The Invasion of Arias Chapter 4: Massacre

[pendejochy]

OOC: I changed one of the spells in my charactor discription. I haven't used either the old version or the new version, so it shouldn't really affect anything.

I was somewhat mentally fatagied, but I decided to deal with Rei's questions.
"The horses should be around here somewhere, I think Aquilla might know. The people who lived here were some vampire-halves, who acted rather aggressivly, from what I heard. I"m not sure if there are any others, but if they were, I'm guessing that they learned about the invaders and ran away pity, I was hoping I could gather some information, but the Right Brothers killed them all. Perhaps it couldn't be helped."
I saw the Turkey Brothers walk off, with my eyes burning into their backs. {I'd better calm down, they aren't worth it.} After a moment, I calmed down, but saw Aiera, looking at me with a strange face which, frankly, made me a bit uneasy. {I'd better go talk to her and explain things.}
"Dumb turkeys, what would they know? I"ve killed other vampire-halves and I can do it again. Don't worry, I'll kill that next vampire-half that proves himself to be a threat, if that makes you happier. I still want to be friends, but I'm not a werebeast and have no reason to hate vampire-halves. One of them even thought me one of my spells. But, I also was under the study of werebeasts. Firebomb is a spell I learnt from a wereraven that Mortis knew in Gusnatin.
But, I wasn't aware that werebeasts could be as savage as my vampire-half friends in Gusnatin said.
The widespread attitude among vampire-halves was that you should kill werebeast before it kills you. Even if you tried to escape, a werebeast would only seek you out and kill you for the fun of it. I saw the smiles on those wereturkeys' faces; they chilled me to the bone.
Nowaday's city vampire halves won't kill werebeasts on sight, though they will avoid contact at all and some groups do go on killing sprees.
The Mortis and I have been using our engineering skill to help V.H.'s, dark elves, and other marginilized races assimilate to city-life in Gusnatin and other citys. One of our failed efforts was to learn healing spells to blend in. As you would guess, undead have a hard time learning or reacting possitivly to healing spells, but we came up with a partial sucess. It only works on undead, though, and is harmful to the non-undead. It did help lower the need for blood though, but it was an untastly alternative, and wouldn't hold one off forever. One of our greatest sucesses was sythisized blood. We would take the blood of pigs, chickens, and other lesser animals that people kill anyway, mix and bottle the blood, and sell it to vampire-halves. This would reduced the need for human-blood as the blood cocktails were found to be more delishous, with their melody of flavors opposed to the plain, stale taste of just one blood. At least according to them, I've never tasted it, we only use taste-testers.
Actully, I'm doing a bit of research for this trip, going forth to discover tasty creatures. I tried that wrym and it was horrible, I don't think a vampire-half would eat it even if he was starving. But, ultimately, I want to find out if the invaders have good blood. If they are, I can convince Hunter Vampires to kill as many invaders as they can. The rarer the animal, the more they'll pay for the blood. So, sythetic blood is gaining popularity in the citys, but we don't have the resources to buy animals to make great quanities, so a vampire in the city is still to be avoided, as most can't afford it or if they can, not enough quantitys to solely live on sythetic blood.
But, village vampire-halves are a differnt story. They are stuck in their old ways, they don't even drink sythetic blood! They call it impure, they say. I advise you, if you saw a village vampire, to either run away or kill it before it sees you, they have no trust for the non-undead.
They would trust me, however. So, I'm guessing that the vampire-half who assualted us earlier was a city vampire; he was most likly a thief with some unusual power, don't know where he got it. Perhaps, he was an invader spy?.
But, I'm curious, what is the history of your people? I learned what I know from books from my master's libary that I would read after work, but I don't belive I've read books on the culture of the werebeast. To my understanding, a werebeast is made, not born, so perhaps they don't have a culture. But, if they do, I'm sure you can prove me wrong."

Edit: Edited because people got mad at me.

[Gineko]

OOC: Holy Crap, Pende! That's alot of exposition!

Aiera listened to Pende's explanations about half-vampires. She laughed for a moment, "Pende, I never said that you had to hate half vampires to be my friend! What have those two been telling you?" she giggled, then smiled at him. "I'm not like other werebeasts, I don't hate half vampires because of differences our races had hundreds of years ago, I hate them because they took away the only person I had in my childhood that treated me better than a filthy animal. It was my father that made me a werebeast, because his father had made him one. It was a traditon in my father's side of the family to make a feline werebeast from the first born. My father was a jaguar, and my grandfather was a lynx. I'm not really sure how to do it though, dad didn't have time to teach me. If I tracked down my mother I might be able to figure it out, though I'm not sure how welcoming she'd be. She left my dad because she didn't agree with him turning me into a werecat. She had taken me with her at first but he followed her and took me back. And I'm not sure about our culture, I always followed the culture of elves. I don't know much about our history either, if my dad taught me anything about it I probably didn't listen to him back then, and I've forgotten what I had learned over the years." She shrugged, then giggled again. "Usually when he would try to teach me something I would change and climb a tree, then when he would come after me it would turn into a game of some kind and we would forget all about him trying to educate me."

[OmniShadow]

OOC: I could not agree more Gineko

'Heh, seems they did not notice me. But man that zombie can really talk.' Rei thought as he went to go find something of value in the camp.

[pendejochy]

"It sounds like you had a happy childhood, Aiera. I'm sorry for your loss." {Now that I reflect on it, the wereturkeys may be right; Mortis always told me taht Vampire-Halves can be shifty. but, either way, it doesn't matter to me, money is money.} I looked around the tents for anything that might be useful, but I all I found was a bottle of blood. I tasted it, and found it was horse's blood.
{Must have come from our horses. With this new infomation, I think that the vampire we met earlier was simply a thief who sold the horses to a starving village and perhaps warned the villlagers of our attempt to recover our horses. Most of the vampire-halves seemed to have fled, because, according to acconts I heard, there were only several male vampire-halves here. I think the others would be back in a day or too, so I should take this oppertonity to write some misinformation.} I ran into the bloody tent, ignoring the corspes, for I felt I troubled myself too much with them, got a sheet of old paper, and wrote a message using the leftover blood as ink. I returned outside and stuck it on a tent.

WARNING!!!

WEREBEASTS ON THE LOOSE! VERY DANGOROUS AND AGGRESSIVE! WILL MOST LIKELY ATTACK ON SIGHT. THEY ARE ACCOMPANIED BY: 5 DRAGONKIN, 2 HEALERS, AND 3 GNOLLS. AVOID AT ALL COST! TO ALL WHO RETURNED TO THIS VILLAGE THE WEREBEASTS TRAVELED IN THIS DIRECTION!

{Now, which direction are we going in? So, I can put in the discorsponding infomation? That way, we discourage any vampire-halves returning to this village that would want revenge by scaring them. And any vampire-halves that have enogh guts to seek us out, will go in the wrong way. We'll be able to travel without being side-tracked by enimies. Sounds like a good plan.}
I had Girito fly up highter, to see where the caravan and the trail was. Using the sight, I put down an arrow in the oppisite direction of the caravan's trail.

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Edit: Thank you, omnishadow, I missed that.

[OmniShadow]

((OOC: Pende? I think you missed something in the previous thread ))

Originally Posted by RyuKurai

Shirin managed to get over to the horses, and was calming them down before he began to untie all of them.

You might want to edit that message of yours. :p

[MNMinion]

Vex walked over to Shirin and was happy that he found the horses. "Need help?", he asked Shirin as best he could as he watched the horses looked at him with looks of distrust.

[Ryu Kurai]

Shirin looked at Vex as though his mere prescense was enough to cause the horses to snap in half. "No, thanks, I've got i--t!" He said as he slipped on a loose bit of dirt trying to tug the horses out of the stable and fell on his back. "Fine. Maybe they'll listen to you. Just coax them out and- Carefully! Carefully pull them towards the caravan. Can you do that?" He said, only then getting up from the ground and brushing hismelf off.

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Karvan and Aquilla made a few interesting discoveries in their going-over of the village. One was a weapons shed, filled with various death-making tools, another was a storage shed filled with food, and the last was a rather large lodge filled with roughly twenty half-vampires with black sheets covering their heads. They appeared dead until one of them rolled in their sleep.

[pendejochy]

After I put up my sign, I decided to return to looking for things to bring along for the mission. {I'm sure it is morally sound, it could be possible that this is simply a home for a collection of vampire-half thieves. And I don't even think there are anymore people left in this village, those dead ones in the tent won't miss it. All that stuff, would be quate nice to have on the caravan....Wait a second, wasn't the ground group and I supposed to be watching the caravan?!}
I had Girito fly towards the caravan, hoping nothing bad happened to it in the absence of the group.
I saw karavan and Bossy Bird, looking around the village looking for things to steal. I walked up to them just as they opened the doors to a large building. "Hello, guys. I was just puting sometihng to throw any vampire-halves that may be returning to this village off our trail. I just came along to help you take anything valuble we can carry." Aquilla seemed to ignore me. As they opened the door, I saw that the vampire-halves killed earlier weren't the only ones killed.
"Oh, my there's more of them. But, this is our chance! If you all leave immediately, I can wait until nightfall and talk to them for info on the invaders and make an alibai for those dead V.H.s in the tent. I can keep Girito at the caravan, because my mind is in there, so if they have any strange powers like the one we met in the caravan, it won't affect my body. I can use Girito to tell you about anything I dig up. And if they get aggressive, I can call for help. But, I doubt I'll need it, vampire-halves are weak against fire, like all undead would be, so I'll blow them to kingdom come with my fire magic if they try anything. Once I get my info, I can return to the caravan by myself, using Girito as a guide. " I whispered to the others standing next to me.

[Mintaro]

Aquila tells them in a deathly stern and quiet voice to leave. He also informs them to see to it the rest of their team leaves quickly as well. He moves backward about 150 yards and then points both palms toward the hut and begins making hand gestures in a sort of dance and chanting almost imperceptibly. A strong warm wind begins to pick up and everyone can feel the air charged full of energy. To those with sensitive noses you can smell a great storm about to hit. Clouds begins to unnaturally condense in the sky and and the air becomes quite humid. The air flow becomes incredibly strong and it all begins to swirl and coalesces above the lodge. Finally the spell is complete and a tornado is formed. It tears down and completely envelopes the lodge with the half vampires, ripping it apart. Aquila begins to run away as fast as he can, concentrating as he moves to keep the tornado centered on the lodge. All this happens in about 10 - 15 minutes.


OOC: Feel free to take actions before the spells completion. I recommend you Run, Or face the ferocity of a F1 tornado. Don't bother trying to stop him. Also I was already going to destroy the villiage, the half-vampires really just gave me a good excuse.

[OmniShadow]

When Rei noticed the storm forming he quickly ran towards it and soon saw Aquila chanting. Rei ran up to Aquila as he finished the spell and was about to run away but grabbed him by the chest. "What the hell are you doing!" He yelled at Aquila, not caring about the tornado in front of him.