Take the conversation whichever way you want, I made a comment on moonsugar but feel free to stick with the temple's iffy dogma.

It could be entertaining if both Rothan and Dranas were to see fairly clear suggestions (enough to make them fairly sure but not enough to take to anyone else) about what the other's hiding. Not sure how to make it happen though... Dranas trying to (or succeeding in) looking into Rothan's bag would suffice, perhaps if Rothan challanged him over his response to the sugar jibe and he insisted on looking into Rothan's bag. Or we could just leave it at them nettling eachother a bit.

I'm currently under the impression that Apelles is the newcomer in this conversation. Am I correct in making this assumption?

No, Erna is the newcomer. Nobody has noticed Apelles listening in.

Edit: Oh, and Olen, I'm not thinking that Dranas would be one to look into Rothan's bag, unless he was sneaking around at night looking to steal, which I don't think would happen until they reach the construction site. I think it's enough that both men have strong suspicions about the other, though conversation could lead to more, I suppose. Depends on how you want to respond to what Dranas just said.

This post has been edited by canis216: Mar 11 2009, 06:32 PM

Ah. Methinks I should be paying more attention.

i kinda need to know before posting; is the conversation in or out of earshot of rianne and dralas?

Since we've ran off three straight posts under the assumption that it's out of earshot, I'd say it's out of earshot. It seems to me that Rianne left the conversation and went back to Dralas and the guar. And, in theory, Rothan wouldn't have started the new conversation line with her in reasonable earshot.

Dralas is looking for bones and Eno is collecting kagouti ones for instruments.

Oh dearie me. This could make quite a mess...

Indeed. It's a funny coincidence though. Dantrag wrote his confession while I was writing Eno's meeting with that Armiger. My thoughts on the matter didn't involve Dralas though. (or was it Dranas? I swear I keep mixing those two up!)

Rather, it went something like this:"Hmm, everyone is having Kagouti meat for diner. Maybe I should have Eno step up and get some of his own. I need to get him away from that conversation between Rothan/Dranas/Erna anyway. I wonder if there is still something left for my instrument maker? I bet the whole caravan swarmed over the damn beasts. All that's left might be bones....bones...You know what? Screw the meat! I'm going to make a Kagouti Didgeridoo!"

But yeah, things could get messy, if our Ashlander fails to recognize these bones as not human. Though given his background, I doubt he would be fooled for more than a second. I mean, Ashlanders are a hunter/gatherer society, right?

I'm sure Dralas won't be fooled, he surely can differ kagouti bones from human,,and so can Rianne.

oh and Ree is playing very softly not complete silent just....very low ind suggestive

I was just reading the first few pages of the playground again and noticed something.

All the way back in Balmora, Eno requested (and got) two Guar. However, even before he'd joined up with the caravan, one of those had mysteriously vanished. Me being an absentminded fool is to blame for it I guess.

And going back to the bones. I'm positive now that Dralas won't be fooled at all, at least not where the didgeridoo is concerned. Unless his ancestors were giants.

This post has been edited by jack cloudy: Mar 14 2009, 06:56 PM

just because dralas wouldn't be fooled, doesn't mean someone wouldn't try to fool him, or make an honest mistake.

if dranas saw eno with the bones, for example, he could get suspicious if someone had asked him about bones already. then he could steal them, and try to give them to dralas, thinking they were the ones (or not), which would cause problems.

but that's only if we're trying to cause problems.

Doubt Dranas would attempt such a thing anyways. He can be phenomenally persuasive (and he knows it), but I imagine he wouldn't think he could sell kagouti bones as human. Bad business, that.

Are we finished for this night? There hasn't been anything in six days now and a few characters are in bed so it looks like we're done.

If so someone write up the morning.

well I dunno about appelles, but i would go ahead despite dralas and rianne's conversation. minque is busy right now and probably wont be posting for a bit...

Nope. I've still got some stuff to do.

so what's the plan?

anything interesting going to happen to the caravan, or are we going to get to ghostgate with no problems?

i also think we should find some way to force all of our characters together into a group, instead of each doing their own thing like it is now.

I've got a plan. Canis and I are the only ones who know it. Won't tell you what they are, though. It'd spoil the surprise.

This post has been edited by bbqplatypus: Mar 31 2009, 12:50 AM

It is a good plan, but it'll probably wait until the 3rd day, so we could use a little something for this 2nd day to get the juices flowing more. How 'bout a modest outcast Ashlander action? I've nothing fatal in mind (yet) but it could get some more talking going--maybe even bring Haz into things a bit.

I agree that we could use something to force our bunch of travellers/sometimes conversationists into something that more resembles a party of adventurers. (Well, perhaps not. We're not planning to go dungeondiving.)

But I'm not so sure if Ashlanders are the answer. They would provide some tension for the two Ashlanders that are travelling with the caravan, but I dunno. Why would they attack us? The best I can think of is the Zansu...whatever they were called attempting to raid us. Seeing as how the guard detail has been seriously enlarged since the last caravan, they might be expecting easy pickings.

But then I think, why wouldn't they at least count the number of Armigers before attacking?


Or how about this. Haz's Guar dies, after some sufficiently drawn out death throes. This will serve to isolate him from the rest of the caravan. Our group goes to check on him for their own reasons while the rest of the caravan decides to just keep moving. (They expect us to spread Haz's bags among each other before catching up in a few minutes so the risk is assumed to be minimal.) Cue ashlanders out of nowhere.

I like that idea, Jack! I can see the armigers sending Dranas back because he could spread some stuff out between his two guars and still manage to catch up quickly, because he knows what he's doing. A few of the others would go back out of philanthropic sense, or maybe because Dralas would love to go through the Temple-packed stuff that Haz's guar might be carrying.