Fantasy Generic Fantasy RP (CLOSED)

[Dragongal]

Em kissed him back, then pulled away again. "Well of course you judge your own compliment as worth more! You have to give me better than that to get more than a kiss."

 

[Solar Daddy]

"And what is it you'd suggest I give for proper compensation?" He asked, getting noticeably more and more impatient, but still somewhat trying to play the game like she was.

 

[Dragongal]

Later that night, they sat at the window, watching for the beast which didn't attack. In the morning, they slept until the mage arrived. When that occurred, both Callum and Em spoke to the mage in a small,private dining room. Emmalia said, "Thank you for coming. We believe this to be mage work. We need your help. We can't see this thing, we have no idea exactly what it is or why it attacks. If you can't tell what it is, then can you cast a really good illusion of a person walking from here out on the street at night?"

 

[Solar Daddy]

The mage had been more than happy to accept any quest given to him by the Warlord Callum and the Huntress Emmalia, but was rather concerned as to why they needed him. "Well I am no monster slayer, M'lords. I don't think I'd be able to help you figure out what it is, but I can make an illusion like you speak of."

 

[Dragongal]

"Good. It will have to smell like a human, ideally have a human aura too. We don't know what senses this thing has or doesn't have. Once we see what it is, we can make a plan of attack."

 

[Solar Daddy]

"Well... Not sure about a human aura, but a human scent I can make, aye." The mage looked between the two. "So, you don't even know what you're hunting yet? No offense m'lady, but aren't you a huntress?"

 

[Dragongal]

"That's the problem. I have almost every beast in the bestiary memorized. This makes no sense at all. None of this remotely matches any beast." Emmalia shook her head in frustration. "I get the feeling that even if we see it we won't know what it is. But maybe we can see how it attacks, what it can do... maybe.

 

[Solar Daddy]

"Well then, how do you know it's a beast?" The mage asked. "For all we know it could be a very brutal man committing these murders, right? If it doesn't match a beast, then maybe it's not one. It matches a human though - likes to kill and doesn't normally eat people."

 

[Dragongal]

"Humans leave footprints, scents, bruised leaves - they are track able. This is not. I have tried. And no human has this strength. People are practically threaded into two parts. Nobody hears screams because the lungs are shredded immediately.

 

[Solar Daddy]

The mage nodded slowly. "Well, I'll be of use at sundown then. If you need me I'll be at the tavern." The mage stood and nodded to the both of them, muttering something about being lucky with a wench as he walked off. Callum watched him go with a raised eyebrow but didn't try stopping him.

 

[Dragongal]

Emmalia watched after the mage, then shook her head. "I hope he's a good mage. We need him to be. Plenty have died already, and right now, having his magic help us is our only plan."

 

[Solar Daddy]

"I'm sure he's competent." Callum said as he looked over at her. "Besides, if not, we can always improvise. We're fairly good at thinking on our feet. Well, you are. I'm just good at following whatever crazy plans you come up with."

 

[Dragongal]

Emmalia rolled her eyes, but she was smiling still. "You're the one with crazy plans, mine are at least logical." Since nobody was around, she leaned in and kissed his cheek. "But I'd follow you through Hell, so a plam, no matter how ridiculous, is nothing to me, if you're by my side."

 

[Solar Daddy]

Callum's smile widened as he looked down at her, and returned the kiss on her lips. "As would I to you, my love. There isn't a place I wouldn't go or a thing I wouldn't do as long as you wished it."

 

[Dragongal]

Soon it was late at night and the couple was watching from the roof of the inn as the mage cast his illusion of a man walking out of the inn and into the street. The illusion walked for some distance, then got to a part of the road shaded from even the light of the moon above.

Right in front of the illusion, a large beast with a body like a loud of pitch-black smoke and glowing violet eyes appeared and pounced - if it were a real person, it'd have had no time to scream before having its chest torn apart and shredded. A second later, the beast disappeared, unable to eat the illusion even if it had wanted to try.

 

[Solar Daddy]

Cal frowned as the monster disappeared. "Well... We know why it doesn't leave tracks. We also know it's not targeting specific people. We also know it doesn't have any time to eat the people it kills."

 

[Dragongal]

Emmalia stared down at the dissipating illusion. "That beast isn't even from this plane. I don't remember much about it, but there's supposed to be this shadow plane bordering ours, part of the balance of night and day or something. Why would it come here, kill someone, and leave before it even gets a bite? There's no purpose... Unless it's not it's choice."

 

[Solar Daddy]

"Exactly what I was thinking." Callum said and sat back, pondering for a moment. "What kind of person summons a monster from another plane, but only uses it to randomly, mindlessly kill wanderers in a secluded village?"

 

[Dragongal]

"I'm thinking that's it. If it's a kind of necromancer, each death would make them more powerful. But what happens when they realize they just had an illusion killed...?"

 

[Solar Daddy]

"Maybe it makes some sort of negative side effects for the caster?" Cal suggested. "I'm not sure about magic, I never dabble in the stuff. But that'd make sense to me. Don't pay up - don't get the power."

 

[Dragongal]

Emmalia leaned back a bit and looked up at the sky above as she thought. "Or he realizes someone set a trap and someone was watching. What if they know you and I are here? Depending on if they're actually part of the town or not, it's possible that they're aware that we're here... and that we stay here... and that we're onto them."

 

[Solar Daddy]

Callum sighed as he sat back and thought for a moment. "There's still way too many possibilities. We need to find a way to narrow it down. I know it sounds sadistic, but... Maybe we should try an actual person? I could play decoy again."

 

[Dragongal]

Em shook her head. "Callum, you saw how fast that thing was! And say it is a mage, they'll just summon another! It's too risky for too low of a reward."

 

[Solar Daddy]

"How else could we try and figure out which possibility is going on? It could be a mage, it could be a plane walker, it could a lot of things."

 

[Dragongal]

"I strongly suspect it's a mage summoning a plane walker. That's why it bothers to kill people at all, and not even eat them." Emmalia shook her head. "When that thing showed up, the hair on the back of my neck rose. I'm telling you, there's a mage involved. Somehow. In which case, this beast could just be being manipulated!"