Mephits In The Halfling Quarter

May 12th 2007

Players: Theodone, Eochaid, Demetria, Shakti, Tanikas

Screams were heard and word spread that there was a disturbance in the halfling quarter again, the adventurers come into the shopping area of the Halfling Quarter and there are a mess of what looks like; small brown women with long black hair standing approximately 4 feet tall, with a set of wings on each. Its hard to count how many are there as you first get there, they seem too busy trying to hit people or throwing stones. Again it seems that something is in a shopping area trying to destroy the shops.

Demetria is in the shadows. Or at least she is attempting to be as she makes her way into the market place. The young woman frowns as she pulls out her daggers and looks for a way to get to the roof tops.

Eochaid walks into the little people market again with an amused look on his face that it seems that the Half-folk are being picked on by whomever is summoning creatures into the city. He looks around and finds himself a place to lean against a stall wall in the shadows of two stalls so he can enjoy the show or join in if so inclined it is hard to say since he does have his rapier out but is not heading straight at the women that are throwing things. He seems to be waiting on something, maybe the actions from others, possibly a moral prompting, possibly an act of the gods to spur him into motion.

Theodone was walking down the street like always and with his hood up and over his head, his cloak loosely about and his longbow ready in hand. he does not trust anything at the moment since the fair. Then he sees it and hears it and likely he starts to head in that direction, with his arrow been pulled out and ready to fire.

Once again, the rumour mill does its job; Shakti's geared up fit to hunt owlbear and is only mildly irritated when it's not owlbears that she'll be facing. The irritation is not that she's disappointed ... just that these things can fly and are perhaps more troublesome than owlbears would be. The woman frowns, unslinging her bow with a casual roll of her shoulder, and draws an arrow. "/Is/ there any purpose to this kind of behaviour?" she growls, mostly to herself, while she prepares herself.

Shakti nocks and fires at the first mephit her eyes land on, the lucky eleventh one that's within her range of fire. With her characteristic grim look, she lets the bowstring make its own kind of music, a soft *twang* as the arrow's released. It strikes true, but the mephit seems utterly unphased by it, much to the Berezani woman's chagrin.

Out of no where there is a halfling flying...literally! The little creature lands on the back of the Earth Mephit, and stabs and slashes at the creature. her daggers prove to be deadly as it kills it with little trouble.

As the first mephit dies screaming from the piercing of Demetria's little blades there seems to be a flurry of action suddenly from the group three mephits fly toward Theodone and starts clawing at him, another four fly towards Demetria claws out as they scream at the small woman for harming their sister mephit, Two more start to go after Eochaid but couldn't seem to find the hiding man. The mephit that Shakti hit with her arrow may not have been too phased by the attack but was pissed that it happened that mephit along with another go after the archer claws out and scratching the woman.

Yup Theo gets attacked and faster than himself these things claw and claw his body, doing a lot of damage to him. He in turn knows he is in pain but steps back and away from them and shoots one, twice but he does no damage to it, almost as if his arrows are nothing to it.

Eochaid steps away from the booth stabbing with his rapier drawing a fine scratch on the flying woman then swings with his mace and misses. He shakes his head "One thinks that One might just stay out of the next battle that starts here"

Shakti is staggered briefly by the mephits' onslaught, but she's also entirely too stubborn to back down right now. Bleeding a bit from the gashes delivered by the little women, she draws and fires quickly, one arrow aimed at each. The arrows hit, but don't seem to terribly injure the mephits, if at all.

Demetria is quick, that much is certain. Not only that, but the little woman is agile to boot and her daggers fly as she attacks three creatures. The first two...are unaffected by her daggers, but the last winces a bit and she frowns. "THEY CAN IGNORE PAIN." she shouts down. "Try to team up two people to One and take them down that way..."

Tanikas trots into the area, her Tiger's Claw in hand. She is dressed in fresh pressed and creased garb, and her equipment is looking freshly waxed and polished. Coming into the scene, she twirls her halberd once in front of herself and then grips it powerfully, heading toward the threat.

The flurry of mephits continues the three that are going after Theodone continue attacking the masked elf the screams of the little creatures is almost deafening as they claw at him and wounding him badly. Four Mephits attacking Demi seem to have tried to circle the small halfling woman, dodging them almost expertly Demi only gets clawed twice. Even tho the sneaky man came out of the shadows to attack the mephits they can't seem to find him again as they missed attacking him completely. After wounding the mephit and pissing it off Shakti gets to feel the claws of the small woman hovering above the ground.

Once again he is attacked by the creatures and clawed once again. The pain shooting through his body and he steps back as he gets a potion out and drinks it. His eyes looking about, wondering if there is another way out of this. His clothing shredded from their attacks but that alone seems nothing to his blood loss.

Eochaid stabs forward again at the flying woman with his Rapier, missing but driving her into his mace landing a solid hit but seeing no real damage as an effect of the blow.

Tanikas spots Theo in trouble, and she runs up on the little monsters, her Halberd held high in preparation for a brutal downward chopping motion. She doesn't quite make it, yet, but one can clearly see her intentions.

Shakti nocks and fires again, this time heeding Demetria's advice ... well, somewhat. She aims at only one, sending two arrows toward it. The arrows hit hard, hard enough to make the winged woman cry out in pain ... and that cry causes a small, cruel smile to arise to the archer's lips.

Demetria moves again this time quickly. Her attacks this time focus on the one in front of her. Two flicks of her blade across it before another flicks at the one to her side. The blood that flows from these creatures doesn't seem to bother Demetria as the one in front of her dies. "One down...the rest of you want to continue?"

These mephits apparently mean business as they go after Theo and attack him full force, one of the three happens to notice the large woman with a halberd sneaking around them and turns on the large woman moving into a space making it awkward for the woman to use the long pole weapon and dives at her through the air claws out and ready to slash her. The three left dealing with Demetria seem to be pissed as they watch their sister mephit fall in battle, but blinded by their fury they all seem to miss the small halfling woman. Eochaid seems to be in trouble as the two mephits that were looking for him seem to have found him and found him hard with their claws as they slash at him still screaming like banshees. Poor Shakti gets the brunt as the mephits seem to fly into her space and attack full force claws slashing here and there seeming to really be trying to kill the woman. After the grueling attack the Mephits decide that enoughs enough and take off into the air.

Eochaid drinks back a potion to stop the blood flow then finds himself a place to sit for a while.

Demetria lands down and pulls out her wand. After a few attempts a shot is given off to both Theodone, and then Shakti before she sighs. "SOMEONE GET Heather..." A call cries out and she puts the wand away before...going through the bodies of the fallen mephits

Tanikas replaces her Tiger's Claw on her back in one fluid motion, and then looks around, "Does anyone need help?" She calls out, pacing around the area carefully.

Demetria motions to the two fallen comrades. "They live..but barely." she states with a frown. "We need a healer."

Shakti would be that torn up, bleeding woman on the street with her bow still clenched in her hands. She is pretty much dead to the world, even if that's only on a figurative level right now. In other words: she ain't going anywhere any time soon.

Demetria leans down to start searching bodies...that is right bodies. Theo's Shakties...both of them get looked through

Tanikas blinks, looking to Demetria, she blinks a little. She looks as if Demetria's actions are offending her sensibilities, "Should you be searching the bodies of the slain?" She asks, furrowing her brow. She doesn't seem aggressive, simply inquisitive.

Eochaid looks over to Tanikas "Why not the near dead have no use for possessions, and the dead even less. One would say that if there is something that the living can use on one the bodies of the dead, then the living come first."

Demetria pulls out bottle of Healing and opens it before pouring it down the throat of Theo. "He isn't dead." she states firmly. "I am looking for something that can help him." she rolls her eyes lightly.

Tanikas looks to Eochaid, his particular argument not seeming to sway her opinion much. Looking to Demetria, she nods and smiles, "Good. I do not mean to offend." She offers, by way of apology. Bowing to Demetria, she looks to the wounded, "We should bring them to a Temple. They can provide healing." She says, looking to the northeast, toward the Tempelli.

After a while at least he thinks it has been a while Theo simply flutters his eyes open and groans in pain. He finds himself on his back and all the while pain is shooting through his body. " I still live." in a groaning pained sound.

Demetria laughs quietly, "Yeah well, Its cold out here, You might want to get that hole in your pants leg sewn up."

Tanikas steps over and looks down at Theo, "You lived, Theo. Mod looks down upon you kindly today." She says, and smiles. "We should get you to Heather, along with Shakti. She will know what to do. Can you walk?" She asks, kneeling down and lending him a helping hand. A big, calloused helping hand.

Eochaid looks up at Tanikas' words "Yes Lady Heather is she not the healer?" he bends and carefully lifts shakti "This Lady needs help quickly do you know how to get to Lady Heather?"

Theodone groans again as he turns slowly on his side and looks around. He grabs the hand given and nods as he stands up slowly and in pain. " Yeah, I think so." he see's Shakti on the ground and frowns. " Please, give her this." as he pulls out another potion. To hand to someone to give to her. " Once she takes that we can go."

Tanikas looks to Eochaid, nodding, "Yes. I have been there a number of times personally. Do you need help carr--" She looks to Theo as he pulls out a healing potion. "That may bring her back." She says, and offers a smile. "Perhaps she will be able to walk on her own."

Theodone decides to do it himself instead and walks over slowly and groans as he kneels down beside her. Unstopping the potion, he opens her mouth and pours the contents slowly into her mouth and making sure it gets drank by her or it pours down into her throat and down her throat. Then he leans back and nearly falls back on the ground himself but manages to hold on. " Ok done. That is all I can do."

Eochaid sees Shakti starting to come back to the world of the living and carefully places her back down on the ground hoping to not jar her too badly making sure that her cloak is spread between her and the ground.

Demetria pulls out her wand. "Alright. who needs what." she states and looks at the group.

Tanikas looks down at her bloody legs, her lifeblood beginning to pool in the bottoms of her tall boots. "If I might, my legs could use a bit of attention. Those little monsters dug deep." She reaches down, and touches her thigh. "I guess I will have to go cleanse at the temple once more. There will be more battles to come, of this I am certain."

Theodone looks at Demi and chuckles in pain though. " I feel like I got hit by a dwarf man wit ha sledge hammer. So I am needing a lot of healing..." he bends down then and grabs his longbow from the ground and looks around. " I am feeling cold, I be needing a place to warm up, soon."

Eochaid looks over to the little Lady "Lady, One would say that if there is the power in your wand all here may need use of it. One is sorry Lady that One does not know your name."

Eochaid bends again to lift Shakti again and carefully carries her out of the halfling quarter, as he walks he leans his head forward to murmur "Lady all will be well One will be carrying you to the Silvertine inn to keep you warm until a Healer can be found." then walks carrying her through town to the Silvertine inn.