Yliakum Journeys (vol.1)

[zorbels]

"We will be leaving soon Sir Easton," Zorbels replies with a half mouthful of pie. "I am just gonna give it abit more to see if anyone else wants to join, some people may not be able to make it right on time. Seeing as we will be leaving soon, which direction do you think we should start off? She looks curiously around at the faces."

[Easton]

Easton points west and says, "i think we should head east.." Everyone smiles and a few can't keep in their laughs as Easton has yet to realize his mistake. "What?!"

[Farren Kutter]

Farren stifles a laugh as he walks over to Easton and whispers, "That's west, my friend." And goes back to the wagon to continue stifling his laugh.

[steuben]

tovera tries to hide her giggle behind her hand. "heros," she thinks.

[zhai]

"Pretty", Zhai says to herself as she looks at the azure light through the leaves above. The old tree moves gently and she's already lost track of the time she's spent lying under it. "You've been here quite a while" she says, both to the tree and herself. "Where would you go if you could walk?". She laughs a bit. "Me too". She stands up and stretches her legs and back, getting ready to wander, maybe hunt a little. The tree is far behind after walking for a few minutes and as she reaches the top of a hill she turns to the oja road and then to Hydlaa wondering what may be happening there now that a certain peace dwells within its walls.

[Under the moon]

*grins*

A ruckus draws everyones attention to two identical and heavily muscled Ynnwns rounding the corner from the stairs. Between and in front of them they are pushing and prodding a rather disheavaled -and very fat- man in a nice, though tight, buisiness suit.

Roth [one of the Ynnwns]< "See Arn! I told ya they was doins up here!"

Toth [the other] "Ya dinit! I was tha one that said! Yur a nit and a liar."

Roth. "I'll break yur head, pitpile!"

Haddiarican, the huge Kran poet, rounds the corner after them and pushes them both aside. "Now you two leave Master Arnigus be! He has not even had his pastries as of yet." Had stops and looks at the gathering, then the cart, then back at the stairs. "Do tell, fine ladies and sirs....how did you get that cart up here?"

Arnigus -seeing the cart, people, and parchment- has but one thing to say... "Oh dear....not again..."

[Karyuu]

Karyuu arches a brow and turns her ears to the direction of the squabble, then muffles a chuckle as her head follows to see its origins. She nods her head in acknowledgment to the rather large, she thinks gently, man in the middle, and the Kran, as the group draws nearer. "The cart was rolled - I presume that's what the wheels attached to it are for. Of course I'm rather fond of the theory that it was lifted by several dozen Groffels - and that those same Groffels will offer to pull it for us when we set out." She then cannot help herself and bursts into a wide toothy grin, just barely able to contain laughter. "Unless we find a more appropriate... larger animal, of course."

For a split section her grin faulters as she thinks the joke was too much, but the idea is much too comical for her to sink into immediate worry, and so she gives into a laugh.

[Farren Kutter]

Farren chuckles slightly at Karyuu and says, "I say we hitch ourselves a couple tefusangs or trepors..." And walks out to join the others away from the wagon.

[Easton]

Easton puts his arm down and blushes the slightest bit. "Well... you.. er.. you know what i meant!" He then sits back down on a rock near the wagon. "Bah! You navigate then!" he says as he pulls an apple from his pack an begins to eat it.

[Under the moon]

Roth and Toth laugh in a great uproar at Karyuu's jest, then look to each other in the same confused expression. "What?" they say together.

Arnigus shakes his head. Had closes his eyes in a put-upon way.

Roth scratches his head. "It was a joke, right? Tah cart rolled?"

Toth smacks Roth on the back of the head. "It was tah Groffels, nit! It was the...dozen...um... I donut think it was a joke..."

Arnigus waves his hands in exasperation. "That is it! YOU two will pull the cart!"

Roth and Toth, "So we -is- going?!"

[[you may assume Roth and Toth as your pack animals now. Treat them according. ]]
*edit* Have to go. My characters are following along (save for the Twins, whom are leading), and I will write when I come back. Feel free to write as the twins.

[LARAGORN]

On His return from an exploration trek, Laragorn sees a group gathering. He immediately stops and crouches behind a bush. “This is a strange place for a gathering.” He says to himself. Studying the forming crowd, he recognizes few.  Thinking aloud he says “I think those two where the one who just married”. Staying hidden from the group he decides to wait and see what they are doing. Removing his pack, he uses it for a back rest a waits.

[ou8i8uo]

Satayne sits with Zorbels eating pie and chatting with some members of the growing party while others check their supplies and gear or just contemplate the coming journey. Upon hearing Karyuu's words he pictures a team of groffels pulling the wagon behind them a couple meters in the air off the ground and almost spits out his mouthful of pie laughing but instead is able to get a hand up over his mouth and somehow overcomes inhaling the pie altogether. After Zorbels mercifully gives him some water to wash it down with he stands and brushes the remaining crumbs off of himself and thanks her with a smile and looks around him a bit embarrased and thinks to himself "hm, could almost being struck down by a pie be an omen?"

[zorbels]

Zorbels chuckles to herself at karyuu' joke while handing Satayne some water. "Careful, we wouldn't want to lose a good warrior to a pie choking. *Zorbels pauses and looks thoughtful* "Well I think we have waited long enough, if others want to join they can follow our tracks. I have a couple of tame tefusang to pull the cart."

Zorbels checks over the equipment that tie the tefusangs to the cart. When convinced all is well she hops up onto the cart and pats the seat beside her. "Want to ride with me Satayne?" She smiles at him and then turns to the crowd.

"Ok everyone time to move out. We will head east, as Sir Easton suggested. If anyone feels tired let me know so we can stop. I think after a couple of hours of travel we might want to look for a good spot to camp as it will be night fall soon. Anyone who wants to ride in the cart is more than welcome." Zorbels says with excitement threaded through out her voice. "Lets move out!" she makes a hand motion above her head pointing east.

[Karyuu]

Karyuu raises her spear above her head and utters a yelp of enthusiasm as the group begins moving, then maneuvers herself to walk beside the Tefusang, enjoying their rhythmic gait. After a few minutes, she turns back to Zorbels:

"Did you have them from birth, or retrained their behavior much later? They feel like healthy animals."

[Xylaal]

Xylaal rubs the dirt off her long caloused hands as she emerges yet again from the mine in Laanx Dungeon to begin her daily trek back home to her cave in the woods outside Hydlaa.  Pick slung lazily over her shoulder she notices the posted message and stops to read it. Tired and dirty as she is, she decides she could use some hunting and the company of friends right now.  She thinks to herself, "I will go, or at least try to..." Hermited away in the hills, she often misses events like this and hopes that she is not too late this time.

After refreshing herself in a nearby fountain she walks quickly to the Hydlaa gate. She steps outside it and looks around. They are gone. Xylaal thinks, "Oh well, I tried" and as she rearranges her mind she begins to walk down the road toward her home. She notices below her the tracks of a cart and Tefusang tracks that show prominently amid the other more common tracks for this road. On a hunch and with the need for adventure in her greenish skin, she begins to follow them.