Doors and Salix out of sorts
Subject Doors and keys
Aren't there 4 doors left? (3 more key quest doors, and the main door that requires all the keys?)
From: Karl
Subject Salix out of sorts
Salix rushes forward to check on Surin, inwardly cursing himself for not having prepared adequately for this challenge. Lucky for Surin, Ragnar could heal him up quickly enough, but somehow that made Salix feel even worse. Twice now, here, and back with the fire dogs, Salix could have prevented pain and injury to his companions but failed to think things through properly. This was unlike him. (He hoped, but how many times can you screw up before screwing up is *exactly "like you"?)
Salix withdraws from the group a little, to gather his thoughts. Was it this place, itself, that had him so out of sorts? He missed the greensong which here was only the faintest of whispers, that was sure. He'd felt that in some cities and towns, but never like this. How he wanted to get back to the forest. Why had the Stormfather sent him on this quest if it meant being so cut off from his source of strength?
As the group finishes up and returns to the main room (presumably), Salix will try to get Surin - if not alone at least a little away from the others and apologize for not being prepared with the prayers that would have spared him the burnt hand.
From: Mark
Subject Doors
Technically yes.
I meant 3 more doors until you can start unlocking things.
From: Porter
Subject Salix out of sorts
Mund is very impressed both with Surin and with the idea to send him in. More than once lately Mund has thought how useful it would be to not be quite so lumbering. Maybe Surin can teach him now to be a little quieter.
But everybody else is busy congratulating Surin, and Mund doesn't feel like fighting the crowd, so he says nothing.
He sees his friend Salix looking discouraged go off by himself. Mund comes up beside him and says "I dunno 'bout you, but I'm getting real tired of the unnat'ral place. How long you reckon 'till we find an escape?"
From: Karl
Subject Salix out of sorts
"However long it takes, it won't be soon enough for me." Salix says before he realizes the question came from outside his own head. "Oh!" he says with a start. "I didn't see you come up."
"Do you miss the woods right now as much as I do? If ever a place could use a plant or two . . ."
From: Porter
Subject Salix out of sorts
"I know how you feel. I'd like nothing more than to go hunting and sleep out in the open. It was a mistake for me to come in here at all."
From: Karl
Subject Salix out of sorts
"Well, I don't know about that. We'd never have gotten this far without you. Me, on the other hand . . . Well, I feel like I'm losing my grip. The greensong is just a whisper here and I'm apparently not listening very well. I never should have let Surin go in unprotected from the fire, nor have waited so long to distract those fire-dogs or whatever they were. People are getting hurt unnecessarily and it's directly because I haven't been keeping stock of my own role in this . . this. . . *test*" He almost spits the last word.
From: Porter
Subject Salix out of sorts
"Yeah, those doggies were a bitch, but we made it through OK, because of those critters that you brought in to fight with us. That was great. I don't know how often you can do that, but more critters like that could help us in a lot."
"Don't worry about Surin. I got a good look at his hand when he came out. I've hurt myself worse roasting a rabbit over a fire. They're just being fussy about it because they ain't got nothing else to do."
"Hell, if nothin' else, having you here has probably kept me from from killing that murderous elf Kal," he says with a toothy grin, trying to get a laugh out of Salix.
From: Karl
Subject Salix out of sorts
The mention of Kal just makes Salix remember how close he came to wanting to see him dead, too, so that doesn't get a laugh. But he sees that Mund is trying to be lighthearted, and surely some levity was needed in this green-deprived space. He returns Mund's joke with a smile, genuine, if somewhat forced. "You and I will have to do some hunting together when we get out of here. I imagine you're almost as lethal against game as Surin is against well-guarded keys," he says, trying to help lighten the mood. "I'd like to see more of this country when we're done here."
From: Ashley
Subject Salix out of sorts
Surin joins in the congratulations, and his bad mood from being in this place so long begins to dissapate slightly. "I did do fairly well now, didn't I?". He thanks Ragnar kindly for his healing service and opens and closes his hand a few times, trying to make the memory of the pain go away. "I didn't even sweat standing that close to it...thanks to Salix."
"Y'know, up to now I was I was almost afraid that the creatures in the room would sense that someone was trying to steal their key. Turns out not to be the case -- doing this could save us all a fair amount of trouble. Anything to keep us from staying here any longer than we have to."