I met up with Leland and his band outside of the prison (the prison had been built into a ravine, so I got lucky and Leland saw me while I was approaching it with a bomb in the back of a cart, I imagine one of their sharp shooters would have had a lifetime of back claps for blowing up something like that). He was "disguised" as a travelers who's wagon broke down, being a shorty helped in that no one in the area would actually try and help him, so sitting there forever wasn't out of place, and me stopping also didn't look odd for anyone who might be watching.
"Damn." That was his greeting to me, I figured he might be a little sad I was there. It was full noon and the heat was already draining.
"Nice to see you too Leland."
"I had hoped you'd strike out with this bomb thing and we could then just go north and leave this fat beaurocrat to his own devices."
"No such luck Leland, so whats the plan?" The "Plan" was pretty much a distract and infiltrate. Except distract in this case meant "explode and kill a lot of people thus leaving them totally off balance for us to sneak the prince out." I'll admit it was kind of a brute force plan. One somewhat complicated aspect of it was waiting for a train. See the prison was built in a ravine under a train tressel (well it was originally a tressel, it became the roof/station for the prison), our plan was to wait for the trains afternoon drop off, explode the bomb, hopefully keeping the train in the station, snatch the prince, hop on the train and be gone before anyone figures it out. Sounds really easy right?
Now you are probably wondering "How did we get the bomb close enough to the prison to blow it up and cause a disturbance?" Simple, because the prison was built in a ravine, there was an incline to the bottom part (which housed the shorties and the least amount of security, like most things in life the shit was at the bottom). Bearing that in mind, we just rolled it down hill with a lit fuse and hoped for the best (because the plan was so well put together beside this point right? Exactly). While one group did that, me and Leland were going to sneak in and snag the prince and somehow get the train moving.
It was with great fear I waited just out of sight of what looked like a nasty guy with a long rifle, Leland dressed as conservatively as I'd seen him to my right. There was a lot of open ground between us and the prison, and if the bomb failed to explode or distract, there was very little hope we could get inside the prison, well both of us, I'm sure I could have and Leland would have become a bullet pin cushion.
"Did they release it?" I was getting anxious.
"Yes, I still think this is a really bad idea."
"Of course it is, thats why it'll work, no one would be this stupid to attack a prison when a supply train is there, since obviously there'll be more guards to move the supplies and prisoners."
"What?" And then the bomb exploded thus ending our conversation. I say exploded, but in reality it detonated so loud and with such force that the ground shook with it. I was worried we might have just blown up the whole damn prison it was so loud. It worked though, the guy with the mean looking rifle disappeared somewhere, and we made a break for the entrance. It was a heavy metal door (naturally) set in a stone wall. Leland looked at the lock and took out some tools.
"What are you doing?" Behind the door I could hear chaos inside, it sounded like the explosion must have hit while they were transfering prisoners, sounds of fighting and screams of pain echoed.
"Picking the lock, unless you know another way to open one."
"Yeah I do." It took a bit more juice than I would have liked, but I managed to burn the hinges off the heavy door and with a kick sent it slamming hard to the floor, crushing a prisoner who apparently was trying to pick it on the other side (sorry buddy). Inside was a mad house as the sounds made it seem. Guards were fighting a losing battle against shackled prisoners, who had somehow gotten guns and were doing their best to kill everything that looked like they were in a uniform. Our plan couldn't have worked out better (because it was flawless you see) and with no trouble at all we had the prince out of his cell (I let Leland pick the lock, since we had some time now and I didn't want to expend anymore energy than I needed) and were on our way to the train.
I'll admit the prince looked worse for wear, but he hugged me when we freed him (he was still fat, but he was that I haven't eaten fat, look its hard to explain, just trust me). Surpringly we were able to board the engine of the train no issue, no guards or anything were trying to keep prisoners away from it. And thats where the problems started.
"So lets get going." I was eager to leave, we weren't exactly going to take the train all the way to the next destination, but we needed it to successfully escape the prsion.
"Sure start it up Trezlan." Leland looked to me and I looked to him, and then we both looked to the Prince.
"Neither of you two no how to get this thing running?" He said with that kind of royal assholery only someone who can barely tie his shoes can muster.
"Shit." Leland and I said it in unison, you know what they say, best laid plans of idiots always foiled by lacking knowledge. Well no one says that, but I just did and since I live forever IT WILL NOW BE A THING YOU ARE WELCOME!
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