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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2819283" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Synopsis of 8/22/05 session - “A SAS SINS!”</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 8/22/05 session</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>“A SAS SINS!”</strong></span></p><p></p><p>The session started with Jade questioning ROB about other types of Exalted. He didn’t know anything about the Death knights, so they must have come about after his time. There were the Solars who ran stuff. There were the Lunars who followed Luna and were the bodyguards of the Solars. There were the Godbloods, who weren’t really Exalted, but whatever. They were like the dragon kings. There were the Dragon-Bloods, who were servants and the like. And there were the other guys, who talked a lot and did stuff. ROB didn’t have any experience with them.</p><p></p><p>Over the month after the last session, Gareth had been working and training, sleeping very little, and glowing like a sonofabitch. Several alive young men between the ages of thirteen and twenty came to Gareth’s workshop to ask about becoming apprentices. Wanting to pass on knowledge to younger folk and not knowing any reason not to instruct these youngsters, he took them on. This slowed him down a little crafting, since he had to give instruction, but it was all good.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong><em> Whenever I think about, you know, the undead armies rising up and like attacking the dragon-bloods, I think of A-dom sitting on top and going <strong>YEE-HAA!</strong></em></p><p></p><p>People often dropped off a large shipment of metal and picked up the weapons that had been made. Gareth spent all his time in the shop. Bucket was off playing the happy tourist. Jahar was spending time discussing magic, studying, and exploring the city. A-dom spent a lot of time at the palace, where he was introduced to a guy called Drunken Raven (simple-minded fellow who likes beer and hitting things and playing with dolls) by Jahar. Jade’s Luck spent her time learning how to be supernaturally scary and practicing on the people who got too close to her and she possibly impeded work at the forge.</p><p></p><p>The morning started like any other. Gareth got to the forge and began work. Not getting a lot of sleep and being in a shadow land, he was rather low on essence, so used the minimal amount of Flawless Handiwork Method possible on the first sword of the day. Gareth noticed an anvil in the middle of the forge sliding over as every weapon in the forge exploded, sending shrapnel everywhere. Lots of apprentices were now lying about with metal chunks in them as a masked man in dark, assassin-like clothing exited from the hole.</p><p></p><p>When Gareth stood and questioned him about what just happened, the guy looked back in the hole and said, “<em>You didn’t kill them all!</em>” A second, almost bashful voice droned, “<em>Sorry.</em>”</p><p></p><p>At this point, Gareth summoned his sword and yelled, “<em>Help! Help! Assassins!</em>” Jade’s Luck was in the backroom when she heard Gareth’s yell and headed to help out. When A-dom heard the yell, he charged towards the shop with his weapons out saying, “<em>A Sas Sins!</em>” Jahar saw him and followed.</p><p></p><p>The masked man moved to stab an apprentice as a man with a long, pointy nose and brightly, multi-colored robes, carrying a nasty looking axe exited the hole. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/hurknar.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>He moved over and hit the dead apprentice with his axe, an obvious sucking noise in the air. When Gareth summoned his armor, he started to glow. The masked man shouted, “<em>Anathema!</em>” in surprise. The brightly colored guy merely asked, “<em>What? You didn’t notice when he summoned the sword?</em>”</p><p></p><p>Gareth’s only response was, “<em>No <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. What’d you expect to find here?</em>” as he attacked the masked man. Unfortunately, Gareth seemed to have not been paying attention to his surroundings and impaled an apprentice on his sword. The brightly colored man followed up by whacking the guy on Gareth’s sword with his axe with another sucking sound. Luck entered out of the backroom, exclaimed the badness of the situation, activated a defense charm, and chucked her chakram at the guy with his axe in an apprentice, wounding him.</p><p></p><p>Her exclamation awoke Tiger and he came running. Having been wounded and seeing the numbers of Anathema growing, the brightly colored guy with the axe jumped back, did a summersault and dropped back down the hole. Gareth brought his body-laden sword around to dislodge the corpse into the masked man, then brought his sword back around to slash at his gut. Now seriously wounded, the masked man jumped down the hole and the anvil slid back into place.</p><p></p><p>Jade’s Luck started tending to the two living apprentices when A-dom arrived in the doorway. “<em>A Sas Sins!</em>” He was quickly instructed to remove the anvil. When he did, everyone else could see the mechanical device attached to the bottom.</p><p></p><p>A-dom jumped down the hole, followed by Tiger and then Jahar. Bucket arrived and was given a short synopsis of what happened. An echoey <em>A Sas Sins!</em> could be heard below. Bucket took the time to quickly grab a crowbar and the others jumped down into what turned out to be a sewer, following behind. A-dom quickly picked up the trail, finding one set of boot prints and one set of hoof prints. The tracks led on in the sewers for a little while before heading off into a cave.</p><p></p><p>The group quickly became two. A-dom charged forward, occasionally yelling <em>A Sas Sins!</em>, with Tiger keeping up. With his heavy armor, Gareth lagged behind, with the rest of the group sticking with the light source.</p><p></p><p>As A-dom and Tiger reached a large room, they noticed it was full of purplish mushroom. The tracks stopped right before the mushrooms and looked like the person leapt. A-dom leapt over the mushrooms and continued on with a yell of <em>A Sas Sins!</em> A-dom must have been really bored those past two or so weeks, because he just kept on going.</p><p></p><p>Tiger couldn’t safely carry anyone while he ran along the wall, so he left Jahar behind and followed A-dom. The rest of the group caught up and discussed how they were going to get across. Throwing Bucket was quickly discussed and discarded, since Gareth couldn’t hurl him forty feet. Backing far away, they tested the mushrooms by throwing rocks. Poof! Lots of spores. Jahar took the time to stop and cast a spell, making his skin turn gray. Luck poked at him in a couple of places, but Jahar stopped her from poking his eyeballs. Then Jade’s Luck threw her chakram to clear a path, with it becoming hundreds of chakrams. More spores.</p><p></p><p>Up ahead, A-dom could be heard saying “<em>Oops!</em>” as he broke some tripwires, causing a cave in up ahead. Tiger and A-dom cleared the cave in without the rest of the group getting through the mush room and charge on. <em>A Sas Sins!</em></p><p></p><p>Running along, Tiger tried to take the lead, stating A-dom wasn’t very good with the traps, but A-dom won’t let him. Up ahead, A-dom spotted the masked man, seriously wounded by Gareth, running along as best he could.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom: (maniacal laugh) </strong><em>A-HA! HA-HA-HA! A Sas Sins!</em></p><p></p><p>The man ran through a doorframe, which looked rather out of place in this cave.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, back at the other group, Bucket asked the others just how long they could hold their breath. It was quickly decided that everyone would run through, holding their breath, and thenstand by Bucket as he soaked them down, washing off the pollen. After doing this, they continued on until the reach the cave-in. Everyone failed to notice the large lion skeleton up above as it dropped down onto Gareth, biting him. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/bonelion.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>He yelped in pain and raised his sword to create a barrier between himself and the lion. He was only partially successful. As the creature chewed on Gareth, Luck zapped it with her anima power, Jahar failed to do it much harm with his sword, and Bucket smacked it around with ROB.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gareth: </strong><em>Don’t let it bite me again!</em></p><p></p><p>Luck switched to her chakram to do lots more damage and Gareth was actually able to hold the lion off with his sword. Bucket managed to eventually kill it and tried to take the head as a trophy. It was very heavy, ROB wouldn’t eat it, and it would impede him keeping up, so he begrudgingly left it behind. He bandaged up Gareth. Now with a badly wounded Gareth, they continued on to try and catch up with A-dom and Tiger.</p><p></p><p>Back with A-dom and Tiger, A-dom got to the door to see the wounded man holding a lever.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom: (same tone as yells of assassin) </strong><em>Craaaaaap!</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom dove through the door before it shut. Tiger just managed to scoot through the door as it slammed shut from the man pulling the lever. They now found themselves trapped in a room with the wounded man close by and the brightly colored guy further back. A-dom quickly approached the wounded guy, who now had a Fire caste mark blazing on his forehead. The guy just managed to dodge the swing of A-dom’s club. Tiger rushed through the room and headed towards the brightly colored guy. He slowed down just enough so that he could slash across the dragon-blood’s chest and then along his back.</p><p></p><p>A-dom looked angry as the now dead dragon-blood dropped. Poor A-dom hadn’t been allowed to partake in any causing of pain. As he rushed towards the non-assassin looking assassin, Tiger stumbled. He suddenly felt weaker and his sword felt very heavy. A-dom leapt towards bright boy with his club raised, spike poised. Landing, the spike wounded the guy nicely. The guy then dematerialized, leaving an extremely frustrated A-dom. He grunted curses and sounded like he was having a brain aneurysm. Noticing the tunnel continued, he gave a very half-hearted and quiet, “<em>grr... assassins…</em>” As a parting gift, A-dom felt much less mighty with his club.</p><p></p><p>They ran around a couple more corners before they saw a very average looking man standing about twenty feet beyond a glowing red doorway with runes carved on the frame. Tiger commented about how he didn’t want to run through that.</p><p></p><p><strong>Average Man:</strong><em> You’re not my assassins.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom: (crazy half laugh, then quietly) </strong><em>I don’t have to throw...</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger:</strong><em> We ARE assassins. Do you need new ones?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Average Man:</strong><em> No, you’re Solars. I’ll be leaving now.</em></p><p></p><p>The average man started chanting and a swirling vortex started to appear behind him. This is just not A-dom’s day. He growled and loudly said, “<em>Kill! (pause) Doorway Scary! (pause) Occult Bad!</em>”</p><p></p><p>Tiger whipped out his bow and aimed to take a shot.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom: (confused Hulk voice) </strong><em>Bow? What’s that like?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger: </strong><em>It’s good for hitting things from far away.</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger let loose. The arrow grazed the man, but does nothing to interrupt his chanting.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom: (confused Hulk voice)</strong><em> I have a ranged attack...</em></p><p></p><p>A-dom hurled his club at the man and managed to barely connect, but once again didn’t manage to interrupt his chanting. The club dropped to the ground, leaning up against him. Then A-dom realized something.</p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom: </strong><em>Crap, my club is over there!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger: </strong><em>That’s why I can Summon the Loyal Steel. I can summon my sword from ANYWHERE. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom: </strong><em>Can you summon mine?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger: </strong><em>No. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom: </strong><em>Please?</em></p><p></p><p>Tiger fired again, with no major affect. A-dom barely managed to conquer his fear. With a shaky yell of “<em>Don’t drink my beer!</em>” he hurled himself through the doorway. As he passed through the doorway, his blood literally boiled. Smoke came out his ears, nose, and mouth, and he shrieked from the pain. He was, however, alive. He shakily walked over and picked up his club, just managing to stay upright.</p><p></p><p>Before A-dom was able to swing, the man disappeared into the vortex. The vortex closed, leaving A-dom alone in a room. Well, mostly alone. There was a sacrificial altar with a corpse on it in the room.</p><p></p><p>While A-dom was trying to figure out what he was going to do, Tiger heard a loud <strong>Thwing!</strong> Figuring the others got to the door, he told A-dom he was going to go let the others in. A tired A-dom eagerly offered to stay where he is.</p><p></p><p>While Gareth was trying to figure out how to dismantle the metal door, it swung open to reveal Tiger. Tiger took the time to loot the dragon-blood and close the door before leading the others back to the doorway.</p><p></p><p>After being filled in on what went on, Jahar inspected the doorway. To show what the doorway did, A-dom tossed the corpse through the doorway. What resulted was a pile of pus.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jade’s Luck: </strong><em>Why don’t we just make a new door.</em></p><p></p><p>This gave A-dom the idea to start bashing the wall. This shifted a few bricks, but not much happened. Jahar made a pretty show of runes and chanting, but was unable to dispel the doorway.</p><p></p><p><strong>Tiger: </strong><em>You know, the other guy took a longer time casting.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>A-dom: </strong><em>Grrr. Cast longer!</em></p><p></p><p>When trying to remember the boss of the assassins, Tiger realized he really couldn’t remember anything distinctive about him at all. He was a tall-short skinny-fat guy.</p><p></p><p>Impatient as ever, A-dom got the idea to attack the doorframe itself. He picked up the Altar and started smashing away. Apparently the others had more sense and ran away screaming. All except Gareth, that is. The doorframe exploded before he was able to do anything, knocking down both him and A-dom. But, the doorway was no longer glowing and things looked more normal. To test the door, Jade’s Luck retrieved the other dead body and tossed it through. The group moved in to inspect the room.</p><p></p><p>About this time, Jahar noticed the magic of the area was fading and it was what was keeping this constructed area stable. Pointing the ceiling out to Gareth, he looked up. Gareth felt a surge of knowledge of stonemasonry enter his mind and noticed that this place had no supports.</p><p></p><p>The Circle started running for the exit as the structure began to collapse. Gareth dismissed his armor, and then his sword so he could keep up. His giant bear ran along with them. Rooms collapsed right behind them. With lightening speed, Tiger sped ahead to open the doorway so the others wouldn’t have to stop. When they got to the slightly crushed skeleton, Bucket grabbed the head. It slowed him down too much and no one would help, so he had to drop it.</p><p></p><p>Once back in the safe sewers, Gareth headed back towards his shop, saying he needed a shower and some rest. Bucket and Luck stayed behind for Bucket’s anima to go down while the rest followed Gareth.</p><p></p><p>Gareth’s bear anima was the first to exit into the shop. They found Dreary, Drunken Raven, and Dark Talonblood standing there. A safe distance away from the hole stood about 15 city guards.</p><p></p><p><strong>Dreary: </strong><em>Oh good, it’s you.</em></p><p></p><p>The two apprentices that lived were fine. Filling the Death knights in, it turned out they knew about the Fire aspect dragon-blood, but not about there being two more involved. After description, they identified the guy with the axe as Hurknar, a second circle demon. Upon hearing Hurknar got away, Dreary told Raven to get Pont to demon ward everything. Upon the lack of information on the boss, they seemed puzzled and worried.</p><p></p><p>They shuffled out of the shop and went about dealing with safety things. The shop got a little cleaned and the Circle rested. Healing charms were activated. Once he had enough essence recovered, Gareth joined in with both of his healing charms.</p><p></p><p>Eleven hours after they got back to the shop, Tiger, Jahar, Luck and Bucket heard a noise up on the roof. Tiger, Jahar, and Bucket went to investigate while Luck tried to wake Gareth. Being fairly wounded and tired, he was unhappy about shifting into a state of consciousness. He was even less happy when a large, heavy thing landed on top of him and took a big chomp out of his side. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/bonelion.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>He immediately summoned his armor, though he was really hurting at this point. With the room now illuminated by Gareth, those that were there and awake started beating on the new bone lion. Gareth summoned his sword to defend himself and stuck it in the creature’s mouth to push its teeth away from his body. He was, unfortunately, too groggy and hurt to put up much of a resistance. The beast took a big bite out of his jugular. The others quickly dispatched the creature and Bucket went about hacking off its head for a trophy while Gareth lay dying. Jahar applied pressure just in the knick of time to snatch Gareth from death’s clutches. The healing charms did their job in barely keeping his parts together and mending them. Though Gareth remained unconscious, bloody, and in a big mess.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 2819283, member: 9758"] [b]Synopsis of 8/22/05 session - “A SAS SINS!”[/b] [i]Synopsis of 8/22/05 session[/i] [size=5][b]“A SAS SINS!”[/b][/size] The session started with Jade questioning ROB about other types of Exalted. He didn’t know anything about the Death knights, so they must have come about after his time. There were the Solars who ran stuff. There were the Lunars who followed Luna and were the bodyguards of the Solars. There were the Godbloods, who weren’t really Exalted, but whatever. They were like the dragon kings. There were the Dragon-Bloods, who were servants and the like. And there were the other guys, who talked a lot and did stuff. ROB didn’t have any experience with them. Over the month after the last session, Gareth had been working and training, sleeping very little, and glowing like a sonofabitch. Several alive young men between the ages of thirteen and twenty came to Gareth’s workshop to ask about becoming apprentices. Wanting to pass on knowledge to younger folk and not knowing any reason not to instruct these youngsters, he took them on. This slowed him down a little crafting, since he had to give instruction, but it was all good. [b]Ryan:[/b][i] Whenever I think about, you know, the undead armies rising up and like attacking the dragon-bloods, I think of A-dom sitting on top and going [b]YEE-HAA![/b][/i] People often dropped off a large shipment of metal and picked up the weapons that had been made. Gareth spent all his time in the shop. Bucket was off playing the happy tourist. Jahar was spending time discussing magic, studying, and exploring the city. A-dom spent a lot of time at the palace, where he was introduced to a guy called Drunken Raven (simple-minded fellow who likes beer and hitting things and playing with dolls) by Jahar. Jade’s Luck spent her time learning how to be supernaturally scary and practicing on the people who got too close to her and she possibly impeded work at the forge. The morning started like any other. Gareth got to the forge and began work. Not getting a lot of sleep and being in a shadow land, he was rather low on essence, so used the minimal amount of Flawless Handiwork Method possible on the first sword of the day. Gareth noticed an anvil in the middle of the forge sliding over as every weapon in the forge exploded, sending shrapnel everywhere. Lots of apprentices were now lying about with metal chunks in them as a masked man in dark, assassin-like clothing exited from the hole. When Gareth stood and questioned him about what just happened, the guy looked back in the hole and said, “[i]You didn’t kill them all![/i]” A second, almost bashful voice droned, “[i]Sorry.[/i]” At this point, Gareth summoned his sword and yelled, “[i]Help! Help! Assassins![/i]” Jade’s Luck was in the backroom when she heard Gareth’s yell and headed to help out. When A-dom heard the yell, he charged towards the shop with his weapons out saying, “[i]A Sas Sins![/i]” Jahar saw him and followed. The masked man moved to stab an apprentice as a man with a long, pointy nose and brightly, multi-colored robes, carrying a nasty looking axe exited the hole. [img]http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/hurknar.jpg[/img] He moved over and hit the dead apprentice with his axe, an obvious sucking noise in the air. When Gareth summoned his armor, he started to glow. The masked man shouted, “[i]Anathema![/i]” in surprise. The brightly colored guy merely asked, “[i]What? You didn’t notice when he summoned the sword?[/i]” Gareth’s only response was, “[i]No :):):):). What’d you expect to find here?[/i]” as he attacked the masked man. Unfortunately, Gareth seemed to have not been paying attention to his surroundings and impaled an apprentice on his sword. The brightly colored man followed up by whacking the guy on Gareth’s sword with his axe with another sucking sound. Luck entered out of the backroom, exclaimed the badness of the situation, activated a defense charm, and chucked her chakram at the guy with his axe in an apprentice, wounding him. Her exclamation awoke Tiger and he came running. Having been wounded and seeing the numbers of Anathema growing, the brightly colored guy with the axe jumped back, did a summersault and dropped back down the hole. Gareth brought his body-laden sword around to dislodge the corpse into the masked man, then brought his sword back around to slash at his gut. Now seriously wounded, the masked man jumped down the hole and the anvil slid back into place. Jade’s Luck started tending to the two living apprentices when A-dom arrived in the doorway. “[i]A Sas Sins![/i]” He was quickly instructed to remove the anvil. When he did, everyone else could see the mechanical device attached to the bottom. A-dom jumped down the hole, followed by Tiger and then Jahar. Bucket arrived and was given a short synopsis of what happened. An echoey [i]A Sas Sins![/i] could be heard below. Bucket took the time to quickly grab a crowbar and the others jumped down into what turned out to be a sewer, following behind. A-dom quickly picked up the trail, finding one set of boot prints and one set of hoof prints. The tracks led on in the sewers for a little while before heading off into a cave. The group quickly became two. A-dom charged forward, occasionally yelling [i]A Sas Sins![/i], with Tiger keeping up. With his heavy armor, Gareth lagged behind, with the rest of the group sticking with the light source. As A-dom and Tiger reached a large room, they noticed it was full of purplish mushroom. The tracks stopped right before the mushrooms and looked like the person leapt. A-dom leapt over the mushrooms and continued on with a yell of [i]A Sas Sins![/i] A-dom must have been really bored those past two or so weeks, because he just kept on going. Tiger couldn’t safely carry anyone while he ran along the wall, so he left Jahar behind and followed A-dom. The rest of the group caught up and discussed how they were going to get across. Throwing Bucket was quickly discussed and discarded, since Gareth couldn’t hurl him forty feet. Backing far away, they tested the mushrooms by throwing rocks. Poof! Lots of spores. Jahar took the time to stop and cast a spell, making his skin turn gray. Luck poked at him in a couple of places, but Jahar stopped her from poking his eyeballs. Then Jade’s Luck threw her chakram to clear a path, with it becoming hundreds of chakrams. More spores. Up ahead, A-dom could be heard saying “[i]Oops![/i]” as he broke some tripwires, causing a cave in up ahead. Tiger and A-dom cleared the cave in without the rest of the group getting through the mush room and charge on. [i]A Sas Sins![/i] Running along, Tiger tried to take the lead, stating A-dom wasn’t very good with the traps, but A-dom won’t let him. Up ahead, A-dom spotted the masked man, seriously wounded by Gareth, running along as best he could. [b]A-dom: (maniacal laugh) [/b][i]A-HA! HA-HA-HA! A Sas Sins![/i] The man ran through a doorframe, which looked rather out of place in this cave. Meanwhile, back at the other group, Bucket asked the others just how long they could hold their breath. It was quickly decided that everyone would run through, holding their breath, and thenstand by Bucket as he soaked them down, washing off the pollen. After doing this, they continued on until the reach the cave-in. Everyone failed to notice the large lion skeleton up above as it dropped down onto Gareth, biting him. [img]http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/bonelion.jpg[/img] He yelped in pain and raised his sword to create a barrier between himself and the lion. He was only partially successful. As the creature chewed on Gareth, Luck zapped it with her anima power, Jahar failed to do it much harm with his sword, and Bucket smacked it around with ROB. [b]Gareth: [/b][i]Don’t let it bite me again![/i] Luck switched to her chakram to do lots more damage and Gareth was actually able to hold the lion off with his sword. Bucket managed to eventually kill it and tried to take the head as a trophy. It was very heavy, ROB wouldn’t eat it, and it would impede him keeping up, so he begrudgingly left it behind. He bandaged up Gareth. Now with a badly wounded Gareth, they continued on to try and catch up with A-dom and Tiger. Back with A-dom and Tiger, A-dom got to the door to see the wounded man holding a lever. [b]A-dom: (same tone as yells of assassin) [/b][i]Craaaaaap![/i] A-dom dove through the door before it shut. Tiger just managed to scoot through the door as it slammed shut from the man pulling the lever. They now found themselves trapped in a room with the wounded man close by and the brightly colored guy further back. A-dom quickly approached the wounded guy, who now had a Fire caste mark blazing on his forehead. The guy just managed to dodge the swing of A-dom’s club. Tiger rushed through the room and headed towards the brightly colored guy. He slowed down just enough so that he could slash across the dragon-blood’s chest and then along his back. A-dom looked angry as the now dead dragon-blood dropped. Poor A-dom hadn’t been allowed to partake in any causing of pain. As he rushed towards the non-assassin looking assassin, Tiger stumbled. He suddenly felt weaker and his sword felt very heavy. A-dom leapt towards bright boy with his club raised, spike poised. Landing, the spike wounded the guy nicely. The guy then dematerialized, leaving an extremely frustrated A-dom. He grunted curses and sounded like he was having a brain aneurysm. Noticing the tunnel continued, he gave a very half-hearted and quiet, “[i]grr... assassins…[/i]” As a parting gift, A-dom felt much less mighty with his club. They ran around a couple more corners before they saw a very average looking man standing about twenty feet beyond a glowing red doorway with runes carved on the frame. Tiger commented about how he didn’t want to run through that. [b]Average Man:[/b][i] You’re not my assassins.[/i] [b]A-dom: (crazy half laugh, then quietly) [/b][i]I don’t have to throw...[/i] [b]Tiger:[/b][i] We ARE assassins. Do you need new ones?[/i] [b]Average Man:[/b][i] No, you’re Solars. I’ll be leaving now.[/i] The average man started chanting and a swirling vortex started to appear behind him. This is just not A-dom’s day. He growled and loudly said, “[i]Kill! (pause) Doorway Scary! (pause) Occult Bad![/i]” Tiger whipped out his bow and aimed to take a shot. [b]A-dom: (confused Hulk voice) [/b][i]Bow? What’s that like?[/i] [b]Tiger: [/b][i]It’s good for hitting things from far away.[/i] Tiger let loose. The arrow grazed the man, but does nothing to interrupt his chanting. [b]A-dom: (confused Hulk voice)[/b][i] I have a ranged attack...[/i] A-dom hurled his club at the man and managed to barely connect, but once again didn’t manage to interrupt his chanting. The club dropped to the ground, leaning up against him. Then A-dom realized something. [b]A-dom: [/b][i]Crap, my club is over there![/i] [b]Tiger: [/b][i]That’s why I can Summon the Loyal Steel. I can summon my sword from ANYWHERE. [/i] [b]A-dom: [/b][i]Can you summon mine?[/i] [b]Tiger: [/b][i]No. [/i] [b]A-dom: [/b][i]Please?[/i] Tiger fired again, with no major affect. A-dom barely managed to conquer his fear. With a shaky yell of “[i]Don’t drink my beer![/i]” he hurled himself through the doorway. As he passed through the doorway, his blood literally boiled. Smoke came out his ears, nose, and mouth, and he shrieked from the pain. He was, however, alive. He shakily walked over and picked up his club, just managing to stay upright. Before A-dom was able to swing, the man disappeared into the vortex. The vortex closed, leaving A-dom alone in a room. Well, mostly alone. There was a sacrificial altar with a corpse on it in the room. While A-dom was trying to figure out what he was going to do, Tiger heard a loud [b]Thwing![/b] Figuring the others got to the door, he told A-dom he was going to go let the others in. A tired A-dom eagerly offered to stay where he is. While Gareth was trying to figure out how to dismantle the metal door, it swung open to reveal Tiger. Tiger took the time to loot the dragon-blood and close the door before leading the others back to the doorway. After being filled in on what went on, Jahar inspected the doorway. To show what the doorway did, A-dom tossed the corpse through the doorway. What resulted was a pile of pus. [b]Jade’s Luck: [/b][i]Why don’t we just make a new door.[/i] This gave A-dom the idea to start bashing the wall. This shifted a few bricks, but not much happened. Jahar made a pretty show of runes and chanting, but was unable to dispel the doorway. [b]Tiger: [/b][i]You know, the other guy took a longer time casting.[/i] [b]A-dom: [/b][i]Grrr. Cast longer![/i] When trying to remember the boss of the assassins, Tiger realized he really couldn’t remember anything distinctive about him at all. He was a tall-short skinny-fat guy. Impatient as ever, A-dom got the idea to attack the doorframe itself. He picked up the Altar and started smashing away. Apparently the others had more sense and ran away screaming. All except Gareth, that is. The doorframe exploded before he was able to do anything, knocking down both him and A-dom. But, the doorway was no longer glowing and things looked more normal. To test the door, Jade’s Luck retrieved the other dead body and tossed it through. The group moved in to inspect the room. About this time, Jahar noticed the magic of the area was fading and it was what was keeping this constructed area stable. Pointing the ceiling out to Gareth, he looked up. Gareth felt a surge of knowledge of stonemasonry enter his mind and noticed that this place had no supports. The Circle started running for the exit as the structure began to collapse. Gareth dismissed his armor, and then his sword so he could keep up. His giant bear ran along with them. Rooms collapsed right behind them. With lightening speed, Tiger sped ahead to open the doorway so the others wouldn’t have to stop. When they got to the slightly crushed skeleton, Bucket grabbed the head. It slowed him down too much and no one would help, so he had to drop it. Once back in the safe sewers, Gareth headed back towards his shop, saying he needed a shower and some rest. Bucket and Luck stayed behind for Bucket’s anima to go down while the rest followed Gareth. Gareth’s bear anima was the first to exit into the shop. They found Dreary, Drunken Raven, and Dark Talonblood standing there. A safe distance away from the hole stood about 15 city guards. [b]Dreary: [/b][i]Oh good, it’s you.[/i] The two apprentices that lived were fine. Filling the Death knights in, it turned out they knew about the Fire aspect dragon-blood, but not about there being two more involved. After description, they identified the guy with the axe as Hurknar, a second circle demon. Upon hearing Hurknar got away, Dreary told Raven to get Pont to demon ward everything. Upon the lack of information on the boss, they seemed puzzled and worried. They shuffled out of the shop and went about dealing with safety things. The shop got a little cleaned and the Circle rested. Healing charms were activated. Once he had enough essence recovered, Gareth joined in with both of his healing charms. Eleven hours after they got back to the shop, Tiger, Jahar, Luck and Bucket heard a noise up on the roof. Tiger, Jahar, and Bucket went to investigate while Luck tried to wake Gareth. Being fairly wounded and tired, he was unhappy about shifting into a state of consciousness. He was even less happy when a large, heavy thing landed on top of him and took a big chomp out of his side. [img]http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/bonelion.jpg[/img] He immediately summoned his armor, though he was really hurting at this point. With the room now illuminated by Gareth, those that were there and awake started beating on the new bone lion. Gareth summoned his sword to defend himself and stuck it in the creature’s mouth to push its teeth away from his body. He was, unfortunately, too groggy and hurt to put up much of a resistance. The beast took a big bite out of his jugular. The others quickly dispatched the creature and Bucket went about hacking off its head for a trophy while Gareth lay dying. Jahar applied pressure just in the knick of time to snatch Gareth from death’s clutches. The healing charms did their job in barely keeping his parts together and mending them. Though Gareth remained unconscious, bloody, and in a big mess. [/QUOTE]
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