Ariel and I wipe out the East


Almost

How Missy Ariel and I destroyed the Eastern Army - Almost

It was the woods battle at Pensic XV. I had injured my knees, again, and thought that I would sit the battle out. The Calon army was very new then and wearing the tabards was a great joy, not that it isn't now, only then it was still a new joy.

As I was watching the army march off to battle, singing, While I stood there on my crutches, I was greatly inspired. Grabbing the few non-fighters in camp I then had my knee wrapped and myself armored. Rounding up 3 other fighters that were back in camp for verious reasons we took off after the army. They were Ly. Megan O'Rielly, Tom the German, and a third I can't remember. The 4 of us moved slow and entered the woods well after the gun. (I was walking on a busted knee, I had to have it replaced right after that war.) We had many small engagements with small groups of easterners and did quite well until our forth or fifth engagement where we were all killed. The other three went on to resurrection point as I was still very slow and they could move at normal speed.

Upon reaching the resurrection point I found the only fellow Calontiry was a young fighter named Ariel.

Photo by Terry Carr of Complete Miracle Production

She was very young then and didn't have a lot of war experience. What her inexperienced eyes saw was the old war dog of Pavel standing ready to once more move into battle. She asked me if she could resurrect with me. Flattered, I, of course, said "you bet C'ha!"

We moved out and in our war tabards. A large hulking brute of an old warrior and a young, just blooded, warrior. We met a couple of small one and two fighter eastern fighter groups that we quickly dispatched. Ariel showed much skill in these small encounters, raising my assesment of her skill with each one. Then we saw a column of about 120 eastern troops.I, sensing their fear, Yelled "CHARGE!!" and wattled at the foe's column. Ariel, being young and fast, quickly got in front of me with her shield. (I was fighting pole arm, this was before Syr Richard cut my hand off and the doctors put it back on.) We hit the column almost dead center. It was about 4 fighters wide. Ariel jumped the ditch and smashed into the two fighters in front of her, compressing their ranks. I jumped across the shallow ditch and landed right behind her.

There was chaos. "Calontir is attacking our flank!" "Wheel! Wheel!" I got three with my first swings! Ariel was swinging a kill with every blow! We cleared a circle of dead within weapons reach! The foe knew they were in for a quick trip to the resurrection point!....then we heard the fatal words. " There are only two of them."………. There was a long quite pause…....Then, the world fell on us….*sigh*

Well, that's the story of Ariel and myself almost wiping out the eastern army. :)

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