Ren, what in the nine hells is wrong with you?! It was five to three in our favor, and you freed their leader?! Don’t you want to win?

And then, to top it off, you charge in to battle and leave her unattended?! She at least has the good strategic sense to take the leader hostage. I’m glad she hasn’t killed me. But why…?
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The gnolls seem to have fallen for my ploy. Telling them this was all a test seemed the only way to explain why we attacked them and then stopped fighting as soon as they had us on the ropes.

Now that was a clever bit of bluffing! I particularly liked the part where I turned my back on those looming gnolls and their raised flails and stepped over their prone leader. You could practically hear their jaws hitting the ground. Hah! If I must die in the middle of nowhere, let me at least die with style!
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Bloody hell, I just got fucking branded! What the fuck?! How the fuck do we keep ending up in these bloody ridiculous fucking situations?! Rrrrrrrrrgggh, gods damn it, that hurts!

Fuck fuck bloody fuckity fuck. Well, on the plus side, they should trust us now. They’d better fucking trust us now… All we need is that fucking box. Gods, I hope Narcel’Uss doesn’t wander in and fuck this up. I don’t care about her musty old god. But how do I convince her of that, now that I’ve claimed to be its champion?

And why in the bloody hells was that gnoll war leader helping us? She knew our whole plan. It must have been pretty obvious to her that we were no champions of Nurzhan. Is there some sort of schism between her and the priest? Is she just trying to pay Ren back for her strange honorable gesture? We’ll have to see what we can learn from her.