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<blockquote data-quote="Cafu" data-source="post: 6097120" data-attributes="member: 6692807"><p>As I walked through the town, I began to wonder why were we here again? Oh, yes, something about some Ragesians; I couldn’t quite remember what they were doing but surely they must have been reasonable people; I began to wonder why we just couldn’t all get along….</p><p> </p><p>I heard a voice; Victor’s I think:</p><p> </p><p>“Grab Faden and Longhelim; it looks as if they have been affected by this magic cloud or whatever it is.”</p><p> </p><p>Yes, it was Victor, that’s right. My good friend John came along and helped to hurry me wherever it was that we were going; oh yes, it was to save another good friend, Three Weeping Ravens; he had got himself into a spot of bother. He was surrounded by a lot of soldiers and he was desperately trying to get away and fight his way out but they had surrounded him….it was a bit unsporting really.</p><p> </p><p>I sidled up to Longhelim:</p><p> </p><p>“Shame about Three Weeping Ravens isn’t it? I quite liked him.”</p><p> </p><p>Longhelim had been looking at a group of villagers who were strewn around the street, bleeding.</p><p> </p><p>“Hmmm? Oh, yes, shame; but one against eight? He was never going to survive that, was he? Victor’s doing well though. Look at him go. Not even the hell hounds stand much of a chance.”</p><p> </p><p>I looked again.</p><p> </p><p>“Oh, yes the hell hounds. I hadn’t seen them before. How many of them are there?”</p><p> </p><p>“Two….no, one; Drudge just shot one. Ah, there goes another Ragesian; my, Victor is getting that combination right, isn’t he? Look at the way he is moving; yes, right foot forward…..now! Time that slash to the thigh…..block with the buckler, now duck and bring the slash up to the groin….yes, now another into the ankle….oh, yes madam?”</p><p> </p><p>I looked around and saw Longhelim disappearing into a house. How curious; why would he go into a house now? Well, I was sure he would tell me when he returned.</p><p> </p><p>I saw another hell hound leaping towards Victor who dealt with it as well. I didn’t see John around anywhere; my friend John; he was a good friend. Drudge, though, now I saw him; he was raining death on a dwindling number of Ragesians; yes, there, that was the last one; gone with lots of arrows in him.</p><p> </p><p>Oh good; I saw Longhelim coming back to me.</p><p> </p><p>“All the Ragesians are gone. Where did you go?”</p><p> </p><p>“Oh, a lady invited me into her house. It was quite odd. I went in there and couldn’t see her. Then her voice said….actually, it was both her voice and a man’s voice which came from behind me. Anyway, they said: We are balance and you have met our kin. The scales are heavy and you will tip them. I wonder what that means?”</p><p> </p><p>I shrugged: “No idea. Look we better go up there; they are making signs for us to join them.”</p><p> </p><p>As we approached, we could see that Victor was quite a mess; covered in blood, mostly not his. John was running around, taking things from Ragesian bodies when an old man approached us, scurrying rapidly.</p><p> </p><p>“I’m Becchus: You’re strangers? From outside the valley? Come, come quickly. I will take you to another traveller. He came with a previous group. He is almost gone…”</p><p> </p><p>I heard John say: “Yes, in a moment. We will come with you but first we need to take a few things from here. Also, wasn’t there a so called House of Healing in Eresh somewhere? We could do with going there first. Some healing would be very handy right now.”</p><p> </p><p>The old man said: “Yes, yes, I will take you there. Then we must go to the traveler.”</p><p> </p><p>I was still standing around; I didn’t see the point of going anywhere, doing anything really. After all, what will be, will be. Then Drudge spoke up:</p><p> </p><p>“Before we go anywhere, we have an opportunity here; if Longhelim and Faden are anything to go by, then the Ragesians in the camp are defenceless. Now is the time to get them; otherwise, they’ll come out of this……trance or whatever it is and become normal Ragesians.”</p><p> </p><p>I heard Victor speaking:</p><p> </p><p>“Bechus, we’re going to have to go to the Ragesian camp now; Drudge is right; we won’t get an opportunity like this again. I’ll grab Longhelim; John, you grab Faden and let’s go.”</p><p> </p><p>We went to the Ragesian camp and then we just followed Drudge around; he was shooting lots and lots of arrows into Ragesians. Again, it seemed quite unsporting but ultimately nothing to get too excited about. He shot the dogs first; that was all right; I didn’t like the dogs; they were black and had nasty red eyes. I was looking back into the town, back at the huge building high up in the mountain; I was vaguely remembering something about having to go up there; oh, another Ragesian fell over with arrows in him.</p><p>Drudge really was a very good shot.</p><p> </p><p>I don’t know how many arrows Drudge had but he changed quivers several times. None of the Ragesians showed any interest as to what was happening. Mind you, I wasn’t particularly interested either; the only reason I was there was because John was pushing me around.</p><p> </p><p>Anyway, we were there for some time and then I could hear shouts and drumming in the distance; I looked up and saw a huge crowd of Ragesians in the distance. They were led by a tall, commanding figure, riding at their head. He was dressed in a beautifully polished set of full plate armour that glistened in the sun. Tall and bearded, he rode on a strange creature. I couldn’t quite make out what it was at this distance, but it certainly wasn’t a horse.</p><p> </p><p>The crowd of Ragesians was walking in formation. It was very pretty. They walked in step and carried lots of flags; I couldn’t make out what the flags showed but the whole thing looked much more soldier like than the ones in the camp; or the ones that were left in the camp anyway; which admittedly wasn’t very many by this point.</p><p> </p><p>Drudge had almost finished; John and the others suddenly began to plan a retreat into the town to stay away from this new group. I couldn’t have that; this was another fantastic target!</p><p> </p><p>“What are you all doing? Those are Ragesians out there! They have to be killed! Now! Victor, Longhelim, if you get into formation, we should charge them! Immediately!” I screamed at them.</p><p> </p><p>Drudge said: “What’s got into him? He’s usually so busy thinking he forgets to actually do anything. Anyway, a moment ago, he was a docile little lamb.”</p><p> </p><p>John replied: “It’s that bloody curse. It’s flipped him; or he’s flipped I should say.”</p><p> </p><p>“Great; that means Longhelim’ll be the same doesn’t it? We better grab both of them again, before they go off in a mad charge or something.”</p><p> </p><p>Then John stepped in front of me: “Faden, we plan to kill lots and lots of Ragesians; more Ragesians than you can dream about. We just can’t do it here; we have to choose our battle ground. I promise you though, there’ll be loads of them to kill.”</p><p> </p><p>I looked at him suspiciously; after all, this was John who was telling me this: “You promise? Loads and loads of them?”</p><p> </p><p>“Yes, just follow me. You won’t even need to go after them. After what we did to their camp, believe you me, they’re guaranteed to come after us.”</p><p> </p><p>Longingly, I looked back at the bunch coming towards us; there were even two wyvern knights flying above them; they made such a tempting target. As they came closer, I could also make out more details of the thing their commander was riding. It had huge, muscled legs with big talons. It vaguely looked like a lizard but its most prominent feature was its head; it had large ears and a big mouth. I still had no idea what it was.</p><p> </p><p>As I followed John, I could also hear a conversation between Longhelim and Victor:</p><p> </p><p>“…….yes, I promise you can be in the front to get your pick of the Ragesians that come at us; and you get to kill as many as you can, need, or want.”</p><p> </p><p>“And you won’t get in front of me; or steal any of my kills. They’re going to be my kills!”</p><p> </p><p>“There’ll be plenty for both of us; don’t you worry about that.”</p><p> </p><p>Somehow, everything I saw had a tinge of red, as if I was seeing through some gauze or haze. Some of the villagers running around like headless chickens; I didn’t like them. They should be charging the Ragesians; so should be the monks front the monastery but they were a bunch of lightweights. I felt like giving them a little encouragement with my ball of fire, just to point them in the right direction but I felt a hand on mine, lowering it; John was shaking his head:</p><p> </p><p>“Save those for the Ragesians.”</p><p> </p><p>Great idea. Burn the Ragesians to death! Now there was a plan! But when were we going to get started?</p><p> </p><p>We wondered aimlessly through the town; I was getting more and more impatient. The Ragesians could be changing their minds and turning around! That must not be allowed to happen!</p><p> </p><p>Finally, Victor stopped at a particular point on a street. It was surrounded by buildings. He inspected it carefully and then went to talk to John and Drudge. Then he said to everyone:</p><p> </p><p>“This is a good place; this is where we’ll make our stand!”</p><p> </p><p>Good! This was the place where we would kill lots of Ragesians. I couldn’t wait!</p><p> </p><p>We didn’t have long to wait. A small formation of soldiers advanced, shields ready and weapons out; didn’t matter. I fried them with a ball of fire. They screamed a lot; music to my ears. I was concentrating very hard, looking for other formations. A few individuals leaked through but the others could deal with them. I saw that Victor was smashing lots of the soldiers and Drudge was shooting another bunch; Longhelim was also fencing with some more; he was spitting and yelling something about their mothers. Felix was getting smashed about a bit but suddenly another small formation made an appearance; another ball of fire from me appeared on top of them and they all fell down; I almost danced in glee! Oh bother, there was a group of the leather clad Ragesians, who turned up from the side streets. No great point in putting them in balls of fire; they dodged through the spells somehow; thankfully, Victor went over and dealt with them. Then a more imposing figure strode forward, straight into Drudge’s next volley; with three arrows sticking into him, he wasn’t strutting quite in the same way as previously. In fact, he looked seriously worried. He was some sort of command figure; he even had a bodyguard but they were not quite as adept at dodging balls of fire; I tested that theory several times. I laughed as I released the spells.</p><p> </p><p>It was all getting a bit hazy. I still kept a look out for Ragesian formations but strangely, there hadn’t been any for a little while. The battle still raged between the Ragesian tough and what was left of this entourage against Victor, Longhelim and the others but things were under control; I controlled the urge to take my staff and go and kick their teeth in; my staff was useful in other ways and anyway, any time one of them got a little strong, Drudge just drilled him. I suddenly noticed that Longhelim was on the floor. That was when, Victor decided that enough was enough and finished the Ragesian commander; about time too. Drudge then shot three arrows at the three remaining members of his squad and each time an arrow hit, a Ragesian fell over; and then there were none left.</p><p> </p><p>I shouted at them: “Yes, that’s the way to do it! What took you so long? Now, where’s the rest of them?”</p><p> </p><p>John immediately went to rummage for potions and things. I was looking around, waiting to kill more enemy; I was getting annoyed with the villagers as well. Why didn’t they come and help us? Ungrateful scum! And as for the monks in their monastery……..</p><p> </p><p>I was just turning around to walk back into the village and give them a piece of my mind when everything went black……</p><p> </p><p>I woke up to find Longhelim pouring a potion down my throat and shouting at Victor at the same time:</p><p> </p><p>“You didn’t have to hit him so hard! Just thank the gods you used the flat of your blade. Look at that lump on his head.”</p><p> </p><p>Victor shrugged and said: “Sorry Faden; I pulled my blow but even so, I clouted you on the head a little harder than I intended.”</p><p> </p><p>“A little harder than you intended? Do you have any idea how many potions we had to pour down him to get him conscious?”</p><p> </p><p>“I said sorry.”</p><p> </p><p>I felt woolly headed and lay back down for a little time.</p><p>“What happened? I remember Ragesians, lots of dead Ragesians, a Ragesian camp, a Ragesian army and a vicious fight……”</p><p> </p><p>Longhelim came up: “We’ll tell you on the way but first, we have to get to the House of Healing here in Eresh. We’ve drunk a bunch of potions here but most of us are still very injured and hopefully, there they will help us.”</p><p> </p><p>I stood up, swayed and leaned on the paladin who was next to me. My head was splitting and the paladin shot Victor a glare.</p><p> </p><p>Longhelim helped me and told the others: “Right, let’s go! John, can you tell Faden and I what happened please?”</p><p> </p><p>John spoke quietly: “Faden, you and Longhelim were both affected by the strange curse that permeated through this town, affecting everyone, villagers and Ragesians. Thankfully, the others were not; after the first battle, we went to the Ragesian camp where Drudge mostly, eliminated a large group of Ragesians; unfortunately, before we were able to finish, we spotted another large contingent of the enemy approaching. They are about to arrive. Just about when they reached the edge of the valley, everything flipped and you both became frothing berserkers; that was strange enough on you Longhelim, but on Faden, well it was downright ridiculous. Still, suddenly there were fire balls raining everywhere and lots of Ragesians burnt to a crisp.</p><p> </p><p>So, the remains of this first group of Ragesians came and attacked us and they were also in the same state as you two; it must have been some sort of commander and his staff as they were significantly tougher than any of the others we had met. Now, we are going to the House of Healing, where hopefully they will help us and then we have to go and confront the new Ragesian army group.“</p><p> </p><p>I nodded, absorbing everything he said. I felt that my staff, formerly so attuned to the elemental plane of fire, was much weaker than previously; well, at least it had been in a good cause.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cafu, post: 6097120, member: 6692807"] As I walked through the town, I began to wonder why were we here again? Oh, yes, something about some Ragesians; I couldn’t quite remember what they were doing but surely they must have been reasonable people; I began to wonder why we just couldn’t all get along…. I heard a voice; Victor’s I think: “Grab Faden and Longhelim; it looks as if they have been affected by this magic cloud or whatever it is.” Yes, it was Victor, that’s right. My good friend John came along and helped to hurry me wherever it was that we were going; oh yes, it was to save another good friend, Three Weeping Ravens; he had got himself into a spot of bother. He was surrounded by a lot of soldiers and he was desperately trying to get away and fight his way out but they had surrounded him….it was a bit unsporting really. I sidled up to Longhelim: “Shame about Three Weeping Ravens isn’t it? I quite liked him.” Longhelim had been looking at a group of villagers who were strewn around the street, bleeding. “Hmmm? Oh, yes, shame; but one against eight? He was never going to survive that, was he? Victor’s doing well though. Look at him go. Not even the hell hounds stand much of a chance.” I looked again. “Oh, yes the hell hounds. I hadn’t seen them before. How many of them are there?” “Two….no, one; Drudge just shot one. Ah, there goes another Ragesian; my, Victor is getting that combination right, isn’t he? Look at the way he is moving; yes, right foot forward…..now! Time that slash to the thigh…..block with the buckler, now duck and bring the slash up to the groin….yes, now another into the ankle….oh, yes madam?” I looked around and saw Longhelim disappearing into a house. How curious; why would he go into a house now? Well, I was sure he would tell me when he returned. I saw another hell hound leaping towards Victor who dealt with it as well. I didn’t see John around anywhere; my friend John; he was a good friend. Drudge, though, now I saw him; he was raining death on a dwindling number of Ragesians; yes, there, that was the last one; gone with lots of arrows in him. Oh good; I saw Longhelim coming back to me. “All the Ragesians are gone. Where did you go?” “Oh, a lady invited me into her house. It was quite odd. I went in there and couldn’t see her. Then her voice said….actually, it was both her voice and a man’s voice which came from behind me. Anyway, they said: We are balance and you have met our kin. The scales are heavy and you will tip them. I wonder what that means?” I shrugged: “No idea. Look we better go up there; they are making signs for us to join them.” As we approached, we could see that Victor was quite a mess; covered in blood, mostly not his. John was running around, taking things from Ragesian bodies when an old man approached us, scurrying rapidly. “I’m Becchus: You’re strangers? From outside the valley? Come, come quickly. I will take you to another traveller. He came with a previous group. He is almost gone…” I heard John say: “Yes, in a moment. We will come with you but first we need to take a few things from here. Also, wasn’t there a so called House of Healing in Eresh somewhere? We could do with going there first. Some healing would be very handy right now.” The old man said: “Yes, yes, I will take you there. Then we must go to the traveler.” I was still standing around; I didn’t see the point of going anywhere, doing anything really. After all, what will be, will be. Then Drudge spoke up: “Before we go anywhere, we have an opportunity here; if Longhelim and Faden are anything to go by, then the Ragesians in the camp are defenceless. Now is the time to get them; otherwise, they’ll come out of this……trance or whatever it is and become normal Ragesians.” I heard Victor speaking: “Bechus, we’re going to have to go to the Ragesian camp now; Drudge is right; we won’t get an opportunity like this again. I’ll grab Longhelim; John, you grab Faden and let’s go.” We went to the Ragesian camp and then we just followed Drudge around; he was shooting lots and lots of arrows into Ragesians. Again, it seemed quite unsporting but ultimately nothing to get too excited about. He shot the dogs first; that was all right; I didn’t like the dogs; they were black and had nasty red eyes. I was looking back into the town, back at the huge building high up in the mountain; I was vaguely remembering something about having to go up there; oh, another Ragesian fell over with arrows in him. Drudge really was a very good shot. I don’t know how many arrows Drudge had but he changed quivers several times. None of the Ragesians showed any interest as to what was happening. Mind you, I wasn’t particularly interested either; the only reason I was there was because John was pushing me around. Anyway, we were there for some time and then I could hear shouts and drumming in the distance; I looked up and saw a huge crowd of Ragesians in the distance. They were led by a tall, commanding figure, riding at their head. He was dressed in a beautifully polished set of full plate armour that glistened in the sun. Tall and bearded, he rode on a strange creature. I couldn’t quite make out what it was at this distance, but it certainly wasn’t a horse. The crowd of Ragesians was walking in formation. It was very pretty. They walked in step and carried lots of flags; I couldn’t make out what the flags showed but the whole thing looked much more soldier like than the ones in the camp; or the ones that were left in the camp anyway; which admittedly wasn’t very many by this point. Drudge had almost finished; John and the others suddenly began to plan a retreat into the town to stay away from this new group. I couldn’t have that; this was another fantastic target! “What are you all doing? Those are Ragesians out there! They have to be killed! Now! Victor, Longhelim, if you get into formation, we should charge them! Immediately!” I screamed at them. Drudge said: “What’s got into him? He’s usually so busy thinking he forgets to actually do anything. Anyway, a moment ago, he was a docile little lamb.” John replied: “It’s that bloody curse. It’s flipped him; or he’s flipped I should say.” “Great; that means Longhelim’ll be the same doesn’t it? We better grab both of them again, before they go off in a mad charge or something.” Then John stepped in front of me: “Faden, we plan to kill lots and lots of Ragesians; more Ragesians than you can dream about. We just can’t do it here; we have to choose our battle ground. I promise you though, there’ll be loads of them to kill.” I looked at him suspiciously; after all, this was John who was telling me this: “You promise? Loads and loads of them?” “Yes, just follow me. You won’t even need to go after them. After what we did to their camp, believe you me, they’re guaranteed to come after us.” Longingly, I looked back at the bunch coming towards us; there were even two wyvern knights flying above them; they made such a tempting target. As they came closer, I could also make out more details of the thing their commander was riding. It had huge, muscled legs with big talons. It vaguely looked like a lizard but its most prominent feature was its head; it had large ears and a big mouth. I still had no idea what it was. As I followed John, I could also hear a conversation between Longhelim and Victor: “…….yes, I promise you can be in the front to get your pick of the Ragesians that come at us; and you get to kill as many as you can, need, or want.” “And you won’t get in front of me; or steal any of my kills. They’re going to be my kills!” “There’ll be plenty for both of us; don’t you worry about that.” Somehow, everything I saw had a tinge of red, as if I was seeing through some gauze or haze. Some of the villagers running around like headless chickens; I didn’t like them. They should be charging the Ragesians; so should be the monks front the monastery but they were a bunch of lightweights. I felt like giving them a little encouragement with my ball of fire, just to point them in the right direction but I felt a hand on mine, lowering it; John was shaking his head: “Save those for the Ragesians.” Great idea. Burn the Ragesians to death! Now there was a plan! But when were we going to get started? We wondered aimlessly through the town; I was getting more and more impatient. The Ragesians could be changing their minds and turning around! That must not be allowed to happen! Finally, Victor stopped at a particular point on a street. It was surrounded by buildings. He inspected it carefully and then went to talk to John and Drudge. Then he said to everyone: “This is a good place; this is where we’ll make our stand!” Good! This was the place where we would kill lots of Ragesians. I couldn’t wait! We didn’t have long to wait. A small formation of soldiers advanced, shields ready and weapons out; didn’t matter. I fried them with a ball of fire. They screamed a lot; music to my ears. I was concentrating very hard, looking for other formations. A few individuals leaked through but the others could deal with them. I saw that Victor was smashing lots of the soldiers and Drudge was shooting another bunch; Longhelim was also fencing with some more; he was spitting and yelling something about their mothers. Felix was getting smashed about a bit but suddenly another small formation made an appearance; another ball of fire from me appeared on top of them and they all fell down; I almost danced in glee! Oh bother, there was a group of the leather clad Ragesians, who turned up from the side streets. No great point in putting them in balls of fire; they dodged through the spells somehow; thankfully, Victor went over and dealt with them. Then a more imposing figure strode forward, straight into Drudge’s next volley; with three arrows sticking into him, he wasn’t strutting quite in the same way as previously. In fact, he looked seriously worried. He was some sort of command figure; he even had a bodyguard but they were not quite as adept at dodging balls of fire; I tested that theory several times. I laughed as I released the spells. It was all getting a bit hazy. I still kept a look out for Ragesian formations but strangely, there hadn’t been any for a little while. The battle still raged between the Ragesian tough and what was left of this entourage against Victor, Longhelim and the others but things were under control; I controlled the urge to take my staff and go and kick their teeth in; my staff was useful in other ways and anyway, any time one of them got a little strong, Drudge just drilled him. I suddenly noticed that Longhelim was on the floor. That was when, Victor decided that enough was enough and finished the Ragesian commander; about time too. Drudge then shot three arrows at the three remaining members of his squad and each time an arrow hit, a Ragesian fell over; and then there were none left. I shouted at them: “Yes, that’s the way to do it! What took you so long? Now, where’s the rest of them?” John immediately went to rummage for potions and things. I was looking around, waiting to kill more enemy; I was getting annoyed with the villagers as well. Why didn’t they come and help us? Ungrateful scum! And as for the monks in their monastery…….. I was just turning around to walk back into the village and give them a piece of my mind when everything went black…… I woke up to find Longhelim pouring a potion down my throat and shouting at Victor at the same time: “You didn’t have to hit him so hard! Just thank the gods you used the flat of your blade. Look at that lump on his head.” Victor shrugged and said: “Sorry Faden; I pulled my blow but even so, I clouted you on the head a little harder than I intended.” “A little harder than you intended? Do you have any idea how many potions we had to pour down him to get him conscious?” “I said sorry.” I felt woolly headed and lay back down for a little time. “What happened? I remember Ragesians, lots of dead Ragesians, a Ragesian camp, a Ragesian army and a vicious fight……” Longhelim came up: “We’ll tell you on the way but first, we have to get to the House of Healing here in Eresh. We’ve drunk a bunch of potions here but most of us are still very injured and hopefully, there they will help us.” I stood up, swayed and leaned on the paladin who was next to me. My head was splitting and the paladin shot Victor a glare. Longhelim helped me and told the others: “Right, let’s go! John, can you tell Faden and I what happened please?” John spoke quietly: “Faden, you and Longhelim were both affected by the strange curse that permeated through this town, affecting everyone, villagers and Ragesians. Thankfully, the others were not; after the first battle, we went to the Ragesian camp where Drudge mostly, eliminated a large group of Ragesians; unfortunately, before we were able to finish, we spotted another large contingent of the enemy approaching. They are about to arrive. Just about when they reached the edge of the valley, everything flipped and you both became frothing berserkers; that was strange enough on you Longhelim, but on Faden, well it was downright ridiculous. Still, suddenly there were fire balls raining everywhere and lots of Ragesians burnt to a crisp. So, the remains of this first group of Ragesians came and attacked us and they were also in the same state as you two; it must have been some sort of commander and his staff as they were significantly tougher than any of the others we had met. Now, we are going to the House of Healing, where hopefully they will help us and then we have to go and confront the new Ragesian army group.“ I nodded, absorbing everything he said. I felt that my staff, formerly so attuned to the elemental plane of fire, was much weaker than previously; well, at least it had been in a good cause. [/QUOTE]
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