Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20151201230232/@comment-5543592-20151203012025

Scire checked the bodies just to be sure, but all were too short and thin to be Ragnar. He lead them on, turning this bend for a second time into the main cavern. He tensed expecting to be confronted by Legionnaires, and saw...

The cavern was empty.



An hour ago… 

The fight with the Nord had just ceased, and the Dunmer was long gone, run back to where ever he had come from. However, there were still matters to tend to. This posed problems.

“I’ve seen what this people can do, sir.”   The optiones, a second in command, said to his centurion. “We don’t want them finding us in a closed in location like this.”   The optiones had experience with this group. He’d been responsible for tracking them for a long time, although he’d lost them in High Rock after the brass had sent in the mysterious “special operations” unit as it had been called to him.

“Acknowledged, you think they’d try to take him back?”

“Undoubtedly, sir.   They wouldn’t abandon him.”

The centurion knew how rough cave fighting was. A small force could easily hold a close quarters, and with all his men, he’d get bogged down. It’d be better to retreat, and ambush the smaller force in transit, if they could locate them. “Then we move out. Century!”   He commanded his men, waving his hand above his head. “Strip the dead of their gear, leave them where they lie, I want us gone within the hour!”



“Fucking…”   Scire growled, staring dumbly at the empty cavern. “No!”   He cried running into the cavern proper, looking for any sign of… anything. He dashed about searching for side rooms, hidden doors, or secret portals.

“No, no, no!”   He came to a startling halt, taking a shaky breath. “This isn’t…”

Ragnar wasn’t supposed to go. ''It’s impossible. He’d said so many times that we aren’t invincible, that we could fall apart… but that meant us. Not him. Not Ragnar. He was invincible.''

He should have been… 

But the cavern was empty. Ragnar was not here and neither were the legionnaires that had him. By all accounts, they were long gone.