Sergeo
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Post by Sergeo on Apr 29, 2016 23:52:36 GMT -6
It seems like this burnt out old village was bringing in all sorts of heroes today. Sergeo appreciated that this stranger was willing to help out as more numbers are always appreciated, but what could this guy do. "Appreciate the help stranger, but what exactly do you bring to a fight with bandits?" He didn't see a sword or any sort of weapon on his person, so unless this guy was carrying a magic tomb in that satchel of his the man was completely defenseless. "Don't tell me you intend to go into battle with your bare fists? Your either very confident or...well" He looked back towards the city center to hear the grinding of something on the rocky city streets. "Looks like Saya and your friends were lucky Bluey. Lets head back to the square so we can discuss our plan of attack." he said walking back expecting the stranger and the blue knight to follow him.
The wandering trio made it just as Saya and her crew managed to push the tattered wagon to the town center. The wagon in question would probably suit there plan well, but with wagon's covering torn in places and one its wheels missing, the group would need to do some repairs before they had themselves a convincing wagon. "Good job on finding a wagon, now we need to figure out what exactly kind of bait its going to be. We could either us-" Having realized that Saya might want to know who this ratty wanderer that he and the blue knight brought with them, he shifted the conversation to introductions. "Yeah we found another wandering soul like myself would wants to help out with our bandit problem. He's...uh...come to think of it I didn't ask for your name stranger. I guess I was a little to focused on our plan."
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Saya
Wyvern Rider
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Profession: Bernese Wyvern Rider
Affinity: Ice
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Post by Saya on Apr 30, 2016 13:51:47 GMT -6
The Blue Knight looked at the traveler and realized that he had no weapon on him, really wandering if the traveler is really going to fight with the bandits too with just his bare hands. "You can't really think that you can beat those bandits without a weapon? Let's see if you can find some swords or something lying around here." The Blue Knight would then start trying a weapon that he could do but had little luck finding a weapon that was in good condition, though he only check around him, the knight knew he would not find a weapon here and decided to wait until they have their plan made. The Blue Knight followed the rest of the two back to where Saya was and Saw that she had found a old wagon that they were going to use.
Saya looked around in the way, looking to see what kind of stuff this wagon was until Sergeo and the others had finally came back though Saya was busy looking through the wagon trying to see what kind of stuff was in, which turned out to have just some broken pots and a sword, which was most likely used to keep thieves and bandits away from the wagon but the sword might be useful in a real battle. Saya looked back at Sergeo who asked her a question and soon realized that they was a third man with them. Saya had never seen this traveling man before in her life and wandered who he is and what he wants with this place. "Well I don't know who this person is, who are you anyway?" Saya looked at the man that wanted to help them out with taking care of these bandits.
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Aeos
Dragon
A Nabatan Dragon in human guise, with a love of food and traveling.
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Post by Aeos on Apr 30, 2016 19:46:46 GMT -6
"Oh. Why yes I do intend to fight them with my fists. My feet too. My body is my weapon. I am a practitioner of martial arts." He answered the both of them. And casually followed both the blonde young man and the blue knight.
"Tis be a rare and old practice in this changing world.. but it be what I can do. If ye have dobut in it's effectiveness then I'd be happy to give ye a demonstration." He spoke with a bit of pride in his voice. He was happy of his tradition even if it was a dying art. While the art itself had some faults, it also had some merits too. Aeos didn't have to worry about metal weapons breaking. Which helped to keep his travel expenses down.
"You be right in some extent Blue one. I do need to do some scavenging. My fists and feet require some sort of protection. My attacks be non-lethal as per my custom. But, that does not mean it be ineffective. Crippling thy enemy is still an effective tactic. A punch lined with metal.. hurts." He explained as he walked. The dragon in human guise mused at that last statement. He was on the receiving end of one of those metal punches once. He knew how much they hurt. Eventually, they met up with a black haired woman. This person must be the "Saya" that was mentioned earlier. It seemed that everyone wanted to know who Aeos was, which was natural considering there had been no formal introductions yet.
"My apologies for not introducing myself earlier. My name is Aeos. I am a traveller from Nabata. Pleasure to meet ye all." He gave a soft one handed wave.
"I'm sorry, but there be a plan in the works? If so I'd be happy to lend an ear."
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Sergeo
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Post by Sergeo on Apr 30, 2016 22:28:24 GMT -6
This Aeos is just full of surprises. A Martial Arts master in a day in age where the where forged iron and magic books almost grew on trees? This man has to be bluffing, but a bluff that Sergeo was at least curious to see in action against a bunch of murderers and cut throats. He kept his cynicism to himself as he looked inside the wagon and its contents. "There has to be some old gauntlets and greaves lying around somewhere around here. If you don't mind using something that might be rusty."
With Sergeo, Saya, Aeos, and the three other dragon knights present and accounted for, the small band of bandit fighters were capped at 6. Not as much as Sergeo would want to go against about two dozen bandits, but beggars can't be choosers. "Alright. Since this is about all the help we have, going head to head with the bandits is out of question. Were going to have to make sure that whatever plan we have for attack is going to be fool-proof and level the playing field more in our favor. To achieve this, I have two plans that we can use. One more reasonable given our lack of resources than the other."
"First plan would involve splitting the bandits into two more manageable groups." Sergeo pointed down a street with two taller buildings, with only a street that had just enough room for groups for two people to walk side by side down the road. "We would have to do some other work to block the other streets into the square here, but if we can funnel the bandits down this street we can set up a falling rocks trap on top of the two buildings in between. When enough of them come through, we would drop a cache of large rocks or junk and make passing through impossible. With one group trapped inside the square, we can then ambush the trapped group while the bandits outside the square would either have to find another way in or break down the barricade.
"The second plan would require us to gather several incendiary mines, but if we gathered enough we could load the wagon up them and wait for the bandits to get close to the wagon. Once in range, I would shoot a fireball into the wagon and turn the wagon into a explosive ball of fire. Any bandits not consumed by the flames are sure to be hurt and disorientated, at which point we then knock off the remaining bandits."
"Of course I don't think any of us have enough incendiary mines to make this second plan work. So if any of you have any better plans, now would be the time to speak up cause we have no clue when the bandits will show up."
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Saya
Wyvern Rider
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Profession: Bernese Wyvern Rider
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Post by Saya on May 1, 2016 10:41:22 GMT -6
Saya looked over to the man that calls himself Aeos, wondering if there was anything else they could learn about him but Saya decided not to worry about it as of right now as they had far more important matter that they need to deal with, like the bandits. "Well Aeos, my name is Saya, a Wyvern Knight from Bern, it's good that you came to help us,having more manpower is always good." After all the introductions had been taken care off, Saya heard the Sergeo was coming up with and waited for him to finish speaking.
After hearing Sergeo plan to take out the bandits, Saya decided to speak up on what to add to Sergeo's plan. "Well if the bandits have little to no archers then me and the other three knights can just attack them from above without fear of being shot down by those annoying arrows. Also we can't waste too much time, as the bandits might want to go on another spree again, making it that much harder for us to deal with them." After getting out everything she had to say about the first plan, Saya went to give her ideas about the second plan but realized that getting a bunch of mines was not gonna happen without some luck of finding enough of them to use.
"Well I got nothing else to add so if anyone else has a better idea they better speak up now, or we are going with Sergeo's plan." The three knights looked at each other, as they have no info to add so they are just going to work with Sergeo's plan and hope it works.
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Aeos
Dragon
A Nabatan Dragon in human guise, with a love of food and traveling.
Posts: 441
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Dragon Element: Air
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Post by Aeos on May 7, 2016 13:03:00 GMT -6
“Gauntlets and greaves would be most appreciated. It does not matter if they be a bit rusted.” Aeos nodded slightly at the blonde man’s comment. He didn't really need the greaves and gauntlets to protect his limbs. What he really needed them for was to hide his would be partially shifted hands and feet. Bandits, and fighting in general, tend to bring out his dragon powers. He would probably need to tap into some portion of his inner strength if he needed to withstand a hard blow or deal an equally hard hit. A fight like this would test his control and release of his strengths in a group setting. Aeos wanted to help these people not just because it was the right thing to do for the good of the town, but, it would serve as a personal test for him. One, that he would need to pass if he was to continue traveling and acting like a human.
“As much as I want to see firey explosions, I do believe that thy first plan of funneling and dividing the bandits be the safest plan for all of us.” He chimed in his two cents.
“We can use pitfalls to slow the bandits down further. Maybe create walls with crates and barrels to prevent them from escaping through the alleys, as the rocks tumble down.. Set some trip wires.. but this would take time to set up. And thou said we do not know when the next attack be…” He paused for a moment.
“Archers be a pesky problem for me as well. Perhaps we can create a smoke screen so as to deter them.”
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Sergeo
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Post by Sergeo on May 17, 2016 23:24:34 GMT -6
((Sorry about the long silence. Things got complicated on my end))
Everyone looked around to others after Sergeo had finished presenting his battle plan to see if anyone would present a plan of their own, but it seemed like everyone was in agreement with plan A. There were, however, some concerns about archers and the need to expand on the plan with more traps. "Hmm...your right about the potental for Archers. The fact that our squad here consists of 4 flyers, a mage, and a drifter who knows hand-to-hand combat real well really puts us in a bind." Aeos suggestion for traps seem to be the best course of action for the group regarding this issue. If they can't hurt or debilitate the archers, they could at least scare them witless. "Building pitfalls or a terrain maze is the only choice we have...but we will have to be quick about it if we go down this road."
"But for now are focus should be on the setting up the falling rocks trap and making the wagon look presentable. Once that is done we'll focus on how to lead the bandits to us. We will split in two teams. Green, blue and orange guys, you two can work on the repairing the wagon, and for the love of sun and the stars make sure you make it look some what presentable." he said in an almost dismissive tone. "Everyone else..." the mage then pointed at the two tall buildings were Sergeo pointed at previously. "We got to make a system to drop several tons of rocks." Admittedly, Sergeo really just separated the dragons knights from him, Saya, and Aeos cause he wanted to know a little bit more about the two of them and planned to talk to them while the work. "So you two...how much dead weight can you lift at once?
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Saya
Wyvern Rider
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Post by Saya on May 18, 2016 14:45:55 GMT -6
Saya saw the uses a rockfall trap could have in a ruined town with little immovability as it could cut off the bandits from each other but did agree that they should hurry if the plan to go through with this. As it won't be much longer before the fighting has to get started.
"We should hurry up and get started then if we want to do the traps, those bandits could be getting ready to come here at anytime."
Saya then was asked by Sergeo about how much "dead weight" she could lift and guessed to just answer him anyway.
"How much I can lift, well I could lift a rock or two, got to have good physical power to make a good wyvern rider, what good id a rider that can't even lift a lance, for short. Yes I can lift, just not alot."
Saya knew that the other three knights would have to trouble lifting the rocks up on the buildings so the can be set up for the trap. Saya went over to the three knights to tell them to find some rocks so that they can use them to set up the traps they have plan.
"Alright you guys, go find some rocks or something to drop on them and make it fast too,we can't waste any time at all."
After getting told what to do the three knights run off to find any rocks or objects that they could use to drop on the bandits though something didn't seem right to Saya about the whole plan but just decided to ignore it for the time being and go with the plan for now.
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Aeos
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A Nabatan Dragon in human guise, with a love of food and traveling.
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Post by Aeos on May 20, 2016 16:35:46 GMT -6
The mage seemed to be the brains of the whole operation. He quickly divided everyone into three separate groups. The knights to collect stone, another two to fix the wagon, and then do something else. Aeos didn't know what the blonde mage wanted him and Saya to do.
“I think I can lift about half my weight in stone.” Half of his human form weight, without calling upon his dragon stone for a boost. With his stone however, he could lift things that were boulder or tree trunk sized. But, that sort of display of power would require him to be partially shifted. Probably fully half shifted. Which would obviously give him away. The dragon had so many questions, mostly because he didn't know what was going on, and was eager to get started with his task.
“What is the wagon for and where do we put these boulders? I.. do not think the roofs oft these homes will be able to support the extra weight.” Aeos looked around at a few homes. None of them seemed very sound. He peeked through some of the narrower alleyways and wondered how many of them were there. He did notice the tall building and wondered what it was for. Maybe it was a watch tower?
“If only we had a map of the town. We'd know exactly where to put these rocks and pitfalls.” Aeos doubted a small village like this would even have a map of itself.
“Mayhaps, Someone could roughly sketch a map from the air?”
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Sergeo
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Post by Sergeo on May 25, 2016 21:34:38 GMT -6
Both Saya and Aeos were confident that they could could carry about half their weight in rocks and dead weight. Which was good considering between the three of them, they could be hauling rocks into position for several hours. Aeos though seemed confused thou as to the reason for all the rocks and the wagon. He was certain he explained the plan to him, but then again Sergeo dose often forget one or two details when he is playing strategist.
"Were going to set up a falling rocks trap on top of these two buildings over there while we use the wagons the other three are working on as the bait for the trap." The wanderer also voiced his concerned about the purposed buildings to build the trap on. Sergeo just shook his head. "Ah your thinking too much about it. These buildings can hand-" As if on cue to concur with Aeos, The loud, wrenching, creaking sound of the foundations of the taller buildings finally gave way to several tons of wood and materials tumbling down to the city streets below into a giant irreparable mess. Sergeo looked on in literal disbelieve as he saw his plan literally fall apart on him. Embarrassed by the cruel mistresses of fate Sergeo could only meekly reply "Maybe we should consider finding a more stable building or something." Desperate to have the moment gone and out of the way, the wandering mage looked over at Saya. "Since you are the most mobile of the three of us Saya, It will be up to you to find us a new vantage point, be it building or landmark for our trap. No objections?"
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Saya
Wyvern Rider
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Profession: Bernese Wyvern Rider
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Post by Saya on May 26, 2016 15:39:00 GMT -6
Saya heard that one of the buildings had fallen and looked over to it, with an unhappy and annoyed look on her face.
"Well great, all that time and effort for nothing, so now what?" Saya said with a bit of angry in her tone, looking over at Sergeo, waiting for he's reply. But then looked over at Aeos as if she was annoyed with him. "You had to just say something about the buildings didn't you?"
After dealing with that, she then realized that she had another job to do that was asked by Sergeo that he wanted her to find a better spot for them to set up their trap as the old building didn't seem to work out that well. Still annoyed, Saya knew that she didn't really have a choice of disagreeing."Yeah I'll go look around for your buildings." Saya started to fly around the ruined city to see if any of these building could work and only found a very few that could support at least 3 or 4 rocks at best, after looking around for sometime, she went back to tell them about the very few buildings she saw.
"Well the good news is that I found a few buildings we could use but the bad new is that they look as if they could only hold at least 3 or 4 rocks." After tell the group about what she found, the Orange Knight ran up as if he was in a hurry. "Hate to ruining this little party you have going on but you know that huge building that came down? Well guess who heard it? Bandits, and their coming right this way, from what I saw it's not all of them, only 5 or 6 of them are coming to check it out."
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Aeos
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A Nabatan Dragon in human guise, with a love of food and traveling.
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Post by Aeos on May 28, 2016 10:58:22 GMT -6
Oh.. we were going to use the wagon as bait. What were we going to fill it up with? He thought for a moment as to what bait would work against bandits. He thought of obvious ones such as gold and jewels. But, this place seemed stripped of all its monetary values. He then thought of food and drink. But that too was also gone. Maybe they would come to steal the wagon itself? With out the goods? Wouldn't they be suspicious of any bait? This place has seen better days. He closed his eyes and lightly shook his head. Both halves of him needed to focus. Again Aeos looked up at the tower. Something about all of this seemed odd. He felt as if he was missing something obvious. And then as if on the whim of a mischievous god, the tower started to crumble. Great now we will never know what it was for.
“I hope no one was in there.” He spoke in a flat voice. Lady Saya spoke to him in a manner as if she blamed him for the collapse. Aeos picked up on it and replied in a slightly sarcastic tone.
“Would you rather have had it fall after we put the rocks?” He then frowned lightly and spoke a bit more seriously.
“Or worse on thy head.”
Seregio asked Saya to fly around and look for some replacement buildings for his rock fall trap. Says agreed and began to scout.
“I shall use this time to seek some equipment. I feel that curiosity will get the better oft these raiders.. and see why the tower fell.. best to be prepared.” He took his leave of Seregio for the moment and began rummaging through the nearest building. He found an old pair of mismatched chain mail gauntlets. He put them on. He looked around for a moment to make sure he was alone. Quietly he partially shifted his hands. His nails turned sharp and black while his human hands now sported a segmented scaley appearance. He did not know of what metal they were made of but they did well enough to hide his semi-transformed hands. He quickly stopped channeling his dragon powers and his hands returned to normal. He could work with these.
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Sergeo
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Post by Sergeo on Jun 4, 2016 18:03:19 GMT -6
Saya was quick to return from her lap around the city, and just like Sergeo had asked, she was successful in finding a new place for the falling rocks trap to be set up, although the buildings according to the dragon knight were in very poor shape and she doubted that one of them could hold up more than four rocks. At first Sergeo was annoyed, but then he got to thinking, maybe instead of rocks, we can use the condemned buildings as there traps instead. "If the buildings are in that bad of shape we won't have to bother with the rocks, we just need to figure out how to make the buildings fall on command.
The trio's strategy meeting was interrupted by Saya's orange companion. It looks like the commotion with the collapsing buildings had gotten the attention of some of the bandits and they had sent a search party to see what was happening. "Well then lets not be caught flat footed. You three go and make sure the wagon is out of sight for now and then go find a place to hid yourselves in the town square, will ambush them there. Aeos you ca-" It looked like the wanderer was one step ahead of Sergeo as he went looking for some gauntlets to arm himself. "At least he a proactive guy. Saya, you're going to be the one leading the ambush. Once you hear me whistle, you come out from the bandit parties flank. I'm sure your friends will follow your lead." That left Sergeo with a task of his own. Since he thought something like a Dragon Knight would be something associated with a country's military and therfore would likely make them suspicious, and Sergeo was uncertain how long it would take Aeos to find some gauntlets, the mage would have to put himself in danger to make sure the bandit went were Sergeo wanted them to go. He began to stretch his legs, prepping to run with all his might. "I got to make sure that they come to use you know?"
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Saya
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Post by Saya on Jun 4, 2016 19:49:38 GMT -6
Saya nodded at Sergeo's order and told the Blue Knight to hide the Wagon while the other two followed Saya to get into place for the sneak attack on the coming bandit search party. While during that, the Orange Knight spoke up to say something to Saya.
"Why do we have to go through all this, the four of us could easily take these bandits down with no problem, this is all just unneeded actions."
With Saya simply replying with:
"That's the problem with you, you just want to charge into a battle without even coming up with a plan, going headlong into battle without any idea of what your doing will just get you killed and this plan will make it easier to beat them and keep you safe."
The Orange Knight was starting to get annoyed with all this planning and wanted to just fight his way but decided to just wait on the attack, for now.
After getting done hiding the wagon, the Blue Knight got into hiding as well with the other three Wyvern Knights.
"The Wagon had been hidden from the bandit's sight."
Saya nodded at the Blue Knight as the bandits started making their way to the ambush spot, Saya started telling them to get ready to move in as soon as Sergeo gave them the word to move in and attack. But the Orange Knight was getting enraged by the fact they have to fight like this and just ignored the whole plan and charged at the bandits, head-on. Only with Saya yelling out to him:
"What are you doing Derick!? Get back here now!" ((Gave him a name finally.))
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Aeos
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A Nabatan Dragon in human guise, with a love of food and traveling.
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Post by Aeos on Jun 6, 2016 11:07:55 GMT -6
Aeos also found a pair of old black socks to which he put on in order to hide the scaly bits of his feet should they manifest. Socks.. With Sandals.These.. Feel weird. He wiggled his toes. Trying to get himself used to the strange piece of clothing. Socks were not needed in Nabata. He knew the use for them. Humans wore them in order to provide a soft thing to step on between the soles of their shoes. They helped to prevent blisters. But to a man who was accustomed to wearing leather sandals or no shoes at all, socks, felt constrictive. He shrugged and continued to rummage through the empty building. Most of the food in the place was rotted or had been eaten by rats. Not that he minded eating food that had been bitten by mice. Dragons could eat some foods that humans found to be either spoiled, raw, or dirty. Being able to eat some foods that make humans sick, was a useful trait for survival.
His scavenging of the home was cut short by the sounds of shouting. That sounds like Saya. He pulled up his hood and clasped it so that it wouldn’t fall back down. He ran his arms through his cloak sleeve and buttoned it closed too. The hood helped to keep the sun off of his face, while the cloak would help to keep him covered. Just incase if he needed to tap into more of his stone’s power, this could hide most of his scales. Granted one would have to peer under the cloak, then under his clothes, to see any would be change in his skin. We look ridiculous. His other half quipped. Aeos shook his head. Keeping our true power hidden is a priority. We cannot risk exposure due to fashion.
Aeos poked his head out a broken window in order to see what was going on. The orange knight whirred past him in a hurry. Aeos turned his head to see that he was charging straight towards the bandits. Aeos turned his head back to see Saya yelling at him. The dragon pulled his head in from the window and stared at the floor. The orange knight was going to get himself killed charging out like a damned fool. Aeos was torn with what to do. Should he stay and wait for orders? Or should he run out and help the knight? Well.. The bandits know we are here. There is no element of surprise. Let’s go! He nodded. Aeos ducked out of the empty home and went out to join the orange knight to meet the bandits.
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