(2025-06-23) Chapter X: Auchindoun Atrocities, Part 2 (Cobalt Blade)

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Author:	OzmaAsimov
Summary:	The Cobalt Blade delves into the Auchenai Crypts in search of the Tailfeather of Anzu.
Rating:	T for Teen

Arc: The Cobalt Blade

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Quest-typical violence, male anatomy jokes, reference to vomit

After receiving word from Kirrik the Awakened about Savari demons and cultists occupying the Auchenei Crypts, the Cobalt Blade arrives to root them out.

Tadget cuddles up against Zaara.

Tadget thanks Arthur.

[Tadget]: All right, murder time!

[Vesyllah]: I like this place. It's got a whole mood to it.

[Zaara]: This is sacred tomb, Mayhem.

[Tadget]: Oh, you would.

[Tadget]: Oh um, sorry, Zaara.

[Thalstan]: Th' mood is sacred an' solemn.

[Thalstan]: It is a whole mood.

[Tadget]: I will solemnly murder the people who defile this sacred place?

Tadget peers at Zaara searchingly.

[Zaara]: Yes. That is good.

Tadget puts on her most solemn murder face.

[Vesyllah]: Exactly. Solemn. Holy. Quiet.

Thalstan also puts on his solemn face, as he looks ahead. "Light, but there's a lot of bones."

[Zaara]: Yes. It is tomb.

[Tadget]: Are the bone piles normal or is that culty?

[Zaara]: That is more… culty, yes.

[Tadget]: Because… just piles.

[Zaara]: They are disrespectful of the dead.

[Tadget]: Normally bones would be like, in person form.

[Tadget]: Got it.

[Vesyllah]: We'll get this place back in order, Zaara.

Tadget gets her daggers in order, by which I mean, poisoned.

Savari cultists roam the tomb's halls, searching through reliquaries and bone piles.

[Tadget]: Ready when you are, Valor.

[Thalstan]: They sure seem ta be lookin' for something.

[Tadget]: At least these guys are wimps.

[Tadget]: Should have no trouble cleaning this place out.

[Thalstan]: Maybe they're no' wimps. Maybe we're jus' amazin'.

[Vesyllah]: A little of column A, a little of column B.

Tadget giggles.

[Tadget]: What's with the big stick?

[Tadget]: He compensating for something?

Tadget kicks the dead monk.

[Zaara]: What?

[Tadget]: Guy hit us with a big stick.

[Zaara]: Probably it is a weapon. Yes?

[Tadget]: I guess, but a pretty telling one.

[Thalstan]: Might be his other sticks are littler. If ye know what I mean.

[Tadget]: Thalstan, saying the quiet part out loud as usual.

Thalstan grins, rustling his mustache.

Tadget giggles.

[Vesyllah]: Hey, Zaara. What's Draenei for the male sexual organ?

Arthur chokes.

Vesyllah snickers at Arthur.

Tadget gently pats Arthur.

[Zaara]: Diik.

[Tadget]: I beg your pardon?

Vesyllah bursts into laughter!

[Zaara]: What?

[Tadget]: Dick?

[Vesyllah]: Are you messing with us?

Zaara looks confused.

[Zaara]: Messing?

[Tadget]: What about a dick?

[Vesyllah]: This is the best day ever.

[Zaara]: Yes. It is the word that Vengeance asked.

[Vesyllah]: How did you say it? Diek?

[Thalstan]: The… what?

[Tadget]: I wasn't listening.

[Tadget]: Until you said dick.

[Vesyllah]: I asked her how to say penis in Draenei.

[Tadget]: ……………………………

[Tadget]: Okay well, that's easy to remember I guess.

[Vesyllah]: So, Zaara…the man had a big stick to make up for a small diik.

[Zaara]: … what was he using the stick for?

[Vesyllah]: Elune only knows.

[Thalstan]: Hopefully not tryin' ta please ladies.

[Tadget]: To bang girls with. Namely me. But not in a good way.

[Zaara]: I see.

[Thalstan]: Bang on the head, aye.

Zaara does not.

[Tadget]: What's the word for stick in draenei? Is it stiik?

Tadget gasps at Thalstan.

[Zaara]: Palka.

[Tadget]: That sounds like of like a cute girl's name. Anyone ever name their kid stick?

[Zaara]: I do not think?

Tadget giggles at Zaara.

[Tadget]: Does Zaara mean anything?

[Zaara]: It means 'wanderer.'

[Tadget]: Oooooh neat!

Zaara nods solemnly.

[Tadget]: My name doesn't mean anything except "I have a huge ego so I want my kids' names to sound sort of like mine."

Auchenai Vindicator says: You have chosen death.

Auchenai Soulpriest says: You have chosen death.

Vesyllah scowls, "Demon ahead."

Rashrik the Soul Seer shouts, "Cobalt Blaaaade! You murdered my brother in the Blood Furnace! I will have vengeance and devour your souls!"

[Tadget]: Ewwwwww I hate these guys.

[Thalstan]: Wait, those sorts have brothers?

Tadget shivers beside Shirrak the Dead Watcher. Chilling!

[Zaara]: Oh, Vengeance, someone is looking for you.

[Vesyllah]: Gross.

Tadget at Rashrik I mean.

[Tadget]: He wants to have you.

Tadget pokes you. Hey!

[Tadget]: Make him buy you dinner first at least.

[Vesyllah]: Remind me to vomit after this.

[Tadget]: kay.

[Tadget]: Wouldn't want ya to forget.

[Tadget]: Daaaang, he ugly.

[Tadget]: Ewww, he turned his pulsating sphincter on us

[Thalstan]: I do not want ta be pulsated on.

[Tadget]: Ew ew ew.

[Thalstan]: Well, I hope we didn't need any info outta tha guy.

[Tadget]: What info could he possibly have?

[Vesyllah]: He didn't sound too cooperative anyhow.

[Tadget]: He was a ball of eyes.

Thalstan shrugs. "Who knows? Maybe he saw the tailfeather somewhere."

[Zaara]: Vengeance do not forget to vomit.

[Vesyllah]: Probably sees a lot.

Tadget cackles maniacally at Zaara.

[Vesyllah]: Right. Thanks.

[Thalstan]: But yer right, we don't have time to convince him ta tell us anything, anyway.

[Tadget]: I do like fighting behind draenei ladies though.

[Tadget]: I am definitely laying these guys to rest very respectfully.

[Tadget]: It might not sound very respectful, what with all the yelling and clanging, but.

[Thalstan]: Sometimes that sort o' thing is unavoidable.

[Tadget]: ooooooh. This one had a cool knife.

[Thalstan]: Oh, aye? Good fer puttin' down more o' them?

[Tadget]: Oh man. More skeletons?

[Tadget]: SO many.

[Tadget]: Swarms of things is not really my area.

[Tadget]: I'm more of a precision kinda gal.

Awaiting the Cobalt Blade at the far end of the tomb is a massive, armored eredar.

[Thalstan]: There sure are a lot. I'm tryin' ta be respectful, but mostly just swinging around.

[Tadget]: Is that a draenei?? He's huge!

Zaara frowns.

Thalstan peers in the direction Tadget indicates. "Is it? I think the color's wrong…"

[Tadget]: Ohhhh. Gotcha.

[Zaara]: He is an eredar, then.

[Tadget]: Not as big as the one who smashed Dalaran but pretty big.

[Thalstan]: Ah… one o' the demons.

[Tadget]: I'm getting a bit siik of fighting skeletons.

Raadalam says: At last. This expedition has been a waste of my talents, but you will provide a challenge deserving of my skill. May you die well!

[Thalstan]: Jus' yer luck, looks like we're up for Eredar next.

[Tadget]: I would die amazingly, but not today.

Thalstan peers at Raadalam beneath bushy eyebrows. "What's frustrated ye about th' expedition, man? Do tell."

[Tadget]: Oooh, yeah, maybe this one's a talker.

[Zaara]: Are we… going to ask him question?

[Tadget]: Intel first, then murder.

Tadget gently pats Zaara.

Raadalam smirks, "Defeat me, and perhaps I will tell you. Come, Cobalt Blade! Face me!"

[Tadget]: If we defeat you, you won't be able to— *SIGH* fine.

[Thalstan]: Eh, ye'll be dead, but… well, okay.

Raadalam says: We shall see. Prepare yourselves!

[Zaara]: Okay.

The eredar is an extraordinary warrior, putting the entire Cobalt Blade to the test. A harrowing fight ends with Raadalam on the floor, clutching his bleeding wounds.

[Tadget]: Aaaaand now we can't question him.

Raadalam rasps as his last breaths leave him, "Worthy foes. What you seek…is not here. Search…Sethekk…Huuullsss…" The eredar's voice gives out, and he expires.

[Tadget]: Huuullsss?

Zaara sighs.

Tadget kicks him.

[Zaara]: Halls.

[Tadget]: Oh. Right.

[Thalstan]: He… actually gave us intel? Tha' was surprisingly sportsman of an Eredar.

[Tadget]: I know that place.

[Tadget]: Yeah it was.

[Zaara]: Unless it is a trick.

[Tadget]: Hmmmm.

[Vesyllah]: Sethekk Halls? What do we know about it?

[Tadget]: Full of birds I think? Or maybe I'm confusing it with another place.

[Thalstan]: Unmemorable… seems like maybe they used up all the drama on th' name.

Tadget laughs at Thalstan.

[Vesyllah]: Place full of birds seems like a good place to look for a feather.

[Tadget]: OOoooh good point.

[Tadget]: For once Ves has a point besides the ones on her ears.

Thalstan chuckles, his beard shifting on his chest.

[Arthur]: Birdes. Do you mean like the Skettis? in the lower city?

[Tadget]: Yeah. Those guys.

[Tadget]: Except evil ones.

[Arthur]: well maybe the ones in the lower city have advice.

[Tadget]: Wow, everyone's smart today!

[Tadget]: Except me. But who needs brains when you look this good.

[Thalstan]: We could go by them again, see if they've got anything new for us.

[Arthur]: sometimes it's not knowing, it's knowing who to ask.

[Tadget]: True.

[Tadget]: Okay, I'll go chat up some birds I guess. See if they have heard any rumors about Sethekk lately.

[Tadget]: Might as well know what we'll be walking into.

[Thalstan]: Good idea. We've got to get that tailfeather before Savar does, or… bad things, I'm sure.

[Tadget]: Oh hey Art, have you made any progress on looking for your folks or whatever?

Tadget peers at Arthur searchingly.

[Arthur]: I…I haven't really asked.

[Tadget]: Awww, well, lemme know if you need me to poke around.

[Tadget]: I'm looking for some other lost lady anyway. May as well.

[Arthur]: When we were at Honor Hold, no one mentioned them. Same as in the Allerian Stronghold.

[Tadget]: Hmmmm.

Thalstan looks at Art curiously too. "You haven't… asked? Do ye not want— it's no' my business. But aye, if ye want help, Tadget and I were doing some missing-person searching on our off-time."

[Tadget]: Yeah, what he said.

[Tadget]: Just drop me a note if there's anyone you want me to grill for ya. But for now I'm gonna go poke some birds. Stay fresh.

Tadget vanishes dramatically!

[Zaara]: Cheesebags!