Something that goes boom - RPLOG

Participants

• Felix
• Ryusho
• Silverlynx
• Walden
• Zevran

Date

21/10/475

Log

A small request has been sent out to those of minor or major military experiance. The meeting place has been said as a river side north of the capital. It's atleast a two day ride, so the request also said pack well for travel.

Ryusho sighs softly as he had a -lot- of gear and pack for himself, because considering the way he had 'military' experience, and being a craftsman, well, he had to not only bring supplies for himself basically, but he had to bring materials and tools, though lucky being a dragon, a tegu, and a large overall size, at least he can carry quite a -lot- of weight upon his back in a pack..though he can't fly really while having that pack -on-

Zevran approaches the meeting place, adorned in his heavy, black armor. The large blade that he is so often seen with is in its usual place on his back. His own pack is slung over his shoulder, filled with food and supplies. He gives Ryusho a friendly wave as he spots the Tegu-Dragon.

Walden the Armadillo has come in a rather sharp-looking suit of scale armor with a backpack full of supplies. He has a utility belt with some easy-access medical supplies and a pair of some sort of bladed fist weapon. "Whew, I made it!" he states, breathing deeply. I... I brought stuff."

Felix also shows up after a short period of time wearing his own heavier silver-plated armor along with a few weapons at his sides such as a warhammer and musket. Along with that is a backpack slung over his shoulders with a bedroll tied to the back, looks like he was ready enough! "Hey all." He remarks casually with his arrival, a smile showing on his face.

The site is empty, the region completely devestated by some sort of explosive or fire. The group a small crater where there use to be a camp, or what appears to be a camp. The smell of burnt fur hangs lightly in the air, the attack is old. But there is a faint sound in the distance, some where to the north.

Zevran takes a moment to survey the devastated camp, sniffing the air and picking up the scent of burned fur. "So, exactly how long ago was the request posted?" He queries as he surveys the crater, but his head turns as he hears the faint sound to the north.

Ryusho stands there quietly, as he looks to Zevran, "I thought it was recent....This is..Not what I expected to arrive to find either...." he says quietly as he looks around slowly, and begins to check the area for remains of items or materials just to see if he can figure out what happened

Walden offers a nod in greeting to Zevran and Ryusho along with a little finger-wiggling wave. "Hello, you two," he says with a chuckle. But to Felix, he smiles broadly and offers his deer friend a big pat on the back. "Glad you could come Felix. I feel a lot safer with you at my side." With that out of the way, he surveys the area curiously, taking note of their surroundings. "So you think this is it? Um... Hey, what do you think that was?" he asks, pointing northward.

Felix hmms thoughtfully at the state of their metting point, a hand going to scratch at his muzzle for a moment "Looks like the whole place burned." He remarks, his casual demeanor slowely fading away "And hey Walden, just the person to be in trouble with." He offers, a faint smile showing just briefly as he glances northwards as well "Probably whatever caused this still. Might be worth looking into." The Deer murmurs, hand lowering down to bring his hammer to the ready in case trouble is around the bend, so to speak.

Zevran gives a small wave to Walden. "Well then, let's go check it out." He states in response to Felix's murmuring. He seems to be oblivious to Ryusho's searching as he starts to walk to the north edge of the crater towards the sound before stopping and looking back to see if the others are following him.

In the middle of the crater what well.. skeletons or what one can assume WAS skeletons of who ever the contact was. The forest around the camp is active with animal life, but the sound from the northen area sounds again, alittle clearer this time.

Ryusho rubs his head slightly, "..That...must of been an old posting..these skeletons look clean, and a bit sun bleached to me..so that means this has been like this a decent while..."

Walden is more than willing to come along; he looks incredibly concerned. "Y-you don't think... they were all KILLED, do you?" he asks as they see the skeletons. "I-I mean of course they were, but- but- but why?" He looks northward, swallows hard, and takes a deep breath. "It might not have been old. What if it isn't old? What if the things that way did this?"

"Well, then our little trip is going to get rather interesting rather quickly." Felix responds to Walden with a glance towards the skeletons "I don't think it was old though, they wouldn't have taken it down." He obviously doesn't like the look of this, or what might have caused it. "Then we shall bring vengeance to the fallen, I suppose, less it would be more wise to just turn back..."

Zevran shrugs at Walden's concerns. "Not much we can do about it now." He replies to the Armadillo before looking towards Felix. "Vengeance sounds much better than turning back." He says to Felix. "So, are we going to wait here all day, or are we going to find out what's making that noise?" He asks the group as he glances towards them. It seems as though he has already made his own decision, as he turns and starts to head in the direction that he last heard the noise.

The sound of a whistle, or what sounds like a whistle, screams from over head, a ball, trailing black smoke soon can be seen coming into distance. A tactical weapon? But the weapon seems aimed directly at the group.

Ryusho only stops for a moment, before he puts two and two togteher -really- quickly, "....We need to move -NOW-" he says simply as even with all that weight he begins to -take off- running, even if it is in the direction of where that thing is comming from, "Because I think that might be what made this crater!"

Walden lets out a shriek of terror, grabs Felix's arm, and runs after Ryusho. "I think vengeance is NOT our priority!" he calls out. "Aaaa! Creators save us!" He doesn't know where he's running to. He's merely following-the-leader.

"UHMMM IT'S A TRAP!" Felix yells as the whistling ball of death heads towards them as he in turn runs off towards where the previous noises were coming from as fast as he's able with Walden nearly right at his side!

Zevran looks at the flying ball headed towards them, a bit confused as to its purpose before Ryusho gives a warning and starts running towards him. Zevran mutters a few curse words under his breath as he realizes what the ball might be and takes off running towards the north, into the forest and hopefully towards the source of the ball.

So the little insects scatter, the crater is struck a second time, The ball of death explodes, sending the four men scattering, forcing some to slam into trees. The bones evaporate from the intensity of the faire ball, but no following blaze begins.

Walden clings to a tree, panting for breath. At some point, he holds out a hand and waves it incomprehensibly at the others and nods, jaw slacked. Poor armadillo is just speechless.

Ryusho had half covered his head as he ran, though he had glanced back after the impact, "..Well that hit the same damn spot..I am going to guess someone expected us to be standing ther estill trying to figure it out as he mrphs,"..Well this isn't good." he says simply, "We better try to stop whatever that is at the very least..."

Zevran is unable to get far enough away as the bomb explodes. The concussive force knocks him into a tree with a loud thump. He falls to the ground, but after a few seconds he begins to stand up. His heavy armor and thick skin were luckily able to take most of the impact for him. He stumbled a bit, still slightly disoriented from the blast and collision with the tree. "I agree." He replies to Ryusho as he puts a hand on the tree trunk to steady himself.

Felix isn't too good at dodging blasts and whatnot, and as the blast strikes he goes flying a bit forwards, striking the same tree that Walden is clinging to, panting for breath some as a frown quickly shows on his face. The armor covers up any damage that may have been done, though.

Walden looks Felix over worriedly, and he gazes out at the others. "A-are you all okay? Is anyone hurt? I have medical supplies. Also, what was THAT?" The armadillo is trembling, clutching onto his tree still.

The sound can be heard once more, 'click... click... click.' heavy heavy sounds as if something is being reloaded.

Ryusho grumbles a bit as he brushes himself off, "...and here I have all this damn supplies." he says to himself, "...was expecting a non-crater, but well...I would like to say it was something that violently -exploded- when it heard...as he thinks, "and considering this sould we heard before the last shot, and the sounds going on right now, May I guess they are working at getting ready with another shot..."

Zevran glances into the forest in the direction that the sounds had come from before the shot. "Well then, let's stop them from firing another." He says simply as he stands to his full height and starts moving purposefully through the woods in the direction that the sounds had come from.

"It's a catapult, those take a few people to use, there's going to be an armed group probably, let's go take them out before they hurt more passerbys." Felix states matter-of-factly as he once again begins to move in that direction with weapon drawn "Come on guys, don't get left behind, I'm mostly fine though."

Walden blinkblinks. "Wait, what? We're gonna take that thing out? W-wait for me," the armadillo responds, following after the others. "Just- just remember, don't make this about vengeance. This is about protecting ourselves and our people!"

Ryusho nods a bit, "indeed, Though it is partly to avenge the fact they just blew the heck out of a camp that as far as we know, did nothing to them.." he says simply, "so we need to do something -anyway- as an act of retailation for being attacked."

The forest is no long quite as the animals have fled the assult of the massive machine of war. But the clicking suddenly and then the screaming sound can be heard again and once more the blast strikes it's target, no one becoming injured. Then once again it starts clicking.

Ryusho glances back, "..You know, I don't think they know that there -was- or was -not- anything there, they keep hitting the same spot.." he says softly..."that or they are just guessing and failing horribly..." he mumbles quietly (sorry for early post)

Walden frowns as he comes to the same conclusion. He shakes his head, not as startled this time since he knew it was coming. "That is very strange. It really is strange. Well, there WAS something there, but it was destroyed. Acutally... actually no." He shakes his head and points at the crater. "Those skeletons were people investigating the blast and the crater, aren't they? They didn't know about the blast, and it caught them by surprise. That thing's just auto-firing indiscriminately at the same spot. It's... amazing, and scary. Something's wrong, isn't it."

"Well let's go dismantle it if it is the case then, can't have anyone else getting blown up by it...Anyone happen to know who, or what the posting came from?" Felix asks loudly as he continues running towards where the noises had been coming from.

One whistle, two whistle, three whistle. Suddenly other sounds from above sound and suddenly the camp is no more. Blasted to complete nothingness. Whistles in the distance are different, like made by a hand as someone yells orders.

Zevran continues to run through the forest, now a bit more sure of his direction as he heads in the direction that he can hear the orders and whistles coming from.

Ryusho would be running after zev, though he knows he is going to set this damned -pack- of his down before they enter combat, so he can have his mobility without being overbalanced in one way or another....

Walden's ears twitch. He heard that. "It's deliberate," he realizes as he runs after the others. "Ohhh, no, this is terribly wrong! I don't like this one bit!" He straps on a bladed battle glove and makes sure he has adequate medical vials and salves handy in his big utility belt.

Felix takes note of Walden's glove "That isn't the exploding kind I hope." He remarks with a faint smile as the group continue on their way to whatever the contraption is, ready to take it out.

Once the group nears the edge of the forest, all that remains is a small group of men and one Trebuchet. Runed along it's edges with divine math. The device is being packed at such a quick rate it's almost impossible.

Zevran stops near the edge of the trees as he spots the group and the trebuchet. He studies them for a moment before walking out of the trees. He makes sure he is far enough from the treeline that he hopefully won't draw attention to the others in his group before adressing the trebuchet loaders. "Hey, what are you doing?" He asks in a strong, authoritative voice.

Walden grins at Felix and says, "I still haven't perfected that design yet. But give it... time..." He stops as they reach the edge, and Zevran steps forward and actually speaks to them. "Ohhh, no, I don't like this," he worries. He stays in the back. He's not quite the fighter Zevran and Felix are.

Felix stays back in the trees as well, swapping out his warhammer for his musket instead just in case. "Well, it's an interesting thought, but please take your time with the overall design." The deer remarks with a faint smile.

The crew look up and one yells to what looks to be give Cliffside soldiers, all heavily armed. The warriors all armed with long swords and shields, as well as heavy armor rush towards them. two wolves, a bear, and two tigers.

Ryusho shifts as he notices this as he takes his pack off and sets it down, sighing as he draws his weapons from it, and armor, he was half expecting more preperation for a fight as he quickly gets his gear equipped and himself ready, "Alright then, Now I'm actually -ready- for a fight.."

Zevran smirks as he sees the Cliffsiders charge. "Bad move." He says mostly to himself. "The bear is mine!" He shouts back to his own group. He turns towards the bear, lowering his head so that his horn is pointed directly at the bear and charges.

Walden trembles nervously seeing so many enemies. "O-oh no, that's... That's suicide!" the armadillo exclaims, starting to chant and formulate some earth mathematics.

"Tsktsk, not a very wise move, can see why they're doing it though, bastards." Felix mutters as he readies his rifle from where he still is within the treeline to fire a shot at the uncoming swarm towards Zevran.

The men rush forward, the shot fired by Felix hits one of the guards, he doesn't die but he's knocked off his feet from the unexpected round. The two wolves seems to be working together as they head for Ryusho first, the two tigers pass the wolves and one heads into the treeline while the other moves to flank, unware of Walden's pressence yet.