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"Dolp sends hill giants and others against Crescent Valley. They attack, plunder, capture, and eat halflings.To underscore that point, earth elemental Murphy gives one of the chests a shove toward the door, it coming to rest at about W17 or X17, providing Alleah a bit of cover perhaps, should the need arise, and also being close enough that perhaps Pressi or another can grab the contents. He knows that Kezzem has a handy haversack, so can carry a fair amount of the contents acquired, if not all of them. The rolls of leathery material he has some dark suspicions as to whose skin it may be. He has no available pockets, and likely soon will be again traveling through stone, so leaves it to his companions to take these as evidence against the giants - but indicates someone else should grab them.
"Hrapin and Krusk watched over a halfling roasting on a spit. Hrapin and Krusk are now dead.
"Gurtha struck a halfling on the head with a hammer, calling him 'food.' Beatrix also attacked. Gurtha and Beatrix are now dead.
"Thom and Jherry tried to kill the halflings. Thom and Jherry are dead.
"The halflings came to deal with Dolp. Dolp promised to eat one of this group. Dolp attacked the halflings. Dolp is dead.
"Do you see a pattern here?
"Are you a giant? Do you attack halflings? You will die.
"Do you plunder us? We plunder you."
"It is not healthy to attack halflings anymore.In halfling he says, "Shel, be ready to roast them if they attack."
"By the way - did you know that Hairshirt plots against the hill giants? He considers you his tool, to be used, then discarded.
"Tell your people: Leave the halflings alone. Leave Crescent Valley alone. Because, if you do not, war will leave many, many of you dead. And you will never rule the valley. It is not yours."
"We go, you remain."Readied action, should only one try to attack us, call lightning upon that individual attacker, or upon Jances if she is among the attackers. [If a hero point is necessary to do this, then he will expend it. - DM may roll 3d6, DC17]
"I have seen an ogre have halfling friends. I have worked with giants. Rather than trying to harm or take advantage of the other, there is mutual respect, and mutual help. I can tell by your use of the word 'pipsqueaks' that mutual respect is not yet in your mind, as though size determines merit.Once Pressi is done saying whatever she may have to say, he adds, "We will leave you here in this room. On the way out we will cast a few spells. It should be safe for you to leave this room after an hour. Think things over." He sets down with a solid clink the bag (or bags) filled with half of the silver off to one side, escorts orc-Pressi out the room, shuts the door.
"Of course you feel angry toward us. You think we violated your rights. However, seeing that your people kill and eat halfling kind, of course THEY are angry with you giants who do such, who support such. The right to life for the innocent should not be violated. Hill giants and ogres are guilty of that as regards the small ones.
"Through trade, giants and little ones could help each other. The halflings are excellent farmers. Are you giants good at farming? Yet, like as not, there are good things you could trade for with them for the food they grow. Maybe some of you could learn to farm well, too.
"But, if you think you can walk into halfling lands and kill and feast on them - those verdant lands would become as barren as the valley outside this cave has become, if you had your way. But, as we have demonstrated today, we and many many others will never allow that to come to pass.
"If all you understand is force, then we can speak that language. But, if you can be smarter than that, wiser than that - then, who knows - with mutual respect, perhaps those as large as you, and as small as my friends, could find a way to help each other, rather than kill each other. Eating sentient beings is evil. Stop doing that.
"Gold? Giants plunder our people. We want you to taste what that is like. No gold we leave. Half of the silver, though - you may keep. As a token that, at present, our goal is not to wipe your people out. However, if you feel some pain at loss, if you can find it in your soul to pity your own loss - loss of loved ones, loss of treasure, perhaps you may realize that you are causing similar pain to the 'pipsqueaks' you and your kind plan war against. Is there any possibility in the Wold that any one of you could find it in your heart to pity the poor family of the halfling your cooks have roasted, and perhaps some of you have eaten?
"We will give you time to think. Will your thoughts be limited to the notion of revenge? Remember - Dolp and his people started this against the sort of people I am with. They consider this justice, and a warning. Will any of you think higher thoughts than vengeance? Such as pity, kindness, forgiveness, love of someone other than your own kind? I doubt it. But one can always engage in wishful thinking."
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