Shanna shrugged, as if the question was of secondary importance. "It was a figure of speech," she said, pausing to kneel and adjust her thighhighs. Her skirt was too short to keep her crotch or buttcheeks covered in any position other than standing fully straight, but out here she didn't care -- and Cyprus had already seen all of her anyway. "Besides, does it matter? I'm not likely to get killed anytime soon," she added with a smug shit-eating grin -- it would probably be easier to list the moments where Shanna was no wearing some kind of smug, shit-eating expression, in or out of the ring.<br/><br/>Her eyes narrowed when Cyprus pointed out the approaching pair under the heat haze of the late morning sun.<br/><br/>"Damn," Shanna said. "You're totally right. I should've robbed the Imperial harem for clothes before leaving." While that last was just to mess with Cyprus, Shanna knew he was right to suggest she be wary. Out here in the wasteland, it was every man and woman for themselves. Caravans robbed dying traders for their food and dumped the old and infirm to save water. There were reasons people choose the tyranny of the Sorceror-Kings.<br/><br/>But she was Shanna the She-Devil, and she did not just 'go around' two random people coming down the road. What kind of way was that to start off a world-saving quest, anyway? She had faced down lions, mutant beasts, convicts who chose to test their luck against her rather than face the noose, trained men and handpicked champions of the Sorceror-King's favored courtiers. She was pretty confident she could take two wastelanders, even without her armor.<br/><br/>"I could try killing them," she echoed in a completely serious and very enthusiastic voice. Yes, Cyprus was being sarcastic again, but Shanna had her own take on the matter. "That'll give me<em>all </em>their gold<em>and </em>their clothes, too. And if they threaten a poor, vulnerable young woman in the desert sands --" she splayed four fingers over the deep valley of her cleavage, glistening with sweat, in a thoroughly unconvincing pantomime of some innocent village maiden -- "and get killed for it, well, that won't be murder at all, will it? It'll be self-defense."<br/><br/>And thus with an innocent grin on her face, Shanna continued strolling down the desert path as though nothing at all was wrong -- though she did keep a wary eye on the approaching figures and a hand on the hilt of her sword, and tugged down her too-short skirt with the other to make sure her panties were adequately covered.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character Sheet</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Shanna (https://orcpub2.com/pages/dnd/5e/characters/17592239534284)</span><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Female Human Fighter 1</span><br/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">STR</span></td><td>    </td><td><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">DEX</span></td><td>    </td><td><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">CON</span></td><td>    </td><td><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">INT</span></td><td>    </td><td><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">WIS</span></td><td>    </td><td><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">CHA</span></td></tr><tr><td><div align="center">16</div></td><td></td><td><div align="center">14</div></td><td></td><td><div align="center">14</div></td><td></td><td><div align="center">10</div></td><td></td><td><div align="center">11</div></td><td></td><td><div align="center">14</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Proficiency Bonus</strong></span></div></td><td>        </td><td><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Armor Class</strong></span></div></td></tr><tr><td><div align="center">+2</div></td><td></td><td><div align="center">18</div></td></tr><tr><td><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Passive Perception</strong></span></div></td><td>        </td><td><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Max HP</strong></span></div></td></tr><tr><td><div align="center">12</div></td><td></td><td><div align="center">12</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Proficiencies</strong></span></td><td></td><td></td><td><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Saving </strong></span></td><td><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Throws</strong></span></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Acrobatics</strong></td><td><strong>  +4</strong></td><td>        </td><td><div align="center"><strong>STR</strong></div></td><td><div align="center"><strong>+5</strong></div></td></tr><tr><td>Animal Handling</td><td>  0</td><td>        </td><td><div align="center">DEX</div></td><td><div align="center">+2</div></td></tr><tr><td>Arcana</td><td>  0</td><td>        </td><td><div align="center"><strong>CON</strong></div></td><td><div align="center"><strong>+4</strong></div></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Athletics</strong></td><td><strong>  +5</strong></td><td>        </td><td><div align="center">INT</div></td><td><div align="center">+0</div></td></tr><tr><td>Deception</td><td>  +2</td><td>        </td><td><div align="center">WIS</div></td><td><div align="center">+0</div></td></tr><tr><td>History</td><td>  0</td><td>        </td><td><div align="center">CHA</div></td><td><div align="center">+2</div></td></tr><tr><td>Insight</td><td>  0</td><td>        </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Intimidation</strong></td><td><strong>  +4</strong></td><td>        </td></tr><tr><td>Investigation</td><td>  0</td><td>        </td></tr><tr><td>Medicine</td><td>  0</td><td>        </td></tr><tr><td>Nature</td><td>  0</td><td>        </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Perception</strong></td><td><strong>  +2</strong></td><td>        </td></tr><tr><td>Performance</td><td>  +2</td><td>        </td></tr><tr><td>Persuasion</td><td>  +2</td><td>        </td></tr><tr><td>Religion</td><td>  0</td><td>        </td></tr><tr><td>Sleight of Hand</td><td>  +2</td><td>        </td></tr><tr><td>Stealth</td><td>  +2</td><td>        </td></tr><tr><td>Survival</td><td>  0</td><td>        </td><td></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>[/quote]