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When Fumiyo turned to look at her, Twyla waved excitedly. "I knew you were in there!" she said.

She would jog over to Fumiyo and the others, casting a worried look at Corsica, before turning back to Fumiyo. "Miss Fumiyo," she would say, "to help answer your question, many of us were connected with Miss Abby, working for her in her shop or otherwise, and she asked us to help her. We got involved trying to, uh, un-Petra-fy some petrified individuals, and then we uncovered a plot of Aria's to collect their escaped test subjects--er, including you--and take them back to Aria. Of course we couldn't take that sitting down, so we jumped into the fight!

"My name is Twyla Rosanna Oxanna... um..." Twyla would take a breath, acutely aware of the time constraints. "Uh, just Twyla is fine. This armored tiefling is Mr. Revenge, that suspicious looking person with the bow is Kuori, and the crazy looking tiefling over yonder is Valac the Unkillable. There are others among us that have gone forward, towards the portal. To make a long story short, the Arians here weren't all killed--many of them have run off--but we're still ready and willing to help in any way we can. If you say they had prisoners we'll find them! After all, we still have to find the petrified people we originally came to help."

Kuori stays at the bridge until the others move north, standing guard.

As Ramona flies off towards the path, Kuori follows. Beating the others there most likely, save for any super fast types, she leaves the statues be and focuses on the lock. She looks downrange at the tall guard.

Thievery: 15
Perception: 13 ... abysmal

As Kuori moves up to the wagon she sees the petrified face of a boy staring out at here between the bars on the small window. From the back of the wagon in the darkness she hears the voice of a young girl crying.

At Kuori is not sure if she got the bars and tumbler fight but at the last minute the lock pops open. The girl inside seems to notice this and screams out "No! Leave me alone!" before returning to sobbing.

While this was all going on Valac moved closer to the portal standing in defiant opposition to the last guard. Valac gestured at the man to come closer,

"I think it's time for you to die Arian. Come forward and die in glory, a death which is more than you're worth, dog."

<22 Intimidate.>

Upon hearing Twyla's voice, the girl finally began to calm down. She would timidly ask from inside the wagon. "Y-you can turn my brother back to normal? Is that lizard lady still out there?"

Over on the open wagon, Petra and Arthur remove the covers from the large oddly shaped objects, revealing them to be the petrified guards and the one other person Petra had turned to stone in Gladesdale.

Fumiyo would talk to her followers. "Let us not to startle the young the prisoners any further, those of you who can't take a human form should move ahead and see about disabling the gate. The Arians seem to be routed but let's see if we can delay any potential counter attack while we sort things out here."

Most of the demi-humans move off towards the gate with only Ying in human form with her sister staying behind with Fumiyo. Abby recasts her illusion on herself to appear human once again. Arthur and Petra stay behind as well though Petra hides herself from view and covers herself back up with her cloak.

Seeing the other petrified individuals Fumiyo pulls out a wand from her dress. Her wand looks as if to be a still living branch ornately entwined in vines. "It seems Petra, my dear, you did quite a number. Luckily I can assist as well in turning these poor souls back to flesh. I traded for this artifact from an Arch-wizard nearby. I believe he called it the Soulcleanser and it is imbued with the power to return things to their original state."




The Arian's portal gate was father away than it looked and it takes Valac a few minutes of running to reach it. By the time he gets there, all the fleeing Arians have already pass through the portal leaving the lone guard standing in front of the archway. He immediately sees the impressively tall Arian guard is actually a female Goliath. Strangely, she bears an uncanny resemblance to Kuori, though she looks a few years younger. Her armor is also a little different from the other Arians', being made of leather and leaving her midriff exposed. Across her abdomen she has a large horizontal scar that runs completely from one side to the other. She is armed with a bow and arrow and a spear. Her eyes narrow and she brandishes her spear at Valac but does not otherwise move from her spot. She speaks to him in a curt manner. "Approach this gate and I will slay you. Otherwise, begone. I have no fight with you unless you make one."

"Kuori! Back off!!" Ruin would position himself between the little girl and the larger archer, even going as far as summoning his blade. "Your not reaching for anyone!" (will roll a intimidate roll if needed, some players like it...*looks at Rain* and some don't. I will leave the need of the roll to Pupsage)

"Yes, my dear, she is near, and she feels bad for what happened to your brother." He would explain to the girl, but not turn his back to Kuori. "You see not so long ago, she was in a cage, just like you are. And bad people turned her into what she is, against her will. She only wanted to stop the same fate from happening to you two, but accidentally hit your brother when she tried to rescue. You don't have to do anything you don't want to, but If given the chance, I think she wants to apologize."

Diplomancy : 14 (doubt that did anything...)