Trying to make out exactly what the blueprints are, while being on a riding horse isn't exactly the smartest idea, Acadius believed it to be a spell-bound sword. He was not entirely sure what the spell was going to be though......realizing that he was going to drop the blueprints, he quickly put them in his cloak

As the mattress hit the moat the explosion from above caused most of the tower to collapse in on itself and follow the two men down. Diving under the water and swimming as quick as his sore body could, Arios tore off his mask and let it sink away. He pulled himself up next to the gate and lay there, not moving, trying to fake unconsciousness.

Isaac landed into the moat, and quickly swam to the surface. Luckily, no guards were around. He climbed out of the moat and head'ed back to the safe house for some much needed rest.

"Acadius, glancing at the blueprints, I noticed that the blade must be forged using dark fire, that's dark magic. The dark arts are forbidden at the Guild. What does this mean?" Rat asks Acadius looking puzzled.

"It means that Master Kael is a dark sorcerer, and is more powerful than you can imagine..i've also heard rumors about a dark fire source at the end of the cave in the top of the mountain..dark fires also require a great mastery of dark magic."
"We're at the base of the mountain, now what?"

Rat jumps off of the horse and removes his wet clothes, wringing them dry. "Well, first we need warmth, and shelter. When we are safe we need to talk about Master Kael". Rat redressed and sat down on a rock, thinking. "If we try to reach the Resistance's hall, we'll be seen. Two mages fleeing from the Guild, that's a bit suspicious"

Jumping off of his horse, Acadius makes them vanish and pulls out an item from his cloak, it's not the blueprints. Acadius pulled out a seeing-stone, one of the forbidden items by the guild.

"If we use this, we could find the best time to enter the battleward of the guild castle. If we can get in there, we can get to my chamber and get all of my weapons, armor, scrolls, and about seven battle ready horses."

"However, we will need to find a new safehouse. One that close to the castle could be potentially dangerous, there is a large underground cavern accessible about 36 meters west, and just a little bit higher on the mountain."

"It will do for now. Acadius, can you try and use your mater manipulation to at least make it a bit liveable for tonight? I'll find wood." Rat says, standing up and tucking the blueprints back into his robes.

Putting on his hooded cloak, Acadius went a little east towards the lake. "I'll make the shelter closer to the water." Acadius said. Using his magic, Acadius made two simpler shelters and caught some fish to eat.

Arios stirred at the sound of footsteps coming closer. "We've got a live one! Get a healer over here!" someone said above him. "Oh god, it's Arrow! Get that healer here now!" Arios smiled despite the pain of his frozen limbs regaining feeling. Couldn't get first rate healing at the Resistance's Guild hall.
Looking up he saw a face he recognized, his friend from the gate, At least he's alright, for now. "Hey, what the hell happened? That explosion knocked me in the moat, can't feel my feet," he said with a weak laugh. "Where's Archer?"
"Archer's fine, not even spooked. That's a good horse you got there."
"Courier's best friend," Arios said quietly. "I'm gonna go to sleep now, 'night."

Bringing wood to the shelter. Rat sets it down and conjures a small fire. "I must say, I am exhausted. I called upon the best of my power tonight" with a yawn, Rat fell asleep within seconds.

Acadius started talking to Rat about the guild and finally got to the question, "Do you really think that there's a dark fire well this close to the castle?"

Rat didn't respond for a bit.....Acadius then realized Rat was asleep, he then chuckled and went to sleep himself.

Rat woke up, looking at the sky, he guessed it was very early morning. It was still dark. He pulled the blueprints out again and studied the writing on the insrudtions. A small section was written in ancient runes, what could this mean he said to himself

Bird shit fell from the sky and landed on Acadius' face, waking him up. "AAAUUUGH, What the fuck was that?" he yelled. Acadius looked towards Rat and said "We need to get moving, so, what's the plan for today?"

"It's still dark, but the Guild will still be writhing with activity. I must return, I need to check if father is okay. You can come or do whatever you wish." Rat stood and tucked away the blueprints once more. "wash your face if you're coming though."

Jason had still been in the tower when an explosion wracked the whole castle. He ducked another sword swing and swiflty brought his sword up into the guards exposed chest. Blood sprayed across the floor and this guard like so may others had dropped to the floor, leaving Jason standing among a pile of dead guard bodies. He hadnt realized when he had went into this room that it was the guards sleeping quarters, and one had still been awake. He had manged to silence that guard but not quick enough so that the others didnt wake up. Jason swiflty went to the window and saw that down in the courtyard there were guards all around, yet no guards had seemed to find the body he had shot with the black fletched arrow earlier. He silently opened the window and jumped out onto the roof. He made his way over to the dead guard and pulled his arrow out of the guards chest. He stashed it into his quiver and made his way over to the front of the castle. "how am i going to make it out of here now?" Jason thought to himself as he saw Arrow being helped up by a few guards. Jason jumped up onto the ramparts and dropped down again quickly into the moat without a sound. He resurfaced and made his way over to the other shore and climbed out, soaking wet but alive, he started a light paced jog to his horse who was tied to a tree trunk a good distance away from the guild. When he had made it to his horse he untied it, jumped on and started riding away from the burning guild, due to the missing tower.

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Acadius washed his face, but instead of going with Rat he had to do something in his chamber. As he entered the heavily guarded citadel that was known as the mage guild castle not but three days ago, guards were taking random people and throwing them into the dungeon, fortunately the guards could recognize Acadius. Unfortunately for the guards, Acadius stopped in the doorway to the battleward, turned around, and there was no one near him but these two guards......

He quickly raises up both arms and shoots an inferno of fire out of them, scorching both guards beyond belief and killing them both within five seconds. When he walked over to one of the bodies, he noticed a tattoo on his arm. It wasn't a normal wizard tattoo, but it sombolized darkness and dark magic. He checked the other guard's arm and it was there too......strange. Acadius thought remembered what Rat said yesterday, "The sword needs to be forged in a dark fire," the picture on the blueprints matched the tattoo on the guards' arms. Then Acadius thought to himself, "Could these guards no longer be with the guild, but with Kael instead? Could the guards be replaced, or possessed by Kael?" He then realized he had to dispose of the bodies, so he made a hole in the wall and knocked the bodies off the cliff and into the moat, then he fixed the wall.

A gust of wind blew through the city like a horse of legend, and as it passed every guild member, the voice of Rat filled their head. "Meeting at the Hall immediately! Much is to be discussed". Striding through the slums, Rat stopped the guards that he found giving the paupers bad treatment, until finally he reached the Hall of the Resistance and entered.

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Acadius, fearing he would be caught, remembered that he was in the castle and teleportaion spells always work inside of the castle. So, without a second to spare, Acadius teleported to the resistance hall.

Isaac awoke the next morning, and looked outside. He saw smoke still rising from the castle's direction. He quickly threw his gear on and headed out. After a brisk breakfast on the move, he was standing on the safe side of the moat, admiring his work. the one tower was absolutely destoryed, and the whole place was a mass of activity, with people coming and going and fires being put out. He saw some of the head mages and their associates crossing the drawbridge, talking about the previous night. "Not a dinner party they well soon forget" Isaac said. However, he noticed multiple guard battalions moving from the castle to deeper into the city.
"Hmmm it looks like they will be hunting resistance fighters...I will go and watch the streets until Rat contacts me." Isaac thought to himself, and then he moved back into the city. Then suddenly he recieved a message from Rat. "Head back to the hall? Looks like I won't be watching anybodies back today." And with that he walked back to the safe house, mounted his horse, and rode to the meeting hall.

Jason had arrived home and had taken off his cloak, laying it on his bed. He unbuckled both swords and his bow but left the elven dagger there, he always took a weapon with him no matter where he was. He picked up a pair of large tongs and put a peice of iron into the fire pit he had started up. It slowly began to turn a bright red as Jason walked over and sat down at his table and picked up a bottle of ale. He took a long drink and sighed, he didnt know how many youg guards he had killed today but at least he didnt run into a mage. That would have been horrible, thought Jason as he took another swig of ale. Only when the metal turned an abnormal shade of red did Jason go up and place the iron onto his anvil. He picked up a hammer and struck it against the hot metal. Sparks flew up and some fell into the barrel of water he had next to the anvil. *I wonder if Rat and Issac made it out of there alive, and i wonder if any of the rest of the resistance had made it there, and was helped by his dissposure of some guards.* Jason thought as he struck the metal again, the sound rebounding inside his small home. Among the sounds of the strikes Rats voice filled his home "Meeting at the hall, much to discuss." That was all Jason heard, and he sighed thinking; I bet the town will be swarming with guards now...
He picked up the metal he had started on and placed it in the barrel of water. A sizzling noize came from the barrel and Jason walked back into his bedroom. He quickly tossed on a green traveling cloak and tied on his quiver and swords. With that he left the house and saddled up his horse again, riding for the Resistance Hall that rat had spoke of there being a meeting at.
When Jason got there he saw that some people were already there. He dismounted from his horse and quickly walked inside, taking a seat at the back of the hall. He saw Issac there, and Rat. He nodded to both as he walked in and heard Rat talking to Acadius about the blueprints they had found the day before.

Turning and smiling at Acadius, Rat points at a seat. Rat throws the blueprints on the conference table and addresses Acadius. "What news do you bring, that you teleported here?"

Acadius smiled back and said "Well, i managed to kill a few guards, if that's news...But, in all seriousness, i think that the guards might be working for Kael, because they had tattoos of the magik of darkness."

"The symbol was the same sign that was here, on the blueprints. I propose we investigate it."

"Also, i think Kael will be suspecting something soon, noticing that his blueprints are gone."

"Oh, and i teleported here because i, uh...killed those guards and someone might suspect something."

Isaac arrived at the Meeting hall, openned the door, and walked in.
"Ahh Acadius, Rat, good to see that you guys made it out alive. So what do we need to go over Rat? I assume it is the Blueprint?" Isaac said as he took a seat.

"We were just discussing that." Acadius said.

"We are to discuss the fate of these blueprints. But as Jason is not yet here, I may as well fill you in. In the instructions it says specifically that the blade be forged in dark fire. A blade made from the dark arts is no good news" Rat stands up and paces. "what to do"

"So what have we found from the blueprints?" Jason asked standing back up and walking up to where Issac, Rat, and Acadius were standing. Jason assumed it was no good news but he asked anyway.

Acadius hesitantly answered, "It's not very good news, i suspect the guards are working with Kael."

Rat quickly informs Jason of what is known about the blueprints(read above). "We have 4 options, from what I can see. The plans can be destroyed, handed in to my father so that he knows of Kael's plot, we can study it further, particularly these runes here, or we can attempt to forge this blade... and use it as a weapon against the enemy" Rat stared at the blueprints as if they were something to be disgusted of. "It is left for us to vote on the matter."