-Laena-<br/>The three servant girls were told to stay in place  prepared of them, and then were asked to leave the room. The next part of the ritual was not for their eyes. A priestess came to escort them back. She ordered the slaves to go back to their homes, for there was no further need of them. The girls accompanied by four guards started slowly walking dow the hill to the city.<br/>The first two passed the olive bushes. The second pair stopped and one of them raised his hand, looking at one bush.<br/>Two guys charged the first two guards, swinging staves. Five other got out of different bushes, including the one the guard was pointing to. They were holding throwing spears and didn't even have the decencty to ask for something instead of their lives. The spears flew.<br/>The more alert guard succeeded in avoiding one of the spearshafts. Alas, it put him right in the path of the other one, which dropped him to the ground, going through his armor. Two of the others were gravely hurt, too, and one was saved by his armor.<br/>The guards reacted like the trained killers that they were, covering themselves with their shields and charging the spear-wielders with a battlecry. They had used the time to arm themselves with staves, much like the two who was already charging. One of them ran forward and swung his staff, bashing the fallen guard on the helmet. Then again, and again...<br/>In the second they closed, their opponents reacted with the same trick, swinging their staffs low to sweep their feet from under them. One of them jumped over the staff and plunged his sword through the body of his attacker. The sword went in, tnan appeared from his back and the body sank down. Hw was lucky- not one, but two spears flew past his ears, missing his unprotected back. He spun round, presenting his shield arm to the spear wielders. The other two were down, though, and were getting bashed by long staves. One of them was smart enough to swing his staff low and crash it against the foot of the guard, where the armor was not protecting him. Everybody heard the bone snapping, and the bloodied guard screamed in pain. He was highly unlikely to step back up, and his attacker retreated from the charge of the remaining guard, parrying the hungry blade. The other two rolled away from their attackers, whose staves bashed the ground.<br/>By then the girls were together, surrounded by fighting groups of men. They saw the staff hit the guard's hand, passing like a snake around the shield, and then not one, but two spears plunged in the guard's back, ending his heroic defense. The only one who had successfully risen from the ground broke and ran, throwing his weapon away and leaving the girls to their fate...<br/>Three of the attackers ran after him.<br/><br/>OOC: The whole thing means you've got about 10 seconds when nobody is watching you - that's how a fight in GURPS goes. Do you do anything during this time?<br/><br/>-Fyroneus-<br/>The priestess looked ant him with sorrow. They stood in silense for a long time, then suddenly she spoke.<br/>"May be you should do something good to redeem your soul! If you make a great good to the people then there will be balance."