Rats in the Night [job/solo]

Job Details:

Lexiara cautiously made her way along the roof tops, keeping a sharp eye out. The forge owner, Ishaq, had mentioned that several of his fellow shop owners in the area had been suffering from an influx of burglaries at their shops and were at their wits end. The guards were so busy with the festivities that they simply could not spare any more people for patrolling the market area at night. The whole area was plagued by a gang called the Black Fingers and every night, a few more shops were broken into and merchandise or money was taken.

Lexi had offered to help out with the gang members, hating the idea of hard working people losing their way of life to some thugs. The sound of a crash drew her attention and she crept to the edge of the rooftop, looking down to see a door smashed in. She quietly drew her bow from her back, already working on notching an arrow, steadily aiming for the door. She squinted against the dark, barely able to make out the figure of two men clad in black ransacking the shop. She waited for them to come back through the door, steadying her aim.

[202/1000]

One of the thieves came to the door to check and make sure they would not be interrupted and she took the opportunity to launch an arrow at the gang member 20 meters at 10m/s. By the time the arrow found a home in the Black Finger’s leg, she already had another arrow notched and was releasing it at 10m/s when he shouted to him brother-in-arms. The second arrow hit him in the arm and he fell against the door frame. His partner in crime had come running at the sound of shouts, hiding his body behind the door frame. She crouched down to hide behind the ledge of the rooftop to avoid being seen when she heard a warning whistle coming from the shop. She mentally cursed to herself; she had been hoping it would just be the two thieves, but luck was not on her side this night. She slid another arrow into place before peaking over the lip of the building, her height advantage keeping her from view for the time being. The only luck she had managed was that the air was calm this night, so her arrows seemed to be finding their mark with relative ease.

[Ammo 8/10]
[403/1000]

The second thief had drawn a dagger and was looking around suspiciously, trying to locate where the mystery arrows had appeared from when she let another arrow fly, the arrow traveling 10m/s and striking the man’s arm holding the dagger. His eyes darted around before finally locating her. She was preparing another arrow when she heard him shout to his unseen partners, “She is on the roof, guys! GET HER!” She did not give him the chance to shout out again, her steady aim paying off as she hit him in the throat with an arrow traveling at 10m/s and dealing D-tier damage. It was not much, but she had hit his voice box, bruising it and making his voice come out in a quiet, garbled mess. At least he was out of the picture and would not be pursuing her.

Remembering that he had been shouting to one or more comrades, she crouched and moved to the next roof over, her eyes darting back as she heard a scuffle behind her. Two thieves were pulling themselves over the edge of the rooftop. They were also clad all in black, but the scrape of their feet against the walls gave them away. They spotted her and their efforts increased to hurry up to the roof and she heard a cry of pain from below them. She realized they must be trying to climb or kick off of another enemy below them and cursed softly. This task was proving troublesome and she crouched on the adjacent rooftop and drew several arrows.


[Ammo 6/10]
[663/1000]

She waited until they had finally pulled themselves over the edge and were standing about 20 meters away to whistle sharply. Both of their head’s swiveled in her direction and she smiled before releasing her Multi-Shot, the five projectiles shooting forward at 25m/s toward the men. She had not managed to align all of the arrows perfectly and one flew astray, but two landed in the man on the left and two more hit the man on the right. As the four arrows hit, dealing C-tier damage, the men were knocked off balance and fell over the side to land back on the ground. She could hear the last man grumbling and yelling at his two fallen cohorts. “You useless pieces of crap! Guess I will take care of her myself!” She arched a brow as she heard groans of pain from the two she had shot but tugged another arrow from her quiver, the notches on the end assuring her it was a poison arrow.

She waited patiently for the other man to scale the side of the building and she could tell by the time he had made it up there, he was frustrated. The look on his face clearly showed his anger and he drew a dagger in one hand and a short sword in the other, eyes looking around before landing on her. “So you are the one causing us so much trouble! You could be costing us a good deal, little lady, and I can’t have that!” He stalked forward, prepared to take care of his little ‘problem’ so he could go back to his burglary.

Abilities Used:

[Stamina 170/200]
[Ammo 6/10]
[934/1000]

Lexi simply arched a brow at his words before standing up, arrow already notched and aimed at the man. His stomped towards her, too angry to care about the arrow she was pointing at him, scowling at the young girl that was ruining his night of looting. She patiently waited for his angry steps to draw him into the perfect alignment and releasing the tension on the bowstring and launching a Poison Arrow towards him at 25m/s and hitting him in the stomach, the poison immediate spreading stinging pain through his abdomen and dealing B-tier damage. He fell to his knees with a groan, grabbing for the arrow with a wet cough. She approached him slowly, staying out of range of his weapons, though he looked pretty well disabled.

“You shouldn’t steal, sir. It isn’t nice to take from other people. Now you stay here, I am going to get a guard.”

The thief coughed up some blood at her feet and she made a face at him before scaling down the side of the building, the two thieves at the bottom still groaning in pain. A quick glance across the street showed the other two thieves in a similar predicament. She rushed to find a guard, not wanting the men to recover from her assault before they could be taken to jail.

Name: Poison Arrow
Tier: B
Cost: 30 Stamina
Weapon Type: Bow
Class Offensive/Supplementary
Range: 50 meters
Duration: 4 posts
Cool-Down: 5 posts
Description: Lexiara dips the arrowhead in poison and launches it at an enemy at 25m/s to a location up to 50m away, making the enemy cough up blood and suffer sore muscles and stinging pains for four posts and inflicting B-tier damage.

[Stamina 140/200]
[Ammo 6/10]
[1157/1000]
[exit]