<div class="floatleft">(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a304/RuffNRowdy/406a14c5-1c3e-4906-8bb2-fc68abc3d152_zps31e62764.png)</div><div class="floatright">(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/141/2/9/cassidy_the_cotton_candy_by_pamelasantos-d660siv.jpg)</div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Becky Puddleberry</strong></span> (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=987688)</div><br/>Becky had forgotten about the elf she'd been traveling with.  Well, not entirely, of course, but after she'd tried to finagle directions from a badger and ended up listening to him complain for about ten minutes about the gophers and moles living in the area, and apparently showing no regard for his burrow and tunnels, the elf had sort of slipped her mind.  By then, her stomach had been grumbling, so she'd stopped to have a bit of lunch, then take a short nap, and had only begun to wonder where the elf went after she'd woken up.<br/><br/>"Well, this is hardly how I'd expected to meet up with the rest of my party.  Still, it beats putting an ad in the paper."  Looking for group ads only ever netted strange, clumsy women with bra sizes greater than their IQs, and up-tight elves who insisted on being the leader.  Speaking of elves...<br/><br/>The gnome in the pink and purple cheerleader uniform crept up near enough to Tluian to cast a spell, which meant she didn't have to be all that near at all, thankfully.  All the easier to avoid the notice of the small, angry, green men.  She reached into her scroll case and pulled out a squawking hen with tan feathers (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=63333).  The chicken was dropped with a notable lack of surprise that a chicken was somehow in her scroll case in the first place and she reached in a second time to try for her scroll once more.  This time she snagged the scroll she was after (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=63335), and flipped it open to incant the words written with a loud, boisterous tone, an upbeat, perky sort of rhythm...and bouncing, kicking and gyrating to boot.<br/><br/>But, unfortunately, the spell vanished from the page and fizzled without producing any result. (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=63342)