Although she is slow to react, once she has the chance Talori begins to glow red. A status message appears above her head:
Then, the legs in her muscles seem to tighten, preparing to leap.
Then she charges at Zero, leaping high up into the air.
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Hornfell turns to look at the half-elf that spoke to him. He gives her a friendly smile and says, "I'll gladly accept your invitation. I may be a solo player, but making friends does have its merits. My name is Hornfell, and may I ask what quest you are inviting me to, Miss...?
"Aurora Blackrose. Your not the only solo player, but it's good to have a partner to watch your back at times."
A human swordsman, 5'9" or so, with long black hair, pale skin and big brown eyes (almost too big), dressed with a Mithral Shirt and carrying a Katana approaches them, and in a delicate voice greets them:
"Hello, Shadow is the name, and I hear you are off into a quest. I am new in the game an want to give it a test run. I hope I can join you.""I see master Hornfell is a man of honor, and miss Aurora knows something of the ninja "arts". I think we can make a good team. I myself have trained in the Ninjitsu way, and in alchemy, too."
"Oh, So you know of me, Miss Shadow.
You also likely know that, I've been round since Alpha
And am one of the twelve exclusive character models for Ultimate backer level during it's Kickstarter Campaign."
"I can see some of the rumours were true in that you're an Elven woman character who likes to pass for a Human Male character.
And you've been around since the back half of Alpha with a ninja themed character."
"Oh, I know all about that and some of them can be real PIGS.
I was hoping for one of the more slender exclusive models, but it was based on a lottery system and got the bustiest female model from the lot."
The town was passing strange, there was no denying it.
Khode began to notice people running , rarely walking - they passed him at speed, without acknowledging his presence. As if on important errands and then completely disappearing.
Occasionally they would stand right in front of each other, seemingly as if in conversation but no words flowed between them. Stranger still, small pets of all kinds - mammals, crustaceans, reptiles, insects, arachnids - would materialise out of nowhere and trail their hurrying owners.
Once Khode was sure he saw his own face on another tiefling, right down to the broken horn, though dressed markedly different and minus his...signature eyepatch.
Another thing... The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't remember who his parents were, or where he was raised.
He shook such introspection to the wind. Surely there were beasts to slay and riches to be won. He was Khode, and Khode would conquer all...
"Not all the female character models are busty, one of the exclusives was quite slender, and I don't mind if you join."
Hornfell beams at the introduction of another party member. "Shall we be setting off then, ladies? Those goblins won't be killing themselves..." he says with a smile as his hand rests on the katana at his belt.
"Alright, let the goblin hunt begin."
As you make your way to the location on the map you can easily here the commotion that comes from large groups of goblins. In an open area within an ring of trees the goblins have set up a "town" of makeshift scrap and tarps. From what you see you can make out about 15-25 goblins shambling around the area. Most are eating or fighting over food. Some are "standing watch" but are mostly having a laugh at some unfortune bug or sleeping. You do notice one building that seemed better put together, more scrap than tarp near the center of the goblin town.
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Shadow squints while trying to cover her eyes...
"Too much light, I am used to live in darkness."
She draws her Shortbow and looks for a tree or tarp where she can get up, and snipe the goblins from there out of their reach, ideally in the middle of the camp and gaining flanking with her new companions.
"Huh. did we lag?" Argus strikes one fist against a large tree and watches as the leaves flutter down
"Looks like the frame rates ok, are we doing this or not?"
The monk stands for a moment and then everyone is blurring into motion at once "Ah, *$%#."
Eira rushes towards Talori and with a neat flourish Enigma a blur buries into her flesh twice leaving two neat puncture wounds.
Shadow-
As soon as Eira attacks Zero explodes into action. A targeting symbol appears over both Talori and Argus as he moves towards Talori flanking with Eira. Both swords seem to move on their own accord as he slashes into her.
Alright, I can work with people ignoring me. Argus states with a shrug.
Activate sudden leap after attacking
Argus calmly pulls two arrows from his quiver and launches them toward Zero, one strikes one misses. He then kicks back with one leg launching into the forest.
Talori staggers back as both attacks hit her. Dang. They're good. As long as they're tag-teaming me, there's no way I'll survive. Oh well. Might as well go for broke and hit Zero, at least to make an impression.
A red aura flickers around Talori as the muscles in her legs bunch up. Suddenly, she lets out a ferocious battlecry and leaps five and a half feet in the air before impaling Zero with Goldclaw and Redfang.
That oughta rip him a good one, Talori thinks, smirking.
"Damn!" Zero curses as his avatar freezes up as his hit points drop below 0.
Eira has a moment of doubt as a shimmer appears over Zero and he falls to a knee and a message pops up showing He was removed from the match. She refocuses her attack taking a bit more defensive postition.
"Mmmm... now this looks like a cat fight if I ever saw one. Heavily wounded berserker verse a fresh duelist" with a flicker of motion the heavy set dwarf takes an of balanced one footed stance before softly speaking Shadow Jaunt falling through the ground he occupied and appearing 50 feet above high in the tree he was just standing under. He rights himself on a branch before looking back at the on going fight and laughing
"Is that all you've got Lyons? I though you were good at this stuff. I bet its quite different when you aren't in a flat gravel tournament pit isn't it?"
Hornfell grunts in approval. "Sounds like a plan. Draw the bastards here, Miss. Right into the range of my blade..." he murmurs as he sets himself in a stance with his hand on his sword.
Talori was wounded, and unless she healed quick, she was going down. And no way was she having that. So, Talori decides to Erebus with the opportunity posed by it, and jumps far, far, FAR away, hoping that Eira would miss somehow.
[ooc]This is a last ditch gambit. If you want to end the fight quickly, you can. However, if you want to make it more dramatic, go right ahead.
"Sounds good."
Okay, those goblin hunting. Tell me your surprise round actions and go ahead and roll initiative.
As Talori jumps away Enigma cuts across her leaving another minor gash. Eira follows attempting to finish off the dangerous warrior only to miss with her latest attack.
As Talori touches down, she pulls out a few major healing crystals. A blue stream of magic extends from each of them and and flows into the Titan Mauler, healing her wounds. Talori simply looks grim. She barely finished off the crystals when the duelist makes her next move...
Eira mentally curses as she sees Talori use the healing crystals just as she arrives. She smiles as Enigma connects again a smile coming to her lips as she continues the fight. She was enjoying herself.
Don't forget your HP regen. I need to see it in action.
Talori curses as Eira's rapier bites into her flank. No matter. Talori strikes back at Eira, landing a solid hit.