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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MetaVoid" data-source="post: 7050253" data-attributes="member: 87106">[OOC]What would he do with a whole tribe?! <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]Hagadark takes Margha and her group of hunters and runs forward keeping to south westerly direction, deviating as the terrain takes him, but keeping general direction. The group is slower than usual, he is an alchemist, not a warrior trained to run whole day. But still, his inhuman fortitude keeps him from slowing them down too much.When shy she-half-orc approaches, he finds his worries echoed in her words. But he alredy went past that and accepted the fact they may be only small part of a larger conflict."I know, Margha. But there is nothing we can do about it. We need work. We increase our own power by the work his kind offers. And we can work to prevent the worst if we're in the middle of it. Imagine if he took saurians for this work. And they ran across one of smaller orc tribes living in the mountains. Or human settlements. What would happen? This way, we protect those, we find suitable place for your tribe and get some payment in exchange. He may be shy so he didn't deal with us directly. He may be paranoid. Or he could be changed by his experiments so much he became monstruous and doesn't want it known yet. Or he could be controlled or even dead. It is the nature of ambition and power hunger to reach too far too early for easy path. And it NEVER ends well. Hard path that you thread yourself, you create yourself, that is the only way."He runs for a minute in silence (except for his panting)"Look at yourself. Orc women cannot become warriors. And only occasionally shamans. The physical differences in size are too great. Pregnancy in a warrior is crippling. And yet, here you are, leader of your own company. Now if I could teach you to negotiate with humans without fear of judgement or derision, you could do a great things. You just have to realise you're not orc, you're smarter than most. And you're not human. You're something greater than both. I rose up in the world thanks to my smarts, you might rise due your strength or cunning. Everything is your own choice and the obstacles are of your own making."Several huffs later"We suspect the mage is into something greater. We have a chance to find out what. Lets take it."</blockquote>

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