Q'Barra: Facing Truth Chapter 2

[EvolutionKB]

Kaelan 33/36hp 8DR remain, 1 hp healed

Kaelan relays the information to Darrick and adds, "This place looks pretty big, that might work to our advantage, if we need to fight, we might be able to do it in small pockets. Judging from the size of these patrols, we would outnumber them in almost every fight." Kaelan then turns back to Catherine and speaks in Dwarven, repeating what he said to Darrick. "I am still in favor of going in. Don't use your magic on Treb yet, let us be sure that we are not going in. My wand would be more useful I think, it's charges are half expended. Perhaps we could invest in a similar wand, one that would affect Treb more readily."
After Catherine responds, Kaelan will take Catherine up on the offer to scout ahead. He won't go alone though. "Charles or Sepoto, would you like to join me for a small scouting mission?"

hide/ms: 20/17

 

[Rookseye]

Sepoto watches intently, even when the language shifts to Halfling and Dwarvish. The body language of his companions tells him almost as much as the actual words when he watches them converse in the tongues he does not understand.

When he speaks, he speaks directly to the man.

"You, you will tell me who and what this "Boss-Man" is that you speak of. I can see from your look that he speaks the tongue we are speaking in, does he not? This gives your heart fear? Yes?"

After hearing the answer, Sepoto turns to Kaelan and nods once, briskly, his mane of orange fur tossing up and down as he does so.

"Aye, Friend-Kaelan, I am willing, if it is the wish of the Captain...
...though we must consider our next step carefully, I am thinking."

[SBLOCK] I believe we need a consensus on continuing onward one way or another. However, the prisoners pose a problem. With the right amount of rope, we could use a pulley system and/or brute strength to suspend them bound and gagged from a high branch some distance away perhaps? It sounds like chakit way of doing things with prisoners, and the climb to arrange the ropes is not a problem at all for Sepoto.

Kind of an arboreal jail, I suppose.[/SBLOCK]

 

[Yeoman]

Catherine addresses the party in Draconic, "If you are scouting inside, then take whomever you need. The rest will stand guard here. Don't take too many risks in there though. Otherwise we need a consensus on what we are doing. We can't wait around forever. We either need to arrange something for them, or start dragging them back to Morian Valley. Now, Kaelan and I have stated our positions, and I believe Charles has weighed in. What about the rest of you?"

 

[Rolzup]

Quirking an eyebrow, Darrick switches to Elven to speak to Catherine.... "Let's keep them confused, eh? Certainly can't hurt." He sighs, his smile fading, and continues, "But we have a problem, clearly. We're in a terrible position to assault this place, but if they have prisoners? I think that we have a duty here, like it or not."

 

[Yeoman]

In Draconic, "So far it appears we're split. Who's next?"

 

[Rookseye]

Sepoto peers at the bandits with a cooly appraising look that looks strange on his bestial features.

"We could hang them."

Seeing the aghast expression on his companions faces (save for Charles who only raises an eyebrow as if he is considering this a good idea) Sepoto holds up both hands and continues, somewhat alarmed at being misunderstood.

"Oho! No, no! Sepoto only meant that be-times, the chakit, my people, would hang their lizardfolk prisoners from high branches in the banyans, their maws wound shut, and limbs bound, to keep them away from rescue and the reach of their kin. The folk of the Cold Sun, they do not climb so well. Perhaps it would work with the bandits as well."

Sepoto shrugs his shoulders innocently.

"This would keep them from troubling us, should we press on into the ruin, no?"

 

[Shayuri]

Trebuchet then says, "I was under the impression we, as the proximate representatives of a legal body, had the legal right to pass judgement on known criminals, thieves, and brigands," he points out.

"We could simply sentence them to death and kill them."

 

[Pebele]

When he speaks, he speaks directly to the man.

"You, you will tell me who and what this "Boss-Man" is that you speak of. I can see from your look that he speaks the tongue we are speaking in, does he not? This gives your heart fear? Yes?"

(Assuming that Sepoto is speaking to the man in common...)

It takes a moment for the man to respond, and when he does his Common is even more accented than his halfling. It appears that it has been quite awhile since he has spoken in this language. "Tha Boss, he not be human. He be little, but he make up fer it by bein' meaner than a wounded lizard. We speak his way, so's hardly no one can understan'."

 

[BRP2]

A halfling boss, eh? That's an interesting concept...

Charles coughs.

Will I be needed for scouting, Kaelen? I can leave my poisons here and come along.

 

[Yeoman]

Catherine shots a sharp look to Trebuchet. She continues in Draconic. "No. We do not have the authority to pass judgement on these men. We will not kill them, to do so would make us no better than they.

However, given that we do not know the location of the statue, I think that our only choice is to push ahead. I am uncomfortable with sending in scouts when they have no certain goal." She takes a breath, and looks to Sepoto.

"I think, under these curcumstances, that your plan is best. We should imprison these men in the trees, but we must leave them food and water so that they will not die before we return to deal with them. Let's do this quickly. I fear that the longer we wait, the more likely it is that we will be found."