Day 5: Protection from Death (except for one person. Sorry)
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Day 5:
The man who had pretended to be Deren, the king's guard, snuck around and boarded up all the latrines in the warcamps and snuck laxatives into the chouta.
Sneaking about the camp in new Shardplate, a figure with rope loosely wrapped about his neck tried to use a Fabrial on someone. A a Plate-clad archer drew back the bowstring on his Grandbow, aiming for the rope-man's neck.
He let the arrow fly, but before the arrow connected, the man who had pretended to be King Naladar's guard ran from the last latrine to the rope Shardbearer and used a Painrial to stop the arrow from damaging the Plate. The man with the rope stared down the archer with fury in his eyes. He nodded and a Shardblade was stabbed into the man's back.
The archer spun around and seeing the king's assassin, tried to fire off an arrow, but missed as the assassin ran away. The archer's damaged Plate became heavier but he managed to slink back to his home.
Jost was sleeping in his comfortable bed when he heard a noise on the main floor. He bolted out of bed and grabbed his new fancy half-shard shield. He hid behind the door and waited for someone to come through.
The assassin had been waiting for his chance to kill a noble. The others had had their chance to help, now it was his. He snuck up to Jost's bedroom ready to kill him. He flung the door open in his haste and unknowingly slammed Jost into the wall. Hearing the noise, the killer turned and, before Jost could move his half-shard to block, stabbed him in the chest with a pair of knives. Jost's body suddenly disappeared. Confused but satisfied at the job he did, the assassin left and went to report to his superiors.
Jost Elsecalled himself to Alethkar. He knew he would be safe there. He had blasphemous powers but if they saved his life, so what. When he appeared in Alethkar, he noticed too late that the assassin had managed to get his knives in before Jost had Elsecalled away. He slumped on the ground and heaved a final breath.
Jost was a Noble with a Spanreed, Soulcaster, and half-shard.
The day begins now and will end at 4:00 MDT/ 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.