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Scene twenty-two
~Clicky, copy, paste. Rome wasn't built in a day~
Moogie runs as fast as her Fenki legs can takes her, the others close behind...some of them actually watching where they are going instead of Moogie's...
Moogie, panting- "HEY! Eyes on the road, ya bloody gits!"
Kwartz- "Damn, that dame's got eyes in the back of her head."
Or she just reads what everyone else is doing, like the nooblins catching up due to exploiting a speed bug.
Moogie- "Carpfish! Where do we go?"
A voice whispers in Moogie's ear, though not seeming to come from anywhere.
Voice- "Turn right. Trust me."
There is an alley to the right, which Moogie skids into. The others follow. At the end, the alley splits.
Voice- "Turn left. Trust me."
Moogie turns left at a full run, using the wall to aid her turn. The others follow, though Kwartz takes a chunk of the wall with him, being of the not so graceful type. A street opens up ahead.
Voice- "Straight across. Trust me."
Moogie runs straight across. The others follow. A few pebbles from the broken wall fall from Kwartz shoulders onto Leonor's empty palm, which he had been staring at this entire time.
Moogie, puffing- "That *puff* must take *puff* talent..."
Leonor- "Yay!"
The heroes race into the next alley and turn the only corner, the nooblins' "OMGZORZs", "WOOTs", and uber l337 fade behind them as they try to figure out how to turn corners.
Voice, urgently- "Turn right! NOW!"
Moogie, startled, turns right...and runs headfirst into a wall. The others follow.
Voice, laughing and no longer in Moogie's ear- "As bad as the nooblins, and about as smart."
Moogie extracts herself from the twitching pile of Kran and Enki to see Phinehas sitting on a barrel a few steps away, chuckling to himself.
Moogie, rubbing her nose angrily- "Phinehas! You jerk! You said I could trust you."
Phinehas- "Did I now? How many times?"
Moogie, irritated- "What does that matter?"
Phinehas- "It seems I must enlighten you to the folly of your thinking. You see, I spoke four times, whereas I only said the words 'trust me' thrice. Therefore, you had no right trusting me on the fourth instance. It was rude of you to infer any different."
Moogie, flabbergasted- "So it was my fault?!"
Phinehas, nodding as if to a slow pupil- "Precisely. Now let us continue on this ridiculous quest of yours before those nooblins learn which key turns right."
Phinehas slides off the barrel, grimacing slightly, and begins shuffling towards the end of the alley. Kwartz and Leonor dust themselves off.
Kwartz- "We gunna trust him Moogs?"
Phinehas- "You will if you want to get through Nooblin City with out a trip to the Deathrealm. Trust me."
Moogie- "Fine, whatever. Just get us out of here without anymore trouble."
Kwartz- "Lead on, gramps."
Phinehas grumbles, but continues shuffling towards the end of the alley.
Thirty-seven minutes latter...
Phinehas is still grumbling...and still shuffling towards the end of the alley. Kwartz just finished polishing his great sax, Leonor named all his new pebbles and is now sorting them alphabetically by shape, and Moogie wakes up from the nap she had been taking.
Moogie- "How far now?"
Leonor- "Metric, standard, or as the snail crawls?"
Moogie- "That's it. Kwartz, carry him."
Kwartz obeys, ignoring the indignant squawk of Phinehas as he is piggybacked on one of the Kran's massive shoulders.
Moogie- "Off we are then. Which way?"
Phinehas grumbles but points past an oddly familiar building.
Leonor- "Isn't that Kada'El's Tavern? What gives?"
Moogie- "Ya, it is. Aren't we in... where's Val?"
Phinehas- "That is a tavern, right?"
Moogie, slowly- "Yeeees."
Phinehas- "And he is a dwarf, right?"
Moogie- "Yeeees. What is your...oh crap. We have to get in there right now, damnit!"
The world disappears in a poof of smoke. As it clears, our heroes find themselves standing in the center of the oh so familiar Kada'El's Tavern. Well, most of them find themselves standing. Phinehas, being situated on Kwartz's shoulder, finds his head stuck through the ceiling.
Moogie- "Oh my god! Phinehas! Are you ok?"
Muted voice through the floor- "Not again. At least there is no dripping this time."
Valbrandr- "Moughisd! Coomsh heff ah drang if meh!"
Man behind the bar- "Welcome to Lordbug's Magic Mug, where the drinks are free at a reasonable price!"
Moogie- "Lordbug? Why didn't any GM change your name by now? Isn't this Kada'El's, not the Magic Mug? And how many did he have?"
Lordbug- "To answer your second query first, this is indeed the Magic Mug. It looks like...that other tavern because Xordan was too lazy to actually make his own city, so he just copied all the maps and meshes, and renamed them. He also made Xordan's Temple a lovely pink."
Kwartz- "Hey soda jerk, don't you mean Lan...?"
Lordbug, eyes going wide- "Shhhh!
Xordan?s Temple..." His eyes go warily to the mugs hanging on the wall as he continues in a whisper. "They can hear you. You don't want to make them angry. They never sleep. Never, never, never, never..."
Moogie- "Oooookay. We'll be leaving now, come on Val."
Valbrandr- "Awwwwwwsh Murgah, jesh on mooe?"
Man at the end of the bar- "Another round for everyone, on me. Every time someone takes a drink, Talad kills a nooblin. Think of the nooblins."
Lordbug- "That's the spirit, Robin!"
Robinmagus- "I told you not to call me..."
Whatever he was about to say is cut short by a great battle cry from outside the tavern.
Great battle cry- "HOWS DO U OPEN DOORS? KTNX. OH SOORY CAPS LOK."
Robinmagus- "Talad save us! The nooblins finally found the tavern. Someone must have drawn them a map."
Lordbug- "Who would...." spots the end of a pencil sticking out of one of the mugs. "YOU! You little traitors! I'll cut your freaking handles off!"
We leave this scene to the sound of breaking pottery and the sight of Phinehas dangling from the ceiling in the best impression of a Lemur chandelier anyone has ever seen. There should be awards for that.