Lady Ironsoul Kidnapped - RPLOG
From Rusted Promises
Participants
Date
8/1/476
Log
A Badger stand at the gate waiting for her soldiers to appear as she looks over a parchment in her hand. "Not a very pretty fella." She smile as she stands next two an empty cart. The sun is rising as she growls to herself as looked at the pictures of the smiling Ferret on the bounty poster. "You won't be smiling when we get done with you."
Arimia leads the way over to the cart that Kilsa is by, with a golem following in her wake. She calls out, "Hello, Miss Ironsoul!" when she draws near, giving a wave. She looks around, glancing at the cart, and to see if anyone else is approaching, before turning back to the badger. "So, how much do we know about what we're getting ourselves into this time? Any disturbing horrors not of this world?"
Selena takes a short bow to the badger. She looks tired for whichever reason, but still ready to do anything she can to help "Lady Ironsoul. You asked for us? What do we know about our target?" She asks, yawning softly though doing her best to keep it from being obvious. "Hey, Arimia." She smiles, and gives the raccoon a hug.
Ryusho would be making his way though partly he was testing out a Goelm he had just designed, first one, though it shows a lot of skilled craftsmanship, suitable for his known skills of crafting, his lack of skill with golem crafting itself, shows that it is only a basic design that has a few little hitches in it...as it follows along beside, though a lot of components are more visible, the quality showing their durability does at least show...even if it might not be near as skilled as others who are starting this.
Wulf ambles into the orphanage courtyard or whathave you and takes a quick looksie. "Heya now Ari, those unknown horrors weren't too bad." chuckling she moves over to stand next to Ari and her golem. "You all need any help? I heard ya were goin after somethin, or someone at least."
Kilsa smiled at Arimia, "I don't know so that is why I personally have a stake in this mission." She looked at the group gathered around her and smiles, "Alright Ironsoul Defenders! We have a personal stake in this mission, while the bounty is for FireFang Falion. He is less our primary target.... I'm not sure how many of you know of Gilda Venus but she is a deadly math user and a serial killer. She is Ironsouls target While Falion is the bounty target."
Arimia gives a small nod of her head and glances around s the others approach. She stares in horror, or perhaps revulsion, at the sight of the other golem, but as Kilsa starts to talk she turns her attention to the badger. She gives a small flick of her ears before saying, "Right. Any idea at all the sort of opposition we're going to face? Just those two, or do they have followers that we'll have to take care of on the way?"
Selena clears her throat. "How good at math are we talking?" She questions. "Are we looking at someone with some experience, or just someone that knows a few tricks? Does she have any preferance? If I know that, I'll have a better opportunity to stop them from using it." She sighs quietly.
Ryusho mrphs softly as he hears this, "This sounds like I better use a soul I am more skilled in, .." He says softly, "means I will need get this thing here to idle while I am doing that." he says nodding in thought as he checks his stuff, then checks over the golem, as he knows how to set it into an idle 'waiting' mode, but otherwise he could run it back home to stay there and continue he didn't realise they had such a major threat to deal with
Wulf blinks feeling out of place now that she realizes she is the ONLY Non-Defender here. Shaking her head gently she listens, the others have already asked the questions.
Petey is present, if a bit quiet He adjusts his armor lightly as he bounces from foot to foot, getting it comfortable and in place, "We'll make short work of it, and bring justice for the city," he says with confidence, flashing a smile.
Kilsa smiles at Arimia, "We are looking at the very least over 30 warriors, a few students of Gilda, and possibly many many archers." She smiled and flexed her arm, "But we wouldn't be doing a good job if it wasn't hard or deadly." She winked at Petey, "I'm hoping our actions will spur the Good King to allow our organization to do a little more good." She speaks with a small grin on her features, "Now if everyone is ready please get into the cart for a fun ride through bandit infested woods." She says with a grin. "Oh and when we get there.... I want you all focused and covering each others tails."
Arimia gives a small shake of her head and looks around. "This is insane, you realize," the 'coon says, even as she and her golem get into the cart. "So small a group can't manage so many. Certainly not head on. We don't want to get captured an' taken in either. They'd take our weapons an' all. Now, finding the location out from an ambushin' group would work, but then we'd have to be cautious an' sneaky." She reaches up and lightly tugs at one of the piercings on her ears, saying, "I'm not opposed to havin' extra holes put in me, but I prefer to choose where they are. An' I prefer they not be arrow sized."
Selena sighs quietly. "Lovely to hear, Kilsa." She sighs, climbing into the cart and readying herself for spellcasting, and she turns her attention to Arimia. "So, Arimia, do you know anything about this 'Gilda'?" She grumbles quietly. "I'd prefer to know what I'm up against in the magic department. But I do agree. This doesn't sound like a very good idea at all. They have fortifications, and I don't think they won't expect someone to come after them."
Ryusho looks over at those who are trying to decline it, "..I hope you all do realise that we are talking mostly about non gifted I believe, from what I understand, " he says as he sets the golem to be idle or inacrive, and head back to his room to set there, as he begins making sure his gear was set up as he looks up, "Though now, I know that we have an advantage in several ways compared to non gifted, I don't know what to say about some of it.." he says softly, "We will have to decide what to do, besides A head on assault is of course not the best idea, but, Kilsa has the idea, we hsould follow her lead, as she will show how to do this.."
Wulf chuckles at the Ari and Selena, just shaking her head. "Ari, adter fighting those shades I'd think thirty men would be a cake walk." Turning her head she stares at Ryusho "And Non-Gifted can fight just as well as the 'gifted'."
Petey tilts his head, "Have you heard?" he asks, "Some non gifted have..." he rolls a hand, "Become... so. It's very strange, but I've heard of it."
The badger gets in after the group and smiles, "You must think I'm insane Arimia, We are baiting ourselves for the raiding party. Those friendly fellows will be our guide into the Fortress." She chuckled, "The Raid bands have been no more than five or so folk. We take them out and hopefully take them alive." She grinned, "If not, I'm hoping some talented earth users would be willing to bore a hole into the fortress." She grinned as waited till everyone was settled and order the cart to move.
Arimia wrinkles her nose slightly and says, "I'd say we just go with the second option. The raiding party would take our gear from us if we let ourselves be captured, an' they wouldn't take us in willingly." She crosses her legs and gets comfortable where she's sitting and says, "I would favor a more covert approach. Burrowin' under, or findin' a lightly guarded back door. Somethin'." After that she turns to Ryusho and nods her head at Wulf's words. "An arrow fired from a non-gifted will kill you just as quick as one fired from a gifted. So don' get complacent an' underestimate them. After all. Every single one of the things we can do 'cause of our soulgems was first done by someone without so they could imprint the knowledge in the gem."
Selena raises an eyebrow. "Frankly, the hole would be the easiest way to get in. I can even patch them up again afterwards." She offers. "But, I suppose fragmenting the enemy is just as good a solution as any to other problems." She nods. "I'm going to assume we can expect fire or earth magic from their hedge mage." She grumbles a little derisively. "But that's not really important." Gesturing to Arimia, she smiles. "Why not tunnel, indeed?" She offers. "It wouldn't be the fastest way to go, but I could certainly do that." She notes, and turns to Wulf. "As for the archers, a good wind at the right time can knock their aim. At the very least, it'd disrupt their arrows enough to keep 'em out of out faces. It's a pleasure to meet you again, Wulf." She grins.
Kiyasai is late to the show again, though her immaculate appearance in her heavy armor probably offers a reason why. "I'm here!" The snowmewl is busy catching her breath and what exactly this mission is about, unslinging her weapons.
Ryusho Sighs softly, "I am not the best at explaining what I mean, so I won't bother then." he says softly, as he settles himself and gets his gear and everything set up for this trip, and ready for field repairs if it is needed as he looks around at the group, nodding slightly, signifying he is ready to go..."That and Well, as a Dragon that I am, I have little to fear from the elemental magic users, as well as the arrows and blows though painful, and lethal, my body heals at such a high rate it can be quite hard to cause enough damage to keep me down.
Wulf yawns, crossing her arms and closing her eyes as she gets ready to take a quick snooze as she mutters something about a musket round to the head as she drits off into a soldiers slumber, somewhere between concious and unconcious.
Petey moves over towards Kilsa, then glances about again a moment before looking up at her, "I'll be your support, my love. They'll have to get through me first."
"Love? Oh, you're the Lady's consort..." Kiyasai is struck dumb for a moment before she pulls herself together enough to bow politely, then nods to Petey. "I'm willing to lead the charge, even if Lady Ironsoul has already made plans to do so. I'm quite a bit more expendable."
The cart ride is calm and almost in uneventful as Kilsa begins to fidget and grinn at Petey. "I wouldn't want you to scarifice yourself for me. You would think that they would have att-" An arrow passes by her head and hits the center of the cart. The arrow shimmer for a moment before powerful wind magics pushed everyone out of the cart, A second arrow hit the cart and the flames are pushed around wildly almost as if the fire was a living snake. A warcry echos thought the woods as bandits run out of the trees looking for an easy kill.
Kiyasai has a shield on hand! Blocking arrows, she swings her massive warhammer in heavy arcs as she starts charging the bandits with her newfound confidence from her soul gem, the head almost singing through the air with her lightly enchanted, but mostly physical attacks.
Arimia lets out a yelp as the magic pushes her out of the cart, retaliating before she even hits the ground by muttering a dark magic equation to terrify and mentally assault the attackers. She points out in the direction the arrow came from and orders her golem, "Go fetch the one who shot that at us."
Selena growls in irritation as she's thrown out of the cart by the sudden burst of magic missiles. Pulling herself to her feet, she quickly launches a violent tremor outwards, causing a spreading wave of roiling terrain to spread out around herself and her companions before adopting a more tactically sound position. "Really. On Arrows." She grumbles to herself.
Ryusho would stumble to the side as he shifts, taking several seconds to get himself caught in a way from the weight he had for his body, but also the weight of supplies as he most likely had been riding on the edge with his pack still on, as he shifts, quickly dropping the pack as it -thuds- to the ground as he draws his blade and readies himself as needed, glancing around as he dues use one hand to make sure to scoot his pack farther from the cart to make sure it doesn't catch alight on the flames
Wulf barks as she is woken by a thunking arrow then getting thrown out of the cart, as she is knocked out she hits the ground with a roll. Bouncing up with her musket in one arm and aimed at the nearest bandit while drawing her sabre with the other arm. "Ooooorah! Up and at'em folks!" She pulls the trigger on her musket, causing the the barrel's intircate math to flare up blue befoire fading.
Most of the bandits are covered in metal plating smiliar to Calcified flesh, The first group is easily bowled over from Selena spell much of the metal armor falling off in huge place. Most of the Bandits near Arimia begins screaming and wetting themselves as they hack through thier own comrade to excape the pink Raccoon. Behind the bandits a growling large sandcat-like creature made of Iron is slowly moving toward the group, the creature appears to be a golem with a ballista welded to it sides. The entire creature glows with various ruins as is lowly approaches the group while firing bolts big enough to pass for spears in the groups general direction, A bolt catches the cart and the math inscribed on it cause it to explore in a wave of fire and splinters as the bandit close in on Ryusho and Wulf.
Ryusho adjusts his position as he pulls out his axe and adjusts his stance..as the axehead then promtly falls off the axe hilt..and blade off of the hilt for it, "...are you shitting me...." he mumbles softly, FINE THEN! He will do this Pugalist style!
The Ballista collapses and growls from the whirring gears, a moment of silence is broken as the creature stand up again, "Grrrr." The Ballista growls as his runes begin to glow and repair itself by gorging on the fallen bandits. The creature stares at Wulf, "GRRRR!!" The creature body is incased in fire as it charges the group in a suicidal frenzy.
Selena makes use of what little opportunity the cannibalistic machine affords her, dredgince spires of stone from under the creature and towards it, attempting to use the creature's momentum against it to inflict any kind of structural damage she can - and slow it down.
Arimia points at the encroaching golem and commands her own, "Stop that damn thing!" This sends her large metal creation to go stomping toward the burning construct. As she does that she picks up her bow, getting ready to draw an arrow, but pauses looking at the golem before shaking her head. "Arrow won't do much to that."
Wulf snaps her jaws back at the construct as it growls at her
Wulf snaps her jaws back at the construct as it growls at her, charging foreward with her Musket slung over her shoulder. "C'mon lifeless hunk of junk do your worst!" hopefully her superiour agility will keep the thing from whaking her and eventually give her a chance to slip in behind it to give it a few good backstabs or slip in under it's defense to stab at it.
