OOC: Well what do you want me to do? I really doubt you want the bandits to get slaughtered...

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Deamon tapped Ripel on his shoulder. "If you want a way out, maybe you should try running in the opposite direction from the guys shooting arrows at you."

ooc-Just pretend that by some amazing luck, they're close to 'it'.

Ripel's eye twitched. "I know that. It's just that I don't know where we'll be headed, and if we bother to take the time to look where we're headed instead of just knowing they'll run us down.

"Don't your way around here? You were guiding us, weren't you?"

"We've been going south east. I have not said to go any other way, so you should continue to go south east. So get up and go."

OOC: By close, do you mean it is in our range of vision, or we are close to it but have to travel?

ooc-In range of vision, but not noticeable.

Ripel sighed. "Fine...would you do me a favor and help clear a path of any 'surprises' for us?"

The blue mage looked around, making sure that everyone would be ready to make a break for their escape. "Everybody," he whispered around him, "Prepare to run. I'd rather not fight on their terms right now."

Deamon turned towards the south east, looking around.

Damn fog... It should be here. Where the hell is it?

Deamon was getting fustrated, since he was so close, but could not find what he needed. Then, a fire from one of the arrows light up a cliff Deamon had not noticed before. On this cliff, something was reflecting the light from the arrow. Deamon grinned, then turned to Ripel, grabbing him by the shoulders. "Go that way. Resistance is over there." Deamon picked up Ripel and put him down, facing the cliff.

"Whoah? What are you doing?" Ripel blinked as he suddenly found himself facing an entirely different direction.

"Go that way. Resistance is over there."

They are? Okay...I understand. Motioning the others to follow him, he drew his sword and charged towards the cliff. "Okay you bandits, you all better stay out of my way!

"Everyone else, just follow me."

Kairi led Marche along, after all, he was her responsability and she wasn't about to let anything happen to him. She and Marche followed closely behind Ripel. "Deamon, I hope you know where you're leading us..." She muttered under her breath, hoping that Deamon wasn't accedentally leading them in the wrong direction, since it would be easy to get turned around in the fog.

A shout of "Shit!" could be heard from the opposite side of the camp site as the few bandits already attacking. Suddenly, out of the tall grass about 30 bandits, most of which were warriors with just a few mages amongst them, charged the caravan, at the same time the archers and mages that were originally attacking redoubled their efforts, and the few warriors over there also charged.

It seemed that only half of the bandits had been attacking, and now things were about to be a lot worse. It was anyone's guess why they didn't all attack in the first place, but the odds had just gotten a lot worse. And to top things off, most of them seemed to be moving towards the wounded and weak. Their strategy, at this point, was apparently to force the refugees on the defensive by forcing them to protect the weak... as well as hoping to send them into a blind rage by killing the wounded.

Leading the new band of bandits was Killith, who unhitched his giant axe and began to charge directly toward the man who looked the most dangerous--Deamon. A few civilians were cleaved completely in half by the man's attacks on his way, as he cut a swath through the weaker refugees.

In the meantime one of the other bandits raised his blade above the wounded Naras, hoping to finish him off, and another moved to run through a little girl with a broken arm who was struggling to keep up with the, now, moving caravan.

(OOC: They were planning on attacking the unguarded refugees once you guys went to attack the others [who were going to slowly retreat while continuing to attack to draw as many people as far away as possible. Oh, and I know Deamon will slaughter Killith if someone doesn't intercept him... but Killith's style is to start at the most bad ass and work his way down.)

OOC: Intercept Killith? Heck no, I'm gonna grab a seat and some popcorn, and watch Deamon pull a wookie and rip out Killith's arms and beat him to death with them...
Also question, now that it's melee, do we still need to be careful for every single bandit in the group of thirty, cause that could be a long fight. I'm gonna assume no, but I'll correct it if I'm wrong.

Dezil had just gotten behind cover of the rock wall, when suddenly there was a roar as the bandits charged into the unprotected refugees and began to slaughter them. "Time to fight," Dezil said, and he qucikly removed the magic parts to the rifle, with more haste than usual, and quickly popped in a bullet and attached the hammer. He cocked it, and fired one round at a nearby bandit, hitting him in the chest and bringing him down.Dezil then switched the whole thing around so he was holding the barrel and using the stock like a club. He charged two bandits, bringing down his gun like a massive club, and he smashed through the first bandit's defense and KO'd him, since there weren't many guns outside of the N'Revat Empire, and they CERTAINLY weren't used like this normally! The second however recovered, and brought out his longsword to parry. It was like a strange sword fight, Dezil weilding his gun like a club, as he faced the bandit armed with a sword.

Kairi glance around, seeing the enemy attacking the weak and defenceless ones. A look of panic crossed Kairi's face. Too many people to save... she couldn't save them all at once... "Ripel! This isn't good... What are we gonna do." She asked quickly, but then noticed the little girl about to be run through. Not only was she helpless to begin with, but she was wounded too. This, Kairi would not stand for.

"Marche, you stay with Ripel." She instructed, then made a dragoon leap the short distance. She landed just in time to parry the attacker's blade with the blade of her partisan, then she quickly countered by hitting him in the face with the other end of her partisan, making him stagger back...