Hobbit Council

 Fiesty and Druid Fitheach visit the Hobbit outpost

Tulip Totting: "Greetins. I be Tulip.”

Fitheach Eun: “Greetings Lady Tulip.”

Tulip Totting: “I hear you would like to address the council?”

Tulip Totting

Fitheach Eun looks at her druid sister questioningly.

Fiesty Lotus glances at Druid Fitheach "I sent the tavern boy ahead to let them know we were coming."

Fitheach Eun smooths her best dress nervously and hope she looks elvish enough.

Fiesty Lotus: “I am Fiesty Lotus Lady Tulip, and this is Druid Fitheach.”

Fitheach Eun inclines her head.

Fiesty Lotus: “We come to ask your council a serious question.”

Tulip Totting nods

Tulip Totting: “I will take you to the council house then. Please follow me.”

Please follow me.

Fitheach Eun looks at the council hall door with concern...

Tulip Totting: “Please come in”.

Druid Fitheach stoops.

Fitheach Eun stoops to get under the hobbit sized lintel.

Tulip Totting: “May I introduce Peri ad Rufus on my right”.

Fitheach Eun: “Greetings Sir Peri”

Tulip Totting: “Boys, this be Lady Fiesty Lotus and Druid Fitheach.”

Rufus Goodchild: “Nice ter meet you. Please have a seat.”

Fitheach Eun: “Greetings Sir Rufus.”

Fiesty Lotus takes a comfy seat.

Fitheach Eun looks at the chairs hesitantly.

Peri Cloverleaf: “I do think the chairs will be comfortable mam. They be for humans also.”

Fitheach Eun exhales and sits.

Tulip Totting: takes a seat.

Everyone sits.

Rufus Goodchild: “So, the boy told us you have a very serious request. Is this true?”

Fiesty Lotus: “Yes, but first I would ask you how many Hobbits live here?”

Rufus Goodchild: “We are only a few families now. We used to be stronger in numbers, but we have dwindled t only, say 20 Hobbits.”

Fitheach Eun raises an eyebrow and glances at Fiesty.

Fiesty Lotus: “And why is that? I see lots of land here, lying fallow.”

Fiesty Lotus looks at Druid Fit and shakes her head. Where did everyone go?

Fitheach Eun pays close attention.

Druid Fitheach pays close attention

Peri Cloverleaf: “Well, ya see. We came here through the portal when our lands were taken over by some nasty king.”

Fitheach Eun: “A nasty king?”

Peri Cloverleaf: “We were good here for a bit but then came drought fer a few years.”

Peri Cloverleaf:” And on top of that was a pesky dragon who came and made off with a lot of our livestock. Many just up and left.”

Peri Cloverleaf: “So we are very few now”.

Fitheach Eun: “What happened to the dragon?”

Peri Cloverleaf: “I dunno. I guess we got too small ter bother with.”

Fiesty Lotus looks at Druid Fitheach and nearly smiles.

Fitheach Eun raises both eyebrows.

Fiesty Lotus: “Well, that is a right shame.”

Fiesty Lotus: “I might know of a deterrent to that problem for ya in future.”

Fiesty Lotus: ”But now to the meat of our problem. Yer see I am the leader of a tribe of hobbits and they have fallen on terrible trouble in service to royal families - right now they are virtual slaves to King Ferdinand. They have been put to work in the crystal mines and the ladies are all now in service to the noble families.”

I am the leader of a tribe of Hobbits.

Tulip Totting: “King Ferdinand did you say?”

Tulip Totting: “He be the king who chased us from our lands!”

Tulip Totting looks about at the other council members.

Rufus Goodchild: looks shocked.

Peri Cloverleaf: “Well, I wouldn't put it past that old so-and-so.”

Fitheach Eun: “He seems a truly bad king.”

Tulip Totting: “So what is it you would like us to do Fiesty Lotus?”

Fiesty Lotus: “I would ask you all if we could bring them here. They be about three hundred in number.”

Rufus Goodchild looks at the other council members

Fitheach Eun: “We do not ask you to help with the rescue, that will be our risk.”

Peri Cloverleaf me looks up and after a moment he nods.

Tulip Totting: looks at the lady hobbit and sighs. "A course yer can bring em - they be kin"

Fitheach Eun smiles at the hobbit council.

Rufus Goodchild: stands and says, "I may have a solution ter yer problem Lady and Druidess."

Fitheach Eun: “You may?”

Rufus Goodchild: “Have yer heard of Portal Masters? That be how we got here ter Terminus.”

Fitheach Eun: “Portal masters? No, we have not.”

Fitheach Eun: “What is a portal master?”

Rufus Goodchild: “Yes, we contacted a portal master a mage told us about. He sent a portal to our lands before we became overrun”.

Fitheach Eun: “A portal large enough to move all of you?”

Fitheach Eun looks fascinated.

Rufus Goodchild: “Yes, he could move a large one, fer a price of course. So, we finally came here.”

Fitheach Eun: “How do we find this portal master?”

Fitheach Eun: “No price is too high to save those hobbits.”

Rufus Goodchild: “Here let me show you on the Terminus map where you can find one of them. I hear this one is pretty rascally, so don't get yer hopes up.”

Invitation to the map.

Fitheach Eun walks over to the table with Rufus.

Fiesty Lotus jumps up and runs to the table.

Rufus Goodchild: “Here be the area he is in. He is in a great castle and is loud, but you may find a way ter save them there”.

Rufus Goodchild: points at a place on the map.

The map

Fitheach Eun takes note of the map location.

Fitheach Eun: “Thank you Sir Rufus, we will visit this Portal Master.”

Fitheach Eun looks at Fiesty.

Fitheach Eun: “Shall we go get the others and make the trip?”

Shall we go get the others?

Fiesty Lotus: “Yes, thank you all.  I will guarantee that my tribe will be a hard-working addition ter yer lands.”

Fiesty Lotus nods at Druid Fitheach. "Yes, goodbye friends."

Safe Paths.

Fitheach Eun turns to the rest of the council, “Thanks you all for your help. Safe paths.”

 

Hobbit Discovery

 At the Tavern

A Young Hobbit brings in the cream he just skimmed and sets it on the bar

The Young Hobbit looks around and sees the new customers.

The smell of cream hits Talia’s nose and she is up like a shot.

Talia Sunsong "Cream? Where?"

Young Hobbit “Kin I get yer anything folks?”

Talia Sunsong rushes over to the bar, bangs on the wood. "Cream, cream cream!"

Fiesty Lotus looks at the Fae and sighs.

Savage Taurus “How bout a leg off that dog over there? I see someone already got the tail.”

Fiesty Lotus looks up at the sound of the voice and smiles

Fiesty Lotus: "It's a hobbit!”

It's a Hobbit!

Fitheach Eun looks at the waiter with surprise.

Savage Taurus “Oh geez, the little ones are multiplyin.”

Talia Sunsong  zips around the room, and smells a familiar dragon.

Savage Taurus sniffs the air, "Saph? You there? Saph?"

Saphira Mistwalker drops out of shadow, surprised to see all the people here.

Rorn sniffs around and bumps into an adult dragon

The Young Hobbit goes toward the Hobbit lady and grins.

Saphira Mistwalker “Greetings everyone! I wasn't expecting to see you here!”

The Young Hobbit reacts to the lady who just appeared in the room.

Saphira appears.

Savage Taurus smiles at the dragoness, "It’s good to see you again, darlin"

Fitheach Eun: “Good to see you again, Ambassador.”

Rorn jumps around with joy and licks Saph's face.

Savage Taurus chuckles at his son's antics.

Saphira.Mistwalker. "it's good to see you too Rorn."

Saphira Mistwalker giggles at the hobbit's expression. "Sorry my lord, I wasn't trying to startle anyone."

Fiesty Lotus waves to the Ambassador

Fiesty Lotus then looks at the Hobbit standing in front of her.

Fiesty Lotus: “Hello. I will have hot tea please.”

Talia Sunsong takes the cream on the bar and gulps it.

Fitheach Eun smiles at the young hobbit, “Elven wine for me, please.”

Talia Sunsong "He's short, like you Fiesty."

Young Hobbit “Yes mam.”

The Young Hobbit scurries around getting tea and wine for the customers.

Young Hobbit passes the wine to Druid Fit and tea to the Lady Hobbit.

Fitheach Eun takes the wine and smiles.

Rorn hops on the table and sniffs at the tea.

Saphira Mistwalker smiles at Rorn, and hisses in Draconic, "Svanoa re wux moxt ir (how are you little one)?"

Rorn sits on his haunches and looks up at Saph.

Saphira Mistwalker winks at Savage, "Your son is looking well Savage. The fae must not be doing too bad as a nanny".

 Rorn tries to imitate Saph's words but ends up making baby talk.

Savage Taurus grins, "Yea, she does alright"

Saphira Mistwalker giggles. "You'll get it out eventually Rorn."

Fiesty Lotus reaches out and taps the boy on the hand "May I ask where you are from Young Hobbit?

Talia Sunsong "See, see. I told you I am a great nanny. Right Rorn?" Talia waves her mug of cream around, spilling some drops that Rorn eagerly licks up.

Savage Taurus I'm glad to see you, Saphira, I was hoping to talk to you about something.

Saphira Mistwalker moves closer to Savage. "What did you want to discuss?"

Young Hobbit “Me? I am from the small community to the West.”

I am from a small community in the west.

Savage Taurus lowers his voice and whispers, "Wux shilta thirku sari darastrix adon sva geou?" (You can change into dragon form at will?)

Fiesty Lotus: “Oh I have been looking for me kin. Could you draw me a map?

Young Hobbit “Um, Yes Lady.”

Saphira Mistwalker nods. "Axun, coi ui wer gemuth di sjach darastrixi. (Yes, it is the nature of shadow dragons.)"

Savage's burning question.

Talia Sunsong Rorn sits on the log chair, and begins gnawing on the wood.

The Young Hobbit looks around to see if any more need his attention.

Savage Taurus "Tir wux siofme wux tiliw anku ve svanoa ekess tir batobot?" (Do you think you could teach me how to do that?)

The small dragon worries the Young Hobbit but he runs to make a map of his community.

Fitheach Eun raises her eyebrows at the words she understands from the dragon conversation.

Talia Sunsong Sees the stage, and under the influence of cream, decides to entertain the crowd with song.

Savage Taurus "Nomenoi odadi tepoha itrewictor ve stuck persvek nomeno puny slemon, shar astahii shilta ti thirku ve spical ekess munth." (These druids have gotten me stuck in this puny shape, but they can't change me back to normal.)

Does your kind have that power?

Saphira Mistwalker frowns. "Si tiliw xoal, tiric dout cirau tepoha batobot vers? (I could try, does your kind have that power?)"

Saphira Mistwalker nods and sighs.

Talia Sunsong throws her arms wide and belts out a tune.

Saphira MistwalkerTepoha astahii ehtaha thric idol ekess winid coi? (Have they found no way to fix it?)

Saphira Mistwalker rolls her eyes at the fae.

Savage Taurus "Si tir ti vucot. si tir ti jinthil sia odassi rinov thirkuir, shar nomagqe astahii tiliw." (I do not know. I do not remember my parents ever changing, but maybe they could.)

Talia Sunsong "Alas my love, you do me wrong to cast me off..." sings a warbling off key tune.

Saphira MistwalkerVucoti creol lyrik darastrixi shilta. sjek coi ui ti persvek dout gemuth coi ornla qe tonn. (I know some other dragons can. If it is not in your nature it would be hard.)

Fiesty Lotus looks toward the lad and goes over to see.

Fiesty goes to see.

Savage Taurus "Astahii re blaming wer wand di wer wiekr, shar si mi suspicious di asta intentions. si siofme astahii jatil ekess xurwk ve asta silit." (They are blaming the wand of the fae, but I am suspicious of their intentions. I think they mean to make me their slave.)

Rorn stares at his nanny singing off key, then he flies off to the pile of mushrooms in a bowl. He returns and offers them to Talia

Saphira MistwalkerSi tir ti siofme astahii ornla tir batobot. si tepoha vucat astahi ekess qe tiichiul xiekivi. (I do not think they would do that. I have known them to be honorable people.)

Talia Sunsong ends her tune with a bow and turns to what she thinks is an appreciative crowd. Finding Rorn offering her a mushroom. she stops singing to chew on it.

Rorn sighs with relief.

Rorn sighs with relief.

Fitheach Eun turns to Saphira and murmurs in elvish: " The fae's wand distorted the glamour spell."

Saphira Mistwalker nods to Lady Fitheach. and replies in elvish, "Just so"

Talia Sunsong "What'd I do? I'm innocent. In-No-Cent."

Fitheach Eun: Since when do fae speak elvish? 

Savage Taurus looks at the elf sideways and growls, and turns back to Saphira, "Svanoa tir wux transform persvek dout vis adon?" (How do you transform in your true form?)

Saphira Mistwalker looks back at Savage, 'Wer wiekr ui vi loerchik, shar ti malsvir. (The fae is a pain, but not evil.)"

Talia Sunsong "I know the word 'Fae' in elvish because they say it around me when they scowl."

Saphira Mistwalker Si filki ounecus shafaer svanoa si huven ekess qe. coi jahus ehis si jahus ankua. (I just concentrate on how I wish to be. It was nothing I was taught.)

Savage Taurus "Coi ui ti wer wiekr si wotenel." (It is not the fae I distrust.)

Saphira Mistwalker nods.

Rorn decides to warm himself IN the fire. He lands on the flaming logs and relaxes.

Fiesty Lotus runs back to Druid Fit waving the map in joy. "I got me a map ter find Hobbits here in Terminus.”

Savage Taurus sighs, "Tir wux siofme wux tiliw letoclo ve?" (Do you think you could help me?)

Fiesty Lotus finally notices the Fae is in fine form and Rorn is running amuck.

Fitheach Eun rolls her eyes again at the conversation and smiles at Fiesty.

We will have to go look my sister.

Saphira Mistwalker looks out the window and frowns. "Yth geou tepoha ekess ukris nomeno svern poktosh Savage, si zklaen yoscam. (We will have to discuss this later Savage, I must depart.)"

Fitheach Eun: “We will have to go look, my sister.”

Saphira Mistwalker “I must depart all. Safe paths, and hopefully I will see you again soon.”

Fiesty Lotus: Yes, let’s get Talia and Rorn out of here.”

Savage.Taurs nods, "Fair winds, Saphira"

Talia Sunsong sees Fiesty waving a map and talking about finding Hobbits. "Good, we need more Hobbit cooks."

Fitheach Eun: “Vanya sulie.”

Fiesty Lotus: “Safe Paths to you Lady Saphira.”

Fitheach Eun: “Let's head back to the vardo?”

Fiesty Lotus:” Yes indeed.”

Fitheach Eun shoos Talia towards the door.

Talia Sunsong "Huh? What? I was going to sing more."

Savage Taurus grumbles to Fit in elvish, "I'd appreciate it if you didn't eavesdrop on my conversations."

Fitheach Eun smiles back at Savage: " Then don't conduct them in languages I understand."

Savage Taurus looks at the elf and wonders if she would taste better in orange sauce or sweet and sour.

Orange sauce or sweet and sour?

More Talking Books and Crystals

Returned to The Library

The group returns to the library after their dinosaur adventure.

Fitheach Eun places the Dinotopia book back on the table and looks around the library.

Talia Sunsong: "I got shinies!"

Talia Sunsong has two handfuls of crystals.

Fiesty.Lotus reorients herself to the library after the portal move.

 Fitheach.Eun looks at the crystals in her pouch quizzically.

Rorn: carries crystals to his little hoard.

Fitheach.Eun “So now that we have these...”

Fiesty.Lotus looks in her pouch and finds all sorts of crystals.

Fiesty Lotus: "Yes?"

Fitheach Eun: “Do you think that book will talk to us again? He was awfully grumpy.”

Fiesty Lotus: “Hmm- perhaps there is another one.”

Talia.Sunsong "Maybe the book is hungry. What do books eat?"

Savage Taurus notices the others playing with their crystals, which reminds him of the red crystal he found on the floor of the library.

Fiesty Lotus: “We need a book on crystals and their uses.”

Looking for More Crystal Books

Fitheach Eun: “That would be more useful than that grumpy troll or whatever he was.”

Fiesty Lotus begins searching the stacks.

Fitheach Eun goes to help.

Savage Taurus takes the red crystal out, which he kept separate from the others because it seemed extraordinarily pure and clear and brilliant.

Rorn arranges his hoard pieces and tries laying on them.

Talia.Sunsong "Maybe books eat paper wads."

Savage Taurus slinks away into another corner of the room so they can’t see what he is doing.

Talia.Sunsong looks for paper wads to feed the book.

Fitheach Eun stares at the rows of books but finds no inspiration.

Fiesty Lotus: “Oh, oh here is one about other dimensions!”

Fitheach Eun: “Oh?”

Savage Taurus examines the crystal with his serpentine eyes, chuckles to himself that the others are wasting their time looking through books.

Fiesty Lotus looks in the book and can’t understand a word it says.

Rorn: looks for other shiny objects to add to his hoard.

Rorn notices shiny bell on cat's collar.

Savage Taurus can feel a power emanating from the red gem, like a humming, buzzing in his head and body, and it’s so perfectly formed, truly a thing of beauty.

Rorn crawls on his belly, trying to sneak up to cat with shiny bell.

Fitheach Eun comes to look at Fiesty's book.

Fiesty Lotus puts the book back and looks around some more.

Fitheach Eun sees a bright purple book and pulls it off the shelf curiously.

Savage Taurus: a thought occurs to him, a connection that seems to come out of the ether, and he looks down at the necklace that he found at the end of that tunnel when he crawled into the ancient ruins.

The Red Crystal Fits

Fiesty Lotus asks Druid Fitheach “What's that book?”

Rorn: tries to pounce on the cat's bell. The cat hisses and swat's Rorn's nose.

Fitheach Eun: “I don't know.”

Fitheach Eun carries the book to the table and sets it down: " It was somehow attractive..."

Fiesty Lotus looks at the title

Talia.Sunsong "Purple is attractive." fluffs skirt.

Savage Taurus: "It couldn't, he mutters to himself, but gives it a try, and finds that the red gem fit perfectly into the end of the ancient necklace. Holding his breath, he presses it in and it locks into place.

Fiesty Lotus: “It's called "Crystals and their Uses" whadaya know!”

Fitheach Eun opens the book slowly...

Savage Taurus instantly feels the full power of the crystal course through his body; if he had hairs on his scaly body they would be standing on end. After a moment the surge subsides and the red crystal pulsates dully over his heart as it hangs around his neck.

Another Talking Book

Fitheach Eun: Oh dear, another head...I wonder if this one talks?

Talia.Sunsong comes closer, holding a handful of paper wads.

Fiesty Lotus ventures "Hello book."

Book Tech: “May I help you?”

Talia.Sunsong "Are you hungry?" offers paper wads to head in book.

Book Tech: “I know all about crystals and their uses.”

Fitheach Eun: “Oh, do you?”

Book Tech looks at the wads of paper dubiously

Talia.Sunsong "Can crystals make us powerful and rich?"

Savage Taurus has no idea what he has unlocked, but is feeling very optimistic with this new turn of events.

Fitheach Eun: How do we use the crystals to make something more powerful?

Book Tech: They can do some wonderful things.

Fitheach Eun grabs some paper and a quill to make notes

Fitheach Eun: "What sort of wonderful things?"

Book Tech: “They can be used and even magnified if the crystal is a good one.”

Savage Taurus slithers back over to the others trying to act as if nothing out of the ordinary has just happened.

Fitheach Eun notices a strange flash of red on Savage but is too busy with the head to investigate.

Book Tech: “Well, you can make an eternal lantern or a portal magnifier.”

Savage Taurus tries to not be too conspicuous, even though he needs his hat to still be taller than the hobbit.

Fitheach Eun: “A portal magnifier?”

I Know All About Crystals

Rorn: flies up to Savage and eyes the shiny crystal on his necklace.

Book Tech: “Oh yes that is a simple device. Would you like to know how to make one?”

Fitheach Eun smiles: "Yes, please."

Book Tech: “Alright. You can construct a sun driven reaction dish. This can be done by installing a dorsal crystal emitter in a delta ray resonance compressor. You can then run a diagnostic on the multitronic filament. Don't forget to calibrate the transitory particle interceptor, or you could wind up with an unwelcome subharmonic oscillation.”

Fiesty Lotus blanches "Um, is there an easier way?”

Fitheach Eun gulps...

Fitheach Eun: “Could you repeat that?”

Fitheach Eun: “Or, yes, is there an easier way?”

Book Tech: “Oh, yes. The basic construction is as follows..”

Fitheach Eun whispers to Fiesty: “Do you have any idea what he is talking about?"

Book Tech: “The easy way to construct a temporal portal is to affix the crystal to a receptacle. A steel convex dish will work. Then affix some magnetized lenses and a refractor cage for the crystal and you will have yourself a basic unit.”

Savage Taurus: “This book sounds like it was written by a gnome, with all that fancy gadget talk.”

Fitheach Eun: “A steel convex dish? And what is a refractor cage?”

Talia.Sunsong "Can you put that in language a Fae can understand?"

Fitheach Eun: I strongly doubt that is possible, Talia

Talia.Sunsong drops paper wads. "I'm a Fae genius. I can figure this out all by myself." She goes towards the door.

Book Tech: “You will need a convex dish a way to affix the crystal to the dish and several lenses to direct the crystal flow”

Interesting

Fitheach Eun: “Must the dish be steel or will any metal do?”

Book Tech: “You could use silver.”

Fitheach Eun: “Excellent I have a silver bowl.”

Savage Taurus looks at the talking book in contemplation and mutters to himself, "Maybe there is somethin to this book learnin'. That stuff sounds awful useful."

Fitheach Eun does not notice that Talia ran off

Talia.Sunsong wanders outside

Talia.Sunsong finds a carousel "Pretty horsie!"

Savage Taurus: “I can touch iron...I think *sighs*...it’s been so long I'm starting to forget.”

Fitheach Eun: “That's good Savage; it will help.”

Savage Taurus: “I don’t know nothin bout no carousel, but I know how to carouse.”

Fiesty Lotus turns to Druid Fitheach "I think I kin work on that."

Fiesty Lotus looks at Savage and sees the red crystal in his necklace.

Talia.Sunsong : "I'm a Fae genius I think I will make my own crystal magic."

Talia.Sunsong grabs a yellow crystal and shoves it into the mouth of a sea carousel dolphin.

Talia.Sunsong hops onto the back of the carousel animal. The animal starts bouncing around.

It rips itself off the carousel.

Talia.Sunsong  "Whoa!"

Whoa!

It bounces itself around the land and towards the library.

Fiesty Lotus attaches the crystal to the center of the dish with some wires lying around.

Savage Taurus watches the nanny bouncing around on a dolphin and mutters, "Faeries."

Fitheach Eun goes outside to look.

Talia.Sunsong crashes through the library door.

Savage Taurus: “Hold on there, missy!”

Talia.Sunsong "Stop!" grabs onto the carousel animal, riding it around the library.

Savage Taurus grabs at the dolphin to try to get it under control.

Talia.Sunsong is thrown to and fro, knocking over books and boxes.

Fitheach Eun goes back to look at what Fiesty is doing, shaking her head.

Savage Taurus wrestles the wooden animal, wrapping his long tail around it to subdue it.

A dusty old box with a rusty padlock falls off a shelf.

Fiesty Lotus ignores the hubbub and proceeds. She using some lens she found in a drawer and fixes them to the dish.

Talia.Sunsong the carousel animal with the crystal in its mouth shudders to a stop, wrapped in Savage's tail.

Fitheach Eun watches her sister building the contraption

Talia.Sunsong jumps off the carousel animal. "Those crystals are dangerous!"

Savage Taurus: sighs, "Can you turn this thing off, Nanny?"

Talia.Sunsong rips the crystal from the carousel animal's mouth.

Savage Taurus: lets out his breath and uncoils himself from the dolphin

The carousel animal becomes still.

Fitheach Eun looks over at the fae and shakes her head sadly, "Must you always wreck the place?"

Fiesty Lotus: “Well, This is about what the book said.”

About What the Book Said

Talia.Sunsong "It wasn't my fault, it was his fault!" points at the carousel animal.

Savage Taurus slithers over to check out what the hobbit is doing.

Rorn: noses the old locked box.

Book Tech looks at the hobbits work and nods, “That will do.”

Savage Taurus: looks at the hobbit and thinks she may be part gnome.

Talia.Sunsong "What is that Rorn?"

Talia.Sunsong bends down to pick up a locked box marked "Cursed"

Talia.Sunsong "Cursed? Well, I'll just put this on a shelf."

Savage Taurus: “You seem pretty adept at this mechanical stuff for a drood there little missy.”

Fiesty Lotus: “All I did was wire up some stuff. It wern't that hard.”

Savage Taurus peers over her shoulder to watch what she is doing.

The Device

Fitheach Eun is impressed with the device.

Rorn lands on the table and sniffs at the device.

Savage Taurus puts on his spectacles to get a closer look.

Talia.Sunsong "Will this get us more cream?"

Fitheach Eun rolls her eyes.

Fiesty Lotus: “I made this so that we could put any crystal in it.”

Fiesty Lotus: “There, that should do it.”

Savage Taurus: “And then what does it do?”

Talia.Sunsong "Let's shove all sorts of crystals in it and see what happens!"

Fitheach Eun looks to the book, "OK what do we do with this now?"

Fiesty Lotus reads “I think it magnifies power.”

Savage Taurus: Like makes us all royalty?

Book Tech: “You can affix this to any machine and it will provide power.”

Savage Taurus: “Hmmmm....contemplates how that could be useful.”

Talia.Sunsong  "Power? I want Fae power. Maybe then I will be worshipped like they did for me in Egypt."

Could We Affix It To An Airship?

Fitheach Eun: “Oh, interesting. Could we affix it to an airship, for example?”

Book Tech: “Yes, you could.”

Book Tech: “If you add a different crystal to it, it will do many things.”

Savage Taurus: “Like helps us enslave creatures to do our bidding?”

Fitheach Eun raises an eyebrow, “Fascinating."

Book Tech: “Pardon?”

Fitheach Eun looks at Savage, "Druids don't do that."

Savage Taurus: mutters, "Never mind. I guess we have different ideas about what 'power' means."

Rorn: tries to curl up and sleep in the dish

Book Tech: “For example you may add a yellow crystal for distance or space.”

Fitheach Eun turns to Fiesty; “What do you think about that different crystals idea?"

Fiesty Lotus: “I like it. We should try it out on a small project.”

Fitheach Eun nods; “Let’s figure out what that would be."

The Red Crystal

Savage Taurus: "Uhm...err..." tries to act nonchalant as he asks, "what ..uh...what do red crystals do?"

Fiesty Lotus: “Druid Fitheach has that list.”

Fitheach Eun pulls out the list: “Red crystals are for transformation."

Savage Taurus tries to be the very picture of detachment as he responds, "Oh..ok....good to know..."

Fitheach Eun notices the red crystal hanging from his pendant and smiles.

Savage Taurus casually puts his hand over his necklace and peers reprovingly as the elf.

Talia.Sunsong "Let's put it on the airship and look for cream." 

About Crystals

You Snake!

Talia.Sunsong: "Hey, you, you, snake. You had shinies and you didn't share them."

Fiesty Lotus looks at Savage and holds out his pouch

Savage Taurus: You been going through my stuff, Nanny?

Fitheach Eun: She turns to the others to ask but...

Savage Taurus: That's it! You're all fired!

Talia.Sunsong: A dino chick, I mean, Rorn knocked your pouch over.

Savage Taurus: Gimme my stuff back

Fiesty Lotus: It holds crystals from the Dino place

Savage Taurus snatches at the pouch

Fiesty Lotus: They are yours of course - but where did you get them

Fitheach Eun watches the confrontation with interest

Savage Taurus: None of your business, hobbit

Savage Taurus: Gimme!

Fiesty Lotus: It is important for all of us

Fiesty Lotus hands over the crystals peaceably

Fiesty Lotus: All I want to know is where you got them

Savage Taurus: Oh, suddenly my stuff is 'important for us all'.

Savage Taurus: takes the pouch and hides it away

Fiesty Lotus: Yes, perhaps it will help us change you back

Savage Taurus: “Hmm...I kinda like this shape for now, and I'm not sure I trust you to go monkeying around with my form anymore.”

Fiesty Lotus nods and sighs

Savage Taurus: Why are you so interested in them?

Fiesty Lotus looks over at Druid Fit and sees she is making a potion

Talia.Sunsong: "You shinies are my shinies too."

Fiesty Lotus looks back at the Naga and says "We believe they may have some power to them

Rorn: exclaims with joy as he finds a crystal

Rorn Finds a Crystal

Savage Taurus: Whatcha got there, son?

Rorn: runs away to take the crystal to his hoard

Talia.Sunsong: "Hey, come back here with that shiny!"

Fitheach Eun sighs and goes back to the potion

Talia.Sunsong: chases Rorn around

Fitheach Eun: I think I need some wormwood....

Talia.Sunsong: Rorn runs around the library and onto the lab table.

Savage Taurus: Nanny, leave him be. I'll let him have that one.

Fiesty Lotus: Um, I think I got some, somewhere

Fitheach Eun: or maybe ummmm willow bark...

Rorn: squeaks and trips over a bowl, dropping the crystal with a plop into the potion.

Fitheach Eun: not sure what this will do.

Savage Taurus: Boy, you gots ta be more careful 'n that

The Potion Glows

Fitheach Eun jumps back as the potion begins to glow

Fiesty Lotus: Oh hey, I just saw Rorn drop something shiny into your potion Druid Fit!

Fitheach Eun: Oh?

Fitheach Eun gingerly stirs the glowing mixture

Rorn: tries to dig crystal out of potion

Savage Taurus: sighs, "ya got ta look after your stuff better, son"

Fitheach Eun: Careful Rorn that was an irritant

Savage Taurus: A dragon's hoard is very important

Fitheach Eun: I don't know what it is now

Rorn: snorts when he doesn't get the crystal

Savage Taurus: Whatcha need ta do is lay on your hoard so that it gets encrusted into your belly scales

Rorn: when he touches the potion, his eyes pop open and a slight glow comes over his skin

Rorn: jumps back

Savage Taurus: "Be careful there now, boy. These droods make some strange brew 'round here"

Fitheach Eun looks at the glow dripping from Rorn's claws

Savage Taurus: slithers forward to try to clean the goop off his son

Fitheach Eun: it was only a mild irritant for skin conditions

Savage Taurus: grabs anything he can to get it off

Talia.Sunsong: grabs a pitcher of tea and dumps it over Rorn

Fiesty Lotus: Well- It is more than that now

Talia Washes Off the Potion

Savage Taurus: Good thinkin' girl

Savage Taurus: looks at his son, worried what will happen to him

Savage Taurus: What was that stuff, elf drood?

Fitheach Eun looks at Rorn with interest; “That crystal must have increased the potion's power.”

Fiesty Lotus stares at the bottle "That there crystal did a job on that potion."

Fitheach Eun looks at Fiesty and raises her eyebrows

Fiesty Lotus nods

Savage Taurus: Whats gonna happen to ma boy?

Fiesty Lotus: "We might look thisun up."

Fitheach Eun: That tea should have washed it all off; he should be fine Savage

Savage Taurus: nods, "ok good"

Rorn: blinks and drips tea

Fitheach Eun smiles at the fae: " Good thinking, Talia."

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

Savage Taurus: Maybe you deserve a raise, but my stuff still ain't your stuff!

Fitheach Eun: And yes, we had better look this up

Fiesty Lotus looks at Rorn to see if he is well and then turns to the Library - looking for crystals as a book subject

Looking for Books on Crystals

Talia.Sunsong: "I think you can give me shinies as a raise."

Savage Taurus: Yea, I'll think about it, girl

Savage Taurus: You are a bit useful sometimes

Fitheach Eun: There are an awful lot of books here...

Savage Taurus: cringes at all the wretched books

Savage Taurus: Why do we haf ta spend so much tahm in this dang liberary?

Fiesty Lotus: After a time Fiesty looks at Druid Fit "Any luck?"

Fitheach Eun sighs, “no”

Savage Taurus: All these books in one place...it ain’t natural, I tell ya

Talia.Sunsong: grabs the corner of a rug to dry off Rorn. "There you go little one."

Savage Taurus: Thank ya fer taking care of ma boy

Talia.Sunsong: "Pay me in shinies."

Fiesty Lotus reads a complex title with Crystals in it

Fiesty Lotus: "This looks Promisin."

Fitheach Eun moves closer and look over Fiesty's shoulder

Fiesty Lotus startles as a blue head emerges from the book

Blue Head: Who disturbs my rest?

Whatdaya Want?

Fiesty Lotus: "Whaat!"

Savage Taurus: Holy geeez!! It's got a freakin' head!

Rorn: jumps out of Talia's arms and runs around the book crying "Head, blue!"

Blue Head: I was having a nice nap; whatdya want?

Fiesty Lotus: "Oh No. I didn'a mean ter wake yer"

Fitheach Eun watches the talking head suspiciously

Rorn: sniffs the head

Fiesty Lotus: I wuz lookin fer information on crystals

Talia.Sunsong: "Did someone shove you into the book?"

Blue Head: Crystals eh? Whatdya need to know?

Savage Taurus: slithers away quickly and hided under the table, muttering "That ain't right, that just ain't right"

Fiesty Lotus turns to Fit "What now? This be right strange"

Fitheach Eun whispers: " He seems inclined to be helpful?"

Fiesty Lotus looks back at the blue head and say "Well, der you know if crystals have power?

Blue Head: “Ummm yes, well, Crystals can increase the power of things? Is that your question?”

Blue Head: “And the colors have different effects”

Blue Head: “White crystals increase power for example”

Fiesty Lotus whispers "Oh - I didn't think of that."

Learning About Crystals

Blue Head: “Does that help? Can I go back to sleep now?”

Fiesty Lotus: Oh well - since yer up. Do you know about the other colors?"

Savage Taurus: peeks out from under the table, "Is it gone yet?"

Talia.Sunsong: "Which crystals give me more shinies and cream?"

Blue Head: It's awfully bright here...

Blue Head sighs: “Blue is for time; purple is for illusion, yellow is for distance”

Blue Head: “Green is for healing”

Fiesty Lotus looks back at a cowering Savage and hides a smile.

Talia.Sunsong: "I don't understand that. Blue is for time? It's a clock?"

Blue Head: “Red is for transformation and gray for summoning”

Savage Taurus: It’s about time you shut that dang book!

Blue Head: “Now go find another book to bother; I'm sleepy”

Fiesty Lotus: "yer got all that Druid Fit?"

Talia.Sunsong: "This is why Fae don't bother with crystal magic. It's confusing."

Fitheach Eun grabs a quill and scribbles it all down

Fiesty Lotus looks back at the book and sees that it is now firmly closed

Talia.Sunsong: peeks at the book. "Is he squashed in there?"

Fitheach Eun looks at Fiesty: "Well that was illuminating."

Savage Taurus: I hope so! Rorn: sneezes.

Fitheach Eun looks at her notes: "The crystal that Rorn dropped in my potion was white."

Fiesty Lotus nods "that is what I saw

Savage Taurus: peers at the floor where he is hiding and sees a red crystal and quickly picks it up and pockets it

Savage Taurus: mumbles, I don’t know what red means, but they ain’t gettin' their hands on this one

Savage Finds a Red Crystal