I can edit it to not mention the band there if we want to spar some more.

Sorry was writing my post. I can change it if we want to do some sparring? I might need some more alcohol if I'm about to get my butt kicked though.

“Well that escalated quickly.” Arinth muttered to himself as he watched the stranger draw her knives from Jeral's chest. It had appeared to be a well timed attack from Jeral but she had been blindingly quick to react.

Arinth felt his blood heat as he drew his sword and started forward. He hadn't had enough to drink to be fighting this early in the day. Arkin appeared from the other direction. One of his throwing knives flew the air towards the woman but she avoided it deftly. It had distracted her though and Jeral seeing the opportunity had risen to one knee and using the last of his strength had launched himself at her legs. It appeared to catch her unprepared and the two fell in a tangle and rolled.

Arinth growled and sheathed his sword. It was too dangerous to go in swinging. He picked up speed ignoring the pain in his ankle. He had to get to her first. The last thing he needed was Arkin getting hurt too. Luckily he was closer even though the scout was much faster.

She was untangling herself from Jeral and starting to rise when he reached her. She'd lost one of her short swords in the struggle but the other was still in her hand. With a roar Arinth lowered his shoulder and crashed into her. She fell backwards but recovered quickly twisting so that he flew over her. He rose using a quickness he didn't know he had and narrowly avoided a slash. His eyes saw Arkin closing the distance and the woman's eyes moved to find Arkin.

Arinth kicked a stone at her and drew his sword. It was a small stone that did little damage as it bounced off her chest but it felt good none the less.

“Bloody Aiel and flaming Seanchan. Burn me but I didn't give all these years to the band to die in our own flaming woods to a watery tart with a sword. If this is how you want it to be you'll need more than that sword to keep my hands from your neck though.”

Considering how much of a better fighter Eb is I'd think the longer the fight lasts the more of an advantage she'd have. Plus with Arinth and Arkin nowing the danger Jeral is in they are going to go in fighting no matter what the cost is. They can't afford to waste time. If the idea is to capture her I think Sherper has it right. He knocks her off balance and Arinth manages to wrestle her to the ground. Then maybe he mutters some comment or something that makes her realize they are in the band and that keeps her from struggling more.

Well I'll have to join in now. If only I'd brought my short sword.

I've arrived.....and brought popcorn! Care for any BB? This should be good :-)

Arinth sat against a tree and reached down to rub his ankle. It was a little tender but nothing he couldn't handle. He had rolled it in the hole of some little rodent. He muttered a curse and looked around. For a moment he wondered why he was out hiking through the forest. It was far from his favorite past time. Images of the stacks of papers on his table in his tent flashed before him and he remembered. It was good to stretch ones legs once in awhile.

Arkin stood nearby watching him with a completely blank expression. It was an expression so devoid of emotion that Arinth knew the scout was laughing at him, secretly. It was loud and clear. Arinth scowled and stood up. He started walking and Arkin joined him.

He scratched at his beard and looked around. Where was that other little restless scout that was with them? Arinth's pace had been too slow for him to match their pace and their conversation too boring for him to endure. At least that is what Arinth assumed. Jeral hadn't come out and said anything of course but soldier's conversations did tend to get boring. It usually revolved around finding something to complain about. There was always the weather, duties, training, other soldiers, the food, the lack of attractive women, and again the food to complain about..

Arinth heard a shout through the trees and frowned. These woods were watched by the scouts. There shouldn't be any surprises. He turned to look at Arkin but the scout was gone. Probably already moving towards the shout he guessed. He moved forward himself towards where he guessed the shout had come from. His hands flexed, balling into fists and relaxing as he went.

A movement caught his eye in a tree up ahead and he looked up to see Jeral. Had the man lost his mind? The man was bouncing back and forth between the branches as he looked around. Arinth was about to ask why he was crawling around up in the tree but thought better of it. Scouts were almost as strange about their trees as the cavalry were about their horses. He was pretty sure Infantry were the only sane ones. He decided not to say anything as he watched Jeral. He crossed his arms and waited.

It was only then that he noticed other movement. A figure moved around the tree quietly. He raised an eyebrow as he watched the hunched figure move. This was turning out to be much more entertaining than an afternoon of paperwork. The stranger seemed to sense his eyes and turned suddenly and stared directly at him.

For a split second he thought he saw the woman's lip curl into a rabid snarl. It was gone so quickly that he wasn't sure if he had imagined it or not. It must have been his imagination he decided. Despite the scar under his eye and the broken nose he wasn't that ugly.

I was thinking of the DotNM thread. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago

Arinth-Corik-2nd squadman?

Two years since he left the band! Where has the time gone?

Soooo... Anyone interested in finishing this thread? We could fast forward to the point in the evening where we fight the bandits.

We could all three be together. I was thinking I'd question her claims when I'm guarding her to find out the truth. But I can be part of the group to catch her.

Sounds good to me. Outside of his direct commanders Arinth kept his head down and didn't notice a lot of the higher ranking officers so besides the feeling that he has seen someone like her before he wouldn't recognize her

Arinth is here to help as well. Representing the infantry!

Looks like I better get a bio written up for my mercenary TPC!

Im gone for a month and now Ive regressed to an infant? Time to start cracking some heads!

Arinth-Corik-2nd Squadman

That is up to you I guess. Honestly most big RPS with several characters 3+ take over a month to complete. I don't want to slow things down so if it is a concern I can stay out of that RP. Otherwise I'll be trying to get a post in for an RP or two each week. Its going to take some real effort just to reach my daily 2k goal for nanowrimo.

Hey guys, I am sure many of you are familiar with November being Nanowrimo. Well I do write outside of Robert Jordan's wonderfully created world and I am going to take November to focus on one of those projects of mine. I'll still try and check the board and get some replies in so nobody is left hanging but it probably won't be on a daily basis.

Yay kathleen is still here! Oh yeah training is always good.

The inn was a welcome relief from the cold rain that had made the trip miserable. It had helped that he had been forced to ride a horse. The beast was a menace. The whole trip the beast had thought of nothing else but how to throw him off in such a way that he would fall and break his neck. He'd held on though.

His company was questionable as well. Arkin was there to make sure things got done. The others were all ones he didn't feel comfortable leaving back at the citadel unobserved. They would probably be trouble, but if he left them behind he'd just had to find a way to clean up the trouble when he got back. If they were with him there was the chance that he could prevent any trouble.

The one thing he knew was that he couldn't trust their judgement. One of them was a girl who thought she had to pretend to be a boy and the other had been dragged away by a bear. It was outrageous.

When the food finally arrived he dove right in. He had not realized how hungry he was. After a moment he noticed the others were talking. He stopped chewing long enough to try and gather what it was they were talking about.

“Eyes of the Light?” Bear Bait asked. Arinth doubted that but he held his tongue. The Children of the Light were too proud of their white cloaks to take them off. The conversation eventually turned to other things and Arinth's mind wandered away to different men he had sat with before. They were gone from his life now for one reason or another.

The conversation died suddenly and Arinth glanced around. The others were all staring at a man who had approached their table.

"Say, you lot are a peculiar one eh. Some sort of soldiers or something of the sort I suppose?" The man said.

Arinth tilted his head and stared at the man as he tore off a chunk of bread and chewed it. “What gave us away?” He finally asked after a long awkward pause.

So it looks like for the intro thread arinth is going on a supply run with anyone else who wants to and running into Te'Oran and getting into a fight.

Arinth will wrestle a bear

I remember the old ones. These are great. Arinth will definitely have a few drinks which would make it possible for a silver tongued devil like Arkin to talk him into doing something crazy like getting on a horse.

So we've got a few threads going or coming up soon but I thought it might be fun to give our newest arrivals a chance to play their characters some more too.

We've got Haral and Jeral, along with BB, Quibby, Nya and myself. We can get training threads up whenever. But for this I was thinking about a more casual thread to let the characters get to know each other.

Who is up for a night of drinking? Stories, Singing, drinking, fighting. You can't beat that can you?