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Anstarra Silverain looks around as she makes the last few yalms to the shore; the ferry captain didn't seem too eager to stick around. She looks about, wondering what other adventurous sorts might've accepted this leve, always nice to meet new faces, and... "!"
Seito Moonclaw was standing on the shore, seemingly taking in the sights, the smells and more, even on this supposedly 'haunted' isle. He was only vaguely aware of the others arriving but if the last 'job' he'd performed was any indication, meeting his comrades would be beneficial. Turning, he stops and stares, a bit blankly at the familiar face....before offering a wide, fanged grin.
Seito Moonclaw: "It would seem, we have a habit of meeting on islands."
Anstarra Silverain laughs, shaking her head. "Indeed.. it's been a while hasn't it? Or it feels like it." She walks over to Seito and gives him a big hug.
Seito Moonclaw chuckles warmly, "Too long, you look well, Anstarra."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Mm, you too~" She smiles, then looks over, as someone else arrives.. and beams again. "Jana?"
Seito Moonclaw gives her a friendly pat on the shoulder, peering past her at Jana, "Ah, a friend of yours?"
Jana Ridah grumbles to herself as she gets off whatever ferry she presumably took to the remote island. If one listened closely enough, they could hear something about the gil-grubbing ferries... She looks up with some surprise when she hears Anstarra's voice.
Jana Ridah: ...Weren't you supposed to be rotting in gaol or something?
Anstarra Silverain clears her throat, her smile becoming a bit forced. She answers over her shoulder to Seito. "It's been a while since we've seen each other." She looks back to the other girl. "Too long, apparently. Bringing up old news like that."
Seito Moonclaw blinks a few times, looking between the pair. "...or perhaps not," he offers, quietly. At the explanation, he nods slowly.
Khunbish Avagnar: A large roegadyn woman in a yellow jacket steps up towards the group, she nods her head towards them "Are you the Adventurers come to help with this issue of the missing Sahagin?" he spits on the ground and sighs, "Can't believe we're worried about them hiding."
Seito Moonclaw: "It would seem we are. Might I ask...why the sudden concern?"
Anstarra Silverain looks to the roe, grateful for a distraction, and beams warmly. "Indeed! That's us." She looks around, as though expecting a fourth - blinking as she spots the blue butterfly - then looking back to the yellowjacket. "It's weird times indeed."
Jana Ridah frowns, mostly to herself. "I didn't think it was so long, but if you're here and talking to a Yellowjacket, then I suppose all was forgiven at some point..."
Anstarra Silverain smiles and doesn't bother to correct the other girl. Nor is she about to go into the arrangements she made to have her crimes disappear.. odds were the Yellowjacket wouldn't know her at all. And former criminals working for the state was hardly odd in La Noscea...
Seito Moonclaw listens and makes a note to perhaps inquire more later, but for now - there was the task at hand.
Khunbish Avagnar: Wiltgybet sighs and shakes her head, "Las' time the Sahagin went and disappeared on us, we lost boats and had to gamble on that Garlean defector and some special nobodies to deal with Leviathan, my bosses don't want to risk us leaving our patrols and such just in case, I drew the short straw on this."
Seito Moonclaw: "Leviathan..." he glances out towards the sea instinctively. "And should we find them ind the midst of such an act again, we are to stop them, it would seem."
Anstarra Silverain 's ears fold back slightly, as she too looks at the sea. Leviathan... "Well, we're pretty special as nobodies go, too, so. Hey, um. So where do you think we should start looking..?"
Khunbish Avagnar: Wiltgybet gives a shrug, "Maybe look 'bout there camps, see if you can find any clue, if you find a clue, would be good to make sure not to have any primals headed our way."
S'imba Tia wanders up to where he notices one or two familiar faces. He puts on his most angsty teenage expression and walks forwards. Not really saying anything and standing a bit back away from the group, looking around with a forced bored expression.
Anstarra Silverain glances to the side and her ears perk up. "Ah! A fourth. Now the world's in balance again." She beams. Could it be she doesn't recognize him? With the hair, and the bandana...
Seito Moonclaw turns and eyes the newcomer, squinting briefly before he nods. "Four pairs of eyes are surely better than three after all. Is there more or shall we begin the hunt for their camps?"
Khunbish Avagnar: Wiltgybet shrugs, "Ain't no more that I have. Just want this done, if the sahagin all jumped off into the sea and died that'd be perfect."
S'imba Tia gives An his most bored looking expression he can muster, if he could fool her then he knew his disguise was legit. His eyes flicked to the morpho then to Wilgybet the only response he gives is a short. "Tch."
Anstarra Silverain feels like something's vaguely familiar about the other male. Something... overblown and conceited. It was at once familiar and annoying. She can't put her finger on it. She goes to say something, then flinches as the butterfly lands on her shoulder. "Gah!"
★Anstarra Silverain: "I'm watching you!"
★Anstarra Silverain: "I mean, um."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Let's go check out those camps."
Seito Moonclaw looks around then gives a single nod. "Indeed. Ah, but first," He turns to Jana and bows slightly, "I am Seito." Peering at their fourth, he seems to stare for a few moments more. "And what might we call you?"
S'imba Tia blinks for a moment blanking, he tries to come up with something totally edgy. His eyes flick to An again causing his tail to wrap around his leg and his ears pin back. He looks back to Seito for a moment before saying. "Mutt."
Jana Ridah: Seems useless. Let's leave it behind.
Seito Moonclaw: "I don't think the butterfly is causing much harm. I doubt we can make it stay anywhere..." He peers at the Morpho then shrugs. "Shall we then?"
Anstarra Silverain was totally watching the Morpho, but it's understandable that S'imba might've thought she meant him, they were in the same direction. She nods to the others. "Yeah, let's go!"
Khunbish Avagnar: The trip to the Sahagin camp was terrifyingly uneventful. It truly looks as if they all just picked up and left on the spot, grabbing whatever was at hand before disappearing.
Anstarra Silverain swishes her tail, nostrils flaring as the group moves through the empty camp. "Mm.. hard to tell how long since they've been gone, huh. But it's weird.. what could make them all leave?" She looks at the others. "I really hope it's not Leviathan..."
Seito Moonclaw crouches down to inspect a shell, turning it over in his hand. "I am unsure any of us are...equipped to deal with a primal, if that becomes necessary." Letting out a breath, he makes a face as he avoids stepping in a rather nasty looking pond. "Still, moving an entire camp, there must be a trail somewhere."
Jana Ridah: We don't have enough fodder for me to have a go at it. ...In any event, let's look around. I guess.
â—S'imba Tia: "Tch...I hope it is, then we could baptize his followers in his blood." He said in a monotone bored voice.
★Anstarra Silverain: "Haha, yeah.. if I Primal shows up, I'm leaving." She shrugs cheerfully, and starts looking around as well.
Seito Moonclaw: "Eager for battle, it would seem." He remarks, continuing a search of his own.
Jana Ridah: Oh sorry, I'll succeed at a cost
Khunbish Avagnar: Anstarra and Seito's search through the camp bring up nothing of import, aside from the discovery of the latrine pits, for beastman at least they try to keep it away from the rest of the camp. S'imba now has the /high ground/ as he scampers up the rock face like a Paissa. Alas Jana's footing slides a bit as she's investigating and /smashed her foot/ on a large shell that gave out sound of garbled whining.
Jana Ridah lets out a small yelp, followed by even more grumbling under her breath.
Seito Moonclaw: "Ugh," Seito pinches his nose, frowning, "Of course, that explains what I saw earlier..." Giving a gagging sound, he fans the air and motions for An to join him in looking somewhere, anywhere, else.
Anstarra Silverain backs away from the latrines. "I don't care if there are secrets buried there, no way." She hears Jana's yelp, ears twitching, and cranes her neck to look over...
S'imba Tia looks at the others before wandering over to a rock, the various handholds were going to make this a breeze. He decided to do a bit of show boating. He runs at it and smoothly makes it look like he just ran up the wall as he moved. Once at the top he looks over the area, looking for any sign of sahagin.
Anstarra Silverain notices 'Mutt' scamper his way athletically up the rocks, and grins, miming a bit of clapping if he looks her way. Her demeanor's not sarcastic; she likes a bit of showing off. "Anyone see anything?"
Khunbish Avagnar: From where S'imba is perched, he can see a lot of ripples heading towards shore in the distance, but they will take some time to arrive. There was also more garbled noises from under the shell Jana kicked.
Seito Moonclaw makes his way towards Jana, looking around quickly, "Is everything alright?"
Jana Ridah mumbles under her breath, not really answering the questing... Or seeming to notice it was asked.
â—S'imba Tia: "Something is slowly heading this way!"
Jana Ridah eventually stops grumbling long enough to realize that she wasn't the only one grumbling, and gives the shell a light nudge with her foot.
Khunbish Avagnar: The Shell dislodges a bit and a webbed foot can be seen before it disappears and more noises.
Seito Moonclaw stares at Jana, waiting for her to respond to his question, which she must have missed. But his attention turns away, missing the webbed foot, as he looks up at Mutt, "What? From where??"
Anstarra Silverain hears weird sounds in Jana's direction, then shakes her head as she remembers she doesn't believe in Murlocs.
★Anstarra Silverain: "What? Heading our way? From which direction?"
â—S'imba Tia: "The depths!" He calls back pointing out into the water.
★Anstarra Silverain: "Hrm.. how big! How many!" She draws her spear, less because it's immediately time than out of habit..
Jana Ridah moves to snatch the foot from under the shell before it can escape her, holding her breath as her hands dart forwards!
Khunbish Avagnar: Jana's hand easily catches the webbed foot and drags a small, hunched Sahagin that looks even more fishlike than they normally do, it makes a gutteral fish noises, "Noooo!"
Seito Moonclaw turns towards the water, taking a few steps forward as he tries to make out just what or who is heading their way.
S'imba Tia is glad he is so high up, easy enough to hide that he was actually terrified of whatever could be making it's way torwards them. The top two fears being Leviathan or a kraken.
Jana Ridah steps out from her corner and takes a coule steps back to the group, holding the Sahagin out as today's catch.
Jana Ridah: Found one.
Anstarra Silverain is distracted from the incipient threat by the.. she blinks. "What the hells? Is it a baby? Er.. hello there!" She wiggles her fingers at it.
Seito Moonclaw: "Something's...certainly moving, but I cannot tell what it is yet..."
Khunbish Avagnar: "Nooo! Let Murlocsss go! Othersss be back, if hidesss they not ssstrikesss!"
Jana Ridah: Whaaaat? Sorry, I don't speak fish.
Jana Ridah totally has the Echo and can understand whatever language she wants to, and is jsut being patronizing for its own sake.
Seito Moonclaw glances at the two women and their 'captive', instead moving towards the shoreline, if possible. Perhaps he could see something more if he were closer...
Anstarra Silverain decides to come say hi to the beastie, letting the boys keep an eye on the water..
★Anstarra Silverain: "So, um.. Murlocs? Are you a sahagin?"
Khunbish Avagnar: "Am Ab-abberant! Her voice unable touch me! Othersss ssstrike me becaussse ssstrange!"
★Anstarra Silverain: "'Her voice'?" An tilts her head curiously. "Who is 'she'?"
Khunbish Avagnar: The shapes are resolving into Sahagin and one not Sahagin.
Khunbish Avagnar: "She! She! One who is not sahagin!"
Jana Ridah holds the miniature Sahagin away from her, keeping her arm straight out as An "interrogates" the beastman.
S'imba Tia draws his sword with a snarl tail thrashing back and forth. "Sahagin...and something else...." He said squinting trying to make out whatever the not sahagin was.
Anstarra Silverain scratches her cheek, then points at Jana. "Her?"
Khunbish Avagnar: Murloc shakes its head quickly, "noo nooo nooo! She isss... in watersss sssmall but Sssahagin followsss except me becaussse aberrant!"
Jana Ridah clears her throat.
Anstarra Silverain looks over toward the oncoming commotion.. "Might that be her?"
Jana Ridah: So the Sahagin were lead offshore by a woman... A Siren or something?
Khunbish Avagnar: "Noo! Not Sssiren!" it wiggles about, "Can't sssee! Not back! Not want more hitsss and hurtsss!"
Jana Ridah shakes the Sahagin a bit.
Seito Moonclaw stands at the shoreline, peering out at the oncoming bubble stream.
Anstarra Silverain ponders the diminutive beastie, looking sceptical. "Hrm.. what else can you tell us about 'her'? Is she the reason everyone is missing? And does she have an actual name?"
Khunbish Avagnar: "Noo! she showed up! Hid under shellsss! not catch name! othersss jussst follow!"
Khunbish Avagnar: S'imba caught sight of a seagull with a strange patter on them, wait... if he turns his head this way, is that a sword... no it's kind of more like a... Seito you clearly see the Sahagin swimming in wedge formation, these ones look normal, and surround what appears to be a Lalafell that's struggling, seems she might have a /Skittish Nature/
Anstarra Silverain looks at Murloc, then at Jana, then over at the males. "Well.. shall we go see what's going on?"
Seito Moonclaw blinks a few times then reaches up to rub at his eyes. "Anstarra, Jana...look there." He calls out to the pair, pointing out the V and the Lalafell.
Anstarra Silverain makes her way over to look, peering at the V in the water...
Seito Moonclaw: "We may wish to...hide ourselves. Just to observe, at the least."
â—S'imba Tia: "Or we can talk to them....if not we kill them all."
★Anstarra Silverain: "I'm uh. Not great at stealth."
Seito Moonclaw: "Somehow, I am unsurprised."
★Anstarra Silverain: "But! Feel free to be sneak, so you can jump out at them? Unless you wanna stand here all honorable-like if the engaging of glorious battle becomes imminent."
â—S'imba Tia: "What snowflake said."
Anstarra Silverain is the specialest snowflake.
Anstarra Silverain peers at Mutt.
Seito Moonclaw: "Now you're offering me quite the choice." He looks back (up?) at Mutt then at An, chuckling softly. "Snowflake? It is fitting enough."
Jana Ridah: Honestly? I think we should just provoke them over to us and get it done with. We can interrogate any who survive a... Sound thrashing.
Anstarra Silverain blows a lock of her hair up, then shakes her head. "Nah Jana, I think the Sahagin who live here are the 'friendly' ones."
Seito Moonclaw: "We wish to know where they've gone. If you are able to speak with them, let us do so to begin with. Besides, there is a Lalafell among them."
★Anstarra Silverain: "I mean if they attack us.. a what?"
Seito Moonclaw: "Oh...I thought you saw as well."
Seito Moonclaw leans over and points a bit more directly this time. "Look. There."
★Anstarra Silverain: "I was looking at the pretty reflections. A lalafell? This little one here said that 'she' is a little one. Could it be a lalafell?"
★Anstarra Silverain: "I mean, setting aside how ludicrous this is, because there is a lalafell there.
★Anstarra Silverain: "What the hells."
Jana Ridah waits a moment before raising her arm and shaking the sahagin she's still holding in the air.
â—S'imba Tia: "Told you all Lalafell are of the void."
Jana Ridah: Hey. What can you tell us about this.
Jana Ridah -says to the sahagin with a deapan tone.
Khunbish Avagnar: The sahagins make it to shore first and spread out, holding weapons at the ready. Mostly spears a few javelins, they do split for what is a Lalafell, plainsfolk by the look that stands there looking at the group. Her legs are made of bluish rock with a faint glow coming from between the cracks.
★Anstarra Silverain: "You guys are seeing this right? I didn't breathe in some sort of fishy spores making me hallucinate a lalafell with glowing rock legs?"
Jana Ridah: I see it too. We should dissect it.
Seito Moonclaw gives a low hiss, his hand going to rest at his sword. "Be on your guard," he mutters. "I encountered something -very- similar near the Crystal Tower."
â—S'imba Tia: "What is it?"
Seito Moonclaw: "A very unhappy elemental had possessed a researcher. It was..earthen in nature but the glow and stone, it is too similar to be coincidence."
Khunbish Avagnar: The Lalafell perks a bit at Seito's words, "You... You have seen another like me then?" she raises her hands, "Children calm down I want to ask them questions." The Sahagin glance at each other and lower their weapons slowly, some hesitating more than others. The lalafell steps forward, "Shaitan? They're still alive/"
Jana Ridah: We're a little far from that place.
Jana Ridah: Oh look, it talks too.
Jana Ridah shakes the Sahagin in her hand more vigorously.
â—S'imba Tia: "S-she's not tempered is she?"
★Anstarra Silverain: "Crystal Tower..?" She narrows her eyes, tail slashing a bit, then the lala is speaking. "Shaitan? Oh, and hello, sorry we came when you were out, I'm Anstarra, who might you be?"
Seito Moonclaw narrows his eyes at the Lalafell. "Do your goals align with his then?"
S'imba Tia thrashes his tail back and forth, eyes locked on the lalafell suspiciously, standing ready to split her in half like a pig if she tried any funny business.
Khunbish Avagnar: Anstarra's most winning smile manages to ease the nervous looking Lalafell into thinking she might be a bit /Friendly/
Anstarra Silverain totally fingerguns. It's only threatening if you know what guns are. Which many people do. But that smile!
Khunbish Avagnar: "I am Marid." she jumps backwards at the fingerguns and hides behind the Sahagin who encircle around her, "NO! Please no! If you continue with that I'll have to kill you!"
Seito Moonclaw holds a hand out towards Anstarra, "Perhaps a little less, she appeared to have a /Skittish Nature/ from what I observed."
Anstarra Silverain blinks in astonishment, and spreads her hands inoffensively. Then eases them to her sides before someone assumes she's casting a spell. Wouldn't that be a weird thing to assume. "Sorry! Not here to hurt you~ We were just wondering where all the Sahagin had gone! Other people were wondering too. But you said you wanted to ask us things too, right? We can trade questions!"
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid nods her head a bit, "Yes, I'm very curious and the Sahagin told me some stuff but they know very little beyond survival necessities." she steps around them again to look at them, "So...um... You saw Shaitan then? Was he well!?"
Seito Moonclaw is still giving a narrow eyed stare. "When last I saw him? He was not. He murdered three researches, possessed another and sought to do the same to us. Claiming that the sons of man had ruined nature." He delivers it all straight faced and evenly.
Anstarra Silverain shakes her head. "I didn't meet him, but apparently Seito did, so.. oh, this is Seito~" She looks at the male.
★Anstarra Silverain: "Oh. Huh. That's kinda awful.."
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid nods her head a few times, "Well, Allagans were destroying everything, some still are the sahagin tell me far to the north and I see new structures that are like rough Allagan copies all around."
Seito Moonclaw: "So I ask again, are your goals the same as his?"
★Anstarra Silverain: "Rough.. OH! The Garleans."
Khunbish Avagnar: "My goals?" she ponders the question a moment, "I don't want to kill people, I am water, water gives life and nurtures, we crush only if we have to." she shakes her head, "If what you said is true, no, I do not wish to destroy you all, unless you wish to poison the waters."
Seito Moonclaw shakes his head, "Such is no desire of mine. I do wonder though, what has caused you and he, Shaitan, to arise now after so long? And where are the rest of the Sahagain who reside here?"
Anstarra Silverain shrugs, looking to Seito. "I don't see why we would. We need water to live..." she looks back to the girl, contemplating her as Seito inquires some more.
Khunbish Avagnar: "Oh... um... when I was awakened there was a great torrent, and a serpent these Sahagin called Leviathan, I think it struck my thing... am happy to be free, was found by the owner of this body. The other Sahagin they are dispersing the crystals they had back to the oceans where the aether belongs."
★Anstarra Silverain: "The owner of that body.." An frowns a little. "So you are..." She looks at the rocks, then at the lalafell... host? "What.. are you exactly?"
Seito Moonclaw looks over at Anstarra and 'Mutt', speaking low. "The other, we found him near some sort of...allaghan device. It was damaged somehow, freeing Shaitan. The same must have happened to her."
â—S'imba Tia: "What Snowflake said."
Khunbish Avagnar: She shrinks away at the mention of Allagans from Seito a bit, "I am water." she states simply to Anstarra, "Marid was name given when torn from water." She frowns and fidgets a bit.
★Anstarra Silverain: "Being water... are you... an Elemental?" It's the thing that makes most sense to her. "I mean you're clearly not just a sprite..."
Seito Moonclaw keeps his attention on Marid but shakes his head, seemingly at An's question.
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid nods slightly, "Yes I am water, sprites are extensions of ourselves..." she reaches up and touches a strnad of hair, "Like a strand of hair."
Seito Moonclaw looks around but pauses when his attention settles on Jana's small 'friend'. "Jana, is -she- the one that the creature spoke of?"
â—S'imba Tia: "What does that even mean?"
Khunbish Avagnar: Murloc has been gibbering for a moment
★Anstarra Silverain: "Huh..." She taps her cheek with her finger. "It means the world is full of things we don't know yet..." she says to Mutt, before nodding to the lala again. "So.. you say you are water, but were also torn FROM water. Who tore you? The Allagans?"
Jana Ridah shrugs at the males question, holding the Sahagin in his directo so it could answer.
Khunbish Avagnar: "Yes Allagans did tear but..." she shies back more, "Can we talk about what you plan to do with the one born wrong?" she motions towards Murloc.
Jana Ridah: Definitely not eat him.
â—S'imba Tia: "Make sure he isn't beaten and tortured for being different."
Seito Moonclaw stares at the sahagin. He's not sure he can understand it.
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid sighs and nods slightly, "That is why I came back, that one doesn't hear the water."
Khunbish Avagnar: "Not to hurt, but I learned from these ones that they hurt him."
Anstarra Silverain tilts her head. "What do you mean by that exactly? It said the others hurt it.."
â—S'imba Tia: "Hear the water?" He said tilting his head. "What does that mean?"
Khunbish Avagnar: "That one was born from a previous leader, but born wrong, he cannot breath and live in the water like a Sahagin." she motions towards them, "Like you all can't."
â—S'imba Tia: "Hey I can outswim a Sahagin any day!" He said with a huff. "Done it before!"
Anstarra Silverain peers at Mutt again. He was sounding like someone else she knew...
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid doubts Mutts words, they sound a bit doggy, the Sahagin snickers and one steps forward, "You ssswim better? How long can be underwater!"
Seito Moonclaw seems to simply be looking between Marid and the small 'wrong' sahagain.
â—S'imba Tia: "Fine I can't stay underwater indefinitely....yet...."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Hmmm..."
Seito Moonclaw: "You convinced all of the Sahagin here to leave, returning crystals to the sea, correct?"
★Anstarra Silverain: "Even the other ones..? The Tempered ones?"
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid tilts her head, "Tempered? No, there are ones who call themselves drowned...They were attempting to bring a bad water into the world."
Seito Moonclaw: "And you, along with all of them," he gestures to the group accompanying her, "...all came ashore to find the small one?"
Khunbish Avagnar: "Yes I did, I wanted to see if that one I could heal." she motions, "Looking at him I don't believe he is something I can heal, but he will not suffer abuse so long as I'm around."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Well... I think we have enough to report on the leve. The Sahagin went away because a water Elemental told them to get rid of their crystals. I'm pretty sure people will be more happy than concerned; primals are often seen as literally the worst, after all, and Marid here helped avoid a Summoning."
Khunbish Avagnar: "Oh...uh...It was summoned, giant water snake right?"
Jana Ridah: ...Just need to make sure whatever crystals they unloaded aren't jut picked up by the population out at sea.
â—S'imba Tia: "Wait....Leviathan has been summoned?"
Seito Moonclaw double takes, "Did you say it was summoned?"
Khunbish Avagnar: She nods her head, "Yes, but I returned the water back to the ocean, like all the crystals." she frowns a bit, "What do you mean gather the crystals up? they are gone, they are water again."
★Anstarra Silverain: "You.. made Leviathan go away?"
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid nods her head slowly, "It was water, I took the water away and returned it."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Well... good!"
Anstarra Silverain isn't sure if she should be freaking out. She's pretty sure the answer is yes.
â—S'imba Tia: "Huh...."
Seito Moonclaw: "You...removed Leviathan and are able to speak to nearly all Sahagin if they can hear the ocean?" He exhales, that's a dangerous combination.
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid nods her head slowly.
Seito Moonclaw frowns slowly in return, looking to the others.
★Anstarra Silverain: "Well, I mean, like Marid said. She likes pure and clean oceans and clean, life-giving water." She looks to the.. lalafell? "Incidentally, those people to the northeast are probably the ones causing the most damage to the oceans. All that metal industry."
Jana Ridah: It's an Allagan thing possessing a popoto who claims to be able to... Dissipate crystals and primals. Should we suffer it to live?
Khunbish Avagnar: At that the Sahagin are armed and closing defensively around Marid.
Khunbish Avagnar: The sahagin don't notice Jana's words but Marid starts shrinking backwards behind them, her ears twitching, "I don't like you."
â—S'imba Tia: "Well....it kind of sketches me out about how much control she holds over the sahagin....then there is the fact that she -is- an Allagan construct and nothing ever good comes from them....plus pretty sure possession is not ok..."
Anstarra Silverain curses inwardly, then laughs a bit loud, trying to draw the elemental thing's attention away from Jana. "Oh, don't worry about her. She asks that about pretty much everything, and we don't end up killing anything that doesn't attack us first!"
Khunbish Avagnar: Murloc has passed out at this point from dangling upside down.
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid calms down a bit, seeming to /Trust/ Anstarra's words for now at least, "Um... can she put the damaged one down before it dies?"
Jana Ridah notices the sahagin's movement cease and lays it (him/her?) at her side, well within her reach and out of the lalafell party's.
Jana Ridah: I barely damaged it...
Seito Moonclaw whispers, "Something is not right here, I can practically feel it..."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Oh, uh." She blinks, seeing the.. unconscious.. beasty. Bites her lips as Jana puts it down, then beams at Marid again. "There, all's well that ends well. So, what're you going to do next, Marid?"
★Anstarra Silverain: "Maybe you have gas."
Seito Moonclaw gives An a sidelong glance.
Khunbish Avagnar: "I am... going ask Sahagin help remove all of Allagan things from the oceans." she trails off and frowns, "You said Shaitan wanted kill everyone?"
Seito Moonclaw: "That we all held the sins of Allag and should be punished for it."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Probably anyone who's hurt the earth.. he sounds a little insane."
Seito Moonclaw: "Very."
â—S'imba Tia: Sounds like an Elemental...sad we don't have a conjurer..."
Seito Moonclaw: "Yes and no. He, too, needed a form to take hold of."
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid shifts a bit, "We were all... Allagans do bad things, forcing us onto perfectly healthy people...." she looks to Seito, "I am going to try to find Shaitan too and reason with him not to kill everyone, just the people actually hurting things."
Anstarra Silverain makes the 'I'm watching you' sign at Mutt! Then grins at him, before looking back to Marid..
★Anstarra Silverain: "Onto healthy people.. you say that like that's not something you would do normally. What about your current host? How'd you come to possess her?"
Seito Moonclaw: "And if he will not listen to reason? I assure you, we tried as well."
â—S'imba Tia: "Whose on the obliterate and decimate list?"
Khunbish Avagnar: "The um... Allagans with the rough machines."
★Anstarra Silverain: "They're called Garleans!"
★Anstarra Silverain: "Their Empire is Garlemald."
Jana Ridah: Are we certain it's not jsut imperials with their own war machines?
★Anstarra Silverain: "They're actually our enemies."
â—S'imba Tia: "These Allagans....did they come from some sort of stasis tube and green goo?"
Khunbish Avagnar: "Gar lee ans?" she mouths it and the Sahagin shrug as she looks at them, backwater bumpkins, some help. She frowns and nods her head, "If name then yes." she looks towards the waters and sighs, "I needs go but... can I see the hurt one first?" she looks at S'imba and frowns, "What?"
Seito Moonclaw: "There was a sort of...tube in the room where we found Shaitan. He'd destroyed it and the controls, unfortunately." At her mentioning that she needed to go, he taps his chin. "There is another, one who also met Shaitan, could I send her here, to speak with you, or perhaps do we have a means of contacting you?"
â—S'imba Tia: "Just trying to figure out if we're talking about the same people."
Khunbish Avagnar: She ponders a moment and reaches towards the water and creates a watery conch that she then puts into a random conch on the ground, "...Um.. someone will have to stay... watch this, can be called with it if needed."
Seito Moonclaw nods slowly, giving a glance at the others. "Alright, then. Ah...thank you."
Anstarra Silverain relaxes a bit. "Sounds good to me."
â—S'imba Tia: "Hmmm....right then..."
Khunbish Avagnar: With things coming a close, if allowed, Water of a strange consistency is splashed onto Murloc who regains conciousness and is handed the conch. Apparently Murloc is now the one with the honor of being in charge of guarding and using the Marid Flute.
â—S'imba Tia: "Right then we'll not bother you for the time being...but start causing trouble then you're going to have to answer to S'imba mother fucking Tia....legendary dark knight."
Seito Moonclaw looks back at Mutt and smirks
Seito Moonclaw: "That seems to be that then. For now at the least." He sighs and looks to the murloc. "I will likely return, to make use of the conch."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Iiiiii knew it!"
★Anstarra Silverain: "Butterfly, get him!"
Jana Ridah: ...If that's you in that getup, S'imba Motherfucking Tia, I'm gonna throttle you.
â—S'imba Tia: "YOU KNEW NOTHING!!"
Anstarra Silverain | The Morpho continues to flutter peacefully.
Seito Moonclaw: "I suspected the same, in truth."
★Anstarra Silverain: "I knew it when you started talking about outswimming Sahagin!"
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid tilts her head, "You slept with your mother?" she shakes her head and departs, "Explains this bodies concerns about miqo'tes."
Jana Ridah: Only some of the slit-eyed ones do. Don't worry.
Seito Moonclaw: "It is an expression."
Anstarra Silverain looks around as she makes the last few yalms to the shore; the ferry captain didn't seem too eager to stick around. She looks about, wondering what other adventurous sorts might've accepted this leve, always nice to meet new faces, and... "!"
Seito Moonclaw was standing on the shore, seemingly taking in the sights, the smells and more, even on this supposedly 'haunted' isle. He was only vaguely aware of the others arriving but if the last 'job' he'd performed was any indication, meeting his comrades would be beneficial. Turning, he stops and stares, a bit blankly at the familiar face....before offering a wide, fanged grin.
Seito Moonclaw: "It would seem, we have a habit of meeting on islands."
Anstarra Silverain laughs, shaking her head. "Indeed.. it's been a while hasn't it? Or it feels like it." She walks over to Seito and gives him a big hug.
Seito Moonclaw chuckles warmly, "Too long, you look well, Anstarra."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Mm, you too~" She smiles, then looks over, as someone else arrives.. and beams again. "Jana?"
Seito Moonclaw gives her a friendly pat on the shoulder, peering past her at Jana, "Ah, a friend of yours?"
Jana Ridah grumbles to herself as she gets off whatever ferry she presumably took to the remote island. If one listened closely enough, they could hear something about the gil-grubbing ferries... She looks up with some surprise when she hears Anstarra's voice.
Jana Ridah: ...Weren't you supposed to be rotting in gaol or something?
Anstarra Silverain clears her throat, her smile becoming a bit forced. She answers over her shoulder to Seito. "It's been a while since we've seen each other." She looks back to the other girl. "Too long, apparently. Bringing up old news like that."
Seito Moonclaw blinks a few times, looking between the pair. "...or perhaps not," he offers, quietly. At the explanation, he nods slowly.
Khunbish Avagnar: A large roegadyn woman in a yellow jacket steps up towards the group, she nods her head towards them "Are you the Adventurers come to help with this issue of the missing Sahagin?" he spits on the ground and sighs, "Can't believe we're worried about them hiding."
Seito Moonclaw: "It would seem we are. Might I ask...why the sudden concern?"
Anstarra Silverain looks to the roe, grateful for a distraction, and beams warmly. "Indeed! That's us." She looks around, as though expecting a fourth - blinking as she spots the blue butterfly - then looking back to the yellowjacket. "It's weird times indeed."
Jana Ridah frowns, mostly to herself. "I didn't think it was so long, but if you're here and talking to a Yellowjacket, then I suppose all was forgiven at some point..."
Anstarra Silverain smiles and doesn't bother to correct the other girl. Nor is she about to go into the arrangements she made to have her crimes disappear.. odds were the Yellowjacket wouldn't know her at all. And former criminals working for the state was hardly odd in La Noscea...
Seito Moonclaw listens and makes a note to perhaps inquire more later, but for now - there was the task at hand.
Khunbish Avagnar: Wiltgybet sighs and shakes her head, "Las' time the Sahagin went and disappeared on us, we lost boats and had to gamble on that Garlean defector and some special nobodies to deal with Leviathan, my bosses don't want to risk us leaving our patrols and such just in case, I drew the short straw on this."
Seito Moonclaw: "Leviathan..." he glances out towards the sea instinctively. "And should we find them ind the midst of such an act again, we are to stop them, it would seem."
Anstarra Silverain 's ears fold back slightly, as she too looks at the sea. Leviathan... "Well, we're pretty special as nobodies go, too, so. Hey, um. So where do you think we should start looking..?"
Khunbish Avagnar: Wiltgybet gives a shrug, "Maybe look 'bout there camps, see if you can find any clue, if you find a clue, would be good to make sure not to have any primals headed our way."
S'imba Tia wanders up to where he notices one or two familiar faces. He puts on his most angsty teenage expression and walks forwards. Not really saying anything and standing a bit back away from the group, looking around with a forced bored expression.
Anstarra Silverain glances to the side and her ears perk up. "Ah! A fourth. Now the world's in balance again." She beams. Could it be she doesn't recognize him? With the hair, and the bandana...
Seito Moonclaw turns and eyes the newcomer, squinting briefly before he nods. "Four pairs of eyes are surely better than three after all. Is there more or shall we begin the hunt for their camps?"
Khunbish Avagnar: Wiltgybet shrugs, "Ain't no more that I have. Just want this done, if the sahagin all jumped off into the sea and died that'd be perfect."
S'imba Tia gives An his most bored looking expression he can muster, if he could fool her then he knew his disguise was legit. His eyes flicked to the morpho then to Wilgybet the only response he gives is a short. "Tch."
Anstarra Silverain feels like something's vaguely familiar about the other male. Something... overblown and conceited. It was at once familiar and annoying. She can't put her finger on it. She goes to say something, then flinches as the butterfly lands on her shoulder. "Gah!"
★Anstarra Silverain: "I'm watching you!"
★Anstarra Silverain: "I mean, um."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Let's go check out those camps."
Seito Moonclaw looks around then gives a single nod. "Indeed. Ah, but first," He turns to Jana and bows slightly, "I am Seito." Peering at their fourth, he seems to stare for a few moments more. "And what might we call you?"
S'imba Tia blinks for a moment blanking, he tries to come up with something totally edgy. His eyes flick to An again causing his tail to wrap around his leg and his ears pin back. He looks back to Seito for a moment before saying. "Mutt."
Jana Ridah: Seems useless. Let's leave it behind.
Seito Moonclaw: "I don't think the butterfly is causing much harm. I doubt we can make it stay anywhere..." He peers at the Morpho then shrugs. "Shall we then?"
Anstarra Silverain was totally watching the Morpho, but it's understandable that S'imba might've thought she meant him, they were in the same direction. She nods to the others. "Yeah, let's go!"
Khunbish Avagnar: The trip to the Sahagin camp was terrifyingly uneventful. It truly looks as if they all just picked up and left on the spot, grabbing whatever was at hand before disappearing.
Anstarra Silverain swishes her tail, nostrils flaring as the group moves through the empty camp. "Mm.. hard to tell how long since they've been gone, huh. But it's weird.. what could make them all leave?" She looks at the others. "I really hope it's not Leviathan..."
Seito Moonclaw crouches down to inspect a shell, turning it over in his hand. "I am unsure any of us are...equipped to deal with a primal, if that becomes necessary." Letting out a breath, he makes a face as he avoids stepping in a rather nasty looking pond. "Still, moving an entire camp, there must be a trail somewhere."
Jana Ridah: We don't have enough fodder for me to have a go at it. ...In any event, let's look around. I guess.
â—S'imba Tia: "Tch...I hope it is, then we could baptize his followers in his blood." He said in a monotone bored voice.
★Anstarra Silverain: "Haha, yeah.. if I Primal shows up, I'm leaving." She shrugs cheerfully, and starts looking around as well.
Seito Moonclaw: "Eager for battle, it would seem." He remarks, continuing a search of his own.
Jana Ridah: Oh sorry, I'll succeed at a cost
Khunbish Avagnar: Anstarra and Seito's search through the camp bring up nothing of import, aside from the discovery of the latrine pits, for beastman at least they try to keep it away from the rest of the camp. S'imba now has the /high ground/ as he scampers up the rock face like a Paissa. Alas Jana's footing slides a bit as she's investigating and /smashed her foot/ on a large shell that gave out sound of garbled whining.
Jana Ridah lets out a small yelp, followed by even more grumbling under her breath.
Seito Moonclaw: "Ugh," Seito pinches his nose, frowning, "Of course, that explains what I saw earlier..." Giving a gagging sound, he fans the air and motions for An to join him in looking somewhere, anywhere, else.
Anstarra Silverain backs away from the latrines. "I don't care if there are secrets buried there, no way." She hears Jana's yelp, ears twitching, and cranes her neck to look over...
S'imba Tia looks at the others before wandering over to a rock, the various handholds were going to make this a breeze. He decided to do a bit of show boating. He runs at it and smoothly makes it look like he just ran up the wall as he moved. Once at the top he looks over the area, looking for any sign of sahagin.
Anstarra Silverain notices 'Mutt' scamper his way athletically up the rocks, and grins, miming a bit of clapping if he looks her way. Her demeanor's not sarcastic; she likes a bit of showing off. "Anyone see anything?"
Khunbish Avagnar: From where S'imba is perched, he can see a lot of ripples heading towards shore in the distance, but they will take some time to arrive. There was also more garbled noises from under the shell Jana kicked.
Seito Moonclaw makes his way towards Jana, looking around quickly, "Is everything alright?"
Jana Ridah mumbles under her breath, not really answering the questing... Or seeming to notice it was asked.
â—S'imba Tia: "Something is slowly heading this way!"
Jana Ridah eventually stops grumbling long enough to realize that she wasn't the only one grumbling, and gives the shell a light nudge with her foot.
Khunbish Avagnar: The Shell dislodges a bit and a webbed foot can be seen before it disappears and more noises.
Seito Moonclaw stares at Jana, waiting for her to respond to his question, which she must have missed. But his attention turns away, missing the webbed foot, as he looks up at Mutt, "What? From where??"
Anstarra Silverain hears weird sounds in Jana's direction, then shakes her head as she remembers she doesn't believe in Murlocs.
★Anstarra Silverain: "What? Heading our way? From which direction?"
â—S'imba Tia: "The depths!" He calls back pointing out into the water.
★Anstarra Silverain: "Hrm.. how big! How many!" She draws her spear, less because it's immediately time than out of habit..
Jana Ridah moves to snatch the foot from under the shell before it can escape her, holding her breath as her hands dart forwards!
Khunbish Avagnar: Jana's hand easily catches the webbed foot and drags a small, hunched Sahagin that looks even more fishlike than they normally do, it makes a gutteral fish noises, "Noooo!"
Seito Moonclaw turns towards the water, taking a few steps forward as he tries to make out just what or who is heading their way.
S'imba Tia is glad he is so high up, easy enough to hide that he was actually terrified of whatever could be making it's way torwards them. The top two fears being Leviathan or a kraken.
Jana Ridah steps out from her corner and takes a coule steps back to the group, holding the Sahagin out as today's catch.
Jana Ridah: Found one.
Anstarra Silverain is distracted from the incipient threat by the.. she blinks. "What the hells? Is it a baby? Er.. hello there!" She wiggles her fingers at it.
Seito Moonclaw: "Something's...certainly moving, but I cannot tell what it is yet..."
Khunbish Avagnar: "Nooo! Let Murlocsss go! Othersss be back, if hidesss they not ssstrikesss!"
Jana Ridah: Whaaaat? Sorry, I don't speak fish.
Jana Ridah totally has the Echo and can understand whatever language she wants to, and is jsut being patronizing for its own sake.
Seito Moonclaw glances at the two women and their 'captive', instead moving towards the shoreline, if possible. Perhaps he could see something more if he were closer...
Anstarra Silverain decides to come say hi to the beastie, letting the boys keep an eye on the water..
★Anstarra Silverain: "So, um.. Murlocs? Are you a sahagin?"
Khunbish Avagnar: "Am Ab-abberant! Her voice unable touch me! Othersss ssstrike me becaussse ssstrange!"
★Anstarra Silverain: "'Her voice'?" An tilts her head curiously. "Who is 'she'?"
Khunbish Avagnar: The shapes are resolving into Sahagin and one not Sahagin.
Khunbish Avagnar: "She! She! One who is not sahagin!"
Jana Ridah holds the miniature Sahagin away from her, keeping her arm straight out as An "interrogates" the beastman.
S'imba Tia draws his sword with a snarl tail thrashing back and forth. "Sahagin...and something else...." He said squinting trying to make out whatever the not sahagin was.
Anstarra Silverain scratches her cheek, then points at Jana. "Her?"
Khunbish Avagnar: Murloc shakes its head quickly, "noo nooo nooo! She isss... in watersss sssmall but Sssahagin followsss except me becaussse aberrant!"
Jana Ridah clears her throat.
Anstarra Silverain looks over toward the oncoming commotion.. "Might that be her?"
Jana Ridah: So the Sahagin were lead offshore by a woman... A Siren or something?
Khunbish Avagnar: "Noo! Not Sssiren!" it wiggles about, "Can't sssee! Not back! Not want more hitsss and hurtsss!"
Jana Ridah shakes the Sahagin a bit.
Seito Moonclaw stands at the shoreline, peering out at the oncoming bubble stream.
Anstarra Silverain ponders the diminutive beastie, looking sceptical. "Hrm.. what else can you tell us about 'her'? Is she the reason everyone is missing? And does she have an actual name?"
Khunbish Avagnar: "Noo! she showed up! Hid under shellsss! not catch name! othersss jussst follow!"
Khunbish Avagnar: S'imba caught sight of a seagull with a strange patter on them, wait... if he turns his head this way, is that a sword... no it's kind of more like a... Seito you clearly see the Sahagin swimming in wedge formation, these ones look normal, and surround what appears to be a Lalafell that's struggling, seems she might have a /Skittish Nature/
Anstarra Silverain looks at Murloc, then at Jana, then over at the males. "Well.. shall we go see what's going on?"
Seito Moonclaw blinks a few times then reaches up to rub at his eyes. "Anstarra, Jana...look there." He calls out to the pair, pointing out the V and the Lalafell.
Anstarra Silverain makes her way over to look, peering at the V in the water...
Seito Moonclaw: "We may wish to...hide ourselves. Just to observe, at the least."
â—S'imba Tia: "Or we can talk to them....if not we kill them all."
★Anstarra Silverain: "I'm uh. Not great at stealth."
Seito Moonclaw: "Somehow, I am unsurprised."
★Anstarra Silverain: "But! Feel free to be sneak, so you can jump out at them? Unless you wanna stand here all honorable-like if the engaging of glorious battle becomes imminent."
â—S'imba Tia: "What snowflake said."
Anstarra Silverain is the specialest snowflake.
Anstarra Silverain peers at Mutt.
Seito Moonclaw: "Now you're offering me quite the choice." He looks back (up?) at Mutt then at An, chuckling softly. "Snowflake? It is fitting enough."
Jana Ridah: Honestly? I think we should just provoke them over to us and get it done with. We can interrogate any who survive a... Sound thrashing.
Anstarra Silverain blows a lock of her hair up, then shakes her head. "Nah Jana, I think the Sahagin who live here are the 'friendly' ones."
Seito Moonclaw: "We wish to know where they've gone. If you are able to speak with them, let us do so to begin with. Besides, there is a Lalafell among them."
★Anstarra Silverain: "I mean if they attack us.. a what?"
Seito Moonclaw: "Oh...I thought you saw as well."
Seito Moonclaw leans over and points a bit more directly this time. "Look. There."
★Anstarra Silverain: "I was looking at the pretty reflections. A lalafell? This little one here said that 'she' is a little one. Could it be a lalafell?"
★Anstarra Silverain: "I mean, setting aside how ludicrous this is, because there is a lalafell there.
★Anstarra Silverain: "What the hells."
Jana Ridah waits a moment before raising her arm and shaking the sahagin she's still holding in the air.
â—S'imba Tia: "Told you all Lalafell are of the void."
Jana Ridah: Hey. What can you tell us about this.
Jana Ridah -says to the sahagin with a deapan tone.
Khunbish Avagnar: The sahagins make it to shore first and spread out, holding weapons at the ready. Mostly spears a few javelins, they do split for what is a Lalafell, plainsfolk by the look that stands there looking at the group. Her legs are made of bluish rock with a faint glow coming from between the cracks.
★Anstarra Silverain: "You guys are seeing this right? I didn't breathe in some sort of fishy spores making me hallucinate a lalafell with glowing rock legs?"
Jana Ridah: I see it too. We should dissect it.
Seito Moonclaw gives a low hiss, his hand going to rest at his sword. "Be on your guard," he mutters. "I encountered something -very- similar near the Crystal Tower."
â—S'imba Tia: "What is it?"
Seito Moonclaw: "A very unhappy elemental had possessed a researcher. It was..earthen in nature but the glow and stone, it is too similar to be coincidence."
Khunbish Avagnar: The Lalafell perks a bit at Seito's words, "You... You have seen another like me then?" she raises her hands, "Children calm down I want to ask them questions." The Sahagin glance at each other and lower their weapons slowly, some hesitating more than others. The lalafell steps forward, "Shaitan? They're still alive/"
Jana Ridah: We're a little far from that place.
Jana Ridah: Oh look, it talks too.
Jana Ridah shakes the Sahagin in her hand more vigorously.
â—S'imba Tia: "S-she's not tempered is she?"
★Anstarra Silverain: "Crystal Tower..?" She narrows her eyes, tail slashing a bit, then the lala is speaking. "Shaitan? Oh, and hello, sorry we came when you were out, I'm Anstarra, who might you be?"
Seito Moonclaw narrows his eyes at the Lalafell. "Do your goals align with his then?"
S'imba Tia thrashes his tail back and forth, eyes locked on the lalafell suspiciously, standing ready to split her in half like a pig if she tried any funny business.
Khunbish Avagnar: Anstarra's most winning smile manages to ease the nervous looking Lalafell into thinking she might be a bit /Friendly/
Anstarra Silverain totally fingerguns. It's only threatening if you know what guns are. Which many people do. But that smile!
Khunbish Avagnar: "I am Marid." she jumps backwards at the fingerguns and hides behind the Sahagin who encircle around her, "NO! Please no! If you continue with that I'll have to kill you!"
Seito Moonclaw holds a hand out towards Anstarra, "Perhaps a little less, she appeared to have a /Skittish Nature/ from what I observed."
Anstarra Silverain blinks in astonishment, and spreads her hands inoffensively. Then eases them to her sides before someone assumes she's casting a spell. Wouldn't that be a weird thing to assume. "Sorry! Not here to hurt you~ We were just wondering where all the Sahagin had gone! Other people were wondering too. But you said you wanted to ask us things too, right? We can trade questions!"
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid nods her head a bit, "Yes, I'm very curious and the Sahagin told me some stuff but they know very little beyond survival necessities." she steps around them again to look at them, "So...um... You saw Shaitan then? Was he well!?"
Seito Moonclaw is still giving a narrow eyed stare. "When last I saw him? He was not. He murdered three researches, possessed another and sought to do the same to us. Claiming that the sons of man had ruined nature." He delivers it all straight faced and evenly.
Anstarra Silverain shakes her head. "I didn't meet him, but apparently Seito did, so.. oh, this is Seito~" She looks at the male.
★Anstarra Silverain: "Oh. Huh. That's kinda awful.."
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid nods her head a few times, "Well, Allagans were destroying everything, some still are the sahagin tell me far to the north and I see new structures that are like rough Allagan copies all around."
Seito Moonclaw: "So I ask again, are your goals the same as his?"
★Anstarra Silverain: "Rough.. OH! The Garleans."
Khunbish Avagnar: "My goals?" she ponders the question a moment, "I don't want to kill people, I am water, water gives life and nurtures, we crush only if we have to." she shakes her head, "If what you said is true, no, I do not wish to destroy you all, unless you wish to poison the waters."
Seito Moonclaw shakes his head, "Such is no desire of mine. I do wonder though, what has caused you and he, Shaitan, to arise now after so long? And where are the rest of the Sahagain who reside here?"
Anstarra Silverain shrugs, looking to Seito. "I don't see why we would. We need water to live..." she looks back to the girl, contemplating her as Seito inquires some more.
Khunbish Avagnar: "Oh... um... when I was awakened there was a great torrent, and a serpent these Sahagin called Leviathan, I think it struck my thing... am happy to be free, was found by the owner of this body. The other Sahagin they are dispersing the crystals they had back to the oceans where the aether belongs."
★Anstarra Silverain: "The owner of that body.." An frowns a little. "So you are..." She looks at the rocks, then at the lalafell... host? "What.. are you exactly?"
Seito Moonclaw looks over at Anstarra and 'Mutt', speaking low. "The other, we found him near some sort of...allaghan device. It was damaged somehow, freeing Shaitan. The same must have happened to her."
â—S'imba Tia: "What Snowflake said."
Khunbish Avagnar: She shrinks away at the mention of Allagans from Seito a bit, "I am water." she states simply to Anstarra, "Marid was name given when torn from water." She frowns and fidgets a bit.
★Anstarra Silverain: "Being water... are you... an Elemental?" It's the thing that makes most sense to her. "I mean you're clearly not just a sprite..."
Seito Moonclaw keeps his attention on Marid but shakes his head, seemingly at An's question.
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid nods slightly, "Yes I am water, sprites are extensions of ourselves..." she reaches up and touches a strnad of hair, "Like a strand of hair."
Seito Moonclaw looks around but pauses when his attention settles on Jana's small 'friend'. "Jana, is -she- the one that the creature spoke of?"
â—S'imba Tia: "What does that even mean?"
Khunbish Avagnar: Murloc has been gibbering for a moment
★Anstarra Silverain: "Huh..." She taps her cheek with her finger. "It means the world is full of things we don't know yet..." she says to Mutt, before nodding to the lala again. "So.. you say you are water, but were also torn FROM water. Who tore you? The Allagans?"
Jana Ridah shrugs at the males question, holding the Sahagin in his directo so it could answer.
Khunbish Avagnar: "Yes Allagans did tear but..." she shies back more, "Can we talk about what you plan to do with the one born wrong?" she motions towards Murloc.
Jana Ridah: Definitely not eat him.
â—S'imba Tia: "Make sure he isn't beaten and tortured for being different."
Seito Moonclaw stares at the sahagin. He's not sure he can understand it.
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid sighs and nods slightly, "That is why I came back, that one doesn't hear the water."
Khunbish Avagnar: "Not to hurt, but I learned from these ones that they hurt him."
Anstarra Silverain tilts her head. "What do you mean by that exactly? It said the others hurt it.."
â—S'imba Tia: "Hear the water?" He said tilting his head. "What does that mean?"
Khunbish Avagnar: "That one was born from a previous leader, but born wrong, he cannot breath and live in the water like a Sahagin." she motions towards them, "Like you all can't."
â—S'imba Tia: "Hey I can outswim a Sahagin any day!" He said with a huff. "Done it before!"
Anstarra Silverain peers at Mutt again. He was sounding like someone else she knew...
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid doubts Mutts words, they sound a bit doggy, the Sahagin snickers and one steps forward, "You ssswim better? How long can be underwater!"
Seito Moonclaw seems to simply be looking between Marid and the small 'wrong' sahagain.
â—S'imba Tia: "Fine I can't stay underwater indefinitely....yet...."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Hmmm..."
Seito Moonclaw: "You convinced all of the Sahagin here to leave, returning crystals to the sea, correct?"
★Anstarra Silverain: "Even the other ones..? The Tempered ones?"
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid tilts her head, "Tempered? No, there are ones who call themselves drowned...They were attempting to bring a bad water into the world."
Seito Moonclaw: "And you, along with all of them," he gestures to the group accompanying her, "...all came ashore to find the small one?"
Khunbish Avagnar: "Yes I did, I wanted to see if that one I could heal." she motions, "Looking at him I don't believe he is something I can heal, but he will not suffer abuse so long as I'm around."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Well... I think we have enough to report on the leve. The Sahagin went away because a water Elemental told them to get rid of their crystals. I'm pretty sure people will be more happy than concerned; primals are often seen as literally the worst, after all, and Marid here helped avoid a Summoning."
Khunbish Avagnar: "Oh...uh...It was summoned, giant water snake right?"
Jana Ridah: ...Just need to make sure whatever crystals they unloaded aren't jut picked up by the population out at sea.
â—S'imba Tia: "Wait....Leviathan has been summoned?"
Seito Moonclaw double takes, "Did you say it was summoned?"
Khunbish Avagnar: She nods her head, "Yes, but I returned the water back to the ocean, like all the crystals." she frowns a bit, "What do you mean gather the crystals up? they are gone, they are water again."
★Anstarra Silverain: "You.. made Leviathan go away?"
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid nods her head slowly, "It was water, I took the water away and returned it."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Well... good!"
Anstarra Silverain isn't sure if she should be freaking out. She's pretty sure the answer is yes.
â—S'imba Tia: "Huh...."
Seito Moonclaw: "You...removed Leviathan and are able to speak to nearly all Sahagin if they can hear the ocean?" He exhales, that's a dangerous combination.
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid nods her head slowly.
Seito Moonclaw frowns slowly in return, looking to the others.
★Anstarra Silverain: "Well, I mean, like Marid said. She likes pure and clean oceans and clean, life-giving water." She looks to the.. lalafell? "Incidentally, those people to the northeast are probably the ones causing the most damage to the oceans. All that metal industry."
Jana Ridah: It's an Allagan thing possessing a popoto who claims to be able to... Dissipate crystals and primals. Should we suffer it to live?
Khunbish Avagnar: At that the Sahagin are armed and closing defensively around Marid.
Khunbish Avagnar: The sahagin don't notice Jana's words but Marid starts shrinking backwards behind them, her ears twitching, "I don't like you."
â—S'imba Tia: "Well....it kind of sketches me out about how much control she holds over the sahagin....then there is the fact that she -is- an Allagan construct and nothing ever good comes from them....plus pretty sure possession is not ok..."
Anstarra Silverain curses inwardly, then laughs a bit loud, trying to draw the elemental thing's attention away from Jana. "Oh, don't worry about her. She asks that about pretty much everything, and we don't end up killing anything that doesn't attack us first!"
Khunbish Avagnar: Murloc has passed out at this point from dangling upside down.
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid calms down a bit, seeming to /Trust/ Anstarra's words for now at least, "Um... can she put the damaged one down before it dies?"
Jana Ridah notices the sahagin's movement cease and lays it (him/her?) at her side, well within her reach and out of the lalafell party's.
Jana Ridah: I barely damaged it...
Seito Moonclaw whispers, "Something is not right here, I can practically feel it..."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Oh, uh." She blinks, seeing the.. unconscious.. beasty. Bites her lips as Jana puts it down, then beams at Marid again. "There, all's well that ends well. So, what're you going to do next, Marid?"
★Anstarra Silverain: "Maybe you have gas."
Seito Moonclaw gives An a sidelong glance.
Khunbish Avagnar: "I am... going ask Sahagin help remove all of Allagan things from the oceans." she trails off and frowns, "You said Shaitan wanted kill everyone?"
Seito Moonclaw: "That we all held the sins of Allag and should be punished for it."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Probably anyone who's hurt the earth.. he sounds a little insane."
Seito Moonclaw: "Very."
â—S'imba Tia: Sounds like an Elemental...sad we don't have a conjurer..."
Seito Moonclaw: "Yes and no. He, too, needed a form to take hold of."
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid shifts a bit, "We were all... Allagans do bad things, forcing us onto perfectly healthy people...." she looks to Seito, "I am going to try to find Shaitan too and reason with him not to kill everyone, just the people actually hurting things."
Anstarra Silverain makes the 'I'm watching you' sign at Mutt! Then grins at him, before looking back to Marid..
★Anstarra Silverain: "Onto healthy people.. you say that like that's not something you would do normally. What about your current host? How'd you come to possess her?"
Seito Moonclaw: "And if he will not listen to reason? I assure you, we tried as well."
â—S'imba Tia: "Whose on the obliterate and decimate list?"
Khunbish Avagnar: "The um... Allagans with the rough machines."
★Anstarra Silverain: "They're called Garleans!"
★Anstarra Silverain: "Their Empire is Garlemald."
Jana Ridah: Are we certain it's not jsut imperials with their own war machines?
★Anstarra Silverain: "They're actually our enemies."
â—S'imba Tia: "These Allagans....did they come from some sort of stasis tube and green goo?"
Khunbish Avagnar: "Gar lee ans?" she mouths it and the Sahagin shrug as she looks at them, backwater bumpkins, some help. She frowns and nods her head, "If name then yes." she looks towards the waters and sighs, "I needs go but... can I see the hurt one first?" she looks at S'imba and frowns, "What?"
Seito Moonclaw: "There was a sort of...tube in the room where we found Shaitan. He'd destroyed it and the controls, unfortunately." At her mentioning that she needed to go, he taps his chin. "There is another, one who also met Shaitan, could I send her here, to speak with you, or perhaps do we have a means of contacting you?"
â—S'imba Tia: "Just trying to figure out if we're talking about the same people."
Khunbish Avagnar: She ponders a moment and reaches towards the water and creates a watery conch that she then puts into a random conch on the ground, "...Um.. someone will have to stay... watch this, can be called with it if needed."
Seito Moonclaw nods slowly, giving a glance at the others. "Alright, then. Ah...thank you."
Anstarra Silverain relaxes a bit. "Sounds good to me."
â—S'imba Tia: "Hmmm....right then..."
Khunbish Avagnar: With things coming a close, if allowed, Water of a strange consistency is splashed onto Murloc who regains conciousness and is handed the conch. Apparently Murloc is now the one with the honor of being in charge of guarding and using the Marid Flute.
â—S'imba Tia: "Right then we'll not bother you for the time being...but start causing trouble then you're going to have to answer to S'imba mother fucking Tia....legendary dark knight."
Seito Moonclaw looks back at Mutt and smirks
Seito Moonclaw: "That seems to be that then. For now at the least." He sighs and looks to the murloc. "I will likely return, to make use of the conch."
★Anstarra Silverain: "Iiiiii knew it!"
★Anstarra Silverain: "Butterfly, get him!"
Jana Ridah: ...If that's you in that getup, S'imba Motherfucking Tia, I'm gonna throttle you.
â—S'imba Tia: "YOU KNEW NOTHING!!"
Anstarra Silverain | The Morpho continues to flutter peacefully.
Seito Moonclaw: "I suspected the same, in truth."
★Anstarra Silverain: "I knew it when you started talking about outswimming Sahagin!"
Khunbish Avagnar: Marid tilts her head, "You slept with your mother?" she shakes her head and departs, "Explains this bodies concerns about miqo'tes."
Jana Ridah: Only some of the slit-eyed ones do. Don't worry.
Seito Moonclaw: "It is an expression."
§{Khunbish Adarkim}§