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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8625850" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Doc had watched the prayers of the Colonel impassively. After a year, he had learned that people here had access to strange powers that he knew better than to question, yet Doc also realized that in the end, all this talk of this god or that god didn't matter when the light faded from your eyes. No god saved me from this, did they?As the group set out, following the scouts provided by Lord Falldur, Doc pulled out a cheroot and stuck it in his mouth. Raising his hand, he snapped his fingers to create a small flame {prestidigitation} and light it. As Doc inhaled, the cherry at the end of the cheroot flamed up, and as he exhaled from his lifeless lungs, the smoke writhed around his face before going up into the sky. Doc could sense that the others were uneasy with his presence. I'm not your huckleberry. Doc understood that only standing together in combat would form the kind of trust needed for a group like this. In the meantime, a little unease might be helpful. Still, he observed each person he was with, sizing them up during the walk.As Cromby and Siersha slowed as the trail began to peter out, Doc spit out his cheroot and ground it out under his boot. He was close. He let the darkness rise within him, felt the shadows of the Mesa of Madness coalesce around his left hand until the shades began to solidify into his pistol. Once he held his peacemaker firmly in his hand, Doc put it in his holster.Doc looked at the massive timber stronghold that was pointed out by the scouts. He thinks for a second, and then looks back at the group.Reckon we can try and sneak in. Then again, reckon wood burns. And rustlers burn too.[OOC]The obvious play would be to go in and take them on individual basis; start with the guards ... Doc is decent at stealth as well. That said, Doc would have no issue (assuming we can generate the fire and/or explosives) with taking ambush positions and burning the whole thing down and taking out survivors as they come out. Maybe it's not the traditional way to tackle this, but ...And even if we don't, it's definitely what Doc would suggest. <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=":)" />[/OOC]</blockquote>

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