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| Topic Started: Jan 10 2017, 09:00 PM (4,185 Views) | |
| Areial | Jan 13 2017, 01:06 AM Post #21 |
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:clap: very intriguing!!! I also am wondering why the man ran.. |
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| Serethil | Jan 13 2017, 01:09 PM Post #22 |
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5 - NOW what? I’d just swallowed the last of the bread when I heard a lot of noise heading my way - shouting, many voices, swords clashing.... Oh, hell. I was about to wind up in the middle of some sort of battle. I took a quick look around, and decided up the nearest tree with lower branches would be the safest place. That meant heading a bit further into cover - also a good thing. From a perch about ten feet off the ground, I started trying to figure out what was going on. Huh. There were war horns sounding - some Nord and some Imperial. And there were the sort of war cries that some of the bandit bands around used. So - apparently the bandit crew from where I’d found my way out had picked on either the locals (since I didn’t know where I was I had no clue who the “locals” were) or the Imperials, and then the other soldiers had come along. In that case, what had happened inside made sense. Probably before I’d got to the corner, the bandit in charge had hollered up his band, and the man who’d yelled and run had been yelling and running to join his group to ambush the soldiers - and were then in turn ambushed by the other soldiers. Or something like that. He might not have seen me at all. Now, here’s another thought. Did this bandit group even have anything to do with me being dropped in a hole, I wondered. I sat up my tree, listening to the sounds of mayhem and battle. It went on for quite a while.... and then there was silence. I sat some more, and waited some more. The main fighting had been some way away toward the cavern mouth, maybe downslope past it. I didn’t want to be up this tree in the dark.... I slid around the trunk opposite where I’d sat, and started down on the other side of the tree. On the ground, I crouched and stayed as silent as I could while I started a circle away from the area - I didn’t want to know who was alive or dead, I just wanted gone, while I was still living! I moved a few feet, then stopped, and repeated the actions over and over. The crouch was painful - too bad I wasn’t twenty years younger.... but I needed to stay below the brush and as much out of sight as I could - at least until I was sure there wasn’t anyone around. I had no idea how long that would be, of course. When I was stopped, I listened but couldn’t hear anything. No more shouts, no noise of weapon on weapon - but suddenly from behind, back the way I’d come, there was an angry voice raised. Uh oh. Time to run. So I did - trying not to crash through the brush so as not to give myself away. It was getting less brushy, not as many trees, and a steep downslope now, so I had to be careful not to lose footing - a fall and tumble would be bad.... And now my feet were taking a real beating. I desperately needed somewhere to go to ground again. And it couldn’t look like a place someone would be hiding.... At that point, I climbed up a ridge that headed away from the slope. It was crowned with rocks like teeth - maybe I could wedge myself out of sight among them. I wondered if anyone was really trying to follow me. I needed to be able to see my backtrail too.... so that meant working my way around the rocks to face back the way I’d run. It wasn’t perfect, but unless whoever was back there was actually looking for me, and looked up a long way right at where I sat, I’d be fine. And with luck I wouldn’t freeze to death overnight! I settled to watch, and think about things. |
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| Serethil | Jan 14 2017, 08:12 PM Post #23 |
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6 - Where am I, and how do I get home from here? Of course, what happened next was entirely predictable: I fell asleep. It was past middle night when I woke, both moons were up and the sky was full of green and orange fae lights (G’ma’s word for them). I listened to the night - it was full of noises, wolves howling at the moons, the clip-clop of elk hooves on the rocks, a vixen’s scream as she was mounted. Nothing of man, and that was a good thing! Well, had to be Falkreath. Huge evergreens and equally huge deciduous trees like the one I’d climbed back near the cave - Falkreath was the place with the most greenery, though the area around Riverwood was close. The trees there weren’t quite as large though. And if I’d been near Riverwood during the day, I’d have been able to hear the damn mill - noisy.... but naturally we always needed the wood.... So, that’s at least a couple days from Whiterun. Unless a mage is involved - in which case I suppose transporting a limp body might be faster. I’m not mage-talented so I don’t really know. No wonder my stomach wasn’t happy, or my mouth either, when I woke up that first time in the hole. Now, I had to assume that the reason for moving me here had been the hole. Handy - just open the top trap-door, and dump me down. I wondered if whoever perpetrated this whole thing knew about the bandits in the cavern - or the trap-door in the floor. It seemed a bit lackadaisical altogether - as if whoever “stole” me had only half-planned the whole thing. And what on Nirn would be the point? I’m not valuable. I’m not young, gorgeous, or virgin. And while my family has some wealth - well, sending them a ransom note would be like stirring a hornet’s nest. Then again, the perp might not realize that. In which case, I’d best get my butt home pretty damn quick, or there would be a war going on.... Scanning the map in my mind was an exercise in futility. Logically the nearest city was Falkreath - and it was the only one which had not been interested in G’ma’s plan to put stables and carriages in the smaller cities. So going that direction was useless. Probably the best thing to do would be head back to Whiterun and get Bjorlam to give me a ride home. I had no gold on me though.... well, I’d maybe see if I could borrow enough for the fare from Adrianne. I really wished I was dressed in something more than the worn out linens I wore to sleep in. But I was at least covered - and that meant I was NOT going to steal something to wear. I really did need a weapon though. Too bad there hadn’t been anything obvious in the cavern.... And I wasn’t interested in back-tracking to the site of yesterday’s battle for obvious reasons. I shivered quietly through the rest of the night. As the sun rose and I could see back the way I’d run, I realized my biggest problem was going to be my feet. Barefoot is not the way to go in the wilderness - for many reasons. I really wanted to know who had done this to me - because if I knew that I might change my mind about where to go.... So, did I have any issues or situations with anyone lately? Not that I could recall. I suppose I might have done something to someone, unaware - but my experience is that if I step on toes, it gets handled right then and there. This whole thing is so strange, I’m just not really knowing what to think. I sighed. Just move it lady. There’s no such thing as wishing yourself home. |
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| Areial | Jan 14 2017, 08:43 PM Post #24 |
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She's a thinker... scary start though and still no clue... where or who...why is just as important. |
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| Rick | Jan 14 2017, 08:53 PM Post #25 |
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Brilliant! Just read the three last. I love the detail...it decorates the mind's eye. This is gonna roll and roll....you can feel it.... |
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| Serethil | Jan 14 2017, 08:55 PM Post #26 |
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Thanks guys! This whole section is all from two nights' dreams. Eventually, I'll run out of the dream-stuff, and then we'll see where we go. |
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| Andra Hawksdaughter | Jan 14 2017, 09:01 PM Post #27 |
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Ohhh sheeite!! I wouldn't want to be the idiot that tried for a ransom from her family! IF that's what is was. At this point, who the hell knows? All the not knowing....who, what, and why? A smart one she is, and this is awesome Sere!!! (going to look at my settings, why didn't I see this yesterday???) :glare: |
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| Serethil | Jan 14 2017, 09:06 PM Post #28 |
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Hmm. That's odd - you didn't see yesterday's post? It was early for me.... because Tier was prodding me.... Of course, stuff on a free forum isn't always perfect.... |
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| Andra Hawksdaughter | Jan 14 2017, 09:12 PM Post #29 |
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No! I didn't see it until a few minutes ago. I usually get most stuff by reading the active topics, but have no idea why it wasn't on that list when I got home yesterday. Trying to look at each and every forum and it's threads will be a pita, but I guess that's what I'll need to do. Do you suppose there is a way to see all unread posts without searching each and every one? |
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| Areial | Jan 14 2017, 09:17 PM Post #30 |
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Et'Ada
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I didn't see #5 earlier...but did #6 ... might have been a hick-up...
Edited by Areial, Jan 14 2017, 09:18 PM.
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| Serethil | Jan 14 2017, 09:18 PM Post #31 |
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You can either load Active Posts - which generally works for me - or Replies to your posts (I think that's what it's called - not positive....) This forum software doesn't have a "new posts" option unfortunately. |
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| Andra Hawksdaughter | Jan 14 2017, 09:22 PM Post #32 |
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Areial, yeah, when I started reading #6, I knew something was 'off'...scrolled up and found 5! Sere, usually Active Topics does work for me, but every now and then, only 5 or 6 topics show, then I go looking. But it wasn't like that yesterday. Hmm, damn fairies are playing in my machine again?! Just weird.... |
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| Serethil | Jan 14 2017, 09:25 PM Post #33 |
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Et'Ada
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Yup, very odd. I don't know anything about this forum backend stuff, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that sometimes it just goes "BORKED!" and that's an end of it. Free forums are known for exactly that sort of stuff.... And it's no worries anyway. I do post about once a day, so you'll eventually see something.... Hey, at least this time there were TWO of you having the same thing! |
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| Andra Hawksdaughter | Jan 14 2017, 09:36 PM Post #34 |
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Jarl
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I wish there was a way to subscribe to a member, or to a sub-forum. I can subscribe to the Character Stories, but then it only lets me know of a new topic started. Oh well. |
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| Areial | Jan 14 2017, 09:41 PM Post #35 |
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Et'Ada
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Soon as I clicked on the header it went strait to #6, I generally don't think anything of it... when I'm on my phone I sometimes click to see what's up.. but I don't read the update, at work it's just to hard to read alot.. so I go back and read it at home... but as all the "new" stuff tends to be on the 1st page of Active topic's.. I go into all of them. |
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| Serethil | Jan 14 2017, 09:43 PM Post #36 |
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Et'Ada
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Hmmm. Wonder if sometimes there's more than one page of Active Topics, and we just miss it? |
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| Andra Hawksdaughter | Jan 14 2017, 10:06 PM Post #37 |
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Could be Sere, never thought to look. But when I went to the topic, mine did the same as Areial's, went straight to #6. I'll watch now though, to see if there is more than one page. Probably a mystery that we won't solve, but at least I could tell that I'd missed something in the story and looked for it. |
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| Serethil | Jan 14 2017, 10:10 PM Post #38 |
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Well, yeah - I do try to make the "chapters" distinct. Whole thing's weird though. |
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| Areial | Jan 14 2017, 10:21 PM Post #39 |
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True... better than disappearing! |
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| Serethil | Jan 14 2017, 11:27 PM Post #40 |
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Et'Ada
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Hmmm. Okay - thinking back.... If you get the supposed entirety of the Active Topics in one screen - well.... it's probably borked. So at that point, you might want to go digging. |
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