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<blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 7351155" data-attributes="member: 6816692"><p><strong>Safari gone bad Pt. 2</strong></p><p></p><p>Session 21</p><p></p><p>We take a good night's rest and Auryn is finally able to sleep a bit calmer, now that she knows that Isobel is safe. The next morning, we go get some breakfast and see that the mysterious Risuri, as well as Luc and Ottavia are having their first meal as well. </p><p></p><p>We take the opportunity to say that neither of us has seen the “heavy lady” yet and Luc takes the opportunity to muse whether she's fallen victim to the strange serial killer who's targeting women alongside the Avery Coast. He holds up a newspaper and points to an article about a murder case which looks much like what we've seen with Boone. Both of us play thoroughly horrified and say we hope that this evil murderer stays as far away from us as possible. Hector tries to calm us all down by saying that the article doesn't say anything about a second, veiled victim, so it is unlikely that Elanor is involved in the murder case. </p><p></p><p>Amira takes the opportunity to talk to the mysterious Risuri who introduces himself as “Mr. Cardiff”. Cardiff excuses his lack of attention towards the beautiful lady with his fear of the most certainly passionate, hot-blooded wrath of her beran husband. She gives him an honest laugh and explains that while her dear Hector can get very protective, he's only dangerous for men who try to make immoral advances on his wife. She adds that she's curious about the newcomer, as both she and her husband are always looking for inspiration for Hector's novels. And as they've seen that this Stefan Carlyle guy is doing quite well with his railway novels, her husband might just give something similar a try. </p><p></p><p>Cardiff seems a bit nervous at first, but he turns to be quite talkative after a while. He comes up with a very believable but nonetheless bogus story about being a salesman for ship supplies who wishes to sell new wares (the lists of specifications are in his case) to clients in Trekhom. He says he's also a son of a branch of the famous family Cardiff of Risur. As his story seems to be masterfully crafted, we assume that he might be a risuri agent (<span style="color: #008000">of the famed “Shield of the King” unit?</span>). Hector realizes that he has a well-hidden pocket watch, so he asks him for the time and gets a glimpse at an engraved crest that actually belongs to the Campbell family from Slate who fell from grace due to treachery. </p><p></p><p>As the train is about to leave soon, we cease breakfast, take our cases and return to the station. We remind Margit that she shouldn't follow Luc and Ottavia today to not draw any more attention. We also ask Burton to take a closer look at Cardiff as we suspect he might be a risuri agent with shady business <span style="color: #008000">(as we'd have surely been told about another agent taking the same train as we would he be on an official mission)</span>. We also exchange our views about Bree Kaldeckis and come to the conclusion that, if she wasn't looking for Boone, she might truly have been searching for Caius Bergeron which makes her not only a possible danoran agent, but also maybe a member of the Obscurati. </p><p></p><p>Aboard the train, we spend some time with Luc Jierre and Ottavia Sacredotte. We both try to wrap our heads around her sign language, but cannot grasp more than basic expressions. Ottavia seems to be grateful for our honest try though. As we notice that they are both wearing silver rings, we ask the pair whether they are married. Ottavia grins broadly at the question, takes Luc's hand and holds it up so we may see their matched rings. Luc seems to be rather embarrassed and turns a darker shade of red before confirming that they are indeed newlyweds. However, we both realize that this was only a well-crafted lie, even if both seem to share mutual feelings. </p><p></p><p>We take the opportunity to tell the duo that we are on our honeymoon trip as well, so we might just travel to romantic locations along the road together or go to a nightclub for entertainment. We explain that the two of us are headed for Vendricce, the fabled “gate to Elfaivar” where we'd later try to search for Amiranya's blood relatives. Ottavia seems surprised when she hears that Amira is originally from Elfaivar and doesn't know her real parents, but we cannot place her reaction and guess that she might be an orphan as well (<span style="color: #008000">being an elf in Crisillyir must have been pretty hard...</span>). We then go on to talk about love and traveling and our mutual love for traveling. </p><p></p><p>To our surprise, Malia Baccarin asks us whether we'd like to join a second safari to hunt down malice beasts. Now we know that twice is the charm, but after what happened yesterday, we are not sure whether doing a second safari at all would be the wisest decision. As Mrs. Baccarin doesn't want to cancel the event and a certain Rock Rackus and Olivert Boone insisted to shoot at stuff, we decide to join the hunting team as well. Better to have expert hunters among the jackasses. We just ask Damata to maybe keep Taro inside the train this time.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately, everything seems fine and we are able to cut down a lot of malice beasts left and right. Hector and Boone resume their hunting competition, even if it seems like there is no clear winner in the end. Then the train stops abruptly and Damata falls off – again. </p><p></p><p>We try to find out what the heck happened and see a group of beastriders approaching from the left (where a grand desert is stretching out to the horizon) while a giant hydra-beast emerges from the grand swamp to the right. We assume that the train either stopped on purpose or was stopped by something magical or technological as we didn't feel the impact of a crash. As the situation seems pretty dangerous, we guess that it would be wise to let the train drive backwards so that hydra and bandits may fight each other.</p><p></p><p>Amira jumps down the train to help Damata while Hector, Cardiff and some of the security personnel use the direct route towards the locomotive: over the train's roof. Rock, Boone and Bree make haste to get inside the train and hurry forward as well. As soon as Amira is sure that Damata is alright, she follows the other two who... suddenly stop in front of the compartment of Luc and Ottavia. As there are screams coming from the other wagons and we can see that the hydra is ramming its heads into the train, Amira gets into her own compartment to get her rapier and dagger as shooting with a bow amidst a panicking crowd is not really the best idea. </p><p></p><p>When she returns to move towards the locomotive, Bree Kaldeckis is talking to Ottavia who gestures that she's totally going to defend Luc Jierre should anyone enter her compartment. Tantalovich arrives there as well and mutters that this might just be the safest place in the whole train (he's right, but it still sounds fishy). Amira tries to rally the seasoned fighters Bree and Boone to join her as she totally needs to reach the train driver so that someone will drive the train backwards and get them all to safety. However, Bree wishes to protect her sovereign's nephew and Boone is only concerned about his own safety. So it seems like Amira is on her own.</p><p></p><p>She comes across Rock Rackus who's standing at a window and shooting at the hydra while being surrounded by a bunch of fans. He assures them that he'll totally protect them from the monster and Amira decides that trying to convince Rock, while surely possible, will take too much time. She reaches one of the wagons that is currently under hydra attack and sees that there are passengers who try to fend off... raptors?</p><p></p><p>“Dinosaurs!” she shouts with a mix of excitement and concern “That's just like home! Make way, I know how to fight them!”. Then she jumps at the raptors and cuts a few of them down. Fortunately, Recklinghausen's rapier seems to do them extra harm, so thanks for that. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, the roof-team see that the beastriders are actually bandits who try to mug the train. As they are too far away to really shoot at them and the giant hydra offers such a great target, Cardiff and the security decide to stop in shooting range and fire at the beast. Hector sees that the hydra heads which enter the train spawn strange raptors inside the train who attack their fellow passengers, so he decides to intervene. He uses one of the hydra-torn holes to get into the train and fights against the raptors. There he hears a familiar voice as Amira is in the next wagon where she's killing off the last of “her” raptors.</p><p></p><p>We inform each other about the situation inside and outside the train and decide to clear the train in opposite directions as the hydra is still doing her ramming/spawning thing and there are raptors on the run in the 2nd and 3rd class wagons. Also, we hope that Mr. “pure heart” Mapple might be aboard the train again and fighting them as well, so he could just turn out to be a valuable ally. </p><p></p><p>Amira readies to strike the hydra head before it can start its spawning and to be in perfect range to kill the nascent raptors afterward, while Hector fights his way towards the locomotive. He comes across lots of dead passengers on his way and is quite relieved that Amira takes the other way where she's hopefully able to save lives. </p><p></p><p>As Hector approaches the front of the train, he can hear that there is quite a shootout around the locomotive. When he's peeking through one of the windows, he can see that Mr. Mapple joins the fight against the bandits at some point and uses his super strength to throw away one of the malice beasts and its rider. However, he's struck down by a headshot before he can plough through more of the bandits. </p><p></p><p>Hector uses this distraction to rush towards the bandits and tear through the fabric of reality with a trans-dimensional force spell. He makes sure no one besides some of the bandits sees him warping reality though. The bandit's leader hurls magic missiles at him in return <span style="color: #008000">(now has everyone lost their respect for a freaking wild magic zone?! They all turned out lucky with their rolls for mishaps tough...</span>). </p><p></p><p>As the leader saw what Hector just did, the latter uses his dimensional attack to get to the bandit and kill him. He really doesn't want to have a witness accuse him of being a magic-user. Then he runs toward the locomotive to save the train driver who's in a grapple with the last remaining bandit. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Amira, Rock Rackus, Cardiff and the security team manage to drive off the giant hydra. As soon as she's sure that there are no dinosaurs left in the train, Amira runs to the locomotive to look for her dear husband. She's relieved to see that Hector is alive and well, besides some smaller scratches. Amira then gazes at a group of shredded bandits and Hector explains that the bandit's leader tried to cast some magic when suddenly everything ripped up in front of him. Then her eyes fall upon Mr. Mapple who's lying on the group with a gaping hole in his head. </p><p></p><p>“No! Not Mapple! That poor, innocent soul.” she cries, tears filling her eyes. Then Amira kneels down to close Mapple's still surprised looking eyes to give him the honorable treatment he deserves as he gave his life to defend a train full of people he didn't know. But as soon as she gets closer to Mapple, we see that his body is very much alive and even seems to be... regenerating. Now that's a more than just pleasant surprise.</p><p></p><p>(<span style="color: #008000">Okay, we just added a clawless Wolverine to our X-Men/Superhero team. Right now, we have Storm (Old Stag), Angel (Gale) and Magneto (Leone). </span></p><p><span style="color: #008000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008000">So I wonder what our superpowers might be... Carlyle could be manipulating time and space (and yeah, this was also the superpower of one of my first PCs who also happened to be wearing suits all the time) while Auryn... is good at... connecting and playing people, I guess? To shamelessly copy a certain someone: “Everyone with a heart likes Auryn”. She could also be related to the concept of change though)</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lylandra, post: 7351155, member: 6816692"] [b]Safari gone bad Pt. 2[/b] Session 21 We take a good night's rest and Auryn is finally able to sleep a bit calmer, now that she knows that Isobel is safe. The next morning, we go get some breakfast and see that the mysterious Risuri, as well as Luc and Ottavia are having their first meal as well. We take the opportunity to say that neither of us has seen the “heavy lady” yet and Luc takes the opportunity to muse whether she's fallen victim to the strange serial killer who's targeting women alongside the Avery Coast. He holds up a newspaper and points to an article about a murder case which looks much like what we've seen with Boone. Both of us play thoroughly horrified and say we hope that this evil murderer stays as far away from us as possible. Hector tries to calm us all down by saying that the article doesn't say anything about a second, veiled victim, so it is unlikely that Elanor is involved in the murder case. Amira takes the opportunity to talk to the mysterious Risuri who introduces himself as “Mr. Cardiff”. Cardiff excuses his lack of attention towards the beautiful lady with his fear of the most certainly passionate, hot-blooded wrath of her beran husband. She gives him an honest laugh and explains that while her dear Hector can get very protective, he's only dangerous for men who try to make immoral advances on his wife. She adds that she's curious about the newcomer, as both she and her husband are always looking for inspiration for Hector's novels. And as they've seen that this Stefan Carlyle guy is doing quite well with his railway novels, her husband might just give something similar a try. Cardiff seems a bit nervous at first, but he turns to be quite talkative after a while. He comes up with a very believable but nonetheless bogus story about being a salesman for ship supplies who wishes to sell new wares (the lists of specifications are in his case) to clients in Trekhom. He says he's also a son of a branch of the famous family Cardiff of Risur. As his story seems to be masterfully crafted, we assume that he might be a risuri agent ([COLOR="#008000"]of the famed “Shield of the King” unit?[/COLOR]). Hector realizes that he has a well-hidden pocket watch, so he asks him for the time and gets a glimpse at an engraved crest that actually belongs to the Campbell family from Slate who fell from grace due to treachery. As the train is about to leave soon, we cease breakfast, take our cases and return to the station. We remind Margit that she shouldn't follow Luc and Ottavia today to not draw any more attention. We also ask Burton to take a closer look at Cardiff as we suspect he might be a risuri agent with shady business [COLOR="#008000"](as we'd have surely been told about another agent taking the same train as we would he be on an official mission)[/COLOR]. We also exchange our views about Bree Kaldeckis and come to the conclusion that, if she wasn't looking for Boone, she might truly have been searching for Caius Bergeron which makes her not only a possible danoran agent, but also maybe a member of the Obscurati. Aboard the train, we spend some time with Luc Jierre and Ottavia Sacredotte. We both try to wrap our heads around her sign language, but cannot grasp more than basic expressions. Ottavia seems to be grateful for our honest try though. As we notice that they are both wearing silver rings, we ask the pair whether they are married. Ottavia grins broadly at the question, takes Luc's hand and holds it up so we may see their matched rings. Luc seems to be rather embarrassed and turns a darker shade of red before confirming that they are indeed newlyweds. However, we both realize that this was only a well-crafted lie, even if both seem to share mutual feelings. We take the opportunity to tell the duo that we are on our honeymoon trip as well, so we might just travel to romantic locations along the road together or go to a nightclub for entertainment. We explain that the two of us are headed for Vendricce, the fabled “gate to Elfaivar” where we'd later try to search for Amiranya's blood relatives. Ottavia seems surprised when she hears that Amira is originally from Elfaivar and doesn't know her real parents, but we cannot place her reaction and guess that she might be an orphan as well ([COLOR="#008000"]being an elf in Crisillyir must have been pretty hard...[/COLOR]). We then go on to talk about love and traveling and our mutual love for traveling. To our surprise, Malia Baccarin asks us whether we'd like to join a second safari to hunt down malice beasts. Now we know that twice is the charm, but after what happened yesterday, we are not sure whether doing a second safari at all would be the wisest decision. As Mrs. Baccarin doesn't want to cancel the event and a certain Rock Rackus and Olivert Boone insisted to shoot at stuff, we decide to join the hunting team as well. Better to have expert hunters among the jackasses. We just ask Damata to maybe keep Taro inside the train this time. Fortunately, everything seems fine and we are able to cut down a lot of malice beasts left and right. Hector and Boone resume their hunting competition, even if it seems like there is no clear winner in the end. Then the train stops abruptly and Damata falls off – again. We try to find out what the heck happened and see a group of beastriders approaching from the left (where a grand desert is stretching out to the horizon) while a giant hydra-beast emerges from the grand swamp to the right. We assume that the train either stopped on purpose or was stopped by something magical or technological as we didn't feel the impact of a crash. As the situation seems pretty dangerous, we guess that it would be wise to let the train drive backwards so that hydra and bandits may fight each other. Amira jumps down the train to help Damata while Hector, Cardiff and some of the security personnel use the direct route towards the locomotive: over the train's roof. Rock, Boone and Bree make haste to get inside the train and hurry forward as well. As soon as Amira is sure that Damata is alright, she follows the other two who... suddenly stop in front of the compartment of Luc and Ottavia. As there are screams coming from the other wagons and we can see that the hydra is ramming its heads into the train, Amira gets into her own compartment to get her rapier and dagger as shooting with a bow amidst a panicking crowd is not really the best idea. When she returns to move towards the locomotive, Bree Kaldeckis is talking to Ottavia who gestures that she's totally going to defend Luc Jierre should anyone enter her compartment. Tantalovich arrives there as well and mutters that this might just be the safest place in the whole train (he's right, but it still sounds fishy). Amira tries to rally the seasoned fighters Bree and Boone to join her as she totally needs to reach the train driver so that someone will drive the train backwards and get them all to safety. However, Bree wishes to protect her sovereign's nephew and Boone is only concerned about his own safety. So it seems like Amira is on her own. She comes across Rock Rackus who's standing at a window and shooting at the hydra while being surrounded by a bunch of fans. He assures them that he'll totally protect them from the monster and Amira decides that trying to convince Rock, while surely possible, will take too much time. She reaches one of the wagons that is currently under hydra attack and sees that there are passengers who try to fend off... raptors? “Dinosaurs!” she shouts with a mix of excitement and concern “That's just like home! Make way, I know how to fight them!”. Then she jumps at the raptors and cuts a few of them down. Fortunately, Recklinghausen's rapier seems to do them extra harm, so thanks for that. Meanwhile, the roof-team see that the beastriders are actually bandits who try to mug the train. As they are too far away to really shoot at them and the giant hydra offers such a great target, Cardiff and the security decide to stop in shooting range and fire at the beast. Hector sees that the hydra heads which enter the train spawn strange raptors inside the train who attack their fellow passengers, so he decides to intervene. He uses one of the hydra-torn holes to get into the train and fights against the raptors. There he hears a familiar voice as Amira is in the next wagon where she's killing off the last of “her” raptors. We inform each other about the situation inside and outside the train and decide to clear the train in opposite directions as the hydra is still doing her ramming/spawning thing and there are raptors on the run in the 2nd and 3rd class wagons. Also, we hope that Mr. “pure heart” Mapple might be aboard the train again and fighting them as well, so he could just turn out to be a valuable ally. Amira readies to strike the hydra head before it can start its spawning and to be in perfect range to kill the nascent raptors afterward, while Hector fights his way towards the locomotive. He comes across lots of dead passengers on his way and is quite relieved that Amira takes the other way where she's hopefully able to save lives. As Hector approaches the front of the train, he can hear that there is quite a shootout around the locomotive. When he's peeking through one of the windows, he can see that Mr. Mapple joins the fight against the bandits at some point and uses his super strength to throw away one of the malice beasts and its rider. However, he's struck down by a headshot before he can plough through more of the bandits. Hector uses this distraction to rush towards the bandits and tear through the fabric of reality with a trans-dimensional force spell. He makes sure no one besides some of the bandits sees him warping reality though. The bandit's leader hurls magic missiles at him in return [COLOR="#008000"](now has everyone lost their respect for a freaking wild magic zone?! They all turned out lucky with their rolls for mishaps tough...[/COLOR]). As the leader saw what Hector just did, the latter uses his dimensional attack to get to the bandit and kill him. He really doesn't want to have a witness accuse him of being a magic-user. Then he runs toward the locomotive to save the train driver who's in a grapple with the last remaining bandit. Meanwhile, Amira, Rock Rackus, Cardiff and the security team manage to drive off the giant hydra. As soon as she's sure that there are no dinosaurs left in the train, Amira runs to the locomotive to look for her dear husband. She's relieved to see that Hector is alive and well, besides some smaller scratches. Amira then gazes at a group of shredded bandits and Hector explains that the bandit's leader tried to cast some magic when suddenly everything ripped up in front of him. Then her eyes fall upon Mr. Mapple who's lying on the group with a gaping hole in his head. “No! Not Mapple! That poor, innocent soul.” she cries, tears filling her eyes. Then Amira kneels down to close Mapple's still surprised looking eyes to give him the honorable treatment he deserves as he gave his life to defend a train full of people he didn't know. But as soon as she gets closer to Mapple, we see that his body is very much alive and even seems to be... regenerating. Now that's a more than just pleasant surprise. ([COLOR="#008000"]Okay, we just added a clawless Wolverine to our X-Men/Superhero team. Right now, we have Storm (Old Stag), Angel (Gale) and Magneto (Leone). So I wonder what our superpowers might be... Carlyle could be manipulating time and space (and yeah, this was also the superpower of one of my first PCs who also happened to be wearing suits all the time) while Auryn... is good at... connecting and playing people, I guess? To shamelessly copy a certain someone: “Everyone with a heart likes Auryn”. She could also be related to the concept of change though)[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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