Haven & Hearth TL Village Adventures and News - Page 3

On March 20 2011 09:05 Slow Motion wrote:
Update: Although the village we stole from has taken back their goods and is content to leave us in peace, the bounty hunter under their employ is not so sanguine. From hours of conversations, I have been able to glean some disturbing insights into her personality. She is a complete psychopath, akin to the Dahmers and Gacys of the world. She gets tremendous pleasure from dominating individuals and making them submit to her will. She also enjoys demeaning then and murdering them is the worst ways possible. Fear and control gets her off.

Also the other members of the village I stole from kept their word and returned our key, the bounty hunter decided to make a copy of her own. She now has the ability to come in at any time and take what she wants. This morning she exercised that ability with great pleasure. She has also taken an interest in me. She will initiate private conversations with me in which she brags about her evil deeds and gives me warnings and advice about the game. I do not know if she sees herself as my mentor, or if she simply enjoys toying with me.

After she took some metal from our village, she ordered me to follow her. I got on her boat with great trepidation. Meanwhile, my village mates scrambled to move our precious items back to the clay base where they will be more safe. In the middle of our boat ride, she stopped the boat. She informed me that I should never get on the back of a boat, as she has the power to kill me and I would have no way to escape. This mixture of deriving pleasure from intimidating me and giving me sound advice coupled with stories of her escapades threw me off guard.

We arrived at the shoreline, and she gave me more advice about hiding the boat while exploring inland. At the end of our conversation, we came to place that was familiar to me. In our earlier treks across the country, our village members and I met a nice individual known as "cheeselover." This man was a peaceful farmer, and aided us through our travels. I believe KtheZ and he became Kin and acquaintances if not friends. I now recognized the area the bounty hunter led me to as cheeselover's little house and garden.

I followed the bounty hunter inside cheeselover's house. Apparently she had visited cheeselover before, and makes a habit of forcing him to give her any items that she desires. Cheeselover had also made the mistake of initially appealing to her with arguments about morality and peaceful behavior. I watched with pity and a certain amount of empathy as cheeselover was forced to bow and scrape inside his own house to avoid punishment. She then proceeded to attack cheeselover after he had given her his items. Cheeselover sought to escape, but the bounty hunter was too fast and knocked him out in the front yard.

She told me to watch as she proceeded to beat on cheeselover's unconscious body and again started to advise me about the need to work on my combat skills. She spoke of cheeselover with disdain and hatred as a useless idiot who could only farm and do the boring work. When cheeselover came to and asked her why, she simply beat him again and told him he did not yet have permission to speak. In private chat, she told me that this humiliation is a great way of dominating people and controlling them and gave me tips on how to intimidate victims. Again, I believed this advice was meant to scare and impress me as much as it was to teach.

She the let cheeselover on his feet and forced him into the house. When cheeselover complied, she beat him down to the ground again and pulled out her sword. While hacking slowly at cheeselover, she told me to pay attention and started to berate the poor farmer. She called him various unmentionables, while laughing at him for being a dumb farmer and said that he was not worthy to play H&H and should go play farmville. She told him that weaklings like him made her sick. Then she landed the final blow.

How to describe my feelings then? I felt like a rabbit trapped in a tiny room with a lion who had just ripped apart a fresh antelope. I also felt like she derived greater pleasure from her vile deeds in having me watch and gloating to me throughout. It was like a horror movie: terrifying yet engrossing. Afterwards, she told me that she loved to humiliate and berate victims as she killed them. Then she told me that when she landed the final blow on cheeselover, she felt chills along her back and a small amount of sexual excitement. After this startling revelation, she laughed it off and joked about maybe "needing some help."

I am trapped in a spider's web, and am too mesmerized to even struggle. I have a feeling she will toy with me for sometime, before I finally meet the same torturous end as cheeselover. Our village members have started training combat skills. The world of Haven & Hearth is a cruel and dangerous place, and we must ready ourselves for the darkness that is to come.

A note to end this update: for the readers wondering about the name of this bounty hunter? Her name is "Freedom." She admitted that this was a contradiction to her character, as she loved controlling and dominating others. However, she then added that maybe being able to completely disregard the feelings of others and their ideas of morality was the ultimate freedom.