Into the New World - OOC - Calling NMF and Masquerade!

[Zurai]

He's not going to be able to fix the broken spine. That'd require a regenerate spell, which is waaaaaaaaaay beyond any magic Enko has ever heard of (9th level druid spell). The critter with the broken spine is helpless but stable. The one that Artemisia dropped hasn't stabilized yet, but could potentially try to attack or run away if healed enough to bring it to consciousness again. Which is any amount of wound point healing, if I'm reading the rules right.

 

[Dire Lemming]

Ok, so I guess I'll just make sure that I keep that one alive, but not wake it, unless it's the only way to make sure it stays alive. If that's the case I'll have someone strong hold it down or bind it. Since the other one can't move I guess I can heal it awake again. then maybe I can talk to it.

I can't use heal skills to realign any bones can I?

 

[Dire Lemming]

Maybe Enko is the only one to realize that we've just met the very first non-human intelligent creatures in the history of Cuirlen, and that killing the first ones we meet may have unfortunate repercussions. Still I'm surprised that people from a Utopian neolithic/bronze age culture would be so eager to kill a helpless creature simply for the sake of killing. Maybe I got the wrong idea about the society.

 

[Zurai]

"Helpless"? If it wasn't so scared of "szas fhel" it would have taken a bite out of Ryon.

 

[WarShrike]

Let us not forget that first contact was initiated when they tried to murder us in our sleep.

 

[Shayuri]

I'm kind of with the others on this one Lemming.

No, make that, "completely" with them. These aren't mysterious, enigmatic beings. They're murderous, horrible little monsters. Simple self-preservation demands that killin' be done, then asking questions.

 

[Dire Lemming]

So, there couldn't possibly be any other reason that they attacked us then that they're "murderous, horrible little monsters" ... And simple self preservation demands that we slay a creature we no next to nothing about except that it is the first non-human intelligent creature we've ever met before and it seems to have have a problem with us, as it flees in fear...

 

[Shayuri]

I'm thinking killing them serves two purposes, really.

1) Each one down is one that can't try to ambush us in our sleep again.

2) It lets the others know that we're too dangerous to attack openly...hopefully.

But here's the real deal. I think it's cool that Enko's got another take on the situation. I'm all for that. I just hope you're not mistaking what my/our characters are doing IC with what our OOC beliefs are.

And, I suppose, I'm a little taken aback by the...zeal...of Enko's reaction. You'd think we were slaughtering kittens or something.

 

[Dire Lemming]

I think that's my issue, the classic DnD kill things and take their stuff mentality that in my opinion has no place in a game like this.

I personally was quite taken aback by how blood thirsty the others were. We're not adventurers hunting down goblins. We're a desperate group of hunters and civilians from a utopian neolithic/bronze age society struggling desperately to get through a forest of strange things in order to save our village. In our society the idea of war does not exist. Ryon's sword is the first thing designed for killing other people that we've ever seen.

Slitting the throat of one that has been rendered helpless while trying to flee in fear does not show our strength.

But whatever, I know I have a bad habit of telling other people that I think they're acting out of character which only serves to make people act defensive and get pissed at me. In the end the only person who can possibly do that is the DM so I'll try to keep my opinions to myself from now on.

 

[Zurai]

Artemisia, at least, has additional motivation I can't speak for the PCs.