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Finish off the wounded unless sparing them promises better sport tomorrow. Claim their heads so that they may be marked as your own. If they fought with honor and skill, mark them as hunts-kin, so that they may serve in your band in all the hunts to come after death. If they offered only sport, mark them as prey, so that they may serve as your quarry again and again in the jungles of our lord's realm. If they offer neither honor nor sport, mark them as slaves, to serve as whatever you see fit in death. Then dispose of what you do not need. If there are any better trophies that can be made of them, so be it. Any rations, so be it. Anything of no use, leave it to the beasts.
The icing on that particular piece of the alignment fruitcake is that a guy who stoically smashes baby goblins heads against the cave wall after killing their parents...he's just being merciful, and pings Capital-G Good.At some point, did people take "evil" to mean petty criminal?The problem ... well, one of the many problems ... with Detect Evil is that it's binary. Yes or no. No gradients. Crazy psycho baby eater registers the same as makes babies cry for fun. Ugh. I take the man's skull as a trophy of little value and mark him as eternal prey. There is no sport in butchering the helpless. And there is no sense in depleting the stock for the hunt in the years to come.
If my First Worthy Prey would be better served and rested by being cut down, I will do so. She and I have both endured far worse in the jungle beyond death, and should she fail in her duties as hunts-kin it is only fitting she be reminded of how she became hunts-kin to begin with. It is how she died the first time after all. I have hunting to do, and if she becomes more of a burden than a boon, it is best she return to the Abyss.
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