Raiders in the forest - RPLOG
Participants
Date
10/4/2015
Log
Far from Fairhaven the forest is quite dense, only a trail here and there showing where the local ferals mostly pass.
A young looking tiger is already waiting in a small clearing, that has been selected as the meeting point. Clad in a red shirt and some jeans, he looks around nervously, hoping the others will arrive soon.
Seguro
Meanwhile Nekura is on her way to the gathering zone after hearing they were looking for volunteers. After not getting to do anything in a while the Nightmare naturally decided she needed to get out a bit though she can't help but squint a bit at seeing all the others already here.
A large twelve foot dragon with golden glowing scales touches down nearby, shi is clad in a black suit of slandered issue Zephyr heavy combat armor, adorned upon hir back is several medial packs, and a heavy grenade launcher, hanging from Seguro's waist is a small stun baton. Yawning the golden scaled dragon awaits for the rest of hir team, recovering hir breath after a long flight.
Panting heavily the a small rabbit stumbles through the brush then looks up to see the dragon land near by, wearing only the standred gear a lazor pistol at his hip, a medkit strapped on like a backpack, some granades, and a combat helmet shows that he probably might be in over his head, exiting the brush he sees the dragon and gives him a wave, "am I the only other one that just got here?" he asks as quietly as he can hoping there are no ferals around.
A shadow dragon swoops overhead, carrying an armored figure who is let go in a close curve to the ground, landing, You'd recognize the strange form of an Anubis servant, but without any of the mannerisims, Wearing a large, bulky suit of kevlar padded riot armor with a couple weapons and some sort of can strapped to it, along with a large sheild with the zephyr logo on it, The shadow dragon would land shortly after dropping him off, coming to stand behind him, "Agent Ryder, Reporting for duty!" He says to the tiger standing in the clearing, snapping to a salute,
The tiger visibly relaxes, as he sees the other agents arriving, but still looks a bit nervous "Hi there" he greets them "So does any of you know where those raiders are supposed to be hiding?"
A long power golden scaled tail sways slowly through the air as the large herm moves up slowly to the tiger, the herms golden glowing eyes glancing over his form. The dragon hisses to the tiger "Greeting I got your call, medic and medical nano mage Seguro is at your call. "meanwhile the herm extends a golden scaled claw retracted paw for a friendly shake. The herm shakes hir head at the tigers response before hissing a reply. "Sorry HQ only radioed that there was some paying clients out this way, but if I fly in a search pattern, perhaps I could spot them from the air, but what can you tell us about them?" with a gentle hiss.
Troff looks around as the group forms by the tiger that he failed to notice, "um Troff..trainee medic support" the little bunny says as he looks up at the tiger, as he looks back to the others he notices he is the only one that is not decked out in gear then frowns, "I knew I should have bought those boots" he adds.
Ryder drops his salute, shaking his head, "No sir, Haven't a clue, I just got here, don't really know the area," he says, adjusting his belt and the attatched items, trying to be ready In-case of an ambush,
Well this is going to be fun. Nekura holds back the urge to act like a meanbutt however and instead just wanders closer to where the others are gathered by the tiger to listen in as they talk.
The tiger looks around "Sorry, it wasn't me who called you. I just got the message myself and thought i could be of help since i was close by. The name's Marc by the way." he answers, then once more takes a nervous look at the surrounding trees, when a snap can be heard from behind a nearby shrubbery.
Seguro swivels hir large horned head toward sound of the snapping twig, sun hued eyes scan the tree line trying to make out a shape out in the dim light. The dragon reaches for hir grenade launcher, quickly pulling the gun from the hoister from hir back. Seguo whispers' to the other agents "Hmm did you here that?"
Nearly jumping out of his fur the little rabbit Troff whips out his lazer pistol and looks around hoping he does not need to use the weapon, "y-yeah I-I did" he says as his legs shake then looks in the direction of where Seguro was looking, "what is it?" he adds.
Ryder places a hand on his baton, also on edge, "Might be those raiders you were talking about, I'd get ready for a fight, everyone." He says, nodding to his companion, "Watch my back,"
Marc takes a few steps back from the sound, while from behind the shrubbery a squirrel emerges. As he's completely nude, both him being a male and quite some scars and wounds can be seen. His fur is completely in disarray and he seems to be limping a bit, not putting any weight on his left foot. With a slightly scared look he looks at the agents, then emits in a timid voice "Don't hurt me please"
The dragon move near the tree where the squirrel emerged, making a quick scan of the soundings to checking if the mutant was fallowed, keeping the grenade launcher poised and ready should trouble a rise, leaving the care of the squirrel to the younger medic.
Troff Lowers his weapon as he sees the Squirrel comes into view, "oh god what happen to you?" he asks as as the little bunny rushes over to have a look at his wounds and then talks off his medkit pack and starts to pull out bandages and other items and applies his basic knowledge to help heal the hurt squirrel.
Ryder squints, his baton at the ready, watching the squirrell with an intent eye, "I wouldn't trust him, freind. Those wounds aren't as they seem..." He says, making a point of brandishing his baton to make sure the squirrel dosen't try anything,
The squirrel still looks terrified, now and then taking a glance to see what's happening behind the agents. Then with a very curt nod, he seems to slowly calm down. "You're not with those raiders?" he asks, a bit confusion in his voice.
Seguro fingers hir gun nervously, the jackals comment had set the large herm on edge, hir sun hued eyes scan the perimeter watching for any signs of ambush while using a tree for cover. Not seeing anything shi cracks an eye back to the rest of hir group, over encrypted com shi chatters to the rest of the agents after noticing something is a bit off. "Hey where did the Tiger get off to, umm crap the squirrel may be a decoy."
Troff looks up as Seguro with worry then to the squirrel, not wanting to be in a bad spot he stands up after finishing hie bandaging job then backs away to the rest of his group, using the secure channel he asks, "h-how many? Do you see anyone?" then pulling out his pistol again he waits for the answer he is fearing he will hear from Seguro.
Ryder prepares for the worst, taking his shield off his back and motioning for his companion to get into formation, his shield raised,
With a slightly satisfied grin, the squirrel simply runs off to where he came from, the hurt foot seemingly only having been an act he put up, leaving the clearing in silence for now.
Seguro eyes once more glance to the area where the fox once stood making out a small object on the ground that was not there when the team first arrived. Once more the herms voice whispers over the com. "I don't see anything as of yet, but my guess is that the tiger was black jacked and dragged off though the long grass." Seguro's voice cuts off as shi notices the rodent run off just a little too late as shi fires a solar ray in the squirrels direction, the bolt of nanite light missing wildly. "Crap he bolted" Hissed the dragon in frustration.
Ryder looks in the direction where the tiger was last seen, "We need to track him down, Find out who took them, and teach them a damm lesson," He says, obviously angry, gripping his baton,
Troff gets behind Ryder when he sees the jackal pull to what looks to be a Riot shield, "so um what do we do?" the bunny asks with worry as he scans the area then eeps as he sees Seguro attack the squirrel but misses, "oh god I am happy she is on our side" the little bunny adds then looks over to see the the object that he noticed seguro was looking at and slowly inches toward body turned so he can run if need be, "any idea what this could be?"
The object only is a club like knob, broken in the middle as it seems to have hit something with quite some force. Right next to it there are some trails looking like Marc has been dragged off leading into the woods.
The dragon curses as rejoins the rest the group, while a golden tail tip rattles from side to side expressing the dragon's frustration. Seugro grumbles "This is going well, they got a lot of guts to pull this in front faction agents. Any way I am going after the tiger." without another word Seguro attempts to fallow the tigers trail though the woods.
Troff looks up at the frustrated face of Seguro and nods, "I think I will join you." the little bunny says angry himself for falling for the squirrel's deception then picks up the broken club, "well I hope I can salvage this or some such." the bunny says then follows behind the dragon.
Ryder also follows, bringing up the rear guard, motioning for his companion to follow suit, "Everyone get ready, they might have a trap waiting,"
Following the trsil left behind by the tiger, the agents soon have to find out that it simply ends, presumably when the attackers decided carrying their victim was easier than dragging it along.
Seguro moves less than silently though the brush, fallowing the trail through the brush, the dragon growls sniffing the air hir noise not finding much the tigers scent was too well mingled with that of the local feral population. It was then the herm spied three sets of tracks, the dragon with golden scales then drops to all fours in hopes to hide the herms tall stature as shi continues to fallow the trail. The dragon hisses "What do you thing, I could fly over to scout the area but that might give us away, or we could try to sneak up on them?" keeping hir voice low in case there was a ambush in waiting.
Troff follws behind the tall dragon but stops as seguro ducks down and does then same, noticing that the footprints go off in different directions the bunny frowns, "I think sneaking would be best but we don't know what way they took Marc...we could split up to find what one has our tiger." the bunny says then looks around, "I don't like my idea but it is more efficient and covers more ground."
with the footprint trails splitting, so do the agents, each one following their own trail.
Ryders trail leeds deeper into the forest, snaking around the trees, then ends at a cave with a sleeping fox in it, definitely being the wrong one.
Seguro's and Troff's trails on the other hand reunite at the edge of the forest. Only a few meters off the last trees some tents have been erected around an open area with figures walking between them. In the middle of the tents some racks are standing, about a dozen of them empty, the other five each having a beaten looking mutant tied to them, one of them being Marc.
A pair of gold glowing wings extend out from the dragon's back as shi leaps into the air on powerful legs, hir large wing span quickly bearing hir aloft as the herm circling to gain altitude hir wings catching a thermal before shi attacks from the air, a golden scaled paw reaches to hir belt to pluck a frag grenade from hir pocket, pulling the pin Seguro drops the sphere from the air aiming for the patrolling figures. The dragon hisses on the com "You rather small there, you think you can seek around under their noises while I draw there fire? I hate for them to take a hostage."
Troff looks up in surprise then nods at the question and starts to run as low as possible around to the opposite side of the camp, making sure that he is not noticed the bunny then darts in between some tents to have a closer look at the situation at hand, looking around to see if anyone noticed him hoping that he is small enough to be undetected.
The raiders all only look up into the sky. The squirrel from earlier, now dressed again, is among them, shouting "That's one of the agents we surprised! WAtch out, there could be more!" but his warning seems to be neglected by the others, who now rush into the tents to fetch their guns. Most of them get cought in the blast of the grenade, but the squirrel and three others still standing take aim at Seguro and try to shoot hir down.
Seguro roars loudly hir voice a deep rumble, the golden dragon protects hirself barrowing some of hir patron's power. With a single thought the solar dragon sends a shockwave though the fabric of space, a powerful shield that would distort and reflect attacks directed at hir, a power known a mirror wave. With a protection in place the herm makes another pass and drops another grenade on hir would be attackers.
Troff watches on as Seguro keeps the squirrel and his friends attention and smiles as he looks at his own granades, counting that he would only need four of his six the little bunny gets in position and rolls the four just onder each furs feet with pins pulled and then dives behind a tent for cover.
The raiders keep on fireing their weapons, only the squirrel being cautious enough to notice the grenades. He kicks away the one at his feet, then turns to warn his comrades, but can't do so any more in time as the blasts knock him off his feet and send him flying into the tent Troff has hidden behind.
Seguro hears the squeaks of the squirrel barking orders to the other mutants, fearing that Troff might notice, Seguro begins to changes tactics', circling from the air the large herm comes around for another pass, as shi comes in low, clawed taloned feet extended as shi attempts pounce one raider from the air.
Troff gets up from his hiding spot he looks inside the tent and sees the squirrel the bunny sees he is a bit groggy from the blast and then pulls his lazor pistol and aims for the guys legs and shots a couple of times his face showing some angre due to the guy hurting the tiger, "give me a reason to shot you in the face." he adds as he hold the gun level with the squirrel's face and waits for seguro to come over.
The squirrel screams in pain as the laser hits his legs, then looks up at the bunny, grumbling "I knew there was not only that dragon." The other raiders meanwhile are all lying around unconscious.
