Zynna would try to talk some sense into the woman with little success, but Lea's earlier hug combined with the sudden slap sends her reeling.  She feels Lea's body with her grabbed hand and seeing her strength despite her recent travail, and sinking realisation seems to come to her, but it is some time more before she fully snaps out of her post trauma suicide impulse.<br/><br/>As she starts to get a firmer grip on herself, she tells you all what happened here. Lanna was part of a company of soldiers sent to protect and mobilize the village to build a pallisade, makeshift fortifications against the monsters. They were half done when the creatures cave, the initial wave were just two or three brutish ogres with large makeshift shields and throwing axes, but even from some distance out they were affecting the archers' minds. Then they came ambling up along with the troll, which was the one that pushed past the men that held the section of the palisade, and the ogres retreated as the troll finished off the soldiers, and I was knocked out just as I saw the ogres returning back, to help the clean up. You realize with a sinking sensation that there were very few of them, yet what should be dumb brutes seemed capable of combat tactics, using makeshift and actual weapons, and worst of all, some sort of magical or psychic abilities. Lanna also notes that the monsters seemed to tie secure bonds with their monstrous hands, no mean feat in terms of both cognition and coordination.<br/><br/>"You can't stay here, I can need to get help for..." she gestures despairingly at the other female survivors around. "It is night and more will come, but if we can make it until daybreak I will try to find help on the road." She bites her lips, then stops and stares at you all. "There's something horribly wrong, they left me... left us... alive for a reason. Although there is shelter here for you, but they know we are here, they could come any time."<br/><br/>She swallows, gulping slowly. "I guess you have more... more to do, people to save I guess. I just don't know if you should brave the road in the dark, or stay until daybreak."<br/><br/>You also start to recall the strange purplish shimmering in the air, rising over the smoking remains of the troll.<br/><br/>OOC: there will be enough time for Lea to mend up her armor, and then you have to decide whether to remain in the village or hurry on into the night towards your mission, or just leaving the village to strike camp in the forest nearby and hope no one finds you.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Rolls</div><div class="spoiler_body">At 2017-04-17 09:47:42, Melendrith (uid: 61033) rolls: 1d20 Result: 3 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=102345)<br/>Diplomacy roll for Zynna<br/><br/>At 2017-04-17 20:01:00, Melendrith (uid: 61033) rolls: 1d20 Result: 2<br/>Lea vs Lanna (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=102361)<br/></div></div>