The Vale of Shadow (Part 2)

[Zekafae]

He smiled" What can I say, this place is way too unstable to have a peaceful night, so.. what do their masters look like? Anything fun?" He notched an arrow and headed towards the shadows, moving slower and slowly working to blend in with the environment both for camoflauge but also to disappear completely within the shadows to get the upperhand. There was only the whisper from him" Draeglolths lovely little things.." Climbing up into the tree he walked along the long sturdy branch hiding amongst the foliage as he took aim peering into the darkness. Whispering darkly" Come a little closer... get your ugly face a little closer."

[Inriiaynrae Jaelre]

Inrii disappeared from sight and hurried back to her stuff. not much she could do against enemies with a bar of soap.
she unsheathed Stealthwhisper from her belt that laid on her pack, not bothering to worry with shoes or piwafwi at the moment.
Zarstra had sensed the disturbance and awoke. she crawled unseen twords the barrier, ready to throw some fire.
her hands were ready, as was her magical sword. one fatal cut and they would vanish to shadow.
[color=green:1ah4xzt3]draegloth? here? that very unusual.[/color:1ah4xzt3]
waiting for them to get closer...


((ooo shiney things...wait, must focus, must kill monsters!))

[veraka]

Veraka laughed maniacally as the berserker entered his mind, "ranger, I thought all priestesses were fun? There's three, take your pick."
With that, he looked to Inrii, "Me, tank; you artillery, and get it bloody right this time." He walked off into the mist, ready for three clawed monstrosities.

He came within inches of the barriers outer edge, but stopped short; "Well, well, well; what have we here. Three overgrown [b:2jrktymf]muts[/b:2jrktymf] and their spider-kissing masters," he said, to the three priestesses and their pets.

The only response he got were three 'attacks' and three howls of rage, as three nine foot tall shadows came within the barriers edge, but were stopped short. Razor sharp claws came in and swiped toward the aasimar. He reflexively jumped outta their reach.
"Missed me," he taunted them; "I'm . . . right. . . HERE!!" he roared as he cannoned into the middle monstrosity, leaving the left and right ones open for the picking.

[Inriiaynrae Jaelre]

"as you wish. but you should really let that go," she whispered, "if your in the way, well it's not my fault."
spider-kisser confirmed her thinking. they were from the house of Lolthites that her house fought with and dwelt in the entrance to the underdark tunnels.
a bit of the drow wickedness crept thru her.
she and Zarstra exited the safety of the grove and moved stealthy twords the priestess. a globe of invulnerbility went up, as she put one around her companions also. then she cast true strike on each.
the demons were occupied with Veraka, and Zak was using his powerful bow.
they were still a good distance away, [i:3kkdxy15]go head, I know you been wanting to[/i:3kkdxy15].
Zarstra threw up a wall of fire between them and the spider-kissers. then she threw a fireball at the nearest. hitting the female hard. she was severaly injured but not dead.
Inrii levitated above the group and released some flame arrows.

[veraka]

((nother fight scene; Since Inrii mentioned me going psycho, I guess I'm gonna have to live up to it ))
"Come on you over-sized half-breed, come and get me," Veraka growled as the draeglolth came in fast, taking a swipe at him with it's elongated claws; jumping back, he barely dodged the powerful attack, hearing a gut-wrenching screeching sound.
When he cleared the ulgy's attack, he looked down; there were four scratched pits in his chest-plate; he smiled [i:2x52kpu3]thank you Elistraee.[/i:2x52kpu3]
"Adamantine, gotta love it," he said as he drove in hard to the half-demon, aiming for its heart; the creature wasn't stupid. It caught his blade with it's two inner hands, absorbing both the pain and the cutting bite as it used it's much longer to unleash a hell-storm of blows against the warrior.
Veraka took razor blow after blow, accepting the punishment as he hacked at the monster with his sword. All at once, the flurry of slashing and cutting was lifted off of him as a flying ball of white fur hurtled into the nine-foot tall, her claws and teeth racking at the beasts skin. The draeglolth merely smiled as it was used to such treatment; it lifted itself up and hurled the wolf off of itself. Stalking over to Aurora, it grinned as it had paralyzed the winter wolf. It's claws were tipped with poisoned tips.

Veraka jumped as he heard a very familiar howl pierced the air around him; his heart sank as he behold a horrific sight. The draeglolth had not only used Aurora as a pincushion for its wicked sharp claws, it had taken a bite out of her.
He then felt a very old, and very familiar sensation come roaring up; the berserker whispered in his mind, [color=darkred:2x52kpu3]Do you want vengeance?[/color:2x52kpu3]
"I want them DEAD!!" he roared. Lighting crackled in left and right around the storm warrior. He not only let the beast within himself come up, he opened the door for it, letting it take control of his body.
Feeding off of his rage, his anger, his sorrow, and his hate, the berserker howled as it charged in, meeting the half-demon in a full-on shoulder charge. By this time, the other two had already been dealt with; one dead, one still among the living, but only momentarily ((have fun Zek )), with the priestesses being distracted by Inrii.
The berserker slashed left, right, every-which direction there was an opening, it took it; the draeglolth responded by unleashing a frenzy of it's own. Slashing left, then down, the dog-looking demon just smiled as it continued to unleash hell on the berserker. Right as the demon-spawn was about to unleash another barrage, Veraka spotted an opening between it's two shorter arms; the berserker did the work for him, driving his charged-sword into the demons torso with both arms. The demon was stopped in mid-stride; looking down, it merely laughed until it realized that it was being lifted off the ground by the raging assimar. The berserker smiled as Marala Vharc cut deep into the draeglolth's torso, and up into its chest, blood staining it sharp edge. The demon howled in pain.
"You like the Hells, don't you?" Veraka asked the demon, his voice had a deep, very dark tone to it; "pity you'll never see your queen of spiders!"
With that, the storm warrior chanted the words that would unleash all the stored energy in Marala Vharc. He finished, and the sky lit up as what seemed like bolt after bolt blazed down from the sky and struck the impaled draeglolth. It howled, cringed and whined as its skin was literally set ablaze. When the light show was finished, all that remained of the demon was a pile of superheated ash.

[Zekafae]

Zek just smirked cruelly" My mother and elder sister became priestesses before I left the city. Both powerful wizards as well, my younger a warlock, from whom i bear these infernal scars still." Notching the arrows He let them loose one by one, the arrows screamed through the blackness of the night hitting their mark on one of the remaining enemies of theirs. When he finished with the arrows the bow went back in it's place and he drew the blades. Flitting through the shadows almost like a spectre he moved behind one of the priestesses and whispered in her ear" The Rilynath house reigns supreme, tell your mistress I will come for her and slay her myself." As he spoke one dagger was plunged deep into the body the blade moving through the body and ripped upwards severing the ribs from the spine. the other blade all but beheaded the priestess. Withdrawing the blade from the now near mutilated corpse he went for the other. He had plans on taking his time with this one solely to extract information. Interrogation from a drow would not be enjoyable. That he promised.

[Inriiaynrae Jaelre]

Inrii finished the drow Zarstra started with. Zek killed the one near her as they both went after the last one. she sorta heard Zek's comment as Veraka continue with his demons.
Ice came from her hands twords the priestess.
the priestess was a bit smarter and cast a magic dispeller.
"and you think that can protect you spider kisser," her voice hissed.
Stealthshadow came in low as the priestess brung her mace out to parry the move. Inrii kept the Lolthite busy while Zek snuck in, tho she prefered sneak attacks.

[veraka]

Veraka noticed the ranger make short, bloody work of one of the priestesses, and started to make his way over to another female lolthite.
"If he doesn't kill her quickly, she's in for a painful introduction," he said under his breath.
There was one remaining half-demon ((I'm guessing)); "looks like it's calling card for Kelemvor," he said as he charged at the draeglolth. Veraka immediatly got his method of killing the beast down, it was now just a matter of getting into the right position.

The demon came in slashing, wanting to cut the aasimar's jugular wide open. Veraka blocked one razor claw with his shield; the other he took full on, letting his armor take the brutal punishment. The storm warrior ducked, jumped, and weaved back and forth, but to no avail.
[i:1mght6rp]The things arms are just too damn bloody long,[/i:1mght6rp] he cursed in his head.

The demon slash again and again, smiling at the carnage it was inflicting on the aasimar.
Veraka noticed that it's strides were slow, but wide.
"That's it." With that, he came in for frontal attack with his shield; the demon easily caught it. In a blur of motion, Veraka released the shield, simultaneously drawing his shortsword, Thunderstrike, and landing a solid blow on the monster's forearm.
Thunderstrike did its job, paralyzing the creature on hit. Acting on instinct, Veraka lunged at the creatures throat with Marla Vharc.
The bastard sword plunged into the draeglolth's throat, causing a fountain of bloody carnage to ensue. Reversing his grip on Marala Vharc, he used it as a lever as he hoisted himself up near the creatures head, and, bellowing, sank Thunderstrike into the creatures skull.

The demon toppled over, a gurgling noise emanating from its throat; "another one for my collection," Veraka said with a wicked grin.

[Zekafae]

He moved in and performed perhaps a rather brutal execution on the priestess. Plunging the blade into the back of the priestess the tip protruding only slightly beneath the flesh of her front. He moved up behind her and pressed the blade to her throat" Shhh... hush Lolth can't hear you... She betrayed you, abandoned you..." his words all but dripped in venom. He pushed the blade slowly through moving it some so that his hand literally was inside the body pushing it out to the front his hand moved from the handle to grip the heart slowly squeezing. He whispered darkly in the priestess' ear" Each and every one of you who follow the spider shall die." The fingers curled about the heart more stopping it from beating more and more be fore he looked to inrii" Finish her." He gripped his blade again and ripped it back out knicking the spine just enough to paralyze the lolthite. Moving from her he was close enough for a finisher if need be. He'd make sure to check the bodies for house symbols and other things that would be useful.

[veraka]

Veraka turned to see Zeks effective, if not very gory, torture of the priestess; normally Veraka would have probably felt a twang pity run through his system, but this wasn't Veraka . . . completely.
[i:1wf66o4v]Ouch, that had to hurt.[/i:1wf66o4v]
"That'll make 'em think twice, maybe even three times," he said to the ranger, a smirk plastered to his face.

[Inriiaynrae Jaelre]

Inrii stepped back as Zek came in.
'finish her' was all she needed.
Stealthwhipserer came up to the priestess' throat, "and now you pay." the priestess' last breath came as a gurgle.

edit: as her body hit the ground, it vanished into shadow, leaving her equipment behind.

[Zekafae]

Nodding some he'd move to the fire and went to apply both the blade and his arm and armor in waves of heat over the fire, as if to feed the armor, but it was more so that when it dried he could scrape it off easier. When all was dead he went about the enjoyable task of looting the bodies" Lets see how high up the ranks they were and what houses they came from."

[veraka]

Veraka walked over to Zek as he was sifting through the bodies of the dead drow.
Hearing his comment, Veraka put in, "they had to be high priestesses, at the very least; especially if they were handling draeglolths. Those overgrown, four-armed muts are usually leashed by high priestesses anyways."

Aurora by this time had recovered and limped over to Veraka; the storm warrior set to work patching her up best he could.

[Zekafae]

Nodding" That's what I thought, so that means they'll have some goods on them." Pulling off whatever satchels they had he nodded as he checked the fabric of their clothing" Very nice quality too, I'd say they're of at least mid rank houses as well. Some high quality materials." Grabbing whatever gear the priestesses had he went to the fire and started to sort through it." We'll see what's worth while to bring and burn the rest. Three of them three of us. Easy way to split the goods. You two name what things you'd like. I plan on selling some of what i have here. I know a few fences that would pay a good price for these things. I'm contemplating even taking the robes, cleaning what blood I can out normally then handle the rest. A high priestess garment to any merchant on here just on material alone could fetch a couple hundred pieces of gold easy I'm sure. Some fences I know could pay more... then again I admit I love Drow clothing." He didn't need to say why. he'd wear the style clothing but he preferred function above aesthetics since he was never in such a formal situation. He with all his years of work got a hefty sum of funds which he used a portion to get Drow style clothing with some nice materials. He personally preferred some special elements anything aside from anything involving spiders. The only thing on his mind now aside from making sure they'd be left alone for the night was get to grooming.

[Inriiaynrae Jaelre]

((this will be real quick till i get home later tonite.))

When all was dead, Inrii went around looting along with the others. "I think their old enemies of my house. but it's wierd their out this far. well, I can mend the cloth and stuff it it will fetch a better price. or just make it look newer."
Inrii looked over the clothes. they were unusual compared to her simple spidersilk clothes.
"well, they might would make a great costume. and their good quality. so back to same watch schedule?"