Post by Bartender on Jun 15, 2012 1:01:30 GMT -5
[9:06pm] • Draka appears suddenly in the Umbral, rumbling as he paces a bit, waiting on the others, listening to the surroundings, ready to head to the caern heart
[9:08pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» would appear slowly, as if oozing through frosty molassus. But he'd get there.
[9:09pm] • Neo` slips through the umdera looking around
[9:09pm] • Jason`` appears next to Draka, phasing in a little slower
[9:12pm] • Draka rumbles,"What's taking Shade so long? We don't have all night."
[9:12pm] • ShadowCast slipped in to the umbral with the others.
[9:14pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» was also in crinos, and armed with... what appeared to be a crowbar.
[9:18pm] JasonII joined the chat room.
[9:18pm] • ShadowCast was in cronos as she got to umbra and scrapped her claws on the rocks if there were anyt
[9:18pm] Jason`` left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 252 seconds)
[9:24pm] Fayth: {Post order is: Draka, Neo, Drew, Jason, Shade)
[9:27pm] • Draka nods to Shade now that she's appeared, rolling his shoulders before making his way off towards the caern heard to find the glade and the wren
[9:29pm] • Neo` follows Draka his eyes moving along the path watching.
[9:29pm] Fayth: <<>>The surroundings are much the same as the area they left minus the buildings. Instead a thick forest surrounds them, several of the massive trees torn up by the roots and scattered about. A ragged trail still leads towards the Heart, the sound of the river closer then it should be, roaring visciously<<>>
[9:31pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» followed Neo, his silver crowbar out, and his senses alert. It would be a damn shame to fall for an ambush, or to miss a vital clue while literally in their own backyard...
[9:33pm] • JasonII shifts to lupus, maintaining the Steel Fur
[9:34pm] • ShadowCast she would shift to cronis in her turn and follow the group ready watching around the back of the group for the time. just keeping eye on things
[9:37pm] Fayth: <<>>It would take little time for them to reach there, though some scrambling over and around fallen timbers and boulders but the glade would be easy enough to reach. Steaming slightly in the evening light, an almost ethereal quality to the air here. Everything seems in much sharper focus then it should be. There is the soft sound of birds singing, the air crisp from rainfall with a heavy earthy scent<<>>
[9:38pm] • Draka takes in the scent, scanning the area slowly, trying to spot the wren spirit, if he's unable to he'd call out in the spirit tongue,<ss>"We have come seeking a wren spirit, willing to aid us in our quest. I see to find my lost son..lost during the Umbral Storm..."
[9:39pm] • Neo` stands by letting Draka do the talking watching around them for the Wren
[9:41pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» remains alert for danger... but also takes in the beauty of his surroundings. He said nothing, not wishing to interrupt anything by speaking out of turn.
[9:42pm] • JasonII stands next to Draka, his lupine nose sniffing
[9:43pm] • ShadowCast scrapes her claws on a rock as she walked by making them razor sharp as she kept up with the group and watched there backs.
[9:43pm] • Draka continues foreward, into the glade, being wary of his footing,"Less like we're going to attack whatevr shows up, people...", he says, continuing foreward, trying to spot the wren spirit
[9:44pm] JasonII: <l> Attack? i'm just curious, this is only liek my third time in the Umbra
[9:45pm] • Neo` chuckles "Its not whats here..its whats after here."
[9:46pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» tried to look less like a short furry tank of ultimate destruction. In otherwords he prowled... cassually.
[9:47pm] • ShadowCast will countinue along scaning the area and getting closer to not lose her group.
[9:50pm] Fayth: <>A soft song trills out, a brown form winging down to perch on a branch near Draka. Her voice is bright and cheery, sunlight in a sound, <ss>Yes, yes yes...? Weaver Wolf spoke of friends, begged a favor.<> She peers at Draka carefully. <ss>Weaver Wolf said one with white fur that carried a platinum disc would arrive...
[9:54pm] • Draka inclines his head to the spirit, moving to slip his platnim pendant of the world tree (can't ever remember how to spell it
>,<ss>"I am he, honored Wren. She had said you would be willing to lead me to the place I need to go...seeking my son." <repost>
[9:56pm] JasonII joined the chat room.
[9:56pm] Ebon joined the chat room.
[9:56pm] • Neo` keeps watching the exchange between the two, he was back up for the moment."
[9:57pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» kept his yap shut, and listened.
[10:05pm] • JasonII is just listens, still alert for attack or for conditiosn to change
[10:06pm] ShadowCast: gave a bow of the head to the honored spirit and stays quiet letting the boss man do the talking. Not gona say wrong thing and ladn in hot water.
[10:13pm] Fayth: <>The wren tilts her head to the side bobbing it with a chirp. <ss> Yes... the pendent of Yggdrasil. Come with me friends...I'll show you the door. It is up to you whether you enter.<> She opens her wings and snaps them down launching herself into the air, circling to wait for them to ready themselves before soaring in a specific direction, towards a dark path<>
[10:14pm] • Draka starts foreward to follow the spirit, staying in homid if he can keep pace in that form, taking time to shift to wolf form if that's best... either form he follows the wren spirit, keeping his eyes and ears open for trouble
[10:16pm] Zuzynth joined the chat room.
[10:16pm] • Neo` keeps moving behind Darka keeping to homid for now ICE gripped in his hands ready to click the safty off.
[10:16pm] • Ebon seriously considers traveling in Hispo, but holds back unless it is necessary to stay with the rest of the team.
[10:17pm] • ShadowCast follows at the back as that is where she was and she keeps eyes and ears open for any thing else that may jump out at them and she will of course go with and in to the door with draka and her pack makes, caren mates what ever her family. Stays crinosed just to be ready if what may not be a figth turned in to one.
[10:18pm] • JasonII paces himself, following Draka at a trot, his lupine senses on pioint.
[10:19pm] • Draka continues foreward, focused on keeping behind the wren, following it, keeping aware of his surroundings but following the wren is key
[10:20pm] • Neo` keeps on Draka's heels his eyes shifting from lef to right as he moves.
[10:21pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» does the same.
[10:21pm] • ShadowCast keeps going with the group.
[10:22pm] Fayth: <<>>While the path is dark the wren seems to know exactly where it is going. Soon they'd go from a path that could take four or five people wide to a narrow path that only two could fit on side by side. Twists and turns lead them ever onward through dark paths where things slither in the shadows and birds laugh evilly from the trees. Clearly at some point they had long since left their territory finding themselves in some of the harder hit areas. Bodies of animals twisted and torn in places, umbral reminders of the savagery that had swept through there. She finally lights on a gnarled long dead plum tree, resting in front of a massive boulder in what appears to be a swamp. It is easy to see why they would not have made it here on their own. All in all many miles had been traveled through territory filled with disease and rot, another cycle of gaia and inevtitable while the umbra was gradually restored. <ss>If you can open the door. The path is within.
[10:24pm] JasonII: <L>great, the Wren spirits are Star Wars fans.....
[10:25pm] Draka: <ss>The door? The boulder is the door? *he says, narrowing his eyes a bit, moving closer to the boulder, staying in homid form for now, looking for anything out of the ordinary on the boulder*
[10:26pm] • ShadowCast watched as they walked going further and further shed stay quiet just listening to the sounds and those who spoke around her. Looking to the door when they got closer to the door swamp and bolder that was the door.
[10:27pm] Fayth: <Wren looks at Jason, cocking her head to the side><ss>The stars are at war?
[10:27pm] JasonII: <L> humor
[10:27pm] JasonII: <L> this is what I get for beign the onyl homid...
[10:28pm] • Neo` kept watching the boulder and then covering their backs.
[10:29pm] • Draka searches the boulder for oddities
[10:29pm] • ShadowCast will look around them for any baddies who may be around or hiding out there wtahcing them.
[10:30pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» took in the surroundings. Was the ground around the boulder marshy or solid, what was the footing? He'd advance out after the Beta, carefully, testing the footing. Somehwere along the way, he belatedly sensed for the scent of the wyrm.
[10:31pm] Zuzynth is now known as Sleepinmoity.
[10:33pm] • Draka blinks a bit, running his hands over the boulders surface, loering his head to press his ear to it's surface, knocking gently at it with his right hand, holding a hand up for the others to be silent
[10:34pm] Fayth: <>The boulder sits there unobtrusively doing nothing. It was round. Dark greys. Moss on top. A tree had grown roots snaking over its sides....long dead. At the silence....the faintest...barely heard, more felt thump can be heard.....then a good eight or nine minutes...another soft one....ten more as soft double thump.....almost like someone put a heart beat in major slow mo<>
[10:37pm] Neo`: "Well thats not odd.."
[10:39pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» moved towards Draka to assist. Silently.
[10:40pm] Fayth: <>The area has various spirits some gaian, some weaver, some wyrm scattered throughout in various stages of decomp adding a sharp fetid rotting odor on top of the dank acrid smell of the swamp. They can feel taint but not like anything is watching them.<>
[10:40pm] Tsubasa joined the chat room.
[10:41pm] • ShadowCast looked around spotting what she did mainly countinueing to make sure there backs are covered. Watching them and then looking to draka the bulder and around wonering if maybe the door wasnt the bulder "what about the tree?"
[10:42pm] Neo`: "Its dead. But if you can find a gap between boulder and tree...It might be it."
[10:42pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» "We've got got scattered scents from wyld to wyrm, but nothing out of the ordinary for a swamp."
[10:44pm] JasonII: <l> let me draka
[10:44pm] ShadowCast: "there all atound us, we need to be ready if we cant find the door we could get jumpped from behind or the sides." she said to the others in crinos
[10:46pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» looked up sharply. Hostiles? His crowbar was at the ready.
[10:47pm] ShadowCast: "i dont know I can since them i know there around they may not be watching us but they are around."
[10:48pm] Tsubasa: Two birds dive in on the garou gathered, both banking suddenly, but one keeps going while the other one slows and heads for a landing. On Draka. Fenrir=good perches. One seemed to be a hummingbird, and the one landing is a very sleek looking raven.
[10:49pm] Draka: <soft>I asked for silence. So.. silence. *he snaps, softly, listening at the boulder, hrming he crouches alower, moving along the edge of the boulder, reaching under the muck as if searching for something
[10:55pm] • Tsubasa leans with Draka, listening and looking as well, claws holding on his shoulder
[10:56pm] • Neo` keeps watching
[10:56pm] • ShadowCast wtached and stays quiet
[11:03pm] • JasonII looks at the rock as his ears flatten and his eyes glow green...like an old CRT monitor
[11:05pm] JasonII: <L> that's no moon.....thats a turtle
[11:05pm] JasonII: <L> radar's buggy as well, but that is definitly not a rock"
[11:06pm] Draka: <soft>Knew that minutes ago... *he says, hands sliding over the surface of the 'boulder', knocking at it again, speaking softly at first, but growing a bit louder* <ss>GRand turtle... I beseech you to awaken... I need to ask you questions. *he says, then repeats the words a bit louder*
[11:08pm] Tsubasa: Turtle, turtles have been asleep since the Croatoan's sacrifice.
[11:08pm] • Neo` keeps watching waiting
[11:09pm] Fayth: <>The thudding slow heart beat seems to pick up for a moment...then slowing....gradually....again....<>
[11:09pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» looked at the rock and the surrounding area, and silently called upon his gift. His gift for seeing the hidden.
[11:10pm] • ShadowCast looked to the turtule and then draka listening to his words and getting closer to the group
[11:11pm] Tsubasa: <ss>"I am Tsubasa no Nishi, great turtle, of the Sept of Moon Cast Down. Your brother there sends greetings, Snapping Turtle. I know you do not all slumber, ancient one."
[11:17pm] Jason`` joined the chat room.
[11:19pm] • Tsubasa flutters down from Draka's shoulder and her beak starts glowing blue. She touches it to the shell of the turtle and offers it to it. "If nothing else as one loyal to Turtle, I offer this gift to you."
[11:19pm] Tsubasa: (SS)
[11:22pm] JasonII left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 276 seconds)
[11:22pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» stared at the rock. Then the area around he rock, and further still. HIs eyes going full on black as his pupils expanded, and slowly, slowly, they returned to their normal size. This took some time, however, and in the meanwhile he was stock still, focusing.
[11:28pm] • Draka grunts,<ss>"No! Wake up..please! I need to know where to find my son! Awaken Turtle... awaken and answer my questions! *he says, thumping the shell again several times*
[11:33pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» shook his head and frowned. "We... may be supposed to physically move the turtle. It looks like he's covering a cave entrance of some sort."
[11:35pm] Jason``: <L> anyone got any umbral dyanmite?
[11:36pm] Neo`: "In my ohter suit.
[11:37pm] • Tsubasa flutters down from Draka's shoulder and her beak starts glowing blue. She touches it to the shell of the turtle and offers it to it. <ss>"As one loyal to Turtle, I offer this gift to you."
[11:41pm] Fayth: <>The beat begins to speed up again between all the talking and the gnosis. The ground shudders, lifting and pulling under their feet as he raises himself from the swamp. Another 15' of shell appearing, a hollow showing beneath the curve of the shell beneath his neck. Foul smelling muck flows off his massive head and shell as he frees himself with a sickening sucking sound. The swamp waters stirred cause the odor to grow even worse, the rotted forms making it fouler then normal. A massive head easily the size of a volkswagon bug blinks massive dinnerplate sized eyes at them, a malicious look in it as it stares at them (Roll Stamina everyone then WP).<>
[11:43pm] Tsubasa: Draka, He's huge. And he is protecting or covering something.
[11:44pm] • Neo` blinks a few time starting to choke a bit as he starts to heave but nohting comming up. Worse than actually puking..
[11:45pm] • Jason`` blinks then begins that tell tale canine HORKING bark as he pukes
[11:45pm] • Draka nods to Tsu,"Gathered... uh oh...", he says, back up some, inclining his head,<ss>"Forgive us honored Turtle... my son is missing and I seek his location.. a friendly wren spirit led us here... and I believe you ay on the entrance to where ever he is... Please, tell me if he's here...or allow me to go find him..."
[11:46pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» looks dazed and submissive but otherwise in perfect health.
[11:47pm] Tsubasa: <ss>"Greetings honored Turtle, I am Tsubasa no Nishi, Corax of the Sept of Moon Cast Down, greetings from your brother Snapping Turtle."
[11:48pm] • ShadowCast gagged feeling as if she hurl but she didnt she backed up a bit tho waiting and trying to keep her self from hurling turning away from jasons pukeing.
[11:56pm] Fayth: <<>>THe turtle snaps his maw in Tsu's direction...yea grumpy. He yawns, NASTY breath into Draka's face...no really that should be a weapon all on its own. (stamina Draka) It smelled like it had taken a mouthful of the rotted water and slept a thousand years....wait...maybe it had. Its voice sounds much like a rock slide, all deep rumbles <SS>Twice now! In a short time my nap has been disturbed. You had best have good reason.
[12:00am] • Draka grunts and turns to the side, puking violently, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand,<ss>"I told you, great Turtle... I seek my son... He was dragged into the Umbra by a wounded Pattern Spider during the great UMbral storm that raged through here for the past week and more... I must find him. A wren spirit said he could be found here.
[12:03am] Fayth: <SS>Hurry.... Hurry.... Hurry.... what is one of your's to me? ~*He yawns again*~
[12:04am] • Neo` lets draka do the talking
[12:06am] • Tsubasa quivers at the snap, hopping back and up. <ss>"You are so mighty, Turtle, and so large! I have never seen such of your power! And this corax has seen many things through many eyes. You are mightier even than my Sept's totem Snapping Turtle, who is not even half your size. I bet your shell could withstand any attack!"
[12:07am] • Draka grunts softly as Tsu fawns over the immense spirit,<ss>"You said twice you were woken.. you sleep atop the way to my son.. that means you know he passed this way and felt the need to block the way to him.. Please... let me get my son..."
[12:08am] Fayth: <<>>He pauses mid yawn, moving slowly to peer at Tsubasa more closely his eyes maybe three feet from her as he looks.<<>><ss>....someone left a carrion eater on my doorstep....though she speaks quite prettily. <> He seems pleased by this turning to regard Draka slowly<><ss>I was told to lower myself. I could be convinced perhaps to leave the way open now that the storm is gone....
[12:08am] • ShadowCast looked to draka and the turtle she wouldnt get to close or in the way. She did move slightly closer then she had before just not right up to the turtles iccky breath.
[12:09am] Draka: <ss>What would you wish to do so, great spirit? Nourishment to ensure a restful sleep? I have Gnosis to spare.
[12:10am] Tsubasa: <ss>"As do I, for one as impressive as you, Great Turtle. Gnosis, or would you wish other chimanage? Maybe a song to help you sleep, humans have made much recently, or I can reproduce one of this land of yore?"
[12:12am] ShadowCast: "i also have gnosis to spare grate spirit" she said towards the turle
[12:13am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» struggled to hold silent as he tried to recover from his mind-gassing.
[12:14am] Fayth: <ss>....spare me this one....to speak to me a while of what has occurred....you may enter freely if you do so.
[12:15am] • Draka looks to Tsu to see if that is acceptable to her
[12:15am] Tsubasa: <ss>"You ask a corax to talk, great one?" *she giggles at that, she can't help it*
[12:18am] Fayth: <<>>His large eye regards them then nods slowly. <ss>You show great respect...and flattery is something I had forgotten...
[12:18am] • Neo` keeps watching waiting for the go ahead.
[12:20am] Tsubasa: <ss>"You have no idea how much gaia has missed the presence of turtle, great one. It would be an honor to me to spend time with you."
[12:20am] Draka: <ss>Thank you, Honored Spirit.. we'll go collect my son now... *he says, calling over his shoulder* Move foreward... someone take rearguard. *he says, moving foreward to the entrance the turtle was hiding*
[12:21am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» moved into the position.
[12:21am] Jason``: <L> can we just kill it and move on?
[12:22am] Neo`: "Jason..
[12:22am] Draka: Jason..stop being a moron. *he says, continuing foreward*
[12:22am] Neo`: "I'll take rear gaurd."
[12:22am] ShadowCast: "Ill take rear guard" she said since she was at the rear
[12:22am] Neo`: "Ok Shade you got it." :He grins
[12:22am] Jason``: <w> i'll take the fifth wheel position"
[12:22am] Tsubasa: Jason, turtle turned his back on the world when his Tribe died. This is only the second one I have met, he was the totem of the Croatoa.
[12:23am] • ShadowCast smiled to neo with a nod and countinued on takign the very bakc
[12:23am] Jason``: <w> and this personallt effects me how?
[12:23am] Tsubasa: And.. he'd squish you like a bug, no offense.
[12:23am] Neo`: "Jason move on." :he nods to follow Draka:
[12:23am] Tsubasa: Have respect for the spirits.
[12:23am] ShadowCast: "always have respect for the honered spirits Jason"
[12:24am] Tsubasa: <ss>"Now, great turtle, I am guessing that you have been asleep a long while, so I'll start with the war of rage, and the great calling to the Pure lands, as a refresher, and we will move forward from there?"
[12:26am] • Neo` nods to Draka
[12:26am] Fayth: <>The spirit thankfully ignores the talking his attention on Tsubasa. He'd obligingly raise himself the rest of the way creating a 6' high cave entrance between him and the swamp, a clear stone walk under it. He settles a foot to the right on a massive ledge that keeps the doorway open and looks to Tsu.<>
[12:27am] • Draka crouches to move along the path to head to the doorway, moving a bit quickly
[12:28am] • Neo` follows
[12:28am] • ShadowCast shifts to lupus to have fit no way she could fit as crinos but keeps the back guarded
[12:28am] ShadowCast: (hispo not lupus)
[12:30am] • Tsubasa moves to where turtle can easily see her and starts talking <ss>"Not long after The Three Brothers acted on the vision, the Silver Fangs found bossing around humans was not enough for them, so they took to bossing around the fera as well...."
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[12:31am] Jason`` joined the chat room.
[12:33am] • Jason`` huffs and follows
[12:34am] • ShadowCast follows last pushing jason along is he stragling
[12:34am] Neo`: "Relax, you've a giant spider to fight.."
[12:34am] Jason``: <L> what spider?"
[12:35am] Neo`: "The Spider that grabed Donny."
[12:35am] Draka: The dead spider. Got torn apart by the storm.
[12:35am] Neo`: "Occh. Thats gotta suck...Ok so no spider."
[12:35am] Jason``: <L> "ekko and I found its corpse when we went lookign for donny originally"
[12:37am] Fayth: <>The tunnel stretches down, a simple stone arch about four feet into the tunnel, a supportive arch it seems otherwise the unnel is unremarkable<>
[12:37am] Neo`: "Well lets just find Donny and get home."
[12:39am] • Draka continues down the passage, keeping an eye out for anything unusual, listening carefully to catch any sounds from ahead
[12:39am] • Neo` keeps following Draka his gun at the ready
[12:40am] Fayth: <>Those that pass through the arch suddenly find themselves in a bright sunny garden that is reminiscent of a Japanese garden. Beautiful rich colors and rolling green grass....as well as some very startled spirits. A rabbit hops forward, a large african tortoise behind it. The rabbits ears twitch <ss>Garou in this sanctuary?
[12:40am] Tsubasa: As the party descends they hear <ss>... and then they did a pre-emptive strike against the fera, but they didn't catch them unaware, because the brave corax had been feeding them information all along, because of their good friends the Fenrir...."
[12:42am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» immediatly put his crowbar away.
[12:43am] Fayth: <>The spirits crowd around curiously, touching and seeking any that might be injured, all asking babbling questions of if the storms finally ended. They would note something odd...they acted as if they had been trapped for a long time.<>
[12:43am] • Draka blinks and holds a hand up in front of his eyes to sheild them,<ss>"Forgive the intrusion honored spirits...I have come seeking my son, loost near two weeks ago in the Umbral Storm... Pray.. have you seen him?"
[12:44am] • Donny crouches in the background, watching the figures entering, the spirits crowding them blocking them from view, he steals from his hiding spot, from where all his books are stacked, fingers curled around the hilt of his knife... that he held and practiced with trustfully the whole time while her, stalking towards the group
[12:45am] Fayth: <The tortoise ambles forward. <ss>...Umbral Storm? ....you mean the one that has been going for over 9 years?
[12:45am] Jason``: <L> hello usagi-chan
[12:46am] • ShadowCast follows watching looking over the spirits that croud them each.
[12:46am] • Jason`` sniffs at the rabbit
[12:46am] Fayth: <>The rabbit nuzzles his nose then gently strokes his muzzle with his paws.
[12:47am] Tsubasa: <ss>"... Meanwhile the three brothers left the land of the Fangs, questing for the pure lands. They crossed the path of the Bunyip who also were leaving, wishing no more of the..."
[12:47am] • Draka furrows his brows,'<ss>Two.. weeks... It's only been two weeks? The storm has been ended..the Spiral causing it slain.. PLease... what's going on. Why do you say nine years? Where's Donovan?
[12:47am] • Neo` keeps watching smiling at the rabbit and jason
[12:48am] • ShadowCast sniffs to a few of the spirts close to her tilting her head eharing the nine years mintioned looking around. <l>is time diffrent here?>
[12:48am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» greets the spirits respectfully, but frowns at the time length they give. He arches a brow and looks to see who all is here
[12:50am] Jason``: <L> time is different here, isn't it?
[12:50am] Fayth: <ss>Yes 9 years. Things move much slower here, as is what is proper to achieve understanding.
[12:51am] Jason``: <L> Oh boy
[12:51am] • Donny shifts to behind a rock...not a turle thankfully...just a rock, listening, hearing the sounds of wolves and the spirits speaking, gritting his teeth, peeking...definitely not a nine year old boy
[12:51am] Neo`: "Im sure it won't be nine years when we get back."
[12:51am] • Neo` glances around
[12:52am] • ShadowCast scans around for any one or any thing she might reconize maybe donny,
[12:53am] • Draka shakes his head,<ss>"A property of this..pocket realm? We came to find my son, Donovan... have you seen him?"
[12:54am] Fayth: <ss>There was only human with us...I found him...he was a child then but had been taken by a spider. He has been here with us, sheltered and learning.
[12:54am] • Donny blinks recognizing a voice finally,"Neomiah?", he says, standing, wearing simple clothes, all that's needed in this place, easily topping six feet tall, athletically toned with long black hair and dark eyes, skin beautifully tanned, handsom, fit and strong, looking to those gathered, eyes widening, spotting Draka,'Dah!", he says, sheathing his knife, running foreward
[12:54am] Fayth: (only one*)
[12:56am] • ShadowCast blinkked looking up as donny was six feet tall now and looked from him to draka
[12:57am] Neo`: 'I think we just found him. Holy hell in a hand basket is he going to make the girls cry.."
[12:57am] • Draka blinks and looks past the spirits to the young man there, staring dumbfounded,"D... Donny? Is that you?", he says, holding his arms open to catch Donny as he charges into a hug, stepping back to brace himself
[12:59am] Fayth: <>The spirits spread out around them, watching quietly.<>
[12:59am] • Donny thuds into Draka, hugging him tightly, clinging desperately as he starts to babble a bit, saying how he thought he'd never see him, or anyone from the caern again
[12:59am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» smiled thoughtfully, then glanced back toward the door with some concern. "Yes Neo, I believe you're right."
[01:00am] • Draka holds Donny close, rocking him a bit, stunned, but happy, holding his son tightly,<ss>"Thank you... for watching out for my son..I can never repay you..."
[01:00am] Neo`: "Well I suggest we very nicely thank the sprits and return home as quickly as possiable."
[01:01am] • Jason`` offers the rabbit a Gnosis
[01:01am] ShadowCast: <l>I am glad to see they took care of him.>
[01:02am] Jason``: <L> this vision mod is disorienting
[01:02am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» "Then turn it off, man."
[01:04am] Fayth: <>The spirits clear of them. the rabbit strokes Jason's nose and offers him a name in turn as thanks for the gnosis.<>
[01:05am] Fayth: <>The door stays open now that it wasn't needed to be guarded it would stay as such.<>
[01:05am] • Jason`` shakes his head and licks the rabbit in return, his eyes goign back to nromal
[01:06am] Draka: <ss>I'm going to take my son home.. thank you.. if you ever have need of aid.. seek us at the Sept of Gaia's Redemption... thank you again.... <eng>Donny.. gonna take you home now...
[01:06am] • Donny nods and murmurs softly to the spirit,<soft>"Thank you all for all you've done for me, taught me and shown me... Please.. come visit when you can. Dah... I have drawings... where I sleep. What about my books?
[01:06am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» asked the spirit. "What realm is this, here, please?"
[01:07am] • ShadowCast will take the rear on the way home too.
[01:08am] Tsubasa: <ss>... and then the the other tribes came to the Pure Lands, and one of the Talons of the Wyrm came with them. Though the Fenrir had been here some time and kept things pure, but the Fenrir are cool, ummm... you aren't going to like this. The Croatoan, the Middle Brother, he sacrificed himself to destroy the Devourer, filled his maw till he burst."
[01:08am] Fayth: <>The tortoise smiles, if one could say they smile. <ss>Mine, young one, mine.
[01:10am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» froze... then looked around for a moment. "Thank you. I will return if I can." Time to move, probably.
[01:10am] Fayth: <Tortoise><ss>Donny do not worry. We will bring it for you so we may see your home. You have been with us a while...I wish to make sure my charge will be well received.
[01:11am] • Donny nods and smiles to tortoise, holding onto Draka, looking exhausted from the ordeal of finally seeing Draka again and the others
[01:11am] Draka: <ss>Thank you again.. we will receive you well.. <eng>Come everyone..let's head home. *he says, picking Donny up, making his way back the way they came*
[01:12am] • Neo` nods smiles "I'll make breakfast tommrow." :He goes to follow Draka and Donny out and home.
[01:12am] • ShadowCast heads back with them
[01:12am] Jason``: <L> I was kinda hoping for a fight
[01:13am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» "what tribe are you again?"
[01:13am] Jason``: <L> "thats the third tiem you've asked me in as many weeks. Glasswalker"
[01:14am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» "I keep on thinking you're really a secret Get of Fenris, and one time you'll slip up and admit it."
[01:14am] • Draka snorts at Jason, holding Donny, stepping back up into the swamp,<ss>"Thank you again Great Turtle.. I found my son. When you're ready Tsu, head back.", he says, feeding the giant turtle a Gnosis...he would've done the same for the one down below and the raabbit and all
[01:14am] Tsubasa: <ss> ... thus began the second war of rage, but the Nuwisha, they were wily, and with the help of Older Brother and Little Brother, they managed to hide some of the caerns from the Wyrmbringers, mine is one, it was Middle Brother's, one of his last active. Though most of them left this kingdom, they have a few who keep eyes and ears on this place, and that is one of the places they maintain. Sept of Moon Cast Down gu
[01:14am] Tsubasa: ards one of the last Turtle Caerns...."
[01:15am] Jason``: <L> and Tsubasa is stiiiiiiiiiiiil talking. color me shocked.
[01:16am] Fayth: <<>>Her audience is thrilled even asking questions from time to time in that deep rumble<<>>
[01:16am] • Draka heads back to the caern solemnly to then figure out how to cross over with Donny
[01:16am] • ShadowCast heads back
[01:16am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» "she did good." *heads back*
[01:16am] Fayth: <Does the ST thing and opens a gate directly home, a few miles off the bawn>
[01:16am] • Tsubasa is obliging, seemingly she can talk for nearly forever, and though she rambles she does her best to give a (mostly) unbiased account
[01:17am] • Jason`` looks at the tortoise
[01:17am] Jason``: <L> you can keep her if you want
[01:17am] • Draka poofts to near home, heading in with Donny to get him settled into bed
[01:17am] Tsubasa: "You know Jason, most spirits don't speak in barks." *she giggles*
[01:18am] Neo`: "She did very well. Jason.." :He slips over with donny and Draka:
[01:18am] Jason``: <L> yeah, I was deadweight wasn't I?"
[01:18am] • Tsubasa resumes chattering with tortoise, sharing a joke, and then answering a question he had best she could.
[01:18am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» "Nah, you revealed the turtle and stuff."
[01:21am] ShadowCast left the chat room.
[01:25am] • Jason`` follows
[01:26am] Tsubasa: <ss>"Finally peace was found, and the garou stopped fighting one another for the most part and started concentrating on fighting the growing wyrm, and in the last century the weaver has grown stronger and stronger. Many think the Apocalypse approaches, a final battle for Gaia. Now, let's talk about the Beast Courts of the East."
[01:27am] ShadowCast joined the chat room.
[01:28am] Donny left the chat room. (Quit: "Guy killed me Mal... he killed me with a sword. How weird is that?" -Mr. Universe, Serenity)
[01:28am] ShadowCast left the chat room.
[01:28am] Neo` left the chat room.
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[9:08pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» would appear slowly, as if oozing through frosty molassus. But he'd get there.
[9:09pm] • Neo` slips through the umdera looking around
[9:09pm] • Jason`` appears next to Draka, phasing in a little slower
[9:12pm] • Draka rumbles,"What's taking Shade so long? We don't have all night."
[9:12pm] • ShadowCast slipped in to the umbral with the others.
[9:14pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» was also in crinos, and armed with... what appeared to be a crowbar.
[9:18pm] JasonII joined the chat room.
[9:18pm] • ShadowCast was in cronos as she got to umbra and scrapped her claws on the rocks if there were anyt
[9:18pm] Jason`` left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 252 seconds)
[9:24pm] Fayth: {Post order is: Draka, Neo, Drew, Jason, Shade)
[9:27pm] • Draka nods to Shade now that she's appeared, rolling his shoulders before making his way off towards the caern heard to find the glade and the wren
[9:29pm] • Neo` follows Draka his eyes moving along the path watching.
[9:29pm] Fayth: <<>>The surroundings are much the same as the area they left minus the buildings. Instead a thick forest surrounds them, several of the massive trees torn up by the roots and scattered about. A ragged trail still leads towards the Heart, the sound of the river closer then it should be, roaring visciously<<>>
[9:31pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» followed Neo, his silver crowbar out, and his senses alert. It would be a damn shame to fall for an ambush, or to miss a vital clue while literally in their own backyard...
[9:33pm] • JasonII shifts to lupus, maintaining the Steel Fur
[9:34pm] • ShadowCast she would shift to cronis in her turn and follow the group ready watching around the back of the group for the time. just keeping eye on things
[9:37pm] Fayth: <<>>It would take little time for them to reach there, though some scrambling over and around fallen timbers and boulders but the glade would be easy enough to reach. Steaming slightly in the evening light, an almost ethereal quality to the air here. Everything seems in much sharper focus then it should be. There is the soft sound of birds singing, the air crisp from rainfall with a heavy earthy scent<<>>
[9:38pm] • Draka takes in the scent, scanning the area slowly, trying to spot the wren spirit, if he's unable to he'd call out in the spirit tongue,<ss>"We have come seeking a wren spirit, willing to aid us in our quest. I see to find my lost son..lost during the Umbral Storm..."
[9:39pm] • Neo` stands by letting Draka do the talking watching around them for the Wren
[9:41pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» remains alert for danger... but also takes in the beauty of his surroundings. He said nothing, not wishing to interrupt anything by speaking out of turn.
[9:42pm] • JasonII stands next to Draka, his lupine nose sniffing
[9:43pm] • ShadowCast scrapes her claws on a rock as she walked by making them razor sharp as she kept up with the group and watched there backs.
[9:43pm] • Draka continues foreward, into the glade, being wary of his footing,"Less like we're going to attack whatevr shows up, people...", he says, continuing foreward, trying to spot the wren spirit
[9:44pm] JasonII: <l> Attack? i'm just curious, this is only liek my third time in the Umbra
[9:45pm] • Neo` chuckles "Its not whats here..its whats after here."
[9:46pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» tried to look less like a short furry tank of ultimate destruction. In otherwords he prowled... cassually.
[9:47pm] • ShadowCast will countinue along scaning the area and getting closer to not lose her group.
[9:50pm] Fayth: <>A soft song trills out, a brown form winging down to perch on a branch near Draka. Her voice is bright and cheery, sunlight in a sound, <ss>Yes, yes yes...? Weaver Wolf spoke of friends, begged a favor.<> She peers at Draka carefully. <ss>Weaver Wolf said one with white fur that carried a platinum disc would arrive...
[9:54pm] • Draka inclines his head to the spirit, moving to slip his platnim pendant of the world tree (can't ever remember how to spell it
>,<ss>"I am he, honored Wren. She had said you would be willing to lead me to the place I need to go...seeking my son." <repost>[9:56pm] JasonII joined the chat room.
[9:56pm] Ebon joined the chat room.
[9:56pm] • Neo` keeps watching the exchange between the two, he was back up for the moment."
[9:57pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» kept his yap shut, and listened.
[10:05pm] • JasonII is just listens, still alert for attack or for conditiosn to change
[10:06pm] ShadowCast: gave a bow of the head to the honored spirit and stays quiet letting the boss man do the talking. Not gona say wrong thing and ladn in hot water.
[10:13pm] Fayth: <>The wren tilts her head to the side bobbing it with a chirp. <ss> Yes... the pendent of Yggdrasil. Come with me friends...I'll show you the door. It is up to you whether you enter.<> She opens her wings and snaps them down launching herself into the air, circling to wait for them to ready themselves before soaring in a specific direction, towards a dark path<>
[10:14pm] • Draka starts foreward to follow the spirit, staying in homid if he can keep pace in that form, taking time to shift to wolf form if that's best... either form he follows the wren spirit, keeping his eyes and ears open for trouble
[10:16pm] Zuzynth joined the chat room.
[10:16pm] • Neo` keeps moving behind Darka keeping to homid for now ICE gripped in his hands ready to click the safty off.
[10:16pm] • Ebon seriously considers traveling in Hispo, but holds back unless it is necessary to stay with the rest of the team.
[10:17pm] • ShadowCast follows at the back as that is where she was and she keeps eyes and ears open for any thing else that may jump out at them and she will of course go with and in to the door with draka and her pack makes, caren mates what ever her family. Stays crinosed just to be ready if what may not be a figth turned in to one.
[10:18pm] • JasonII paces himself, following Draka at a trot, his lupine senses on pioint.
[10:19pm] • Draka continues foreward, focused on keeping behind the wren, following it, keeping aware of his surroundings but following the wren is key
[10:20pm] • Neo` keeps on Draka's heels his eyes shifting from lef to right as he moves.
[10:21pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» does the same.
[10:21pm] • ShadowCast keeps going with the group.
[10:22pm] Fayth: <<>>While the path is dark the wren seems to know exactly where it is going. Soon they'd go from a path that could take four or five people wide to a narrow path that only two could fit on side by side. Twists and turns lead them ever onward through dark paths where things slither in the shadows and birds laugh evilly from the trees. Clearly at some point they had long since left their territory finding themselves in some of the harder hit areas. Bodies of animals twisted and torn in places, umbral reminders of the savagery that had swept through there. She finally lights on a gnarled long dead plum tree, resting in front of a massive boulder in what appears to be a swamp. It is easy to see why they would not have made it here on their own. All in all many miles had been traveled through territory filled with disease and rot, another cycle of gaia and inevtitable while the umbra was gradually restored. <ss>If you can open the door. The path is within.
[10:24pm] JasonII: <L>great, the Wren spirits are Star Wars fans.....
[10:25pm] Draka: <ss>The door? The boulder is the door? *he says, narrowing his eyes a bit, moving closer to the boulder, staying in homid form for now, looking for anything out of the ordinary on the boulder*
[10:26pm] • ShadowCast watched as they walked going further and further shed stay quiet just listening to the sounds and those who spoke around her. Looking to the door when they got closer to the door swamp and bolder that was the door.
[10:27pm] Fayth: <Wren looks at Jason, cocking her head to the side><ss>The stars are at war?
[10:27pm] JasonII: <L> humor
[10:27pm] JasonII: <L> this is what I get for beign the onyl homid...
[10:28pm] • Neo` kept watching the boulder and then covering their backs.
[10:29pm] • Draka searches the boulder for oddities
[10:29pm] • ShadowCast will look around them for any baddies who may be around or hiding out there wtahcing them.
[10:30pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» took in the surroundings. Was the ground around the boulder marshy or solid, what was the footing? He'd advance out after the Beta, carefully, testing the footing. Somehwere along the way, he belatedly sensed for the scent of the wyrm.
[10:31pm] Zuzynth is now known as Sleepinmoity.
[10:33pm] • Draka blinks a bit, running his hands over the boulders surface, loering his head to press his ear to it's surface, knocking gently at it with his right hand, holding a hand up for the others to be silent
[10:34pm] Fayth: <>The boulder sits there unobtrusively doing nothing. It was round. Dark greys. Moss on top. A tree had grown roots snaking over its sides....long dead. At the silence....the faintest...barely heard, more felt thump can be heard.....then a good eight or nine minutes...another soft one....ten more as soft double thump.....almost like someone put a heart beat in major slow mo<>
[10:37pm] Neo`: "Well thats not odd.."
[10:39pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» moved towards Draka to assist. Silently.
[10:40pm] Fayth: <>The area has various spirits some gaian, some weaver, some wyrm scattered throughout in various stages of decomp adding a sharp fetid rotting odor on top of the dank acrid smell of the swamp. They can feel taint but not like anything is watching them.<>
[10:40pm] Tsubasa joined the chat room.
[10:41pm] • ShadowCast looked around spotting what she did mainly countinueing to make sure there backs are covered. Watching them and then looking to draka the bulder and around wonering if maybe the door wasnt the bulder "what about the tree?"
[10:42pm] Neo`: "Its dead. But if you can find a gap between boulder and tree...It might be it."
[10:42pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» "We've got got scattered scents from wyld to wyrm, but nothing out of the ordinary for a swamp."
[10:44pm] JasonII: <l> let me draka
[10:44pm] ShadowCast: "there all atound us, we need to be ready if we cant find the door we could get jumpped from behind or the sides." she said to the others in crinos
[10:46pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» looked up sharply. Hostiles? His crowbar was at the ready.
[10:47pm] ShadowCast: "i dont know I can since them i know there around they may not be watching us but they are around."
[10:48pm] Tsubasa: Two birds dive in on the garou gathered, both banking suddenly, but one keeps going while the other one slows and heads for a landing. On Draka. Fenrir=good perches. One seemed to be a hummingbird, and the one landing is a very sleek looking raven.
[10:49pm] Draka: <soft>I asked for silence. So.. silence. *he snaps, softly, listening at the boulder, hrming he crouches alower, moving along the edge of the boulder, reaching under the muck as if searching for something
[10:55pm] • Tsubasa leans with Draka, listening and looking as well, claws holding on his shoulder
[10:56pm] • Neo` keeps watching
[10:56pm] • ShadowCast wtached and stays quiet
[11:03pm] • JasonII looks at the rock as his ears flatten and his eyes glow green...like an old CRT monitor
[11:05pm] JasonII: <L> that's no moon.....thats a turtle
[11:05pm] JasonII: <L> radar's buggy as well, but that is definitly not a rock"
[11:06pm] Draka: <soft>Knew that minutes ago... *he says, hands sliding over the surface of the 'boulder', knocking at it again, speaking softly at first, but growing a bit louder* <ss>GRand turtle... I beseech you to awaken... I need to ask you questions. *he says, then repeats the words a bit louder*
[11:08pm] Tsubasa: Turtle, turtles have been asleep since the Croatoan's sacrifice.
[11:08pm] • Neo` keeps watching waiting
[11:09pm] Fayth: <>The thudding slow heart beat seems to pick up for a moment...then slowing....gradually....again....<>
[11:09pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» looked at the rock and the surrounding area, and silently called upon his gift. His gift for seeing the hidden.
[11:10pm] • ShadowCast looked to the turtule and then draka listening to his words and getting closer to the group
[11:11pm] Tsubasa: <ss>"I am Tsubasa no Nishi, great turtle, of the Sept of Moon Cast Down. Your brother there sends greetings, Snapping Turtle. I know you do not all slumber, ancient one."
[11:17pm] Jason`` joined the chat room.
[11:19pm] • Tsubasa flutters down from Draka's shoulder and her beak starts glowing blue. She touches it to the shell of the turtle and offers it to it. "If nothing else as one loyal to Turtle, I offer this gift to you."
[11:19pm] Tsubasa: (SS)
[11:22pm] JasonII left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 276 seconds)
[11:22pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» stared at the rock. Then the area around he rock, and further still. HIs eyes going full on black as his pupils expanded, and slowly, slowly, they returned to their normal size. This took some time, however, and in the meanwhile he was stock still, focusing.
[11:28pm] • Draka grunts,<ss>"No! Wake up..please! I need to know where to find my son! Awaken Turtle... awaken and answer my questions! *he says, thumping the shell again several times*
[11:33pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» shook his head and frowned. "We... may be supposed to physically move the turtle. It looks like he's covering a cave entrance of some sort."
[11:35pm] Jason``: <L> anyone got any umbral dyanmite?
[11:36pm] Neo`: "In my ohter suit.
[11:37pm] • Tsubasa flutters down from Draka's shoulder and her beak starts glowing blue. She touches it to the shell of the turtle and offers it to it. <ss>"As one loyal to Turtle, I offer this gift to you."
[11:41pm] Fayth: <>The beat begins to speed up again between all the talking and the gnosis. The ground shudders, lifting and pulling under their feet as he raises himself from the swamp. Another 15' of shell appearing, a hollow showing beneath the curve of the shell beneath his neck. Foul smelling muck flows off his massive head and shell as he frees himself with a sickening sucking sound. The swamp waters stirred cause the odor to grow even worse, the rotted forms making it fouler then normal. A massive head easily the size of a volkswagon bug blinks massive dinnerplate sized eyes at them, a malicious look in it as it stares at them (Roll Stamina everyone then WP).<>
[11:43pm] Tsubasa: Draka, He's huge. And he is protecting or covering something.
[11:44pm] • Neo` blinks a few time starting to choke a bit as he starts to heave but nohting comming up. Worse than actually puking..
[11:45pm] • Jason`` blinks then begins that tell tale canine HORKING bark as he pukes
[11:45pm] • Draka nods to Tsu,"Gathered... uh oh...", he says, back up some, inclining his head,<ss>"Forgive us honored Turtle... my son is missing and I seek his location.. a friendly wren spirit led us here... and I believe you ay on the entrance to where ever he is... Please, tell me if he's here...or allow me to go find him..."
[11:46pm] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» looks dazed and submissive but otherwise in perfect health.
[11:47pm] Tsubasa: <ss>"Greetings honored Turtle, I am Tsubasa no Nishi, Corax of the Sept of Moon Cast Down, greetings from your brother Snapping Turtle."
[11:48pm] • ShadowCast gagged feeling as if she hurl but she didnt she backed up a bit tho waiting and trying to keep her self from hurling turning away from jasons pukeing.
[11:56pm] Fayth: <<>>THe turtle snaps his maw in Tsu's direction...yea grumpy. He yawns, NASTY breath into Draka's face...no really that should be a weapon all on its own. (stamina Draka) It smelled like it had taken a mouthful of the rotted water and slept a thousand years....wait...maybe it had. Its voice sounds much like a rock slide, all deep rumbles <SS>Twice now! In a short time my nap has been disturbed. You had best have good reason.
[12:00am] • Draka grunts and turns to the side, puking violently, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand,<ss>"I told you, great Turtle... I seek my son... He was dragged into the Umbra by a wounded Pattern Spider during the great UMbral storm that raged through here for the past week and more... I must find him. A wren spirit said he could be found here.
[12:03am] Fayth: <SS>Hurry.... Hurry.... Hurry.... what is one of your's to me? ~*He yawns again*~
[12:04am] • Neo` lets draka do the talking
[12:06am] • Tsubasa quivers at the snap, hopping back and up. <ss>"You are so mighty, Turtle, and so large! I have never seen such of your power! And this corax has seen many things through many eyes. You are mightier even than my Sept's totem Snapping Turtle, who is not even half your size. I bet your shell could withstand any attack!"
[12:07am] • Draka grunts softly as Tsu fawns over the immense spirit,<ss>"You said twice you were woken.. you sleep atop the way to my son.. that means you know he passed this way and felt the need to block the way to him.. Please... let me get my son..."
[12:08am] Fayth: <<>>He pauses mid yawn, moving slowly to peer at Tsubasa more closely his eyes maybe three feet from her as he looks.<<>><ss>....someone left a carrion eater on my doorstep....though she speaks quite prettily. <> He seems pleased by this turning to regard Draka slowly<><ss>I was told to lower myself. I could be convinced perhaps to leave the way open now that the storm is gone....
[12:08am] • ShadowCast looked to draka and the turtle she wouldnt get to close or in the way. She did move slightly closer then she had before just not right up to the turtles iccky breath.
[12:09am] Draka: <ss>What would you wish to do so, great spirit? Nourishment to ensure a restful sleep? I have Gnosis to spare.
[12:10am] Tsubasa: <ss>"As do I, for one as impressive as you, Great Turtle. Gnosis, or would you wish other chimanage? Maybe a song to help you sleep, humans have made much recently, or I can reproduce one of this land of yore?"
[12:12am] ShadowCast: "i also have gnosis to spare grate spirit" she said towards the turle
[12:13am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» struggled to hold silent as he tried to recover from his mind-gassing.
[12:14am] Fayth: <ss>....spare me this one....to speak to me a while of what has occurred....you may enter freely if you do so.
[12:15am] • Draka looks to Tsu to see if that is acceptable to her
[12:15am] Tsubasa: <ss>"You ask a corax to talk, great one?" *she giggles at that, she can't help it*
[12:18am] Fayth: <<>>His large eye regards them then nods slowly. <ss>You show great respect...and flattery is something I had forgotten...
[12:18am] • Neo` keeps watching waiting for the go ahead.
[12:20am] Tsubasa: <ss>"You have no idea how much gaia has missed the presence of turtle, great one. It would be an honor to me to spend time with you."
[12:20am] Draka: <ss>Thank you, Honored Spirit.. we'll go collect my son now... *he says, calling over his shoulder* Move foreward... someone take rearguard. *he says, moving foreward to the entrance the turtle was hiding*
[12:21am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» moved into the position.
[12:21am] Jason``: <L> can we just kill it and move on?
[12:22am] Neo`: "Jason..
[12:22am] Draka: Jason..stop being a moron. *he says, continuing foreward*
[12:22am] Neo`: "I'll take rear gaurd."
[12:22am] ShadowCast: "Ill take rear guard" she said since she was at the rear
[12:22am] Neo`: "Ok Shade you got it." :He grins
[12:22am] Jason``: <w> i'll take the fifth wheel position"
[12:22am] Tsubasa: Jason, turtle turned his back on the world when his Tribe died. This is only the second one I have met, he was the totem of the Croatoa.
[12:23am] • ShadowCast smiled to neo with a nod and countinued on takign the very bakc
[12:23am] Jason``: <w> and this personallt effects me how?
[12:23am] Tsubasa: And.. he'd squish you like a bug, no offense.
[12:23am] Neo`: "Jason move on." :he nods to follow Draka:
[12:23am] Tsubasa: Have respect for the spirits.
[12:23am] ShadowCast: "always have respect for the honered spirits Jason"
[12:24am] Tsubasa: <ss>"Now, great turtle, I am guessing that you have been asleep a long while, so I'll start with the war of rage, and the great calling to the Pure lands, as a refresher, and we will move forward from there?"
[12:26am] • Neo` nods to Draka
[12:26am] Fayth: <>The spirit thankfully ignores the talking his attention on Tsubasa. He'd obligingly raise himself the rest of the way creating a 6' high cave entrance between him and the swamp, a clear stone walk under it. He settles a foot to the right on a massive ledge that keeps the doorway open and looks to Tsu.<>
[12:27am] • Draka crouches to move along the path to head to the doorway, moving a bit quickly
[12:28am] • Neo` follows
[12:28am] • ShadowCast shifts to lupus to have fit no way she could fit as crinos but keeps the back guarded
[12:28am] ShadowCast: (hispo not lupus)
[12:30am] • Tsubasa moves to where turtle can easily see her and starts talking <ss>"Not long after The Three Brothers acted on the vision, the Silver Fangs found bossing around humans was not enough for them, so they took to bossing around the fera as well...."
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[12:33am] • Jason`` huffs and follows
[12:34am] • ShadowCast follows last pushing jason along is he stragling
[12:34am] Neo`: "Relax, you've a giant spider to fight.."
[12:34am] Jason``: <L> what spider?"
[12:35am] Neo`: "The Spider that grabed Donny."
[12:35am] Draka: The dead spider. Got torn apart by the storm.
[12:35am] Neo`: "Occh. Thats gotta suck...Ok so no spider."
[12:35am] Jason``: <L> "ekko and I found its corpse when we went lookign for donny originally"
[12:37am] Fayth: <>The tunnel stretches down, a simple stone arch about four feet into the tunnel, a supportive arch it seems otherwise the unnel is unremarkable<>
[12:37am] Neo`: "Well lets just find Donny and get home."
[12:39am] • Draka continues down the passage, keeping an eye out for anything unusual, listening carefully to catch any sounds from ahead
[12:39am] • Neo` keeps following Draka his gun at the ready
[12:40am] Fayth: <>Those that pass through the arch suddenly find themselves in a bright sunny garden that is reminiscent of a Japanese garden. Beautiful rich colors and rolling green grass....as well as some very startled spirits. A rabbit hops forward, a large african tortoise behind it. The rabbits ears twitch <ss>Garou in this sanctuary?
[12:40am] Tsubasa: As the party descends they hear <ss>... and then they did a pre-emptive strike against the fera, but they didn't catch them unaware, because the brave corax had been feeding them information all along, because of their good friends the Fenrir...."
[12:42am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» immediatly put his crowbar away.
[12:43am] Fayth: <>The spirits crowd around curiously, touching and seeking any that might be injured, all asking babbling questions of if the storms finally ended. They would note something odd...they acted as if they had been trapped for a long time.<>
[12:43am] • Draka blinks and holds a hand up in front of his eyes to sheild them,<ss>"Forgive the intrusion honored spirits...I have come seeking my son, loost near two weeks ago in the Umbral Storm... Pray.. have you seen him?"
[12:44am] • Donny crouches in the background, watching the figures entering, the spirits crowding them blocking them from view, he steals from his hiding spot, from where all his books are stacked, fingers curled around the hilt of his knife... that he held and practiced with trustfully the whole time while her, stalking towards the group
[12:45am] Fayth: <The tortoise ambles forward. <ss>...Umbral Storm? ....you mean the one that has been going for over 9 years?
[12:45am] Jason``: <L> hello usagi-chan
[12:46am] • ShadowCast follows watching looking over the spirits that croud them each.
[12:46am] • Jason`` sniffs at the rabbit
[12:46am] Fayth: <>The rabbit nuzzles his nose then gently strokes his muzzle with his paws.
[12:47am] Tsubasa: <ss>"... Meanwhile the three brothers left the land of the Fangs, questing for the pure lands. They crossed the path of the Bunyip who also were leaving, wishing no more of the..."
[12:47am] • Draka furrows his brows,'<ss>Two.. weeks... It's only been two weeks? The storm has been ended..the Spiral causing it slain.. PLease... what's going on. Why do you say nine years? Where's Donovan?
[12:47am] • Neo` keeps watching smiling at the rabbit and jason
[12:48am] • ShadowCast sniffs to a few of the spirts close to her tilting her head eharing the nine years mintioned looking around. <l>is time diffrent here?>
[12:48am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» greets the spirits respectfully, but frowns at the time length they give. He arches a brow and looks to see who all is here
[12:50am] Jason``: <L> time is different here, isn't it?
[12:50am] Fayth: <ss>Yes 9 years. Things move much slower here, as is what is proper to achieve understanding.
[12:51am] Jason``: <L> Oh boy
[12:51am] • Donny shifts to behind a rock...not a turle thankfully...just a rock, listening, hearing the sounds of wolves and the spirits speaking, gritting his teeth, peeking...definitely not a nine year old boy
[12:51am] Neo`: "Im sure it won't be nine years when we get back."
[12:51am] • Neo` glances around
[12:52am] • ShadowCast scans around for any one or any thing she might reconize maybe donny,
[12:53am] • Draka shakes his head,<ss>"A property of this..pocket realm? We came to find my son, Donovan... have you seen him?"
[12:54am] Fayth: <ss>There was only human with us...I found him...he was a child then but had been taken by a spider. He has been here with us, sheltered and learning.
[12:54am] • Donny blinks recognizing a voice finally,"Neomiah?", he says, standing, wearing simple clothes, all that's needed in this place, easily topping six feet tall, athletically toned with long black hair and dark eyes, skin beautifully tanned, handsom, fit and strong, looking to those gathered, eyes widening, spotting Draka,'Dah!", he says, sheathing his knife, running foreward
[12:54am] Fayth: (only one*)
[12:56am] • ShadowCast blinkked looking up as donny was six feet tall now and looked from him to draka
[12:57am] Neo`: 'I think we just found him. Holy hell in a hand basket is he going to make the girls cry.."
[12:57am] • Draka blinks and looks past the spirits to the young man there, staring dumbfounded,"D... Donny? Is that you?", he says, holding his arms open to catch Donny as he charges into a hug, stepping back to brace himself
[12:59am] Fayth: <>The spirits spread out around them, watching quietly.<>
[12:59am] • Donny thuds into Draka, hugging him tightly, clinging desperately as he starts to babble a bit, saying how he thought he'd never see him, or anyone from the caern again
[12:59am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» smiled thoughtfully, then glanced back toward the door with some concern. "Yes Neo, I believe you're right."
[01:00am] • Draka holds Donny close, rocking him a bit, stunned, but happy, holding his son tightly,<ss>"Thank you... for watching out for my son..I can never repay you..."
[01:00am] Neo`: "Well I suggest we very nicely thank the sprits and return home as quickly as possiable."
[01:01am] • Jason`` offers the rabbit a Gnosis
[01:01am] ShadowCast: <l>I am glad to see they took care of him.>
[01:02am] Jason``: <L> this vision mod is disorienting
[01:02am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» "Then turn it off, man."
[01:04am] Fayth: <>The spirits clear of them. the rabbit strokes Jason's nose and offers him a name in turn as thanks for the gnosis.<>
[01:05am] Fayth: <>The door stays open now that it wasn't needed to be guarded it would stay as such.<>
[01:05am] • Jason`` shakes his head and licks the rabbit in return, his eyes goign back to nromal
[01:06am] Draka: <ss>I'm going to take my son home.. thank you.. if you ever have need of aid.. seek us at the Sept of Gaia's Redemption... thank you again.... <eng>Donny.. gonna take you home now...
[01:06am] • Donny nods and murmurs softly to the spirit,<soft>"Thank you all for all you've done for me, taught me and shown me... Please.. come visit when you can. Dah... I have drawings... where I sleep. What about my books?
[01:06am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» asked the spirit. "What realm is this, here, please?"
[01:07am] • ShadowCast will take the rear on the way home too.
[01:08am] Tsubasa: <ss>... and then the the other tribes came to the Pure Lands, and one of the Talons of the Wyrm came with them. Though the Fenrir had been here some time and kept things pure, but the Fenrir are cool, ummm... you aren't going to like this. The Croatoan, the Middle Brother, he sacrificed himself to destroy the Devourer, filled his maw till he burst."
[01:08am] Fayth: <>The tortoise smiles, if one could say they smile. <ss>Mine, young one, mine.
[01:10am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» froze... then looked around for a moment. "Thank you. I will return if I can." Time to move, probably.
[01:10am] Fayth: <Tortoise><ss>Donny do not worry. We will bring it for you so we may see your home. You have been with us a while...I wish to make sure my charge will be well received.
[01:11am] • Donny nods and smiles to tortoise, holding onto Draka, looking exhausted from the ordeal of finally seeing Draka again and the others
[01:11am] Draka: <ss>Thank you again.. we will receive you well.. <eng>Come everyone..let's head home. *he says, picking Donny up, making his way back the way they came*
[01:12am] • Neo` nods smiles "I'll make breakfast tommrow." :He goes to follow Draka and Donny out and home.
[01:12am] • ShadowCast heads back with them
[01:12am] Jason``: <L> I was kinda hoping for a fight
[01:13am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» "what tribe are you again?"
[01:13am] Jason``: <L> "thats the third tiem you've asked me in as many weeks. Glasswalker"
[01:14am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» "I keep on thinking you're really a secret Get of Fenris, and one time you'll slip up and admit it."
[01:14am] • Draka snorts at Jason, holding Donny, stepping back up into the swamp,<ss>"Thank you again Great Turtle.. I found my son. When you're ready Tsu, head back.", he says, feeding the giant turtle a Gnosis...he would've done the same for the one down below and the raabbit and all
[01:14am] Tsubasa: <ss> ... thus began the second war of rage, but the Nuwisha, they were wily, and with the help of Older Brother and Little Brother, they managed to hide some of the caerns from the Wyrmbringers, mine is one, it was Middle Brother's, one of his last active. Though most of them left this kingdom, they have a few who keep eyes and ears on this place, and that is one of the places they maintain. Sept of Moon Cast Down gu
[01:14am] Tsubasa: ards one of the last Turtle Caerns...."
[01:15am] Jason``: <L> and Tsubasa is stiiiiiiiiiiiil talking. color me shocked.
[01:16am] Fayth: <<>>Her audience is thrilled even asking questions from time to time in that deep rumble<<>>
[01:16am] • Draka heads back to the caern solemnly to then figure out how to cross over with Donny
[01:16am] • ShadowCast heads back
[01:16am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» "she did good." *heads back*
[01:16am] Fayth: <Does the ST thing and opens a gate directly home, a few miles off the bawn>
[01:16am] • Tsubasa is obliging, seemingly she can talk for nearly forever, and though she rambles she does her best to give a (mostly) unbiased account
[01:17am] • Jason`` looks at the tortoise
[01:17am] Jason``: <L> you can keep her if you want
[01:17am] • Draka poofts to near home, heading in with Donny to get him settled into bed
[01:17am] Tsubasa: "You know Jason, most spirits don't speak in barks." *she giggles*
[01:18am] Neo`: "She did very well. Jason.." :He slips over with donny and Draka:
[01:18am] Jason``: <L> yeah, I was deadweight wasn't I?"
[01:18am] • Tsubasa resumes chattering with tortoise, sharing a joke, and then answering a question he had best she could.
[01:18am] Ebon: «}*Toliver*{» "Nah, you revealed the turtle and stuff."
[01:21am] ShadowCast left the chat room.
[01:25am] • Jason`` follows
[01:26am] Tsubasa: <ss>"Finally peace was found, and the garou stopped fighting one another for the most part and started concentrating on fighting the growing wyrm, and in the last century the weaver has grown stronger and stronger. Many think the Apocalypse approaches, a final battle for Gaia. Now, let's talk about the Beast Courts of the East."
[01:27am] ShadowCast joined the chat room.
[01:28am] Donny left the chat room. (Quit: "Guy killed me Mal... he killed me with a sword. How weird is that?" -Mr. Universe, Serenity)
[01:28am] ShadowCast left the chat room.
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