An assassin came here to try to kill Toby? The cleric's eyes widen in surprise. Look, I don't want to see him dead, but I am all ready doing the best I can. As I told Quinn, it is up to him now.
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An assassin came here to try to kill Toby? The cleric's eyes widen in surprise. Look, I don't want to see him dead, but I am all ready doing the best I can. As I told Quinn, it is up to him now.
"Well... came to take him in really... and he was more of a paladin... but that's not the point!"
"You can't get the sentence changed or anything on your end then? How is it up to Tobias now?" :smallconfused:
It's usually not up to the guilty to change their punishments.
Tony falls silent while he tries to think of how much to tell Rein. I... do not like the political games in the upper levels of the Nomosian Church, but I have recently been playing them with the college of cardinals. You do not need to know what specifically I am doing, but suffice to say that I am staking my career on this. I was able to get the Paladins of the Church not to take Toby into custody by pointing out that he is staying at a place that redeems evil people. If Quinn can prove that Tobias is redeemed and if he swore to never... use those methods again, I would be able to convince the Holy Arbiter to overturn his death sentence, pending a probationary period. He leans back and sighs. Of course, Toby is a notoriously stubborn ass.
"Well yes. Yes he is."
Reinholdt considers this.
"How does one... go about proving someone's redemption? It is a poorly defined word at best. And we can't use the birds alighting on his shoulder and deers nuzzling his hand test cause he's a druid." :smallconfused:
"None that I know of sir. Would you like some lunch sir? I could get you something if you'd like sir." :smallsmile:
Tony shrugs in bafflement. How does Quinn prove when somebody is done with the normal redemption course here?
"I dunno. How does one even define redeemed?"
Reinholdt shakes his head. It's almost foolish to toss around that word so carelessly.
"Look... if I could get Tobias to join GLoG... would that be a decent start at least? Enough to hold the naysayers off for a little while anyways?"
Reelshka snorts. This whole "redemption" business is highly suspect, really. Apart from the shortage of people who want to be redeemed, how does one prove someone is redeemed?
I am getting the impression that the Gods are more than willing to have him exiled here where he isn't a threat. I don't know what happened with that paladin, but so long as cooler heads prevail--Toby's especially--I can keep him safe while you and Quinn do what you can. Joining GLoG and starting an "official redemption program" would be a great start. Tony shrugs, knowing neither how he personally defines redemption nor how GLoG does.
Reinholdt shakes his head at Reelshka.
"Bring it up at the next GLoG meeting?" :smallconfused:
He looks at Tony.
"Alright. I'll talk to him. One more thing though. Why are you so willing to help him? Aren't you akin to mortal enemies?" Suspicious paranoid Reinholdt is suspicious.
"Lunch...?"
As is customary of comedic convenience Friend's stomach chooses this moment to growl in coplaint of him never eating anything.
"I believe that means I will be taking that offer"
Silly Friend, he really needs to read the manual to this body.
But he can't find it.
Toby is--used to be--my friend. The cleric looks away. And I feel completely horrible about how... it all turned out. I want to make amends if I can.
"To the kitchen then sir." Yay!
Butler will head to the kitchen in the Main Cabin and cook Friend a meal. He's a great cook.
Eat up!
Feel free to wander around afterwards too, cause... deadtime.
Reinholdt frowns.
"I think... it'll work out some day."
IF Tobias can get over the whole stabbing Tony through the chest thing.
I'm shocked how quickly Tony got over it too!
"I'd better go talk to him or something. You concentrate on getting well, k?"
Reinholdt waits a bit for him to reply, waves bye to Reelshka, then hops down and walks off into deadtime.
Tony felt he deserved it, and he was quickly healed. It's also hard to make amends when you get all pissy about such a trivial thing as stab wounds.
Thank you. Tony falls back asleep and deadtimes as well.
Nom Nom!
Friend gets food! It's super-effective!
A good thing butler managed to get done before deadtiming, otherwise the meal might have caught on fire or something! That happens when you cook stuff to long, right?
Afterwards Friend decides to snoop around the cabin, looking for other GloG members.
Snoop snoop.
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Ermine sleeps soundly with a cat to cuddle with. A silly plot cloning cat who takes multi-tasking to the extreme. :smalltongue:
Though if he just deadtimed again, Ermine's still asleep. >.>
[Infirmary]
It's not that bad! Honest!
...
Well he has an IC reason for keeping himself as busy as possible anyways. I'm sure someday there'll be an IC reason for all the strange plot cloning. :smallconfused:
Reinholdt's there, sleeping cuddled next to Ermine. It's almost sickly.
[Infirmary]
Hehe.
Ermine eventually wakes up, blinking the sleep from her eyes. And noticing Reinholdt. After a brief moment of confusion, she smiles happily and tries to hug the sleeping cat. Who probably won't be sleeping much longer.
"Heya Reinholdt." :smallsmile:
[Infirmary]
"Eep!" :smalleek:
Reinholdt's awake. And trying to squirm free now. Perhaps not as strongly as he could or used to.
"Err... what the heck am I doing here?" :smallannoyed:
It took him a few seconds to remember, but he has the perfect ploy!
[Infirmary]
Ermine lets him squirm free, and gives him a dubious look.
"Eh? I dunno. I thought ye'd jumped inta tha bed, I jus' woke up wif ye here." :smallconfused:
She seems to be in a good mood, anyway. The bandaged scratches are feeling better already.
[Infirmary]
"What? No! That's ummm... crazy talk. Clearly I was placed there. BY TOBIAS!! Oooh, I'll get that meddling fox." :smallannoyed:
Reinholdt shakes his paw at the air.
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Ermine's ears quiver in amusement.
"Tobias? Tha guy wit da big cat? Why'd he put you inna bed wif me?" :smallconfused:
Actually, that sounds completely like something Tobias would do. But Ermine hasn't met him. :smalltongue:
[Infirmary]
See? The nearly perfect alibi!
"Oh... cause... it's totally something he would do. Don't ask me to understand why. He's crazy and psychotic. Just cause I'm dangerously insane doesn't mean I understand him."
[Infirmary]
"Ye probably asked 'im ta do it." :smalltongue:
Or, you know, climbed in by himself. Ermine flicks her tail and grins.
"Was nice, anyway." :smallsmile:
[Infirmary]
"... Did not." >>
Reinholdt pouts.
"I guess it was..."
<<
...
Awkward silence time!
[Infirmary]
Ermine doesn't like awkward silences! So she quickly giggles and speaks quickly. :smalltongue:
"Anytime. So, ye wanna go back to da fortress and get us some dragon treasure?" :smallamused:
[Infirmary]
"Only if you're ready. Oh... and I think we may consider hurrying on that note. Did I ever tell you about that ring I found there?"
[Infirmary]
"Ye found a ring there?"
Evidently not. :smalltongue: Ermine looks curious.
[Infirmary]
"Yeah. Found it when you were opening the safe. You probably didn't notice cause you were busy getting yourself poisoned. Anyways, it enabled me to speak telepathically with the dragon's son. A guy who wants to continue his father's work and such. He's locked away in prison right now. I ended up having to trade it to AMEN while on a separate adventure two days or so ago. They'll probably try to bust him out and if that happens, he might return to the fortress and claim it for his own. At which point... things get more complicated." It's not so much grave robbing anymore at that point as it is... pirating.
[Infirmary]
"Ah. So we're gunna 'ave'ta act quick 'r even jus' snag some treasure right from under 'is nose? Sounds exciting." :smallcool:
Ermine seems more excited than apprehensive. Pirating is fun. :smalltongue:
"We should leave right away, den."