Samuel's Story

High noon in stone walls of the capital city Himmel, on this day an execution of a young male slave of an wealthy noble is scheduled to happen to day the hole city is in an up rower about the beheading of the slave named Samuel. everyone is headed to the market square to see it happen. But Samuel was the only one not wanting this to happen.


" hear yee! hear yee!! gather one and all it is time For the beheading of the Slave call Samuel " the elderly man said as he to center stage of the executions platform. " the worthless being has been found guilty of the crime of steeling from him master and has been sentenced to death by beheading" as the old man spoke Samuel was brought on the platform with mouth and hands bound with rope and his head was placed on the chopping block.

Ara had entered the town square and had noticed the crowd and was confused, "Is there something special going on here...?" she asked herself in her usual sweetened tone, as an Elf she felt out-of-place in the city, especially with the human population there. She soon shrugged it off and noticed the public execution and was confused, she soon walked up to the platform, "Excuse me, what exactly did this man steal?" she asked in curiosity, if worse came to worse, she was ready to use her dancer skills to free the man and quickly escape. She didn't exactly care what he stole, but she'd really be annoyed if it was petty. She waited hesitantly for the response.

Ulan was in the square among the crowd that had seemed to gather. He hated the city right now he just wanted to be back in the woods but he had some goods he wanted to sell in the market and this crowd had caught his attention. Plus many of the travelers from these parts were often willing to pay for a guide and he was not one to shy away from a payday. Then he noticed a woman going up as if to question the execution. But there was something about her that caught his eye more though she was an elf just like him. Has she lost it? He thought wondering what had driven her to question an execution.

Keiran was leaping between rooftops, sure it technically wasn't legal but it was far faster than walking in a city. It also put him at ease, there was just a simple comfort in letting his body do as it wished while pushing his physical limits. The little exercise had started with him scaling the city wall, oddly enough no guard had spotted him. But now he saw why, by happenstance his run had brought him here...to an execution. In all honesty, he never cared much for city laws since he'd grown up in the wilds. Slavery was a weird idea to him, but he could understand the strong lording over the weak. Stealing was a simple matter of not getting caught, and he could understand losing something like a hand for it but a head was too severe.

"Sammy, Sammy is today your lucky day," he asked himself while flipping a copper coin. "Heads," his hand snapped forward, grabbing the coin from the air as he spoke. Upon inspection, it was heads...looked like Sammy was indeed lucky today. With that in mind, Keiran took care as he moved along the roof tops, he didn't wish to get caught. He even brought his hood low to cover his face. He carefully inched his way to the building behind the executioners stage, it was the closest building to it. The idea was to run off the roof and drop kick into the executioner before he could do his job. After that, it was a matter of making it up as he went along, in the crowd below two elves stood out. One male and one female, both seemed rather interested in something but Keiran didn't stop to think about what those two could possibly want...elves were a fickle people. When he got in position, he made himself comfortable...this could be a long wait.

(OOC: tag glitched out and gave me Kobe and myself in one click)

" why thing this good for nothing stole food, water and medice from his master home ... we believe that their where others helping him out but.... he would not talk.... he just stood there with an angry look on his face" the elderly mad stated as he kicked Samuel in the chest.

from the crowd the noble that owns Samuel steps forward, he was a short very fat and quite the blad headed man. " it is really sad that he thought that he could get away with it, that he would not be noticed at all. He was a good hard working slave I will miss him, but he like a dog that has tasted human blood, he has changed with no way to bring him back and his going to die like one..." the fat noble laughed almost to the point of falling over.

Ara was now more annoyed, "A beheading... Because he took WATER?!" she escalated into a yell, "That is by far the most petty thing to behead someone for stealing!" she yelled, "What would you behead someone for stealing a grain of Rice too?" she asked now preparing for a fight, she then noticed the man kicking the slave in the chest and she jumped onto the execution stand, "You hit him again, I swear you won't see the light of day again." she whispered in a angered tone. The humans were infuriating before she sighed, she knew she didn't want to kill unless she had to and she nodded, "What will it take for you to release him into my care?" she asked still in a hushed tone.

When the two elves, and some strange animal type creature stepped on the stage, Keiran saw a new opportunity. He'd need to sprint for the jump, but he'd be able to land on the nobleman. He backed up a bit before taking a deep breath, this wasn't going to be the smartest thing he'd do today. His feet drove into the roofing, legs powering him forward with all his might. Before he reached the ledge, he leaped with all his strength. Time slowed down, his fall seemed to be in slow motion for him. His eyes widened for an instant when he feared he'd missed his target but as he continued falling, the sensation of fat and fancy cloths beneath him showed that he'd landed on target. The impact jarred him, quite painfully but the noble provided some cushioning...otherwise he'd have definitely hurt something.

"Not sure about how your city laws work," Keiran spoke in a false calm... he was clearly still juiced on adrenaline as he drew a boot dagger. " But in the wild, your head would be mine now, justly caught and all that proper nonsense." The blade came to rest on the neck on the noble that currently served as his seat. " Come to think of it, you probably don't know the real world do you Chuckles? So let's try learning a bit about each other, you can keep up this nonsense and loose about twelve pounds above the neck." He paused here, pretending to think, "Or we can try one of them cultural exchange thingys: You can exact whatever punishment that you are personally able to enact on this guy, and I act all posh and civil by getting off you without taking a souvenir." Rather than wasting time trying to negotiate up hill. Keiran figured that he'd have more success flipping the table and putting the pig headed noble on the bottom for once.

"Ya might want to make up your mind quickly, I tend to get nervous and twitchy when people don't act natural, do weird things with their hands or say funny words." The knife got a little bit closer to neck flesh as Keiran spoke, oddly enough he found this scenario fun.

The man on the platform laughed bit in nervousness before answering the young lady " It... it.. would cost you 100 gold pieces would be the price to set him free... but I have no idea why you want to save this worthless slave... no idea at all " the man took a step back just in case he tried to hurt him.
The noble man did not know what to say, he just stood there sweating and trembling " ...... fi... fifty... Gold coin... is the best we can do " the noble closed his eyes and started to cry " please to killl me PLEASE"

Samuel was surprised at this women and the man action, bu he did not her to get in trouble for his sake and if she did free him he knew that he would serve her to the end of his life. Sam want to say something but everything he said was just a muffled mess do to the gag.

"Someone doesn't doesn't listen well," Keiran noted the appearance of a dwarf that talked nobly enough. " I said take what YOU can take YOURSELF," with that Keiran shoved the noble towards the slave, swiftly drawing a throwing knife in the process.

"Start swinging Chuckles, I could care less if the watch wants a price. You get what your own prowess wins. Put simply: Kill him yourself, take the money from us if you can, or find out how hard I can throw one of these." Keiran twirled the throwing knife between two fingers as he presented his options. Mentally he knew guards were coming, and he wasn't sticking around for when they got here. "Hood boy," Keiran causally addressed the executioner, "This is Chuckle's problem, you step in and so do I. Fair enough everyone?Seems like an even 50-50 to me."

Ulan watched from high above and was stunned at what was going on as more people seemed to stand up against this petty punishment. For a moment he felt bad for this bloke but 50 gold coins was clearly outrageous maybe he could bring things to a bit more reasonable price. This was not something Ulan normally did but something seemed to nag him in the back of his mind. Standing up he looked down over the stage from the roof and reached for his bow and an arrow which he notched quickly. Then he proceeded to aim at the noble. "How about 30 and I won't put an arrow through your heart." He said from atop the roof. "And throw in your ring too while your at it." He shouted from the roof making sure he was heard. All he wanted was money and that ring looked expensive even from this distance.

"Haven't we proven our point yet?" Kobe asked, letting his blue eyes take in the scene before him. An archer ontop of a roof, a skilled man with a knife sitting on the noble, a remarkably friendyl dwar on his right side and a girl with elfish roots on the left side of him.
Kobe knew he needed to do something, fast if anyhow possible, seeing as he heard a hoard guards approach behind them.
"I am sorry, if it is money you desire, I will not be able to put anything in." Kobe sighed, knowing the risks of the things he wanted to do next.
"But I can teach you an important lesson, trust me, it's worth more than any money." He gripped his sharp dagger with his right hand and took a few strides to the nobles side. Kobe kneeled down, put the tip of his knife on the man's forhead and smiled, showing his canine teeth. It disgusted him to do what he did in this exact moment but he couldn't let this execution happen. Let it be a thing of understanding this society's horrable ways of treating people or maybe it was jsut the pleading he saw in the boys eyes - Kobe didn't know.
Seeing as the noble couldn't move with a man sitting on him and a knife to his throat and head, Kobe took his time to watch the emotion in the gruesome man's eyes.
"You should pay attention to nature's warnings. I was born and raised with dangers around me, so let me tell you: This is your last chance to do right, use it wisely." His voice turned more and more into a threatening whisper while he spoke but it should still have been loud enough to hear for his companions on the stage, maybe not the archer with the taut bow but he trusted the man to be able to pick up on what he doing.

The noble man looked around for someone to help but no one would do so for such " Fine.... fine.... just take him he is yours no charge just let me live " the man said over and over.

" are you sure sir" the elderly man said as he looked down

" yess!!! just do it, let him go now " the noble cried

the old fellow on the platform helped Samuel up and untied his bonds " go your free

" thank you " Sammy smiled as he walked away only to turn around and kick the old mans feet under neath him and laughed as he fell to the ground. Sam walked over to the group on the stage with him " which one of you am I to serve now ... which did I call Master, it is up to you " He said taking a glare at the fat noble.

Ara sighed, "Well, I seem to have stirred a commotion" she said smiling knowing she saved a life, "You alright?" she asked Samuel as she eyed the others, a dwarf caught her eye, he had a war hammer and she nodded, "I say you're free." she said nodding, "but if needed I can take you in." she said smiling and soon she looked about at he ones whom helped her, all seemed to have their strengths and weaknesses and she soon nodded to herself and stepped up, "I'm Ara Miyora, as you see I'm an elf" she said after nodding again, "Thank you all for helping me with the argument for this child's life" she said as she nodded again, "May I ask your names?" she asked.

Kobe was happy that the commotion was over and that he could go back to his normal behaviour. Putting his dagger away eased his mind a bit. He really wasn't one for such things but the situation asked for it. Turning to the girl that just introduced herself he flashed her a big grin.
"I'm Kobe. My brothers and sisters from my tribe called me Spice and seeing as we seem to be on friendly terms here, call me as you wish." He made a small bow infront of the girl, just like his mother taught him when he was still a young one.
"Ara Miyora, even for an elf a very melodic name." He commented before turning away from the girl to face to face the boy called Sammy.
"You shouldn't have to serve any of us. What good would we have done then? Pushing you from one slavery into another. Personally I'd say, consider yourself free and if you wish, free to acompany me on my way." Kobe chuckled and then he smiled again. He put his hands behind his head in a relaxed manner and sighed happily.
'Today is a good day.' He thought and watched the clouds move slowly over the sky.

In the final comotion Ulan managed to repel down the side of the building using the banner hanging i the square and pushed his way through the crowd to the stage joining them. He figured he was safer here now then alone where he could easily be surrounded with no allies. He jumped into listening to what Kobe was saying and listened intently trying to catch in on what he missed.

He realized they must be introducing themselves so Ulan nodded and spoke once Kobe was finished. "It's nice to meet the both of you I am Ulan, I am sorry for your imprisonment." He added quickly to Sammy. "I am elvish though I hail from not particular nation I'm a guide and much prefer the open spaces to this bustling city life." He said with a small bow.

Edric finally relaxed when the noble gave in. He had already started to reach for his warhammer,but it seemed that wasn't going to be necessary. He grinned and waved calmly at the rest, introducing himself after Ulan.
"Name's Edric Stonehammer, pleasure to meet you all. I'm a wandering dwarf as you have probably already noticed. It is good to see everything turned out so well. No bloodshed whatsoever. It's a different way of problem solving than I usually employ, but it seems to have its merits. I must admit it's a strange day. When I woke up this morning I hadn't imagined I would save a former slave, in particular with such esteemed partners," he laughed warmly once more. It seemed as if his throbbing headache had subsided. He surveyed the group and then studied his surroundings once more, spotting quite a few hostile glances in the background.

"Still, we might not want to hang around for too long. I'm not so sure if we are just going to get away with our merry little intervention. How about we go celebrate Sam's freedom with a good cold pint? Every victory requires a celebration, right? I know this wonderful bar with cheap ale not too far away. The perfect place for heroes such as ourselves," he gave the noble a threatening glare, "besides, should we have to fight, I prefer to do so with ale nearby," the dwarf concluded.

" yes I do think its in are best interest to go inside " Samuel looked around the air felt heavy and uneasy to match. he could see that so many eyes staring back with anger. " the people here are a bit mad ... plus the bar keep is a friend " Sam took the first few towards the bar but was stopped in the possess.


A middle age man stepped in front and stopped sam from heading " Well the little slave got free... that's to bad...... i was hoping to see some blood shed today"

samuel eyes met the mans " shut up and get out of my way "

The man took a step back " you insolent little pup " The man went in for a slap but sam quickly moved in and landed the blow first.

" now you should watch what you say... you never know who you might offend, and you could have gotten much more hurt... if you said that to some other person " The man stood there not knowing what to say, so he ran off to lick his wounds.

Ara was about to stop the confrontation, but the man she had helped save escalated it before her movement could get her to the two. She sighed though looking at the bar, she was no High-class noble, but she wasn't keen on the idea of drinking, but she had gone in anyway. Since with the looks she was receiving from townsfolk whom had saw her stand up to the execution stand and she was finally "confronted" by a large human, the human blocked the path to her allies and soon others joined in, asking questions, and throwing insults to her. Ara stood her ground and nodded, "I suggest you back off." she said with a monotone voice, "Why? So we can let you stop any further enjoyment?!" the man asked as Ara glared at the man, "You find executions enjoyable?! You inhuman bastard!" she yelped as finally the tension of the group boiled over and the men attacked, first one going for a uppercut which Ara dodged and then it was a group attack, Ara didn't dodge every hit, but took few, and finally Ara responded with taking the men down with a few punches to the gut, she soon just walked over to the bar next to Edric, "give me your strongest Rum" she said with what sounded like pain.

"I hate this fighting." Kobe whispered. He went to the bar and ordered a glass of water. He didn't have anythign against alcohol or the people consuming it but he prefered to keep his mind clear.
He put the hood on again and hid his tail under the cape again, knowing about the influence they had. Sometimes it were just mild reactions or pure curiousness and interest (mostly from children) but often enough people called him things like 'Low Person' or 'Dog' or even attack him, he prefered to evade any fights possible, no only today but in general.

He reiceived a few odd looks for ordering water in a bar because he looked older than he was, to be honest he wouldn'T even have been allowed to drink any alcohol.
But he was happy to have been part of freeing Sam and so he cheered with the others

Ulan followed the others toward the bar with a small nod. He walked in these places weren't his favorite but a small glass of wine would not hurt. He found a seat with the others and ordered a glass of red wine. He tried to listen to the others but was not sure what exactly to talk about. "So what brings you all here to this um city?" He asked with a smile.

Ulan removed his bow leaning it on the stool he was seated on. Honestly he couldn't wait to be on his way out of this dreadful place but he needed to make some money and sell this damned watch he nabbed of his previous client. The man seemed to have "Run short." After Ulan had managed to convince him to pay a higher price than they had previously agreed upon before they're journey. He was a pretty good talker and could talk his way out of most situations though he had learned that the hard way.