Macbeth
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The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
William Shakespeare, King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4.
The days are long and the nights are hard while traveling, and your current journey has been no different. It seems that your little group of companions: Kelsis, Maedril, and Kel, sibbecai who seem to have known each other for some time; Aelin and Aernoeth, both faen, and fast friends, but also opposites of each other; Chenroeth, a master of blade and spell; and Aoe-Narara, a giantish women out to prove her prowess. Tempers wear thin as day after day brings nothing but more road. It seems that the road never ends. Its been weeks since you've all slept in real beds, or had a meal that you didn't have to work for.
And so it is a welcome sight when a city of considerable size looms into view over the horizon, breaking the monotony of the road. As all of you draw closer, a crowd can be seen around the city, it appears that a considerable ammount of people want to get inside the walls of the city. The road becomes more and more crowded as you get nearer to the main gate, and eventually you find yourself wading through a crowd of people, all of whom are pushing to get through the gates. After spending nearly half an hour pushing through the crowd, barely staying together in the mass of bodies, you reach the cause of the log jam, a couple of gaurds checking each person who enters, and taking their sweet time doing it. When your groups turn comes, the gaurds motion for you to come forward, and eye all of you suspicioulsy.
"Well, what kind of group do we have here?"
Before any of you can answer, the other gaurd responds
"The kind of group we don't let in, look at 'em, with all that armor and all they must be coming to make trouble at the festival."
"You think so?"
"Indeed I do, and, whats more, I think that, since their trying to enter the cities walls with a suspicious amount of weapons, that they are violating The Right Official Law Number 325."
"And which law would that be?"
"That would be the law stating that anybody who bothers to try to enter the city that I don't like is subject to arrest and undue prosecution"
"Sounds right enough. Off you all go then, since your breaking a law on what should be my day off I won't arrest you, but you aren't getting in either, I don't want to be blamed if you cause trouble. You can make camp with the others who won't be going in over in the camp grounds to the west of the walls."
And with a casual wave the gaurd motions you away, denying you what should have been a good nights sleep in a real bed, not another night in a bedroll under the stars.
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The camp grounds are almost as overcrowded as the entrance to the city, with tents set up all over, and bedrolls laying around weak fires. People mill about, most trying to find somebody who somehow can get them entrance to the city. As you look around for a place to make camp yourselves a thin figure outlined in the flames of a small fire burning in the background motions for you to all come and sit at the fire. As everybody takes a place around the fire, you can see that the thin figure is in fact an old women covered in wrinkles, but with bright eyes that seem out of place on her faded face.
"So, I assume you are here because you wanted to get into the city? Its awful crowded with the festival going on, they've been turning people away at random since there isn't enough space in the city for everybody. I've been waiting here for days to find some like yourselves: obviously with skill for battle, your armor and weapons betray your martial skills; and you also obviously need a way to get into the city. If you would do me a favor, I can get you into the city. My possesions were stolen by bandits on the road here, nothing I was carrying had much worth, but it has sentimental value. If you could bring my bags back to me I could use the traveling papers that I had to get us into the city. What do you say? Will you do this old lady a favor so that you can get into the city? I know that you wanted to get in, and there aren't any other cities for at least a few day's travel"
William Shakespeare, King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4.
The days are long and the nights are hard while traveling, and your current journey has been no different. It seems that your little group of companions: Kelsis, Maedril, and Kel, sibbecai who seem to have known each other for some time; Aelin and Aernoeth, both faen, and fast friends, but also opposites of each other; Chenroeth, a master of blade and spell; and Aoe-Narara, a giantish women out to prove her prowess. Tempers wear thin as day after day brings nothing but more road. It seems that the road never ends. Its been weeks since you've all slept in real beds, or had a meal that you didn't have to work for.
And so it is a welcome sight when a city of considerable size looms into view over the horizon, breaking the monotony of the road. As all of you draw closer, a crowd can be seen around the city, it appears that a considerable ammount of people want to get inside the walls of the city. The road becomes more and more crowded as you get nearer to the main gate, and eventually you find yourself wading through a crowd of people, all of whom are pushing to get through the gates. After spending nearly half an hour pushing through the crowd, barely staying together in the mass of bodies, you reach the cause of the log jam, a couple of gaurds checking each person who enters, and taking their sweet time doing it. When your groups turn comes, the gaurds motion for you to come forward, and eye all of you suspicioulsy.
"Well, what kind of group do we have here?"
Before any of you can answer, the other gaurd responds
"The kind of group we don't let in, look at 'em, with all that armor and all they must be coming to make trouble at the festival."
"You think so?"
"Indeed I do, and, whats more, I think that, since their trying to enter the cities walls with a suspicious amount of weapons, that they are violating The Right Official Law Number 325."
"And which law would that be?"
"That would be the law stating that anybody who bothers to try to enter the city that I don't like is subject to arrest and undue prosecution"
"Sounds right enough. Off you all go then, since your breaking a law on what should be my day off I won't arrest you, but you aren't getting in either, I don't want to be blamed if you cause trouble. You can make camp with the others who won't be going in over in the camp grounds to the west of the walls."
And with a casual wave the gaurd motions you away, denying you what should have been a good nights sleep in a real bed, not another night in a bedroll under the stars.
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The camp grounds are almost as overcrowded as the entrance to the city, with tents set up all over, and bedrolls laying around weak fires. People mill about, most trying to find somebody who somehow can get them entrance to the city. As you look around for a place to make camp yourselves a thin figure outlined in the flames of a small fire burning in the background motions for you to all come and sit at the fire. As everybody takes a place around the fire, you can see that the thin figure is in fact an old women covered in wrinkles, but with bright eyes that seem out of place on her faded face.
"So, I assume you are here because you wanted to get into the city? Its awful crowded with the festival going on, they've been turning people away at random since there isn't enough space in the city for everybody. I've been waiting here for days to find some like yourselves: obviously with skill for battle, your armor and weapons betray your martial skills; and you also obviously need a way to get into the city. If you would do me a favor, I can get you into the city. My possesions were stolen by bandits on the road here, nothing I was carrying had much worth, but it has sentimental value. If you could bring my bags back to me I could use the traveling papers that I had to get us into the city. What do you say? Will you do this old lady a favor so that you can get into the city? I know that you wanted to get in, and there aren't any other cities for at least a few day's travel"
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