*Citizen's Boggle at the unusal sight* (tala and atol)
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Citizens worry over the unusal sighting of two strange figures in town. Some people know and spread rumor that these two in town can only mean something bad was happening.
Tala Arniman a former citizen of norwick who has not been seen withing the walls in almost 5 years was spotted. Reportedly she came charging into town from the south woods upon hearing screams of an attack at the north gate. Seen to have run through town straight into a bandit attack she and her fellow Phoenix friends(khaya, ginger, arandor and tala of the phoenix), lof and fung were all badly beaten.
A half orc fighter or monk, it was unclear, named fung had spread word of the attack after Arandor and he were set upon by many officers at the North gate. The guards were quickly killed by approaching hordes of decked out clerics, sneaks and nasty sneaking officer women types.
The blood ran high in the town of Norwick with even Frago being badly beaten by Atol and his minions. The Order of the Shining Phoenix in their horrificly bright armor repelled the advancing hordes with the help of the wolf, bowyer, and former militia memeber of norwick lof (dark hooded elf) and the half orc Fung as well as some of the town and what guards could be pressed into service without depleting the south gate for fear of a two pronged attack. ((read: some NPC's got involved on auto trigger)). Mecc might very well have relished in all the blood and gore that splattered the snow that day as much of it the defenders as the attackers.
Atol then waltzed into town throwing insults and in general just beating those that had defeated his hordes. He seemed to sneer at his dead people and was reported to have called them weak and deserving of their fates. Then in a show of arrogant power he attacked the defenders at random till they bled out from fresh series of wounds from his blades.
The core group of defenders followed Atol as he casually strolled around the town looking for something. He was questioned on what he was looking for but refused to answer. At one point in a fit of annoyance as the leather bound red head had gotten too close to him he tried to beat her senseless in front of the friars old home. Such a brave man using his sharp blades against leather.
Shortly after this finally beating with a few more sneers, jeers and miscellaneous taunts the man spoke of the treaty and making sure to keep the peace with the bandits. Everyone present informed him that they doubted very much that the treaty would hold after his recent blood bath.
Maybe the blood bath was a gift for the malarite scum tala was rumor to hypothosized. If in fact the treaty holds that can be the only answer in her mind.
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Dark armor glinting red in the sunlight, the chancellor walks amongst the wounded and dead. He uses what power he has to heal but says little.
Finally he steps out into the square and speaks loudly over the gathering in a slow, dull monotone.
"The gates…will be bolstered...conscripts...hired...and the militia...will have ...a strong...captain...again." he gaze turns slowly to the north "the northmen...have one week...to explain...or they will...see what...it feels like...to have their...towns...painted in...the blood...of families...and loved ones."
[his calm gaze turns to the gossiping rabble-rousers]
"Outsiders…have brought...calamity...to Norwick...in the past...and if...it is...discovered...that this..." [he waves a hand over the bloody slaughter and burning homes] "…is the result...of fugitives...attacking ...or robbing...the eastlanders...and using our ...walls...and our lives...as shields...they will...feel the...Hunter's...wrath."
He orders the remaining militia to seek out volunteers to build defenses then, with a glance of concern at Jandor's boarded up and well-guarded home, offers charters to adventurer conscripts willing to fight in the town's defense. The gold, he promises with another glance at the mayor's barricaded home, will come from his personal funds.
//ooc on
Please respect a slight delay of responses since ic messengers have to wait for a DM responses and such. Assume the "one week" is as long as it takes for Maythor to send back the messenger's head.
//ooc off
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*Rando walking to the town unhindered hears about the attack. he asks those around
So what or who was he after? People been butchering his people again
