Quarrel in the quarry - RPLOG
From Rusted Promises
Participants
Date
2/2/476
Log
Just outside the quarry stands a hippo dressed in a grey and gold outfit, swords at his side as he speaks to an almost equally large elephant. He waves his pick to and fro as he frantically explains the situation, which to those approaching the scene might sound something like this. "WEll we were down there doin our job you know, all them ores for the taking and then out of nowhere Jim takes a dagger to the back. So I turns around and there they are, standing there clad in black with menacing all over their faces, carrying bags weapons. They force us out, they kept JIM! He's still in there as security they say, but he's not gonna last without that medical knowhow. You gotsta help us!" The hippo nods and draws his sword, saying "I will assist in this matter, and do my best to secure Jim before he bleeds out."
Jera sighs as he treads into the clearing, looking at the deep shafts of the quarry. "Far too many bandits nowadays, and too few thieves. At least thieves have some sort of finesse." He waves to a familiar-ish hippo, even if they all do look the same to him, although the bow he's carrying looks like a giant, wood-metal amalgamation of a monstrosity, almost taller than he is. "My bow is yours."
Selena drops down from the air, scattering a small cloud of debris before she approaches the pair. "...Rogna, isn't it?" She asks the hippo. "And Jera. Nice to have you with us." the wolf comments with a subtle twinge of bitter sarcasm, looking across the quarry. "Where and who." She asks Rogna and the miner simply.
Saibh stifles a yawn as she arrives last. The entire time she's walking up, she's poking around in her coat, seeming to fish for something before finally giving up. Looking ahead, she spots the other figures, offers a sleepy wave and makes her way over without a word.
The elephant turns to Selena and says "I just told yah! Weren't you listenin?". It seems he doesn't know who was even present for the explanation. "Bandits at the bottom of the quarry! Go get em!" he cries and waves them off with his pick, almost running in himself before he looks down at his leg as though something were wrong with it. "Get goin help Jim!" he says again. Rogna draws his other sword and starts off into the Quarry after a brief nod and wave to the others. "Let's be swift." he says as he briskly moves along.
"Hmm. Acquaintances well met, I guess." Jera grins and decides to sling his large bow behind him, gusts of wind making his cloak flair up as he does for added flare. Other way round. "Well. We don't have all day. I hate the quarry though. No real place to hide for me. And we don't have Kilsa...Zevvy or even Kiyasai even to take the front lines." He elbows Rogna slightly. "Hope you're good at taking the frontlines, prince."
Selena rolls her eyes, looking rather unimpressed by the elephant as she grumbles something under her breath - she wasn't within earshot for the explanation - though she wastes no time in following behind Rogna without another word or backwards glance at Jera's antics.
Saibh leans to the side to peek out and check out the situation at hand seeing as how she personally missed at least part of it. Better to keep things quiet anyway. As they start to move out, she falls in behind them as she digs out what appears to be a bowstring. Those close might notice she's muttering about cleaning her coat out one of these days
Rogna laughs. "I have no issues taking the front line, you can depend on me." he says as he sheathes his swords to decend down a ladder, watching and listening carefully. As a rock shifts and falls a dagger comes flying at the hippo, his armor deflecting it with a mighty 'thwink'. The hippo drops off the ladder and draws his swords again, gazing around for his attacker.
Jera hears the thunk and gets rather upset over that. "That's my job!" He growls, ignoring the dagger and instead choosing to drop straight to the ground with zephyrs under his feet, trying to land with grace and precision so that he can quickly roll into a shooting position, nocking an arrow into his bow as he lands and taking a blind shot.
Selena sighs as she hears the dagger ricochet off of Rogna, flicking a flame into being using a section of the ladder as a wick. For a moment she seems unconcerned about leaving the ladder to burn, though after a brief moments she douses any residual fire on the ladder at the expense of a little light.
Saibh waits at the top of the ladder for now, pulling her own bow out and watching for movement further out. Two reasons for it too, watching for anyone trying to sneak up on those below and to avoid cluttering the base of the ladder. While she's up there though, a quick look for an alternate way down or different approaches would probably be in order
The flames bring light to a previously dark quarry, a figure can be seen and heard cursing as they hold their hand, another dagger on the ground. A thin graze of blood can be seen on the ferret's hand, it was clearly grazed by something. From atop the ladder Saibh can see a perilous set of rocks that might offer another way down if they were spry enough. The hippo lunges forward and attempts to cleave the ferret's arm, pushing deep but not deep enough as they back away into a run, yelling "HEY WE GOT SOME COMPANY!"
"Bloody caves. Stale air all over." Jera grumbles at having missed his shot, the large, hand-crafted compound bow taking a painful time to nock and for him to pull the bowstring taut. This time though, he has sight from the fire to guide him, although there's an additional hippo in the way now. "Hey, you two, get down here like. Now!" He shouts, before taking his best aim for a pinning shot, if only cause he's not too confident of going for a kill with royalty in the way.
Selena doesn't change her pace down the ladder, arriving quickly enough. The wolf walks up behind the pair and readies herself for assault.
Saibh peers at the rocks for a moment then grimaces, dextrous or not, she doubts she'd make it down without breaking something. With one last glance around, making sure there aren't any patrols up topside, she swings out over the ladder and descends as quickly as she can once people have spread out a bit more. Once firmly on the ground, she begins to try and head towards the edges of the fight, mostly to prey on the other side's skirmishers and stragglers.
Jera's arrow goes awry, missing it's hasty moving target and settling to the ground after a collision with the wall. A single musket shot can be heard, briefly before Jera starts to bleed from their shoulder, and a second assailant flees into a portion of the quarry high above the rest. Rogna chases after the ferret warily, wishing to catch them before they can regroup but at the same time unwilling to rush into an ambush. "Bandage yourself." he says as he moves off. He is soon engaged by a graceful clan robin, who's blows are barely a match for his armor, and is quickly felled by his blade.
Jera grips at his shoulder with a yip and immediately presses himself against the wall to take cover from further fire, and then rakes roughly once with his hand, tearing flesh and scattershot right off and keeping the blood flowing in the right direction with a little patch of wind blowing hard enough against his wound to try to make the wound dry faster. "Hmm." He pauses for a while, and then pauses to take aim, firing a set of three padded arrows down the hallway in succession to make them sound like footsteps.
Selena mutters something under her breath, pacing behind Rogna with the obvious signs of a spell being readied, opting not to speak to preserve Jera's ruse.
Saibh keeps quiet when she gets in position, settling down with her bow at the ready, aiming for anything hostile. She's still being on the quiet side of things..
