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Message: <blockquote data-quote="biorph" data-source="post: 792566" data-attributes="member: 10426">as ye have sown"Or," continued the drow "You can sacrifice your life and we will give them theirs."In the back of his mind Veridian heard Her voice again.  The low mocking tone she normally used was gone replaced by one dripping with sincerity and reason.  "Think really carefully before you decide to do something all noble.  In your misguided efforts to help them all they've repaid you with is suspicion, accusations, insults.  To your face the druid said that he suspected you were some sort of daylight adapted drow, the fat girl has been ntohing but an annoyance, when she realizes you know the langauge of the underdark she won't think you learned it to hunt their kind, she'll think you learned it to ally with them, the half human, well, what did you really expect of someone with polluted blood anyway, He doesn't even have enough respect for the dead the bury them properly, and the only person you were close to too.  such a shame, there's no way to bring him back now.  What have they ever done to deserve your sacrifice?""Do you swaer that they shall be kept safe if I do sacrifice myself?" he asked the female drowsilence was all the response he recieved"You know they're trained better than that.  She's let you twist in the wind this long becuase your indecision amuses her.  She's not going to let them live even if you do die.  The dwarf and the half-human will be taken deep into the underdark and tortured until the end of their natural lives.  The humans will be used for the children to cut their teeth on and to practice new torture methods until their frial little bodies just give up. The girl will be raped repeatedly, she and her half demon children will be the torture toys of some preistesses son, the children sold off as pincushions to drow spinsters or perhaps used as a sacrifice.  Look around you, they've all stabilized themselves.  Their wounds are not flowing, they're alive.  Any chance they had of a quick painless death did the minute they didn't.  She will kill you and bring them back to her clan as hostages.  If you leave though...  She's partially wounded and the wizard is useless for the rest of the day.  She's almost sure she can beat you in a fight, but that doubt is what's keeping you alive.  As you stand here listening to me it slowly runs out.  Decide now before it is too late.""Farewell" he saidThe warrior and wizard's faces broke into smiles.  They took the key off Bernedette's body escorted him to the dorr, showed him out, bowing in a gesture of mocking respect, and slammed and locked it behind him.He returned to the camp to talk to a very puzzled Elwood"Where's everyone else?" he asked'Dead if they're very lucky' thought Veridian "We ran into a party of drow, probably a dosen of them total and I don't think we even met them all""We..we must save them mustn't we?" Elwood replied"They're drow, if they're very lucky their beyond our help now, and if they aren't then I truly pity the agonies they will go through before sweet death takes them.""But...but" Elwood stuttered"They have the key to the door and I know of no other way in.  I tried to save everyone, but in the end I was only able to walk away with my own life."The bard's face fell "so it's..." "Hopeless? Utterly" finished Veridian "I am going to Peldan's Helm" he continued "I reccommend you come with me if you wish to save your own life.  It's approaching winter and the roads will be rife with hungry animals and gangs of bandits.  I suggest you come with me and we can protect one another.  I'd offer you my firendship, but that doesn't seems to have done anyone any good lately."  Packing up the horses, releasing the wolves, the packed up the horses and marmaduke and began the trek to Peldan's helm.  "How ironic," thought Veridian, "now we have more than enough food."In his meditations those nights all he heards was Her mocking raucous laughter.</blockquote>

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