[Audio/Visual] Dude where's our map? [Date TBD?]

[naturaltwohands]

[Drizzt's human hands are holding up some paper, his eyes focused on a note in neat Imperial Calligraphy:

I have your charts. If you want a chance of ever leaving this benighted island, bring me the Bando rebels’ box and give me safe passage back to the Empire.

K

Drizzt's gaze continues to linger on it as he speaks out loud, voice even but laced with anger. Yes, he's got a young teenager's voice. And yes, it doesn't do anger very well. Also yes, shut up.]

As the note says, our sea charts have been stolen. [You know, the ones Drizzt found after they didn't need them anymore?] I found this ransom note on the back of our charter.

Does anyone possess clues that might lead to the identity of the traitor? What course of action should we take? And where exactly would we meet this individual? They've neglected to mention a location with which to meet.

Comments

[naturaltwohands]

You're single-handedly correcting the matter it, I assure you. It is a good thing that this is not my usual body, or my father would work me hard once we return to Liminal Space.

[thornsofmalkav]

Excellent. I'll go to liminal space to make it--unless someone else who's already there wants to do the job?

[loyalrebel]

I suggest you begin learning then. Things are rarely as black and white as they seem, and everyone has a reason for doing something. Sometimes someone does something good for a bad or selfish reason and sometimes they do something you may see as bad for a very good one.

[whydoyoushine]

I would, but I can't.

[Takes too much imagination to use Liminal Manipulation--he'd never be able to swing it.]

[naturaltwohands]

[Drizzt does give this serious consideration.]

I suppose this is one of the reasons why my father insists I am still a child. It is... hard for me to think in a manner suspicious of everyone and everything. It's easy back home to know my friends and enemies.

[thornsofmalkav]

'Sokay. I can handle it. If someone who's seen a dragon scroll wants to show me, I can handle that too?

[loyalrebel]

Once you have made a scroll, I will be able to place the runes on it if that is still a plan.

[thornsofmalkav]

I think it's a good plan and one we should do.

[claudiometer]

I can do a scroll no problem.

[loyalrebel]

It is not so easy here, and remembering that will keep you and others safer.

Doubt things, question motives, if something feels like there is more to it then there probably is.

[thornsofmalkav]

Okay. You want to go to liminal space together so we can come back as soon as we're done?

[claudiometer]

Sounds like a plan.

I'll probably ask Helena if she wants in on the bait-and-switch. She might have her own plan, but it can't hurt.

[loyalrebel]

If she wants to see the spellwork I can perform it under the effects of the doki-itus as a disguise.

[But not as a bird.]

[naturaltwohands]

It is not in my nature, but I... will try, to the best of my ability, to be a bit more cautious about putting trust in others.

This warning does not include other Travelers, does it?

[He's trying, only to immediately fail. Sigh, child.]

[theflyingone]

Has anyone volunteered to address the root of our problem? The culprit? Should the thief survive the exploding rune, we need to be ready.

[naturaltwohands]

A back-up plan of assassination, you mean.

[loyalrebel]

Of course it does.

We all have our own beliefs and motives for what we do.

[thornsofmalkav]

[Bird mage is a bit too much.] Sure. Any choice of alias for ladyform?

YOU SAW NOTHING.

[loyalrebel]

...Hamra works as well as any.

[It's literally the feminine form of 'red' in fucking arabic Malik, you're not even being clever.]

Re: YOU SAW NOTHING.

[thornsofmalkav]

Hamra it is.

[Now she's imagining a pig version of Mumm-Ra. You're welcome.]

[theflyingone]

I can meet with you and make a drawing of this person.

[ "Police sketch" is a phrase a little ahead of his time. ]

[theflyingone]

I am not sure if this 'K' is a highly-ranked figure. Those are the victims of assassination. As far as I know, right now, we are just... responding to being threatened.

I said nothing of killing this person, though that would be what I deem wisest. We could try taking this person alive, but that is far more dangerous.

[loyalrebel]

Hopefully there will not be many questions about where I have been the past few weeks.

[naturaltwohands]

[The truth, according to the adults around him, brings only disappointment.]

Of course....

[naturaltwohands]

Then we are arguing semantics at this point.

My father would agree with the fact that killing the person would be the safest course, which only deepens my sadness that another way is hardly being considered. I do not like it.