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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aust Thale" data-source="post: 6927585" data-attributes="member: 6804768">Vale Responds...~ Oh for the love of toads. ~ Vale feels an acrid taste of ammonia on his tongue.  Bitter.   ~ Perhaps it is the truth-sayer effect of the temple.  Not enough for smoke, so perhaps not enough of it was a lie?  Lucky for the green fellow that the orc was here.  I would never allow Gus to torture anybody, though, nor eat testicles.  I don’t think he would even like them. ~   The acrid taste dissipates.  Vale allows wisdom to prevail.  Vale feels embarrassed at the green fellow’s cowering.  Perhaps the orc had a point.  Vale didn’t count on being met with such fragility.  He works to the side of Kasnik and Dewyyd such that he can see the man, but he keeps his distance.  “Ye are a lucky wee man, there, Greenie.  The old big fella here has your back.  He appears as righteous as he is sanctimonious.  As to the Order that vexes you, I’ll reserve my ire for them and not you.  Nobody’s touching your testicles.  And nobody will kill you here.  That was intended to scare you, not send you cowering to the corner.  Get up man.  Have some respect for yourself. ” [gm]"Nobody’s touching your testicles. And nobody will kill you here. That was intended to scare you, not send you cowering to the corner. Get up man. Have some respect for yourself. ” -- Ha ha ha ha ha ha!! Reminds me of the used car salesman in True Lies.[/gm] He turns to Kasnik such that the green fellow can hear him, “That’s as much of an apology as I am going to give the wee man until he earns it.  I have no quarrel with you, Orc.  That said, you can take your sanctimony and shove it up your horses rear end.  And while you are there, try your best to pull your head out.  I was wrong, but you drew on me first.  If you raise your sword to me again, you had better use it.  Or I’ll knock your fuzzy orc eyebrows into next week.  So be about your snuggling and cuddling of this poor fella so we can be about our way. ”   Vale begins to walk out of the temple, but he stops and turns toward Sylvar & Dewydd, Edward, Denby, Harold, and Father Xavier and says gruffly, “I regret my actions.  I should have warned you that I was going to try and intimidate him, and I should have not said anything about his testicles.”   To Father Xavier, “I hope that your friend recovers and is himself.  Well met.” He lowers his head, clearly embarrassed.  Like most things, he attempts to shake it off quickly.   ~ If nothing else, perhaps it was compelling for the green man.  Perhaps he will be afraid enough to behave (stick), and persuaded enough to talk (carrot). ~   “I’ll meet you back at the inn.  Max and I need to catch up.  If you still want my assistance with the other thing (clearly a reference to speaking with the dead regarding the red orcs and Vaelik).  I’ve spent enough of my day with green men and green orcs. ”   As he is walking out gruffly both in parts embarrassment and other parts indignity, he stops abruptly, realizing that the party is missing a member, “Sylvar, where did your friend Lathir go?”[OOC] Vale's personality is equal parts Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, and Wilford Brimley.  Vale is a dwarven neutral good cleric with chaotic good tendencies.  Sorry, forgot about that before; I was thinking he was straight up Chaotic Good.  He is as affable as any dwarf, but his natural state is grumpy.  He is military-minded.  And no, his natural tendency is not to harm unarmed combatants.  That's outside both neutral good and chaotic good tendencies.  But playing a prank on or tricking enemies, even a humiliating one, is allowed.  Until the cowering started, Vale thought he was doing just that.  He's duly embarrassed, but he's a dwarf, and it is just as much common knowledge to Kasnik that dwarves are difficult and stubborn as it is to Vale that paladins have a thing even tolerating a minor impropriety in either the law or 'good', whatever the hell that is.  I mean, he's an orc who's had a Pauline conversion on the way to his Damascus.  And Vale is a dwarf whose parents were turned into undead and nearly ate him; he has a few issues that allow me to role play him.  The two characters are going to have to figure out how to get along.   As to Respen, he is Chaotic Neutral.  Kasnik is simply going to have to deal with it. Respen came from far away; it's not like he can go back.  [/OOC]</blockquote>

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