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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1173033" data-attributes="member: 11574">Tharhack leers over both Alriand and Drogy, daring one of them to confess, unfortunately both of them just stare at each other. "Well, I don't have it." Alriand tells Tharhack "Search dodgy other there, and let me go!"Drogy just sits there dejected staring at the ground by Tharhack's feet. While Alriand is trying to get out of the bonds on her own power. "I know why you want it." Tharhack says pointing to Alriand, "What I want to know is why our little friend here wants it so badly." Minuets pass before the halfling speaks "That gem is rightfully mine, my brother found it, and since he's dead it belongs to me!""How do you figure that?" Tharhack exclaims "So that halfling that nearly killed us as that polymorphed monster was your brother?" Drogy nods in agreement "Your brother was a weak man, to hide behind the facade of something he wasn't. Even so, I was still able with Kord's blessing to overcome the beast. Do you believe you could fare better against me?""Ohh, takes a big man to threaten and tied up halfling." Alriand tells Tharhack "Why don't you knock him unconscious and tell him to climb a tree?"Tharhack takes Alriand's dagger, and cuts the bonds off of Drogy's feet. "What are doing?!?" Alriand shouts at Tharhack.Rebrey walks up to Tharhack, who has moved behind the halfling and is preparing to cut the bonds on his wrists."Uh...... what are you doing? You're letting him have the gem?"Tharhack says nothing as he cuts the halfling free. Drogy stands up and stares at Tharhack and then Alriand.The fog has begun to lift to the point where it's hanging near the tree tops, and the ground has become clear of the opaque mist. Tharhack then whispers to Rebrey "Protect Alriand" Rebrey gives Tharhack an odd look, but places the child down and draws his heavy flail, then stands next to Alriand.Tharhack then hands the dagger to Drogy. "Here, you'll need this if you're going to survive my next lesson. Hopefully you're as good a study as your brother was." Tharhack tells him, then kneels on his right knee to look into Drogy's eyes."Greed is an unforgiving master, it grows in jealousy and breeds hate. I'm going to give you two options, leave the gem and fight your sickness, or try to take the gem and face me." Tharhack levels with the halfling"Are you crazy!?! He's got the gem on him, and you're just going to let him walk away with it?" Alriand screams at Tharhack. Drogy turns the dagger over in his hand, back and forth, while he contemplates his decision. "Here I'll make it harder for you" Tharhack says as he turns his back to Drogy, and gets on both of his knees while whispering to Rebrey to be ready. Drogy takes a look off to his right and then looks at Alriand tied up and laying on the ground. He gives a long hard stare at Alriand, then drops the dagger and walks off to the right."NO! You idiot, you let him walk away with the gem!" Alriand squirms against her bonds and manages to dislodge her hands, and begin to work on her feet.Tharhack puts a hand on Alriand's shoulder. "Let him go, it takes a strong man to face his personal demons, you would do wise to learn from him." Alriand sits and watches the halfling disappear into the trees, and goes over his face again and again in her mind, she makes a personal pledge to find that halfling when they make it back to Thumble. Rebrey gives Tharhack a questioning look and asks "That gem could've financed a lot of things, why on earth would you let it go?" Tharhack gets to his feet and walks over to Rebrey, digging into a small pouch on the left side of his belt, Tharhack retrieves the gem. "Who says I let him walk away with anything?" "You had it all along." Rebrey understands. "You're playing with fire here, Alriand will stop at nothing to search out Drogy.""I don't think Drogy is going back to the Hamlet, I have a feeling we'll be seeing him again soon. I don't trust Alriand around wealth, she's weak with it. This way I eliminate all the stares and conspiring from her while I'm praying or sleeping. If and when Drogy comes back looking to take the gem from Alriand, we've already ensured her loyalty for free, and she'll never find the gem.""What do you plan on doing with the gem?" Rebrey asks."It's got powerful magic for sure, however it appears uncontrollable power. Therefore I will ask Kord for guidance, and do his bidding." Tharhack answersAlriand gets to her feet and collects her dagger from where Drogy dropped it, and gives one last look at the halfling's trail. Turning back to Tharhack "OK, you've made your point, let's get going. I want to make to Thumble before lunch."</blockquote>

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