[ Ada is in peril! Nebby is close to collapsing! Fyril is the luckiest S.O.B. alive! ...but those don't quite matter just yet. ] (He could be luckier o/~) (*cough*) ( Ada's in peril? Huh? ) [ While they're off being imperiled in various ways, Ethan and Sei are doing their respective Ethan and Sei things; that is, Ethan is practicing being Glaivey in some random clear spot, and Sei has his nose burried so deeply burried in a book that he hasn't conciously registered the departure of Ada and Adamommaybe have left. This is where the session starts! ] * Ethan continues with whatever kata he was doing. He's staying NEAR the house this time. * Sei is sitting just outside the house, absorbed in something with a completely unreadable title. Okay, Ethan, concentrate... no going psycho in the middle of katas this time... just concentrate on the glaive... *launches into kata* [ Suddenly, Ethan notices something. Something that offends his sensibilities very deeply. ] [ He smells... a yummy cake being burnt in the oven. ] *sniffsniff* ... okay. If Ada's mom's house burns down while I'm nominally in charge, aside from Sei being in charge... oooh, I'ma gonna get blown up. *runruns into the house* * Sei looks up. "Huh?" * Sei gets up and follows the speeding Ethan. [ They both reach the kitchen to notice black smoke eeking out of the oven's door. ] Ooh, definately not good... *opens the oven door; starts tossing glasses of water into said oven from... somewhere* * Sei sighs. "Oh, dear..." Waterwaterwaterwater... * Sei points a hand at the oven. [ Ethan successfully creats a great deal of steam, but combined with Sei's help the fire is put out. Dicebot? We don't need no steenkin' dicebot. ] ... phew. Where the heck's Ada's mom? That's better...huh, I don't know. I assume Ada's with her... ... which brings up my next question. Where's Ada? * Sei shrugs. "I've no idea." ...wait a sec...actually, they left a while back. Because if the answer is 'out for a walk', given what's happened pretty much anyone walked anywhere around here... * Sei blinks. "Why didn't they tell us?" * Ethan facepalms, then sighs. "Family business? Probably wanted privacy." I guess, but they've been gone for a while. Exactly. And Ada no doubt figured, what with all the crap that's happened whenever people go wandering around here, that I'd insist on coming along. * Sei nods. ... I don't suppose you have a nifty 'find nearby people' spell? Not really... Expertise at tracking in forests? * Sei shakes his head. I could look from the air, though. ... in this place? You'd risk getting eaten by a giant winged rabbit or something. ( "With a bowler hat and a cheap cigar!" ) * Sei nods. "That's why I hesitate." Damn. Knew I shoulda payed more attention in tracking class. * Sei sighs. "I should take a look, though, and see if there are any commotions." We should take a look. If you're gonna fly, I'll run along with you on the ground. If anything hungry starts eyeing you, just land and I'll make it dinner, okay? * Sei nods. "Sounds good. I could go for some rabbit stew, anyway...let's leave a note for Ada." * Ethan nods. "Good idea." You wanna? My handwriting has, at times, been described as a crime against all sentient creatures. * Sei grins. "Sure. Mine isn't much better, though." * Sei digs in his bag for some paper, and then writes out a brief note, which he puts on whichever table is nearest the door. [ Sei gains 10 experience. ] Yeah, well, notes from me have been used to extract intelligence from captured bandits. One look and they start clawing at their eyes. *grins* (...) * Sei snickers. "I've had teachers like that." * Sei walks on outside. "All set?" [ Sei has Medical Handwriting Syndrome. But Ada and family are bright, so they should be able to decypher his handwriting after a bit of study. ] * Ethan hefts his glaive, adjusts his mithral mail shirt, and says a quick prayer. "Yup. Commence flight... I can't believe I just said that." (Engage!) * Sei concentrates, and levitates off the ground. * Sei looks around for the paths that Ada might have taken, or for anything...well, more unusual than expected. * Ethan waits for Sei to commence his horizontal movement, and then follows at an appropriate pace. * Ethan keeps an eye out for anything that looks like Adatracks, too, as he goes. ( Be vewy vewy qwiet... I'm hunting Ada. Heheheheheheheheheh... ) * Sei keeps looking for wandering Adas or jabberwocks. [ A pixie flies up alongside Sei and looks him over. "M'liiya! You fly! How you fly? Got no wiiiings." ] (Heehee.) * Sei grins. "Hello! It's just a spell I learned." ( Ever had lovin' from a real man before? LESS MACK, MORE LOOK! ) (...) [ "Spell? Oh. Pooey Faerie magiick," she harumphs, her accent sticking oddly on the last syllable of 'magic'. "Why you use pooey Faerie magiick?" ] It's all I know how to use, I'm afraid...I'm looking for a couple of friends. They've been out walking for a while, and I'm worried they might be in trouble. [ "Couple? One more'n one?" ] Two - one young, one older. [ "Oooh. Bwww... Two couple. One new, me no know. Other got the Bad Lady an' the other lady." ] * Sei nods. "It's the two ladies I'm looking for...I wonder who else would be here, though?" [ The pixie shrugs philosophically. "No know. Bad Lady do bad thing to other, tho, maybe." ] * Sei nods. Hm...would you happen to know where either of them are? [ She flies over and starts jumping up and down on Sei's back. "You true got no wings? Eh? Bw, Bad Lady an' otherlady go to angry place." ] * Sei grins. "No wings. Hmm...where's this angry place?" * Ethan hears Sei talking, not screaming in agony and begging for the sweet embrace of death, and so decides it's not worth interrupting. [ The pixie blinks. "Angry place is angry place? Bwww..." she looks around and points at Ethan. "He know. He there, an' it put angry in 'im." ] * Sei blinks, and starts descending toward Ethan. "Hmm...thank you!" [ The pixie waves energetically. "Weeeeeeeel-come!" ] * Sei waves back. * Ethan looks up at the descending Sei. "Giant winged rabbit friendly?" Yeah, met a pixie. She said that they're at an "angry place," and that you'd know where it is. * Sei shrugs. "She said you were there, and that it...put anger in you, I think." Angry pl- oh. She means the waterfall where I was doing katas when a previously unknown part of my curse kicked in, and instead of turning into a miniature, cute, insane version of myself, I turned into a gigantic, paranoin, psychotic version of myself that almost went after Ada. That bodes well. * Sei blinks. * Ethan mutters darkly. ...that's not good. [ A vein on Ethan's neck throbs oddly. ] Very not good. Let's go; I'll lead. Are you sure? I could go on ahead and make sure they're safe. * Ethan rubs his neck. "Nah, I can't give good directions to where it is. I remember it by sight." * Sei nods. "Okay." There's also another couple in the forest, apparently, that hasn't been here before. (That's only half true!) (Hey, far as I know. ^_^) ... which could either be completely irrelevant, or bode even less well. Let's go before all this boding makes me go sane. * Sei nods. * Ethan sets off at a decent pace towards the falls, pacing himself so Sei can keep up. [ And so our heroes march into the forest of DOOM(although it's usually quite pleasant, really). The wildlife, such as it is, seems flighty and agitated as they pass through. ] * Sei follows! [ Soon enough they arrive (with Sei badly out of breath) near the mouth of the cave. Barely visible colors and aparitions rise from the ground, swirling and contorting before being pulled back down. This probably bodes somehow or other, too. ] * Sei peers. "...odd." * Ethan nods. Surprisingly, he's not eating anything. "Very." *keeps going* [ Sei also notices that Ethan is suddenly about the same height as he is, although for now he seems otherwise unchanged. ] * Sei blinks. * Ethan is blissfully unaware. ... c'mon, where are they... This is the place? * Ethan nods. "Yup... I think we should try the cave behind the waterfall." * Sei nods. [ Ethan leads Sei into the cave behind the waterfall in the place that really, now that you think about it, DOES just feel kind of angry. Surely, some dire fate awaits them! ] [ And on that note... Session End. ^_^ ]