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Post by Wargamer on Feb 13, 2005 6:26:45 GMT -5
Hawk looked out of the window. "Driver, why have we-" There was a thunk. An axe hit the coach. "Beastmen!" The driver leapt onto the roof, and climbed into the hellblaster turret. He began cranking it around frantically, straining against the poorly-kept turning gears.
Hawk grinned like a madman, kicking open one of the firing windows, and loading a hand-cannon. "Open your mouths, or your eardrums will burst!" The roar of the weapon was deafening in the cramped caravan. Danzig and Skragg both dismounted, and watched the Beastmen approached with eager anticipation. Elathian began launching arrow after arrow into the Beastmen, but for each he killed, there were two more to replace the fallen.
Valmont manned the second cannon, and braced himself as it jerked violently in his hands. It had a hell of a kick.
There was a loud "Dra-ka-kak!" as the Hellblaster volleyed a fussilade of rounds into the Beastmen. The result was impressive, but not enough.
The Beastmen were closing fast, and the Caravan had nowhere to go...
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Post by elflord9d on Feb 13, 2005 13:39:17 GMT -5
'd**n.'Thought Elathain realising he only had 10 more arrows left. he fired and made sure to kill each one with one arrow. One after another fell, but more and more kept coming. He reached back for another arrow, there were none left in his quiver.
He put his bow in the caravan and drew his swords.
He strode into the middle of the road as the beastmen charged at him. The first one to reach him swung his club at his head, Elathain ducked with ease. 'Too slow.' Elathain thought as he brought his shimmering blade into the beastman's torso. He kicked the beast off the blade, and another came at him.
The beast man choped down with his axe and Elathain brought his swords up in an X shape and blocked. Then he brought his foot up and kicked the towering beastman in the chin. The power of the kick sent the beastman flying backwards.
Another came at him 'Is there no end to these beasts?' he thought as he parried the clumsy beastmans attack and thrust his sword into its foaming maw.
Just as he was about to turn he saw somthing he had no seen in quite a while and wished never to do so again. A minator. Elathian did not like this one bit. It was charging at him. The giant behmoth was running and waving its giant axes together. Then he spied Skragg running behind it, chasing it or so it seemed. Then he heard a shout from Skragg "Come ere so I can fump ya!" 'Not suprising' thought Elathain. just before the giant bull-man hit Elathain there was a giant KA-BOOM. Elathain looked up and the minatours head was gone. He looked back behind him and there sat Valmont with a grin on his face and a smoking cannon in his hands. "Correction. I 'fumped' him." he said. Just as Elathain smiled at him he felt a pain in his back, and all was dark.
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Post by skogul on Feb 13, 2005 16:10:45 GMT -5
Danzig slammed his axe into the gut of another beastman and kicked it off, they where falling like flys, Ty Tor how he hated the chaos filth, a second,third and a fourth fell to his axe blows as he threw his head back and roared his battle cry 'For Ursun' he ran up the road to where he had saw the elf go, he wasn't going to let Elathain have all the fun, a group of ungors burst from the bushes from the right of Danzig he stoped spun to face the new threat, grinning at the thought of the slaughter to come,
The first ungor charged with a crude club held high, Danzig dropped to his knee and severed his opponents at his, he stood turning and brought his boot down on the ungors face, the second charged and swung its axe at Danzig, Danzig batted the blow away caught the axe and smashed his forehead into the nose of the pitiful creature and it staggered away clutching its nose which was fountaining in blood, he grinned 'Have a kislev kiss on me' Danzig looked down at the axe 'Here this is your's have it back' And with that he lanched the axe sending it spining into the upper torso of the ungor, The third ungor looked at Danzig and turned and fled Danzig gave chase and followed the wretched creature into a clearing he caught it and brought his axe down into its back, he flicked his hair back where it had fallen out of its tarry Warriors topknot and became aware of his surroundings he had stumbled into a duo bestigors and the remains of some of Harlad's men, the first roared and swung a huge fist, Danzig rolled and disenbowled the beast before standing and bringing his axe down into the shoulder of the second, cutting it from the collar to the bone, he yanked out his axe and broke into a run getting back onto the road in time to see a centigor rearing above a prone Elathain,
Danzig roared and ran head down smashing into the foul creature bringing it to the ground he rolled to his feet and brought his axe down into the centigors haunch before landing a second blow into the beast's ribs, Danzig stood and readied his axe,
Valmont blew apart another one of the twisted scum, and swiveled to face the woods he saw Danzig standing protectivly over the elf his axe rising and falling in red arcs as he cut down chaos scum after chaos scum, He saw a dark shape rise behind the kislevite and yelled out his name, but it was to late, the foul mess broke a branch over Danzig's head and he slumped to the floor.
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Post by Arguleon Veq on Feb 13, 2005 16:58:18 GMT -5
The centigor began to stomp on Danzig, it's heavy hooves devstating the huge frame of the Kislevite.
Valmont aimed his hand-cannon at it but the area of effect for a crude weapon like this was to big and he would undoubtedly hit Danzig.
'Crap' hissed Valmont.
He abandoned his hand cannon and vaulted off the caraven leaving Hawk to defend it. He had to save Danzig, after all ensuring that his old friend got through this was his primary reason for signing up for this job, well that and the money.
He neared the first beastman and he was now running at full pelt, he feigned a step to his left and sidestepped to the right of the beast.
Just before reaching the second he drew his dirk in an upwards arc from it's scabbard, opening up the beastmens chest in the same upwards swing.
He jabbed the third beast he crossed in the face with his dirk leaving it screaming in his wake.
More were falling all around his as hawk provided some covering fire, lead passing him by inches
' watch were your shooting' Valmont roared back in the direction of the caravan.
A club swung towards him and caught Valmont clean in the chest taking him off his feat, crashing hard into the ground. The club arced down but Valmont was prepared despite having the wind knocked out of him, he parried the blow and kicked the beast in the knee. Breaking it. The beast slowly toppled onto him and slid onto his blade. Blood oozing onto Valmonts fine shirt.
He heaved and shoved the dead beastman off, regained his feat and set off again towards Danzig who was by now a bloody mess, the centigor bellowing in delight at the brutality of its stomping.
Valmont threw a knife into the side of the centigor and at this range realised it was much bigger than any centigor he had seen before. It turned and faced him.
The centigor Levelled its spear at the charging Valmont but he rolled at the last second and hacked into it's thigh as he rolled past, severing the leg. The creature collapsed onto its chest.
Valmont rose to his feat and charged at the rear of the beast, just as Valmont was about to plunge his dirk down into the base of its spine it kicked out catching him in the ribs.
Valmont slowly sunk to his knees, all the air smashed out of him. He coughed sending a fine mist of crimson into the air and staining his lips and chin.
'Sh*t' gurgled Valmont, more blood coming from his mouth.
He dropped onto his front and rolled onto his back, now underneath the thrashing beast. With his last once of energy he thrust his dirk into the underside of the centigor bringing it crashing down on top of him.
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Skragg finished the last of the gors he was fighting with a blast in the face from his handgun. He looked around to see the rest fleeing in disarray.
He saw a huge centigor crashing down on top of Valmont. He rushed over.
Skragg heaved and strained, finally rolling the huge centigor off Valmont. He picked up all three of his wounded companions, one over each shoulder and the elf under his arm and set off back towards the caravan.
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Post by Wargamer on Feb 13, 2005 16:59:18 GMT -5
"Bloody hell... bring them in, fast!" Hawk cursed loudly. Their wounds looked bad. "Driver, how long until the next settlement?" "Four hours, maybe five." Hawk looked over the wounded again, "you'd better move fast."
It was midnight when the coach rumbled in. Hawk leapt out, and hammered the door of the apothecary. "What do you w-" Skragg ripped the door off. "Dese men 'ere need help, now!" The old man staggered back in fear. Hawk stepped between him and Skragg.
"You know me?" The man shook his head. "You know this?" Hawk handed him a gold coin. It was an Empire coin, and a full weeks wage for him. "Help these people, now. If you do, there will be four-hundred more of these in your purse... but only if they all survive." "...if they don't." Skragg snarled.
Two minutes later, all three were receiving care.
"...do you think dey'll be okay Mr Hawk?" Skragg asked. Hawk shrugged, "Doctors don't always help. If you're strong, you can survive, if not..." The two sat in silence, waiting for word of their wounded companions.
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Post by elflord9d on Feb 13, 2005 23:33:03 GMT -5
Elathain leaned up with a jolt. He looked around. Skragg was next to him and Mr. Hawk was next to the ogre. “Did we win? Where’s Valmont and Danzig?” the elf said. He had a million other questions but those he thought were the most important. “Dey fell. We think dey’ll be ok though.” Skragg said with a forced smile.
Elathain felt a sharp pain in his gut. He looked down and lifted his shirt and there was his mail right over the hurting space. The gromril mail protected him and he passed out from the blow of the foul creature. He started to get up and Skragg then said “You should rest. You needs tending.”
“I’ll be fine.” said Elathain. “My mail protected me. I just passed out from the force of the blow. I have some herbs left from our last ordeal. It will help them recover faster and have less pain.” Elathian walked over to Danzig. “He has a bad wound Here put this in some tea and have him drink it.” he handed some herbs to the apothecary. “He looked in amazement at them. “I haven’t seen these herbs in a long time.” He said in amazement. “That’s because there’s only one place left they grow. My homeland of Athel Loren. Now make haste please!” The apothecary rushed out of the room.
Elathain turned to Valmont. “d**n.” He said under his breath. He was in far worse shape then Danzig. Elathain saw the dried blood on his lips. “It’s an internal injury.” Said Elathain as he felt Valmont’s chest. “He has a broken rib. It might have punctured his lung.” I have an idea. Don’t do anything to him.” With that he ran outside, and then came back in a few minutes later. “I asked the trees to send for an elven mage of life. The message should get there in about an hour or two. Then my Father will come with his eagle. He would be here in a matter of hours as well. It should be enough time.” With that the Apothecary came in and put the teacup up to Danzig's lips. He choked and then swallowed it down.
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Post by Ogreking on Feb 14, 2005 6:59:35 GMT -5
Zog that lad thats too long he needs help now. With that he took a bottle of rum and forced it into the kislevites mouth. 'This will sort him no worries'.
Skragg was cooking the centigor outside. He didnt know gut magic but he knew a few words of power from his mate da chef. Maybe he could help Valmont and prove his power as a doc. yeah that wasa good plan. He took some of the centigor meat and poured some rum over it. Then he spat on it for luck and spoke some words. He didnt know if it would work but he hoped it would.
He ran back into the romm knocking the elf out by accident with the door.Opps. with that he picked up the elf and gave him to halk who collapsed with suprise at the weight.
'Oh for the luv of food' he said. He picked up Hawk and dusted him off and placed him in a chair.
He then ran to Valmont and fed him the meat. 'Now we wait ladz.
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Post by elflord9d on Feb 14, 2005 23:42:29 GMT -5
About three hours later Danzig was awake, and was wondering why the elf got him tea instead of vodka. They were all waiting in the room.
Waiting.
Just then there was a bird-like skreech, Elathain smiled. "Father." he said.
Then the door opened and in walked an elf with a long wineding staff with an asortmeant of weird artifacts, like feathers and small animal skulls. What wasn't covered with clothing was covered in blue symbols.
"Filandir!" said Elathain and the two started talking to him in elvish. After a few sentences Elathains Father then looked at Valmont, then strode over and took out a bottle and dipped a finger in it and painted a giant symbol on it. The other looked in amazment and wonder.
Elathains father waved his staff over Valmont and chanted some elven. Then Elathains father suddenly stoped. Elathains father then stoped with a suprised look on his face. He continued. About 3 minutes later he stoped said a few things to Elathin and left.
The group was riddled with questions but the first one to say anything was Skragg. "Iz he gonna be ok?" he asked. Elathain turned with a smile. "Yes, he should be p and running like new in about an hour. My father also said somthing else. That there was other magic there, and that Valmont would have died if it wasn't there." They all looked at Skragg.
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Post by Ogreking on Feb 15, 2005 6:30:19 GMT -5
All Skragg could do was smile. He had done a gud job. No doubt he may have annoyed the elfs farther but that was understandable. He laughed to himself. He was proud of himself now.
He walked over to Valmont and sat down. CRUNCH! 'Well watya know he said to the lads, another magical chair'. Then he waited. He wanted to see that Valmont was ok. He wasa mate after all. He looked over to Danzig and smiled. He knew that old bear wouldent die easily. He was a miniture steam thingy. Whatever the empire called them, he was one of them.
Next came the elf. A bit bruised and worse for wear but he could still fight on. His skills where good, there was no question, but skragg didnt like to show off. He got the job done and went home alive. He had to take care of the ladz so they could all go home.
Then their employer, Hawk. The only one, except Skragg who didnt pass out and need carrying back. He had given them cover fire from the wagon and actually saved Skraggs back a few times. He had the shard in his back to prove it. He liked Hawk. Took care of his men so he did. He try his best for the guy and come out rich because of it.
Skragg stood. He went over to the door and turned to the awake members of the party. 'Wont be gone long me ladz, just goin to check we waznt followed.' He turned to leave but stopped. He looked at Hawk. 'Make sure hes ok will ya boss ok? An im borrowin one of the hand cannons. Got a plan i has hurhurhur'. And with that Skragg walked out through the door forgeting it was shut, blashemed to his fat gods and began to walk towards the wagon.
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Post by skogul on Feb 15, 2005 6:36:27 GMT -5
With a groan Danzig pulled himself up, He looked to Hawk 'Did we kill them all?' "no a couple of them fled' Hawk replied 'F**k, i would of liked to kill them all, Chaos b*st*rds' Elathain patted Danzig's shoulder 'we did the best we could' Danzig strugged away 'But it was'nt good enough' he looked back at the elf and then around at the rest of his companions 'I sorry but im going to be in a real bad mood for i few days, but mark my words next set of chaos scumbags we find, they all DIE!' the last word was punctuated by Danzig slamming his fist into the doorframe, the building shaked and Danzig turned again to hawk 'Right Hawk where now?'
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Post by elflord9d on Feb 15, 2005 13:25:03 GMT -5
Elathain turned to Hawk and said. “Where are we? I need to replenish my quiver before we go anywhere.”<br> Hawk said “I’ll have my men get some for you. Let me guess you want elven one’s?”<br>Elathain visibly didn’t like it much and trying to be polite said. “Yes if you don’t mind.”<br>“Good.” Replied Hawk. “You shall have them before we leave.”<br>Elathain turned to Danzig who took the last swig of vodka from the bottle and threw it into the fireplace with a shatter. Right after it there was a fain boom sound. “Danzig with me, Hawk stay with Valmont.” Said Elathain and he and Danzig ran out the door toward Skragg.
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Post by Wargamer on Feb 15, 2005 13:55:33 GMT -5
Whilst Danzig and Elathian were out, Hawk took the time to examine his maps. He did so with careful patience, but kept leaning back for no apparant reason. "... old age has been kind to my eyes, but I'm starting to struggle I guess... can't read the maps if they're too close..." Valmont leaned over, "where are we now?" "This town, Tyranhiem, and that puts us... about a day's journey from the mountains. If we don't find Ludwig there, he'll be into Sylvania before we catch him, and I'd rather not fight a Vampire on its home turf..."
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Post by elflord9d on Feb 15, 2005 17:04:35 GMT -5
Elathain, Danzig, and Skragg came in a few minutes later. Danzig and Skragg were talking about how well they had fought. And Elathain was just listening. Skragg was covered with a black dusty looking material.
Hawk looked up and asked “So Skragg where’s my cannon?”<br>Skragg looked and hesitantly smiled a toothy smile revealing a few missing teeth. “Well ya see, I put a lil too much powder in it an it broke in half.” Hawk was not happy. But then he just sat smugly and said “It shall be deducted out of your pay.”<br>Elathain knew the ogre wasn’t going to be happy so he then said. “Take it out of my pay.”<br>“Very well then.” said Hawk. Then a man carrying a lot of arrows came in. Hawk said “Ah, Elathain your order has arrived.” Elathain took the arrows examined them and stuck them in his quiver. “Very nice. Now I’m ready to leave.”<br>
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Post by Wargamer on Feb 15, 2005 17:47:08 GMT -5
The cart rumbled on, this time with an outrider escort.
"They are Norsicans, of the Bregul. Born and raised in the saddle, and thus skilled warriors on horse. They live in mountains and hills, making them an excellent choice for the upcoming terrain." Danzig nodded, "I clashed with them once, they are mighty warriors. Not as mighty as we Kislevites, but still..." Elathian looked puzzled, "How did they know to meet us? Either you have been very meticulous in your planning, or there is more to you than meets the eye..." Hawk smiled, "I am a man of many talents."
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Post by Arguleon Veq on Feb 15, 2005 19:06:32 GMT -5
Valmont gritted his teeth or grimaced with every time the wagon rocked or bumbed on the rough road, his ribs were still giving him problems.
If beastmen have did that much damage to our warband who knows what a vampire could do thought Valmont. Doubt creeping in again.
Still the others although a little worse for ware seemed fine.
He would prevail, he always did. Although he would probably need a long time to recover once this was over with.
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