Play-by-Post D&D: The Lounge

[Uncle Yuan]

Whisper is going to quietly survey the scene.  Tempted as he is to be actively doing something, he recognizes that his part is done for now.  He does not want to leave his prisoner unattended to gather spoils.  So he maintains a watchful eye, ready for any further trouble if need be.

His eyes narrow at Dakkon's treatment of the woman, but he says nothing.  What manner of elf is this? he wonders.

"You ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?" Whisper asks his prisoner quietly.  As he examines the man, are there any distinguishing features, marks, badges, etc. that might give him a clue as to who these people are and why they attacked?

Fixed.  As long as we're being all spooky with the prisoners . . .

[Viking]

"Either you answer them, or I will see that you never speak again."

Thus does Starbuck begin with his song...

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood...

"I'll talk!" blurts out the woman.  "I swear, I'll talk!  Only... for the love of God, man, stop him from singing!!!"

[Glitch Girl]

 :lol: :lol: :lol:

Good one.

Sorry to have to delay the song so long, but I had to make things work with how the action was flowing, and musical accompainment to Dakkon's method of questioning seemed counter productive.

[BentonGrey]

Haha, yeah, I think it would have confused all and sundry.

[Uncle Yuan]

Seems like a perfectly routine application of "Good Bard - Bad Psychotic Exiled Sea Elf Prince" interrogation technique to me.

[Panther_Gunn]

It could be worse.....Og could be doing the questioning.  Between the blunt force trauma of the accusatory finger being jabbed into the chest ("Where your food?  Og know you got some....can smell it.  Give food now, or Og eat tasty leg him standing on."), and the trod upon limbs and joints, they'd soon wish Dakkon was back with his pleasantries.  :lol:

[Lord Elcorion]

i'm going to be unavailable most of the weekend after this, so feel free to npc annia if needed to keep things moving. also, my local rennfaire is in a couple of weeks, and i'll be gone for the weekend for that as well. i'll toss up a reminder either wednesday or thursday the week of.

[Glitch Girl]

That's okay LE, I'm barely on on weekends myself.  You should be fine.

[Uncle Yuan]

Starbuck, seeing that the woman is only being "neighborly" by a great stretch of the imagination, ponders whether he needs to switch gears to an even more intensive song.

He begins to strum, but not sing, a melody that suggests the lyrics of a certain children's song...

I love you...
You love me...
We're all one big family...

Orloid begins a mighty prayer.  Whereupon the heavens darken and rain fire upon a happless bard . . .

Hey, some us had preschool kids during the hey day of a certain purple sauropod!

[BentonGrey]

You mean the being of pure evil?

[BlueBard]

You mean the being of pure evil?

That reminds me of a DOOM mod wherein Barney replaced a number of the bad guys.

Barney don't get no love.

Thank goodness.

[Viking]

It just goes to show that every bard is just a single letter away from going bad...

[Viking]

"Nina, then.  It was my arrow which thwarted your assassination attempt.  Why did you attack us?  We have done nothing worthy of death.  Er... aside from the bard's music, that is."

There ya go, Bluebard.  Fixed it for you.

[Uncle Yuan]

It just goes to show that every bard is just a single letter away from going bad...

Or bark.

Or lard.

Or . . .

[BlueBard]

The bard's bark is clearly verse than his bite.

[Glitch Girl]

[groan]

[BentonGrey]

LOL.........Well, do you think these rogues have any more info?  Should we have the ogre start eating their toes until they talk? :P

[Glitch Girl]

No finger sandwiches for the Half Ogre! The GM has spoken!  ;)

[Panther_Gunn]

"But.....but......Og need marching snacks.  Already feel weak & light-headed from hunger."  :( :wacko:

[Viking]

Og not see problem.  Og not interested in finger sandwiches!

This little piggy went to market (*SNAP!*) (*munch*)...

[BlueBard]

Maybe the GM will let Og just lick their toes.  He might at least get a taste of jam.

[Uncle Yuan]

Maybe the GM will let Og just lick their toes.  He might at least get a taste of jam.

Um . . . ew  :faint

[BentonGrey]

LOL! :D

[BlueBard]

Back sort of on topic, anyone want to chime in on Whisper's strategy session?  Or do we assume Whisper is the de-facto leader of the party whose tactical genius is unquestioned? 

'Cause I'm good with that.  ;)

[Glitch Girl]

Maybe the GM will let Og just lick their toes. 

:o Whoah hey !  This isn't that kind of roleplay!  ;)

Anyhoo, I'm going to let you guys converse amongst yourselves until you reach an agreement on what to do next.

[BlueBard]

Oh, come on, the whole toe-licking thing would be fine if we were talking about a puppy.

Og's just like a big puppy.  He follows us around, he eats stuff off the floor, he drools a lot, you don't try to take food out of his bowl unless you want to get bit, etc.  Hopefully better housetrained, but aside from that what's the difference?

;)

[Uncle Yuan]

Just a word about getting with the times.  We are all such a product of our times and culture that we forget that live in the Medieval World was alll about the Right of Might, feudal law and Rule by Decree.  There was no due process of law, the only people who had any reasonable expectation to fair treatment in legal issues where the titled (or maybethe wealthy) and a common man had virtually no legal protections or gaurantees.  The bounty hunters may have been opportunistic, unsavory or even evil, but they were NOT criminals.

At least that how it is for the humans.  We could have an argument about the legal realities of elvendom and I certainly ponder what Orloid's views and experience would be.  At beast I think that elves might be a lot less likely to buck the social structure (less likely to be criminals, if you will), much less prone to punitive and vengful punishments, and likely more enlightened in their social classes.  But I doubt they have a significantly more enlightened view of law and justice than do their human counterparts.

[BlueBard]

Just a word about getting with the times.  We are all such a product of our times and culture that we forget that live in the Medieval World was alll about the Right of Might, feudal law and Rule by Decree.  There was no due process of law, the only people who had any reasonable expectation to fair treatment in legal issues where the titled (or maybethe wealthy) and a common man had virtually no legal protections or gaurantees.  The bounty hunters may have been opportunistic, unsavory or even evil, but they were NOT criminals.

At least that how it is for the humans.  We could have an argument about the legal realities of elvendom and I certainly ponder what Orloid's views and experience would be.  At beast I think that elves might be a lot less likely to buck the social structure (less likely to be criminals, if you will), much less prone to punitive and vengful punishments, and likely more enlightened in their social classes.  But I doubt they have a significantly more enlightened view of law and justice than do their human counterparts.

Understood.  Whisper isn't shedding any tears over the guys he turned into pincushions, mind you, but his personal code makes him loath to execute someone who doesn't pose an immediate mortal threat to him or those under his charge.  If they were goblins, Whisper would probably be far less likely to be merciful in the situation.

What follows for an ethical code commonly held by the Elves of GG's campaign, I couldn't say.  The Faerie folk of folklore would probably deal with them harshly with no moral qualms, though I suspect their version of justice would have tended toward a very dark version of making the punishment fit the crime.

[Viking]

She starts to say something when Dakkon adds "Well, we could simply cut their throats if they would prefer."

"And you wonder why I don't believe you," she sneers back.

"What, you don't trust my winning smile and pimped-out Diplomacy score?  I mean, honestly, the bloodthirsty blue elf should only be a, what... -5 Circumstance penalty or so?"

[Glitch Girl]

Don't forget the extra circumstance penalty from the bodies of her comrads lying in neat little rows thanks to Og.  :D 

Did you ever see "Mars Attacks"?  The scene where the little aliens are running around with the translator that's saying "We come in peace, we mean you no harm" while zzorching everything in creation?  I'm reminded of that for some reason.  ;)