The Quest for the Crystal

[Wormtail_]

Rantal said, \"I agree with Tegdaen. Lets split up the tria and stones. Twenty tria each, as he said earlier, and five stones, too. Once each of us gets our share, lets head for the doors and open them.\" Rantal went to Aruneko, politely grabbed 20 tria and five stones, put the tria in his money bag and stones in a hidden pocket, and headed towards the Bronze Doors.

[Wormtail_]

EDIT: Bah, double post..

[Keldorn]

/ooc: is it just me or are you all having a deja-vu when reading wormtails second post?

Keldorn took the 20 tria and 5 stones. He tucked them neatly in a small bag.
He then walked to the direction of Rantal who was heading towards the bronze Doors.

[Silverblade]

Tegdaen had all his things ready, and began to walk over to the gates, where a couple of others were already waiting.

On the way, he recieved 20 triangular coins and 5 stones from Aruneko.

[Link]

King Link III, then demanded of everyone, their cheese and pie.

[Aruneko]

Instead of giving King Link all his cheese and pie, Aruneko decided to draw out his weapons and fill King Link full of arrows, yelling, \"Death to the spammers and hypocrites!  Long live roleplaying!\"

Just had to do that.

[Wormtail_]

Rantal suddenly turned into a powerful old mage, capabable of doing anything. He casted a spell, and with a BANG, King Link III suddenly dissappeared. Aruneko recieved all his arrows, and then everybody\'s mind went blank. After that, nobody had any memory of King Link III and anything about cheese or pie. Rantal turned back into his own young mage self.

Rantal walked to the Bronze Doors. He reached them, and turned around to ask the others for help open them.

OOC: As I am the GM, I am capable of removing any unregistered players. By \'unregistered\' I mean that you must have my permission to participate in this thread. I thnk I\'ll put this on my rules...

[Xolon]

Standing at the bronze doors he sees Tegdean comming his way. \"Let\'s wait till were all back at these doors.\", Xolon said against Tegdean. \"when were all here we enter the labyrinths together.\"

-Xolon-

[Fiere]

The unnatural near silence in the stone cavern set Fiere\'s nerves on edge. The rhythm of the water falling from the stone ceiling was a grating disparity in the lifeless space. She peered keenly through the darkness from her uncomfortable perch on a narrow ledge near the southern entrance to the cavern. The stench of aberrant majicks still permeated the dank air. Nothing moved save the endless condensation of the water and the passage of time.
She crept forward looking for some visible sign of whoever had left the strange scent of foreign incantations in the rocky chamber. Nothing caught her cautious gaze but the feeling that something had left an indelible mark on the very stone walls persisted. She dropped from the shelf and moved out into the open.

Two weeks had passed. Two weeks since the crystal fell dark and the city grew cold. She hadn?t stolen a handful of tria?s in as much time, there was no one risking the streets of Yliakum after the attack. No one knew what had happened to the city?s lifeblood but rumors were rampant. More than once she had heard accusations against her own kind, the Diaboli were not a trusted people. The truth was still hidden.

She pondered the recent cataclysmic events as she continued to search for some sign left by the intruders. Whatever creatures had inhabited this section of the tunnels outside of Yliakum had fled further out into the labyrinth. Fiere stopped in the center of the cavern by a large stalagmite. She looked carefully at the rock but there was no sign of damage.

Sighing in disgust she turned back towards the city. Perhaps The Princess Aelya would have some knowledge to impart. It was about time she apologized to her anyway. Fiere knew better than to stay too long out of the Princess?s good graces. Still discontent with her lack of findings she walked swiftly to the entrance leading back the bronze doors of Yliakum.  

[Pheonix]

Pheonix was resting in a place where he was most comfortable in a tree with his back against the tree trunk legs hanging on either side of the branch...His bow easily within reach and his quiver as always on his hip.
Adjusting his sword a bit for comfort he began wondering about the darkness. What coudlve happened to the crystal
He thought grimly.
His ears tiwtched involuntarily as he picked up on the sound of flapping wings in the distance.
People in this area was a rare sight as not many people ventured outside the great bronze doors and the was nothing of interest in the imediate area.
Quickly he gathered his bow and leapt to the gournd landing softly with almost no noise, although he was disapointed in himself for rustling a few leave...sloppy  He muttered softly.
He ran swiftly and silently toward the sound of the flapping wings.

Suddenly the quiet was disruppted by the sound of metal on metal.  He began grinning as he ran toward the noise.

He was now in eyeshot of the great doors though not out of the woodline, in a small clearing he observed the fighting. A scraggly looking bunch surrounding two people who appeared to be knights.
He climbed a tree quickly and began looking for the source of the flapping sounds he heard earlier.

He watched as one of the great creatures dove from the sky toward the the fighting......... the creature wa bearing a dwarf of all things, he sniffed audibly and continued watching the scene unfold before him.

He took note of the dwarves and the Elven archer and the Lemur mage whos power he could not judge as he was not that powerful in magic but he could sense the abillity within him as he could in the afforementioned archer.

He watched as one of the knights ran off in utter cowardice he did not like cowards.

He also saw the part quickly dispatch of the brigands with the exception of one who ran , being chased by a dwarf.

He took up the bringand in his own as the dwarf gave up after a short distance. He knocked an arrow in his bowstring and let it fly, the arrow flew between tree branches and trunks only to land in the center of the thugs neck needless to say the man collapsed dying quickly.

Noticing the adventurers dividing up loot her jumped from his tree and ran to where the mand dead body lay rumaging through hs pockets turned up lots of junk but the only thing that he found that would be of use to him was 3 throwing knives tucked carefully up the mans sleeves these he put in his belt.

He ran quickly back to the tree he had been in before to observe the men, now they appeared to be heading toward the great doors.

Better follow them to keep them alive a knight an archer and a mage arent much for combating hordes of monsters, besides maybe I will figure out how to turn the light of the crystal back on...not that the dark bothers me   he thought purposely ignoring the dwarves whom he considered all but worthless.

As they headed toward the door he waited sitting comortably in his tree though he was going to make sure the fools didnt get themselves killed it didnt mean that they had to know he was there...... at least not yet

[Aruneko]

Aruneko was getting finished with his after-battle chores.  He gathered up his pack and gathered any arrows that could be useful.  He found 2, both arrows he had missed with.

After completing these tasks, he called for Keldorn to follow and walked to the Bronze Doors.  He found Tegdaen, Xolon, and Rantal waiting there for him.

[Silverblade]

Tegdaen looked around, he saw Aruneko, Keldorn, Xolon and Rantal.

Well, everyone seems to be ready. Now how do we open these bloody great doors?

Tegdaen turned around and began inspecting the doors, pretending to know what to look for.

Rantal, why don\'t you wave that stick of your\'s and see if it does anything.

[Wormtail_]

Rantal looked around and saw everybody near him. Tegdaen looked around the doors, seemingly looking for something, yet not finding it. He then asked Rantal, \"Rantal, why don\'t you wave that stick of your\'s and see if it does anything.\" Rantal said, \"I suppose doing that is as good as doing anything else...\" Rantal then put the head of his staff on the Bronze Doors. Suddenly, two bronze doorknobs appeared on the middle of the Doors in a flash of white light, causing Rantal to drop his staff in surprise. He picked his staff up, tried to open the doors, failed, and asked everybody else,\"Who wants to open the Doors?\"

[Silverblade]

Tegdaen walked fearlessly up to the doors, took one look, then walked away, with his eyes on the ground.

He could not reach the door knobs.

[Fiere]

Fiere froze and in her path and swiftly flattened herself against the tunnel wall. Far down the stone corridor she could see a shift in the structure of the bronze doors.

Someone had set off the correct sequence to open the doors. She held her breath and noiselessly drew her weapons.

Her attention was suddenly drawn away from the city entrance. Something had followed her from the caverns.