>>33751371
It’s early in the day and you’re back on the road again, from what you can gather Finchale is a couple of days away so they’re marching you over time. Looking around the cart you can see that everyone is buzzing with excitement, Tam is fidgeting in her seat while Jodie tries to calm her down, Randolf, Sasha and Rylan are talking about what they’re going do first when they get back; well Rylan is at least trying with his arm flailing, Weston is telling Deniece all about the city who still doesn’t understand how you can build a town without a forest over it and all around you can hear the whispering voices of the soldiers as they talk about how relived they are at being able to rest once they get there. Everything seems fine and dandy except one thing, Balthasar looks out of the cart with a worried expression.

Looking over you give him a grin “Why so glum chum?”

After a few seconds of no response you drop the smile “Hey Balthasar, you alright?”

Finally catching his attention he shakes head quickly and says “Yeah, why are you asking?”

“Nothing… It’s just you looked a little worried. You know nothing’s going to happen to you when we get there right?”

“I know that it’s just…” turning his attention back to the sky he says “It’s too quite”

Listening you hear nothing out of the ordinary and you’re about to tell him he’s crazy when you realize that’s the problem. You don’t hear anything, no birds, no rustling in the trees, nothing. As you stare at the distance you feel a small impact on your shoulder. Turning your head you see Tam snoring soundly against you.

Giving her a shove you say “Now isn’t the time for a nap, wake up lazy bones” but instead of jolting awake like she usually does she just slumps forwards.

Giving her a poke you ask “Tam? You okay?”

>>33751460

Suddenly Jodie grabs her head “I feel kinda sleepy…”

Yawning Lilith stretches “Me too. I think I’m going to sleep”
Weston falls forwards into Deniece’s chest and mumbles something about a soft pillow and as Deniece’s face lights up like a beacon her eye’s slowly close. One by one everyone in the chart grows a tired expression and slumps in their seat. Shooting up you look around just in time to see soldiers falling unconscious.

After a few minutes everyone is asleep, looking up at you with sleepy smile Balthasar says “Called it” and then falls face down.

Looking around you wonder what the hell just happened.

>Freak out
>Try to wake up someone
>Check on the rest of the forces

>>33751490
>>Check on the rest of the forces

>>33751670
>Check on the rest of the forces

Giving everyone one a shove or two none of them respond, sitting down again you breathe in and out slowly and begin to think about the situation, now’s not the time to freak out.

“Okay what ever is happening here is magic, that’s for sure, but it doesn’t seem too deadly. Who ever is doing this is trying to stop us from reaching Finchale so they’re probably church agents, now that everyone’s asleep their next step would be to get rid of everyone impor-“ stopping mid sentence you yell “SHIT! THE COMMANDER!” Jolting up you’re about to make a run for it when you hear a voice scream “WAIT”

Looking down at Lilith you see one of the skulls in her hair yelling at you, raising an eyebrow you ask “You’re still awake?”

“OF COURSE I AM, I’M DEAD AFTER ALL DUMBASS”

You’re now being insulted by a screaming skull in a little girl’s hair, great. Turning away you say “I don’t have time to deal with you right now”

“DOESN’T MATTER, TAKE ME WITH YOU”

This just confuses you more “What, why? You’re just a skull?”

“BET I CAN KICK MORE ASS THAN YOU”

“What was that?”

“NOTHING, NOW JUST GRAB ME AND LET’S GET GOING”

Sighing you can’t believe you’re actually doing this, reaching down you grab the skull hair and stick it to your shirt. “GOOD NOW ONWARD”

Running through the lines of stopped carts and making sure not to trip over anyone you eventually make it to the Wagon that carried all the leaders and tacticians. Looking at the wagon your heart sinks, it looks like someone has already forced their way inside. As you prepare yourself for what ever is inside you hear a large crash and a dark figure is thrown outside, before you can react a spear sails from the wagon and impales the would-be assassin to the floor. Storming out, Commander Radcliff looks pissed.

>>33752747
Looking at him in astonishment you ask “How are you still awake?”
Spitting on the now impaled corpse the Commander smirks “This is nothing, I once had to stay awake for a month straight. Will power can be as strong as magic kid”

Looking at him you see that his face is strained and that his every movement requires great effort, grunting he reaches over and pulls the spear from the assassin’s chest.

Suddenly you hear a battle cry and 5 hooded men come running at you, the Commander just sighs “This really hasn't been my week”

>Battle plan go

>>33752778
>Fireball

>>33752778
draw your daggers

tell the skull thingy to kill em

throw lightning bolt

>>33752778
Yeah, this:
>>33752914
>Fireball

Blow them up. When they get close we can forcepush them away and then fry them with lightning.

>>33752778
Do this >>33752941
But KEEP AN EYE ON THE COMMANDER because this is probably a two-pronged assault.

>>33752914
>>33752941
>>33752958
>>33752969

Ok so:
>Throw fireball
>Try to get the Lich's help on this one
>Throw some lightning around
>Finish off any stragglers

Roll a d100

Rolled 92

>>33753123

Rolled 51

>>33753123

Rolled 63

>>33753123

Rolled 6, 73 = 79

>>33753123
Story rolls

>>33753123
As the five men charge forwards you say to the commander “You get up close and I’ll support you with magic”

Nodding at you he says “Got it”. Turning to face the on coming enemy he lets out a bellowing yell and charges. Now you’re not sure about a lot of things in this world but you’re pretty sure when a guy two feet taller than you wielding a spear the size of him charges at you it tends cause a little panic.

As the front man of the enemy chokes back his fear he yells “For the chur-” but before he can finish he slips on rock and falls right on his sword. Holding back your laughter and trying to remain focused on the fight you see that the remaining four are closing the distance quickly. As the Commander moves to engage them you summon a fireball and fling it at the closest enemy, with a satisfying boom the assassin is sent flying as a flaming wreck.

>>33754421
You try to repeat this process but you’re unable to get a clear shot, grunting in displeasure you look down at the skull pin “Hey, you want to help out in this fight?”

After a few seconds the skull screams “OH, SO NOW YOU WANT MY HELP”

Sighing you say “Yes, that’s kinda the reason I brought you along”

“REALLY, BECAUSE TO ME IT SOUNDED LIKE YOU DIDN’T WANT ME HERE”

Well that is true… “We don’t really have time for this, could you just do something”

“FINE!” suddenly the skull pins eye’s glow purple and small beam fires out of them, barely missing the Commander the beam hits one of the assassins in the foot, causing his leg to explode into dust. As the assassin screams in pain and clutches his leg the other two look at him in horror, taking this opportunity Commander Radcliff grabs one of them by the head and slams him into the ground effectively turning his skull into paste. The last assassin looks on dumbfounded for a few seconds before turning and fleeing.

Reaching out you yell “Not so fast!” and fire off a lightning bolt, the bolt hunts him down like a dog and leaves a scorch mark along his back as he falls to the ground.

Wiping his brow Commander Radcliff says “There’s got to more of them out there. Maybe they can lead us to whatever’s causing this mess”

>Check around for more assassins
>Follow the trail these assassins just came from
>Look for anyone else that might be awake

>>33754448
>>Look for anyone else that might be awake

Better organise some sort of defence for the sleeping beauties.

>>33754493
>Look for anyone else that might be awake

Thinking for a second you say “You’re right about finding the cause of this but I don’t want to leave everyone vulnerable to attack”

Hefting his spear onto his shoulder Commander Radcliff asks “So what do you suppose we do?”

“I think we should have a look around to see if we can find anyone who might be awake”

Nodding the Commander says “Okay, you lead”

After a few minutes of walking you can the sound of a fight in the distance, following the noise you come across two soldiers you recognize by a pile of bodies. As George pulls his sword out of a freshly dead assassin he looks, when he sees his face lights up “Commander!” turning to you he gives you a wink “Miss Witch”.

He yells towards the pile “Paul, there’s someone here to see us”

As he comes around he says “I swear kid, if this is another joke…” but when he sees you his expression changes from ‘I’m tired of this shit’ to stern and focused. Standing up straight he yells “Sir!”

Chuckling Commander Radcliff says “No need for that seeing the situation we’re in, how long have you been here?”

Still in his stiff position Paul yells “Sir, we have been here since the start of this mess trying hold off any enemy advance, Sir!”

Giving him a confused look you ask “How are you guys still awake even though the rest of the army fell asleep”

Before Paul can answer George steps in “Oh that was easy cutie, having the heart of a loin, having a steel will, being-“ suddenly his head slumps and he starts snoring, Paul just sighs and gives him a smack, Jolting up he continues “super awesome”.

Giving you a grin he asks “Impressed?”

>>33755753
Holding back laughter you nod.

Shaking his head Paul asks “So what do we do now sir?”

Rubbing his chin Commander Radcliff says “We need to deal with what ever is causing this magic, I want you two to stay here and protect the rest of the force from any assassins”

Saluting him, both George and Paul yell “Yes Sir!”

Turning to you the commander says “Well now that that’s taken care of how about we get to the bottom of this”

As you’re about to leave Paul says “Wait, Sir. I need to report that I saw some weird lights coming from the south earlier. That may be what’s causing this”

Shaking your head you say “It’s always has to be the spooky lights in this situation doesn’t it?”

Following Paul’s directions you eventually come across a small area hidden by hills, in the centre is a circle glowing purple and around it are ten hooded people.

Sighing the Commander says “There isn't going to be an easy way to deal with this so what do you want to do?”

>Go in guns blazing, catch them by surprise
>Try to sneak
>Just listen for now

>>33755798
>>Just listen for now
And watch. Observe. See if there are any traps or signs of shielding around them. If that isn't the case we can blast them with some chain-lightning.

>>33755961
>Just listen for now

Staying low, you and the commander try to listen in on what the hooded figures are saying but you can only catch small amounts of conversations. That is until two of the figures come close enough.

Figure 1: “Are you sure about this”
Figure 2: “About what?”
Figure 1: “You know, using that demons help for this, isn’t it heresy?”
Figure 2: “Don’t worry about it. The enemy is using black magic and they betrayed the church, that’s like double heresy. So our heresy is cancelled out by theirs, its simple math”
Figure 1: “I didn’t take math….”
Figure 2: “Exactly, now shut up and keep that barrier going. If it falls the enemy could get inside and stop the spell. Plus did you not see those tits and the way she was dressing, I would go full heresy for some of that”
Figure 1: “Man, you never go full heresy. Also did you hear all those stupid puns she was making? No thank you.”
Figure 2: “Yeah I guess you’re right, anyways let’s get back to work”

Big titted demon that dresses like a slut and makes stupid jokes all the time, that sounds familiar.

Shaking the eerie feeling off you turn to the commander “Well it looks like we know what to do now”

>Catch them by surprise
>Try to sneak by them
>Other

>>33756677
>Catch them by surprise
CHAIN-LIGHTNING, DEMONFUCKERS!

>>33756823
>Catch them by surprise

Looking at the barrier you say “That thing is going to be hard to take down. It’s going to take all of our skill, knowledge, and ability to get through this.”

You can hear the commander grunt in agreement

Continuing you add “Too bad we aren’t going use any of that”

After a moment Radcliff asks “What?”

Standing up slightly from your prone position you say “We move on three”

Giving you a worried expression he asks “What are you-“ but before he can finish you yell “THREE” and rush out from your hiding place. Moving faster than you have ever moved before it feels as if your feet are barely touching the ground. The commander stares at you for a few seconds before deciding it’s too late to turn back now and joins you in a sprint.

As soon as you reach the bottom you yell at the top of your lungs “SURPRISE DEMON-FUCKERS”, they all turn to see what’s going before being blasted by a lightning bolt. You manage to fry a couple of them dropping a small portion of the barrier, seeing this you sprint towards the exposed area.

Flying through the field you can hear frantic yelling as they try to close the hole you made before you reach. As you near your objective you can see the barrier is slowly healing itself, doubling down you haul yourself towards it and not bothering to slow down you dive through right before it closes.

Tumbling into darkness and onto rough ground you eventually stop rolling, lying on the floor and breathing heavily you turn your head to Radcliff and laugh “Told you we would make it”

The only response you get is a grunt, standing up you brush off some dirt “And see, nothing bad happened at all”

Off to the side you hear someone say “I wouldn’t say that quite yet”

Turning around slowly you see two huge men covered in armour staring at you, Paladins

>Stand and fight
>Run away
>Other

>>33757691
>>Stand and fight
You have huge armour! Conduct and fry! CONDUCT and FRY!

Lightning? Pretty please?

>>33757940
It's getting late so I'll stop it here for tonight. I continue tomorrow at about the same time.

>>33758337
Better luck next time. Sadly I won't be able to participate.