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Bethesda Studios
Xcaliber184- Arren
Roseria Slyvester- Alyce Lachance
Summoner of Chaos- Character Introduced Later
TwistedParanoia- Character Introduced Later.
"I'm going out."
Arren said, the newest member of the Family was currently asleep far off in some unknown corner of the Sanctuary. "Where?" Alyce replied, she was concerned about Arren's bold nature, he never really had much concern for his own well being. Unlike her who had concern over practically all living beings "I'm going to clear out Talking Stone, a Giant camp."
Alyce nearly flew back in shock, why the hell was he doing this? "Brother, that's almost as mad as Cicero why the hell would you do such a thing?" Arren shook his head, and sighed "There are reports of the Giants coming into the Holds and stealing sheep and cattle, I figured that killing them would solve this problem." Alyce nearly screamed "B-but you know what happens to people who hunt Giants! They...they." Arren cut her off "I know, they are the first men to fly..." Arren sighed, ever since he was but a young lad he imagined what soaring threw the air like a hawk or a Dragon would be like without a care in the world, just forever free to soar through the air.
Arren grabbed his sword, bow, quiver, arrows and a ton of healing potions, pulled up his hood and walked out the door, but not before waving a quick goodbye to Alyce. The walk to Talking Stone was long, about three days but it was worth it. As he approached the camp from the rear entrance he saw two Giants, one in the camp and one out in the fields with two Mammoths.
He decided to take the one in the camp first, seeing as it would be easier. He crouched down and snuck a bit more towards the Giant, the stupid creature wouldn't know until it was too late, he readied his bow and fired. It hit the Giant Square in the leg, the Giant growled in pain as he turned around, Arren was right there. Arren took off running into the brush where the Giant couldn't find him, he kept shooting until the Giant swung his club at the brush forcing Arren to run out of his hiding place. In order to prevent getting launched to the two moons of Nirn , Arren drank one of his healing potions and readied his sword, the Giant swung at him and Arren slashed back.
The two went on for some period of time until Arren gave down and knelt, secretly drinking his best healing potion. The Giant brought his club down on Arren, or so he thought as Arren rolled before any damage could actually be done. He slashed the Giants legs until it collapsed and knelt as he did, Arren then brought the blade down on the Giant's neck, killing him. The Giant lay lifeless as Arren rifled the various satchels he had around his waist, the treasure he collected included a Horse Hide, the Giants toe, 332 gold and a Wolf Pelt. He saved them all before moving deeper into the camp, ready to take on the rest of them. Arren decided to read one of his old spell tomes, Fire Rune, for this exact occasion. He placed various rune traps across the fields where he planned the Giant and Mammoths would step, he readied an arrow and shot one Mammoth from the direction opposite of the rune. The Mammoths and Giant charged after him, each effectively stepping on their own rune. The smell of singed fur and burning skin plagued the airs of White run, but it was no matter. Arren kept placing runes as he ran, constantly keeping the Giants attention on him as he kept firing arrows at them.
One Mammoth fell on the ground and the others were getting fairly close to his condition, dead. The other Giant fell to an arrow the the face, and the other Mammoth knelt down on two knees, silently begging for life with its eyes. Arren approached the mammoth and slew it quickly and efficiently with an arrow to the head. Arren looted the treasures carried by the Giants and walked back to inspect the camp, when he got there it didn't have much other then a few pouches of Mammoth cheese and a crackling fire which he sat down by to warm himself for a few minutes. After walking around aimlessly for a few minutes he saw a chest, with apparently an Apprentice lock.
After a few minutes and many a broken lockpicks the chest was open, there was a few pelts of various assorted animals and what a surprise, 300 gold. He took it and checked if he could find any various arrows, he took what he could and walked back to the Sanctuary, hoping Alyce and Thor were alright.
Arren walked back into the sanctuary to be greeted by a hug from Thor. "Brother!" Thor shouted "Where were you?" "Oh by Talking Stone, killing a few Giants.." Arren said as he smiled, Thor looked up. Reminiscing about all the times he fought them, and nearly got sent into the air. "Good prey..." Thor muttered, it was true due to their size the Giants had a lot of blood stored within their veins. Alyce walked through the halls of the Sanctuary until she saw the two talking. "ARREN!" She cried happily, rushing over and wrapping the two in her arms creating a group hug. Thor sighed and returned the hug, Arren remaining a bit more stoic then the highly emotional vampire next to him but smiled nonetheless. Alyce let go of them after several minutes and started speaking to Arren, turning from Thor.
"So how did it go?" Alyce asked, tilting her head with childlike curiosity. "Well...It was actually fairly hard." Arren replied, scratching his chin as he tried to recall his strategy. "What I did was I placed several fire runes around the area and shot them a few times with my bow. Those bastards just ran after me like a dog runs after a slab of beef!" Arren said with a slight whoop. Alyce let out a slight chuckle "Did it work?" she asked, Arren nodded. "Oh yes it worked! They just ran into the runes like it was nothing." Arren laughed as Alyce yawned. "It's late, and I'm going to get some sleep. Good night." Alyce said, giving hugs to Thor and Arren as she went off to bed, Arren did the same. After a few hours Thor followed suit, in his mind a horrible nightmare began to form...