OOC: *Glares at Jabidas* You go away for a few days and look what happens...
IC: Wiping the mud from his face Thief became dimly awear of the sharp end of a sword pointing at his head, and did the only logical thing he could do.
"I SURRENDER, ANY THING I HAVE IS YOUR ANYTHING YOU WNAT TO KNOW JUT ASK, I HAVE NO LOYALTY AT ALL TO ANYONE EXCEPT YOU PEOPLE!", there was a small sigh of disapointment from Jabidas who had secretly been hoping he might need to privately innterogate the prisoners.
"Avaunt thief", bellowed the Undead Hunter who was holdind the aforementioned blade mere inches from the Halfling's nose, "tell us who you are or taste the rightous fury of my sword."
"Please don't hurt me", begged the thief, "It wasen't my fault I don't have anything to do with this I swear just let me live and I'll tell you anything you want."
"How pathetic, can't you try to be a little dignified.", said Tancred who was admiring the craftsmanship on one of the axes he'd confiscated from the black knights unconsious form.
Pointing at the anti-palidin Ash moved his sword down tot he halfling theifs neck and applied just enough pressure to make his squirm.
"Who is he? and what are you doing here?"
Transfixed by the shining blade the Thief spoke,
"He's my boss, Lord Flashhert (Ace) and she... um was, the sourceress Delphie. Were here because Deph messed up a teleportation spell and all we wanted was to get out of here alive."
There was a low groan and the sound of sliding plate mail as Lord Flash slowly rose to his feet, nursing the dent in his helmet. All at once a dozen weapons were drawn and ponted at the dark warriors head.
Paying no attention to the swarm of armed adventurers surrounding him he turned to face the thief.
"Do you still have the staff."
After a moment of rummaging in his pack the thief withdrew a small wooden container enscribed with runes.
"Yeah, it's till in there."
"Did you see where Delphie went?"
"No, sorry boss."
Turning on his heel the anti-paladin walked over to the charred corpse of the elven women and touched it with the palm of his hand, in a second the body disintgrated leaving the steanch of dark magic hanging tin the air.
"Her shadow... well now we're in for it. She's still alive and wherever she is she bound to be mad, which can never be good."
Two loud coughs drew the attention of the warrior back towards the Paladin.
"You are our captives, your not supposed to just walk around like that, your thief hasn't even answered any of our questions."
"Don't worry", there was a tiny glint in the black knight's eye, "we'll have plenty of time to talk when were on the road together. Yes friends it's your lucky day, for the measly price of getting us out of these caverns before we starve to death you, yes you, get to be accompanied by us.", the impact of this lost muster against the wall of blank stares assalting the two. A few of the assorted adventurers started to sharpen their weapons.
"Give me one good reason why we shouldn't kill you on the spot." smarled Jabidas who was in no mood for games.
"Well... I can fight, really well. I broke Celstial Fury with just brute strength alone, and I have rune axes, powerfull ones that only I can use that i'm sure could help you on your journey to wherever it is your going. And Thief is, well, a thief and you can never have too many of those. Think about it this way, what would you gain from killing us... money? we have none, magical items? Thief's are not really very usefull for a group of your *obvious* level of power and skill, and all of mine are attuned with my own magical aura so you couldn't use them anyway.", to deminsrate he held out both hands and in a flash the rune axes Tancred had been holding had remateriallised in the black knights hands.
"And I can steal stuff", said Thief, who in a lavish display worthy of street magicians everywhere produced Ash's 'Ring of Gaxx' from behind his ear before tossing it back to it's owner. "And i'm good with fixing things too, why I bet if you gave me a day or so I could do a patch up job on the Celestial Fury, a tempory solution until you can get it fixed at a proper forge."
Moving to adress the crowd the black clad warrior tried to look at non-threatning as you can in spike adorned full-platemail.
"Of course it's up to you good people and er... and chickens or any other farmyard animals, to decide but I erge you to give us a chance."
"So what do you say???"
OOC: Sorry for commandearing your chracters Jabidas, Grinch and Tancred but I needed dialog, tell me if there is anything your unhappy about and I will edit the post. Till then
[This message has been edited by Ace Flashheart (edited 07-23-2001).]