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Post by Dahak on Mar 17, 2005 17:53:39 GMT -5
Zharid nodded. "I'll watch half the night. You need to get at least a little rest." And I need to talk to Nyiadu. He thought to himself.
He winced slightly. Holding the illusion was starting to hurt. He had not needed to hold it so long before and it was starting to drag him down. "I'm used to staying up late, so I volunteer to go first."
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Post by LordGwrtheyrn on Mar 17, 2005 18:04:35 GMT -5
"Fine. I will take the other half then. I sense there's something about you Zharid..and I will find out what it is. And when the time is right I will introduce myself...the true me."
Tevok walks over to his spot to lay down and sits there. As he sits there he concentrates a moment, then lays down. As soon as he lays down, Tevok falls sound asleep.
As he sleeps, he dreams about what he could be, about who he could be, and where he came from. He falls deep into his dream, he sees huge flying creatures, people changing shapes, and people practicing magik. a magik of earth and fire together. Tevok notices the people coming out of their homes, which are caves, to bow down before him. Tevok Drakoni, our Lord. It felt good to hear this...but he wondered if he would remember this when he woke up...
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Post by Dahak on Mar 17, 2005 18:28:58 GMT -5
Zharid smiled slightly. "We all have our secrets." He said more to his self than anyone else.
He walked to the other side of the dead bird and focused. He let his illusion fade. It felt like relaxing a muscle he was holding tense for the past two days.
He stood there for a minute before repeating his ritual to communicate with Nyiadu. He called her name and she appeared in the fire.
She noticed his form right away and visibly tensed. "What's wrong? Did you lose her?"
Zharid shook his head. "No. She's asleep right now so I'm taking the opportunity to rest some and speak to you."
She relaxed and regained her calm composure. "Good. Good."
"We picked up another person. I'm not sure what he is, but he's very attatched to the woman." He continued.
"That may...complicate things." She said.
"He's proved himself valuable." He made a guesture at the bird behind him. "He helped us kill that. The woman knows how to defend herself as well."
"This is good. You may need his help in the future. I can feel...danger rushing towards you. Be very careful." She said seriously.
"Because we both know how reckless and ignorant of the dangers of the desert I am." He said sarcastically.
"You're overconfident." She replied.
"You're acting odd tonight. No barbed comments. Are you ill?" He asked.
"This takes much higher priority than using you for my amusment." She smiled.
"Wow. You must think the world is going to end if we fail if you are passing up opportunities to harrass me." Zharid said.
"Not quite that, but threatening nontheless. Now, I need to go. I was in the middle of a meeting when you called. Now I have to make up some nonsense about my god calling me away to explain my sudden leave." She joked. She turned around and the flame was put out.
Once she left Zharid sat down on the sand and looked up at the sky. "We all have our secrets." He said to himself again.
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Post by shadow on Mar 17, 2005 19:28:41 GMT -5
"we certainly do have our secrets" alexander said giving a light chuckle to himself "the retrievers should have been there by now" alexander waves his hands over his scrying glass, a picture of the three ugly retreivers comes into veiw, they hadnt lost site of their prey as he thought they might have, "they just stopped for a snack" he thought to himself watching the creatures tear apart a traveling merchant, cart broken and scattered. "simple case of the wrong place at the wrong time" alexander thought. he goes back to watching the triphalon thorugh his scrying glass, hard to imagine why those three would be considered a threat by his great prophets, but it didnt matter, his kind would soon rule this insignificant race, "their apochalypse is coming soon" he thought. he looks around out his window a bit, seeing that there is no one around, then his old skin tears apart as he brings out his true form, glad to shed the old man disguise. and his true form appears from the old husk, monsterous and horrifying. about 9 feet tall he stood barely missing the ceiling, with a thick coat of coarse black greasy hair all over him, muceles obvious even through his thick coat of fur travelling up from his almost human feet to his head looks almost human, but wider and with a head shaped like a wolfs head. he leaned back and forth cracking every bone on his grotesque body. "feels so good to be out" he said to himself, bright red eyes gleaming
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Post by Dahak on Mar 17, 2005 21:09:17 GMT -5
Zharid stood up. The desert was completely void of sound and movement. He could feel a certain tension. He couldn't name what was causing it, but he didn't like it. He recreated his illusion and quickly walked over to where the others were sleeping. He gripped Cass's shoulder and gently shook her.
"Wake up. Something's wrong."
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Post by Mortis Fatalis on Mar 17, 2005 21:20:11 GMT -5
*Cass jerks awake instentaneousley grabbing for her scimitar when she realizes she has it gripped in her hands. She had had a horrifying dream that three monsters were coming to assasinate the three of them. Cass took a deep breathe and wiped the sleep out of her eyes. Nodding at Zharid.*
I'm a knowin'...*Confused by why she knows.*
*Looks around and squints.*
Its already mornin'? I tought Tevok was goin' ta take a shift...why tis it so bright? It ain't a like this yesterday.
*Cass frowns and shakes her head she knows they need to get out of here quickly. Cass goes over and shakes Tevok's shoulder to wake him up and then she comes back to where she was before.*
Do ya have a plan?
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Post by Dahak on Mar 18, 2005 0:17:28 GMT -5
Zharid shook his head. "I don't even know what's going on."
He watched the surrounding area, trying to figure out what was about to happen.
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Post by Mortis Fatalis on Mar 18, 2005 5:15:16 GMT -5
*Frowned remembering her dream of the assasins.*
Could it be possible that someone knws where here? Someone...not good? Coould be possible that...ummmmm...assasins are after us?
*Frowns being more and more disturbed by her dream.*
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Post by shadow on Mar 18, 2005 16:18:12 GMT -5
the retreivers zoom across the desert at supernatural speed making a loud rumbling noise like one you hear when a full army is marching around, but more menacing, their legs were flying up and down creating a blur of their hard exoskelotons, they were on the hunt, just over the next hill
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Post by LordGwrtheyrn on Mar 18, 2005 16:59:02 GMT -5
Tevok wakres up with a startle..."Wha..What is going on??" Suprisingly he remembers his dream that he had while he was sleeping. He notices that he is back to the way HE was...not this other THING that was speaking through him. "Zharid??Cass?? Is everything alright? I feel something evil..." Tevok looks around wondering what it could be.
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Post by Dahak on Mar 18, 2005 17:13:53 GMT -5
Zharid could hear the creatures coming now. He looked in the direction the noise was coming from. "Something's coming. Be ready to defend yourself."
It only took the creatures a second before they became visible on the horizon, quickly closing the distance between them and the group.
Zharid had never seen such a creature before. He hesitated only for a second before running to meet the creatures. One of them tried to club him with it's claw, but he dodged it and dove under it's body. Zharid landed on his back and stabbed upwards between two plates of the exoskeleton with his katars. He quickly ran from under the creature before it crushed him with it's body.
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Post by shadow on Mar 18, 2005 17:21:40 GMT -5
the two other retreivers, after seeing their companion badly hurt start attacking zharid furiously, one swings its scorpion like tail and nails zharid in the side knocking him off his feet onto the ground between the two retreivers
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Post by Mortis Fatalis on Mar 18, 2005 17:28:06 GMT -5
*Looks at Tevok.*
ya ready for this here?
*Without even thinking she turns away and starts to run towards the monsters. Cass then jerks her head seeing something. She notices zharid being attack by the other two monsters that were alive. Cass rushes towards them making sure to stay out of eye view and swings her blade right at a seperate part of the exoskeleton. It cuts right through the skin and the mnster topples over.*
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Post by shadow on Mar 18, 2005 17:38:56 GMT -5
the last retreiver, seeing it is the last one left, thows a powerful blow from his tail and stabs cass in the arm with the tip of the tail, all cass feels is a burning sensation as her arm goes numb.
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Post by LordGwrtheyrn on Mar 18, 2005 22:50:36 GMT -5
Tevok becomes infuriated with this...this creature. "AAAHHHHHH!!!!" But instead of a scream, it's a booming roar. A split second later Tevok notices himself racing towards the last creature. He pulls out his sword and slices the humongous creature in half from the front all the way to the back.
"Cass!! Zharid!! Are you guys ok? I should have acted faster, but I was too transfixed on what was going on. I am so sorry. Anything broken Zharid? Cass...your arm...it's bleeding bad." Tevok takes a tear of his robe and wraps it around the wound on Cass's arm. "You might be poisoned...and in the nervous condition I am in now, I can't be of any help." As Tevok walked over to check out Zharid, he noticed that the torn place of his robe had somehow repaired itself. "Zharid, can you move? I am so sorry tht i didn't act sooner. I should be punished." As Tevok said this, he took his sword and went to slash his wrist. One cut for each monster...
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