk beside the cart so as not to overload the poor donkey pulling it. "And we shouldn't rest out here, it's dangerous wilderness, there's a storm rolling in and as Elliðaey said, we should get these men to Candlekeep. Let's be off."
Ollie looks up at her mentor, her eyes wide and a slightly childish smile on her face. "No, Master Ozlem, I'm just fine! A little bit shaken I think, but that's to be expected given the shocking and unpredictable nature of their attack! You know, I think that I remember reading of a similar ambush in . . . oh what was that book . . . ? Oh well, I forget, but it was very similar because--"
Ollie continues to ramble on, speaking very quickly, about some book she read but can't really remember. Standing just about three feet high, the little sorcerer's untidy mop of white-blonde hair falls all about her face. She clumsily tries to fix it back in place, revealing bright green eyes and a very pale face, which looks . . . odd, almost blurry and featureless, though all the components of a face are present. Rather than traditional sorcerer robes, she wears flexible black pants and a light-colored shirt under a black jacket. She suddenly stops her story, as her eyes widen and she looks around, remembering that she's surrounded by people she doesn't really know. "Oh! Hi! Thank you for rescuing us! We were in quite a pickle and I don't know if we'd have made it out without your assistance. You all did a really amazing job!"
The little sorcerer looks at Li-Anne. "Wow you must be a druid or something like that? That was really amazing, turning into a bear like that. I've read somewhere . . . I forget the particular book . . . that bears can eat . . ."
She continues to ramble on about bears, and seems likely to go on until something stops her.
Walks in [insert absurd situation].
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"Yes, yes, we can eat... but armored guys are a bit tough to chew through... I prefer mushrooms... or cheese... or fish..." she speaks impatiently looking at Ozlem amazed by his construction "...what is..." she asks and turns to Ollie "Oh, hi! I'm Li-Anne!" she says with a smile finally meeting someone her height. Her prominent green hair go in every direction and are filled with flowers, tiny twigs, blades of grass and feathers. "You definitely need some sunlight... Books are ok I guess but you can learn a lot more out here..." her words seam to be spoken on one breath "...and yes.. I am a druid... And who are you?"
"I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me..."
[OOC: @Jade - 9HP]
Eila pauses in her tasks to allow Jade's magic to take hold, closing her eyes momentarily while her skin pulls itself back together. She recalls Ellidaey's instruction and silently makes a gesture like someone tying a knot to the paladin and nods at the two men.
She continues on toward the dead man, touching Millicent's elbow so as to not surprise her. "My apologies, I won't interrupt, but I have to see to it he has dignity in death." She doesn't touch the body so as not to disturb Millicent's investigation but she kneels beside him holding a second holy symbol, the pair of scales representing Kelemvor rather than Ilmater, and begins to administer his final rites with first an apology that she hasn't the means to bury him.
Jade cuts 2 five-foot lengths from her hempen rope and uses them to bind the prisoner's hands.
(Dex checks to bind effectively: Father/Bandit 2 9, Son/Wounded Bandit 15)
As Jade binds them, she takes note of the symbols they're wearing. (Religion check to see if she can identify it 4)
"I'd better hold on to this for safekeeping," Jade says as she removes the amulet from the younger man's neck.
Millicent nods, silently taking in the ritual as yet more information that makes up the tapestries that are her new friends.
"Denial of healing within your comrades for an enemy is puzzling," Ozlem says to Eila. The large metal being moves away stopping by Elliðaey. "You have found odd companions, Ell, even for you," the warforged adds trudging away towards Ollie. Ozlem then stands defensively near the sorcerer who's their apprentice. "Are you unhurt," the warforged asks their apprentice with concern in their tone.
"It's a conversation worth having Ozlem," Elliðaey begins. "Once we're out of the elements and within the keep," she adds looking to Eila and Jade before looking to Millicent. Millicent finds very little other than the plate armor the deadman is wearing, a sword, and the broken shield. "Leave them to their rituals. I do not think you'll find anything of value there," the monk explains placing a hand on Millicent's shoulder before joining the other Scholars of Allsight and Li-Anne standing back.
"I am an automaton created by wizards long ago," Ozlem answers Li-Anne's previous question as Bane comes jiggling up to her from his hiding place with the mule and cart. "Ah, what a fine fellow," the warforged says as the large goat stops short of Li-Anne giving her a nudge.
Sometimes a Nat 1 tells a better story than a Nat 20 ever could.
"We were tied up dealing with the spellcaster," Jade tells Ozlem, "who else was hurt?"
Ollie raises an eyebrow at Li-Anne's comments. Taking a few moments to think about it, she suddenly and very quickly blurts out, "Sunlight? I need it? Why do I need it, and what's it going to do? I mean there is some right now. Should I be collecting it? How does one collect sunlight, anyway? I read in a book once that there is some radiant light that is like sunlight that some spellcasters can use, maybe that's it!"
"Oh! Is this one of those things that you learn out here?" the little sorceress asks after a significant pause, waving her arm around to indicate the out-here-ness of their current location. More silence.
"Oh! I'm Olivandra Landseer, but everyone calls me Ollie! Master Ozlem is my, uh, master, well mentor, uhhh maester. Anyway, he's training me to be a scholar of insight!" Ollie's eyes go wide again, and she whispers in a very loud stage whisper, "But I'm not incredibly smart like Master Ozlem. I'm a sorcerer, you see, so my magic is like inside me and whatnot. I like reading books and learning things, but I'm not like super, uh, wizard-ey about it."
Ollie grins widely at everyone, displaying a full-set of very clear, white teeth that seem oddly focused in comparison to her odd, blurry facial features.
Walks in [insert absurd situation].
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Eila doesn't react to being spoken to nor reply to the mechanical construct and finishes up administering the dead man's rite.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Ollie, though I'm sure we'd all prefer better circumstances," she says as she gets up out of the mud and walks over to Jade to retrieve her warhammer, "I wish we'd arrived before this came to blows." She nudges the two men Jade had tied up onward towards their cart, so they can be transported to Candlekeep with the group as per Ellidaey's instruction.
"An automaton?" Li-Anne says with clear amazement in her voice. "So something like a clockwork toy? But ... bigger... and I hope you do not explode like some of those one of my uncles made..." she asks taking a step back but turns to Ollie immediately as she starts to speak. "Well, you look little pale... Too much books... well not books but sitting in those buildings. You know everything needs sunlight... Every tree, every flower... Even us!" she speaks with a smile.
"In here, I can teach you which plants you could eat and how to find them... But I guess you could get it from your books..." she thinks for a second "...but you will not know how they taste like, and here you could!"
Felling Bane's nudge, Li-Anne turns to him giving him a big kiss between his eyes. "This is Bane. He's my goat! Do not leave your shoes unattended... Or your clothes... He just loves scarfs.... And hats... And sometimes gloves, so if you want to have one for archery, or without fingers at all, he's your goat!" she speaks while scratching Bane's ears.
Li-Anne picks up a flower and adds it to others attached to Bane's horns.
"I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me..."
Millicent withdrew at Elliðaeys request and gave a shy wave to Ollie, she was certain they'd met in passing before but had never been properly introduced.
As Li-Anne notices the tending to the dead, she approaches.
"Why don't you just put him there?" she asks pointing to a very beautiful tree. "You might bury him, but that's optional if you ask me... And that would be only fair..." she shrugs.
"I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me..."
Entirely unfamiliar with Li-Annes ways and unable to understand the way druids regard nature, Eila completely misinterprets her meaning and looks deeply affronted by the suggestion. "I beg your pardon? Hanging an already dead man from a tree is entirely inexcusable."
"Why should I hang him anywhere?" Li-Anne asks with clear surprise.
"I told, you may just leave him there... Put him on the ground or if you need, just bury him IN the ground..." She says just to make sure she is understood correctly.
"Well, you know, he..." she looks at the body from a distance "...was about... 40 years old?" She guesses hisnage "So for his all life he ate chickens, some cow and deers perhaps... He ate food grown and raised on the ground. Now it would be fair, his body should be dined upon as he dined upon the natures gifts."
"I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me..."
"Ilmater's wounds...Does anyone have a shovel?" Jade calls out to the group.
" Sorry, I don't.", she said trying to ignore the body disposal talk while simultaneously studying the interactions around her with interest.
" Can you turn into a badger? I read they are good at digging.", she said looking at the her gnomish companion.
"Sure, I just need to rest a bit... Changing shape is a bit exhausting you know." Li-Anne answers with a smile and starts to look for a good tree seed. Moments later she sits by the tree and closes her eyes... "Give me an hour or so..."
"I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me..."
Jade's increasing frustration is clearly etched on her face.
"I really don't think it's wise to wait. Can we just load him in the wagon and bury him in Candlekeep? I'm sure they'll have a shovel an a cemetery there."
Turning to Eila. "If the Painbearer wishes."
"It will be best to bury him somewhere secure lest his body attract beasts out here, or worse." With a good deal of effort, she moves the man's corpse into the back of the wagon between the prisoners. She opts to walk beside the cart so as not to overload the poor donkey pulling it. "And we shouldn't rest out here, it's dangerous wilderness, there's a storm rolling in and as Elliðaey said, we should get these men to Candlekeep. Let's be off."
Millicent looked to Elliðaey and began moving to secure the wagon and make sure they were ready to depart.