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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aust Thale" data-source="post: 8379858" data-attributes="member: 6804768">Falen:  Observing the room and assessing the deteriorating state of affairs, he evaluates in a moment a series of options.  His mind works in that manner, assessing options and eliminating the least tenable outcomes.  However, sometimes despite best efforts, clarity doesn't proceed from the act of assessment & elimination.   He is listening to the conversation and observing the room, the portal, the magic circle, and the like.  He is is not completely comfortable in open combat, especially with his magicked knife spent for the day versus the gargoyle.  He much prefers stealth and un-ceremonial flank and rear attacks.  However, in this situation, he is much less vexed by the room's combatants (after all, Tim and Breva, among others, appear to be very capable combatants) than he is the portal and the demon coming through it.  The discussion of Phelix vs. the Five and these portal experiments reach deeply to tempt Falen's insatiable inquisitiveness.  Other worlds?  Splendidly amazing!  Falen already knew enough about the Five to be sufficiently unimpressed by their mystique.  However, this game of joust with joining his rabble or face this demon was supremely reckless.  And allowing this intemperate Loweran fellow to lead this charge makes this offer to join them disingenuous.  Falen scans the mimic...is it a shapechanger, a familiar, or a charmed aberration?  It clearly is there, along with the deaf knight, to guard the trapped genie.  He focuses on the genie for a moment.  The caster of the magic circle that entraps the genie must be in the room; magic as powerful as the genie's would require one's presence.  Why bind a genie when they have a demon on the other side of the portal?  He realizes it nearly as soon as he contemplates it.  And......He instantly regrets what he does next, as it dramatically could up the ante for him.  Nevertheless, the demon must be kept to the other side.  Everyone else in the room be damned; perhaps outside of the room as well.   It's a guess, not out of character from his typical decision trees, but not routine either.  So much at stake.  He says a quick prayer to Tyche for luck.In the Old Tongue, he shouts toward the trapped Genie, and then toward Arnona, the Mimic and perhaps the Deaf Knight as well, hoping one of them understands the language. "Genie, you are being abused.  I intend to do everything I can to stop it.  Help with all your might if you can.  Arnona, you are noble and righteous, and I find myself taken by your righteousness, but holding the genie trapped to power this portal, not to mention this other creature, is wrong and reckless and dangerous.  You know this is wrong.  You must stop this madness."  It is less an attempt at diplomacy than an attempt to gather the attention of those in the room who might understand the language.   To his party members closest and quietly:  "Akos, Tim.  I believe Arnona is powering the portal by trapping the genie.  If they draw first blood, we must seal the portal off.   Do you understand? "  And he thinks to himself, "I hope that I am not wrong."  And he closes his eyes.</blockquote>

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