[PLOT] That's no ordinary rabbit

[northrend]

Date & Time: All day Friday, December 14th and onward.
Location: Initiate Hold
Characters: All
Summary: The plague has taken hold and there are rampant, angry undead critters running around! Better get rid of them quick, before you attract the Scourge Horde.
Warnings: Undead attacks, localized around cute woodland critters.

[The death tolls of all the woodland animals had come around the same time. Some lasted longer than others, but for the most part, it appeared that most of the sickly animals had passed sometime in the middle of the night. The next morning, transports would awaken to find their furry friends looking...well, less than furry. Their eyes glow a sickly yellow, patches of fur fall off their body, and they continuously cry for help.

Help from whom? You?

Or the group of rampaging ghouls charging toward you?]


[ooc: Original plot post is here!. If you would like me to NPC ghoul attacks in your thread, please mark your subject line with three asterisks. (***) Otherwise, feel free to do it amongst yourselves! Please note that I won't be able to NPC threads until tomorrow afternoon.]

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[songofvalor]

[ Leliana is going RENEGADE VIGILANTE, MOTHERFUCKERS ]

[ She's stationed on top of a really high building with the door barred with several wooden planks. She has a bird's eye view of everything here, so she's taking down animals with her arrows one by one. Given her training, her arrows are not only swift, but also accurate. ]

[torchedhunt]

[Leliana will have company up there soon enough, if only for one simple reason: she would not risk her Sirene becoming infected. She has already lost too many to the Scourge.

While the door may be out, she has traveled rough terrain before and had to jump from rock to rock to cross mountains 'cause wind riders are expensive, so she is eventually able to get to Leliana with some effort. Sirene, being a dragonhawk, is of course able to get up there with ease because she can fly.

Of course, once she realizes there's someone else with the same idea, she...attempts to politely get Leliana's attention.] Staying with the scourge is out of the question, so I hope you do not mind company, miss.

[songofvalor]

[ Leliana spots her headed her way, and lowers her bow but not her guard. ]

The more the merrier, yes?

[ As she says this, she shoots another animal in the face. ]

[torchedhunt]

Against the Scourge, we are all allies - or should be, at least.

[Yeah, Lumi's going to do the same thing. Ranged weapons are the best thing ever, okay.]

[songofvalor]

Can we not be allies even without the Scourge?

[ Yes, idle chatter while she rains death upon her enemies. ]

[northrend]

[Meanwhile, while they are chatting it up and shooting Scourge in front of them, they might hear some scuffling commotion from behind them.

Sure enough, a sickly sparrow perches on the building, crying out with a gutteral caw or two. Or three. Depending on how quick they take it out.

It must have been cawing somewhere along the way, because it sounds like something is clawing its way up the side of the building.]

[torchedhunt]

[It'd be two, considering that Luminada just shot it down, and her elven ears certainly hear this clawing!]

Perhaps we should discuss this when we don't have company on their way, hm?

[Sirene helpfully gives fire breath to whoever/whatever is climbing up the building, and by 'gives' I of course mean 'spits it like a flamethrower.']

[songofvalor]

[ Leliana stands at the edge, and almost wish she hadn't. She sees the creatures crawling up and jumps back to her former place. ]

[ She takes a deep breath... and shrieks. Her sentient weapon -- her voice -- shakes the building. She hopes those things fall off, if fire doesn't work. ]

[torchedhunt]

[Luminada has heard of the banshees before, of course, their awful wailing strking fear into the enemies of Sylvanas, Queen of the Undead.

... She didn't expect a human to be able to make those sounds, and she looks at Leliana with something like awe.]

[songofvalor]

[ When the coast looks clear, she looks at Luminada and chuckles. ]

Surprised? I am too. Usually it takes an actual song to do that.

Hold on, I have something that would help with our stamina...

[ She sings an upbeat song in Orlesian, the song of valor. It's supposed to lift their spirits and help remove exhaustion. ]

[torchedhunt]

I...had not expected a human to be capable of doing something like that. This place is strange...

[Strange, but she doesn't seem upset about it - just surprised. At the song, she again looks surprised though this is more because wowcraft doesn't have the bard class darn it.]

...That is amazing.

[That said, she's still firing because the Scourge must fall!!]

[asskickersunite]

[Tonight, Leliana will be graced by what is perhaps the most metal thing she will ever see. Descending from on high is one Eddie Riggs, with skin hued a hellish red and glowing yellow eyes and a black guitar gripped firmly in his hands, flames seeming to erupt from the instrument itself before settling onto the body of the guitar, as if they had been painted on there. Guess who finally figured out what his guitar's ability was? Yeah, this guy.]

Alright motherfuckers, time to RIDE THE LIGHTNING!

[Strumming his instrument with mighty fury, the roadie calls down lightning from the sky, commanding the bolts to strike in the heaviest clusters of undead.]

[songofvalor]

[ Leliana doesn't know this specific genre of music due to medieval setting constraints, but the spirit of song transcends mortal barriers. As she stands there, wide-eyed in wonder, a single tear rolls down her cheek. ]

[ She now knows the true meaning of metal music. ]

I just want you to know that Leliana's reaction made this 1000 times better.

[asskickersunite]

[And those who believe in metal shall be vindicated and given righteous music, and a shit ton of dead zombies. Eddie lands on the rooftop, smiling at Leliana, then turns his gaze on the undead horde below.]

I hope you motherfuckers are all wearing bibs, 'cause you're about to get face all over your shirts!

[Eddie brings his guitar to bear once more, and with unrelenting fretwork, jams out one of his personal favorite solos. The result of which sends out a flaming shockwave on the teeming undead masses below. Though they do not seem to recognize pain, the massive numbers do seem to collapse in agony as their heads literally begin melting off their shoulders. While it doesn't affect the more skeletal members of the horde, their end will be just as quick with Eddie resuming his dive bombing antics with his axe, cleaving his undead foes into chunks.]

i've been laughing at this thread for minutes llllllkkfsa;gk

[songofvalor]

[ That was amazing! The believer is completely at awe as she lowers her bow. Would he teach her that if she asked? ]

Their faces melted! How did you do that?

It is truly glorious.

[asskickersunite]

[Eddie hears Leliana's question as he is coming back up for another sweep. He lands on the rooftop standing next to her and brings his guitar to bear once more, calling down lightning strikes on the undead. He might end up hamming it up a little.]

T'was a blessing of the Fire Beast himself! He would not stand for this, and neither will I!

[BOOM! That's the sound of another burst of flame from a pyro power chord down below.]

[songofvalor]

That is amazing. I would like to sing to your music, if you don't mind.

[ She stands on the ledge of the building, tucking in her bow, and clears her throat. Her bow isn't actually her weapon. ]

[ She follows the note of his chords until her voice goes higher and higher, shaking the ground underneath and stunning the unfortunate horde that gathered there. ]

[asskickersunite]

[Eddie sees this, and for a moment, he looks down in surprise at the resulting quake beneath the horde, and then back at Leliana.]

[And he just smiles]

On a scale of one to ten, that's a fuckin' eleven.

[Eddie is more than happy to keep jamming to Leliana's song and strike down more undead with lightning from the heavens, and hellish fire from below. Together they may have created the most awesome zombie slaying ballad Exsilium will have ever known.]