With that, the old one carried Kree back to wheee he wished to go. “The battle is not wholly lost.  We still have some advantages and tricks up our sleeves
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She sighed and drew her sword.  Following them into the burning village.  The first 'large' ones would find her blade and hooves.

Diana realized something was off nearly from the start.  She thought the other arrows would be close behind.  That they would launch an arrow attack, followed by an attack.

It took nearly 10 minutes for her to realized she was quite wrong.  So, she did the one thing she could do. She began fighting a fighting retreat.

She tried to avoid killing the small ones, but any that attacked her she killed.  Her main targets were the tall ones.  Those she cut down with gusto.  Little by little she gave ground, but not before killing as many of the enemy as she could.

In the end, though, she found herself simply retreating.

She managed to get a short bit of distance between her and the enemy.  They had been fighting up hill, and she had managed to use the distance to draw her bow.  Now, she fired as fast as she could.

A short distance away, she spotted Lucy.  She fired several arrows at the enemy pursuing her, hoping to give her fellow arrow some distance.
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Lucy was in a fog.  She was ripping, biting, slashing at anything that moved.  She didn't care if it was large or small.  If  it was within distance of her claws she ripped and clawed, or if she got the opportunity, she bit.

Nearly 15 minutes in, she realized something was wrong.  She was the only arrow in a sea of the enemy.

She was running on cat fury.  That and adrenaline were flowing through her like a raging river.  Still, it dawned on her that she had, perhaps, moved too fast.  It was time to get the hell out of dodge before dodge claimed her.

She began to retreat.  Slowly, little by little she fought her way back the way she had come.  She had managed to get some 25 yards into the village.  Now, she would have to give back the ground or die.  That wasn't an option.

So, she retreated.  Fighting all the way.  Step by bloody step, she slowly gave ground, working her way back the way she had come.

For a moment, bothsides paused.  Perhaps it was to catch their breath, or perhaps it was to get their second wind.  Lucy took advantage of the situation, and drew her blade.

A  moment later, hostilities began again.  This time, she was slashing and stabbing, managed to keep the enemy at bay, as she retreated.

When Feyamir rode forwards with Swiftwing, he noticed that whoever attacked the little ones was doing a fighting retreat as arrows stopped pouring and fighters were already moving away. He decided to help them, at least none among them looked like Red Elves of this world. So he incanted the Invocation of Eternal Frost several times to both catch as much of the little ones and taller ones and to intercept their reverse assault on the guys who invaded them.

Small blue orbs fell from his hands, blooming into their deadly payload like flowers made of deadliest ice!

After that he flew to avoid any response that could harm him or his eagle mount. Thus, while still clutching the reagents for the incantation, Feyamir had Swiftwing follow the escaping warriors at relaxed pace while waving his free hand at those who look at him. Hopefully he'll talk it out, and not have to fight it out with these too.


OOC: A fly-by shot with Feyamir dropping Iceballs, like Fireball but with ice, left right and center no more than 4. With the intention to shatter groupings of the Small Ones and shatter any coherent response to fighting retreat of the other party.

     The old one adresses Kree and the centaur  “I’ll pick up our little adventurers if you wish to stand back and cover me with your arrows.” He launches into the sky, invisible once he climbs beyond the light of the flames.  He plummets out of the darkness, barely missing a... giant eagle? crushing the attacker’s to one side of Lucy.  The fore paw nearest her is extended giving her a quick purchase with which to climb on his back.  His wings are already upraised to take off quickly and he looks in the direction of the bird who seemed to have sumoned some icy blasts to protect those he was rescuing.  "Thank you"  He projects.  It seems they picked up yet another unexpected ally.  Perhaps they could achieve their goal after all.
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    Kree   Ran like the Demons of the  9 hells were  after him  he  and Stardancer  were  comign  from the  Northwest ( about 4:00 as described in OOC)

  As He Fitted  an Arrow into the strings , he could o9nlu  frown at the scene.

  But... the chaos was still on thier  side, The First Moon  was over head..he sister  was  struggling to break  free of the trees to the west... It offered both sides a bit more light...

 The Flames to the south  EAst were  raising.. the  smoke  Grew thicker, as if  formed a ceiling with the Cooler  night air.  Looking to  his left, he saw  Ivy and Palos  moving  down the  rim wall  and adding thier  arrows  to the fight, rather  then seeking out Tall Ones... and  dark Creature that  was  approaching or charging  Diana  and Lucy, were targeted .

 Palos was less the  archer, and   Fire   into 'groups' hoping  The LAdies   would guide  his arrows.


   Free  tried  to Hit  a small one  nearing Diana, his arro  missed that one, but sunk deep into the one behind it.


 The Old    One   came  down into the Village , near Lucy, several  creatures  were  cutdown   or crushed , as he offered  Lucy a ride.


   the  first  Building  exploded  showering the  area  with  droplets of the burning  fuel, as  the  Cook area   was  reached, a few  creatures    were screaming  as they  had  tried to throw  water  on the   fire with small buckets made of  skins, some screamed   from fear..others  had the   sticky fuel on them   and began to burn runnign about the   area  mady.


  Then    ice appeared  to shower   down On the Village causing a new  type of fear and pain as shards  of ice  Cut Into Groups or    pairs  of   creatures. dropping   them but the twos and threes.. and wounding others


 In the Middle of the Village stood  4 figures, three Tall DArks one.. and a  figure that was shorter, bout more stout..


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 after taking this all in Kree said to Stardancer,..there are two more of my people to our left away, behind the two who are on the slope , They are waiting for thier chance to Join in... the two who are retreating , are also  mine...anything out there , that is  dark   or  furry....kill...

  There appears   to  be someone in the  Air...we   will deal witht hat, as it  comes  about...

 Giving  an "Arrow  Whistle"  , so his comrades   take a  quick look to the  Centaur , as  not to have her peppered with  arrows.

  Once Lucy is on board The old one goes after Diana in the same way "Mount quickly, I have been on the ground too long."

Lucy stabbed and slashed at one last small one, and then climbed on Orlin.  Truth be told she as nearly exhausted.  The fight had taken a bit out of her.

Still, though, she would be ready to fight when they were back at the top of the hill and ready.

Diana was able to break free of the small ones.  She fired arrows till she was nearly out.

She fired and retreated.  Finally, she put her bow away, and drew her blade, once again.  Then she saw the beast.  For a moment, she was ready to fight it too, then recognized who it was.

She quickly moved to climb on, and held on tight.

  The old one carried them aloft.  "You have a good fighting spirit little ones, but next time, take out as many with your bows as possible before you hack and slash.  We have all night to tear into them so we need to make it count."

   While the smoke pools over the village The great cat casts his shadow on it in the moonlight.  he varies his altitude so the tall ones cannot us it to place him in the angled beams of the moon.   Still they are able to look down through the smoke and see the four figures standing at the centere of the village. "I'm not sure how much more I can take but those four look like the leaders.  If we take them we break the villages back."  The big creature said.  His movements are a bit stiff and his wings have over a dozen arrows of the little ones sticking out of them.  Other arrows festoon his body, not too deeply imbeded but he has to be feeling the pain.  " Do you ladies want to see if we can bring an end to this with the death of those four?"
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(4 leaders huh? That looks like my cue...)

It was time. The leaders of the village had been sighted, and Luthien now had solid targets against which to work.

And then...

Luthien expends quite a bit of his power at once.

A flurry of holy magic surrounds the knight, protecting him. A magical hammer straight from Tra appears next to him, floating in space. The blessing of Tra is upon him, granting him strength. A ward makes him even more fireproof than normal.

Suddenly, there appears to be several copies of him, floating around him in space.

Then, most tellingly of all, great white wings appear on his back. White, feathery wings that look like something, well, straight out of Mt. Celestia.

And then he flies right to the village center where the leaders stand, and just like the avenging angel(s) he closely resembles at the moment, he descends, swiping with his shining blade with his incredible strength. The enchanted hammer attacks of its own accord.
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Star switched weapons as she approached the burning village, at Krees request.  Her dark bow now pulled she notched an arrow and aimed at one of the 4 in the middle.  She began circling the village at a gallop, firing.  She picked out one and fired 2 arrows

Her first arrow missed completely

07:30, Today: Stardancer rolled 21 using 1d20+2.  arrow 2.  She hit AC-4.
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   Kree   Fired , it looked painstakingly slow... but he made sure the arrows  were Hitting, Like  the BAttle  in the cavern, they would soon be without shafts.., then they would have to retreat

 The first Moon was   headed to its  eastern Bed... maybe another  4 hours before it was gone, her sister  was  Down , fully out of the re3ach of the Hungry trees to the west... Light was Better.. the fires  Growing.

 Palos   was now  fighting  with  his  Maces, His   shiled  taking  hits  from Arrows..  one arrow   was deep in his left leg,, he  was trying to  retreat, but had to drag the leg.

  Ivy , like Kree  was   picking targets, mostly to keep the   little ones  from the retreating holy warrior.

 The Old One  , with his  two charges   was circling , Comign in from behind the    4 leaders..

  Luthien , lit up the area  as he   soared  towards the center... small ones  screamed thier high pitched  screams..  running towards  the rims in all diertecions as the  sight  drew near..

  Stardancer , dropped  some  small creatures   as she  she rode to  Kree's left (  south east and Bending to the east..), she   could see   dozens of  creatures ehaded  towards her  as  The shining   figure  took to the air...

 Fey  could see  all this , from  , just below the smoke...

   The old one circles a little longer giving his riders time to rest and listening to what they have to say.  He watches Luthien to see if he needs aid or if it might be a trap.  He sees the shadowy form of Feys eagle through the smoke, back lit by the fire, and adjusts his soaring wings to take up formation with the visitor.  Flight is easy in the up draft of the fires.

 irrelevant
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Luthien swoops down from the sky, and starts laying about him with sword and magical hammer both. His sword hammers out thunderstrokes, as the amazingly strong knight swings that sword with skill and precision.

Justin stood guard beside the archers as Kree had directed. When Palos had reached the rim he assisted the Priest to fend off any threat. Palos'es decision to sally forth was a poor one, as it showed a momentarily laps of wisdom. Lending his support to Palos the two were quickly over the rim and near Myranda. We shouldst relocate to you position. he councilled pointing to a spot 40 yards to their right. This would allow them to be away from any spot they had been identified at and provide opportunity to tend Palos'es injury.

Without waiting for Myranda's reply he started in that direction his swordarm wrapped around Palos'es waist they arched below the rim, which provided cover towads the point he indicated. Once there Justin removed the shaft from leg and tended his injury.
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     The Old  one s saw a group  of   Some  furry things  near the Moutnain  wall where they  ran, A tall One  was    trying to rally  them  and   counteract  the    Glowing  being that  approached  the  Center of the  Village.

 ............

 Myra   took her shoots that were  a great Distance from teh Center Of the Village, from her place, just over the rim., The Arrows   fell  a good  10 Yards  short, scaring a few  of the Furry things  that  were   trying hard to   assemble  against  the approaching Glowing figure.... Other s  tried to shoot Up   an the  winged   animal..

..................

  Ivy, knew  he could  not  reach the center of the Village,  enen with  the  20 or so yards he  closed  as he had  moved down before  The Old one  saved the  Arrows...  He  Picked his targets  down,, droppign  any creature  small or tall that had the  guts  to  try and attack, hoping , that either wounded or dead, they would help stem any attacks...

......................


 Kree looked over the  Crater  as , he too, looked for  the easy close targets.. dead foes  were Dead foes at this point, he  did  keep an Eye on the  Centaur, Giving   for a few   whistles whistles  for a 'recall, so she would  not get cut off...


.................

 Palos   smile a painful smile  at Justin,..thank you. my friend... This Plan?.. I hope it had a good  ending to it?


.................

 another Hut  caught on fire   from the  growing Flames.

 Lighting up  the  more of the Crater to the  side  Stardancer   was on ( 3:00 )..


 As Luthien   swoops in on the forward ,some of the  gathering of  enemies     are  tossed about  or  killed  out right

Luthien wastes little time with the riffraff when he can simply fly over them, and does just that. Once swooping down on the main targets, his sword and the hammer of Tra both lash out to make sure bodies hit the floor.

No targets in sight they are keeping to the shadows. We can't do anything else from. It'll be best for us to setup below, to cover the withdrawl. she states before heading down the canyon ridge away from the village.
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In the chaos that erupted Feyamir's keen eyes noticed that one human woman had the Red Arrow insignia on her breastplate, it was nearly accidental as his eyes dived to the huge predatory chimeraic monster ridden by some people and there she was. He exhaled a breath of relief. Looks like he found someone related!

Not keen on blasting more of his remaining mana, he took his own pendant with Red Arrow insignia and showed it towards rider of the flying beast while flying nearby and making sure to let the symbol reflect the light from the fires below.

Shouting while flying over such pandemonium was utter foolishness, so he relented to just show his allegiance. If he was helping another human from Red Arrows, it should at least show his own allegiance.

He tried to show, with gentle and calming gestures that he will follow after the rider of giant beast looking like cross between hawk or eagle and cat. Most peculiar.

In reply to Orlin lion soul (msg # 866):

Diana and Lucy both replied in the affirmative.

"We might be able to take them from the air." Lucy suggested.

Although, trying to fire an arrow from the back of the big cat prove more difficult then she would have thought.

"Maybe we can land, and take them out." Diana said, with something of a blush.

"Besides, it seems to me, you need to rest and recover." Lucy said.

In reply to Diana Hunt (msg # 878):

  The old one dips his wings in acknowledgement to the figure mounted on the eagle .  He has waited some time for Luthein to take out the targets and the creatures are trying to rally .  With those in the center of the village focused on the angelic being, perhaps now was the time to pounce on them from behind

  Kree and  Ivy  move  down about  ten yards.. enough  to still see the  Middle of the village.

  The two elves  are  about  40 yards  apart.. Kree Looked   for  Justin and  Myra.. and Brother Palos.. Kree  did not Look happy.

     once Luthien began  to float down from the Rim. some of the  creatures  were breaking and  Running.. Kree and Ivy  were  saving arrows.. , again.. targeting 'brave'  ones  who might turn to  fight.

 Others  were trying to Rally  around the  Leaders... small and   large   arrows  were  arching up  towards the Luthiens  One of the  images   winked out  The  three  TAll Ones   started to use their  Tall bow s sending Shafts  up at Luthien and the  Images.. The   Hammer   crushed a  Number of the  Minions in front.. The slightly shorter,humanoid, pointed  a small staff in the air, ..there is a Shimmering of  air around them.

 More   smaller  Huts  caught  fire as did the   lean-tos  , where they were  closer packed , smoke and  steam from  damp leaves   and     roofing , the   air was gettign thicker  with  Smoke


 Stardancer   could see  at least 20, with more on the way. massing in the direction she was head...they seemed  more concerned  about the things in the Air...


 The Old One  and Fey  where in the air  as well...