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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 2474404" data-attributes="member: 11574">Mercy is for those with the wisdom to recognize it.Korg arrives next to Paquito and peers into the next room. A large wide ladder descends from the ceiling and ends in the middle of the room. Other than being a rather large ladder, Korg sees nothing else of note as to why Paquito called him over. "A ladder?" Korg shrugs in bewildermentPaquito shakes his head in response and points to the right wall. There chained to the bark wall are two tall emaciated ogres. Their eyes open wide and red, their mouths appear to have something in them keeping their jaws from closing.Korg looks back at Paquito and furls his brow, then waives over Finrod and Gronar. The pair look over the ogres and are also perplexed at their current state."Maybe they are prisoner like elfys?" Gronar wonders "That would seem to be the best guess, I don't want to think about other possibilities." Finrod repliesGronar steps into the room, upon seeing the hill giant the ogres turn their heads slowly in his direction and begin moaning in agony. Gronar gets within reaching distance of the ogres and stops there.Gronar sees that the both of the ogre's knees have been crushed, their joints are bent are horribly odd angles. The ogres are help up by chains that are just low enough that the ogre's feet touch the ground. Their eyes have been sewed open with thick black thread, their pupils are a maddening red and only glisten near the corners of their eyes. A thick piece of wood has been shoved into each of their mouths, breaking every one of their front teeth and causing large splinters of wood to sink deep into the front of their jaws. Gronar winces in pain as both ogres moan pitifully, Gronar wonders if they even have tongues left or if those were ripped from the floor of their mouths when the blocks were thrust in. Unable to even shed a tear of pain any longer the ogres whine and moan at the hill giant.Gronar grabs the wooden block in each ogre's mouth and slowly retracts the gag. He tosses the wooden blocks behind him and they skitter across the dirt floor. Gronar bends over to get a closer look at the black thread keeping their eyes pinned open as the ogres spit and hack up bits of dried blood. Gronar hears the swift intake of air into each ogres lungs and his eyes go wide just as he recoils his head from the sickening screams that issue forth from the ogres' mouths.The rest of the party cover their ears, Paquito then realizes what the ogres are doing there."Gronar! Kill them!" Paquito shouts over the dinGronar shoves his big hands over the ogres' mouths, trying to get them to quiet down. The ogres twist their heads in defiance and gnaw the palm of his hands with bloody splinter filled gums. Gronar pulls his hands away quickly and gives each ogre an elbow to the nose, followed by a kick to each of their abdomens. Out of breath, the ogres take a pause from their screaming."Kill Them!" Paquito shouts againGronar looks back at Paquito and then again at the ogres. Gronar wonders what kind of pain the ogres must be going thru and he brushes off Paquito's request. Gronar reaches up and grabs the chains holding the ogres up."Korg come help heal ogres." Gronar calls to KorgKorg starts to head into the room, but Paquito grabs his forearm and shakes his head no. Gronar growls at Paquito's interference, but then he hears the sharp intake of breath again from the ogres as another blast of moaning sound issue from the ogres' mouths. Gronar pulls his hands away and presses a finger to his lips, he pleads with them to be quiet, but they seem to not hear the hill giant's words.Gronar realizes that he has probably let them scream far too long to not have someone come looking into the noise, and steps back and with one motion, beheads both ogres. He then grabs his spear just below the point, and severs the thread keeping their eyes open. Gronar has to unpeel their eyelids and forcibly set them down over their eyes, but he manages to close their eyes to death."Why Pokey not let Korg help!" Gronar's voice was more of a shout than a question."Because they weren't prisoners, they were lookouts. No?" "But that makes no sense, who would do such a thing to their own kind?" Finrod asked"Who says they were friends of the trolls? A better question for you might be, if they do this to ogres imagine what they're doing to the elves? No?" Finrod's heart beat a cold pulse through his elven veins, "Lets find them quickly then." The party retreats back to the tooth coloring room and proceeds south where the room ends in a hallway leading west, turning the party sees two trolls whipping a small force of kneeling beings who are clearing away some rubble against the southern wall. The two trolls never hear their death approach, as the party quickly comes up behind them and takes them out with quick efficiency. They then look over the chained slaves, half orcs and half goblins. All of their feet have been broken or crushed, ensuring that there would be no escape. Their fingers are all bleeding and most of them have the white of bone jutting out of their bleeding fingertips.The slaves all mumble something to the party, after a few tries Paquito hears "kill me" spoken in infernal by one of the goblins."Lets leave them, they're not who we came for." Finrod speaks"Gronar say free them, or Gronar not help when elfy finds other elfys." "They want to die, let's end their misery and move on. No?""Korg will try to heal them." Korg moves up and places a hand on the nearest goblin. A blue light radiates outward and the goblin collapses."Why Korg kill snot*?" Gronar asks in stunned disbelief"Snot not dead, snot is resting, see?" Korg points out that the goblin's chest still moves with the breath of life."The wretched things are near death. Korg could waste all of his healing powers on these things, and it still wouldn't be nearly enough. All that will get us is no help when we're injured." Finrod exclaimedGronar thought over the elf's words and knew that he spoke true. "Korg, let Pokey kill rest of them." Gronar said to his friend"Korg not let piggies and snots die because elfy afraid of getting bruise." Korg spat indignantlyFinrod and Korg began a shouting match that had Gronar soon involved as well, and when they were good and engaged in the argument, Paquito fired up a scorching ray that put an end to all of their suffering.Korg's mouth gaped open and then slowly closed as the hill giant made his way to face Paquito. "That was very bad thing, very bad thing." The hatred in Korg's voice was almost replaced by the sadness in his heart. Korg turned and walked away from the minotaur.Paquito looked up at Gronar and Finrod who both gave knowing nods to the deed Paquito finished, then Gronar went to console his friend as Finrod scouted out the end of the hallway.* hill giant's term for goblins</blockquote>

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