[IC] Stealthy Missions: Prologue

[Dalamar]

Hoping that the others are ready, James comes out of the forest and hails the orcs and ogre at the road.
"Hey! You're on the Raven Claw clan's territory! You must pay for passing."

 

[Inez Hull]

Orland jabs both his rapiers point first into the ground so they are at hand if it comes to melee and then squats and takes a bead on the ogre with his crossbow. He then watches the ogre and orcs for any sign that they will turn hostile towards James and will fire if combat looks likely.

 

[Xael]

When James steps out from the bushes/forest, all the convestation stops and the orcs and the ogre turn their heads toward him. They stare at him for a couple of seconds, after which one of them starts pointing at it's orc friends, mumbling something and raising his fingers one at a time. Apparently reaching "four" in the calculation, it turns back to look at James.

The orc farthest from James quickly stands up, grabbing a halfspear, and you can see that the particular orc is wearing black-brown robes, instead of the metal armors of the other three orcs. The robe-orc says _something_ in the (apparently) orc language. His tone seems to be slightly annoyed.

Ogre merely takes advantage of the situation, and tries to grab the robe-orc's piece of meat, but gets kicked at the fingers.

 

[Timothy]

Timothy follows the situation anxiously and allready realises this is going to boil down into melee, he gets his rapier out and stands at the ready.

 

[Dalamar]

James raises his hands infront of himself, first holding them in fists, then raising all his fingers slowly one at a time, closes his hands to fists again before repeating raising his fingers.
He then indicates the forests around them with a wave of his hand. During all this, he keeps a very angry look on his face.

 

[Xael]

The robe-orc pauses for a while, a thoughtful look in it's face. It repeats what it said earlier, but the tone seems to be almost mocking. And while it gives the forest a glance, it doesn't seem to be worried at all.

 

[Dalamar]

"Stop the babbling already, my tribe does not speak orcese! Pay or we will have to kill you!"
James starts slowly walking towards the the orcs and ogre.


OoC: How far away are they from me?

 

[Inez Hull]

"I though he was gonna avoid a fight, not pick one," Orland chuckles, "not that I'm fussed either way".

"Better remind our mate Jimmy for next time", Orland comments to Timothy, "to make sure he knows the language before he tries t' pull a fast one."

 

[Timothy]

"Well, you can say what you want, but as least he shoes he has the same intelligence, hehehehe"

 

[Xael]

OOGM: James is about 20 feet south from the southest orc, which is just behind the tree trunk (check the earlier ASCII(or whatever) map). I take it that Orland & Timothy are in the forest east from the ogre & orcs (correct me if you meant to go somewhere else).

IGM: As James starts walking towards them, the robe-orc shouts something and rest of the orcs stand up, weapons in hand. Southest orc (closest to James) is holding 2 axes in it's hands, and the orcs at the west are picking up greataxes.

As the "diplomacy" seems to be over and things are getting a bit hostile, Orlands fires his crossbow and hits the orge in the back while it's getting up. The ogre groans/roars, pulls the bolt out and turns towards the forest (=Orland & Timothy), and another bolt hits it in the chest. The ogre staggers and groans again, but still reaches for an extremely large club.

Almost immediately after this, a small dagger flies out from the forest behing James and hits the closes greataxe-orc, sinking to it's shoulder. The orc falls to one knee, screaming and holding its shoulder.

If you would have liked to do something else, or we're supposed to do something else, tell me.

Initiative order:

Timothy (You got 28... )
Robe-orc
Tail-man
Greataxe-orc(s)
Ogre
Orland
James
2-axes-orc

Have fun.

Edited to acknowledge Timothy's next post.