Legendfalls III: What If Dreams Come True
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janestarzPicked up car, the whole yadda yadda. We arrived in Veldhoven. At first I was not too happy with the location. The accommodation was very modern. Bunk beds, showers, yes, but also a very OC tavern common room. But I'd happily trade good showers and warm, dry beds and not have a very fantasy-correct tavern. Honestly, those showers were GREAT.
Nairo, Keffie, JW, NoKey and I went into the forest before time in, just to get to know the forest a bit, let it know we'd be there and show our respect. It was a great experience. It's not really something I've done a lot of times before, but the trick is to still the mind and pay respect. I had brought some of the 'elf bread' (kruidkoek, home-made) and we offered some of that to the creatures of the forest.
Here follows the account of Lanelle Strongwind, an elf.
We started in the grove we have been playing in on the IC-forum. Tamarr and Lanelle had finally convinced Adriel to accompany them to the human world. Before we got to the portal, we ran into more elves. OC we were in kind of a hurry to get out of the forest, since there were some burial mounds there, and it was generally spoken not appreciated that we were lingering near them. So there was a little less play than usual.
We arrived in the village and Adriel looked around. Tamarr greeted friends from before, and so did I. Apparantly, an elven guard had come to summon the village to the Elven High Council. It would not do to not show up, so back to the elven world we went, through the portal. I quickly greeted Hagor and told him that the humans should be respectful to the elves.
We arrived at the council and were made to wait. It is logical that the council should summon us and then call us to them when they had the time, but the humans did not seem to grasp the concept. *sigh* In any case, a short while later, we were called inside.
Tamarr and Nairo were among the first to enter, and then Adriel and I. I stuck close to my eldest brother, and we bowed formally to show our respect to the council. The humans, as far as I could see, bowed as well. But where the elves sank to their knees, the humans were swift to stand up and argue with the Council.
The Council addressed the issue of the Cube. The elves had found a map a short time ago, and we collected the Cube at the end of the map. The only humans present were Hagor and his brother. There was some argument why the humans were not told of the discovery of the cube, but Nairo explained. His foster-sister Telynor, who was in the village council, had disappeared. She had said she would tell the council. The human member of the village council was also apprised of the situation, but apparantly the goblin on the council did not know.
The Elven Council then asked Nairo to bring the Cube to them, and he, Hagor and Lanelle then ran back to the village to swiftly deliver the cube. The Council then gave the Cube to an impartial party, a woman who had just arrived and served the Goddess Eveleen.
The Council also spoke of the importance of Humans and Elves to work together and said there would be a new village council, since two of the members of the old council had disappeared. Three humans, chosen by the elves, and three elves, chosen by the humans. The Elven Council seemed to be in a hurry, but Ilhacamina later explained that the Council was considerate of the Humans who have less patience than us elves.
When we arrived back in the village, Adriel, Tamarr and Lanelle went to the tavern for a drink. We talked a bit, and Adriel asked me who this Hagor-person was.
"Do you wish to meet him?" I asked Adriel, and he nodded. I went outside to summon Hagor, who followed me inside.
Adriel asked Hagor a lot of questions, and I was pleased to see that Hagor showed respect to my brother. He was thoughtful and patient with the questions of the Elf, and made an impression (what kind, I do not know).
Saturday
After breakfast (scrambled eggs and bacon, yum!) and a letter that declared most of the village to be sentenced to death for betrayal, Nairo, Hagor and Lanelle went into the forest. Nairo had done some research the night before, trying to find some traces of his foster-sister Telynor, who had disappeared. He had talked to some animals, a bear and an owl, and found a note of Telynor. It looked like her handwriting, he said, but the letter was written in common. The letter said that he should not come looking for her, but he was determined to find her.
We scouted into the forest and came upon signs of a struggle. The trail was a few days old, but Telynor had not been seen for a few days, and the bear had said he had seen her in that area.
We followed the trail, footsteps of heavy men or elves, and a track of them dragging two people or large bags down the path. There was not much of a challenge, even though the trail was a few days old. They stuck mostly to the path, and we could follow the signs.
One of the trails led off the path, all of a sudden, and there we found a human woman, apparantly beaten to death. She looked a bit like Telynor, handsome and blonde, wearing a purple dress. I sent Hagor back to the village to find someone to take care of here, preferrably a human. I looked on ahead, and the trail went on along the path. When the Lionhearts arrived to take care fo the woman, we went on; the trail lead us deeper into the forest.
In the middle of the path we found a dried puddle of blood, with the cut-off ear of an elf in it. This distressed Nairo a great deal, but we didn't have long to think about it as a couple of ruffians attacked us from the undergrowth. They were dispensed of quickly, and we followed the trail further along, after we sent a man towards Portshire - he was looking for his sister. We suspected this was the woman we found earlier.
After a little while we saw the trail leading off the path, and there we saw another sign that it was the trail of Telynor we had been following. Her belt hung in the branches of a bush, flung carelessly away from her. Her sickle lay under another bush, and then we heard a moan, and Nairo ran ahead. His sister lay bleeding and bruised on the forest floor. She called out to Nairo, but as soon as he tried to get close to her, he was paralysed, and could no longer move. I tried to get to him, but was also caught in the invisible barrier.
It only lasted a moment, and then we could move again, but when Nairo got to his sister, she was dead.
It was terribly confronting - mortality is not something many elves have to deal with, and to see a fellow elf die, is a horrible thing.
We laid her body to rest under the roots of an uprooted tree, and Nairo spoke to the animals and asked the forest to take her body into the cycle of life once more, so that she could feed the nature there. Then we returned to the village, quiet and sad.
I still have to talk with Nairo about the whole thing. The barrier, the fact that the human female had a sign burned into her left shoulder, and everything adds up to something sinister. But we elves have patience enough, and it can wait.
I sat in the village square with Nairo until my brothers came looking for me. I told them about the fate of Telynor, Nairo's sister, and Adriel said he would like to find out more so we made the trip again. He tried talking to rabbits and owls we met along the way, and we followed the trail of the culprits deeper into the forest, but they disappeared into thin air at some point, leaving no tracks to follow. We also disturbed a rabbit when we were looking around there, and it fled along the path, running at an incredible speed. First time for me, that. I never saw a rabbit at a live before.
When we returned to the village again, Nairo sat down with a heavy beech tree branch and started to strip it of its bark. Tamarr had a chat with someone of the mages' guild and I kept an eye on him, Adriel was off into the forest.
I took out my kit and started doing some maintenance on my bow and quiver, waxing the bowstring and greasing the leather. The sun was warm on my features, so that was good.
Later, when I had stowed away my kit and was focusing on a ladybug that was walking in my hands, the paladins of Eveleen approached us carefully. They respectfully asked us some questions. Lanelle was impressed at their manners, but still thought the ladybug was more important than the humans in front of her. She let Nairo deal with them.
Adriel asked me to accompany him so he could plant some of his herbs, and we stalked off into the forest. I practiced my tracking a bit, and I learned some new things OC as well as IC. We almost got lost (as in, NoKey knew there was a nice place to plant the herbs and knew approximately where it was, but I had to track to see if he had been on that particular path before) but we found the spot in the end. A lovely clearing with a lot of bunny tracks and holes. It was a very heavily populated forest, and I even thought I could smell a wild boar Fridaynight.
I was OC completely cold though, and as the afternoon got colder, I decided to take a nap. Being cold and still having to go for the rest of the night was not a good plan, so I went to bed. Took off my boots and coat and just crawled in in my trousers and sweater. NoKey joined me and was really hot, while I was freezing.
Sad bit was that JW was worse off, he couldn't manage anymore and decided to go home. *sulk*
We explained it IC that he went back to the elven homeworld with the elf slave he had just rescued.
We were woken for dinner, and had some lovely boerenkool. Good larpfood. It filled us up nicely and I could really run on that for the rest of the night.
The DMs explained that, since before dinner there was a Time Stop, after dinner we would go Time In in our beds. Everything that has happened that day had been a dream. Money we spent was still spent, the letters we had found we still had, but we did have a dream.
Adriel, Hagor and Lanelle had slept in the forest the night before, so we started there again, and hurried back to the village.
When we arrived there, there was a guide asking some people along to the Dryad of the forest. Hagor came up to Lanelle to ask her personally if she would consider going along. If he hadn't done that, she probably would not have come along, but as it was, she was at the head of the column. The human who had invited us had skin like bark. I asked him about it and said that he was no longer human, but mostly part of the forest. Which is exactly the reason why I was speaking to him. I respected his descision, and knew he was the kind of human I could relate to.
We arrived after some troubles at the edge of a clearing, where the Dryad, a woman, spoke to us. She had one Guardian left, and needed three more. Nairo was the first to kneel in front of her. I waited a bit, to see if there would be others, but Adriel stepped forward. He explained that the forest on the elven world needed him, and that he would not be able to protect her as much as she would deserve. Then I stepped in and offered my services, since my brother could not. Then there were none other. In the end, Adriel offered his services as they were, seeing how it would not do to have only three guardians.
The Dryad took our hands in turn and our vows to protect her, and on our hand appeared a bit of bark, showing how we entered her service.
She told us that she was the last Dryad on that world, and that she needed us to protect her. Elandor, her other Guardian, had been with her a long time. He was almost completely covered in bark. The other guardians had all died.
We returned to the village not long after, having a new purpose, and in Lanelle's case, a thing to tie her to that human world. We sat in the bar, and I brought out the mead and cheese. Yum. Oh, and we chose the humans for the village council. I voted for Hagor and Elandor, the two humans I trusted enough and understood enough to speak to, as they also hold the forest in the highest regard.
Sunday
Sundaymorning was slow, but nice. There were some photographers from the Panorama (a Dutch magazine) to take pictures, so I took out my maintenance kit and did the bowstring waxing and leather greasing all over again, the photographer clicking away. Hagor joined me, and we didn't really talk much. Then Rua'ana took a chair and sat by me, and we found another ladybug. This one was injured though, and I asked Adriel to heal it. The DMs liked that tidbit.
For some reason or other we needed to go into the forest again, something to do with keys and spirits. Hagor came to ask me personally if I would be willing to be one of the scouts, and I agreed. We came across a wounded person (I think), and as the paladins were debating what to do, I scouted ahead, around the bend of the path. In the distance, I saw some movement, people walking across the path. It looked like an ambush, so I called Hagor to me, and crawled behind the bushes in the bend of the path, pointing him towards where the ambush was. He noticed it too, and went back to the rest of the group to warn them.
This resulted in a lot of trigger-happy paladins rushing forward, but the scouting was solid and as it should have been. Perhaps we should have scouted a bit more around them, but there were really not enough of them to warrant that kind of caution.
The rest of the quest was less well-arranged. We scouted, but the group followed in our footsteps. I called Hagor to me, and said "This is not the way we scout."
"I agree." he said
"Fix it."
Without a word, he turned and went back to the group, telling them that they should stay back and wait for word from the scouts on what they were dealing with. It didn't go much better, but ah well. We shall have to educate them.
After a few encounters in the forest, we reached a clearing, where some women were being tortured. Cue paladins rushing in, shouting at the top of their lungs. Adriel, Lanelle and Rua'ana stayed near the edge of the forest, where I jumped up on a stump and was consequently photographed by the people from Panorama. I told Rua'ana to stay in the forest, where she would be safe and unseen, but all of a sudden she clutched her body and fell down. I called out to Adriel and he rushed to her aid.
Then, Hagor dragged one of the culprits towards the forest edge. He had been disarmed and his chainmail was confiscated, but he was still alive. He would remain alive if he would not try to do anything. I said I would watch over him, and took up a point where I could keep an eye on the human and the battlefield.
There were cries of alarm, and I saw that some of the bodies of the falled bandits were standing up again. I turned around to watch the human, and saw he tried to get away. Not so smart. After a short chase, I loosed an arrow at him, hitting him in the head and ending his life.
When I returned to the battlefield, I heard a cry of help, and saw Ialis, struggling, and then in the blink of an eye, she disappeared. A few minutes later she reappeared, being held hostage by a demon who had a knife to her throat.
"Come closer and she dies!" he hissed and spat. The paladin of Eveleen threw down his weapons and taunted him. Wayland, the smithy, circled around and tried to get at him from behind, while I held an arrow pointed at his hand. I dared not loose the arrow though, for fear of him killing Ialis (the healer of the Elves and also councilmember).
Sadly, Wayland has less braincells than a dead stoat, and he hit the demon from behind. The demon hissed, slit Ialis' throat, and cantered off, spreading mayhem. I called for Adriel, and he set about healing her with some help from a paladin of Eveleen. Slowly, Ialis came to again, and I stuck by her side like a ghost, determined to, if necessary, bodily bring the demon down if he ever showed his ugly horned head near her again.
That was the point where Time Out was called.
All in all I had a great weekend. The weather was fine, the plot was filled with roleplay, not battles, and there are a lot of things that I need to follow up in the future. The death of Telynor needs some thought, as well as the election of Hagor for the village council (he listens to me, this is a good thing), and the education of people when it comes to what scouts do.
I loved the Dryad plot. Three elves who now are the Guardians of the Dryad. I will drop everything when she is in need, that much is for sure.
Nairo, Keffie, JW, NoKey and I went into the forest before time in, just to get to know the forest a bit, let it know we'd be there and show our respect. It was a great experience. It's not really something I've done a lot of times before, but the trick is to still the mind and pay respect. I had brought some of the 'elf bread' (kruidkoek, home-made) and we offered some of that to the creatures of the forest.
Here follows the account of Lanelle Strongwind, an elf.
We started in the grove we have been playing in on the IC-forum. Tamarr and Lanelle had finally convinced Adriel to accompany them to the human world. Before we got to the portal, we ran into more elves. OC we were in kind of a hurry to get out of the forest, since there were some burial mounds there, and it was generally spoken not appreciated that we were lingering near them. So there was a little less play than usual.
We arrived in the village and Adriel looked around. Tamarr greeted friends from before, and so did I. Apparantly, an elven guard had come to summon the village to the Elven High Council. It would not do to not show up, so back to the elven world we went, through the portal. I quickly greeted Hagor and told him that the humans should be respectful to the elves.
We arrived at the council and were made to wait. It is logical that the council should summon us and then call us to them when they had the time, but the humans did not seem to grasp the concept. *sigh* In any case, a short while later, we were called inside.
Tamarr and Nairo were among the first to enter, and then Adriel and I. I stuck close to my eldest brother, and we bowed formally to show our respect to the council. The humans, as far as I could see, bowed as well. But where the elves sank to their knees, the humans were swift to stand up and argue with the Council.
The Council addressed the issue of the Cube. The elves had found a map a short time ago, and we collected the Cube at the end of the map. The only humans present were Hagor and his brother. There was some argument why the humans were not told of the discovery of the cube, but Nairo explained. His foster-sister Telynor, who was in the village council, had disappeared. She had said she would tell the council. The human member of the village council was also apprised of the situation, but apparantly the goblin on the council did not know.
The Elven Council then asked Nairo to bring the Cube to them, and he, Hagor and Lanelle then ran back to the village to swiftly deliver the cube. The Council then gave the Cube to an impartial party, a woman who had just arrived and served the Goddess Eveleen.
The Council also spoke of the importance of Humans and Elves to work together and said there would be a new village council, since two of the members of the old council had disappeared. Three humans, chosen by the elves, and three elves, chosen by the humans. The Elven Council seemed to be in a hurry, but Ilhacamina later explained that the Council was considerate of the Humans who have less patience than us elves.
When we arrived back in the village, Adriel, Tamarr and Lanelle went to the tavern for a drink. We talked a bit, and Adriel asked me who this Hagor-person was.
"Do you wish to meet him?" I asked Adriel, and he nodded. I went outside to summon Hagor, who followed me inside.
Adriel asked Hagor a lot of questions, and I was pleased to see that Hagor showed respect to my brother. He was thoughtful and patient with the questions of the Elf, and made an impression (what kind, I do not know).
 Hagor Hosted on Zooomr |
After breakfast (scrambled eggs and bacon, yum!) and a letter that declared most of the village to be sentenced to death for betrayal, Nairo, Hagor and Lanelle went into the forest. Nairo had done some research the night before, trying to find some traces of his foster-sister Telynor, who had disappeared. He had talked to some animals, a bear and an owl, and found a note of Telynor. It looked like her handwriting, he said, but the letter was written in common. The letter said that he should not come looking for her, but he was determined to find her.
We scouted into the forest and came upon signs of a struggle. The trail was a few days old, but Telynor had not been seen for a few days, and the bear had said he had seen her in that area.
We followed the trail, footsteps of heavy men or elves, and a track of them dragging two people or large bags down the path. There was not much of a challenge, even though the trail was a few days old. They stuck mostly to the path, and we could follow the signs.
One of the trails led off the path, all of a sudden, and there we found a human woman, apparantly beaten to death. She looked a bit like Telynor, handsome and blonde, wearing a purple dress. I sent Hagor back to the village to find someone to take care of here, preferrably a human. I looked on ahead, and the trail went on along the path. When the Lionhearts arrived to take care fo the woman, we went on; the trail lead us deeper into the forest.
In the middle of the path we found a dried puddle of blood, with the cut-off ear of an elf in it. This distressed Nairo a great deal, but we didn't have long to think about it as a couple of ruffians attacked us from the undergrowth. They were dispensed of quickly, and we followed the trail further along, after we sent a man towards Portshire - he was looking for his sister. We suspected this was the woman we found earlier.
After a little while we saw the trail leading off the path, and there we saw another sign that it was the trail of Telynor we had been following. Her belt hung in the branches of a bush, flung carelessly away from her. Her sickle lay under another bush, and then we heard a moan, and Nairo ran ahead. His sister lay bleeding and bruised on the forest floor. She called out to Nairo, but as soon as he tried to get close to her, he was paralysed, and could no longer move. I tried to get to him, but was also caught in the invisible barrier.
It only lasted a moment, and then we could move again, but when Nairo got to his sister, she was dead.
It was terribly confronting - mortality is not something many elves have to deal with, and to see a fellow elf die, is a horrible thing.
We laid her body to rest under the roots of an uprooted tree, and Nairo spoke to the animals and asked the forest to take her body into the cycle of life once more, so that she could feed the nature there. Then we returned to the village, quiet and sad.
I still have to talk with Nairo about the whole thing. The barrier, the fact that the human female had a sign burned into her left shoulder, and everything adds up to something sinister. But we elves have patience enough, and it can wait.
I sat in the village square with Nairo until my brothers came looking for me. I told them about the fate of Telynor, Nairo's sister, and Adriel said he would like to find out more so we made the trip again. He tried talking to rabbits and owls we met along the way, and we followed the trail of the culprits deeper into the forest, but they disappeared into thin air at some point, leaving no tracks to follow. We also disturbed a rabbit when we were looking around there, and it fled along the path, running at an incredible speed. First time for me, that. I never saw a rabbit at a live before.
When we returned to the village again, Nairo sat down with a heavy beech tree branch and started to strip it of its bark. Tamarr had a chat with someone of the mages' guild and I kept an eye on him, Adriel was off into the forest.
I took out my kit and started doing some maintenance on my bow and quiver, waxing the bowstring and greasing the leather. The sun was warm on my features, so that was good.
Later, when I had stowed away my kit and was focusing on a ladybug that was walking in my hands, the paladins of Eveleen approached us carefully. They respectfully asked us some questions. Lanelle was impressed at their manners, but still thought the ladybug was more important than the humans in front of her. She let Nairo deal with them.
Adriel asked me to accompany him so he could plant some of his herbs, and we stalked off into the forest. I practiced my tracking a bit, and I learned some new things OC as well as IC. We almost got lost (as in, NoKey knew there was a nice place to plant the herbs and knew approximately where it was, but I had to track to see if he had been on that particular path before) but we found the spot in the end. A lovely clearing with a lot of bunny tracks and holes. It was a very heavily populated forest, and I even thought I could smell a wild boar Fridaynight.
I was OC completely cold though, and as the afternoon got colder, I decided to take a nap. Being cold and still having to go for the rest of the night was not a good plan, so I went to bed. Took off my boots and coat and just crawled in in my trousers and sweater. NoKey joined me and was really hot, while I was freezing.
Sad bit was that JW was worse off, he couldn't manage anymore and decided to go home. *sulk*
We explained it IC that he went back to the elven homeworld with the elf slave he had just rescued.
 Lanelle Hosted on Zooomr |
The DMs explained that, since before dinner there was a Time Stop, after dinner we would go Time In in our beds. Everything that has happened that day had been a dream. Money we spent was still spent, the letters we had found we still had, but we did have a dream.
Adriel, Hagor and Lanelle had slept in the forest the night before, so we started there again, and hurried back to the village.
When we arrived there, there was a guide asking some people along to the Dryad of the forest. Hagor came up to Lanelle to ask her personally if she would consider going along. If he hadn't done that, she probably would not have come along, but as it was, she was at the head of the column. The human who had invited us had skin like bark. I asked him about it and said that he was no longer human, but mostly part of the forest. Which is exactly the reason why I was speaking to him. I respected his descision, and knew he was the kind of human I could relate to.
We arrived after some troubles at the edge of a clearing, where the Dryad, a woman, spoke to us. She had one Guardian left, and needed three more. Nairo was the first to kneel in front of her. I waited a bit, to see if there would be others, but Adriel stepped forward. He explained that the forest on the elven world needed him, and that he would not be able to protect her as much as she would deserve. Then I stepped in and offered my services, since my brother could not. Then there were none other. In the end, Adriel offered his services as they were, seeing how it would not do to have only three guardians.
The Dryad took our hands in turn and our vows to protect her, and on our hand appeared a bit of bark, showing how we entered her service.
She told us that she was the last Dryad on that world, and that she needed us to protect her. Elandor, her other Guardian, had been with her a long time. He was almost completely covered in bark. The other guardians had all died.
We returned to the village not long after, having a new purpose, and in Lanelle's case, a thing to tie her to that human world. We sat in the bar, and I brought out the mead and cheese. Yum. Oh, and we chose the humans for the village council. I voted for Hagor and Elandor, the two humans I trusted enough and understood enough to speak to, as they also hold the forest in the highest regard.
Sunday
Sundaymorning was slow, but nice. There were some photographers from the Panorama (a Dutch magazine) to take pictures, so I took out my maintenance kit and did the bowstring waxing and leather greasing all over again, the photographer clicking away. Hagor joined me, and we didn't really talk much. Then Rua'ana took a chair and sat by me, and we found another ladybug. This one was injured though, and I asked Adriel to heal it. The DMs liked that tidbit.
For some reason or other we needed to go into the forest again, something to do with keys and spirits. Hagor came to ask me personally if I would be willing to be one of the scouts, and I agreed. We came across a wounded person (I think), and as the paladins were debating what to do, I scouted ahead, around the bend of the path. In the distance, I saw some movement, people walking across the path. It looked like an ambush, so I called Hagor to me, and crawled behind the bushes in the bend of the path, pointing him towards where the ambush was. He noticed it too, and went back to the rest of the group to warn them.
This resulted in a lot of trigger-happy paladins rushing forward, but the scouting was solid and as it should have been. Perhaps we should have scouted a bit more around them, but there were really not enough of them to warrant that kind of caution.
The rest of the quest was less well-arranged. We scouted, but the group followed in our footsteps. I called Hagor to me, and said "This is not the way we scout."
"I agree." he said
"Fix it."
Without a word, he turned and went back to the group, telling them that they should stay back and wait for word from the scouts on what they were dealing with. It didn't go much better, but ah well. We shall have to educate them.
After a few encounters in the forest, we reached a clearing, where some women were being tortured. Cue paladins rushing in, shouting at the top of their lungs. Adriel, Lanelle and Rua'ana stayed near the edge of the forest, where I jumped up on a stump and was consequently photographed by the people from Panorama. I told Rua'ana to stay in the forest, where she would be safe and unseen, but all of a sudden she clutched her body and fell down. I called out to Adriel and he rushed to her aid.
Then, Hagor dragged one of the culprits towards the forest edge. He had been disarmed and his chainmail was confiscated, but he was still alive. He would remain alive if he would not try to do anything. I said I would watch over him, and took up a point where I could keep an eye on the human and the battlefield.
There were cries of alarm, and I saw that some of the bodies of the falled bandits were standing up again. I turned around to watch the human, and saw he tried to get away. Not so smart. After a short chase, I loosed an arrow at him, hitting him in the head and ending his life.
When I returned to the battlefield, I heard a cry of help, and saw Ialis, struggling, and then in the blink of an eye, she disappeared. A few minutes later she reappeared, being held hostage by a demon who had a knife to her throat.
"Come closer and she dies!" he hissed and spat. The paladin of Eveleen threw down his weapons and taunted him. Wayland, the smithy, circled around and tried to get at him from behind, while I held an arrow pointed at his hand. I dared not loose the arrow though, for fear of him killing Ialis (the healer of the Elves and also councilmember).
Sadly, Wayland has less braincells than a dead stoat, and he hit the demon from behind. The demon hissed, slit Ialis' throat, and cantered off, spreading mayhem. I called for Adriel, and he set about healing her with some help from a paladin of Eveleen. Slowly, Ialis came to again, and I stuck by her side like a ghost, determined to, if necessary, bodily bring the demon down if he ever showed his ugly horned head near her again.
That was the point where Time Out was called.
All in all I had a great weekend. The weather was fine, the plot was filled with roleplay, not battles, and there are a lot of things that I need to follow up in the future. The death of Telynor needs some thought, as well as the election of Hagor for the village council (he listens to me, this is a good thing), and the education of people when it comes to what scouts do.
I loved the Dryad plot. Three elves who now are the Guardians of the Dryad. I will drop everything when she is in need, that much is for sure.
