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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 3333036" data-attributes="member: 35788">Keryth, Byntrou:Bahruul replies to Byntrou, "Perhaps they will be telling stories of you instead, petik."  To Keryth he adds, "Although I do not follow the rigid tenets of your god, I appreciate his blessing.  May the trees of the forest favor your and water always refresh your soul as well as your body."Destiny looks up to the largest of the Bous and smiles.  "I'll miss your raw courage, Bahruul."  Bahruul replies, "And I your mind games."Bahruul then embraces all who welcome it and heads west.Eion, Varius:[Sblock=Rino]In case you haven't been, please see the OOC thread.[/Sblock]When Varius threatens, the leader of the trio is not afraid.  "Kill the whore, I'll kill the man."The man standing closest to Bellana takes a step nearer to her and swipes at her with his short sword.  The blow nearly hits, but Bellana dodges out of the way.Varius is able to draw his sword and close the gap before the leader can get a clean shot in on the downed man.  Varius' sword slices clean through the man's leather armor and severes his spine just below his ribcage.  Granted, that also implies that the poor man's stomach is likely no longer attached to his esophagus as well.  Needless to say, the man goes to the ground and looks as though he'll bleed out momentarily.Bellana does what she seems to feel is the most prudent act given her status of being unarmed and unarmored.  She slips away from the man who had closed on her, but not without opening herself up to an attack.  The man who had closed earlier takes a clean swipe at her but nearly loses his grip on the sword.  Fortunately for him, he manages to maintain his control.  Bellana easily crashes through the door oposite where Varius entered.  This door leads into the fields where the horses are kept during the day.The opponent had not had a chance to strike takes a simple look at the carnage layed out by Varius and does all but wet himself.  With no hesitation at all, the man pushes past the one who attacked Bellana and crashes out the same door that Bellan just push her way through.Eion slips an arrow out of his quiver and slides around the inside of the barn to the right.  He finds a clear shot to the remaining opponent and fires, striking his mark cleanly.  The arrow sinks in quite deep, but the opponent isn't down.The man who attacked Bellan quickly realizes that he's next in line of Varius devastating blow.  Adding into this the fact that he has an arrow nearly sticking the whole way through his shoulder implies that he makes great ahste to run away.  He follows Bellana and his associate through the door.[Sblock=Fenris, Rino]The opponents appeared to be fleeing at full speed, although you'll have to go through the opposite door to see which direction they are running and whether or not you can catch them or if they can catch Bellana. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> [/Sblock][Sblock=INIT]Opponent, Varius, Bellana, Opponent, EionVarius is up.  We are currently in round two.Normally I put up a battlemap, but this battle is small enough and disintegrating so rapidly that it hardly seems worth it.[/Sblock]</blockquote>

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