A New Dawn

[Hermione]

Dolmine trudged in, grouching to herself. She'd decided to make one last check of the village against her newest map before leaving, and it had taken longer than she'd expected to climb back down from the tree. She'd gotten sap in her hair, spilled some of her precious green ink, and was in a foul mood because she'd had a restless night in the first place. She didn't look up until she almost ran into someone's horse.
"Oops. Er, sorry," she told it absent mindedly, and went inside to wash off before they left.

[magicmuffin]

"CAW" The crow awakens Elsa just before dawn and flies away.
She sheaths her shortsword, splashes a little water on her face from a nearby stream and makes a fire. She has a quick breakfast of elven bread (good for traveling) and tea and breaks camp in a practiced manner.
She wanders up to the inn, gathering the occassional plant into one of her pouches and greets those who are already there with a tentative smile, "I hope everyone slept well..."

[justthisguy]

Geofry smiles warmly at Doc " Okay, appology accepted. I may be an adventurer but not a roguish villian! It is unbecoming of a man, any man to force his attentions upon a woman, no matter how cute and short you are!, Do have any herbs or ointments that horses pasticulary like in that bag? It could make it easier for us to catch them if they are wild."
Geoffry grins at the distracted Dolime and chuckles
<this lady will need a close eye kept on her, always looking down when she needs to look up>
Geoff's stomach rumbles loudly
" I will be right back. I am going to ask the inn Keep if he ahs some oats to sell and maybe some more breakfast for myself, want anything Doc? and how about you Dolime?"

[kingdoom]

The Viking wakes up and walks out off the inn he sees all the others around and goes to get him self a horse he says:give me the biggest horse you got.

[Vyriello]

Tsevelanth cantered his little Elven horse up to the forming group. They had never really given him a clear response to his offer to guide them, so he just assumed that they were to grateful for words. Flashing them a toothy smile, he greeted them with a flamboyant wave. "I hope the morning sun greets you well, friends! And I hope everyone is excited for our journey to Elneth." Tsevelanth had spent the night restocking himself with full quivers and saddlebags. He knew full well that food and water would be pretty plentiful for most of their journey, but he knew just as well how easily journeys had a way of getting sidetracked.

[magicmuffin]

Elsa utters a strange cry and a gentle dappled mare comes trotting up to her. Elsa hops onto the mare, adjusts her robes and pouches and says "Anybody need a lift?"

[kluane]

"Where's tha rest? C'mon Geoffrey and you big 'iking- let's get our 'rses. You else follow when the othas come..." Says and walks away without waiting.

"No don' wanna be boss 'ere, but needa get this go'g" He says to the glaring crowd and takes some further steps. With a short glance he notices the crow circling over Elsas head. <She has a good guardian> he remarks for himself...

[dumbledor]

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Buram paces restlessly under a tree by the road muttering to himself...

"Maybe Geofry and those others weren't comming after all. But they had said they were going to Elneth!"

He stops pacing and looks back toward the town and squints.
Nobody yet. Maybe they had abondoned him? Painful memories wash over him....he shakes his head.
"NO! Geofry will be trustworthy."
He has faint memories from his early childhood of Geofry... well, maybe not, but the memory seems drawn out by his presence.

He looks down the road again. Still nobody.... Wait!
As he watches he sees the strange assortment of travelers emerge from beyond a hill and notes will no little surprise that they seemed to have produced a great number of equines.
He waits as they approach and walks beside them. To Geofry he says,
"I am here to travel with you as I said, but I will make no promises as to wether I will stay."

To avoid further confrontation he quickly drops to the back and walks wherever there is the most shade.

[Hermione]

"er, yes?" Dolmine glances rather warily at the horse Elsa sits on. "I'm not, ah, much of a rider," she admits nervously. "They don't have the best stride for measuring distances..." She looks about warily. "I suppose we HAVE to ride?"
She walks along side of them as she speaks, automatically keeping count of her paces.

[magicmuffin]

Elsa pulls Dolmine up on the horse. "Comfy?" she asks with concern.

[frizzer]

OK lets go,I'm sure we will pick up some horse on the way if Kala is right,,,Tsevelanth, i believe you know the way, does everbody have eveything they need, and is eveyone here thats going or do you know of any others. Gerrelous boomed

[Hermione]

Dolmine looked down at the ground, once, screwed her eyes up tightly, clutched the friendly but quite probably mad (well, she was on a horse!) druid, and said, trying to be brave: "tell me when we get ten miles beyond the village!" She cautiously pried open one eye when she felt the horse moving forward, and with a squeak shut it again.

[kluane]

While this group was walking either by horse or by foot Kala's growing more and more silent. He doesn't speak and doesn't even look at any member of the group. He fell - furthermore - to the end of the pack and seemed to be very uneasy...

So the whole group traveled for a mile and - as promised by Belgan - they see a large group of horses.

"C'mon, doom - get your horse! And 'f ya don't mind, could ya catch that for me? I'm sure Geoffrey lends ya his rope" Kala said. Then he points on the ugliest horse of the herd as his chosen one. Maybe he wants that an ugly horse because it matches his own appearance - maybe he knows something he didn't tell the others...

Kala seems not to be very interested in the catching and always observed the horizon as if he looks out for some signs there. All of a sudden and with no real cause he grabs his leather bag, takes out an unknown root and chews nervously on it.

[justthisguy]

Geoffry was amazed at the assemblage, and even more so when they arrived near the meadow with herd of horses. Several of the herd just started over to the group as if they had decided they wanted to join! Geoffry picked out a nice bay and the horse allowed him to place a halter on his head and succumb to being ridden.
"I will call you . . . . Duke! yes Duke, you have a certain noble look about you"
He then went over to help Kala with an unbecoming looking mare whose appearance belied her strength and endurance. He chuckled at the Viking as he tried to intimitdate the large stallion he had chosen and and more funny by the fact the Stallion was was trying to intimidate right back!
"Kala, you have a wonderful gift, thank you for the help with these horses. Also your eye for horse flesh is well trained! As ugly as this mare is she is one of the better in the herd."
Nodding towards viking " And you you have a great sense of humor too I mast add, putting those brutes together! Once they come to grips with who is the boss they will make a great team!"
Geoffry went next to bridle the small horse or pony which was among the sub herd, nuzzling an beaming Doc and eating apples from her hand.
"I see you found a freind Doc. what are you going to call her?"

[frizzer]

Garrelous was pleased, he secretly liked evryone of his new companions in thier own way. On his many adventures he had met thier like so many times and he was a pretty good judge of character. "Everyone,,everyone please its normaly about 6 days ride to Elneth, but Belgan here might be a little quicker than some of the mounts here and we ride to our slowest,as now we are officially on a quest, admitedly with our own agendas. Tsevelanth may know a quicker way, but my new friends,,what shall we call our small band of brothers and sisters on this quest." Garrelous knew the importance of a name, it made people feel like they belonged

[justthisguy]

"A name ?"
Geoffry ponders for a minute . . .
"the Elneth Raider's, I don't know.. are we on a raid or rescue mission or what exactly?"

[Vyriello]

How about: "Tsevelanth's traveling team of terrific traleblazers, tenacious trekkers, tantalizing transients, and two teeny-tiny trauma-tenders, " Tsevelanth suggests dramatically. "And yes, I know a way that will get us to the border in only four days travel. And with only the slightest, miniscule, nearly-imperceptible increase in the general hazard to our collective and independent well-being."

[frizzer]

Geoffry, our first stop is Elneth, that is mearly the start of the quest, I need to find the Elven trader Lioleth there, he may know of my loves whereabouts, and her treasure. I like the name Tsevelanth but its a bit of a mouthful, I was thinking something simple, I did here of a clan once greyf,,gryff,,greyfear, thats it,,,the horde of greyfear, I dunno, let one of the girls dicide as we ride, they are good at that sort of thing. Added Garrelous

[kluane]

"Just r'member - me got a li'le accent. So 'is 'evelan' name's a bit hard for me. 'nd the t-name isn't easier. Then I like that gre'fear" Kala states and he continues "But 'urry up - I needa see that elven magic so he gimme th' part of th' spell... I'll be of greater use for you 'en"

[SForce]

~SForce hears the whole confersation as the group rides by under his tree. He decides to ask them what there travels are about. SForce takes out his bow and puts a arrow on a string quietly.~

"Did you hear something." Someone says

"Nah i didnt here anything..."

~SForce jumps down as they pass and shoots the arrow past Geoffreys head to catch his attention.~

"That was just a warning...come any closer and this arrow is in your head."

~SForce puts another arrow onto the string and pulls is back and gets ready.~

"And who might you be young elf...and why are you here..." Geoffrey says

"I am SForce...I overheard your conversation about going to elneth..."

"Is that all you heard" doom the viking said

"No...I heard you were looking for a famous trader there...Lioleth is it..." SForce says convidently

"...How...do...You know who he is..." says doc

"Of course I do...you see I was born and raised in Elneth...beautiful place i might add..."

"What Do You Know About Lioleth!!" shouted Kala

"Calm down dark mage I'll get there. You see Lioleth is a well known man and he will not welcome strangers into his house...or anywhere near for that matter. You see he needs a well trusted person...someone that he knows will not do any harm to him no matter what..."

"Will you lead us to him." Kala says, but this time sounding convident that he'll get to see him

"No...no...even I...someone that use to live in Elneth am not able to get to see Lioleth myself...it'll take someone that he knows personally...someone that is close to him...someone..."

"Who!" shouts Kala

"His son..."

"and who might that be" says Kala anxiously to hear

~SForce pauses~

"You!"

~SForce points to Geoffrey~

"Me...I...I'm the son of Lioleth..." Geoffrey says with chills rushing down his spine

"Yes you my young friend are his son...why do you think you're part elf...you see there was a war upon Elneth long before...when you were young...You're father...not nearly as famous at the time...sent you away to a small village far away...he wanted to get you back and he could never find you after that...he has sent people to go find you, and for the past 20 years he's been unsuccsessful."

~At this point everyone is silent...listening to what SForce has to say about Geoffrey.~

"I will take you to Elneth as safe as can be...I will need a horse please...and i'll show you the shortcut that will take a day off of your travels...but it will be dangerous i warn you...which way will you go."

Vyriello: This is an example of God-modding. Saying that Geofrey is the son of Lionel without getting permission from JTG is against the basic rules of the RP. SForce also puts words in other people's mouths, which isn't as big of a deal, but some people do care about that quite a bit. A mod like knowing who someone's lost father is should be discussed prior to posting in the OOC thread for the RP or through PMs, IMs, or emails. Happy Gaming!