Tazlure

Jamail laid a comforting hand on the Baylan's shoulder. "Have faith, Kazan." The young lad said softly in Dwarven. "I feel sure your distant kin have not given up their homeland so easily. They might yet be succored." Jamail was caught off guard by Scarlet's show of sympathy and ...

"The jungle isn't going anywhere." Liam assured her with a chuckle. Liam did take a few more herb packets from Muraco's supplies and then considered himself well payed. Aside from sea salt, there wasn't much to season their food with so those herbs were doubly precious here. Despite his ja...

OOC: Apologies for the delay. The steady sound of a ringing anvil greeted his ears as Gustav grew closer to the forge. The morning air, which smelled of baking bread, gave way to the metal tang of heated iron. Finally, Gustav crested the small rise and could see right into the heart of Iron John's f...

If he caught the slip, Liam did not show it. "Yes, Jamail is Sierra's finest scholar. If he and Julia can't answer your questions about the jungle then it is not known." He assured them. Liam found himself frustrated yet again as Xenovia deflected his questions. After all, he could not bet...

Jamail was gratefully distracted from his ogling by Baylin's question. "Oh yes the Nazareen." Jamail went over to his workbench and plucked out a scroll which he handed to the dwarf. "I've made a recording of what little I could find out." Baylan would discover that the scroll wa...

"Immediately if not sooner." Octava smiled. "That is to say as soon as you have made proper preparations and decided who if anyone you would travel with. More to the point, I would know which energy signature you plan to investigate first. I am hoping to recruit other parties to explo...

As Viviana raised her hand, the boy in blue raised his in response. The others, perhaps feeling the pressure, raised their hands as well. All but the gnome anyway who was still muttering about the cogs in his shield. "Very good then. Begin." Shema instructed. "Those truly feeling brav...

Roger nodded patiently throughout this full recital and wrote down the relevant bits, namely: Rommel Gnomish inventor. Then they came back to this notion of a walking house. Were it anyone but a gnome, Roger would have suspected a joke was being played on him. As it was, Roger had heard many strange...

Roger and his mate had heard many a strange story during their stint at gate duty. Over small beers, they liked to debate which ones were the strangest and try to rank them by their own criteria of weird. From this day forward however, they would never have to argue over which story was number one f...

The bartender actually took a step backward as he saw the gold of Xenovia's eyes. Must be something to do with the mages up at the towers. Yes, that's it. Nothing to worry about. Having soothed his own rising unease at these latest patrons, he once again focused on the deal at hand. After all, is th...

OOC: There was much for me to respond to. If I missed something, drop me a PM. While Baylan and the Kanthrops chatted amongst themselves, Jamail busied himself with filling stone tumblers with water kept in a larger stone jug. Those that drank it would find it pure and clean. Baylan in particular wo...

"I have examined Ventalla's prison." Octava nodded. "I have every confidence that they can be brought down. The question is at what cost?" Octava drained his tea cup and poured himself a second cup. "You see, he has bound quite a lot of himself into his wardings. Wherever he...

Shema was somewhat unnerved by Viviana's lack of response to her dousing. "Well since you all have a decent grasp of the basic shielding technique, I shall leave you to practice it in our own time. Be sure you do for I shall be testing you all as I did Viviana at our next meeting." Shema w...

The tavern was largely empty at this time of day with only a few older men picking at their breakfast while starting their first hand of cards. As Xenovia moved closer to the bar a smell of roasting meat mingled with the background smells of the tavern. The bartender smelled lie his bar only more so...

Jamail smiled at Baylan's skepticism and continued to speak in fluent, if oddly accented, dwarven. "My name is Jamail, son of a weaver Jasko, on the isle of Dort." Jamail took Baylan's calloused hand in his own. Jamail's hand was not forge hardened but he was no stranger to labor. Ink stai...

Elvin Peckerton was a little dismayed to hear that Elvin knew of Ashtallion having the book and telling non but understood that he could not have known what was to come. Peckerton told Elvin that the Secrets of Creation had a history of appearing to wizards in the University seemingly without rhyme...

Roger rolled his eyes at the name of Billigh. That was an old dodge to keep from giving your real name. The problem was that many people actually did name their children after the Duke and Duchess in hopes that some of their fortune might rub off. So the guard couldn't call them on it. "All rig...

There was never a lack of sheltered corners within the marketplace. It was fact that made sweeps of the square for smugglers rather troublesome in fact. The easiest thing to do was to duck back into the alleyway a little though there was also an enclosed area between to rug sellers or any number of ...

Instantly, Shema dropped into a battle crouch. Reflexively, her left hand came up in a fan-like warding gesture and Viviana saw a hastily woven lattice of earthen energies deflect the thrown ball. With only a moment's consideration Shema's right hand jerked back. "All right. Your turn." Sh...

The harbor master looked decidedly nervous as Xenovia broke off from the scuffle among her own people and approached him. Most of the dock workers had ceased their labors to watch the spectacle of the Kanthrops fighting. A few held crowbars or similar implements at the ready just in case. The offici...

Roger glanced over to his companion as Illithane made his flamboyant request for entry. You meet all kinds in this job, you do. Roger plastered his business smile on his face and nodded to the adhiel. "That shouldn't be a problem, sir. I just need a few more details." Roger nodded. "Y...

Watching off to the side, the harbor master frowned as this latest strange group of explorer rushed over to one side and started to have a brief exchange of blows followed by harsh argument. The official had no desire to get in the middle of all of them but he could not simply allow such activities ...

Everyone but the gnome turned to Viviana in surprise. Shema just blinked for a moment. She knew that most of her professors would have slapped down the upstart for interfering with the lesson. The rest would sarcastically ask the first day student to kindly share her vast wisdom to the decades old p...

"Oh yes. Very dangerous," Octava nodded, "but possible." He carefully put down his teacup and picked up a fork from his tray. "You have outlined the possibilities exactly. Elementals are a little more malleable than crows. He can simply insert the kind of energies we would n...

"Just a moment." A distracted voice called out. It was a few burns before Baylan heard the sound of a lock turning and the door swung open. Standing there was a young human in a brown robe that couldn't be more than in his teens. He had a very wispy thin goatee that only served to accentua...