The Valley of Mist

[Kalile]

Ooc: Kinslayer???????? Great. Now I'm confused again, just before finals. You'll have to explain, for my brain is forming a puddle on my shoes.

Kalile shivered despite the heat from her instrument. Being in the cold, or underground, were bad enough, but both made her clammy.


Ooc: Oh, I'm glad it's summer. It clocked 111 degrees F today, and it's not even June. Wheee!

[The last sane person]

OOC: If you read the Silmarillion you would know! (although I dont recomend it though! Far to depressing!) It's where alot of Households were turned against each other. Every one went about killing each other. This was the rather undignified happenings of the time!

And to be specific, a kinslayer is someone who kills one of their own. (i.e. you killed another elf)!

[Legoles]

"Can we GO now? I'm getting very wary of this place. What is that SMELL? uggh It smells like rotten eggs......... Wait sulfur smells like that... OH Sh*t....we're inside a volcano . "
OOC: just to give it a twist

[Kalile]

And to be specific, a kinslayer is someone who kills one of their own.

Ok, good. That's what I thought. heeyyy... are you accusing me of something? That was a dark elf, ya hear? Dark elves are evil, so that doesn't count.


Ic: "Good thing Boreas is here then, huh. I don't relish the idea of erupting into hot lava."
*Sudden idea* "Hey! That's why we can't get back! Because we're under a lot of hardened magma." Then she realized what she had just said, and shivered.
"Well! Shall we go?" Kalile said rather shrilly, and marched resolutely onward.

[The last sane person]

OOC: Evil or no, it was still an elf! Corrupted maybe, but still your own!

IC:

Oh lovely! out of the frying pan and into the fire. Litteraly. Great, now the elves were on the verge of panick and the other two were totally confused as what they were going to do. I groaned and ran ahead to see what was to be had. I burst out of the tunnel and into a cavern. It was like stepping into an oven. In front of me was perhaps the biggest dragon ever to be had on middle earth.

I ran back to my compainons and told them to shut up as the dragon was sleeping.

"oh damn! can this get any better?!" Imhuriel fumed and Kalile sat down to think.

"If you dont shut up i garantee it will! casue that dragon is gonna wake up and eat us all for lunch!!!" I was on the verge of yelling myself but Kalile stood up.

"I think that I know where the volcano is getting its energy from. If that dragon is as big as you say, then that is the heart ofthe 'volcano'." she was still pondering when Rowena piped up.

"So now not only do we have to find our way tlo some remote island, remove some mist, find springs of magic water that we might die trying to get in order to save Celeborn and thus save the elven race from its death, But know we have to vanquish this collasel dragon and stop a volcano?!?!?!!?" she sighed and slid down the wall.

"well, since I found it i guess i have to slay it," I frowned as i tried to figure out the odds of me succeeding but stopped short, "oh well, I guess i might as well give it a shot!!"

I took out all my weapons and sharpened them to a razors edge. i remebered that a dragons weakest point is its eyes. And that the eyes are also right next to its mouth. Oh well, I guess i gotta sneak up on it! Gods help me!

I left my companions in the tunnel and went after the big thing. Then it clicked. So this is what the drake was guarding!!!

[Legoles]

Imhuriel decided to follow Seth into the lair. She walked up behind him and thought< he is right it's huge, I wish I had some method of invisibility to get past this dragon.... hey wait why did Galadriel give me this dang sword anyway? or these glowing arrows? use em dangit!!!!!!! Imhuriel cocked an arrow wispered to Seth" Get the others except for Ranwen, tell her to stay there!" Seth came back with the full group and I got about 10 sets of bows and arrows. I gave one to each they all got arrows put them in the bow and waited for my command, "aim for the eyes!"

[Legoles]

I yelled as loud as I possibly could "FIRE" the dragon lazily opened it's eyes, just to get an eye full of arrows It bellowed with rage. We fired again at the other eye. The dragon was totally blind. We danced around looking for a weak spot. Its giant body was engulfed with jewls. My sharp elven eyes spotted a peice of exposed flesh. With all my might I ran tword the dragon and used my sword of Darkwood to stab [him/her???] it. I pulled it out and we all ran back to the place where we fell in.

[Kalile]

The dragon was blind and wounded, but still very alive. When the group reached the spot, Kalile quickly played a lightly trilling, ascending tune, and the group rose high, just as a blast of fire filled the tunnel. Above them, magma had filled in the hole, but there were ledges around the vertical part of the tunnel. Everyone sat above the flames, and Kalile slumped. "So many people..." suddenly she sat straight up in alarm. "What happened to Seth?!?"


Ooc: Go get em, Sane. It was your idea.

[The last sane person]

OOC: YAY!


My companions had all shot quivers worth of arrows into the beast's eyes. Imhuriel had stabbed it and i had shot it again. The beast roared and spilt flames through the tunnel I ran and stood right under neith the beast where their were no flames. I saw Kalile levitate the group up above the flames and away from danger, leaving me to do my work on my own.

The monster was blind and wounded but it still had one excelent sence of smell, that it was useing that to sniff me out. I was dancing and weaving my way through out the chamber, carefully avoinding its claws, fire, spiked horns and tail and also the magma. All the while slashing at its face and trying to get it to rear up so i could stab its heart.

Suddenly I slipped on a heap of gold and in an instant i was slashed across my chest and back with its claws. Pain like I could not believe. The brute pinned me down with its claws and opened wide to stuff me in its mouth. Snack time.

I was promptly stuck into its cavernus jaws, as it bit up i forced my blade as hard as i could into the roof of its mouth and into its brain. Instant kill. I felt the dragon keal over onto the floor, I tryed to open its mouth and stagger out. i found a skeletal arm clutching a war hammer in between the teeth of the beast. Poor fllow didnt have as much luck! I smashe dthe teeth with the war hammer, breaking a hole for me to get out of.

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Meanwhile Kalile and the others had stumbled out on the other side of the mountain and fell in a heap on the grass.

"Seth! We must go back for Seth!!" Kalile tried to run back in but the others blocked her path.

"He is gone! No one could have survived such a fell beast! we must move on!"Imhuriel tried to reason with Kalile. The others agreed with her.

"As hard as it is we must go on! we have alot riding on this quest!" Rowena also blocked her way.

"Well, Know i see just how much faith my comrades place in ,y survival skills!" I collaped at the tunnel exit, still bleeding profusly and singed badly. I rose to my knees and Kalile & Ranwen were getting bandaging me within the blink of an eye.

"Your Alive?!?!?!" Imhuriel said incredulosly.

"yes, I am sorry to disappoint you if you had hoped other wise." I said crossly back to her, she smiled and shook her head.

[Kalile]

Ooc: You can't spell!

Ic: Listening to the story, Kalile shook her head. "And all this time I thought we would be facing a god of cold. "

[The last sane person]

OOC: *melodramatic tone* Oh forgive me for my ever so horrid spelling errors!! How shall i ever go on?? *grand stage-faint*


"urg, I am greatful then that it was but a dragon! I'm not sure how i would have faired against a god!!

OOC: So we would have gone up against the Valar????

[Kalile]

Ooc: Boreas, god of the north wind. We're sort of taking the same route as the fellowship does later.

[The last sane person]

OOC: Ah So this is before the Quest not after!! I see, i thought the rings had already passed!

[Kalile]

Ooc: That would be better, actually. Before the Quest were the golden ages, and this isn't really. So this is just before the elves depart.

[Legoles]

Kalile: Seth your hurt.
Imhuriel:[duhh] I'll heal him, though it will take time....
Seth: no I'll tough it out
Imhuriel: Okay if you want sudden and painful death then go ahead.
Seth: are you threatening me????
Imhuriel: Yes, now sit and let me heal that or you'll be dead in 5 seconds!
Seth: Okay, okay
Imhuriel heals him then produces bed rolls for the party. <super elf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>
We will need sleep, but here is not the place to do it. Everyone take a bedroll and lets go down a ways!

[Kalile]

OOC: boy, you must be one fat elf with all that stuff! Good luck running, pudgy.

Ic: The group moved down by a river. Nearby, a gate and a cave hung open ominously. All around them, however, was green and warm in the sunlight.
Kalile dipped a hand into the water and tasted a hint of salt. "If we follow this river, we will reach the ocean."

[Legoles]

OOC: For your information Kalile, Imhuriel is very thin, and if you don't remember elves run really fast.
Imhuriel said, in Darkwood's voice she said," This brings back fond memories, the ocean, I have not seen it for over hundreds of years, but no time for that now. We are getting near to the valley."

[Kalile]

"But if we follow the river, we'll come out close to the island. That's what we want, isn't it?"

Ooc: If ya carry all that stuff hidden, then you're gonna look fat!

[The last sane person]

OOC: LOL! Hey Legoles, ya got a new nick name, Pudgy!


I was fairly tired from my previous exertions so i did not complain when they tossed me a bed roll. When we went near the river Kalile announced that it was salty, hence we were next to the ocean.

"Well, thats nice. But dont we need a boat to get their since it is an island?" I hated to poop on the fond memory party but the obvious had to be made clear for them.

[Kalile]

"There should be a port there..." Kalile brushed her hair away with a slender hand, concern shadowing her face. "But, I suppose the port might have fallen to the silencing mist..."


Ooc: The Valley of Mist is a land of bards, hence the "silencing mist."

Midge, Pudgy, now all we need is a name for Sane. How about incorrigable?