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Log: Served Slavers

Page history last edited by Tsangun 15 years, 6 months ago

(Walker in Shadow: 3 xp)

 

For whatever reason, be it money or a sense of justice, you find yourself on the trail of a moderately-sized slaver caravan. These slavers are new to the area, setting up shop only a few months ago. Unfortunately, these slavers aren't content to just buy their 'stock', or even trade for them like normal slavers. Hell, they don't even have the courtesy to steal them from some far off corner of Creation and ship them here. No, this particular group has been poaching travellers off of the road between Greyfalls and Nexus, taking groups of up to 10, but never caravans, and never people with obvious guards. So far, they've been far enough from any major settlement that the government isn't much worried, and any patrols sent out are invariably too slow. You, however, hearing about these predations, decided to stop them yourself, and that's why you're here today, waiting. A reliable source says that this stretch of road is where the attacks have been happening, and so this is where you'll stop them.

 

Mnemon Tuyet has left her retainers and servants back with camp, and is now sat crosslegged off of the road upon a small mat, hands resting against her knees as she waits calmly and entirely unconversationally.

  

Gilded Rose moves. She's walking for the moment, slowly her bow on her back and leaning against the road. The tattoos on her arms are visable. To any good slaver, her motions are that of a slave, submissive and small. Rose stretches and scans the road as she walks along it.

  

Suddenly, a wagon rattles over the hill behind you, headed for Nexus. It is driven by a man wearing a chainmail shirt with nothing under it, with a wide-brimmed hat and loose cotton pants, bulging out around his boots. There is a long curved sword strapped to his back.

 

 Next to him is another man, wearing what looks to be a reinforced buff jacket, but with a large piece missing from the stomach, and several smaller holes scattered around the rest of it. Tuyet will see him tap the other man on the shoulder, then point at Rose, a big grin on his face. The wagon slows down as it comes abreast of the lone 'traveller', and the second man leans out and leers at her. "Hey little missy, hop on. We'll take you where you need to be." He jerks a thumb at the back of the wagon while smiling cruelly. His voice reminds you of a rat's, high pitched and grating. The driver starts chuckling, a deep, rumbling bass sound. Neither of them even glance at Tuyet, possibly having not seen her.

  

Mnemon Tuyet watches, but makes no move to rise and has no change to her expression, remainly serenely still apart from the single precision motion of drawing her daiklaives to rest the flat of each blade against her thighs as she continues to sit.

  

Rose paused. She smiles, lightly "No thank you." she says softly, letting her hood fall back to look the man in the eye. Far too mpretty, but also a dangerous glint in the green eyes.

  

The man looks at the driver, then they both start laughing. "Honey," his voice dropping all pretenses of civility, "I wasn't asking. Get in the wagon." He pulls out a straight sword and points it at you, and the driver drops off his seat and comes around the wagon, blade also drawn. They both seem to have missed the glint, or thought nothing of it.

  

Mnemon Tuyet apparently takes this as queue to act, she does not stand as such, instead without any warning launching skyward directly from her sitting position as burning wings erupt from her shoulders and sweep toward the grass in a flurry of sparks to propel her upward. Another beat and she drives herself toward the wagon like some kind of incandescent and bladed missile.

 

(OOC) Mnemon Tuyet just spent Essence from her Peripheral Essence pool

 

-= OOC =- Mnemon Tuyet activates Flash-Fire technique there to add my MA to my roll

 

(OOC) Mnemon Tuyet just spent Essence from her Peripheral Essence pool

 

(Judge) Gilded Rose rolls Wits  + Awareness: [ 2 4 4 <10> ]

        Resulting in 2 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Wits  + Awareness  + Martial arts: [ 2 4 5 6 7 8 <10> <10> ]

        Resulting in 6 successes.

 

(Judge) Walker of Shadow rolls 4: [ 3 4 7 <10> ]

        Resulting in 3 successes.

 

(Judge) Walker of Shadow rolls 6: [ -1- 2 3 8 9 <10> ]

        Resulting in 4 successes.

  

Mnemon Tuyet brings her dive to an abrupt halt with another sweep of the burning wings, almost wrapping them about the front of the wagon along with a downdraft of furnace blast air as she brings herself into a hover and lashes down at the driver with a barrage of merciless strikes from the blades of her daiklaives. He expression is intent, focused.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Dexterity  + Martial arts + 4 - 1: [ 3 4 4 4 5 6 6 6 8 8 9 9 <10> ]

        Resulting in 6 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Dexterity  + Martial arts + 4 - 2: [ -1- -1- 3 4 4 7 7 8 8 8 9 <10> ]

        Resulting in 8 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Dexterity  + Martial arts + 4 - 3: [ -1- 2 3 4 4 5 6 6 7 7 8 ]

        Resulting in 3 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Dexterity  + Martial arts + 4 - 4: [ 3 4 5 5 5 5 6 7 7 8 ]

        Resulting in 3 successes.

  

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls 4 dice: [1 4 6 10]

        Result = 2 successes.

  

-= OOC =- Walker of Shadow says, "the guy takes 2 lethal"

  

-= OOC =- Mnemon Tuyet has a base DV of 6, +2 from the pinions, probably +1 from height advantage, -4 from the flurry.

 

-= OOC =- Mnemon Tuyet will also spend 3 motes with Flicker-Flame Stance to boost it another +3 untill her next action.

 

(OOC) Mnemon Tuyet just spent Essence from her Essence Peripheral pool

 

The driver is surprised by the flying apparition, but he's a professional. His reaction isn't fear, but attack. He brings up his sword and manages to catch the first blow as it thunders down, but it's a near thing, and he isn't prepared for the speed at which it comes around and scores into his side. He manages to get his act back together and block the rest of the attacks fairly competently, however. Then, it's his turn. Ignoring the girl behind him, he howls and attacks, already imagining the riches that this woman will bring him.

 

(Judge) Walker of Shadow rolls 7: [ -1- 2 3 6 7 9 <10> ]

        Resulting in 4 successes. 

 

Mnemon Tuyet scowls as she most of her blows are fended off, lofting herself to one side as a swipe of a burning wing knocks the return blow contempteously aside before she she strikes viciously down at his head, another storm of blows with her flickering red blades as she swoops in.

 

-= OOC =- Mnemon Tuyet will do.. Pretty much the same thing again.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Dexterity  + Martial arts + 4 - 1: [ -1- 2 2 3 6 7 7 7 8 8 9 <10> <10> ]

        Resulting in 10 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Dexterity  + Martial arts + 4 - 2: [ -1- 2 3 4 5 7 8 8 8 8 9 <10> ]

        Resulting in 8 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Dexterity  + Martial arts + 4 - 3: [ -1- 4 5 6 6 7 9 9 9 9 <10> ]

        Resulting in 7 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Dexterity  + Martial arts + 4 - 4: [ -1- -1- 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 9 ]

        Resulting in 4 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls 6 dice: [2 5 5 5 8 9]

        Result = 2 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls 5 dice: [2 4 5 5 6]

        Result = 0 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls 5 dice: [4 5 5 7 8]

        Result = 2 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls 3 dice: [2 4 10]

        Result = 2 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Walker of Shadow says, "You crack his skull open like an egg"

  

The attack that took out his partner so swift that the man never got a chance to scream, and his back being turned, the man in the buff jacket concentrates on the 'helpless' girl in front of him. Licking his lips, he goes in, aiming only to subdue her, not actually harm her.

 

(Judge) Walker of Shadow rolls 4: [ -1- 5 6 7 ]

        Resulting in 1 successes.

 

...and he completely succeeds in not harming her, although perhaps not in quite the way he had hoped.

  

Gilded Rose blinks as the flying woman catches her off gaurd but she seems to recover quickly drawing her bow from behind her cloak and loading several arrows letting them fly. She's aiming for the man the Fire scion is attacking. "Move!" she shouts in a loud voice. She lets the arrows loos and turns to see how best to handle any more slavers.

  

(OOC) Gilded Rose just spent Essence from her Essence Peripheral pool

 

(Judge) Gilded Rose rolls Dexterity  + Archery + 4: [ -1- 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 7 9 9 <10> ]

        Resulting in 5 successes.

 

"We need him alive to find out where his friends are!" Shouts Mnemon Tuyet accusingly as she whirls on the remaining slaver in a spray of blood from his lacerated colleague, burning wings beating again to drive her down as she twists her daiklaives in her hands and hammers at the head and shoulders of the man with the flats of the blades.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Dexterity  + Martial arts + 4 - 1 - 1: [ -1- 2 2 2 3 4 5 6 6 8 9 <10> ]

        Resulting in 4 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Dexterity  + Martial arts + 4 - 1 - 2: [ -1- 2 2 4 4 4 7 8 8 9 <10> ]

        Resulting in 6 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Dexterity  + Martial arts + 4 - 1 - 3: [ 3 5 5 6 7 7 8 9 <10> <10> ]

        Resulting in 8 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Dexterity  + Martial arts + 4 - 1 - 4: [ -1- -1- -1- 3 3 3 3 4 6 ]

        Resulting in a Botch! 

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls 3: [ 5 <10> <10> ]

        Resulting in 4 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls 5: [ -1- -1- 3 8 9 ]

        Resulting in 2 successes.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls 8: [ 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 <10> ]

        Resulting in 4 successes.

 

Even though the blows are pulled, you must've underestimated your strength, because not only does the man pass out, but your last attack breaks his collarbone as it skids off of his head, almost certainly leaving him with a serious concussion. He won't be answering any questions any time soon, if ever. 

 

Gilded Rose pants. "What?! I want those flea bitten dogs dead!" she snarls. She pants. Her graceful arms strained a bit as she drops the arrow and places the arrow back. She walks towards the woman. "So I see its not just me, who is hunting slaver's, Lady." she says offering a polite nod of her head to the Firey scion. 

 

Mnemon Tuyet frowns in vague distaste as the man drops to her feet, the burning wings fading and dropping her a foot or so to land lightly on the ground before she gives an irritated kick to the unconcious slaver. Then a shrug before she looks up to Gilded Rose with a sudden grin. "Ohh, the problem is that this is definitely not the whole group. We could have interrogated him to find out where the others are. But he is not waking up any time soon now." 

 

Gilded Rose nods. "If you'd like, I can play decoy for the next silly man." she grins. "Most have a hard time resisting me." she motions to her body. "And besides, former slave so... if nessacery I can go under cover..." she offers a head bob to the woman. "Gilded Rose, and who are you?" 

 

"And wait for how long for another to wander this way?" Asks Mnemon Tuyet to that. "I am Mnemon Tuyet." Then a frown as she glances down to the unconcious man at her feet, and the fact the grass and his clothes are starting to smoulder around her. "I do not suppose you know anything of healing? I could probably keep him alive, but might well set fire to him in the process."

  

Gilded Rose shakes her head. "Sorry. I don't know much of healing, though I suppose I will have to learn. " she kneels down to look the man over. "Poor man... you really hurt him. Personally I would have just gone for his groin." 

 

Mnemon Tuyet steps back away from Gilded Rose as she attends the unconcious slaver, watching her as she steps away from the wagon. "I do not suppose you know about tracking then to follow this thing back?" She motions to the wagon with the tip of a blade, then turns her attention to examining the vehicle and the animals hauling it.

 

(Judge) Mnemon Tuyet rolls Perception: [ 5 <10> ]

        Resulting in 2 successes.

  

Gilded Rose pauses. "I could try... its not my speciality. As I said former slave, so the world... is a pretty big place, Lady." she says softly. She turns to look where the wagon has come from. "LEts see." she begins to walk to where the wagon had come from..

 

The wagon is the standard type, open bed and two horses. Inside the bed, however, are several sets of manacles firmly attached to the main joists of the wagon. The horses are about mid-size, and their tack is servicable, nothing more.

 

(Judge) Gilded Rose rolls Perception  + Survival: [ 3 3 8 <10> ]

        Resulting in 3 successes.

 

"My retainers are supposed to check here in a half hour or so, I am sure they can take care of the wagon." Comments Mnemon Tuyet as she moves to follow, flicking her daiklaives to clear them of blood before she neatly sheaths them. Another grin. "Lead on then! If we find them they are certainly not going to be able to resist trying to snatch you up."

  

Gilded Rose nods. "Yes... been there, done that.. was tattooed, and rescued, the day I was being sold." she says with a cool tone. She kneels down to feel the ground. "We should wait for your retainers. I think... it'd be silly to go in alone... who knows how many women there are... trapped."

  

Mnemon Tuyet gives a shake of her head to that. "They are not soldiers, well two used to be, but I want them standing guard on my luggage, cook and servants. They would not make a meaningful difference in a fight and might get killed or something." She stops to rather appraisingly watch Gilded Rose as she kneels. "Can you follow the tracks from the wheels?"

  

Gilded Rose nods. "Then we leave them, I guess. I thought you might have brought Soliders with you..." she states feeling the ground with hands. "We can I think, as long as the tracks didn't get washed away with any rains thay have passed through. "Is there anything in the cart, Lady?"

  

"Manacles, there is not much doubt what they had in mind for you there." Answers Mnemon Tuyet rather matter of factly as she steps up behind Gilded Rose. "As to soldiers, I prefer to travel with a small group for the moment, and troops would find it hard to keep up with the pace I set awing." 

 

Gilded Rose ahhs. "Much? No. I was given all I could wish for and protected like a glass peice.." she explains....

 

The two dragonblooded decide to pick up their investigations later, when they can hire a tracker, or if they hear of a larger group.

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