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May do two session summaries tonight, for I am very far behind and the one after this was fairly short. Depends on how the getting work done stuff goes in between summaries.

Session 1: The wind and the dust go 'round and 'round
Session 2: Oh no. . . I just realised I named my horse 'Charlie'. . .
Session 3: Look, you got beaten up by a RICH ogre.
Session 4: Chief.
Session 5: Roight, Brain, but next time you're wearing the dress.
Session 6: Today was a very ranger day.
Session 7: God is dead. Long live God.
Session 8: More gaming.
Session 9: Stick 'em up! Put all your arithmetical operators in the bag!
Session 10: An Interlude Full of Irritating Cats
Session 11: Psycho Killer Cybermuppets and Other Magical Explosions
Session 12: Rich beyond our mildest delusions (Excuse me, sir, could you spare an orc?)
Session 13: Let's go visit the Spartans! I hear Switzerland is lovely this time of year.
Session 14: Into Barney
Session 15: Shovels and Rakes and Implements of Deeeeee-struction
Session 16: Man Bites Dog
Session 17: She's closing her eyes, she's starting to dream, she's pulling the strings. . .

So we were in Lord Kynnan's keep working out what we were going to do next, whether we were going to go to Isen, the other halfling town, and see why Wave's Rest wasn't hearing from it, or go to talk to the orks and deal with Xenecal or what, when Adosar started having dreams.

So he had me stay up with him one night, and his familiar Chir'ra told me when he started dreaming, and I looked at him and studied his magic, and he mostly just looked like Adosar, which was not particularly useful for figuring it out. And then Wren did a pyramid with him, and they did the same thing, but she found something -- when the dreams came, there was much, much more earth energy than just Adosar has, and Adosar has the earth energy of a really big rock.

So hmmm.

Adosar eventually got enough pictures of the dreamspace to describe it and talk about it, and Karas remembered something about lands like that -- where all the different sorts of land laid up right next to each other and were all folded up and confused, because too much magic fighting there happened and it got all snarled. And we said Karas should talk to the bards, and he asked other people to do it because he doesn't like to talk to bards. I think he thinks they're doing it all wrong. (Session Quote: "I don't talk to bards unless I . . . have to." - Karas)

So we talked about this and about the way the land was and where everything was, and Adosar said he thought that the dream was suggesting that it was urgent and important that we go there (or at least that he go there), and that he had figured out a new magic that was all right for hurrying with. (It wasn't good for hurrying with. He was very, very grumpy about how not good it was, about the ways it doesn't behave right or anything, and he explained them all. Twice.) But we decided we'd try it.

The problem was that he couldn't move people very easily, because he couldn't make the magic strong enough. Eventually we worked out that he could do it with another magic, one where he turned Hethian into something very small so that he didn't need as much magic to move him.

And so we did that. (Quote: Dire sparrow! -

teinedreugan) And Adosar made the magic, and we were somewhere else. And we spent a little while trying to figure out if this was the correct somewhere else, because it could be a somewhere else that just looked like the somewhere else we were going. It was a little canyon, with melted rock running in a little crease down the center, and it got deeper and deeper.

Adosar thought it was the right place.

There was also a really big lizard there. A really big hungry lizard. (I mean big. It swallowed Karas. Karas wasn't happy about that, so he got really really mad, and the puppy got really really mad, and they sort of made a hole in the lizard together.) (Well, and Adosar got so upset about the whole thing that he shook until blood came out his fingertips and the lizard didn't look all that happy about that.)

So we went down the canyon. It got taller and taller around us, and then these sort of red glowing things came out of the melted rock. They were sort of like curious dogs up until the point that they decided to eat us. So maybe they weren't really well-trained dogs. Anyway, I managed to make a little breath of cold with my fingers, and that seemed to bother them a lot more than it would bother something else, so I made sure to remember that for later. But it didn't bother them all that much at all.

We got to the middle of the canyon, where there was a bit of an open space. There were five canyons each with the little streak down the center going off the middle, all equal-spaced like a star. In the middle was a big bubble of rock that looked like it froze there. Adosar said it looked right, and we went looking for a way into the bubble.

In the middle of the bubble was a cave, and in the middle of the cave was a big spar of stone, sort of floating over a pool. There was a lot of magic floating around and it was very bright.

As we were sort of peering at it, someone started to come up out of the ground. She was an earth elemental, but a lot more . . . I'm not sure what she was more than other earth elementals I've seen, but she was more something. She explained that the star cleft was made when some Alar had a big fight a while ago and blew themselves up, and that the rock was a relic of the time, and that she was guarding it. But that she couldn't keep guarding it because she wasn't strong enough and so she wanted us to do something about it.

(There are always more chores. And they're only getting weirder.)

She was also an oracle, and she told us what was happening with each of the remaining Alar and what they were doing, a little. And she showed us what was left of Isen, so now we know. Poor Isen.

Then something came up out of one of the crevices in the rock, a big spidery thing. (I am getting very tired of big spidery things. I want to stop being bothered by big spidery things. And big spiders, too. I don't like them.) The elemental told us that we should make sure it didn't get the rock, she seemed to know what it was, and she started making magics.

We started fighting it. It hit Karas with some web-stuff and grabbed the rock. Karas used his whip and grabbed the rock back. Adosar hit it hard. (Session Quote: "Does a . . . forty-seven hit?" --

jikharra) We all hit it a lot, and Karas held the rock tightly since he couldn't get to the fight while he was stuck to the floor and kept it under his shield and everything. Eventually the spider tried to run away, but we killed it.

It took most of the rest of the day for Karas to get unstuck.

If the spider'd gotten to bite on the rock it would have blown up again and that would have been bad.

Adosar's fast-walking magic didn't work safely when we were carrying the rock, so we had to walk back to wherever we were going to put the rock. This gave us lots of time to figure out what we were going to do with this chore. I thought we should give it to the dwarves, but Adosar thought that the dwarves would probably poke at it a lot and that would be a bad idea. So we started off towards the elf forest.

At one point Karas got turned into an ogre. He didn't like that much because it was ugly. Being big didn't bother him, but the ugly did, so he used his magic hat to make himself look like himself.

We ran into a whole bunch of really big wild pigs that tried to trample us. We didn't let them, and we had roast pork for dinner from the ones that didn't get hit with poisoned arrows, after we chased down some wyverns too. (Adosar wouldn't leave them alone, because he's from the Wyvernslayer family, and it's a point of honour.)

(Concluding quote that I've forgotten the context for:

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When Dwarves Hurry. (Hoom hum.)

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