The Ancients' Mountains - RPLOG
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Date
28/2/478
Log
Fenris, er Elise bites her lip and holds her breath for a moment as the stone tumbles away noisily. Realizing that there is no time to waste, she pads further up the incline, hoping to be in position to still catch the sentry off guard before he can sound the alarm.
Cassidy reaches out to tap Elise on the shoulder, putting a finger to the painted on smile of her mask. She lifts a gloved hand and dips it into her coat, withdrawing a small black pouch. Pulling it open, she dumps some of the sleeping powder into the palm of her hand before curling her fingers lightly around it.
The sentry arrives towards the incline, the wolf being looking around with a raised eyebrow as he notices nothing strange. With a shrug, he waves towards the other two before going back up towards his position.
Cirra remains below, not really good at stealth, but if she needs to join the fray she will. if the sparrow doesn't understand her signing, she's not exactly in a position where her chalkboard would be helpful. Though her armor probably does have active magic signatures on it, as well as the formulae writting in several locations: the back of each hand, the pendant on her neck and along the hilt of her swords.
Elise nods to Cassidy, getting the message. The curvaceous Kangaroo slips from her hiding place to get closer, but one of her wide paws hits a patch of gravels, sending her skidding and crashing to her thick rump with a loud scraping noise!
Cassidy stares at Elise as she falls, bringing her other hand up and pressing it against her face. "And you said you were prepared," she murmurs teasingly before starting up the incline herself. Figuring that the noise might attract attention again, she stands right near the top, powder ready to greet anyone that might come investigating.
Zuri stalks further up the path, the small salamander keeping a low profile as he seeks to flank the sentry and catch him off guard. He reverses the grip on his right hand side dagger with a little twirl. The blade is small, really, barely a paring knife by the standards of taller beings. He studies his target for just a moment when he hears Elise slip on gravel. Knowing that this could be it he walks around to the other side of the boulder and prepares to dash to the third sentry if he spots Elise, already planning an attack to disable him if he makes a move towards her.
After Elise's rather embarrassing blunder, the wolf turns around to spot a curvy kangaroo sitting on her rump in front of the incline. The wolf tilts his head with confusion, quickly turning around and motioning to the other two sentries, before moving towards Elise, "What exactly are ye doing her, missie?" the wolf asks with a growl. Moving closer to Elise, the wolf has no time to react as Zuri jumps on him and strikes him in his calf, with Cassidy's own powder ensuring that the wolf is too lethargic to manage a scream. The wolf slumps down in front of the smaller salamander and the kangaroo. On the distance his two fellows could be spotted coming closer, thankfully a boulder is blocking their vision proper but they will notice their mate in merely a matter of a minute.
Down near the cliff, the sparrow notices the sentries moving away, "Looks like your friends have done their job, hopefully." He says before he motions to the soldier near him and pointing upwards, "Well let us move towards their aid then." He tells the shark and the moose. "So, in Shralesta you guys keep your enchantments clearly visible to anyone to see, eh?" the sparrow asks with a little chuckle, "Sounds like a good way to give your enemy an advantage if they know mathemagic."
Deeper into the cliff the brigand's camp is obviously noticeable with a number of tents, but right now is not a good time to study the camp while two other guards are moving in.
Cirra smirks as the sparrow makes a rather astute, though wrong observation. Cirra typically keeps them hidden from view, and the fact that they are in polar coordinates should be a good enough deterrent to keep and enemy from drawing them or understanding them. Not to mention, it's more of a threat, considering what she's packing, she shrugs a bit as she follows the sparrow up the mountain. It's not like she has anything like a rival or someone who would want her specifically dead.
Elise snorts and rolls quickly to her feet. "Shush you," she hisses, but it is through a bit of a smile. She nods at the approaching sentries and hooks the fallen soldier under the armpits, dragging him up behind the nearby boulder. The kangaroo stretches her neck and shakes out her shoulders, ready for a fight.
Cassidy folds her hands behind her bag and stands straight, waiting. She had no reason to act, yet, and with luck they'd either pass right by the boulder without looking at her, or they'd be startled by her appearance.
Zuri finishes his quick attack by pressing himself down onto the fallen sentry, quickly assessing the wolf has been downed by the combination of his attack and the numbing powder. He sees Elise dash over and grab the wolf to carry him back, and he helps as best as he can by gripping one of the wolf's limbs and dashing back behind the boulder. He's panting tiredly as he arrives at the save place, giving Cassidy a mischievous grin and a thumbs up. "Good show, that." He turns to Elise, smiles at her, and returns to his position behind the far end of the boulder, waiting for the group's next move, or for a chance to pounce.
The second group is already in the middle of the incline as the two other sentries arrive on the scene, closing in on the boulders, "Where is that bastard, Johnny." Says a badger being as he shakes his head, "That wolf and his pranks." He says with a grunt. The other being, a red squirrel lets out a hmm and points at the ground, "Isn't that blood?" he says as he moves closer with the badger.
Cirra taps the Sparrow on the shoulder, tryign to get him to notice that the others seem to be hiding still, and that it might not be a good idea to head up to the camp just yet.
"Good enough," Elise mutters, then spins into action! The kangaroo leaps from hiding to land lightly on one wide paw. She spins hard in a dizzying piriouette to lash out at the nearest guard with her thick, powerful tail.
Cassidy raises her brow as Elise leaps into action. She starts to move forward, but reconsiders and turns around to move around the other side of the boulder, if she can. She'll take the sentries from behind, if Fenris and Zuri don't deal with them first.
Zuri watches as Elise darts off and leaps so acrobatically at one of the guards. Taking advantage of the massive distraction presented by an enormous spinning kanga-being, he darts out of his hiding place towards the other guard, low to the ground. Hopefully, with the guard distracted it will be easy to flank him and drive a blade into knee, again seeking to disable him from causing further harm to anyone rather than going for a straight kill.
As the guards move closer, Elise jumps acrobatically and swings her tail at the two guards, hitting the squirrel and knocking him on the ground, but the badger manages to dodge her attack, ducking under the tail just in time to see Zuri attacking and aiming at his leg, "Bastards." The badger mutters as he parries Zuri's blade with his spear before raising it and bringing it down at Zuri screaming, "INTRUDERS!" as he does so. Luckily with Zuri's fast reflexes he manages to dodge the badger.
There is noticeable movements in the camp as the brigands begin arming themselves and jumping to the aid of their ally. Two brigands with muskets can already be seen moving closer in to snipe at the group. The sparrow sighs as he hears the scream, "Well here goes surprise." He mutters as the second group reaches the incline, "Well Carl time to get our hands dirty." He says as the kilted soldier next to him brandishes his claymore and moves in to attack.
Cirra, noticing the action going on nearby, pauses, watches the battlefield about to unfold before unleashing a powerful hailstorm upon her foes. It's not for no reason she is called Cirra Stormborn.
Elise snaps a hard kick at the badger's chin. If there was one good thing that had come from all this, it was those powerful legs! "I guess I'm just not equipped for stealth, Cassidy," she admits as the fox comes around the other side of the boulder, "But I can certainly do action!" She spins her own spear in her hands, ready for a fight!
"That's why I prefer to engage in my stealth alone," Cassidy says, drawing her rapier and trying to smack the badger in the back of the head with the pommel from behind. "Boo." She glances over her shoulder at the forming storm, ears perked aside her hat.
Zuri narrowly avoids the blow, feeling the spear tug at and rip the hem of his jacket. He twirls around to face the guard again, squinting and flipping his daggers to a defensive grip. With all surprise lost, he has to fight dirtier. The salamander dances to the side, twirling with his tail as a distraction while aiming for the guard's thigh, a stab intended to puncture deep and bleed strongly.
The badger grunts as he tries to shift his body to block the kangaroo's kick but too late, the hit striking him up his chin, sending him tilting backwards to which Cassidy ever-so-kindly reserves by hitting him square onto his head and sending him collapsing forward, good thing he was wearing a helmet or that hit might have done more than knock him out. Zuri, perhaps out of mercy or kindness decides to NOT stab the downed badger.
Cirra's storm manages to catch the two musketmen, locking them inside the storm, getting pelted by the ice shards as they try to get out. IN but a couple of seconds, three other brigands circumnavigate the storm and charge the group, following behind them a robed raven who utters some sort of incantation and gestures towards the short salamander, quite suddenly sickle shaped zephyrs head towards the salamander, who luckily manages to avoid them, only barely so.
Cirra leaves the storm to take care of the two men inside it, drawing her blade and hoping to cross the battlefield in order to meet the mage in combat. She hopes her high speed and a boost of wind will help her catch up to him in order to prevent him from casting another spell.
Elise charges toward the approaching brigands, laughing and whooping! "It has been too long!" she cries out as she leaps into the air, long bladed spear whistling as it spins. Fenris's first Freesword mission when he arrived in Firmament had been fighting bandits like this. It was almost nostalgic!
Cassidy rubs her chin, taking stock of the battle field. She contemplates taking out that mage, but opts not to spoil Cirra's fun. Instead, she singles out one of the poor charging brigands and sighs. She wanted someone with more... Bravado. A snap of her fingers, and she tries to pinpoint the moving brigand with a flash of lightning from the heavens. A large one.
Zuri steps back away from the falling badger, returning his daggers to a forward grip and smirking down at the being. "You put up a good fight.." He turns around, and his eyes widen as he sees the incoming projectile attack. He barely has the time to utter a rather rude curse before he ducks to the ground, the attack overshooting him narrowly. He stands back up, still wide eyed. "That was close!" He watches his companions dart off, and picks up speed after them, daggers at the ready. Again taking advantage of the imposing kanga-being as a distraction, he slides off to the side and leaps acrobatically, twirling in the air to lash at a guard's arm with one of his blades.
Elise strikes like lightning from above! Her spear's long, leaf shaped blade flashing in the light of the sun as it descends on the unfortunate bandit! Doubtless he sees his life flash before his eyes as the blad slashes down. . . and neatly slices through his belt, dropping his trousers around his ankles. The poor slob looks up just in time to look puzzled as the but of the kangaroo's spear jerks back up, sending him reeling backward to trip over his own downed clothes.
And the combat begins! Cirra manages to weave her way through the brigands and reach the mage, who greets her with another cutting winds spell. The shark attempts to dodge the attack, but it manages to hit her square in the chest, thankfully her calcified flesh spell manages to absorb the attack before crumbling down around her.
One of the unlucky bandits can only manage to look in surprise as a thunderbolt descends upon him from the heavens, frying him to a crisp, an almost unnatural scream booming from him before he falls on the ground, dead and smelling of ozone with small sparks of electricity jumping on his metal weapon. Zuri's target does not fare any better, well he does in a way, as the nimble salamander manages to cut a gashing wound in his target's arms who attempts to strike at the salamander with his sword in retaliation, which Zuri dodges swiftly. Noticing his two other allies have fallen, the brigand simply drops his swords and grabs his wound before scowling at Zuri, "You win you little scamp, I surrender." He mutters.
Cirra winces as her protection is eroded by the sharp winds of her opponent. She has her own advantage, and that is the blade she swings across at him, aiming for a quick, decisive blow. She brings it down on him cutting his armor cleanly.
Seeing Cirra engaging the troublesome mage face to face, Elise puts a heavy paw on the chest of her own fallen foe and pulls a boomerang, of all things, from her belt. The kangaroo, lines up and flings the weapon, hoping to brain the raven, or at least give the shark an opening.
With her foe down and the rest following suit, Cass is content to remain on standby. She keeps an eye on the one that surrendered, though, adjusting her hat with her free hand. "Seems like you're the smart one."
