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Gloria stayed staring at her hands on the ground while continuing to work out and huffing between each push up. "Depends. How angry am I?" she paused during her push ups for a moment to laugh for a second "I have met very few people who are as strong as I am." She swung her feet up into a handstand position before rolling onto her back to begin sit ups. "Not to boast or anything."
Cool beans. I'll be keeping an eye out. Heads up though, my work schedule is finally falling into normal routine starting tomorrow (today?). I should be free to post virtually every day from that point on save for Friday. I work until 2 am every Friday night/Saturday morning and have to go in at 10 am on Saturday. Not too bad, but a little prohibitive as far as posting that night is concerned. Just a heads up.
"Nope. Not sleeping with only the skeleton watching our back. If he wants to be on watch, it'll be with us." Gloria shook her head after she crossed her arms. "I'll take first watch. I hate waking up in the middle of sleeping and I don't like waking up before I have to."
Gloria quietly continued on with the group. She could be heard taking deep breaths trying to calm herself, but after a short time her walk continues as before. ... Though she did seem to be keeping a keen eye on their new skeletal friend.
Gloria stopped storming off after her tantrum when she was asked the question by Ry'klead. "He, uhh..." it isn't difficult to hear that she was trying to shake the anger from her voice "The last I saw him, he was taking up the rear when we were approaching the... those things" Gloria turned and pointed accusingly at the new skeletal member of their traveling group. "If I remember correctly, he was on my side about dealing with them. I haven't seen him since." Gloria takes a deep breath and continues "If we can't track him in the mists and he isn't responding to our shouts, we're best to move on. Either the mists have taken him or he's a traitor and either way there isn't much we can do. You never know, he might just be a step ahead of us too."
Gloria's eyes shot around to the rest of the group before finally coming back to rest on the skeleton. She then rolled her eyes in an unnecessarily dramatic way. "Fine. Looks like I'm out-voted here. But look here, 'Falko'" Gloria's emphasis on the skeleton's name was far from being hospitable to say the least "If I or any of my companions so much as smell an evil thought coming from your general direction, I'll grind you into dust myself." Taking another moment to look around at everyone, Gloria turns and starts walking back to the path they were originally following.
Gloria scoffs at Ry'klead's last question. "Typical human is hardly a question here. A typical human would run from this monstrosity. People like me are around to destroy these things." Gloria stopped walking toward the skeleton about twenty feet before making it to him and looked back toward Bertholdt before turning her gaze to Ryk'lead now. "This... being, whatever caused it, is the result of evil. Listen to what it's saying. Anything I feel for it besides hate is just pity. What do you... whatever are, suggest we do? Become friends with it? Gloria throws her hands down and stomps the ground, cracking it somewhat beneath her.
Feeling faint from the expenditure of energy, she continues. "I might not be the leader of this expedition, but what exactly is it that you expect from me here?"
Baha. I think I'll let at least Falko weigh in before I respond. Heads up; Gloria isn't going to start an actual combat fight or anything, but she's not happy. Were this a book, I might would have her kick the skeleton's head off. It's not, so probably a verbal head kicking instead. :P
"Hm...?" Gloria seemed momentarily stunned by the sight of the skeleton. "I suppose we're making friends with undead now?" She said cracking her knuckles and walking toward the couple of them. "What good reason do you have for me not to handle this right now?" She was starting to grow angrier by the moment. The sight of the undead this close unsettles her. It was unnatural and all she'd ever been told is that they're evil. She was willing to give to the judgement of the others, but this was most certainly toeing the line and anyone who was conscience would be able to tell that.
Guys. I'm still here. I just have very little say in the conversation at hand. Without being disruptive anywho. I may post tomorrow as filler anyway, but I don't want anything thinking I've jumped ship.
Gloria half-heartedly shrugs. "I'm probably the last person who would have anything."
Gloria followed behind, her hammer held tightly by her mighty grip. She carefully advanced in an attempt to make little noise. She was ready to fly into action at a moment's notice.
Gloria chuckles. "I like the sound of that plan. I almost hope we have to do the latter bit. Everyone else good with that?"
"I side with Alvar. This place can't be treated like it's a nation. It's survival. We treat them as a threat now on our terms or later on theirs." Gloria shrugs. "I'll do it either way, but I know which one sounds smarter to me."
"Karrnathi according to Rolando. I see skeletal warriors. I don't trust them."
"Undead is evil. I don't know who these Karrnathi you speak of are, but if they use undead, I'm against them." Gloria paused, then nodded her head. "We should consult the others before acting though." Gloria began making her way back to the rest of the group, continuing to make as little noise as possible.
I'm now of the opinion that we go ahead and surprise round these guys. Gloria isn't a fan of the undead.
Gloria falls in, keeping close to Rolando. When she sees the true nature of the guard, she quietly whispers to Her comrades. "Skeletons? We should deal with this threat before it deals with us."
I'll probably post that I'm going ahead with sneaking if no one does tomorrow. I am tied for second best stealth, but would be best if not for my -1 ACP. So there could be worse scouts. XD
I was all for the last one. XD I'm a follower here though, so I'm waiting to see who scouts before I post.
Well I'll cover whoever decides to sneak in there. Am I the smartest? No. But I am pretty darn tough.
I have the second best stealth. If I'm not mistaken from my character perusing before, Eloith is crazy good at stealth. +18 or +20 or something like that.
We don't even know who these people are or that they're necessarily hostile. They are probably also aware that we are nearby. They just don't know we're that close. Unless someone knows better, I'd be tempted to just go talk to the guards. My character certainly doesn't know any better.
Gloria whistles just loud enough for the lead scouts to hear, but hopefully no one beyond that. She catches up to them and points through the mist at the figure she sees and then points at her own eyes, signaling that she sees something.
No problem. Like I said, I wasn't trying to call you out. Just curious. :D
Right, I meant to ask (Rolando). Many of your skills, like Stealth and AC, list your Dexterity modifier as being +4 despite your Dexterity being 14 from the best I can tell. Am I missing something cool about your character or is that an error? Disclaimer: I'm not trying to be difficult or anything. I'm honestly just curious. I've been looking over everyone's characters and they're all really cool builds. I just came across that question along the way.
Gloria follows about 30 feet behind Rolando, her pole-arm very close by, as she does her best to make as little noise as she can manage.
Bruh. You know that feeling when you're just on the web and you come across that perfect picture for how you imagined your character? Gloria looks like this. And it's a good feeling.
"Tracking sounds great if you have the skill for it. I can sneak and I can kill. I will gladly do either if necessary."
"If scouting is what you're doing, I can come along in case things gets nasty."
After the work on the burial had been done, Gloria wiped the sweat from her brow. She nodded at Bertholdt's comment before throwing her pole-arm over her shoulder and continuing forward. "You know, warlock. You don't have to understand. Just have respect."
Gloria stands and bows her head. "If there be glory in war, let it rest on these poor souls. I will gladly help." She placed her pole-arm back into its strapping on her back. She hated war, but she sympathized with the lower people who took part. It was never their fault and they were never the evil ones.
Gloria holds up a hand when she sees the corpse just off of the path that the group was following. She jogged over to the dead man and observed his wounds. She wasn't very informed when it came to strange creatures, but maybe she could see something close up that would give some sort of hint at what caused the man's death and how recently; perhaps magic was involved. "Looks like someone had a similar idea to the one we have. Also looks like they aren't making it as far as we are." While on her knee observing the corpse, Gloria unstraps her hammer from its perch on her back and held it in her right hand. Whatever did this might be nearby.
Gloria shrugged. "I think we have most of what we need figured out. I'm getting all anxious, let's get started! We can figure out all that stuff as it happens." She looked around at the others for a moment before continuing with a smile. "I'm not used to this much planning. I like playing things by ear. We're explorers! Let's... explore!"
Gloria looks around for a moment before sarcastically inputting her part. "Oh, so I guess I'm the weird one for having no particular super sight in the dark? I have a torch that never burns out just for me though, thanks."
Gloria laughs and shakes her her head at the notion of sleeping in the spider. "Rolando is observant. I have a tent that's big enough to fit two people comfortably."
Hey, thanks! You too!
Gloria looked at Rolando and nodded approvingly. She was fairly impressed with his leadership and she was comfortable under it for the time being.
Gloria's body language is clear; she is NOT riding on the apparatus.
Gloria eyed Ry'klead suspiciously, but not threateningly, as she spoke. "It's worth mentioning that my training as a defensive martial artist makes me bad at avoiding damage, but I'm great at mitigating it. I may take many light wounds, but it takes a lot to seriously wound me." She now turns her attention mainly to Ry'klead as she continues addressing the group. "What I meant earlier was that, over the past while, I've learned to begrudgingly accept friendly spells... for the most part. When I've engaged the enemy, I lose most of my sense to tell hostile magic from friendly. Your spells probably won't work on me when I get started, so try not to waste your time. As far as the lightning rail, that works for me."
What DOES Gloria know?:
... Well then. After a moment of gathering herself after the ride, prying her fingers out of the bent metal she hd been squeezing, she gathers herself and responds to Bertholdt. "I barely knew this place existed before this. As far as hostiles, you should know that my priority is to target witches and magical creatures. Otherwise, I usually charge in and prevent as much movement and living as possible. Unless someone has a better idea at the time, that's probably what I'm going to do. I can be sneaky when I want to be too, you just have to let me know. I'm a bit... direct usually." After a moment if thinking, she adds quietly "Oh, and when I'm in the zone, I don't play nice with anyone's magic..."
"I'm a witch hunter. I destroy magic, I don't cower from it. Would you call yourself a game hunter if you were afraid of deer? No, you seek it out and you kill it. What better way to do that than go where it is?" Gloria shakes her head as she speaks with a slightly less serious tone now.
As she's finishing fitting herself aboard one of the vehicles, she overhears Rolando speak to her. "Ah, 'señor' is it? You've misjudged me. I don't fear magic, I distrust... no, hate it." Now with a smirk she continues. "I'm excessively good at destroying my enemies. Especially magic ones. Controlling my anger, less so. I'd keep that in mind, my friend."
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