Bruce looks at the water being for a moment in silence.
"Oh." he says. "You mean 'this' is the Silver Void?"
Between the Spaces III: Foris Universitas
Whilst this conversation is going on, Summitfinder is only partially paying attention. He is mostly watching the surroundings, and the inhabitants of it. He is trying to spot whether there are any familiar shapes out there. Familiar is a relative term to him, as he's not all that familiar with the inhabitants of the Planes that he so recently arrived on, but as we appear to be on a different set of Planes, he's interested to see whether the locals are different as well. Plus, he's trying to see if there's anything amongst the metallic architecture that seems, to him, to be 'natural'.
The woman looks at Bruce, and tilts her head to the side. Perhaps she doesn't understand what he's asking.
Pants of the North!
Charlotte starts jumping up and down in place making herself jiggle like that water being is (I assume that with even us talking to it our breath will even leave little ripples on the water being). "Take us to the Astral!" she says rather loudly, then "Take us to your commander, your high person, your king." she whispers the last part into what you would assume what would be the water beings ear and keeps jumping and jiggling up and down.
-Ophelia
The watery being turns away from the group and starts walking down the street, beckoning peremptorily at them.
Pants of the North!
Rik follows at a steady pace, attempting to stay away from the fast-turning gears
Charlotte follows directly behind the water being... trying in vain to mimic her every move, with a slide here and a jiggle there. She is still holding tightly onto her sister's hand and encouraging her to do the same.
-Ophelia
The tiefling follows, giggling and jiggling as much as she can.
((OOC: I'm going on a camping trip today, so until Sunday, I'm letting Ophelia take over the Tiefer ))
Summitfinder follows behind the tiefling. She has the best butt.
Bruce smiles a little as he watches the Xaosect sisters jump around, and follows after them.
rishhad proceeds with the group moving out of the way of the moving hunks of metal.
((OOC: I'm back!....not very much happened! Yay! And yes. The tiefer's rear is faaaaaaaantastic. Even with the stumpy tail.))
OOC: YAY! My sister is back! AND BTW Elf budunkadunk is pretty nice too! Hrmph!
-Ophelia
Most of the races here in Kazzex are humanoid, although few of them are easily recognisable as planar races you're familiar with. Tieflings, though, tend to have quite a myriad amount of appearances...
The guide leads you all through the city, occasionally pointing to one side or the other. It doesn't take long to learn that these gestures serve as a warning, and within a few seconds of her gesture that piece of the city moves away, or a swinging piece of metal arcs through the area, or what looks like an apparently sentient pack of large gears rolls through.
After almost twenty minutes of such almost-perilous travel, she arrives at a large building. The sign says, in a number of languages (one of them being Planar Trade), 'Guides, Touts, and Escorts: Easy and Cheap Survival in the Spinning City'. She inclines her head towards the door, standing next to it expectantly.
Pants of the North!
i look at the building, then read the sign in a few times over, each time in a different language. then i nod at the blue creature and walk through thee entrance.
Rishhad follows Rik into the building.
Charlotte lets go of her sister's hand and tags her, saying "YOU'RE IT!" And runs into the building after Rishad and Rik.
OOC: Is there any place to hide in here? Because that is the first thing that Charlotte would do.
-Ophelia
Summitfinder immediately sprints into the building, skirting the tielfing as he goes. He may not have followed a great deal of what's been happening recently, but slightly to his surprise, the girls are clearly playing a game, and that he does understand. And like any decent goliath, once he's found a game, he wants to play it, and wants to win it. He too, therefore, will try to find somewhere to hide within the building.
The tiefling juts out her lower lip into an EXTREME pout and then chases off after the two into the building.
((OOC: Spot checks vs. their Hide!))
Well assuming there's anywhere to hide, Hide check included below...
The guide follows the party into the building. It seems very much like an average business office. Plenty of places to hide - behind a couch, under a desk, behind a fern. It seems that Summitfinder needs more practice at this game, as behind the fern is not quite adequate to conceal him, and Charlotte's sister is easily able to spot him.
A man behind a desk looks up at your entrance, seemingly unperturbed by half the group playing hide and go seek. 'Ah, yes. Shalindai tells me you wished to meet her boss.'
Pants of the North!
at first Rik gives the man at the desk an apologetic look and tries to resist the urge to leave this place to tour the city on his own and come here later after those idiots have gone. or better, go with the guide and come back later if at all, much safer and i was the one who payed after all. after the man speaks Rik gives him a warm smile and say "really?". "well, i hail from a different plane and arrived here with those people by accident. do you have any idea how i might go back to the place i came from?"
The tiefling runs at Summitfinder with a huge grin on her face, doing her best to tackle him behind the fern.
((Grapple check if you're fighting her? First the to-hit, then if that does, I've included the grapple))
EDIT: OOC I fail miserably. Unless your AC is 4 or below I assume she crashes into the fern, but that's up to Bob
Bruce follows the group at a slow, easy pace. He is rapid glancing around, following the movement of the city and its people. He watchs, amused, the game of tag, then walks over to stand beside Rik.
"This might not be the best time to make long term investments." He whispers. "I doubt anything like this has happened with a rope trick before, and I don't know what will happen when it ends. We are away from where it placed us, yes. But we still might end up back where we began. Maybe you know more about this kind of stuff, but it might be a good idea to wait untill the spell would have ended before doing anything important. Or at the very least, anything that might involve money that we might not be around long enough to get the full benifit of."
You notice that although the way he carrys himself hasn't changed to how it was before, the accent he picked up is gone.
There. I passed on his message. Now tell me why I just missed a game of tag?
Just a precaution.
Charlotte's hide is below...AND she is not coming out untill someone finds her. At least that is what she is thinking now .
((OOC: I am NEVER finding you.))
Rik turns to Bruce and speaks in a normal tone of voice "if i would have thought this to be the case i would have started doing important things as soon as we arrived. anyway, if my time-keeping is correct, the spell should have ended... riiiight abooout... now. i don't think sitting idly and waiting for the inevitable is a good tactic either. money should not be an important thing to one in such situations, and you better hope that it is important to the one selling his help. anyway, it can't be important in the amounts i have on me."
OOC: Bob, if what i said is wrong tell me and i will edit my post accordingly.
rishhad stares at rik"why have'nt we vanished back to that place yet?If that spell has ended then it should happen now or very soon."
"Rishhad, i doubt very much that we are inside my spell-space or have ever been. I think that something caused my spell to change and instead of opening a small extradimentional space it opend some sort of gate."
'That would depend on what plane you're from,' the man behind the desk says in response to Rik. He either doesn't notice the other discussions going on or doesn't care about them.
Charlotte's sister rather unsuccessfully makes a grab at Summitfinder. In her haste, however, it seems not to occur to her that she must move around the fern to catch him.
Pants of the North!
Summitfinder dodges back around the fern, and tries to find somewhere more suitable to hide. His natural inclination is to try and find somewhere he can climb. There is a reason why he's called Summitfinder.
He's vaguely aware that there's some sort of conversation going on, but he's not really paying too much attention to it. Firstly, he's playing. Secondly, he hasn't known what plane he was on, or where he was, for the couple of months, so he's got used to the feeling. And lastly, because how can we be returned to where we were when no-one knew where that was anyway? The conversation, therefore, clearly can't be too important.
The tiefling is more competitive than originally though. She tries for another leap, fern or no, with a whooping yell "I FOUND YOU."
((Another to-hit and grapple ))
EDIT: .....AC lower than 7? *crosses fingers*
Rik throws a disapproving look at the big man and the tiefling before replying the man behind the desk "this might be a good place to live in, if you get used to the turning gears and somesuch, but i would prefer to get back to where i were. if you can find me a way back to Elysium i would be most thankful." Rik pauses and thinks for a few seconds before continuing "and if you know how to get to the prime material that would be even better."
The man behind the desk frowns. 'I'll... have to check the records,' he says, and rises from his desk. 'I haven't heard of either of those planes, but if we have any record of them the spiders should be able to find it within the hour.'
Pants of the North!
waiting petiantly
Summitfinder can proudly claim an AC higher than 7. Assuming that the walls of this place aren't smooth marble type affairs, he'll try and climb one of the interior walls. Sadly without the benefit of his climbers kit, because he doesn't have time to get that out, and because the nice people who own this place might object to him hammering spikes into their walls.
Summitfinder easily clambers up near the ceiling of the building.
Unless you guys are doing anything other than the game of hide and seek, we can skip ahead an hour to when the guy returns, if you'd all like.
Pants of the North!
are there any seats in the office? if so i sit on one and take out my spell book to memorize new spells, if not i will sit on the floor and do the same.
Rishhad used to ruffing it sits cross legged on the floor and closes his eyes.All the while he is whispering to himself various mantras and laws as if he is meditating on their meaning.
Assume Bruce to spend the hour making small talk with the xaosect twins, if possible.
OOC: Damn it perro, you did it again.
OOC:sorry my computer was weirding out and I kept hitting the dang refresh button :oops:
As Summitfinder climbs, the tieflings smile turns into a pout. She crosses her arms and turns her back on him, and then looks around the room, trying to pick some...spot that she would assume her sister is in and turns her back on it also.
She approaches Bruce, pointing at Summitfinder. "Not fair! That's not hiding!"
Bruce looks at Chralottes sister and smiles.
"That isn't fair, is it?" he says, tapping her on the shoulder, becoming it. He runs toward the wall summitfinder is on, but rather then running into it suddenly runs up it.
OOC: if Summitfinder isn't within 30 feet of the ground, Bruce will leap at him (jump check equals 11 + 7 mod + 10 mental leap (psionic focus expended)= 28 )
If he gets within range, he will attempt a touch attack againt Summitfinder (9+6 mod equals 15) and says "Your it." Before falling away and activating catfall to reduce the damage done by falling as if he fell 20 feet less, and he lands on his feet.
Summitfinder calls down "We're playing tag aren't we?"
If not, clearly I'm going to have to drop down and find somewhere to hide. Which is difficult when you're my size.
Summitfinder isn't that far off the ground (this is a fairly normal-sized building), so Bruce reaches him without jumping, and successfully tags Summitfinder. Who is now it.
Pants of the North!
*Charlotte stays where she was hiding and pulls out some jacks and a ball and starts playing jacks and humming to herself. She is used to her sister not being able to find her for sometimes days at a time.*
-Ophelia
OK, they have different rules to tag round here where hiding is expected rather than simply getting out of the way of the person who's it. They must not have grown up playing it in the wild.
Summitfinder jumps down, and attempts to find Charlotte, because I'm not sure whether they also play no tag backs. Spot check below. If he succeeds, he'll try and tag Charlotte. If not, it will have to be Bruce or the tielfing because it doesn't look like anyone else is playing at the moment.
OOC: if you have the time, you can 'search' for her. also, she is humming, so you might want to try a 'listen' check.
Still saying mantras rishhad looks at summtifinder "Why were you climbing the walls that's not polite you know?"Rishhad then continues his mantras,his eyes remain open though.
"Okay so that's a no?"Rishhad says moving to follow the water being.