The jade rose bows to the new comer, Sar Xeng then looks at you with out malice or any other then demur politeness.
"I am The Jade Rose Le Qin and the finding of the answer to your question is I believe what we will be discussing shortly"
An angel of Death *pops* on the top of the small group formed by the newcomers.
Are you the envoys from "man" who send you here and asked you to free his people ?
She asked her bow in hand but with an non belligerent attitude
I'm Aviata, avatar of Eternal War
she added with a perfect bow to each of you
On his next action Malfurion will run to the gates and attempt to get through them.. Along the way he'll yell.. "If yall could hold the intro's for later.. This gate is on fire and im headed through it if yall would like to join me.."
The magma dragon pushes further into the city, completely disappearing from the views of Malfurion, Aviata, She-who-Stands, Sar Xeng, and Jade.
Once deeper inside, the magma dragon expels more molten ash on what remains of the city denizens in the area.
The gray dragon unleashes what might be its last flurry against L'os.
The green and black dragon with spikes looks around for the source of the painful ray that struck it.
Taking note of the direction, it isn't long before its natural true seeing effect takes sight of Loralai.
Jade taps her boots
Seeing the red and black Dragon over head, changes form into a Medium sized Jade Dragon, then is gone from the groups direct sight.
After the Change Jade Teleports [double move if needed, shot then grater into the city if need be] close to the red and black Dragon, she is once more inside her Jade Rosa, She bows deeply, then in to its mind she says.
::"Great Brother/sister Dragon, I am The Jade Rosa Le Qin, the Gaddess in waiting, I mean you no ill, I wish only to ask, are you, like us newly arrived here, seeking to set free the city's incarcerated race?::
[ooc]Knowledge rolls for knowing the Dragons type and if possible Name
She is not any any way acting aggressively,
Malfurion walks through the gates and drinks a potion on the other side.. .. He then takes to the air and has a look around..
Aviata followed her new comrades through the smoke and flames
Then she looked around her trying to find those she seek and the minions of the strange creature who gave the mission.
Jade quickly and almost instantaneously identifies the great dragons to be linnorms. The red and black magma dragon is a Tor Linnorm, the dead icy blue eel-dragon is a Fjord Linnorm, the green with black spiked one is a Taiga Linnorm, and the gray, gloated, partly decaying dragon is a Cairin linnorm. She knows everything about them including their death curses that activate when killed, their vicious poisons, and dangerous breath weapons with lingering effects.
Jade, Malfurion, and Aviata move through the thick burning smoke suffering no ill-effects. On the otherside, all three see the city in chaos. The red and black dragon (Tor) is in view once more, a dead icy-blue eel-dragon (Fjord) lays dead in front of "a massively muscled 7ft monster of a man. His whole body is covered in shaggy coarse hair, not so much that you cant see his skin but enough that he looks kind of like a bear. He wears a dented helm in the shape of a dragons head, thick coarse pants, a collar made of old leather around his neck, dented bracers, heavy leather pauldrons, an iron ring, and a jagged piece of scale on a heavy leather thong around his neck." A green and black spiked dragon (Taiga) is a bit further and currently in flight.
You can see a female drow wearing some robes that appear to be priestly or belonging to a monk.
There is also a gray, bloated dragon (Cairin) that appears to be striking at a heavenly-looking, female half-elf bathed in brillant light and wielding a longbow. Near the half-elf there is also a very old gnome with a beard about as long as he is tall. From the air, Jade and Malfurion are able to also see a gargantuan brass dragon tucked between some large buildings.
As soon as Jade sees what they are she will Change actions and NOT teleport the the Tor Linnorm, she knows why the strange one sent them, They are not true dragons but near mindless CE ravagers, they will attack the city no matter what for such is their nature, talking to them will do little good for she knows what motivates them is Power and lust to crush lesser beings and take all they can.
Must interesting She thinks to herself, the offer made to them must have been simple, a rich city of to crush and kill in, food and wealth for the taking. The motivation for the Strange one is powerful and he will use any and all to get what he seeks, the question is do I want to be associated with such a malevolent act on the aggressor side hummmm, what ramifications to the cult then.
She makes up her mind and changes destination for he second move action.
She Teleports to the Saint like female next to St Los Appears a jade rose made of light inside which is a medium sized jade dragon. To the saint she says
"I am The Jade Rose Le Qin a Goddess in waiting, May I ask where you and your fellows sent to free an imprisoned population here in this city by a strange being with scrolls the same as me?, I ask because monsters also attacking this city are 'linnorms' base chaotic, evil, malevolent, almost Dragons, and I fear something is not quite right with someone willing to use them is this way"
Approaching the beast of a man.. "Well met Slayer of Wyrms! I am Malfurion, The Crimson Lord.. I don't suppose you came here to rescue some allies of some weird blob guy? He said to steer yall back on the path and stop killing his minions.. Apparently the dragons are said allies.."
Adventurers... always doing not what was expected from them.
Aviata followed the others, her bow in hand, ready to fire on any creature trying to attack her or the others.
The Grey Dragons attacks slide off her protective barrier and seeing its badly injured state St. Los decides to spare the vile creature. She drops her bow, charging forward with a roar and drawing out Peacebringer. The appearance of the strange jade dragon catches her off guard and for a moment she stumbled in her stride. Her movement elicited a lashing strike from the Grey Dragon as she closed the distance...
The grey dragons strike slides just past her celestial cheek as she continues her charge forward, spinning with Peacebringer and bringing it down in a single devastating blow. As the blade came down...
A blinding flash emanted from the blade just as it struck the grey dragons battered scales. Never piercing and instead bludgeoning the as it had been struck with blunted club.
As the blow was powerful and as she spun and danced back a couple of steps before angling Peacbringer in a defensive stance.
"Wait... He sent you here to? And these creatures?! How dare he!" She couldn't hide the outrage, how many innocent people had been harmed today. She had swore to aid that man and this is how he exercises his power, he wouldn't be forgiven!
The grey dragon appeared to have forgotten about her, all to her advantage anyway. With a roar she charged out of the alleyway and bowled into the grey dragon with a rib cracking impact. Before the dragon could respond she bit into its side and savaged it with her fangs intending to end it completely for the death's of the innocent it had a hand in this day.
As the blow was powerful and as she spun and danced back a couple of steps before angling Peacbringer in a defensive stance.
"Wait... He sent you here to? And these creatures?! How dare he!"
Jade's keen mind worked over time, study's St. L'os attacks, movements and actions, her comment and the attack of the grey dragon, taken as it was opportunistically yet in sync.
So they 'are' here at the request of the stranger. yet she dos not seek to kill this beast but subdue it, even when I can see the anger in her at my mention of the strange one. Then this gray Dragon, They must be working as a team, from her looks and powers she is some kind of cleric or paladin, could that be her bonded mount?
and a 1000 other things flash in her mind, inscrutably assessing all she can persevere, for this was the way of the Jade Rosa, "Knowledge" as they say "is power" she more than most kept that always in mind.
Aviata teleport herself near Rose and the elf.
You have made the promise to free his people, but you have forgotten the true purpose of your presence here along the way. You have made a pact with the true ennemy and now you kill his minion.
He send us to stop this and help you and as a reminder of your words.
The beautiful Erinye, her bow ready, looked in the eyes of the elf
St. L'os eyes flared with restrained outrage, a trait she rarely showed anyone as it was neither beautiful or useful if one wanted to avoid conflict.. Forgetting the grey dragon completely as Taisia tore into it's beaten body. She regarded the Erinye as she spoke, her words echoing the tenants of her goddess as her protective aura and nimbus of light made her beautiful sparkle wit it's own inner light. "As this is our first meeting I will forgive your accusation of making pacts. My Name is L'os, Saint to Shelyn and that dragon there is Taisia. Now, I serve only Shelyn, I promised to lend our aid to him and his people. If these are his minions, he and I will have a reckoning as this assault by his minions was unwarranted. Killing the innocent does little to aid our cause if the city locks down because of it."
She nods to the bow then. "No amount of force will sway me and I remember what I said, if he is that impatient then perhaps he shouldn't have sent them. We made contact with the enemy to glean information, through guile and intuitive decision making we were attempting to locate his people. If you have a better idea then I would wish to hear it as the enemy will be looking now and our mission will be that much harder to accomplish. She does little to hide the pain of such an accusation as she responds in a hopefully appropriate diplomatic way.
She stood relaxed, her clothing shifting to become something more artistic, more beautiful to the eyes of the Erineyes. As her clothing shifted her form continued to shift and distort ever so slightly as everything around her appeared to be moving slower as her own perceptions were sped up drastically through magical aid.
I don't care who or what you serve before you're acceptance of your new mission. A promise is a promise and a pact is a pact.
My only purpose here is to fullfill my part of the bargain for the next War to come. I don't care If your failure provocked pain or death it's time to stop this miningless fight.
I'm here not to judge you, you're master will do that for me, but to help you free the people of the creature.
My new comrades are also here to help so this time no failure or error will be made
After a short pause, and a beautiful smile she had
I'm Aviata, the Avatar of the Eternal War and I salute You L'os, Saint of Shelyn and your Dragon Taisa.
St. L'os nodded accepting some of the bitter truth Aviata had to say and disliking the smile of this Avatar of War. "I accept my pact with him but since you've added no input on how we could have avoided this then I find your logic flawed as to wharves a failure. Pardon me Avatar as we will need to finish this chat later as I have a dragon to knock out..." She salutes Aviata with Peacebringer before setting the weapon across her shoulders and turning enough to face the Grey Dragon once more.
Sometimes i hate autocorrect lmao..wharves!..sigh..
Standing, waitiing on a response from the shaggy man Malfurion activates his boots allowing 5 minutes of flight..
"Can't we just go and kill the other dragon over there? I thought we were here to kill something dammit!"
The Jade Rose hears what is said, it is difficult to read what she is thinking as the two quickly talk, she saint is known to her by reputation and her god. Aviata to is known to her in a much lesser way a report of some key names linked to a battle, if this was the same Aviata then she would be a most dangerous opponent and useful ally. She needed more information on the others, who were they, what where their motivations for being here beyond the demands of the hive being.
Jade looked at Aviata, then the Saint for a moment she lets down her, vale of normality to reveal the shear divine power. She says not as a threat or bost but as a matter of simple informative fact.
"I am The demigod The Jade Rose, my aid is 'request' never 'forced' "
Then just as quickly it is gone, and once more a normal form is standing there. She adds quickly again to inform and with a little persuasion, her voice carries to all that can hear.
"know something of you both, the base dragons around us even more I know something of the nature of the hive being that requested my assistance, I say lets us not to discord in our ranks but act as one mind, and dispatch the now useless dragon tools, also Aviata of battle fame and the rest, think of this, mistake or not, what an epic fight doing so will be."
She looks up at the base dragon forms reeking havoc on the defenseless city, lifts into to the air Her body expanding into a huge jade dragon. and ready!s for war, green jade light radiating out,
She bellows a challenge at the red and black dragon.
Hearing Jades declaration of war puts Malfurion over the edge.. He never was for diplomacy anyways..
Activating Giant Form as my standard action.. Flying up he moves into position to charge the Red and Black Dragon next round.. Once in position he'll activate Rage as a free action and Touch of Rage as a swift action..
"Finally some action.. Your ass is mine puny dragon!"