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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7028901" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>[SECTION][align=left]http://i.imgur.com/pZnDT9i.jpg[/align]The boy, of course, was right. Fitz's impulse was rarely towards a well devised deceit. Try as he might to pose and posture, much like the hobgoblin Okren, his mind did not work in the same way as the Mages of the Towers. <strong>"Hmph,"</strong> he grumbles, quite surprised that a boy so young should be just as curmudgeonly as he, a withered rock gnome. <strong>"Rat poison would be too easy to track, I suppose... What have we here? Rapaseed? Hmm..."</strong> Fitz dwelled on the uses he might devise for the cooking oil, lubrication for gears, fuel for a small clockwork toy, grease for the stairs down into the cellar.</p><p></p><p><strong>"Hmph, as much as it pains me. You're both right,"</strong> says Fitz decisively, his breeches pulling up to reveal knobby ankles as he stands on the barrel, jar of rapeseed oil in hand. <strong>"We <em>do</em> need a distraction. And not all ideas have equal merit and thus should be measured."</strong> Scrambling down, he looks from the jar of oil to the stairs and then to the passage that Rána has discovered.</p><p></p><p><strong>"Hmm..."</strong> he muses listening to the halfling Hashlan. <strong>"Sounds like Rashimi keeps a wizard in her basement."</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>"Sooner or later, that hobbled goblin will send his thugs down to search the cellars. We can orchestrate what they'll expect - someone trying to sneak away. I have a spell, one their commander will surely recognize from working for the Towers, that releases a magical alarm when a creature crosses a threshold of my devising. I could lay this spell upon that hidden door, and we leave it cracked open. The will assume their culprit has fled the Rose."</strong> Fitz scratches his head, realizing that taking the oil would amount to thievery from Rashimi, and sighs, placing it back on the shelf. <strong>"Of course, we'd need to find a good hiding place to wait them out... Maybe you know one Hashlan? Or this wizard-in-the-basement might?"</strong>[/SECTION]</p><p></p><p>[SECTION]Muttering under his breath as he was wont to do, Fitz hid the way he communed with his fruit bat familiar, hidden in the rafters of the main floor of the Rose. Telepathically: <strong><em>"Squomble, Squomble, you scurrilous bat, show me where Lorelei is at. Take care not to be seen or heard, if'n you are fly fly away like a bird."</em></strong>[/SECTION]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7028901, member: 20323"] [SECTION][align=left]http://i.imgur.com/pZnDT9i.jpg[/align]The boy, of course, was right. Fitz's impulse was rarely towards a well devised deceit. Try as he might to pose and posture, much like the hobgoblin Okren, his mind did not work in the same way as the Mages of the Towers. [b]"Hmph,"[/b] he grumbles, quite surprised that a boy so young should be just as curmudgeonly as he, a withered rock gnome. [b]"Rat poison would be too easy to track, I suppose... What have we here? Rapaseed? Hmm..."[/b] Fitz dwelled on the uses he might devise for the cooking oil, lubrication for gears, fuel for a small clockwork toy, grease for the stairs down into the cellar. [b]"Hmph, as much as it pains me. You're both right,"[/b] says Fitz decisively, his breeches pulling up to reveal knobby ankles as he stands on the barrel, jar of rapeseed oil in hand. [b]"We [I]do[/I] need a distraction. And not all ideas have equal merit and thus should be measured."[/b] Scrambling down, he looks from the jar of oil to the stairs and then to the passage that Rána has discovered. [b]"Hmm..."[/b] he muses listening to the halfling Hashlan. [b]"Sounds like Rashimi keeps a wizard in her basement."[/b] [b]"Sooner or later, that hobbled goblin will send his thugs down to search the cellars. We can orchestrate what they'll expect - someone trying to sneak away. I have a spell, one their commander will surely recognize from working for the Towers, that releases a magical alarm when a creature crosses a threshold of my devising. I could lay this spell upon that hidden door, and we leave it cracked open. The will assume their culprit has fled the Rose."[/b] Fitz scratches his head, realizing that taking the oil would amount to thievery from Rashimi, and sighs, placing it back on the shelf. [b]"Of course, we'd need to find a good hiding place to wait them out... Maybe you know one Hashlan? Or this wizard-in-the-basement might?"[/b][/SECTION] [SECTION]Muttering under his breath as he was wont to do, Fitz hid the way he communed with his fruit bat familiar, hidden in the rafters of the main floor of the Rose. Telepathically: [b][i]"Squomble, Squomble, you scurrilous bat, show me where Lorelei is at. Take care not to be seen or heard, if'n you are fly fly away like a bird."[/i][/b][i][/i][/SECTION] [/QUOTE]
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