The War on the Frozen Wastes

Tales of the Frozen Lands of Glaciem have been frequent of late, it is said that the village of Congelata near the center of Glaciem has received wave after wave of attacks causing the loss of many soldier and civilian alike. Notices calling all who seek adventure and reward have been sent out to all who are battle born and fueled by the blood of their enemy and sustained by the greed that all men have. Those who respond are offerd great riches and reward for the finding and ending the reason for the sudden aggressive nature of the Glaciem Populus that have since long ago lived in peace with those who dwell in Congelata. So tell me you who have travelled these many leagues for what reason have you ventured into THE FROZEN WASTES!!!  (Fade to black (lol)).

(Adventurers State your reason for this venture and connection to the rest of the party. Are you simply old acquaintances, seasoned adventurers who have banned together for glory and greed, or maybe something deeper. This is your story I am simply its Narrator, so come show me the way so that I may Twist and spin my words to tell the story that shall transcend time and be told through song for years to come and years to pass.)
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"Mittens loves cookies.  So of course she was there when the cookie store was robbed.  Nowait, maybe that's not such a good backstory."

The eccentric catgirl seems to be trying to come up with a story to put into her journal.

"Can you guys think of something better than, 'She grew up in the most boring village in the world so she left in search of adventure in order to keep from losing her mind?'"

  Thirst for adventure? a little bit. Runs on blood? That's just impractical.  Greed? Well the way some people react to 'hey can we get paid now that we've saved you all from death', some would say so.  No, he has a much more daunting goal.  Some semblance of professionalism.   Clearly a futile task.

  Kyle checks over his crossbow, and comments to Mittens, "Well, I'm sure yours beats if you were a blacksmith turned hammer wielding adventurer."

Eli had come into the company of these two by way of his parents going missing. Until he finds them, he doesn't really have a home to go back to. But he knows they are alive and refuses to go to an orphanage... he has been to one already and it was worse (and scarier) than being out in the wild.

Normally a passive, withdrawn boy, Eli is immovable on his two tasks of finding his parents and not being taken in by an orphanage.

Eli hugs himself, shivering from the cold. To Mittens, he timidly says, "She grew up in a normal village, but knew that her destiny was greater by far; so she pursued it with outstretched arms and an eager heart that raced almost as fast as her ability to meet danger head-on."

(Ah so a tell of three it will be but what of the forth hmm I wonder who it shall be...... Ahh but I am getting ahead of myself. So Of the three we have a Man with a past not yet revealed whose goals are as shrouded in mystery as the tell that lays before, and to the Kitten that wishes to bear its claws do not forget that though they may be boring those roots are what has absorbed and crafted that which made you into you. As for the child lost and left to wander the path that shall no doubt lead to wanders, woes, fears, hates, and sadness.... Forever look forward and never allow those things that haunt the souls of corrupted and petty men slow your pace to the goal that lay before you. Now shall we begin....)

As the group converses trying to decide to camp or move forward for a bit longer the Sound of Metal clashing Metal Rings in the distance. The Hollow sounds of arrows pricing bodies rings loud in the their ears.
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Wavy flows of anime-style tears were cascading down Mittens' frowning face as she shook her fist.

"That was... beautiful, Eli!"

Back to normal, she answers Kyle, "I guess you have a point.  It's notsomuch the backstory as the...  Sounds of combat!  Must investigate!  Wooohaaah!"

She charges in the direction of the sounds.

  Kyle merely has the hair of an anime, not the face or tears of one (Well, unless we're talking the kind with lots of skull exploding punches).

  "Don't run too far ahead Mittens, wouldn't do for you to end up a pincushion before we catch up."  Though he follows as fast as he can without granting combat advantage.

Eli trots up behind. "Discretion, Mittens..." but stays behind the other two. "...careful..."

As the party gathers at the neck of the path the sounds of battle rage on. To the front the can see a horde of goblins assaulting a bridge guarded by some soldiers and a Tall slender female with dark hair and a large axe which she is useing to cutt away at the beasts before they can reach the other side.

Gloria "Come now you weakling hurry it up if we falter hear they will reach the town." she raises her axe and brings it across the first two goblins in range decapitating them both.

To the left a large group of soldiers have begun to push a bolder over the cliff that makes its way across the battle field and into the mass of goblins killing a great many.

(Now adventurers show me your skill, show me you reserve the right to stand at the heart of Glaciem).

The remaining goblins turn in fear to run only to meat the party of adventurers blocking there path.
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Mittens HAD drawn her weapon, but upon being insulted, she stows it.

"Ah.  I see that the noble goblins who don't insult visitors are being cut down by the evil home-stealers.  Noble goblins!  You shall not be molested by the heroes you have not picked a fight with!"

She steps aside to make room for the goblins to leave unimpeded and asides to her allies, "How's that for discretion?"

But should the goblins become hostile toward her or her friends...  punches!

  "While I see your point, if manners prevented aid in battle, not many people will help either of us Mittens." Eli is probably save in that regard, at least.

  The artificer fires an acid dripping crossbow bolt up into the closest goblin archer, then buffs Mittens for the inevitable goblin attack that totally would have happened anyways.

"It seems my ally is unconvinced of your nobility!" Mittens hollers, "Do your best to act unconscious, and I assure you no further harm will come to you from us!"

Eli steps forward, pulls open a book and says, "We can't let the goblins continue their assault, but we can't assume these are the same goblins..."

He waves a hand and a huge wave of fire bursts forth! Two of the goblins go down, but they seem magically not burned at all. "...so we'll knock them out instead of killing?"

The Goblin archer covered in acid wails out in furry and sends a bolt at Kyle....."Die human" the bolt rushes past Kyles head the pain from the bolt causing him to cringe as he shoots.

Gob 2 rushes mitts in an attempt to cut her down as he seems to be taking the lightly and perceives them as little threat.The attack is easily dodged.

The second archer launches an attack at the child whom he perceives as most dangerous.

Gob 3 decides to try his luck at the Cat Person but instead runs into his own comrade and tumbles them both over.


The Commander swings and barley misses the goblin as it ducks the strike. "Cursed thing why wont you just die.

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"Act unconscious, I said!" Mits hollers, smacking the two goblins with the butt of her weapon.

Out they go.

"And you two!  Shooting in the general direction of a child!  Not noble at ALL!"

Mits starts running up the path.

  Kyle shoots the wounded archer in the leg, dropping them to the ground.  By which we mean the surface of the ledge, not the tall drop onto hard rocks below.

  Eli gets a dose of artificier radiation arcane empowerment thanks to the hit.  "I think some of them are shorter than Eli, maybe they can't tell."

When Eli was shot, he yells out, "Ow!" and whimpers.

Eli then points at the goblin who is still on the bridge. A little Mittens puppet replaces the goblin's left hand, pulls out a mallet and bops the goblin on the nose! The goblin falls unconscious. "How did you like that, Mittens?"

(So our adventurers Overcome the horde and look to there surroundings, what had the battle ben over, where these the so call mad creatures attacking Congelata, and who was the chain cladd warrior upon the bridge?)

The Female warrior throws her axe over her shoulder and walks to the edge of the bridge looking down on the group that had finished off the last of the goblin horde.
She yells down "Adventurers are you, come to try for the reward and fail like all the rest, well you could be overgrown ice rats for all I care. If you men ta lend a hand meet me at the ice road  just north of hear som of them got through and I'm worried for my men."
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Mits busted out laughing at Eli's non-lethal fatality and gives him a thumbs-up.  When the fight is over she ties up survivors.

"Mittens is unimpressed with the armored person's charisma, but then she's not really one to talk," she comments, "She decides it probably best to have Kyle do the talking with the customer rather than risk foot-in-mouth issues of her own."

   Kyle will not fire a warning shot.  That would be unprofessional, and waste ammo.

  "As much as I hate to admit it, we are in a bad way if I am one of the more tactful speakers in the area."  Two out of four is still most, Eli.

Eli smiles at the acknowledgement Mittens gives him. Then gulps when the warrior yells at them. He just doesn't have the gumption to say things like "think positive!" back to her and instead just follows along with the others.

He glances up at Kyle. "I... know how to talk tactful... but that lady scares me, so I'm too scared to talk to her."

"Hmph.." The warrior turns toward the north an marches forward "One day, no, not eve that I doubt you even reach the town." She disappears into the snow determined to reach her men as fast as she can. Men form up and make camp and fortifications to prepare for any more attacks.

A deep voice trembles across the whispering wind "So what will you do now young ones, leave or follow and see what fate awaits." and hen as fast as it came the voice disperses into the cold nothingness.
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As she heads in the direction armor lady went, Mittens conjures a goofy-looking sock puppet and mimics the armor lady and the mystery voice.

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  "She probably won't kill you because it would make her look bad, unless you are secretly evil I guess." Kyle says to Eli he checks his crossbow.  "Most her type tend to do is yell a lot. I've found it better to deal with yelling than the quite sort that spends all day tending to their ears collection." Not helping, Kyle.

  Kyle mutters something about where vials of acid will be shoved if mysterious elderly people neglect to mention they were sitting on top of a secret passage the whole time after getting rescued.

Eli looked scared of the mystery voice when it spoke up, but then spots the goofy sock puppet and his eyes go wide as he looks stunned for a moment (Can not take any actions)... and then laughs hard. "M-Mittens *giggle*... I *snort*... he... hahahahah!" yeah, he's done. Can't really talk for all the laughing.

He looks and sounds like he is trying to answer Kyle, but is just too busy laughing to answer, tears in his eyes.

(As the adventuring party moves forward and the falling snow lessens they see a massive path across a wide gap between the land were the sea rushes through. Before them stands the warrior a cold look upon her face all emotion gone. Her hed hung low the shadows across her face tell her feeling all to well.)

"You idiots, I told you not to break formation. How many times did I tell you in training, you were just a bunch of brats." She raises her axe and points it toward the enemy to her front an ice troll the leader of the onslaught from the way its giving order to the goblins to toss the corpses into the river. "Ill Splatter your guts." and rushes him.
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Th frost troll swiftly lashes out with its spear and stabs Gloria through the shoulder, and the surrounding goblins attack in succession. Gloria quickly steps back dodging the firs goblins sword by mere inches and blocking the second with her axe. The third from her right slides on the ice and manages to only take a few hairs.

Gloria grabs the handle of the axe with both hands and swings down with all her might cleaving off the trolls left arm, but not quite finishing it off. "Stubborn bastard just die already."

Eli steps forward and flips open a book before waving a hand at the enemies around Gloria. A horde of fairies show up and dance around the enemies at incredible speeds! Two of the goblins wind up knocked unconscious by the fairies charging at them and punching them in the face! The one who refuses to die rolls with one of the punches. And another goblin manages to dodge.

He wants to say something, but only musters, "Hold on!"

  In a repeat performance, Kyle drops one of the enemies attacking Gloria.

  Though it's a bit more messy, considering the brains melting and leaking out their mouth thanks to the acid crossbow bolt lodged through his forehead.

  "Right, need to adjust the acid."  Yes Kyle, clearly they would have lived if not for the acid. right.  He reloads his crosbow and comments "Consider surrendering, if you'd like to avoid that,"

"Kyle she looks pretty VERY hurt," Mits says, heading over to flank with Gloria.

"Bonk bonk on the head!" she says, knocking out a goblin with a hamfist to the top of his helmet.

The last goblin seeing his friend fall with ease and there leader downed so simply decides to take his chances with the sea, and jumps into the freezing water.


"Oh no you don't you slimy worm, nobody kills my mean and walks away unscathed." Gloria pulls out her hand crossbow and takes aim. THUMP!! "And pop goes the goblin."

She turns to the party and pulls the tip of the spear still in her shoulder out. "So you came, guess I owe you one." She looks around at the fallen soldiers. "Poor sods they were only hear as backup not even out of training yet, damn goblins they've all but whittled our forces down to they 10 or 15 men you saw before and kids barley off there mamas milk. Sigh.. I'm Gloria Guard Captain of Congelata  for what its worth, if its the town your looking for its north of here."
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Speaking of kids barely off their mama's milk, the little boy walks over to Gloria with a heartfelt look in his face, tears in his eyes. He had yet to see people dying like this. "...sorry about your soldiers, Miss Gloria."

The fairies who attacked earlier fly back to Eli's book and disappear into it before he closes the book.

  Kyle looks to Mittens, then looks to Gloria's health bar floating over her head wounds. "She's fine." He comments, walking over to the fallen taller enemy and yanking free his own crossbow bolt.   <brown>"Wasting ammo, but fine.  Though I expect I may have in her place"

"Yeah, we're adventurers looking to help the town with the constant raids," Mits answers, "Thanks for the directions."

She heads north.  After checking the fallen goblins for anything valuable.

"I'll be to town shortly, I want to gather the taggs my men carry and give them a proper goodbye. " The tavern will be your best bet for information as the mayor left weeks ago, and many of the towns folk are heading out as well. Only those who have lived hear their whole lives are staying behind." Gloria looks to the young one "You are young to learn the hard truth of the world, let this be a lesson that will teach you to be strong, and thank you for worrying. I'll be fine."

(Our heroes venture forth into the unknown as the ice road seems to go on without end. After a few hours of traveling the can see a faint light of the town ahead. As they walk a voice in the wind grabs there attention.)

"You who stand before me show promise, will you hear my plea o heroes who wish to end this war that benefits none." a shimmer in the air and then a orb of light appears in front of the party. "I ask of you will yea pleas hear me out."
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Eli follows the group north, continually shivering from the cold of the area. When the light speaks up again, Eli hides behind Mittens and Kyle. "p-p-plea...?"

  "It does not seem practical to ignore you, if you are speaking of what we came here for in the first place."  He does wonder about it's selection standards, but expects this is the usual case of 'well, it's you or the dead 1 hitpoint town guards'.

"Mittens is much more impressed with the manners of the talking orb," Mittens narrates, "So of course she stops to listen.  Though already she's expecting to be less than convinced of the rightness of either side of the war."

"I thank you young ones, now lend me your ears and I shall tell you of how this war started. I am Ivon and this form is simply what is left of my spirit, the Sorceress Mordona captured my powers while I was in my 8 month sleep to recover from the energy required to bring the calm season to the land for farming and hunting. A four month cycle of holding back the snow storms is tiring. Mordona was once the Sorceress who I granted permmision to study my Ice magic as she seemed harmless at first but she grew too power hungry and now has taken most of my powers as her own in an attempt to take over all of Glaciem. I ask you to Please stop her and return my powers to me so that I may Bring the Calm or those who live in Glaciem will have no food or storage's to live through the Storms." Ivon looks from face to face "She has taken the minds of the natives of this land who once lived closely with the humans and now makes them attack, I begg of you stop her and end her rain of terror. To help I shall give you the rest of my remaining power."

(The orb of light floats into the air and glows brightly and a warm light covers the team.)

"There it is done. With this power will you help me?" the orb asks its tone desperate.

ALL PARTY MEMBERS ADVANCE TO LEVEL 5!!!!!

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Eli gasps when the power is transferred and he looks at his hands. "So much knowledge all the sudden..."

Eli's fear turns to concern and he says, "That is why we are here. We want to stop the evil in this land and protect those who can not protect themselves."

  Kyle wishes that weather patterns and other seasonal phenomenon were not dictated by individual entities. Could be worse though, they could be rescuing the worlds most muscular baby to start the new year.

  "Well, you clearly seem to have a handle on compensation.  Far too many consider it selfish to ask for so much as a single copper after saving a few hundred people.  Is there anything we should be made aware of when it comes to actually fighting Mordona?"

  Ivon probably got token 1 hitpoint guards for her nap time too.

OOC: Since no magic items selection is at hand, I'll be able to work out level 5 stuff in a few minutes (Thanks, builder!).

Mits is of course thrilled to have new powers and starts blasting bits of scenery for fun!

"Wheeee!"

She snaps out of it and smiley-nods to the orb.  "Sure thing, Ivan the Luminous!"

Ivon looks to Kyle "Yes, you should know that Mordona can not be so easily defeated, even with the last of my power it will take more power than you have even now. Go Travel to the north past the town and you will find the entrance to the Ice Caves that Mordona has made her home, they change by her will and may have a different layout than that of when I owned them, But within lies my treasure room and a chest that contains crystals known as the Hearts of Fire, items I have long kept so that the towns people can approach me without freezing under my cold aura. Should you find them and someone with the ability to forge them to weapons then you may have a chance, but be warned Mordona will not have left them unguarded."

"If you will permit it I would traval with you so that I may provide help as I can."

Eli says, "You sure are a nice ghost, Mister Ivon... I don't know why we wouldn't want you to come with us..."

He cringes when Mittens starts blasting scenery and says, "Mittens! Careful! You could cause an avalanche and kill innocent people without realizing it!"
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  "Well, that sounds promising if they still work."  He tries to pretend the frivolous destruction of scenery didn't happen, and says to Eli "I suppose some might not trust the one who's power is being used to cause these problems in the first place."

 You know, the one that needs special precautions to not kill people just by being near them.

"So that means we have to go through town, right?  May as well check the place out then."

"I thank you adventurers." Ivon says.

Ivon floats to Eli's side and hovers over his shoulder "I shall stay close to you young one if you will permit."


(The encounter with the mysterious orb lends our heroes with new found power and friend, with the orbs help the team easily navigated there way through the storm and into the town of Congelata. As they enter the town the can see few people and two carriages filled with people leaving the town. So now heroes what shall you do next for this quest may spell the end for you and this town should you find yourselves ill prepared.)

Eli spots the crystal up ahead and his eyes brim over with curiousity. "...what is that?" he asks the orb.

  "Good question, consider magic crystals have already been brought up."  There were many guesses, but considering the subject involved was Magic it could be basically anything.

"It's a trap!" Mittens blurts.

"Or.  'It's mine!'  Or.  'Scrap!  Once we're finished with it.'"

Ivon laughs at the reactions the Crystal brought, "No young ones that is no enemy, but an Fairy crystal that allows those who posses a fairy stone attuned to it may return to it from any location. Though not used very often because of the rarity of the stones it is useful to those who bear its stone. I know of only of 3 to have one, and two are no longer in this land, the third was lost at sea with a dear friend who died over 300 years ago. Hmm, but i may have had some stored among the treasures in my home should you find them they are yours. Go ahead Yong one touch it feel the energy that runs through it the energy that binds all life, and runs deep through our world to connect everywhere."
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Eli says, "Oh... how does it work?" he goes to touch the crystal and concentrates.

  "If we are able to recover the remaining crystal, it would be an easier question to answer."  Though named artifacts are always a bit more tricky.

  "Though with it unused for so long, I expect the townsfolk leave it be for sentimental value if nothing else"  As opposed to selling several tons of rare gemstone to get their economy back on it's feet.
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Mits does the crystal attuning thing.  "Nifty!"

Ivon hovers over to Eli interested in the boys eagerness to learn and his affinity for magic and all the energies of the world. "It would be quite impossible to remove this crystal and if you could it would die for it feeds off the energy that runs through the planet and cannot survive without it. Tell me child, no your name is Eli is it not? What is it that you see, what does the energy that reaches all points of the earth tell you what things to you hear, taste, feel, and see all of these senses are effected by the energy and you most of all have a high affinity for it, a rare thing indeed."
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Eli says, "The ley lines of the world... I see places I've never been. I see desert, ocean, mountain, plain, forest, the underdark, the weak points between the planes..." his eyes widen with awe. "I see forgotten places... cities thought only legend or fable... I see travel ether; ether used for transportation magics... in its purest form." He looks conflicted as he removes his hand. "So that's how it works. I knew things like this existed, but I didn't think I would find one so soon."

  See Kyle?  This is what happens when you don't take the arcane class named 'Wizard'.  "I can see how teleportation circles became so popular, while this languished into obscurity then.  Even the best method in all the planes only goes so far when it can hardly be used."
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"Huh.  It rather seemed more like twinkle-star rainbow melody cotton candy to me."

Mits shrugs and continues on her way to town.

Ivon looks at Eli "Should we survive this venture and stop Mordona I would not object to teaching you the ways of old Magic, though the ice is my home to master one element is to grasp the theory of them all. I have many friends throughout this world that I can ask to help with the training as well."

( As the group heads further into town they hear a voice behind them.)

"So you made it did you. Well then allow me to show you the way to the tavern." Gloria appears behind the group axe over her right shoulder and the soldiers dog-tags in her right hand.

She stops when she notices the orb and looks confused, "So what is that, I don't remember it from our last meeting."

  "Deposed weather control service.  Their student decided freezing or dead was how they preferred people. Or has the name Mordona not come up yet from any of the attackers?"

Eli looks real excited about Ivon's offer and says, "I look forward to that. But I guess we gotta wait..."

Eli then turns to Gloria and explains, "This is Mister Ivon. He's the spirit of winter, who Mordona stole the power from. He is here to help guide us on how to stop her."
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Mits decides to keep her commentary to herself for the time being.  Which is very hard to do.

Ivon replies "Then I shall teach you all i know when the time comes."

Gloria bows to the orb, "Master Ivor forgive me I did not know it was you. We all assumed you dead and that as the reason for the natives to run wild."

"Raise your head child and I will explain." Ivon tells Gloria of things past and the situation.

"I see, then we must make for the Ice Caves as soon as possible." She looks at the group, "Please follow me and I will take you to the tavern we can speak more there, as much as I wish to leave now you all must need rest and we must gather previsions." Gloria walks off toward a large building near the fare side of town.
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  At the very least, Eli should make sure they manage to recover the 'Need these or just being near him kills you' crystals before taking up any apprenticeships.

  "It would be best to prepare for the trip, yes.  Though will anything change with the natives if Mordona is stopped, if you do not make them change?"  Kyle would not be surprised they were normally kind of jerks and Mordona's just canceled their curfew, the way this sort of thing tends to run.

Eli follows Gloria towards the tavern. "Is Gloria your daughter, Mister Ivon?"

Mittens soo wants to tease Gloria now that she's using the word, "Please," but figures she gets a pass for losing the youngsters she was apparently not too terribly attached to.  Must... mock... something!  Ah!  Bad sorceress.  That's socially acceptable.  A sock puppet wearing a robe covered in random arcane symbols appears on Mittens' hand.

"I am the ice queen!  You shall do my bidding!"

A goblin sock puppet appears on her other hand.

"No way!  You're not the boss of me!"

"ZAP!"

"Ok so now you're the boss of me.  Until you die.  Says so right here in the spell's fine print."

"As crude as the example is, Mittens is correct. The Queen has through the magic power she stole from me taken control of all the natives of the land, for they have simpler minds and are easy to manipulate." Ivon speaks to Eli "No Gloria is not my child I simply refer to her that way because to me you are all in age still infants in comparison. Though I do think of all those I protect as my children."

Gloria nods to Ivon and looks at Eli "I am a child of the snow."

Ivon elaborates "Some as sad as it may seem do not wish to keep or do not believe they are able to raise their children so they are left to the snow and forgotten. Those who survive, through being found..." Gloria interrupts Ivon "Or in my case being raised by the natives, The Frost Wolfs of these lands raised me until i was found by some of the locals in this town and tough human society. That is a child of the snow."

  Gloria, sweetie, you're 140 in wolf years. It's time to go find a job and your own cave.

  "Regardless of how fond you are of those animals, for your parent's sake it would be best that we never find them." This is why you'll never count as lawful good Kyle.  Well, unless you were a sterotypical paladin, then feeding deadbeat parents to wolves would get a pass as 'poetic justice'.

Eli ohs at Ivon's explaination. He looks sad and upset at the mention of throwing people out into the cold, but gets a hopeful look and a smile when Gloria mentions snow wolves taking her in.

Eli then giggles at yet another puppet show and claps for Mittens.

Eli then looks up at Kyle and says, "I dunno... they might be better off in the safety of the community. But then again, wolves are meant to roam free in the wild... why would it be best we never meet Gloria's parents?"

Mittens marvels at the fact that apparently she was the only one to pick up on the fact that "The Frost Wolfs" was a tribal name.  Not a canine species.  And that Eli is the only one who enjoys her puppet shows.  ;.;

"Yippedy doo dah!  Yippedy aye!  My oh my what a wonderful day!  Thrillin' adventure's headed my way!  Yippedy doo dah!  Yippedy aye!

"I think Kyle is referring to his inability to turn off his kill-switch.  'I will kill any wolf (or, more likely when referring to 'the natives,' goblin dressed up like a wolf) no matter how much you cry.'  Or somesuch."
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"We should prepare for our journey and ready any provisions we need." Ivon suggests.

Gloria nods in agreement "Then you will want to speak to the Bars owner Gwen to acquire lodging, and when you resting place has been settled then the only shop left open would be Mary's. She deals in all trades and the shop doubles as a forge. I will leave it up to your group to decide how we progress."

"It would be wise to gather dried foods that can be eaten without cooking so that we do not draw the attention of the wolves, though I was raised by them I have since lost that feral side and may not be recognized as one of them any more. The determine friend or foe more so by actions gestures and smell than sight." says Gloria.

  Considering how much his comment is spiraling off into the distance interpretation wise, he feels it is probably for the best to not even try and salvage it, beyond one point. "I suppose only half my targets dying doesn't count to those who wish everything trying to murder you survives.  Though I would not be surprised if someone attempting to kill themself rather than surrender is held against me."

  He thinks back on the teams who complained that he wasn't kill happy ENOUGH, and as usual wonders why he bothers clarifying.

  Oh look, Gloria really did mean literal wolves. Maybe.  Perhaps just really enthusiastic roleplayer trials sorts?  "I have noticed a trend for wildlife to be some of the more dangerous enemies you can face, so avoiding the temptation for them would be wise."
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Eli says, "Well obviously if something or someone tries to kill us, self-defense is in order. But if they are her parents, and we're with her, I don't think they would try."

Once in the tavern, Eli looks around, thankful to be in a place that blocks the wind and has a fireplace so he is a lot warmer.

"Correct," Mittens affirms, "50% kill count, or even 0.0001% kill count still counts as killing.  So one may as well aim for 100% right?"

She heads over to speak to the Bars owner Gwen to acquire lodging.

"Greetings, Gwen!  We were looking for lodging.  Long day of adventure awaits us in the morning what with our plans to go hunt down the sorceress sending the natives to raid this town."

Gwen looks up and shakes her head, "More to leave and never return...." She looks to Eli" and so young as well. Here.." She hands Mittens a key,"Behind me there is one room still available use it as you will, if you intend to stop these attacks then its free as long as you nee it, the rest contain hurt people that our doctor here.." She points to the women next to her "Has been patching up from attacks. There is one adventurer there that made it back if I'm not mistaken, he may be of some help to you."

While Mittens is talking to the bar tender Gloria heads to the table near were Eli and Ivon are by the fire.
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  "Depending on how badly they are hurt, I may be able to do something about it."  HP? just fine.  NPC specifically stated to have no heal surges? Just fine. Plot damage? Much more tricky.

Eli glances over his shoulder, overhearing Gwen. Her complete lack of faith brings up a question in his mind. He then looks at Ivon. "So this blessing you gave to Mittens, Kyle and I... have you given that to the other adventurers that came here before us?"

Mits goes to talk to the adventurer.  They might know something useful after all.

"Hello there.  Me and my team intend to hunt down the evil sorceress.  Any good tips would be appreciated!"

The adventurer pulls himself up on the back of the bed to look at Mittens "So you intend to go as well, I would say don't but I can see in your eyes that you wont listen. The queen, we never even saw her, those damn caves. There are sealed doors, traps, enemy's, and a Dragon that damn dragon it, it ate them all alive...." The adventurer spirals into a sobbing fit and Mittens realizes he will be of no more help than that.

Ivon speaks to Eli "No, it was only recently that I made an attempt to escape the orb that Mordona thought she had sealed me in. I was waiting for someone whose energy and strength I believed able to withstand her forces, and that's when you and your adventuring party appeared. You alone have a massive hidden energy, but even those among you have talent well beyond there years. Fate must have brought you all together."

OOC: I see Mittens is talking with the patients I was asking about.

How's the injury level?  Artificers are even able to heal 'This has no heal surges' NPCs normally intended to remain low on hitpoints, but plot damage is another matter.

Tim did pass along you were 'so tired Nina's voice was going wonky' to be fair.

Though my luck with roleplay stuff does tend to skew towards getting overlooked when I try to interact with things.  Examples of overlooked actions include 'multistory cyborg fires it's godzilla plasma'.  So I couldn't tell a difference from usual.
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OOC you may offer to help those in need and feel free to flavor it they way you wish, the injured are there simply more for theatrics than the main story.

  Kyle may be no cleric when it comes to healing (even if he had gone with /WIS), but Artificers have the edge in healing nameless NPCs.  The fact there is some rest in their near future also lets Kyle avoid asking for healing surge donations after the fact.

  "While I should be glad to hear it Ivon, the way you have been talking about it makes it sound like Eli could very well explode if left unchecked.  Likely not the case, but you tend to worry about these things when crafting magical equipment and alchemical mixutres"

Eli says, "Thanks for the vote of confidence, Ivon."

Eli is visibly disturbed by the description of the adventurers being eaten alive and stares down with a horrified look as he starts weighing his options. A dragon? Can he honestly say he is ready to take down a dragon? Or even be in a team that takes down a dragon?

He's not scared to the point of crying just yet, but he probably will be when they face the dragon.

"Thanks for helping with the heals, Kyle."

She's not sure what to say to the horrified guy or about the massive potential bit.  She opens a holy book of Pelor and reads the grieving man an encouraging passage promising eternal reward to the brave souls who give their lives in defense of the helpless.

The man seems to calm a little at the sound of the words and calms down.

The Bartender Looks to Kyle "Thank you very much for helping them. If you aim to head into the middle of this mess then you should head to the local armor smith. The couple that run it have a large assortment of items you may find useful there."

"I agree those who adventure forward without proper preparation invite only death." offers Ivon

(Kyle offers as mutch help with the wounded as possible and as thanks the Gwen offers the party a free meal. (All health restored and any rebuffs removed) As the day draws to its end our heroes gather around the fire place meal in hand to offer there suggestions on the situation and to prepare as best they can for the grueling path that lies ahead of them. So tell me now Oh heroes how will this story unfold after all you may always turn back this is your story, your tell to tell I simply its voice. Now how shall it unfold)
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  "Well, short of the time and resources to make a batch of enchanted equipment I'm already as prepared as reasonably possible without dragging a wagon behind me.  Still, it is good advice"  One of the OOC Ironies of Kyle is that outside of 'make Alchemy suck less' and his choice in crossbows, Kyle is one of my LEAST worried about magic items picks characters.

  "Well, I'm not quite as good when it comes to bedside manner as you Mittens." Kyle wonders if sunblock is forbidden to followers of Pelor, but has just enough tact not to ask.

Eli says, "It would make sense that the dragon is a white dragon. But we can't assume as much. Once we confirm what kind of dragon it is, we can figure out how to defeat it. But assuming it is a white dragon, cold powers won't hurt it... but could very well hinder it. The queen we know nothing about, but if there is a way to take out the dragon, she will feel crippled and likely either retreat or immediately retaliate. So we need to be ready to retreat the moment we're done with the dragon. Even if her reaction is to retreat to gain her composure, we will need to regain ours too anyway."

"Potions of resist cold might be a good investment either way if we can get our hands on some."

She'll ask around what color dragon it was.

Ivon floats around in front of Eli "The dragon is a White dragon that I had raised to guard my treasure room  from thieves who would enter the caves while I slumber. I fear that Mordona has destroyed his soul and left him an empty shell that only knows how to kill. If we cross his path I beg you to put him to rest."

Gloria shifts her position and speaks "I fear less the Dragon and more the caves themselves, I jest we pack warm for this journey else we may not survive the cold. There is also the matter of the territory between here and the cavers is home to a small family of Ice Giants. Friendly enough most Days but with the way times are now, I fear there may be conflict ahead."

  "Well, that sounds needlessly complicated to make a white dragon eat things for you.  Though I suppose you don't need to offer a husk of one valuables every so often to keep it happy."

  He looks over to Mittens, and says "I do have basic potions covered.  But they will only go so far."

Eli figures Gloria is only saying she fears the dragon less either to just sound tough; or because she has yet to meet a dragon. Watching her men get eaten alive and the nightmare-inducing screams that would follow would likely change her mind. If she lived long enough to keep what was left of her sanity.

Compare that to dying of cold weather. You go numb and quietly fall asleep.

Yeah. Eli is convinced Gloria is just acting tough or has no idea what a dragon is.

But it wouldn't help morale to speak his mind on this point. Instead, he asks, "Did the dragon have a weakness?"

"Dragons are weak to knights but super effective against princesses.  It's part of the elemental wheel!"

She smiles and thumbs-ups at Kyle.  "Thanks!"

"Then I advise you all to get some sleep for it is getting late and a long day waits us all in the morn."

Gloria yawns and nods to the floating bubble "Yes I agree as well I am going to head home for the night and I will meet you all Back here in the morn."

  Kyle is more worried from a practical standpoint, as seeing a man's face bitten off by a bear is roughly the same as seeing it bitten off by a wyvern, and so on.

  Forensics analysis of the teeth marks aside.

  "What if it was an Azer princess?" That'd be pretty metal.

Eli guesses that is code for either "the dragon doesn't have a weakness" or "I'll tell you when you're older in the morning" as far as Ivon's answer is concerned. "...g'night, Gloria."

Eli looks at Mittens and Kyle. "To the room, I guess..."

"I dunno.  Don't even know what that is.  But bed sounds good, yes."

Cat nap for kitty is go!

(So the Heroes carry there tired selves to bed after a long day of learning all that lies before them. What awaits them The next day is something that we can only imagine. Raven the nurse has set up two extra cots in the room to alow each hero there own bed.)




(Our heroes wake to a loud sound of screams from the center of town and a voice yelling out, "Take the captives to the queen now you worms!!!" What could the commotion be, and what will our heroes do next.)
Gloria busts into the tavern "There taking the townspeople we must stop them!"
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  Well, not exactly the way you want to start your day.

  Kyle mutters under his breath along the lines of "Oh your paranoid to sleep with your crossbow, riiiight

  He rolls out of bed, makes his will save vs sighing, and Heads for the door as Gloria makes her entrance and announcement  "You happen to notice how many, Gloria?"   It was probably a lot if she ran here, instead of sword first into somebody.

Eli leaps out of his bed, beckons his books which then hover and follow after him, and rushes out towards Gloria, not too far behind Kyle. He hears Kyle asking Gloria the important question. Not knowing what in the world he is dealing with, he is quickly flipping through the pages of one of his books while running.

Mittens is first to see Eli rush past with books flying behind him while Eli is opening a book to flip through its pages.

Gloria is next to see Eli emerge from the rooms with his eyes glancing over the pages of a book... while running. And half a second after he emerges, so too do two flying books.

Eli can be heard mumbling, "One over two MV squared equals GMm over r..."
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"Equals PEW-PEW-PEW-LASERS!"

Mits is firing at baddies through a window!  Why did she move her cot next to a window?  Couldn't be because she wanted to be attacking things first thing in the morning.  Not at aaaall.  *halo*

Gloria turns and leads the group out into the battle shouting to answer Kyles question, "There are only three left but one of them is big as hell so watch yourself."

(Out into the unknown our adventurers push forward unknowing of what lies ahead.)

The Giant Frost Reaver rushes Gloria and thrusts his spear into her shoulder spinning the blade, "You will die this day."

Gloria lets out a howl of pain and grabs the spear pulling in deeper into her shoulder and her prey closer and into her range, "Alright Arora its feeding time." Gloria brings Arora down into the Reavers neck but the things armor keeps him from being cut, though there is a satisfying crunch as his left arm goes limp.
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Eli stops his equation short when he sees the big guy and rushes forward. "Thunderwave!" and a loud crack of thunder flows forward in front of him, but only seems to ripple the enemies' clothes... and nothing more. Eli looks scared.

  Kyle fires a blurred crossbow bolt into the larger enemy's other arm, and follows up by throwing a packet of dust that burst in the air around the nearby enemies... Is that peppermint?

  "She is not dying for the next few moments, at the very least."

End results:
21 Damage to big guy.
-3 melee to hit rolls on big guy (to end of my next turn).
Big guy and normal guy near him:  Not allowed to take standard actions, until end of it's next turn.

Gloria Buff:  +1 AC, can cash in as a free action (such as when taking a hit) to get Her surge value+3 THP.

one of the minions tries to rush Kyle bus chokes and falls in the dust, and with a squish sound the party hears its own spear price its body killing it.

Gloria tightens her grip on the reavers spear not letting him move to attack, Kyles dust blinding and slowing the beast. She would need to buy him a round at the tavern later "Alright Arora second times the charm, DEVOUR HIM!!!" Once more she brings Arora down on the giants neck severing his left arm completely.
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Mits points, and yellow glowing targets appear in front of the enemies.  She then creates a radiant bow and fires it at the enemies, downing one!

Eli finished reading. "Sorry Mittens..." he says, "But it doesn't equal pewpew... it equals..." he thrusts a hand forward and starts circling clockwise.

A wind starts circling around the giant before a small tornado forms around him, picking him up and soon becoming a red tornado from all the blood flying around. The giant flies 10 feet into the air and then a black spot appears above the vortex... sucking the guy into it before all sound stops for a second. When the sound returns, the vortex disperses and the hole in the air vanishes. All that is left of the giant is the left arm Arora had sliced off. "...this. Um. I think I over compensated." he gulps, looking frightened by what he just did.

  "Hmm, well it's properly contained. Only your intended targets were effected.  I'll take your overshooting over the alternatives, Eli."

  He looks over to Gloria, and says "Just to be sure, is that figurative threats talk, or do you actually have a soul eating weapon?"  Said as he patches up her (thankfully limited) wounds.  He may be an Artificer, but artifacts can be pretty iffy when it comes to identification or even detection.

 We're... we're not gonna get into the full technicals of why a wizard can't recognize the magic missile spell being cast rules as written.

Ivon floats over to Eli "That was an extraordinary show of control child and the amount of synergy required to cast a spell of that magnitude is not something to joke at. You shall make a fine Sage someday with proper training, though i suggest you hold back least you drain yourself and the spell tries to drain your life force to compensate."

Gloria winces as Kyle pulls the last of the splintered spear out of her shoulder and settles as the pain begins to fade. "No Aurora has no power to devour souls, she simply needs her fill of battle or she gets restless." Gloria looks to the rest of the party scattered around and then at the empty town. "We need to get those people back, there is no telling what the Queen will do to them. The armorer is over there, (Gloria points to a large stone building), any supplies we may need should be there. The local shops all donated what they had to spare there before most of them left, so that any who needed supplies could gather them faster in one location and so the town did not starve while trying to winter this war."

"Woohoo, nice one, Eli!" Mits commends, hopping up and down.

"Keep pulling stuff like that, and you can prove me wrong aaall day long!

"Yay for personified weapons!"

She thumbs-ups at the shopping suggestion and heads for the store.

Eli glances at Ivon and ducks his head. "Sorry, Mister Ivon. I got desperate because my magic wasn't working at first..."

He double-takes. "What? I thought we just stopped the kidnappers..."

Eli heads for the store with the others. Upon seeing the inside of the store, he hurries to the nearest person. "Do you sell anything magical?"

  Ah, offscreen kidnappings.  The fastest kind.  See also: Scales of war thread.

    Kyle nods to Gloria,  "Merely bloodthirsty is fine, though I advise you void any sentient weapons.  When not trying to possess you outright, they have a habit of vanishing in the middle of a fight if you don't follow their whims."

  As for Eli, he says "While I'm not expecting it, any residium supplies mean I can likely enchant equipment to certain requests if it is not conveniently located on the shelves here."

  He turns to the glowball in confusion  "Just what half rate methods are you used to, if that is not only the first concern that comes to mind but one that does at all.

The small women behind in the store looks to the group and rubs her eyes wiping away the tears. " You must be the adventurers that have come to help us, please I beg of you take what you will, but save my husband. He was taken by those brutes with the rest of the towns people and now there is none left to forge the weapons the soldiers need to protect us."

Gloria grabs a few essentials from the tables set around the room and looks to the lady, "We will return everyone, just wait and keep safe. We will end this no matter what, I owe the people here to much to allow more harm to come to them." Gloria moves to a stone grinder and proceeds to sharpen Aurora. "We will leave out as soon as the rest of you have prepared." 


Ivon staying close to Eli offers advice on things that may help the young mage. "Remember child you have a much larger mana pool than most but it is not everlasting, I suggest something to store mana into such as a Fey stone if they have any so that you can store excess magic to use to replenish yourself in a prolonged battle."


The lady hearing Ivon walks to a nearby wall and removes a stone revealing a small iridescent stone and moves to present it to Eli. "This was something that we held onto for emergency, in case the shop ever went under. They are very rare and expensive, take and please use it how you may, jut please bring back my husband."

Mits was already toying with the wares, but crying lady snaps her back to reality.

"Rest assured we will do our utmost!"

She oohs and aahs at the magic items.

"Wow!  And our chances just improved a great deal!  Thanks!"

Eli takes the fey stone and nods. "Thanks." he says with a sad tone to his voice. He just can't be happy in the face of a crying woman who's husband got snatched.

He then finds and equips a number of other items. He's quiet throughout, mostly thinking about how best to rescue the people and what all they will have to face in the future.

  Hmm, completely ignoring the call out about the whole 'life draining magic' thing.  Obsession with a young impressionable child loaded with arcane energy.   Requests Eli put said energy into strange artifacts...  Ivon is so going to try and possess Eli at this rate.

  "We will do what we can to save as many as possible."