Reprise! Act 1!

[Rezantis]

Upon stepping inside the Guild, and out of line of sight of the mage outside (although obviously not the clerk, but she didn't care about him).  Relm made a couple of quick hand motions and muttered something under her breath.

A glowing white portal appeared.  Relm immediataely ducked through it, and it closed behind her as Relm stepped out upstairs in the library.

Right next to her backpack, actually.

Turning around, Relm grabbed the two volumes she'd been after in the first place, and a third one that looked interesting, and put them quickly into her backpack before shouldering it and walking towards the stairs.


OOC: And no, I -don't- care

[Carthrat]

The officious mage and Carthrat-chan blundered into the room just in time to see a faint magical shimmer.

"Oh, looks like she got away," says Carthrat, shrugging.

"You helped her in this, didn't you?" replies the mage, looking annoyed (along with a few other magi in reception.)

"Well.. well.. yes, yes, I suppose I did," replies Carthrat. "Watcha gonna do about it?"

This stumped the magi for a few seconds..

[Rezantis]

. . . until Relm came walking back down the stairs, pack on her shoulder.

"Probably not much, you saw how effective they were against the wyrm."  Relm still looked decidedly irritated.  "Don't you all have a duty to protect the town, or something?"

[Carthrat]

"There is still no definateive proof of the wyrms existence!" cries the mage. "We must collect evidene to confirm this."

Carthrat shrugs. "Yeah, well, you do that. Just don't involve us, we're, um, not related."

"Oh, please. You spun the story, so you *must* be related. Don't think I'm stupid," replies the mage. "Surrender or be taken!"

"Oh, for the love of god.." mumbles Carthrat, annoyed. The magi look at Relm..

[Rezantis]

"What, several destroyed buildings, a number of eyewitnesses in the citizenry and a large amount of monster blood isn't enough for you?"

[Carthrat]

"If this is true, then you should have no problem in staying with us while we verify that," replies the mage, tartly.

Carthrat chortles at that. "Is everyone in this world as stupid as you?"

[Rezantis]

Relm facepalmed.

"No thanks, I've been on the wrong end of Mages with a shoulder chip before."

[Carthrat]

The mage shakes his head mournfully. "A pity," he says, and he snaps his fingers.

About four other nearby and, until now, unoticed magi immediatly being casting spells..

[Rezantis]

Relm snapped her fingers (which was completely unnecessary, but dramatic) and a shockwave of air rippled out from her at an insane speed - dividing itself around Carthrat and the head mage, but impacting them all with the force of . . . well, a very fast brick wall.

All the windows on the ground level of the mage guild shattered as the shockwave hit them . . .

[Carthrat]

Carthrat raises his club to smack something, but Relm is much faster than him, and her spell sent most of the magi flying back a short distance, disrupting their spells.. except for one.

Five bolts of red energy fire forth from his fingertips, three heading towards Carthrat, and two heading towards Relm..

[Rezantis]

Shit!

Yeah, this was going to hurt, but before the missiles impacted Relm waved a hand again and swiped the head Mage's feet out from underneath him with another air effect, then made to hi-

[Carthrat]

*cracklesfuzzsmack*

"Hah! That's all you got?" taunts Carthrat-chan, only *then* noticing Relm doubled up in pain.

Giving the head mage a good *whap* to stop him breathing in the forseeable future, Carthrat-chan simply picks up Relm in her other hand and hightails it outta there.

[Rezantis]

With a couple of murmured words - once she got her breath back, which was painful - Relm pressed a glowing white hand to where she'd been hit, and the pain eased immensely.

"You can," she coughed a couple of times, the continued a bit more steadily, "put me down now, I'm fine to walk."

[Carthrat]

"Certainly," replies Carthrat, setting Relm down. "I don't think they'll follow us just yet, anyway.."

[Rezantis]

"Thanks for the save."  Looking back in the direction they came from, Relm continued with a disgusted look on her face, "They probably won't want to let us go, though.  As part of the guild, mages are supposed to help defend the towns their guild branch is based in.  Dodging that responsibility gets people in trouble with higher ups.  Lots of trouble."

Relm sighed.

"So, yeah, right now they're going to want to get rid of us.  If they get rid of us, who else'll dispute whatever story they come up with?"