were not the kind that could be fought with steel.
***
"So let me get this straight," Duo said for the fifth time. "We go *past* the Stony Field, *through* the Underground Passage, *through* the Dark Wood to find this Tree of Infucius, then *back* through the Underground Passage to the Stony Field again. And then we have to touch the stones in a certain order, go through a portal to this city that's crawling with demons, fight our way through them to find a man who may or may not still be alive after several months, and then pray like crazy that the portal stays open long enough for us to get home through it?" He shook his head in disbelief. "I'm sorry but that's the stupidest..."
"Not quite, Duo," Quatre chimed in.
"Oh. Good."
"None of us here can read the runes of the scroll. After we get the scroll from the Tree of Inifuss, we have to go back to the encampment and hope that Akara can read them."
"Oh." Duo groaned. "Right, I forgot."
"Akara is very wise," Wufei intoned. "I do not doubt that she will know the language of the runes."
"Just one thing that's bothering me," Trowa frowned, joining in the discussion for the first time. "Isn't Akara blind? How can she read, much less translate, *anything?*"
Duo groaned again, and dropped his head on his hands. "I don't believe this," he moaned.
Accompanied by three skeletons, two ravens, a wolf, a poison creeper, and Relena, the five warriors were soon trekking again through the wilderness. They passed through the Blood Moor and the Cold Plains without many problems; they had killed most of the inhabiting monsters in the area already. That changed once they reached the Stony Field, a wide expanse of rocky wasteland. They found the Cairn Stones of which Akara had spoken without too much trouble, as they jutted tall above anything else in the field.
Reaching the Stones was more trouble, however, as the area was crawling with demons. Blue ones intermingled with the red ones they had already met, but despite the color difference they were just as annoying. There were fireball-slinging shamans everywhere, and there was an extremely frustrating period where no matter how many of the demons they killed, there was always at least one shaman they missed who would start raising the buggers again. Wufei discovered one of the small demons who was a slightly different color from the others, and soon discovered it by far to be the nastiest of the lot. But once it was
Re: World of Darkness (GW/D2)
Date: 2006-02-21 08:41 am (UTC)***
"So let me get this straight," Duo said for the fifth time. "We go *past* the Stony Field, *through* the Underground Passage, *through* the Dark Wood to find this Tree of Infucius, then *back* through the Underground Passage to the Stony Field again. And then we have to touch the stones in a certain order, go through a portal to this city that's crawling with demons, fight our way through them to find a man who may or may not still be alive after several months, and then pray like crazy that the portal stays open long enough for us to get home through it?" He shook his head in disbelief. "I'm sorry but that's the stupidest..."
"Not quite, Duo," Quatre chimed in.
"Oh. Good."
"None of us here can read the runes of the scroll. After we get the scroll from the Tree of Inifuss, we have to go back to the encampment and hope that Akara can read them."
"Oh." Duo groaned. "Right, I forgot."
"Akara is very wise," Wufei intoned. "I do not doubt that she will know the language of the runes."
"Just one thing that's bothering me," Trowa frowned, joining in the discussion for the first time. "Isn't Akara blind? How can she read, much less translate, *anything?*"
Duo groaned again, and dropped his head on his hands. "I don't believe this," he moaned.
Accompanied by three skeletons, two ravens, a wolf, a poison creeper, and Relena, the five warriors were soon trekking again through the wilderness. They passed through the Blood Moor and the Cold Plains without many problems; they had killed most of the inhabiting monsters in the area already. That changed once they reached the Stony Field, a wide expanse of rocky wasteland. They found the Cairn Stones of which Akara had spoken without too much trouble, as they jutted tall above anything else in the field.
Reaching the Stones was more trouble, however, as the area was crawling with demons. Blue ones intermingled with the red ones they had already met, but despite the color difference they were just as annoying. There were fireball-slinging shamans everywhere, and there was an extremely frustrating period where no matter how many of the demons they killed, there was always at least one shaman they missed who would start raising the buggers again. Wufei discovered one of the small demons who was a slightly different color from the others, and soon discovered it by far to be the nastiest of the lot. But once it was