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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 3329596" data-attributes="member: 7280">Janis nods coolly."I still require someplace to sleep, else I'll not be soon able to save him from indignant anger, much less the country that surrounds you that you have no knowledge of. While some of my companions have been bouncing around the world with no worries, others of us have been making focussed studies of the world around us and learning to control our tempers else we unleash maelstroms of unprecedented destruction..." Janis winces uncomfortably, but continues."My homeland is gone, erased by such energies and made into a blighted wasteland. If I seem to not care for you all as individuals, I trust you all realize it is only because I feel each person's connection with the land instead. I travel with these...heroes, not because I'm simply stumbling, but because they follow portents however unpleasant they might sometimes be personally. I will rescue your land or die in the attempt. I cannot, will not, promise more to you as individuals. If that's not particularly comforting, I make no apologies. My temperament was forged in Cyre, and if there are no smiles and explicit sympathies left then...it is as it has been made to be."She turns to face the rest of her party, more or less."We're all victims of fate in this world, but I will not be challenged into condemning myself to death simply because those unfriendly few I travel with support it. If you all decide to insist upon myself traveling alone back to the caravan, in the conditions we arrived in; I fail to see how you meet any vows of allegiance to the entity of the Flame you keep company with. While everyone is busy condemning my lack of earnestness, I often wonder by which vein of conscience they use to examine their own. I will never claim to be a pleasant person, but the world is not a pleasant place either. If all you warriors of such explicit virtue have no patience with that which is known to you, and which has supported you despite any apparent reason other than what could only be known as the "goodness of her heart" except your denial of the existence of such; how then can you be good at all? Because truly, sometimes you appear to be merely daggers directed at your "enemies" by your credulity, without any real understanding of what makes up an enemy.""I think it's time you decide who your enemies are, and why. If simple lack of appeal follows, then maybe your goodness is too shallow to withstand a closer scrutiny, Janis concludes."A place to rest now? I've come up with some new ideas that I need to transcribe to my journals, and defending my honor when the knights of presence refuse to is as tiring as braving the Dark. You can plot on how you shall aim your holy daggers at my breast later."OOC: Janis spends an Action Point to her Diplomacy (+3) skill. She's tired of being misunderstood, and doesn't need any stray superstitious villagers trying to nick her in her sleep. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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