God I love Greyview.
Yes! I do, at least.
And, yes, Greyview is awesome!!
If you don’t, you’re doing it wrong!
Minrah, telling it like it is. You go, girl, smash up Wrongeye good!
One wonders if Redcloak will find Minrah’s argument vaguely familiar…
It’s either Russian or Pottsylvanian. My inner ear confuses those two.
Title: “Hypocritical Hit”. Even after 17 years the D&D gags just keep coming. 
Burlew keeps confounding my simple-minded expectations. I anticipate Xykon to showing up soon, so who enters stage left? Oona and Greyview. Then again, I can imagine Xykon enjoying the exchange from further off, albeit for different reasons. Also, Minrah is my favorite character.
If Xykon shows up anytime soon, you can kiss Durkon and Minrah goodbye. On the other hand, we don’t really know how good a fighter Oona is. Good enough to survive going into Monster Hollow a few times, anyway.
Good thing Reddy’s already in the Arctic. He’s gonna need a lot of ice for that burn.
Uh oh.
Maybe Oona will turn out to change her mind.
She is noticing that RedCloak really isn’t trying to answer any of her questions.
Of course, what choice does she have? Xykon by himself could obliterate her and her village, and a motivated, prepared RedCloak probably could do the same. Humor the foreign, obscenely powerful, NPC party until a better alternative becomes clear.
There’s a lively debate at GITP about her alignment—shocking, I know. I think she’s likely True Neutral, maybe shading towards the evil side a hair. Although it is difficult to distinguish Greyview’s hilarious pessimism from the “Nothing Matters’” gray blob that defined the Neutral Evil afterlife.
Uh, Oona is evil, period. Remember what she tried to do to Lien and O’Chul?
Powers &8^]
It’s a D&D world, and she, in her own words to the MITD, …"Almost got special dinner for you! Saw it while exercising Lancer, but it fell in drink. Two humans, since you said you had one back in city, and liked it best of all."
Bugbears eat people, right? Even if they don’t, she thinks the MITD does. Is hunting a sentient species Evil in a D&D milieu? I know what Burlew would argue, as I understand the guy’s a vegetarian. (With one of the most clueless attempts at using the Holocaust as a metaphor for factory farming that I’ve ever read.)
Agreed that in our society, trying to kill out of hand two strangers is an Evil act. And it wasn’t like all visitors to the Tomb or village were getting killed. RedCloak sounded like he was fine with letting Durkon go, before he realized Durkon was with Greenhilt. I don’t know how her class of Beastmaster—and reading her discussion of the strict social lines between Beast and Master, I’d guess she’s more Lawful (and Evil) than Neutral----and that she hunts, alters any consideration of what her alignment should be.
Not necessarily - but merely being a Bugbear definitely is.
For values of “definitely” that include “usually”.
Some creatures in D&D are listed as being “always evil”, such as chromatic dragons, fiends, and many undead (though even there, there are rare exceptions). But there’s no “always evil” humanoid race in the game. Some races have a general disposition towards particular alignments, but they’re all free-willed individuals making their own moral choices, and can be anything, just like humans can be.
Baah, new-fangled editions. I’m not going to trust a DnD source that has player character stats for monsters. I choose to interpret that “usually” as only applying to the “chaotic” part.
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I promise to rejoin the dialogue. Just really busy right now.
Sure Durkon and Minrah have high Wisdom scores? Because Elan would’ve thought they didn’t think things through.
Dun dun dun!