Play thread #18 of the "A mystery unleashed" RP

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*curtains up*

OOC: don't want to make different posts for their dialogue together, so...

Mage/Sel

Arcyakt smiled to himself as Sel appeared in front of his table. He would do something similar to what he did to Jonacin...

"Hello, Selenil. I believe this is our third meeting." he greeted.

"Hi, honoured user." Sel spat. "What do you want now? To know what the the weather is like?"

"Get rid of your attitude, or she dies." the mage said, holding a mirror out in front of Sel - it showed Celia.

"What do you want then?" Sel asked, all the fire out of his voice.

"Give me your sword." Arcyakt ordered, knowing the dunmer would comply - he did. Arcyakt promptly teleported Sel to the dark, spherical dungeon.

'Hell, it could be worse, at least they're well fed werewolves, maybe they won't eat me" Falx muttered as glanced out the window, while searching for a sword of the sort. "Argh.. I remeber the old man said something about hunting, said he used to do it up in the mountains in his youth, so there has to be a bow or even a short sword around here somewhere.."

He reached the ornate fireplace and looked on top of the mantle, "That'll have to do" Falx mumbled as he reached for the ceromimonial(SP) dagger. The snarling grew louder outside and Falx figured that they had caught on to his scent. His trot turned into an all out sprint, jumping over a couch and then up a flight of stairs.

There was a crash of a window, the werewolves were in the house.

The Stronghouse

Brutus face lit with a firery rage, "Damn you! You and your incompetence! There is a man, who will either be dead by the next nightfall or a werewolf! Damn you all to oblivion, I'm going to help the man!"

Afer started walking towards the boy, about to give him his word of help but Selvia held him back by the arm, "No my dear! You are to old! I wouldn't be able to live if a werewolf got a'hold of you!"
His eyes were glazed over, "I... I know, I am but a helpless old man, nothing of my former glory." He stared at her, "I think I need to sit.."

Mr. Afers House

Falx slammed the attic door shut and latched the inward bolt, "That should hold em" It came him as a surprise when door started to buckle in on its self.
"Damn!" He now frantically started throwing everything atop of the door untill it was hardly visible. He hadn't realized he was panting as bad as one of those foul creatures, then he did realize that the panting had stopped, and everything had become eerily quiet. Albeit, to quiet.

He turned in horror towards the window...

The Stronghouse

The young man was still muttering, damn you as he fought his way through the crowds and to the door and then he felt a hand upon his shoulder, "You not going alone boy, and besides, I've always wanted to kill a werewolf"

He readied an arrow and stepped out the door

Part II

When his eyes adjusted to the darkness, Sel saw the from of Megil in deep meditation.

How did he get here? Sel thought. He tried to shake the dunmer out of it, but it was no use. He wished he could have - company would be nice in such a dark place. Having nothing else to do, Sel went to sleep.

He woke up what he guessed was a few hours later. Arcyakt was standing in front of him, holding the young dunmer's sword.

"Here." Arcyakt said. "You will need this for the duties you will do for me."

Sel took it, glad to feel the familiar hilt. He unsheathed it and was utterly surprised. Whereas it use to glow green, now it had a fierce red glow. and where the blade used to be silver, it was jet black.

"Your first duty is to torture this mer when he wakes up - you are quite good at that , if I am not mistaken. If you please me, the young healer will stay alive."


OOC: arcyakt is just a badass

(OOC: Holy compassion.. Poor Megil)

Arco and Shadow neared themselves to the Urshilaku Camp, Arco started slowing down as he looked desperate around for Jonacin, Serene and Megil. As he neared the camp, he started hearing sounds of battle. He unsheathed his scimitars and turned left to see a ruin, he could see someone where fighting Daedra. Arco signaled it to Shadow and started moving closer, the sword was lighting up the whole place. Soon he saw it wasn't a sword but a Spirit Sword and that it was Jonacin...

"Follow me.." Arco said to Shadow before starting running down, as the fight was over..

(OOC: Its alright that Arco and Shadow comes LoneWolf?)

Shadow stopped for a moment to catch his breath. Boy, was that a run. Haven't run like this since I was freelance... He followed Acro in a slower pace, keeping his hand on his bow just for precaution.

Anthanes jumped up as Sel was teleported away.

"By Boethiah! It must be a distantial teleportation spell of some sort...never seen its like before..."

Great. Now we lost the only non-battlemage with a bit of insight.

Sel smiled to himself as he thought of his amulet - he could leave whenever he wanted...

"Don't even think about it." Arcyakt said. "Celia could still die..." he said tauntingly.

Sel bowed his head. "Fine. I'll be here when Megil wakes up."

OOC: Yeah, go ahead Fuzzy

IC: Jonacin ducked and weaved around the Storm Atronach, lashing out with his sword whenever he spotted a gap in it's defenses. Witha final roar, it collapsed to the ground and faded from existence. He pressed deeper into the ruins, looking for more Daedra. The Urshilaku had told him there was five or more, he had killed three, a Hunger, a Frost Atronach and now a Storm Atronach

"What next, flying Kwama foragers?" Niran said "Well does anyone have any idea on where the hell he's gone?"

(OOC: How in the world would he kill Celia who can heal herself as she gets hurt.)

Anthanes rubbed his goatee and thought.

"Hrm...This is the work of a very powerful mage---Arcyakt! Of course, from what you told me of him he is powerful enough to do this and has reasons aswell. He has in all likelihood been taken captive by the mage...That leaves us with the question; what're we going to do?"

"Hmm . . I don't know, maybe find Sel." Niran said sarcastically "Though how we'll manage that I have no idea."

"Well, we don't know where he is, and we have no way of finding out either."

"I'm sure there's someway."


(OOC: Celia still has that one amulet right, she can teleport us all there since Sel can't use his to escape.)

OOC: And then we'd be unable to get outta there too

"Perhaps...However, we should first rest and prepare for...well, just be prepared."

"So let's head to Caldera, and once we reach see what we can do."

(OOC: Dantrag said Sel has to be captured by the mage until he returns.)

Anthanes sighed. "Need I remind you, again, that Caldera has guards. Imperial guards. And in case you've forgotten, we're very, very wanted by the Imperial legion. Even you should be able to piece that together."

"Obviously I have, so what's wrong with sneaking around. If any got in the way they could die. It wouldn't make any difference for me, I'm already wanted dead or alive."

"Well, personally I believe we're better off escaping attention for now. I bet they're checking out every traveller that passes through whatever settlement in the area, and we don't want to add MORE priority to them hunting us down. We already got caught twice, as I'm sure you recall."

"So where do you suggest we go then?"

"Well, there's a lot of caves and tombs here in the Ashlands...Bandits usually make good use of them. We could find one and clear it out. Or aren't you man enough to stay somewhere without all the comfortable comforts of civilization?"

"Well if you're going to talk like that let me point out the Celia is not a man she's a woman, and I doubt she wants to go around killing a few bandits right now. I on the other hand don't have a problem with it."

"Oh, I was only talking about you. I don't have a problem with butchering people; it's just that sometimes it's not the smartest course of action."

The Battlemage turned to Konrad and Celia and added: "With all due respect, I think the two of you should stay back when we're clearing a cavern."

Arco sprinted deep into the ruins in search of Jonacin, he looked back. Shadow was still keeping up, thought he was tried. He saw Jonacin, near the shrine entrance. Arco yelled out as Jonacin was about to enter...

"Jonacin! What the hell are you doing here!?" Arco cried out, guess Jonacin didn't know he had awaken from the dead...

Jonacin turned when he heard a shout, and saw Arco. Seeing as how Arco had died, he ignored the hallucination and proceeded into the Shrine

OOC: Jonacin is slightly unhinged at the moment, and considering he saw Arco dying, he thinks that he's just hallucinating

Arco stopped as Jonacin entered the shrine, a little confused... He wasn't much ignored, but that was because he rarely spoke. He turned back to Shadow, looking pretty confused into his eyes...

"Lets continue into the shrine.." he said to Shadow before running up to the shrine door with his scimitars drawn...

Inside the shrine, Jonacin found three more Daedra. All of them were Golden Saints. And they all spotted him at once. Almost simultaneously, they drew their swords, one had a glass longsword, one an ebony shortsword and one a daedric katana. The all had Daedric shields as well. He didn't wait for them to attack, instead launching himself towards the nearest one, spearing it through the throat with a sudden thrust. "one down, two to go" he grunted, turning toface the other two

"Now all we have to do is find a cave of some sort."

"Then, let's get moving." Anthanes started walking towards the Ashlands.

"Don't stray too far from us" , he added to Celia and Konrad.

"Damn this place, so dusty." Niran coughed and followed after Anthanes.

"For once I agree with you."

[quote=Fuzzy Knight]Arco stopped as Jonacin entered the shrine, a little confused... He wasn't much ignored, but that was because he rarely spoke. He turned back to Shadow, looking pretty confused into his eyes...

"Lets continue into the shrine.." he said to Shadow before running up to the shrine door with his scimitars drawn...[/quote]

Shadow stopped in front of the door for a second, pulled out his bow and set an arrow on the string. Then he took a deep breath and pushed the door open with his leg, rising the bow.
Inside, he saw the same man fighting three Golden Saints. Or two, to be precise - one was already down, lying in a pool of blood. He took his aim as fast as he could and hurled an arrow at a Saint, while Acro rushed past him. The arrow flew right towards the head of the Saint, but it managed to raise the shield and block it. Calmly, Shadow pulled another arrow, this time taking his time. Then, he let it fly for the monster's throat...

Jonacin Tokk his oppurtunity to strike when the Golden Saint raised it's shield to block an arrow. Just as he slashed his sword through its waist, a second arrow slashed into its throat. He turned to the last of the Saints and unleashed a frenzy of blows, splitting it's shield into three before beheading it and cutting it in two with a slash and a reverse cut

"What are you upto, where is Serene... And where the hell is Megil!?" Arco said as he went up to Jonacin with his scimitars lowered...

OOC: Jonacin was using the Shehai long before Arco died, so that makes no sense

Anthanes wiped some dust off his armor as they trudged through the Ashlands. "Does anyone see anything that resembles a cavern?"

[quote=LoneWolf]OOC: Jonacin was using the Shehai long before Arco died, so that makes no sense[/quote]
(OOC:Ok its updated... Its really you should say that too me, after all the resurection and all that.. )

Jonacin looked around at the sound of Arco's voice. "Is that really you Arco? How can this be? The healers at the Temple said you were going to die. And if we must discuss Serene and Megil, let's leave this place"

Arco nodded politly before following Jonacin out of the shrine, Shadow was following as well. Outside it was quite heavy winds picking up alot of sand...

"The Usrhilaku camp is nearby! We'll head there!" Jonacin shouted over the wind

Arco kept nodding, looking at taking a hold of Shadow keeping him with them before covering everything but his eyes with his cloak. It had been a long time since he had been around the Ashlands...

"What about that . .no nevermind."

Anthanes sighed.

"Dammit. We'll find something soon enough...I hope..."

"Hey, look over there!" Niran said pointing happily after they had walked for some time "I think we've found ourselves a place to rest."

OOC: If it seems unlikely, please let me know. I haven't been in the Ashlands area in, like, forever. In fact, I rarely go to the Ashlands in the first place...

Celia glanced at what Niran was looking at, and frowned. It was a large cave structure which seemed to dip into the ground. It had a crusty old wooden door as its enterance at the bottom. The cave seemed to merge with the dusty hill that it was emerging from.

She walked around it, but noticed no exit doorway. Great, she thought. Only one way to get in and out. Not to mention the possibility of danger that might be waiting for them inside.

However, she was curious and placed her hand onto the door. She glanced back at the others. "Ready?"

"Of course," Niran said standing beside her and drawing his sword, "Open it."

(Where am I?)

(OOC: With Celia Anthanes and I, Dantrag was just captured by the mage.)

Anthanes unsheathed his swords and grinned.

"Ready when you are..."

Celia nodded. "M'kay, ready or not, here we come!" She held her breath in anticipitation as she pushed onto the door. The door creaked loudly, and dust came rushing out. Celia covered her mouth and nose with one of her cloths and stepped in.

It was much more dusty and nearly suffocating inside. She walked forward, gesturing for the others to follow her closely.

She noticed as she went down the steps and deeper into the cave, that there seemed to be a small glowing light in the distance. She pointed towards it. "I think someone's camped here..." she whispered to the others.