[OOC] The Prophecy

[Shienvien]

"The Viper" on its own is not known at all - "The Viper of Glades" is basically just what his eldest brother jokingly nicknamed him a few times, and Jordan dropped the "of Glades" part. If there are any kind of vipers or adders native to Rodoria, there should probably be at least two dozen Vipers running around to boot...
His actual name (Sir Yanin Glade) is moderately known, especially in Etlon, where his family resides, to some extent in Seclyr, where he served for about year and a half, and to a smaller extent in Zerul City (the last in part courtesy of Lady Alaisi). Primarily known for combat prowess, secondarily just for being a Glade. The more specific speculations are endemic to people who actually know the particular members of the family, and have perhaps met him.
(There is at least one more thing Morgan would be immediately notice about him owing to him having been made a sniffer, but I'd probably PM it when Yanin actually shows up.)

Hmm... Morgan was a blacksmith apprentice from eleven to turning eighteen, when he was made sniffer, then he was a sniffer for ... months, a year? before being turned into vampire, and now he's thirty, so might have spent a bit over a decade as a vampire. How far has he traveled as a vampire? ((Trying to figure out what the actual timeframes are for Morgan.))

[Rhaevnn Xeno]

"The Viper" on its own is not known at all - "The Viper of Glades" is basically just what his eldest brother jokingly nicknamed him a few times, and Jordan dropped the "of Glades" part. If there are any kind of vipers or adders native to Rodoria, there should probably be at least two dozen Vipers running around to boot...
His actual name (Sir Yanin Glade) is moderately known, especially in Etlon, where his family resides, to some extent in Seclyr, where he served for about year and a half, and to a smaller extent in Zerul City (the last in part courtesy of Lady Alaisi). Primarily known for combat prowess, secondarily just for being a Glade. The more specific speculations are endemic to people who actually know the particular members of the family, and have perhaps met him.
(There is at least one more thing Morgan would be immediately notice about him owing to him having been made a sniffer, but I'd probably PM it when Yanin actually shows up.)

@Shienvien

Ok ok, so more than likely, Morgan proooobably hasn't heard of Jordan's master. Got'cha.

Hmm... Morgan was a blacksmith apprentice from eleven to turning eighteen, when he was made sniffer, then he was a sniffer for ... months, a year? before being turned into vampire, and now he's thirty, so might have spent a bit over a decade as a vampire. How far has he traveled as a vampire? ((Trying to figure out what the actual timeframes are for Morgan.))

@Shienvien

From 11-18, he was an apprentice blacksmith.
From 18-26 he was a sniffer (he was a sniffer for "eight long years")
From 26-30 he is a vampire (so four years roughly, Morgan has a been a vampire).

As far as his travels, I think Morgan wouldn't have moved too much. If anything, he's probably spent his time moving from city to city, as it is probably easier to hide in the vast sea of humanity than out in the wilderness where "real" blood is hard to come by (and death by the same source is more noticeable).

[Shienvien]

Ah, must have somehow read the years as months... Curious, though; I'd imagine cities would be much more dangerous. Very many nosy guards and people who might be capable of sensing him, always someone within shouting distance, people having friends nearby and noticing missing people ... whereas in some very secluded places, one could be dead for weeks or months without anyone realizing. Or feasibly get lost in a forest and be eaten by a bear.

And indeed. The Viper? Not likely to have heard of 'im. Sir Yanin Glade? Probable.

[Rhaevnn Xeno]

...Curious, though; I'd imagine cities would be much more dangerous.

@Shienvien

Absolutely! But I imagine that Morgan is learning that it is more and more difficult to hide where guards are a thing. That, or he imagines it'll be too difficult to hide in a small village/town. Or maybe he has the mentality of an addict: the 'drugs' are often much easier to find where there is civilization -- high risk, high reward, and all that :P

Anyway, I tried leaving some options open for you, Shien. I don't think Morgan is too keen on making conversation this "early" in the morning, but I have feeling he's just being grumpy.

[Rhaevnn Xeno]

At the risk of a double post, I apologize for the shorter posts @Shienvien, but I want to make sure I'm not going too far ahead/assuming too much when writing. Don't want to miss any of that juicy interaction!\]

Also @Dark Jack, could we get The Viper and his apprentice on the front OOC page with the rest of the characters? It'd be helpful so I don't have to keep going back in the pages to read the character sheet every time I have a question. (For your convenience: Viper's CS)

[Shienvien]

Don't worry, Rhae - post length should be relative to what's going on foremost. You'll probably naturally end up a lot when you time-skip over a lot of activities or a character has a time to think and muse, but actual dialogue/combat would obviously leave less opportunity to cover a lot of thought or action (unless we want some unfortunate time-shearing to occur). Of course, the exceptions to this rule are giving background information and describing scenery ... which can be useful to do in some detail just to ensure that everyone imagines the same scene (tree? what tree? oh, we're in a forest, not on a town square? whoops).

Just to note, Jordan isn't quite as hopeless as he seems to think he is - he is at the very least better than the average town guard, courtesy of Sir Janin Glade (and over a year). He is a bit worse than Aemoten (when healthy) is, though, and obviously with not nearly enough practical experience.
Aemoten, while more experienced, has always been slightly worse than Jaelnec in at least the terms of speed and strength, in my mind (so if they were to fight, and Jaelnec didn't make any moves that registered as actual mistakes in my mind, Jaelnec would have probably won).
Domhnall is very quick and agile, but pretty much all his combat experience is from hunting, so might be better off staying back and crossbow-bolting things. Even a fairly inexperienced person with a spear can be rather annoying, though, so at least he has that going for him when it comes to polearm fights. With sword he's quite useless, and I doubt he'd get close enough with a knife to anyone with reach advantage once they have spotted him. He can be sneaky and/or set traps, though.
Etakar is, due to what he is, an absolute physical powerhouse, and has a fair amount of potential to master at least earth elemental magic. (Ironically, unless we count Aemoten's divine bargains, Etakar is my most magically talented narrative character - so leaving out various mentioned characters - to date to be included in this RP. Well, I suppose you could count Nkaa Raakan as "narrative charater", though that one is technically a NPC and, well, an actual god to boot, with everything that comes with the status.)
Sir Yanin Glade is by far my strongest humanoid physical fighter in the RP (even prior to the, uh, "demon problem", which comes with its own set of useful-once-mastered ... which is, in by far most aspects, "not yet", meaning the only pro and con at present is the passive effect provided by presence alone), and the most skilled one. Sir Yanin is also notably less reckless in combat than Aemoten, for the matter...

[Dark Jack]

Also @Dark Jack, could we get The Viper and his apprentice on the front OOC page with the rest of the characters? It'd be helpful so I don't have to keep going back in the pages to read the character sheet every time I have a question. (For your convenience: Viper's CS)

@Rhaevnn Xeno

Done.

Should probably also have fast-forwarded the scene by the road (which is part of why it took so long to write such a short post), but wanted to make sure everyone agreed that it was time first, and figure out how far ahead I'll be skipping.

[Legion X51]

I'm fine with the good old-fashioned time skip. Maybe to th gates?

[Shienvien]

Think it would work best to me, too. All Dom (and I imagine Iridiel) is doing before setting off is running about and picking up things, after all, and that's not anything that needs too much describing, or its own post. Just would need to decide how we're fitting five people on three animals capable of carrying people - Itanale (Aemoten's horse), Immanuel's donkey and the paladin's big white one (unless we're being suboptimal and just have some humanoids walk ... in which case we'd need to decide which ones).
Gates should work ... if for no other reasons, then because of what sorts of people they'd be passing upon closing in. (There is more or less no one left to recognize there, and thus little to talk, unless they feel like asking whether a large stalking best came through with two people half a day ago, so might as well just stay with Angora's family at this point.)
A couple of additional reminders: Claw will say goodbye before city gates. Iridiel also has a wolf with her.

Will certainly try to type up something for Jordan today; I fell asleep yesterday. Long day.

May make myself go through the Aemoten-timeskip, too.

[Legion X51]

Angora and Jaelnec should totally have to share a horse. Make it happen Jack! XD

[Shienvien]

You're an evil person, Legion. (Never mind that I just might have brought it up myself first. Might.)

EDIT@Rhae: How long is the quarterstaff Morgan uses exactly? Also posted; let me know if I'm otably off with something.

[Rhaevnn Xeno]

@Rhae: How long is the quarterstaff Morgan uses exactly? Also posted; let me know if I'm notably off with something.

@Shienvien

He's using an average sized quarter staff, so 7 or 8 feet (2.1 or 2.4 m) in length, roughly. Also, everything looks good - exactly as Morgan planned! ;D (but not really, haha). I'll try getting up a post in the next few hours at the earliest, or by tomorrow at the latest!

[Shienvien]

Hmm, I'm not entirely certain I've gotten the various details right in my head - Morgan is going into a slide forward feet first (for all intents and purposes, he's lying flat on his back at the end of his maneuver as intended). He will let go of his staff with one hand to try and punch Jordan, rather than use the staff against him. But I kind of can't really tell where the quarterstaff itself is at that point. Morgan is still holding onto the quarterstaff with his left - I imagine he was seemingly going to have it connect with Jordan's head or either shoulder, had he been any closer (fake aimed at the chest/abdomen?), but I can't really figure out where the following upward arc took it relative to Jordan. Probably not too far out so as to not make contact with the wall before his feet, but as for the rest? Would it be to Jordan's right or left before that point? At about which height? Is it still perpendicular, or is it parallel to the wall behind Jordan? A bit unsure.

As a sidenote, Jordan's sword isn't that short - 93 cm is still over three feet, and that's just the blade without the hilt, so it's still within the appropriate range for a longsword (the blade was originally maybe 100 cm, before the grind-down).

[Rhaevnn Xeno]

Hmm, I'm not entirely certain I've gotten the various details right in my head - Morgan is going into a slide forward feet first (for all intents and purposes, he's lying flat on his back at the end of his maneuver as intended). He will let go of his staff with one hand to try and punch Jordan, rather than use the staff against him. But I kind of can't really tell where the quarterstaff itself is at that point. Morgan is still holding onto the quarterstaff with his left - I imagine he was seemingly going to have it connect with Jordan's head or either shoulder, had he been any closer (fake aimed at the chest/abdomen?), but I can't really figure out where the following upward arc took it relative to Jordan...

@Shienvien

Ahk, sorry for the confusion, Shein.

More or less, Morgan's downward, diagonal swing is going for Jordan's left collarbone. However, once the attack is reversed, the butt of the staff will be making an upward, diagonal swing towards Jordan's hands while simultaneously going for the low blow with Morgan's right hand. (Hopefully, this clears up Morgan's actions). This is bring down with a smooth "baseball slide" between Jordon's legs, where (as you assumed) will have Morgan flat on his back.

I image the staff's reversed strike will not be as strong as Morgan's usual strikes, due the cramped situation, but its meant for a disruptive attack vs a full blown strike.

Good to know about Jordan's blade as well. I had first pictured the weapon to be a longsword, but then I thought you had written it to be from the top of his blade to the end of his hilt. XD

[Shienvien]

To be perfectly honest, the best approximation of most of Jordan's current thoughts [as of the end of the post] is whatever is the closest equivalent of "fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck" is in Rodoria...

EDIT: For the reference, I imagined Sir Yanin to be approaching from the same direction Jordan's head is pointed.

[Rhaevnn Xeno]

@Shienvien I'll get a post up tomorrow/Friday. Caught the stomach bug yesterday and uh. Yeah, it's been not fun.

[Shienvien]

Ouch. It has been a long time since I had one of those myself... The last time I think I was ... nine? I was actually put in the hospital just because neither of my parents could stay home at the time (hurray for free medical aid, though). The most memorable part of it, however, was how utterly boring hospital was. In the end, I even took off with all of the newspapers from the desk a couple of corridors away (which I'm still not fully clear on whether were meant for keeping in my room rather than being read on the couches next to them, but hey, they also anchored me to a drip for most of the day, and it was kind of annoying getting through the doors with that). Mind you "all" included not only the regular newspapers, but also the business/economy papers (the kind my grandfather read, printed on a specific kind of salmon-colored paper back in the day). Suffice to say, it wasn't until a bit over a decade later (when I had been working for a few years, and had begun to have spare money) that I took that keen an interest in the stock market again. Imagine that, a nine-year-old who was mostly interested in beasts of all kind voluntarily read about the stock market. Boredom is a powerful force indeed...

[Dark Jack]

Angora and Jaelnec should totally have to share a horse. Make it happen Jack! XD

@Legion X51

Now you're actually trying to kill him. This is a guy that was very recently kicked pretty hard in the groin... I suspect riding - even without sharing a mount with Angora - would be fairly uncomfortable on its own.

Anyway, with the last exam of the semester out of the way I can finally get to do the fast-forward I was supposed to do a week ago. How many horses does the group have by now, though? I think I lost track somewhere along the way...

[Shienvien]

We have Itanale (Aemoten's horse, a dark brown bay, 5'5" at withers), Immanuel's donkey and the paladin's big white one with the roadside group.

"Very recently" was two hours ago now. Don't things like that usually hurt a lot for a comparatively short time only? (I wouldn't know, seeing how I'm female and it is rather difficult to hit anything unusually painful down there, and thus I don't have a comparison point. Granted, as we talked on time, Jaelnec's ability to tolerate pain might also be below that of an average person...) It's not like Angora had metal-capped boots and the opportunity to put her entire body behind the kick or anything (so if anything, it was notably less bad than it could have been).

Legion would be sorely disappointed if two don't end up sharing a horse.

[Dark Jack]

Eh, it probably wouldn't hurt anymore by then, but it'd probably still be bit sore in the area. And even though Angora wasn't in a position to put her entire body behind the kick, Jaelnec was advancing toward her at the time, putting his entire weight into meeting the kick. It still wouldn't be downright painful to ride a horse after a couple of hours, but it wouldn't exactly be pleasant either.

I struggle to imagine Jaelnec being willing to accept sharing a horse with Angora, but... hmm... We'll see.