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Overlords. (Sarpedon/Sanquin)

Sanguine muttered something unintelligible under her breath as she let Oliver do the talking. She couldn't find any gear that covered her eyes or ears. But luckily she remembered something else that worked even better. She had taken the alter self spell in her early levels for roleplay purposes. Which now came in handy for the same reason it came in handy during roleplay. "I should have thought of that sooner..." She whispered to herself before waving her hands in front of her face. A dull white light moved from her hands to her eyes and ears, making her eyes a hazel brown and her ears look like a normal human's. One person already knew of her identity, so no doubt the whole village would soon enough. But at least she might appear less threatening now. And anyone else in the world would see her like a normal human. Just as long as she remembered to re-cast the spell every 6 hours at least...

It wasn't long until the villager returned, together with two other people. A slightly more wealthy looking man and woman. The man of the two walked up to Oliver and bowed before speaking. "Paladin, you have our village's gratitude! I'm the Sherriff and this is my wife. I assume you're a mercenary and wish to discuss payment, though...we're...weary of your servant..." The man gave a quick nod towards Sanguine. She, however, had been listening in on the conversation from a small distance. And she wasn't at all happy with how she was being treated. Not only because it was rude, but because it would make her look weak. And the one thing she wanted to avoid the most in this world was looking weak.

"I will not tolerate this insolence!" The woman exclaimed, walking closer. The couple in turn, immediately cowered behind Oliver a little. "I'm the leader, not him." Sanguine continued, not caring about how scared they were of her. She didn't want to consider herself above Oliver, but for outward appearances it felt needed all the same. "We just saved your village, and this is how you treat us? In particular, me? Oliver was speaking the truth when he said we mean no harm, but that might very well change if I keep on being treated like a mere monster!" The man was properly sweating, and his wife was visibly shaking at this point. "P-P-Please f-forg-give me l-lady vamp-pire!" The man stammered, looking like he was about to drop down on his knees and beg for mercy. "I-I will d-do as you a-ask!" "Good." Sanguine replied, giving a slight satisfied smile. "Then take us inside somewhere so we can discuss our reward. Rest assured, I won't ask for any lives or blood. What we require is information."

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"Dread knight, guard him. Keep him alive." Sanguine ordered her minion. The undead didn't reply, but he did grab the soldier and pushed him against the wall of a nearby building. Oliver did his paladin thing, though she thought it a little premature. There were no threats at the moment, and for all they knew it could still take hours before the other enemies arrived. She didn't say anything though, as it was still possible that they could arrive within a few minutes. "I'll turn the others into undead after we've talked to the villagers. I'd rather not frighten them with a large group of undead standing in their village right now." The woman mused, adjusting her umbrella a little before turning towards the town square.

Villagers were starting to come out of hiding now, noticing that the fighting had stopped. The one closest to the two of them noticed something Sanguine had hoped wouldn't be noticed though. "Red eyes...those ears. You...you're..." A frightened look appeared in his eyes as he turned around, wanting to run once again. "V-vampire!" The vampiress was quick to react, however. She raised her hand, the blue glow of her ice magic appearing and just like with the children, ice shards appearing and lodging themselves in the ground. "There's no need to run." The woman spoke calmly, deciding to walk closer. "I don't know your experience with vampires, but I can assure you I have no intend to harm the villagers." The man didn't seem to believe her. As he tried to break through the ice, and when that didn't work, he cowered on the ground. Sanguine sighed, shaking her head a little and turning to Oliver. "This is annoying...I think you should try to convince them to talk to us. You know, since you're human and a paladin..." She wanted to do the talking, asking questions, but they first had to gain enough trust. Which was difficult when people only tried to run away from you. In the mean time Sanguine decided to look through her bag of holding to see if she had any gear on her that could cover her face a little.

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It wasn't long until Sanguine spotted Oliver, whom was dragging one of the soldier along with him. "They're properly scared by now I think. Though I doubt this guy is in a position to offer a surrender..." She replied, wondering what to do with the guy. "Though I'm sure we can still get information out of him. For instance..." She glared angrily at the man, whom was cowering in fear at this point. "Why you attacked this village." "I-I don't know! I was just following orders!" The man exclaimed, proving that he indeed was just some random soldier. They would have to find someone higher-up to get more, most likely. Though they could have their interrogators at the guild get more out of this guy as well. "Where's your leader?" The woman followed up. "Heh, you're all so dead...he'll come soon enough and then you'll all die." Sanguine sighed, shaking her head. "This is pointless right now. We came here to get information from the villagers, so we can deal with him later." She mused, looking at Oliver again. "How about we have my friend here-" Her thumb briefly pointed at the skeletal dread knight walking towards them. "-guard this guy so we can go talk to the villagers?" The remaining soldiers had dispersed, so the fighting was over for now. Though if their prisoner was telling the truth there would likely be more trouble later in the day. So she wanted to get their first plan out of the way as soon as possible, before shit hit the fan.

(Meh, wanted to post more but you know...your character should have a chance to say or do something as well. :P)

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Maybe you're having the same problem I had a while ago where my mind just didn't want to go into the rp mindset. ^^;;

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And here I thought you'd like a fight or two. >.>

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Sanguine sighed, deciding to just let Oliver do his thing. She herself wasn't too bothered about saving as many lives as possible for the sake of saving lives. Her reasons involved wanting a good image among the ordinary people. People having a good image of you always worked out better than them thinking you were bad in some way. The woman turned to the two children, whom at that moment remembered that they could still run. The older one got up, trying to pull the younger one with her. However the vampiress wouldn't allow that. She lifted her hand, a blueish-white glow starting to emanate from it. Instantly several very large icicles appeared just above the ground in front of the two girls, whom then flew towards it and dug deep into the soil to create a makeshift barrier.

"There's no need to run. I merely want to know what's going on in your village." The woman spoke. "I-I don't k-know. S-s-soldiers suddenly j-just...please at least let my sister go!" The older one spoke. They both looked terrified of the woman clad in black. Though considering the circumstances that wasn't too much of a surprise. First soldier attacked, and now a strange woman able to use magic suddenly appeared before them as well. Sanguine kept a slightly uninterested stare in her eyes, though. "I'm not going to hurt you. Just don't waste my time." The woman spoke, holding out both hands this time. After a second or so a magical shield formed around the two girls. "This will protect you. It stops anything but magic coming from the outside. You can step outside of it if you want though. It'll last for 10 minutes. Come back to the village at that time." Both girls looked confused, and a bit scared of the glowing shell that had formed around them. But they seemed to understand enough at least. "W-what are y-you g-going to do...?" The oldest asked. "Save the village of course. My companion has gone ahead to do just that." Sanguine replied.

Now it was time to test her most important magic. Creating undead. "Rise my minion." She spoke, holding out her hand to the corpse that Oliver had left behind. What happened next looked a bit disgusting, as purple and black slime started to cover the soldier's body completely. A few seconds later, and there stood a skeletal dead knight. Not her most powerful undead spell, but plenty for the situation they were in at the moment. "You're free to go if you want, but I would take my advice." The woman finally suggested before turning towards the village. "Dread knight, follow me." She commanded, the undead turning to follow after it's creator.

By the time Sanguine finally arrived at the village, the main square already had several dozen dead soldiers on the ground. No doubt Oliver's work. Even so, there were still another dozen or two running about. Or, most likely, running away at this point. If Oliver had indeed killed that many of them already it stood to reason the alive ones had become scared. Her suspicions were confirmed when two soldiers came running in her direction. "Run! That guy's a monster!" One yelled to any of his allies that might be able to hear. At which Sanguine grinned amusedly. "There's a monster over here as well." She called out to them, stretching her index finger out to one of the two. "Time to die~" A bolt of greenish energy shot out from her fingertip, hitting one of them right in the chest. Immediately the man started to slow down, quickly followed by collapsing on the ground, his skin having turned pale in a matter of seconds as the vampiress had used her life drain spell on him. The other one had turned to the right to try and escape between two houses though. So it was time for her new minion to do some work. "Dead knight, kill that man." It was only after both the soldier and the undead had disappeared from view behind a building that she could hear a loud scream. And a bit later the dread knight returned, his sword now bloody. "This is going quite easy..." She thought, wondering if these soldiers were really a good indication of this world's average dangers. Probably not...

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Before Sanguine could fully grasp what was going on, the soldier was already charging at Oliver. Worry flashed in her eyes as she looked at his back, wondering how well he'd do against a soldier of this world. Lukcily her worries had been unnecessary, as the paladin got rid of the threat with ease. She wanted to celebrate, realizing that their strength in the game was still just as powerful in this world as well. And that a single soldier proved very easy to deal with. As this meant Oliver at least could take on several of them and still be fine. But acting out of character with onlookers might be a bad idea, so she instead tried to smile a little smugly. As if she was expecting the result.

The woman nonchalantly took out her umbrella, remembering that it was day time and that her new body didn't handle the sun very well. She then stepped closer, whispering in Oliver's ear as she didn't want the two children to hear her. "You probably want to go to the village, right? I want to leave a certain impression on the villagers, so could you act like you're there following my orders? That, and please keep one alive so we can question him later." Sanguine wanted to be careful with how they presented themselves to this world. So at least for now, she wanted to portray the two of them as a powerful mage with a very strong bodyguard. As it would probably get a lot less attention than two very powerful people, one of which a necromancer, with an equally powerful army at their command. "I'll follow you in a minute. I just want to deal with these kids first and possibly try a spell or two on the dead guy." In the game, you could only summon undead from corpses. Though once you had one summoned it didn't disappear until it was killed or you logged out, with a maximum of 10 summons. So it probably worked in a similar way in this world, based on what she knew so far.

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Sanguine smiled, quickly turning back to the room and heading back inside. "I'll set the teleport to just outside the village. That should at least give us a bit of breathing room to scope out the situation. Let's just hope the npc's realize what happened and send a carriage to the village anyway. Otherwise it might be a long walk back." Once the coordinates were set, the portal sprung open in a flash of light. It was like a window in the wall, the other side near the village being visible through it already. At that moment, though, two people also came into view. Two children, no less. A girl, about 16 years of age, with another girl looking about 10. They were running towards the portal in a panic. And a moment later a man in armour came into view as well, running after them with his sword drawn.

"Oh great..." Sanguine grumbled, having hoped that they could get there unnoticed. "Well, the portal is already open so let's go." Oliver was already at the portal, so she followed him through a moment later. The two girls quickly came to a halt as two expensively clad and quite frankly scary people suddenly stepped out of thin air in front of them. Luckily, the soldier did the same thing as he saw it all happening. "The hell?!" The man shouted, his attention quickly moving from the girls to Sanguine and Oliver. "Who the hell are you people?! You wanna die too?" Clearly this soldier was quite confident in his skills, as unfounded as that might be.

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Hehe, days like that can be great. Where you can just say "I don't wanna." xD

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I do hope so. :P Today was fun at least! Airsoft followed by a barbecue.