Naga

Talia Sunsong: "Darn brooms made a mess of everything." Talia sweeps angrily, causing dust to fly.

Darn Brooms

Fiesty Lotus: “Well, Druid Fit. We gotta figure a way to get Savage back.”

Fitheach.Eun : “Yes we do." sigh.

Talia Sunsong accidentally on purpose swats Savage's sheep behind.

Fitheach Eun : “Talia do not even consider magical help.”

Savage.Taurus  bleats plaintively at the fae.

Talia Sunsong: "I'm magical, and I'm helping."

Fiesty Lotus : “There might some herbs outside. I thought I saw some comfrey and a few things out there that might help.”

Fitheach Eun : “Let's go have a look and leave Talia to her cleaning.”

Talia Sunsong: "Just leave Savage as a sheep, that way we can get wool from him."

Savage.Taurus runs away from the fae, deciding she is dangerous.

Fiesty Lotus waves her hand at the dust and agrees.

Savage Taurus  follows the elf and hobbit out the door.

Talia Sunsong grumbles and keeps sweeping.

Fitheach Eun : ” I think I saw some wormwood by those rocks; I'll go have a look.”

Savage Taurus feels an overwhelming urge to eat grass, a sensation that is completely foreign to him.

Talia Sunsong nears a stack of fallen books, a page flutters open. The page has a picture of a dragon on it. "Look Rorn, a magic spell for shapeshifting into a dragon!"

Talia Sunsong drops the broom with a clatter and picks up the book.

Talia picks up a book

Savage.Taurus  starts to eat the grass without even realizing it and stops.

Talia Sunsong runs her finger along the page as she reads. "Mix together eye of newt, blood of a dragon..." looks at Rorn, who cringes.

Savage Taurus  can’t help himself and starts to eat the grass again, feeling shame and disgusted with himself....a dragon eating grass

Talia Sunsong: "Come on Rorn, it's just a little prick of your finger for the blood."

Rorn squeaks and flies to the top of a bookcase.

Talia Sunsong: "Well," She looks around, "maybe this cabinet has the ingredients. I can substitute something else for dragon blood."

Savage Taurus hears the squeak of his son in the distance.

Savage Taurus rushes back inside to see what’s going on.

Fiesty Lotus: “Ahh, there’s that swallow-wart.”

Talia Sunsong rummages through the cabinet, carrying out old dusty jars filled with strange dried up substances.

Savage Taurus bleats angrily at the fae, trying to look menacing despite his wooly form

Talia.Sunsong: "Savage! I think I have a solution. You want to be a dragon, right? And you can pay me to change you back with shiny coins, Right?"

Savage Taurus eyes the fae warily.

Savage Taurus gives her one more warning BAHAHAH and goes back outside.

Talia Sunsong: "Hmmm, I'll show him. I'll make the dragon shapeshifting potion, then he can pay me in cream and shiny coins."

Savage Taurus follows the elf and hobbit around, sniffing at the plants they are gathering.

The Druids searching for herbs

Fitheach Eun looks for wormwood among the rocks.

Fitheach Eun: “Fiesty, did you find that comfrey yet?”

Talia Sunsong dumps an armful of ingredients on the table.

Savage Taurus sniffs at the elf's feet and starts chewing on whatever it is she is gathering.

Talia.Sunsong "Now according to this recipe it needs eye of newt." She wipes dust off a jar and reads "eye of newt."

Eye of Newt

Fiesty Lotus: “Oh yes, got that and a few other  things -There be some nice mushrooms about.”

Fitheach Eun: “Ah, great.”

Talia Sunsong pours Eye of Newt into the cauldron.

Fitheach Eun: “Some betony might be handy.”

Talia Sunsong adds "toad's tongue" to the mix.

Savage Taurus spits out the bitter root and bleats loudly at the elf, trying to get the taste out of his mouth.

Talia Sunsong: "Now for the dragon's blood.”  She looks towards Rorn, who is still perched on the bookcase.

Talia.Sunsong: "Come on Rorn, just a little blood.”  Rorn rapidly shakes his head.

Fitheach Eun looks at the sheep with amusement: " It's not supposed to taste good ."

Savage Taurus decides that following the elf and hobbit around was not a good idea after all.

Talia Sunsong peers at the jars. One had a picture of a reptilian looking creature on it. "This must be dragon's blood." Talia opens the jar and sniffs the stale powder. She sneezes, shrugs and dumps it into the cauldron.

Savage Taurus goes back inside and watches the fae suspiciously.

Savage watches the Fae suspiciously

Talia Sunsong: "Now I need to stir it." Talia goes to a glass cabinet. Inside are stuffed creatures, a bat and a lizard.

Talia.Sunsong grabs something that looks like a stick from the cabinet with the stuffed bat.

Savage Taurus: feels his tummy rumble and his head starts spinning and decides to go sit in a chair.

Talia Sunsong: "This will work for stirring." Talia vigorously stirs the potion. It starts to bubble.

Savage Taurus: strange sensation courses through his body and he realizes that the potion he drank before is finally wearing off

Talia Sunsong  wrinkles up her nose at the smell. "I guess it’s working." She scoops out a ladleful into a cup. Calling "Saaavageeee." come and drink.

Rorn shakes his head "No."

Fitheach Eun looks around curiously at the ruins scattered about.

Fitheach Eun: “Let's go explore a bit?”

Savage Taurus feels like he's about to barf and pass out at the same time as his form shifts back to human.

Talia.Sunsong: "Savage, there you are. This will make you all better. I made it myself." Holds out the cup to Savage.

Fiesty Lotus: “Sure, wonder how Talia is doin with the cleanin.”

Fitheach Eun wanders off towards the ruins under the trees.

Savage Taurus looks at the fae warily, his insides tumbling like dice.

Savage Taurus: mutters, "Will this make me feel better?"

Talia Sunsong: "Yes, it will make you into a dragon."

Savage Taurus takes the cup slowly and sniffs it, looking up at the fae, "You sure?"

Fitheach Eun: “Maybe we should go check on them?”

Fiesty Lotus: “Interesting ruins.”

Talia Sunsong: "Of course I’m sure." Rorn shakes his head "No, no, no."

Fitheach Eun: “Yes. I wonder who made them.”

Fiesty Lotus:” Hmmm. Yes- that fae does have a way of messin stuff up.”

Savage Taurus tries to decide whether to trust the fae or not, but his desire to get back to his dragon form is overwhelming, so he gulps the concoction down.

Talia Sunsong: "Chug, chug, chug it down."

Savage Taurus: a sharp pain jabs him in the stomach, and he cries out, dropping the mug on the library carpet as he writhes in the chair.

Talia Sunsong: "Oh it can't be that bad, can it?" She steps back from Savage.

Fitheach Eun hears the noise and runs for the library door.

It feels like acid is coursing though his veins and every cell of his body is on fire.

Fitheach Eun walks in and sees Savage is human again.

Rorn covers his eyes.

Fiesty Lotus sees Druid Fit running and goes in the library.

Fitheach Eun: But...

Fitheach Eun: suddenly he writhes and starts turning green...

Talia Sunsong  looks down at the writhing Savage. "Opps."

Fiesty Lotus: “Who be that? That's Savage?”

Rorn whines as he sees his father turn green.

Fiesty Lotus: "Oh my."

Talia Sunsong: "Well, green is a good color, right?"

Green is a good color, right?

Savage Taurus’s body contorts in agony and he can feel himself changing, his legs especially feel weird in ways his nervous system can’t understand

Fitheach Eun stops, not sure what to do: " Talia, what have you done?

Savage Taurus feels himself being stretched out like a long thin noodle.

Talia Sunsong: "Me? I was doing good. I found this dragon shapeshifting potion in the book as I was cleaning up.”

Fitheach Eun: “You found what?”

Talia Sunsong: "Rorn wouldn't give me any dragon blood for the potion, but I found a jar of it and stirred the potion with this stick." She holds up a stuffed snake.”

Fitheach Eun looks alarmed, “Dragon's blood?”

Talia Sunsong: "See the jar? It came from a cabinet." Talia points to a dusty jar with a reptilian on it.

Savage Taurus pants heavily as his head swims and then wretches in front of the fireplace.

Fitheach Eun picks up the jar and wipes away some of the dust revealing a strange snakelike creature...

Savage Taurus looks up at the fae, "What did you do to me?"

Fitheach Eun: “This is reptile blood but not dragon.”

Talia Sunsong gasps and backs away from Savage. "He's ... he's..."

Fitheach Eun: "What have you done to Savage?"

Talia Sunsong: "Um, I changed him. That's good right? He's no longer a sheep. He hated being a sheep."

Fitheach Eun: “Do you really think he will like this better?”

Fiesty Lotus stares in horror at the creature.

Fiesty stares in horrer

Talia Sunsong: "Yes, yes, sure this is bigger, and more menacing..." Talia backs further away.

Savage Taurus looks down and realizes he is green now, but still has humanoid arms.

Fitheach Eun steps towards the snakelike monster: " Savage, are you all right?"

Savage Taurus: “I...I don’t know.”

Tali aSunsong pastes a fake smile on her face. "You look great."

Fitheach Eun: “Talia seems to have turned you into a Naga..”.

Savage Taurus looks behind him and sees a long thick tail, but not like the tail he used to have. "Is that mine?"

Savage sees his long, thick tail.

Fitheach Eun: "Ummm, well, yes, it is."

Talia Sunsong "See you have a dragon tail and a dragon hide and a dragon head thingies, sort of."

Savage Taurus feels his shoulders and upper back, "no wings...I'm not a dragon, am I?"

Savage Taurus: “a ..naga? Is that like a dragon?”

Fiesty Lotus shakes her head mutely.

Fitheach Eun: "No Savage, you are not a dragon."

Talia Sunsong: "Yes, yes. naga is like a dragon."

Fitheach Eun sighs: " Distantly, perhaps."

Savage Taurus lets out a defeated sigh, "Well I guess it’s better than a sheep," though he feels a bit depressed.

Talia Sunsong: "It's more like a dragon than a sheep!"

Savage Taurus: “I wonder what nagas eat?”

Fitheach Eun: "Very distantly...."

Talia.Sunsong: "So I did right."

Fiesty Lotus: “Nope.”

Fitheach Eun shakes her head slowly: " Definitely not."

Rorn flies down, landing on the chair arm next to his naga father. He sniffs Savage. "Naga Dada."

Savage Taurus: "Perhaps...they eat fae," he grins at Talia malevolently.

Fitheach Eun stifles a smile.

Talia Sunsong: "Noooooo. Naga eat..." She looks around. "Chamomile tea!

Savage Taurus pats his son affectionately, "It'll be alright, boy."

"Dada Naga."

Fiesty Lotus goes to the bookshelf to see what naga’s eat.

Rorn notices Savage's tail flicking back and forth. He sneaks across the rug and pounces on the tail.

Savage Taurus: chuckles at his playful son.

Fiesty Lotus looks for books on reptile creatures.

Savage Taurus burps, "No more eating grass for me."

Fitheach Eun: “For these reasons, nagas typically limit the size of their prey to roughly half their own size standing upright at most. The only time an average naga might consider hunting something bigger is if they are famished and knows for certain they can safely get away with it.”

Talia Sunsong: "Am I half his size?" Looks at Hobbit Fiesty. "Fiesty is half your size!"

Fitheach Eun: “Nagas, like snakes, are carnivores, and are fond of eating live animals.”

Talia.Sunsong backs even further away.

Fiesty Lotus takes a step back.

Fiesty Lotus: "I do think we need to do something about this."

Fitheach Eun: “After eating a large prey, nagas tend to become sluggish and sleepy.”

Fiesty Lotus whispers to Druid Fit "Do you think this change will wear off?"

Fitheach Eun looks concerned: "It depends on the potion and how much he drank."

Fitheach Eun: "WE need to look at the recipe."

Fiesty Lotus: “Yes.”

Talia.Sunsong: "It's in this book." Talia picks up a book and looses the page.

Talia confronts Savage

Fitheach Eun takes the book and heads to the table with Fiesty, leaving Talia to confront Savage.

Talia Sunsong: "So are you going to pay me in cream and shiny coins for changing you from a sheep to a more dragon like creature?"

Savage Taurus: looks at the fae, "We'll work...something out.”

The Druids’ Apprentice

Talia.Sunsong  : "Oh good Fiesty is getting the brooms to clean up."

Saphira Mistwalker shakes her head and sighs. "What a mess!"

Fiesty Lotus: “I done brought them brooms and stuff. This place be torn apart.”

Fitheach Eun sighs and joins Saphira and Fiesty by the fire.

By the fire

Talia.Sunsong  wanders by the fire. "Is there bread to toast?"

Saphira Mistwalker sighs. "I suppose I should help clean, since it was a dragon who made mess."

Fitheach Eun: “Talia made the mess; she should clean it up.”

Talia.Sunsong  : "What! Fae don't clean."

Saphira Mistwalker glares at Savage. "Well, he certainly had a part."

Fiesty Lotus grits her teeth and sweeps

Fitheach Eun looks serious: " Fae had better clean their own messes; this is not our library."

Fitheach Eun sighs and gets up to help.

Talia.Sunsong  : "If we clean up faster, I get to eat faster."

Talia.Sunsong  picks up a broom

Saphira Mistwalker hisses under her breath, "Vi wanotreyxkaiv di wer sjach svihelen, natorkir svern ghent vi tsiliup fiik. (A princess of the shadow clan, cleaning up after a sheep.)"

Saphira Mistwalker glares at Savage again and mutters, "Si geou ehtah ariSavagekivan vur hak mobi geou qe creol natorkir! (I will find Savages’ hoard and then there will be some cleaning!)"

Fitheach Eun smiles and nods.

Fiesty Lotus grumbles "This is gonna take forever."

Talia.Sunsong  : "I was considered a Goddess in Egypt. I shouldn't have to clean."

Fitheach Eun: "Sounds like justice to me."

Savage Taurus watches in amusement all the hominids sweeping up.

Sweeping up.

Talia.Sunsong  sweeps her way away from the others.

Saphira Mistwalker sees Savage standing there and hisses at him.

Talia.Sunsong  behind the backs of the people cleaning up, Talia digs for her magic wand.

Savage Taurus romps around gloating.

Talia.Sunsong  whispers "I'll make the broom clean all by itself."

Talia.Sunsong  pulls out her bent magic wand.

Fitheach Eun wonders what Talia is whispering about.

Saphira Mistwalker looks up and sees the fae with her wand. "Oh oh."

Talia.Sunsong  : "Make the broom come alive, take away this messy dive."

Fitheach Eun yells: " No wands , Talia!"

Talia.Sunsong changes her magical spell and points her wand at the broom.

The bent magic wand sputters to life, sending out a ball of magical energy, striking the brooms.

Fitheach Eun watches her broom begin to glow.

Saphira Mistwalker backs away watching warily

Savage Taurus gets out of the way of the crazy fae magic.

Talia.Sunsong  : "Come alive, clean this place!" orders Talia.

Come alive, clean this place

Two lumps grow on her broom. Lids open and eyes pop out on the broom.

Saphira Mistwalker: “Lady Talia, do you think a living broom is a good idea?”

Talia.Sunsong  : "Clean, clean, do not be slow, go, go!"

Talia.Sunsong  flicks her wrist and the wand sends out more sparkles of magical energy towards the brooms.
Fiesty Lotus jerks as her broom begins to pull from her.
Fiesty Lotus: 'What's happening!"
Saphira Mistwalker watches aghast as her broom also sprouts arms and eyes and pulls away from her.

With a popping noise, stick arms appear on the sides of the brooms.

Brooms sprouts arms

Fiesty Lotus gasps as her broom starts sweeping by itself.

Saphira Mistwalker backs away from the brooms, hissing.

Fitheach Eun jumps back from her broom as it moves away on its own.

Talia.Sunsong  laughs. "See I can do powerful magic." She proudly crosses her arms over her chest and relaxes as the brooms sweep.

Fitheach Eun backs away slowly.

Fiesty Lotus: Oh Talia, what have you done?

Talia.Sunsong : "Faster, faster brooms, so I can get to my meal."

Fitheach Eun crosses her arms and glares at Talia: " I presume you have a plan to stop them?"

The brooms sweep faster and faster. First it sweeps up the broken cups, but then it knocks over a stack of books.

Faster, faster brooms 

Brooms start ramming into furniture, scratching and denting them.

One broom starts sending broken glass shards into the air as it sweeps vigorously

Saphira Mistwalker shakes her head, "Kwi Jennu Dask! (Oh, Great Mother!)"

One broom swats Savage's sheep backside.

Fitheach Eun rushes to catch the falling bookcase.

Savage Taurus bleats with annoyance and scampers away

Fiesty Lotus yells "Talia, yer have to stop this.”

The brooms turn on Fit and begin to swat her.

Saphira Mistwalker sighs and shakes her head. "We won't be allowed back in this library for eons, we better do something quick."

Savage Taurus hops up onto the table with his fleet hooves to get away from the reckless brooms

Savage hops onto the table. 

Fitheach Eun yells: “ Ouch.” and tries to grab the broom.

One broom sweeps the table clear of all books, cto andles and pens

Fiesty Lotus sighs and grabs her staff.

Ink spills all over the place. A lit candle lands on the rug.

Growling, Rorn grabs a broom with his teeth and is pulled along.

Savage Taurus bleats with hilarity at the brooms attacking the other people and making a mess.

Cats hiss and run away.

Saphira Mistwalker: “I would try burning them, but it would probably set the whole place ablaze.”

Fitheach Eun looks at Fiesty and grabs hers too.

A broom knocks over the globe, that goes rolling around in the chaos.

A broom tries to sweep the window and smashed the stained glass.

Fiesty Lotus begins to chant to the earth Spirit "Earth Spirit hear my cry , loosen the magic in these brooms of wood and straw.”

Talia.Sunsong  : "Eeep!" runs around the table as two brooms sweep towards her.

Fitheach Eun takes a deep breath and silently calls a small whirlwind.

Talia.Sunsong dives under the table as books topple.

Fiesty Lotus mumbles and chants to the earth.

Fiesty Lotus nods at Sister Fitheach.

Fiesty Lotus: "Release the bindings of these brooms and let them dissolve the magic.”

Dissolve the magic.

Fitheach Eun smiles

Saphira Mistwalker growls, "Wer aurix ekess hetha nomeno ui shio confnir ekik di ariSavagekivan! (The gold to cover this is all coming out of Savages hoard!)"

Fiesty Lotus stamps her staff into the earth.

Savage Taurus sticks tongue out at Saphira mockingly

Fiesty Lotus watches for the glow to begin fading.

The brooms freeze.

The broom's eyes blink in surprise. The arms shrink down and disappear.

Fitheach Eun directs the whirlwind to collect the brooms and whisk far away.

The brooms spin around. The eyes close.

Fiesty Lotus looks at the once animated tykes with sadness

Savage Taurus watches the giant swirling thing {turd} invade the library.

Fiesty Lotus nods to Druid Fit.

Fitheach Eun concentrates on pushing the whirlwind and brooms as far away as possible.

Talia.Sunsong  peeks out from under the table.

Saphira Mistwalker moves closer to inspect the mess.

Fitheach Eun lowers her staff and looks around.

Talia.Sunsong  crawls out from under the table. Looks around at an even messier room.

Fiesty Lotus lets out a sigh and lowers her staff.

Fiesty lowers her staff

Fitheach Eun sighs and glares at Talia.

Saphira Mistwalker frowns. "Now I do think it is up to the fae to do the cleaning. AND NO MORE WAND SPELLS!"

Talia.Sunsong  :"Darn brooms. They didn't do what I asked them to do."

Savage Taurus wonders if all the fun is over now.

Fitheach Eun: “Talia if I see you with that wand again, I will send a lightning bolt through it.”

Fiesty Lotus glares at the fae and repeats Saphira’s words. "No MORE WAND SPELLS"

Talia.Sunsong  : "Don't I get to eat first, to get up my strength before cleaning up?"

Fitheach Eun: “No food until this room looks like it did before you turned Savage into a sheep.”

Fitheach Eun walks over and pushes the bookcase back upright, rescuing all the books.

Savage Taurus taunts the cats by the fireplace.

Talia.Sunsong sighs, grabs a broom and sweeps, while grumbling "Next time, I'll use the spell on a mop instead of a broom."

Savage Taurus nips the hobbit in the rear end.

Fiesty Lotus: “Ouch- I am not grass sheep.”

Savage Taurus blows a raspberry at the hobbit

Potions

Savage Taurus: “So, um, you droods know how to turn into other animals, right? I think I heard 'bout that somewhere.”

Fitheach Eun: “Well, yes we can, there is no reason you cannot learn.”

Fitheach Eun: “OK Savage, come look at this potion recipe.”

Saphira Mistwalker shudders. "Potions, I don't trust them."

Fiesty Lotus: “They kin be tricky.”

Savage Taurus: “So...uh...can you teach me how to turn into animals?”

Fitheach Eun: “Hmmmm, I wonder if a relaxation potion might help.”

Rorn lands on the potion table and starts chewing on an herb.

Fitheach Eun looks at Savage quizzically.

Fitheach Eun: "You seem to have a hard time letting go of things."

Saphira Mistwalker: “Careful what you eat there Rorn, no telling what it could do.”

Careful what you eat there

Fiesty Lotus whispers "A little lavender and some chamomile…"

Savage Taurus: “Like a big, scaly, armored, thing with talons and sharp fangs and a long tail and wings and such?”

Saphira Mistwalker giggles. "Gee, sounds like a dragon."

Fitheach Eun: "Regaining your natural shape will take some work.”

Savage Taurus: “Cause. I want to turn back into that.”

Ron has bits of lavender on his lips and tongue.

Savage Taurus: “Well what can you teach me to turn into?”

Fitheach Eun stifles a smile.

Savage Taurus: “Maybe, if we like broke it down...like maybe a lizard, and a bat, and a snake...I dunno.”

Fitheach Eun: "What do you think Fiesty maybe if we can get him to relax ?"

Savage Taurus: “Or a croc-a-gator.”

Fiesty Lotus: “Weeel, we kin give you four legs fer a start."

Savage Taurus: “That might help. Bein' on two legs still feels weird ta me.”

Fitheach Eun: "But his takes work on your side, Savage; you must become the thing in your mind."

Savage Taurus: “Oh I'm already 'the thing' in ma mahnd.”

Fitheach Eun: "See it, touch it, hold it, be it...it is all up to you."

Rorn notices a cat knocking things off the fireplace mantle. He tries knocking things off the potion table, starting with a bag of ingredients.

Fitheach Eun sighs

Saphira Mistwalker giggles. "Wait, Savage has to work, and think, boy that will be tough."

Savage Taurus: “I jus need a little help, s'all.”

Fitheach Eun: “Well, come over here then.”

Savage Taurus growls at the mouthy wymin folk.

Saphira Mistwalker grins a toothy grin.

Savage Taurus walks over to the table

Fitheach Eun: “This herb is lavender in the bundle here.”

Savage Taurus: “M'kay.”

Fitheach Eun: “Fiesty is the chamomile in the larger bag?”

Fiesty Lotus: “Yes, it is.”

Fitheach Eun: “Ok, first break off the lavender flowers and put them in that pestle there.”

Fitheach Eun: “Then add an equal amount of the chamomile flowers.”

Savage Taurus does as she says, breaking off the flowers and putting them in the pestle.

Savage adds flowers

Fitheach Eun: “Use the mortar and grind them into a powder.”

Savage Taurus: “M'kay”

Savage Taurus starts grinding up the plant bits into smaller plant bits.

Saphira Mistwalker watches curiously.

Fitheach Eun watches closely

Fiesty Lotus reaches in her pouch for bergamot oil.

Fiesty Lotus: "Couple drops of this will help."

Fitheach Eun: “Great idea.”

Savage Taurus sighs to himself and tries to follow the instructions, "What have I come to? My pappy would be so embarrassed."

Fitheach Eun: “When it is all mixed pour it into the pot of spring water.”

Fiesty Lotus  hands the oil to Savage

Fiesty Lotus: "Just a few drops mind."

Just a few drops mind.

Savage Taurus nods and mixes it all in the pot.

Talia.Sunsong: "Do we get to eat this? Does it taste good?"

Savage Taurus: "This better work." he grumbles

Savage Taurus: “So, this will turn me into a great serpent, or a fierce crocodile? Or somethin like that.?”

Fitheach Eun: “No Savage, you will turn you into those things after you relax and concentrate.”

Savage Taurus: "I'm relaxed, I'm relaxed!" he says through gritted teeth.

Saphira Mistwalker mutters under her breath about one-track male dragons.

Fiesty Lotus nods and leaves the table.

Rorn sits on the table and peers into the bowl.

Fiesty Lotus: “You should be good fer this.”

Savage Taurus: “I wouldn't haf ta do this ifin you woulda helped me, Saphira.”

Fiesty Lotus sits down and looks at her book.

Saphira Mistwalker: “Pffft. I told you, shadow dragon magic is inherent, it can't be taught.”

Savage Taurus: sighs and looks at the droods, "Ok, what next?"

Saphira Mistwalker: “Rorn, don't get into that, you don't want to mess up what your dad is doing.”

Talia.Sunsong moves over to pick up Rorn.

Savage Taurus: growls, "Don’t crowd me, nanny. I'm workin' here."

Fitheach Eun: “Ok Savage. it looks ready to go into the bowl.”

Talia.Sunsong: "If we are going to eat this, it needs more added to it."

Savage Taurus nods to the elf and pours the concoction into the bowl.

Talia.Sunsong searches through her pouch.

Saphira Mistwalker shakes her head, sighs, and goes over to talk with Fiesty.

Rorn flies up just as Talia pulls out a purple mushroom and drops it into the bowl.

Talia.Sunsong: "There that's better."

Savage Taurus: "Hey! Stop that!" he shouts as he plucks the mushroom out of his potion.

Fitheach Eun peers around, not seeing what happened.

Saphira Mistwalker whispers to Fiesty, "I hope this works. Savage is really annoyed about not being able to change form."

Savage Taurus: “I'll give you a good spankin', missy, ifin you don’t behave!”

Fitheach Eun: “Ok Savage, strain all that into the tea pot and put it on the fire.”

Talia.Sunsong: "But it will taste better with Fae mushrooms in it"

Fitheach Eun: “Or you can drink it cold if you want.”

Fiesty Lotus: "Yes, I know. It is a strain on him."

Savage Taurus: “So I can drink it now, as is?”

Savage Taurus: “I'm tired of waitin'...let’s get with this!”

Fitheach Eun: “Yes, it may not taste as good , but you can drink it.”

Savage Taurus: "Make me into the form of a great savage creature!" he says as he puts the bowl up to his lips and gulps it down.

Fiesty Lotus jumps up to see the results.

Fitheach Eun: “Ok Savage, now take a deep breath and concentrate.”

Savage Taurus: turns around, "Well? wha..." then stops and gets a queer look on his face and clutches his stomach..."oh this dont feel too good"

Saphira Mistwalker holds her breath, waiting to see.

Fiesty Lotus: “Let’s see, Lady Sapphire”

Fitheach Eun: “Picture what you want to be. Hold that picture in your mind.  Become the thing you see.”

Savage Taurus contracts and doubles over and in a great poof turns into a wooly sheep!

Savage turns into a wooly sheep.

Fitheach Eun: “Uh oh....”

Saphira Mistwalker: “By the Great Mother!”

Savage Taurus: looks around confused and then down at himself.

Savage Taurus bleets angrily, "MmmmBLAAAAA."

Fiesty Lotus: "Oh nooo."

Saphira Mistwalker whispers to Fiesty, "That doesn't look like a very savage creature."

Fitheach Eun sighs.

Fiesty Lotus: “Naw, it don't.”

Fiesty Lotus: “That ain't what's supposed ter happen.”

Saphira Mistwalker: “Maybe he got a little too relaxed?”

Rorn sniffs the air and smells lamb.

Savage Taurus rushes around in a fury, "BLAAAAA", "BLAAAAA!!!!" knocking thinks over, spilling liquids, making a mess.

 Rorn flies over to sheep Savage and lands on his back.

Rorn lands on his back

Talia.Sunsong jumps back from the table.

Saphira Mistwalker: “Rorn! Behave yourself!”

Savage Taurus jumps and bucks in a rage and rushes toward the elf trying to headbutt her.

Savage Taurus: “MmmmBLAAAAA.”

Rorn grabs a mouthful of wool and growls like he just caught prey. His growl is more like a little high- pitched purr.

Saphira Mistwalker: “Oh dear.”

Savage Taurus tries to shake off his son, getting even more annoyed.

Fitheach Eun: “There wasn't anything else in that potion was there?”

Saphira Mistwalker: “Rorn! Get off him right now!”

Rorn tastes the awful lanolin taste of the wool and let’s go.

Fitheach Eun: “Can you put Rorn on him?”

Savage Taurus rushes around trying to headbutt everyone he sees.

Fitheach Eun jumps aside.

Talia.Sunsong flies onto the spiral staircase.

Fiesty Lotus dances away, trying not to giggle.

Saphira Mistwalker lifts into the air. "Ack!"

Savage Taurus bucks and kicks like a baby bronco.

Fiesty Lotus: "It do show he kin shape change though- even if it ain't the right shape."

Fitheach Eun notices a purple mushroom on the floor...

Fitheach Eun picks it and looks at Talia.

Fitheach Eun: "Where did this come from?"

Talia.Sunsong: "Mushrooms come from the earth."

Fitheach Eun: “This one is purple,”

Saphira Mistwalker: “A mushroom! There was a fae mushroom in the potion?”

Saphira Mistwalker: “A purple one!! "

A Purple one!

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Talia.Sunsong: "Fae mushrooms add to the magic!"

Fitheach Eun: “Looks that way...”.

Saphira Mistwalker: “Oh dear, that's not good.”

Savage Taurus, like a bull in a china shop,  knocks over everything and makes a mess of the library.

Fiesty Lotus: “Oh, me goodness. He ought ter be happy that’s all that happened.”

Fitheach Eun: “Savage stop that; the mushroom changed the potion.”

Saphira Mistwalker nods. "At least he isn't purple-spotted."

Fitheach Eun nods.

Savage Taurus tries to growl, but it only comes out as a bleet.

Fitheach Eun: “How long did it take your spots to wear off Ambassador?”

Saphira Mistwalker: “It was over-night. I was ok the next morning.”

Talia.Sunsong: "See no problem. Fae mushrooms wear off quickly."

Saphira Mistwalker: “But I ate a lot more of the contaminated cow, so it might not take him as long.”

Fiesty Lotus nods.

Fitheach Eun: “Ok Savage, it should be temporary.”

Saphira Mistwalker shakes her head and lands again.

Savage Taurus sighs and curls up in a corner and fumes.

Saphira Mistwalker looks at Savage and giggles, "Well you DID want to change forms Savage."

Talia.Sunsong: "Can we make a sweater out of Savage?"

Savage Taurus tries to growl but bleats at the cheeky dragoness.

Talia.Sunsong pulls on Savage's wool.

Saphira Mistwalker: “Hmm, might not be the best idea. He doesn't sound like he is in good humor.”

Savage Taurus tries to bite the fae..

Talia.Sunsong: pulls her hand back "Bad sheeeep. Naughty.”

Fiesty Lotus looks around at the mess in the library and goes to the broom closet to bring cleaning supplies.

Cleaning up

Compulsion

Saphira Mistwalker looks around at her friends and suppresses a yawn. "Well, it took most of the night, but here is the translation."

Saphira Mistwalker gestures to the parchment on the desk.

Translation

Fitheach Eun steps closer to look.

Talia Sunsong: “You work? All night long? Who does that?”

Saphira Mistwalker: “I have to say, whoever wrote that was NOT a dragon, their Draconic was atrocious.”

Fiesty Lotus gets closer and peeks around Druid Fit.

Savage Taurus: “Can't imagine starin' at a book all night long. That can't be healthy for ya.”

Fitheach Eun smiles: " Probably someone trying to be obscure."

Saphira Mistwalker giggles at Talia. "I had plenty of mead."

Talia Sunsong: “Maybe a baby dragon wrote it. They don't know how to spell right yet.”

Saphira Mistwalker: “Hmm.”

Savage Taurus: “Draconic can be written down on paper? Why would ya want ter do that?”

Fitheach Eun taps a phrase, " Now that is interesting..."

Saphira Mistwalker: That reminds me, I need to start teaching Rorn his letters.

Talia Sunsong: “Don't you write Draconic with your clawed feet? The letters look like bird feet, right?”

Savage Taurus: “Like there are symbols and stuff that go along with the sounds of the language and such?”

Saphira Mistwalker: rolls her eyes at Savage. "Non-dragons do Savage, and dragons who are trying to communicate with the two-legs."

Savage Taurus shrugs and rolls his eyes.

Talia Sunsong: "Look at the scroll, Rorn." Talia holds Rorn near the scroll.

Fitheach Eun mutters: " Different runes for different locations..."

Saphira Mistwalker: nods. "That could get confusing really quick. Assuming of course the author was right."

Fiesty Lotus ponders the words " an object key carried by the traveler."

Fitheach Eun: " Any object..."

Rorn barely glances at the scroll. He spots two cats near the fireplace, and he is out of Talia's arms like lightning.

Saphira Mistwalker: I suppose you could literally have a ring of keys.

Fitheach Eun turns to look at her druid sister: " This is exciting news."

Savage Taurus chuckles at his son

Fiesty Lotus: “Yes, it's a bit hard to take in.”

Savage Taurus repeats in a bored voice, "Oh, yea...excitin' "

Fitheach Eun: “Talia, stop Rorn from harassing those cats; they could be someone's familiars.”

Rorn flies up to the Siamese cat, who puffs up like a balloon.

Rorn sneaks up on the cats

Savage Taurus: “They don’t seem too familiar to me.”

Saphira Mistwalker: hisses at Savage. "It took a lot of work to translate that."

Savage Taurus: growls at Saphira, "Don't hiss at me, woman."

Talia Sunsong: "Rorn come here and learn how to read, instead of playing with the cats."

Saphira Mistwalker sighs. "Don't they teach anything about magic in your clan.?"

Fitheach Eun leans on the table; " We must learn how to make a portal."

Fiesty Lotus: "I believe (she gestures with the book she carries everywhere) that me nephew and I have objects of each other, that’s why I kin see him in this book."

Rorn snuffles at the cat. She hisses and swats Rorn on the nose.

Fitheach Eun turns smiling, " Ah, of course; that makes perfect sense."

Saphira Mistwalker: “That would make sense Druid Fiesty, you have a connection already.”

Rorn whimpers and backs off. The cat sits down and washes its face disdainfully.

Saphira Mistwalker: “I wonder if it really true that you can't move a small portal, or if the author was just trying to keep people from walking off with his books?”

Rorn flies back to Talia and lands on her arm. "Oh Rorn, don't mess with cats. They could have magical powers."

Fitheach Eun raises an eyebrow: "The book that brought us here was moved up to the airship and still worked."

Savage Taurus: chuckles, "Yea, you can't trust these 'authors'. They are just tryin' ta control yer mind!"

Fiesty Lotus looks up  wondering. "I  been carting this book all over the place. It still shows me nephew.”

Saphira Mistwalker: “Good point Druid Fit. I suspect he was just protecting his interests.”

Fitheach Eun: "Or perhaps the smaller the linking object, the more portable it is?"

Fiesty Lotus: “So how can we test this idea?”

Saphira Mistwalker: “I'll bet he charged a pretty amount to create a portal and didn't want people to know they didn't need a bunch scattered all over.”

Savage Taurus: "What'd I tell ya! I don't trust no book-scribblers."

Fitheach Eun hums under her breath and looks around the library...

Savage Taurus: “Is there somethin' in there that'll tell me how to change inta somethin' other than a puny hooman? This body don't even have proper claws.”

This body ain't even got proper claws.

Using the sofa as cover, Rorn starts sneaking back towards the cats.

Savage Taurus: “I sure do miss the rippin' an tearin'.”

Savage Taurus blows flames out of his pipe in frustration.

Savage Taurus: looks around, "I bet all these books would make a nice little bonfire. Could cook up some roast mutton.’

One of the cats silently circles around the back of the sofa. Seeing Rorn's twitching, tail, the cat pounces on it.

Fitheach Eun wanders over to the big table and looks through the books stacked there.

Saphira Mistwalker: “Heh, I doubt the locals would appreciate that Savage. They seem nice enough, so let's not antagonize them.”

Fiesty Lotus shakes her head at Savages attitude

Savage Taurus: "Pfff", shrugs.”

Saphira Mistwalker: “After all, they didn't shoot us on sight, even when I flew down to their tavern to get us all something for dinner.”

Fitheach Eun studies a picture...

Rorn yelps not so much in pain as in surprise. He turns around and tries to pounce on the cat, who deftly jumps out of the way.

Fitheach Eun: " I wonder where this is?"

Saphira Mistwalker: “I for one can do without crossbow bolts. They hurt”.

Savage Taurus chuckles, "Go git that pussycat, son!"

Rorn and the Kitty

Saphira Mistwalker: “Rorn! Leave the poor kitties alone. They bite.”

Rorn looks at Saphira and debates whether to listen or to continue to play with the cats.

Saphira Mistwalker: Rorn!

Saphira Mistwalker: “What did you find Lady Fit?”

Rorn's ears perk up, then he slinks back over to Saph and Talia.

Fitheach Eun: " A picture of a carved stone in front of an entrance"

Fitheach Eun: "The designs looks somewhat familiar..."

Fiesty Lotus looks inquiringly at Druid Fit.

Talia Sunsong: “Why carve a stone?”

Saphira Mistwalker: “Hmm, very pretty. I do believe I have seen spirals like that in my travels.”

Fitheach Eun traces a finger around one of the swirling symbols.

Saphira Mistwalker: “Lady Talia, they last longer than books.”

Savage Taurus looks at the design, "Hmm...would make for a nice tattoo."

Saphira Mistwalker: glares at Savage. "Especially with fire-breathing dragons around."

Talia Sunsong: "Well I suppose a rock does last longer than a paper book." Squints as she thinks. "But if you made the book pages of stone, they would last as long as carved rocks."

Saphira Mistwalker: “But they would be awfully hard to shelve.”

Talia Sunsong: "Hard to turn the pages too."

Fitheach Eun traces another spiral and the book begins to glow

Fiesty Lotus: "Oh dear, here we go agin!"

Savage Taurus: starts to get queasy, "oh not again...."

Talia Sunsong: "I didn't do it this time."

Saphira Mistwalker sighs and steadies herself for the jump.

Savage Taurus: "Ceramics might work...clay tablets? Or glass?""

Saphira Mistwalker: watches the glow build. "Oh dear, I do hope we find a way back.”

Saphira Mistwalker: I have heard of ancient two-legs using clay tablets as books Savage.

Savage Taurus: "Not that I'm tryin' to encourage any type of writin', mind ya."

Fiesty Lotus watches Druid Fit tracing the swirling pattern.

The group is suddenly in another place.

Fitheach Eun: “Look is that a tower? What’s that on that island? Let's cross on the rocks.”

Talia Sunsong: "Look, pretty spirals."

Fitheach Eun: "Look it is like that picture."

Saphira Mistwalker: ‘This looks like that book.”

Spiral Rock

Savage Taurus: “Wonder what they mean.”

Fitheach Eun: “I do not know.”

Talia Sunsong: "Let's run our fingers or a wand over the spirals."

Fitheach Eun: “Nooooo!”

Savage Taurus: "I aint touchin' no writin'”

Fitheach Eun: "We do not know what will happen."

Savage Taurus senses something odd, a sort of prickly feeling, giving him shivers, "You all feel that?"

Fitheach Eun: "Feel what?"

Fiesty Lotus looks at Savage "What?"

Savage Taurus: "That...um..I don’t know.."  He feels a queer sensation wash over his body, making his hairs stand on end, "That!"

Savage  is Compelled

Saphira Mistwalker hisses and shakes her head. "What is that?"

Fiesty Lotus concentrates.

Savage Taurus: senses something pulling him toward the dark, dank, musty opening in the rocks structure and starts to slowly move forward.

A Dark Tunnel

Saphira Mistwalker hisses again as she notices no hair when her head shook. "That darn portal shaved off my hair. "

Fiesty Lotus: "Well, we oughta go with him."

Saphira Mistwalker: “I suppose we should.”

Savage Taurus crawls over the rocks and peers into the long tunnel, "I...I can't see anything...it’s too dark..." but he continues anyway, compelled by a feeling he can’t explain.

Talia Sunsong: "Are there creepy crawling things inside?"

Fiesty Lotus: "It be a dark place."

Talia Sunsong: "I don't want spiders or lizards crawling on me."

Saphira Mistwalker: “We can always just eat them.”

Savage Taurus finds he has to bend over and nearly crawl to get into the hole, "It’s so cramped in here..."

Talia Sunsong: "Ick! I eat cakes and drink cream."

Saphira Mistwalker: “This is an awfully tight passage.”

Talia Sunsong reluctantly goes into the passage last.

Rorn flies down the passage as if this is a game.

Savage Taurus: crawls into the dark tunnel, unable to see where he is going, forcing him to rely on his other senses, limited as they are, grumbles, "wish I had my dragon sight, would be able to see better in here..."

Rorn easily fits in the small area. He lands next to his father. Savage Taurus slowly crawls forward, inch by inch, the stale moldy air, filling his nostrils, touching the rock walls and dirt floor with his fingertips.

Savage Taurus: It seems to go on forever, the light behind them fading as he delves deeper and deeper, until the passage seems to expand to either side of him, the sounds echoing differently in this new space.

The End of the Tunnel

Savage Taurus: "I..I think I've reached the end..." he calls back to the companions following him

Saphira Mistwalker: “What do you see?”

Talia Sunsong: "Good because I don't want to go any farther."

Savage Taurus: "Nothing...no light in here...but...I feel.." he reaches forward and feels the top of a smooth concave surface, a bowl. As his eyes adjust, he can see in the darkness, an eerie sort of glow.

Fitheach Eun stumbles into a more open space near Savage.

At first Savage thinks it’s just spots in his eyes, ghosts on the back of his irises, but then it comes into focus and he can see it looks like a string of beads

String of beads

Saphira Mistwalker: “Savage? What did you find?”

This oddly glowing object calls to Savage, and he reaches out to grab it.

Savage Taurus: "Um...it feels like beads...a string of beads...I think it’s a necklace, I guess..."

Fitheach Eun sees a faint glow in front of Savage but the darkness is overwhelming.

Saphira Mistwalker” Hmm, can you pick it up? Can we take it outside where we can see it?”

Fiesty Lotus: “I kin see it, sorta.”

Talia Sunsong: "Are they valuable. Can we sell the beads for cream?"

Savage Taurus opens the loop and slides it over his head and lets its rest around his neck, which makes it glow even brighter for a split second, and a rush of energy courses through him.

Saphira Mistwalker sighs and shakes her head.

Fitheach Eun: “Yes, something is glowing.”

Savage Taurus: "Whoa!"

Savage Taurus: "Ok, turn around and go back. Let’s get out of this place."

Fitheach Eun sees a glow surrounding Savage and calls out: “Savage, are you all right?"

Fiesty Lotus: "Oh my, it just lit up! It’s gotta be magic."

Savage Taurus: "I'm fine...let’s just go"

Saphira Mistwalker: “Is that good, or bad?”

Talia Sunsong covers her eyes at the sudden blast of light.

Talia Sunsong retreats quickly from the dark passage, brushing cobwebs and spiders off her hair.

Fitheach Eun follows the faint light from the entrance back outside

Savage Taurus: turns around and follows them, making his way out of the ancient man-made tunnel, quicker now, that the daylight guides them.

Fiesty Lotus inspects the beads in the light of day.

Saphira Mistwalker: grins. "Nice necklace Savage."

Savage Taurus blinks his eyes in the blinding sun.

Talia Sunsong: "Pretty shiny! I want one."

Savage Taurus: grins, "Yea, I think it goes well with my specs."

The necklace

Fitheach Eun wonders about the faint glow still surrounding Savage.

Savage Taurus: "Heh, good job ,son."

Savage Taurus: "I'm sure it’s magic, though I have no idea what it’s for."

Fiesty Lotus: “So, you knew that  necklace was in there? That's odd."

Savage Taurus: "Yea, I just sorta sensed it."

Saphira Mistwalker: “Is that what you felt Savage? The necklace called to you?”

Savage Taurus: "It did."

Saphira Mistwalker: Interesting. I wonder what it does?

There is a squeak. Rorn flies back out of the passage, a rat in his jaws.

Saphira Mistwalker grins. "Well, at least Rorn got some dinner."

Rorn looks proud.

Savage Taurus: "Hmmm...that reminds me...lets's eat!"