A New You, Tuesday, Period Two

[built_fjord_tough]

Today, class, you were meeting in the Danger Shop outside a large cave entrance. Fjord was there leaning against a boulder, arms crossed over his chest.

He was smirking.

"First off," he drawled, "I want to congratulate Yelden on taking initiative and becoming the new face of the party in conversation."

Really, if it had to be the fighter or the rogue, Fjord wanted the one who wasn't just acting in self-interest. Though watching this whole campaign slowly snowball into a nightmare of consequences had been fun in its own way, too.

"For the rest of you, this means you've got two homeless kobolds and a wyrmling all looking for an assist in clearing out the cave of the violent creature that shredded the wyrmling's wing and is keeping him from going back home. Remember, for the more monetarily driven of you, that there's still a handsome reward back in town for keeping the dragon from wandering too close to the outskirts, and," he nodded toward the wyrmling, whose good wing was mantled and whose tail was thrashing behind him as he peered into the cave, "dragons keep treasure troves."

Just throwing that out there for the roguish of you.

"So," he smirked at the party. "In you go."

Fjord enjoyed this entirely too much.

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In the dark!

Lecture!

[built_fjord_tough]

In which your teacher tries to shove you into another cave.

Hopefully you all have dark vision.

Into the Cave

[built_fjord_tough]

With subthreads!

Into the Cave - The Journey

[built_fjord_tough]

The wyrmling is playing tour guide, more or less, as you make your way into the cave. This used to be his home, after all, and he's going to guide you to the place where he encountered the demon.

Chat to him, to the kobolds, amongst yourselves, make sure you're ready for a fight...

But no, really, how well can you see in the dark?

Into the Cave - The Demon

[built_fjord_tough]

You walk, and... nothing.

Nothing.

Nothing.

Until you enter a chamber with a floor that seems to sparkle as though illuminated on its own, any light you're setting off reflecting over thousands of pieces of gold and gems.

And then even that light disappears, seems to get pushed away violently as shadows coalesce in the middle of the room, and from those shadows, rises a shape.

Looks like you've found your demon.

Into the Cave - Aftermath

[built_fjord_tough]

Did you all make it?

Are you going to try to talk the wyrmling out of his treasure?

Or just make off with it?

Or do something infinitely more horrible?

... Just covering the bases, here.

Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

He's joining you on this expedition, mostly because he wants to see where this goes.

Hell, if you ask him nicely enough, he might even participate in the demon fight. He's bored, guys.

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[built_fjord_tough]

Can't go to work, there's a purring kitty in my lap.

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Keyleth Yelden

Re: Lecture!

[goldfishontherocks]

Who had made a high-pitched noise of dismay at the beginning of the lecture? Go on, guess. Just guess.

Get it together, Keyleth, this is literally what you're supposed to be training for!

Re: Into the Cave - The Journey

[goldfishontherocks]

Keyleth could see just fine for sixty feet in the dark, was the thing.

Yelden couldn't, though, and this was kind of the reason Keyleth was doing a lot of internal flailing right now. Okay, one of the reasons. Another one of which was that they were . . . having a dragon . . . escort them to its cave, which just seemed, well, very unorthodox.

Re: Into the Cave - The Demon

[goldfishontherocks]

"Oh," Yelden said out loud, glancing at the now possibly useless torch in her hand as she reached for the morningstar at her belt. "That's . . . okay. Damn it, why didn't I pick the light cantrip?"

Hey, at least this was motivation for Keyleth to be more selective about the ones she learned for real later on.

She'd throw the torch at the demon, but nobody needed the party melee fighter having to attack at disadvantage.

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Prompto Argentum Seros Glacium

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

Beau was waiting outside the cave after the class ended, shifting from one foot to the other and occasionally letting out a loud, exasperated sigh because waiting gracefully was for people not named Beauregard [last name redacted].

"Did you make them all go in a dark cave? You asshole."

Hi to you too, Fjord, from the human painfully aware of her own lack of darkvision!

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

"It was either this or they fight the dragon," Fjord replied amiably as he meandered back out into the daylight. Smirking.

Look, he was a charismatic man. That didn't mean he was a nice one.

"The kobolds weren't terribly fond of them for some reason, after all."

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

"Heh. Somebody fucked up, huh?"

Don't look smug about that, Beau. Technically they're at a higher level than you are right now, and you're going to end up part of the biggest disaster crew this side of the Lucidian Ocean, so you really can't talk at all.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord shrugged his shoulders, smiling crookedly.

"When a bunch'a little guys come to you saying, 'gnolls are eating our babies,' what do you do?"

Spoiler: Probably not what these idiots did.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

These two judging an imaginary adventuring party's questionable decisions was pretty rich, wasn't it, considering how they were eventually going to get themselves banned from an entire island less than 24 hours after arriving there?

Well, they didn't know that yet. So.

"Oh yeah." Beau grimaced. "That's -- that's, uh. Kind of thing that ends up with a whole dragon situation, I guess."

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Lana Beniko Jatila

Re: Into the Cave - The Journey

[unusual_sith]

Jatila could see fine in the dark (for 60 feet), even if Lana had to use the Force for it.

She was also keeping a close eye on that dragon and the kobolds, since she didn't trust them at all. Still...hoard. And reward.

Re: Into the Cave - The Demon

[unusual_sith]

Was any of this worth the trouble?

Yeah, Jatila was stealthing. At worst, it'd let her attack from hiding. At best, maybe she'd just get out of there.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

"The kobolds certainly seem to think so," Fjord mused. "Dragon seems pretty fond of them."

Even as they sat on his head and chattered like tiny little idiots.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

Well, you know, everybody had their hobbies. Like poking mysterious objects just to see what happened, Fjord.

"The students haven't all, like, eaten each other yet?" Beau had to ask. "Not literally."

You had to clarify these things.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[built_fjord_tough]

Those would be very educational experiences, Beau.

"Not yet, no," Fjord mused, "though our fighter seems to have stepped up to keep the rogue from getting everyone killed. That's reassuring."

Jatila was a menace.

Re: Talk to Fjord!

[notallbluemonks]

As rogues tended to be. Too bad the concept of 'my actions have consequences and can impact other people's lives' hadn't entirely sunk in for Beau yet.

"I mean, it can't be that bad, right?"