RE: The Ballad of Adler Young, Canto 2.5
03-21-2019, 10:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-21-2019, 10:00 PM by typeandkey.)
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Spoiler>Adler: Be so happy and awestruck to see Ethel that you keep forgetting to use your accent.
>Adler: Tell Ethel that you've finally set in motion events that will surely deal with Jerry long term. In your giddy, love-sick haze, you tell her more than you actually intended.
>Ethel: Scoff at the elf's so called "tactical genius". Sure, sending the topiary troupe after this Baroness or whoever lady is clever, but the job's only half done. When you hit someone, you hit him again while he's staggering. After she's recovered she is going to know who is responsible for the blow. Hit her once to push her back, and again so she knows to keep her distance. She's beaten Adler playing his game, so now he needs to play hers. Fight fire with fire. She's learned the value of commerce and industry so it's about time Adler does too.
>Adler: Normally you'd be very upset at someone speaking to you like this, let alone a lowfolk, but the way her eye twitches, that vein on her forehead bulges, and the spittle flying out of her mouth from her inelegant ranting is just so enchanting, you actually listen to her words. You can make your move while the Duchess is still reeling and not in a position to stop you. You need resources to fight a war. Percy, whom you still need to deal with, made a fortune with just a story. Well, you've got a story too, the true story. "Interview with an Elf", catchy title.
>Ethel: Oh, about that thingy keeping Adler from peeping on people in their homes and private lives. Why not just blow it up? Most people don't think about whether their magic trinkets can stand up to a keg of black powder. Which you happen to have in your hidden stash of fire starting equipment (don't ask, don't tell). Purify this magick elf nonsense with explosive fire. Beautiful, beautiful fire.
>Adler: Tell Ethel that you've finally set in motion events that will surely deal with Jerry long term. In your giddy, love-sick haze, you tell her more than you actually intended.
>Ethel: Scoff at the elf's so called "tactical genius". Sure, sending the topiary troupe after this Baroness or whoever lady is clever, but the job's only half done. When you hit someone, you hit him again while he's staggering. After she's recovered she is going to know who is responsible for the blow. Hit her once to push her back, and again so she knows to keep her distance. She's beaten Adler playing his game, so now he needs to play hers. Fight fire with fire. She's learned the value of commerce and industry so it's about time Adler does too.
>Adler: Normally you'd be very upset at someone speaking to you like this, let alone a lowfolk, but the way her eye twitches, that vein on her forehead bulges, and the spittle flying out of her mouth from her inelegant ranting is just so enchanting, you actually listen to her words. You can make your move while the Duchess is still reeling and not in a position to stop you. You need resources to fight a war. Percy, whom you still need to deal with, made a fortune with just a story. Well, you've got a story too, the true story. "Interview with an Elf", catchy title.
>Ethel: Oh, about that thingy keeping Adler from peeping on people in their homes and private lives. Why not just blow it up? Most people don't think about whether their magic trinkets can stand up to a keg of black powder. Which you happen to have in your hidden stash of fire starting equipment (don't ask, don't tell). Purify this magick elf nonsense with explosive fire. Beautiful, beautiful fire.