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From the outside, the cave is nearly invisible; what looks like a simple outcropping of rock hides the entry tunnel. Inside, the cave is barely more impressive - three chambers, only the largest tall enough for even a kobold to stand upright, and that littered with sand and loose stone in lieu of any more interesting rock formation.
It's obviously not a cave that sees habitation often, but it is inhabited now - off to one side of the main chamber, there's the cooling remnant of a cookfire, with the remains of a rabbit piled neatly to the side of it; leaning against a small boulder on the other side is a kobold, her feet propped up on a leather backpack obviously designed for a much larger creature, slowly sounding out words in a book by the blue light of a magic mirror.
It's obviously not a cave that sees habitation often, but it is inhabited now - off to one side of the main chamber, there's the cooling remnant of a cookfire, with the remains of a rabbit piled neatly to the side of it; leaning against a small boulder on the other side is a kobold, her feet propped up on a leather backpack obviously designed for a much larger creature, slowly sounding out words in a book by the blue light of a magic mirror.
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Date: 29 May 2015 13:27 (UTC)"Sure," he says/types, "I can show you around if you want. My house is over there." It is the only house in view. It is big.
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Date: 29 May 2015 13:45 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 May 2015 13:57 (UTC)"Right now we're the only people near this house, but my mother and brother will probably be visiting today or tomorrow," he says/types.
Next to the house is a large and highly mysterious object. It looks big enough to fit several of Miles inside, and it has a pointy end and thin legs it perches on the ground with, and a curves-and-triangles sort of general structure. It does not appear to be either magical or alive.
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Date: 29 May 2015 14:04 (UTC)Her mirror flashes white, but as burdened as she is with the oversized backpack, it'd be hard to activate it without stopping; gathering from Leaf's tone that he's not saying anything immediately relevant, she opts not to.
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Date: 29 May 2015 14:05 (UTC)He demonstrates the switch just inside the front door that controls the lights in the front hall. It is, somehow, not magical.
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Date: 29 May 2015 14:09 (UTC)The kobold trusts her antimagic more than she trusts her magic-vision, and tests the switch herself to make sure that it is what it seems.
It appears that kobolds can giggle.
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Date: 29 May 2015 14:14 (UTC)Is this a suitable place for putting down the backpack? The kobold isn't picky, it almost certainly is. Backpack: removed. Mirror: activated. Ok, she can ask more about that later, what else is interesting in the house?
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Date: 29 May 2015 14:23 (UTC)Highlights include:
"Those are spellbooks." "Those are zorkmids."
"That's the room I sleep in." "Those are other rooms for people to sleep in."
"That's a comconsole. It's how I usually use the forum."
"That's the kitchen."
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Date: 29 May 2015 14:44 (UTC)Eventually, they run out of house. Conveniently, this happens around lunchtime.
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Date: 29 May 2015 15:08 (UTC)(He eats strange human food for lunch - groats with maple syrup, to be specific.)
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Date: 29 May 2015 15:17 (UTC)Is Leaf going to put a customary amount on his groats? She may faint.
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Date: 29 May 2015 15:40 (UTC)"...Is there something weird about maple syrup?" he asks/types.
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Date: 29 May 2015 15:51 (UTC)"Home, elf do of war of that."
She's trying the groats, and nabbed a piece of leftover ham from the refrigerator; maple syrup does not feature, even on the groats.
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Date: 29 May 2015 16:16 (UTC)She finishes the ham, decides she's hungry enough to try to fix the groats, and raids Leaf's spice cabinet, eventually coming away with bottles of rosemary and thyme, which do the trick. Nom.
While she's considering the spice selection, she asks, "say more of family?"
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Date: 29 May 2015 16:26 (UTC)"My brother and I are twins; he looks just like me. He's very good at pretending to be me, but he usually doesn't do it. He's feeling much better since Mother rescued him, but he still gets upset easily. He does a lot of hiding in dark corners. Sometimes he'll only talk to people if he's hiding where they can't see him. And it's important not to go near him when he's sleeping - he wakes up very upset when people do that."
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Date: 29 May 2015 16:50 (UTC)The kobold nods at the information, muttering something that's apparently not a word but that sounds approving at the bit about hiding.
"Brother always do of sleep of room?"
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Date: 29 May 2015 16:54 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 May 2015 17:11 (UTC)Food, food, adding a little more rosemary near the bottom of the bowl, food, nom.
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Date: 29 May 2015 17:23 (UTC)The kobold applies herself a little more studiously to the remains of her groats when Leaf finishes first and starts poking at his mirror. Soon she's done too, and asks, "Leaf do of plan of day?"
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