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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 7345032" data-attributes="member: 9255">THE HIDDEN: BEYOND NEW WATER09  PAYBACKSEGMENT 169“BEGINNING TO THE END”02/10/18BARRAKAS   13, 1000    SUGGA AND PEPPA’S    ABOUT 1 BELL AT NIGHTFeldrix stands outside the tavern portion of the halfling’s tavern.  Though there are few stars and only two moons out (thus darker than normal) he watches the dockway.  Ayur sleeps well enough within her room.  She has minor troubling memories of House Medani but nothing that awakens her.Zig and Kyr still share a room with the Hidden Berry plants.  Kyr can’t sleep.  He misses his Hidden father so much.  Did she want to have sex?  Hidden Butter?   Berries?  Kyr awakens with a grin.  He rolls his head to the side.  Zig is asleep.  He quietly and slowly gets up and out of bed.  With a snicker he creeps to the Hidden Berry Plant Zig has to make his Hidden Butter.  He plucks one berry and at that point Zig says in his sleep- “Kyr- what are you doing?  Go to bed and leave the plants alone.” And snores all within the space of one breath. With his one berry, Kyr gets back into bed.  “Tomorrow I see father again. Again. Again and again.”He returns to a deep sleep with a content smile.  Maybe with him he thinks.  Feldrix misses the rats now.  In the beginning the rats would come at night.  They were attracted by the food within the kitchen.  As part of his payment and in an attempt to befriend the halflings, he would kill any vermin that got close to him at night.  His dark vision saw them so clearly at night and he did not smell of a living thing, it was easy.Tonight, even the bugs are not present.  Where are the bugs?  His supernatural hearing (being he has no ears) would hear them buzzing and chirping to each other.  Now, instead, he hears….. people calling out with some sounds of conflict?  His red pin-light eyes flash brightly and he turns to the east and looks down the walkway.  He is concentrating on the activity when suddenly he senses something behind him.Six Sin Spawn rush up at him.  One tries to steal his shield as two others try to grapple him.  The other three attack with axes and their strange mandible claw mouths.  He tries to call out a warning but the grapples pull at the sides of his helmet making it hard to call out.  He throws one off and pushes another into tables and chairs where customers used to eat and drink.  The creature is tangled up in the chairs.  With freedom to see now, Feldrix sees something new to him.  A giant crayfish only it stands more upright and has tentacles.Ayur awakens slowly.  She thought she heard a cracking sound.  No.  No she did.  She wanders if Zig is up to something now.  She slowly gets up.   Still in her night clothes (loose bra and PJ bottoms) she shuffles to the door of her room.  Another solid thud but splintering in sound.  Absent- mindily she graps her spear in her wrapped hand.  She hears Kyr’s raven squawking now very loudly.Feldrix cuts down one aberration and stabs another as the swamp monster that Zig may cook later reaches out for him.  He pushes aside the massive claw but realizes he may be in trouble.Ayur opens her door to yell at Kyr and zig and spots something is cutting through the roof.  Two sin spawn drop from the hole and she rushes them in anger.  Isn’t this supposed to be safe ground.  They are supposed to stay in The Hidden.  With her anger rising she charges and kills one aberrational humanoid in the first blow.“ummmm…. Shut up your eye lovin’ bird” mumbles Zig as the raven goes hysterical from the sounds of the roof being attacked.  The bird flies about loosing a few feathers then flaps down onto Kyr.  It side steps up his leg and onto his side.  It begins to peak at his shoulder and squawk at him.  He awakens with threats of being cooked by the halflings.  “loud bird.  Loud in hallway also.  Kyr stumbles out of the bed and makes way to the doorway.  He opens it and peers out and sees Ayur, in her sleep wear, pushing a dead creature off of her spear as another hisses at her.Feldrix kills off another sin spawn then uses the others as a meat shield against the large aberrational crayfish monster.  The creature grabs and crushes the metal and bone of his shoulder of his sword arm.He yanks free with a crinkle and loud screech of metal.  He repositions himself to block the creature and takes down another humanoid.  Crunch and crunch.  The thing is powerful and smarter than he figured them to be.  The sin spawn are also forgoing their own safety and attacks to give the beast room.  He pulls free one arm but not the leg.  Great pain as the claw begins to crush the leg and armor.Though Kyr isn’t really compelled to aid Ayur, he summons up a creature.  The tentacled large gorilla appears behind her.  More creatures drop from the hole in the roof and ceiling and attack her.  She does her best to strike them as they land and have not prepared for an attack yet (sneak atts)  The floor is slick with pink blood from her stabbing and killing them.  As the ape swings and crushes another target, Zig falls out of bed and rolls under it grabbing some of his clothes and armor pieces.  Tricky to get dressed under the protection of a bed especially when he refuses to alter his body to make the process easier.[DM NOTES:  House Rule- if a nat crit of a 20 is rolled and confirmed with a nat 20 it is instant death / destruction]Ayur blocks a shot with her short spear and follows the motion into the next creature.  She is then struck and bitten and becomes incredibly angry that this is happening.  One could even say she becomes enraged.  She screams at the ceiling and steps up to attack.  She bares down on the target whom then tears out her throat with their strange sideways hinged jaws.  She drops with blood spraying everywhere.  Kyr ignores it and looks on.Zig rushes out of the room and around the unmoving summoner.  He mistakes this action as shock as he sees the last of her heart’s push of blood.  “Nooooooo!”  the cook screams out.   “Nooooo!” the honor guard screams out.  This damned creature will be his destruction yet.  Even activating his cursed (harm instead of heal magic items) belts and equipment, he barely keeps up with the damage being done to his bones.  He has yet to hit the creature.  Its shell is thick.  At this point Sugga cautiously peers through his cracked door and witnesses the dire plight of the undead.  Though he is wielding a butcher knife he stays where he is.The summoned ape grabs a sin spawn by the head and squeezes until the head explodes.  This action makes blood also spirt out of two spear wounds it had from the fallen protector prior.  Kyr finds it amazingly funny and laughs.  “This is no time to laugh!  She is dead!  Ayur is dead!  Where is Feldrix?”  Kyr shrugs his shoulders and begins to summon another creature.  Zig leaves her.  Covered in her blood, he hurries to the exit to see to Feldrix.  The summoned giant wolf appears and blocks his way.  “Dammit Kyr!  Get with the program!  Feldrix may be in trouble or worse.”More strange pain.  Feldrix doesn’t feel pain like he did before the war…. It is more of knowledge of the damage taken.  He has taken a lot.  Suddenly a large black Dire Wolf with purple and pink lumps of extra flesh sticks it’s head through the door.  It struggles to push through but does.  The clawed swamp creature ignores him as once more Feldrix is caught and hears bones snap and grind under compressing metal armor.Kyr watches as his ape and one last creature trade blows and kill each other.  “No big deally-do-deal.” He whistles as he steps through the blood casually.  A drip of splattered blood on the ceiling falls onto his shoulder.  “Annoying.  Even in death-death.  She spits on me.”  He steps to her and looks at the numerous wounds and the visible bones of her neck.  The blood glistens and slowly moves with gravity from her breasts and arms.  “Never real-realized she had such…. Well flat boobi-boobies.”  He kneels down next to her.  “Got my statue bitch?”Being between a magical wolf and the undead warrior, the Chuul’s attention is split.  Since it likes the sounds the boney thing makes it continues against him.  Zig ducks and dives around the swooping tail of the wolf and spots the halflings.  Peppa gives a supporting nervous wave from the safety of the door.  Kyr isn’t deterred to search her when she is wearing only a loose shirt and PJ bottoms.  She doesn’t even have boots on.  He looks at her right arm.  “Why is this wrapped?  You would’ve healed an injury by now.  He spots a ring on her hand.  Shield engraved onto a small gem.  He pulls it off.  Doing so removes a layer of skin at the knuckles but that’s okay.  “Hee hee hee….. She’s dead.”  Finding nothing else of use he decides to look at this wrapped arm.  “Tatooed a-roode.”  On the palm and spreading up the inside of her arm is a grey and light purple tattoo.  Looking at it he whispers…. “protection.”   He pulls out a knife and giggles wildly.  “Pro-protect me oh wonderful tattooey.”  It takes over a minute to hack off the Dragonmark then attempts to rewrap the arm.  In his excitement he does a poor job of it.“I’m sorry…. This needs to end quickly and I have the means.” Declares Zig to the halflings.  The crayfish is bitten by the wolf and circles about.  Shortly the wolf is gone.  “Step back Feldrix!” calls out Zig as he pulls a potion from his jacket pocket.  He shakes it and removes the cork and throws it at the creature.  The creatures screams and hisses in pain as its thick chitin shell dissolves and cracks.  The sidewalk, made up of a mixture of wood and crushed sand and stone sizzles also.  Though the stones and sand ignore the powerful acid, the wooden understructure does not.  It collapses and the half existing creature falls into the water with a hiss.  Through the bubbles and fumes, a single claw reach up and closes one last time before sinking into the murk.  Kyr is going through her stuff now.  He wants that wonderful statue.  She has a few possessions but nothing he wants.  “Oh-Oh-Oh ….. the bags!  She has two bags.   They hold many things old and more things that can be sold.” He sings.  He finds to canvass bags that look empty but he has seen her use them.  Both are magical and have items within them that give no size or weight.  Can’t empty unless he knew exactly what was inside.  Frowning he thinks quickly.  He has to finish this and leave quickly.  Tell them the sin creatures did it.  Did it all!Feldrix pushed very hard.  The remaining two sin spawn try to push him into the hole.  One takes an elbow to face and the other a head butt.   The elbow dislocates one hinged jaw making it slump and wave limply as the creature goes onto a defensive stance.  Feldrix destroys both easily.Zig tries to comfort the two halflings that suggests he will pay or at least help to pay for the repairs.  New dock, runway, door, pitted walls from acid splash, hole in ceiling and roof….. blood stains to wash.  “Feldrix…. I have bad news.”Screams in the distance can be heard and even glows that can only be fires appear in a short distance.  “Others …need help also….” Comments the honor guard as he searches for his oils that may repair his armor that now prohibits moving much.  Damned claws.Zig stands up.  “Its Ayur.  She’s dead.”Inside the chaotic summoner stuffs a bag of holding into another bag of holding.  Bright light and rippling energy pulse.  The bag flings itself from his hold then empties everything onto the floor.  It is mainly money.  Kyr picks up the best coins then turns to reverse the bags.  Again, the bags violently spit out their contents.  Pieces of crystal armor.   “Statue!  I want my statue!  Father wants me to have the statue!”  Kicking aside a blanket, he finds it.  The black obsidian fiendish frog-like statue.  He feels good holding it,  He leans over and hugs it and licks it.  “creatures did this also.”He steps out the door and spots Zig sobbing.  He is leaning over her dead body gently holding her defiled arm.“what have you done?”</blockquote>

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