Let me go ahead and summarize events up until now, because I know whenever I get writer's block it is usually because I have completely lost track of current events and can't really figure them out :-D<br/><br/>Nastie, please feel free to correct anything I've got wrong, okay?<br/><br/>We are in a desert because there is a tome that we were hired to find full of all sorts of illicit and naughty spells that we will totally not study and memorize before giving them to the person that hired us.  We've tracked this tome to a group of magic-hating barbarians.<br/><br/>When we approached the canyon where the barbarians were, one of the barbarian magic users (yes, apparently they have those) activated a spell that caused rocks to fall in behind us and block off our retreat.  Additionally, the falling rocks caused Phelly to slip and take a titty-bouncing tumble down the incline right into the waiting nets of the barbarians.  Two of the barbarians rode off, dragging Phelly behind them, while two more stayed to deal with us.  Yula shadow-stalked in and managed to free Phel, so the two of them are up the trail a bit, standing off against two mounted barbarians.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, Sydney blasted a non-mounted barbarian with a bit of magic, but then managed to trip over her own cloak and got herself grappled and forcibly fingered.  She has managed to ensorcel the barbarian who was mollesting her.  A second barbarian (this one female) is currently between Sydney and the rest of the party.<br/><br/>Aside from the two mounted and two non-mounted barbarians, there is also the barbarian chieften and his magic-using son.  Neither of them have acted recently and I'm not entirely sure how far away they are.<br/><br/><br/>This summary may or may not have anything to do with trying to keep you posting so your curvy little behinds remain valid prizes for Sydney's bet ^_^