Staunton Bluffs Episode I: To the Borderstone

[DamienJ]

[OOC: Heh, good point BigBad...I guess a talking door isn't a common sight...]

[CapN]

Alain is startled by the face appearing in the doorway and steps back.
"...Wha?!" he exlaims.
"...A...a talking door?"

"Oh! Come on you big bag of fat! It's just a door!"

To the door I say: "We were sleeping and appeared here. Now we are trying to find out how to go back."

[BigBadQDaddy]

"Oh! Come on you big bag of fat! It's just a door!"

To the door I say: "We were sleeping and appeared here. Now we are trying to find out how to go back."

Alain startled by the blatent rudeness of the comment turns from the door and shoulders past the wizard.
"Pardon Moi, fils a puitan." he says as he walks past. He joins the party members waithing at the door and turns back and replies:
"Please Monsiur, lead the way."

[Boccaccio Barbarossa]

Avra watches as the others have somethng of an exchange with the door...

He look over to his right: where is Lodissio?

[kintire]

Shana quirks an eyebrow

"We went into a mist in a wooded vale and emerged a minute later in an arctic wilderness, we've been chased by mysterious burning floor effects and a drooling two headed giant across an unsupported natural span several miles long, across a huge ocean that makes not the slightest sound. We then went to sleep in a ruin, woke up in a well built house which has burning coals for floors unless you think hard enough in which case it doesn't. After all this, you're shocked by a talking door? pfeh. Even I could manage that."

I turn back to the door, smiling politely.

[Le Noir Faineant]

Alain is startled by the face appearing in the doorway and steps back.
"...Wha?!" he exlaims.
"...A...a talking door?"

With a thick, fleshy voice, the living door responds.

"What a brilliant observation you just made. Well, and I see at least six morons staring at me like if I had eaten their brains."

Startled by the voice, Nicolas looks over towards the door. He walks gingerly towards it, saying in the meantime, "Please excuse us, but we have no ill intent. We are simple travelers seeking shelter from the rain..."

"And why should we care for..." The door answers, then suddenly stops.

"Now, what do we have here? - Come near, precious maiden."

It becomes clear that the door is addressing Shana.

He look over to his right: where is Lodissio?

Right behind him, Avra perceives the shimmering shadow of a monstrous horned beast with glowing red eyes. As it moves near, he becomes aware that the creature is indeed only a shadow, but frightdul and threatening.

"Seems I am still alive." Whispers Lodissio's shade.

[Don Fernando]

Jarryd is startled at how things have developed lately, a talking door, heat coming from the floor and now a shadow that talks just like Lodissio. The scenario is all too strange for him, he feels like in some kind of alternate reality. Sometimes, in some ancient ruins found in the desert this kind of things were rumored to happen. The elders called it a "moment of clarity" where visitors to the ruins could experience some events linked to the ruins. Quite an experience, that sometimes could be lethal.

Ignoring Lodissio's shadow and his companions, Jarryd searches for the main door, to go back outside... Perhaps, this is not the same place we entered, perhaps we are somewhere else....

[OCC]: Jarryd is looking for the door they used to enter the structure, where the bodies were. He also looks around the room, looking for anything strange in particular, f.e. someone watching in the dark, or even some kind of creature lurking in the shadows.

[kintire]

Shana looks nervous, assesses her options, and appears to decide that not insulting the mysterious person is the smart move

She smiles warmly at the door and approaches to just next to the person in front

"greetings good sir!" *curtsies gracefully* "my name is Shana and I'm honoured to meet you. I do hope we are not intruding, but our situation is serious... perhaps we could perform some service in exchange for shelter and aid? we especially need a healer skilled in alleviating poisons."

[deploy those social skills...]

[Le Noir Faineant]

[OCC]: Jarryd is looking for the door they used to enter the structure, where the bodies were. He also looks around the room, looking for anything strange in particular, f.e. someone watching in the dark, or even some kind of creature lurking in the shadows.

The room you're standing in features no windows, but the entrance door is to the west, as it was when you fell asleep. Apart from the fountain, and the talking door, of course, and that everyone of you looks changed, the room looks relatively normal...

"greetings good sir!" *curtsies gracefully* "my name is Shana and I'm honoured to meet you. I do hope we are not intruding, but our situation is serious... perhaps we could perform some service in exchange for shelter and aid? we especially need a healer skilled in alleviating poisons."

"Ah, gentle maiden, if you would enter you arm into my mouth and let me taste you the scent of your sweat, I might open you the way to riches beyond your belief."

The mouth opens, greedy for the taste of the flesh.

[CapN]

Hey! The door didn't answered me!

To the door I say: "We were sleeping and appeared here. Now we are trying to find out how to go back."

[kintire]

riiiiight...

" good sir door, such a feast is hard to come by. The riches should be great indeed to warrant it. perhaps you could open enough for me to see these riches, and then I can decide?"

[Le Noir Faineant]

Hey! The door didn't answered me!

To the door I say: "We were sleeping and appeared here. Now we are trying to find out how to go back."

Indeed, the door seems so caught up by Shana that it doesn't pay too much attention to you others any more...

[Time to act!...?]

[Le Noir Faineant]

riiiiight...

" good sir door, such a feast is hard to come by. The riches should be great indeed to warrant it. perhaps you could open enough for me to see these riches, and then I can decide?"

"How blattantly undistrutful from you..." The door seems to be offended.

"Well, as you like it..."

It spits out a golden coin that falls before Avra's feet.

[BigBadQDaddy]

Alain becomes very frustraited with the door.
"This is rediculous. Shana, if you put your arm inside that doorknob's mouth for a gold coin, you are going to need that coin to buy back your common sense!"
Alain then turns to catch up with Jarryd and see how he is fairing with finding the entrance to the house.

[DamienJ]

Hoping (perhaps in vain) to get her to speak, Nicolas bends down to the little girl.

"Have you been here before? Do you know who that is?" As he speaks, he points discreetly toward the door...