Hags In The Park

December 6th 2006

Players: Corrin, Alance, Blu'Shim, Heather, Azusa, Chyrka, Taharqa, Lynn

So what is all the screaming about? Well that is simple, a group of hags, two larger and seven smaller Hags. They seem to be looking for something of all things. The two larger ones look, rather...pregnant as a matter of fact.

Corrin skids into the park from his run, being near the park as his shop is off the path towards the Silvertine. "Like one of the others, these two are pregnant." Pausing as he looks to one of the blades at his side, drawing upon it as the dark handle is clasped and the sword comes free of the midnight-blue scabbard to ripple with bolts of electricity, edge keen and ready.

Alance is on his Charger coming into the park at a full gallop, or as full as he can get and avoid trampling people, his armor and shield seem to gleam a sunlight glow. Lowering his visor when he sees the Hag with a soft prayer to Aurinko, one hand draws his sword electrical currents arcing along the mirrored finish.

Blu'Shim was heading into the park for her nightly stroll through the gardens when all of a sudden she heard the screams coming out of the park, she takes to the shadows and goes to investigate what's causing the screaming. Her eyebrows go up in surprise at the pack of hags in the park, she stays hidden to see whats happening.

Heather sighs as she is not far from Taharqa "Not Hags again, maybe they will talk this time." She is looking at the pregnant one "Oh I don't like this at all." said mostly to her self.

Lynn comes running into the park from the south, stopping when she spots what is causing the ruckus. She draws out her flaming longsword and keeps walking towards them, her glance going towards the others arriving then back to the hags.

Azusa seems to be yanking on her helm as she makes her way into the area, one hand securing it whilst the other moves to yank free her odd scythe to bring it about to ready stance. She trots in, pausing closer to the others, a soft panting with the effort taken. That's some heavy armour. ".. O-others? What? Pregnant??" Oblivious. The poor thing truly is. "Who??"

Chyrka bursts into the park from the east, looking around for the source of the scream and spotting the hags and reaching behind his back. From under his cloak the cleric of Mod frees his battle axe, taking the weight in two hands and readying himself.

The two Larger Hags seem to notice the group first and point at them before hissing out. The group of smaller Hags start out at the group as the two pregnant ones starts towards the west, and out of the park.

Taharqa comes into the park pulling the bandages from the blade of his Scythe. "Why couldn't they have waited until we had finished our cocoa?," Taharqa quips to Heather as they run from the toy store.

Blu'Shim watches as the group of smaller hags walks towards the group of people who've just come into the park, then turns her attention to the other two that headed west. She wonders quietly to herself from the shadows, what they're all doing there.

As Corrin attempts to make it through the line, three hags turn and attack him, each swipe misses the speedy man. "Attack." one of the line finally states and charges at the group fast and hard.

Corrin moves through the hags with an odd grace, seeming to cover more distance than normal, but what is odd is that none of them seem to graze him, not one at all, and there he is, left standing before the two who wished to try and escape.

The pregnant G2 Swipes at Corrin attempting to scrape at his face, "RUN Nora...RUN." It shouts to the other hag.

Lynn looks towards the group of hags as the charge and then raises her sword. Without a word being said she charges the one closest to her, her sword cutting the creature good on the down swing then on the up swing she cuts across its stomach, spilling its innards on the ground, its body landing with a thud on top of them.

Blu'Shim moves through the shadows not quite as quietly as she wanted, the snow crunching a bit under her feet, she moves closer to the group of sea hags hiding behind trees and bushes as she goes.

Corrin sucks up the battlefield, his blows being nothing and missing all. Yes the man is wildly flailing at the giant creature, and just not having any luck at all. Come one, come all....see a pathetic show!

Alance with a nudge of one knee the massive warhorse's muscles bunch and he leaps toward the line of hags, his hooves thundering as he and his rider close with the line fast. Down comes the sword, electricity exploding off of it as he slashes through the Hag, reducing it to a mist, it seems like his sword doesn't stop moving as it cuts through another Hag, with the same affect. Alance rides past the line after one of the fleeing Hags.

Chyrka rushes on one of the hags, cloak billowing behind him as he raises his great axe. The Cleric swings it down with everything he can muster, taking it across a Hag's chest at a sharp angle. The poor hag is left barely standing, looking quite worse for the amount of well-honed steel Chyrka just dragged through it.

Gh1 moves to Run out of the park. Its really more like a waddle really. as it tries to get away from the melee.

sh5 mean while starts to look for Blu'Shim, that pesky little woman has just gone and disappeared.

Heather takes a nice jump to avoid a bush as she goes WEEEEE but then stabs her Hag taking it down "gee these are weaker Hags." No jokes about this one as its a bit upsetting to her as she readies for another one.

Taharqa hurriedly takes up his scythe and swings at the rushing hag. His inexperience and lack of training make a good show as the Scythe falls rather than is swung, missing horribly.

SH7 takes a swing at Tah hard and fast. Swiping at him with two claws the first connects and gives him a nice gash.

It seems Azusa's still a little confused by what's going on. Regardless, she follows the crowd as she usually does in these situations. She jogs forward, bringing her scythe up in one arc, gashing up and across one of the hags, whirling about for another arc that the thing deftly evades. Damn dodgey hags.

Sh6 Screams and attacks Azusa firmly in return for the attack upon her person. "DIE." she screams at the woman in white.

Green Hag 2 Swipes at Corrin again attempting to dig her pregnant claws into his hide.

Lynn spots a new target and approaches, her sword swinging down which the creature avoids easily but the upward stroke catches it by surprise, drawing quite a bit of blood. Amazingly the hag is still standing but just barely.

Blu'Shim managed to stay hidden from seahag5, she gets her sights on seahag6. She pulls out her trusty rapier from it's jewel encrusted scabbard and sneaks up behind Seahag6 just as she reaches the hag she swings her rapier back over her head, and stabs it deeply into the hags back and hangs on the the hilt dragging the sword down slicing open the sea hags back. Blood gushes out of the back of the hag as she falls forward and dies with a loud screech.

Corrin arches out with several swings, his hands staying focused on the blade as he combats the one near him(GH2), scoring a fairly decent blow before his series is over, wounding the hag badly. Yes, they are agile for being pregnant, no?

Alance spurs his mount toward the other hag fleeing, leaving the one to Corrin. As he nears his sword flicks out scoring a good hit. His horse now gets in on the action, hooves flying out as he flashes by scoring another hit on the Hag. Alance and his horse move past the Hag and whirl readying for another attack.

Chyrka looks angrily at the Hag he cut up, his anger apparently centered on the fact that it's not laying at his feet. Chyrka pulls his axe back and swings again. Sadly... his anger threw off his aim. The hag watches the axe swing past, to no effect whatsoever.

Green Hag 1, who was running turns and slashes at Alance firmly twice before only getting him with one claw.

In return for slicing at her, Sh4 swipes at Chyrka firmly and actually is able to hit him soundly in the arm.

Heather moves in on and kills it pretty easy "Don't kill the pregnant one, let me subdue them." Heather pleads to the attacking ones in hope she is heard.

Taharqa lets loose his scythe with his left hand and reaches for the nearest hag, his hand glowing a deep purple. His hands misses the hag however.

Sh7 Turns around and swipes at Tah rather meanly bringing him down to the grounds hard.

Gh2 swipes at Corrin horribly attempting to get him to fall, "Leave me alone, MURDER." she screams at him.

Lynn glances around and notices the only ones left are the green hags. She spots the closest one and takes off towards it, her sword held in a tight grip.

Azusa glances sideways with a bit of a flinch as Taharqa is brought down. She glances at the hag she's fighting with, "Oh.. oh dear.. um.." Her eyes narrow, "I really must.. you know, if you'd..." She heaves a sigh as the hag doesn't seem to be moving, and, in fact, seems to be preparing for another round of fighting. She jerks back, and arcs in one swift movement of her scythe, felling the 'woman' as it howls out. She nearly trips over the body as she moves toward the downed individual, skirting to a stop and kneeling to place one of her claw-gauntleted hands on him, "We're not quite finished.. sir, if you could just, you know.." She gestures with her free hand as his body goes cold with healing energies, tickling horribly as the wounds begin to knit shut. ".. Tada? Up? Abracadabra? ... um. Ahoy?" She nudges him.

Blu'Shim looks around after taking down the sea hag and quickly gets back into the shadows, upon scanning the area she realizes that it's only the two Green Hags left and rather than wasting a bolt trying to fire at them she sneaks thru the shadows gaining some ground on them. It's as if she disappeared into the shadows.

Corrin lashes out with a deadly combo, letting one of the ones near him to fall into death as he spins on another, his sword striking, but leaving the one before him barely standing.

Alance spurs his horse into a run again, with a shouted prayer to Aurinko, as his sword arcs down it seems take on a holy glow as it slams into the last Hag, the holy power smashing it to dust.

Corrin shakes his head as he looks to the others, and then to the corpses before him. "How many hags can be coming from, Meloria!" he says with frustration. "I mean...this is absurd. We have to find the nest and who ever is bringing them here!" he says simply.

Blu'Shim pokes her head out from behind a bush nearby, seeing the last hag fall she steps out and starts poking around, checking to make sure all that have fallen are dead. Upon hearing her homes name she spins around to Corrin "How do you know they're coming from Meloria?"

Lynn glances around as the last one falls and then cleans her sword off on her pants before putting it away. She then quietly kneels down beside a few of the corpses, glancing them over then shrugging and standing back up.

Heathers spear disappears in her hands "Damn it I asked not to kill them, they were pregnant and have a lot of information we could get." she seems a lot upset about this but looks to Blu "Look at their clothing style, it shows signs coming from there." says the half elf in Melorian style clothing and accent.

"I will go with you to find this nest.. should you need another." Azusa offers. She doesn't much care where it is, as long as it isn't just milling around the city doing utterly nothing to aid those that apparently need it. She looks around to the bodies, rolling her shoulders back with the soft sound of plate grinding on plate.

Chyrka looks around, counting corpses and thinking a moment. The Cleric carries his axe in his left hand, held just below the sizable blade, and moves towards the collective. "Is everyone okay?" He asks, pulling a rag from a pouch on his belt to clean the filth from his axe.

Corrin sighs softly as he looks to Blu'shim. "I tracked the records of boats and caravans, and then looked at the dates of the attacks, as well as took what I could off of the hags that could get any information from a powerful wizard I know. All things have pointed to Meloria, reliably after all." he says with another shake of his head, going over the bodies. "The Magic Collegiate told me that the ones slain by me and Heather had living young when we fought them, so it seems they are breeding here."

Inhaling deeply at the news as she tries to digest the information that Corrin just offered her. Blu'Shim nods and walks back over to the corpses, searching the bodies for any other information or clues or baubles.

Alance pulls his Warhorse to a stop and slides out of the saddle "Corrin, you were hurt, let me aid you" He walks toward the man, the effects of his calling of the power glittering around him.

Corrin hrms as he looks to his wound, pausing as the blood has run over his armor, an odd scene for those who do not know him. The contour and emblems upon his chest shown in blood, but invisible to most eyes, yes, his armor is glamoured and was unseen, or so he thought. "You are right. I just...wow." he says, realizing he was wounded, his focus wavering. "Thank you, Alance."

Alance nods to Corrin and goes in search of others who need healing.

Corrin hrms as he raises a brow, motioning Heather near. "I found some things I will need Identified, and checked for magic, Heather, having been healed.

"Alance, do you wish to be part of the trip to Meloria to find who is causing out infestation, or do you think us best served here?" moving to show a wand, a cloak and some potions, a bag jingling with coin as well.

Heather will check out any item that is given to her.

Chyrka doesn't seem to get any sort of response on the offer for aid, so he turns his hands on himself. The Cleric takes a moment to heal his wounds, to some degree. Maybe his selfishness was the cause, but for whatever reason it doesn't seem to do much.

Blu'Shim stands after being bent over one of the green hags, in one hand she holds two gems and in the other she holds two scrolls. "Anyone interested in these?" she asks as she holds up the hand with the scrolls and then looks at her other hand "and if no one's interested in these, I am" her eyes seeming to sparkle while looking at the gems.

Alance glances over his shoulder at Corrin "The source of this infestation needs to be stopped, it is not the first time I have had to go there to expunge evil from Vintermor." He looks at the others "Anyone need healing?"

"Another adventure, it seems." Azusa mentions as she moves to help with the search of the bodies, attempting to aid as she can. But, it seems she's not very talented at the whole looking for treasure bit.

Heather hmms and says "a wand of cure light wounds, a cloak of resist to the second enchanted power <+2> and these potions are sure serous and light. I would like the cloak and will pitch in the cost price." she looks to Corrin "they cost 2,000 gold right."

Corrin raises a brow as he thinks for a moment. "Thats what a used one sells for, correct." he confirms, thinking as the blood seems to have evaporated from his odd blade, sheathing it from where he stuck it. "I have a wand like the other, so someone who can use it may have it, unless you prefer it bought and the gold split."

Chyrka is ignoring the whole treasure thing it seems. He moves over to Alance, who showed the greatest strength during the conflict. "Would a cleric of Mod be unwelcome on a trip to rid this place of a threat??" He asks calmly, looking around and taking a good look at everyone else.

Alance glances at Chyrka "I have no objections, might ask Corrin as well as he's the one with the information" He eyes the Cleric "Were you not hurt?

Lynn listens to what is said as she tugs her cloak around her before walking over to where Corrin and the others are, "Corrin, if you need any more help just let me know."

Corrin raises a brow to Chyrka as he then looks to Alance with a raised brow. "I think your asking the wrong man organizing this venture, lad." pausing as he sighs. "We are to book passage soon, do you think you can hold yourself to travel through the mists, as well as things possibly beyond this? I suspect a powerful magic user with the evidence that has been presented." not being mean or rough, but truly asking him if he thinks he is ready. "And yes, Lynn. You are welcome to come."

Blu'Shim shrugs since no one answered her she starts to put the scrolls and gems in her pouch.

Heather says "I will come to handle this nest but I need to prepare some things."

Chyrka grins, "I was, yes." He responds, rubbing a hand along a gash at the seam of his armor. "I'm not concerned, if it continues to bother me I'll call on Mod again. But that's if he needs me up and ready for another fight soon...."

Alance grins at Corrin then looks at the items collected "I have no need of any of that, nor of the scrolls"

Azusa glances to Corrin, a brow raised, "Am I to come as well?" She questions, standing and turning, her shoulders rolling back as she leans against her scythe.

Corrin chuckles as he nods. "Yes, Azusa, so far it appears to be Alance, Lynn and you and I." he says with a small smile. "And this cleric of Mod if he truly thinks he will be ok." pausing. "What armor do you use, lad?" he asks.

Heather looks to Azusa "a warning we end up in Meloria get something that will help you with strong heat."

Azusa glances to Heather, "I will use the same spell I once had to cast upon you in the chill, to protect myself from the heat." The Morthidar mentions with a slight lift of her shoulders in a shrug. She nods toward Corrin, "I will inform others that were having need of me that I shall be away for an undetermined length of time, then. Let me know when we are to leave."

Chyrka grins a little, pulling his cloak back some to reveal the banded mail strapped to himself. "Just a second skin of steel, to help keep me warm." He responds. The make of the armor is of high quality. "I am not concerned with the dangers of it... I'd like to help though, if it would keep them from the city."

Blu'Shim wanders away from the biggun's that are talking about going to Meloria, not wanting anything to do with that. She shrugs since no one wanted the stuff she found and puts it into her pack.

Corrin smiles as he shakes his head. "Lad, would you think of using plate?" he asks, looking to Alance. It is normal steel, but has a basic enchantment upon it." he admits softly. "Could you use it, or is yours still what you wish to use?"

Alance nods "Plate is better if you wish to stand toe to toe with attackers and such, and a shield if possible." He shifts his shield with the Emblem of the Order to his back. His Warhorse nipping at a sleeve as it walks over to him.

Chyrka's brow raises in alarm and intrigue. "You have plate that I could wear?" He asks, looking down at his plate again. "I settled on the banded mail because of the price..." He adds, seeming to trail off.

Corrin chuckles softly. "If you are interested, walk with me to my shop after we are done here and I will show it to you. It will cost you nothing, as it is sitting and collecting dust." he admits.

Heather looks to Taharqa "would you like to finish what we were talking about in my store?" she smiles softly as she places on her new cloak "silk but I will have to use that magic dye to change its look."

Chyrka nods twice, "That sounds good to me..." He responds, pulling his cloak out of the way to place his axe back into the holster where it belongs. "If you'll lead the way.."

Alance nods to the others "Corrin, let me know when you wish to depart" He mounts easily "I can be found either at my sisters house or the Sanctuary."

Heather says as she leaves the area and says "Contact me about this Corrin." and all knows where she is going, her house near by.

Corrin then looks to Chyrka as he smiles. "Now about that armor." turning to head for his shop, smiling. "It is a necklace that will attune to your deity and allow you in a way to since her will." he calls over his shoulder.

Taharqa finally starts to come back around. He lets out a groan which is interrupted by a throaty cough. He stirs slightly but lays in the bloody snow where he fell.

Alance nods slowly "Thank you Corrin"

Chyrka follows Corrin, "why would you need a trinket for /that/?" he asks, quirking his left brow up. "Huh..." He shakes his head a little and wondering how he never lost his pack in the fight.

Alance smiles a bit at that comment "Anything that helps one know what their god or goddess wishes of them is a good thing to have"