[HQ Ignorance] Scene 57: The Graveyard Shift (and new player, Damien)

[Mark Mohrfield]

--- Lev Lafayette <lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>>All was not well there either. At the Outer Gate,
Jareena and a bloodied Marianne greeted Anzhur. At
first his heart leapt, but he realised that the blood
was not hers, for she carried bandages for the
wounded. "I beg you good Knight and noble leader to
take refuge into the Inner Ward, for the Vampires have
taken the eastern wall. It was not as strong as it
should have been, for it had been protected by the
clifface, the Tanier river and keephouse. But these
monsters have flight, and our weapons against such
beings are few indeed. Bowmen we have very few of, for
that is a profession of country folk and ballista are
few on the towers facing that direction; although
there was oil and rockfalls. Not much use against a
flying opponent", she grimaced. "We sent our best
Wizards against the Vampiric forces, but there numbers
were greater than our, and their magic stronger.
According to our priests none had ever encountered
Vampires as powerful and these, it is as if the spirit
of Vivamort was with them this day. I beg you once
again, Anzhur, desert the second wall and seek the
refuge of the inner ward."<<

"If only these people had Red Women among them the
wall would have held," sighs Jareena. "Dorrassa did
well, but could not turn them back alone." To the
shock of the castlefolk, the Vingan had hurled spear
after spear at the flying enemy.

>>Anzhur looked deeply in her eyes and saw more than
just a love for her city. "Nay!", he exclaimed, and a
look of dismay fell across her face. 

"I do not seek the refuge of the inner ward,
especially when that will prove no safer from airborne
attacks that the middle ward. One against many! We go
underground! To the dungeons!"<<

"May the Goddess protect us while in her domain." says
Jareena. She wonders what the Malkioni people around
her, who believe all gods false but their own, would
think of this.

                                     Mark Mohrfield



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