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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 16, 2008 18:57:50 GMT -5
"No, it's alright. Maybe next time you come out of your house we could hang out or something." She said, smiling faintly again.
"Why did you copy them all anyway?" She asked crossing her arms as she caught his glance.
"Knowing you your going to go do something stupid like try and follow their journals to the place they disappeared and..." She gasped. "You wouldn't would you?!"
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Post by Lord Eshmon on Nov 16, 2008 19:02:31 GMT -5
"Wait..."Charles says to Novik without thinking. He did this quite often(;D) speaking his minds without thinking fully of the consiquences a trait of his fathers as well. Just then Hamuld walks by them.
"Charles, Ava where is your mother?"He asks in his near silent deep voice.
"She's visiting Kaleen...why?"Charles says thanking him for saving him from the acquard conversation.
"I thought you would be on of the first to know.......a man came into town from the deserts a hour or so ago....I thought your mother might want to talk to him..."Hamuld says, waving goodbye as he heads off to Kaleens house.
"But no one else lives in the desert......"Charles says but then stops thinking 'How did he find his way to their village?' He'd been outside if you didn't know the entrance was there you'd think it was a simple rounded mesa.
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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 16, 2008 21:42:22 GMT -5
"Wanna go check it out?" She asked.
"I want to see who it is..." She said before devowering the last of her piece of cake. There was a large smear of frosting on her cheek.
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Post by Nashk-Ojiisan on Nov 16, 2008 21:58:45 GMT -5
Novik stared down at ava, his cloak protecting him from sight. The past few minutes had been relativitly nice conisdering the akwardness and it was nice to actually have someone to talk to without worrying he was insane. The invitation to hang out brought him out of thought.
"I dont actually leave my house that often... but sure. We could hang out."He mumbles wondering what hanging out actually meant.
The mention of the stranger once again brought him out of his reprieve. A stranger in this village was interesting news. One that could mean an upheval, or even a clue to the huntsmens fate.
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Post by Lord Eshmon on Nov 16, 2008 22:49:17 GMT -5
Charles and Otto where already walking down the road.
"Come on...."He shouts waiting for them to catch up. They walk only to the end of the street before they hear the commotion in the commons buildings. a cirlcular building that they knew to either hold a good talent show, musical, theatrical number, or on occasion a village gathering which looked like it was taking place now.
Instead of walking through the front door they walk around back, pulls a small wodden panel away from the building and crawl through till they squeeze out from under the stage. Climbing up onto the stage the looked over the crowd to a man setting at a table. He wore a tall pointed hat, a sytlish green vest and pants, his beard was tied into a small tail from his chin, his eyebrows bushy, the hair sticking out from under the hat was curly and dark like the rest of his hair.
"I found this place because of this NavMark........I was told it lead to a great treasure in the Red Deserts.....I thought it was a myth because no one every survived a trip into the Deserts....I fixed the NavMark and it worked so I spent some money and came to check it out......"They hear the man say in a slight english accent.
"So there are people outside the desert?"They hear a familiar voice say, it was there mother.
"Yes settlments and villages are everywhere....that's the perpose of us traders we share the wealth...."The man says.
"Where did you find the NavMark?"They hear Jax ask.
"I don't know where it originaly came from I bought it off a man in a village in the Dranik Mountains he said he got it from a band of traveling warriors or something, all he knew was they had weapons and knew how to fight....well...."
They sat there listening to Trader when Charles opens his fathers journal and begins reading a passge to himself. 'Last night some bandits tried robbing us....most of them met their end but I think three got off with some of our supplies. Our NavMarks is missing as well without it there is little hope of finding home again I've send Malard, and Willem to find the bandits.'
"Ava...read this..."He says directing her to the passage while continueing to listen to the Trader.
"What other news from the world?"Asks a voice they didn't realy recognize.
"After the last of the heros died, many larger and stronger beasts started popping up all over the place....."
"Heros?"
"You know people with...stranger magical like powers..."The trader says.
"Like these" They hear someone says before they see a growth of ices sprang from the table. This startled the man to the point he nearly fell from his chair.
"Y-y-y-y-yes...like that.......are all of you?"He begins to ask.
There was a quiet before the man spoke again.
"Jeez......wow...a whole village....of heros....."The man says catching his breath.
"Why do you call us heros?"they hear their mother ask.
"Becuase that just seemed the right thing to call them they where always around and either slaying some beast that threatened a village, or saving someone....except for the bad ones.......but their whern't many of them thank the gods..."
Charles sat there drinking all this in with a abnormal ferver.
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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 16, 2008 23:23:51 GMT -5
"Heroes?" She repeated awed. Ava had never seen her powers as heroic, there were and abundance of people here who had them. They were perfectly normal. Hearing the word made her grin. It meant they were special.
She only needed to glance down at the book to read the paragraph and realize what it meant. Looking up she craned her neck trying to get a better view. Her wonder grew as she took in the man's strange appearance. She had never seen a person from the outside. She had heard stories, and read even more. But never once had she actually seen one. The adults old enough to remember looked leery, but their distrustful moods couldn't touch her. She was fascinated.
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Post by Nashk-Ojiisan on Nov 17, 2008 18:13:44 GMT -5
Novik shook his head at the words the stranger spoke. HE was in awe of us, calling us heros. Such reverence would be a corrupting influence upon the village. Especcially if it really was that bad out there.
"Dont get a big head Ava..." HE murmered into her ear. "Remember what happened to your father out there... It is not a good place."
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Post by Lord Eshmon on Nov 17, 2008 18:56:48 GMT -5
"Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't....."Charles says listing to the man futher.
"Could I have permission to sell some of my wears in our village ma'am?"The trader asks.
"Of course..."The hear their mother say.
With that they hear people begin to chatter as the man pulls out a large back pack. AS he begins pulling out various items and such Charles stands and pears over the crowd and could still see nothing.
"Well I think that's all we're gonna see today...."He says setting back down.
"Pluse I have to finish copying those notes before mom gets back home he says streching.
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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 17, 2008 18:59:51 GMT -5
She thought about his words, letting them sink in. She hung her head, flushing slightly. "I know that." She mumbled to Novik.
"And I just have to get home before mom..." She couldn't help but try to steal glances, which was admittedly difficult because of her height. Ava whined jumping up and down. "I'm too short. Fine lets go..."
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Post by Nashk-Ojiisan on Nov 17, 2008 19:20:14 GMT -5
Novik shook his head, shaking his cloak in the process. Where all people of the village like this? To be so fascinated with trinkets they would endanger the village? If they really wanted to improve things they should do it themselves.
Novik found himself following Ava and charles to their house. He had seemingly got caught up in the excitement himself and had forgotten he was planning to head home.
"Uh... So tell me. Is it rude of me to ask what your abilities are. Now that the trader brought up the subject?"
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Post by Lord Eshmon on Nov 17, 2008 19:41:16 GMT -5
charles sets at the table telling Otto take his chair he pulls another journal from the bag and begins writing. With a flick og his wrist a crude looking dagger appeares between his finger.
"Jax calls them energy contructs.....physical matter made of pure energy......."Charles says as he keeps writing."Along with this I can turn into fog I guess.....thats the best way I can think to describe it....um......strength......and I'm not sure is its super speed but its ties into my gliding......oh and I can eat anything....."He says tossing the energy construct dagger to Ava blund side into her palm.
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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 17, 2008 20:09:21 GMT -5
"Mine are..." She caught quickly, letting it sink through her skin. "... absorbing matter."
"And I can turn invisible for a while." She smiled. "I'm pretty strong too."
Then she shrugged taking a seat. "I can shoot light beams and make bubbles." She said. She held her palm open again. A small orb had formed there, with a short burst of heat it was lit up. Light danced inside it bouncing around, beautifully illumining the room. She closed her hand again and it was gone.
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Post by Nashk-Ojiisan on Nov 17, 2008 21:01:37 GMT -5
Novik whistled in apprecitation. These were some very impressive abilities... For a minute he sat there contemplating the various uses of matter ingestion and laser light shows.
"Those are very impressive." He stated with a bit of awe. "They are not the ussual abilities that seem to crop up here in the village."
Novik takes a seat at the table and begins to scratch his head. His legs tap lightly onto the floor producing a quick *tatata* sound. His face was once again hidden in his cloak.
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Post by Lady Kuri on Nov 17, 2008 21:12:42 GMT -5
"Thanks, apparently we have very impressive genes." She said twirling her finger through her hair.
"Well?" She said leaning toward him across the table. She raised an eyebrow, cocking her head to the side. "We showed you our powers."
"What's yours?" She crossed her arms on the table looking quizzical.
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Post by Lord Eshmon on Nov 17, 2008 21:15:30 GMT -5
"So Novik...what are your powers?"Charles questions still wrighting.
Ottos laces his two fron feet up onto the table and looks out the door. A small flightless desert bird known as a Drummer Bird walks by. They where only about as big as a chicken but layed eggs of a bigger quality and healthier diet. Otto turns his head to one side as his stares catches that of the bird, it's smooth downward curved beak and ruffled brown and white feathers shown in the otherside light.
Charles looks up as Otto makes a croking noise puffing out his chin.
"Hey calm down it's just a bird...."Charles says paying him little mind, but it was to late in the back of Ottos mind it had already begun.
Ever since Charles had given his Drummer eggs 'which he loved greatly' and then shown him exactly where those eggs had come from....Otto had addopted a sertain 'affection' towards the birds.
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