Masters of Eothia 1-20

OOC: Sorry, I'll post ahead of Rosli...please insert the following after she goes-

Yasei, noticing that Cora has collapsed unconscious, barrels past Ryu and scuttles over to Cora's limp body.  Picking it up, she attempts to render some form of untrained medical aide (Medicine: 16).

Yeah, Ryu lets you pass no problem. He doesn't even register you. It maybe safe to say that you may act freely now. 

Yasei dashes over to Cora and manages to bandage her cuts, stopping the bleeding. She is stable.

Yasei also gets a better look at the collar- a cast iron collar with a yellow pebble inset to it. The pebble has an eye engraved on it.

Noticing the character in front of her is no longer attacking her allies as they pass Rosli will slink past while trying to check his pockets

21 Stealth

13 Sleight of Hand

Yasei will attempt to pry apart the collar around Cora's neck: (STR/Athletics check: 13).

Haha!

Rosli slips behind Ryu easily. With all of his writhing around it's hard to get a clean lift, but you do manage to pinch a small pouch off his belt. Inside, you find a mixture of red, yellow and blue capsules.

Yasei- The collar doesn't budge. It's hard to fit your fingers between the steel and Crispy's neck.

Ryu stops writhing around at this point and stands up, startling Rosli. He turns and looks at you all curiously for a long pause before speaking. "You're not the people who enslaved my mind. Where are they." He says in a flat tone with an Orcish accent.

Danica shrugged. "They ran off thataway. We're Cora friends, and we'd like some answers ourselves."

Ryu holds his head, as if in pain. I don't... Remember anything except that... THING, that.. spider thing. It took control of my mind. Where are we? Who are you?" He asks, somewhat aggressively.

Crispy groans and her eyes slowly flutter open. She winces in pain and just lies there for a moment, processing it all.

"I'm not dead." she says softly, her lips dry. "Not today, Father. Not today."

She looks around and sees a face from the past, someone she has not seen since ages past. Crispy startled visibly and her heart begins to pound again, she sits up quickly and just stares. "Yasei...?" she breathes, looking at the Asian. Slowly, ever so slowly, Crispy's face becomes a frown and tears pool in her eyes. "Yasei. No. How!? How is this possible. You are here! What IS this place?! How!" Crispy grabs you by your armor and looks you over, carefully. "Is this some trick? I buried you so many lifetimes ago! Yasei. I missed you.." Crispy could no longer talk. The sight of seeing her brought back memories of a friendship that lasted for decades. It made Crispy think of why she should even know Yasei: Chubby Beersmith. She never even got to say goodbye to him. Her heart threatened to burst in her chest.

She leaned into Yasei and cried. She cried like a baby and let it all out. In her lifetime, she can only remember a few times she ever did, but seeing Yasei again overwhelmed her with emotions of death, loss, friendship, loyalty, and family. It was too much to bear, so Crispy cried. She gripped her tightly, eventually wrapping her arms around her to hug her. Whatever cruel fate this was, it gave her another chance to hold Yasei once more, and she cried and cried and hugged her till there were no tears left, till her voice was hoarse.

She felt other people near, eventually. She looked around and saw a tabaxi she didn't know. And the redhead she saw first before losing consciousness. "Nia?" Crispy whispered at her, still holding Yasei. She looked up at the asian. "Is that Nia? Yasei. Where are w-"

Then she eyed the orc. At that moment, rage filled every emotional nerve ending in her being and she screamed. She screamed loud, a cry of battle, of anger, of revenge. She pushed Yasei out of the way of their embrace and swung a fist at Ryu with only one thing in mind, his death - to tear him to pieces.

GRRRHHHAAA!!!! Attack: 19 Damage: 2

Rosli will walk up to Cora and poke her new necklace "That looks heavy if we go back to the guild I can try and take it off for you?" leaning in to inspect the new gear she will whisper to her "Cora, I found some pills on the big orc dude over there. I'll show you then later." before backing off a bit and giving her a pat on the shoulder and chuckling. 

(At some point after my rage.)

I slap Rosli's hand out of the way, hard. I look at her with absolutely no recognition of who she is. "Who the HELL are you?! Did you put this collar on my neck?! Pills. What pills? Give them to me!"

Looking at everyone but Yasei. "What's going on here?? Who are you people?? Are you with Aerik?"

At mentioning his name, she looks around, distracted. "Aerik. What the **** is going on. Why are you here.." She then thinks, standing there looking at what he was working on, lost in her own world.

Danica turned and put her hand on Crispy's shoulder. "Cora, be calm. We're your friends, don't you remember?"

Rosli's tail will stiffen and she will slowly creep backwards wide eyed "Woah you aren't Cora." 

Ryu watches this commotion with distain.

He pauses for a moment (in case you wanna ask him something) then shakes his head and promptly leaves.

Crispy stiffens a bit at Dani's touch, backs away a bit, untrusting, confused. "You LOOK like someone I used to know, but..I don't know you two. Yasei..I used to know. Where am I? What is this place. GIVE ME MY PILLS, CAT!!!"

She looks around the area again, like a lost, spooked, feral animal - except she's very annoyed. "Where are my blades? My watch. What am I wearing..?? Do any of you speak?!"

Looking spooked Rosli will dash off back to the corpses and wait for the situation to die down. Trying not to alert anymore guards once she's out of the room she will slow her pace trying to remain silent in case there are more guards. Rosli will keep an eye out for more guards while searching the corpses and peeking into other rooms while she waits for the group.

22 Stealth

15 Perception

If she notices another room that looks particularly unoccupied she will go in, look for traps and root around for valuables.

24 Perception for finding traps (if you require an additional roll, ignore if not)

Yasei embraces Cora in stunned confusion and silence, not exactly understanding what the heck just happened. It’s like an awakening just happened with her new friend, and that awakening brought back someone who must have known her in a previous life?

Through Cora’s sobs, she just continues to hug her with all her might, her heart breaking with every heave. 

Finally, breaking the silence, Yasei posits “We can’t run away from what defines our fates. Who we are and what we believe in grow from the roots of our past, no matter how much we might try to deny it. It takes the same amount of energy to worry about the worst thing that can happen as it does to hope for the best. It's up to you to choose.“

Still confused as to exactly who Cora thinks she is, Yasei wearily stands up and withdraws one of Cora’s swords from her himo, and points to the other sword, currently stuck in the wall behind where Aerik was standing at his table, with a piece of Aerik’s robe still stuck on it.

Bowing down, Yasei ceremoniously presents Cora her blade, and with reverence intones “There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”  Returning to vertical, she strongly embraces Cora again, and gives her a peck on the cheek.

”We’re your family, Cora-san.”

Crispy takes the blade from Yasei, and retrieves her other blade, keeping the scrap of cloth stuck to it. She looked at it for a long while before squeezing it tightly in her hand, pocketing it. She turned to Yasei seriously.

”Family. Then tell me. Who are these people? The orc. The redhead. The tabaxi. Where are we? How is it you are alive. If we’re family..then answer me. And if you cannot, then we must find a way home. I want to go home.”

She tugged at her collar “What is this...?“ she tugged at it and it didnt come off. She grew frustrated and pulled harder. She grunted in annoyance and stopped. 

While Crispy reunites with Yasei, Rosli's feline curiosity got the better of her. She traces her steps back to the room the two guards had opened previously and her eyes widen. Now unlocked and accessible, inside Rosli finds;

250gp, 367sp, 5 gems, 1x gem encrusted horn, 6x brass arm bands with black and red striped inlay, 1x ring made of intertwined metal, 1x pair of bracers with an arrow design on each, 1 bag of ashy dust and 1 potion of greater healing.

Yasei, still quite confused at Cora's ramblings, looks on her with a sorrowful concern on her face.  "Your name is Cora Perkins, and this is (pointing to each one in turn) Bobo, Danica, and Rosli.  We are all your friends and fellow adventurers.  We're here to protect one another.  You must have really been knocked upside your head!"

OOC: I'm assuming Bobo is still with us in this campaign? MaitoGai hasn't logged onto Beyond since December 6th.

OOC: Bobo stayed back at the guild for this particular mission.. and may continue to do so until they return xD