The Ebony Renegades (Skyrim)

chapter forty six

(Disclaimer: I added everyone their own individual rooms because of the sheer size of the place plus I thought it would look nice and fit in with the aesthetic.)

It had been almost a few hours since the group had returned to their main base of operations and they had all been doing their own individual tasks. Upon first coming inside Gila dragged the large horker into the massive kitchen area to the left of the grand dining hall as she was cutting it up and was dissecting it removing the internal organs as she removed the stomach her hand felt something hard and firm inside the stomach cavity so drawing out her dagger she cut the stomach open revealing shredded vampire robes, tons of ash, and a sinister black and red ring.

"Hey guys you may wanna see this!" Gila called out as Serana came in with Tully close behind. "What is it Gila, what's  wrong-" Tully started before staring at the ring Gila had in her hand before carefully taking it into his daedric armored hand. "This is the legendary vampiric ring, where did you find this?" Tully asked as Gila pointed to the cut open stomach of the dead horker while Tully took note of the vampire armor sitting on the table before coming to a hypothesis on what had happened. "It's likely that this creature ate a vampire while it was wearing the vampiric ring and thus became part vampire itself." Tully said as he sits nearby with Serana to nobody's surprise sitting next to him as Gila had an evil smile creep up her face. "Sorry if I interrupted you two lovebirds." Gila said with a smirk which Tully immediately blushed which became obvious because of his pale skin meanwhile Serana just gave Gila a death glare with a blush as well. Shaking it off Gila continued the process of butchering the dead mammal and separating it into rations like she often did after finishing separating the white meat in the dark meat and separating it into meal sizes she put the rest of the meat into a large ceramic pot and then put it in a makeshift trunk which was covered with ice as she piles snow on top of the vase to keep the meat fresh. Once that was done all of the members of the gang retreated to their individual rooms after giving Lianya, Salazar, and Serana a tour and allowing them to make vacancy in a few of the spare rooms so they had their own private space. Each room was equipped with their own two-person bed, a chest for their valuables, an armor stand for them to put their armor on when not in use, as well as a weapon rack directly next to it for easy access to there armaments should an emergency happen. Throughout the remainder of the day the group proceeded doing their own individual tasks, Gentu had excused himself and confided himself into his workshop to accelerate production descending down the elevator into the menufactory on the bottom floor which also opened into the team's catacombs where they buried their fallen comrades, aside from the small office at the end of the hallway immediately to the right on the other side of where the catacombs were was Gentu's workshop which Dwarfed Calcelmo's lab walking down the end of the hallway towards his office area where he did plans the dwarven armored breton sat down pulling out a piece of paper and began drawing on it designing his new appendage while heavily taking inspiration from the great Yagrum for the concept of his new artificial limb. Sabrina went into the room where her herbs were growing as well as an alchemy table set up quite pleased seeing how well her ingredients have grown in her absence she carefully harvested them and began making them into potions combining mora tapanella, creep cluster, and scaly pholiota making them into potions of fortified carry weight which sell for a very high price especially among other alchemists and khajiit caravans. She was wearing her special falmer helmet that Asadelf had enchanted for her which allowed her to make a great deal of powerful alchemical concoctions. Asadelf went into the enchanting lab and began work on some miscellaneous junk to turn a profit. once she was finished with the work she sat against the wall reading the spell tome that Tolfdir had given her. Carefully reading the tome to understand it all the way through as with anything magic can be unforgiving if a mistake is made assuming the mistake didnt kill you, it could otherwise seriously injure you, or worse.  Meanwhile at the base's forge Yamma made some orcish weapons and armor to distribute to the nearby orcish stronghold of Narzulbur, and maybe even barter to mine some ebony. His work spoke for itself about his skill as a blacksmith, he would never claim to be the best blacksmith in tamriel but his and Gentu's work were masterfully made and even some big named smiths have said that they're work was incredible. Yamma hammered the orange metallic material making a brand new orcish warhammer and put it in the cart for Gentu to improve when he has time. While on the other side of the smithing area Myra was using the transmute spell that she learned from the college to turn regular iron ore into silver ore which she then put into the smelter turning the silver ore into silver ingots and then turning said ingots into more silver crossbow bolts as she only had like five or six bolts left. She used special cast molds and poured the melted silver into the mold and put a lid on it as the molten silver hardened after a few minutes she removed the top and brought out the new twenty set of silver bolts satisfied by her work she repeated the process. Severin and Shadow-step were currently relaxing in the mess hall discussing stealth tactics. While also practicing the invisibility and muscle and muffle to get the hang of it and to get used to the strain of using it on themselves. Both casted invisibility and practiced holding the spell while wanking around with the goal of holding the spell for at least a minute to provide enough time for them to either escape, or deliver a deadly sneak attack. As I continued training their bodies to withstand the intensity of the invisibility spell they eventually managed to get it to where they could last a whole minute without breaking the spell. The next step would be to combine the invisibility spell with muffle. Wielding invisibility in one hand and muffle in the other they walked around before the spell ended after thirty seconds due to exhaustion. The argonian assassin and khajiit thief gave each other a nod as they cast the combo again and tried it again with the same goal in mind to last at least a minute. Suvvan to the surprise of everybody was actually training against one of the mannequins in the training room practicing his form with his greatsword. Utilizing the same motions Ebon-shi taught him swinging his claymore from the same position that the dunmer had taught him hacking in the flashing with such force behind each swing in a very admirable fashion. Even though it took a little while he eventually got into a style that he was comfortable with and he continued practicing for a while. Lianya had made herself at home with her brother deciding that the two would take separate rooms so they could have their own space. Lianya put all of her miscellaneous items in the chest feeling much better with the lack of weight on her back she decided to wander around the base for a while and get familiar with it. Peeking her head in into her brothers room seeing that he was having issues navigating but was managing once he was done putting all of his extra items in his chest he skittered up onto the large bed before laying down to rest. Lianya smiled to herself seeing her brother so comfortable in his new surroundings as she spoke in their native tongue telling him that she was going to wander around for a little while as her brother gave a nod before laying down. As she made her way through the halls she eventually heard a thump on the other side of the wall tilting her head curiously she walked over and peaked her head around the corner before her pale cheeks turned red at the sight before her. Tully and Serana were kissing aggressively biting at each other's necks as Tully had Serana pinned up against the wall with both of her hands pinned above her head with his left hand while his right hand was lightly choking her. Shaking her head and getting away from there before things escalated she walked through the main hallway she passed Sabrina who was the nose deep in her alchemy work to notice. She took a sharp left heading down the hallway into the main hall where she saw Severin and Shadow-step practicing the invisibility and muffle spells smiling she decided to watch as she leaned up against the wall with her arms crossed mentally counting the seconds before the invisibility wore off although very impressed when they lasted a full minute before the spell dissipated. Mentally praising them for their tenacity and determination she left them in peace walking through the hallways towards the smithing room where Yamma was forging what appear to be a orcish greatsword before quenching it in the oil meanwhile Myra was still casting silver bolts but noticed her presence giving her a wave and a smile before continuing. Returning the wave she proceeded into the next room where she saw Suvvan training with such a discipline that was almost uncharacteristic of him it was if she was staring at a completely different nord curious she crossed her arms and leaned against the wall watching before deciding to offer a hand with his training pulling her ice blade of the monarch off of her back she approached. "Hey Suvvan, how about a opponent that fights back?" Lianya said with a smile as the nord gave a nod and the two crossed swords. Just like before Suvvan had put all of his other weapons a good distance away so he wouldn't be tempted to switch weapons in the middle of the duel. Both mirroring each other's stances the two rushed forward crossing swords as Lianya and Suvvan had a friendly sparring match against each other before Lianya utilized an old military tactic of her people after blocking his downward slash she hit him in the abdomen with the guard of her sword causing him to stumble back before crouching down and sweeping his leg out from underneath him causing him to fall on his back as she put her foot on his chest with the tip of her ice blade against his neck. "Very well done Suvvan, your skills with your claymore have certainly improve I'm very impressed." Lianya said as she offered him a hand up which Suvvan took. Smiling as she left the room and put her ice blade of the monarch back on her back she walked towards Asadelf to see if she needed any help with something. "Hey Asadelf, need any help with enchanting?" Lianya asked as Asadelf looks over and nods. "Certainly, come help me with these enchantments since you do frost enchantments much better then I do." Asadelf said as Lianya smiled and helped out with the frost resistance and frost damage enchantments while Asadelf took care of the others. After a little bit Gila, Myra, Severin, Tully, and Serana approached Ebon-shi who was currently sitting in the main room drinking a bottle of Sujamma. "Hey boss, Gentu asked us to head down to Mzulft and bring him a dwarven sphere and two dwarven spiders, we're also going to trade the supplies we just made with the khajiit caravan we passed on our way here do you need anything while we're out?" Myra asked as the ebony armored dunmer shook his head. "No I'm all right, but thank you though be careful everyone." Ebon-shi said with a smile as the group headed out before reaching into the inside of his ebony mail and pulling out the black envelope Myra handed to him from the mailbox. "So it's that time again, I will be ready I'll head there as soon as they get back." The dunmer spoke to himself before putting the letter back on the inside of his ebony mail.