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Deus Ex Machina

[What is Spider doing in game rules? Grappling? Attacking with a weapon? If so, is he trying to deal non-lethal or lethal damage?]
 

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Spider barrels into Kamma, taking him completely unawares, and slams him into the ground. The air rushes out of the goblin as a few pots go careening off the side of the mountain. The warforged has an iron grip on the small creature. Kamma regains enough breath to wail, "Erran of Cyre, you've tricked me! Have I bared steel, approached hostilely, spoken threats? Please do not rob poor Kamma!"

Nearby, under the hidden overhang, Grace feels that something is "off" or "wrong" with what just happened. It is does not mesh with his developing sense of what is just and/or right.

[sblock=OOC]Kamma gets no AOO, since he was unaware of the attack, and he fails the opposed grapple check, taking 2 points of nonlethal damage.[/sblock]
 

Hearing the scuffle and the goblin's protesting tone of voice, Grace emerges from the overhang to see Spider pinning the small creature under his bulk.

"SD-85, what is the meaning for your unprovoked assault? The small one seemed willing to provide information without violence. It will not likely be so cordial now. In addition, you revealed our presence to anything else that might be watching."

Grace's words are cold and inflectionless, but inwardly it knows that errors in judgement such as this need to be dealt with immediately and forcefully.
 

"This unit has reveal his presence, but not the presence of the others. That was your doing." spider states, as he rise the goblin up. "I mean no harm to you goblinoid. This was a simple test to see if you have someone hidden." Spider looks to his back. "You possessions are not to be subtracted."
 

Dog looks up at SD-85's swift attack, but keeps himself and Small Dog in concealment for now.

GR8-C15 has a logical point. SD-85's attack was not wise... it thinks. "Wise" and "wisdom" are not terms that it understands well, but he thought it had something to do with the "common sense" often mentioned by his instructors. Somehow he thought this qualified. SD-85 was impulsive, a trait certain to eventually lead to deactivation if not tempered with caution.
 

Erran struggled to hold back his anger at Spider's precipitate action. I apologize for my companion's actions, good Kamma. You have shown nothing but kindness to me, and I did not order him to attack you. His word is good, however, and you can rest assured that we will not take anything from you. We will, if all of your good will is not lost, ask for information about the caves, as I was trying to do.
 

Spike continues his surveillance of the path, listening in on the dispute on behavior and tries to puzzle out why the goblin and Erran are so upset.
 


Their cover blown, 3AC-42X emerges from " hiding " to take up a position guarding the road in the direction the goblin came from.

" The humanoid appears to be sympathetic to the enemy. Trust in his intentions is unwarranted, " he says mechanically.
 

Into the Woods

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