<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk101/princess_peach_1_1_1/AnimeDarkMage.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Senadra<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Fire Pit - Old Bastion Keep<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Generally everyone<br/><strong>Notable Content:</strong>Calling out some perceived poor decisions<br/><hr/><br/>Well, Senadra was certainly glad that someone was finally stepping up and taking charge.  She already knew she wouldn't make good leadership material from the start, so it was really a matter of waiting for someone to step up to the task.  Now that someone had, it seemed like the ball was finally going to get rolling.  She was getting a bit weary of finding things to keep herself occupied.  For the past couple of days, she couldn't really fault those who took it lazily, given what she understood of the situation.  But now that things were picking up speed, that would be changing.<br/><br/>As the first couple of people responding mentioned using a few systems for safety and discovery, she found herself nodding in agreement.  Those were solid ideas, sharing information would benefit everyone, as would staying within line of vision and/or sound of at least one or two other groups in case of trouble.  It was a solid strategy, and would help make sure more people wound up surviving this first outing.  It was certainly an idea she could get behind, and she was wholly willing to participate in it.<br/><br/>That it, until a couple of the warriors piped up.  Well, one of them wasn't<em>too</em>bad she supposed, but the blonde one had really stood out as making a very stupid statement to her mind.  She didn't hesitate to set down her eating utensils, stand up, and add her own two cents.  "No guts, no glory, eh?  Well...I guess that's true.  Glory seekers making bad choices do tend to wind up with their guts spilled everywhere.  The problem with your half-baked idea is that we don't know what the lesser monsters will even be truly capable of, much less the biggest and baddest you so blindly want to challenge.  Even if we have written information from other people, who's to say it's accurate, or even complete?  You're just going to get yourself, and very likely your team, killed with that kind of approach."  She huffed and shook her head, hardly believing she felt compelled to chew someone out this early on.<br/><br/>She then paused for a moment before continuing.  "Don't misunderstand me.  I have nothing against taking some risk here to earn some money, and get some knowledge of the surrounding area.  I can certainly respect those who want to act as a shield for others, as well.  But only a fool would discount the fact that any and every monster we encounter could easily kill us until proven otherwise.  We should band roughly together, as was already suggested, and not stick our necks out too far away from this temporary home.  Off the beaten path should be okay as long as someone can see or hear the group exploring in that manner, but I'd much rather we gain some more information on the tougher monsters before we try fully engaging them in battle.  Start smaller, and build our way up to taking on nastier things."  She glanced directly at Zephyria as she made her next statement.  "I reiterate.  Taking on the toughest things out there right out the gate gets people killed, and I expect that would weaken our group as a whole.  I don't speak for everyone else, but in my eyes....any sort of loss in that vein is unacceptable.  I'd sooner be hungry for an extra day or two than know someone got themselves killed by crossing the fine line that stands between bravery and stupidity."<br/><br/>At that point, Senadra seated herself again and sighed.  It likely came across as harsh words, but she just didn't want to see any of the people gathered here put six feet under.  As she picked up her eating utensils to finish her meal, she shook her head again.  Part of her wondered if any of what she was trying to convey actually got through to anyone.  She had no doubts there would be those present who might view her in a negative light now...but if that was what it took to keep everyone alive via overriding tunnel vision to glory and riches with some common sense, then she would shoulder that burden of being disliked.  Or possibly even hated.  Though that might make things a little trickier when it came to finding a group.