s` Player DS Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FH.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Al.. Ma ...Kevin Newark..........Dorhak............Warrior.Normal/Dwarf....Ma --.Tobie Bonahoom....YY..Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry.. Fe W3.Mark Murtha.......HN..Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human....Ma W2.David Sanders.....HN..Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human ..Ma R4.Wout Broere.......YY..Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe ...Don.Kerr..............Maelorna..........Dancer..Normal/Human....Fe ...Gilbert.Isla..........Mournath..........Sailor..Normal/Human....Ma R3 Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe Fake-Kell/Raki........Npc...............Normal..Normal/Shaper...?? Z'layha ..............Npc...............Normal..Normal/Shaman...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 #144 sequence (file #986) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Admin Notes: None ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Recap] From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions] Z'leyra helps Arawn sit up then says to her sister Z'layha "I am sorry that I did not realize that we were on... GM: Ack. From Kiet: [Re: Actions] "Are we going after the other shifter or letting him.... GM: Ack. From Fremea: [Re: Actions] Fremea shakes her head at Z, leaving the killer to go... GM: Ack. Once Z changed history and did a Doc Brown/Back to Future thing it changed history and your knowledge. So the Metal Clan did kill(?) Tiren. But the lone shifter was there to steal the notebook with secrets. Or was he there to get it to spread so that he could lure someone to the Kameran lands to free his people? I changed the words of 'your father' to many which he was a killer of many. So hope this is acceptable. I know I really HATE time travel the confusion alone. From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions] "Right." Z'leyra decides " Okay, let us get after that... GM: Ack. As posted last update if days or weeks or whatever transpired then mana should be full for everyone as stated at bottom of last update. From Arawn: [Re: Actions] Arawn came to, his eyes flying open as his mind sought... "Someone's going to have to catch me up on what I missed," he.. GM: Ack. Very good introspections. From Arawn: [Re: Actions] Arawn was in agreement with those that had already... "I can translocate us out of here if this place... GM: Ack. Dang! I forgot you guys bought the young Boy that was teleported to the lava room. So yeah like Kell he would be a small set of skeleton. So I'd assumed in boy/dead form he'd be carried over to the other side so yeah he'd have to be carried as well. From Kiet: [Re: Actions] Kiet is having a great deal of trouble with the passing... "Raki...is there anything that can force your kind out... GM: Ack. From Dorhak: [RE: Actions] Dorhak is thrilled with being released from the grip... GM: Ack. It's like Q from ST: TNG you hate the guy but love the guy. Is he good or bad? :) ______________________________________________________________ [New Stuff] [Febris 9th, 1635TH] [Time: 5:01 pm??] Z'leyra helps Arawn sit up then says to her sister Z'layha "I am sorry that I did not realize that we were on some other plane and thus forgot to cast any protections against time and aging. I can later try to Cure Age on those who feel they have aged too much. But for now, are we past any wards that would prevent us from teleporting back to where this began? I would prefer that we not have to explain our being in a restricted place and that we keep the Kameri powers that be calm and not upset with us. Can we stay hidden until we can teleport back?" Z'layha begins to shift from foot to foot. "If this is indeed the fortress then the Tribute Room is upstairs." She points to the ceiling. This looks to be the lower sub-`basement and so this place looks like it hasn't been visited in years. But for now I really have to ahem...relieve myself." As she says this it seems so do the others who must've built up those reserves for days or whatever time has passed. Kiet glances at Raki staring back at the wall on the right. "Are we going after the other shifter or letting him get away with his crimes?" Fremea shakes her head at Z, leaving the killer to go free. "No, the killer of many cannot go free. It is time for that one to pay." She turns to Raki/Kell, "Can you show me how to track this other one that is similar to you? Whether or not Z wants justice, this was the goal and I will not leave it unfinished." "Right." Z'leyra decides " Okay, let us get after that shifter and stop it from doing more evil. Anyone have the skill and mana to teleport us after him?" Raki turns to glance at Z'leyra's comments and then back at the wall. Then back toward Fremea. "I don't know if I can teach you. These walls are thick. I can just sense him. Like I did in the others. These walls affect the sense but he can't be more than a few miles away. It seems in that direction." He points to the wall. Z'layyha just can't help it. She scurries to the lower left wall and relieves herself day's worth of buildup. She stands and frowns in the darkness for that corner. "Sorry. I just...couldn't hold it." She moves back into the hand made by Raki's weird hands. "I have no idea what direction that is. To the south and south west is the river. But to the east is forest. If that is where he is he can hide. If that is to the east then less hiding area. This teleport thing? It can get us out of here? if so it is our best bet to avoid the people upstairs." Raki continues, "once I get outside I might be able to find him better." Z'layha places hands on hips. "How could this one live for so long? Do you not age? Why isn't this one hunted down by the other gods." Raki shrugs, "when I was here we seem to age slowly. But our regeneration doesn't allow general aging. I'm sue some of our body ages and dies. But we just never saw it directly. As to the other. As I said in the prison he made a deal with one god...which we don't know or at least I don't. He must have the same magic that I have on me now." He pats his chest where the magic is now inlaid inside his body. Z'layha wonders one more thing, "if you were on their watch list...the gods that is...wouldn't they know you were around even if it were just a few minutes?" Raki nods, "more likely. Whether they could pin point me now is unknown." He turns to the wall. "We must hurry a surge of distance has just been felt." Arawn came to, his eyes flying open as his mind sought to catch up to the current state of disarray. Mae lay slumped, the alfar fearing her dead until his keen eye spotted the tell-tale signs of breath and life. Beside her stood a seething Dorhak, the dwarf's emotions slamming into him like a ton of bricks - a heavy load with all else just experienced. And just beyond lay the skeletal remains of Kell, Arawn's otherworldly heritage allowing his sharp mind to reach the conclusion of planar temporality faster than might be expected. It was then that he noticed his fallen tunic, picking it up to discover the large hole burnt through it. Then it hit him. His own memories before he blacked out. Before he came to in this strange chamber. Of Kell's spirit struggling to free him from the unbreakable grip of the Cryx, now left behind in the prison. Whatever secrets it held it was probably for the best that it remained behind, a beacon of hope for any others that might find themselves accidentally trapped there in the future. Then he recalled the purple glow. And running toward the swiftly collapsing portal. Then darkness. Had he truly made it through? Or was this some trick, another challenge of the guantlet? Or had he been wounded and now healed? All this barely had time to flash through his mind when Raki's voice broke the silence. ["It is good to see you alive again Arawn. But we should leave soon."] Alive again... So he had died. So how was he alive now? "Someone's going to have to catch me up on what I missed," he replied with remarkable composure, considering. Though a bit weak, he found strength quickly returning to him and he seemed little affected by his passing, likely a courtesy of a quick death. He accepted Fremea and Z'leyra's help as he rose to his feet, a bit wobbly at first, while he listened to the exchange between Raki and Z'layha. "Yes, someone's definitely going to have to catch me up on things," Arawn echoed, his brow furrowing as he sought to examine the necklace wrapped around Raki's neck before it slipped from view. Arawn watched the exchange, his face tinged with suppressed sadness. Unlike the others, except for Raki and now Kiet, he had seen Kell's spiritual form, in the brief moments before escaping the prison. And he instinctively knew what was happening now, his own psychic sense picking up on the flow of emotions and energy between the three. Noble Kell, all the way to the end. Though not as close as Kiet was with the half-elf, Arawn considered him a friend and, though distant, kin. As the half- elf shared words with his close friend, Kiet, the druid spoke a quiet prayer to help usher Kell towards a truly blessed afterlife. Arawn was in agreement with those that had already spoken. This Lone Shifter, if left to roam free, could find another way to one day free his people. And despite Arawn's compassion for the race he knew that such could not be allowed to come to pass. At least not until the day came that a spiritual healing had washed over the shape-shifters, returning them to a more peaceful nature in spite of the efforts of the Eldest Serpent who had corrupted them as he had with the Vong. "I can translocate us out of here if this place isn't warded," Arawn replied. "But the real question is, 'where is the Lone Shifter?'. I'd need a familiar enough target to translocate us to for maximum safety." He turned to Raki. "Can you sense if the shifter is within the fortress? Or if it lies some distance away? What's the best way for us to track him from here?" He then presented a few questions to Z'layha. "Do you know if the fortress is warded against teleportational magic? And, should we have to navigate this place, I suggest you take point as you won't arouse suspicions. If you encounter anyone a simple conversation should hit Raki's ears while the rest of us remain far enough away to make preparations as needed." He then looked around the chamber, collecting the young boy's skeletal remains as he stared at Mae's slumbering form. "Should we wake her? Or else, who's going to carry her?" "And make sure we don't leave anything behind that might arouse suspicion to our presence," he added, his tunic and any other gear having been collected and in hand. Z'layha shakes her head, "wards? Ad in those things back there? No. We just don't allow entry to the lower levels like here for most. As far as any wards I do not know of any. But this large a group with 2 bodies and Mae being carried might be a bit hard to explain." She looks worried. "If this shifter was in the village at the statue place as you said how did he get here so fast? If that just hours ago....it takes a good week or more to travel here from there." Then she looks shaken. "Unless it has been a week or more we've been gone?" Z'layha who has been speaking in Kameran since leaving the prison not the oddly magically known Marentian in the prison continues. "As to Mae she attacked him. Tried to eat or kill him. Unsure if we should kill or wake or what. But she seemed desperate." Arawn nods, so Mae needed to feed energy. Probably uncontrollable. Z'layha looks around, "as to leaving stuff..." she blushes a bit. "I say I just did. But I doubt anyone has been down this far in years." Kiet is having a great deal of trouble with the passing of his friend. His chest is tight. He can't seem to take deep breaths. He cannot stop his weeping eyes, and doesn't really care. Still, even in his state of mourning he knows to ask a few questions of Raki. "Raki...is there anything that can force your kind out of the shape they currently hold? If we know how, we can perhaps make it easier to catch him." Raki shrugs, "this is why we almost slaughtered many gods. Even the gods had trouble. I suspect I can guess who he is once I sense him. Then again you saw what heat can do to us. It affects our cohesion." And then "Raki...would you be able to simply form yourself around Kell's bones? I don't want to leave them here but would like to take him home to Ba'Ru." Even with the tears, Kiet smiles a sad smile and says "He would probably get a lot of satisfaction being smuggled home that way." Raki nods, "if I recall a typical human male set of bones is what? Around 75 pounds? Certainly I can try. I was not wanting to leave him so would carry him if I had to." Dorhak is thrilled with being released from the grip of that demoness. But he doesn't intend to let her get away with it! He grabs his mace as quickly as he can and raises it to defend himself, only to find 'Mae' unconscious on the floor. Dorhak hesitates now that the immediate danger is over, but is still quite wary. He circles around her, it, this thing, until he is behind her. If she moves at all, he will not wait, but begin bashing in her head. Unali joins in, "Raki, no offense to you but two of your race in this world might tip the balance and might open the gates at some point. That is indeed not something that we should allow. Can you help us find the other shifter. Is he nearby?" Raki shrugs, "no offense. I have worked on that emotion for a long time but never got it fully. Yes. He is nearby but moving. Once I leave this thick walls and get outside I can pinpoint him faster. This one is a kind of legend for our people. The lone shifter that eludes detection. Some believed he didn't exist still. Zin had no doubt. This particular shifter sought to learn how best to burn humans. He'd burn temples just to see how long the humans would die. Toward the end he killed 350 that way. He deserves some justice." Z'layha crosses her arms and glances at Dorhak to ensure he doesn't bash Mae. Then back toward Raki. "I hope this is not all a act. I mean your people seem....not so kind. What makes you different?" Raki shrugs, "I saw the malice and hate my kind did. For no good reason. There were others like me. They were all killed. Many felt they should not go against the gods. But Zin forced many to invade the upper world. If they hadn't been stopped the True World as you know it would not be the same. I know I did very bad things. At first I was curious and like them. But the lack of intent and purpose was not there. I fought Zin and he as an example felt I should be isolated. Until Kiet gave me some hope." Actions? Comments? Next Update....Saturday? GM: I had originally planned to do update Saturday. But since plans for today changed I did it since got enough posts. Next week will be too busy for updates. Tuesday afternoon got thing that will take all afternoon and the plans from today will be postponed till next Wednesday. So doubt I can do a update Tue/Wed. But we shall see. Unless I do a very small one.