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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1176901" data-attributes="member: 11574">"How inhospitable." Tharhack tells the bandits. "what's the halfling done that's so bad, torture is required to sate your rage?""you're in the wrong place at the wrong time orc, if you want to walk out of here alive, I suggest you leave all your belongings and run back to whichever rock you crawled out from under." Says the bandit with the whip.Tharhack pauses and counts the steps to the nearest bandit. He spots Alriand coming ashore behind a tent. Rebrey walks up to join Tharhack, hopeful any altercations can be avoided. "I think you should hand the halfling over to us, we happen to be headed to his home, I'm sure whatever he's done the authorities there can handle the problem." Tharhack tells the bandits, as a groan escapes from the shackled halfling. "he sounds bad I should have a look at him.""I don't think so caveman, tell your buddy there to drop his possessions as well. Before you both join him." The bandit with the whip says as he slaps the head of the bleeding halfling. "Well, I don't have enough healing to cure all of you if you want to press this." Tharhack replies "So, I guess i'll have to kill some...... well, most of you." Tharhack bull rushes the nearest bandit knocking him to the ground, as Tharhack tramples him on his way to the next bandit. Rebrey curses aloud, and takes a defensive stance. Waiting for the bandits to make their move first. He doesn't have to wait long as the first bandit steps up and takes a flail to the head. The bandit swings haphazardly at Rebrey as he staggers back from the blow. The next bandit moves up and skips his blade off of Rebrey's shoulder. Tharhack takes a hit each from two bandit's blades, each wound drawing blood from his chest. Tharhack hears a hearty laugh and turns to hear the crack of a whip on his left ear. Causing the ear to ring and begin filling with blood from a rivulet on his ear. Alriand come up to the tent and positions herself behind the two bandits facing off with Tharhack, but still hidden from the man with the whip. Tharhack grabs the throat of the bandit in front of him and begins to squeeze. Rebrey smashes the head of the bandit he just hit, dropping the bandit. The other bandit misses Rebrey. Alriand takes a look at the big dangling back in front of her and plunges a dagger into his kidney, soon the man stops struggling against Tharhack's grip. The other bandit facing off with Tharhack is so startled from Alriand's appearance he misses Tharhack badly. The bandit Tharhack trampled gets up off his back, and slashes Tharhack across his back. Then another crack of the whip cuts another line across Tharhack's left shoulder. The other two bandits dive into a tent and rummage around for crossbows. They exit the tent while trying to load the crossbows. Rebrey smacks his bandit on the right knee, breaking the joint, and causing the bandit to crumble to the ground in pain. Rebrey spies the two bandits emerging from a tent with crossbows, and grabs alcohol from his backpack. Tharhack ignores the bandit behind him and haymakers the bandit in front of him, slamming his fist into the raised forearm of the bandit, the force drives the bandit's arm into his head. Alriand then cuts a canyon across the bandit's right arm, causing him to drop his sword, and grab his arm which is bleeding profusely. The bandit behind Tharhack misses, but the whipmaster does not, slicing into Tharhack's left thigh this time. Rebrey moves up to the tent where the crossbow bandits emerged, and tosses the rubbing alcohol onto the tent and the bandits while shouting at Tharhack to get his attention. The two crossbow bandits turn their crossbows to Rebrey and pepper him with two bolts to the back. Tharhack starts to run towards the bandit's campfire dodging a swing from the bandit behind him, Tharhack reaches the campfire and kicks the burning twigs and logs at the two crossbow bandits, catching them and the tent behind them on fire. Now outnumbered the bandit near Alriand surrenders to Alriand, who begins to restrain him with the ropes keeping the tent next to her erect. The whip snakes out again at Tharhack slashing across his chest. Rebrey switches out his flail for his crossbow and begins to load it. Tharhack tries to close the space between him and the whip bandit, but is unable avoid the sting of the whip, as the bandit moves in sync with Tharhack. Rebrey takes aim and fires his bolt into the right knee on the bandit, causing him to drop the whip as he falls to the ground. Tharhack picks up the whip and quickly reels it in out of the bandit's reach. The bandit draws a dagger from his boot and sort of hop-crawls over to the halfling."you're good, but not good enough." The bandit says breathing heavily. He then slices the halfling's neck."NO!" Tharhack screams as he rushes to the halfling, backhanding the bandit to the ground when he reaches the halfling. The bandit wipes the blood from his mouth and turns the blade over in his hand, ready to strike at Tharhack. However he gets sandwiched by a diving Rebrey how wrestles the blade from the bandit's hand. "he's gone." Tharhack remarks after checking on the halfling. Alriand finishes tying up the other bandit and hears a soft sobbing coming from the tent behind her. She gets up and looks inside."Oh god, Tharhack, you better come take a look at this." Alriand says with both spite and terror in her voice. Tharhack comes over and throws the tent flap open to reveal a battered and abused human female with a sack over her head, pig tied and bereft of clothes whimpering in the center of the tent. Tharhack turns to the bandit grappled by Rebrey, with nothing but pure rage emanating from his eyes.</blockquote>

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