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Enemy at the Gate: Gather Information
Topic Started: Dec 31 2008, 04:10 AM (444 Views)
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After a half day of travel, the group would arrive at a small town in a swampy area of the forest. The houses were mostly made of boards, nails, and uncut stone. It looked dirty, and above all else, deserted. However it looked recently deserted. Freshly chopped wood lay stacked near houses, various tasks left undone, and almost all the doors were left hanging open. There was no sign of human life except for one. A man in his thirties wearing a straw hat and torn up trousers and rolled up sleeved shirt sat in his wooden rocking chair, plucking at the strings of his banjo.

Kyril and Embren could tell there was a battle, or at least some kind of struggle, that had happened in the village. The muddy grounds showed people in battle and others being dragged off. In some places one could see some old blood.

Ingrid looked alarmed. "... What happened here?" She said in a surprised whisper.
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Kyril could feel the bad karma in the air. Of course, it could simply be the whole unease with walking into a town with glaring signs of violent struggle everywhere. He glanced to the lone man that remained on a porch as Ingrid asked her question, to which Kyril could only answer with uncertainty.

"I don't know; from what I can see, there was a large conflict here." He looked at the signs carved into the mud by bodies and men. Again he looked to the sole person who remained.
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It was a long day and they were finally finding a stopping point. Embren was more than ready to get off the horse and walk around, the injury had gotten sore from disuse. Of course, the present setting was far from enjoyable, between the swap, the obvious recent struggle, and the smells, stopping for long was not a willful thing to do.

Looking around, she could see that there was only one possible source of information with which to satiate the group's curiosity. "Simple enough." Embren said, now actually dismounting the horse and walking slowly, trying to show no signs of limping even though the leg was far from fully functional.

The sole man was playing a simple stringed instrument, he looked oddly at peace to Embren given all the signs of the opposed. No matter, it wasn't going to stop her. Approaching him (and ignoring whatever the other two were discussing), she cut to the chase as always.

"What happened here?" She inquired.
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"We lost... I lost everythang, reckon." The man said in a hillbilly accient. "Our town got sacked by a bunch a' soldiers. Took everthang. Killed the men. Took the children and the ladies. Took all our food n' stuff. Us simple swamp folk don't be havin' much, but what we did havin' was tak'n. I ain't here when they came, was out huntin' crocs. Cam' back to a dead town, reckon."

"Took all our belongin's out to the abandoned stone house in the swamp." He sighed and stopped playing to adjust his straw hat. "Went out thar myself. Guessin' they caught the wizard that was thar in the stone house."

"If yer lookin' for something from me, I ain't got anything left worth takin'."
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"I don't need anything. Thank you for the information... sorry." Embren left the man fast as she approached him initially. From one disgusting situation to an even worse one today, what was the deal with this part of the world?

When she got back to the other two she had one thing to say, "We have a stone house to investigate."
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Kyril was stonefaced as the man recounted the story of the town's siege by soldiers. Every word wore at Kyril's patience for the crime that was committed, but he exercised calmness in this time. An outburst would have been both uncomely and unprofessional.

When Embren gave just the answer that he had wanted to hear, he gave the woman an admiring smirk, and a simple nod. But he wondered to himself if she was in any condition to be embarking on such an enterprise. Well, she looks tough, he thought to himself.

Kyril gave a glance to Ingrid. "Is it alright with you if we take a detour?"
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"I hope you're only going to look, m'lord. This sounds like dangerous buisness for the likes of the three of us." Ingrid said with a lifted brow. "But it will be alright."

Should they depart, they wouldn't know where they were going! Though, not entierly. Due to their expert tracking skills, the three would follow an unkept muddy trail through the swampy lands. The warm, wet, air became thick with fog. Eventually the tracks lead to the edge of a large lake, the center only barily visible from the shore. A wooden, segmented, bridge extended from the shore out towards the center. Each segment of the bridge seemed to be floating by some unknown means. Muddy footprints covered the bridge.

The bridge ends at the gates of a small stone castle. Due to it's size, the castle would probably be considered a fort or outpost rather than castle. Small flickering orange lights could be seen at the walls of the castle.

"... Looks welcoming and a death trap." Ingrid mused out loud.
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A death trap indeed, Embren thought, looking at the oddly placed construct. A lack with a strange bridge and stone fortress.. the location of it made no sense from a military perspective either, it truly did not make immediate sense to the exiled Narzgarian.

The 'stone house' was rife with an eerieness that made her hisitate going any further, but at this point she had no other good options as it were. "You don't have to come if you don't want, girl." Embren replied to the shaman, "but I at least, am going." Once again leading the ragtag group by action rather than instruction Embren began to work her way across the bridge.
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Kyril eyed the structure from where they stood, noting the signs of activity through the grim murkiness of the atmosphere. As Embren began to move forward, Kyril issued that he would be behind them. While Embren and possibly Ingrid went on ahead, Kyril guided his horse over to a low-lying tree and tied the reins up on a branch. He whispered reassurances to his horse, though it was noble enough a steed to perhaps not need them.

Then, he turned and followed a few yards behind the women, forming something of a rear guard in case something were to ambush them.
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3. Repeat steps 1 and 2.
4. Repeat steps 1 and 2 again, getting suspended for a few days.
5. Repeat steps 1 and 2 yet again, getting suspended for a week and Underdogged.
6. Repeat steps 1 and 2.
7. Do all this in the course of a month.
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Ingrid flushed. "I'm not staying here alone after soldiers attacked me on the road." She hurried after the slender warrior woman. She felt a little better with Kyril behind, but not much. They were out in the open with nothing to use as cover.

The bridge was a little unsteady and slimy from being in the lake for so long. If you weren't careful or had sure footing, you would find yourself face first in the bridge or off the bridge. However after venturing half way across the bridge, the three could better see the castle. The walls were high and thick, the castle had one enclosed tower and two open with stone crenellations. Atop the tower were several dark figures that appeared to be patrolling the ramparts. The sounds of an army camp became more apparent as they drew closer. The only two defenses on the door was the heavy wooden doors and the thick iron gate.

As they drew close, they could hear cries from the top of the castle's walls. More shadowy figures appeared on the wall a moment later. Ingrid jumped as an arrow thunked into the bridge beside her foot. Another whistling arrow hit the ground a few feet ahead of the group. The figures on the walls were shooting arrows at them.
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As they got closer it became apparent that it was very much a manned fortress. Between the plain old sounds of people, there were figures outlined along the top of the building as well.

Whether they were hostile or not was soon determined when arrows began to fly at them. Embren reacted by grabbing Ingrid's closest arm and diving in to the lake of the bridge. The water would hide their location and reduce the arrows from deadly projectiles to meager inconveniences, what Kyril did was out of her control.
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Kyril knew the whistling of incoming arrows very well. With a mildly annoyed look, he stepped aside as an arrow thunked into the wood paneling a few yards behind him.

"Well, I suppose that puts any question of their intentions to rest."

Normally, Kyril would fall back and report this incident to the nearest barrack of Alexieran-Kelvendarian soldiers as an unlawful occupation by hostile soldiers, but the nearest barrack was surely several days away in any given direction.

So Kyril did the logical thing and answered in kind. Dressed in earthly colors, Kyril was probably harder to spot than the enemies were for him. With an adroit sweep, he fired an arrow at the first silhouette he saw, just as the women dove off the bridge.
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How to Get Banned From FEFF
1. Break a rule enough that a moderator has to verbally warn you.
2. Break a rule enough that a moderator has to actually warn you.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2.
4. Repeat steps 1 and 2 again, getting suspended for a few days.
5. Repeat steps 1 and 2 yet again, getting suspended for a week and Underdogged.
6. Repeat steps 1 and 2.
7. Do all this in the course of a month.
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For as skilled Kyril was, the soldiers on the wall had the advantage in the fight. The arrow seemed to have strike a soldier, but it didn't kill the man. After that, the soldiers ducked down behind the crenellations and concentrated their fire on the lone lord. Should Kyril not abandon the general area, he'd find himself impaled with a multitude of arrows.

Meanwhile, Ingrid floundered around a little in the water, not because she couldn’t swim, but because she was surprised to be dragged into the water. She started to tread water and follow after the other woman. She spat the water from her mouth as she swam for cover.
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From what Embren recalled of the building, trying to get closer to deal with it was out of the question. Not to mention the numbered were just a tad dubious for such bravado anyway.

So instead, she swam away, towards the outer shore of the lake, effectively retreating. Course she needed to breath and would surface every half a minute or so, but the chances of being noticed were slim and the farther away she (And likely Ingrin) got.. the woman wasn't worried about it.
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Kyril was readying another arrow for the victim's buddy when they suddenly multiplied. The sound of bowstrings going off was the red flag telling him to fall back. The thunking of arrows as they landed close in front of him on the bridge was the whistle that send him running back across to the shore.

Once he was sure he was out of a range in which he was likely to be hit by even a longbow's shot, he turned and stared at the silhouetted structure contemplatively.

"Well, it seems attacking from the fore is out of the question." Indeed, the numbers were higher than he thought.

He crouched low and spotted for the women, who were hopefully making as few ripples as they could on their way back to the shore, if that is where they were headed.
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How to Get Banned From FEFF
1. Break a rule enough that a moderator has to verbally warn you.
2. Break a rule enough that a moderator has to actually warn you.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2.
4. Repeat steps 1 and 2 again, getting suspended for a few days.
5. Repeat steps 1 and 2 yet again, getting suspended for a week and Underdogged.
6. Repeat steps 1 and 2.
7. Do all this in the course of a month.
8. ????
9. PROFIT!!!

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