Metropolis (The World in Waiting) - Chapter One

Fenris said:
Phoenix only please:
[sblock] Jovik will gather his boys around and take stock. He'll find out who got nabbed, who is too young now and who can't rememeber. He'll then turn to Wasp "Ok, Wasp, the ball is in your court. We have a small group here we may be able to con into helping us if the job is close to them. But you need to concentrate and remember. You need to tell us grown-ups (Ha! says the 18 year old!) what we need to do to help you kids and Metropolis." [/sblock]

Jovik (more pain):
[sblock]Wasp looks at Jovik for a moment, his eyes betraying a hint of confusion for a moment. "Who are y...oh, Jovik!" He shakes his head and rubs his eyes, trying to bring himself back from the brink. "I...Jovik, I don't know any more, HE knows, we told him, but the rest of us, we just can't remember. The man, I can't even remember his name anymore, the one in charge of the Yellow Robes, we told him several years from now, he has the answers..."[/sblock]
 

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Blood sprayed from the dismembered torso that was once, and perhaps still is, Hentre. His head screamed at Ba'aktar as the half-orc hacked his way through the halfling's arms, leaving him nothing but an unliving head and chest.

Ru looked around, calling to Jovik, but he was deep in what seemed to be a very serious conversation with one of the children. It took Ru a minute to pick up on it, but it seemed that with the gory display occurring before them, the children were completely oblivious to it, instead staring at the conversation that Jovik was having.

Vulgrath stood tall once more before Taran. "Thank you my son, I think I can take it from here." His hands gesture and glow brightly, illuminating the area briefly as his powerful healing magics surge through his body, repairing the damage that Hentre had caused easily.

"I do not know who that man is," Vulgrath starts, "but I know who he was. You might not remember him Taran, but he grew up here with his brother, Ulam. They were the boys that we thought had been taken by ghouls over a decade ago, seems he finally made it home."

Ghost had his hand deep in his pocket as the elderly elf healed before his eyes, but there was something else, had anybody else seen?

Ghost:
[sblock]As Vulgrath's wounds healed, had the lines on his face deepened? Did his hair get a little greyer? Was it just his imagination or was the elf a little more frail?[/sblock]
 

"I, uh, think you have this well in hand, Ba'aktar," Ru says softly and a bit uneasily, glancing at the gory state of what's left of the halfling. He rises, focusing in on Jackal and the children gathered around him. He moves toward them quickly, trying to catch as much of the conversation as he can before they notice him.
 

jkason said:
"I, uh, think you have this well in hand, Ba'aktar," Ru says softly and a bit uneasily, glancing at the gory state of what's left of the halfling. He rises, focusing in on Jackal and the children gathered around him. He moves toward them quickly, trying to catch as much of the conversation as he can before they notice him.

"...in charge of the Yellow Robes, we told him several years from now, he has the answers..."

Ru approached the group at what seemed like the end of a rather confusing sentence. Lucky to get that much, the children clam up at his approach as wander off again, allowing this stranger to wander up to Jovik and his ward easily.
 

Ru crosses his arms and raises an eyebrow. "Don't stop on my account," he quips. "Who's in charge of the Yellow Robes, then? Frankly, as baffling and frustrating as the last few days have been, I'm all for tracking down someone who has all the answers. Heck, I'd settle for just a few of them."
 

"Don't look at me, I just answered an ad in the paper." retorts The Jackal. "If I knew who was in charge or where to find him, I'd be there now. So, Ru, I don't believe I caught the "why" of why you were looking for Ghost Hound. You've found him. You don't seem the detective type, nor the religious. But you've been doing a lot of both from what you've said. A Cult of Yellow Robed men stealing childrens souls, poking around the Temple of Zsath. Must be a curious man to go sticking his nose around in those places without reason." And the Jackal heads over to where Ba'aktar is finding the lean cuts of halfling. "Oh and I think you might want to mention those shambling corpes to the leader here, you know before they follow you in."
 

"No, I'm no altruist. But then, I suspect neither are you, 'Mutt.'" Ru returns, following Jackal. "Though I have had enough sense to wait until we had the children safe before taking up my own business.

"Then, of course, you may have missed the part where I was trying to prevent an assasination. That was probably because you were busy bragging about your 'special' way of dealing with the undying instead of, you know, using whatever you've got. If you've got anything at all."


OOC: [sblock]oh, the juicy, juicy conflict. hehe. :)[/sblock]
 

"Yeah, I saw how, uh, effective you were in that as well, whew was Vulgrath lucky you were there!" jabs back The Jackal. "Bruno was there, he's more than enough to handle it. But I too had to resolve business once we got back here, at least as important as stopping an assassination. Besides too many cooks spoil the stew. As for my method, of dealing with it ask Ba'aktar if you want to know. But the reason I didn't use it is because much like Bruno there is leaving the head, information is lacking here, much like your sense of subtlety, and we need the little buggar to answer some questions. So take care of the business you need to. You said you wouldn't mind tracking down the head of the cultists, so let's go find out what the dead can tell us, shall we?"
 


Fenris said:
"You said you wouldn't mind tracking down the head of the cultists, so let's go find out what the dead can tell us, shall we?"

Ru's knuckles crack audibly as he clenches his fist, but he says nothing more, following the cocky man back to what's left of the halfling.
 

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