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[sblock=ooc]I know, but I do want to point out some very important things that are affecting Emral's actions:
1) we need the crowd for the fight, and we need them to not hate us (at least) maybe even love us (hopefully). If not, we die.
2) Even a 1st level Warlord is going to cream a number of commoners, who have families, who will show up to the Arena just to hate us (if we even make it there. You're built tough to last a long time. They're built for things like Baking and Maneure-Shovelling, and one shot with a sword will kill them.
3) Stopping that fight means that you don't die eventually: they'd gang up and smother you (and maybe Emral), and you couldn't Feystep away because you'd used it already.
4) Emral loves the crowd, and they love him; would Mick Jager kill his fans? And don't say to rescue keith or david bowie, because real fans wouldn't hurt them (except in bed, just a little).
5) Neither Emral nor myself has any idea why you wouldn't give in if only for the sake of the above-mentioned reasons and the tactical disadvantage we were in. In theory, the sheer weight of obvious reasons to even Bluff sincerity rather than infuriate/antagonize and threaten violence upon a large group of people should have made Hadarai's actions more conducive to the crowd's wishes.
Not that, as a player, this bothers me at all
I've been playing long enough that i know how D&D logic works, thanks. One of my players is a Goliath Barbarian who thinks it's ok to charge a level 11 Ogre when he's only level 2(?!).
However, and I haven't read your backstory, but I sincerely hope there is a weighty-enough reason for Hadarai to refuse to get together with Marco and the group, even just to level off the "debt-of-popularity" this is incurring upon the rest of the party. And I hope it's wicked cool, because situations like this one (where backstory meets near-linching) can really generate good roleplay; otherwise it's just death for no realistic reason. Then again, sometimes you've got to pick up that shiney object in Maure Castle before checking it for traps, right?
Heh, well let's see where this train of RPing leads us, huh?
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Emral returns the icy stare with one of his own. Given his elemental origins, the cold is infused with lightning and heat, with a hint of destructive abyssal chaos thrown in for good measure.
I don't make them, I unleash them. Let's go find the others. With that he waves the knot of men back, and blows a sad kiss to the girl whose bossoms he'd signed.
Emral takes a look at the visuals above the stage as he moves out, trying to get an idea of where the others in their party are. When he has an idea, he moves out of the pavillion with Hadarai.
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I don't know if the timeline lines up with Drivan's, but do we see whether he's been kidnapped? If not, Emral is going to head to the library; there is the faint hope that Hadarai can be convinced to suck it up before they head back to Marco's place empty-handed.[/sblock]
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Still, it's over 10, and I might get a situational modifier... [/sblock]
