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Author:  Sarge [ Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:39 pm ]
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Farnham said: "Well, I remember seeing the Dire Wolf frozen solid, so it must have been Eruntian's ring that did that. Micheal was covered in a big clump of dirt at the time."
Author:  Droideka [ Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:23 pm ]
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"Figures, I didn't think the Lizard did it." Horin said under his breath.
Author:  tennessee10 [ Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:34 pm ]
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"Geez, stop discrediting the newt. The dude's a fighter. Or barbarian. I dunno. But still, I think Marcus killed the dire puppy." said Tem. <yes, it's supposed to bring up the uncomfortable subject of Tem's Disappearance>
Author:  IantheGecko [ Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:41 pm ]
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"Thank you, Tem!" Marcus went over to the Flayer and punched him in the arm. "I knew I could count on you."
Author:  Somm-1 [ Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:57 pm ]
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"You're serious, aren't you" Eruantian exclaimed "Who would have thought such a thing possible?... I guess I am pulling my weight..."
Author:  netzen [ Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:02 am ]
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"Yes," replied Prosper. "You are." He sighed, taking a small bite of rosted mushroom. "Hmm. Not bad." he remarked.
Author:  Droideka [ Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:03 am ]
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"Aye, although it would taste very good with a bit of egg and maybe some bacon." Horin said.
Author:  netzen [ Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:05 am ]
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"I can't remember the last time I had food like that." Prosper remarked wistfully. He looked at West, who still had the meteorite. "What's that?" he asked.
Author:  Sarge [ Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:17 am ]
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netzen wrote:
"I can't remember the last time I had food like that." Prosper remarked wistfully. He looked at West, who still had the meteorite. "What's that?" he asked.
Farnham added: "And why aren't you on fire? Isn't that thing kinda hot?"
Author:  tennessee10 [ Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:26 am ]
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Tem walked over to it as well. He look at it. "hmmmmmmmmmmmmm..." he said. "I think... that it's... it's... completely unidentifiable, boring, and simply a piece of hot glowy rock."
Author:  Wesstarrunner [ Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:06 am ]
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"I've never seen an ore like it!" replied West to the inquisitors. " Dwarves are accustomed to higher temperatures than most other races because we are miners, and I was a miner at one point in my life so that's why I can handle the hot rock." Then West tossed up the rock in the air and caught it.
Author:  The Zephyr Song [ Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:18 am ]
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"What are you going to do with it?" asked Acedia. "Certainly not just keep holding it. That would get awfully tedious."

Taryn had been waiting for someone to point out that Tem hadn't actually been at the fight with the dire wolf, but figured the moment had passed and it wasn't really worth bringing up now. "Can I see the rock?" Taryn asked West, with genuine curiosity.
Author:  Wesstarrunner [ Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:24 am ]
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"Yes you may, but don't drop it or anything!" replied West as he handed Taryn the rock.
Author:  The Zephyr Song [ Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:56 am ]
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"I'll try not to, though I don't think a drop from this height will do much damage to it," Taryn said, taking the rock gingerly. She was sitting down, after all - a drop of about two feet wouldn't do squat except maybe make it dirty, which is a problem easily solved. It didn't seem to start melting right away, which was a good sign, although considering the fact that it had fallen out of space, it was probably a fairly heat-resistant material. "Interesting," she murmured, turning it over in her hands a few times. She scratched at it slightly, succeeding in making a little mark no more than about nine millimeters square. "A bit soft," she observed, rubbing at the scratch a bit for no apparent reason. She handed it back to West.
Author:  tennessee10 [ Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:10 pm ]
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Tem looked at the rock. He was puzzled- if the rock was soft, how could it be that tough? This was strange. All he could say was, "ALIENS!! ALIENS, I TELLS YA, AALLIIENNNSS!!!! Okay, I'm done."
Author:  Droideka [ Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:25 pm ]
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"I've never seen a Dwarf that can can handle temperature like that, and I've met many miners." Horin commented, looking at West. "How long did you say you mined?"
Author:  Wesstarrunner [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:12 am ]
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"Since I was a little guy!" replied West.
Author:  The Zephyr Song [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:06 am ]
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"You still are a little guy," Taryn felt the need to point out. "But I know what you meant."
Author:  Wesstarrunner [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:15 am ]
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"Also I worked really very deep! The deepest mines we had at that point in time!" said West proudly.
Author:  Droideka [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:44 am ]
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Horin smiled inwardly, thinking West worked with molten metals to have hands like that. "I worked the mines once, about 15 years ago."
Author:  Sarge [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:35 am ]
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<GM's Note:
Droideka's character "Horin" is a Dwarf. Whether or not he's of the same clan as "West" is something Droideka and Weststarrunner will have to decide between themselves.

Regardless, West and Horin both share a common, runic, language. It's proper name is "Khuzdul", but it is commonly known as "Dwarvish." There also exists a Dwarven gesture-language that both West and Horin know, called "Iglishmêk", that is used when silence is required or when speech is not possible. They also likely share many elements of the general Dwaren culture; The various myths, legends, heroes, famous battles, ethnic foods, mannerisms, fashions, politics, etc.

From his days as a border guard, Captain Sealem knows some simple phrases in Dwarvish but he is far from fluent in it. Maxwell & Farnham know how to read many Dwarven runes due to their training as a gem merchants (nearly all gem-bearing ore in this part of the world comes from Dwarven mines, so it's important for a gem merchant to know how to read what the miners have written). However, neither brother is conversant with the spoken from of Dwarvish as they have always only spoken in Common with their Dwarven trading partners.

Dwarven society is polytheistic (that is, they have their own pantheon of deities and demigods), so West may or may not believe in (or even know of) the deity that the cleric Horin serves.

Because Dwarven society as a whole is very practical when it comes to religion, when no cleric of a given Dwarf's particular faith is available to perform a needed religious service (wedding, funeral, etc.) many Dwarves will consider it perfectly acceptable to to substitute a cleric of some other (properly aligned) deity. Thus, if the deity that a Dwarven cleric serves is on good terms with the Dwarven deity that another Dwarf worships, the one may perform religious rituals with the other without violating anyone's religious sensibilities. That is, Lawful Dwarven Good clerics can usually work freely with other Lawful Good Dwarven clerics, regardless of their affiliation with a particular deity or deities. There are some extreme cases where the above is not so, but that is the exception and not the rule.

The Dwarven kingdoms are all loosely tied together via personal and political agreements, but there is not any over-arching "Emperor" that they all swear fealty to. While not truly one nation in the formal sense of the word, no Dwarven Kingdom has even made war upon another Dwarven Kingdom: In fact, the Dwarven Kings consider themselves to be duty bound (by both national tradition and personal honour) to come to the aid of any neighbouring Dwarven state or principality that is in need. While some of the Dwarven Kingdoms are larger than some of the others, no single Kingdom dominates all the others. The trade relationships between them are so vigourous and complex that there's no way one can say for certain where one economy ends and the other begins. All one can say for certain is that they all need each other to continue to maintain their current standard of living.

To prevent misunderstanding among their own kind, the various Dwarven Kingdoms long ago set up what is now known as the "Council Of The Three": An extra-national Dwarven judicial tribunal that exists to provide a forum for member states to air their greivences, consult their peers, resolve disputes, come to common agreements, and generally keep the peace. While the decisions of the Council Of The Three are technically not binding upon the member states, it has long served to avoid hostility between the Dwarven Kingdoms and and to provide a framework for strong alliances in times of war. Rarely has a Dwarven King gone against the formal advice of the Council Of The Three, and never when an threat from outside was at hand.>
Author:  tennessee10 [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:59 pm ]
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<you're lucky Tolkein doesn't play this game>
Author:  Sarge [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:23 pm ]
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tennessee10 wrote:
<you're lucky Tolkein doesn't play this game>

<No luck involved. Tolkein's quite dead, you see.>
Author:  tennessee10 [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:46 pm ]
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<Yes, I killed him as soon as you posted that copyright violation. But, then again, everyone's taking advantage of his death, specifically the Wizards on the Coast.>
Author:  netzen [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:51 pm ]
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<I saw no copyright violation. Back to the game.>
Prosper said, "That's a very interesting rock. I wonder how much it'd fetch on the market."
Author:  Wesstarrunner [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:39 pm ]
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"Eh, I gave up thinking about ores years ago! I actually have come to hate the way fellow dwarves covet ores since I settled here. Gnomes are strange creatures and Malt has taught me things more important than ores or stones. I have come to love the forest more than the rocks I grew up in y'know? This just brings back old memories..." said West as his voice trailed off into inward memories.
Author:  The Zephyr Song [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:10 pm ]
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{ netzen, basically everything Sarge said about Dwarves is either based on or taken directly from the Dwarves of Tolkien's universe. Lord of the Rings and such.

and wes, your characters are still adorable. x3 }

"I can't help feeling that some kind of musical interlude would be rediculously appropriate right now, for some reason," Acedia said, raising a brow and looking around a bit.
Author:  Wesstarrunner [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:38 pm ]
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"We're going West." said Malt as he looked away from the sky.
"What took you so long to figure that out mushroom breath?" replied West in a playful manner.
"Well something up there looked like an ox so I thought I'd better look down before- WOAH! A ROCK! IT'S SHINY!" said Malt.
"You didn't see it?" asked the dumbfounded West.
Malt shook his head.
"Uh... I think you need help Malt."
Author:  IantheGecko [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:37 pm ]
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Marcus's belly rumbled. "Time for snake!" He went to the fire and took the snake meat into his claq, swallowing it all in one fell swoop. "Nuthin' like snake, aye? Well, I'm gettin' a little sleepy again. Liftin' rocks tires ya out."

And so Marcus found another rock to sleep on.
Author:  Sarge [ Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:19 am ]
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<insert musical interlude here>

Once everyone went to sleep, the night passed very uneventfully with no Orc attacks or wild animal attacks. It was a bit chilly that night, but still well above freezing. In the morning, Farnham got up and made breakfast: It consisted of fried salted bacon, flatbread, dried apples, and oatmeal with cinnamon. There was enough for everyone.

After breakfast, Farnham said: "Well, I bought enough bacon in Targos for maybe three more breakfasts, and the sack of oatmeal will last perhaps twice that long more. The immediate problem is water: We're almost out, so we'll need to find a water supply today or we'll have to turn back. Drek, go scout for water to the west while Taryn goes and scouts east. If either of you catch some game, so much the better, but your priority is to find water, OK? Horin, see if you can gather some any good roots or berries, and take Prosper and West with you. Maxwell and me will break camp and get everything ready to go. If you find water, come back and let us know so everyone can fill up their water containers. If you don't find water by dusk, come back and we'll head back to Targos in the dark. The rest of us will stay here and defend the camp.
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