Rennik Explodes
Subject: Re: The Battle for Overlook; Aftermath at the hill
Pensive frowns at the idea of wearing armor, but he holds his tongue. This halfling would not be the one to make an objection to, anyway. He moves away from Rennick and Melani, up the hill to the swordsman he'd killed, and drags the body down to the dugout to lay with the other dead bodies in the dust.
Then he approaches the priest. Osred, was it? "I have some healing kits, priest," he says softly. "Who among these men needs aid the most?"
From: Jake
Subject: Re: The Battle for Overlook; Aftermath at the hill
[OOC-In D&D terms, what do these healing kits do? Am I right in thinking that they stabalize the person they're applied to, if they're at negative HP, but don't give any immediate benefit in terms of HP?]
From: Scott
Subject: Re: The Battle for Overlook; Aftermath at the hill
8-0
I think you might be right, after looking at the Opeen Source Heal skill. . . huh. I thought that Mission used a couple of healing kits to regain HP, though.
Rats.
From: Mark
Subject: Where is everyone?
I see Jake and Scott and myself. Where is Matt? I know Mike has a new job.
Ty I guess you could go back for a while and take care of Raja and Karl in the city. They have not had a whole lot to do for a long time.
Mark
From: Jake
Subject: Re: The Battle for Overlook; Aftermath at the hill
As Rennik listens to Melani's plan, he wonders if it wouldn't be better for him to hide in the wagon with bow drawn.
"If she is flying in, and something goes wrong, we need all the shooters we can manage. You and I can hide in the wagon. I don't think Friend Osred is large enough to disguise himself as the Brute, either - perhaps propping the dead body as though it were resting against something. That might provoke the hellspawn's anger at his laziness. Also, if we..."
As Pensive returns to camp hauling the dead body, Rennik stares at the elf in disbelief, trying his best to control a frustration that has left him near speachless.
He had dragged a dead body, trailing blood, through the grass over a hundred yards back to the camp... what could have *possibly* possessed him to do such a thing? Were there no bushes to stow the body under where the man fell? Did he expect them to perform a funerary ceremony here by the wagon before the witch returned? Everyone was trying to make it look like a fight never happened, hiding bodies and kicking dirt over bloodied ground, and this green, senseless elf was strewing blood willy-nilly and dragging bodies back *to* the ambush site....
Rennik is apoplectic.
"What in the seven hells are you doing, elf?! Maybe after you've trailed a bloody path to the ambush site from each of those bodies and piled them high by the fire, you can scrawl 'hellbitch your time is up!' on the canvas of the wagon! Or is there some spellweaving you know to write it in flaming letters in the sky?!"
Rennik immediately sets to shoving the corpse under the wagon and covering the bloody path by kicking dirt over it - hoping to somehow hide the traces that a dead bloody litterally oozing blood from a gaping throat wound had been dragged back to camp. He is distracted totally from his discussion with Melani.
From: Mike
Subject: Re: The Battle for Overlook; Aftermath at the hill
Garyth looks at the faces of the men, sees something in their faces. Respect, maybe. Admiration. Trust. But it's misplaced. These men are alive more through their own skill and that of Rennik and Melani than by anything he might have done. And he'd tell him that if there were any way to do it without making more of a mess of things than he already has. Men need a strong leader, a wise leader. Seeing Garyth's weakness would only confuse them, make them doubt themselves. So even though it is no different than lying to their faces, he holds his tongue and tries to endure the burning in his soul. It's a small price to pay, really, if it will help these men.
Hearing Melani's plan, he begins to think. It's not a bad plan, but the group needs to make better use of their archers. Of course, he's barely even had time to realize that before Rennik is saying as much--once again showing how slow Garyth's own tactical mind is. He opens his mouth to agree with the halfling when Pensive drops the body before Rennik. Garyth isn't fast enough to stop Rennik from boiling over, but he quickly interposes himself between the two.
"We've no time for this," Garyth says. He turns to Pensive. "As long as we are in harm's way we must be a team. Doing otherwise puts us all at risk. You may think what you like, but if you cannot put aside your feelings long enough to keep from endangering this group, then you will keep out of the way until you've time to leave."
Not that, somewhere inside, he didn't agree with Pensive. Garyth had grown up with ideas of honor and chivalry, and Rennik's brutality often left him feeling unsettled. But now he was responsible for lives other than his own; not only the men in his command, but the people of Overlook, and he could not afford to let his own morals get in the way of protecting them.