karkarinus Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Kalmer is quite happy with his own company during the trip. He has gone all quiet again, thinking back about his wife and daughter. Some time later, he looks up and says to Baba, "We should look in on the museums and the Temple of Dancing waters, when we get back from Malibar, before heading on to our next destination. If nothing else, they could be of leisure interest." Not that Kalmer is too fond of architecture and museums, but he feels that anything he can learn about this land - useful or otherwise - may yet serve some purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phawk69 Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Looking at Baba, T'skar says "What now? Should we catch the 11am train, or wait a day? If we went now, we could do some snooping BEFORE dark, which would be my vote. What ever we deside, I need to do some shopping, and this looks like a nice place to do it, so I wouldn't mind a day or so, either now or later." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baba-John Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 I’d say lets see if we get any reply to our letter to Zarim Bembolia. :rolleyes: If we’re right he’ll know we are looking for him/it/them and get in contact with us, if he/it/they so wish. This could save us a lot of time in the long run. Let’s travel tomorrow and then …………………………………. :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malchik Posted May 11, 2006 Author Share Posted May 11, 2006 OOC> Have fun shopping After two days you receive a letter delivered to the lodging. "You are not fools. You know perfectly well that I do not wish to be identified. I have lived out of the eyes and ears of mankind for many hundreds of years. Everything I know about the swords has been written and published. If you are so desperate you'll just have to find me!" It is unsigned but clearly comes from Bembolia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phawk69 Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 T'skar uses the two days to pick up some things she has been needing - like sandals and chocolate. she also looks for two small boxes with identical locks on them, and some other assorted locks. She finances her transactions by honing her pocket picking and purse cutting. T'skar approaches Gnaag the first evening and says "So young man, you still want to be a thief do you? There is a difference between thieving and stealing. Anyone can steal, you see something laying around and you take it - people call you a thief, but really you have only stolen something anybody could have. Thieving, on the other hand, is a time honored tradition, and involves knowing the worth and value of something and weighing the risks verses rewards. Worth and value are not the same thing - things can have different values to different people, but is it worth anything at all? A family heirloom may have great value to the family, but be nothing more than cut glass, worthless to anyone wanting to sell it. Tomorrow we will work on assessing the worth of something, but tonight you will begin working on gaining access to what others concider valuable." With that, she turns and leads him to her room, where there are two identical wood boxes on her bed. She picks up one of the boxes and opens the lid. "Do you see this lock Gnaag? It is a very simple lock." Taking her dagger, she pries the lock off the lid of the box, then she uses the dagger to pry the back off the lock. "See how it works? A very simple mechanism." Removing a set of lockpicks from her backpack, she again addresses the young man, "Watch as I move the pick through the key hole. See how the mechanism moves? This second box is locked. Study this lock, take the picks and try to open the locked box." T'skar watches as Gnaag works at the task dilligently, and remembers her first 'tutor'. He had been a gruff old man, and had taught her as much about human nature as about thieving, but he had been kind in his own way as well. Never had he actually struck her, nor touched her in any way that was not appropriate, but he had browbeat her, and derided her. Lost in her own thoughts, T'skar is drawn out by a soft 'click' and a look of accomplishment on Gnaag's face. (When Gnaag gets the lock open, there is chocolate in the box.) "That is enough for tonight. Take the picks and the box, and practice. Tomorrow we will go to a museum and see if there is anything of worth in this town." Smiling, she sends Gnaag back to his own room. She spends the next morning with Gnaag in one of the museums, looking at the art (and jewelry if there is any) and teaching him a little of what to look for that denotes real worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnaag Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Gnaag looked at the odd vase in front of him. T'skar's talking was very interesting and Gnaag really enjoyed it. But that vase annoyed him deeply. It's strange unuseble shape made him feel depressed. ...ok, it's nice T'skar, but I have a question. Is this piece of ceramic waste an art? I have to doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mordred kaides Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 /ooc ok evryone I'm back Mordred looks around him in the new city. ""nice place"" he hinks to himself.in the morning after he read the letter from Bembolia he turns to baba."are we planning to go after this guy, or girl, in the dark." mordred shivers."maybe it would be best if we packed some torches." /ooc if baba agrees mandrake goes of to buy some torches and also looks for magnesium and cloth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baba-John Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Well, I’d say we catch the train at 11 tomorrow to Malibar. :( Zarim Bembolia awaits us, even if he/she/it doesn’t know it……………………….. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malchik Posted May 15, 2006 Author Share Posted May 15, 2006 The small engine runs on parallel metal tracks and chugs slowly through slums of a squalor none of you has seen before. Pot bellied children stare at you with blank. hopeless eyes. They do not even beg. After a while the contraption weaves its way up into hills. It moves slowly and laboriously eventually wheezing to a stop at 'Malibar'. Only your party alights. From the station you can see a small settlement to your right a little way down the hill. In the other direction a faded sign points to 'Ye Famous Malibar Caves. Merchants of Ivory were here.' You can also see the roof of an isolated homestead down the hill away from the settlement on the far side of the caves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiaxanderson Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 "So were following them now..." Tiax whispers. "To what sort of people will this journey bring us, to what places or what end......." OCC -> I'm back from vacation and excursion. I had a real small update. Have we left already or is this what we see from the tracks? "We should move as fast as we can now. I fear time will not go kindly on us" Tiax said with a little lose of hope in his voice. <thoughts>I shouldn't give up hope as long as we all live and know something can be done there is alwaays hope!</thoughts> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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