Anniston shakes off the dust of battle and begins to work through the injured and fallen survivors with Vadric, working to stabilize wounds. He will use his laying-on hands power (a point at a time) to stop bleeding if needed.
"I agree, Vadric. I expect our resources here will not last forever against the power of the evil that can be arrayed against us. We must make plans to leave this place. Unfortunately, as a group we have not agreed where we will go."
(all players are welcome to read the following, but Anniston will only have this conversation with Vadric alone)
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"Vadric, I am glad we have a moment just the two of us. We don't have much time, but we must confer over what we believe we should do. I do not trust the elves in general, nor Silverwood in particular. It is very suspicious that the elves sent a small party to "investigate" the Drakkar and that Silverwood was the only one that returned. It sounds to me very likely the elves sent a diplomatic party, attempting to establish an alliance with the dark cult and when they were rebuffed, this Silverwood might have become one with the Drakkar in order to spare his own life and to return as a spy. I cannot be certain that this is the case, but given the nature of the fey we cannot be too careful. The elves have proven that they will do anything to destroy all humans and desire nothing more desperately than the utter destruction of the Church. Unfortunately, it appears that the Lady Vera is completely taken with Silverwood and her judgement in this matter appears to be impared."
"DeSion presents another problem. He is completely depraved with the temptations of wizardry, but I do not believe he is in league with the dark cult. At least not yet. He wants the power of the book for himself and he is not yet ready to share it with the Drakkar. He clearly has no more trust of us than we have of him, but we may be able to trust his greedyness to keep him fighting against the Drakkar. It is fair to say that he will attempt to secure the book for himself and escape from us if be believes he has a chance. If he allows us to keep the book it is only because he does not believe he can protect it against the dark cult on his own. I believe he will agree to travel with us and help to protect the book as long as he feels that we continue to serve his own purpose."
"I think whatever the opinion of our various "allies", we must agree to either attempt to turn the book away from its current degree of evil, if that is possible; to destroy the book, regardless of the short-term cost; or to return it into the hands of the Church. I cannot imagine any other solution working to the good of the Light. Turning the book away from its current evil is worth attempting as it will lessen the evil power in the world. But we must not forget that the spirit demon that is in the form of this book has decided against the Light long ago. In the end we know that all spirits that remain in this word apart from the Light will eventually turn to evil and be destroyed, even if they attempt to remain neutral. The teaching of the Church is clear on this point. When this world is finished and the new glorified world is created, only the Light will remain. These other spirits will fight against the Light in the end because they know they can not exist in the new world that is to come."
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OOC: Vadric/DM: how many hitpoints per round do we get from the circle of healing (I think someone said 3) and how many rounds has it been active? How many rounds will it last in total?
