We are committed to taking your message back to the appropriate audience. However, returning to the ship we came from is not in our collective interests. It’s more likely we would be punished for our failure than listened to with open ears.
We would ask one last boon of you and your people, we need safe passage back to the mainland so we may deliver your demands to the leadership.
I do not offer boons, the sahuagin leader says. It is more honest, more honourable if you will, that this remains a trade. If you want passage to the shore, what will you offer me in exchange?
(OOC: At the moment, it's a little unclear exactly which deal you are proposing to take. The sahuagin leader has offered two versions. In the first, you leave and pass on her message, and she lets you go. In the second version, she also agrees not to attack boats on the surface, but in exchange you kill a hunter for her. You are free to ask her to ferry you to the shore, but this is a negotiation to create a third version of the deal, and she wants something in return. The main thing is to agree amongst yourselves exactly what the deal is, so that I'm clear on it. Feel free to discuss OOC here or on the DM thread if you like.)
(OOC: I didn’t see it that way tbh. I thought it was - go deliver the message, if you want the extra bonus of boat travel you’re going to be our bounty hunters and the request to get back to land is a necessity if she wants A and or B accomplished)
(OOC: Ah I had misinterpreted the proposal in the same way, then. Silent frankly doesn't want anything more to do with this priestess and dislikes lying, but he would be willing to just say "Yeah sure we'll hunt down your guy" to just get the sahuagin to leave the boats alone for at least a short time. I don't think he would really be considering longer-term consequences beyond that. If there's any magical "sell your soul"-type stuff needed as part of this deal, though, he would back out pronto.)
(OOC: Arael wants to get out of here, get an army and come back to wipe these fish people out. She is not happy with this defeat - she’s going to say/do whatever she needs to (to both the leader and Three Earrings) to get out of this-)
(OOC: Okay, so I'm getting a consensus that you want to agree to carry the message, that you're going to pretend to agree to kill this hunter, but probably not going to follow up on that. Are you going to go back up to the ship, or offer the sahuagin something to take you to the shore?)
We want to bring your message to the most powerful ears we can find. Unfortunately, we are limited in our ability to travel quickly in the water. Our goals are aligned, but we need your help. What can we offer you besides our offer of parlay with the other surface dwellers?
(OOC: With the sahuagin's help, yes.)
We are committed to taking your message back to the appropriate audience. However, returning to the ship we came from is not in our collective interests. It’s more likely we would be punished for our failure than listened to with open ears.
We would ask one last boon of you and your people, we need safe passage back to the mainland so we may deliver your demands to the leadership.
I do not offer boons, the sahuagin leader says. It is more honest, more honourable if you will, that this remains a trade. If you want passage to the shore, what will you offer me in exchange?
(OOC: At the moment, it's a little unclear exactly which deal you are proposing to take. The sahuagin leader has offered two versions. In the first, you leave and pass on her message, and she lets you go. In the second version, she also agrees not to attack boats on the surface, but in exchange you kill a hunter for her. You are free to ask her to ferry you to the shore, but this is a negotiation to create a third version of the deal, and she wants something in return. The main thing is to agree amongst yourselves exactly what the deal is, so that I'm clear on it. Feel free to discuss OOC here or on the DM thread if you like.)
(OOC: I didn’t see it that way tbh. I thought it was - go deliver the message, if you want the extra bonus of boat travel you’re going to be our bounty hunters and the request to get back to land is a necessity if she wants A and or B accomplished)
(OOC: Fair enough, but that's not how she sees it. :) )
(OOC: Ah I had misinterpreted the proposal in the same way, then. Silent frankly doesn't want anything more to do with this priestess and dislikes lying, but he would be willing to just say "Yeah sure we'll hunt down your guy" to just get the sahuagin to leave the boats alone for at least a short time. I don't think he would really be considering longer-term consequences beyond that. If there's any magical "sell your soul"-type stuff needed as part of this deal, though, he would back out pronto.)
(OOC: Pockets isn’t going to hunt anybody down, either. He’d want to “deliver” the message and wash his hands of it.)
(OOC: Arael wants to get out of here, get an army and come back to wipe these fish people out. She is not happy with this defeat - she’s going to say/do whatever she needs to (to both the leader and Three Earrings) to get out of this-)
(OOC: Okay, so I'm getting a consensus that you want to agree to carry the message, that you're going to pretend to agree to kill this hunter, but probably not going to follow up on that. Are you going to go back up to the ship, or offer the sahuagin something to take you to the shore?)
(OOC: If our orc friend thinks returning empty handed is a bad idea I would agree - but I don’t think we have anything the sahuagin want)
(OOC: I don’t know what we could offer that she might want.)
We want to bring your message to the most powerful ears we can find. Unfortunately, we are limited in our ability to travel quickly in the water. Our goals are aligned, but we need your help. What can we offer you besides our offer of parlay with the other surface dwellers?
I saw one of you consuming a magical potion, I think. One that healed you? I would accept one such item, as payment for taking you to shore.
Out of curiosity, how valuable would knowledge of how to make such things be?
Our shamans know how to make these. It is simply that the resources required are costly, and difficult for us to obtain at times.
That seems a fair trade. I used mine. Which of us still has one?
(OOC: I think everyone drank theirs...)
(OOC: If so, then what else do you have...?)
(OOC: The most valuable thing Silent has to offer is probably his Port Damali Skyport Souvenir LOL)
(I have the spear. Would she want that?)