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Orc Problems, Pt2; In which DeVreekz encounters a Waagh!
Topic Started: 26th May 2007 - 09:44 AM (290 Views)
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Sorry this one took so long, I hit a block :( I'm pleased with the end result, though. Final part coming Soon™

DeVreekz darted out of the shaman’s tent, leaping agilely over a pile of logs in his path. He scuttled swiftly up to a rocky outcrop, dispensing silently with the sentry there and taking up position there, looking around the area.

Below him was chaos.

A massive horde of orcs was charging through the gates screaming, the giant formerly guarding the gates nowhere to be seen. Hordes of goblins poured through with them, squeezing in wherever the more powerful orcs didn’t simply smash them aside. Opposite them, the more disciplined orcs of Warlord Bloodskull wheeled in formation, singing another marching song. As close as he was, DeVreekz heard their bellows easily. “Ah want tuh be a drill instric- intstructe- teecher!” Evidently, a rival orc camp had attacked.

DeVreekz cursed. “_Bugger-bugger! A Waaagh!_ Why is it always _me-me_!? Never another-rat, _no_, always poor-poor DeVreekz! _Bugger-bugger!_”
From behind DeVreekz came a reply. “Gwuh!”
“_Bugger-bugger!_”

DeVreekz leapt forwards as the giant’s hand swept towards him, turning as he did so to face it. As he fell from the cliff face, he fired throwing star after throwing star at it, but they simply stuck into the giant with no visible effect. Gracefully, he somersaulted backwards, did a handspring, and landed nimbly behind rock barrier. Above, the giant picked up a rock and hurled it violently, but it merely struck the barrier, sending debris around the area harmlessly as DeVreekz scuttled away silently, leaving the hapless giant to throw more rocks.

DeVreekz ducked out of a tunnel, spotting a pair of arguing goblin shamans, one of whom he recognized as the one who had vanished before. _Not dead, then..._ he mused. The goblin shamans bickered loudly. “Watch it, ya’ git, or yer ‘ead ‘ll explode!”
“No, yer ‘ead ‘ll explode!”
“No, _yer_ ‘ead ‘ll explode!!”
A massive, black-armoured orc approached them from behind, grabbing their heads and smashing them together. “Der! Now both of yer ‘eads ‘ave exploded!” Evidently, this was the warlord, DeVreekz assumed. The orc stomped off towards the conflict, leaving the two shamans to rub their heads in confusion. Spotting his moment, DeVreekz wrapped his cloak tightly around him and stepped out of the shadows in front of the two confused greenskins.

It took a few seconds for the goblins to realise what was in front of them, but soon a hail of glowing green bolts and various other magical effluvia came flying towards DeVreekz. Wrapped inside his cloak, he merely laughed a ratty laugh as they passed right through him. Fast as a clan eshin ratsassin, he darted forwards, a throwing star from his hand just missing one shaman, while a pair of weeping blades plunged into the neck of the other. The remaining goblin shaman’s eyes went wide and white, then it suddenly raised its staff upwards and chanted. A green bolt of light shot down and hit the goblin, lifting it into the air. It dropped down again suddenly, glowing with energy.

“Bugger-bugger!” DeVreekz muttered, then he leaped through the air, blades outstretched. The goblin moved faster, though, catching his blades on its staff. The goblin pushed backwards, sending DeVreekz flying backwards into a building. He vaulted off it as he landed, leaping over the goblin, striking down at it as he did so. It span round, caught his blades upon its staff, then swung the staff round, smashing DeVreekz in the side and sending him flying across the area, before smacking into the ground painfully. DeVreekz got to his feet unsteadily, and prepared a third weeping blade in his tail as the goblin mage charged.

Lightning fast, he hurled all three weeping blades, before unsheathing another three and throwing them, too. Two of the poisonous blades flew past the goblin, three more were deflected by his staff, but the third successfully struck him in the muscle in the shoulder and stuck. As the goblin reached him, DeVreekz readied his final set of blades and leapt over the goblin. It turned slower this time, but still managed to deflect his strikes away with its staff. It struck rapidly, twice. The first DeVreekz stepped back from, and then he drove his blades hard towards the goblin. Its staff whipped round and caught the blades, which stuck in it. Tearing the blades from his grip, the staff whipped round again, catching DeVreekz hard in the side of his nose.

He rolled under a third strike, grabbing a weeping blade from the floor and stabbing under the goblin’s guard, cutting a deep gash into its stomach. The goblin screeched in pain and stepped backwards, as glowing green worms sewed up the hole. It stepped forward again, its red eyes narrowing. DeVreekz saw his only chance. Running towards the goblin, he leapt, snatched the blade from its shoulder and struck. The goblin turned and spoke, seemingly unaffected. “Hah! Silly rat! You missed!” DeVreekz replied to the goblin’s screeching. “Try-try nodding your head, green-thing.”

The goblin did so.
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numerouno
May 26 2007, 10:44 AM
“Hah! Silly rat! You missed!” DeVreekz replied to the goblin’s screeching. “Try-try nodding your head, green-thing.”

Nice piece numerouno! I have a feeling that the situation was inspired by a certain eshin tactician ^_^

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Indeed. Part 3 up tomorrow.
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*Sighs and points to the italics function* God damnit Azh, it's there for a reason...
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May 28 2007, 06:27 PM
*Sighs and points to the italics function* God damnit Azh, it's there for a reason...

Habits can be hard to break. :P

Nice piece, though! Keep it up. ^_^

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Thanks, mork :P

@Thrask: In a manuscript, you use _underscores_ to indicate italics, easy to miss otherwise - I tend to copy these straight from the mss., it gives me an excuse for bad formatting.
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I know what underscores are used for... but it's damn stupid when you use them in a typed copy. -_-
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As I said, I copy it straight from the mss. - which, for obvious reasons, has underscores.
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