Gavin & Pedro (Joint post) - 2000-12-09
ngra awoke with an uneasy feeling that something was wrong. He slipped out of bed and checked his wards. All were fine, but the uneasiness didn't leave him.
A wizard lived by his instincts, and Engra's instincts told him that he shouldn't be hanging around in his room, so he quietly opened his door and slipped into the corridor.
He had intended to slip downstairs to see if there was something going on down there, but instead he found himself hesitating beside a door. Not wanting to make a mistake, he tried to check what was going on. He could hear a woman talking, but something told him that there was a man in there too.
Now she was giggling, but Engra felt the uneasy feeling leap up inside him. Almost without volition he thrust the door open.
The man was reaching for the woman's neck! Without thinking, he turned the air around the man as hard as rock.
The girl screamed as the door burst open, her screaming only becoming louder and more irritating as she took in the sight of the strange man in the doorway. Leydon, unfortunately close to the source of the noise, began to grimace, willing in vain for his ears to close. But with most of his body caught in the wizard's spell, there really wasn't much that he could do, other than stay quiet and hope that whatever was going to happen wouldn't hurt /too/ much.
Engra was startled by the pitch of the woman's scream, and wished he could cast sleep spells, if only to shut her up. Instead he grabbed the womans arm and virtually dragged her to the door, pressed a silver noble into her hand, and shoved her out the door, barring it behind her.
"I just hope she shuts up soon, or half the inn will probably lynch her." he muttered, before turning back to the still inanimate man.
Leydon smirked at that comment, surprisingly at ease for one who couldn't move any of his body below his neck.
"I don't know about that," he replied. "Some blokes can be surprisingly patient with a pretty girl."
He attempted to turn his neck to regard the intruder, but was unable to look around enough. He breathed a faint sigh.
"I'm not going to chop your nadgers off or anything," he said. "After all, you've just done me a favour."
Engra stepped into the man's vision, eyes blazing like fire. "Done you a favour? You don't know the price I could demand of you. You were about to take a life, therefore yours is forfeit and I am it's custodian."
He reached into a pocket and drew out a blue metal bracelet and stepped forward, slipping it over one of the man's still frozen hands while quickly intoning some spell under his breath.
"I will always be able to find you with that." He said, pointing to the bracelet. "You will not be able to remove it and it will prevent your movement past boundaries that I set. You are going to have to live with your errors..."
With that he lifted the spell that was holding the man.
Abby - 2000-12-10
eleos nodded, accepting one of the keys from Muranog. "Best to get him settled first. Then maybe we can see about some food..."
She'd only just begun to turn, contemplating how she was going to muscle the unconscious Daemil up the stairs and into a room, when a hysterical female voice rose up shrilly behind her. Immediately she whipped back around, only to see a sobbing young woman stumble down the stairs, clutching a silver noble and wailing near-incoherently about thieves and murderers and outlaws and assassins.
"Damnation," Keleos swore quietly. "So much for peace and rest." With a quick glance around her to be sure the other members of her group weren't wandering off, she strode briskly over to the crying girl, shouldering aside some of the gathering patrons of the inn and seizing the girl by the upper arms. "What happened," she demanded.
It took several more impatient questions, punctuated by an occasional shake, to get any sense at all out of the girl, but finally Keleos managed to elicit a location--third room on the left. With that, she pushed the still-sobbing young woman at the nearest handy person and strode for the stairs, her face set grimly.
Spellbinder - 2000-12-11
revor considered Tiel's words as he finished butchering the deer. He nodded distractedly at her as she settled down to sleep, "Good night, Tiel. And thanks." Finished with his work he sought out his own bedroll and dropped with fatigue. His last thoughts were of Selene and Azari. How could he resolve this situation? He murmured quietly as sleep claimed him, "Azari...." A small smile played across his lips.
Laura - 2000-12-12
zari stood hovering over the campground. Her bags on Jetta was ready. Azari tried to leave without making a sound. Mounted up on Jetta, Azari gave Jetta a gentle jab and the horse trotted off into the woods. Azari felt so embarrassed she could not wait until day break to explain her rudeness.
Pedro - 2000-12-12
eydon did not react well to Engra's speech. His voice, edged with panic, rises much higher than perhaps it should have - clearly loud enough to be heard outside the door. And further.
"What the hell are you talking about, you pretentious tosser?! You burst into our private room and then stick the ugliest bracelet I have ever seen onto my wrist! And to top it all off, you then deliver the world's most cliched speech, managing to sound all high-and- mighty about ignoring my privacy and taking advantage of a helpless man! I bet you're even gaining some sort of sexual satisfaction from this, aren't you? You sick little bugger!"
Feeling the invisible prison disappear, Leydon stood up, turning to face his molester. The man was clearly a wizard. And if he could freeze people at will, attacking the man was probably not a good idea. Leydon had enough presence of mind to figure this out. He opted for the verbal approach. He gestured to the bracelet, holding it out to the wizard.
"Take this bastard off right me now. I was not about to kill that girl as you appear to presume. That girl is my wife and I was actually about to remove her clothes, as a precursor to further intimacies. As I hope you wouldn't have seen, considering that it is - so- far from being any of your business. What the hell is you problem anyway? Are you just the kind of sick voyeur that gets his jollies from bursting unannounced into people's private rooms?"
Abby - 2000-12-14
She rattled to door only to find it locked. "Fine," she muttered through clenched teeth. "Have it your way." Not bothering with knocking, she drew back a few steps and gathered herself up--then delivered a solid kick to the lock side of the door. The cheap wooden bolt shattered, sending the door flying violently open.
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