The Quest for the Crystal

[Wormtail_]

Rantal sighed when his spell had no apparent effect on the mimic. Usually, when spells entered people\'s mouths, they usually show some sign of effects. Rantal then watched Aruneko attempt to chop up the mimic, but only succeed in losing his sword. Then, a flaming arrow suddenly hit the mimic, severely damaging it, and burning it, too. Of course, there was the problem of the horrid stench coming out, but Rantal was tired of facing the same mimic for... well, a long time. Then, another thing came flying out, sprayed itself on the mimic, and then the mimic could be counted as dead. Rantal whirled around and spotted a Klyros and Demorian, the Elf leaning on his bow and Klyros hopping into the shadows very quickly, so Rantal wasn\'t too sure whether the Klyros was actually there or not. \"... And fire is another way you can kill mimics,\" Rantal said. Rantal decided to start questioning the Elf and Diaboli. \"Well then, may I ask who you two are and why you are here?\"

[Keldorn]

Keldorn had watched the battle unfold, and when he thought about it there was little else he could have done.
He didn\'t want to risk losing his sword after he saw what had happened to Aruneko\'s sword.

Keldorn looked at the strangers, a diaboli and an elf by the looks of them. He saw Tagdaen asking the diaboli a question. She ignored him and walked away. Then Rantal asked the same question. When it was still not answered Keldorn had enough of it. He walked to the diaboli till he was right behind her and said; \"If someone asks you a question the polite thing to do is give him an answer. To say nothing could be taken the wrong way, though of course i am sure your intentions are nothing quite so hostile .... am i correct?\"
Keldorn\'s eyes narrowed, something inside him told him that she couldn\'t be trusted. He hoped he was wrong.

[Fiere]

Fiere turned slowly towards the Ylian and tilted her head to the side as she smiled into his eyes. She reached up and twirled her finger in a lock of his snow white hair.

\"No need to be so upset now.\" she cajoled \"My business is my own, I certainly haven\'t demanded an explaination of your presence here.\"

See the Ylian\'s face harden like the stone walls of the cavern Fiere spoke again,
\" Well then if your so curious to know I was observing the extended effects of the attack on the city. Its a good thing I wasn\'t making much progress or your party\'s grand entrance surely would have thrown me off.\" she looked into his eyes as she spoke, peering into his displeased countanance.

\"Ah then, in the interest of being polite, my name is Fiere.\" she held out her hand as she introduced herself at last \" And who might you all be?\"

[Keldorn]

Keldorn looked down to Fiere\'s stretched out hand. He looked back into Fiere\'s eyes, which were glowing with delight. Her smile was hiding something, he was sure of it. He somewhat reluctantly took her hand in his. His face became a bit more friendlier. \"My name is Keldorn and we are fellow adventurers. We are bound together on a quest to investigate the recent occurances(sp?) regarding to the crystal, which i am sure you are well aware of.\"

\"Now, we will most likely not succeed on our own, any help would be welcome.\" Keldorn tried to be as friendly as possible. He understood that the party needed more help. His personal feelings were of lesser importance right now.
\"M\'lady\" Keldorn nodded his head and turned away. If she wanted to join she could say so now. He glanced at the other stranger. \"That goes for you as well.\"

[Aruneko]

Suddenly a yell was heard from behind them, and they spun round just in time to see Aruneko\'s head disappear into the ground.  The party soon saw he had fallen into some kind of small hole, and it looked deep.  A few moments later a rumbling was heard far down the tunnel, and it sounded as if rocks had come tumbling down.  After a few moments the sounds died away.  No noises were heard from Aruneko.

[Pheonix]

A trusting bunch we have here today......and a foolish one, calling out into the caverns attract all types of attention....wanted , Pheonix said glancing in Fieres direction on the last part, and unwanted
he said with his gaze sweeping over the dwarves.

But as it stands my current intrests might lie with your party  He said once agan glancing at Fiere.

[FyreBlade]

as Fyre crouched in the shadows, the diaboli began to approach. damn, i have been sloppy today. spotted twice once by an elf and once by a diaboli, i must be getting old. maybe she hasn\'t seen me. please let her pass me by. pass me by. pass me by nevertheless, Fyre drew two switchblades, and hid them in his hands, leaving them closed. as the diaboli was about to reach him, she suddenly turned around and began talking to the ylian who had been calling to her several seconds ago. as the party began to introduce themselves, they all apparently forgot about the klyros crouching in the shadows and listening to their conversation. phaugh! a bunch of naive adventurers, trusting everyone they meet. i used to be like that, until... suddenly Fyre\'s dark musings were interupted by a sudden yell, as the first dermorian, not the one with the longbow, plunged into a hole in the ground. Fyre considered following, but it was not worth it. he would be revealed to too many people. as he held himself back, he whispered a good luck incantation to the dermorian. after hearing the diaboli state the party\'s intent, Fyre made his decision. I\'ll follow from the shadows, aiding and protecting them when i can. i\'ll only join when i have to. for if i do, i will have to work with them. and that leads to trust. trust leads to friendship. friendship leads to betrayal...

[Wormtail_]

Rantal introduced himself. \"Greetings. I am the mage Rantal, and like Keldorn said, we are going to try to help the people of Ylikulam by attempting to save the Crystal.\" Rantal then faced the Demorian archer who was not Aruneko. Rantal asked, \"And who might you be? We still have to thank you for trying to kill the mimic, even though you didn\'t succeed.\" Suddenly, Aruneko yelled. Rantal turned around to face Aruneko, but the Elf was gone. In his place was a gaping hole. Rantal started towards it, but several rocks rolled down and blocked the way. Rantal sighed mournfully. \"Great, an archer who was helping us is lost...\" Rantal tried to move some of the rocks with his staff, to no avail. Sighing once more, Rantal remembered the Klyros that might have been his imagination. He began a series of useless arguments inside his head, and sat on a rock, recovering energy.

[Fiere]

Fiere laughed lightly at the petite Lemur as he babbled to himself.
\"Poor thing\" she thought to herself \"He doesnt seem to know which way is up!\" She looked over to the diminutive mage as he sat and pondered their predicament.

Abruptly she turned back towards the remains of the mimic. She looked back at the lemur and scrunched up her delicate features as she tried to remember who she had been speaking too. There had been a klyros examining the remains, hadn\'t there?

Fiere quickly regathered her thoughts and turned her smile upon Pheonix once more.
\"Well I suppose if the lot of you have chosen to investigate this incident I\'ll tag along and offer my help.\"
Her lazy grin deepened as she gazed at the Demorian. \"I can tell you that the mages who attacked Yliakum have left a trail of their foul magicks, even that mimic was adversely affected. \"

Her featured clouded over again, somone amongst them had already begun to investigate just that, where had he gone?

[Pheonix]

Pheonix still being tired from his spell managed to keep himself from swaying, When the Lemur of the group addressed him stating

\"And who might you be? We still have to thank you for trying to kill the mimic, even though you didn\'t succeed.\"

Just as Pheonix opening his mouth to reply a yell drew his attention, in the area where the yell eminated there was a hole, as suddenly as the hole had formed large boulders fell on top of the hole blocking the way.

The small Lemur utily attempted to move the massive blockade. After a while he sat down and gave up.

The unamed dioboli laughd delicately the laughter was musical in nature and suprisingly pleasant.
She turned to examine the remains of the mimic, before turning back to him with a smile on her face, a warm smile that seemed to cloud his thoughts as much as the laughter and even the scent of her did......... Standing upright again Pheonix smiled back slightly.......he did not like not being in control of himself and something about this diaboli caused him to drop his guard quite a bit.

He slowly ran his fingers through his hair, and with great effort focused his thoughts, the elf of their party had just been lost, two dwarves, a Lemur mage, a Klyros somewhere out there in the darkness following.....he had unfinished business with that one, and a Swordsman... Looking over the party slowly purposely avoiding looking in the Diobolis direction he wondered if they even had a prayer of doing as they intended.

When a voice that was wonderous music to his ears said \"Well I suppose if the lot of you have chosen to investigate this incident I\'ll tag along and offer my help.\"
His thoughts turned back to her and his mind was clouded once more.

A few moments later he seemed to recall saying \"If she is with you then I am as well.\"

Shaking his head he sat on a rock and began sharpening his belt knife.

[Silverblade]

Tegdaen did not like the way this new dermorian looked at him and xolon. Must have some sort of quarrel with dwarves. Well if he has a quarrel with me, then I have a quarrell with him, Tegdaen thought to himself.

The diaboli was no better. Teg could tell that she would only be a distraction to the others... a distraction that we really dont need at the moment.

Tegdaen also did not like the way that all these people, these strangers could just walk up and be accepted into the party. This was a dangerous quest, not some joy ride.

As each of the newcommers looked in Tegdaens direction, he gave a nod. That was all the welcome they would get from a proud Silverblade.

Tegdaen was sliding his axe back into it\'s holder on his belt ready to go, when he heard Aruneko\'s cry. It was a pity. Tegdaen was really beggining to feel that he could trust that elf. Ah well, there was a job to be done and nothing was going to stop this party from doing it... Apart from maybe that diaboli...

[Keldorn]

Keldorn listened closely, but heard nothing. It seemed that they had lost their first companion.
Keldorn looked into the deep where Aruneko should be. He tried to see some movement, but it was too dark and deep to see anything.
He tried calling his name, but all he heard was the echo from his own voice.
\"Death has found this party at last, it always does.\" Keldorn sighed and turned away.

[Wormtail_]

Rantal stood up from where he sat, coming to a decision that the Klyros wasn\'t there, and even if it was there, Rantal didn\'t know how it should effect him. Unless, of course, it threw that bottle of acid at the mimic. Looking around, he saw everybody introducing themselves, and Rantal listened as the two newcomers accepted the invitation to join their grouop. \"All right then, lets get going, we have a quest to do, and that does not mean just laying around, chatting idly!\" Rantal said, and with that, went to the dark corrider oppisite that of the Klyros Rantal didn\'t know was there, and walked foward.

GM Note: First time I\'ve used this, anyways, description of the area. This tunnel is a three-way bend, with a horizantal wall north of the Bronze Doors. It looks like a T in the tunnels. Anyways, there are plenty of rocks all over the place. Large ones and other walls are to the left, when facing the wall at the top of the T. To the left is where FyreBlade is hiding. TO the right, a pit with more rocks covering it is where Aruneko lies buried. That\'s where Rantal is heading. Everybody else, I\'m assuming, is at the place where the two lines of the T touch.

This is just what I\'m saying this part of the Labryniths looks like, not what I want it to look like in the real game of Planeshift. Well, actually, I couldn\'t think of another way to describe the area, anyways.

[Silverblade]

With Aruneko now gone, It was only Tegdaen, Xolon and Rantal who were there at the beggining when this quest was issued to them.

Tegdaen decided to inform the others on their aim:

For all you newcommers, I would like you to know that our aim here in the stone labrynths is none other than to get out. We were given a map that starts from the other side of the Labrynths. I ask you to not drag your feet, for I do not wish to spend any more time in here than we have to.

[Keldorn]

\"Well then, we should get moving\"; Keldorn walked to the direction where Rantal was heading.
Arriving there he said to Rantal; \"I hope our luck will soon take a turn for the better.\"

Keldorn looked back and called out to the others; \"Are you all coming, we must get through here as soon as possible.\"