11-22-2016, 12:35 AM
(11-20-2016, 05:32 PM)Nexendia Wrote: "I have shown you decency," Nexendia replies. "I've offered you a chance to surrender and I've offered you a chance to redeem yourself so you might be granted clemency under the law. I'm no diplomat and lets face it, you don't appear to be the type who would be swayed by fancy words. So let me speak plainly to you. I want to help you but this can only go one of two ways. Either you remove the chip off your shoulder and help us to the best of your ability or my friends here," she motions toward the vikings, "Will choose not to drag around 200 pounds of useless information and likely decide to remove more than the chip from your shoulders. Please don't take this as a threat. I'm even less skilled in intimidation than I am at diplomacy. I'm offering you the path of least resistance that will earn you not only your freedom but you life."
Nexendia gazes pleadingly into his eyes, hoping he takes her up on her offer.
Happs sighs heavily, his body nearly shuddering with the effort considering his bound condition. "Well, what choice do I have in the matter, anyway? I can't return to the camp, I'll die alone out there in the wilds, and you've got me all helpless and at your mercy, love. What else can I do but bend to your will?" It's very hard to tell if he's being blunt, fatalistic, or facetious.
(11-21-2016, 09:15 AM)Valdi Wrote: In Skaldic to his brother. "I do not trust him either, but let us give him the chance required by the law. I would prefer that he proves my suspicions wrong, than to prove them right."
"So three days until she gets suspicious, that is helpful to know."
"You see brother, he can be helpful, he just requires an understanding of how best to make himself useful, that he might avoid the headsman's axe."
"I myself do not relish the job of headsman, so please, continue to make yourself useful, and once Kressle is no longer a threat mayhap you can retire to a comfortable life without needing to resort to brigandry."
"How long after she becomes suspicious would we expect her to come at us?"
"So she would have no other raiders out pillaging the locals, except a group in Pitax? How far is Pitax?"
"Can you draw us ion a map where her camp or base is? Where Pitax is, and where any other communities or settlers she has targeted are located?"
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"Bloody...you guys don't ask for much, now do ya? Pitax is far to the Southwest. Would take, I'd guesstimate, a month's travel on foot. There's nothing else settled anywhere near here, nothing survives these lands. But Kressle's got her camp about 2 day's travel southwest of here, straight as the raven flies."
(11-21-2016, 10:58 PM)Vidar the Red Wrote: Vidar turns a dark red as Happs delivers his insults. He looks like he's about to tear Happs' head right off his shoulders....then suddenly he erupts in laughter. "Hahahaha. So you do have some balls between those legs! What a shame you work for robbers and thieves! What do you have against Master Oleg and his wife? Hahaha!"
Ooc - had he not already been defeated in battle Vidar would have swung on him. But since he's tied up and defenseless, it's not "good" to torture prisoners
"I bet I got a bigger pair than you, ugly. I got nothin' against them. Or mebbe ya didn't hear I kept Oleg's parts together last time she was here. Bein' a bandit's better than bein' food."
