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[Ecg]: (To Jake) : If we can borrow a furnace and use some of the tools to make our climbing spikes and picks."

(to the master smith) : "Well, you see... my friend and I had found some scrap metal and we were wondering if there was any sort of way to change it into climbing implements, so when I had..."

*loses his train of thought*

*Looks at a furnace that is not being used*

Master: "so you would like to either borrow my furnence to do it, or have me do it?"

[Ecg Unagi]: "It would... er,- be of a great honor for you to allow us to borrow your furnace."
*Grasps his two own hands together like so, in earnest*

MS: "Sure,if you have money or are a mage."

[Ecg]: "Well, Sort of..."

*Uses a bit of manipulated wind to make the billows go by itself.*

".. I guess you could say. Er,- thanks."

*Gets to it then*

MS: "Newbie, eh Jake?"
Jake: "Yeah. HE doesn't realise that while in city, he doesn't ahve to worry."

They both laugh, but so that Ecg can't hear them.

[Ecg Unagi]: "I've finished the climbing picks" he says, as he comes in and sets the two finished pieces down in the front-room where Jake and the master smith are at. "Now I've just got to make the spikes that we'll be using for rope-ties and then,-..."

*Wonders what the two might be chuckling about*
Thinks: hmm...

*Checks behind his back to see if there wasn't a sign placed on it.*
nope.
*looks down*
Shirt isn't untucked/tucked wrong. Fly isn't...

~Oh-kay,... [that's of] no matter~
*Dismisses it*

*Goes back into the other room, and works on making the climbing spikes*

MS: "So how have you been these years, dear Master Mercenary?"
Jake: "Don't call me that! You know I am 'retired' from that bussiness, and am a mage now!"

[Ecg]: *Heats and cools the metal... to temper it into ... short-blunt
pices that are tapered on one side.*
He then reheats it, and taps with a hammer every so often.

*And repeats*
Thinks: There we go... 6 or twelve of one... and then maybe two or three different lengths.

*Keeps at it.*
...

*Walks into the room when he has finished.*

"Are these alright?"

*Holds one out, where it is kind of obvious/easy to see... but not exactly up in anybody's face*

*Ecg rubs a fang idly with one or two of his fingers before noticing...*
Oops.
^_^;
*Gets that to go away*
Eh-heh.

Thinks: Great you, you're going to get us all into great-big trouble; just like that one time where you were at one of the villages.


Fortunately though it seemed quick enough,- that maybe...

MS: It looks fine. Should work. Your not thinking of climing the mount are you?

jake: Yep. I am coming along to keep things neat.

[Ecg Unagi]: *Gives this crazy-eyed, partly gleaming look*
"I've never seen what it is like, there... only heard a bit of it," he says in a way that places an amount of emphasis on the seen part.

~Jake, it's okay to trust this guy, right? I mean, yeah,- he lent us the forge, and you and heseem to get along okay... but I~

*Laughs a bit to himself seemingly about nothing.*

"Yes,- that is exactly what he and I are planning to do. That means it is more likely to be true, what others have said about how it is said to be dangerous, yes? Even better."

MS: Right lad. Well, i hope you have a second fighter, other then Jake here. he may be good, but not good enough. he almost made the summit once before.

Jake: Okay old man. he don't need to hear about me falling off of a ledge, and tumbling back down the moutain....dang it!

[Ecg]: *Seems to be more busily examining dirt under his nails, that have converted back into chort clawlike tips*

"Hmm..."

*Changes it back.*

"It's alright. My dad's a pirate; I used to go fiddling around with guns... nearly blasted half- my own face off, taken down a few other people in the process, nearly."

*Laughs about this heartily, for-a-second or two, then feels sort of like an idiot (and gets real quiet-likes).*

Blake: Yeah, well you never went up a mountian and fall ALL THE FREAKING WAY DOWN again.

[Ecg]: "Well,- one time there was this cliff... but, no_ can't say I've had >that< one..."

*Shoulders his pack*

"C'mon. You said you were gonna continue to train me,- so that I could get finer control over this stuff. Well, , at least I'm not setting things on fire by accident anymore."
*shrugs*

"Don't tell me you're afraid of heights? Look, if it makes you feel any better, I'm afraid of getting taken advantage of,- by pretty girls."

*Looks left, then right, before continuing*

"besides... With what's his name missing -still, the guy who I heard people before muttering about... that head honcho guy,- no-one else really has attempted & succeeded before, at taming dragons, have they?"

*Has this fanged grin*

"If we could get dragon eggs, & then, if we had dragons... then... maybe the council would have to admit... well,- either they'd think better or worse of us. I wouldn't mind being perceived at least as a blip..."

"Then again, that could be very dangerous; as though this isn't though."

*resolved expression*
"Well, Lady Shaylar needs someone's help, & since you & I are the only ones (as far as I know of), who know enough of the right things to possibly find the spring in question,- it might as well be by us, eh?"

[Ecg]: *Still trying to be persuasive*

"We might be legends..."
*over annunciates parts to the word legends on purpose*

"I miss the ocean kind of. Maybe after this, I should check out that water outpost some of the other mages had been speaking of the other day. Well, a mountain is still a mountain, & it's not exactly going to be simple & polite enough as to allow us to scale it for it, so we better get a headstart on this thing as soon as possible."

~perhaps hmm?~

[Ecg]: "Well, I trust in Jake's abilities, his exploits in the battle field were noteworthy enough, and on and off he has saved my own skin a few times. So,... well yes, there was a third member to our party for this expedition. I'm not so... sure what exactly it may have been that has been keeping him... er, I mean, some things must have came up. There isn't a price on our heads here, is there?"

~Okay Jake, yeah that was a bad question for me to ask. Couldn't hurt to find out ahead of time here though. I've been in places and situations on the opposite end of the bounty-hunter job, so it can... y'know?~

"Well, I don't care if the Great Mage Lord hisself were standing in the way of us getting to climb that mountain. He'd have to blast me into wee, bitty bits first before I'd give up trying to find what we're looking for. Treasure hunting's in my blood. well,- let's leave bloodlines out of this. Enough's here to complicate matters as is."

*Steps outside, and breaks into a run to the base of the summit*

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[Ecg]: *Comes back*
"Jake, I didn't see any dragons; all I could find was this one scale, oh well. I did find the elemental springwell we had set out for."

*Sets bottle down on table*

~It was surprisingly easy. Partially have the old-man-of-the-mountain to thank for that. Some moutaineer-hermit type feller. Kept trying to get me to give up and go back, with taunts and insults, teasing, that sort of thing. Actually helped point me in the right direction. Hmm... imagine that.~

"Well, unless you still want to go at taming the volcano and outwitting the jaws of death and all that, I think I'll be heading back to the Guild now. It was nice to meet you er,- Master Smith. Goodbye."

*Exits*