Solo mission [Monsters in the Library]

[Zira Tigress]

[ Starting date: July 27th, 2011 - 2:10PM ]
Zira spent most of her days wandering the streets of her home city of Gwendren, but when she caught wind of trouble in a library elsewhere, she just had to check it out! Zira was one who loved to read, books were nearly sacred to her so she had to help this poor man out. Making her way to this library, she stepped inside on this dark and moonless night and took a look around with her darksight lenses in. "Good evening..." She called out as she heard her words reverberate through the building.

"Hello, hello! I shall be with you momentarily!" Called a voice from what seemed a distance away. The library was vast, many shelves full of an assortment of books for every kind of reader. As she ran her fingers along a row of books, looking for certain titles, a man came up to her looking quite frantic. "Are you an adventurer answering my call for aid?" He asked quickly.

Zira nodded with a sweet smile as her bright cat like eyes eyed him for a moment. "That I am, sir. What seems to be the problem?" Knowing the problem was only the beginning, solving it was going to be the hard part. "It is in the sections below! There are two monsters that have been let loose, or created, or however they came be! I've locked them away in the area where we keep our rare books, but I'm not sure how long that steel door will hold them. I do not want them killed, or even harmed if it can be helped."

She raised a brow and moved to rummage through her rucksack. "I am not sure ... I will do my best to aid you, mi'lord." She said with a steep bow before she drew out a chain and made her way to the back. "Lead me down stairs and we shall see what I can do." The man followed after her quickly and nodded to her as he came up beside her before moving in front of her and making a quick left. She did so as well and followed him down a long spiraling staircase.

"So, you do not know how this, creatures came to be... in your library?" She could feel the air around the man tense and see his body do the same. "If I tell you, you must not speak a word of it." She stopped at the giant iron door, which loud screeches and hard pangs could be heard from. Giving him a nod and a cross of heart, she waited. "They are my sons!" Tears spilled from his eyes. "They must've come upon a book of spells and spoke one. It changed them. I am such a horrible father for letting them down here!"

The man was now in hysterics and she just nodded in understanding. "I shall do what I can not to harm them, sir. Please, head back upstairs. The last thing you want to have weighing on them when they are returned to normal is causing the death of their own father." His eyes widened at the thought and he nodded, running back upstairs. "Well, here goes nothing...." She mumbled to herself as she took a defensive stance, and let the door swing open....

[Zira Tigress]

[ TIME: 4:04PM - same day ]
As the door swung open, she caught sight of the boy beast and her face wrinkled up in disgust before she used her chain as a lasso, trying to wrap it around the beasts and all, or most of its nasty tentacles. "Oh, you look terrible..." She said with a small chuckle to herself as she drew the creature toward a torch that was anchored in the wall and she wrapped her end of the chain to it. "Now, to find your brother..." She said as she moved swiftly past the beast and to the opposite direction of it.

Using those darksight lenses she scanned down every isle of rare books that she came upon before her eyes fell upon an open book in the middle of one of the isles. She looked to her left and right to make sure she didn't see the other one and she moved toward the open book.

When she reached it she lifted it to read. "This! This is it!" She said excitedly and that was when she heard it. The sharp claws reaching around the book shelf with all of its many, ugly, beady eyes. "Oh, gross... you're ugly that the other." She made a face before she jumped back at the sound of its roar. [TBC]

[Zira Tigress]

[July 28th - 1:00PM]
Zira stood frozen in shock for a moment before she wiped her face off and start backing up slowly as her hands dug in her pack to find her rope. She kept her eyes locked on the monster as it slowly pulled its way toward her with its nasty tentacles. She swallowed hard before she gasped as her hand grabbed the rope. She ran back faster as she started swinging the rope around before she tried to lasso the now swiftly moving beast.

The rope wrapped around it and she pulled a cool little maneuver, sliding onto her back and underneath the big fucker. Once behind it, she ran forward until she felt the rope tug and then she pulled harder, tightening it around the beast before it fell to the ground, having no use of it limbs anymore as they were tied to its side now. She grinned to herself as she looked around for the book, which in all the excitement she had dropped again somewhere.

She tied the rope to another lamp and then began her look around the area she had been standing with it. "Ahha!" She said as she spotted it. It had been dropped and closed when she ran away from the creature, so now she had to look through the large book for the right spell. She had a general idea as to the area it was in so she flipped along the pages, catching glimpses of ideas for herself.

Closer to the three quarter mark of the book, she found the spell and tried to read it. It was in another language! Well, she'd try to pronounce it as well as she could as she read it aloud to the beast in front of her. "Ba'la sticata los'tabis!" She said and the beast started to glow, before it shrank and took the form of a small 8 year old boy. "Oh! Sweetie!" She said as she placed the book in her pack and ran to lift him up.

The boy was unconscious, and maybe it was for the better. She ran with him in her arms to the other boy before she placed him down lightly and pulled out the book. Reading the words once more, she watched the last beast shrink and twist into the small 10 year old boy, and she smiled and sighed in relief. "That, was slightly easier than I thought it would be." She chuckled to herself as she ran to the door and called for the library keep, their father.

He came running down to find his unconscious children on the floor, and tears of joy fell from his eyes. "OH, thank you so much Miss Zira! You have saved my sons, and my job!" He was happily shaking her hand as he spoke now. "If you want, you may keep that book, free of charge. I'm going to keep this area looked off from now on. No more of this, ever again!" She chuckled warmly at that and nodded.

"Thank you, sir. It was my pleasure." She lifted his youngest son and helped him get the boys back upstairs. He also offered her 600gp for doing such a good job, not hurting them at all. She bowed to him and thanked him before she left. She felt good about the work she had done, and now it was time to go home and play some music.

[END TIME: 1:58 - TOTAL: 1 hour and 10 minutes.]