Waking slowly, Kaliana reaches out, her hands clasping the familiar grip of her blade. Hoping the corpse has not noticed her, she lashes out from the ground.
"Return to hell..."
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"Shel, try to rouse them, I'll handle the mage! "
Kaliana lets out a gasp, as the ghostly hand appears, I've no idea if your real, but let's see how you like the taste of elven steel.
Both are good, though I think i prefer the ones you have been using
Moving into the room, Kaliana readies her blade, anticipating the zombie's advance. "She's got a wand, beware her spells." Why can't they fight fair?
Nodding in resposne to Loco's thougths. "Let's not leave any chance for suprises with these other rooms. If you can handle it, we can wait out of sight and you can try to draw them out."
Kneeling next to the spell caster, Kaliana makes a quick search, then stands slowly, and limps over to shel and Tauni. leanign against the wall with haggard breath " Any healing is much appreciated..."
As the team surrounds the crossbow man, and Tuani gives him a good whack to the head, Kaliana moves to intercept the casters. " Oh no you don't, no more spells from you today"
"That's what I thought last time shel, but I'm with you..."
As Loco goes running by, screaming about some unknown nightmare, Kaliana presses her back to the stone and raises her blade, waiting for whatever Loco saw to come for them. She attempts to remain silent, hoping it wont see her unntil too late.
"I'm sure we can arrange for him to wake up in custody, but right now, we need to get ourselves moving"" Wiping her sword off as bets she can, Kaliana will move after Loco. quitly she says to no one in particular, "don't expect me to go charging in again, that hurt too much last time."
"Right, time to go." pointing at their prisoner and raising he pommel "I think it's nap time for you"
" I know little of the gods, btu I don't liek the sound of Velbottis rising again...." moving to stand behind their captive, kaliana looks to the rest of the group."Perhaps we should continue this discussion elsewhere, there could be more of them about or on their way."
Weapon in hand, Kaliana rejoins her companions, sending a vicious slice towards her opponent . "Sorry for taking a nap, Let's see if I can help."
Rising, slowly, still not looking great, Kaliana begins searching about for her blade, or any other she can find. "Give me a sec boys, and I'lls ee what I can do to help......argh, not sure how much help that will be though"
As she speaks her hand quickly moves to her mouth, ....my jaw, pharasma damn these corpses.
As the healing power washes over her, Kaliana begins to stir. my head....."
Will a muffled yell and a thud, kaliana drops before the corpse, unconcious but alive, for now.
Spitting out blood, Kaliana curses "ghaaa, that thing might have busted my nose."
I have no idea what that guy is saying, but It can't be good! Kaliana charges the corpse closest to the spell caster, hoping to carve a path straight to him.
"You boys really need to learn how to work as a team, letting a woman best you both" As she taunts them, Kaliana shifts to the side of the wonded man, aiming for the gap in his armor, right below the shoulder...
Once the bolts fly past, Kaliana charges the crossbow men, hoping to reach them before they reload smart.....real smart. Rush head long into trouble, like the damn fool girl father thinks I am
As Kaliana brigns her blade across in a devious slash, "Bastard dog! If you will wont sing, then silence!"
if he is unarmed,
Hearing Loco scream, Kaliana leaps forward, rushing past Loco to confront the unknow assailant. "You better hope the dwarf lives"
With a nod to show she understands, Kaliana slowly makes her way to the corner. Despite being careful, she is unable to keep the scales of her armor from scraping. I hope no one heard that
And here I was hoping to stay clean, after this I'm taking a long bath. let's get to it, before someone decides to ask what we're doign out here.
I suppose knocking is out of the question" While shel and loco work to find a way in, Kaliana tries to keep her back to the group, slowly scanning the area, but trying not to make it too obvious. At least the sun is still out, I'd hate to be here a night
I can't believe i'm actually considering possibly assaulting a slaughter house with these people Let's be careful, keep our eyes open. If things go bad, stay close.
Shel, you seem to have a fair knowledge of this palce, at least better than me, are their any streets or allies behind this slaughterhouse, I don't much care for the front door approach."
As shel almost vanishes into the crowd and Loco finds the filthiest beggar around, Kaliana decides to stick close to Callandor to callandor, not too loudly; "Can you believe all this?!?! Selling people like they were cattle. I hope something turns up soon, the quicker we leave here the better."
"I wonder what this area was like before.... Kaliana keeps one hand near her sword, "The Pleatra it is, but let us be on our guard, the slave market is a dangerous place"
As plans and strategy flies across the table, Kaliana finishes her ale. demons and devils, this is getting all too real. I've dreamed of this moment, a chance for action. Do I have what ti takes to stand with these people.......DO I even want to stand by this loco? "Let us see what information there is to be found. If there is to be a war between devil and demon worshippers in the streets, then I will not stand by and watch them burn this town down around them. lead the way master dwarf"
As callandor preached, she takes a few good sips of her ale, letting the warth spread through her body. [i]...much better[i] "I guess what they say is right, better the devil you know than the demon you don't. Still I'd rather not make the aquaintance of any fiend, be it from the abyss or hell"
Laughing at Loco's comments, Kaliana shakes her head"Remind me to show you your reflection in a mirror sometime." Turning to shel "I agree, but must confess I am at a loss as to who we could ask. I don't suppose anyone knows a sage?"
to callandor "I think we could all use a drink. Lead the way my friend" Kaliana falls in with the rets of the group as they head back to town. She is quiet, contemplating the events. When they come upon the overturned wagon, she watches Loco poke around. "Looks like somebody was after that body. But who? And why?" Arriving at the tavern, she follows Shel over to an empty table, signaling to the bartender that they require service. She listens to Shel start things off "I did not see the signs, what could they mean?" Pausing for a moment to look at the others "Perhaps we had best start with some introductions....I'm Kaliana, weapons instructor and occasionally trainer for higher to noble houses."
Holding her head high, steps forward. Kaliana is my name. The crowd blocked my view of the initial attack, and my concentration was on that undead corpse." She looks at the severed heads, unabel to supress a slight shiver at the gruesome sight of severed heads. "Sorry, I don't recognize them" Catching Callandor's jist, Kaliana will waits for the others to be cleared.
Curse them, your right. We had best see how this plays out. At least I wasn't the only one moved to action, thigns could ahve gone much worse." Looking around at the group she extends her hand "Kaliana, if you ever need new arms or armor check out my my father Gregor's Blacksmith."
Kaliana returns to Callandor. Turning to kaliana " I agree, though we aided the Dottari I doubt we will escape blame for what has happened." Wiping the bile from the corpse off her blade, she returns it to rest against her back. Then she wispers to Tauni "Keep those powers hidden, we have too many onlookers about now"
Despite her former resolve to aid him, Kaliana still moves away from Callandor and the spiders. Not completely abandoning the priest, she steps alongside the corpse bringing her sword upward in a vicious slice. "Will you just die already!.....AGAIN!"
Seeing the Dottari fall out of the corner of her eye, Kalian can't help but smirk just a little Figures the guards can't handle a real fight AS the swarm overtakes the priest, Kaliana has to fight the urge to run.
"Priest, stay strong, once this corpse returns to the grave, I will find a way to help you" she calls out, though clearly her conviction represents her doubts
Call it divine forsight
As the crowd clear out, Kaliana is able to quickly survey the scene of chaos unfolding. Seeing a young man facing off against an undead corpse alone, she mutters a prayer under her breath. "Goddess pharasma take these abominations" Quickly she moves along side The priest, bringing her magnificant curved blade forward in a wide slashing arc towards the creatures neck. Unfortunately, the black ichor from the creatures previous woudns causes a misstep and her swing sails high.
Kaliana watched the priest parade the implements of desecration, unable to hide her horror. Looking about she was glad to see most others shared her view, though the halfling on the edge of the crowd was nodding along with the priest. Why would one of the small folk agree with this? When the screaming starts, Kaliana attempts to lookm through the crowd, but can't see past the throng. At the cry of spiders she shivers involuntarily I hate spiders As cries of the dead rising fill the air, Kaliana barely avoids being trampled by the crowd. SHe pushes her way forward, drawing her sword onces she breaks free from the crowd.
Kaliana was trying to enjoy her ale, which is tough when the mood is always sour. Her companions for the evening had already left, and she was still deciding whether to order another ale or head home, when the guards entered. Kaliana did not immediately notice the Dottari, else she might have tried to slip out the back. Watching the guards draft mourners, Kaliana was surprised and pissed when her name was called. Who in the hells have I angered? Despite her attitude towards the whole procession, Kaliana arrived early the next morning, checked in with Lars, and then gravitated to the middle of the crowd. As rain continued and the procession started to move, Kaliana drew her cloak tighlty about her. Do the gods weep for those departed souls, or for us commoners Finaly arriving at the graveyard, she is lost in thought. This is not right. people should not be dragged from their homes and work to bear witness like this. We have done nothing wrong! Yet still the guards harass the good people, perhaps I will check out that rumor of a resistance. The gods know we need something to happen
Good point, will do. Thanks! edit: will add armor penalty to my skills, forgot that part
Updated her sheet, I combined Name, race, class and level together as well. Name: Kaliana, Half-Elven Fighter 1
DM: Usually not a problem for me, but having trouble deciding on a second trait that fits her. Perhaps there is an intimidate oene.. One idea I had was this:
You've trained for countless hours, sparing against any opponent you could find, improving your footwork and timing. As a result you've learned to how to lunge and roll past opponents while avoiding their attacks.
Greetings all, Glad to be here, thank you Lucendar. I have a meeting at 6:30 but will finish up her stats later tonight. kaliana looks forward to providing plenty of oportunities for our rogues to flank. As to skills, I only get 4 but I hope to make the most of them. like I said in my submission, I plan on being pretty good at disarming opponents, but should pack a decent punch with the curve blade. Down the road, critical feats might come into play. Looking forward to foleplaying with eahc of you, though I'm a tad jealous oof Unspunnen (I love playing the stuborn dwarf!)
I've started adding stats and mechanics to Kiliana. Going with Curve Blade, Elven. She will specialize in disarming her opponents, though she can hit hard. Still not sure on the secodn trait. Background is in the profile with soem tweaks.
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