Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 2535224" data-attributes="member: 3192">After a long discussion, the creature fell asleep again.  Kayla turned to Darius and Pax and spoke in the Common Tongue.  “She admits to be Fae or at least partly!” Kayla exclaimed.  “I can’t believe it.  She traveled here all the way from the Front.  She must be working for our allies and Lord Magrave!”Darius was a little more dubious. “But can we trust her?”“Well, yes, I think so,” said Kayla.  “She has seen the fighting at the front lines.  She has a message to deliver.”“Are you sure she’s telling the truth?  Fey are tricksters” said Darius.“Yes.  She told me at the Front they were fighting goblins, and demons, and strange abominations.  This makes sense!  Remember what we heard about the Chaos Lords?”Darius nodded.  It looked like he had another charge to take care of.Later in the day Cyrus awoke.  Dropping his hand back down to his side he cursed.  The fool humans had taken his dagger too last night.  Why oh why had he been cursed with such an unappreciated sense of humor?  He recalled that he had looked awe-inspiring in Darius’s armor.  But it certainly was short-lived.   Searching around he noticed only the human named Dram was awake.  He also noticed a newcomer who had bedded down near the dwarven paladin.  Cyrus waited to see who the next watch would be.  When Dram woke the elderly man named “Da”, he knew his chance had come.  Pulling his blanket slowly away, Cyrus crept into the high grown crops.  Without any other option he picked a direction on the road and started walking.  “Damn!” thought Darius.  He just noticed the grubby dwarf was missing.  As he began dressing in Cyrus’s old armor he realized the old dwarf was not the only thing dirt-clad and smelly.  It was already late in the day, but the team packed up and took off on the road to travel east.  Along the way Kayla started explaining why they had to leave in such a rush.  False rumors of Darius being hated and taking over the Keep had spread throughout the city.  She did not know who started them, but she and Darius had decided to go back to the Keep and give up their positions.  Igor had left before everyone else to acquire their replacements from Lady Margrave.  He was the one who suggested leaving in the middle of the night to keep their identities secret.  “Afterwards, we plan to leave Margrave entirely.  It is the only way to ensure Darius’s safety.  He could still be attacked, if we remained at the Keep” Kayla explained.  No one had said anything up unto that point about their new blue companion.  It might have been because of the events the prior evening.  No questions were brooked or inquiries asked.    After an hour or more of riding Dram spotted Cyrus.  No one even looked at him now as he pulled his blanket up over his head.  Darius grabbed the dwarf and tied him to one of the packhorses.  Cyrus seemed almost grateful.  After sunset the sky darkened and looked like it might rain again.  Darius took point leading the horses along the road with his darkvision.    Up ahead, Darius spotted a caravan of wagons pulled alongside the road.  They had a campfire built and were playing music.  As the team overtook them Kayla, Dram’s father, and a few others recognized the people as “Travelers”.  They were a band of wanderes who had a bad reputation.  Darius hailed his arrival and everyone stopped for a bit.  Seeing Cyrus still tied up on the packhorse and in clear view of the Travelers, Darius finally decided to relent.  He asked the colorfully dressed folk around the fire for any clothing he could buy for the dwarf.  After ten minutes of searching for something that fit, Cyrus was dressed in the most garish, ill-fitting, incredulous, and bawdy ensemble imaginable; a hodgepodge of Travelers clothing of all kind.  Trying to make amends Darius gave Cyrus the spare battleaxe he carried with him.  The older dwarf did not look pleased at all.</blockquote>

Verification