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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ejja_1" data-source="post: 945938" data-attributes="member: 7880">The further adventures of Mereth and DraithiusThe caravan filed along the westward road that would take them to Lazlo, the road was ancient and had more than a few ruts,divets and potholes. Mereth had fallen asleep, and Draithius and Terry talked for awhile. After a few hours Terry had hunkered down for some shuteye, and Draithius took watch. The caravan moved along at it's slow pace, rocking nd swaying as it traversed the uneven road. Suddenly there was a loud "CRACK"! and the cart they were in pitched over on it's side, dumping them and the goods on the ground. Farmer Mendel yelled out." Lost a wheel, hold up." The caravan came to a slow halt, and a small boy jumped out of the head cart and ran back to them.The boy and farmer Mendel spoke briefly as the mercenaries picked themselves up and dusted themselves off, Mendel shoke his head and waved the boy away.He then came over to the mercenary crew and addressed them." Boys we got bad news, the caravan has to move on. If they get there late, they may not get to sell the goods they brought with. So they have decided to leave us behind. The head cart has a spare wheel so they are gonna leave it with us, and hopefully we can get it fixed and not be to late ourselves. Ill be right back with that wheel, and we can get started. If you boys could right the cart for me, id be much obliged."Mereth and Draithius looked at each other and shrugged, Terry piped up and said. " Ill go look for a solid looking log to lever her up with, be right back." Terry disappeared into the dense growth making very little noise.Mereth picked up a turnip and started to gnaw at it hungrily, Draithius drew his bow and kept watch. Mendel came back with the wheel, and glared at Mereth. " Boy thats coming out of your earnings." Mereth just shrugged.The caravan dissapeared in the distance, and terry appeared shortly thereafter with a large tree branch. A few hours later and they had the cart back in order, and started off to try and catch up with the caravan. They rode for about an hour, when they came over a small rise and saw a tree had been felled in the road.The mercaneries all drew weapons in preparation for an ambush, Mereth and Draithius drew there bows while Terry pulled a sling from his pack.The ambush came from behind, as 20 or so small humanoids came rushing from the shrubbery on the side of the road.Mereth yelled. " Die goblin scum!" And loosed an arrow at them.His arrow flew way over thier heads, missing the group entirley.Draithius snickered as his arrow connected with a goblins chest, knocking it over backwards. The Goblin convulsed a few times, and lay still. Terry slung a stone and banked it off a goblins forhead, the creature screeched with fury and continued to rush forward. "For glory and greatness!" Terry jumped down beside the cart and dropped his sling, drawing a wicked looking knife he waited for the goblins to advance. Draithius knocked another arrow and let fly, catching the poor creature in the throat. The goblin sprayed it's mate with gore as it tryed to scream, but succumbed to the loss of blood and fell to the ground dead.Mereth also reloaded and took aim, but cursed as his arrow just missed his intended target. Farmer mendel produced a club from his bench, and dropped down to wade into the foe, his wife screamed loudly and fainted. Terry gutted the first goblin that came within reach of his shiny blade, spilling it's entrails all over the ground and kicking it in the chest to remove his knife from it's belly. A few other goblins rushed in and attacked him with some rusty looking scimitars, but Terry was agile enough to avoid thier blows.Draithius drew his longsword after he dropped his bow and jumped down into the frey, three of the goblins were waiting for him and he was cut by all three. Mereth saw that farmer Mendel was surrounded and had several nasty looking cuts on him.Mereth redirected his fire towards the goblin just behind Mendel, pulled back his bow string and let loose with a war cry.The arrow sped towards it's intended victim, and connected with farmer Mendels back instead. The old man wrentched in agony, as his life blood spilled copuiosly from his back. Drathius saw what had happened and yelled." What the hell did you do that for?" Drathius then attacked the nearest foe to him and cut him down like a dog, narrowly avoiding the return attacks of his remaining foes. Terry deftly spun under a scimitar as it came towards him, and slammed his knife home into the goblins neck." I could use some help here!" he yelled.Mereth took aim again and let his arrow fly, this time it found it's mark in a goblins leg. The small creature howled in pain and fell to the ground squirming like a snake that had been cut in half.Draithius continued his onslaught and felled several goblins in melee, Terry also killed his share.Mereth lost a lot of arrows....When the fight was over, terry was in good shape. He had only been hit twice and they were small scratches, Draithius was not so lucky and had been cut by several of the goblins. Mereth was unharmed other than his pride.</blockquote>

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