#rivervale_lodge

'Hey Dags" Olgar says "Hitting some of the short patrols. You want to come with?"

"I'll get Flyswatter!" She chirps.

"I can go!" Siv offers

"Oh? did you get ungrounded?" Olgar says

"Nooooo" Siv says "Perhaps I'll guard the fort" A sigh

"Good plan" Olgar says then turns back to Dagmar "Okay. I'll be at the door"

A sympathetic shrug at Siv

"Soon." A thumbs-up and she follows after Olgar.

Siv nods. Olgar is already out the door, but true to his word AT The door. Today's weapon appears to be a truly ugly axe with a bit of a notch in it. He grunts with approval at fly swatter, and the two head off, "This should be pretty quick, but I know you want to get a feel for the silver..."

"Yeah. Go adventuring. Maybe slay a monster, right?"

"Yeah, that's the perk, but the goal is always keeping the road safe and open, helping those who are in deep shit" Olgar says 'Which means a lot days are uneventful. " He walks to the same trod they've used before and steps onto it

"Well, yeah. And no Rover charges for rescuing people. Like, sure, can accept gifts, but can't extort."

"Lots depend on your court in how you intrepret that, but yeah.. you turn into a highway bandit? Well, then other Rovers now SEE you as a threat and that never lasts well for long" He smirks "The balor like to pretend they know the trods best. Don't buy it. The Trods have changed over the centuries... and while some opened up when the sidhe returned, the Rovers never really stopped..." He spreads his hands wide as they enter the near Dreaming "THIS IS OUR HOUSE! And nobody does it better!" A roar. He's in a good mood

"Well, Balor suck."

"They do," he grunts then they hear a scream

a woman's scream.

"...well, that sounds liek trouble."

"Or a trick" he warns

And they move to see a woman glowing with glamour ...screaming as she crawls, crawls on the trod near the edge of the safe silver... "Snakes and giants and him and... the witch, she told the giant to wish me away... but I couldn't see them no no no.."

"Um.."

"Olgar, she looks like a human."

"Shit.. she's human all right... almost didn't feel the banality but it's there" He moves forwaard 'Hellp me get her before she either plunges off deeper into the dreaming of imagines new nightmares"

"How can she BE here at all?" She follows after him. "Heyyy, hi, it's okay..."

"Another Giant! Two giants.." She sees Olgar's blighted face and cries out "AAHHHHH"

Olgar sighs "I get that a lot...easy easy. I'm Olgar, this is Dagmar. Relax." Then to Dagmar "I've no idea..she's not supposed to be able to get in here without help"

Dagmar catches the girl by the arm. "Olgar's ugly but he's a'ight."

"Smurfs are NOT three apples high no no no" She mutters

"The webbed one... but he save me... the guardian angel..." She babbles

"Okay okay.. Dagmar, I'm scaring her. I want you to be the one that holds her, you know how that is" He says

"..uh-huh. She's not making much sense..." She frowns. "Someone hurt her?"

"Someone or some thing... looks like a nasty bruise like she got squeezed near her waist and right shoulder.... probably reflects attempted psychological damage. " Olgar says "What's your name?" he asks Karen

"What do you want it to be?" Karen inquires almost robotically

Dagmar cringes, looking both sick and angry.

"Easy" he says more to Dagmar than her "You will remember your name later, for now, just go with Dagmar, she'll take care of you. SHe's a good person" Olgar says

"A good person" The blonde woman repeats

Olgar says lower voiced to Dagmar "She's acting real suggestable, positive messages only"

"Sure... and you're a good person, too."

"And you're gonna be safe now, we'll get you home."

"good... home..." SHe says dazedly. Thank goodness they are indeed very close to the trod exit near the vale. They steps out...

A rush of cold as they are back in 'the real world'

"See? Nice solid ground. Safe."

And it is the mortal who has the worst reaction as goes limp in Dagmar's arms and seems out!

Luckily, she already had a hold... so she simply scoops her up like an overly awkward ragdoll in her arms.

"Yup, she's bad, real bad" Olgar sighs "Okay, do NOT take her into the lodge. Last thing she needs is the balefire... The boat house or your house maybe but not the hold interior"

She's not just glowing like most enchanted, almost blazing

"What happened to her? This is.. this is weird."

"Lupe wasn't like this when she was enchanted."

"Dreamstruck, this is why we don't keep non kinian enchanted too long... normally it can take months even years of constant enchantment to hit this state... but some one brought her INTO the Draming.. she's mortal, banal, the Dreaming didn't like that..treated her like a virus." He says

"So... tried to burn her out?"

"yup.. she may never be sane again" he says worriedly "We'll have to wait and see. Normally with a Dream struck you...well, you induce banality... if you have to, but this is... I think it might break her if we do it too soon. We need to figure out who she is for a start, for another start... your place or the back porch?