DT's Old School Campaign- (Chapter 4: The Guild and The Girl)

[garyh]

Hilmdyn shoved through the crowd with Quinn, his hammer encouraging any who might grab him to do otherwise. When the barbarian was close enough, he lunged and picked up Lola, intending to carry her free of the throng. If the snakes were started, well, he had a prayer to Mhal that would help her.

"Come, Lola," he grunted as he lifted her, "we're leaving."

 

[Scott DeWar]

Quin keeps mill's backkeeping any who would take advangae of the barbarian's flank find that it is a bad idea to meet up with the sailor's edge blade.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Lola's arms both snap inwards, and she succeeds in grabbing both asps by their heads and maintaining a grip as they struggle under her fists. Still, she is unable to disengage them from her arms at first. Rovan notices a small bin filled with what looks to be dirty water near the entrance and realizes that if he can fight through the crowd he could lift it. It holds about a gallon of the fluid.

Several large men stepped forth to take on Quinn, Hilmdyn, and Edvan. Hildmyn crushed the solar plexes of one such man, leapt unto the dais, placed his shield onto his back and half-carried Lola.

Edvan and Quinn missed striking their own opponents as their weapons were deflected. One man got through Edvan's guard and stabbed him with a short sword (-7 hps to Edvan). Edvan swooned, but recovered and stood his ground.

Lola yelled a warning as Hilmdyn prepared to jump off the dais and the man twisted, as the purple-robed priest tried to crack Hilmdyn's skull with a heavy candle holder from behind.

Most of the cultists had fled or were still fleeing except for the evil priest and four guards engaging Edvan and Quinn.

 

[garyh]

Hilmdyn takes Lola to Rovan as fast as he can, then charges back into the fray to help Edvan and Quinn!

"MHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!" shouts the barbarian.

 

[Scott DeWar]

"I see yees whshin to meet me aquantance, eh. Well Ye be sure and tell Cheron at the river styx that quinn will be sending more of yees to get him more gold,will yees?"

He then boldly faces his opponent(s) and will attempt to strike again.

 

[GlassEye]

Edvan hurls his axe at the head of the guard facing him and drops his shield. With a yell he leaps forward and tries to wrestle the fellow to the ground.

 

[Queenie]

Hill had dropped Lola near Rovan and taken off. But she didn't notice the mage's condition, instead she was wrestling with two snakes that were wrapped tightly around her arms. She did notice the bucket filled with fluid and she dropped to her knees next to it, forcing the wriggling snake heads she is holding in her hands into the liquid, and holding them there.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Hilmdyn jumped off the dais, avoiding another swing from the purple-robed priest and rushing to Rovan's side. Rovan went to grab the bowl of water, but Lola shoved the snakes under the surface first as Hilmdyn dropped her off. Edvan missed with his tossed hand-axe, and prepared to take on his attackers hand-to-hand. Quinn took another down with a jab to the throat from his blade.

The fallen man was replaced by the purple-robed priest, who had leapt to the ground and struck Quinn with a glancing blow to the arm. Edvan and Quinn were able to avoid the strikes of the other men by deflecting blows off shield and weapon.

 

[Scott DeWar]

"i'd send yees to davy jones' locker, but yees not worth the effort nor would he find ye to be a worthy prospect. So I will have to be sendin' ye to styx instead. hope ye gots yer gold piece to pay yon riverman."

*Whack!*

 

[Queenie]

Lola continued to hold the struggling snake heads under the water until they both went limp and the bodies began to uncurl from her arms. With a sigh of relief she pulled the seemingly dead snakes out from the dirty water and threw their bodies to the side.

She stood and took in the scene, her friends having come to save her, the chaos going on around them, the draft she felt on her body, it was all much to take in at once.

Then she looked at her lover standing before her, blood everywhere. "Rovan! You're injured!" Her eyes welled with tears but she would not cry, she was tougher than that. She came to him and looked for any obvious signs of injury. "It's the poison, isn't it?" she said grimly, her lips kept tight to keep from trembling.

Suddenly, she recalled the reason why she came. "Wait! I know what to do!" Her eyes quickly scanned the fighting for the pudgy priest, the one who had violated her and the one she craved stabbing that dagger into his own gut, "Get that key from around that b*$#ard's neck!" she called out to those engaging him.

"Rovan, stay here," she said forcefully then bounded away towards the fight. She looked around quickly for that curved dagger that wasn't almost her doom.