<div class="floatleft">(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFUS_JCWkAEjgaD.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Lucien Norva (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=333483.msg15943817#msg15943817)<br/><strong>Race and Occupation:</strong>Dhampir Alchemist<br/><strong>Location &amp; Time:</strong>Generic Cave Dungeon One | Afternoon, W1D2<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Rei<br/><br/>Her responses were halting, even stuttered. Frustration seemed to build in her as he spoke--an oddity in itself given the high speed of her conversational prowess before the imbibing occurred. A sheen of sweat had noticeably gathered on her brow. Normal after being in battle, yet her distracted air brought his attention to it all the same. This was a bad side effect indeed. If only she would be more open in relaying them. It would at least dispel his most pervading (and most perverse) theory.<br/><br/>But she was off again soon after, looking for things to destroy. That, at least, he could appreciate. "Ah, you found the worktable. I'm not sure if you can read this etching in the dark," he said, his finger tracing over a corner of the flat surface. She wouldn't see anything there but flatness pitched in the same shadow that filled the cave, but if she ran her finger above it she would feel the engraving. "'Zutta wuz here.' Zutta is a kobold name if I've ever heard one. She could be the key to this mystery." Looking closer, he noticed a cylinder shape laid across one of the worktable's legs. An appendage for a new dummy, perhaps?<br/><br/>With a shrug of his shoulders he continued on, whispering "come" to the preoccupied ninja. "If this Zutta is here, we may be able to capture her and get to the bottom of this mystery."<br/><br/>He led the way into the last passage of the cavern, careful to listen out for creaking, but he heard none. If there were any dummies about, they were deathly still.<br/><br/>Finally they approached the final portion, and thankfully for the ninja, the lit lantern within set a flickering light across the corridor walls and bathed the pair in color as they entered through an oddly symmetrical rocky archway. Looking around, able to see clearly and without shade, they would see...<br/><br/>No one.<br/><br/>All that remained was a tattered sleeping bag, bundles of tiny clothes, a staff made for a smaller race leaned up against a shoddy writing desk, and a few scattered notes obviously left behind. "It seems our target fled," Lucien sighed, moving to kneel down and examine one of the papers on the cavern floor. "Perhaps we really should have been quieter..." he trailed off, brows knitting together as he read the words on the sheet of paper. "'Zutta wuz here...suckers...'"<br/><br/>He turned just in time to see the makeshift bars fall from the rocky archway, slamming shut and trapping the two of them.<br/><br/>Then came a frail yet malicious voice from whence they came.<strong>"Hahahaha suckers!"</strong>Out in the corridor stood a small, lizardlike figure of pink scales and .<strong>"All's I had to do was hide and let you two nosey idiots walk right into my trap. For people so stupid, it's surprising that you discovered <em>and</em> foiled my most genius plan!"</strong><br/><br/>Lucien blinked slowly, then cast Rei a glance and a shrug that said 'I have no idea what she's talking about.'