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Last game was definitely eventful:
We turned in the viperdile hides, and Selmyn was vastly disappointed to find out that they're more valuable if there's a chance of hatching them... for blood sport. (This went over as well as you'd expect with Rhavaniel and Seifer especially, who have found an unexpected common ground in their respect for nature. We also found out that the reason we're having trouble getting jobs is a Mercenary group called the Broken Blades, and they do not like competition. If they consider US competition is yet an unknown.

Seifer and Rhav actually went out drinking and didn't murder each other. (Seifer however took like four more drinks than Rhav to even get a buzz going.) And they talked, and she now knows his back story, and has a better understanding of his general resentment of others. He also scored a few free drinks telling old stories to her, her bodyguard the Teifling girl Cherish, and anyone else that happened to stop and listen.

We then decided that Seifer was in a good position to try and get information on the Broken Blades, as he has no obvious long standing ties to the rest of the group and does have some good skills... but this all got interrupted when the group, split up briefly for various tasks, saw a huge column of smoke rising from outside the North gates. (Seifer managed to scale a building like a cat up a tree, then made it two roof tops in the right direction to investigate... and fell off into a pile of... used... straw. The poor guy has a problem outside his favored terrain apparently, he was even sober.)

When we arrived at the gates we found out that Lizardmen had attacked, burning and slaughtering three caravans who were unlucky enough not to make it to the gates before the guards closed them out, from which we were only able to retrieve two survivors, a Gnomish man and a three month old gnome child. (Currently in the care of the half orc mom who had her own baby since we freed her and her mate/spouse from the slavers)

Between Seifer and Rhavaniel we were quickly able to determine what had happened.

War has been declared by the Lizardfolk for what happened to the Viperdiles. Seifer is vastly upset, and currently raking himself mentally over the coals for all the ways he's now retroactively sure he misread things, and fully blames their Viperdile hunt for this... which unfortunately led to a very. Heated. Argument.

((if you're wondering what any of this has to do with the picture, we're getting there.))

Seifer in his distress openly argued that this was their fault, and Selmyn argued back that such an idea was 'stupid' because they were just creatures and they were eating people. Seifer argued that retrospectively, they could have looked for an alternative path, especially after finding out that Viperdiles are rare these days, and that he could have investigated the site of the attacks more. (He feels especially guilty because the viperdile came quite close to them in the night when they camped and picked off a deer instead of them.)

Seifer continued to argue that this was stupid, and that it was nessiary to kill the viperdiles, and accused him of valuing the creatures more than people, and generally insisting he was being boneheaded and stupid.

Seifer climbed back to the top of the wall they'd been on earlier because he wanted to get away from the fighting, but unfortunately he's no less stubborn than Sel, and continued to argue that it's not her place to dismiss the value the Lizardmen had put on the Viperdiles, and was furious that someone who studied magic 'couldn't see the value of such things' and seemed to side with he Hunting Guild who seems to prefer it's creatures stuffed and mounted or in the ring. In his final burst of fury because he was clearly not getting through and was pissed about being called a bonehead and that she was so insistent that the Lizardmen were overreacting to their actions, (this hits close to home because he knows his own belief system probably sounds primitive to her, if she knew about it.) called her a stuffed suit. Rather loudly.

((I'm just kind of picturing Lizardmen hiding in the swamp trying to decide what kind of trap we were setting up to be bellowing at each other loudly and in the open.))

Selmyn at this point Fired magic missiles at Seifer. Just a first level round, but doing ten damage and causing him to stumble backward and come close to falling off the city wall. (He saved himself, but it was closer than he would have liked.)

Seifer did not fire back, (though god knows he was tempted) telling her he would if he didn't think they'd need her magic, and that she'd be a waste of his arrows. She started to argue, as Robin ran to check on Seifer, that she could defend just fine all by herself... and the City Guard showed up.

Sel ended up getting a 150 gold fine as a 'first time offender' and since Robin had already healed Seifer (in spite of his protestations that he was fine.) as her choice instead of spending a couple nights in a cell, as there are apparently rules about this sort of thing, and they kind of frown on you casually blasting people with magic.

Seifer determined to stay at the Wall and help the guard keep watch for another attack because he didn't want to be near Sel (who misty stepped back to the Manor to 'write a strongly worded letter', and because he figured that if they get attacked again, his arrows will be harder to pinpoint than a fireball. He's not sure what else to do, but if he had the coin and chance, he'd definitely be crawling into a bottle out of guilt, feeling like he's responsible for the deaths in the caravan by his own misjudgement and desire to get paid (even though he ended up not taking his cut from the Viperdiles because he felt so furious and guilty about the talk about bloodsport.

Seifer needs better coping mechanisms.

But he's probably not going to admit that for a while.

Description
Last game was definitely eventful:
We turned in the viperdile hides, and Selmyn was vastly disappointed to find out that they're more valuable if there's a chance of hatching them... for blood sport. (This went over as well as you'd expect with Rhavaniel and Seifer especially, who have found an unexpected common ground in their respect for nature. We also found out that the reason we're having trouble getting jobs is a Mercenary group called the Broken Blades, and they do not like competition. If they consider US competition is yet an unknown.

Seifer and Rhav actually went out drinking and didn't murder each other. (Seifer however took like four more drinks than Rhav to even get a buzz going.) And they talked, and she now knows his back story, and has a better understanding of his general resentment of others. He also scored a few free drinks telling old stories to her, her bodyguard the Teifling girl Cherish, and anyone else that happened to stop and listen.

We then decided that Seifer was in a good position to try and get information on the Broken Blades, as he has no obvious long standing ties to the rest of the group and does have some good skills... but this all got interrupted when the group, split up briefly for various tasks, saw a huge column of smoke rising from outside the North gates. (Seifer managed to scale a building like a cat up a tree, then made it two roof tops in the right direction to investigate... and fell off into a pile of... used... straw. The poor guy has a problem outside his favored terrain apparently, he was even sober.)

When we arrived at the gates we found out that Lizardmen had attacked, burning and slaughtering three caravans who were unlucky enough not to make it to the gates before the guards closed them out, from which we were only able to retrieve two survivors, a Gnomish man and a three month old gnome child. (Currently in the care of the half orc mom who had her own baby since we freed her and her mate/spouse from the slavers)

Between Seifer and Rhavaniel we were quickly able to determine what had happened.

War has been declared by the Lizardfolk for what happened to the Viperdiles. Seifer is vastly upset, and currently raking himself mentally over the coals for all the ways he's now retroactively sure he misread things, and fully blames their Viperdile hunt for this... which unfortunately led to a very. Heated. Argument.

((if you're wondering what any of this has to do with the picture, we're getting there.))

Seifer in his distress openly argued that this was their fault, and Selmyn argued back that such an idea was 'stupid' because they were just creatures and they were eating people. Seifer argued that retrospectively, they could have looked for an alternative path, especially after finding out that Viperdiles are rare these days, and that he could have investigated the site of the attacks more. (He feels especially guilty because the viperdile came quite close to them in the night when they camped and picked off a deer instead of them.)

Seifer continued to argue that this was stupid, and that it was nessiary to kill the viperdiles, and accused him of valuing the creatures more than people, and generally insisting he was being boneheaded and stupid.

Seifer climbed back to the top of the wall they'd been on earlier because he wanted to get away from the fighting, but unfortunately he's no less stubborn than Sel, and continued to argue that it's not her place to dismiss the value the Lizardmen had put on the Viperdiles, and was furious that someone who studied magic 'couldn't see the value of such things' and seemed to side with he Hunting Guild who seems to prefer it's creatures stuffed and mounted or in the ring. In his final burst of fury because he was clearly not getting through and was pissed about being called a bonehead and that she was so insistent that the Lizardmen were overreacting to their actions, (this hits close to home because he knows his own belief system probably sounds primitive to her, if she knew about it.) called her a stuffed suit. Rather loudly.

((I'm just kind of picturing Lizardmen hiding in the swamp trying to decide what kind of trap we were setting up to be bellowing at each other loudly and in the open.))

Selmyn at this point Fired magic missiles at Seifer. Just a first level round, but doing ten damage and causing him to stumble backward and come close to falling off the city wall. (He saved himself, but it was closer than he would have liked.)

Seifer did not fire back, (though god knows he was tempted) telling her he would if he didn't think they'd need her magic, and that she'd be a waste of his arrows. She started to argue, as Robin ran to check on Seifer, that she could defend just fine all by herself... and the City Guard showed up.

Sel ended up getting a 150 gold fine as a 'first time offender' and since Robin had already healed Seifer (in spite of his protestations that he was fine.) as her choice instead of spending a couple nights in a cell, as there are apparently rules about this sort of thing, and they kind of frown on you casually blasting people with magic.

Seifer determined to stay at the Wall and help the guard keep watch for another attack because he didn't want to be near Sel (who misty stepped back to the Manor to 'write a strongly worded letter', and because he figured that if they get attacked again, his arrows will be harder to pinpoint than a fireball. He's not sure what else to do, but if he had the coin and chance, he'd definitely be crawling into a bottle out of guilt, feeling like he's responsible for the deaths in the caravan by his own misjudgement and desire to get paid (even though he ended up not taking his cut from the Viperdiles because he felt so furious and guilty about the talk about bloodsport.

Seifer needs better coping mechanisms.

But he's probably not going to admit that for a while.