Seeing some conversation regarding last night’s episode and the “encounter”, and just wanted to throw in my two cents.

Some elements were misfires in communication, and in others just a little rust after still getting back into it (and the trigger happiness of battle).

I followed up an earlier encounter that was met with diplomacy (and unfortunately against a creature without interest to reason) with an encounter that DID request diplomacy, but through a combat scenario that proved to push to combat (leading to a failure to broach diplomacy).

I could have definitely hinted and communicated better the intent of that crux, and I take responsibility for that. I was reading their intent beforehand and hoping it would carry through, but once push came to shove, the old instinct to slug it out won over.

We playfully rib each other around and after such circumstances, because we know and love each other, so please know there were no hard feelings, just a messy lesson (for both them, and myself... I think both sides got a little lazy, hehe). This one is more on me than them. ;)