A Mystery Unleashed - Playground 3 Options

[Konji]

Myrage furrowed his brow, thinking hard. "I havea feeling that mage is going to do something soon...something real bad...maybe we should get going?"

[Fuzzy Knight]

Arco satt by his horse not far from Serene, Celia and the others. He wasn't used to travel by horse but he controlled it good as he was waiting to move on out on this city...

[Dantrag]

Sel walked back to the stables where everyone still sat.

"Let's get the refugees out of here." Sel said. "We'll go from there."

[Fuzzy Knight]

"Sure..." Arco said, and he just raised a eyebrow and replied "Where are we going by the way?"

[MerGirl]

Celia overheard the others, but didn't say anything for awhile. Good? Evil? I think the Empire's good... sometimes... But I really don't want to fight a big war, just because someone is a bit spoiled and bratty...

After a few moments, she made up her mind. I'll stay with these guys and fight demons and maybe an evil mage, instead... "I say we escort the refugees as far as the outskirts of the city... We don't want demons attacking the refugees..." She paused. "But that's it. I'm not escorting them any further. I don't want that kind of responsibility for too long." She mumbled under her breath, "And I hate crowds..."

[Wolfie]

Jonacin agreed with Celia. "These refugees are the responsibility of the emperor, self proclaimed or otherwise. We can escort them as far as tha city outskirts, but after that they're on their own. We have more important things to be doing"

[Fuzzy Knight]

"Lets get moving then" Arco said starting waving his hands forward...

[Dantrag]

"Agreed." Sel said, "I'm not taking refugees past the outskirts either. And from there, I guess I will try to track down the mage, not Gustak, but the one that soultrapped me awhile ago...I won't be convinced to join this war unless I see a side I agree with."

[MerGirl]

Escorting refugees... shouldn't be too hard, thought Celia. "All right, then." She and Serene rode towards the refugees. Blushing, Celia raised her voice above the mumbling crowd, "Listen up! We're leaving now, and we'll escort you as far as the outskirts of the city." She glanced back at her companions, then turned to the refugees once again.

"We," she pointed to her companions and the Knight, as well as Serene and herself, "will protect you from harm as we escort you, so please, try to keep up."

She pointed to herself and Serene. "We have some healing magic, so if you're injured, please talk to us."

By now, the refugees seemed more calmer, but still tense and grumbling.

Celia felt uncomfortable and rode back towards he companions. "Okay, so, are we going right now?" Her question was directed specifically towards the Knight. "Because, no offense, I do not wish to wait for mister bully's permission, m'kay?"

[Wolfie]

Jonacin was a little hurt that Celia had completely ignored his presence, but he took up a flanking position alongside the crowd of refugees anyway, and began herding them towards the city gates

[Dantrag]

Sel stayed behind the refugees for two reasons : to keep to himself, and to guard the rear. But mostly the former.

He had taken his brain power from the task of finding right and wrong in the imminent war, and put it to thinking about where the mage could be and how he could possibly be stopped.

He tried to remember each room he walked through in the mage's lair, trying to find a clue as to where it was. And as much as he hated it, he had also been asking Azura for guidance - though not very reverently. If she wanted him to do something, she had better tell him.

Sel looked ahead, and noticed that a small altmer girl started lagging behind the group. Sel was moving faster than the toddler, and when Sel came up to her he asked, "Where are your parents?" The girl sniffed and wiped her eyes. "I don't know."

Sel looked around for any altmer, but saw none. "Don't worry, we'll find them." he said, still looking for a sign of the girl's parents.

"What's your name?" Sel asked her.

"Triel." she answered.

Sel picked her up and said, "I'm Sel."

Sel planned to find Celia - she was better suited to taking care of young girls - but couldn't find her. So instead, he walked through the mass of refugees with a little girl on his shoulders, looking for her parents.

So far, he had only found two altmer, and neither was a parent of Triel.

[Channler]

YOU HEARD THE GIRL! LETS MOVE!" Falx roared above the crowd of thousands. It took several minutes just to get everyone to point in the right direction. Falx gestured for the group to follow him.

"I know the you all do not want to get involved in a war, I can't blame you. But I, being a Knight of the Empire, and a Imperial, need to do my best to defend it, and that includes everyone that is apart of it." Falx looked ahead, they were slowly leading the refugee's out of the city. "If the empire falls I'm afraid it will be a dark time for Nirn..."

Falx rode ahead of everyone, he smelt evil in the air.

[Aki]

Fenris rode alongside the refugees, he felt like a sheepdog. Thats exactly what this felt like. The sheepdogs herding the sheep. But where then, where the wolves that came to prey on the flock? Fenris began to really dislike the city. Too damn big. Too many angles of attack. He passed a temple, frowning when he saw the statue, and the state of the temple.

Kynareth's temple, and it was in ruins. Kynareth, Kyne, was one of the Aedra held in most reverance by Nords, esspecially Tongues. It was personal now.

[MerGirl]

Celia was a bit confused on whether she should stay in front of, behind, or beside of the refugees... If she stayed in the back, she could be attacked. If she stayed in the front, she was still vulnerable.

Twiddling with a strand of hair in a state of confusion, she continued along the left side of the refugees. She glanced from the corner of her eye and saw Serene in the distance, on the right side of the refugees. She smiled at Serene. Serene smiled and waved back before turning her attention to some young children.

Celia surveyed the group. She tried to locate her companions, but she could only see a few of them. The refugees were many, and the crowd stretched far, far behind her. How were they going to defend all these refugees?

It was nearly sundown when they finally reached the outskirts of the city, and Celia sighed in relief and began to feel at peace. However, that moment only lasted for a several seconds, before she heard loud growling sounds. "Oh, no. Not again..."

[Wolfie]

Jonacin was bored by sunset. They had been herding the refugees towards the gates all day, and it was a very tedious task trying to keep them moving. Then he heard the growling, and he suddenly decided that boring was better than trying to fight demons amidst a horde of paniced refugees. He decided to wait until the last minute to ready his weapons, in order to avoid causing the refugees to panic before the beasts even arrived

[Konji]

Myra rode a way behind serene, watching her intently. He saw the outskirts of the city finally approaching, a suprisingly abrupt end of of buildings. He shouted to anyone in the group who was listening.

"So is this mage guy in oblivion? If he is then we can just wait until a portal opens, cross our fingers and dive in. Maybe we'll land outside his front door!"

Myra was too busy thinking with all the thought power he had of a way of finding the mage to hear the low rumblings of a growl to the west.

[MerGirl]

(OOC: on the slow computer, again)

Celia nervously glanced at Serene, who only nodded her head. Obviously, Serene had heard it, too. Celia could see that Serene had prepared and focused her magic in order to throw out spells that would be needed.

Celia turned to her left, then to her right, trying to figure out the direction the demons or beasts were coming from. Oh, no, oh, no! she thought. They're coming from both sides. What should she say to the refugees? Should she be blunt and tell them what's going on?

Celia desperately looked for the Knight, but he was too far in the front. She glanced back and saw Jonacin. "Hey, Jona!" she rode towards him, keeping an eye in the direction she assumed where the growls were coming from. "What should I do? Should I fight? Should I tell someone?"

In the middle of her questions, a large creature came rushing at the two of them, claws extended and jaws wide open, revealing pointy, sharp teeth and a mouth filled with fresh blood.

[Konji]

Myra, slipped quietly away, to sneak around the back of the animals. months later after the refugees had gone he was found dead...well some of him was found anyway.(I'm done roleplaying, my character sucks)

[Wolfie]

Jonacin turned when Celia called out to him, but then whipped around when he heard the beast running towards them. In one fluid motion, he slid his sword from its scabard and lopped it's head off. The refugees began to panic, running towards the city gates in disarray. "We have no choice, we have to stay and fight!" he shouted over the noise of the paniced people, "if we try to run we'll be dragged down and killed! Let the refugees run and form a protective wall behind them, don't let anything past!"

[MerGirl]

Celia nodded in reply to Jona's shouts. "All right. If you stay and fight, I will, too!" She rode around to bash an occasional beast-demon-thing or two, and searched for the others.

In the middle of the panicking, retreating crowd, she spotted Sel with a young Altmer girl on his shoulders. Celia's breath was nearly taken away as another large beast towered over Sel and the refugees from the side. Suddenly, the beast froze as small glowing sparks covered its body. Serene was using a paralye spell onto it.

That's great, but it's going to wear off, sooner or later! Not to mention there's more coming our way...

Celia shouted as she waved, "Sel, get over here!"