Axiom Gaiden: Chapter 2: Dreams of Red

[Ganurath]

Ganurath shrugged and marched afterward, his armor cooling down. He deicded not to mention the burns on his shoulders from the heated metal weighing down on him.

[Darth SS]

In decent time, they reached the castle. Eventually, the dwarves and grot caught up with them. They were also smoking. Not as in cigarettes, but they actually had smoke coming off of themselves.

The door creaked open with an ominous creak. It seemed to be dusty within the castle.

Ka looked around the inside and said, "Lookslikenoonesherelet'sgoback."

Kal looked at the Grot and pushed him out of the way with his foot. The steps of the group echoed within the vaulted lobby.

Then something landed beside Kal. He instinctively pulled his sword and went for a beheading strike. Something stopped it and muttered, "OW!"

The Grot screamed. The two dwarves followed suit. It was a disturbingly feminine scream. Celes pointed into the darkness, igniting a fireball and sending it in.

The light revealed that what had dropped next to Kal was not a monster of any common sort. Instead, it was what Guy would've been had he been crossed with a monkey. Except dressed in good clothes.

There was an odd pause. Someone said, "Is this our night for freaks?" The monkey-man flipped that speaker off. Several monkeys landed around them.

Guy had a sudden spurt of diplomacy and said, "Hi."

The monkeys waved. Kal raised his voice to adress them all. "Hi. Do you guys know how we can get to Ulthuan liketty-spit?"

In a grunting voice, one of the monkeys in the crowd said, "Yep yep. But we help you you help us. Big bad monster. Forest. We no have home. We need drive vampire out of castle for a home. Want old home back."

There was an odd pause. Tweek spoke up, saying, "They want us to kill the vampire that owned this castle, as well as whatever drove them from the forests."

Ganurath glared at the dwarf and said, "No shit Sherlock." Following that statement, reality went TWANG and reasserted itself so that was never said.

One of the monkeys grunted, "We give you food and sleep-cots. You kill bad."

After a little while longer, they worked out what the monkeys were doing. While the monkeys prepared a disturbingly high-class meal, the group was led to chambers they were to sleep in. Aside from the distinct odour of monkey throughout the castle, it was amazingly clean.

The rooms were no exception, and they were even complete with not too shabby furniture.

A monkey spoke up. "Two beds room. Two man-things each room. Choose room-friend now now."

OOC: Choose roommates people.

[Mephisto]

"Well if feel free to sleep in my room, it's up to you" Fredan said and walked into the nearest room, unstraped his sword belt and jumped onto the bed fully clothed "well what a party that was, goodnight."

[CelesJessa]

Celes shot a slightly disdainful look at the rest of the group, then at their surroundings and the doors to the rooms. Shrugging, she walked to one of the bedroom doors, and stopped as she stepped partially through the door, "Anyone can TRY sleeping in this room with me, but..." She continued, having almost a stereo effect as Lucian made his way to his own room,

"...The first person who touches this door might get-"

"-Eviscerated." Lucian said, disappearing into his room.

"-Incinerated." Celes said as she closed the door on her own room.

(OOC: Don't worry, I'm not controlling Krylo's character, we planned this over AIM)

[lazy man]

"I don't care who shares a room with me, so go right ahead and take the other bed" Axel said, going into an empty room, dropping his gear, and flopping onto a bed.

[Squishy Cheeks]

Kay entered celes room. He dodged the fireball.

"I have no interest in sleeping with you so if you feel the need to try and set me on fire it will be because you are a psychopath. I feel of my choices for flat mate you are the least likely to take advantage of me while unconcious."

[Demon with a Glass Hand]

"Bradbury, would you like to share a room?"

"Why certainly I would, Coin!"

And so, the summoner and his talking, shrunken head had a room all to themselves.

[Ganurath]

Ganurath nods. "I can be with anyone except Guy or... Locke, was it?"

[Darth SS]

Kal walked over to the summoner's room.

He calmly took out one of his daggers, and placed it in the small crevice of doorframe and door. He then applied his less than amazing physical weight to it, succeeding in cracking the door open slightly.

The bolt was surprisingly resilient so Kal used his other dagger to push it inside of the door, thus admitting himself. After he closed the door, Kal looked at the summoner and his shrunken head.

"Just a warning. I snore."

[CelesJessa]

Celes looked at Kay as he explained why he was sleeping in her room after she had "explained" that her room was off limits. She rolled over on her bed so that she was facing the wall, "Whatever, just don't startle me when I wake up..." She warned him.