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Post by blackfox7 on Jan 12, 2009 20:26:34 GMT -5
(Redwall sounds good. As I recall, there's supposed to be a range of mountains between the flatlands by Mossflower and the Dunes... Correct me if I'm wrong.)
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Post by blackfox7 on Jan 12, 2009 20:39:37 GMT -5
Nilansh clung to the mongoose's tail for dear life as he was half led-half dragged along at Shatrunjay'a breakneck pace. The stoat brothers in turn were yanked swiftly through the woods, trying to get a foothold as they motored away with their inheritly shorter legs. The mongoose's three companions could only see a rapid dark blur of their surroundings as they were spirited away.
---------------------------------------------------- Shardear snarled. Something was going wrong. At her fiercely clawed footpaws were the dust-drowned remains of her adversary's fire. That mongoose should be here!
Savagely she wheeled about and grabbed a jackdaw and a vole bandit by their necks and roared into their faces: "Idiots! You, featherbag, go an' fly above th' trees! See if ye can find those beasts. And you! Follow that cursed bird!!" Shard hurled them away with disgust as she turned towards the main gang of creatures, who were charging into the undergrowth in many random directions.
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Post by Hans Vermeer (Cole) on Jan 16, 2009 15:34:22 GMT -5
Shatrunjay was in trouble! If he didn't found any shelter or someplace to hide, he would be overwhelmed and killed along with his followers! He had to find something and fast! It was when his feet suddenly got wet and his running slowed that he found out he had run right into a stream.... Maybe he could find a place to hide by following it, a abondoned village or camp or something, anything really.
He quickly pulled out of the stream and shot along side it. He finally found his safe house for now, in the form of a cave that the stream was comming from. This was perfect! Even if the horde still found them all. At lest there would be less room and it would force them to funnel their numbers so he could keep chopping their numbers down easily.
"Come on!" He whispered and ran right into the darker cave.
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Post by blackfox7 on Jan 16, 2009 16:21:43 GMT -5
Nilansh and the stoat brothers whimpered fearfully as they were plunged into total darkness. Their frantic scrabbling and heavy panting seemed to intensify in the echoing tunnel, and the only noise besides that was the distant rush as the stream began flowing faster into this dark, expansive underworld. Yana slipped; the floor of the cave was coated in mud and was treacherous to all but the most sure-footed of beasts. The stoat caught his breath enough to call out: "Yerg! Where we goin' to dat we has to go throo de cave first?" Bhagavad shushed him fiercely and listened intently for signs of pursuit. ----------------------------------------------- Shard recoiled as her footpaw touched icy water. A narrow stream flowed here, bypassing the edge of the woods and darting underground into what looked like a small cavern. The pine marten raised her head to look at the horizon; startlingly near was the southern end of a range of mountains. The jackdaw was wheeling high over the tunnel entrance, making urgent caws. Shardear sneered at the cave and stared at it hatefully. With great reluctance she waved over a pack of Gratimm's newts and ordered them to charge. Oh well, she thought, troops are easily replaced...
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Post by Hans Vermeer (Cole) on Jan 16, 2009 16:50:05 GMT -5
"Come on! We can't lay about now!" Shatrunjay whispered as he started to slow to a walk. "Any of you got a torch or something to light? Feel around for anything like flint." It was way too dark to keep going but the mongoose and his followers could not just stop here. They had to keep moving. They were only gonna stay still for a few minutes. The threat of an entire horde was still on their tail likely or at lest still searching....
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Post by blackfox7 on Jan 16, 2009 17:06:31 GMT -5
Nilansh reached into his pocket and found his flint that he kept with him. Fumbling in the darkness, he took hold of his javelin and almost tearfully broke it half with all his strength. He saved the sharp end and forcefully reached out and tore the right sleeve from Yana's shirt, much to the stoat's dismay. "'Ey! Wudd yoo doin'--rippin' me shirt like dat-" "Shut up, slophead! Would ye rather fall into a crevice?!", the fox retorted hotly, wrapping the cloth around the splintered end of his javelin shaft and lighting it using his flint and steel spearhead. He held up the makeshift torch, revealing the cave's roof: A dripping myriad of stalactites. Splashing sounds echoed from near the entrance; the horde was coming for them!
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Post by Hans Vermeer (Cole) on Jan 16, 2009 17:42:12 GMT -5
Shatrunjay look in the direction of the house and whispered to them. "Lets go before they see the flame!" He started to walk rather quickly deeper and deeper into this cave or whatever it was. Hopefully nothing inhabited it because the last thing they need is to be sandwiched...
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Post by blackfox7 on Jan 16, 2009 18:22:05 GMT -5
Nilansh followed at a fast trot, holding the torch aloft so Shatrubjay could see ahead. The two stoats followed, their weapons out and ready should they encounter danger ahead of them. Yana's teeth were chattering. "Err, brudder, lizzen t' dat.." A sound like sticky, mud-caked leaves slapping against the floor of the cave continued to grow louder and louder. The newts in the horde were picking up their pace! One jackdaw flew ahead into the tunnel and dove silently at Bhagavad's unprotected back. The stoat cried out sharply when he felt the needle-like talons sink into his hide.
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Post by Hans Vermeer (Cole) on Jan 16, 2009 18:37:31 GMT -5
Shatrunjay was quicker than either when he heard Bhagavad cry out, he lunged out with his Spetum and like a fish with a spear, caught the bird dead center. He smacked the bird against a stone wall once to make sure it was dead and with a foot on it's wing, jerked the Spetum out of it's body. "We might have to stand and fight them......"
He was not scared and show no signs of it. He was just slightly agitated that these creatures just won't leave him alone. So he is going to have to MAKE THEM leave him alone!
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Post by blackfox7 on Jan 16, 2009 18:48:28 GMT -5
The mongoose's three companions nodded, readying their weapons as the first few newts appeared in the range of the torchlight. Bhagavad was still stinging from the jackdaw's claws, so it was with a vengeance that he swung out with his scimitar, slicing the head right off of one. Nilansh bashed another with the flaming torch, causing it to reel back shreiking. Yana dodged a knife thrust from another newt and swung his massive maul, knocking that newt into a dozen others who were all trying to squeeze into the passage. The last two frontrunners lunged at Shatrunjay, slashing blindly with their knives.
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Post by Hans Vermeer (Cole) on Jan 16, 2009 19:24:29 GMT -5
Shatrunjay was still armed with his Spetum and it was very simple to use, simply stab them in the chest or face with it. The Spetum was designed so even if the main spear point missed, the two projection points and it's edges still imple them, the two projections were also useful for tripping and knocking aside a shield out of the way. Which these two didn't have.
Two simple thrusts and two simple stabs were enough to take both newts out easily. "Nilansh! Grab a blade! We don't want the torch to go out on us if you whack too many of these slimy beasts!"
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Post by blackfox7 on Jan 16, 2009 19:44:16 GMT -5
The red fox struggled to unsheath his rapier as a new wave of enemies surged forward. Three newts and a rook were quickly dealt with by a few sweeps of Bhagavad's scimitar and Yana's maul. Suddenly a watervole bandit leaned out from behind a bend in the tunnel, an arrow nocked to his bowstring.
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Post by Hans Vermeer (Cole) on Jan 16, 2009 19:59:02 GMT -5
Shatrunjay sent a swarm in the form of 6 razor discs at the vole, again hoping to hit the bow string or the throat of his ranged enemy. Although taking a thumb or a finger off would work just as well. He was not sure if he managed to at lest delay the archer's attempt the fire but he had to reinforce the front line. Thrusting out with his Spetum, he tagged 4 more enemies with the deadly spear.
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Post by blackfox7 on Jan 16, 2009 21:02:49 GMT -5
The vole squealed; ofur of the six lethal blades had found their mark eitherin the creature's paws and throat or embedded in the vole's bow. One of the discs that had missed the vole continued to strike a rook in the wing.
Then, from behind the four fighting beasts, a strange sibilant voice whispered to them: "Come this way quickly, quickly. They cannot follow you this way, this way..."
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Post by Hans Vermeer (Cole) on Jan 16, 2009 21:13:31 GMT -5
Shatrunjay turned to his followers and yelled "I'll hold them off and get my weapons back! You go on ahead and I'll follow!" He turned back and ditched the Spetum for the scimitar, using the quickness of the "Invisible Blade" style. Swinging the blade so fast that is gave the illusion that it could not be seen. He was more than capable of chopping through rows and rows of enemies that had no armour at all on them.
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