Real Life RPG (12 page)

I accessed my interface and gave the Horde immunity from attack as well as access to the first level of the dungeon, sending the skeletons I now controlled to the second level. “Hey fancy meeting you guys here” I said as I looked at the orc Torment.

“Well you told us to meet you here and we have been fighting off players looking to get soul stones” Torment replied as Agony the goblin and another orc I knew as Despair entered into our conversation.

“Well have you tried walking through it?” I said sarcastically as a yell went up. We all turned around and could see players streaming through the forest going towards our position, I screamed for everyone to fall back into the castle, at first they were hesitant but once they found out they could get past the border people started streaming in as the enemy came closer. We barely got the horde inside as the enemy who were all on horseback appeared and started circling. I could tell they must have been a part of some guild as they all had the same horse and same color scheme. There didn’t look to be any Tanks or any warrior class among them, these were all archers.

“You can’t take all of the soul stones for yourself” an elf on horseback said loudly, his name reading FancyThaht.

“Well you can always buy some off of me, but I’m not letting you inside of me home” I replied as I let out a yawn, just inside the barrier. An arrow struck the barrier and bounced off as Agony came over to my side.

“You wish to make more fancy elves” the goblin said with a laugh. “The world has too many of them already!”

I could hear a crowd behind me laughing; I guessed they were the members of the horde that were not that badly injured. The elf looked angry as they started beating on the shield, there attacks was more of a taking out of frustration rather than doing any real damage.

“Ferocity was grabbed in Seafarin” I turned to Agony as I got serious. “The Soldiers of light have her, I know we have that raid coming up but we have to get her back, her and my companion”.

“What do you mean the Soldiers of Light have her?” Agony replied in a voice I could tell meant he had trouble understanding.

“I don’t know how to say it any clearer, the Soldiers of light have her, my companion who you have never met and a young girl, get together a strong raid of at least 20 people and lets go get her, it’s getting dark and their castle is not that far outside of Seafarin”.

Agony looked blank for a moment, I could tell he was either trying to communicate with Ferocity or maybe trying to reach his contact within the Soldiers of Light.

“They must have her shielded somehow, they probably brought her to their strong hold and used the girl as bait to make sure she did not give them a hard time” Agony said as 10 Orc silencers came forward the orcish equivalent of an assassin. The party outside of our dome continued to curse and yell as Torment pulled out his crossbow and fire upon one of them. Soon, the Orc Silencers produced some kind of throwing spike and began to attack, safe behind the confines of the best shield money could buy until the attack broke off.

“We are your party” Torment said gesturing to the orcs present. “Although I am not sure you will have us after quitting your own guild”.

“We both know the guild was not mine” I replied as I waved him off. “But this is a conversation for another day, they still have Ferocity”.

I created a party with three of the orcs, Morose, Rage and Anger and activated my teleportation spell, surprising the heel out of them as we appeared back in Seafarin. A little while later another group of four showed up followed by Torment whose group only had three members.

“The waitress at the inn is the person who first sicced them on me” I said as I looked around at the darkened streets, still full of people closing up shop. “But Ferocity was grabbed away from me which means they have eyes everywhere”.

“Well let’s try and kill as many of these bastards as possible while in town” Torment said as he too became aware of his surroundings. “Let’s start at the inn, it would do no good to try an infiltrate their stronghold only to have enemies at our back”.

I nodded agreement as we decided to stick together and move as a group. My party thanks to my ability had to keep slowing down as they were far faster than their comrades. I could see movement out of the corner of my eye my Torment dismissed it, whoever it was we could deal with later. We came upon the inn quickly enough, Torment’s group went around to the rear and the other group climbed the building to come in through the second story. Once I saw them enter a window I burst through the door and started looking around.

I could see the blonde, who screamed and ran towards the back, A mage of the Soldiers of light had his back to me as Morose and Rage activated their backstab ability on the man, killing him instantly. The other two Soldiers of Light hurried to their feet as Rage started firing off throwing spikes. The enemy was a Knight and an assassin, they were slightly higher level and even with my boosts, if we didn’t get the tank down quickly he could hold out until back up arrived.

“Wait a minute!” the assassin cried out as I personally jumped towards him as Rage faced off against the knight. I slashed him once which caused him to jump back but I was far faster than he was, and delivered another strike as he jumped behind the bar. I turned my attention to the Knight as the sounds of fighting upstairs reached me. I went after the knight who looked to be just defending, his stone wall ability successfully turning back my basic attack. I would have summoned Corroding rain but there would be a lot of collateral damage from players who really didn’t have a beef with me.

“Fool just wait a minute!” the knight cried out as we took turns testing out his defense.

“Kill him” I screamed as I could hear the assassin sneaking up beside me. I struck him at least 8 more times wondering why he wasn’t dead yet as clarity struck me. I could only take off half damage, it didn’t matter how many times I struck him once he got to one life point, the game wouldn’t let me half that. I switched targets just as my three party members finished off the knight and the other group came running down stairs, minus two members. I could look at their health and tell they had a tougher fight than we had. The customers in the inn were braced against the wall as Anger killed the assassin.

“Let’s go around back, this is where I was ambushed at” I said as I walked around the bar, through the kitchen and out the door. The girl was being firmly held by Torment, who looked to be the only one remaining of his group.

“The fight was tough but we caught her, is this one of your attackers?” Torment said as he pushed the girl towards me.

“Yeah that’s one of them” I said as I loomed over the girl, basking in her fear. “Tell your friends I am coming” I told he as I leaned down and looked into her eyes.

“T-T-They are expecting you, they wanted me to tell you it was just all a misunderstanding” the woman stammered.

“There was no misunderstanding” I replied as I turned to Torment. “Let’s go, by now their members have respawned back in their stronghold and let them know what they will be facing. Maybe they will hand over our comrades now that they know we mean business”.

“The Soldiers are good people, they don’t mean you any harm” the blonde stammered as she tugged my coat. With a swipe of my arm I sent her sprawling on her ass in the alley.

“We need to go, the guards will be around soon if they are not on their way already” I said as I became conscious that the guards were always at a higher level than those they fought and that PATRICK was programmed to make an infinite number of them.

“I was supposed to tell you if you came back to wait here for OEF2010” the blonde said as her voice became annoying.

“Do you want me to kill her?” Rage said reading my mind.

“Tell OEF2010 that I am on my way to him” I said trying to sound like an action star. “And also tell him there won’t be any talking when we meet”.

Rage looked disappointed as I did not give him permission as we left the small alley just as the city guards started pouring into the front of the building. We took off at a run and got out of the city before the guards could get us and crept towards Castle Greyskull, home of the Soldiers of Light. It took about two hours to get near it, the Silencers in our group went into stealth mode and started creeping out to surround the area. It was expected that they would have traps and sentries posted, the silencers main goal was to make our force look bigger than what it was and attack from all angles. They would do hardly any damage, the Soldiers decided to keep the same type of shield Jokesonyou had when he owned the stronghold. Whenever they struck though they would cause the castle guards and players to seek them out, during this time my job was to start working on the shield.

“Fool, stop” a loud voice rang out that I recognized, it was Ferocity. “They are not our enemy”.

“It could be a trick” Torment said as he peered at the castle and could see Ferocity looking out one of the castle towers. “I will go close, if I die avenge me”.

I watched as Torment showed himself, the drawbridge opened up and I could see Leeroy Jenkins along with ScreamingEagle2013 and OEF2010. Torment went to the edge of the barrier and stopped. I crept a little closer and could see Leeroy was eating as usual, it looked like he had a turkey or a chicken leg in his mouth.

“Let my people go and we will leave, or you can have the entire Horde at your door” Torment said as I could see he was tense.

“They are not prisoners” OEF2010 said in what I thought was a jovial voice. “We had a misunderstanding”.

“Then bring them all here and let them walk over to me” Torment said as he twirled his swords in his hands.

“Listen orc” ScreamingEagle2013 began. “We are letting your people go to you but don’t threaten us, our guild will crush yours, especially since I know Jokesonyou just kicked you off of your own homeland”.

“Well then I guess we will see about that” I spoke up walking out of the shadows. “Call everyone back Torment, we need to take this place in force”.

“Well just wait a minute” ScreamingEagle2013 yelled. “We have your reward for helping us, we just didn’t know who you were, you look a little different”.

“Keep the reward” I growled as I clicked on Leeroy, summoning him. I could see Leeroy take off towards me which surprised the two at his sudden movement but they quickly righted themselves.

“I don’t want any bad blood between us” OEF2010 said as I saw Ferocity and Bianca join them.

“There is already bad blood, you caused it when you attacked instead of giving me what you owe” I said as I could tell Torment was in chat with Ferocity now that she wasn’t deep inside the castle anymore.

“Stand down Fool” Torment said as I could see his body relax.

“Are you insane?” I wondered and gestured at our location.

“The Horde has no problem with them” Torment explained. “They thought you were with Jokesonyou or any other number of other enemy guilds since you no longer carry our brand on you. They have been attacked relentlessly since they got this place back and was only trying to take out an enemy before it attacked. They gave Ferocity your reward plus a little extra for your trouble”.

“Tell her to give it back I want nothing from them!” I screamed as a pop up box appeared in my vision.

After reading it everything made sense. I was wondering why I couldn’t drop the subject and accept everything was a mistake but now I knew, I just wasn’t built that way. Perhaps Brutale took more away from me than my outward appearance.

“Are you crazy?” Torment said as he faced me. “There is over 600 gold and after you put that shield up the cost for that is 250 gold a day, you will be bankrupt trying to keep that going and we will be easy pickings after that. Not only that but the Soldiers are basically giving us an I.O.U. saying they will help out in any way they can onetime only if we are ever attacked again”.

“I said drop the reward” I bellowed in a voice as dark and deadly as possible as my new ability, Demon’s wrath activated itself. I grew bigger and wings sprouted out from back. I could also feel horns growing as my mouth became hot filled with what I at first thought was saliva but what turned out to be lava which dripped out the corner and started to cause miniscule fires whenever they hit the wet earth beneath me. I could see Torment jump back as Ferocity dropped the loot she was given and started walking towards me. I booted the other orcs out of group and instead sent her and Bianca a friend request, seconds later me, the two females and Leeroy were standing in my throne room, the place where Brutale fought his boss fights at. I looked around and could tell I was back to normal.