Tally steps forward and starts into the two next to him, Blue then Green.
He's a frightening sight, claws and teeth bad enough, but then of the ground rises feral animal spirits that attempt to latch on and down green.
But they seem more scary than lethal.
Yuichi continues forward and finally reaches the scene of combat. What has Akira got us into this time?
Tsume and Kiba slow as they near the melee. Not wanting to risk the reach of the spear, Tsume instead snarls and stomps on the ground. The earth itself ripples under the nearest orc in response, trying to throw him off his feet.
Akira moves forward in order to cast sleep on Red. He has the spell prepared, just needs to cast it.
Its fast Tally gets past the long spears and then blood, lots of blood, Blue and green fall in a arterial blood sprays.
Red looks over in shock
While Tallys attack dose so much harm to his fellows Red seeing an opening at slams his long spear into the side of Tally, more blood falls to the sand.
Its fast Tally gets past the long spears and then blood, lots of blood, Blue and green fall in a arterial blood sprays.
Red looks over in shock
While Tallys attack dose so much harm to his fellows Red seeing an opening at slams his long spear into the side of Tally, more blood falls to the sand.
its no biggy, just working this so im not looking a load of stuff up before posting, :)
Looks like this will be over soon.
Walking out of the tavern, feeling mighty pleased with himself, Fei sees the unfolding fight. His jaw drops, though to be fair, it did not really look like his jaw.
What were they doing?! This was supposed to be covert. Get the information, get out. Find their missing kin. And now they were brawling in the street.
His mind raced. What should he do? He could take the form of a priest, perhaps? Try to stop the fighting...but people would question him at that point. He'd be a stranger, where it was strangers who were in the midst of fighting.
So he hung back, waiting to see how this unfolded. If the authorities came and arrested his companions, he'd need to get a good look at the faces of the officers, so that he could take their form to break his fellow kitsune out of prison.
With a sudden, trilling cry, Tsume and Kiba charge the remaining half-orc. Tsume's scimitar flashes just as the dinosaur slashes with his talons.
Finally reaching his brother, Yuichi gets ready for any last minute attacks on his twin while the last opponent faces down the other members of their team. At least I know which ones are kitsune by which side their fighting. Now would be a good time to remember what their human forms look like.
"So...why are we fighting this time, brother?" Yuichi asks.
The three half orc don't stand a change, is a blood bath, they had hardly started when they are cut down.
Fall to the floor bleeding out one of the wipers for his mother before going silent.
If you look you find 2 half orc size suits of cheap armoured coats.
three long spears, one short sword, 4 daggers, a 3 slings with bags of stone.
and 43 gold 30 silver and 14 coppers. There is also a wand of CLW 3/50 charges left
You know it is because someone wrote a tag on it in common saying what it is and the activation word.
The street is silent and ALL the locals lock up there homes and close shutters. The streets are empty, all traders have packs and closed for the day. Your group is alone with four dead Half orcs and the salves your have now recused. What next my intrepid players.
Tally slumps with exhaustion as the rage passes and common sense returns.
"Akira, why did you start the fight? Those poor guards probably have families. Are any of them still alive?"
Tally does his best to try to keep them from dying, if possible.
If he comes across a dead guard that he killed, he will mutter, "I'm so sorry, but I just CAN'T go to jail."
Otherwise he will do his best to stabilize any of them he can.
Here's a bunch of heal checks if needed.
With the fight apparently over, Yuichi goes to search them, only to stop as Tally begins to start checking them over. Should we really be trying to heal the people we just fought? But Yuichi lets it go with a shrug and begins to pat them down for coin, leaving the cheap equipment behind.
"Weren't the richest thugs," Yuichi comments as he holds the coins for the rest to see. "So...looks like we won't be welcome here anymore."
Finally reaching his brother, Yuichi gets ready for any last minute attacks on his twin while the last opponent faces down the other members of their team. At least I know which ones are kitsune by which side their fighting. Now would be a good time to remember what their human forms look like.
"So...why are we fighting this time, brother?" Yuichi asks.
"Free the slaves, isn't that what you wanted?" Akira asked. He looks around.
"Yeah, looks like I laid an egg."
Fei just sighed. This was...bad. Once he could, he made eye contact with Akira. That Kitstune seemed level headed, at least.
Assuming that Akira understood, Fei stepped out into the street, still in the guise of the bartender. "MURDERERS!" Fei shouted. "How dare you?! If I were you, I'd run while you still had the chance!"
With that, he gave Akira one more knowing looked, and walked into the shadows. He'd need to change his form and get away as soon as he could. He *really* hoped that the party had found a way to get rid of the real bartender. The entire plan hinged on ambushing the slavers, now that he had set it up. If anyone questioned the real bartender, well...it could all come crashing down on their heads. He tried to calm himself. While he didn't know anyone in the group, the elders had all chosen them for a reason. They'd have to trust each other. He glanced once more back at the bodies on the ground, and told himself Well, at least they can fight.
"We better run, right now running is the better part of valor," Akira said, while runnning away.
"Since when did we care about valor?" Yuichi shoots back, stashing the coinage for later. "Let's head in whatever direction the caravan went. At least we'll going towards our original goal. Which direction was that again, Tsume?"
Tally, not being much of a leader, will follow the largest group away from the massacre.
Red =
green =
blue =
One of the orcs still lives and his life is saved but the others have passed on.
As you make you way away from the killings on the street you see the child and his two female servants. The elf on the left calls after you.
"You great deed will not be forgot, we shall meet again"
And with that they then run off down a side street and out of sight.
Soon your out on the path the caravan took, Its hot and dry this land.
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Tsume is just as glad to be away from the strange nests and out on the road. He silently takes the lead, he and Kiba watching for tracks and signs as they go to make certain they are headed in the right direction.
Fei walks with the group, feeling very ill at ease. At length he finally says ”Could someone explain what happened there? Why were you all brawling in the streets? Was the bartender taken care of? Because if he wasn’t then rather than making an ambush, we might be walking into one.”
Fei walks with the group, feeling very ill at ease. At length he finally says ”Could someone explain what happened there? Why were you all brawling in the streets? Was the bartender taken care of? Because if he wasn’t then rather than making an ambush, we might be walking into one.”
"We wanted to free the slaves," said Akira. "The bartender fled before we could dispose of him. It looks like I laid an egg without taking care of the bartender."
”Well, I can’t fault your intentions. But we are here for our own people. We need to keep ourselves focused on the mission. Ah well. It’s up to fate now.”
The day passes as you walk along after a while it starts to get dark and you need to find a place to cam in this dry land. You come across some large rocks that could make a good place, do you camp here.
For a hunter/gatherer, Tally doesn't seem to be all that good at this. I guess he focuses on trapping?
Akira is a wizard, thus he does this untrained.
Tally mutters to himself as they go along about unnecessary killing, and how he has never killed anything except to feed himself or in self defense. He also mutters the names of a few gods and looks heavenward as if expecting retribution.
Tsume takes the lead in tracking, quietly pointing out whatever signs he spots of the passing of their quarry.
Akira follows Tsume, because he's a better survivalist.
You find something to eat, and light a small fire.
The warm winds of evening come and soon you spot some rocks.
A good place to camp. Checking them you find others have been there many times before, other traversing on the road.
You pick and order of who will keep watch when, and start the night.
Its not long before you all hear someone walking to you little camp.
They take there time but then out of the gloom comes a short red faced dwarf, pulling a pack pony.
"Greetings fellow of the road, would you have a space for one more round your fine tonight I think its going to be a cold one."
he has so a smile set of light armour, chain by the looks of it. A war hammer on his belt and dagger in one boot. He looks old and seems to have been in a few fights looking at the scares on his face.
Before the others can bring their paranoia to play, Tally quickly and innocently responds, "Of course, good traveler. As long as you take your turn adding wood to the fire, you are welcome. So, my name is Tally. What is yours?"
A big smile somes to the dwarfs face and he leads his pony to one side.
Taking off the packs he carries them to a place by the fire and makes his bed for the night.
"Names Gimluk Greenstone, am a Prospector, what you gets doing out here in the sands"
He says as he works, if you look close you can see mining tools and lumps of rock, in his saddle bags. As he sits down he takes out a small hammer, some Achmaical viles and a few rock samples. He sits and starts to crack the rocks, poping small bits into a vile and shaking it, then lookis at the color of the rock in what seems to be water.
"Just looking around, Gimluk. The desert has its own beauty," Akira says.
"I it dose that, I says to my..."
He stops and looks close vile in his hand, liquid inside had gone green, he rushes over to his pack and pulls out a battered old note book. Flipping the pages she fingers down it until he gets to a number on a list, He checks it with a number on the vile. A massive grin crosses his face.
Jumping up he dose a little dance.
"Ive found it, Ive fount it, they wan't laghes at me any more Ill yell ya am rich."
Then as if you all seem to come back into his mind he stops.
wiping the vile away, she puts the rock, old note book and hammer back. Siting down he acts like nothing happened.
Yuichi stays quiet as the man sits, watching him. Not every person had evil intentions, but this wasn't a fellow kitsune either.
"If you're a prospector, then you know some of the people around here. Do you know some of the merchants that travel this road? Passed any, recently? We're looking to make connections around here," Yuichi says, changing subjects after the dwarf's stunt. Best to find out info about mission before seeking after this 'rich' leak. A bird in the hand and such.
The dwarf looks at you sideways.
"Merchants, well there is a town as ways back, But I only go there to stock up, the half orcs there always making trubble for me, gits. Others, well now... odd you should ask, see I just passes the most odd thing I ever seen the other day. Don't lughfs at me cus I knows being at here to much ya can see things that ant there, so dont know if it twar there or not. I see a day a go, a caravan of devils with a cage of foxes. Coss my soul I did, they had flying things around em like bats. Soon as I sees them I hid like and from the rock I was behind I looked on as they pass me. Thought I was going mad or the king of hell himself had come for me. I ant liin they where real as you, "
Yuichi exchanges a glance with his brother. Now that is a rich little nugget of information. Now let's see if we can't take down a second bird with this stone.
"Sounds like a group honest men should avoid, eh? With a group like that around, it would probably make all the land around here plummet in value, no matter what they may contain. Especially once the scavenging bandits and other characters follow soon after. This place will be like a death trap for those traveling without protection. Almost makes one wish someone with a bit of extra coin would hire a group to take care of them, right?"
"Your right and if I had coin, I would hire ya, but I don't. Just a poor prospector, all I have is me mule, tools and cloths. No point robbing me I have nothing a value."
Yeah, right.
I hope we are capable of dealing with this group. Probably a bit more powerful than the guards we took on back in town. Wait! Is he trying to get that dwarf to pay us for doing what we are going to do anyway?
"Devils and bats huh? Probably a good thing you avoided them. I hear they are big on slavery around here. Those fox guys in a cage were probably slaves."
Akira didn't trust the old man. He quickly gave Tally a warning gaze, but the secret was out. "Yes, big on slavery," Akira guardedly agreed.
Its odd hes telling the truth he has no money yet you can tell he feels like his ritch.
Clueless!
Tsume cares not for funny rocks nor wealth, nor does he really care who this dwarf is. He *does* care about the news about their quarry, however... but he knows himself well enough to not participate in asking questions. Instead he holds Kiba back from investigating the dwarf.
"but if ya got a map, Ill mark where I seen em"
"Did we ever get a map?" Akira whispers to Yuichi.
"Uh...I don't think so," Yuichi whispers back. "How about simple directions. There can't be too many roads out here."
"Say, do YOU have a map? We could copy the important parts over and make our own map."
I think. Never made a map or seen one before, though I hear they are useful.