Part 2: Steps Towards Home
Jevan watched; Tuith reached for his blade but before he could clear it of its sheath, the assassin pulled the short wakizashi of of the commoner's gut, pulling a second one out of a sheath behind their hip, and slashed both diagonally across his chest. Tuith, fatally wounded, took his only option and fled. To his credit, bleeding as heavily as he was at this point, the skilled drow fighter managed some sly footwork; feinting one way then another to avoid allowing his enemy another shot before swiftly putting a comendable amount of distance between them in a short enough time.
But it wasn't enough. The assassin took only one step forward, raising both blades for simultaneous stabs despite the gulf of distance between them. Once more the shadows around him seemed to swell forward in an embrace, then spirited him away and he appeared right behind Tuith's running form just as his double stabs came down. Tuith gave one pained yell before collapsing on the floor, unmoving.
The figure kneeled down, and though Jevan was at too great a distance to see the exact details he knew the motion well as the figure cut Tuith's throat for good measure. Then, without pause as only a man on a mission does, he took hoisted the body over one shoulder and turned back the other way, passing beneath Jevan once more heading quietly deeper into the maze; leaving behind nothing more than yet another of many blood stains littering the labyrinth.
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17:39, Today: Fate, for the NPC Tuith, rolled 14 using 1d20+6 with rolls of 8. Initiative.
17:39, Today: Fate rolled 17 using 1d20+5 with rolls of 12. Initiative.
17:39, Today: Fate rolled 17 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 9. Shortsword attack Vs. Tuith. HIT.
17:40, Today: Fate rolled 18 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 10. Shortsword attack Vs. Tuith. HIT.
17:40, Today: Fate rolled 31 using 5d6+10 with rolls of 6,1,4,5,5. Piercing Damage.
17:42, Today: Fate rolled 24 using 2d20+8, dropping the lowest dice only with rolls of 16,13. Shortsword attack Vs. Tuith. HIT.
17:42, Today: Fate rolled 27 using 4d6+8 with rolls of 6,6,1,6. Piercing Damage. DEAD.
17:44, Today: Fate rolled 20 using 1d20+8 with rolls of 12. Shortsword attack Vs. Tuith. HIT.
17:44, Today: Fate rolled 8 using 1d6+5 with rolls of 3. GOOD MEASURE.