9/15/2001 Steven, K'shrik, and Tzekia came running out of the T'skrang caer, shouting "TAKE COVER" =spear "Arrow of Mountain Giants =harp that had various elemental strings (all broken) =fern-dask? (watered properly, becomes mystic armor) Matrix: Pyromaniac, Instant Wall There's a tree with a staff over there. Wait, it's a troll. Tzekia tried to cast something, and Thwack hit her. I started to cast a spell, but Thwak hit me. We argued for a moment, but I am... not feeling well... (death check) I think I'll lie down now. Thwak and I were talking still, while I was lying down, and argue a lot. I took a look at the caer from the top using " We go back into the now-broken caer, towards the "marketplace" where the automotons are still going about their business, some with the pieces of the broken building embedded in them. The gambling and soccer are still going on, the "soccer" ball is a dwarven head. There is a room full of bodies, 4 ft deep or so, with the topmost bodies being less than a day old. Some of them look like adventurers, not tskrang... That is not a good sign There is a room with the We went to the building with the trapped fire elemental. Tzekia and I went to look at the The first floor is a magical scriptorium of some sort with magical things to copy books. On the second floor, there is a door to the back, and behind it there are undead t'skrang and undead other folks who are fighting such that any blows that land land where there is already a wound. They have shiny armor and swords, with three adepts... On the rest of the floor, there are random, stripped labs--the magical equiptment is all gone, but there are pieces of true elements here, and mundane bits of an alchemy lab as well. As we head up the stairs, there is flickering light that resolves to be a 4 ft tall being of fire in a 6 ft globe of glass on a pedestal. Elemental Lord--run away, or be very nice. Sentient--about people-intelligence, not namegiver Popcorn--what we create I'll try coming back in a few days once I can summon a small elemental. We head down the stairs and to the the Nethermancer place. We can't get in, and we don't want to try to force it, so we all go outside and meditate/etc before working again. We head into the caer again, and Thwak and Tristian pull the dead troll out of the mausoleum, as well as whatever they think is useful. Tristian built a pyre, (and lit it with a rock and metal--how strange!) and Steven and I took notes. Then Steven cleaned all the clothes and armor, and T'zekia inventories all the potions. Healing Kit (tm) 6 booster, 2 heal, 6 cure disease, 1 last chance Pair if elf-sized gloves with no stitches, stick material grey, pair of hawk-hatchets, Spears (broken), 3 cheap short/3 cheap broad 3 reg short/3 reg broad swords, studded leather, bucklers and small shieldsThere are also little pouches of metal bars on the adventurers We take all this outside, and plan for how to take out the fighting people. they have paired daggars, one black, one white. The archers aim at the fighters, and Thwak blew the head off of the tskrang with an arrow. One human had it's head caved in, then another, but they started running toward the two archers. Two swords flew into the room (moving alone) but Tristain put the shield in the way, and caught them. They took out the rest of the attackers, and managed to get the swords under control (though they were fighting) until they could get them into their scabbards, at which point they were still. I picked up the black and white longknives. Tristain asked me to put them in the box, but I realized there are needles that will stick me if I let go. Of course, I can't *tell* anyone this, since there are daggars in both my hands. I tried to gesture (knives in hands) to convey this, but it didn't really work, and they went off. I was booted from my body into heavily-tainted astral space. Wow, I'm getting tainted here. A LOT. The horror is here--it's not really malevolent, but it's a horror. It offered to help me get back into my body, and showed me how. This let me essentially posess myself, with the horror's help. When I am posessing myself, I can talk, a little, by moving my lungs and diaphragm and vocal cords. It's a good thing, too, since I don't know if my writing would be very good this way. I told them "horror" "leave" "ow" and started walking to the door. I get outside, and they notice that the horror has it's tenticle in me. That's no good. I ask it to let go, and pop out of my body. "Oh. I can't do it alone" . Joan is astrally percieving and talks to me. I can't talk to her here since I can't talk, and I can't write in astral space, but I gesture to convey to her that the horror was helping connect me to my body, and I'm not sure if I can get back in without it. Then, the horror tentacle taps Joan on the shoulder, and she jumps back to normalspace. I turn around to talk to the horror. It offers to help me back into my body, and looks confusedly at me when I don't want its help. It is offended when I try to get it to go away, but does seem to go. I try to apologise, but I don't think it worked. I can't believe I'm trying to talk to a horror. I can't believe I'm trying to not offend a horror! Joan and Maura take my body off away from the caer (and I follow it). I explain to them that I don't think it's good for me to try to be in my body this way, and pop back into astral. I'm getting tainted, a lot, every time I do this. What did I expect when I listened to a horror??? "That lucky stiff" --Jesse about the undead T'skrang who is failing to fall over in combat with Thwak "You realize, as you splatter the flying T'skrang, that this is the wrong team" -Brian "You Bastard!" --Tommy and Andy to each other "Do you want this T'skrang normal or extra-crispy" -Andy "Take out the forwards and the goalies. Save the head for questioning" -Brian, on the soccer field Joan came back and talked to me. I spent a long time gesturing to her, and managed to explain to her that I was very tainted, that going into and out of my body made me more tainted when I did it in the way that the horror taught me. We managed to communicate that we should go either to the village nearby or back to Rag Vorn to get help with getting me back into my body in a good way. She's going to check in with me every hour or so. I have 12 Taint from going in and out of my body Then, I gain one more =(