Crukas stood beside Asho, looking around, gripping his sword tight. "Do we make a run for it or try and kill them all?" Crukas whispered to Asho.

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Arash Janevah

Arash got as far as three steps inside, before his eyes caught up with his feet. He had expected to see Aleena's father behind the bar, cowering from a thug or two, one of which had thrown the dagger after Aleena, accidently hitting her.

Instead, he saw the Inn almost completely empty, bar for a few soldiers around the bar, along the side. Three of them were standing around the end of the bar, looking at something on the floor and two more were standing, drinking at the bar.

*Clunk*

Ah, and two more were standing by the now closed door behind him.

One of the ones by the bar put his glass down, and slowly drew his sword. "Well boys, it looks like we have a late member of the group we're after. Get him. The Captain'll reward us for this..."

Arash shook his head, wordlessly trying to arrange his thoughts into order, but he saw the rest of the soldier's draw their swords, and heard steel on steel behind him as the two soldiers by the door drew theirs too...

"This... was not what I had expected" he thought, as he moved forward, trying to get all the soldiers in his line of sight at once. The soldiers obviously thought they had the upper hand. Outnumbering him seven to one, having better weapons and better armour.
"Unfortunotly, they were right. They did have the upper hand." thought Arash, as he scrambled over a table, sticking a dagger into his belt, and grabbing a stool as he went, waving it in front of him like a weapon to try and keep them back.

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Crukas glanced at Carina and admidered her fighting skills, as well as Ulric, but then he quickly had to put his own to use. A gaurd came up with a pretty sad battle cry, in Crukas' opinon, up to him and swung his sword high, aiming to come down on Crukas' back. Crukas went low and took out the man's knees, but the man's blade still made slight contact with Crukas' left shoulder, and Crukas fell to the ground, grasping his shoulder as blood trickled down his arm. He quickly stood and punched the gaurd in the face, knocking him out. He looked over and saw the escape route that Ulric had found. He looked over at Asho and yelled, "Over there!" And then tried to make his way to it, fighting as he went.

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Asho was not as into fighting as his personality would seem. He perfered to stay back unless someone came after him or a friend was in need. Unfortunately, he was unable to stay out of the fight this time. A man cornered him, somewhat, against a wall.

Asho remained formal, only hitting blade on blade to create the sweet ring of the clang each time. Seeing Crukas push the man, Asho yelled out, "I admire your fighting style... what works works. In fact, I think I may try that also." Lowering his blade, Asho ducked so the man's next swing hit the wall behind him. He soon popped up and punched the man in the face to see the man fall backwards onto the floor. Grabbing his sword, Asho ran for the escape right after Crukas. "So, in the end of this, Cru, I win," Asho smiled and laughed, "After all, I have made it out gaining a sword with you gaining a whopping.. nothing."

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Crukas looked at his good friend and laughed, dispite his wound and the situation they were in. He grinned and said, "For once, I will give you that, but I think I will have more oppurinities to prove you wrong!" He said, grinning.

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"Ha. Ha," Asho laughed, "You would wish. I, personally hope you only come out with honor and dignity, my friend. Being figments of people's imaginations, they practically have no use in the real world except for bragging rights. Which, I have been told, are a good thing to have." Asho winked at Crukas and ran into the escape route.

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Crukas grinned once more. "It is better to have a great friend as you, Asho, than bragging rights." Crukas said and with a nod to Ulric, he followed down the escape route behind Asho.

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Anousha knocked down several chairs in her haste to hijack a weapon and make it very clear whose side she was on. Rostam, on the other hand, was concerned with absolutely nothing more than making sure they both made it out alive. Scooping up the unconscious Carina, he slung her unmoving body over his shoulder and caught Anousha's arm on his way out. 'Utter mayhem' was a mild term to describe the cramped underground space, and it was with a sharp hiss of intaken breath that Rostam felt a stray blade slash down his arm, leaving a shallow memento of its presence.

"No! We have to stay and fight - stay and fight - " Anousha was protesting vehemently, making concerted efforts to escape his grasp. He hardly noticed until, upon reaching the tiny space that seemed to be their only method of escape, he found a mightily displeased black-eyed glare leveled on him. "Rostam, we are not leaving until every last one of those soldiers is - "

"We're leaving before we're both dead," he returned in a tone that brooked no argument. She argued anyway. A cursory glance around the room - or rather, the carnage - behind them revealed that most of the small band seemed to be doing passably well for themselves. "Here, you'll have to take Carina," he explained hurriedly, half-shoving his resistant wife onto the little platform and letting Carina down after her.

"I'm not going unless - "

"I'll be behind you. Make sure Carina doesn't fall." Rostam gave a slightly overly enthusiastic tug on the pulley rope and sent them both shooting sharply upwards before she could reftute his argument. He winced slightly. When he reached to the top he'd have to contend with a mightily displeased Anousha.

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"Run until we run into a barn," Asho said to no one in particular, but still being careful not to give away their plans to the soldiers, "Got it."

Once he escaped the tunnel, Asho waited for Crukas to make it out and then ran to the edge of the city, "One problem," he asked Crukas, "Don't we look somewhat suspicious with us running and guards probably going to be running after us? How are we even going to make it out of the gate?"

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((Thanks Ellie! That means a lot coming from you! :nod:))

Crukas nodded at Ulric and then he followed Asho, following closely behind and then he came up behind Asho, his shirt now stained with blood. Crukas kept his sword out. He didn't want to go defensiveless. He heard Asho's question and he answered, a gleam in his eyes, "Why, we do what we always do, Asho! We wing in and hope for the best! Now, let's get to that barn!"

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Crukas saw the others emerge and listened to Ulric's plans to split up. Crukas volunteered himself and Asho to go the longer way around towards the farm, since Carina wasn't looking so hot at the moment. He hit Asho's shoulder lightly and said, "Come on, mate, we're off!"

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is this RPG accepting new ppl?

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"Alright Cru, let us go," Asho nodded to Crukas's comment and then signaled the others that they were off.

"So, we are running the long way?" Asho asked Crukas, while running down the supposed pathway, "Well, I can tell you that I hope you remember most of it because I don't."

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Crukas nodded and followed Asho down the path, and turning down a dark alleyway, and pausing, glancing around the corner as he nodded to Asho's comment about going the long way around. "We needed to split, and Carina was in no condition to go farther than she needed to." He explained to his friend, spotting two gaurds near the gate to there way to freedom...okay, maybe not freedom, but to the barn at least.

"Um...yeah, I kinda remember it, but right now, we have two gaurds in our way. We get past them..." He said, now looking at Asho. "We're home free."

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Asho crouched down in the shadows to look at the guards blocking their pathway. "We could wait for a bathroom break, and then we would be able to sneak right though, but I am not patient enough for that as can be proved by past experience."

Asho paused for a minute of thought to come up with a diabolical plan to get through the guards. "Ok," he said at last, "there are two of them and two of us. They have two swords, and we have three. What in the world are we worrying about?"

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"Um...reinforcements?" Crukas said, raising his eyebrow. "And yeah, the bathroom break isn't a great idea...I mean, it is, but I'm not that patient..at least, not at this moment." Then, Crukas decided to shut up because he was simply rambling and getting nowhere.

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