Reprise! Act 1!

[Rezantis]

Relm made some gestures with one hand and sent a pair of knives spinning towards the witch with the other, then finishing the incantation darted into a Dimension Door, which came out about twenty metres above and behind the witch.

As she dived through the portal, she yanked another pair of throwing knives from her belt.

[Carthrat]

The witch easily dodged the knives, but was at a loss as to where Relm went.

From her position on high, Relm noted that the ground wasn't just shaking, it was cracking, and building up.

Sorta like a volcano being built up, but much, much, much too fast.

[Rezantis]

Relm concentrated, and sed air to grab the knives which had fallen to the ground earlier - which were in the witch's view - and hurl them towards the witch.

At the same time, falling towards her opponent, Relm grabbed the knives she'd missed with out of the air and threw the set of four in a pattern around the witch.

[Carthrat]

The witch put on a sudden burst of speed to avoid the knives flying at her from the ground, but was caught by two other knives being flung downwards.

One caught her in the shoulder, and the other caught the unfortunate woman in the back. Wounded, she started to spiral towards the ground..

..and towards a newly opened hole in the ground, from which smoke was starting to pour out.

[Rezantis]

Relm channelled air again, grabbed her opponent's neck in a choking grip, and both she and her opponent started to rise.  Fast.

Another of the knives flew back towards the woman and straight at her throat.

[Carthrat]

A sudden blast of steam aided Relm in her job of hoisting her opponent up. It didn't help her knife at all, though, (and she doubted she'd be able to find it again later).

Her opponent didn't really benefit, either; that steam was *hot*, and she was screaming in pain.

Looks like someone didn't use the wards they should have.

[Rezantis]

Relm dropped to her opponent's level (behind her), keeping the witch in the choking grip, and tore the holding amulet from around said witch's neck.

[Carthrat]

The amulet was wet and slick, and almost fell through Relms fingers. Luckily, she managed to grab hold of it.

The witch had stopped screaming and closed her eyes. Relm couldn't make out if she was breathing or not.

[Bean Bandit]

Ryoma said some fairly vulgar words...quite a few, too. Spotting his dropped items, he fell rapidly from the sky, a flap of his wings arresting most of the speed. Grunting, he began pulling the arrow from his shoulder, vile thoughts on his mind.

"Must not blow *&^$#!! Forest to smithereens, Must not hunt down and murder every tiny napoleon who lives here...happy thoughts, happy thoughts..."

[Carthrat]

Ryoma, still paying no attention to the elf, had another arrow appear in the same place.  Except this time (facing the complete wrong way) he didn't see the flash a split second before.

[Carthrat]

Relm grabs the witch and holds a knife to her neck . . . and applies a cure light wounds with the other hand.

"Now, how about you get us all out of here before I -use- this."

"I.. need.. spell.." stutters back the witch.

Relm didn't loosen her grip.  "Do it."

The magess starts chanting..

Carthrat: After a few moments of hand-waving and mumbo-jumbo, Relm feels the world start to dissapate, and the familiar sensation of being shunted from one place to another via magic..
Carthrat: ..and as the world cleared before her eyes, she realised that something fundamental about her position had changed.
Carthrat: Before, she was the one holding the witch with a knife to her throat. Now, she was being held.
Carthrat: And these *certainly* weren't her clothes. They were too big for her.
Carthrat: Even though they seemed to fit.
Relm Tyrean: "Nice trick."
Carthrat: And she didn't feel quite so burned just before.
Carthrat: And she did see that they had materialized right in front of Ginn.
Carthrat: And that someone had dropped the amulet, because it was lying between the entangled duo and the estranged dimension-traveller.

<->

Ginn, you see the tent vanish, and an expensive-looking amulet drop in front of you, followed by the apperance of Relm grabbing a witch (she's wearing a pointy hat and all) by the throat and holding a knife to her neck.

"Nice trick," says the witch.

[Rezantis]

The witch winces and continues . . .  "Now don't think I'm not annoyed about this, because I am, but you're hardly going to get that bounty like this."

[Carthrat]

"That's my line," quips Relm.

[Rezantis]

"Very good, wiseass," the witch indicated Ginn with a nod of her head, "What's his name?"

[Carthrat]

"Ginn," replies Relm, rolling her eyes. "And the girl you locked inside the amulet is Carthrat."