OOM: The defense of Kattegut, the escape

[my_brothers_shadow]

The door from Milliways leads to a stable and the sounds of battle, metal clanging, wood splintering, and yells of pain and anger. Smoke hangs in the air from the barricades the villagers set to make things difficult for the ships of Jarl Borg. No other fires have been set however. Perhaps Jarl Borg is planning on moving in and so doesn't want to damage the buildings.

"We must find Aslaug and Siggy, and collect any others we may as well. Remember the words I taught you," Rollo says before the door to Milliways closes, taking the Bar's translation field with it.

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[will_scarlett]

"Aye," Will says as he draws his sword and looks around, this is familiar.

[harryhotspur]

Harry's sword is out in an instant, too. He wants very much to just rush in, but he forces himself to take a moment, survey. He looks to Will. That one still speaks English, right? Or French, at least?

"What think you?" he says. "To the huts, to seek the women? Or to help those nearest the battle make away?"

...his tone might make it slightly obvious which option he prefers.

[will_scarlett]

"We've swords when others 'ave na, should keep the battle away while the women an others are moved to safety,"

They're here to take the danger for those who can't and he looks over Harry, who seems more like a knight of his time.

[harryhotspur]

Harry grins-- both because he likes the answer, and because this fellow is plainly an Englishman.

"A fair plan," he says. And with that settled, he sets off at a run towards the sounds of the fighting, assuming that this English fellow will follow.

[will_scarlett]

Will returns the grin and follows after Harry towards the thick of the fighting. On his way, he yells out that they're with Rollo.

[harryhotspur]

Oh, right. He's glad that Will thinks of it-- he'd forgotten the phrase within ten seconds of learning it. In any case, it probably becomes pretty obvious which side Harry's on with the enthusiasm with which he begins to attack the first invader that he sees.

[will_scarlett]

Most of the fighting that Will's done has been with a mixture of civilians and soldiers, he's used to informing people that he's safe.

He watches the fires and when he sees a man with a torch, he goes for him, gesturing to an old man who seems hurt to run.

[my_brothers_shadow]

The old man waves dismissively at Will but yells at those not so wounded, [Go run! Valhalla can wait another year!]

As he does so, three much younger, and haler, Northmen notice Will and Hotsur, or rather they notice what the two are yelling, and charge.

[OOC: Just a quick note, any burning will be to a minimum as Jarl Borg wants the village for himself.]

[soldier_blade]

Sonya only nodded, her senses on high alert. Even without the enemies, people would be panicked and try to fight back. In times of combat, people didn't think, they only reacted.

Taking her rifle in both hands, she sets her combat knife at the mussel of the weapon: now it could be used for hand-to-hand instead of just for firing. "I can speak some of the language already."

This is said in english, for the benefit of the men around her. True, her level in speaking Norse was little better than a child's, but it was better than nothing.

[cassiefuckingcage]

Cassie's approach may surprise Sonya. She steps beside her, grasping her weapon.

"Good, 'cause I don't know it for shit."

[soldier_blade]

If Sonya's shocked to see Cassie entering the fray, she doesn't show it (actually, she's not surprised). She certainly doesn't have time to respond otherwise when they see a line of old men and women trying to defend against a fucking fleet.

Quickly, she turned to face her. "Quick lesson.." She says the norse words for 'Quick', 'safe' and ''Rollo's friend', along with what the words mean. "Those are what you need to know at the moment-can you remember."

She knows Cassie is smart enough to learn languages, but this is a literal 'trail by fire', if the ensueing battle is anything to go by. Seeing some of their number going to retrieve people in their huts.

"Come on..we can give them covering fire." Judging from the people standing by the makeshift barricades, they'll need all the help they can get.

[cassiefuckingcage]

Cassie nods. It's a poor Special Forces soldier who can't pick up a few words of a new language.

She advances to one of the barricades with her rifle primed to fire.

[soldier_blade]

Sonya noticed that some of the people had bows and arrows, and she regretted only having one clip with her, but needs must.

"You want to talk about fucked up timelines." She movied behind the crowd, climbing up onto a platform for better vision. "We're about to introduce these people to firearms."

She now understood Rollo's concern. When the men on the ship jumped, it would be SNAFU from the get-go. The only settled thing was getting as many of these people out alive as possible.

[cassiefuckingcage]

Cassie grits her teeth.

"I don't think the guys on our side will be complaining."

[soldier_blade]

"Be careful." Sonya aimed at the ongoing men and fired. She was able to hit one of the men right in the head.

The sound catching most by surprise and bought the villagers a few more seconds to attack. They took the sound and the man fallen as a sign from the gods are eager to follow through. Unfortunately it also led their enemies to her and Cassie's location. Sonya's words would've made sense now: without any proper identification, it would be all too easy to hit an innocent.

"Hope you bought more rounds." She shouldered her rifle and brought her arm bands to bare, shooting out an energy ring. While Liu taught her to control her chi, she preferred the bands as they took less energy.

[cassiefuckingcage]

Cassie squeezes in a few rounds immediately as her kindamother does.

"Brought some," she says between bursts. "Not as many as I brought to the Castle."

These people have swords and axes, not machine gun supersoldiers.

[hecu_marine]

Shephard's got a decent ear for languages, even if most of it is the unremittingly vulgar sort, so he's doing his best to keep what Rollo taught him in mind.

He's got his Desert Eagle tucked into a concealed holster- when you have the kind of prosthesis he's got under that black glove of his, you don't worry about what a sidearm like that will do to your wrist- but that's for possible emergencies. Right now what he's got drawn is the saber Kanaya alchemized for him from a combination of his old mameluke saber and a basilisk fang. His bow is across his back, along with as many arrows as he could carry.

This should get interesting.

[my_brothers_shadow]

Rollo gestures to Shephard towards a direction away from the fighting and says something which doesn't make sense unless you speak Old Norse. His meaning is clear though as he heads off in the direct, something along the lines of, "You're with me."

As they make their way, small pockets of fighting can be seen down alleys but they are alone for the most part. Unless you count the quick shadows that cross the alleys, moving quickly and seemingly the same direction Rollo and Shephard are going.

After the third such shadow, Rollo pauses and points them out to Shephard. Then points to two other alleys. He pauses in thought, then makes a circling motion with his hands.

That's clear right?

[hecu_marine]

Shephard's seen plenty of hand signals in training, not to mention that he's dispatched his own dogs to circle around possible escape routes for prey in the hunt; he's pretty sure he takes Rollo's meaning. He glances towards one of the alleys and gestures with the saber hopefully; should he clear this one out himself, or what?

(Shephard's been through a few too many conflicts with Things What Ain't Of This Earth. His sensors for reasonable odds have been permanently skewed as a result.)

[my_brothers_shadow]

[Aye,] Rollo says in Old Norse and with a nod of his head. He then gestures to a different alley and points to himself. Before turning though, he holds up a hand, points back to the alley Shephard is to head to, draws a line over his throat, then mimes running back, points towards the other Milliways fighters, and then makes talking motions with his free hand before pointing to Shephard again. Lastly, he holds a thumb up while arching his eyebrows in a question.

[hecu_marine]

Rollo's going to take that alley, and then Shephard's got to go find the other Milliways arrivals and give them the heads up that there's people circling around to catch them unawares. Okay, smooth enough, he can handle that. Shephard nods and returns the thumbs-up with his free hand.

[my_brothers_shadow]

Rollo smiles at Shephard's seeming understanding and turns to the alley with a gleam in his eye. If Shephard happens to be listening for it, he'll hear slashing and thrusting sounds but no screams. Obviously, Rollo is good at sneak attacks.

Once that's done, he'll return to the street to wait for the others, a couple extra axes tucked into is belt, and a shield to offer anyone who wants it.

[hecu_marine]

Shephard will return once he's gotten word to the ladies. They're pretty damn badass, so it's not like he needs to stick around them any length of time. And he's a pretty good climber, so he won't have much in the way of blood on him when he arrives- but only because he'll have scrambled up onto a roof or a ledge or something to get some shooting in from an unexpected direction. He's used to hunting from tree stands, and people almost never look up as much as they should.

He might have grabbed a dagger or two as a souvenir along the way. That's allowed, right?

[my_brothers_shadow]

Not only allowed, but expected. Spoils of battle and all that.

Rollo nods a greeting and smiles. This is going much better than he'd hoped. Gesturing for them to continue, he breaks into a trot; careful to keep looking about and up now and then.

[my_brothers_shadow]

It has been a long day of fighting and marching, but they have finally succeeded in their objective. Families that escaped the raid began to split off as they climbed the hills, safe from easy view to those within Kattegut, until finally, it was just Aslaug, her and Ragnar's boys, Siggy, Rollo, and the five warriors from Milliways.

Aslaug and Siggy were suspicious of the warriors, and Rollo had to dance around the topic until Aslaug shock her head, declaring that she did not care where they came from, just that they helped. Which put the matter to rest, at least until later if the glance Siggy gave Rollo was anything to go by.

They made it safely to the farm of an old family friend of Ragnar and Rollo's, as friend who rarely went to Kattegut and so was not known by any within the town. Once the women and boys were settled, Rollo returned to those from Milliways, gesturing for them to follow him to the barn, where he hoped the same prayer which summoned a door before would work again. He was not disappointed, as the sounds of the bar were heard instead of the bleats of goats.