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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 2841194" data-attributes="member: 198">I'm fairly fond of the bum myself <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Here's a little Cedric moment from my campaign (set in the city of Sharn in Eberron). The situation was that the PCs were after four people who'd mugged a pair of PCs and stolen something very important to them. Cedric was helping the PCs. After fighting a pair of the NPCs and capturing one, the PCs found out where the other two were hiding out. They went there, were detected and a fight broke out, ending in the death of both NPCs. The PCs also ended up fighting and killing a group of malformed humans called ravers. Afterwards, the PCs did what PCs do, i.e. took their stuff and left the bodies. Later, in the evening, while they were elsewhere, this happens (note: Gareth is the PC paladin played by AviLazar and Mazin Tana is a priest and friend of Cedric's):******************Meanwhile, in Coldflame Keep...Mazin Tana looks up as Cedric walks in. "What happened? You look like something the cat refused to drag in."Cedric chuckles. "Yes, Mazin - you look pretty too." Then he stretches and yawns, "I'm just tired. It's been a bloody long night - and day.""Something to do with Gareth? He was in a great hurry when you left last night.""Yes. Can't discuss most of it with you, I'm afraid, because it's private to him and his friends. Let's just say they've been getting into trouble, and from what I've heard, are liable to get into some more." Cedric beckons for Mazin to follow him. "For example..."A curious Mazin follows him out into one of the emptier chambers, where he finds four husky-looking men standing around a large cart covered by a cloth. Cedric walks up to it and lifts the cover, to reveal over a dozen corpses. Most of them are twisted and malformed, except for two, of a dwarven woman and a human male. All of them seem to have been slain violently."By the Flame!""Don't worry," reassures Cedric. "They earned it - unfortunately. Still, we need to give them a proper cremation.""Yes, yes, of course," says a still shocked Mazin. "Did he ... they ... I mean, did Gareth and his companions ...""And I," says Cedric quietly. "There was little choice in the matter. I'll tell you about it later. I'd have been back earlier, but Gareth and the others weren't really interested in disposing of them once they were done, so I had to go back down to Fallen and get the bodies.""So they killed some people and just left the corpses lying there?" asks Mazin, a tinge of surprise in his tone."Adventurers," says Cedric succinctly."But Gareth?" persists Mazin, "He should know better.""Yeah. And I should be sober. What are you gonna do?" Cedric takes a look at Mazin's face and adds, more reassuringly, "Don't worry. He's got potential. He'll learn." And if he doesn't, well ... he won't be the first. Mazin doesn't reply, and after a few seconds Cedric says, "Um, Mazin? You know ... arrangements?""Yes, yes," says the elderly priest. "I'll go take care of it." As he heads for the door, a call of "Hold on," stops him and he awkwardly catches the jingling bag tossed in his direction. "What is this?""A hundred and ninety-nine galifars. Use what you need for the cremation and use the rest for this place.""Oh! Thank you, Cedric." Mazin's brow contracts. "One hundred and ninety-nine?"Cedric grins and opens his backpack to show a couple of bottles inside. "Let's just say the cost of good hooch in this place is criminal!"Mazin smiles and leaves, still looking faintly concerned. Once he's gone, Cedric kneels beside the cart and begins to pray for the departed souls of the slain.******************</blockquote>

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