Lamentation of Lolth - Chapter VIII

[Wilphe]

Laurent is unimpressed, with frankly everything, "Well keep a look out in case anyone comes. Right now in addition to assulting grieving parents in their own home, we appear about to commit grand larceny and torture. That's rather more crime than I want to get involved in before lunchtime. I can feel the angry mob gathering now, and we are the outsiders here so we'll be the ones in the wrong," he looks at Calenthang, shakes his head and turns to Teleri, "Please make sure that she's not dead or dying, and that she's really out and not shamming. Then put here where Calenthang can keep an eye on her."

Apart from that he's silent and let's the other two talk while he listens and works his magic.

OOC:
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Sense Motive check please; something is not right here and Laurent wants to get a handle on it:
Is the guy really her father?
Is he under some sort of control or magical compulsion?
Is he really human?

He'll also cast "Detect Magic" and work on scanning them, and anything else interesting looking if the duration holds up
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[hippocrachus]

Calenthang grins at Sielwoodan and his subtle irony as those that would leave the house to search the surroundings do so.
The elven warrior narrows his eyes at Laurent when the man calmly accuses him of crimes against the obvious criminals in the room. "Maybe where you come from, criminals are pampered; where I come from, they're hanged," he informs the bard while trying to bring the woman around none too gently, leaving Teleri to do the talking since the orator suddenly finds himself with nothing to say.
That doesn't surprise me, Calenthang thinks to himself wryly. Since the actors forgot their lines for stage-fright and the play was cut short, the orator obviously can't come up with a means of saving the charade.

[sblock=OOC]Man, this whole "delusional" Evil gimmick just doesn't get old
I don't want Wilphe to think I have it out for him or anything 'cause he's the new guy...[/sblock]

 

[kirinke]

ooc
Calenthang just puts up with Teleri cuz she's young.


IC
"Well if they hadn't of run, then we wouldn't have tackled them. We can make a case against that as well. I mean, questions usually don't make folks run Lauret," she said with perfect elvish logic.

She turned to the man. "Now I'm really, really sure that you want to help find out who killed your daughter, just as much as we do, cuz those same people probly had a hand in doing the same to the Lady Chasitity. Both are innocents, both are probably still suffering at the hands of whatever killed their bodies. And if you don't help us, the gods will surely punish you sooner or later for aiding and abeting whatever foul creatures are truly responsible." she hunkered down so she's eye to eye to the man.

"Listen, if you're afraid of whatever it is, we can protect you or at the very least draw it's attention towards us. It's kinda what we do, draw trouble. You just gotta tell us what the hellfire is goin on in this town. Please!" she said, the entreaty in her voice plain.

ooc again:
+2 Diplomancy to get the guy to talk.

 

[Wilphe]

"Maybe where you come from, criminals are pampered; where I come from, they're hanged,"

"Just pointing out that currently anyone from the village walking in on this will think we are the criminals. And given that you have all the charm and personality of a trolls armpit you'd be unlikely to be able to convince them otherwise, now whatever you are going to do, please do it quietly while I work my magic."

OOC:
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I don't want Wilphe to think I have it out for him or anything 'cause he's the new guy...

No, I know Calenthang has it in for Laurent, because he's the new guy. Of course, even if Laurent saves his life at some point, Calenthang will still think that's all part of his master plan. Maybe Laurent should put some ranks in Reverse Psychology
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[Velmont]

Sielwoodan stops as he hears the two arguing.

Who will be able to control those two if they are always arguing like that. A wolf knows more about what it is of being a pack than both of them together...

 

[kirinke]

Teleri grinned at Lauret. "Don't knock it. He's our troll armpit for better or worse. Sides, I'm sure that these people want to help us, they're just afraid of whatever is behind the actual killings." she said, turning back to the man. "I mean, you want us gone as much as we want gone. The sooner you help us, the sooner we can help get this town back to normal. Or whatever passes for normal in this place," she said without missing a beat. "We just want answers and our friend's soul freed. If you help us, we can bring the true culprits to justice,"

 

[hippocrachus]

Calenthang has some equally witty and cutting insult to counter Laurent's, but Teleri cuts him off too quickly to voice it. The elven warrior looks up from slapping the woman's cheek to give the younger elf a stern frown. "Thank you, friend Teleri; the feeling is mutual, I assure you," he says in Elven, just in case the orator doesn't speak it.
He goes back to smacking the woman - loudly, to show what he thinks about "magic."

[sblock=OOC]Exactly; it's nothing personal
It probably will take something drastic for him to accept Laurent. He might even thank him for it. Cue cliche:
"Thank you, orator Laurent. You're not so useless afterall."[/sblock]

 

[kirinke]

Teleri just grins at him and winks, making sure that Lauret doesn't see her. "A dash of water might be better on her, or smelling salts. I might some in my healing kit," she says, not taking her eyes off the bound man and after shrugging off her backpack, she tosses it to Calenthang. "The kit's in there."

 

[Dhes]

Dunstand theatrically sticks out his hand and feels a satisfying smack of the dagger returning to his hand. Smiling to himself, That must be the best felling in the world, just think what I could do if I had a whole set of the dam tings. No wait with a dagger like this I only need one. Retiring to reality,

"Maybe where you come from, criminals are pampered; where I come from, they're hanged,"

”Where I come from, they rule the city. But hanging sound good to me.”

"Its obvious that... words, words. "Dunstand, I would believe your skills words, words, -join me?"

Favoring Broddy and Sielwoodan with a smile, ”Yes, lets leave the “speaking” to the people that like to talk a lot.”
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[Wilphe]

"Thank you, friend Teleri; the feeling is mutual, I assure you,"

"Words can take a fortress that ten thousand swords beat against in vain,
for in time even the staunchest of rocks fall to the patient persitence of the ocean,"

says Laurent, quoting a stanza from an old Elven drama in the original and thereby combining a retort to Calenthang with the vocal component for his spell.