TRILEMMA GAME

It's getting toward the end of the day: the shadow of the mountains stretches down across the city and out over the water. Sunset lights the clouds above the mountains crimson from below.

As you descend the narrow streets toward the docks, ring tugging at Dahlia's hand, you hear shouts and screams ahead.

Bursting out from the street into the open area of the quay, you are bumped and jostled by sailors running toward and past you. In the twilight, you see what they are fleeing: strange warriors, dripping wet, wielding nasty-looking two handed axes, tentacles writhing around their mouths.

Myrven will scan the civilians running to see if any stragglers need a hand, perhaps an opportunity to show off his new equipment.

The stragglers push past you and the quay is deserted save for the five axe-wielding tentacle-faced warriors … and two more clambering out of the water onto a dock.

The warriors wear strange glimmering clothing, which might count as an armor piece, and they wield their axes with two hands. Hard to assess their skill, but …

The salty harbor water surges up over the quay, almost reaching your own feet. It wraps around the legs of the strange tentacled warriors, sucking them back whence they came. One of them utters a strange hissing sound and drops its axe as the weird rip tide yanks them into the harbor.

Then the surging wave is gone, leaving only a sheen of salty moisture and a strong odor of fish on the stones of the quay.

What do you do?

The ring pulls away from the docks, up an alley. Dahlia follows and finds herself pulled to a doorway, where a pair of grizzly dangerous looking men are huddled, looking scared. "Are the squid faced warriors gone?" asks one of the men, who has a ring through his septum.

"there's legend of such" says the other man. "Ne'er thought I'd see the like. I'm Hurry-up. He's Jake." He looks expectantly toward the two of you.

They look less scared and more dangerous as they grasp that the "squid-faced warriors" are gone. Not specifically dangerous to you; they'd be stupid to try anything, with Myrven looming. But generally capable and dangerous. Trust…worthy? Meh, time could tell.

"Or weapons is back at them boat," says Hurry-up. "We is gone take passage east."