Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5583506-20160907220147/@comment-5583506-20160911220722

"The Dominion was destroyed though", sighed Ran. "Everything was destroyed." He grinded his teeth in restrained anger. He felt like killing something. Something that wasn't a Beast for once. "What kind of mentally challenged invididuals would have come up with the end of the world? Why? All these deaths... all the bigotry... all the destruction... Who won? No one, save for those..." He struggled to find the words. "... titanic, fucking creatures preying on what remains of mankind, beaten to shit into the ground."

He looked down on his right hand, its knuckles bleeding. His remaining arm was trembling. He was furious. It felt as if he had been cheated through his entire life. He had placed his hatred and his suspicions on mother nature for being the cause of the Beasts, themselves being the cause for the many deaths that had befallen to friends and loved ones. Nature was indifferent and therefore killed indifferently, thus there was no reason to hate on it. It was simply life.

But now the knowledge had surfaced that the reason why so many people in his lifetime had died, fighting for a cause against a force of unknown origins, was because the source in fact stemmed from mankind itself. Mankind had been its own enemy all the time. And this time, its destruction had been unable to contain itself.

"We fought to protect a world in ruins. A world we didn't even know we were responsible for creating." He could feel the rage swell up inside him. He felt like shouting at someone, to curse someone, to punch, maybe even kill someone. He had never felt such hatred in his entire life, and he wasn't all too sure whether he liked this newly discovered side of him.

He lowered his arm quickly, afraid of what he might do if anyone came to close. Maybe he would unknowingly take out his rage on Raini?

''Gods forbid... May they strike me down this very instant if I did.''

Ran'Jinro breathed out heavily. "There is nothing left", he said in lamentation. "Everything is gone." He looked up at the group around him. "Everyone. Friends of old and friends back from the day we first met at Kilkreath. I am proud of you all. In my eyes you are the finest the Beast Slayers have to offer."

He lowered his gaze. "Yet there is a time when one must make true and rightful decisions, even if they mean being selfish. In this case, as leader of this assignment, I hereby dismiss this group."

Swift furrowed his eyebrows. "What?"

"You heard me. From this moment onward, it's everyone for themselves. Knowing now that the source of the Beasts dates back to long before our great great grandfathers were even a glimpse in the eyes of their peers, it seems unlikely that we will ever be able to stop them. Thus I hereby forfeit this group's assignment."

Myrdana looked shooked, but said nothing.

"You are free to make your own decision from herenow on", he said. "Dive Rock is still far away and the Wilderness is teeming with all matter of Beasts, but if you remain resolute, I have no doubts that you will be able to find your way back there, should you want to."

He rubbed his aching stump. "I am only half a man, and I know that trying to go back would mean the death of me. I can't kill Beasts with one arm, and I haven't got the time to learn how to. Therefore I will continue this mission alone. Those of you who wants to follow may do so, but know that I go forth fully aware that there is no return. Should you want to abandon mission and try to return to Fort Slayer, I bear you no ill will and wish you good luck. Gods knows that I might have done the same had I been complete."

He looked out over the group. "I leave this decision to each and everyone of you individually; go forth... or go back..."