Midnight: A Lost Faith's Shadow. Book 1, The Awakening. Chapter 1, The Charge

Ranger Rick

First Post

• Sep 29, 2005

• #101

Brian feels the warmth and is thunderstruck. He closes his eyes in an attempt to keep this warm feeling. Than as he opens his eyes he looks upon the unfolding scene…”Thank you.” Brain whispers. Than looking around he sees a few vines, he quickly braids them to form a stronger rope. He takes Melin and lays her down on the ground; gently he straightens her legs and puts her arms at her side. Brian feels no resistance yet. Than he wraps her body with the vine/rope keeping her legs together and her arms by her sides. Hearing the orcish horns he works quickly. He than lifts her over his shoulder.

“We can not leave her here. Let us go and be quick about it.”
Str +2
Use rope +2

 

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Toric_Arthendain

Explorer

• Sep 30, 2005

• #102

Valurel looks on in surprise and horror, momentarily stunned by Melin's attack on her own daughter. Then other memories flood his mind. There are other foul things in this world than just the Shadow and his forces. Once Starhl and Brian seem to have the woman restrained, he crouches, ready to pounce on Melin if she renews her attacks on his new companions. He casts a quick glance at Aislinn, hoping that her wound is not too bad.

"Should move on. Orcs close," he says in a harsh whisper.

OOC: Heal +3 to see if he can determine how bad Aislinn's wound is. If it looks really bad, he will tear off part of his own ragged clothing to try to bind the wound.

 

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Hrothgar

First Post

• Sep 30, 2005

• #103

Starhl and Brian tear Melin off of Aislinn. Melin twists and screams in agony, her mouth a gnashing floody froth. Her strength is not her own, an inhuman strength. It takes all that Brian and Starhl can manage to hold her down. So cold! So cold! Her fingernails rake against Brian's chest, but Brian avoids her clawed grasp, receiving a torn shirt in return. Starhl strains against her struggles as he looks into her eyes. Dead eyes. The eyes of the dead.

Melin's cries echo through the forest. Deeper in, orcs howl in glee, crashing through the forest toward the Heroes of Caft. Aislinn is on her knees, her hands over her ears, eyes clenched tightly shut, screaming to erase reality around her.


OOC: For those that are not familiar with death in Midnight, there is a chance that a sentient creature arises as undead called Fell. When the dark god Izrador fell from the sky, he severed the ties that bound Aryth from the heavens. Spirits have no way of reaching heaven and Fell are the result. Fell are driven by the need to consume living flesh. Since the dead can come back, many cultures have devised means of destroying their dead. The Dorns have ancestor rings, stone rings where they cremate their dead.

 

Krug

Newshound

• Sep 30, 2005

• #104

"Shield the child's eyes!" says Starhl. He raises his axe and brings it down on Melia's head. He continues chopping until she is still.

 

Bobitron

Explorer

• Sep 30, 2005

• #105

Kaela can't help but watch in shock as Melin rises, but Starhl's words pull her from her inaction. She grabs Aislinn and covers her face, burying it in her arms.

 

Toric_Arthendain

Explorer

• Sep 30, 2005

• #106

OOC: Waitaminute! Aislinn IS blind, is she not?

IC:
Valurel watches the death of Melin with sorrow, mostly for Aislinn who now has no mother and had to witness her mother's fall. Even though she can't see what is happening before her, her other senses are surely making up for the lack of sight. He shakes his head sadly, pain etched on his face.

When the gruesome deed is done, he says, "We go now. Move quickly." With that, he starts heading east again, hoping the girl was right about someone or something there that can protect them, or at least hoping to find somewhere to hide from the pursuing Orcs.

OOC: Valurel will only intercede in "killing" Melin if it appears she will not go down easily.

 

Ranger Rick

First Post

• Sep 30, 2005

• #107

OOC: Thanks for the spot on death, I misunderstood the whole situation.

"Let us go and I will still carry her mother."

 

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Hrothgar

First Post

• Oct 1, 2005

• #108

Starhl's sharp axe makes short work of the thing that was once Melin. Quickly, Brian craddles the remains and follows Valurel through the forest; the Erunsil moves fast, the hounds of Shadow right behind the Heroes of Caft. Aislinn moans softly, her body seemingly lost of any conscious desire to move or flee. Kaela and Starhl help caryy Aislinn, the young girl stumbling over the uneven, dark ground. The ground rises as the Heroes move east, slowly climbing out of Caft's valley.

Behind and now to the sides, orc horns echo through the forest. The orcs have drawn near with the Heroes' delay.

Within minutes the forest breaks, revealing the swordgrass covered plains of the north. A strong wind blows across the plains, whipping the swordgrass around the Heroes. A flash of lightning streaks through the sky overhead. Illuminated by the lightning, directly ahead no more than one hundred yards from the forest, stands a stone ring. The ancestor ring of Caft. Strangely, a faint green luminosity hovers like a halo over the ring. The halo is so faint, the Heroes question whether it truly exists.

 

Krug

Newshound

• Oct 1, 2005

• #109

Starhl will try to set fire to what's left of the corpse, intoning whatever charms he can remember.

"Dark times. Dark time..." Starhl says."Approach...stone ring?" he asks the others.

 

Bobitron

Explorer

• Oct 2, 2005

• #110

Kaela looks about the ring with a weary expression. "I don't know, Starhl." She sets Aislinn down, letting her stretch her young legs and rest for a brief moment. "We don't want to stop for long." She smiles weakly. "I think I have seen enough death for one day."