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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1283" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>As the fight starts, Sula is getting bored and wants in on the action. Leaping across to the corner of the island, she aims to outflank the guards, but there are too many of them, and in the ensuing battle Khelsor takes every opportunity to strike at the lightly armoured giantess near his flank. Within a few short rounds Sula is cut down, although the scimitar of Lysander has been making things dangerous for Khelsor, who is nearing his last legs himself. As warrior reinforcements pour out of the hovel, Khelsor runs for it, to prepare himself for a last ditch defence of his master.</p><p></p><p>As Crail and Oriel join Lysander on the cleared pathway, the remaining warriors are cut down to a man, no match for the infuriated company, ready to raise a pyre of bodies in Sula’s name. The door to the hovel is barricaded, but it is soon kicked in. Inside there is a horrible hunchback at one side of the room, and Khelsor standing guard before a raven-haired woman. The hunchback shouts out “You fools, Oakhurst is doomed! I will have my revenge!” as he dives out of the window and they hear a splash from the lake. </p><p></p><p>Lysander goes to engage Khelsor, and the woman - a witch perhaps? Darts in front. As she is cut down and falls bleeding Khelsor casts his sword aside and throws himself across the fallen woman to shield her body with his own. Lysander, sensing that things are not as they seem calls upon the power of Asura and stops the woman from bleeding to death. He turns the full power of his personality and diplomacy on Khelsor, and calms the man, who breaks free from the charm he has been labouring under. Grief stricken at the things he has done while under the power of the twisted man, he throws himself upon Lysanders mercy, and asks to be taken back to Knightsbridge to appear before the magistrate. As a token of submission and thanks he bequeaths his magic sword to Lysander.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Oriel and Crail speed round the islands, and make nearly as good time as the crooked man as he swims direct. They catch him as he reaches the dam, and hear him moan as he finds the dam sluices wrecked and his plans undone. Turning towards them he clasps a pendant and cries out “People, hear my words - protect me!”. Oriel laughs as the challenge slides from her determined will - but Crail succumbs, and he attempts to launch a sneak attack at Oriel! </p><p></p><p>Oriel senses that the real challenge is the crooked man and she charges him and brings him down While Crail inexpertly slashes at her back. Auriel renders the crooked man unconscious and smashes the pendant. Crail staggers back, freed from its influence and horrified at what he had attempted to do to his friend. Oriel, meanwhile, vents her frustration and aggression against this man who has destroyed this swamp, upset the ecology, led to the loss of her badgers, their friend Sula and almost cost her her own life at the hands of a friend. She grasps the crooked man and pounds his head on a boulder until there is just blood, and no signs of life.</p><p></p><p>Oriel and Crail return to Lysander and the others. It seems that Khelsor and this woman were running a merchant caravan from Singh through to Tanor, and were ensnared by the charming power of the crooked man. They take everyone down to Oakhurst where the villagers are delighted to discover that yet again they have been saved by this noble band of adventurers. It is Moonday, and the normal businesses are put on hold as the whole village gathers in celebration of the adventurers. Some of the villagers go up the river valley to finish the dismantling of the dam, others to help Janne and Khelsor to recover the remains of their trade goods.</p><p></p><p>Next: Enter Azrin, priest of knowledge, and the Swamps of Doom</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 1283, member: 114"] As the fight starts, Sula is getting bored and wants in on the action. Leaping across to the corner of the island, she aims to outflank the guards, but there are too many of them, and in the ensuing battle Khelsor takes every opportunity to strike at the lightly armoured giantess near his flank. Within a few short rounds Sula is cut down, although the scimitar of Lysander has been making things dangerous for Khelsor, who is nearing his last legs himself. As warrior reinforcements pour out of the hovel, Khelsor runs for it, to prepare himself for a last ditch defence of his master. As Crail and Oriel join Lysander on the cleared pathway, the remaining warriors are cut down to a man, no match for the infuriated company, ready to raise a pyre of bodies in Sula’s name. The door to the hovel is barricaded, but it is soon kicked in. Inside there is a horrible hunchback at one side of the room, and Khelsor standing guard before a raven-haired woman. The hunchback shouts out “You fools, Oakhurst is doomed! I will have my revenge!” as he dives out of the window and they hear a splash from the lake. Lysander goes to engage Khelsor, and the woman - a witch perhaps? Darts in front. As she is cut down and falls bleeding Khelsor casts his sword aside and throws himself across the fallen woman to shield her body with his own. Lysander, sensing that things are not as they seem calls upon the power of Asura and stops the woman from bleeding to death. He turns the full power of his personality and diplomacy on Khelsor, and calms the man, who breaks free from the charm he has been labouring under. Grief stricken at the things he has done while under the power of the twisted man, he throws himself upon Lysanders mercy, and asks to be taken back to Knightsbridge to appear before the magistrate. As a token of submission and thanks he bequeaths his magic sword to Lysander. Meanwhile, Oriel and Crail speed round the islands, and make nearly as good time as the crooked man as he swims direct. They catch him as he reaches the dam, and hear him moan as he finds the dam sluices wrecked and his plans undone. Turning towards them he clasps a pendant and cries out “People, hear my words - protect me!”. Oriel laughs as the challenge slides from her determined will - but Crail succumbs, and he attempts to launch a sneak attack at Oriel! Oriel senses that the real challenge is the crooked man and she charges him and brings him down While Crail inexpertly slashes at her back. Auriel renders the crooked man unconscious and smashes the pendant. Crail staggers back, freed from its influence and horrified at what he had attempted to do to his friend. Oriel, meanwhile, vents her frustration and aggression against this man who has destroyed this swamp, upset the ecology, led to the loss of her badgers, their friend Sula and almost cost her her own life at the hands of a friend. She grasps the crooked man and pounds his head on a boulder until there is just blood, and no signs of life. Oriel and Crail return to Lysander and the others. It seems that Khelsor and this woman were running a merchant caravan from Singh through to Tanor, and were ensnared by the charming power of the crooked man. They take everyone down to Oakhurst where the villagers are delighted to discover that yet again they have been saved by this noble band of adventurers. It is Moonday, and the normal businesses are put on hold as the whole village gathers in celebration of the adventurers. Some of the villagers go up the river valley to finish the dismantling of the dam, others to help Janne and Khelsor to recover the remains of their trade goods. Next: Enter Azrin, priest of knowledge, and the Swamps of Doom [/QUOTE]
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