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The Never Ending Quest - Episode 30652

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A rather regal (and courtly) long nosed tengu (high blood indeed folks!) looks just as disoriented as the rest of us as he stumbles….into Checkers? I notice this only in the side (along with the tengu’s rather white hair), concentrating on more pressing details!

Though there is something about him that raises an alarm warning, I’m concerned more with immediate things. Definitely.

I’d been in the middle of a healing trance, trying to fix my next patient (after having already patched up Tengu Astra) when I suddenly found myself rather rudely brought here!

…..

Oh great.

By the FORGE! We are IN for it now! You see, by the look of things I’d hazard a guess that whoever just whisked us here just dropped us right in the middle of a Glider patrol! Yes, right into the middle of a GLIDER patrol! Meaning that we’re somewhere within Checker’s homeland, and given the feeling I’ve gotten from her we’re NOT exactly welcome.

The patrol is snapping out of their shock of having us appear out of nowhere and are making rather hostile gestures when Annafrid (who has the same look I have right now, not waniting a battle) tosses me the Crystallic…

Hostile or not (who knows what they’d been doing before we’d come and interrupted things between them and Checkers) they make rather nice (if startled looking) living statues.

No, I didn’t do anything harmful or permanent on them, just froze them in place so that no harm can be done by them (and them by us by necessity). Right now they aren’t even aware of their surroundings, so that works out for us. Don’t have to even guard what we say around them, you see.

As for the others….

Checkers had been still trying to recover from getting “reeled in” (Annafrid’s words) to her homeland, and thus the curious patrol had come upon her. Checker’s Hoard had been teleported (for some undetermined reason I’ll try to pry out of one of the dragon mages here soon) to a cavern that will turn out to be the future Lair for Checkers. While I gather that finding a large, scaly unknown creature (who speaks) next to stolen (by Belboz) articles of their heritage wouldn’t have necessarily made the patrol less wary of her, Checkers admits (we are told later) to not having to try to tap dance out of that one!

Said that right after her new kin from the East (i.e. the Oriental Dragons) arrive via the same means that brought us all there.

Boy, bet she's really burning to learn from them!

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As for our white-haired tengu, it is tengu Astra (somehow healed along with the others by the one who teleported us) and Tengu Fred who’ve an idea who he is!

Ever heard of a tengu king named Sojobo from Japanese medival myth? Well, WE have the luck of meeting him in the flesh! Or rather this world’s analog version of him, anyway. Seems that he’d been away from his throne, teaching swordsmanship to one Minamoto Yoshitsue (a great warrior of lore who’s destiny is to later help his brother Yoritomo defeat the Taira Clan and set up the Kamakura Shogunate) when a Demon had descended (and neutralized) the guards he’d had around the one artifact tasked to him for safe keeping by the gods themselves….

Yes, you guessed it! Flagg robbed this tengu king of the Crystallic! That and due to orders from his handlers (those from the Office of Good) he couldn’t intervene until our business with it (i.e. getting it away from Belboz and finishing up with a bit of destiny with Checkers) was completed. He'd made the mistake of trying to teleport both us AND Checkers (who'd all been involved with this business) in order to ascertain what OUR business had been in this affair!

We find this out from tengu Fred and Astra AFTER the fact, you must know. See, no sooner than I'd spell frozen the patrol, the tengu king does something with all of us! He takes back the Crystallic and....after causing the rude (in his eyes) Glider patrol to end up naked and dazed (remembering nothing of their encounter with us) back in the Glider capitol city)....

Next thing I know we're standing (somewhat dazed) in the streets of Nantucket, getting congratulated by Rule 1 on a job well done!

"But have another mission for you," he finishes up, apologetic sounding.

We expected that, what with all those new Elfin Champions coming online early after Artizza's "friends" kidnapped them....

Long story. Will tell you about it later....

I'm off to help my fellow elves with some of their Validation Quests, now that I' and my love are done with mine. Had already lined up a few, so was already committed, you see.

As for the others, they're off on yet another Quest. Not with the new elfin Champions they'd been expecting, no.

  1. Been a change in plans here. Jarlath's group will be escorting the New Champions here that are named.....Artizza 2 Thessamer and Fertal 2 D'Honaire!
  2. Far away, on Celestial Mountain ...

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