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Post by Dungeon Master on Sept 23, 2018 19:38:32 GMT -8
Rabbit leans over, picks up Luke's drink and takes a sip of it, watching him intently as she puts it down. ”Sorry, I needed something for my voice." She gives off an innocent smile as she turns back to facing both of them."To catch the Aju the White Tiger, Abigail dug a deep hole in the ground, near his hunting area. When the tiger fell in the hole Abigail offered to help him out with her webs. Once the tiger was out of the hole he was bound in Abigail’s webs and was carried away.
To catch Austeja, Abigail filled a pumpkin with water and poured some over a a tree branch she held over her head and some over Austeja’s nest, calling out that it was raining. Austeja came out afraid her nest was flooding and the rain might wash away herself and her children. Abigail suggested the bees get into the empty pumpkin she was carrying, and when they obliged, she quickly sealed the opening.
To catch the fairy she made a doll and covered it with her webbing. She placed the doll under the Tree of Life where the fairies play and put some candy in a bowl in front of it. When the fairy came and ate the candy she thanked the doll which of course did not reply. Annoyed at its bad manners she struck it, first with one hand then the other. The hands stuck in Abigail’s webbing and Abigail captured her.
Abigail handed his captives over to Labelas. The latter said, “Abigail, from today and going on forever, I present my stories to you! No more shall we call the stories that belong to the drow, the stories of Labelas Enoreth, but we shall call them the spider stories!”
After receiving the stories she returned to our homeland and presented to the drow the ability for stories, starting our slow return to our rightful places.”Rabbit stops, and gives both of them a big smile. RABBIT
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Post by Keyleth on Sept 23, 2018 20:58:16 GMT -8
Key elbows Rabbit playfully. “That was a good story. You should write them down. If you do I could take a copy back to the monastery. We have a library there and it would be a great addition.”
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Post by wolsey on Sept 25, 2018 5:00:49 GMT -8
"Nicely done, Rabbit. Nicely done," Luke said. "I often think it's the folk stories that really tell a people's character. Official doctrine is often political."
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Post by Dungeon Master on Sept 25, 2018 5:55:36 GMT -8
Rabbit beams at her two friends. ”Just to be clear, this is not official drow doctrine. It was taught to me by Missy." She gives off an innocent smile as she turns back to facing both of them."He traveled around the world a lot through the underground rivers. He liked to make friends with locals on the surface as well as in the underdark. That is why he never became a higher rank, my mother hated that he would side with non-drow on small issues. He met a lot of native people in those lands and I think he wanted to distract me from what my mother and the others were teaching me.”She shrugs. "Don't get me wrong. When he was told to put someone down he did. That would be an act of a traitor to not do as his queen commanded. However, he seemed to always not be able to catch those that he knew personally.” RABBIT
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Post by wolsey on Sept 25, 2018 6:19:43 GMT -8
Luke says gently, "Can I ask you if Missy was your father? I saw some things during the ritual, and it seemed that way to me, but I don't know." Luke lapses into silence waiting.
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Post by Keyleth on Sept 25, 2018 6:51:09 GMT -8
Key smiles. “That doesn’t matter, it’s a story from your people. Sanctioned or not it would be a welcome addition to the library.”
She pauses, listening to Luke. Then turns to face Rabbit, intrested in her answer.
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Post by Dungeon Master on Sept 25, 2018 9:00:19 GMT -8
A wistful look crosses Rabbit's face. ”I wish he was. Who knows maybe he is. He was my mother's consort around my birth. Then again mom had 9 consorts at that time, and an unlimited number of lovers. I had always hoped there would be a small chance of that. Unfortunately my understanding is that my mother only lets outlanders have children with her.”She looks at Luke and smiles at him and continues, realizing she needed to clarify. "An outlander is usually a summoned creature. My mother likes to summon things from Lolth's court. She says that reinforces her favor. The odds are its an outlander, but Missy always told me he would be my stepfather. He left my mother shortly after my birth. No one knows what the argument was over. The weird thing is she didn't just kill him. Normally once she is done with a boy, she wraps up all loose ends.” Rabbit chuckles at a private joke "I guess that does takes care of drama. But no one ever heard why she kept him around, and especially why she let him near me. She always claimed she didn't want to babysit me and that was all he was good for. Even so, it seemed off." RABBIT
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Post by wolsey on Sept 25, 2018 17:50:26 GMT -8
Luke squints his eyes, and says, "Or, he was your father, and he is more practiced in court politics than you knew. Maybe he didn't want to be a part of your mothers circle, and not the other way around. You can't tell me Drows men haven't figured out how to deal with the matriarchy in their own way all these years." He smiles.
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Post by Keyleth on Sept 25, 2018 18:14:31 GMT -8
Key leans over and rests her head on Rabbits shoulder. “Either way, he was your father in all the ways that mattered. Im sure it doesn’t in any way put your mind at ease on the matter. It’s clear to see where you got your sence of justice and empathy from.”
She sits up again and smiles at her friend.
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Post by Dungeon Master on Sept 25, 2018 18:36:09 GMT -8
Rabbit seems to be thinking as Luke talks to her. A surprised look as if a thought came to her. ”Usstan tlun biu mal'ai... I am an idiot, all of us are.”She looks up at Luke. "Missy used to talk about the 'pigeons talking' and the drama that would ensue. He was talking about the boys in the court. Don't get me wrong, we know they have their own politics, sometimes if they made a misstep in front of one of us it could be fatal, but it is there.” Rabbit nods to herself, a small bit of excitement in her eyes. "He had to have something over my mother. There is no way she would let things like what he did pass from others. I just assumed maybe she still cared about him, but she never slept with him after my birth that I know of. Maybe he was my father..."A look of sadness crosses her eyes as she turns to Keyleth. She quickly crushes those feelings and smiles, almost as if the sadness was never there.
"Do you have any cool limericks you were taught when escorting merchants?" RABBIT
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Post by wolsey on Sept 26, 2018 6:10:10 GMT -8
Luke asks, "Did Missy die above ground?" He disregards the limerick request. "I saw so many jumbled flashes in that ritual. I hope I'm not prying too much."
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Post by Keyleth on Sept 26, 2018 6:22:45 GMT -8
Key raises an eyebrow at Rabbit. She glances over her shoulder at Luke, then her gaze settles back on Rabbit.
“I thought that felt like a deflection. Not quite as good as the last one, which by the way you still owe me the answer to. So now it looks as though you need to answer two questions. And in case you need a reminder, you said something to me in drow for which I asked you to translate.”
She crosses her arms over her chest a soft reassuring and playful smile on her lips.
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Post by Dungeon Master on Sept 26, 2018 6:35:35 GMT -8
Rabbit stops for a moment when Luke asks the question. A strange similarity between her and her namesake animal. She turns to Key first, a wicked smile as she seems to be gathering time to answer Luke. ”I thought I was pretty clear sister, you will know what I said after you have figured out how to speak my language. I will even tell it to you again then. However, we need some sort of encouragement for you to learn the proper form of elvish... xuat udos - that means don't we?”She gets a confident smile that only flickers slightly when she turns back to Luke. "Missy died above ground. His entourage was attacked by elves far out of the Underdark. By the time reinforcements got to him they only found parts of bodies. The elves had taken trophies and other creatures had gotten there first and fed. There was nothing left to identify anyone.” Rabbit touches her chest subconsciously, above the gem. "The ruby is something I found when I was a child. I had it for years, I originally was going to give it to my mother, but Missy had me keep it. He made me keep it with me most of my childhood. When I got older he was being transferred to another outpost and I gave it to him, up until that point he was the only person that didn't hurt me, he loved me."She takes a deep breath.
"They found the ruby in the pocket of one of the remains. He wouldn't have allowed anyone else to touch it or hold it, so it had to be him. His sword belt and insignia were still on the body. It was sent back to my mother and she gave it to me. She said so I could remember, but she did it to make me upset. Eventually when I got back from a particularly lavish assault on an elven settlement I found myself missing him a lot. So in a drugged fueled stupor I had one of my handmaiden sisters put it under my flesh, so I could be as close to him as I could."
She just looks at Luke, a little lost. RABBIT
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Post by wolsey on Sept 26, 2018 19:00:11 GMT -8
Luke smiles kindly, and says, "I'm sorry for being intrusive. If you want, I can read you another story?" He smiles at Key as he asks.
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Post by Keyleth on Sept 26, 2018 19:09:08 GMT -8
Key rolls her eyes playfully at Rabbit. “If you would start lessons, Im more than anxious to learn.” She huffs out a breath in thought. “The whole scenario with your step father seems a bit to convient. Have you thought that it might have been staged?”
She shakes her head as if to reset her thought processes. She looks to Luke. “Another story would be wonderful.”
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