When in Rome

Where are we?

Fitheach.Eun steps away from the portal in confusion and looks around

Fitheach.Eun: "Where are we?"

Fiesty.Lotus exits the portal and stares about her

Talia.Sunsong: "Am I considered a Goddess here?"

Fiesty.Lotus: “It ain't where we were supposed ter be.”

Talia.Sunsong: looks around the rock walls

Talia.Sunsong: "No Cream here"

Fiesty.Lotus: “I do think we outter study them runes more.”

Savage.Taurus: “Where were we supposed to be going?”

Talia.Sunsong: "They look like squiggles to me."

Fitheach.Eun: "We should be back at the cave. They are the same runes we used on the other side in that country where you thought you were a goddess..."

Fiesty.Lotus: Back ter the airship I thought

We Should be Back at the Cave

Fitheach.Eun sighs: “We should be back at the cave.”

Fiesty.Lotus shakes her head.

Fitheach.Eun: "We obviously have more to learn"

Fiesty.Lotus: Ayup

Talia.Sunsong: "I figure my brain is full. Do I have to learn more?"

Savage.Taurus: looks around, "This aint no cave. Looks like some pretty advanced engineering, I'd say."

Fiesty.Lotus: You be fine - fer a Fae...

Talia.Sunsong: "I'm a fine Fae."

Fiesty.Lotus: You are.

Savage.Taurus: I bet these people have some good food.

Fiesty.Lotus pats the Fae on the arm

Fiesty.Lotus: So- food do sound good.

Savage.Taurus: All that walking around has made me hungry

Talia.Sunsong: "Food! Yes!"

Fitheach.Eun steps back in surprise as a sylph appears

A Sylph Appears

Savage.Taurus: Oh geez, another freakin' faery?

Talia.Sunsong: huh?

Sylph: “Lady, she cries out; you must help her! They have her imprisoned!”

Talia.Sunsong: "Who is imprisoned?"

Savage.Taurus: They who?

Fiesty.Lotus: Yeah, that

Fitheach.Eun: shhhh, sylphs are not the brightest things...

Fitheach.Eun: “Who must we help, my dear?”

Talia.Sunsong: "But Fae are geniuses..."

Savage.Taurus: grumbles, "I don’t know. Sounds like a good way to get ourselves imprisoned too...and I just want something to eat"

The sylph stammers out: "The great one; goddess of knowledge. They have trapped her here and set up their own goddess in her place.”

Savage.Taurus: Is she the imprisoner or imprisonee?

Fiesty.Lotus: Oh my, That ain't right

Fitheach.Eun: “No it's not.”

Savage.Taurus: muses, "Interesting that imprisoner and prisoner are opposites..."

Talia.Sunsong: "How good is she? Does she do favors?"

Fiesty.Lotus: Awww Talia

Savage.Taurus: Oh good question, Nanny

You Must Help Her!

Fitheach.Eun: “Talia; it does not matter about that. What matter is that she is unjustly imprisoned"

Savage.Taurus: How do we know its unjustly?

Fiesty.Lotus nods

Talia.Sunsong: "That is so complex. I take the simple approach. Do we get a reward for freeing her?"

Fiesty.Lotus: “Cause goddesses gotta be free.”

Savage.Taurus: Yea, I'm with the Nanny on this one

The sylph looks rapidly from person to person..."Why can you all see me?"

Fiesty.Lotus: Don't know- we don't even know where we are.

Savage.Taurus: Yea, where is this place?

Fitheach.Eun: Two of us are druids, one is fae and he, Fit looks at Savage, is a dragon in disguise."

Fitheach.Eun: "Of course we can all see you."

Talia.Sunsong: "Fae can see Fae."

Fitheach.Eun: Dragons can see all

Savage.Taurus sighs, "I'm almost starting to forget my true self. Can this goddess help me change back to my normal form?"

Fitheach.Eun:  Where is this goddess?

Talia.Sunsong: "I'll follow you if it means food later."

Savage.Taurus: though if she can’t free herself, how good of a goddess can she really be?

The sylph darts off and everyone follows

Fitheach.Eun peeks around the corner at the two guards

Fearsome Guards

Fiesty.Lotus: Ohh. They be a bit fearsome

Fitheach.Eun: they do...perhaps they need a nap though

Fitheach.Eun rummages in her bag: " Now where is that Valerian..."

Talia.Sunsong: peeks around the corner and sniffs "I smell tiger."

Fiesty.Lotus: Yes, there be a beast here

Fitheach.Eun whispers to the Sylph: Take this and drop it into their goblets while they are not looking

Talia.Sunsong: whispers "Here, kitty kitty."

Savage.Taurus: sniffs the presence of cats and feels his stomach rumble

Talia.Sunsong: Rorn pops his head up and sniffs the air. He smells cat

Big Cats

Talia.Sunsong: Rorn launches himself out of Talia's arms and flies down the dungeon hallway.

Savage.Taurus: so they do have food here after all...I haven’t had feline in a long while

Fitheach.Eun: The two guards jump and look startled as he flies by

The sylph darts out and drops the herbs into the goblets, stirring them in

Talia.Sunsong: whispers "yay, Fae"

The guards look at each other mumbling I need a drink

Savage.Taurus: distracted by his hunger, "hmmm that little one looks tasty..."

Talia.Sunsong: watches Rorn move out of the guard's sight, up to the ceiling, where he hangs upside down

Fiesty.Lotus: Nope. No eaten the kittys

Each guard quaffs the entire goblet in one gulp

Fiesty.Lotus: They be necessary in this history

Savage.Taurus: growls at the pesky hobbitess

Their eyes glaze over and they stagger dropping the goblets and slowly sinking to the floor fast asleep.

Sleeping Guards

Fiesty.Lotus: Not pleasent, but necessary

Talia.Sunsong: feels thirsty watching the guards drink

Talia.Sunsong: whispers "Lucky guards, get to drink and sleep on the job."

The cell door flies open and a majestic woman stalks out

Talia.Sunsong: "Hello. I was a Goddess once for a few minutes, until Horus threw me out of his temple."

She looks at the refugees and smiles

Savage.Taurus: rolls his eyes at the fae

Athena then gives the fae a quizzical look

Talia.Sunsong: "They thought I was Isis."

Talia.Sunsong: nods at her wings

Athena: Thank you for freeing me; they wish to put their own goddess Minerva in  my place and thought to keep me imprisoned

Savage.Taurus: mutters, "She definitely a pain in the isis.."

Athena: I will return to Greece and leave them to their paltry goddesses

The Goddess is Free

Fiesty.Lotus: So now yer free?

Athena: but first I must thank you

Talia.Sunsong: "Do we get cream and a favor now?"

Athena: “What do you need the most?”

Savage.Taurus: Do we get a reward or something?

Fitheach.Eun jumps in: " We need to know how to make the portal take us back where we came from."

Fiesty.Lotus: We wanna know how ter use them portals.

Savage.Taurus: Just one thing? Or do we each get something?

Talia.Sunsong: is overwhelmed by the question what does she need or really want the most. "Cream, shiny objects, way to get home, Rorn nanny lessons..."

The goddess sighs and looks at the only two who made sense

Savage.Taurus: I just want to be a dragon again

Athena: You must reverse the runes to go back

Fiesty.Lotus taps the Fae on the shoulder:  "Take it easy, one thing at a time"

Fitheach.Eun: That is all it takes?”

What Do You Need the Most?

Talia.Sunsong whispers: looks at the hobbit, "but I want lots of things.

Athena: And you will find another portal here if you visit the temple of that imposter

Fiesty.Lotus smiles:  "Yer want to be able ter get to em first."

Talia.Sunsong: "Where does that portal go? Will I be a goddess there?"

Fitheach.Eun bows slightly: "Thank you, gracious one."

Fiesty.Lotus bows also.

The freed goddess flies off suddenly towards the east

Fiesty.Lotus sighs

Fitheach.Eun looks around: " We had better be gone before they wake."

Fiesty.Lotus: So much fer goddesses….

Fiesty.Lotus: Ayup

Savage.Taurus: sighs as he watches the goddess fly away without granting his wish

Talia.Sunsong: "I wonder where that other portal goes?"

Fitheach.Eun: Shall we go before we are captured?

Fiesty.Lotus: yup

Talia.Sunsong: "Let's go. Fae and iron bars don't get along" shudders

Fitheach.Eun: Let's find Can and Saphira and try the portal again?

Talia.Sunsong: nods

Savage.Taurus: follows along, glumly

Talia.Sunsong: "Come down, Rorn!"

Let's Go Before They Wake Up.