The pain of her hair being pulled and the precarious manner which her neck was drawn made her reply come in a hiss, but Esgalwen would not die without challenge.

"It takes a cruel heart to cut a throat - especially of someone who is defenseless - and by your tremble, I know you question this deed. No matter, should you make this choice, you will soon follow me beyond the pale for certain both our ears hear tale of the fate of your friends."

Esgalwen stared hard at her would-be killer with defiance in her eyes.

Gwaithlim, quietly and yet firmly take hold of the man and woman, and guide them to open door of the hut.  "Let us see what your 'lord' has wrought this day for we came not seeking blood and steel yet were greeted by it."


 

Awe (f) -  1d12 : 1, total 1
Rolled 2d6 : 3, 2, total 5

Use a Hope if necessary.

For narrative reasons, I'm going to assume that he's addressing the people outside, because nobody has yet entered the farmhouse.  Who wants to be the first?

  looks like mean Hathcyn isnt favoured by the dice gods.

Hathcyn now turned his attention to the others.

"Had he not have aided pillagers and thieves his fate would have been different."

The longspear was drawn from the body of the warrior no longer pinning him to the ground.

"You have a choice here. Release the woman and tell the council on whose orders you abducted her. Or something more foolish. My choice will then be to varnish this dirt floor with your blood or drag you to the river and  ask Duskshadow to keep you alive in the muddy cold bottom while the black trout feast on your body slowly eating you until you settle into a watery grave and your watery screams heard by no one."

  Awe to intimidate

With a sickening crack, Hathcyn's spear brasts apart mail and bone to sink to the crossguard into the man's breast, the force of the blow knocking the dying man to the ground where the Longspear, teeth bared and knuckles white on the spear-haft, watches him gasp his last few breaths.  Behind him, the screaming woman rushes to the side of the young bowman, cradling his head in her hands and crying again and again "Avargis!  My boy!  My child!". 

The man, as clearly the youth's father as the woman is his mother, fixes Gwaithlim with a flint-hard look.  "No great warrior am I, to stand against the likes of you.  Take your people and go, and know that you have wrought a great evil this day!" 

Within the house, heedless of the man's words, Esgalwen's captor takes a fistful of her hair and wrenches back her head, exposing her throat to a knife held in trembling hands. 


That is indeed a Misdeed, though I'm going to consider it 'unprovoked aggression' rather than 'murder', so Hathcyn only gains four points of Shadow () and isn't Miserable.  The accumulated Shadow gain has, however, triggered another Revelation episode, the effect of which might take a while to become apparent. 

  hahaha  fitting. In this case maybe its a success and a shadow point?

I guess even without it that will be a hit.

The cloaked figure seeing his doom near at hand attempted to flee and the Longspear was fast on his heels.

"Not so fast servant of the false king!"

A wrath was on the Beorning and he was in a fey and dangerous mood.

"Not with impunity shall you flee to strike my folk again or trouble this land. For the Folk of Beorn, for your insult to the fair Duskshadow, and not least of all for your seizure of Ætheldreám and violation of the status of Herald. The judgement of Hathcyn of the Greenstone Land. Death."

Without hesitation and with quick bounds the fox with the hare in his reach would not loosen his grip on the query. The Longspear stabbed.

Ooc:
Open stance

  This may mean a shadow point, but I think it bears out in terms of story. Think their may be some shades of the Mel Gibson Patriot Ambush scene.

Hathcyn will pursue, I'll have a post up about.