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Post by »Kamui Syvil VII on Aug 8, 2007 0:05:27 GMT -5
The meat on Kamui's stick quickly disappeared, all but one last bite-sized piece of meat, that is. "Something wrong, Sorrel?" He said, graciously holding out the last bit of meat, offering it to her. His nose began to twitch then, and he stood up, taking a few steps forward, distractedly taking the meat with him. He squinted, looking as far down the path as he could see, but saw nothing. Yet, anyways, for his acute sense of smell had picked up a most peculiar scent coming their way. "Do... Do ya' smell that, Sorrelwing? Like... roastin' gnome... I think? What?" He scratched his head with his tail, a puzzled look on his face. Sakurako came to his side, also sniffing the air. Yibbles was sleeping on his back, pie filling smeared across his little snout, just a few feet from Kamui.
(Hmm. I'm not too familar with the channels you guys have over in the UK, but I believe it plays on Sky One.)
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Post by sorrelwing on Aug 18, 2007 6:09:43 GMT -5
(Nope...don't have Sky. Probably never will. D=)
Jhijhi, with her merely human senses, looked up in puzzlement. She couldn't smell anything. Sorrelwing, who still had her eye on the remains of Kamui's meat, sniffed briefly at the wind. The scent she caught distracted her attention sharply, and she took a deeper sniff, padding up to stand beside Kamui. "Haven't smelled anything like that for ages. Gnomes stick in my teeth," she commented. "It is a gnome. On fire." She didn't sound worried-more amused. Slowly, she bared her pointed teeth in a gleeful grin at the thought of a roasting gnome. Jhijhi came to stand on Kamui's other side, peering down the road. "Why would a gnome be on fire?" she asked, probably rhetorically. There was a faint tinge of dislike in her tone, as if she'd met a gnome before and hadn't liked it.
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Post by »Kamui Syvil VII on Aug 21, 2007 4:08:32 GMT -5
A bright speck appeared on the horizon, along with distant screaming. Kamui's eyes narrowed, and his outline wavered for a split second before disappearing from view, as he had when he went to go get the food. There was another gust of wind and another trail of dust along the road. A second speck appeared on the horizon and the brightness of the first speck quickly dimmed. Kamui appeared in a gust of wind before Jhijhi, holding in his arms the blackened body of what appeared to be a very short, very plump old man. Something shiny was clenched in his stubby little fingers. "Please, Jhijhi," He said beseechingly, laying the badly burned Gnome before her, "He's alive, but barely... can you heal him? His condition is beyond my medicinal herbs an' Reiki techniques..." 'I hope the monkey was right about her, or else this guy is done for...'
(Ah, well, what can ya' do? Anywho, here's our Gnome.)
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Post by sorrelwing on Aug 21, 2007 7:56:20 GMT -5
Jhijhi looked from Kamui to the gnome, scowling, but her arm seemed to move of its own accord towards the body. She gave an irritated sigh, knelt down beside him, shut her eyes and touched her fingertips to the gnome. A little frown of concentration appeared on her face, then deepened, and the tip of her tongue peeked out of the corner of her mouth. Whatever she was doing, it was evidently quite hard work-but it was working. New skin spread from where her fingertips touched, smoothing out and covering over the burns, knitting together the flesh underneath. In a short time, the gnome was as good as new-but Jhijhi was swaying, and sweat rolled down her face. She lifted her hands from the gnome's torso, gave a tiny sigh, and fell backwards, out cold. Sorrelwing had been watching this proceedure with faint disappointment and an air of supercilious distinterest, but she couldn't stop a little snigger escaping as Jhijhi collapsed. She seemed to find the whole scenario most amusing.
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Post by »Kamui Syvil VII on Aug 22, 2007 6:18:15 GMT -5
"Uh... whoops. Monkey never said anythin' 'bout her passin' out...," Kamui said scratching the back of his head. He moved to Jhijhi's side, pulling off his vest and bundling it up to gently place under her head. Meanwhile the Gnome sat up, looking himself over with a stunned expression. He was a wizened little, but fairly plump, man with fizzy white hair and a long beard. His clothing was all singed and blackened, but it looked to have been once brightly colored. His wrinkled face lit up, "Oh! Oh! I'm alive! My burns are completely gone! Ha ha ha! It's a miracle!" Then his eyes went wide and he fell silent, staring down at the object clutched in his hand. "Uh... somethin' wrong, man?" Kamui asked slowly. The Gnome looked up at Kamui with big and fearful black eyes. he said nothing, merely opening his hand to reveal the object in it. "Huh? I don't get it... Are there jumpin' beans inside or somethin'?" Kamui shrugged, looking down at the object. It only appeared to be a metallic cube that shook slightly every few seconds. That is, until it began to glow brightly, letting off small arcs of electricity. The Gnome gave a squeak and quickly dropped the cube on the dusty path. "Well, that ain't no beans..." Kamui commented, wearing a quizzical expression as he laced his fingers behind his head.
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Post by sorrelwing on Aug 23, 2007 5:19:03 GMT -5
Jhijhi did not stir. Her face was pale, but she appeared to be sleeping. The monkey sat on her chest with a philosophical expression that suggested it had seen its mistress like this before. It also suggested that it wasn't serious, as the animal didn't appear worried at all. Sorrelwing rustled her wings superciliously and gave her shoulder a few quick licks, to establish her essential disinterest, before giving in to temptation and padding quickly over to peer at the gnome's item. "What is it? Some item for collecting lightning?" she enquired, bending her head to sniff at the cube. A stray spark of electricity leaped up and singed her upturned nose, and she backed off hastily, poking her tongue out to soothe the offended skin. "Whatever it is, it's dangerous," she said haughtily, and turned her back, surreptiously rubbing her burnt nose with a paw.
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Post by »Kamui Syvil VII on Aug 23, 2007 16:13:34 GMT -5
"Now, a small burn isn't beyond my Reiki techniques," Kamui said, looking over a Sorrelwing's back. "Care ta' let me have a look?" "You have no idea!" The Gnome burst out after Sorrelwing spoke, but offered no more information then that as his eyes fell back to the cube. It was beginning calm down, with the arcs of lighting occurring with less frequency. It still continued to shake, however. He looked back at the Gnome, "Well, how 'bout ya' give us an idea then?" "We are all going to die! How is that for an idea!" The Gnome cried panicky, flailing his small arms in the air. "That's... kinda a given." Kamui said calmly. "Ev'rythin' that lives will eventually die. No use panickin' about it, lit'le dude." "No, no! You do not understand!" Cried the Gnome. "Well, I'm tryin', but you're not makin' it very easy." Kamui responded. "Take a deep breath an' start at the beginnin', man." The Gnome took quite a few deep breaths to compose himself before telling his story. "Well... To begin with my name is Ito Finbiddle... I am a researcher... Or I was till I got fired because I kept messing up other people's experiments with my clumsiness... My division... we were researching the technology prevalent in Syrunn's Age of Learning, which was approximately 6,000 to 5,000 years ago. When I was fired, I thought I'd sneak an artifact out with me so that I could continue my research and prove to my colleagues that they were mistaken to fire me... Only one problem. The thing I took, that infernal cube, was something I hadn't worked with previously... It was in some kinda containment unit, so I don;'t think any of us knew what is was... Hmm... in hindsight, I suppose it really was a bad idea to take it... Anyways, I was conducting my own research on the cube when I made seven startling revalations... One, I somehow turned it on. Two, it appears to be a trans-dimensional storage device capable of storing an undefined amount of energy. Three, it's also capable of gathering at a frightening pace said energy on its own, which is is doing. Four, if it continues as is, when it reaches its limit, said energy will be released in our own dimension in one big bang. Five, I do not know what said limit is or when said limit will be reached. Six, by my calculations it has already stored more then enough to shatter our planet. Seven, I do not know how to turn it off." "So... What're ya' sayin'?" Kamui asked slowly. "That we are all going to die!" Cried the Gnome, panicking again.
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Post by sorrelwing on Aug 24, 2007 11:04:52 GMT -5
"No," said Sorrelwing, huffily. "Leave me alone." She waved her tail irritably and nursed her nose, apparently paying no attention to the gnome's explanation of the cube. At least, until he got to the bit about the energy shattering the planet. Then her tawny-furred back went rigid, and she turned her head to look over her shoulder, acid-green eyes narrow and suspicious. "Stupid creature," was her verdict, delivered in a voice dripping with contempt. "I'd eat you right now if gnomes weren't so bony. Way to kill us all." She got to her paws and turned to face them, rustling her wings. "But I might eat you anyway," she added, and grinned, showing off her three rows of pointed teeth to best effect.
(Oh, I do so love to use evil characters...xD They're such good fun.)
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Post by »Kamui Syvil VII on Aug 26, 2007 1:24:45 GMT -5
All ready panicked, poor Finbiddle looked on the verge of passing out when Sorrelwing threatened to eat him and bared her fangs at him. Indeed, he gave a pitiful whimper and began to swoon. "Hey, steady there, man...," Kamui said steadying to Finbiddle with a bracing hand on his back, perhaps not coincidently placing himself between the Gnome and Sorrelwing as he did so. His furry tail swished slowly back and forth, mere inches from the Sphinx's mouth. Sakurako also put herself in between as well, only she was facing Sorrelwing, an icy look in her piercing blue eyes. Yibbles was off sniffing some grass. "Breathe, man, breathe... Nice an' deep an' slow like...," Kamui said in his most soothing voice. At first the Gnome looked like he might have been hyperventilating, but he eventually steadied himself again. "All right," Kamui said calmly, "Now tell us, surely there's some way to fix this? Where were ya' goin'... ya' know, before the lightnin' set ya' on fire..." At least that was what Kamui assumed to have set the Gnome ablaze. "I was... I... The..." Finbiddle babbled a bit before finally spitting out, "...Maester! She will know what to do! We must take the cube to the Maester... Wherever it is that she is..."
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Post by sorrelwing on Aug 27, 2007 12:47:59 GMT -5
Sorrelwing, who had been crouching ready to pounce, reluctantly straightened herself up again, foiled. She considered sinking her fangs into Kamui's enticingly waving tail, which would have the have the double advantage of really annoying him and getting him to move out the way. But one look at Sakurako pursuaded her that this action would have many disadvantages that would significantly outweigh the advantages. She settled for stalking back to her rock and turning her back on the proceedings, tail lashing with injured dignity. Meanwhile, Jhijhi had been regaining her senses, coming back to reality just in time to hear the gnome's last pronouncement. "Who in Syrunn is Maester?" she asked groggily, managing to prop herself up on one elbow. "What's been going on?"
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Post by »Kamui Syvil VII on Aug 28, 2007 6:23:30 GMT -5
Sakurako continued to glare at Sorrelwing's back. Kamui looked over as Jhijhi stirred, "Ah. Have a nice rest? I apologize. I didn't know it'd knock ya' out, but you'll be happy ta' know the Gnome is fine... sorta." He gestured to Finbiddle, who looked on the verge of a panic attack. "The Maester! The Maester!" Was all he could manage. "Have a seat, man, I can take it from here," Kamui said, then looked back to Jhijhi. "The Maester, I believe, is supposed ta' be an expert on Lost Technology, which apparently, is gonna kill us all..." He went on, calmly recounting Finbiddle's words, "...So, I'm assumin' that Finbiddle belives the Maester will know how to shut off or disable the device. Oh, I also believe she's insane, but I can't say for sure, as I haven't meet her yet."
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Post by sorrelwing on Aug 28, 2007 10:35:12 GMT -5
Jhijhi listened to all this with narrowed eyes, occasionally glancing over at the gnome. From her expression, it was fairly clear that she didn't consider her her efforts at healing worth the result. Once Kamui had finished recounting the story, she snorted and, after a couple of false starts, managed to sit up straight. "Sounds like a lose-lose situation," she grunted. "Either you find this 'Maester' and she knows what to do, you find her and she /doesn't/ know what to do, or you don't find her. That's two situations where everything dies versus one situation where everything's fixed. I don't like odds like that." She directed another unimpressed stare towards Finbiddle. "Plus, if you entrust a journey like that to an idiot like the one over there, everything is /definitely/ doomed." Her monkey scurried to her shoulder and copied her facial expression, creating a rather odd mirror effect.
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Post by »Kamui Syvil VII on Aug 29, 2007 5:09:21 GMT -5
"Oh? So you'd rather have found yourself world-less an' dead without a warnin' or chance ta' do somethin' about it?" He questioned with a grin, accurately reading Jhijhi's expression that healing Finbiddle hadn't been worth it. "Personally, I'm glad I know. Now we have a chance ta' stop it, however slim a chance it might be. Besides, I happen ta' be an excellent tracker." He looked over at the trembling Gnome, then back at Jhijhi. "I say we help 'im out. What say you?" At this the Gnome fell to his knees, pleading to them, "Yes, I beg of you! You carry weapons, you must be adventurers! Lend me aid, for I fear that she is right, that I cannot make this journey alone!"
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Post by sorrelwing on Aug 30, 2007 14:18:02 GMT -5
(Like your new siggy. =3)
Jhijhi scowled, and fidgeted with her sword hilt. She brought out the material that she had had tied round her face previously and ran it thoughtfully through her fingers, thinking hard. Quite frankly, she was bored. Nothing had happened to her for a long time- no-one had approached her with a necessary action for months and she'd nearly come to the end of her stashed money. She wouldn't stoop to theivery or banditry, although she had nothing against looting the dead. She was bored of merely training and wanted an opportunity to actually fight for once. She also didn't really trust either Kamui or Finbiddle to actually pull off saving the world. So she smoothed out the black cloth and tied it back around her face with some deliberation. "All right," she said. "I'll come along...while it suits." Her blue eyes challenged Kamui to make something of this. Her monkey jumped up onto her hat and bounced enthusiastically, catching the mood. Sorrelwing rustled her wings and pretended to take no notice of what was going on behind her back.
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Post by »Kamui Syvil VII on Aug 31, 2007 12:18:29 GMT -5
"Good, it'll be an adventure, eh?" He grinned. He seemed excited, not worried in the least they could all die at any moment. "Oh, thank you, thank you!" Cried Finbiddle, throwing himself at Jhijhi's feet, babbling and sobbing pathetically. Kamui turned to look at Sorrelwing's back. "What say you, Sorrel? Wanna come along? Think of the food... there are all kinds of tasty foods out there besides pie... eh, eh? Or ya' could hang around here an' let your beautiful coat remain all dusty."
(Blah. Kinda short... Though thanks for the compliment on my siggy. If you haven't, you should check out Order of the Stick. It's a hilarious webcomic.)
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