The Nature Caves of Caelyon V (Lady Kay, but open to all)

[The Page Master]

(Yes, it's been a while. I was trying to give everyone a comfortable break period.)


The Page Master bowed a small bow to [member="Azriel Zadimus"]. "I'm as charmed as a charm, County old boy. Welcome to...er, whatever's left. Here's the condensed, sensible version of our situation: We are on an island in the middle of the ocean surrounded by dark waters and fish. I just painted the sky bright with the help of a friend, except for your personal cloud there, and Tahm Kench was just slain in a glorious display of children happiness. This is [member="Lady Kay"] close to me, Kyber and Sheila like Zreame, but Zreame personally finds everything simply "shocking" at the moment. Oh, and you're all in my little world. Any questions?"

As if he had a senior moment, The Page Master then walked over, without answering questions, to [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"], [member="Sheila"], and [member="Kyber Salurra"]. He stood over Zreame, licked his finger, held it up to the wind, and flared his nostrils once while he waited. Then, after an awkward pause, he wiped his finger off and proclaimed, "She'll be quite alright."

The Page Master walked over to a nearby empty space of beach, clapped his hands, and a slot machine with a giant slot appeared before him. He pulled the lever and the cylinders inside the machine spun and spun, pictures flashing by. One stopped, another, and then the last cylinder stopped. He had gotten three fires. A jackpot sound emitted from the machine, the giant slot opened up, an already lit fire plopped to the ground in front of the machine. The Page Master waited patiently, tapping his foot as he waited for more to drop out. He lost his patience and started shoving the machine across the sand. Then, he tilted the machine with one hand, without it falling, and he started kicking the snot out of it.

"Come on!" he exclaimed. "How are we supposed to have a nice campfire without campfire food and equipment!?" With enough kicks, packaged foods of hot dogs, marshmallows, graham crackers, chocolate, chicken & pasta, and other "clearly campfire" foods were put out along with much equipment, like chairs, a picnic table, napkins, plates, forks, knives, spoons, etc.

Turning to the group, he asked, "Campfire, anybody?"

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame slowly got her mind back after [member="Sheila"] helped her through the force. She got her senses just as [member="The Page Master"] had begun his finger and long awkward pause diagnosis, to say she just watched on with a baffled look as he procured the slot machine and what he did to it would be an understatement as her jaw nearly dropped. Once the foods were out and the old man had asked them if they'd like a campfire she could help but just dumbly say. "Do you have any steak to grill?" The last of the electricity surged through her tail and discharged into the sand.
With a gently hand she gripped the little As-Aki and gave her a small kiss around half her face. "Thanks goldie." She'd say as she then stood up, with or without [member="Kyber Salurra"]'s help, and walked towards the campfire though still a little groggy from the shock. She then looked towards [member="Lady Kay"] and saw [member="Azriel Zadimus"] and with a cocked head waved to him all the while whispering the [member="Sheila"]. "Who's that guy?"

 

[Sheila]

[member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"]

SHeila was looking at Zreame and she was talking which was good and the as-aki was healing which was important while her hands touched her shoulder and she spoke. "I am not certain who he is but I am too focused on you right now. We need you to feel better." She was looking around finally and confised beyond all measure wantign to crawl back into the comgy place to better heal zreame and avoid the craziness. "I need to stop drinking."

 

[Narfi Hróðson]

Azriel looked at [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] and gave her a polite wave before he looked at [member="Lady Kay"] with a polite smile. "Is your friend going to be all right? given how crazy it is around that old man?" He then asked as he gestured with his eyes at [member="The Page Master"] before he offered her his hand as he was about to join the rest of them at the campfire. [member="Sheila"] was of particular interest to Azriel as he had never seen an As-Aki before but the lovely women around were a pleasant change from his usual travels. Part of him was very glad he wasn't feeling any hunger at least not in the food type of hunger at least.

[member="Kyber Salurra"]

 

[Kyber Salurra]

((OOC: Sorry for the short and under-enthused post. Still feeling out of it. Will hopefully feel back in the groove after a restful Sunday.))​

Kyber helped Zreame up with a small smile under his helmet before laying low and watching the events unfold before him, inspecting the newcomer with analytical eyes. He didn't trust the appearance of this fellow, and his hunting instincts screamed danger at him, but Kyber buried those instincts in exchange for a more observant role. The man seemed polite enough, refined and gentleman like. Although, that seemed to be even more a reason for suspicion. Kyber didn't like nobles. He had enough trouble getting used to common manners, nobility just piled that kriff on even more than normal.

After the slot machine shenanigan Kyber decided to travel over to the campfire along with Zreame. The Hunter would sit slightly outside the forming camp circle in the half-shadow of Zreame, not wanting to partake in any festivities, merely observe and prepare. He had been out cold for what he can only imagine was some time. He had no idea what kind of shifts in the situation might have occured. This was a time for observance, not action. For now, at least.

// [member="The Page Master"] // [member="Lady Kay"] // [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] // [member="Sheila"] // [member="Azriel Zadimus"] //

 

[Kay-Larr]

[member="The Page Master"] [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] [member="Sheila"] [member="Azriel Zadimus"] [member="Kyber Salurra"]

Kay took Azriel's hand as it was the polite thing to do and nodded, watching Zreame get taken care if by both Sheila and Kyber. "I think she's going to be okay. She'll jyst need a bit of time to heal."

She took a look at the odd feast before them. Yes she's camped, but not with those types of foods. She normally ate rations for usually she was alone and sometimes on the run. "And she needs some food."

Kay sat down at the picnic table. "Thank you Page Master. It looks.....tasty." She wasn't quite sure where to start, so instead she just grabbed a bit of everything. Who knows when they were going to eat next? And as they were starting to eat, they needed a drink as well. She brought out her tea kettle, cup, water rations and pouch of Sapir tea leaves. "Anyone else for tea?" She of course had no idea that Azriel was of the species that didn't eat food.

 

[Narfi Hróðson]

Azriel sat down next to [member="Lady Kay"] and took a bit of the food for himself. "I would appreciate some tea, thank you." He said with a smile as he took a fork and knife and began to cut into a steak he had taken. "Page master if you don't mind me asking what is the purpose of bringing all of us here to begin with?" He then had to as [member="The Page Master"] as his curiosity got the better of him. The cloud was a nice touch though as he didn't have to worry about getting a sunburn but he couldn't help but feel it was all a little surreal.

[member="Kyber Salurra"] [member="Sheila"] [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"]

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame smiled at her friend [member="Sheila"] and smiled a little as she took a large steak and put it on a plate for herself. The food helped but she couldn't help but find [member="Azriel Zadimus"] weird, I mean after all who is that pale?! At least he was polite.
[member="Kyber Salurra"] though was unusually quite but at least [member="Lady Kay"] was her courteous self.

[member="The Page Master"]

 

[The Page Master]

"Shoot, I didn't bring you here. You're the one who rode in on the luck dragon. Oh, everybody wave goodbye to Boog!" With that, he dabbed his chin with a handkerchief and waved goodbye to the departing luck dragon.

After that, he continued to have casual dinner conversation. "Surreal alternate reality aside, you are all probably wondering why you're here. Yes, it's true that I had a hand in luring you here, but I like to believe that it is each of your free spirits that led you here. I think that each of you wanted to believe in a place where you can live and not have to worry about the usual restrictions of life. A place of dreams, some might call it. A vacation, others might call it."

He put a hotdog on a metal stick and balanced it to lean against the fire pit stones that had arranged around the fire itself. A small patch of sand started to turn black near his hand. He scowled and tried to cover up the patch with regular sand. However, he made the mistake of brushing up against the black sand. A stinging jolt of deep cold ran up his arm and he winced quietly to himself. He would not reveal what was happening just yet so that the adventurers could enjoy themselves (at least, a little while longer...).

Turning his attention back to the group, he said "So, let's have a meet and greet. Take turns telling us your name, what you like to do, and something really silly about yourself."

[member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] | [member="Azriel Zadimus"] | [member="Lady Kay"] | [member="Kyber Salurra"] | [member="Sheila"]

 

[Sheila]

[member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] [member="The Page Master"] [member="Azriel Zadimus"] [member="Lady Kay"] [member="Kyber Salurra"]

Sheila looked at all the ones around her and at Zreame while she was still on her shoulder and sat now feeling tired, her wings stopped for a moment looking down at the food while she rubbed her stomach that was growling and poked Zreame just a little to get her. "Can you cut me some food zreame." She was looking around at the others though and she spoke. "I am Sheila."

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame smiled at [member="Sheila"] and cut her some very small slices of meat and handed her one. "Here you go." She then took a small bottle of her favorite booze and took a small sip of it. "Um well I'm Zreame and..." She giggled a little. "I'm horny." She said as she pointed at her horns, before giggling at her joke.

[member="The Page Master"] [member="Azriel Zadimus"] [member="Lady Kay"] [member="Kyber Salurra"]

 

[Kay-Larr]

[member="The Page Master"] [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] [member="Sheila"] [member="Azriel Zadimus"] [member="Kyber Salurra"]

Kay smiled as she wasn't the only one that wanted some tea. Sure she was addicted to it, but she didn't mind sharing either. So she poured some water in the kettle and set it on the fire to boil. As it was doing that she prepared the tea leaves and cups.

She listened to the Page Master, watched his movements and raised a brow at the black sand that he was trying so hard to cover up. But as the wizard didn't mention it, she didn't either.

After Sheila and Zreame said their bits, Kay chuckled at the latter's joke and then started her little speech. "As most of you know, my name is Kay. I like to help people, save others from injustices like slavery and the like. And as most people know, I'm addicted to my tea." She grinned as the kettle was ready and poured the tea for both her and Azriel.

 

[Narfi Hróðson]

Azriel smiled and took the handed tea cup from [member="Lady Kay"] with a polite smile. "Thank you." Well certainly this group had it's humor which was quite good. As the luck dragon departed he gave him a wave before he looked at the others. "Well my name is Count Azriel Zadimus of Serenno. If your wondering about the cloud I must assume that [member="The Page Master"] must have some how picked on my condition which simply makes me more susceptible to sunburn."

[member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] [member="Sheila"] [member="Kyber Salurra"]

 

[The Page Master]

"Pfft! Condition? I just thought it would be a nice touch!" The Page Master covered his mouth in a long fold of his blue robe like one of those cartoon vampires you might see on a cereal commercial. He glared his eyes comically as he said, "Zee Count enters the stage. Wherever he goez, he ees shrouded in dark-nays. What mystery!? What intrigue!?" He swished the fold of robe back behind him and then he had two very sharp canines that looked quite realistic. But then, he spit towards the ground and a pair of dull, joke vampire teeth hit the sand. He looked back up and smiled at them all, revealing normal human teeth.

Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha | Azriel Zadimus | Lady Kay | Kyber Salurra | Sheila


(The Count Censored: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM)
(Just because I was feeling funny and wanted to share this laugh with you.)

 

[Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha]

Zreame had recovered quite a bit thanks to [member="Sheila"]'s and [member="Kyber Salurra"]'s help, not to mention the food. When [member="The Page Master"] did his little shtic she laughed at him and smiled wide. "Your one strange but funny old man Page master." She said in a happy tone at him before she took a a large swig of her flask.
[member="Azriel Zadimus"] and [member="Lady Kay"] seemed to be getting along quite well.

 

[Narfi Hróðson]

As Azriel saw [member="The Page Master"] do his bit he couldn't help but think the crazy old man was making fun of him. He put that however to the side of his mind and took a sip of the tea and smiled. "[member="Lady Kay"] This is delicious what is the tea called?" He said before taking another sip and then he began to eat the small piece of steak he had taken for himself.

[member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] [member="Sheila"] [member="Kyber Salurra"]

 

[The Page Master]

Under the banner of camaraderie, day eventually turned to night, so The Page Master gave a tug on the rope surrounding the dark cloud and allowed it to drift away to freedom, the rope coiling back to earth. The Page Master took a long piece of celery, walked over to the coiled rope, and lifted the celery to his mouth like a clarinet. The end of the rope raised up and levitated in the air as The Page Master did this. Without making a sound, The Page Master swayed his head and celery stick back and forth and the rope mimicked the movement. He lowered the celery and tossed it at the rope.

The rope end suddenly split in two and snatched the celery out of the air and it turned to slither away into the darkness. Vegetarian animals-objects were very weird.

He gathered the s'more supplies around the fire and took the time to start making them. He let everyone toast their marshmallow and then prepared the rest of it so that they could experience the sweet and delicious campfire treat.

Out in the waters, the sounds of bored eels in the surrounding ocean shrieking for something to do could be heard. The Page Master leaned towards [member="Lady Kay"] and asked, "Do you know what that sound is, your highness? Those are the shrieking eels."

(Princess Bride references for the win!)

[member="Azriel Zadimus"] | [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] | [member="Sheila"] | [member="Kyber Salurra"]

 

[Sheila]

[member="The Page Master"] [member="Azriel Zadimus"] [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] [member="Lady Kay"]

This man was strange and the others were weird. A look as she heard the eels and then heard the page master speaking with a look towards the others. "I think Zreame I am going to need a drink from that." She was motioning to th flask and had her small cup there and ready for some. Just like at the bar when they had been having fun.

 

[Kay-Larr]

[member="The Page Master"] [member="Azriel Zadimus"] [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] [member="Sheila"] [member="Kyber Salurra"]

She continued to eat and smiled at the Page Master's antics. Although he was quirky, he was a delight to be around and she was very glad for this adventure. Kay sipped her tea and looked to Azriel as he asked about the tea. "It's Sapir tea, the finest drink that I've ever had."

She had never had a s'more before, but thoroughly enjoyed the one that she was offered. The shrieking eels in the distance gave her a bit of a start, to which she looked at the Page Master. "Are they....hungry?"

 

[Narfi Hróðson]

Azriel was a little put off by the eels and their shrieks of boredom. The s'mores were quite good though, the first time he'd tasted or even heard of them but it was a nice change of pace to be surrounded with people not trying to kill him at least. [member="Lady Kay"] certainly was an interesting woman to be sure, though the others also held an interests to Azriel. [member="Sheila"] and [member="Zreame Ithrac Zeibitha"] certainly were of species that he had never seen before. He was under the suspicion that [member="The Page Master"] just might be a little insane. However he hadn't formed an opinion of [member="Kyber Salurra"] yet as the man had just stayed silent through out most of the time he had been there.