Zara takes the ring as other recieve theirs. Looking at it she sees a stylized golden dragon encircling a blue-green field with the Prince's rampant silver stag.

"Mother made these." she comments slipping it on her middle finger of her left hand and feeling it adjsut its size to fit.

"Now we do need to hurry," and as she spoke big fat drops begain falling out of the sky, faster and faster they came.

Zara then walks over to under Septimus's window and levitated up to the roof. There she resets the ropes to hang down beside the gir's window and calls down to the others. "Come on up the ropes."

(The ropes have knots about every 18 inches.)

Septimus hesitated and when the creature was introduced, he shot him a glowering look and then sheathed his weapon. He was clearly miffed, but kept his biting tongue to himself. His emerald eyes glinted and he shifted his feet nervously. “Well, how was I supposed to know he was an ally”, he snarled. “Dark creatures skulking about at midnight are not entirely reassuring”.

He brightened up considerably however, when he received his ring. This quest, so far, had been much his body of work, danger and adventure in exchange for a little shine. His ring was a silver serpent that made a circlet of its body by biting its own tail. Its eyes were gleaming emeralds that did not quite match the feral green firelights that were Septimus`s eyes. But it was beautiful. He adjusted it and slipped it onto the index finger of his left hand.

Rain became to fall, plastering his dark hair to his forehead. He grabbed hold of the rope and began to climb. This was accomplished effortlessly, for as you must know, sailors are experts in the rigging and this man was no exception. He climbed up the robe and landed noiselessly in his room, and skirted the body. He lingered in the shadows, waiting for the others,

(OCC: the ropes were moved to by the girls' window I will assume you will edit. Also I think we will be loosing the new player, but there are two more coming in. Add one more New member to RDINN Driztts, hopefully making a mage. Will delete this later)

"Jason," Zara softly calls down from the roof, "I can lift Midnight up to our room and you can then take him to yours,"

Zara waits until all are in, then gathers up the ropes, levitates down to the window, and pulls herself in.

She looks up to Septimus, "Please take that bed, I will share with Dae."

Zara then goes to the partly opened door and peers into the hall.

"Dae, we're in here."

"Thank you."

Calling Midnight over once again, he begins the acension up the rope.

Thinking, he wonders why all of this has been happening. Perhaps nature is showing its plan for him. Clearing his head, he starts to lead Midnight over to his room.

Turning around, he thanks Zara once again.

Zara had to wrap her arms and her legs around the creature to get him up to the level of the window and from there he was able to scramble in leaving a few clawmarks on the window frame and sill.

"Sort of big for a wolverine," she comments once inside.

A tall human standing 5'6" wearing brown robes and very broad around the shoulders knells at the alter of Vecna God of secerets, he was just about finished when a man looking like elvin royalty walks in.
"Leave." The human instructs his lower priests.
The lower priests leave, leaving the head priest and the prince alone.
"What may I do for you today my lord?" the high priest asks.
"I have a mission for you from the stars." The prince replies.
"Ah, and what might this mission be?"
The prince leans in closer and whispers into the high priests ear.
THe high priests eyes lighten with delight. "Your joking right, a creature living in the Barrens. After all these years I would have never imagined. So where do I meet your Party that is supposed to find this creature?"
The prince tells the high priest that the party is not to far from the temple in the local tavern, but that the high priest had better hurry because the party was leaving by day light.
The high priest thanks the prince.And just as he is about to leave the prince grabs him by the arm and hands him a ring. "It will let the other members know you are sent by me.
The High priest thanks the prince again and heads to the tavern. Where he finds a clerk, he holds up his ring and the clerk shows him to his room. But before the high priest enters his room he turns around to face the elven women standing in the hall appearently on alert.
"Do you need any help?" he asks her with a puzzled tone to his voice.
OOC: I hope it was okay for me to do this PM me if it's not.

Dae turned at the sound of the male's voice She had heard someone coming up the stairs and had turned around to see who it was. Her hand was on her sword, but it was not drawn. If she needed to fight it could and ready faster than most people could use a weapon already drawn.

She saw the flash of a holy symbol, while not common she new it from her studies of religion. It was the Holy symbol of Vecuna, God of Mysteries.

The man's words cam as he saw her. They made her smile which lit up her face. "No thank you good priest. I am turning in for the night," once she found out what had happend to Zara.

"Peace be with you this night. May the Light shine on your awakening." Dae carries the Symbol of the light around her neck. Dae nods to the man and opened the door to her and Zara's room, intent on finding out what was going on.

When she gets inside it is just about the time Zara is trying to manuvers the huge wolverine (not that Dae can really tell what it is yet.) she had wrapped herself around, into the window. Dae was ready to start forward not sure if the beast was hanging onto Zara or Zara was hanging onto the beast. "What is the Light's name is that and what are you doing with it?"

Once Zara got it in and let it go Dae got a good look at the creature. Outside of a Dire wolverine it was one of the biggest natural ones she had ever seen.

"Light what are you planning to do it it and what happen out there?" she asks as she steps over to the window. "I didn't find anything out in the halls that might have triggered the alarm you set."

Outside in the dampening drizzle that was steadily increasing Dae saw, three figures. The dwarf was a stranger though easy to spot next to Septimus still in his dark clothes, and what looked like Jason. "Hello she calls down softly. "Are you coming up or what?"

(Before Jason climbs the rope.)

The old Dwarf mage watches for a bit then turns to Septimus and Jason. HE clear his throat with a deep cough.

"Well Lads, I don't think this mission is for me. I promised the Prince to get someone to join you and I thought that I would be the man for the task. But I will be the first to admit that these old bones of mine and this bad leg." he taps his leg with his staff and what you hear is the thunk of wood on wood. "will not get me through this. Nope, But I will get back and find you the best mage I can to fill my place, now they may not be me but neither will they have my drawbacks. So by morning One will return here if I have to curse them. They will have the ring."

He shakes his head his long bread shaking with it which scatter a spray of sparkling drops into the air. "I was kind of looking forward to another adventure." he says gruffy, perhaps to cover the hint of sadness in his voice perhaps because the wet weather was making him hoarse--one couldn't tell for sure.

The old dwarf looks up and then back to the two men, "Best o' luck, to you all, your going to need it" With that the old dwarf turns and limps off leaning a bit heavily on his staff, fading into the shadows of the night.

This left Septimus and Jason standing there alone and the drizzle turned into rain and the rain increased.

The high preist turns away from the elvin lady and heads back into his room. Where he sits by the window and watchs as the dwarven mage hopple of. The poor creature. Alex thinks to himself. He must of been though some pretty amazing battles to have the scars that he had on him.
Alex waits as his roommate and his pet woverine walk into the room then he turns to them and says "Welcome my Friend I am Alex Trueblood High priest of Vecna I will be staying with you tonight. And who might you be good brother.

Zara looks at her half sister, as Jason enters the room through the window.

"Its Jason's companion," she relies pulling her stuff from the bed where she had recently wakened. "I have invited Septimus to join us as there in a dead man in his room."

"Where is Septimus now and is he hurt?" ask Dae

"I will go take care of the body." Dae response quietly with a prayer of the soul of whoever it was. "Would you open his room for me the door is locked or blocked."

Dae was not sure what she would find inside his room since she hadn't heard any sounds of a skuffle. Zara's prick on the thumb is what had woken her. She steps outside their room's door again ansd waits for Zara to come out and magically open his door.

Going inside she moves over to the body and examines it . SInce it wan't totally black out she was able to use her low-light vision to examin the dead man.

It was a rough sort of man his clothes worn and a bit shabby, several scars from what was obviously knife or sword wounds. His hair was covered by a scarf tied around about his head condining his greasy hair.

She finally found a small cut which should have in no way been enough to cause death except if the blade was poisoned.

Her face stiffened, She did not like poison. A fair fight, skill to skill, weapon to weapon, was her style.

Jason appears, walking around to the opposite side of the body. Looking vainly for a wound, he sees none.

"What happened to him? Can you tell?" He asks hesitantly.

A moment later he continues.

"I will help with the body if you like. It's a shame it had to happen, isn't it?"

there was a wound I suspect poison LIke the man who used it is is deadly and efficient." Dae would not condemn a man for staying alive when opthers wanted him dead.

"Thank you for your offer, the body is easy to remove with no one but us knowing what happened her. I will put the my bag fo holding and stasis. If you would gather up Septimus's things and take them to our room. Then let us get what sleep we can before dawn breaks.

Dae commands the body into her bag checks the room out for anything that might have ben left behind and exits closing the door after her. Returning to her room. She looks over to Zara. Get some sleep. I will take guard for now.

She walks over to where Septimus is and looks at the man. "I do not think this man was the one who has you looking over your shoulder, was he? Dae comments sure of his response. No one will know what happened here except us and the man who got away. Now get some sleep. Either Zara or I will be on guard this night. No one will get to you except through one of us." Dae indicates the bed that Zara had left not that long ago.

Alex decides to go and see what all the commotion is about in the next room. When he enters he see's the elvin lady he saw in the hall and a short man wearing a dark green robe hovering over a dead body.
"Great Verna." The high preist curses. He then watches the elvin lady that he saw in in the hall turns over the body and see's the knife wound and judging ny the look of disapproval on the elvin ladies face he could tell that the wound didn't kill the intruder itself but that it had something to help it, poison he prosumed.
"What happend here?" he asks to no one in perticualer.

Dae turns to the words spoken behind her. "Death happened." she said calmy. "Most likely deserved but still unfortunate. This one was bent on mayham if not murder."

"May I ask who you are?" Dae uses her question to give her time to study the man. Satisfied, she finished what she had started to do with a word of Elven, the body disappears from the floor.

The good Priest of Vecna could feel a papable aura of good around the elven woman.

"I am Dalyndra Goldenwings, Favored of the Light." adds Dae by way of introduction. "I ask for your silence on this matter, it is important that no word of this gets out. though I plan to report it to my temple.

"Jason, if you will finish up gather all the belonging in here it would be appreciated. Be careful of the dagger, touch it only by the hilt." Dae repeats after the interuption. A complication they did not need, but it happened.