The Lamentation of Lolth - Chapter VI

[Majin]

As the audience chamber empties out for all but Sarlis, he cannot contain himself any longer, and rushes the Doratar. Aeleth does not move from her position, a sad, weary, expression forming on her face as the near two dozen guards in the room converge on the priest and bring him down, disarming and holding him steady.

Aeleth shakes her head slowly at him before speaking, "I did not expect this of you, fair priest. We wished no harm on ourselves or the patrons of this festival. If you understand anything, you must understand this," she says, kneeling down near Sarlis, at a safe distance. "My tribe is my family, and in my view, family comes first. If I must choose between them or an outsider, I will choose my tribe without hesitation. We did not ask for outside help, but you provided it regardless. It is an affront to our honor to accept it, but we had no choice, the deed is done."

She gets up and begins pacing back and forth in front of her chair. "We are not a terrible people Sarlis, and I hope to show you that by offering you a choice. You may either spend a year and a day in our prison, thinking upon the assault you have made, or you may choose for us to deposit you beyond our borders immediately to rejoin your friends. It is entirely up to you," she states, a grim look upon her face.

 

[Velmont]

OOC: As kirinke told, you're too fast for me too... retroactive answer to Sarlis:

"Buy my conscience? What she has done is what any mother would have done to protect her cubs. I wouldn't have done it myself, but I understand what have push her to do that. And for the gold, let it see in another way, in our hand, we could use it to do more good than she would do with it. But it's looks like you are blind and see only your way. Beware, because if you continue that way, you won't only close your mind to other's good, but to your own god.

On that, I think I'll go see Felmir, it has been too much time I havn't taken care of him."

On that, he leave the room before the heat become too high and walk up to the stable, where Felmir is waiting.

 

[DarkMaster]

As Sarlis is pinned down on the ground images of friends and relatives massacred by the Zentharim during the war comes back to his mind. He sees himself as a young boy unable to do anything about, promissing himself that one day he would change thing, he would kill murderer without trials. Since then he grew and the teachings of Lathander calmed down his hatred, his understanding of the world also changed usually containing his thirst for vengeance through violent and chaotic actions.

Today, the mental fatigued caused by his emprisonement and his fight with the hag seriously weekened his sanity. His primary self was then free to do as it wishes.

Sarlis calm down, and looks at the elves around him. He slightly feel ashamed, not really by what he did but more on how he did it. "Seriously did this action had any chance to change anything? Are these people that evil? Extremely weak minded and lacking determinaton for sure but perhaps not evil. Was killing the priestress the best way to teach those people that they can beleive in themselves?"

Sarlis stays silent and accept the elves proposition. Once he gets on the border of the village he sits on a nearby rock and looks at the sky. "I still have much to learn, before I can call myself one of your follower. I must work on my self control, not let my emotion drive my actions so much."

 

[Dhes]

As Dunstand repacks his backpack, he sees Sarlis being escorted from the fair.
Picking up his backpack he follows them to the fair's border where the guards leave him and Sarlis sits himself down on a large boulder.
“Are we leaving?? Where is the rest??? And why did those elves look so grumpy??”
“Did you pinch the wrong elven maiden's bottom.” He adds with a grin. “Elves don’t go for things like that, dwarves on the other hand, get some of that black poison, that they call ale into them, and there is no stopping them.”

 

[Velmont]

Sielwoodan, Ranger 4/Sorcerer 1

Sielwoodan arrives at the moment, with Felmir packed with Sielwoodan's stock. As he hear Dunstand questions, he reply.

"Our friend here has forgotten is politness in the cave. He just rush on Aeleth with the obvious intention to kill her. The guards just told me that, and that he would rather see me and the other leaving soon too. Their animosity against our new friend have spread to us."

He pass in front of Sarlis without seeing him and continue on the road.

"I'll be back in less than an hour, Dunstand. I'll go scout the road a bit to see if there is nothing to know."

OOC: Sielwoodan will do abit of scouting and questionning any traveller coming to make sure there is nothing new happening on the road.

 

[Dhes]

With a somewhat puzzled looks, Dunstand stares at the departing Ranger.
“ahh, yes well that doesn’t explain any thing, who is Aeleth and why would you want to attack her?” shaking his head “Sielwoodan is a fine scout but he can be puzzling at times, just try to take everything he says with a grain of salt.”

 

[DarkMaster]

Sarlis stands up and approaches the rogue. "She is partly responsible for murdering many innocent in the name of protecting her people. I have seen too many innocent being slaugthered to simply stay there without doing anything. They all cowardly decided to close their eyes hopping that these taughts would dissapear from their mind, I stood proudly but also fooleshly to her. Somehow I beleived that killing her would solve the problem. I know that violence should always be used as a last resort action, but I lost my sanity in front of all these innocent that were murdered indirectly by the priestress. What these people need is years of councelling and moral support and guidance by strong and wise leader. Unfortunatly Lathander has other expectation from me.

I ask for all to forgive my irrational action.

 

[kirinke]

Teleri, now wearing a rather nice MW chain shirt, turned to Sarlis. "I can understand your anger Sarlis. But people make mistakes, sometimes serious ones when their pride blinds them. Hopefully, our actions today have shaken her enough to where she won't make that mistake again." she smiled ruefully.

"I will write a letter to my temple, telling them of the situation and suggest sending one of our clergy down here to guide them." she shrugged. "In any case, we have pressing business elsewhere."

 

[hippocrachus]

[sblock] So we're all together now? :\ [/sblock]

Calenthang ignores the clerics' idle chitchat, and waits for Ayden to have them press on.
It will not be soon enough when we are away from this place...

 

[kirinke]

Teleri goes back to her horse, making sure that everything is kosher with the horse and gear. She also makes sure that her mule and the gear on said mule is secure as they wait for Ayden.

[sblock] I guess hipp. For the sake of moving the story along anyway.[/sblock]