The night air does her some good as it gives her time to think.
I hope my brother's alright.
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"LEAVE IT!" Blue says grabbing Scarlet by the arm. "The thing is accursed, and should be destroyed." Looking a bit abashed the blue dwarf releases his reddening sister. Blue turns away. He easily puts out the fire on the stable roof with a quick application of his water magic.
Beetle looks up, dazed. He considers for a moment and then extends his hand with the sword outward and lets it fall into the castle well. Fhooo... CLANK... CLANK-CLANK.... Sploosh.
"Hey Ledda, can I get Alia's estoc back? She's obsessed with it!" Scarlet finds Ledda and asks about Alia's strange sword. The dwarf nods to his captain, the giant blue dwarf in the center of the courtyard. Scarlet's brother holds it like a long knife in his giant hands, entranced. perception DC 15: Blue is whispering to himself: "It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing."
Blue begins casting a complex spell. Spellcraft (if your character can see him) DC 16: He's casting (what else but) enlarge person.
Hearing the fray, Blue spins and rushing at the battle between his lieutenant and Durgan mutters a quick spell.
Water scythes the air above Durgans head and splashes against the stable with the strength of a river torrent.
"Right around the corner if your friends haven't killed him." Blue says angrily.
Blue gives his potion to the downed guard.
Groggily the guard comes around. Blue hauls him to his feet, and tells him to get inside under cover.
"LORD HOTSPUR!" Beetle calls. With no response he heads out to aid his men. He comes out, drops his sword, and pulls a potion off his belt.
Blue staggers to the guardhouse wall, through the open door and inside where he tries to clear his eyes.
"HOW SHOULD I KNOW, I'M BLIND! ANGUS, NEVERMIND THE ELF! FIND THE CLIENT!"
"AND IF WE WEREN'T ALL BLIND, WE'D BE SEEING TO HER!" Blue shouts back rubbing his eyes.
"BLOODY HELLS!" roars Blue. "ARBALASTI!"
"Now to put an end to you for good." Arbalasti says coming to stand over the stricken elf. He pops the black-bladed katana, Wavecutter, free of its sheath with his thick thumb. It slides out smooth a serpent through silk. In the blink of an eye it strikes--a terrible overhand slicing coup de grace! There is a horrible clang of metal upon metal as katana strikes estoc and neither yields. Blue pauses and inspects the blades. "Calm yourself, Wavecutter. Be still. It is a worthy foe your enemy. Did you suspect that it would be overcome so easily?" says the dwarf calmly. Blue bends down to again regard the estoc. "Still, we can forge for you a prison of lead, and then drop you in the Tuskwater on our way east. How does that sound blade?" He stands back straight. "Warbeard! secure this weapon. Angus! Come see to the elf and Collinshammer." Warbeard rushes over.
"How appropriate, you being a giant and all."
The black sword flashes again at about shin-level. It is followed a moment later by the subtle click of a katana being re-sheathed, and a giant THUD!
The moment she moves Alia sees the black katana twist in Beetle's hands, and lunge at her. She thinks she is hit but didn't feel the blow so sharp is the black rune blade. But now she has her own blade in hand (albeit relative to the hand it is quite small now).
In cold deadly tone, the Blue Beetle growls: "Don't you ever call me Shirley."
"Do not try it." says the dwarf captain coldly.
Alia perception (DC 16):
"No. No I won't kill her if I can help it." says Scarlet's brother. From out of the darkness a great serpent made of water shoots forth!
It bites down and yanks the black blade from her grasp! She hears it clang on the stones at her feet shrinking as it falls to normal size. Before she bend or even react the silhouette of blue dwarf is standing before her his aimed at her knee. But his blade--by all the gods, his blade is outlined in a darkness darker than night, darker than the magical darkness shrouding it, and its master. It is a black katana! Alia can tell even through the dark that this sword was not just forged of any mere skymetal, but of the same substance as her own blade, and she fancied she could hear it laughing just now. "Do not try it." says the dwarf captain coldly.
darkvision and line of sight: In the dark Beetle grabs the raegns of the riderless horse, and tries to draw it off the magically slick ground beneath it's hooves.
The beast slips though and takes a moment to gather itself.
Before stepping off the battlement Beetle summons a torrent of rushing water to course between his hands! Name that spell - spellcraft DC 17:
Meanwhile, high above more dwarves attain the battlements of the beacon tower. Arbalasti, and Bloody Angus can be seen on the battlement standing beside their scowling captain. There seems to be a great commotion coming from inside the bell-beacon tower. Down below in the courtyard, Miles can hear the sound of a veritable tidal wave of cursing dwarves, and clanging armor steaming toward the cathedral doors to his right.
There's spout of water from inside the tower. It hits the underside of the trapdoor, forcing it open and causing the beacon to roll off and onto its side where the flames gutter. A moment later, Blue Beetle is standing on the battlements having been lifted there by a pyramid of his men. He does not look amused.
Inside the tower, Alia can see the Blue Beetle and Warbeard reach the top floor shoving their way through their men. Warbeard shouts while Blue Beetle looks as though he is listening carefully to some unseen dwarf. He looks up directly up through the arrow slit directly at Alia and scowls, and then he disappears up the ladder and out of sight toward the roof. dice:
"Scarlet, you coming or not?"
"NO! We're not going to be pinned down here like a badger in burrow! We're moving out now! Warbeard! Alert the men in the village! Arbalasti, Angus you're with me!"
"WHAT!?" Beetle explodes. "That light can be seen for leagues!" "Sir the tower door is barred! We are trying to get in!" says the dwarf. "Out of the way! I'll break that door in with the skull of the traitor who lit it!" growls Beetle.
"We? I thought you weren't coming." he says and looks darkly over at Alia.
The Blue Beetle turns dark purple. He slams his dwarf bread down so hard it breaks his plate. "We. Are. Not. Bandits." He says through clenched teeth.
[B]"Oh right, you weren't at the counsel. We've signed a contract to head into the Stolen Land and whip a bunch of dregs into a fighting force so that our employer can carve himself out a proper river kingdom. That's him now." He points to the doorway.
Alia waves at the blue dwarf when Scarlet points her out, somewhat insecure about proper protocol to follow, then inmediately feeling somewhat foolish about her waving and stopping it. The dwarf stares at Alia (or at least in her direction) in a very strange way--as if someone had just stepped on his grave. "We leave tonight undercover of dark to avoid the Movoni patrols. Everyone eat all you can. Those who come with us won't be any home cooking after tonight for a long while." He says it to the hall in general. More dwarves pile in to the hall and the Blue Beetle shakes off his momentary fugue, pats Scarlet absently on the hand and seeing Durgan heads toward the cleric. He claps the other (non blue) dwarf on the shoulder mid-purify. "Servant of the Gold-Fisted, aye?" he says. "If you are looking for wealth, and a job you could do worse than hitch yourself to the Company of the Sapphire Scarab."
With a roar the dwarf leader grabs up his sis ter in the sort of hug that might require first aid for bruised ribs when it's done. "You're back! I almost couldn't believe it when Warbeard told me. And you're back just in time too, the company's got a comission!"
The doors open. A heroically proportioned blue dwarf warrior strides in, flanked by more typical-looking dwarves. "..."
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