A sun not her own.

[silke_rahn]

Qulie Vrinn was in the sixth month of her sentence. She rarely went out into the prison's exercise yard without wearing the prision issue jacket and billed baseball cap. She was shorter than the other inmates and to some that made her easy prey. The only thing that saved her from being jumped by the tougher women in the facility were her skills as a fighter and her ability to talk anyone into doing her bidding. Oh, and the fact that she was now the girlfriend of the biggest meanest African American woman in the joint.

Qulie by the shear fact that her skin was black as night was lumped in with the black sisters in the prison. That she was not human did not matter to the racists that ran the other gangs of women in the general population. She was one of three Drow in this prison. All three of the ones that came to eliminate the heritic Nedylene Vrinn and her bastard offspring Silke, Sabine, and Ursula Rahn had failed. She and the two assassins from her mother's secret police were not going to see the Underdark for sometime if ever. The only Drow on this world beside her and her two minions were the Eilistraee lovers that had the local humans working with them. So Lolth carried no sway here, only her rebel child Eilistraee, though her following was small. But Qulie was slowly bringing some humans, most were women of color over to the Spider Queen. Sad thing is that back in Faerun's Underdark they would be just valued members of the slave stock. Here though they were a pool of power to build upon. Who knows maybe the Spider Queen can turn those that are the most loyal into proper minions and start a new race of Drow on this world, a race that truly respects its creator.

Today was not that day though. Today Qulie had to meet with the only Drow spirital advisor available, Ursula Rahn the half-Drow sister of Silke Rahn and a cleric of Eilistraee. [i:uxj2f3ya]Pitty the woman thinks she can convert me to the weak pathetic belief that we are welcome by the creatures of light.[/i:uxj2f3ya] Qulie was thinking as she sat down at the visitation table in the visitors' room. The only two that ever saw her here were her human lawyer and Ursula Rahn.

[i:uxj2f3ya]Ursula and the other two of the triplet daughters of Nedylene ought to be happy when their mother passes they can start a new house and be done with us once and for all.[/i:uxj2f3ya]

Ursula sat at the table looking at Qulie as she came in to the vistation room. With her this time was a woman she would have never suspected coming to Earth and two of her Dark Sisters as protection. Akordia Vrinn back in the form of a proper Drow looked at her daughter approaching the table in the human prison.

With Ursula though were two of the guards from the local temple of Eilistraee. They unlike Qulie and the Underdark Drow seemed to still retain the ability to manipulate magic in this otherwise magic forshake world.

"Mother why have you come to this world?"

"Ursula, her sister Sabine, and Nedylene worked with the humans that run this country and allowed me to come see you."

"It took some work Qulie, but the Federal Government relented and the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security cleared the way to allow Akordia to come and see you. She is being treated like a visiting head of state, so no harm will come to her. We did this because Silke, after attack on us in the 5th Street Pub took a leave of absence from her University, got the director of a secret military project near Topeka to let her and two American Army officers cross over to Toril. You know the reason they went don't you?"

"Ursula, I'm not stupid. Your sister and her friends went over to rescue your father from our slave pens."

"Well daughter your cousin succeded, but she is late in getting back. I came to patch up the relations with this branch of the family and the House. The government of this nation is helping us to come to an understanding. They have agreed to let you return to Toril and to our city so long as I agree not to send anymore assassins through to eliminate this branch of the family. The other stipulation was that the Earth House of Vrinn will only visit the surface of Toril and will continue their exile from the Underdark."

"What if I chose to stay."

One of the only two humans present other than her lawyer looked up. She was wearing a black, high end women's business suit and mirrored sunglasses. She removed the sunglasses and stared at Qulie with the coldest pair of blue eyes the Drow had ever seen.

"Well then Ms. Vrinn the State of Kansas will transfer custody of you over to the Federal Government. I will gaurantee your mother her that we will not keep you in a Federal facility on this or any other Earth. You will be transported to an off world facility of our chosing and your mother and your homeworld will become just a fond memory of yours. Oh, you will be allowed freedom of movement within the facility and on the planet that is its home."

"Are there any other options?"

"No. Ms. Vrinn I assure you that the United States takes a very dim view of those that try to kill its citizens regardless of their race or ethnicity. Thanks to your cousins here we have had to readjust our antidicrimination laws, but you are just lucky that your case did not become a Federal Case. I could on good authority tell you that we would not be having this conversation. You would be in our facility for off-world and cross-time criminals."

"Would you answer one question Ms.?"

"Special Agent Grace Agularia of Department 7 of DHS, and yes ask."

"Who is your companion, he's dressed in the dress uniform of one of your armed forces?"

"Ms. Vrinn, I am Lieutenant Colonel Shepard and it is my duty to escort you to the facility that Agent Agularia mentioned if you don't take the offer."

"Akordia convince your daughter to take the deal. I believe time is beginning to run out on it."

"Agent Agularia is right we don't have much time. In the facility where I came into this world from there is a team of human and Earth dwelling Drow soldiers getting ready to go over to our world to find Silke, her father, and her friends. If that happens Toril would likely be changed forever and life there has changed so much as you already know."

"It look's like I have no choice in this. I accept Agent Agularia."

"Good, Then my agency, the Kansas Attorney General's office, the Kansas Department of Corrections, and your attorney will work out the details of your release. Unfortunately it only applies to you, not your accomplices. They well remain here in Federal custody until such time as when we might need something to trade with your mother."

"If I didn't know better Agent, I would swear you are a Drow."

"Now let's not trade insults Qulie, you have to get yourself ready to go home. Tomorrow you get on the bus for a ride to Forbes Field. Then a trip through the Rabbit Hole and home."

OOC: anyone can join in after Qulie gets back to Toril and Faerun.

[silke_rahn]

OOC: This is the beginning of the RP

The Kansas Department of Corrections bus dropped Qulie in front of a rather old brick and metal building on the edge of the Forbes Field Air National Guard Base. Two Army National Guard MPs and two Air National Guard SF/ SPs escorted her off the bus and into the building. The only indication of the use of the building, an old bomber hangar from the period the Earther's called the Cold War was a sign made of two wood beams connecting two field stone pillars. One bean had on its green painted side the words "75th Civil Support Team (Counter Terrorism) carved into it. The words were painted yellow. The second beam was similar, but the words read "80th Signal Battalion."

Her guard took Qulie through the corridors of the office wing of the building then turned toward the double doors that lead into the former hangar. On one door a black and white sign read "Warning, Authorized Personnel only beyond this point." Below that sign a green and yellow sign read "80th Signal Battalion, Operation Looking Glass, Project Rabbit Hole." There were two female MPs by the door. One was a young Drow. [i:3q4x2u4x]She could not have been born when Qulie put the town of Morn's Forge to the torch all those years ago.[/i:3q4x2u4x]

[i:3q4x2u4x]In fact she had to be a Drow attuned to Earth. She is taller that the average Drow too. Almost the same height as he human next to her.[/i:3q4x2u4x] For the first time Qulie noticed that the Earth born Drow were not hesitant to be in the light, even the harsh institutional lighting of this military facility did not give the young Drow woman the same discomfort that caused Qulie to still wear her sunglasses inside.

Qulie heard footsteps coming toward her from the corridor that led to the left of the door. She looked in that direction. Coming down the corridor were her mother, the two Dark Sisters, and Agent Agularia.

"Nice to see you mother and Agent Agularia. What's this?"

Qulie shook her head toward the door.

"That Ms. Vrinn is your ride back to Toril. Shall we proceed? After Akordia, ladies, and Qulie."

The military escort waited for Agent Agularia to pass before falling in behind. The two MPs at the double doors opened them.

"Akordia, Qulie, Ladies, after you." Then Agent Agularia and the four military guards followed. The other two stayed at the door.

The inside of the old hangar was painted floor to cealing in a bright shade of white. The halogen lights glared brightly. The sunlight that came in through the windows and sky lights added to the total volumn of light.

[i:3q4x2u4x]It's a good thing I though to wear the sunglasses they let me buy at the Casey's General Store near the Prison on the way here. Mother and her to Dark Sisters had to pull up the hoods of their cloakes to keep the glare in her out of their eyes.[/i:3q4x2u4x]

Then Qulie and the other Drow in her party gasped at the sight in the middle of the hangar's floor. Standing about twenty feet across was a cicular archway with many different sort of electronics attached around its circumfrence. To the side closest to the doors that led into the other wing of the building were the controls for the ring. Several technicians in Army Combat Uniforms or Air Force fatigues with lab coats over their uniforms worked the controls. Other soldiers and airmen and airwomen stood guard around the chamber. The flat sides of the ring were open to the hangar doors on either of the long sides of the chamber.

OOC: there are some Earth born Drow in the ranks of the 75th CST and 80th SigBat. The escort team assembled by the gate is made up entirely of Drow members of the 75th. This is one Earthside opputunity to have an active part in the RP. The Drow on Earth use the standard Forgotten Realms naming convention for their race, but some Earth born Drow also have Earth based given names and their family names. I.E. Maria Pharn or Juan Illistyn. Also there are opputunities to have a branch RP dealing with the descendants of the refugees from Morn's Forge and the former Torilian surface, now Earth dwelling branch of the House of Vrinn. Think the D20 Urban Arcana environ, but with the Drow from Forgotten Realms. Also for physical discriptions the only differences in Earth born from their Forgotten Realms counter parts is their increasing height. the first and second generation of Drow born on Earth are about four inches taller on average for females and six inches taller for males. Their average weight varies by five pounds for each sex over the average of their Underdark and Toril surface dwelling cousins. Other than this feel free to make someone up and put in your part.

[Elrohir]

OOC:Hello again silke firstly id like to say i like your stories As i have played with Silke her self in long lost maiden (i think thats the name) i had wondered if there would be a chance to see the earthside world more and as i have made it back to the forums i see you have one up. So i gotta join this one too I to have fancied the d20 modern settings. and being in favor with the dwarves and gnomes more then the elves and drow.

I put togather Dwarf quarter in The Ft worth Dallas metroplex area. Something like China town where through ancient rune magic a portal was opend to the world of earth and The dwarves emerged on earth in the late 1600's and early 1700's during the discovery of the new world. I have a character Who's one of those dwarves. Hes a couple hundred years old Hes a military man served in nearly every great american war through the times. starting with the Texas Revolution to WWI & II Japanese Front, Vietnam. His military specialty ranges from a Cannoneer in the civil war to Infantry/Demolition specialist/Heavy Gunner. He became a DI after some service at Nam. Then went inactive Due to massive injury. His right side had been shreded with a close by claymore mine But his dwarven toughness and great constitution he survived to what a human would call a miricle. Since Retireing from his Rank of Sergent Major of the Marine Corp. Confined to a wheel chair for around ten years he became a Military instructor at Texas A&M As well as an American History/ War History Professor. Only untill Recently In 2001 Shortly after 9/11 Did he join a simmilar department like Department 7. Section 13 They more or less likely deal with Extra Terrestrial not Extra Dimensional beings. When it became known that Osama Binladen was actually an Extra terrestrial being From some far off Galaxy. (Haha) He served as a Demolitions Technition untill recent advances in technology gave him working appendages. (I forgot to mention his name earlier. Its actually Borador Cloudkeeper. aka "TNT" or just "T" and now Greybeard as his once black beard has gone a charcoal grey in his elder age of 251 as of november 17 2007.)

So his companions are other worldly as well. I will be assumeing their roles as well. Nailee a subdemonial creature they are actually native to earth but from the deapths of the oceans and great seas. (much like sea elves just slight variations in apperance such as they dont have hair but tenticles their skin is like that of seals but varing in all ranges of the colors of the sea. They are actually 99% water so they dont actually breath so they can walk on land but must stay near water so that they may rejovinate themselves. They can manipulate and sometimes create water in all its forms. It comes to them naturaly (I have a system for them as a series of spell like abilities gained at new levels) Nailee is a computer techie and is a leading robotics and cybernetics scientist At the University of Texas. She Met "T" At A military parade at Texas A&M Infact she is the one who developed the technology in Cybernetics to get the Human brain to give Robotic apendages comands such as move fingers or walk and even breath or pump life giving blood. She is T's Fiance' after two years of courting.

My second companion Pheonix Templarius. A protoss Zealot. If youve ever played starcraft you know what he is. Hes your brute warrior type upclose with his psi blades. They are a psionic race and they have evoloutions gained by either experiance or age depending on circumstance. They are tall and hearty creatures rangeing from 6'9" to 9'6" Rarely in the 10' area Pheonix is 7'8" their skin appears scaily but not fish scale more reptilian like a snakes or lizzards. When Excited they secreat a clear fluid on their elongated heads. being a highly advanced race their inteligance and technology superceed that of any human kind Even Magic would seem primitive to their Psionic capabilities. They are an Honorable race once a protoss has given his word he or she sticks with it untill compleation of his word or his death. Though for protoss Death is only the beginning of their evoloution. Protos Technology and psionic abilities Warp in mechanics by Cacooning within an other worldly hard shell and their spirit gains a cybernetic shell and becomeing a Dragoon (For more on the evoloution talk to me diffrently Pheonix is still in the first stages of evoloution hes still got a flesh body and is a zealot warrior of. His psionics are combative mostly and less introusive mostly generateing twords their protective psi sheild, and psi blades. Though they exceptional learn other abilities other then the norm. Pheonix manipulates fire as a pyro kineticist. So far as Known Pheonix is the only Protoss on planet earth. He was sucked into a worm hole that came into existance in his Corsair Cruise Ship. Crash landing in 1973 Deep in Arizona Desert. Escapeing the crash site injured and dying. he was picked up by section 13 and soon incorporated into their military unit. He Admired T's Self Knowlage and True lifes experiance. Protoss being long lived creatures as well the value of history and the warriors honor bonded the two. Since 2001 Pheonix and T and Nilee. Served as bounty Hunters of the ET and Lends support to the Department of Homland security in its counter terrorisim efforts. But more like the shadows behind the military strong arm. It was his Advanced technology that brought about the cybernetic technology that Nilee confered unto T giving him mobility and active use again.

Ill delete this if need be after your responce i just thought a little info on the characters ill be playing would be relavent to gameplay and called for this long OOC:

[silke_rahn]

OOC: I don't have a problem with other non-human enclaves in other parts of the world. The Topeka, Kansas enclave of Drow is very recent less than thirty years old. There are though other enclaves of Drow from other deminisions than one that is home to the planet Toril and the continent of Faerun where Forgotten Realms takes place. The oldest of the American based enclaves of Drow dates back to the building of the first subway in New York. Deep within the tunnel network of New York City is an underworld ruled by a house of Lolth worshippers. The oldest Drow enclave in the entire would exist in Rome it dates back to the days of the Antonine Emperors. Deep beneath the catacombs of every major city of Europe a Drow enclave of Lolth worshippers exist.

Unfortunately the Eilistraee followers in Europe during the reign of the National Socialists in Germany suffered just as virtually all other social, racial, and ethnic minorities did during the Hitlerite regime. Many a child of the Lady of the dance ended his or her life the same way as the childern of Abraham did in the camps. Those children of the Dark Maiden that escape capture and enslavement by the Nazis joined the various resistance groups across Europe. In Russia though the followers of Eilistraee's siblings wound up serving the Stalinists. Eilistraeeans in Russia served the Soviet Union as well, but these poor souls actually believed the propoganda of the regime and thought that they were doing the right thing.

The mid-twentieth century was hard on the other Elves. Most of them in the 1960s followed the Summer of Love and eventually established commune like Elven enclaves in the American west and Canada.

Silke Rahn's people probaly have the closest connection to the Church of Eilistraee and Nedylene Vrinn, Silke's mom, runs the only known temple to the Lady of the Dance in Kansas. Nedylene's Temple is associated with the multifaith ministry serving Topeka's poor, homeless, and other underserved populations. The Eilistraee Temple, a store front church on SW 6th Street near the Hummer Sports Complex treats all that enter with the hospitality and decency that is expected of the followers of Eilistraee. For those that may venture beyond Shadow and find themselves in this alternate Earth seek the Temple of Eilistraee in Topeka. The Matron Mother and Head Priestess, Nedylene Vrinn will welcome you with the same open arms as the head priestess of the temple we all come to in the main campaign here.

IC: Qulie, her mother, and her mother's guards were escorted to a waiting area to the right or south of the ring near the control center. Qulie looked around. A handsome looking human male in his forties stood over by the main workstation. He wore the Army issue camouflaged uniform under his white lab coat. On the rank tab of his uniform was the spread winged stylized eagle of a full Colonel in the American armed forces. The Colonel was directing the control team and at his signal the east and west hangar doors opened.

The Colonel gave out commands in a polite voice, but one that demanded respect. The people that worked for this officer seemed to be delited in performing their assigned task. Qulie was impressed for it was rare in the world of the Underdark Drow to find subordnates that willingly carried out their assigned duties. Most either wanted some sort of compensation or had to be forced, bribed, or enticed into carrying out the desires of a Lolthite priestess or the Matron Mother of a House. This human male got the respect he deserved from his underlings without threatening them or their families. [i:1xwbvvrt]Interesting.[/i:1xwbvvrt]

The group met up with the team that was taking them back to the Realms. Agent Agularia went up to the Drow that commanded the team. Qulie was surprised to see that it was a male. On the rank tab of his Army Combat Uniform (ACU) the Drow male wore the twin black bars that said he was a Captain in the American army. The patch of a stylize sunflower blume on his left shoulder told Qulie, who spent a lot of time in the Prison library reading or using the computers to as the rivvin say it surf the net. The Prison's staff was amazed at the ease at which Qulie learned English, Spanish and to use the Prison Library's computers. Qulie was learning all she could about Earth. She might have to return someday and did not want to repeat the mistakes that got her into the Prison in the first place. If her mother had not intervened Qulie would have studied law in the Prison's library and upon release she would have tried to enter a law school some where. Not that she had become a great admirer of the law, but being rather neutral about the concepts of law and chaos Qulie did see learning of the laws of lands to be useful tools in her trade as a rogue and assassin.

The Drow male was handed an envelope by Agent Agularia. He opened it and read its contents silently. Agularia looked at him.

"Do you understand your orders?"

"Yes ma'am I do."

"Good you can inform your charges when, but not before you reach the temple of Eilistraee near the protal that Rabbit Hole connects with on the Toril side of the wormhole."

Agularia looked over the twelve soldiers, all of them were Drow, but that was a rare thing as the military strives to keep units integrated, but this mission required a special arangement. Captain Jason Illistyn's team was formed from Eilistraee followers from across the nation. All of them were Earth-borne Drow. None were strongly held by shadow, so if they died on Toril over time their remains would return here, hopefully before anyone on the other side of the gate learned of Earth's location. Bureau 7 of DHS had a hard enough time with those that managed to get through Shadow as it was. Enough Shadowkind have come through over the centuries that many were not of shadow anymore, but of Earth. There in lies the rub, dead shadowspawn as newly arrived Shadowkind were called within the Bureau faded back to Shadow when they perished, but those born here were tied to here and stayed when they died. It made for a potention over population of burial grounds. The benefit though was Earth medicine now knew about demihuman and humanoid physiology as much as it did about human. Anthropologists like the now overdue Silke Rahn, studing the Elves and other demihumans found out that in fact these were subraces of humanity with the Elves even the Drow being the closest to humanity in genetic make-up than any other species. The word was that was why Elves mating with humans produced half-elves. It was the only explaination so far.

All of a sudden the reason for opening the hangar doors became fully obvious. An energy field formed in empty center of the ring. Like another ring in a different facility this one did the sideways flush routine before settling into what resembled a virtical pond.

Captain Illistyn when up to Akordia.

"Matron Mother if you would please..."

Illistyn gestured with his arms for Akordia Vrinn a pass through moton toward the gate.

"Iblith what is the name of this contraption of the rivvin?"

"Matron Mother that is the Rabbit Hole as its creator calls it."

Akordia raised and eye brow and cocked her head to oneside.

Qulie smiled for she new the reference. She had read The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. Again she had a piece of information that she would withhold from Akordia.

[i:1xwbvvrt]Obviously I need to get a copy of Lewis Carrol the next time I am over here.[/i:1xwbvvrt]

Capt. Illistyn with one had now gestured for the quartet of Lolthite females to go through after the first half of his team.

"Now ladies if you would please follow my first team through I will take the rest and follow through shortly."

[Elrohir]

Boots clanking as the three walked the halls of the complex to the Rabit Hole. One Short stumpy man standing barely 5'2" tho the thick square muscular form imposed as if he was as tall as the Deep violet collored Alien creature known as a protoss. The Toss standing a full 7'9" Dressed in a dark green and yellow Cybernetic styled armor definately not of any world strange scribed runes scribe the shoulder plates. The dwarf was wearing desert marine digital cammies and in full battle gear and what would look like some extra. A bald head underneith a 1960's style marine DI cover Everything about his uniform was perfect. All the way down to the 14 stripes on his fourarms leading up to the three chevrons above four bows with a Marine corp insignia in the middle flanked by two stars. (Seargent Major of the Marine Corp.) His other companion a beautiful light blue skinned woman with a curvy physique and instead of hair three tenticles. She wore close fitting black leather that complemented her skin tone. SOme parts of the body suit were missing to give here a more sexy look. the hips and most of her back. She also wore blackframed glases giving the librarian look. All she had with her was a tool belt and a computer in her left hand. Her most complementery accessory she wore was the bright white smile she flashed to everyone.

"Agent Agularia The aid you asked for from section 13 has arived."

The corpreal awaited her awknowlagement before returning to his duties.

"Crap Nilee you didnt tell me we would be helpen the fairies."

The Grey bearded dwarf chuckled as he spoke the end. Nilee frowns at him and gives him a firm wack in the back of the head *Smack*

"T dont be rude. These people are our clients."

Then a sound filled the air as if the room it self talked.

"You should know by now Nilee Greybeard will be the Dwarf he is."

As the protoss spoke from his lipless elongated head his burning neon blue eyes flared with the enunciations of the english language.

"Damn Vile woman ye be hittin me 'gain. *Whispers* You know what that does to me toot."

The Strange group of friends claiming to be a governmently recognised Counter terrorism unit under the name of Section 13 another one of those government organizations that dosent exist.

"Awaiting Orders Ma'am" The Dwarf known now by both Greybeard and "T" spoke in a thick texas Accent. He looked at Agent Agularia as he spoke.

[silke_rahn]

Agularia looked at the dwarf and the protoss. Then inclined her forehead to the outstretched fingers of her left hand. Her left arm was bent at a the elbow and forearm angled back to her head. Her right arm crossed her torso just under her bossom and the right had rested in the crook of her left elbow. She shook her head slightly. [i:39hwu79k]Dwarves![/i:39hwu79k] Then Agularia composed herself.

"Ok what if anything do you know of the Drow and the House of Vrinn from the world called Toril?"

Qulie Vrinn just smirked at the irreverant Dwarf. [i:39hwu79k]So much like his kind on Toril too.[/i:39hwu79k] Her mother Akordia pretended to not see the Dwarf or his companion.

The Earth-Born Drow in the United States Army's ACU fatigues and full patrol kit watched the mature Dwarf in Marine Corps Desert Digipats. Jason Illistyn has seen the uniform before as two of his Drow were Marine Corps Reservists assigned to his unit. They were good Marines too, the best products of the Marine Corps way of doing things. Both Corporal Eclavdra Xiltyn and Sergeant Alex Coloara had been with the USMC's Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team though in different companies. Xiltyn had served in the Pacific Fleet and Coloara in the Atlantic Fleet. [i:39hwu79k]Marines you got to love 'em.[/i:39hwu79k]

"Sergeant Major, I am Captain Jason Illystin. My team of the 75th Civil Support Team-Counter Terrorism has been tasked to escort the Vrinns back to the Torilian continent of Faerun."

Capt. Illystin gave the aura of confidence. He had an Army Combat Service Badge above his right breast pocket. If the Marine Corps Sergeant Major would take the time to look into Illystin's 201 File he would see citations for the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars with V devices for Valor, four Army Commendation Medals two with V devices, an Army Achievement Medal, and the Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal. Also Illystin was an expert shot with virtually every small arm in the Army's inventory. Illystin besides Army ROTC and the Military Police Officers' Basic Course had attended and passed Airborne School, Air Assault School, Ranger School, Army Sniper School, Survival, Escape, Resistance, and Evasion Training and Counter Terrorism training at the FBI Academy on the USMC Base at Quantico, VA. Illystin was also the Unarmed Combatives Instructor for the 75th CST-CT.

[Elrohir]

A wide grin spread across the face of the dwarf showing large square teeth a few of them gold. and Hes missing his third from the top right.

"Marines! Sound off!!! (OOC: pardon my use of your contengiant but any marine Knows its chain of comand and in the enlisted ranks Seargent Major is the General of the Enlisted ranks It could be highly likely that he even trained them to be marines. As he served at Camp Pendelton from the 60's to the 90's))

The two marines would sound off

"Semper Fi Do or Die Oorah Oorah!!!"

"At ease Marines."

The Dwarf Imposed and took upon a personal inspection of the two marines. The blue Tenticled woman Approaches the captain and Agent Agularia.

"Youll have to excuse Him hes a Marine what can I say. Im Nilee The charming but silent man behind me is Pheonix Templarius of Aiur."

The Protoss bowed his head and closed his eyes and placed his right hand in a closed fist over his chest as a salute.

"That over there is Seargent Major Borador Sandstone. We are Section 13 Primarily we deal with Extra Terrestials like Pheonix here But Greybeard wanted to see the resting place of his father in Mithril Hall. So he took this case to Provide Support to your unit. We have been breifed breifly. Borador told me tales of the darkskinned elves invadeing Mithril Hall after king Bruenor reclaimed the throne. We dont really care what the purpose is that the drow are doing there thing. We do know how to kill em with specialty and ease. T Expects to be transporting to the tunnels of the underdark that also lead to Mithril hall. I dont have the heart to tell him that it might not be there that we land."

Pheonix set his gaze upon the Matron mother that tried to ignore him. Reaching out with his mind to grace hers. (OOC:He is highly psionic receptive as it is his primary form of comunication Much like that of illithids. Tho unlike a human and the double helix dna strands the Protoss have a Trihelix makeing their inteligence far more advanced then those of Human descent.

"Ignorance is bliss. As Intolorance is Chaos."

The voice resounded only for the matron mother of house Vrinn (Akordia i beleive) to hear within her head.

[silke_rahn]

Akordia looked around to see who invaded her thoughts. She was not accustom to such an invasion and whom ever it was that spoke that last had better be careful. Akordia was as adept at the powers of the mentalist as she was at channeling the power of the Spider Queen. [i:3u5nb5c3]Who ever you are I advise you not to invade my thoughts like that again or you may just find yourself in the Abyss face to face with my matron. I truly don't think that you'd welcome an audience with the Spider Queen...[/i:3u5nb5c3]

[Elrohir]

If a smile could apear on his face it would. Tho he made no motion or movement to let akordia know it was The giant of an alien race.

"Your goddess means nothing to me and misplaced threats get you no where. All your kind are inferior. I have even endured what you Earth dwelling creatures call magic. And have Easily cowered your Illithid race. We Protoss are perfect from our creation. We do not die we only ascend to greatness."

Violet glowing eyes smiled back at akordia.

"Your stature in your home grants you confidance. But as i told you before Ignorance is bliss and Intolerance is Chaos. You do not tolorate Weakness Which brings about your beloved Chaos. But yet Ignorance is not always bliss when combined with over confidance. Ignorace and over confidance can bring about your own doom. We have come to help and I made conversation and you reply with threats of death and meeting your spider kissing queen. I warn you to be more carefull when confronting Others Especialy those to whom can break all your wards and goddess giveing protections with a meer thought or blink of an eye."

......................... "Ignorance is bliss As Intolorance is Chaos. Think on it. The two are one in the same."

His presence left her head, but that lingering effect of a supirior being, being present within her mind leaves a welling migrain.

(( Umm ill wait for your replies to the other characters talking and what not before i reply back for TnT and Nilee.)))

[silke_rahn]

Jason Illistyn looked at the people gathered. He knew that the portal would not stay open forever.

"People we need to cross now or wait another thirty minutes for the machine to cool down and reset."

He waited for everyone that was crossing over to go through the event horizon. He thought it interesting that this device had the same effect that the device in New Mexico and the other one in Colorado had, but they only let you travel across the interstellar void. The Rabbit Hole was a cross-parallel portal that opened up a wormhole that let you go through to worlds or Earths that were in a parallel universe to this one.

[Elrohir]

Hearing that time was short TnT and his group knowsn as section 13 preped their equiptment and Headed off through the portal when it was their turn.

"Ill Have Me axe in one hand and me trusted Boomstick in the other. HEHEHEHE!!!! Lets Go Marines."

Nilee just roled her eyes and walked forward messing around with her hand held pda. Whilst Pheonix kept his mental eye on Akordia and followed his friends.

((Being as how its your game ill let you come up with whats on the other side of the rabit hole))

[silke_rahn]

Jason Illistyn watched as first the dwarf and his companions slipped through the event horizon, then the party of the Vrinns. Now it was his part of his team's turn to follow.

Not taking chances he kept his MP-45 in position to grab once he passed through. With a glance through to Colonel Mann he stepped into the pool of the event horizon behind the rest of his Drow.

Like the gates in New Mexico and Colorado this one tunneled through reality. Only instead of crossing interstellar space the Rabbit Hole plunged one through a tunnel of light across the viels that separate the different realities from each other. Like the stargates the Rabbit Hole's tunnel was a wild rollercoaster ride until you were put back together and thrown out the portal at the other end.

Unlike the stargates the portal on this side of the Rabbit Hole was not a twin to the device on Earth. This one resembled a stone arch in the midst of a ring of stone monoliths. Jason had visited Stone Henge on Earth and marveled at the power he sensed there. This place resembled it. The circle of stones sat on a flat crested hill in the midst of a vast forest that stretched as far as the eyes would see.

"Well I guess we don't need to wonder now who built the stone rings on Earth if this is their handy work too?"

Illistyn did not dwell beyond that comment before he dropped his pack, disassembled his submachinegun and took the crossbow from its case and assembled it. It was an Army issue repeating crossbow designed after one of ancient Chinese manufacture only of modern composit materials. He then adjusted his back hanger baldric with its bastardsword in place. The blade was his personal property. It was made by a mastercraftsman Bladesmith in Lawrence, Kansas that Jason met and befriended at the Bonner Springs-Kansas City Renaissance Festivals. The double wrapped weapons belt around his waist held not only three pouches with personal items in them, but a broadsword a companion dagger made by the same man that made the bastardsword. All the blades were mastercrafted damascus steel. Thus making them deadly works of art. Each blade had nearly one thousand layers of folded and hammered high carbon cold steel. An advantage of being an Earth-Born even a Drow could handle these blade without ill effects from touching their steel. [i:12ikr7wh]The legacy of the Earth-Born over the Shadow-Born was that we are all tainted with our own Earth's pollutants from birth and thus along with our very cells being attuned to the Earth of our birth even our bodies hold the same trace elements in the compositions that our birthworld have.[/i:12ikr7wh]

Illistyn looked over to the Vrinns seeing they were not given the opportunity to wonder off in their own direction he smiled. Toril's sun was warm on his skin, but it was slightly dimmer than Earth own GV star. Sol was a bright yellow-white orb, this star was closer to just a bright yellow. Still as suns go it does not matter if it is just a few thousand degrees cooler it still can incenerate you if you are close enough to it. Or if on the surface of it's habital world its ultra-violate radiation can burn your skin Drow, Man or Dwarf if you don't take the appropiate precautions. That is why the next thing Jason did was to don his cloak from out of his pack. This black cloak with it red satin lining was made for him by a human girlfriend that lived now in San Francisco. She bore him a son, but their lives went down different paths and she was now raising their son with her significant other in a Lesbian friendly area of the City by the bay. He still visits Alak, Patricia, and Sandra every summer and during the Yule Tide. [i:12ikr7wh]Well best not dwell on those thoughts I have a mission to finish.[/i:12ikr7wh]

[silke_rahn]

Qulie looked around and pulled the hood of her cload forward further to shade her eyes from the glare of the sun. She wore gloves, long-sleeves, and leggings to cover her hands, arms, and legs. Her feet were in a pair of hiking boots she had bought at the Earth store called Vanderbelt's. There she also picked up a leather jacket, sever pairs of jeans, some halter tops, and some womens western shirts that were cropped to reveal one's abdomen. Those items were in her pack that she bought at a place called Einstein's just before going to the hangar on Forbes Field.

Now she wore the clothes her mother had brought for her to wear. from the bundle her mother's retainers placed at her feet Qulie took out sword carrier belt with a dagger and a rapier in their scabbards hanging from it. She wrapped it around her waist and then adjusted it to fit where she liked to have her weapons for easy access. Also on the weapons belt was a quiver full of short bolts for the pistol crossbow she also retrieved from the bundle. She looked around and noticed that he Juluk (male) soldier and leader of this little band had girded himself to not only fit in but with weapons that would be prized by anyone from Faerun surface dweller or denizen of the Underdark.

"So Captain Illistyn where to from here?"

Jason looked around noticing the Dwarf had also looked at him with the same question on his face.

"We go to Waterdeep and then down into Skullport. Don't worry I know the way to both. I've been here before. Toril and Faerun are my normal areas of operation. Didn't expect that Looking Glass would have personnel regurally assigned to this world did you?"