Aislinn did have a point and to be honest he was having doubts about them the moment John Smith had given that very unconvincing description on what a 'savage' was. From what he could tell they had done nothing to warrant being called that. "I'm not opposed to the idea of leading them away, but" He paused to look at another tree, inspecting its entirety before looking back to Aislinn as he'd found nothing on the tree. "what if he decides not to follow us, they, well Ratchilffe, already doubts us. I don't know, its not like we can just scare him away."
Kel continued to further examine the symbol, trying to see any connection as to what it could be. The others had made their own guesses, which made sense as well. "Well we got time I think." The sun wasn't exactly setting and the sky didn't look red so they had to have some form of time before nightfall. "Let's see if we can find anymore around here." Kel walked away from the first tree and went to the tree right next to it. He found...nothing. This wasn't going to be easy.
"Could be, looks like a rune to me as well." Kel added. That connection was odd to him given that back on his world runes for magic and well, he didn't think that anyone on this world could use magic besides them. Interesting. "This could be their hunting grounds, would explain the deer." A little concerning if it turned out that they did walk right into someone else hunting grounds. Though he was curious as to what the others thought.
Nothing out of the ordinary had occurred as they continued walking. No more animal sightings, alive or hunted, no hunter of said animal. Nothing at all. Which on the one hand was a relief, something like that could be problematic long as John Smith was around with his weapon. They had walked past a tree that had a marking which stuck out to Kel. "Hey, look at this." Kel approached the marking on the tree and the closer look reminded him of similar things back home.
Kel glanced around before returning his attention back to Luna. He hadn't heard anything rustling near them so nothing had gotten there yet, but they couldn't stick around long if someone was on the way. He tried to think of some way to compromise seeing that Luna was in the process of digging a hole to bury the deer. It wasn't needed though as Luna herself had stopped digging and walk on ahead. "Wait up." Kel picked up his pace to be walking along side her. "Not a good idea to be going off on by yourself right now."
His first attack had successfully wounded the hound that was later finished off by someone else. Arthur wasn't sure how to feel about assisting someone else in a kill he'd meant to do in himself, but seeing as there were plenty of other targets around he didn't think much on it. Instead he aimed towards another hound and fired a shot off at it. The bullet hit its mark and the hound collapse onto he ground. Spoiler: Za Rollz Attack Roll on Houndo 3: 1d20 +5 = 13 Damage Roll 1d6 = 3 Rip Hound 3
Based on that little back and forth that Daeni and Cerdic were having, he could easily see him believing that they were in fact siblings had he been told that before his memories had returned."Probably not." 'Aveum' was too deeply rooted to everything that had just transpired here and he'd rather not have his name be a constant reminder of that. Not that 'Chrono' was all that much was all that better. Comparing the two though, 'Chrono' was the more tolerable name. "Wait, how does 'Chrono' fit me better?"
This time he was not as fortunate to somehow dodge the attack meant for him and took the full brute of the attack aimed at him. He was knocked back, still standing, but a little winded. By comparison there was no room for him to be complaining, Take had taken two heavy hits and was still standing. "Hang in there, we've almost finished it." They weren't the only ones taking heavy hits. That hat had certainly taken its fair share of damage as well and. Chrono allowed some magic flow into his keyblade, coating the blade in water before he went off to attack the giant hat once again. HP: 55/85 AP: 26/46 MP: 5 /30 DP: 3/3 Damage Done: 20 + 6 (Water) + 10 (Inspiring Rage) = 36 AP Water casted on himself
He had actually named the giant bowler hat he was currently attacking them in. Chrono found that to be very odd and borderline disturbing. Well not as odd as the strange phenomena happening that allowed him to dodge the attack meant for him. It would be a bit helpful if this occurred more or at the very least he had some idea as to what was going on. However being a question for another time, those thoughts were pushed to the back of Chrono's mind while he went back to focusing on the battle. His keyblade glowed as a barrage of magic flew towards the hat. It was his first time using Ruin and he assumed he was using it right. Said tactic worked for every other spell he's used so far. Chrono followed this up by attack again with his keyblade. HP: 85/85 AP: 16/46 MP: 15/30 DP: 3/3 Cast Ruin - 18 Damage Attacked - 30 Damage Total - 48 Damage
And I even said after seeing the release date "Now I got plenty of to pay off my pre order and upgrade it to the deluxe edition." time to stay true to my word.
At the point in which all that running would have taken a toll on him, Arthur had heard the sounds of dogs snarling and barking. Up ahead there was another Dottari was there with a ground of dogs that were making way attacking some random man. Well that certainly wouldn't do. Others had already gone ahead to attack, one he'd recognized from a few brief spotting in the earlier crowd. Arthur stopped after moving close enough in which the houndo was in range. Arm outstretched, he aimed and pulled the trigger, firing off a bullet that did wound the animal, but not enough to finish it. Attack Roll on Houndo 4: 1d20 +5 = 22 Damage Roll 1d6 = 4
When Kel had arrived, he was relieved to see the lack of a bear looming over Luna and even more so that she was still conscious. Seeing her holding a dead deer was a surprise. He walked up to the two girls and said, "Aislinn is right, we can't do anything for it now." ,before looking over the deer. The deer had been hunted, which wasn't something that they could do about it. Not only did the Indians apparently have wolf like instincts, but they knew how to hunt. That was something that did worry Kel. As it stood there was no reason for the Indians to not see them as hostiles and fortunately the same was true for them being seen as hostile. They needed to keep things like that, especially with John Smith following them.
Kel ducked under a low hanging branch right as Luna had run off ahead. While they may have been doubting the actually threat behind the Indians, or savages that John had grown accustomed with calling them, there had to have been some other form of wildlife here that they hasn't seen yet. He could hear the occasional bird chirping and catch a glimpse of one flying overhead. Silence had settled after Luna's advance, which left some uncertainty behind, then came the scream. A distinguished scream that only could have attributed to Luna. The first thought that ran through his mind wasn't exactly a pleasant one and was the reason why he was concerned about her going off on her own int he first place. Kel was quick to head off in the direction of the scream, hopefully arriving before something actually did happen.
Was hoping for a 2018 release in general, but all this considered that's not too bad
Chrono hadn't been expecting Daeni of all people to be the first to speak with him, though Alder had run off to dispose of the core so he was out of the running. Either way she had spoken to him and he might as well give a response. "I've been better, least I assume I've been." Which was all he said, again odd feeling like this after getting back all of his memories but there was nothing that he could really do about it at this point. Mora had thanked them right as Chrono had moved to get back on his feet. "It was the least that we could do." Might've sounded a bit more on the heroic side of things all things considering, but it was the truth. Even if the reason behind it had been killing Ria and getting his memories back for the most of it.
Zephyr remained ever vigilant as they ventured deeper into the swamp. The spider webs around them were a sign that something could lash out at them at any given moment. Even stepping on the narrow pathway didn't help either, only grouped them up to make them an easier target in theory. His magic wouldn't be able to do much this this current situation unless they were given more space to move about. Then they had arrived at the tree, found Selena and all ruined by the mayor stepping out with Maliel as his hostage. It was cause of his self control that he didn't use his magic to form a weapon to attack them. That would be a poor decision right now and would result in lives lost the moment when the Mayor had made his demands. He was clearly taking advantage of his position he had over them. When Thea had stepped forward, he spied the single light finger she made behind her back which further held back his gut instincts. He would trust Thea, she was a member of their guild after all and in the end wanted the same thing they did.
One villain had been successfully detained and the other had removed himself from the equation in quite the amusing fashion to be honest. Moments like that were when he doubted one capabilities as a villain. The commotion outside had caught his attention as well as distracted his thoughts as he ran outside himself. His brain processed the sight of the it and more importantly, what was this guys obsession with bowler hats to begin with? One of the legs came crushing down and Chrono used that as his chance to attack with Vicinity Break as well as deal in a few extra hits of his own. HP: 85/85 AP: 26/46 MP: 30/30
Smith was doing a poor job at trying to convince him that these so called Indians were a bad thing. Maybe it was because he has yet to see a single Indian and had no means to judge them or the fact that Indians did not sound like a threatening name when compared to indians. Either way his concerns were slowly turning into curiosity as he wanted to see them for himself to properly give a verdict on how they were.
Kel merely nodded to Ailsinn's reasoning. As he had considered, it could easily be the fact that they weren't in their territory and thus had no reason to attack. All it would take would be one misplaced step and then they could find themselves under siege. They likely already had an advantage just by knowing the land better than they did. "Indians?" Confusion aside, the mental image that he had thought of for the savages had been completely removed by what Smith had told them. Was it really wrong for them to live like that? Kel found himself asking that while keeping a lookout for any changes.
*Casually sweeps*
