Post by Alakuu on Oct 5, 2015 22:39:15 GMT
Gideon the ranger
The night is dark and rainy the trees sway slightly in the wind. The normally hard dirt road has turned to mud from the steady rain. A man covered in his own blood emerges from the tree line. He stumbles stumbles down the road slowly towards his town. Lightning flashes he can see it off in the distance the walled town he is aiming for. "I can make it. I can make it." He repeats to himself over and over. But his strength fails. He trips and falls not far from his destination only a couple words leave his lips before he hits the ground "I can't..." He lays there face first in the mud not moving.
I slow my horse to stop I see my target ahead of me. His face is buried in the mud. I hop down off my horse and land in a puddle with a bit of a splash and make my way over to the body. His name is Roman his wife tasked me to find him alive. Looks like I failed that part of the job. She said he went out hunting three days ago and hasn't been heard from since. My initial guess was that wolves got him. Unless he managed to scare the wolves and run I don't think I was right. I can see his tracks that lead back to the tree line from here. His tracks lead back to the tree line. I can follow those later for now I should examine the body figure how this guy really died. His shirt has small hole in the back maybe an arrow? I rip the shirt open a bit and look at the wound it looks like an arrow wound. I pull out my knife and dig in the sound a bit. I extract a metal arrow head. This is starting to look like a bit of banditry or a murder. On the back of his left leg around the thigh area I see another wound. It looks like someone slashed the back of his leg with a bladed weapon. That probably affected his movement. Those seem to be all the visible wounds on his back. I turn Roman over I notice how swollen his body is when I see his face. He has been here for a few hours at least just absorbing the water. There are some more holes in the front of his shirt. Looks like he took two more arrows in the chest. He must have extracted these, there are some blood soaked bandages over the wounds but that is it. His stomach area has also been slashed it seems like he started to bandaged that too. That details all the significant wounds on him. So here is my guess as to what happened. He was attack by 1-3 people but most likely 2. He got hit by two arrows from the front and then got jumped by one of the guys they slashed him pretty good across the mid section. Somehow Roman managed to get away but as he was running his leg was slashed. He got to relative safety he broke the arrows off and bandaged the wounds. As he was starting to clean and dress the mid section wound he was attacked again. This time hit with an arrow in the back. He ran and this is where he ended up. I'll have to follow the tracks to figure out how he got here. Something catches my ear I hear the foliage near by shuffle unnaturally. I pull out my bow and point it in the direction of the noise. I ready and arrow and yell "show yourself I know your out there!" An arrow flys out of the tree line. It narrowly misses. Now I know where they are. I take a pot shot into the woods and run for the trees. One more arrows sails past my head. I duck behind a tree then vanish into the forest. I sneak around to a position behind where I think the first shot came from. I can hear whispering coming from I front of me. I don't know what they are saying but it doesn't matter. I move a bit closer I can see them two humans a man and a woman. Now I can hear them "you think that ranger ran away?" "Nah he is around here somewhere keep your eyes peeled" "he found that guy though what if he did run. He'll tell the guards." "How is going he going to prove we killed the poor son of a bi...." The man who was just about to finish his sentence gasps and grabs at an arrow that has gone clean through his neck. The woman looks over in horror and the man falls to the ground dead. She looks around wildly searching for whoever fired the shot. I jump out from the bush and tackle her. Pin her to the ground and press my short sword to her neck. "Now lady if you wanna talk I'm all ears. Why did you kill that guy?" I say to her. Her response is to spit in my face. I wipe the spit off my face "let's try that again why did you kill him. last chance." I say. "Piss off you dirty ranger trash." She says. I sigh "this could have been easy" I punch her in the face and knock her out. I tie her up and carry her out of the woods. I put her on my horse and I guide my horse down the road a ways.
I find an area with area with a high ground where I can see all around me. I set up camp there it's mid day, but I don't know how long it will take for her to come to. I make some food and tend to the fire as I wait for her to wake up. After a couple hours I decide to take the time to go move Roman's body into a safer spot where carts and scavengers hopefully won't get him. When I get back she is awake and trying use the fire to burn her way out of the ropes. It isn't working to well. I laugh at her "I'll give you an A for effort and creativity. But you a get failing score for execution obviously." She looks at me with a great deal of hate in her eyes. "So what are you going to do with me. Torture me. Rape me. Kill me. In that order?" She says. "Nah, I just want answers. You cooperate and I might just let you go free. I'll tell all the people in town I never found Roman's killers. Roman was the guy you killed by the way. He had a wife and two kids I believe. Guess they will be pretty sad huh?" I look at her "I guess that's your fault isn't it?" The hate in her eyes dies a little and she practically whispers "we killed him because... Just because he... Looked easy. Kill him take his stuff and move on. that was the idea. But it wasn't easy. We jumped him in the woods after stalking him for a day. He fought back he killed one of the other guys in our group. Then he ran I got a shot into his back and the guy you killed slashed his leg. We chased him but eventually lost him in the gloom of the night. And then we found him in the middle of the road and there you were. You know what happened from there. Now Please just let me go. I won't hurt anyone anymore." I can tell she is being truthful mostly. I sigh "I believe you up to the part where you say you won't hurt anyone anymore. If I do turn you in they will kill you. Hell they will make a spectacle of it. Or you might get away. Now I hate public executions and I can't let you get away... Sorry." I pull out my knife and kneel down next to the girl I get my first really good look at her she can't be anymore than 18. She is pretty but dirty, Her eyes are wide with terror she is crying screaming at me telling me she is sorry and she won't hurt anyone. Promising me she will go straight, be a normal girl from now on. I don't believe it I can't. Not after all the evil I've seen in this world. I press the blade to her throat and cut it wide open. The blood and life drains from her. Her plea's die and are replaced with a gurgling sound as she drowns in her own blood. Tears still stream from her eyes. She dies afraid and with out a friend near her. Just like the man she killed.
I had kill her she would have just gone back to being a bandit. If I didn't kill her then the guardsmen would have. She would have been raped in private and hung in public. I couldn't let either outcome happen. At the end of the day I don't know who is worse the bandits or the guards. All I know is This is what I do I hunt evil and extinguish it. I have to do this no one else will...
Name: Gideon Legge
Age: 30
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 160 lbs.
Hair color/style: Black in a Geralt style hair cut
Eye color: Brown
So some more stuff about Gideon that I didn't feel like fitting into the story cuz reasons. He was born into a merchant family his father worked almost all the time and was very successful. His mother made fine clothes for nobles and sold them out of the house. When his parents weren't working in on way or another the spent time playing with Gideon. The family was very well off and Gideon had a very good early life. He was very very bored though. He hated the city and even though his house was large he felt cooped up. When he turned 16 he told his parents he was leaving to go explore the world. What he found disturbed him. Every town he entered the guards were corrupt. Every road he traveled bandits roamed robbing and killing people who had nothing to give. In the forests monsters stalked people looking for their next meal. Gideon realized this world was rotten to core. Someone had to purge the evil, and if no one else would do it he would. Gideon trained he learned to shoot a bow, wield bladed and blunt weapons of all kinds. He taught himself how track man and beast. When he was ready he started taking bounty hunting contracts. That is pretty much Gideon he see's evil kills it and moves on to the next contract.
The night is dark and rainy the trees sway slightly in the wind. The normally hard dirt road has turned to mud from the steady rain. A man covered in his own blood emerges from the tree line. He stumbles stumbles down the road slowly towards his town. Lightning flashes he can see it off in the distance the walled town he is aiming for. "I can make it. I can make it." He repeats to himself over and over. But his strength fails. He trips and falls not far from his destination only a couple words leave his lips before he hits the ground "I can't..." He lays there face first in the mud not moving.
I slow my horse to stop I see my target ahead of me. His face is buried in the mud. I hop down off my horse and land in a puddle with a bit of a splash and make my way over to the body. His name is Roman his wife tasked me to find him alive. Looks like I failed that part of the job. She said he went out hunting three days ago and hasn't been heard from since. My initial guess was that wolves got him. Unless he managed to scare the wolves and run I don't think I was right. I can see his tracks that lead back to the tree line from here. His tracks lead back to the tree line. I can follow those later for now I should examine the body figure how this guy really died. His shirt has small hole in the back maybe an arrow? I rip the shirt open a bit and look at the wound it looks like an arrow wound. I pull out my knife and dig in the sound a bit. I extract a metal arrow head. This is starting to look like a bit of banditry or a murder. On the back of his left leg around the thigh area I see another wound. It looks like someone slashed the back of his leg with a bladed weapon. That probably affected his movement. Those seem to be all the visible wounds on his back. I turn Roman over I notice how swollen his body is when I see his face. He has been here for a few hours at least just absorbing the water. There are some more holes in the front of his shirt. Looks like he took two more arrows in the chest. He must have extracted these, there are some blood soaked bandages over the wounds but that is it. His stomach area has also been slashed it seems like he started to bandaged that too. That details all the significant wounds on him. So here is my guess as to what happened. He was attack by 1-3 people but most likely 2. He got hit by two arrows from the front and then got jumped by one of the guys they slashed him pretty good across the mid section. Somehow Roman managed to get away but as he was running his leg was slashed. He got to relative safety he broke the arrows off and bandaged the wounds. As he was starting to clean and dress the mid section wound he was attacked again. This time hit with an arrow in the back. He ran and this is where he ended up. I'll have to follow the tracks to figure out how he got here. Something catches my ear I hear the foliage near by shuffle unnaturally. I pull out my bow and point it in the direction of the noise. I ready and arrow and yell "show yourself I know your out there!" An arrow flys out of the tree line. It narrowly misses. Now I know where they are. I take a pot shot into the woods and run for the trees. One more arrows sails past my head. I duck behind a tree then vanish into the forest. I sneak around to a position behind where I think the first shot came from. I can hear whispering coming from I front of me. I don't know what they are saying but it doesn't matter. I move a bit closer I can see them two humans a man and a woman. Now I can hear them "you think that ranger ran away?" "Nah he is around here somewhere keep your eyes peeled" "he found that guy though what if he did run. He'll tell the guards." "How is going he going to prove we killed the poor son of a bi...." The man who was just about to finish his sentence gasps and grabs at an arrow that has gone clean through his neck. The woman looks over in horror and the man falls to the ground dead. She looks around wildly searching for whoever fired the shot. I jump out from the bush and tackle her. Pin her to the ground and press my short sword to her neck. "Now lady if you wanna talk I'm all ears. Why did you kill that guy?" I say to her. Her response is to spit in my face. I wipe the spit off my face "let's try that again why did you kill him. last chance." I say. "Piss off you dirty ranger trash." She says. I sigh "this could have been easy" I punch her in the face and knock her out. I tie her up and carry her out of the woods. I put her on my horse and I guide my horse down the road a ways.
I find an area with area with a high ground where I can see all around me. I set up camp there it's mid day, but I don't know how long it will take for her to come to. I make some food and tend to the fire as I wait for her to wake up. After a couple hours I decide to take the time to go move Roman's body into a safer spot where carts and scavengers hopefully won't get him. When I get back she is awake and trying use the fire to burn her way out of the ropes. It isn't working to well. I laugh at her "I'll give you an A for effort and creativity. But you a get failing score for execution obviously." She looks at me with a great deal of hate in her eyes. "So what are you going to do with me. Torture me. Rape me. Kill me. In that order?" She says. "Nah, I just want answers. You cooperate and I might just let you go free. I'll tell all the people in town I never found Roman's killers. Roman was the guy you killed by the way. He had a wife and two kids I believe. Guess they will be pretty sad huh?" I look at her "I guess that's your fault isn't it?" The hate in her eyes dies a little and she practically whispers "we killed him because... Just because he... Looked easy. Kill him take his stuff and move on. that was the idea. But it wasn't easy. We jumped him in the woods after stalking him for a day. He fought back he killed one of the other guys in our group. Then he ran I got a shot into his back and the guy you killed slashed his leg. We chased him but eventually lost him in the gloom of the night. And then we found him in the middle of the road and there you were. You know what happened from there. Now Please just let me go. I won't hurt anyone anymore." I can tell she is being truthful mostly. I sigh "I believe you up to the part where you say you won't hurt anyone anymore. If I do turn you in they will kill you. Hell they will make a spectacle of it. Or you might get away. Now I hate public executions and I can't let you get away... Sorry." I pull out my knife and kneel down next to the girl I get my first really good look at her she can't be anymore than 18. She is pretty but dirty, Her eyes are wide with terror she is crying screaming at me telling me she is sorry and she won't hurt anyone. Promising me she will go straight, be a normal girl from now on. I don't believe it I can't. Not after all the evil I've seen in this world. I press the blade to her throat and cut it wide open. The blood and life drains from her. Her plea's die and are replaced with a gurgling sound as she drowns in her own blood. Tears still stream from her eyes. She dies afraid and with out a friend near her. Just like the man she killed.
I had kill her she would have just gone back to being a bandit. If I didn't kill her then the guardsmen would have. She would have been raped in private and hung in public. I couldn't let either outcome happen. At the end of the day I don't know who is worse the bandits or the guards. All I know is This is what I do I hunt evil and extinguish it. I have to do this no one else will...
Name: Gideon Legge
Age: 30
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 160 lbs.
Hair color/style: Black in a Geralt style hair cut
Eye color: Brown
So some more stuff about Gideon that I didn't feel like fitting into the story cuz reasons. He was born into a merchant family his father worked almost all the time and was very successful. His mother made fine clothes for nobles and sold them out of the house. When his parents weren't working in on way or another the spent time playing with Gideon. The family was very well off and Gideon had a very good early life. He was very very bored though. He hated the city and even though his house was large he felt cooped up. When he turned 16 he told his parents he was leaving to go explore the world. What he found disturbed him. Every town he entered the guards were corrupt. Every road he traveled bandits roamed robbing and killing people who had nothing to give. In the forests monsters stalked people looking for their next meal. Gideon realized this world was rotten to core. Someone had to purge the evil, and if no one else would do it he would. Gideon trained he learned to shoot a bow, wield bladed and blunt weapons of all kinds. He taught himself how track man and beast. When he was ready he started taking bounty hunting contracts. That is pretty much Gideon he see's evil kills it and moves on to the next contract.