Elder Myth and Legends (IC)

[The Arcanist]

Dawnstar had yielded the same results as every other city: which is to say, none. Sabrin had spent a few days in the area and was familiar with a face or two by now, but none were the face she was looking for. Seeking a bit of warmth and some time alone with her thoughts, the Imperial made her way to a hole-in-the-wall Inn. The rooms were cheap, the drinks were cheaper, and while it wasn't exactly a luxury suit in Cyrodiil, it was close enough to home for the time being.

She ordered a weak glass of ale and took a seat by the fire, doing her best to ignore a pair of brawling Nords. The two of them were built like mountains and quite capable of tearing the place apart if left unchecked, but a broken nose had taught her not to interfere with these things during her first week in Skyrim. Rin tried not to think of the natives as barbarians, but the harsh environment and harsher locals were making it difficult. Though she admired their enthusiasm at the very least.

Someone must have noticed the haughty look on her face as she watched the brawlers and taken offense. The moment she finished her drink a young Redguard woman - fair of face with muscles to spare - glared at her from across the fire. "Is there a problem?" The woman asked, her tone carrying the weight of a command.

Not eager to join the Nords in exchanging punches, Sabrin simply shook her head and tried taking a more diplomatic approach. "No, not really. It's just a little cold in here I suppose."

Rising from her seat and walking over to the bar, the Redguard decided to leave the girl with a little 'friendly' advice. "It's cold everywhere. So mind your face or it might freeze that way one of these days."

With a quiet sigh, Rin ordered another drink and began plotting her next move in silence. If all went well she would make her way to Whiterun within the week, but her plans had quite the way of unraveling lately.

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Elanin snapped her head towards Miarenus. She was especially hoping to be able to make up for her mistakes from before by showing off her conjuring skills. But apparently, Miarenus was thinking of another way to approach things. Well I guess this will have to do Elanin thinks to herself. As her conjuring spell dies out, she sighs and gives Miarenus one last dirty look before beginning to step out into the opening. As she walks, she pulls up her robes to reveal her lean legs and pulls the top of her robes to show more of her chest. SHe ruffles her hair a little bit and softens her facial expression. She lastly throws her boots off so that she is now walking bare-foot. Elanin soon finds herself standing out in the opening in clear view of the bandit camp. She slowly approaches the camp and with a quick glance, sees that most of the bandits were male and that some of them saw her approaching. They began to raise their weapons, ready to attack until they got a closer look at Elanin. Just then, purposely, Elanin drops her pack she had casually swung over her shoulder. She puts on a stupid 'woops' look and bends over seductively to retrieve the contents of the pack. She could sense the bandits staring at her and when she got the chance, she glanced over to see that they were whispering and grinning at each other and were motioning to their pals and pointing at her. Whatever females that were there were rolling their eyes and some even scolding the other men. Soon, Elanin was able to retrieve whatever contents from the pack off the dirt path. She stand back up straight and sees that the bandits lowered their weapons and actually seemed eager for her to reach the camp while all of the women had death-stares on their faces and began to advance towards Elanin. In her mind Elanin was thinking Any day now Miarendus...
(Yes, its a long post and I feel that this made up for me leaving suddenly yesterday)

[KrypticKX]

Miarenus during Elanin's little display had snuck through the forest and had come closer to the tower and the bandits. Miarenus in her mind had to chuckle a little at Elanin. The Altmer couldn't learn any other type of spell well besides illusion but she knew how to draw attention that was for sure. Miarenus with her conjured bow readied an arrow and waited for the opportune moment. After all if she was to early Elanin would be dead but if she was to late... Miarenus didn't want to think about it. Instead She decided to keep her mind focused on the now. Little did she know one of the male bandits had seen her in the shadow. The Khajiit bandit moved closer silently until he was right on top of her and placed his sword on Miarenus neck.
"What do we have here? Another blue skin. Oh and a pretty one to." The Khajiit bandit taunted.
Miarenus seemed displeased. The Khajiit and Bosmers where the only ones who could ever sneak up on her like this. Miarenus lowered her bow and it disappeared.
"Please don't get in any trouble Elanin." Miarenus thought.
She turned around and looked at the Khajiit ready to move when he let his guard down.

[Kojote]

Optio could see Dawnstar in the distance. But something caught his eye. Bandits. Optio put his helmet on. Optio drew his mace. He held his shield and yelled "Well, well, well, bandits seem to be blocking my path." The bandits turned to him. "You wanna move? Or are you gonna try and steal from me?" Optio was ready for a fight. At that moment, the bandits laughed. Optio started walking in. The bandits realized at this moment the merchent was serious. Optio smiled behind his helmet. These bandits sadly didn't know that the man behind the armor was suddenly a bloodthirsty orc.

[xXl3xxiXx]

Elanin waits a few more moments for Miarenus' arrows to come but doesn't see any bodies dropping. She mumbles a couple swears in elven under her breath and continues to walk towards the camp. Soon enough, she comes face to face with a couple of the women from the encampment. "I see that we've got a visitor. It's rare that we have one intentionally too," smirked one of the women. Elanin coudn't see her face through the helmet she was wearing but could see that the other woman was a rather muscular nord. The nord added in, "I know... and it's a high elf too..." after a quick look up and down Elanin the nord says, "I wouldn't expect an Altmer to blindly take a stroll through this area wearing such.... attire. But I suppose they are known for their 'confidence in themselves'." The nord and other woman chuckled to themselves while Elanin continued to just stand there and take the verbal insults. Looking behind the women's heads she could still see a couple men make their way to the her. But, she could still see the women slowly start to unsheathe their weapon. Elanin thought fast and pushed past the women, which caught them by surprise and staggered them, and went up to the two men. She threw her arms around one of their necks and buried her head into his chest. "Oh please help me. I'm lost I can't find anywhere else to go and I'm helpless," Elanin said in a muffled tone. She also discretely rolled her eyes. Before the bandit had the chance to speak, Elanin brought her head back up and began to slowly caress the man's chest. "It would be awfully nice of you to provide shelter for me untill I get an idea of where I'm going." The bandit turned his head to the other man and slowly smiled. Again, before he had the chance to speak, Elanin quickly went over to the other man and began to slowly bring her leg up against his and it soon reached his waist. She whispers in his ear, "And I'll make it worth it." She gives him a smile and winks. Both men were mesmerised at first but then got their act together. "Well why wouldn't we invite such a fine women to stay." Said the first bandit. The second bandit took a little longer to respond, "... Yes, yes, we don't one bit." Elanin clapped her hands together. "Oh, you two are wonderful! I don't know how I could thank you enough." Elanin walked past the two men and also added in. "And if you don't mind I think I'll go bathe in the river just to wash of some of this dirt." She continues walking into the bandit encampment. The two men watch Elanin walk down the path swaying her hips and looked at each other and smiled slyly. "Oh I know how you can thank us" and they and chuckle to themselves and turn to face the two women who were standing there the whole time. They had looks of disbelief and disgust on their faces. The two men only shrugged and followed Elanin down the path.

[KrypticKX]

Miarenus turned around and stood up the blade still at her neck. "Tell me flea bag do you believe in the Gods or perhaps the Daedra?" Mia asked. The Khajiit wondered why this was brought up but went with it. "Does it matter what I believe? You're standing at my sword and about to die." The Khajiit said. Miarenus laughed and pulled her glass dagger with quick precision. In one move she knocked the sword out of the Khajiits hands and had him on the ground with the dagger to his neck.
"You have no idea who I am do you? I am Miarenus Nerthe Telvanni daughter and princess of the Telvanni house lordship." Miarenus told the Khajiit.
The Khajiit went wide eyed and had scared cat eyes. "A Telvanni! Your house helped close the Oblivion gates!" The Khajiit said struggling against the blade.
Miarenus chuckled and got closer to the Khajiit's face. "I know. In my early years after Red mountain erupted I traveled Tamriel closing the gates that where left. I ended up here. My family abandoned me during the crisis and I had to fend for myself. Doesn't matter for you though. You can ponder this in Oblivion." Miarenus said and slit the Khajiit's throat. Afterwards, she checked him for anything useful. She found a spell tome and some gold. Pocketing it in her bag she got up and looked around. She saw Elanin bathing in the river while two bandits watched her.
"Filthy Nords and bandits no less. Nothing but scoundrels and perverts." miarenus thought as she snuck up to get into bow range. After she was close enough she waited to see if Elanin could handle this or if she was going to need help. Miarenus wanted to see if she focused better in a battle.

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Elanin was out in the river splashing a little water on herself. She was mumbling to herself about getting this deep in the situation and not knowing how to get herself out of it. She was even starting to get worried about Miarenus not coming in and taking down the bandits when she was supposed to. From a side glance, she could see the two bandits staring at her from the riverbank. "Ugh, So this is what Miarenus meant when she said bandits were nothing less than disgusting perverts," she grumbles. She then notices that another bandit joins the two men on the riverbank. This one seemed much more interested in Elanin and was seen talking with the other two bandits and occasionally looking and motioning at Elanin. The man that joined them, a nord, suddenly started taking off his armor while starting to wade off into the river in Elanin's direction. Elanin heard the water nearby and tensed up. She then felt a hand on her shoulders and whipped around to see the nord standing beind her in the water with a mischievous smile on his face. He started to advance closer to Elanin but she reacted faster and elbowed him in the middle of his face. He staggered back and eventually stood straighter and revealed to have a bloody nose. She then fell back into the river and quickly thought up a spell. Suddenly, an ice spike blasted out the palms of her hands and impaled the nord in neck. He died instantly and his body fell back into the river. Elanin looks up and sees the other bandit's shocked faces and they begin to run towards her as fast as they could through the water. Elanin reacts instantly and sends a barricade of ice spikes at the duo until she feels all her energy drain. The three bodies begin to sink to the river floor and Elanin carefully scans the area for any more bandits that might've seen her. She then spots Miarenus looking down at her.
(Yes, its my last 'novel' post)

[Kojote]

The bandits charged carelessly at the ebony armored orc. Three of them was all that was there. Sadly the first one had no luck. He was quickly killed by his friend. One of the bandits took a shield to the chest. The bandit that was falling had his buddy attack Optio. But the guy was quickly finished off with the bladed mace right into his neck. The guy on the ground took two more blows from thre shield before he started bleeding from his mouth. "Filthy Nord." Optio swung the mace straight down on the Nord's face. With the final sound being a nasty crunch, the Nord went completely limp. "What a fine weapon this guy has." Optio picked the staff up. He could see the enchantment was to save some mana. "Perfect for a magic user." He whispered to himself. He looked up at the city. "Wait, aww damn. Not again." Optio took off his helmet. "I would be near Solitude." Optio shook his head. He set up a tent and a fire just outside of solitude. He showed off some of the weapons and armor people could buy.

[KrypticKX]

Miarenus walked up and tossed Elanin her clothes and a potion. "So, you do work better under pressure. I can see why those bandits liked you so much. You do have a nice body. Enough tests though there's still the woman bandits and whoever is inside the fort. Skyrim at night is dangerous and you're either brave or a fool to travel at night. Let's take them out and camp inside until day break." Miarenus also tossed Elanin the spell tome. It was the fireball spell. "Irony. Have to love it. I'm going to clear out the bandits left outside. Wait until you see me at the top of the tower." Miarenus said. She conjured the bow and arrows again and took off to take care of the rest of the bandits outside.

[xXl3xxiXx]

Elanin grabs the clothes and quickly pulls them on over her now shivering body. She mumbles thanks for the potion and unsuringly grabs the spell tome. She moves over to an area where she could easily hide while Miarenus take care of any remaining bandits.