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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ciaran" data-source="post: 455572" data-attributes="member: 756">You ride on for a time, not really sure of your location or the distance travelled; your current perspective doesn't lend itself well to judging such things.  After a while, the paladin speaks again."We'll have to keep you bound until we've cleared the area outside the walls and dug in for the siege, I expect," he rumbles.  "Osberry is a fair-minded lord, but he must take into account the possibility that you might act against us, and he can scarcely spare a mage to interrogate you properly just now.  For my part, I doubt that you serve the Three Lords; I can feel the power upon you, and it is without taint.  But Osberry has trouble enough with elves, and there will be little trust for -- Hark!  What goes?"He reins the horse in sharply, jolting you hard; you would surely be thrown if you were not tied in place.  Distantly, you hear the blare of horns, war cries, the clash of arms, and terrible howls of no human origin.  Another jolt comes as the horse leaps into motion once more.  "Ambush in the pass!" the paladin shouts to his companions.  "Surely we are betrayed.  Ride, ride to our lord's rescue!"From afar, you hear the rogue's reply: "Another suicide mission.  Hurrah."</blockquote>