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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zerith" data-source="post: 5520562" data-attributes="member: 99953">Alexander raised a questioning brow to the Gnoll&'s question that was asked in regards to what Alexander name went; Gnoll's seemed to take names much more seriously than most other races. He was then interested in knowing when a Gnoll was named, or if they had to earn their names; he assumed that it was not at birth, at least one the name they used to their graves. But he could ask that latter.Then Alden made a fool of himself in front of the Gnoll, by talking even more cumbersomely then before, and then taking Alexander along side.  Alden then started explaining something he could already gather. "Think carefully for two seconds and ask yourself 'what are Gnolls known for' and then tell me why they would not just wait until after your usefulness to them had ended, and then boil you alive to make stew? Any successful predator can always understand what its prey says; further, it's much easier for a Gnol; to understand common then speak it." Alexander asked while rising a brow before giving Alden a pearl of wisdom."Also ponder about when I zapped you; how many spells did I hit you with? How many did I latter dispel? One? Two? Maybe I only dispelled three. Maybe turning your skin pink was just something flashy to hide what I was really doing. Consider that next time you call me 'boy'." Alexander spoke bluntly before adding "So no, I will not tolerate you using implications to 'poke fun at me' when I wish to do so, I do so myself. Further, you labeling me a boy in front of those I am to command under cuts my authority, my ability to issue orders, my ability to fallow my own orders. Not to mention" Alexander gave a brief and blank pause while he leaned towards, over, Alden "it makes us both look expendable. Think back to what Gnolls are known for."Straitening back up Alexander gave Alden even more to think about. "Also, even if they can't understand every word it's rather easy to teach anything that a distinctive sound means a simple thing: if not, then you would never see a commander with a horn to sound the retreat. Further I could just take a hoop and have it hold many pieces of paper and then write a single word on each piece: the word on each piece would be written twice, once in common and once in Gnoll. I'd make it a note to include 'Poo' and 'Breath' are on this ring: these Gnolls seem to believe that the meaning of a name is very important, at least Starfinder here took interest at the meaning of mine. But personally, I think that yours is rather ironic right about now, oh old and wise one!" Alexander ended with a light chuckleAlexander turned his gaze back to the Gnoll; he could have commented that he was given the name at birth, or some such, but for his purposes that was unnecessary, and he could always say so latter without losing face if it served his purposes at a future date. "There is no 'the' is the meaning of my name," Alexander corrected Starfinder; while doing so might have been seen as him lowering his own importance, it also definitively conveyed, there was more were he came from. Given what he was about to say, it also implied that revenge was policy. Alexander then answered the Gnoll's question. "and while my goal is to bring doom; it is to bring it down with fullest furry unto the knife ears until I feel the punishment to a long past injustice has been ratified." Alexnader answered with a seething rage flaring within his eyes from the moment he spoke of the knife ears onwards, then he briefly closed his eyes, took a deep breath, through his partly parted mouth, and then out his nostrils as he dispelled the emotion and then reopened his eyes."But worry not, thee, nor thy kin, are subject to my wrath; my lands are to the south west, on the other side of the kingdom much less this territory, and I do not presently believe thee nor thy kin are involved." Alexander then told the Gnoll before turning back to face Alden. "Yes, I'm finished with the pathfinder for now; lead on to the next."[sblock=OoC]every time I edit  my posts go crazy, but n a bad way <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />[/sblock]<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/misc.php?do=dbtech_usertag_hash&hash=8221" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/misc.php?do=dbtech_usertag_hash&hash=8221" target="_blank"></a></blockquote>

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