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Forging a Blade [Ragnar]
Mon Apr 11, 2022 4:28 pm
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Mon Apr 11, 2022 5:01 pm
Quill and Ragnar then oddly meet up with Godfrey, who apparently looked for them, and asked to meet them at his shop. Well whatever this was, it was a mission and they were looking for that kind of stuff so they both simply left with him. Once they finally got back to his shop, a couple of things had changed.
One was a strange scroll on the pedestal, an anvil, the gemstone that Ragnar had acquired for the man along with a hammer and the ore that Ragnar had also gotten past the guards earlier. What the hell was all of this nonsense? That is when Godfrey asked the question, he needed them to help him forge the blade and in order to help him, they would need to pour their mana into it. Alright well that wasn't nearly as worrying as Ragnar thought it would be. He assumed that he would have to get this man the blood of innocents or something crazy, which Ragnar would do and has done for his own rituals but still. Weird for someone else to ask him for that kind of stuff.
WC 300
Mon Apr 11, 2022 5:07 pm
He said he didn't really have a thing called Mana, but he knew that she was a mage and could help him with it. She looked at Ragnar and then herself as she then agreed and nodded her head. She didn't really mind helping at all.
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Mon Apr 11, 2022 5:23 pm
Quill gave the first patch of Mana as the spell was going on, and even Ragnar managed to help. While he didn't use his 'mana' for spells, he knew that he had it inside of him as that is what the abilities of some weapons drew on. Ragnar simply opened up that same thing during this, but also got tired much faster then Quill which wasn't surprising all things considered. The blade was finished in a matter of an hour, most likely leaving both Ragnar and Quill drained of their mana but they knew it worked when the sword glowed a brilliant white before slowly fading back down to a normal color. Something odd about this was that all the heat from the blade was gone as well once the 'spell' was finished, and after staring at the blade for nearly a minute in silence, Godfrey reached down with a file and made sure it was hard enough to cut. After doing that he ran his finger over the edge of the blade and frowned. The blade was extremely dull and blunt.
Though he quickly turned towards Quill and Ragnar and then said that he needed them to help finish this quest for him. There was another step to the forging of this blade and that they would need to do something alittle out of ordinary. They would need to use this blade and coat it in the blood of people, innocent people.
Well, that was a very quick jump from the stuff they had him due mere days ago. Ragnar remembered just the other day he had asked him to beat up a jeweler, and then kill his rival but that made some sense. Killing innocent people was another leap in the murder hierarchy that normally isn't skipped. Something had changed about this man, and Ragnar almost knew what it was.
WC 673/1600
Mon Apr 11, 2022 5:32 pm
That literally hit her inside.
Her face looked at Godfrey and wondered what happened to the man she once knew. He was just some typical forge blacksmith. He was nice and just didn't want to be lied to. She respected that. But now all he wants to do is finish this blade and to kill anyone in his way. She looked up that Ragnar, as in, wondering what she should do. She just nodded her head to him and took the sword and walked out. "Can... you do it for me?" ... She mumbled sorrowfully.
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Mon Apr 11, 2022 6:01 pm
Ragnar turned and looked at Quill and looked down at the sword and was just generally confused. Quill had murdered innocent people before. Many times, even going as far as sending a girl into human experimentation but could she not do this? This was very strange to Ragnar as in his mind all of those things were just the same, they killed 'innocent' people. That is just facts, but apparently Quill didn't see it that way. Well Ragnar was going to have to do something about this as he reached down and gently grabbed the sword from Quills hand and gave her a gentle pat on the back. Ragnar then turned and walked away from Quill and then tried to come up with a plan.
It took Ragnar a moment or three to figure out a plan that might work at all. It would require him to break into another blacksmiths store, which honestly wasn't all the hard for Ragnar as he located a shop that he knew had enough stuff for him to hide his identity, which honestly was harder then Ragnar thought as he would have to make himself seem EVEN bigger then he already was in order to make it so he wasn't just the easiest person in the world to spot. After a bit of planning and figuring it all out and breaking into a few blacksmiths Ragnar came out of it with a set of armor that looked like someone stole it off a battlefield, as nothing remotely matched and was of different styles and makes but it worked enough to hide what Ragnar looked like, and he added some more height to himself then normal to make it slightly harder for someone to find him.
Good news is that finding innocent people to murder wasn't even remotely hard for Ragnar, as he simply walked into a crowded city street from an alley and took a swing at the first person he saw. Ragnar's strength, even with a dull sword sent the man's head flying through the air like a pinwheel. That is when the screaming started. Ragnar only managed to get through four people before a squad of Rune knights showed up, at which point it was time for Ragnar to go. Ragnar had no interest in fighting Rune knights, at least not with this shitty weapon, though to be fair every single time he killed someone with it, it did grow sharper and sharper. Maybe it would be a great weapon after this, but Ragnar didn't care.
Ragnar took a turn and simply ran, and ran directly into a wall of a restaurant, knocking over some people eating dinner before running through it. He had decided to simply run through the buildings rather then go around, there wasn't really any benefit not to and it might even slow down the Rune knights following him as they cared about the people they hurt as they ran behind them. Luckily for Ragnar, as he ran through these places he managed to kill a person or two in every one, it was getting very easy at this point to kill them and it took less and less effort as time went on.
Apparently the magic was working, and Ragnar had done the very best he could to avoid issues but he was causing more and more havoc as he ran through this town, destroying property and leaving corpses in his wake. It wasn't took long before Ragnar got his tenth and final kill, at which point the blade morphed and started to give off a dull glow and was now sharp enough that Ragnar could use it to cut through walls like paper.
Welp, now was the hard part. Ragnar had to escape all of this hell. Luckily he could do that but he had to finish the mission first and foremost. Ragnar simply ran back to the forge area, where Quill had hopefully stayed at while he completed the mission. As he ran past her, luckily his run speed was much faster then the rune knights, he handed the weapon off to her before continuing to run. Quill could give the blade back to Godfrey, get them both paid and then Ragnar could figure out a way to join them later.
WC: 1,472
Mon Apr 11, 2022 6:15 pm
It was obviously wrong as he just wanted any blood for his sword as long as they were innocent people. Why do they have to be innocent people? They could have been someone who was looking like they're innocent, but they were actually criminals. Or anyone. But they had to be innocent. Actual people who just walked in. Live their lives. Taking care of the little girl that she took care of and she couldn't think of the fact that she could have been one of those innocent people. What if she was? She remembered how that Dragon killed all those innocent people and she killed the Dragon woman for it.
There is no mercy behind it for her. Her eyes looked to see if there were some knights coming towards her. As soon as they approached her, they ask some questions to see if she knew anything about some man carrying a sword. Was Ragnar already found out? That was a little fast as she just shook her head no innocently as she looked at them in their eyes. There was nothing more important than eye contact. They nodded their head after a few more questions and then left. There is nothing more to say and nothing more to be done as she just waited there for Ragnar. Once he showed up, she could tell that he killed a bunch of innocent people. There was blood on there, so it all over as well as his body. She just accepted the soil and then went back to Godfrey to get paid and once she was, she left to go meet up with Ragnar elsewhere.
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Mon Apr 11, 2022 6:33 pm
He was sure he looked crazy but he needed to do this and he was so glad he grew up in the mountains where the air was thin otherwise he would have died from running this long. Eventually Ragnar did manage to lose the Rune knights that were following him along with ditching all of the gear he had used to finish the job. Ragnar eventually came back to the hotel, very tired and sweaty from all the running he did. He went directly to the shower and after that to bed.
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