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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jkason" data-source="post: 5788167" data-attributes="member: 2710">Nathan Tchanlach, human sorcererNathan felt sick.He was good at pretending to be tough and ruthless; just pretend to be Grandfather, he always told himself. But those were just tools. Aids to getting what you wanted without actually hurting someone. But as it became increasingly obvious that one of these men was going to die, executed while bound, the young sorcerer began to draw into himself. Pretending to be Grandfather, with his judgement and his hatred, was one thing. This…It didn't help that his unseen companions didn't even seem to agree. One faction clamored on about divine justice and smiting the wicked for their wickedness, while the other set chimed forth with an insistence on the need for the ascended to be above finality in their judgements, and to never deny forgiveness even unto the last breath. As a result, Nathan found himself unable to assert any kind of opinion when the time came. He simply watched, color draining from his face even as the blood drained from the halfling's slit throat. He still felt a bit cold and nauseated, but at least the motes had stopped arguing once the point became moot. Slowly, he started to recover some sense of composure. "No," he says softly as their employer makes overtures toward killing the remaining halfling. Then more forcefully: "Whether you worship the river or not, there's been more than enough blood spilled on it tonight. I'll have no more of it."You've our skills to guard your shipment, and we've done just that. The captain's made it clear the halfling is ours to dispose of as we see fit, and I, for one, intend to avoid doing anything that paints us any more clearly the villains of this turf war. This halfling makes it alive to Hruthrip, or I don't care who I have to hunt down for making an oath-breaker of me, I will send him to hell or drag him down with me."[sblock=ooc]Okay, I think I'm almost all caught up on my threads now. Thanks to all for being understanding. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> On the matter of choice, I think we're all more or less agreed we need to see through our current job before moving in a different direction? From the philosophical conflict, though, I would expect we're likely to leave Sekmun's employ once we've discharged our duty. Is that when we reach Hruthrip?[/sblock]</blockquote>

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