Session 12: Why do we always fight, Why do good people have to die? *sniffles*

YAY YAY YAY!!! Last night or was it two days ago.. I'm not really sure but we were transferred into Horse bodies of our choosing so that we could be brought back to life, and Sawu and I then spent lots of time running and exploring around the forest, and the beaches and the pasture. And I eventually just rand myself out *giggles* It was so freeing.


But today... today was one of sorrows. Eh I will save that for later though, I started out the day trying to assist Miss Mona with teaching Kathy how to act like a proper young lady, trying to tech her to eat with utensils, and cook, and other things. But she just decided to act uncivily <.< to which I tried to correct her >.>  That's when she started swinging at me with a frying pan, and so I decided to run outside,, as Mona dealt with the situation (that of course should have been a warning in my head, for what was to come later. *sighs*)


Going outside, I saw Wu heading off towards the barn, as well as Rupper leaving the porch for it. Polly from the foul smell littering the air I guess, but then again that too was coming from the barn. There on the floor was the hag's body and Thanks to Rhia's father we were able to question it, to get answers. We got some pointless ones, and we got some good ones. In the end all we truly wanted to know was what were the plans of the Fomorians in general, which we got from Tal as she and Ben arrived. (Late I might add which is quite unlike them <.< hehehehe). And apparently the Keepers are actually Fomorians in disguise... And the worst part is the Fomorians brokering deals with different pantheons, and already have the Ice Giants on their side.


This was miserable news indeed, needed time to process. And we were hungry so we ummm, well we went to go eat. Me, Ben, Ruppy, and ol man Mann were greeted at the door by Kathy and we each found that the food was ultimately horrendous, and Manannan and I decided to well make our food disappear (at least I did after I noticed he was doing it himself the old cad x3) Eventually Tal also joined us inside crying, over Rhia. Who had told tal off in the barn as we found out, I and Ben tried our best to console her but it didn't seem to help much, I guess this was going to be a rough patch for everyone. Especially since we found Rhia's mother in the pantry. She was killed and there was a bent frying pan beside her, and Kathy was smiling. 


I... I don't... I don't think she knew what she was doing it was heartbreak for everyone. Ben dragged her outside, was going to kill her. I was told to go tell Rhia and Wu who were already rushing towards the house. I tried to tell her that her mother was dead, that Kathy had done it. That it was all wrong, but she wouldnt believe me she even snapped at me when I tried to get her to listen. All I was trying to do was listen, and tell her the bad news like I was ordered, but I guess everyone hates the messenger of bad news, not like it was even my fault either. When I turned back, Ben had drawn his sword and was going to slice down Kathy. How In the Heck can you just execute someone who doesn't know any better. 


I couldn't take much more as I stumbled towards the scene I broke down, I fell against the house. I don't remember much of what happened next jsut seeing Manannan fly out of the house, Rhia, Kathy and Wu in a field I stumbled towards them again, wanting to help, he was so mad at her, I just I.... I recovered shortly after, we were told to leave the island. One of the others had found a boat by the shore and thats where we headed next, Rhia Kathy and Mann went to the house, Wu stayed in the field. and I just walked away with Ben Tal and Ruppy. At least they apologized, they apologized for yelling and glaring and snapping at me. It actaully made me feel a bit better as we came towards the shore, Wu and RHia caught up from behind. The man at the boat was going to take us to his employer to one of the Loa Gods Kalfu I beliee his name was, can't really remember who the man himself's name was but heh I guess that happens huh? So we passed out our Relics which Rhia had retrieved, and we headed onto the boat.

Sessions 9 & 10 Wild Rides, Giant Wolves, and Witchy Hags; What are we gonna run into next?

So we just escaped from Big Huitzand were circling the globe like a falling star rocketing towards the Earth and I stopped it... (Well Mah told me how to stop it bless her heart but I am the one who did it, even if it was pretty haphazardly. <.<) Anyways Ben went diving after his bird, and Tal stabbed herself, was losing quite a bit of blood which Wu was trying to tend to as we floated over the ocean, the damn litter refusing to listen to me.

Anyways Ruppy suddenly jumps out as well and starts swimming to shore, and we're all conversing about what to do (Rhia, me and Wu) when I suddenly feel the litter moving, pulling itself higher. At which point I tell the other we need to go now, or be brought back to Huitz, and we decide to lower Tal with Sawu's help then bring her to land by water made raft. Which we did more or less >.> since Tal was wrapped in a cocoon (wonder if she'll become a butterfly.. Oh wait she didn't <.<) And we all rode on the raft even across the land, with Wu resupplying it with her cauldron, and me guiding the others towards shore then Ben.

So on the way we hear a gunshot and we find out its an old woman shooting at Ben... So after greeting her ourselves, we find out this woman is actually Rhia's Stepmom o.o, and Manannan has left to go search for us. (What luck right? we wind up on his Horse Farm and hes off searching for us *giggles*) Next thing I know the old lady is serving us stew (which I have to admit was wonderfully delicious... melt in your mouth marvelous) And Rupper was stitching up Tal on the couch and gave her pills. Never knew Ruppy was so good with the medicinal arts, but I guess someone has to be right?

And after we were all nicely talking about things and introducing ourselves the birds came squawking back, An apparent warning that something was wrong, and it turned out to be wolves! Why did it have to be wolves? And not just wolves these wolves turned out to be some of the toughest things I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. (Sooo wish I could've used my own gun, but you know Ghosty and all right? *sighs*) So Ruppy grabbed an axe, and Benji grabbed the lady's gun, and the rest of us just ran outside (like idiots). And then it started after Ruppy started growling and howling at them like a big bad wolfy himself, Half of them started running towards the house. Benji took a shot then growled himself in frustration and decided he wanted rope, he demanded it from Sawu to which we both groaned and gave it to him, we knew it wouldn't work but I am guessing Benji forgot. Though he learned soon enough and flew off in frustration giving me the rifle. I used it myself, as soon as I could and feeling a bit giddy about being in this fight now, fired it at one of the wolf's head but it just glanced off, and without having anymore ammo I kinda felt frustrated myself and went in swinging smacking the wolf on the head with the club. Seemingly at the same time that Ruppy wiggled his fingers in is brain (Wish I had been the one to take the woofy down *pouts*) But after seeing their leader go down the other wolves went and ran away stealing horses more horses than they killed.

And looking at the house I found out that one of the wolfies ran inside, but also found out that Tal had ripped its jaw from its head, killing the poor monster wolf. But she had popped her stitches, and we needed to get her to the couch, and Ruppy needed to redo them, Though she had saved Rhia's mother. Anyways after we got everything cleaned up and Tal back in stitches we settled in back to relaxing and Wu who missed everything because of a case of explosive diarrhea shot out of the bathroom ready to fight *giggles* But another thing happened to which I leaped off the porch, Manannan finally arrived.

So now that Mann is here (to whom I bowed and greeted) we all settled back in questioning him about getting our lives back, but he wanted us to perform a quest to get his prized Stallion back from the wolves... I asked about weaponry but noone answered. And we jus got into a deeper discussion on how we would get our lives back, Manannan would go to Fate, plead our case and we would get new lives. Wewt Right! All we had to do was go save his horsie and not get him killed. So after we all thought we were prepared, (which I just ran outside happy about our new lives, when I should have been trying to get ammo. هذه هي الحياة.

So we get to the woods, Ben flying overhead, having finally let Tal walk with us, and we see the cave. The others deciding that I, Wu, and Ben would be the best to go in, while Ruppy was to distract the lupine guards. So we did, Wu and me sneaking in on the ground, while Ben (still in the air... Soo soo wierd btw) flew in behind us. We were noticed once at the entrance, though the fighting seemed to distract this third wolf and we were able to go deeper. Only to find a pair of mares who were still alive with their own wolfy guard. And as I snuck past this third wolf realizing these two couldnt have been the giant male Wu decided to pick up a rock and attack it... Stupid move when there was someone speaking gaelic around... Someone who had to have been humanoid since these wolves only spoke, well wolf.

Anyways Wu got a deep cut on the wolf but it wasn't enough, and as Ben shot it with some sort of blazing light it stumbled right into me, I fell back on my rear even as the wolf went through me and triggered a cavein that pinned the creature down. (YAY for team efforts ^-^) So we moved on deeper down the tunnels finding what could only have been Enbarr and a hag standing over him ensigiling blue glowing runes with a knife.. Must have been some sort of ritual. And as I questioned the hag, Ben tells Wu to jump in needlessly, and she grabs the dagger from her (prolly without even heeding Ben. The loons) Wu then twists the dagger away and stabs her in the chest. This is likely the point that I would have tried to talk her down, but now we were her enemy we had just stabbed her in the chest, and she was becoming a highly more hideous monster as she turned to face us.

So meanwhile Ben tries to shoot her with the same light and misses, while I look for anything to use on her as a weapon, and find a rock, at least its something material to use in this situation, not like any of my own weapons would have worked... (Why the hell didn't I ask for bullets for that damn rifle of hers. >.<) So while Wu is fighting with the witch over the dagger, and Ben blindfolds himself (to get past her ugliness I am guessing) smacking her with a giant piece of the altar that Enbarr rested upon. Cal flies in wailing, apparently I was right back in Italy Cerberus is back... Cerberus is here, and he wants us, he wants to take us back.

After Ben translates that and throws the rock it smacks the hag in the back of the head and sends her running, carrying Wu right out of the cave and over a pile of dead wolves. Guessing that Ruppy's abilities worked pretty well. While the hag is now running, Rhia and Ruppy are singing the giant Cerberus to sleep, and Tal running around through flaming trees. Ben is flying right above the hag staring her down, and I throw a rock which thankfully impacts right on the back of her knee, knocking both her and Wu to the ground, and drives the knife right through her heart. I killed it, I killed it... *starts gigglefitting as she finishes*

Session 5: When Are We Getting Out of here? Session 6: Where Are We Going to get Our Lives Back?

First off I want to say I am sorry for not writing in here for a long time but I have reasons for that. First I was on acid, then the dark & wild ride down the waterfall to an equally dark cavern, then This wierd dream from Hypnos (damn lil douchy kid.). Errr, let me back up a bit to get a few things straight. First there was the wierdness with Tal's journal that writ upon itself, apparently a dictation by fate. Telling us that Kathy was a Shabti created by Ben, for the greater good to be a Titan Avatar, & that she could still very much be controlled by that Titan. To all of this Tal started acting nuts, like always & prolly feeling more justified she did not want Kathy to come with us. But she was made for the greater good wasn't she? So why not keep her around? I mean what could it really hurt?


Anyways while everyone else was fighting I was snugglin up with Ruppy's, bad idea really the guy doesn't actually care so why am I bothering? Well I did get a good laugh out of it he blew smoke Nymphs and a Satyr that chased them around the others. Making a spectacle that apparently got lost on the group... And then he offered this stamp, which turned out to be acid, but hey I took it anyways and gave one good long lick against the backside. Didn't matter that it came from Ruppy's box. Anything had to be better than the fighting. So I was out of it for the long march back to the Lethe.


After actually making it (apparently the others kept me from wandering off into the underworld). We all paid the ferryman to get on the boat, then Prometheus subsequently set about killing the Ferryman. If it wasn't for Rhia knowing how to drive a gondola I don't know where we'd be right now, prolly still trapped in this accursed underworld. But she did, and we were able to go down the river towards its end... Towards Hypnos' cave and then it was pitch dark, the sound of rocks breaking around us as we fell. I let loose Asan trying to compel him to protect us against being broken upon these rocks, and then I was tied down to the bow of the ship.


Next thing I knew we were on the shores of a lake, with Prommy and Joshua gone. And we went into the castle fought with Hypnos about our memories... Ruppy got him to go stick his head in the Lake which apparently ended the dream. I just... just can't remember most of it. 

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We then woke up yet again, and back on the same lake shore. Tal was still holding the Lute that she... she pulled out of the dream. And each of us took a string, while Prommy and Joshua (who grew a second head (totally wiierd x.x)) moved this giant boulder blocking our exit. Well I was the first to try swallowing the strings we were given, & while not lucid told the others to do so.


What I experienced... It... It was horrifyingly disturbing. So I warn those faint of heart not to read further...


Something burst out from within my womb, my flesh splitting apart and countless thousands of glass spiders crawling forth, from inside me, just pouring across my body. Blinded by they're crawling across my body able to see, hear, feel nothing but the spiders as they rip apart my flesh, injecting me with their venom, and rebuilding me in a fashion absolutely unbearable and hideously painful. Emerging from the churning mass as someone besides myself, able to feel an absolutely alien mind shared with countless thousand Glass Spiders, that were spawned from my own body. And, Asan draws up around me forming a layer of protective sand like armor, that mixes with the silicon venom, as I see from dozens of blind eyes, admiring my new shiny glass skin. I have become something more than merely mortal, or immortal. Feeling a surge of divinity within my flesh as the spiders crawl everywhere. But I can't move my body, don't know why. Why can't I move? Why?!?!?! The spiders move at my command, doing my bidding, and even move my body if I mentally scream it out to them. But why can't I move by myself? I'm a prisoner within this glass body, unable to do anything for myself, except to command the spiders.


I couldn't stop trembling could barely move just clinging to Rhia upon our exodus of the Underworld, the feeling as we neared the exit putting me into a terrible fright feeling the spiders crawling over me. I wanted to run, from it I wanted to get away.. But I couldn't, I just couldn't, I needed to get out of here to be alive again.And so we burst through the membrane. After which Prommy and Joshua went their own way, Rhias told us we were still dead, but that we were ghosts now, & I heard the howling of dogs... That would haunt me, because after we got to the city I saw something down an alley. I saw glowing eyes, faint yellowish glowing eyes that growled at me from the shadows. It had to have been Cerberus... But noone would believe me.


And though I kept trying to tell them, everyone thought.. nix that every still thinks that I'm crazy. I bet this is what Tal feels like with noone listening to her about Kathy heh. So anyways where was I... Oh ya Wu and Kathy went into a nearby store to find clothes which led to Kathy tipping over displays, and Wu and Rhia going to make out in one of the dressing rooms *giggles knowing it was more than just making out* When all the renewed zaniness was done Tal told us to folow this wierd guy to his place which I thought was wierd, but hey if everyone else is listening to her then why not.


So after we get there we start talking, & we come to the subject that we escaped from the underworld... Which causes him to freak out so Tal threatens him, Rhia uses her powers of persausion over him, & seeing that the poor guy is still quite freaking out, I decided to try and talk him down, to calm him. It worked and we were all able to talk intelligently about how to return us to life. We had a number of options actually finding our bodies and sacrificing others to bring ourselves back to life, to which I completely disagreed. (Which with mine most likely being broken glass now probably wouldn't be possible anyways. *sighs*) There were other options though, creating Shabtis of ourselves to inhabit, or using the book of the dead... My favorite though was Rhia's suggestion to go to her Father for help bringing us back to life. He might at least help her back, and then later maybe she can help us... >.>;;;


But then we heard someone outside seizing on the stairs and Ruppy told us it was a variation of Ancient Greek.  Turns out we may have left the underworld open. <.< Woops....