[Last Time, on El WHAT?!: The group made it into the oasis. Before they could take a bath, though, they decided to wander off into the forest in search of a call that Amy felt. They encountered a number of 'challenges' among them a really strange talking bird with a toothy grin and a giant eyeless, noseless ape. They made it to the center of the forest where the local druid greeted them. Unfortunately... ...after recognizing and fingering Cara, Shiho, and Ichi as 'Defilers' he ejected them all from the oasis. No bath for them.] [The session opens the next morning, as the group is heading south towards a city known as 'Tyr' [Session Start] [There is a flash of light as people are awakening, and Amy plushifies.] * Cara sits up and rubs her eyes. * Shiho yawns and looks over at Amyplush. 'Morning Cara. *yawn* Hi Itchy. * Rocky finish watch with Shiho and crawls into her backpack to sleep for the day. Morning everyone. Hi Shiho. * Shiho goes about removing what little semblance of a camp there was. "Amy got plushified. Someone carry her?" * It's a bright and shining new day! It's already starting to heat up. * Ichi yawns and rubs the sore spot on his head, and then wishes he hadn't. * Cara gets up and grabs Amy. Itai. * Cara blinks. "Still sore, Itchy?" * Shiho finishes gathering things together and hefts her backpack. "All set? You still sore, Ichi?" * Ichi nods very slowy. * Cara picks up her stuff. * Shiho waits for the others. * Ichi gathers his stuff. * Cara gets her backpack on. "Ready!" * Shiho nods and heads south. "Off we go, then." * Cara nodnods and follows Shiho. * Ichi puts on his backpack and walks after Cara. [Several hours later...] * The red sun is high in the sky, it is approaching noon and the temperature is easily into the triple digits. This is gonna be a hot one, folks. * Shiho staggers forwards, doing her best to ignore the heat. * Rocky is asleep in Shiho's backpack by now :P * Rocky is stewing in his own juices. * It's very hot in the backpack, not to mention poor Rocky's own fur. * Cara droops, following after Shiho as best she can but obviously nearly overwhelmed. The fact that she's still wearing her sweater probably doesn't help. * Ichi takes a drink from one of the newly filled waterskins. * Rocky climbs out of the backpack and onto Shiho's shoulder. [Several hours later...] * The sun has passed high noon, and if the desert is cooling off, you can't tell. The temperature has long since passed into the realm of "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU AWAKE!" into the realm of "YOU'RE ALL GONNA DIE, CLOWNS!" * Ichi and Shiho are _really_ feeling the heat. * Cara, though, has stopped sweating, and feels REALLY GOOD. Giddy, in fact. * Cara giggles. Aaatsuiiii.. * Shiho glances back. "Something funny, Cara?" Nawwww...jus...feeling good. ^_^ * Cara staggers a bit. This...s'not so bad... * Ichi blinks at Cara. "Are you allright?" ^__^ * Cara waves Ichi off. "Fine, fiiiiine." * Cara giggles some more. * Shiho sighs. "You can't be serious. Must be over 100." * Ichi nods "It's too hot to be fine." Reeeaaaally? Not even sweatin! ^__^ * Cara staggers over some more in the opposite direction. She looks REALLY unsteady. That's....not right. * Cara stumbles and falls flat on her face. * Shiho stumbles back over. "Cara? Damn. She's suffering from heat stroke." * Cara mumbles a bit where she's lying. What's that and what should we do? * Shiho reaches in her pack for a water flask. "It's something very bad and we need to get her cooled down quickly." Right.::digs out some waterskins and pours them out over Cara.:: * The air and ground hungrily soak up the water, but Cara appears to be out of immediate danger and begins recovering her coherency. Whu...uh... * Cara tries to push herself to her feet. * Shiho sighs in relief and tries to help Cara up. Do we have any thing to shade her with with? I think she should stay still for a while. What...what happened? You overheated and got heatstroke. ...oh. * Cara doesn't seem to remember much of today. Shading? Hmmm... * Shiho checks her pack. * Ichi hands Cara another waterskin (good thing he never had time to put the ones he filled back in the belt). "Here, drink this slowly." Thanks... * Cara takes a drink. Have you found anything Shiho? * Shiho keeps rummaging. "Not yet." * Ichi stands between Cara and the sun and rumages through his bag. * Shiho sighs. "Nothing." * Cara looks quizically at Shiho. "Huh?" Uhm...maybe your hakami? * Cara picks up Amy Plushie and looks at her. "You're lucky right now..." * Shiho pulls her hakama out of her pack and hands it to Ichi. "Alright." Unless we want to stand here all day holding this up, I think we're going to have to cut it bit and build a sunshade thing. * Shiho nods. * Shiho hands Ichi two arrows. Right use these for a base::drives his swords into the ground:: hmm, that's not going to be tall enough arrows maybe? * Ichi rapidly turns his two sabres, two arrows, and Shiho's hakama into a servicable sunshade. * Cara looks confused. What are you doing, Itchy? Building you a place out of the sun, it's too hot to do anything else today. Oh... * Cara looks at the ground. "I'm sorry for being a burden." * Shiho shakes her head. "No, Ichi's right. We shouldn't have tried travelling today." * Cara nods slowly. Don't worry about it, I'm just happy to be usefull for...uhm...twice? [Still later that day...] * Ichi sits under the shade and waits for the sun to move. * Cara lies down under the shade. * It approaches dusk, and finally the desert has started to cool. * Cara feels much better, thanks to liberal amounts of water. So...should we travel now? * Shiho stands up. "It's gotten pretty cool; we should make up for lost time." * Cara crawls out from under the makeshift shelter and stands. * Rocky sleeps in Shiho's pack now :P Right. You feeling better Cara? * Good for you, Rocky. Yes, thank you. ^_^ Thanks, Shiho. Thanks, Ichi. You guys are great. ^_^ Great. Right. * Ichi blushes a bit and starts to take the shelter apart. * Shiho waits for Ichi to finish before heading south. * The shelter comes apart easily, seeing as how it's made of junk. * Cara blinks at the reaction she gets, then shrugs. * Shiho gathers her two arrows from the shelter, as well. * You all head south in the dead of night, which in this desert is the best time to travel, seeing as how it doesn't even quite drop to freezing. Quite. * There are many more creatures out at night, all the varieties of lizards that you have seen thus far and still more. Amy would like this... * Ichi walks in the dark and nods. A few of the creatures are even brave enough to approach within easy sight distance of you. They tend to merely approach and then dart away, however. * Almost as if they're... testing to see how agressive you are. * Ichi continues onward into the night. * Cara keeps walking. * Shiho continues on, eyeing the lizards. * Just ahead, one lizard stands stock still as you approach. * Cara stops. "There's something wrong with that lizard..." * Shiho stops too. "Wrong? How so?" * Ichi stops as well "Can you tell what?" It's all skinny and shrivelled...and it's just standing there. It's creepy. It probably hasn't eaten in a while. Do...will it attack us, do you think? * Shiho readies her bow. "It might. Be careful." It's skin and bones...I've got no idea what's happend to it... Should we just go around it? ... Is it alive? * Shiho peers at it. I..don't think so, it's not breathing. Maybe...it's magical? Let's get out of here. I don't like this. * A short gust of wind whips past and the lizard falls over. Strangely, though the body has fallen over, two of its feet remain precisely where they were, almost as if they were held in place. O_O * Cara jumps in the air. "Waaaah!" * Shiho takes a step back. O.o Let's go. Now! Wich way? * Shiho heads in a direction 125 degrees away from the lizard. We'll go around it. The long way. * Cara nods and follows Shiho, still trmebling a bit. ...Right. o_o * Ichi stumbles for a bit, but his other foot trips _again._ The two trips miraculously cancel each other out, and he does not fall down, which would have been very, very bad. Wha-ah-ah? * The group makes it safely past the still unknown hazard. * Shiho sighs in relief. "What the hell was that?" I...I dunno. That was scary. I don't realy want to know what that was all about. Me neither. Let's just get to the city as fast as we can. * Cara nods. * Shiho heads towards Tyr once more. * Cara follows Shiho's lead. * Ichi fallows the people who seem to know the way. * The rest of the night passes uneventfully and dawn approaches. * Shiho eyes the horizon. "Guess we should stop and rest. Okay... Get the shelter ready, Ichi. Yeah, lets not go through that again. ::pulls his swords out again, and gets to work:: * Shiho hands Ichi the arrows. * Ichi is getting better at this and has the shelter set up in no time at all. * Cara gives Ichi a thumbs up. * Ichi takes a bow. I'll watch first, okay? ^^ Okay with me, Shiho? * Shiho nods and yawns. "Wake me if anything happens." She curls up under the shelter and goes to sleep." * Ichi also gets in the shade. "Good ni..er morning Cara" * Cara waves to Ichi, and sits down under the shelter. * Ichi puts his arms behind his head and tries to nap. [Session End]