Kabal was just glad at this point that no one had starting swinging steel. He turned to the elves with him.
Explain this if you can. Where are the drow and where are the captives?
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"Drow illusions no doubt"
Winter stops to clear his mind.
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The drow still lingered there, but you notice that their lines don't look that organised anymore. Something must be happening behind them and just as you let your gaze sweep over them, suddenly the whole square in front of the house changes - the rubble vanishes, the cracks diappear and only heartbeats later, the whole scene looks like Celwynvian was still in its prime, majestic and pristine. After a moment of shocked paralysis, the drow leader commands his men to enter the mansion opposite of the one you are now in...
Among the elves rises a sudden tension as Sable begins to threaten them and as a result, the guards ready their spears while the civilians back away from you.
You are a bit shocked of the unison and pure skillfulness with which these mere city guards handle their weapons...the lieutenant stares at Sable, unimpressed by his words and answers
We don't want to shed your blood here, but if you don't change your tone, I will cut your tongue out. We DON'T know who these drow are! he turns to the crowd and shouts These people here are looking for a group called drow, or The Drow, or maybe just a person whose name is Drow - has anyone ever heard of a drow? ...silence...just a bit of confused whispering, but nothing else. After a long moment the lieutenant turns to you again You see, we don't know any drow, nor do we know your brother or where he is. We only have a handful human visitors here at the moment, all ambassadors of our allies.
The Brevian was confused beyond belief and had no idea what to do about it but he had no intention of fighting these elves...unless they turn out to be drow in disguise...
We would like to meet with these ambassadors then.
Moving into the open area, Cat coils her whip and begins to look over the opposite mansion... unwilling to leave a way out for the black of heart.
Silsavar nods but hesitates
What about the house's owner? He just said he will call the city guard?!
Anyway, he gives the horn bearer the signal and a heartbeat later the deep sound of the horn fills the air.
Meet the ambassadors?...ok, we will send word to them, but don't be too sure that they would like to meet you too...by the way, how did a group large as yours pass the city gates unchallenged? I think you...
Suddenly the horn sounds again, from not far away, maybe just one or two blocks
What was that? the lieutenant asks and looks around, confused and worried.
The War Leader had been about to give this elf the rough side of tongue for his haughty manner but then Kabal grinned when he heard the horn sounding.
What is that? That's our friends calling for us. Time to go.
He waved at his group even as he started making his way through the crowd.
Lets move out.
Winter likewise rests his hand upon his sword hilt and begins to move.
The guards are still too perplexed to intervene and just decide to follow you - two street corners farther into the city, you finally meet Cat, Evianna, Silsavar and the vanguard on a small square between two large mansions - it looks like they haven't lost a single men or women, if they met the drow, they can't have had a fight with them. Another group of city guards just arrives and now it looks like your troop of elves faces about 50 of the city elves, who don't look very friendly, especially as they now see even more intruders in before them.
Bree looks to Cat and in between pants of breath asks only, "You too, eh?"
Caterine is singularly focused upon one of the mansions and states evenly in common "Aye... the bastards are in there" gesturing towards the house with a whip handle.
Kabal was confused. Which meant he would soon be angry. WHich also meant he would soon be killing someone.
Theyre in there huh? Then that's where we're headed.
Kabal motioned for the elves to fall in.
he started headings towards the house that Cat indicated.
The elves all follow Kabal's orders and begin to surround the house, but are nearly as quickly held up by the city guard
STOP this! the lieutenant calls and orders his horn bearer to sound a signal...you guess soon the place will be swarming with guards...
Then suddenly Silsavar nudges Kabal and points to the sky
Wha...?
Looking up you can see a small black object with a corona of fire next to the sun. After some shocked moments of watching you realise that the object is growing - it's coming closer...
"Another Meteor. The Drow have done this before. What they tried to do in Riddleport, they did do here..now.....or did before....to these Elves." He shakes his head as he struggles to make his point while he points to the archaic Elves. "I think we are watching the last scene of Celwynvian before the curtain fell....finding the Drow may be our only escape from this grim reality."
Bree growls, making her frustration and confusion audible for all to hear. Her eyes are beginning to take on a crazed look.
"Ahhh living history, how fascinating" Winter looks for cover...
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Kabal sighed...and at first seemed resigned to fate...Bah!..the gods can suck it...I aint one for being some omnipotent's plaything...and I damn sure aint going to go out cuz they dropped some big ass rock from their precious sky...I'll make my destiny even if it means I have to cut my way through some of you high and mighty bastards...you can count on that...but first the big ass rock...Son of a milkless goat! We need to get... He had no idea how to escape such a thing and went with his gut. He turned to the lieutenant... underground man! We all need to get underground pronto, savvy?
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Turning to Sebastian, "If only we had time to carve something into the walls so our flights could be remembered before we are alive to remember it."
Sable wonders if fleeing underground to unknown places is what led to his kin's darkening complexion in the first place...
The lieutenant's eyes widen and totally perplexed he looks at Sebastian
You're here to witness our last minutes? What kind of gruesome joke is that?
Only seconds later everyone begins to realize that the city will be razed in mere moments....
While the chaos in Riddleport had been tremendous when the Blot turned up, you are utterly surprised and shocked by the fear which befalls the members of a race of such longevity. Men, women and children around you are either frozen in shock and will soon be trampled or are pushing this and that way just to escape - but to where?
Most seem to think that there is no place to escape but the cellars, but deep within yourself, you already know that the meteor will impact with a power no elf-made tunnel, cellar or whatever underground structure can resist.
Anyway, before you have the chance to speak about a new plan, you have to stay on top of the wave of bodies washing back and forth
Kabal shoulders or pushes aside most of the scrawny elves with ease...they need to eat more meat and potatos...way too skinny...hah! scared is scared and these people are filled with it...look at them...
Kabal looked around for Mercus to make sure the boy stayed clsoe to him in the press of bodies.
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Caterine is jostled by the press of bodies, and though she holds her own for the most part - she does cop a few wayward elbows.
Bree takes a couple of blows, and it is completely possible that she may have cut a few people with her daggers in the process. Certainly, her expletives can be heard above the din.
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"I am sorry Sir, for the joke seems to be on us, as we share your fate."
Seeing a small child separated from her mother, Sebastian scoops her up to keep her from being trampled. But with his arms filled, he is at the mercy of the crowd surging around him.
Winter looks a little shocked at the disorderly rabble...
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And takes a short while to work out how best to fend them off...
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"We might need a better plan"
After some more or less serious bruises, you manage to get out of the crowd into a side alley. The noise is deafening as mother's cry the names of their children and men and women fight for survival...
The ball of fire on the firmament has reached a size now that blocks out most of the sun and the twilight of death has covered Celwynvian like a shroud.
You guess - based on the speed of the incoming meteor - that you don't have more than maybe two minutes left...
The group of elves who have accompanied you has more or less dispersed in the crowd and only Silsavar, Eviana and a handful others are with you.
"Erastil, send us your winged protector, deliver us from this evil!"
Caterine just looks up, then down, then sighs and takes a seat against the wall.
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You all giving up? Shiite! We can be a half a mile from here before it hits...but which way to run?...I still dont understand where the damn spider kissing drow went to. Were we duped?
Kabal was more confused than ever...it was supposed to be such a simple day...march on the city, slay the drow, rescue Brandon and then celebrate with drinking and rutting...well these elven woman are pretty enough but theyre just skin and bones... I like a thicker woman with curves...Bah! Youre last minute on this friggin rock and you're thinking like a damn pig man!...snap out of it already...
Well? We gonna run or what?
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"We survived the attack on Riddleport, we will survive this one too".
Winter grasps his sword and waits for the impact.
"If Im am wrong then Erastil will just send me back again!" he jokes grimly.
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Winter's remark had Kabal thinking of the last time he'd thougth he'd died and that horrid drow judge that he had to stand in front of...and beg for my life...and wasnt Corvax there?..just like that lout to miss out on the world ending...I swear Im gonna wring his neck the next time I see him...wether we're in Hell or not!...
At the edge of the crowd Sebastian reluctantly lets the little girl down and tells her to hide. Knowing her fate is already sealed, he fights back the tears as he sees her just hunker down against a wall and cry out for her mother.
It takes a bit to find his voice, "We did...we did see those lizard riders. Maybe go back and pick up their tracks. These Elves know nothing of the Drow, so that sighting was outside of this dream."
Bree growls in frustration, "No one is going to die by that damn rock, because it isn't real. We're not really here, well we're here but probably surrounded by a group of Drow we can't see as they watch us live out this hallucination. It's a hallucination, that's all. We've been drugged or had some spell cast or something. It can't be real."
Bree is adamant in her refusal to believe what is happening and is growing increasingly frustrated that no one else seems to be listening.
She catches some of Sebastian's words and turns to him, "Yes, yes that's it, let's go!"
Kabal thought Bree's idea that they were all living out some sort of hallucination...daft...but then again most women are...and she's usually more reasonable than most...but...It beats standing around here waiting for that rock to hit and wipe us out. Lets move out at double time!
The Brevian motioned for the remaining elves to follow and started pushing his way towards where Bree had indicated that she last heard the horn.
Kabal pushes the slim elves out of the way as if they were made of paper...but before you are able to reach the city's edge again, the darkness becomes absolute and as you turn your heads towards the sky, the only thing you see is a sea of flames...suddenly all the crying and yelling stops and there is only a deep hissing sound, blocking everything else out. Then you feel the heat, first tingling, then ultimately hurting...and a heartbeat later the world vanishes into darkness...
"Urgh"
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Damn it...not like this!
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Caterine freezes as the meteor's approach closes a cold cage around her heart.