Game: Great minds think alike

Brilliant... the dog guy is a dissociative...

OOC: I am still going for the illithid, sorry if I confused you.

((OOC: Read and responded!))

the masked gnoll relizing he's still behind the counter slowly rises up with a slight silly smile under his mask.

"A'kin....you weren't it.......i was it......but you made the tag......POWERS ABOVE!!!!A'KINS IT!!!! RUUUUUUUUUN!!!!!!"

He gets out from behind the counter, takes a quick dash, then haults.

"I'm done with this game."

OOC: So what does my Read Magic reveal about the portal key?

OOC: Yes, I got a little confused there, heh. I do have two actions and all, but I guess grappling (or trying to as the case would be) and then talking would take up my actions?

"I'm pretty sure thats what he said. I take it that's bad?" Ian asks.

I've never seen him this concerned about an artifact before. I mean... this is A'KIN. By now, he should be showing us his collection of Thum'Alath, arranged by size and color.

"Anything we can help with?"

"That guess wouldn't happen to run along the lines of the entire Abyssal layer being sealed off, would it? I mean, If all planar travel to a planar layer was cut off, with the only way in or out reqiring the use of a specific item. Like that for instance." Ian says, pointing at the Cube. "That might explain where that portal leads to, and where those slime creatures came from, right?"

Ian looks up at the Face, and asks. "Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong."

Ian walks over to Ohalian and whispers, so as not to disrupt the face's conversation with A'kin. "Don't worry. Ophelia's a druid, there good at the whole healing thing. Just hope that thing didn't steal a peice of your actual soul. That's never good." Ian smailes in a way thats not exactly reassuring, and steps back.

Ophelia snaps out of her trance and blankly looks around. There is a single tear falling down her cheak. She thinks, I have never fealt so wanted, so needed. She stands up slowly, as if still in the trance of her vision. She slowly looks around at everybody, meeting each person eye to eye.

She then looks at the face in the ceiling in the eye and asks, "Can you take me there? To where I saw? Or are you what crumbled that place?!" She says the last sentence with a bitter edge.

OOC:@ Joyblood: Thanks! Great vision!

"So... how do we get you out of there?" Ian askes the face. "Seems to me, you guys must be wanting out of there more than anything."

"What do you mean by that? You want to stay where you are?"

Despite al that's going inside The Friendly Fiend, the shop still looks just fine from the outside.

A red haired woman steps in through the door, beginning a greeting "Hello....Oh?" She stops upon seeing quite a few people, along with A'kin and (possibly) the face from the ceiling. She takes half a step back "Perhaps this is not a good time...."

((OOC: Hi guys! I wasn't sure if I should write out a big long description when I can just post a URL. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y119/princessbunny99/Illumian.jpg

Ophelia slowley looks to the woman who just entered the shop, see's that she doesn't seem to be a threat (at least not right now ). She turns her watery eyes twards the ceiling again, looks it straight in the eye, and whispers to it, "How do you know A'kin? I can guess, but I would rather hear it from you, Athlamunak." She holds the portal key to her cheast and turns back to her elven form. "What would you have with us, Athlamunak? Tell us of your intentions."

Then she whispers under her breath so that no one can really hear it properly (except maybe the face in the ceiling), "Athlamunak." As a word too often repeated, it burrows into her mind to find a permanent place there.

She lifts her left arm and lets Hoot walk down to her forearm, and then tells Hoot to go onto the coat rack by the door, and asks him to tell her if anybody else is going to come into, or is coming into the store. Lastley, she asks Hoot what kind of vibe he is getting from this red-head that just walked through the door.

(She talks to Hoot mentally, through their link, not outloud, btw).

OOC: Like this, Fidrikon.

EDIT: Huh. That page didn't have a physical description of them on it, and I can't find the one that did (along with their stats). Still got decent info, though, so I'll leave it up.

I wonder if the girl's related to those dabus things?

"So, if this things one of the tanarri, and we're going to Baator, why don't we take advantage of that Blood War thing they've got going on, and release them on whatever layer we're going to to create a disturbance before buggering off to acquire our target?"

He'll be running a full sensor sweep on the face and the girl who just got here as he says this.

Ian closly watches A'kin as Ohalian speaks, and again when he says the next line. "I guess thats really up to them, isn't it? If they want to stay where they are, who are we to go in and bust up a fiends good time?

Meanwhile, in Ian's head...

DAMN! DAMN DAMN DAMN! Of course we could use this to our advantage, fool. But it works best if we make it seem like their idea.
Oh well. Have to play with the cards I've been dealt.

[OOC: Your HP (current and maximum), that fact that your heart is beating and blood is flowing, any weapons, explosives, electronics, or chemicals on your person.

Ian sits there, open mouthed, for a few moments. He then says, in a voice loud enough for everyone in the shop to hear easily.
"All in favor of leaving this artifact in the capable hands of Akin, say aye!
AYE!"

We already have one artifact that burns people alive. We don't need two... I don't even want the first one.

The red haired Illumian takes another step back from the door, being careful not to disturb the remains of the officer. "Really...I think I should come back another time to make my purchases...You seem to have quite a bit on your hands at the moment, A'kin..."

*thinking to himself*
What did he mean about finding my answers.......and I will play a roll in what is to come? I am confused
*To all*
"wow, I'm not sure what to think about what just happened. So, we have to stick around for an interagation.......I hope the harmonium has no connections with the gaurds in Amn, or I might be in a heep o' truble, but there is no doubt in my mind that I can get out of it."
*to Ian*
"I don't know if we should leave the cube Ian. The face said something about me finding the answers to my questions, and he also said there is something I will do that is important..... for alll we know we may NEED that cube to fullfill our destinys. Also he said his name, followed by min, and then his again. To me, he is saying I may in some way need him.... I think we should keep the cube"