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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Renfield" data-source="post: 1181433" data-attributes="member: 13493">They had traveled for two days and two nights. Joran had apparently had a gryphon steed that he had been keeping in the stables. Not wanting to paint a target for the archers he had though would aid in the attack. Alas when it was discovered that they wanted as much slaughter as possible he understood why there had only been melee troops. The others had aquired horses and the three had started out at dawn the day after the battle.The journey had been uneventful with Joran flying a scouting circle around the party as they traveled every day and them taking watches every night with Delver's zombies patrolling the perimeter of the camp site and his skull's keeping watch as well. As disturbing as it was they didn't want to take any chances on any minions of Talisar surprising them in some form of retribution. Alas there had been nothing of note... until the afternoon of the third day that was.In the distance, comming from the north and slightly east, was a lone figure. Which was enough cause for worry or at least caution. It wasn't long until the figure seemed to be humanoid, and very rotund at that. They stopped and turned to approach it Delver keeping his zombies back whilst Nym kept himself invisible and Alias simply strode forward with confidence. Eventually they discovered that the traveler was a dwarf!"Hail good dwarf!" Alias shouted out waving arms to show his weapons weren't in hand... not that he needed any weapons with the power he held at his fingertips. "What brings you from the mountains?"The dwarf stopped at a cautious distance before calling out in a decidedly female voice, if somewhat husky... "Who wants to know..." the voice asked.Alias chuckled "Alias wants to know, not entirely sure I can vouch for my friends here, they speak for themselves." he said hiding a smirk when he thought og Delvers zombies who wouldn't really say anything. The figure was silent, it was short for a dwarf, and very round, though given the Dwarve's of the Shorntooth Mountains few would be too surprised if that size was nothing but muscle. The dwarf moved a little closer before speaking "I am Petunia, Priest of Gaia the Earthmother." she said.Alias witheld a wince as he thought another nature lover he paused as they closed the distance. She had a beard, unlike the dwarven females of the mountains near the empire who shaved he guessed the ones further north still felt the need for a beard. Or were the shaven ones hill dwarves..."And I am Delver." the dark elf said stepping forward, he motioned to the zombies. "These are my companions Bubba and Brutus." he said and smiled slightly "They don't talk much."Petunia nodded. "I see..." she said lifting an eyebrow in the direction of the two fully armored warriors. "Where are you good sirs heading?" she asked, still a little wary.Alias paused and shrugged "To the city of Koryn," he said figuring no real harm in letting this lone dwarf know their destination. "Wherever there is knowledge to be gained." she replied "I was figuring Koryn would be a decent place to start." Alias nodded and gave her a look over. She was armored in very nice chainmail, likely mithril, carried a morning star and a shield, she looked as though she was reasonably competent with the weapon as well. Not surprising... Dwarves were rarely a stranger to combat, it was even whispered that their spellcasters were relatively competent as well. "Well... perhaps you'd care to join us, safety in numbers and all th-" he was cut off as a shadow flew over them and Joran landed nearby the group."Ah, what have we here?" the ranger asked "A dwarf, how nice." he says chuckling, his scruffy beard was modest in comparison to that of Petunia, likely grown since her whiskers began to get bristly.Alias nodded "Joran this is Petunia, Petunia, this is Joran." he said introducing the two.Petunia strode forward and looked about to say something before Joran interrupted her "Pleasure to meet you and all that." he said in a rush and turned to the others "I'm sure Nym is still scouting ahead but I have ill news, it appears we have trouble.""What might that be?" Delver said in his soft calm voice his tone seeming almost amused."Them." Joran said simply pointing up to one of the clouds as two beasts flew forth. With bodies of lions and large leathery wings they all sported three heads, one bearing a resmblance to a dragon, another to a goat, and another to a lion."Blasted Chimera..." Alias said and began the weavings of a spell as Joran took to the air to keep the other one busy.Erias's steed, Keentalon, raked at the beast as the ranger positioned himself to slash at the creature. It's own claws slashed at the gryphon as the lions head tried biting the offending human getting his left arm rather nicely. Keentalon turned aside as a streem of acid shot out of the black dragonshead missing the gryphon almost entirely. Some hit the mount however and it screeched in rage as acid burned through its fur and flesh.Meanwhile Petunia had begun to run towards the other Chimera her morningstar brandished and ready for blood. The thing had been struck by cold blue ice and while it didn't seem all too damaged from the spell Delver had thrown at it, it did seem quite stunned as it stopped flapping in it's dive and simply hurtled to the ground falling with a wicked looking crash. It began to stand up shaking it's heads trying to clear away the daze brought on by the spell as much as the fall. This allowed the two zombies and the dwarf to close in.Brutus did little damage though Petunia got in a good hit with her morning star as did Bubba. When it recovered the creature shot forth a stream of flame from it's crimson dragon head hitting the zombies square on though the dwarf showed a surprising agility for her rotund frame as she dove aside taking only a little of the damage. The thing proceeded to tear into Brutus who seemed the weakest of the armored figures.Up in the air things weren't going good for Joran, he was getting in his hits and the Chimera he was fighting was bleeding from quite a few wounds. However, both he and his gryphon weren't looking too good either. Suddenly a stream of flame shot up and struck the Chimera full on. Taking advantage of it's pain Joran struck his gryphon close enough for his short blade to cut into the beast filling it with wicked gashes. Keentalon bit down hard on it's throat and the beast let loose a gurgling scream before the gryphon released and it fell to the ground dead.Back at the other Chimera things were looking better, primarily because the ones getting the brunt of the damage were the zombies. Petunia found it odd that her comrades in arms weren't saying anything during the battle and began to get vague suspicions of their true natures as she fought along side them and smelled their rather unapealing odour, their stiff movements didn't help much either. She pashed aside a butting goat head with her shield before bringing her morningstar down with a thud onto the lionhead as it bit into Bubba's arm. Brutus had moves around to the side and stiffly moved under the flailing wing before skewering his blade into the beasts side. Petunia let her weapon fall down on the beasts exposed spine and heard a satisfying crack before the chimera slumped to the ground breathing it's final breaths. Petunia put the thing out of it's misery before stalking over to where the others were. They gathered around where Joran had landed Delver having figured the zombies and the dwarf could handle the Chimera after his spell took it from the air. "Anyone need healing?" she asked and Joran raised his hand. She began to administer to his wounds and those of his mount before seeing if anyone else needed anything. Alias chuckled "As it was being said earlier... interested in travelling with us? Safety in numbers and all that..."</blockquote>

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