"Well, Li," Terriii punched that last word as she drew her legs back, seeing as he'd finally taken his hands away once he was through with the bandage.
"You may accompany me, but I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't look after my well-being every five seconds," (Emily's idea of what Li's thinking: like that attidude's gonna last long. We'll see what happens when she runs into another boar.) After a couple more fights about Terriii wanting to go on and Li insisting she still wasn't up for travel, the two finally set off after eating some beef jerky from Terriii's pack (Emily's thoughts: mmm, beef jerky ;D *drules*) and Li eating a small tart, which Terriii raised an eyebrow at but didn't bother to question. The same cycle went on for another day or two, Li would wake Terrii up, she'd pack up her sleeping bag, they each eat their meal, and set off, only to bicker and fight about Terriii's condition along the way. Of course, bed time was the worst, seeing as Terriii was sure she could continue for another couple hours, but Li, being the sexy elf [with freakishly high Charisma and diplomacy] that he is, convinced her that she was still low on energy and needed to give her body a rest. Of course, he just sat on his pillow and didn't sleep, which ticked Terriii off more because that meant that he was staying up keeping watch while she was sound asleep (Terriii's thoughts: damn, why does he have to be so damn momy-like. Emily's thoughts: gosh darn, I make a character who actually has dignity and all that happens is she gets a knash in her pride =P stupid bad die rolls >_> *kills the 20-sided die*)
After about two and a half days of this, they were walking along as usual, until Li stopped, raising his arm to cover Terriii's walkway, signalling her to stop as well.
"Something wrong?" Terriii asked, blinking.
"You hear that?" Li's eyes were centered strait ahead, his face hard set and very serious. Terriii blinked again.
"Um, no. What is it that I don't hear that you do?" she did her best to immitate Li's whisper, but it came out sounding more like she was talking normally, just had a horse throat.
"Stay here," Li answered simply, taking off in the direction his eyes were fixed. Terriii blinked, taking a moment to soak in what he said, then slapped on a grouchy face.
"STAY HERE?! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU-"
"AND BE QUIET!" came a Li-sounding yell from the trees. Terriii mumbled and plopped down onto the ground indian style, her arms folded sternly across her chest. She'd learned painfully over the past few days to trust what Li said, despite what she might think. (note: This makes her very annoyed that she's not the smarter of the two) A moment later Li came scurrying back, a distressed look on his face.
"Well?" Terriii questioned, anxcious to learn what she'd missed this time.
"There's a band of orcs ahead of us. There's way to many of them for us to fight, especially with your condition-" Almost before he finished the word Terriii gave him a scowl, her face insisting that she was fine. Li decided he didn't want to argue just then, and continued, "So we need to head south to get around them,"
"But, the desert is-"
"Trust me, we're heading south," with that Li grabbed Terriii by the wrist and yanked her to her feet as he started walking south. Terriii glanced between Li and the direction Karn was in, East, which there was apparently orcs in that direction, as well. After a slight moment Terriii jumped at the sound of Li's voice right infront of her.
"Come on already," he snapped, once again yanking her in the direction she was to go. Reluctantly and very irritably she followed, once again having to give into Li, seeing as she still was [at only 13 hit points out of 21, I think >_~ and was] not feeling all that great. Another couple days of the same old routine and the pair exited the forest to see rolling brown hills and a bright sun above them.
"Wonderful," Terriii muttered, holding her three, flat, water skins unpide down as just a few drops plumited down to the sand. Li gave her a look that said 'no problem' and he took out a silver and simply yet elaborately decorated bowl. Li waved his hand over it, or something, Terriii couldn't quite tell, and the bowl nearly overflowed with water. Li signalled for her to drink, and she did. (Terriii's thoughts: God damnit, he's looking out for me again! Damn him! Emily's thoughts: heheh, she hates him ;^^) And boy, was that the sweetest water she ever tasted! Soon the bowl was empty, and Terriii looked quite satisfied with her drink, much to Li's pleasure, and they set off again into the hot desert sun.
"Li, how long were we planning on continueing south?" Terriii questioned after a while, noting [with her sense direction skill ;^^] that they hadn't yet changed direction. Li paused and pointed to the east, as if that would answer her question. It took her a moment of squinting and focusing where he was pointing , but finally she spotted them, little black dots moving north across the eastern horizon.
"Orcs. I believe in the same band as the ones we nearly ran into earlier. We'll have to keep moving south until we can find a way around them,"
"A'ight," Terriii shrugged and continued, not having expected that long of an answer. After a while Terriii noted that they were slowly meandering east, but didn't say anything, considering east was the way she definitely wanted to go. After just a couple hours of travel, though, a scream was heard, and Li took off running in that direction. It took Terriii a moment longer for it to click what that aweful shrieking sound was, but she recognised it as a call for help soon enough, and took off running after Li.
They both paused on the rise of a hill, where they could see a wagon train not too far away, a wagon train infested with screaming humans and a bunch of dirty orcs. Li drew back his bow and Terriii, much to his surprise, drew her swords and ran down to where the fighting was. Within the duration of about 15 minutes, the humans with their pots and pans and Terriii with her swords had managed to fight off the orcs, most of them dead, the rest fleeing. Terriii turned around to face a very bewildered-looking Li back on the top of the hill slowly making his way down. Terriii smirked proudly, glad to be able to show Li that she doesn't need to be babied. (Emily's thoughts: SEE?! I TOLD you it was just a couple really bad roles! I promice I really can fight! xP)
A few moments after Li had arrived, still looking waaaay overly surprised that Terriii, who almost got killed by a boar, could fight off a dozen or so orcs, an old woman walked up to them and bowed slightly to show thanks.
"Thank you so much, travelers, we are very grateful to you for your help in fighting off those orcs," she said, bowing again. Terriii stepped forward, her curiosity taking over.
"Why exactly were those orcs attacking you? Do you have any idea what they're doing heading North towards the Dwarf settlements?" the old woman shook her head.
"Nay, We have no knowledge of their reasoning for going North, our people have never left this desert, let alone traveled past the forest. However, I can tell you the reason they attacked us. They were looking for a gemstone which we do not have, but very desprately need."
"And what might that be?"
"It is called the Tear of Esophenu, and the legend states that it has the power to heal. Our shaman is gravely ill, and we were heading towards its resting place when the orcs attacked us," Terriii had no sooner opened her mouth to ask another question when Li stepped forward, finally recovering from the shock of knowing that Terriii could actually fight.
"We'd be glad to help you in your search for this gem, milady," he said. Terriii and Li exchanged one of their look-conversations, Terriii giving him a look as if to say 'we? We who?' and Li 'replied' with 'you will stay and help, won't you?' 'No, I'd like to get to Karn, if you don't mind,' 'well I'm staying,'
'Fine, you stay, I'm going to Karn,' And then, Li [,using his freakishly high charisma and diplomacy,] gave her one last face 'please, Terriii? After this, I promice we'll go to Karn,' Terriii shook her head, but after just a couple moments of that puppy-dog-ish face, she sighed and gave in, turning to the old woman.
"Yes, Li and I would be glad to help,"
"Wonderful, wonderful! Come hop in the wagon, dear, and we'll take you to its resting place. In the mean time, please enjoy the food, we've got plenty to spare," At the sound of the word food Terriii's face brightenened up quite a bit and she eagerly hopped into the wagon, in high hopes of eating something other than her beef jerky, which she only had about a three or four day supply left, anyhow. After a couple hours of eating and playing singing games with the other three young women in the wagon with her, the train stopped and the old woman walked up to Terriii's wagon and prompted her to get out. She led Terriii over to a pool of water in an oasis, where Li already stood by the edge. There was a small stone platform protruding from the side of the water facing North, and, promting the human and elf to stand beside her, the woman mounted the platform and began singing. It was a language Terriii didn't know, but Li had closed his eyes and was rocking his head back and fourth to the slow beat, his mouth moving just slightly. Anyone watching would figure he'd heard the song before, and knew the words. Then, the singing stopped, and a great pillar of water shot up from the pool and back down into it and the water level dropped, revealing a staircase spiraling down into the cavern that the receeding water emptied out of bit by bit. Both Terriii and Li looked pretty dumbfounded by the insident, but they followed the old woman as she confidently walked down the stairs.
"Anyone have a torch..latern...something?" Terriii muttered, noticing it got rather dark as the stairs went down. Then, as if on cue, the cavern lit up, and Terriii turned her head to look over her shoulder at Li, who held, in a manner of speaking, an orb of light, for lack of a better term, in his outstretched hand. Terriii blinked.
"Okay, that works," Li just gave a cokey grin in response, and the three continued down the stairs, the old woman seeming to pay no mind to the light. As they neared the bottom of the saircase, the cavern began to grow lighter and lighter, until Li's orb of light was no longer nessisary, so he put it away. There, at the bottom of the cavern, was an enormous room, walls sparkling with luminescent crystals and whatnot, the occasional puddle of water on the ground. (Emily's thoughts: heh, good thing Nichole wasn't there *pictures Nichole running up and pocking the wall* Terriii's thoughts: nice.)
However, beyond this magnifiscant room were two tunnels, and, when looked to, the old woman quickly indicated she had no idea which tunnel to go through. Terriii stepped forward and looked between the two tunnels, seeing if her gut told her anything. Sure enough, her gut found something to latch onto, and she started walking down the tunnel on the right, from which a dank noise sounded like that of a droplet hitting water. The other two followed close behind through the tunnel, which also bore the beautiful sparkling walls of the entrance room. From the looks of it, the entire cavern bore them. After a couple moments of walking, the trio entered another magnifiscent room with gleam to math the first, but this one held a large pool of water in the bottom, numerous fish swimming about the large pond. Across the pond, which was close to being able to be called a lake, was a miniature crystal room, with a rather strong sparkle protruding from it.
"Its across the lake," said Terriii, pointing to the sparkle.
"I know," Li said, a cavalier look on his face. Terriii grumbled to herself, but didn't think it would be wise to argue infront of the woman. Once she was done mumbling to herself, which was pretty quickly, Terriii cauciously walked up to the edge of the pool and peered in, a little nervous about the fish. Carefully, she took out one of the stones for her sling and chucked it into the pool. While none of the other fish seemed to react, a large fish jumped up and swallowed the stone, then dove back down into the depths of the pool. Terriii repeated the process, now trying to lure the fish more towards the top of the pool. Just as she had planned, the large fish took the bait, and circled around the area, hoping for another treat. Instead it got a couple arrows whizzing past it, one landing in a fatal blow. With that fish taken care of, Terriii chucked in another stone, just to be sure. Just as she'd hoped, the nearby fish scurried away from the stone so as not to be hit, and the others seemed not to respond. Letting out a small shrug, Terriii jumped into the pool and started swimming across, Li tucking his bow behind his back and following behind her. (oh...mi gad...I rolled a five =_Â) With a rather large amount of trouble, and some help from Li, Terriii made it across, and walked up to where the source of the large sparkle lay. The young woman carefully picked up the small pearl-like gem, but quickly returned it to its resting place on the pilliar in the center of the small room, as a loud thumping sound was heard from the tunnel that they had come in from. She looked over her shoulder and shot Li a glance as if to ask him if he had heard it, and he nodded, then walked outside the room to check with the old woman. Apparently she had heard it, but ensured that it was nothing to worry about. So, giving another shrug, Terriii picked up the jewel, and, quickly this time, placed it in her pocket. Not hearing any thumping noise that time, Terriii walked right back out side, to find Li already in the water and swimming for the other side, and she joined him, jumping in and swimming for the old woman. (yay! Rolled good, didn't need any help from Li ;^^ stupid die *kills*)
"Did you get it?" the old woman eagerly asked as the two emerged from the water. Terriii grinned broadly, and the woman smiled, taking that for a yes. With that, the group headed back down the tunnel, but stopped, hearing a different, and rather bad sounding thumping noise, or, rather, noises. Li told the old woman to run back into the large room as he drew his bow, and Terriii ran up to the nearest bend in the tunnel. Orcs could be seen parading down the hall as she poked her head around the corner and quickly drew back, drawing her swords and waiting for the first orc to be exposed. The time came, and she was able to catch them by surprise, killing the first one and [, thanks to her feat cleave, ^.^] injuring a second. Soon, though, the second one was dead, and more were able to come around the corner. She was able to kill them, with some help from Li shooting arrows from behind, and more came. It was difficult to tell how many there were, but it sounded like lots. Again two more came around the corner and were killed, but Terriii was getting injured every round. Soon she [was down to about seven hp and] decided it would be best to retreat back to Li's level, where the line of fire was split amungst the both of them. After a couple more rounds, Li seemed to be doing fine, but her health was still draining, so she retreated back further, and poked her head around another bend to where she could see the old woman waiting ancxiously in the fish room.
"Can this thing be used to fight?" She hollered to the woman, assuming she would know that she was referring to the gemstone.
"I don't know, I only know that it will be able to heal our shaman," The woman replied back. Terriii let out a sigh, seeing as that wasn't much help, but decided to experiment, seeing that Li was still doing fine (both to her relief and annoyance). So, she sheathed one of her swords and reached into her pocket with her now free hand and took hold of the gemstone, deciding it would be best to keep it out of the view of the orcs, considering that's what they were ultimintely after, apparently. Once her fingers caressed the cool serface, the thumping sound was heard again, and a small light seemed to be building up, slowly, from behind the orcs. Just to make sure, Terriii let go, and the thumping stopped, the light dissappeared. When she took hold again, they both continued, and ceased when she let go. After a few trials, just to be sure that it was, indeed, her that was causing the light, she grabbed hold and didn't let go, waiting while the thumping grew louder and the light behind the orcs grew more intense. After a couple moments, a huge figure of bright light stepped out from behind the bend in the tunnel, pummeling all the orcs in its way. (Terriii's thoughts: cool.) Li looked somewhat suprised, but not curious enough to ask about the happening. (Afterall, what else could that have been?) Seeing that the being of light seemed to be doing just fine against the orcs, Li drew back to get out of the way while the creature did a very thurough job of killing all the orcs in the tunnel. Once the last orc was either dead or fleeing the cavern, the creature faded, leaving only the glimmouring crystal walls lighting the way. (Terriii's thoughts: awesome. I gotta get me one of these. *heh heh*)
Disclaimer: hehe, boy oh boy these are fun xD anyhoo, once again, Wizards of the Coast owns DnD, Terriii is property of mwah, Li belongs to Miranda, and so does the old woman. Oh, and just as a side note, That's not the gem's real name, but Emily couldn't remember it so I made it up *sweatdrop* ya, there were a couple other thigns that I couldn't remember and had to make up, too (such as dialogue *sweatdrop*) So, ja. Happy reading, peeps, onto the next chappie =^^-
"You may accompany me, but I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't look after my well-being every five seconds," (Emily's idea of what Li's thinking: like that attidude's gonna last long. We'll see what happens when she runs into another boar.) After a couple more fights about Terriii wanting to go on and Li insisting she still wasn't up for travel, the two finally set off after eating some beef jerky from Terriii's pack (Emily's thoughts: mmm, beef jerky ;D *drules*) and Li eating a small tart, which Terriii raised an eyebrow at but didn't bother to question. The same cycle went on for another day or two, Li would wake Terrii up, she'd pack up her sleeping bag, they each eat their meal, and set off, only to bicker and fight about Terriii's condition along the way. Of course, bed time was the worst, seeing as Terriii was sure she could continue for another couple hours, but Li, being the sexy elf [with freakishly high Charisma and diplomacy] that he is, convinced her that she was still low on energy and needed to give her body a rest. Of course, he just sat on his pillow and didn't sleep, which ticked Terriii off more because that meant that he was staying up keeping watch while she was sound asleep (Terriii's thoughts: damn, why does he have to be so damn momy-like. Emily's thoughts: gosh darn, I make a character who actually has dignity and all that happens is she gets a knash in her pride =P stupid bad die rolls >_> *kills the 20-sided die*)
After about two and a half days of this, they were walking along as usual, until Li stopped, raising his arm to cover Terriii's walkway, signalling her to stop as well.
"Something wrong?" Terriii asked, blinking.
"You hear that?" Li's eyes were centered strait ahead, his face hard set and very serious. Terriii blinked again.
"Um, no. What is it that I don't hear that you do?" she did her best to immitate Li's whisper, but it came out sounding more like she was talking normally, just had a horse throat.
"Stay here," Li answered simply, taking off in the direction his eyes were fixed. Terriii blinked, taking a moment to soak in what he said, then slapped on a grouchy face.
"STAY HERE?! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU-"
"AND BE QUIET!" came a Li-sounding yell from the trees. Terriii mumbled and plopped down onto the ground indian style, her arms folded sternly across her chest. She'd learned painfully over the past few days to trust what Li said, despite what she might think. (note: This makes her very annoyed that she's not the smarter of the two) A moment later Li came scurrying back, a distressed look on his face.
"Well?" Terriii questioned, anxcious to learn what she'd missed this time.
"There's a band of orcs ahead of us. There's way to many of them for us to fight, especially with your condition-" Almost before he finished the word Terriii gave him a scowl, her face insisting that she was fine. Li decided he didn't want to argue just then, and continued, "So we need to head south to get around them,"
"But, the desert is-"
"Trust me, we're heading south," with that Li grabbed Terriii by the wrist and yanked her to her feet as he started walking south. Terriii glanced between Li and the direction Karn was in, East, which there was apparently orcs in that direction, as well. After a slight moment Terriii jumped at the sound of Li's voice right infront of her.
"Come on already," he snapped, once again yanking her in the direction she was to go. Reluctantly and very irritably she followed, once again having to give into Li, seeing as she still was [at only 13 hit points out of 21, I think >_~ and was] not feeling all that great. Another couple days of the same old routine and the pair exited the forest to see rolling brown hills and a bright sun above them.
"Wonderful," Terriii muttered, holding her three, flat, water skins unpide down as just a few drops plumited down to the sand. Li gave her a look that said 'no problem' and he took out a silver and simply yet elaborately decorated bowl. Li waved his hand over it, or something, Terriii couldn't quite tell, and the bowl nearly overflowed with water. Li signalled for her to drink, and she did. (Terriii's thoughts: God damnit, he's looking out for me again! Damn him! Emily's thoughts: heheh, she hates him ;^^) And boy, was that the sweetest water she ever tasted! Soon the bowl was empty, and Terriii looked quite satisfied with her drink, much to Li's pleasure, and they set off again into the hot desert sun.
"Li, how long were we planning on continueing south?" Terriii questioned after a while, noting [with her sense direction skill ;^^] that they hadn't yet changed direction. Li paused and pointed to the east, as if that would answer her question. It took her a moment of squinting and focusing where he was pointing , but finally she spotted them, little black dots moving north across the eastern horizon.
"Orcs. I believe in the same band as the ones we nearly ran into earlier. We'll have to keep moving south until we can find a way around them,"
"A'ight," Terriii shrugged and continued, not having expected that long of an answer. After a while Terriii noted that they were slowly meandering east, but didn't say anything, considering east was the way she definitely wanted to go. After just a couple hours of travel, though, a scream was heard, and Li took off running in that direction. It took Terriii a moment longer for it to click what that aweful shrieking sound was, but she recognised it as a call for help soon enough, and took off running after Li.
They both paused on the rise of a hill, where they could see a wagon train not too far away, a wagon train infested with screaming humans and a bunch of dirty orcs. Li drew back his bow and Terriii, much to his surprise, drew her swords and ran down to where the fighting was. Within the duration of about 15 minutes, the humans with their pots and pans and Terriii with her swords had managed to fight off the orcs, most of them dead, the rest fleeing. Terriii turned around to face a very bewildered-looking Li back on the top of the hill slowly making his way down. Terriii smirked proudly, glad to be able to show Li that she doesn't need to be babied. (Emily's thoughts: SEE?! I TOLD you it was just a couple really bad roles! I promice I really can fight! xP)
A few moments after Li had arrived, still looking waaaay overly surprised that Terriii, who almost got killed by a boar, could fight off a dozen or so orcs, an old woman walked up to them and bowed slightly to show thanks.
"Thank you so much, travelers, we are very grateful to you for your help in fighting off those orcs," she said, bowing again. Terriii stepped forward, her curiosity taking over.
"Why exactly were those orcs attacking you? Do you have any idea what they're doing heading North towards the Dwarf settlements?" the old woman shook her head.
"Nay, We have no knowledge of their reasoning for going North, our people have never left this desert, let alone traveled past the forest. However, I can tell you the reason they attacked us. They were looking for a gemstone which we do not have, but very desprately need."
"And what might that be?"
"It is called the Tear of Esophenu, and the legend states that it has the power to heal. Our shaman is gravely ill, and we were heading towards its resting place when the orcs attacked us," Terriii had no sooner opened her mouth to ask another question when Li stepped forward, finally recovering from the shock of knowing that Terriii could actually fight.
"We'd be glad to help you in your search for this gem, milady," he said. Terriii and Li exchanged one of their look-conversations, Terriii giving him a look as if to say 'we? We who?' and Li 'replied' with 'you will stay and help, won't you?' 'No, I'd like to get to Karn, if you don't mind,' 'well I'm staying,'
'Fine, you stay, I'm going to Karn,' And then, Li [,using his freakishly high charisma and diplomacy,] gave her one last face 'please, Terriii? After this, I promice we'll go to Karn,' Terriii shook her head, but after just a couple moments of that puppy-dog-ish face, she sighed and gave in, turning to the old woman.
"Yes, Li and I would be glad to help,"
"Wonderful, wonderful! Come hop in the wagon, dear, and we'll take you to its resting place. In the mean time, please enjoy the food, we've got plenty to spare," At the sound of the word food Terriii's face brightenened up quite a bit and she eagerly hopped into the wagon, in high hopes of eating something other than her beef jerky, which she only had about a three or four day supply left, anyhow. After a couple hours of eating and playing singing games with the other three young women in the wagon with her, the train stopped and the old woman walked up to Terriii's wagon and prompted her to get out. She led Terriii over to a pool of water in an oasis, where Li already stood by the edge. There was a small stone platform protruding from the side of the water facing North, and, promting the human and elf to stand beside her, the woman mounted the platform and began singing. It was a language Terriii didn't know, but Li had closed his eyes and was rocking his head back and fourth to the slow beat, his mouth moving just slightly. Anyone watching would figure he'd heard the song before, and knew the words. Then, the singing stopped, and a great pillar of water shot up from the pool and back down into it and the water level dropped, revealing a staircase spiraling down into the cavern that the receeding water emptied out of bit by bit. Both Terriii and Li looked pretty dumbfounded by the insident, but they followed the old woman as she confidently walked down the stairs.
"Anyone have a torch..latern...something?" Terriii muttered, noticing it got rather dark as the stairs went down. Then, as if on cue, the cavern lit up, and Terriii turned her head to look over her shoulder at Li, who held, in a manner of speaking, an orb of light, for lack of a better term, in his outstretched hand. Terriii blinked.
"Okay, that works," Li just gave a cokey grin in response, and the three continued down the stairs, the old woman seeming to pay no mind to the light. As they neared the bottom of the saircase, the cavern began to grow lighter and lighter, until Li's orb of light was no longer nessisary, so he put it away. There, at the bottom of the cavern, was an enormous room, walls sparkling with luminescent crystals and whatnot, the occasional puddle of water on the ground. (Emily's thoughts: heh, good thing Nichole wasn't there *pictures Nichole running up and pocking the wall* Terriii's thoughts: nice.)
However, beyond this magnifiscant room were two tunnels, and, when looked to, the old woman quickly indicated she had no idea which tunnel to go through. Terriii stepped forward and looked between the two tunnels, seeing if her gut told her anything. Sure enough, her gut found something to latch onto, and she started walking down the tunnel on the right, from which a dank noise sounded like that of a droplet hitting water. The other two followed close behind through the tunnel, which also bore the beautiful sparkling walls of the entrance room. From the looks of it, the entire cavern bore them. After a couple moments of walking, the trio entered another magnifiscent room with gleam to math the first, but this one held a large pool of water in the bottom, numerous fish swimming about the large pond. Across the pond, which was close to being able to be called a lake, was a miniature crystal room, with a rather strong sparkle protruding from it.
"Its across the lake," said Terriii, pointing to the sparkle.
"I know," Li said, a cavalier look on his face. Terriii grumbled to herself, but didn't think it would be wise to argue infront of the woman. Once she was done mumbling to herself, which was pretty quickly, Terriii cauciously walked up to the edge of the pool and peered in, a little nervous about the fish. Carefully, she took out one of the stones for her sling and chucked it into the pool. While none of the other fish seemed to react, a large fish jumped up and swallowed the stone, then dove back down into the depths of the pool. Terriii repeated the process, now trying to lure the fish more towards the top of the pool. Just as she had planned, the large fish took the bait, and circled around the area, hoping for another treat. Instead it got a couple arrows whizzing past it, one landing in a fatal blow. With that fish taken care of, Terriii chucked in another stone, just to be sure. Just as she'd hoped, the nearby fish scurried away from the stone so as not to be hit, and the others seemed not to respond. Letting out a small shrug, Terriii jumped into the pool and started swimming across, Li tucking his bow behind his back and following behind her. (oh...mi gad...I rolled a five =_Â) With a rather large amount of trouble, and some help from Li, Terriii made it across, and walked up to where the source of the large sparkle lay. The young woman carefully picked up the small pearl-like gem, but quickly returned it to its resting place on the pilliar in the center of the small room, as a loud thumping sound was heard from the tunnel that they had come in from. She looked over her shoulder and shot Li a glance as if to ask him if he had heard it, and he nodded, then walked outside the room to check with the old woman. Apparently she had heard it, but ensured that it was nothing to worry about. So, giving another shrug, Terriii picked up the jewel, and, quickly this time, placed it in her pocket. Not hearing any thumping noise that time, Terriii walked right back out side, to find Li already in the water and swimming for the other side, and she joined him, jumping in and swimming for the old woman. (yay! Rolled good, didn't need any help from Li ;^^ stupid die *kills*)
"Did you get it?" the old woman eagerly asked as the two emerged from the water. Terriii grinned broadly, and the woman smiled, taking that for a yes. With that, the group headed back down the tunnel, but stopped, hearing a different, and rather bad sounding thumping noise, or, rather, noises. Li told the old woman to run back into the large room as he drew his bow, and Terriii ran up to the nearest bend in the tunnel. Orcs could be seen parading down the hall as she poked her head around the corner and quickly drew back, drawing her swords and waiting for the first orc to be exposed. The time came, and she was able to catch them by surprise, killing the first one and [, thanks to her feat cleave, ^.^] injuring a second. Soon, though, the second one was dead, and more were able to come around the corner. She was able to kill them, with some help from Li shooting arrows from behind, and more came. It was difficult to tell how many there were, but it sounded like lots. Again two more came around the corner and were killed, but Terriii was getting injured every round. Soon she [was down to about seven hp and] decided it would be best to retreat back to Li's level, where the line of fire was split amungst the both of them. After a couple more rounds, Li seemed to be doing fine, but her health was still draining, so she retreated back further, and poked her head around another bend to where she could see the old woman waiting ancxiously in the fish room.
"Can this thing be used to fight?" She hollered to the woman, assuming she would know that she was referring to the gemstone.
"I don't know, I only know that it will be able to heal our shaman," The woman replied back. Terriii let out a sigh, seeing as that wasn't much help, but decided to experiment, seeing that Li was still doing fine (both to her relief and annoyance). So, she sheathed one of her swords and reached into her pocket with her now free hand and took hold of the gemstone, deciding it would be best to keep it out of the view of the orcs, considering that's what they were ultimintely after, apparently. Once her fingers caressed the cool serface, the thumping sound was heard again, and a small light seemed to be building up, slowly, from behind the orcs. Just to make sure, Terriii let go, and the thumping stopped, the light dissappeared. When she took hold again, they both continued, and ceased when she let go. After a few trials, just to be sure that it was, indeed, her that was causing the light, she grabbed hold and didn't let go, waiting while the thumping grew louder and the light behind the orcs grew more intense. After a couple moments, a huge figure of bright light stepped out from behind the bend in the tunnel, pummeling all the orcs in its way. (Terriii's thoughts: cool.) Li looked somewhat suprised, but not curious enough to ask about the happening. (Afterall, what else could that have been?) Seeing that the being of light seemed to be doing just fine against the orcs, Li drew back to get out of the way while the creature did a very thurough job of killing all the orcs in the tunnel. Once the last orc was either dead or fleeing the cavern, the creature faded, leaving only the glimmouring crystal walls lighting the way. (Terriii's thoughts: awesome. I gotta get me one of these. *heh heh*)
Disclaimer: hehe, boy oh boy these are fun xD anyhoo, once again, Wizards of the Coast owns DnD, Terriii is property of mwah, Li belongs to Miranda, and so does the old woman. Oh, and just as a side note, That's not the gem's real name, but Emily couldn't remember it so I made it up *sweatdrop* ya, there were a couple other thigns that I couldn't remember and had to make up, too (such as dialogue *sweatdrop*) So, ja. Happy reading, peeps, onto the next chappie =^^-