*Caliban keeps his bow out, ready to string an arrow if need be.*
"These people dont seem as gratful for our help as i was hoping for"
*he whispers to the nearby Thasador and krog'osh."
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The group were enjoying the meal and drink that had been provided for them but the villagers. Wulfgar and Thoradin were seated to Helfdain's right.
Yer nah drinkin' wulfgar?" Thoradin asked.
"No, I do not drink this day, nor shall I this night." Wulfgar replied. "When our enemy comes I wish to be ready to fight it with a cleared mind."
"Suit yerself, more fer me then." said Thoradin as he polished off his third mug of ale.
"So these trolls, they are normal trolls?" Wulfgar asked.
"Normal?" asked Helfdain.
"Yes, do they have anything that would seperate them from the average forest troll" Wulfgar replied. "larger claws? larger bodies?"
"Aside from their savagery, no." Helfdain said. "Brutal and they have an insaciable lust for blood. They eat the flesh of the dead."
"They eat the dead. " Wulfgar said. "Such beasts."
"This gentleman has the look of a great warrior, no doubt he's very brave. But to face the trolls, he'll need some amazing luck." Herger said sitting down next to Helfdain on his left side.
"Luck often enough, will save a man, if his courage holds." Wulfgar replied. "That maybe, but wait for the trolls one night's time, and then talk to us of courage." said Herger. "I thank the warrior for his advice, prehaps you can show me how he lasted those four nights against the trolls." Wulfgar replied. Herger rose to his feet and prepared to un sheath his sword. "Enough! this man is a guest at what is stil my table" Helfdain said as he grabbed Herger's arm and pulled him back down to his seat.
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Krog'osh whispereed quitetly, and quite surprisingly, to Caliban sitting next to him "Be quiet. We're strangers, they're people have died and they have no idea who we are. Of course they're suspicious."
In a louder voice he continued to all gathered "Trolls then you say? And they eat the flesh of the dead? That sounds like Forest Trolls to me, but I've never heard of any trolls living in Kalimdor. I though all of then were native to the Eastern Kingdoms."
He hesitated for a while, then continued "It doesn't bode well that trolls are here, it would give the impression that someone or something else lies behind this. But it could also be to our advantage. If the trolls are newcomers here, then they cannot know the countryside very well. That would put them at a disadvantage."
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"No Orc, you are very much mistaken " Kathris said. "Trolls have lived in Kalimdor for centuries. The tend to be larger and darker in colour here than their Eastern counterparts. Filthy creatures believe we Kaldorei descend from them. such a vile and odious lie!"
"Trolls are a purely instinctual creature. have these things, killed any children?" Wulfgar asked.
"No" replied Helfdain.
"Women?" Wulfgar asked.
Helfdain just shook his head to say no.
"Old men?" asked Wulfgar.
"What are you saying? That they fight with clean hearts? They kill the strongest first. They show us they can kill the strongest. Who cares if they spares the children? They'll die anyway without fathers." Helfdain said angrily. "My wits still war with how this all began." Wulfgar said. "Hate for the mead hall. I can only guess. The night we finished it the foul creeps came." Helfdain replied. "So, nothing was done to the troll itself?" asked Wulfgar. "Oh, Wulfgar, they a bloody trolls! Maybe someone looked at them the wrong way." Helfdain said. "some human?" Thoradin mumbled as he bit into his leg of mutton he was eating. "I do not hold you here." Helfdain replied. "I know you don't." Wulfgar said as he reached for a leg of mutton. "Then don't sour my heart with talk about why trolls do what bloody trolls do!" Helfdain said angrily.
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"I assume you know more about this than I do Night Elf." Krog'osh stated in a neutral tone towards Kathris.
"Either way, it seems to me we have three options. Either we raze the meadhall since that agresses them, we find out what they want and sovle it peacefully, or we defeat them. I doubt you'd agree to the first option though, and I also doubt we can talk to these trolls. Which leaves us with fighting them. But if so we need to know more about their numbers, what tactics they use, who leads them and where their lair appears to be.
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"there numbers always change, sometimes it's many, sometimes it's few, they attack from different sides of the village." Heldain replied. "Always at night. A beast of a troll leads the charges, I know not if he is the true leader. There are stories of a troll shamaness who lives in a cave and sends her troll sons out into the wilderness to hunt and kill for her."
"Trolls would not attack without an order, or without first being threatened. either way, we are left with little choice but to fight it seems." Kathris said. "Prehaps there is some truth in that story, have you found any caves that have signs that a troll lived there?"
"We have searched but found nothing. the entrance is no doubt hidden." Helfdain said. "But with so few warriors, I cannot just send out a raiding party and leave the village unprotected."
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*Caliban stands* Well, we shouldnt waste any time, while there is still daylight out, maybe our group could go and look for the foul beasts' lair, while your warriors stay here. They shouldnt be too far off right? i can track them, using their footprints, or smells, anything i can find should suffice. but we need to find their leader, and take him or her out while there are still people left in this village. maybe that will stop them, if at least for a short time until we can come up with a better plan."
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"Do you think I've not thought of that?" Helfdain said to Caliban. "I've send many rangers into forest to find their lair, either they lose the trail or they are killed. Our own ranger, has been missing for three days now. These are not some dumb brutish trolls. They possess human cunning or so it would seem."
"my Lord *pant* *pant*" a man said as he burst thorough the doors of the mead hall.
Catch your breath Bors" Helfdain said.
"the trolls, they are coming." said Bors. "southern gate, twenty odd."
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"Then let's not waste time!" Krog'osh roared as he stood up. "We shall head there and give your men aid Helfdain." he said as he quickly strode to the end of the hall and towards the open.
As he walked, his skin turned hard and solid, just as it had in the last battle, and he prepared himself for battle. Trolls were fierce enemies when angered, but they weren't spellcasters. And that was an advantagew to Krog'osh and his allies.
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"Beware foul beasts!!" Wulfgar yelled with much intensity. "Your skulls shall belong to Wulfgar!!!"
"Andu-falah-dor!" Kathris cried as she readied her bow.
"Let's see what yer guts be lookin' like!" cried Thoradin swing his axe around wildly, with little regard for those standing next to him.
"Dwarf! Mind where you swing that thing!" said Kathris, as Thoradin's axe nearly cut a gash in her left arm.
"If you find yourself losing ground, fall back to the mead hall." Helfdain informed the group. "Now to the gate! with haste!"
"Time to prove your worth." Herger said to Wulfgar. "Do not get in my way barbarian!"
"Do not get in mine, lest I mistake you for a troll" Wulfgar replied.
"GRRRRR" Herger grumbled.
"Save your energy for the trolls." Helfdain interjected. "If you two want to fight do it some other time!" "Come Kathris, let us show these trolls the fury of a barbarian and his witch!" Wulfgar proclaimed. "Here they come!!" Bors yelled. Several large trolls burst through the large heavy wooden doors of the south gate, while others merely jump the wall aroundthe village, and make their way up the hill to the mead hall.
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"RRAAAAAAAARRGH!!!" Immediately upon seeing the first troll, Krog'osh started his magic. He started channeling, focusing the power of fire into his hands, and then unleashed it upon one of his foes. The troll immediately burst into flames. Not slow to reacts, Krog'osh immediately followed up a curse that slowed the trolls feet so he could move forward at walking speed; then he pummeled the troll with Shadow Bolts. The troll came close, but died before he could even reach the warlock.
When he fell, battle had been joined all around him, trolls clashing with humans and his allies. Krog'osh started to help against their foes from behind the lines, but within moments, two trolls both came running towards him. He quickly started his channeling again, but instead of focusing fire this time, he concentrated on fear. Menacing beasts, terrifying natural disasters, vengeful gods, anything which might spawn fear, he thought of. Then he unleaches it upon one of the trolls.
The warrior's eyes opened in wide terror as he turned around and started running in wild panic, away from Krog'osh. The spell had taken too long though, because as he turned to the other troll, he was mere yards away. Having no time to do anything else, Krog'osh threw am agonizing curse upon him, one that would slowly build up to cause his adversarie terrible pain. Then the troll crashed into him with his axe swinging, and they both fell to the ground.
Trolls are large creatures, and the troll now wrestling with Krog'osh was bigger than the orc. The foul smell of his breath enveloped him as the troll tried to bite and chew at him with his tusks, all the while forcing the axe closer and closer to Krog'osh arms and throat time and again. He had to do something fast, the troll was a warrior and stronger than him, he would prevail over his warlock training if this continued.
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All of a sudden the large troll went limp as 2 arrows protruded from his skull, one from Caliban, the other from Kathris.
Caliban swiftly lept down off his perch, moved the dead troll from atop Krog'osh, helped him up, gave him a big smile, and continued to fire his arrows.
He concentrated, and as he shot his arrows, some became ingulfed in flame through mid air, exploding on contact when it hit it's target. Then Caliban unsheathed his Long Daggers, and ran into battle, along side a few of Helfdain's warriors.
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"The bigger they are! The harder I hit!!" yelled Wulfgar as his axe cleaved it's way through a troll's torso.
"mwuhahaha!!" laughed Thoradin as he sliced a small troll in half. "Noo this be more like aet!!!"
Another troll brought it's club-like weapon down upon the dwarf, sending him to the ground. Thoradin managed to get his axe in the way to block the trolls second attack.
"RRRRAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!!" Wufgar cried as he saw two large trolls making there way towards Kathris. "No one hurts Wulfgar's witch! No one!"
He began to carve a path through the trolls, taken a fair shar of wounds as he went, in his berserk state of mind he rarely felt the pain of the trolls attacks.
"Fall creatures and feed the earth!" yelled Kathris, as she unleashed a volley of arrows into her foes who simply refused to die.
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Out of a shadow on the edge of the raging battle, Thasador appeared as he lept 30 feet in the air. A nearby troll spots Thasador and sat up guard as he approached from his leap. With a cling of blades, the nearby heroes and trolls alike witnessed Thasador as he releases his Shuriko from the trolls head.
"Blood!...let thy blood shed as it rains!" Thasador roared out in victory of his slain.
Caliban then finds a troll behind the cocky Thasador. With quick reaction, Caliban saves his life with an arrow wizing by his head to strike the troll in the eye.
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Those before me shall quiver in my wake as I unleash the fury within!
"When Wulfgar knocks you down you had better stay down!!" shouted Wulfgar as he sliced a troll which he had already severed a limb of, and Kathris had fired several arrows into. "Or you won't be getting up a second time!!!"
"Kathris, are you hurt?" Wulfgar asked.
"I am fine Wulfgar, though I do apprieciate the help"
"Ye blasted human! Ye cooda sliced oop th' one tha' was trying tae kill me on yer bloody rampage!" Thoradin yelled. "Boy Ae ootta knock some sense inta ye!"
"Quit your blabbering" Wulfgar said. Look there are more!"
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Thasador grabbed his Shuriko with aggression and began his charge at the opposing force of trolls. Slashing left right and all around, with the amount of trolls in the vacinity, every swing of his sword was a hit.
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As the trolls continued to rampage through the village, the smoke from the burning buildings began to cloud the air.
"Damn!" yelled Thoradin. "Ae caan hardly see a bloody thing throo all this smoke!"
"All will fall before the might of Wulfgar!" yelled Wulfgar. "Evil all about! All will...RRRAAAGHHH!!!"
"Wulfgar!" Kathris shouted. "Stand down and calm yourself!"
"I will fight!" Wulfgar yelled. "Wulfgar fights and evil falls!!"
"And you have fought well and true as a warrior should, but the battle is won!" said Kathris. "Wulfgar, let the fury pass."
"I will...I..." Wulfgar bellowed. "Kathris?"
"Well fought, Wulfgar." Kathris said. Your righteous fury is a sight to see, but do not let it consume you."
"Quiet all of you!" Helfdain said. "Listen!"
"Ae dinna hear a thing" said Thoradin. "whear did they go tae?"
"My lord *pant* *pant* The trolls" Herger said. "They have gone."
"What are our losses?" Helfdain asked.
"A few Gileans for sure, idiots, lost their heads, literally!" Bors replied. "We will have to wait until morning to get the full number of our dead."
"Haltaf is missing his head too" Herger said as he searched a nearby building. "Damn lazy fool"
"They take the heads?" asked Kathris
"They always take the heads." replied Herger.
"I see none of them" Wulfgar said.
"What?" Asked Helfdain. "any of who?"
"None of them, none of the ones we killed." replied Wulfgar.
"Nor Do Ae" said Thoradin.
"Not one" Kathis said.
"Ae took two at least, that coold neigh hae lived." said Thoradin.
"As did I, as did we all" Wulfgar said.
"It is the same every night, we kill a bunch of them, and the rest take them away" said Bors.
"There is more at work here than mere mindless trolls attacking a village." Kathris said.
She looked at the gorund and found a small idol in the shape of a female troll.
"Did they drop this?" she thought to herself.
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"If I knew why these bloody things were attacking us, do you not think I would have found a way to stop them?!" Helfdain yelled.
"This is getting us no where." said Kathris. "But yes, there must be some reason"
"Monsters do not need a reason to attack people." Wulfgar said. "But sometimes they need sleep, and if they sleep they must have a lair, and we have a trail"
"Attack them?" Kathris asked.
"Is there a choice?" Wulfgar replied.
"Bah!" scoffed Heldain. "I've told you before they don't leave a trail, but If you want to go out on a fool's errand then fine. If you come across my ranger bring him back."
"You mentioned a story about a Troll Shamaness, prehaps there is some truth to that story." Kathris said. "Who among you knows the story best?"
"There is an old woman near the top of the village, she tells the story to scare the children, but be warned she is quite mad" Helfdain replied.
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*Caliban keeps his bow out, ready to string an arrow if need be.*
"These people dont seem as gratful for our help as i was hoping for"
*he whispers to the nearby Thasador and krog'osh."
Yer nah drinkin' wulfgar?" Thoradin asked.
"No, I do not drink this day, nor shall I this night." Wulfgar replied. "When our enemy comes I wish to be ready to fight it with a cleared mind."
"Suit yerself, more fer me then." said Thoradin as he polished off his third mug of ale.
"So these trolls, they are normal trolls?" Wulfgar asked.
"Normal?" asked Helfdain.
"Yes, do they have anything that would seperate them from the average forest troll" Wulfgar replied. "larger claws? larger bodies?"
"Aside from their savagery, no." Helfdain said. "Brutal and they have an insaciable lust for blood. They eat the flesh of the dead."
"They eat the dead. " Wulfgar said. "Such beasts."
"This gentleman has the look of a great warrior, no doubt he's very brave. But to face the trolls, he'll need some amazing luck." Herger said sitting down next to Helfdain on his left side.
"Luck often enough, will save a man, if his courage holds." Wulfgar replied.
"That maybe, but wait for the trolls one night's time, and then talk to us of courage." said Herger.
"I thank the warrior for his advice, prehaps you can show me how he lasted those four nights against the trolls." Wulfgar replied.
Herger rose to his feet and prepared to un sheath his sword.
"Enough! this man is a guest at what is stil my table" Helfdain said as he grabbed Herger's arm and pulled him back down to his seat.
In a louder voice he continued to all gathered "Trolls then you say? And they eat the flesh of the dead? That sounds like Forest Trolls to me, but I've never heard of any trolls living in Kalimdor. I though all of then were native to the Eastern Kingdoms."
He hesitated for a while, then continued "It doesn't bode well that trolls are here, it would give the impression that someone or something else lies behind this. But it could also be to our advantage. If the trolls are newcomers here, then they cannot know the countryside very well. That would put them at a disadvantage."
"No Orc, you are very much mistaken " Kathris said. "Trolls have lived in Kalimdor for centuries. The tend to be larger and darker in colour here than their Eastern counterparts. Filthy creatures believe we Kaldorei descend from them. such a vile and odious lie!"
"Trolls are a purely instinctual creature. have these things, killed any children?" Wulfgar asked.
"No" replied Helfdain.
"Women?" Wulfgar asked.
Helfdain just shook his head to say no.
"Old men?" asked Wulfgar.
"What are you saying? That they fight with clean hearts? They kill the strongest first. They show us they can kill the strongest. Who cares if they spares the children? They'll die anyway without fathers." Helfdain said angrily.
"My wits still war with how this all began." Wulfgar said.
"Hate for the mead hall. I can only guess. The night we finished it the foul creeps came." Helfdain replied.
"So, nothing was done to the troll itself?" asked Wulfgar.
"Oh, Wulfgar, they a bloody trolls! Maybe someone looked at them the wrong way." Helfdain said.
"some human?" Thoradin mumbled as he bit into his leg of mutton he was eating.
"I do not hold you here." Helfdain replied.
"I know you don't." Wulfgar said as he reached for a leg of mutton.
"Then don't sour my heart with talk about why trolls do what bloody trolls do!" Helfdain said angrily.
"Either way, it seems to me we have three options. Either we raze the meadhall since that agresses them, we find out what they want and sovle it peacefully, or we defeat them. I doubt you'd agree to the first option though, and I also doubt we can talk to these trolls. Which leaves us with fighting them. But if so we need to know more about their numbers, what tactics they use, who leads them and where their lair appears to be.
"there numbers always change, sometimes it's many, sometimes it's few, they attack from different sides of the village." Heldain replied. "Always at night. A beast of a troll leads the charges, I know not if he is the true leader. There are stories of a troll shamaness who lives in a cave and sends her troll sons out into the wilderness to hunt and kill for her."
"Trolls would not attack without an order, or without first being threatened. either way, we are left with little choice but to fight it seems." Kathris said. "Prehaps there is some truth in that story, have you found any caves that have signs that a troll lived there?"
"We have searched but found nothing. the entrance is no doubt hidden." Helfdain said. "But with so few warriors, I cannot just send out a raiding party and leave the village unprotected."
"Do you think I've not thought of that?" Helfdain said to Caliban. "I've send many rangers into forest to find their lair, either they lose the trail or they are killed. Our own ranger, has been missing for three days now. These are not some dumb brutish trolls. They possess human cunning or so it would seem."
"my Lord *pant* *pant*" a man said as he burst thorough the doors of the mead hall.
Catch your breath Bors" Helfdain said.
"the trolls, they are coming." said Bors. "southern gate, twenty odd."
As he walked, his skin turned hard and solid, just as it had in the last battle, and he prepared himself for battle. Trolls were fierce enemies when angered, but they weren't spellcasters. And that was an advantagew to Krog'osh and his allies.
"nightfall"
"Beware foul beasts!!" Wulfgar yelled with much intensity. "Your skulls shall belong to Wulfgar!!!"
"Andu-falah-dor!" Kathris cried as she readied her bow.
"Let's see what yer guts be lookin' like!" cried Thoradin swing his axe around wildly, with little regard for those standing next to him.
"Dwarf! Mind where you swing that thing!" said Kathris, as Thoradin's axe nearly cut a gash in her left arm.
"If you find yourself losing ground, fall back to the mead hall." Helfdain informed the group. "Now to the gate! with haste!"
"Time to prove your worth." Herger said to Wulfgar. "Do not get in my way barbarian!"
"Do not get in mine, lest I mistake you for a troll" Wulfgar replied.
"GRRRRR" Herger grumbled.
"Save your energy for the trolls." Helfdain interjected. "If you two want to fight do it some other time!"
"Come Kathris, let us show these trolls the fury of a barbarian and his witch!" Wulfgar proclaimed.
"Here they come!!" Bors yelled.
Several large trolls burst through the large heavy wooden doors of the south gate, while others merely jump the wall aroundthe village, and make their way up the hill to the mead hall.
When he fell, battle had been joined all around him, trolls clashing with humans and his allies. Krog'osh started to help against their foes from behind the lines, but within moments, two trolls both came running towards him. He quickly started his channeling again, but instead of focusing fire this time, he concentrated on fear. Menacing beasts, terrifying natural disasters, vengeful gods, anything which might spawn fear, he thought of. Then he unleaches it upon one of the trolls.
The warrior's eyes opened in wide terror as he turned around and started running in wild panic, away from Krog'osh. The spell had taken too long though, because as he turned to the other troll, he was mere yards away. Having no time to do anything else, Krog'osh threw am agonizing curse upon him, one that would slowly build up to cause his adversarie terrible pain. Then the troll crashed into him with his axe swinging, and they both fell to the ground.
Trolls are large creatures, and the troll now wrestling with Krog'osh was bigger than the orc. The foul smell of his breath enveloped him as the troll tried to bite and chew at him with his tusks, all the while forcing the axe closer and closer to Krog'osh arms and throat time and again. He had to do something fast, the troll was a warrior and stronger than him, he would prevail over his warlock training if this continued.
Caliban swiftly lept down off his perch, moved the dead troll from atop Krog'osh, helped him up, gave him a big smile, and continued to fire his arrows.
He concentrated, and as he shot his arrows, some became ingulfed in flame through mid air, exploding on contact when it hit it's target. Then Caliban unsheathed his Long Daggers, and ran into battle, along side a few of Helfdain's warriors.
"The bigger they are! The harder I hit!!" yelled Wulfgar as his axe cleaved it's way through a troll's torso.
"mwuhahaha!!" laughed Thoradin as he sliced a small troll in half. "Noo this be more like aet!!!"
Another troll brought it's club-like weapon down upon the dwarf, sending him to the ground. Thoradin managed to get his axe in the way to block the trolls second attack.
"RRRRAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!!" Wufgar cried as he saw two large trolls making there way towards Kathris. "No one hurts Wulfgar's witch! No one!"
He began to carve a path through the trolls, taken a fair shar of wounds as he went, in his berserk state of mind he rarely felt the pain of the trolls attacks.
"Fall creatures and feed the earth!" yelled Kathris, as she unleashed a volley of arrows into her foes who simply refused to die.
"Blood!...let thy blood shed as it rains!" Thasador roared out in victory of his slain.
Caliban then finds a troll behind the cocky Thasador. With quick reaction, Caliban saves his life with an arrow wizing by his head to strike the troll in the eye.
"When Wulfgar knocks you down you had better stay down!!" shouted Wulfgar as he sliced a troll which he had already severed a limb of, and Kathris had fired several arrows into. "Or you won't be getting up a second time!!!"
"Kathris, are you hurt?" Wulfgar asked.
"I am fine Wulfgar, though I do apprieciate the help"
"Ye blasted human! Ye cooda sliced oop th' one tha' was trying tae kill me on yer bloody rampage!" Thoradin yelled. "Boy Ae ootta knock some sense inta ye!"
"Quit your blabbering" Wulfgar said. Look there are more!"
"Damn!" yelled Thoradin. "Ae caan hardly see a bloody thing throo all this smoke!"
"All will fall before the might of Wulfgar!" yelled Wulfgar. "Evil all about! All will...RRRAAAGHHH!!!"
"Wulfgar!" Kathris shouted. "Stand down and calm yourself!"
"I will fight!" Wulfgar yelled. "Wulfgar fights and evil falls!!"
"And you have fought well and true as a warrior should, but the battle is won!" said Kathris. "Wulfgar, let the fury pass."
"I will...I..." Wulfgar bellowed. "Kathris?"
"Well fought, Wulfgar." Kathris said. Your righteous fury is a sight to see, but do not let it consume you."
"Quiet all of you!" Helfdain said. "Listen!"
"Ae dinna hear a thing" said Thoradin. "whear did they go tae?"
"My lord *pant* *pant* The trolls" Herger said. "They have gone."
"What are our losses?" Helfdain asked.
"A few Gileans for sure, idiots, lost their heads, literally!" Bors replied. "We will have to wait until morning to get the full number of our dead."
"Haltaf is missing his head too" Herger said as he searched a nearby building. "Damn lazy fool"
"They take the heads?" asked Kathris
"They always take the heads." replied Herger.
"I see none of them" Wulfgar said.
"What?" Asked Helfdain. "any of who?"
"None of them, none of the ones we killed." replied Wulfgar.
"Nor Do Ae" said Thoradin.
"Not one" Kathis said.
"Ae took two at least, that coold neigh hae lived." said Thoradin.
"As did I, as did we all" Wulfgar said.
"It is the same every night, we kill a bunch of them, and the rest take them away" said Bors.
"There is more at work here than mere mindless trolls attacking a village." Kathris said.
She looked at the gorund and found a small idol in the shape of a female troll.
"Did they drop this?" she thought to herself.
"It seems as though you are hiding something Helfdain..."
The group quickly readies themselves for another battle....
"Don't even bother..." said the figure, "I only fight those who are evil or those who challenge my ability...."
"My name is Maestro," he continued....
"I watched your battle with the barbaric creatures and it seems that you have been mislead."
"Can you not smell it? After a battle such as that you would atleast expect the scent of troll blood to be in the air, no?"
"These were not ordinary trolls, I suspect there is foul-play afoot....."
"So tell us Helfdain......why are these beasts really attacking your village?"
"Aye, take a look at this one."
Thasador drags over to the group, one of his victims, fallen by his Shuriko.
"Um, hmmm. Maybe this one ye cant tell with all de flesh wounds it has."
Thasador runs off to go find another.
"If I knew why these bloody things were attacking us, do you not think I would have found a way to stop them?!" Helfdain yelled.
"This is getting us no where." said Kathris. "But yes, there must be some reason"
"Monsters do not need a reason to attack people." Wulfgar said. "But sometimes they need sleep, and if they sleep they must have a lair, and we have a trail"
"Attack them?" Kathris asked.
"Is there a choice?" Wulfgar replied.
"Bah!" scoffed Heldain. "I've told you before they don't leave a trail, but If you want to go out on a fool's errand then fine. If you come across my ranger bring him back."
"You mentioned a story about a Troll Shamaness, prehaps there is some truth to that story." Kathris said. "Who among you knows the story best?"
"There is an old woman near the top of the village, she tells the story to scare the children, but be warned she is quite mad" Helfdain replied.