IWUAaDNW: Party 5.8, 5.11, Initiative 6.2

Jaya stared up with wide eyes at Ulfric with an expression I wasn’t quite able to read from my vantage point. She looked quite nonplussed when the brawny mercenary moved her aside and pushed past her. He grabbed his battle axe and walked through the portal. Just as he did so, another bolt flew out of the underbrush and hit him directly in the shoulder. The bolt fell down a moment later, leaving his skin with a barely noticeable pucker.

He scowled and took a deep breath. His throat glowed with mana. He released a powerful roar which spread in a visible wave of mana, but otherwise seemed not to have an effect. He hefted his axe, and a moment later, the assailant who’d taken Jaya’s fireball to the arm erupted from the brush, wildly waving his sword in Ulfric’s direction, followed by the wounded woman––no longer caring about her eye injury it seemed––and then a mace-wielder with a shield.

—IWUAaDNW: Party 5.8



“STAND STRONG, FRIENDS!” Raffaa yelled as he barged inside the vault through the portal. His throat glowed brightly with mana, which expanded into a wave as he shouted wordlessly.

One of the shield guards tried to rush forward, blindly swinging his sword and yelling. The other shield user grabbed him by the collar and yanked him back.

—IWUAaDNW: Party 5.11



“EYES UP!” Ulfric barked, dropping the staff to raise his battleaxe as I sent spiders and wasps down from the chute, almost directly on him.

Yeah, I wasn’t going to just let them do that.

“VIP cover!” Karjn barked. “Raffaa, Ulfric, left and right, I got center!”

“HOWLING RAGE!” Raffaa barked. A wave of mana flowed out of his open mouth and washed over my minions. I had a sense that I had to attack him, that he was the one I needed to hurt and kill, but the impulse was easily ignored. The big man’s look of surprise when my wasps completely ignored him to attack the two women behind him was both out of character and completely priceless.

Two daggers killed the first two wasps. A swinging battleaxe blade killed the third, then Ulfric was there, glaring at my bugs.

“Of course she ignores taunts,” He grunted.

Over on the surface, a couple of soldiers who’d tried that trick before found themselves nodding in agreement.

“Nice to see it wasn’t just me,” one of them commented.

—IWUAaDNW: Initiative 6.2