Heroica RPG - Quest #147: Judgment Day

[JimBee]

"Well, they are in the middle of nowhere, so they do have to hike the cost up - but they are a bit pricey.

"I'd tend to agree. I'd much rather spend my money on bombs..."

"Clearly they have no grasp on how to run a business. Homeless proggs won't be buying any overpriced venom. Supply and demand."

"I don't like being "that guy", but I told you so." Karie exclaims to the group at large.

"A few raised prices and some public discontent are more than a fair trade for their lives."

"Let's keep moving. So long, Aenemos."

[Flipz]

OOC: Sorry I haven't been active recently, I've been a little under the weather.

"...The Regret didn't cut off my arm. It was on his island, sure, but it wasn't him. It was after we killed him... Boomingham did it."

Gabriel gives mental projection a whirl, not sure if Miirym would receive his thoughts.

<I hope you know that the person you are trying to prove yourself to may very well be dead by the night's end.

The only gifts my blood gave me was severe mental illness - that I only fixed a couple months ago - and throwing me out with the bathwater. So I can somewhat relate. But your actions will not be controlled by your blood. And that is what will define you. Play your cards right, and even if dragons are the most wretched things to exist - which they aren't, by the way - people will still see you as a "hero" or a protector or whatever the hell you want to be.

My "mate", huh? Hah. Looks like someone was watching the little scene at the HQ... Or is it that obvious?>

"...oh." In truth, Arthur did not know what to say. While he had shared some of Karie's dislike of the man ever since their mission together, enough time had passed that he'd almost dismissed his past grudge. Now, Arthur felt his contempt for the man rising once more, and his faith in Heroica crumbling just that little bit further. He drinks a Mead to soothe his fraying resolve, a vain attempt to drown the doubts growing within him..

"<I may well be dead by night's end...or, I may have to live with my choices for a thousand generations. In either case, I wish not to have any regrets.>" Miirym allows herself a faint grin of satisfaction at Gabriel's own self-ignorance. "<Mortals. So reliant on sight, you oft forget scent. As far as Dragons go, anyone with a nose can see you two are bonded.>" She frowns. "<Anyone. Hmm. ...Remain in alertness, Gabriel. For all her armor, I fear your mate's weak point is grievously unguarded, save by your own vigilance.>"

Jinnipher turned her nose up at the venom. "There's nothing worth the cost here. Let's go."

"I'd tend to agree. I'd much rather spend my money on bombs..."

Miirym moves back to Arthur, as the others begin to complain of the prices of the Toxiproggs' wares. Throughout their whining, she and Arthur both grow visibly more angry, culminating as the Toxiproggs and Solon and Fydelle confirm their own thoughts.

"In the mean time, we may have to sneak the lot of you out.[/b] The public is pretty riled up, and they have a couple of good reasons."

"<I should think so!>"

"With damn good reason!" Arthur and Miirym practically shout, in near-unison, almost at the same time as Karie lets loose her own verbal jab. Both lapse into a few seconds of silence at their own outbursts, before Arthur speaks to Anemos. "It's fine, Anemos. We appreciate your assistance anyway, I'm just sorry things had to turn out the way they did, especially considering how it all came to naught in the end." Arthur resists the urge to scowl at the rest of the party, instead stalking onward in an extremely foul mood. And despite her being nothing but helpful, the Dragoon's coldest shoulder is clearly towards the Falconer. "'Heroes'. Hmpf." The two words are all he can be heard to mutter, but in context they speak volumes.

Edited June 8, 2016 by Flipz

[Kintobor]

Karie shuddered as Arthur began his verbal assault on the party. Despite knowing the brunt of his words were not aimed at her, she still felt guilty. She felt heavy, her decision to let the party majority win out despite her obvious protest deepening the pit in her stomach. If she had put her foot down earlier this whole fiasco could've been avoided. She was stuck backing a losing side, just as she always seemed to be ever since her encounter with Dyric and Thothwick.

"A few raised prices and some public discontent are more than a fair trade for their lives."

"I don't think you get it, Jinn." Karie states accusatorily, "They are angry at you because you put their houses under a massive amount of water! They are angry at you because you have effectively left them homeless! Even if we stop Immortalis, your sheepish decision has left them without shelter!"

[JimBee]

"I don't think you get it, Jinn." Karie states accusatorily, "They are angry at you because you put their houses under a massive amount of water! They are angry at you because you have effectively left them homeless! Even if we stop Immortalis, your sheepish decision has left them without shelter!"

Jinnipher rolled her eyes. "I am well aware of this, Karie. I even said so before we made the decision. Again, they still have their lives. I suppose you would rather have them angry and dead? That'd be much easier to deal with I imagine."

[Lind Whisperer]

"Thank you for your patronage. We apologize for raised prices. Our prospective home was recently flooded, you see, and we needed to raise prices to compensate for new arrangements." says one Toxiprogg with barely held politeness, betraying that the Progg probably knew exactly who he was talking to.

The Black Knight bowed. "My apologies, and that is quite a reasonable reason.

I am sure the Progg leaders have your housing conditions well in mind, and are even now trying to figure out how to better them."

"I don't like being "that guy", but I told you so." Karie exclaims to the group at large.

"I voted for swimming."

"Clearly they have no grasp on how to run a business. Homeless proggs won't be buying any overpriced venom. Supply and demand."

"True. Unless things get exceptionally bad. In which case, they'll be wanting to arm themselves..."

In the background, the mob continued to grow louder, while the party continued to in-fight. Sighing, the Black Knight went to the edge of the path, and took a very deep breath.

"ATTENTION." The intimidating voice of the Black Knight rang out loudly in the cave. It was not a cruel note that he reached, but it was a note that demanded attention.

"Thank you for your attention. For starters, I would like to say that I was of the party that did not support flooding the cave. I deeply regret the - temporary - destruction of your homes, and your current lost state.

However, the moment was a difficult one. We could either lose excessive amounts of time reaching Billow - with the potential loss of hundreds, if not thousands of Progg lives - or we could flood the tunnel, temporarily obstruct the housing process, and keep all of you alive, and safe. I thought that we could take the first one, and escape the loss; others thought that the second one was safer.

In the end, the choice was made to keep your lives safe, at the cost to homes. The Progg leaders are sorry - the party is sorry - I am sorry - but in the end, it was decided, that your lives were more valuable than your homes. The lives of you...the lives of your wives...and the lives of your children.

All claims will be dealt with in time. The housing project will be finished, and the colony will once more be on the road to prosperity.

Please, do not let the situation deteriorate even further, by resulting to mob violence. It will not bring you any benefit, and will only bring harm to your family, by further delaying and hampering the Progg leaders' ability to repair the situation."

[Asphalt]

Vindsval pushes his palm against his face and shakes his head from side to side.

Just stop talking Whisperer, just stop talking.

[Lind Whisperer]

Vindsval pushes his palm against his face and shakes his head from side to side.

Just stop talking Whisperer, just stop talking.

Lind continued to look out over the mob, but responded quietly out of the corner of his mouth.

"This is a bad situation, that bodes to become an even worse one. I am trying to do what I can to defuse it one way or the other - whether it is through calming the people down, or at the very least, letting the people to understand that this was not a decision the Progg leaders made lightly. If worst comes to worst, they may turn that anger on us, but after we walked through that encounter with an immortal dragon's most powerful angels, I cannot imagine a handful of Proggs is going to slow us down that tremendously - and certainly not any more than another sequence of "who has the moral high ground"."

[swils]

"By throwing the rest of us to the sharks, you mean? 'They did it, not me!' Pathetic. However we're going to move forward, let's do it, before Lind digs us a deeper hole with his blathering."

[Lind Whisperer]

"By throwing the rest of us to the sharks, you mean? 'They did it, not me!' Pathetic.

"It's a mob. Do you really expect them to tell the difference between the parts of the party that voted one way or the other? If they rush us, I'm not silly enough to think that they're going to pick sides.

Do not put words in my mouth. I did not "throw the rest of you to the sharks". I explained that there were two sides to the thing - those of us against the idea, and those that voted to flood the place.

And beyond that, this is a mob. Do you really think I'd be so silly as to think that, if they were to attack us, that they'd be calm enough to tell us all apart?"

However we're going to move forward, let's do it, before Lind digs us a deeper hole with his blathering."

Sighing, the Black Knight reached behind him, and grabbed the arm of the retreating (vertically challenged) Giant.

"No.

You did your part in making this bed, and now you get to face the aftermath - which I have hopefully diffused. Hopefully.

You want to be "heroes"? Fine. Let's "be heroes".

Heroes don't run away from a mess they've made. And you all definitely made this one."

He sighed, and looked out over the crowd. "Perhaps I could have done differently. But I saw a situation that needed defusing. And congratulations to those that made it, you get to defuse it.

Next time, don't destroy someones' house, and think that it doesn't matter. All actions have consequences, and they should be faced..."

He tilted his head. "Hmm. Even I'm learning from this." He nodded at Karie. "You know, you're right. Arthur was on a high horse, but where he was coming from was correct. Free will in all things is important...And if you violate someone's free will - in any way, even in those that don't harm them directly - you have to face the consequences..."

[Endgame]

"<I may well be dead by night's end...or, I may have to live with my choices for a thousand generations. In either case, I wish not to have any regrets.>" Miirym allows herself a faint grin of satisfaction at Gabriel's own self-ignorance. "<Mortals. So reliant on sight, you oft forget scent. As far as Dragons go, anyone with a nose can see you two are bonded.>" She frowns. "<Anyone. Hmm. ...Remain in alertness, Gabriel. For all her armor, I fear your mate's weak point is grievously unguarded, save by your own vigilance.>"

<I apologize for not being able to smell how many times I have had sex, unlike you and Immortalis.

I intend to keep her safe, with my life if need be. I took a hit from your father. I'll take one from your grandfather, and anything else, if need be.>

The Proggs listen in stunned silence, before their rage spills out. One particularly enraged crustacean shouts above everyone else.

"You think you can choose what's best for us? People who just came into this colony today?! First the dragon... Now you. You're no better than that damn lizard!"

The horde roars in agreement. The armored Proggs exchange nervous glances as the crowd begins to advance.

"Phalanx, at attention!"

What was once a simple task of keeping the rioters at bay was now a shoving match between the Proggs and their police force. Solon and Fydelle look down in shame.

"I don't care what your intentions were. This is not your mess to clean up, not anymore."

The Falconer speaks gravely.

"Heroicans don't have a magic touch. We can't go into every situation and resolve everything and expect no backlash. This is one we - and unfortunately, they - will have to live with. Unfortunately, we aren't all "blessed" with visions of the future like Immortalis has. We have to make our choices in the now, and suffer, not necessarily fix, the consequences of what we've done."

"Agreed. And we need to get you back topside. You triggered the flood to save time? Then I expect you to not waste a single second of it, or we are going through this for nothing. Stop Immortalis.

Now, care to follow Fydelle?"

Edited June 8, 2016 by Endgame

[JimBee]

"This is what I mean when I say things like 'incompetent' and 'doomed'. Let's get out of here. The little boy can deal with the problem he just created."

[Lind Whisperer]

The Proggs listen in stunned silence, before their rage spills out. One particularly enraged crustacean shouts above everyone else.

"You think you can choose what's best for us? People who just came into this colony today?! First the dragon... Now you. You're no better than that damn lizard!"

"They raise a good point. 'A giant dragon is trying to take command of people's free will? Oh, he must be stopped and taught a lesson!'." He pointed the rest of the group. "How many times have almost all of you said nearly those exact words?" He pointed at Karie. "You keep talking about 'teaching him a thing or two,' or however you put it.

But, suddenly, when anything involves you, you have the right to just do whatever you want, and no one has any right to stop or chastise you.

You people are hypocrites.

'These people need housing? Oh, it doesn't matter. Let's just take the easy way - no worries, no one will find out what happened, or who did it.'

At least Immortalis has the dragon genitals to openly admit who he is, and what he does, and why he does it.

You people are cowards."

He glared at the group. "Yes, I'm sure I'm "jeopardizing the mission," by first trying to calm the situation, and then forcing you to confront what you've done. But you know what? Frankly, a rule under Immortalis would be better than this system of "Heroism". At least he cares about people, and will openly discuss what he's doing and why. You people just do what you want, and don't care a fig about the aftermath, or the people involved.

You just want to be the shining knights in armor that defeat the big nasty dragon. Well, congratulations - to these people, YOU are the big nasty dragons."

[swils]

"If it doesn't matter, and they're not gonna take sides," he grumbles, shrugging off Lind's weak grasp, "then why bother even pointing it out? You brought this to boil, you can deal with it." He shoves Lind back towards the advancing crowd, and with Arx in short step behind him, moves to leave alongside Jinnipher.

[Lind Whisperer]

"If it doesn't matter, and they're not gonna take sides," he grumbles, shrugging off Lind's weak grasp, "then why bother even pointing it out? You brought this to boil, you can deal with it." He shoves Lind back towards the advancing crowd, and with Arx in short step behind him, moves to leave alongside Jinnipher.

"Because I was trying to calm a disturbed crowd, and reassure them that everything was for the best.

The fact that I then realized you all were doing exactly what Immortalis is doing on a smaller scale, and confronted you with it. I brought it to a boil, but you lit the fire. I didn't destroy those peoples' homes."

"I don't care what your intentions were. This is not your mess to clean up, not anymore."

The Falconer speaks gravely.

"Heroicans don't have a magic touch. We can't go into every situation and resolve everything and expect no backlash. This is one we - and unfortunately, they - will have to live with. Unfortunately, we aren't all "blessed" with visions of the future like Immortalis has. We have to make our choices in the now, and suffer, not necessarily fix, the consequences of what we've done."

"Agreed. And we need to get you back topside. You triggered the flood to save time? Then I expect you to not waste a single second of it, or we are going through this for nothing. Stop Immortalis.

Now, care to follow Fydelle?"

"Fine.

Fydelle, Solon? I am honestly sorry for the trouble we have brought, and I apologize for having inadvertently stirred it further while trying to calm it."

With his head dipped, he followed after Jinnipher and Thormanil.

"Before you say anything, Karie, I am well aware that most of this - all of this - applies to me.

I'm looking forward to having those talks with Arthur and Annienal. If I'm going to be calling people out on hypocrisy, I have a lot of cleaning up to do..."

Edited June 8, 2016 by Lind Whisperer

[Flipz]

OOC EDIT: For the sake of consistency, I'm starting here with Miirym's new formatting. Speech in between <> brackets without quotation marks is her standard telepathic speech that anyone can comprehend, while speech between brackets inside quotes "<like this>" is spoken in the Dragons' tongue. Sorry for the inconvenience.

"This is what I mean when I say things like 'incompetent' and 'doomed'. Let's get out of here. The little boy can deal with the problem he just created."

"You're one to talk. Every so-called 'Hero' in this room is a failure. This whole time, we've all had the choice between what was right, and what was easy, and I think we all know which way this party skews. Half of us are failures for taking the easy way out--and the other half are failures for not stopping you."

<And in the end, the 'easy' route accomplished nothing. Charon and the angels still waited for us, and would have even if we'd taken the harder path. You sacrificed these people's homes for nothing.>

"These obstacles aren't just roadblocks between us and Immortalis. They're tests. And Heroica has been failing each and every one of them. Good job."

Arthur steps forward to Solon, speaking Diplomatically--and loudly enough to be heard over the crowd's din. "For what it's worth, Regent, I'm sorry. Sorry for the path they chose, sorry Miirym and I failed to stop our allies, Hel, sorry you and your people got dragged into Immortalis' wrath in the first place. If I knew some way to fix this, I would, and I will. Remember, as I stated when we were first offered the choice, I am an engineer. With your permission, once we've defeated Immortalis I'd like to come back here and try to undo some of the damage my allies have wrought."

<In the meantime, however...let us go deal with the eldest of my kind.>

Arthur and Miirym are ready to move on.

Edited June 8, 2016 by Flipz

[swils]

Arx stops in his tracks, turns and blocks the black knight's path.

<"Still your tongue and shove your self righteousness, or I'll pick you up and drop you back to that crowd faster than you could draw a blade. When we should be standing united, you merely drive a wedge further between us. I'm sure we all get it, you didn't want to. You don't see Immortalis as being that big of a problem. I've got half a mind to say you're no better than that Monk Pretzel, who betrayed us to Baba. In fact, why don't you convince me you're not just here to sabotage us on Immortalis' request, before I throw you to the crowd to buy the rest of us some time, hmm?">

Thormanil chuckles, and calls over his shoulder, "Come on, Arx, much as I'd like to put the rat in his place, we don't have time for this. Let's go, yeah?" But Arx only snarls and stands his ground, while the rest of the party moves onwards.

[Flipz]

Arx stops in his tracks, turns and blocks the black knight's path.

<"Still your tongue and shove your self righteousness, or I'll pick you up and drop you back to that crowd faster than you could draw a blade. When we should be standing united, you merely drive a wedge further between us. I'm sure we all get it, you didn't want to. You don't see Immortalis as being that big of a problem. I've got half a mind to say you're no better than that Monk Pretzel, who betrayed us to Baba. In fact, why don't you convince me you're not just here to sabotage us on Immortalis' request, before I throw you to the crowd to buy the rest of us some time, hmm?">

Thormanil chuckles, and calls over his shoulder, "Come on, Arx, much as I'd like to put the rat in his place, we don't have time for this. Let's go, yeah?" But Arx only snarls and stands his ground, while the rest of the party moves onwards.

"<Perhaps is is simply the time I have spent outside of Heroica, cousin, but this party has never felt united to me. Or rather, it has only been united by the thin thread of necessity, rather than anything more. You are right in that facing Immortalis is more important than our own disputes. But we cannot afford to ignore the damage we cause. We are creatures of the ages, cousin Arx. To act without consideration is to reject our responsibility towards the world in which we live. Our successes and failures both are things with which we must eternally live.>"

OOC: I just noticed, Miirym and I never got our experience from solving the puzzle, so we should have leveled up. Looks like Siercon didn't get the puzzle exp, either, though it looks like Jinnipher did.

[swils]

Keeping an icy stare fixed on Lind, Arx offers to Miirym, <"We haven't, but when we're standing over a rioting crowd, that's not exactly the best time to hang our dirty laundry out there. Much less try to paint some of ourselves as better than others. To admit indecision here only stands to bolster the crowd's belief that they have been wronged. They can't possibly know the gravity of what we are set out to do; they see and feel only the immediate effects. I understand this. I don't much like the outcome, but I see its necessity towards our greater goal.">

[Lind Whisperer]

OoC: I though Arthur and Miirym left the cave?

"You're one to talk. Every so-called 'Hero' in this room is a failure. This whole time, we've all had the choice between what was right, and what was easy, and I think we all know which way this party skews. Half of us are failures for taking the easy way out--and the other half are failures for not stopping you."

The Black Knight nodded at the returning Dragoon. "Sir Arthur, we need to have a good talk when this was over. I think I just finally understood some things.

I understood, and agreed with most of what you were saying earlier, but I didn't quite get one central bit.

I get it now."

He re-adjusted Gladius. "Solon's right. We need to get moving-"

A middle-sized blue and white dragon slammed down in front of him.

Arx stops in his tracks, turns and blocks the black knight's path.

<"Still your tongue and shove your self righteousness, or I'll pick you up and drop you back to that crowd faster than you could draw a blade. When we should be standing united, you merely drive a wedge further between us. I'm sure we all get it, you didn't want to. You don't see Immortalis as being that big of a problem. I've got half a mind to say you're no better than that Monk Pretzel, who betrayed us to Baba. In fact, why don't you convince me you're not just here to sabotage us on Immortalis' request, before I throw you to the crowd to buy the rest of us some time, hmm?">

"If you really think that I - someone who has admitted his admiration of Immortalis freely and without reserve - am some sort of plant - then you are failing in your duty to the group by slowing us down with some pointless debate. You would be better served just hurrying ahead and throwing me into the crowd.

From what I have heard of the Baba incident, it would be near-impossible to prove that I am not some sort of a plant, and trying to pick me over for such a proof is a waste of time. If people fear what few things are in my Bag of Holding, then I will cheerfully hand them over to Arthur, or to Karie - but if not, this argument is pointless. Have Arthur cast Scroll of Anti-Magic, Scroll of this, Scroll of that, do what you will - but this conversation is pointless, and unless you further stand in my path, over."

Keeping an icy stare fixed on Lind, Arx offers to Miirym, <"We haven't, but when we're standing over a rioting crowd, that's not exactly the best time to hang our dirty laundry out there. Much less try to paint some of ourselves as better than others. To admit indecision here only stands to bolster the crowd's belief that they have been wronged. They can't possibly know the gravity of what we are set out to do; they see and feel only the immediate effects. I understand this. I don't much like the outcome, but I see its necessity towards our greater goal.">

"And I just understood, for the first time - well, second, but that first one was different - that the immediate effects effect people just as much as the greater goal. It may be "necessary," in our eyes - but it's not our eyes that are seeing their homes destroyed, it's the eyes of those people out there." Edited June 8, 2016 by Lind Whisperer

[Flipz]

Keeping an icy stare fixed on Lind, Arx offers to Miirym, <"We haven't, but when we're standing over a rioting crowd, that's not exactly the best time to hang our dirty laundry out there. Much less try to paint some of ourselves as better than others. To admit indecision here only stands to bolster the crowd's belief that they have been wronged. They can't possibly know the gravity of what we are set out to do; they see and feel only the immediate effects. I understand this. I don't much like the outcome, but I see its necessity towards our greater goal.">

"<Point. But they have been wronged, and we were the ones who wronged them. As poor as the Black Knight's timing is...these people do deserve our apology, even if it is just a brief one before we depart.>"

"...wait, back up a sec, Pretzel was working with Baba?! The Hel did I miss the past year I was gone??"

<...Father. Timing. We can discuss it while we move.>

"...right. Sorry."

OoC: I though Arthur and Miirym left the cave?

The Black Knight nodded at the returning Dragoon. "Sir Arthur, we need to have a good talk when this was over. I think I just finally understood some things.

I understood, and agreed with most of what you were saying earlier, but I didn't quite get one central bit.

I get it now."

Arthur eyes Lind warily, but does not dismiss the Black Knight outright. It was the first time since he'd set off from the rest of the party that he had not pointedly ignored the Munchkin entirely.

Edited June 8, 2016 by Flipz

[Kintobor]

With his head dipped, he followed after Jinnipher and Thormanil.

"Before you say anything, Karie, I am well aware that most of this - all of this - applies to me.

I'm looking forward to having those talks with Arthur and Annienal. If I'm going to be calling people out on hypocrisy, I have a lot of cleaning up to do..."

Karie huffed, trying to look reassuring to Lind, despite knowing better that he probably needed a sobering moment like this. "I'll admit, you've cocked up pretty bad." Karie sighed, looking fed up. "Look, let's get through all this and then you and I are having a discussion. Kay?

In the meantime, let's make our leave. We've done all that we can here." Karie looked towards the angry mob, glad to be on the opposite side of it.

[Lind Whisperer]

Karie sighed, looking fed up. "Look, let's get through all this and then you and I are having a discussion. Kay?

"Sounds good." The Black Knight looked over his shoulder, and half-smiled at the Youngling's response to the Dragoon's surprised outburst.

"Perhaps after that, we should hold a forum on Good Timing*. Apparently I'm not the only one that has trouble with it..."

In the meantime, let's make our leave. We've done all that we can here." Karie looked towards the angry mob, glad to be on the opposite side of it.

The brief moment of levity fading from his face, to be replaced with the same look of thoughtfulness that he had a few minutes earlier, Lind nodded, and took his place in the formation.

*OoC: I'm assuming that Miirym was speaking so that both humans and dragons could understand her?

Edited June 8, 2016 by Lind Whisperer

[swils]

"<Point. But they have been wronged, and we were the ones who wronged them. As poor as the Black Knight's timing is...these people do deserve our apology, even if it is just a brief one before we depart.>"

<"Were we? We didn't bring the torrential rains that caused the problem in the first place. I will sympathize with them, acknowledge that they have been wronged... but not by us. I will not shoulder the blame for Immortalis' actions.">

Calming down, he acknowledges Miirym's point about timing with a huff. He turns to leave once again, not paying too much mind as his tail delivers a solid *thwack!* to the black knight as he did so.

[Kintobor]

Karie eyes Thormanil's dragon as it swats at Lind, pointing at it. "Unless you want your pet walking funny for a week, I'd advise to keep it under control. My boot could easily find it's way lodged into your dragon's megablocks." Karie replied sternly. She was going to keep this group together even if it killed her, although she hoped it didn't come to that.

[Flipz]

*OoC: I'm assuming that Miirym was speaking so that both humans and dragons could understand her?

OOC: That is correct, yes, though Miirym is a youngling, not a hatchling.

<"Were we? We didn't bring the torrential rains that caused the problem in the first place. I will sympathize with them, acknowledge that they have been wronged... but not by us. I will not shoulder the blame for Immortalis' actions.">

Calming down, he acknowledges Miirym's point about timing with a huff. He turns to leave once again, not paying too much mind as his tail delivers a solid *thwack!* to the black knight as he did so.

Miirym maintains a conversational tone as she follows Arx and the rest of the party. "<Immortalis did not make the choice to flood the residences in the name of expediency. The burden of that decision rests on our shoulders as much as his. I believe the human phrase is 'two wrongs make not a right', yes?>"

Karie eyes Thormanil's dragon as it swats at Lind, pointing at it. "Unless you want your pet walking funny for a week, I'd advise to keep it under control. My boot could easily find it's way lodged into your dragon's megablocks." Karie replied sternly. She was going to keep this group together even if it killed her, although she hoped it didn't come to that.

Arthur moves near Karie, attempting a somewhat soothing tone. "Don't beat yourself up, Karie. With this group...I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no. We're a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're... we're a time-bomb. Best-case scenario, we get it to blow up someone who deserves it, rather than someone who doesn't."

Edited June 8, 2016 by Flipz