Rin vs Sangrias

[Andre]

(yep it's Rin vs everyone today ... this takes place JUST before the Rin vs the gully dwarves thread.. as detailed in that thread,

whatifdragonlancedm.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=forumroleplay&action=display&thread=271

this happens just after the events detailed in the FG dragonlance game session that took place Tuesday October 5th .... the party is all sleeping under the statue of Mishkaal in the ruins of Xak Tsaroth, except for suspicious Sangrias who is sleeping on his own down the hallway ... currently Rin and Sangrias are the only ones awake... )

Before heading out to the hallway Sangrias caught Rin's eye.. it was not a friendly look.. no doubt owing to the bird-man magically ordering Sangrias to "sit down" not too long ago ... it was during the confrontation with Za'era, once again possessed by the Queen of Darkness.. Takhisis...

Sangrias had advised Rin to shut up, Rin had angrily ordered Sangrias to do the same...

(reprint of FG chat log appears here )

Several things happen at the same time.. the whip lashes out, phasing through Adam's scales ... there's no visible wound but the pain is enormous (make another concentration check Adam;) ) .. Sangrias strikes with his sword trying to knock the whip out of her hand.. and the sword passes through the whip as if it wasn't there...

Sangrias: The hell...

Adamant: Calmly...

Adamant: Let her lash out.

There's a horrid, horrible feeling of darkness.. pain.. disgust.. EVIL .. in the air, a palpable aura forming around Za'era.. Adam grits his teeth and maintains his serene expression somehow despite the searing pain ..

Sangrias: THIS is her...?

Rin: Sort of yes.


Adamant: If you choose to use me as your excuse to fall, then you are more self-deluded than you think.

Adamant: You are making these choices. You must stop them.


Adamant 's eyes dim to purple again.

Rin: So... Umm... Za'era you back yet?

The mace GLOWS, flies through the air and smacks into Za'era's hand, knocking the whip aside as if to say " I belong here not you! " to the whip.. visions run through the dark elf maiden's mind..

Adamant: With all due respect, this is Za'era's fight.

Adamant grabs the mace tightly.

Adamant: I don't recommend you interfere either, exalted one.

Adamant addresses the staff.

Rin: Umm... Adam are you fighting the weapons?

Sangrias: Shut the hell up Rin. Don't try to understand it.


Adamant: You must choose, Za'era - will you fight for good, or give into your pain and give up?
Adamant looks to Za'era.

Rin does not looks happy. "Pardon me Sangrias, you do not know Za'era. So with all do respect. YOU SHUT THE HELL UP."

Adamant: Please, gentlemen...


Adamant looks pleading to Rin and Sangrias.

Rin: I was being polite I was just asking if you were fighting the weapons.

Adamant: I am respectfully requesting that the weapons do not interfere.

Tani: Umm... I think that weapon really wants her Adam.


Sangrias remains trained on Za'era. "She better not make a damned move."
Adamant: Easy friend.


Rin: Yes Tani it does, Sangiras

Rin eyes flash. "I suggest you sit."

Sangrias , much to his surprise, abruptly sits down

Sangrias: You are making a terrible mistake, Rin...

Adamant does not impede the mace.

Adamant: Yes, Rin, please do not contribute to the atmosphere of distrust that already exists.

Rin: I have no control if you listen to my suggestions it's not my fault.

Adamant: You mean well, but using that spell on your friends is considerably rude.

Za'era wraps her fingers tightly around the grip of the mace forming a strong fist. Her body sweats from all the tension of her muscles. Her eyes slowly dim while the mace instead starts to glow red instead. She seems to want to move toward Adam with an aggressive stance then suddenly collapses to the ground. The dark fog sinking into the ground and disappears and the red glow around the mace dims until its gone.

The possession of Za'era seems to be over.. for now.. the black cloud of malice and evil seems to withdraw from her , vanishing.. Sangrias can't help wondering.. THIS is the woman his brother Donovan has a crush on ?

Rin: Yes but still, rude is preffered to combat I would think.

Adamant: Indeed. So do not provoke it, Rin.

Of course in retrospect... Sangrias doesn't know of the shared history between Za'era and Rin or whatever fondness.. and protectiveness.. Rin may or may not feel towards Za'era after driving off the surface elves who sought to rough her up and guarding Za'era in her sleep after the first "episode" of Takhisis possession he witnessed

(Rin, see

whatifdragonlancedm.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=forumroleplay&action=display&thread=112 and

whatifdragonlancedm.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=forumroleplay&action=display&thread=154 )

Then again perhaps it wouldn't matter to Sangrias even if he did know? But then again a moment ago the bird-man and runaway warrior appeared to be friends.. now what's happened?

(Sangrias, see the Sangrias shaking Rin's hand part, page 7 of whatifdragonlancedm.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=forumroleplay&action=display&thread=241&page=7 )

Or is this simply a result of Sangrias's overwhelming TENSION, and rightfully so.. the fear that his former adopted family.. the Brotherhood... might appear out of the shadows at any moment to slit his throat.. or even worse yet, Sangrias's family's throat.. can Sangrias really be blamed for being so tense?


The two men, bird-man and blue-eyed blue-haired mage regard each other through narrowed eyes... will either one speak? Try to break the current air of distrust and mutual dislike between the two of them? Or will they simply let things stand as they are?

[flak]

Sangrias stares down the kenku for a moment, then looks away in grief.

With a sigh, he grips his greatsword and heads down the hallway without a word.

[darkalloy]

Rin calls out to Sangrias.

"I hope you don't take my suggestion personally. I do that to everyone it is my way of disarming the situation.... Well that and a liberal greasing."

Rin taps his beak and then pats the now sleeping Tani.

"I just don't like threats to my freinds and you drawing a sword to something that happens to Za'era. That I seem to be the only one here who worries for her afterward anymore. It just didn't sit right with me. It was basically the same situation we found you in. You would have preferred if we had stayed out of it so this was something I would have preferred to be the only one... well Eolear may have been able to help as well... Anyway something those of us who consider Za'era a freind should have been the only one's to deal with."

Rin holds his hand out once more.

"At least I didn't kick you down a hole, I did promise that didn't I?"

[flak]

Sangrias stops in his tracks. Without turning to the kenku, he speaks.

"No. You didn't. What you did was just as traitorous."

"That was not Za'era. Whatever evil resides within her attempted to strike down your friend. Even I could not abide to ignore this."

Raising his left arm, greatsword in hand, he looks at Rin within the blade's reflection. "However, I could not strike her down. My sword simply phased through her weapon. My choices were few; nothing could touch her."

"I was prepared to defend your friend, even if you were not."

[darkalloy]

Rin is not very amused at this point and it show's in his voice... Probably because it sounds exactly like Beni's.

"You do not know what goes on between those too. It is best the situations between them be disarmed, before it escalates. It may not have been Za'era but it is still Za'era's body. I don't care what happens to the thing in her but she stays safe. Even if it would have made her kill Adam i would have killed anyone else to protect her. It's not her fault in the least and even Adam can't seem to wrap his monkish mind around that. He is the devil he fights. Za'era is not if he could notice that instead of thinking everyone have things like that happen to them if they are not disciplined then maybe he'd get better at his own discipline."

At this point Rin leans his head back and starts to hum. It's rather obvious he's getting a bit tired of the high and mighty people. Those that know Rin will know how he treats those in places of power or religious significance. Sangrias is lucky the puppet.... Oh here it is. Oddly Rin is now holding a puppet up on one hand and it screams out.

"Purge the unclean!!! Then give me my Tithe."

[flak]

Sangrias lowers his blade. "You still think I sought to harm her."

He closes his eyes and breathes slowly. "Think it through. My sword merely passed through, as if it wasn't there, yet she struck your stubborn friend with enough force to fell a horse."

"I did not want death. I was ready to take the next blow, if need be."

[darkalloy]

Rin does not respond in the traditional sense instead the puppet responds.

"Rin say Sword no cut weird whip, but It sure as hell could cut flesh."

The puppet then falls it would seem Rin is done talking even indirectly. If only Sangrias knew the week he was having.

[flak]

Sangrias growls. "Get off your high horse, you miserable crow. If you saw a monster attack Adamant, would you help or heckle him?!"

Turning to face the kenku, he thrusts his sword deep into the stone floor. "I rose to his aide, despite not knowing what the hell I was getting into... yet I could not, would not harm that vile woman."

Narrowing his glowing sapphire eyes, he bares his teeth menacingly. "I don't even LIKE the bastard! He's an absolute lunatic!"

Flexing his fingers like claws ready to strike, he continues his tirade. "Yet I tried to save his stinking hide. He was ready to throw his life away for nothing. NOTHING."

"I would have tried to save them both by any means. BOTH. The only means, as you so 'eloquently' said, disarming them both before it escalated. However, the girl was nothing but a ghost, and the devil is a cursed MONK!"

Growling ever fiercer, he suddenly stops and composes himself. "I... I could not stop their spat. So I would try to pull them apart; act as a wall if I had to."

He returns to his sword, pulling it out from the ground cleanly. Looking over his shoulder as he rests his blade on it, Sangrias speaks through his teeth angrily. "Send Seven or whatever his name is to get me when you're ready to leave. Or don't, makes no matter."

With that off his chest, he walks into the hallway, into darkness...

[darkalloy]

Rin emits the smallest chuckle when he says she was a ghost, not a funny chuckle either more of a you don't know what your talking about chuckle.

(And just a bit of info Flak if I read the text in both the recap-ish thing Andre pout up and what was in the game. Only the whip was ghostly Za'era was solid. If I am mistaken my bad that was kind of a bad day on my part and I may have misread so if I did I'll edit this Andre Could you say what happened? Just so we don't sit here going, "Well she was soils." "No she was a ghost!" "Solid damnit!" *flak chokes Alloy as Alloy racks flak in the groin.*)

[malkav565]

After a time, the discussion draws Adam's attention. As he approaches to conversational distance, he has a look of bemusement on his scaly face.

"I cannot remember ever being defended in such a manner before. I'm uncertain whether to be honored or insulted."

It's clear from Adam's amused smile he is more honored.

"Do not fear for me, Sangrias. It may not seem like it sometimes, but I do know what I am doing. And I am far from cursed - my fiendish bloodline gives me many boons, not the least of which is a long life in which to gather perspective."

When Adam looks to Rin, his smile fades.

"I have some apologizing to do to Za'era, Rin, but do not mistake my impatience for not caring. Nor should you mistake the fact that I know EXACTLY what she fights. I cannot stand by while she hands herself to fiends from below."

"Do not think you understand her plight, Rin. You do not. But to tell her she has no control of her situation is neither correct nor helpful to your friend. She must learn to resist the taint of evil or she will fall. No, I will not give up while there is still the chance of redemption."

"Have you considered our duty if Takhisis takes her? This is not a moral debate, Rin. This is not one of your classes. Is Za'era falls, you will face her on the field of battle. "

Adam looks to Rin, gravely serious.

Oct 7, 2010 14:56:52 GMT -5 @flak said:

Sangrias growls. "Get off your high horse, you miserable crow. If you saw a monster attack Adamant, would you help or heckle him?!"

Narrowing his glowing sapphire eyes, he bares his teeth menacingly. "I don't even LIKE the bastard! He's an absolute lunatic!"

Flexing his fingers like claws ready to strike, he continues his tirade. "Yet I tried to save his stinking hide. He was ready to throw his life away for nothing. NOTHING."


Growling ever fiercer, he suddenly stops and composes himself. "I... I could not stop their spat. So I would try to pull them apart; act as a wall if I had to."

He returns to his sword, pulling it out from the ground cleanly. Looking over his shoulder as he rests his blade on it, Sangrias speaks through his teeth angrily. "Send Seven or whatever his name is to get me when you're ready to leave. Or don't, makes no matter."

With that off his chest, he walks into the hallway, into darkness...

[darkalloy]

Rin opens his eyes for a moment and speaks in Cy's voice.

"Adam seriously if it comes to that I'll run and hide from anyone here who goes crazy and kills everyone else. That way I won't have to fight them. You also have no idea how much I do understand what is going on with her. Just as I am losing control of something she seems to be trying to resist. Resisting something not entirely under your control is hard and you cannot always succeed in fact it can be damn near impossible. So don't tell me that you understand."

Rin leans back further and closes his eyes once more patting Tani lightly sighing.

[malkav565]

"It is easier to mock the messenger than hear the message. If you wish to tell yourself I'm old and out of touch, that is your affair. It does not change anything. I have been resisting the pull of the planes below since before all of you were born (collectively)."

"I seem to remember informing you of the danger of crossing a chasm on a rope. You did not listen to me then either."

Adam smiles.

Oct 7, 2010 17:48:01 GMT -5 @darkalloy said:

Rin opens his eyes for a moment and speaks in Cy's voice.

"Adam seriously if it comes to that I'll run and hide from anyone here who goes crazy and kills everyone else. That way I won't have to fight them. You also have no idea how much I do understand what is going on with her. Just as I am losing control of something she seems to be trying to resist. Resisting something not entirely under your control is hard and you cannot always succeed in fact it can be damn near impossible. So don't tell me that you understand."

Rin leans back further and closes his eyes once more patting Tani lightly sighing.

[darkalloy]

Still not opening his eyes Rin speaks once more in his own voice now.

"I knew what I was doing. I crossed as I felt and I could have fell with out worry. As for you being out of touch I do feel so. You are out of touch with what most people would call life. As for old everyone here is old compared to me in the number of years in this world does that make them more experienced than me maybe, maybe not with how I live."

He lies back a bit more.

"I hope you don't find out why I understand what Za'era is going through. I hope it doesn't get that bad. You could say I'm resisting a pull from a force stronger than you think. I'm sure a certain organization would agree with me. Also if I seem a bit more grouchy than normal you know the week I've had."

Rin starts to hum again.

[flak]

Sangrias silently slips away. No need to continue arguing with those who don't listen.

[darkalloy]

Rin calls out just moments before Sangrias slips away.

"I would ask you something Sangrias. I noticed that cloak please don't bring it out in front of me. I would also prefer if you told me if you are a part of them. Any time you feel like it but I would prefer it be soon."