The elf finally reacts to Valan's stare with a stare of his own. "
I'll be drawin' a card right quick."
Sure enough, the elf reaches a hand toward the deck with excruciating slowness and then, like a cobra striking a rat, his hand darts to the deck and pulls back a...
Six of hearts. (1d13=6, 1d4=2). Regarding the card with a suspicious eye, he asks in a sweet voice like that of a proper elven maiden, "
Why, I do believe I have drawn the best card in the deck!" He finishes with a giggle, uncomfortably appropriate to his chosen voice, and a batting of his mostly crooked eyelashes.
But before anyone can react, he rises and fairly leaps to the counter, catching its edge molding and pulling himself up and along toward the bulletin board. He follows almost immediately in the wake of the man that had posted the notice.
After a moment's ogling of the parchment, he points at it, then points at Valan, then points at the notice, then points at himself, then points at the notice, then points at Kermis, then points at the notice, then points at Joe. Seems pretty obvious.
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Sooooo...ya wanna? I mean, a thouuusand gold...rather nice, eh? Kermis can SMASH stuff, I can, I don't know, maybe shoooooot stuff, and Valan can deal the cards. What'sayya'two? In or skin?" Most of that is understandable. What 'in or skin' means is a mystery probably best left as such.