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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 6, 2015 7:13:29 GMT -5
Benjen nodded. "The men need a moment but we can keep an eye on where they're going." He turned to look up at the house. "Amelia! See if you can follow them!"
Amelia nodded and sought out the shadows to try and track down where the men were going.
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 6, 2015 7:18:04 GMT -5
Amelia sees the men are scattering, but some are joining other groups of men. They might be trying to reinforce the area. Amelia loses a few of them because shadow searching isn't fast but withdrawing now will just have cost lives for no territory. Hector gets his long sword and shield back out. He sends a few men with the freed selves back to the keep and requests more soldiers. "Gonna be a Lon night."
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 6, 2015 7:24:39 GMT -5
Amelia points in a direction where the most men had scattered to reinforce. "Largest group is that way!"
"Right!" Benjen cleaned his sword and sheathed it. "We're going to be heading deeper into their territory!" He waits for the reinforcements to come before setting off, Amelia in tow.
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 6, 2015 7:29:25 GMT -5
Forty more men arrive after a half hour or so. The troops head down to the road where the most men he gone, and they come to Gerold's Folly, an old slum named after the unscrupulous developer who had made it. He had been murdered by his cheated tenants and his blood and flesh still live in the mortar of the buildings. Dozens of people are milling about, mostly the poorest of the poor with nowhere to flee.
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 6, 2015 7:38:19 GMT -5
"We need to get these people somewhere safe," Benjen said and Amelia nodded. "People! Make your way to Gull Keep! I will send a messenger to provide you all with food and water! Soon Gerold's Folly will be safe again!"
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 6, 2015 7:53:39 GMT -5
"Again?" Is the general co census, but the crowd starts to disperse. Kane looks to the prince. "Those buildings all connect to each other, it was to save space but it's turned this place to a fucking maze, begin pardon on the language, but if we go in there can get buggered from every direction."
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 6, 2015 7:56:34 GMT -5
"What other choice do we have?" Benjen asked, looking over the houses. "They'll just stay in there, huddled like rats. Have to flush them out one way or another and I'd rather not burn this whole place down."
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 6, 2015 7:58:34 GMT -5
Hector frowned too. "Let's split up and hit it from a few sides." The massive, six block building looks increasingly intimidating. "I'll take twenty around back."
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 6, 2015 8:01:43 GMT -5
"Ten of you on Amelia and through the other side, rest of us comes with me through the middle!" Benjen called out, sword in hand now. "We don't stop until they're all dead!"
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 6, 2015 8:48:13 GMT -5
Amelia's men see a huge warren has been dug into the buildings, making a colossal room filled with chained slaves and the guards attack. There are about a dozen of them and the wood inside means fire is a dangerous proposition.
Benny's men enter and see corpses of men and women starved to death, tiny children playing with gold coins left behind as the criminals fled with lions stamped on them. They all hear a fight from Hector's entrance.
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 6, 2015 9:55:46 GMT -5
Amelia decides to use shadows to cut any opposing men she can, unwilling to set the whole place on fire.
Benjen notes the coins and pauses for a moment, before turning to the men. "We go further in!"
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 6, 2015 10:44:06 GMT -5
Shadows and soldiers cut criminals to shreds, suffering only two wounded. Ben's men charge around and Ben sees a young lady sitting behind a desk, long red hair extending all the way from her head to piling on the floor. "Prince Venjen," she said pleasantly. "Welcome to the Folly."
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 6, 2015 10:49:05 GMT -5
Benjen held up a hand to his men, sword still firmly in his grasp. "I don't have time to chat so if you'd like to say what you have to say, that would be fantastic."
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Post by The Forgotten God on Aug 6, 2015 10:54:41 GMT -5
"How charming. I just wanted to see you and your lady love in action. I've heard so delightfully much about you all," she said. Her hair spun around her like she is in a bloody tornado and she seems to simply melt through the floor. "Be seeing you!"
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Post by Amelia Royce on Aug 6, 2015 10:56:16 GMT -5
"What's your name!" Benjen called out, stepping back as the woman's strange hair began to spin around. "What the hells do you want!"
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