Jacqueline says, "OOCly yo prof, just got back from Chaos 
:)" 

Ramon shakes his head.  "I haven't heard anything." 

Jacqueline frets even more.  "Ano... can you try to trump 
them?" 

Beowulf says, "OOC Oh, my. :)" 

Ramon says, "Sure, I'll call you back in a minute." 

You wait for hours, but he doesn't trump you back.  You 
gonna try trumping him or someone else? 

Jacqueline asks, "OOCly cripes. shadow's fast-timed, 
right?" 

Ramon says, "OOC Yes.  This is probably why it's taking 
him so long :)" 

Moriya OOCly says, "Yes. You can ask Kafuin to synch time 
back up for a moment until Ramon trumps you back, 
though." 

Jacqueline decides to kill some time looking to see if 
Uncle Shizumaru is around, maybe get sword pointers from 
him 

Arden 

Beyond the Wood Door 

[Exits: Skippy, Main Room. ] 

Contents:  Damasq, Kuonji Ukyou, and Michelle. 

You found a ^_^! 

Beowulf says, "Figure it'd be good to get me a bit more 
caught up. :)" 

Sumire says, "Heh." 

Beowulf says, "Been playing with Kanna? :)" 

Sumire asks, "Okay, you're going to basically ride 
through shadow from panopticon to the dig site next, 
right?" 

Beowulf says, "Unless I can think of a place to trump to 
that'd be somewhat closer." 

Beowulf says, "Probably take the Humvee, unless Lily or 
Mitsune can think of a good reason not to." 

Y'all pile into the Humvee and take off across shadow. 

Beowulf keeps an eye out for anything of interest as they 
shift shadow. 

The week goes by quite peacefully. 

Lily asks, "OOC Aaargh, what did I say the name of this 
Shadow was again?  Where you did the dig?" 

Beowulf says, "OOC And there went a bit of the catch-up. 
:)" 

Beowulf says, "OOC Dirklos, I believe." 

Beowulf says, "OOC You said 'It's a shadow full of 
ruins,' and that there wasn't anything really unusual 
about it, or I woudl have kept the vases instead of 
selling them." 

Dirklos is a shadow of small peasant villages, thick 
dangerous forests, and dozens of ancient ruins far more 
advanced than the peasants, who claim the gods used to 
dwell in the cities. 

Beowulf checks around to see if anything's changed -- 
both obvious changes in the landscape/etc., and checking 
with some of the villagers he talked with before to see 
if anyone else has come to visit. 

Dame Marge says to you, "These hideous beastmen keep 
raiding out of the forest into our village.  It's not 
safe to go out at night any more, and they keep stealing 
the crops too." 

Beowulf hmmms, and asks her to describe the beastmen. 

Beowulf asks, "OOC Do I remember seeing anything like 
them when I went outside of the villages last time?" 

"They're fearsome beasties, with bodies like men, though 
sometimes with hooves, not feet.  And they have heads 
like animals. They have swords and armor, but it's 
usually all rusty, doesn't fit, and looks stolen." 

This shadow used to only have humans in it. 

Beowulf asks, "OOC Sound at all familiar to Bey?" 

Lily says, "OOC They sound rather chaosy to you, although 
there's a fair number of shadows on this side of Yig with 
such things. But none of those on the Yig side have any 
shadow travelling abilities." 

Beowulf asks, "OOC Also, ask her to describe the armor, 
see if it sounds familiar to him -- could be armor from 
one of the locals?" 

Her description of the armor isn't very good, as she 
knows little of locals.  But it sounds like plate and 
chain, and the locals mostly use leather, cuirboulli, or 
bronze. 

Knows little of ARMOR 

Beowulf nods. "Hmm. Sounds like someone has brought in 
horrors from the outside to harass you." 

Beowulf asks Dame Marge if there's anything he can do to 
help them before he tries to seek out the source of the 
attacks. 

She shakes her head.  "You'll do more good if you can 
find and stop the raids than anything you could do around 
here." 

Beowulf nods. "Good enough, then. Hopefully we can clear 
up this problem for you." 

She nods.  "We'd be right grateful." 

Mitsune says, "I can have my horde of SD-Amberites fan 
out and scout for us." 

Beowulf says, "I'll do what I can." 

Beowulf nods. "That'll help." 

Beowulf asks, "OOC How far is it to the ruins?" 

Beowulf asks, "OOC Also, checking watch, what's active 
here?" 

Lily says, "OOC IT's about a half day's travel.  With the 
Humvee, about an hour." 

Lily says, "OOC Time is same as Amber, all powers 
functional here." 

Beowulf attaches a couple of branches to the back bumper 
of the humvee, just behind the wheels, to brush out 
tracks, and sets out for the ruins. 

You drive to the ruins.  They're still fairly well 
ruined.  One odd thing about them is that no plants grow 
inside the ruins. 

Beowulf gets out of the humvee, and stuffs it back into 
the bag. He moves to cover and looks for any obvious 
changes to the ruins since his last visit. 

Beowulf asks, "OOC Were there plants growing there 
before?" 

Lily says, "OOC Nope." 

Beowulf OOCly nods. 

There are signs of fresh excavation in places and lots of 
fresh footprints all over.  Mitsune sends out the SD-
Amberites to search. 

The SD amberites return, reporting eight bands of ten or 
so beast men scattered about.  Each is riding herd on 
forty or so green skinned goblins who are being forced to 
dig up parts of the site at the command of warriors in 
full blood red plate with two handed swords and horned 
helmets. 

Beowulf asks, "Did the armor look like it fitted any 
better on the commanders?" 

Beowulf asks, "OOC and did the armor look familiar?" 

Lily says, "OOC The armor is not particularly familiar.  
But from what they say, the commanders seem to have human 
heads and the armor fits well." 

Beowulf hmms. "How hard would it be to find a spot where 
we could observe them?" 

Beowulf says, "OOC I want to see what the excavation 
patterns look like compared to where I found the vases." 

You could try climbing up inside one of the larger 
surviving buildings.  None of the groups are at exactly 
the same point you were at. 

Beowulf nods. "D'you want to climb in the bag while I 
sneak up to one of the buildings, or would you rather..." 
He wiggles his hands, attempting to mime shapeshifting. 

Mitsune wiggles. "Hmm, that didn't do anything." 

Lily turns into a cat and jumps up onto your shoulders. 

Mitsune blinks.  "Oh, right."  Instant fox. 

Beowulf grins and scratches Lily between the ears. 

Beowulf watches for the best opening, then begins 
sneaking over to the tallest building that's easy to get 
to. 

Lily purrs. 

You carefully sneak along. 

You climb up into a tall building.  From the fifth story, 
you can see most of the ruins.  Eight bands are busy 
digging as the SD-Amberites reported.  One of them is 
near your original dig site. 

Beowulf adjusts his spectacles to get a closer look at 
the ones closest to his dig site.