Friday, 6 February 2009

Sen'jin Village

“Here be Sen’jin”, Lith’jin said with a grin on her face. “Ya do be wantin to help, do ya? Than go talk to Master Vornal”
It looks kind of peaceful and I don’t think there are many things to do here. I’m going to help them with some stuff and then be on my way to the outpost up-north.
“Good evening Master Vornal. How can I be of service?”
“Evenin’ orc. Me coud use som crawler mucus and some eyes fro tha beast’ around an’ Vel'rin Fang do be needin’ som tiger furs. Master Gadrin wan a word wit ya.”
“Thank you Master Vornal. I’ll be on my way first thing in the morning.”
Heading towards Master Gadrin, an troll approached me.
“Hey, warrior, come here.”
“Who are you and what do you want with me?”
“I’m Lar and I’m an emissary from Orgrimmar. I have something to do but I can’t leave the trolls here. Since their empire has been reduced to dust, they came to us for help and protection.”
“Ok, I’ll help. What do you need me for?”
“I saw some centaur activity out there. I want you to go and have a look at what they’re doing and bring back anything that you think is out of place. And thank you for doing this.”
Finally reaching Master Gadrin I saw Lith’jin eyeing me questioning.
“Evening Master Gadrin. How may I be of service?”
“Welcome warrior. It pains me to ask this of you, but I still have to. On the big island near here, there is a part of our brethren that did not escape when our empire crumbled. I need you to go there and kill them and bring back the skull of my brother. I know it sounds like revenge but I assure you it’s not about revenge. They are vile and the magic they use has corrupted their souls beyond salvation.”
“How fast do you want this done?”
“As fast as possible, even tonight if you can.”
“I shall do it, and come to you as soon as I’m finished.”
I’ll go ‘visit’ the centaurs and the trolls tonight to see what they’re up to.

***

The rest of the day passed with me hanging around Sen’jin Village and cleaning up my weapons and armor. As dusk came, I was looking for ways to get into the centaur camp unnoticed and how to make my swim for the island as fast as possible.
It’s god darn hard to sneak around with this weapons of mine, but when I come to think that all the warriors I know are all in plate, I’m wondering if I can sneak in plate…
While sneaking around I saw a troll following me around. From the looks it was the troll that brought him in the village. She made as much noise as a boulder falling down. I’d better stop her, or she’ll get us both in trouble and maybe killed.
Stopping dead in my tracks I waited for her to approach. She passed by me, searching in the dim moonlight for me. I jumped her from behind, put her on the ground and covered her mouth with my hand.
“I’m sorry, but the time and place do not allow words and soft touches. I’ll let go of your mouth if you promiss me you won’t scream.”
She nodded and I eased my hand from her mouth.
“What ya do that fo?”
“Well, sorry, but you were following me and the place where I’m going is not fit for a ‘lady’.”
“I can take care of me. An me wan to com wit ya.”
“I should be sane in the head to say no, but I’m not sane. I could you somebody to keep my back covered. You can come with me but stay close, keep your mouth shut, you eyes open and the noise to a minimum. Tonight we’re hunting centaurs.”
Sneaking in the centaur camp, were only guards were still up and pretty far from the fires, we started searching. She was moving pretty well after she learned and she learned fast. Signaling me to come close she pointed at a parchment on the ground near the fire. I can’t read this very well, but it looks like they are attack plans of some sort. I’ll copy them and burn the original with their own fire. After copying the parchment we proceeded with the rest of the camp and found two more parchments. By the time we were done with the centaur camp, the night was almost half past.

***

“You need to get back into town with these parchments and get them to Lar. I still have some errands to do until I can get back.”
“Me know, ya go kil trolls. Me wan to com. Me can help. An if ya don’t take me I follow.”
“OK” I said with a sigh “come, and stay close. I don’t want to die because of you, and I don’t want you dead either. Let’s go.”
The water was cold and the swim took longer than expected but we got to the island. There were trolls all-over, and the skull was on a little hill near the camp.
Daybreak caught us on island with the skull in my pouch and half the camp dead. We barely had a scratch. She was a fierce fighter.
“We’re kind of finished here. Let’s go back to Sen’jin Village.”

***

Back in the camp, we took the skull Master Gadrin and presented to Lar the copies of the parchments from the centaur camp.
“Very well you brought this to me. They really are attack plans for the Valley of Trials, for the Sen’jin Village and for Orgrimmar. What have you done with the originals?”
“We burned them. It’s not like we could have taken them. We made them burn as by accident near the fires in the camp.”
“Smart of you. Now they’ll suspect one another and give us time to organize ourselves. And since I can’t leave, you, warrior shall have to travel to Orgrimmar and report this.”
“Me wan to go too”
“From my part you can go with Morgg” Lar said, “but I can’t vouch for you to your tribe. Finish up your business here and be on your way warrior. I’ll stay here and organize a little surprise to the centaurs.”

2 comments:

  1. Very nice ;)
    I liked how you followed the storyline but did not go into the boring detail (bah, drop rate on crawler mucus is terrible!)

    "Daybreak caught us on island with the skull in my pouch and half the camp dead. We barely had a scratch. She was a fierce fighter." -- this was very good phrasing, short but encompassing. Nice dialogues too.

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  2. Lith'jin will follow soon with her version of the story :)

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