And so the story continues...

Glru was mostly dead, but is much better now.

Healer_Lina: ((Any residual damage?))

Glru: "we could stack on coal..."

DM_Hallu: "That too... it might make it kinda hard to get coal for the engine though."

Glru: ((I don't remember, i think I'm at 11 of 13...))

Healer_Lina casts Cure Minor on Glru for 4 points of healing.

Akavi: ((I'm fine))

Glru: "oxen on coal, coal slides forward.”

DM_Hallu: The passengers shift uncomfortably as they see the wounded adventurers, but they don't seem too upset. A few of them go back to the luggage rack to make sure the proper luggage has been returned, then go back to their seats, apparently satisfied.

DM_Hallu: "Oh. Well, that works, then."

Ika_Yorri: ((I'm down 3 HP))

Akavi looks at Alexis and Glru and asks quietly, "May I interrogate the prisoner?"

Glru: ((can we put Ika in scottish clothes? i have an urge to do an elmer fudd voice singing "kilt da waaabbit"))

Alexis_Hase: "Umm... sure, I guess..."

Healer_Lina tends to Ika as well, casting another Cure Minor for 4 points.

Akavi: "You were speaking to her in Infernal, yes?"

Alexis_Hase: "I... y-yes. Yes I was."

Glru dusts his hands together and straightens his hat. "Glru has ideas about kvestioning also. Let us discuss..."

DM_Hallu: As you talk, the train lurches slowly into motion again.

Ika_Yorri: "Scary masks?"

Akavi looks at Glru, and smiles at Alexis. "I can be a fiend."

Akavi: ((Intimidate ftw.))

Glru smirks. "Glru is thinking maybe slowly cutting with leetle bitch's own knife will work very quickly...”

DM_Hallu: (where are you guys while you talk about this, by the way?)

Akavi pauses and considers. "I'll threaten, you be ready to act?"

Glru: ((NOT in front of jove or lina)

Akavi: ((I think we're on the walkway between cars- coming back from engine room.))

Glru: ((good spot.))

Tobias: ((back?))

Ika_Yorri: ((In that case, I'd like to retract my "Scary masks?" comment))

DM_Hallu: (heh. ok, just checking. the walkway works, although you'll need to raise your voices just a tad to hear each other over the wind.) Akavi looks towards the passenger car, then at the engine room. "Can we remove Jove?"

Ika_Yorri is in the passenger car with Lina.

Glru stretches and cracks his back and his knuckles "Glru thinks he is perhaps more scary without melting of face and ack-hurgh-koff of talking."

Akavi raises a gloved hand. "You threaten the body, I threaten the soul. Tag-team torture."

Akavi: "Think the wizard can competently guard the door?

Glru nods "we tell jove to see healer girl, he is looking unwell. Bob, I think, will not mind our leetle talk."

Glru snorts

Akavi: ((Rob.))

Tobias: ((don't forget I'm in the engine room guarding her right now ^^;))

Glru: "Wizard cannot guard his lunch.”

Akavi considers. "The mercenary, then? And I'd prefer that Rob not be present."

Akavi: "It's hard to keep track of what lies I tell to people."

Glru shrugs. "Rob is running train. Glru can be scarey in front of rob without loosing secrets."

Glru: ((what species is toby again?))

DM_Hallu: (Tobias is a human.)

Tobias: ((yep))

Glru: "also rob believes train is robs. It is sensible he does not wish to leave.

Glru: "human swordman is mercenary, he will understand."

Akavi nods in assent, then turns to the engine room. Walking up to Rob, he whispers in the human's ear, "We're going to do a little... information gathering. Rest assured, the train is in the best hands." Turning to Tobias, he says sharply, "Go to the door. Let no one, under any circumstances, enter unannounced."

Tobias blinks. "Uh.. what are you gonna be doing?"

DM_Hallu: (wait, have you sent jove to see lina, or just talked about it?)

Akavi: ((The sharpness was for the benefit of the wolfgirl))

Akavi: ((Whoops. Can we ret-con that in?))

DM_Hallu: (yeeeeeeah, I think you better XD)

Akavi: ((... my long posts get away from me sometimes.))

Glru retrieves his spare wrench from tobias

Healer_Lina hasn't seen Jove yet

DM_Hallu: Lina, Jove wanders into the passenger car looking confused and embarrassed. "Are you busy?" he asks. "The other adventurers said I should come talk to you."

Glru: ((by jove, you've got it!))

Akavi leans in to tobias. "What's necessary. Also, you may have to keep them a little occupied out there. We need some time."

Healer_Lina checks over Jove ((Heal Check 24))

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl looks over, kind of frightened, at Akavi, but says nothing.

Glru patpats the bound wolf "comphy?"

Tobias looks slightly uncomfortable. "You're not going to hurt her or anything though, right? Remember, they had non-lethal ammo in those guns."

DM_Hallu: Lina, you can't see anything too terribly wrong with Jove, but he's obviously had a bit of a shock and is under a lot of emotional strain.

Akavi pats Tobias' shoulder. "No. She will come to no bodily harm."

Akavi: ((Probably.))

Akavi: ((Maybe.))

Tobias: ((bluff check XD))

Healer_Lina gets Jove to lie down with his feet elevated and head comfortable, and puts a blanket over him ((assuming there's room))

Glru bends a knee beside the captive "you will notice Glru has blod on clothes. you will also notice Glru is not injured. Your ox friends are back on train. it would be good if you would talk to Glru. yes?

Glru is whispering BTW

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl looks over at you, looking a bit confused about something, but stops herself from asking whatever question is on her mind.

Akavi: ((28))

DM_Hallu: There is room for Jove to lie down, yes.

Tobias: ((19 on Sense motive))

Tobias: "Alright then, I guess that's alright. I'll watch the door."

DM_Hallu: She relaxes slightly when she hears Tobias say she will come to no bodily harm, but stays quiet.

Tobias goes outside.

Akavi lets Tobias leave, then walks slowly over to the wolfgirl and squats down slowly to be eye to eye with her.

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl looks over at Akavi, wondering what he is going to do.

Akavi: "Did you hear me say you would come to no harm?"

DM_Hallu: She nods.

Akavi smiles brilliantly, and dangerously. He whisperes in canid, "I lied."

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl bites her lip nervously and looks over at Rob, who is contentedly driving the train.

Akavi: ((Hallu, tell me when I ought to make intimidate checks, because I'll just be RP'ing.))

DM_Hallu: (Ok. Works for me.)

Glru chuckles softly and purrs in canid "and Glru has promised nothing..." he pets the wolf's head as he takes out her own knife.

Akavi raises a hand and puts it on the underside of wolfgirl's muzzle. "Our associate spoke to you. Did you recognize the language?"

DM_Hallu: "No..." says the wolfgirl. "It was just a weird growly thing."

Akavi looks her in the eye for the next phrase, then begins to take off his black gloves. "It was infernal, the language of the Nine Hells. Now," he said briskly, businesslike, "Our masters have a vested interest in this train. And you seem to have counter-intentions. Care to tell me why before we go any further?"

Glru asides to Akavi "we should untie her. Rope is silk, blood does not wash out, ruins rope."

Akavi: ((Bluff 18 on that white lie.))

Glru: ((25 on intimidate))

Akavi: ((Actually, technically, it was only an implication, not a direct lie at all.))

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl's eyes widen. "The Nine Hells? But you're not demons, are you?"

DM_Hallu: (sorry, devils)

DM_Hallu always gets that confused

Akavi tightens his grip on her muzzle and smiles again, taking he time to make his teeth unnaturally long and pointy. "Guess."

Glru: ((i'm not a devil, but I play one on the train...))

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl whimpers a little.

Akavi: ((Intimidate 16))

Glru: ((see, i told you i was scarier :D ))

Akavi: ((I blame the dice. And I suspect/hope for circumstance bonuses.))

DM_Hallu: "The train will destroy the Wildling way of life," says the wolfgirl quietly. "Humans will be able to ride all the way across the continent, take whatever they want to, and then ride back without giving anything in return."

Glru: (wait, my intimidate was only 20, I looked at the wrong line)

Akavi returns his teeth to elven proportions and loosens his grip. "Who put you up to this?"

DM_Hallu: "There will be nothing pure left in Santhil. Nothing untouched. No place for Wildlings. You should know that..." She looks over, frightened, at Glru.

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl raises her muzzle defiantly. "We're freedom fighters. We stand for all of the Wildlings."

DM_Hallu: Meanwhile, Rob is smirking as he drives, many of his conspiracy theories confirmed.

Akavi: "Well, that's a pity. Our masters demand results to our investigation, you see. They particularly like evidence, being so lawfully-minded. But if that's all the explanation you have..."

Glru laughs derisively "humans starve if we do not feed them... if land does not want them, she will shake like wet dog, human things will fall down."

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl looks at Glru sadly. "Sometimes the land needs help."

Akavi laughs along with Glru, then stands up and changes shape to imitate a "classic" devil: dark red skin, small horns, long black hair, and dark eyes.

Akavi: ((Disguise 28))

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl looks very scared indeed, but whatever she's about to say is interrupted by Rob as he looks over from his dashboard. "Wait a minute, what the hell is going on?"

Glru smiles and rolls the wolf onto her back, her grips the collar of her shirt, holding the girl securely and lays knife to cloth "Grlu can begin cutting?" he asks casually

Akavi shoots a deadly look at the wolfgirl, an exasperated look at Glru, and, with a wave of his hand, returns to elf form.

Glru: intimidate 18

Akavi: "Rob," he says, smiling. "Let's talk over by the control panel."

Glru: ((rob speak canid?))

DM_Hallu: "No," says Rob, "first you have to explain to me what the hell is going on! Why does he changing his shape? I did not sign up to drive a train full of devils, if that's what you are, which I'm honestly not sure about and..." He trails off, suddenly realizing that he's hurting the interrogation process.

Akavi: He smoothly walks across the compartment and turns Rob to face out the window, whispering to him.

Ika_Yorri: ((I think Rob speaks Akavi-just-changed-into-a-big-devilly-thing))

DM_Hallu: Rob does not turn to face out the window. He is still driving the train, and stuff. But he listens to Akavi, with some hesitance.

Akavi: Whispered: "House Aletheria dispatched one of their special agents to handle the process: me. I'm a sorcerer, remember?"

DM_Hallu: Rob blinks, then he puts two and two together. "Right. Yes. Sorry. Carry on."

DM_Hallu: "Can I ask a favor though? Don't get blood on the train. It's, like, a brand new train."

Akavi: "We're just making progress with cracking these damn Wildlings down the middle. I knew I could count on your help." he pats Rob on the shoulder.

Glru keeps his body between the wolf's face and the conversation behind him, he locks his gave on the wolf as he slooowly draws knife along tunic, just giving her garment a much larger neck hole, he whispers to her as the fabric parts "Glru still remembers you shooting him. Glru has your pistol. Glru has your knife. Glru has your compatriots, Glru has *YOU*.

Akavi turns back to the main compartment, changing back to diabolical form as he does so. Returning to Glru, he says in a mock whisper, "He's bespelled again. The enchantment was wearing thin."

DM_Hallu: (that's definitely another Intimidate check.)

Alexis_Hase: ((Geez, now I feel for the poor wolf. XD))

Akavi: ((Bluff 21: What is with these stupid ROLLS?))

Glru: ((boo-yah, natural twenty, plus whatever circumstance bonus for the cutting...))

DM_Hallu: (it's okay, Akavi, it seems to have worked.)

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl looks up at Glru, shivering. "I'll tell you who the ringleader was," she says quietly.

Alexis_Hase: ((Where am I at this time? I kind of forget. XD))

DM_Hallu: (I kind of forget too, come to think of it...)

Akavi leans in to the girl. "Do so. Or I exercise my specialty as well."

Tobias: ((I think you're in the passenger car))

Tobias: ((that seems to be where most everyone is))

Glru looks disappointed, he strokes the girl's now-exposed throat with the flat of the blade "Are you sure?" he asks, "because glru could keep cutting..."

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl whispers, looking ashamed of herself for telling. "It was Milanova... the other wolf, the one you ran over. She was the one that was running things."

Glru pets the line of the jaw with the point of the blade "And oxes...?"

Ika_Yorri: ((She won't be *running* anymore... Oh-ho!))

Akavi: "The truth, or I swear, by the merciless depth of Nessus, that your soul will not rest after my friend is through for a long, LONG time."

DM_Hallu: "The oxes were working with the rest of us. I don't know what to say."

Akavi: ((Intimidate 23))

Akavi looks appraisingly at Glru.

Akavi: "Is she still alive?"

Akavi: ((That was, of course, directed at the wolfgirl.))

Akavi: ((Just not looking at her.))

Glru pets the wolf's mouth with the point of the blade, then traces the edges of her lips with the point, "tell Glru rest of plans..." he purrs

Tobias: ((how would she know any more than us when she's been on the train?))

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl bursts out "How should I know? You ran her over. She might have bled to death, she might not, I don't know! How should I know?"

Akavi: ((I didn't know what she saw before she jumped on.))

Akavi gives he a sharp look. "Ah ah ah" he cautions, jerking his head at the blade.

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl bites her lip and goes quiet again.

Glru looks up at Akavi and suggests "Please to bring healer... in about 10 minutes?"

Akavi stands up and looks down at the wolfgirl in disgust. "Railroad accidents can be so terrible."

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl says quietly "I'm sorry. She was important to me, I lost my temper. I won't do it again."

Akavi: Turning, he shifts form and walks away, calling over his shoulder to the girl. "Sorry, girl." And then, in canid: "Too late."

Akavi leaves the engine room and returns to the passenger car, prepared to bluff like mad.

Tobias looks up when Akavi comes out.

Tobias: "You done?"

DM_Hallu: The passenger car is reasonably peaceful. Jove is snoozing under his blanket.

Ika_Yorri leans in close to Lina. "Be honest with me," she whispers, "how long do you think he has left? Days? Hours?"

Tobias: ((Jove's sick?))

DM_Hallu: Jove is asleep and does not hear any of this.

Akavi nods. "When I left, Glru was talking to her."

Tobias: "Alright, I'll go back in then."

Akavi shoots an arm out and blocks the door. "Glru said he wanted some time alone."

Tobias gives Akavi a look. "I thought you said you were done."

Akavi: "Well, I was. I think Glru wanted to be alone. To interact wildling to wildling, in a way that I don't think he trusts the colonial races to act."

Ika_Yorri keeps whispering to Lina, "Is it rotgrubs? Will we have to amputate? ...Or mummy-rot? It's mummy-rot, isn't it?"

Glru takes the strip he has cut off of the girl's tunic and ties it around her wrists "Glru is sorry about your friend. Glru has seen steamjack accidents. very messy, very fast..." he then pushes the girl onto her back again and smiles down at her, lowering his muzzle to breath into her ear "you will not die fast..."

Akavi rolls his eyes. "You know how he is."

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl squirms. "Please, what else do you want to know?"

Tobias: ((wait, I'm confused by what you just said))

Akavi: ((That was excellent timing.))

Glru: ((only a 17 on the intimidate this time, hoping for some stackibles)

DM_Hallu: (poof! you have some stackibles.)

Akavi: ((*I* was done.))

Akavi: ((Glru was not. I haven't actually LIED yet, per say.))

Tobias: ((but what were you saying with the whole wilding to wildling thing?))

Akavi: ((I'm just hoping that Tobias will misconstrue "interact" as a synonym for, say, "talk, or communicate"))

DM_Hallu: (I'm not sure either, come to think of it...)

Tobias: ((ah, alright then))

Glru resumes stroking the girl with her knife, tracing her collarbone, seeing if the blade is good enough to shave with "Glru needs to know rest of plans, and what you know of other groups.

Akavi: ((I was playing on the tension that wildlings and colonial races have for each other))

Akavi: ((Suggesting that Glru wanted to talk about the whole "freedom" issue in private))

Tobias: "Oh, alright then. What'd you find out?"

Akavi motions the group together so that he can talk to them all at once.

Tobias: ((I... take it we've gone to the passenger car then?))

Akavi: ((Oh. I though we were there. My bad.))

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl says quietly "After we kidnapped the passengers we were going to take them to the grasslands, make them work as slaves. It's no worse than what their people have done to us..."

Akavi: ((Yeah, I wrote that I reentered it. Whoops, anyway, out in the car, gather round))

Akavi: "It seems as if the wolfkin that Ika so skillfully Greased was Millona, the ringleader of a Wildling freedom group that felt threatened by the perceived incursion on their territory that the train represented."

DM_Hallu: (Milanova.)

DM_Hallu: (but that's okay, I'm used to making up names that nobody can remember...)

Akavi: (That's what I said. *shifty eyes*))

Ika_Yorri: "So... The ringleader's that way," she points to the back of the train, "And we're going *that* way... What's with that?"

Tobias: "Well, we're a bit far to just turn around..."

Glru begins cutting another ring off of (did we ever get a name?)'s collar, watching her eyes "you like idea of slaves, hmmm?" he purrs "Wilding slaves do not grow crops as good as wilding farmers, who are humans with slaves?"

Akavi nods and purses his lips. "I'm no engineer, but it's my understanding that turning around is difficult for a train."

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl looks uncertain. "It's not that I like the idea... it's more... for justice and things... I don't know."

Ika_Yorri: "That seems pretty crazy. Why would you build something that only goes one way? Won't we be trapped in... wherever we're going?"

Tobias shrugs. "Maybe there's a really big turn at the end?"

Alexis_Hase: "Doesn't the train go in reverse?

Akavi: "They have devices, or somesuch thing. Not my specialty."

Akavi shrugs.

Ika_Yorri: "Where's Glru? I'm sure he'd know."

Akavi: "He wanted to talk with her alone."

Glru tchs softly. "Glru thinks it is good idea. Are others waiting for train to arrive?"

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl shakes her head. "It was all supposed to happen en route."

Akavi squats down to be at eye level with Ika. "You know how Glru is."

Glru: ((Glru is a sweet and charming example of feline chivalry...))

Tobias: ((XD))

Akavi: ((I was going to work the angle that you were secretly attracted to her, if it came to that.))

Tobias: ((XDDDD))

Glru: ((although feline chivalry involved tormenting horses until the have a heart attack, then eating it...))

Akavi: ((It seemed like something Ika would buy.))

Tobias: ((you can still work that angle if we're suspicious enough))

Ika_Yorri: "You mean, violent? A little slow? Perverted?"

Akavi: ((Will it take a bluff check to convince Ika of something that would delight her so?))

Akavi: ((Ok, I'm going for it.))

Akavi smiles and shakes his head. "He puts on a tough exterior, but I think he might have had an ulterior motive for wanting to be alone with her..."

Glru hmmms and traces the wolf's throat with the tip of the knife "and where were passengers supposed to be delivered?"

Tobias: ((PERFECT timing XD))

Akavi: ((This cutaway thing is so delightfully ironic.))

Glru: ((that needs to be in the comic book version :)

Akavi: ((Alan Moore will storyboard it.))

Tobias: ((which reminds me. Is it true we have no logs of this campaign?))

DM_Hallu: "There was a cave near the side of the tracks. We were going to bring them there, then wait for further instructions... but the train didn't get stopped in time. They probably would have taken them somewhere else instead."

Glru: ((oh noes!))

DM_Hallu: (I don't have any... the Dykal chat make logs automatically, but I don't think that Mibbit does. Although I think Chaz may have a log of at least one of the sessions.)

Tobias: ((awww))

Alexis_Hase: ((Yeah, I was on mIRC the first 2 sessions, I think I have logs of those))

Alexis_Hase: ((Zeal should have logs of some of the sessions))

Glru nods "you will show Glru cave on way back, yes? now Glru has one more kvestion. Lion passenger, tell Glru about him"

Tobias: ((well, I can make a partial log of this session))

DM_Hallu: The wolfgirl looks at you uncertainly. "Him? He was part of the team, what else do you need to know?"

Ika_Yorri: "I... Glru... her... I hope you're not saying what I'm not saying I think you're not saying but thinking... 'Cause I don't wanna say it! Or think it!"

Glru: "what else do you know?"

Tobias looks confused. "Wait, what?"

Akavi winks. "All I'm saying is, I'd indulge his desire for alone time without that many questions. You might not like what you find."

Tobias looks even more confused. "I thought you said they were just talking!"

DM_Hallu: "Well..." The wolfgirl looks confused. "He's a catfolk and he eats a lot and I think he plays the lute or something. And he wishes he had a girlfriend. And he's self-conscious about his appearance... I really don't see how any of this is relevant..."

Akavi straightens up and looks at Tobias. "I didn't want to tell you earlier, because Glru would probably not care to have the whole party know, but the whole time in the engine room he was chomping at the but."

Akavi: ((Whoah- chomping at the *bit*))

Akavi: ((Freudian typo...))

Glru: ((that's a lie sir! at no point did I bite her bum!))

Akavi: ((I considered "he's probably on top of her right now." but it seemed out of character. Still true, though.))

Ika_Yorri clasps her hands to the sides of her head, and writhes in place. "Chomping at the bit? I don't even know what that means! But it sounds dirty, and oh so... Agh!"

Akavi smiles. "It means 'being very enthusiastic'."

Tobias: "But isn't Rob still in there with them?"

Akavi: ((Hm.))

Ika_Yorri: "Being very enthusiastic!? I still don't know which is innuendo or not! Gyaah!"

Akavi: ((Give me a moment))

Tobias: ((XD))

Akavi squints. "Well, yes. You know how Glru feels about Rob, though. They're probably refusing to so much as acknowledge each other's existence."

Glru kisses the wolf on the forehead and ties the newly cut strip of cloth around her muzzle "Glru will not kill you right now. Perhaps later." he pets her ears and then puts her in the coal car well out of reach of the oxfolk, checking their bonds and making sure they're still out. he then puts the oxfolk back to back and wires their horns to each other.

DM_Hallu: (the coal car is getting very crowded, but okay...)

Glru is a thorough and careful jailer.

Glru: (doesn't it run half the length of the train? or is that a boxcar?

Akavi: ((Well you're burning the coal that once occupied the space, right?))

DM_Hallu: (that's the cargo car.)

Ika_Yorri: "Oh, gods, give me the will to force these thoughts from my mind. I'm sorry I thought 'em, or even thought I heard them. I feel sick. Sicker than Jove, and he's only got - Lina, how long does he have to live again?"

Glru says to Rob in Canid "Glru is done for now, please to keep eye on them."

DM_Hallu: Meanwhile, in the passenger car, a human male approaches the party. "Excuse me, sirs, I'm an embedded journalist from the Beachhead Post. Can I ask you all a few questions?"

Tobias: "I am so very confused, and I'm not sure I want to be un-confused."

DM_Hallu: Rob says "Sorry, I don't speak... uh, barking..."

Akavi smiles at the journalist kindly. "What questions do you have?"

Healer_Lina gives a sharp look to Akavi "We'd prefer to leave official comment for the railway staff, if that's okay with you."

DM_Hallu: "Ah. That's okay. Which of you is the railway staff?"

Glru says in canid "you have splendid buttocks for a human." then switches to common "they are secured, but call if you hear noise."

Tobias: ((hahahaha))

DM_Hallu: "Okay," says Rob. "Will do."

Akavi smiles tightly and inclines his head to Lina.

Akavi: "I'm afraid the staff is a little tired right now."

Glru: ((embedded journalist? how fast does a journalist have to go to become imbedded?))

DM_Hallu: The human frowns. "A stressful journey?"

Healer_Lina: ((Er..... Jove is dying? o.0))

Glru: ((eventually he will i'm sure))

DM_Hallu: (He isn't really. Ika just keeps saying he is.)

Ika_Yorri: ((No, I just didn't buy the whole "you're just stressed" story))

Akavi: "Not at all. But imagine how much of a relief it would be to see that your train worked! This is probably the beast sleep he's gotten in weeks!"

Healer_Lina: ((Ah, okay. How's he doing now, btw?))

Tobias: ((why is Jove dying? I wasn't updated on that part))

DM_Hallu: Jove is snoozing peacefully.

Akavi: ((Ika was being imaginative))

DM_Hallu: The journalist scribbles a couple things down. "So who's driving the train at this moment?"

Healer_Lina: "Akavi, it's usually not a good idea to talk to journalists about important things unless we're trained for it. If we say the wrong thing it can cause a lot of trouble."

Akavi holds up his hands and demurs to Lina. "A well trained engineer. But, of course, my companion is correct."

DM_Hallu: "Okay. Understood. Thank you for your time, fellows."

Glru stumps his way back into the passenger car, looks around at the reporter and commotion, checks to see if the lion is still here and if so, what he's doing.

DM_Hallu: The lion is sitting reading a magazine.

Akavi looks at Ika and mimes locking his lips and throwing away the key.

Tobias gives Glru a hesitant look as he comes in. "Uh... hey."

Glru stays at the door, assuming he still had blood on his clothes from the adventure.

Ika_Yorri flashes a mournful, disgusted look, and returns to her seat.

Akavi makes no attempt to help.

Glru beckons party members closer "glru has information...”

Healer_Lina listens to Glru.

Akavi noda at Glru. "I told them what I learned before I left."

Ika_Yorri goes to Glru, but avoids making eye-contact with him.

Glru: "glru also thinks he should change clothes before returning to passenger car. some blood from fight with oxen and tiger...

DM_Hallu: (did you bring a change of clothes, glru?)

Akavi: ((I have plenty))

Ika_Yorri: ((a quick cleaning use of Prestidigitation, followed by Mending, and your clothes will be fine))

Alexis_Hase: ((I'll volunteer ^^))

Akavi: ((Oh, right. Magic. I can do that.))

Glru smiles at Akavi "Glru has learned more using more quiet scarey and less booga booga."

Ika_Yorri: ((both spells I have and am willing to cast on Glru's clothes, by the way)) Alexis_Hase: ((I have Prestidigitation prepared too.))

Akavi shrugs innocently. "I don't know what you're talking about."

Glru: ((ika, you should suggest so, Glru, not being a spellcaster, dunno deese tings))

Glru nods to Akavi. "of course, that is why Glru is telling you."

Ika_Yorri: "A quick spell will get that blood out, and another should patch up the tiger holes."

Alexis_Hase pipes up a little. "I've used Prestidigitation before, if that helps..."

Glru shares the knowledge he gained after akavi's departure, about the plans to enslave the passengers and the cave/drop-point, and the motivations behind the little group and their recently splatted leader.

Akavi nods and keeps a neutral face, but there's a crinkling around his eyes that looks like a bit of a smile.

Glru tips his cap to Ika "Glru would be pleased if you would fix his clothing.

Ika_Yorri casts Mending upon Glru's clothes.

Akavi purses his lips. "What do we think about the lion?"

Alexis_Hase casts Prestidigitation and cleans Glru's clothing.

Akavi: ((Alexis proves impressively practical around blood))

Ika_Yorri: ((bunny magic is the best magic, ne?))

Alexis_Hase: ((:D))

Akavi: ((Um, lion thoughts?))

Glru shrugs "leetle bitch says he is not part of group. Glru is suspicious still. perhaps other group, perhaps just shifty, perhaps little bitch is very very good liar.

DM_Hallu: (wait, when did the wolfgirl say that?)

Tobias: ((I thought she said he WAS a part of the team))

Glru: (( has clean new pants! admire the pants!))

DM_Hallu: (yeah, same...)

Akavi: ((He WAS part of the team.))

Akavi: ((So, yes...))

Glru: ((ahhh, I missread))

Ika_Yorri: "Lion? What about the rat!? That little biter..."

Glru retcons

Akavi: ((Heh))

Glru rubs his chin "Glru forgot to ask who else was on team. perhaps we kvestion lion now?"

Akavi: "Well, I doubt from your description that he's unlikely to act on his own..."

Akavi: ((Wait, remove one negative from that sentence))

Ika_Yorri: s/doubt/gather

Glru would like to put ika in charge of questioning the lion, and watch while eating popcorn

Akavi: ((Let's try... "Well, I doubt from your description that he's going to act on his own..."))

DM_Hallu: (wait, does Ika even have any ranks in Intimidate?)

Glru looks around "Where is rat that was sitting on bunny?"

Ika_Yorri: ((No... but I have Charisma!))

Akavi: ((We really need to work on object permanence.))

Glru: (you can intimidate untrained, and putting a knife in someone a few times gives you bonuses, stackable ones.)

DM_Hallu: The rat is near the back of the Small seats, in between some dwarves and froglings and halflings.

DM_Hallu: (dwarves aren't Small, but they are in the Medium seats right behind him)

Ika_Yorri: ((And as long as it's a fellow Wildling, I don't get a negative to Intimidate from being super-cute!))

Glru: ((is s/he tied up?)

DM_Hallu: (no, I'm pretty sure Lina just ordered him back to his seat and did nothing else... feel free to correct me anyone...)

Ika_Yorri: ((I'm pretty sure that's how it went down))

Tobias: ((that's amusing))

Glru: ((I think i'd be more frightened of a psychotic bunny with a knife than a burly cat...but i read sluggy freelance.))

Tobias: ((heh))

Glru: ((so the oxen steal suitcases and get shot and zapped, the rat that attacks our bunny gets sternly ordered to sit in the corner?

Tobias: ((Yep XDD))

DM_Hallu: (pretty much...)

Glru considers shooting a few people. "soooooo do we tie up lion and rat for questioning?"

Ika_Yorri: "That sounds appropriate."

Akavi: ((I like our baggage more than our bard. I'm at peace with how things turned out.))

Glru: (thank you, i nearly snorted trailmix.)

Akavi flexes his fingers. "How do we do this without inciting panic?"

DM_Hallu: (do you guys want to stop playing now? it's almost 8:30 and our fighter's leaving.)