Superior Rusty Clown: Oh Dear! Wait! Stop!!
The Swedish Cat: WE've got to go around
Nef: Aww.
Superior Rusty Clown: We have a boat for you halfway to The Land of Besmirch.
MisfitMind: What good's that?
The Swedish Cat: Plenty. As Lord of the Isle of Reflection, I have access to the fabled Mirror of Relocation. Which Transports users to their destination Instantaneously...
[act]
Five Minutes Later[/act]
Smuppet: This Boat stinks like dead fish.
Helena: [act]Growls, and hugs her fish bowl[/act]
Mono: *sighs* This is just taking too long! Can't you hurry the boat up a bit?
TSC: We could if there was manual labour...er rowing.
All: *stare pointedly at TSC*
TSC: :| Oh alright, I'll do it...
Nef: Excellent...we'll just stuff some tea into your mouth if you slack off!
TSC: ~:| *rows harder*
raven: now this is just cruel![act] takes up another oar.[/act] knights row!
other knights: [act]groan and mumble curses before taking seats and rowing[/act]
raven: heave! - hoe! - heave! - hoe!
15 years ago
Wed Jul 30 2008, 07:50pm
The Swedish Cat: Thankyou Raven. [act]glares at Nef[/act]
Nef: What?
QueenMono: Land Ho!!!!
[act]Everybody turns to look[/act]
Smuppet: You call that land? It looks like a right dump.
Sezza: Why do ya think Aggy's invading?
[act]The boat slows to a halt on the banks of grey, non-Reflective, Non-Sparkly Silt.[/act]
The Swedish Cat: This place really sucks.
[act]Helena and Raven walk forward warily...then[/act]
Helena and Raven: Ow!
The Swedish Cat: I suppose this is what That Superior Rusty Clown was talking about....
mISFITmIND: Come on!! Every Queen up!
[act]Sezza, MisfitMind, Mono and Nef stand, Hands raised against the Invisible Wall[/act]
[act]Shattering Sound.........[/act][act]A tea Plant rises from the silt, Brilliant Green, Sparkling and Glittering in the Sunlight...[/act]
15 years ago
Wed Jul 30 2008, 08:43pm
Nef: *stops to nurture newly sprouting tea plant*
Smuppet: We're going on a Lord Agyllian hunt, we're going to catch a big one, what a beautiful day... *passes nef watering can*
Everyone else: *twiddles thumbs*
TSC: Maybe we should get moving?
Nef: These things take time! *glances protectively at newborn tea plant*
Raven: *whispers to TSC* Don't get in between Empress Nef and her tea...
Nef: Exactly or there'll be tea-rible consequences.
Everyone: 8-| *thinks: she has super hearing?...drags her away from plant*
Mono: *tries to lighten mood* Lets go...Rust n Shine! ;D
Everyone: *follows suit....that is the mystical suit of walking armour that has offered to lead us to Lord Agyllian*
TSC: A rather convenient place for a walking talking suit of armour...*looks around at decrepit swamplands and equips everyone with a bottle of ajax spray and wipe as a last resort against the dullen*
Misfitmind: Don't question the suit...with it as our compass to Lord Agyllian and the combined strength of our armies...not to mention the power of tea puns... nothing can stand in our way...
Everyone: *stops to look at giant mountain-like gorilla standing in the way*
[act]the gorilla growls menacingly everyone huddles in close together, ready to attack
Nef rummages in her bags and pulls out a targe tea pot and cup, and begins quickly brewing...
the gorilla starts to advance
- and is met by a large cup of tea waved under his nose. he pauses.[/act]
Nef: here drink this
uncertainly the gorilla takes the cup and sips.....suddenly he feels a bit funny.
NEf: now tell me what seems to be the problem, young primate
Gorilla: Well .... it's jsut that i don't have any friends...[act] the gorilla begins a monologue of the troubles that brought him to thuggery..[/act]
Nef: [act]aside [/act]- you keep going, i'll catch up in a few minutes
MM: [act]as the other monarchs and nobles continue[/act] perhaps tea really does have power
Sezza: *wipes eyebrow* Phew, that was close!
MM: I wonder what Nef is up to now? Hopefully she's alive still :-?
Helena: Well. there's no point dawdling. Our Knights can Scout ahead to get a lay out of the territory, and report back.
Mono: Sounds like a plan. Meanwhile we need a proper strategy rather than just barging in. I'm fairly sure that Gorilla was there o purpose, as if it was an obstacle for us to pass.
MM: So you think Aggy is toying with us? Like setting up traps and we're the bait?
Mono: Yes, very much like a spider that has woven his web, waiting for the fly.
*Queens canter along*
Sezza: Shouldn't the Knights stay with us then?
MM: Well...strategy wise...wouldn't it be a good idea if we got them from front and behind. In other words, shouldn't we use the pincer?
Mono: The pincer's not bad. Not bad at all.
Nef: *returns, with giant teapot empty*
*gorilla stumbles along after*
Nef: ;D Watch and Learn my queens: The MIghty Power of TEA! I have intoxicated the gorilla, whom I now know as Chamomile, because that's the tea I drugged him with and he has decided to change loyalties and support our cause. He is hooked on Tea! and now answers to me :)
Mono: Great work Nef. If he knows anymore information, we can try to wheedle it out of him.
Chamomile: Empress....is there any chance I could have bananas with the tea?
Nef: *glares* No. That would destroy it. *sniffs* Apes... ::)
Ashlings' guildleader
15 years ago
Thu Jul 31 2008, 12:26am
Ashlings' guildleader
Master of Obernewtyn
[act]Agyllian looks through his telescope at incoming forces[/act]
Agyllian: So they have arrived. Should of put the welcome mat out...wait, I'm at war them - I'll have to remember that [act]scribbles note to self on arm[/act]
Fen: hahahha, finally I'll have revenge on my sister.
Agyllian: That's going a bit far don't you think? couldn't you just sought out your differences and makeup?
Fen: Bah! and drink tea! Never.
Agyllian: [act]Sips tea - which incidently had no sugar in it tonight ;)[/act] well they seem to have gotten past Norman the troubled Ape. Queen of rust what do you think will happen next?
QoR: Mmmmph, mmmmphh.
Agyllian: Oh that's right Fen gagged you [act]takes off handkerchief[/act]. Tea?
Fen: [act]Cringes[/act]
QoR: You will never win! The other queens and empress nef will destroy your lands.
Agyllian: Oh you already did that with all your rust and sparkle factories. We tried to tell the council we where down wind of those factories but NooOOooo they don't listen ::). You four queens brought this on yourselves[act]Goes back to telescope[/act].
Oh look Fen they have reached your trap. Although Necessary, you didn't have to make it so cruel.
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[act]The three queens, a cat, and an Empress continue to walk onwards, now through a forest of dead pines.[/act]
Nef: Bananas would be simply ridiculous in tea.
MM: [act]quitely to Sez[/act]I think it would be nice :)
Nef: I heard that...
All: Ahhhhrg!
[act]The invading party fall into Fen's trap - they are transported to a dingy room with no doors or windows with just a table where resides a cup with a strong brew of coffee, an oil lamp and a note from Fen[/act]
Mono: Look here is a note [act]Reads Note[/act]
Four Nobles there be,
with cup of delicious brew to consume.
Who will drink it?
Let me see
Only one can do this.
She must already know,
that she should be chosen
to drink my cup of bliss
Gregarious with only one kind.
Those that taste the bitter leaves
Foliage replaced by a bean?
I would not mind!
So drink up my kin
Or else freedom you cannot attain.
Remember though, sip or not
You will never win.
...
15 years ago
Thu Jul 31 2008, 11:18am
Nef: she resorted to poetry? that is soooooo lame
[act]reads the note through[/act]
Hmmm
MM: I'm so thirsty
Nef: go ahead and drink
MM runs to the oil lamp and starts drinking
QoR: mmmmm parafin
Nef:help yourself to the coffee, anyone
TSC: but the note says YOU have to drink it
Nef: not necessarily read the last stanza
they all look at it
MM: it says you have to drink
Nef: No it doesn't - it says 'drink up my kin'. The poem is deliberately ambiguous throughout. It does not say 'Nef you have to drink the coffee'. Fen stupidly put it into verse, which means that the meaning of her words is flexible. 'Drink up my kin' i am choosing to mean that i have to drink some of my own blood and that won't be incorrect. Fen never truly understood the joys of grammar and tea. And you have to admit - drinking my blood would be her idea of a good idea - her 'cup of bliss' so to speak.
TSC: drink your own blood?
Nef: oh yes - as tea empress, my veins runs with tea
MM: [act]looking up from her lamp[/act] what type of tea do you have?
Nef: it varies from season to season...
nef nicks her wrist and tea seeps out. She begins to drink - suddenly the walls fall away and the noble companions find them selves back on track to Agyllian's castle
Nef: See - i was right! mmmm cream tea [act]nef bandages her wrist[/act]
TSC: riiiiiiiiiiiight [act]shakes head [/act]ok - onwards an upwards!
15 years ago
Thu Jul 31 2008, 10:30am
Fen: *stares in dismay* my-my evil plan failed!!!!!!!!!!!!
Agyllian: well we still have the other trap....
Fen: *grins wickedly* of course
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MM: ok luch break
TSC: we're here to save the kingdoms and you think of lunch?
MM: im hungary :P
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was The QoR (availle) in the coffee room with us?
Sezz: So when are we going to met this Agyllain dude...? does anyone know?
Agyllain: *Pops up* I do.
Sezz: *Not really paying attention* Oh when then?
Agyllain: Now.
Sez: *is confuzed*
MM - you were right - it was You, not QoR!
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Nef: where did you come from? and why bother showing up now - don't you prefer machiavellian shemes in a castle with my incompetent sister?
Agyllian: I'm only a spectre- designed to say a spell to destroy any magic you have before you meet Me.
The Swedish Cat: My Powers are part of my very being! You cannot take them!
Nef: And no one can take my powers.... What about you, Queens? Knights?
MisfitMind: Well, like Swedish Cat, our powers are part of us, but the difference between him and us, is that we are not magical creatures, and how powers were given when we passed the Tea Exams and took over the Kingdoms.... I don't know...
Agyllian Astral Projection: From ancient time this power came,
For all to have but none to reign.
Take it now, show no mercy,
For this power can no longer be.
The Queens and the Empress: No!!!!!!
Agyllian Spectre: Muahahahahaahah [act]disappears[/act]
Sezza: It's okay, it's okay we still have our Sparkles and our Glitter and Brilliantine- they're not magically contrived.
Nef: I still have my tea packet- but I feel so.... weak.
The Swedish Cat: There might be a reversal spell somewhere in Agyllian's Castle...
Mono: But how do we break through the barrier???!!!! We don't have inner magic.
MisfitMind: We do have the mirror though....
The Swedish Cat: None of us have been in the Peripatetic Fortress! We can't use it if we haven't been there before.
Sezza: [act]shakes head[/act] Silly Cat! You should have listened to classes other than Physical Spell Work and Modern Syntax! Like to Like!
Mono: That could work...
Nef: Huh?
Mono: If you take the Mirror, you can enter the castle with Swedish Cat because you and Fen are connected by a more ancient magic than the spell Agyllian used.
While you do this, we can enter the castle by more.... violent means....
Nef: [act]drinking her magic tea to regain her strength[/act] - TSC - in laymans terms - what are you talking about?
Ashlings' guildleader
15 years ago
Ashlings' guildleader
Master of Obernewtyn
Agyllian: Fen stop playing around with my personal image projector. You know I don't do the whole "muhaha" thing.
Fen: But I'm bored and my sister got passed my trap [act]turns of projector[/act]
Agyllian: Well that's what you get for trying to torture her. Let's look through the telescope and see how things are progressing...
[act]back to the 4 ladies of the alliance of apparent good...and a cat[/act]
Nef: What's that shiny sparkly stuff up ahead?
MM, Sez, and Mono: Shiny Sparkly Stuff! Where?!
Nef: Over there
MM, Sez, and Mono: Ooooooo! Sparkly shiny cokes and pavlova! Our Favourites
Nef: This can't be a trap at all can it ::) ...Oh well too late.
[act]MM, Sez, and Mono are already feasting on treats[/act]
MM, Sez, and Mono: Oooo Nef you look so sparkly! come and join us
Nef: I don't think so. Here try some of this [act]hands them each a cup of irish breakfast tea - black with a squirt of lemon[/act] Not my cuppa but should knock you guys to your senses.
MM, Sez, and Mono: 8-| What where we doing, Oh look sparkly food :D
Nef: X:-/ Should of removed food first. Well, rinse and repeat as the morrocans do...
Meanwhile....back at Rusty Queen's dungeon...
Availle: *getting impatient* Okay guys, we are trapped behind iron bars, with Iron shackles...WHY are we still here?
Availle's Rusty Jester: ???
Availle: You are an incompetently rusty fool!! We are of the RUSTY realm. Doesn't that mean anything to you?
Jester: *dpm*
Availle: :|
Jester: (0-) (L)
Availle: X:-/ NO! It means, we are in our element! Iron corrodes easily when introduced to something I like to call oxygen. SO, let's Oxidise our way out of this silly little prison. HAH! As if Aggy could ever keep me locked up. Hmph! I'll show HIM who's boss. *flicks rusty coloured hair over shoulder*
Jester: :D *starts oxidising*
Rusty Queen and troops: *escape cell*
[act]2 hours pass, nef trying to extract the others from the sparkli food. Finally they are dragged off. Nef sighs and sips her tea...[/act]
Nef: EEEEEEWWW!
Mono: arg - my belly - what Nef?
Nef: my tea - it's all metallic
MM: From sparkles? or Glitter?
Nef: no, they taste different - its ......rust, i think. There is more rust in the atmosphere at the moment and it's ruining my tea...
sez: QoR - it's got to be!! she's escaping! Let's go
Nef: But my tea!
MM: who cares about your tea?
Nef: we'll find out next time you need some tea magic, won't we?
[act]they all run for the castle, enthusiasm and powers renewed (i don't know how - it's magic)[/act]
MM: well at least we dont have to confront him right...right guys?
NEf: unlikely..dont worry we can take him!
Agyllian: *evily cackles*
MM: whered that come from?
Agyllian: *shouts* stop playing around with the controls fen!!
Fen: *whines* im bord....
The Swedish Cat: Oh, how will we ever defeat these fearsome foes??!!!! [act]laments sarcastically[/act]
Sezza: Well....
The Swedish Cat: That was sarcasm Sezza [act]summons a giant ball of reflective light[/act] [act]It hits Fen and Agyllian[/act]
Fen: [act]explodes!!!![/act]
Agyllian: Hah! You think I can be destroyed just like that?
Mono: No, I'm sure that Swedish Cat intended somehing like this.... Queens attack!
[act]Four Spheres of Purple, Gold, Rainbow and Bronze fly from the four queens and hit Agyllian[/act]
Sezza: Score!
MisfitMind: High Five.
Nef: They're reforming! Aaah Fen!
[act]Raven, Smuppet and Helena burst through the unlocked front door[/act] [act]Three balls of Black, Green and Red energy blast Fen[/act]
Nef: My Tea packet should hold her molecules forever! [act]Fen's atomic particles are vacuumed up by Nef's superior Tea Magic[/act]
Mono: Agyllian's Reforming!
Avialle: Oh No!
Agyllian: Even if you kill me, my work will continue! I am a master of peripatetic magic, I will be reincarnated into the nearest magical newborn! And In any case, If I were you Helena, MisfitMind Sezza, Avialle, Smuppet.... Well I'd hurry back to my land to try and save it from the erupting volcano of Light and Peculiar Incandescence!!!
[act]Disappears in a flurry of tumbleweed and non-reflective grey/brown/khaki coloured air[/act]
*and hence the second appearance of Lord Agyllian and Fen was not in fact another illusion from the personal image projector but the real maccoy....*
Smuppet: Hehe that was rather clever of you Lord Agyllian...you snuck back and pretended that it was merely the projector again...
Agyllian: *is stuck in tumbleweed and non-reflective grey/brown/khaki coloured air* Why thankyou Smuppet...I do pride myself on cunning plans...*dissapears entirely*
TSC: It didn't turn out to be that cunning though :)
Helena: Wait what was that about errupting volcanoes??
Nef: Erupting volcano? hmmm - that's REALLY bad for next years tea crop - although the year after that whould be pretty good....
MM: thats not the point not every thing is tea!!! what abou the glitter caves? all the dwarves working will be hurt!..our kngdoms will be ruined!! *has a panic attack*
Mono: *consults her Brilliant mind* The Volcano of Light and Peculiar Incandescence is not a normal volcano! It doesn't have vents filled with magma and doesn't erupt with lava flows. It is a rare and special thing. Hehehe Aggy has absolutely no idea what he's playing with.
Nef: What are you on about? Does this mean my tea crops next to next year won't be good??
MM: *delighted* So my dwarves will be safe? And more importantly, my glitter mines :D ?
Mono: *nods* The volcano is an almost unearthly phenomena. It is an ancient magical source, which when it erupts, creates Brilliance, Glitter, Sparkles and in the aftermath, Rust. The only way in which I can describe its eruption is by likening it to the Aurora Australis or Borealis. It kind of illuminates the sky in eerie lights, but does nothing to the lands itself.
Sezza: So we're all safe?
Mono: Our queendoms will be. Unless....
All: What?? Unless what??
Mono: Unless Aggy destroys the volcano, which he can only do through the destructive power of coffee.
Nef: *is horrified* *tears at her hair* Noooooooooooooooooo! That will destroy the tea crops!!
*All hear Fen's cruel laughter echoing eerily*
Avialle: Oh no! Without the volcano to renew our powers, our kingdoms will be destroyed!
Rusty Jester: *stands on head in an attempt to stop everyone from looking so grim* :D
All: *ignore rusty jester*
Nef: We must head to the volcano! We will foil Aggy's dastardly plan!
All: *try to dash out of the fortress, but are stopped by an invisible shield*
Agyllian's voice: Ha ha ha... Did you think I would make it so easy for you to stop me? By the time you escape from my fortress, I will already have put my plan into action! Your kingdoms are doomed! *voice fades away into evil laughter*
*spikes appear in the air and begin closing in on everyone* *the floor begins to slowly open up into a gaping hole*
All: *edge together nervously* :-/
15 years ago
Sat Aug 02 2008, 08:31am
The Swedish Cat: Ooh, 'tis bad.... I could jump... but.... What about a bridge made of Rust and Shining Darkness? Held up by Tea Plants?
Nef: [act]uncertainly [/act] is shining darkness solid, then?
Raven: 'Course it is, haven't you heard of the Wall of Shining Darkness?
Sezza: [act]loses patience[/act] Will you hurry up and do it?
Avialle: [act]raises arms, sheets of pulsating dust ascends, and shifts in to the shape of... a bridge[/act]
Raven: [act]Flicks hands, streams of Mettalic Black shape temselves around the dust particles, in an impossibly intricate pattern[/act]
Nef: Yes... Tea! To Me! Take this bridge of...er....Darkness and Dust, and give it roots because we ...uh.... Must?
[act]White Vines Shoot up from the floor and weave themselves under and through the floating bridge[/act]
Smuppet: Hah! We beat you Agyllian!
Others(from the other side of the growing hole): Hurry up, Smuppet! We 've got a land to save!
Nef: Oh No! My Envelope is gone! Fen has escaped... unless I've just dropped it...
MisfitMind: Well we don't have time to go back.
Mono: How do we get to your land fast Helena?
Helena: The fastest way to my home is through the castle of facets.... Any ideas of how to get through Swedish Cat?