The horses are uncontroolable. You cannot bring sense to them- something has sent them mad with panic.
The fires in the camp are overwhelmed by the rain, and go out. Another flash of lightning, and the thre armoured figures can be seen again, descending the Downs towards you.
Aiwendil, you are yanked out of any vestige of your meditative state, feeling sick and nauseous and overwhelmed. Something is VERY wrong...
(sorry everyone for my gap here!🙁.I hope it won't happen again.thx ush for filling me in Bree)
Palanfirith wasn't sleeping just thinking about the bird and it's effect on Aiwendil.When I hear the sound I get out.As I see Anglomir pulling out his sword,I put my gear on me and head for him(and while running I'm saying in elvish "everyone get up,danger is upon us",not to scare the soldiers away).
(as I'm an elf I was wondering if some words from me could calm down the horses?if I can do that in any way,I'll do it...horses are very important!)
Aniica calls for her horse. She see Kewan rear up. Anii walks over to the startled horse. She grabs Kewan's thether and strokes the horse's ears. She whispers elvish into the horses ears and Kewan slowly calms down. Finally, She takes Kewan away from the other freaked out horses. She keeps stroking the horse and whispering in it's ear. Aniica uses her elf vision to scan the area around her. She sees Palanfirith edging towards a horse. Anii calls to him in elvish. "Palanfirith, what do you see, that I haven't seen yet?" The elf looked at her and put up a finger to stay that he'd be there in a minute. Anii nodded.
Palanfirith- the answer is a definitve no. These horses are not suffering from any normal panic and they do not respond to you.
Note- anyone who put their equipment on their horse... now does not have it. The Pack animal was unloaded when camp was pitched, however, so you can go grab stuff from there.
Anyone other than Anglomir who normally wears metal and/or heavy armour- you don't sleep in it, so you are not wearing it.
Emoeas does not respond, Argentis- and in the pitch black night and blinding rain you do not have a clue where he is.
William- you cannot see a bloody thing! All the light has gone out, the skies are overcast and everything is soaking wet!
There is a scream- a human scream.
There is another flash of lightning- and this time you seem them, William, the three armoured figures, now in the perimeter of the camp- a dead solider at their feet, his body slashed open
The boom of thunder just afterwards almost completely deafens you all.
Aniica grabbed her bow and arrows. Her eyes found the attackers and with great skill shot at one. Only it bounced off.
~I hope no one saw that~
Anii grabbed her knife and went to the slashed body. She found a knife in it. She took the knife out. She didn't reconize the markings. These orcs weren't of the normal. She Talin off a few feet away. sheathing her own knife she called to Talin. She showed him the knife.