Juspera's Good Ole GS4 Page / Humor

The sandcastle

"Use consummate v's, consummate."

No idea.

[River's Rest, Narrow Point]
Surrounded by water, this narrow strip of beach offers a clear view of Maelstrom Bay and a larger body of water to the south.  Small shells litter the beach and an occasional crab scuttles quickly to the safety of the water, leaving a tell-tale track in the soft sands which is soon erased by the gentle breezes.  To the east, the mainland seems far away from this quiet and peaceful corner of the island.  You also see a River's Rest Militia banner.
Obvious paths: out
Rastavan, Rekarth, Mekthros and Divid followed.

The words "River's Rest Militia" have been carefully embroidered above the image of a fortressed garrison.  The silvery green banner, now faded and showing signs of wear, is marred by dark reddish splotches staining the once elegant material.  Around the edges are stitched the names of old battles.

Divid says, "It isn't safe here."

You put a small razor-sharp hatchet in your cloak.

You sling a burnished imflass buckler over your shoulder.

(Rastavan buries the point of his sonic rapier in the sand.  Of course, once he takes his hand off of it, it dissipates.)

You ask, "It isn't?"

A krolvin mercenary ambles in.

You say, "Surely this banner proves--"

Mekthros gestures.
A sense of peace and calm settles over the area.

You say, "Ooh."
You say, "Now."

You remove an iron bucket from in your cloak.

(Juspera begins making a hole with her boot, then goes to the water and puts some in the bucket, then pours it in the hole.)

Rastavan says, "At least you remembered the bucket."

Divid forages briefly and manages to find a yabathilium fruit!

(Rastavan starts digging a moat around where the castle will be built.)

(Juspera keeps pouring water in the hole until it stops being absorbed.)

Mekthros forages around briefly but doesn't seem to find anything useful.
Mekthros forages around briefly but doesn't seem to find anything useful.
Mekthros forages around briefly but doesn't seem to find anything useful.
Mekthros forages around briefly but doesn't seem to find anything useful.
Divid forages briefly and manages to find a yabathilium fruit!
Mekthros forages around briefly but doesn't seem to find anything useful.

(Juspera begins pushing a pile of sand toward Rastavan.)

You ask, "Don't you want to make a sandcastle, Rekarth?"

(Rastavan takes a handful of sand and plops it down.  He then starts shaping what appears to be a tower.)

Rekarth raises an eyebrow.

(Juspera pushes a lot of sand into a pile a foot high.)

(Rekarth stares thoughtfully at the mound of sand.)

Divid forages around briefly but doesn't seem to find anything useful.
Mekthros forages around briefly but doesn't seem to find anything useful.
Divid forages around briefly but doesn't seem to find anything useful.
Mekthros forages around briefly but doesn't seem to find anything useful.

You say, "They're looking for pretty rocks."

Rastavan says, "Ahhhhhhh"

Divid says, "Maybe shells."

(Rastavan picks up a flat piece of driftwood and places it across the moat.)

Rastavan says, "Drawbridge."

(Juspera sprinkles some of the water onto some sand she is shaping into another tower a couple feet from Rastavan's.)

(Rastavan grabs another couple handfulls of sand and starts building a structure inbetween the two towers.)

(Juspera cups her hand around the sand until a lumpy cylinder has formed.)

Divid forages briefly and manages to find a yabathilium fruit!

You say, "Those would look nice on the towers."

You say, "Upside-down."

Rastavan says, "ooooh"

You say, "Like little domes."

Rastavan nods to you.

Rastavan forages around briefly but doesn't seem to find anything useful.

(Rastavan begins to sprinkle some water on the building he's working on and obviously thinks Juspera needs to be watered as well, for he splashes some at her.)

How can they be so mean to you?!

Rastavan says, "Oh, I'm sorry."

You say, "We'll get no work done that way."

(Rekarth picks up a largish bit of shell, contemplating it for a few moments.)

Rastavan says, "That was a mistake, really."

(Juspera dribbles some more water onto her forming tower to hold it together better.)

(Rastavan begins building a second level to the castle.)

d100(Open): 50
You forage around but find nothing of interest.
Roundtime: 7 sec.

(Juspera takes a stick and shaves off the top of her tower, leaving it flat, then forms some crennelations.)

You remove some tattered cloth from in your cloak.

Rastavan asks, "ooh, are those crennelations?"

You say, "Yes."

(Juspera puts the tattered cloth on the stick, then sticks the stick in the top of her tower.)

You say, "I should have put a design on it."

You say, "I don't have anything to draw with."

Mekthros offers you a long raven feather quill.  Enter ACCEPT to accept the offer or DECLINE to decline it.  The offer will expire in 30 seconds.

(Juspera glances at the militia banner, then tries to draw the same garrison on the tattered cloth, holding her palm behind it.)

(Rekarth murmurs a few arcane phrases, then rubs the bit of shell between his fingers, slowly disintegrating it to nothingness.)

Mekthros accepts Divid's yabathilium fruit.

Mekthros says, "I only need one."

You say, "Put one on top of Rastavan's tower."

You ask, "Oh, you want them for your own castles?"

Mekthros says, "I want them for when a corsair takes my arm off."

(Rastavan finishes the second level, and seems to be done working on the sandcastle.)

Mekthros nods to you.

You blink.

(Divid begins drawing in the sand.)

You say, "Well, get to work."

(Juspera pinches her hands together to make a wall connecting her tower to Rastavan's work.)

(Rastavan wanders over to the water and washes the sand off his hands.)

(Juspera dribbles water on the forming wall, building it up higher.)

Rastavan says, "Alright, time for this bard to get some sleep."

Rastavan says, "Goodnight everyone."

(Rekarth stares off over the bay, apparently ignoring the nearby weed-rummaging and granular engineering.)

(Rekarth nods absently to Rastavan.)

Rastavan just left.

(Juspera presses the side of her finger into the top of the wall, making more crennelations.)

Mekthros says, "Use consummate v's, consummate."

(Mekthros points emphatically at the castle before turning away in ignorance.)

You see Mekthros foraging around, but he doesn't seem to find anything useful.

You ask, "Consummate Vs?"

Mekthros exclaims, "Consummate!"

You say, "Vvvvvvvv."

Rekarth closes his eyes for a moment.

You ask, "Do you hear the peeping tree snakes?"

Divid asks, "Peeping tree snakes?"

Rekarth asks, "Peeping tree snakes?"

Mekthros says, "You're hearing things."

You nod.

You say, "I am hearing peeping tree snakes."

Divid says, "I didn't think peeping tree snakes made noise."

Mekthros says, "Nor did I."

You say, "They peep."

Rekarth says, "Ah.  Good for you, then."

(Juspera makes a few quiet peeping noises.)

Divid asks, "So, uh... they make a 'peeping' sound?"

You nod.

(Juspera cups a hand to her ear.)

(Divid draws a line in the sand with his foot.)

(Rekarth tosses a small stone into the water.)

(Juspera gets more water with the bucket and pours it in the moat.)

(Juspera pokes some divots for windows into the side of her tower.)

(Juspera gets a forklike stick and places it on top of one of Rastavan's towers.)

Mekthros says, "You shouldn't play with Rastavan's tower."

You say, "He left."

Mekthros says, "Excuses."

You say, "I put a person in it."

Mekthros says, "Did you."

Mekthros asks, "Who?"

Rekarth says, "Someone will likely step on it before he returns, anyway."

You say, "Charl will take it back to the sea."

You say, "It's me in a tower."

Mekthros says, "Ah."

(Mekthros simulates the tower burning with a small elemental flare.)

You furrow up your face and wince.

Mekthros says, "Aa.  Aa.  Let me out."

Mekthros says, "We're dying."

You exclaim, "Oh no!"

Mekthros says, "The smoke... the smoke."

(Juspera tosses some water on the tower.)

Rekarth smiles slightly.

You say, "Just like when Draezir came."

Mekthros says, "You were too late.  Innocent lives were lost by your failure to extinguish the flames in time."

You say, "Yes."

Mekthros says, "Yes, when you all burned to death in that room."

Mekthros sighs pleasantly.

You say, "Now we must begin repairs."

(Juspera spackles some new sand onto the tower sides.)

(Juspera gathers a bunch of sticks and jabs them into the sand at odd angles around the moat.)

(Juspera places a thick stick on the top of another tower, then a curved stick at its end, making a kind of T.)

You say, "Now we have ballista power."

(Juspera takes some pebbles and sets them up a foot before the castle, lining them in ranks.)

(Mekthros looks at the sand castle with a ponderous expression.)

(Rekarth glances at the irregularly-shaped mound of sand.)

(Juspera places some pebbles on the castle wall.)

You say, "The Illistim mages have arrived."

You say, "Now you should fireball the army outside the gates."

Mekthros gets a match from a wooden matchbox.

Rekarth removes a froth-filled green glass jar from in his veniom mesh sack.

Mekthros lights a match by flicking it against his thumb.

(Rekarth fishes a few eyes out of his jar.)

(Mekthros drops a match on the small collection of rocks.  It burns quietly on the sand.)

You applaud.

You say, "Good shot."

You say, "I should do that."

You get a match from your wooden matchbox.

You light the match by flicking it against your thumb.

(Juspera hurls the match at the collection of pebbles in ranks.)

(Rekarth picks up a jellyfish with a stick, then attaches the eyes to it.)

You blink.

(Rekarth menaces the sandcastle with his...  Whatever it is.)

You say, "It's the miscere'golab."

Mekthros removes a pewter Koar miniature from in his black elven robes.

You blink.

Rekarth asks, "Is it?"

(Mekthros makes his pewter Koar miniature fight Rekarth's random inanimate piece of goo.  The Koar miniature falls over, clearly defeated.)

You say, "Yes."

You say, "Hey."

You say, "Now I have to save the day."

You light the match by flicking it against your thumb.

(Juspera hurls her match right at Rekarth from the position of the stick on the tower.)

Rekarth blinks.

(Juspera turns the ballista around.)

(Rekarth brushes the smoking bit of stick from his pants.)

Mekthros says, "Catapult."

(Juspera picks up a twig and flings it at the jellyfish, where it sticks.)

You ask, "Are we beating the jellyfish?"

(Rekarth dangles the impaled jellyfish over the sandcastle.)

You say, "Hm."

(Juspera tilts the forked stick sideways, trying to stab into the jellyfish.)

(Rekarth pauses a moment, peering at the thing on the end of the stick.)

(Mekthros appears to be necromantically animating the dead figure of Koar.  It attempts to sabotage the catapult.  Many soldiers die in a futile defense.)

Rekarth says, "Hrmm.  I wonder where that other eye went."

You exclaim, "Hey!"

You say, "I knocked the eye out."

You say, "You have to take the eyes out to kill it."

Rekarth says, "Ah.  Very well."

You remove a snobbish coppery brown canvas scout toy from in your cloak.

(Juspera walks the giant scout toy into the castle, where it's nearly as tall as the towers.)

You say, "Now, Mnar is here."

Rekarth says, "And look, that sand-mite is getting away with the...  Little...  Whatever that is."

You say, "It's war."

(Juspera makes the scout toy pound at the jellyfish.)

Mekthros asks, "Will its ego fit on the battlefield?"
Mekthros ponders.

(Rekarth flops the jellyfish onto the scout toy.)

You exclaim, "Aaaaaa!"

Rekarth says, "Now that doesn't look terribly dignified."

(Juspera lets the toy fall, suffocating under the jellyfish.)

You say, "Mnar dies."

(Rekarth pokes at the jellyfish-enshrouded scout toy with his stick.)

(Mekthros appears to be necromantically animating Mnar.  The process fails, however, because Mnar is too badly mangled.)

You remove an old crone doll from in your cotton haversack.

You say, "Hey."

You say, "It's... Harith."

(Juspera walks Harith toward the castle, but has her trip and do a head-plant in the sand.)

The old crone doll is dressed in what appears to be the rags cast off by an unsuccessful beggar.  Wisps of nearly colorless hair lie matted on her pale, knobby skull.  Her few remaining teeth are stained an unnatural brown.  Her jaw is distended by a massive wad of chewing tobacco.

>drop harith
I could not find what you were referring to.

>drop doll
You drop an old crone doll.

(Rekarth stares thoughtfully at Juspera for a moment, then gives the scout toy another good poke with his stick.)

Mekthros removes a brushed steel message worm from in his black elven robes.

(Juspera makes the scout toy twitch.)

You exclaim, "Save me Juspera!"

You say, "Ooh."

(Mekthros moves his worm to flank Harith, pulling her head from the sand.)

You ask, "Is that a roa'ter?"

Mekthros says, "Roa'ter."

Mekthros nods.

You say, "There should be roa'ters on the battlefield."

You remove a slender copper message worm from in your blue velvet skirt.

You drop a slender copper message worm.

Mekthros drops a brushed steel message worm.

[River's Rest, Narrow Point]
Surrounded by water, this narrow strip of beach offers a clear view of Maelstrom Bay and a larger body of water to the south.  Small shells litter the beach and an occasional crab scuttles quickly to the safety of the water, leaving a tell-tale track in the soft sands which is soon erased by the gentle breezes.  To the east, the mainland seems far away from this quiet and peaceful corner of the island.  You also see a brushed steel message worm, a slender copper message worm, an old crone doll and a River's Rest Militia banner.
Also here: Mekthros who is sitting, Lord Rekarth who is sitting
Obvious paths: out

(Juspera has the forked stick jump down onto the back of the jellyfish.)

(Juspera stabs messily at the jellyfish with the forked stick.)

(Rekarth passes his hand over the scout toy.  The jellyfish begins to writhe, then its dead form crawls from the toy, gallumphing a few feet away before erupting in an explosion of whatever it is that composes those things.)

You shudder.

Rekarth smiles slightly.

You ask, "Did we kill it?"

Rekarth says, "Yes.  Mnar must have struck off that last eye as it felled him."

(Mekthros has one of the message worms brutally dismember a... rock-guard-thing... near the entrance to the castle.)

You say, "Yes."

(Rekarth pokes the scout toy with his stick again.)

(Juspera makes the toy flop over.)

You remove a small snake from in your cotton haversack.

(Juspera pulls the snake over to the crone doll, leaving a trail in the sand.)

You say, "Now, while they relish their victory, we will reanimate you, yesssss..."

(Juspera sprinkles some water on the crone doll and makes it rise up.)

Divid blinks.

You say, "Now, destroy them... I am going to get a ham sssssandwich..."

Divid asks in Elven, "Where'd all those come from?"

(Juspera drags the snake away.)

You put a small snake in your cotton haversack.

You say, "They're fighting."

You say, "See the roa'ters."

Divid exclaims, "Oh!"

(Rekarth picks up one of the fallen eyes, examining it for a moment.  He tosses the sandy orb at the castle.)

You exclaim, "The castle is under attack!"

Mekthros removes some beryl and ruby dice from in his black elven robes.

(Juspera has the crone doll stomp toward the sandcastle, huge in comparison to the towers.)

(Mekthros has one of the worms burrow under the sand and explode below the soldiers.  Dice-debris... stuff... flies everywhere, killing many and maiming others.)

Mekthros shakes some dice and rolls them on the ground.
The dice bounce a few times and come to rest on 4 and 6.

You deeply exclaim, "Harith smash!"

(Juspera walks the crone doll right through a castle wall.)

Divid says, "I'm amused."

You exclaim, "Oh no! She has the strength of a banshee who has the strength of two banshees!"

Rekarth clears his throat.

Mekthros ponders.

Mekthros says, "Wait.."

Mekthros asks, "Wouldn't that just be two banshees?"

Rekarth blinks at Mekthros.

(Juspera just turns the ballista around to face Harith.)

(Juspera drops a stick on Harith.)

Rekarth removes a glimmering opalescent scarab from in his veniom mesh sack.

(Rekarth walks the scarab over to the crone doll, then drags away the stick.)

You say, "It's..."

Rekarth gazes thoughtfully at his opalescent scarab.

You sheepishly ask, "What is it?"

Rekarth asks, "A giant bug...  Of...  Err...  Doom?"

You nod.

(Juspera makes the crone doll's arm smash down more of the sand wall.)

You exclaim, "Harith must be stopped!"

You say, "We need Ulstram."

(Rekarth menaces the sandcastle with his 'giant bug of DOOM!')

(Juspera takes another stick and wraps it in some white cloth.)

You say, "Hey."

(Juspera sticks the stick into the tallest tower.)

(Mekthros makes carnage with the two message worms, decimating the guard forces and splattering rock-gore everywhere.)

You say, "Begone, Harith."

You gesture at an old crone doll.
The doll vibrates slightly but nothing else happens.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

You say, "Your psionical usurping machinations are not wanted here."

You say, "And leave Juspera alone."

(Rekarth sets the scarab rather precariously on the nearest tower, then watches it tumble to the ground.)

Rekarth ponders.

You ask, "Is the bug of doom dead?"

Rekarth says, "Perhaps.  It is difficult to tell with those sorts of things."

(Mekthros summons a demon.  Really.)

Mekthros drops a bloodwood demoness statue.

You say, "Hey."

(Juspera brings her forked stick up to stand beside Ulstram.)

You say, "Let's vanquish them."

You gesture at a bloodwood demoness statue.
The statue vibrates slightly but nothing else happens.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

(Juspera picks up a handful of golden sand and rains it down from Ulstram's position.)

(Mekthros advances his demoness towards Ulstram while token killing several small fry soldiers on the way.)

You say, "Oh, no."

(Juspera rains another handful of sand on it.)

(Mekthros has his demoness stagger and fall to the ground.  It launches a large rock towards Ulstram's forked stick as it dies.)

You say, "Aaaaaaaa...."

(Juspera makes the Ulstram stick topple backwards off the tower and plant headfirst into the sand.)

You exclaim, "Oh no!"

You exclaim, "I lost Mnar and Ulstram on the same day!"

You say, "I'm enraged."

Mekthros says, "Ah well.  You'll get over it."

(Juspera makes the forked stick jump from the tower onto the crone doll.)

(Juspera stabs at the crone doll.)
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Rekarth chuckles.

You weakly exclaim, "You may have killed me Juspera, but as a parting gift, I will break your mind!"

You exclaim, "No!"

(Juspera drops the crone doll and sends the forked stick on a rampage, tearing up the sandcastle.)

Rekarth smiles slightly.

Rekarth stifles a yawn.

You say, "Then Charl sees the disaster and is unhappy, and wreaks his wrath upon everyone."

You stand back up.

You remove an iron bucket from in your cloak.

(Juspera fills the bucket in the ocean and drowns the sandcastle in one wet splash.)

Mekthros says, "Charl is a bastard like that."

Rekarth says, "Yes.  He did that to me, once."

(Juspera watches things float around until the water is absorbed.)

You pick up a slender copper message worm.

(Juspera wipes the worm on her skirt.)

(Rekarth glances at the remains of the jellyfish, then shakes his head.)

(Juspera smashes the sand further with her boot.)

(Juspera keeps stomping, her boots making sucking sounds against the wet sand.)

Mekthros looks thoughtfully at you.

(Juspera begins stomping harder, smashing her feet against the sand and sending little droplets of moisture flying.)

You grunt.

You suddenly stumble for no apparent reason.

You say, "Now, let's go to bed."

Mekthros says, "Good idea."

Rekarth says, "Not a bad idea."

You say, "In Prata's hammock."

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