The Start of .... Something (Travel)

The member 'Falabella Shire' has done the following action : Dices roll

'1' : 6

Tokara watch at avril came close to him seeing as she was willing to heal. “yeah I guess you could. If it doesn’t heal oh well.” He took his cuirus off and took his shirt off so avril could see all the scars on his body there was one massive scar running down his body. Then tokara saw falabella back with a bag. “good you found food.” Not really acknowledging her for anything, the tone was more like a oh your still alive tone. Tokara shirtless kinda didn’t let his guard down becuace the bag was squirming. Holding one hand over the handle of his sword. The gash on his stomach from the dwarf was red and bloody, the gash on his arm was worse as it was quite deep and there was a few rock chunks that pierced his armor in his chest that he didn’t noticed. “well good day I suppose. Where’s Sidney now… he should be back.” looking around for him he held his muscle bound arm out to avril to heal.

Sidney comes back to the camp. He had not seen anything out of place to note. "All looked good my way. Anything I should do to help make camp?" asks Sidney, kind of hoping it would be a short time before they could just head to bed. He felt pretty good, but he wanted to hurry up and get this mission finished. Sidney took note of all of the scars on Tokara. He mad a quick mental note again confirming that Tokara indeed was the meat shield of the group, but seemingly potentially reckless as well.

(Tactician)

Avril ignored Falabella and Sidney as she began to focus her energy into her fingers. Her index and middle finger glow white. She then traces her fingers over his freshest wound, trying to focus completely on it. So far she had found that while healing a wound focus was the number one factor in getting it to heal evenly.

When she was finished healing the cut, it looked as though it would heal very nicely.

Barely able to control herself, she forces herself to walk a normal speed instead of running over and pushing Avril away from her brother. Falabella knew Avril didn't mean anything... and Falabella didn't want Tokara to be hurt, but there was always something indecent about Tokara when he was in such close proximity to anything female.

Falabela was jealous of Avril's healing ability, but there was nothing she could do about that and it wasn't Avril's fault. It was good she was here... Fala just had to make sure Tokara didn't get much alone time with her.

"It's not much, but I found a large rabbit. I don't know if it will feed all of us though." Fala had kept the irritation in her voice, Tokara would think it odd if she wasn't upset about what was going on... but she was smiling on the inside just a little bit. Standing at his side now, she pushes the bag at him to force him to grab it by the bulk of the animal instead of the handle part she had or get hit in the stomach with it. Either option was ok with her.

She'd give him acupuncture later, if he stopped treating her like he didn't care if she was alive or not. Sometimes she doubted if he would even reach out a hand to save her from dieing, even if that was all it took. ...She knew that the porcupine would piss him off, but all's fair in love and war. He brought it upon himself. She may not have done it if he had cared at all that she was back safe... she would have even ignored the healing thing. He was more worried about Sidney and supper than her... *I see where I'm ranked in importance*

Tokara caught the bag dropped in his lap the bag opened and the porcupine slapped Tokara with some quills in to his chest and tokara let out a roar. The roar was easy to see tokara was pissed. He stood up and kicked the animal away from Avril and stood there starring falabella down. “I going to beat your ass Falabella shire.” He stood over her and clenched his fist, thing probly might not get pretty then a a giant grin appeared on his face. “nuggy time.” He remembered she hated those messing her hair up with his fist size was easy.

Sidney sees this going on and starts to walk off into the woods. He can't help but be irked by both of their behaviors. Sidney starts collecting some small branches. He knows it was foolish to go alone, but he had to or he would say something regrettable. He plans on using these to work on some more arrows and arrow shafts for Avril, after all, the healer has to be able to defend themselves.

He finishes picking up sticks when he has a bundle in his arms numbering 30 or so. He had gone out past the camps boundaries to get away from the conflict between Tokara and Falabella.

The member 'Sidney Hawkins' has done the following action : Dices roll

'1' : 19

(Positive encounter event, Falabella, Tokara, and Avril may continue rping separate from this encounter, basically meaning there will be 2 topics in one topic.)

As Sidney prepared to head back to the camp a rustling could be heard in the bushes. Suddenly a large hairy man steps out, standing at 9 feet tall or around that height. He does not make any aggressive moves nor will he as he is a Basajaun. Still, looking at such a creature would scare most individuals.

Sidney steps back while still holding on to all of his sticks. He is surprised but not scared. He thinks of a few things this man could be and hopes that he is lucky about which it is. "Hello", says Sidney trying to test for a response from the large man. If this were to turn into a fight he knew he would not be the winner.

Avril frowns at how childish Falabella is. She had just healed Tokara and now Falabella injures him again. As a healer it was extremely frustrating, however she says nothing off it though her face probably gives her displeasure away. She does not really blame Sidney for walking away because of it, but she is concerned about him walking off. It was reckless as she had not healed him before he had left. Hopefully he would be alright.

Before Tokara could grab her, she hurls 4 more Damaging Needles at the porcupine. Before it had a chance to run, supper would be nice. Each needle was placed differently, one at the head, each side and the lower part of the body, just incase it moved in a different direction. "You didn't have to kick it!" she managed to get out before he reached her for her 'Nuggy' punishment. She really did hate her hair being mussed up, but she'd deal with it. Oddly it was a form of affection and after his seeming indifference to her well-being, it was nice.

When he was done, she looked at his chest. "You baby, it's more pain than damage, making a big deal out of nothing. Not like you haven't been stuck with quills before." She pulls out one of the quills and immediately uses Acupuncture - Halt Pain by placing it lightly in a nerve cluster in his neck. That would stop the pain while she pulled the rest. Making sure she didn't cause more damage by pulling them improperly. He had mostly gotten 1" quills since the larger ones were in the the bag. "2 long ones, 2 points of damage... yea that really hurt huh, big baby"

She didn't particularly care what Avril or Sidney thought at the moment. Fala had known it wouldn't cause much damage but that it would mostly just piss Tokara off, if they didn't care to know or find out then Fala Really didnt' care what they thought. Besides, she didn't really care what anyone thought except for Tokara anyways... so looks from others either amused her or were ignored by her. As long as they helped in battle and watched her back, she had no problem with them and would do the same.

With her collection of quills pulled from Tokara's chest, she pulls the quill from Tokara's neck, the effect will last for 3 more posts, that should be good enough. She grabs the makeshift bag that had held the creature and sees many quills stuck to it and starts carefully pulling the quills with her gloved hand. By the time she was done with Tokara and the 'bag', she had only 10 2" and 10 1" Quills that were usable for Acupuncture or Hypo. She wondered if there were anymore that she could take from the Porcupine itself, but for now she starts weaving her collection into her corset straps, Hypo on the two in front, and Acupuncture on the sides. There was room for many more, but for now she spaced them out evenly.

-3 Stamina for Damaging Needles
-1 Stamina for Acupuncture
13 Stamina

Tokara just shook his head as she did some acupuncture to him to stop the pain. He would begin to remove any more quills she left behide. Then he looked at falabella. “do that again while we are on a mission and I will make sure you end up in a tree fala. One thing when we are just traviling around but on a mission, you would do well to remember this.” After had saying that he walked over to the dead animal.

It would have to do for now as a dinner because he didn’t have a string or a hook to catch any fish with. But also he would need to wait for Sidney to get back to see if he had another knife. Looking to avril he wondered if she had one. “avril do you have a knife on you? I need to skin this thing before we can eat it.” seeing as avril was from a high class society this meal might prove to be her last, as she wouldn’t know tokaras food gave stomach pains. Looking at falabella he shook his head. “At least if it was rabbit I could have just pealed the skin much easier.” Tokara was just squatting there over the dead porcupine.

The Basajaun sees that Sidney is nervous. "Don't worry child of the Earth. I am a Basajaun, we mean humans no harm. I was curious as to why you were gathering sticks and figured I could give some helpful tips no matter what their purpose is." as the Basajaun finishes saying this an earth-shaking roar can be heard for miles around. Suddenly there is a light gust of wind followed by a slightly stronger one. The gusts continue getting progressively stronger.

The Basajaun that was calm suddenly has a look of panic. "It's coming! If you have a camp near here get there fast, I will be right behind you."

((When you post Sidney, post as though the Basajaun is right behind you.))

"Come with me" Says Sidney as he rushes through the woods, still holding his sticks, back towards the camp. It takes a while, but Sidney finally makes it back to the camp. With the way he had run through the bushes into the clearing and the way the 9 foot tall hairy Basajaun was right behind him it probably had at first looked as though he had been chased, that is until he slows down a little and heads towards Tokara, Falabella, and Avril. The Basajaun follows him.

Falabella's immaturity was really eating at Avril as it was Avril who would have to use up her own magic to heal Tokara when she already had. Suddenly she hears the creatures roar and immediately flinches and starts looking around. She was terrified. This was not something she had heard before. Suddenly she heard rustling in the bushes and whipped towards it. She breathes a short sigh of relief but goes back into terror when she sees the large man creature thing coming out behind him. She then realizes that Sidney is not panicked and relaxes a bit but she notices the short gusts of wind getting stronger.

Fala saw the look Avril gave her and almost laughed... again... did the woman not realize that Tokara was at almost full health already? *Well maybe this'll show her that he's not on death's door*. Fala walked to Tokara as he stood over dinner and took off the three bandages she already had put on him when he got back from the blacksmiths, They needed to be washed, but were reusable soon enough. For now she took out a clean bandage and placed it over the small pinpricks he got from the quills, healing him for 2 damage. Seeing as he was hurt originally for 49 damage, Avril had healed for 10 for 59 and the quills had done 2 damage making it 57... with the bandage he was at 59/60 health... *really think he needs healing now?* Falabella had to wonder if Avril wasn't after Tokara since she seemed so... motherly... over him... she would have to watch carefully from now on.

"He's fine Avril, but if you really feel you need to heal 1 point of damage, be my guest." She managed to keep the sarcasm out of her voice so it was still a joke. But Fala wasn't laughing inside, she'd had enough dirty looks from Avril for 2 points of damage. If she was this touchy about everything concerning healing, Fala would stock up on bandages just to stop the rude glances.

Tokara had asked for a knife and Fala looked at him oddly... she picked up the 4 Damaging Needles that were in the body and offered him one, "Will this work? It's sharp with a handle at least" As she had asked this, she hears a running and noise through the forest and looks up to find Sidney followed by something big... he seem worried but not at the creature behind him... but Fala didn't put away her other Damaging Needles quite yet. There was more sound behind them... definetely not putting away her weapons yet.

Tokara just stood up and looked at the two girls. “oi you two quit your bickering I will lick my own wounds from now on. will that service you two?” As he said that he heard the roar he looked around. “that’s a loud echo.” He slowly moved towards his sword and then he saw Sidney come back running and saw the large hairy man be hide him. but that roar wasn’t from something that could walk. Feeling the wind as if it was heart beat tokara forgot about his sword and grabbed falabella and avril and tried to pull them both more under the outcrop they were setting up at. He had enough strength to drag them both if they didn’t struggle free but the sudden grabbing might hurt a little. He motioned to Sidney and the hairy man to join them as even normal beast has a right to hide. whatever made that roar was large.

The Basajaun dragged Sidney to cover and put his index finger over his mouth to signal for silence. As the beating gust come to a crest everyone taking cover underneath the overhang can feel pressure lightly pushing downwards on them. And then they can see it.

Spoiler:

It flies just above tree level, the size of it is truly amazing. As it is over them the Basajaun is trembling with fear. It looks as though the mighty beast is going to fly right past them without noticing them.

Sidney quietly lets himself be dragged into hiding by the Basajaun while keeping hold of the sticks he had. He is quiet as the dragon approaches. When he sees it his eyes open wide for a second and a flash of fear comes across his face before he closes his eyes and looks to the ground. If anyone noticed his reaction and asked about it he would have to explain a little about a couple of past encounters with larger creatures.

Avril allowed herself to be brought to the hiding spot by Tokara. It's good that he had because she probably would have froze up in the open and not been able to run anywhere. Once in hiding she catches a glimpse of the dragon, she quickly turns her head away from it so she doesn't have to see it. As she does so she notices a brief flash of fear in Sidney's face. She can't help but be surprised by it as he had seemed fearless to the point it was almost foolish in their last fight.

((thank jesus for internet just hooked up!... my r, w and e button are messed up so if i'm missing any of those letters... sorry. i'm copy and pasting them in and may miss few))

Falabella was surprised when Tokara hauled her to cover but didn't complain seeing what was now flying above them. *Holy Shit* She was practically hiding under her brothers body, while still trying to catch a small glimps of where it was going. She secretly wished it was that easy for her to fly, but was at that moment very thankful to her small size that kept her from being able to. She was easy to grab and hide.

without moving a muscle, she moves just her eyes to look at the group. Avril had her eyes down, Sidney had his eyes down, and she couldn't see Tokara's face from where she was. Maybe she was the strange one, because to her, even though it was obviously a deadly creature, it was still kind of beautiful. So what if it could kill her with a fart... it was still magestic in flight... maybe you had to have wings to appreciate it. Fala wasn't about to tell anyone else her thoughts; they'd probably think she was crazy. She smiles in her head... *at least Tokara knows it's too big to take on*

Tokara just felt the pressure from the dragon flying over head he swore he felt his ears pop from just one of it wing beats. Granted he was tired but he had found a new goal, to be able to take down a beast like that would get him fame and his name heard around the world. He made sure not to utter a sound in fact he had held his breath just in awe of its massive size. He looked down at his sword and wondered if it had the power to one day take a beast like that on.

Tokara looked around at every one slowly as the beast still just pasted over them. there was no way he was going to start a fire to cook dinner tonight, at the thought that beast might come back. though he may have another way of cooking if it came down to it.

The Basajaun regains its' composure and then goes outside to make sure the dragon is gone. It does not seem to even be acknowledging that the party was there at the moment. It is looking the direction the dragon had went and then looked at the trees. Once it decided which was the tallest that would actually hold it the basajaun started climbing it.

((Also, to Sidney. As you have had multiple injuries from bladed weapons and it has been 10 posts without any healing you know have the status of Blood Loss. Please check the hand guide section under rules to see what this does and how it is resolved.))

Sidney had been crouched when the dragon had flown over. As the basajaun heads outside Sidney figures he'll go outside as well. He starts to stand up straight but suddenly he gets light headed and his leg gives out from under him causing him to fall on his butt. Sidney holds his head and just sits there cross legged. Come to think of it Sidney had still been bleeding the entire time since the fight as his wounds hadn't been healed or covered.

"Hey, Avril. I hate to impose, but can you heal me?" he asks. The tone was not irritated or anything of the like as Sidney understood it was his own fault for leaving the camp when he should have been asking Avril to heal him before.