The Forgotten Realms

[Lavi]

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The streets of Calimport is bustling as usual. The City of Rogues, as Vera describes it. There is little law and order in the city, compared to Waterdeep or Silverymoon. However, the town somehow keeps itself together.

Merchants line the streets, calling out to passerbys in hopes of attracting customers and money. The drow has little interest in the trinkets of those humans. In any case, conversing with anyone can attract unnecessary attention from the wrong people - guilds, for instance.

Vera, from the house-not-worth-mentioning (as it fell from a successful attack by a rival house in Menzoberranzan), was not in search of items of interest. Keeping the hood of his piwafwi low over his face, the shadows concealing his dark-skinned appearance, the mage can find what he is looking for with little attention drawn towards himself.

The city of rogues: anywhere anyone goes, there is bound to be a group of guildsmen hanging out. Guild wars occasionally breaks out, but it is rare for any sort of "war" in Calimport to be the open-warfare type.

As the mage approaches the edge of the town, his eyes turn towards the north. Somewhere out there, are surface elves that he despise. In the drow tongue, N'Tel'Quess - not people.

Making sure that no one is watching, he places an image in his mind. Before one can snap his finger, the drow was gone. Some distance north, Vera looks around the scenary. He is around the Forest of Tethir, the wind rustling through the leaves of the trees.

 

[Ru the Boatswain]

A new sound...like a new magic had come to the forest...magic in tis ways and strong. Maybe it was Silvanus's doing! Ahlan removed his bow from its place on his back and removed a bow, Me began to bound through the forest in the direstion of this new presence.

Silent and quick Ahlan moved through the forest,must be close now, i can nearly smell it, its not of Silvanus...drow...one and only one. Right there."You there!"He came out from behing a tree his bow was ready with an arrow but the bow was pointed at the ground."Why are you here?"He repeated himself in Sy'Tel'Quessir,"Mankoi lle sinome?"

 

[Lavi]

The drow did not initally reply to the ranger's question. Even though he knew what the ranger was saying, Vera was not interested in him. However, a suggestion came to mind. A smile rose to his lips, hidden by the shadow casted from his piwafwi's hood.

"None of your concern, N'Tel'Quess," he replies.

Of course, the drow consider themselves racially superior to others: all other races, to them, were trash in their eyes. Especially the races of lesser intelligence, like goblins, kobolds, and the others of the type.

 

[Ru the Boatswain]

"You appeared in my region...my gods forest. I will stay with you...You need not stay here."Ahlan kept his bow taught but down. The wind blew his hair and he smelled something foul. A goblin... or creature of evil perhaps. Looking to harm this forest.Did you bring the foul beasts I smell now here?"

 

[T.J]

Thoril was traveling through the Tethir forest as part of a kind of leasure treck. He had been searching and uprooting evil for the past several months non stop. The forest seemed and felt fine, nothing out of the ordinary. The stray bird would sing its song over head, while a deer would notice Thoirl's presence and quickly dart out of sight. Before he could fully unwind though. He felt a very dark and mysterious presence not to far from his current position. He smiled as he knew the hunt was on again. Turning his stead in the right direction, he spurred it into motion and quickly made his way towards the source of the problem. He stopped just shy of the clearing, having dismounted his horse farther back because of the thicker foliage. There he saw what was causing the evil presence, a lone drow standing in the middle of the clearing. It sounded like it was saying something but he couldnt quite make out the words form his location. He decided it didnt matter because he was going to kill it anyways before bursting out of the underbrush with sword in hand. " Why have you come here to taint this place foul beast." He always tried to possibly turn sentient creatures towards the light if he could before dispatching them.

 

[Ru the Boatswain]

The large human burst fromt he foliage and had not seen Ahlan. Immediately he raised his bow to the paladin and held his fire,"Human stop! Do not shed blood here!"Ahlan ylled this pointing his bow at the paladin defensively.The wind continued. this may have been the smell but there may have been something else but he was unsure. Obviously these two were not together.

 

[Lavi]

Vera laughed. It seems another has joined in the spectacle. The fools, they do not seem to understand what it means to be a drow. In the elvish language, drow originates from the word dhaerow, meaning traitor. The general rule of thumb is to never trust a drow, especially if you are in a more superior position of power in comparison to that drow. However, none of the three are connected in anyway, except that they have just met each other in the same place.

"If you wish, I can teleport a slave army to... taint the forest, as you say," Vera replied, "however, I'm not here to talk to N'Tel'Quess."

In an instant, a globe of darkness surrounds the drow mage, Vera disappearing from sight in the growing situation. As he teleports to a different part of the forest, the drow mage remembers a proverb from his kind.

"Nindyn vel'uss kyorl nind ratha thalra elghinn dal lil alust. Those who watch their backs meet death from the front."

 

[T.J]

"no!" Thoril yelled as he jumped into the orb of darkness, only to have him fly through the other side. The drow had already teleported. Anger and shame started to blossom in his heart. He knew he could have stopped it if thae one with the bow hadnt distracted him. Thoril didnt feel his presence because the taint of the drow had overpowered everything else. He turned to where he saw the bow wielder, " Do you have any idea what you just did?" He didnt even bother to wait for a reply. " Im sure that drow wasnt bluffing about the slave army, it could level this forest if I dont stop him" He turned and dropped his sword back in its sheath, starting to walk in the direction in which he could feel a different evil presence.

 

[Ru the Boatswain]

He let his bow down But kept it notched."It could not level this place. The gods protect it. I do not favour either you or it...Ive seen what 'good' men can do.If he was to harm this forest then he woud have been struck down by Silvanus."I will escort you from my forest. You brought a horse retrieve it."

 

[T.J]

" I must admit that this forest is unnaturaly clean, but that drow could end that tranquility in an instant. I can still feel its evil now, farther into the forest." He said as he whistled a special tune and his horse appeared next to him. He then got back on his horse and started in the direction of where the drow had teleported to. He didnt turn his back on the bow wielder but instead walked his horse backwards. " It is my sworn duty to destroy any evil I come across, or die trying. I will not let you or anything else stop me in my endeavor. I also do not wish to harm you, when I am done with my work I will happily leave this place and never come back."

 

[Ru the Boatswain]

Ahlan faded inot the trees,"I am following you, you will not find me- you will not see me.Be wary i will kno all you do. I know where he is and I will not stop you but i will not guide you. " A sound came from where he had dissappeared to and a buck came out. It rushed across the cearing and out of sight. Then from behind him,"Well get on, you are boring me."

 

[Lavi]

Appearing at the other end of the forest, Vera sighed. It is such a pain when everyone immediately targets a drow the moment his identity is known, but it is a pain that cannot be helped. He hoped to find a contact in the forest, but apparently he has been fooled. The fool that fooled him would be the target of his vengeance: a slow, painful death.

But something kept him from teleporting away from the forest. He is unsure of whether to play with these humans, or seek out the fool. Being one that does not follow any religion, Vera is unsure whether he is being manipulated by the gods or simply getting soft. The drow hopes it is the former.

 

[T.J]

Seeming to not be bothered by the disapearence or the voice directly behind him, " As I said before, I dont wish to harm you." Thoril said as he continued towards the dorw's presence. 'I do however think you might hinder my quest or even help the drow.' he thought to himself. He straightened up like awakening abruptly before saying. "since I dont know you and the fact that you yourself dont have an evil taint. Why dont you tel me about yourself." He wasnt trying to make friends, he was trying to see if this new companion was truely a being of the light and not jsut putting on a false front.

 

[Ru the Boatswain]

"I will tell you nothing. I cannot trust you after your last show of violence...My opinion may change...Silvanus gives you leave to kill him and him you...I will not hinder your progress but i will not help it either."Ahlan had his bow out still an had contemplated killing him many times. flawless kills they would have been but it was not a sanctioned kill.

 

[T.J]

" I understand your unwillingness, but I asure you I would never harm someone who wasnt evil or in league with evil." He spurred his horse alittle faster as time was of the essence. "The fact that I just happen to be in the general area when the drow apeared seems to me like divine intervention."

 

[Ru the Boatswain]

"Think what you wish..."He raised his bow for a hypothetical kill and then lowered it an moved silently to a new position."But go find your enemy and then we shall talk more..."

 

[T.J]

" O we'll find my foe soon enough" Thoril senced that the drow was just ahead of the group in another clearing. He dismounted his horse so he could get closer without telling his presence to the drow. " There, is my enemy" He said with the faintest of whispers when he saw the drow again. he strode into the clearing, sword drawn. He wouldnt attack the drow from behind, as it was a cowards way to fight. He would wait for the drow to face him before making his move. " your running and trickery wont save you forever drow"

 

[Ru the Boatswain]

From a high and hidden vantage Ahlan watched the conflict.

 

[Lavi]

Running and trickery? This paladin's a fool to proclaim his arrival to Vera, however, the drow has been waiting there for their arrival. Unknown to them, magical traps scatter the clearing. Passing any, or stepping on any, can have fatal consequences. They're truly beasts to call the drow "monsters", the drow are above all.

Vera drew his rapier, its dark color crackling in the dim light. The drow's spell on his equipment seems to be wearing off, a spell designed to protect his drow-made equipment from the harmful rays of the sun. Without the enchantment, his clothing and rapier would disintegrate. Looking at his rapier, the mage decides to make this quick before returning to Calimport to re-enchant his belongings in relative safety.

The mage archanist tosses the elegantly designed rapier in front of him, and the blade began hovering in front of him. It made a few swashes, as though to warm up for the coming fight, before hanging in the air between the drow and the paladin. "Only a fool would openly challenge a drow."

 

[Green Ranger]

Almost exactly as soon as the Drow finished talking, an arrow shot out from above in the trees, aimed directly for the Drow's neck, and coming from behind. There was no hesitation, no warning. Ravanys Gladomain had not earned her reputation and her place amongst rangers by hesitating or giving out melodramatic warnings to Drow. No darkskin traitor would taint the Forest of Tethir with their presence while the vigilant eyes of the Sun Elves watched over. Still, one had to move, and swiftly. IF the Drow did not die, then she would realize where the arrow came from. Leaping down from the tree, she swiftly took the form of a wolf, landing to the ground with a soft thud. From the shadows provided by the trees came another wolf to stand beside her. No other would realize her animal companion had come to join her, and only the most attentive of people would have noticed her change form, such was their attention diverted elsewhere at the time as it was.