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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1669202" data-attributes="member: 4441">*Ashlie hides quietly in the woods, Zaphira staying farther back to avoid attracting attention.  The bandits are mostly involved in slaking their thirst and Ashlie is able to get within about thirty feet.*"Come on, Rallon, we can get back to camp, get all the gear and get the hell out of here," the "don't panic" bandit says, starting to get to his feet.  He never regains them, as Ashlie's arrow shoots right though his neck, and he falls over dead in an instant.  Zaphira runs up to offer her backup, bow at the ready.  Rallon remains on the ground, his eyes wide and his skin pale with shock.  Without even being asked, he kicks his sword away from him and throws away a dagger and looks at Zaphira with stark terror in his eyes.~~~*Heliad finds all the bandits to be quite dead.  Perhaps some had not been when they fell, but now their blood has gone to nourish the woods, and their bodies no longer contain the spark of life.  Heliad can say a brief prayer over the bandits' bodies, one said to prevent them from rising at undead.  For Saku he can speak a warrior's eulogy, and help prepare a proper grave.  The pilgrims will help by carefully stripping the bandits of anything of use, in a methodical, thorough way that seems rather at odds with religious folks, and places the items in the wagon that holds most of the party's goods.  Then they take the bandits to the side of the road and burn the bodies, as is typically done with unwanted dead (unless anyone had objections).**The goods gathered are 13 longswords, decently made, 13 shortbows, of moderate make, 72 good arrows, five good set of leather armor (the others were too badly damaged to salvage), 243 copper coins (some from the north, some from the Sea of Song, some from a Greenfire Lake), 156 silver coins (mostly Sea of Song, some from Ice Lake), a smooth, round piece of orange quarze the size of a walnut, a golden earring made from braided white, red, and yellow gold, and a copper ring with a maple leaf engraved on it.*</blockquote>

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