OOC: Hmm, short post.

Mercury glances up at Solaris and then yawns ostentatiously. He then looks at his claw and closely examines the fine pattern of silvery-blue scales. While showing exaggerated disinterest in Solaris he secretly prepares another spell.

On his way to the pawn shop Will thoght about his day. "It has been a very strange day I met two black mages that tried to kill me, two dragons, lost a scroll, gained a heap of money and obtained a few trinkets from a light warrior hunting bird man". "I wonder what happened to them all of them". "Oh well I suppose I can find out tonite at the inn but I better go borrow a disguise in case the bird comes back"

Aeryn had decided to go along with Myrra....and was currently building a campfire. The problem was really trying NOT to incinerate the logs with even a Lit-1.....but he'd managed to succeed admirably, "So.....what exactly was that scroll supposed to summon, anyway?" he asked, having already checked out his own scroll.

Seeing that nobody was left, Solaris smiled. "Good. More blood for me." He returned to the Hall of Valor and approached it. The two door guards raised their weapons, and Solaris held up a spoon. The party begins. His gaze stunned them instantly, and went to work with the spoon. Having dealt with them, he kicked down the huge doors and disintegrated ten of the knights with a wave of his fiendish hand. He gazed at several more, and they screamed in terror as their skin began to peel from their bodies. The internal organs of the rest of them imploded, and all that was left of them were pieces of metal, shrapnel, skin, blood, bones, and thier hearts. He scooped up the hearts and set the building on fire, leaving the corpses of the door guards. He flew away to search for one of the Black Mages, and soon found both Myrra and Aeryn in the nearby forest. He dropped down from the sky and landed ten feet in front of her, and he raised the bloody, still-beating hearts of the slain knights, grinning maliciously.

OOC: What he did to the guards with the spoon is really sick, so I might just leave it out in this post.

OOC: how the hell are you a half-fiend now?

IC: "Well well well....." Aeryn chuckled, "Apparently I was right, that self-righteous bullshit you were spouting earlier only lasted as long as it took you to see your weakness" he stood up, his midnight-blue robes whipping about him in the chill wind, "If you attack us, you will die. If you flee, you will be hunted down by your own kind. If you join us, you will serve us eventually.....your choice was wise, but done incorrectly." he shrugged, "You're worthless anyway......it's not like any of us care about your fate."

OOC: that reminds me of what Krug would do in VGcats. I’m considering this as godmodding, but it really depends.
BIC: Myrra was seated cross-legged, her back to the campfire. She casually studied the open scroll in her right hand, projecting a feeling of ignorance to Solaris’ presence. Of course, she was well prepared if the half-fiend was to attack. Flicking the scroll closed with a deft movement of her wrist, she threw it in the fire.
“… What are you doing?!”
“Burning the scroll, what do you think I’m doing?” Myrra replied to Aeryn’s shocked question, watching the flames consume the scroll.
OOC: dun worry. Myrra’s got a trick.

Aeryn nodded, "I suppose there's no harm in letting batty stand over there for a while...." he came over and sat down next to her, looking into the flames, "So, what were you doing in Corneria at the same time as the Light Warriors?"

"Funny you should mention," Myrra mused. "I was actually looking for a wand to help channel my spells through. Couple of my ex-friends told me about Corneria's skilled workmanship in that area, so I decided to explore a bit." Myrra laughed mirthlessly, "Turned out that the spell shop was a little behind in the art of manslaughter, and their wands were too weak. Naturally, I took disciplinary action."
"I noticed the fire."
"So you did, so you did."

OOC: Well, seeing how everyone's wandered off I'll have to call on my blue magic yet again.

Mercury sighs, his plan to provoke the half-fiend hadn't worked. Still there were the black mages, wherever they'd wandered off to. Summoning up his blue magic he casts an aura tracing spell to follow the spoor of Myrra. Smiling when he locates her general position he opens his eyes. He moves over to the magic shop, which is still ablaze, and walks into the flames.

At the campsite Mercury casually saunters out of the campfire. Looking around at the odd group bunched around it he says, "Well, we meet again." Seeing everyone's at least mildly surprised expressions he adds, "Oh, I used a fire stride spell to get here. That's why I walked out of the fire."

OOC: Myrra isn't surprised. She's done that kind of thing before... when she was in serious trouble of getting caught with genocide that is >:)
BIC:"Another ironic meeting?" Myrra arched a sarcastic eyebrow, “why did you cast trace on me? Couldn’t you just as easily have used Aeryn as target?”
“Considering that you mass murdered copious amounts of lives in Corneria, your essence was stronger where I stood,” Mercury replied.
“Still doesn’t explain why you bothered looking for us. We’re not fun when we’re not killing.”

OOC: He was exempt from the order and is a Fallen Paladin, and he gave in to evil, making him a psychotic half-fiend. Now that he's butchered all of the paladins, he turned into a half-fiend instead of a death knight.

IC: Solaris threw the hearts of his victims next to the fire and also threw down a bloody, metal spoon. "Why would I attack those who can help me exact my revenge?" He stood still, only his mouth moving. "I didn't expect you to react to the hearts in any way. Frankly, I expected you'd be pleased. Pity. A waste of the lives of fourty paladins." He flapped his wings and flew over to the fire, and it burned out when he neared it. The air became cold and icy, and a ball of blue flame appeared in Solaris's hand. He threw the ball into the air and watched it come back down and hit the spot where the fire had burned only moments before. It bust into a gigantic ice blue bonfire, towering over Solaris. The half-fiend floated into the air and began feeding the fire with huge pieces of wood, and the fire soon twisted itself into the shape of a doorway. Out of the fire came the head of a huge, horned demon, and Solaris dropped to the ground, causing the fire to die out. "This is my dream: to summon a creature powerful enough to conquer the world. With it, I'll gain immeasurable wealth to be spread to others who wish for the same cause. All scrolls, magical items, and much of the wealth will go to the Black Mages. Weapons, armor, and another piece of the wealth will go the Fallen Paladins and the Dark Elves. What say you? Wealth, power, and destruction!"

Mercury chuckles slightly to himself for his own reasons. "And what of me?' he asks, in a slightly honeyed tone. He contains his mirth at quickly the once half celestial had changed his tune.

"Do we really need your help? You slew some do-gooders....that's all. Do you really expect us to be impressed? Your little stunt with the fire didn't help either, it was more annoying than anything else." Aeryn leaned back against a nearby log, "Now....I'm sure Rage has an opinion about this, but so far I'm not really impressed."

"Maybe this will change your mind." A hole leading into an extra-dimensional space appeared in front of Solaris. Out of it was dumped a pile of bloodstained robes and mage hats. A huge pile, large enough to stand 40 feet tall if stacked on top of each other. Solaris floated above it. "The clothing of every Black Mage present at the School of Black Magery last year. Don't worry about their bodies. They were tortured, shot, stabbed, poisoned, quartered, crucified, hanged, and cremated." He grinned and turned to Mercury. "As for the dragons, they'll recieve, should they be willing to cooperate, all the mind slaves, food, equipment, and wealth as they wish." He picked up a robe and licked some of the blood off.

OOC: now THAT'S godmodding
BIC:Myrra leaned back, still seated, golden eyes flashing, unamused and even moreso unimpressed.
"Conquering the world is such a tempting idea," she said softly, a hint of something else in her voice, "but, since you killed my lover," she indicated the robe Solaris was licking, "I'll have a hard time deciding whether to co-operate or to tear apart the very fabric of time and space in order to destroy you utterly in revenge. I am not interested in magical items of importance at present, nor will I be. You have merely sealed my decision," she added. Then, slowly standing up, she lifted her left hand and drew a silvery symbol in the air. "Oh, and I'm unimpressed by your meagre act of flimsy power," she said flatly before stalking off into the woods.
OOC: new spell? Symbol of Concealing adds +4 to obscurity and makes it very hard to trace where she goes. Unless you guys follow immediately... that is. (aka, Rage is running awwaaaaaaay!)

Solaris smirked and licked more blood off of the robe. While not a vampire himself, he shared their desire for blood. "So delicious. A tragedy he couldn't live longer. Oh well, he blew himself up." He rose his voice in a hope that Myrra would hear. He threw the robe away and picked up another, licking it in the same fashion.

OOC: amen.....can we kill Solaris now?

IC: Aeryn raised an eyebrow, "Charming sense of diplomacy you have there, Bats" he rose, casting a Haste spell, and speeding off into the woods after Myrra. He caught up to her quickly, and asked her, "Was that really your lover he killed?"

OOC: If I did, the world would cease to exist. It's best to ignore him until he comes to his senses, and play fair.
BIC: "Yep. He stayed back to study further into the Arts of Sacrificial spells. I'd done a full degree on that already, so I left early," Myrra replied grimly, "But something tells me that I should wait for my rage to simmer down a bit before acting rationally. 'Sides," Myrra grinned vampirically, "it's not fun when there's no world left to conquer after exacting vengeance, is there?"

OOC: I might drop a potential quest into the mix.

Mercury uses his natural agility from being a quicksilver dragon to also keep up up with the two black mages. Sarcasm dripping from his voice he says, "Oh, such a wonderful offer. Help him conquer the world and then when he's king he'll reward us. Yes, I can just see that happening." Taking a moment to cast a spell to ward off scrying he continues, "If you really wish to revive your lover I did hear that there is a legendary Phoenix, which has the power to revive the dead that lives in the mountains around here. You might need a part of the deceased's body though."

OOC: Jaguar, for the love of all things holy and unholy, STOP GODMODING!!!

IC: "I didn't really care about him slaughtering anyone....but going after our kind has earned him my emnity." Aeyrn's eyes glittered menacingly, "His death is assured, now..." he heard the dragon's comment and looked over at him, a puzzled expression of his face, "Yes, a phoenix down will bring him back....good thought."

Ignoring both of their attempts to cheer her up a bit, she suddenly asked, "Uhm... What happened to that other dragon person? Inferno, I think his name was?"

OOC:btw where IS inferno?

OOC: I don't know. We could always use the private mesage thingy to find out.

Mercury also looks puzzled and sratches his chin, making a rasping noise before replying, "I think he's still buried in the rubble at the inn. That's a pity, I was meaning to ask him about that second tail of his."

"yeah, he's probably still buried" Aeryn said, considering, "I hope your beloved can keep up with the rest of us once we revive him....though I don't know where we're headed after that or how we intend to get there. I'm not even sure why I'm still traveling with you....there isn't anything for me to gain by it." he shrugged, "maybe I just needed a little excitement."

Will was talking his normal midnight walk "dropped" things appered more frequently at night he had just "found" when a person from the guard walked around the corner and saw him picking a man's pocket, he imediatley alerted the watch and they went after him. "Drat" thoght Will. "Better make a run for it he ran out of corneria and into the woods hoping to lose them among the trees.

EDIT: hows this DB

OOC: secretskull.......I think we're in the woods, in the middle of nowhere, you wouldn't be finding dropped items out there.

OOC: there you go all fixed and you had better delete one of your post so the modes wont think you double posted and so this wont look like spam. where is inferno? oh and post count should be kicking in soon so get ready for chapter two.

OOC: o.O post count?
BIC: Myrra waved an impatient hand. "I do not tend to dwell on the past. I prefer the what's happening now," she sighed noisily through her nose. Damn, can't seem to shake these two, she thought inwardly.

"What? You expect us to leave just when it's getting good?" Aeryn asked, smirking. He looked at the forest around them, "If there are any wood elves in here, we may find ourselves under attack."

OOC: together we have posted more than 100 times and the modes think thats a good reason to close threads so we have to start a new chapter so lets tye up the loose threads.

IC:After Will left the guards behind he slowed to a walk "great now I have to stay in the woods until everybody calms down". Thoght Will. He was so wrapped up in his thoghts that he didnt notice the black mages until he was right next to them "oh hi I didnt expect to see you here, didnt expect to see anyone here for that matter." Said Will startled.

OOC: Who wants to start the new chapter?

Mercury looks at Will and does some quick mental calculations. In exchange for having to look out for the thief taking more than his fair share of any treasure they found he'd get a free meat shield, trap springer, decoy, trade good, sacrifice and possible trail ration. He'd always noticed that large groups tended to find more loot anyway.

"Well, we're headed for the mountains to find a phoenix with the power to revive the dead. We could use someone with your talents. If you come along we'll give you a share of any treasure we find."

OOC: I will
"Hmm... sounds intreasting yes I think I will join". He said. "Nothing left to do at town anyway". Said Will thinking about the comotion he had caused. "Can you give me a bit more detail on why were doing this and the chances there will acually be treasure involved in it?