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What I Did On My Vacation (open); Or: The Time We all Went for a Swim
Topic Started: Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:35 am (342 Views)
Dali
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"What d-d-do you d-d-do with a d-drunken s-s-sailor,
What d-do you d-do with a d-d-drunken s-s-sailor,
Early in the morning?!"


The voice warbled and squeaked across the open ocean like a broken calliope, rending the ears of everything within hearing. There wasn't a single bird for miles. Indeed, had the noise been able to pass the air/water barrier, there wouldn't have been any fish for miles either. Even the seagulls had vacated the area.

The source of the musical butchery could be located in a dingy, where a hairless, shirtless, sunburned half-elf was laying on his back, staring at the cloudless sky. There was a blister-like scar running the length of his right forearm and the arm in question was about twice the size of the other one and oozing. "I know you're st-st-still there," he said loudly. He rolled over and picked himself off the bottom of the boat, standing up to glare at the three monstrous spiders on the horizon.

The spiders had been there for three days. They had appeared shortly after getting stung by an unfortunate jellyfish that had washed into the boat. The middle one could block out the sun from time to time and the other two were the size of mountains. They leered at him. How anything with mandibles could leer was not the point. Dali just knew they were leering. "You're not real!" He shouted. "You would have chased me b-b-by now if you were real. Everything chases me!"

"Ha!" He waved his arms at them, tripping over the shirt he had knotted up to plug the hole in the bottom of the boat and falling on his rear in two inches of water. Part of him wondered if it was getting higher. The last time he'd used Create Water, it hadn't put this much in the water in the boat and he'd drank quite a bit of it. He tasted the liquid. It was rather briny. How odd.

And then the spiders started leering again and the water was forgotten. "D-d-don't think I d-d-don't see that!" he shouted. "Ha!" That didn't seem to take care of it, so he added, "I d-d-don't believe in you! D-d-do your worst!" This didn't provoke them either so he started to get creative. "You're nothing but..." he tried to think of something vaguely spider shaped, "overgrown cabbages! With d-d-dry rot! After a b-b-bad infestation of l-l-leaf weasels!" He tripped over the shirt again, but would not be daunted. "You can't get me!" he rose again and danced a little jig that sent to dingy to rocking dangerously. He started to laugh - that mad laughter you get when someone's fear is so overwhelmed by exhaustion and adrenaline is degenerates into hysteria. "You can't get me!"

He was so focused on the horizon that he didn't see the dangers around him: the sinking boat, some curious sharks, and whatever might have been coming up behind him...
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Lilith landed lightly on the sinking boat. She had used spells to study the man from afar and to detect his alignment. She could tell he needed help for he kept talking to nothing. She was able to fly to him, for she was a faery.

Her light blue hair and silver eyes sparkled as she looked at him. She was short, only five foot two inches and very little. But she was fae and gifted with many spells. She also had a major healing spell that could very well help the man.

"Sir, I have come to your aid. Please do not be frightened. I am not of your imagination. I have watched you from afar. My name is Lilith. I have the ability to heal you, if it is what you wish."

Lilith was good to the very core. Her only downfall was trusting the evil and she was vulnerable to lies. While she could detect alignment, she knew that did not always mean the person was evil to the core. Sometimes, she could speak to their very inner core and find some good in them. But she was a healer. She lived to help others, while she hardly thought of herself.
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Dali heard the voice, quiet clearly. He turned and saw a tiny, blue...doll. Yes. It clearly had to be a doll. A child couldn't have that figure. And most of them...he corrected himself...some of them didn't have wings.

He lowered himself in the bottom of the boat, staring at the...fairy. Yes. It clearly had to be a fairy. A fair fairy.

Why not? The spiders made sense.

"Sir," the fairy said, "I have come to your aid. Please do not be frightened. I am not of your imagination."

"Yuh-huh," Dali snorted, but the fae continued.

"I have watched you from afar. My name is Lilith. I have the ability to heal you, if it is what you wish."

"I d-d-don't b-b-buy that you're real for a moment," he said, resting his cheek on his fist. "Fairies appear in s-s-stories about d-d-deserving kitchen wenches and wooden p-p-puppets - not in the middle of the s-s-sea in reality and not for s-s-stranded l-l-locksmiths. Now, if you were a mermaid, that I could b-b-buy. Maybe."

He closed his eyes. When he opened them again, she was still there.

But, then again, so were the spiders.
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Lilith knew she had no choice. She would have to take matters into her own hands, literally. She grabbed the man by the forearm and closed her eyes. She centered herself and felt her healing power flow into the old man trying to find the place were he needed it most. The power warmed her as it flowed from the center of her core and into her arm then into the man. He should feel the sensation as well. Once she felt the healing begin, it only took moments for it to end.

Opening her eyes, she smiled at him. She felt that she'd healed him but only he could say so. She had used her greater heal on him, for the wound on his arm was severe. She saw that it had closed up and his arm was slowly coming down to its normal size. She relaxed, feeling that she had truly been able to help him. She hoped she had healed him in time. If the poison had reached his brain, there would be no healing it.

"Tell me you feel better. Can you see me clearly now? Are you hallucinating anymore? Tell me how you came about this wound. I need to know more to make sure you are completely healed."
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A wonderful cooling sensation flowed over Dali's arm. It spread into the rest of him, clearing his head and mind.

Then it stopped. And the dehydration headache hit him like a hammer. Five solid days of blazing sun had not helped.

But the spiders were gone. The fairy was still there. Then again, she had apparently healed him and she was supposed to be real. What did she say her name was? Lily? No. Lilah? No, that sounded even less close.

"I've...been better," he said, rubbing his temples. It was then he noticed the shark swimming by.

"YIKES," he cried, throwing himself toward the middle of the boat.

The shark, smelling his fear, bumped the boat with its nose, causing it to rock slightly.

Dali looked at the blue fairy again. "Um...I'm very sorry about what I said earlier. I don't suppose you have any magic that will get us out of here?"

"Um...I don't mean to be a pest, but I don't suppose you
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Lilith contemplated her next move. She didn't have any magic that could get them out of there quickly. Staring down she looked at the poor frightened old man. She needed the spell blink but she didn't know it. Instead, a thought came to her.

"I'm just going to have to fly us out of here." She couldn't pick him up, his weight would be too much for her wings. But she could fly and bring the boat along. At least she hoped she could. It would be very tiring for her, but she saw no other way. The boat had no oars. And the only other thing she could do was stun the sharks long enough for them to get away.

She closed her eyes again, centering herself. She could feel the magic tugging from the inside out. She opened her eyes and held her hands towards the shark. "Stun!", she yelled. The shark went belly up, but she knew it was still alive. It would only be stunned for a few moments and she needed to get them away before it woke up and got angry.

She flew to the head of the boat and with her little slippers touching the water, she tried to heave the bought forwards. It moved along with her, but it wasn't easy. She gritted her teeth and tried harder. It continued to move with her and soon they were speeding across the ocean towards the beach.
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"Wow," Dali said as the boat picked up speed, leaving a little bit of wake. He peered over the bow at the tiny fairy straining herself to pull the boat. He felt a little guilty about being nothing but dead weight. He looked around for something to do.

There wasn't much. He finally settled for trying to bail out the boat with his cupped hands.

That was when he noticed the two shadows following them in the water. One of them was very, very big. "Um..." he said to the fairy. "I don't mean to alarm you, but..." a triangular fin broke the water, "...oh boy."
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Lilith looked back at the man. She realized she didn't know his name and asked, "What's the matter? By the way what's your name..", that was when she saw what had sparked his alarm. The large sharks were following them and one looked mad enough to eat them both. "Oh no!" She tried to pick up speed. She could see the beach in the distance and it seemed forever away. She didn't know how she was going to make it. She was already tired and didn't have the energy to create anymore magic. She needed to rest, but to do so would surely mean their death. Well she could always fly away, but she would never leave the old man alone.

"Do you have any magic? A sword, anything?" She had left all her things on the beach once she had decided to fly over the ocean a little ways before she had spotted the old man. The sharks surely wouldn't follow them too close to shore, but she couldn't be sure. They seemed awfully angry for such mindless creatures.
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The sharks disappeared - the smaller one veering off, the larger going...somewhere. It was just suddenly gone. Dali scanned the water's surface but saw nothing. He edged further up the bow and said, "I think they've..."

Then the back end of the boat flew up in the air as the shark hit it from underneath. The animal had enough speed to breech, sending its one ton body up high into the air.

Dali went up with the boat, flying over the fairy's head and hitting the water in front of her as the shark came down with a gargantuan splash behind her, destroying the remains of the boat.

As for Dali, fear is a great motivator and he was a decent swimmer. He rode the wave from the shark's impact, legs kicking and arms flailing for all he was worth. Then only thing that ran through his mind was: "Don't look like a fish, don't look like a fish, don't look like a fish..."
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