Always Ascending

[Alice]

@Dichotomy

Alma looks you in the eyes and uses the moments of you putting your hands in hers to lean forward and kiss you deeply probing your mouth with hers.


@Everybody else

Meeting up in the brewery you feel more energized than before. Perhaps this place is absurdly dangerous, and for some strange reason insanely sexual, but still you feels your powers growing. Your explorations of the town have shown that at least for now there are no more goblins. A knocking occurs at a door from clearly alerting you. It's the man who had his barbarian powers sucked out of him yesterday.. "Are you going to gnoll fortress?"

[Nihtgenga]

Arriving back at the brewery, Retiaria was surprised- and impressed- to see Oric in the same form she'd left her in. "Hey. Um... Good to see you're still you. I'm, uh, I'm proud of you, sweetie."

At the knocking on the door, she turned to see the guy from yesterday. Poor bastard. "Pretty sure that's the plan, yeah. Why?"

[Ryuforce]

Duran made it back with a sigh of content. The holy water blessed by Aircame will be quite useful in future situations and conflict. However what drew her off as she met the other members of the group back in the brewery was the return of that man captured by the Gnoll earlier today. "You... you got away?" Duran asked, moving to look over the guy quickly. Trying to look for signs of wounds or need of healing. "What happen? How did you escape? Do you need healing? How are you still male? What about your mind, is it feeling oddly submissive as that's a sign of needing to be healed? What happen to your friends?" The dragonborn asked the guy several questions before finally remembering to answer his.

"And yes, we are going to stop that Gnoll."

[Alice]

The man shakes his head, "I didn't need to escape.. I was tossed aside like so much trash." He shakes his head, "I'm glad your going after them.. kick their teeth in for me... and.. please.. rescue my friends.. If there is anything left of them to rescue."

[Nihtgenga]

"Yeah... not gonna lie, I'm not sure there will be, pal. But... we'll try." Retiaria gave the man what she hoped was a reassuring smile. "Hey, why don't you come with? You must want a chance for round two, right?"

[Ordos]

"Hmm..." Naethra murmured.  "This promises to be an... arduous endeavor.  We could use all the help we could get.  And we seem to have misplaced our wizard, too."

Truthfully, Naethra doubted Lou would willingly accompany the small dungeon party.  And she didn't care for their prospects against the gnoll.

"Why don't you come with us?  We've been able to claim a handful of those crystals... I don't know, exactly, what she took from you yesterday, or how that whole process works, but you could probably fight with one of these.  Maybe not like you used to, but you could help us rescue your friends.  Every soul on our side would skew the odds, after all."

Truthfully, she doubted there was much of those two left to save.  But, an extra fighting arm could make all the difference...

[Roselli]

Gwyn leaned against the wall, "Yeah, I haven't figured out which is which, but these pendants are giving the goblins their skills, they could work for you. You wouldn't be a barbarian, but you'd have some heft behind you."

[Ryuforce]

Duran gave the man a nod at his simple request. "We'll do everything we can in our power to help them, don't worry." When half the group suggest the possibility of using one of the pendents to have the barbarian able to help them she ponders that possibility as well. "If you think you are up to it, we wouldn't mind the help but don't push yourself, ya just lost your power to her..." The paladin suddenly shuddered at the thought. "And I have to make sure nobody else will next..."

[Alice]

The man shivers, looking at him closely you can see the hard edges of him from before have been worn off. Even the calluses on his hands are gone now. "I would certainly be willing to try, but... Like this.. I may just be a liability. I think the wizard you brought with you would be a much better choice."

He sighs, "I don't really want to risk wrecking another group with my insanity.. Every since I became the man, I've been a bit over impressed with my own power.." He shrugs, "But. I can give you something if you are going to go out and fight the good fight."

[Nihtgenga]

"Anything you can do to help, really." Retiaria said with an encouraging smile. "If you're not up to coming along, stuff is good too."

[Alice]

The elf smiles and reaches up and pops off his earring. "I managed to keep something hidden when they tossed me. Guess all that maid training paid off a little bit." He offers it to the group, it's a tiny brass and pearl ax.

"I know.. it doesn't look like much, but we found it after my promotion to guy who hits things." He squeezes down on it and is then holding a bronze hatchet, with the peal inlays of everything here of course. "It's a trick weapon you see." he smiles as he twists the head and out pops a variety of picks and small tools. "That's not all." He concentrates again and the weapon expands once more becoming a battle ax. "Not bad.. but also has a trick" He twists the base as the head bursts into heatless flame casting torchlight around the room. "One more.." With a stretch he expands the weapon once more into a two handed great-ax. "No tricks here but it's sharper than angry mistress's tongue. And back to a charm it goes." He offers the tiny ax charm to the group, "Now.. please get the others and take out those gnolls if you can.. I'll be back here learning to live with myself and the land."

[Ryuforce]

Duran while finding the axe quite interesting had different things to say after the ex-barbarian's words over what happen to his fate. "Wait... became the man? You were not male? What? Is she just swapping everyone's gender left and right as a quick laugh?" The dragonborn pondered this a bit before someone takes the mysteriously useful looking axe. "We are going to get them out of there and make sure the gnoll pay for... wait gnolls?"

The dragonborn didn't expect the possibly of there being more then one Gnoll.

[Dichotomy]

I let out a startled yelp at this- a muffled yelp too, considering. More disconcerting than the kiss, however, is feeling myself react to it in ways that remain... anatomically novel. I've not kissed a LOT of girls before( and that's part of my issue) but during none of those previous occasions has the experience made my nipple stiffen.

Should I be responding so readily? I mean... presumably this is a normal reaction to arousal given the circumstances, but should I be so easily... erm... distracted? I have pressing inquiries and larger problems, it doesn't seem like a very appropriate time!

I let go of her hands and press my palms against her torso, intent on pushing here away, shaking my head to try and regain focus. "Alma I- no, we need to-" I look around, trying to get my bearings for somewhere I could take her where they may be able to help.

[Roselli]

Gwyn watches the new item demo with a bit of awe. It's neat and impressive, "Nice! Although I take umbrage. My tongue is quite sharp, just new to being a mistress. Or do I have to I need to sleep with a married man, or invest in tight leather for that title."

Gwyn grins a bit, "leather and whips could be fun."

Gwyns smile faded a bit as she looked down and was reminded she looks like a random bar maid. Well, maybe not quite random, she did look like an elf. She couldn't imagine any elfs stooping down to be a bar maid.

[Alice]

For those in the brewery:

He shakes his head, "A whole bunch of us got dropped here.. I was a house maid before this happened. I don't know exactly what happened, but I ended up in this body, while he ended up with mine.. Then he ran off of his own.. We never saw him again."

"As for gnolls, they are the leaders of the goblinoids here.  There aren't that many, but they have the important positions of power."

He grins at Gwyn, "You could make the leather and whips look work.."

For Dicho:

Unfortunately for Lou she hasn't been in town long, and is aware of, the brewery where the others of your party are, the orchard where the tree girls are, and the inn where Gavin the inn keeper/mayor of town is.

She continues to grope and tease at your body, although is slowly seeming to be less feral and more rational about how she is going about distracting you to the idea of sexy times.