Quinten Log 72 - 13 03 2006

Salamandastron: Sentry Room

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Once one has ascended the stairs, they would come upon this room, the sentry room. Along one wall, thee are small, slitted windows, which look no more than cracks in the mountain wall, from the outside, and it looks down upon the niche, outside the mountain, where all creatures entering the mountain must pass. The room, sparse and basically un-furnished, while comfortable in the summer, is often quite cold in the winter, save for a small fireplace in one corner. During the winter, you had better believe that is kept alive most of the season long, by the sentries on duty who wish to remain unfrozen. There are always two hares on duty in this room, one to always remain and the other to sound the alarm to the rest of the mountain, if need be. Two chairs are situated beneath the slitted windows in the wall.

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Quinten is stuck on Sentry duty again, he's been up all night sat by the window, slumped forwards and peering out, his partner is a young runneh and he's been chatting to them on and off all night. It will soon be over as soon as relief shows up. He shifts his scarf and gloves slightly and turns to look back outside

Gabriel hops up the stairs, knowing Quinten is here, and frowns when she sees his partner. "Hello, Quin!" She calls, happily, before addressing the runner. "Think the Colonel wants you, runner!"

The runner nods and dashes past Gabriel and out of sight, Quin turns around and smiles down at her "Hello Gabby dear" he frowns after the runner "Did the Colonel really want her?"

Gabriel springs at the hare, wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him. "No,

'course not." She looks outside the mountain. The sun is rising, and the beach looks very inviting.

Quinten smiles at her and kisses back, making sure to keep an eye on the breach, holding his nose agaisnt yours and smiling "Well i just hope you don't get into trouble over this dear, if anything happens i've got no one to run a message to get help" he peers down at the several hares on guard duty just outside the niche and sighs as he looks at that beach.

Gabriel also notes the hares keeping everyone in, and scowls. "I want to get out of here, y'know? When the lockdown ends we'll have to go somewhere. Maybe overnight, or something." She smiles, and pulls him towards the window so he can keep watch.

Quinten blinks and settles himself just behind her, arms around her shoulders and idly stroking her neck fur, head resting atop hers "Overnight....as in...alone?"

Gabriel gives him a playful shove, trying to keep quiet so she doesn't attract the attention of the hares directly below them. "Not like /that/, silly. Just a little hiking trip or something."

Quinten blushes furiously ears flicking back "Maybe...we could take a camping trip down south to the sand dunes?"

Gabriel shakes her head. "I've been south far too much. Got someone who-" She adapts her tone to sound like a certain elderly rabbit. "Lived, erm, down there far too long, eh?"

Gabby laughs, and squeezes Quinten again. "We'll see."

Quinten chuckles and nods his head "Hmmm well we could go north...i've never been north, not even been to Halyard myself, not really left the mountain after all these months of being here"

Gabriel suddenly remembers something. "Your exams! How are you doing with them?"

Quinten leans down and presses his nose just into her ear and whispers "Good only got three to go"

Gabriel grins and snugs him again. "That's wonderful! Will you be a fighter by next week?!"

Quinten chuckles and shakes his head "No i'll be a recruit first class Gabby, still got alot more training to do"

Gabriel blushes and looks a bit dissapointed. "Training is everything these days. You'll be there soon, I think." She removes her arms from Quinten's shoulders and stretches. "Almost done here?"

Quinten smiles at her and nods "As soon as some one comes up to relieve me yes, i can go have a bath i must msell after all night spent up here"

Gabriel shrugs, not minding. Suddenly, the runner bursts in, glaring at Gabby. She smiles sweetly before kissing Quinten on the cheek. "I'll see you soon." The rabbit bounces down the stairs, nearly running into a pair of replacements.

Quinten looks at the runner and scuffs his footpaws "Don't blame me...blame her..." he glances at the replacements and with a quick salute to the puzzled looking Lieutenant coming up the stairs dashes off aftr her

Salamandastron: Entryway

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This is a small, raised platform in the side of the mountain upon which

you can see down to the small niche in the mountain. Cunningly designed,

this precaution allows one from this vantage point to 'see' who is

standing outside without being detected.

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Gabriel is in the passageway, assuming the two hares who were just there were Quinten's replacements. She waits for him to come down the stairs, tapping her footpaw impatiently.

Quinten comes bouncing down the steps after a couple of mintues, leaping over the last four to land next to her, knees bending, bobbing back up and wrapping his arms about her neck to kiss her as fully as he can get away with

Gabriel stiffens, surprised, and lets him kiss her for a moment before pushing him off. "You /are/ smelly" The rabbit winks.

Quinten flicks his ears back and removes his scarf and hat, his fur all mussed up "Well i am sorry i've been bundled up in all this out doors gear"

Gabriel puts a paw over her nose, eyes watering. "Goodness!" She drags him into the mountain.

Quinten Quinten grumbles and lets her drag him along, blushing "Hey...it was freezing up there...and i spent all night wrapped up and sweating..."

Gabriel has her teeth gritted, and pushes him towards the intersection. "/You/ clean yourself up. Where'll we meet?"

Quinten flicks his ears and looks about "How about...you meet me up top? on the crater i'll bring us breakfast?"

Gabriel nods and watches him go. He /is/ the cutest thing. If not smelly.

Quinten hops off out of sight, feeling self concious for smelling so much of damp sweaty hare, trying to avoid people until he can reach the bathrooms and clean up

Salamandastron: Crater

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You are on the very top of the mountain of Salamandastron: a large, bowl-

shaped crater. The crater is not smooth, quite the contrary in fact.

Numerous boulders and large chunks of rock are strewn around randomly,

making the crater top just as craggy as any of the mountainside. The

crater provides an outstanding view of the surrounding country. The sea

sprawls off to the west as far as the eye can see, and north and south

along the endlessly rolling sand dunes. In the distant east, a tinge of

green is just visible from this height, marking the vegetation in the

foothills of the Western Mountains.

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Gabriel is sitting on the same old comfortable sitting rock, her eyes closed as she is bathed in the sun's warm rays. Her ears flick to and fro as she lies, unable to stay entirely still.

Quinten walks up the stairs and into sight, dressed in his baggy white fatiques and carrying a large tray loaded with food, something different this time, he begins to make his way over towards her

Gabriel immediately sits up, having been listening for pawsteps on the stairs for a while. She signals him to be quiet and motions towards the edge of the crater, where a couple hares are sitting, their arms around each other. She giggles.

Quinten grins and winks back at her before making his way over slowly, sliding down next to her on the rock and leaning in to kiss her neck fur "Hello dear, do i meet your approval now?" light scent of pine floating about him

Gabriel smiles and nods, still watching the other hares before being distracted completely by the food. Her eyes widen and she licks her lips, pulling off the cover.

Quinten smiles and blushes as the tray is loaded with a fresh woodland salad, grilled kippers lying in a lemon butter sauce, a small plate of cornbread muffins

That's more like it. Gabby grabs an assortment of everything she can manage on one plate, especially the kippers, and tucks in.

Quinten chuckles and tucks into the kippers with enthusiasm, murrring at the taste of them "Hope you like them all Gabby...took me ages to decide what to get"

Gabriel nods, not particularly sad at having to wait. "It is lovely up here. Only place like the shore during this stupid lockdown."

Quinten nods and leans against her happily smiling "Yeah it can be quite private too, and warm when the sun hits it just right"

Gabriel eyes the two hares who are still entangled above her and Quin. "It would seem so."

Quinten chuckles and nuzzles at her neck fur, left foot paw pattering lightly on the ground as he admires his girl, still eating his way through a muffin

Gabriel isn't slowing down yet, not by a long shot. She ends up taking the tray of kippers, laying it on her lap and eating them in a rather unladylike fashion.

Quinten frowns and leans over skewing at least half of the kippers on a fork and taking them onto his plate, making sure he gets some

Gabriel glares at him, mock-serious; "If you really want some, you'd just have to ask." She grabs the last piece of muffin out of his paw and eats it, eyes twinkling.

Quinten leans in and snags another kipper from her plate, his own long gone by now, he's a hbare food is what he does. "Hmph i'm the one.." scromph, chew goes the kipper "Who brought em up"

Gabriel grabs his fork on its next pass and tosses it fairly easily over the edge of the crater. "Don't eat with just your paws, Quin. Pretty rude."

Quinten grumbles and picks up a lettuce leaf and usesit to pick up some tomatoes "Well as my cutlery is now lying down the mountain love i shall have to use this lettuce leaf"

Gabriel laughs uproariously at this, spilling a bit of the kipper's sauce onto his lap as she rocks back and forth. The hares above them turn and glare, and Gabby tries to silence herself.

Quinten grumbles and wipes up the sauce with a lettuce leaf "Careful Gabby you almost knocked me off the rock "he picks up a mug from the tray and swills back the cordial inside"

Gabriel gasps for breath, and giggles softly for a few minutes, unable to eat anything. "Sorry, Quin. In a bit of a silly mood, I think."

Quinten puts down the beaker then pauses and pours the rest of it over her ears, grabs one before she can exclaim and starts sucking on it, "Hmmmhmmm me too dear"

Gabriel shrieks and reaches out to slap him, but his head moves too fast as he grabs her ear. She takes the kippers and shoves the platter down the front of his shirt, beginning to laugh again.

Quinten eeeks and squirms as you dump the kippers down his shirt grabbing the other beaker of cordial and pouring it down your own top "I'll get you, that butters gonna make a mess of me fur"

By now the hares who had been having a romantic morning were walking down, away from the crater, glaring at the silly young rabbit/hare couple. Gabby's head is already beginning to dry in the hot sun, and her headfur is spiked up from the cordial. She takes the basket of muffins and leaps behind another boulder, chucking the pieces of food at Quinten.

Quinten rolls off the rock and takes the salad, sliding around the rocks to try and get behind her so he can hurl a tomatoe at her head getting a muffin in the muzzle as he throws

Now the eating is definitely over. Gabby looks about for something else to toss at him, her supply of muffins dwindling. Seeing nothing, she grabs his head and shoves a muffin into his face. Giggle.

Quinten erfs as he gets muffin smeared into his head fur, wriggling free he tackles her back, bearing her to the ground under his weight and smooshes the last tomatoe into her neck and muzzle fur "Gotcha dear"

Gabriel looks down at herself, covered in drying cordial, lettuce leaves stuck to her, a tomato dribbling down her face. She laughs again, hard.

Quinten sits down next to you and bursts out laughing himself, white shirt and fur covered in dripping kipper and butter, muzzle fur mussed up with sticky muffins he looks a right sight, he wraps his paws about her, laughing louder and licks her muzzle fur clean of tomatoe.

Gabriel is now smeared with kipper and butter as well, wearing as much of the breakfast as she managed to even eat. "I think I may need to wash up a bit, Quin."

Quinten chuckles and nods "Same here Gabby, we look a right state....it was fun though..."

Gabriel doesn't really want to hug Quinten, but she does nod to him. "I'd better wash up and work on some of my projects in the crafts room."

Quinten stands up and flicks his ears showering her with muffin crumbs "I should have a full bath and then come join you, i've got a free day today, because of my exams"

Gabriel nods, picking up a few dishes and placing them back on the tray before walking to the stairs. "See you in a few, Quin."

Quinten loads up the tray and picks it up, he'll take this back after he's washed up

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Salamandastron: Crafts Room

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The room which lies before you is perhaps at first frightening in its chaotic appearance. It seems that every manner of thing that could possibly aid in the creation of anything is placed in this room. Obviously, it is mainly a room for the making of clothing, what with the vast amount of materials lying about, as well as the tools needed for the shaping and joining of the materials, but the room is also utilized for other things, though these other areas are separated from the rest. It is a fairly vast room, after all. These areas include a wood-working section as well as a much-used section quartered off for the creation of parchment paper. Also, there is a section devoted to the creation of dyes, as well as inking materials, for writing with.

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Gabriel waltzes into the crafts room, towards a cupboard on the left side. Opening it, she pulls out a large blanket, and then walks to a chair, grabbing a needle and some thread.

About fifteen minutes pass before Quinten walks in, in a fresh set of whites and smelling of pine again, he moves over towards you and grins "Hello again dear"

Gabriel is wearing a much-too-large tunic and a pair of grey breeches, and she waves at Quinten, her paws working hard on a patch for her quilt, embroidering something onto it.

Quinten walks over to the woodworking bench and picks up the lump of beachwood he is working on at the moment before taking his whittling knife and walking over to peer at trhe quilt "Thats good"

Gabriel glances at it, her lip curling. "I s'pose. Patchwork is pretty hard, I don't think I'm doing it right." She shrugs. "Trying is the best way to learn."

Quinten nods and sits down ona stool next to her, and starts to whittle at the lump of beach wood "Aye practice makes perfect i'm juust seeing about carving something from this lump of wood, just seeing what i come up with"

Gabriel looks at it, watching him carve, poking herself with the needle by mistake. She looks back at her work, sighing. "So, how's Flax? Haven't seen her for a while."

You say, "I don't know i saw her last night she was acting a bit odd, she'd stolen some weapons from the armoury and was planning on hunting down that wild cat i think...." he falls silent and sighs "Me and Greg...kinda told on her to a Private""

Gabriel embroiders quietly, and nods. "That's not like her, really, is it?"

Quinten shakes his head "No its not...not sure what to do or say really" he looks down atr his work and frowns "Hmm mlooks like it may be a door handle

Gabriel looks at his work and laughs. "Who knows, with you. Could be any manner of things." She sticks her paw again, and this time drops the needle, frustrated.

Quinten grins at her and kisses her neck "Well i'm distracting you, i'll go sit over there out of the way" he hops down and bounces across to the woodworking bench, tail flick, flicking

Gabriel watches him go, and throws down her work. "Quin", she calls over to him, "I'm going to go and do some work in the kitchen. Need to do something I'm good at." Gabby hops over to him and kisses him, before heading towards the door.

Quinten kisses her back and waves "Ok Gabby see you later dear, at lunch...you can make it"

In a room page-pose, Gabriel waves. Get better.  :-\

Salamandastron: Caverns - Archery Range

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As the training room cannot fit a truly adequate, large enough archery range, this large room, down in the caverns of the mountain, has been converted into one. It, in itself, is rather cavernous, and is more long than it is wide. The furthest wall from the entrance is lined with archery targets, at least a ten, and they are each separated by a few feet. Along the closest wall to the door, barrels are placed, containing arrows as well as bows, to practice with. Further, the walls are lined with torches, though the ones behind the archery targets are protected by metal grates, of a sort. The room is relatively well lit, and is usually a moderate temperature.

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Terrance is currently taking his turn at the firing line, a short line of other recruits waiting behind him just like there are at each of the shooting lanes. Terr wasn't satisfied with his first shot, seeing as it landed on the outer-most ring. Nocking his second of three arrows, he draws back the string, aims, and releases, sending the arrow to land on the third ring from the outside.

Quinten is stood a few steps behind Terrance, peering around the hare in front to see how

Terrance does, he had been intending to take the rest of the day off as he was given a freee day inbetween his exams but as his archery exam is tomorrow he decided to get in some extra practice.

Terrance nocks his last arrow in place and takes a deep breath and lets it out to relax himself. Raising the bow as he brings the string to his cheek, the recruit sites down the arrow once more and releases before his arm gets to shaky. This time the arrow lands high and right in the ring just outside the bullseye.

Quinten joins in the rest of the recruits dropping congratulations on you "Good shot Terrance nearly had it that time"

Terrance shrugs at the congrats and says, "Not that great a shot." He sets the bow down for the next recruit and moves back to the end of the line

Quinten watches the next recruit take their shot, it landing next to terrance's and just a bit higher "Well its better then me, i'm only an average bow beast at beast"

Terrance shrugs and says, "We each 'ave our specialties I guess. I'm not nearly as good as Taye though. Much prefer close combat like we had earlier today, espcially now that I'm big enough so that I can win most o' tha time." He grins, "Ya should o' seen the face on the oldah recruit I was sparing with today when he found himself layin' down on his back rathah quickly."

Quinten chuckles and picks up the bow and arrow, raising it to the level and sighting along it, slowly pulling the string taught "Your doing good then, thats good i'm quite good at the boxing myself, close combat is turning into quite the good skill for me

Terrance nods and keeps quiet so as not to distract quinten from his shooting. Terr looks around at the other targets and sees arrows all over the place as well. At least he's not alone then.

Quinten lets go and the arrow shoots across thunking into the lower half of the ring outside the bullseye "hmmm not too good there"

Terrance looks back to the target in his lane and looks for the new arrow in there and shrugs, not saying anything.

Quinten steps out of the way and moves to the back of the queue letting the recruit behind him take the stand

Terrance looks over the other two shots of Quinten's and says, "Well at least they all stuck in the target."

Quinten laughs and nods "Oh aye thats true better then when i first picked up a bow, still if i can get all four in the target i'll be happy"

Terrance chuckles and shrugs, "Sounds like a good goal." He then looks around. "So are ya done with tha exams yet?"

Quinten steps up to the front again and takes the bow, loading it up "Nearly got two more slinging test tomorrow and then some final theory"

Terrance rolls his eyes, "Oy, I nearly fergot. Col. Earblade wants me to meet 'im soon. I bettah be headed off. Latah chap." He then heads out from the cavern

Quinten watches Terrance leave and shrugs and hops off to go double check his rota"

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