Sounds good!
"Have you decided something?"
Landriss nods, and draws his sword. "Sure. We've decided that you're nuts! Robin Hode's group is way too large and powerful for just a couple of men to attack, and the Crown would pay lots more than 750 gold for his capture, or death for that matter. So my question is, are you ready to die? or run?"
They start to turn around and run.
Jediah is confused again but draws his axe and chases after the men.
Landriss moves forward sheathing his sword and pulling his short bow. "Jediah, hold up. Don't chase them into a trap. I'll send an arrow after them but I think we should just let them go."
Well ok then. Jediah stops.
Landriss watches the bandits running. Will they continue out of sight? Or are there more.... and will they return?
They run out of sight.
Landriss pulls a long blade of grass and chews the end of it. When the men disappear in the distance he slings his bow again.
"Interesting. I wasn't sure they'd run. Obviously you're more intimidating than I remembered Jediah. Even though they outnumbered us they ran, and I'm sure it wasn't from me!" He looks back up the road, then starts strolling along. "Let's look for a better place to hide and watch the road. Maybe behind some brush a little way off of the road. That way I can see someone without having to stick my head out from behind where I'm hiding. And Jediah? You stay hidden unless I call you, Okay?"
You will never see me! Jediah attaches some branches to his head and crouches down in the grass.[/b]
Alkaid's happy that the trouble left and comes out from her hiding spot.
Are they gone?
Yes, they are gone.
Landriss nods. "OK. Let's go that way. They're gone, but we're waiting for the Sheriff's men, not just some stupid bandits. We'll find another spot to hide and watch."
Landriss strolls along to another spot.
Jediah follows.
An hour after you hid, there came three men on horses in livery of the Sheriff.
So we attack them, right?
Landriss waits and writes '3 sheriff's men on horse' on a note, ties it on the bird and releases it. "No. Message."
The sheriff's men see the bird, but not the message tied to it.
After releasing the bird Landriss stays hidden, just listening.
"Are you sure he's here?"
"That's what the old gypsy said."
Jediah keeps imitating a bush.
Landriss stays silent, listening. Was there a spy in Robin's ranks?
"She said they were here? It's quiet here."
The third states, "Yes, too quiet."
Jediah keeps lurking
"are we being watched?"
"I don't know."
We going to attack or just stay here?
Jediah charges out to attack!
Crap! We were supposed to report, not attack.... Landriss steps out. "Hold up Jed! They aren't bandits!."
He looks at the three men. "Sorry gentlemen. We were waiting for some bandits. A few came by earlier but they ran off when we braced them. We thought that they might come back so we were waiting here for them." He pulls out his temporary deputy badge. "Just trying to keep this road a bit safer."
"Thanks, I thought you were bandits," the deputy says. "Hold, they aren't bandits, they are probably foresters."
"But sir."
"I said hold."