Swindlers in the forest - RPLOG
From Rusted Promises
Participants
Date
12/2/476
Log
A well dressed dugong stands behind a counter, calling out to all manner of beings. "COme on come on! Get your herbs! The forests are ablaze, you can't go in there! Stay safe, pick your herbs up today!" he cries to to a lined up crowd, workers behind him passing around things almost as if they were trying to look busy. Golems stand around, watching the line solemnly. A serpent stands at the back of the line, getting relative deja-vu as she considers what to do. "This is all very familiar." she hisses.
Angus crosses his arms as he waits, his taill twitching. "I wouldn't know, why are we standing in line anyway?" Leaning out a little he takes a peek at the line. "This is going to take forever."
Selena growls, her hackles raised at the sight of the dugong, gently nudging Bite. "Angus is right, and I remember the last time I saw that wretch of a being." She spits, gesturing to the dugong pawning off herbs. "Personally I'd like to see him thrown in the fire." She grumbles as an aside.
The moment Kilsa sees the dugong something in her snaps and she forgets any sort of nobility. "You!!!" The large badger growls from the back. "I swear I will wait this whole line to break his jaw. I can't refuse him the healing of a priest but I can make sure he comes back for frequent vists." The badger punch fist into her open palm her mind caught up in dealing as much justice to this crooked sales folk as possible. "The his arm.... I go for the arms...." She grumbles as the line carries along.
Wulf rambles on into the area only to hear the snarls and rages of an angry badger. She stops dead in her tracks and looks over at the line. "Did I.... miss something here?"
Arimia flicks her ears as she wanders up, looking a bit confused at the line that's formed. She stares at it a bit disbelievingly, then simply starts to go around, circumventing the line and making her way toward the forest. If she's stopped at all she simply replies, "I ain't waitin' in line for some pigeon plucker."
The dugong sees Kilsa and raises an eyebrow, allowing the line to continue a bit longer before saying "It's time for a break, don't worry those first in line in a short bit will be the first served." he says as the golems and workers all start moving into the thick of the forest, Bite blinks and remembers where she'd seen this before and begins following him.
Selena snickers quietly, having never taken a place in the line either - she was just next to Bite to chat. "Bite. Remember what happened last time we all went off to see what this dreg was doing? Can you make sure it doesn't this time? I'm going to head back to the forest. See what I can do about the fire." She comments and quickly makes her way after Arimia, giving the dugong an icy glare, murmering across to the raccoon. "Last time we saw this guy, half a dozen golem crafters and some army mages were involved."
Wulf still looks utterly lost as Ari and Sel runs off, she starts doing a sidestep shimmy step deal as she shifts her focus between people. Making up her mind she starts to og after Sel. "Oi wait up!"
The Badger notices that the dugong has headed off and exits the line following the badger, every few moments she looks behind her back in case anyone is tailing her. For once she decides to try to be quiet and careful to avoid a group of golems killing her in a horrible gang beating. Her face is twisted up in a scowl thinking of the many many ways his face can be broken.
Arimia flicks her ears at Selena's words, then says, "Maybe we should tail after him, then? I was jus' gonna grab some herbs an' set up a little competition for him." Once she enters the forest she alters her course to where the dugong entered, hoping to catch sight of him so she can tail him.
As the group pursues the fleeing salesmen and workers, they proceed deep into the woods, far from the well beaten path. Bite who had taken off first finds herself rather lost, and knowing her friends were following her quietly begins to call out, only to take an arrow to her side. The serpent staggers and drops to the forest floor as the attacker speeds off, only to be replaced by a rather aggressive set of golems. While the rest of the group is rather careful, Kilsa's massive body seems to almost barrel through theh forest even through her attempts at being stealthy, and she is soon met with a firebolt to the face, her attackers ambush and the badgers obvious position making it hard for them to counteract the damage with their armors.
Angus curses lightly as he watches Bite stagger. Ducking behind the nearest tree he draws his pistol and sighs. Poking his head out he scans the tree line, noticing the golems easily and lets out a muffled curse. Taking aim at the nearest golem he fires, trying for a distraction more then actually causing damage before darting off to the side, drawing his sword as he goes.
Selena curses quietly as she hears Bite's calls suddenly go silent, murmering something back to Arimia and Wulf before she quickly sends an unusually violent tremor towards the golems, knocking them and several trees down onto them, several stray branches falling from the canopy onto and around them, keeping them out of commission for some length of time.
Wulf notes the plight of Bite and she springs foreward through the chaos, nimbly avoiding dangers as she races towards bite. As she nears the scene she drops to the ground with a slide, taking cover behind the tree as she starts to grow, scales forming on her body as fur starts to fall out.
The badger gives an anguished cry of pain as a firebolt catch her in the face and blinds her for a moment. "ARG!!" She screaming pauses for a second as she puts out the flame and looks to her attackers, "You dispicable constructs return to the scarp heap." She does a simple guesture of math and attempts to blow up the nearest golems with an explosive force. As the explosion clears she is already preparing a secondary set of math.
Arimia flattens her ears, watching the various ambushes. She nods when she sees Wulf run over to help Bite, and says softly to Selena, "Do what you can to help Kilsa. I'm going to try an' keep on the dugong's tail." After saying that she slips off to continue on the path the salesman had taken, if she can.
Angus manages to distract one of the golems, it appears whoever's controlling them sees Angus as a problem. The golem takes wild swings at the fox, trying to pummel them unsuccessfully. Wulf manages to reach the semi-tree crushed bite unhindered, but soon finds themselves deflecting an arrow as someone decides to take advanage of their dedication transformation time. Bite lays rather still, blinking frequently as she tries to keep from passing out. As Kilsa's explosion rocks the golem attacking Angus, the other golem grabs her arm and sucker punches the badger mercilessly, he blow being buffered by armor but still of substantial strength. As Arimia runs off after the dugong they avoid notice, for a time. As they draw close to the panting well dressed salesman a well disguised heavy folk grabs hold of them, failinig to backstab the raccoon quite pitifully, the dull dagger doesn't even break the skin.
Angus easily manages to avoid the golems powerful, yet clumsy swings. His sword was drawn, but he hadn't tried to use it yet as he waited for an opportunity, this was his first time confronting a golem in battle so didn't know where to strike. Kilsa's explosion came as a surpise for the young fox as he stumbled, nearly being thrown from the explosion. After regaining his footing he turns back to his task, moving to help Kilsa against her assailant.
