The Hero in Disguise, Chapter 3 Options

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Ah Chapter 3. It starts getting alot better from this point on in my opinion but I will let you all decide for yourselves. I am also thinking of doing a double post tonight so I can make up for not being able to post tomorrow. Enjoy everyone!

Chapter 3 - Don't forget about the amulet!


As my demanding training regiment slowed down and I could feel as though my combat skills were back where they should be I decided that I would check in on Jauffre and Martin. I am afraid that I may have neglected them a tad but I knew that it was for the better. I would be of no use to anyone without my skills sharpened.

I was quickly told that I should go see Baurus in the Elven Gardens of the Imperial City. I knew him as the Redguard Blades member that was with me at the time the Emperor died. I was to go visit him in hopes that he had found any small piece of information on the whereabouts of the Mythic Dawn.

I agreed to pay Baurus a visit and see what he has turned up. Hopping on to my horse once again and setting off along the roads made me realize why Silt Striders were so popular in Vvardenfel. It would be another long ride to the Imperial City but I would be able to run without worrying about people to protect.

I managed to track down my friend in question and at first glance, he angered me. Not very convinced that he was looking too hard because he had his redguard boat plopped down on a barstool having a drink but I thought that it wasn’t up to me to keep tabs with him and as far as I could tell, he was off duty.

I sat down on the stool beside him and smiled. I knew he remembered me and something told me he was expecting me but something was on his mind. He seemed to be preoccupied but he let me in on what was happening…well he kind of let me in on it.

“I am going to get to my feet and walk away. The man behind me will do the same. I want you to follow him following me so we can see what he is up to.” Baurus said quietly before getting up off his stool and walking down into the basement of the Tavern.

I watched as the man did exactly as the Redguard predicted and followed him beyond the door. I decided to wait a second before getting to my feet. I had a nod of approval from the bartender or owner of the tavern as he agreed to watching my bag full of equipment for me without saying a word.

I rushed into the basement and to my amazement, I saw Baurus trying his best to fight off a Mythic Dawn agent. The Redguard Blade member’s akavari katana was on the floor feet away and the Mythic Dawn agent had a short blade to his throat. I figured that enough was enough as I grabbed the robed oaf by the hood and pulled him from Baurus. He swung madly at me but was quickly stopped by a jolt of crippling shock magicka from my fingertips.

I could feel his body convulsing before he fell to the ground before us as the shock effects still crackled around his body. I then used a touch magic that increased the poor fool’s weakness to magicka greatly. He yelped in pain before giving up completely and expiring.

“I knew he was Mythic Dawn! I knew it!” Baurus said as he checked the body. He managed to pull a book from the Agent’s robes and asked me to take it to a contact he had in the Arcane University. An Argonian woman who had a great deal of experience with the Dawn and would prove quite useful in figuring out the contents of the book in question, as well as a possible use for it as well.

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We both hopped down into the sewer works and I was forced to follow the leader. Good thing too because if I had hopped in here myself I would never find my way out again. I felt safer having someone else going along with me as well. I was confident about my skills but against a horde of Mythic Dawn agents I wasn’t too sure how I would fare.

We walked for what seemed like ages through the dank, dark sewer network. It was pretty much uneventful but so confusing. Everything looked exactly the same. Grey stone with occasional catwalks crossing a filthy stream of disgusting water, if you could call a thick, brownish liquid water at all.

We made it to the location described on the invitation that I got from the Bosmer and Baurus headed up to a convenient catwalk to hide. I was so much more confident having a helping hand just in case things got… violent, and I was prepared for anything. I didn’t want to get too cocky though, I would hate to botch this and not find any information.

“Sit down in the chair and place your hands atop the table. Do not move and do not look around.” A voice says from the darkness as I follow orders. I waited in the chair for the Dawn agent and Baurus was carefully tucked into the shadows. I obeyed the commands and sat with my hands on the rickety wooden table that was placed conspicuously in the middle of the sewer works.

“We appreciate your interest in our group and we would like to see you in but before we do, I will need to test your mind, body and more importantly, your faith. I will cast a detect life spell now to see if you have brought friends.” The voice growls from the darkness.

I could tell he was on to us from the beginning, but in reality I had the feeling that he just wanted to see my reaction so I called his bluff. The fact that he didn’t “detect” anyone means that the imbecile didn’t even cast the damn spell. Too bad for him I guess. Now on to the next test I suppose.

The Agent then brings his mouth close to my ear and I could feel his breath on my neck. Something was wrong here and I wasn’t sure I liked being in such a helpless position.

“You know that I can see your friend hiding yet you don’t try to escape? You must be either very brave or incredibly stupid!” the agent whispers as I can hear a dagger being pulled from its sheath. Quickly, I fall out of my chair rolling across the small room in a display of acrobatics causing the agent to catch only air with his blade. I cast a spell that fortified my acrobatics as I watched a trio of Agents running to my assistant’s location.

Using my newly buffed skills I ran up the side of the stonework wall and hopped onto the stone catwalk blocking their path. Baurus kept my dagger wielding friend at bay by hopping off the catwalk he was hiding on and planting a foot into the Mythic Dawn agent’s mouth.

I was left with the other three that I was easily able to overcome by overwhelming them all with a potent flame magicka that turned them from evil, murderous cultists to nothing more then three panicking idiots with flaming robes. In no time at all, we had managed to put down every single Agent and I was able to get my hands on the fourth and final book needed to complete the series that we would need to discover where the Dawn’s main hideout was located.