To Heir Is Human- Playground XIV, The 14th Options

[Tellie]

Salina, cursing.

Salina swore again, who knew her sister could sling fireballs like there was no tomorrow. She growled as she sent a deadly withering curse against Telina, only for it to be reflected back, and hit an unfortunate Goblin who withered up in a few seconds.

She cursed again, as the eleventh fireball in six minutes so far, almost got her. She could also see the stupid Breton who had the intentions of distracting her, 'hah, better teach him a lesson', she tought as she flung a nasty fireball towards him, followed by an all but invisible bone shatter curse, smiling grimy she turned, only to have her eyes widen in shock as a fireball smacked her in the face.


Telina, smirking again.

Telina sniggered at her sisters face, true dunmer were highly resistant to fire, but when the fireballs came at the powerlevel that they were now, even dunmers would be in pain. Stopping her casting to regain her breath she looked down at her sister, who had been blasted into a pool of mud, "don't worry just put it on my tab sister", she laughed.

Her eyes widened though as Salinas next spell, knocked her off the battlements, straight towards a pile of hay, 'bugger', she tought, as she fell into the pile of hay. Spluttering and coughing she got out of the pile, before jumping up on the battlements again, looking throughly ruffled with hay sticking out the wierdest of places...she yelled a few obseneties, at her sister, before transforming a a log that was standing behind her sister, into one of her trusty golems.

The log grew, arms sprang out as well as thick broad legs, and a malformed head, filled with lines of sharp wooden teeth, with an unnatural roar it launched itself at her sister.


OOC: Uber maybe, this duel is supposed to be that.

[Agent Griff]

Dan, standing idly on the battlements

Damn, haven't these half-witted zombies heard of siege engines? Just standing idly in front of the city walls while getting slaughtered by the defenders won't really help you capture a city.

Dan was really anxious to actually do something in this fight, not just stand around while the wizards were blowing up everything that moved. Nevertheless, he did enjoy the spectacle of colours which he saw in front of him, colourful hazes springing up wherever the spell of a mage would hit its target. He could also see the wounded crawling around on the field, and healers treating them hastily in makeshift camps built to protect them from the onslaught ahead of them. Alas, all the grand panoply of war was arrayed in front of him.

As boredom started setting in, Dan started looking around for individual groups of soldiers running to actually face the enemy, not kill from a distance as the mages and archers did.

OOC: Is there someone Dan can follow into battle? Melee battle I mean. Someone other than that James guy however, his shotgun kind of kills suspension of disbelief.

This post has been edited by Agent Griff: Sep 25 2007, 05:42 PM

[minque]

OOC: Haldin went back to Ald´ruhn with Serene after the children were born. He had a crush on her remember? Then he stayed in Sarethi Manor with Athyn, Serene and baby Satyana..and as far as I know he´s still there!


Satyana

Satyana decided to help Telina, especially since she understood it was Salina she was battling agsainst.

Slender and straight she suddenly appeared beside Telina, her left hand outstretched, and spoke a strange incantation:

"Brinn häxa, brinn till endast aska återstår av din ynkliga uppenbarelse..Brinn för allt ont du gjort, Brinn för att du förstört min syster"

A white flame emerged from her towards Salina.....

"I thought you could do with a little help Aunt Telina" she said dryly

OOC: Satyana just had to throw a Vomica Cruor.....she just learnt how!


Brianna with Rahvin and Ian

"Yes we´d like to get married, it´s a good thing to do when life is at stake, but you´re probably right, there will be no priests around" Brianna sighed and turned to Rahvin, squeezing his arm

[Tellie]

Satyana

Satyana decided to help Telina, especially since she understood it was Salina she was battling agsainst.

Slender and straight she suddenly appeared beside Telina, her left hand outstretched, and spoke a strange incantation:

"Brinn häxa, brinn till endast aska återstår av din ynkliga uppenbarelse..Brinn för allt ont du gjort, Brinn för att du förstört min syster"

A white flame emerged from her towards Salina.....

"I thought you could do with a little help Aunt Telina" she said dryly

OOC: Satyana just had to throw a Vomica Cruor.....she just learnt how!


Brianna with Rahvin and Ian

"Yes we´d like to get married, it´s a good thing to do when life is at stake, but you´re probably right, there will be no priests around" Brianna sighed and turned to Rahvin, squeezing his arm

Telina, smiling.

"Thanks, Satyana", she said. "Last time I saw you, you were just a baby", she said with a smile, as she flung a frost spell so powerful, that it started snowing briefly where it flew.


Salina, cursing

Salina looked up at the spells coming towards her, she could feel the deadly effects of both spells, and decided to take the lesser of two evils. With a curse she jumped straight into the path of the frostspell, and was slammed to the ground.

She gasped for breath as she fueled all of her magical power into keeping her body alive, if the frost spell was allowed to rage freely in her system, she would be turned into a pile of ice in a matter of minutes. With a cry, she managed to stumble to her feet, before sening a combination of three powerful frostspells, followed by her most powerful fireball at the wall, and she watched satisfied, as it caused a breach some 8 feet wide and 12 feet tall, the enemy could now enter the city.


Telina again.

Telina cursed as she saw what happened, she turned briefly towards Satyana, a warm smile at her lips. "My sister is weak, I'll get her, should something happen, give my compliments to your mother", and with a last smile she turned o the spot, before reappearing behind Salina with an accompanying bang and a flash of light..."today we end this", she stated coldly to Salina, holding her sword challengly in front of her.


OOC: Okay ladies and gents, place your bets, who lives and who dies...only time shall tell.

[minque]

Satyana

"Crap! It missed her" she muttered, then started focussing again, as far as she knew Serene hadn´t had any problem casting two VC after each other...

Now she was overestimating herself, apparently, since when she tried again to speak the incantation she suddenly was stricken by a huge fatigue...and fell to her knees.

"Aunt Telina! be careful! Don´t you dare die on me!"


She saved my mother´s life, for all it´s worth....hmm it is to Serene anyway



OOC: I put my survival-vote on Telina....after all she has got some powerful friends who eventually could ...help her

[jack cloudy]

Flint Ironwood.

Flint dodged the fireball and vaulted off the walls, making the curse miss as well.
,,Wew, if I wasn't expecting that to happen, I would have been a goner." He muttered as he leaped back to his earlier position. Too soon, it seemed. The walls were breached.
,,Ah, crap." Was all the Breton had to say.


Odrik was a tad more eloquent, and more insulting. After spewing a couple of profanities, he took one large breath.
,,Take up arms! Loaders continue firing the engines. Everyone else, hold position!" He ordered. When Flint reappeared next to him, he cast a quick glance at his companion.
,,If we don't get some soldiers to hold the breach, we'll have to abandon my babies!" He howled. Already, the Silhouette's army had taken advantage of the confusion. Several ladders were being pulled up.

Flint saw a soldier retreat with a nasty gash on his right arm.
,,You, warn Flogir before you get medical attention. We need reinforcements!" He ordered the man and then jumped on top of the battlements. From there, he looked down before letting out a sigh.
,,Well, here goes nothing."

He spun his staff around above his head and then sweeped it across the wall, sending a large telekinetic wip at the ladders and the troops manning them. Only instead of pushing, the staff pulled!
,,Crap, crap.....crap again! This is so not my day!" Flint complained as he frantically dodged the ladders flying towards him, by jumping off the wall and landing in the middle of the opposing force.
,,Triple crap!" He gasped. A sword caught him across the chest and he heard the glass protecting his flesh crack. With a quick leap, he somersaulted out of the melee and fired a few small scale telekinetic darts randomly, compacked pockets of air that pierced through skin and muscle, yet only made a painful dent in steel.

[Lord Revan]

OCC: Updated Ian, now for Issac

Issac, walls with Telina and Satyana

Reflexively, he caught Satyana before she could crumble completely. Then when he had his wits about him again, Issac cast his best shield, the Silver Aegis. The shield was partially visible, forming an sphere with a diameter of nine feet.

"I'll stop spells and projectiles, but you can move freely in and out." The Altmer explained, three arrows bounced off of the shield. "Just don't take your time with this, I won't be able to keep this up for more than a few minutes."

[Tellie]

OCC: Okay, so she did notice but didn't reply to the unofficial "voice of reason" of the younger party members. Dang, I've got to go (Mom is present this morning and she isn't as lenient as Dad, especiialy since we've got a test at school).

Ian

He studied the boy who suddenly showed up. Ian strongly suppected there was some obscenity in the acronym, but didn't pay it much mind. "I don't know where you're intending to go, but we're about to leave."

Turning his attention back to Rahvin and Brianna, the vampire quipped slightly. "Whatever you two intend to do, don't start getting fatalistic, that's the job for realists, not lovers." He nodded to Cerpin and the Narza'Tai, and they all turned to the master of the gates.

James.

"Oh well, I guess there are a few suckers back where I came from that can get introduced to my shotgun", he said with a smirk, before turning around, and running full speed towards the breach in the wall.


Telina and Salina, duel.

Salina, who had just disposed of that wretched log golem, turned around to face Telina's challenge. She bowed, "very well sister, but don't expect a clean fight", she said, as she jumped up and slung two of her poisonous darts towards Telina.

Telina, as if having expected something like that, danced gracefully out of the way, before swinging her sword against Salina. Salina who had managed to get out her own sword, expertly blocked the strike, before breaking the sword lock, feinted left, and turned the faint into an actual lunge. Telina went for the faint, and cursed her stupidity when her sister's sword drew a thin line of blood across her stomach.

Telina used the advantage she had with her sisters sword being out of reach to block, and slammed her elbow into her sisters face.

Salina spat blood, as she got up from the ground, just to use both of her hands on her sword to block the massive overhead strike from Telina. She continued to fight, but the strike to her head made her dizzy.

Telina pressed on, sensing her sisters weakness pressed on.Switching to her highest level of speed, Telina was basically a blur as she rained down a series of slashes and lunges that all but drove Salina onto the ground with their intensity. Baring her teeth, the Salina countered viciously, and the pair struck a deadly dance across the blood-stained ground.


The attack pattern pounded hypnotically in Telina’s head, because while this particular attack was new, the rhythm of swordplay was as familiar to her now as breathing. Slash to the left, upper-cut, dodge, parry, thrust, parry, dodge, slash to the right, parry, sidestep…Salina, knowing that she was loosing shot a spell at Telina. A huge burst of frost energy flew from her hand, and continued as she poured more and more power into it.

Telina managed (barely) to fire her own firespell at her sister to stop the attack. The two spells met eachother halfway, and stopped, both pushing their lethal energies towards eachother. Both Telina and Salina gritted their teeth as they continued to force power into their spells, it was a battle of wills now, and Telina was slowly but surely winning, pushing her own spell, as well as Salina's back towards Salina.

With a groan Salina lost control, and the two spells slammed into her through her hastily erected shield, and threw her twenty feet away, where she landed on the ground unmoving. Telina smiled ruefully as she walked towards her sister, and as she looked down at her lifeless corpse she smiled, "well guess I won sister", she said as she stabbed her sword towards her sister.

Swift as a cat Salina turned around on her back, and stabbed the sper she had been gripping into Telinas chest, "I think not sister", she whispered to Telina, as her sister dropped to the ground, shocked at this new development.

Telina, watched as her sister walked away, 'she beat me, I cant believe it', she chuckled for herself, but the chuckle sounded more like a strangled sob, she could already feel her life ebbing away, and with a last effort, she broke the spear, and managed to teleport back to the wall, where she fell at Satyana and Issacs feet.

"I-Issac, give her this", she said to Issac, handing him a little book with a red leather bound cover, before she collapsed dead.

[Agent Griff]

Dan, protecting the breach

As Dan stood on the wall, he could feel the very world being rocked apart and shattering beneath his feet. Before he could realize it, the section of wall he had been standing close to had crumbled under the force of a spell cast by an opposing mage. Dan quickly raised his sword, Balmung, then proceeded to run down to street level in order to defend the breach in the wall until more reinforcements could come.

Luckilly, he wasn't alone in this ordeal. When he reached the breach, he could see that the enemy had already swarmed all over the scattered pieces of stone and were already inside the city. He could also see a lone Breton mage holding the breach against the might of the enemy, casting spells left and right, ending life with rare grace.

With a war-cry Dan charged into the fray to help the mage. Other soldiers which had descended from the walls soon did the same, beggining a bloody melee with the forces of the Silhouette. Dan began the melee by savagely beheading a zombie in front of him, then punching a nearby goblin in the face. To Dan's surprise however, the zombie continued to lumber towards him. With a kick Dan sent the zombie to the ground. He then slashed his sword against the chest of a goblin scurrying towards the Breton. Dan then resumed the battle, swinging Balmung left and right like a man possesed. He did so until he realized that he had advanced far into the breach and had been surrounded by enemies. Looking in all directions he could see he was surrounded, thus he decided for a move of desperation. As all enemies suddenly charged him, he spinned Balmung as fast as he could when the enemy least expected it. His move was succesfull, killing several goblins and bandits which had charged him. Dan then kicked a bandit in the groin and slashed another over the face, shattering the bandit's helmet.

Dan then proceeded to quickly run back to where there were more of his allies, since the soldiers who had followed him into the breach were getting killed and surrounded in front of his eyes. As Dan ran, he could see one of his comrades being wrestled to the ground by goblins then bestially hacked apart by all manners of weapons. After quickly beheading one of the unsuspecting goblins then kicking another one to the ground, Dan continued to run back to the Breton mage.

"To savagery we shall respond in kind!" he shouted telepathically in the minds of all nearby soldiers, making them think a superior had barked out an order.

[Tellie]

James.

James came just in time to hear Dan's message, 'what the bloody hell is he talkin in my head for?'. Standing beside the soliers, he decided to throw a pirete warcry out, 'after all it's bound to cunfuse these suckers right'.

"Die ye scallywags", he shouted as he fired his double barreled sawn-off shotgun, into the masses of zombies and other stuff. The noise was a bit louder than he expected, and je jumped, propably just as high as everyone else.

With a deft wrist movement he had cocked it open, and replaced the cartridges, with another movement, he had it ready to fire again, which he deftly did, hummying to an iron maiden song.


OOC. as you can see he's not the most stabile person.

[Lord Revan]

OCC: what's supposed the book supposed to be.

Issac

What part of his mind had not been consumed by maintaining the Aegis was intently drawn to the Delvanni duel. When Salina first stabbed Talina with the spear, all of his concentration melted away, and the Aegis collapsed.

Finally, the Altmer had his mind back just as Telina teleported back to them. Issac took the small book with his free hand numbly, he lingered on the Dunmer's corpse for a few extra seconds, still stunned that she was dead.
Then he cast away all the grief and shock, he placed the book in his satchel so he could get Satyana, who was still exhausted, to a more quiet place.

[Tellie]

OOC: You just have to wait and see Rev, although minque knows it.

James.

James was facing a large dilemma, on one side, he was happy by blasting holes in zombies and goblins. On the other he was really considering making a run for it, after all it wouldn't do to good to get killed now would it. and lastly he needed a drink.

Aiming down the sight, he shot a round towards a big nord, who was rallying some goblins around him. His entire neck, and parts of the shoulder region was torn into gory shreds, while two of the goblins fell to the ground, holding their faces where they had been hit.

'Now about that drink', James reminded himself. While shoting his second round into an unfortunate zombie he took a deep gulp of his flask of cyrodiilic brandy, 'shame that I must waste the rest', James retreated back to the relative safety of the place in the breach that had most soldiers.

With a smirk, he dropped quite a few small rocks into the large bottle, before rippin off a piece of fabric from a dead soldiers shirt, he drenched it with some more brandy before putting it into the entrance of the bottle, 'I just love molotov cocktail look-alikes', he grinned, before using a nearby torch to light the drnched cloth before throwing the bottle into the masses pouring into the breach.

While waiting for the innevitable explosion James reloaded his gun again. before swapping it with his bow.

OOC:burn baby burn:D
Also, if anyone wants to revenge Telina by killing her sister, just say it, and i'll draw on it to see who get's the lucky job of killing her

This post has been edited by Tellie: Sep 26 2007, 03:28 PM

[Agent Griff]

Dan, near the breach

As Dan stood beside the breach, hewing a Nord which had eluded his every blow, he looked up to the walls, to see if they had been taken as well. There was slaughter all about the battlements, yet he could notice two figures stand out amongst the others locked in a clash of life and death.

An Altmer who seemed to be another one of the mages by the look of him was caring for one of the fallen, yet Dan could recognize the fallen figure. It was that of the Dunmer with which he had spoken earlier. As he saw her, dead on the ramparts, a fury grew in Dan as there had not been seen since the ages of myth when the Nords first took Skyrim. He wildly charged the crowd of enemies, shouting telepathically in their minds. As he shouted, some of the enemies even dropped their weapons and fell to their knees, shielding their ears from a sound which never came. Dan lopped their heads off with amazing speed. Blood-soaked, he went on, swinging Balmung left and right, slaying many a foe. He did so until he himself was surrounded, and a goblin grabbed his leg then started stabbing it wildly. Dan slew the beast, then shattered the helmet of a Nord charging towards him. It was by pure luck that Dan had struck the Nord first. Regardless, Dan had been surrounded and his enemies soon wrestled him to the ground.

Even on the ground, Dan still fought them like a beast, wringing the throat of a goblin which had climbed over him. He then started clawing at his foes as they tried to imobilise and kill him. There was savagery on both sides, yet not enough on the side of the defenders of the Imperial City sadly. As Dan fought with his foes, a prayer went into his mind for the soul of the Dunmer whose name he never knew.

OOC: Can someone save Dan? I wouldn't want him to die like this.

[Tellie]

OOC. Sure.

James, to the rescue

james watched fascinated as an old man took off like a bloody madman, and in order to help the poor bugger 'not that I care of course, I never care', he told himself, as he fired a few arrows into the oncoming suckers.

Of curse he swore enough to make a pirate blush when the old man got himself beaten down, and the enemy immedeately started piling onto him. James was just about to try and help the old bugger when his bottle of cyrodiliic brandy exploded. The explosion was big enough to cover quite many in burning flames, and the small rocks in the bottle flew in all directions, killing or otherwise wounding the enemy.

Seeing that the man was still on the ground James swore. "Damn you you old bugger, watch yourself next time", he yelled as he ran towards Dan. With a small push on the trigger, he blasted a zombie off Dan, and he grabbed him, and started dragging him back towards the defenders.

"NExt time don't take off like a bloody hero you old goat, I might not be here next time", he snapped at Dan, as he fired another round that blasted a goblins torso to shreds.

[Agent Griff]

Dan, on the ground, rather wounded

As Dan prepared to die, he was surprised by an explosion which sent shards of glass in every direction, killing or otherwise wounding most of his enemies. He was surprised he didn't die from the blast, yet a zombie was still on top of him, trying to rip out his throat. Dan struggled with the zombie but he could feel his old arms losing the strength they had when his anger was still present.

Dan you old fool look what you've done! That Dunmer got killed and now you've almost went and done the same thing!

Before he could die however, the zombie was blasted off him as if a powerful spell had hit it. Dan looked left and right but all he could see in the fray was a Breton-like man standing besides him with a strange looking staff with two holes at the end in his hand.

Bless these mages and their spells!

The man then dragged him away from the fray, scolding him because of his temporary courage and warning him that he might not be there the next time. Dan hoped there wouldn't be a next time. After the man dragged him away from the battle near the breach, Dan started telepathically calling for a healer. He had a painful stab wound in the leg from the goblin which grabbed him and a lot of smaller gashes and cuts from various weapons all across his body. All in all, Dan's charge had cost him dearly. If a healer wasn't close by he could very well die because of his wounds.

That didn't change things however. The Dunmer was still dead, the breach was still being contended and Dan was still alive.

OOC: I would volunteer Dan to avenge Telina, but based on the fact that Telina was an uber mage which could turn stones into weapons, I don't think Dan would really be a chalenge for Salina.

[Tellie]

James, in the fight again.

James looked down at the man he had just dragged out from certain death, shaking his head at the man's stupidness. That leg of his looked pretty badly, although James had just the thing. Taking out his makeshift bandage (rally just a long roll of cloth that he uses to bing his wounds with), he started to roll it around Dan's wounded leg, keeping it as tight as possible.

Afte he had finished pathcing him up (temporarily), he handed him a bottle of Flin. "should help for the pain a bit, although I expect full payment for it", he said, before turning back to the fight with his bow in his hand again, only to come face to face with a nord.

Reacting on instinct he did the first thing that came to his mind...he punched him in the face. The nord stumbled backwards, as he spat blood and teeth. "I'm gonna kill ye whelp", he yelled.

'The man's got balls', James tought as he jumped forward and performed his famous "squirrel move", by ramming his knee in the nord's groin, the nord went red first before changing to a deathly pale, as he fell to the ground with a silent scream holding his nether region...'correction the man had balls' he sniggered. As he nocked an arrow to the string he gave the nord another kick in his family jewels, pleased as the nrod gave a small wimper, he fired an arrow that plunged into the tigh of a goblin.

Salina, getting boosted.

Salina who was still dead tired after the fight with her sister...'make that ex-sister', she giggled. She growled in annoyance as she forced down a couple of healing potions, as well as a few potions to bring her magic levels up to par again, feeling rejuvinated she started her walk towards the breach, fling a few fireballs at the people standing on the walls for good measure.

This post has been edited by Tellie: Sep 26 2007, 08:04 PM

[Agent Griff]

Dan, down on the ground

If he expects me to pay for this flin, he's going to have to see me after the war's over.

Dan took a well earned sip out of the bottle of flin he had just received from the Breton-like man which saved his life. One thing Dan kept forgetting to ask for was people's names. Either that or they wouldn't give him his name because of various reasons. Still, the man's kindness was unbelievable and Dan wouldn't forget it.

Yet despite his gratitude, he was in no shape to hold the breach anymore, unless a healer were to help him heal his wounds. As he looked around, Dan could see a brown robed fellow running back and forth from the edge of the battle, with bottles in his hands. They seemed to be healing potions so that Dan supposed the man was a healer. With one telepathic shout Dan called the man over to him. He came, after realizing where the sound was coming from.

"Please help me, I'm wounded badly." Dan said telepathically.

"Yeah, I noticed the flin." the healer said rather mockingly.

"Are you going to leave me die here or what? We need all the help we can get." Dan said rather angrily.

The healer was reminded of his profession by Dan's telepathic message. Hastily, he gave Dan a few gulps from a healing potion which Dan washed down with sips of flin.

"That should heal most of your superficial wounds, yet that leg will heal harder. The blade went in rather deep. Try not to over-exert your leg or it might end up worse." the healer said as he left Dan's side to care for the other wounded.

As Dan was left alone once again, he stood quietly and meditated on how the battle had gone until his sudden charge into the enemy ranks. The coallition defending the Imperial City was losing ground to the hosts of the mysterious Silhouette, and the breach had nearly been lost. If reinforcements would not arrive soon, the enemy would probably capture the walls and the siege engines as well. Dan tried to get some rest despite the constant sounds of weapons clashing and men shouting.

[Tellie]

James.

James who had now run out of arrows, had switched to two of his cozy daggers, and he ran towards the enemy, ducking under a swipe he stabbed both daggers into the stomach of the goblin, before twisting and withdrawing them.

With a cry he turned back towards the enemy, only to face three rather large angry burly nords in orcish armour, taking one looka at them he came to a decision. "F*** THIS", he yelled, as he ran back to the relative safety of the back ranks, spotting the old man who had HIS bottle of Flin, he extended his hand..."cough up my money you old goat".


OOC: yes he's deliberately being rude.

[Agent Griff]

Dan, annoyed by James

"See me after the war." Dan replied telepathically.

Despite the man had the nature of a ruffian about him, Dan could see he was good-hearted deep down. If he wasn't, he could have just minded his own business and left him there for dead. Or perhaps Dan had had too much flin. Nevertheless, he extended his hand holding the bottle of flin offering it back to the man.

"Have your flin back and tell me your name brave warrior. My family would honour you for saving my life, if only I had one." Dan said with certain sadness, being reminded of his family, which had been slaughtered by outlaws many years ago.

[Tellie]

Dan, annoyed by James

"See me after the war." Dan replied telepathically.

Despite the man had the nature of a ruffian about him, Dan could see he was good-hearted deep down. If he wasn't, he could have just minded his own business and left him there for dead. Or perhaps Dan had had too much flin. Nevertheless, he extended his hand holding the bottle of flin offering it back to the man.

"Have your flin back and tell me your name brave warrior. My family would honour you for saving my life, if only I had one." Dan said with certain sadness, being reminded of his family, which had been slaughtered by outlaws many years ago.

James, laughing

James grudgingly took the bottle back, muttering about 'stupid old goats...cheap bloody freeloaders...costs a fortune with a drink today', that was until hr caught the last part of what had been said. "Brave warrior", he laughed, "oh my god I haven't had this good a laugh since I was eleven, and my current guardians tried to convience the police I was a misunderstood shy innocent boy after setting our school on fire", he continued to snigger.

Briefly gaining control again he grasped the old man's hand. "James Pathertrory, rude, sarcastic absolutely gorgeous criminally insane boy with slightly pyromaniac tendencies", said before succumbing to giggles...very manly giggles they were.

With a last laugh, he took out one of the precious few sigarettes he had left, and lighted it with a nearby torch, tdrawing in a large breath, he turned to Dan again. "So care to enlighten me why you took off like a bloody madman, after all man your age should watch himself, brittle bones and all".

"And about family, well I guess I know how you feel dawg, mine's was killed when I was nine, been chasing after the stupid mobsters ever since I turned eleven...'course I never could stay anyone place long after that, they kinda dont like it when you throw a homemade grenade at them", he added with a sigh, 'those were the days, me and 'uncle' Jimmy chasing down mobsters all around the place'.

OOC: Jimmy was the guy who taught James how to fight dirty, and all other tricks he know.

This post has been edited by Tellie: Sep 26 2007, 08:43 PM