<span style="font-weight: bold">Arcana Check 1 (1d20 + 2): 2 + 2 = 4</span><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Arcana Check 2 (1d20 + 2): 19 + 2 = 21</span><br/><br/>The appearance of the Elemental girl was a rather strange turn of events, and Marrok had to suppress a laugh when she immediately spurned Yula's attempts at gaining it's assistance. His mirth was swiftly quelled by the rather arrogant and obnoxious nature of the Elemental, and the realization that since Yula and company had been trying to summon her and bind her, she'd likely be exceptionally dangerous. Which meant they either had to convince her to not eat anyone and then dispose of her<span style="font-style: italic">later</span>, or do it now, which seemed like a bad idea with everyone injured and worn out from the earlier battles. He glanced at Nairen, making sure the catboy wasn't doing anything, before turning his eyes back towards the interior of the tavern and keeping silent as he watched Saraphina attempt to handle things more diplomatically. He was rather poor at such things - his form of diplomacy was rather quite hostile and from what little he knew of Earth elementals, he was aware that those associated with such precious metals were especially egotistical, and it was<span style="font-style: italic">painfully</span>obvious that 'Goldie' was associated with gold and thusly one of those such beings. Intimidating such arrogant creatures probably didn't work so well, he figured - it would be very hard to convince something with such a high opinion of itself that it was inferior to a mere mortal.<br/><br/>When Saraphina mentioned the fox from before he leapt to the task - stopping people was something he was far more physically capable of than attempting to talk down elementals, quickly calling out "I'm on it!"<br/><br/>Marrok cast a glance at Nairen that suggested he not try anything funny which was followed by a small gesture towards the archers in the distance to emphasize his point on why trying to attack or flee might be a poor idea. His point made, the wolf takes a long (but safer) route around the catboy so he can see around the corner, then rushes over to where one of his troops has the fox in question pinned down quite well, and smirks a bit at the sight.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Marrok uses a double-move (both runs), moving around Nairen (J8-K9-K10-K11-J12), then his second move action takes him to to F16 (by way of I13-H14-G15-F16)</span><br/><br/>"Good catch, soldier!" he says, patting the leopard on the back before turning his attention to the pinned fox. "If you don't want to end up in a belly yourself, you'll free that elf from your gut. We'd like to question her, you see, but if you don't let her out or should she have expired already, well, I simply have no reason to stop my man here from doing with you as he pleases. Cooperate, however, and perhaps I'll reward his efforts with one of your<span style="font-style: italic">other</span>unfortunate comrades instead."<br/><br/>He grins slowly. "It's your call, really. But it's not much of a choice because there's only one option that isn't guaranteed to end with you taking a nice long tour of someone's insides."<br/><br/>It was a lie of course, Saraphina had requested the fox alive as well, but the fox didn't need to know that and he was pretty sure she was pretty expendable anyways. After all, anything she knew was likely known by Yula or Nairen.