Masters of Eothia 1-20

For the briefest moment when the beast explodes up from the sand, Danica cracks up laughing. "Guys, look out! the 'purple worm' is about to explode! Let's get away before he spurts all over us!" She shrieked with tears of laughter in her eyes. Danica sobered up quickly as she realized that there was a sandstorm brewing.

While absentmindedly rubbing her signet ring (featuring a stylized "S" on it, inside a shield of sorts), she mumbled "Just Imagine..."

Yasei's mouth begins collecting sand, as her jaw is currently on the floor in awe of the purple worm.  "Ru..."  is all she can manage to squeak out.  "RU....!"  cut short again.  "RUNNNNNNN!!!!" finally.

"Watatsumi!  We need to get out of here, NOW!  But where?"

Yasei perception:3

Watatsumi perception: 17

A tear runs down Yasei's cheek, as she's distracted by that disturbance in the Weave.

“Ow! Someone hit me with an ax-“ Thats when the purple worm emerged, and Danica started..laughing? It was contagious, and not knowing what was so funny, she started laughing too. It was forced at first, as if she didnt laugh much, but in the end she nailed it. She gave one more look at the worm, and proceeded to ride away with the others.

With wide eyes Rosli will immediately turn her mount in the opposite direction as the worm and ride with the rest of the group "Nope... that thing is way too big. We should get out of here."

Whatsynamei darts off in a direction down the rock, letting out little pips and squeaks as it flies down the vertical surface of the outcropping. Your Ankheig's follow it, keeping up to it's pace as it darts and weaves through the battlefield. It circles you around the worm, taking a wide birth.

Each of you catch a glimpse through the sand and chaos for only a split second- you see a man looking at the worm... and smiling? He's dressed in a martial arts gi, exposing exquisitely toned, rippling muscle. Tattoos cover his arms, torso and neck and he wears a long, white headband which flaps in the wind. He is still for but a second before seemingly disappearing again in a cloud of sand.

-WHAM- the worm is struck again. You see a humanoid figure suspended in mid air above the worm, falling slowly, then you lose sight of the beast as the sand whips around more vigorously. -WHAM- 'SCREEEEEECH' The beast wails.

Your mounts manage to carry you further through the battle- a rogue spear flies at Yasei! To hit: 22 dmg 4 and arrows whiz past Bobo. Hit: 4 dmg 1.

Finally, you escape the main skirmish and where the sand storm is beginning to be born. You can still hear from within, booming sounds and two battles of men and beast vigorously fighting.

You've reached a large flat dry salt lake bed, but on the horizon, you see what looks to be the colour blue, indicating water.

(Feel free to go back if you wanna rp or do anything throughout these posts)

The rogue speer randomly flies through the crowd and deflects harmlessly off of Yasei’s carapace armor. She  continues her mad scramble to escape the battlefield, following the dragon to safety. Once they safely escape the immediate danger, she pulls the rains back on her mount, bringing it to a half. She then manages to turn it completely around, so she can survey the battlespace. Mirroring what she witnessed her father, the Shogun, do during battles, she began to assess the field, trying to determine which side was winning, and the various attack strategies in play by both armies. 

Throughout the entire mad dash away from the purple wurm fight, you all can hear Pumpkin shouting cheerily- "I SO ******* CALLED THE WURM THING", she doesn't seem overly concerned with the whole battlefield thing. When a hail-fire of arrows rain down all around her and her mount, she simply stops the thing momentarily, coincidentally stopping in the one patch of dry desert ground unmolested by stray arrows. 

When the party meets on the dry lake bed, she points to the possible source of water and proclaims- "Yeah, they are totally fighting for that. Like an oases in this shit hole is prime real-estate." 

"Language!" Cora yells, scolding the child.

"I'm pretty sure that I'm older then you, damn young whippersnappers!" Pumpkin immediately shouts back, morphing her face real quick to have obviously exaggerated wrinkle lines. 

Cora opened her mouth to retort, but..for some reason, had no idea how old she was, and thus stayed quiet, lost in thought as they rode.

Yasei: you take note of a few things: The two forces of the dead zone have zero strategy asside from brute force and savage attacks.

The Thri-kreen are extraordinary to watch however. They are obviously communicating telepathically and using their natural rocky exoskeleton to co ordinate stealthy, efficient team tactics relying on feinting and exploiting their enemies blind spots.

Watching the squabble between the two Rosli will chuckle and inquire "So how long have you all been friends?"

“A few days give or take.” Pumpkin cheerily states, dodging diving, ducking, dipping, and dodging some more arrows. They are just relentless this time of year. 

Your Ankheg's travel across the salt flats at a steady pace after leaving the battle site, spooked by all the action.

It's a fair travel and your water runs out quickly. The edge of the salt flat is greeted with more loose sand and gradually inclining dunes. By the time you reach this point, you all have accumulated TWO levels of exhaustion and your Ankheg's have died and left a while back!

You see a figure standing on top of a dune, a familiar figure, waving his arms.

"Aye, you came after all!" It's Ruxio! You climb to the top of the mound and see a few clicks out, a large bone and wooden Orcish structure several levels tall. Huge leather banners with Orcish sigils painted in blood all over it, surrounded by grassy plains and backing on to the coast. The Beast Hunter's guild.

"You all look like shit." He says. "And you ain't about to get any better, c'mon!" He fires off his rifle, shooting right behind you and exploding something in a small fireball. Large beetles, about the size of a soccer ball are burrowing out of the sand, with glowing red glands. "Fire beetles!" Ruxio exclaims as he rolls for initiative. 8 

Beetles: 10 

Yasei's initiative: 8

Watatsumi's initiative: 16

Initiative: 11

Initiative: 10

Cora spun around, drew out her blades. Winded, sweaty, and thirsty, she was actually breathing hard. Things were starting to get blurry. 

Initiative: 10

Initiative: 23

OOC: Sorry for the delay from me the last several days I got that awful flu, just getting over it now.

All g! Also, turns out Bobo has an answer to your exhaustion problems, so you can go ahead and take those right off!

The beetles begin moving in, scurrying over the sand in an attempt to claim your flesh! The group of them begin to attack each of you. You feel their small spikey legs crawl up your skin: to hit: 8 dmg 3

Bugs, Rosli, Watatsumi, Dani, Cora, Yasei, Bobo, Ruxio.

Rosli is up!