Heroes of Lion Storm IC

[Playking57]

Silas, growing fatigued from sprinting through the city in his heavy armor, and hoping that the end was nearly in sight, went for another all out sprint across the bridge.

Spoiler: Fortitude roll to sprint

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(1d20+3)[17]

[warper]

Wrexial looks around at anything that could stop that damn fox. He needed to win. He needed that money, he'd lied and cheated this far to get paid for more honest work and he wasn't going to let that shifter ruin his first opportunity. He swipes an empty crate from some guy transferring fruit and hucks it at the fox, wondering what the chances would be of boxing the little guy.

Spoiler: OOC

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Watch out for brown spots, my dog **** in that box like 5 minutes ago
#Thefoxgetboxed

(1d20+3)[19]

Sprint-2 (1d20)[13]

[thegoldenfedora]

As the roads converge, the fighting breaks out. Zaiho sprints ahead, but suddenly he is lifted up as a box slides over him from behind. He sees the world spin in front of him and then it goes dark as the box flips over him. He hears two other contestants get disturbingly close.

M’raji grabs onto the back of Tikrack and pulls him to the ground. Tikrack yells in surprise and takes a moment to stand back up. He grins maliciously and chases M’raji down with a powerful sprint.

Veridotus tries to throw the dagger, but despite connecting, her weak arms cant put enough power behind the throw to cut the rope and it remains hanging with a small notch cut out of it. Thatassku grabs the first thing she can find and with a jump hucks it over Dragars head at Silas. Silas hears a thud to his left and sees a barbell hit the ground next to him.

The light can be seen just ahead down the next street. Several onlookers jump and point at the road to take, cheering for the racers.

Spoiler: ooc

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warper I added an improvised weapon penalty to your attack roll

1. You may take a -2 penalty on your roll to do an additional action, ie. Knock a basket of European coconuts over and force people behind you to deal with that.
2. You may take a -2 penalty on your roll to change which of the three streets you are running down. Taking alternate paths do not have this penalty but will require their own roll. Moving from the street to an adjacent water road or vice versa do not take this penalty
3. In the event there is an open lane (no obstacle), you may attempt a fortitude check to sprint

Spoiler: Initiative

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Wrexial 23
Thatassku (1d20+2)[22]
M'raji 21
Veridotus 15
Lenora (1d20+2)[14]
Tikrack (1d20+2)[13]
Dragar (1d20+1)[12]
Silas 7
Zaiho 6

Spoiler: ranking

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1st Zaiho, Wrexial
11’
3rd Lenora
1’
4th Silas
19’
5th Dragar
2’
6th Thatassku
3’
7th Veridotus
10’
8th Tikrack, m’raji

Turning down a street on the left: no obstacle

[lougerstle]

Thatassku attempt to gain an advantage by using the barbell off the tengu vendor may have been a double edged attempt. Now even closer Veridotus grabbed the barbell and rolled it towards the recruit trying again to trip them up and gain another place in the ranking. Hopefully this will have a bit more umph, she thought as she swung her little arm forward and release the weight.

[Jenlikesbacon]

M'raji realized that tripping Tickrack once wasn't enough, and he might have to fight dirty if he wanted to get out of last place. He pushed Tickrack to the side in hopes that he could surge ahead.

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combat maneuver to push Tickrack to the ground because this last place nonsense is getting out of hand
(1d20+1)[19]

[InstantOatmeal]

Shifting back to his humanoid form as fast as he could, Zaiho threw the box behind him and lowered his head, charging for the end.

Spoiler: OOC

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shift to humanoid fox and fort save to sprint with a -2 (1d20-2)[14] and I'm burning my last two inspiration uses to add to the save (1d6)[2]

[warper]

Wrexial sprints with all his might, knowing that any slip up might cost him the race. Speaking of slip ups, Rex pulls out a dagger from his hip and hooks it on the now shifting fox's leg, attempting to trip him up and gain some distance.

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(1d20+3)[6]

Sprint (1d20)[16]

[thegoldenfedora]

As the world goes dark over Zaiho, he transforms again retaking his usual fox hybrid form and dashes as hard as he can. Wrexial tries to catch him off guard, but Zaiho was ready this time and nimbly dodged the attack. The man and kitsune sprint ahead neck and neck, neither gaining any ground on the other.

The combat breaks out further behind as Silas, Thatassku, Veridotus and M’raji each attack the ones ahead of them. Silas grabs Lenora by the shoulders and used all of his armors weight to pull her backwards, she falls to the ground with a heavy thud and tries to stand back up. Thatassku bashes Dragar with her shield, the white bearded dwarf only having moments to defend himself from the sudden attack. He gets knocked off balance and tumbles forward. Veridotus tries to roll the barbell forward to trip Thatassku, but again her weak arms are unable to manipulate the weight well enough to actually make it dangerous for the Nagaji and the weight rolls off to the side, between two pillars where it falls off the bridge with a pop into the water. M'raji shoulder checks Tikrack into the wall, and the tiefling crumples to the ground.

As the racers round the corner, they can at least see the job board with the bright light hovering above it. Many people have gathered here to watch and cheer them on. Some more informed people even had face paint to look like foxes, cats or to add blue tattoos to their faces. The board itself was set up in the middle of a square, it was a large wooden board that stood on two posts and it was obviously well made with metal inlay wrapping around it. Standing next to the board was Ratike.

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1. You may take a -2 penalty on your roll to do an additional action, ie. Knock a basket of European coconuts over and force people behind you to deal with that.
2. In the event there is an open lane (no obstacle), you may attempt a fortitude check to sprint

Spoiler: initiative

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Wrexial 23
Thatassku (1d20+2)[22]
M'raji 21
Veridotus 15
Lenora (1d20+2)[14]
Tikrack (1d20+2)[13]
Dragar (1d20+1)[12]
Silas 7
Zaiho 6

Spoiler: ranking

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1st Zaiho, Wrexial
12’
3rd silas
23’
4th thatassku
6’
5th lenora
4’
6th Veridotus
6’
7th Dragar
4’
8th M’raji
22’
9th Tikrack

No obstacle: the end is in sight, this is the last round!

[Jenlikesbacon]

M'raji looked up and saw his uncle smiling at him next to the job board. He knew he needed to give one last push forward, he was far enough behind already. M'raji could see Dragar not too far ahead, and decided to use this final leg to knock one last opponent out of his way. He really hoped Ratike was watching, he wanted his uncle to see his impressive maneuvers.

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combat maneuver to trip up Dragar and apparently all I know how to do is trip people
(1d20+1)[15]

[InstantOatmeal]

The finish in his sights, Zaiho puts on a final burst of speed, keeping one eye trained on Wrexial, ready to counter anything the rogue might try.

Spoiler: OOC

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Acrobatics roll to dodge anything tried, a fort check to sprint.
Acrobatics: (1d20+6)[25]
Fortitude for sprint: (1d20-2)[12]

[lougerstle]

After another failed attempt to try to gain an advantage over Thatassku, the ensuing battle between her and the dwarf gave her the opportunity she was fighting for by chance. Now with Dragar just behind her she again chose to focus to use heightened awareness to look out for any foul play form the dwarf who is just behind her and sprint as quickly as her small stride would carry.

Spoiler: OoC

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I'll use heightened awareness
and for roll for sprint (1d20-2)[18]

[warper]

Wrexial was panting hard and his legs burning. He could see the end but it felt so far away. It felt like his legs would just give out at any moment. And to top off, the fox man was just too nimble for his trip. Wrexial saw no choice but to try and outrun him. Being wary of Zaiho counter attacking, Rex tried to be ready for anything that might happen and put everything he had into one last sprint.

Spoiler: OOC

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Acrobatics(1d20+7)[9]

Sprint (1d20)[19]

[Playking57]

Silas ran towards the finishline, wishing that he had some way to get the two nimble racers ahead of him to trip up somehow, but now wanting to *actually* shoot them and harm his fellow initiates.

Just as he was thinking about a way to stop them, a bunch of cloud clumps held by a nearby vendor caught his eye. As he looked at them, and thought about how perfect they could be as a distraction if *only* the wind were on his side to blow in their faces, he felt a tingle from his brand new tattoo, and felt the wind instantly switch to the direction he had wanted.

Silas stumbled slightly in shock, having no clue what had just occured. As his concentration faltered from the cloud clumps, the wind scattered them, with a majority of them drifting wide of their mark. Shaken by this strange occurence, Silas redoubled his efforts and tried to finish the race as strongly as he could.

[thegoldenfedora]

Ratike waves his arms and from out of nowhere an illusionary banner screening as a finish line appears before the job board, artificially floating in the wind. Wrexial and Zaiho sprint for the newly created finish line, each trying to out pace the other just a little so that they can take first place. Sweat flies off of them into the air as their feet pound on the ground and their shoulders bump into each other.

The vendor gasps in surprise at the sudden breeze that takes the cloud clumps right out of his loose grip to float in front of the front runners. Both were prepared for the mischief and the two simultaneously rolled forward on the ground underneath the colorful blockade. Zaiho comes up quicker, finally gaining some ground over Wrexial.

Thatassku chases after Silas as hard as she can. Her speed was incredible and the distance between her and Silas began to shrink. Seeing the Nagaji getting away, Lenora puts on one extra burst of speed to keep up. Despite her efforts, she's is unable to gain any distance on the speeding Thatassku at all.

Dragar tries to catch up to Veridotus, but falls forward from the tricky maneuver of M'raji. Having moved up a place the catfolk jogs on, feeling quite safe with the distance between himself and those behind him.

Seeing Zaiho ahead of him, Wrexial continues his mad dash to the finish line. The gap between the two closes slowly, almost too slowly, until just feet before the finish, he breaks past and through the illusionary finish line. Zaiho quickly follows and moments later Silas breaks through as well. The crowd erupts with cheering for the winners. Thatassku and Lenora come next, the crowd cheers again for the two. As they break through, they finally slow their pace, Thatassku hunching over in fatigue, Lenora falling to the ground panting. Veridotus comes in next, her short legs working hard to bring her to the finish line. The crowd cheers for the small person’s efforts. Shortly after, M'raji crosses, followed by Dragar who takes a seat in the ground in a huff. Taking the rear was Tikrack, his robe soaked with sweat, stumbling from the exertion. The crowd cheers again and he puts on a brave face and a little more effort to jog to the finish line where he promptly falls to the ground.

As the racers try to regain catch their breath and the cheering dies down, Ratike congratulates them as he claps his hands lightly.
”Congratulations Lion Storm, very impressive work from all of you.” he waves his hand and the banner disappears. ”You all gave it your best and overcame whatever was in your way in creative ways. To be honest that's one of my favorite parts of Lion Storm.” he laughs a little and the crowd smirks knowingly. ”Well either way, here is the job board. On it are all of the jobs that Lion Storm has been tasked with. When a job comes in, Lion Storm hashes out the pay, assesses the risk and then determines the odds and ends of it all. If ever a job comes in that does not work with Lion Storm’s morals, such as assassination, we will refuse the job.” He pauses a moment to let all of the information sink in. ”Let's see what else… oh yes, each job will show who requested the job as well as a way to get a hold of them if you need to get information. Generally the Lion Storm members find smaller groups that they work particularly well with and start doing jobs alongside those others, but for now take whatever job you feel like, just be ready for further festivities tonight at 10.” He gestures to Wrexial ”Since Wrexial won first place, he may choose a job first.”

Spoiler: ooc

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I will need everyone to make a fortitude save with a DC=10+(the number of times that you sprinted) to avoid fatigue for the next hour. Double check for me, but I believe it is DC 15 for Veridotus, 14 for Silas, Zaiho and Wrexial and 12 for M'raji.

Spoiler: Final ranking:

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1st Wrexial
2nd Zaiho
3rd Silas
4th thatassku
5th Lenora
6th veridotus
7th M’raji
8th Dragar
9th Tikrack

For coming in 7th place, M'raji earned everyone 10 XP
For coming in 6th veridotus earned everyone 15 XP
For coming in 3rd Silas earned everyone 30 XP
For coming in second Zaiho earned everyone 40 XP
For coming in first Wrexial earned everyone 50 XP
Total: 145 XP
I did not like how I decided to run this race, so as thanks to everyone for bearing with it and giving it a good solid try I am giving everyone an additional 100 XP
Total 245XP (that's per person)

There are a large number of jobs on the board. There is a brewer asking for someone to try some new brews, a person asking for someone to deliver mail, a shop keeper requesting some help tidying, and even a child asking for someone to play tag with. Three jobs stand out in particular though because they ask for multiple Lion Storm to perform: A Smith would like some help advertising his wares. He asks for two people to use his weapons and armor outside of his store in a mock fight.
Someone named Figless is moving and desires help carrying everything. He asks for 5 Lion Storm to complete the task.
The last request on the board tells about a young girl who has idolized heroes and so much that she has begun to skip school and attempt to adventure on her own. Her parents have written a request for two Lion Storm to talk to the girl and try to dissuade her.

[warper]

Wrexial stands with his hands on his thighs panting while everyone finishes, desperately trying to steady his breathing. He could tell his ashen colored back was glistening with sweat in the sun and now that he'd stopped for a minute, the sweat was making the wind chill him. He didn't care though, he could see the job board and Ratike gave them a second to breath with his talking. When Ratike finished, Wrexial inspected the options quickly, not wanting to keep everyone waiting. At first the tasting job sounded fun, Rex was quite thirsty too.

But the very last job caught his eye particularly. He remembered feeling the same way growing up and when he'd been sent off to the city had come to discover how rough it can be. Especially for a kid so young. Rex chose that one, taking note of the parents contact information and ripping off his ticket so he knew where to start. Afterwards he moved out of the way for Zaiho to pick his prize job.

As Zaiho moves up, Wrexial takes a good look at him and wonders if he'll be a threat, angry about Rex foiling his win, or perhaps an ally through eventual shared work. Rex wanted to know sooner rather than later, offering a handshake once Zaiho picked his job and went to the side. "Impressive run."

[InstantOatmeal]

Zaiho returned the handshake, "a fine run yourself, and an excellent finish. Eyeing the job board, his eyes lingered on the final listing. Reaching to grab a tab, he turned to the rogue, "might I join you? I'm sure my experiences would help in discouraging the young one, at least until she can decide for herself."

[Playking57]

Silas stepped up, breathing heavily and still a little offput by the tingle he had felt from his tattoo. He would have to ask someone higher up in Lion Storm what had happened.

Silas saw the request for someone to demonstrate weapons, and smiled. He was a disciplined, well trained warrior, after all, and was trained in the use of many varieties. He reached out and took a ticket, thinking this a perfect opportunity to show off his talents.

He turned back to the group, holding up the job offer. "Anyone care to join me?"

[thegoldenfedora]

Thatassku nods and stands straight to Silas' challenge.
"I sshall take that honor." She strides forward, her green scales shining in the sun, and takes the second tag hanging from underneath the job request.

Lenora slowly works herself up to get feet and slowly moves to the job board. Without looking too hard at the jobs, she grabs one of the tags attached to the job to move and then sits down to lean against the job board.

Ratike looks to Veridotus now. "Your turn my small friend."

[lougerstle]

Breathing heavy from the race, Veridotus looks over the jobs posted on the board. After finishing in the bottom third of the race Veridotus looks for a job that people would not assume she would excel at, so she decides to help the man named carry items. I would be happy to help the man names Figless carry his items where he needs them. She thinks this could be a great challenge for someone her size but is glad for the opportunity to serve the guild and make a better impression with the other new recruits and the higher standing members.

[Jenlikesbacon]

M'raji took a step forward, embarrassed at his low placement. He figured his uncle expected him to do better, and anticipated his disappointment.
One job on the board stood out to M'raji: the job to play tag with a child. He thought about his friendless childhood, and felt a twinge of sadness approaching. He understood what it was like to feel lonely; as many people were intimidated by his appearance. He grabbed the lone ticket for the job and began to search the crowd for a lonely chid.

[thegoldenfedora]

"You'll note that each ticket shows the primary contact for the job as well as how to get a hold of them. You should each start your respective jobs by seeking out that person to gain whatever additional information you may need for the job." Ratike raises his arms for the crowds attention. "Citizens! Lion Storm's newest members have now begun their service to you! Lion Storm! Be sure to be grateful to these people for the work they provide you!"

Zaiho and Wrexial see that their contact is the mother, a Mrs. Hesprous, and that her house was not far from here and resided within the residential district. For Silas and Thatassku, the shop keeper, Jetweska, was set up in the merchant district at a place called "For Arms." M'raji's task would bring him to Jezebel who, as the ticket said, "Undre te big tre." Lenora, Dragar, Veridotus and Tikrack's ticket showed that Figless also resided in the residential district. Ratike approaches this last group to talk with them about something private.

"Be wary with this task, I am not one to share another's secrets, but Figless is a name chosen by himself, and he has a deep history with Lion Storm fraught with rage and despair. Undoubtedly you will see glimpses of it and I beseech that you find ways to make that history no more painful than it already is." After finishing his talk with the group Ratike goes to clasp a hand on M'raji's shoulder. "Good show nephew. You remind me of my time running this race, dead last, so you've got that going for you." the Uncle gives three solid singular laughs. "Remember each person has strengths and weaknesses, you are no exception to this. You can train your strengths, and you can train your weaknesses, but you will find, I think, that such endeavors will reveal new strengths and weaknesses. One of the great things about adventuring guilds is that there are others who have separate strengths and weaknesses than you. Use them to make your own better just as you will make them better. Good luck on your first job nephew."

Thatassku looks at her ticket and grins slyly at Silas. "How would you feel about rassing there?" After a moment she laughs "I joke, no let uss find this Jetwesska and ssee how her waress fare. I look forward to sseing how a persson ssuch as yoursself performss when your opponentss are ready for your attack." She speaks easily without malice, despite the obvious insinuation within her words.

Having finished his aside with M'raji, Ratike speaks again to the group. "You are now Lion Storm, performing the one thing each adventuring guilds is tasked with doing. Even though today's jobs are done freely take them on with all of the determination that we have seen in you that had brought you to this guild. Never forget your Pride."

[Playking57]

Silas smiled, unintimidated by the friendly yet vaguely threatening words of the nagaji. As they started on their way to For Arms, Silas decided to trash talk a little as well.

"Yes, I've had quite enough running for today, thanks. It might surprise you, but it's pretty hard to sprint through a crowded city wearing steel armor."

"Well, perhaps you would have been better prepared if your hands weren't so preoccupied throwing civilians to the streets from horseback." he said with a pointed look, to hopefully drive the point across that endangering innocent people was not going to be a continuing theme. Then, he extended a hand in apology towards Thatassku, "Nothing personal. If the halfling had stayed on that other horse, I'd have taken a few shots at her as well. I didn't hurt you, I hope? I wasn't shooting to kill, I promise!"

"I must admit, I am rather excited for the chance to spar again." Silas indeed had a spring in his step, in spite of the lactic acids building up in his tired legs. "It has been far too long since I've been in a good fight, and this will be my first chance to use weapons made by someone outside my tribe. It's a very special occasion, so lets try not to disappoint each other, shall we?" Silas have her a gentle push and a chuckle, not unnerved by her thick scaled skin; even if he had never met a nagaji before, his tribe had a few draconic races amongst their number, so most of her features were not too strange in his eyes.

... Although, speaking of eyes, the fact that Thatassku seemed to lack eyelids entirely and never blinked was a *tad* creepy.

"You seem like a capable warrior, even if your skills are being used on church-goers and horse jockeys. Nimble as well, quite a few impressive stunts. And you must feel fairly confident in your skills to take up a weapon demonstration job; I bet most of the other recruits would likely have shied away from a task like this. Where did you learn to fight?"

[Jenlikesbacon]

M'raji looked at his ticket, and he couldn't help but smile at the spelling. He knew the little girl meant to write "under the big tree" and he remembered the big ruby tree that sang from the ceremony. He clutched his ticket at started walking towards the tree. M'raji was excited- he hadn't played a game of tag in years. It reminded him of his sister and he games they would play as children. He felt himself longing to see her again.

[warper]

"Of course. It appears we have to find this mother for more details. I'm not too familiar with this place myself so a little guidance there would certainly not hurt."

Wrexial overhears Silas talking to Thatassku and can't help but make a comment. "Oh yes, She actually beat me in the obstacle course earlier... very slippery that one. Better make sure you bring your best to that skirmish!" Rex says to Silas. He winks to Thatassku, turns to Zaiho, and says "Come on, let's get this over with."

[lougerstle]

Veridotus was surprised by what Ritake had said the the recruits. Thinking back about what her father had done, she hoped that it was just unfortunate circumstances that occurred and not anything deliberate, and trust could be a problem for the task they where about to undergo. She thought it may be at lest two scenarios, a trap set for them or someone who is desperate but unwilling to reveal the entire nature/intent of the task they are doing. Addressing the others It seems we have already found an curious task. What are your thoughts about what this may be? Having an insight to what happened to could give us an idea of how to approach the job we have an them appropiatly. I have not been to Riverstone for a very long time. Does anyone know of Figless or heard any of their story?

[thegoldenfedora]

Team Shootstuff
M’raji, Silas, and Thatassku make their way back to East Town. Thatassku continues the conversation with Silas but looks to M'raji occasionally so that all were engaged in the story.

“When it comess to fighting, my background iss that of a budding gladiator.” She pauses as they approach the bridge where the vendors had regained their possessions and were back in business heckling each other from across the bridge. Also on the bridge was the horse Silas had knocked Thatassku from, an angry jockey reigning the beast in. He looks up and notices them.

”Well if it isn't horse thievin Thatassku. Come to gloat at takin me chances at the cup. Well I hope it was worth it!” the man yells. He was of average build with dark tousled hair. He was still in his jockey uniform but now without the excitement of the race it was clear that the outfit was an older one worn by a previous generation, the number 52 was tacked over an order number 13 that was sewn in.

”It lookss like we both misssed our chansse at coming in firsst, Loric”

”Good! I'm glad! When I said that nothin could stop me from racin I meant my naggin Mother gettin on my case for takin one of the field horses. Not that I’d get 200 pounds of Lion Storm thrown at me!”

”It sseemss to me that sshe found a way.” Loric looks at Thatassku in surprise, a realization coming over him.

Veridotus
”I have not heard of such a person, I admit, I have only been in Riverstone for a short while.” Lenora says with a smooth soothing voice that sounds almost as if it came from underwater.

”Nor I” Dragar speaks up. By contrast the goggled dwarfs voice was gravelly and gruff.

”Well I am from here and I've met him. A gnome who keeps to himself on the rare occasion he goes out to the bar. One time a mate decided to mess with him and got a sucker pinch to the knee. That was something funny. I've seen sucker punches, but never one to the knee. My mate straight flipped over from the hit. After that, I never particularly cared to know more about him and I don't much feel an inclination to start either. Just cause we got to move some old gnome for free doesn’t mean we have to get all up in his life. If he got beef with Lion Storm from the past, why is he hiring us to move him out?” Tikrack speaks lazily, though still a bit winded from their race. Without looking at the tickets, Ratike gives them directions to the soon to no longer be Figless’ house and the group heads off to find it.

Wrexial and Zaiho
After Ratike gives directions to the larger group, he inspects the ticket held by Zaiho and then gives directions for the two. ”You'll have to learn the city to keep up with the job requests that spring up here, but for now I'll lend a hand.” he says happily as he points the way. ”This type of thing happens often. Lion Storm tries to stay such a positive place and we are so near to the people that it is easy for them to get caught up and envious of our adventures.” Ratike notices the name on the ticket and thinks to himself for a moment before speaking again. ”Hmm, I think I remember seeing a Mrs. Hesprous at the city hall on occasion, I can't for the life of me remember what for though, it must not be something that comes to the governor often.”

[InstantOatmeal]

Zaiho turned to Wrexial, "I suppose we'd best be going then? I feel we should wait until we know more about the girl and her situation before we make a concrete plan, but I'm thinking we can try to convince her to wait on a decision until she comes of age." Almost unconsciously, his hand strays to his right shoulder, "If she's stubborn, I'm sure we can explain to her, gently of course, that the life of an adventurer isn't all fame and riches, even if many make it out to be."

He shook his head, starting off along the road, glancing back and motioning Wrex to follow him, "let us be off, hopefully she'll give our words some thought."

[thegoldenfedora]

Team Shootstuff
”Me mother hired you!?! Loric exclaimed.

”Let that be a lessson to what a worried mother will do for her sson.” Thatasskun a smiles and winks at Silas and M'raji before leaving a speechless Loric behind with his horse. When they had finished crossing the bridge and we're out of earshot Thatassku laughs. ”Hiss mother never hired me! But I couldn't let a chansse like that passs and his mother makess the besst piess! I'll have to let her know and get one as payment” The trio continue, passing the children who chases them for a little until the gnome regained order. As they come to where the horse race was they could see that it had finished, the vendors had packed up and the onlookers moved on. ”Let uss turn here to head to the merchant disstrict. Bessidess I imagine you would rather not crosss pathss with thosse chefss so ssoon.”

Veridotus
The group follows Ratike's directions to a rather large house. It stood two stories tall and had a wooden fence surrounding it that prevent anyone from seeing in. Once this house would have looked exquisite, but now, the windows were all boarded up and the house looked fairly run down. The front gate of the fence was open and a path of stones with grass growing over them ran to the front door of the house. Sitting on the porch to the front door was a basket with all sorts of food inside.

Standing in front of the gate, there group looks the house over, their expectations falling a little at the dilapidated state of the house.

”Welp, who's goin first?” Tikrack asks.

Wrexial and Zaiho
The two head in the direction Ratike gave them and eventually found the house. A quick confirmation by a passerby revealed that it was in fact house Hesprous.

The house was quaint, it had a porch looking out at the street with several chairs set up on it. The windows were open and pleasant cooking smells wafted out. The building itself was only one story tall while outside it stood a short but thick tree with a swing hanging and a dog leash attached. There was no dog, but the front door was open save the screen door in front of it.

[lougerstle]

I can go first. If he does feel slighted by Lion Storm I won't appear as any sort of threat and hopefully he will respond cordially. I'll let him know we are here to help him with the job we posted, then we can get this done!

Veridotus never could have imagined that this would be her introduction the her new life in Lion Storm, but her interest was peaked and she was finding it all very exciting. Taking a moment to inspect whatever she can see about the house and whats on the porch and in the yard. Ready to walk towards the house she thought "Well here we go!" and begins walking the path with a cautious confidence, hoping to look unworried, but still scanning all around her for anything that may look strange/out of place.

[thegoldenfedora]

Team Shootstuff
The trio splits and heads off to do their jobs, Silas and Thatassku to showcase the work of a smithy, M’raji to play tag.

Silas and Thatassku turn South and follow the ring of streets around the city. They pass through the food district, full of amazing smells and vendors advertising their cuisines. From the food district they enter the residential district where posh houses line the roads. Children play in the streets while their parents, babysitters or nannys watch over them. They cross then into the government district, a place that is unusually empty due to the festivities. Finally they make it to the market district. Thatassku walked casually, evidently knowing where this smithy resided. She nods and smiles at the people who recognize her, mentioning how she has been a recruit for just under a year, giving her plenty of time to get to know the city and it's people.

Thatassku leads Silas down a street and stops in front of a building named “For Arms.” ”Try not to sstare, she disslikess that,” Thatassku advises before stepping in. Inside, the walls are lined with weapons of all kinds; daggers, hammers, axes and swords. Longer weapons hang from the ceiling making makeshift aisles out of great swords, halberds, spears and lances. A loud ringing of hammer on metal echoes through the room in bursts of two.

”Jetweska? It's Thatassku!”

”Ahh, Thatassku, welcome.” A voice calls from the back. Her voice sounds strange with an accent Silas can't place. As the two Lion Storm proceed further, Silas is finally able to see the forge. Standing in front of it was a creature he had never seen before. Only through context could Silas tell it was a woman as it lacked the normal anatomy of it's gender. She stood at seven feet tall and had gray skin and black eyes but no nose to speak of. Her forehead swooped back to behind her neck and was wrapped in a bandanna. All of this was strange, but the thing about her that was most obvious were here appendages. She had four arms.


M'raji walks through the impromptu race course. He passes Bridges and streets where not long ago he and the others had been running full tilt. Now he was about to take in the sights a little more. The two Lion Storm we're back to launching fireworks and darkness, though they stood a little farther from each other. An upset food vendor was stitching up the side of his tent. It looked as if the dwarf with the overturned cart had gotten things sorted out and was on his way. After a while, M'raji sees the great tree creature again and approaches the Rose Petal Plaza. It wasn't nearly as busy as it had been before. He continues on to the creatures get where he sees a family with a little girl standing next to them. The farther in the family was in a wheelchair.

Veridotus
Veridotus inspects the yard and house as she approaches. Noting the general disregard for upkeep that goes with owning a home. There was no trash, but the grass had grown over and weeds had taken root. As she walks up the first step out creaks loudly and the front door swings open. A wrinkled gnome stood in the doorway, a sour grimace on his face.

”Ehh, it’s about time you showed up,” his voice was low for a gnome, but still had that usual squeek inherent to the race. ”I asked fer five of you!” he doesn't even give a chance to respond. ”Well get in here. I’ve been waiting for five months for free job day to get this all moved out.” The gnome wore a blue robe that looked in need of washing. The gnome himself seemed in similar dissaray, having a disheveled gray beard and hair. As Veridotus looked at him though, she feels her old power start up and a vision clouds her eyes.

Spoiler: The vision

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The gnome stands in a field of battle. He looks to be younger than when Veridotus had seen him just now, revealing that this was a vision of the past. He is armored in resplendent blood covered plate mail with a symbol of a silver dragon in the center. A blue cape hangs from his back. He looks powerful and impressive, but tears run freely down his face. At his feet lies a corpse, the broken end of a quarterstaff sticking out from it's throat. Veridotus couldn't see anything more of the body than that. A light opens up over Figless and he looks up in supplication. A loud snap echoes and he looks down to see a grim crack running down his plate mail straight through the dragon. The light fades and he looks just a little bit weaker.

As she comes to from the vision, Veridotus can see that everyone else has already entered the house and the gnome looked at her with tired anger.

”Are you coming?”

Wrexial and Zaiho
Wrexial and Zaiho approach the screen door and nock. A woman's voice calls out from inside, ”Just a moment!” after a few seconds, an woman comes to the door. She wore a yellow apron and her hands were covered with flour. ”Hello there. You must be Lion Storm,” she says, inviting them in before she had even learned their names. Inside the house, a hall way ran forward and then branched to the left and right. On the walls hung pictures of a family, the woman they had just met, a professional looking man in glasses, and two girls, one of whom was in her 20’s while the other was in her mid teens. There were also framed essays, report cards and other achievements of excellence. The woman gestured to a place for the two to take off their shoes. Then she let then to a pleasant living room.

Spoiler: Please Read

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Hey all, I'm having trouble writing this game due to the lack of feedback and response. If I wanted to play with myself I'll use a lot more lube.

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I understand things are getting busier, but I want everyone to understand that if you can not post within the 48 hours that I've given you just let me know. There will be no bad feelings, no punishment, it just makes my end of it easier. I also understand that there has been some issue with not knowing what to post and in that case, I encourage you to talk amongst yourselves or to write a post where you do nothing that advances the plot, but still engages your character in the story without being engaged in the action. I'll post some examples of you would like me to.

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I want this game to be fun for everyone. However when we go 48 hours and there is only one reply, it makes writing this game a chore more than a game.

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I'm going to pull back a lot on getting everyone to post. I haven't liked pestering people and hounding them to post. However, if this lack of posting continues to happen, I am going to seriously consider the future of this game. Sorry to be hard handed about it, but like I said this game is meant to be fun for everyone and that includes myself. Thank you for reading and please message me if you have any questions.

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