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jevon66
05-22-2012, 05:06 PM
The Boulder Show

What the hells am I doing here with HIM?
Prissy little human probably cant even tell if a tunnel runs uphill or downhill.
Bah!!
And a wizard at that, I hate wizards. Always throwing around fireballs and lightning bolts willy nilly with no consideration for anyone else.
Bah!!
Hate 'em, hate 'em all.
BAH!!
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"........going to just sit there all day or what?"
Redboulder tuned back into the tinny sound of his companions voice to late to know what was being discussed.
"Eh? What'd ye say Rat?"
His flame and lightning flinging friend HATED to be called Rat, so of course he was called this as much as possible, in all possible forms: rat, ratty, rat-face, you name it.
"I asked if you had considered helping me with these ogres over here or if you were going to just sit there all day."
Looking over the flaming, twitching mass a few yards down the hallway Redboulder grudgingly admitted to the effectiveness of well placed flames and bolts.
"Eh, ye looked to be havin too much fun roasting the whole room, figgered I'd take a nap Rat-boy."

It had started so simply, as most ugly adventures do.
Some people in a tavern in house Denieth asking them for help, its always random tavern people, and Ratty of course signed them both up without even considering it was the first of the month and it was bath day for Boulder. Stupid wizard.
In they went. Some stinking sewer, it was always a stinking sewer, with a group of people they didnt know, and then it went south.
It always went south.
The first sign of trouble came when they all read the sign outside the hatch actually, "The Depths of something or other", bah, Its always some kind of depths.
Or deeps, or pits, or coves, whatever.
Boulder sometimes wondered about the sanity of the people who settled Stormreach. What kind of people would go around and give every building, cave, and molehill a name out of a horror story. Stupid humans.
Well, Rat-breath had signed them up, and Redboulder was too stubborn to back out, so it always went.
The lockpicking halfling bit it first, of course.
Boulder could never understand why those little kleptomaniacs always wanted to run off on their own. Maybe so they could fill their pockets without any witnesses.
They found his very tenderized remains at the feet of a very upset living rock monster, and Boulder had to chuckle.
Not at the midgets demise, but at Rat-face whining about getting halfling innards on his pretty silk slippers.
Stupid mages, always dressed for a ball.
The priest and the axe swinging idiot from the woods bit it in companionable misery, with huge hairy spiders ****ering over the choicest parts.
So, as usual, Boulder was trudging through unknown types of foul waste, listening to Rat-a-rooney moan and groan about getting his pretty little robes dirty and dreaming of a good meal.
Or an average meal, didnt matter.
"....and I'll tell you why thats wrong......"
Boulder tuned in just long enough to be able to tell that everything was normal, then quickly turned the Rat-o-logue back down to a dull buzz.

All in all, though hed never admit it aloud, Boulder had lucked out running into prissy pants.
He'd been run out of his home city, who knew getting drunk and ****ing on the temple altar would be taken quite that seriously, and ended up in a little fly speck town named Korthos with no clear idea what to do.
Well, no clear anything judging from the amount of ale he drank.
In the tavern one day, its ALWAYS the tavern, the homeless and slightly homicidal dwarf overheard a couple of people talking about a job. A job that sounded right up the alley of an angry dwarf, going into a room and killing stuff for money.
Well, history will say that they were well met and traveled and adventured as friends for years after, thats a lie.
Boulder slipped drunkenly from his stool, fell on his face at Rat-a-saurus' feet and promptly vomited before slurring out something about liking to kill stuff.
Ahh well, if anyone ever tells the whole story then Rat will fry em and I'll chop 'em into spider kibble thought Redboulder.

"....little help you A**h**e....."

Hey, thats new, maybe I oughta turn around.

Sure enough, some kind of stinky green lizard guy has snuck up behind Rat-o-lope undetected and knocked the skinny little girly boy down.
Hefting his dwarven axe with a long suffering sigh Redboulder advanced on the soon to be very dead thing that had dared lay a hand on his friend.
One doesnt mess with a dwarfs friend, ever.
Even one that shops in womens stores. Hehe.

"Shut yer crying yap Rat, I'm coming! Gods, ye'd think you'd never had trog guts on yer pretty little slippers!"

Stupid wizards.​

jevon66
05-22-2012, 05:24 PM
Great, now im thinking up new ideas for the Rat-n-Red show all the time.
Here's the latest, hope someone chuckles, and remember....a crying halfling is ALWAYS funny.

The Boulder Rolls On

"......really Red, how bad can it be? We're in the middle of town **** you!"
The adventurer in Redboulder wanted to believe Rat-face, really WANTED to believe him, but as they stood under some decrepid leaning tower thing behind a bar in House Denieth belief was slow in coming.
The hatch groaned and out came the third party of adventurers they'd seen apparently give up on exploring the factory/power plant thing below.
Actually, A third of a party came out.
1 haggard and bleeding preist, 1 fighter badly listing to the side, and 3 bodiies.
Hmmmm, this just might be another bad idea from my friend in womens shoes.
"But Ratty, they wouldnt give a hole a name like "The Pit" unless they meant it to scare people off, in my opinion. Lets go have another drink and think about this some more."
But Red could already see the greedy little wheels turning in Ratyr's head. This much exploring= this many chests= this much gold= this many haste potions. Redboulder sometimes wondered if Ratty might need an intervention for his potion addiction.
As the greed wheels whirred in Ratyr's head, and the much more cumbersome risk and danger wheels turned in Redboulders head, they watched as The Pit belched out more would be explorers.
5 pretty little soul stones and a catatonic looking halfling who could only sit and weep while staring at his mangled gear and armor.
Boulder tried his best to keep a somber attitude, but a quiet chuckle wormed its way out all the same.
Crying halflings are just funny, no matter the situation.
Making a mental note to leave his favorite possessions outside this latest Rat-spawned adventure, Boulder decided.
"Fine Rat-boy, but the new guys walk waayyyy ahead of me. And me n you are gonna be closer than gnome twins, just in case somethin needs to be fried till I can get around to choppin it up."
Rat-legs gave his annoying little chirp that Boulder assumed was agreement and hopped all around grabbing pouches, and no doubt already counting up his coming windfall of potions.
Ugh, addiction can be an ugly thing.

jevon66
06-04-2012, 04:03 PM
"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!"
Beard flying up into his eyes, fresh breeze freshening his nether region, Redboulder threw his hands over his head and enjoyed the ride.
"IIIIiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!"
Silky robes billowing comicaly straight up, enclosing his head and franticly beating little arms Ratyr didnt seem to be having nearly as much fun.
Guess I have more faith in this magic **** than he does, thought the flying dwarf. It HAD been at Rat-squeeks insistance that they find and purchase these bird-brain boots, or feather-fall, something like that.
As soon as Red had decided to step off the cliff he knew it would either end in death or a nice ride to write home about, if he could write that is.
Wonder of wonders the flutter-feet or whatever actually worked and Redboulder believed himself to be the first ever flying hill dwarf.
Ratty apparently didnt have any trust in his fellow lightning tossers and screamed nonstop from ten seconds before he even stepped out into the wind till now.
Hmmm, even his underthings are girly looking, gonna have to remember to laugh at him for that one if he ever calms down.
Why they just HAD to get to this particular little tree in the first place Red had no clue, but his silk and lace loving mage friend insisted, so they were trying.
Red was happy just walking around this place killing drow and wolves and bugbears, and whatever else moved near enough to chop at but as usual the fun was dampened by Rat-boy the wand slapper and they proceeded to take a crazy tour of the countryside for no reason Red could come up with. Ooo, look at this, oooo, look at that, ooo, come over here, gods would it ever end? Red would have traded next months bath for a nice fat bugbear to chop on for a while just to break the monotony.
The tour seeming to come to an end Mr. Frilly Pants said they had one last place to see.
What he failed to mention was that this one last place was up a hill, through a cave and up a mountain after that, oh and then a blind leap from a cliff to hopefully land on another even more barren peak. To see a TREE.
A TREE?
Really?
All those haste potions and oddball spell effects had affected Ratty's mind at last. Jumping off one high place to maybe land on another high place to see a TREE?
Whatever. Red was getting bored with this place anyway, things werent even hitting him back anymore. What fun is a fight if you dont even get hit once in a while so you can get really mad.
Besides, this place didnt live up to its name anyway. Burning Hills? Warmish Dells? Flaming Farts? Oh yeah, Searing Heights.
Red hadnt been seared since he'd stepped into a little lava puddle that some stupid drow had built a town around like it was the hot tub over in Ataraxia's Haven. Stupid drow.
And as far as heights...he'd found one, and apparently it was only good for jumping off of to get somewhere else. Bah! They oughta call this place the Sometimes Warmish Home Of Stupid Drow With One Tall Hill. Then again that would be kinda hard to fit on the roadsigns I guess.
Oh lookie, theres the stupid half dead looking tree that screech-rat had to see so bad, what do ya know, these little chicken boots or whatever worked all the way down.
"Hey Rat-face!! Shut up for a minute!! We're not gonna die, we're coming right down to that stupid tree that you wanna pet. HEY!! RAT!!"
"IIiiiiieeeeeeeeeeee!!!"
"Whatever dress boy, if ya dont stop squealing when you hit the ground imma knock you out."
"IIiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!"
Red really wished Rat-girl would come up with a new squeal.