[Characters] Pew, Pew, PEW! Archery Practice: Zuri and Elara Side Quest 1

[LuEngel]

Zuri gives her new bowstring a few small tugs to test the taughtness and carefully examines the arrows. She followed the direction that Ina and Bartholomew went, wanting to try the new equipment out.
Elara heads to the training grounds as well.

The archery targets on the other side of the training grounds. If they cares to look, Zuri and Elara can see where Bartholomew is, though not with any significant detail on how his training is going.

(Roll to see how well you do at archery practice. To hit the traget you must be at or below the total of your DX and Weapons Skill scores, which is 13 for Zuri and 10+crossbow skill for Elara.)

[Mallen]

Dice Roll:

d20

16

[LuEngel]

Elara's shot misses the target and lands in the ground just behind it.

Treasa giggles: "Do you even know how to work a crossbow?"

[Mallen]

Elara grits her teeth. She unused to working with an audience. "I'm usually pretty good at figuring things out...but no I have not used one before."

[LuEngel]

"I can show you if you like." Treasa retrieves the arrow, yanking it the ground. "First rule: retrieve these arrows."

[QueerSpaceWitch]

Zuri squares off and takes aim at a target near elara's and lets loose an arrow.

Dice Roll:

d20

16

[QueerSpaceWitch]

(Well poo)

[LuEngel]

Zuri also misses her target and nearly hits Treasa.

"It looks like you both need some practice." She begins to walk over when, from across the training grounds, Ina is heard screaming.

"Stay here!" Treasa runs over and begins directing guards to carry what appears to be an unconscious Bartholomew into the building. Once he's been cleared off the field, Ina seen yelling at a large guard.

[QueerSpaceWitch]

"Guess practice will have to wait" Zuri takes off into the air and lands close to where Ina is standing. "What's happened?"

[Mallen]

Elara tries to hear what they are saying.

[LuEngel]

Unless she gets closer, Elara will need to make a Perception Roll.

Treasa looks at Zuri: "Ina's betrothed went nuts and tried to kill that big baby of hers."

At this distance, Zuri can also make out bits of Ina and the guard's conversation. Ina has quite the pair of lungs when she's angry after all.

Ina: "I can't believe you would take it that far!"

"I had to defend myself from that monster! It would have killed me and then probably come for you!"

"No! There's always another way! Always! You should have let me handle it!"

"You against another beserker? Don't you remember what happened last time? You almost died!" He places his hand against her face. "Ina, my love, I did this to protect you."

She shakes her head: "No, you did this for pride. I can't do this..." She pulls a single pin out of her hair, it glitters in the light. She places it in the guard's hand and curls his fingers around it. "I'm s-sorry, Lord Haris." She turns and leaves, walking in the same direction that Bartholomew was taken. Haris collapses on the ground.

[Mallen]

Dice Roll:

d20

18

Elara is just so enthralled with the crossbow that she literally misses everything.

[QueerSpaceWitch]

Zuri narrows her eyes at the display. "I knew many men like him from my family's home. Pride often clouds their better judgement and is like an illness that burrows into their heart until it is like a cracked dessert, nothing can grow even with the most attentive gardener. Perhaps she is better off without such a burden"

[LuEngel]

Treasa: "You might have a point: I've always found him a bit too uptight, but he did have that hairpin made just for Ina and that sort of magic did not come cheap."

[QueerSpaceWitch]

Zuri smirked. "Just because a man puts a lot of money into something does not mean he harbors actual feelings for it. My uncles put enough gold to feed several villages for a year into thouroughbred horses even though they had wings that could taken them to the skies. They claimed to love the beasts but once they stopped winning foolish races they sent them to the slaughterhouse. Or" she grins fiercely, "At least they THOUGHT they sent them to the slaughterhouse"