[color:"00cccc"] I had checked on Viper and came back to the bar. "Now where's Jurak?" I thought to myself. I checked and saw him talking to a..... halfling maybe. Difficult to be sure. Strange sight, the halfling appeared to be talking back to Jurak's kneecap!
Luc said that he had to leave. He was going to find the man in his visions. His reasons why were obvious from his pained expression. Jolie and his family decided to escort him. We said our farewells and they were on their way.
I wandered over to see Jurak and his new 'friend'. I soon found out his name was Yeager and he was an inventor of sorts. He talked about the wood he needed for his device. I looked in the book of schematics we'd taken from Aganeth's library. I pointed out the drawing of the gyrocopter. "That's it!" He grinned excitedly. "Would you fashion such a device for me?" I asked. "I can help as I'm handy with a toolbox myself!"
"There are much more than simple tools involved there my dwarven friend.... Its design requires matmatical precision and balance."
I felt humbled by this halfling's intelligence. "Then teach me!" I said.
"First the wood." Yeager said flatly.
"Why do you need my help chopping down a tree?" I asked.
"Have you seen the size of these things? I'd break my poor little arms before I dented one!"
"Hmmm, point taken..."
That was that. I wanted the device. It would give me an alternative entry point to the castle. Jurak went to pack the sled and I returned to the bar to say farewell.
"Where are you going?" Said Viper from behind me, startling me.
"Just back out to the Azure Mountains to observe Rabaer's castle again and pick up the rest of the supplies. Oh yeah, and to chop wood."
"Chop wood?"
"See the halfling over there talking to Jurak?"
"Uh huh...."
"He needs some 'perfect wood' or something which is only found in the trees of the Azure mountains." Viper looked questioningly, I shrugged.
"Count me in then!"
"You sure? What about....."
"Dqueene's dissapearance is a mystery to me. I can do nothing about it now. Maybe she's just..."
"Don't think like that! You'll see each other again someday!"
"Anyway, best not to sit around brooding"
"I agree Viper, get your gear then."
So it was that Viper, Jurak, myself, Virgo and the odd Yeager set out from Beregost to the castle of Rabaer. The trauma of losing our friends was still with us, but we would grow stronger from it...... [/color]
