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The Trees
To be entirely fair, there are indeed a few remnant blasted stumps of gnarled and splintered wood, stubbornly rooted in the crump holes and bomb craters of this wasteland. However, you have a feeling these are not the entities to which Olaefyr the Druid is lovingly lavishing his attentions.
You observe that both Olaefyr and Annalena are wearing snugly fitted gas masks.
>Try to persuade Olaefyr the Druid to give you Annalena's gas mask. But how would you attempt this? (write-in a speech)
>Try to challenge Olaefyr and show that he has strayed from the way of the druids:
>Those are not trees. It is just barbed wire and broken stumps
>You fool, Annalena is a dead goat skull. Everyone in this Dead Land is dead. As you will be, soon! Give me that gas mask now!
>Maybe... I can help you water these "trees"? I can help you restore the "forest"? (QM: one should always acquiesce to the whims of a madman)
>Praise Annalena'a beauty: I have never beheld a more... ravishing, dainty and beauteous goat. The concupiscent pulchritude of her charms would be far better situated, were she not wearing that ghastly mask...
>Tell me of the Stars, this Fallen Freedom. Why do you follow this and not the gods of the druids?
>Attempt to debate theodicy: If your druid gods are so good and kind... why do they permit evil? Why do they permit war?
The druid is clearly demented and malevolent. You must attempt this from the opposite direction
>If your druid gods are so evil, why do they permit goodness? Why are there any good people left alive and in tranquility and bliss at all?
>Some other topic / line of argument? Write in etc.
You have no time left for any of this. You need that gas mask now, or you will choke to death! How convenient of you to have one bullet left in your gun:
>Just shoot this stupid druid and take his stupid gas mask. No roll required, he appears to be utterly defenceless and unarmed. Though there does seem to be a strange circle of burnt wooden planks surrounding him...
