RP 33: The Mithril Stone

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Verëdanor was a very young elf. He had just turned 134, and had a very jolly life. He was born in Rivendell, and had never been 5 miles away from his birthplace. Places like Lóthlórien were just legends in his mind.

It all happened very quickly. He was sharpening his arrows on the balcony when Serdon, his freind, came running with a look of horror on his face. "Verëdanor! Come quick!"

"What is it, Serdon?" he replied, but he had skitted away. Verëdanor followed him, and Serdon led him to his fathers room. His father was in his bed, very stiff. He wasn't moving

"What has happened to him?" asked Verëdanor. His father had been in perfect health just a few hours ago.

"He appears to be paralyzed" said one of the elfs looking at him. "We found this dart in his back that was probably filled with poison."

"Will he be all right? Please tell me, will he be alright?" Verëdanor said, very scared for him.

"We will try to find an antidote for him, but untill then..." his voice trailed off. "I'll go get help. Everyone better get out of this room. Verëdanor, you can stay". And he left with everyone else.

Verëdanor stared at him. His fathers eyes were open, but weren't alive. He started pacing around the room, when his eyes spotted a letter on the desk in the room.

He went over to it, and began to read it. It was written in Common Language, yet it was in his fathers handwriting. He must've been in a hurry to write this. It said:

Verëdanor

I shouldn't have waited. They are coming for it. Go to Heridór. They are in the windo--

And there were strange markings after 'windo'. He was flabberghasted, and wondering what to do next. He wondered why his father would suggest he go see Heridór. He was a very solitary being, and hardly would talk to anyone. And that last sentence, he couldn't get. Who was in the windo? What was a windo?

He thought for a second, and wondered. After awhile, he got it. He must've been shot with the dart by someone in the window. He sat in a chair, and wondered...

[HLGStrider]

meanwhile in a small village some miles from there, a lone healer by the name of Elgee i Nanar was quietly working on various medicines. Several of her people had been killed by a mysterious paralyzing poison while hunting near the borders of Rivendale.
"Such things don't often come from elves," she frowned, as she tried to find an antidote. "Why are they suddenly turning on my friends?" Elgee saddled up her cats, took her medicines, and started towards Lorien, hoping to discover the truth.

[Glory]

*far away from there Glory has been hited by one poisoned dart* ouch what the..! *she takes the dart out and smells it* well the only thing that I can tell is that this poison has been made to kill elves *laughts* silly person who throw this at me I am a human.

[HLGStrider]

Elgee was traveling near by and happened to over hear this.
"It must be a different poison than that used on my people then because my people are human," she sighed. "Come, let us journey together."

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Suddenly, out of the bushes, comes a dark figure. Glory, too surprised to attack, is robbed from the road. Glory takes out her gleaming sword Erandoil, and is prepared to strike..

Verëdanor went down the hallways of Rivendell. He knocked on the bedroom of Heridór's Room. Almost instantly, a loud growling voice boomed from the closed door, "Go away!".

"Please, Heridór, let me in!" Verëdanor pleaded.

"No!"

"Heridór, this is a matter of great importance. My father..."

"Your father is a nitwit."

Despite the rude remark, Verëdanor continued. "My father has been shot with a poison arrow, and his note talks about a thing, he doesn't mention what though."

There was a silence. Then the door slowly opened. "Come in" Heridór said in a quieter voice. Verëdanor entered the room.

[Aredhel]

She walks down the hallway, and just sees an elf walk into Rivendell.

"That's strange,"she murmurs sadly,"Lady of Rivendell, and don't even know who my own people are." Passes silently by the door.

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Heridór closed the door behind them. "It all started long ago. Me and your father were friends, and often were together. We went on a journey to the misty mountains. My father found the something of great value. It was Mithril, one of the rarest substances in middle-earth. Well, when he had found it, he imm..." He paused for a second. "I hear footsteps. Be very quiet."

[HLGStrider]

The two elves barely dared to breathe. The foot steps were heavy, and getting closer, not the quiet feet of elves, but the loud tred of something ominous.

Outside, Elgee and Glory dismounted from their steeds, and looked around Rivendale. They had arrived quite unmolested, but now had no idea what they were looking for.
"We need to speak to whoever's in charge," Elgee decided. Glory nodded.

[Aroghel]

Not too far off in Rivendell an Elderly Elf name Aroghel was sleeping in his bed in his house. A dart zipped right past him - missing him by an inch.

"What was that?"

He took the dart out of the wall and looked at it strangely. Just then someone opened the door, startling Aroghel.

"Who is it! What do you want?!"

"It is your me, your loyal gardener. I have just gotten news that darts are flying all over in Rivendell. Are you ok?"

"It seems those darts have made their way into my home. Come, fetch me my cape. I am to see my dear young friend Verëdanor at once!"

[Glory]

*while they were looking for the person in charge Elgee noticed that Glory were really happy to be in Rivendell like she were getting back on her home suddenly she looked at Elgee seriously* I think those darts were poisoned diferently just to kill their targets they probalbly thought I was an elf but they probalbly has realized that I am not so the next one It'll be poisoned to kill me anmd I am not sure why they are killing people but I think that you should be prepared to expect anything, ok?

[Aroghel]

*ZZZIIIIPPPPP!!! An arrow makes its way to Elgee and Glory, but luckily they are ready.

"Aha!"

*Glory barely catches the dart in mid-air before it hits Elgee.

"That was a close one!"

[Glory]

*Elgee gasped as she looked at the dart with fear*
Glory- what did I told you? *Glory smells the dart* well, I was quite right it is poisoned differently. This poison is for humans not for elves.

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Elgee looks in horror of what almost could have happened. Glory sighs with relief. "Come on, lets run into Rivendell." The pair went into Rivendell, and walked down the hallway. Glory sniffs the air. "I smell the elf poison. It's already been used here."

"I hope no one has been injected." said Elgee, with a look of worry on her face. They continued walking, and walked past the door of Heridór. Very suddenly, two elves emerged and started to attack. Elgee and Glory was taken abacken, but just before Heridór was about to hurt them, Verëdanor stopped him.

"Heridór, stop it, they mean us no harm." he pleaded.

"Oh yeah? then why did they show up when the footsteps were still there? Don't you think they are in league with whoever was walking."

"Honestly, we had just come in." Elgee exclaimed.

"I believe them." said Verëdanor "The footsteps stopped when they came in. Don't jump to conclusions." Heridór looked at him with that all-to-familiar face, but gave it a rest. There was a pause, then two screams echoed through the hallway, one higher than the other.

[Aroghel]

*Aroghel comes running through the hall and sees the everyone standing there

"Is everyone alright? I heard screams from outside. . . Oh Verëdanor my friend how are you? I came on behalf of all of the mischief going on. Darts, everywhere! Do you have any clue whats going on??"

*He looks at Verëdanor in a worried face

[HLGStrider]

"Everyone seems all right," Elgee sighed. "If any body isn't I can do my best with what medicines I brought... Foot steps? What foot steps? You almost killed me because of foot steps??? I'll never understand elves... Does anybody have any idea what's going on here?"
Everyone turned accusingly on Heridor.

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"What?" said Heridór. Everyone kept staring. "I didn't do anything. Stop looking at me."

Aroghel broke the trance. "Come on, lets go see what happened." They hurried down the hallway, and turned the corner. The Lady of Rivendell sat there, looking ghasted, with an elf who looked paralyzed. In his shoulder was one of the darts. "Oh, thank goodness you came. He saved me." and she pointed toward the elf.

[HLGStrider]

ooc: ghasted?

"Oh dear!" cried Elgee. "Did you see where it came from?"
"No, whoever it was was hidden by the bushes," the lady sighed.

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"Hmmm... It was probably the footsteps we heard." Heridór said.

"Well, do you know anything about whats going on?" asked Glory.

"Yes, I believe I do. Come into my room." he said. The party went into his room, and Heridór began to recall his story. "Me and Verëdanor's father were friends in our youth. We went exploring all the time, going to places far away. Once, when we were going to Mirkwood, Isindur, Verëdanor's father, found some of the rarest substances in middle-earth. Mithril. He found a stones worth as we were crossing the misty mountains. We were too careless with talking about this. To make a long story short, it aroused the dwarves. Some of the dwarves weren't greedy, and didn't want anything to do with it. Most, however, found this piece of news interesting, and went out to search for it. Isindur kept it with him, and when he knew that his item was being searched for, he..." Heridor came closer and lowered his voice so that it was barely audible. "...He hid it. Somewhere, in the mines of Moria."

The party was silent. Then Elgee said, "So they are coming for it." She paused for a second. "Why would they use poison darts? It's not of their nature."

"That I do not know. I believe they have aroused an army of different creatures."

Verëdanor piped in. "So what do we do? The stone is already hid."

"I believe the only way to stop the attacks is to give in. To give them the stone."

Verëdanor seemed annoyed at this. "But thats giving in! Without a fight!"

The Lady of Rivendell said, "You think what Cherash did wasn't a fight? He sacrificed himself, and that is, in my mind, far beyond a fight."

Verëdanor sighed. "I guess your right."

Everyone was silent.

OCC: Ghasted is a synonym for horrified.

[Aroghel]

"So what now? I'm guessing we are going to have to find the Mithril Stone in the Mines of Moria, but what about the Dwarves henchmen, following us?"

*Aroghel walked to the door

"We might as well get ready for our long journey. Is there anything of great importance that we might need?"

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Heridór stood up. "We probably need sheilds. The darts can't reflect off metal, I don't think."

[Lorien]

Suddenly there's a horrible screech and a wail beyond imagination and then there's a huge crashing sound. Everyone runs out to see what it was and what they saw astounded them. There was a tall man sprawled out on the ground shrouded by dark shadows.He got up to his feet and started scolding a huge flying beast, "How many times have i told you no chasing other birds in the air when i'm on you." Turns around and notices the company staring at him in a funny manner. "Hello everyone, what a great day huh? as you can see i've just crashed thanks to dodo-bird over there....." "What's the matter no one sems to be happy here, it isn't because of me is it?" "Oh wait, you don't know me! Hey Glory and Elgee you guys know me! anyway i'm Lorien, the Dark Necromancer of Angmar and i wanted to visit Rivendell and it seems i made it."
*Gives a maniacal grin* "So whats going on why all the unhappy expressions?"

[Aroghel]

"Well, unfortunately, there has been a devastating attack on Rivendell's people lately. Darts have been seen shooting through the air and stabbing people, causing them to be paralyzed. Luckily, none of us have been hit, but Verëdanor's father was the first known to be hit. Very sad, it is. But the good news is that we know...or at least we think we know who is responsible. Heridór over here says that Verëdanor's father had a mystical stone, called the Mithril Stone, and has hidden it in the Mines of Moria. But the Dwarves knew about it, and we think that they have highered henchmen to attack and find the stone," said Aroghel in a deep and dark voice."

*Lorien looks daised at the party

"Uhh. . .Wow. . . I wasn't quite expecting that! How sad. What are we going to do about it?"

"We are planning on going straight to the Mines of Moria and are going to try and find the Mithril Stone. Would you like to come along with us on our voyage?"

[Lorien]

Lorien looks thoughtfully and answers, "I will accompany you but only because i cannot believe that the dwarves would do something like this."
*Lorien pulls something out of his pocket and when the others see it they gasp for he holds darts in his hand.*
"And they are not the only ones who have such instruments, i picked these up off one of my men who bought it off some guy he knew. If you wish we can trace them back too and find out who is really behind all this."

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"It's better than knowing nothing." said Verëdanor. He strided over to Lorien, and followed him down the hallway. Everyone except Heridór followed with him. "Come on, aren't you coming?"

"Don't you deem it a bit risky?"

"Yes, but it's for our own good."

Heridór sighed, and began to follow along too.

[Lorien]

Lorien stands still for a moment and motions everyone to be quiet. Through his mind he talks to his undead warrior. "Grasnag, where did you manage to procure those darts from speak quickly." He nods for a while and turns to the company and says. "We'll have to leave for Arnor. I can find the man there." The company sets of immediately on their journey to Arnor. Lorien flies in the sky on his winged beast.

[EverEve]

eve was out wandering on her grey horse, when she sees a company of many elves and humans following a huge flying beast. she gallops up to them and asks "whats going on? where are you all off to in such a hurry?"

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Everyone looked at Heridór. Heridór sighed, and told the story to Eve.

[EverEve]

"hmmmm....that is a very strange story," replied eve thoughtfully when she was told the tale. "i too have been shot at by these darts, but i still do not understand how they are relating me to this. if none of you would mind, i would like to accompany you and sort this out..." from her pocket, she took out a dart with a strange poison on it. "i dont know if it is of the same origin as the others, but i thought id you should know"

[HLGStrider]

No, Eve, this is not the same poison," Elgee says in her most serious doctor voice. "I am afraid this is a rabbies vaccine... My guess is that you are being persued by an insane vetrenarian..."

[HLGStrider]

ooc: sorry I couldn't help that last one...

Elgee welcomed all the new people and introduced the strangers to her cats...

"I'm concerned with this trip," she then states. "I only brought a minimal ammount of medical supplies... I better go gather some herbs... I'll hang behind a bit, and if I'm not back by nightfall, make sure you come after me..." She then rode off on one cat,leaving the other behind to watch after her geer.

[EverEve]

LMAO!!!! thanks for the heads up on the rabbies vac......if any animals on this trip develope rabbies, be sure to let me know and you can poke them with my dart....

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OCC: LOL about rabies. But lets forget about that.

"Okay, so we are going to Arnor?" asked Verëdanor.

"Yes." replied Lorien.

"Where in Arnor?"

[Lorien]

"Oh, Angmar first, i'll get my orcs to get the man and we can rest for a while there if you wish or we could always accompany the orcs."

[Aredhel]

"If you do not mind, I wish to go along to,"she says,"You might need some elvish company."

[Glory]

*smiles* well the we'll go to arnor then we will choose what to do next. *Looks Aredhel* more elvish company?
*Aredhel frowns*
Glory: I am just kidding!! If nobody minds i think you can come with us.

[HLGStrider]

"Elgee certainly doesn't mind," Elgee says, refering to her self in the wrong person again... "Come one. Let's get going.. my cats are getting restless..."
In fact they were clawing all of Heridor's furniture to pieces... The elf's face turned an interesting color purple... Elgee blushed...
"er... sorry about that..."

[EverEve]

sounds great to me, but remember, im an elf to believe it or not......

[Lorien]

"Hey i'm elvish, Half-elvish anyway and Half-vala but whatever it doesn't matter. Lets move out quickly we need to set a fast pace."

[Aroghel]

hey im full Elvish!! uh huh

[Lorien]

ooc:-Lets not get into racist arguments:D

[Aredhel]

"Thanks, and I agree...Let's get going."

[HLGStrider]

To infinity and beyond... :D

[Lorien]

"Not to infinity Elgee to Arnor, and its not THAT FAR!!" The company begins to move at a quick pace towards Angmar.

[Aredhel]

She steps with light foot steps, and begins singing a song:

Snow-white! Snow-white! O Lady clear!
O Queen beyond the Western Seas!
O Light to us that wander here
Amid the world of woven trees!

Gilthoniel! O Elbereth!
Clear are thy eyes and bright thy breath.
Snow-white! Snow-white! We sing to thee
In a far land beyond the sea.

She hums the remaining stanzas.

[Glory]

*laughts out of loud at Elgee coments* hehehe *she thinks that Elgee is really funny* Elgee you'll certainly make this trip more interesting.

[HLGStrider]

"That's my job!" :D

[Glory]

Good job then!!:D

[EverEve]

YEPPERS!!!! GREAT JOB!!!!

[Glory]

EverEve I am totally agree with you :) :) :) :)

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So off the group went. After traveling and talking, they reached the ford.

[HLGStrider]

"I personally prefer GM vehicles..." Elgee states. Everyone looks at her strangely so she shuts up...

The river had risen with the little freshets of spring. It raced along merrily, causing Elgee's cats great fear...

OOC: I basically posted so I could use the word Freshets, which was in my vocab lesson awhile ago... sorry...

[Lorien]

The company rested for a while at the ford.

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"How long willl this take?" asked Veredanor.

[Glory]

*looks at elgee waiting for an asnwer she is pretty curious to see what she is going to say*

[EverEve]

eve rested on a rock during the break. glancing around she saw something strange at the ground. picking it up she muttered "hmmm.....thats strange....."

[HLGStrider]

Elgee didn't say anything because expectations were too high and she had an anxiety attack involving a dream about terrible long legged spiders.... She then went over to see what Eve was up to.

[Lorien]

I already told you Veredanor the journey shall be long to Angmar. It is many miles away.

[Glory]

*Looks around and goes alert something seem not be quite normal there but she doesn't know what it is she puts her hand near the sword just in case that she might be in need of use it*

[EverEve]

"here, elgee," eve handed over the object she had picked up. "isnt it strange?"

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Elgee looked at it with intentment. "It is strange." she remarked.

[EverEve]

"do you know what it may be Elgee?" she asks. *a strange feeling comes over her too, and she touches vulcan's hilt to needlessly reassure herself that it is still there*

[HLGStrider]

ooc: First gasted, now intentment, Ungatt... Elgee is learning lots of new words... :) You have an interesting way of turning verbs to adjectives adejectives to adverbs and etc... I like it!!! :D

"No idea," Elgee frowns. "It is too small to be a bread box..."

The object was cold and smooth. It made Elgee's hand tingle with a strange, nervous energy. She started to feel dizzy...

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While Veredanor was talking, Glory was looking around. She took a glance at Elgee, and gasped. She was turning a deep blue in her face, and her eyes were glazed on this... thing. She couldn't tell what it was. She went over to Elgee to see what was the matter with her.

[EverEve]

Eve, worried, took the 'thing' from elgee's hand. looking at it in her palm, she began to feel a strange sensation moving up her arm. "this thing is evil of origin, but i guess we already established that fact didnt we?"

[HLGStrider]

"I j...just...f.. feel r...r...really... cold..." Elgee chattered. "Throw the Romate thing away..."

ooc: there's a word for you. Romate. It means evil. I made it up myself.

[EverEve]

Eve drops the 'thing' on the ground. at that moment something wizzes past her ear. turning around she sees a dart stuck to a tree that was behind her.

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Heridór reacted immediatly. He took his dagger, and stabbed it in the bushes. I cry rang out, and Heridór dragged the being out. He shivered and let go. "My dagger went rigid." he said. Then he looked at the thing he had dragged. It was ugly, and very white. The party was mainly looking at his head, but Glory noticed that it was bleeding clear blood that was steaming in the air.

"What is it?" asked Verëdanor. It took awhile for Heridór to answer, but eventually he said "I don't know." Heridór sat in silence. Verëdanor had noticed throughout the journey he hadn't had that look of indignance on his face he wore when he came out of his room.

"That thing Eve found. It belonged to it. I'm guessing heat is its enemy." Heridór thought even more. "Yes. I'm guessing it lives in the mountains. High up. It must not move much so it stays away from heat." He paused. "It makes sense. The dwarves must've found the race in the mountains, and rendered it helpless. I don't know what the thing it carries is, but it must keep it cool."

"You're more intellegint than they say." Verëdanor said with marvel.

[EverEve]

Eve lowered Vulcan, who she had taken out when the dart had flown past her, but she did not put it away. Instead she sat down on the rock she had sat on earlier and laid Vulcan across her lap with her hand on its hilt. Looking at the creature with a strange, unreadable look, Eve slowly stood up and walked over to it.

Kneeling next to it, she softly murmered to it "Where are you from, and what do you want?" A chill suddenly went through her, and the creature gave her a strange look.

[HLGStrider]

He then lowered his eyes to the shivering Elgee. Elgee shivered harder.
"He's c...c...cold..." she stammered. The creature smiled in an odd sort of way.

[Tarien]

"Tut,tut." says the new arrival. "I snuck up on all of you all TOO easily."

Company turns.

"Have no fear, as I mean no harm, but those dart-throwers do, whoever they are. I narrowly dodged several coming here. But now that I have found you, I w...."

"WHAT is THAT???" she asked.

[HLGStrider]

"Something Cold," Elgee replied. "Really, I don't care... Someone give me a blanket..."

[EverEve]

Turning back to the creature, Eve, still shivering, asks yet another question. "What is your name?" the creature turned its cold eyes toward her and murmured something inaudable. "Excuse me, I didnt quite catch that"

[Aredhel]

She looks with intrest at the new arrival.

"even I should have heard you coming." smiles.

[HLGStrider]

"Well I didn't. Welcome friend new arrival..."

[EverEve]

Yeah! Welcome!

[Aredhel]

"Welcome,"she says, bowing.

[Lorien]

Lorien meanwhile picks up the stone that Eve dropped and suddenly shadows start flying around him and he smiles grimly. "Ah, it is what i thought it would be, an Atiox."

[Aredhel]

"A what?" What's an Atiox?

[Lorien]

An Atiox is something that projects the feeling thoughts and even power person who picks it up onto the actual 'owner' of the atiox. Its really a rare dark magic object. If the owner wanted he could've drained your energy Elgee and Eve. The creepy feeling you felt was probably that guy taking a look inside your minds

[Aredhel]

"I see," she says,"Why would he want to do that?"

[HLGStrider]

"If he looked into my mind he is very confused right now..." Elgee commented. "Here, give it to me, I'll have him unconscious in minutes. He won't know up from down. I don't even have a mind!!!!!!!!"

[Lorien]

Because he/she is probably behind the darts and wants to know where we're headed etc. i guess. No, Elgee this is quite valuable and besides i can turn this baby around so that i'm looking into his mind. *Lorien closes his eyes and concentrates and then suddenly drops the stone and as it hits the snow it explodes.* "Well looks like this guy is pretty powerful. It takes a lot to break an Atiox."

[Aroghel]

"Here - let me try."

*he takes out his trusty sword, Tincohyanda, and he starts to murmur Elvish words. It starts to turn bright yellow and then - he swings at the Atiox --SSLASHH!!CRRACKK!!--

"Uggh! Its too strong for my light magic! What should we do about it, Lorien? Maybe we could use our magic combined. . ."

EDIT: oops i feel stupid :o

[Lorien]

ooc:- aroghel, the atiox is already exploded....i meant the owner of the atiox must've been pretty strong to be able to break it.

[EverEve]

Eve just stands there looking at the company. She wonders if the creature had come alone or had come with others. Looking around she saw nothing out of order, even with her elven sight.

[HLGStrider]

Let's get out of here before anything else happens!!!

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They agreed, and went foward. Verëdanor, Heridór, Lorien, Elgee, Aroghel, Glory, Arehdel, and Eve. Verëdanor, in his older age, could say that was the group number that made the difference of their fate. As they traveled on, they entered a forest. Glory was surprisingly nervous about this place, but even she couldn't think of why. Maybe it was the atmosphere, maybe it was something she heard as a little girl. The anxiety grew and grew untill she couldn't stand it. "What is so wrong with this place!?" she yelled.

"SHHHH!" Heridór shushed. "This is the Trollshaws. Don't make anymore noise, it's better if we pass through here unnoticed."

[HLGStrider]

"Ask the sun to stop shining. Ask the birds to stop singing. Ask the brook to stop babbling, and you'll get about the same response as you would from asking Elgee to be quiet..." Elgee mumbled under her breath.
"SHHHHHHH" said everyone else.

[Glory]

*but she keeps being nervious finally she said* "I do not like this at all" *she drags her sword trying to calm herself but apparently this make her get nerviouser than before everyone get worried because she seem to be about to scream and that wouldn't be a good thing*

[Aredhel]

"These Trollshaws only scare me a little bit," she says laughing,"I've seen worse." But she draws her bow and arrows just in case.

[Glory]

*at the heard of someone talking she scares aNd screams* :eek: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH HHHHHHH!!!!!!!((Obiously she wasn't expecting someone to talk )):p
*she looks to Aredhel* "you are not being helpful" :(

[HLGStrider]

Elgee screams too, half in fear, half in frustration from having to be quiet. Her shrill shrieks echo through the trees...
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!

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Aroghel looked back at them. Seeing no damage was done, he took his eyes off them. But, a faint rumbling disturbed him. They were like footsteps, and they grew louder. Then a large roar was heard to the front of them, and some of the trees bent down as a large hand pushed them aside.

[Glory]

"sorry, sorry, sorry" *she says when she looks at the mad faces of the others then she pulls out her sword at the sound of the roar, Erandoil glows red* "I hate monsters....hey elgee can you tell to one of your cats to scratch the creature like they did with the dark lord?"

[Aredhel]

She looks over to Glory. She had jumped a little when she screamed,"SHHHHH" she said. She did not want to bring whatever it was over here.

[Glory]

*she kept saying her apologizes to everyone when Aredhel got impatient because now she has being noisy and told her to shut up*

[HLGStrider]

Elgee, not wanting to talk, hands Glory a note "I think we'd best just wait and see if he goes away before the cats try anything dangerous or heroic."

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But one of the smaller cats had crawled foward, curiousty taking over in her mind. "No! Come here!" Elgee whispered.

[EverEve]

Windrider had heard the trollshaw and was rearing. Eve drew Vulcan, just as he settled down. "This should be interesting" she mutters to her self, but nobody heard her.

[HLGStrider]

"Rebelious cat..."

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Elgee went over and picked up the little one. She scooted back carefully.

[HLGStrider]

It scratched her.

"ouch!!!!!!!" she shrieked.

[Tarien]

The newcomer, who introduced herself as Tarien, picked up the runaway cat. It purred contentedly in her arms and fell asleep.

[UngattTrunn475]

But the cat soon stopped, and a big troll stood right in front of them. With it's large spear, it aimed straight between Tarien and Glory.

[HLGStrider]

Elgee shrieked out "ATTACK CATS!!!"

The cats attacked. This had the troll quite confused, and very scratched. He missed his mark with his spear.

[UngattTrunn475]

Verëdanor, no matter of the seriousness of the attack, stifled a small laugh.

[EverEve]

Eve was trying to control her laughter when finally she managed to blurt out between lauhgs: "I never *giggle* thought I'd see *gasp/giggle* a troll looks so *idiotic laughter* scared of cats!!!!"

[Glory]

*she was writting anote to answer elgee's note and she saw the troll obiously she screammed wich seemed make the troll got more scared (remeber that the troll has been attacked by Elgee's cat) and the troll ran away from them*

[Lorien]

When the troll ran away Lorien called everyone and said, "Lets go over the Trollshaws and then suddenly with a lot of noise land 4 flying beasts (like mine). "They will carry us over the Trollshaws and no further.

[UngattTrunn475]

The cats looked nervous at these beasts. But, ever faithful, they got on one of the with Elgee. Verëdanor, Heridór, and Aroghel went on the one with the rather bluish color to it, Glory, Tarien and Eve on the other, and Aredhel on the last one with that same little cat, who looked like a small pilot on a 747.

[Tarien]

What is our purpose in the trollshaws?
:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

[Lorien]

Lorien mounts his steed on which Aredhel is sitting and they fly away quickly over the Trollshaws. Soon within a matter of hours they reach the other side and everyone dismounts except Lorien and Aredhel (After all the beast is mine!). "Aredhel do you wish to continue on foot on will you fly?"

[UngattTrunn475]

OCC: You may want to read the whole topic, Tarien.

[HLGStrider]

Elgee tries hard not to get air sick as they skim over the shaws...
"When do we get to Arnor?"

[UngattTrunn475]

"It'll take awhile, even with the Trollshaws covered." Lorien said. The little cat started mewing, almost sounding like a song. Aredhel smiled. "Shhh..." and petted him on the neck.

[Glory]

*glory scratch the little cat behind the ears* "this cat is sooo cute! whe got to name him! any ideas? " :) *she looks to Elgge*

[Lorien]

"How about Elgee the cat?:D or Billy? Orion? Sirius? Is it male/female? Esmeralda?" Lorien gets a hold of himself and turns his mind to a strange looking shadow on the ground and then suddenly looks up and sees someone on a winged beast trying to shoot them with the darts.

[UngattTrunn475]

"How about Madonna?" Verëdanor asks. Everybody except Lorien, who was busy looking at the beast, stared at him. "Okay, how about we name him after one of the singing Ainur? It seems to be his hobby."

[Glory]

"I don't know his/her gender" *she is about to see tha private parts of the cat when a dart shoted by the beast hit her and she faints *

[UngattTrunn475]

"Glory!" Elgee screamed. She directed her flying beast over to Glory's, and Tarien and Eve were doing their best to fly the beast and make sure Glory didn't fall over.

OCC: Is this a hint that your not going to be in this RPG, Glory?

[Aredhel]

Runs over to Glory,"Are you all right?"

[UngattTrunn475]

OCC: We are still flying on the beasts.

[EverEve]

Eve tried to grab Glory's beast and missed. But she did manage to grab Glory's hand. "Tarien, I dont know if this helps any, but Ive got Glory's hand. Ummmmmm, any clue as to what I do now?"

[Lorien]

ooc:- hey we are off the beasts...I said that they'd carry us only as far as over the trollshaws and we're past that so right now we're all on the ground except for me. and then i saw evil flying dart shooter man so if we can get a mod or someone to delete the previous posts and then get on with it eh?

[UngattTrunn475]

OOC: We don't need them deleted, we can just get on with it.

[EverEve]

OOC: so we're on the ground, but glory wasnt? or was, and just didnt know it?

[HLGStrider]

Elgee tried her best to see to poor Glory.
"That's a female cat, and I was thinking about the name Babbler, after me."

[Lorien]

Lorien on his flying beast pulls a stunt and lands up flying above the other guy. Then while the others on the ground are keeping his attention pccupied Lorien jumps from his beast onto the other guuys beast and knocks him out. Together they start plummeting to the ground but Lorien catches hold of the other guy and leaps to safety. Lorien feeling quite tired hands the bad guy to Aredhel and falls on the gorund saying, "What a ride".

[Glory]

occ: oh no UngattTrunn475 I am definetly to stay here I just wanted to put a little bit of risk in this thread I hope you don't mind. My character just unconcient but the poison on the dart will have another weirds effects on her.

[UngattTrunn475]

OOC: I don't mind Glory. ;)

"What is going to happen to her?" asked Verëdanor.

[Aroghel]

*Aroghel looks at them

"I'm not sure, but I think she will be all right."

[UngattTrunn475]

"Well, we better make camp here." Heridor said. Everyone agreed, and Eve began to make a fire.

[HLGStrider]

Elgee, the nurse and jester, tells them to make sure she is comfortable and warm.
"I don't think this was strong poison... Force this down her throat..." She hands them a bottle of purple liquid.

[UngattTrunn475]

"Bleagh! It smells!" Veredanor said.

[HLGStrider]

"That's okay... She's unconscious and can't smell... It'll do her good, and it is fairly tasteless... mostly anyway... sort of tasteless... well... it's bearable... "

[UngattTrunn475]

Elgee poured the medicine in her mouth. Nothing happened for awhile, but her eyes opened eventually. Veredanor said afterward that her eyes were different, and never were the same again.

[EverEve]

Eve finally suceeded in making a fire, and was extremely proud of herself "I am Eve, fire maker!!!" (sry couldnt resist). She looked iover at Glory, and noticed her eyes as well. "are you ok glory?"

[HLGStrider]

Poor dear... Elgee clucks...

Glory looks up...
"Must kill Elgee..." she scowls... "That medicine tasted terrible..."

[UngattTrunn475]

Elgee raised her eyebrow. "Huh? Are you feeling all right?" Glory's eyes burned. "DON'T YOU MOCK ME!" she screamed. She jumped up, and uncovered her sword. "Glory, what are you doing?" Elgee asked, and backed up to the tree. Glory aimed for a stab, Elgee scooted away, but too late, the edge of the sword scraped her arm. "Elgee!" Verëdanor screamed, and the party went to stop her. Glory ran up to Elgee, and as she was going to try and stab Elgee again, the flame in her eyes disappeared. She lowered down. "I'm so sorry. So sorry." She reapeted that many times. Elgee went over, and said, "I understand." Elgee went over to the first aid kit, and bandaged her wound. Everyone was almost too shocked to move.
"It felt like it was burning inside me. I couldn't control my self" Glory said.

[EverEve]

Eve walked over to Glory and placed her hand on her shoulder. "The medicine wasnt that bad was it?" she said with a small smile on her lips. Glory just looked at her. Eve turned and walked over to Elgee. "You ok?"

[Lorien]

Lorien done recovering grabs hold of the prisoner they have taken and asks, "Anybody got nice methods of making this guy talk or should i do something?"

[UngattTrunn475]

Heridór looked wide-eyed at the prisoner. "Make sure he is dead after you try to get something out of him. We don't want them to know where we are." The prisoner seemed pleased, for it looked to him that he was scared.

[Aredhel]

"I'll make him talk,"she says, jokingly.

[UngattTrunn475]

"I'll never talk!" the Mfera (the name of the beasts that shoot darts) screamed, and drank from a vile around its belt, and died. "Well, I guess thats that." Lorien said. Everyone got ready to go to sleep, and the fire light went out.


Glory was restless. She couldn't forget what she did, or almost did. She decided to walk around. She hadn't taken notice of her surroundings. They were in a plain, with lots of wild grasses. The group had uprooted the grass to make camp. She could see the Trollshaws south of there. "Amazing" she muttered to herself. "It seems like a harmless wood now." She stumbled upon a book. It was written in elf runes.

It was old, and the cover appeared to be a brown leather, though it was hard to tell in the night. In spite of herself, she got a candle and some matches, and lit the candle to read the book. It was a diary.

We left the Trollshaws today on winged beasts. We had a close encounter of the trolls, but Elgee's cat took care of him. Some of the fools started laughing. If they had been in a position with an actual full-grown troll, they would've been killed.

But that wasn't all. Glory was shot by a Mfera's dart, but it had a different type of poison. I can't quite tell what it is, but it seems to have changed her. She nearly killed Elgee. I had wished for Verëdanor to die, and then the quest couldn't continue, and his father would be paralyzed forever. That would be perfect payback after what he did. But, now I look upon that, thinking evil thoughts is just going to defy you. Getting to know Verëdanor, I can see he has potential. Having said that, I realize that I want to defend him in this quest. I guess what his father did was part my fault. When

Glory was interuppted by a loud yell. "WHERE'S MY JOURNAL?!?!?" Glory realized it was Heridór's gruff voice. "Heridór, I'm sure its not lost. You can look for it the morning." Verëdanor's young voice said. Heridór mumbled something, but hushed up. Glory blew out the candle, and waited awhile. Then she crawled back to bed, and put the book by Heridór's side. She crawled into bed, and slept peacefully. Though the fire inside of her had been inspired.

[Glory]

occ she is dreaming
*Glory isstred in front a dark tower is raining and thunders can be heard everywhere she looks around and the floor is covered with bodies*

[HLGStrider]

Elgee wakes up because Glory is making a lot of weird noises in her sleep. She shakes her frantically, but the girl does not awake...
"This does not look good," Elgee frowns. Her arm is throbbing, but she can't understand why. It was only a small cut and she'd doctored it fairly well... "Veriandor, get over here!!!"

[EverEve]

Eve rolled over and mumbled sleepily "Elgee wuz wid all da yellin?" She saw her bending over Glory, and finally awoke fully. Still rubbing the sleep out of her eyes she said "What's wrong with Glory? And Elgee, why are you rubbing your arm like that? The cut wasnt that bad......"

[Glory]

*glory start to shake violently her eyes opens but are blank and she doesn't seem to be waking up Elgee tries to wake her up again but when she touches Glory she gets burn Glory's body is too hot...*

[Lorien]

Lorien runs to Glory's side and touches her skin and immediately says, "That poison must have been an acrthophyth. Its a potion that causes these dreams and they well depend upon person to person. Sometimes these dreams can show some form of the future or present or past. And believe me none of the dreams are nice. The only thing we can do is to wait until this bout passes."

[Glory]

*She mutters some words the elves seem to understand a couple of words in elvish something about the darkness*

[EverEve]

*Looks worriedly at Glory, but then sees Elgee rubbing her arm again* "Elgee, let me see your arm real quick." She showed Eve her arm, and unrapped the bandages. The cut didnt seem any worse than before, but it seem to have changed in some way. "Does it still hurt?"

[UngattTrunn475]

Heridór came over to the scene. "Somehow I don't think so. I've never seen anybody that had acrthophyth in their veins have an effect on a victim they've wounded. Elgee's cut should've healed by now." Elgee whined "It's getting worse. Quick, give me my pack." And all this time, the little cat had been watching, but hadn't mewed a single note.

Glory was confused. She didn't know where she was. And she was scared. She ran up to one of the dead bodies. It's face was hidden in the grass. She slowly turned it over, and screamed. It was Aredhel she had turned over. The face opened it's eyes and said pitifully, "Help us, Glory." Then there was a meow. Aredhel was holding the little cat, and it looked as bad as Aredhel did, if not worse. Then the meowing joined another voice. "Help us, Glory." Glory turned around and found Heridór. She screamed louder, and ran away, to partly see if any other of the group were like this and partly to run away. She woke up suddenly.

She heard Elgee screaming. She realized herself had been screaming, but when she stopped, Elgee stopped. Eve, Lorien and Heridór were above her, looking down. She turned around slowly to see Elgee on the ground, when she fainted as well.

[Tarien]

"No!" cries Tarien. Due to the fact that she hadn't made any noise, she had been forgotten about. Eve looked over twards her. Grief changed to quzzlement changed to worry on the Elf's face.
"There is." she stopped, a slight tremor in her voice. "There is a cure for it, but the only one I know of is, well." Several group members look at her expectantly. "The ruins of Gondolin." The others sigh with relief. After all, what could be so bad about a ruined city? It dosen't explain the look on Tarien's face, though, which has now turned to fear.

[UngattTrunn475]

Lorien looked over to Tarien. "What's wrong?" he asked, but Tarien just shook her head. "Well, I think we should split up. Tarien, Eve, you go to the city of Gondolin with Glory and Elgee. Verëdanor, Heridór, and Aredhel..." he trailed off. "Your coming with me to Angmar, as we planned."

[Tarien]

"Very well. I know the way." Tarien seemed to have hardened her resolve, and would be able to lead them to the lost city.

[UngattTrunn475]

"So, here we separate." Verëdanor said. "How will we meet you again, when Glory and Elgee are healed?"

[HLGStrider]

We're taking my cats, of course, Elgee moans.

[EverEve]

Eve strapped Vulcan to her back so it wouldnt get in the way, puled on her cloak, and mounted Windrider. She placed her pack on her back because hse rode the Elvish way (obviously), with no saddle or bridle. The stallion seemed to sense that they where going somewhere important and arched his neck proudly, pushed his ears foward, and stepped highly when he walked. Eve muttered something that sounded something like "show-off". Facing the others she said: "Is there any way we can communicate, or should we meet up in Angmar?"

[UngattTrunn475]

"Why don't you meet us at the Dimrill Gate?" Heridór asked.

[Glory]

*glory awakes suddenly and looks at them like she were watching ghosts Elgee tries to calm her down but Glory steps back* "DON'T TOUCH ME!!!!!" *Everyone gets surprised because Glory has pulled her sword out she is not attacking but lifth the blade on the air*

[Glory]

"I DON'T WANT ANY OF YOU GET CLOSE TO ME!!!! SPECIALLY YOU!!!" *She looks Elgee*

[Tarien]

"Elbereth!" Tarien cries, lifting her own blade. With a motion faster than the eye could react, she knocks the blade from Glory's hand, speaking calming commands in her own tounge.

[EverEve]

*Looks at Elgee and Glory and wonders how they will be able to survive a trip together* "Dimrill Gate sounds find to me. The sooner we get these two cured the better. This is gonna be an interesting trip......"

[HLGStrider]

"Cat's will protect me," Elgee stammers out trustingly.

[UngattTrunn475]

"I'm sure they will." Tarien says. Then she looks over to the party heading north. "Goodbye!" and the party rides off. "So there are only four people heading to Angmar." Verëdanor concludes. After they have walked awhile through the grassy plains, they hear a mew behind them. Aredhel looked over and then exclaimed "Babbler! Your supposed to be with Elgee!" Babbler looks at her in a funny way. "I guess she likes you, Aredhel." Lorien commented.

[EverEve]

Elgee, Tarien, Eve, and Glory rode off to find the ruins of the once great city of Gondolin. Windrider still looked very proud of himself to be going somewhere of importance, and the four of the laughed at his antics. "Tarien, you know the way. I believe you should lead."

[Lorien]

Lorien asks, "Want to make this trip faster?" when everyone nods he goes to his winged beast and talks to him in the Mordorian tongue and soon the beast takes off. Lorien motions everyone to sit down and starts a small fire. "My winged beast will be back within the hour with another of his kind who can take us to Angmar within two days."

ooc:- lets cut the trip to angmar short if its ok with everyone. so i propose that whoever posts next (in the angmar bound group) should just say that we reached angmar.

[UngattTrunn475]

The party waited by the fire. "Lorien, why didn't you tell your beast to do this earlier?" Heridór asked. But Lorien was staring into space, thinking about something. It was nightfall when the beasts returned. Babbler immediatly got on, recognizing the beast. She beckoned for Aredhel to get on with her, and Aredhel did as she was asked, and Verëdanor and Heridór got on the other one. Lorien rode on his original, which seemed to have authority over the other two. They rode over the plains of Arnor, and after awhile, they could see the tall mountains of the Misty Mountains. They had been traveling for a very long time, so Babbler and Verëdanor fell asleep.

They were in Angmar by the time they woke up. It was extremly cold, and they were very high up. Babbler was curled up in Aredhel's arms, shivering. "Welcome to Angmar!" Lorien said, and was joined by others.

[HLGStrider]

"How long to Gondolin?" askes Elgee who is shivering and shaking while her protective cats ride along.

[Tarien]

"It depends. If we are waylaid, it will take longer. If the old roads and passes are lost or closed, longer. If we were all Elves, faster. But as it is, if we make good time, I would say a month, at least. I do not know exactly where we are. But from the last time I did, I can approximate a month. Let us hope for the best." Tarien says.

Elgee guesses that Tarien knows more than she tells, but decides to wait a while to see if she will tell anything else.

[Lorien]

As they land on the ground at the entrance to his land Lorien calls in a loud voice, "Grakshath where are you come open this door before I get angry." An evil-looking orc comes and opens the door muttering, "Sorry master, sorry for my foolishness...." As he lays eyes on Babbler the orc starts drooling and Lorien smiles saying, "Take one step towards the cat and you return back to the earth where you came from and I will make it as painful as possible." Grakshath turns away and Lorien's lieutenant greets him ,"Welcome back my Lord I shall order the cooks to prepare meals for you." Lorien motions to the company behind him and says, "These are high guests Rakor treat them as you would treat me." Turns to the company and says, "You shall wish to rest yes? Rakor here will show you to your rooms and we shall question the man tomorrow morning." The company stands awestruck as they were expecting an evil looking land but to their surprise found it very dazzling with lush greenery and an enormous and beautiful palace. Lorien says, "We shall meet in the dining hall after we have refreshend ourselves." Many half-elven maidens come to the company to lead them away to their rooms within the palace.

[EverEve]

"Can we get a move on? You know, make the pace a lil faster?" Eve asked. Tarien nodded, and the company set out at a gallop. with Tarien at the head, Eve close behind and Elgee and Glory on either side of Eve.

[Glory]

*while they were travelling they noticed that Glory seem not to trust in them she didn't slept at night and she always tried to be apart from them like she tought they were going to kill her. She seem not to trust specially of Elgee *

OOC: my character has become a little bit paranoic because her dreams.

[UngattTrunn475]

Verëdanor looked around. Angmar was much different than he had expected, for one thing, he had met an orc for the first time. The people there didn't seem to mind the cold. Aredhel was thinking the same thing, but Heridór didn't seem to mind either. Babbler's family had lived in even colder regions, so she didn't mind either. As Lorien was leading them, Verëdanor noticed that some of the plants were wilting. "Lorien, is it colder than it usually is?" he asked. "Yes, I'm surprised too." Lorien replied back.

[Glory]

*tarien had to take her sword away because she tought in her actual state Glory could be very dangerous to them specially after the incident with Elgee. Elgee was starting to get worried of Glory's health she said* "I think we should knock her out" *everyone looked at her like she were crazy* "well she haven't sleep in days and I don't think that is healtly" *Elgee explained*

[Tarien]

Tarien, who has become graver and sterner the farther they journeyed towards the ruins, says nothing, lost in her own thoughts. Eve notices that she is singing some strange chant. Abruptly, she stops, and looks at the group as if to ask whether they wished to take the long, safe way, or the short, perilous one.

[HLGStrider]

"Take your pick," Elgee yawns. "I still think Glory just needs some rest... The cats will protect me wherever we go... I'm fine except for my blasted arm..."

[Lorien]

Lorien says, "I wouldn't bother about the cold probably one of those ice-crawlers got loose. They'll catch them in a while i suppose." at thjis statement the company shudders thinking of what ice-crawlers might be. Later when everyone is refreshed they meet in a large dining hall resplendent with many colors and decorations. Heridor remoarks, "I expected this place to be a little darker in color. This totally thorws off my image of Necormancers." Lorien smirks at this and says, "All is not shown to everyone. I prefer to keep such areas well colored so as not to scare people off." Soon a lavish spread is placed before the company and they begin to eat. Lorien calls for Rakor and asks to call Grasnag and the man whom he procured the darts from to the private chambers. At this statement Rakor blanches saying, "Not the private chambers my lord, are they not your personal sanctum?" Lorien says, "This company is stronger willed than you think. I am sure a little darkness will not bother them."

[HLGStrider]

Elgee and the troup walks on, following Tarien faithfully. Elgee is starting to get a little concerned about Glory who is now foaming at the mouth

(ooc: :D, sorry glory..)

[EverEve]

OOC: lmao!!! nice Elgee!!

"Im fine with the shorter route. I mean, Glory the Foaming One will scare any one away!!!!!" Eve states.

OOC(again): sorry glory!!! i couldnt help myself! i just had to share!:D

[HLGStrider]

Poor Glory... Elgee offers her a handkerchief, but Glory shreads it into itty bitty pieces, trying to get at Elgee's hand too.

[Glory]

"GRRRRRRR!!!!" *She barks at Elgee*
*Elgee says* "I hope she don't bite me....she is rabious or something"
ooc: well glory is turning ..in a dog? lol I hope she is not.

[Aredhel]

She looks in puzzlement at Glory, just noticing the way she was acting fo the first time,"What has gotten into her? Has she been bit by a rabid racoon?"

[UngattTrunn475]

OOC: Aredhel, your in Angmar, aren't you?

[HLGStrider]

"Maybe we should muzzle her?" Elgee frowns... "WAIT! Remember earlier in the story when someone was shot by a mad veternarian with a rabbies vacine!!! Who was that? Perhaps a blood bond between them and Glory would help Glory!!!"

[EverEve]

OOOH!!! OHHHH! That was me!!!!!! *rummages through her pockets* Ive got the dart right here!

[HLGStrider]

"QUICK! Stick her with it! We'll see if it'll work..."

SCUFFLE POKE OUCH!!!

[Glory]

*runs away trying to escape from being sticked by the dart*

[UngattTrunn475]

Lorien led them up to rooms for themselves. "And for Babbler." he said, and got a basket with a soft cushion. Verëdanor went into his room. It was very comfy, decorated with beatiful ivy plants. There was a bed chamber to the side that was beyond beatiful. Verëdanor sighed, and layed down on the bed, asleep before he touched the sheets.

Heridór was sleeping peacefully when a noise outside the door woke him up. He was startled, but he turned over to the window and tried to go back to sleep. It was not long afterwards when a grubby hand grabbed him. He gave out a startled yell and reached for his sword, but it was on his bedtable across the room. More hands grabbed and tied him up, he struggled hard, but there were two many of them. They bashed him to make him weaker, and dragged him out of the room. He was dragged quite a distance, and thrown into a cage. He was untied, and he painfully sat down. He could see Aredhel, who looked like she had the same treatment as he did, and Babbler in a smaller cage outside.

[EverEve]

The group finally catches Glory, and they stick her with the dart. The four companions travel on....

[HLGStrider]

"I hope that darn shot works..." Elgee moaned. "Now what about my poor arm..."

[Glory]

"YOUR POOR ARM CAN GO TO HELL!!!! THERE WAS NO NEED OF STICKING ME WITH A DART OR GIVING ME THAT HORRIBLE MEDICINE!!!":mad: *she tries to attack Elgge but trips with a rock and falls in the ground*

[HLGStrider]

No need to swear, Elgee pouts.

[EverEve]

"Tarien, I think we should seperate these two." mumbelled Eve.

[Glory]

*she stands ups and runs after elgee but trips again and hits her head against a tree she falls in the ground unconcient*

[Tarien]

Tarien, who has neither slept nor even turned to the party for weeks, suddenly spins around to face Glory. The Elf's face is sad and afraid, a pale, frightened shadow of the Noldorian Lady. She strides quickly to Glory and whispers a few well-chosen words in her ear.
"She should be well now. But her mind will not heal for some time." she says, her voice soft and quavering. Eve notices her eyes, and something clicks in her head. 'Tarien is no longer here in mind. But where is she.' Eve thinks. Tarien mouths words soundlessly. Another thought comes to Eve. 'Or where was she?'

[Glory]

*stands up again restored by Tarien words she looks evily at Elgee and continues walking with them*

[HLGStrider]

Why is everybody always picking on me???

[Lorien]

Lorien awakes from his sleep and when he goes to check on his companions finds only Veredanor sleeping in his room while all the others are gone including Babbler and there are signs of scuffle. Lorien wakes Veredanor up from his sleep and tells him of the situation. He calls for Rakor and says, "Find the rest of the company with me or I shall have your head."

[Glory]

((well if you read your odl pots I think you were the first one suggesting me attacking you or was someone else I just followed the story))
*mutters something*

[HLGStrider]

OOC: I meant it as a joke, anyway, it's fun!!!

Well, let's get moving. This is fun... I'm glad you are better but my arm still hurts...

[Glory]

"my wound by being sticked witha dart still hurts too" *says sarcastically whiles she watches Elgee*

[HLGStrider]

Well, I was just trying to help...

[Glory]

"well you are not being helpful, are you?"
((ooc: don't worry my character will be nicer to you sometime in the future you know..like when she can recover her sanity))

[Tarien]

Tarien brushes aside a ivy curtain, revealing a thin crack in the cliff wall. She pushes on it, and it gives way. The Elf continues on without breaking stride, and leads them through the heart of the mountain. Suddenly, they come out into daylight. Tarien turns to face the party, pale as death itself, raising her arms and saying
"Welcome to Gondolin." The others look around, horrified. This is Gondolin? It looked more like some horribly desecrated tomb. Tarien caught sight of the skeleton of Gothmog. Suddenly the color came back to her face, but her eyes lost focus entirely.
"Ecthelion!" she screamed, and ran back down the passage, dragged by Glory. Suddenly they halted by a crevasse, and Glory jerked her head up. "Valaraukar! I do not fear you." Tarien whirled out her katana, and began to fight some huge invisible foe. Suddenly they seemed to have won, and turned away from the cliff. Then Glory clutched at her abdomen, and when she pulled her hands away, she looked at them as if they were covered in blood.
"Elbereth" she cried weakly. Tarien struggled to her feet, but fell back. Elgee rushed foreward to catch her, and then grabbed Glory's arm as she almost fell over into the canyon as well.
"Glorfindel." Tarien whispers, looking at Glory.
"Nimir." Glory chokes. "The Evenstar passes from the world."
"Idril." Tarien says urgently.
"She...got..away." Glory replies.
"Wow." says Eve. "They think they are Glorfindel and Nimir. Glorfindel I knew of, but who is Nimir? And what is going on?"
Tarien's eyes suddenly gain focus again. "Eve? Elgee? Where am I? When is this?" she asks weakly.
"Tarien!"
"Errrr?" Glory smiles briefly. "I feel like I am waking up from a very long dream." (ooc: this is where you regain sanity)
"Glory!"
"Wait." Tarien voice is slightly stronger. "When I, we, died here"
"Died!?!?!?!?!" Glory exclaims.
"Yes. Glorfindel and I died here fighting that thing so that Idril and her party, the last of our people, could escape. We triumphed, but were both slain in the effort. He understood, and accepted that this was all we could do. We could not have saved Gondolin." Tarien said. "But I never found peace with that. I was never at peace with my death here. I thought that even though we saved what was left of the Gondolinhrim, I failed."
"So why were you reliving it? Why was I involved? Will it happen again? And if you and Glorfindel are both dead, why are you still here?" Glory asked.
"Death is a powerful force, and the fact that I had no peace made it more poignant in this place. Your insanity made you suseptable to the re-play. And it will not happen again. We returned with the Valar in the War of Wrath. In that order." Tarien stated.
"How can you be sure it won't happen again?" Elgee asked.
"I found something this time I previously had not. What that is, I shall not tell but to two people." Tarien replied.
"Which two?" Eve said curiously.
"Glorfindel and Ecthelion. They alone would understand my words, and they alone would appreciate them." Tarien stated, growing calmer by the moment. "Let us speak no more of this. We must gather that flower, which is far more important than my morbid mutterings." Tarien laughed, a high clear sound, like rain to the desert.

[Glory]

*glory suddenly realizes that she doesn't remember what happened the last days she looks around confused* "where are we?" *sighs and looks at Elgee who is rubbing her arm* "Elgee, are you ok?"
((hey Tarien trying do post like Morwen?))

[HLGStrider]

"'pends on what you mean by okay... I don't feel about to die... I don't feel dreadfully ill... My arm is just a little pins and needlish.. which is better than pain but still annoying..."

Elgee rubbed her arm, and her cats rubbed against her. Suddenly one of the cats gave a cry of horror and meowed frantically. Elgee meowed back and after a short conversation, Elgee sat down, hard.
"Oh dear... this is not good," she swallowed. "My cats feel that one of their number, namely Babbler, is in trouble. If Babbler is trouble its five to one Aredel is to... and if Aredhel is in trouble... you can follow me? Well, the cats have been instructing me in this art for a long time. Let's see if I can do it..."

Elgee closes her eyes and starts quietly meowing to herself. She quickly transforms into a large, golden (meaning blonde) haired cat...

OOC: I'm going to make a better try at best special effects this time :D

[UngattTrunn475]

OOC: Excellent, Tarien! :D

Rakor went out of the room, sulkily. Verëdanor, wiping his eyes of sleep, asked, "What's happening?". Lorien replied, "We can't find Aredhel, Heridór, or Babbler. But we must leave today, with or without them. There have been more attacks lately in Rivendell, and even in Lóthlórien. The mithril stone has to be dealt with." Lorien sighed. "You and me, if they are not found, will go together. We can go down the Misty Mountains very quickly." Verëdanor was surprised. "But Heridór, from what he has told me, has been through Moria plenty of times!" Lorien replied to this, "I am sorry. This cannot be halted any longer." Verëdanor was silent. "All right." he mumbled.

[Tarien]

Tarien leads them across the field and to a tower. Up the tower they find another level of the ruined city. There grows a garden, wild but beautiful.
"You must excuse the state of this place. I haven't been here in a long time. And Idril was always so strict about me cleaning my room, too. She'd be furious." Tarien says with a slight smile. "But this was my garden. The flower we seek, Taurloth, only grows naturally in the heights of Elven forests, and I was the only one to cultivate it." She bends down and plucks a handful of ash-gray flowers from the tangle. At touch of her hand, the center of the bloom grew another bloom within itself, of a silver-green. She put them in a pouch of her quiver reverantly.
"We must make haste."

[HLGStrider]

Elgee meows her approval but is anxious to get back to the other group...

[Tarien]

"Tai!" Tarien cries to the winds. A beautiful cat bounds up twards her. "Elgee if you don't mind, could we just all ride cats? So much faster."

[Glory]

"ohh ok I'll ride Matt"
Matt: Meow!

[Lorien]

Grasnag the orc came trembling to the council room where Lorien waited impatiently for him. "My lord, the man awaits outside the room." Lorien loses his temper and pulls out his sword but is restrained by Veredanor, "You fool what do you make him wait outside for, bring him in!" A man of about 45 entered and bowed to Lorien and Veredanor. "Lord, those darts were made by me on the order of some men." Lorien asks him through gritted teeth, "Where are those men? And why were you foolish to make such weapons without permission?"
"My lord, there is an antidote I have here and I give it to you." The man bows and hands him a large vial of a purple colored liquid. Lorien looks at it and sniffs at the contents gingerly. "Correct me if i am wrong but have you used the infusion of Acthlorn and the Runis potion?" The man startled replied slowly, "Yes my lord but how...." "How I know is of no concern to you but I order on the name of your life that you shall not make anymore of those darts and you will tell me what you have used to make their poison." The man told Lorien what he had added and Lorien smiled broadly, "Quite creative thinking I must say, how would you like to join as one of my chief armorers?" The man accepted the duty with joy and was sent away.

Lorien truned to Veredanor and said, "We will wait for two days to give my men a chance to find the rest of our companions and then we shall journey to the kingdom of the dwarves."


ooc:- hey Ungatt we need permission to get into the Dwarve kingdom and you should pm Nain, Dain or Telchar so that they know we're coming.

[HLGStrider]

Yes, take your pick of cats, if there's not enough I'll call more

[Glory]

*Glory rides Matt*
Matt:MEOW! (trans: here we go!)

[EverEve]

Hey, ummm, just wondering, can I take Windrider? He is wicked fast, he can keep up.

[HLGStrider]

Windrider could ride a cat!!! I have some big enough.. though I'm sure he could also keep up on his own right...

[EverEve]

I'm sorry, but my horse will not be riding a cat. It would do to much damage to his emotional and mental stability.

[Tarien]

"Noro lim, Angmar! Noro lim!" Tarien cries. Causing the cat to bolt off. The others grab onto their respective cats as they follow at equal pace.

ooc: Sorry, but we only have two days! Read Lorien's post. Cat-arguing took too much time!

[HLGStrider]

"Yes, we have no time to loose!!!" Elgee gasps. "Hurry!!! Meow meow meow and all that..."

They rush off. Elgee, worried about the companions, insist they go after them. The group debates this sincerely. Elgee had managed to heal her arm by turning into a cat, now she goes back to human form...

[Tarien]

"We must find Lorien. Tai, Lorien, noro lim!" Tarien cries. Tai bolts foreward, and the other cats follow the streaking bobtail.

[HLGStrider]

The group covers ground quickly. The miles fly below them like clouds driven by the winter wind. Behind them they hear a noise like thunder, the menacing beat of thousands of wings.
"Faster!" Elgee gasps. "Don't look back!!! If you look back we're doomed..."

The noise grows louder. The cats go faster...

[EverEve]

Windrider easily matches pace with the middle cats. Leaning forward to whisper words of encouragement into his ear, Eve spurred him on. His pace quickened and he soon reach the front of the pack. Though the speed was great, and the effort must be tremendous, the gray stallion had yet to slow down.

[Glory]

*rides Matt* "hey Eve your horse is fast I guess Windrider is from Rohan"

[EverEve]

Actually, I am not sure where he is from. He was the lead stallion of a wild herd. I can give you the story if you like. He could be from Rohan, but I can not be certain.

[HLGStrider]

A high pitched squeeling joins the noise of hooves and wings!

"FASTER!" Elgee shrieks. "If we do not hurry, we will be doomed."

[EverEve]

Windrider heard the scream and turned and answered with a rear and loud whinny. "Windrider, leave it!" Eve said. He landed heavily and galloped on, but they had lost much ground. The sound of wings was close behind them, and Windrider was beginning to lose his nerve. Groaning Eve urged him on "Windrider, not now, be strong, keep going. Noro lim!" Underneath her, Eve could feel his stride slowly lengthening and his breathing become more normal as they pulled away. Looking under her arm, she saw a glimpse of a rider in black and the wings of the creature that carried it. It was gaining more and more ground, and in a desperate moment Eve reached down and drew her sword, whose blade was flickering white...

[HLGStrider]

The noise grew louder, becoming like the pounding of the surf on broken rocks... Elgee gave a quiet scream as she fell from her cat...

[EverEve]

Noticing Elgee fall in front of her, Eve jerked Windrider to a halt. She stood in front of Elgee on her great steed, and her eyes darkened as she beheld the terrible creature before her.

[HLGStrider]

Elgee yells at her cats to flee.
"This is beyond you!!!" the cats do not listen, but circle the monster menacingly.

[Tarien]

Tarien screams to Tai to run back, and she runs with such speed as to become almost a blur to mortal eyes. Once returned to Elgee, she dismounts and runs foreward. "You dare to ATTACK ME !!" As Tarien speaks, she grows frightenly, becoming a figure clad in bright white, her hair caught in the wind. Her sword lengthened to a cruel tip, and her voice boomed tward the rider. Eve and Elgee cover their ears.
"I AM MORE THAN THEE!! FLEE WHILE YOU MAY, OR BE DOOMED. THY SPIRIT SHALL BURN FOREVER IN THE VOID, AND I SHALL RIP THE SINEWS FROM YOUR WILL, FEED THEM TO THE CATS, AND CRUSH YOUR PATHETIC STEED!" Tarien cries in a dreadful voice. Then a rip appears in the very air before them, and both she and it are sucked in. Before it closes, she screams back to them:
"Fly! Foes awake!"

[HLGStrider]

With a cry of agony and a shrieked vow of vengence, Elgee forces the cats to her will and flees with them.

[Tarien]

"My own Tai knows the way, and shall serve in my stead. I rest now, for I am weary. But if all goes well, look for me in the rising sun!" A voice whispers in Elgee's mind. "Fare thee well!"

[HLGStrider]

"Lead us, Tai!" Elgee entreats. The large, beautiful cat leads on into the sunset.

ooc: I hope we are supposed to be going west. If not, just say we make a u turn in a few posts.

[Tarien]

Her form again destroyed (v. annoying!), the Great Panda walks unseen. She lays a pennant upon the ground in their path, and called Tai in her mind.

Elgee sees the cat bolt ahead, and the others follow. Tai is sniffing the necklace. Elgee dismounts and picks it up. It is a glowing blue-tinted diamond, bound in gold and silver, with a flat, polished front and a faceted back. She donns the amulet, and as soon as she links it about her neck, she is hit by a psychic force so strong as to be almost physical. A blur of visions and emotions play in her mind. She opens her eyes, and they are silver-blue. The knowledge and experiences that Tarien had she now knew. A power came with that. She walked to Tai, who stared her in the eye, silently communicating. Then Elgee mounted her own cat and cried Tarien's words:
"Noro lim, i Angband! NORO LIM!!" The cats sprang foreward, beelining for the fortress at speed previously unatained.

[EverEve]

Eve, unusually silent, followed along on Windrider. She came up next to Elgee, and looked into her eyes. "Your eyes, Elgee" she whispered softly. Staring at her she said "You know now something that before you did not. Lead on, speed may be our ally. Noro lim!"

[HLGStrider]

ooc: BUT I LIKED HAVING BROWN EYES!!! :eek:
oh well... I'll get my own back later. I hope these have better vision than mine...

Come!!! Elgee cries. We must find the others.

[Tarien]

"Of course! You have to be both her and yourself, until she returns, and lead the way. But take counsel from Tai. She knows more than any mortal could." Says a voice in her mind.

[Glory]

*Glory has gotten lose in the conmotion of the moment* erm...I didn't brought a map with me.....

[Tarien]

Tai cries plaintivly to Elgee, her blue eyes staring into the sun.


ooc: I'm going to try to create a thread about what I'm up to while I'm not with you guys.

[HLGStrider]

Elgee leads. They have not heard from Babbler in so long and Elgee is beside herself with worry. Tai is calm however. they ride faster than the wind.

[Tarien]

ooc: I got permission. It's called 'between'. Participants in this thread are welcome!

[HLGStrider]

ooc: Can I be here and there? and there and here?

[Tarien]

ooc: Of course! It's a different thread, it just relates to this one. We may even try to bring them together at some point.

[HLGStrider]

OOC: that'd be nice... whatever happened to the other half of this quest...

They reach the outside of the fortress where their friends were last seen... all is dark.

[Tarien]

ooc: I dunno.

ic: A familiar figure strides from the darkness. Tai bounds foreward to meet it. The others approach, and see that it is Tarien. But not the Tarien they know.
She looks the same, but the way she moves is fluid, balletic, and she seems more powerful, more energetic. There is a glint in her eye, a fire they had not seen before.

Death had given her focus.

With a slight run, she lept onto her cat, and it swung around to face them.
"We have a job to do." she says with a meaningful look twards the tower. "We have to find our friends."
She says no word now, but all the same the mounts spring foreward at increadible speed, as if responding to her will alone.

[Lorien]

ooc:- the other hlaf was waiting for your half to catch up so that we can move on.....

As Lorien wearily rose from an all night discussion with his men on the kidnapping of his companions he dreaded having to tell Veredanor that they would have to leave without Aredhel, Heridor and Babbler. Just as he was about to step into Veredanor's room he felt an incoming prescence of the rest of his company and for a few moments his heart lightened.

Meanwhile, the rest of the company had reached the gates of Angmar and were stopped by the guards at the gate. One of the guards came forward brandishing a sword and asked, "Who goes there? Why do you come to Angmar this late, eh? Perhaps you have come to try and harm the guests and the master again, eh?"

[Tarien]

Eve begins to speak, but Tarien raises her hand to stop her. She steps foreward to the guard.
At her boldness, he wavers slightly, but challenges her nonetheless.
'Who are you who rides to Angmar? Answer my question, rider!'

Tarien seizes the blade of his sword and bends it back upon itself.
'I am Tarien, returned from death to accomplish the mission I swore to end! I am here to see the master, yes. And what I will say to him is beyond your pathetic comprehension! You do not know whom you face. Tell Lorien I have arrived!'
The guard trembles, but does not move.
'Now!' Such command was in her voice that the guard forgot his duty to guard the gate and hurried on her errand.

Tarien steps back from the gate. When she speaks, the terror is gone from her voice, and it is fair and clear again.
'Too late indeed! He didn't have a sidetrip to Gondolin, which took us twice the time!'

ooc: I know you told me I was too late in an ooc, but it was irritating! That's why I messed with your guard.

[HLGStrider]

"I am looking for my friend... a cat named Babbler... Have you seen her?"

[Tarien]

Tarien walks up the stairs after the guard, with her half of the story in tow.
'Lorien. Why can't you go on with Aredhel, Babbler, and Heriador?' she says softly.