Trolls Attack

November 13th 2006

Players: Blu'Shim, Corrin, Trysta, Nicholas

As you make your way to this part of the city you see the sight of 5 trolls attacking the dock workers. Several of the people are already dead, many are being rendered rather quickly from themselves as they are no prepared for this battle.

Corrin comes in on foot, his sword drawn wide and trailing behind his body. A scarf covers his mouth, and his breath comes in cold puffs. The sight is seen, the trolls, the men in trouble. He is not one to stand by as things such as this go one. His footing strong as he moves into the field of battle, a soft word spoken as his body begins to cloud from speed in which he can travel. It is magic, but in battle, no stops are left in tact.

Blu'Shim comes running up behind Corrin, cloak flowing behind her, as she catches up to him. "I couldn't let you have all the fun" she says up to him with a bit of a smile. She sounds brave but upon closer inspection one would notice that there is a glint of nervousness in her blue eyes. She sees the trolls attacking the men and her entire body tenses as she gets very angry.

Meanwhile Trysta was on her way back from dropping off that guy at the castle when yet more trouble arose. Once again riding atop her mount the woman would let out a loud sigh and note, "Now I'm starting to regret having opened my mouth earlier." For the equine's part it just snorts loudly and lightly paws its hoof at the ground. "Good point, we'll use these guys to get in practice again."

Nicholas wears his cowl down as he approaches the scene of trouble, clinging to the shadows wherever he finds them. He kneels down carefully as he approaches, and begins to draw one of his magic arrows, knocking it to his bow as he gathers in the situation more clearly. He seems well at home in the cold oddly enough, and takes a moment to pick his target. Which troll looks most like the ringleader he thinks. Upon spotting the one that seems most likely to be the ringleader of these barbaric humanoids, he pulls back his bow in preparation for a kill shot or at the least a particularly painful one.

There was a blur of movement as Corrin takes the field. The cleric is fast, being of magic, but his blade and skill are just as flashy. His sword, one used by the greater of adventurers is large and sparks with a field of energy. Three slashes, each hitting it's one foe.It is a fast paced fight now, as the troll(t1) still lives. This might be interesting after all, a tough thing this has proven to be.

Nicholas silently releases his arrow sending it to slam into the head troll's neck. It is a deep wound, grievous as it penetrating deeply and immediately painting the creature's chest in red. Quickly, the stealthy ranger makes move to clamber up the side the tariff office to get a more tactical position to face *TROLLS* from.

Troll Three starts to move away from the group and towards Blu'Shim. Thankfully it doesn't get near the little woman this round, yet, but the little one might want to get some help or something...

Troll4 doesn't exactly enjoy getting hit with the arrows from Nicholas, AS a result it starts to head towards the Troll limbers towards Nicholas in attempt to attack him.

Of course Troll2 seems to follow suit of the previous troll and starts towards Blu'Shim, but like the other heading towards her, it doesn't get to the gnome yet.

And as the troll heads towards Blu'Shim it suddenly gets a rather large equine in its path. Not only that, but, much more problematic is the crazy ass warrior woman sitting on its back and now slashing away at it. When it doesn't go down in one hit Trysta is impressed--and even more driven to butcher it.

Troll 5 starts to head towards Nicholas Apparently he makes a rather nice target.

Blu'Shim sees the Troll(3) coming towards her, just as she's about to turn and run Trysta and her horse step between. Blu'Shim takes the advantage and steps forward ducking under the horse. Pulling out her hand crossbow she gets the bolt all loaded and takes aim at the troll coming towards them, and just as she fires the bolt. Trysta's horse moves his leg knocking her aim off completely.

Troll 1 lashes out violently at Corrin attempting to swipe at him. Given his weakened state though his attacks prove futile. And the giant foe doesn't even make it enough to hit the cleric.

Corrin grows tired of his foe, knowing his friend is in danger. The troll before him has missed and with him on his feet he easily rebounds with a hard thrust that brings his blade into the hilt of the monster. The Troll(t1) gurgles as he uses leverage and his arms to tear the blade free as it cuts through bone and sinew. Covered in the stink and remains of his foe, it does not end there. His movements are swift as he strikes out at the second beast after his friend. "Watch out, Blu'Shim. These beasts are tougher than I have recalled." wincing as his last blow hits it's mark.

Nicholas continues running the rest of the way to the tariff office. Using the trellis and a column, he vaults his way up to the second floor landing, doing a quick pull up as fast as he possibly can before a troll can grab him. Its not as though he doesn't want to duel a troll, well actually it is, and so he puts his might into the action...

Troll 3 attacks Corrin right back two claws swipe at him, though they miss horribly. Even the bite misses Corrin horribly.

Troll 2 doesn't seem to like the fact that Trysta stood in front of him and the blue creature, Two claws lash out hitting the woman sharply and attempts to rip her apart.

Troll 4 moves to start attacking Corrin with its fellow Troll.

"Motherfu-" says Trysta as she gets clawed. The woman promptly returns the favor and swings her sword around to chop against the troll's side. Not too bad. Her next hit, however, would almost appear overkill when she drops it onto the creature's head and makes blood spray all about.

Blu'Shim takes the advantage of Trysta's horse being right there and after she's finished slaughtering the troll. Blu'Shim climbs up into the saddle behind Trysta facing backwards, grabbing for one of the bolts for her crossbow she drops the bolt, due to slipping on the blood all over the saddle making it slippery.

Troll 5 leaves Nicholas alone and moves to Corrin for an attack.

Troll 1 swings at Corrin again attempting to bring him down, Of course the cleric is to slippery to be caught.

Corrin is stuck as the attack is absorbed mostly by his armor. It glints in the battle as the mithril does not give. He lashes out then at this Troll(t4) felling it with another set of blows that leave it doubling over to hold it's guts. In death that one is left as he moves to engage yet another, but his speed, pains leave him winded and over estimating with a faulty swing.

Once Nicholas makes it up on the landing he slips out his larger bow, and draws yet another of the special arrows. Bracing his feet, knocking the arrow, and pulling the cord back he pivots himself till he's aiming down on top of the troll that he previously hit... *Thwip* Nick's arrow sails down hard, burying itself into the creature's chest deeply, and likely puncturing a lung, "You should never have assailed these streets, Creature!"

One of the last two trolls on Corrin swing at the cleric. Missing him horribly it doesn't seem to enjoy this missing thing.

Trysta doesn't even seem to be paying mind that she has a passenger. Or rather that her mount has a passenger. .. In any event. The woman gives her equine a nudge with her leg and sends it towards a spot right between the two trolls. She leans forward, then, swinging with her blood-covered weapon to lace the one Nicholas shot across the back. One more good, quick swipe and it drops to the ground in a heap.

Blu'Shim sees the troll on the other side of Trysta's mount seeing as she put them in between two of them, as Trysta goes after the other, Blu'Shim turns a bit, sliding a bolt into place she raises her crossbow and aims at the Trolls head, just as she fires Trysta's elbow comes back nudging her and her bolt flies wide.

Corrin growls as he rushes the fifth ogre, darting to the side as he evades it's attack. This cleric means business as he steps within the creatures bounds, slashing out. One hit scored, his hands shift and lash out, but the troll knows the game as well. It steps back, but it had not expected Corrin to extend his force into yet a third attack, a backslash. However it does score another gashing blow, the troll stands.

Nicholas takes a moment, in a much more comfortable position on the Tariff office landing, he knocks yet another arrow, pivots and then lets it loose, sending it into the creature's side between a pair of ribs in a grisly fashion.

And since the troll seems to find it smart to keep ignoring the crazy ass lady with the big sword Trysta promptly shows him why he made a mistake. Well, right after her first swing misses at least. Then the woman pulls around and swings, harder, slicing it open across the back and causing it to fall forward.

Nicholas draws a fourth arrow from his quiver, and stalks across the landing peering out to make sure there are no more monstrous assailants. "Did you see where they came from?"

Corrin sighs softly as he looks about the field of battle, walking amongst the dead beasts. He kneels and checks them over, glancing back to the others. "Is everyone well, I can heal if you have fallen injured." he says softly, his armor shimmering before it soon disappears to only reveal his clothes underneath.

Blu'Shim slides down from Trysta's horse, walking to the horses head she looks up at the horse "thank you my friend" she says sincerely to the beautiful equine. She turns and nods to Trysta "thank you as well" she turns on her heel and walks over to the closest Troll, and turns into a small bundle of anger kicking its head. "Stupid" kicks again "Ugly" kicks again "Savage" kicks it again "Fucker!" she kicks it a few more times just for good measure. "Gods I hate those things" she mutters as she starts walking among the dead, poking them and checking them for anything shiny.

Nicholas takes his time looking for more trouble, "I'm well, but those Trolls had hot breath on my heels." he muses how close he was to getting claws, and seems glad he didn't have to test his fencing techniques on such a monster. "Anything on them? Symbols of some kind of organization perhaps?"

The equine lets out a loud nicker when it's spoken to. Trysta merely says, "I like beating on evil things that try to eat people." She slides down off the warhorse for now and adds, "I think I'm the only one who managed to get hit." She really needs to invest in better armor.

Corrin shakes his head as he looks to the others with a small chuckle. "It was a fight, that it was. I have found nothing to much of interest, but a bag of gold. It appears to be several hundred." he says, tossing it between them all as he moves to clean his blade. "I was as well, but not so hard. Do you need healing?"

Nicholas seems finally satisfied things are alright, and slings his arrow and gear back, and hops around the side of the building and slides down the cylindrical column to the ground level. He moves over to the trolls and says, "Might be able to sell their carcasses to the mimisbrunner and they might be able to find out why they're here."

Blu'Shim doesn't even seem to realize that anyone has spoken, she continues to rummage. Every once in awhile kicking a troll wherever or whatever body part seems to be the closest to her when another wave of anger hits. She throws a pouch between every "this one seems to have a few silver in it" she says. She continues to stalk around the area.

Trysta says, "It'd beat having to sit at home reading books while waiting to heal the hard way." The equine, meanwhile, pokes its head over one of its owner's shoulders and sniffs at the air--then snorts again. "Yes, I know, they smell horrible," agrees the woman as she pets her faithful companion's nose.

Corrin nods to the others as he lets out a low whistle as he finishes his search, an opal pendant added to the gold as he shakes his head amused. "I have also found this circlet, it seems to might fetch a fair price as well." smiling as he looks down upon the findings. "It seems a small fortune...and alas these seem to be part of a band. Why have such wealth and it seems odd to have two attacks in one night." pausing.

Nicholas waves them over, "See, look here." he shows them their arms, "They all bear this tattoo. I wouldn't doubt they are part of a much larger territory. If you don't mind, I'm going to get these on a wheelbarrow and bring them to the Crown's consideration." why he should want to do that over a few trolls certainly seems odd, but he seems quite serious about it.

Blu'Shim arches her eyebrow at the mention of a tattoo, she walks over to look at the tattoo. Pulling a small cloth out of her pack she walks. She holds it up to the tattoo in comparison rather quickly, then seeming deflated she puts the cloth back in her bag, turns and walks away.

Nicholas looks to the Gnome, and amazingly begins to speak in Gnomish. Nicholas says, "What is the matter miss?" He appears to be speaking in Gnome

Trysta doesn't seem entirely concerned. Or, more so she isn't going to run all the way back up to the castle after getting into two fights in such a short time. "They're probably part of that siege going on," she points out.

BluShim stops in her tracks, turning to Nicholas with a bit of a surprised look on her face. "Nothing I wish to share just yet, sir" She appears to be speaking Gnome

Corrin nods softly as he looks back to the others and shakes his head. "A siege, and they are here...where are they laying it?" he asks, looking out at the others as he lets out another sigh. This news doesn't seem to sit well with him.

Nicholas looks to Trysta and frowns, "Then my concern was real - what sort of siege is it? Can you tell me what you have seen?" then he turns quickly to Gnomish once again to look at the little blue lady in the white finery. Nicholas says, "Very well then Miss. I'm Nicholas, and it is good to meet you." He appears to be speaking in Gnome

Trysta says, "Some men came from a distant fort talking of a siege laid to it by bandits and orcs. I took their leader to see the castle earlier so he could speak with those in charge."

Blu'Shim nods "I will properly introduce myself another time so that you may know my names, but tonight out of weariness, you may call me Blu'Shim" She appears to be speaking in Gnome Blu'Shim turns and starts to walk away not caring about the siege or what not, just caring about getting food in her belly and a pillow beneath her head.

Nicholas dips his head to her and smiles to the gnome, then turns to Trysta, "I see. I was worried it might be the Alagharans. Is that it, or another set of raiders? or do we not even know?"

Corrin sighs as he stands, looking to Nicholas and Trysta. "I believe it is time I prepare for a trip. I just do not like the idea of these people sitting under siege. I am sure the crown will send support, but being who I am and what I am to represent, I will go as well." glancing to Nicholas puzzled. "Is evil and monsters not just that?"

Trysta says, "I have no idea what you're talking about nor did he mention any names. So, I doubt it involves these 'Alagharans'."

Nicholas says "No, it is not -just- that. Lets not forget that men can be as much monsters as these. And I do not doubt that a troll might be brought to a different state of mind. What I do know, is that we now have an organized enemy, and it is vital we meet them intelligence as well as force. I'll be glad to go with you Corrin, but I need to make sure the Crown sees what I have seen."

Corrin sighs and shakes his head. "Nicholas. I doubt you can get an audience with the crown. I already suspect they will know of this and more as from what this lady has said. We will get no where hoping to seek audience and hope they take us seriously."

Nicholas says "Please don't doubt me, till I've failed. I've already known something might happen and the crown has been warned. It came sooner than I thought. At any regard, I need to take these bodies to the Court."

Nicholas adds, "At the very least I should be able to go over what I have seen with one of the Captains, and the situation will be made more clear. Give me time to handle this first, or don't. It will be safer if we ride together though, I should think."

Corrin sighs as he shakes his head, seeming to be thinking to himself as he begins his chant to heal and draw upon his divine strength to fill Trysta with a healing light. "Does it feel any better?" pausing. "The longer I wait the more lives I cannot save."

Trysta says, "Yes," in regards to Corrin's answer. Apparently feeling as though the two men can deal with things for now she goes to slide up on her warhorse's back--then grunts. Going to need to thoroughly clean the seat and Valliant both after getting troll blood all over.

Nicholas looks toward Trysta and raises a hand, "Good to see you again Trysta. Be careful on the roads and on your way to the Ranch. Would you like someone to go with you?"

Trysta says, "I'll be fine. You two deal with these things," before giving the equine a nudge. Apparently happy to get away from the troll stench's vicinity her warhorse starts to move away at a trot.

Corrin is left by himself it seems, but then again he must clean himself and then pack for a journey. Hopefully he can get word to certain people, or so he hopes. "You two take care of yourselves. I will leave a message with one of the stewards, Nicholas, do as you had thought." moving off towards his home.

Nicholas raises a hand, then looks back to Corrin and nods his head, "Anyway, it shouldn't take too long. Just help me load the corpses if you would, and we'll do what we can."