poland ♔ you keep a lot of secrets and i keep none

[reallywicked]

WHO || Faye, Taradiddle, Aedan, Cora, Kenzi [closed]
WHAT || the knights hope to assist a village with a witch problem
WHERE || Aurasburg, Poland
WHEN || Feb 4th, 2015 [backdated]
HOW || actionspam

The Knights arrive in Aursaburg to help the villagers with a problem they've been having with a local witch. The little village seems fairly quiet, but the team would be able to hear some rather heated words spoken a bit down the road from them. It escalates to shouting in a hurry, with the most noticeable word of the bunch being 'witch.' Faye glances at the others, realizing that oh shit- I'm in charge. Squaring her shoulders, she gestures for the group to follow her down the road.

"Sounds like our cue." Whatever is going on in this town seems to be happening thatta way.

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[reallywicked]

[The claws sink into the ogre that did not attack yet. He lets out a guttural howl of pain.

"You'll pay for that." He snarls. But it's not his turn yet so...just hold that thought.

Faye glances to Aedan, eyes flashing at the sight of the axe striking him. He's too pretty to die tbh. Raising her hands up, she casts Fireball at the ogre who threw the axe. As the burning ball of death comes for him, he tries to move out of the way but fails his reflex save so he eats all 24 points of glorious burning damage. He's still standing, but has a nice char now.]

[ex_noble101]

[Reasons to always wear armor, kids. Unfortunately, Aedan currently isn't because he thought it would be too conspicuous. Having an axe embedded in your chest certainly isn't any fun, but apparently it missed anything super vital because he's still able to draw his sword and dagger even after ripping it out and tossing it aside like it ain't no thang so that he can charge the orc responsible following Faye's Fiery Explosion (tm) and attempt to slash a bitch up (attack 22, damage 7+3 cold; attack 24 damage 5+3 cold). Y'all picked the wrong ones.]

[reallywicked]

[Charred flesh is sliced open as both of Aedan's attacks strike true, the ogre's studded leather armor soon stained with fresh blood. But it's the other one that lets out a cry of rage.

"Brother!" Flogg cries out, bringing his great axe down, attacking Cora to try to get through her and get to his brother as quickly as possible. (attack 21, damage 20 and attack 19, damage 17).]

[morethanasidekick]

[Kenzi looks on in horror because despite being besties with a Succubus... yea it's not every day you see somebody with an axe in their chest.

She's also with Faye - he's too hot to die so with that in mind, she pulls out her gun and... doesn't completely suck as she fires on the Ogre that tried to take out their eye candy. (Atk 16 Dmg 23 penetration if it hits.)

[godblessyou]

[Taradiddle rushes after Aedan.] Wait! You've got a hole in you! [She slaps her hand on his back and casts cure moderate wounds to give him 12 hp back.]

[reallywicked]

[The gunshot seems to be the last straw for the ogre to bother with any of this. Muc takes a full retreat to just get the fuck out.

"Hurry, brother!" Flogg is also going to just peace out because fuck that. Hot damn this team is way better than they expected. They make a break for it through the woods nearest the mine.

/init]

[godblessyou]

[Taradiddle walks over to Cora but she looks a lot more fine than expected, so she just shrugs. She'll save her big spell.] Wimps. You can't just give up because your food fights back. How do they expect to eat anyone Like that?

[A beat, she considers.] Of course, they couldn't eat anyone if they were dead, either....

[impetere]

[As soon as they bail Cora is shifting back to human girl again, making a face at the damage the axe did to her clothes more than anything else. After that, she's glancing around to try and see where Malphaset ran off to - she didn't want to lose her new kitty friend (spot 21). #priorities

It totally has nothing to do with the fact that there was sudden fire on the field and while she passed her will save (will save 17) to keep herself together, she's still not fond of it and might be putting a little more distance between her and Faye as a result.

Sorry Faye.]

We still should probably find the witch, but it's possible she's getting blamed for those two idiots.

[a beat.]

Unless she's controlling them instead.

[It could happen.]

[ex_noble101]

[Aedan waits to make sure that they don't decide to change their minds, or veer off to wrap around and try and catch the group off guard. Once he's sure they've gone, he turns to the others, though he addresses Taradiddle in particular.]

Thank you.

[For the heals, since her spell seemed to close up most of his wound and stop the majority of the bleeding.]

Should we allow them to live?

[Hey, he's usually not one for genocide unless darkspawn are involved but those two were obviously a threat to anyone in the area. And considering they happened to cross paths with them right after they found the dismembered villager, it may not have been simple coincidence.]

[reallywicked]

For all we know, they were running off to get backup. [Faye isn't interested in fighting a pack of those guys, even if they sort of kicked their asses.

Meanwhile, Cora spots her little cat friend making a beeline for the entrance to the mine.]

[impetere]

[And Cora's naturally going to follow her, only half-listening to the conversation. She gets about halfway before she realizes she's doing that running off thing again before she glances back in direction of the rest of the team, pointing to Malphaset's kitty butt retreating into the mine.]

Hey!

[reallywicked]

[Faye watches the cat for a moment.]

If it's really her familiar, it can probably sense her. So she might still be in there.

[ex_noble101]

[Decisions, decisions. Aedan looks back in the direction of the Ogres' retreat, seemingly reluctant to simply let them go.]

[morethanasidekick]

[Kenzi would be less reluctant in the letting the retreating Ogres' go because unlike Aedan she doesn't have a death wish. JS.]

If only you could Star 69 a Cat.

[impetere]

[You guys keep debating what to do about the ogres, Cora's just going to keep following Malphaset. She'll be fine on her own if you guys don't want to go though. The ogres are bad, but to her, not really the mission at hand at the moment.

The ogres will still be bad news after they find April and if April was hiding out in ogre territory, there's a chance she may be hurt.]

[reallywicked]

Hey! [Faye shouts as she realizes that Cora is leaving. Huffing, she looks to the others.]

We should stay together- just in case. [Which means they need to go follow Cora and this cat, apparently. She rolls her eyes and gestures for the others to follow her because she's their team leader and they should do as she says duh :| ]

[ex_noble101]

[Hey, that's a good enough reason for Aedan to start off after Faye in pursuit of Cora and Sir Neko-tan. If it were his decision he would have chosen to pursue and deal with the ogres before following the cat into the witch's lair, but letting them go seemed smarter than splitting up.]

[reallywicked]

[Anyone going into the cave/mine thing, give me a spot check, please!]

[ex_noble101]

[Spot 17. This trash.]

[impetere]

[Spot 22]

[godblessyou]

[Spot 23! And she's got lowlight vision, so that probably helps.]

[morethanasidekick]

[Spot 17! Hey for her that didn't totally suck.]

[reallywicked]

[The entire party is able to easily notice the little campsite that had been made in a corner of the abandoned mine. There's a bedroll, a lantern overturned nearby, three days' worth of food rations, and a sketchpad. The place looks a bit ransacked.

What Cora and Taradiddle can see beyond that are several different sorts of footprints leading around the area itself. A survival check of 20 or higher would give allow either of them to tell which belong to the ogres, a humanoid, and several wolves.

Faye walks in and grabs the sketchpad, flipping through a few pages before letting out an annoyed huff.]

Great. We lost her.

[impetere]

[Cora makes her way in further, before studying the ground around her and crouching down to get a better look (survival 17 action point says 20 total).]

There are tracks here. The ogres were here too, and it looks like wolves.

[She will also try and catch a scent to see if there's anything familiar from the house that will tell her how long ago April had been here (wisdom 14).]

[reallywicked]

[Cora can still catch a scent that's unfamiliar- not of the ogres they fought and not of wolves (that I assume she's familiar with the scent of), so she could assume it belonged to Autumn. It's been at least an hour. Possibly more.]

Wolves? As in wild or hanging out with Dumb and Dumber out there?