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She turns at the sound of the gang leaders approaching her, at first her expression is joyous but seeing they are merely surrendering her expression falls. She turns and her eyes fall upon the assorted group of bandit leaders cowering before her. ‘pathetic, unwilling to even attempt to fight me’ she thinks to herself. But her mission was to prevent the criminal gangs from forming. Perhaps doing it this way would make it easier for her to do so.

“Alright then, your initiative is recognised. Now I want you to prove your worth to me. I require from each of you three things. First, gather your cronies and lead me to the rival gang of yours. I will help you slaughter them and steal their riches. Two, offer me tribute of any magical trinkets you may have that are useful. And three, my servants must prove their power. Either demonstrate to me your magical prowess or slay at least 3 armed men . Fail to oblige and I will slay you on the spot.” she declares to the assembled gang leaders, her clawed hands raking the edge of her scythe as she speaks.

Seeing the gang leaders hesitate for a moment, points her clawed hand at one of the gang leaders and says “you. Bring me to your gang and find me enemies to slay. Now. The rest of you will follow.”. The man stammers but obliges, clearly terrified. The man leads the group to a burned out slum building, stopping just outside. Seemingly waiting instructions. RARGHG only tilts her head, raising her hand and slowly counting down with it. The man rushes inside and emerges with 8 similarly scared bandits. He speaks with them in a hushed voice and their expressions shift from fear to anticipation. The leader bows low and leads the group to the remains of an eatery while raising their weapons. RARGHG strikes first, cutting into the front of the eatery and pulling the wall inwards to reveal a group of bandits hastily grabbing weapons for combat. Her body whirls into a burst of motion as her celerity kicks in, her scythe slashes twice more bisecting two bandits. Steph acts next, chanting a spell as a thick layer of grease appears under the bandits tripping them. The leader and his gang charge in staying just out of the way grease to deliver killing blows. After the battle they gather up any scattered stolen goods and RARGHG nods. Next one it is then.

Unfortunately for him the next bandit leader’s selected hit location was not a fellow bandit gang but the hide out of a large number of slaves. Clearly he expected RARGHG to help in capturing them but instead RARGHG attacked him. Tapping into her celerity, she cut down the 3 bandits instantly and despite the leader and his remaining cronies attempting to run, they were far too slow compared to RARGHG. “I want to kill warriors not slaves. If any of you expect me to help you capture slaves, I will take your lives in retribution.”

And so with the bandits leaders help, RARGHG will slaughter several gangs of bandits and steal their treasure which her gang leaders offered them. Any who couldn’t find a worthy opponent were slain in turn. Now though was the truly fun part. It was time for the bandit leaders to demonstrate their own skills. Perhaps she would find some that were worth a damn.