Wolves and OwlBears In The Market

May 9th 2007

Players: Sorenson, Tanikas, Zsuzsa, Dweegon, Vashbav, Heather, Shakti, Trysta, Eochaid

As you venture into the Kauppatori on this cool evening, you see again that there are creatures trying to demolish the place, bloody carnage everywhere, again. Looks like the two Dire Wolves that were left from the last attack have come back and have brought a couple of other friends with them. Some lovely owlbears.

Tanikas enters the Kauppatori, Tiger's Claw in her hands. Looking around, she has a look of alarm on her face. Stopping when she sees the carnage, she looks first the the wolves and then to the Owlbears. Looking back over her shoulder, that is the one single hint that she may be unsure of her ability to handle this on her own, before she checks her grip on her halberd and prepares for combat.

Heather comes out of her store "good gods you are back." she looks around carefully knowing that this is a trap as the dogs cant be that stupid.

Vashbav slides into the area and she doesn't attack, Rather the woman starts to belt a song of all things. Thats right....the young woman is attempting to offer a bit of encouragement to the masses.

Dweegon has heard of the danger down here. News travels quickly. So he arrives now on the back of a frighteningly large, ghost-white warhorse with a lance in his hands. Having made quite a scene charging through town, he surveys the carnage and can clearly see he did not rocket here in vain. He levels his lance and readies to charge...

Eochaid is sitting off to the side of the Kauppatori partly hidden by shadows, he seems intent on watching the carnage that is going on. he has his trusty weapons out but looks to be unsure as to if he wants to jump into the fray.

Zsuzsa comes riding down the street as she's heard people screaming again, as she slips into the marketplace she stops immediately her eyes growing wide as she looks about the Kauppatori, her hand comes to her chest and she says a few words to herself suddenly there is an odd green glow around her which shimmers for a moment and then dissipates.

Trysta was on her way back from the stables and heading home when she heard screaming coming from the Kaup. So, naturally she went to investigate. And, as usual, she happens to be sitting on the back of her faithful warhorse. ".. Yay, dire wolves. Those are the same things that nearly ate me coming back from the fort a while back."

As soon as word of the chaos reached the young dancer's ears, she rigged up her bow and other necessary equipment and sped there as quickly as she could. Shakti weaves her way deftly through the crowds, bow unslung and dark eyes glittering coldly. The line of her mouth is fierce as she presses into the fray, picking out a place where she can fire at the beasts without hurting any innocents in the process.

Sorenson picks his way down the street, seemingly unmindful of the chaos. He considers both wolves and owlbears with a sly smile on his lips. Shoulders creak, as he shifts, squaring up to them.

Sorenson drags his shield around off of his back, the edge skipping off of the night-black shadowmetal of his breastplate. With a little shrug of his shoulders, his cloak spreads out into a pair of black, feathered wings, that beat strongly, as he leaps up into the air, sword out and gleaming in the fading light.

Tanikas takes a quick look around, seeing re-enforcements coming from all directions. Gripping her halberd tightly, she charges forward her halberd held in front of her in dangerously. Bellowing a unintelligible war-cry, she charges forward quickly. Unfortunately, the Owlbear she is attacking turns from it's merchant victim just in time to swat her attack away, but she manages to recover quickly.

Eochaid decides he doesn't want to jump in after all and slips back out into the street.

"Well, lets get this done with," says Trysta as she unsheathes her great sword and nudges Valliant with her leg. The warhorse rears a little before it goes trotting towards the closest owlbear at an almost leisurely pace. Upon reaching the creature she swings, striking it viciously, opening up a large, gaping wound in its belly. Somehow the monster still seems to live; if only for a second. It drops over, dead, apparently from the shock of its wound.

"This ... is troublesome," Shakti mutters to herself, lining up a shot at the first dire wolf. She aims and fires true, the arrow sinking into one of the beast's shoulders. It's enough to hurt, the wolf's bellow can attest to that, but definitely not enough to kill. Jaw clenched, she prepares herself for the next shot, keeping her eye on it for now.

After being hit by Shakti's arrow Dire Wolf1 tries to lunge forwards to bite at Tanikas who missed the Obear1, he misses the large woman with a loud snapping sound of it's jaws as they don't connect with anything but air. The second wolf decides that Heather would look good for lunch and tries to bite her, with a great leap it lunges for her but the small half elf woman is too quick for him.

Owlbear tries to take a couple of swipes at the half orc nearby but misses the bard altogether even trying to bite at her it misses completely.

Dweegon sees the monsters dying quickly, but notices that one of the wolves has only been wounded slightly by an arrow. This is his target! He charges at it with his lance at the ready and strikes it a terrible blow. The beast does not die, but howls with ferocious pain as the lance sends blood and fur shooting from its hide. The huge, ghostly horse then continues to charge on.

Heather sees owl bear four and five close enough, makes heather point towards them and says in a forceful command "halt." A blue aura comes over them holding them to the spot they are.

Zsuzsa sees the Dire Wolf with the arrow sticking out of it and focuses on it for a moment as she seems to tense a small green ball of energy growing at the palm of her hand, as she stops mumbling to herself she points towards the Wolf and hits it square in the ribs with the little magic missile.

A song still being song, and the attack on her hide brings the half Orc to attack on her own. The sword that was given to her by the father of her daughter slices through the air and against the Owlbear ripping at its flesh. Digging deep it doesn't kill the beast yet.

Owlbear1 is pissed that the large Tanikas came after it and turns on her with claws out and swiping at her, growling menacingly at her as it lunges upon the poor wounded woman and bites at her, knocking her unconscious leaving her laying there bleeding all over the ground.

Owlbears 4 and 5 don't move, they stand stock still as commanded too by the powerful cleric.

Sorenson comes swooping down out of the sky, sword snapping out at the head of one of the dire wolves as he comes down. Scoring its skull with a nasty slash, he lands, knees flexing, then twists around to face both of the wolves, lashing out with a rising blow that lays open the same wolves' foreleg. Blood shines on the edge of his blade; shockingly red muscle flexes beneath the wolf's rent fur.

Trysta glances over a shoulder to see what is going on in the little battle. Upon seeing Tanikas drop from one of the owlbears she mutters something and goes to knee Valliant who turns and heads right at the creature. She pulls back, then swings, and cuts right into the creature's body with her weapon's bladed edge. A push from her shoves it backwards where it crumples, dead.

Tanikas lies motionless on the ground, with a series of gashes across her neck and shoulder where she was munched on by the Owlbear. Blood slowly seeps into her clothing and onto the ground.

Shakti draws. She takes aim. And when she lets that arrow fly, it's with a precision borne of years of practice. Her expression is neutral, eyes glinting flatly like coins in a well, and when the arrow hits, the beast lifts its voice in a thunderous roar. She is unphased, though quietly satisfied; the arrow dug deep, if not deep enough. It was ... acceptable.

After being struck a couple of times by Sorenson's sword and struck by Shakti's arrow, Wolf1, disoriented and bleeding profusely tries to bite the closest to him (Sorenson) so confused he just snaps at thin air missing Sorenson completely. As does Wolf2, smelling the blood of his brethren he tries to go after Sorenson as well but Wolf1 got in his way and missed his chance to bite the fierce man.

Dweegon charges at wolf2 this time, a similar maneuver to the last attack. The lance drives through the beast and nearly pushes it back, but it manages to stand its ground and survive the attack. Blood and viscera are still drawn away with the lance, the beast terribly wounded. The horse continues charging for several paces.

The Owlbear that was attacking Vash decides it doesn't like her very much and starts swinging at the large half orc woman, catching her with one of it's claws it does scratch her pretty good across her arm.

Seeing the wavering wolf with the gash in its head and the arrows sticking out of him Zsuzsa decides she's going to hurl another missile at the dying thing. Her eyes start to glow green as she concentrates for a moment on the spell, she points at the wolf and discharges not one but two of the little green missiles of energy at the dying creature. "Hmm that's new" she says as she looks at her hand, just as she looks up she sees the Wolf fall over and die by Sorensons feet and disappear as the other corpses have.

Heather seeing her friend drop rushes to her side and says a spell in celestial that heals Tanikas almost fully "I hope you are ok sweetie." said as she step back so the sudden heal doesn't scare Tanikas.

Vashbav growls and swipes with her sword again Attempting to bring down Owl3 with a slash yet again, but it doesn't work...the woman bellows out in pain and ends her song. though the melody and effect linger.

Owlbears 4 and 5 still stand there like monstrous statues in the middle of the market area, not moving still on the command that Heather gave them.

Sorenson rounds on the other wolf, moving more slowly now that he's down on the ground. However, it doesn't help the wolf's case much. He catches the wolf under the chin, splitting its jaw and knocking the head up, then thrusts through violently, shoving the tip of his sword through the throat, spine and out the back of its fur, steel covered in gore. With the twist, he pulls back out, and what used to be a dire wolf falls to the ground, lifeless, before it too discorporates.

Trysta, seeing only one enemy left to take care of, spurns her mount into moving towards it. Unfortunately, a dip in the Kaup's elevation causes her to swing and completely miss it by about half a mile. Or, maybe just a few inches.

Tanikas suddenly awakens from her near-death experience, hacking up blood and then spitting it out on the ground before pushing her self to her feet. Scowling a little, blood runs down her chin and she grabs up her halberd. She looks a little shaken, but otherwise ready to battle again...

Shakti fires at the owlbear that seems to be vexing Vashbav so terribly. She even allows a thin sliver of a smile as the arrow thuds home in the animal's flank, burying itself deeply into the monster. The 'dancer' moves just slightly to a side, glancing around to get a better view of the scene before she prepares for another shot.

Dweegon charges at the one remaining mobile owlbear, the one in combat with Vash. He charges past the other side from Vash and stabs it hard with the lance, then continues his charge as the owlbear drops dead in his wake.

A raven haired elven woman covered in the scars and tattoos upon hearing the commotion in the market, ducks into the Kauppatori with her bow already drawn and fires off three shots in quick succession at the frozen owlbears standing in the middle of the market without even blinking an eye. It's not until the two creatures disappear that she takes a look around.

Zsuzsa looks over her shoulder to the elven woman who just walk in and dropped the two owlbears out of the blue and is a little shocked by what she looks like when she sees the woman.

Heather gives the owlbears slayers a notice but looks around to see who needs healed.

Tanikas looks around, seeing the combat has been resolved with out her, and then slides her halberd into it's sling on her back. Wiping a bit of blood from her chin and neck with a bit of extra cloth from her toga shirt, she laughs half-heartedly and wipes her hands off on her toga, leaving bright crimson stains. "I didn't even see it coming." Looking around a little, she calls out, "Anyone need help?"

Dweegon does not really pay any attention to the late arrival. He is more focused on looking around to be sure everyone is okay. He rides over to where Zsuzsa is and gives her a quick glance. "You seem okay."

Vashbav pulls out a wand and zolts herself with it before looking around. "Stupid things." she remarks and sighs quietly. "Remind me again why this city is deemed...safe."

Zsuzsa looks up to Dweegon as he rides up, she gives her head a small shake "uh yeah yeah, no I'm fine I wasn't hit" she says to him "I need to go get Caernarfon" she says not so good with the sight of the blood.

Shakti lowers her bow when things seem to have settled, her dark eyes flicking about the area before she's satisfied. But, unlike the others, she's not feeling particularly inclined to hang around; no, the woman is quick to turn and try to slip away, making no particular effort to go unseen. Her business here is done.

The mysterious elven woman looks around not even making it seem like she wants to know if everyone's fine, she turns on her heel and goes into the park.

Trysta is completely fine for once. How and why that happens she has no idea, but, she isn't going to argue the point. Instead she watches as the strange woman who shot the last few owlbears wanders off. ".. Uh huh."

Dweegon reaches his hand down to Zsuzsa. "Here, climb up. We'll go get your horse together, okay?" He looks a bit harder than usual, the warmth he typically espouses to his closest friend suppressed significantly by the fury of battle.

Sorenson stretches his wings, and circles up into the air above the Kauppatori, considering the city from on high.

Zsuzsa shakes her head a little "Oh it's alright, he's just further that way" she says pointing to the area just by the park entrance. "But thank you for the offer" she says with a small smile.

Dweegon nods to her. He's not going to force her. "Okay. I'm going to stay a while still to make sure the threat has passed."

Vashbav looks around slowly."I f you need me. I will be at Skorig." she states and heads home."

Zsuzsa nods "I'm going to head back to the inn" she lets Dweegon know and heads over to get Caernarfon.

Sorenson wheels in the air, and starts winging his way south-west, away from the city proper.

Heather walks back to the toy store "I will be in the store with some nice wine.. to who cares."

Dweegon nods to her, placing his lance over his lap and continuing to sit vigilantly above his horse, simply watching. "Be careful, m'lady," he mutters to himself.

Tanikas looks around, "I will stay to secure the location, and help clean up." She says, to nobody in particular. She begins to clean the area up, and help any who need it. Her first task is to clean up any debris and help any of the wounded.