Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-7262318-20190815003529/@comment-7262318-20190817042217

"I beg your pardon?" Dalacon went wide-eyed at Vander's statement, glancing back at the others. "You let half of them walk? Where's their leader?"

"Dead," Vordel nodded to Falvius' corpse.

"Then who's this?" He gestured to Teloth.

"I was their second in command," Teloth responded

"And they are..." Dalacon gestured to the naked people standing by the gate.

"They were wolves... until our holy child here cured them..." Kaz informed him.

Dalacon glanced around, a visible look of dissapointment and frustration growing on his face. "You better have a very, very good reason that you allowed Lyncanthropes to walk freely from this place. The very same lyncanthropes that have, over the course of many months, murdered and pillaged many passerbyes on the road..."

"Well... many of them were unwitting henchman in Falvius' plan... We did not wish to kill them but we could not move them all back to Dawnstar... Teloth offered to take them back into the wilds so that he may help them stave off Falvius' influence, but..."

"But now he's here..." Dalacon gestured to Teloth. "So now there is werewolves roaming through these lands still?"

"... Yes..." Utahsi murmured.

Dalacon put his hands in his palms. "Damn it... how reckless and irresponsible could you possibly be? Letting werewolves-"

"They were not responsible," Teloth interjected. "It was the orders of Falvius that they followed. Please, they're not evil-"

"But they are easily manipulated and have a taste for flesh, do they not?" Dalacon said.

"They're afraid... they'll hide in caves and stick to the forests..." Teloth said.

Dalacon glared harshly at the 2nd in command, before glancing around at the battlefield that was aligned with werewolf corpses and blood. His anger dissipated for a moment before he asked. "How many of them got away?"

"Very few," Kaz informed him. "No more than a fraction of what they had beforehand..."

Dalacon moved over to the corpse, looking over the ritual scarrings and pain and the stumped-limb. "I will send word to the Fighters Guild. Ask them to comb the area for any werewolves left here..."

"They're not savages," Teloth said.

"If they're not, then they'll submit and be taken in to be cured. If they are killers, then the Fighters Guild will deal with them," Dalacon decided, sighing.

"We just... we wanted them to have a second chance. They were taking orders and fed propaganda in a cult of personality," Utashi explained.

"I understand, Utahsi... Believe me, I understand," Dalacon said, his anger subsiding. "But that is still very irresponsible of you all. Your hearts might be in the right place, but that does not excuse you from doing the right thing. You should have had them all cured. If they are not as tame as our Werewolf friend here says, the havoc they cause will be on you..."

"Sorry, Dalacon..." Utahsi bowed his head, backing away.

"... Still, you did kill the man behind it all and cured most of them... you've avenged many, if not all, of the lives lost... You did well," Dalacon said, taking another breath. "Learn from this."

He shook his head. "Now... anything else I should know?"