Chirs2 wrote:Virgil says a silent prayer to Stolgar, to help him save innocent lives.
Virgil barks, "LIEUTENANT Dan! COLONEL Cole! I don't give a rat's (indicating Neraka) fuzzy ass about a bargain you might have made with these "dark ones." You swore an Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America. Do you remember?
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
If your families are already dead, then their blood is on your treasonous hands. You betrayed your family when you broke your Oath to this country and its people. I too have served. I still do." Virgil taps the tin star on his armored jacket.
"The "dark ones" attacked Pestilence. We beat them back and saved the city. We have killed an alien disguised as a cabin in the woods. And we mean to drive these bastards off our planet."
Virgil watches Warpath digging their graves, "You have betrayed your brothers and committed heinous crimes against your country. Your families, however, are innocent. Serve your country one last time in death. Tell me what you know."
Virgil kneels down in front of the prisoners. He removes his hat and takes off his mask, so he can look at them on their level, eye to eye, man to man, "I promise you this - if you tell me where to find your families, I will do everything in my power to save them. "
Diplomacy?
Roll(1d20)+-1:
4,+-1
Total:3
Heroic Mein - reroll 1\day
Roll(1d20)+-1:
15,+-1
Total:14
**Oath of Enlistment: (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789)
Colonel Cole leans back and lets loose a long and hearty bout of laughter. "Ho, ho! That's too much," he says finally. "You killed an alien disguised as a cabin, you say? Tee-he! And you beat back the dark ones from your city? Was it from comedy that you ran them out? Certainly you have a knack in that regard, ha!"
Lt. Dan eyes him quizzically. He had seemed as if he wanted to say something, but Col. Cole's laughter shut him up quick.
The Colonel continues, once again resuming his stoic demeanor, "You give a good speech, sir, no doubt about it. I can see why the townies made you their lawman. But you presume too much! An oath was indeed made, but it was to the Confederate constitution! We are members of the 53rd Company out of Georgia. When the war ended, we thought we might live in peace. But the Yanks, and their carpet-bagged stooges, came around. They called us rebels and promoted their Ironclad Oath. That was the time many of us saw the need to relocate to freer territories.
"We've been living off the land in this here range for many years. We take whatever we please. Time and again, the feds have sent marshals and bounty hunters, but we killed them all. Then it was, that the the dark ones approached us. Their power is immense! No one can resist their will. Their influence is far deeper and wider than you can imagine.
"For this occasion, their orders were that no injuns must return alive to their village. The dark ones have plans for them, you see. And we were ordered to kill anyone else who traveled with them. They have been watching you for some time, I know. They forbade us to take prisoners or for ourselves to be taken prisoner. Our families' lives would be forfeit, they said.
"And now, you succeeded in capturing us. Well played sirs, but the dark ones are likely using us as fodder. Bait... to see how you might react. They have been studying your tactics, and soon they will discover your weakness. I don't reckin' you'll keep us alive after what we've done. Yet, it is better to die by your hands then in the horrific dungeons of the dark ones!"
Then Warpath steps up and punches the Colonel in the mouth. "Shut up! I've had enough of your chatter!" He grabs him by the scruff of his shirt, intending to drag the prisoner over to the freshly dug hole.