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Post by Ser Gerhart Stanislav on Feb 29, 2024 22:41:50 GMT -5
"Usually I avoid the bolts, but that's OK, I can see you're still learning!" Gerhart laughs softly as he chides Javal.
The joke costs him as he has to block a club swing that sends him backwards a bit. The ranger stays upright, but a good reminder that they are still fighting. He gives his blades a little flourish before holding them at a strange angle to his hips.[1]
He runs back in making a quick cut from the right then left.[2] A club swings wide as he leans back, hitting the bandit again in the side to cut through his leather armor. Oh good, these guys came prepared.
The bandit grumbles and jabs at Gerhart who parries the club with a kick.[3] As he wheels around, he backhands the bandit in the side of the head with his pommel sending him into the dirt. The bandit groans and rubs the side of his head, a small cut opening up where he was hit.
"Come on, you guys clearly aren't really ready to be tough bandits. Just call it quits." He smiles sheepishly. "Please?"
From the ground, the bandit tries to sweep out Gerhart's leg but finds him weirdly sturdy.[4] Gerhart sighs and axe kicks that bandit on the back of the head to knock him out. Guess these guys are doing the hard way.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Mar 18, 2024 3:41:27 GMT -5
“Yes indeed my friend but you see the art of avoiding bolts is to take them head-on. If you face it with strength and determination the silly bolts won’t even hit you at all at least that’s what Master Emeraldcutter says is true”, the fellblood replies straight-faced and a little naive. The crossbow bolts are still lodged into his body but Javal won’t let that bother him and continues to push forward against the pain.
“Hey that’s not honorable at all fellow”, he shouts seeing his new friend get attacked as he’s talking. This does very little to dissuade the sand worms to learn fighting etiquette and instead lands him a close dodge against a longsword. He barely has time to pull himself under and dodge the blade popping right back up and kicking the swordsman in the chest pushing him back a few feet (1).
Javal then opens his palm and summons a small water bubble (2) that he throws at the swordsman in front of him and splashes him in the face hard before slipping through him hitting another bandit and then another one before popping. The fellblood opens his mouth, takes a deep breath, and spews out a chilling cone (3) of frost making the sandworms in front of him shiver with cold and freeze.
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Post by Ser Gerhart Stanislav on Mar 19, 2024 16:27:22 GMT -5
"Just uh...don't take it literally head on, I can do some healing but not that kind." The ranger flourishes his blades as he turns to deflect a crossbow bolt headed his way.
Javal seems to have the other swordsman handled so Gerhart takes off towards the last marksman. The bandit disappears into the muck of the swamp. For once, the landscape isn't to Gerhart's advantage because he's not from here. It's a lot harder to move through the mud.
"OK this sucks, not doing this." A large, leathery set of dragon wings suddenly sprout from his cuirass.
The ranger takes off again, but now much faster than running through the mud. The bandit turns and fires again, a cluster of bolts coming towards him. Gerhart can block some, but one does splinter against his shoulder. Good thing Javal didn't see that or now Gerhart would look real stupid.
Now Gerhart is annoyed. He didn't really want to do too much to these guys, but they made their choice. Sparks form in his throat before he suddenly breathes out a breath of lightning. The line rips through the mud and up through the swamp until it connects with the bandit. Unfortunately, he is not ready to dodge lightning nor did he have a way to deflect that damage. He was quite literally toast.
"I warned you." He coughs as a little lingering spark leaves his mouth.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Apr 3, 2024 10:17:58 GMT -5
The Mud Worms that are in front of the fellblood are now weakened and with that opportunity, Javal uses it to finish up the goons on his end. He slashes through each of them not aiming for any critical injuries but just to knock them out. With his earlier chilled breath attack, it becomes easier and they all go down without much of a fight simply moaning on the floor begging for forgiveness from their frosty wounds.
Javal simply bows thanking the bandits, “Thank you fiendish foes for a great battle that allowed me to test my strength” before going on to start lecturing them on the benefits of the path of justice and how being mean is bad. The fellblood's words are hard for the bandits to understand considering they are in deep pain but he simply rambles on anyway.
After which he quickly heads towards the Bogskipper cages and begins freeing them breaking the locks on them with his blade. After some time the bogskippers are freed from captivity, with all of that settled Javal turns to his fellow adventurer and remarks, “That was great work out there your strength and techniques are truly not to be underestimated. It was very epic especially that lightning breath attack. Oh what should we do now? Should we transport the Mud Worms and Bogskippers to their proper places?”.
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Post by Ser Gerhart Stanislav on Apr 9, 2024 10:01:28 GMT -5
"Whoa, whoa, careful you'll scare them." Gerhart laughs as he jogs over to stop Javal from wailing on the cages. The ranger grabs a small knife from his waist and starts to wriggle the lock. It takes a moment, but it eventually pops open.
"There we go lil guys, see? You're set now." He smiles and the bugs just kind of stare and shift around. They are bugs after all.
"We probably should....gonna be hard to wrangle them and the bugs...oh I got an idea." Gerhart beams over to Javal and motions for him to help tie up the bandits.
The ranger corrals all the bandits together. Once they are properly bound, he takes more rope to bind them together into one group. He then sticks his fingers in his mouth to give a sharp whistle, flaps of wings sounding in the distance.
"Let Hal carry them in while we take the bugs. A little view from a couple hundred feet in the air might make them reconsider being bandits." A laugh erupts from the ranger as his roc comes to land beside him, curious what the plan was.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Apr 21, 2024 1:55:01 GMT -5
“Sorry I got a little carried away from excitement my bad”, the young fellblood would reply a little embarrassed, and back away to let Gerhart work his clever knife key opening technique.
“Alright!”, Javal would exclaim as he went over to the bandits and started to tie them up making sure they wouldn’t be able to escape and run away from justice. Some try to wriggle out and make some mean threats to the fellblood only to be met by a cheerful smile from Javal unfazed by them as he finishes tying them up. He looks curious as his new friend ties them together with a big rope.
“Won’t that make things harder? I don’t even think I can carry that many people at once all together like that. Well actually I haven’t tried before so we shall see this will be an interesting test of strength indeed”.
And then as the other adventurer explains it would make sense for the fellblood as he chuckles, “Oh I see that makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking. A good view of the ground will teach them not to do the crime or at least I hope so. These bug fellows will be great traveling buddies better than those rowdy scoundrels for sure”.
“So?”, he questions, “How do we take the bugs to where they need to be? Do we have to guide them in a straight line? Oh, I know a good chant will get anyone to march alongside you at least that’s what my mother says. Hmm, give me a moment to think of a good one”.
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Post by Ser Gerhart Stanislav on Apr 24, 2024 20:15:24 GMT -5
"Oh bogskippers are easy, you just gotta speak their language." Gerhart crouches down in front of one of the bugs. He makes a few clicking and chittering noises, the bogskipper in return stares forward.
Its antenna flick idly as Gerhart carries on making the noise. Seemingly bored with this, it waddles off towards some grass to chew on that. Gerhart stands with a laugh and grin.
"OK maybe my bogskipper is a little rusty, just grab a stick and I'll get one with a lot of leaves. I can lead them from the front, just use the stick you find to tap the shells if one goes wandering and needs to be led back."
The ranger is pretty quick to find a stick and start the march as Halcyon grabs hold of the bandits, "Feel free to chant as we go."
With a wide grin, Gerhart happily starts to lead the march. He will enthusiastically join any chant Javal starts. They had a few miles to cover with this walk, so might as well make the most of it!
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