Bandit Hunting

[Devon]

"all right," Quick answered Flay. Getting his hands ready for archery he continued, "I'll cover you, good luck out there."

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Bairan hurriedly slid after Nikki. "My lover, Azora, smells of midnight and pure woman. My sister, Meirou, is like a spring evening, and Azora's brother, Raian, is hot and wild, like a summer of endless mischief. He is basically endless mischief, actually. I know that probably doesn't help much- whoop-"

His arm slipped and he landed on his gut, trapping his broken wrist under him and biting back a cry of pain. A few moments of deep breathing had him back to relatively okay, and the bard could keep up with Nikki again.

[hisdivineshadow]

"Ha! A true warrior makes his own luck!" Flay reminded the other mercenary, then remounted his horse and rode it into the town at a steady pace.

Several Cordians saw him coming and either shied back or turned to run. So far, every outsider to appear in the past months had brought nothing but trouble to them, so their reaction was understandable.

Flay held a hand up and called out, "Fear not, good folk! I have come to rid you of the evil in your midst." What he received in return was not the expressions of gratitude or cheers of enthusiasm he had expected, but a sort of stunned, disbelieving silence, mixed with a hefty dose of "you-must-be-crazy" stares. But that didn't bother him. It never did.

Rdiing out into the central square, Flay paused and drew in his reins, surveying his surroundings. Then he unsheathed his claymore and held it high, while shouting, "Villains and blackguards! No longer will you hold this town in the grip of your tyranny! Flay Gunnar has come to bring you to justice! Show yourselves, if you be men!"

[Devon]

Quick stayed a good pace behind Flay to back him up with his arrows like he said he would. Shaking his head the young noble muttered to himself, "And people think I'm eccentric for wearing a mask."

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Nikki turned and stopped Bairan, holding a hand out to him. "Hold on. Let me see that arm. It can't feel very good right now and I can probably help a little bit before we continue."

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"Are you a Water?" Bairan asked eagerly, and struggled with the leather that held his arm against his stomach. "I was bound before I escaped, and I was attempting to dislocate my wrist in order to slip my hand free of the ropes. I broke it instead. I tried to set it once I was free, but I don't think I did it right."

[Kender Bard]

Raucous laughter erupted from various parts of the town. The bandits - those hidden and not currently disguised as townsfolk - were evidently getting a great deal of amusement from Flay's antics.

A voice, thrown, most likely coming from a projecting Wind, cried, "Tell Justice tha we dun wanna see 'er, the old hag!"

More laughter floated in the air.

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Nikki shook her head. "No, I'm not a Water. I have, however, dealt with things like this before without an available healer. The most I can do right now would be to try to reset it and bind it up tighter."

Quickly she pulled off her outer shirt and tore it into strips. "I can do this in a few minutes," she said holding her hand out for him. "Besides, Flay would enjoy the chance to beat up on some idiots."

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Bairan nodded and held out his somewhat shoddily-bandaged wrist. Splinting and wrapping was really someone else's job; it wasn't easily accomplished with one hand.

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Nikki quickly undid the bandages he had on there and let them drop to the ground. Carefully she held Bairan's wrist in the palm of her hand and bent to pick up some sticks laying about her feet.

Holding one up to his face she said, "You're going to want to bite on this and hard."

[Devon]

Quick scanned the crowd to see who had spoken up. It seemed the rest of the bandits did not intend to come out of hiding, the young noble smiled to himself as he thought of a way to try and coax them out. "I'd like to issue a challenge," he called out to the ground. "Five of your strongest versus our little band, the winner gets the sum of fifty gold coins, the loser packs up and leaves." He figured that even if they didn't take the challenge the bandits would attack the group to take the gold.

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Bairan bit the stick, braced a hand in the dirt, and nodded. "Go a'ed."

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Nikki grimaced and quickly moved the wrist until she could feel it aligned as best as possible. Holding it steady she put a stick on each side and one on the bottom.

Then, taking the strips of cloth, she began to wrap thm around the stick bound wrist. "There, that should help. At least until we can find a healer."

[hisdivineshadow]

Flay considered Quick's suggestion for a moment. "Only five? I think you're stacking the odds a bit harshly. Ten would be more fair." He smirked and waited for a reaction, his eyes casually scanning the area.

[Kender Bard]

Demanding men to come fight for their honor was laughable - but where money was concerned, ah, there gleamed the eyes of greed in the bandits.

It was a long hesitation, but then they came. First, one daring man - barely a man really, more like a boy - came rushing forth, eager for the spoils. Then, bolstered, followed another youth of similar age. Not wanting to be shown up by the young ones, an older man went out as well. Before long, there were ten men, armed and grinning maliciously.