The Saga of Kahreem, chapter whateverLocation: Leyawiin, Five Claws Lodge
Current Gold: 127
Days Passed: 77
Days Jailed: 17
Bounty: 90
Fame: 0
Infamy: 7
Sundas 12:40 pm Sun's Dusk II, 3E433"Spare a coin for an old war veteran?"
...asks Rancid Ra'dirsha as Kahreem of Weet steps outside the Five Claws Lodge, hopefully for the last time in a
long time. Rain pours from the dark sky above.
"Ha!
You? A
veteran? Of what war? Of which faction, and under which ruler? .. Ha ha!! Just as I thought."
At these words, poor rancid looks to her feet.
All alone, this one is, she thinks. This catches the Weet Bandit's attention.
She looks so sad and dejected, he thinks.
"Ahh, no, don't look like that. Ahh, hey, c'mon! I was just joking, kitty-cat. Here. Have a coin. I won't miss it. It's yours. And actually,
here. Here's more. Now go get something for eating, for Nocturnal's sake."
"Thank you, kind sir!"
As Kahreem walks away, striking his fist into the air in triumph, thinking he'll
never return to this mosquito-infected city as long as he lives, Rancid Ra'dirsha smiles to herself.
"That one is not the ONLY one who can plaaay a good con!" she says, stepping out of the rain to dry her soaking fur.
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1:55 PMAs Kahreem passes through Leyawiin's gate, the rain suddenly begins to abate, and then stops entirely.
"Cannot wait to get back to Bravil," Kahreem mutters as he walks towards the stables. "At least I've got a home there," he says, referring actually to City Swimmer's flat, at which he had been squatting all during his Bravil stay. "Wonder if anybody else has been in there. Wonder if they left any skooma!"
As the Redguard Bandit walks away from the stables, suddenly remembering that he's left his horse some what up the road a bit (to deter witnesses as he
steals this bay once again), Kahreem spies a familiar figure. A figure whom he has not seen in a long, long time. Weeks, if not months.
"It's you! Aval Boobani or whatever! You remember me?"
"You get any closer and I'll turrrn your bones to ash! Back off!" the Dunmer says.
"Is that so? Well last time, I didn't have a weapon. LAST TIME, I did not have THIS!" he suddenly yells, un-shanking his smelly old Sewer Club from his belt. "Say hello to Sir Fokke-a-lot, pompous fool!"
Before
Alval Uvani can reply, he's BASHED in the head with the Redguard's Sewer Club.
"HEY, come on now!! There's no need to get violent!" Alval yells, beginning to get violent. He picks out his daggar, poisoned with something which will lower this fool's Intelligence. As Alval remembers this fact, he also realizes that this Redguard's forte is probably not spell-casting, meaning he's just wasted a bit of poison on a dumb road bandit.
"HAAAAA!" Kahreem yells as he returns some blows. The strikes and blows come quick, and they come
fast. Daggar versus Club, Club versus Daggar.
"HA!!!! I've fought mudcraaabs more feahhsome than you!!!" Alval informs.
"You are going down, Dunmer Boobani! Say it with me!!! .. Just say it: I am going down!"
But as the fight ensues further, and it becomes more and more obvious that none of the town's guards are going to intervene, and so Kahreem realizes that this Dunmer might have him. Back in the Imperial City months ago, nobody died during their previous fight, since it was quickly broken by the guards. But now, he may have possibly just met his fate.
"Did YOU DO TIME? DID YOU PAY AS I DID?" Kahreem screams at the Dunmer. "'Cause I did! Went to jail and did my TIME, blueboy!"
"LET'S GET THIS OVAH WITH!!!"
As the strikes and dodges come and go, Kahreem's health beginning to falter, and without any health potions in his pouch, he suddenly remembers his heritage. He remembers his powers, specifically his
Redguard Adrenaline Rush, which has not been cast in several days. He raises his arm to the sky
woooonnn, and feels the essence of his predecessors coursing through his body.
"NOW you're in trouble, Dunmer!"
"THIS ... ENNNDS .. HEEE-YAAA!"
As Alval step-dodges one of Kahreem's blows, he catches the Redguard from his side, pricking him and using more of his poison. He just watched the man cast a spell, after all.
"ARGH!" Kahreem lands a smasher right onto Alval's head a moment later, sending him spiraling in the opposite direction. Amazingly, still the guards have not somehow caught wind of this fight, which takes place just a few hundred feet north of Leyawiin.
"HOOOGH!!" cries the Dunmer as the Weet Bandit slams him again from a difficult angle.
"Heh! YOU'VE NOT HAD ENOUGH I SEE!"
In another moment of inspiration, Kahreem spies a small bar of sand located just off the road, and this bar is separated by a small creek of water. And in this creek crawls a mudcrab. Kahreem scampers off the road, running into the water a bit, and stops just as he gets onto the bar.
crrddddllllll .. purrs the crab, suddenly taking interest in the two two-legged creatures fighting nearby.
Kahreem can see the Dunmer hasn't got much left, as he finalizes a few more beatings, but blocks a few more from Uvani's daggar. It is not Kahreem who steals the moment at which Alval Uvani, walker of roads near and far, pompously and arrogantly warning those who dare cross his path, takes his last breath as he falls face-first into the water. It's a lowly mudcrab.
"Mm hmm", says Kahreem. "So you've seen mudcrabs more fearsome than me, eh? ... Is
this the mudcrab of which thou speaketh, me lord?"
He asks the dead dark elf this, loots through the man's pocket as the sunny sky above continues on, and walks proudly back to his stolen bay.
This post has been edited by Renee: Dec 7 2022, 08:53 PM