Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-10197675-20131128185142/@comment-3293219-20131201201641

Strangely, this reminded Nish of his childhood... sleeping on stone and waking up with bruises on his hip and shoulder.

He was too weak to try and escape, so he just lay there and watched the guards, hoping to spot a weakness in their patrol pattern.

A few days earlier in Cheydinhal
Manja awoke, sliding out of bed. She felt hard done by, spending a night will all of those 'heroes' and not being ravaged in revolutionaries. None of them could hold their ale long enough to take her to bed and those who could seemed more interested in themselves or with eachother than her.

She sighed and threw her clothes on, At least I got the double bed to myself...

She stepped out and regrouped with Corelas's group, Haren hadn't come down yet as he was probably burying his aching head into a pillow.

"Sleep well?" Lilly pried, trying to make conversation.

"Unfortunately? Yes..."

Her answer confused Lilly, "Erm... 'unfortunately?"

"I was hoping to wake up next to one of those 'heroes' with a hangover... didn't happen though and I got neither."

"Oh... I'm sorry." Lilly was put out and didn't know what to say.

"I'm kind of glad in a way, his looks are kind of outweighed when he talks."

Corelas stepped away from their prattle and made his way to the gate, he dare not venture into the city and truthfully, he hated being here.

"I hope that it won't be a mistake, bringing them along. We would have been at the Red Mountain if they weren't slowing us down."

"Corelas, they're an army. I mean, they're a bad army but they'll at least provide a distraction." Lilly reasoned.

"I can see that but you and Manja have little faith in their abilities an-"

They were interrupted as Haren left the Newland lodge, hungover as Manja predicted.

"Are we ready to continue our..." He clutched his head and groaned, "epic quest?"

Corelas rolled his eyes and left, not caring if the others followed him or not.

Stendarr preserve us...

Meanwhile at the foot of the Red Mountain
They had managed to approach Red Mountain undetected but doing this, in such a large number, for much longer would likely change that.

"Okay, we need to split up..."

Corelas did a quick count, He, Lilly, Valki and Manja made 4... Haren travelled with 8 others.

13... that's not exactly a lucky number.

"We'll split up into two groups.

Haren's team, which will consist of Haren, the orc, the breton, Amiel and the other imperial will lead the 'distraction team.' Your goal is to cause as much mayhem as possible from outside of Tyranil's lair. The more guards that are called out to attack you, the better.

"Hold on!" Haren protested, "I want my chance to slay Tyranil!"

"Unless Tyranil has been crippled since I last saw him, that chance is unlikely to reach you. You'd be bette-"

"No, I'm coming with you! Olrik (the orc) can lead the distraction team!"

Corelas sighed, he had hoped to get rid of this fool.

"Fine, I'll swap you for your nord." A tall, rock of a man swapped places with Haren.

"We will look for the breton 'Nish,' he is the priority, anyone else from Me, Lilly, Valki, Haren, his men and the dark elf 'Eilonwyn.' We are all expendable and if push comes to shove, then Nish is the priority."

"Now... move out!"

The groups seperated, with the distraction team heading up one of the mountain's paths and Corelas' search team heading up the other.