Questioned Loyalties: Part 2
[Scene: In front of the Wyvern's Tail in Orgrimmar's Valley of Honor.]
Elennoko says: How's your face, Sizza?
Sizza says: It's a face.
Sizza says: Went over to Silvermoon this mornin'.
Sizza says: Figured they gotta have a couple skin doctors around.
Sizza says: Couldn't find no one, though.
Kwake says: Need a drink.
Sizza says: Sho then I asked about make up.
Sizza says: 'F'they had anythin' that could cover it up, y'know?
Elennoko says: Yeah?
Sizza says: Not in green, they didn't.
Sizza says: Lady told me to check out Orgrimmar.
Sizza says: An' I wash like "Orgrimmar!? You kiddin'!?"
Oriseus yells: THUNDERSHUNT.
Sizza says: Round there they got stuff to paint on scars!
Sizza says: Yo, chief.
Sizza says: Shomeone's callin' for ya.
Oriseus yells: SHOW YOUR FACE, YOU PUSILLANIMOUS MAGGOT FARM.
Kwake says: Hrmm.
Sizza says: Sounded pretty livid.
Kwake gets up and scratches his butt.
Sizza says: Need some backup?
Kwake says: Sounds like pissed off pinkies.
Kwake says: Yer, c'mon.
Sizza says: Sweet.
Sizza sniffs the air around her.
Kwake says: Hoo boy.
Sizza says: Know that guy, chief?
Oriseus says: You. Have much to answer for death knight.
Elennoko blinks.
Kwake says: You're here about your ginger friend, no doubt.
Oriseus says: Well guessed.
Kwake lights a cigar and folds his arms.
Elennoko kneels down.
Elennoko whispers to Sizza. "Did I miss something?"
Sizza says: Strung up this elf dude the other night.
Elennoko says: ...WHat!?
Sizza says: Beat him up pretty bad.
Elennoko says: Why!?
Sizza says: I 'unno. Missed that part.
Oriseus says: You have one minute to explain before we find out how well that desiccated rack of jerky you call your flesh burns.
Kwake says: Busted 'is arms and left him for the pigs.
Kwake says: You're addressing a superior officer, pinko. You better reel it in before I haul your loose asshole around by the ankles from the back of my bike.
Oriseus is ready to come up off that horse. "Fuck your hierarchy," he snarls, "he's MINE. Do you understand that? Not yours to harm or punish, MINE."
Sizza says: Waitaminute.
Kwake says: Your friend is an Alliance sympathizer. I told 'im not to come around my city. He alive?
Sizza says: Naw, naw, waitaminute.
Sizza says: Just a sec.
Oriseus says: YOUR city. YOUR CITY.
Elennoko says: ...Your city?
Sizza says: He ain't even yer friend?
Sizza says: The hell's this about, then?
Azati says: Who died and made you Garrosh, Son?
Azati says: Your city. Try again.
Oriseus snarls at Sizza. "He is MINE. My lover, my rogue, mine to punish if he steps out of line."
Kwake says: Yeah, my city. As an orc and as a member of the Horde, I ain't having traitor scum bumming around my friends and family like it's some kinda getaway spa.
Elennoko says: And you also beat him up because he thought about the Alliance?
Kwake says: Thought about!
Kwake coughs out a lungful of smoke in a dark laugh.
Oriseus says: Plague's rotted your brain. You still think like Scourge.
Kwake says: Kid said to my face that he hates the Horde and we're a bunch of savages. Says he wishes he could go back to Stormwind.
Elennoko says: ...And why was he in Orgrimmar, then?
Azati says: Blood elf, right?
Kwake says: Who knows?
Kwake says: Yer.
Oriseus says: And you proved him right. What is it you want, then? To find out how savage we can be as well?
Azati says: Kwake. For the record. How old are you?
Kwake says: Twenny six, what's it matter?
Oriseus says: A -child-.
Azati says: it matters because you don't remember Draenor.
Kwake says: Hrmp. What's yer point?
Azati says: You don't have a world to miss. All you got is this one. Any elfie old enough to shave lost their whole world. And they can't really get it back.
Azati says: Miss the way things were? That's normal, you big galoot.
Sizza nudges Noko's knee, "If yer entertainin' walkin' away, champ. Now's prolly the best time."
Azati says: Hating the Horde, I can see that going hard. But did you think beating him up was gonna make him love it?
Kwake says: We're at war, goddammit. I ain't having spies an' yellow bellies in my neighborhood and certainly not in my ranks!
Elennoko shakesh is head. "If anything gets out of hand I'll need to be here."
Oriseus says: He's no FUCKING SPY.
Oriseus says: And more than you're one for Arthas.
Azati says: So if you don't want him in your ranks, kick him out
Kwake says: I ain't paying lip blowjobs to Arthas, I busted my way out of there by force.
Elennoko says: Kwake! There's a difference between being a spy and caring about the other faction. If you think caring about the other faction is being a spy, then you might as well call me one, too!
Azati says: You have to have loyalty with your people, or at least allegiance.
Oriseus sneers. "Yes, it shows in how well you can think for yourself, little ghoul."
Kwake says: Oh, suck fel.
Oriseus says: Oh I've done that.
Kwake says: Clearly.
Oriseus says: Have a taste.
Azati says: You could call Thrall one too. He cares about the world, and fuck this alliance horde thing--whoa there.
Kwake busts his anti-magic shield!
Oriseus flicks a gesture at Kwake, sending a spike of sickly-green flame at him.
Oriseus ...which bounces off.
Oriseus cackles maniacally at Kwake.
Kwake is off like a three hundred pound rocket. He leaps forward, axe up and shoulder out.
Sizza leaps off in tow, targetting the Felhunter!
Oriseus meets him with a not-all-there grin and a gout of shadowflame. That shield won't last forever! The felhunter wheels on the goblin, silencing her, seeking mana and finding only runes. Yuck.
Elennoko reaches down to grab at SIzza first of all and chuck her back away from the warlock's puppy dog.
Sizza would protest if she weren't silenced!
Sizza is tossed away from the puppy!
Kwake barrels his way forward through the wall of fire. The shield breaks and his skin is kissed by the flames; the edge of his axe glows red as he tries to close some of the wounds and remains steadfast. He reaches a hand out as the force tries to blow him back, trying to close the distance with a death grip.
Oriseus goes hurtling one way, then the other - life's hard when you're that damned skinny! But he's ready, hissing fury and fel, crawling for the death knight's eyes to lay curses of agony through what remains of his nerves, searing pain to burn from the inside.
Oriseus says: He's MINE...you don't fuck with what's MINE!
Kwake grits his teeth and digs in, no stranger to pain. He gets a handful of elven neck, his hand turning a biting cold.
Elennoko reaches a hand up, which flashes a bright green. Wind begins circle around Oriseus, attempting to lift him slightly off the ground and knock Kwake's hand away.
Kwake says: Human shit! You wanna come here and fuck with my home!
Kwake sends fingers of ice creeping up Ori's neck, trying to break his concentration.
Elennoko is kicked in the ass! Ouch... He stumbles forward but sends a hoof down, trying to knock SIzza off her feet.
Oriseus ' breath seems to freeze in his lungs for a moment, and again he hacks up shadowflame like boiling vomit, only to be silenced once more. Choked, cycloned, he's still trying to get at the death knight's face.
Sizza is kicked in the face by Noko hoof!
Elennoko raises another hand up quickly, which as well flashes a green. Roots burst from the ground and start to wrap around Kwake, trying to restrain the orc.
Kwake tightens his grip. He bends his weight forward, trying to force Ori backwards. His lips are curled back in an animal snarl.
Oriseus says: Your home...our home BURNED because of you! Orcs and Scourge alike, and you, a CHILD, act as though you can speak to us about LOYALTY, about LOSS! I'll take your everything and leave you wishing for true death!
Azati throws up a shield of earth around the skinny elf, while placing couplee of lesser used totems.
Kwake says: Loyalty! All you care about's drugs and buttfucking!
Oriseus is as bendy as he is mouthy. :( His knees buckle - purposefully, perhaps - to overbalance them both, and starts chanting in Eredun to summon flames to burn the orc from the inside out. (Hello soul fire! :D If he were smarter he'd burn a shard.)
Sizza scrambles to higher ground, in time to see the totems go up, she then takes it upon herself to bring them down!
Azati says: bugger off, ya wee pest.
Sizza targest the Earth totem first, bringing the shorter of her two blades down upon it!
Kwake , between the earth shield and the burning that is growing in his chest, loosens his grip. He takes a step back and his skin seems to darken, his movements stiffen.
Oriseus tears at his own throat: not out of some sense of berserker's masochism but to call out and incinerate a shard of stolen soul - and follows the first spell with another like it, spat out in a heartbeat. "You know NOTHING of what we've given or what we do, demon-thrall!"
Kwake clutches at his chest, releasing a bestial groan as he stumbles forward. His axe comes swinging forward at chest level in a wide arc.
Elennoko tries to push himself back away from the axe, but still manages to get clipped by it. He looks down at where the axe hit and back to Kwake.
Oriseus catches an axe to an outstretched arm. His furious growling cuts off in a sharper yelp, and he staggers back. Not a deep cut but enough to bleed. He'll feel it when the adrenaline's worn off. "Does it hurt, death knight? Not ENOUGH!" Oh yeah, he's bleedin'.
Elennoko glares at Kwake. "That's -it-!" and his bones crack and spasm as his form shapes into that of a bear. He then charges for Kwake, aiming to knock him back into the stairs.
Kwake takes more steps forward, planting booted feet in the dirt. He is suddenly tossed aside by two tons of Noko. He roars in response, getting a handful of horn.
Oriseus ' further monologuing is cut short by HOLY SHIT BEAR.
Elennoko snarls at Kwake. He means business.
Sizza hops on Bear Noko's back, holding her swords out threateningly!
Kwake twists Noko's head so his ear faces Kwake's mouth. He takes in a deep breath.
Elennoko 's head is turned, though. :<
Kwake responds with a roar of his own; his hellish, throaty scream cuts the air, some order of magnitude louder than his usual yelling.
Sizza struggles to keep steady on Noko back, "Hey! Stupid!"
Sizza says: Pick a side, damnit!
Oriseus scrabbles back and spits out another Word meant to palsy the limbs; the battleshout cuts him off near the end, leaving the spell half-woven, half-strength.
Elennoko shake shake shake. SHake shake shakes. Trying to knock SIzza off when HOLY HELL ROAR. He begins to swing a large paw down, trying to break one of Kwake's arms.
Sizza is shaken off.
Kwake 's arm is already at a bad angle and the curse of weakening doesn't help; his arm is planted in the dirt with a sharp, sickening crack. He spasms upward, another deep scream rending the air.
Elennoko tries to pull himself away from Kwake and eye Oriseus.
Kwake yells: Healing! Healing, goddammit!
Sizza gathers herself up to her feet, and thorws Ori a look, thrusting a cold hand in his general direction. The target is Ori's brain. It's a Mind Freeze, and it should be unpleasant.
Oriseus laughs: breathless, mirthless. "You m-may lead the Club, Thundershunt, b-but Kae issKKRGK." His head snaps to the side because hoooooly snot who got the license plates off that ice truck?!
Azati says: Are you ready to stop acting like a mindless hoodlum?
Kwake groans and rolls over, clutching his busted arm. His eyes wince as he bellows a response.
Kwake says: Fuck you, boyloving garbage!
Sizza sheathes her weapons and pounces on Ori like a rabid gangsterbitch!
Azati says: I'll take that as a no. Carry on!
Kwake isn't moving though.
Azati says: hey, hey. did you see a take a number thing? no? well that's because there IS NO TAKE A NUMBER THING. SIDDOWN, SHORTY!
Elennoko stands back up, his body twitches and he rubs his ear where Kwake yelled it. Hes probably going to go deaf in that ear, thanks Kwake!
Oriseus snaps a hand up at Sizza's face as she bowls him over; the palm fills with green flame, so apt for a green pest!
Elennoko then begins to twitch again, and takes on the form of a cat. He leaps through the air behind Oriseus and pounces at him from behind!
Oriseus says: Y-you can both die again in flames, Scourge parasites! Aigh-
Sizza is burneded on the face! She staggesr backward into the mass of noko! Or at least she would have if Noko hadn't pounced!
Azati makes a shoo-ing motion with her hans, sending a sharp, powerful blast of wind at Sizza. "not your fight, sparky."
Sizza staggesr backward onto the Kwake!
Kwake smacks her across the head for landing on his forearm.
Sizza is blown by wind and smacked across the head. Which way does that mean she flies?
Oriseus flails like an electrified trout. This one, at least, doesn't catch a faceful of ful flame. Yet. But he's about half past gone.
Elennoko pushes Oriseus down, trying to get his face right into the dirt so he can't mutter any of that foul language.
Oriseus figures his felhound has been running around biting people all this time, and getting kicked and such.
Sizza pulls herself to her feet rubbing her face.
Sizza looks down at the chief, a hand still covering the burneded side of her face, "Gotta smoke?"
Kwake says: Fuck you!
Kwake says: Get me a healer!
Azati says: Are you done?
Sizza says: Just a sec.
Kwake says: My fucking arm's broken!
Oriseus also figures this area is going to be crawling with Kor'kron soon and won't THAT be funny.
Azati says: Are. You. Done.
Sizza frisks Kwake, in search of cigars.
Elennoko shifts back into a tauren once again, but keeping a hoof down on Oriseus. "Now. ARE YOU FINISHED!?"
Kwake just clutches his elbow and howls.
Oriseus flounders under the druid. He goes facedown in the dirt, inhales, SPUTTERS, and has a hacking fit. See NOW he's trying to set Noko on fire but can't due to...not being able to see or breathe.
Kwake is being a bit of a bitch.
Azati says: I will put your ass in the dirt if you act like a damn fool, just for the record.
Sizza wonders if she found a cigar.
Elennoko says: I'm a druid of the Cenarion Circle. I have fought demons before, I know their magic! So don't you even TRY to use that shit on me!
Azati nods to the priest. "hit it."
Azati says: We're using holy magic today because you acted like a damn fool.
Sizza backs the fuck away from the heals!
Azati says: adult death knights get healed with painless nature magic.
Kwake rends the air with another howl as the holy healing sears him internally, but he slowly calms down; this is a pain he's used to, at least.
Azati says: stupid children get beat with my slipper. THAT MEANS YOU TOO, SKINNY!
Kwake labouriously crawls to a sitting position, leaning himself against the stairs and reaching for his discarded cigar.
Oriseus is still trying ineffectively to get out from under tub-o'-fluff there. Not happening.
Kwake says: ...yes, elder.
Rakayah cracks a crooked, cruel grin.
Azati says: All right now. Think you're settled down enough to *really* talk?
Kwake mutters something like "stodgy old cunt" under his breath as he relights his smoke.
Elennoko says: Now, Oriseus. I will let you go. But do anything else and I will bash your skull in so hard you'll be speaking murloc for weeks!
Elennoko says: Understand!?
Sizza nudges Noko, "Hey."
Elennoko says: WHat!?
Azati eyes noko. "You sound like my mother."
Oriseus spits dust and makes a growly groaning noise. Okay. Fine. He's tapping out.
Elennoko removes his hoof from Oriseus and glares at Sizza. "And you!"
Sizza is still holding the burnt side of her face on. With her hand, "You, uh, wanna gimme a hand here?"
Elennoko says: Nope.
Elennoko says: Now!
Elennoko says: You are two, grown adults!
Kwake pants quietly to himself, jabbing his finger impotently towards Noko.
Oriseus gets up onto his hands and knees to finish his coughing fit. Kreekun wedges itself in between its master and...everyone else.
Kwake says: You're... you're fired.
Azati nods. You tell em, Mister.
Kwake puffs on his cigar.
Elennoko sends a swift kick to Kwake's stomach.
Kwake coughs up a bellyful of smoke. He doesn't do much else.
Elennoko says: You should both know!
Rakayah slants reddish-yellow eyes toward Azati, three-fingered hands with a Penance at the ready.
Elennoko says: Especially you! An orc!
Elennoko says: Fighting another member of the Horde, in the middle of Orgrimmar!
Elennoko says: Is not the brightest idea!
Azati nods. Hit it.
Elennoko says: The Kor'Kron could be here at any point to arrest ALL of you! Even me! For doing such a thing!
Elennoko says: And all for what?
Kwake says: Member of the Horde! Housing and buggering a known dissident!
Oriseus sneers. "Better that than torturing another m-member of the Horde, isn't it. I'll t-take a night in jail for that."
Elennoko says: Do you want your skull bashed in? I can do it. I've done it!
Sizza nudge nudges Rakayah.
Elennoko says: You do not interrupt a member of the Cenarion Circle or The Earthen RIng member whn they are attempting to keep peace in your own city!
Rakayah hum-mutters under her breath, peering down at the wee armored greenie.
Elennoko says: Argent Crusader, too!
Oriseus grins blood at the druid. "Do it," he purrs, "and y-you're no better than either of us."
Sizza says: Hey, so like, I know your brand of super healin' light pretty much sucks for us.
Sizza says: But, uh, I'd really like to save my face.
Azati says: A man who misses the world he grew up in. A man who hasn't learned the honor that underlies the life of every worthy orc. And did you teach him of honor, child? No. You told him he was right to hate. You let his opinion win.
Azati gestures at Sizza.
Rakayah grins toothily and sadistically. Then looks mildly put out at the fall of healing rains.
Elennoko reaches down to lift Oriseus up by the collar of his robes.
Kwake argues with Azati through a mouthful of cigar, nursing his healed arm.
Oriseus erks. He hardly weighs a thing. Kreekun immediately savages the hem of Noko's robe.
Kwake says: Pacifist Thrall-loving shit... if it were up to them they'd wipe us all from existence!
Azati says: Up to whom?
Sizza removes her hand from her cheek as the healing rain begins to restore the general sort of shape to her melted face.
Kwake brandishes his arm towards Ori.
Elennoko snaps the fingers on his other hand. Theh em on his robe erupts into thorns.
Elennoko says: Oriseus.
Kwake says: Those human-loving fucks!
Azati says: Did he ever lift a hand to you before today?
Oriseus ' felhound yelps and rolls about clawing at its face. Stupid dog. The warlock, meanwhile, gives Noko a fierce look threatening to crack.
Kwake says: I used to stack fucks like him six high in the war!
Azati says: Did he ever lift a hand to you before today?
Azati gives kwake a -look.-
Elennoko says: I will not harm you, unless you cause me to. However, I -will- speak with you.
Elennoko gives Oriseus the same look.
Rakayah toes around the conflict, orbs of light dancing around her padded fingertips.
Kwake sputters impotently.
Azati and noko don't even have to look at each other. They teach that look in cenarion circle school.
Oriseus ' ears pin flat against his head. All that ferocity is crumbling. "Speak, Child of C-Cenarius," he murmurs in a near-robotic tone.
Sizza lets out a long, drawn-out sigh.
Sizza says: I'm gettin' a beer.
Kwake groans.
Azati says: You do not wish to answer the question?
Kwake says: No, elder. Not HIM.
Elennoko walks off with Oriseus still held above the ground. "Don't kill him while I'm away, please."
Azati says: Why did he raise a hand to you today, child?
Elennoko directed that to Azati.
Kwake says: Because he found out what I do to traitors in my ranks.
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Azati's Talk with Kwake
Elennoko's Talk with Oriseus
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Elennoko says: As punishment for being a fool, Oriseus' wound on his arm is to not be healed by magic.
Elennoko says: It's going to mend naturally, be in pain and scar.
Azati says: Your judgement is fair.
Elennoko nods at Azati.
Elennoko says: What about Kwake?
Azati says: He has a lot to think about.
Azati says: I told him some hard truths about what his actions have wrought.
Elennoko nods at Azati.
Elennoko says: Good.
Elennoko looks around.
Elennoko says: To tell you the truth.
Elennoko says: I have wanted to do that to him a couple times.
Azati says: Well, he's going to learn from this. I don't know if what he's done can be mended.
Elennoko says: Of course not. What both he and Oriseus did was foolish and out of line and it hurt people who didn't deserve it.
Elennoko and and and and.
Rakayah says: Tah be truthful, elders, s'nah a small t'ing 'ta change tha' mind of an orc man. Vol'jin be sayin' once tha' we be strongah t'gethah, in spite 'a current circumstance.
Rakayah says: F'anyone can, I be thinkin' it be you.
Elennoko smirks a little. "I haven't been able to play the true role of a Cenarion Circle member in quite some time."
Azati says: The Shaman holds a high role of responsibility for the orcs. Because we move with the blessing of the spirits and the elements, we must in turn bring that wisdom to our community.
Elennoko nods.
Azati smiles wryly. "Generally that means telling young hotheads they're acting like fools."
Elennoko says: That's why I left you to him.
Rakayah says: If y'be needin' Penance fah young fools, y'just be givin' Rakayah a yell, yeah?
Elennoko looks down at his stomach and blinks. Yup, still bleeding. "Oh... Huh."
Elennoko smiles and nods. "Thank you, but I should probably go take care of this on my own. I just know I'm going to be waking up sore tomorrow..."
Azati says: Take the healing waters.
Elennoko bows his head. "Of course."
Rakayah says: An' tha light, mon.
Elennoko says: I should be going, in any case.
Elennoko says: Thank you for your help, as well.
Azati says: sleep is a good idea.
Rakayah says: B'well, mon.
Elennoko smiles at Rakayah.
Elennoko says: Good night, you two!
Elennoko says: How's your face, Sizza?
Sizza says: It's a face.
Sizza says: Went over to Silvermoon this mornin'.
Sizza says: Figured they gotta have a couple skin doctors around.
Sizza says: Couldn't find no one, though.
Kwake says: Need a drink.
Sizza says: Sho then I asked about make up.
Sizza says: 'F'they had anythin' that could cover it up, y'know?
Elennoko says: Yeah?
Sizza says: Not in green, they didn't.
Sizza says: Lady told me to check out Orgrimmar.
Sizza says: An' I wash like "Orgrimmar!? You kiddin'!?"
Oriseus yells: THUNDERSHUNT.
Sizza says: Round there they got stuff to paint on scars!
Sizza says: Yo, chief.
Sizza says: Shomeone's callin' for ya.
Oriseus yells: SHOW YOUR FACE, YOU PUSILLANIMOUS MAGGOT FARM.
Kwake says: Hrmm.
Sizza says: Sounded pretty livid.
Kwake gets up and scratches his butt.
Sizza says: Need some backup?
Kwake says: Sounds like pissed off pinkies.
Kwake says: Yer, c'mon.
Sizza says: Sweet.
Sizza sniffs the air around her.
Kwake says: Hoo boy.
Sizza says: Know that guy, chief?
Oriseus says: You. Have much to answer for death knight.
Elennoko blinks.
Kwake says: You're here about your ginger friend, no doubt.
Oriseus says: Well guessed.
Kwake lights a cigar and folds his arms.
Elennoko kneels down.
Elennoko whispers to Sizza. "Did I miss something?"
Sizza says: Strung up this elf dude the other night.
Elennoko says: ...WHat!?
Sizza says: Beat him up pretty bad.
Elennoko says: Why!?
Sizza says: I 'unno. Missed that part.
Oriseus says: You have one minute to explain before we find out how well that desiccated rack of jerky you call your flesh burns.
Kwake says: Busted 'is arms and left him for the pigs.
Kwake says: You're addressing a superior officer, pinko. You better reel it in before I haul your loose asshole around by the ankles from the back of my bike.
Oriseus is ready to come up off that horse. "Fuck your hierarchy," he snarls, "he's MINE. Do you understand that? Not yours to harm or punish, MINE."
Sizza says: Waitaminute.
Kwake says: Your friend is an Alliance sympathizer. I told 'im not to come around my city. He alive?
Sizza says: Naw, naw, waitaminute.
Sizza says: Just a sec.
Oriseus says: YOUR city. YOUR CITY.
Elennoko says: ...Your city?
Sizza says: He ain't even yer friend?
Sizza says: The hell's this about, then?
Azati says: Who died and made you Garrosh, Son?
Azati says: Your city. Try again.
Oriseus snarls at Sizza. "He is MINE. My lover, my rogue, mine to punish if he steps out of line."
Kwake says: Yeah, my city. As an orc and as a member of the Horde, I ain't having traitor scum bumming around my friends and family like it's some kinda getaway spa.
Elennoko says: And you also beat him up because he thought about the Alliance?
Kwake says: Thought about!
Kwake coughs out a lungful of smoke in a dark laugh.
Oriseus says: Plague's rotted your brain. You still think like Scourge.
Kwake says: Kid said to my face that he hates the Horde and we're a bunch of savages. Says he wishes he could go back to Stormwind.
Elennoko says: ...And why was he in Orgrimmar, then?
Azati says: Blood elf, right?
Kwake says: Who knows?
Kwake says: Yer.
Oriseus says: And you proved him right. What is it you want, then? To find out how savage we can be as well?
Azati says: Kwake. For the record. How old are you?
Kwake says: Twenny six, what's it matter?
Oriseus says: A -child-.
Azati says: it matters because you don't remember Draenor.
Kwake says: Hrmp. What's yer point?
Azati says: You don't have a world to miss. All you got is this one. Any elfie old enough to shave lost their whole world. And they can't really get it back.
Azati says: Miss the way things were? That's normal, you big galoot.
Sizza nudges Noko's knee, "If yer entertainin' walkin' away, champ. Now's prolly the best time."
Azati says: Hating the Horde, I can see that going hard. But did you think beating him up was gonna make him love it?
Kwake says: We're at war, goddammit. I ain't having spies an' yellow bellies in my neighborhood and certainly not in my ranks!
Elennoko shakesh is head. "If anything gets out of hand I'll need to be here."
Oriseus says: He's no FUCKING SPY.
Oriseus says: And more than you're one for Arthas.
Azati says: So if you don't want him in your ranks, kick him out
Kwake says: I ain't paying lip blowjobs to Arthas, I busted my way out of there by force.
Elennoko says: Kwake! There's a difference between being a spy and caring about the other faction. If you think caring about the other faction is being a spy, then you might as well call me one, too!
Azati says: You have to have loyalty with your people, or at least allegiance.
Oriseus sneers. "Yes, it shows in how well you can think for yourself, little ghoul."
Kwake says: Oh, suck fel.
Oriseus says: Oh I've done that.
Kwake says: Clearly.
Oriseus says: Have a taste.
Azati says: You could call Thrall one too. He cares about the world, and fuck this alliance horde thing--whoa there.
Kwake busts his anti-magic shield!
Oriseus flicks a gesture at Kwake, sending a spike of sickly-green flame at him.
Oriseus ...which bounces off.
Oriseus cackles maniacally at Kwake.
Kwake is off like a three hundred pound rocket. He leaps forward, axe up and shoulder out.
Sizza leaps off in tow, targetting the Felhunter!
Oriseus meets him with a not-all-there grin and a gout of shadowflame. That shield won't last forever! The felhunter wheels on the goblin, silencing her, seeking mana and finding only runes. Yuck.
Elennoko reaches down to grab at SIzza first of all and chuck her back away from the warlock's puppy dog.
Sizza would protest if she weren't silenced!
Sizza is tossed away from the puppy!
Kwake barrels his way forward through the wall of fire. The shield breaks and his skin is kissed by the flames; the edge of his axe glows red as he tries to close some of the wounds and remains steadfast. He reaches a hand out as the force tries to blow him back, trying to close the distance with a death grip.
Oriseus goes hurtling one way, then the other - life's hard when you're that damned skinny! But he's ready, hissing fury and fel, crawling for the death knight's eyes to lay curses of agony through what remains of his nerves, searing pain to burn from the inside.
Oriseus says: He's MINE...you don't fuck with what's MINE!
Kwake grits his teeth and digs in, no stranger to pain. He gets a handful of elven neck, his hand turning a biting cold.
Elennoko reaches a hand up, which flashes a bright green. Wind begins circle around Oriseus, attempting to lift him slightly off the ground and knock Kwake's hand away.
Kwake says: Human shit! You wanna come here and fuck with my home!
Kwake sends fingers of ice creeping up Ori's neck, trying to break his concentration.
Elennoko is kicked in the ass! Ouch... He stumbles forward but sends a hoof down, trying to knock SIzza off her feet.
Oriseus ' breath seems to freeze in his lungs for a moment, and again he hacks up shadowflame like boiling vomit, only to be silenced once more. Choked, cycloned, he's still trying to get at the death knight's face.
Sizza is kicked in the face by Noko hoof!
Elennoko raises another hand up quickly, which as well flashes a green. Roots burst from the ground and start to wrap around Kwake, trying to restrain the orc.
Kwake tightens his grip. He bends his weight forward, trying to force Ori backwards. His lips are curled back in an animal snarl.
Oriseus says: Your home...our home BURNED because of you! Orcs and Scourge alike, and you, a CHILD, act as though you can speak to us about LOYALTY, about LOSS! I'll take your everything and leave you wishing for true death!
Azati throws up a shield of earth around the skinny elf, while placing couplee of lesser used totems.
Kwake says: Loyalty! All you care about's drugs and buttfucking!
Oriseus is as bendy as he is mouthy. :( His knees buckle - purposefully, perhaps - to overbalance them both, and starts chanting in Eredun to summon flames to burn the orc from the inside out. (Hello soul fire! :D If he were smarter he'd burn a shard.)
Sizza scrambles to higher ground, in time to see the totems go up, she then takes it upon herself to bring them down!
Azati says: bugger off, ya wee pest.
Sizza targest the Earth totem first, bringing the shorter of her two blades down upon it!
Kwake , between the earth shield and the burning that is growing in his chest, loosens his grip. He takes a step back and his skin seems to darken, his movements stiffen.
Oriseus tears at his own throat: not out of some sense of berserker's masochism but to call out and incinerate a shard of stolen soul - and follows the first spell with another like it, spat out in a heartbeat. "You know NOTHING of what we've given or what we do, demon-thrall!"
Kwake clutches at his chest, releasing a bestial groan as he stumbles forward. His axe comes swinging forward at chest level in a wide arc.
Elennoko tries to push himself back away from the axe, but still manages to get clipped by it. He looks down at where the axe hit and back to Kwake.
Oriseus catches an axe to an outstretched arm. His furious growling cuts off in a sharper yelp, and he staggers back. Not a deep cut but enough to bleed. He'll feel it when the adrenaline's worn off. "Does it hurt, death knight? Not ENOUGH!" Oh yeah, he's bleedin'.
Elennoko glares at Kwake. "That's -it-!" and his bones crack and spasm as his form shapes into that of a bear. He then charges for Kwake, aiming to knock him back into the stairs.
Kwake takes more steps forward, planting booted feet in the dirt. He is suddenly tossed aside by two tons of Noko. He roars in response, getting a handful of horn.
Oriseus ' further monologuing is cut short by HOLY SHIT BEAR.
Elennoko snarls at Kwake. He means business.
Sizza hops on Bear Noko's back, holding her swords out threateningly!
Kwake twists Noko's head so his ear faces Kwake's mouth. He takes in a deep breath.
Elennoko 's head is turned, though. :<
Kwake responds with a roar of his own; his hellish, throaty scream cuts the air, some order of magnitude louder than his usual yelling.
Sizza struggles to keep steady on Noko back, "Hey! Stupid!"
Sizza says: Pick a side, damnit!
Oriseus scrabbles back and spits out another Word meant to palsy the limbs; the battleshout cuts him off near the end, leaving the spell half-woven, half-strength.
Elennoko shake shake shake. SHake shake shakes. Trying to knock SIzza off when HOLY HELL ROAR. He begins to swing a large paw down, trying to break one of Kwake's arms.
Sizza is shaken off.
Kwake 's arm is already at a bad angle and the curse of weakening doesn't help; his arm is planted in the dirt with a sharp, sickening crack. He spasms upward, another deep scream rending the air.
Elennoko tries to pull himself away from Kwake and eye Oriseus.
Kwake yells: Healing! Healing, goddammit!
Sizza gathers herself up to her feet, and thorws Ori a look, thrusting a cold hand in his general direction. The target is Ori's brain. It's a Mind Freeze, and it should be unpleasant.
Oriseus laughs: breathless, mirthless. "You m-may lead the Club, Thundershunt, b-but Kae issKKRGK." His head snaps to the side because hoooooly snot who got the license plates off that ice truck?!
Azati says: Are you ready to stop acting like a mindless hoodlum?
Kwake groans and rolls over, clutching his busted arm. His eyes wince as he bellows a response.
Kwake says: Fuck you, boyloving garbage!
Sizza sheathes her weapons and pounces on Ori like a rabid gangsterbitch!
Azati says: I'll take that as a no. Carry on!
Kwake isn't moving though.
Azati says: hey, hey. did you see a take a number thing? no? well that's because there IS NO TAKE A NUMBER THING. SIDDOWN, SHORTY!
Elennoko stands back up, his body twitches and he rubs his ear where Kwake yelled it. Hes probably going to go deaf in that ear, thanks Kwake!
Oriseus snaps a hand up at Sizza's face as she bowls him over; the palm fills with green flame, so apt for a green pest!
Elennoko then begins to twitch again, and takes on the form of a cat. He leaps through the air behind Oriseus and pounces at him from behind!
Oriseus says: Y-you can both die again in flames, Scourge parasites! Aigh-
Sizza is burneded on the face! She staggesr backward into the mass of noko! Or at least she would have if Noko hadn't pounced!
Azati makes a shoo-ing motion with her hans, sending a sharp, powerful blast of wind at Sizza. "not your fight, sparky."
Sizza staggesr backward onto the Kwake!
Kwake smacks her across the head for landing on his forearm.
Sizza is blown by wind and smacked across the head. Which way does that mean she flies?
Oriseus flails like an electrified trout. This one, at least, doesn't catch a faceful of ful flame. Yet. But he's about half past gone.
Elennoko pushes Oriseus down, trying to get his face right into the dirt so he can't mutter any of that foul language.
Oriseus figures his felhound has been running around biting people all this time, and getting kicked and such.
Sizza pulls herself to her feet rubbing her face.
Sizza looks down at the chief, a hand still covering the burneded side of her face, "Gotta smoke?"
Kwake says: Fuck you!
Kwake says: Get me a healer!
Azati says: Are you done?
Sizza says: Just a sec.
Kwake says: My fucking arm's broken!
Oriseus also figures this area is going to be crawling with Kor'kron soon and won't THAT be funny.
Azati says: Are. You. Done.
Sizza frisks Kwake, in search of cigars.
Elennoko shifts back into a tauren once again, but keeping a hoof down on Oriseus. "Now. ARE YOU FINISHED!?"
Kwake just clutches his elbow and howls.
Oriseus flounders under the druid. He goes facedown in the dirt, inhales, SPUTTERS, and has a hacking fit. See NOW he's trying to set Noko on fire but can't due to...not being able to see or breathe.
Kwake is being a bit of a bitch.
Azati says: I will put your ass in the dirt if you act like a damn fool, just for the record.
Sizza wonders if she found a cigar.
Elennoko says: I'm a druid of the Cenarion Circle. I have fought demons before, I know their magic! So don't you even TRY to use that shit on me!
Azati nods to the priest. "hit it."
Azati says: We're using holy magic today because you acted like a damn fool.
Sizza backs the fuck away from the heals!
Azati says: adult death knights get healed with painless nature magic.
Kwake rends the air with another howl as the holy healing sears him internally, but he slowly calms down; this is a pain he's used to, at least.
Azati says: stupid children get beat with my slipper. THAT MEANS YOU TOO, SKINNY!
Kwake labouriously crawls to a sitting position, leaning himself against the stairs and reaching for his discarded cigar.
Oriseus is still trying ineffectively to get out from under tub-o'-fluff there. Not happening.
Kwake says: ...yes, elder.
Rakayah cracks a crooked, cruel grin.
Azati says: All right now. Think you're settled down enough to *really* talk?
Kwake mutters something like "stodgy old cunt" under his breath as he relights his smoke.
Elennoko says: Now, Oriseus. I will let you go. But do anything else and I will bash your skull in so hard you'll be speaking murloc for weeks!
Elennoko says: Understand!?
Sizza nudges Noko, "Hey."
Elennoko says: WHat!?
Azati eyes noko. "You sound like my mother."
Oriseus spits dust and makes a growly groaning noise. Okay. Fine. He's tapping out.
Elennoko removes his hoof from Oriseus and glares at Sizza. "And you!"
Sizza is still holding the burnt side of her face on. With her hand, "You, uh, wanna gimme a hand here?"
Elennoko says: Nope.
Elennoko says: Now!
Elennoko says: You are two, grown adults!
Kwake pants quietly to himself, jabbing his finger impotently towards Noko.
Oriseus gets up onto his hands and knees to finish his coughing fit. Kreekun wedges itself in between its master and...everyone else.
Kwake says: You're... you're fired.
Azati nods. You tell em, Mister.
Kwake puffs on his cigar.
Elennoko sends a swift kick to Kwake's stomach.
Kwake coughs up a bellyful of smoke. He doesn't do much else.
Elennoko says: You should both know!
Rakayah slants reddish-yellow eyes toward Azati, three-fingered hands with a Penance at the ready.
Elennoko says: Especially you! An orc!
Elennoko says: Fighting another member of the Horde, in the middle of Orgrimmar!
Elennoko says: Is not the brightest idea!
Azati nods. Hit it.
Elennoko says: The Kor'Kron could be here at any point to arrest ALL of you! Even me! For doing such a thing!
Elennoko says: And all for what?
Kwake says: Member of the Horde! Housing and buggering a known dissident!
Oriseus sneers. "Better that than torturing another m-member of the Horde, isn't it. I'll t-take a night in jail for that."
Elennoko says: Do you want your skull bashed in? I can do it. I've done it!
Sizza nudge nudges Rakayah.
Elennoko says: You do not interrupt a member of the Cenarion Circle or The Earthen RIng member whn they are attempting to keep peace in your own city!
Rakayah hum-mutters under her breath, peering down at the wee armored greenie.
Elennoko says: Argent Crusader, too!
Oriseus grins blood at the druid. "Do it," he purrs, "and y-you're no better than either of us."
Sizza says: Hey, so like, I know your brand of super healin' light pretty much sucks for us.
Sizza says: But, uh, I'd really like to save my face.
Azati says: A man who misses the world he grew up in. A man who hasn't learned the honor that underlies the life of every worthy orc. And did you teach him of honor, child? No. You told him he was right to hate. You let his opinion win.
Azati gestures at Sizza.
Rakayah grins toothily and sadistically. Then looks mildly put out at the fall of healing rains.
Elennoko reaches down to lift Oriseus up by the collar of his robes.
Kwake argues with Azati through a mouthful of cigar, nursing his healed arm.
Oriseus erks. He hardly weighs a thing. Kreekun immediately savages the hem of Noko's robe.
Kwake says: Pacifist Thrall-loving shit... if it were up to them they'd wipe us all from existence!
Azati says: Up to whom?
Sizza removes her hand from her cheek as the healing rain begins to restore the general sort of shape to her melted face.
Kwake brandishes his arm towards Ori.
Elennoko snaps the fingers on his other hand. Theh em on his robe erupts into thorns.
Elennoko says: Oriseus.
Kwake says: Those human-loving fucks!
Azati says: Did he ever lift a hand to you before today?
Oriseus ' felhound yelps and rolls about clawing at its face. Stupid dog. The warlock, meanwhile, gives Noko a fierce look threatening to crack.
Kwake says: I used to stack fucks like him six high in the war!
Azati says: Did he ever lift a hand to you before today?
Azati gives kwake a -look.-
Elennoko says: I will not harm you, unless you cause me to. However, I -will- speak with you.
Elennoko gives Oriseus the same look.
Rakayah toes around the conflict, orbs of light dancing around her padded fingertips.
Kwake sputters impotently.
Azati and noko don't even have to look at each other. They teach that look in cenarion circle school.
Oriseus ' ears pin flat against his head. All that ferocity is crumbling. "Speak, Child of C-Cenarius," he murmurs in a near-robotic tone.
Sizza lets out a long, drawn-out sigh.
Sizza says: I'm gettin' a beer.
Kwake groans.
Azati says: You do not wish to answer the question?
Kwake says: No, elder. Not HIM.
Elennoko walks off with Oriseus still held above the ground. "Don't kill him while I'm away, please."
Azati says: Why did he raise a hand to you today, child?
Elennoko directed that to Azati.
Kwake says: Because he found out what I do to traitors in my ranks.
* * * * * * *
Azati's Talk with Kwake
Elennoko's Talk with Oriseus
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Elennoko says: As punishment for being a fool, Oriseus' wound on his arm is to not be healed by magic.
Elennoko says: It's going to mend naturally, be in pain and scar.
Azati says: Your judgement is fair.
Elennoko nods at Azati.
Elennoko says: What about Kwake?
Azati says: He has a lot to think about.
Azati says: I told him some hard truths about what his actions have wrought.
Elennoko nods at Azati.
Elennoko says: Good.
Elennoko looks around.
Elennoko says: To tell you the truth.
Elennoko says: I have wanted to do that to him a couple times.
Azati says: Well, he's going to learn from this. I don't know if what he's done can be mended.
Elennoko says: Of course not. What both he and Oriseus did was foolish and out of line and it hurt people who didn't deserve it.
Elennoko and and and and.
Rakayah says: Tah be truthful, elders, s'nah a small t'ing 'ta change tha' mind of an orc man. Vol'jin be sayin' once tha' we be strongah t'gethah, in spite 'a current circumstance.
Rakayah says: F'anyone can, I be thinkin' it be you.
Elennoko smirks a little. "I haven't been able to play the true role of a Cenarion Circle member in quite some time."
Azati says: The Shaman holds a high role of responsibility for the orcs. Because we move with the blessing of the spirits and the elements, we must in turn bring that wisdom to our community.
Elennoko nods.
Azati smiles wryly. "Generally that means telling young hotheads they're acting like fools."
Elennoko says: That's why I left you to him.
Rakayah says: If y'be needin' Penance fah young fools, y'just be givin' Rakayah a yell, yeah?
Elennoko looks down at his stomach and blinks. Yup, still bleeding. "Oh... Huh."
Elennoko smiles and nods. "Thank you, but I should probably go take care of this on my own. I just know I'm going to be waking up sore tomorrow..."
Azati says: Take the healing waters.
Elennoko bows his head. "Of course."
Rakayah says: An' tha light, mon.
Elennoko says: I should be going, in any case.
Elennoko says: Thank you for your help, as well.
Azati says: sleep is a good idea.
Rakayah says: B'well, mon.
Elennoko smiles at Rakayah.
Elennoko says: Good night, you two!