The Story Of Hajima The Nin Ronin, this is kinda long and addictive maybe.. Options

[Burnt Sierra]

lol I fell asleep while I was typeing otherwise it would have been updated by about two hours before you replied, rofl.  I still need to finish my editing of of our mystery man and then I promise I will update today, by editing this post (unless there are more somments by then), that way space is conserved

tis up to you of course, but personally I prefer it when people update by adding a new reply. Makes it easier to find where the new update is. But, if you want to do it by editing, feel free

[Taillus]

Good as always even though I neglected it for a short while. Im all caught up now though and I will continue to read on

[jchamber]

UPDATE TIME! Well I don't usually like to cut off with going to sleep or dreams like I did in the last one because it is used as the cut-off point too often IMO, but it seemed the right spot for this particular situation.



Chapter Two- Roots in a Strange Place
Part Three- Parting Woes


"Hey get up, it's time to go. I hope you are slept up for the time being and that you have some sealegs." I was being dragged along the ground, I must really have not wanted to get up, it was still dark and I couldn't have been asleep but a few hours. "get up already, you layabout! I can't carry you all the way there!" He said that as if he thought he was carrying me now. I got my legs under me and started to run and he let go of me.

"What the hell is going on? Why am I getting dragged like a blanket? And where are we off to in such a hurry? ....did you say sealegs?" Oh god...the day I was brought to Morrowind and the horrible seasickness I had when in the boat was all too fresh in my mind.

"That's right we are getting out of here with a boat I killed the owner of...overcharging, insulting, stuck-up lizard n'wah!" He seemed really mad....and I was a little scared, but I couldn't go with this psyco-nut on the sea, where we would be alone for an extended perios of time.

"Sorry man, I have to thank you for getting me out of that place and all...but I can't ride on the sea, I throw up and pass out and can't stand up and "

"You're just making excuses, come on!"

"No really, that stuff all happened when I was brought over from Cyrodiil Prison. I wa.." He had stopped and was looking at me with a mix of curiousity, doubt, and something else I couldn't quite put my finger on.

"I don't remember you, and I was in that same prison not all that long ago....why don't you tell me your prisoner number?"

"I came in after you would have left, I wasn't there long before I was shipped out." I didn't really know what my number way or how long I had been at the prison but that seemed unwise to say to the man who was trying to toke me with him onto the sea.

"Yea you couldn't commit any crimes like murder the way you are, too weak to kill someone unless it is a guard you never met before and thought needed put under because it was best for the local townpeople....It is killers like you that give us killers a weak reputation, I wouldn't have people after me for killing those guards if all killers were like me everyone in this town would have been the ones to get on the boats and left in fear. That's the way it should be. I deserve fear and respect....you don't deserve to have been given the right to kill another person...you just aren't really up to it." I was really worried that he was going to decide that I didn't deserve to live next so I wanted to start back into town, but I didn't want him to think I would be telling people where to find him. I decided that there was another, smater way out of this as he went on rambleing, "and why is it that you are the one that had to get a note to go see Caius?"

This time it was my turn to interrupt him, "What? Did I say anything about that?"

"I went through all the stuff in that building you were in to see what you or they had that might be able to pay for my services, there was a lack of stuff to pay me with."

"Oh, my god! I can't believe you took all that time to do that. No wonder we ran into those guards before we left, they would still be alive if you had just got me and left."

"Hey I was in there for the loot, I didn't even know you were there and I am starting to wish you hadn't been. You know what I can sail that boat myself, I don't want you around all that time...go back to the village and get out my hair." I turned around and "before that though you are going with me to the ship and untie it when I am on the deck."

"Sure, that works for me. Hey you sounded like you know Caius. Where and who is he?"

"Move, Move, Move, he is an aquaintance of mine, we have a mutually beneficial relationship, not too much unlike the kind I had considered letting you have with me. He is in a corner of Balmora, the southwest one. We're here so get busy getting that rope off."

"Hey! There he is!! This way constables!! To the docks, HE'S TRYING TO GET AWAY!!!" Some guy from several hundred feet behind me was yelling.

"Untie that rope and I will make sure you don't get in trouble for what I did, even though it is your fault they aren't running scared of me." He sure wasn't going to let that one go, I am not too sure why he was going to help me out but if I was going to be here that was for the best. These thoughts ceased as soon as I figured out how he was going to prove that I wasn't an accomplice. I had untied the steel chains.....and he pulled out a dagger and threw it at me.

[jack cloudy]

This is going to hurt. I'll be waiting to read about what he'll find himself in now.

[jchamber]

I acctually wrote this when I wrote the last update but I was really tired and didn't realize I had gotten to a good length and cutoff point.....so I had to cut this out and wait a bit before posting it...now

Chapter 2- Roots in a Strange Place
Part Four- The Pain and the Talking

(rejected part names....The Second/Moment after, The New Strange Guy and His Rival, Of Guards and Mages.)

I had started to dodge, but it met me on the way to the way to the ground. Then he threw the next one and cut the rope made from plant fibers, releasing himself from the harbor.

"Are you OK there? Oh, you're an outlander. Did you get a good look at his face? Why did you help him and he betray you?"

"He was holding me hostage and told me that if I didn't untie the iron chains that he would kill me before he left...he seemed scary when he said it and he had blood all over him so I was afraid, I couldn't let him just kill me, I don't even have a weapon to try to protect myself with."

"Hmm well I don't know if I believe that but we have our ways of seeing what is what around here, so I will not question you for now. Just go up to those guards and tell them everything you know about that man."

"OK" I didn't like him and really wished there was some hope that the guards could deal with him, but in reality I didn't see much chance of that. I expect that if I were to tell them where he might be headed, which I didn't know myself in the first place, they would just get killed if they followed him. I had to lie to them to protect them from him. I was glad the dagger he had hit me with hit me in the leg where it did, it was non-lethal and was just enough to let them think he was really trying to hit me.

As I neared the approaching guards I saw they had their weapons out and at this point were looking disappointed that they had failed to get the guy they were looking for. "Go get Najimano, Larry!" The leader instructed his fellow officer. The leader now turned to me, "That's a nasty limp you have there...OH, and a nasty cut as well, let's get you some medicine up at the station...well not really a station so much as a spare building" He seemed friendly enough, allowing me to lean on his shoulder. Najimano was coming toward us. There was something.... but I couldn't quite lay a finger on what was weird about it.

"Thanks for coming Najimano, can you get to that guy out on the water for us?"

"I am afraid that is quite impossible at the moment. He would probably kill me the minute I got near him, and I have a feeling about him....he seems to be able to predict movement and I am not willing to risk it. Besides I am too tired to preform a leap that far today, I have been up for nearly forty hours straight." That is what it was, he was magically moving his body forward while he was walking, so when his feet moved him two steps forward, he had traversed nearly twenty feet forward, it was an uncanny thing to see.

"Well, why are you waisting energy using it to walk to me then? You should have saved up for a useful purpose."

"How I use my magic is my own business, and I am sorry we differ in opinion of what is important but I wanted to give this bleeding man a relief." The blade in my leg appeared in his hand and some salve seemed to have materialized on my wound. "That should be all better in the morning if you are easy on it during your sleep."

"Well, this man was the last person seen with the dangerous criminal you just let escape."

"I am sorry inspector, but didn't you let him get away as well?" The mage had a little smirk on his face.

"You just don't want to get him because you are being lazy, if I could prove it you would be in jail by now!"

"Did you get a jail cell that can hold me? I didn't know you had such resources at your disposal, Captain Habnar." His smirk had grown into a full blown smile of sheer delight at torturing the Nordish captain.

"This prisoner isn't going to get much sleep tonight because he is going to be visiting our interrogation department."

"You shouldn't show so much favoritism to her over your other men, just because she is sleeping with you to climb up the status ladder." At this point the captain let go of me pulled his sword out and pointed it at Najimano ...who disappeared!

"You shouldn't pull that out when you are in town..." I turned around as he said this as I was surprised to hear Najimano's voice behind me. "You could poke someone's eye out." and at that very moment the captain had turned around and scraped my head with the blade causing my weight to shift to my bad leg, which made me fall....but if I had been facing the other way I really could have lost an eye, but I probably would have moved because I would have seen the blade coming. In any case it really shook the guard who immediately put his weapon away.

"Are you OK? I didn't see you there, I didn't mean to hit you."

"I...uhn" I grunted as I tried to get up off the ground.

"I said you should take it easy on that leg. Captain, you have assaulted this man. I am going to have to take him to prevent further guardsman brutality. I take personal responsibility for him, beside your 'investigation department' took a late evening and just went to bed so she is in no condition to work at the moment."

The captain looked furious with the tricky mage, but he nodded and let us go, I didn't have much worry about going with the mage, he seemed more than capable of causing an almost infinite amount of trouble and settled with just messing with the local guard. The captain was out of hearing range before he said anything to me as we walked back to his house.

"So you can sleep at my place, let that leg heal and in the morning we will talk about what you really know about that guy I let get away. What is really interesting about the guy, I am willing to bet, is what I know and you don't."

This post has been edited by jchamber: Mar 9 2006, 02:40 AM

[Taillus]

Nice update. I will probably be forever a big fan of this story. It is usually first on my list to read after working on my own.

[jack cloudy]

Oh, a new guy who is almost as mysterious as the first. Stop tormenting me, I want to know everything about these guys.

[jchamber]

part four was unnamed, it is edited one minute after I am done writing this.

Nice update. I will probably be forever a big fan of this story. It is usually first on my list to read after working on my own.

seriously, if I cried once a week this would have been my allotment for the week....lol. Seriously though, for a guy that was always been told he was lacking in writing (That's me!) by English teachers, that is amazing and probably one of the best complements to hear. I am going to write an update!! Now that is motivation. LOL. Thanks again.

Oh, a new guy who is almost as mysterious as the first. Stop tormenting me, I want to know everything about these guys.

Have you read the "What D&D Character are You?" thread? It says I am evil..... which I am...so don't you think I would prefer to torment you more? muwahahaha I would. But, I am not the worst, so you will know both of them in more detail... but one and then the other...or am I messing with you to torture you even more? muwahahahahah, I am indeed evil haha. anyway you have earned yet another update and I hope it is a little better than the last to be honest...just re-read it and was slightly disappointed compared to some of the other updates...but then again I suspect that I am somehow biased about it.



Chapter Two- Roots in a Strange Place
Part Five- The Telopath, the Teloporter, and the Ex-cons.
(think of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)

(Part Five name ideas that got passed up: Long talks, Short socks(socks...not so important), Long Talks, Morning Blights (didn't make alot of sense), mindly thoughts and morning slaups (stuff in pig feeding trauphs) (couldn't spell it right and seemed a bit off), Nightime sights and morning lights (didn't make much sense) Point is: I think what I am getting at is that I am either running out of naming ideas or am having a bad day for it. Pressing onward.....)

Najimano and I got to the guys house and he let me sleep in his own bed and he slept on a slide-out bedmat. I had a dream about some kind of flying guy that moved around through the air like he was some kind of Zephyr. Probably was provoked by the guy that was sleeping next to me....freaky guy pops from one place to the next....it's still a weird way to get around....When I woke up I was feeling really good. I felt like I was just getting out of a calming, relieving, weight reducing, clarity granting, understanding imbueing class or something...it was great. Not to mention the fact that my leg was no longer hurt. As I sat up I realized this is the best I had felt since I had arrived in Morrowind. I could smell something great coming from another room. I got up and the bed creaked loudly.

"Hey, you're up! Come on in here and get a warm morning meal. How long has it been since you had one of these?" He turned around from his small fire and looked me in the eyes as I walked into the room and before I could answer he continued. "Oh, I see you can't remember the last time, I am sorry I mentioned it." He turned back to his food that was almost done from the smell of it.

"Um, how did you know that? I know I didn't mention tha..." I was almost done speaking, but Najimano was eager to reply.

"You didn't have to say anything, in fact when I am looking straight at you in good light you don't EVER have to say anything, I am a telepath that can read, project, and grab thoughts from and to people. Of course that is just one thing I am really good at, I also lit this fire with a spell, but no one is impressed with that now are they?" He had a smirk on his face to say that his question was meant to be humorous.

"So how much can you see with that telepethy?"

"I can only see maybe a few thousand feet, just like you." He cracked. "Nah, I know what ya meant. First off though, it's telepathy....not telepethy, heh heh. but yea...I think I can see more of your past than you can, later on we will get back to that.

"Wait you know about my past? What is it? Do you know if there is anyone waiting on me to return? What do I do for work?" It was like I wasn't even talking though because he just ignored me and kept going on with what he was saying. I guess I would leave it alone for a little bit longer until we talked about whatever it was that he wanted to do first.

"And don't forget that I said we would talk about that guy that came into town, killed a few guards and mages, then left town by what was it? Oh, yes....

'holding you hostage and telling you that if you didn't untie the iron chains that he would kill you before he left...' You also mentioned that, and I quote, 'he seemed scary when he said it and he had blood all over him so you were afraid, you couldn't just let him kill you, and you don't even have a weapon to try to protect yourself with' Yea that sounds about the same way you told it to the locals and what you would tell the police too, huh?

"Well it won't work on Natalie, the same way it didn't work on me. She is almost as powerful at using mental reading as I am, the only reason they don't have me do her job is that I don't want to and I am more useful for moving. That is what I am best at, teleportation and relocation. I could work as a guild guide if the mages guild hadn't put a permanent ban on me entering their buildings after I was caught sleeping with the wrong people.....

"I really thought she made the first move though....then again she might have just thought those suductive words really loud in her head.....not sure enough to really properly defend myself, so I do odd jobs for the local guards and Imperial legion. You seem like you might like doing work with the Imperial Legion too."

If I hadn't found a large part of this interesting I would have went back to sleep he had talked so long. "Well it seems like you have everything figured out, I might even check out that recommendation for the Legion since it was from someone of your extrodinary position of clarity of vision." Urrgg, why was I feeling like I was sucking up to this guy? I didn't really have any reason to...then I figured out what I had been subconciously thinking... this guy might be able to help me out in more ways than one, most important was my memory, then there was the local law enforcement too.

"Well, like I said..... You need to be able to trick Natalie and you and I are going to talk about that man, sorry I got off topic a bit there....I have a bad habit of talking about myself too much sometimes since I know others can't know as much about me as I know about them."

"Ok, what can I do about Natalie? I don't know what else to say and I already said that to the guy at the shoreline, who would have told the police by now."

"Well, I am mentioned that I am the best telepath around here, and that I can project thoughts, so that is what we're gonna do. You are going to have it in your head thet that is what happened...in other words I am going to give you the memory you described to them....you will feel fear and it will be as though it were real, but as soon as you are done seeing her I will get that fake memory out of your head." He was looking at me once again and I could tell he was reading my reaction both by body language as well as telepathy.

"I..."

"Don't worry I can't remove any real memories from you, in fact that is going to be a bit of a problem with Natalie. I will need you to focus on the fake memory when she is examining you because both will show up otherwise. We will practice it before you leave the house just to make sure you can do it." That was uncanny regardless of whatever magic it might be. I did feel better knowing that he couldn't make me forget everthing yet again though...and he wouldn't lie about something like that.....If he was that kind of person that guard wouldn't dislike him because Nejimano would implant memories of good times together or something similar.

"Well, I just hope we can get it together before the guards come to get me." He had turned back to stir the food.

"Oh they aren't coming for you. They will wait for me to bring you to them. Breakfast is done."

"Smells delicious, what is it?"

"Well, I figure that it's better if you don't know. I want to talk about that guy that you met yesterday now. I know that he saved you and that he was really skilled as a fighter and that you don't really much like him...so now that that is out of the way....I want to tell you that he came to this contenent the same way you did, but only a few months ago. He passed by me before he had done anything wrong in this town as I was walking to the market. I didn't get a long look at him but I saw his eyes looking right into mine for a long couple seconds before out gazes parted. I learned a lot about him and you deserve to know as much as possible since you two have almost no chance of not running into each other again."





muwahahahaha, the torture will continue, roflmao, oflmao, oflol.

I hope you enjoyed that bit of info about Najimano though. I can't have you not hungry for more after all.....

This post has been edited by jchamber: Mar 9 2006, 02:29 AM

[jack cloudy]

The great power of nothing can defeat any evil! And I am the great master in the art of nothing! How dare you defy me?!

Ahem, back to the story, shall we? Nice update again. The confrontation with the legion will be interesting.

And torment me all you like, as long as you keep writing it is fine by me.

[jchamber]

It is finals week so I am having some trouble getting the hours of time I need to write and the inspiration is also in short supply due to overwork and undersleep, but I will still continue with this story b/c I feel like I would be less tormenting by not supplying more info that you want to know more about, rofl. But seriously, I really am having trouble writing.

I would like some help with part names or I might start just leaving them numbered. I also would like to know what you thought of the rejected part names, but .......now.....UPDATE!!!

Chapter two(which seems never ending to me)- Roots in a Strange Place (Which seems really inappropriate now since this guy has been all over during this chapter, unable to stay anywhere long enough to get roots anywhere.)

Part 6 (I think, mighta doubled up on one or two)-

As we ate our breakfast I learned that the "Barry" fellow was actually named Bobdop (Bob - dahp' , like the o in stop), he is reporting to Caius on orders of the emperor, and was a ruthless man that had no compasion for anyone or anything that didn't have him in it. We couldn't peice together why he had been let out of the Imperial prison in the first place instead of being put to death...but that must be one of the mysteries that would be locked in the mind of the emperor.

"Well what does this have to do with this me then?" I was quite puzzled.

"I am unsure, but what he said about needing people for his plans to work makes me very nervous. I really don't want to see what he plans to do that he would need help for, considering the source."

"Ok now that we have talked about him and finished breakfast, let's talk about my past that I can't remember."

"Well, I don't want to tell you too much, like stuff that you aren't ready for...and regardless of what you and every other amnesia affected person thinks...you really don't want years of memories poping into your head in less than a month... it just is't processable. With that said I can tell you that you are Hajima, which you already knew....start off slow right?"

"No, get to it!" I was getting impatient this guy had been denying me my own history for too long since its been nearly an hour since I had woken up and found out he could let me know something more about myself."

"Ok, ok. You were put in prison for trying to kill the Emperor, maybe he is sending you to this Caius fellow to institute a crueler punishment.





Ok that took over an hour just for that bit and I don't have the time or the right mindset to write right now....I can't concentrate for longer than one or two lines at a time....well I will post an update soon, maybe tomorrow night around midnight EST

[jack cloudy]

Well, another mystery is partially revealed. Keep up the tormenting!

[Taillus]

For killing the emperor!? Woah.. Serious stuff. Sorry I neglected to read again but I promise that I will always catch up. Not that my arm needs to be twisted. Keep up the good work and don't keep your fans waiting too long for another update!

[jchamber]

sorry if you thought this was going to be an update just wanted to read coments as a 5 minute break between studying for tommorrows final. I was wondering: what that new avatar is taillus?

as far as trying to kill the emperor; someone mentioned, I think it was jack, that hajima showed very high ability to fight back in seyda neen. After being in prison and having skills deminish, that means he was really sweet before right? so he deserves a sweet past like that.

[minque]

oh..another one I haven´t commented in a long time! Soory Jail-chamber..but I do read and enjoy you know! It´s just that my time doesn´t always allow me to comment!

[jchamber]

part- whatever the heck I am up to

"why would I try to kill the Emperor?"

"You were hired to by a hooded group that paid up fromt, so they are probably pretty mad with you too."

"Who are they? Why would they want the Emperor dead?"

"You know what is funny is that you wouldn't ask them why when they hired you but you are asking now....very interesting."

"Stop not answering my questions"

"I told you already, you can't get some rush of memories and if I tell you who they were you probably will get a flood of them. Neither of us know for sure who they were though, just a hunch. Why they wanted the man dead didn't matter to you then and wasn't discussed."

"So what was I then an assasin? Should I get myself re-registered at the census offices?"

"You were more than an assasin, and the census offices would rather have thier information wrong than have to talk to people more than they have to."

"More than an assasin? So I was a famous assasin?"

"That is an understatement, you were a member of a group that doesn't kill for money because they believe that killing is for honor, self defense, and social and politcal change. I am going to write the name of the group on a piece of parchment and I don't want you to open it until at least a week from now, although I would suggest two."

"So I was a member of super killers then?"

"Don't you think that you were a bit over-skilled at combating guards for a common theif?"

"Yea, I guess a part of me knew I must have been something like that before coming here."

"Ok now.....here you go," He handed me a piece of paper folded in half. "I am serious don't open that letter for at least a week or you will regret it." I didn't doubt the guy's experience but the more I thought about it the more I wanted to know right now, besides... I could handle it. I had done fairly well so far, but I would wait for a while until I was out of Najimano's sight.

"I want to leave this land and never go see that woman. I need to be getting back to Balmora and I don't intend to be locked up in case your mind mojo doesn't work."

"Well, I don't know if you can concentrate well enough with this new stuff to think about to fool her anyway, so maybe it's for the best."

"Ok so how am I leaving...and don't say boat"

"I know you hate boats but the only other choice is a mage and I don't think the one that got you here is willing to send you back."

"Isn't there anyone else?"

"Well there is a traveler in the local inn that might know something of traveling spells."

"Where is that?"

"It's that way" He pointed in a direction that was straight through a wall. "I think it is about three hundred feet away, if you run you might not be seen, I want you to have something."

"Wow, really?"

"Yea, I have dabbled in enchanting and I have a nice ring that I use all the time, it lets you skip forward five minutes every few seconds, it can shorten travel by a good bit or if you are in combat it could come in handy dodging every few seconds. I am sure you will think of how to use it better than I have." The ring was a black gem that had a subliminal glow in its depths that flashed ever few seconds, it might show my location in the dark but if I wore it backwards with my hand closed that wouldn't be an issue...

"I really don't know what to say, but thanks a lot. I have a feeling this thing is going to save my life a FEW times." We grinned at each other for a minute and I put it on.

I walked up to a wall at the point he had pionted out, turned to him one last time and said, "Well, one day maybe I can repay you, I really will remember this as long as I don't get another memory jogging, heh. I will see you later." He just smiled in reply as I jumped out across the wall and started jogging to the inn that he had been pointing at.

When I got to the building I walked in the door and asked the guy at the front desk where the room was that the adventurer had rented last night. "Well, stranger, I could tell ya but I don't think it would be much use to ya."

"Really? Why would that be?"

"Well I had him here last night and I haven't seen him come down and leave, but the cleaning maid swears his room was empty, if he hadn't paid upfront I would have been enfuriated and thought that he had tried to slip the bill. So I think you would be best served to ask around town."

I wasn't convinced that this was true or that the maid had looked enough so I pressed him some more, "Well, would it be too much trouble to let me take a look around his room?"

"That's no problem at all, stranger. It'll be 10 gold for the night."

"I am not staying the night, I am just going to check the room real fast then if I don't find anything I will ask around town like you siad."

"Ok, well it'll be ten gold for advisory functions."

"Heh, ok look I don't have any money, but I will do something worth ten gold for you later if you are that worried about it." I didn't intend to be in town once I found the guy I was looking for and this guy wouldn't ever see me again so I figured I would tell him something he would like.

"Look I was born at night but I wasn't born last night, you aren't coming back once you find that guy...but if you are broke I am not worried about it. Just get up there and get out soon, if I don't see you back down here in half an hour I am going to come up there and I won't be alone."

"I only intend to be up there about tem minutes or so." So he pointed/described the way to the room and I got there. When I opened the door a man was sitting on the edge of the bed, he had obviously magically traveled in and out of the place when he left since the guy up front didn't see him leave, which meant he was just what I wanted.

"What do you want?" the man on the bed said to me, staring blankly.

"Well I need a lift to balmora by magic."

[jack cloudy]

A nice update and it makes me even more curious to just who our little fellow was before he got bonked on the head. I'll be waiting for the next update.

[jchamber]

the overly long chapter with a name that makes no sense b/c the character isn't making roots anywhere b/c he just keeps getting bounced around the map and the part where He gets back to blamora

"Well, I need some kind of payment for the transportation, what do you have of value? that ring looks really nice, that would do."

"This ring was a gift that I cannot give away so easily, how much do you need as payment?"

"Oh I suppose a hundred gold would do, do you have some with you or some that you could give me once we get to Balmora?"

"I am sure that Balmora will hold some money adventures for me, I will pay you as soon as I have the money."

"This is sounding like more of a chore than I am willing to put up with, I think I will let you use a boat."

"Look I had money but I was mugged and moved here against my will, I have some information that might be worth a hundred gold."

"Oh, really? Well lets hear it and I will let you know how much I think it's worth."

"The local wizard has a very nice enchanted weapon in a spare room that is unguarded, you could probably get it and it must be worth more than a few hundred dollars."

"I'll be back in a moment." He went alit with the most brilliant blue glow I had seem in my life, it became so bright I had to look away and when it dimmed he was gone. Less than a minute later there was a white flash and I blinked and when my eyes re-opened he was standing in front of me with a small green blade that had a faint glow in it. "This will do, it should be worth about a thousand gold to me."

"Great so you willmove me to Balmora?"

"Well with something this valueable I will do even better" I sure had been fortunate that the old man wizard had an item, but then again it was a pretty safe guess that he would.

"So how can you do better then?"

"I am going to teach you how to do a basic crude transportation spell, that is if you are willing to learn." I nodded my head and we spent the next few hours going over magic as a principle and how that had the ability to move things and how I might move myself without the use of my ring.

When we were done he had me warp around a bit, using several potions to allow me to continue, and I couldn't get very far but it was better than the ring, so I had something to start with. We said our fairwells and he sent me to Balmora.

As I arrived in the area near the stilt strider I remembered the first time I had been here and decided to go straight to caius's place as soon as I knew where that was.


this seems like a good place to cut off this chapter and start a new thread, I will post a link as soon as I post an update on the story. Feel free to continue to post comments about this section here b/c I will always read the comments on this thread as they appear, as long as I am still a member of this forum, and as long as we don't break the 200 post rule...doesn't seem likely...

thanks for reading.

[Taillus]

Nice update and a really good way of ending the chapter. Can't wait for the new thread and great work as always.

[jack cloudy]

Good update and the longest title ever. loved it.

[jchamber]

just to let you know I haven't quit working on this story but I AM taking a break due to over work at school I am spending about 100 hours a week on campus or studying. sorry to leave ya hanging but I am just to fj-ing busy.