Ravens are sweet year-round!

CUH-CAW!

...I'm sorry.  I am.

I guess that's game over... had a feeling with this one

NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

It doesn't have to be.  You have been presented with an option.

I mean, the torture isn't that b- . . . I mean you can still fi- . . . I mean . . . Blade maaaaaaaam!

This may not be exactly right, but I imagine Aranwen's bladesong in this chamber to be similar to this:

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Love the theme. 

Cheese.  You guys are making me feel like a real heel, here. 

*rolling a new character*

It's a quandry, I get that.  how can you trust an evil priest that you won't be harmed?  Then again, what does he have to gain by lying to you?  He has the clear advantage here. 

Then again, his boss is a sicko torture expert, so he could just be screwing with you.  And who willingly surrenders here?  Tough call, I feel you.

Aside: Midge is dead.  He was badly hurt and burned up life force casting beyond his capacity in an effort to save y'all.  He's at negative HP, and HP lost by doing what he did cannot be magically regained.  He'd need an immediate heal spell to stabalize him, and that's not going to happen in time. 

He did understand what he was doing, whcih is why I gave him a final line.  I know, nobody really mourns what has essentially been an NPC, but there it is. 

Don't listen to the evil DM! The deathlovers are in trouble and worried. Why else would they have offered to let us live? 

We hardly knew ye.

If Aranwen wants to die here in honor and glory, I'm not going to stop her.  Or blame her.  Better here than as a sacrifice, I see that line of thinking. 

Maybe she's just healous that everybody else gets to be a ghoul but her.

LEAVE MY MOM ALONE!!!

Go away right now, kid.  The grownups are talking.