IC: Dichotomy's Age of Worms Redux, Part II


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Alexis glares at Viktor incredulously. "There ONLY reason to not confront them immediately is that we may be detained unnecessarily for disturbing the....peace as it is. Have you even CONSIDERED the possible motivations for collecting bodies? My god. I would have expected to be trying to reason you OUT of dragging them to the constable right now." As Alexis speaks she stands, and her voice gets consistently louder. As she finishes, she looks around sheepishly and sits down again.

"I see no reason we can't extract the information we need from them peacefully, but if you think following them back to the relative safety of their stonghold will in some way LESSEN the chance of them fighting us or that being under the nose of their master will some how increase the chance that they'll peacefully surrender the bodies they defiled..... FINE!" Again as she speaks her voice raises gradually, this time she remains seated however. In unison with her final word she slams her fist on the table and grabs her ale, staring into the cup.
 

Boldak looks taken aback, and after taking a reassuring sip of ale responds, "Actually... I was figuring they wouldn't be willing to tell us anything, so we'd better just follow them."
 

Llyr looks Boldak up and down. "That's funny, you don't look like a tree... That being the only thing that Moro is known to abuse. Well maybe the occasional he-wolf too, but you don't much resemble one of those either."

After silently watching Alexis' outbursts Llyr leans forward. "I was actually pondering one of a couple options. For one, if we just drag them down to the garrison the odds of us finding those remains and putting them back where they belong are greatly lowered. Also, if we act fast we can get them back in the ground before that owlbear wakes up.

From there we would have a few of options. The first being lie in wait and setup some sort of ambush for them when they decide to come back for the bodies. A second option would be to heal the owlbear as best we can and let it deal with them. A final option would be get everyone in the ground and have the ghost open the door before the grave robbers have a chance to dig the bodies up again since the ghost wouldn't know that his peace was about to be disturbed once more. That final option is rather despicable to me, but I am just laying everything on the table here.

If we were lucky we would be able to trail them, wait until they left again, get the remains, and get hem back to the farmstead. Luck doesn't seem to be a strong suit of your little group though, so we really ought to be prepared to face what is left of their group, a state that I don't believe we are in right now actually.

If this was any other bar in town, I would say confront them directly in the open where blood isn't going to be spilled. However, this is the Feral Dog, which combined with them being paid thugs of a mine owner means that blood is pretty much guaranteed to be spilled.

So! Do we figure out where they are before getting some rest and smuggling the bodies out? Or do we face them now and see if we can get ourselves alwost certainly killed?
"

The druid leans back, takes a long draught of his ale, and awaits an answer.
 

Alendar looks at Llyr. "So you think that when they leave here the go sleep with the rotted corpses?" The elf shrugs and takes a long pull from his mug.
 

Llyr rolls his eyes at the elf. "Those people were in the ground for a long time, but the tracks were put down since the last rain. I don't think there would be much left of the bodies and there are pretty decent odds that they haven't ditched the bones yet. Rather, they might have put them in a cellar or stable for a couple days. I suppose that waiting a day to rest up would lessen those chances as well. So now we're back to tracking them tonight or waiting for a big show down confrontation tomorrow."
 


Looking back at Alexis, after her attack on his beliefs, he takes a deep breath and replies. "You most likely know that I stand for justice, as does my god, but that doesn't stop with following the laws, and arresting criminals right away. That boy's family deserves their justice too. Also, there is a chance there are more people there, but if we stop them now, there is a good chance thier boss will just find some other goons, and the grave robbing will just continue." Viktor then stops for a moment, and takes a long pull of his ale. "There is more to justice than what's right in front of your eyes."
 

Fuming, Alexis continues to stare into her mug. As Viktor speaks she lifts her head to look directly into his eyes. "Am I actually hearing you suggest we let these grave robbers walk away from us, to return to their stronghold? YOU? 'Aw, lets just let 'em waltz back to their lair.'" she says mockingly. "What if they were your parents, Viktor? Those bodies they dug up and were doing god knows what with? That boy has been trapped in that room for god only knows how long and those who are responsible for KEEPING him there now will be feet from you and you are saying we should let them walk.... I can't believe this, i'm arguing with you about this. You should review your concepts of justice you fool. Allowing 'injustice' to continue, in HOPES that you can prevent more, maybe, is...so.... GAH.." Alexis shakes her head in disbelief.

Turning to the group, Alexis takes a long, slow breath "Alendar is right. It seems quite unlikely that established residents of the town are going to 'bring their work home'. We can simply follow them. That's fine. I will pray that the trail leads us somewhere that isn't the flophouse and that those men are alive and breathing long enough after we follow them to TELL us something useful."
 

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