The Grand Arena / Fight the guard patrol (1)
From Create Your Own Story
The Grand Arena
Quest 1: The Mazrim Cult
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Pulling out your sword you are not afraid, you can handle a few guards. From the footsteps there are likely only two. And you only count two sleeping in the hovel next to you so you figure you can take four, especially when two of them won't have any kind of armor or weapons and be half asleep. You like your odds, even if too many more guards come from the other hovels. You charge forward, and instantly run into two surprised guards rounding the tunnel spotting you charging them with swords. The two cultist guards quickly draw their weapons, large spears which they point at you. Before you know it you are on them.
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Fight Begins.
Charging right into the spears you knock one aside with your sword while dodging the others coming up close inside the guard of the two cultists. The guards retreat however barely avoiding your swing while the second guard reels bringing his spear back around on you. You manage to side-step his thrust then kick the spear away before leaping on the first guard again. He cries out in panic as you strike him down, too powerful of a fighter for him to take. The second guard at this point once again manages to bring his spear around towards you. You also notice the two guards from the hovel are both behind you now with swords drawn.
Behind them, you see three more guards come out of the next hovel on the right of the cave while the next one on the left produces a staggering five guards, some of which have their armor donned already, some of which are in small clothes and just have daggers or swords. You are not afraid, they are nothing compared to your might! You leap forward cutting the guards spear in half infront of you and kick him to the side. You are met by the three from the right hovel, two moving to instantly flank you on either side while one makes wide swipes at you to hold you back. The back two guard come up as well, one throwing a dagger grazing you across the side making you gasp in pain. The guard circle in but you make a powerful whirlwind attack knocking them all away.
You charge through the ranks over the fallen down guards killing one as you jump over him into the next five. You can hear even more of them coming from further on. You meet blow after blow kicking guards away and killing any that get too brave. But you are surrounded and you find yourself getting tired as you pass hovel after hovel attracting more and more guards as you force your way down the tunnel.
There are just too many, and you find yourself retreating into one of the hovels just to get a wall to your back where they can only come at you from one direction. The guards quickly block up your only exit, several trying to rush in who get cut down quickly by a flurry of blows from you not ready to give up or surrender. But there seems to be an endless amount of them outside the hovel and they finally stop coming in to get killed.
Fight Ends.
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It is finally during this brief moment of rest that you manage to get a rough look of your surroundings. There are tons of guards outside the rags of what used to be a red curtain blocking off the hovel entrance. There are also ragged beds and belongings all over the place. You scan the walls quickly desperately hoping for a way out. Which is when you spot it. There is a small crack in the cave wall which seems to drop down into nothingness. You have no idea where it goes and it looks like a drop. The guards outside are demanding that you surrender and give yourself up. They won't kill you if you surrender peacefully.
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What do you do?
