>>5452565>20Azonia is skilled, and strong, and ALTOGETEHR too fast for your liking as her opponent. You have to admit it: she may be the better combatant in terms of raw melee ability, between the two of you. You remind yourself, facing this tiny-but-deadly opponent, that size and strength to not mean everything. After all, did YOU not defeat the Devourer and Shoggoth, as the Duelist pointed out? Were THEY not larger than you? What Azonia lacks, though, is the experience of battling a wide variety of anatomies. The tail catches her completely off-guard, in a way that none of your own race would ever be so easily surprised. Unable to slow herself, her own force is added to the impact of your casual twisting motion, knocking her flat onto her back and bloodying her nose.
“You slimy son of a—EEP!”
You cut the Drow’s slanderous cursing short by slamming your shoggoth-sword down into the stone beside her head with enough force to crack the surface, sending a spray of dust and gravel into her face. She coughs, and squints her eyes against it. She is unable to hide the frightened flinch which accompanies this near-death experience.
“…I yield.”
A mix of cheers and groans—but mostly cheers—goes up. It seems the poor elves of Wevenore are, by and large, happy enough to see someone so flummox a prince’s pet soldier, even a strange foreign champion such as you. Your reputation among them grows.
It looks as if you’ll be visiting the Queen first.
Azonia avoids your eyes, and everyone else’s. She starts to help herself up, and to wipe the blood from her face… But she is clearly still disoriented, maybe even concussed.
What do you do?
>Help her up, and then depart—your business here is concluded>Compliment Azonia’s efforts, and her skill with the blade—maybe she could give you lessons sometime?>Mock Azonia, and leave her where she lies—let this be a lesson in humility>Pressure Azonia to convert—publicly, vocally, before a crowd and a representative of her own house—to the True Faith>Slay Azonia—she’s too cheeky by half, and she annoys you>Write-inWho will you bring to the meeting with Myrymma of Yvonlace?
>The Throat-singer>Ivno the Kobold>Olu the Archer>Hamaraska the Lancer>Someone else?>Nobody—this will be a private meeting of leaders 