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[h2][color=FF6C5C][i][b]Marita Bärbel[/b][/i][/color][/h2][i][b][color=FF6C5C]Human, Cleric, Level 3[/color][/b][/i]
[color=FF6C5C][i][b]HP:[/b][/i][/color] 18/18	[color=FF6C5C][i][b]Armor Class:[/b][/i][/color] 18	[color=FF6C5C][i][b]Conditions:[/b][/i][/color] N/A
[color=FF6C5C][i][b]Location:[/b][/i][/color] Public House
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Marita stepped away and sat herself at the table with the others. If nothing else, the hug seemed to work well enough. It also made finding the right words a lot easier, counterintuitively enough. Briefly she considered potentially adding it to her social toolbox for use in the future, but quickly discarded the idea. Doing it the one time in this dire a situation required her to muster up a lot of energy and swallow her pride enough to lower her guard, it would be almost unthinkable to do such a thing in a more casual situation. The fact that she even considered it in the first was somewhat suspect. Perhaps like a mindflayer's psychic attacks, Kosara emitted an aura that altered the subconscious of those around her. Terrifying. Still, it felt... nice. Unfortunately, that was all the time she could spare on sentimentality; it was time to get back to business.

[color=FF6C5C]"Hmm? You mean when I made him drop his hammer? It's more or less the same as any of the other miracles I perform. I thought I explained this before, but maybe it wasn't detailed enough. My training and faith allow me to channel divine authority through my voice. Usually I use keyed phrases, gestures, material components or some combination thereof to guide it into the form similar to what others call spells, but I can also do it 'raw' so to speak. Essentially I can speak with the power of Order itself behind my words, which makes it much harder to disobey. Simply put, all I did was tell him to stop and he had to listen."[/color] Even if she had explained before, Blackberry wasn't there at the time, so it wouldn't hurt for him to know what he was dealing with. She just hoped that her explanation would be adequate. The mechanics of the arcane and divine were often lost on those not already in the know and it could be an ordeal and a half to get them to understand.

[color=FF6C5C]"As for planning our course of actions. After our break, I'd like to get my mace back from Mallard. His store is an already defensible place, but I doubt he'd be willing to have us plus guests holed up for the night. I think we could probably leave him where he is and he'll be fine. I would like at least one other person with me for this so that there's nobody traveling alone."[/color] She thought for a bit before leaning forward, resting her elbows on the table.

[color=FF6C5C]"I think it would be best to spend the night at camp. I don't think it's a known location, so if we're lucky, we might be able to spend the entire night undetected. We're short on manpower so I don't think we'd be capable of reasonably taking any meaningful action tonight without putting ourselves at risk. Trying to accomplish two tasks simultaneously often leads to failing at both when you could have succeeded at one. To that end, I'd like to perhaps get ahead of myself and propose what we should be focusing on tomorrow."[/color] The cleric held up three fingers.

[color=FF6C5C]"Assuming none of these questions are answered for us ahead of time: first, who's really been pulling the strings of this whole fiasco. Second, what is it that they want out of this. And lastly, what are the resources at their disposal. Right now we're working with too many unknown variables to come up with a [i]reasonable[/i] strategy for offense. If we can discover the answer for even two-thirds of these questions, we'll be in much better shape to do something about this situation."[/color]