[Naava]

Eivyonydd, on Jul 18 2009, 05:07 PM, said:

I imagined the grove as pretty dark, with all the trees twisted around, vines lashing out and the animals quite feral and dangerous. Essentially the place is trying to protect Chloris, but it no longer has her calming influence, more like a desperation to survive, to fight off disease.

Works for me

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Finding the plant should be no problem. Vyon would probably mix the thing that night. He would be keen to rush the next day, whether that means the Anyeli flying from a clearing and Vyon and Isabel running or not I don't know.

Er, well like I said I think the flower they needed was probably the one Naava fell on? Also, I think Naava's at a strength where she could fly either Vyon or Isabel around, but not with the bags as well.

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Getting into the grove would be the tricky part. We had stuff to cut away the trees and try and net the animals. Vyon wouldn't kill anything but that doesn't mean others won't to save themselves.

mm, Naava had her dagger and is trained to fight, so she would likely have taken out the most dangerous ones (that she could handle) as... quickly, as possible.

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I was trying to, or going to get others to discuss ideas for plans to get in. One of Vyon's crazy ideas had Isabel luring the animals away with her Vampire scent while Cal and Naava air dropped Vyon into Cloris. Another could be that we divide the potion among each other and work our way in netting animals and cutting back trees as we go. If anyone has any other ideas...

I'm really confused as to why Isabel would be able to distract all the animals? What do you mean by "Vampire scent"? If it's just that every creature has a scent, then I don't really think that the animals would be any more distracted by Isabel than by the other 3. And I already posted another idea a couple posts up...

[Xanth]

Okay, so I think we have an ending. ^^

Naava found the flower by sitting on it. They camp there that night while Vyon mixes the potion, then they start out bright and early the next day, running and walking in turns (I'm not sure all the party would be up to running for an entire day).

As they get nearer to Chloris' grove, they start to encounter wild animals, at first just ones and twos so they'd be fairly easy to scare off, then getting stronger or more numerous. While Naava, Cal and Isabel did their best to keep the animals focused on them and guard Vyon, he located Chloris and fed her the potion. It would probably take a few hours for the effects of the potion to reach the grove, so they'd still be under attack, though the aggression level would slowly sink. The group would barricade themselves inside, rather than risk hurting animals that can't really help themselves (going off what's been said), and tend Chloris while she recovered (it would take a couple of hours for her skin to get back to normal, a couple of days for her to recover completely, so there was probably an issue with lack of food if they didn't forage enough to last on the way there). As her strength increased, the grove would also revert to normal, enabling the group to leave.

All that's left is to decide how they got back. Would Vyon stay with Chloris? I don't recommend them splitting up to return alone, at any rate.

[Eivyonydd]

Yeah that works for me. I mean that was the basic story anyway right, just we didn't get to roleplay through it. Vyon would ideally stay with Chloris, but could lead the others back to the portal before returning if Chloris is well enough.

It is possible that Chloris thinks Vyon should move on, in which case he would grudgingly resume his wandering of Elysia, or possibly return to Earth with Cal to wander around the remote regions there.

Either way I'm gonna officially retire for a while. Thanks guys. Sorry we didn't get to finish it properly but I enjoyed what we did do.

[Naava]

Heyyy Isabel, since Isabel would've needed blood, I'm open to saying that she drank from Naava while they travelled

[Isabel]

Wooops!, just read this!

lol good thinking! I haven't even thought about that... >.> I would've made Isabel starve to death through it all If it's fine with Naava then Isabel would be grateful and I have no problems with it. heehee Isabel taking a few sips from her... omnomnomnom...