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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Speaks With Stone" data-source="post: 1643394" data-attributes="member: 375">Wow.  I had almost forgotten about that fiasco.  (Not really, but I'd like to).Rel has been kind to our band of adventurers in his narrative (as opposed to on game night).  We all assumed there would be a fight because we were told they were dangerous so when we found the webs all of us magic types buffed our buttinskis off.  Then Marius began pushing for negotiation.  We argued for a not inconsiderable time before I yielded (with poor grace I must admit).  So we talked to the spider guys and they told us to back down and rest - all of our good buff spells would be entirely lost and they could catch us with pants down.  So I started arguing again - especially pushing the whole "Ilrath and his barbarian friends didn't negotiate - and you just called him our ally.  They are so going to toast us."  But since I couldn't PROVE that they were going to attack us, I had to concede that there was a small chance that they were honest.  No matter how small that chance, that was what our negotiater wanted to gamble on.  We were in deadlock and no one else was helping, so I gave up again.  So we camped.  I'll reserve further comments until the story hour pushes a little further along.  But I will say that nights that are primarily composed of us arguing are less fun than us kicking tail.</blockquote>