Dawn of the bandit part two - RPLOG
From Rusted Promises
Participants
Date
5/4/476
Log
Its doesn't take long before reenforcement arrive, There are sixteen hours hours remaing in to prepare before the large army arrives to the door steps of the simple village of Valist, Their are currently three large groups working in tandem for the defenese of the village. THere are mages preparing specials and medics preparing various herbs and simple remedies to heal everyone, lastly there is a large group of warriors that looks a little grim about there prospects for survival. This is looking to be a very dire situation to everyone involved...
Bite arrives with an almost skip in her step, her body swaying as she smiles and overlooks the situation. She approaches who she assumes is in charge, and hisses "Hello there sssweetie, what am I here to help with?"
Ictus looks up from the maps he is looking at and nods to Bite, "Good to see you Bite." he's all buisness right now as he looks to those gathered and ponders the vilage elder, "While I don't want you to strain yourself too hard... This will be a very hard battle. Are you sure you are up for this?"
The next newcomer to arrive is a certain black griffon, a Raven and Panther combination. This eight foot long creature looks quite ready for battle, body looking quite oiled and very muscular. Padding right up to Ictus the griffon settles on his haunches and peers at the map.
"I've said it once, and I'll say it again. I HATE flying!" The fox complained, tugging on a few straps that were loose on his armor. Angus frowned, still a bit shaken by the rather swift flight that they had just had. He sighed, placing a hand on the hilt of his old Rapier as he walked up to his cousin. "Alright so, whats the situation Cousin?"
Ryusho hums softly as he brushes himself off himself, "I don't know, I think it was nice." he says glancing at Angus, but then nods to the one in charge, "Where do you need a craftsman? I can fight too, but What do you need me to check up on? I can help make sure armor and equipment are in optimum condition, and I can try to help with any basic fortifications."
The white eyes pug looks to Bite, "Miss there is many things my people need, if your dress is any indicator the mages could use some help on any Math you are willing to give. I am skill only in my field and have little more to offer then what I already have." The village elder turn to Ictus and smiles my body is frail but..." He does a complex guesture and a bolt of lightening streaks across the sky. "I have a few tricks up my sleeves. Don't let this cute face fool you, I used to be able to fight well when the shadows attacked this village." He chuckles and coughs a little blood. "The crafting was done by that Solacious House member over there." He points at Ictus while speaking to Ryusho, "Fine weapons but we won't refuse a little help on the broken armors we have, most are a relics of rougher times but it could be useful to have them brought to their former glory."
The serpent giggles and nods. "I'll help sssweetie, just let me look over your traps and maybe make a few of my own." she hisses before smiling at the lightning. "I'm glad you can defend yourself sssweetie, I trust everyone has eaten? Or will eat before the battle, and that you have rations to last a while?" With that she moves off, looking over traps, doing what she can to fix them, and making her own where possible before devoting a great deal of time to the mages who need her help.
Ictus looks to the others as they arrive and nods in greeting, "Ok, Mazurek. I want you to help with the scouting, you'll be heading east and I want you to guard the young dragon who will be helping you. Don't let them get injured, but try not to get injured yourself." he looks to Bite and then to Henry, "Bite, can you do lightning?" he looks to Angus and chuckles, "Just adjusting my plans a bit, I want you to be with the beings who are hiding inside the buildings to ambush those that get through the front lines. Just watch for mud and don't step in it." he looks to Ryu and nods, "Can you help with the armor? After that I want you to help with the medicines as best you can."
Mazurek would salute if his current form allowed it. Well, what he does is nod once and finally speaks, "I won't worry so much about my own injuries. If the young one needs it, I can heal him or her during the journey." The ebon feathers are ruffled and he jostles the small-ish bag hanging around his neck. When the debriefing concludes he has something to eat before taking wing to be with the young dragon he will be escorting.
Angus nods lightly as he looks over the map. "Alright then, how many men can I expect to have at my side and what are we armed with?" He asked, already pulling out his musket to clean and oil the thing, making sure it's ready and there won't be any missfires while in the middle of battle. "Also, what's this about Mud?"
Ryusho salutes as he shifts, and quickly would work to orient himself, as he would begin promtly to work and begin to work at making sure the armor was up to snuff, and then some if possible, since he had been told it needed quite a bit of work, he wanted to make sure that those who were going to rely on it, could indeed rely on it.
The preparions go very well as the fighters are much better armed and now much better defeneds with the aid given by the freeswords. The young dragon with mazurek, He is small folk mouse child blushing being near a freesword as he works to dye himself black to prevent any one from seeing him. "Hi. I'm Sky, um.. I've been told your a dragon too. Thats nice, I can't wait to zip around and help. I can't fly much but I was told not to go very far." Back near the pug Henry smiles at Angus, "We've got 351 fighting capable, 200 fighters, fifty-one mages including myself, 100 archers and 20 of the best medics around. The rest are just farmers, children and the elderly." He says as they continue to talk tatics and gear for eight more hours.
The village even with the improvements still seem a little down each of them are trying to keep up bravdo to their friends and family but a glance to their eyes speak volumes of the dread they aer currently feelings. Henry turns his white eyes to look at Bite, "A bit of food wouldn't hurt at all if you like Ma'am but we don't want them cramping in the midst of battle." He sighs, "I will leave it in your hands." The Soldiers are being fitting as night falls and a single mot of light can be seen in the distance by those with the sharpest of eyes.
Bite does her best, helping those who need mathmatical teachings and hisses "I need to go check on some things sssweeties, I'll hopefully be back before the battle." With that, she departs away from the villiage.
Ictus looks at the Maz-griffon and nods, "You'll be flying, so don't over do it." he looks at Angus and chuckles, "You'll be with fourty other beings, all armed with swords and other close combat weapons. Some may have muskets too. I've asked the mages to hide on the rooftops and blast the ground with water magic to turn it to mud, then blast it with fire magic." he looks around at the false bravado on the people and shakes his head, "We need to inspire some confidence in them... If only Mirana were here..."
The 'dragon' scout was definitely not what the griffon was expecting. He had been expecting something completely different, something...other than a mouse lad. The introductions are given and he bows his head, "Mazurek is my own name, young one. You have heard correctly in that I am also a dragon, but I am choosing to be here as a Griffon so that I may be in the air for as long as required." He works with the child with coating himself in the dark substance, going so far as to transform into his natural form so he has hands. He is not going to caution the child, for it isn't really his place to do so. He is an escort, not really an advisor, but that will definitely change if trouble is found. His natural dark coloring makes it pointless that he cover himself with the paint as well, so he takes off and scouts with the youngling, keeping him within sight even if it means being close. The attention the mouse gives him is enough to warm his heart and more than enough to definitely make sure nothing bad happens to him.
Angus nods as he listens to his cousin and he taps his chin, unlike most of the beings there is bravado was not false. The fox was calm and collected, and when his cousin spoke of inspiring them his ears flicked. "I'll see what I can do...." Turning around he goes to pick up a shield, and smacks the plum of his dagger against it to make enough noise to get everyone attention. As soon as everyone eyes were upon him he smiles, making sure no fear was visible on his form, and begins to speak. "I do not mean to intrude on what everyone is doing, but I thought I might say a few words. In a few hours we are going to war. Actual war, this isn't going to be a tiny skirmish, this isn't going to be a bar fight. The people we are about to face are here for one thing, and one thing only. To tear down your homes you have built, to tear the families that you helped make apart, to turn this place into nothing but ash.....The question is.... Are we going to let this happen? are we going to sit idly by as they march right in here, smiles on their faces, and do whatever they please? ......Well are we? Because you can beat on your lives that exactly what they are going to do." dropping the shield he smiles, and draws his Sword. "Now I don't know about you, but I'm NOT going to let that happen. I'm not going to let them set one foot in this town without it being paid for with blood, and it Damn well will be theirs. I'll make sure of that. Now, Who's ready to show these assholes a proper welcome?"
Ryusho himself though when he finished with the armors, woudl begin to go and work to make sure medical and everything was as prepared as possible for those who would need it, to help make sure they would be prepared for any wounded, and able to treat it as best as possible..
Mazurek and the scout return learning that there is a forward party of warrior mounted on large beast. Their leader is riding on a bone dragon carrying a staff that burns as brightly as any torch. They also speak of a large party of foot mounted warrior following them at a brisk pace. "And and they have muskets, and and and and one really really big musket on wheels." The child looks frightened. Angus speech inspires everyone gather in a small frenzy, A few females come out if their home dress in black robes with a smile, "Well Spoken House Solacious. If it pleases those gathers we are former members of the BlackFangs. We didn't wish to turn to the old ways but we will aid with our poisons and our dark math to your cause... We don't require instruction because each of us have problably killed more folk that you've ever met." The females solid blacks mask with long fangs coming from it. "Sisters! Take positions and prepare your maisma..." The cloak women begin to hop on top of buildings as the mounted soldiers arrive. A rider casts Air math to amplift his voice to the point it causes the ground to rock, "We are the Promise that the Creators would never tell you about. We are the sicking death that comes in a crashing wave, We will take your children and dash them against the stone, we will take your wives and defile them till they are nothing more than husks to grovel at our feet, we are the hatred of Promise. We care little for your wishes and we will give you no time to retreats. WORM LEGION CHARR-HurK!" An arrow slience the speaker forever as a rabbit shrugs, "Eeeh. I like the Solacious speech better anyway." He says as arrows decend on the mount group, like a flood the army Charges they are blown into small chucks as they charge blindly. A particular soldier is tossed hight into the air by a wind math trap and lands on a earth math trape that skewers him as his mount lands on his corpse. The inital charge is sever weaken as they enter the town trampling over their dead with no concern Those that make it into the village are greated with muddy ground that dose little against their mouth but a cloud of poison kills off most of them before it fades. Soldiers pop out of houses doing battle with superior weapons they fight well but the numbers begin to push them back as more reenforcement come inside and begins sniping the mages and archers. A large clusters is currently approaching the free swords as their leaders take the field with only a fourth of his forces left. "KILL THEM ALL!!"
From a distance the leader of the initial Raid begins charging to the freeswords hoping to kill some of them while they are occupied. His bone Dragon mount is glowing at it draws closer and closer with each soldier he slaugters...
As the medic goes down the dragon crushes the dieing rider and mount as he screams war cry. "WORM LEGION. BLOOD AND GLOOOOOORY!!!"
The riders are beaten back after the fall of their leader, A single soldier attempt to run away while the rabbit smiles on the roof. "Heh. Hey everyone watch this!" The rabbit puts a strange arrow into his bow and fires at the back at the soldier soldier who give a very feminine scream but isn't hurt. "Wha?" He pulls out the strange arrow and looks at it, "what is thiiiiiiiiiiis" Delayed wind math sends him rocketing away into the tree line screaming the whole way. A few soldier chuckles as the medics come out and tend to their wonds many lives were lost but there is still a large force to be reckoned with. The group cheers at the withdrawal but in the distance there is more torches appearing in the tree line. The Dragon returns, "They are getting soldiers they don't seem very armed but after them is a group with alot of muskets and some other things I can't tell what they are looks like a cross bow but much much bigger."
Ictus dodges, weaves bobs and even blocks blows as he fights the mounted raiders. He strikes and strikes even after some of his weapons break, determined to keep these invaders from killing as best he can. He looks up ast that arrow and gives a chuckle with a thumbs up at that, "Nice shot." as he gets ready for the next wave
The beginning of the battle had the Griffon going after, of all things, the captain instead of the healer that everyone else was going after. Sure he took a lot of damage, but being Growing Clan he weathered the greater majority quite well and never got hurt enough for it to be a worry. Slashing with talons, his tail-spike, and even various magics to bring everything down. He lets out a shrill avian cry when the leader of the initial charge goes down, following it up with, "Solacious Army Power!" Nearly everyone of the Guild is part of that house as it is. Go-Go-Growing-Clanners!
