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Gillin leads the party away from the docks along Pike Lane, which is nothing more than an alleyway between two warehouses. His nervousness subsides once back on the main thoroughfare that bears the name Merchant's Avenue only by courtesy. "What a day, what a day," he says. He heads on past...

"Fish devils!" says Cobby wonderingly. "He's fought fish devils in the sea. And we don't even bloody well have rope. Why don't they issue us with rope?" The sergeant ignores him. "Well, sirs, our thanks again. We need to be on our way, soon as Constable Cobby's caught his breath." Cobby...

Ngikhnit hauls in the rope with great hand over hand pulls, and Pendrake emerges into view looking none the worse for wear – and after him, clutching onto his free arm, the other lost man. "He's got Cobby!" exclaims the more excitable guard. Quozen's throw of the second rope is true, and not...

The force of the retreating water starts to lessen. Nevertheless, the secured rope pulls taut. Pendrake doesn't re-emerge. Following Ngikhnit's pointing hand, the humans spot the bobbing head. For now, the man manages to stay above water, though he gets no closer to the shore. "That's...

Pendrake, now forty-five feet out judging from the slackness of the rope, dives beneath the water.His perseverance pays off as, miraculously, his groping arm strikes something solid that suddenly grips him convulsively in return.The night-eyed in the group spot a head breaching the surface...

"This spell causes an object to glow like a torch...from the point you touch", so I don't think so.Midias takes charge of the guardsmen, who for now are grateful to be told what to do. Under his direction, they quickly tie the very end of the rope to the mooring ring, with what looks to be an...

It takes a little time for Pendrake and Midias to get organised for their rescue attempt. With rope in hand, they sprint along the quayside. Pendrake's greater speed allows Midias to let some pay out as they run. The surefooted guardsman has managed to pull the fellow hanging from the ring back...

On his sheet, it's listed as -3 with the shield (2 ranks +3 Str -8 ACP), but once he lost the shield, it should have been 2+3-4 = +1. For some reason, I misthought 'light shield' and only increased it by 2, instead of 4. Fortunately, as you say, it didn't make a difference to the rolls. While...

By the time Peladus and Quozen reach the quayside with the rope, Ngikhnit is nowhere to be seen. There's an anxious wait that stretches to ten breaths or more, then the big man, having abandoned his shield, at last breaks the surface, thirty feet out or more. Peladus' rope falls nicely within...

Quozen tenses and ahead of the wave makes a prodigious standing jump to half his own height. The water that would have taken him just below the chin instead catches him at the knees. Despite avoiding the main force, when he splashes back down, the water drives him back several steps. He's...

Gillin turns to Quozen and beams a gappy smile. "I might have taken one or two voyages on ships in my youth. Not all that far, but far enough that the land is out of sight, and all you can see is the water, green and bottomless, like so many rolling hills. Ah, it never leaves you, the sea, the...

Gillin shifts his bowl to his other hip and frowns. "Eh, you know Joe. He doesn't like people talking about those days. It's dark now. I should get on home. This way." Gillin shuffles on down the hill to the southern docks. It's full dark by now, but the area is well lit by oil lamps. The...

Looks like there's no objection to Pendrake's offer to escort Gillin home, unless everyone's busy with Canada Day/4th July weekend and so on...."So you're all just getting to know each other! Well, that's grand. Maybe there's a new band of adventurers born tonight that they'll be singing songs...

"Eh? I wouldn't say I saw the star land, so much as by the way it was falling, it can only have come down in the water. There's nothing but sea out there to the edge of the world, so far as everyone tells it. You don't know how to get to the shore from here? Young'uns these days!" Gil...

"Far enough west to be out in the sea," says Gil. At this moment, the side door to the tavern opens to reveal Joe Smith himself, who nods at the group. "Boys. Mister Gillin," he says. "Your evening walk has brought you past my Inn, I see." The old man puts thoughts of falling stars from his...

"Well, here's how it was," begins the old man. "I was out for my evening constitutional, same as always - you have to keep your joints moving or they'll seize up and one day you'll just stop - and I said to myself, 'Gil, twice round the Square and -'" He belatedly takes note of Ngikhnit's...

T1 A Visit to Spelding Square [Completed!] Judge: Rae ArdGaoth Characters:Midias Sunchosen, male human Cleric 2 (Hyrag) [Walking Dad] Ngikhnit, male half-giant Barbarian 1 (Serpent Totem) [orsal] Quozen Ilphukiir, male high elf Monk 3 [InVinoVeritas] Peladus Bralc, male human Wizard 2...

The old man looks a little bemused at Midias' generosity. "I'm not out on the streets begging, I've still got me pride - and me own house," he protests. "And me old Mildred if worst comes to worst. But I daresay Hyrag looks kindly on you for making a gesture to an old fella who's seen better...

Red Dragon Square is largely empty. A member of the city guard carrying a taper on a long pole is beginning the evening's lamp lighting round. A pair of scruffy halflings loiter by the stone dragon that dominates the square, one perched on an enormous clawed foot with his legs swinging. An...

OOG: Mand, check your PMs. Boddynock, is Peladus coming along?