Mission Freedom|Ekaitz

[Kender Bard]

Cobalt and Noel were moving slower, warily, as they neared the general area of what they felt would be the village. Noel held up a hand to motion everyone to stop as he scrambled up a hill and peered over. When he returned, he gave a grave nod. "I saw a village just up ahead. It's a small place, but crawling with activity. From this distance, I can't tell who's slave and who's slaver, besides the obvious ways. I think there's more slaves than slavers though. Hard to tell."

[Toyoll]

Nyala, who had long sensed that they had crossed into the ennemy's territories, had grown silent and wary. Lupine eyes scoured the horizons and wolfen ears swivelled in all directions.

"I can tell who's who easily enough." the she-wolf put a thumb to her nose, "Slavers will be the Storms then? It'll be hard to miss that metallic smell of theirs..."

[aivea]

Audra frowns slightly. "Careful, Nyala. Some of the slaves will also be part Storm, so sniffing for Storm blood is going to lead to at least one false positive. Half bloods or anyone who had a Wind or Water sign, even if also a Storm, are going to be with the slaves."

[Devon]

Devon nods to Audra and takes off his gloves. His right hand held his Storm sign and his left the Wind sign.
Putting the glove over the Wind sign he looks to the rest of the group. "So how are we going to do this? Go in loud or try to do it quietly. I think a quiet approach would be best. Audra and I both have Storm signs so we could pretend we captured the rest of you. Cobalt and Noel being noble Winds should be good for convincing the slavers we're serious."

[Toyoll]

Nyala snorted, "Slaves?! You want me to act like a slave?"

The proud Poldoran Officer turned up her nose. She couldn't exactly think of a better plan but loathed the idea. Nyala growled unhappilly, "There's got to be a different, and safer, way to do this? If they find the rat, they'll kill it..."

[Kender Bard]

Cobalt and Noel both grew different shades. Noel went ghastly pale, and Cobalt a scarlet red.

"No," they both said firmly.

"We've already been slaves," Noel explained. "I don't think I could do it again. Trust me, Devon, even if you and Audra had 'caught' us, that's not going to stop someone else from taking us from you if they really wanted to. Not to mention that since slaves are just property, there's nothing much you two could - or rather, should - do if they decide to take frustration out on both of us."

[Devon]

Devon looks down and nods slowly. "I'm sorry, I didn't know that had happened to the two of you. I don't get why some Storms want to have slaves anyway..all the more reason for us to bust this place up." Devon looks up again at Noel and Cobalt. "But how do we do it?"

[Kender Bard]

The two knights sigh and contemplate this.

"What are we aiming for first?" Cobalt finally asks. "Do we want to do as much damage to this place as we can, or do we want to free slaves? Once we get our priorities straight, then we can form plans around that."

[Toyoll]

Nyala swished her tail about, "We should approach this like a real cattle raid. After all, that's how the Storms treat them, right?" she looked at Noel with a clever eye, "It would be useless to go after all the slaves that have already been bought. They're spread out and their masters watch them like hawks. Nope, we should go after the vendors."

The Poldoran shrugged, "It makes the most sense. There's a better chance of liberating more slaves while dishing out a good helping of wanton destruction. Noel, Cobalt, sorry to bring this up, but do you know where the holding pens are?"

[Kender Bard]

Both men shook their heads.

"We don't know anything about this place," Cobalt admitted. "I've never seen it before. But in my experience, new slaves are brought into a place via a caravan or a wagon. Then they're usually parcelled out and bought up right on the spot, and carted off to their new homes."

[Toyoll]

"Caravan, eh?" Nyala grinned darkly, "That makes out job easier then...How often do they come in, you wager?"

Nyala crawled up the side of the knoll and peered over, her eyes searching around the outskirts hopping to see some indication of the usual entry way.

Not seeing anything, she slid back down with a grunt, "So? My question still stands..."

[Kender Bard]

Noel scratched his cheek and fluffed his wings out. "That depends on how well their hunters have been hunting. It could be anywhere between once or twice a week to once in three weeks."

[Devon]

"So if we get lucky enough to spot a caravan we should just hijack it right? They wouldn't expect a caravan of their hunters to be carrying people who meant to take slaves from them."

[aivea]

"That'll be easy enough to do," Audra replies to Devon with a faint smirk. "Just need to make sure to do it quietly so no one comes running from the village. Sure it's not the most... knightly thing in the world, but we need a way in and options are pretty limited."

[Toyoll]

"Who ever said anything 'bout being knightly?" Nyala chuckled darkly, "Ambushes are my specialty!"


Almost giddy with the concept, Nyala's tail rose and began to swing in slow arcs. "C'mon, we should scout out the area to find a place they're most likely to come, find out what kind of security we're dealin' with and find an escape route. After that, we should set up our raid plans."