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Ferr Windston

Damion looked to the man waving to them and nodded. In a level tone he asked Otto, "So what is your name? The down side of inviting yourself is that you don't get people's names. I take it his name is Leo or something similar?" The human pointed to Leornid as he led the way.

Codestar7


Wicked Basket

Cleatus followed behind the small band's self-proclaimed leader without taking the time to introduce himself to the newcomer. He has never been one for pleasantries, they just seemed to formal. They will eventually all figure out each others' names throughout this little escapade anyway, so why waste time giving out names now? Besides, standing around and talking gets boring very quickly, unless the conversation is about weapons in which Cleatus could talk all day, but that's another story.

Ferr Windston

Damion nodded with understanding as he learn the two new names. He continued to follow in silence with a hand on his chin. In a state of thought, the man began to think to himself. His armor made a light chime as he walked. He was the kind of man to let others lead and then follow their example of behavior. Within certain situations of course, such as this one. How was he to predict the actions and reactions of people he didn't know? He figured he would just have to wait and see.

Leornid

Leornid was happy to see everyone was following. Apparently, he was now the leader. That was a first. He couldn't say he didn't like it though. He also liked his new nickname, so he told Inu she could use it all she liked. The group kept moving for a couple hours, mostly silent, when, less than half a mile from where the ruins where, He saw the road was blocked. In front of them stood that thug from yesterday night and some more equally hulking men. For the sake of trying, Leornid said:

"Hello fellas. If you would be so kind as to get out of the road so we can keep going our separate ways, we'd be obliged."

As expected, the thugs didn't say anything, and they pulled out their weapons, which were mostly knives and cudgels, with the odd swords. They were about fifteen of them. Bad odds. Leornid knew he should act fast, and so he did.

"Sorry for that little one", he said to Inu. He then threw her straight up in the air, and slightly aimed at the thugs. If she was indeed a cat, she wouldn't have issues with the landing. In the same motion, he drew out his bow, nocked an arrow and shot. Without waiting to see where his shot fell -he was certain it would hit- he jumped behind a rock that was next to the road, taking cover. He nocked another arrow and prepared to shoot again. This would be fun.

Wicked Basket

Cleatus approached the thugs competely undeterred. They didn't seem too keen on dealing with a huge cyclops with a huge hammer to match. Relying on strength in numbers, five charged him at once. Surely that would be enough, and the other ten could take on his companions. Unfortunately for them, that wasn't the case. With one swing of his warhammer, three of his assailants went airborne and landed in a crumpled heap. The other two bandits immediately reconsidered their actions and bolted. Being smashed by a cyclops was not worth their payday. Cleatus laughed at their sudden change of heart and advanced on the other bandits. This was more like it.

Anadwen

Inu-Inu squealed with excitement as she was tossed into the air, and drew her weapons in mid-air, descending onto the thugs like a cannonball with two Wakizashi blades in her hands. Her high-pitched scream warned a few of her coming, but the one that she smote down in her fall and sliced up didn't have the time to run.

Ferr Windston

Damion threw his bag behind a rock to give him maximum range of his shoulders. The bag being a simple hindrance. As the warrior reached to drew his with the off hand great sword, a thug dashed towards him from the side. With a step back, the thug's knife glanced the metal plates with a sharp chime. Damion punched the thug in the temple of his head, stunning him for a few extra seconds. In that time he finished drawing his sword, taking hold of it with both hands and lifting it up. After a heavy step forwards, the blade sung with a white noise as it slashed the thugs arm and chest. "I would have warned you. But..." The warrior trailed off with a sigh as he backed off a few steps.

Codestar7

Otto scrambled up a tree, and notched an arrow, aiming at the back-most attackers. He let an arrow fly, hitting one of the barbarians deep in his skull. He then notched two arrows, jumped on top of someone's head, and kicked his face, then shot two arrows at advancing foes, felling two birds with one stone.

((OOC-Levaes about 5))

Leornid

Leornid popped out of his cover and shot another arrow, killing another thug. Few were left now. His companion were scaterred all around the battlefield, and by the number of dead thugs, they were doing a pretty good job at handling their foes. Otto was up on a tree, using his bow, while the other three were down in the heat of the fighting. Leornid decided to drop his bow, and drew his sword. It was time to get a bit personal.

Drawing his sword, he advanced on one of the thugs. The thug wielded a sword too, and he looked like he knew how to use it. They fought for a while, exchanging parries, strikes and feints, until Leornid managed to gut him after a feint.

That left three.

Anadwen

Inusaki decided that those three were HER personal targets, and before someone else could engage them, she leaped up at one's head, slicing it straight off. In the middle of her jump, she kicked the body down, using it as an extension to jump up higher, and in a flip in the middle of her other, extremely long and extremely high jump, her blades skewed into the other one, already running away from her.

The third one attempted to land a strike on her, but she easily ducked underneath, and cut into his leg. The strike was powerful enough to bring him down onto his knees, and there, she simply stabbed him in the neck.

The most amazing thing was when she turned back at her companions. There was a wide smile on her face. "Now that was fun! Fifteen thugs less on the face of Earth! When do we fight again?"

Leornid

Leornid really didn't know how to reply to Inu. Such a tiny creature, yet she had killed three men in heartbeats. And after that she smiled too. So, insted of saying anything, he just patted her head, then picked her up and put her back into his back. Turning to the others, he asked:

"Does anybody want to search the bodies for some loot or anything, or should we keep going?"

Anadwen

"It wouldn't be a bad idea for us to look what they have in their pockets, Leo-Leo!" Inusaki suggested, and moved upwards on Leornid's shoulder to give herself a better view. "They might have some food, even sweets."

Ferr Windston

Damion agreed with the agile Inusaki. "I think the same way as her. They may have items that could prove useful to use in the near future. And looting for the 'better good' never gave me a bad taste in my mouth." The warrior smirked as he sheathed his blade onto his back. Wiping a streak of dark blood from his white hair.

Wicked Basket

"I don't know," Cleatus said picking up one of the dead bandits by the ankle. "They don't look like they got much."

Cleatus shook the bandit a couple times causing a few coins to fall from the man's pocket.

"Nothing," Cleatus muttered tossing the body aside.

Codestar7

Otto searched the nearest body, in unspoken agreement to Leornid's question. He found a small piece of yellowed paper, which he put into his tunic pocket, hoping nobody saw. He would read it later. Other than that, there were a few copper coins, two silver, and an amalgam of trinkets. Most of them were useless, so he tossed them aside.
"Nothing here either," He lied.

Ferr Windston

In two bodies laying beside each other, Damion knelt down to search their pockets. One had almost nothing other then the shells of nuts. The other however had some spare copper and a waterskin. Opening the cork, Damion smelled the contents. "Ugh, more alcohol." The warrior said and shook the container, hearing faintly the little left int it.

Leornid

Leornid bent to search a body himself, which was hard with Inu on his back. Still he managed it. He went through each and every pocket in the corpse's body, but he found nothing as well.

There was a backpack tossed around in the fight by a thug, which he searched too. Sadly, it also had nothing but a few coins and some really bad wine.

"Well, they seem to have nothing. Do you want to keep searching or keep going? The ruins are near."

Anadwen

Inu-Inu sighed. "Those were some poor thugs! They usually have at least some coins." she muttered, and gave the corpses a slight frown. "We better get going, though, so we can get as far as we can today."

Codestar7

Otto agreed with Inu. They needed to rest tonight, so they had energy tomorrow. It was to be a two-day walk across barren wilderness and a forest to get to where they were going.
"I just need to take a leak," exclaimed Otto. At that, he disappeared into the bushes adorning the roadside. There, he took out the note he had confiscated from a thug's body. He opened it.
It read:

Orders from Frederic Hussin, Guild Leader of the Cerenis Boozers
Last night, a group of men and a little girl created a ruckus in the Inn of the Jaded Flower. They are to trek to the Ruins of Qinte, two day's on foot north of here. They should not go by mount, as the road there is perilous, and follows through various landscapes. You and your band are to stop them, and get to the site before them. Station your men at intervals, and by all means, stop them, and loot them. There are two men, a little girl, and a Cyclops. You know what to do. Good luck, Squad Commander Fetumbnus.

Otto was stunned - Why would a Guild of drinkers want to stop them? But then, it was probably for their weapons, enchanted as such.

Otto emerged from the foliage, and set off with the group. All of a sudden he stopped. He turned around, note in hand, and bent over.
"Hey, guys, what's this?" He asked, sneakily, pretending to pick up the piece of paper. He opened it, and read what was inside, as if he had never seen it before. Then he waited for a reaction.

((OOC, they know not of Damien ;) ))