Lethal Shots

The following exchange is what I imagined happening between the gnolls in the Wetlands yesterday when I strolled into the middle of their camp on my Shaman to pick some Briarthorn while leveling his Herbalism. I was giggling to myself so much I decided it might be worth sharing.

Gnoll 1: Hey, look over there. Some guy just walked into our camp.

Gnoll 2: Huh? Where?

Cnoll 1: Over there, right next to Carl.

Gnoll 2: Oh yeah, I see him now.

Gnoll 1: He looks awful familiar…..

Gnoll 2: That’s the same guy that keeps riding by on an elephant.

Gnoll 1: What’s he doing?

Gnoll 2: Um, it looks like he’s picking a flower.

Gnoll 1: Why isn’t Carl hitting him with a club or something?

Gnoll 2: Well, I think Carl is doing his best to pretend the guy doesn’t exist.

Gnoll 1: Come on, lets beat the guy up.

Gnoll 2: Um, I think Carl has the right idea. The guy is minding his own business, so lets just leave him alone.

Gnoll 1: Leave him alone? But we always beat up people who come in our camp.

Gnoll 2: Look, I just don’t think it’s a good idea.

Gnoll 1: Why not?

Gnoll 2: Cause this guy is not the typical adventurer we see around here. I mean look at him. He’s huge. And one of his daggers is encased in fire! I mean do you really think its smart to mess with a guy walking around with a dagger encased in fire?

Gnoll 1: Well, granted it might be a tougher fight than usual doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

Gnoll 2: Try? Sure, go ahead and try. You can end up like that crocolisk over there. He copped a bad attitude with the guy and now I now you can’t even count the pieces.

Gnoll 1: Yeah, but we’re a lot tougher than a crocolisk.

Gnoll 2: Did you not see what happened to Steve when he accidentally bumped into the guy yesterday? The guy’s dagger cut poor Steve in half, and it was just hanging on the guys belt!

Gnoll 1: So why don’t we go get even?

Gnoll 2: Nope. I’m going to do just like Carl and pretend the guy doesn’t even exist.

Gnoll 1: Come on, we can’t do that. Everyone will laugh at us if we don’t try and take him.

Gnoll 2: Fuck that. Let everyone laugh, at least we’ll still be alive. Just let the god damn hippie pick his fucking flower and get out of here. If you really feel like beating some one up after he leaves we’ll just gank that level 20 mage wandering around over there.