8:11:51 PM Jocelyn: KeresM (8:14:33 PM): Did Vin want to ask Darus anything specific?
LordChaosSama (8:15:30 PM): umm, most question would revovle around the dwarves' saftey in the attack and such at first
LordChaosSama (8:15:53 PM): after that was acertained the history on the horsemen would be asked for
KeresM (8:16:11 PM): 'I'll only attack those that attack me'
KeresM (8:16:30 PM): Any specifics on the history of the horsemen?
LordChaosSama (8:16:48 PM): hmm
LordChaosSama (8:18:06 PM): information concerning the state of Samad, myhts and legends from the time to use in my bard work
LordChaosSama (8:18:42 PM): also I will tell him what I know of that era through my bardic knowledge and let him fill in gaps or correct misunderstandings
8:12:02 PM Jocelyn: KeresM (8:19:40 PM): 'Samad was the diety followed by Alanar, leader of the Silver Lances. The drow razed the lands of the Horsemen, and there wasn't much left. The Silver Lances were the great heroes, and you'd seen your people fall to great evil. No doubt you clung to what you could.'
KeresM (8:20:04 PM): He'll find a lot of the histories downright amusing, especially if you tell him the tales you learned of the Silver Lances
KeresM (8:21:28 PM): 'You should know this, son of the Horsemen: after the war, the goats you raised were Sclavini stock, and the wheat you planted was Righnach seed. Our people were one then, united, with no borders to speak of. We worshiped at your shrines and you at ours.'
KeresM (8:22:07 PM): 'It saddens me that you are no longer our brothers.'
8:12:04 PM Jocelyn: LordChaosSama (8:24:02 PM): "Well with the way it sounds we would have been better to stay the way we were. Somehow I think though, it was the fantism, even if blinded, of my ancetors that make Amareth as expanding as it is now."
KeresM (8:25:05 PM): 'We always called our gods by different names, but deep down, we always believed they were the same. I can guess at why that changed…the elves learned to well what war would cost them.'
KeresM (8:25:48 PM): 'a human woman can make a soldier in fifteen years. It takes an elf woman fifty. The elves needed someone to do their fighting for them. Looks like they found them'
LordChaosSama (8:28:53 PM): "As you can tell, I'm not what you'd call a 'devout' follower of my people's god, nor is my cousin here even if her fashion tastes say otherwise. My mind is open to the past, that's why in part why I call myself a bard. What you tell me today can very well change tomorrow if I can use it right."
KeresM (8:29:33 PM): 'I've changed the world twice. Not sure I care enough to do it again'
KeresM (8:30:22 PM): :::He reaches into a small alcove, and sets something down where you can see it. It's a helm, made of moonsilver, and shaped to resemble the head of a dragon:::
8:12:38 PM Jocelyn: LordChaosSama (10:10:08 PM): "So does that mean you used to be a dragon knight or did you go on a killing spree or sorts?"
KeresM (10:11:07 PM): "Both, I suppose"
8:12:58 PM Jocelyn: Darus shrugs, 'war is rarely clean'
8:13:29 PM Joseph: (this continuing what we were speaking on?)
8:14:31 PM Jocelyn: yep
8:15:42 PM Maggi: *listens watching Darus with an odd expression*
8:17:29 PM Joseph: "Well that means you were there at the battle of Gray Mountain no? The victory that lead to, well, victory."
8:18:25 PM Jocelyn: 'Yes. There was."
8:18:57 PM Jocelyn: 'Tell me, son of the Horseman, what version of the story were you told?'
8:22:47 PM Joseph: "The Dragon Knights, led by Athaurus, were the spearhead in the Battle of Gray Mountain. In that battle the drow magi were slain and the elven armies thusly became victorious. "
8:23:22 PM Joseph: "Athaurus was killed in the battle but his sister led the rest of the knights to begin rebuilding after the war."
8:23:32 PM Jocelyn: 'close enough, I suppose'
8:23:53 PM Maggi: *stifles a yawn*
8:24:10 PM Jocelyn: 'good as the Silver Lances were though, it was the fact that the demons turned on the drow when the magi died that won that battle'
8:26:30 PM Jocelyn: 'So, Kazi, have you a plan yet?
8:28:35 PM Maggi: *blinks*
8:28:40 PM Maggi: Hmmmm?
8:30:22 PM Jocelyn: Do you have a plan?
8:30:49 PM Maggi: Yes, well… I think probably it's best to deal with the problem in the fort, then maybe bury this business and think on what to do about keeping people from finding it
8:32:27 PM Jocelyn: 'How do you intend to deal with the problem at the fort?'
8:32:34 PM Jocelyn: ((sense motives))
8:32:56 PM Joseph: ((sry i had to look up something for my siblings school))
8:33:07 PM Maggi: one sec
8:35:34 PM Joseph: ((i haven't a clue how to roll dice in here
8:36:48 PM Jocelyn: Just give me the mod then
8:37:02 PM Joseph: +10
8:39:03 PM Jocelyn: ::-Darus raises an eyebrow at Kazi::: 'and then how do you intend to deal with the artifact?', ::he glances over at Vin as well:::
8:39:49 PM Maggi: *glances at Vin*
8:39:57 PM Maggi: *looks at Darus*
8:40:01 PM Joseph: "Hey don't look at me. I just found out such things exist today."
8:40:03 PM Maggi: *frowns*
8:41:08 PM Joseph: "Although I wonder if this is the sort of thing Adamo didn't want Aben finding…" *Staring off in thought*
8:41:26 PM Maggi: *snarls*
8:41:29 PM Maggi: Gee, wonder if?
8:42:00 PM Maggi: *frowns even more deeply*
8:42:49 PM Joseph: "Well hey now, no reason to get hostile. I seriously doubt Adamo knew what Aben was going to find, at least he didn't seem that way…wait, me speacking of Adamo doesn't surprise you?"
8:42:57 PM Joseph: (speaking*)
8:43:15 PM Joseph: (i do hope I'm getting his name right)
8:43:20 PM Jocelyn: ((you are))
8:43:26 PM Maggi: *rolls eyes*
8:43:36 PM Jocelyn: Darus merely leans back and watches the two of you
8:43:41 PM Maggi: Should it?
8:45:56 PM Joseph: "Ah, well that all depends I guess. Either you should be asking who I'm talking about if you don't know him or if you do you should be wondering why I'm talking about. Although there is no doubt in my mind that you would
8:45:58 PM Joseph: see him as unfavorably as you see most Amarethi, not that I like him much either."
8:47:55 PM Maggi: *merely gives him a dark look, and raises a mocking eyebrow *
8:49:07 PM Maggi: *purses her lips*
8:49:19 PM Joseph: "I'm going to go on a wild guess here, mostly due to how my day's been going this only seems appropriate as well. You know far more than you are expressing outright?"
8:49:39 PM Maggi: *smiles serenely*
8:50:17 PM Joseph: "About a great number of things obviously…" *rolling his eyes knowing what that kind of smile means coming from a woman*
8:50:41 PM Maggi: *gives him an outrageous wink*
8:50:58 PM Maggi: Ah, you are a very discerning fellow
8:51:20 PM Joseph: "Would it be within realm of reason that you would fill me in on how much you know?"
8:51:29 PM Maggi: It rather depends
8:52:07 PM Maggi: I am not quite sure what it is that *you* know, and that puts me at a bit of a disadvantage here too
8:52:12 PM Maggi: *grins*
8:52:31 PM Maggi: What is it you're asking? *twirls hair*
8:53:19 PM Maggi: Perhaps we can trade some information that would be mutually beneficial
8:53:25 PM Maggi: Then everyone ends up happy
8:53:46 PM Jocelyn: 'or at least with their arms still attached'
8:53:50 PM Joseph: "Alright then, here's a decent enough test." *grabing up his flask that by now you know is filled with wine rather than the norm hard liquor* "Can you tell me the connection between this and I?"
8:54:06 PM Maggi: *sniffs it*
8:54:34 PM Maggi: It's not vodka, it's not spiced wine…
8:54:38 PM Maggi: *thinks a moment*
8:54:52 PM Maggi: *shrugs*
8:54:56 PM Maggi: Your point?
8:55:54 PM Joseph: "Well I guess it has a connection with my dear cousin too…I'll give you a hint, it's name is Evelice Wine, comes from the Evinco estate in Amareth. Quite expensive."
8:56:36 PM Maggi: I suppose I could call Jerath over here for help on quiz hour, if you have a point to this?
8:56:36 PM Joseph: "If you still don't know then I will take it that you know nothing and will proceed to discuss a better plan for the fort raid"
8:58:47 PM Maggi: *frowns in thought a moment*
8:58:57 PM Maggi: Evelice Wine…
8:59:21 PM Joseph: "Yes"
8:59:29 PM Maggi: Jerath?
9:00:06 PM Maggi: *calls her knight friend over for a consult*
9:00:10 PM Jocelyn: 'Yes milady?'
9:00:38 PM Joseph: "I don't sharing if you really want to call everyone over"
9:00:58 PM Joseph: (I don't mind sharing**))
9:01:06 PM Maggi: Can you tell me something about Evelice Wine from the Evinco Estate in Amareth, my dear?
9:02:17 PM Maggi: *shrugs at Vin's statement*
9:02:28 PM Maggi: I am trying to puzzle this out Sir Vin
9:02:32 PM Jocelyn: 'I think it's from Letizia. Other than that, not much more than it's expensive. Something served at fancy gatherings'
9:02:47 PM Maggi: I am merely asking Sir Jerath for some information
9:03:10 PM Maggi: Thank you, dear Sir.
9:03:24 PM Maggi: *turns to Vin*
9:03:45 PM Maggi: Ah, so I know that the wine is quite expensive, and it's from some estate that none of have any idea about
9:03:52 PM Maggi: So I still don't see your point?
9:04:10 PM Joseph: "I have you know it's served on more occasions than fancy gatherings…Most auspicious occaitions call for this drink…" *takes a swig before returning it to his hip*
9:04:16 PM Maggi: Other than you have expensive taste in wine?
9:04:34 PM Jocelyn: Darus comments, 'and why was I not offered any?'
9:04:40 PM Maggi: *watches this with wry amusement*
9:05:34 PM Maggi: And what auspicious occasion are we celebrating?
9:05:38 PM Joseph: "Um well, I did say I didn't mind sharing. You just didn't speak up is all. If you want some it free to drink. Not like it's poisoned…not that I think a poison could kill you…"
9:06:03 PM Maggi: All right then
9:06:07 PM Maggi: Expensive wine
9:06:12 PM Joseph: *handing out the flask if so wishes to take it*
9:06:15 PM Maggi: What else was there to this?
9:06:22 PM Jocelyn: Darus takes the flask and tastes it. "well, at least your people have improved something over the years.' he hands it back
9:06:46 PM Maggi: *seems perplexed*
9:06:49 PM Joseph: "It matters not really. I still don't know what you know but I do know something you don't know"
9:07:09 PM Joseph: "Quite simple, no?"
9:07:20 PM Maggi: *rolls her eyes*
9:07:29 PM Jocelyn: 'and I know if you two don't stop playing games I'm going to stop enjoying your company'
9:07:47 PM Maggi: Yes, you know that my grasp of Amarethi geography is not too strong, and I don't bloody well care
9:08:10 PM Maggi: Bravo!
9:08:22 PM Maggi: *gives Darus an amused glance*
9:08:36 PM Maggi: I think the nice man enjoys playing games, but I think he thinks too much
9:08:47 PM Maggi: *smiles serenely and tosses her hair*
9:09:22 PM Joseph: "Trust me, it was no joke at your expense. But you have me at a disadvantage here. But all this aside I guess. I could still prove usefull here if you'd let me."
9:09:31 PM Jocelyn: 'I was talking to both of you'
9:09:37 PM Maggi: Well, we shall see
9:09:58 PM Maggi: *nods at Darus*
9:10:17 PM Maggi: Well, that would be a shame, Darus, you barely just met me
9:10:35 PM Maggi: *smiles brightly, putting on her winningnest smile*
9:10:56 PM Jocelyn: ::gazes back, apparently unimpressed:::
9:11:16 PM Maggi: Now, then, Sir Vin, if you want to ask me a plain question, I may be inclined to answer, but I have no patience to mince words
9:11:30 PM Joseph: *after a moments thought, bends down to whisper something in Llyssa's ear and awaits a response whispered back from her before sitting back up*
9:12:34 PM Maggi: *is completely unphased by Darus' lack of reaction*
9:13:32 PM Maggi: *waits patiently, but will become bored after a while*
9:14:48 PM Jocelyn: afk
9:17:51 PM Joseph: "Alright then!" *getting up from his seat standing before the two, llyssa getting up beside him* "I greet you as Lord Angelus Evinco of Letizia. This is my cousin baroness Llyssa Evinco of Letizia." *bow the both of them*
9:17:55 PM Joseph: "…Ok now that we've got that out of the way"
9:18:39 PM Maggi: *is amused*
9:18:39 PM Joseph: "If you need proof I can provide it but, one noble to another I am not lying"
9:19:24 PM Joseph: "Otherwise, nice to make you accuantance"
9:19:49 PM Jocelyn: back
9:20:04 PM Joseph: ((acquaintance*))
9:20:06 PM Maggi: Your cousin is the Baroness and you are the Lord? I am not sure how this all works, but Sir Jerath explained it to me and I must admit I am a bit confused.
9:20:13 PM Jocelyn: 'oh, good, nobility. This just keeps getting better'
9:20:24 PM Maggi: But, pleased to make your acquaintance, er, Lord Angelus
9:20:36 PM Maggi: Do we call you that, or Vin, still?
9:21:19 PM Joseph: "Well in all honesty baroness is a title slapped on there just to show noble birth with no real position. At least where we are from."
9:21:37 PM Maggi: I am not sure if you were witness to the introductions earlier, but I am Lady Celestyna Kazimiera Tyszka Havel Gostislav
9:21:47 PM Maggi: But you can just call me Kazi
9:21:55 PM Maggi: Because the rest is really just superfluous
9:22:05 PM Joseph: "Um, well in all honesty Vin will do. Not everyone needs to know a lord of Amareth is walking among them. Not everyone is as, accepting, as you"
9:22:15 PM Maggi: *snorts*
9:22:55 PM Maggi: Well, in all honesty, I'd much rather people not know that I am the Gostislav Heir, either
9:23:06 PM Maggi: So I suppose we can be fellows in crime on that account
9:23:31 PM Joseph: "That we are"
9:23:58 PM Jocelyn: 'glad everyone is getting along. Now back to the point. Do you have a plan for the artifact?'
9:24:10 PM Maggi: *frowns*
9:24:34 PM Maggi: You mentioned something about bringing the mountain down?
9:24:37 PM Maggi: Say you did that?
9:25:03 PM Maggi: would it ensure that the artifact would not be accessible for at least a good long time?
9:26:06 PM Jocelyn: 'you mean, less accessible than it currently is guarded by a lot of traps that reset themselves and myself? As you've no doubt noticed sometime in your tender years, rocks can be moved'
9:26:30 PM Jocelyn: 'I already caused an avalanche once. Obviously, someone dug it out. So, do you have something better in mind, or was that it?'
9:27:00 PM Maggi: Does the surliness come with the old age, or were you born that way?
9:27:08 PM Maggi: *grins*
9:27:51 PM Maggi: My concern is this… Ekaterina said NOT to destroy it
9:28:07 PM Maggi: So, I am thinking, she must have had good reason for saying so
9:28:28 PM Jocelyn: 'the surliness comes from spending about 2000 years guarding this thing, and not particularily looking forward to guarding it another 2000 years.'
9:28:45 PM Maggi: *gives him a sympathetic look*
9:28:46 PM Jocelyn: 'but frankly, you've yet to show me anything that would demonstrate that you are better guardians.'
9:28:58 PM Joseph: "Would putting in a block of concrete and then putting it in a iron box with untold magical locks and traps and then dropping it to the bottom of the seas be a bad idea?"
9:29:16 PM Maggi: Are YOU volunteering to touch it?
9:29:27 PM Jocelyn: 'nope. Not a bad idea at all. Do you have a block of concrete and an iron box with untold magical locks and traps?'
9:29:32 PM Maggi: Have you not been paying attention to the melting and madness and DEATH part?
9:29:39 PM Joseph: "Well it obviously got there somehow, obviously it was moved before"
9:29:56 PM Maggi: And do YOU have any idea how to do it without touching it?
9:30:04 PM Maggi: and melting and going mad and dying?
9:30:11 PM Maggi: Because I am fresh out of ideas
9:30:21 PM Maggi: *gets a crafty look*
9:30:26 PM Joseph: "Well I hear no better ideas on how to deal with the death dealing doomsday thingie"
9:30:31 PM Jocelyn: 'and you still have a fort to deal with'
9:30:57 PM Joseph: "I guess really long tongs wouldn't do it huh?"
9:31:09 PM Maggi: You keep reminding us of that
9:31:30 PM Jocelyn: 'and yet you still don't seem to have a plan'
9:31:33 PM Joseph: "The fort I can help deal with if you let me"
9:32:01 PM Maggi: By waltzing in there and sweet-talking the idiot madman, you mean?
9:32:28 PM Joseph: "Remember I can enter as I please. They trust me, well they trust me enough. I could care less about the soldiers inside, they sealed their fate by following that Kendall."
9:32:58 PM Jocelyn: Jerath speaks up with 'and if they surrender, what happens to them then?'
9:33:18 PM Maggi: Kendall's life is still forfeit
9:33:25 PM Joseph: "I could work out a way to let you in the fron while some came in the back, do it in such a fashion that a fight to the front door controls not be needed"
9:33:57 PM Joseph: "Nor would there be one retreat route or entrance point"
9:34:18 PM Maggi: *frowns*
9:34:26 PM Maggi: Mr. Vin
9:34:27 PM Joseph: "Tactically, is it not better to have the enemy surrounded rather than fighting from a hole?"
9:34:44 PM Maggi: What exactly is your interest in our Dwarven friends in there in the first place?
9:35:47 PM Joseph: "I didn't lie to the gnome when I said I was a diplomat. I was sent here to release them"
9:35:59 PM Maggi: On whose behalf?
9:36:10 PM Maggi: *is suspicious*
9:36:10 PM Joseph: "I was never told the disgrace of an Amarethi up there had to live"
9:36:47 PM Maggi: *cocks her head to the side*
9:36:54 PM Joseph: "The darves wish him back, whether he committed a crime or not before they will deal with us. Simple as that."
9:37:02 PM Joseph: ((dwarves*))
9:37:10 PM Maggi: Fine and well, but I am wondering who sent you?
9:37:17 PM Maggi: The Dwarves sent you?
9:37:55 PM Joseph: "The embassy to Tatsuo actually. I gave Aben relative information on what I did after I last saw you."
9:38:37 PM Joseph: "The people I found in the mountains had connections with the embassay and thusly when I informed the ebassay I slowly became in good graces with them"
9:38:43 PM Maggi: The embassy to Tastsuo sent you to Sclavini to negotiate the release of Dwarves from an Amarethi occupied fortress?
9:39:06 PM Maggi: To what purpose?
9:39:32 PM Maggi: Tatsuo*
9:39:51 PM Jocelyn: Darus turns to Jerath and asks 'do they always bicker this much?'
9:40:01 PM Joseph: "I still work for Amareth, merely the part that deal with Tatsuo. They aren't directly invovled, the embassay at least but Amareth interests are so a diplomat needed to be sent."
9:40:06 PM Jocelyn: Jerath responds, 'I don't know, we just kidnapped him today'
9:40:18 PM Jocelyn: Darus says 'I see.'
9:40:41 PM Maggi: What interests do you have in these Dwarves?
9:40:50 PM Maggi: *is becoming very serious*
9:41:10 PM Joseph: "A colony in Falkor is in need of supplies from the Dwarves and in turn the Dwarves want the prisoners back before they will deal"
9:41:41 PM Joseph: ((I don't think I missed anything, did I?))
9:42:34 PM Joseph: ((refer to my journal what I think of Kendall and his men, the same feeling will be given off here))
9:43:09 PM Joseph: "If you want more of an explaination there is none, those are the facts"
9:44:26 PM Joseph: "I intend to get my job done even if I am 'captured' by you lot even if it does turn out taking up arms against you. Somehow I doubt that will be necessary though seeing as how you are the bloodthirsty type, right?"
9:45:06 PM Maggi: *looks at Vin in askance*
9:45:11 PM Maggi: I beg your pardon?
9:45:25 PM Joseph: "We could care less about Kendall and his men. Kendall is not a soldier but a coward of a man and a disgrace to anything Amareth has good left in it."
9:45:54 PM Maggi: These Dwarven prisoners are allies of my Family
9:46:24 PM Maggi: I am concerned for their welfare and am keenly interested in seeing them safely freed
9:46:36 PM Maggi: You need not worry about that
9:46:40 PM Joseph: "But the dwarves are inoccent, at least inoccent enough, and if they are allies of your family I don't see the source of argument here. Letting them free should be in both our best interests
9:46:45 PM Maggi: My concern was your interest in them
9:47:37 PM Joseph: "If I wanted harm to befall them all I would have to do is push on Kendall a little. He been wanting a chance to maim and kill them."
9:47:44 PM Maggi: But I am to understand that the Dwarves in Falkor are concerned about their cousins here in Sclavini, which is why you were sent here to broker their release, is this true?
9:48:12 PM Joseph: "That is my understanding of it yes."
9:48:15 PM Maggi: I see
9:48:22 PM Maggi: Then we are on the same page
9:48:52 PM Maggi: And it seems that we are working to the same purpose after all, in this limited set of circumstances, at least
9:49:04 PM Maggi: I am sure you can now breathe a sigh of relief, Darus
9:49:07 PM Maggi: *smiles*
9:49:38 PM Joseph: "That is why I'd like to see this go smoothly without mountains being thrown around and needless blood spilt. No mountains are actually going to be thrown are they?"
9:50:12 PM Maggi: not until after we deal with the fort and the Dwarves and such, no
9:50:15 PM Maggi: I thought
9:50:46 PM Jocelyn: 'oh, no sigh of relief yet. I'm still debating if I'm going to kill all of you. But you've put some points in your favor at least'
9:51:18 PM Joseph: "well that makes me feel better…"
9:51:55 PM Joseph: "Sigh, how many men do we have at our disposal for the fight?"
9:52:11 PM Maggi: guarding this place so long has certainly made you quite macabre, Darus. That, or the living dead thing.
9:52:12 PM Joseph: "I'll leave the artifact to those who know more about it"
9:52:52 PM Maggi: Um, Vin, you rode up with us
9:52:56 PM Maggi: That's how many
9:53:10 PM Maggi: (20+Nicolai and us_
9:53:11 PM Maggi: )
9:53:14 PM Maggi: (wink)
9:53:44 PM Jocelyn: 'if you had seen what they were planning with this thing, you'd be a bit cautious about giving control of it to you too'
9:54:02 PM Jocelyn: ((and on that note, GM needs sleep))
9:54:03 PM Maggi: *laughs nervously*
9:54:06 PM Joseph: "Versus 50 trained zealots on their hom turf. Granted we have a supreme being with us but somehow I'd like to limit the use of mountain throwing"
9:54:19 PM Maggi: Oh, I don't think you should be giving control of anything just yet, dear sir
9:54:30 PM Maggi: Ok, GM
9:54:32 PM Maggi: Thanks!!!!
9:54:39 PM Maggi: goodnight!!!!!
9:54:41 PM Maggi:
9:54:42 PM Joseph: we can pick this up when ever
9:54:45 PM Joseph: later
9:54:57 PM Maggi: yep!
9:54:58 PM Joseph: maybe post something on the site
9:55:17 PM Joseph: save the transcript pls
9:55:17 PM Maggi: you can journalize about it
9:55:20 PM Maggi: sure
9:55:22 PM Jocelyn: ((cool, others might want to get involved in the convo too))
9:55:26 PM Jocelyn: night
9:55:28 PM Maggi: night