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[lawastooshort]

((depends also on if you're happy with breaking your word to someone you've just vehemently castigated for being evil!!1)

[Harry Baldman]

((depends also on if you're happy with breaking your word to someone you've just vehemently castigated for being evil!!1)

((Oh, I didn't vehemently castigate them for being evil as such, more for liberally calling themselves evil and subjecting themselves to terrible racial stereotypes. Hence the advocating of the much more palatable 'morally complex' label.))

[lawastooshort]

((Right, I'll try to get onto this tomorrow. So, you're all going to walk back down the mountain, except for Medha, who you're going to leave in a hole (that is to say, in the kobold stronghold), right?))

[Harry Baldman]

((Right, I'll try to get onto this tomorrow. So, you're all going to walk back down the mountain, except for Medha, who you're going to leave in a hole (that is to say, in the kobold stronghold), right?))

((Yes.

The path of the intrepid, chivalrous adventurer is a hard one indeed. Or Medha can just be our inside person for our soon return.

Besides, once the kobolds bugger off back inside, Medha can safely escape, presumably.))

[Dwarmin]

((Honestly, Kobolds are just tiny Medha's anyway. She can probably become their leader.

Queen of the Kobolds!))

[lawastooshort]

Turn Eighty Three

Somewhere, deep in the mountains of Durial, although actually not that deep, and getting shallower and shallower by the minute, an intrepid band of five brave explorers are stoically fecking right off, not waiting till Thursday. It would have been madness, they tell themselves, to have stayed and fought against the baker's dozen of evil midgets, madness! - for they are sorely hurt, and in need of cuddles and maybe some hot chocolate.

They trek on, fecking off and away, out of sight of Mount Kuriel, the target of their quest, past the burnt out wasteland they travelled through this morning, which wasn't burnt out until this morning, incidentally, and are approaching the ravaged remains of the rescued miners' camp when they notice that darkness is about to fall, probably before the next turn.

It is a moment of discussion and decision:do they press on through the beginning of the night back to the village of Wretched? Or do they make camp here, where at least it is warm amongst the smouldering embers of the miners' livelihood?


Elsewhere, deep in the mountains of Durial – actually quite deep, and not just metaphorically since Medha is in fact at least twenty foot underground, having disappeared down a hole and frightened off one living and two dead kobolds with her horrifying – even in the dark – appearance – an intrepid band of one brave explorer is stoically sitting about in the dark, picking at a scab (not what Doctor Gervedder ordered) and wondering what to do.

She reviews the situation.

She is alone. She doesn't mind that, never has done.

She's in a hole. She doesn't really mind that, either: she fell down a well and lived in it for a fortnight once. Pushed, actually. Anyway.

She might get hungry soon though, and that scab isn't really that big. Hmm.

The light's very dim, but she searches a little to see what is in her new personal expanded inventory. Not a lot. A few charred kobold sized beds. A cooking pot. Remains of a fire. Few remains of kobolds, hideously squished.

She looks up.

Twenty foot to the hole to the surface. About four, maybe five feet across.

She looks over the other side of the room.

Solid stone door. Slammed shut as the kobolds fled her overzealous cuddling.

Hmm.

It looks like she's gonna need a pretty big serving of cunning with a side of extra cunning to get out of this.

Spoiler: GM’s notes (click to show/hide)

Please ask question if necessary. Sorry for the delay.

Current Players:

Spoiler: Tackov Cedtry, Toaster (click to show/hide)

Name: Tackov Cedtry
Class: Level 3 Gusty Wind Mage
Status: +1 missile defence. -1 to melee. Naked!
Health: [HP: 55/60] | Severed Guts!
Abilities: Magical Typhoon I, Wind Blast I, Wind Blast II, Wind Step I, Squishy, Sissy Slap Fight
Inventory: Minor Mana Potion x1, Scroll of Beginner’s Fireball x1, one memorised use of: Gee, Mr. Whiz, You Sure Are Fast! Mouldy Wizard Hat, bits of guts (own), You Bastard the Mangy Donkey, Cloak of Camouflage, 112 Green Farthings, 17 Yuros, Several heavy rocks, Some ribs, saucepan, Fancy Clothes.

Spoiler: Whiz, Chink (click to show/hide)

Name: Whiz
Class: Level 3 Whiznificent Whiz Wiz(ard)
Status: +1 to lower leg defence.  -1 to social interaction. +1 to balancing.
Health: [HP: 75/85] | Giant Rat’s Tail!
Abilities: Red Carpet, Shield I, Gee, Mr. Whiz, You Sure Are Fast! Gee, Mr. Whiz, You Sure Are Fast II, Obviously a Powerful Wizard, It’ll Make You Blind!
Inventory: Crossbow, Unlimited Quiver, Raider’s Dress of Shin Protection, 37 Yuros, Middling Mana Potion x1, Cutlass,  Three daggers, Minor Health Potion x2, +1 Bolt of Accuracy x4, +1 Bolt of Burning x3, +1 Bolt of Paralysis x2, Carrying Serf x0 (not currently mounted).

Spoiler: Medha Correo, Errol (click to show/hide)

Name: Medha Correo
Class: Level 3 Alchemist Curse Crafter
Status: +1 to gut defence. +1 to chest defence.
Health: [HP: 51/85] | Draconic Ribcage!
Skull Spider Health: [HP: 25/25]
Abilities: Craft Curse Grenade, Opportunistic Attack I, Curse Crafter, Curse of the Fool, Wandering Asshole, Curse of the Curse Crafter
Inventory: Dagger, Half a dress, 71 bandages, Neckless of the Ribless, Dagger, Lock picking kit, Iron Cuirass, 211 Yuros, Crossbow, Brittle Jagged Groinbone Dagger of Good, 4 vials of human blood, 6 vials of kobold blood, Grenade of the Fool x0, Serpent's Benediction plant x1, Faery-weed x1, A Shiny Stone, Bottle of Dragon Blood, a six foot plank of wood, a rune dagger, Curse of Being Stepped Upon!

Spoiler: Gervedder Vietzo, Harry Baldman (click to show/hide)

Name: Gervedder Vietzo
Class: Level 3 Damaged Opportunistic Messenger
Status: +1 to gut and chest defence. +1 defence if moves.
Health: [HP: 45/85]
Abilities: Just a Brainflesh Wound, Nimble Feet, This Messenger Delivers, Make Way for the Messenger! Important, Stop For Directions
Inventory: Crossbow, Unlimited Quiver, 2 bandages, 2 Yuros, Iron Cuirass, Crossbow, Gerald the Mule, Two weeks rations and a bedroll, Apprentice Herbalist's Manual, Herbalist's Containers x5, Large Cork x1.

Spoiler: Lady Foxglove Vainglorious the III, Dwarmin (click to show/hide)

Name: Lady Foxglove Vainglorious the III
Class: Level 3 Glamorous Ravenhaired Crusader
Status: Extra-presentable! +1 to head, chest and groinbone defence.
Health: [HP: 85/85]
Abilities: Ravena’s Ear, Silent as a Raven’s Wing,  Opportunistic, Honeyed Tongue, Vain, Self-Reliance
Inventory: Minor Health Potion x2, Crossbow, Unlimited Quiver, Masterwork Helm, Flying Warsquid, Lance, Sword, Mercenary Squidrider Uniform, Masterwork Poledancing Pole, chainmail lingerie, 34 Yuros, 10 bandages, Decent provisions (day) x5, Live eel x699, Red dragon-scale vest, Curse Grenade of the Slimy Eel.

Spoiler: Bukkar Crangrom, Xantalos (click to show/hide)

Name: Bukkar Crangrom
Class: Level 3 Sprayin' Ragin' Mage
Status:
Health: [HP: 35/85] | The Vomiting!
Abilities: Rage Flight, Rage Lazors I, Ass of the Flaming Foot I, Lightning Fist I, Always Looking For a Fight, Always Hungover
Inventory: Sword of Severing! Crossbow, 400 Green Farthings, Large Sealed Bling Barrel, Large Cork x1, Dragon Body Parts Covered in Bodily Fluids (quantity-small), pick.

[Toaster]

Tackov stops and kicks a nearby pebble.  "Feck this.  Let's stop here."

[Xantalos]

Bukkar need heal.
Also I think I pissed off some people in the village; let's stop here.

[Dwarmin]

~Edited~

[Errol]

"...tch. In the end, the only person I can rely on is myself... 's how it's always been. Should never have assumed it was going to change though that bunch anyway..."

Gather materials for a campfire. Light campfire. Rest and examine cave closer in the shine of its flickering light.

[Dwarmin]

((Yeah, it's actually really out of character for LadyFox to abandon Medha like that...

Then again, Errol didn't post an action to follow us...and it would have been a big fight otherwise...with a smashed up group...then again I'm at full HP!

Do you want me to come save you Errol?))

[Errol]

((...only if she shouts really loud for it. Medha's actually rather excited for this right now, though this could change easily enough.))

[Dwarmin]

((Well we already established Fox doesn't want her teammates to resent her or hold a grudge. I don't want to spend another 83 turns earning Medha's trust.))

[Dwarmin]

Lady Foxglove was about to sail into town when she noticed a lack of certain tacky witch among them.

"what could I be forgetting?

....MEDHA!

It is completely out of my character to leave her behind...and it'd be a shame to lose such a dramatic foil..."

Action: Commence Operation Rescue Tacky Witch. WIP

[Xantalos]

If she's dead, recover her blood for me, will ya?