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Post by RandomJester~RLV on Oct 19, 2005 13:25:40 GMT -5
(*note; this takes place about 3 days after the end of my character's bio. Anyone is welcome to join, or just have there character pass by.)
As the cart they had been riding neared the famed whitebridge, it was a site to be seen. The guards that the merchant had hired signaled for us to get down, drake almost fell of the cart, but got him self back up and dusted himself off. The good part about working for this merchant was better treatment, it wasn't a joy ride, but it was better than living only to work. They would also be issued a weapon on the ship, but it was only to be used wen the merchant or his men commanded it, the punishment for using it against them would be swift and deadly. They were given boiled leather armour, and a long shirt to go underneath it. Other than that, they were wearing the same things they had at the encampment. They were told to walk next to the cart, and reminded by the guards what would happen if they tried to run off. The closer they got the white bridge the more drake noticed that it seemed to be made of one solid stone block, "astounding..." he whispered, luckly it was to low for the guards to hear.
A small group of men seemed to be waiting on the horizon, all mounted on horseback, one of the guards signaled them to stop, with a slight clammer the cart stopped dead in it's tracks, one guard went forward to the carrage and waited by the window, the merchant leaned out and said soemthing to the guard, the guard nodded and started to jog forward infront of the group, the cart started up again and they were forced tot start moving.
The guard reacted the men first but not by much, they were grisly looking men, that looked as if they had seen many battles, one sported a scar running from the base of his ear to his chin, he carried a flail and a short bow. Two other men were bald with only a top knot of hair, carrying large swords, the fourth man seemed to be some sort of leader, because he rode ahead of these men as they slowly marched twords the carrage, the last man was rather young looking, probaly only alittle older than drake himself. He was carrie-ing a quater-staff and a sword, although his horse adorned more baggage, drake could only asume that he was the groups healer of some sort.
(*gtg bbl)
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Post by Tsuki on Oct 23, 2005 9:47:03 GMT -5
Tsuki watched from woods both merchant cars and group of people they were coming at, she just watched from wood and was extremely calm. Her spear was in her hands and she looked at pack of wolves that was surrounding her, since she left Three-Fold land she traveled through world, but always in company that was made by wolves. Tsuki didn't mind to have them as companions, for her wolves were far much better company then people who lived in these lands although she had to admit some of them were rather strange, their ways sometimes made her laugh and sometimes made her angry so she decide that best thing was to keep an eye on all humans that were near her any time and try to stay as much from them as it was possible.
This wagon she followed from curiosity for few days, she wasn't sure why to be honest, she saw numerous merchant wagons during her traveling and seeing white bridge again was nice thing, but she didn't know still why she was so attracted to see what will happen with this wagon. She saw this group couple of days ago before she started following wagon and she did not like look of it. They did not even smell goods when Tsuki saw this wagon heading their way she followed it just to see what is going to happen.
She was so concentrated on group that was in front of wagon that she did not notice that she went out of the leaves just too much; Tsuki looked around to see if somebody noticed her and when she saw one of younger men looking at her she smiled at him and then disappeared into the forest. She was interested in seeing what is going to happen, but at same time did not want to be caught by merchant guards.
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Post by RandomJester~RLV on Oct 23, 2005 11:03:27 GMT -5
The merchant exited the forward-most wagon, and walked twords the men on horseback, drake knew that something was going to happen. One of the guards said something to one of the boys and it was sent down the line, they were to stand up straight and line up, "well they don't look much older than my son.." said the apparent leader of the horse-men, he looked them over, and asked a few near random questions, such as "how old are you?" and "if you had a choice, of a life of shame, or a death of honor what would you choose" it seemed to take forever. Final he got off his horse and went over to the first wagon, drake knew what was coming, and waited for the chance to escape, they had made a clever plan to travel away from them wen it got dark, and steal there weapons and horses. They knew it was risky, but they had to chance it.
It seemed like the woods were watching them, and there allways seemed to be a distant shadow trailing them, but he knew it was probaly just his mind playing tricks on him. The sad part was, none of them had any formal training in survival, or even fighting. The man came back from the wagon, with him was two swords and bow and a small quiver of arrows. Drake hoped the bow was for him, but he doubted it, it really didn't matter to him, these people weren't all evil, just the merchant. They needed the training they had at the barracks back home, they did teach them basics of combat, how to use a sword and bow, but it seemed to lack in every way, like they were being trained as cannon fodder.
The man handed out the weapons, the swords went to the two other guys, and the bow was his, but he didn't get the arrows, it was a precaution I guess to keep him from using them against his men.
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Post by Tsuki on Oct 24, 2005 6:24:00 GMT -5
Tsuki watched whole thing from another angle, these people were fools by all means, they gave young ones the bows without arrows, what they thought that boys didn't understand they were having a problem and that their life was in stake as much as the life of real guard. She looked up and saw nice long branch, she smiled and started going climbing against tree, she did lots of that during past few months. Positioning her self on branch Tsuki made sure no one could see her from wagons, she was sure that guards won't see her most of them were too stupid to look around among trees. She got her arrows and bow ready for using, guards thought that their hides and hide of their merchant who gave them money were the most important things in the world, those young men by cart, they could be slaughtered as far as Tsuki could see taking that they were unarmed.
Gray male wolf passed tree and looked up, he watched Tsuki for few moments and then said: ''Trees are for birds and not for wolves,'' his tone was serious but Tsuki was sure that if he could he would smile, too bad wolves never smiled. Whole pack passed a tree and most of them looked up at Tsuki, none liked fact that she was there, but they said nothing against it at same time. Tsuki watched few wolves that were beside her take their place under the tree, they did not understand why she found humans so fascinating, but were there if she needed help. Tsuki smiled and her attention was switched to group again, she saw the guy that saw her looks around in nervous manner, he seemed little scared because she couldn't see her probably anywhere near again, watching him look around Tsuki smiled and wailed her self, this was going to be interesting event.
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Post by RandomJester~RLV on Oct 26, 2005 9:09:38 GMT -5
(*sorry this is taking so long! I've been up for like 1 1/2 days working on the game T_T, and I have three other rp's @_@, and a fiction I'm working on T_T. btw for the moment keep the men on horse back alive, there is something I want to do. But you can kill the merchant ) One of the men carrying the large swords made a motion twords the woods, and looked at there leader, he walked over to him, the man with the large swords whispered something in his ear. And called the guard over, wen the guard came back, he told the boys to move near the men n horse back and follow them into a local inn, the merchant would meet them at the ship. The glimmer of metal shown quickly out in the woods. But it seemed like no one saw it, they followed the men with the horses untill they got to the head of white bridge, it was only a short walk, but it had them out of breath trying to keep up. The got off there horses and signaled us to follow them, as we crossed the bridge, drake started to notice the detial put into the bridge, it seemed to be flowing stone. "Ogeir's work" said the youngest of the men on horseback, "quite magnificant isn't it?" drake nodded yes and continued to study the bridge around them. As they came closer the sounds of a town full of bustling people came into range, hawkers crying out there goods, trying to out sound each other, it was getting slightly late though, they sun was starting to hang low in the sky. As they pass through groups of people hastly making there way around the town. Strangely enough bakers still had there goods out, and it seemed like something special was going to happen tonight. "maybe we came at a bad time" drake heard one of the horse men whisper, "looks like some kinda of festival or something", "nah, it's a local highend-social class wedding, I saw a banner with it inscribbed on it as we walked in." said the youngest of the horsemen, drake looked around in awe, this was his first time out side of his own villiage, the buildings were much larger, and there seemed to be quite a few inns and taverns seemingly just thrown about the town. The road was coble stone, so the sound of horse hoves could be heard echo-ing off the buildings surrounding them. They reached a inn with a stable close to the heart of town, it was almost empty besides a jolly looking inn keeper poslishing a glass. "are our rooms ready?", said the leader "yes sir, all ready for you, I'll have one of the stable boys put your horses int he stable.", said the inkeeper. "thank you," and with that he headed up to his room, the rest of us were left there. (*you can kill the merchant now =P)
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Post by RandomJester~RLV on Dec 8, 2005 20:54:49 GMT -5
One of the men gave the signal to move out of the building, as we walked out side a small gust of fresh cold air blasted us. It was refreshing but still aslight discomfort, "now, each of us will take a boy, and have them follow us, the first one to lose there boy pays for the rooms, agree'd?", said one of the men with top-knots. "fine by me, but remeber who ever wins has to explain what happen to kain. I don't think this is a good idea to split up." ; "your allways to carefull remeber what happen last time, he acted like we hadn't been gone even! not to say anything about you lose-ing those horses wen won!" ; "don't start that up again, just for now we'll go with your plan. But mark my words the second we split up they will make a run for it." As they dispersed into the sea of people buying and selling goods, drake was seemingly asigned to the youngest man, who as he observed before, seemed to be the healer and youngest of the group. As they wandered through the town, drake discovered he was right, they were making constant stops at vendors selling herbs and other things, to a quick stop at the blacksmith to get a glass-bottle reinforced.
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