Leading:Raiden Morana, Commander
Attending:Hoagie, Captain
Aliryl Treffenwood, Scout Corporal
Marcus Tel'var, Junior Grenadier
Buttons, Junior Grenadier
Vincent, Guardsman Recruit
Hugo, Templar Preceptor
Tameris Deacon, Chaplain
A bunch of Yewish people
We rallied the men, along with representatives from the Church, in order to go hear out the drow, and their proposed trade. The trade was to be done in Umbra. We arrived there fairly quickly, and met some Yewish Waywatchers, there to witness the trade, since the Cleric in question was from Yew, rather than Cove. A fatal flaw in the Drow's planning, attempting to trade a Yewish cleric for a Covian officer! Still, there was some discussion as to whether to make the trade or not, and while I said it is better to lose a soldier than a citizen, there was a large deal of reluctance to negotiate with Drow.
When questioned as to why we shouldn't just kill them, and take the prisoner with us, they revealed that their high priestess had cast a spell, which, if the trade was not done, would kill the Cleric. After a while, it was decided that if the Drow had already cast this spell, the cleric may have been beyond saving!
In what was intended as an act of mercy, but seemed a little over the top, one of the Waywatchers put the cleric out of her misery, and the drow fled, in terror.
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