Therapy Session of Ron Plunderman #14

“So Ron, tell me about Gelik.” Doctor Monroe quietly asked

Ron grunted and scratched his chin, “Gelik is a gnome.”

The doctor nodded. “Come on Ron, you know I know that. Tell me about how you met him …”

“I met him a long time ago on a really stupid island…”

The doctor shook his head, “No Ron. I was going to ask how you meet him in the monkey city.”

“Oh. That’s easy;  a chicken shit pathfinder dumped his body with us then ran away.”

The doctor nodded. “Yes I know he ran because you scared him.”

Ron laughed to himself. “I know, he looked like a man to me, but he must have had a vagina.”

“Be that as it may Ron, tell me what happened when Gelik woke up.” The doctor asked

Ron shrugged. “To be honest I don’t quite remember; all I remember was being highly agitated. I was bored. AJ was harping on about defenses and tar pits it was driving me up the wall. Then there was Dorian having a girlie little giggle about shitting on the stairs. They’re all a bunch of freaks. I really don’t get why none of them are here.”

The doctor took a few moments to slowly read through some of his notes; after a while he seemed to find what he was looking for. “Let me see … Ron abused Gelik before suddenly smashing him with his morning star. It was a totally unprovoked attack.” The doctor looked back up at Ron, “Does that sound about right?”

Ron shrugged if not caring. “If you say so, though I bet it wasn’t unprovoked, the little bastard probably earned it. As I said I don’t clearly remember. I don’t think I was at my best that day.”

The doctor’s ears pricked up, “What do you mean not your best? Do you often have days like that.”

Ron closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. “Yes … I mean I don’t know. Aren’t you listening?  I was agitated. AJ and Dorian were pissing me off. The whole thing was pointless. Everyone was acting weird.”

“Weird? In what way?” the doctor queried

Ron exhaled a long sigh before answering the doctor. “Well I don’t understand what happened with the snakeman”

The doctor looked up confused, “You mean Szariel?”

Ron quickly shook his head. “No not Szariel … well yes … he was part of it but not him. Szariel isn’t really a snakeman anyway. He’s really just a human with some throwback genes.”

“Ron.” The doctor interjected. “You’re really not making much sense. What on earth are you talking about.”

Ron took another breath. “Well things were good. I was … liking the way things were going. We were exploring, looting, killing off stupid creatures that had no right to be living and then suddenly Szariel invites a snakeman to join us. He offered him our treasure … my share of treasure. I couldn’t understand why? He was trouble, I could see it. We should’ve killed him on sight, but we let him join us.”

“Okay … “ the doctor said. “So go on, how did that make you feel? Were you jealous?”

Ron glared at the doctor. “Would you fuck off with your stupid “how do you feel “ questions.  Why would I be jealous of a snakeman. He was trouble. I knew it, but no one would listen to me. Eventually I told it to fuck off and it did. I should’ve killed him as he left. I don’t get why I didn’t do that, I knew it wasn’t over, I knew he would be back.”

“Well Ron, cutting a defenseless person without provocation is basically murder. ..”

“He was a mage, he was hardly defenseless…” Ron retorted.

The doctor shook his head, “nevertheless he was walking away, not doing you any harm, so it would’ve been murder.”

Ron shook his head with firmly set jaws. “I knew he was up to no good, he was planning something. He knew it and I knew it. I should’ve attacked him there and then, but suddenly  everyone else had gone all soft. That’s what happens when you have a half-queer hanging around too long. You catch what he’s got.”

The doctor wrote something down in his book before speaking. “Ok Ron, but what does this have to do with Gelik?”

“Well the snakeman came back, tried to kill us. So I was right… I got mind controlled… “ Ron spat on the floor of the doctor’s office.

“Ron!” The doctor objected. ‘Please don’t do that. That’s a genuine Chelaxian Rug.”

“… sorry Doc, don’t like mind control …  eventually I broke free of it and me and AJ killed the snakeman.”

“That’s fantastic Ron, but getting back to Gelik.”

Ron scowled in annoyance. “yeah yeah. Look if you want me to get all pissed off, you are going about it the right way. My point is we should’ve killed the snakeman. Everyone should’ve known that.”

“Well … “, the doctor began to speak but Ron held up his hand and cast an angry glare towards him.

“THEN, when we were in that stupid snake temple; Chinkie and his friends came along. I tried to lure them into a trap but Dorian screwed it up so they fled. We should’ve hunted them down and killed them too.”

“Well how … “, the doctor started but again he was cut off by Ron.

“So add AJ’s anal fixation with fortifying the temple and Dorian being a poofter, then Gelik shows up. He starts mouthing off … well screw it I think. There’s been enough non-killing. So I smash him down. Every one of those other groups are out to get us, they wouldn’t hesitate to kill us yet suddenly we are all oooh can’t do that, that would be wrong.”

“I’m not a violent man Doc … well wait no. Look I’m not some kind of murder vagrant. I don’t kill people for no reason. I’m not interesting in killing people just because I can, but gees it was getting ridiculous. I didn’t know what was going on.”

Ron stood up, clearly agitated and started to pace the room. “It’s not like they were innocent, they weren’t babies or pregnant women. They were warriors and it was meant to be a fight to the death to get to the Savanth Yah. This was a man’s game.”

“Okay Ron, it’s okay I understand what you are saying. You felt the rules had changed…”

“Yes!” Ron said.

“It made you feel uncomfortable.”

“Yes!” Ron said again.

The doctor paused and watched Ron pace.  “I think you had started to feel like you were fitting in Ron”

Ron momentarily stopped and looked at the doctor in annoyance but he said nothing and continued to pace.

The doctor continued to watch Ron for a while before continuing , “But Gelik didn’t die did he? He was immediately rescued by Dorian.”

Ron nodded.

“After that you apologized to him.”

Ron nodded again without speaking.

“You apologized because you felt bad about what happened.” The doctor theorized.

Ron continued to pace though he had started to clench his teeth.

“Perhaps you felt embarrassed about what you did? Perhaps you felt you had lost face with your friends.”

Ron clenched his fists, his neck veins were starting to show.

“This is what I have been trying to get out of you Ron. Clearly you are not completely without empathy. You felt something, knew you had crossed a line…”

Finally Ron exploded. “I said no more of that pansy love-in stuff. Bloody hell. We were adventurers, not bloody wet nurses.”

With that Ron spat once more on the doctor’s Chelaxian Rug then stormed out of the office.