RPG The Guild of Beginnings [PG::LV]

[Who Am I?]

[B]After that hit inccident from a girl named Allison. Geneive went to go and get a snack.[/B]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]"Boy that girl has some issues," Kale said.[/COLOR]

[B]Brandon snickered.[/B]

[B]Geneive got a bagel and went to sit down while her brothers got something else....junk food. They were laughing and talking.[/B]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]"Hey you know during books(the class), people were all throwing paper airplanes and the teacher didn't notice," Kale said.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Navy]"Yeah and it was so cool when my friend did some sort of cool spell and turn the teacher into a donkey," Brandon laughed. [/COLOR]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]"Yeah that was awesome," Kale chuckled.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Navy]"But it sucked. He got detention for the whole week!" Brandon sighed.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=DarkRed][B]"Well that's bad..." Geneive mumbled.[/B][/COLOR]

[B]Geneive continued to eat her bagel after that.[/B]

[Aiyanna]

[COLOR=Indigo][FONT=Palatino Linotype]
[I]OOC: I hope you all will get more into posting. I think Katana and I are going to come up with some sort of situation...actually, I think I'm gonna make one now, just for the heck of it. It might speed things up, or it might kill things. I know we said this was going to be school like..but the school like thing is going slow, so I'm gonna add a...fight...scene of sorts. ::grins wickedly:: And remember, no god-playing! oh, and by the way, posting long posts isn't a bad thing! Longer is better! We LIKE long posts! So don't apologize after long posts. If anything, apologize after 7 sentence posts.[/I]

IC:
Lyaeve sighed as she the boy Joel scurried...well...he almost scurried...out of the hallway. He appeared to be heading towards the forest. She made to follow him, but decided against it. Instead, she turned towards the North wall that surrounded the whole school. It was quite a high wall, and there were guard towers posted along it, though those were never occupied anymore. They had only been needed long ago during the war times. Now most magic users and other creatures were at peace. The walls spanned all the way around the schools, including the courtyards and part of the forest. The other half of the forest that they weren't supposed to enter was on the other side of the wall. She, of course, had ventured through those trees just to find some peace, and had found nothing to indicate why they were off limits.
She linked her arms behind her back and strolled along the wall, gazing up at the gray stone mass that towered above her. Her thoughts were kind of random, things like complicated spells and runes that meant weird things, herbs and remedies...All floated across her brain and then disappeared. For one moment, her thoughts hovered on the other students. She hadn't made any friends yet...the thought bothered her, and made her sad. Was it something about her that people didn't like? Maybe she was too brown-nosey or something...but she couldn't help liking to learn, could she? Sighing, Lyaeve stopped and leaned against the wall, closing her eyes.
Maybe if she stopped being so rude to Cade...she couldn't be that bad of a person. She just appeared sarcastic and spitefull at times...and lazy too. But there had to be a good person under that. I mean, under all people there was something good, even if it was just a shred...
A sudden swooshing noise and a thuunnkkk! jerked her eyes open and she looked around quickly for the source. Classes were out for the moment, she had heard the bell about 10 minutes ago, so it could be a student playing a trick. Whatever thoughts had come across her mind, what she saw was not something that had been included in those thoughts. A single arrow quivered right next to her left foot. Just one more centimeter to the right and it would have gone straight through her foot. She bent down to pluck the arrow from the ground, but immediatly stood up agian as about 5 more plunged in a row around her feet. She looked up and saw another one, falling straight towards her from over the wall. Her emerald eyes widened and she let out a yelp and jumped over the row of arrows in front of her. That last arrow plunged sraight into the ground where she had been with enough force that it would've gone right through her if it had hit her. It was buried in the ground half-way up the shaft. And the ground was anything but soft. It hadn't rained for awhile. Over 3 weeks.

Amazement filled her as she stared at that arrow and the half-circle in front of it that she had leapt over. "What the heck?!" She practically gasped. Another swish and a rain of arrows started to pour over the rest of the wall. she started to stumble backwards, watching as dozens of arrows flew over the north wall and plunged into the ground, searching for targets that weren't there. Except her of course. Horror filled her as she realized what might be happening. The school was under attack! Grabbing one of the arrows, she began to run towards the school as fast as she could go. She had to tell the headmistress!

Squeezing her eyes shut, she reached out to the well of lavender inside herself, her magic. Her aura blazed around her again. Her heart beat fast as she ran and fear streaked through her. She had to get to the headmistress fast! But running wasn't the fastest way to get there. Catching her breath, she started to weave a spell. It was the transformation spell she was thinking about earlier. She had never done it before, but she had read alot about them.

Supressing her doubts, she finished her weave and felt a searing hot wave fall across her, and then a icy cold one. The next thing that happened she could not explain. Her bones felt like they were on fire, and her skin felt like it was immersed in ice. SHe opened her mouth to scream out in pain, desperately trying to reverse the spell, thinking something had gone wrong. A screech emmitted from her throat, and she opened her eyes to find that the view had changed. Her lavender fire winked out from around her, and she looked at the arrow shaft in front of her. It was bigger.

"Oh...oh by the gods...I DID IT!" she thought to herself, and looked at what she had done. SHe wasn't herself anymore, or rather, she didn't look like a human. She looked like a hawk...no. She was a golden eagle. She matched the pictures she had seen exactly.

"wow..." She thought, and then snapped back to reality. She had to get to the headmistress. Her transformation should have only taken a couple of minutes, but those could be fatal. awkwardly she started to beat her wings, and grabbing the arrow between her new talons, she leapt into the air and soared towards the school. She traveled twice as fast, no, three times as fast as she would have in her human form. It was amazing! But terrifying, because from her height, she could still see arrows raining over the north wall. The knot in her stomach tightened as she sped towards the headmistresses office, the new sound of drums pushing at her with a new sense of urgency . Not far to go!


[B]OOC: Yeah, I know...kinda lame. But hey, I made something happen. Hehe...I kinda ripped this from a D&D game I have been playing, well...except for the transformation part. I've been wanting to do that. I guess I cut off the humor possibilities, but this is a school of magic and fight training...:)[/B]









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[Sir Gawain]

OOC: Thank God, something's going on! This is going to give everyone something to write about for a while. Good work Aiyanna.

IC:

As Cairn headed back to his room, another student ran beside him.
"Well, well, Mr. Cairn." the kid laughed. "Were you actually ready to take on Cade? I'm pretty sure that you could've taken her."
Cairn smiled weakly. "Then you have more faith than I do. I was just praying that she'd walk away. I've seen what she could do, and it's not pretty. Even without a weapon she could have knocked me senseless."
The other student laughed loud enough for the few people in the hallway to turn and look at him. Apparently he thought it was funny that a swordsman could be beaten up by a girl. Cairn frowned, and tried to hurry up his pace.
As they approched the West wall, the other kid nodded and walked into his room. Cairn gathered a few of his spellbooks and started listening to the rhythimic drum beats from outside the wall.
"Hold on," he said to himself as he bolted upright from his bed. "Since when do drums play outside castle, or even at all?" He quickly pocketed his favorite scroll (the one that he had used to cast the speed enhancing spell in archery class) and ran outside, fastening his cloak.
When he got far enough to look at the top of the wall, he was met by a hail of arrows. Several other students nimbly dogded out of the impending volleys paths, and some of them ran off. Some of the arrows were poking only their feathered shafts out of the ground.
One thing was obvious though, these guys weren't firing blind. Almost every volley that made it over the wall landed close to one of the students, and they had to either move quickly out of the way or use a deflection spell. Some of his archery friends were already trying to fire back, fitting various enchated arrows into the notches on their bows.
Cairn decided to join them with one of the neat little spells he had just learned. As more arrows flew through the air, some at their feet, others over the wall, Cairn uttered a quick repetitive chant. When he let his arrow loose, as it passed over the wall, he finished the chant and it split into five poisoned arrows. Even if they missed, not many people would be able to outrun the gas.
But several others made amazing shots. One girl was firing arrows that turned into large blocks of stone. A group of people were coordinating their shots to make various weather effects, like miniature lightning storms and meteorites. Cairn sighed and though to himself, 'I really do need to learn more magic. Good thing about that combined lesson earlier.
He smiled, fitted another arrow into the notch, and tried a different enchantment, all the while listening to the whistling arrows and beating drums.

OOC: There you go. The castles under arrow siege so far and some of the students are fighting back. Someone else can think about how to get the invaders inside.

[Rhym]

[FONT=Times New Roman]OOC: Yaaay! Something to DO! Thanks for saving the post, Aiyanna! *Claps*

Jode was snapped awake by the sound of war drums. [COLOR=DarkRed][i]I must have dozed off,[/i][/COLOR] he thought. [COLOR=DarkRed][i]And I STILL haven't found a way to get down from this damn training center![/i][/COLOR]

By now, the lazily drifting training center was actually positioned somewhere useful, with the East Wall lying just beneath it. Jode dropped onto the ramparts painfully, as it was still quite a long drop. He rolled to lessen the impact. [COLOR=DarkRed][i]Those drums sound like they're coming from the North Wall. I have to get there fast![/i][/COLOR]

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The fight unfolded before Jode's eyes. An unknown force outside the walls rained deadly arrows down on a large group of students returning fire. The students were for the most part avoiding the arrows, but a few careless ones were being carted off to the infirmary. As far as Jode could see, he was the only person so far on the top of the North Wall.

[COLOR=DarkRed][i]Hold on, something's moving up there.[/i][/COLOR] He strained his eyes to catch the small bit of movement between the parapets. Running towards it, it became clearer. [COLOR=DarkRed][i]Those are ladders! They're laying siege to the Guild! How sweet![/i][/COLOR]

He reached the first ladder and pushed it off of the wall. Strangely, there were no screams, just an odd clatter when the ladder hit the ground. He pushed the second ladder he came across as well. However, something had made it to the top of the third, and stepped out onto the ramparts as Jode watched. It was an animated skeleton. Tearing his attention away from the apparition, he saw an entire army of undead minions amassed just beyond the castle walls. Meanwhile, the skeleton crept closer. Jode noticed this and drew his bastard sword.

[COLOR=DarkRed]"Have at you!"[/COLOR] he snarled, lunging forward.

When he had time later to reflect on that line, he would realize just how completely lame shouting "Have at you" is, and would be glad that no one else was on the wall when he said it. At the time, however, it seemed a fitting line.

OOC: Sorry for being so cliché with the whole undead thing, if you care. Oh, and you can totally mix action, peril, drama, and humor.[/FONT]

[Aiyanna]

[COLOR=Indigo]OOC: heh...heheheh...::is slightly insane:: I'm going to rip more from D&D...::cackles::oh, and a tad from Tamora Peirce or however her name is spelled. Nothing battle sceeny, just part of the transformation magic. Or rather, the after effects.

Jogging down one of the hallways near the headmistresses office, Lyaeve glanced right and left. Well, as left and right as she could. She felt sick to her stomach, and the world was spinning so violently that the ground fell like it was rolling under her feet. Bare feet, as it was.

She really didn't recognize the coldness on her feet, but she could feel the slight chill of air on the rest of her. Which also happened to be bare. That was something she had read about in her spellbooks, and had totally forgotten in her haste to get the message to the Headmistress. [I]"Transforming can have some odd consequensces. Examples are: Sickness, halutionation, clothes not returning when transforming back to original shape, sudden change in mood..."[/I] Well, the first one and the third one seemed to have been the ones that fit with her. She felt sick, and her clothes were gone. That had been her favorite belt too...

Shaking her head, she scolded herself. What a thing to be thinking when there were war drums pounding outside and you held an enemy arrow in your fist. Luckily, she came across nobody before she got to the headmistresses office. She did come across a window with a curtain, and though it was kind of sheer, she wrapped it around herself, holding it against her with one hand while she knocked on the Headmistresses chamber door with the other.
"Cmon, cmon, answer!" She said through clenched teeth after about two minutes. Still no anwer. "Damnit. I'm going in anyways."

Grabbing hold of the handle of the door, she dragged it open and took a step through. Only to step back again as the feeling of a strong wave of magic swept over her. The room nearly radiated with magic, and she could feel it vibrating to her bones. Actually, it made the world seem to spin more. With her advanced knowledge of magic, she was able to feel that radiating power, where the other students wouldn't. She had cast the ability spell overherself, and had found it handy at times to be able to feel when someone was casting magic, or where there was a magical item or aura present. Even the mage didn't know she could do it, but she knew he couldn't.

Squinting and raising her hand to sheild her eyes, even though there wasn't really a harsh light, she looked for the source of the power. Where was the headmistress? A quick scan of the room told her exactly where the headmistress was, and that brought a strangled cry from her throat. She almost dropped the arrow. The headmistress was sprawled across a chair, her eyes wide open, a black dagger at an angle stabbing through her throat. Her blood was pooling around the chair and was drying on her dress. The sight made her want to puke. It wasn't the blood, no she could handle blood. It was the fact that the Headmistresses face was contorted and puffy, with black veins creeping up it from the wound.

"Oh...oh my." Lyaeve sat down hard and stared, not sure of what to do next. The feeling of magic was overwhelming her and she couldn't think straight. A haze seemed to be starting to form across her eyes. Wait. There...In the corner.
Pushing her palms against the floor, Lyaeve heaved herself up once more and stumbled to the corner. The vibration of magic turned into a pounding to meet and match the sound of the drums outside, reverberating through her, making her feel like nothing more than the drum beat itself. Everthing seemed to be going all distorted, except for one spot on a brick in the right hand corner. She stopped in front of it and sagged against the wall, panting. The magic was almost too much.

Reaching out a trembling hand, she pulled at the brick, and felt it come loose in her hands so quickly she stumbled backwards, loosing her balance. She fell down hard with the brick and then dropped it and once more surged to her feet lethargically. There was an empty space behind where the brick had been. Well, almost empty. Inside it was a small, black, smooth stone, the source of the magic. It seemed to be casting out magic in pulsating waves. Her stomach roiled as she reached out to grab the stone, and just as she closed her hand around it, the world went black, her other hand lost it's grip on the curtain around her and she was falling...falling....

OOC: If anyone finds her before she comes to, which I hope someone will, they won't see the stone. She does have it, but not anywhere visible. Just so you know. Yeah, I know, I'm kinda dictating, but I'm trying to set a kind of pattern/storyline thing. ::cackles::[/COLOR]

[Katana]

[color=royalblue][size=1]OOC: Ah man, you TOTALLY ripped from your first D&D session. T_T The stone? Unoriginal, my chum. XD
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Cade was racing in those damp hallways, her shoes praddling softly against the ground. She made nothing but a [i]woosh woosh[/i] noise as she ran. Her body was tucked low, her flowing sleeves and trenchcoat-like shirt wafting behind.
Suddenly, Cade collided into a wall when she didn't cut the corner in time.
"HOLY EFFIN' SHIT-ake! Shitake!" Cade quickly chided herself. She leapt up and continued going, but skidded to a more graceful halt at an intersection.
There was Lyaeve...nude. Seriously butt-naked, with no decency - the girl wasn't even wearing underwear! But her body was quavering, clutching one hand to her head, looking as if to vomit. Cade's eyes widened upon the realization...
"Transformation," she whispered, her eyes wide. She had read about it in the library - for fun, in those books the teachers told you not to read but she had read anyways - and thought nothing of it. Maybe a head mage could do it. Maybe. But [i]Lyaeve?[/i]
"God dammit, there's something weird about that girl..." Cade murmured.
But instead of going after the newly-found nudist, Cade slid into the hallway at right. (Picture it like this: +. She's at the bottom, Lyave's at the top. Get it?) She peeped her head out and was startled to see that Lyaeve had disappeared...but then she returned with a rather translucent, toga-like article of clothing on her. Translucent, but at least it covered up - AHEM! - yes.
Minutes dragged by. She thought she heard Lyaeve let out a muffled cry of shock...or maybe it was her imagination. Cade tapped her foot impatiently. There was a friggin' [i]battle[/i] going on outside. She [i]had[/i] to be at that fight. Just [i]had[/i] to...
Silence. An eerie, startling silence that made the hairs on Cade's neck shoot up. She stepped into the intersection and ran down the hallway. The hallway of the headmistress, she now noticed. Cade skidded to a stop in front of her office and - Well, let's say scraming bloody murder didn't compare to what [i]she[/i] yelled. There on the desk lay the upper-half of the headmistress's body, soaked in blood. But even moring surprising (somehow) was the fact that the best mage at the Guild was crumpled on the floor, a stray brick laying nearby.
"Lyaeve? Hey suck-up..." Cade poked the body. Lyaeve flinched, so Cade kept poking. And poking. And poking. And poking.
And poking. And poking. And poking.
And poking. And poking. And poking.
And poking. And poking. And poking.
And poking. And poking. And poking.
"WILL YOU STOP PLKING ME YOU EFFIN MORONIC TURD?!?!?!!!?"
Cade stopped and broke out in laughter at the furious Lyaeve. "[i]Turd?[/i] Is that the [i]best[/i] you could come up with?"[/size][/color]

[Seibzeihn]

[color=gray][size=1]Kojiroh stumbled into the Headmistress's office, panting heavily as the reverberation of drums continued outside. He had run straight there as soon as the attack began, determined to alert the staff into action.

[b]"Headmistress, we--!"[/b]

Kojiroh cut off as he caught sight of the Headmistress's body sprawled across her chair, a dagger sticking out of the side of her neck. The black veins and the subject's face made it clear that such a dagger was powerfully poisoned or enchanted, or both -- Kojiroh took a step cautiously into the room and drew one of his katanas. Who knew whether the killer was still in the room? Scanning the small chamber, the young student detected no foreign presence...except, that is, two other students. Kojiroh immediately recognized them.

[b]"Cade, Lyaeve! What are you doing here?!"[/b] Kojiroh was not a suspicious soul by nature, but something wasn't right here. As an afterthought, he added, [b]"Are you two OK?"[/b]

The battle would have to wait. [/color][/size]

[Aiyanna]

[COLOR=Indigo]OOC:: Wheee! I guess I'll stop ripping from D&D now.

Lyaeve kinda slumped down, pulling her sheer garment futher over herself and letting her anger slip away. "Sorry. I'm not in the mood for arguing." she said briefly to Cade and rubbed her temples. What the heck had happened? She remembered reaching out to grab something...and then blackness. And something poking her, and then waking up. What had she been grabbing at? She looked around the room, still half-sitting, half-laying. Her eyes landed on the headmistress and she flinched.
Why would someone do something like that?
"So...err...what the heck is the brick for? Were you going to throw it at someone? The dead headmistress?" Cade asked casually, hefting the brick.

"No. I was pulling it out to get something. But I can't remember what, or why."

"Huh. I see. Halucinating I suppose. It was listed as a side effect of Transformation, which, by the way, isn't allowed to be done by students." Cade said and shifted the brick to her other hand.
"Yeah, well, I wanted to get a message to the now-deceased headmistress. I think that's good reason to try Transformation, and I wasn't halucinating. I just...can't remember." Lyaeve flushed slightly at how stupid that sounded, but was saved from some insult that was sure to come as someone walked through the door.

"Headmistress, we--!"
Lyaeve and Cade saw his face change in amazement for a moment, concentration in another one, and then shift to surprise and wonder as his gaze landed on the two of them.

"Cade, Lyaeve! What are you doing here?!" Lyaeve's brain clicked and she recognized him as Kojiroh. He seemed to add as an afterthought "Are you two okay?"

Cade snorted and dropped the brick, which landed with a hard [I] thud[/I] on the ground. "Of course I'm okay. What else would I be? Now Lyaeve on the other hand...I don't think she's ever been okay. Kinda wacked in the head, I think."

Lyaeve glared at her and pushed herself to her feet with some effort. She felt drained...but not so bad as she had felt. The sickening feeling was gone, and she felt like she was returning to normal. She could try a healing spell...no. Better save her magic. She could still hear the drums outside, and by the way they sounded louder, there was going to be need of her abilities later.
"I'm fine." was her response. "I came here to alert the headmistress to what was happening, and found her like that...and then I really can't remember much else of what happened. Cade I think was hiding." She grinned with satisfaction at the look of outrage on Cade's face. She could play the insult game if she needed to.

"Girls! Really, can't you just drop your arguing? It's kinda a bad time for it." Kojiroh said.

Lyaeve shot one last contemptful glare at Cade, got one in return, and then nodded. "yeah, your right."[/COLOR]

[Sir Gawain]

By now the skeletons were pouring over the walls, forcing the students, and some teachers, back to the castle. Many students were being wounded by the fell weapons of the undead, and the mages could do little to help them.
Luckily, some of them had gotten a good idea from Jode and had climbed to the walls to try and knock down the ladders. They had actually achieved a good defensive position in one of the towers. For the rest of the students, it was protecting the magic users who couldn't protect themselves.
Cairn had seen Kojiroh run off. He didn't think it was a lack of courage, it was because Kojiroh knew what to do in a situation like this. "Probably gone to alert the others." he said to himself. Cairn had drawn his sword and taken a shield from one of the skeletons.
Allison was nearby, cleaving through enemy after enemy. He could barely watch in awe. She didn't even seem to stop, just chaining her moves together into an eerie dance of bone.
"I. Am. Never. Going. To. Another. Funeral." he cried as he brought his shield down onto one of their heads. Some people smiled, who had heard it. Those weere the people who lived for battle, and constantly yelled random comments that would have been funnier in other situations.
He swung his sword again and distracted a skeleton long enough to clash his shield into its head again. These creatures weren't smart. He tore through another three like this, and then stabbed a fourth. But no matter how many he killed, more were always coming. They were being overrun.
He could never recall exactly how much time had gone by since Kojiroh had left, all he knew was that if he didn't kill this next skeleton, he would die. It seemed like hours, and still they couldn't gain a real foothold. Eventually, Kojiroh returned, brandishing his weapon, with Cade and Lyaeve (who now had clothes on, although he didn't know she hadn't earlier), and together they actually gave the students hope. Until they realized that the Headmistress wasn't coming.

[Katana]

[color=royalblue][size=1]How To Ruin the Moment:
[i]...until they realized the Headmistress wasn't coming.[/i]
Katana: "OH NO!" *starts pounding screen* "NOOOO!!!"
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"Where the frick are they all coming from?" Cade practically screamed, swinging the thin blade like a stick and whaping off three or four skeletons in a stroke. That power came at a price...she had just missed knocking the heads off of other students as well.
"If I didn't know the consequences of transformation - IE, being naked, ready to puke, and earthquake-like headache, I [b]would[/b] go and look!" Lyaeve hollared from her perch on the top of the north tower. Her bow was glowing in bright lavender and arrows kept coming and coming from it.
Cade, who was now facing back-to-back with Cairn, was swinging her weapon in a more precise fashion - a move that cut in a semi-circular shape, but being less effective. Yet, countless students had flooded to the walls to aid in the attack, and soon, the skeletons were at a ratio of 1 to 3.
And then, randomly, Cade started singing. "OH YE OLD EAGLE FLY, FLY FLY AWAAAAAY!!!" She paused and sent a couple dozen skelies to the dust. "BRANDISH THE SWORD OF GOOOOOOLLLLD! AID THY MEN IN YOUR WAAAAAAAAAY!!!" Her intentional off-key singing wasn't quite expected. Those uneducated in olden-day music wouldn't recongnize the tune: It had been some old wartime march, way back about a hundred years ago or so. Still, Cade's chorus was met with Cairn's, hopefully-intentional, equally-bad-singing. The two grinned insanely, swinging their weapons dangerously and watching as bones flew off as they shattered from their bodies.
Their numbers became less. And then, off in the distance, a gruff, dust-like voice hollared, "RETREAT!"
Whatever remaining skeletons on the walls jumped up to the precipices and leapt off. Students watched in awe as the bones collided into the earth, but never sprout back up.
"Suicide?" Allison wondered, still focusing on the ground.
"I...don't think so," Kojiroh said slowly. "Their skeletons, right?" He was awaiting a response, or at least a nod, but didn't get any. He sighed. "Yeah, okay, they are. So if they break apart by choice...by comitting a like-suicide...I think they're okay. But if broken apart by an outside force, then...err, no. They're not."
The information was followed with murmurs of "I guess so" and "Yeah, sounds right".
Lyaeve scaled down the roof of the north tower, landing neatly on the stone landing. She joined Cade, Cairn, and Allison, all of whom were now staring off into the distance, eyes hard.
"They're coming back," Allison muttered.
"Yeah, that voice said retreat, not give-up..." Lyaeve said softly.
Carin slapped a hand to his forehead. "We're royally screwed," he said, and the three stared at him with confused interest. "The Headmistress has kicked the bucket. There's hardly any teachers in this school cut for the job. Nobody posesses the wide-range of abilities she had."
"Screw the Headmistress!" Cade shouted angrily, causing several to stare. "We're on our own now! That's what we've been trained to do - rely on ourselves and nobody else!"[/size][/color]

[Tasrai]

[COLOR=teal]Joel glanced around for any more skeletons, but he saw none. He had been fighting on the North Wall along with Jode and several other students. He didn't really remember much except seeing arrows upon arrows landing around him in the forest. Not really being able to think of much except getting out of the arrow's way Joel ran to the nearest wall, the North.
There he heard movement on the top of it, and saw Jode appear, running along the wall's ramparts. Joel watched as Jode kicked at something in his way and continue on only to stop and kick at something else. Joel suddenly realized that he was kicking at ladders. Not waiting another second Joel began to scale the North wall, it was a good thing it was in such a dismal state or he would never had made it. About halfway up he heard Jode yell,

"Have at you!" Joel nearly lost his grip. [I]What the heck?[/I] But then a skeletal head fell down to the ground nearly hitting Joel as it did. That was all the incentive Joel needed to reach the top and before he knew it he was up along side Jode kicking down ladders and fighting skeletons. After that it all becomes a blur of colors and emotions.
Until finally, when it seemed to Joel his collapsing point, a deep hoarse voice echoed from somewhere to retreat. Hearing this gave Joel the vigor he needed to last until the battle was done.
Now, at last, Joel slumped down against one of the parapets next to Jode. There was a silence as they just looked at each other. All along the wall it was the same, not a sound was heard. Somehow everyone understood that it was the silence that came to everyone who had fought and survived their first real battle. It was the triumphant silence of victory, the sorrowful silence of death and lost innocence. As one the silence was broken by the cries of those no longer foolish children playing pretend at battle, but of newfound warriors celebrating their passage into adulthood. When it had died down, Joel smiled at Jode, who was smiling back. Suddenly, not able to hold it in anymore Joel laughed and said,

"Have at you?" Jode flushed, glared, and then laughed a little himself.

"Oh, shut up. It seemed fitting."


OOC: Sorry I haven?t posted in a long time, but I had thought this RPG was dead and hadn?t checked on it in ages. Heh. I?m glad it isn?t. ^-^[/COLOR]

[Rhym]

[FONT=Times New Roman]Cheers and congradulations reverberated throughout the courtyard and atop the North Wall. Jode joined in until it died down. He chose that point to address some concerns. Vaulting up on a parapet, he cleared his throat noisily to attract the students' attention.

[COLOR=DarkRed]"Why would the skeletons attack us? Why was the Headmistress murdered? Who has the power to summon an army of skeletons, and why choose our school as the target?"[/COLOR] His comments sent murmers shooting through the crowd. He shushed them into silence. [COLOR=DarkRed]"I don't think anyone here knows why this happened. I propose a small group of us run some recon and see, first of all, if the skeletons have a camp, and secondly, what we can find out by snooping around it."[/COLOR] This was met by loud cheers and enthusiastic volunteers. Once more he motioned them to silence. [COLOR=DarkRed]"Before you all volunteer ?although I suppose it's too late for that? keep in mind that whoever was controlling the skeletons only said 'retreat,' which implies they might attack again. Most of you need to stay behind and protect the Guild. If what that guy wants is in here, we're sure as hell not gonna let him have it!"[/COLOR] Loud cheers exploded across the parapet and the courtyard below. Jode basked in the applause, then spoke yet again.

[COLOR=DarkRed]"So, who's coming with me?"[/COLOR]

OOC: Don't everyone sign up for recon, now. We need some defenders.[/FONT]

[Sir Gawain]

Cairn stepped forward. "I'll go." he yelled. "I grew up as a hunter, and you'll need one in that forest to find anything." There was some applause, but no where near as much as before.
Jode nodded, and Cairn made his way to the wall and faced the crowd, awaiting more volunteers to join them.


OOC: I have to end this here because I don't know who else wants to go!

[Aiyanna]

[COLOR=Indigo][FONT=Palatino Linotype]Lyaeve paused for a moment, staring back up at the form of Jode on the wall. He had just given a speech, well, sort of, and on person had truly volunteered to go with him in his search of the forest. She shook her head and wondered if she should go. It would be handy to have a magic-user with them, and she could try Transformation again...although she didn't really like the consequences. But what did loosing your clothes mean when loosing the lives of fellow students was a possibility?

She hesitated still. Something else bothered her. It was more of a subconcious thought that slowly rose to the surface, but rise it did. "What about what you found?" The voice inside her said. "It's probably a key to this." And then suddenly, she remembered what she had felt in the Headmistresses office, and what she had been reaching out for.

Her eyes widening, she checked her pockets, wondering where it had gone. She hadn't remembered finding it when she woke up.

"Crap!" she muttered, glancing around herself, although she knew it wouldn't be there.

"What's the matter with you?" Cade asked, cocking an eyebrow. She was resheathing her sword and giving Lyaeve a strange look. Not mean, but strange.

Lyaeve flushed. "It's nothing," she muttered, and let her hands drop to her sides. Maybe searching the forest would take her mind off of it, or give her time to think about it. If she remembered correctly, the object had been a stone, about the size of...she couldn't remember that much. She had blacked out too much. Oh well.

Stepping forward, she raised her voice. "I will come, and I will take on a different form that will be more useful in this search. It would be only logical that I should do so to track any scents I find, or see with better eyes that my own." She made her way to the wall, murmurs and applause following her.

"Doesn't that require a Transformation spell to do?" one person said loudly, and she heard others reply that it did.
"Can she do that?" she heard from many mouths, and blushed slightly at the looks of admiration that some gave her. "I doubt it."

Standing next to Cairn, she wondered how many more people doubted what she could do. And she also wondered how many more would suffer, and if they would find anything. A thousand thoughts like these swirled in her mind as she repeated the process of the spell that she would have to use, and in the depths of her mind, a shadow grew wondering constantly about the stone that she had found.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Seibzeihn]

[color=gray][size=1][b]"I will go as well,"[/b] said Kojiroh, stepping forward. [b]"My tracking skills are refined enough, and my magic and blades can serve to aid our party if we are ambushed."[/b] [i]More like WHEN we are ambushed,[/i] thought Kojiroh, but he moved to stand alongside Jode nonetheless. If they were to survive this, it would take courage -- something the young student longed to prove that he had. If only for his own satisfaction and self-worth. Running a hand along the hilt of one of the katanas strapped across his hips, Kojiroh nodded solemnly.

[b]"However, it is not necessary for all of us to go. I would not like to see -- as I am sure the rest of you would agree -- everyone abandon our school and leave it at the mercy of...whatever we're facing."[/b] Kojiroh decided against giving them a name, simply because there was little information on who or what exactly their opposition would be. [b]"There needs to be a strong regiment of students that remain here, willing to defend this keep at all costs."[/b]

[i]Though who would be willing to remain, I know not...[/i]laughed Kojiroh inwardly, knowing of each student's desire for adventure.[/size][/color]

[Rhym]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=DarkRed]"Four is enough, I'd say,"[/COLOR] said Jode, a statement that elicited a chorus of wheedling cries.

[COLOR=DarkRed]"Sorry, but any more and we'll make too much noise. Cairn, Lyaeve, Kojiroh and I will go. The rest of you stay and defend the Guild. If none of us come back, you are by no means to come looking for us. We'll probably be dead."[/COLOR] Jode was surprised that he had been able to voice such a sobering thought so bluntly and dismissively.

Before the crowd lost hope, he spoke again. [COLOR=DarkRed]"But that won't happen, right, guys?"[/COLOR] The three nodded and the rest of the students cheered. In all reality, though, Jode was worried, and by the looks of them, so were Cairn, Lyaeve, and Kojiroh. [COLOR=DarkRed][i]Whoever this guy is, he's powerful enough to maintain an army of skeletons and kill the Headmistress. Something tells me he's no pushover.[/i][/COLOR]

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[COLOR=MediumTurquoise]"They're not gonna listen, you know,"[/COLOR] said Cairn as they made their way to the woods.

[COLOR=DarkRed]"Hmm?"[/COLOR] Jode had been lost in thought.

[COLOR=MediumTurquoise]"If we don't come back, they're gonna come looking for us."[/COLOR]

[COLOR=DarkRed]"I know,"[/COLOR] sighed Jode. [COLOR=DarkRed]"But it's nice to think they'll be realistic."[/COLOR][/FONT]

[Sir Gawain]

Cairn couldn't help but be pleased with Jode's outlook on the matter.

The forest was dark and looming, a perfect place for a hunter. He quickly got to work examining nearby branches. After several minutes of this, he caught up with the group, who had for some reason walked ahead a bit.

"I can't find anything. These things have broken virtually every frickin' twig on every tree."

Jode nodded, and turned to Kojiroh. "Your the tracker. He's the hunter. He can't do it, see if you can."

[Who Am I?]

[B]OOC:[/B] Sorry I wasn't here but just pretend that my character was like there already ok? Sorry.

[B]IC:[/B]

[B]Geneive and the rest of the people who were on guard stay in one place defending the Guild. Several minutes past and people got bored waiting for the other people.[/B]

[COLOR=DarkRed]"Now what..." Geneive mumbled.[/COLOR]




[B]OOC:[/B] Sorry it's short but I gotta go.

[Aiyanna]

[FONT=Palatino Linotype][COLOR=Indigo]Lyaeve walked beside the other three, glancing both ways, her hands in her pockets. Her thoughts really were all over the place, and she was barely paying attention to the area around her. Well, not consciously anyways. She did register the broken limbs and the footprints in an occasional patch of mud, but she didn't try to follow them or anything. It wasn't until someone poked her really hard in her side that she snapped out of her trance.

Looking around for the poker, she raised an eyebrow. "Yes?" she asked.

"Well, I couldn't find anything, so I would think that maybe it could be your turn to try? I mean, you've just been staring off into nowhere. It's not a thinking party, its a recon group." said Cairn. "I'm starting to doubt that you can even do this transformation thing you're talking about."

Lyaeve stiffened slightly, and then shrugged. "I can do it, but I just remembered. I forgot to bring some spare clothes. Mine disappears when I transform and then return to my normal shape. And at the moment, I don't much feel like being naked around 3 men, and a bunch of skeletons. Not that the skeletons bother me. They don't have brains."

Jode cracked a smile, and Kirijoh just shook his head.
"Well then, what use are you?" Cairn grumbled. "Just transform. I won't look."

Lyaeve smiled. "Fine...but you better keep to your word."

Stopping, Lyaeve sighed regretfully and looked at the clothes she had aquired. The least she could do was keep the gloves and the boots. "Here. Can you err...hang onto these or something? I'd rather not loose them." She slipped off the gloves and the boots. "Well...here goes. Lets see if I can do it twice in one day."

Closing her eyes, she could feel the others gaze on her. She cracked a nervous grin, then blocked out the rest of her thoughts, concentrating soley on her magic and the spell she needed. Reaching through herself to her very center, she suddenly felt filled with the warmth that was her magic. She knew that her lavender Aura had flared up about her, and could feel it starting to wrap around her. She started going over the spell in her mind, and weaving her magic into the words.
This time, she wasn't in such a rush, so she could actually feel herself changing. And the pain from before seemed intensified. Ice and fire spilled through her bones but she kept her mouth shut tight. Pain was nothing...A feeling like icey water being poured over her head overcame her and she opened her eyes.

A sigh escaped her and mouth and she looked around...and up a bit. Cairn, Kirijoh and Jode were watching her with their eyes wide open.

"Yeap. That should work. A wolf." Kirijoh commented, rubbing his hand through his hair.
"That looked...painful. And it was so horrible to watch I couldn't look away. I mean, all your limbs changing and watching your face become different. Ouch." The next speaker was Cairn.

"Great. Now go look for some sort of clue or something" said Jode.

A single wag of her tail was her reply, seeing as in the shape she was, she really couldn't speak. Boy, they looked alot bigger from this angle. She blinked her eyes and then turned and padded silently into the trees, her tail up, her nose down for any scent at all.

[B]OOC: Errr, well, that's about all I could think of. I kinda feel like crap, so I am not doing well with my typing. Whatever comes next, you decide. I hope one of ya'll have her find something, cause I sure don't have no ideas. Or she could not find anything. I mean, skeletons don't really have a scent...do they?[/B][/COLOR][/FONT]

[Tasrai]

[COLOR=teal][SIZE=1]Joel stood on the on the right embattlement next to the front gate and watched Jode, Cairn, Lyaeve, and Kojiroh walk cautiously into the forest on outside of the guilds walls. Silently he wished them good luck and safety on their self imposed mission, hoping it was worth it. He had wanted to go, but he knew he wouldn't be of much help what with tracking and all. Soon he no longer could see their figures through the woods so he turned wistfully turned and faced the guild's courtyard. Everywhere he looked everyone seemed to be doing nothing except resting or milling around congratulating each other. Mostly, everyone seemed to be just sitting around waiting for the others to come back. [I]This isn't good. What are these people waiting for? They could be gone for days weeks even![/I]
He wanted to say or do something to get them moving and working, but he wans't like Jode who was outspoken and good with words. He was shy and stuttered a lot when talking in front of people. Glancing around, still nobody did anything much different. Joel felt like he [I]had[/i] to say something. He was in a good position where his voice would carry through the courtyard and everyone would hear him. So hesitantly he started,
"Um...Hey. HEY, EVERYBODY!" That caught everyone's attention, wavered under their gaze a moment before continuing. "We don't have time to be standing around here doing nothing, and we can't wait or worry about Jode, Kojiroh, Cairn, or Lyaeve either. They left us to defend this guild, and I intend to see that that that is done." Joel noticed that he now had an entire courtyard of students listening to what he had to say. He wasn't sure what he was going to say, and was even more surprised that he had said anything. The butterflies in his stomach were having a conniption fit of some sort in his stomach. But he gathered his courage and went on.
"So. What we need are archers on all the walls, fortifying the ramparts and creating piles of arrows along the walls every fifty feet for extra ammo should you run out of your own. Also lookouts should be posted in every embattlement in watches changed every three hours. The main reason so many of us were lost or injured was because we were attacked unprepared and without any alert." Joel paused to breath. In the crowd people started talking amongst themselves agreeing or disagreeing with what he had to say. "Quiet please! I'm not finished! Just hear me out." Silence descended upong the crowd.
"Thank you. We also need those who's focus is on fighting to help reinforce the main gate and any surronding entrances. Any extra people should help in garrisoning our walls, which frankly aren't in the best shape. I myself climbed up the side without a ladder, and in a battle that can be deadly. So we need people to go on the outside of the wall and put clay in any possible handholds, and stones in any gaps. Then those who have their emphasis in magic, if possible, need to get together and come around after the ones reinforcing the walls and put any protective spells they can think of on the walls. They don't have to big or fancy. Just anything that will hinder the enemy in anyway possible. And anyone that excells in healing should head towards the infirmatory to help." Joel stopped talking and looked around the ground. He now had everyone's complete attention, sighing he finished.
"What we [I]absolutely and definitely[/I] need right now, is unity among the guild. Any animosty between members has to be set aside in this time of trouble. We need everyone helping and cooperating. Everybody should meet in the dining room for dinner as usual, there each group will give a report of all they have done that day. Then we will go from there, until then anyone with a better suggestion or idea can come tell it to me, so that I can make sure they can tell it to the student body at the meeting. I will be found helping with the archers on the walls. Now get to it!" As soon as Joel stopped talking there was a moment of hesitant silence and Joel was a little frightend that perhaps he had said something wrong. But then someone yelled,
"Mages meet over here!" and then everyone seemed to be moving and yelling that the fighters were to come over here by the front gate, or that the archers spread out to the walls. Joel relieved to have the attention off of him, nearly fainted. He couldn't believe he had just done that. Shaking the giddiness from having conquered his shyness, he turned and started running along the parapet towards the west wall to help with what he could.
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Sorry I kind of took charge, I hope I didn't damage the storyline any. If I did I will gladly change it. I just thought that I should get the people left behind to do something besides just standing there waiting. :animenose Hopefully ya'll can work with this. :animeswea [/COLOR][/SIZE]

[Sir Gawain]

OOC: Good job on taking charge. Finally someone else is getting events in motion.

IC:


"Well that's not something ya see every day, is it?" Kojiroh asked after Lyeave the wolf scampered into the dark folds of the forest. Cairn nodded, feeling a bit foolish for disbelieving her ability to transform.

"But we do have one other problem to look into while she's gone." Jode said. They turned to him, forgetting the symptoms of transformation. "We have to find some clothes for her while she's away. After all, we don't want to look like pigs in front of a girl, do we?" The other two shook their heads.

"Well, I'm out through." Jode continued. "Nothing I brought would really be comfortable on a girl."

"Me too. Just the clothes on my back and a couple changes." Kojiroh replied quickly. They began staring at Cairn to hear his two bits.

Cairn became all defensive and backed slowly away from them, feeling his way with his hands. "Uh uh. I don't have anything better than you guys. Everything I own is leather."

"Not that cloak." Kojiroh smirked.

"Oh HELL NO! I am NOT losing this cloak! This is a family heirloom guys!"

"Yeah, so what? Didn't you agree that you'd treat the others in the school like family when you got here?" Jode joined Kojiroh in smirking.

"That's not what I meant!"

"Now Reodin," Jode was one of the few people who knew Cairn's first name, "This is for a good cause. You'll thank us later." Cairn wasn't a match for two of the strongest students in the Guild.

Meanwhile . . .

Lyeave sniffed through the grass, not able to really find anything. She could hear shouting behind her, but that was probably just boys being boys with their cruel jokes about when she transformed back.
She couldn't really smell skeletons, but there was the reek of decay in the air, which usually meant corpse. She followed the vague scent for about half an hour, not covering too much ground. Then she found something.

"I am going to have to remember to kill you two." Cairn grumbled. The other two had wreslted his cloak from him, and had also took one of his linen shirts and a pair of his more comfortable pants. "Why couldn't one of you guys contributed?"

Just then, they heard a howl deep in the woods. They drew their weapons, ready for action, for Lyeave to run back to the clearing with a hundred skeletons after her. But instead, she just continued howling. They looked at Jode, who shrugged and followed the sound.
When they reached the clearing, they could see why Lyeave hadn't come back. There were several huge drums, larger than any of them, sitting in the clearing as if they had been tossed down in a hurry. Lyeave had managed to get caught between two of them when she had nudged one to make sure nothing would happen.

"Well." Cairn said lightly. "Let's help the poor puppy."

[Katana]

[size=1][color=royalblue]Amongst the confusion, Cade shoved her way through a crowd. Oddly enough, they were going in the opposite direction of her.
"Joel! HEY JOEL!" she yelled above the uproar. Joel's head popped its way in her direction.
"Cade? What's up?
Cade finally made her way to Joel. She took in a deep breath. "Nice to see some leadership," she grunted. "But I think you need sa'more organization."
"What do you mean?"
Cade's eyes quickly scanned the horizons. "There was a game I used to play as a kid," she said. "One of the tactics was to spot the weak point of defense and hit that way."
"Stickball?"
"Yeah. So I'm gonna go off to Balor's Tower over there - " Cade pointed to the tallest point of the Guild. Balor's Tower was located in the exact center of the Guild and had a perfect range of the entire area. "- and figure out the weak defense and shuffle the people. Okay later bye!"
"Hey wait -" Joel wasn't able to say another word, seeing as how his target had already sped off.

The Guild hallways were unusally quiet. No movement could be detected. An eerie silence had blanketed every square inch, every nook and crany. If it wasn't for the fact that she knew everyone was outside (or six feet under), Cade would've thought the building had been abandoned.
Her footsteps echoed in the marble chambers, off the high-pitched ceilings. The echo seemed to last for hours...they never stopped because they had nothing to absorb them. Finally, a narrow sprial staircase came into view. The staircase had been pitched in a large room, measuring somewhere around 40x40 feet. Twelve stone pillars circled the staircase, shooting up to the ceiling - where they stopped but the stairs kept going.
"Crap, I forgot just how high it was," Cade grumbled before taking the first step. If it wasn't for the fact that she had trained to be a high-endurance warrior, she would've died right there.

[i]Forty-three minutes later[/i]...
[i]Clank. Clank. Clank.[/i]
"Oh my God, I made it..."
A huge gust of wind blasted Cade in the face. She grinned. "Aw man, this is great!" She skipped to a ledge and looked down. The people below were just tiny dots. But Balor's Tower was only one-hundred and twenty-one feet in the air.
But?
"Okay, now, let's see..." Cade muttered to herself, observing the little ants below.[/color][/size]

[Aiyanna]

[FONT=Palatino Linotype][COLOR=Indigo]OOC: START POSTING AGAIN, OR I'LL HAVE TO HUNT YOU DOWN AND HURT YOU! ::takes out large dagger and machine gun::


Sighing, Lyaeve let herself be freed from two drums between which she had let herself get stuck. Her mind must've been elsewhere for her to be that stupid. It took only moments, and she gave a thankful wag of her tail. And wondered what to do next. She couldn't change back here, not with them around and no clothes...

"Um...here. You can use...err...these..." Cairn reluctantly held out a linin shirt, a pair of pants, and, suprisingly, the cloak that he always seemed to have with him. Lyaeve looked up at him, and bared her teeth in a wolfish grin. Taking them lightly in her teeth, she turned away from them and trotted off a little ways into the trees, out of their sight. After making sure none had followed, she closed her eyes and started to transform back. Rather than it feeling like ice was being poured over her, it felt like luke warm water, and didn't hurt at all.

She opened her eyes to find herself back in her normal body, with the same effects as before. The world was yet again spinning, but not so violently. It wouldn't until she stood up again...She sighed and looked at the clothes in her hands. That was very nice of Cairn. SHe would have to do something to thank him. She took her time putting on the pants, and the shirt. She had to re-balance herself a few times as the world lurched under her feet and she almost fell forward.

And she walked back towards the boys, slipping on the cloak. It rested very comfortably on her shoulders, and she smiled at Cairn as she re-entered the clearing where the drums were. "Thanks alot. It is really nice of you to let me use these." She said, her eyes twinkling.

"Yeah...you're welcome." Cairn said grudgingly, shoving his hands in his pockets. "But I didn't give you the necklace. Where'd you get that from?"

Frowning in confusion, Lyaeve looked down in bewilderment and saw that she was indeed wearing a neacklace. It appeared to be a chain, and dangling from the end of it was...the stone that she had found.

"What the...?" She held it out in front of her to look at. " I...I didn't put that there. I was wondering where it went." She let it fall back against her chest as another wave of dizziness overtook her.

"But don't you always loose everything when you transform?" Asked Kojiroh, leaning in closer to look at it. "And who ever saw a stone like that? It looks more like a crystal than a stone, except it's jet black. Where'd you get it?"

"yeah...I do usually loose things, to answer your first question, and I wasn't going to bring this stone up, but I guess I have to tell you know. I found it after going into the headmistresses office and finding her dead. I think it's what knocked me out...But I really don't remember. It's kinda like a foggy memory that's not really there, but is...if you know what I mean?" She shrugged and tucked it into her shirt. "I don't think it really matters much..." Her emerald gaze was averted to the ground, and she scuffed her foot against the dirt. She had her boots back on, and the gloves.

"Doesn't matter?! How can you think it doesn't matter? This might be the reason for all of this! And you didn't tell anybody? I thought you were intelligent!" The whispered bellow (yeah, odd description...) came from Cairn, who threw up his hands. At least he knew not to yell and give them away. Lyaeve flinched anyways.

"Sorry...I just...I wasn't even sure what had happened to it..." She looked up at the trees as she spoke, avoiding their gaze. It really wasn't part of anything that was happening...It was just coincedence. That had to be right. I mean, it was there before, and nothing had happened. She shrugged her shoulders uncomfortable and walked over to one of the drums, avoiding their gaze still and pretending to study it.

OOC: yeah, yeah, sorry to stop there. Maybe if you guys posted I would have more to type...but eh. [/COLOR] [/FONT]

[Sir Gawain]

Cairn couldn't believe it. Lyeave had kept something from them that could have possibly helped the entire situation. The nerve. Instead of doing anything, he helped the others examine the drums. Not much to examine, of course, except that no skeleton could have been playing them.

"Well, what now, oh fearless leader?" Cairn asked. He had been in a bad mood ever since his hunting skills had failed him.

Jode didn't reply, but gave him a look that clearly said, "So help me God!" Cairn backed off. "They definetely were here earlier, but we still don't know exactly where they're heading. Basically, we're in the same position as before."

They all sighed. There wasn't a way to track down these enemies, because they were too many and left no trace. Except for the debris. Kojiroh and Cairn lept up at the same time. They rushed to the edge of the clearing, examining the ground and trees again. Lyeave sighed.

"There's nothing here that we can really do, remember. There's too many of them to leave a trail." she said.

But they didn't stop, until Kojiroh found what he had been looking for. For all the world, it was only flat grass, trampled by hundreds of feet. Jode and Lyeave looked at him expectantly.

He sighed and began describing what was going on as if he were talking to a young child. "There's a lot of them, yes. But, all of their feet were moving in the same direction. When you stand on grass, or take a step, the grass bends forward under your toes, they way that the skeletons were walking when they attacking. Grass usually springs back up, unless it gets completely trampled. So, we find a bit a trampled grass, check which direction its pointing, and that's which way we go." he smiled and took back some of the breaths he lost during the speech.

They looked at Cairn, who nodded. "He's right. That's what we were missing."

For some reason, Jode found this the perfect time to feel victorious. "Then let's go get 'em!" Before he had a chance to run after the skeleton army, Lyeave tripped him with an animated root. "What?"

"We need a plan. There's four of us, and an army of them. We had barely won with our full strength in our own castle."

"Almost full strength, remember? No Headmistress." Cairn reminded her.

"So what do you suggest we do?" Jode asked increduosly.

Lyeave let a wide smile erupt from her lips. "These guys are powered by Necromancy, magic of the inanimate and the dead, right? So all we have to do is find something powerful against the dead."

[Progressive]

OOC- Sorry guys bought a new comp just got the net. This is where i come in im the one with daggers and we need an evil guy and I'm his lackey Eventually i'll turn good and help... Eventually. "Headmistress's body sprawled across her chair, a dagger sticking out of the side of her neck. The black veins and the subject's face made it clear that such a dagger was powerfully poisoned or enchanted, or both --"
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"Five of us guys..."

"Oh now he decides to show up, where the @#$% have you been?" Joel said.
"The usual" said Xyluis piercing Joels eyes... "We need to get this all together Lets split up and souround them, We have the element of suprise they think we will just be cowering at the school, we need to strike now!" "and who made you the boss joel snapped," "Im just thinking quick on my feet, and what the hell happened back there why did the headmisteress not do anything to stop it? Um dude... Shes dead...

Silence...

Well that does not help us and we need to take action. He faced the rest of the group and started walking. Joel muttered and followed and so did the rest.