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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Nov 11, 2022 8:34:47 GMT -5
Having been on several harrowing adventures recently, Shaa was finally ready for a well earned and well needed vacation. Of course, he didn’t own any reliable transportation but wandering for Shaa could be just as relaxing. His destination was Eclipse City. As the purpose of most of his vacations, Shaa had heard a rumor that a resident had recently become famous for their “moon pie” and he could not wait to try it out. Mmmm pie. He said to himself while dreaming of the fluffy goodness. Nothing was going to ruin his day today. No damsels in distress. No political intrigue that he could not care less about. Just him and the pie. Simple. Not complicated. That is when Shaa heard the screaming.
Shaa looked to the sky. Why must you conspire against me? As a senior member of the fighters guild, running away or ignoring pleas for help was unthinkable. No matter what kind of pie was involved. Ughh someone or something is getting punched in the face for this. He said to himself as he ran in the direction of the screams for help. It didn’t take long until he found the cause of the commotion.
Upon reaching a common merchant path, Shaa found a caravan of wagons. However all of the merchants of the wagons were behind the wagons, not in them as they were being assaulted by a pack of wild displacer beasts. The scene was odd. Even though these beasts were common in the area, seeing them gang up on merchants like this so close to the city was rare, unheard of even. What in Charon were they selling, cat nip? Shaa grabbed a random branch from the jungle and rushed in. Bad kitties!
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Post by Vikram on Nov 12, 2022 17:00:45 GMT -5
Blasted jungle creatures! They had come out of nowhere, ambushing the caravan Vikram had been hired to protect. It was hard to even count how many there were with them blinking in and out of the canopy to nip and steal supplies. He swatted at a couple of them as they leapt to and fro, achieving only glancing blows at best with the scimitar. Slippery buggers they were, pests of the jungle. Had they caught scent of the stash of cured meats Vikram held beneath his robes? Hopefully not. Two of them blinked into the cargo carriage, ripping and tearing into one of the provision bags. A small girl hiding within the carriage yelped out for help. Without delay, Vikram grabbed the edge of the wagon and threw himself at the beasts. "You silly creatures! Get your greedy paws from the supplies" He shouted in a softer tone than normal, trying not to make the child more afraid than she already was. "Begone!"
He dove into the pair, tackling the one not paying attention as the other Displacer blinked back out into the Woodline. Wrestling with a jungle cat on the floor of a caravan surrounded by food was not how the day was meant to be going, but here they were. Outside, a thick branch crack could be heard, and the sounds of commotion only grew louder.
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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Nov 12, 2022 17:45:14 GMT -5
Between the multitude of tails and the constant blinking around, it was hard to keep track of how many beasts they were dealing with. On the bright side, the cats looked more interested in the cargo than any of the passengers. Hopefully this would not be anything more than an annoyance and not an actual attack.
Shaa ran up and grabbed the closest one by one of its tails with his free hand. As he did so, the remaining tails swung around slapping him in the face and wrapping around one of his arms. Shaa was tough enough to ignore the face slaps. The arm wrap gave him a chance however. Taking the wrapped arm, Shaa yanks hard, throwing the displacer beast off balance. As the beast starts to roll, Shaa begins smacking it in the head with the branch from the forest. The cat starts yelping in pain. Shaa feels something like a punch to the gut.
Suddenly, he finds himself up a nearby tree with the displacer beast still wrapped around his arm. He loses his balance and is suddenly swinging from the tree by the displacer beats tail. Let go of me you crazy cat! The beast starts to panic and starts wrapping more tails around Shaa’s arm to give the first tail more support against the Minotaur’s massive size. Even so, the beast growls in frustration as it can feel itself being pulled down to the forest floor below. Shaa drops his branch and tries to grab onto the tree. He finally mangages to step onto a larger branch releasing the pressure on the beasts tail. The cat however is still panicked and refuses to let go of Shaa’s arm. Shaa looks at his situation and tries to think of an angle.
I just wanted some pie….he mutters to himself.
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Post by Vikram on Nov 12, 2022 19:01:10 GMT -5
Managing to stand against several of the beast's tails, He sauntered to the edge of the carriages rear. With a short leap, they both tumbled the seven or so hands to the ground below. A hard impact, the the turbaned man landing back first on the ground but only for a second. Still wrapped in the beast's tails, it blinked towards a tree, knocking the wind out of Vikram. One of the Caravanners smacked it with a stick and it let go, allowing him to stand and ready his scimitar once again. "You ugly beast, fight me!" He shouted, scimitar readied before him, attempting to distract the beast from the good Samaritan with naught but an ash pole between him and the jungle cat. It turns and leaps, claws outstretched to find purchase in Vikram billowing robes. A quick sidestep and swipe with the sword sent it hurtling into the tree behind him, unconscious and bleeding. "Well, that's one of them"Looking around shortly, a large branch lands atop his turban. "What in Avashas name was..." The large hat absorbed the branches impact, but looking up at its origin, he saw a large minotaur somehow attached to one of the displacers above him in the tree. Their tussle almost directly above him now, Vikram wondered if right here was the best place to be.
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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Nov 12, 2022 21:46:21 GMT -5
The displacer beast just growled harder as Shaa tried to pull it out of the tree. Come on! Let go you jerk! Shaa huffed as he pulled the cats tails. Shaa looked down at the scene below. The other cats were still prowling around the caravan and blinking in and out. Ughhh I don’t need this! Shaa pulled as hard as he could, dislodging the beast. He kept pressure as the cat fell until he slammed it hard into the tree trunk. He could feel the tails go slack. As he did, he dropped the cats body to the ground with a thump, nearly landing on one of the caravaners. Whoops.
Shaa hopped out of the tree and floated gently down to the ground thanks to his new magical scarf that he had picked up. He had bought it off an old woman whom he had felt sorry for. She had told him that it would keep him safe because of his kindness. It wasn’t until he had fallen out of that tower the other day that he had truly seen its power first hand. Who knew?
As he landed, the next displacer beast, larger than the others , turned on him and snarled. He was apparently unhappy with what happened to his buddy up in the tree. Don’t yell at me man, I’m not the one raiding caravans! He barked back at the big cat. The big beast leaped at his face. Shaa responded with a quick one two punch to the snout. With the second punch, Shaa could feel bones in the cats face begin to shift. The cats body continued forward, slamming into Shaa like a rag doll into a wall. The big cat bounced off Shaa’s body and landed on the ground, wobbling a bit. You asked for that. Another cat appeared beside the larger one and both disappeared and reappeared on top of one of the carts. You get back here chicken!
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Post by Vikram on Nov 13, 2022 19:15:54 GMT -5
The bull man above him threw the Displacer beast down, Vikram dodging it with a dive moments before it crashed into the ground where he had been standing.
"Watch where you're throwing those things you ruffian!" Standing up, he sauntered over to the beast that had almost crashed into him, bonking it on the head with the flat of his blade to make sure it stayed out.
"Be warned my friend! For they are not chickens, they are jungle cats...that can teleport! Have you seen a chicken?"One of the treeline cats jumped at him from behind, munching on his left shoulder. Vikram pulled it up and over slamming it into the ground. He swung his good sword arm at it, slashing at the ground as it blinked midair and to his right. A quick upward swing caught it on the flank, sending it into the tree trunk behind him. It collapsed into a small pile with the unconscious one below it. He turned towards the caravan carriage with the two beasts atop it. He activated the shifting power of his armour with the bauble on his hip. A cloud of black mist surrounded him, and he burst out of it in flight. His Raven form flew up and above the caravan before diving down, dispelling the raven form and falling down atop the caravan canopy.
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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Nov 13, 2022 20:33:25 GMT -5
As Shaa stared down the two displacer beasts on top of the canopy, a cloud of black mist emerged. From that mist, flew a raven who turned to the man he had accidentally almost squished earlier. Shaa thought to himself, Seriously, where is everyone getting these ravens from? Pet ravens. Attacking ravens. This guy IS a Raven. Did I miss a courier or something? No time to figure it out now, he needed to focus on the fight at hand. The two beasts on top of the canopy turned to face their new opponent. Shaa wonders if he can handle them both when he feels a presence from the side.
Shaa preemptively dodges to the left just as a displacer beast blinks into existence right next to him. Whuu that was close! The beast swipes at him with his claws but only manages to take a chunk out of the cart. Shaa bull rushes the big cat and manages to pull him along in a head lock. As he drags the beast across the forest floor he attempts to slam the beast’s head into the nearest tree. Just before he hit, the displacer blinks and then reappears high above him above him. Shaa sees the jump and continues to run at the tree. As he reaches it, he turns upward and starts running up the tree trunk towards the falling cat.
Startled by the turn of events, the cat tries to pivot, but not before Shaa can grab him by his neck. Still running, Shaa drags him down the tree at ludicrous speed, spiking the cats face solidly into the ground. Shaa gives the cat a swift kick in the gut to confirm he is not getting back up. Satisfied, Shaa looks back to the cart to see how the raven man is doing.
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Post by Vikram on Nov 17, 2022 13:54:59 GMT -5
The cat that remained had no idea what had hit it. Vikrams full weight crashed into it and sent them both through the carts canopy. They landed on a box, now broken into several pieces and scattered the enclosed ball bearings over the floor of the carriage. The Displacer slipped attempting to right itself, and even after shifting an inch off the ground to find footing instead found none. It was after this second fall Vikram reached out and grabbed at it, Snagging one of its tentacled tails and pulling it towards him.
With his other hand, he grabbed his scimitar and gave a swift and clumsy chop, severing a large chunk of one of the tails. The yowl was deafening, the beast displacing itself away from the bearded man in several small leaps before launching itself out the back of the cart and into the woods surrounding. Vikram took a few seconds to catch his breath, making a small area in the ball bearings to stand before carrying himself up and over the trunk at the rear. The Minotaur from earlier stood before him, his immense runed horns an imposing figure to be sure. The scars on his face and snout were signs of a warrior, and Vikram gave the man an exhausted smile. Was that all of the beasts left to take care of? Difficult to tell. Surely there remained at least one by the count of it, but it didn't reveal itself for the time being.
"We appreciate you coming to our aide, Minotaur. I am Vikram, only a hired hand for this caravan. Who might we give thanks to this day?" Looking at the several unconscious displacer beasts around the ambush site he was grateful to have had some help. Though now looking around, it seemed as though there was one amongst the merchants no longer present. Curious.
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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Nov 17, 2022 15:10:37 GMT -5
Nice to meet you Vikram. I am Shaa Rhunn, acting captain of the fighters guild. But please just call me Shaa. Titles make me itchy. Glad I could help. Shaa tried to catch his breath as he surveyed the damage. Those crazy cats, what were they doing? As Shaa walked around, he started to pull the unconscious bodies and corpses of the big cats into a line of matted fur and dirt. Something seemed off though. Looking over all of them, they were all roughly the same size. Where was that huge one he had punched in the face earlier? After a second check, Shaa got a feeling in the pit of his stomach.
Say there, can you all do a quick head count? You aren’t missing anyone are you. Some of the caravan managed to calm down and started rechecking the area. After a couple of minutes, two of the group came back over.
It’s Cedrick. We can’t find Cedrick. He was just here but no one has seen him for the last several minutes. Shaa shakes his head and turns to Vikram. Do you know this guy? Is he someone that can take care of himself or do we need to go send out a search party? The two caravaners spoke back up. No Cedricks the accountant. He got lost in his own building once. Well that answers that then.
Vikram, how do you feel about a rescue?
As Shaa waited for a response, one of the beasts regained consciousness and roared at the group.
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Post by Vikram on Nov 18, 2022 12:01:55 GMT -5
"Oh! The Fighters Guild? I just joi-" He was interrupted by a roar from the pile of beasts. The one that had fallen from the tree found its footing, leaping for one of the caravanners who spoke. Vikram dove for the bystander, tackling them out of the way as the beast missed by an inch, claws outstretched. It landed in the sand behind them as Vikram and the caravanner tumbled in the dirt, coming to a stop relatively unscathed. The beast displaced itself into the air above them, Him only having but a second to draw his sword across his own chest to block the sharp impact.
It landed atop Vikram with a thud, claws outstretched as it reached for blood and flesh. Its weight heavy as vikram held it aloft with the flat of his blade, giving way inch by inch as it lunged and clawed at his face.
"A little assistance here would be appreciated Shaa!" The beast hissed and spat with its attempts to get closer to the pair, its jaws clenching and gnashing with harsh yowls. Small trickles of blood dripped from the edge of the blade where it occasionally met the creatures charcoal grey arms. The man Vikram protected trembled with fear.
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Post by Shaa Rhunn on Nov 18, 2022 15:06:21 GMT -5
What the….Shaa started as the displacer beast launched its counter attack. Shaa tracked its movements until it blinked, falling on top of Vikram. While the big cat was distracted, Shaa ran up on it from behind, kicking it hard in the testicles. The beasts body goes rigid as it topples over like a statue. It’s eyes staring off in the distance as if was looking at its own worse nightmare.
Shaa grabs the beast by the scruff of the neck and hauls him back to the pile of displacer corpses. The beast starts to recover and immediately begins vomiting the contents of its stomach on the ground. Shaa grabs the beast with both hands and shakes it violently. After a moment, it continues vomiting and starts to mew pathetically. The big cat can barely walk as it limps awkwardly back into the brush.
Shaa walks back over to Vikram and offers him a hand up. Yeah I think that guy has learned his lesson. The only problem is we are still missing that big one and your man. Shaa points to a set of drag marks that head off into the jungle. Looks like they went that way. We should hurry. Whatever is driving these guys to attack, they are probably not going to keep him around long. Let’s see if we can find him.
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