EliteCommander

The Depths of Deception

I don't really want to move on without letting Leon post, but I can't go to bed without sending us to this meeting.

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

Sharee walked up to Noelle and motioned for her to raise her hands above her head. She complied, allowing Sharee to tie her wrists together with the rope hanging from the boom above. After making sure the rope was taut, she moved around behind and unfurled the whip. The reactions from the crowd around them were varied. Some seemed shocked that one of their officers was about to be flogged, some looked nervous themselves, while a few even seemed excited for it to get underway. A few, mostly male crew members were too fixated on her chest to actually pay attention to anything else. Regardless, Sharee intended for them all to be filled with a bit of fear once it was done. To that end, she would have to make sure the first few strikes were hard enough to really make her scream. The pain would fade quickly due to the potion, but all Sharee needed was a good show.

With nothing left to delay her, Sharee gave no warning before the first lash. Her technique with the whip was near flawless, as she had obviously done this before, so the whip hit particularly hard. It left a gash going from her right shoulder, all the way down to her waist, and sent out a loud crack that could be heard all the way down on the docks.

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

Alright.

Elder Scrolls: Terror of the Padomaic

I'm hoping to let Ryonara respond, but I'll move on soon enough if needed.

The Depths of Deception

yes

The Depths of Deception

I assume Telmeck is in the same suite as Rareth and Shiva.

Blood Act I~ Ghosts of the Past

In a very conveniently timed response, I'll be going on the Escort quest.

Blood Act I~ Ghosts of the Past

I'm waiting for a response to a PM before deciding.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Kaleeth made quick work of her kill, prying apart the plates with her claws to get at the meat within. A dreugh's shell could actually be boiled to make a tough, lightweight armor, not that Kaleeth was anywhere near lucid enough to think about that. Some of the leftover plates could be usable, but many had been damaged by her teeth or claws. Regardless, Kaleeth eventually regained control to the point that she was more directly in control of her own action. She finished off as much as the meat as she could pry from its shell, which did sate her beast spirit considerably. It did not take much to satisfy a werecrocodile, and while it could have more, it would live.

Now that Kaleeth was unquestionably in control, she immediately wanted to turn back, not that she actually knew how to do that. Being in this form was frightening...though there was something about it she noticed during her kill that wasn't quite so bad. She felt capable, very capable. Her jaws could bisect a crocodile and rend armor plates. Her claws were almost like shortswords in length and tough like steel, and the muscles backing them up gave her a type of strength she never thought she would be able to feel. Curiously, Kaleeth reached down and picked up one of the broken chitin plates of the ground and squeezed it as hard as she could, snapping it into two pieces. Even if it had already been broken off, that was no small feat. Nevertheless, Kaleeth's fear of her current form meant she would certainly turn back soon without input from Janius.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Kaleeth's statue-like patience and effective natural camouflage kept her completely undetected as the trio of dreugh approached. Their crustacean hunting party was a menace to the small fish and other creatures of the river, but against an apex predator, they were easily vulnerable, even through their chitinous plates. She locked her eyes on to the one nearest her and gave not a hint of movement until she judged it close enough. At one moment, it was scanning the riverbed for bottom feeders, then in the next, Kaleeth's lightning fast jaws clamped down on its mid-section.

Of course, the dreugh's first reaction was to struggle and try to swim away, which was precisely the worst thing to do while in any crocodile's grasp. With her beast spirit to guide her, Kaleeth started a deadly roll opposite the direction it was trying to swim The opposing direction of the forces caused her teeth to shred the dreugh's soft insides, as well as sheering off one of its tentacles that was caught in her jaw. Meanwhile, the other two dreugh initially reacted in the same way as they did to many threats: by swarming it. Using their pincer-like claws, they attempted to slash at her throat and head, but her thick scales proved difficult for the young creatures to cut through. At least one slash did break through the scales, but it was a shallow cut that only served to anger her. Without releasing her prey from her maw, she lashed out with her own claws at the nearest attacker. The slash wasn't specifically aimed, so it did not hit anything vital, but it did find its mark on one of the tentacles that made up the dreugh's lower body. One of her claws stabbed through the writhing appendage completely, allowing her to drag the claw through it and split it in two for almost half of its length.

With pain shooting throughout its body, and the realization of the strength of what it was facing, the dreugh quickly cut its losses and swam away, along with its other friend. Had she cared to give chase, Kaleeth likely would not have been able to catch the two dreugh, even in this form, but she had her meal, so there was no need to. By this point, the river was running red with blood, making the scene all the more menacing when Kaleeth emerged from the river to feast on her kill. While the hunt had been successful, Kaleeth's progress on controlling her beast spirit sadly was not. She had allowed her beast spirit to take over almost completely during the hunt and was only just now pushing herself back into a position of control within her own mind. Without the beast spirit guiding her, it was unlikely her ambush would have gone near as well.