h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

** Yeah... honest, too!

*She takes some fairywort starter plants from her bag, and walks back into the alley. She starts planting them in cracks in the brickwork.*

I dont know much about what is happening here...
I am afraid I may not be any help to you at all Lady Lumien

Nah, it's nice to have the company. Kind of comforting, too. I was on my own the last two times I came out this way. Also nice to have another set of eyes looking for trouble.

*Climbs up on a dumpster and stuffs the root of a fairywort into a crack in the wall.*

And as for what's happening here... these little guys seem to prevent the spread of the plague wherever they're planted, according to the lore.

lore is not always the most reliable of things,
but let us hope in this case that it is correct

Well, it seems to have worked so far with the town market and the guild itself. And in any case, we'll have the plant growing other places, in case the birch outside my room withers.

It likes shade, and gods know there is plenty of that here...

*She finishes and jumps down.* That's all I came here to do.

It is work for a good cause,
If it stops the spread of the plage,

I hope so.

** Perhaps we should leave before we attract some unwanted attention.

very well...
It's not one of the citys better sites...
but I suppose that cant be helped....
*leves the Slums*

*Takes one last look around for followers, and dashes after Alicia.*

*the rain stops and the sky lightens*

*word spreads of the King and Queen's deaths, and panic grips the slums area*

*Chandra soars overhead, observing the chaos.*

*roughs himself up a bit as he walks into the slums so he appears more like he should be there*

~Thoran

*Lumien, is, as usual, dressed in plainclothes.*

We have to be careful... from what I've seen of the slums, that little incident back there is going to seem like a schoolyard argument compared to what we're up against.

Well I'm gonna try and slip into the crowd. That way I can do some creative speaking and try and make the crowd side with any official speaker. I've been in a few situations like this before. We've got to try and keep order without appearing to be installing a martial law... it's a difficult balance.

~Thoran

*Raises an eyebrow.*

You do have more experience in these kind of situations than I. Should I play the role of official speaker? Keep in mind that they probably know more about it than I do.

*gives a hollow * I've been in a few sticky situations before. Our main problem is lack of information. Perhaps if we both go into the crowd for now and try and sway them from violence that will work. Then if we have to one or both of us can step out as officials. The other could then try and sway them further.


~Thoran

Very well. Send me a mind message if there is trouble. And be careful!

*Turns on heel, and walks into the crowd.*

*Lumien walks through the crowd, with Chandra keeping watch from high overhead. She is trying to remain as calm as possible, and hoping some of it rubs off on the frenzied crowd.*

*It seems to be working.*

~~~Thoran, get yourself into the underground tunnels that go through the city...near the king's palace, I would imagine we still are...Lycan, Alicia Brymn and I are fighting the assassin...a dark mage, very powerful, I need you to lend your skills. Hurry!~~~