[Alliance] Chapter Four: Session Four

Appearing Characters: A'dlaess Whitespire, Aramar Thorne, Asya, Berna, Broll Bearmantle, Ceyhan, Elissa Cross, Makasa Flintwill, Ravak Grimtotem, Remnii, Riff, Ruya, Samaara, Seria, Syeori Sunwalker, Tae'shara Sunwatcher, Tansu, Tol'vas Moonshadow, Uther Menethil, Velameestra Windrunner, Wulf

May 28th (Day)

The full moon is going to be rising that night, an event that Tol’vas reminded the group of. However, first off, the group opts to talk to the skull Tae’shara and Vel had uncovered.

Remnii reaches out with her gold magic, and a rune appears above the skull, and a soft gold glow emanates in the sockets of the skull.

Aramar looks incredibly interested.

The skull’s jaw opens as it speaks, and a limited existence seems to awaken in its eyes.

Remnii looks to the rest of the group.

She looks back to the skull.

There’s a heavy sigh before Remnii relates the darnassian answer to the rest.

Remnii relays that as the magic fades from the skull.

Vel carefully picks up the skull.

Tae’shara and Tol’vas go over to help her do so, and Tol’vas offers a few words of reverence as they return the rest of the bones to the earth. Tae’shara marks the area on her report.

Tol’vas rolls his eyes.

Vel suggests that they stay in the area as the nymphs cleared out the undead and the living have likely not bothered the area for some time, and if he doesn’t transition, they could keep moving.

Uther agrees and Remnii offers holing up in the tiny hut, which the group agrees that’s the best idea.

Tol’vas mentions he knows himself and if he can’t get anywhere, he will likely hunt elsewhere, but he imagines he wouldn’t be able to get into trouble in an area like this. In the hours leading up to it, Tae’shara is spending time marking locations and excavating. She grabbed Aramar a few times to help, and then Uther also grabbed Aramar to train with him a bit as was requested.

In the process, he is able to teach Aramar how to use the spell bless. He’s reasonably good at sword fighting, though it’s clear he didn’t have any formal training. The diamond blade he wields is very unique. At some point, Makasa also got involved. She is a better fighter than Aramar.

However, it’s clear that Aramar is not best when fighting at the head--he’s better with a group serving as a support fighter.

At some point, Tae’shara found some runes, and it was discovered Aramar could read them for some reason.

Makasa, meanwhile, is good at taking down individual targets. She and Aramar make a very good team.

At some point, Vel and Aramar happen to be getting water at the same time.

Aramar heads over to his things and grabs his sketchbook and flips through it.

He holds the sketchbook out to Vel to present the drawing of the moth. Vel examines it for a moment in consideration.

He tears the sheet out of the sketchbook and hands it to her.

Vel tucks the drawing into the back of her spellbook and then procures a gold coin that he then holds out to Aramar.

He accepts the coin.

He conjures a small spark of light in his hand.

Vel nods and returns to whatever research she had been pursuing, while Aramar takes a swig of water and gets up to return to sparring or whatever else he was being roped into.

Tae’shara had definitely also taken a break to watch Aramar and Uther duke it out in the sand.

Remnii approaches Samaara, who is target shooting into a bedroll.

Samaara glances in Seria’s direction.

Samaara puts her bow over her shoulder and follows after Remnii.

Samaara stops and looks at her.

Samaara’s brow raises.

Samaara nods.

Remnii struggles to speak, and she is not making eye contact.

Samaara’s brow raises again.

There’s a very long look at Samaara, and then Remnii nods slowly.

Something clicks in Samaara’s face.

Samaara steps forward and gives her a hug, and then Remnii starts to cry.

Samaara takes Remnii’s hand, and they stay in quiet for a moment before they go back.

That night, the group waits for the sun to set. As it starts to ease down, Tol’vas begins to pace.

Vel nods and she erects the tiny hut, cutting Tol’vas outside. They wait with baited breath as the sun disappears further and further, and the twin moons begin to emerge in the sky. As it reaches its zenith, Tol’vas looks away from the moon.

The people who have never seen a worgen transform are on the edge of their seats.

Tol’vas starts to sweat and pant, and he closes his eyes. He starts to curse in darnassian, and slowly but slowly, he starts to lose the fight against the wolf inside of him. He drops to his knees, his hands on the ground, and a thin layer of dark, almost violet fur covers his arms. His body elongates, and within a moment, the night elf outside is gone, and is instead replaced with the hulking form of a worgen.

He gets up and sniffs the air, then releases a howl. His bright eyes loom on the dome, and he paces around it, a feral look on his face. His tattoo is visible beneath his fur.

He claws and bites at the dome, but eventually he loses interest, and he howls once again before he lopes off on all fours into the canyon.

Elissa nods.

They hear howls throughout the night, but nothing bothers them.

May 29th

The next morning, Remnii sends Tol’vas. For a moment, there’s no response, and then there’s just a groan.

The sound seemed like more than exhaustion. There was discomfort.

Seria pulls out her scrying bowl.

Remnii sends Tol’vas again, and tells him to not resist any magic, as they are going to scry him. There is another groan in response.

As Seria peers into the bowl, the image of Tol’vas appears. He is in his elven form, and his arms and wrists seem to be tied with hempen rope, and he appears to be tied across the back of a horse. Or rather, a centaur.

There seems to be a small group of centaurs laden with weapons and armor. They are riding through the canyon, talking and laughing in a language they don’t recognize.

Samaara looks to Seria and nods, indicating they are going to work together. Fortunately, Tol’vas was not exactly subtle as a wolf, and they immediately pick up on his trail. It’s a cool day, with some cloud cover, which helps to shield them from the heat of the sun.

Very quickly they find signs of conflict. Blood, and the corpse of a centaur, who looks like he had his throat ripped out. There are horse tracks heading off in multiple different directions. They continue north, but then they begin to hear the sound of heavy galloping, and they see a cloud of dust. In the distance, there is a single figure--a tauren with a heavy spear on his back and light traveling clothes. There is a cloth scarf over the lower half of his massive face. He did not seem to see the group, but he ducks behind a spire as the centaur split off after him.

Judging from the war paint Vel had glimpsed in the scrying, it seems this may be the same group as the ones that had Tol’vas.

Uther makes an exasperated noise, and then veers Radiant off towards where they saw the tauren. The group follows, and they see the situation. The centaur are starting to gain on the tauren. The tauren seems to be running towards a dead end.

A column of centaur veer off, wrapping around to close on the group.

The group agrees to make their stand in order to not leave the tauren to die. Seria is able to get a sense of how many are around them.

Elissa, Samaara, Tae’shara, and Riff work on keeping centaur off their flanks as Makasa and Aramar work to aid the group more directly.

The tauren up ahead is able to get up on the first level of the dead end, but up at the top of the canyon, a dozen more centaurs appear, weapons and armor drawn.

Their leader laughs, and a barrage of arrows launch down to the group. Seria loops through the arrows, dodging between them.

The tauren looks down at the group, not sure what their game is, but acknowledges that they seem to be trying to help him as he whips around with his spear.

As the centaurs start to close, Makasa hits one of the centaur with her harpoon. Seria swoops up to the top of the cliff face. She banks by the apparent leader and the mystic near him, releasing a gout of flame. They cry out and attempt to get out of the way, but they are clipped by the spell. However the archers turn to assault the massive flying monster that attacked their leader.

The tauren is getting bombarded by another centaur, and he is sent to the edge of the cliff--narrowly avoiding falling over the lip.

Uther rides forward on Radiant, and Radiant manages to kick one of the centaurs in the face. The centaur spits bloody phlegm on the ground as he shouts something likely crass at Uther’s direction.

The centaur leader fires a spray of arrows at Seria with a battle cry. The mystic also turns to Seria and twists his hands. A hard coating of sand covering his flesh vanishes, and a beam of moonlight appears over Seria before they duck behind some of its fellows. Seria was able to recognize it as the moonbeam spell.

Another archer shoots at Vel, but she is effortlessly able to dodge around the arrows. Aramar casts bless on several of his allies.

A centaur drops down on the tauren and hits him to the ground, then begins to try and stomp on him.

Vel curses beneath her breath as she whips her sword out, ambient magic radiating around the blade as she starts her bladesong. As she loops around the bottom of the column, she raises her other hand momentarily, a cone of frigid energy ripping through the stampeding horde of centaurs. Three of them are coated in ice and freeze immediately while the rest are battered by the icy winds and shards of ice.

She then turns her eyes on the centaur that is attacking the tauren, racing to back him up.

Then Remnii uses cause fear on some of the ones that remain. Her eyes and darken and wisps of shadow energy eminent from her.

There is a pulse, and abject fear washes over three of the centaurs that remain, wisps of shadow wafting from their eyes as they immediately throw down their weapons and start to run.

Uther looks to Remnii and gives her a tip of a hat motion, before hurling a firebolt at another centaur. He follows up with a lightning lure, but the centaur is able to resist the magic. A centaur closes on Remnii.

The leader points at Vel and points, shouting a battle cry that likely equates to “GET THE WIZARD”. They start to rain arrows on Vel, but she dodges between one and deflects the other with shield.

At that moment, Seria sees commotion as someone bursts onto the battlefield. It’s Tol’vas, running across the ground with two other centaurs chasing him. It appears he was able to get free.

Seria flies over to the clustered group of centaurs with the mystic and archers, spouting another gout of flame as she then banks and moves back to Tol’vas.

Another flurry of arrows go for Vel, but they are unable to land a hit as a melee fighter closes with her.

Radiant kicks another centaur, and the centaur curses at the horse.

The feared centaurs start to sprint away from the battle.

The centaur continues to try and kick in the tauren, but the tauren manages to take a good hit and shoves him off, knocking him to the ground next to Vel.

Vel smirks, seeing enemies are closing in on her, and magic wraps around her hand before coursing up her arm and then exploding beneath her as she uses frost aura. She releases the roiling cold snap inside her, exasperating the storm as blood begins to drip from her eyes.

Meanwhile, Uther slams his hammer into a nearby centaur, caving in the man’s body and carrying through to the second one next to him.

Makasa backs up to help Vel as, despite the snowstorm, the mage is still surrounded. She manages to strike into the centaur closest to her.

The mystic moves his moonbeam over Seria, and then starts to ride away from her as they use a healing word on themselves.

Another arrow fires at Vel, but it is shot off track by the cold snap and hits the nearby warrior, who curses. The second shot also misses.

One of the other centaurs jumps to the top of the cliff, but sees Tol’vas. With a battle cry, he shoots at the escaped captive.

The leader sprints beneath Seria and starts to unload shots up at Seria, and then at Tol’vas. Seria is knocked out of her form, and the leader laughs, circling around her prone form.

One of the centaurs tries to spike Remnii, but she is able to stumble and dodge around him. Then his strike with his hooves clangs off her bracers from Azgadaan.

Tol’vas erects a unicorn totem, and then he uses rejuvenation on himself.

Aramar hits the centaur next to Remnii, and then knocks him prone. He then action surges and drives his blade into the centaur a second time, while also casting spiritual weapon, which also swings into the centaur.

Seria is hit by a stab of a pike from another centaur.

Remnii uses healing word, and tries to smite the centaur closest to her, but it is able to avoid the flare of holy light.

The tauren gets to his feet and then starts to climb up the cliffs and ladders again. There is a faint smirk, and he puts a hand over his chest in gratitude to the group of them.

Another centaur goes for Tol’vas, but his attacks both miss, instead destroying a stone.

Makasa jumps on the back of the centaur closest to her, and stabs her harpoon through its chest. She and Vel exchange a nod, before she starts to jump up the cliffside.

But then there is the sound of a war horn, and from the northern section of the cliff, more centaurs approach. But these ones are women, while the ones they were fighting were all men.

The centaur woman in the front appears to be the leader, and she raises a hand and spits in a language to her people. Immediately, the male centaurs balk.

She then looks down to the group and begins to speak, and a second centaur appears to translate.

Everyone lowers their weapons, and Vel shuts down her cold snap.

Remnii casts tongues on herself, and she hears several centaurs muttering about how they should have paid more attention to who they were fighting.

The leader starts to laugh, and speaks to her others (which Remnii can now understand).

Remnii puts her hand on Uther’s shoulder.

Remnii lightly chuckles and nods.

The translator continues to translate for the rest and, notably, she seems to clean up the language a bit by removing curses and adding more titles.

Tansu looks at Uther and smirks.

All the champion centaur around them realize how much they fucked up.

She gestures to come up, and then looks down to the male centaurs.

Tansu walks over to Seria, who had been approached by Riff, and says something Seria can’t understand.

Seria nods, pulling Riff closer to her.

The rest of the group climbs up to the head of the cliff.

Vel and Remnii are discussing as they go up, as clearly they are not going to sell the men in the group. Vel suggests to her that, provided the boys are alright with it, they could offer them temporarily specifically just to fight.

Remnii agrees that she was thinking along the same way, and she could use the fact Uther is engaged as reason for him to not be partaken of in any other way. Unfortunately, Aramar and Tol’vas do not have the same excuse.

Remnii nods, her and Vel still engaged in their brief aside, but then the translator interjects.

While the talks were going on, the tauren had slipped away and had started to run.

Remnii looked to Vel.

Tol’vas says nothing, shifts into a wolf, and immediately starts to run after the tauren, followed by Aramar. Vel, however, dimension doors ahead of them, and she finds the tauren trying to disguise himself in the rocks. Tol’vas catches up soon after.

The tauren takes his pike and holds it out at Vel, ready to fight.

The tauren huffs, clearly not understanding, and he backs up looking like he’s getting ready to book it.

Tol’vas shifts back to his kaldorei form.

Tol’vas opts to translate.

The tauren expresses he has somewhere he needs to be, and it’s not here.

Tol’vas has no idea where that is.

The tauren huffs just as Aramar arrives.

Vel and Tol’vas nod and Aramar puts his hands up.

Tol’vas continues to translate. The tauren exhales and looks at Tol’vas.

The group returns with the tauren.

Tansu runs her hand through his hair.

Remnii turns away a bit shook, and gets Uther to come along as she meets with the rest of the group.

Meanwhile, Tansu is walking back and forth scolding the men for their abysmal performance. Remnii hear reference to 'gelding' which made her wince.

Remnii explains to the rest of what the situation is and she apologizes to the tauren, explaining that the centaur had full intention of killing him.

The translator then approaches the group and speaks after ensuring Tansu is distracted.

She then bows her head and heads back to her warleader.

Aramar smirks at Uther, and Riff gleefully gives the Death Adder gesture, which Uther does back to him.

The tauren huffs, realizing he is being spoken about.

The group nods then goes back to meet Tansu.

She looks at Vel and Seria for emphasis as well as Samaara.

Tansu smiles.

She bends down.

Several other female warriors approach the other women in the group.

She looks at her former champions.

Meanwhile, the tauren is left without a ride, and Elissa approaches him.

She points at her horse as Remnii translates. He looks at the horse.

All the women get on the lady centaurs, and Vel looks at the back of the woman she had mounted, who gestures for her to hold on.

Vel exhales and slowly wraps her arms around the woman’s waist, who shrieks quietly, expressing to her fellows that Vel was freezing and also her nipples were getting hard as a result. The other lady warriors cackle.

Uther remains on Radiant, and the champion gestures to himself, but Uther chooses to stay on his mount.

Tansu asks Remnii if this is okay.

Tansu nods.

They then take off across the plains and start to approach the village of Clan Sadak. Meanwhile, Remnii is asking about the holiday.

The translator quietly speaks to the group

Meanwhile, Remnii continues to speak with Tansu.

The group rides in, and it seems all the centaurs outside are women. All the men are doing things like cooking, entertaining, or likewise. People whisper as they see the non-centaurs arrive. The cave on the far side is decorated with beautiful crystals that are bright blue.

She turns to the others.

Uther, Tol’vas, and Aramar are taken to a side cave to recover, while the others are taken in to view the fighting.

Tol’vas shakes his head.

Tol’vas thinks.

Uther and Aramar look at him somewhat perplexed before Aramar refocuses the group.

They then talk for a bit before a centaur comes to get them to fight.

The first thing the rest of the group notice is the cave is really cool, like the crystals are emanating coldness off them. Inside there is an arena, and the centaurs are trying to prove themselves against a large earth elemental. However, the elemental defeats them handily.

Then a female shaman raises her hands, and the elemental is banished by a spell Vel identifies as a purge spell.

The group takes seats in some of the seats of honor. There are mostly women in the audience, and there is a platform raised above the others that seem to be the Matriarchs. The translator, Asya, is explaining.

She points at one of the centaurs.

She then points to another female centaur who is closer to Tansu’s age.

At that moment, a sandworm burrows from the ground and screeches. Then the other gate opens, and the team representing Ruya appears. There are three individuals, but they are not centaur. As they step out, the first one appears to just be a bear. But there are interesting things about the bear, namely that it has antlers sprouting from its head.

In the center, there is a human man with long, dirty, messy hair that is a sandy brownish blonde. He carries a huge greataxe in his hand that is slung over his shoulder, and it seems to be forged from a metal that is much nicer than anything else he owns. Most notably, he has a wolf skin that is adorning his broad shoulders like a mantle. There is a grim expression on his heavily bearded face.

The third person, however, appears to be Gilveradin Windrunner. His armor is different--seemingly traveler's garb. He has a wide brimmed hat, and a whip at his hip. He flips his bow around and takes a stance.

The human barbarian rips his axe down, hits the ground, and the entire weapon lights with bright, hot fire as if the metal has super heated. Immediately, the team closes on the worm. The bear roars and closes while the barbarian runs up the back of the massive creature and takes his axe in both hands before he his weapon into the skull of the worm. Gil fires off a bunch of arrows, and then grabs his whip, striking the worm with the barbed tip.

The barbarian grabs the worm’s mandibles, rips the axe from its head, and works on attempting to strangle the creature. There is a sun-like radiance emitting from his hand. The bear gets shoved off but closes again, and Gil’s whip lashes out and wraps around one of the creature’s many legs--attempting to prevent it from burrowing. He’s being drug forward, but it gives just enough time for the barbarian to bury his axe into the mouth of the worm and out through its head, insect ichor spraying all over him.

He then raises the axe into the air, and the crowd cheers.

And then immediately, the team disperses back through the gate, but Gil remains, amping up the crowd. However, the barbarian returns, grabs him by the shoulder, and drags him from the battlefield.

Vel is watching. Intently. And as Gil briefly almost lost his hat, she saw the flicker of an illusion--and a tuft of red hair.

Her eyes narrow.

Tansu takes a swig of her drink in annoyance, because of course they won.

Next up, however, is Tansu’s team.

A stone-like creature seemingly made from salt itself steps into the arena, ready to fight.

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