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<blockquote data-quote="Trouvere" data-source="post: 4787376" data-attributes="member: 37250"><p>Keldar listens in silence, with only the clenching muscles of his jaw betraying his disgust at the mutilation. He shakes himself into action at the sound from the cellar door.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">If they're guardsmen, I'm a paladin,</span>" he says. He shouts back at them, pitching his voice high and panicked: "<span style="color: SandyBrown">I don't think so! You're Mister Turket's hired killers! He said he'd tell my supervisor we died down here! In the dark!</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">There now. And on the off chance that I <em>am</em> a paladin, well, then that might have raised some awkward questions for Turkey.</span>"</p><p></p><p>Keldar bends down to the maimed thief. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">Listen up,</span>" he says. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">You've had a rough time, but there's those have had worse done to 'em. What you want to to do now, see, is get yourself a good spiked shield and one of them gauntlets with chains, and you can fight nearly as well as ever. Give up thieving; it's... it's no good for anyone. Find yourself a few adventurers. Stick close to them, do some heroic deeds, get yourself some gold. In a couple of years, you'll be rich enough to pay a priest to pray for new fingers. Good as new. I swear it. What's a couple of years? But first, we have to get out of here, hey? What say you help? Think you can manage the lantern over the crook of your elbow?</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">I think we should be going,</span>" he says, looking to the others. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">Tommy, can you follow the mapbook, find the way to a secret door into a respectable temple, or, better, the path to the top of the cliff outside the city? Tarag, will you take the lead? We need to go fast enough that I've no time to check for traps they might have set along the way. Shield up and trust to luck! Fimble, just ahead of me, sharp eyes looking back? I'll bring up the very rear, with my bow to... discourage pursuit. Any better ideas?</span>"[sblock=OOC]Obviously, I concur.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trouvere, post: 4787376, member: 37250"] Keldar listens in silence, with only the clenching muscles of his jaw betraying his disgust at the mutilation. He shakes himself into action at the sound from the cellar door. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]If they're guardsmen, I'm a paladin,[/COLOR]" he says. He shouts back at them, pitching his voice high and panicked: "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]I don't think so! You're Mister Turket's hired killers! He said he'd tell my supervisor we died down here! In the dark![/COLOR]" "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]There now. And on the off chance that I [I]am[/I] a paladin, well, then that might have raised some awkward questions for Turkey.[/COLOR]" Keldar bends down to the maimed thief. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]Listen up,[/COLOR]" he says. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]You've had a rough time, but there's those have had worse done to 'em. What you want to to do now, see, is get yourself a good spiked shield and one of them gauntlets with chains, and you can fight nearly as well as ever. Give up thieving; it's... it's no good for anyone. Find yourself a few adventurers. Stick close to them, do some heroic deeds, get yourself some gold. In a couple of years, you'll be rich enough to pay a priest to pray for new fingers. Good as new. I swear it. What's a couple of years? But first, we have to get out of here, hey? What say you help? Think you can manage the lantern over the crook of your elbow?[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]I think we should be going,[/COLOR]" he says, looking to the others. "[COLOR="SandyBrown"]Tommy, can you follow the mapbook, find the way to a secret door into a respectable temple, or, better, the path to the top of the cliff outside the city? Tarag, will you take the lead? We need to go fast enough that I've no time to check for traps they might have set along the way. Shield up and trust to luck! Fimble, just ahead of me, sharp eyes looking back? I'll bring up the very rear, with my bow to... discourage pursuit. Any better ideas?[/COLOR]"[sblock=OOC]Obviously, I concur.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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