9 Chirreb 4385: Scream and Leap

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

(This actually happened on 5 Chirreb but I'm writing on 9 Chirreb)

Since Mirhandrax had charged in there didn't seem much point in trying to hide because all the bandits were staring in our direction now. I wasn't too upset because it was kind of a relief to be DOING SOMETHING and not just watching and waiting and waiting and watching forever.

I swooped in behind Mirhandrax -- we were all still flying from the Little Bird charm -- along with Windchime, Chain Lightning, and Nightbloom. Purrzhon skulked around in the orchard and Trust was too surprised to do anything, I think.

The bandits saw us coming OF COURSE. The four still outside were mewellicaps -- those are wedge-shaped flying nonprimes with long tails that end in a poisoned spike, and mouths with a flesh-eating spell to dissolve what they bite. They took to the air and shot the spikes in their tails at Mirhandrax and Nightbloom but only one spike hit. Nightbloom and I swooped after them which I think surprised the mewellicaps because they're not used to Primes flying. Windchime and Chain Lightning went at them from above while Nightbloom engaged with sword and staff. Between Nightbloom and Windchime, one of the mewellicaps was nearly dead before I was even close. I cast Remedy for Corpordor on Nightbloom's tail-spike-inflicted injury to make the bandits think I was the healer and then dodged around in waterform while nonprimes tried to bite me. Mirhandrax was ignoring the bandits to go for the house. Two of the mewellicaps fell back to go for the house too and attacked Mirhandrax from behind. Mirhandrax hefted his axe and spun around as one descended to bite him and that gigantic axeblade nearly cut it in two. It flopped around in the air pitifully for a moment before its bound Heal the Awful Wound glued it back together and another healing spell papered over much of the damage.

Then a bolt from Chain Lightning killed it again. The other mewellicap near Mirhandrax tried to rise out of range which would've worked better if we couldn't all fly. Mirhandrax turned back to the house just as a Cani came out.

The Cani was holding a Rassimel boy in front of him like a Prime shield, a sword to the boy's throat. "Drop your weapons or I'll cut his head off!"

All of us froze. I tried to remember if Trust had Rejoin the Severed Head.

"Do it now!" the Cani yelled, cutting back on the boy's throat until he bled. Mirhandrax's battleaxe crashed to the ground. I cast Change Places to swap positions with the boy.

This probably would've been a better idea if I hadn't been flying fifteen feet off the ground at the time.

The Rasssimel boy flailed around in the air and cried out as he fell to the ground. Since I was in waterform I was much smaller than the boy and squirmed out of the Cani's arms before he quite knew what had happened. Mirhandrax roared and charged the Cani and crushed him with his bare hands. And teeth. And feet. It wasn't pretty. Mirhandrax didn't actually rip his head off though, so bound spells brought the bandit back and then there was more of a tussle especially after another Cani came to back him up. The Cani were TOUGH! I hammercast Nowhere Prison on one twice because he resisted the first time. He didn't resist the second though.

Trust had rushed out to fix up the Rassimel boy as soon as he fell. One of the mewellicaps moved to go after Trust or maybe the boy but changed its mind after Chain Lightning lightning-bolted it.

By the time I'd successfully imprisoned one of the Cani the bandits had figured out they were losing. Some of them tried to run away but our ulgrane lightning-bolted them and/or chased them down. Except for the Khtsoyis that Purrzhon caught trying to sneak out the back with a hostage. Purrzhon and she fought it out claw-to-tentacle for a while until the rest of us were able to reinforce him.

In the end we killed all of them, some two or three times before they either stayed dead or surrendered on recovery. Both of the Cani and two mewellicaps surrendered. (The second Cani surrendered when he came back from nowhere to find us surrounding him and everybody else on his side captive or dead). Purrzhon wanted to kill the mewellicaps instead of taking them prisoner but Mirhandrax insisted on accepting their surrender and then he wasn't going to let Purrzhon kill them out of hand.

Which meant we had to figure out what to do with them all.

Comments

[zeeth_kyrah]

Ah, logistics. When the fighting's basically done, you still have to house and supply people. And protect others from them, sometimes.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

It's one of the most annoying parts of adventuring because you can't actually fix it just by being tougher and more powerful.

[zeeth_kyrah]

Still, there are people who thrive on it. I love out-thinking my opponents, actually, but sometimes I outmaneuver myself that way because I'll end up facing someone too powerful to beat face to face.

That's when having a variety of friends is good, just like you love knowing what people are good at.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

I'm not very good at out-thinking enemies unless they're really stupid like remorshkas or something that's why I leave the planning to primes like Mirhandrax who like doing it better anyhow.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Chain Lightning's lightning sounds pretty powerful.

This is where you need 'become a pocker'.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Become a Pocker would be a lot more useful than Nowhere Prison for stuff like this because Prison just doesn't last long enough and it's a lot easier to get out of. Although the guy I threw into it didn't manage to get out before it ended even without any chains on his magerium so if it lasted long enough it'd be fine.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Gyuhhh? It's been several months here since you last replied, and Sythyry is up to 22 Nivvem 4385, AND I've seen you replying in zir journal specifically in that month!

Uhhh. I think I'm not allowed to tell you what happens or what you say then. I have a feeling that if I try, an angel of Kaimiri will make sure that information that directly pertains to what you do in the future (or whatever) won't get there. I could *TRY*, of course...

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I think I might have accidentally told you that you're alive in a few months. I wonder if that will get censored or something? Did this message get censored?

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Nooo I don't think so but how would I know?

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

No I mean, it's been several months for *me*, and I can see what Sythyry wrote and what you wrote several months in YOUR future.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Were there any obvious blanks or things that look like a government bureaucrat censored a document? Like ****** or [redacted] or [censored] or anything like that?

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Noooooo nothing like that.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

It has not been several months it's only been one day if it'd been months Boomsy would've reached through the scroll and throttled me for not writing I bet.

[boomstarter.livejournal.com]

I would never offer you violence, most Delightful cuz! I confess I would surely be rather alarmed, however.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Like I said, it's been several months for me... It's subjective time differences, I think... that, and, like I said, I saw what you wrote and what sythyry wrote in what is effectively YOUR future.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

But in this particular journal, I haven't seen any future stuff. This is the latest I've seen from this journal.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh really it is? That's odd.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

You've already written a few entries more??

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Uh huh! You even wrote on one.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Ah. The two entries marked '9 Chirreb' have been presented to me exactly two days apart. How far apart did you write them?

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

I don't know maybe an hour?

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Well if there's a pattern other than "I get the stuff you write in the order you write them, but only when I'm specifically on your journal. And I get the stuff sythyry writes in the order zie writes them, but only when I'm on zir journal. Also there seems to be a minimum time for me to get a next entry of yours." I can't fathom it. Sometimes it takes a really long time to get here, sometimes it doesn't.

Hmmm. As best I can tell, if you want to get something to us REALLY urgently, you might want to put it in the replies, since, for me at least, the actual full entries seem to have a minimum delay, but I don't think the replies have that same sort of delay?

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Wow that's really strange I think your world must have a very lazy time goddess maybe? She's not being very timely about it anyway.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Well, it might have something to do with the interface between the universes? Sythyry has, once in a while, made offhand reference to some kind of spiritual 'translator' being, but zie always seems to not go into any detail, like zie has made a deal preventing zir from going into detail, maybe? Maybe you could look into this? I don't know what resources you'd have to do so, however.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhh! I wonder if that's anything like how that nice Khtsoyis doctor could talk to me from the way far past?

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Yea that's what I was thinking. So if I try to tell you what happened in sythyry's journal after Chirreb 4385, and the things you posted as a reply to zir journal, and the rough date you seemed to post them, and what you said, and the date you were last shown to be alive by on zir journal, I assume that stuff probably wouldn't go through. Just like how you didn't want to tell that Khtsoyis the gambling stuff. We could test it if you REALLY wanted... Uhm. If you reply to this, could you say the date you reply?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a vicious little fight. Good trick on the Change Places, too!

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Thanks I am glad I thought of SOMETHING although I do wish I'd landed first. Oops.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

There was no time for it! It worked out all right, anyway. ^_^

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Yes when you're in a Wild Rush it's hard to remember details like that anyway!