Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-34263048-20190821065545

From a quite young age you had practiced, and when you were on your late teens you were one of the best known swordsmen around your home region. Since then you had been a hired sword, protecting caravans, bodyguard, and so on.

Now you are closing your 40th birthday. Still great but allso you were past your prime. You knew that if you dont soon quit from this line of work, someone younger and faster will end you. Though in your mind, you were full of certain kind of pride. You had never killed or even seriously injured anyone, even when you had been outnumbered. This was a testament of your notable skill. You allso had chosen your work wisely. Many shady people had tried to get you do thier dirty work, and even thuogh they had promiced notably better income, you had declined those offers.

Maybe you could settle down, and teach your techniques to someone you see worthy, but now you had other things in mind. Your last employer didnt need your services anymore, he was a retiring merchant who's caravan you had been guarding for past 2 years. You had tried to find some work, but after 3 months searching in the town where the merchant settled you had found nothing. Therefore now you are travelling to another town in hopes to find something from there, and as you were nearly penniless by now, you had to go for that journey on foot.

On 2nd day of your journey you ran in to Lizardman who tried to challenge you. Initially you had declined, but she had followed you, sleepd next to your camp, and coninued with you on the morning. Eventually, after nearly full day of her pestering you, you had finally agreed, only to get her stop it, and leave you be. Now it was evening of the 3rd day, still 3, maybe 4 hours of sunlight left, and you were slightly tired from all the walking and carrying your gear. but in the end now would be good time for a little practice match.

You had barely started your little bout, when you noticed that you were getting an audience. a rather large group of werewolfs had surrounded you. You signal a brake for the lizardman, and asked from the werewolfs why they had surrounded you. Just to make sure you wouldn't have any reason to worry.

The Alpha of the pack speaks, She says that they are here just to look, but most of all, their pack is in desperate need of a bedwarmer, and she has a pretty good feeling that they are getting one soon as your little bout ends.

You realize what she means. While for now, they are not a threat, but if you lose easily, the lizardman lose interest in you, and you would have to defend yourself alone against the werewolfs, and the odds of you doing that successfully are marginal. But if you really try to defeat her, you will tire eachothers out, and then you would both be too tiered to fight the pack, and the pack would easily overwhelm you both.

WWYD 