[ic] nameless I: prologue
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Enter the Ogre
The ogre stalks a way into the clearing. In its left hand a spear. In its right swings a hand axe the size of woodsman's treefeller. It carries a bag slung over its right shoulder, and beneath that, rough cured leather armour.
What wild thoughts run through your minds in that endless frozen moment. Death, glory, fear, duty and fate make a chaotic cacophany. Or not. Perhaps there is just blankness.
In the center of the clearing, a stange silent tableaux. The goblin leader stands motionless, one arm still raised above his head, staring at the ogre. The other goblins couched, poised, mouths open, eyes wide wait - fight or flight.
The tableaux shatters. The boss goblin glaces back at the knight, his quarry, his prize. The head of the morningstar twitches. Then back to the ogre. Muscles tense.
[giant]"Bear?"[/giant] is all the ogre says.
The goblin gets as far as the knight, but the mace never comes down. With a surge the bear crosses the space between himself and the goblin, and slaps the creature, with a soft snap, away from the knight. The goblin jerks to his feet half a dozen feet away from where he just stood. His arm hangs at an impossible angle. Screams and hisses and then the goblin is gone, leaping and scuttling across the clearing to the south. His companions waste no time following.
The ogre frowns.
You stand alone in the clearing now. Except for the knight, motionless on the ground, the ogre and the bear.
Glances flicker between the three up front. Oscar shifts his grip on his sword. Archer shifts his weight to his other foot. Cromwell takes a step. "Who decided?" a small voice in the back of your mind wonders.
Nate rises to his feet and leaps down the slope.
The ogre turns and looks at you.
"And you," he rumbles in heavily accented common, "Do you also want to be trying my patience?"
"Bear thinks I have none."
The ogre snorts and bares his teeth.
But his eyes never leave you. Nor, squatting on its haunches by the still motionless knight, do the bear's.
The ogre stalks a way into the clearing. In its left hand a spear. In its right swings a hand axe the size of woodsman's treefeller. It carries a bag slung over its right shoulder, and beneath that, rough cured leather armour.
What wild thoughts run through your minds in that endless frozen moment. Death, glory, fear, duty and fate make a chaotic cacophany. Or not. Perhaps there is just blankness.
In the center of the clearing, a stange silent tableaux. The goblin leader stands motionless, one arm still raised above his head, staring at the ogre. The other goblins couched, poised, mouths open, eyes wide wait - fight or flight.
The tableaux shatters. The boss goblin glaces back at the knight, his quarry, his prize. The head of the morningstar twitches. Then back to the ogre. Muscles tense.
[giant]"Bear?"[/giant] is all the ogre says.
The goblin gets as far as the knight, but the mace never comes down. With a surge the bear crosses the space between himself and the goblin, and slaps the creature, with a soft snap, away from the knight. The goblin jerks to his feet half a dozen feet away from where he just stood. His arm hangs at an impossible angle. Screams and hisses and then the goblin is gone, leaping and scuttling across the clearing to the south. His companions waste no time following.
The ogre frowns.
You stand alone in the clearing now. Except for the knight, motionless on the ground, the ogre and the bear.
Glances flicker between the three up front. Oscar shifts his grip on his sword. Archer shifts his weight to his other foot. Cromwell takes a step. "Who decided?" a small voice in the back of your mind wonders.
Nate rises to his feet and leaps down the slope.
The ogre turns and looks at you.
"And you," he rumbles in heavily accented common, "Do you also want to be trying my patience?"
"Bear thinks I have none."
The ogre snorts and bares his teeth.
But his eyes never leave you. Nor, squatting on its haunches by the still motionless knight, do the bear's.
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doghead
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ooc: New Initiative Sequence.
Character {check result} - wounds, weapon in hand and armour.
Sadolath {23} - 4 wounds, quarterstaff
Lisa {22} - 4 wounds, quarterstaff
Ogre {21} - spear, hand axe
Oscar {21} - 1 wound, rapier
Nate {20} - hammer
Hewik {18} - 3 wounds, javlin + dog
Mareta {12} - out of scene
Jimni {10} - quarterstaff
Bear {9}
Knight {9}* - heavily wounded? dying? dead?, sword and shield.
Archer {8} - small size mace and shield
Cromwell {2} - mace and scale armour.
Sadolath, this counts for your character's Spot check.
Let me know if it all looks square to you.
You're up.
Character {check result} - wounds, weapon in hand and armour.
Sadolath {23} - 4 wounds, quarterstaff
Lisa {22} - 4 wounds, quarterstaff
Ogre {21} - spear, hand axe
Oscar {21} - 1 wound, rapier
Nate {20} - hammer
Hewik {18} - 3 wounds, javlin + dog
Mareta {12} - out of scene
Jimni {10} - quarterstaff
Bear {9}
Knight {9}* - heavily wounded? dying? dead?, sword and shield.
Archer {8} - small size mace and shield
Cromwell {2} - mace and scale armour.
Sadolath, this counts for your character's Spot check.
Let me know if it all looks square to you.
You're up.
Greegan
First Post
Archer loses himself for the few moments {init: 8} it takes him to comprehend what is going on. He briefly recalls hearing some stories of an ogre in the woods who travelled with a huge bear, but he never remembered anything about it being friendly.
He looks to Nate and Cromwell, silently asking the obvious question "What now?" with a shrug.
ooc: Should they decide to attack (which doesn't look like an option at this point) he'll walk in that direction, but half-heartedly and will flee when the first townsfolk is hit.
If they parlay with the ogre, he'll help in mopping up the remaining goblins. After that, he'll non-chalantly loot the corpses for anything valuable whilst the group tends to the knight and speaks with the ogre.
oooc: Didn't expect THAT one....I shall call him 'Shrek'!
He looks to Nate and Cromwell, silently asking the obvious question "What now?" with a shrug.
ooc: Should they decide to attack (which doesn't look like an option at this point) he'll walk in that direction, but half-heartedly and will flee when the first townsfolk is hit.
If they parlay with the ogre, he'll help in mopping up the remaining goblins. After that, he'll non-chalantly loot the corpses for anything valuable whilst the group tends to the knight and speaks with the ogre.
oooc: Didn't expect THAT one....I shall call him 'Shrek'!
Argent Silvermage
First Post
Oscar stops ansd tries to access the situation. "Tell me Ogre. What is happening here? I happen upon a kinght being assaulted by Goblins and then you and Bear Decide to join the party. Where do you stand with the Knight or against the knight?"
doghead
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DrZombie said:
"No. I won't do that. Not in my forest."
Argent Silvermage said:
A deep rumbling emmits from the ogres chest. Is he laughing? At you?
"You are a prickly lot. I stand here little man. And you stand there. And the knight lies there. Dying possibly. [giant]Bear?[/bear]
The bear looks up from sniffing the fallen knight. He growls.
"But not dead. Do not force me to waste time cracking heads."
The ogre considers you carefully. Then he slips his axe into his belt and moves towards the knight {mv action}.
ooc: the ogre is about 30ft from the knight, the bear is beside the knight, Nate is now alongside Lisa and Hewik.
Conversation took about 20 seconds so -> New round.
Sadolath: you can cast your spell while the above occures if you wish, but remember the ogre may not know what it is you cast.
Cromwell: I figured I'd let you reevaluate what happened before you. Let me know.
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Argent Silvermage
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Oscar sheathes his rapier and slowly moves to the knight's side as well.
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