(Homebrew D&D) Breaking New Ground

[Arknath]

Ellar remains hidden, all attention focused on the elves inside the clearing. A quick scan of the area does not reveal any new catmen that are near.

[ooc: Unless any of you have specific actions you would like to take, we can switch to non-combat mode]

 

[Manzanita]

"Cousins," says Ulysses in Elven. "They say we are tresspassing on his chief's land & they need to take us there to do 'atonement.' They want us to hand over our weapons. I think it would probably be best if we should comply. They say they will take us by force otherwise."

How many cat men can we see?

 

[Arknath]

You can see seven cat men at the present time.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

"I don't see where we have any choice. I will go and as a prince of the realm it is my duity to start negotiations and first contact." Zyrial is sweating at the moment and it has nothing to do with his running. You all have known him for many years and he has the diplomacy skills of a Dire Badger.
Zyrial hands over his sword and bow. and will do as they ask of him.

 

[Keia]

"I'm not in favor of handing over our weapons and submitting ourselves for 'atonement.' So we were trespassing the chief's lands, we're here to see him as emmisarries of our King and Queen. Being delivered to him as criminals will not make a good first impression," Zykovian explained.

"Ulysses, see if you can explain to them that we've touched nothing in the chief's land, we're from a land far away and had no knowledge of the chief's claim to these lands, and that, as emmisaries from our King we were sent to actually meet the chief and as such we want to keep our weapons as guests, not criminals."

OCC: Nothing like a run-on sentence, or at least a very long one.

 

[Manzanita]

Ulysses

Ulysses addresses his cousins in elvish "I must admit that upon reflection, I agree with Zykovian. For all we know this captain of their's could be some bandit who will fleece us & put us in a zoo. 'Diplomatic Immunity' hasn't been widely practiced in the history of the world. I'm going to try to see if I can convince him to let us keep our weapons. I wish I'd had a little more training in diplomacy. We twighlight elves aren't naturally very good at this..."

He grimmaces at Zyrial, who has already handed his over.

He then addresses the catman in cat-talk.

"I am Ulysses D'Lur. I am an embassary from Queen Anoria of the Twilight Elves. We are strangers here, & not aware we were tresspassing on anyone's land. We do not know you, & are reluctant to hand over our weapons to you, who have so recently attacked us with no intentional provocation on our part. We are not opposed to meeting your leader. In fact we would greatly desire to inculcate friendly relations between our peoples. But we deserve the respect we will give you. Allow us to keep our weapons for the time-being."

"Also, I would like to know your name, so I can address you properly. I would also like to know how long it will take to reach your leader."

 

[Arknath]

"My name is Alsavian," says the first cat, who has done all of the talking thus far. He turns to his kin who are speaking in hushed tones. The discussion gets heated, particularly between two of the other members of the band. Alsavian growls a deep baritone which silences all of the other catmen. It means nothing in their tongue, much like a grunt would mean nothing in yours, but it seems to gain the reaction wanted by Alsavian.

He turns back to Ulysses. "We must bind your warriors," he says sturnly looking at Zykovian and Felkhourn, "if they are to keep their arms. We would not allow our chieftan to come to peril because of some "elves'" pride, if you truly are elves." Much sniffing ensues, not sniffing of the rough animalstic sort, but of intelligent creatures that have just caught wind of something.

Several feline ears perk up and heads turn and look out into the forest. The forest grows suddenly quiet and you notice that a small breeze is blowing. Alsavian looks at Ulysses with urgency, "We must leave now. What say you?"

They are clearly on edge about something.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Zyrial will follow Ulysses' lead on this. He gave up his weapons but has not given up his freedom or ability to defend himself and he knows it.
"Cousin. What are they saying?"

 

[Chauzu]

"I think we should do as they say," Felkhourn says as she puts the arrow back into the quiver. Wouldn't you feel uneasy if strangers from another world, with lots of armament, wanted to see our Queen during such strange times?" She then quickly unloads her weapons and ammo and hands it over to the catmen.

 

[Keia]

Zykovian scans the area, looking for danger, based on the odd reactions by the cat people.

"Very well, I will turn over my bow and arrows, but I don't want to give up my sword," Zykovian said with a sigh. "I'll peace knot it, if that would be acceptable."

Zykovian waits for Ulysses response on the conversation.