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"Shadows of the Past", a Warcraft Roleplay

“…A while” Liaena said finally, after pondering the question for several seconds with a scientific mind, before looking back at Doin. “I haven’t actually tested it past a few hours, but I’m pretty sure it usually takes a few days to get it out of your system. What I normally do is take another dose of the same potion, but set to turn you back into your normal self, instead. Then whenever the potion runs out, it’s not as though you’re going to notice the difference”

“….although, I should probably test that one. It’d probably be important” the girl said dubiously after a pause. Mind obviously moving onto cheerier pastures, she gave the dwarf a cheerful grin. “Either way, I’ve been looking at modifying this stuff, so it’d be something to check out then. I’d like to be able to get the strength, or the skills, from whoever you’re looking like, it’s just the looks right—“

*SLAM*

Pausing with the huge thud of the door emanating from downstairs, Liaena gave Doin a funny look. “…weren’t you guys closed?”

“Eh? Probably one of tha guys getting’ back from tha brewers. There’s bin a lot of missions o’ mercy of tha’ sort, what with them damn elves trashing all our last collection”

“Hm” Liaena mumbled, clearly not paying 100% attention to him as she listened hard to movements from downstairs. “It’s gone really quiet. Would more booze make it quiet?”

“Has it?”

“I’m just going to…be right back one sec” Liaena muttered. Getting up, she slid past him to get to the door, turning back at him to give him an apologetic glance. “I just want to make sure…I won’t be a moment, okay?”

*

“Ehhh….” Kathlin muttered almost inaudibly under her breath as she stared out over the room, which had to a man fallen silent to watch the new form of entertainment. “…yeah, that does kind of sound like the sort of thing that ‘I’ would do”

“…”

“Uhm…actually, I’m pretty sure that my…friend…here, already told you pretty much everything that went on” The girl began awkwardly, with several of the men already losing interest and turning away with the target of their attention failing to provide sufficient entertainment. “And honestly, it really wasn’t that special, you don’t need to hear about it…look”

Here Kathlin turned swiftly to Fran, who’s expectant smile had been swiftly replaced by confusion as she gave him an apologetic smile. “Look. There are a lot of things that are really, really awkward to explain right now, but I need to find a friend of mine. She is…”

Looking over Frans shoulder, Kathlins attention was caught by the auburn haired girl in robes, who had just reached the foot of the stairs, to fold her arms across her chest and give her the mother of all Evil looks. “…just over there. Hi”

Stalking across the floor of the bar-room, Liaena did not greet her in return, nor did she unfold her arms as she reached the small dark-haired girl to peer down at her. “What are you doing here?”

“Looking for you” Kathlin said cheerfully. Glancing from side to side, she lowered her voice slightly to a pseudo-whisper as she leant forward towards the other girl. “Oh and…Rithrynn’s outside, by the way”

“what. Look…just…come on, will you” Liaena growled finally, grabbing the other girl by the hand and dragging her towards the stairs. Kathlin followed compliantly, waving a farewell to the assembled room as she was towed forcefully away. “Nice to meet you…again, apparently”

*

If Doin was surprised from the relevation earlier, his jaw probably dropped still further when ‘Kathlin’ dragged ‘Liaena’ into the room and shut the door firmly behind them, before the former turned on the latter. “Why did you bring Rithrynn here!?”

“Actually, she kind of brought me”

“How did you find me?”

“Hester helped” Kathlin said neutrally, apparently fairly unperturbed by the less-than-warm reaction that she was receiving. Liaena glared, before rolling her eyes towards the sky at her words.
“Useless traitorous bird….look, I told you to stay in the mansion and pretend to be me until I get back! What, exactly, was so difficult about any of that!?”

“……….”

“……….”

“So, about those Night Elves outside?” Kathlin enquired carefully into the long pause. Liaena scowled at her for a moment longer, before making for the window to look down on the snowy street. “I can’t see anyone. Just one of her tigers…..you used the plural”

“Yes”

“….”

“why are there two or more Night Elves outside!?”

“Hey. The second one was not my idea” Kathlin said a trifle defensively, holding up a finger to Liaena. “And we picked her up after you drugged her and left her leaning against a waterbutt in Morcambe Street”
“This is just…great” Liaena muttered finally, after she was done pressing her fingers into her forehead. “…Sorry about this” (this was to Doin)

Kathlin looked that way also to give him a nervous smile. “Uhh….Hi. It’s nice to meet you…”

“He knows”

“Oh good” the girl said immediately in relief. Looking over to the dwarf, she gave him a much more genuine warm smile. “Hi. Sorry about all of this”

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What? The site went down?

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I mean...yessss....not Li being lazy at all.....noope.... ^_^'''''

"Shadows of the Past", a Warcraft Roleplay

Sliding off Nisha as the tiger stalled in the road, Kathlin spent a moment simply enjoying the freedom of unrestricted breathing now that she had been released from the prison that was Ashei’s boobs and Rithrynn’s ass, before looking back at Rithrynn. “Uhm…did you see someone?”

“No. Nobody important”

“…but who didn’t look like Li?” the girl persisted. Rithrynn merely tossed a disgruntled look over her shoulder, before going back to measuring Hester up for being transformed into a feathery scarf with her eyes. “How should I know? Some girl.”

“What did she look –“

At this point, taking the lack of argument from those around her as permission, Ashei fished her longbow out of her quiver and began to cheerfully fit her string to it. Hester apparently took this as a personal offence against her, shooting vertically upwards with a screech of anger and vanishing from the scene, to be seen distantly fluttering around the chimney of the pub occasionally.

“Nice one, Ash. Now we need to get it back, again”

“Hey I could bring it down here if you want, Ri…”

“What good would that do!? I still need it to find Li!”

“What? How many of these monkeys do you even own, anyway?”

While the two elves bickered between themselves, Kathlin was padding away from them through the snow to reach the door and tap on it. After a long pause with a couple of repeat knocks, the window in the door eventually slid open. “WHAT? Closed!”

“Sorry!” Kathlin responded immediately, before clearing her throat and trying again. “Uh…sorry. For bothering you. But I’m looking for a friend of mine. Long, kind of reddish brown hair, might have acted like she owned the place a little bit?”

“……”

“Hey! What are you doing!?”

Jumping slightly as someone else called out to her, Kathlin looked back at Ashei who had turned around to stare at her. “Uhhh….I was asking….to use the bathroom”

“…the bathroom?”

Kathlin gulped as the Night Elf gave her a probing look. “Yes.”

“……”

“Haaah….such a primitive biology…” Ashei snickered as she turned away from the little human to give Rithrynn a grin, inviting her to share the joke also. “monkies, huh?”

*

Liaena sunk gratefully onto the chair that Doin had offered. It was considerably more comfortable than the hard bar stools downstairs and warmer to boot, even with the fire no longer burning in the grate. It took a moment to realise the dwarf was actually still talking, as she looked over to him. “Oh yes. About that. I am Li.”

“…..”

In the immediate shocked and/or disbelieving silence that her statement caused, Liaena held up a finger to the dwarf to shush him for a moment as she continued talking. “I know it does sound weird, but there are an awful lot of people in Stormwind that want to kill, maim or otherwise abduct me, even for my standards. So, I might have bought a few polymorph potions from Gimpsi when we visited her last, and they’ve been pretty handy actually. Not that it always helps entirely….”

Here Liaena waved a hand absently at her nose to illustrate her point, with a brief sigh before she looked back at Doin. “So yeah. Sorry about lying to you earlier, but I really don’t want anyone to know that I’m here. As far as everyone else is concerned, I’m still back at Sharon’s house and I’d kinda like it to stay that way”

The room falling into a lull as Liaena subsided briefly to consider her own situation, she looked over at Doin with a smile. “How are you, anyway? You look waaaaay better than last time I saw you”

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guys, I have to go away and work on a building site at night for the rest of the week...so can we call a brief hiatus till next monday? (As I am also going away for the weekend, when I'm not trying to catch up on lost sleep...)

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Having reached the nearest chair Liaena sank onto it gratefully, glad to be out of the freezing cold of the storm outside as she rested her battered face on her hands. Having heard Doins words she opened her eyes again to look up at him. “….No. Not exactly”

“….”

Looking past Doin, she glanced over at the group of men that were huddled around the table nearby. A couple of them were still watching suspiciously, and Liaena returned their glares with a look that was just as frankly untrusting. There were also a few dwarves and humans still wandering about the room at various tasks, not counting the barkeep. “She gave me a message for you….but I don’t want anyone else to hear it. Do you have like, a private room we could go to, or something?”

Looking around the room, Liaena indicated the group of plotting men not so far away with a tired toss of her head. “Honestly, it looks as though your friends would rather I got out of their way too”

*

“Mmmphff!” came Kathlins muffled protest where she was sandwiched between Ashei’s bust and Rithrynn’s ass. The fact that she was wearing Liaena’s rather diminutive form made the entire set up even worse, as it meant that her head was round about the level of the formers rather considerable…assets, which shoved her face into Rithrynn’s broad back as if the airbag of a car had gone off.

Thankfully, the entire ordeal did not last long as Nisha stalled suddenly and Ashei climbed off her back to steady herself on the snowy ground. Less than thankfully, this had occurred because as Kathlin looked forward, she saw Rithrynn looking back and scowling at her. “So where are we going?”

Craning around her, Kathlin eyed the direction the tiger was pointed in. “…towards the trade district”

“Is that where Li is?”

“Maybe?”

This response clearly did not please the Night Elf at all, whose purple skin was already starting to attain a slightly darker angry hue. “That cursed bird vanished! AGAIN! Traitorous wretch of a creature!”

Staring up in the sky, Kathlin could not in any way distinguish the white of errant owls from the white of snowflakes as she tried to see through the blizzard. The girl sent up a silent prayer with the wind to defend her against the fickleness of Liaena’s pets, as she turned back to the angry Night Elf. “Oh.”

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You get a Kathlin post, because I didn't have time for a full post, because that takes double the time, and Rithrynn nags me more for activity. Sorry, Sharon :p

Hey, at least I posted. Also, hi Wraithblade. We're all perfectly sane, honest.

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“Mount up human! What are you waiting for?”

“….”

“She’s…beautiful” Kathlin breathed after a good few seconds of Rithrynn’s comment meeting nothing with silence, and the girl continued to stare spellbound at the magnificent beast, all glossy white fur (albeit with several blood splatters still visible in her mane), silky soft and looking incredibly strokable. Approaching the tiger, Nisha turned to give her a bored stare before returning to looking for something to eat as Kathlin stroked her fur as if she was indeed, a very overgrown house cat. “Hello, Nisha. Who’s a gorgeous girl, hmm? Who—“

-SNATCH-

An impatient hand lunged down to grab the girl and yank her onto the large beast, sitting right behind Rithrynn. Taking a moment to process that she was actually riding the Nightsabre, the girls smile only increased when she did so, wrapping her arms around Rithrynn’s midriff to hold herself in the saddle as they paced slowly out of the gate. “Okay! Okay. Go left here”

“…did you see that cursed bird?”

“…No.” Kathlin admitted. The snow was still dense enough to make visibility difficult, and finding a white owl in a blizzard was a challenge all on its own. “…but that’s the road into town. She’d be more likely to have gone that way”

“….”

“By Elune, if you and that stupid parrot are leading me on a wild goose chase….”

With many more muttered complaints, Rithrynn nudged the sides of the large nightsabre and Nisha leapt forwards to gambol down the snowy street. A few seconds later she pulled up to a halt, as something caught her attention.

“Um…yeah. That does look like a Li Thing” Kathlin observed to nobody in particular as Rithrynn climbed down from the Nightsabre, gave Nisha a firm warning to stay put and started walking towards the sleeping elf propped up against the side of a building. Looking around, something else perched on a post box caught her eye. “Hester!”

The bird glared back, before fluttering over to her outstretched hand to start preening and looking extremely satisfied with herself. “You know, it isn’t very helpful if you don’t show us where you’re going. Now is it?”

Hester continued to look smug, and gave no indication of having heard her. “Hmm. Anyway. Nisha, Hester. Hester, Nisha”

Reaching out to ruffle and stroke the Nightsabres fur on her head, Nisha rolled her eyes before turning her head away. Hester meanwhile, shuffled around on her perch until she was fully facing in the opposite direction, causing Kathlin to give her a disapproving frown. “You guys….”

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“Ehhh…maybe you could try and be a little more polite…” Kathlin volunteered nervously, now garbed in one of Liaena’s hooded cloaks she had apparently removed from the wardrobe. Hester, who was still perched on her shoulder, was glaring and fluffing up her feathers angrily to the point she was starting to look like a white, evil, puff-ball at Rithrynn’s comment.

Reaching out to pet her, the girl deftly avoided the attempt from the bird to snap at her as she ruffled the feathers on the back of her head. “Aw, cmon. Rithrynn’s very sorry about being so rude to you, it’s just that she’s worried about Li. And we know that only you are clever enough to find her…and you can have some chocolate now, if you want”

“….”

Edging closer to the bag that held all the goodies, Kathlin shot Rithrynn an imploring look as she hastily unzipped it to pull out a large chunk of chocolate and shove it into the beak that opened expectantly. Hester gave a muffled squawk and fluttered to the window, where she started to attack the glass panes viciously. Kathlin followed to open it, causing a flurry of snowflakes to come in as the bird left, blending almost immediately with the white of the storm.

“I think she went down towards the main gate…it’s as good a place to start as any, I guess” Kathlin mumbled as she craned her head to see where the owl had gone, before shutting the window carefully behind her. Turning to Rithrynn, she gave the elf a shy smile. “Shall we head down there then?”

*

“This weather is…something else. Wasn’t it supposed to be spring!?”

Trekking through the snow, Liaena was grateful for the storm wiping out all traces of her prints behind her, but less so for the flakes that found their way through her – undersized – cloak and shirt collar. Her scarf, she had already tied around her face to stop any blood leaking out of her badly bruised nose to leave a trail behind her, and it also had the secondary effect of warming her face – at least until the blood soaked through and left it cold and soggy.

Most of the general public had taken the general precaution of going home or taking refuge in the nearest inn or shop when the storm had hit, and it left Liaena relatively isolated as she crossed one of the canal bridges. She took solace in the thought that Astrid probably felt worse than she did.

Taking a tattered leaflet out of her pocket, she squinted at it again through the snow before turning down a side road to stop in front of a large ale-house with its large wooden door….looking recently repaired, and firmly shut. It had a very prominent ‘CLOSED FOR BUSINESS’ sign on the front as Liaena tapped on it.

-knock knock-

“…..”

*BANG* *BANG*

This time, there was some movement before a grumpy, and slightly drunk sounding voice called out from inside. “We’re closed!”

*BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG---

“WHAT!?”

At this point, a shutter near the bottom of the door slid open and a very angry looking dwarf peered out. His countenance looked nearly as battered as her own, with two black eyes and a fat lip as he glared up at her. “Dinnae read the sign!? We’re closed fer tha storm! An’ fer drinking! An’ refurbishment!”

“I want to talk to Doin Broadshield, or Fran Broadshield” Liaena snapped right back. Her bruisers, and the cold weather, made her extremely unwilling to stand around outside to bicker with a random doorkeeper. “Go and tell them that it’s about Liaena Rune, and it’s important”

The dwarf squinted at her weirdly, before adopting a very recalcitrant expression. “…An’ why should I?”

“Because. Believe me when I tell you that if you don’t, they’ll have a metal boot so far up your ass you won’t be able to sit down for a week afterwards” Liaena said coldly. A glint showed itself in her mittened hand as she held up a gold piece. “…and also, because you get this if you do”

Holding it up to the hatch in the door, the money was snatched in a moment out of her hand and the latch thudded shut. Liaena grimaced as she leant her back against the wall of the building to wait. “I hope I won’t need to blow the door down. It looks expensive to replace”

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“I need to know where Li is…”

Tearing her gaze away from where the harassed Shani had so abruptly exited, Kathlin looked over at Rithrynn cautiously. “I don’t know. She didn’t tell me. Sorry”

“That man was an assassin?”

Rithrynn appearing to have subsided into a moment of gloom, Kathlin took advantage of the moment to scrutinise the Night Elf closely. The elfs bad mood was blatantly obvious, with mingled anger, frustration and worry clear on her face. “…I think I know a way to contact her though”

“….”

“You do?”

“Yeah.” the girl responded warily. Looking uncomfortable under the sudden heightened refocus of Rithrynn’s attention, Kathlin got up to start walking towards the door before opening it. “Come on. I’ll show you”

*

Opening the door to Liaena and Sharon’s room to slip inside with Rithrynn right behind her, Kathlin was vastly grateful to see that Sharon was not in residence. The only life in the room besides themselves was the small white owl perched beside the bed, who removed her head from under her wing to give them a baleful look as Kathlin approached. “Hi, Hester. How’re you doing?”

Extending her arm, the owl glared for a brief moment longer before deigning to walk up her sleeve to sit haughtily on her shoulder. Producing a treat out of her pocket to wave it enticingly in front of the birds face, Hester snatched it out of the air to begin to tear into it savagely. “Hester’s really good at tracking Li when she vanishes like this. I’m not entirely sure how she manages it, but she used to belong to a mage, you know, and there’s definitely something magical about her. See the blue in her feathers?”

Here Kathlin shifted the bird slightly, much to the latters displeasure, to point enthusiastically at the blue ends in her plumage. “Those aren’t natural pigments. I’m pretty sure they’re because of being exposed to some sort of arcane activity, and as for her diet—“

In full flow, the girl caught the expression on Rithrynn’s face and stopped abruptly. “Uhh….sorry. Anyway…"

Here Kathlin tried for a tentative smile "…do you think she might help you?”

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Postie!

Kathlin is best at this lying and subterfuge thing.