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Adventure, Gold and Trouble (Ezralora and GuardianAngel)

Calaena looked over for a moment in time, just looking towards the woman that rose to her feet, before she was inclining her head in greeting as well. "Ah hello." she spoke in a soft voice, and was just waving a bit, and pushing her cloak back but keeping it up over her head at that point in time. Man how she felt out of place at that point in time. Everybody here were adventurers while she.... she was just a noble wanting to be an adventurer.
 
The dwarf hiccuped and stared into his mug. "Perhaps she'd like to join in our little- hic card game." He turned around on the bench, and there did seem to be a large pile of cards in the middle of their table. The woman nodded at the dwarf as he spoke and gestured for the new comer to sit and join them. "Excellent idea Durnoven." She exclaimed and patted the side bench.
 
Calaena just looked towards the obviously intoxicated dwarf before she was just giving a small nod at the invite to play a card game with them. So she was drifting over so that she could sit next to the woman on the bench. After a little bit she was pushing her hood down, not really wanting to keep it up anymore at that point in time. "What are we playing?" she questioned after a moment in time.
 
"Well it's quite simple." She said and picked up a card before twirling it between her fingers as she looked over the crowd. She didn't show any surprise at the elven appearance, whether it was the booze or just veteran adventurers it was hard to say. "It's just old maid, you get pairs you toss them, you have the queen you got to try and pass it on." She said and began to divvy out the cards to everyone until the deck was gone. The others were in the midst of getting rid of pairs of cards, and placing them on the table face down.
 
Calaena was just listening to what the woman was saying before she was giving a slow nod of her head. Had she ever played this strange game? Only one other time and that was in a different Tavern a number of days ago while she had been traveling. Otherwise she didn't typically partake in card games, or really mingling with other adventurers whatsoever.
 
"So what brings you here?" One of the adventurers would ask as the cards were neatly dealt out to everyone until the deck was fully gone. After that they began to take out pairs and laid them down in the middle, until they were holding around five to eight cards each. She glanced down at her own hand and began to sort out the cards slowly and gave a nod. "If you have any questions just ask."
 
Calaena looked towards the adventurer for a moment before she spoke, "Other than just to explore the world, I'm not sure. Nothing in particular. Or if you are meaning this partial spot, at this particular time, then no reason. Exploring the town, couldn't sleep." With that she was discarding the pairs that were in her hand as well, just as everybody else was doing.
 
The adventurer nodded at her and took in a deep breath as the game began. "Well i suppose sleepless nights are going to be a problem, adventurers sometimes see a bunch of things that would leave most people with nightmares." They began to take cards from each other's hands in a circle and holding out the fans of the cards. It was a simple game and wasn't too hard to pick up or learn. "You got a job yet?"
 
Calaena gave a small shake of her head before she spoke, "At this point in time the sleeplessness is more just due to being in a new place. So much to see and explore at this point in time." When she was asked if she had gotten a job yet she was shaking her head and mentioning that there had been a few of the smaller jobs that were something she would possibly do.
 
"Well best find a group as quickly as possible, otherwise you're going to be in danger with no one to watch your back." Another said quickly. Yet came to a stop as a loud bell was rung in the town and the members at the table shot up out of their seats at the sound of the bell and grabbed their weapons, seemingly the sound of that bell sobering them up quickly. "Monster attack." They all said quickly and began to rush out of the area, heading nearer the edge of the town where other people were moving to as well.
 
Calaena was giving a small nod although her attention was going towards the loud bell, just watching as everybody seemed to jump up and was grabbing at their weapons. There was a monster attack it seemed, which had her wondering how often that happened. Good thing she could call her bow to her hand magically if needed, and in the end she was getting up and following after them, more wanting to see what was going on.
 
There was a large perimeter set up around the town, it may be apparent that this is not the first time that something like this had happened. Calaena would be able to recall that wandering bands of orgres, goblins and trolls were not uncommon on trade routes. As not every traveling caravan group was not very well protected and could be picked off. So either this was one of those attacks by a rather large group of them and brave. Or it was something much worse.

There would be silence as the adventurers waited to see what would be coming for them. A whistle came from the other side of town, just as several lizardmen came out of the forest, crude looking weapons and tools in their hands as they charged forward screaming out in guttural calls. Brandishing their weapons they engaged, ten, twenty maybe over thirty of them coming to attack the town.

Fey would be amongst the groups working, keeping her place near the back as she stared at the various amounts of the lizardmen, her eyes widening in a slight bit of fear as she had never engaged in such a group of enemies before. It was something that shouldn't have travelled this far alone.

One of the lizardmen turned and saw Calaena and charged forward, a club in its hands as it charged towards her, snarling and spitting as the frills along the back of its neck flared up as it hissed. If it got close it would bring its club around and attempt to smack it into her ribs to either wind her or knock her to the ground.
 
Calaena was a bit mystified at everything that was going on, although from how everybody reacted this wasn't the first time. Those that didn't know how to defend themselves were hiding away within their homes, closing the windows and locking the doors. She was turning her attention towards the monsters that were taking to charging at the adventurers and the town that they attacking.

The young elf was giving a small scoff before looking towards the lizardmen that had actually taking to charging at her, and was swinging its club at her. This had her ducking away from it and dancing out of range before she was withdrawing her dagger that she kept on her just in case she had to deal with close range. Good thing her father had allowed her to learn how to defend herself, although her speciality was most definitely archery, so she was a bit on the losing side when it came to hand to hand.
 
Due to the momentum of the blow, the lizardman had to follow through as the club continued on its path and caused it veer off to the side. With a snarl and caw it turned around and its slitted eyes glanced from the dagger to the elf. It certainly seemed to it that she was getting ready to strike back. Like a predator it leapt forward and attempted to use its body weight to pin her to the ground before its head went to snap forward and latch itself onto her shoulder. Using those razor sharp teeth for them to sink in good and tight. If she didn't manage to get the lizardman off her provided it got this far, it would continue to bite down onto her shoulder, other Adventurers too busy and caught up in their own assaults that were happening around them.
 
Unfortunately for Calaena the lizardman did manage to knock her down onto the ground, and the teeth were sinking into her shoulder. Although she hit back the scream of pain, nope that she managed to keep to herself, only giving a hiss in exchange. Thankfully she was able to get the hand that was holding the dagger free though and was actually bringing the dagger up, managing to strike the damn thing in the throat. Well not exactly where she was aiming, but it was good enough. "Fuck off." the silver haired elf spoke and was pushing the dagger into the neck even more, not even phased by the blood at that point in time.
 
The dagger found it's way through his scales and sunk into the muscle of his neck. The lizardman widened his eyes, and his jaw sprang open as it rocked back off her. Blood seeping out his neck at this point from the dagger as it slowly died from being unable to breath. Collapsing to the ground in a mound of scales and useless bones.

Another one saw this and snarled and began to head over with an ally of its, a much more muscular one wielding a rather nasty looking battle axe, and having armour made of different parts of plates, leather, and chainmail. The smaller one began to dart forward before it was blast in the chest by a fireball that was hurled at it from Fey whom, seeing the issue with some of them getting closer was watching the backs of a few other adventurers as she had a red sash tied around her hand. Where several white hot orbs shot into the air and curved down like mortar shells towards a few of the attacking lizardmen.

The mortar like attack was avoided by the larger lizardman whom, took in a deep breath as phlegm gathered in its mouth and it sent a glowing green spit to the elf. She could probably guess that the spit would be anything but good if it hit or splashed onto her. If she had any knowledge of lizardmen, she could guess that from his scales it would be venomous, and poison her.
 
Calaena shuddered a bit before she was kicking the dead thing off of her and managing to sit up, and was just putting a hand to her shoulder. Fucking hell that hurt although she was looking as a smaller one seemed to dart forward, only to get smoked with a fireball from nowhere. This had her looking around for a brief moment in time to see that it had come from where ever Fey was at. Well she was taking the time to rip off part of her cloak and was tying it around her shoulder as a makeshift bandage. It was something at that point in time, and she was back on her feet once again.

The elf looked towards the lizardman that was spitting something at her and she was moving away from it. Alright time to get to a higher vantage point, which is what had her running off, and climbing up onto the top of a rooftop, gracefully and cat-like. Once up there she was allowing her bow to form in hand, and aiming an arrow at the lizardman that had attempted to poison her. "Tch. Now that isn't very nice to do." was all the elven maiden could say before she was letting two different arrows fly. One of which was aimed for the heart of the damn thing, and the other aimed for the throat.
 
Fey stayed down on the ground as she looked over the town that was slowly being swarmed by these lizardmen. The attack seemed to have a minor bit of coordination about it, as they scarpered and attacked. Fey snapped her head back as she saw the elf beginning to head away from the fighting and climbed up the building with such ease and grace. Seeing this she whispered a spell into her hand as she scooped up a pile of dirt and threw it into the air. Thunder rumbled across the skies for a moment before rain began to fall, heavy rain that plastered the hair to the scalp and made the ground slick with mud.

The lizardman was charging towards her, but slowly his feet began to sink in the muck under his own weight with a schlop sound as he tried to pluck his feet from the ground. It wasn't the best sight. One of the arrows struck his chest, but his hide appeared to offer him some protection and the other skimmed and scattered across his neck. He was standing and gave out a snarl as a smaller lizardman crawled towards him moving with ease. The larger one plucked the mean looking bow from his grasp and pulled back a javelin like arrow before his muscles locked and he released. The javelin hurled towards the elf, aiming for her torso.
 
Calaena just watched the larger lizardman before she was drawing back her arrow so that she could send another one flying at him. Was she overly worried about the javelin that was thrown at her? Not she was easily side stepping to avoid that and was shooting another arrow at the creature. Damn these stupid things. Monsters were the worst. And this was the ultimate reason why her father had insisted that she learn how to use a bow, and defend herself. Not because of other people, but because of the monsters that just attacked whenever they felt like it. Such as now.
 
The second arrow struck true, as it sunk into the muscle of his arm cleanly, the arrow head breaking through the scales of his arm. It let out a gutteral snarl before narrowing its eyes and took another arrow and drew it back. This time aiming for her feet so the arrow would weaken the area she was standing on. Though all the lizardmen stopped as a powerful roar moved over the town and caused everyone to come to a stop for a moment. They all tried to see where the roar had come from.
 
Calaena didn't seem to react at all to the arrow that the lizardman seemed to be drawing back. Nope she had more than enough room to retreat should it come to that, although everything stopped at the powerful roar that seemed to come out of nowhere. This had everybody pausing in what they were doing and looking around to see what it had come from. The elven maiden was moving across rooftops swiftly and getting up to a higher vantage point, see if she could spot anything.
 
As she rose higher she would be able to see that the stars and moon were out, shining down upon the town. That was until a large shadow blocked out a portion of them, for a moment and zipping over the night sky. She would be able to hear the large beating of wings on the air, and a breeze picked up causing trees and other plant life to ripple and sway under the strain. A low rumble rolled over the ground before fire spewed out from a spot in the sky and streaked down across the town, incinerating a portion of it, and briefly illuminating a medium sized red dragon before ti disappeared back into the sky with a roar. This left some of the adventurers stunned at the events that had just taken place, a dragon appearing anywhere was never a good omen. The lizardmen yelled out and began their onslaught again, snapping the fighting adventures and guards back into the fight.
 
A dragon.... now that was something that one rarely saw. Honestly she was a bit shocked to see one at that point in time, but not all at once. She was use to dragon.... only because her twin brother had a dragon. He had founded a dragon egg and hatched it, and raised the dragon since that period in time. Now he was one of those few people around the lands that had tamed a dragon, and he was considered a dragon rider. "Why are you attacking...." Calaena couldn't help but wonder, just standing on top of the building that she had climbed up onto. The temple, and she was using the cross at the very top to keep her balance at that point in time.
 
The dragon seemingly had disappeared back into the night, even with elven sight it couldn't be made out apart from when it blotted out stars for a brief second. Dragons were dangerous, it was widely know and from the brief illumination of the flames this was a red dragon, which were one of the greediest and power hungry kinds on the face of the planet. With a strong gust the dragon landed, and crushed a building as it stared down at all the people around it before rearing its head back, and sending a dance of flames down the streets. The flames rose high and petals of it separated and disappeared into the nights sky, the heat was intense and the searing stench of acrid smoke was beginning to take over the area. The red dragon was strong, the size of a house and by no means fully grown.

The lizardmen, not minding the smoke pushed forward their scales offering minor protection to the heat as they barged forward. Battering away adventurers, taking spoils from those that had been killed and pursuing townsmen.
 
A red dragon. One of the greediest and most power hungry off all of the dragons. Yet for some reason Calaena was a bit surprised to see it around here, and attacking the town. They weren't by any means docile creatures, but at the same time she hadn't really heard of them just attacking for the sake of attacking. They were intelligent creatures, that was for sure. That much she had come to learn being around her twin's dragon. Her attention turned away from the dragon towards the streets where the lizardmen had taken to attacking adventurers, taking spoils and were now after the townsmen.

Calaena was moving farther up the rooftop so that she could find anchor herself and was tearing off the bottom part of her cloak, taking to re-wrapping her shoulder. Fucking asshole. At least it was poisoned or anything, just hurt like a bitch. Once that was done she was drawing back her bowstring as an arrow seemed to form and was letting it go, striking a lizardman in the forehead before it could grab ahold of the townsperson that it was after. "Damn creatures." she mumbled before she was letting a few other arrows fly, aiming for the lizardmen that were closer than they needed to be to the townspeople or a downed adventurer.
 
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