Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24685738-20170623221726/@comment-5543592-20170624200603

Meilir rubbed his hands together, cleared his throat, and began.

"There was this village named Crash, not far from here, actually.  It was mundane, the sky, ground, and houses very shades of brown, the people ignorant and generally unaware of the greater work.  Taeris and I were looking for work, and learned their was a bounty out on a trio of bandits.  We hunted them down, and brought the bodies back to Crash for payment.  The innkeeper invited us to stay the night, and we did.  The following morning, I ventured out of town and encountered a large group of bandits, seven or so, lead by a woman: Riona Banain.  If you recognize that name it was because not only was she was the most infamous bandit in northwest Cyrodiil, she was also a princess-- the bastard grandaughter of the King of Bergama.  It was also rumored she was the a Daedra spawn, cursed in the womb to end up what she would become.

"Now Riona had stolen an idol.  If you're familiar with the totems of Hircine, it was one of these, and it had the ability to allow anyone who possessed it to transform into a werevulture." Meilir nodded at the end of that, to assure them it was true. "Now Riona could not be allowed to have this, of course.  She desired revenge on her grandfather, for when she was growing up, he had sent assassins after her, and the totem was her key to getting back at him.  In a parley with Riona, I stole the totem, and fled back to the inn, her men hot on my heels.  It was my good fortune, of course, that Taeris was there, and he managed to frighten them off.  We decided it would be best to keep this totem out of Riona's hands, and Taeris went to have his own parley with the woman.  Taeris believed it was successful, and informed the mayor of Crash that hte village woul be safe, and promised the mayor there would be no bloodshed in Crash, for Riona would leave the following morning.

"You might ask 'why did the mayor care for these bandits, when he'd already had three killed, and by us, no less?'  You see, Riona had a writ of protection from the Count of Chorrol himself, stating she was not to be hindered in anyway in her 'duties.'  She had endeared herself to the Count some how, likely through the use of feminine wiles, and thus no hair on her head was to be harmed.  And if she was, any of those involved would be executed.

"However, the following morning, Riona did not leave town.  Instead she descended on it.  She herself attempted to hunt me down, and had her men posted at the town's center, to use the hapless villagers as hostages in order to force me and Taeris to comply.

"At this point Taeris and I were seperated.  As I hid from Riona, he was returning from the Mayor's house, upon realizing Riona would never give up the totem.  Her men, each of them notorious and dangerous warriors in their own right, attempted to scare Taeris away, and it resulted in a fight.  Needless to say, although outnumbered seven to one, Taeris managed to defeat them all, and left very little of any of them intact in the process.

"It was when the last swordsman fell, drowning in a pool of his own blood, that Riona returned to the village, having been unable to find your's truly.  Here, upon seeing the outcome of Taeris' fight, she drew her own sword and fought Taeris.  Forcing to defend himself, Taeris had no choice but to kill Riona.  So, Riona Banain and her men ended up decorating the market square of crash.  The tale does not end there, however.  Horrified at what Taeris had done, the villagers stoned him, and the mayor threw him out.

"When he arrived in the village, he had been known as 'Taeris the Red,' for so frequently was he covered in his enemies' blood.  Since Taeris had soaked Crash in blood, it was altered to Redcrash-- to show he was the one who turned Crash red."

Meilir ended the story by pitching his voice low and emphasizing the words to show the proper drama that was supposed to have.