Damian fell to his knees as soon as the battle was over.  He planted his blade in the ground and bowed his head over it, using it as support.  An ecstasy filled him as he chanted prayers under his breath - while the battle<em>per se</em>was of nothing more than practical interest to him, shudders of pleasure ran through his body as the spirits of his foes were sent off to the Queen.  He smiled behind his mask, and eventually stood.<br/><br/>There is a thoughtful tone to his voice as he contemplates the carnage about them.  "Bryn, it occurs to me that the dead were all creatures of the forest.  Might not a more appropriate form of disposal be to tie them, in a cruciform position, to these trees?  Boles and branches will provide a fine frame to expose them to the carrion birds and elements, and they will serve also as a visible warning.  What think you; shall we make scarecrows of them as an offering?"<br/><br/>"Lulu, I thank you for the gift of healing you provide.  I will not forget the friendship you have shown me."  He bows, and flicks the gore from his weapon with a small surge of crackling arcane power.  "Yet, once we have finished here, I believe it is true that we must journey into this cavern."  The others can hear the smile in his voice as he pontificates further, "There is such a fine symbolic quality to ventures undertaken beneath the earth.  The trek into darkness and the unknown, the dangers that cannot be foretold, the chill and damp of the deeper regions of the world.  How like that final journey which all must share...to delve into the dungeons of the world is to face death on an installment plan."<br/><br/>With the Inspiring word and bonii, Damian is at full HP using only a single healing surge.  9/10 remaining.<br/><br/>Incidentally, you can always simply choose to knock out rather than slay a foe reduced to zero - whichever PC strikes the final blow may declare this after finding out that the attack was sufficient to reduce the enemy to 0 HP.  So, if you wanted them taken alive for intelligence purposes, all we had to do was go for a knockout instead of a killing blow.  That's actually much more reliable than Intimidating one out, which has rather too high of a DC.<br/><br/>So, we'll know that next time.<br/><br/>If the other servant of TRQ in the party agrees to suspend our enemies like scarecrows, then Damian will want to do that.  Otherwise, Ready.<br/>