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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4608780" data-attributes="member: 3285">Hidden Greed: Part 2 – Night AttackThey were stationed at the North Wall, along with six other militia soldiers.  It was a dark night, without moonlight.  Torches were the only means of illumination beyond the walls.  Ilmarė scanned the horizon.  “They’re coming.”The ss’ressen blended in so well with the darkened vegetation that it looked as if the forest had come to life.  Something whistled in the night air.“Javelins!” shouted Vlad.  “Down!”They ducked as javelins flashed overhead.  The impromptu barricade shuddered from the force of ss’ressen tail and claw.  “They’re breaking through!” Vlad slid down off the ladder.  “Get ready!”Kham stood at the hole with two pistols out.  “So am I allowed to shoot lizards or are you going to throw a hissy fit about that too?”Vlad didn’t have time to respond.  Eight ss’ressen burst through the hole and immediately scattered to the left and right.“What the…” Vlad watched them go. “They’re not attacking?”“They’re looking for something,” Ilmarė said from atop the wall.Some of the militia swung their swords at them, but the ss’ressen easily ducked the untrained blows.  One ss’ressen crouched low, tail high in the air, and knocked a militiaman unconscious with one slap of its tail.Vlad stepped into the path of one of the ss’ressen.  “Why are you attacking this village?”“Give usss back our eggsss!” it hissed.  It turned to step around him.Vlad grabbed it by the shoulders.  “Eggs?  What eggs!”“Desssissst!” It squirmed in his grip. “We wisssh only to find our own!”“We’re here to help! You’re Calactyte’s tribe, right?”The ss’ressen stopped squirming.  “You know of him?”Vlad let it go.  “Yes.  Can you take us to him?”The ss’ressen bobbed its head.  “Follow usss.”The village folk had organized enough to present a sizeable threat to the invading ss’ressen.  They escaped through the breach on the east wall, carrying their wounded with them.  A cheer went up from the villagers.Kham holstered his pistols as Vlad approached.  “So now what?”“Now, we follow them back to their village.”Kham slapped his forehead.  “The Sulfurmarsh?  I hate that place.”“Me too,” said Vlad.  “But it’s the only way to get to the bottom of this.”“That,” said Ilmarė, “or it’s a trap.”Then they disappeared into the darkness in pursuit of the fleeing ss’ressen.</blockquote>

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