Swords of the Fallen (Fantasy RP)(Started Open, PM CS to GM)

[Kuroneko Aisha]

Rena gasped when she saw one of the more elite bandits heading her way. She knew that she could just fly up into the air and rain arrows down on the guy but she only had so many arrows and knew that this wasn't likely to be the final battle. Instead, she lifted off the ground only a little, staying at a ten foot hover before silently chanting an incantation as her hands shimmered with magic. As soon as the bandit approached, she took off to the right with avian agility and waved her right hand in a crescent motion, blasting a burst of compressed air towards the bandit.

Though all he could see was a shimmer in the air, the bandit seemed to see the blade and reacted accordingly by jumping to the side while turning as well, making the blade pass harmlessly by. Rena had prepared for that though, and in a flurry of slashing movements with both arms, she sent a flurry of wind blades after him. The bandit knew he couldn't dodge these ones, so he raised his kite shield in front of him and bent on his knee, making his form as small as possible behind the shield. The blades pounded the wooden shield and one could hear as chunks of wood were ripped out of the shield with each blade.

After a flurry of roughly eight blades, his shield was rendered useless and all he had to rely on was his longsword. Rena thought she had this one in the bag, and in the momentary pause it took the bandit to realize no more blades were coming, she had switched to her bow and notched and arrow. When he tossed his shield aside, she let the arrow loose. It didn't reach its target however, as the bandit saw the arrow and swatted it down with his sword. Growling, Rena notched another one even as the bandit charged. Letting it loose, it met the same fate as the first, and now the bandit was on her, sword raised in the air. Letting out a small squeak, she held her bow with both hands and used it to block the slash, but her own weapon was rendered useless.

Flying back to give herself some distance, she let loose another volley of blades and this time the bandit used his sword to cut through most of them, but two made it past and slashed into his arms, cutting deep. Letting out a roar of pain, he charged once more, intent on crushing the small Fae one way or another. What he didn't see was that while he was focused on cutting the wind blades, Rena had set down a Rune in front of her and when the bandit stepped on it, it let loose hurricane force winds and launched him into the air. Now in Rena's home territory, she flew up after him like a fighter jet, launching volley after volley of blades after him. Still spinning from being launched into the air, the bandit didn't stand a chance against the blades, and was ripped to pieces, sending a rain of blood over the battle, but especially over Malyc, just cause.

 

[Supah]

Aaron caught a glimpse of a bandit who set his sights on him, Aaron and the bandit circled each other for a while. The bandit drew his sword and shield, an odd choice for a bandit in retrospect Aaron thought, and charged forward. Aaron knew this was his chance, holding his palms up he cried "FLASH!" A flash of brilliant blinding light illuminated the cave and seared the bandits eyes, the bandit stopped mid-stride and Aaron teleported behind him. "Too easy," said Aaron, grabbing the bandits head between his hands and sending a powerful sustained jolt through his head. Aaron backed away flicking his hands behind him to release the remaining electricity. The bandit immediately turned and delivered a hook to Aaron's stomach, and a high kick directly to the face.

Aaron was sent reeling, the physical blows unexpected, no one has ever survived that much electricity Aaron thought. The bandit grabbed him by the leg and knocked him off balance, he drew his blade and made a stab at Aaron's chest but Aaron managed to roll aside just in time. "Earth Meld!" Aaron cried desperately, sinking through the stone as if it were but water. Aaron grabbed his assailants leg and dragged it underground, and released the limb so it once again became solid. Aaron clawed his way back above gasping for air, the only drawback to the spell, and prepared to finish what he started.

Just then a throwing knife just barely glanced Aaron's temple, a thin line of blood tracing its way down his face. The bandit still hadn't given up yet and he continued to throw five more knives in quick succession. Aaron used electric pulses to stop all of these knives mid throw, and then turned them to bear on their owner. 3 met their mark, one in the leg and two in the chest. Blood splattered to the ground and the bandit fell to his knee.

Still the bandit persisted, "Ice Whip!" he called, a barbed whip materializing out of thin air, and hurdling towards Aaron.

"That's ENOUGH!" Aaron shouted, "FLAME NOVA!" holding his hands across his chest he let his magic energy build and collect around his whole body. Aaron uncrossed his arms and thrust them into the air, a wave of superheated wind and flames burst from his body in all directions, disintegrating the ice whip and scorching the bandits clothes.

Aaron forged a blade of ice and ran up to the bandit impaling him to the floor. He gathered a huge pulse of electricity and released it point blank. The power of the blow left the sound of a thunder crack reverberating throughout the room. The bandit fell limp, the smells of scorched flesh emanating from him.

Aaron sat down, panting. That bandit was no ordinary man. Something wasn't right here...

 

[easternflame]

Henry's words echoed in Halgon's head "You'd be surprised at what I can accomplish without violence, if you put your sword away every once in a while, Halgon" Lets try that Henry, at least with not much, violence. He's too big to take head on. Fight with your head now Halgon. So Halgon sheathed his swords and got on his knees and closed his eyes. When the bandit saw this, his eyes seemed to turn red as he sprinted toward Halgon. In one sudden movement the Elite Bandit lifted his Bastard Sword to strike Halgon with it. Halgon oppened his eyes and kicked him in the knee, shattering the bone, the bandit shrieked in pain and fell to the ground, Halgon jumped up and sidestepped as the bandit fell. When the bandit hit the floor, Halgon drew his sword and chopped his armwith one precise strike, the bandit shouted and cried in pain. Halgon, calm, approached the Bandit and cut his head off.

 

[leon558]

Athgar was not at all phased by a bandit running towards him.Athgar sidestepped and the bandit ran into a wall.When the bandit turned around Athgar was several feet back.Athgar threw a bottle of rum into the bandits hands,the bandit was confused.Athgar shot a fireball at him which turned into a more powerfull explosion because of the rum.The bandit died in a blaze of fire,truly it was an astonishing sight.Athgar bowed,looked at Soreal and said "Are we done now?"

 

[David Bjur]

Gnûrlon couldn't get a clear shot of the bandit leader and was thus looking for a bandit that wasn't busy fighting one of his fellows. He suddenly discovered a bandit in a robe on the other side of the room. The bandit noticed that Albin was staring at him and he started to smile. Sparks of electricity started to spray out of his hands but got more and more concentrated until it started to look like the bandit hold two blue dinner plates in his hands. Gnûrlon realized that the bandit probably was a magic user considering the sparks coming out of his hands.
The mage rushed at Gnûrlon and Albin threw one of the metal spears that Aaron had given him at the bandit but the bandit deflected the spear with his left dinner plate and kept running at Gnûrlon.

Gnûrlon barely managed to pull out his spear befor the bandit tried to slap him with the right dinner plate. Gnûrlon managed to parry but felt his muscles cramping and saw how the left diner plate was heading towards him. In the last second parried Gnûrlon after snapping out of the cramps but where now suffering from the same cramps as before. Gnûrlon jumped backwards to avoid getting slapped by the bandit and was now trying to get a good distance between him and the bandit. With a distance of 2 metres between him and the bandit was enough for Gnûrlon to lunge forward for the offensive. While parrying he realized that it was just a matter of time before he didn't manage to block the mages attacks.

Suddenly a explosion of fire suprised the bandit and he stared at a flaming Aaron. This was what Gnûrlon needed. With all his might shoved Gnûrlon his spear into the bandits stomach and the bandit groaned. With his last powers smashed the bandit his dinner plates together at Gnûrlons spear. The spear absorbed the blue dinner plates and Gnûrlon felt his whole body shaking and then!

Nothing.

 

[staika]

Sorael walked towards the bandit leader completely ignoring the battles around him. "I hope you said your prayers because you're about to die." Sorael said coldly as he drew closer to his enemy. "Well you little fishie, I'm going fishing and I'm looking to catch a big one!" The bandit leader said pointing his sword at sorael. "Your overconfidence will be your downfall." Sorael snapped back drawing his spear. "No, My overconfidence will be your downfall!" The bandit leader responded.

The bandit leader without another word charged at sorael and closed the gap between the two faster than sorael thought he would. Sorael had little time to react but was able to bring his spear to his left side to block the bandit's slash at him with the pole of his spear. Sorael used his strength to push the bandit away and followed with a thrust of his spear. The bandit regained his balance quickly and used his sword to knock soraels attack away. In one motion the bandit then used his left arm to grab sorael's spear. He then pushed the spear to the side causing sorael to lose control of his weapon for a second.

The bandit leader used that second to go in for another attack and sorael could not get his weapon back to block in time. Blood started to drip out of the wound on his arm, Sorael had brought his left arm up to stop the sword from getting to his head. The bandit leader looked on in a malicious excitement as he watched the blood drop from sorael's arm. Sorael dropped his spear and laid a heavy punch on the bandit leader's stomach knocking him back a little.

Sorael ignored the intense pain in his left arm and charged the bandit leader without a weapon. Sorael first grabbed the bandit's right arm and twisted it until the bandit leader dropped his sword. Sorael then punched the bandit leader in the face causing the bandit leader to stagger a little. Sorael used this opportunity to finish the battle. Sorael started out with a right uppercut to the bandit leaders head and then used his left armblade to slice the bandit leaders neck. The bandit leader started to stagger around covering his neck trying to stop the bleeding.

Sorael went over and picked up his spear and walked back over to the bandit leader. Sorael kicked the bandit leader onto the ground and then used the blade of his spear to finish off the bandit leader. Sorael watched as the life drained out of the bandit leader and did not take the spear out until he was sure that the bandit leader was dead.

 

[leon558]

Athgar stretched and walked up to the electrocuted dwarf."Oi wake up!" Athgar kicked the dwarf and realised he was stunned."Well shit,alright time to whip out the ol'healing magic."Athgar crouched at the dwarfs side and waved his hands around his body.Athgars hands started to glow and The dwarf starts to slowly move.When Athgar was done he helped the dwarf up and muttered"you owe me one"Then Athgars vision started to blur and he got pale,but nobody really noticed that.

 

[staika]

Sorael was exhausted from the battle he was just in, he looked over to the others and noticed that there were a few injuries but no one was dead. "good, no one died." Sorael thought to himself. "Well it looks like we have defeated the bandits. Let's go back now and we can.." Sorael started to say before being interrupted by the crashing of boulders which blocked both ways out trapping them in the cave.

The cave was completely pitch black and sorael could not get a good read to where he was. As sorael was trying to move back towards the squad blue crystals on the wall started to glow. The light from the crystals soon gave the cave an eerie blue tint to it and soon smoke started to fill the cave from the center of the room. "Everyone don't breathe in the smoke! Who knows what it could do to you!" Sorael shouted putting his hand over his mouth.

"You do not have to be so cautious aquean, the smoke is not poisonous." A mysterious voice said from inside the thickest part of the smoke. "Who are you?" Sorael asked still wary of the smoke. "My name is kaladin." The voice responded. Suddenly the smoke started to swirl and then it disappeared revealing an old looking wizard who's face was hidden by his hood. "So kaladin, I assume it was you who trapped us in here?" Sorael asked not knowing what to make of the wizard.

"Yes that was me, If I didn't stop you from leaving you wouldn't have stayed to talk." kaladin responded. "Why do you want to talk to us?" Sorael questioned still not able to pick up what kaladin was thinking. "Oh yes, I've been watching all of you very closely throughout the years. You have picked a good group sorael." kaladin answered adding on a compliment at the end. "Wait, you were watching us?" Sorael asked bewildered by what he was just told. "Yes I've been watching everyone here since the war. I feel like this group will be worthy of the knowledge I am about to tell you." Kaladin responded.

"Now all of you remember what happened in the war correct?" Kaladin asked. The group all answered yes. "Good, then you remember the invincible soldiers. What if I told you that they couldn't be killed because they were already dead." Kaladin said phrasing his last sentence as half a statement and half a question. "That would be impossible, necromancy died out thousands of years ago." Sorael responded. "Well aquean what would you know of magic anyway. The invincible soldiers were actually the undead controlled by a powerful mage." Kaladin explained as the group listened to what he was saying.

"This mage is actually the last necromancer who learned the secrets from an old forgotten text. He spent his entire life learning how to use necromancy magic and how to control the undead. He wanted to test out his new found power and found the perfect opportunity when the war started. He went to the king of malum and offered him his services, and the king of malum accepted and that's how malum got their invincible soldiers." kaladin explained. "But how did sophisma defeat the undead soldiers?" Sorael asked.

"I was the one who helped sophisma defeat the undead soldiers." Kaladin responded proudly. "But that story isn't what I wanted to talk to you about. I was able to seal the mage's magic away but I have become too weak to continue to keep his magic sealed. Once I release the seal he will attempt to destroy everything and I won't be able to stop him." Kaladin explained. "So what do you need us for?" Sorael asked. "I need you to defeat the undead soldiers." Kaladin answered in a serious tone. Sorael was about to ask how until a strange crystal floated in front of him.

"I am going to give each of you a crystal, those crystals hold a special type of magic that will allow you to destroy the undead." kaladin explained. "Do not lose that crystal or you will not be able to fight the undead." kaladin added. "Why should we trust you, you trapped us in this cage and you tell us this crazy stuff and you expect me to blindly believe it?" Sorael said questioning what he was told. "I wouldn't want you to believe me just like that but I would like you to do one thing before making your judgement. Go to the south about a days walk from here, there you will find a city that is under attack by the undead. Whether you believe me or not will be up to you at that point." Kaladin said.

"Now I shall leave you, remember to heed my warning and go to the south." Kaladin said while backing up. Smoke started to cover him again and his figure suddenly vanished in the smoke. As the smoke started to clear sorael saw that the rocks that were blocking the ways out were gone. Sorael had no idea what to believe as he just stared in shock at the crystal he held in his hand.

 

[Malyc]

Malyc listened intently to the wizard as he explained why he had stopped them from leaving. When the wizard got to the point about the undead soldiers, Malyc stiffened in shock. He had been in command of a group of them and hadn't even known it. "That explains everything" he muttered quietly. "That must be why I had had no losses until we reached the gates of Regnatores." he thought.

He resolved to explain that little bit of his past to Soreal as soon as he had an opportunity.

 

[Erik the Orange]

Henry sighed, spooked a little.

"Are we really listening to a guy we met in a cave, Sorael? I don't know what's worse: the fact that there might be an army of the dead waiting for us in the south, or the idea that we're trusting this guy."

Squinting his eyes he absentmindedly took on the guise of the hooded Kaladin before reassuming his own form again after a puff of smoke.

He shuddered at the thought of the strange man, and felt his crystal weigh heavily in his pocket next to Felix.

"As much as this whole evil dead thing is giving me the creeps, I guess we have to go. Right?"

 

[Supah]

Aaron held the crystal in his hands, it shone a brilliant golden yellow, and it shifted to a deep blood red, then a cool dark blue, and finally back again. A never ending rotation of the elements. Aaron could sense powerful magic within the swirling surface...

 

[Kuroneko Aisha]

Rena listened to the wizard with interest beaming in her eyes. This sounded like it would be the coolest adventure ever! Knowing that she had made the right choice in leaving her forest home, she giggled and said. "I think we should listen to him! Let's go to the town to the south and save them from the undead zombie thingies!" She had a thought that made her gasp before asking excitedly. "Oh, do you think after the battle we'll be heroes? Will they hold a feast in our honor as bards sing songs about us?" She was already imagining being treated as a hero who just defeated a dragon.

 

[GrimGrimoire]

"I don't like this, but I think we should head south. It would not make sense for it to be a trap. I he wanted to kill us, I don't think any of us would be alive right now."
Drogon sighed and put his eyes the crystal, tried to feel the magic it emitted.
Whatever this crystal was, it was at least something. But would that something be useful? He could not tell for sure.
"Besides, we are mostly done with our actual mission. We can go there, and if everything is in order, we get our rewards and part ways."

 

[leon558]

"Oh lovely,wizards talking while in smoke,strange crystal appearing out of nowhere,this sounds like one of those adventure stories my uncle used to tell me.South it is then." Athgar let out a sigh and was ready to move out.

 

[David Bjur]

Gnûrlon had thanked Athgar for reviving and tried his best listening to the mage. He managed to hear all the important details but were too dizzy to remember, it all. When the mage had left, Gnûrlon tried to focus on the crystal he suddenly had in his hand. How can a crystal kill the undead? Does the undead even exist? Did that mage even exist?

All the questions made Gnûrlons head spin and he started to throw up on the floor.

 

[staika]

Sorael was overwhelmed by what he heard but did not believe a bit of it. "Damn mages, If he expects me to believe him just like that he must be a moron." Sorael thought to himself not believing what he was just told. Sorael looked to the others and they sounded like they wanted to check it out. "Fine, seeing as we have nothing better to do we might as well see if that mage was telling the truth." Sorael decided.

Sorael and the others walked out of the cave and sorael looked around to where they would be heading. The only town sorael knew about that was a days walk to the south from there was the town of Newbridge. He tried to think why someone would want to attack newbridge since nothing of importance was there. Sorael was stumped as to why they would want to attack Newbridge but the others wanted to go there so he would go and see if the mage was telling the truth.

"Okay guys lets go, if we are to get there at a good time we might as well go now." Sorael announced while he found the path to the south. Sorael started to head down the path while everyone else followed, going this way would take a day by foot so he had plenty of time to think about what had happened back at the cave.

Spoiler: OOC

Since I have a lot of work to catch up one I am going to allow the journey to be a talking part. You can talk amongst yourselves about whatever but you can't add anything. We are going to be walking and that is it, so don't head to some random tavern again.

 

[Kuroneko Aisha]

Rena giggled happily as she exited the cave and flew above the others. Looking ahead and acting as a scout, she saw that their route was strangely empty, and consisted of very little to distract them. Deciding that the best way to make the time go by was to talk, she flew down to the group once more and landed on her feet, deciding to walk for a little. Looking to Sorael, she said. "How long is it going to take us to get there?"

 

[staika]

Sorael watched the fae fly around and it looked like she was looking ahead, he then noticed that she had landed and was walking next to him. "It should take us about a days walk, that's depending on if we aren't interrupted on the way there." Sorael answered. "Stay on the lookout rena, seeing as you can fly you can warn us if you see anything coming towards us." Sorael added seeing a use for the fae.

 

[GrimGrimoire]

Drogon followed the little crowd, unsure how to spend this travel.
He could walk in silence, but that would be to waste time.
And he did not feel like reading would be much better.
He started to look around, scouting for company.

"Hey Gnûrlon!" The cryomancer approached his target. "How are you doing? I almost thought we had lost you in there. Is your host doing fine?"

 

[Malyc]

"Hey Soreal, can I talk to you for a minute?" Malyc asked as he gestured off to the side. "In private. I don't want what I have to say to effect the morale of the group" he said in a low voice, so the others wouldn't hear.