Book 2 - Act 1: Hiding the Evidence
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Re: The Watch Tower
The lack of footwear forces Toruk to give the broken bottles at the base of the watch tower a wide berth. He muses how much the port was actually being watched with all the apparent consumption going on. His mood turns serious when he wonders if this mess was the result of a struggle. Looking up towards the top of the tower, "Watchman!"
Number Two: "You are number six."
Number Six: "I am not a number, I am a free man!"
Number Two: "Muh ha ha ha ha!"
Number Six: "I am not a number, I am a free man!"
Number Two: "Muh ha ha ha ha!"
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Re: The Watch Tower
Toruk calls up to the tower, and there is no reply.
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
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J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Re: The Watch Tower
"Kinda eerie," Aya remarks looking up at the watchtower. She looks down and kicks one of the bottles away before addressing Toruk. "Either you or me'll have to invest into something with a thick sole for occassions like this. Let me give this a try and see if there's a reaction. If not, well," she shrugs," someone has to climb up and look. At least it won't be boars."
The young captain thinks for a moment to shout something up she's heard very recently. ""Shoo! Fly! Don't bother us!"
The young captain thinks for a moment to shout something up she's heard very recently. ""Shoo! Fly! Don't bother us!"
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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Re: The Watch Tower
Aya comments on the fact that Toruk needs some shoes before calling again to the tower repeating what the bird was saying. It gain you no reply.
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Re: The Watch Tower
"Well, it was worth a try," Aya shrugs. She assumes that the parrot may have flown in this direction and it seems it hasn't arrived here. Sighing she grabs the rung of the ladder in front of her. However, before she climbs up she looks to Toruk. "You'll catch me when I fall, right?"
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The Lookout
Aya mentally prepares herself to jump or fall out of the tower, and preps Feather Fall to the front of her mind. Then with a joke to Toruk she scales the ladder to the tower's platform.
Aya finds the twisted remains of a rope hammock and a few scattered items of clothing up above. Lying beneath the hammock, with one boot on and the other lying across the floor from it, is the flyspecked corpse of an elderly man. He is recently deceased, and one side of his neck is black and swollen to the size of a melon. A dried ring of foam cakes the man's beard and mustache around his lips.
That's when the red feathered parrot flaps over from the trees and alights on the corpse, and squawks again, “Shoo, fly, don't bother me!â€
Aya finds the twisted remains of a rope hammock and a few scattered items of clothing up above. Lying beneath the hammock, with one boot on and the other lying across the floor from it, is the flyspecked corpse of an elderly man. He is recently deceased, and one side of his neck is black and swollen to the size of a melon. A dried ring of foam cakes the man's beard and mustache around his lips.
That's when the red feathered parrot flaps over from the trees and alights on the corpse, and squawks again, “Shoo, fly, don't bother me!â€
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
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J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Re: The Lookout
"Oh, -now- you say somthing," Aya complains to the parrot. "Might've given me a warning that you're here." She takes a closer look at the dead man and his injury. A moment later she looks down the watchtower. "The watchman's dead. Looks like some kind of poison to me but it certainly explains why there was no warning. In any case, all clear up here."
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Re: The Lookout
"Pluck," Maggie says to the other parrot perched nearby. "Can you fly over the watch tower and let me know if there's anything in it?"
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Re: The Lookout
"Poison? Let me have a look." Deftly, Rod joins Aya up on the tower to look at things personally.
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Re: The Lookout
Maggie has Pluck fly about, but the parrot doesn't relay anything new to its mistress.
Rod then scales the ladder and inspects the scene. It looks as if perhaps the man was strung by one of the wasps, and had a terrible allergic reaction. If one was already allergic to wasps or bees, and then one of those giant ones stung him... this might just be what happens to a person. It seems reasonable for certain.
Rod then scales the ladder and inspects the scene. It looks as if perhaps the man was strung by one of the wasps, and had a terrible allergic reaction. If one was already allergic to wasps or bees, and then one of those giant ones stung him... this might just be what happens to a person. It seems reasonable for certain.
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring