fandomhigh | Rangering!, Friday, Period Four [ 08/21 ].

As the class headed in today, they'd find the usual clearing set up in the Danger Shop had a large river nearby, skirting around a large outcropping of rock, with the usual choices of weaponry and armourments available to the students. Minsc clasped his hands together with a loud sound to get things started.

"Hullo!" he said. "It is our last day! So let's do some rangering!"

His arm swept toward the long bring going across the river. "Behold!" he said. "Behind those rocks, there be gnolls! I did not have the chance this semester to show off what a gnoll really is, so allow me to do so now!"

With that, a large, growling creature stepped forward, looking (and smelling) like an unfortunate cross between a very tall and skinny human and a tall and skinny hyena. "This," Minsc said, "is a gnoll, and they are my personal favourite enemy. So I have studied them lots. Take notes! You might encounter one today and since we are rangers, we must know their weaknesses, which include..."

Minsc lead them through a very quick and very happy-go-lucky bloody demonstration on how a gnoll is best taken care of by stabbing them in the chest here, hacking off there kneecaps there, and sometimes slicing through the head. Pity those among the class with weak stomachs.

With the gnoll messily disposed of, Minsc continued his speech as he cleaned his blade. "Go it alone, in pairs, or in groups, however you like, but you must journey into the gnoll stronghold in these mountains and save the captive within before they are eaten! There are three steps to this: the wilderness, which you must cross, which will be rife with all sorts of creatures and gnoll guards. Then you must find your way through the mountains themselves to find the place, and then you must infiltrate the stronghold and rescue the captive."

There was then a pause, as Minsc looked confused. He started counting carefully on his fingers.

"Wait. Four parts. You have to get it, but you have to escape, too! Any questions! Ask away! If not, then, gear up and get rangering!"

[[ apologies for the later than usual class! ~~Please wait for~~ OCD is totally buttkicking for goodness, and please check the OOC note if you get the chance! ]]

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You have fought your way here to the castle, beyond ~~the goblin city~~ the wilderness, and those big, blood-strewn pits in the floor make it pretty easy to guess where the captives are being held, but that doesn't say anything about how easy it'll be to get them!

Well, Zayne had made it this far without TOO many problems. He spotted the pits from his position up against the wall. If he could reach into the Force and sense where the captive was, this would probably be easy.

Zayne had forgotten that he wasn't likely to sense a captive who wasn't actually real or alive and therefore wasn't connected to the Force. This meant that he was kind of exposed to anything that might sneak up while he was concentrating.

Silly Zayne.

[OOC: Do what you will! I'm around for another hour or so before I'll need to go to SP, though.]

Gnolls? In MY gnoll stronghold?

It's more common than you think.

Thankfully, gnolls weren't as stealthy as Zayne might have been trying to be, and there were two of them on a leisurely patrol when they spotted fresh meat trying to sneak into their stronghold again.

One nudged the other, and then they started cackling like hyenas. Oh, humans.

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Luckily for Zayne, the cackling was enough to get Zayne's attention. He held a hand out to use the Force... but not in the same way he did earlier.

"You want to release the prisoner," he said, attempting a mindtrick. He wasn't great at them or anything, but if the gnolls were weakminded enough, it might work.

Or maybe it wouldn't because they technically didn't have minds to trick. But it was worth a shot.

Oh, they were weakminded alright. Probably much, much too weakminded...

They did have a fleeting thought of maybe going and releasing the prisoner, but then they got distracted by a fly, and then distracted by whatever in the nine hells it was that the funny human was doing. They exchanged a glance, shrugged, and then settled, firmly, into an attack position, halberds head out at the ready.

"You," snarled one of them. "Go no further."

"It was worth a shot," Zayne said, keeping his hand where it was for a moment before moving it to the side in an attempt to telekinetically shove one gnoll into the other.

And, hey, that one worked, quite well, and as one gnoll hit the other, the hit gnoll snarled at the other one, snapping at it angrily with its sharp teeth before shoving him the other way.

Which happened to be toward Zayne, which meant there was a yo-yoing gnoll with a really big bladed weapon about to fall over on top of him.

Zayne dropped to the floor to avoid the blade, which quite possibly put him at a good height to trip someone who was offbalance already.

That was not planned.

But what was planned was that, while the one gnoll fell on his tail, the other gnoll was lifting up his halberd to bring it smashing down on the human on the floor.

"Eep!" Zayne called out as he rolled onto his back and brought his sword up with both hands to block the halberd.

The blades crashed and the the gnoll, snarling with the excitement of the clash, bared his teeth and let out a series of taunting barks, pressing his tall, heavy body forward against the human.

Zayne was really really outclassed in a battle of strength, but he wasn't really in a good position to use his hands to help him channel the Force.

And that's when Zayne started kicking wildly at the gnoll's knees, looking for any kind of advantage here.

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