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Post by Sarris on Sept 22, 2022 20:34:50 GMT -5
Sarris let out a little sigh and looked at Javal. “They are all going to be dead before we can learn anything from them,” she said with some resignation. She started to walk towards the farm house letting the pendent swing exposed for the residents to see. She carried her bow low and ready to be used. “Who attacks in the day light?” She asked no one. The one on the silo appeared with a crossbow and aimed. Sarris brought her bow up and shot while walking forward. attack 19 defend 12 Like normal, her shot flew true but not quite where she wanted. She was aiming for his head and shot him in the arm. The cross bolt released wide of its target. “We could have waited for dark and smoked them out,” she said. She drew and let the second arrow fly, the arrow hit the broad side of the barn scaring a bull who in turn attacked one of the farm hands near the barn attack 4 vs defend 1 She continued her slow march forward as the alarm started going up. “We could have poisoned the water,” she said as she approached the cover of a stone fence where she ducked down. The sound of the man being attacked by the bull was loud enough to draw looks and attention from others. Screams tended to do that. She crouched down and waited for the mass of humanity to attack their little band.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 24, 2022 10:41:10 GMT -5
Javal stands in the middle of the farmstead and yells, "Hello wicked fiends it is I Javal Zarrias I am going to beat you all up I am going to count to 30 and then I will come to get you". He starts to count finishes and then begins his hunt. He heads over to the greenhouse and just walks in the three people there are freaked out and take their weapons out a sword, a bow, and a bow, and he sees the girl that ran away earlier pull out a dagger. He laughs, "Man this is awesome you guys are really interesting" and unsheathes his katana. The girl and the swordsman charge forward at him while the bowman jumps back to begin notching his bow. Javal pushes both attackers back he kicks the swordsman in the gut. He begins to dodge their attacks they aren't as strong as Javal it seems that disappoints him. The swordsman keeps slashing and the girl slashes at him with her dagger she starts laughing and says, "Not so big without your other friends here are you". Javal is relieved she said that that appears to be a good sign that it is time to end this and go on the offensive. He stops dodging and defending and only blocks attacks that come he kicks the swordsman, grabs him, and hits him in the back of the head with the butt of his sword. He then walks toward the archer kicks him in the stomach and knocks him out as well. He then turns to the dagger girl who runs out screaming for help. "Darn it I always let this happen", Javal says "Well nothing I can do" as he heads to the orchard.
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Post by Edward Ardent on Sept 24, 2022 20:41:53 GMT -5
Edward rushes back to the farmhouse after hearing some commotion coming in that direction. He sees a girl wielding a dagger running towards him. “Help me sir, a criminal is trying to kill me and all of my family. Please help me.” Edward just swings his staff at her head and knocks her out. “I know that these are cultists, Javal. But I don’t feel good killing without fully knowing if they could be saved from this sinister influence.” He goes past Javal and goes towards the the farmhouse. He sees a small group of three wielding swords running at Sarris from behind after hiding in the bushes nearby. Edward just raises his hand and bluish white mist springs from his palm and forms into a swarm of spirit ravens that attack the group of the three cultists wielding swords, pecking at their eyes and clawing at their skin, causing them tremendous pain.
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Post by Ser Sarne Sequoia on Sept 26, 2022 13:01:19 GMT -5
Sarne watched for the shadows Sir Edward and Javal were taking down the cult. Sarne turned towards the barn out of the Barn doors two archers came out with one swordsman. Sarne had never asked much help from the light of Solaria. Sarne played in old Elvish he was covered in a white hue. He held his hand out in the direction of the three at the barn. A light came from the sky engulfing them the light was as bright as the sun. The light burned the people who were inside of it, scorching their skin and causing them terrible damage. They fell to the ground with their hands over their faces. The smell of burnt flesh and clothing filled the air. Even the stuff on the ground turned to fire. their cries filled the area with horror and pain. Then silence as their bodies lay in on the smoldering ground. Sarne was almost sickened by what just happened. He knew this was a powerful blessing from Solaria. He knew now that this was to be used sparingly. Sarne now focused on the house.
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Post by Sarris on Sept 26, 2022 23:27:56 GMT -5
Sarris heard the challenge being shouted from Javal and shook her head. "Why not tell them where you live too so they can attack you while you sleep?" she grumbled softly.
Next came the screams of people coming toward her. She popped up bow ready to find them throwing themselves around like birds were pecking at their eyes and faces. Her other target was the girl running into the orchard. None of them were acceptable targets due to the Vanguard code of honor.
"Stupid code of honor," she muttered nodding to Sir Edward as she climbed on the wall.
A shaft of light came down from the heavens and obliterated everything it touched - people, glass, animals. The night watch at the Citadel and the capital probably saw that light. Birds spooked in the nearby trees and quailed and some wolves or coyotes howled at the light.
"Bread and cheese," Sarris said in Dwarvish, thinking she was swearing. She asked Corgin to teach her to swear in dwarvish. He had taught her this instead and when she said it the dwarves laughed. Everything in dwarvish sounded like you were swearing.
"Let us have a god send a little light down, who is going to notice that," she said with some frustration. When she saw the remains of a rat and a brown snake, she thought maybe Sarne needed to up the power a little more. She figured that that would get Corgin and the men Sarnes brought to come here.
As she walked toward the house, she waited to see what they had planned next. Half of the cult members were dead and they had barely started to break a sweat.
"Men are nothing but little boys. Each one wants to show off for the others," she said as she walked. The three of them would all make it to the house before her. She wondered who would kick the door in and be shot by a crossbow bolt. "Got to go at everything directly," she thought.
If it was her, she would have one person hit the door with a log that had not had the limb cut off, like a hammer, and someone goes through an upstairs window. That would take a crossbow out of the way. Plus any children would be hidden upstairs giving a person leverage. No one was going to ask her.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 28, 2022 22:26:19 GMT -5
Javal walks out of the farmhouse walking after the girl but he soon sees Edward knocking her out with his staff, "Good work Sir Edward", Edward then heads to the farmhouse and takes some cultists down. Javal sense Sir Sarne in the bushes Sir Edward and Sarris heading towards the farmhouse so He thought to go towards the one mysterious induvial in the bunker silo. Javal sprints over there and sees the person it appears to be a big sun elf holding the stone above a stone tablet holding some sort of ritual. "Hey there foul fiend I am Javal and I am here with my friends to shut down your wicked goings on". The person takes off their hood and reveals glowing orange eyes Javal is excited he's never fought a sun elf cultist leader before. He unsheathes his katana gets into a stance and charges at the cultist leader.
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Post by Edward Ardent on Sept 29, 2022 8:46:36 GMT -5
Edward follows after Javal and sees the sun elf doing a strange ritual with a stone of some sorts. He doesn’t recognize the ritual but it doesn’t seem to be good. “Stop whatever you are doing or I will be forced to hurt you.” The cult leader just keeps on chanting and raises a hand towards Edward to shoot a bolt of dark energy from his fingertip. Edward dodges out of the way and fires a radiant bolt of golden light of his own at the sun elf. The golden bolt slams into the cult leader and stumbles backward, dropping the stone. Edward charges in with his staff and slaps down on the stone tablet, breaking it. He then jabs his staff at the sun elf, hitting him in the chest and burning away at the elf’s robes.
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Post by Sarris on Oct 1, 2022 17:07:48 GMT -5
With those in the house subdued Sarris came to see what was going on with the remaining target. Sir Edward had him on the ground, a broken tablet with some writing of some form. It was not anything she had seen before.
She walked over to the Elf and knelt down. "So far they have killed just about everyone they have encountered," Sarris said to open her negotiation with the cult leader. He looked at Sir Edward and Javal with a bit of contempt and then spit at her. Her noble elven temper flared. "Go ahead and do what you want with him, I will just bring back his ghost after he is dead and question that," she said. "I am sure you will enjoy spending eternity in a soul gem," she said touching her earring and then standing up. She gave Sarne a look basically begging him to play along. The Vanguard as a rule did not approve of necromancy or the threat of necromancy, nor did they approve of torture.
She was bluffing and she hoped the others would play into it with her. She wanted to get this guy to tell them more about the Sol Stone.
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Post by Ser Sarne Sequoia on Oct 7, 2022 22:59:07 GMT -5
"What do you think? should we cut from the bottom up?" suggested Sarne as he stepped up. Sarne was trying to play along. The Vanguard doesn't normally torture people but it does not mean they don't either. Sarne would do almost anything to complete a mission even ruffing up someone. A few more cuts never seem to be a problem.
He looked at the Man " you have a choice there you talk to us or you will wish you were dead for that other gentleman to go to work on you. Oh and the pretty redhead well she likes to collect men's, how do I say this" Sarne paused. "your manhood. See, I am a professional I will not kill you. I will make you wish, beg us to kill you when we are done." said Sarne in a cold and stern tone.
" Now I have done my part. Is there anything you would like to say? you could start with your name?" Sarne knew to start simple. Sarne knew he could turn it up some as well. Sarne started to radiate fear intense and was almost hard to move or even breathe. Sarne gave a smile as his body had a white hue around it. "So answer!" Sarne said in a loud voice trying to startle the man.
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Post by Sarris on Oct 9, 2022 21:44:48 GMT -5
Sarris headed to see what was going on with the sole survivor. This was a cult and cults tended to follow a strict code that was not honorable. To make matters worse she was expecting him to kill himself or double cross them.
She heard Sarne’s comment and replied, “I am in the mood to cause some pain.” Her tone as expressing the annoyance she felt still.
It was clear that he was out matched and under powered for the remainder of the battle. With most of his cult members dead, it was clear that he needed to escape before the party could capture him. The leader had taught his members to kill themselves before they were captured and could be questioned, That did not apply to him, theirs were acceptable deaths his would not be.
The cult leader’s reply was simple. A smile came across his face and he closed his eyes lookin up and raising his arms as to surrender. He dropped a small thin glass vial from his right hand.
In less than a heart beat, there was an explosively bright light to flair into existence. All that were looking towards him would be blinded from the light for a short time. Enough for him to disappear (invisibility) and change locations.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Oct 12, 2022 23:37:20 GMT -5
Javal says, "Yes Sarris is quite the killer I saw her almost kill some poor inn attendant". Soon Javal's eyes become blinded for a second then a cloud of smoke replaced where the Cult Leader was standing. Woah I didn't know the cult leader transformed into smoke he begans to try to gather the smoke into a bottle to capture the wicked fiend. Someone then informs him that the cult leader use the smoke bomb to escape. "Ah that cult leader must be pretty smart i was sure we had him right were we wanted him". He then sits on the dirt and asks, "Well the cult leader escaped there seems to be nothing left but unconcius bodies all over their headquarters. We might be able to find out some information about the sol stone in their compound if not i can still get a cool trophy to add to my collection maybe a statue i always love those".
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Post by Ser Sarne Sequoia on Oct 13, 2022 15:07:28 GMT -5
Blinking a few times Sarne grumbled some he looked down at the ground thinking. Sarne could not believe he fell for that old trick and would not make that mistake happen again. He looked at the ground studying it as the others talked.
Sarne saw which way the man walked off but did not say a thing Sarne would just let it go. He can find him later if he needed to. Sarne never told Sarris how he could figure out where she was when she would disappear. With her and this cultist, they leave tracks sure they play tricks on the eyes or use shadows but they leave tracks on the ground and tracks can be followed.
Sarne looked around for another minute or two then Back up towards the house. " I would like to bun the bodies don't want them to come back and have to fight them again." Sarne says out loud while walking. Sane stoped and kneeld down to one knee looking at the ground. He waited until his sight came back. Sarne said a quick prayer then started look around the ground and the tracks. Sarne stood to his feet and pointed in a direction. "The Man went in that direction." said Sarne. The stench of the burnt flesh made Sarne cough some as the smell drifted towards the group.
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Post by Sarris on Oct 13, 2022 16:20:17 GMT -5
Sarris kept her bow in hand and at the ready. An arrow was notched and on the string. She was ready to shoot if the cult leader ran. She had not been ready for a vial of light.
The problem with being a thief is your eyes are drawn to what glitters and sparkles. Sarris watched the vial as it fell and broke. Her vision was white, everything was white. It was the sounds of the others that let her know he had vanished. She walked towards Sir Edward or what sounded like Sir Edward. At this time she would not be able to shoot the barn let alone a person. What was important was She looked like she was standing guard. She waited for the others to move away and spoke softly. “Sir Edward? I can not see. Everything is just white,” she said as an admission of weakness. “You burned his flesh? If you did, follow your nose and you might find him. ” She added quietly. “You can use my bow if you wish,” offering it up.
Sarris was not big on the killing people plan of life. But cult leaders had a way of corrupting and killing others. Some of his dead followers were still children.
Tim would bring her sight back.
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Post by Edward Ardent on Oct 21, 2022 22:59:11 GMT -5
Edward can’t see anything but despite that, he raises his hand and summons a swarm of spirit ravens that home in on the cult leader and swarm him, pecking and clawing at his skin. The leader yells in pain and Edward rushes up to the sound and swings wildly in the general direction several times. He managed to hit the leader and cracks him across the skull. The white light in his eyes fade and he looks around the barn, finding a old leather tome with descriptions of a distant isle that seems to contain a temple dedicated to Solaria that may be hiding the Sol Stone.
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