Adventure Tales - To Slay a Dragon Part 3

Zee begins to scurry down the cliff side towards toran, "You know the best part about falling from a height like this fox?" He gets ready to swing his ax at the fox with one paw, "You will hit the earth hard enough to dig your own grave!"

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This is an ooc tale. None of the events here affect the game AT ALL. No characters were actually harmed...save for Derean. He probably deserved it anyway, so no harm done ^^.

Barely a day into their journey and it's already raining Otters. Blasted bleedin otters. Rioko can't very well let this one die on her, not when he is hurtling towards her like a boulder. The mercinary fox shouts in effort as she leaps to the side, out of the way, and goes to rescue Derean...by shouting, "Sibyl! Heads up!"

Sibyl looks up, eyes widening as the otter collides with the fat bellied red lizard. She loses her grip, clutching to the otter with all four claws, tail wrapping around a near by tree branch jutting out of the cliff side. "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Sibyl screams even after she realizes that she is no longer falling...for the moment.

For the most part, Derean can't even really think about what exactly is happening to him. All that runs through his mind is a blinding pain that numbs every other sense in his body. It isn't long after the two stop falling that blood from the open gash on Derean's face begins to drip on Sibyl. Toran, Rorgan and Derrin can't quite focus on the downed otter, but their worries are helped when they see Sibyl and Derean hanging from the tree branch. "Toran, take care of that lizard!" Shouts Derrin, who is further below the fox.

Zee gets a chuckle out of the duo dangling over their doom. He begins to scurry down the cliff side towards toran, "You know the best part about falling from a height like this fox?" He gets ready to swing his ax at the fox with one paw, "You will hit the earth hard enough to dig your own grave!"

Toran growls and lets go of the cliff with one paw, drawing a dagger and launching it straight up at Zee. Considering the range, he figured it wouldn't be too hard to score a hit. "You can try, lizard!" He shouts.

The dagger cuts along the lizards cheek as it flys onward to oblivion. With a hiss Zee swings at the fox, embedding his axe into the earthen walls of the cliff. He lets go completely of the wall and swings down, using momentum to kick at the fox! "Lousy bushtail! I hope there is enough of your splattered remains to keep as a rug!" Up above the slow moving pine marten Bushtail looks down, "What I do now?"

Fortunately, Toran's instincts kick in, and he presses himself flat against the cliff, which is just enough to dodge the kick that goes whistling by his head. Reaching up with one paw, he takes hold of that same leg and tugs down and away from the cliff wall, hoping to catch the lizard off guard.

Zee makes a panic yelp as his death grip on his axe isn't broken but the axe's grip on the earth is tugged free. The lizard shouts as he desperatly flails about as he falls, his axe slipping from his grip at last, narrowing hitting the lizard and otter below him. "GAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" He screams.

Derrin grunts in pain as he drops his head, but still manages to catch a cut from the falling axe as it falls. Meanwhile, Rorgan and Toran watch Zee fall along with the rest of Radion's group, who had just arrived to the edge of the cliff.

'I'm going to die,' thinks Zee as he falls. The ground is racing to meet him as he goes flying by the other lizard and otter. Zee closes his eyes, not wanting to see the ground as he splatters across it. Then...at the last moment Zee feels the sensation of...ascending? Hazarding to open his eyes the blue scaled lizard sees that he is in fact, not dead. He is flying!

Looking up Zee sees he is in the clutches of a large bird, a crow! "I'm...I'm alive?" he stammers, then more boldy, "I'm alive! I am never going to eat birds again in my life! I swear! Thank you so much for...what...what are you doing? No wait!" the crow hovers around a large outcropping with a birds nest built around it on the cliff side. The birds chicks chirp eagerly for their mother to drop them their dinner. Zee screams again as he is dropped between them. Like raptors on cattle they converge, digging their beaks into the soft lizardy meats of his belly, chest and tail. "Ahhh! No! Get back! No please! Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" As Zee meets his end crows and other birds of prey take to the sky out of their homes in the cliff side. They head up, and up, towards the bandits and their leader...

Radion, who had just witnessed one of his better followers ended by crows, growls angrily, and he pulls out his bow along with an arrow, loosing it at one of the approaching crows. "Everyone fight those crows off now! Bushtail, get back up here and draw your weapon! Leave those infernal woodlanders to their plans!"

"Time to go!" Rioko begins to shout over the screams of Zee, who is, unfortently for him, still very much alive. "We need to get down! Quickly! While they are distracted!" The fox begins to climb down quicker, pausing only to help Sibyl and the otter back to the cliff side. Dale on the bottom of the cliff says shakily, "Oh look! It's true! When you do get hurt birds fly around your head!" Rioko lands on her feet and begins to help her fellow fox to his, "Yeah...let's go with that."

Rorgan, Toran and Derrin all make it down to the bottom without much problem, but Derean has to be helped down. His limp form, by now, is covered with blood, though he is still alive. Sibyl too is somewhat wet with Derean's blood, considering it had been dripping on her for a good bit. "Come on mates, we need t' go now!" Urges Rorgan as he and Derrin rush to help Derean stay up.

Party One - Heroic

Rorgan's alts

Rorgan

Derean

Toran

Derrin

My Alts or npcs

Sibyl

Dale

Rioko

Xia Dead - Ventilated by arrows.

Party Two - Less Heroic

Rorgan's Alts

Montag

Mogat

One-Eye

Furis

Radion

My Npcs

Bushtail

Zee Dead -Eaten by birds

NOTE!

This story uses dice rolls to determine the characters fate. Everything is done at random :D In other words, The villains have equal chance at winning! So stay tuned, more to come!