Vixia The Wealthy And Righteous Swords

Mia while you are walking you hear a set of noises that you are know.  There is the sound of people yelling in cheers, wows, or anger.  You can hear the sound of grunts and growns from pain, and with that perception check you know you can hear the cracking of flesh on flesh.  I would assume that Mia would follow the sounds, and she would follow it behind the local pub.  Once she gets a view of behind the put there is a circle made of sand bags, around the circle is about a dozen people some bloody, others not.  In the circle is a male gnome and a female elf.  The gnome has his hands wrapped with cloth, as you get into view he is punching the elf woman in the gut, as she doubles over the gnome goes to punch her in the face, but she is able to roll out of the way in time.  She comes up to her feet and throws a hand full of dirt at the gnome’s face then lets lose two punches at him both landing in his face.  The gnome stumbles a bit before rubbing his eyes and lunging at the elf, his movements slow from trying to recover from the dirt in his eyes the elf woman unloads a few punches in a row, knocking the Gnome down, the gnome unable to move the elf woman jumps on top and drops a few more punches before a goliath steps in and breaks the fight up.  People cheer, others boo, and you see coin purses being exchanged between people.  A woman walks out the back door of the tavern with a tray of a few drinks on it.

Talinian do you wish to try and watch Thomas train?

Bones what are you wanting to do?

Talinian nods, "I would find that interesting.  Thank you."

Bones is absent minded-ly following Mia, turning the pages of his newly acquired book and reading/making out what he can, especially identifying any spells that he can later copy into his own book.

(DM Question - I just wanted to check too. Was this a different book to the one Bones had originally found and pocketed in Mayor Raymond's rooms? I have it noted in my equipment as his spell book that contained a Siphon spell and two other spells that haven't been identified yet.)

It is a different book.  That being said make an archona check.  

Thomas leads Talinian back to the castle, you enter through a different door, and start to walk down a set of stairs, and you walk into a large room, based on looking around it was once a dungeon, now their is hey over the floor, the pillars now have old beds wrapped around them, there is a small weapons rack with swords and the like on it.  In this training room is already Mogoz, and one of the three vampires who was in front of you before.  The vampire who is already there is an old hill dwarf.  His skin is a little more golden, and his hair is a short mohawk, wavey and white.  The Vampire has next to him a small metallic hump of metal.  Mogoz is talking when you walk in and you catch the end of it.  “You understand Thundu?”

The dwarf Thundu replies with an almost pirate sounding voice, “Aye.  I be gettin to work.”  Thundu walks over to the weapons rack and grabs a short sword, then walks to a straw man, the metallic hump of metal gets up and follows Thundu the whole way.  Thundu swings his sword at the straw man, and the metallic hump grows in size, to just over half the size of Thundu until Thundu says a can only be described as a command word, it’s more of a grunt than anything, the hunk shrinks in size as Thundu swings the sword again, and again as he pulls the sword back the hunk of metal grows.  The two perform this same routine over and over again, most times it is successful, but even when it is successful its not really grateful or good looking.  There were other times where the two did not have good timing and Thundu missed the strawman, or he didn’t pull the sword back fast enough and he would get hit knocking him off balance, and on a few occasions the hunk just didn’t grow in size.  

“We wait on Lief, Esme I mean.  You bring Talinian with, why?”

Talinian do you try and talk before Thomas or no?

ooc: No...it's Thomas' show.

Bones' Arcana: 16

Thomas looks at Mogoz "Talinian and I were friends from childhood, and then again at school, he asked if he could learn a little, thought he could watch some."

Mogoz thinks for a short time "Talinian watch, maybe learn a little, maybe Mogoz teach Talinian a thing or two. Haha." and while laughing Mogoz slaps Talinian on the back, in what Mogoz surely thought to be a light and playful way.  The reality was a little different.

As Talinian is trying to get his breath a slim figure walks in and announces themself.  "Well hello, hello, hello. Thomas, my dear I hope all is well with you, still spending time with the... 'guests'"  the now visible half-elf does hand motion the quotation marks while calling you a guest.  You do not get a good sense of male or female from this half-elf, they walk a little more masuclen and has a small stubble of a beard, but the hair is long and in a female fashion, the clothing say woman, and the voice you can tell is being almost force to be a feminen voice.  They walk to Mogoz and kiss him on the cheek.  "Well Mogoz, what do you have for us today?"

"Today we train with real swords, be ready to get cut or stab..." Mogoz continues to give instructions on what they will be doing, it for the most part seems like they are going to be sparing for the first time with sharp blades.  At the end of the instructions the Half-elf grabs a small thin blade, a rapior, while Thomas gets something a little larger, not a long sword by any chance.  The two face off, each taking turns as offence and defence.  They each stab and cut one another, mostly due to poor defence rather than strong offence.  Mogoz comes and stands next to you Talinian after the two had been drilling for a while and offers the following information, “7, 2 I not say who 2 are.”  Before you can say anything he walks back over to the two drilling stops them and says “Thomas you put sword back.  Did you work getting nails out?”

Thomas holds his hands up and his finger nails grow in size, and look like little daggers.

“Good now you offence, get Esme with nails.”

The two continue drilling and fighting, now Thomas only has his hands, and is doing a good job getting in, and not getting cut.

Mogoz comes back to you Talinian and acting like he said nothing crazy to you asks you “I teach you sword, or maybe you like axe more?”

Bones the spells look like Raymond was trying to copy one of these unknown spells down into his own but.

 "No, thank you.  I prefer to watch," the tiefling wizard replies.  He takes copious mental notes on the fighting techniques and weapons, especially the 'natural' weapons.  "Are the claws poisoned or have any other special properties?  It seems odd to rely on claws when a sword or other weapon gives a better reach."  He asks casually.

Mogoz seems disapointed at the turning down of teaching someone how to use a weapon.  But stands and watches his students until Talinian askes about the claws.  "These two not good with sword.  What they do if sword is not an option. This give small option in fighting close, Esme should never leave this place, Thomas should never be close in fight, when he stay away from me it hurt, but i get close and he not happy anymore."  After a decent amount of time Mogoz has the two switch.  Esme is showing exactly what Mogoz said they are not good at all with or with out a weapon.

Mia’s brow would pop as she appears to stumble upon a backyard fighting pit of some sort. A smile would tug at her cheeks until it turned into a full on grin as she watched the two fighters spar. Was this was Maxer forgot to show her? The blonde would continue to observe the crowd and potential fighters. When the woman walks out of the tavern with a tray of drinks, Mialee would interject politely. “Pardon me...” Her smirk unfading, Mia would gesture in general, from the woman carrying the ale to the fighting. “How may I try a taste?” The warrior was curious and itching for play.

While the spectacle is going on in front of them, Bones sides up next to Talinian and leans in to quietly talk to him. "I think you may have some issues close to home, my friend. I managed to convince Ingon to give me two of Mayor Raymond's books. One was his where he tried to copy spells into. The other indicates it is from your school." Bones takes a moment for that to sink in and looks around to make sure no one is watching them closely, "This may not be the place to discuss at length, but... I thought you should be aware at least. I'd like to copy the spells at some point, but..." he shrugs.

Right now Talinian is not with you all he is off with his old friend Thomas.

(OOC - ah, sorry, I thought we'd followed him. And the fight he was seeing was what Mia had heard before.)

“Right there.” the woman points to the Giliath man who still has the goblin hangout on his shoulder, he stands well over 7 feet tall, and built like a brick $#!+ house.  “Fortshaker” the tavern maid adds. His head is shaved, with tattoos on it, he has 4 piercings over his left eye, and 2 over the right, a bull nose piercing and a few on each ear.  He has what looks to be a quarterstaff that is just as tall as he is, but he also seems to be putting a lot of weight on it as well almost as if he uses it for walking. 

The Goblin yells “Great fight!! Now on to our last scheduled fight of the night, “Inyelyen VS Nelalwe” a half-elf woman and a land elf male step into the ring and start prepping for their fight.

(I assume that Mia goes over to find out about taking a fight?)

Fortshaker says “We can see if anyone wants a fight after this one is over.”

(No when the councle meeting ended he went one way and you two went another way.  You planned to meet back up later in the night, and there is a good way to really get you two back together, as long as that is the direction the story goes.)

We can of course say that you tell him about this when you get back together.

Mialee remembered the pair from earlier. She’d nod in thanks for the maiden’s directions. She would go over to show interest by standing near and giving a silent nod of her head. She’d watch the fight between Inyelyen and Nelalwe.

Mia was no barbarian, or monk, but enjoyed a good battle none the less. Win or lose, it’s the exhilaration from a fight when her heart’s pounding and adrenaline’s coursing through her veins that she’d be looking forward too. 

Talinian is there anything else your wanting to do while watching the training?

The fight in the fighting pit the two are having a great back and forth for a little under 6 minutes, a few highlights from the fight, the half-elf woman, Inyelyen, lands a roundhouse kick on the elf man's, Nelalwe, jaw sending him back, and to the ground, by the time Inyelyen saw what she did, and moved to take advantage of the situation Nelalwe had already recovered himself, it did result in a little ground fighting, but Nelalwe had managed to regain himself.  After Inylyen managed a good punch she turned to gloat to the crowd over it, and Nelalwe came rushing in, grabbed her from the back, arched himself and slammed Inyelyen on her head over himself, rolled through and started to ground and pound her, while getting punched Inyelyen caught one of the punches and started rolling Nelalwe into and arm bar, Nelalwe pulled his arm out in time to be free, but also allowed for Inyelyen to get up.  The two went almost a full minute going punch for punch, no blocking or dodging just punch get punched and then punch again.  And this is how the fight ended, Nelalwe uppercut Inylyen hard knocking her straight onto her back, after a short self praise he rushed in to start dropping punches on her to end the fight, but it was a trick, Inyelyen waited for the perfect moment, and when Nelalwe was just in the right spot she kicked up, landing perfectly on his under chin, as he flew back you saw two full teeth, and one part broken tooth fly out of his mouth.  Inyelyen flipped to her feet jumped over the body and started to rain punches on the already unconscious elf.  Fortshaker rushed in and pulled the bloody woman off.  The crowd went wild.  Once everyone was settled down and coin purses were exchanged the goblin spoke up.  “Today we have a pleasure!  One of our guests wishes to fight, are there any who wish to accept this challenge?”

Three different people step up, a middle aged human man with short curly salt and pepper hair, the man wears only a pair of pants, he has a few scars on his face, which is twisted between laughter and anger.  A white tailed Dragonborn with a ridged head, and large scales, she is wearing loose fitting pants and shirt.  Lastly is a young looking half-elf man who is wearing a tight shirt and pants, you do recognize him as one of the guards you saw when we first arrived in the village.  What do you do Mia?

ooc: No. Talinian is done.

Once Thomas finishes his training, he looks tired and happy at the same time.  He walks to you Talinian and says "I have to meet back up with Asher if you wish join me, im not sure how tired you are, or if you are needing to meet up with your other friends."  After Talinian decides what he is going to do here we are going to pause his story its about an hour ahead of the rest of the group.

Mialee would eye each challenger individually. Recognizing the half-elf, she felt drawn towards the guard. She’d step forward to and begin stripping her armour down to black leggings and a tank top.

Mia would smirk, willing to offer her hand for a firm, sportsmanlike handshake. She’d be ready to fight.