SirAlexTheFirst: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~GO~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~

AndrewRogue: (Uh... where do we start?)

Ikakog Moloch: (I'm lagging, I think.)

Ikakog Moloch: (no, I'm not.)

SirAlexTheFirst: Well

SirAlexTheFirst: What did Zao do after Aria left?

Ikakog Moloch: After Aria left, I find random helpful cleric #2! "...Can... you help me send this letter?"

Ikakog Moloch: "I don't know where to do it in this country."

SirAlexTheFirst: "A letter? Oh, sure! How nice! I can take this on down to the post office for you, if you like?"

Ikakog Moloch: "I would. Thank you." Zao bows!

SirAlexTheFirst: The cleric bows back and takes the letter away!

Ikakog Moloch: Cool.

SirAlexTheFirst: And then?

Ikakog Moloch: Zao will then head to the library. Any books on summoning, or similar things?

SirAlexTheFirst: Quite a few. Any particular type of summoning?

Ikakog Moloch: Familiar.

SirAlexTheFirst: They have lots and lots of books on that!

Ikakog Moloch: Finding an animal that associates closely in a symbolic fashion like unto you, and binding unto you and becoming as one with it... cool! I look through it. And find someone nearby.

Ikakog Moloch: "Do you mind if I take this back to my room to read?"

SirAlexTheFirst: "Finding Friendly Familiars", "Your Magical Friend", "The Art of Calling,"

Ikakog Moloch: The Art of Calling!

Ikakog Moloch: Zao likes art!

AndrewRogue: (I love the Church of Luthien)

Ikakog Moloch: And Your Magical Friend.

SirAlexTheFirst: "Oh, sure! That's what they're there for!"

Ikakog Moloch: Zao likes friends.

Ikakog Moloch: "Thank you." He bows, and heads back to his room.

Ikakog Moloch: He'll sit crosslegged, and read the book on magical friends.

Ikakog Moloch: As he reads, he fingers the small pendant around his neck, the one with the flaw to look like an eye.

SirAlexTheFirst: That book contains a wealth of information on calling a familiar whose personality will match well with your own.

Ikakog Moloch: I'll read the other one, too, just in case.

Ikakog Moloch: The Art of Calling.

SirAlexTheFirst: The Art of Calling is a general guide to summoning; the familiar chapter expounds on bloodlines and common familiars.

Ikakog Moloch: "Hmm... bloodlines? Then.. sorcery is in my family. I wonder.. I'm phoenix, I'm probably of the fire elemental bloodline."

Ikakog Moloch: "Yes... definately. Fire." What are some of the familiars that it says are typical to those of the fire bloodline?

SirAlexTheFirst: Salamanders, cats, some types of birds, lizards...

Ikakog Moloch: "...I don't.. think I'm anything like those animals."

Ikakog Moloch: He'll sit for a moment, and think of animals that he likes, and that he just... feels an instinctual bond to.

Ikakog Moloch: Does the "Art of Calling" have a little survey to see what kind of familiar they think would best fit you?

SirAlexTheFirst: No.

Ikakog Moloch: Like one of those dumb webquizzes? No? Damn.

AndrewRogue: (Look for a periodical on summoning. Vogue or something <.<)

Ikakog Moloch: "I.. I can't think of anything."

Adm H Sopko: Toucan

Ikakog Moloch: (No.)

Adm H Sopko: you can name him Sam

Ikakog Moloch: (And suffer the fruit jokes? How about no.)

Adm H Sopko: (Wallaby. Name him Rocko)

Ikakog Moloch: Instead, what Zao will do.. is set up the entire ritual. "Ancestor spirits.. I know not what form I wish for your guide to have. I will instead... leave it up to you."

Ikakog Moloch: "You know better than I ever could, great spirits, what animal would be most advantageous. And most like unto myself, in personality and thought."

SirAlexTheFirst: Does this ritual by any chance require the use of hallucinogenic smoke?

Ikakog Moloch: "I open myself unto anything that you send, and I will bond it to me as a familiar. May your wisdom guide me through my days."

Ikakog Moloch: (I don't believe it does at all. Its up to you.)

Ikakog Moloch: (If it takes that, then indeed, that is what Zao will do.)

SirAlexTheFirst: It does not.

Ikakog Moloch: Then there is no smoke.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao laboriously, and meticulously, crafts the summoning circle from tea leaves, and places his amulet in the center.

Ikakog Moloch: He will then sit at the edge... and do what he does best.

Ikakog Moloch: Meditate. And bring himself to an inner level of calm. Inhale slowly, exhale slower.

SirAlexTheFirst: Almost immediately, you feel a strange pulling, and your vision begins to blur (even if your eyes are shut).

Ikakog Moloch: Not after he feels the pulling.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao opens his eyes immediately!

SirAlexTheFirst: Psychedelic green and pink and purple waves float in front of your eyes.

Ikakog Moloch: "...What... vision is this, spirits? Is this what I was meant to see?"

SirAlexTheFirst: Then the pulling feeling stops, and some of the waves go away... while others become a new, aurora-laden sky. You stand on a mottled green and brown cliff.

Ikakog Moloch: "...Where am I?"

SirAlexTheFirst: The stone looks almost alive, and the skies ripple and pulse with flashes of lightning in the distance.

SirAlexTheFirst: In front of you lies a cave, of that same strange rock, while behind you... is a cliff, with nothing below it save the flashing colors.

SirAlexTheFirst: You can see a few other islands of stone or land floating here and there, some with great spires of green and blue.

SirAlexTheFirst: The one you stand on, however, has nothing but the cave and the hill behind it.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao will kneel, and look to the stones. And speak gently to them. "Spirits of earth, of rock, of caves.. thank you for choosing me to partake in this journey."

Ikakog Moloch: Floating islands of stone... kind of unnerves Zao. A little bit.

SirAlexTheFirst: The stones twitch, and writhe as they are spoken to.

Ikakog Moloch: He shivers, but listens, that the stones might speak back.

SirAlexTheFirst: They do not, but lo, the place is filled with a low gurgling and buzzing sound.

Ikakog Moloch: Whats the temperature of this place, about?

SirAlexTheFirst: Coldish, maybe 50 or so.

Ikakog Moloch: Are there any loose rocks lying around?

Ikakog Moloch: Actually

Ikakog Moloch: Nix that

Ikakog Moloch: Zao takes his pendant, reverently, from around his neck. His eyes close for a moment, and words that are yet not words are uttered by the small sorceror.

Ikakog Moloch: The pendant bursts into brilliant light, which slowly dies down into a gentle flickering of light. And so armed, he will slowly creep into the cave.

SirAlexTheFirst: As you enter the darkness, rough orange tendrils extend themselves from the walls and light their tips, aiding your vision.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao will shudder again, because thats really really creepy.

SirAlexTheFirst: The path is straight and wide, and goes downwards.

SirAlexTheFirst: You cannot see the end.

Ikakog Moloch: *extends a hand, slowly, and gently, and attempts to touch one of the tendrils*

SirAlexTheFirst: It is cold, quite cold, and slick with some wetness.

SirAlexTheFirst: As you touch the tendril, a dark cloud lifts itself from the ceiling a bit down the passage and flies towards you quickly.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao holds the light in front of him, and looks at the cloud. "What is your name, spirit!"

Ikakog Moloch: (I should have mentioned this... I'm speaking in Nagukorian when I'm on my own)

SirAlexTheFirst: The cloud engulfs you, and you suddenly see that it is moths and butterflies, thousands on thousands of them.

SirAlexTheFirst: They flap around you, tickling a bit, and you recieve a mental sensation of...curiosity.

Ikakog Moloch: Curiosity... from Zao, as well.

Ikakog Moloch: He laughs a bit, because they tickle. "Are you the ones the spirits sent to be with me?"

SirAlexTheFirst: You hear a few squeals from down in the darkness ahead, and... a sort of high pitched whine, vaguely audible, from the swarm around you.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao will smile. "I must investigate whatever this squeal is, my friends. Continue to make your beautiful colors in the sky."

Ikakog Moloch: And with a bit of sadness, he will leave the butterfly swarm, flashligh... pendant still held out in front of him.

SirAlexTheFirst: The swarm lifts up and crawls along the ceiling as you move.

SirAlexTheFirst: Continuing downwards?

Ikakog Moloch: Yes.

SirAlexTheFirst: After several hundred feet, the path splits into three branches.

SirAlexTheFirst: One left, one right, and one continuing forwards (and down).

Ikakog Moloch: (I take the path less travelled.) Zao will look up at the butterfly swarm, if it is following him. "Do you have any suggestions?"

SirAlexTheFirst has left the room.

AndrewRogue: No.

AndrewRogue: No they don't.

SirAlexTheFirst has entered the room.

SirAlexTheFirst: From the left, you hear small chirps and rasping cries - from the right suddenly arises an alien and disturbing howl, reverberating in the... stonestuff. And from in front of you, crackles and hisses.

SirAlexTheFirst: (Ignore AIM whoring if you can see this)

Ikakog Moloch: I can see it

Ikakog Moloch: Zao... takes a deep breath. And does what every rational, intelligent and educated man from another country would do. He flips a coin.

Ikakog Moloch: But then he realizes there are three paths, and will sigh.

Ikakog Moloch: Eventually, though, he decides on the right path.

SirAlexTheFirst: I can send you that howl, if you like.

Ikakog Moloch: Not tonight, its nearly midnight and everyone sleeps.

Ikakog Moloch: So its cool. :P

SirAlexTheFirst: Aww.

AndrewRogue: Send it to me.

AndrewRogue: I wanna know <.<

Ikakog Moloch: Oh fine. Send it to me.

Ikakog Moloch: :P

SirAlexTheFirst: Just a minute then

Ikakog Moloch: NOPE

Ikakog Moloch: NOT GOING DOWN THAT PATH

Ikakog Moloch: How about the left path.

AndrewRogue: XD

SirAlexTheFirst: The right path will lead you upwards for a short time, and then bring you to a....

SirAlexTheFirst: okay

Ikakog Moloch: Good use of the howling. :P

Ikakog Moloch: Good god.

SirAlexTheFirst: Left?

AndrewRogue: Not too bad. Reminds me of home.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao heads up the left path.

SirAlexTheFirst: The left path is short, and turns around one corner before opening up onto a huge chamber, roughly a vertical cylinder.

Ikakog Moloch: If you havea file, don't even tell me.

SirAlexTheFirst: You are at the bottom of this chamber, and the floor around you is speckled with patches of orange and blue, and crackles with some sort of electricity.

Ikakog Moloch: *looks around, and up*

SirAlexTheFirst: This extends onto the walls, where huge white rocks - teeth? - line the walls. Several spiked rocks float in the chamber, in midair with no seeming support.

SirAlexTheFirst: The center of the chamber contains an enormous white pillar, of tooth or bone or rock.

Adm H Sopko: Why does this seem so familiar...

Ikakog Moloch: I can't recognize it at all. Normally, it'd be METAGAMING TIME. But no.

SirAlexTheFirst: It is at least twice as big around as you are, and extends to the roof of the chamber many hundreds of feet above.

Ikakog Moloch: Does it look like there is a way to climb this pillar? Or go up the walls, at all?

Ikakog Moloch: The aforementioned floating rocks?

SirAlexTheFirst: Small spires run from it to the walls at intervals. The rocks don't look humanly climbable.

SirAlexTheFirst: You cannot see what lies across the chamber behind the pillar.

Ikakog Moloch: Hmm.

SirAlexTheFirst: The chirping noises continue in here, over the cracking of the walls and floor.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao will take a deep breath, and reach down and barely touch the flickering electricity.

SirAlexTheFirst: Nothing seems to happen, the arcs pass right through your hand and you feel nothing but a small tingle.

Ikakog Moloch: Then Zao will walk around to the other side of the pillar.

Ikakog Moloch: Tingling. What are the butterflies and moths doing, though?

SirAlexTheFirst: They have followed you, but stick to the roof - and have now shot upwards to the roof of this chamber.

SirAlexTheFirst: You can barely see their movement.

Ikakog Moloch: Then Zao continues to walk around the pillar, quickly if he can.

SirAlexTheFirst: Around the pillar is a small opening on the wall, opposite where you entered.

SirAlexTheFirst: Spot check.

*OnlineHost*: Ikakog Moloch rolled 1 20-sided die: 20

Ikakog Moloch: Wooooah.

SirAlexTheFirst: You also note a small, white and red thing moving on one of the tooth-rocks above you; it then stops and jumps towards you from above.

SirAlexTheFirst: Will you attempt to dodge this thing in any way?

Ikakog Moloch: Zao will try to dodge, if he can. In nagukorian.. "Wait. State your name?"

SirAlexTheFirst: It then lands beside you, on the ground. The creature, for such it is, has four small red legs with tiny claws at the tips; the rest of it is a whiteish... well, blob, with no real features.

SirAlexTheFirst: The creature is quite small, maybe a foot long.

SirAlexTheFirst: And less than that high.

Ikakog Moloch: "What are you?"

AndrewRogue: (Does Alex have pictures?)

SirAlexTheFirst: It emits a small chirp/croak, and will waddle over to you if you allow it.

Ikakog Moloch: I do.

Ikakog Moloch: I bend my knees, to look at it closer.

SirAlexTheFirst: Yes.

Ikakog Moloch: ...

AndrewRogue: (WAIT. I KNOW WHAT IT IS)

AndrewRogue: (AHAHAHAHAHAHA)

Ikakog Moloch: ...To metagame, or not to metagame. Oh gods.

AndrewRogue: (AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAA AHH!)

SirAlexTheFirst: (Yes, so do we all.)

Ikakog Moloch: Decision is "not"

Ikakog Moloch: Zao smiles. "Are you OK, little guy?"

SirAlexTheFirst: It croaks again and crouches.

Ikakog Moloch: I will reach out my hand, gently, to pet it.

SirAlexTheFirst: Its flesh is soft and rubbery, and wrinkles a bit at your touch. Squishy.

Ikakog Moloch: Aww.

Ikakog Moloch: "Do you have a name?"

SirAlexTheFirst: The creature uncrouches, and makes a sort of croaking purr.

SirAlexTheFirst: Above you, the swarm of winged insects has descended, and now alights on the top of the rock that the lil dude came from.

Ikakog Moloch: Aww.

Ikakog Moloch: "Thats not a suitable name." To the croaking purr. "Would you like a new name?"

SirAlexTheFirst: It doesn't respond to your speech.

Ikakog Moloch: Hmm...

Ikakog Moloch: <Hey little guy. What is your name?>

SirAlexTheFirst: You sense a jumbled variety of thoughts, most of them simple and animalistic. One stands out. <Gon.>

Ikakog Moloch: <Gon. That is a good name.>

Ikakog Moloch: <Would you like to come with me? I want to go through.. there.> He gestures to the opening.

SirAlexTheFirst: <Chaos.>

Ikakog Moloch: <Ch..chaos? What do you mean?>

SirAlexTheFirst: <Food.>

Ikakog Moloch: <Do you feed on chaos?>

SirAlexTheFirst: <Head.>

Ikakog Moloch: You know

Ikakog Moloch: At about this point

Ikakog Moloch: Zao will stand up.. Slowly.

Ikakog Moloch: And back away.

Ikakog Moloch: Slower.

SirAlexTheFirst: The creature hops a bit towards you, experimentally.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao says nothing. But thinks to it.

SirAlexTheFirst: <Zao-Lot.>

Ikakog Moloch: <...You know my name?>

SirAlexTheFirst: <Fxghale>

Ikakog Moloch: Thats fairly good. I stop backing away. <Are you the guide the spirits sent to me?>

SirAlexTheFirst: <Head.>'

Ikakog Moloch: <What about heads?>

SirAlexTheFirst: The howling echoes again from far behind you.

Ikakog Moloch: And I will back away, until I am back at the door, and then I turn my back on it and walk that way.

SirAlexTheFirst: Aww.

SirAlexTheFirst: Back out to the howling>

SirAlexTheFirst: ?

SirAlexTheFirst: Not through the opening where Gon was?

AndrewRogue: (You're not inviting it? ;_; )

Ikakog Moloch: Nope. And back to the howling.

Ikakog Moloch: Nowhere NEAR where Gon was.

SirAlexTheFirst: Okay.

SirAlexTheFirst: The right branch leads you upwards and then opens up to the top of the rock.

SirAlexTheFirst: Shimmering colors clash in the sky above what lies before you - a large but shallow and transparent pool of... water?

SirAlexTheFirst: Some clear liquid.

Ikakog Moloch: Water. I look around.

SirAlexTheFirst: In this pool are a few... things. They look like crosses between small dogs and lizards.

AndrewRogue: (Piiiic)

Ikakog Moloch: <Hello?>

SirAlexTheFirst: They stand on three legs, and the front of their body is one enormous eye/

SirAlexTheFirst: They look like this.

Ikakog Moloch: Quietly, to himself, he will whisper in his native tongue. "I wish... I wish I knew what the spirits will was."

AndrewRogue: (Ugggly ;_; )

Ikakog Moloch: He will head back down, and return to the center path. And go down it.

SirAlexTheFirst: One of them gallops over to you, and emits that crying howl...

SirAlexTheFirst: leaving?

Ikakog Moloch: Wait.

Ikakog Moloch: Once it hops over.

Ikakog Moloch: "Whats your name, little guy?"

Ikakog Moloch: <>

SirAlexTheFirst: <Zao-Lot!>

Ikakog Moloch: He laughs. <No, that is *my* name. What.. are you?>

SirAlexTheFirst: <Zao-Lot ZaolotZalot!>

Ikakog Moloch: Aww! How big is it?

SirAlexTheFirst: About waist-high.

Ikakog Moloch: I'll bend down and look it in the eye, and pet it.

SirAlexTheFirst: It shudders and nuzzles you.

SirAlexTheFirst: <Glee!>

Ikakog Moloch: Aww!

AndrewRogue: (Okay. It might be ugly, but that's cute.)

Ikakog Moloch: I know.

Ikakog Moloch: There is a distinct error here.

Ikakog Moloch: <...I want to go down the middle passage. Do you want to come with me?>

SirAlexTheFirst: <Zaolotzalotzaoaltlalzoal!>

Ikakog Moloch: Aww.

Ikakog Moloch: I hug it. <You are nice.> You know, the reassuring way you treat a dog.

SirAlexTheFirst: It whines like a dog and rubs its eye on your clothing, coating it with eye-slime.

AndrewRogue: (AAAAAWWWWWW <3)

SirAlexTheFirst has left the room.

Ikakog Moloch: Awwwww!

Ikakog Moloch: YOU BASTARD

AndrewRogue: My cutness killed Alex.

Ikakog Moloch: I have 15 freaking minutes left and he leaves.

AndrewRogue: I'll temp DM.

Ikakog Moloch: I kill the animal, roast its eye on a pike, and dance murderously on its dead corpse!

Ikakog Moloch: *does a jig*

AndrewRogue: Down the middle is a blobous thing.

AndrewRogue: It has little red bits and TEETH

AndrewRogue: And its green and floats.

AndrewRogue: *nods*

AndrewRogue: It floats over to you.

Ikakog Moloch: "Suckers!" I run to it, and hold its little teeth things!

Ikakog Moloch: Then we spin around and fall down in a field of flowers!

AndrewRogue: It latches onto your face happilly.

Ikakog Moloch: Ack!

Ikakog Moloch: *dies*

AndrewRogue: Take...

*OnlineHost*: AndrewRogue rolled 1 6-sided die: 5

AndrewRogue: 5 Con Damage

AndrewRogue: :p

Adm H Sopko: PERMENANT!

AndrewRogue: Hurry! GET SUPER MISSILES

Ikakog Moloch: 11 Con left after eating the baby.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao casts Alter Self to turn into Samus, and fires three shots of the ice beam at him! Really quickly!

AndrewRogue: Roll to hit!

*OnlineHost*: Ikakog Moloch rolled 1 20-sided die: 11

Ikakog Moloch: Not much! I'm a sorceror, not a fighter!

Ikakog Moloch: Ranged touch

Ikakog Moloch: ?

AndrewRogue: Yeah

AndrewRogue: You hit.

AndrewRogue: Fort Save to not freeze.

*OnlineHost*: AndrewRogue rolled 1 20-sided die: 10

AndrewRogue: FAILE

SirAlexTheFirst has entered the room.

SirAlexTheFirst: LAG OF DOOM

SirAlexTheFirst: Move along.

AndrewRogue: SirAlexTheFirst: It whines like a dog and rubs its eye on your clothing, coating it with eye-slime

Ikakog Moloch: Zao found the third piece of the triforce, and used its power to defeat the Mother Brain/Ganon/Bowser alliance.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao will hug it, and then in Nagukorian... <Poor little fellow. Stay here. I'll be back shortly.. ok?>

SirAlexTheFirst: <Glee!>

Ikakog Moloch: Aww. I stand up, pet it a few more times, and then walk back, to go down the center path.

SirAlexTheFirst: The center path continues down.

SirAlexTheFirst: Far down.

SirAlexTheFirst: VERY far down.

Ikakog Moloch: Are the butterflies and moths of comfort +2 with me?

SirAlexTheFirst: Eventually even the tendrils stop, and there is no light ahead except for some green flashes and your amulet.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao continues, slowly, making sure that the light of my amulet remains lit and illuminating.

SirAlexTheFirst: Eventually the passage ends, in what is as far as you can see a network of small rooms going every which way, connected by large round... well, narrowings of the passage.

SirAlexTheFirst: Green and brown sacs, about the size of your head, line the wall and floors here, glistening under the light.

SirAlexTheFirst: Here and there you see some green lightning(?) crackling, from a few moving points in the network.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao shudders, and shivers a bit with the cold. Where are the butterflies?

SirAlexTheFirst: Somewhere behind you.

Adm H Sopko: (Nobody ever suspects the butterfly!)

SirAlexTheFirst: ANd yes, the temperature has fallen drastically down here.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao will... shiver. And continue down the passages.

SirAlexTheFirst: Stepping on the sacs, or what?

Ikakog Moloch: If I have to. I'll test their firmness with a single foot first.

SirAlexTheFirst: Not very.

SirAlexTheFirst: They definitely feel very fragile.

SirAlexTheFirst: And when you put your foot on one, you hear a gurgle from nearby, and the green lightning begins to come closer, fast.

Ikakog Moloch: ACk. Zao backs up. Quickly.

SirAlexTheFirst: A red glow flashes momentarily from the darkness, in the black patch from which the emerald arcs come.

SirAlexTheFirst: The gurgling noise repeats.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao squints, and looks at the black patch. And slowly, slowly moves forward, a little bit.

SirAlexTheFirst: As you bring your light up, you can see that it is a bipedal, rough and wet-skinned creature producing the lightning.

SirAlexTheFirst: Its oval red eye blinks.

Ikakog Moloch: <Hello. I am Zao-Lot.>

AndrewRogue: (PIC. NOW.)

SirAlexTheFirst: Workin on it.

AndrewRogue: (*shuts up and has patience*)

SirAlexTheFirst: <Greetings to the Zao-Lot.>

Ikakog Moloch: Zao smiles. And he'd go closer, to touch this one as he touched the others, but the bulbous fleshy sac thing is kind of... creepy. Yep. <What is your name?>

SirAlexTheFirst: <We do not need a name..

SirAlexTheFirst: >

Ikakog Moloch: <...That may be true. Many things need no names.>

Ikakog Moloch: <What are you?>

SirAlexTheFirst: Okay so you know where this one comes from.

AndrewRogue: (Like we didn't know the others :p)

Ikakog Moloch: (I didn't, except the head crab.)

SirAlexTheFirst: (Oh, did you?)

SirAlexTheFirst: (Well then.)

AndrewRogue: (I did once I went to the root site on the pics :p)

SirAlexTheFirst: <We are care takers of the eggs.>

SirAlexTheFirst: <Please, the Zao-Lot not step on the eggs.>

Ikakog Moloch: He nods. <I'm sorry.>

Ikakog Moloch:

Ikakog Moloch: <What is in the eggs?>

SirAlexTheFirst: <The young. Have you come seeking the young?>

Ikakog Moloch:

Ikakog Moloch: <If it is young, or old, so be it.>

SirAlexTheFirst: <There are many here who would accompany the Zao-Lot. The Zao-Lot has met many of these.>

Ikakog Moloch: <You mean.. Gon... and the thing which has but one large eye?>

SirAlexTheFirst: <And the Many. The Zao-Lot is wise.>

Ikakog Moloch: <Thank you, Caretaker of the eggs.> He bows. <How do I... select one to be a familiar?>

Ikakog Moloch: (Push triangle.)

Ikakog Moloch: (Then the action button once autotargeting is on.)

SirAlexTheFirst: <Accept what you wish.>

Ikakog Moloch: Zao will smile. And think for a moment... and look up, with the light from the pendant. <The butterflies and moths... Would they accompany me?>

SirAlexTheFirst: <The Many would, if you asked.>

Ikakog Moloch: He turns to the butterflies and moths.

Ikakog Moloch: <Back to Whittyre, to Nagukor? To my home in the Bayushi estate?>

SirAlexTheFirst: A small voice whispers "The Many will follow."

Ikakog Moloch: Zao smiles, and in his native tongue, he whispers as he drops to his knees. "Thank you, spirits, that you have guided me to this decision."

Ikakog Moloch: Are they still around his head?

SirAlexTheFirst: Yes.

Ikakog Moloch: He will... look really awkward, because he can't pet the swarm. But he will smile, and try to project a feeling of HAPPY through the circlet.

Ikakog Moloch: And then, he will turn to the Keeper dude. <How do I return home, Caretaker of the Eggs?>

SirAlexTheFirst: The Many swirl around, and suddenly join together into the form of one large moth.

SirAlexTheFirst: <The Zao-Lot has chosen well. Chu naka.>

SirAlexTheFirst: You feel another pulling, and then you are back in the room at the Temple of Luthien.

SirAlexTheFirst: But there is a large moth figure, made up of myriad smaller moths, hovering next to you.

Ikakog Moloch: He smiles, and turns to face it. "Greetings, kiiro suzume ga." (hawk moth in nagukorian/japanese according to translator!)

Ikakog Moloch: HAPPY projection.

SirAlexTheFirst: "We will follow you. You are warm and kind."

Ikakog Moloch: See, normally, he would hug them. But he can't. So instead.. "I'm so excited. Kiiro Suzume Ga... I'm going to see if... actually. Come along." He gestures for the moth's to come to him as he stands.

SirAlexTheFirst: They do.

Ikakog Moloch: And Zao, VERY excited and feeling VERY happy, projecting feelings of HAPPY to everyone in a ten foot radius or so...

Ikakog Moloch: Will look in the book, very VERY gently letting the bugs crawl all over him, and sitting on his head... look up how to feed moths.

Ikakog Moloch: And how to care for them.

SirAlexTheFirst: Book doesn't have notes on that.

SirAlexTheFirst: They don't require much care though.

Ikakog Moloch: Water. And I suppose they will eat holes in clothes, eventually.

Ikakog Moloch: I get water, and set it in a bowl.

Ikakog Moloch: Zao spends much of his time now smiling...

Ikakog Moloch: and unfortunately, his player has to sleep.

Ikakog Moloch: BUT!

Ikakog Moloch: <Aria! Come here! This is so cool!>

Ikakog Moloch: Well.

AndrewRogue: ~What?~