Private - Wandering the crystal forest

Six different bottles Aalam had worth his way through a bottle of ale as he waited, this wasn’t an area that he was used to. After all most of the time, he was within the boundaries of the kingdom, after what had happened the last time he had left it for something like this. It ended up with him having to fight a giant insect queen and work on weakening a bandit king. In the long and short it was stress a considerable amount of weight however he had a reason that he was waiting under the shade of giant crystal. Well shade being a relative term as distorted reflects of him were being cased around him and with his hood pulled up and cloak on he looked more like an apparition than a person. Pulling out an arrow and twirling it around his fingers getting a good feel for its weight, his bow was thrown over his shoulder. Tossing away the bottle and watching it shatter on the ground and pulling another out of his inventory popping off the cork and taking a swig. Feeling that wonder affirmation of alcohol working its way down his throat before he corked the thing and placed it back into his inventory, she would be here in a little be after and the meeting to would get started.

Aalam sat down and looked at the place around him and held out an arm allow Zeus to land on him for a second to give the bird a bit of jerky before he sent him back into the air. He was still on watch from the sky. After all, it wouldn't be good to have someone wandering on him invited. Opening his UI and checking the time it was only a few minutes too, Ezra would be along shortly. He didn't tell her what he was doing or the reason that he was here but she still came. Well at least he had some new flower for her this time, flowers seemed to work well with her. Hopefully, by the end of this job she didn't look at him to different the vigil did require a certain level of ability. Lady Lucia might give him the chill but well, for the most part,Ezra didn't. Turning his attention to his surrounds, they would be here shortly, and he would need to be ready.

@Raid Master

 

Ezra did not spend time within the Crystallized Zalra if she didn’t have to. Thankfully, Lucia’s camp was more north, sitting at the base of some mountains currently, so this place was about as far removed as one could hope to get without leaving the country. But Aalam had asked her to meet him here and so, she had come. Interestingly enough, she had spared no detail toward her Ladyship nor her partners, keeping the adventure close to her heart.

Even Dispater was no where to be found.

She jogged the rest of the way through the landscape, wincing at the glimmering crystals that marked her path. She was careful with her appendages. The lore surrounding these things mentioned them being highly toxic and almost parasitic when placed within touch of the skin. Becoming a crystalized…sculpture here in the forest was not high on Ezra’s list of things to do. Arms tucked close to her sides, hair pulled back into a tight bun at the base of her skull, she spied the Ranger sitting beneath one such massive crystalized tree.

Aalam! she called, lifting a hand and waving to get his attention. More jobbing, the clank of her armor making movement difficult but not impossible. The metal was not standard mithril or even iron, but something darker with light silver scrolling on the breastplate and greaves. It as unlike anything common to the mainland of Astorea and, as far as she knew, Ezra was the only person who had such a set.

Well, she would know considering she was the one who made the armor.

Is…Is everything okay? What’s going on?​