OOP: Before this devolves into a flame war, realize I'm writing as my character, not as the player. After you read my post, re-read this OOP comment.

IP: Anavren's upbeat tone turns calm, but serious as the walking elven woman tries to pull and hold a rapier on him. (OOP: pretty neat trick to hold a rapier on someone while both parties walk.) Anavren looks at the point, then gently moves it aside she blathers profound stupidities. Anavren merely steers clear of the pointed weapon by walking outside the woman's reach. He slaps the blade aside everytime the stupidly beligerent woman tries to point it at him again. Anavren even bats the blade aside and moves inside the weapon's point rapidly, forcing Acea to retreat if she wants to keep the point held at Anavren's chest, but Anavren never draws a weapon on the unnecessarily hostile Acea. Anavren politely waits for the moron to finish, but laughs heartily at the woman's foolish comments at the highpoints, as he plays cat-and-mouse with the trollop.

Anavren then marches right down Acea's speech. Like a surgeon, he exposes Acea's stupid comments for the tripe they are. "First, any fool would know that the contest was a mere snapsot in time. It is true that Horek bested me in the contest, BARELY, but only the most profoundly stupid would believe that the contest is the final arbiter of who is a better archer. Give us both a hundred arrows, and I will best Horek more often than he bests me. Undisputedly, I AM the best archer in the group. Additionally, Horek is a mere human. He'll never be an Arcane Archer, and I'd be willing to bet the barbarian will never join the Order of the Bow Initiate unless he gets over his xenophobia. He's a wilderness barbarian, opposed to cosmopolitan societal orders. Additionally, the human will be moldering in the ground while I will still be young and continuing to develop and perfect my skills. As a fellow elf, you Acea, should know better than anyone else here that the elves are the best archers on Oerik." (OOP: If anyone has GM access to the PZ, as I do, I have a higher bonus to hit with the bow than does Horek. I was robbed! ;) Granted, Horek more wisely chose his feats: he took Precise Shot rather than Improved Initiative as I did. He'll be better at firing into melee until I attain 2nd level, IF I attain 2nd level.)

"Also, Acea, if you lived up to your heritage, rather than disgracing it, you'd realize that I was mocking the priest of Rao by claiming that Solonor Thelandira speaks to me. This priest is clearly insane, yet you defend him rather than siding with a brother elf. You are a disgrace to the elven race, siding with a monkey over an elf!" Avavren spits at Acea's feet.

"As for expendability, you should look in the mirror. Bards are masters-of-none. You are a terrible fighter, and your meagre spell-casting skills will be of little use. I on the other hand can pepper and kill enemies from a distance. If my advice about stealth is heeded, it is possible that the cleric will never be needed. Besides, I'd hapily trade this neanderthal of a cleric for almost any other good cleric in all the Flanaeness.

"Kill me, will you? Then you'd be guilty of murder. Not such a good act either, now is it? You threaten a fellow elf, Acea? You are no better than a Drow!" Again, Anavren spits at Acea's feet in disgust. "Besides, you make fantastic assumptions that I will allow you to get close enough to me to allow you to skewer me. The only way you'll be skewering me is if you do it now. If you skewer me now, the rest of the party will know that you're as evil as the most corrupt Balor," Anavren challenges.

For the first time, during his cat-and-mouse tongue lashing of Acea, Anavren looks truly troubled. "Why don't you trust Peerless? In all the time I've traveled and adventured with him, he has done nothing wrong. He's exhibited bad judgment on occasion, but so what? He's mortal. We all make poor desision at times. You can take for example your monumentally stupid choice to draw a weapon on a party member. At those times I witnessed Peerless about to make a poor choice, I did my best to convince him with reason to make better choices. I see you as FAR more untrustworthy than Peerless. Peerless NEVER drew a weapon on me. You have the distinctly evil distinction as having drawn a sword on a fellow elf, however. Even if you put that sword away, you'll have unnecessarily made an enemy for life unless you apologize for your monumentally stupid decision. What idiot pulls a weapon on a party member after that party member uses hyperbole to illustrate his point?

"Rabid wolf? The guy who decided to stay in his room rather than murder innocents during the barfight in the Bent Shield? Your powers of reasoning are SEVERELY lacking. Calm? Who has the weapon drawn, sweetheart. I'd say you're FAR more rabid than I am, you unthinking animal.

"As for travelling with stealth, you are not omniscient. You have NO CLUE whether or noth stealth was required today. If being careful was so unnecessary, then why do we have the ranger scouting ahead?

"As for making enemies in this party, that I know of, I have only you. The highlanders seem to be taking my comments in stride. Nydillind isn't here for the moment, and I see no one else pointing a weapon at me. I see only lonely, stupid you doing so, my elven sister. Granted, everyone else is sitting still, but that may be because they're waiting to cut you down if you attack me. And as for receiving help from other party members, my dear friend Acea, stranding, leaving a wounded party member, or not helping a party member in need would be pretty evil. That you'd suggest you'd do such shows just how black your putrid heart is. No matter any party member's opinion of me, they'll be able to count on me for succor when they need it. Why? Because I'm a thoroughly GOOD individual who DEVOUTLY worships a GOOD diety: Solonor Thelandira. Evidently, the rest of the party may not necessarily be able to depend on you for help. You disgust me. I know if I were in their position right now, I'd never trust you for pulling a weapon on a party member. We don't know which god you worship. For all we know, you could be an agent of The Old One, sent to ensure that the Bishops of Rao stay mad. Your actions certainly exhibit evil enough for one to suspect such."

"Hmm, writing a tune is your motivation for going? What high and moral motivations! Why do I go? Altruistically, I go to help those in need, the priests of a lesser god. It would be perfectly acceptable for me not to be on this mission to help Rao's priests, yet I do so for the greater good. Rao's priests, more than anyone else in Oerik, have stemmed the tide of The Old One's advance. I seek to aid anyone who is a foe of The Old One. True, I seek wealth, fame, fortune, and to increase my skills, but who among us doesn't?"

As Acea returns her rapier to its scabbard, Anavren calms his vitriol. "Astoundingly, you've made a wise choice, N'Tel'Quess, Lolth lover, Drow friend, dark elf. Ensure you never speak conversationally to me again unless it is to apologize to me. Your stupidity numbs my mind. Let's hope your stupidity doesn't contribute to a death among us."

OOP: Acea, what are all those non-Common phrases you're throwing about. They seem like they might be Elven phrases Anavren may understand. I as a player, certainly don't.

Also, in case you players forget, as a player, I have nothing against Acea's player. I'm not flaming Acea. In character, my character is berating Acea, the character. My character is not berating Acea's player. This is purely role-playing. I hope everyone understands.
Anavren is a tall high elf with typical black hair & green eyes. He stands 5' 5" tall & weighs about 135 lbs. Anavren is dressed in forest colors and leather armor. He is never without his composite shortbow and a sheaf of arrows!