((sorry, i havn't been able to get to my computer in the past few days))

 

At the Pillar

     "...And in short everyone i need one of you to come along." Kaze finished as he sipped a cup of tea that had been prepaired for him. he moved a little and leaned back in the chain placing his feet on the dinning room table. He looked around at everyone as they had gathered all the important information that he had given them. He pulled a pipe out of his belt pouch. he put it up to his lips as the pipe magically lit itself. Kaze inhaled deeply blowing a smoke ring. he staired at the ceiling and then he returned his gaze upon the people seated in this dinning room. "So will it be you Princess Dawn? Shinigami? The Crystalmars? The paladin of Zeus, Keg Splitter, or the Fire Witch? you guys choose but you all know what your historys, your experiences, and your reputaions say about each one of you. Each of you are already legends, some has been awakened to it faster than others but i must say it must be something for the DF to be involved and for the DF to have asked me to come and ask your assistance. So who will be coming with." he looked around the room of faces. smoke exhaling out of his nostrils.

     Dawn prepaired to stand but Olivianna waved a hand gently at her and she stood up. "I will go. Elmshade needs my flames. Not to mention, i need to clear my reputation in Relm. This should do good for me. Kaze i will go with you into the ruins." She turned to the others. "See to is Ascellina is taken good care of. Dawn makesure you teach her the Arcane Alchemy and help her with magic. Leech, in my stead teach her how to use a sword, but teach her my way, Arwen help him with that and teach her how to be stealthy. Haniko, teach her honor, disiplin and how to understand the sword. Ironclad, Brotter. teach her the ingenuity of war and what skills she can use in the outside world including smithing, creating war machines, and what ever you deem worthy." she reached in her pocket and handed Dawn a silver key with a black diamond on the back of the key. "After i leave, unless you have to, no one goes in my room. understood?" she said as Dawn took it and nodded. "Kaze let me get my things and i will be ready to go."

     Olivianna walked out of the dinning room and towards her room. Kaze nodded after all of the commands giving her his trademark smirk. he stood up taking a final puff at the pipe before he put it back in its place. He nodded to people goodbye as he walked outside of the dinning room and into the main entryway. everything was quiet then there was a sudden eruption of flames as kaze went flying backwards skidding on his back then rolling to his feet sliding back a little further before her stood up. he dusted the cinders and ashs off of his armor and shoulders.

     "NEXT TIME KNOCK YOU PERV!" She yelled to Kaze as she came out of her room, a red robe wrapped tightly around he body. her hand holding the front closed. Kaze sat by the fountain shook his head and laughed. The two dwarves finding this whole situation holarious laughing hard at the whole thing. After a few minutes she came out dressed in her red dress with red gloves, boots, a gold circlet, a gold locket, a pair of gold bracelets, and a gold ring. She grabs her pack which was resting at the door, brings it out and sets it by her friends. She hugs everyone and grabs her pack and her kitten who was walking past.

     "Leech, go get Ascellina when time calls for it." he nodded and they walked up stairs. Olivianna placed a scroll on one of the desks that was titled for Ascellina to read when she got back. They opened a portal through the crystal ball and exited outside...

 

((on monday morning Leech will be waiting in the tavern for Ascellina when she wakes up))

 

 

 

 

 

(( sorry about that. I don't know if there is a house Jarlosh could get you. The bath is no problem, laundry will be about 10 cp per load. the money you gained. minus the gems and extra money Dawn, Haniko, and Leech gave her. after you take that off. double your money. almost all the crowd was getting into it.))

 

Leech smiles and nods to Claude. "She talked a lot about you last night. Your the Alchemist in training?" he askes knowing the answer but trying to be friendly. After he answers. "I used to me an apprentice myself." he holds out his hand and crystal started to form in his palm. On its completion it cameout to be a crystalline statuette of a sleeping kitten. "but, i'm no longer the apprentice. I'm just myself."  he set it on the bar top, waved his hand and kitten statuette opened its little crytal eyes. It uncurled itself streched its back like a real kitten. It looked up at leech and the others and meowed. it blinked again and with another wave of leechs hand the kitten curled back to sleep and then stayed still. He then looked out the window. "We have to get going." he looked to Ascellina. "It was nice to meet you Claude. Perhaps we will see you at another time." He got up and waited for her to grab her things and then got there things

 

     They walked through the Woods. The morning air was clean and crisp. The smells of summer everywhere. a patch of wild lillies growing on both sides of the path. A cannary lands on Acellinas shoulder. Leech turns around and you see him smile happily. "Now you know why i love it here." He smiles as a crossbow bolt flies in the air and hits the bird. It doesn't kill it, but hurts it badly. It cries on the ground. Leech turns around whirling a dagger in the direction the bolt came. it thuds in a tree. a few men laugh in the distance as three guys appear infront of them. all whereing tattered black cloths over armor. The one armed with a crossbow and falcion (huge twohanded scimitar) the middle one a big guy armed with a great axe, the last guy a skinny man with a drawn rapier.

     "Damn, i thought we would have killed it. Oh well." the one said.  

     "How about you guys drop all of your possetions that are worth money so we don't have to kill you." the axe carrying man said. 

     "Yeah, Were not murders." the man with the rapier said but the others tried to stiffle a laugh. "were just thieves. so if you would be so kind..." Leech stepped infront of Ascellina and drew his sword. Ascellina felt something being pressed in her hand. In her mind she heard Leechs voice saying. Put this on, when battle breaks out. think about vanishing. I want you to sneak around the back and run the man with the crossbow through with your scimitar. Olivianna told me to teach you how to fight like her, and that is how you do it. If you cannot put yourself to kill or injure the man then go invisible and climb into the nearest tree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

((that happens to me a lot. before you send it hit ctrl-c (copy) and it will save it there. check the thread if its there. if it didn't go threw open another discuss box in the thread and ctrl-v (paste) the info into the blank box. then try posting again.

 

joe))

     The thieves seemed to be distracted by the mist and the hooves to even notive her vanishing. furthermore, before Ascellina made her first backstab. an arrow streaked and one of them screamed. The scream ws short lived as a hard thud soon followed it. It was immpossible to tell who fell for the white obscuring fog was so thick she could only see a few things. She then, seeing the oppertunity struck the man with the crossbow. the silent blade slipped though the fog and into his ribcage.He let out a wail of pain as he spun arround with a speedy flash of steel. She was able to take a step back as livia had tought her but the moving back was pointless seeing the blade connected with another silvery piece of steel. Not much was seen for a moment. Ascellina then felt a strong arm wrap around her waist. The movement was fast and steady. she was in the arms of the misterious horseman. A second pair of hands helped bring her up to the soft saddle on this horse.

     As they rode off, a few loud explosions were heard. A smile arked the misterious riders face. After a little time they were entirly out of the fog. The man was dressed in field plate. he shiethed his great sword on his hip. He had a shinny helm on and shinny armor with blackened chainmail under it all. Behind Ascellina on this large saddle was Leech with the wounded bird in his hands. He cast a healing spell on it. The wounds healed and after a few moments the bird flew off on its own. "Your a little incurrect. I hate civilization, but i also hate people. both frighten me." he waved goodbye to the bird as it flew off. "Oh parden my rudemess. This is Sir Tidus Gend, Knight in the Order of Magic. He has been assigned to us by a deck of cards believe it or not. He is a good companion and he is often in control by Arwen, but who knew." he shrugged.

 

 

 

 

 

     They continued to ride towards the pillar.Leech looked forward as Ascellina. "Yes, were heading back." he said with a smirk excepting the ring back. "I will try and teach you any weapon you think you would want to learn. Short sword however. I shall ask my sister. she is the one who uses short swords the most. I like Longsword personally, and well Sir Tidus here perfers two-handed swords. Speaking of which, how did you find us?"

     "Well, i was riding through because Lady Dawn requested i get some more fire wood for the smithy and then i saw those three try and injure the lady. They hit the bird instead and then i realized if i didn't step in, all four of them were going to be killed. I didn't see a reason for all of them to die. Expecially over a bird, i know how you get Master Leech."

     "I'm glad you came by either way. but if you didn't want them to die, then why the bombs?" Leech asked reasonably.

     "Well a man is allowed to kill if he feels his life is threatened." He moves his cloak a little and a large gash is torn through his platemail with a lottle bit of blood seeping through. "Only a scratch i know, but he ruined my armor and injured me in the process. The only people that were killed out of all of this was the man with the whip and the big fellow with the axe. The others should have survived, and i don't believe they will ever steal again." he said with a confident smile.

     "I see, well i think were both glad you came by." Leech said confidentally. "Tidus." he says as something comes to his mind. "Before you take us home, take us to the cart. lets re-weapon Acellina before she goes home, Do we still have the stock of short swords in there?"

     "Yes we do. Short swords arn't selling well this season. Very well, the cart it is." he turns his horse and head towards the cart.

((Both of the packs are hanging off the back of the large horse))

 

 

 

 

 

((ooc- I appologioze for me not replying to this board as often as i did before. I regret to inform you that i'm going to close or atleast pause this game. Reason being is i have to many games going on at once and i keep forgetting about this one here. i don't want you to have to wait for me or anything like that. I'm going to stop this board here because of these reasons. it has been a good game and was fun. I hope i helped you out. Have good games.

 

Joe))

     Entering into the room (see first post for full description) everything can be seen. The rooms open, various voices speaking throughout the place talking to one another about different topics. Several pesents walk around doing work, a new addition to the pillar that Lena can remember. Soon a familiar face comes into view. Out from the kitchen dressed in her flowing red robes. Soon followed by a woman dressed in brilliant white robes. Olivianna and Dawn look to everyone that has come and both go over to greet her warmly.

     "We were worried something was going to happen to you." Livia says giving her a hug.

     "Yeah so we sent out Leech and Tidus to find you. With this unnatural winter we got woried that something mught happen. We didn't ruin any research did we?." Dawn says welcoming her back. They look to Claude. "Where are my manners." Dawn curtsies as does Livia. "I am Dawn Morninglade, This Is Olivianna Spark. Welcome to our home. and you are?"

     After the introductions Dawn and Livia leed Lena and Claude to lena's room and everyone that came in dispursed. "Your room is still intact and no one has been in it sence you left. As for Where he is gonna sleep, we had to build some rooms on the upstairs next to the alchemy lab. One is a single bedroom for now the other is a sort of bunker for all the people that we might be taking in. You can choose where you wanna sleep for now, the first bunker is finished the single room still has some room. but as it is we only have a total of four peasents and four new guests that are adventurers." she turns around and looks to Olvianna. "Take Him to the bunker for now so he can pick out a bed and stuff." Livia nods and smiles warmly to Claude taking him up the stair case. Once alone Dawn talks to Lena.

     "I don't know if the war has started yet but we have some very unfriendly things outside out the pillar doors. Mostly undead but we have seen some demons too. Things that even master Leech would have trouble with. I sudjest that if you have to go anywhere it is through the secret entrance you came through today and that you don't go alone. As for newcomers we have recruited one person the rest came to us. We have Marina, she is another alchemist and she is a water mage and a good one to boot, We have Areal who is a healer, Her brother Azreal Who is our resident pick pocket, and we have Tenchi for if we have a whole lot of trouble. You will most likly be able to tell the difference between all of them but try not to get Tenchi unnerved if you can help it, which i'm sure you can, but he is an assassin who has taken refuge here. but for your confort he normally isn't down here and when he is he stays to himself. but i'm sure there is things that you may want to do and i'll leave you to it. The lab is yours and if you need me i'll be down in the kitchen cleaning. Livia and Marina normally have the lab around this time. You should speak with them with whatever there doing now." Dawn stays for another minute to answer any questions and then she goes back to her buisness rolling her sleaves back up and putting the bandana back on to protect her long hair.

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Upstairs

 Livia leads Claude up the large staircase to the great alchemic lab. The bookshelves nearly full and Alchemic equipment. A blond girl in blue robes works on a bubbling caldrin as the orange liquid is pumped through a series of various tubes and beakers and slowly drips it now green liquid into a 1/4 full glass jar. A small dragon sits next to her reading from the book that is right next to it. "Now you need some clover." The dragonnette says as Marina slowly tears the green, leafy weed into the mixture, the orange liquid turns a dull pink. They continue on into the left room. The right rooms door is closed with a construction sign on it. Inside the left room is a 60 by 60 room with approximatly 8 bunk beds with an entire half of the room that needs a set of beds. at the foot of each bed is a large chest. all the top bunks have this too but the chest is suspended to the end of the bed by rope. all the beds at this time are empty "Go ahead and pick a bed. I believe the top bunk on this one is empty, that one is marina's, that one is Tenchi's....ummm that bottom bunk is free to i know that one for sure."