Volcanic Love - RPLOG
From Rusted Promises
Participants
Date
28/1/476
Log
Kilsa nods her head, "I don't mind a study of my works. They are for Promise after all." She shakes her head, "I try to avoid court like the plague unless its important but now that I've gotten nobility status everyone of the gatherings is important. Sooo I get saddled with the ones that I'm stuck in the Frimament for." She grins, "I say the noble stuff for important business other wise I would rather be in the forge." She lean over and whispers something to Mirana.
Mirana lets herself be helped up onto deck and gets to helping Kilsa and Angus. "I'll have to come by your workshop then Kilsa! You said you'd show me how to do crafting myself sometime too." When Kilsa whispers to her though, she blushes, very deeply, and for the next few hours seems to avoid eye contact with her employeer, choosing instead to stare over toward Arimia and Bite.
Bite watches the boat and giggles. "Well sssweetie are you ready for this?" she hisses and smiles as the boat returns, hopping ini when ti arrives.
Arimia gives a small nod of her head and hops up, her golem climbing into the boat, weight causing it to ride a bit lower in the water, before being followed by the 'coon. "Considerin' I have no clue what we'll find there, sure!"
Angus quirks an eyebrow at the curious exchange between Kilsa and Mirana, but then shrugs and doesn't make a comment about it. As soon as they are all on the ship he decided to find a spot where he would be out of the way of the sailor, and sits down to wait for when he is needed.
Kilsa look at Mirana's blushing face and shakes her head. She decides not to make the moment any more arkward and just pats the female on the shoulder before speaking with Angus. "Its been a while Angus how are the weapons I forged for you fairing?" She asked causually.
Mirana yelps a bit when Kilsa pats her shoulder, and looks back to the large badger, seeing only her torso, then stares back out to the boat, "Yeah... what they will be debating will be... interesting." She leans on her staff as she watches the small boat move up to the ship and ponders how to keep out of the way if she can't really be of help.
Selena sprints down the shoreline, boarding the boat with haste. The wolf smiles up at the group and waves sheepishly. "Hey there." she pants.
The boat carries Arimia, the golem, Selena, and Bite to the ship, where they too are helped up, before the ship takes off, working it's way around rocky coasts towards their destination. Half a day goes by before someone comes out and says "We're getting close, prepare to be dropped off." Bite giggles with excitement, pulling out an empty bag and smiling. "Well sssweeties get ready, this is going to be fun." she hisses as she stretches, checking her dagger. They are all instructed to wait for the boat to take them ashore, but Bite gets a head start, diving into the water and swimming off as the first group is asked to board.
Arimia flashes a smile at Selena as she catches up. When informed of the arrival, and Bite's subsequent departure from the boat she gives a small roll of her eyes. She offers a small wave and dives off the ship as well, golem stepping off after her. Seems she's confidant in her ability to swim. And her golem's ability to simply walk along the bottom.
Angus glances up at Kilsa and gives her a smile as she asks about his weapons. "They are fairing extremely well, once again I am amazed at there craftsmanship as they have prove their worth time and again." As both Arimia and Bite dive off into the water he rises from his seat and gives Kilsa a nod, before he waves to Selena. "And I think that they will be proving it again very soon now."
Kilsa grins, "I consider a good weapon or armor as a good friend the more time you put into it the better the results will be. A well built weapon is still poor if you don't train with it well. I bet your weapons and armor have a history that is almost as close as some of your friends or lovers." She winks at Angus.
Mirana looks a bit excited as the ship sails, and keeps herself occupied by doing some light math work, a slight breeze past her, or a bit of fire to flick at her fingertips, keep the mind sharp and you're ready for anything her father had told her many times. When they arrive, she takes a possition next to Kilsa, "Are we ready for this Kilsa?" she asks, unsure of what she is getting into, still not making full eye contact.
Selena returns Arimia's smile and takes a moment to plait her hair, giving Kilsa and Angus nods in acknowledgement. "Hey, Kilsa, Angus, Mirana. How've you been?" she asks with a smirk, opting to board the disembarking vessel with the rest rather than swim after Bite and Arimia.
The serpent reaches what appears to be a steep rocky cliff first, stretching and preparing to climb up to the top when her friends arrive. The boat begins to carry Angus, Kilsa, Selena, and Mirana over towards her, and the already approaching Arimia. It seems Mirana's practicing on the boat had an unwanted effect, a delayed gust of wind that slows their progress forward for a while.
Arimia pauses and stares up the cliff, but makes no move to climb it. Instead, after a bit of waiting, her golems shoulder break through the sea, the golem already climbing the cliff. The 'coon moves to sit on one of it's shoulders before it gets too high up and starts to ride her golem to the top, calling down, "I am presumin' we wanna be up there, yeah?"
Angus continues to smile at Kilsa. "You could say that." As he climbs into the boat he glances at the steep cliff and whistles "I'm guess we are going to have to climb that, aren't we?" When the gust of wind starts to slow their boat down he sighs, before leaning back and crosses his arms behind his head. "Well atleast we have a cool breeze while we wait for shore."
Kilsa waves at Selena, "We are going find, we are currently having a discussion on how weapons are like friends." She grinned and look at the two swimmers in the distance. "Though I'm a good swimmering I perfer not to swim if I don't have to." She give a small chuckle at Angus comment about the wind. "Thank the creators for small blessings."
Mirana as her warm ups seem to be causing a slow down, she stops, and looks down a bit. "I can swim well enough, but, I'd rather not myself." Once they get to shore she stands next to Arimia and her golem. Sighing as she looks up, "More climbing? I guess Kilsa is right about non-math training." The single tailed vixen looks about, observing how hard it will be to climb and trying to spot anything that could be a stair or if using earth magic to make a more climbable serface would be a possility.
Selena nods to Angus. "Yeah... You have fun with that." she chuckles. "Kilsa, I still need to talk to you about something. Now's not the time, though." the wolf smiles, taking a few steps out of the boat as it draws to the shore. "As much as I'd love to join you in pulling yourself up the cliff, I think I'll just meet you at the top." The wolf waves to the group, leaping over to the clifftop. A small zephyr casts her landing point to the left slightly, though she easily makes her way back to a more resonable position, beginning to search for somewhere to tether a rope.
Bite watches Arimia and Selena climb up the cliffside before scaling it herself, using a combination of air magic and atheletics to easily reach the top. She hisses and looks down an incline into the mouth of a volcano.
Arimia lets out a soft sigh as she stares down into the volcano. She glances at Bite and says, "We gotta go in here, don' we?" She turns to stare back into the volcano, then asks hopefully, "Or are we jus' goin' around? To another area?"
Angus tracks Selenas accent for a few minutes before turning back to Kilsa and Mirana. "So, what do you think. Wait for a rope, or just climb the sheer side of the cliff and risk life or limb." Crossing his arms he trys to keep himself steady while the boat continued to rock with the waves. "Does anyone want to make this intresting, last one up buys the drinks?"
Kilsa smiles at Angus and nods, "I think I'll take you up on that. Just to give you a handicap. I won't use my ninja soul gem annnnd I'll have Mirana on my back." She flexes her arms and stands near the wall. After waiting for Mirana to climb on her back before smiling, "I'll wait for you at the top." Kilsa begins to climb the wall with little effort her balance is amazing for such a large creature.
Mirana climbs up on Kilsa's back and holds tightly, "Just let me know if I can help you at all Kilsa, any math or anything." She holds on to the badger's neck with her arms, and tries to get her legs around the Heavy Folk as tight as she can. She doesn't dare us any math while Kilsa is climbing, not wanting to cause any shaking or such that would cause her to drop, unless Kilsa should ask for it.
Selena looks across at the snake unamused. "You've got to be kidding." She grumbles and nods to Arimia. "Hopefully not. It's hot enough up here." The wolf comments, though she doesn't seem to be too concerned with the current situation, leaning over for a moment to watch the others climb up.
Bite giggles and shakes her head. "In we go sssweetie." she hisses, pointing to a very dry every empty hole in the center. "It shoudn't be too far but this is the best chance we have." she hisses and smiles, waiting for everyone to get up and join her.
Arimia gives a nod of her head, hopping off her golem and letting it go walking toward the hole first. "I'm going to see how deep the hole is. Need to know if we'll need a rope." She starts to follow after her golem, heading for the hole to peer down it, attempting to see how deep it is.
With a soft grunt Kilsa makes it to the top of the Cliff with a large smile. "I guess drinks are on you Angus." She smiles widely and let Mirana off before reaching down and waiting for Angus to get close enough for her to help him up. "You should go to the quarry with me some time. Thats where I would often have to climb up and down while mining for materials. Now shall we shall we join the others?" She grinned.
Angus grunts as he manages to catch onto the lip of the cliff, and is instantly greeted by Kilsa's offered hand. "Yup, looks like it. you want wine or ale?" Smiling he accepts the offered hand and takes his defeat in stride. "Sounds like fun, last time I was at the quarry a rock spider decided to take a swipe at me."
Mirana climbs down off of KIlsa's back and looks into the inactive volcano, "I'll take mead thank you, nothing too strong." She says back to Angus. Leaning on her staff she looks over to Arimia, "Any indication on how deep it is Miss? Or what we'll find down there?" she looks to Bite for answers as well. Looking over to Kilsa once more, she curtseys, "Thank you for helping me up here Kilsa."
Selena nods to Bite. "So, what exactly are we here for?" She asks. "Other than the obvious." the wolf adds quickly with a smirk. "I'm surprised I haven't run into you over there, Kilsa. I source materials from there too. Some very nice stone there." She comments. "Welcome to the top, you three. I... Think I'll pass on the drink. I had enough yesterday to last me half a week."
Bite giggles and hisses "Theres a statue down there that I want, and theres supposed to be more treasure but thats all I know." She produces a rope, working it into a crack and tying it to a rock, before setting a rock on top of the rope just in case. "Well sssweeties lets decend." she says and starts to climb down the rope, dropping onto a ledge and staring into a very dark hole.
Arimia gives a small shrug and follows down after Bite. Her golem, however, waits up top, the 'coon figuring if the rope will prove unsecure on anything it would be on her golem. Once she reaches the ledge she looks around then starts digging through her things. "Bit of light would be nice. I have a bullseye lantern somewhere."
Angus takes a second to catch his breath after climbing the rock face. "So I'm guessing everyone just mead then?" shrugging he walks over towards the rope and peers down at ledge where Bite is. "Oh look more climbing, this should be a breeze." grabbing the rope he chuckles to himself, before decending down to land on the same ledge.
Kilsa look at Angus and shakes her head with a chuckle, "I'll take any mead, ale, tea or beer that allows me good converstation with friends." She grabs on to the already set rope and starts to decend. "Into to the depths..." She says with a grin and a bit of an itch to find anything that might benefit promise.
Mirana looks down the rope, and climbs down it after Kilsa. Upon reaching the ledge she blinks into the darkness. "I'll get us a small light everyone," Working over some math she makes a small flame hover above her left hand. She looks about in the new light, hoping not to be too close to anyone when she does it.
Selena sighs quietly. "Light would be nice. I won't be able to light the shaft up without the risk of burning someone." She calls down to Arimia, grabbing hold of the rope and beginning to lower herself down. "Once we get to... Wherever's at the bottom, I should be able to do something more substantial, if Mirana can't. For now, I'm going to put some air down. Just in case." The wolf comments, pulling a soft breeze down the hole in her wake.
As the party proceeds downwards into the shaft they are buffetted by a small cloud of salt from where the sea-water had dried up, propelled by a out of place gust of wind. Mirana lights up the passage, revealing interesting carvings in the walls, along with statues carved from stalagmites. An eerie glow beckons them further into the passage.
Arimia gives a small nod to Mirana as she lights the walls, but still pulls out her bullseye lantern, lighting it so she can get some more focused light shining on the carvings on the wall as she moves. Her golem makes it's way down the rope to the ledge, then follows along behind the group.
Angus covers his eyes as the cloud of salt whips pasted them, and gives the carvings a curious glance as they desend deeper into the earth. "so...what are the chances of us accidently running into a city full of mole people." He jokes, trying to keep the mood light even as they continue to decend into unknown territory.
Kilsa smiles at Angus terrible humor, "If we come across such a group we shall act as ambassadors and politely tell them about the outside world." She grins, "Oh and I must be a proper representative of the Church." She chuckles, "I don't think my armor will help our friendlines factor." She grinned as she descended even further.
Selena shrugs. X3 I will likely make some later. When I have a higher light armor skill.
Mirana walks along behind Kilsa, the heat from her small fire causing her no discomfort. She looks along the carvings on the walls, but shakes her head. She needs to do much more studying before she can hope to really match Selena, and she remembers such from back in the town with the evil crystals. Instead she focuses on keeping up the light, despite Arimia's lantern, more then one light is always a good thing. "Well, I guess we'd have to first make sure we all speak a common language right Angus?" she giggles a bit at the attempted humor. The salt spray makes her wonder though what exactly this place was before.
