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Azigarath

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(cont. from p8)

As they chopped (and ate) their way through, they attracted the attention of a female Goerack, who probably caught the scent of Goerack blood and went to investigate. Despite being eight feet long, six feet when walking with the fists, like most Goeracks, she could move quickly and quietly through the dense forest. Perhaps the Goeracks could grasp large branches or springy trees and swing their way here and there.

The Grays, who had spread out into a few smaller groups, pricked their ears and paused. In the vast mountain ranges, with terrain spreading in all directions on and on, they adapted to have excellent hearing, even birds and insects not affecting their ears.

The female Goerack sniffed and popped her face here and there, wondering about that strong Goerack smell she caught. Behind her were a few other regular Goeracks, and a few betas bobbling about. They seemed to be foraging. Well, the female Goerack pushed aside branches and vines and stepped through, and then one of the **ivoths wildly swung his messer to and fro, chopping through vines and stuff while trampling smaller plants into the ground.

The female Goerack made no reaction, but wondered what this ram-man was doing. The Gray snorted, wild-eyed, flaring his teeth, and stopped a few feet from the female ape, scraping one foot backwards repeatedly, and growling, bits of plant matter in his teeth spewing out his mouth. The female understood that basic body language, and charged like a mad gorilla, making such a powerful and loud gawp that it echoed and the Gray before her jumped once.

The other Grays immediately began snorting, breathing madly, or growling like big dogs, wondering where their friend had gone. The other Goeracks overheard the Grays’ animalistic vocalisation and sprang to action, billowing audible breaths and ready to fight. The cacophony of beastly noise from Grays and Goeracks was disheartening, at best, but something that neither side felt.

03-Sep-2015 09:45:39 - Last edited on 03-Sep-2015 09:50:02 by Azigarath

Azigarath

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The big female, fists and feet pummelling the forest floor and crushing plants, reached the Gray who challenged her, who regained his stance and darted forth, leaning forward but keeping his sword in both hands pointing forwards lowly. The female Goerack, obviously having more reach, delivered an overhand pound with a fist, fist knocking against the Gray’s bone-covered forehead and staggering him, but he remained on his feet much to the Goerack’s surprise.

The Gray regained himself yet again and sprang to action, running into the Goerack and driving his bony head into her jaw, which cracked backwards slightly, and she felt a sudden rush of hot, sharp pain rinse through her teeth and jawline. The minotaur-like raider slashed his blade diagonally downwards, expecting to lop off the beast*s arm, but he swung with too much vigour, and the edge alignment was off; the tilted edge made the sword wobble to the side and much of the force dissipated instantly.

The female Goerack grabbed the Gray by the horns and pulled him down, kneeing him in the face as he fell. The Gray became furious, and managed to stab his sword into the Goerack’s groin, piercing the hide and entering flesh. The red ape wheezed from pain and pushed the Gray away, her strength nearly causing him to fall over. He scraped one foot backwards and then ran forth for another round; the female Goerack reared, raising both arms and opening her mouth to expose her canines.

As the female Goerack towered over the Gray, intending to crush him, he suddenly lunged upwards at the same time the Goerack lowered herself; as all the weight of her upper body descended, it fell onto the point of the Gray’s sword, which entered her throat and shot upwards into the brainstem. The Goerack became numb, and the Gray pushed the blade upwards until the hilt struck her chin; the rest of the blade had popped out the top of her skull, splitting the brain.

03-Sep-2015 09:45:53

Azigarath

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Still overhearing the cacophonous ruckus of animalistic sounds from Goeracks and Grays, the Grays rammed his shoulders and head into the dying Goerack’s chest, to push her over; as she fell backwards, suddenly five more Goeracks appeared, running to the scene, intending to help the female, but they were just a second too late.

The Grays who arrived to the scene stopped; although they had swords and outnumbered the Goeracks, they would be supremely difficult to kill.

“Oh, what the hell, everyone ends up dead... just a matter of when and how.” A female Gray remarked, tilting her head, causing her neck to pop.

“CHAAAAAARRRRRRRGE!!!” The Grays screamed, their voices deep and hoarse with a powerful guttural effect.

The nearest Goerack jumped at the Gray, who head-butted the Goerack in the face midair and at the same time slashed at him, but the Goerack nevertheless toppled over him; the other Grays, several by several, reached the scene themselves, blades brandished, snorting or growling wild-eyed and ready to start hell. Nevertheless, most Grays were still a good distance away, and their horns kept getting stuck in vines and low branches, so half of the Grays would still require perhaps half a minute before reaching the action.

Meanwhile, the Goerack who landed atop the Gray, upon receiving the head-butt to the face and a blade cutting his shoulder open, pushed one hand on the blade to press it against the ground, and also locking the Gray’s hand against the ground, too. The ape pummeled the bottom of his fist into the Gray’s head, but the damn bovine boy kept lifting his head and tilting it down to shield himself, so the Goerack just pounded into the Gray’s horns or dense forehead.

03-Sep-2015 09:46:10 - Last edited on 03-Sep-2015 09:49:02 by Azigarath

Azigarath

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With his free hand, the downed Gray withdrew a knife and started stabbing and cutting repeatedly into the Goerack’s belly. The Gray’s naturally lean limbs allowed quickness; the knife cut the belly open, and the intestines spilled out, plopping onto the Gray’s waist for him to feel the warmth and wetness flop over him.

Feeling his strength quickly escaping, the Goerack paused, and that was when the Gray flipped his grip so that he held the knife downwards, and began pecking it into the Goerack’s face, nose, lips and eyes repeatedly. The Goerack groaned and moved his head out of the way, and then felt the knife stab into his windpipe. The red ape then, eyes closed tightly and feeling the holes in his eyes rub against the inside of his eyelids, became enraged and head-butted the Gray in the forehead repeatedly, holding the Gray down by grasping his horns and keeping him in place.

The other Grays, gripping their messers in both hands, tried to charge, but their horns kept getting caught in the annoying vegetation; the other Goeracks, easily jumping amidst the vegetation, howled as they charged the foreigners, and the Grays grunted in return, thrashing their heads wildly to make them unstuck from the damn hanging plants.

A few Goeracks hurled small logs, clubs, big sticks, or boulders at the Grays, knocking two down, but the others dodged the projectiles. The betas scurried around the scene, intending to attack the Grays from behind, or at least harass the others nearing the fight by pelting them with stones, pinecones, sticks, or whatever else they could find.

The charging Goeracks ran into the Grays, who swung their blades into the Goeracks; the apes received the blades but nevertheless knocked the Grays down; one unlucky Goerack ran into a Gray with horns like a goat, and impaled itself onto them as he fell atop the Gray, and another Goerack received an entire length of sword through the sternum.

03-Sep-2015 09:46:43

Azigarath

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The Grays taken off their feet were then pummeled into the dirt, basically.

The Gray armoured in an alpha’s skeleton reached the scene, his appearance briefly surprising the Goeracks, who recognized the bones to be one of them. As a Goerack charged him, he suddenly jumped backwards, so that as the Goerack ran over him, he dragged his langseax across the Goerack’s groin; as the Goerack ran passed him, suddenly he felt blood leaking down below as if he were urinating.

Two Grays, one female, flanked the Goerack, chopping into his shoulders to disable his arms, and then when he raised them to defend himself, they hacked into the forearms and hands, loping off a few fingers, and then they chopped bits of his skull off. The two Grays were tackled by other Goeracks who appeared from elsewhere; the unexpected fight was escalating.

The skeleton-armoured Gray picked himself up, feeling a few little projectiles hurled by betas bounce off him. He looked around, and it seemed that several Goeracks were pounding Grays off their feet with fists or clubs and pummeling them down. Even when rammed into the dirt, the Grays continued snarling and grunting, desperately swinging their swords, even trying to bite fingers when fists aimed at their heads. They also rolled the shoulders to crudely parry or block with their horns.

The bone-wearing Gray ran forth into the fray, amidst the many Goeracks, and started chopping at them wildly. One of the Goeracks charged him, so he charged back, both jumping into each other, their heads ramming together midair, shoulders locking and the two hitting the ground on their knees. The Goerack pushed the Gray backwards, so the Gray slashed his langseax downwards overhead in one hand.

03-Sep-2015 09:46:54

Azigarath

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The Goerack thrust an arm out to grab the Gray’s hand and so stop the incoming blade, and then pulled the Gray towards himself and punched him across the head with such force that the alpha skull he wore shattered upon impact and the Gray fell over. The Goerack also broke his hand.

More Grays were reaching the scene, ready to start chopping into the Goeracks busy keeping other Grays down; the heat of battle reached its peak and the sounds of fists smashing into bodies, blades chopping into skin, clubs smashing into horns, grunting and growling, and the snorting and heavy breathing echoed loud enough to frighten birds.

The betas kept their distance, mostly relying on throwing things at the Grays, but a few Grays charged the little guys and started chopping their heads apart vertically down to the jaw, dashing out blood and brains. The Grays who did so grabbed handfuls of brains and tossed them around, intending to intimidate the Goeracks, but the red apes felt nothing. Several betas jumped onto the faces of Grays and tried to claw or bite their eyes out; one was hacked in half midair and another landed on a goat horn.

The Gray who had an impaled beta on his head dropped his messer, grabbed the monkey by the legs, pulled him off his horns, and swung its head into a tree trunk to daze it, and then threw it at a charging Goerack in hopes for it to suddenly try to save the smaller Goerack (the Gray thought the betas were babies).

As the eight-foot Goerack charged, lifting up his club in one hand overhead, the Gray quickly picked up his messer, holding it with both hands and putting the blade over his shoulder. He then kept his feet apart, and swung his sword horizontally while bending the knees a bit, gaining enough momentum that the blade loped off the charging Goerack’s arm off at the elbow; arm and club fell.

03-Sep-2015 09:47:14 - Last edited on 03-Sep-2015 09:49:21 by Azigarath

Azigarath

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The one-armed Goerack did*’t worry, and punched the Gray in the face, staggering him, and then tackled into his legs, lifting him up over the shoulder and then ramming his back against a tree.

The last dozen Grays reached the scene, ready to start chopping; the large Goeracks by this time were becoming tired, and many received cuts here and there. They approached the fresh Grays. The fresh Grays calmly jogged to the Goeracks and started slashing at their most obvious, easiest target to hit: the forearms and hands. They planned to be defensive, and simply rely on cutting off fingers and hacking into knuckles once the Goeracks got close enough.

Undoubtedly, whoever happened to be nearby, surely heard the commotion; the animalistic growling, snarling, and grunting was constant and did not stop!

03-Sep-2015 09:47:23 - Last edited on 03-Sep-2015 09:49:44 by Azigarath

Mark Argon

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Nation Bio

Name: Adren
Leader(s): Stonelord Morano
Population: 550,000
Races: Most of Adren's population are human, but about 5% of the population is made up of Dwarves.
Location: Approximate to northern and Western Kazakhstan. It's terrain is made up of very deep and steep river valleys, banked with granite and topped with heather moorland.

Capital: Yordale
Capital Description: Yordale, like most cities of Adren, is built into the sheer cliffs of the valley sides. The buildings are cut into the stone, many with balconies sticking out over the precipice. The Granite Keep, Adren's seats of power, is located at the end of the valley, where the river emerges out of the cliff, and is once again cut into the cliff but also pretudes up onto the surface in a structure which looks similar to a pagoda. Adreni homes are very warm against the cold.
Government: Overall control falls to "The Stonelord" who is equivalent to a king, and is a title passed through a royal family. The Stonelord is aided by a council of elders, who are raised through a process of previous council members voting for those who put themselves forward. This occurs every 7 years.

Economy: Adren has a bullion based economy, which is largely generated from their trade in stone, slate and lead with others

Military: 20,000. This is small but Adren rarely goes to war and as well as this the people of Adren consider their lack of forces made up for in the training they receive.

Religion: Adren's religion is a pagan one, linked closely to their environment. There are in 'gods' per say, but a collection of spirits and powers which manifest themselves in the landscape

Culture: Adren's people value loyalty, honour and stability. The people are not overly artistic but they do produce some, undoubtedly inspired by the landscape. The Adreni pride themselves on good food and drink, and are known for distilling a spirit out of heather and their beloved spring water.

History:

Other:

03-Sep-2015 15:11:23 - Last edited on 03-Sep-2015 19:23:46 by Mark Argon

Mark Argon

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History: Adren was formed many hundreds of years ago when a number of farmers settled on the heather moors above the valleys with an intent to graze their sheep there. This process went on for generations until the villages came under attack frequently from wandering bandit groups. The people then descended into the safety of the valleys, which meant abandoning their flocks. The farmers cut primitive holes in the rock and found minerals there. From this point, the elder of these farmers took control, and the wealth of Adren grew until it became a fully-fledged nation.

Other:

03-Sep-2015 15:15:27

Zangaro1

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King Vilkar listened closely to King Horic’s proposal. He wanted to march against the Sorusians while they were still recovering from their recent failed siege. Perhaps now would be the most ideal time to strike, but even the most ideal moment might not be a good moment. There were many soldiers garrisoned throughout the Sorus Empire which could prove frustrating to the advance of an enemy army. While King Vilkar considered the factors, the leader of the Grays seemed to agree to the proposal.

When he was done speaking, Vilkar decided to voice his concerns. *I would of course be happy to help in any way I can, King Horic; however, I am unsure what direct military aid we could give you,” Vilkar began, “It’s been years since our forces saw war and many are new recruits without real field experience. Even the veterans have probably grown rusty by now. Furthermore you’re speaking of an offensive campaign, which poses even more problems for us. Every half giant soldier we field requires four times the supplies of the average human foot soldier. The valleys of Londor easily supply the food and necessities for our defensive forces, but an offensive war would require us to establish supply lines hundreds if not thousands of miles away. If those supply lines were to be cut by the Sorusians in a backhanded maneuver the attrition could be devastating. That being said, Damas is supplied with rich metals from the northern mines and food from the farming valleys. We’d be more than happy to supply you armies with any weapons, armor, or other supplies you’d require.”

03-Sep-2015 17:32:03

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