Cadfael's Words, Detect Evil?
Subject: Re: The hole; A covering darkness
Mission shakes off the cloud in his head and will attempt to use Stoneclutch again, but will try to deal subdual damage if possible.
OOC: A ONE?!! How anticlimatic. Dice have no sense of theater. . .
From: Karl
Subject: Re: The hole; A covering darkness
LOL!
From: Karl
Subject: Re: The hole; A covering darkness
(OOC - It seems that this request is moot at this point since following emails make it seem like Sa'id was able to cast the "Detect Evil" after all (true?). I'm confused.)
From: Dan
Subject: Re: The hole; A covering darkness
Sa'id cast "Detect Magic" and is looking at my hand, he said he'd sit down and memorize "Detect Evil" afterwards if he has to. So no evil detection is happening.
I'll try to get my next turn out over lunch but it probably won't happen until the end of the work day again. I need to get a computer at home...
From: Karl
Subject: Re: The hole; A covering darkness
OOC - Right, misread again. But it's still moot because Farron can't cast "Detect Evil". Also, I don't know how Sa'id could either since according to the link I've been using, it's a clerical spell. /OOC
Farron hears Sa'id calling him just after Mission bolts over to the pinned Cadfael and apparently smashes his head into the stones, but he can't hear what he wants through the other noises and echoes. He rushes to join the group on the pile of rocks and upon seeing that Cadfael was able to dodge the blow is unsure if he is relieved or disappointed.
How can I think that, he asks himself in the next moment. Clearly Cadfael is not himself. How can I wish him injury when he has healed us all many times over?
More than ever, Farron wished to be out of this evil hole in this cursed jungle. The longer he has been on this journey, the more he has felt the worst parts of himself fighting for dominance. He had been increasingly sullen and suspicious. Quick to anger at perceived slights. Where was his better nature? He was usually the one to raise spirits when things got tough. He was the one who smoothed tensions. But these men didn't know him from before this trip. And what had he shown them? I quick temper and sullen face. And his greed at the tower and glee at "winning" such booty - he was acting no better than the pirates he'd fought at sea. And now he feels disappointment that Cadfael's face isn't inches closer to the back of his skull? He looks at Sa'id, mumbling a spell with fire in his eyes, his bruised face looming over the prone priest, then at Mission, apparently intent on killing him. He looks back at Rennik who has drawn his bow and is pointing it from one of them to the other. This is madness, he thinks. We don't need to be attacked. We're killing each other. He falls to his knees, shaking with frustration and fear and screams "ENOUGH!" loudly and long, then hunches forward, his face in his hands as he tries to suppress the shaking.
(OOC - If Sa'id does, in fact, have reason to believe Farron could cast Detect Evil, he can repeat the request now. Otherwise, Farron will ignore it, not having understood what he asked in the first place.)
From: Raja
Subject: Re: The hole; A covering darkness
OOC:
Wow, you're right. Detect Evil is a cantrip (0th-level) CLERIC ONLY spell.
Detect Magic will have to do, then.
Actually, Ty, could I use my fate point to detect some evil? (I'm not sure if I want to yet, but I'm curious as to whether you'd let me. :)
From: Raja
Subject: Re: The hole; A covering darkness
...and I REALLY meant first-level spell.
Gah.
From: Dan
Subject: Re: The hole; strife
Cadfael is reveling so deeply in anger that he does not notice Garyth's approach until the man crashes into him. Once on the ground he offers Garyth almost no resistance but laughs bitterly at his question.
"It has never mattered what I do, Garyth. When the third day comes I will do what I must. But what will you do? Will you try and lead? All you have lead us to are doubts and discord. When the time comes, Brother, your heart will lead you back to indecision and you will do nothing. You ARE nothing. Not even the Gods care if you live or die. You are simply taking up space."
"I do as the Gods demand and the Gods say nothing of you."
Garyth feels Cadfael tense beneath him and a sudden hatred flares up in the priest's eyes. It seems to him that a telltale heat is building in the cleric's hands when Mission's fist comes crashing down beside Cadfael's head causing the anger in his eyes to boil.
"You." The fury in Cadfael's voice is so thick he almost gags. "The product of your lust, your arrogance and your shattered oaths has broken a dark god's prison. And who bears the burden of your folly, Mission? I do. Though I have never known you you have taken from me all I have ever had. I suffer for the devil you created." Cadfael begins to struggle against Garyth's grip, trying to use brute strength to pry the fighter off him, though he does not break eye contact with Mission. "Your son may be your salvation and he may restore your oaths but *I* am his salvation, not you. Never you. The only gift you ever gave him was Anilith and now he needs you less than I do."
At this point, I am assuming Mission punches Cadfael in the face. He'll do his best to avoid it but he's more concerned with breaking out of Garyth's pin however he can. If Garyth presents a finger that can be broken or an eye that can be gouged out Cadfael will quite happily do it.
From: Scott
Subject: Re: The hole; strife
OOOOO!
Bring it, son!
:)
From: Mike
Subject: Re: The hole; strife
Cadfael's words strike home; they are all the more painful because they are true. When they left Overlook, just a few days before, Garyth thought himself a leader. But despite all of his efforts--or maybe because of them?--the group has split even further. In the depths of his soul, he knows his own unworth and he despairs. Nothing will ever be right again. A terrible evil is about to be loosed upon the world, two of companions seem stricken mad, and there is nothing he can do about it.
Somehow, though, his body knows better. His grip tightens, struggling to control the priest. And when he speaks, his voice is calm.
"I don't know what madness grips you, Brother, but you must control yourself. I will not let you bring this mission to ruin."
OOC: Sorry for the lateness. I've been swamped today at work.