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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 763077" data-attributes="member: 224">Inbetween: Post-session #2, via emailSet-up:  Garret and Riva have finished speaking with the Captain.  They leave the keep, and walk through the decrepit Eaglesford gate-house.  Through the archway, looking down the hill and path, they can see Mrs. Faegan's mill.  Their companions await them there. There is no one around the gatehouse of consequence; perhaps one of the castle guard is on patrol in the gatehouse above them.  The Conversation: Riva stops, then says to Garret: "Garret, I think we'd better go back to see the captain.. "He felt the mission to the Smitson farm was pretty urgent -- that it be dealt with since he wouldn't wait -- and I think we should be there to help.. "Things might have changed just like we noticed on the way back to town, and I'm healthy enough to provide a strong fighting arm to do it.  You're faster than me, why don't you go get the others and I'll try and get the captain to wait for a few minutes until you come back.."Garret responds: "I agree that our presence can make a difference, and if the others are up to it, so am I."But realize that what works for you and the Warden's crew won't cut it with the Captain. He runs a tight ship -- each member knows their place and depends on the others to do theirs.  You'll need to follow his orders explicitly or he'll send you packing."Look, leaving the issue that you almost died last night totally aside, I'm not sure what made you leave the defensible position we had  established in the cottage, but you risked ALL of our lives by heading out the door the way you did! Did you really think that we, as your friends, weren't  going to follow you out there and try to stand by you? Tieran and Rhoen were hurt pretty bad in the cellar, trying to save your hide, Mr. Statue!"They knew as well as I did that to flee the cellar to save themselves meant handing you your death sentence. They didn't leave you behind, none of us did, though it took a lot out of us to inally bring those two things down."While you may have felt pretty good once you shook off the ffects of that paralysis and got some healing from the others, PLEASE try and take into consideration how the rest of us are doing before pulling another stunt like that. Where one of goes, we all go. That was something we agreed on in the last few days when we got serious about this "adventuring"  stuff. I know you're feeling "healthy enough to provide a strong fighting arm to do it". "After receiving the majority of Rhoen's magic this morning I would hope that's the case, but Tieran and Rhoen aren't! They're hurt  pretty badly and have used up the majority of their magic between last night's battle and healing you up again this morning. Mrs. Faegan has likely healed them by now. Still, SHE isn't traveling with us and our ability to heal each other is severely limited. "Just because you're feeling top notch doesn't mean that the rest of us are in a position to pull your butt out all the  time. If this keeps up it's not going to be too long before someone gets killed by your actions--and it's not likely going to be you."I'll go back and talk to the Captain, since I know him much better than you and I'm sure he'd appreciate our help. Trust me, he doesn't  think a much of the Warden and his crew, and I'm sure he still throws you into that lot. See if Mrs. Faegan has patched the others up. If they're willing we can all head up to the Smitson place with the Captain and his troops. I just hope everyone's planning on returning to town before dark. We could all still usethe rest!"Riva gets a bit flustered, and says:"Wait a moment.. look, the reason I left the cottage was for a very good reason.. those zombies, it was clear that they weren't going to go awayafter a couple of minutes.. I mean, look at the fact that those shutters had lots and lots of claw marks on them on the outside, and the fact that even after the others out front had been turned, the ones at the windows kept clawing at the windows.. so they're stupid and stubborn.. "All that activity if it kept up would attract more of the restless dead, intelligent dead, and we've already seen what a pair of those can do when I was paralyzed.. and then we would have been in a world of hurt.. and besides, there were only two of them, take those out and we'd have peace for the rest of the night.. not only that, but a couple of dead zombies at the windows would serve a very pointed message to any intelligent undead prowling about.. so you can see why I rushed out when I did to take care of those two zombies..  now, it so happens that I slipped in the mud and so one of those cursed-sons-of-orcs got in a couple lucky swipes with 'is claws while I regained my footing....but if it weren't for that, I'd have taken 'em both down!  It was something that needed to be done for the survival of the party, I'm not ashamed of that, and I'd do it again too.. and if I happened to have fallen in a necessary task like that, so be it, at least I will have helped preserve the lives of the rest of ye all...."Th' other thing is that we know something must be creating these undead, I'm guessing here that one undead can create more, so that's another reason why I've been keen on getting them all in one go.. or as swift as possible... and that unfortunately takes a certain amount of risk.. undead are hateful evil creatures, and I will not easily abide their existence.. I grant that perhaps that passion of mine, especially in regards to cleansing that filth from the world, could lead me from time to time to ignore the rest of ye in the heat of combat.. I will try and keep that in mind better in future.. ye are all my comrades, but I can hope that ye see why I feel urgency here, even to the extent of taking extra risks.. undead are something I will not suffer to exist when I have the least ability in me to resist.. noone of us knows that better than me.. but I won't get into the whys of that right now, that's old history.. grrrr.. I will have them destroyed and whatever might create 'em.. "I will try to act in a more groupwise manner... that said, better head off to the captain as you were doing and I'll see to the rest of us.." The two of them part ways, off on their respective tasks.  Garret may have mumbled something about the likelihood of defeated undead getting away...but we may never be sure.</blockquote>

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