Look on your character sheet, by the Language spot. Half-elf characters get Elvish as a starting language, so, if you are half-elf, then you speak elvish.

(oki)

(so now what?)

Honestly? I was hoping no one spoke elvish.

You hear four voices in a heated argument;

"We should just kill them, they were tresspassing, and that one enchanted the poor griffon. Let me cut them open as a bear, then we can claim an accident. The outsiders will believe it was a werebear, and we may live in peace!" You can tell just by the pitch of this voice that he is a weasel, a sly tone, and he finishes every sentence with a weird cackle.

"Or every adventurer within a thousand leagues will come to slay the beasts of the forest. They would cut all our trees down, hunt these sacred woods to extinction!" This voice belongs to an obviously wiser young woman, though still young and inexperienced.

"But--"

"NO! We have sworn an oath to protect life, and you are asking us to destroy what we have promised to guard! The forest has humoured you enough to allow you to capture these folk, but it most certainly will not stand for slaughter!" This third voice must belong to the leader of the group, a woman's voice filled with the wisdom of the earth itself.

"It is not slaughter if you have a good cause!" The fourth voice his very high and bursting with a giddy delight at the mention of the word "murder"

"It's still murder!"

"Hate to interrupt this... whatever, but they're awake."

Says a fifth voice, sounding slightly amused but mostly bored.

(should I be worried?)

For my mental health? Yes. Always.

For your character? Yes. Always.

"Oh uh... Hi." Mumbled Bari. (Can't really talk due to the dag)

(So we are all gagged, or just Hessta?)

(i forgot they were gagged)

All of you are gagged, blindfolded, and bound.

(Then we are waiting for the DM's next post, as we have little to no actions we can do...)

Subtle.

"All right then Watcher. Who do we talk to?"

"I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know?! Knowing is the one thing you're good for!"

"I don't like invading, which means the right questions have to be asked. Who is your commander? Then which one of you is L? A letter? CHROME. They're with CHROME. And these two quarell about who leads this group."

Hessta and Maya both have their blindfolds removed. You see six elves gathered around a burning fire. One of the women who removed your blindfolds lowers your gags.

"Names."

"That one is Hessta, and they call this one Maya."

"Seems like you have those..." hessta says with a sultry smile up at the elfs. (I am assuming they are speaking common now...) "If you wanted to share our camp, you had only to ask and we would have been more than willing to let you join us." She looks around at the cluster of elfs. "As we are not dead yet, I wonder why you took us prisoners to begin with... Do you often attack people who are doing nothing more than traveling through the forest?"

"You enchanted a griffon, that is reason enough to take you prisoner." This voice belongs to a lanky elf that is quite tall for his race, with a twitch in his right hand like he always wants to rip something.

"Here's an idea Chase, go stuff yourself." A slender woman standing with her arms crossed and a face full of clear contempt for Chase.

"The Griffon is no longer under any enchantment. That wore off the second eye contact was broken. The griffon stays out of loyalty, otherwise it wouldn't be hovering around up there and we wouldn't still be chatting." He says, pointing up to where Griff is circling the air above the clearing.

"Then what do you suggest Watcher? That we should let them go? Oh hey, look at that, our bad. We'll just let you take your highly dangerous pet and go. And we would really appreciate it if you never came back. Thanks! We can't let them go! They will tell others of this place and the monsters within!"

"Hey" Weird, you hear Watcher's voice, but you didn't see his lips move. Not altogether unsurprising, seeing as he has predicted your thoughts, but a little unsettling.

"Sometimes I wonder if there is anything going on in that empty skull of yours."

"There's someone in the trees here to help you. He's from the same organization you are. I can help you, but you have to take me with you."

"Chase always has something going on in his head, he's the best at head stuff." This voice belongs to a weedy elf whose eyes are full of admiration as he looks at Chase

"Not helping Radan."

"So you control the animals hear and decide who they are friends with then?" Hessta asks with a raised eyebrow. "Are they then your prisoner, your minions, your slaves?" She glances to the elfs as she speaks. "Seems like you are tyrants then, deciding who can do what and not allowing for free will. Griff has decided to stay with us, and I only enchanted him in self-defense when he mistakenly attacked us. We then headed through this forest, only to reach the far side, and were attacked by you without any aggression or ill-intent from us." She pauses as she holds the seemingly nicer elf's eyes. "Either let us go and prove you mean us no ill will, or get on with whatever else you have planned."

(so now what?)

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(so now what?)

  (Sorry, but have to say this. This is a Role Play game, so role play. What is your character doing? What are they thinking? The only one posting their words and actions currently is really Hessta. Instead of asking 'now what' maybe try role playing what your character is doing. The DM works off of what we post, and is likely giving you guys time to post, so that Hessta doesn't just run the game and keep you from having input.)

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Quote from Bubbub25 >>

(so now what?)

  (Sorry, but have to say this. This is a Role Play game, so role play. What is your character doing? What are they thinking? The only one posting their words and actions currently is really Hessta. Instead of asking 'now what' maybe try role playing what your character is doing. The DM works off of what we post, and is likely giving you guys time to post, so that Hessta doesn't just run the game and keep you from having input.)

 (I would, but as the DM said, my character is bound, blindfolded and gagged so that kind of limits what I can do)

(heh, kindgom life 2.)