The Kidnap

[Furius]

(OOC: Can we go yet?)

[Rurik]

Rurik does a quick about face and goes back to collect his token. "Sorry mate, hey let my buy you a drink some time... where is the nearest watering hole?" Rurik gives his best smile while waiting for a reply.

[Solophoenix]

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Rurik

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Looking slightly surprised at your politeness the elf replies.

"The nearest bar is just over there," he says while gesturing toward a small building on the waterfront. "Not a very nice place though. I'd check with whoever you're here to see about any others, I don't tend to dwell in the lower town. As for your offer, I'm afraid I have more pressing matters here, until five bells that is, and judging from the agitated look of your companions, it seems you need to be somewhere."

He hands you a round clay token.

"Give that to the gate guard when you're ready to enter the city."

Xander

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You can see a few horse drawn carts around, and near the gate, a covered carriage.

[Acetic]

Xeyphon Pulls out his lance ready to charge.... and waits........ getting intensely bored at the lack of activity.

(OOC: don't god mod any of our emotions. I'll be pissed when i feel like I'm pissed)

[Rurik]

Giving a slight bow, Rurik truns away and runs off to catch up with the rest of the party.

[styro]

Xander, noticing the gate and carriage briskly walks towards the guardsmen and offers the token.

"Here you go sir"

[Solophoenix]

Xander

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The guard takes your token and ushers you through the gate. Before you lies the rest of the port area, and beyond that, the city.

[Rurik]

Rurik hands his token to the man waiting at the gate, and look expectantly past the guard after the rest of the party.

[Johnny Chaotic]

Johnny Chaotic handed his token to the man at the gate and continued to follow the others.

[Furius]

Furius sees the other members of his party disappearing through the gate and follows them.

[Solophoenix]

//New Round//

All of you successfully pass through customs and regroup on the other side of the fence. The area you are now in appears to be some form of major trading hub, abuzz with people of all races imaginable and hundreds of prospective traders calling out from their various stalls. Directly ahead of you, between you and the crowds, is a covered carriage being drawn by two fine looking, but small, horses. The side of the carriage bears what looks like an official crest of some type.

From here you can see that the strange floating behemoth appears to be hovering further inland.

Furius

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You recognise the crest as that of the Governor's office

[Furius]

Furius looks at the carriage, and notices the Governor's crest on it. Turning he announces "this is our carriage." He turns back to it and realises he is unsure how to enter. He pauses to think.
bardic knowledge - (1d20+5)[19]

[Rurik]

Rurik heads past the guard and stands next to Furius, waiting for him to enter the carriage first.

[Solophoenix]

Furius

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(You just wanted to roll something, didn't you)

As you approach the carriage, the driver tips his hat at you and beckons you enter. Your astounding knowledge of carriages of this type assures you that the door located on the side facing you is the correct means of entering the carriage. The carriage appears to be a late model with wheels manufactured by Kororo.

[Furius]

(OOC: Well, that amuses me so much that I'll post all of what Sam said: "As you approach the carriage, the driver tips his hat at you and beckons you enter. Your astounding knowledge of carriages of this type assures you that the door located on the side facing you is the correct means of entering the carriage. The carriage appears to be a late model with wheels manufactured by Kororo.")

After a short, but rather awkward pause while Furius looks somewhat blankly at the carriage, and Rurik stands beside him, Furius's advanced knowledge of carriages returns to him and he walks up to the carriage. He points out the Kororo wheels to Rurik and compliments the carriage driver on his carriage. He then reaches the door, "This," he announces in a lecturous tone to Rurik, "is a door. We open it like so," Furius struggles with the door for a while and finally pulls at it sharply, "It allows entry to the carriage itself. Amazing invention, yes?"

Furius sticks his head into the carriage and considers. "This won't hold all of us... I think Xeyphon was going on his horse, though, so maybe we'll all fit then... Xander, Rurik, Johnny Chaotic, are you all comfortable with riding in this here HPTD?" (OOC: Horse Propelled Transportation Device)

[Acetic]

Acetic reins Erathiel in next to the carriage where the others were gathering just in time to here Furius's enlightening description of what looks to be just a normal carriage. Shrugging the thought of the carriage out of his head, Acetic approaches the driver.

"I'm going to act as an escort for this carriage I'll keep back to prevent any suspicion by would be ambushers. Any sign of trouble then dive for safety. I'm pretty sure all this is unnecessary but then again, I don't really feel comfortable with that thing above us."

Acetic gestures at the floating thing.

"You wouldn't happen to know what that thing is though would you?"

[styro]

Seeing that he had once again been left behind with his thoughts he decides that it would be more fun riding up on top (not with the driver). Getting a running start, he attempts to jump onto the top in one leap, knowing that it isn't going to end well.

(i expect this will be interesting)

[Johnny Chaotic]

Johnny Chaotic followed the others into the carriage, and noticed that Xander was not with them.

[Rurik]

Seeing as there were only three of them in the carriage, there was pleanty of room for Rurik to spread out. He then settles down to give a short prayer to Hanseth, before attempting to start a conversaton with the rest of the passangers in the cab.

[styro]

(After finally figuring out how to roll the damn dice, and proceeding to roll the damn thing i know that my characters life sorta depends on suck a stupid thing)

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[Solophoenix]

Acetic

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The driver looks at you strangely
"I really think that is most unnecessary, have you not noticed the wonderful town guard we have here?"

(after seeing you point to the sky-thing)

"Ah, I suppose that would have you newcomers a bit worried, nothing to be worried about there, it is merely the rather extravagant and amazing mode of transport used by a visiting foreign guest. I don't know much about them, but they must be important...Imagine, flying in that! Like a giant dra-"

Your conversation is suddenly cut short by a loud and dull thud as Xander's waist collides with the top edge of the carriage.
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Xander

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You leap into the air and spread your wings to assist your travel, but immediately you can see that this is not going to work. If only the carriage was 4 feet or so shorter, but it isn't, your waist smashes into the top edge, momentum carrying your torso around the corner and into the roof.

Take [roll0] points of lethal damage, and make a reflex save.

Everyone inside

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You hear a dull thud reverberate through the carriaged, accompanied by a muffled squawk of pain.

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[Solophoenix]

Xander

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((OOC: At the time of posting this, the forum diceroller appears not to be working, so I will roll here and post, use this value if the above still displays [roll0]: 1d6 = 2 damage

[styro]

Grunting with the unique pain of crashing into a carriage, and kicking himself for not looking to see how tall the damn thing was before attempting such an awesome stunt, Xander launches into a very loud tirade of cursing in all his known languages. Part way through his prepared list of curses he starts to laugh as he just figured out what the whole gravity idea really meant.

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[Acetic]

Xeyphon reacts instantly by tilting his lance for an attack, but stopped to realize that Xander, the bird man of the group was flexing his wings a bit. With catastrophic results.

"....Now why did he go and do that....."

Turning back to the Driver, "Thanks for the information good sir, I'll keep to my horse anyway though, Crammed in with that bunch doesn't really sound that nice to me anyway"

Turning Erathiel around, Xeyphon approaches the sore looking Xander.

"Need a bit of healing there?"

[Solophoenix]

((OOC: Xeyphon, I have to ignore your post as it is posted after I ended the round, and doesn't quite work now, given the fast pace of what just happened. Copy and paste it to below if you still want to take the same actions.))

Xander and Xeyphon...X..

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Thanks to quick reflexes Xander manages to catch the edge of the carriage and lower himself to the ground in safety.

The carriage driver turns to the sudden noise and exclaims,

"What in the nine hells do you think you're doing!?"

Inside the carriage

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You can hear the muffled cries of the driver shouting something along the lines of "What in the nine hells are you doing?"

//New Round//

[Rurik]

Having heard the crash and thud of something rather heavy hitting the carriage, and the driver calling out "What in the nine hells do you think you're doing!?" Rurik quickley jumps out of the carriage to see what is going on. Apon seeing the the wounds on the bird man, and the paladins upheld lance, he quickley goes over to Xander saying "hey the matey do you want me to patch you up alittle, before our friend the paladin over there decides to attack you again... never can trust a paladin can you, no matter what they say!?"

[styro]

Recovering from his bout of laughter, Xander flys into a rage (not literal) and draws both scimitars. Spreading his wings to their full extent (hopefully a little frightening) Xander looks directly at the driver he says

" WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M DOING?."

Not waiting for a reply he turns around and starts walking away from the driver. He walks around to the other side, sheaths the scimitars and enters the 8 ft carriage. Expecting to find a swimming pool inside he's slightly disappointed by the almost overcrowded 8ft carriage. Being an 8 ft carriage he realises that its no ordinary mode of transportation and with seeing no amounts of alcohol in the vast vicinity plonks himself down, in the 8ft carriage, and once again bursts out laughing.

[Rurik]

((ooc.) Um Xander, did you read my post, either your character is thick beyond measure, or you decieded to ignore me, um I was talking to you )

[Acetic]

Xeyphon glances down at the dwarf and shrugs off the comment. Turning Erathiel back toward the front, Xeyphon takes a position near the carriage ready to move out.....as soon as the dwarf gets his clerical behind in to the flaming 8 foot carraige.

[Furius]

Furius grows impatient, and leans out the door and says, as nicely as he can manage, "Rurik! We are operating within time constraints. Do you think you can threaten your paladin comrade some other time?"

He sighs