<span style='color:white'>"Fall back!" *Leaps up and climbs the canyon walls leaping side to side to Demiguise.* "We can't afford to lose you." *Lands infront of Demiguise and starts attacking the wave of Draug.* "Go heal we can't afford to lose you." [Looks up at the top of the canyon for any lose boulders] "I'll hold them off." *Bites at the draug horde.*</span>
<span style='color:orange'> [the only bretheren you sense are deep in the caves. you rush down deep, deep. as you appoch you feel a brush on your mind. a juniormost loremaster stops you at the entrence to a large crystal cavern. Inside are the loremasters, deep in meditation. the air itself hums and twists with the latent outpouring of thier communal minds.]</span>
<span style='color:pink'> *the loremaster seems disturbed as it speaks in your mind* "what is the matter? has the battle gone poorly? do the rougue threaten our unity? please, we must avoid disterbing the loremasters. it would be most unfortunate. what is the matter?"</span>
<i>the battle at the pass continues, the rougue loosing ground</i>
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<span style='color:orange'>"We are holding them, but only just. We are all wounded, I have already died, whih is why I am here. We may be able to win the battle on our own, but it would go much smooter, and the victory more certain if we had a healer to assist us."</span>
<span style='color:pink'> *looks deeply troubled* "i fear all the healers were called to the front. we had not thought wunderkin such of yourself to need them, after your glorious victory. this is... disturbing that the rougue grow so strong. i am the only one left, here to tend to the loremasters meditation. i can break with my duties for a time, but i have no skill in healing or combat... beyond this i have doubts in my ability to help you."</span>
<span style='color:purple'> "go with them, sa're. the slight distraction of your absence is a drop compared to the river if these ones fail. if needed We shall pull a healer too from the war to assist you, though it would be a dear cost for someone. We trust their judgement in this matter. Your clik has earned its respect from skill of arms" </span>
<span style='color:pink'>"immediately." *follows you, to the pit and back if need be* "i must say, it is quite an honor to be with you, dispite the dread circumstances. it was quite a feat defeating the highest-ranked click on your first day. do you know they have started to call your clik 'ender'?"</span>
<i>the draug continue thier assult, though they seem weaker</i>
ask him, or the hive. oh, and remeber. your still outside the crystal meditation chamber.
<span style='color:pink'>" I fear i will not be able to render much healing. I am versed in the herb-lore of pxassis, but we have none of those medicines here. perhaps there is something in the chronicals of the des'var knife-healers that can be of use..." *he rambles off into intelectual relms far beyond your ken*</span>
<i>the draug redouble, and you are both in an impasse. sa'ar stands near the mouth of the pass, looking rather muddled. he obviously doesnt know what to do. you feel his mind questioning.</i>
<span style='color:white'>"Well done on bring help." *Falls back fighting all the way.* "Take over from me!" *Runs to the healer.* "Heal me, as I am most in need of you services."</span>
not at all. it looks more like a mindflayer then anything else.
<span style='color:pink'>"i will do what is in my meager powers, but i do not know what i'm doing. i am no healer."</span>
<span style='color:white'>[you feel a mind slip into yours. a complete accounting of your wounds soon filters by. a rush of medical knowlege passes over you, most of it useless. splints, bandages, medicinal herbs all unavailable. your body makes minor adgustments to facilitate healing. his mind courses through yours, you sense overtones of respect and admeration.]</span>
<span style='color:white'>*Passes my mind through his in the mind link.* "On my home world my peoples have great respect of sharmans and healers." *Lies on the ground to rest my battle weary body.* "The same goes for me on this planet."</span>
Will the healing continue? And isn't it quicker to go to the hive?
yes on both counts. this creature is niether a healer nor a fighter, as it said. as for what it can do. hmmmm. your just going to have to stumble on that yourselves. or not.
<span style='color:pink'> "oh! yes! i rember the cronicals of your world. it was an amazing song-cycle. such a harsh and beautiful planet..."</span>
<span style='color:white'> [you are drawn into a song-cycle of your ancestors. you experiance it through the eyes of a long-ago shaman, at once reciting it and hearing it. you vaguely recognize a couple amoung those in the tribe before you. perhaps an ancestor or such. you are drawn deep into the image, washed in nonistalgia and the emotion of the cycle. you feel incredibly relaxed.]</span>
or you could just tell us. boring, i know, but much easier. How are we ever going to guess what a creature (that you invented in your head that none of us have ever heard of before) does?
i dunno. this is supposed to be a rpg. you could, i dunno, talk to a npc and get clues. you already know enough to have a start. i have a few interesting ideas lined up, but i'm not going to railroad you into every possible sub-plot (or even major plot device). there is nothing that says you have to fuigure this creature out, or utilize it to the best of its abilities. so i have no repoonsibility to spoon feed you everything I know, as DM. like i said, you already hav enough info to make a start. moreover, your ignoring some of the basic rules of a RPG. not only have you not asked the right questions, you havent asked the npc's any questions.
<span style='color:white'> [you are pulled into the world of the loremasters. you see a newly assimilated shaman of your race, most assuridly one of the first taken by the hive. a scene unfolds. the shaman is in a circle, exchanging stories with the loremasters. then you get a sense of sa'ars past. his years of training before the war. and how, as his mind was strengthened more and more of the history and the lore of the khraa became available to him. how, as a newly assimilated race, the history of your people was ready knowlage to those who follow that path.]</span>
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kewl.
It was a really strange sensation...
<i>you hear a... clattering sound. the draug form anouther wave, catching demi leaping in the fray. he is thrown backwards.</i>
boggle: respawning -2 rounds
epoch: 57% injured
parahelion: 48% injured forwardmost
demiguise: 46% injured
boggle: respawning -1 rounds
epoch: 57% injured
parahelion: 48% injured forwardmost
demiguise: 92% injured
*Leaps up and climbs the canyon walls leaping side to side to Demiguise.*
"We can't afford to lose you."
*Lands infront of Demiguise and starts attacking the wave of Draug.*
"Go heal we can't afford to lose you."
[Looks up at the top of the canyon for any lose boulders]
"I'll hold them off."
*Bites at the draug horde.*</span>
<span style='color:white'>[you jump to the front, holding the draug at the front at bay blow for blow] </span>
boggle: respawning now
epoch: 57% injured
parahelion: 48% injured forwardmost
demiguise: 92% injured
"Damn, it's good to be back. Hold on guys, I'm coming. I'm gonna try to find a gorge to back us up"
[looks around for a gorge to take to the canyon with him]</span>
<span style='color:pink'> *the loremaster seems disturbed as it speaks in your mind*
"what is the matter? has the battle gone poorly? do the rougue threaten our unity? please, we must avoid disterbing the loremasters. it would be most unfortunate. what is the matter?"</span>
<i>the battle at the pass continues, the rougue loosing ground</i>
boggle: 0% injured
epoch: 57% injured
parahelion: 48% injured forwardmost
demiguise: 72% injured
"i fear all the healers were called to the front. we had not thought wunderkin such of yourself to need them, after your glorious victory. this is... disturbing that the rougue grow so strong. i am the only one left, here to tend to the loremasters meditation. i can break with my duties for a time, but i have no skill in healing or combat... beyond this i have doubts in my ability to help you."</span>
<span style='color:purple'> "go with them, sa're. the slight distraction of your absence is a drop compared to the river if these ones fail. if needed We shall pull a healer too from the war to assist you, though it would be a dear cost for someone. We trust their judgement in this matter. Your clik has earned its respect from skill of arms" </span>
<span style='color:pink'>"immediately."
*follows you, to the pit and back if need be*
"i must say, it is quite an honor to be with you, dispite the dread circumstances. it was quite a feat defeating the highest-ranked click on your first day. do you know they have started to call your clik 'ender'?"</span>
<i>the draug continue thier assult, though they seem weaker</i>
boggle: 0% injured
epoch: 61% injured
parahelion: 48% injured forwardmost
demiguise: 52% injured
Am I right in thinking he can heal us? You did say "I have no skill in healing or combat... " Does that just mean he is not very good at it?
<span style='color:pink'>" I fear i will not be able to render much healing. I am versed in the herb-lore of pxassis, but we have none of those medicines here. perhaps there is something in the chronicals of the des'var knife-healers that can be of use..."
*he rambles off into intelectual relms far beyond your ken*</span>
boggle: 0% injured
epoch: 61% injured
parahelion: 48% injured forwardmost
demiguise: 32% injured
[leads the healer to the canyon]</span>
<i> the draug are being pushed back, they are almost halfway back to their side of the canyon</i>
boggle: 0% injured
epoch: 61% injured
parahelion: 48% injured
demiguise: 32% injured forwardmost
*runs towards the column of draug and gets in line*</span>
boggle: 0% injured
epoch: 61% injured
parahelion: 48% injured
demiguise: 32% injured forwardmost
*Falls back fighting all the way.*
"Take over from me!"
*Runs to the healer.*
"Heal me, as I am most in need of you services."</span>
Is this thing a gorge?
<span style='color:pink'>"i will do what is in my meager powers, but i do not know what i'm doing. i am no healer."</span>
<span style='color:white'>[you feel a mind slip into yours. a complete accounting of your wounds soon filters by. a rush of medical knowlege passes over you, most of it useless. splints, bandages, medicinal herbs all unavailable. your body makes minor adgustments to facilitate healing. his mind courses through yours, you sense overtones of respect and admeration.]</span>
boggle: 0% injured
epoch: 59% injured
parahelion: 48% injured
demiguise: 32% injured forwardmost
"On my home world my peoples have great respect of sharmans and healers."
*Lies on the ground to rest my battle weary body.*
"The same goes for me on this planet."</span>
Will the healing continue? And isn't it quicker to go to the hive?
<span style='color:pink'> "oh! yes! i rember the cronicals of your world. it was an amazing song-cycle. such a harsh and beautiful planet..."</span>
<span style='color:white'> [you are drawn into a song-cycle of your ancestors. you experiance it through the eyes of a long-ago shaman, at once reciting it and hearing it. you vaguely recognize a couple amoung those in the tribe before you. perhaps an ancestor or such. you are drawn deep into the image, washed in nonistalgia and the emotion of the cycle. you feel incredibly relaxed.]</span>
boggle: 0% injured
epoch: 56% injured
parahelion: 48% injured
demiguise: 32% injured forwardmost
boggle: 0% injured
epoch: 54% injured
parahelion: 48% injured
demiguise: 35% injured forwardmost
"How do you know all this?"</span>
<i>the attle continues</i>
boggle: 0% injured
epoch: 54% injured
parahelion: 48% injured
demiguise: 44% injured forwardmost