TLA Anno 6
Penk: “Okay, fine, we won’t kill Byron OR Frigg! See, I can compromise!”
Syr’Nj, via FB: “Look, defying a leader of your people who’s also sort of your father figure isn’t so hard! Just do what I did: gradually escalate your war of words with him until you’re saying horrible stuff that no ‘promoter of peace’ should ever say and then wait for some rando to shoot him in the skull, ending any chance of reconciliation! I… I may have some lingering issues there.”
Penk is most anxious about how Harky will take this, because clearly that’s the most important issue. But he’s also under pressure from the troll race, the whole World’s Rebellion, and even some of his colleagues, especially Goblaurence. Auraugu trusts Penk and is generally up for whatever, but he was just fine with killin’ all humans until coming to this mountain. So maybe Penk needs to provoke this argument, just so Goblaurence and Auraugu can hear voices other than his make the case for moderation.
I love Goblaurence. Just the right amount of cynical.
You know, Syr’nj could have pointed out it out that it wasn’t humans that killed her father at any time but she’s not one to use personal tragedy to prove a point… Or maybe she should have if Penk still can’t tell between vengeance and justice as Harky clearly cannot.
I find it very understandable that Penk raises the concerns he does here, but in contrast to the stuff he said the evening before, it does sound rather …trollish. The last bit of the previous page and the first half of this one seem to be rather out of tone with the rest. “yes, we shall make peace between everyone, and it’s the Gastonian leaders which are the problem here — oh, but we’ll still eradicate humanity, right? Just for fun”
If he were arguing about conquering Gastonia and establishing Trollish rule, or “taking back the land that’s rightfully ours” or something, i.e. frontal military assault, and subjugating all of Gastonia and more or less moving humans into the sort of role currently held by other “disadvantaged” minorities — that would still be reason enough for Syr’Nj to object, and to have a fierce discussion about. Goblaurence getting miffed, on the other hand, is a lot more believable. He seemed to be happy enough about the Wood Elves’ “good stuff”, but has otherwise not given me the impression to care too much about peace love and harmony.