Surubi
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Post by Surubi on Jul 19, 2012 23:34:51 GMT
Lexi was standing in a river. Kit was sitting in it. He'd landed on his feet when he came through the portal, but had slipped on a particularly slimy rock, and fell right in. Not the greatest of starts, he thought. Ah well. He picked himself up and, squeezing water out of his ponytail, called out to his new partner.
"Rivendell? Good job I've practised Elvish then-" He realised he was missing something. "My bag!" His carefully packed rucksack, complete with change of pants and a hand-knitted scarf in case it got cold, was floating off down the river.
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Post by Echo on Jul 19, 2012 23:43:00 GMT
Ringing out the bottoms of her trousers on the bank, Lexi heard the cry, looked up and spotted the bag very definitely floating away from them downstream. She was impressed its contents hadn't weighed it down, to be honest. "Perfect start to a quest, don't you think?" She called out to Merrick as she raced along the bank to try to overtake the rogue backpack. Thankfully, her Vampire side kicked in, giving her that extra boost of speed she needed to get ahead. Lexi jumped off the bank and into the water just ahead of the bag and managed to catch it on its way past. She held it up for Merrick to see as she slowly made her way back to him.
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Surubi
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Post by Surubi on Jul 25, 2012 1:10:43 GMT
Kit was blushing. He'd known he'd not be the best quester, but this was beyond ridiculous. Not making eye contact out of embarrassment, he took his pack from Lexi, and put it back on. "Thanks" He mumbled. He took a deep breath, pulled himself together and smiled. "Now what? Where do we go?"
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Post by Echo on Jul 25, 2012 1:26:59 GMT
"Well, ordinarily I'd go see the Elves, but..." Lexi took a quick glance at Merrick's pack "...Maybe the sooner this quest is over, the better, eh?" She looked around, trying to get her bearings "Do you still have the quest info...?"
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Surubi
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Post by Surubi on Jul 25, 2012 2:27:43 GMT
"Yea, it's right here." Merrick answered, patting his trouser pocket. "Or maybe not..." He tried his back pockets. Not there either. "I must have left it in my other trousers-" He started, before finding the folded up scrap of paper in his breast pocket. "Got it!" He smiled brightly, handing it over. He cursed himself in his head. He was definitely letting nerves get the better of him.
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Post by Echo on Jul 25, 2012 2:35:17 GMT
"You alright there...?" Lexi said, taking it from him. She was starting to think maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all, but she'd been told by another Quester that this glorified librarian guy needed to go out questing, and this had looked perfect. "Ok, apparently no-one's entirely sure where this book actually is, but it lists a few places to look, one of which is Rivendell, so we may as well start there." Lexi began walking away towards the Elven palace, knowing Merrick would follow. "You said you could speak Elvish, right?"
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Surubi
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Post by Surubi on Jul 26, 2012 23:17:03 GMT
Kit brightened at the sound of something he definitely could do. "Yes! Can you?" He asked, noting her Elven features.
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Post by Echo on Jul 27, 2012 14:19:28 GMT
"Not really, sad as it is" Lexi sighed "I've been trying to learn in my spare time though. I know a couple of words, but not much".
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Post by Surubi on Jul 28, 2012 0:15:34 GMT
Kit couldn't help feeling slightly smug that he could do something that this apparently perfect quester couldn't- especially something so useful to their objective. "OK" He said. "I've never been to this land before, which way do we go?" He looked around, shielding his eyes from the sun, hoping to see somewhere he recognised from the maps he'd seen.
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Post by Echo on Jul 28, 2012 9:05:42 GMT
"We follow the river upstream for a while, then we divert off and head inland on this side" Lexi said, trying to remember where to turn inward.
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