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I might have the who did what part here mixed up

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years, 8 months ago

This is Bruno's Report to Her Grace.

 

When Bruno meets the outriders, he tells the OiC-

“There has been a fight at the fish house north of (x)ton. I have two wounded there, at the inn. I recommend you get some scouts out in that direction, eh. There was a really tall fella, about two meters. He had one wounded and one whole with him, of his own team. They are ninja-so be careful, eh!”

When Bruno is ushered in to the breakfast room of the Duchess-

Bruno is mud spattered and obviously wounded. His left leg is in rough shape, but bandaged.

He goes down to one knee, and swiftly puts out one hand to steady himself. He is trying to convey with his stance that he is putting himself at the mercy of the Duchess. He is making this report as a subordinate who has erred. I made my courtly graces roll by 8%.

“Your Grace, Derek is dead. He was killed by ninjeen at a fish-house on the river north of (x)ton. We had been following him. I’ll get to that later, eh. The bull Ninja was a big walla, about 2 meters tall and on the husky side. I think he had a demon sword. I got this pouch off of Derek’s body.”

Bruno takes a deep breath.

“Blix can guide troops back to the fish house. I asked the OiC of the outriders to start some scouts in that direction. Chandra and Konrad are both wounded. They are at the inn in Eckston and need a medicosi.”

After the expected flurry of orders and questions-

“I think I should start at the beginning, eh?”

“Konrad saw Derek and two others leaving the Fist late, just as he was coming back from a visit to the village. They were dressed for riding, but not for a journey. He woke me, and I got Chandra and Blix, who were both in the library. We followed them into Kulwad. They went to an all night café, “Anaix’s Coffee House”, near the river. They went to the private room in back. I was able to overhear Derek saying “Frank, you go to the ‘Great Norther’. We’ll go out. Give us the usual signal if it’s clear. Louie, check out the ‘kicking Blue’. We’ll be ready to move to the fishhouse. Wilson, Rafael, stay here with me.”

A tall Mal and a short Fem left the back of the café soon after.

I followed them toward the river. They split up, and I followed the Fem. She went out on a pier, and into the warehouse on the end. I could hear the sound of a muffled party going on inside. I went in, and talked my way past the bouncer. There was a group of 30-40 folk having a good time. The Fem spends about an hour working the room, going up to various people, sharing their drinks and smokes, talking and hugging, a real party girl. She leaves, and I follow, at a good distance. She loses me in town, but I find her tracks, and her gait changes from sloppy to sly right where I lost her. Her tracks lead past a smoke shop called “The Great Northern Smoke Shop”. There is the sound of classical Elvin music and the smell of opium smoke coming out of the shop.”

“Oh, the place on the pier was the ‘Kicking Blue’. They had a stuffed Blue Heron over the Bar, doing a snap kick.”

“I went back to the café, and learned from Blix that nothing much had happened there. Yes, Blix, except for frogs and snails.”

“Whoo. Blix noticed that the two I’d followed had slipped back inside while I was watching and he was getting warm. I snuck past the meeting room again, and overheard the Fem’s report.”

“She said ‘Frank looked like he was under observation at the northern, so I gave him the signal. I think I was followed too.’ Derek said ‘But otherwise things seem to be in order(?) Ken didn’t say what the inflection was on this statement’”

“I went back to the inn we had taken some rooms at to have a rally point. I told Chandra what I had heard. Konrad went out to relive Blix. I got dry and warmed up. Blix came in and said that Derek was on the move. We went out. Derek, the Fem, and a shorter Mal went out the back and headed off for the all night stable. Konrad was able to get there before them and watched them ride out. We got our horses and followed.”

“They rode north for about an hour, through (x)ton, on the road, and then turned off to the river. They cautiously approached an unoccupied fishhouse, where they catch and clean fish from the river. Derek and his posse scouted up to the fish house pretty cautiously. They had a fourth person with them, a skinny Mal. The skinny one did the close scouting. Then they all went in. We saw a ninja creep down the roof and put a Glyph on the door the posse just went through. It starts to glow. Blue. Spreads over that whole side of the building. Then we hear a ‘Ker-WHUMP!’, the inside lights up, and a whole lot of lightning bolts go off. I go up to look inside and see about 2-3 hands of Ninjeen attacking a Darkwall in the center of the big room of the fish house. I sneak around to the other side, trying to get a look on the other side of the Darkwall. I come up behind a ninja who looks like she isn’t paying close attention to anything behind her. I try to clonk her in the head with a rock, but she spins around and near shoots my leg clean off. I drop my rocks and give up, eh! I’m trying to play the dumb keffy, and it works to where she isn’t killing me. Another ninja shows up and the Fem says to ‘hold him for Tuk’. By this time the fish house is getting on fire, and the ninjas have stormed the darkwall. Chandra comes in to save me and gets whacked in the arm. Yeah, the same one! Again! What are the odds, eh? Then In the confusion of the fire and all, Chandra grabs me, and hauls me outside. I throw some healing on her and me, and Konrad and Blix come in the other end of the fishhouse. Tuk, who is the Big Ninja, with the demon sword, (it’s shiny black, with glowing red runes, and leaves smoke or fog behind it when it’s swung. Oh, and it screams when it hits people, eh!) is beating up on Konrad and Blix. We come back in, and ... oh wait...KONRAD is fighting Tuk, Blix and us are fighting the two surviving Ninja. Tuk takes Konrad down, and comes through the wall. Blix jumps in the river to avoid the demon sword. I babble something about ‘not wantin no trouble boss’, and Tuk lets us go. I drag Konrad out of the Fishhouse, and when I try to get Derek out, Tuk tells me to leave.”

“Having ridden the Steppen Fettchit shtick about as far as it was going to take me, I left! We dragged off into the woods and licked our wounds. We waited for the Ninjas to leave, and then rode to Eckston. We left Chandra and Konrad there, took their horses, and rode like hell.”

“Blix-what parts did I get wrong, eh?”

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