Fall of a priestess - RPLOG

Participants

• Bite_PC
• Daniel
• Kiyasai
• Selena
• Travis

Date

1/3/476

Log

A sparse few adventures have turned up, a serpent, a brazil nut tree folk, and a small clan hamster are ready to go into the wretched overclaimed city. The serpent looks out towards the griffon shrine to the south, watching the road for anyone to come and aid the extraction as the other two watch the city, arms ready to stop any vile beasts from getting any ideas about coming to get them. "I HATE THIS PLACE!" the shell clanned tree exclaims, slamming his zweihander against the ground. "When can we go, I want to get out of here." The serpent turns and looks to what was once mossy stone, sighing. "We need to go quickly but we need help, none of them returned. There must be something wrong." she hisses, watching for what she knows lies in the city to show it's face.

Selena growls quietly at the complaint, shooting a dangerous glare back at them. "You knew what you were signing up for. We're going in, finding any survivors and getting back out. Your complaining will help nobody." The wolfess grumbles, looking about ready to incinerate the next thing in her path. "I can't believe the church went through with this farce." She spits under her breath, along with a quieter string of obscenities best left unheard.

A white mink starts to make his way towards the others, moving as a fairly good pace so he can reach them in time. The mink does not look that strong, or that tough, but he heard that someone needed help, and he felt like he should try to do something at the very least, so he is doing his best to make it to the others before they leave.

There was some rustling in a patch of nearby bushes, and anyone observant enough would notice the shine of a pitch black pair of eyes gazing out from inside. They belonged to the field mouse Daniel, who had followed the group along curiously, mainly Bite. She seemed stressed, but she'd left him at his place for a reason... the reason was unsure to him, but it must have been dangerous. He wasn't prepared to let her go out and do this without him. He was there for her to the end! ... But he didn't want to get yelled at either, oh the dilemmas of life!

Bite frowns and then scowls, calling Daniel over to her as she flicks her tail against the ground. "What are you doing here?!" she hisses and sighs, her tutee not at all ready for coming out to mossy stone. "Just stay close." she adds to him and looks to Selena, giggling a little at the cursing. She counts the group up, six in total doesn't seem so bad. They just need to get in and get out. As they prepare to move off a late comer joins in, a massive rabbit one might have seen trying to conjure lightning elementals in his spare time. She looks him over and nods, before hissing "Alright sssweethearts lets get going, find them and get out." She begins to lead the group into the city.

Selena moves out with Bite, shaking her head as Daniel approaches from the brush. "Daniel, you're putting yourself in danger by being this far out from town." She states flatly, and glances back over her shoulder to see the large rabbit, an ear flicking back slightly. "So Bite. Do we have any insight on what happened, or has the church screwed up more than I thought they had?"

Travis makes his way over to the others, taking a curious look around. He moves so he is walking close to the group, but after seeing the rabbit, he makes sure to be on the other side of the group then he is at. He remembers what the person pulled out in the middle of a crowded city, he does not want to be anywhere near another attempt of it either.

Daniel lets out a surprised squeak, he'd been spotted! He slinked from the bushes and to the rest of the group, rubbing his arm and looking off to the side as he's scolded. "I couldn't let miss Bite come out here without me. She's done so much for me, and I want to at least try to help." He looks off towards their destination, "And... miss Kiyasai was one of the people who went here. She was so sure she was going to die, but... I just don't believe it."

As the group moves the rabbit prepares a simple but effective use of water magic to provide hydration to the party, before pulling out a hammer and looking about warily. The brazil nut tree holds his zweihander up and ready to strike as they enter the city, and the small hamster folk walks along wth Daniel, giving him a nudge and commenting about how many 'bigguns' there are in the group with a laugh. Bite shakes her head to Selena, hissing "No I don't know anything about it, just that they hahven't come back... and Daniel I can't stop you from coming with us, because it was a posting for help but you should have stayed behind. She looks back to Travis to be sure they are following and sighs as the worn city greets them. "ANd here we are, keep an eye out." she hisses.

Selena grumbles out another incomprehensible string of curses upon Bite's reply, readying herself for assault as the group passes the city gates, though nothing afterwards beyond an expression of fury and contempt for the reason she's here.

Travis follows along with the others, his fur puffing up as they enter into the city. He looks around nerviously, starting to think that maybe he is out of his debth, what does he know about fighting anything bigger then a squirrel? He unsligs his bow from his back and carefully readys a arrow, looking around with wide eyes as he follows with the others.

Daniel can't help but chuckle along with the hamster, comments like that usually were able to make him laugh, especially with his short size. He sticks close with the party, especially after entering the city... it gives him an overall feeling of unease. His eyes dart around at the slightest movements, hopefully his usually vigilant eyes won't fail him here.

The group is brought to a halt by what appears to be a fallen priest, who is being tormented from his slumber by a headless soldier that is attempting to rip their spine out. The treefolk quickly springs into battle, lunging at the off guard creature and landing a decent hit before it turns to face the party.

Even taken by surprise the soldier finds easy prey among the greener of the party, the spine in hand thrashing Travis to the ground. Selena fights valiantly with the aid of the others, an elemental springing forth to save her when it gets the upper hand. As the creature weakens it lashes out at Daniel, knocking them aside before it gives into it's fate, being brought down by the lingering magics of a heroic wolf. When all is said and done the party examines Travis and Daniel, Bite looking slightly upset that her pupil was taken down so easily. "Is everyone okay?" she hisses as the rabbit pulls out some medical supplies, moving over towards Travis.

Selena curses quietly as the abomination falls to the ground, uttering a quiet line for the spineless priest before setting herself next to the rabbit and mink, taking some medicines from the kit and applying them to their wounds carefully. "Bloody undead." she grumbles, quickly turning an eye to the surrounding streets and dilapidated buildings as she finishes.

The Mink is pretty well thrashed, but grateful for the first aid, even if his fur is now more pink then red. He coughs a bit, and gives a sad smile at Selena, speaking gently. "I'm sorry I was not more useful."

Daniel lifts himself to his hands and knees, rubbing the back of his head with a groan. Nothing bad, just a bruise, though his ear had been sliced open by the edge of the scythe's blade. That was gonna be an interesting scar to brag to his children, if he ever gets any at this rate! He looked ashamed though, he'd gotten knocked away too easily... though this only lit a fire in him, he had to get better!

Bite moves to check Daniel and then shakes her head. "Ssswetie..." she hisses and sighs. "Lets keep moving we have to find them." With that, the tree, and rabbit following quickly, the hamster helping Daniel up, their heavy armored body only an inch taller than his own. "C'mon, the bigguns are gonna get in trouble stompinig around." he says and leads him off.

Selena offers Travis a hand, putting her medkit back in her bag. "On your feet. We've got more to do, and I'm not letting you jut end up like him." She states, gesturing to the priest's corpse. before making her way along with Bite and the other 'Bigguns'.

"There is no morning." Kiyasai yells chillingly calmly as she throws a cheetah priest against a wall, shattering his armor and leaving him a mangled mess on the floor. "There is only the night, and how long it will go." The leopardess is riding a spectral horse maned in shadow, her armor twisted and mangled by darkness, a longsword and a massive shield in her arms. She turns to the group and growls. "Are you objecting the Creator's will?" She growls again, and charges at full speed with her shield.

Travis gives a little groan, taking the offered hand and stands up. He gives himself a little shake, and then carefully picks up his bow, giving Selena a soft smile. "Thank you." He then blinks a bit, turning his gaze as he hears the yell, and then eeps as he sees a charging horse and rider, grabbing a arrow. "Ack, another attack!"

Daniel nods to the hamster, giving him a friendly smile. At least he was trying to make him feel better about himself, but now wasn't the time for sulking, now was the time for redeeming himself. He rushes off after the group, no way was he gonna let himself go down as easily this time! ... And then a familiar voice, full of hostile intent. He turns to face the knight, a look of horror on his face. "Oh Creators..." Is all he can say.

Bite blinks and hisses "Stop sssweetie, what are you doing?!" as she hurries along an explosion, which goes off in the path of the charge. slowing but not disabling the attacking feline. As she readies herself to try and dodge what appears to be an insane Kiyasai, something lunges at the charger within an instant.

A zombie manages to latch onto the charging Kiyasai, viciously trying to take more than a couple bites out of them. The feline doesn't have any trouble knocking the fiend aside, backhanding it as it moves for it's final bite. The being falls to the ground as the horsewomans charge continues.

Selena curses as she hears the statements from the leopardess, a raking gesture sending a powerful tremor outwards in an attempt to slow the mounted woman, recognition flashing in her eyes. "Kiyasai!? What the hell happened to you?" She calls out, a hint of desperation and disbelief to her voice, moving quickly to the front, hoping the tremor will stop the charge long enough for the once-priest to recognise her or some other in the group.

The tremor stops the spectral horse right in it's track but only slows the feline's momentum, continuing her charge in the direction of the group with her massive shield raised to cover her. "You dare hinder me?" She growls, and falters a little as she gets closer, recogmizing her friends a little.

Travis brings up his bow, drawing the arrow back as he faces the charging feline. He does not have a clue who she is, but when he sees the others seemingly reconize her, he just watches, bow at the ready, but not firing, arrow pointed down to the ground.

The mouse had fallen to his back, surprised and cowering a little before taking off in the opposite direction, his eyes shut tight. This is not happening... Kiyasai is not attacking him and the group... he's just unconscious, that blow to his head had hit hard after all! He opens his eyes... nope, still running. "No no no no no!" He cries out, looking behind him, hoping he wasn't looking his death in the face.

As Daniel runs away from the group, once he's at a moderate distance to be safe from Kiyasai, a zombie lunges out and grabs him from the shadows, turning his face towards them as they prepare to take a bite.

Daniel, having been grabbed nimbly pulls himself out of the grasp of the zombie. Bite looks like shes fighting herself to not set Kiyasai ablaze, hissing "Sssweetie it's me, Bite. We spoke at the pub yesterday..." as she stands there and pulls out a knife. She doesn't want to kill them. The hamster folk grumbles "Coward, stand tall brother!" as they run to assist Daniel, their razor sharp sword flailing about. The rabbit scrambles to summon an elemental, who falls apart before his eyes, as the brazil nut folk stands ready to block Kiyasai's attack.

Selena stands her ground despite Kiyasai's charge. "Yes, I do!" She shouts defiantly. "You're going through me if you want to hurt any more of these people, Kiyasai! Do you remember the negotiations!? Talk before you fight or you're no better than that creator forsaken bat! What happened to you!?" She demands.

Kiyasai shakes more as she hears those words as she closes the gap to Selena and stares right at her with empty eyes. "I died." She breathes out and hugs her tight for a moment before pushing her away, seeming to fight the darkness.

Travis continues to watch what is going on with Kiyasai, he is focused on what is going on in front of him, he does not see Daniel run off and get attacked. He shivers a bit as Kiyasai walks right near him to hug Selena, watching carefully, slowly releasing tention on the arrow and letting the string of his bow relax.

Daniel frees himself from the grasp of the zombie, falling on his rear before hopping back to his feet. He backs away from the creator forsaken thing before hearing the fellow small folk's cry, gritting his teeth slightly before nodding. "I dare not face the leopard, she would no doubt take me apart in battle, but I will not risk hurting her!" He shouts as he focuses on the flame he builds in his hands, and lights the zombie ablaze, slightly singeing the hamster in the process. "Erk... sorry!" He cries, cursing his lack of proper training.

The hamster backs up and wipes his eyes, stopping to put himself out as he stops swinging. During this time the zombie has easy pickings of the small clan member, who is too distracted to stop it from taking a bite out of his arm, crying out in pain as the space between his gauntlet and armor is stripped of flesh. Bite sees Kiyasai's reaction and drops her dagger, moving up to her and hugging her as well, whispering something to her. The tree folk stands ready to strike out at Kiyasai, not at all trusting of her, as the mage seems to get his act together, turning around at the sound of pain and lashing out swiftly, a bow coming out and letting loose, guided by the wind pierces the zombies skull. This gets the intended response of making it let go, but it does not drop the zombie.

Selena blinks a few times, her tension rapidly fading in favor of a dissapointed defeat. "...No. You're right there..." She shakes her head incredulously. "You're not dead. You can't be, you're standing and moving." She whimpers, her ears folding back slightly as she forces the hug back upon the leopardess. "What about our promise..?" The wolfess clearly rejecting the statement outright but still in shock of the possibility.

Kiyasai's breath is cold and her fur devoid of warmth, a chill of dark mathemagics following her as the chakra gems on her pendant glow, and the shining white of the soul gem she usually wore now an endless void. Then she turns to Bite and sighs softly, leaning forward to kiss her once, and then she pulls back to raise her shield and sigh. "Now put me down."

The cry of pain also alerts the mink that something is going on behind him, and he quickly turns around, raising his bow. When he sees a attacking zombie, he lets his arrow fly, thankfully not hitting any of the 'friendlies' as his arrow makes its way to his target.

Daniel squeaks at the sight of what he'd caused, the fear and guilt quickly replaced by anger. "You undead bastard!" He shouts, rushing up to the shambling abomination as he unsheaths his dagger, intent on finishing what the mage's arrow had started. With a furious cry and a leap, he plunges his dagger into the zombie's chest.

The zombie is felled, but quickly jumps back up and strikes Daniei, it's speed and sudden burst of life catching the rodent off guard. The mage again tries his magic at saving the two but fails to summon the elemental again, looking slightly discouraged. The hamster, while wounded, pushes through it and lops into it with their blade, felling it once at for all. Bite looks back to them to be sure they're alright before kissing Kiyasai on the cheek. "Sssweetie are there any other priests left?" she hisses and frowns.

Selena shakes her head slowly, refusing to let go of the armored leopardess. "Once we're done... Come back to the inn. Have some ale. Talk about this. Please." she asks quietly, looking up at Kiyasai on her mount pitifully, unable to form any other words.

Kiyasai shivers and drops from her mount, head rolling off her neck and landing on the floor with a thud as she does. She bends down to pick her head up and cradle it under her arm. "They're all dead. I killed them all when the dark magic started." She sighs.

Travis watches as the zombie falls, giving a little sigh as he sees the others are safe. He then turns to face the group that was with the felline, just in time to see her head roll off, the mink giving a startled EEP and backpaddling from shock. It seems he startles easily.

Daniel sits there, his dagger plunged into the lifeless beast, just staring at it for a while as his mind catches up with him. Still panting, he finally stands from it, wiping his blade of blood before returning it to his scabbard. He looks back to the group, his eyes going wide and his heart skipping a beat as he watches the leopard's head roll off her shoulders. "...!" He's completely frozen, unable to do anything besides stare in a state of complete shock.

Bite giggles and smirks. "Sssweetie that's an easy fix, i'm positive you're not dead." she hisses and smirks, patting the feline. "So... you killed them all...?" she quizzes and frowns. Kiyasai can't go back to her old life, she murdered all these priests...

Selena pushes back from the leopardess turning to leave the town. "Bite... I'll see you back in town. You too if you come, Kiyasai..." she murmers, shaking her head as she prepares some air math. "I'll either be at the inn or orphanage if you need me." the wolfess sighs. "Thank you all for coming with us. I think you can handle yourselves on the way out."

"I'll come home..." Kiyasai murmurs, and then remounts her horse and offers a seat to Bite. "You coming?"

Daniel shivers, the sight of a person moving without their head is... ghastly to say the least. At least he's finally stopped being locked up, standing to his feet with his breathing slow and shallow, but at least resumed. He... honestly has no idea if he should try walking home, or joining those two... both options are equally terrifying, but he finally pulls himself together to assist the hamster over to them.

Bite sends an oddly tinted gust of wind past Selena which scratches the side of a building. "No sssweetie we're all going back together, we have multiple wounded and we need all the help we can getting out of here." she hisses and frowns. "Come back here and help me sssweetie." she hisses, looking to Kiyasai's horse and opting to climb upon the feline's back.

Selena sighs quietly, her ears folding back as a squall scatters some dust from around her feet. "Right..." She murmers, pacing back to the hamster and pulls out her medkit. "Let me take a look at that bite." the wolfess comments, not waiting for a response before checking over the wound and treating the bite wound and bandaging it carefully. "Can't replace what's gone, sorry." She replies.

Kiyasai sees that there's still room on her horse and holds Bite tightly with her tail like a seatbelt. "Is anyone else coming?"

Daniel grimaces at the sight of the hamster needing medical treatment, walking towards the horse and looking up at the two. He was still unnerved by the headless Kiyasai, but he didn't do much good here. "I'll come along, I fear I'll only mess things up further here."

The hamster is given treatment, Daniel is given a handup, and the party moves effortlessly towards the edge of the city, where two priests and four more adventurers are waiting. They see the group coming and wave, rushing to meet them. "Hey! Oh it looks like we're late." says a skunk with a battle axe over his shoulder. The priests move forward, one looking slightly hopeful saying "Were there... any survivors?" The treefolk and the rabbit look to eachother, they'd both heard Kiyasai, they look to the rest of the group warily. They seem to be considering whether or not to tell the truth.

Selena scowls at the approaching the group. "You're late. No." she replies simply, not stopping for either group. "And your church has done enough by putting the priests into this deathtrap." the wolfess grumbles to herself, unconcerned if her blaspheme is heard or not.

Kiyasai simply shrugs off both Selena's and the skunk priest's words and points her sword at the ground. "Go no further. This mission is done." She says, and then she continues on her way, kicking her horse forward at full speed.

Daniel clings to the taipan, just happy to be headed back home, daring not speak, the other two were doing a fine job of it anyway. Perhaps he should have stayed home like Bite had said... he feels he only got in the way here.

The group looks slightly discouraged and bothered by the responses, one of the priests lingers back with the rabbit mage as the entire party heads for firmament.