"So we go around the Red Mountain and- Wheres the argonian?" Florig said, looking around the vast ashlands. Florig and Natus went back the way they came, shouting Mauds name.
"WHAAA!"
Florig and Natus swung around and looked towards the noise, the Argonian ran over a small dune and tumbled down the hill. Florig walked over to Maud and helped him up, only to notice the creature he was running from...A large pack of Nix-Hound.
"Bwa! Stupid creatures." Natus and Florig ran to the Nix-Hounds and quickly dispatched them, taking their meat for food. The group continued onward, around the Red Mountain and finally into the Grazelands, East of the many Telvanni coastal towns.
"Alright, it's getting dark, I suggest we get some rest." Natus said.
"Indeed, we'll set up camp under that large rock, south of here." Replied Florig, pointing towards a very noticable rock structure, right underneath a buried Deadric structure.

An hour later the camp was ready, and the Nix Hound meat was heating over the open fire, casting gloomy shadows across the rock walls. Florig sat seasoning the food when Natus came in from a walk.
"A storm is coming." He siad, sitting down and taking a piece of the meat, chewing on it hungrily.
"Are you not eating?" Florig said to Maud, who was talking to the forks, not listening to his companions the slightest bit. "Suit your self..." The group finished eating and began a well earned rest.

As they retreated back to the city geadros and the general went back to get some rest, as morning came they got up, ate breakfast and grabbed the horses and rode off, as the group of dunmer came back they rode towards the general.

"Change of plans General!" said the Dunmer Captain, "what do you mean?" asked the General, "We'll go to Balmora, and then hit Vivec!" said the Dunmer, "Ok, but what do you mean, we were going to Narsis!" said the General, "No, we'll go the short way, after we hit Balmora, then we'll go to Vivec, go on another boat and just ride off from there!" said the Dunmer, Geadros checks the map and sees he is correct, "Pass me that map!" said the General, "ok" said Geadros, "hm..., you are right, as soon as we hit Balmora and we'll go to Vivec, catch the next boat that leaves Vvardenfell and ride off towards the Cyrodiil Border!" said the General,

As they rode of towards the city they decide to keep riding to Vivec, as soon as they got to Vivec they got a room in the tavern by a nearby dock.

ragnokk is bemsed by this strange man that seems to be following them and decides that he should please the insane thing he tosses a small silver fork to the poor guy who quickly attaches it to his arrows

ooc:nice character "maud" have u read muddle earth by chris riddel cos ure character reminds me of it.

"anyway we need to make plans now" he says. i know a librarian in cheydinhal who will give us shelter so we should head there. florig likes this plan so after eating they settle down to sleep.

some hours later in the middle of the night ragnokk wakes to the sound of cursing. florig is laying on the ground bow drawn and motions for ragnokks aid. he draws a wiked looking cross bow from his cloak and lies next to florig. natus comes over the rise at the edge of their encampment and mutteres to florig that they are beiong followed by some dunmer. "does one of them seem to be in charge " ragnokk asks "yes " natus replies why? "because if he has two odd looking eyebrows kind of like this ^ - like mine? yes natus replies but stil doesnt see why this is important. "because theres only one other mortal with eyebrows like theat and its my brother who i saw earlier. he is on our side then? florig asks. yes for now ragnokk replies but when the siligus cascadus runs out he will try to kill me! because of what i did.

What is the siligus cascadus? natus whispers it is an ancient family curse that means i can summon his soul to aid me in battle.

After they woke up in the moring the dunmer, geadros and the general with the rest of the last legionares head to the boat that was just leaving, after a few hours they got to the land and rode off towards Cyrodiil, when they reached the border they set up camp near border line, Geadros sets up camp, the Dunmer Captain grabs a small telescope and looks towards the horizon,

"Damn, the undead." said the dunmer captain, "what is it?" said the General, "those undead creatures have reached the mainland and are slowly walking towards Narsis!" said the Dunmer, "We have to Hurry, come Dawn, we leave camp, leave everything behind, travel light, after that we ride off towards the Imperial City!" said the General, "Right, and sir, we have found this fork on one of your legion soldiers" said the dunmer captain, "What the-" said the general, but he didn't want to say another word.

they went back to the camp and slept, as soon as dawn came they got up and rode off towards the City, but are going to make a few stops.

OCC: again i just want to remind you that i won't be around all next week, ill be back on thursday or friday and then on monday!

"oh yes miss Meriwhether do tell me more." Maud said. he sniffed the air. "Storm coming." he muttered. Florig nodded.
"I don't quite know how to tell you this. well, this fork thing...9 Years ago. I was thrown into a Leyawiin jail. the countess has a strong hatred for Argonians. a lethal hatred. I was one of the lucky few who didn't get tortured....my brethren. my friendsss. my fare was not much better that. put in a concrete cell. no bars. no windows. every day a hard loaf of bread with a pint of water. each day. nothing to do! for 29 years in that cell... then. the warden.... his daughter had a wedding. and as a gift of happiness we got a piece of beef. oh the wonderful beef. and what do we eat it with? that day Drekkon saved me." maud pulls an old silver fork. and began to pet it
"The guards were drunk as hell about 14 days after Drekkon came. The drunk guards opened my cell...probably to get a new party spot. Drekkon did it by himself. suddenly i was standing over a pile of guards with stab wounds. freedom was finally here! that was years ago. so... don't think I'll pull anything

OOC: Ragnok was with Geadros, not with my group. I'm going to have to ignore your post, Ragnok, until you edit it.

Florig and the group woke up in the middle of the night, outside the cave the group saw shadows.
"Dunmer Rangers?" Natus asked, squinting into the night.
"Looks like it, we're trapped. Follw my lead." Florig said, he laid on the ground and crawled to the entrance to the cave and into the tall grass. They moved with small, slight movements and made sure not to make any noise. Finally the group crawled around the rangers and jumped up, breaking into a sprint.

"Over there! Fire!"

Florig, Natus, and Maud ducked and jumped as the arrows flew past them, hitting the ground near their feet, and almost beheading Natus. The small group leapt off a rock shelf and landed in ankle deep water, they continued running as the city of Sadrith Mora came into view.
The three runaways didn't care for the terrain, they continued to leap over the rocks and over the deep water. At last, they made it to the island.
"Looks like they've stopped..." Florig said, looking back.
"Good, gooood. Oh no....I've lost a fork." Maud began tearing up and clutching his back of forks.
"Get a grip!" Natus yelled.
"Shut up!" Florig yelled. "Put these on." Florig tossed the two two black cloaks, Florig keeping one for himself. The group wrapped themselves up in the cloaks and pulled the hood over their heads, getting ready to enter Sadrith Mora.

Natus mumbled some insults, he was starting to get enough of all this.
"What we going to do in that rat infested hole?" Natus asked rather angry, he always got rather angry when he didn't had his usual daily alcohol and he had drunk last of his in the cave.
"Also does any of you have some ale or something?" A small smile appeared on his face.

"Water. Here." Florig tossed Natus the small jug of water, smiling at Natus' grumbles.
The group made it to the Gateway Inn and rented a room, a saleman shouting up to the group to buy the papers so they could enter Sadrith Mora. Florig ran down the stairs and slammed the salesman against the rough wall.
"We're not interested!" Florig yelled, throwing the man to the floor and getting some unwanted attention....Three Telvanni guards walked in.
"What's going on here?! Speak!" The guard asked.
"Nothing, just a misunderstanding." Natus said, pulling Florig back.
"Well keep it quiet or we will have to resort to......Other options." The guards stormed back outside into the night.
"You've got to learn to cool it." Natus said to Florig. Florig grumbled and walked off to his room, slamming the heavy Telvanni door shut.



Florig woke in the middle of the night...Greeted by spears at his throat. Florig gumbled and got out of the bed.

Natus sighed, he was pretty excausted and he had no idea where they were as none of these stuff looked familiar to him.
He just followed Florig while keeping an eye for any Dunmers willing to place their daggers in their back seeing Dunmers never grew to found of Imperials. "Erm...Florig...I think it's better we left..." He whispered in his ear after seeing a couple of Dunmers staring at them angry and unsheathing their weapons. "and the sooner the better too."

The three companions walked outside Sadrith Mora and onto a boat. The dunmer made sure to be as rough as possible, even being as cruel as confiscating Mauds fork collection.
"No!!!" Maud yelled all the way to the hold.
"Shut it up will you?" Florig said, rubbing the bloody cuts on his back from the spears. Maud reluctantly did as he was told and sat in a corner, crying.
"Well I don't think we're getting-" Natus stopped talking as an obvious Dunmer leader came into the hold.
"No talking! Stand back from the bars. It's a long way till we reach the port of Leyawiin. Maud shuddered.
"Well at least we're getting to the Imperial City...Florig?" Natus looked at Florig who was sleeping on a rough bedroll.

The three companions were awoken at god knows what time, all Florig knew was they were still at sea. Natus and Maud were standing against the walls, hiding?
"What are you-"
"SHHH! Over here!"
Florig stood up and walked over to them.
"What is it?" Florig whispered.
"The guard fell asleep, we can-" Natus was cut off.
"We can get my children back..." Maud said with an evil grin.
Florig shook his head and looked at the guard, sure enough, he was fast asleep. Florig reached over to the gate and got the keys, he unlocked the cell and they walked out, knocking out the sleeping guard and tossing him into the hold. The three deserters moved like shadows through the sleeping ship. Why so little security? Florig thought. Finally, the companions made it to the deck, two guards, one archer. Easy prey.

Natus moved to one while Maud moved to the archer, Florig moving to the other. They silently knocked them out and tossed them into the water.
"The sun will rise soon, get the boat ready." Florig said. The three managed to toss the rowboat into the water, making a loud splash...Sure to wake the Dunmer rangers inside the ship.....

Natus heard sounds aboard the ship.
"I think they heard us." Florig said.
"Well you got to be kidding." Natus said while he quickly aimed his hand towards the ship casting some fireballs.
Suddenly arrows started flying all around them.
"start rowing!" FLorig shouted but Natus got hit by an arrow in the arm, normaly his armour would'be protect him from such a tiny thing as an arrow but the armour was gone and Natus groaned while he tried to remove the arrow from his arm.
"By Oblivion! Those bastards!" He shouted.

"stroke, stroke, stroke.... hehehe." said maud ducking under an arrow.
" Row, damn it!" said florig.
"hold on... ah here it is." maud pulled out a metal bow from a tube. he strung it and began shooting arrows at the dunmer, causing them to duck under the gunwales.
" I have a dark elf friend... nothing evil abut him."

OOC: Anyone get COD5?

OOC: Nope, got the demo the day it ended though....Angry Face.

Florig didn't have time to ask Maud who the Dunmer was, he and Natus kept rowing. Finally they were out of sight and saw lights in the distance.....The town of Leyawiin, Imperial Province of Cryodiil.
"We've come a long way." Natus said, staring at the town walls.
"I don't like this place..." Maud said, scared.
"We'll move inside, quietly, word has obviously spread about our desertation." Florig said.

At last the boat hit shallow water and they stepped out and off into the swamp towards Leyawiin. The town was obviously seeing hard times, as most towns near the Niben Bay. The companions moved inside and headed to the three sisters lodge....Just as Florig noticed something.
"We lost the ring!" He yelled quietly.
"What? How?" Natus exclaimed.
"Geadros......"

OOC: Nope, will soon though.

Natus groaned. "Wait...why do we need that ring anyway?" He asked, he never really understood the purpose of it nor why they were going all the way to here for some silly ring that does something with fire.
Natus casted some easy healing spells on his wounded arms and groaned even more.
"I'll need to see a doctor soon before my arm gets infected." He said hoping Florig would understand.

"Fine, I'm sure someone can help you." Florig said, pushing open the doors to the Three Sisters Lodge as Natus went off in search of a healer. Maud and Florig sat down and ordered some Ale, they waited for awhile as Natus ran into the Tavern.
"The Redoran! They're coming along with Imperial soldiers! Hundreds!" Natus went to grab his sword as he noticed their equipment was left onboard the ship.
"Perfect..." Florig said.
"We can use the forkesses." Maud exclaimed, holding a fork above his head.
"You fool! What good will forks do us? Wait...How does he have his stuff?" Natus asked.
"Oh...I have yours too." Maud said, smiling and tossing the weapons to the two men.
"Well he is good for something. Let's go before they arrive." Florig said, leading the men into the early morning sun outside. Looking to the east they saw the army on the hilltop, firing arrows into the city.
"Run!" Natus yelled. The companions ran to the gates and into the swampy Niben Bay, sprinting into the dense forest....

The companions crept through the trees and grass as the army searched behind them. Maud was rather good at sneaking, barely making a noise, while Florig on the other hand had trouble, being a tall Nord.
"Quiet!" Maud whispered back to Florig. Florig growled and tiptoed behind the group. Finally they came to one of the many Aylied ruins scattered across Cryodiil, they moved inside and went through the tunnels, lighted only by the eerie glow from the stones. At last they came to a huge chamber, a group of Marauders sitting in the middle around the body of a dead lich.

"What do you think it did to Hromye?" Asked one of the Marauders.
"Probably turned him into-" The other Marauder was cut off as a shuffling figure came from the darkness, dressed in heavy Dwemer armour.
"Ring.....Nord.....Imperial.......Argonian...." The figure kept saying over and over again.
"Hromye?"
"He's dead..." The figure suddenly glowed brightly and one of the evil spirits the companions saw in Solthstiem flew out of the corpse and killed the Marauders one by one, turning them into undead creatures.
"Attack..." The spirit said, looking towards the three companions.
"Time to go!" Florig yelled, rushing back to the entrance...It was blocked by rubble.....
"We fight!" Florig said, the three companions pulling out their weapons in unison.

OOC: Wait an entire army is looking for them?

IC: "Aaah this is the way I like it." Natus said while he charged towards the marauders, one of them launched his iron sword at him but Natus easily dodged.
Whitout hesetating Natus swinged his sword at the marauder who just in time to jump back and the sword only missed him for an inch, whitout waiting for the marauder to recover, Natus launched a second attack this time aiming for the man's chest.
The marauder shouted of pain when the sword entered his body and with a second stab ending his life.
"One down."

OOC: No, but a load of Redoran plus Imperial soldiers would equal at least 4 Battalions

The group attacked the now vicious Marauders, who were just seconds ago, against the evil soul, but now fighting for it.
"What is going on!?" Florig yelled, his voice echoing through the ancient Aylied halls.
"They rise!" Natus swung around and beheaded the armless Marauder, who quickly rose again. Florig, Maud, and Natus cut through the last wave and ran from the dead, or alive, Marauders.
"I think we-"

CRASH

The three companions fell through the ground as it opened under their feet. They fell into a humongous inner chamber, flooded with deep water.
"The door closes!" Maud yelled, right before diving to look for his lost forks.
"We're trapped!" Florig yelled, punching through the water, making the water full of small ripples.
"Well I'm out of ideas..." Natus said sarcasticly.

Geadros woke up and only seen the few legion soldiers and the general and only the dunmer captain, he didn't want to ask him where the rest of the dunmer went, the got up and grabbed their horses and rode off only seeing the sight of Cheydinhal.

As the ride they pass the city and just ride off to the imperial city.

OOC: More IC post after noon.

"Ooh just lovely." Natus sighed "Being here is one thing but not having any booze is way worse."
Natus wasn't even a good swimmer, he just tried to float and grab to everything he was able to grab.
"Well please if you have ANY ideas, let hear them before we drown."
"Natus, do us all a favor and keep your mouth shut." Florig commanded.
Natus was a superior officer but just nodded.

Geadros and his men reach the small town just across from the City, he gets off and walks to the nearby ruin, as he goes into the ruin he starts yelling and tries to draw attention to himself in the Big Hall in the Ayleid Ruin, and a small horn rings and a huge garrison of Goblins surround Geadros, he looks around an sees a bunch of Goblin Skirmishers and as they all tackle and pile on him Geadros reaches for the ring and puts it on, for the first time he witnesses a vast fire storm all around him and he slips off the ring and puts it in his pocket, he looks around and sees every living thing in the ruin has died, he runs out of the ruin quickly as it was about to collapse around him, he then runs to the Great Birgde of lake Rumare and walks over to the general.
"Geadors, i have a proposition for you." said the General as he seen him walk over, "What is it sir?" he said
"of all this time you have been with us, you saved us, you helped us get to Cyrodiil, im promoting you to Captain of the Legion!" said the general with great confidence, "Thank you Sir!" said Geadros, "You Welcome Capt. Geadros" said the General.

They all ride across the bridge and over to the stables, as they ride to put the horses in the stables they get off and walk inside the city and to White Gold Tower in the Council Chambers, Geadros knowing of his trial he prepares himself for the Council.

The three finally swam to a large stone staircase, leading into the darkness above. They went up and up, jumping over the small holes in the stairs.
"Doesn't this climb ever end?" Florig said. After awhile, they finally reached the top, standing before a large stone door.
"It..Won't...Budge!" Florig said, even with the help of the other two.
"Damn it!" Natus yelled, kicking a rock into the void below. They sat down and took a break, drinking water and eating old bread. After an hour had passed, they got up and tried to budge the unmoving door....It still wouldn't open. They all knew going down wouldn't lead anywhere, were they trapped?
Florig was about to head down the staircase, but the door mysteriously slid open, ash flying out and covering the companions in dirt. They pulled their weapons and moved into the darkness beyond, dreading what horrors lay in front of their path.....

It was pittch black. Maud was relying on smell and hearing.

Natus jammed his toe and swore loudly. after 20 minutes before Maud stopped and said "hold on Gneich can help!"
"Gneich?" asked florig
"yeah!"
Maud pulled out a pewter fork.
"hey Gneich! help us out!" he said.
the room was filled with a red light. Maud smiled. " I'll be damned muttered florig. Maud sniffed the air. uh-oh, he thought.
"Hey mr. tall north man and mr legion soldier man? we'd better get ready....