A Guild's Rage

[Northen Light36]

The thieves' guild decends on Khelek like an invisible plauge of locusts. The markets and houses are under constant assult, food, heating supplies and jewels vanishing swiftly - all with notes stating that the situation is the fault of the guards.

But the guild's real target is the guards theirselves. On the first night of the assult, Echo and three other assassins break into the Guards HQ, looking for their first victim.

[Kender Bard]

The guards had their hands busy fending off angry merchants and people throughout the day. Many of the guards had not gone home to their families, not wanting to risk bringing ire down on their loved ones - or simply not wishing to stray from the safety of the city watch hall.

The result is, while many guards are resting or sleeping from the day's busniess, the sound of someone breaking in did not go unnoticed. One guard is even awake and prowling the hall, his mind roiling with wondering what had gotten into the people. Frowning, he goes to invesitgate the source of the noise, kukri in hand.

[Northen Light36]

Hearing the man's approach, Echo sits 'alone', using her pose in the chair to show off her assets as well as possible without striping nude. Nearby, her companions hide, ready to take advantage of Echo's distraction.

[Kender Bard]

The man stops short and stares at Echo, blinking in surprise at her presence more than her body - for the moment. "Who the hell are you?" he asks, genuinely shocked to see a random Beast woman there.

[Northen Light36]

"Oh, just a passer by looking to warm her frozen body," Echo replies, her posture inviting and her expression and voice coy. 'Just a little closer, you fool. Step into the room, so my friends and I can play with you.'

[Kender Bard]

The man frowned thoughtfully, coming into the room a bit more. His weapon slowly lowered as he regarded Echo.

While splendid, there was a reason the Ice types had gained infamy. "You can't stay here," he said sternly. "Get out."

[Northen Light36]

Echo pouts coyly at the man. "Oh please, have a heart," she sighes. "I'm sorry to intrude on you, but it's late and it's cold. Surely you can spare a corner of the floor for just a night?" Echo peeks up at the guard through her eyelashes. "Maybe I could... make it worth your while?"

Come on you fool, take the nice bait.

Hidden, Echo's companions tense, preparing for action.

[Kender Bard]

Frowning, the ice moved a little closer to Echo. One of the hidden thieves - younger and quick to the draw - lost control of his patience and sense of timing, throwing a dagger at the guard's head. It missed its intended mark but the guard was still hit - he was struck around the colorbone, blood already beginning to well and pour of the wound. At the rate it was spilling, likely a major artery had been hit. He gave a pained shout, loud, and then staggered towards the nearest door, still yelling, before collapsing in the doorway.

(There, that will give Shimai an opportunity to join the thread.)

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Shimai studied the doorway that the guard was just in. With a frown she stepped a little closer but kept to the shadows, peering into the room as best as she could. There were other people in there, that much she knew, and her senses were telling her that it would be murder to try to go in.

So she watched, waited, and listened.

[Northen Light36]

"Idiot!" Echo snaps at the younger thief. "Now you've alerted them all that we're here." Echo hisses in rage, a very cat like sound, until one of her companions speaks up.

"What are your orders, my lady?"

"You," Echo points at the over eager young theif, "fetch the rest of the guild. Tell them to enter and..." Echo pauses, then decides yes, she is angry enough. "Kill everyone in sight," she orders, looking at all her companions. "Then burn the building. By morning, I want the guards of Khelek to be nothing more then a memory. A warning not to mess with us again."

As though to start the bloodshed, Echo pulls out a knife and calmly slits the throat of the already dying guard.

[Kender Bard]

The thief gulped and nodded, running off to do as ordered. The other guards, alerted, begin to grab their weapons and things but those that were staying were half asleep and many of them don't even bother with armor. Or those that do struggle to get into it as fast as their groggy minds would allow them.

In short, easy pickings for the thieves.

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Shimai quickly moved back into the deeper shadows and smiled at what she heard. Bloodshed was always fun. However, it didn't seem quite right with only the thieves getting the kills. Turning, she moved away to find a thief, or maybe two, that she could play with.

She didn't want the one who had remained in the room, as Shimai deduced that the female thief was something quite powerful.

[hisdivineshadow]

Unfortunately for Shimai, one of the thieves she chose to target was a fellow Beast, and caught her scent while she approached. Kaiose smirked, knowing none of the guild would be foolish enough to sneak up while he was finishing a kill. He ripped his blade out of the throat of the guard he was standing over, and rolled to one side, coming up in a crouch and pulling a second blade with his other hand. "Well, hello there," he said, in a tone somewhere between a growl and a purr. As he got a look at her, the corners of his lips curled up in a predatory smile. "Were you thinking to play with me, little bird?"

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"No indeed, cat-thief," she replied simply, staying in the shadow depths. "I don't play with other animals and I have no game for you."

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Meanwhile, Nesaeko grimaced and prowled all over the building. She had been forced to come with to this things, but, she had been so quickly hurried off that she hadn't been able to think of a suitable explination for her parents.

In other words, she was likely going to get in a lot of trouble when se returned home.

[Northen Light36]

Echo and Mat are a brutal team, proving why everyone in the guild has always considered them, and Acqua, as too dangerous to touch. There's no warmth or friendliness in the pair now, only a determination to kill everyone in sight. Working together, they cut down every guard they encounter with barely a scratch, then seperate to find more victims.

As Echo closes in on her next kill, she falls to realise she's walked into an ambush until three more guards leap from hiding to attack who they see as the clear leader of this band of murderers.