Felikeries
First Post
This story hour has a theifess and fraith visit Elkindark to be purified,then they find what their quest is to be at Gethree Keep..........
Dark battler’s of nature’s wrath have always taken the final step against a furry of
desolation leaving a land scarred rather than saved,such was true of Kreth and his
faithfull thief friend Thea(Thea of the underdark to some).The eyes of purity have never
questioned such wrathfull means when the lives of thousands were at question,though
a mindfull sweep of the auxilliary trusts and intentions may be the final purge of,
such as these,these warriors,or any other.Today was the final ceremony in Elkindark
which ment thousands of pardons for the waking rancor of fighters and killers and the opening arms of dieties of forgiveness,Kreth and Thea certain to attend.
The skies had careened with mists upon the morn but blackened clouds that searched for a storming were now all that cut the sky-awashed with glorious colors like a mithral spell,and even more so with an ominous desire-those gathered waiting for waivers for their sins.The 4 priests in darkened magic spun robes hailing to various saints with signature cymbels and certain etchings spun into the sleevs of silver spindel,held together the tapestries of divinity.These but few in need of a cleansing,12 including,Kreth and
Thea were the focal of the front of the villagers,torn from the days troubles and looking for a show of devices,magic,and scorcery.
The buildings nearest the small placate constructed for this annual event,had markers of pyrite gold set to their fronts ment to devoid angered spirits,those such that were lost into the fury of forgotton realms and extra-planar places that destroyed an inlking of good,and who rather often tried to find their way to a summoning of good nature.The first priest glanced from marker to marker allowing the sight of wards to take hope for the clerical style weavings about to be commited;all at once into the magi’s universe of
torrents of light and power-some had died durring this show-some went on to survive a life of questing-no shame,and finer rewards in the path of redemption.The torches burst alive as the first inacantation began,the fires wallowing in wholly and strange alchohals,that danced their sub-blessings into the air with grey flusters of smoken ablution.
“the sky is night strewn with disease as are we,the ceremony speaks now as if the plays on redemption being made for us this nite are not of our own consent,do you not see such Thea”Kreth asked of the un-interested female thief,in concern,a last step for them to break from an unconsented value to the world should surely be without any problems.
“well,I take what I can,the lands provide what I can take,the priests of good,they spill
hapless drat about ritcheosness,I don’t see how there could be anything wrong”she answered fealing that a simple cleansing as this could be less serious than Kreth hinted.
The priests invoked the patience of an inquisters’ to speak into the souls of those in question,holding various amulets with concentration and reprise.The air shadowed itself in triumph and salience in gusts of summoning that washed the wathcers.The magic’s storm had truelly begun,and darting concoiousness thoughts could be felt careening about making the distguinshed hail to the arriving saints or soul purifiers very clear.
‘no it’s death,the young one,I’ll not die,the war will never end,this day is your last’and similar calous foresights into the minds of those there,all,the villagers too,lifted the energy into the sub-torrent of soul cleansing.
“the fight to live in peace is eternal,the grief for those fallen shall bring resolve to
greater understand the ways of well kept realms and their peacefull doings in this material plane”priest 2 thus began to decant the sayings before the air turned even more bestranged and smited the evils from the one’s in question.
“these who look to a god,who ask of good,who wish to find the triumph of all heavens,as those of purity should,we beseech thee cleansing powers tell them of the path to fortune through love and thought,take away all the sins that war has brought”
“the realms of cures and planes of the pure alight this ceremony through the ways that
will open the ways to thee”
Finally the sky began to rain down with speckles of lights,flustered through the air like wind spinning ambers-the steadfast stances of the questioned turned to more fear and calous.The onlookers gleed in the spite the next phase was producing,the ears of the listening folks could sense the scratching haste of a defier of logic,an even befouled churning of the sin undoers approaching the warriors.The sounds of the mind flurry was gone but for a strange scratch and weaving of mithral expenditure.Who could be so wild as to dare a quick refining of their being as this-the dance of death surely awaited to any one of those who did not find the wanton needs of good’s search into their being with a presence and caring that could take that which was about to be dealt.
“see,see the scorcery-it’s nearly making a laughter of our better nature as it soon
will know if we are to be forsaken or enlightened”Kreth once again surmised the troubles.
The others waiting,had variating reactions,some may have known how this went,some looked to the priests with hope for insight and defense,in the claiming strain about to take over.
“I will stand and take the power’s of the underworld to the eyes of these searching ghosts and will live on after in purity-that is all I know”Thea reminded herself and Kreth that this still was an event to make wholesome the goodness of ones’ being.
The magics fusings soon entered through the brains of the infedrels,pressing faster and more deftly than the release of their streams of concoiusness as the ceremony began.The colors swirled in static haste-they could feal,violet-to blue,-gold to brown,-green to silver making flesh and dreams surface through their eyes to the living world before them,and through a darker place of thoughts-disturbing.The priests smiles,-wickedly-was this a refusal to be accepted they were reacting to,a few of the purged felt fear and wondering at the beguiling images of the summoners.The luaghing brigade so spoken of by Kreth was,not alltogether untrue-as each individual felt the cold wisps of braken laughter strain to defile the surface world of pleasure,into the darker places of disregaurd,searching always taking what should not be available to those outside of a bieng in thought.The clusters of rainbow fears each held;presence in subjective inquistions-wispsing thoughts once again tersed wayward against the darkened path-‘what lays within good,who laughs at the dying,how can fears take the place of joy,when shall peace be,the innocence may never be lost’.
Two of the determined rangers,one female one male,fell to the ground soon after the next phasing,the crowd superflous with anticipation of just such,-stirred and some moved in closer to stare at the peculariaty.Shock and fire was nary smiten upon the priests at the sight,they knew of this possibility-and were able to take the steps of precaution neccesary to hold the healing ceremony to it’s full for those still strong enough to make their way with the soul smiting saints and ghosts.Abruptly the eyes of questioning warriors went blank,the seal of a final onsluaght had begun.Shadows danced across the stage before them,not only in their eyes.Kreth couldn’t feal the world alive anymore,the spirits of lore had taken a part of the material world and removed it from the place of cognisance,Thea asked to forgive herself,and the motives of the theivery of bile treatchery began to see how the ceremony was manifold a darker dream than she expected.Towering smoke billows from the torches appeared as rasping demons:the eyes of the preists-it could not be,they weren’t good at all,but patrons to the blackened hells that taught crime,viciosness,and killing to all-no water the sea –the voices of the summoning were from all the villagers,every one a friend,keeping them alive in this final hour of accusation,-no the beasts that have no minds,that is what awaits,how could any being live when within them a brilliant light of unkown origins and greater scorcery than the world of mortals sent them flying into a new dimension.There!-there is the door to the village!Elkindark was teaming with the loved ones,and friends of a new way for us-all of us-the fires of impurity destroyed!What are these streams of terror?–who’s there,who has survived,the pure ones such as I and Thea?-the door of the world of light-there!there it is Thea go quickly,I will save you.
“no-I can’t!”Kreth raged from the strains and fires of the unwanten soul.
Several villagers looked in greivance,surely those who are alive can’t fall in this final look into their awesomely transformed soul,and intentions.The hands of several covered iether their eyes,or mouths,the female with him,she was unkempt about this,perhaps surely the nature of defensiveness could bring her back to Elkindark alive.
“Kreth-I know you can feal me-open the way-the door is there!”Thea spoke softly in a trance,-the rainbow pain flurries dying with her wicked side as the truth about all that could be done at this event surfaced through all of the warriors beginning thier return.
Suddenly Thea and Kreth stumbled forward and the 2 priests that had watched them scince they had fallen into a bestranged state and spoken-caught them-their eyes were shut-but their vision wasn’t.The agents to this masquerade saw into the world of Kreth and Thea –that which was changed and that which was different than before-a new hope has taken hold from the darkened river of the abyss,the amulets stung at the preists as electrical flits scurried from the two’s bodies and into them.All had been done that could be-there was the result several collapsed-all still alive,even the rangers,and fearsome trust cuaght hold of them in the new light-those about them had the fealings of reference dashed across the homes’wrath misgivings-and devious demons were there no more-scared to nevermore through a might event.All was good again after this night in Elkindark,and alive again Kreth and Thea began to stand on their own,looking to the stage in amusement,and thanks then to the folks,Kreth spoke again to the fine vixen of malacious arts.
“see-there is a cold evil in evil’s undoing-how do you feal”
“alive-beautifull-sneaky-yet undisturbed-thank you-thank you all”she spoke to those nearest as in regaurd they felt the truimph of the ceremony and the flight of goods course taking through the clouds of misbegotton,the reasons for a smile at each side was true.
Thankless though the group of half-misconsrued re-blessed beings were they had much of a thankfull remitance for that wich was alocated to them,thusly still alive and dearly made wolesome as zealous doers of good-a celebration reaped the nites free soul and prized cleansed ones.Who is to be taken aback from all this strange revelry-a certain precipence for dire disrespect was implied at the other side of the equation.That of course being lord Bithrol and the minions of gaurding which he sent to scour the lands.As putrity forms a leisure of grouping friends so too does it find the fore-scorned appearance of those who seek perilous difference than that which is achieved.Thusly lord Bithrol was about his castle(not of unstrange worths-carved with gargoyles and misconstruences forming twisted towers and spiked lettings about every seam)-taking a measure of prophecy for his own decisive idea’s for action.What can I do-strike a storm of Caledarr’ens embued with several strengths of psionics to the party and cast away any hope and glee spurred by this confusion,he thought as letting the crytsal statue(a homage to the godess of terrors Letheria)take to glowing form for admitance to his calculations concerning such.
“ah ha-so I see that two particular champions of feeble Elkindark are especially made fluent with the tunes of pretty saints and glorious beputal goodness at this evenings ceremonys-well such shall never be allowed as so that I now have this knowledge”the lord of evil’s contempt wandered aloud as forming a vision,in air, of the celebration.
His servant cat-scraped and turned to dark purple with vicious claws and the ability to speak rubbed upon his leg and purred in supplemental joy to the master’s inkling to throw the rile of purity into darkness in the foray of the cleansing.She was able of mind and felt the desires of tracking evils as steadily from her masters will and thusly through to her fealty-there was a plan at the castle this eve’prr prr prrr prrrr’.
“yes Keety you shall see how mortals with no competance for the arts of diety partonage shall pay for trying to summon a strength from the alternate planes-yes here here my pretty let demon master pet thee”,she jumped to his arms and he stared with the futility of crazy raging chaotic beasts at the ether vision of the excitement,paying special attention to Kreth and Thea.
“so-all that is well-is….well-we should be off to the keep of Gethree upon tomorrow-say yes,Thea and I well tell you a thousand words of how a goddess is likened to thee”Kreth now steady on the way to being numbly drunk-dribbled in clueless emulation of taste and desire to be closer with Thea.
“ok-so be it –we will travel together once again-and when we have the time-as so you say(she finishes a great gulp of ale)I will learn of how fine a higher being I am”she followed in cue,romancing him in his eyes,yet starkly unpleading in the world of replies.
“hmmph-somebody ought to tell the preists that they have quite an expertise-perhaps we should”he answered in dissaray as making towards the priests gathered at the table which provided the main feast of the evening.
“I’m following you”Thea disconcerted with no flavorful remark about their budding relationship-but following non the less-in case the sours of drunken fever should take over.
The villagers had much fun with the folks cured at the tastes of supple roasted foods,fine ales and wines and dancing reverly that saught to troust any final maliciousness from all those present from the ceremonies beginning to end.Dancing skips and flitted skirts swiped to and fro with rythem to the lairs,cojolos,and flutes whence any a deft maker into the circle could jump to and fro and the maidens there journeyed through the elusive world of free body emulsifiers-showing trick and fun to all those involved.Pleased as could be one of the preists adresses the two as they stepped to the table.
“so-all is well-I am forever thankfull to the dieties that cared for my summonings-and you –you are alive and well again-is this not true?”
“certainly-great magic of which such a clerical or saint power I have never seen before-has done what we had hoped-Thea?”Kreth asked of her to tell the virtues of success as well.
“my own hopes were finely met-and the real victory for any who believe that peace in the being of finer paths is greatly so touted,I should dare to say”she responded with emotion and thanks.
“how is it that now-you are free-you shall make your way-do you have plans to stay here in Elkindark?”another priest asked.
“no we must go to the keep of Gethree-whence the truths about our destiny will be revealed”Kreth responded,having now made even Thea a bit presumed of the nature of that task.
“well suerly you should catch some rest for the trip there-fare thee well”a third priest added.
It’s true the village of Elkindark slumbered into the hours after the party was
disband,however that was a far cry from Bitrhol’s dubious excitement as in the dungeon
of his castle-began the makings for a quick strike un the unknowing.The multi-leveled
mass chamber that brought about the bretheren of monsterous creation had several
landings at the sides that accepted the tasks of retrieving ,once a spell was set,through portals the summoned terror’s.This late nite the Caledarr’ens flight through the dimension
stratospheres required the hasty work of lord Bithrol-and to this he sought ends to a means with regents of moss,ashen barks,and certain clear crystals that had passed through
storm’s of evil incantions.The room buzzed in anticipation,and Keety riled about fumping unto a placate as it whirred alive in flickers;then on to the next the challenge of greeting the minnions fell to her in great cause-and even though passing words-such as her master did wasn’t berighted of the event-she always had a scratch and disciplinary look for the shocked and arriving troops.Lord Bithrol execntuated the taste’s of victory in that which was evidence of arriving minnions drinking from a tremendous pewter mug the mixtures of elements of the scorcery at hand and the carefully procured ‘darker ales’that often made of plague vines and slayne foes blood was kept by the great overlorde’s for such events or their aftermath.
“patience,patience Keety-the sources of psionic beasts are filled with master dieties and calous demons-fleeing that blackluster is a corageous task-of course of which I fill in most the cracks-non-the less-we must wait and see”Bitrhol beginning to feal light from the soltuion sloshed into the gut in force of intensity at the protals livelyness,made stalemate of who stood as the director of this.
“mrreiow-chch-fft”Keety on to another whirl of purple blue and grey energy at his promptu-sat and vioded her thoughts and wasted not a blemish of consternation and sin-in hopes she could beseech a quick command of the teleported greivances.
In a flash of taloned energy-screeming crafts of devil and lore danced the electricity of entrance into the room.Battle in toe as one might expect the first to arrive were looking about craftily and vicious-seering the confusion of what lod or master had been the
doer of the heinous alter-plane journey.Made of lizardian form,yet with a structured bust-of some skeletal form,and a tail formed from the scalp-the awesome teeth bared in sight at all times and the power of the mind blast ‘banal temper’nearly broke free into the room as more arrived-Keety sending a defense of catly swiftness from the subliminal cutting,yet soon some bottles and assorted minor weapons on the walls began to shake and tumble over-unsettling to Bithrol-but he had his ways.
The severed delights-milk spilt-barrels of food swarthed about-tables strewn with the nights edibles-all shared a vision of what the towne’s folk could possibly be shrouded into in the dreamlands or waking state-vulnerable and clasped to the brinkhold of deep sleep.The some 15 monsters-now set on a path leading directly to the center of Elkindark-were not heard-no warning was there to cry foul-and the eyes of the enemy-whom took caring effervesinse of the right to kill-glowed with razzle dazzle do of newly arrived constituents to bloody,staunch and cruel slaying.The first of several doors creeked open as the final step- a lashing swipe and spine crushing bite onto the neck of a sleeping maiden,un-purged the growing candor of the deftly beast enemies.Though all was lost at first for the innocents-soon the crazy stampede of Bithrol’s portal minnion saught the use of psionics to battle at crowds of awoken fighters-and of course the cured ones,lurching in –forming circles-firing arrows and putting their weapons to work.
“quickly Thea-off from the bed(Kreth was upon the wall-cusion couch)-there’s a
problem-awaken!”Kreth taking to the chain armour and sword and dagger he used.
“what-what’s this-there’s fighting-oh dear god-so soon”she made herself aperature of theivery and slayer in seconds flat-they stood before 4 Caledarr’ens-and found themsleves in for a psionic blast.
A rupturing blue rift of ether and magic’s all time tie to the elemets of bonding
glouted the street in between Thea and Kreth and the monsters.The surge lasted breifly but the ‘thazine curse’had begun it’s hold on even those yet awoken in the nearby buildings.Cries of less strong advesaries than the Fraith and the thief were lackened in terror of only wether the grasp of living was soon to be theirs anymore.A man in simple brown robes-lacking lively reliabilty in this late hour-no wait,it was one of the ceremonies preist’s-came to the alley half globbed in blood and the other form taking his chest-were innards of his being-no hope he looked at those he had saved-toppled onto a Caledarr’en leaving time and room to maneauver for the two-the priest ended his life-for this was not a dying martyr to no betold virtue-Thea slit across the rib cage exposing it’s own innards!and Kreth sent 4 daggers in speed of the magics of Fraiths,summoned and
udeniably clever-swifting into two eyes then 1 surge in the heart-the other right next to it.
The sounds of dying-began-however-not so unfortunate as the first kill layed with Thea and Kreth so to did others find their luck.The purity that takes a new shape against the bitter fight to survive must have re-animated the party-sluffed battler’s-warrior’s of finer path’s now-that they indeed could sell their soul to the weavings of the war godess at this time and find the chosen doctrine-and bloody path to victory as niftily as was the spectacle of the cleansing.Outclassed by a new form of ever-mega trick;wholly defenders
sunrise- cut the dying gloom as fine as the eyes of scaling virtues of the pure ones who fought in bravery-resiliance and with dominating strikes now that their time had come to return a ladding of gift.
At the four altar arch next to the semlabging center for the towne’s official doings 5 stood fighting 5 Caledarr’ens-the visage of the stone perfected consrtucted epic icon of the Elkindark building was truelly a profound sight for the warfare that ensued.Splats of human and Caledarr’en blood flew onto the arch-and a female-acrobatic perhaps a monk of some sort used the leg of one pillar to make a stretching full strike down upon a beast invoking the power of ‘mind flayer’-at the last second it was too late for defense and the pain ripped through her-a shriek of practical body in movement yet crumpled force erupted from her and she turned slightly from the perfect dagger position,yet slashed it across the neck falling to the ground herself.It writhed a bit-confused of her ability to stay the wild slice-but rammed into her-on a half kilter-quickly leaking more blood than was safe for a stay of life force.5 arrows plunged into it-as the girl was lifted into the air perhaps to be impaled by the tail from the scalp-but it never got there-eyes turning blank; the girl dropped to the ground-body sweating and ravaged from the psionic magic.
“thank you-I’d have nearly lost my life-on that next attack”she cried out to the one who shot the arrows as,the man next to him fell to the ground,guts spilling from his stomache,dead in seconds.
They were wary of the game at this time,4 on 4 was ok to some but-a well placed mind trick by the beasts could crush 3 at one time-the magic user of the group floundered about creating an ice wall that apperantly should help defend against the brain wammys,but all too soon that was found to be wrong,and the illusionist so struken by mind flayer began to fight against the alter-dimension demon the others couldn’t see-2 Caledarr’ens busted open the ice wall-and there was doom spelled on the group as the last two arrows flew into twirling vex of energy just before impact-but 1 bounced away harmlessly and 1 only struck a leg.However as a god send,suddenly there was Thea and Kreth-the fury of the ether familiar pumped and bit at 2 Caledarr’ens,released by Kreth as they had approached-and soon Thea was able to step in and stab 1 three times,the next mind blast was certain to be a problem-however-Kreth used summon dagger once more impaling each beast in the side section in perfect rythem-as they happened to be exposed for this type of attack.The arrow shooter-ruff house kicked the face of a distracted Caledarr’en while Thea flipped upon it with scurrying glints into the world of super-battle abilities and twisted it’s neck-snap!She was able of purity-that was for sure,though the claims of which had also taken place into the domain of the nimble executionist-who turn the body through the trained eyes of the living airs and the covisive stregths of littany with wholsome muscle discapline-and tracking off on the last enemy-she and the magi-spent Fraith friend sliced in and twisted their swords as the cry of falling hope for the attackers spilled from it-as well as other battles sprawled across the village.
“ah- ha ha that does it-I believe the group of Caledarr’ens have met the grave in
deepest regrets of a suprize attack-Thea-doth the new day smile a treety of you’re ways with blade and cunning-anew?”Kreth asked pulling a beast as several others did to underneath the arch area.
“maybe-we are truer now though than before-lest we be confused I should say that
the next batle may prove an even greater forebear of what was made clear to us last nite.”she answered taking back her blade with one foot as leverage-oozing grim selling
death’s toll upon the sword.
The subterfuge of scratching,licking flames of the killed enemy and the forlorned faces of those who fought stood together staring at the bonfire beneath the archs.The morning sky was just beyond the hills,and squalers of orange and pastel clouds loomed in a forboding presence,as did the sign of what was to be inspite of this timely cleansing.The preist that had died was evoked onto a pryre of blessing and set afire soon after the beasts ablaze had turned to ash and some charred remians.Those who gathered to watch the ceremonies ,high one,-included Thea and Kreth who now had their packs set,and an attitude about training their new found wisdoms to the under and ever worlds of adavanced honour-for it was these two who had a finer cut of spirit and a redeeming constitution that could be called upon to seek out the classes of evil that may have responded to interest of those that had been blessed the previous night.All the spells that heal and all the alignments of good,could not have maligned a certain focus of this ritual so greatly than in the eyes of lord Bithrol.He for one had no intention of allowing a new ritcheous one to make away to their life’s goals-he as keeper of a sense of security for the scurrying,cursing,and chiding monsters that made about this realm,-stood to strike down all 12 of the healed.
“now as we see to our friends who shall take their new selve’s to the world beyond,we offer a thanks and hope for fortune-as will the timely ceremony have provided a luck of eternal blessing in their names-and a prayer of thanks to our fallen priest,may he rest in peace-fare thee well friends”a priest from the ceremony stood beside the pyre illuminating half his gown,as shadows still cast about-making the consequential appeal of a strange sorcerery as a final word for those attended.
“the lament is strange is it not-“Thea asked of Kreth as they concerned themselves with the fact of how their journey may be.
“perhaps-such contained might as a priest with the nature of blessing is not one to pass away with no great sorrow-and the lightened heart of our freed friends may have as well fallen to a frail wisdom of all that is to be”Kreth stated-presuming the attack was only the first of a war brewing.
“no-there is no reason to lash out upon those who are made pure-again-who-what demon should so sit and wait looking into Elkindark to make this so”Thea wandered aloud half to herself-as they began to walk the path from the funeral to the city front gateway.
The last serene vision of a ‘dark’caster,may always be the sight of the helpless fools that lay in incompetance waiting for the power of a force of beast to sluaghter all,then taking the whole of the none-the ones lost are just a disregaurded pirnciple of the battle,of the conquerer who summons these wretching problems,of the disdain for human,elf,or any life.Lord Bithrol was set amongst the portals that had brought the Caleddar’ens
stating the merits of just such.The hollow room,was inculcated with the resonance of the fighters-unclean,impure-lacking charm of regaurd for any life and Bithtrol new that the signs of the Elkindark’s ceremony was to be left with a grand scar sufflicating the ignorance that,one such as a priest or cleric,can escape the concolsions of evil’s course to take out all that remains of what could be a faithfull warriors ways,rather than re-immersion into a purity cycle.
“yes,yes smell that Keety that is the nature of wrath,teaming with a life so cruel and beautifull,soon we will know just how many were slayne,of course I doubt any of the beast will return-“he looked at his pseudo-famaliar with a crashing wit-that all was kept for the time.
“meriieroiw”she pleaded in non-english repose of the matters,’no that is not good’.
“however-that’s not what warfare brings-and not nearly the loss of my countanance of such –that indeed the cleansed are the dying,and the purifying the firing”with that he spun to the potion of purple lavish liquid in a vase of the same color-and poured some about in a circle standing himself and Keety within.
A ruff saw tooth peffing about the liquid formed,of the liquid then these imploded as a zeal of energies wisped into the contortions of teleportation,making master and servant ,ride free through the planar dimensions,with instsant appearance now at the outskirts of Elkindark.Bithrol checked his dagger,and made supposed that even Keety might defend herself with a spell,into her eyes the contemptious look of a villian he did sear,and she made a glow of green magics warding sign through her eyes;together they took to the path,past the gate,making light of the possibility that their own reputation may linger once the conversation with a peasant blite began.Little did,iether side know,Thea and Kreth took steps in full motion a goal insight away from the foe they should bring upon the death sentence for the crime,and Bithrol a tell tale flippant duty search,when the way from the village upon the path lay the greatest reason to be with knowledge of the events.
The Teacateyle flying warriors of dragons wrought but an altar plane beings’ slaying finnesse,thouroughed the airs about the ways,paths,forests,and especially to harsher places of human or elven activity such as Gethree keep.The swooning wings with pointed crests like gates to a dungeon flayed backwards as the bane of 60 sawing fins rip-curled across reaching the twisting whippened tail,which skaffed as a weapon of great cutlery with a razor bladed punch,-jagged teeth,and terrorsome thin eyes,smiled the flavor of air supremicist,as the colors of purple scaled swathed with chinted grey sometimes across their unwholly black feature,obvious truent to war-to power for the kill-for derivant from the Letheria,as those who even mighty wizard-bracketed dragons,stepped aside for.Leaving the final stretching views of Elkindark,the two adventurers,seldom volleyed against the seasonal temper that was there –the ceremony had done what it had-and the ways of being more pure were bound to arrive,in a war of creeds,or a taciturn razzle of civility-though being not-withstood of this as a reason to further bring about ones destiny-the two-Fraith and Thief had some dwindling effort of eachothers sense of presence that could easily smell the impending wandering chaos horror settling just past the next mountains aireal pathways.
There as the sky burned from an intensity forging the mid-afternoon to evening,the sounds of chirping wild-birds,and dancing skitches of crickets and other insects-cut the solitude of the two wandering the pathway alone,as of yet-unpassed by any others.Trees,bombarded with lichen,and defted limbs-gone escue from their own war on natures conditions,strew about from the paths course,as though untouched from the use of the traveling blight through the forested lands-and Kreth and Thea,stood in awe for a moment before the path began to take to mountain-stretching it to severeal thousand feet high in a steep passage-as it snaked across the minor range before the final wilds before the path swept into Gethree keep.
“there’s somebody scaling across the path as us….yet no-it’s more crafty than that-do you not sense it Thea”Kreth asked of her as they walked side by side 400 ft from the bottom when the path began it’s tretcherous new way.
“certainly-I do not disregaurd premonitions,and signs of sorcery,or as questioned a state as thee have mentioned-a crafty chaos-warriors at stedfast”she stated as swashing her sword taken to show her state of remark,left-right-skitch-skatch-some of natures crafts were the female weaponess with skill and free will-.
The Teacateyle swirling in jousting like flurries spattered about yards from the path as the two warriors rounded the turn,their forms-of which there were 4-skitched a resonance of evils own true presence,stalling for a clear staunt directly into Thea and Kreth only to refocus their energy in the bestranged tumult.This was no time to take in the sight of these beasts however and Kreth soon sent a flame forth from a kalo-kilo stance as the first made a tearing swipe at them –ducking in from above in a quick flight.The blue power flay of fires churned against the body of the transgressor leaving blemishes and anger but no real damage.As for Thea she kept two at bay from a real danger with constant deflections with her sword,making any attempt to slice one through was yet allowed.
“they have armoured hides,we must try to slay one together”Kreth stated as he also went to a sword to make a block by the first one that had been relatively unhurt.
“I will set off aginst one,and you move to make the kill”Thea stated as now there was one that was closer,and she could try to distract it.
She smashed the flat of her sword against its snout,and as she stabbed it caught the blade with it’s talons,screetching it began to glow a bit as if in form to cast a spell,certainly they didn’t use fire breathe or the sort or they’d have known by now.Kreth,just finishing summoning his ether familiar-now turned and made a strenious flip forward ten feet and flew at the side of the one in question,stabbing and holding the sword it sliced through the hide at the neck making a 3 ft gash,and purple blood poured out,blotting across the ground.That was when Thea used the time in the beasts pained and agonized reaction to lunge and punctute with an extra push into it’s chest,however the other three were now behind them,and a sudden stream of electricity streamed from one’s talons(the spell the other was setting to cast)and slammed Thea to the ground making convolsions on her human body,as she tried to set her sword forward against it.The damage was done to her-and killing one Fraith may prove to be quite simple-or so the Teacateyles may have supposed,though the familiar used the spell casters ignorance of it’s presence to swarm it’s eyes,and it may have landed a blinding attack.The electricity stopped and screaming it placed talons at its eyes and nearly toppled over Kreth flying wildly in his direction.Turning after the run at him,he released 4 daggers that skiffed into the bane area ,causing harm but not stopping it,while the remaining two settled at the ground and began to cast the same spell of horrorous elctro current at him.Diving behind the corpse of the Teacateyle killed,the rays went just past him,and stopped,not continueing as it did to Thea for having missed the foe.Thea crawled towards Kreths position as naturaly the familiar,swifted about in front of the beasts next to her,offering a shield.One of them started walking slowly towards her as if to claim her life now that she was easy pray,but as it powered for a spell and slashing with talons she stood quickly,not as wounded as she had played,and threw her sword into it,just below the snout into it’s neck.It wallowed in contortions trying to pull it free and was getting it bit by bit when finally it fell to the side,the second evil slayne.The remining two saw what was happening,and upset,and with a screethcing of dismay took to the sky leaving the warriors,-a band of 5 venturing to Gethree may have easily fallen,and that was not an untrue statement,but Thea was stronger than any when fighting the spell,and Kreth surged with Fraith counter abilities that only altar-plane dieties were known to be able to make,-these two purified,nobilists had what strange and ultimate skills the blessing forces deigned from Elkindark,and in the world they returned to,an even greater presence to fight the challenging enemies of evils empires.The Fraith felt how the battle had lightened his aura and kept his concentration into the Fraith spellwork at a level of new power,and Thea too was exempted from the wounds of a mighty spell,afreshed in a way that was certainly the makings from the ceremony.
“so we know,the blessing has a form of ritcheosness”Thea said to Kreth as he looked closer to the fallen enemy,wondering how it could use spell work and be so bold in the beast form it took.
“there is an answer for those who seek a virtue to make the world a better place,indeed I agree with you.”
Dark battler’s of nature’s wrath have always taken the final step against a furry of
desolation leaving a land scarred rather than saved,such was true of Kreth and his
faithfull thief friend Thea(Thea of the underdark to some).The eyes of purity have never
questioned such wrathfull means when the lives of thousands were at question,though
a mindfull sweep of the auxilliary trusts and intentions may be the final purge of,
such as these,these warriors,or any other.Today was the final ceremony in Elkindark
which ment thousands of pardons for the waking rancor of fighters and killers and the opening arms of dieties of forgiveness,Kreth and Thea certain to attend.
The skies had careened with mists upon the morn but blackened clouds that searched for a storming were now all that cut the sky-awashed with glorious colors like a mithral spell,and even more so with an ominous desire-those gathered waiting for waivers for their sins.The 4 priests in darkened magic spun robes hailing to various saints with signature cymbels and certain etchings spun into the sleevs of silver spindel,held together the tapestries of divinity.These but few in need of a cleansing,12 including,Kreth and
Thea were the focal of the front of the villagers,torn from the days troubles and looking for a show of devices,magic,and scorcery.
The buildings nearest the small placate constructed for this annual event,had markers of pyrite gold set to their fronts ment to devoid angered spirits,those such that were lost into the fury of forgotton realms and extra-planar places that destroyed an inlking of good,and who rather often tried to find their way to a summoning of good nature.The first priest glanced from marker to marker allowing the sight of wards to take hope for the clerical style weavings about to be commited;all at once into the magi’s universe of
torrents of light and power-some had died durring this show-some went on to survive a life of questing-no shame,and finer rewards in the path of redemption.The torches burst alive as the first inacantation began,the fires wallowing in wholly and strange alchohals,that danced their sub-blessings into the air with grey flusters of smoken ablution.
“the sky is night strewn with disease as are we,the ceremony speaks now as if the plays on redemption being made for us this nite are not of our own consent,do you not see such Thea”Kreth asked of the un-interested female thief,in concern,a last step for them to break from an unconsented value to the world should surely be without any problems.
“well,I take what I can,the lands provide what I can take,the priests of good,they spill
hapless drat about ritcheosness,I don’t see how there could be anything wrong”she answered fealing that a simple cleansing as this could be less serious than Kreth hinted.
The priests invoked the patience of an inquisters’ to speak into the souls of those in question,holding various amulets with concentration and reprise.The air shadowed itself in triumph and salience in gusts of summoning that washed the wathcers.The magic’s storm had truelly begun,and darting concoiousness thoughts could be felt careening about making the distguinshed hail to the arriving saints or soul purifiers very clear.
‘no it’s death,the young one,I’ll not die,the war will never end,this day is your last’and similar calous foresights into the minds of those there,all,the villagers too,lifted the energy into the sub-torrent of soul cleansing.
“the fight to live in peace is eternal,the grief for those fallen shall bring resolve to
greater understand the ways of well kept realms and their peacefull doings in this material plane”priest 2 thus began to decant the sayings before the air turned even more bestranged and smited the evils from the one’s in question.
“these who look to a god,who ask of good,who wish to find the triumph of all heavens,as those of purity should,we beseech thee cleansing powers tell them of the path to fortune through love and thought,take away all the sins that war has brought”
“the realms of cures and planes of the pure alight this ceremony through the ways that
will open the ways to thee”
Finally the sky began to rain down with speckles of lights,flustered through the air like wind spinning ambers-the steadfast stances of the questioned turned to more fear and calous.The onlookers gleed in the spite the next phase was producing,the ears of the listening folks could sense the scratching haste of a defier of logic,an even befouled churning of the sin undoers approaching the warriors.The sounds of the mind flurry was gone but for a strange scratch and weaving of mithral expenditure.Who could be so wild as to dare a quick refining of their being as this-the dance of death surely awaited to any one of those who did not find the wanton needs of good’s search into their being with a presence and caring that could take that which was about to be dealt.
“see,see the scorcery-it’s nearly making a laughter of our better nature as it soon
will know if we are to be forsaken or enlightened”Kreth once again surmised the troubles.
The others waiting,had variating reactions,some may have known how this went,some looked to the priests with hope for insight and defense,in the claiming strain about to take over.
“I will stand and take the power’s of the underworld to the eyes of these searching ghosts and will live on after in purity-that is all I know”Thea reminded herself and Kreth that this still was an event to make wholesome the goodness of ones’ being.
The magics fusings soon entered through the brains of the infedrels,pressing faster and more deftly than the release of their streams of concoiusness as the ceremony began.The colors swirled in static haste-they could feal,violet-to blue,-gold to brown,-green to silver making flesh and dreams surface through their eyes to the living world before them,and through a darker place of thoughts-disturbing.The priests smiles,-wickedly-was this a refusal to be accepted they were reacting to,a few of the purged felt fear and wondering at the beguiling images of the summoners.The luaghing brigade so spoken of by Kreth was,not alltogether untrue-as each individual felt the cold wisps of braken laughter strain to defile the surface world of pleasure,into the darker places of disregaurd,searching always taking what should not be available to those outside of a bieng in thought.The clusters of rainbow fears each held;presence in subjective inquistions-wispsing thoughts once again tersed wayward against the darkened path-‘what lays within good,who laughs at the dying,how can fears take the place of joy,when shall peace be,the innocence may never be lost’.
Two of the determined rangers,one female one male,fell to the ground soon after the next phasing,the crowd superflous with anticipation of just such,-stirred and some moved in closer to stare at the peculariaty.Shock and fire was nary smiten upon the priests at the sight,they knew of this possibility-and were able to take the steps of precaution neccesary to hold the healing ceremony to it’s full for those still strong enough to make their way with the soul smiting saints and ghosts.Abruptly the eyes of questioning warriors went blank,the seal of a final onsluaght had begun.Shadows danced across the stage before them,not only in their eyes.Kreth couldn’t feal the world alive anymore,the spirits of lore had taken a part of the material world and removed it from the place of cognisance,Thea asked to forgive herself,and the motives of the theivery of bile treatchery began to see how the ceremony was manifold a darker dream than she expected.Towering smoke billows from the torches appeared as rasping demons:the eyes of the preists-it could not be,they weren’t good at all,but patrons to the blackened hells that taught crime,viciosness,and killing to all-no water the sea –the voices of the summoning were from all the villagers,every one a friend,keeping them alive in this final hour of accusation,-no the beasts that have no minds,that is what awaits,how could any being live when within them a brilliant light of unkown origins and greater scorcery than the world of mortals sent them flying into a new dimension.There!-there is the door to the village!Elkindark was teaming with the loved ones,and friends of a new way for us-all of us-the fires of impurity destroyed!What are these streams of terror?–who’s there,who has survived,the pure ones such as I and Thea?-the door of the world of light-there!there it is Thea go quickly,I will save you.
“no-I can’t!”Kreth raged from the strains and fires of the unwanten soul.
Several villagers looked in greivance,surely those who are alive can’t fall in this final look into their awesomely transformed soul,and intentions.The hands of several covered iether their eyes,or mouths,the female with him,she was unkempt about this,perhaps surely the nature of defensiveness could bring her back to Elkindark alive.
“Kreth-I know you can feal me-open the way-the door is there!”Thea spoke softly in a trance,-the rainbow pain flurries dying with her wicked side as the truth about all that could be done at this event surfaced through all of the warriors beginning thier return.
Suddenly Thea and Kreth stumbled forward and the 2 priests that had watched them scince they had fallen into a bestranged state and spoken-caught them-their eyes were shut-but their vision wasn’t.The agents to this masquerade saw into the world of Kreth and Thea –that which was changed and that which was different than before-a new hope has taken hold from the darkened river of the abyss,the amulets stung at the preists as electrical flits scurried from the two’s bodies and into them.All had been done that could be-there was the result several collapsed-all still alive,even the rangers,and fearsome trust cuaght hold of them in the new light-those about them had the fealings of reference dashed across the homes’wrath misgivings-and devious demons were there no more-scared to nevermore through a might event.All was good again after this night in Elkindark,and alive again Kreth and Thea began to stand on their own,looking to the stage in amusement,and thanks then to the folks,Kreth spoke again to the fine vixen of malacious arts.
“see-there is a cold evil in evil’s undoing-how do you feal”
“alive-beautifull-sneaky-yet undisturbed-thank you-thank you all”she spoke to those nearest as in regaurd they felt the truimph of the ceremony and the flight of goods course taking through the clouds of misbegotton,the reasons for a smile at each side was true.
Thankless though the group of half-misconsrued re-blessed beings were they had much of a thankfull remitance for that wich was alocated to them,thusly still alive and dearly made wolesome as zealous doers of good-a celebration reaped the nites free soul and prized cleansed ones.Who is to be taken aback from all this strange revelry-a certain precipence for dire disrespect was implied at the other side of the equation.That of course being lord Bithrol and the minions of gaurding which he sent to scour the lands.As putrity forms a leisure of grouping friends so too does it find the fore-scorned appearance of those who seek perilous difference than that which is achieved.Thusly lord Bithrol was about his castle(not of unstrange worths-carved with gargoyles and misconstruences forming twisted towers and spiked lettings about every seam)-taking a measure of prophecy for his own decisive idea’s for action.What can I do-strike a storm of Caledarr’ens embued with several strengths of psionics to the party and cast away any hope and glee spurred by this confusion,he thought as letting the crytsal statue(a homage to the godess of terrors Letheria)take to glowing form for admitance to his calculations concerning such.
“ah ha-so I see that two particular champions of feeble Elkindark are especially made fluent with the tunes of pretty saints and glorious beputal goodness at this evenings ceremonys-well such shall never be allowed as so that I now have this knowledge”the lord of evil’s contempt wandered aloud as forming a vision,in air, of the celebration.
His servant cat-scraped and turned to dark purple with vicious claws and the ability to speak rubbed upon his leg and purred in supplemental joy to the master’s inkling to throw the rile of purity into darkness in the foray of the cleansing.She was able of mind and felt the desires of tracking evils as steadily from her masters will and thusly through to her fealty-there was a plan at the castle this eve’prr prr prrr prrrr’.
“yes Keety you shall see how mortals with no competance for the arts of diety partonage shall pay for trying to summon a strength from the alternate planes-yes here here my pretty let demon master pet thee”,she jumped to his arms and he stared with the futility of crazy raging chaotic beasts at the ether vision of the excitement,paying special attention to Kreth and Thea.
“so-all that is well-is….well-we should be off to the keep of Gethree upon tomorrow-say yes,Thea and I well tell you a thousand words of how a goddess is likened to thee”Kreth now steady on the way to being numbly drunk-dribbled in clueless emulation of taste and desire to be closer with Thea.
“ok-so be it –we will travel together once again-and when we have the time-as so you say(she finishes a great gulp of ale)I will learn of how fine a higher being I am”she followed in cue,romancing him in his eyes,yet starkly unpleading in the world of replies.
“hmmph-somebody ought to tell the preists that they have quite an expertise-perhaps we should”he answered in dissaray as making towards the priests gathered at the table which provided the main feast of the evening.
“I’m following you”Thea disconcerted with no flavorful remark about their budding relationship-but following non the less-in case the sours of drunken fever should take over.
The villagers had much fun with the folks cured at the tastes of supple roasted foods,fine ales and wines and dancing reverly that saught to troust any final maliciousness from all those present from the ceremonies beginning to end.Dancing skips and flitted skirts swiped to and fro with rythem to the lairs,cojolos,and flutes whence any a deft maker into the circle could jump to and fro and the maidens there journeyed through the elusive world of free body emulsifiers-showing trick and fun to all those involved.Pleased as could be one of the preists adresses the two as they stepped to the table.
“so-all is well-I am forever thankfull to the dieties that cared for my summonings-and you –you are alive and well again-is this not true?”
“certainly-great magic of which such a clerical or saint power I have never seen before-has done what we had hoped-Thea?”Kreth asked of her to tell the virtues of success as well.
“my own hopes were finely met-and the real victory for any who believe that peace in the being of finer paths is greatly so touted,I should dare to say”she responded with emotion and thanks.
“how is it that now-you are free-you shall make your way-do you have plans to stay here in Elkindark?”another priest asked.
“no we must go to the keep of Gethree-whence the truths about our destiny will be revealed”Kreth responded,having now made even Thea a bit presumed of the nature of that task.
“well suerly you should catch some rest for the trip there-fare thee well”a third priest added.
It’s true the village of Elkindark slumbered into the hours after the party was
disband,however that was a far cry from Bitrhol’s dubious excitement as in the dungeon
of his castle-began the makings for a quick strike un the unknowing.The multi-leveled
mass chamber that brought about the bretheren of monsterous creation had several
landings at the sides that accepted the tasks of retrieving ,once a spell was set,through portals the summoned terror’s.This late nite the Caledarr’ens flight through the dimension
stratospheres required the hasty work of lord Bithrol-and to this he sought ends to a means with regents of moss,ashen barks,and certain clear crystals that had passed through
storm’s of evil incantions.The room buzzed in anticipation,and Keety riled about fumping unto a placate as it whirred alive in flickers;then on to the next the challenge of greeting the minnions fell to her in great cause-and even though passing words-such as her master did wasn’t berighted of the event-she always had a scratch and disciplinary look for the shocked and arriving troops.Lord Bithrol execntuated the taste’s of victory in that which was evidence of arriving minnions drinking from a tremendous pewter mug the mixtures of elements of the scorcery at hand and the carefully procured ‘darker ales’that often made of plague vines and slayne foes blood was kept by the great overlorde’s for such events or their aftermath.
“patience,patience Keety-the sources of psionic beasts are filled with master dieties and calous demons-fleeing that blackluster is a corageous task-of course of which I fill in most the cracks-non-the less-we must wait and see”Bitrhol beginning to feal light from the soltuion sloshed into the gut in force of intensity at the protals livelyness,made stalemate of who stood as the director of this.
“mrreiow-chch-fft”Keety on to another whirl of purple blue and grey energy at his promptu-sat and vioded her thoughts and wasted not a blemish of consternation and sin-in hopes she could beseech a quick command of the teleported greivances.
In a flash of taloned energy-screeming crafts of devil and lore danced the electricity of entrance into the room.Battle in toe as one might expect the first to arrive were looking about craftily and vicious-seering the confusion of what lod or master had been the
doer of the heinous alter-plane journey.Made of lizardian form,yet with a structured bust-of some skeletal form,and a tail formed from the scalp-the awesome teeth bared in sight at all times and the power of the mind blast ‘banal temper’nearly broke free into the room as more arrived-Keety sending a defense of catly swiftness from the subliminal cutting,yet soon some bottles and assorted minor weapons on the walls began to shake and tumble over-unsettling to Bithrol-but he had his ways.
The severed delights-milk spilt-barrels of food swarthed about-tables strewn with the nights edibles-all shared a vision of what the towne’s folk could possibly be shrouded into in the dreamlands or waking state-vulnerable and clasped to the brinkhold of deep sleep.The some 15 monsters-now set on a path leading directly to the center of Elkindark-were not heard-no warning was there to cry foul-and the eyes of the enemy-whom took caring effervesinse of the right to kill-glowed with razzle dazzle do of newly arrived constituents to bloody,staunch and cruel slaying.The first of several doors creeked open as the final step- a lashing swipe and spine crushing bite onto the neck of a sleeping maiden,un-purged the growing candor of the deftly beast enemies.Though all was lost at first for the innocents-soon the crazy stampede of Bithrol’s portal minnion saught the use of psionics to battle at crowds of awoken fighters-and of course the cured ones,lurching in –forming circles-firing arrows and putting their weapons to work.
“quickly Thea-off from the bed(Kreth was upon the wall-cusion couch)-there’s a
problem-awaken!”Kreth taking to the chain armour and sword and dagger he used.
“what-what’s this-there’s fighting-oh dear god-so soon”she made herself aperature of theivery and slayer in seconds flat-they stood before 4 Caledarr’ens-and found themsleves in for a psionic blast.
A rupturing blue rift of ether and magic’s all time tie to the elemets of bonding
glouted the street in between Thea and Kreth and the monsters.The surge lasted breifly but the ‘thazine curse’had begun it’s hold on even those yet awoken in the nearby buildings.Cries of less strong advesaries than the Fraith and the thief were lackened in terror of only wether the grasp of living was soon to be theirs anymore.A man in simple brown robes-lacking lively reliabilty in this late hour-no wait,it was one of the ceremonies preist’s-came to the alley half globbed in blood and the other form taking his chest-were innards of his being-no hope he looked at those he had saved-toppled onto a Caledarr’en leaving time and room to maneauver for the two-the priest ended his life-for this was not a dying martyr to no betold virtue-Thea slit across the rib cage exposing it’s own innards!and Kreth sent 4 daggers in speed of the magics of Fraiths,summoned and
udeniably clever-swifting into two eyes then 1 surge in the heart-the other right next to it.
The sounds of dying-began-however-not so unfortunate as the first kill layed with Thea and Kreth so to did others find their luck.The purity that takes a new shape against the bitter fight to survive must have re-animated the party-sluffed battler’s-warrior’s of finer path’s now-that they indeed could sell their soul to the weavings of the war godess at this time and find the chosen doctrine-and bloody path to victory as niftily as was the spectacle of the cleansing.Outclassed by a new form of ever-mega trick;wholly defenders
sunrise- cut the dying gloom as fine as the eyes of scaling virtues of the pure ones who fought in bravery-resiliance and with dominating strikes now that their time had come to return a ladding of gift.
At the four altar arch next to the semlabging center for the towne’s official doings 5 stood fighting 5 Caledarr’ens-the visage of the stone perfected consrtucted epic icon of the Elkindark building was truelly a profound sight for the warfare that ensued.Splats of human and Caledarr’en blood flew onto the arch-and a female-acrobatic perhaps a monk of some sort used the leg of one pillar to make a stretching full strike down upon a beast invoking the power of ‘mind flayer’-at the last second it was too late for defense and the pain ripped through her-a shriek of practical body in movement yet crumpled force erupted from her and she turned slightly from the perfect dagger position,yet slashed it across the neck falling to the ground herself.It writhed a bit-confused of her ability to stay the wild slice-but rammed into her-on a half kilter-quickly leaking more blood than was safe for a stay of life force.5 arrows plunged into it-as the girl was lifted into the air perhaps to be impaled by the tail from the scalp-but it never got there-eyes turning blank; the girl dropped to the ground-body sweating and ravaged from the psionic magic.
“thank you-I’d have nearly lost my life-on that next attack”she cried out to the one who shot the arrows as,the man next to him fell to the ground,guts spilling from his stomache,dead in seconds.
They were wary of the game at this time,4 on 4 was ok to some but-a well placed mind trick by the beasts could crush 3 at one time-the magic user of the group floundered about creating an ice wall that apperantly should help defend against the brain wammys,but all too soon that was found to be wrong,and the illusionist so struken by mind flayer began to fight against the alter-dimension demon the others couldn’t see-2 Caledarr’ens busted open the ice wall-and there was doom spelled on the group as the last two arrows flew into twirling vex of energy just before impact-but 1 bounced away harmlessly and 1 only struck a leg.However as a god send,suddenly there was Thea and Kreth-the fury of the ether familiar pumped and bit at 2 Caledarr’ens,released by Kreth as they had approached-and soon Thea was able to step in and stab 1 three times,the next mind blast was certain to be a problem-however-Kreth used summon dagger once more impaling each beast in the side section in perfect rythem-as they happened to be exposed for this type of attack.The arrow shooter-ruff house kicked the face of a distracted Caledarr’en while Thea flipped upon it with scurrying glints into the world of super-battle abilities and twisted it’s neck-snap!She was able of purity-that was for sure,though the claims of which had also taken place into the domain of the nimble executionist-who turn the body through the trained eyes of the living airs and the covisive stregths of littany with wholsome muscle discapline-and tracking off on the last enemy-she and the magi-spent Fraith friend sliced in and twisted their swords as the cry of falling hope for the attackers spilled from it-as well as other battles sprawled across the village.
“ah- ha ha that does it-I believe the group of Caledarr’ens have met the grave in
deepest regrets of a suprize attack-Thea-doth the new day smile a treety of you’re ways with blade and cunning-anew?”Kreth asked pulling a beast as several others did to underneath the arch area.
“maybe-we are truer now though than before-lest we be confused I should say that
the next batle may prove an even greater forebear of what was made clear to us last nite.”she answered taking back her blade with one foot as leverage-oozing grim selling
death’s toll upon the sword.
The subterfuge of scratching,licking flames of the killed enemy and the forlorned faces of those who fought stood together staring at the bonfire beneath the archs.The morning sky was just beyond the hills,and squalers of orange and pastel clouds loomed in a forboding presence,as did the sign of what was to be inspite of this timely cleansing.The preist that had died was evoked onto a pryre of blessing and set afire soon after the beasts ablaze had turned to ash and some charred remians.Those who gathered to watch the ceremonies ,high one,-included Thea and Kreth who now had their packs set,and an attitude about training their new found wisdoms to the under and ever worlds of adavanced honour-for it was these two who had a finer cut of spirit and a redeeming constitution that could be called upon to seek out the classes of evil that may have responded to interest of those that had been blessed the previous night.All the spells that heal and all the alignments of good,could not have maligned a certain focus of this ritual so greatly than in the eyes of lord Bithrol.He for one had no intention of allowing a new ritcheous one to make away to their life’s goals-he as keeper of a sense of security for the scurrying,cursing,and chiding monsters that made about this realm,-stood to strike down all 12 of the healed.
“now as we see to our friends who shall take their new selve’s to the world beyond,we offer a thanks and hope for fortune-as will the timely ceremony have provided a luck of eternal blessing in their names-and a prayer of thanks to our fallen priest,may he rest in peace-fare thee well friends”a priest from the ceremony stood beside the pyre illuminating half his gown,as shadows still cast about-making the consequential appeal of a strange sorcerery as a final word for those attended.
“the lament is strange is it not-“Thea asked of Kreth as they concerned themselves with the fact of how their journey may be.
“perhaps-such contained might as a priest with the nature of blessing is not one to pass away with no great sorrow-and the lightened heart of our freed friends may have as well fallen to a frail wisdom of all that is to be”Kreth stated-presuming the attack was only the first of a war brewing.
“no-there is no reason to lash out upon those who are made pure-again-who-what demon should so sit and wait looking into Elkindark to make this so”Thea wandered aloud half to herself-as they began to walk the path from the funeral to the city front gateway.
The last serene vision of a ‘dark’caster,may always be the sight of the helpless fools that lay in incompetance waiting for the power of a force of beast to sluaghter all,then taking the whole of the none-the ones lost are just a disregaurded pirnciple of the battle,of the conquerer who summons these wretching problems,of the disdain for human,elf,or any life.Lord Bithrol was set amongst the portals that had brought the Caleddar’ens
stating the merits of just such.The hollow room,was inculcated with the resonance of the fighters-unclean,impure-lacking charm of regaurd for any life and Bithtrol new that the signs of the Elkindark’s ceremony was to be left with a grand scar sufflicating the ignorance that,one such as a priest or cleric,can escape the concolsions of evil’s course to take out all that remains of what could be a faithfull warriors ways,rather than re-immersion into a purity cycle.
“yes,yes smell that Keety that is the nature of wrath,teaming with a life so cruel and beautifull,soon we will know just how many were slayne,of course I doubt any of the beast will return-“he looked at his pseudo-famaliar with a crashing wit-that all was kept for the time.
“meriieroiw”she pleaded in non-english repose of the matters,’no that is not good’.
“however-that’s not what warfare brings-and not nearly the loss of my countanance of such –that indeed the cleansed are the dying,and the purifying the firing”with that he spun to the potion of purple lavish liquid in a vase of the same color-and poured some about in a circle standing himself and Keety within.
A ruff saw tooth peffing about the liquid formed,of the liquid then these imploded as a zeal of energies wisped into the contortions of teleportation,making master and servant ,ride free through the planar dimensions,with instsant appearance now at the outskirts of Elkindark.Bithrol checked his dagger,and made supposed that even Keety might defend herself with a spell,into her eyes the contemptious look of a villian he did sear,and she made a glow of green magics warding sign through her eyes;together they took to the path,past the gate,making light of the possibility that their own reputation may linger once the conversation with a peasant blite began.Little did,iether side know,Thea and Kreth took steps in full motion a goal insight away from the foe they should bring upon the death sentence for the crime,and Bithrol a tell tale flippant duty search,when the way from the village upon the path lay the greatest reason to be with knowledge of the events.
The Teacateyle flying warriors of dragons wrought but an altar plane beings’ slaying finnesse,thouroughed the airs about the ways,paths,forests,and especially to harsher places of human or elven activity such as Gethree keep.The swooning wings with pointed crests like gates to a dungeon flayed backwards as the bane of 60 sawing fins rip-curled across reaching the twisting whippened tail,which skaffed as a weapon of great cutlery with a razor bladed punch,-jagged teeth,and terrorsome thin eyes,smiled the flavor of air supremicist,as the colors of purple scaled swathed with chinted grey sometimes across their unwholly black feature,obvious truent to war-to power for the kill-for derivant from the Letheria,as those who even mighty wizard-bracketed dragons,stepped aside for.Leaving the final stretching views of Elkindark,the two adventurers,seldom volleyed against the seasonal temper that was there –the ceremony had done what it had-and the ways of being more pure were bound to arrive,in a war of creeds,or a taciturn razzle of civility-though being not-withstood of this as a reason to further bring about ones destiny-the two-Fraith and Thief had some dwindling effort of eachothers sense of presence that could easily smell the impending wandering chaos horror settling just past the next mountains aireal pathways.
There as the sky burned from an intensity forging the mid-afternoon to evening,the sounds of chirping wild-birds,and dancing skitches of crickets and other insects-cut the solitude of the two wandering the pathway alone,as of yet-unpassed by any others.Trees,bombarded with lichen,and defted limbs-gone escue from their own war on natures conditions,strew about from the paths course,as though untouched from the use of the traveling blight through the forested lands-and Kreth and Thea,stood in awe for a moment before the path began to take to mountain-stretching it to severeal thousand feet high in a steep passage-as it snaked across the minor range before the final wilds before the path swept into Gethree keep.
“there’s somebody scaling across the path as us….yet no-it’s more crafty than that-do you not sense it Thea”Kreth asked of her as they walked side by side 400 ft from the bottom when the path began it’s tretcherous new way.
“certainly-I do not disregaurd premonitions,and signs of sorcery,or as questioned a state as thee have mentioned-a crafty chaos-warriors at stedfast”she stated as swashing her sword taken to show her state of remark,left-right-skitch-skatch-some of natures crafts were the female weaponess with skill and free will-.
The Teacateyle swirling in jousting like flurries spattered about yards from the path as the two warriors rounded the turn,their forms-of which there were 4-skitched a resonance of evils own true presence,stalling for a clear staunt directly into Thea and Kreth only to refocus their energy in the bestranged tumult.This was no time to take in the sight of these beasts however and Kreth soon sent a flame forth from a kalo-kilo stance as the first made a tearing swipe at them –ducking in from above in a quick flight.The blue power flay of fires churned against the body of the transgressor leaving blemishes and anger but no real damage.As for Thea she kept two at bay from a real danger with constant deflections with her sword,making any attempt to slice one through was yet allowed.
“they have armoured hides,we must try to slay one together”Kreth stated as he also went to a sword to make a block by the first one that had been relatively unhurt.
“I will set off aginst one,and you move to make the kill”Thea stated as now there was one that was closer,and she could try to distract it.
She smashed the flat of her sword against its snout,and as she stabbed it caught the blade with it’s talons,screetching it began to glow a bit as if in form to cast a spell,certainly they didn’t use fire breathe or the sort or they’d have known by now.Kreth,just finishing summoning his ether familiar-now turned and made a strenious flip forward ten feet and flew at the side of the one in question,stabbing and holding the sword it sliced through the hide at the neck making a 3 ft gash,and purple blood poured out,blotting across the ground.That was when Thea used the time in the beasts pained and agonized reaction to lunge and punctute with an extra push into it’s chest,however the other three were now behind them,and a sudden stream of electricity streamed from one’s talons(the spell the other was setting to cast)and slammed Thea to the ground making convolsions on her human body,as she tried to set her sword forward against it.The damage was done to her-and killing one Fraith may prove to be quite simple-or so the Teacateyles may have supposed,though the familiar used the spell casters ignorance of it’s presence to swarm it’s eyes,and it may have landed a blinding attack.The electricity stopped and screaming it placed talons at its eyes and nearly toppled over Kreth flying wildly in his direction.Turning after the run at him,he released 4 daggers that skiffed into the bane area ,causing harm but not stopping it,while the remaining two settled at the ground and began to cast the same spell of horrorous elctro current at him.Diving behind the corpse of the Teacateyle killed,the rays went just past him,and stopped,not continueing as it did to Thea for having missed the foe.Thea crawled towards Kreths position as naturaly the familiar,swifted about in front of the beasts next to her,offering a shield.One of them started walking slowly towards her as if to claim her life now that she was easy pray,but as it powered for a spell and slashing with talons she stood quickly,not as wounded as she had played,and threw her sword into it,just below the snout into it’s neck.It wallowed in contortions trying to pull it free and was getting it bit by bit when finally it fell to the side,the second evil slayne.The remining two saw what was happening,and upset,and with a screethcing of dismay took to the sky leaving the warriors,-a band of 5 venturing to Gethree may have easily fallen,and that was not an untrue statement,but Thea was stronger than any when fighting the spell,and Kreth surged with Fraith counter abilities that only altar-plane dieties were known to be able to make,-these two purified,nobilists had what strange and ultimate skills the blessing forces deigned from Elkindark,and in the world they returned to,an even greater presence to fight the challenging enemies of evils empires.The Fraith felt how the battle had lightened his aura and kept his concentration into the Fraith spellwork at a level of new power,and Thea too was exempted from the wounds of a mighty spell,afreshed in a way that was certainly the makings from the ceremony.
“so we know,the blessing has a form of ritcheosness”Thea said to Kreth as he looked closer to the fallen enemy,wondering how it could use spell work and be so bold in the beast form it took.
“there is an answer for those who seek a virtue to make the world a better place,indeed I agree with you.”
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