ACT CAT AND TAC The trio of death
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THis post was written by ACT with input form TAC and CAT
The trio of Hins, walked along aimlessly through the woods they had just left N’jast a ten-day ago and were starting to feel the wear of travel. Their feet hurt, their arms ached and the were hungry. Being as small as they were they had no real hunting skills as most things that were hunted by humans would easly make them a meal. So they stayed to the shadows avoiding conflict when they could and. nailing squirels as well as rodents with their slings when the opportunity arose.
Soon they came accross a group of travelers sitting in a circle around a fire. The sun was just leaving the sky so the shadows were approaching. Always the trios favorite time of day. Act spied them first and telepathically sent both cat and tac the same message.
Three humes, and an elfie. Cat sneak up on them and see what they are about
Okey doke Came the telepathic reply from Cat
what about me? Tac stood there arms crossed, tapping his foot, mouth unmoving because he didn’t speak.
you and I wait till Cat gets us some information on our mark, come Act waves his hand and Tac follows him around a large oak tree. They move away but no farther than their telepathy would allow them. They lean against the tree waiting for Cat to send them the details.
Cat sneaks up carefully to just within hearing range of the group. She plants herself lightly behind a large fern, and cocks her ear towrd them. Listening she picks up on the conversation,
“Bah, if that Koreth fella thinks he’s a getting to me, he got another thing a coming. There is not enough gold in the world to make me turn on Narfell like that.” Spoken by one of the three humans, he had long hair and bright eyes. A great sword lay with in eay reach and he had not removed his armor yet a shiny chain.
“You do realize we are but mercenaries you dim wit, we go where the pay is” The fire flickered around the elfs face as he spoke. He wore long flowing robes, a wand was straped to his belt.
Dim wit huffed and spat back “What makes you think the fools in Peltarch ain’t gonna pay me betta eh?”
One of the other humes A taller man with leather armor on and a gold chain around his neck. Cat spied the chain and longed for it. Sat with a bemused look on his face. He looked like he had some authority she thought.
"THe people of Peltarch will not pay you anything, in fact he may make you leave town because of your stench take a bath Malek" The elf starts waving his hand in front of his face.
Malek stands and balls his fist. "You insult me pointy ears, i get you" He lunges at the elf who somehow manages to tumble out of the way and Malek Hits the dirt face first. The man with the Gold chain starts laughing.
Malek gets up and chases after the elf, then the other two humes chase after wanting to see the fight. The elf nimbly dodges Melek again as he attemps another lunge. He starts laughing and swats him on the head as he passes.
Cat surveyed the area as the two Fought. Cat really had no interest in what the tall folk were doing and instead focused her attention on where their belongings lay. Squinting between the leaves of the fern and noticing that the belongings were unattended reaches out her minds eye to ACT to tell him what she was seeing.
Right now one humie and the elfie are fighting And the other two are watching. So of course they seem to be drifting farther away from their packs Smiling even though she knew ACTcould not see her.
good work Cat I will distract them while you two gather as much as you can. Whatever you do make sure you get all the weapons you can find we don’t need then chasing us with them
Act motions to Tac and then they both sneak silently through the bushes and brush. Act points out cat and Tac follows around more brush till he is by her side. Meanwhile Act smears dirt and mud all over his face and hands up his arms, around his neck and all over his body he even sticks a fistfull in his mouth for the full effect.
To Cat and Tac he sends wait till I say raven sleeps in mud, that is the signal to grab
Act hears the group fighting and tstaggers out of the shadows and right into the mercenaries line of sight. The two fightin stop instantly blinking in suprise. The other two turn around and blink a few times themselves.
“what the hells’ Malek says looking astonished. The others just stare in disbeilief then they all cautiously move toward what appears to them to be a little human boy covered in mud and staggering about. Suddenly the human spits out a great gout of mud and starts coughing wretchedly as he falls to his knees in front of them.“Oh thank god I found yous” Starts crying more furiously stammering he says ‘ me pa and me ma, they gone and Raven sleeps in mud.” Imeadiately Cat and Tac start into their things grabbing what they can.
All three look even more confused than before but the Elf finally speaks up “What are you talking about boy?’ He is harsh in his words and Act give him a terrified look he pretends to lock up and not speak and just stare blankly at them. ‘Come on now speak up” even more harshly spoken. Act starts to cower and shuts up completely.
The human with the gold chain pushes the elf aside “you get more flies with honey than with vinager”
He turns his attention to the boy . “What is your name son?’“Joeseph” Act says meekly.
“okay Joeseph, My name is Rallie. What happened?”
“Bah who cares about this child he cant come with us?” THe long haired human snaps.
The other hume and the elf watch on with interest. Rallie dhoots him a look that says all it needs to. For that the Long haired hume hangs his head and quietly says “sorry boss”
what you got so far Act sends Cat
all theys weapons and food, even a large sack of gold Cat sends back
good get out I will take it from here meet me two wheels up the trail
Cat motions to Tac and they both sneak off with their new belongings.
Rallie looks back down at the boy waiting for a response. Finally after a bit of sniffiling to calm down Act says “This this thing ca ca came out of of the eh mud and ated ma….” starts Bawling. “it looked like a bird”
He says hurridly before bawling again“where did this happen?” Rallie says starting to get irritated and not for the first time something just didn’t seem righ to him about this.
“Over there” Act says through sniffles
Rallie stands and calls his group together they huddle in a circle wuth their heads down out of ear shot Whispering he says “I smell a rat here ihis story makes no sense you ever hear of a bird that live in the mud.” the others nod in agreement. Even though they are only huddled up for few seconds Act of course has enough time tot roll over a few times like you would if going down a hill quietly and reach the brush without alerting them then sneaks off to find the rest of the crew.
“behind him he hears hey where’d he go and shortly there after AH THE HELLS shouted. By then the trio of death is long gone.
By the way for those of you that don't know the trio are Ghostwise Halflings who can and do speak telepathically. That is why telepathy is present in the story
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