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     The Altusian Empire has been known in the entire world as being the strongest military power in history.  Their men are the best trained, more disciplined, and they are equipped with the most advance weapons and armor.  Their castles are also legendary as being impenetrable.  Not a single one has had its walls breached.  
     The most famous of these castles is the Great Altusian Citadel.  It has ten floors above ground and five below.  The top ten levels were the housing for the emperor, guests, soldiers, and also the location of the kitchens, dining halls, and other necessities.  The lower five levels were the cellars, storerooms, and dungeons.  Its gates are made of reinforced dwarven steel and its walls of heavily reinforced blocks of grey stone.  Easily it is the most heavily defended castle in the world. 
     Emperor Alexios IV Vuranas lived upon the 10^th floor of the castle.  He was a very wise, intelligent, and generous man in his rule, but he knew very little of the ways of war.  His advisors did most of the planning and waging of warfare.  Emperor Vuranas slept well at night knowing that the empire was in good hands and that ten thousand soldiers surrounded him for protection. 
     Unfortunately, he did not know that while he was safe from attacks from the outside of his castle, that it was the inside of the castle that he was in danger from.  What the emperor did not know is that before the citadel had been built, there had been a great battle fought upon the hill where it now stood.  A great battle had been fought between the lord of demons and a large elven army.  The elves, after having successfully defeated the army, buried the body of the lord of demons deep beneath the earth.
     A rock in the wall of the deepest dungeon of the castle fell from the wall.  Then another stone fell.  A small hole formed in the wall of the dungeon and a small hand reached through and began forcing the hole to grow.  An hour of struggling passed until a small creature that was only about five feet tall forced itself out of the hole and landed on the ground.  It reached back into the hole and was handed a chisel of some kind that it began using to make the hole larger.  Then more small imp-like creatures pulled themselves from the hole.  Several kept working at the hole while several dozen began crawling out with short blades and knives.  When around fifty had gathered, they then began moving through the dungeon.  There were only a few prisoners unlucky enough to be on the lowest level.  They only saw the small demons for a few seconds before they were set upon by the short stabbing blades and butchered.  The iron cells only slowed down the creatures for a minute before they forced their way in.  The two guards who were stationed down there were too late to react and escape.  Their cries for help were unheard through the long and dank halls of the citadel as they were slaughtered. 
     Within two hours, the lowest three levels had fallen without warning.  However, when the demons reached the fourth floor, the alarm got out.  Demons had appeared within the castle itself.  All soldiers were put on alert and began trying to stop the advance of the creatures, but there were many paths and stairways throughout the castle.  Before the emperor knew it, there were demons in all of the hallways on most of the floors.  Bodies of both demons and Altusian soldiers filled the hallways, but the demons were gaining momentum.  More and more of their numbers began pushing upwards from the cellars and dungeons.  While they were not well armed or armored, they made up for it with numbers.  The emperor, fearing the demons would escape into the city and begin slaughtering the people, ordered the gates to be locked and sealed until the situation was brought under control. 
     Before the gates were closed completely, one group of mercenaries entered the castle to help.  They were knights, mages, rogues, and other warriors who were there to help out of duty, curiosity, or possible profit.  However, they were only sparsely armed and armored as they had very little time to get into the castle before the gates were to be sealed. 

You are one of these mercenary warriors.

Name:
Class: (Knight, rogue, ranger, mage, etc...)
Weapon: None(yet)
Armor: None
Description:

Name: Sir Dominic Baldane
Class: Knight
Weapon: None
Armor: None
Description: Dominic had once been a knight in the service of the Altusian Empire before his service ended and he was given two options: Become a farmer and struggle to make a living or continue to use his fighting abilities and be a mercenary.  Seeing really only one option, Dominic became a mercenary.  Being in the capital, he always heard about important jobs quickly and always had a wide variety of weapons and armor at his disposal.  While he was about to leave for a simple mission, Dominic heard of an unknown attack on the citadel and decided that it was more important.  Surprised that the fight was inside, he did not even have time to put on his armor or grab a weapon because the gates were said to be closing within moments.  Dominic raced to the gates and gained entrance to the citadel and immediately saw the desperate situation that he was in.

Name: Ranraac Wraith
Class: Elven Rogue
Weapon: None
Armor: None
Description: A tall, fit Elf Ranraac was a very quiet one. He liked to keep to himself and generally travelled alone. 

Name: Jarnas Arien
Class: Martial Arts Instructor
Weapon: A short training stick, grabbed hastily on his way out.
Armor: None
Description: Jarnas teaches people how to fight. It's what he does, and has done for the past fifteen years since he came of age. He is known throughout the city as the man to come to if you want to know how to fight, and how to defend yourself. Two weeks earlier, he had been hired by the garrison's general to teach that general's children how to defend himself. Jarnas started his work and found that his students were learning splendidly. When the alarm was sounded, Jarnas had been teaching his students (now eleven of them, as other council members sent their children to learn) the basics of kicking. Thinking fast, he rushed the children out of the castle gates, mere minutes before his studio was overrun. With his students safe, Jarnas rushed back into the castle to help...
Jarnas is very skilled in all forms of combat, whether armed or unarmed. His favourite weapons are staves and single-edged two-handed swords.

Agh, you could've let us have cheap ass starter weapons...my guy's pretty useless without at least a breadknife.