The 'Quest' III
Session XXVI - To Destroy Hope
Organiser's Comment
*cackle*. That was fun. Well, for me at any rate.
So, what does this mean for the group? No leader, no path, no cripple-transportation method. Find out in the 'Quest' on Sunday.
Plot Summary
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Full Log (See Below for 'The Best of the Rest')
<@Narrator> \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ 'To Destroy Hope' \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
<@Narrator> They have returned. This latest quest to prevent the destruction of the world began in a small section of A’lure.
<@Narrator> And now they have returned to the main city within the fine forest. The day is peaceful and bright, Spring is beginning to battle back into the world, with the trees beginning to bud and creatures coming out of their hibernation.
<@Narrator> There is one main difference – The Order of Cothin-Cal’s headquarters were destroyed, sending a wave of flame and rubble across the surrounding trees, and now there is a large area full of dead trees and memorials for those killed – the Wise Elves, the Order members and people who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
<@Narrator> There is also a large memorial for those who were slaughtered in Viirnial.
* Faelnon looks about the trees as the 'train comes to a halt.
* Varadrion rubs his stomach softly and looks at the half of his shattered sword in his room
* Foilae thinks back to the last time he was in A'lure. Oh yes, there it is, everything was happy... he hadn't met the group yet.
* Gilth crosses his legs and begins to meditate
* Rue is lying on her bed in her room, hesitating to move as it's painful to even open her eyes. She rolls over with a groan of pain and sighs.
* Varadrion walks slowly and carefully out of his room and looks around
* Faelnon looks quite miserable, his face is battered and bloody still, and his hand is burnt to a cinder.
* Gilth gets up, feeling great, minus the general bruises and cuts
* Faelnon quickly patched up the hole in the Dwarves' cabin. The dwarves now have graves on the edge of A'lure. No-one has been in the forest since.
* Faelnon is at the front of the 'train.
* Varadrion sees Faelnon and walks toward him slowly
* Foilae is in his cabin quietly reading through a book.
* Varadrion nods to Faelnon, unsure of what to say
* Faelnon looks at Varadrion, but makes no motion.
* Gilth places his crossbow and hunting knife on his bed, looking over his only weapons.
* Faelnon climbs off the 'train and moves into the forest silently.
* Varadrion watches but doesn't follow
* Rue attempts to sit up, but gives up after a few minutes, choosing to lay back down on the bed.
* Varadrion walks to Rue's cabin and knocks
* Foilae comes out of his cabin and heads down to the food cabin.
* Rue opens her eyes and looks up at the door. "C'min...”
* Varadrion opens the door and walks in slowly, asking the obvious, "How are you feeling?"
* Faelnon looks at the 'train and quietly passes it and heads up a flight of stairs into the plat-formed trees.
* Gilth gathers his weapons, and exits the train, but walks the opposite way Faelnon went.
* Rue laughs softly. "Uh...I think there's more bruised skin than normal skin, I have to have broken something and it hurts to blink but...uhm...I've been worse?"
* Foilae emerges from the food cabin with an apple. He heads up the way and runs into Rue's cabin and Varadrion.
* Gilth gathers some roots and returns to the train
* Varadrion asks "Anything you need? Since you seem to be in *slightly* worse shape then I am"
* Rue laughs, attempting (and actually succeeding with a considerable amount of pain) to sit up. "But only slightly."
* Faelnon looks in, 'I'm sure one of the healers in A'lure could help with the pain...'
* Gilth walks in the train, and enters Rue's cabin, seeing a bunch of people there, seats himself on the floor and starts to grind the roots
* Varadrion looks at Foilae and nods
* Rue shakes her head. "I'm sure I'll get over it." she laughs, waving a hello to Gilth and Foilae. "It can't be that bad for that long."
* Varadrion says to Gilth "Hello"
* Gilth says "If anyone wants it, this root will numb pain, but does very little for healing. Oh, hello"
* Gilth offers the root powder around
* Varadrion holds up his hand and passes on the root
* Rue shrugs, "I mean, I'm almost on the verge of standing up." she grins.
* Gilth offers the powder to Rue and Foilae
* Foilae says, 'I'm okay, thanks.'
* Rue takes the powder and stares at it for a moment. "I'll use it later." she says, reaching over to put it on her nightstand
* Foilae suggests, 'We should get some fresh air.'
* Gilth shrugs, "Is there any sword smith around here?"
* Rue laughs. "I'll stay here. I don't really have a choice, unless you want me to steal your wheelchair."
* Varadrion looks at Gilth and says "Good idea"
* Foilae says, 'Probably, it's been many a year since I've been in A'lure.'
* Varadrion says to Gilth "Lets go find one"
* Gilth looks to Varadrion and says "Shall we?"
* Gilth departs to look for swords
* Foilae smiles at Rue, 'I have a spare, the Dwarves mad-' he suddenly stops, remembering the Dwarves.
* Varadrion walks off slowly after Gilth
* Rue gets up and walks, free of bruises. "HAH!"
* Rue blinks at Foilae, eyes shining. "Uh..." she mutters.
* Gilth enters what looks like a weapons dealer
* Foilae says, 'I know a good café, at least, it was a café when I was last here, fancy a drink?'
* Rue smirks. "I'll stay here a little longer and meet up with you if it hasn't been turned to cinders."
* Gilth looks over swords, completely oblivious to the out of character fighting
* Foilae nods to Rue, turns and leaves.
* Varadrion looks at a few swords, seeing nothing overly impressive
* Varadrion asks the shopkeep "Do you have any items that aren't out here?"
* Gilth shifts the weight of his shield to his back, and picks up a long sword
* Foilae gets off the 'train and goes to have a look at the memorials.
* Rue grips the end of her bedpost and, after a few moments, manages to bring herself to a standing position. She grabs the bag on her nightstand and utilizes its contents.
* Varadrion picks up a particularly nasty looking sabre and looks at it
* Faelnon arrives at his location - his old temple.
* Gilth sets down the long sword, and picks up a broadsword
* Rue walks...well, it's more of a limping stagger, but she makes her way off of the 'train.
* Faelnon enters it silently, the mid-morning sermon had ended only minutes before and there were still a few stragglers chatting about.
* Varadrion looks at Gilth "See anything that looks more vicious then ordinary?"
* Gilth looks at Varadrion "I am thinking about the long sword. It is one handed, so I can use my shield."
* Varadrion replies "Good idea"
* Gilth sets down the broad sword and picks up the long sword. He places a ten gold coins on the counter.
* Varadrion looks at a Flamberge, the curved blade intriguing him
* Gilth looks at Varadrion "How about the scimitar?"
* Gilth sheaths his new sword
* Varadrion looks at a scimitar with some extra points cut into it "Its not too bad"
* Rue finds a small, clear pond and sits down in front of it. She stares at her reflection in the water, half-expecting the water to shatter. She winces at her appearance and mutters a curse to herself as she rinses her face in the water.
* Varadrion swings the scimitar around
* Foilae says a few prayers for each of the members of the Order that died before moving to find his café.
* Foilae notices all the stairs and mumbles about not really making this place wheelchair-friendly.
* Varadrion pulls out a few gold coins and pays for the sword
* Varadrion grumbles about paying for it and walks out with Gilth
* Gilth says to Varadrion "Watch this" He takes off his armour, and runs up behind Rue, jumps over her and lands a cannon ball in the water, drenching her.
* Gilth surfaces and laughs
* Rue shrieks and dives back, a look on her face not unlike a look of a deer in the headlights.
* Faelnon and another priest are talking quietly, said priest was apparently the one who had done the sermon, as he was dressed up in his ceremonial garb.
* Varadrion smiles and walks slowly up behind Rue, lightly shoving her, just hard enough to cause her to fall into the water
* Gilth gives thumbs up to Varadrion and laughs loudly
* Rue tumbles into the water and emerges over it with a gasp. "You both...." she sputters, swimming back to the water's edge. She pulls herself back on the bank and suddenly bursts out in laughter.
* Varadrion smiles at Rue and walks into a crowded section of town
* Gilth pulls himself from the water, pats Rue on the back, then secures his armour to his pack, and follows Varadrion
* Varadrion signals for Gilth to wait a moment
* Rue squeezes the water out of her hair, spitting out the last little bit of water.
* Gilth raises and eyebrow, but waits
<@Narrator> The alter in the temple suddenly crumbles to dust. An image of a giant beast appears in its place, simultaneously, the same beast is appearing to every church, temple and religious establishment across the planet.
* Varadrion walks into the crowd and disappears, re-emerging a few moments later, holding his hand out to Gilth, a few gold coins in it. "You might call it a required skill for assassins and thieves"
* Faelnon looks at the beast, grabs his friend by the shoulder and shoving him roughly towards the exit, 'Come on, bad things this way come.'
* Gilth looks at the coins
<@Narrator> The beast bellows in a chilling voice, 'This mockery will not save you in the End. Your eternal souls shall be condemned to a new hell.'
* Rue takes off her cloak and lays it out in the sun before stretching out on the edge of the pond and relaxing in the sun.
* Gilth asks "Are they mine?" he searches himself
* Varadrion says to Gilth "No, just a man in the crowd, probably never even saw me brush him"
* Faelnon is running away from the temple hoping the others are okay. He spots them at least forty feet below and wonders if they look up frequently.
* Rue is about to take a nap, and therefore is not looking up.
* Gilth looks at Varadrion "You should return them"
* Foilae , who frequently looks up, looks up and sees Faelnon. Judging from his face, he says, 'Oh dear, guys...'
* Foilae says, 'I don't think we need to worry about a handful of coins.'
* Varadrion looks around Gilth to Foilae and puts the coins into his cloak
* Gilth whirls around, "What is wrong?"
<@Narrator> The beast envelopes the entire temple, then disappear. The area around begins to quake.
* Foilae points, 'I'm guessing that.'
* Varadrion looks at it "As much as I despise religion, that cannot be good"
* Rue feels the ground shaking and allows her eyes to flicker open.
* Faelnon is nearly knocked off the platform.
* Gilth is suddenly holding his sword, and quickly throwing armour on
* Varadrion looks at Rue and motions for her to get up
* Gilth picks up Rue and plants her on her feet
<@Narrator> The temple, and likewise, every temple and other religious building in the world, crumbles and crashes to rubble.
* Rue is picked up and she throws on her cloak. "What's going on now?" she groans.
* Faelnon dashes down the stairs as everything begins to quake. Unfortunately, this set of stairs double-backs underneath the platform.
* Varadrion looks at Foilae "Time to leave"
* Foilae backs away from anything near the platform.
* Gilth looks at Faelnon and says to the group "What about Faelnon?"
* Varadrion says "He'll make it, he always does"
* Faelnon is halfway down the stairs when several logs from the platform above break and plummet through, destroying the lower half of the stairs.
* Rue says a little louder. "What's going-" she then looks in the direction of the temple. "Oh.”
* Gilth says "How? Its forty feet and the stairs are gone!"
* Varadrion says "Then how are *we* going to help him?"
* Faelnon 's priest-friend disappeared as the stairs crumbled. Faelnon is too weary from worrying over his friends dying to pause for this one.
* Foilae looks up, 'Anyone for a bright idea?'
* Varadrion says "Run?"
* Faelnon looks at the distance to the next platform. Then he looks at the distance to the ground.
* Faelnon backs up the steps and gets ready to run and jump.
* Varadrion sees Faelnon at the top of the ledge and groans, "JUMP!" he yells.
* Rue looks around. "We have to catch him with something..."
* Varadrion pulls of his cloak and throws one end to rue
* Gilth looks at Foilae, "Can you make a bridge of magic?"
* Faelnon runs down the steps and is ready to jump when the final step before the breach snaps in two.
* Rue grabs the other end and stretches it out. "Come on!"
* Rue gasps. "Faelnon!!"
* Faelnon manages to grab one of the halves.
* Faelnon is dangling, 'Oh. Fun.'
* Foilae looks about for anything that would help.
* Gilth says "Hail Mary!" a ball of light appears in his hand, and he looks to Foilae for direction.
* Foilae says, 'Don't do it yet, Gilth.'
* Gilth nods
* Faelnon is dangling still, he can't really do anything but.
* Varadrion takes his cloak back and puts it on
* Faelnon sees a platform within reachable distance and begins swinging on the log.
* Faelnon is about to release when the rest of the log breaks off, he would mutter something about it getting ridiculous, but he doesn't have the time before he crashes into the banister of the platform beneath, causing it to break and him to roll along for a moment.
* Faelnon groans, 'Well... that worked.'
* Foilae says, 'I don't see any reason to leave A'lure now.'
* Rue rolls her eyes at Faelnon. "Very nice..."
* Faelnon grumbles as he goes down the thankfully intact stairs until he reaches the group.
* Faelnon says, 'If I didn't know better, I'd say our friendly flying freaks are trying to freak everyone out.'
* Foilae states, 'Mission success.'
* Rue nods. "So now what?"
* Faelnon says, 'I'm not sure. We won't leave A'lure because of that, at any rate.'
* Varadrion groans "Well, it can't get any worse"
* Gilth tosses the ball from hand to hand, as it is getting slightly hot
* Foilae says wisely, 'Oh, there is always more worse.'
* Faelnon is about to say something more, but he is caught by a messenger and brought away from the group.
* Foilae says, 'Oh, messages, these always go well.'
* Gilth frowns
* Rue blinks curiously at the messenger. "Great..." she mutters, tempted to go back to her nice little spot by the pond.
* Varadrion curses and rolls his eyes
* Foilae watches Faelnon’s face curiously. ‘Bad news this way comes.’ He states.
* Foilae points to a table nearby that belongs to the local café, shall we sit down? Or at least get a drink.'
* Gilth looks at Foilae "Can you read faces or something?"
* Foilae looks at Faelnon's, 'Even the blind can read his.'
* Rue nods. "Drink. Drink sounds good." she murmurs, taking a seat, and placing her head on the table.
* Gilth shrugs and enters the empty cafe, walking behind the bar to get an ale
* Rue asks Gilth to get her one while he's at it.
* Gilth pours two ales
* Foilae rolls over and gets a tea.
* Varadrion walks into the cafe and sits with Rue and Gilth
* Gilth sits down beside Rue and Varadrion, handing the ale to Rue, and offering his to Varadrion
* Varadrion holds up his hand to pass
* Gilth shrugs and takes a long drink
* Gilth jumps up and says "I have an idea! Forget the world and drink away our problems!"
* Rue nods in thanks to Gilth and takes a long swig of her ale.
* Gilth hops over the bar and begins the drain a keg into his mouth
* Faelnon returns to the group silently and sat down, staring at the table.
* Rue holds up her glass with a grin. "Hear hear!"
* Foilae looks around the group before asking softly, ‘What is it?’
* Rue pushes her ale towards Faelnon with a sigh. "Have some. Looks like you need it."
* Varadrion sits back in his chair and looks around at the group
* Rue stands and moves to drag Gilth over to the table, pausing to consider taking a drink from the keg.
* Gilth is surprised as the keg rolls of the shelf and falls on top of him. Luckily he drank a bunch, so it is lighter.
* Varadrion wonders in his head what the group has become
* Gilth tries to get his bearings
* Faelnon states without looking up, ‘Caritas has been destroyed. They are all gone.’
* Foilae sits back in his chair and looks skyward, ‘Oh gods... I'm sorry...'
* Rue lets her mouth fall open as she sits in silence.
* Varadrion says softly "Another one"
* Gilth is slightly baffled, so he says nothing
* Faelnon stands up and leaves.
* Rue looks at Faelnon. "Richard?"
* Rue jumps up from her seat and follows him.
* Gilth suddenly realizes what is happening, and bows his head in a prayer
* Rue puts a comforting arm around his shoulder. "It's not our fault, Faelnon. Or yours."
* Foilae says as an explanation, ‘Caritas was his hometown. Ariea's too.'
* Faelnon doesn't reply.
* Rue withdraws her arm and walks beside Faelnon in silence.
* Gilth stands, sober, and draws his sword, "We must avenge their souls, so they may sleep in peace"
* Varadrion mumbles "Or join them"
* Rue shakes her head after a moment. "You know there's nothing we could have done to stop it. We've tried stopping Richard....We crushed him under half of a mountain..."
* Gilth says "Does that mean we do not try?"
* Varadrion looks at Gilth and says "No"
* Faelnon says, 'It wasn't Richard...'
* Varadrion looks up "Then who?"
* Rue blinks in surprise. "What happened?"
* Faelnon says, 'The Dark Army burnt the forest down, anyone who survived was captured and executed.'
* Rue puts a hand over her mouth, eyes wide with shock.
* Varadrion bows his head at the thought of so many dead innocents
* Gilth asks "Are they mortal?"
* Foilae says, 'The Dark Army are.'
* Gilth continues "And the ones who command them..?"
* Rue puts her head in her hands and shakes her head. "What are we supposed to do?" she whimpers, more than a touch of helplessness in her voice.
* Foilae says, 'One of them was, their latest isn't.'
* Varadrion rolls his eyes "Goody"
* Gilth says "Is there any way to kill him?"
* Foilae shrugs.
* Rue sighs. "Like I said, Foilae crushed him under half of a mountain."
* Varadrion looks around "We don't even know where to start, how can we expect to save the world?"
* Rue shakes her head. "And he's still alive."
* Gilth says "Well? Are we going to try? Is there anyone who could help us? Who rules over A'lure?"
* Foilae says, 'Richard isn't their leader.'
* Rue tilts her head. "Didn't he say he was?"
* Foilae says grimly, 'The leader of A'lure *is* a dragon.'
* Varadrion says "We need an army to fight an army"
* Foilae says, 'There is no-one.'
* Gilth says "Exactly. Could we reason with this, er, dragon to extend the elven military to help us?"
* Rue shakes her head. "There's hardly anyone left in this world as it is. So many towns have been decimated..."
* Foilae looks at Gilth incredulously.
* Foilae says, 'You want to ask a dragon to start killing his own side?'
* Varadrion says "Why not?"
* Gilth looks surprised, "The dragon is the leader of the Dark Army?"
* Foilae says, 'The Dark Army is a tool of the Seven. The Seven are dragons, led by the Seventh.’
* Rue places her elbows on the table and rakes a hand through her hair. "I never thought I'd be saying this, but..." she pauses for a moment in thought. "Wouldn't it just be easier to sit back and wait for the End? I know I've yelled at people for saying it before, but with this...I know where they're coming from."
* Foilae says, 'They have managed to become the leaders of every important city. A'lure. Tildruin. Ograkk.'
* Gilth says "Could we go to the dwarves?"
* Varadrion says "So its already ending..."
* Foilae says, 'The dwarves are already dea-' He stops realising that he is talking both about the dwarves of Borwin, and his friends.
* Gilth looks around "Hey! At least we could march to the army and take down as many as we could with us. It’s not over yet"
* Faelnon disappeared while the group were discussing.
* Varadrion looks at Gilth and says "If we did that, it would be quickly"
* Gilth says "I am just saying, there is always something we can do."
* Rue rolls her eyes. "Yeah, that'd work." she mutters, eyes fixated upon the table's surface.
* Foilae says, 'Too quickly. When they attacked my castle, and that was a small number of them, they numbered at least five thousand.'
* Varadrion says "So does anyone have any idea how we can possibly begin to fight back?"
* Foilae says, 'I need time to think.'
* Gilth says "That big of an army...We would have to unite the races of the world under one flag to even begin to even the odds..."
* Gilth realizes what he just said, "Could we...? Do that?"
* Foilae says, 'And that we have no chance.'
* Rue laughs.
* Foilae says, 'I hardly think the dragons have assumed all these positions of power to make world peace.'
* Gilth slumps into a chair
* Foilae says, 'If we amounted any sizeable threat to Richard's plans, he would give up his game and just come and kill us.'
* Varadrion says "We have to make him think he’s winning... when he’s not"
* Foilae says, 'But he is.'
* Varadrion says "Well ya, that’s why its not working yet"
* Foilae launches into his list voice, 'Borwin, Viirnial and Loldar have been destroyed. The orcs have completely disappeared. The gnomes have fled, and those who haven't were killed several months ago. Robert West, leader of Tildruin, is a dragon. Aoen, A'lure leader, is a dragon. They are winning.'
* Rue thinks her head down on the table.
* Gilth says "Even if we did win, there is no one left to populate the world, if I understand what you are saying."
* Foilae says, 'And if we need this list, Thor-' he pauses, forcing himself to say the names, '-Thinn and Totil. Ariea, Milly, Morte, even Dramicus was killed by 'Death'.'
* Foilae says, 'That might be somewhat true. It depends on what the dragons choose to do. We still don't know what the overall point of their plan is.'
* Rue winces at the thought that after all of this chasing of "Ariea" and Shandor that Ariea would actually be dead.
* Gilth continues "Why not just open the gate to hell and let this army and its damned dragons be slaughtered by the hell spawn?"
* Foilae says, 'Because hell won't help us. The dragons are worse than anything hell has.'
* Varadrion remembers Shandor at Ariea's name and says loudly "Where the hell is Shandor in all of this?"
* Foilae says, 'I don't know. He is probably off doing what he feels he has to.'
* Gilth says "Worse than hell? Then the only army that could contend with them is heaven..."
* Foilae says, 'I think we need a break, I suggest we rest for a few hours, come back with a clear mind.'
* Rue nods. "I was just going to head back to the 'train anyways,"
* Foilae nods.
* Gilth ignores Foilae, "If hell is stronger than us, but can't beat the Dragons, what hope do we have?"
* Varadrion says "We don't, but we have to try"
* Rue looks at Gilth rather grumpily. "None. It's a good thing we aren't relying on it."
* Foilae just leaves the table and heads back towards the 'train. His tea cold and untouched.
* Varadrion stands and bows to the group and goes back to the ‘train.
* Rue heads back to the 'train in silence.
* Gilth looks up at Rue talking to him, and asks completely out of the blue "How are those roots working?"
* Gilth follows everyone to the train
* Rue nods, "Pretty well, actually. Do you have any more?"
* Gilth nods, "I could make more. I will be right back, as we are in no apparent rush"
* Rue smiles, "I'll be in my cabin if you need me."
* Gilth walks into the trees again, collecting the roots
<@Narrator> A few hours pass quietly and it soon late afternoon. Faelnon disappeared into the forest two hours ago and has not been seen since.
* Faelnon is sitting at the table the group were at.
* Gilth is now done grinding the roots, and has a fairly good sized bag of the pain killing powder
* Foilae is at the front of the 'train just watching the people of A'lure. He spots Faelnon and goes over.
* Foilae sits quietly beside Faelnon.
* Faelnon hopes that the others "spontaneously decide to find Faelnon".
* Rue is sitting in her cabin, inspecting the bruises on her stomach. She pokes a particularly dark one before realizing that it's from when she was thrown into the furnace.
* Rue spontaneously decides to find Faelnon.
* Varadrion sees Rue and decides to go with her
* Gilth sees Varadrion and decides to go with him
* Rue sees Gilth and...wait...
* Faelnon senses a musical coming this way.
* Foilae watches the group pile around.
* Faelnon looks at everyone in turn before saying, ‘What I say now, I say after a lot of consideration and I wish no argument over it.’
* Varadrion says "This is not going to be good"
* Foilae looks at Faelnon, it is going to be one of *those* speeches.
* Rue listens intently, and quickly decides that whatever it is, she'll probably bicker about it to the death.
* Faelnon continues, ‘We first rallied together to fight a great evil. We had lots of help, we had the full resources of the Wise Elves and now we have nothing. So, quite simply. I’m giving up. This is it, the end of the group. No more.’
* Faelnon remembers ‘Death’’s promise that he would stop the Dark Army if he disbanded the group.
* Faelnon continues, ‘You are free to go your separate ways. Or, if you prefer, I did hear rumours of an ancient treasure south of A’lure...’
* Rue stands up, her chair clattering away from the table. "YOU WHAT?"
* Gilth states, "If the group is done, I am going to fight against the army. One man to ten thousand. Anyone with me? I would rather go down fighting."
* Faelnon says to Gilth, 'Goodbye.'
* Varadrion looks at Faelnon, eyes filled with rage
* Foilae says nothing.
* Gilth bows to each, "It has been pleasant serving with you all..."
* Rue stares at Gilth, nearly as livid as that time in A'lure. She stares at Faelnon with rage in her eyes nodding to Gilth. "Goodbye then, Faelnon." she snarls, turning on her heel and storming towards the 'train to gather her things.
* Faelnon says, 'I'll be selling the 'train come morning, so if anyone has any belongings they want out of it...'
* Gilth starts towards a stable, intent on getting a horse
* Rue is already in the 'train, throwing her things into a bag.
* Varadrion turns and walks out, calling to Gilth and rue
* Gilth turns to Varadrion
* Gilth says "Yes?"
* Faelnon stands up and begins towards his house here.
* Varadrion looks at Gilth "Don't do anything stupid, we can find them after dark, or something, but don't fight an army by yourself"
* Varadrion turns to Faelnon "And what of us who don't make out homes here? Are we to find our own way to our homes, or what’s left of them?
* Gilth says "What other choice is there?"
* Rue stops for a moment, suddenly overcome with emotion. She collapses on her bed in sobs.
* Gilth says "I have no home, so you are on your own in that argument." He turns to gather his things in the train
* Varadrion turns back to Gilth "Find them at night, or in a forest"
* Faelnon turns back to Varadrion.
* Varadrion looks at Faelnon silently
* Gilth shrugs and enters the train, walking to his room, he gathers his few belonging, and picks up the sack of powder.
* Gilth knocks on Rue's door
* Faelnon says, 'Even if they are asleep, how many do you think you will kill before they wake up and kill you?' He shrugs, then says, 'It isn't my problem anymore, do what you want.’
* Varadrion says to Faelnon "And those that we kill, they will be more then the zero you kill waiting for the end to come"
* Varadrion says coldly "If I'm going to hell for all the people I've killed, I'll take as many of them as possible with me" and walks toward the train
* Faelnon says, 'The thing you've forgotten is, the Dark Army were called, they were born with a curse that they could be called, there could be thousands more that haven't been summoned yet.'
* Rue wipes the tears away from her eyes and stands up. "Come in" she calls.
* Faelnon shrugs and continues up the stairs.
* Gilth enters Rue’s room, "Hello, I was thinking you could use this. It will numb your pain, wherever you are going." He sets the pain killing powder on the floor.
* Varadrion turns, and calls out loudly "Coward!"
* Foilae looks about and mumbles, 'Well, this is great.'
* Foilae looks around, 'Richard, if you're listening, come kill me please.'
* Gilth continues, "Good bye"
* Rue pauses. "Wait..."
* Gilth pauses
* Varadrion curses loudly and walks toward his cabin, stopping in front of Rue's, and looking at Rue and Gilth
* Faelnon looks at Varadrion, shrugs again, and continues up the stairs, he, however, turns away from the stairs to his house and heads elsewhere.
* Gilth says "Yes? Is there something you need?"
* Rue thinks for a moment. "I might as well go with you, right? I mean, I have nothing to look forward to. This..." she motions around "was the only thing I had going for me..."
* Varadrion looks at Gilth and says "You are likely to need someone with knowledge of the forests, I am going with you"
* Gilth shrugs, "I believe Varadrion is coming. You are welcome if you wish. It is certain death though."
* Faelnon stands outside Shandor's house. He bows his head and says simply, 'I'm sorry.'
* Gilth smiles at Varadrion, "Thank you my friend."
* Varadrion shrugs "So is staying here and waiting for them to come to us"
* Varadrion bows
* Rue shrugs, "What was this, if not certain death as well? I have nothing to live for." she smirks, making light of her own situation.
* Gilth looks at Rue, "Are you coming?"
* Varadrion looks around "i don't think any of us do, we might as well make the most of the end of our lives"
* Rue nods, putting the powder in her bag. "But I have something to do first..."
* Gilth nods
* Rue walks towards Shandor's house and stops behind Faelnon. She waits for him to sense her there, a stony look on her face.
* Faelnon turns to look at rue.
* Varadrion watches Rue from a distance
* Rue speaks slowly, thoughtfully. "Any respect I had for you, Faelnon, is gone. I thought you to be a fit leader, but I was wrong. I thought you to be a good friend, but the lack of interest you show in the fate of me, Gilth and Varadrion has shown me that you weren't."
* Varadrion looks at Gilth, surprised
* Gilth shrugs, and says to Varadrion, "There is nothing to change his mind. It is over. We will soon be dead and in the warm shelter of the Hall of Heros..."
* Faelnon looks at Rue, and says nothing.
* Faelnon says, 'Is it better that you watch your friends suffer and die? Is it better that you live your life in a non-ending pain?'
* Varadrion says to Gilth "Speak for yourself, I have killed too many, I fear the only warmth I will feel is the burning of Tarkna"
* Gilth says "Have any of those souls been innocent?" he looks at Varadrion.
* Rue shakes her head. "It was the only thing I had, Faelnon. This was what I lived for. If...no, when the End comes, they will suffer and die regardless."
* Varadrion looks at Gilth and says "Not to my knowledge"
* Rue sighs. "But no good-bye from you Faelnon? No well wishes? Nothing? I feel that this is the only good-bye you deserve."
* Gilth says "Then the goddess will protect your soul"
* Faelnon says, 'Maybe you can do this, but I can't.'
* Rue reaches back and slaps Faelnon across the face, and then strides back to Varadrion and Gilth. "Let's go."
* Faelnon says, 'I'm not used to killing people, innocent people. People's fathers, husbands, sons, daughters.'
* Faelnon says, 'I was meant to heal...'
* Varadrion looks back to Faelnon "There are no innocents anymore Faelnon, you only did what you had to"
* Rue turns back around. "Then heal that," she snarls, trying to hide the tears in her eyes.
* Gilth shakes his head and mounts his horse, "May the goddess watch over our souls"
* Varadrion says "Kill or be killed, that’s the only law left in this world, and unless we do something, it will stay that way"
* Rue looks at Varadrion. "We're wasting our breath. Let's go."
* Gilth nudges his horse to start moving forward, "Good bye Faelnon!"
* Varadrion nods to Rue, but looks back at Faelnon one last time, the rage in his eyes replaced by sorrow, before walking to the stable and helping himself to someone else's horse
* Rue slings her bag over her shoulder and briefly looks back at Faelnon. She shakes her head and follows behind Varadrion, taking a horse for herself.
* Varadrion follows Gilth's horse on his own
* Rue rides between the two, head bowed in sorrow.
* Rue turns around one last time to give a fond good-bye wave to Foilae.
* Gilth turns onto the path, starting the long trek to death
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ 'Colm's Getting Beat Up By Kids, So It's Up To Me To Say We're Done' \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
'The Best of the Rest'
What she said:
[10:28] *poofs*
[10:29] *sniffle* Why must the Quest be so EARLY? (it's almost 11 am, I should be sleeping)
What I heard:
‘Quest’ be Earlier.
[10:29] * Ashli is now known as Rue
[10:29] Good God it's a miracle....
[10:29] lol
[10:31] * Rue flounces off to do stuff
[10:31] Hello Rue
[10:31] Oh!
[10:31] Hi!
[10:32] * Rue cancels the flounce-age
[10:32] * Rue is now known as Ashli
[10:32] I really hope that my nick doesn't get taken again...
[10:32] What do you mean?
[10:32] I usually have to join as _Rue because the same person ALWAYS has my nick
[10:33] Oh
[10:33] Last time we checked s/he was in #wal-mart #mexican and #whore
[10:33] which leads us to believe that s/he is a mexican whore who shops at wal-mart
[10:33] :p
[10:33] lol
[10:34] What other explanation could there be?
[10:34] Colm should feel special. I set my alarm so that I could get up in time for the Quest
[10:34] lol
[10:34] Well...s/he could be a wal-mart whore who shops in mexico....
[10:34] heh
[10:34] Yeah, I live around the same time zone as you
[10:34] Its 11:30 here
[10:34] I am so sleepy...
[10:34] School starts in two weeks...I shouldn't be getting up this early yet.
[10:34] I live in California (Vote for Arnold!)
[10:35] Oh
[10:35] I live in Canada
[10:35] But I am not a lumberjack
[10:35] or a mounty
[10:35] lol
[10:35] and I dont live in an igloo
[Well, he just lost all credibility. We all know that there are no other types of Canadians. –Shandor]
[10:35] yep
[10:35] Wanna know something weird?
[10:35] More people live in California than in Canada
[10:35] Sure
[10:35] Yeah i know
[10:35] its sad
[10:36] California could wipe us off the face of the earth
[10:36] And California's like | | and Canada's like | |
[10:36] lol
[10:36] But then again, half of canada is frozen and no one lives there
[10:36] lol
[10:37] I'll be right back. I need cereal to wake me up
[10:37] brb i gotta let my dog in
[10:40] ok, i am back
[10:42] me too
[10:42] Hmmm, where's Colm?
[10:42] * Varadrion has joined #tildruin
[10:42] He's usually here around now. It's eighteen minutes till the Quest
[10:42] Hey! It's Dead-Boy!
[10:42] lol
[10:42] LOl
[10:43] Hey all
[10:43] *snicker*
[10:43] Hello Vara
[10:43] What's up, Vara?
[10:43] Colm had to go to a friends house to use a computer
[10:43] *blink*
[10:43] And he'll be here...?
[10:43] Ooooh, in a completely unrelated matter, I went to Six Flags Marine World yesterday
[10:44] He said he would be here
[10:44] And California may have a screwed up government, may be billions of dollars of debt, but there is something we will ALWAYS kick you ass at: theme parks.
[10:45] Brb, reading logs
[10:45] Yeah canada's theme parks suck ass
[10:45] Wonderland ain't bad
[10:45] We have one good one
[10:45] ok
[10:45] lol
[10:45] We've got Disneyland, Great America, Six Flags Marine World, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Universal Studios, Knotsberry Farms and the list goes on
[10:45] :p
[10:46] Oh well, we are still the best cause Canada is really big!!!!!!!
[10:46] And unpopulated, bwahahaha!
[10:46] but it is big
[10:46] True
[10:46] lol
[10:46] If you picked it up and dropped it on us, you might be able to squish us
[10:46] lol
[10:47] lol
[10:47] Damn russia...if it was only a little bit smaller we would be number one...
[10:47] sniff sniff
[10:47] A lil smaller? lol
[10:47] lmao, a little bit
[10:47] like, 6 million sqaure km, lol
[10:47] "If it were only one-third of its current size..."
[10:48] If it split in half we would be first
[10:48] (which is how many miles? since we refuse to convert to the metric system, mwahahah)
[10:48] Lol, You'd have Rus and then you'd have Sia
[10:49] hahahahaha
[10:49] And Canada would be GOD!
[10:50] Hahahahahahaha damn russians...
[10:50] Lol
[10:50] Ten minutes till Quest and no Colm...
[10:50] hmm
[10:50] *gets worried*
[10:50] he's not on AIM either
[10:52] ok, I'm switching IC so that the wal-mart whoring mexican shopper doesn't tkae my name
[10:52] OK Canada, we have to shoot missles at Colm to wake him up..huh? We sold em? Ok, bullets then! What? We sold them too? Damn, do we have any military equipment we could shoot at Colm? No? Well, I guess we could jump in our battle ship(a canoe) and shoot a bomb at him (a beaver)
[10:52] lmao!!!!!
[10:52] Oh
[10:52] My
[10:52] God
[10:52] They took my nick...
[10:52] *sob*
[10:52] rue is rue@sexy.efnetgirl.org * rue
[10:52] rue on #wal-mart
[10:52] rue using irc.limelight.us Limelight Networks - Phoenix, AZ
[10:52] Rue End of /WHOIS list.
[10:53] * Ashli is now known as _Rue
[10:53] <_Rue> Damnit, damnit, DAMNIT!
[10:53] <_Rue> Grr
[10:53] Ok, Lets go get Rues nick back! Fire the beaver!!!!
[10:53] * _Rue is now known as Beaver
[10:53] * Awnro fires a beaver out of a cannon
[10:53] * Beaver is fired.
[10:53] HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
[10:53] ?me crashes straight into the ground
[10:53] damn
[10:53] This is good fun
[10:53] * Beaver crashes straight into the ground
[10:53] Who needs the Quest?
[10:53] When I can be a beaver?
[10:54] Join in Vara! BE THE CANOE!
[10:54] Pfft, fine
[10:54] * Beaver is now known as Canoe
[10:54] * Canoe watches
[10:54] * Canoe is now known as _Rue
[10:54] <_Rue> *cough*
[10:54] Lol
[10:54] * Awnro is now known as SoldMissl
[10:54] <_Rue> lmao
[10:55] * SoldMissl is now known as Canoe
[10:55] * DrCB has joined #tildruin
[10:55] * _Rue is now known as Beaver
[10:55] lol
[10:55] Hello hello folks and asorted other people
[10:55] * Beaver fires herself at Colm.
[10:55] Ah!
[10:55] * DrCB dives away
[10:55] * Canoe paddles to Colm
[10:55] * Beaver hits the ground...again'
[10:56] hahaha
[10:56] * Canoe is now known as Gilth
[10:56] I think it is better when I don't ask.
[10:56] * Beaver is now known as _Rue
[10:56] Here
[10:56] <_Rue> [10:52] OK Canada, we have to shoot missles at Colm to wake him up..huh? We sold em? Ok, bullets then! What? We sold them too? Damn, do we have any military equipment we could shoot at Colm? No? Well, I guess we could jump in our battle ship(a canoe) and shoot a bomb at him (a beaver)
[10:56] <_Rue> [10:52] lmao!!!!!
[10:56] <_Rue> I got it first, :p
[10:56] Ok Rue got it
[10:57] Right.
[10:57] I think it was still better when I didn't know
[10:57] And I'm just a little late as I was being kindly fed by the nice people in this house hold who certainly aren't above me threatening to disconnect unless I say nice things
[10:57] * _Rue is now known as Beaver
[10:57] * Beaver pries herself out of the ground and shakes the dirt off
[10:58] What session is this?
[10:58] * DrCB thinks.
[10:58] * Beaver fires herself at Colm again.
[10:58] * Beaver is now known as _Rue
[10:58] Oh...
[10:58] Crap...
[10:58] ... I *didn't* bring the wrong session plan.
[10:58] Damnation.
[10:58] <_Rue> The one after the one where we are horribly disfigured
[10:58] <_Rue> you are a 'tard
[10:58] * _Rue beats Colm up with Teh Wooden Spoon of DeathTM.
[10:59] <_Rue> But you know what happens, I'm assuming
[10:59] For that, we don't start until later!
[11:00] * Gilth fires a beaver(which is actually Rue, So I am shoot Rue at herself) at Rue
[11:00] Lol, Colm, you fool
[11:00] I do, because I'm looking at the plan right now O_o
[11:00] ... I *didn't* bring the wrong session plan.
[11:00] * _Rue is shot at herself, which defies the laws of physics, causing the fiber of space-time to tear and create a massive black hole
[11:00] Didn't = Did not.
[11:01] Okay... what am I doing?
[11:01] * Gilth is sucked into the black hole and comes into a very alternate dimension where Canada is a superpower
[11:01] Wow, who would know?
[11:01] lol
[11:01] Now that's just stupid, Gilth
[11:01] <_Rue> lol
[11:01] hahaha
[11:01] <_Rue> That is so unrealistic
[11:01] We all know that no alternate dimension as that much power
[11:01] Lol
[11:02] poor canada
[11:02] * DrCB kicks Canada when it is down. As if it was ever up.
[11:02] lol
[11:02] At least we are not France lol
[11:02] Right, listen up assorted pigmy’s
[11:02] <_Rue> True!
[11:02] well, actually half of us are...
[11:02] Good come back!
[11:02] * _Rue listens down.
[11:03] Ok
[11:03] Rue knows her damnage from 'Endgame'
[11:03] Vara, remember yours?
[11:03] Sword in stomach
[11:03] <_Rue> Ouch
[11:03] And Gilth... er... Richard bitchslapped you about and you have general big cuts and bruises
[11:03] And...?
[11:03] Ok
[11:03] Your little magic trinket got busted
[11:03] <_Rue> LOL, mine? I got bashed into a wall, thrown into a furnace and blasted through a wall
[11:03] Ya, well... part of sword ins tomach
[11:03] <_Rue> Nothing big.
[11:04] It's a shame I don't have the 'Endgame' plans with me, I could've posted your exact part
[11:04] lol
[11:04] Well, that's true, but it ain't of much use now.
[11:04] What little magic trinket?
[11:04] I get stabbed, god-boy gets general cuts and bruises
[11:04] His magic sword.
[11:04] oh
[11:04] <_Rue> My part was everyone else's part mashed into one.
[11:04] <_Rue> Grr
[11:04] God boy? lol
[11:04] Gilth got his magic sword smashed
[11:04] You didn't get stabbed
[11:04] lol
[11:04] Oh yeah
[11:04] great defense
[11:04] I need a new sword
[11:04] she got her head bashed against a wall until it fractured
[11:05] smacked into a furnace
[11:05] <_Rue> I prefer hurtled
[11:05] Too bad her head didn't fracture :P
[11:05] and flung through a wall off the 'train onto rough, rocket ground.
[11:05] Hmm
[11:05] now that I think about it...
[11:05] <_Rue> lol
[11:05] the fragment of that sword didn't stab his stomach so much as slice his throat.
[11:05] <_Rue> Oh well, let's start
[11:05] And we stood around and laughed 'cause he sucks.
[11:05] Bite me
[11:05] Does it look like I'm finished insulting?
[11:05] ... yes. Yes I am.
[11:06] We'll begin.
[11:06] * _Rue bites Varadrion
[11:06] Oh.
[11:06] I probably need two IRCs...
[11:06] 10 minute delay!
[11:06] <_Rue> lmao
[11:06] <_Rue> I feel your pain
[11:06] <_Rue> Feel the wrath of SHITTY MCCRASHY!
[11:06] Lol
[11:06] Sounds Scottish
[11:06] * Sqiggly has joined #tildruin
[11:06] <_Rue> Shitty McCrashy being the name of my "brand new" computer in my room.
[11:07] Stone men had better computers
[11:07] <_Rue> Brand new meaning got it for free from my great-grandma's friend
[11:07] Anyway, besides the point
[11:07] Lucky you Rue
[11:07] <_Rue> wait, there's more
[11:07] <_Rue> Free meaning it was too slow to sell for any money whatsoever
[11:07] I have a r0><0r computer in my own room that I bring with me anywhere.
[11:07] <_Rue> Slow meaning Windows 95, 16 Mb of RAM and less than 2 Gb of space
[11:07] Oh, sorry, the Pity Parade was continuing.
[11:08] <_Rue> This whole situation meaning a very unhappy Ashli
[11:08] <_Rue> Now we can start
[11:08] Lmao
[11:08] <_Rue> lol
[11:08] Oh
[11:08] by the way
[11:08] I have a new reason to hate all Americans (not you, Ashli), and Canadians who sound like Americans.
[11:08] Whys that eh?
[11:08] lol
[11:08] <_Rue> Damn right not me. Everyone loves me! *grin*
[11:09] Well, I don't sound like an amarican, so i am happy
[11:09] I don't love you :P
[11:09] <_Rue> You sound Canadian, wot wot?
[11:09] We were in a restaurant last night, and suddenly we hear a banshee screaming. No, just 4 Americans, who are around 'til the 21st. I'm avoiding that entire bloody town until they are gone.
[11:09] <_Rue> Wait, that's English
[11:09] I mean, people bitch about being stalked
[11:09] <_Rue> Yes you do, Vara.
[11:09] <_Rue> You do, or you get kicked.
[11:09] Do not
[11:09] <_Rue> :p
[11:09] all the stalker needs to do is be within 10 miles and they hear their life story at full volume
[11:09] * _Rue: you're not channel operator
[11:10] <_Rue> lol
[11:10] 'OOOOH MAAAAH GOOOD, THAT'S SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11'
[11:10] <_Rue> that sound like me and my friends.
[11:10] <_Rue> Except...more lewd (what, me? lewd? who'da thunk?)
[11:10] Lol... everyone
[11:10] <_Rue> Let's start
[11:11] Their voice burns my soul still...
[11:11] and they went to my favourite curryhouse 'THIS is SSSSSSSOOOOOOOOO great! We'll come back here tomorrow!.' Me: 'Fuck, there's another restaurant I can't go to.'
[11:11] Oh, right, I'm meant to be 'role-playing'
[11:11] <_Rue> lol
[11:11] Lol... Colm, do we look like psychiatrists? We don't care :)
[11:12] OOC: WOW VARADRION, that was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
ooc - Rue's mad at you Colm. lol
ooc - She'll get back at you one day, though. "Thrown through A WALL???"
OOC: Ooooh, I'm so scared... Pfft. I have Irish people on my side.
OOc: Varadrion's been thrown through at least walls.
ooc - LOL, what are they gonna do? Hurtle beer cans?
ooc: Once by a dragon
ooc: Wait, twice
OCO: Hell yeah Rue!
ooc - But no one cares about you! :P
ooc: I think its HURL beer cans, lol
* Varadrion opens the door and walks in slowly, asking the obvious, "How are you feeling?"
OOC: Oh just dandy, lucky there was a hollow in my head to soak up most of the damage...
ooc - lmao
* Varadrion looks at Foilae and nods
ooc: Still pissed about the whole "dream of death" thing
OOC: Oh sniff sniff, bitch.
ooc: I'll break the rest of his barely functioning body :P
ooc - I was gonna add a Michael Jackson comment about Faelnon's hand.
OOC: Well, I blame the fact I'm on a different computer, last Faelnon IC line was Foilae’s.
ooc - OK, just fix it in the logs :p
OOC: Oh yeah, well.. fix this!
* buemchen sets mode: +o Faelnon
OOC: Hey, that worked!
OOC: I mean, damn straight. For I am op!
[Well, apart from Faelnon having godly op-getting powah, can we all notice how mean Varadrion is to crippled people? I mean, this is the type of guy who’ll see a granny going along the street, and trying to cross a busy road. So what would he do? Batter her knees in probably. –Shandor]
* Faelnon sets mode: +vv Gilth Varadrion
* Faelnon sets mode: +m
ooc - Ah...teh powah...
OOC Me and Vara arn't good enough for ops?
OOC: Hell no, lick my boots.
OOC lol
OOC: Less laughing, more licking.
ooc - Porno Colm!
OOC: Now you are just being dir- OH I GET IT!
OOC: Ha! You can't mock cripples now, can you Rue?
OOC: Or should I say: Cripple Rue!
* Rue gets up and walks, free of bruises. "HAH!"
ooc - damn
ooc - Oh yeah? Well I have a fully functioning spinal column!
ooc: Ha!
OOC: um... Mentally Crippled Rue!