RE: The Ballad of Adler Young, Canto 2.5
07-13-2022, 12:14 PM
>Mysterious Voice: Demand that Adler show himself first.
>Adler: But you are.
>Mysterious Voice: Exactly. You fire another elfshot at Adler.
>Adler: Yipes! You dodge and duck into cover.
>Mysterious Voice: You are disappointing to see Adler is still associating with that antglade-trash raccoon, but your former colleague is nowhere to be found. Perhaps Adler got tired of her and sent her away, no that can't be it. If Adler is still keeping Burnside around and now hanging out with lowfolk, then his taste in company still leaves much to be desired. Most likely, that twice-failed two-bit floozy failed yet again and died horribly in the battle. Dying a traitor's death, it's a shame you didn't see it.
>Adler: That voice. It sounds so familiar. Is that the woman that gave the tainted bread to your troops? Didn't she turn out to be a sisterhood agent? Yes, Ms. Thomson informed you she was and this was corroborated by Estvan when he read her dreams. What's she doing here? You dodge another arrow. Yikes!
>Miss Thompson: How can Adler really be this obtuse? It's not hard to figure out! You're here to complete the mission Thomson abandoned when she turned traitor! When Adler asked the Sisterhood to find info on Ash, he let them know exactly where he was! Of course the Sisterhood was going to send someone out to get him! This is exactly why the so-called "Scion of Iraneous" can't be left to his own devices. It's like watching a brain-dead infant wander through a minefield. You fire a volley of arrows at Adler.
>Adler: You duck and weave to different cover. Where is she firing from? How was she able to get past your defenses? Tell the trees to stop her!
>Trees: You can't. She knows the secret phrase that forces you to stand down.
>Adler: How! If it's so Fuma-damned secret, how does she know!?
>Miss Thompson: Ash told you.
>Adler: But you are.
>Mysterious Voice: Exactly. You fire another elfshot at Adler.
>Adler: Yipes! You dodge and duck into cover.
>Mysterious Voice: You are disappointing to see Adler is still associating with that antglade-trash raccoon, but your former colleague is nowhere to be found. Perhaps Adler got tired of her and sent her away, no that can't be it. If Adler is still keeping Burnside around and now hanging out with lowfolk, then his taste in company still leaves much to be desired. Most likely, that twice-failed two-bit floozy failed yet again and died horribly in the battle. Dying a traitor's death, it's a shame you didn't see it.
>Adler: That voice. It sounds so familiar. Is that the woman that gave the tainted bread to your troops? Didn't she turn out to be a sisterhood agent? Yes, Ms. Thomson informed you she was and this was corroborated by Estvan when he read her dreams. What's she doing here? You dodge another arrow. Yikes!
>Miss Thompson: How can Adler really be this obtuse? It's not hard to figure out! You're here to complete the mission Thomson abandoned when she turned traitor! When Adler asked the Sisterhood to find info on Ash, he let them know exactly where he was! Of course the Sisterhood was going to send someone out to get him! This is exactly why the so-called "Scion of Iraneous" can't be left to his own devices. It's like watching a brain-dead infant wander through a minefield. You fire a volley of arrows at Adler.
>Adler: You duck and weave to different cover. Where is she firing from? How was she able to get past your defenses? Tell the trees to stop her!
>Trees: You can't. She knows the secret phrase that forces you to stand down.
>Adler: How! If it's so Fuma-damned secret, how does she know!?
>Miss Thompson: Ash told you.