Chapter 1: drugs and nudity
"Tell me again, why are we in Vvardenfell?" "They kicked us out of Mournhold" "Good riddance, they really need to get a sense of humor" "You were streaking through the temple gardens!" "I already explained that to you and the ordinators" "Did you really think 'showing Almalexia your sexy body' was a good reason?" "Yes!" "You two stop arguing and be glad were still alive" "Were alive because I cast invisibility on us" "We didn't need it" "How else would we get away from the angry mob chasing after you!" "Were where almost to the gates" "Which were sealed and I had to levitate us over!" Amulius had heard his two friends argue countless times before and had learned to tune it out. Hopefully they would stop bickering before they reached Balmora. Looking back to his friends he saw a Breton chocking a Bosmer while a shock spell coursed down his arm adding extra injury to the struggling elf. "Ed, let him go" The angry Breton released his injured friend "Yah, Edward let me go" "Don't make me use fire Jadix" It was going to be a long walk.
"Why did that smuggler have to drop us out in the middle of nowhere?" "Well atleast we didn't have to pay" "Yah but we gotta deliver this skooma and I know were gonna get caught" "You were pole dancing outside the temple and your worried about getting caught with skooma?" "Yah I'm worried that Amulius buddies over there are gonna throw us in jail" The imperial mentioned looked up to see a legionary patrol coming from fort moonmoth "Just are luck, put some kind of chameleon on that skooma Ed" "Alright but if they search us and find an invisible bottle they'll be suspicious" "They wont search us just keep walking" True to the groups luck the patrol did stop them and were digging through Ed's bag when they found a curious transparent vial "Well these smugglers are getting clever, come see this Gaius!" "Hey you can see the skooma inside" Amulius and Jadix gave their mage friend an angry glare as he whispered back an apology. As they were stripped of weapons and armor the legionaries had a good laugh with 'the magic, magic dust'
Amulius had finally gotten some peace and quiet, in jail. For the past few hours he had been thinking about recent events. The group had been marched to the fort with Jadix swearing and Ed apologizing the entire trip. Speaking of Ed he was in the cell across from him. "Honestly Ed how could you make such a dumb mistake" "I've never enchanted a bottle before! How could I know it didn't affect the contents?" Deciding to change the subject Amulius looked through the bars at the guard "Hey guard! How long are we in for?" "Every time you talk to me it's a week added to your time here" "Bastard" "That's two weeks" Since that conversation wasn't going any were he decided to question Jadix in the cell next to him "Hey Jadix you awake?" "I am now thanks to your blabbering" "What do you think they'll do to us?" "Other then lock us in a cell? Hopefully they'll teach Ed how to cast a spell" "Shutup!" "Three weeks!" Well with his friends silenced he decided to get some sleep.
The dream, he had gotten the dream a lot recently. It was always the same, a dark cavern lit by torches hanging from the walls. At the end of the cavern stood several people dressed in strange armor that glowed with an eerie light. Looking down he saw that he was also wearing this armor and when he looked up their was a nothing but a red light at the end of the cavern. That's when he woke up. Bolting out of bed he was glad everyone else was asleep, he didn't want his friends to see him sitting up in bed terrified and covered in cold sweat. He hoped this horrible dream was just a dream. He had a feeling it wasn't. Amulius lay down and went to sleep; maybe he would only have it once tonight.
"I'm gonna get demoted for this I'm sure of it" "Don't worry sir, you couldn't have known" "That doesn't matter! All the higher-ups will see is that I jailed an imperial official!" "How do we know this is Caius? The prisoner said his name was Amulius" "It's an alias you mindless twit! No one would suspect a lowly mercenary to be an imperial spy" "Well we didn't" "And that's the problem!" Crasius and Marcus had been doing this since they got a message hours ago that an imperial spy would be in the area and not to arrest him for the skooma he carried as part of his disguise. Had this come a day earlier they wouldn't have this problem. "Well we better release him"
Amulius looked up to see the commander that had tossed him in jail unlock his cell "Were deeply sorry Mr. Cosades, We were not informed of your mission. It won't happen again." Not knowing what they were talking about Amulius decided to play along, this was his only shot at escaping "It had better not. Now release my friends and get my things" "But the message only mentioned you" "The emperor isn't going to hand out a list of all his men you n,wah! Now release them or the emperor will hear about this!" "Yes, sir" Ed and Jadix were also released and given back their equipment, including the skooma. They were given another apology and directions to Balmora, halfway there Ed asked a question "So who is Mr. Cosades?" "How the hell should I know" "Alright" "Who are we delivering this skooma to anyway?" "I don't know, it's written on the bottle, let me take this enchantment off for a second" Abit of mumbling from Ed and the bottle reappeared "Lets see, it says 'deliver to Caius Cosades, North-East Balmora'" "Your joking right?" "No he's not joking you addict" "Don't make me sic Ed on you Jadix"
...
Well that's chapter one, review. NOW.