Lady Ironsoul Returned - RPLOG
From Rusted Promises
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Date
12/1/476
Log
Its been exactly one full day since the lady was kidnapped due to the sensitivity of the issues and a chance of her being killed by her kidnappers. The incident hasn't been mentioned to anyone except her closest friends, Now as the sun starts to set a large blue eyed Badger leans against the Orphange walls while waiting... Her eyes scan the area while her dress reveals no clan seals.
Arimia has had a large chest with a false bottom made large enough for her to fit in. She'd also called for the other members of the Ironsoul defenders to join her. She hands a large bag of crowns to them and says, "Okay! One of you two is gonna have to handle the talkin'. When the badger leaves to take the crown you follow her, sneaky like. I'll be in the chest here. Pour those crowns atop the fake bottom of the chest so it looks full. If the badger complains that it's not much, explain that Kilsa isn't rich like some nobles, 'cause she spends so much of the orphanage an' all." After saying that the 'coon climbs into the chest, curling up, and pulls the false bottom shut, hiding her from view, though without coins to cover the fake panel it's obvious that the false bottom is there.
Kiyasai carries the chest with both hands after filling it, deciding to go unarmed if only to avoid suspicion as she moves to Melinae and offers her a very neutral look. "The gold you requested, Melinae." She sets the chest firmly on the ground to let the lookalike hear the jingle of gold coins. "Where's the Lady?" She asks simply, keeping her hands on the chest for the moment, knowing how ninjas tend to disappear.
Selena glances across the cold morning air, with a slight shiver. Noticing the badger, she approaches tentatively. "Melinae, what are you doing here? This wasn't part of our agreement." She questions. "You were to meet us at the fort, not here." an ear flits back and forth in the air, and she crosses her arms.
Jera is peering from the roof of an adjacent building, keeping a little tunnel of wind for him to make a precise shot to pin the target down if he needs to, an arrow nocked securely and the bowstring drawn fully. He's on contract for a favor for a friend, and he clearly doesn't want to mess things up, listening closely to the conversation.
Kilsa narrow her eyes at Kiyasai, "This isn't the place to donate gold. So I'll just ignore that pleasurable bounty." SHe looked at Selena with complete disdain, "Get over yourself... You think kicking your behinds is my only job? I just decided to see what building I wanted to claim for myself when we own this town. I think I could turn this orphanage into a nice fighting den, folk would pay good money to see the children go at it to the death." She looked at the sun, "I suggest you get moving and don't waste your time with me. You know how to get to the fortress. Well heh.... You know how to get beat up outside." She walked off but not before droping a strange trinket, "Might want to wear that to disarm the traps on the way. Well some of them." She chuckle before walking down an alley way.
Arimia bristles slightly as the badger's words reach her inside the chest, but manages to keep from making any noise. She remains silent and still in the chest, waiting for an opportune time.
"Be careful if you keep thinking of doing sinful things. The Creators might just choose to /strike/ you down." Kiyasai gives Jera a signal, then she frowns and follows slightly behind the fake(?) badger to try to give the fox a visible positioning to take the shot.
Selena shakes her head slowly. Aparrently the disdain is mutual; she utters some profanity under her breath as the badger leaves, and snapping up the ticket with a flourish of her wrist and a puff of wind math. Still keeping a comparatively blank expression, she examines the ticket closely.
Jera hears the signal from the leopardess and steadys his breath, then takes his best shot to try to pin the target down with a pair of arrows fired in succession, aimed at the legs.
Ryusho Would finally of heard of at least where the others had gone too, as he has been checking over, and preparing for the meeting though he was not expecting them to head to the orphanage, as he would be comming back up the road from the other direction, stopping to one side as he looks to the badger, his face firm and strong, as he looked over the fake kilsa heading back up the road, with the others behind her, as he waits for them near him before he would join the group, though un-aware of the more detailed plans they had.
Wulf is actually following behind the main group of people from a distance, quietly observing ands studying. Gotta have a lookout for your side after all, don't want things going to all hell after all.
The Badger takes the hits to the legs and a loud clang is heard as the Badger falls into pieces. The Math is dispelled and only random hunks of useless metals and glass remain. To add insult to injury most of the metal seems to be made of Kilsa's gear. The Badger is no where to be found, The sky continues to darken at a steady pace, the guards begin to double their watch a normal. The street are quiet as the good folk of sweetwater return to their homes.
Arimia flicks her ears slightly in the chest as she hears the metal falling to the ground, and gives a small shake of her head.
Kiyasai reaches over to pickup a piece of metal and sees the Ironsoul crest on it, and soon it's but a crumpled scrap in her balled fist. "We'll get Kilsa out. Alive. We've got the three of us here, all Cliffside trained. We've got the best marksman in the land to cover our backs. We'll storm the damned fortress now or I'll give up my priesthood." The leopardess growls and glares angrily in the distance, her hands bleeding from crushing the glass and metal.
"Damn it." Jera curses, having hit his mark, but finding that he shot his hound instead of the fox. "We'd better get a move on. They'll know that we are coming."
Ryusho turns his head to look at Kiyasai after looking down at the metal pile of metal peices, as he gives her a look, "..As Kilsa's Retainer...You better be more then willing to honor that promise if it comes to that." He says softly, his voice almost a scary tone compared to his normal, friendly voice, this showing he is feeling...-cold- in a way, as he looks through the metal, to check if Kilsa's soul stone necklace had been on it, like it was on the one the other day..."This shows though we can't trust our eyes in there, we need to be carefull...because what we see, may not be what it is...We don't want to end up tricked into fighting someone..and that turn out to be Kilsa herself...but diquised from our sight..." He says simply."
Selena can't help but roll her eyes. "Agreed, Kiyasai." She says simply, ignoring the clatter of armor to the ground barring a subtle flick of her tail. "We've wasted enough time as it is." A subtle movement of a paw to grip something on her chest and a solemn shake of her head are her only further actions before she begins to walk unerringly towards the city exit, completely disregarding if anyone else is following her.
Wulf ooc Hey I Resent that Jera is being called the best! XP
Wulf notes that there weren't any ambushers it seems and rushes out of hiding to the group. Growling at the trickery having been played and catching the hind end of Kiyasai's statment with rolled eyes. Coming to a stop with Musket in her hands she jumps on her feet. "All right then, I have some blasting poweder if we need it just so ya all know."
Leaving the nasty little surprise behind, The group makes it further into the woods. As they walk they come across an over turned cart that has been picked over clean. Two rotting pack beast and a dead Porcine girl are laid out on the ground were a large pack of sand cats pick over the body while fighting amoungs each other.
Arimia shifts about in her chest, and slides a piece inside to one side, glancing through the peephole it reveals. She notes the sand cats and speaks up, "Are you going to need me to come out to help with this?"
"I think we should bypass them. Can't risk injury." There's a grimace worn across Kiyasai's face as though she recognizes the cart even, but she remains firm even as she carries the chest.
"Agreed. Saving Kilsa should be of our top priority. Not a dead cart with nobody left to save." Jera frowns, but keeps an arrow ready in case it's needed and they're jumped."
Ryusho shifts slightly, "....We need to keep going.." he says softly, "..The longer we take the less time Kilsa has.." he says softly, though he does shift his position and try to make sure there is no one there to save that was hidden from the sand Cats...
Selena shakes her head somberly. "Probably not. They're just fighting over some corpses." She shrugs, an obvious hint of sorrow in her voice. "I agree with Kiyasai. There's no use in disturbing them." She sighs, checking the scrub nearby for anything out of the ordinary.
Wulf frowns, these people deserve to be avenged, not spurned as if they were nothing but meat. Sadly the group commands and she must follow; giving the cart a longing look before continuing on her way, Musket at the ready.
The Sandcat roar at the group but make little action than fighting over the choice bits of the dead. The group traveling brings them far when suddently the parchment Melinae gave to the group begins glow and hum softly. Each step Selena takes causes the parchment to glow more till the glow surrounds Selena in a bright blue aura made of misting water.
Arimia doesn't notice the glowing, being inside the chest as she is. Occasionally a soft clanging or clinking noise can be heard from inside as the 'coon does something, but it's quiet enough to be mistake for the shifting of coins.
"Arimia..." Kiyasai frowns at the magic but tries not to decipher it, trusting Selena's experience with such powers greater than her own. "I think this whole thing is a setup. We might just need you in a bit." She stays quiet and watches though.
Jera watches Selena for a moment as well, but falls silent to keep vigil, keeping air magic swirling around Selena to dampen any potential explosions, and to try to obscure the glow.
Ryusho glances to Selena as he pays attention, though scoots a step or two farther away from her to be safe, not sure how that is going to act, or if it is some sort of signal to basically help others locate them...or something as he glances around, checking the surroundings as they continue towards I am guessing the original meeting place?
:Selena's hackles rise, not incredibly apparrent a motion in the haze, whispering something through a channel of air magic to group. "I don't trust this tag. Be ready to do whatever you have to if it's trapped." She growls, and readying herself for the event something does go wrong. "I'm going to surround us in fog. There's no reason to let this thing light us up like a beacon." She growls.
Wulf retreats from the glowing Selena, readying herself, slipping her musker over her shoulder to draw her Sabre as she watches the gal go about the motions for magic.
The moment Selena casts her spell to dampen the light, A shrill cry is heard before a large elemental made of water in the shape of a dragon beings to stomp through the wood, The creature makes a beeline to the group. The creature glows the same way the the parchment does it seems furious as it eyes narrow on the group, It pauses before increasing it light. The parchment Selena has attempts to glow for a moment but doesn't seem to get very bright the creature give a angry cry as the liquid inside of it turns a blood red and it opens it mouth and fires pressurized watch powerful enough to slice through trees.
Arimia watches as the creature goes down, then takes advantage of the cover of the fog to climb back into the chest, saying, "Make sure to recover the top with coins." She curls up in the chest again, and pulls the false bottom over her head, waiting for everyone else to get ready to move again.
Kiyasai has taken quite a few hits, though protected by her armor, she's perfectly well. Helping Arimia recover the original disguise, she walks ahead again.
Jera seens to be having a thrill of a time with the fight, launching arrows that hail down incredibly precisely even in the mists surrounding them and cutting the dragon open with one large slash of wind. "Easy." He murrs softly and draws a dagger, the low visibility making it hard for him to use his bow.
Ryusho Brushes himself off as he promtly would resheath the ewapons and begin walking, "Enough, It's down, Keep moving, NO time to delay, or waste, each second is a second longer of risk for Kilsa." he says simply as he glances over at the others then just resumes walking after brushing some more off, already seeming to of healed from the few wounds he had taken as his face is steeled as he continues walking...even if the others may take a bit to catch up
Selena watches as the elemental collapses in on itself, and offers the parchment to the group. "Anyone want it?" She offers, looking unlikely to keep it if nobody takes it. "The fog's not going anywhere while I'm holding this." She adds, an ear twitching slightly. "I don't like having a target painted on me."
Wulf goes about reloading her Musket with ease and proficiency before slinging it over her shoulder again and unsheathing her Sabre once more and marching foreward, letting people figure out who will take the Tag next.
After the group collected themselves and continue onward, The fortress itself loomed in the distant. The moment the parchment is passed on to Kiyasai it takes an entirely different property. The Parchment take on a soft red glow while the humming take on a different tone sounds almost like a low growl, a loud screech is heard but the parchment glow bright red and whatever creature is out further in the darkness can be heard moving away allowing the group to walk freely.
Arimia continues her work in the chest, occasionally pulling the hidden peep-hole open to peek, until she judges the group to be too close to do so without putting them at risk of getting caught.
Kiyasai has decided to carry the parchment, but the change in color seems to scare whatever it is that's lurking within, and continues walking along ahead of the group, juuuust barely in sight of the others. "Hmm. This thing is shadow infested. That's why it doesn't seem to hurt me...I think." The snowmew frowns and still has Arimiachest with her, leading the way.
Jera seems very uncomfortable with the deep fog. He remembers storming a fortress of shadpws before, and still remembers the hprrible nightmares that came with it.
Ryusho remembers it as well, but he does not care right now, His focus is on the fortress, and on the rescue of Kilsa, And becomes onto things that might be in the way as he continues his walk, glancing back at the group occasionally, "Lovley, Not too supprised if this is a shadow fortress yet again then..."
