[A RP] The Nightingale Society

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The Society has returned home, and mourning has commenced. It would seem that they were way in over their heads, and loss is a loss, it weighs on your conscience.

Outside, quiet, deathly quiet as the news of their exploits drifted through Shadowhearth. Arienne sat upon the steps that lead to her home and emanated the silence that embodied the place as everything from the days before sunk in. Slowly, like an agonizing ache emphasized in her head, tortured her hip and nauseated her core.

The scene changes, and she can see herself standing upon the banks of Lordamere Lake, looking on at the man who had been the reason for her strife, standing nonchalant, proud of what he had accomplished. He smiled at her, and she - hood down - glared back with an equal intensity, unwilling to let the exchange temper her resolve.

“What do you hope to accomplish, Arienne ?” He asked, the boat which he was positioned on wobbling slightly as he moved. Arienne remained silent, the desire to not play into his game burned in her gaze and Weselton made an exclamation of mock hurt, that proceeded to transform into a lilting, malevolent laugh. “You still haven’t unlocked your full potential, and yet, it seems you know the outcome of this foolish mission.” Here, Arienne squinted, tilting her head slightly at the remark.

“Riddled by dreams, that sense of foreboding that only entails your own involvement. An omen, or an augur? I think you know the answer to that. You’ve seen it in your dreams. The fire, the blood.”

“You’re lying.”

“Am I? I know you know you’ll lose your chance at securing my death. You’ve known it for a while.”

“I care little for that. All I care about is eradicating this… chaos under the guise of some Crusade.”

“A Crusade we were both a part of Arienne.”

“No! I never wanted to be a part of that. When you took me from that Monastery, you turned your back on it all, took that sigil as your own and performed some sort of sacrilege to embody it. This is a husk, a futile husk to make yourself more superior. And you know if you went remotely near to any who wear that tabard they would strike you down…”

“And yet, many followed me.”

“Only those blinded by your proposal. You hide behind those walls because you failed. You failed my family, you failed that sacred brotherhood you were so adamant to join, to grow in, to uphold, you didn’t fit their ideals so you tainted it further. I never wanted a part in that! I was a child!”

Weselton blinked twice before his face contorted with rage. “I dragged you out of that orphanage to give you a life. Your potential was wasted, wasted sti -”

“And will always be wasted, if it brings you the torture you deserve.” There was silence, until finally the man turned his boat around and rowed back, the secret exchange cut short by his demand, funny how even now when she had a choice to walk away, she had entertained his musing. “You’ll not succeed, Arienne. Perhaps you will save them, and yourself… but ending me… We’ll see. Oh, and do be careful, you don’t want to harm that little one through all this.”

Back to reality, Arienne had retreated into her home, clutching the tea cup with such force that it shattered in her hands. She shrieked, but not because of the cuts that riddled her hands and the blood that flowed, but the terror that blinded her as vivid memories tortured her very soul.

Explosions echoed in her ears and the dull ache of being thrown back by these makeshift bombs had returned. Boltex with his remaining leg clean off… The harrowing screams that deafened her as flames surrounded her. Arienne backed into the corner as words joined the fray, repeating, crying, shouting!

No.

Hands positioned on the countertop helped Arienne stabilize herself as she maneuvered through the house, sight still blurred and body completely off balance as the visions and memory were replaced by the constant ring in her ears as silence settled over the room. Arienne took deep breaths, trying to calm herself as she gathered her thoughts. But the headache helped little and Arienne was forced to relive words she never wanted to hear.

“Justin’s dead… Justin’s dead… He died pulling children out of the fire… Justin’s Dead. Worvian is with him. Comfort him…. Justin’s Dead.”

Dead.

Dead.

Justin’s Dead.

Dead Justin, Justin’s Dead.

Burning, Children.

Children Burning!

Burning!

House on fire!

Fire!

BURNING!

BURNING!

DEAD!

The sound of clattering as Arienne through everything off the counter with a scream, smearing the countertop with blood from her hands as glasses shattered and food hit the floor. Frantic, she dragged herself away, hiding in the tiniest corner. Retreating into herself to flee from the guilt. She had lead them on this mission, and the casualties… Well. The warnings had been there. Arienne should have listened.

Guilt had a terrible way of breaking someone.

We’re back in Stormwind and licking our wounds, stop by if you’re interested in joining!

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I wanted to thanks all the people who joined us recently and boosted even more our ranks… Is always an incredible satisfaction to see so many ppl online at the same time during events. If someone wants to try a cool and friendly rp guild give us a chance, we wont murder y… I mean! We will gladly welcome you :smiley:

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Been awhile since I’ve seen a Nightingale Thread.
Any room for two old Nightingale boomers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCg_EyrD27o Visual rep of Cendric and Tomlinson returning

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Back in our day.

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You are very much welcome to join the family (again? :smiley: )
If you look in the original post you can see a list of people you can reach out to regarding recruitment or OOC questions etc.
Obviously you can also ask questions here, as we can answer them here and the Q&A might help other people looking at the thread. :slight_smile:

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In about a weeks time, we’ll be heading to Kul Tiras along with the Dawnscale Vanguard and the Red Gryphons to tackle some interesting foes!

Deep within the land of Drustvar, something is taking place.

“The price is simple, you win - and you will be allowed to exact your plan and desires on Drustvar, free of any obligations to another power; at the cost that you might make a powerful enemy -” The man is interrupted with the introduction of a guttural voice that speaks above his own.

“Powerful? I’ll believe it when I see it.” A foul smelling haunch is pointed at the first voice, who wrinkles his nose in disgust… They sit in a cave, by a small table that boasts a chess board atop it, one sleazy, slouched in his chair - the other is sophisticated but mostly bored. The latter sighs forlornly.

“… As I was saying… If you lose; you will be inducted into my court and answer to a greater power. I dare say, this would be the safer outcome.” The light shines through the darkness and enlightens a charismatic smile.

“The only outcome I want involves a few miscreant Nightbirds.”

“That will come in time, regardless of the outcome, The Prophet has said it should be so.” The man rubs his hands together, “Now, white gets the first move.” He nods at the tattered looking man, nose still wrinkled, but eyes betraying his excitement for the game.

The Cook didn’t know how he’d met this overly dry fellow, but to say the least he envied how well groomed the man was, seated across him looking as though he had all the time in the world but nothing to do with it. The last that was seen of this Cook in particular was in Redridge where a band of meddling fools fell into his trap and - somehow he had won the game. The Cook, however, did not mention that he had tried and failed to infiltrate their base. Merciful had been what others had said, when he returned boasting of how he had to hand them the cure. But the man had shaken his head and sneered.

“No,” he’d said, “Putting things in place.”

But he was just a Cook; not a game maker. Little did he know the true Game Master would be sitting right in front of him this very moment. And the game which would determine his allegiance - chess. Hours had passed with pieces being destroyed from the board. The two conversed - more so, the Game Master would ask questions and the Cook would answer of his plans to rule Drustvar and avenge his beautiful face. Finally, the Game Master would make his defining move. A pawn sent a block forward, dangerously close to the end of the other side.

“A simple pawn…” Exclaimed the Cook.

“A humble pawn,” began the retort, voice betraying no more than boredom, “can bring down kingdoms.”

The Cook glared -no, gawked at the Game Master and then huffed indignantly, adjusting his scruffy collar which he tried well to maintain. His movements were nothing short of dramatic. “Stop distracting me.” The Cook makes his move, a bishop to destroy the Pawn before it could inflict any damage to his now dwindling arsenal of chest pieces.

“Poor little pawn… Nasty, smelly, cook… How sad.” The Game Master teased, his hand hovering over the chest board as he decided his move. “But the final say - well, Queen will have that.”

The Cook, foolish and flamboyant as he was, gasped dramatically, standing with chair sprawling back to witness his failure to notice that his Bishop had moved out of the way and the Queen was in direct line of his King, cornered.

“Queen takes King… and you thought this was just a game.” The Game Master stands, and walks over to the entrance of the cave with a confident stride, there three - four if you counted the one figure as two - stood silhouetted against the moonlight.

“Welcome, William,” The Game Master said, “To the Virulent Court.”

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This comes from Knight-Captain Edirloette’s journal and is purely OOC knowledge for those reading this.

"The Shadows of Stormsong, Day 1

The day started rather calm. I spent the day with my children, Mileraz and Briedam. We were playing a lot, they were sleeping a lot. Then the time came to move out. I called for the nanny and she came as per her job. At this point in time she has gotten used to saying goodbye when I move out to battle. In the start she seemed rather awkward about it, but now she seems to have come to terms with the fact that I trust her with my children and that I trust her to do the right thing should I not return.

I put on my uniform and grabbed my swords and shield. I made sure my first aid kit was full before stuffing it into my satchel. Then I grabbed my tome, flickering through a few pages until I found a suitable prayer. I take a breath as I starts speaking the prayer in the tongue it is written in. “Light, you are warm. Light, you are forgiving. Light, you are graceful. Guide me now onto the path I seek. Through places wicked and cruel meet. Be my warmth and be my grace, for I follow you now. Do not dim, do not turn hallowed.” I take a slight pause, closing my eyes as I relish in the prayer, before continuing. “Light, you are a gift. A gift as pure as white. Something to look to when trouble dwells deep. Light, guide me now unto the path I seek. Light, you are warm. Light, you are forgiving. Light, you are graceful.”

I close my tome and hang it onto my belt by it’s chains. I smile to the nanny before I walk out of my house and to the stables.

After some traveling I reach the meeting location where the Union is gathering for a briefing before we head out to Crows Nest. Once there the meeting goes by eventually. We inform the Union of the intelligence we have, which is not much. Then we head outside and into a portal to Crows nest. Once there we can immediatelly tell; We’re under attack. Guns can be heard shooting from the north, few hundred meters away. Sharper gunshots can be heard from our own men shooting back on the balcony of Crows Nest. We are informed that we need to go now whilst we have the chance, and so we do.

After having run into a few scouts and gotten their reports we reach a bridge down the hill from Atom’s Stand. Suddenly I hear Kelly shout from behind me. “Incoming, behind!” I quickly turn around and see void portals and a man approaching. He looks familiar. I quickly shout for the shields to make their way back there, and so it begins.

The man turned out to be William Hunt. He summoned tons of void beings and wickers, and we were preparing to fight when Red called out for us to make our way to Atom’s Stand. We run as fast as we can and once there we set up a shieldwall in the gateway, and we have barely gotten to do such as the beasts crash into us.

The shieldwall however stood strong and we managed to hold the enemies back and eventually push them back as the gate was closed. The beasts were left to the ranged and magi to deal with.

The officers of the orders met and we settled a few things, who is leading what and so on. Luna Windfeather and I will lead our armed forces. I am looking forward to it. Luna is a joy to work with. I feel like we relate to each other on some points. But at the same time we are opposite. She is Fel, I am Light.

The rest of the evening I spent keeping an eye on things in the camp as well as playing some games with Lord John Chester, Avrama, Thirdal and some others. Belle joined us at some point as well. It was fun. Then I decided to go to bed and rest. We need to do a lot of work before making our way to Stormsong.

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This comes from Knight-Captain Edirloette’s journal and is purely OOC knowledge for those reading this.

The Shadows of Stormsong, Day 2

Today started rather calm. People were relaxing in camp. Come evening the Commanders and the officers met. We discussed plans and so on. We ended up deciding to have three groups. One main group and two recon groups. One of the recon groups were to go to the mountain pass north of Arom’s Stand to make sure no enemies comes from there. The other recon group went with the main group to the Crimson Forest to deal with the threat there so we can set up a supply route in Falconhurst by sea.

We moved out into the darkness. Eventually we reached the Crimson Forest. The forest is very dark and twisted, but in its own way, it is beautiful. There are fetishes hanging in the trees, and we eventually came across a dead body. It would seem like someone trying to escape the forests. She was not wearing anything. The Union comes to a halt and orders are given. Ray Mistveil searches the body whilst Zeraniel uses her Illidari skills to see if there is magic boobytrapping the corpse.

Suddenly Ray turns around, weapons drawn. He mentions he heard someone whispering behind him. Most likely the witches messing with his head. He says he found a note that read “Fall” but the word disappeared from the note before he could give it to anyone. The Society starts making their way further into the forest before a loud scream is heard. The scream was… Very weird. I am still not sure what exactly the sound was. We continue before a void portal opens in front of us, and out from it appears William Hunt.

We quickly get into formation, and I have the ranged take aim on William. He starts talking about how we are wasting our time and suddenly he disappears. We continue moving further in when we notice something. Wickers and prisoners in cages. We move in, but unfortunately I lead us into a badly defendable position. After discussing what to do we burn the wickers and rescue the prisoners just as three witches appears across some water cackling at us. I task Pablo, Ray and Zeraniel to release the prisoners, the ranged and magi to open fire on the witches. The rest I bring with me under a tree and to a more defendable position to take on the witches.

We killed some wickers, but more came from somewhere, charging at us. We form a shieldwall and the Dawnguard release a barrage of bullets from our flintlocks before we charge at the wickers to meet them. I manage to block one a strike from the wicker and hit back at it before it sends me flying backwards. Pain shoots through my right arm and my right leg, but I can’t stand down now. I get back up as Bryce is sent flying towards me as well. I narrowly dodge the hulking worgen before making my way further up.

The witches are very concentrated, probably to control the wickers, and I bring Bryce and Elijah with me. We charge at each witch and strike them. It feels really good as my shield connects with one of the witches’ head. I am not able to swing my blade at the witch to kill her, as I hear thundering thumping behind me. I offer one quick look and I spot the wicker I was fighting earlier charging towards me, but before it gets to me it has to go through Bryce. He does not seem to have noticed the wicker charging at us. I quickly charge at him and shoulderbarge him out of the way, grunting from shoving such weight. I quickly raise a barrier of Light in front of me, preventing the wicker from coming closer to me.

I was safe for now. Time to end things. I spin around and charge at the witch, swinging my blazing sword at her two rapid times before she starts fleeing. The two other witches are dead. I call for someone to end her. We won. I quickly delegate tasks. The injured are to be tended to, the rest are to sweep the area and look for more prisoners.

Unfortunately, the other prisoners are dead. I sigh and grunt from the pain in my leg and shoulder. Soon after we have made our way back to Arom’s stand. There the injured, including me, are tended to. Thirdal relocated my leg and shoulder. It would seem it was on the bring of dislocating or something. I then go pray before Elijah apologizes for interrupting my prayers. He tells me that there is smoke to the north-west. I stand up and gaze outwards from where I was praying. He is right. Smoke is raising. Is Crow’s Nest lit ablaze?

I make my way to the others, sitting down with them. We talk a bit, Lily levitates me, I tell her to stop. Then after some more talking and writing I decide to retire. It’s late and we need to be ready for what tomorrow brings.

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Ergh okay.

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This comes from Knight-Captain Edirloette’s journal and is purely OOC knowledge for those reading this.

The Shadows of Stormsong, Day 3

Today started as usual rather calm. Due to the smokes that was spotted towards Crow’s Nest the day before, Mentor Riralsun Moonwish and I went to the mountain pass towards the north-east to make sure none of William Hunt’s forces was there trying to ambush us from the rear.

My arm and leg was still hurting a bit but I managed. We got there and sat there for hours upon hours, without seeing much. It was rather cold, just sitting there in my armor with some clothes under it. Rira’s gear seems to be more fitting for colder environments. I on the other hand need to stay in motion to stay warm.

It was getting rather late when Rira spotted it. Forces in the north are gathering. We watched them for a little while before the enemy forces started marching. Are they marching towards Arom’s Stand? Either way, we need to warm the others.

Rira and I start making our way back to Arom’s stand, but out of the blue, yetis approach us. Of course they had to notice us, probably my fault for moving around in my armor to stay warm, when we had so little time.

We end up in combat with the yeti’s. Two of us. Three of them. This should be easy, yes?

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This comes from Knight-Captain Edirloette’s journal and is purely OOC knowledge for those reading this.

The Shadows of Stormsong, Day 4

I hit the ground with a thud and clanking from my armor, into the snow which luckily took most of the hit. I feel the pain in my body. The Yetis hit very hard! Right now I am too focused on myself as I have two yetis charging at me, to notice how Rira is doing. I get back up on my hooves as I lock my gaze on the yetis charging at me. Shield and sword has not worked so well this time. I sheathe my sword and shield, before I draw my two-handed sword. I grin at the yetis. Play time.

I charge at one of the yetis, and when it jumped towards me to smash me, I quickly leaped to the side whilst turning in the air. I land and slide a bit, swinging my blade at the side of the yeti, it’s fur turning from blue-white to red. The other yeti turns around to charge at me once it realizes I had moved. I roar at it and charge at that one too to meet it. It swings it big fist towards me and I duck under it, shouting “Dearg!” Out of her mechanical arm and through a precut hole in her gauntlets, a dark maroon blade shoots out. The blade slices across the arm and then side of the yeti. I pass the Yeti, catching my breath as I speak another word, the blade of my mechanical arm retracting.

The first yeti comes charging towards me once more and this time I run straight at it. It has its arms out as it charges towards me. Once I am closer to it I step to the side and spin to avoid it. Then as it passes I shove my blade up and into its side, into the chest of the yeti. The yeti collapses to the ground as I pull my sword out. I turn to face the second yeti, but I got unaware and it was already right by me. It swings its massive arms at me and I am sent flying backwards into the snow again.

Pain shoots my body again. There is less snow I landed in this time. I grunt and try to shove myself up, but the yeti is too close. I won’t be able to get out of the way in time. It comes closer. I need to get up to get out of the way. I am not able to.

Suddenly a black panther comes leaping onto the yeti, making it stumble away from me. The panther is quickly accompanied by a barrage of arrows, and with it, a dead yeti. Rira saved me.

We quickly made haste to Arom’s Stand again. It’s been hours since we saw the forces assemble. However, by the time we got to Arom’s Stand, the enemy forces were already there, gently throwing their forces at the gate.

The worst of all was to see most of the Union SITTING AROUND THE CAMPFIRE as if the siege wasn’t happening. I quickly got them on their feet and to positions to fight back. I tend to my injuries from the Yeti fighting, and soon I am standing by the gate, watching the wickers throwing themselves at the gate to try to break it down.

I raise my shield in front of me. “Shieldwall!” The shieldwall is quickly formed and we stand behind the gate. Waiting. Watching.

Eventually the masses of William’s forces arrive barging at the gate. We were holding back, a few of us getting smacked by the wickers’ long arms. William appears behind his forces and a big ball of magic is shot at the wall just above the gate. I see Lucan, Rira and Sashara Moonspud, a former guard colleague of mine, fall down into the swarm of wickers. “Lucan!” I curse under my breath before shouting at the top of my lungs. “Magi! Get them out of there!” The seconds pass by. “Avrama! Teleport them out of there!” The seconds ticks by. Someone on my right, Luna I believe it was then said “Let’s open the gate and charge out there!” I take a second to think. “No.” We are NOT going to open the gate and risk the lives of everyone behind there to save the three.

The seconds tick by. I see Lucan being teleport out. A relieved sigh leaves me. They did it… Wait… Why is Sashara and Rira still there? “Get them out of there!” I look at Luna again. We start discussing on what to do. And I tell them as it is. We are not opening that gate. The gate is not being opened unless it is by it falling down because of the enemy. Void portals open and suck Rira and Sashara into it. Shortly after the two appear behind William, along with Valestie, tied up in chains. Luna tells me she will not do anything unless ordered to. I tell her its not an order I am going to give. For some reason, William told us that those at the wall could pick one and those at the gate could pick one that he would give back to us, and he would keep the last one for himself.

It has to be trap. I tell those by me “Don’t. It’s a trap.” After some seconds Luna says “Take it.” I think a little but Luna says she has a plan. I nod to her. I trust she will do the right thing. I look at William, taking a deep breath. “Alright! Return Mentor Riralsun Moonwish to us SAFELY, ALIVE and in ONE PIECE.”

Rira was eventually released. I then shout loud “Kelly! Take your pick!” The seconds clock by and eventually Valestie is picked and returned. That left Sashara. I grit my teeth. We reduced the so far losses from three to one. That’s fine. May the Light have mercy on her soul. I know that Luna has a plan, but what is it?

Suddenly I can see Luna standing by Sashara, picking her up and then flying off. William raises his hand at Luna and something grabs her and starts pulling her back to him. I immediately call out “Ranged magi OPEN FIRE! Aim at William!” Luna ends up being held down and a witch using a spell on them. I grit my teeth. DAMNIT! Now a Commander’s life is on the line rather than an Initiates! This is exactly why I did not want to open the gate! I snarl.

The enemy forces starts working on getting down the gate and it is very close to falling. I look at my fellow frontlines. “We have this! The Light is with us!” And then the gate falls. We battle the wickers as they try to break through our line, but we have proven to them! We are not just another gate, but we are a much sturdier one! Suddenly I hear Red call out. “PULL BACK FROM THE GATES!” I quickly give the order to fall back and so we do. The wickers pour through the gate but we hold them off for now.

Suddenly a loud explosion is heard from a mountain peak. I do not look away from the fighting but hear Kearno call out “Avalanche!” I grit my teeth. Damn! I see William walking into a void portal with Luna, and shortly after the avalanche hits the masses of the enemy army. We kill off the remaining wickers and victory is ours.

Red approaches me and places a hand on my shoulder. He tells me how proud he is of me. Of Blue. I didn’t thank him because I was not proud. I was angry. Angry for letting Luna try something to save them. But nothing can be done now. Now we need to take down William and save Luna. I look at Worvian. He is pale. I search him for wounds. He has quite a few. Oh no. “You need a medic.” He tries to talk his way out of it, but I reckon he is too weak to struggle at the current time, so I sweep him up into my arms and carry him to the campfire.

There, Emilia, Secana and I tend to him before the camp calms down after the siege and we spend the night at the campfire talking.

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This comes from Knight-Captain Edirloette’s journal and is purely OOC knowledge for those reading this.

The Shadows of Stormsong, Day 5

I am currently writing this the morning after. I have a hell of a headache… So, yesterday…

I woke up and went out of my tent, looking for Red so he could fix my arm as it had started malfunctioning. I eventually found him and he spent a few hours fixing it before I went back to my tent to try to get some more rest. Camp was rather calm.

In the evening around seven bells I went out of my tent again and joined those by the campfire. I spoke a bit with those there before I went and put on my armor. Then the time came for the Commanders and the officers to meet and lay plans for today. Red, Kelly and Lily I did not see anywhere, so I called in for the meeting and we went to our usual spot to convene. Once there I told them that the night before, after the siege, that Red had told me we were going to make a move on William today and with that rescue Luna.

We started going over scout reports but we had no fresh scout reports from after the siege. All we had to go on was that William’s army came from the North-west. We decide that we are going to try to, with the use of magic, track Luna’s aura. If we find it our plan then was to split into two. One group being the main forces, and a second spec ops group. The spec ops were to go around the mountain pass to the north whilst the main group marched from Arom’s Stand and along the western roads to get towards Corlain in the North and the area around there.

Then we heard Worvian calling out for everyone to gather. So we do that. He informs that he knows where William is. Fallhaven. I tell him of our plan and we decide to use parts of it for the attack on Fallhaven to the east. The Spec ops was tasked to scout out Fallhaven and circle it and find Luna. The main forces were tasked to launch a full frontal assault on Fallhaven to get the attention of the forces in there. Once that was done, the Spec Ops were to move in to save Luna.

Good plan. We march out and eventually the scouts report a group of pigmen blocking the road. Red and the spec ops move in and I take charge of the main bulk. The shields up front. We move closer and eventually we form the shieldwall and make a slow approach at the enemy.

It was time. “Chaaarge!” I charge in with the shieldwall at a pace that the formation allows. We lock in combat with the pigmen. Quickly enough I receive a hit to my head. My ears ringing due to the impact and I barely am able to stand up straight. And the pain was overwhelming for a few seconds. However we make quick work of the pigmen. “Is this all you have William!? We are coming for you!” We push forward and end up fighting two big wicker bohemoths. Large tree-like wickers.

I remember being hit by one of the arms of the wicker, and I fly backwards hitting the ground harshly. “Dawnguard! Switch to offensive!” I get back up on my hooves and sheathe my sword and shield, before I draw my two-handed sword from my back. I once more charge in, yet again being sent flying backwards, hitting the ground harshly.

After getting back up I notice the witches further into the small settlement. They are weaving their death magic and soon enough launching magical bolts at us. “Incoming!” I quickly lay my sword flat in the air in front of me, calling upon the Light to create a protective barrier in front of me. It holds for now. “Zordorak, Kearno, Bryce! With me!” The three are quickly by my side. I stumble a little with a grunt before I charge with them at the witches. And Luna is there, with William. I stare at Luna. We will rescue her. I stab one of the witches in it’s chest forming yet another barrier in front of me to protect myself from the death magic.

Soon enough the witches are dealt with, along with the huge wickers. I look around me. Most things are a blur… I stumble backwards and fall to my rear. I need to sit. To rest and catch my breath. Things calms down. I am not able to pay attention to much. I decide to pull my helmet off, but I barely move it before a pain shoots through the side of my head. Damnit. I take a few deep breaths.

Emilia approaches me. “Are you okay Edir?” I look to her. “Mhm… Just need to catch my breath…” A lie. In truth I only need to get my helmet off so I can heal myself, but I don’t want to worry the High Priestess. She nods at me. “Alright. Here, drink this.” She offers me a potion with red liquid. “What is it?” I try to grasp it, but fail once. I fail twice. I have it in my hand. I open the cork looking into it still with my helmet on. “It’s a general healing potion.” I look to her and nod. “Thank you. I will drink it in a bit, just need to catch my breath first.” Once more a lie. I hate myself for it. But there are more severely injured people there. I can tend to myself for now.

Emilia nods and moves on to other patients. I place the potion next to me and take a deep breath. I try to pull off my helmet again but the searing pain strikes more. I shake my head with a sigh. Everything is so blurry… My head hurts. My body aches. I grunt as the minutes go by, occasionally trying to get my helmet on. Eventually I start feeling very sick. Very weird, as if I am about to vomit, but at the same time I am tired.

I sigh gently before looking to the person next to me. They are wearing blue, but I can’t tell who it is. “Hey… Can you fetch me a medic?” The person walks off. I look after them but then everything goes black.

I wake up inside of a med bay, by something touching my legs. I look up at my legs. I am covered in a blanket. There is a pillow under my head. No helmet. I look to my legs again. There is another set of legs there. I follow the legs and notice that Luna is sitting next to me, her legs over mine. I offer her a grin. We saved her. Commander Windfeather is back with us.

We sat there talking for a while about demon souls, Argus and so on. Lily and Avrama was also there.

Eventually I passed out again I believe. I don’t really remember falling asleep.

So that was yesterday’s summary… What will today bring?

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I had a great time with this lot! Their events are quite rich and frequent, and the stories written by several of the officers and members were always a joy to read. I can definitely recommend the guild for those who are looking for an active guild to grow their character in.

Be sure to check their Argent Archives page too, it’s absolutely gorgeous!

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This comes from Knight-Captain Edirloette’s journal and is purely OOC knowledge for those reading this.

The Shadows of Stormsong, Day 6

So… Today, dear journal. Today started with us gathering. Lily asked me if I could inform a pandaren about the no-alcohol rule. I did, and he seemed offended because apparantly they need to be drunk to fight.

Anyway. We moved out to Anglepoint Wharf. We moved in three columns as we had the numbers for it. We eventually reached Anglepoint Wharf where we met up with Captain Silver and some of his crew, and the Wolf’s Eye.

We boarded the Wolf’s eye and set sail for Stormsong. One of the locals with the Dawnscales blessed the boat and on the sea we were… It didn’t take that long before I got seasick. I luckly got some herbs from Emilia for it.

Hours that felt like even more hours went by and eventually some whales swam next to the boat. For a few seconds I thought it was a kraken, but luckily not. Along the shoreline we could see nagas. I called for the ranged to get their weapons ready, but to hold their fire and wait for the nagas to make the first move incase they decide to attack.

They did not, so we disembarked at Fort Daelin. There we sorted things out and then an Enlightened acted out of line and when she was to be punished for it she handed in her surcoat. Good riddance in my opinion. Insubordination has no place during these times.

So, tomorrow the hunt for Lord Loss begins. We killed William, but it would seem he was merely working for this Lord Loss, and Loss has more lieutenants like Hunt, but Hunt was apparantly the weakest one.

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This comes from Knight-Captain Edirloette’s journal and is purely OOC knowledge for those reading this.

The Shadows of Stormsong, Day 7

Today started rather relaxed. People were getting used to our new camp. I am not going to be very detailed as it has been a long and annoying day.

When the Commanders and officers had our meeting we decided that one main group was going to go north to help Tortollans with some issues with someone pouring oil into the waters and setting it ablaze. Another group, consisting of magi and a few other people, went to investigate a shrine.

I was leading the main group along with Luna. We spent a long time trying to figure out how we were going to get past the flames blocking the hills that the perp most likely were at. We eventually made our way over there but Emilia’s levitation spell failed and we fell into the water as explosions happened around us. Those of us with heavier armor quickly started working on taking off our armor enough so we could swim. I was having some issues getting off my armor, but Sashara Moonspud helped me keeping me up whilst I was taking off most of my armor.

Once on shore we found out Ceciil was missing. I knew that Ceciil could handle herself, and we did not have much time as we had already wasted a lot of time. I put faith in the Light and Ceciil that she would return to us.

We faught a fire elemental whilst some of us was still recovering from almost drowning. One of our Illidari had for most of the evening been very annoying and disrespectful. The illidari then eventually decdided to run off on their own, even though I was shouting at them to come back, but to no avail.

The rest of us finished tending to our injured before we made our way up to the mountain. There we saw Ceciil lying unconsciouss. In front of her were two human twins, fighting with the Illidari, whom had a fire spear in their chest-stomach area.

The twins disappeared, the Illidari spat me in the face and flew off. When we got back to camp I found out one of my Dawnguard had left Avrama to die.

The Illidari had also ran off from Bolt, whom I sent the two of to find the magi group to get us a mage to help with the flaming water, and the Illidari also was backtalking Lady Nightwind.

Their punishments were carried out. We do not leave people behind, yet alone not mention that one of the officers fell down a cliff but could still be alive. Neither do we tolerate disobedience and lack of respect during times like these when we most likely are surrounded by enemies.

After that I found a mage that helped me fish my armor out of the waters I took them off in. Then I found out that one of our Enlightened, Ashalia Phoenixgazer, died during the magi mission. She apparantly killed herself by throwing herself into a void pit with tendrils that ripped her apart.

May the Void take care of it’s child.

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This comes from Knight-Captain Edirloette’s journal and is purely OOC knowledge for those reading this.

The Shadows of Stormsong, Day 10

The past two days I have been busy trying to lay plans, unfortunately that is not my strongest side. I am more “in the moment”. Today however I was back on the field, ready to do my duty.

I was talking with a few Dawnscales, Jack Grimsdale and a… lady Ashley Silver I beleive. Jack gave me a green apple. It was a bit sour, but overeall it was nice. The Commanders and officers met up. We laid a plan. The orb that got stuck to people’s hands the other day is pulling in a new direction. Lady Belle was captured the other day, but we have no idea where she is and so on, so until we have scouting reports about her location, we can’t do anything to rescue her as of yet.

We decided to move south, follow the orb. As usual Luna and I were put in charge of leading the group. We follow the orb and eventually reach some mountains, cave tunnels and big roots or thorns. I know I should know what it is, but at the time it slipped my mind. Suddenly out from the tunnel that we were standing outside of, quillboars comes charging. I charge forwards whilst calling out for a Shieldwall, and we shortly create the shieldwall and hold most of the quillboars at bay.

Once dealt with, we sent scouts further into the Kraul, I believe that is what it’s called, whilst the injured were being tended to. The rest of the group a bit later start walking inwards when one of the scouts, Angelica Black from the Red Gryphons, meet us and tells us that they are doing some sort of ritual. The main bulk of the group walk up to behind the scouts and hunker down behind them, and I spot the ritual in question. There are some shamanistic-looking quillboars standing around another quillboar that is tied down onto a rock.

After a very quick and quiet discussion I give the order to charge in. We take the quillboars by surprise and quickly kill the shamanistic ones. The Quillboar that was tied down suddenly started talking to us. I was caught by surprise, and Luna wanted to kill him. I confirmed with the Magi and Kelly said that the ritual is not connected to the life of the quillboar, so I give Luna the ‘go-ahead’ to kill the speaking Quillboar whilst the rest of us go after those that suddenly ran off with the orb.

We reach another cave that we make our way into. However the cave was blocked off by a stonewall, but Luna was lead to the wall by the orb, and she walked through it. A fake wall. The rest of us make our way through and we end up inside the cave, noticing another larger ritual. It looks like the same ritual from earlier. I once more signal the charge, but as we charge the quillboars starts talking about how they were expecting us and send some of us flying backwards with a jet of water.

We however deal with the quillboars and make our way further into the cave, the orb leading Luna. Suddenly she is being pulled towards a tunnel, but she is fighting against it. We gotta wait for the injured to be tended to. I grab hold of her to help her not get pulled away by the orb, even if it sears her. Unfortunately it was to no avail, Luna suddenly flies forwards, the orb seemingly pulling her, into the cave. The rest of us call out that we are moving in deeper, then we follow her.

Inside there is an Ettin . I had no idea they existed here in Kul Tiras. It is missing an eye, but suddenly the orb lets go off luna and pops into the ettin’s eyesocket. What the actual fel? We study the ettin a little, and he as well starts talking. Why are they all talking? He introduces himself as Count Voracious.

I am having my doubts about this, we should pull back or kill him whilst we have the chance. Edir looks between the rest of the Union, Luna and the ‘Count’. Suddenly it is made known that he received his eye as a gift from Lord Loss. I immediatelly give the order to kill him and charge in alongside Luna. However, seeing as only the two of us charged at him, the Ettin is able to grab us.

We then probably spent an hour and a half, perhaps two hours, trying to figure out if to trust the ettin or not. He made a portal for us to Fort Daelin, but I did not trust it to be true. I was so certain that the portal would take us to Lord Loss as his captives, just like Belle is.

However, one by one the members of the Union chose to trust the ettin and make their way through the portal. The Magi tried to figure out any other ways out, but seeing as the quillboars magics has made the stonewall from earlier actually be a stonewall. I took a deep breath as I looked around. We don’t have the numbers to fight the ettin. I grit my teeth and give the order to step through the portal. One by one everyone goes through, and then I turn my gaze at the ettin. “I will fight your army on the battlefield then. You better be there.” I had figured it out. Count Voracious is one of Lord Loss’ Lieutenants. Loss is using the Count to make an army of intelligent quillboars. I need to inform Red.

I step through the portal, and I see Avrama waiting for me. I narrow my eyes as I look around. “Is this an illusion?” We were indeed outside of Fort Daelin’s gates. Avrama told me that it isn’t an illusion. Yeah right. I quickly make my way inside the fort to find Red and give him a report of the mission, then I went to Thirdal to give him my helmet so he can fix it.

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Phew! What a long two weeks! We’ve just finished our campaign in Kul Tiras and are back in Stormwind! Tune in for some RP as we take a break from our duties for the time being! :slight_smile:

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Recruitment is starting fully up again after the campaign! Weekly / Biweekly we can be found recruiting around in Stormwind! However you can also approach us whenever you want if you are interested in joining. :slight_smile:

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This needs a bump

Good luck :slight_smile:

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Thanks Kump! I was about to do a bump!

The Society will be at the Redridge Games the coming week! If anyone is interested in recruitment, you can find us there and talk with our members. :slight_smile:

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