Ebony yawns and stretches.
Cuin stands up, surveying the horizon.
Archie is sitting by the campfire, still awake.
Felicity wakes up, jumps out of her bedding.
Cuin starts to make breakfast, lambchops and bacon.
Gibber is sitting on the rock holding his axe.
Giselle wakes up and smiles-- stretching-- and then jumps up and runs over to a bush covered with delicious-looking berries and begins picking and eating them.
Felicity smells the meat, tummy growling.
Ebony gathers her things and places them in her bag, then sits on a rock with the bag on her lap, arms folded as she watches everyone.
Cuin starts to pop the still half un cooked pieces of meat into his mouth.
Felicity's stomach goes, "grrrrrrl.... gurgle..... gurggle..."
Giselle tries not to watch the meatasauruses, and hums a little song as she continues eating berries.
Cuin chuckles and offers some of the lamb to everyone else.
Archie drinks some water from the canteen he has.
Gibber holds up a handful of rocks.
Felicity devours the lambmeat.
Gibber: "dat dere gibber eatins da rocks makin him dat dere strong."
Ebony thanks Cuin and takes some of the meat, eating daintily with her thin fingers.
Giselle begins peering around and through the bushes, making sure there's no other creatures watching them.
Felicity: "Thanks."
Gibber: Crunch!
"Alright," Cuin says, "Shall we be off then?"
Giselle straps her pack and weapons on and grins. "Oui, let us go, Cuin!"
Cuin: "The map says the valley isn't that long, we should be able to reach the other end by noon or so.
Gibber: "Wher dat den dere caves! We goes ta kill!"
Cuin smiles and takes the lead, offering Giselle his arm as he does.
Felicity begins to run ahead. "Let's go let's go let's go...."
Giselle smiles. "Aaah, such ze gentleman!" and takes his arm.
The path was long, but not particularlly difficult, and the small motley made good time.
Ebony shoulders her bag and walks along with the others
Archie walks with the others.
By noon, just as the sun was starting to get hot, they came within sight of a large lake, covered in a thick blanket of moss.
Giselle peers at it. "Where is zis on ze map, mon cher?"
As they got closer, they could also make out what appeared to be a large ruined building.
Gibber: "Lake means fishes! Dey's good eatins..."
Cuin looks at the map, "Hmm, it doesn't seem to be on here."
Ebony bends and examines the moss.
Giselle looks at Cuin with alarm. "Not on ze map?" she gets an uneasy feeling.
Cuin: "But it says that the cave entrance is right there, where the lake is."
Gibber pads over to the lake and tries to catch some fish with his bare hands.
Felicity: "Yum... fresh fish..."
Gibber: "Me catches dem dere fishes and me share share!"
Felicity: "Maybe the cave filled with water?"
Archie scans the area.
As you approach the lake, the motley could smell that the lake smelled slightly acidic.
As they peer across the lake, the motley could barely make out a small cave, half submerged by the lake.
Gibber tugs on Mr. Blacksin's coat and takes a bite from the fish.
Ebony kneels down beside the water, gathering some of the moss and examining it.
Archibald: "What!"
Gibber: "Dere is de cave! we goes and we smarshes!!!!"
Archie looks to where Gibber is pointing at.
Gibber: "See its!"
Cuin: "Ah, I see it now." Cuin said, pointing across the lake.
Archibald: "Yes."
Cuin: "Looks like we'll need a boat to get there though."
Archibald: "We can cut some trees down and make a raft. Gibbertooth can quickly take care of that."
Giselle bends down, putting her hands around her mouth and whispering to the lake.
Gibber: "Yess!!!!"
Gibber runs to one of the trees and begins to chop.
Giselle then turns her head and cups her hand around her ear, listening intently.
Giselle smiles and sits up.
Gibber: "Choppa!!!! Choppa!! Chopppa!!!!!"
Ebony sniffs at the clump of moss she picked up, then places it in one of her many pockets.
Giselle: "Aah, zere EEZ a cave at ze bottom of ze lake, and the water will not hurt us if we dive in!"
Giselle: "Aah, zere EEZ a cave at ze bottom of ze lake, and the water will not hurt us if we dive in!"
Cuin watches Gibber cut down some of the nearby trees.
Giselle: "What's zat?" Giselle leans back down to the lake and cups her ear again, and then her face pale. "Ze lake eez very, very deep..." she says in a scared voice.
Cuin: "Nah, it looks like the Cave is pretty full, it might be easier to just float into it on a raft."
Gibber: "Fall!!!!!"
Gibber watches the first tree fall.
Ebony looks from one face to another, wondering if they are going to be taking a swim.
Gibber bounces up and down.
Gibber runs over to another tree.
Gibber: "Chopppa!!! Choppa!!! Chopppa!!!"
Cuin starts to blur as he shifts his body into the massive war form.
Cuin in crinos form, walks over and starts to help shape the raft with his massive claws.
Giselle glances over at Cuin and smiles desireously. "Ooh-la-la, Cuin..." she raises her eyebrows.
Archie watches Gibbertooth cut the trees down.
Ebony stares up at Cuin in wide-eyed wonder.
Gibber: "Whatches outs!!!!!!!!"
Gibber bounces as the other tree falls.
Gibber runs to the next tree.
Within a few hours, Cuin and Gibber were able to lash a sturdy raft together that would easily hold them all, and allow them to float down the cave before them.
Gibber looks at the raft.
Giselle walks over to Cuin and runs her hands over his...giant arms. "My but you are a strong one..."
Gibber: "Coo-in makes dat dere de DUH good rafty."
Cuin shifts back to his human form.
Cuin: "Aye, that I am lass, but me crinos form isn't much good for talkin'."
Cuin smiles, "And the last thing ya' want is to see a crinos excited.."
Giselle grins at him. "I would not want ta see a Crinos. excited...however...zat form between ze two was...ooooh..." she says closing her eyes and smiling seductively.
Cuin chuckles....
Archie watches and prepares to board the raft.
Cuin: "Time enough for that later m'dear, now though, we should get goin' down that cave."
Gibber helps get the raft into the water.
The motley loaded up their belonging onto the raft, and shoved it into the water.
Giselle raises her eyebrows. "You made zat too easy, Cuin...I won't even touch zat comment..."
Felicity chuckles quietly with a paw over her mouth.
Cuin smiled, and chuckled quietly.
Archie rolls his eyes.
Ebony splashes into the water then climbs eagerly onto the raft.
They pushed the raft into the lake, and rowed over to the cave.
They could make out that the cave was actually very large, nearly twenty feet high.
Giselle clutches to the logs, afraid of falling in.
But was half submerged in the lakes waters.
As they entered the Cave they saw that many of the stones had been cut by hand, forming a huge arch.
Archie scans the cavern walls.
Cuin concentrated for a moment, and a brilliant blue glove of light flashed into existance in front of him.
Cuin: "There, that should help light the way."
Giselle jumps and puts a hand to her chest. "Why Cuin...how did you do zat??"
Cuin: "Ah, just a little Fianna trick, darlin'" Cuin smiled.
The river was flowing slowly, drawing them deeper into the cave.
All the walls looked as though they had been cut by hand, or at least shaped some to suit some ancients tastes.
Giselle gets on her stomach on the raft and cups her hands around her mouth again.
Archie continues to scan the area, watching for any possible danger.
Gibber holds his axe watching for danger.
Giselle looks up, her eyes big. "Something 'UGE lives in zis cave!!"
Ebony sits comfortably on the raft, looking curiously about her.
The raft slowed as it came around a small bend in the river.
Felicity exposes her claws and canines...
Gibber: "Godderdamnit!!!" he says as he points up.
Giselle looks up and shrieks.
Archie raises his hand, empty, but, almost like a conjurer, 3 sharp throwing knives appear, ready for anything.
Gibber suddenly stands very tall and twirls his axe.
Ebony slowly raises her eyes to the ceiling.
Giselle jumps up and grabs her broadsword off her back, holding it out.
Gibber: "Battle.....come die"
As Gibber points up, they saw three giant spiders dropping from the roof of the cave.
Ebony jumps to her feet, drawing a small chimerical dagger from her belt.
Cuin howling in rage, again Cuin shifted to his massive War form.
Cuin drew his sword, and swung at the nearest spider.
Gibber: I'm here.
With a sickening splat, Cuins huge claymore cleaved through the first spider.
Felicity's claws flashed out...tearing a viscious chunk of flesh from the second spider's abdoman.
In a flashing blur of claws, Felicity tore the second spider to peices, sending it's body sprawling into the river.
Gibber looks at Felicity with admiration.
Giselle stands there holding her sword in amazement-- so stunned by everything that she's slow to react.
Archie watches Felicity and Cuin with amazement.
Felicity, in a blur of motion, jumped to the last spider, shredding it to pieces in seconds.
Felicity pants, then smiles to her cohorts.
Ebony blinks and smiles.
Cuin laughs, "That wasn't cuch a chore, was it?"
Ebony: "Felicity! That was wonderful!!"
Gibber walks over to Felicity and looks at her with a fierce look in his eyes
Felicity: "Thank you, Ebony."
Felicity smiles at Gibber.
Gibber breathes, his chest puffed out.
Cuin: "Aye, that little kitten has a bit a fire in her doesn't she!"
Gibber: "A mighty warrior woman...I like that."
Giselle slides her sword back into its sheath and walks over to Cuin. "You were...incredible, Cuin!" She looks over her shoulder. "And you, too, Kitty!"
Archie puts his knives away.
Felicity: "I'm one tough pussy." felicity says with a silly grin.
Ebony suddenly feels much safer and puts away her dagger.
Giselle raises her eyebrow at Felicity.
Gibber: "Yes...you are..." he says a wicked smile on his face.
Cuin smiles, and put his arm around Giselle, "See lass, you've nothin' to fear as long as we're around."
Gibber begins to slouch back and puts his axe away.
Felicity: "hee-HEE!!!" Felicity shouts as she retracts her claws.
Gibbletooth: "Me no get battle dere duh Felicity no sharey sharey."
Felicity: "I'm sorry Gibbles"
The river flowed on, drawing the raft ever deeper into the mountain.
Giselle thinks for a moment. "I believe I could do zat, too...what an interesting use for eet!"
After several hours of drifting what must have been several miles, the motley emerged into a massive cavern. It was hundreds of feet across, and a large pond had formed in the middle, held back by a huge dam made of broken stalictites.
Giselle leans in to Cuinand whispers. "Ze water said zere eez a 'UGE creature that lives 'ere!!"
As they floated slowly towards the pond-- the raft floating slowly into the cavern-- the air was split by a horrible screaming, that seemed to be coming from a huge clump of mushrooms.
Gibber looks at them and covers his ears.
Giselle turns quickly to look in that direction.
Gibbletooth: "Ouchie ouchies!!!"
Felicity covers her ears.
Gibbletooth: "loud real fookin loud godderdamnit!!!"
Cuin: "What the hell is that?" Cuin said, holding his hands over his ears.
Giselle turns to Gibbletooth. "Quiet down, mon Dieu!"
Gibbletooth: "Fookin prosty!"
Ebony slaps her hands over her sensitive ears and cringes.
Cuin waved his glowing ball towards the mushrooms.
Archie looks at the mushrooms.
Gibber slashes with his axe at the mushrooms.
Archie covers his ears.
Giselle holds her hand out towards Gibbletooth, slowly clenching her hand into a fist...but nothing happens.
As the bright light illuminated the mushrooms, they could see the mushrooms themselves were screaming from half formed mouths.
Giselle took a wild swing at the back of Gibble, but lost her footing, only to be caught by Cuin before she could splash into the water.
Ebony cannot be heard over the cacophany of the screaming mushrooms
Giselle glares at Gibbletooth, and then turns to face the mushrooms. She puts her hand to her throat, then brings it up and out towards the mushrooms, whispering to them.
Gibbletooth: "Godderdamnit."
Gibber gives a mean glance at Giselle.
Gibber sticks his tongue out at her.
Giselle makes an obscene gesture at Gibbletooth.
Gibbletooth: "no zugga zugga dat fookin prosty, me gets dat der itchy scratchy dat der goonies!"
Giselle turns to the group. "Ze mushrooms-- zey are a warning system! Alerting what lives in ze cave to our presence, I believe!"
Cuin looked around, "Easy lads, I'm guessing somthing in here put those there as a warnin'."
Archie scans the area, expecting an attack.
Cuin Gripped his claymore tightly, again willing the change to come, taking him back into crinos form.
Giselle turns to Gibbletooth. "Would you like to speak with ze mushrooms in person, Gibble? I can arrange zat..." she holds out her hand menacingly.
Gibbletooth: "I says no fookin dat prosty and her mushyrooms! her keeps dose to herself!"
Felicity: "Are they magic mushrooms?"
Gibber digs in his pockets and pulls them out.
Gibbletooth: "Her sees no money!"
Gibber shuddered for a minute, and started to wave his hands franticlly as he floated an inch into the air, before dropping back onto the raft.
Gibbletooth: "me no likes!!!"
Gibber walks over to Giselle
Gibbletooth: "why you stick Gibber dat tooth in de airs."
Archie goes for a knive, ready to MAKE Giselle put Gibbertooth down.
Gibbletooth: "her notsa so nice.
Gibbletooth: "You watches yoself Coo-in..."
Cuin breaks things up, growling and pointing his claymore across the pond.
Giselle turns to Archibald, and folds her arms.
Gibber looks to where Coo-in pointing at.
Felicity looks across the pond.
Giselle: "Careful what you point at me, Monsigneur Blacksin..."
Across the Pond, was the largest mushroom any of them had ever seen.
Gibbletooth: "Godderdamnit..."
Felicity pops out her claws.
Archibald: "He is my associate. I do not appreciate anyone doing that to him."
Giselle turns at Cuin's growl to see what he's looking at.
Archie turns, to see what is happening.
fully ten feet tall, and nearly as big around, it seemed to glow with a faint light.
Ebony looks at the mushroom with wonder.
Ebony rummages around in her pack and pulls out a small botany book and starts rifling through it.
Archie looks at the mushroom.
Gibbletooth: "dat no good..."
Giselle gets down on her knees and makes the gesture of her hand moving up her throat and out towards the mushroom as she whispers.
Suddenly a booming voice yells out. "I am the mushroom king!"
"You have trespassed in my domain! and must pay a toll!"
Gibber looks at the mushroom with a confused look on his face.
Giselle continues kneeling, and watches the mushroom with nervousness.
Gibber looks through his pockets for money and actually finds some now.
Ebony perks up when the mushroom speaks and starts flipping more pages in her book.
"Each of you must give me one of you're toys, or be destroyed!"
Gibbletooth: "Hims has dat der money for de mushyroom king.."
Giselle says, loud enough for the group to hear. "Zat voice eez not coming from ze mushroom."
Gibber looks at his lucky coin.
"Give me your toys!!!"
"Ugly thing with red lips!!! Give me your axe!"
Giselle stands and puts her hands around her mouth. "COME OUT, SIDHE!" she yells.
Gibber looks around to try and find the sidhe.
The air shimmered for a moment, and where there had been nothing before, stood the largest black Dragon that any of the Motley had ever seen.
Gibber stands straight again, looking at the dragon.
Giselle falls against Cuin in surprise, gripping his arm.
"Well, I may not be a sidhe, but I still want your toys! Give them to me, or I'll eat you all!"
Felicity: "Uhm... Gibbers... perhaps he is requesting your ...."
Gibbletooth: "You will find I am tough meal, that fights back fiend."
Cuin growls at the dragon, still gripping his sword tightly.
Felicity: "You can find another ...."
Ebony: "Ooooh...."
Ebony finds the dragon very pretty.
Archie has several blades ready to be unleashed at the dragon.
The dragon laughed "I eat stones for breakfast little red lipped thing! You can never defeat me!"
Giselle: "Please, kind dragon-- we are ze only ones who can use zees toys! We come in peace!"
Ebony thinks for a moment, then takes off her tattered sneakers.
Ebony: ".......?" she asks quietly
Gibber twirls his double sided axe over his head, twirls on one foot andraise the other suddenly the foot on the ground raises and he lands gracefully on the other bringing the axe back behind him and his one hand in front of him.
Felicity smiles at Ebony.
The Dragon looked at Ebony's sneakers...
"Ohh... those are interesting toys..."
Giselle thinks about her panpipes regretfully.
Ebony smiles happily and leans over the raft to try to hand them to the dragon.
Felicity think about that hairball she needs to cough up...
"Give them to me, and maybe I will let you pass!"
Ebony almost loses her balance, and quickly straightens.
Gibbletooth: "I will not relinquish my axe."
Ebony: "Can you take me closer?" she whispers to Cuin, or whomever is directing the raft.
Giselle looks at Ebony in surprise. "Aah, your sneakers! Aah non, Ebony..." she whispers.
Felicity reaches over to steady Ebony.
The dragon held out its massive claw, nearly the size of the raft itself, and took the sneakers."
Ebony: "Giselle it's a DRAGON! And we're in his HOUSE!!!!"
Giselle pulls her pack off of her back, clutching it in her hands and considering what to do.
Ebony: "I am being polite!"
Giselle looks at Ebony with complete surprise.
Ebony: "I'm sure I can find another pair of sneakers. But when will I ever get to meet another dragon!!"
Giselle: "Aah wee Ebony! You spoke!"
The Dragon sniffed the sneakers, and recoiled in surprise. "This toy stinks worse than the red lipped one!"
Ebony giggles with embarrassment.
Ebony: "maybe you can fix them?"
Archie thinks of an appropriate... gift.
Gibbletooth: "The only thing that stinks here dragon, is the deal you are offering."
Giselle reaches into her packand slowly brings out her panpipes.
Gibbletooth: "I too have a deal, let us pass, or die and we shall pass over your dead body."
Ebony frowns darkly at Gibber, wondering how he suddenly learned how to talk
The dragon roared in fury at Gibber. "If you think so pathetic Fae, come and make a different one!"
Giselle turns to Gibbletooth. "Feu!! Tu es FEU!!!"
Felicity looks at Gibber and puts one claw nail in front of her lips.
The dragon roared even louder now, and flapped its huge wings.
Giselle: "Stupide!!" she walks quickly forward, holding out her panpipes.
Gibber waits for Coo-in.
"Such insolence! I will eat you where you stand!"
Felicity wishes she had some jerky treats to throw for the dragon.
The dragon inhaled a mighty breath....
Archie goes to Gibbertooth. "Gibbertooth," he begins. "Perhaps there is another way to pay the dragon without giving up your axe or having to fight him."
Ebony ducks
And flames burst from its mouth, engulfing the entire raft.
Ebony jumps into the water!!!
With a growl Cuin burst from the water, and hurled himself at the dragon.
Giselle -- crouching on the rocks at the edge of the pond-- puts her hand over her mouth and lets out a scream as she sees Cuin go after the dragon.
Cuin threw himself against the dragon, his blade sliceing deeply through the dragons scales.
Archie floats by the raft, in a lot of pain.
The dragon roared in pain, and lifted itself up off its huge legs with its wings.
Ebony barely hangs onto the raft, watching the fight with horrified eyes.
It seemed to jump over Cuin's snarling form, and half ran, half flew towards a massive tunnel on the other side of the cavern.
Cuin howled his victory, holding his sword above his head.
Giselle stands on the rocks cheering and clapping. She puts her hands around her mouth. "Ooh mon homme! Zat was...increyable!!!"
Ebony slowly pulls herself out of the water and stands dripping on the shore.
Giselle jumps and leaps over to Cuin's side using the Satyrical powers.
Ebony looks miserable and hugs her soaked bag close to her chest.
Archie floats by the raft.
Gibber slouches bak down and sits on the shore feeling useless.
Cuin shifted back to his human form "Well? Shall we go after it?"
Giselle grabs Cuin's face and pull it down for a victory kiss.
Ebony glares at Gibber, then at Cuin, and sits down to put on her sneakers. She stops to pour the water out of them first.
Cuin laughed and kissed Giselle back.
Felicity sighs.
Gibber helps Mr Blacksin.
Cuin: "I thought we were in trouble there with that pesky beast!"
Gibber puts his axe on his back and looks back down the tunnel to the entrance.
Cuin laughed again as he went to help Archibald from the pond.
Giselle laughs again, wrapping her arms around Cuin. "You are amazing, Cuin! What would we do without you!?"
Gibber starts walkin towards the entrance.
Archie coughs, some blood coming out.
Cuin: "Ah, looks like your a bit singed lad."
Cuin: "Anyone got a bit o' healin' magic on em?
Giselle runs over to Archibald's side. "Aah...ze man who likes to point knives at me...would you like some 'elp, mon ami?"
Archibald: "A... bit," gasps Archibald.
Gibber grumbles a bit.
Felicity limps as well, still shaking her head.
Ebony examines a large scorch mark on her side and hisses with pain when she accidentally touches it.
Gibber pads towards the exit.
Giselle calls the injured people over to her, since she has a little something she can help with.
Gibber sits by the entrance and begins to lick his wounds.
Giselle creates mud and begins to spread it over everyones' wounds, and then stands and holds out her arms.
Ebony limps over to Giselle, looking throroughly miserable.
Ebony sniffles and looks up at Felicity.
Giselle puts her hands to her mouth and blows a kiss to each injured person. "Bonne chance a tu...et a tu...et a tu..."
Felicity walks over to Archi...
Felicity: "Thanks, Gissy"
Archie gets up, weakly. H nods to Giselle, "Thank you," he says.
Felicity walks over to Ebony.
Giselle smiles and bows.
Giselle blows a kiss to Felicity again. "Bonne chance!"
Felicity walks to Giselle.
Ebony: "Thank you Felicity!"
Ebony jumps up, feeling completely better.
Ebony walks over to Archibald to see if he needs any more help.
Felicity: "You are welcome."
Giselle: (healing is HARD as a Changeling! man!)
Archie looks to Ebony, "no, I feel much better but, thank you," he whispers.
Ebony nods and pats Archibald on the shoulder in sympathy.
As you all take a few moments and rest..
You notice that Ebony is no where to be found.
Felicity sniffs the air....
Giselle glances around. "Where eez the little one?"
Archie looks around.
Cuin sniffed the air.
Giselle thinks for a moment. "And...where eez the mean one?" Giselle gets a smile on her face. Hmmm...
Felicity and Cuin sniffed the air, searching for a hint of where Ebony had gone.
Felicity: "She smells like she's over there" points to the tunnel the dragon went down.
Archie checks the area.
Giselle bends down and whispers to the ground. "Do you know where the little dark girl and the mean red-lipped man went to?"
Felicity: "poor lil gal... she can take 'em," she says as she goes toward the tunnel.
Felicity: "She's probably giving that mean dragon what for...."
Cuin followed quietly..
Cuin muttered, "Foolish sluagh...."
Giselle lifts her face up quickly. "The little one went after the dragon! We must go quickly!"
Giselle jumps up and begins leaping in the direction of where the dragon went.
Archie heads towards where the dragon went.
As the motley hurried down the dark tunnel, they saw Ebony coming back towards them.
Ebony comes walking swiftly back the way she came, a big grin on her face.
Giselle quickly stops before she can run into Ebony.
Ebony smiles at Giselle.
Ebony: "This way! i know the way out."
Cuin: "Now where did you get off to lass? Don't you know dragons are dangerous!"
Giselle takes Ebony by the shoulders. "Aah you foolish girl!" she hugs her quickly. "What did you do?"
Ebony starts leading you back to the main cavern.
Ebony lets out a little laugh.
Giselle follow Ebony, drawing her sword and looking cautious.
Ebony: "Not dangerous if you know how to speak to them!!"
she glares at Gibbletooth.
Archie follows.
Ebony shows off her sneakers and her dagger.
Cuin shrugged, and throwing another glance down the tunnel, followed her back.
Ebony: "And he even let me keep my stuff!"
Giselle: "You talked to 'im??"
Ebony nods.
Felicity 's chin drops to the floor.
Ebony: "He wasn't being mean, until Gibbletooth was rude....."
Ebony folds her arms.
Giselle: "Well...what does he want from us?? Did he not cook you because you were nice to 'im?"
Ebony: "So...."
Ebony: "He doesn't want anything! He just wanted to play. He must get lonely here....."
Ebony: "He didn't even keep my stuff!"
Ebony shows off her dirty sneakers again.
Giselle: "Aaah...well, I can 'elp 'im play!" Giselle says, motioning to her backpack.
Ebony shakes her head.
Giselle suddenly thinks and stops. She turns to Archibald. "Where eez your friend?"
Archibald: "I don't know."
Ebony: "No! We need to leave now..I told him we wouldn't bother anything else...and just go through the cave. He told me which one will take us out!"
Cuin chuckles, "maybe not such a good idea lass..."
Cuin: "Wait, where did Gibber get off too?"
Cuin: "God, its like baby sitting with you two!"
Ebony frowns.
Ebony: "Uh.oh... he is gonna get fried... if the dragon finds him!!"
Giselle turns back to Ebony. "And eef we bring Gibbletooth with us?"
Cuin shifted to Lupus form, and again started to sniff the air.
Felicity sniffs the air, looks around.
Ebony: "We don't need to see the dragon again... lets just find Gibble and get out of here...."
he gave a short bark, and ran off toward the entrance that they came into."
Giselle leaps and bounds after Cuin.
Ebony frowns and tries to keep up with her faster companions.
Felicity runs in Cuin's direction.
Gibber was waiting by the tunnel that the river had come in from.
Archie follows.
Felicity: "Gibbles! Whatcha doin?"
Gibber sits there licking his wounds, grumbling. "Useless, mean dat der Gibber. Always gettin dat der udders in this dat trouble."
Giselle leaps up onto some rocks and squats with her hands on the ground in front of her.
Cuin laughed, "Ah, lad, don't worry, alls well that ends well!"
Felicity: "Gibbles, just because you have a big mouth doesn't mean we don't like you."
Gibbletooth: "Hms ally most gets Mr Blacksin hurtsy.
Gibber gets up looks back into the cave.
Gibbletooth: "We's go back inder den?"
Giselle sighs and begins singing quietly.
Ebony: "Follow me!!"
Archibald: "Gibbertooth, I don't have any ill will towards you."
Ebony smiles and looks for the dam that the dragon described.
Gibber nods and follows Mr Blacksin staying close to him.
Giselle moves forward slowly, singing to Gibbletooth.
Felicity: "Come on, Gibbles! We can kill some stuff."
Gibbletooth: "Her stop dat der singin him not to be dat der healed..."
Gibbletooth: "Godderdamnit," he says under his breath.
Giselle looks up innocently and continues singing softly so that only Gibbletooth can hear her.
Gibber looks over his shoulder at her.
Cuin turns to Ebony, "Alright lass, which way did the dragon say to go?
Gibbletooth: "Her stop dat der!!!!"
Giselle looks down at her nails, inspecting them, and continues t.o sing.
Ebony points over to the tunnel leading off from the stream
Gibbletooth: "Him puffs up," he says taking a dep breath puffing out his chest, "Dem satyrs no like dat!"
Cuin: "Ah, right! Come on then, we've still a ways to go!"
Gibbletooth: "Godderdamnit."
Giselle looks at Gibbletooth with surprise. "Why Gibble-- you look like a cute little pufferfish! Ah quelle belle!"
Ebony adjusts her still wet pack on her back and leads the way out of the caves.
Archie continues through the tunnel.
Giselle goes back to her singing-- dancing and leaping about behind Gibbletooth.
Gibbletooth: "Him nots no puffy fish...him dat der bravey type warrior...doh no one dey else knows dat..."
Felicity: "Please... we're being," Felicity pauses then shouts, "QUIIIIIIIIET!!!!!"
Ebony ducks her head and looks back in surprise.
Gibbletooth: "not one dem share-hezz."
The tunnel that lead out of the cavern had a small ledge running down the side of the river, really no more than a stream now
Gibbletooth: "Her stop...pwease,"
Giselle looks at Felicity in surprise, and then at Gibbletooth in surprise, and finally stops dancing and singing.
It wound its way deeper into the mountain, until finally it came to a small bridge.
Felicity smiles. "Thank you," as she bats her eyelashes, and continues.
Across the Bridge a faint light came from a side corridor.
Ebony stops at the bridge, and decides that someone else should maybe lead from here on in.
Gibber crosses the bridge looking down.....
Felicity: "I wonder where that light is coming from."
Gibbletooth: "Him crosses..."
Gibbletooth: "Dat der Gibber..."
Archie crossed the bridge.
Felicity follows Gibber across the bridge.
The light grew brighter as they entered into a large room, carved from the rock with great precision.
Ebony follows after a few others have been on the bridge.
Giselle enters the room and gazes around.
Felicity examines the room, looking all about.
Gibber goes into the room staying near Mr Blacksin
There was a large stone pedastal in the center of the room, And four huge carved statues in the corners.
Giselle walks over and begins examining the statues.
across the room, was a huge stone door.
Gibber looks around staying real close to him now.
Archie scans the room.
The statues were all of aincient sidhe warriors, bearing the mark of a long forgotten house.
Giselle sighs. "Aaah...tres belle...tres belles..."
Ebony: "........"
Around the pedestal in the center, were carved aincient glyphs, and a small hole dropped into the middle of the pedastal.
Gibber keeps quiet except for a few mutterings under his breath.
Archie examines the statues.
Felicity looks at the glyphs. "Say something Eb?"
Gibber whispers "S-e-a-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-l-e."
Giselle smiles and walk over to the pedastal, examining the hole.
Cuin walks around the room, surveying the room.
Ebony: "Oh.. I said they are very pretty," Ebony whispers.
The glyphs seemed to say something in some long forgotten language.
Giselle walks back over to one of the status and puts her hands around her mouth, bending and whispering to it.
Ebony decides that the farthest statue looks lke it wants to talk to her.
Giselle waits....nothing. She walks over to another statue and repeats her motions.
Ebony walks to the statue and leans up, whispering in it's ear.
Gibber sits in a corner.
Archie sits next to Gibbertooth, trying to make him feel better.
Quiet voices filled the room as the statues spoke. "Feed the heart of the mountain."
Giselle: "Ah Dieu, the statues do not speak..."
Giselle: "Ahem...I was wrong?"
Gibbletooth: "Stone dat der speaks....everting speaksies....."
Cuin: "Feed the heart of the mountain? What do mountains eat?"
Gibbletooth: "Hims shutters now no trouble from dat der duh Gibber..."
Ebony: "stones?"
Gibbletooth: "Himno good at dip-dip-di-p-duh talkin.."
Giselle: "Perhaps..."
Giselle looks around for rocks.
Cuin shrugged, maybe...
Ebony takes out her leather book and writes a quick question.
Several small stones littered the floor of the room.
Giselle walks over and picks as many up as she can carry, and walks back to the pedastal.
Gibber flips his lucky coin and catches it an keeps doing it.
Giselle drops one into the hole and waits.
Ebony: "NO!"
Ebony grabs one of the stones.
The statues started to moan as the rocks dropped into the hole.
Ebony: from Giselle
Ebony: "AAAAAAAH'!
Giselle jumps and almost drops her stones.
Ebony backs away as fast as she can.
Gibbletooth: "Uhts ohs...."
with a screach, the statues drew stone swords, and advanced on the motley.
Felicity follows Ebony.
Giselle looks around in surprise. "Mon Dieu, what eez ze problem??"
Gibber shakes his head.
Giselle screams.
"Now you shall feed the mountain." They said.
Ebony: "ANYONE HAVE ANY GEMSTONES!!!!" Ebony manages to say in a normaltoned voice.
Archibald: "Oh for the love a..."
Giselle drops her rocks and leaps.
Giselle: "I...I...I DO!" Giselle stutters.
Ebony: "PUT THEM IN THE HOLE QUICK!"
Gibbletooth: "hims stays righty here and der Coo In gots it..."
Giselle looks from Ebony to the hole in a moment of reluctance, and then reaches into her bag and bring out a ruby necklace. "Oh mon Dieu, mon DIEU!!" she runs over and drops it in.
Giselle waits by the hole, thinking about how she's going to strangle Ebony if this doesn't work.
Cuin roared again, and jumped at the first statue.
Gibber nods and points.
Ebony cowers.
Cuin sword smashed against its stone blade with a mighty crash.
Giselle grips the pedastal and watches Cuin with fear. "Cuin! Wait!"
Suddenly...the statues turned and returned to their pedastals.
Giselle slumps across the pedastal.
And the huge door began to slide open.
Ebony breathes a deep sigh of relief.
Gibber sits and nods.
Gibbletooth: "Sees..."
Ebony: "......... .. ....... .. ........."
Ebony looks at Giselle.
Felicity: "Yes!"
Giselle: "Oh my beautiful necklace...ooh you saved us...I will miss you..." Giselle blows kisses repeatedly at the hole as she back away from it.
Cuin looks around again before shifting back to homid form.
Ebony closes her book and places it carefully back into her pack.
Cuin: "We'd best be goin' befor' that door closes again."
Archibald: "Yes."
Ebony hurries through the doorway.
Felicity runs out the door.
Giselle leaps through the door.
Archie heads through the doorway.
Gibber walks through the door.
Ebony: I think that did it...
The passage way beyond was carved into stairs that led downward into the darkness.
Gibber follows Mr Blacksin.
Giselle turns to Cuin. "Ah mon amor...would you light up your 'and again?"
Cuin called forth his ball of light again, to reveal intricate paintings on the walls along the stairs.
Giselle grins.
Ebony stops and stares at the paintings.
Archie examines the paintings.
The paintings showed an intricate tale, of a young sidhe knight,
Gibber sticks to Mr Blacksin looking at the paintings.
Who questioned his king, only to be killed and cursed as a traitor.
Giselle puts her arm around Cuin and gazes all around her as they walk.
The paintings showed in detail, the sidhe king cursing the knight to guard a bridge for all eternity.
Gibber scratches his head trying to understand the pictures...then just stops trying as a headache comes on.
Ebony 's mouth rounds into an 'O' as she reads the story.
Forever after bound to the world, dead, but not dead.
Archibald nods.
Ebony quickly pulls out her book and starts transcribing the so her book will remember it.
Cuin slowly walked down the stairs, his glowing ball lighting the way before them.
As Cuin reached the bottom of the stairs, the light revealed a large stone ledge dropping off into a gigantic crevice, with only a thin stone bridge running across it.
Ebony loves crawling around in these dark, dank places and can't stop smiling to herself and hugging her book tightly to her chest.
Cuin: "This doesn't look good."
Giselle looks at the bridge nervously.
Ebony stops behind Cuin and frowns in concentraion.
Cuin: "Looks a bit like the paintings on the walls doesnt it?"
Giselle: "Aaah...you are right, mon homme..."
Felicity gasps. "Uhm... "
Ebony nods and coughs quietly.
Felicity: "ok"
Gibber walks across the bridge.
Ebony gulps and watches Gibber silently.
As Gibber approached the bridge....
A shadowly form melted into sight in front of him.
Giselle clutches Cuin's arm in her hands.
In a quiet, raspy voice, it spoke. "None shall pass."
Archibald walks across the bridge.
Gibber nods and walks back.....
Felicity: "I am none."
Gibbletooth: "Its sayin dat noney shall dat der pass dis and dat der bridge."
As the form became more distinct, They could make out the ancient armor of a long dead sidhe knight.
A long tarnished sword clutched in one hand.
Gibber walks to the end of the bridge with the others
Ebony: "oooooh.....pretty........"
Giselle: "Ah mon coer..."
Ebony leans on the foundation of the bridge, trying to get a better glimpse of the ghost-knight.
As the sidhe materialized fully, he let out a ghastly wail.
Gibbletooth: "Hims loud godderdamnit."
"As I was cursed! So you shall suffer!"
Giselle clutches Cuin's arm even tighter. "Ah mon amour, what to do!"
The ghostly sidhe raised its sword and charged towards the motley.
Ebony thinks the curse and is horribly tragic and sad and wonderful!
Gibber shakes his head and scratches it.
Ebony starts writing more in her book.
Archibald makes sure Gibber's in front.
Ebony backs up, scribbling furiously, trying to catch all the emotion of the ghastly creature coming at them.
Giselle quickly grabs her sword and holds it before her.
with blinding speed, the ghostly knight caught up to Gibber.
As the ghostly knight brought its sword down, gibber dropped and rolled out of the way, barely dodging the blow.
Gibber continued to roll away, the ghost chopping against the stone as it went.
With a final lunge, the ghost tried to run the madly rolling Gibber through, only to barely graze his side.
Gibbletooth: "Ouchies!! I try to hurt dat der duh Gibber!"
Giselle ran and leapt across the span, to land lightly on the other side of the bridge.
The Ghost turned to her, and howled in rage.
Gibber runs at the ghost.
Gibbletooth: "Him not to hurt dat der prosty!"
Giselle: hehehehe doh!
Gibber swung his axe in a wide arc at the ghost knights back, but quick as lightning, the knight's sword spun around, blocking the blow.
Archibald takes one of his throwing blades, and aims carefully before letting it fly.
Archibald threw one of his daggers at the ghost, but again, its sword blocked the twirling dagger.
Felicity rushed forward, her furry form no more than a blur...
Felicity lashed out with a blinding kick, but the knight held firm.
Gibbletooth: "Coo-in!!!!"
Felicity followed up with a blinding series of kicks, each one driving the knight back towards the ledge of the bridge.
Every step it took, brought the knight inches closer until finally, with no place more to go, it stumbled and fell backwards
Giselle cheers and jumps up and down on the far side of the bridge.
with a horrible scream, it shimmered, and turned to mist, leaving the bridge open and unguarded
Archibald walks across the bridge.
Felicity: "so are you gonna go or just stand around" she says as she runs across w/ her remaining actions.
Gibber looks at everyone and walks across.
Giselle: "Come on, come on!" Giselle calls, motioning quickly with her arms.
Cuin quickly follows.
Giselle wraps her arms around Cuin and kisses his cheek when he reaches her.
The motley breathed a collective sigh of relief as they ran through the door on the other side, closing it tightly behing them.
Ebony walks quickly across.
Ebony looks over the bridge wistfully as she walks.
The room beyond was bare, except for a stone coffin in the middle of the room.
Giselle runs over to Felicity and kisses her one each cheek. "Oh thank you, little Felicitee!! Merci! Merci!"
Felicity: "it was nothing. Its easy for pookas."

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