[Last Time, on El WHAT?!: Our heroes did a whole lot of nothing, basically. Wusses. You lack discipline! You must go forth into the world like newborn adventurers, lacking significant magical equipment to shield you from the horrors of a world gone mad!] [But you don't need to do that today, necessarily. Today, you're sleeping in, and there's no late breakfast. You'll just have to wait for lunch, or go find it, kill it, and cook it yourself.] [Session... START!] * Fadi yawns and gets up. He walks out the door. "Ah fuck. We slept in." * Tif hears the movement and curls up tighter in a cute, little, sleeping ball. * Sophie is not asleep. She's just here. Wherever here is. * Sophie is, in fact, laying in her bed. She doesn't quite remember how she got here from there, but there she is and there she remains, until she remains no longer. * Sophie chooses not to remain there any longer, then. * Fadi rolls his neck and knocks on the doors, checking if people are there or not. * Tif curls tighter in her ball. "Never again...*mumblemumble*" * Fadi rolls his eyes. "Quit bein' a wuss." Never again what? * Tif puts a pillow over her head. * Sophie looks around the room, trying to remember if she's been here before or not. * It looks remarkably like a bed & breakfast room, except for the lack of, y'know, modern conveniences. * Tif removes the pillow a little and opens one eye. "Unngh... morning already?" It's midway to lunch. * Tif puts the pillow back over her head. "Too early." Get your ass outta bed. We need to find lunch. * Tif mumbles some more. "Nnngh. Fiiiine." Sleep too much and you're gonna be groggy all the time. * Tif finally rolls out of bed. "Allll right, big man. But you better know what we're doing that I have to get up before the end of my beauty rest." We're finding food. So com'on, unless you want to be a bum all day. * Tif prepares to leave * Fadi prepares to leave as well. "And going alone wouldn't be any fun anyways." Yeah, I suppose. I'm getting pretty used to travelling with our little disappearing-reappearing band. That's good, because the main reason we're going out for food is because most of'em are gone. I figure they might show up while we're out and then we can all shout at them or somethin'. * Fadi smiles. Oh, and the need for food doesn't hurt. Unless you have a better idea? * Tif 's tummy grumbles. "Yeah, food's good. And I guess some of us are missing... I wish we could figure out why that happens." * Fadi shrugs. "It's damn inconvient. Ready to go Sophie?" * Sophie rubs her head in confusion. "I... guess?" Are you or are you not? Bloody hell, man. How should I know? I don't even know what day of the week it is. Oh, right. You've been out this entire time. You wanna fill her in Tif? * Tif looks over in the other girl's direction. "Yeah, you've really been in and out in particular lately." Uh... I don't remember when you first left, and therefore what to start filling you in with. We were going to fight some goblins, then for some reason I killed some guy, then we were talking to a guy who was probably a dragon, since that is what everyone referred to him as. * Tif facepalms. "Yeah, you missed a lot." We snuck into the camp and the 'guy' you helped us fight was the leader. He seemed to know something about our situation, but we couldn't determine what. * Fadi nods. So we kicked his ass. As you know. I found a vague note there saying that in the caves behind the camp (which had an Auryn symbol on them) there was 'couplet 2'. With some nudging from our mentors, we resolved to find out what it was and headed in. What's a couplet? Um... Was it a part of music or somethin'? basically. From what we knew it had something to do with the 'story' we're involved with. A bunch of metaphorical mumbo jumbo to me, honestly. Sounds bloody stupid. Yeah, but what the hell are we going to do about it? I think we all figured that we were just following our mentor's orders... plus, we didn't know what else to do. Investigating Auryns seemed a good thing to do, so we did. Alright... Then what happened? Er.. sorry, I think it was couplet 1. Anyway, after that we entered the cave. There were lots... I mean lots... of magical lightshows before we got to a big door, and a mysterious stranger showed up and told us to touch it to open it. I think you were there for a little of that. He touched the door too. Had an Auryn on his opposite hand as ours. And when the door opened, he was gone. * Fadi nods. A little... I think... Inside was a hugely gigantic serpentine creature with giant, dripping fangs. The creature spoke... well.. in entirely confusing terms about what's going on with us. Did you get anything out of that, Fadi? * Fadi shrugs. "It was all a bunch of weird stuff, really. Somethin' about a song guiding us home, and we'd have to understand it to get there." And the giant creature was a dragon, I think. * Tif glares at Fadi for correcting her... somewhat embellished... description of the beefcake. Anyway, after all the riddled talking we had to take a test. It was kind of a moral issue and I'm a bit confused how we passed it... but apparently Harold has the first part of whatever we need locked up in his head now. And the first couplet... Fadi, was it something like "If you are near to the dark, I will tell you 'bout the sun?" Oh. Well, that's nice. Yeah. So we gotta find the rest of this shit before we all get tired of this place. Which is too late for some of us already. Agreed. I think that's the abridged version, Sophie. So given that couplet and what's happened to us... I still have no idea what we should do next. I feel bad relying so entirely on our mentors. Well, I really did miss all the excitement. Except for the part where I got hurt. * Fadi shrugs. "You okay now?" I... think so, actually. * Tif gives Soph a warm smile. "Good to hear." * Fadi smiles back at Sophie. "Well, at least you're not bleeding like you were when you vanished last time." Yeah. That's kind of a good thing. Anythin' else missing? You tell me. Where are we? The closest thing we got to home right now. Which is? Um, hmmm... What was the name of this place again? We're in the inn... um... The... Dwarf... something. Swimming? Swimming Dwarf? Yeah, that was it. Oh. Back here. Yes. And I think we're regrouping and trying to figure out where to go. Though it's somewhat unfair to decide without Nick, Emmet, and Harold. So ya just wanna sit on your ass and not do anything while we wait for them to appear out of thin air? * Sophie shrugs. No. But I do feel the need to note that I'm somewhat sorry that they won't get to help. Help do what? Get lunch? We're just going out. To get food. The coming back. And scare the shit out of them if they appear while we're out there. 'cuz lunch isn't until at least a few hours from now, and we all missed breakfast, so... Well, lead the way, guy. Yeah... [Aaaaaaaand... CUT!]