Hi, its me again! I would like to apoligise if the dialog and that sorta thing is different from the game! Im doin this from memory! Also, soz i havnt updated 4 yonks! oh and Rade is NOT a Mary-Sue! Nor will she never be!! Peace out, Claire!
The Planar Prison
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Rade stood in shock. What in the nine hells just happened! She thought.
"This is messed up! They can't just take those people!!" She half-wispered. Minsc just looked around confused. Then Rade noticed something... The portal was still open! Ha, she thought, the lazy buggers forgot to close it!
"You guys!!! They left the portal open!!! We can still save them!!!!" She shouted with joy.
"Rade, thats absurd!!! We can't just waltz through a portal into another plane, ask the nice multi planar demons if we could please have our Bard back and leave again!" Said Jahira spitefully "And if you've forgotten, there is still the matter of saving Imoen!" Rades heart sank. This was terrible!! But she couldn't just abandon Haer'Dalis, maybe Raelis, to some twisted, bounty hunting fiends! A charge of powerful emotion pulsed through her body, and without warning, she ran straight into the portal.
"GODS RADE!!" Jahira shouted after her "What has that child got herself into THIS time?!?!" And she ran into the portal after Rade.
"We must save our comrade in distress!! Come Boo!!" and Minsc the Crazy One took a flying leap into the portal.
"And I thought this would be one of my easy days" muttered Jan and ambled into the swirling blue mist. Yoshimo was alone.
"If she dies, master will kill ME! I must make sure she survives this!" he said, dropping his normal, cheery tone and, with a fleeting glance behind him, walked into the Young Counduct.
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The scene they were met with was not a pleasant one. The room they appeared into was made of some cloudy, crystaline substance, jagged and sharp. also there was a strange membrane things in the center of the room that moved up and down, like the room was breathing. Our heroes could not focus on the strange room however, because there where several well armed bounty hunters and two Yaun Ti standing all around them. One of them, a half-elf in green chain mail was shouting at a trembling gnome.
"Listen you little maggot" he spat" I want to know how you got your collar off before I... We have company!" He looked Rade and the others up and down before rasing a pierced eybrow at them and said:
"Oh dear, you are in alot of trouble Prime! Do you have ANY idea where you are?"
"It doesn't matter, I'm hear to rescue my friends!" Rade said boldly. The half-elf laughed.
"Oh, but it does! I'll ask you again! Where in Helm's name do you think you are?
"On another plane, naturally"
"Oh, you are a sharp one prime! I'm afraid it's much worse than that! Yes, this is the best prison this side of Sigil! And as for your friends, well, you'll be joining them soon! HAVE AT THEE!!!"
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"Hmmm, A magical dagger-Pixe Prick I think its called, some boots of speed-very nice, two suites of magical leather-plus two, some fire arrows, some acid arrows, some magic scrolls and ohhhhh whats this? Melodic Chain? Hmmmmmmm, interesting. Thats about it Rade" Jan removed the Glasses of Identification. The Battle had been tough, especially when that weird little guy with the boots of speed suddenly appeared. Jahira was tending to the casualties. Rade looked around. This place was strange! The gnome who she had seen before aproached her.
"Wow! That was impressive!" he squeaked "You are obviously a good fighter, and we are in need of someone like that!!! You see, this place is a Planar Prison! We are kept hear by the warden, a Cambion of grate power, and his right hand man, The Master Of The Thralls! I am Tagget, at your service"
"I am Rade Rydrillan" Rade replied "Tell me, do you happen to know where Raelis and her Troupe are?"
"You are friends of the bards? Well I'm afraid you should give up hope then, M'lady. They are to be collected by The...The Duke, two days on the morrow! They are as good as dead!" Rade's breath caught in her chest.
"But there has to be a way!!" she shouted at the gnome.
"Well... There is one way, but it's far too risky!"
"Try me!" So the plan was made. Rade and her party would kill the Master of the Thralls and obtain his gem. This gem must be destroyed in order to release the Thralls and defeat the Warden, and who knows, if they release the Thralls, they might be on there team!
"Ok, got it! Tagget, before we go, what was the Collar that the half-elf mentioned earlier?" Rade asked
"My collar, it is a device that controls whomever dons it! All the Tralls where one, so the Master can make sure they don't run away! If you destroy the gem, the spell on the collars will be broken!"
"Thank you" Rade said to Tagget, who bowed low.
"You must succeed, M'lady!" and with that he ran off. Rade and her party continued into the prison. It didn't look like the prison back home, she thought, there are no bars or anything! Just weird, warm ice like substances. If you put your hand on one it would melt and ten grow back again. Her thoughts strayed to Haer'Dalis, where he was, what tourtures he was suffering. Her thoughts were broken, however, by a harsh cry.
"Strangers?!" A young human said, putting a strain on every syllable " No, no! Get out strangers! We can not control our actions while we ware these cursed collars! Pleas run... No...We atack them! AND KILL THEM!!!" he lunged at Rade, but found himself at the end of her spear. There where alot more Thralls like that. Eventually they found themselves in a strange, round room. in the center there was a Brazier,and it was emitting noises like a hyper Kobold. Minsc waved his hand over it and suddenly a hand made of fie and embers grabbed the Ranger\Berserker's wrist, making Minsc cry out in pain. when the hand released him, there was a hand print shaped burn on his wrist, and would be for the rest of his life.
"Are you OK mate?" Rade asked the scolded man.
"Y...yes, I'm *wince* fine, oww, we have to find our comrade!" said Minsc bravely, always the hero.
"You have to get some rest! That burn needs treatment!" said Jahira, reminding Rade strongly of Kahlid, "A good nights rest should sort..."
"A nights rest! We can't stop! If we rest, we may be to late to save Haer'Dalis!!" shouted Rade.
"You value the safety of a stranger more than that of a dear friend?!?" Jahira snapped "And anyway, didn't the gnome say we had three days? We'll be fine!"
"If...if rade wishes to go on, Minsc will *wince* go on!" Minsc proclaimed, and Boo squeaked in agreement.
"No. We are resting hear!" Jahira said, and that settled everything.
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Jan had been sent out on patrol, since he was the smallest, and had been gone for about ten minutes. Thay were all sitting in the room just after the brazier.
"He's been gone a long time" Rade wispered to Yoshimo, whom she was sitting next to. Jahira was giving a lecture to Minsc about fire saftey. Rades acute elven sences picked up hurried footsteps of a gnome. Jan's back, she thought and stood up.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" Jan ran ito the area at full pelt, crashing into Yoshimo who then fell backwards into Rade.
"Hay, does this work for you?" he asked jokingly.
"Get off me you pervert!" Rade smiled and struggled out from under the pile that Jan had made. Rade's serios side snaped back on.
"What is it Jan?" she asked the gnome.
"Big....b..ig...W...W...Bigw!!!" puffed the terified gnome.
"Whats a Bigw ?" but Rade's question didn't need anserwing because at that moment a huge wyven flew strait at her, it's scorpian like tail jabbing her arm. The beasts toxin acted quickly, and Rade felt herself fall to the floor. Her head was pounding and her vision was swimming. all she could see was the fanged head of the wyven drawing nearer and nearer. This is it, she thought, This is the end, I've lost. I'm sorry Haer'Dalis, I'm sorry Imoen, I'm... But she never got a chance to finish that thought because a blurred, white shape flew at the wyven, knocking it to the floor. A cold glass bottle was pressed to her lips and a smooth liqued that tasted faintly of frogs ran down her throught. Rades world came back into focus and what she saw made her very proud. Zugothra was standing in atacking position, facing the wyven. He launched herself forward and made a deadly strike against the wyvens throught. The beast slumped to the floor, dead, and Zugothra padded towards his mistress.
"Is mistress allright?" he purred.
"Yep, thanks to you!"
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"This is terrible! In two days The Duke will come to take us away and possibly kill us! And thats if we are lucky!" shouted a frustraited Raelis.
"Have faith, Rade is truly a great warrior, she will help. For now we must play the damsel in distress!" said Haer'Dalis calmly. "Have faith."
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Rade inspected the corpse of The Master Of The Thralls. In the demons pocket, there was Control Gem. It was quite boring realy. He also had a blue Quater Staff.
"One of us will have to run back ant put this gem in the braizer." Rade said "There is a good chance that thay won't be in the final battle, and we need all our warriors so Jan, put on the boots of speed and get your gnomish butt down there!"
"Hoky Doky!" Jan sped off with the gem.
"Now what?" askd Yoshimo.
"We wait."
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"SHIT! I'm out of healing potions! Minsc, toss me one of yours!" Shouted Rade. All the thralls where dead. Yoshimo was down, they had killed the Warden of course, now thay were fighting a mentaly dominated Jahira. With a jerk, Jahira regained her self-control. Rade picked up the key from the Warden's corpse and headed twards Haer'Dalis' prison.
"My child" Raelis smiled "You have known us so short a time yet you have bought our freedom with blood! This is a debt I can never repay. I have enough power left to open another counduct and send you home. Come Haer'Dalis, everyone..."
"Miss Raelis, I can not come with you" Haer'Dalis replied mournfully "Not this time" Privetly inside Rade was goig 'woooohoooo'
"No more playes Haer'Dalis? No more theater?"
"Miss Raelis, I am but a moth, to close to your flame, and to love you would be to smother you, killing myself in the prosess. Nay, nay, I shal return to the Prime, with Rade."
"Allright. I shall miss you."
"And I you" and on that note Raelis cast a spell and Rade, Jahira, Minsc (and Boo), Yoshimo, Jan and Haer'Dalis all found themselves on the stage in the Five Flagons.
"So" Haer'Dalis said to Rade "The Prime is a playground for us both my raven, if you will have me join you again?"
"Hay, I wen't to a hole other world, killed demons and cambion just to rescue you, why ever would I say no?!" Rade said cheerily.
"Come then, there is much still I wish to see."
The Planar Prison
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Rade stood in shock. What in the nine hells just happened! She thought.
"This is messed up! They can't just take those people!!" She half-wispered. Minsc just looked around confused. Then Rade noticed something... The portal was still open! Ha, she thought, the lazy buggers forgot to close it!
"You guys!!! They left the portal open!!! We can still save them!!!!" She shouted with joy.
"Rade, thats absurd!!! We can't just waltz through a portal into another plane, ask the nice multi planar demons if we could please have our Bard back and leave again!" Said Jahira spitefully "And if you've forgotten, there is still the matter of saving Imoen!" Rades heart sank. This was terrible!! But she couldn't just abandon Haer'Dalis, maybe Raelis, to some twisted, bounty hunting fiends! A charge of powerful emotion pulsed through her body, and without warning, she ran straight into the portal.
"GODS RADE!!" Jahira shouted after her "What has that child got herself into THIS time?!?!" And she ran into the portal after Rade.
"We must save our comrade in distress!! Come Boo!!" and Minsc the Crazy One took a flying leap into the portal.
"And I thought this would be one of my easy days" muttered Jan and ambled into the swirling blue mist. Yoshimo was alone.
"If she dies, master will kill ME! I must make sure she survives this!" he said, dropping his normal, cheery tone and, with a fleeting glance behind him, walked into the Young Counduct.
************************************************
The scene they were met with was not a pleasant one. The room they appeared into was made of some cloudy, crystaline substance, jagged and sharp. also there was a strange membrane things in the center of the room that moved up and down, like the room was breathing. Our heroes could not focus on the strange room however, because there where several well armed bounty hunters and two Yaun Ti standing all around them. One of them, a half-elf in green chain mail was shouting at a trembling gnome.
"Listen you little maggot" he spat" I want to know how you got your collar off before I... We have company!" He looked Rade and the others up and down before rasing a pierced eybrow at them and said:
"Oh dear, you are in alot of trouble Prime! Do you have ANY idea where you are?"
"It doesn't matter, I'm hear to rescue my friends!" Rade said boldly. The half-elf laughed.
"Oh, but it does! I'll ask you again! Where in Helm's name do you think you are?
"On another plane, naturally"
"Oh, you are a sharp one prime! I'm afraid it's much worse than that! Yes, this is the best prison this side of Sigil! And as for your friends, well, you'll be joining them soon! HAVE AT THEE!!!"
************************************************
"Hmmm, A magical dagger-Pixe Prick I think its called, some boots of speed-very nice, two suites of magical leather-plus two, some fire arrows, some acid arrows, some magic scrolls and ohhhhh whats this? Melodic Chain? Hmmmmmmm, interesting. Thats about it Rade" Jan removed the Glasses of Identification. The Battle had been tough, especially when that weird little guy with the boots of speed suddenly appeared. Jahira was tending to the casualties. Rade looked around. This place was strange! The gnome who she had seen before aproached her.
"Wow! That was impressive!" he squeaked "You are obviously a good fighter, and we are in need of someone like that!!! You see, this place is a Planar Prison! We are kept hear by the warden, a Cambion of grate power, and his right hand man, The Master Of The Thralls! I am Tagget, at your service"
"I am Rade Rydrillan" Rade replied "Tell me, do you happen to know where Raelis and her Troupe are?"
"You are friends of the bards? Well I'm afraid you should give up hope then, M'lady. They are to be collected by The...The Duke, two days on the morrow! They are as good as dead!" Rade's breath caught in her chest.
"But there has to be a way!!" she shouted at the gnome.
"Well... There is one way, but it's far too risky!"
"Try me!" So the plan was made. Rade and her party would kill the Master of the Thralls and obtain his gem. This gem must be destroyed in order to release the Thralls and defeat the Warden, and who knows, if they release the Thralls, they might be on there team!
"Ok, got it! Tagget, before we go, what was the Collar that the half-elf mentioned earlier?" Rade asked
"My collar, it is a device that controls whomever dons it! All the Tralls where one, so the Master can make sure they don't run away! If you destroy the gem, the spell on the collars will be broken!"
"Thank you" Rade said to Tagget, who bowed low.
"You must succeed, M'lady!" and with that he ran off. Rade and her party continued into the prison. It didn't look like the prison back home, she thought, there are no bars or anything! Just weird, warm ice like substances. If you put your hand on one it would melt and ten grow back again. Her thoughts strayed to Haer'Dalis, where he was, what tourtures he was suffering. Her thoughts were broken, however, by a harsh cry.
"Strangers?!" A young human said, putting a strain on every syllable " No, no! Get out strangers! We can not control our actions while we ware these cursed collars! Pleas run... No...We atack them! AND KILL THEM!!!" he lunged at Rade, but found himself at the end of her spear. There where alot more Thralls like that. Eventually they found themselves in a strange, round room. in the center there was a Brazier,and it was emitting noises like a hyper Kobold. Minsc waved his hand over it and suddenly a hand made of fie and embers grabbed the Ranger\Berserker's wrist, making Minsc cry out in pain. when the hand released him, there was a hand print shaped burn on his wrist, and would be for the rest of his life.
"Are you OK mate?" Rade asked the scolded man.
"Y...yes, I'm *wince* fine, oww, we have to find our comrade!" said Minsc bravely, always the hero.
"You have to get some rest! That burn needs treatment!" said Jahira, reminding Rade strongly of Kahlid, "A good nights rest should sort..."
"A nights rest! We can't stop! If we rest, we may be to late to save Haer'Dalis!!" shouted Rade.
"You value the safety of a stranger more than that of a dear friend?!?" Jahira snapped "And anyway, didn't the gnome say we had three days? We'll be fine!"
"If...if rade wishes to go on, Minsc will *wince* go on!" Minsc proclaimed, and Boo squeaked in agreement.
"No. We are resting hear!" Jahira said, and that settled everything.
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Jan had been sent out on patrol, since he was the smallest, and had been gone for about ten minutes. Thay were all sitting in the room just after the brazier.
"He's been gone a long time" Rade wispered to Yoshimo, whom she was sitting next to. Jahira was giving a lecture to Minsc about fire saftey. Rades acute elven sences picked up hurried footsteps of a gnome. Jan's back, she thought and stood up.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" Jan ran ito the area at full pelt, crashing into Yoshimo who then fell backwards into Rade.
"Hay, does this work for you?" he asked jokingly.
"Get off me you pervert!" Rade smiled and struggled out from under the pile that Jan had made. Rade's serios side snaped back on.
"What is it Jan?" she asked the gnome.
"Big....b..ig...W...W...Bigw!!!" puffed the terified gnome.
"Whats a Bigw ?" but Rade's question didn't need anserwing because at that moment a huge wyven flew strait at her, it's scorpian like tail jabbing her arm. The beasts toxin acted quickly, and Rade felt herself fall to the floor. Her head was pounding and her vision was swimming. all she could see was the fanged head of the wyven drawing nearer and nearer. This is it, she thought, This is the end, I've lost. I'm sorry Haer'Dalis, I'm sorry Imoen, I'm... But she never got a chance to finish that thought because a blurred, white shape flew at the wyven, knocking it to the floor. A cold glass bottle was pressed to her lips and a smooth liqued that tasted faintly of frogs ran down her throught. Rades world came back into focus and what she saw made her very proud. Zugothra was standing in atacking position, facing the wyven. He launched herself forward and made a deadly strike against the wyvens throught. The beast slumped to the floor, dead, and Zugothra padded towards his mistress.
"Is mistress allright?" he purred.
"Yep, thanks to you!"
************************************************
"This is terrible! In two days The Duke will come to take us away and possibly kill us! And thats if we are lucky!" shouted a frustraited Raelis.
"Have faith, Rade is truly a great warrior, she will help. For now we must play the damsel in distress!" said Haer'Dalis calmly. "Have faith."
************************************************
Rade inspected the corpse of The Master Of The Thralls. In the demons pocket, there was Control Gem. It was quite boring realy. He also had a blue Quater Staff.
"One of us will have to run back ant put this gem in the braizer." Rade said "There is a good chance that thay won't be in the final battle, and we need all our warriors so Jan, put on the boots of speed and get your gnomish butt down there!"
"Hoky Doky!" Jan sped off with the gem.
"Now what?" askd Yoshimo.
"We wait."
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"SHIT! I'm out of healing potions! Minsc, toss me one of yours!" Shouted Rade. All the thralls where dead. Yoshimo was down, they had killed the Warden of course, now thay were fighting a mentaly dominated Jahira. With a jerk, Jahira regained her self-control. Rade picked up the key from the Warden's corpse and headed twards Haer'Dalis' prison.
"My child" Raelis smiled "You have known us so short a time yet you have bought our freedom with blood! This is a debt I can never repay. I have enough power left to open another counduct and send you home. Come Haer'Dalis, everyone..."
"Miss Raelis, I can not come with you" Haer'Dalis replied mournfully "Not this time" Privetly inside Rade was goig 'woooohoooo'
"No more playes Haer'Dalis? No more theater?"
"Miss Raelis, I am but a moth, to close to your flame, and to love you would be to smother you, killing myself in the prosess. Nay, nay, I shal return to the Prime, with Rade."
"Allright. I shall miss you."
"And I you" and on that note Raelis cast a spell and Rade, Jahira, Minsc (and Boo), Yoshimo, Jan and Haer'Dalis all found themselves on the stage in the Five Flagons.
"So" Haer'Dalis said to Rade "The Prime is a playground for us both my raven, if you will have me join you again?"
"Hay, I wen't to a hole other world, killed demons and cambion just to rescue you, why ever would I say no?!" Rade said cheerily.
"Come then, there is much still I wish to see."
