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The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

@Eviledd1984, I thought we were trying to gain safe passage for an entire army.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

The glory and destruction of Torrens' battle was rudely interrupted by the hail of arrows. He turned to see the archers positioned above the valley, who had already released their next volley. One or two arrows he could ignore, but this continuous barrage could prove deadly.

With a shortage of immediate cover, Torrens decided he needed to make his own. With a sweeping motion, Torrens conjured a wall of fire between himself and the archers, obscuring himself from view and allowing him to sidestep the arrows. Given a moment's respite, Torrens prepared another fireball of a similar sort as his first one. With the firebomb ready in his hand, Torrens allowed the wall of fire to fade just enough for him to see where the archers were. With his target in sight, Torrens lobbed the fireball, which streaked through the sky and landed right in the midst of the archers.

This particular fireball exploded into a wave of slightly sticky flames, which would cover all the archers in fire and set them alight. With the clifftop ablaze and the archers dealt with, Torrens dispelled the wall of fire and turned back to orc warriors. He rubbed his hands together and walked towards them with a sadistic grin on his face. "OK, who's next? I'm hungry."

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

Okay and so i don't fuck up the post,What should they talk about.

@Eviledd1984

I'm not entirely sure, but I can't imagine that the orc shaman will be particularly friendly. Although, he may not immediately recognise you as an enemy either. If you want my opinion, it probably depends on what you want to get out of it. You could try to assassinate him, which would need stealth and stuff, but is rather direct and straightforward. Or you could attempt to negotiate safe passage for the Horde, in which case you will need to convince them that Torrens is not a member of your Horde (sorry about that) (you could go out and beat him in combat, drive him away. Torrens should clue in to that plan). Of course, whether they would grant you safe passage even if Torrens wasn't attacking I don't know. The diplomatic route has its risks, and reveals the presence of our army if they didn't already know.

Cyclone may have better hints than my wild conjecture. Whether he gives them to you is another matter.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

I'll play it by ear.

P.S. Although, it looks like the shaman will be encountering D'Artagnan before Torrens.
P.P.S. And we've always got Emily's hidden trump card or whatever it is she's got planned, although I'm betting that will be saved for something more significant than a single orc shaman.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

Cyclone, with this encounter, don't be afraid of potentially killing Torrens. If he dies, it serves him (and me) right for charging in there like a fool. And he can easily be reanimated by just setting his remains on fire, so it need not be permanent.
That said, don't go out of your way to kill him either. I'm just letting you know that it's fine if the orcs turn out to be too much for him.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

So, is everyone really busy or something?

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@Lunar, seems to work just fine for me on my desktop computer. Pressing the Chat link at the top of the page takes me to the chat, which works exactly as expected.
Maybe Mahz was doing some updates at the time, or maybe the problem is more specific.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

Watching the not insubstantial force of orcs assemble outside their village, Torrens was starting to have second thoughts about his plan. While the part of the plan where he distracted the entire village to the point that sneaking through would be trivial had worked, he had failed to properly consider his own exit strategy. "Well, I asked for a fight and I got one," Torrens said to himself. He stopped running in his arc and turned to face his challengers, crouching down to prepare to sprint towards them. "Bring it on."

In a burst of speed, Torrens charged towards the dozen orcs who were approaching him. About 10 meters away he brought up his hands and shot two of the orcs with fire bolts while maintaining his charge. Just before he was about to collide with the group he feigned to the right then tackled an orc to his left, smothering that orc in excruciating flesh-melting heat before letting it go. At this point the other orcs closest to Torrens would probably try to strike him down, but to their dismay or even horror they would find that their weapons failed to wound this demon among them. Torrens would get knocked around a little, but that didn't concern him. Now inside the scrum, Torrens released a cone of fire from each of his hands and spun around, engulfing the group in orange flames which weren't particularly hot but still enough to make hair, fabric and maybe even flesh alight.

Then Torrens inhaled. The fire on any of the orcs which hadn't scattered after his last attack, however small, grew in size and ferocity until they covered the entire body of the affected orcs, immolating them. Torrens took a moment to stand there and savour the heat, walking up to each of the burning bodies in turn, since he would need every joule he could get if he was going to have the best chance of making it out of this fight. All the while, he was oblivious to the archers above who were aiming their arrows at him.

Mahz's Dev Journal

@Shienvien, That is a good point. My suggestion is that putting PM's in the Trash folder should function similarly to leaving a conversation, so you won't get new notifications from it, and only when all people have left that conversation would the PM go into whatever state we put data we don't want anymore (after an appropriate delay, of course).

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

@Eviledd1984, yes, a battle is starting, although that may work to D'Artagnan's advantage. Since he hasn't been spotted yet, he can still go sneaking around.
And at this rate, I think even if they weren't hostile, they would be now. I did just firebomb their village.
Also, don't forget that you've overheard the orcs' conversation about their shaman with mention of the king. Read that.