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FrivYeti: The next morning, everyone gathers for their journey across the blasted lands south of town.
FrivYeti: Winglord Darting Lynx is already present, supervising her lieutenants as they supervise the soldiers preparing to depart.
Moonsword134: Valeria is staying out of the way. Social situations aren't her forte and she knows it.
DonovanTz: ::Hailey, with Amaranth in tow, will be discussing routes and travel logistics with Lynx's people::
FrivYeti: Baran is also present, doing his best to avoid getting drafted into preparations.
willcoon: Skein is being courteous and glad to see Lynx will be leading us.
Wakoid2: Errant Tiger is near where Darting Lynx is, directing his own men into formation and readiness for their departure. He confers several times with his mortal second-in-command as they get
Wakoid2: ready to lead the rest of the soldiers into Creation for their first (and Tiger's scale's second) time.
FrivYeti: Darting Lynx nods to the other Exalts as they arrive, but mostly absently. She pauses just long enough to ask each of them if they are prepared for the journey.
willcoon: "Darting Lynx, it's a pleasure to have you here leading us."
Moonsword134: Valeria's expression is somewhere between respectful and "duh" as she nods.
willcoon: "I'm prepared to move out when the troops are ready."
DonovanTz: Ready and willing to depart on your order, Sir.
FrivYeti: Darting Lynx nods imperiously after a moment. "The troops are nearly ready to depart. We should be leaving within the next five minutes."
DonovanTz: ::Hailey forms up with the scouts and awaits the order to depart::
Wakoid2: A minute or so later Errant Tiger gives the sign that his men are ready to move out, and strides into place to await the order.
FrivYeti: Darting Lynx was a bit optimistic in her assertion, but not amazingly so. It is less than ten minutes after her statement that the army actually starts moving, with the bulk of the troops marching in formation.
FrivYeti: The Second Scale is covering the rear and left flank, while Tiger's Scale covers the front and right flanks.
FrivYeti: The army begins its march across the wastes. The sky across the distance, in the Wyld proper, is an ugly greyish-green this trip, and many of the men mutter nervously about it.
Moonsword134: Valeria moves easily along the terrain, unconcerned with the sky's usual strangeness in the Wyld. She keeps close to Errant Tiger, ready to step into the fray should something attack the forward vanguard.
willcoon: Skein is going to try to figure out Lynx's 'objectives.'
Wakoid2: Errant Tiger, near the lead point of his scale, takes a look at the Wyld Sky and frowns. Not that any kind of color or pattern could be called 'normal' for the
Wakoid2: Wyld, but that just meant you always had to be careful. The more omnious things seemed, usually meant that it _was_ more dangerous. He looked to the sides of the passage
Wakoid2: carefully, remembering the plant-fae from the first trip, and how they stayed to the edges... but again, such behaviour could only be expected to a point.
willcoon: "Darting Lynx. It's really an incredible opportunity, isn't it?"
FrivYeti: Lynx nods, with a slim smile. "Indeed. I look forwards to seeing Creation for the first time."
willcoon: "Think of it - we are to represent the Scarlet Haven in our truiumphant return to the world our forefathers left behind."
FrivYeti: Her smile widens. "Indeed. With any luck, we will soon be returning victoriously to the Blessed Isle." Then the smile falters slightly.
FrivYeti: "Assuming that the Dynasty has retained any degree of its former self, of course."
willcoon: "Of course. It is a shame we were unable to investigate the matter more fully on the first excursion. Strange things have happened in our absence."
willcoon: "However, it does appear that the Haven will be a significant force in the new Creation we return to."
FrivYeti: Lynx nods, looking pleased at the though. "Indeed. I hope that your skill as a diplomat will be able to take advantage of our position in Mela's Bounty."
Wakoid2: "Winglord..." Errant Tiger begins, walking up quickly to where Darting Lynx and Skein are. "Movement on the right flank, farther in the Wyld. Looks like the plant-fae we encountered our first excursion..."
Wakoid2: "Hailey has gone to check further."
willcoon: "Perhaps we should speak later." Skein turns to Tiger. "How do you suggest we respond, Tiger?"
FrivYeti: Darting Lynx's eyes narrow thoughtfully. "I see."
FrivYeti: She pauses a moment to see what her scout recommends.
Wakoid2: "Last time, they simply followed alongside until nightfall, and then parlayed. At the time they, or rather the noble leading them, was more curious than agressive. However, currently we have a
Wakoid2: much larger force than before. It is likely curiousity again, but this time they will somewhat know who we are and what we're doing." He looked off in the direction he had
Wakoid2: spotted them. "I doubt they'll enter the passage, except to begin talks again. What their mood will be, however..." He shakes his head, not knowing. "I would suggest continuing as we are for the moment,
Wakoid2: unless Hailey returns with further news to the contrary. I'm sure that there will be some sort of contact before the next morning, though."
FrivYeti: Darting Lynx nods, and turns her attention to her lieutenants. "Fifth Scale, reinforce our right flank just in case. We continue marching for the moment."
DonovanTz: ::Hailey comes sprinting out of the brush and on a direct line to Lynx's command::
Moonsword134: Valeria, who had stayed at Errant Tiger's side as he reported back, whirls to see her friend, staff at her side.
DonovanTz: ::Skidding to a halt, Hailey rattles off a quick, but crisp salute:: Sir! There appears to be a battle occuring between the Fae forces of Kizen Thrice Masked and Nazini, the Fae we encountered on our first trip out.
FrivYeti: Darting Lynx smiles grimly. "Excellent. Problem solved."
DonovanTz: Nazini's conveyance and about 20 of the tree-like hobgoblins are withdrawing and being pursued by Kizen's forces, which include 50 hobgoblines and one of its Bronze Snake servants.
Moonsword134: Valeria frowns thoughtfully.
DonovanTz: Nazini's line of retreat will take her across the scar, presumably back to her territory. Our column will encounter the battle if we do not take steps to avoid it.
Moonsword134: "Nazini has indicated a certain willingness to tolerate our presence. Would we not do well to aid her and insure that this scar remains open to our passage?" she asks softly.
DonovanTz: I cannot verify if Nazini is in the willow conveyance or not
Wakoid2: "Of course... it was too good to be true..." Tiger muttered, fingering his powerbow and looking in the direction of the Fae battle.
FrivYeti: Darting Lynx frowns at Valeria's comment, thoughtfully. "I don't trust fae promises of tolerance, and I have no wish to become embroiled in their conflicts."
FrivYeti: As if on cue, Tepet Sarasa comes dashing over from the left flank.
FrivYeti: "Commander! The scouts have just spotted over fifty of Kizen Thrice-Masked's hobgoblins and a pair of bronze serpents advancing towards the company from the Wyld."
willcoon: "Delightful."
Moonsword134: Valeria raises an eyebrow. "Avoiding their conflicts may be a luxury we don't have," she replies, shaking her head and moving in the direction of the battle, staff at the ready.
DonovanTz: Sir, Nezini's hobgoblins are enacting a holding measure against Kizen's force. The willow carriage is making a break for it and leaving the rest behind.
FrivYeti: "Mela's breath." Darting Lynx curses quietly, looking from the left to the right. "We don't have much time to choose. Suggestions?"
willcoon: "I agree, it might be wise to help the fey who have helped us... in order to maintain our free passage."
Wakoid2: "Damn!" Tiger immediately draws his powerbow, and pulls an iron-tipped arrow from his quiver. "Kizen will take us down with glee if he can. We have a _chance_ of making a temporary alliance with Nezini at the least."
Wakoid2: "If we don't we stand to possibly fight a battle on several fronts, as I doubt the plant-fae will distinguish between us and Kizen's forces without Nezini telling them otherwise. She's prooved... lenient towards
Wakoid2: us, or at least more amused than hostile."
willcoon: "The fey love these dramatic conflicts. It would be impossible to turn on us after we aid them."
FrivYeti: Darting Lynx curses again, and then nods. "Right. Soldiers form up. We'll prepare to meet Kizen's attack. Tiger, take your troops and deal with the forces pursuing Nezini."
FrivYeti: "Then get her back here for the main assault.
FrivYeti: "Baran, you're with me. Hailey, Valeria, Skein - support Tiger. It's critical that we not get caught by a flanking action."
willcoon: "Right behind you, Tiger."
Moonsword134: Valeria alters course to suit her orders but makes no verbal acknowledgement, expecting her whispers to simply get lost in the erupting pandemonium.
Wakoid2: "Yes, Winglord!" Errant Tiger dashes forward towards his scale. "Weapons out! We're confronting Kizen's Hobs, so iron if you have it! Do not attack the Plants unless they attack us first! Standard confront formation. Move it!"
Moonsword134: Valeria steps beside Tiger.
Moonsword134: "Keep your troops at least three yards from me," she says as loud as she can. "I'm likely to be using a great deal of Essence and I've no desire for them to get hurt."
DonovanTz: ::Hailey slips to the side, blending into the terrain and readying her wapons:: ((preparing for an ambush action))
willcoon: Skein moves calmly beside Tiger, waiting for the waves to clash against each other.
Moonsword134: Valeria moves forward, three yards before the archers, her weapon held at at a guard position as she waits, her muscles taut as she prepares to meet the enemy with her deadly strike.

Moonsword134: Valeria runs towards the enemy, intent on the bronze serpent among them as the largest threat and therefore the one that best merits her individual attention.
Wakoid2: Tiger's Scale, already at the head of the group as their Captain ran and shouted orders, immediately drew their weapons and fell into formation to begin fighting. Though nervous, they had
Wakoid2: all fought Kizen's forces before on patrol, and knew what was at stake if the fae were allowed to do as they will. They advance at best speed, ready to engage in combat upon contact with the enemy.
DonovanTz: Hailey moves to maintain a distance of 30 yards to the snake.
FrivYeti: The carriage continues to retreat. On Tick 1, the snake pushes through the battling hobgoblins in pursuit, Dashing as well.
DonovanTz: ::Hailey dashes forward, building up a considerable threshold of momentum which she uses to hurl the first javelin. Spinning in place she quickly sends another in the wake of the first. As the missiles fly she twists her hand in the
DonovanTz: air as if plucking an apple and channels gusts of wind to hasten the missiles passage and steer them to srike true into the base of the snake's head::
FrivYeti: Hailey lets off a pair of javelins. Scenting the air, the snake twists in time to witness them coming and attempts to coil itself out of the way, turning two devastating blows
FrivYeti: into a pair of glancing hits.
FrivYeti: (In the woods, the treegoblins continue to pound away at their foes, inflicting damage here and there.
Moonsword134: Valeria surges ahead and then slams one end of her staff into the ground in front of her, using it as a pole to vault into the air.
Moonsword134: As she leaps, she spins in midair and, gathering her power as she channels it into her weapon, ribbons of sable and argent Essence trail behind it as she flies
Moonsword134: towards the serpent, aiming to lay a massive blow across the back of the creature's skull.
Moonsword134: As Valeria's blow strikes home, the earth below it is suddenly wracked with tremors as her elemental power flows through her weapon into the ground below it.
FrivYeti: The powerful blow rocks the battlefield, and for a fraction of a second all of the hobgoblins pause in their war to stare in awe at the ferocity
FrivYeti: of the blow. The snake, its skull cracked and collapsing inwards, lands on the ground with a monumental thud, a moment before Valeria touches down.
Moonsword134: Valeria spins away from the serpent, doing a full 360-degree spin in the air before she lands neatly on her feet, springs up again, and then lands for good.
Moonsword134: Once she is on the ground, Valeria sweeps her staff back in front of her with a neat flourish and turns to the nearest ratgoblins, waiting to see if they wish to come her way with an intense, angry look on her face.
Moonsword134: The sound of stone on stone is louder now.
willcoon: Skein sweeps past with an appreciative stare at the carnage. He the nturns his attention to the approaching fey, unfolding his arms into a welcoming, receptive stance.
Wakoid2: Errant Tiger skids to a stop as he sees Valeria take down the Snake with one blow. He smiles appreciatively, always happy to see a Fae taken down... He turns back to
Wakoid2: squint across the passage through the Wyld, where more of Kizen's forces were aproaching the Scarlet Haven troops. "Katsuro! Lead the men in! I'll be right behind you after I
Wakoid2: take care of something..." That said, the Wood-Aspect nocks the arrow he held, and raised the point high into the air. Thorny vines seem to sprout up from the ground, wrapping
Wakoid2: around the man and reaching to the arrow. Smiling, he releases the shaft, his hand suddenly blurring as he plucks another from his quiver and launches it after its fellow. The two arrows
Wakoid2: streak across the sky, over the Winglord's troops to descend upon one of the Snakes approaching from the left flank.
FrivYeti: The ratgoblins, still pressing forwards as quickly as possible without turning their backs on their enemies, land dozens of blows on their opponents, most of which the hobgoblins stoically shrug off.
FrivYeti: Far away, a serpent suddenly lets out a hissing scream as a pair of arrows fly from across the battlefield and lodge in its neck. It isn't dead, but it is very hurt.
DonovanTz: ::Hailey nods slightly at Valeria's handy work before adjusting her sights to one of the closer ratgoblins. She hefts a javelin, considers the air currents, then lofts it straight at the creatures belly. Lightling quick she readies
DonovanTz: and launches a sedond in its wake. As the first connects with the creatures soft midsection, the second strikes, buoyed and accelerated by driving wind pushes it through and into another goblin standing behind the first.::
willcoon: Skein bows politely to an onrushing hobgoblin, which lunges violently at him. It has a moment of confusion as he flows beneath its arm and it finds itself attacking the air. It only lasts for that moment, before its consciousness
willcoon: is enveloped in searing pain. As it crumples to the ground, its arm bones shattered, Skein whispers to the unappreciative audience: "That's one thing I admire about the fey: attention to detail."
FrivYeti: The hobgoblin collapses, badly injured from Skein's smooth assault.
Wakoid2: The soldiers raise their swords as they prepare to slam into the Hobgoblins. Right before they do, however, the archers fire up and over the armored men into the
Wakoid2: thick of the Fae mob. As arrows descend upon the wyldspawn the swordsmen come within chopping range, swinging downward into the heads and chests
Wakoid2: of Kizen’s forces. Confused by the howls of pain behind them, the lead members of the Hobgoblins hesitate for a moment, a moment that is taken advantage of by the mortal men in front of them.
Moonsword134: Valeria dashes forward, an unpleasant gleam in her eye. Singling out a target, she brings her staff into a ready position, similar to what a baseball fan would see in a batter.
Moonsword134: Simultaneously, she draws on her power and the anima around her surges again as Essence flows. For a brief moment, her anima's draconic form coiled around her, its tail towards the ratgoblin.
Moonsword134: She and the dragon swing as one at the poor fey.
FrivYeti: Tiger's soldiers unleash their fury against the hobgoblins, and five more drop against their onslaught.
FrivYeti: The hobgoblin almost fails to impact with the next along simply because of how heavily it gets bludgeoned. Fortunately, the shattered bones and impact force of the hobgoblin are enough to shatter a second one into a crumpled mass.
Moonsword134: After the impact, the Essence dragon coiled about Valeria fades away in a blaze of black and silver Essence, falling back into a vague elemental haze, but not without a single, defiant roar as the second hobgoblin impacts.
FrivYeti: Meanwhile, the treemen continue their brutal assault, ganging up on hobgoblins wherever possible, and slaying a few more.
FrivYeti: The carriage has stopped now, and it turns to face the hobgoblins. A long willow tendril lashes out, scything through one of the attacking hobgoblins; unfortunately, it is slowed by the attack
FrivYeti: and the second creature it aims at easily ducks under its swipe.
FrivYeti: The ratmen are confused. There are new, angry enemies. Everywhere. Most of them continue to strike at the treemen.
FrivYeti: Some of them turn on Errant Tiger's men, unleashing a small storm of attacks, and two each are brave (or foolish) enough to attempt attacking the Exalts.
Moonsword134: Valeria steps back after the massive blow and slams her staff into a defensive position, whirling with it in an attempt to force the hobgoblin's arm well away from her body (and, preferrably, away from its).
Moonsword134: Once that threat is dealt with, she uses the momentum from the first parry to spin and confront the second with the long rod of ebon jade in her hands aimed at it, slamming upwards at the same moment its claws cross the staff.
willcoon: Skein reaches towards the first rat to atack him, and wraps his arm around its attacking swipe. He ducks to the ground with an excessively complicated gesture as the second rat dashes towards him...
willcoon: Then stands and walks away as the two find themselves in a mutual headlock.
Moonsword134: Valeria's Essence dragon is back, rising above the battlefield with a massive roar
Moonsword134: that sounds as if a half-dozen avalanches are screaming down a mountainside at once, its white marble and black obsidian scintillating in the green sunlight.
willcoon: The air around Skein is growing misty, and the ratgoblins find their fur tugged this way and that by slight eddies of essence.
Wakoid2: Seeing that he hasn’t quite killed off the one Snake on the other side of Darting Lynx’s forces, Errant Tiger draws another iron-tipped arrow. He fires it high and long again, aiming for the already-wounded
Wakoid2: serpent, as the vines that remain around him wrap around the shaft as it takes off. Even as he reaches for another, he spots two ratthings coming at him. He nearly dances to the side, essence pouring
Wakoid2: through his body as he becomes like a sapling bending in the wind. Spinning to avoid both attacks, he pauses mid-turn only to fire off another arrow across the skies as the iron tip burns a path
Wakoid2: towards the other snake in the distance.
FrivYeti: Across the battlefield, the already-injured snake screams out again, quivering in agony. Faced by a complete inability to injure their foes, combined with near-total disdain, the ratmen finally decide on the better part of valor.
FrivYeti: Ratmen break in all directions, streaming back towards the woods, leaving you free to pursue or to turn to aid Lynx's forces.