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Going into the world and spreading merriment
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Someone tries to stop him. The have to jump out of the way of his horse.

Multiple someones try to shoot arrows at him. Most of them bounce off his wards.

Two people try to chase him on their horses. Their horses aren't conjured creatures that can gallop nonstop.

Ruby can outrun them.

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Wow that was intensely unpleasantMost arrows missed him but three did not, though at least they mostly didn't penetrate him very deeply because of the wards and Oakflesh, and only one is still embedded in his arm by the time he loses his pursures.

Fucking, ow.

He pulls it off and sets his heal on to fix the wounds, and he is really extremely fucking mad.

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Ruby's kind of surprised by how mad he feels? For some reason he didn't expect it. But it's very easy to determine why: he's outraged on behalf of the common people. He's angry at the jarls for withdrawing their patrols from a major chokepoint on a major road, he's angry at Ulfric Stormcloak for sparking a civil war (he's not yet sure whether it's justified, but he's angry anyway), and he's angry at the bandits for preying on the vulnerable.

He's going to fix it. He's not sure how, just clearing the fort would help but it wouldn't fix it, but he is, nevertheless, going to fix it.


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The best way to get to Witchmist Grove, according to the person he consulted about it, is to get to Mixwater Mill and then cross the river there; there's a waterfall a little bit past the mill and the river is shallow there, so if he's quick and sure with his horse he can easily do it.

He has a magic horse, so of course he can do it.

And from there it's a day's ride to the grove.

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Without the benefit of roads, Ruby will have to rely on landmarks. There's a cave he has to ride past, and a small sulfurous lake, and if he keeps riding west he'll soon see the grove in the distance, standing out from the salt flats easily enough. And once he gets there, his destination isn't hard to find, either: a wooden shack surrounded by sharp stakes, with the heads of various animals impaled in some of them.

Wooden Shack
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...wow, he must've lied through his teeth about this place to Ysolda, what the fuck.

He stops before the aperture between the stakes and calls, "Hello? Is anyone there?"

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Someone is, in fact, there. "Darling! I've been waiting for you to return, to consummate our love!"

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A little bell sounds in his head as he recognises the species of this person: a hagraven, someone who went through a dark ritual and fused with a sacrificed bird in order to acquire dread powers.

"Hagraven feather" was one of the items Sam said were needed to fix the staff.

"Um... I'm afraid there's been a terrible misunderstanding."

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"What's wrong, my love?"

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Ughhhhh.

Honesty it is.

"I, uh. I was really drunk," he admits, "and I don't actually remember you, and don't think we should get married."

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She screeches, a sound like a crow in horrible pain.

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...yeah. He might be breaking her heart here.

"And, um, do you have Ysolda's ring?" He'll understand if the hagraven doesn't want to give it back, honestly, and he'll have to figure something out if so. He's not gonna force her.

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"No!" she screeches again. "Liar! You just want the ring to give it to Esmerelda, with the dark feathers, don't you? I won't let her have you!"

And she pounces.

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woah what the fuck lady. He barely dodges in time, and then he has to dodge again and again while he casts an Oakflesh and a Ward because those talons look terrifyingly sharp.

"You don't need to give it back! It's fine! We can just talk about it!"

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She does not seem inclined to talk, and continues trying to gut him.

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Aaagh okay, he'll... freeze the ground under her so she'll slip and fall, how about that.

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It works, a bit, but she quickly recovers her momentum and charges again.

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"Lady I don't want to hurt you!"

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"Die!"

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Wow, that's an extreme reaction to being rejected, um.

...he still doesn't want to hurt her, though.

Okay, ice again, then he'll Telekinetically pull on one of the stakes and try to use it as a blunt weapon. He really doesn't want to hurt her.

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She's not making this easy for him, and though she lacks any kind of tactics, she carries a lot more momentum than he does, and she has very sharp talons.

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Okay, rather than ice: water. Is the ground soft enough he can turn it to mud with enough water and maybe some Telekinetic help?

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It is. And it doesn't take much manoeuvering to get the hagraven to sink into the mud and get properly stuck, especially if he's smart about earth and ice.

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He is.

"I'm really sorry," he repeats.

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"Die!" she screams again and...

...starts crying.

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