On the Road to Elspar [Book 1] (Dryad Mercenary Schoolgirl Quest)
- Thread starter Kei
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- Original Fantasy
AnonymousRabbit
Rabbit Faced
[x] ... Grim.
It's hard and sad but there's more of this in the future. May as well start shoring up on the worse of it.
Though I expect our little Dryad to feel sick and sad or a mix once it settles down.
It's hard and sad but there's more of this in the future. May as well start shoring up on the worse of it.
Though I expect our little Dryad to feel sick and sad or a mix once it settles down.
- Location
- United Kingdom
[x] ...proud.
- Location
- PA
Hrrm...
IDK about you guys but I'm not interested in the sad vote-Buster swords are very deadly, as we can see here, and it's not like we didn't get a head's up about this... I think I'm actually drawn most to Thrilled, since it kinda draws a parallel to Elizabeth that Neienne might not be keen on hearing...At first.
[X] Thrilled
IDK about you guys but I'm not interested in the sad vote-Buster swords are very deadly, as we can see here, and it's not like we didn't get a head's up about this... I think I'm actually drawn most to Thrilled, since it kinda draws a parallel to Elizabeth that Neienne might not be keen on hearing...At first.
[X] Thrilled
Mother Nyx
Mother of Elpis
- Location
- The Kei Klub
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Remember this is Neianne we're talking about. Neianne after her first kill.
Right, forgot my vote.
[x] ...nothing.
Don't feel like having her second-guess herself when it's time to fight some. Buster Sword means there is very few cases of 'non-lethal injury' when it connect with someone properly. But since I,m not too sure about pride or thrill either, I'll go with this.
[x] ...nothing.
Don't feel like having her second-guess herself when it's time to fight some. Buster Sword means there is very few cases of 'non-lethal injury' when it connect with someone properly. But since I,m not too sure about pride or thrill either, I'll go with this.
AnonymousRabbit
Rabbit Faced
That would make smol Dryad feel exactly nothing towards the act of killing. Maybe you should switch to grim since there's little good about what we did and what happened, and the woman killed was still a person in the end.
This way Neianne would feel something and be less sucesptible to hesitating in the future. It's part of being a Merc to kill and even the sad option has merit than feeling 'nothing'.
Not too sure about this. But I will think some more on it.
Still, ultimately, keeping on the defensive was not a bad idea. Maybe not the most optimal, but hey: it forced the assassins to come to us instead of lying in ambush for possibly anyone that would have tried to rush down to flee. Where they found themselves badly outnumbered. Guess they really underestimated the trainees here.
Elizabeth may have called Lucille an idiot, but I also believe Elizabeth hate staying on the defensive and waiting to start with.
AnonymousRabbit
Rabbit Faced
We can't be sad over every single dead body. We're a mercenary, we can't avoid killing people. Being sad about having to fight just means Neianne picked the wrong occupation.
- Pronouns
- Him/He
[x] grim
While this is a person, and yada yada, she already helped kill two people we know of in this hall. She was trying to kill us. She was part of ambushing cadets into thinking help had arrived, so they could kill more.
This is not a happy night, but we did what we could to get through to morning.
OOC, I'm amused that we're still the only one that's getting proper XP out of this misadventure. But the holing up in the rooms was dumb. Going on defensive is not a bad plan, but how it was done was really stupid, we should all be in one place with a proper perimeter. There was nothing stopping these people from just barricading the doors and setting the place on fire. We should have at least just secured both ends of the hallway, splitting the group in 2 instead of a half-dozen smaller groups.
While this is a person, and yada yada, she already helped kill two people we know of in this hall. She was trying to kill us. She was part of ambushing cadets into thinking help had arrived, so they could kill more.
This is not a happy night, but we did what we could to get through to morning.
OOC, I'm amused that we're still the only one that's getting proper XP out of this misadventure. But the holing up in the rooms was dumb. Going on defensive is not a bad plan, but how it was done was really stupid, we should all be in one place with a proper perimeter. There was nothing stopping these people from just barricading the doors and setting the place on fire. We should have at least just secured both ends of the hallway, splitting the group in 2 instead of a half-dozen smaller groups.
Get in another direwolf and see how long that perimeter hold. Also, we had windows if they bothered to try fire for some reason.
What was forgotten was thinking up some sort of secret question to confirm who was at the door that any hostile couldn't answer. Like, say, how did Neianne fool a wyvern before.
Kinruush
Who?
- Location
- USA
We could have also just reminded people that there were assassins who would be trying to kill them piecemeal.
Well, I think we can say it's a lesson learned for all, especially those that got fooled. Thankfully, no one on our side died from that fuckup.
[X] ... Grim.
Not exactly going to go with sad since we did know at some point we'd have to kill someone in our line of work, so we'd have that eventuality in mind while we were here. And we did have a moment to consider before entering that fight, so it wasn't entirely out of nowhere. Mostly not going with proud since this in particular was a result of blind flailing, so not like we can say we tried for this result and succeeded rather than them lethally screwing up their escape.
Not exactly going to go with sad since we did know at some point we'd have to kill someone in our line of work, so we'd have that eventuality in mind while we were here. And we did have a moment to consider before entering that fight, so it wasn't entirely out of nowhere. Mostly not going with proud since this in particular was a result of blind flailing, so not like we can say we tried for this result and succeeded rather than them lethally screwing up their escape.