Re: [Altamira] Ragnos' Training
sorry for the wait
Ragnos looked around. The front lobby was a large circular room with a high ceiling. The room split into three corridors, each one identical to the next. Suddenly, Ragnos heard a voice from behind him.
"Hail, dark elf!"
Ragnos wheeled around to face a group of 5 elvish creatures. They were a different race then the Dark Elf tribe he hailed from. Their skin was tanned, almost brown. They were no more then five feet tall, and they each had scruffy blonde hair. Each elf had the clothes of a beggar, torn shirts and scrapped shorts.
Ragnos pondered these elves for a second and replied, "Hello, little elves, are you operators of this building?"
The elves all chuckled and one of them replied, "Why yes, we are the trainers here. But by the looks of you, you really don't need any training"
Ragnos eyed the elf cautiously, then replied rather smugly, "Why yes, I am fairly talented in the art of swordplay"
Another elf spoke up "Look at that armor! Black as pitch, thick, and looks incredibly light weight!"
Ragnos was beaming now and replied in an arrogant tone "Why yes, this armor is the finest you will ever see"
The elves surrounded Ragnos, and each pointed to a piece of his armor and gawked in awe. After several minutes, the elf directly behind Ragnos held up his hand. The other elves all slightly nodded and went back to chatting with Ragnos. Ragnos was smitten by the elves praise that he wasn't fully aware of his surroundings when the elf behind him shouted "NOW!"
In a frenzy, each elf grabbed a piece of Ragnos' armor. The elf behind him managed to get Ragnos' sword out of its sheath. Panicked and frustrated, Ragnos shook off the elves. All five took off down the corridors. Two down the left, one down the middle, two more on the right.
Ragnos looked down and noticed he was very naked. All he was wearing were the leather shorts that prevent his armor from chafing. He patted his back frantically, only to realize one of the elves had made off with his sword, too. Even the circlet on his head was gone.
Ragnos didn't have time to think, he bolted down the farthest left corridor. The corridor was about 7 feet tall and 4 feet wide. It seemed to stretch on forever, a sea of egg-white tiles. He could see one of the elves ahead of him. The elf was holding a pair of black boots.
"COME BACK HERE YOU LITTLE CRETIN!" Ragnos shouted. The elf was slowly losing distance to Ragnos, who was in full sprint. When Ragnos was about 10 feet from his prize, the elf made a sharp right and disappeared into another corridor. Ragnos turned the corridor only to see a large room filled with floating white boxes.
A motion-activated voice called out "First Floor, Aerial Combat Training". Indeed, the room was about 6 stories high, and the boxes could be climbed and jumped all the way to the top. To Ragnos' dismay, he saw the elf was already making his ascent up the box staircase. Ragnos immediately followed. The climb felt endless, and by the time Ragnos reached the top, he was completely winded. At the top were two large floating platforms. One which Ragnos was standing on, and other which the elf was standing on.
The elf laughed wickedly and said, "You want these shoes? Go get them!" And tossed the plate mail boots off the side of the platform. Ragnos wasted no time, he jumped forward and caught the edge of the platform the elf was on. He grabbed the little creature and pinned him to his body. The elf squirmed, but Ragnos' forearm was secure over his chest.
Then Ragnos jumped off the side of the platform. The voice came over the room again and said "Aerial Combat Initiated". The boxes all shot towards the wall, and were assimilated into the tiling. Ragnos expected to be falling, but instead, he was hovering in mid air, his boots hovering just above the floor, where they would have been smashed beyond repair. Ragnos literally swam through the air down towards the ground and grabbed his boots. With one hand over the elf's neck, he carefully put them on, and admired how ridiculous he looked.
Ragnos threw the elf to the ground, and put his booted foot on his chest.
"Where are the others meeting up?" Ragnos asked
"The entrance hall! Now let me go!" The elf cried. Ragnos picked the elf up and rapped his head with his fist. The elf went out cold, and Ragnos set his body down.
Ragnos ran back through the corridor to the entrance hall. Sneakily, he looked out and saw three of the four remaining elves. In between the three was a pile of Ragnos'
armor. His chest plate, circlet, Leggings, and gloves.
He took a deep breath, shook his head, and exhaled. Ragnos charged into the room, screaming as loud as he could. The elves all jumped up and scurried around. Ragnos managed to grab one by the nape of its neck. He tossed that elf into another, both elves smashing into the wall. The last elf was trying to escape through a corridor, but Ragnos was too quick for it. He swept its legs out from under it, knocking it out cold.
Ragnos quickly put on his armor, and admired how amazing he looked again. The only thing he was still missing was his trusty sword, the elf that had stolen it was not at the meeting that Ragnos just destroyed.
Ragnos began off down the middle corridor, looking for any signs of the elf. Sure enough, he saw a piece of tattered cloth from the elf's tunic. The cloth was outside of a door that seemed to be blended with the wall. Ragnos grabbed the door and swung it open.
The voice sounded again with "First Floor, Treasure Hall". Just as the room described, there were giant piles of gold and silver coins on the floor. Crates of weapons and racks of armor adorned the walls of the room, and the room was lit with a gigantic crystal chandelier.
Ragnos quickly noticed a shifting of coins in one of the gold piles. The elf's head popped up, saw Ragnos, and darted back in. Ragnos grabbed a glowing sphere next to him. It looked like a very precious stone, very expensive. Ragnos hurled the sphere as hard as he could at where the elf was crawling through the gold. A large THUD echoed through the room. Ragnos walked over to the pile and pulled up the unconscious elf from among the coins and shards of the orb. He grabbed the sword off its back, and dropped the elf into a chest of coins, and put a sword in the lock, so it wouldn't open from the inside.
Ragnos put his sword on his own back and walked back to the main hall.
the elves were all gone, so he decided to lean his back on the main doors and have a nice nap.