Wizards!

[xJammer]

[Wow other people can take control of my minions? wtf? oO. I am perfectly happy with zombie being kicked out of the tournament due to it idly standing next to the ring and doing nothing particular]

Agrippa looks at the tent lady and with a long "Hmmm.." agrees to the conditions. He then leaves the tent, and looks around to see the cult girls still performing their dances. Recalling that the R'rud punishment was related to the cult girls, he checks with locals on the complete story (by creepily approaching a farmer and intimidating him with his tone of voice and appearance). The farmer's story, told with a shaken voice, gives Agrippa a few ideas how to approach the task. First thing, he buys the most beautiful and small flower available in the area (small enough to conceal under his clothes), as well as selecting one of the precious stones out of his own collection (he tends to keep these for currency, as its much easier to carry than gold, but sometimes they come in handy for negotiations). The chosen stone is not the brightest or most brilliant one, but one that has a shape and reflections to it that make it interesting and quite usual.

Now, he has to find an idle cult lady. With many of them dancing for hours, surely they would swap at some points to take some rest, swap their revealing bikini for yet another revealing bikini and so forth. Agrippa carefully watches from the distance to discover the pattern, and IF the cult ladies do swap around do the following :

Agrippa notices some of the cult ladies leaving the dance area, while others would rejoin, he carefully checks on the currently dancing objects of everyone's but his desire, and highlights a fairly timid one at the back. Waiting a few handfulls of minutes for her to leave, Agrippa quickly approaches her (already at a distance from the dance floor), trying to put up quite a timid look himself, and doing his best not to intimidate the lady. He starts with :

"Do you remember that R'rud wiz kid?"
<whatever she replies, as long as its positive>
"Well, you see, I admit what he did was wrong, but it was not just his desire to learn that pushed him towards pretending to be a cult girl, as he was travelling, he noticed you in the city, and fallen in love, his first love actually. He could not show himself to you when he was in disguise, as he could not bear the embarrassment to admit, and now he is a servant, his future is owned by someone else. Throughout, his heart yearned to tell you, it was quite a torture, and now he is devastated after what has happened, more so that he cannot see you, than what he has done" Agrippa takes a breath and checks her face to make sure that the conversation is going in the right direction "As he cannot show himself anywhere near the cult anymore, I am his messenger, and I beg you in his stead, would you offer a lock of your hair as something to cherish and remember for the rest of his life." Agrippa takes another breath, not letting the lady reply in time  "Whether you agree or not, he also asked me to give you this flower and this stone, the stone is special, in R'rud culture, mother would give this to her son, which he is then to secure his love with it. Please consider, I beg you." He waits for her reply in silence...

[notjarvis]

Uther chats cheerfully and drinks with the villagers, always fishing for information....

"So, the king, is he well liked by his people?"

[Solarflux]

[Eh? Got command of the zombie? How did that happen? Also Xj, no one but the other wizards know that R'rud is a wizard. Everyone else knows him as a dancer turned servant. In addition, there is no reason not to have contact with the girls]

[Raveen]

I pummel the crap out of the zombie whilst it's wondering who's in charge of it's brain. Ideally I knock it's head off, just to make the point.

[xJammer]

Hold your horses, zombie is not even in the ring yet for you to fight it

[Solarflux]

After discussing the girls with Verincent, R'rud decides to introduce him and also make his apologies for the way he tricked them. While walking over towards the dancing area, he notices the strange sneaky guy he met before talking to one of the girls. R'rud is starting to become slightly suspicious now. He has seen the guy sneaking around,  running away when confronted several times. Something fishy is going on and he doesn't like the guy bothering the girls. He moves to the back of the fellow and whispers softly: you pop up slightly too often in my life lately. What are you doing and why are you bothering Deirdra?

[xJammer]

[Can't reply to you Solar, need the outcome of the discussion with the girl first, and confirmation of whether they do leave to take breaks. (from Drakon obviously), plus weren't you supposed to be near the zombie ring thingy?]

[Drakon]

I seem to be confusing R'rud and Agrippa a lot >.>

The girl's face changes from wonder to that of understanding adoration, and she proceeds to cut off a lock of hair using a ceremonial dagger she wears by her hip, and gives it to Agrippa, but not taking the stone. She does however take the flower and fix it in her hair.

Meanwhile, Fenlander has totally killed his opponent, which, while not really prohibited, is quite bad form. The jester produces a mop and bucket and prepares to wash away the mush, raising Fenlander's hand to exclaim his victory as he passes by.

For your reward, Fenlander, you may claim a weapon from the royal armory. Just name any medieval weapon that you might want, and you'll get it or something similar.

[Solarflux]

What about the Agrippa - R'rud situation then?

[xJammer]

[Anyway, let's assume what you said Solar is applicable ]

Agrippa smirks on the inside as the girl gives him back the stone with the lock of her hair, he stuffs both under his clothes and gives her a brief bow, meanwhile noticing R'rud approaching them in a distance. Worried, Agrippa gives a hurried glance behind and quickly tells the girl :
"I was late! He is mad and drunk now, please go on and pretend we did not meet, I'm so sorry!" Agrippa adds a lot of worry in his voice and makes the gestures for the girl to move on. The girl, quite confused at the change of pace decides to follow the request, as she was going to leave in any case (making an assumption here, feel free to stop me Drakon ).

Agrippa keeps his eyes on the girl as she was leaving, his back turned to R'rud, maybe he wasn't really going after him and just came to watch the dance as well? Only to be proven wrong, Agrippa felt the cold metal at his back, and a high-pitched whisper has accused him of something from behind... Not too worried (he faced death many times!) he calmly turns around and stares at R'rud still holding the knife :

"Sorry mate, I couldn't find that paddle afterall... Don't get so angry?"

[Raveen]

Assuming that there's nothing obviously dragon related or magic I'll pick a bastard sword. If there's a magic, dragon defeating, bastard sword, all the better.

[Drakon]

[quote=&quot;xJammer&quot;]
[Anyway, let's assume what you said Solar is applicable ][/quote]

Yes, lets.

Fenlander is given the next best thing, a bastard sword in the shape of a dragon, with the guard in the form of a roaring dragon's mouth.

Bastard Sword: +37A

The tree looks at his caster with an expectant look (if trees had faces), its sword over its shoulder. Maybe it wants a treat. Maybe it just wants to go back being a normal tree. Who knows?

[Raveen]

I cast commune with spirits whilst sitting under my tree servant in order to communicate with the tree.

[Solarflux]

[To set something straight, my character used a high pitched voice while pretending to be a girl, that is not his normal voice  Also, I adjusted my story before, removing the knive from the encounter]

R'rud moves to the back of the fellow and whispers softly: What are you doing and why were you bothering Deirdra?

Agrippa turns around and says: "Sorry mate, I couldn't find that paddle afterall... Don't get so angry?"

R'rud answers: This has nothing to do with any paddle. I don't know what you are up to, but I want you to leave the dancing girls alone. Come to think of it, I am meeting you 'by chance' way too often. First I see you sneaking around in the streets. Next, I see you sneaking after me and Uther in the fortune teller tent. Now, I see you talking to Deirdra, my best friend during my time as a dancer. I couldn't fail to notice the fear on her face as she ran away either. I want you out of my life. Consider this my only and final warning. Also, I am going to tell my new masters, the wizards, about you and to keep an eye out.

[I wonder what Mordin, Andronicus and Verincent are doing in the mean time? Are you guys up for some roleplaying? Also, we need mana costs, don't we? Fenlander casting spells, Mordin healing, Agrippa raising a zombie]

[xJammer]

Agrippa, baffled, still stares at R'rud :
"I'll tell you everything, meet me near the fighting place thingy in half an hour..." Then, as if he recalled something, Agrippa exhales : "Ahh! I forgot..." And, completely ignoring R'rud, he hurriedly walks back into the crowds, mixing up with them and taking some effort to ensure no one is following him (which involved a lot of running, snatching a coat or two from people and overall taking the weirdest route imaginable). Eventually Agrippa finds his way back to the fortune tent lady and gives her three quarters of the hair that he received from the lady... (he also mentions that to her, asking if that's enough to perform the curse)...