Nathan smiles and waves!  "Hi, Igatho!  Hi, new girl!  I'd be happy to teach music!"

He giggles at being accused of being 30.  "Dunno how old my bones are, but all I remember is about three winters."

...With the occasional flashback that doesn't make sense for a kid his apparent age.

Upon overhearing mention of a witch and being asked to sing Nathan grins.

"One of the funnest things about music is finding songs that tie into what's going on.  I'll sing 'Night Witches.'  It's a song about a military regiment of stealthy flying soldiers who were given that name.

He conjures a lyre and begins strumming a driving beat while bobbing his head and dancing on air.  ((OOC: This song just happened to pop up on my playlist right when I started writing up my post. ;D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7NSUFDHFgg Altered the lyrics slightly to be more setting appropriate. ))

♫♪ "From the depths of hell in silence!
Cast their spells, explosive violence!
Magic night time flight perfected!
Flawless vision, undetected!

Pushing on and on, their spells are going strong!
Air force's number one!
Somewhere down below they're looking for the foe!
Bomber's on a run!
You can't hide, you can't move, just abide!
Their attack's been proved (raiders in the dark)!
Silent through the night the witches join the fight!
Never miss their mark!

Undetected, unexpected!
Wings of glory!
Tell their story!
Aviation, deviation!
Undetected!
Stealth perfected!

Foes are losing ground, retreating to the sound!
Death is in the air!
Suddenly appears, confirming all your fears!
Strike from witches lair!
Target found, come around, magic sounds, from the battleground!
(foe 'r aiming high)!
Rodina awaits, defeat them at the gates!
Live to fight and fly!

Flying wings of death!
Prepare to meet your fate!
Night Witches regiment!
588!

Beneath the starlight of the heavens!
Unlikely heroes in the skies! (witches to attack, witches coming back)!
As they appear on the horizon!
The wind will whisper when the night witches come!" ♫♪
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Too much metal. Pan is one of those girls who would cringe at the sound of metal; she would so not enjoy most of Chestnut's music. She leaves with Tark and Darcy to check on Steve. On the way, she asks Tark how the accident happened and how it will be prevented in the future.

Once there, Pan will of course, tend to the wound regardless.

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Igatho is a baby; she has not made strong opinions yet besides "smashing is good". So if anything, she is dancing about to Nathan's song about witches! Anyone with keen rhythm perception would notice Igatho is pretty spot on. She could either be a good dancer, a good drummer, or both.

Igatho goes to pet Sassy. "Pretty squirrel!"

Igatho looks at Jamie. "Jamie! Show us magic!" she claps with a big smile on her face.
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In reply to Igatho (msg # 41):

I suppose it's my turn.  (Tim then Me)

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At first Jamie had to blink at the unusual sight of a Frost Giant being so innocent, but then she smiled at the child's request.

With a bit more flair than usual, she conjured up an illusion of a glowing ball of light, and then with both hands up in the air, she launched it up in the sky when it burst into a sparkling colorful firecracker.

"There be more where they came from, my pretty," she said with a chuckle.

She then paused to look over toward Nathan.  "I know some guys who would go for that style, but I think Igatho here's a bit young for that."

Meanwhile, Justin hobbled his way to the Inn, because if he's going to get off his foot, he might as well have it in a place where the villagers can get to him if they need him, and the barkeep there is practicing with his new cappuchino machine.  (Generic NPC for now.)

Darcy accompanied Pan, Tark and the others as they checked out the rest of Sassy's shipment.
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Post Order: Pan, Justin (David), Sassy, Tark, Whoever my bro introduces
(Sassy's Turn to Post. Nobody but Sassy post please.)

Sarah shook her head as Jamie conjured the ball for Igatho. She looked back to the other squirrel then to the hobbling off Justin. Trying to place why he seemed so familiar to her.

Sassy turned back to her wagon and began to unload it herself .It might be a tad surprising to see the squirrel woman lift heavy stuff.

  Tark is hardly surprised a tiny angelic looking person is singing about flying death... Not for the first time, Tark wonders about his priorities.  "Nice song, Nathan."

  He smiles at Jamie's display of harmless pyrotechnics still visible behind them as they depart towards lazy jump cuts, because it's all the light show of fireworks without the potential fire hazards.  Which is honestly for the best with babies nearby, even ones that probably have more hitpoints than he does.

  "Well Pan, Darcy. Short version is they were carrying too much for them to handle at once while we were repairing and replacing some brickwork.  So they ended up dropping it on themselves.  Maybe you'll be more convincing than I am saying 'please don't carry more than you can handle'?"  People do seem to take concern for their health better when it's a cute girl rather than some half-orc guy, for some reason, go figure.

  STEVE, hapless nondescript NPC extraordinaire who will probably never be heard from again after this, has somehow managed to win solitaire without cheating as the small group arrives. "What took you so long, Tark?"

  "Sorry, I would have found them faster if I knew you were that eager to get back to work."  Wait, did that sound sarcastic? Tark hoped it didn't... It probably did.

OOC: Seems to be Nathan, then Pan now.

"Thanks!"

Nathan smiled and danced midair right along with Igatho.

"You're a good dancer!"

He cheers and claps for the magical display, firing an illusary arrow through the fireworks!

"Pretty squirrel!  Pretty elf!  Pretty magic!  Aaand pretty baby!"

"Any requests for my next song?"

Igatho watches Sassy a little and says, "I can help!" and goes to grab stuff to carry for Sassy. She is apparently assuming Nathan was asking Jamie for music requests... or she just figures anything Nathan performs is good anyway. However, she does make sure to say, "I like your music, Nathan!" as if to say the metal is fine with her.

Seeing Justin head off to the Inn, Igatho begins following him there with her hands full of some of Sassy's stuff! Unless Sassy stops her, that is.

---

Pan says, "Maybe." in response to Tark, and walks over to Steve. "I understand the desire to get as much done as possible, while doing so as quickly as possible, but as you can see, there is such a thing as too much which just winds up slowing you down. Everyone knows you are a hard worker, Steve, and that you're a tough guy*. But please be more careful in the future?" Her voice resounding with care and concern as she works on the guy's fracture.

*Steve at least was not crying like a baby or whining or anything concerning his injury.

---

Jamie/Justin/Darcy's turn.

"Well, that's how some shipments get here," Darcy said.  "Parnast only gets one or two regular shipments from Saint Omer to here a day, three if we're lucky, so we expect an occasional overload."

She then looks over at the resident Giant in the region, who's heading off to the inn's outdoor patio, which due to the villager's foresight has set up a large tree log under a high awning for Igatho to sit in (since she's too big to fit through the door, naturally)  "It's not like we're lacking for good help here."

Justin just calls out for a basket for Igatho to dump all the stuff she'll carry into.

  Turns out Steve can't quite bring himself to sarcastically point out how wrong Tark is about his enthusiasm to the concerned lady. "Allright, I'll be extra sure to only lift what I can easily carry." Unless you count honest intentions of carrying half bricks instead of whole bricks.

  Tark is glad Darcy's comments about good help being lacking is still mostly true.  He expects he'll get used to giant children and winged children(?) just in time to need to adjust to the next hard working oddity.

  "Thank you again for the help, everyone. If Steve looks too bored on the mend we can always make him mix the cement.  I don't suppose you had idea ideas about any pressing issues bound to turn up at that progress meeting?"

OOC: Pyrus, then Pan.

"I'm glad you like the music!"

Nathan lends a hand while teaching Igatho a helping hand song.

♫ "I am helpful,
I am helpful,
I am helpful,
Yes it's true.
When other people need me,
Helping them is what I do."♪

https://youtu.be/ISHwjJtnV8s?t=1m2s
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Igatho will also carry Sassy if the squirrel lets her. Although running from Igatho would be a bad idea as it would just cause the tot to think she wants to play chase. Either way, Igatho is sure to carry as much as she is allowed to help out with while marching dutifully to Nathan's music. When Nathan is done with his latest song, Igatho asks, "Do you know Giant tunes?"

Meanwhile, a townsfolk by the name of Henry walks to Justin and says, "Hey Justin, I overheard Pan saying something about a meeting later today? I've been getting more involved in coordinating stuff, so I was wondering if I could be in that meeting?"

---

Pan smiles at Steve and nods, happy that he agreed to it so easily. She looks at Darcy and says, "True. But with Parnast trying to build up, we can still use all the help we can get. I know I feel a lot more secure having you around, Darcy. But my medicine just can't compete with divine healing from the gods." So just multiclass into Cleric, Pan. Mmmm... monk/cleric....

Pan then looks at Tark. "Tark... considering your history, would you like to learn a thing or two about first aid? It would help me a lot and I think someone as safety-minded as yourself should be prepared for times like this when someone gets injured despite precautions."

Jamie/Justin/Darcy's turn.
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Justin nodded to Henry.  "Yeah, it'll be part of the weekly meeting, of course, anyone with a good idea or an offer to help is always welcome."

Darcy scratched her head.  "Well, the divine dragons just don't grant everyone divine magic willy nilly, but I have seen arcane healers. While I might loathe to involve our visitor," she glances at Jamie, who was entering the tavern herself, out of earshot, "I know that the Black Forest Coven are known for their healers.  Maybe we could search for some way to channel your ki into healing magic."  She shruggs.  "brainfarting here."

---

OOC:  My, I'm surprised that I was able to keep playing even when I'm in Idaho.

The squirrel woman blinked at being picked up. she would of said something but figured the child meant no harm by it.

Sarah quietly and eagerly followed her mistress looking about as they entered the tavern.

  "Understandable Darcy, considering you can only help people so often with that kind of thing it's no surprise why most magical healing you see put to use is either on the road when they need the injured person to protect them, and cases of 'use it or lose the patient'" Well, outside of people rich enough to make a Generous Donation™ to the church/guild/coven/Owlbear veterinarian's society.

  He nods to Pan, "That would be appreciated, and yes I would really like to be able to do more for injured workers than lie to them 'oh this is totally a healing potion' while they have a head injury too big to question that."

  As such, even if Jamie was legitimate he'll still be hazy around potion based healing compared to point and pray.

Nathan smiles so big it forces his eyes closed and he shakes his head in answer to Igatho's question.

"Only 'giant' song I know is about a giant purple dinosaur."

He begins playing music on his lute.  (( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSxgoHfgy9c ))

"Do you know any giant tunes?  Can you teach me?"

Pan says, "Let's finish patrolling Parnast and then rendezvous with Justin at the Old Barrel Inn. I saw him head there, so he should be there when we arrive." she then looks at Tark. "I can teach you later tonight. But for now, care to join Darcy and I on a patrol of Parnast? Steve will be OK..."

Pan puts an arm around Darcy with a smile and continues her patrol, having already started it by going with Tark to one of the construction sights. "And if you see anyone not following safety procedures, please feel free to correct them. I will wait."

Meanwhile, Henry smiled and says, "Well... good. Mind if I sit with you, Justin?"

---

Igatho puts Saassy on her shoulder, then claps and giggles at the sound of the dinosaur song and says, "Rawr!" while stomping around, acting like a T-rex!

When Nathan asks if Igatho knows any Giant tunes, the tot nods, "Uh-huh!" and sings!

"Anfel! Anfel!
Fange blod angel! Anfel!
Dod kom!
Gi isejotun dun nom!
Gi seir!
Gi isejotun uvenir!
Ise! Vind! Uvar! Kom!
Kvit ise stig slag nar heim stomm!
Ise! Vind! Uvar! Kom!
Gi isejotun seir dun nom!"

---

I looked up Giantish and meticulously put those lyrics together. I spent entirely too much time on that when I could have just made up words. XD

Translation of the song:

Attack! Attack!
Take blood as ale! Attack!
Death come! Give frost giants your name!
Give victory! Give frost giants enemies!
Ice! Wind! Storm! Come!
White ice lights battle near the home (of our) tribe!
Ice! Wind! Storm! Come!
Give frost giants victory in your name!
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Nearly all of Parnast almost cowered in visible pain whenever "Giant Purple Dinosaur" is heard, even those who haven't even heard of a certain kind of Giant Purple Dinosaur, whose singing is known to cause pain to all of reality, but then the actual song was played, and everything breathed a sigh of relief.

Not that purple dinosaur, thank the Dragons!

Darcy took Pan's arm and continued on her patrol like school-time BFFs, and nodded to the Pandafolk with a smile as they went on their way.

Meanwhile, Justin pulls a chair over and offered it to Henry.  He's keeping a watchful eye on a certain newcomer Witch.  Who's pointed ears just twitched.

"That better not be a spell, Jamie Wintertouch."

Jamie stopped, and then turned around to face the still sitting--thanks to the bound ankle--Justin.  "Justin Mercurial, I. Am. Surprised at you.  Do you honestly think that I, Sister Jamie Wintertouch of the Black Forest coven, would do anything nefarious?"  She was laying on the ham pretty thick, and even used an illusion spell to make a halo appear around her pointed hat, to show that she's on her best behavior.

Justin was quick to shatter that halo.  "Oh Jeez, let me think--YES!"

"Oh don't be that way," Jamie said with a confident smile and a hand flicking away a lock of her hair.  "As I said when we met in Paris, I'd be around when there's much-needed lore to be found.  And I heard that there's plenty of abandoned towers in the forest in the Triangle, so I thought I'd check them out."

"Yeah, that reminds me," Justin said.  "Where did Meiou go, that annoying little cuss?  I haven't seen him since two days ago when he said he needed to touch back with his friends.  Probably to scam someone of some coin to get some loan sharks off his cottontail."

Jamie paused for a moment, but then just stretched her arms.  "I think I've seen him, but I'm a bit parched to talk right now. I'm cozying my way up to the bar."

Neither Justin nor Darcy had the nerve that one doesn't usually generate much of a thirst by traveling the 20 or something miles between Saint-Omer and Parnast on wagon.  But then again, a ginger half-eladrin known for prankster magic might be looking for more than a throatslake.

And he might be right, as the witch contacted the rabbitfolk through her connection to him as his warlock patron, whatever he wanted to or not: "Meeeeeiiiiou," Sarah heard Jamie's voice in her head.  "Is there something you need to tell me?" She could sense something poking in that new grumbly part of her mind, in her usual prankish manner.  By now he knows that she, while never harming him even in this enchanted costume he's wearing, has her ways to get him to spill the beans.

While she's doing this to her familiar, she just sits in the stool acting attractive and all to the locals, waiting for the bartender, and reminding herself not to charm anyone off the bat, she just got here.

---

(Mechanically:  I don't know how much Sarah knows of Meiou at this time, although I'd think she'd be more aware of this new part of her.  I'm surprised that Meiou and Sarah haven't 'talked' any.)

The rabbit would roll his eyes if he was capable. " Oh you know I did have a life outside you before you trapped me in here temporarily " he said in a sort of you should know this tone

Sarah shifted uncomfortably as the two voices in her head conversed. She was slightly aware of it but nervous to talk to the grumpy bunny given how he argued with her mistress every time she heard him talk.

Sassy came in carrying some supplies for the tavern. "  That rabbit? Probably still pissed at Carl for telling him his axe was valuable and then finding out it was shittier than even what we sell. I think the dwarf ended up having it stuck in the back of his head for a day before someone finally told him it was embeded in him .I think Darcy scolded him for it too. She might know where he went."

  "Hopefully that's all the injury you two need to deal with today, but yes I'll come along for the rest of your patrol."  Tark opts not to mention the fact 'safety procedures' are not much of a formality in fantasy steampunk land.  Though he's also well aware his views on critiquing a lack of railings installed in bandit cave lairs is not exactly normal thinking.

  Either way, he will follow along with Darcy and Pan.  Even if that means it will be harder to see background gags like babies giving grown adults piggyback rides before resuming their booze supply duties.

Nathan was tickled by the giant tot's enjoying his dinosaur song.  He never did understand why adults cringe at the mention of a purple dino specifically.  But Sassy apparently took it all in stride along with the dancing blue giant.

Nathan's positively delighted to learn a Giantish song!  He immediately echoes the song note for note and (mostly) word for word so he can memorize it, punctuating the word, "nom" with a biting motion like he's eating an invisible sandwich.  Rhymed and repeated words like, "Anfel" he remembers perfectly, but the rest of his Giantish needs help.  For the words he's forgotten, he substitutes the nearest "Do," "Re," or "Mi."

"I love it, Igatho!  I want to learn it by heart!  What do the words mean?"

Nathan gives a friendly wave to the familiar Justin, but doesn't recognize the pretty elf he's clearly none too trusting of.  The halo sure catches his eye, and feels familiar somehow.  Where is this strong urge to smite the nice smiling ginger coming from?  Embarrassed, Nathan averts his eyes and returns his attention to Igatho.

Igatho looks at Sassy and says, "Ooooooo... you said a dirty word. You're gonna get a time-out..."

She turns her attention to Nathan and says, "I love you, Nathan!" and covers half the cherub's face with giant lips. "Mwah!" She then answers by singing it in Common, "Attack! Attack! Drink blood like ale! Attack! Death come! Give us your name! Give victory! Give us enemies! Ice! Wind! Storm! Come! White ice lights battle near our home! Ice! Wind! Storm! Come! Give us victory in your name!"

Sure, it isn't an exact translation. For example, Igatho didn't know "us" was at the exclusion of any other race. "It doesn't rhyme in common." she comments.

Igatho then stares at Jamie and says, "Pretty!" before rushing to attempt to grab the halo off Jamie's head and slap it onto her own head.

Henry looks at Justin, "You know, you could just kick the witch out of town if she is that much trouble. Or has it all been harmless?"

---

Pan takes the time, patrolling Parnast, to talk with Tark and Darcy. Mostly small-talk, but the occasional brainstorm on what all needs done in town and if Karl should be allowed to attend the meeting today. Regardless of what Tark and Darcy decide to discuss with Pan, their jaunt takes about 20 minutes since everything is currently running smoothly. (After this coming round of posts, I will time-warp to the meeting)

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Post Order: Pan, Justin (David), Sassy, Tark, Whoever my bro introduces
(Justin's Turn to Post.)
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Justin snorts as Sassy tells him about what Meiou has done.  "Why am I not surprised?"  He then turned to Henry.  "Jamie's more of a prankster than anything else.  If nothing else, just leave something bright and cute on the table she's in.  That always keeps her occupied"

Or have a Preschool Frost Giant grab for her halo.  "AAAAAAAAAH!" Jamie said with a comical face as Igatho went for the halo.

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"Anyway," Darcy says during the chit chatting, "I'd like to find out where both rabbit and dwarf are at.  I'll feel better knowing where they're at."

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Edit:   Thank GOD that I'm still able to edit this post:  Did I just tell someone to spike a woman's drink?!  Even though the woman in question is a practical joker with her spells?  What was I thinking!?
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" Please tell me you kept that dwarf out of my tavern while i was gone. I don't want to find out that he drank everything. So help me if he has I'll throw him into next year." The squirrel really disliked the dwarf when it came to drinking her profits.

  Tark nods,  "Yeah, missing people are generally not something you want to happen."  Even if apparently, they were not very popular people?  He has the feeling they will have better luck with The Dwarf, than finding the missing rabbit though.

  "Well if we find him, that depends on Justin if he goes to the meeting."  Yes, clearly as the man in charge-  "Because we wouldn't get much done if he spends the time trying to kick people." welp.

Signs point to Revenge, with a side of 'it's fine if it's my own character right?' oops logic.  Mostly the revenge.