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[Laufey]

Taking breaths between each sentence like a small child relating a fairy story, Minsc said, "The little boy said his mother came inside yesterday when the sun set and she never came out! And then the soldiers came! And then they told everyone to stay away, because the evil circus tent had eaten everyone within! And Minsc and Boo promised that we and Amistry would find the little boy's mother, because mothers are very important!"

Awwww! Love your Minsc. He's very sweet.

"Ah, you are most correct," the djinn purred, startling them both, and bowed before Minsc. "The mighty Kalah respects those with a most agile and quick mind. Proceed with my blessing." The gleeful look on the djinn's face faded as it straightened up, like a puppet whose strings were no longer being manipulated. It floated to one side of the bridge, allowing them enough room to pass through the arched doorway curtained in red velvet, which led into the great palace.

"What was that all about?" Linvail asked Minsc. "I didn't hear you answer him."

Minsc took the hamster off his shoulder and gave it a smacking kiss on its tiny head. "Minsc did not answer him, but Boo did! Boo is the smart one!"

ROFL! Oh, that was a funny twist indeed! Makes perfect sense too.

The Hunter arched an eyebrow in surprise but merely shrugged when Linvail looked at her. "Ches tut jin a tachiben vec vyzvedeti ..."

" ... ask a drunk, child or fool.'" he answered, finishing the Romany proverb. "I remember. He's all three, but what's his rat?"

I really like these little Romany quotes you keep inserting.

"Because this is Amn," Linvail replied, as if that settled the matter. "You saw the Cowled Wizards, dhampir. They regulate magic, so strictly that sometimes it's difficult for even us to use it. Which is why," he gave Aerie a piercing look, "I find it hard to believe that there could be a gnome this powerful in Athkatla without my having heard of him. Or that a gnome could have gotten this powerful at all."

Very good point.

[Weyoun]

"No. No. No. No," Linvail said from behind Minsc, shaking his head to punctuate his denials. "No. We're not going to do this garbage. We're leaving, now."

Wrong answer!

The djinn snorted. "Because it is symbolic of your progression to enlightenment and understanding, fool!" It looked at the Hunter. "Are you ready to answer my riddle?"

"I would know who it is who plays this tune before I would set my feet to dance it," the Hunter replied.

"Kalah does not reveal himself to those who are not worthy!" the djinn said, swatting the air before the Hunter as if trying to kill an insect. It looked at Minsc. "You, then, proud warrior. Are you ready to begin? Excellent!" Minsc nodded eagerly as the djinn recited, "A princess is as old as the prince will be when the princess is twice as old as the prince was when the princess' age was half the sum of their present age. How old, then, are they both?"

Hope your math skills are up to part, Amistry!

Minsc took the hamster off his shoulder and gave it a smacking kiss on its tiny head. "Minsc did not answer him, but Boo did! Boo is the smart one!"

The Hunter arched an eyebrow in surprise but merely shrugged when Linvail looked at her. "Ches tut jin a tachiben vec vyzvedeti ..."

" ... ask a drunk, child or fool.'" he answered, finishing the Romany proverb. "I remember. He's all three, but what's his rat?"

Pretty smart hamster, eh?

"Quiet, dhampir, I know what I'm doing!" Linvail snapped. He glanced up and saw her look of disapproval. "Don't tell me you trust it! Haven't you learned any caution in your old age?"

"I did not live to the length of these years by attacking all I found strange to me," the Hunter replied hotly. "You-"

"Leave her alone!" the cry interrupted the Hunter's words, and she jumped back as a large, green spider leaped upon Linvail's back. Its forelegs locked around Linvail's throat, trying to strangle him, but the thief did not break his grip on the ogre. "Let her go! Aerie, run! Run!" the spider cried. The Hunter blinked hard. The spider was shouting, and as if that wasn't impossible alone, it was doing so in a very familiar young boy's voice.

Shouting spiders, eh? Weirdness for sure...

"They have the key," the spider that was Rakeh said, pointing across the room at the lounging man and woman. "I've been trying to get it away from them. But they keep hitting me with it." He pointed to one of his legs, and the Hunter saw a deep bruise had spread across it. "It's a sword. Her key, I mean, it's a sword."

Lovely...

Great stuff!
---Weyoun

[Anaviel]

"A quest of a great and noble kind! The little boy outside, his mother is trapped within this tent of carnival evil! Minsc and Boo promised that we and Amistry would save her! And we will, right, Boo?" Minsc conferred with the hamster sitting contentedly on his shoulder.

Classic Minsc

crack of his knuckles when he punched it. "This is a circus! It's just a circus! All the information, everything I've been told, says this is nothing more than a circus with a bad opening act!"

Yeah..riiiight

After having seen him react so emotionally over small troubles yet throw himself into battles where titans would fear to creep, she was starting to believe that perhaps the big warrior's sense of danger was a bit off kilter.

Assuming of course that he had a sense of danger to begin with.

Taking breaths between each sentence like a small child relating a fairy story, Minsc said, "The little boy said his mother came inside yesterday when the sun set and she never came out! And then the soldiers came! And then they told everyone to stay away, because the evil circus tent had eaten everyone within! And Minsc and Boo promised that we and Amistry would find the little boy's mother, because mothers are very important!"

That's good ol' Minsc for ya...never passing up the opportunity to do some buttkicking.

"Kalah does not reveal himself to those who are not worthy!" the djinn said, swatting the air before the Hunter as if trying to kill an insect. It looked at Minsc. "You, then, proud warrior. Are you ready to begin? Excellent!" Minsc nodded eagerly as the djinn recited, "A princess is as old as the prince will be when the princess is twice as old as the prince was when the princess' age was half the sum of their present age. How old, then, are they both?"

Oh I remember this riddle...not exactly the easiest one in the game. If I remember right, I was too lazy to figure it out so I just saved and reloaded until I got the answer .

Minsc took the hamster off his shoulder and gave it a smacking kiss on its tiny head. "Minsc did not answer him, but Boo did! Boo is the smart one!"

Thank goodness for miniature giant mutant space hamsters .

The ogre grimaced and looked down at its hands, wringing them so hard the Hunter feared it would pull them off. "I ... I'm not a monster, I'm an elf, a winged elf! Or at least I was." It stepped forward again but stopped suddenly again. "This ... this covering you see," it gestured to its body, "this is some kind of illusion, but if you believe in it then it becomes real! Oh please, please believe me! Now go before something happens to you, I beg of you!"

Heh, poor Aerie.

"Gnomes are wonderful illusionists!" Aerie straightened up, a small spark of anger quashing her timidity. "They're the best in all of Faerun! My Uncle Quayle does marvelous things with his illusions, not horrible, mean things like this! And he's a thousand times better than Kalah ever was!" Some of her indignation drained away as took a moment to think about what she had just said. "Th-that's right," she said slowly. "He, he's not as good as Uncle Quayle. He shouldn't have been able do all this."

I've always wondered who helped him cast that illusion...

The Hunter shook her head. "O matoten, o dinilo or chav tom pooker tuti," she murmured, again thinking of the Romany proverb she had shared with Linvail earlier.

Nice proverb...It fits the story, I think . Anyway, I enjoyed this and I'm looking forward to the next part