Super Awesome Adventure Group of Doom

by **E'isi** on March 14th, 2011, 6:49 pm

Berus walked with her talking, he was easy to talk to for two reasons, 1. he spoke a language that she could understand, 2. he wasn't a pervert. So in Eisi's head that made for a great friend. They approached a cave and stopped. She looked into it and made a face. "I don't know about this guys...." she spoke in Kontinese, knowing that the others wouldn't understand. She watched as Berus walked up to Darren and spoke shortly. She glanced over to Dany and saw she too was ready to enter.

Eisi didn't want to go in, something in her tummy turned in the thought of having to enter that small very dark cave. Danger she thought. She couldn't tell if it was just a feeling or maybe something more. Soon the others entered the cave leaving Eisi behind. She walked up to the entrance and touched the walls. It was cold and damp, but something slimy covered it to. She brought her hand to the light, rubbing tow of her fingers together, she smelt it. The face she made was not comical, for the smell was so bad, if she had ate anything that day, she would not have it left in her stomach.

"Darren, No." she spoke up in the darkness as she picked up some snow, to wash off the nasty substance. "I have not a good feeling of this." When he didn't stop she had no choice she needed to go in a stop him. Wrapping the leads for her horse on a stick, she entered the cave. It was really dark and hard to walk. She tripped over her own feet having no light to watch where she was going. "Darren!" she couldnt see anything, "Darren! Where are you, you stupid pervert!!!" she sighed as she spoke in Kontinese and a bit of common mixed.

OOCPurple Kontinese, Pink Common

by **Danyella** on March 15th, 2011, 8:08 pm

Danyella shook her head at her ragtag group smiling. She approached Eisi's mount carefully. When it didn't nip at her she reached into the sack and grabbed two lamps and a flint. She made her way inside the mouth and set the lamps down, took the flint out, and grabbed her mother's dagger. In a shaving motion, and after a few attempts, sparks brought the lamps to light. She put the flint in her pouch, her dagger on her belt, and held up the lamps.

She saw a mixture of ice, icestone, and standard stone and ice. But all were coated with a slimy substance. She wondered what it was, merely out of concern for the group's health. If it were flammable, any metal they had, when struck against other metals or even flint in the cave could turn it into a forge of death. If it were toxic, they could all be dead within minutes. If caustic, they would be walking on the bones of their feet. But in her opinion the worst would be if it were slippery on the floor, for not only could it kill you, but even worse you could live, either being permanently damaged or trapped in this whole until dehydration killed you. She walked into the mouth of the cave looking for the two idiots wandering around in the dark.

by **Darren** on March 15th, 2011, 8:54 pm

Darren and Berus were still ahead in the dark but soon their eyes adjusted to the dark. "Shhh...you hear that?" He motioned Berus to stop as a visage from far away came into view. They saw a robed man deeper inside the cave, a very disturbing scene to the two as they only have seen hearty Vanthas and Kelvic in the areas. In comparison to the hearty northerners this man was deathly thin, a gaunt and expressionless look on his face as he looked around the cave. Luckily since the cave had a few cracks showing small bits of sunlight he merely stood in the light looking at more or less a really dark cave since his eyes were constantly messed up by the light. He finally turned his gaze as he turned to the left were a door was.

By then Darren tapped Berus and mouthed "let's get a closer look at what we are dealing with." The two were able to sneak up a decent distance to the man, now able to even see the man's features a bit better. He looked a bit worn, his face looking as if his wounds were permanently there. Darren and Berus looked to see inside the room looked to be...bodies. Bodies upon bodies of dead, preserved bodies, the man looking at the dead bodies with an expressionless face as he pulled one to him and dragged it along deeper into the room.

At this Darren and Berus hastily made their retreat, however a voice started to echo into their section of the cave. Darren saw Eisi not too far away calling out his name, "Darren! Where are you, you stupid pervert!!!" without anymore time to think he rushed Eisi from the shadows attempting to grab her and hide behind a rock away from the man's view. His breathing ragged as he watched the man turn around for a second. Sweat started to form on his head as he kept Eisi's close just hoping she'd stay quiet. "NO PARFART EISI, shhh" he whispered to her as he stood quiet.

At the same time this was happening Danyella suddenly appeared to them holding a lamp, it was up to Berus to save the day.

by **Berus** on March 15th, 2011, 9:30 pm

Berus dutifully followed Darren, the apparent leader of this expedition, and figured that everything was under control as long as the large man was near him, despite the pile of gross dead bodies and the odd, dead looking fellow who was wandering around. Berus looked at the figure, thinking it looked more like a walking corpse than some random hermit… and whether it was a strange hermit or not hardly mattered at this point; Berus figured that anything that was gathering piles of bodies was obviously not something to associate with. Still, the curious little bard continued to observe the strange creature. It took only a second glance at the rotting face to convince him that this had to be a member of the walking dead!

Berus glanced beside him; to reassure himself that the powerful Darren was still at hand should things go south. Then his eyes popped open, for Darren had abandoned him and retreated further back in the cave. Oh crap, was his only thought as he turned his attention back to the walking corpse, trying to decide if he’d noticed him by now.

He yelped and almost leapt out of his skin, then, as he noticed it was staring at him! Berus reached back for his spear, a rather unwieldy weapon to have in a cave, as the corpse advanced on him. Berus brought his spear up in a stabbing position, hoping he can spear the beast and run, and waited as it slowly advanced. He shot a glance full of open hostility at Darren, just as Danyella appeared with her bright lamps. Berus shook his head. Great, the cavalry’s here too late…

The corpse walked into range and Berus shot his arm out, sending his spear flying toward his opponent! Then missed completely and hit a rock, causing it to slide into a crack. Painfully, Berus’s momentum carried him forward and into the spear. Then over it, as he refused to let go and was carried right over the spear in a painful frontflip. Berus let out a pained “Oof!” as he landed hard on his back and the wind was knocked right out of him. He heard his back crack and feared that he might have lost use of his legs, but then he instinctively kicked his leg out to the side to avoid being stepped on by the advancing figure.

The corpse, neither amused nor deterred by the spectacle, continued its advance. Berus, his hands still stubbornly grasping his spear, blinked hard a couple times to dispel the dizziness that assaulted him. Then he roughly jerked his spear out of the crack and smashed the butt of it directly in the face of the corpse. It stalled for a moment and Berus crawled backwards, forced to abandon the spear as the figure grabbed the shaft and yanked it from the small bard’s grasp. This sucks.

by **Danyella** on March 17th, 2011, 1:23 am

Danyella had a tinge of worry fill her gut as she saw Berus' failed attack. She needed to come up with something, and fast if they were to get out alive. Darren was running like Darren does, Berus wasn't ready for combat though she wasn't sure if she was either, and she wasn't familiar enough with Eisi to know her capabilities. She wondered what her Dah would do. She didn't have much time as the lifefilled corpse was walking towards their ragtag group. If it were beyond their capabilities, someone needed to alert the Icewatch and make sure this creature stayed and died down here. Her Dah's voice floated through her head, "A true Vantha puts all other Vantha above themself."

Danyella knew what she had to do. "Eisi go alert Icewatch. Darren go to the mouth with Berus and make sure nothing comes out. And Berus... Write a beautiful song telling what happens..." Her eyes turned a cold resigned grey, tinged with a determined emerald. "Now go!" She shoved one lamp into Eisi's hand and took the other and ran at the creature. She hoped they would listen to her but a small part of her also wished for them to stay and fight. She got the creature's attention and it followed her lamp, moving faster than it's dead walk, almost a brisk jog. She led it down a different tunnel, pulling it away from the others, carefully jogging so as to not slip on the floor or the various dead bodies.

She jogged for a couple minutes the thing on her tail when she came to a dead end. Her dead end. When she stopped, it stopped. Then it began to cackle maniacly. She turned to face it, and began to set down her lamp when she had an idea. It was horribly risky, but she had to try. The creature was about eight steps away. She blew out the lamp and in total darkness fumbled as she poured lamp oil out onto the head of her hammer. The she pulled out her flint stone and dagger. Her first scrape produced a spark, and for a brief moment, all that could be seen in the darkness, was the dead face, only five steps away. A second spark, the dead face three steps away. The third spark lit the oil and the head of her hammer lit up like a bonfire. The glowed showed that the creature was in arm's reach it's hand darting toward her throat. She uppercut it's jaw with her flaming hammer causing it to step backwards. She waved her hammer wildly due to both inexperience and to drive it backwards. She landed a couple of blows but the needed a stabbing or slicing weapon, and she could hardly use her mother's dagger. She got one good blow in on it's shoulder with a loud crunch, and saw the arm didn't move. She stepped forward and slipped on the floor. She dropped her hammer as she fell and her chin hit the stone hard, nearly knocking her out. Her hammer's flame began sputtering as she watched the creature bend down toward her face, mouth gaping, dripping green and brown liquid on to her cheek. She stared death in the face and prayed her new friends would not suffer the same fate.

by **Darren** on March 17th, 2011, 5:14 am

Darren was all types of annoyed as he saw Berus turn and face the man. He knew he wasn't anything too great when it came to fighting, this seen as he did a little show before he ended on his back as usual. ...what are you guys doing?!?! He said in a somewhat surprised and confused tone as he saw Danyella charge in to save Berus, "What the-? are you out of your minds?" he said as he started to where Danyella ran.That look in her eyes alerted Darren she was going to do something...foolhardy. He would NOT let that happen, "LET'S GO!" he said in common as he scooped up Berus helping him off the ground and caught up to where Dany was.

It wasn't too hard to keep up with the lamp as they navigated to the end of one of the tunnels. However it was when the lighting was disturbed he started to worry. And with worry came fear. That fear turning towards into anger towards the man as he was being pushed back from Dany's attacks. ~~And from his anger came... the darkside.~~ By then he was already behind the thing as Danyella collapsed on the floor. Darren in his fury concentrated a mass amount of flux in his foot, not taking into consideration the consequences that might have happened. He went and drove his foot right at the man's skull splattering it's skull apart as it fell to the ground. This show of power came at a price however as Darren clutched his leg feeling the pain of a full blown, uncontrolled flux kick. Spasms of pain and the feelings of possibly broken bones caused Darren to clutch his foot in pain, cursing at himself for doing such a rash thing. However he still managed to grimace and look to Danyella to make sure she was okay. "Dany, we stick together, no heroes, no sacrifices" he said as he Darren reached out and nuzzled her head in a short caring hug.

However, this relative peace was disturbed by what one would only describe as deathly and morbid voices. A collection of voices heading towards their direction a sense of dread encompassing them. Darren now starting to sweat bullets from the tension. "Tck...I knew there were more of them" he muttered as he looked at the man who he just kicked. "Nuits, ones that are possibly doing their rituals to change bodies. Put out that light, they are coming..." He said glumly closing his eye trying to think a way out of this.

by **E'isi** on March 21st, 2011, 11:46 pm

Eisi followed somewhat, she kept tripping over her feet and having to catch herself on the walls of the cavern. She stopped, watching the lantern lights in the distance. Why did I have to come on this trip, I could be at the beach in enjoying some well needed sun. She sighed as she looked down, it didn't help for all she could see was black. She pushed herself off the wall and con-tuned to follow the others.

As she ran she thought about the sight she saw before, the soulless man and the dead glare he had. It sent shivers to her core. She ran till she reached the light, breathing heavily her eyes swirled with golds and blues, she took a look down and saw that her white travailing cloths were covered with mud and slim. "great" she spoke to herself. Nothing she couldn't replace. she sighed again. She looked up to the others and saw that they were silent. She too stopped breathing and listened. Sounds of voices, voices that had a very bad feel to them. She closed her eyes as she listened. Intentions came to mind, in from of a vision, it was as if she could see them, not really them, but in them, evil and sinister. She opened her eyes and spoke quietly to the others, "They mean harm to all." she simply just said it, like she knew, as if she was one to help plan what they wanted to do. "Don't ask why I know, I just know." she became very serous. She took off her coat laying it down on a rock, under she wore a white tank, her scales reflected light from the Lantern. "How are you going to get us out of this one Darren?" she asked as she pulled up her hair to a knot, wrapping a string around it.

OOCPurple Kontinese, Pink Common

by **Berus** on March 22nd, 2011, 12:34 am

Berus followed Darren down the dark pathway, slipping and sliding on the mud and slime that filled it and barely avoiding going headfirst into a patch of dangerously sharp rocks in one dark corner. He marveled at Darren’s ability to just plow through, noting that the man’s sense of purpose was propelling him almost as much as his legs were. The man was off rather quickly, leaving Berus to stumble about in the dark as he struggled to catch up. The unwieldy, long spear did nothing to help the poor bard.

It did manage to catch in every nook and cranny along the way however! If not for the fact that he was a bit agile from his attempts to learn ‘tricks’ that would awe an audience he would tripped over it countless times and tumbled down onto his back yet again.

Finally, Berus reached the group. The first thing he saw was, however, the dead body with its brains splattered against the hard stone of the ground! He instantly leapt backwards, spear coming up in what he considered a rough defensive stance and looked a bit more comical than he intended. However, when it finally registered in his mind that the zombie-creature couldn’t possibly still be able to move without its nervous system intact, he finally relaxed and looked around. He blew out a sigh at the same moment, rubbing his sweating forehead.

Darren stood over the body, as would be expected, with his boots covered in a disgusting material that he supposed must be the brains of the zombie-creature. Danyella, looking as if she had just fought the monster, was nearby with her two hammers in hand. Eisi had managed to pass him by and stood there as well, her white, elegant clothing marred by the slime and grime of the underground cave. Was I that slow? Berus thought sadly. Looking around the group, he felt for a moment as if he didn’t belong. Darren was a good warrior with some great hidden strength, Danyella had her deadly hammers, and Eisi was apparently some sort of Seer and looked as if she could her own in a fight.

Berus, however, was none of those things! Not even after all of his training! His shoulders sagged for a moment and he bowed his head, his eyes casting down to his boots. Though Eisi’s proclamation was dire, he was no leader when it came to these matters and he would have to leave the decisions to one more experienced in fighting.

He thumped his spear against the ground and his blue eyes shot back up to catch and hold Eisi, Darren, and Danyella’s gazes. “Danyella, Darren, Eisi, we need to get out of here as quickly as possible and alert Icewatch. I don’t think we’ll last much longer down here if what Eisi said is true…” He looked around for a moment. “But uh… Does anyone remember the way out? I made a few turns back there and I’m not sure which ones…” He smiled boyishly at the group, despite the situation.

by **Danyella** on March 24th, 2011, 5:58 pm

Danyella stood up slowly, and saw the pain on Darren's face from his damaged foot. She put her hammers on her belt, and before he could complain she picked up her injured friend. "Eisi, can you tell if they are nearing us?" She began walking out hoping to it would be the way out. They rounded a few turns and two more Nuit stood there facing them.

"Berus I need your help here!" She then hurled Darren bodily at the Nuits. He collided into them knocking them down. Danyella grabbed his good foot and yanked him away as the Nuits began to recover. She drew her hammers, her hands a bit unsteady as the Nuits approached. She sidled to the side, so as to help split them up. One kept in a straight shot toward the others, the second veering toward her. She gripped her hammers waiting for it to attack first.

by **Darren** on March 25th, 2011, 7:44 pm

The sensation of flying through the air, one would think would be nice and grand. However in Darren's case this was not a pleasant one. His mind unable to grip reality as he watched her pick him up his pride took an even deeper plunge as he was sent spinning towards the two Nuits leaving all three of them on the ground confused by what happened. However as she wouldn't have had it Danyella didn't give him a chance to register his bearings as he groggy held his head from impact. Being dragged away this time by Danyella a new fear enveloped in him. The fear of girls smaller then him. The power of smaller girls gripped him tightly as he watched Dany get ready to fight the two Nuits.

He looked to Eisi for help but realized he was starting to get afraid of her too. He instead opted to call Berus to help him to his feet as he assessed the situation. Alrighty...alright. That was scary but I have to focus.Alright two in front and possibly more coming. He looked behind him." Seems like the only way is to head deeper into the cave. Hopefully we find another way out "he concluded as he noticed another one appearing from behind the two. He checked his foot and flinched as he put weight on it. Tck, I'm not gonna be able to use even 50% of my body's strength or run too fast he thought as he took in the advancing Nuits. They looked to be frail outsiders compared to them and seem to be affected by the chill of Taldera as they seemed to look brittle under it's effects.

"We can probably take these three on...but if more come we might be in trouble. What do you guys think?" He asked as he was stuck deciding between fighting and retreating. The Nuits looked more then capable to defend themselves with their fearless demeanor and unerring eyes. Danyella seemed to be leaning on fighting while Berus was being Berus when it came to fighting and he had to consider Eisi in the equation now. He looked to them to help decide what to do. Behind them further down the tunnel looked to be a open room with a sacrificial table in the middle, in front were the Nuits ready to engage, and just a few feet from them there was what looked to be a room. What was inside hasn't yet been determined.