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The closer i got to this little "hamlet", the bigger it started becoming.
It was quite a large town, surrounded by a large fortification, consisting
of tall strong looking fence, made of stakes driven into the ground.
I thought to myself, that it looked a little odd out here in the middle
of the forest, but then again, odd things seem to be a common occurrence
in this land...
There was suddenly a large explosion, and a huge fireball rose into the sky
from somewhere in the far end of town.
I waded across the small creek, and it's nice cool waters, stopping to fill
my water container, and rinse out my little boo-boo.
On second glance it was not as bad as it looked. Most of the bleeding had
stopped... thanks to my thick green blood, and the only thiing that really
hurt....was my pride.
The town rose up from just beyond the grassy knoll, and noises...
or more like panicked screams could be heard.
Hastening my pace, to see what the source of these screams could be...
i rounded the fence to the main gates! WoW! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
three gates.... Hmmm?? i wonder why they should need such protection,
out here in the middle of nowhere.
I was soon to discover where the screams were coming from, they were coming
from some ugly fellows with wild eyes, and they were headed straight for me!

I drew my blade (more carefully this time) and was preparing for the onslaught...
but the little freaks peeled right by me...like death itself was
chasing them!
I watched amused as they scattered into the distance ars flailing and feet
pounding....and then, they were gone.
Strange I thought, this town is very strange, and i'm hungry like the wolf...

The bearded guard at the first gate dropped his jaw,
when he saw me and asked if I were friend or foe....
"friend" i said, "what do you call this place?"....
and to that he replied, "tis a good thing", Welcome to Viroeth,
"we've had more than enough excitement already, today", "Gee, your a tall one aren't ya?"
I looked at this fellow and noticed he had something in his beard,
it looked like a piece of potato, or bread crumbs or something...
"What kind of a guard are you that your face is covered with food?"
"And speaking of food, where in this town is a good place to eat?
The guard pointed to a large Inn, about three blocks down,
wiped his face and smiled. "yesiree, they make good food there allright,
i should try to get more in my mouth than on my beard next time"...
I agreed, and set on my way.....to the next gate.
Mr.Soupbeard waved to the guard, and he let me pass without question,
the last gate was unmanned... due to the large fire going on in the rear-
quarter of town.

If you've seen one fire , you've seen them all...I thought and headed
straight for the Inn.
"I'll check out the fireworks after a little grub...yummy.... i like grubs! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I walked up the stairs, and threw the doors open,
the doorway was a little short for my liking,
so i needed to duck down to get through...
on the inside it was dingy and smelled of liquor and cheap ale,
i stood fully inside and yelled at the barmistress...
"My name is Jurak, I'm not looking for trouble, just a decent meal, some of your cheap ale, and a place to rest"
It was not very bright inside and i couldn't see much,
but there were some wide eyes starting back at me......
not knowing what to make of a tall green OrC!..... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

So we were facing a vampire. It had been quite some time since i saw and fought one. I remeber there were though to kill.

Luckyly i was still wearing the amulet my good friend Aerie gave me before i founght the vampires back in Amn, atherwise i would have been its slave by now.

"Alright anyone any ideas on how to fight this one?" I asked.
More people came here, some to fight some to watch. The vampire only smiled and laughed.

I just hope this turns out fine.....

"Fire, or cut of his head if you got a silver blade." i said to the paladin.

It wasn't too smart of me to use holy fire at this level, considering it drained allmost all of my power. (arrgh how could i have been so foolish to run in like that)

"My blade isn't made out of silver" i pronounced and shoved it back into it's sheath. I gathered my last remaining power and made some fire dance around the palms of my hand..ready to be casted at any given moment..(i cannot afford to miss..)

I knew that the first strike would be the deciding one.."it's best to stay put untill he attacks" so i waited....

The Vampire looked at the pithyful Paladin and his cronies and sneered.

Waving a hand He mutterd to the left over members of the gang, " Go and get them my children" and sent the gang running at the Paladin and fiery looking companion.

Intoning some words, the vampire created a blue shimmering field around himself, that anyone with some spell craft could see was a 'Protection from Good' spell, the Vampire then waited to see what his adversaries would do to his 'Children' ....

The members of the toenail gang, who were under the vampires control were attacking the paladin and companions.
This would be a easy fight for the paladin I thought, but then a feeling inside of me told me otherwise.
Something told me that creatures, possesed by vampires don't feel pain anymore, and can push their bodies to incredible strenghts. They would be faster and stronger than normal humans..
I hoped this people have some tricks up in their sleeves otherwise this thing might end badly.

But how did I know this?
How could I know things about vampires and possesions without ever having seen a vampire before in my life before.

When the vampire casted a blue aura over him, I also immediatly knew what it was..
My hands started tickling, as if they wanted to do something, but I had no idea what.

Flashes appeared in my head: I saw angels!!
And then, I was in the sky, falling downwards, untill I almost hit the earth.
The flashes stopped when I fell backwards on the ground.
what did it mean? I asked myself.

I saw that one of the guys had used up a lot of power in his fire attack, and I knew I had to help him, and I knew I could too, but how?

With all this commotion we almost forgot our mission, "We? you did! I tried to remind you but you were to occupied saving some smartass soldier! No you didn't, you enjoyed this" There was nothing more we could do to help this soldier so its time to gather my party, We can't be bothered with anything else. This is what we are payed for.

Now, who did we have to meet again? ah yes, there was this one magical fellow, we tought we recignized him but he ran of chasing whatever those others were chasing. And the other one hmmm, was not the drunk. Ah yes Gabriel told us he was a musician. Must be the guy just outside here.

We stood up and walked outside, but no sign of the musician. Tho there were some kids playing on his guitarthingy so we walked over and asked, "Where did you get that guitar?" "The guy left in a hurry and forgot it here, please sir we don't mean to steal it. Were holding it untill he comes back?" The little man holding the guitar replied. "Where can we find him, any idea where he went?" The boys looked confused and were searching for something behind me with there eyes. "hello!" We said. "We don't know for sure, but I think he went to the explosion"

Explosions, seen them enough in our lives We'll just wait here and hope he comes to collect his guitar.

I arrived at the burning Inn, but I was (too) late, it was all gone in the bmast.. 'no chance of finding survivors under that debris', I said to myself.
So I went back to where I left my guitar to pick it up and get a nice pint of Ale in the other Inn to wash away all the commotion.

I saw the children dancing around the guitar, whilst some of them were talking to that soldier looking fella from the bar. He had something ... 'hard' in his eyes, a cold look, the one I've only seen in the eyes of soldiers from the emperor.
Could he be my contact I asked myself. "Ah well, no better way than the direct way to find out". And so I approached him and greeted him.

"Hi, nice little children aren't they?"
"uh.. yes he mutterad as if I caught him by surprise."
"Say, wanna join me inside for a drink, I feel like I need to talk to you"

When the vampire creature put up his shield of defense i knew my remaining power wouldn't be enough to harm him in aniway...but it could weaken his shield a bit..and with a simple gesture i casted my fire spells...(heh it looks more impressive then it is)

It took less then a second for my spell to hit against the shield of that creature..for an untrained eye it would look like nothing happened...but i never failed a casting before...and i haven't done it now either..

The Vampire creature seemingly knowing that i was out of power had a little smile that just screamed triumph..

"hah" i said " You'd really think that my magic is my strongest point? You'd better geuss again" Off course it was a bit of a bluff but not entirely a lie..my skills with the sword is about as good as my magic..but it isn't much use with my strength gone...(I shall not lose to this vampire!! if only i wasn't so stupid to cast holy fire! )

Holy fire is one of the 7 fires of the universe..it is said that it's been given by the god's to the highest of paladins..but i haven't been a pladin in hundreds of lives (my power doesn't even come to a quarter of what it was back then..especially my magical power..)

To remember a past life doesn't mean you're able to do the same things...it's just that the memory's of that life seem to be from this life..i still am not used to knowing things without being able to perform em..not without endangering myself and others that is...

The Vampire smile of triumph only dissapeared for minor instance before showing again..
With a dark grin i drew my sword and sakaba...and started the attack on the minions..

It felt like something took over my body.
I aimed my arms towards the 'fire guy' who had just drawn his sword, and before I knew it, a white flash came out of them.
It hit him and at first I thought I had accidentally attacked him..
But he didn't looked hurt at all, in fact, he looked even stronger as before I had casted this spell on him.

I must have accidentally cast something like a restoration spell...

I dont think i've seen anything normal in this town so far I had never seen that much magic in one day before.

So, according to that wanderer, to kill a vampire we need to cut off it's head with a silver weapon. Bah, who'd be stupid enough to make a weapon out of silver, there's nothing like good old steel. If what he said was true though, I wouldnt be able to harm the vampire, so I ran towards the controled thugs to help the fiery man.

My name is Bado, i came from distant lands were in the past had many forests, and today has only 3 forest protect by druids. I'm one of these druids - i'm the leader of the Kalleine's groove - why i'm here? In my travels i've heard a strangetalking about a child(boy) what have died in his hands what last words was about an artifact - what could be that artifact? May it could save my lands? My best friends are too animals - an eagle - Pandora and a panther - Plun.

I've decided to start my search for this artifacts and other things what could save my lands. But my surprise was when i came to a place where everybody was talking about a vampire - must be an expert vampire - cause everybody was alarmed. I won't cross my path with this creature.

Krysnamurt(God of Forest) - Help me in my batles.

It had been a while since i fought vampires and i forgot how i defeated them back then.

That "soldier" like man said something about a silver sword...
Now i remeber, Silver and garlic are very good for fighting vampires!!
I yelled it "Does anyone have garlic?? It is good against vampires too!!"
The look on the vampire made me more sure about the garlic.

Then i remebered how i've broken my last silver sword on the head-vampire back in Amn.
"Damn, i dont have any silver sword. But any silver weapon would do!".

In the meanwhile that same soldier casted a spell on the vampire. I reconised it immeadiatly: Holy fire!! But thats a spell that only the highest paladins can cast? How was he able to do that???

There was no time to think about that now as the thiefs attacked.

One came straight at me, i remebered that mind controlled creature are very though (specially if there controlled by a vampire), i simply turned away as he came at me and he past right by me, hitting against the wall.

I knew he didnt feel a thing, he attacked again. I raised my moonblade and hitted him right on the head. I used alot of force, normaly he would have been dead by this, but he was still alive almost unhurt.
This is new?! I dont rember there minions to be so strong?!!
The vampire laughed......

BOOOOOM!

My heart almost stopped. There was a large explosion from outside. It sounded like it was across town somewhere so I calmed down. Bob looked startled for a second but then went back to washing the mugs out.
"Crazy night tonight." I said.
"Your'e telling me!" Replied Bob. I wonder about this town sometimes.
"Yeah me to...." I said losing interest, "Fill up me mug again eh?"
Bob sighed, grabbed my empty mug and topped it up from the mead barrel.

Suddenly the door crashed open. There was standing there a rather large orc!
"Ye Gods!" Bob shouted, "an invasion of greenskins!"
His brothers drew their swords.
"Whoa!" Yelled the orc. "I just want a drink and some food!"
"Hold it boys!" I shouted out to them. "No sense in killing a customer right?"
"I suppose." He replied, not taking his eyes off the orc. His father had been killed by one apparently on a hunting expedition. Allthough it depends who you hear the story from. Another story is that he simply drank himself to death. I think Bob believed the former tale. I have no idea what happened to my parents. I have no memory of them. I had lived with Bob all my life.

The orc, wary too, sat down. I noticed a large wound on his right side. Either he'd been in a fight or had an accident. When noticing the wound was alingned with the scabbard of his sword I grinned.
"Drew your sword too fast eh?" I laughed. The orc glowered at me. For a moment I thought that may have not been the smartest thing to say. Then the orc did something I did not expect. He grinned, then blushed.
"Yeah, I whipped it out too fast!"
"Don't go whipping it out in here!" Bob warned.
He spoke very good human for an orc. Maybe he was even civilised.
An opportunity for profit rang in my drunken brain.

"You play cards my green friend?"
"Cash?" Was his simple reply. I was slightly taken aback.
"Er, sure! Chase the ace then!"
We sat down to enjoy a peaceful evening playing. Oblivious to the insanity all around.

Now that some guy behind a couple of barrels had restored me..i could have a decent fight..i looked in to the direction of the vampire and grinned...he didn't seemed to be pleased about me me doing that, wich even pleased me more..i had trouble keeping my laughter in...(hehehe stupid vampire..as soon as i get this li'll minions out of my way..you're so totally gonna get it!)

While my sakaba can't kill and only break some bones it wasn't really a usefull weapon in this fight..i have kept it around cause i don't want to kill drunk fools that somehow just want to challenge me...but i can hurt them real bad with my sakaba..

On the other hand my long sword has no other means then killing..wich is perfectly suited for this battle..having drawn both ment i clouldn't summon no magic..

I had no trouble killing 2 of the minions but somehow the remaining 2 were harder 2 kill...(what the?)

I heard the paladin mention something about garlic..(i had some in my pack when i bought the supplies)

I had no time to rummage through my pack..so i threw it to the guy behind the barrels..

"I know i have some garlic in there, search it quickly"

And continued the fight..

I hope he doesn't mind me making a mess of it I thought while emptying the bag.
I could smell the garlic allright, but where was it?
I found some gold in his bag, but I knew it probably would be wiser to leave it in there, having seen the strenght of this warrior.
Suddenly my hand felt something different than all the clothes etc I had been feeling before, and I realised this must me it. I took it out, and threw the garlic towards the warrior. "Catch" He gracefully picked it up out of the air, now he was ready to defeat this vampire...

reassured that I was looking at a allready won battle, I started thinking again about what I did, with the light coming out of my hands and all.. I never saw anyone do anything like it.. But yet it looked somehow familiar.
How did I do it? I thought, trying to do exactly the same again, but this time, without succes.

Well, I can't rely on something I don't even know how to use I figured, and so I needed a weapon..

I quickly put the stuff back in his bag, some of it (most actually) was covered with sand, but he wouldn't make a big deal of this seen the circumstances I guessed.

The waitress never answered back...
and now that my eye had adjusted to the dim surroundings, I could see why... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
It looked like a slight skirmish might have gone on here, tables were overturned,
and some broken bottles and glasses, scattered around...
That poor waitress was scurrying around faster than, an ant at a picnic.... behind her near the counter, were two others.
They both looked rather uneasy, and I approached them cautiously stating,
at the same time, that I just needed some food and drink...
(I left out the trouble part) and they loosened up a little....

after my little embarassment about the sword, ,I observed a napkin, moving
towards these two, across the counter of the bar,
it seemed to be moving...by a will of it's own, and it quite shocked me when
will grabbed the napkin to use and revealed...a hand!
I almost choked, "Watch out"...
I lurched back, but the hand started flipping off all around me until
the short he told it to be nice...
He told me his name was William Winklepicker, and this was his longtime
friend Bob the Owner...
"Can we get any food around here? I asked as politely as I could...mainly cuz
I was half starving to death, and Granny Orcarina always said, being nice
always gets better results, ...unless your in battle!

Bob asked me what I had in mind, and i told him, i'd have some of that roast
i smelled cooking, along with some snails, smothered in butter and garlic
sauce...three loaves of bread, 4 fruits, 2 pieces of cheese, and a carrot!
He looked at me peculiarly with a stunned look, and handed me a mug,
telling me that i'd have to wait on the snails, at least till he had a moment
to go out back... and get some.
"You play cards my green friend?"
"Cash?" Was my reply.
"And order up more Ale too, I'm very thirsty for something other than creek water...

We played cards, and got to know each other, and drank until the wee hours.
Will told me of his lot, of 'invisible' friends, and that he sees dead people.
I assumed he was nuttier than a fruitcake... Bob piped up and jokingly stated
that he is regarded as a fairly strange fellow around Viroeth, his very own
home town. Can you believe it?
Hmmmm? I thought to my self, "not quite sure about that yet!" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
It looked as if he and Bob had known each other for years.
The food was a welcome treat to my empty gut...

We were just done with questioning the children as we wanted to sit a voice suprised us something about children he said. We turned around and saw the guitar guy had allready come back.

"A drink? we would like a drink and talk to you, but first we should find the other contact. But we can have one drink first. After that we start looking for him, We don't feel like explaining the quest twice, its a book allright"

apparently he was indeed my contact. I stayed uncertain untill he said sth about finding the other contractor(s).
So we went inside the Inn again to get a drink. The barmaids were doing their best at cleaning up the place and a few tabled and chairs were replaced already. it seemed that the bartender runs into fights more often and so I guess he's kinda prepared for it. Then we saw the HUGE orc sitting at a table playing cards with someone. He seemed vry harmless and thus we went sitting at the table next to theirs.
We ordered some ales and I gave the cardplayers one as well. "consider it: 'kindness of a stranger'" I said to the Orc.

"fank fou" the Orc replied with his mouth full of food and we laughed.
Then me and my contact talked a bit and watched the cardplayers. They seemed to get along very good and I thought to myself that they may come in handy if the quest was gonna be dangerous.

I shoved my sakaba back into it's sheath to catch the garlic, but one of the minions punched me before i could get it, making me fall a few paces away..

from somewhere inside me came the feeling of embarrassment and fury..(why? what are these feelings?) An answer came from a memory of one of my lives..(Was/is That me?)
What i saw was a man totally engulved with fire that seemed to dance around him..The man was facing a lot of demons all by himself and he just stood there with that vague grin on his face..

"You must be mad challenging us like that human" one of the demons said to him.."You cannot stop us, we will destroy your kingdom"

The smile of the man only became bigger and he said "Sorry, but i have no time..you die now!!"

Suddenly the fire around him changed to the colours of white, black and blue..

"By the 7 fires of the Universe die!!" and then the fires combined into a flare directly striking the demons, hitting them all at once..

(No, it can't..that attack must have made him tired!) But he just stood there..muttering something about stupid demons and that he has never been defeated before, how they could even think of beating him...

(that's insanity!! I can hardly summon any of those fires and he just combines them into one attack like it's nothing)

Suddenly a voice said "that used to be you, you know"

"what? That was me in another life? it can't be! How come i'm not that powerfull now then?"

"every life has it's own standard of strengths and ability's..every life is different.."

" what use do i have in seeing and knowing that then"

"It's for you to remember who you are..allthough you are not that powerfull..you still have the skills and the knowledge..You are a knight, but you don't fight like one now..remember your lives and apply the knowledge"

"it's easy for you to say! I don't know what i can and cannot apply to this live"

"You do know..you're just to stubborn to believe it"

"No i don't know! And what do you mean stubborn?"

But there was no reply, i don't know what the meaning of that was..but it left me more confused then ever...

I took a quick look around to see what happened but everything was just like how it was before i had that confusing dream or whatever it was..

The minion that punched me came charging to me to finish me of..but the soldier from the inn bashed into him, giving me the chance too stand up..

Still confused i looked around to see what excatly was happening..(oh yes, the garlic!)

I looked around to see where it fell.. aah there it was close to the place where i seemd to have dropped my sword..

I took a quick sprint toward it..allthough it didn't seemed necessary cause the minion were beeing kept busy by the paladin and the soldier..and the vampire was still at his place watching...I picked up my sword and the garlic and said in a loud voice to the vampire "Hey look what i got here.."

The vampire that was occupied watching his minions fight the soldier and paladin..and somehow seemed to have forgotten that i was still around..(he probably must concentrate on his minions to make them stronger and more effective..) he looked at what i was holding and recognised it immediatly cause he hissed and and dissapeared saying " You'll die in a moment of weakness "

And with that he was gone...

When the vampire left his minions suddenly became lifeless. I looked around the see if everyone was ok. Thankfully, no one had been badly hurt. Tracking down this vampire is going to be one hell of an adventure, and I dont want to be part of it in any way.

To me, only one thing mattered. I had to find the person who killed Hayley, and it certainly wasnt a vampire. Vampires dont kill people so brutally. I decided to leave town as fast as possible.

"I'm glad to see everyone's ok, but I must go already. Do be careful if you decide to track and kill the vampire, they are nasty things. He'll find a way to get past your garlic."

After those words I turned around and left the village.