HT Player Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ FH.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar... Ma ...Kevin Newark..........Dorhak............Warrior.Normal/Dwarf....Ma --.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry.. Fe W2.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human ..Ma ...Don.Kerr..............Maelorna..........Dancer..Normal/Human....Fe ...Gilbert.Isla..........Mournath..........Sailor..Normal/Human....Ma R3 Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma Fake-Kell/Raki........Raki..............Normal..Normal/Shifter..?? R4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra Game Web Site - http:/nrgcomputers.com/pbem/ Public posts/actions to pnpgm@list.powersandperils.org (mailing list) Private emails (not public actions) to pnpgm@comcast.net Game Update #-20b sequence (file #48) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Admin Notes: None ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Recap] [None] ______________________________________________________________ [New Stuff] [Arawn's IBT continued...] [Decalis 20th, 1635TH] - [Dark Lands] Arawn asks the Elves if the could make or obtain high quality clothing that fits his Alfar status. The Elves are too eager and will set 3 elf females to doing it. IN a few days he has high quality tunic, pants, belt, cowl, cloak, undergarments and ornate footwear. Being an empath who can speak to animals. During the day Arawn works on his Druidic and Priestly duties. In the evening he studies his meapthysics and healer books. Nice thing about the Sacred Forest this land is inherently magic friendly. Several good places of purified land and places of magic casting. [Decalis 21st, 1635TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 10:27 am] The Forestal asks Arawn to come and see to 6 Faerry who are leaving the sacred forest to travel west. Arawn does some prayers and ensures they will be safe as long as they think safe. [Time: 7:12 pm] The Green Lady also known as Strie'bog's mother ask for Arawn to visit her forest home outside the sacred forest. So Arawn and Corsaya exit the safe sacred forest and enter the dark forest. IT is dusk but the canopy of trees makes it darker. Suddenly from the darkness above leaps two forms. Arawn has seen these things before. Gartula and they both look male. From above he hears another speaking foul Kotothi words trying to cast magic. But it seems Arawn's defenses help. Arawn could simply avoid and go past. But it would endanger other Vassa villages. He reaches for his shield and sword ready for combat. He had no real training in the bastard sword so borrowed a elven sword until he can make one. As both males leap at Arawn, Corsaya moves forward and to the left forcing both creatures to miss. Arawn tries to hit one but misses as it rolls away. Both males leap and charge. One swipes at Arawn but is blocked by his shield. Above he hears the foul Kotothi words yet again but seems unharmed. He slices his sword sideways and beheads the first male killing him with 31 poistos to his head. The other male tries to reach for Arawn to take him off the horse but Arawn bashes him away with his sword. The male leader from the trees leaps down to help his fellows. Both charge and claw at Corsaya but she either dodges or bucks them away. The male leader charges and pushes Arawn off the Fay Horse. The leader bites Arawn on his shoulder to inject the poison but it seems Arawn's resistance is high enough there is no effect. Arawn considers doing a repel evil spell to make these foul creatures flee. But there is great harm to doing this. They might flee and harm other villagers. So there is a huge risk to doing in this darkness. So he swipes his borrowed sword to hit the creature. But he misses this time. The other creature charges Corsaya but she gets away. The male leader bites down onto Arawn's arm and tries to inject the paralytic poison again. It goes in but it seem to have no effect on Arawn. Arawn does hit this time with his sword but the tough hide of the creature is too tough. Corsaya charges the male leader and rears up to kick at its back doing enough damage to knock the creature off Arawn. The other creature charges Arawn but Arawn rolls and is not touched. Arawn stands and thrusts at the male leader doing 11 points to his back. Corsaya rears up and kicks the other male creature doing 10 points knocking it to the ground. The leader stands and draws a stone half spear and charges Arawn. He stabs Arawn but Arawn's armor protects him. The other creature tries to lunge at the fay horse's legs but can't reach them. Arawn stabs the leader in the chest doing 17 more points of damage to him. Corsaya continues to kick and trample the other creature doing another 5 points. The leader swipes again at Arawn's chest but his armor protects him from damage. The other Gartula crawls away from the fay horse in fear. Arawn fails to hit the leader. Corsaya chased the other creature doing another 2 points of damage. Weak the leader tries to cast another spell but it seems to fail as well as his half-spear attack hitting Arawn. The other creature with a sudden surge of strength stands and charges Corsaya. It leaps right at her but she turns around and kicks backwards at the leaping creature. But fails to make contact with each other. Arawn stabs the leader but his tough hide protects him. The leader swipes at Arawn but hits his shield. Corsaya does another 5 points to the other creature. The other creature gets lucky and jumps on to the back of Corsaya. This makes her highly upset and she begins to buck. The creature bites down onto her neck and she falls to the ground paralyzed. Arawn hits the leader once more doing massive damage killing him. The other creature leaps off Corsaya and charges Arawn but Arawn draws up his arm and deflects the creature. Arawn stabs the creature taking him down. Then he stabs it again to ensure it is dead. He rushes to Corsaya. Before she can suffocate not able to breath, Arawn casts a Negate Poison and cures the fay horse. He helps lift her to her feet. Arawn cast a healing hand to heal himself and then moves onto his journey. At the Green Lady's home she watches as Arawn cleans his tunic from the blood. Arawn realizes he never got her actual name. Everyone just calls her the green lady. It is some complex 12 letter word for her name. She is happy to see him. She says there have been more Humagi raids and Strie'bog is off making sure villages are well protected. They sit down to a meal and chat for hours. [Decalis 22nd, 1635TH] - [Sacred Forest] Arawn spends the day at the very small Sacred Forest market. Not much comes in due to it being a niche place tucked away from normal areas. But Arawn lucks up and finds 6 seeds for Moonwort and pays 1 gold for them. After a day of Druid and Priest duties he reads his two books on healing and metaphysics. [Decalis 29th - Janaq 7th 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] Over these ten days Arawn continues his druidic and priestly duties when he can. Then at night he continues reading his metaphysics and healer book. But most of the time he spends work on starting to craft a elven battle helmet which will take 16 days. During these days he casts these batch of spells. Ball Powers fire three times, ball powers - other twice, battle cry, bless twice, create warriors 4 times with 1 failure, dispel balance 3 times on battle mind with 1 failure, Elf Shot 7 times with 1 failure, Energy 5 times, hand of hecate 3 times, healing hand 4 times, Insight 3 times, multiple arrow 4 times, negate magic twice, negate potion 4 times with 2 failures, presence twice, purification twice, repel evil 6 times with 2 failures, All sensory powers twice with at least 1 failure in 1 spell, Sleep mist 4 times with 1 failure, All sound powers 11 times with 2 failures, sound failures all twice with 1 bad failure and tracking 8 times with 3 of them failures. Arawn also casts wisdom to learn more enchanting magic and Knowledge to learn Elder Water. Two of the spells were abysmal failures. One of them was a sound power spell but lucky there are no effects. The other was Elf Shot. Two days after failing that Arawn becomes very gullible. He starts to believe everything told to him. When one child says the sky is green Arawn actually believes it. When a shoe maker says that the Forestal is stealing his nails he believes it. The Forestal notices this curse on Arawn and instead of him gullible for 16 days the Forestal arranges for the curse to be removed. But it takes 2 days to find a person powerful enough to end it. Till then Arawn believes things but deep down knows he is cursed. [Janaq 2nd 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 7:48 am] Arawn is exploring some section of the sacred forest. He doesn't know if this place even has boundaries. He notices a lone brown eagle limping. Arawn helps the eagle and heals it. [Time: 9:54 pm] Arawn needs to escort a herbalist lady from one village to another. Since it is well dark they both walk in the forest. Corsaya left in Sacred Forest since she would not allow the lady to ride. So it is better to just walk in the darkness. Suddenly Arawn stops the lady and tells her stay. Arawn hears noises ahead and creeps further up the path. He then notices 3 beings. One young human male and 2 faerry. Arawn smiles and figures the fae are just playing a prank. He steps through the bushes and one of the females turns around. With the lantern the lady is carrying and Arawn's night vision Arawn stops when he sees blood on the female's lips. This is no prank. Arawn recognizes these Faerry as Baobhan Sith. Arawn reaches for his dagger but his knowledge tells him to use iron. So he draws his borrowed bastard sword and charges. Arawn swings on the first one but misses. He yells for the lady to come to be protected. The second Sith takes to the air as Arawn suspected. It would be wise to get the lady under his protection. Arawn could cast repel evil but with a village this close it would risk some lone villager being farmed if he did not stop them here and now. The one on the ground leaps at Arawn and claws ripping at his right ribs doing 5 points of damage. The other one dives at Arawn but he whips his shield and deflects the beast away. The lady emerges into the area and gasps. She can't see as well in the darkness but raises the lantern to see the Fae fighting Arawn. First Sith leaps at Arawn sensing he is a nice catch but the Alfar dodges. The flying one dives at Arawn and claws at Arawn's neck doing a massive 4 points tearing a chunk of neck/shoulder away. Arawn hits the one on the ground in the back and wounds her but also at the same time banishes her. The second flying Sith sees this and turns to fly and flee. Arawn drops his sword and shield and pulls his bow and quiver. He knocks his arrow and tries to track the fleeing Sith 30 feet away. It weaves and dodges in and out of trees. But Arawn aims and fires. The arrow hits the Sith in the back doing 17 points but not only killing her banishes her. Arawn kneels to check the man and finds he is not fully drained so heals him and walks both to the village before returning to the sacred forest. [Janaq 4th 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 2:30 pm] As Arawn is taking a break from working at the forge he notices a black hawk with red beak attacking and taking a snake up for lunch. Even in the Sacred Forest the cycle of life seems to be in tact. [Time: 5:10 am] Arawn is awoken to bells in the forest. This is very rare as alerts are not common in this place. Arawn grabs his gear and hears the Faerry from the Faerry Hill say a sentry has spotted outside villagers trying to take down a Kotothi Shaman and a Gwyligi. Arawn knows the beast very well as Mae summoned one and almost killed Pyan for it. Arawn stops at the blacksmith and grabs a weapon that can hurt the beast and then leaves the sacred forest. By time the Fae guides him to the villagers he spots 5 warriors on the ground paralyzed. Another 2 are standing around confused. But the Kotothi shaman seems to have been killed. At least that is good. There are 3 other warriors trying to fight the beast. Arawn charges to help the warriors and warns them not to stare at the beast and to avoid its cry. Arawn swings at the beast but fails to hit. The dog of darkness tries to attack warrior #4 but fails to hit. Two of the warriors hit the beast doing minor damage while another doesn't penetrate his tough hide. The hound bites warrior #1 in the leg making him collapse. Arawn hits the beast and does 4 points of damage. This causes the hound to turn on Arawn and attack it bites him in his left arm doing 12 points forcing him to drop his shield. Warrior #3 stabs the beast in the neck doing 10 points of damage. Another hits but doesn't penetrate his hide. Arawn turns to Warrior #2, leaps but the warrior ducks in time so be missed. Arawn does another 3 points of damage stabbing him in the leg. Arawn starts to allocate magic to cast some spells like armor. Two faerry from the sky fire bows at the beast and hit but they deflect off. Three elves from the Sacred Forest join in but also fail to do damage. The hound attacks warrior #4 and kills him. Arawn stabs the beast and does the final damage to kill it. Arawn and others tend to the wounded and paralyzed. [Janaq 9th 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 11:23 am] Arawn is taking a break from a priest ceremony when he is walking in the heavy woods in the sacred forest. As he steps across a fallen tree he becomes dizzy and awkward. The area around him spins and he finds himself now in a enclosed space. It is a large stone room with 30 foot ceilings. A window to the left seems to show a stormy night. Night? Arawn looks around and behind him is startled to see a 20 foot man pulling a book out of a tall book case. He turns and nods. "To free the lost one must seek the origin and plea for help." A clap of thunder forces Arawn to turn and when he does he becomes dizzy again and steps over the log back in the sacred forest. Did Arawn just dream it? But there was something familiar about the giant. He sits on the log to recall the scene. A storm giant? No. It almost seemed like a Aankim based on the sigils on the wall and the shield crest by the window. But how could that even be possible? Arawn couldn't help but ponder the message. Who was the 'lost' the Anakim was referring to - Himself?... The abnari? If so then that meant that there were some in the Upper Realms who were aware of the events surrounding the party's last adventure and seemed to wish them well. And who or what was the 'origin'? His father perhaps as the one came up with the plan? Or was this something altogether unrelated to the prison-world? He felt he probably shouldn't share the information regarding the shifters and their prison with the Forestal or Bohusara, not for a lack of trust but for putting them in a position where they might risk the wrath of the deities they served. But he was willing to at least risk sharing this vision with them on the off chance they might have some insight to share. And if not then he hoped his training as a Baru would allow him further insight into things. [Janaq 10th 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 3:51 am] After finishing the days crafting and druid chore Arawn was asked by Strie'bog to help him. It takes a few hours to ride to the village in the east and they stay that night to help the village deal with a plant blight harming the small gardens and forest. With help from the Green Lady's knowledge Strie'bog is able to figure it out to be a insect and helps to show how to deal with the insects by using a common plant that acts like pepper. Shouts wake up Arawn and he exits to find the Kalu Bard Strie'bog heading to the west edge of the village. There a forest giant is attacking. The Bard begins to pepper magical multiple arrows, 5 at a time, at the giant. Three arrows do minor damage as villagers flee and cower. The village hunters and warriors try to help but they have light bows. Arawn and Strie'bog cause the giant to chase them around the village distracting it from the locals. As they do they pepper it with arrows. Arawn fires but misses. Two of the 5 Strie'bog's arrows hit but bounces off. Arawn hits the giant in the leg and dives to save a old lady under a wagon being crushed. The distractions is so numerous he can't get a spell off yet. The giant picks up the wagon and tosses it to the nearest tree smashing it. He reaches for Arawn but a large sonic boom from Strie'bog hits the giant and he cowers back. Arawn rolls and kneels and fires a arrow right at the giant's stomach but actually hits his groin doing 18 points of damage. The giant howls in pain. Strie'bog fires 5 more arrows hitting with 2 but doing minor damage. The giant roars and charges to Strie'bog not knowing where the boom came, arrow that impaled his gianthood came from. The giant slams a foot down onto Strie'bog and does 8 points to the bard. The other warriors have bee peppering with arrows as well while doing minor hits here and there they turn to fire from torches for their arrows. A group of 8 fire at the back of the giant. Six of the 8 hit But only one arrow penetrates the tough armor. One other hunter gets lucky and does 8 points to the giant's back ribs. Strie'bog tries to crawl away but is dazed. Arawn fires a arrow but it bounces off. Four more villages hit with arrows doing damage past his tough skin doing 7 points. The giant tries to bash Arawn with his club but Arawn rolls away. Strie'bog fires 5 more arrows and 2 hit. One does 8 points to his chest. But the other flies at the neck of the giant doing 15 points as it pierces deep. The giant wavers back and grabs his neck in pain. The villages fire but all in their haste fail to hit. Arawn fires again and fails to hit with bow and his attack spell. Strie'bog fires 5 more arrows but only one hits doing 5 more points. The giant falls to his knees grabbing for his throat. Villages tell the folks in the hut next to it to flee now or be crushed. As the giant teeters to the right about to crush the hut Arawn charges leaping on the right knee for help and does a forceful kick to the giant's chest. This causes the teetering to shift from right to left saving the hut. Strie'bog fires 5 more with 3 hits. One arrow hits the giant's right eye destroying it and the arrow penetrates to the brain. The giant falls to the front and side dead. The village is taken care of and any healing is done if needed. The village now has problem of getting rid of the body until Arawn offers to translocate it to the lake so it can sink and decay. While a giant is bad for he lake in the short term the by products will feed many animals and the lake will thrive with this huge mass. Arawn considers teleporting it to the Humangi but it could kill some random person. The lake is the best and under the water. [Janaq 16th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 5:54 am] Arawn wakes up early and can't sleep. After that strange Larshee encounter he heads to the nearby lake he send the forest giant to rest. Long time ago he saw the white dove which is a symbol of his parents. Maybe he can see something again? But as Arawn sits around the lake watching the night around him he spots a black leopard drinking nearby. Arawn studies the animal and it just glances up briefly. Then it scampers back into the forest. [Janaq 18th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 11:52 pm] Arawn is leaving the Green Lady's place after dropping off some materials heading to the sacred forest. Arawn notices a brown bear in the forest nearby. But it seems a docile beast and Arawn moves on. [Janaq 27th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 11:33 pm] After helping a village rebuild after a storm Arawn is heading back to the Sacred Forest. He is walking since Corsaya wanted to say behind. As he is walking Arawn's neck hairs curl a bit. He begins to sense something but unsure what. As he draws his sword and buckler he sees 3 bugbears charging his way There is no time to use his bow so he prepares for melee. He starts to cast a sleep mist spell but it seems to fail. Arawn thrusts at the first but misses. They all attack and swing their clubs. Two of the creatures fail to hit Arawn but one hits him in the left shoulder dong 4 points of damage. Arawn attempts the sleep spell again but it also seems to fail. Arawn tries to stab one beast but it dodges. Two of the beasts hit Arawn's shield but the 3rd hits him in the left center chest but his armor protects him. Arawn for a third try casts the sleep mist and it begins to finally fall around him. The bugbears are all affected and drop to the ground. Arawn considers his options. He could teleport them away to live. But they might come back into the forest and kill some innocent villager. Arawn looks around the forest to see if any goblins are around but finds none of them around. So the beasts are alone it seems. Arawn kneels and does a prayer regardless. Life is precious but he can't risk innocents dying from these creatures. He stabs and kills all 3 creatures. [Febris 6th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 9:25 pm] Arawn and Strie'bog are taking a 2 day village tour of the north to ensure the winter is not affecting the villages badly. Arawn is at the town central bonfire as most of the village is well asleep when he hears crying. Arawn rushes to find a girl around 10 or so pointing. Her cat is being swarmed by bats. These brown bats are diving and trying to latch on as the cat tries to claw and defense itself. But 4 are already attached and drinking blood. Arawn sees these brown bats as vampire bats usually attacking large animals. Arawn tells the girl to stand back and considers his options. if he casts repel evil the bats would just find another victim. So he needs to deal with it. He draws his sword and shield and rushes. Arawn hits one bat killing it as he bashes another flying around knocking it aside. The other 2 bats dive at Arawn but miss as Arawn dodges and ducks. Arawn slices another bat in half killing him. One bat impacts on Arawn's shield. The dazed bat recovers and latches onto his back and pierces his back to drain blood. Arawn kills the one left flying. Arawn kneels at the cat. He knows that these bats are hard to remove unless they are burnt off. But burning might kill the cat which is already laying motionless on the ground. As the bat on his back drains blood, Arawn caats a sleep mist. The mist falls and all the bats and hopefully cat fall asleep. Arawn yells for the girl to carefully bring a burning piece of wood from the fire but only carefully. The girl comes back and Arawn begins the careful pinpoint work to burning the bats off while trying not to harm the cat. But the cat does get some hairs burnt regardless. Arawn removes the bats and kills them. Then checks the cat. He frowns it is too late. The small cat just lost too much blood. There is no hope of using magic to regenerate or heal the poor cat. Arawn with sleeping bat on his back look at the girl who begins to cry. Arawn consoles the girl but it is better the cat and not her that is dead. If this was a horse or cow might've had a chance. The girl's mother takes the cat and girl away as a villager helps to burn the last bat off to kill it. Arawn blesses the girl and the cat before they return home. [Febris 8th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 5:17 am] Arawn is up and packing for his trip back to he Sacred Forest from his tour of the north villages. Strie'bog will depart separately. The village is quiet except two village sentries on patrol. Arawn notices a large mana source in the forest and has seen these before. A possible natural magical plant or such. Arawn heads to investigate. But as Arawn rounds the thick set of trees he loses sight of the mana aura. Arawn looks around but the forest is quiet. That's when he realizes too quiet even the animals are silent. Arawn draws his sword. As Arawn reaches for his shield a flash from the side. A flash of fire streams right for him and hits him. Arawn is burnt for 9 points of damage from the fire dart. Arawn falls and rolls away grabbing his shield. A bit disoriented as he rolls to put out the fire. He misses the being running right for him. A human woman with scales on her skin and a large crocodile like maw of a mouth. She raises two hands with large long claws. Arawn instinctively casts Armor as he stands. The magical armor kicks in as Arawn lifts his sword to deflect the woman. But it is unwieldy and misses. The Cuca Queen claws at Arawn but hits his shield. Arawn swings but misses the agile queen. The queen claws but is blocked again by shield. Arawn not only misses the queen but is almost pulled away by the queen and taken off balance but he is lucky and remains standing. The Queen misses entirely. Arawn hits the queen in the lower left doing 4 points with his sword. Both Queen and Arawn swipe but both miss each other. The queen misses again. But Arawn does not as he slices open her left shoulder doing 15 points of damage. Queen hits the shield while Arawn misses. The queen hits Arawn's shield again. Arawn stabs the Queen at the upper left chest doing the final damage to kill the Queen. Arawn still hurt from the fire dart runs around to ensure no other Cuca or Dae'ta are around. But finds nothing in the area. Arawn heads to the village to alert the sentries to get rid of it before the village wakes up. Then heals himself. [Febris 15th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 4:12 am] Camped out in the Vassa forest with others Arawn wakes to see a large adult male deer watch the camp before moving on. He hopes the villagers don't spot it and try to hunt it down. But the deer is lucky and escapes. [Time: 11:37 am] Arawn is on a tour with the Green Lady, Strie'bog and 2 other villagers on the edge of the eastern Vassa forest. Just beyond the tree line which is nearby Arawn notices a creature he seems to recall en route to Ticasi on the plains. The green lady comments that it is a Elefan and seems to be moving south. Arawn is intrigued but they have a tour to complete. [Febris 16th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 6:17 am] Arawn is packing up his gear for the day's tour to nearby villages when he spots another adult male deer near the camp. This one doesn't appear to be the same from the night before. The game in this area must be plentiful. [Febris 20th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 5:10 am] Arawn is in a village on his Vassa tour when suddenly a dozen antelope scamper across the village. In fact there are 16 all running south. Arawn figures they must be migrating. Two of the hunters in village take one down before it can get away. Arawn feels sad but the animal will feed the village for awhile. [Febris 22nd, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] Arawn intends to study and improve his natural eloquence. This will take a full month. Since he has been doing his druid and priestly duties he has been speaking out eloquently in ceremonies and rituals so this is nothing but a routine to him now. But it will improve his natural ability. Chanting prayers Arawn helps to plant with permission from the Forestal a red maple tree. A rare tree he found 2 weeks ago that he took for a sapling. He does this with a Ceremony spell to honor the sacred forest itself and as a tribute to it. [Time: 3:41 am] Arawn wakes up to stoke the fire in his hut and notices a large adult deer outside his hut. This is the first time he has seen a deer in the sacred forest so figures it was allowed in recently. [Febris 24th-28th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] Arawn continues his Druidic and Priestly duties and reads his books at night. He continues to improve his eloquence as well as normal duties. [Marqi 2nd, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 9:50 am] m Arawn is exploring the Sacred Forest when he encounters aa wood nymph. The mymph acknowledges Arawn and gives appreciation for his work. Then it fades into the forest. [Marqi 7th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] Arawn spends his normal day in the sacred forest and reading his books at night. Inspired by the Vong pills, Arawn wants to make healing pills for the party. But it is a expensive project in mana. It is impossible to make healing hand and energy pills so he tries to make as many as he can. By the end of the day he only is able to make 7 healing hand pills and no energy pills for the party. [Time: 11:12 am] Arawn is riding in the forest near the sacred forest heading to deliver a rare gem for the green lady. When Corsaya suddenly gets nervous and alerts Arawn. Arawn draws his sword and buckler and then notices it behind to the left 50 feet in the forest. This beast stands 5 feet tall and over 600 pounds looking like a lion. It has fire red strands in his mane. It roars and it is too late for Arawn. The Fire Lion is lucky and gets off a flaming death spell on Arawn who bursts into flame and his clothing rage in fire. But being the person not to harm Corsaya he falls to the ground to douse the flames before she can catch fire. The Fire lion then charges making the 50 foot gap in no time. But Corsaya turns and tries to defend Arawn. The horse tries to trample but the agile lion moves away. The Fire lion claws at Corsaya ripping flesh away doing 5 points of damage. Arawn grits his teeth but casts a negate magic spell and ends the flaming spell but not before it does another 5 pionts of damage to him. He continues to roll to douse out the flames before he can act. The Lion turns to figure out who should he kill first the Fay horse or the Sidh he loves to eat. The horse is a bit too active. He leaps for the horse. The lion tries to bite the neck of the horse but only swipes down her side dong 6 more points of damage. But Corsaya knows one more strike and she is dead. She rears up and kicks at the fire lion doing 8 points of damage. Arawn stands in massive pain as his skin peels grabs his buckler and charges to help Corsaya. Arawn stabs the large beast doing 3 points past his tough hide. The Lion turns to face Arawn and roars. It swipes at Arawn but he deflects the claw with his buckler. Corsaya hurt decides to steer clear as she is bleeding out she is starting to get weak. Arawn swipes at the beast but fails to hit. But the large beast charges and leaps at Arawn. With a 600 pound thing hitting you both fall to the ground. Then the beast claws at Arawn's stomach doing massive damage. The last thing Arawn sees is the Fire lion leaning down eye to eye and about to do the killing bite before he is knocked out. Arawn feels serene peace as he begins to float. Memories of his childhood with his parents come flooding back. Maybe this is how he dies. But to see Corsaya die as well because of him. Then Arawn is jerked away gasping for air. He turns his head to see the fire Lion stare at him. He grabs his sword but his flesh is so damaged it is painful. This evil beast is toying with him! Then a shadow falls over him and he can't make it out. "Hurry over here!" Wait. That's the forestal's voice. What is he doing outside the sacred grove? He rarely leaves. Over the eons or maybe it was just minutes Arawn wakes and fades. He vaguely recalls the forestal saying the lion is dead thanks to the druids. He seems to recall a half dozen elves and druids around him. At least 3 seem to be treating him. Then the green lady appears and leans down and seems to say words then he fades. He learns the green lady healed and regenerated Arawn. Arawn is helped to stay glad to be alive. "The forest alerted me and we sent help. The forest doesn't always let us know but this beast is not welcome here. We are sorry we were late." The forestal says. Arawn looks around for Corsaya and finds massive blood. "She is fine. She fought even us helping her. She is such a nice noble beast. But Strie'bog's mother healed and was helped by the druids. Both of you will need rest but should be fine. Aside from your riding clothes." Arawn looks down to see him in a robe and figures his clothes were all destroyed. He is helped back to his place in the sacred forest. [Marqi 8th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] The druids demand that Arawn rest the day and do nothing for his duties. This gives Arawn time to study his books as he recovers from the lion attack. [Marqi 9th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 3:56 am] Staying at Strie'bog's place Arawn is awoken to se a mass of antelope migrating south. Both the bard and druid estimate there must be 75-80 of them moving fast. [Marqi 16th-233rd, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] Arawn continues his Druid and Priestly routines. Reading his books at night. Marqi 20th Arawn lucks up and finds Chervil and buy sit for 15 silver. The next day Arawn lucks up and finds a Revification spell scroll for 5 silver. During these final days Arawn casts: using creatures and magical items in the sacred forest he tries all of his dispel/banishes 6 times for a total of 36 castings with 112 failures with at least one abysmal failure. He casts Bless twice, armor twice with 1 abysmal failure. Energy, ceremony twice with 1 failure, communicate 3 times with 2 failures and 3 purification spells. He casts wisdom, sky knowledge with 1 failure and recasts it, Knowledge and Inner revelation to gain info. On Marqi 22nd, a huge ceremony is held by the priests, druids green lady and Forestal as well as a audience of several hundreds. In witness to Arawn being promoted in the Priesthood. Finally on the morning of the last day he casts translocate with Corsaya going back to check on the party. [Marqi 16th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 9:33 am] [Marqi 17th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 5:59 am] Arawn is restless not seeing his friends in months. At the lake he lets Corsaya rest and graze since the snow is finally starting to fade. Arawn then notices the same or a different leopard at the lake drinking. He wonders if this is some omen for the future where leopards are part of it. [Marqi 20th, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 10:12 am] A elf bring in 2 riding horses of high quality for treatment for hoof rot. The druids and Arawn help out. [Marqi 21st, 1636TH] - [Sacred Forest] [Time: 7:04 pm] Arawn and other villagers encounter on a path 5 adult human males killed. All are beyond hope. There are signs of some animal but it is unclear what killed them. Arawn helps handle the bodies to rest. Actions? Comments? Next Update....Soon.. GM: Originally this IBT was 2200 lines. After Arawn edited he removed *51* days. Yes. He didn't want those days posted. Not sure why. But that's half the IBT poof. It ended up almost 1700 lines so about 500 lines of good text and stuff was deleted. :< His choice to do so but figured I'd let you know if it seems missing some things. :) Hound combat might be a bit confusing I run out of time to edit it. But the gist should be there to read. * Skills [Does not want it posted :<] * Expenses [Does not want it posted :<] * Spells [Does not want it posted :<]