Session 92: 19th April 2022 - Rage
“They did this - I can’t trust them.”
Mama
Xan awakes, and see a dark haired figure under a tree in the distance, on the sand. A large looking figure stands near her - he looks to harm her, she thinks. Is it her? Mama?
Xan takes aim and throws one of her dorate towards the man, hitting him and seeming to hurt him a little.
A fireball flies out from someone beyond the trees, but disappears as soon as it forms. There is more danger. She must get to her.
A horse man charges down the sands, casting some sort of holding spell on the large figure, then mid run transforms into a large snake.
Seeing the man is held, Xan glances around the the figure she saw in the distance but she seems to have disappeared.
No, she is in mid air!
She must have cast something to raise herself above the battle - so clever. Xan rushes forward and leaps into the tree near to the figure, hooking her legs into the branches around 20 feet in the air. She fires a arrow at the beast who tried to charge at her mother, but misses as she doesn’t have a proper purchase on the branches and is not stable.
Unable to see her mama between the tree leaves she aims out once again.
The Horned Beast
The beast charges at the tree, hitting it with a force that almost causes her to lose her grip.
She sees a medusa standing half out of the waves, and screams with a feigned panic in her voice to distract the beate. His head turns and she takes her opportunity to drop on to the beast’s back with a dorate jammed into his pelt.
Before she can think she is surrounded with flames, caught by surprise. When it clears and she looks down she finds herself on the back on a minotaur. A usual ally but it seems today he is on a warpath.
The Fraud
She finally catches sight of her mama again, soaring over the sand about 80 feet in the air. She is coming closer - she will come back to her… but wait. It is not…? Who is this? The figure casts out a spell and Xan is frozen to the spot. Before she can try to move, she is moving - but not through her own autonomy. The beast thunders towards the woman Xan thought was her mother - the fraud. Following him a a glowing figure, seemingly made from tiny humanoid figures.
As he thunders forward she is hit by something, and it breaks her from the trance. She launches herself from the beast and as she runs, without thinking throws her remaining spear back at the fog where she thinks he was stood.
She needs to reconfigure her battle plan to take out whoever these enemies are.
Xan take swift decisions, she is sure she can bring the fraud down and question her to what she has done with her real mother. She aims and fires, clipping her. As the fraud flies away Xan dashes to hide behind a large rock. She surveys the island - it looks like most of the action if happening over the toher side of the sand bank. She dashes up to a tree, hiding and peering out for any other enemies.
The Bearded Sprite
As she does, she sees a curious looking figure with an evil beard popping into existance suspicously behind a rock. As the arrow hits his seems to multiple. EVIL MAGICS - the coule be sprites! She is note sure which is the real sprite but is sure she can take them all out - she has trained well.
She leaps across and shoots an arrow at one of them - it dissolves into thin air as if a mirage. Suspecting foul play Xan dives around the tree and readys to attack from the other side, but a sharp gust of wind whooshes around her. A thrown missile shoots past her ear and sails off ito the the water - she whips her head around to see that it was thrown from behind the same tree - the real figure of the bearded sprite perhaps.
She quickly takes out another of the sprites, but in retaliation the remaining one - or two - no one, fires out flames from his hands towards her. It singes her but she manages to pat this out.
She launches herself towards the final sprite, shooting directly through him once again. He, like the others, disappears. Xan is confused, and stands where the sprite was standing, but he is not there. She hears a rustle from the other side of the tree, so ducks behind the rock and tree to plan her next move.
Medusa
She steps out to fins the sprite fallen on the sand. She turns around, scanning the trees until she spots the medusa still walking threateningly in the shore. Xan throws all she has at her, hitting a strong attack. But she leaps dowards, her with an intimidating air about her. She snaps forward and her snakes hiss, but it is no match for Xan.
But something is changing. Something feels different. Lighter.
Alke?