(BUMP, so I finished another installment of Sashi's history. This one is a bit farther down the line and is not to far from when she joined with the current group. I didn't want to fill the story with explanations..so a few characters are just new..and the only familiar faces are Biggs (the dwarf) and Sashi (duh)..Its up to you to guess what had happened between the last installment and this one (well at least till I write something else)...so please read and enjoy!...nice to be back)<br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">So the next installment, for those that cant get the file to work. <br/><br/>	Sashi laid lightly in her tent. She couldn’t sleep, tomorrow was another raid and Sashi could never sleep no matter how many she had gone through. She breathed heavily and looked up at the pointed ceiling of her tent. Then something happened that surprised her, she heard it before she had scene it. Biggs bursted into her tent blushing profusely. “Sleepin?” he said exasperated. Sashi sat up. “well I-” “good” the frantic dwarf interrupted. “Look…I’ve been thinking….” he said. “We’ve been banditin for a while.and” he walked back and forth from one side of the tent to the other. “we have made a lot of treasure right?” Sashi blinked. “well we have-” “right…what I mean is that we don’t starve” Sashi blinked getting to her feet wondering what was going on. “I’m well fe-” “Me Too!” Biggs stated.  “Vespa..and the others they are accomplished fighters right?” Sashi blinked. “now. Wait what are -” Biggs pulled something from his pocket and pressed it against Sashi’s chest he let it fall into Sashi’s waiting hands. <br/> <br/>It was an amulet orange amber in a gold casing. Sashi looked oddly at it. “odd time for appraisal don’t ya th-” “Come away with me Sashi” The dwarf blurted out. Sashi’s eyes went wide and she almost dropped the amulet. “Biggs…” The dwarf didn’t let up. “Look..I don’t care how ugly are children could look I want you to marry me” Sashi held the amulet to her. “Biggs I-” “We have been together a long time” “Ya..we -” “We have fought together” “ya…” “Almost died together” “sure we have and-” “I like your ears!” “su-wait wha?-” “look I wont ta-” Sashi jutted Biggs on top his head with her elbow. “OW!” Sashi barked. “I’m trying to say I would love nothing more dammit!” she said putting the amulet around her neck, she pulled him into a hug. “I would love nothing more” she repeated with a grin. Biggs stuttered now. “r-really?!” he held onto her, his face on her bosom due to his height. “HAHA!…great!” Sashi blinked “what about the others” Biggs still giddy grinned. “I told em…we’d be leavin….they are fine with it” Sashi chuckled. “Biggs you cocky bastard..what if I said no eh?” Biggs grinned. “Ya didn’t” he argued. They both laughed. <br/><br/>	The next morning Sashi and Biggs emerged from Sashi’s tent together. Vespa, and Ryo were chuckling to each other and eating breakfast. Vespa was a female dwarf, and Ryo was a teifling two that had joined with Sashi and Biggs after Garson died.  “yo Vespa…. Ya know I heard crazy rocking from Sashi’s tent” Vespa laughed and nodded. “Ja I know.. I heard it too feelin alright Sash?”  Sashi blushed and then laughed. “I’m great” she answered. Ryo got up and hugged her. “Congratulations you two……I mean….. we will miss ya…but hey life goes on..and perhaps…I will retire too one day“ he said looking to Vespa “what about it sweet lips“ Vespa through and egg at him. “Ha… not a chance” she said. <br/><br/>	Once everybody was awake and had congratulated Biggs and Sashi, things got back down to business.  Gilpy is the one to speak.  He was an aven creature, a Kenku(crow morph for those who don‘t know), the scout and the teams best negotiator. “This deal should be a good last one for ya Sash.” he said  to everybody around a makeshift table. “A nearby Succubus is making recruitments to some new…mumbo…jumbo religion or…something I don’t know. The point is that she is harassing the villagers near Briton and they are willing to pay us to make her go away, plus we can keep any valuables on her. Which I assume is decent.” <br/><br/>	The plan was to be simple attack fast, dispose of her one way or another and then enjoy the loot. Since they were working for the villagers they didn’t even have to flee, plus it was good Karma for her last raid. The bandits were lined on a ridge leading to the village, they hid behind trees, rocks and bushes and waited for the Succubus to come, and she came directly according to plan. The succubus was by herself with what looked to be two odd thrull like warriors at her side. They looked like twisted humans wrapped in morbid leather and their faces were covered in black hoods. Despite there macabre appearance the band grew confident. “Perhaps we can just intimidate them out of town” Gilpy suggested and the bandits erupted form hiding and confronted the demonic women. Gilpy being the diplomat spoke first. “The villagers are sick of your crimes and your insistence…they want you gone…make easy and leave on your own doing. “ The Succubus grinned showing sharp teeth. “………they and you…will all learn of the new coming order!” she grinned and for a moment it had seemed like she had done nothing, but soon it was evident that a green runic circle had appeared around them.  Sashi looked wide eyed and jumped from the circle, as did most of the bandits. Except Gilpy, arguing to the end was engulfed as a pillar of flames exploded from the runed circle. As the flames dispersed Gilpy’s charred corpse was twisted on the ground and the amount of thrulls quadrupled. Rage engulfed the entire group and they charged from all directions at the Succubus. <br/><br/>	Sashi went for the Succubus herself. Bashing past her guards, her trusty sythe blazing behind her. “You just killed him you bitch!“ she yelled raising her scythe up for a strike. However as she got close, two guards emerged as if from Sashi’s shadow and their leathered arms wrapped around her legs like rope causing her to fall forward and drop her sythe.  Once down, two of the creatures pressed on her from above to keep her from getting to her feet. <br/><br/>	The succubus grinned. “oh…I’m sorry…I thought you were presenting me with a turkey dinner..I just prepared it in my usual fashion. “ Sashi struggled to get to her feet, but the creatures were stronger then they looked. The succubus grinned. “well enough jokes…” she said and cheerfully bulled a scimitar from behind her wings. “time to die” she said coming to decapitate the rabbit girl. <br/><br/>	“HYAAAA!” Biggs’s war hammer hit true and sundered the sword in two. Sashi’s heart lifted as Biggs followed up a strike that almost flattened the succubus. “Biggs take her down!” Sashi yelled still trying to break free. Biggs grinned. “Stay away from my girl you w-Glurk!”  as Biggs was charging for another blow the succubus shot a knife from under her sleeve and peirced through Biggs’s neck. The dwarf slumped over in a gurgle and started to burn away from  the heat of the knife. Sashi’s eyes went wide. No tears or words were able to express her feelings and horror of seeing the dwarf she loved and her entire future burn away. All she could do was move, and she did. The thrulls shrilled in pain as Sashi finally busted from their arms causing them to snap and contort in odd angles. She charged up to the Succubus and without a weapon she laid her fist deep into the Succubus’s cheek. She followed that punch with another. “BIGGS!” she cried out and sent her even her head at the succubus in a head butt that caused the demonic killer to stumble back. <br/><br/>	Sashi didn’t let up she charged again and punced at her again, her gauntleted fists bruising bashing into the succubus. “You KILLED HIM!” she screamed. “You killed Him!” she yelled punching at her again, but Sashi’s cries were soon interrupted by jutting pain in her ribs and then a numbness all over. The rabbit bandit fell to her knees and spit up some blood, unable to move. The succubus spit out a tooth and grinned. “…I did kill him……..was he special to you?” she asked. “well so was my tooth….it was more valuable then your entire little brigade here” she said, she pulled the knife from out of Sashi’s ribs. “that poison should calm you down so that we can talk for a sec…have a look” The women forcefully turned Sashi’s head and revealed the shape of the rest of the group. Dead. Everyone dead. Impaled or fried. Sashi’s mind screamed, but her body only portrayed a dim surprise. “aww…..I do wish I could enjoy your anguish…..but I think I can see it in your eyes” she teased. “now…….you……you struck me…..you STRUCK ME!” she yelled at the limp rabbit girl. I don’t know what kind of death is suitable for such an occurrence….but ill figure it out I’m sure….. I’m pretty good at these things” she said. The succubus lifted Sashi’s body and flew her into the air a good 40 feet. “I could eat you” she said with a grin. “…..tasty…little creature like you used…to heal your injuries….it is a good start…but…it just seems cliché. doesn’t it?” she says at Sashi dangling her from the large height.<br/><br/>	Down on the ground a family had heard the commotion and had seen the flames they  had arrived at the scene to see nothing but dead bandits and the scorch marks. The thrulls were gone and the succubus was high into the air with her prey. The succubus grinned. “ooh more..treats….more -….wait” The succubus grinned. “ya know what…..the fitting punishment was not a death ….” she grinned. “no it is something much more fun” she said looking at the wagon that the family had come in. It was full of what looked to be fertilizer. “my bruises will last a week…and my missing tooth a month…but…..this pain…”s he says pointing to Sashi’s chest feeling for her amulet and pulled it from her neck. “this memory will stick with you forever” she says swallowing the amber amulet right in front of Sashi’s eyes. Sashi’s eyes wavered and even watered in tears, but the poison kept her body motionless, nothing more then a shell that she used to watch all this torment. <br/> <br/>The succubus chuckled “Though I still want a taste!” She got in close and gave Sashi’s face a long lick. “Mmmmmmmmm………..it’s a hard meal to pass but I think this will be more fulfilling “ she said with a grin her face still centimeters from Sashi’s. “now you remember this….. I won…you lost…..hes dead…..and you are the worm that just stood by a let it happen. ……….tata” she concluded and dropped Sashi. The armored rabbit girl fell from the sky like an anvil and landed in the fertilizer wagon carrying enough force to cause the wagon wheels to break off. Things went black as she landed and Sashi was finally allowed to sleep…and to dream. About the life that could have been.</div></div></div>