(Finally the great fire ball is gone! once more i can use my PC without it over heating.
My graphics card was overheating and makeing things get wobbly with heat.
(Well, that’s sucky. Honestly, I keep everything I. Folders on the desktop, so i never had to search like that)
Well, it’s time for the real fight. I guess we rush in and hope reinforcements come soon. Else we will die before long. First thing first, though, that woman needs to be taken down. There has to be a joint where our sword can find a home.
"Die bandits! Death to the scum! "you shout as your rush out from the trees.
The iron woman turn her head, "Yskal!" she shouts point at some of the riders, and they turn to face you.
They meet you mid way to the manor house, eight men and one woman of iron clad, against the three of you.
Æstrida takes the lead a mighty queen of battle, your wife is fast with axe and deadly with each blow.
You trust with your bowel ripper at the first raider, he parry your blade in to the dirt with his mace and hooks your shield to the side with an axe.
He grins with crooked teeth, rasieing his mace over head for the death blow, but you pull your blade back ripping his knee in half with the serrations.
And then she's in front of you, the iron woman, her flanged mace in hand.
You parry the first blow with your shield, you're arm stings from the impact, but you still thrust in towards her armpit.
The swords tip skids off the besagew on to the shoulder guard, and gauntleted fist smacks you to the floor, splitting your cheek open.
Her iron finger's tighten around your neck and she lifts you up to face a silver mask, black fish like eyes stare at you with discard.
You try to pull the teeth edge of you bowel ripper along the back of her knee, to no effect.
She throws you to to ground and whirls her mace around over her head, you throw your self up in to the blow, her arm still hammerers down on your back.
You feel the mace's power pass thru you like a wave of thunder, what ever power it holder your not it's target.
From under under her legs, you thrust upwards, the blade skids off her culets, up past her buttocks in the flat of her back.
She howls as your blade finally bites in to flesh, a steel shod boot hits you and the world spins.
by the time you come to Æstrid, is fighting three men at once, she blocks one thrust, ducks out the second and end's the third with blow that cut's the mans head free from his holders.
From in side the the manor you hear the screams and see the flames raceing upwards, men are set alight by there lances as the magic takes over,
flames reach for the the sky as every lance is turned in a blazing shaft that sears the heavens.
The iron woman turns from you, Ilerie try's a strike with her flail, but the blow misses her head and only spins harmlessly in the air.
As you rise back to your feet the village militia reinforcements crest the hill top on three sides, it's not a help full sight, a mass of men with spears that half know how to hold them right.
More by shear weight of numbers do they make the raiders panic and mount there horses.
The militia make a steady but slow march, there instep each man by his neighbors with spear and shield ready.
The slow march let the raiders flees, you try to chance the iron woman but even wounded she;s able ignore your tackle with backhanded a tump.
As Æstrid does her best to patch up the split cheek the village guard does it best to deal with a burning manor stead.
By the time dawn bakes there's little left but ash and many thankfull villagers that your actions saved from the fire.
As Iewaelle looks grim you confront her about the last night and the iron woman.
"You warned us, what was the woman?" you as Iewaelle
"Her, She is not of woman born, it's a monster from the age of shadows, things were meant to drown long ago.
Now we have an answer -she grins holding a iron ring-.
"I know were we have to go, but you won't like it."For a minute you van see fear in her eyes.
"Where, do we have to go?"
"South, deep south in to the land of the Ice Maidens, it is a cursed place forsaken by gods and beast.
I went there once, thousand men marched before my raven banner, strong men and each armed for war, 10 of us left that place alive.
The wind blows shards of ice, sharp as razors that stripe the flesh from your bones
Then there’s the tribes, wild women, man eaters, teeth like spears, they eat the women folk and take the men unto there dark caves for the ways.". Iewaelle shudders as she speaks.
For your reward your ask for
1) A weapon from fallen raiders.
2)Some of the villages remaining gold.
3)A night with villages fairest maiden.
4)A armour from fallen raiders.
5) An old relic of interest to you. (pick what)
6)Nothing they clearly need what ever they have left more then you.
Name : Peter Hudsley
Description : A short man, dark-haired man in simple farmer's clothes.
Gender: Male
Health: Fine
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Possessions
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Cassiteride bowel ripper sword,(Mothers) serrated back with a Aquilonian eagles head pommel.
Ash recurve bow (broad-head arrows)
Red padded jacket with short sleeves.
Iron lamellar vest
Single Split Vambrace
Snake crested helm (enclosed)
Bronze snake belt (protects vs poison)
Map
Your mother's livery collar, Ostgres noble, Enchanted as Amulet of Iron
Plain pottery jar
Golden ring Ostgre Enchanted?
Mother
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Ostgren noble?
Served as a Aquilonian cavalry officer?
Loot
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Cash 12 hire guide?
Name : Æstrid the red
Description : A muscular woman with short fiery red hair and sapphire blue eyes.
A scar stretches from the bottom of the left cheek and up to the bone above.
On the other side a broken cheekbone that makers her right eye droop slightly.
Gender: Female
Health: Fine
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Possessions
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Long mail coat
Splinted vambraces and greaves
Fur cloak
2 handed war axe
Horned Svinfylking helmet
Short sword
Painted round shield
Crossbow and bolts
Name : Ilerie
Description : she’s tall with piercing blue eyes,raven black hair, high regal cheeks and soft olive skin.
Gender: Female
Health: Fine
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Possessions
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War flail
Gauntlet Claws
Mail shirt
Kardiophylax (single-disc cuirass)
Large bracelets (Mothers, Enchanted healing)
Mothers belt, missing parts Enchanted?
Name : Iewaelle
Description :A woman grown, her hair is silver white, eye black as coals and skin plane like snow.
Gender: Female
Health: Fine
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Possessions
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Sword
Conrad (guide)
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