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Post by Manah on Feb 23, 2013 20:35:31 GMT -5
Anaya Rosethorne-Unngh!!-The redhead's booted leg hit straight in Anaya's cheek, sending her tumbling into a nearby wall, where she smashed unceremoniously before ending up on the ground, where a pair of gemstones, an emerald and a small diamond, just fell onto her, apparently detached from the wall by the impact. Despite her armor and her resistance to blows, she had felt that kick, thank you very much. The woman was no stranger to combat, that much was clear. A bit dizzy, she slowly began to stand back up. -...Urkk... w-wait... it's nothing like what you think it is. I only... saved you from those damn Falmer as they were about to cut off your head... As for your clothes... they were like that when I found you. I removed them because if they were caused by Falmer weapons, there might still be poison on them, and you still had a few open wounds. T-then I dressed you up in those fur clothes because you were freezing, and the fire would not have been enough in this cold.Once she was up, she just held out her open hands in a gesture meaning she meant no harm, and also to defend herself if the woman pressed the attack. -...I was just trying to help... what would you have me do? Let you get beheaded, poisoned to death or frozen solid? I even heated up a roasted goat leg for you... but considering what you gave me for saving your life, I'm not too sure I still wanna give it to you...She said, rubbing her cheek, with a hint of humor in the voice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 stones (Efficient) into Close Combat (Hand-to-hand) plus 2 from Dragonforce, all into defense; 6 stones into Social Skills (Kind and cheerful) plus 3 from Attractive into attempting to convince her that she's wrong on all accounts and that I ain't the bad gal here.
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Feb 23, 2013 20:41:34 GMT -5
The woman slowly backs down. "Who are you? Where is Loki? I need to get back to the Avengers now."
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Post by Manah on Feb 24, 2013 19:21:00 GMT -5
Anaya Rosethorne
The attractive Nord woman simply looked at the redhead, paying close attention to her words. Loki... Avengers? She had never heard of them. She shrugged, explaining:
-I've never heard of a Loki or the Avengers ever before, and I've been pretty much all around Skyrim. Unless they're from someplace elsewhere in Tamriel? ...Anyway, you are within some old dweomer ruins, not far North of Windhelm, which means you're in the North-East of Skyrim. I am here to take care of some bandits who apparently holed themselves up within these ruins, but instead I found you, unconscious, about to be beheaded by this group of Falmer. Killed them, saved you, lit a fire, then you kicked me into the wall and here we are.
She picked up the two gems, putting them into her bag almost mechanically, like she hardly cared about her discovery.
-You're welcome, by the way. I... My name is Anaya Rosethorne. It is an honor, she said, offering to shake hands, if the woman would.
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Feb 24, 2013 19:24:02 GMT -5
The woman looks at you for a moment before shaking your hand. "You can call me Black Widow. I don't even think I'm on Earth anymore. A god named Loke teleported me here, blasted me into a wall, and knocked me out." She recalls. "I don't even know if he's still in this plane of existance or not..."
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Post by Manah on Feb 25, 2013 2:36:17 GMT -5
Anaya Rosethorne
Anaya looked, astonished, at the red-haired woman.
-You... survived a blast from a god? ...Wow. You're not only much stronger than you look, you're also far tougher. I-I mean... not that you look weak or anything. It's just... you seem human.
Even she, the Dragonborn, wondered if she could take a full divine blast from one of the Divines and live. Sheogorath had once told her that her power was now more or less equal to one of the Daedric Princes due to her amazing physical and magical might, combined with the powers of the Dragonborn... but Daedra were still rather weak when compared to the Nine Divines. At any rate, she was impressed, considering Black Widow's words were true (and she neither seemed to lie nor seemed to have any reason to).
-Another plane of existence, huh? ...Well... I once traveled to other planes of existence. Among other, was the Soul Cairn and Apocrypha, two realms of Oblivion. When I went there... well, I had to enter a portal to reach Soul Cairn. As for Apocrypha... there were black books, serving as keys to the other plane. Maybe there is such a thing leading to your own plane as well, somewhere in Skyrim.
She folded her arms, thinking it through.
-Here's what I suggest. You help me finish exploring these ruins. I suspect the bandits I hunt were killed by the Falmer, but I wanna be sure... besides, killing the Falmer is a good idea. Those guys are worse than bandits. But anyway... we finish up here, and then we will travel to Winterhold. There, we will find the Mages College. They'll let you in even if you're not a mage... they know me. Inside is a large library with more tomes than you can think of. We might find an answer and a way back to your world there... what do you say?
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Feb 25, 2013 12:10:26 GMT -5
"Okay." Widow says retreving a pair of bracers from the pile of ruined clothing and removing her gloves to better fit them on her wrists. "I'm ready to go." She says still not used to the fur armor. "You wouldn't happen to have any lighter clothes on you, I can wear? At least once we're somewhere warmer.
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Post by Manah on Mar 4, 2013 11:52:48 GMT -5
Anaya Rosethorne
-Yes, I do have a thing or two that could fit you, I'm sure. Besides... we are rather similar in size, judging from how my fur armor fits you. I'll show you a few suggestions then. But first... let's go hunting, Anaya said with a smile.
The Dragonborn took the lead, her sword in one hand and her shield in the other, looking carefully around as she advanced.
-Be careful... as I said earlier, the Falmer are pretty dangerous, because, among other things, of their love for poison. Watch out also for their little pets, overgrown bluish grey insects with wicked mandibles. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 stones into Iron Will (Heal white stones) to heal from the 1w of damage I took earlier from Widow;
10 stones into Thieving; 6 into defense, 4 plus 3 from Animal Senses all into locating potential threats, especially Falmer and Chaurus.
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Mar 4, 2013 12:35:46 GMT -5
Widow nods and gets to walking.
You go through a few more halls until you come across a room with the bandits. They are all dead, laying at the feet of a Dwarven Centurion!
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Post by Manah on Mar 6, 2013 21:38:08 GMT -5
Anaya Rosethorne
-Huh. What a surprise... bandits holed up in a Dwemer ruin killed by a Dwemer Centurion. Serves them right, I guess.
The Dragonborn readied herself for battle. She may have faced dozens of those constructs in the past, but they were still pretty impressive.
-Feel free to keep your distance if you want, Centurions are no pushovers. I can take him by myself.
Not waiting to see if the red-haired woman would join the fray or not, Anaya charged the Centurion, first feinting that she would start with a sword slash, but instead going with a powerful shield bash on its leg. Then she moved on its side, attempting to draw it away from Widow, as she stroke the construct several times over with the Stromblade. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Start H: 5/5 E: 24/24
11 stones (Efficient) into Close Combat (Swords, Shield, Fighting larger opponents) plus 2 from Dragonforce, plus 5 from the Stormblade since I'm fighting a large foe, into a 18 stones (AP) attack VS the Centurion.
7 stones into Acrobatics plus 2 from Dragonforce, all into defense.
End E: 9/24 Defense: 19 (3 Ref.Dodge, 2 Toughness, 3 [No AP, No 2x damage] Armor, 2 Shield of Ysmir, 9 actions) Mental Defense: 11 (6 Intelligence, 5 Mental Defense) Magical Defense +3 Cold Defense +3
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Mar 8, 2013 22:26:41 GMT -5
You chip away at the automaton's legs several times. This must be some kind of upgraded model with how well it's armor is holding up.
Widow fires some sort of energy bolt out her wrists striking the thing in the face, making it fumble around blindly.
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Post by Manah on Mar 9, 2013 1:09:22 GMT -5
Anaya Rosethorne
"Count on the Dwemer to make those things tougher and tougher", Anaya thought as she struck another blow on it. Then, what seemed like a magical blast fired by Black Widow made the construct fumble around blindly.
-Well done... And now... let's finish this! YOR TOOR SHUL!!!
As she shouted, a torrent of flames engulfed the Dwarven Centurion! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Start H: 5/5 E: 24/24
10 stones (Efficient) into Ranged Combat (Dragon Shouts) plus 2 from Targeting, 2 from Dragonforce, and 5 from Fire Breath Shout; into a 19 stones (2x damage) attack VS the Centurion.
7 stones (Efficient) into Close Combat (Swords, Shield, Fighting larger opponents) plus 2 from Dragonforce, plus 5 from the Stormblade since I'm fighting a large foe, all into defense.
End E: 9/24 Defense: 24 (3 Ref.Dodge, 2 Toughness, 3 [No AP, No 2x damage] Armor, 2 Shield of Ysmir, 14 actions) Mental Defense: 11 (6 Intelligence, 5 Mental Defense) Magical Defense +3 Cold Defense +3
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Mar 12, 2013 6:35:15 GMT -5
You fire a blast of fire at the Centurion, knocking it to the floor. As Widow fires more blasts at it.
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Post by Manah on Mar 13, 2013 23:42:09 GMT -5
Anaya Rosethorne
The Dragonborn sheathed her weapon, as she quickly looked around for anything of value, before they'd leave. As far as she was concerned, they were done there; the bandits were dead.
-You're pretty good in a fight, Black Widow. What's that magical device you just used? It seemed to work pretty well against that dwarven automaton, but I've never seen one either in Skyrim or Cyrodiil... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 stones into Thieving (Search room/area) plus 3 from Animal senses to search the room and the corpses for anything useful/of value, most likely including a rather large amount of gemstones... ^_^
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Mar 15, 2013 21:57:06 GMT -5
"It's not magic, it's a concentrated energy projecror firing focused electricity. I call them the Widow's bite."
You look around and find several amthysts and garnets, along with about 50 iron arrows to take.
*Clap... Clap... Clap...* "Impressive Dragonborn." A man in green and gold with a large horned helmet says walking out the shaddows.
"Loki..." Widow snarls.
"Oh hello Nastasha." Loki says. "I would have thought the blind savages would have finished up with your dispacting already."
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Post by Manah on Mar 21, 2013 21:45:43 GMT -5
Anaya Rosethorne
Anaya would have answered Natasha's explanation with the fact that as far as she knew, the only way to project any sort of energy was through magic (though she understood... since Widow was from another world, she guessed some things must have been different there). However, she was distracted... by the appearance of that God the red-haired woman had spoken about!
"Impressive Dragonborn", the man said, clapping his hands. It was hard to tell whether he was genuinely impressed or just sarcastic.
-I've faced far worse, she replied simply, giving a look at Widow. She wondered what the girl was about to do... She knew Loki more than the Dragonborn did, so she'd follow her lead for that specific situation.
"I would have thought the blind savages would have finished up with your dispacting already."
This one comment, however, didn't sit well with the proud Nord woman.
-I found it strange myself that a so-called god would resort to such a cowardly tactic. Leaving an unconscious woman to be killed by a band of Falmer... Do you have no honor, or respect that of your foes?
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